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Every time Mr. Man has come and talked to us, he said that. And then after the the board meeting, it was like very clear that if we come with things that could distract them from doing what we want to move forward with, then we're only going to not help anyone. So, we do need to keep those perspectives in place. Nobody is saying that we're only going to recommend things that the board is going to approve. That is not the message. The message is we need to be thoughtful about what we're presenting so that we have the best bet to do what we need to do for our kids and that is give them the opportunity to achieve at a higher level. And the way that we think we can do that is by giving a 2% increase. Right now is not the time to talk about reducing instructional minutes.
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That's not the time. I would love a 4-day work week. That would be amazing. this is not the time. Hey, uh Amy, so yeah, I can go back and add to my statement. Um it's the end of the day and my brain gets tired, um at this point in time, but I can definitely add to those comments. And so I'm just going to kind of reiterate a little bit of what Eve said and von said is that I want whatever recommendations we set forth as a team to be approved. I think that is the ultimate end goal. I think teachers deserve to be paid more. I think staff deserves to be paid more. I think we all we all work incredibly hard and and but our budget is what our budget is and we want to retain our teachers. We want to retain our staff.
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We want to retain our admin. And in order to do that, we're offering up a 2% raise. And then to go back to it, we need to be able to align how that's going to affect our SOFG goals. That has been very clearly articulated by um Sophia. That's been very clearly articulated by Jay, that's been very clearly articulated in the board meeting from multiple board members that anything we approve has to be aligned to our SOFG. And we are currently as a district not meeting those goals yet. And I will say yet because we will. We all have been working very incredibly hard in order to meet those goals, but we are not yet achieving at this point in time. So, I think if we are talking about decreasing a 4 day to a 4-day work week, which I would love, by the way, or um decreasing instructional minutes, that's that's taking away from our students right now who are not yet achieving those goals that we have set forth.
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So, therefore, that is why I'm voting down. Okay. Um we'll take two more and then we're going to have a vote. Ariel. Um I agree that we should be focusing on um options that's going to benefit our students. Um options that will increase our ability to recruit um quality teachers to our districts, not just taking whatever teacher walked through the door because we know that this is the only person that has applied for this position in three months, so we're just going to snatch this person up. I agree that we should focus on opport I'm not sure that's appropriate to say because you don't hire I'm just saying I'm just I'm just Well, we know that there's positions that have been posted all year, no one's applied to them. So, I'm saying I agree that we should focus our options on um finding and retaining quality teachers.
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And since we're we bringing up the 2% raise again, I think we should have did tiered raises. I think we should increase the base salary of teachers to try to recruit new teachers because you can leave Cranon district and as a teacher teacher and go make more money in Chandler, more money in Gilbert, more money in Madison, more money in Phoenix, more money in Bolts. You can literally leave this district and go make more money anywhere. But that's not the point of the discussion. I just want to say it's 333. Can we shut this all down? Have Emily do her thing. As soon as we finish this one, we will. Yeah. Can we just pick another day? I don't want to. After this option, we definitely will. Amy, I mean Katie, um I I just wanted to explain on option two specifically. Um I actually not only do I totally agree with what you were saying, Daniel, as far as the more time does not equal better time.
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Um I even wrote to the board 15 years ago when they were voting to extend the school day based on like how do we maximize the time that we're given. So, it's not that I disagree with this. I think that for me, the it was never an option of choosing both, option one or two. It felt like you're either going to choose option one to explore or option two to explore. And personally, I voted down option two because it's extremely late in the school year to implement something that huge. They're already working on master course schedules for next year. And I still agree that that this year doesn't feel like the right time to do that. But again, I I do agree. I you know, I I agree with either or lessen the school day or lessen the amount of days. And I do think there are benefits for that, but that's why I voted no.
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Yeah, we're we're just going to go ahead and do another um vote. So um consensus vote for option two. The school day will be reduced from 7 hours and 10 minutes to 6 hours and 30 minutes. Okay, we're going to table that one then. And now we're going to end. And Emily, welcome. Great to see you again. So, what we did today was um let me get my agenda so I make sure I don't miss. Just like in the past, we had a presentation from um Joel and also Dom. Um well we started with um sharing our agenda and our objectives and our um oh we then we after we did all of that um our guiding we did our guiding principles um yeah you just want the big things. Okay, we had uh show and tell of they had to bring in an artifact that represented um negotiations and then we had our updates that we normally have.
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The only difference is um is Don presented instead of um Vanessa. And then just the um finance and then um J Mr. Man came in and presented a little bit of information about SLFG. Um, we worked on revising the wording for the remaining of our options that we didn't finish last time. Did Did you also eliminate Did you start by eliminating options or did you No, we just um the options. We revised the wording of the options. We had our options written but we revised the wording of them. Okay. And then we highlighted the um options that required funding and we came to consensus on um it's not a final recommendation because we haven't aligned it to our standards but we did come to consensus on 2% raise. We tabled several items which I will list in my communication. I don't think you want to write all those down and I believe that's it.
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Is there Dorothy? Anything because mine will be very detailed the fact that you um had some I'm just going to be honest keystone cop moments about didn't we have all the options and but something about we ensured that all options had been captured because it is it has been it's online anybody could watch that and I don't want it to look like we were hiding the fact that right there were clearly some processing difficulties that we experienced so I think something about we ensure that all options were represented on our options page could be there. And then the other thing I'm just questioning is they really need to know about our artifact. I don't know. That's like a that's like a US thing. I I don't know that I want people reading that what that's what they're spending their time on. I didn't have an admin all day and they're sharing.
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I don't know that that's the value. You can just put team building. Team building. Great. Yeah. But I don't think they They want to know about the work we did, not what we had so much. But you're Thank you. I appreciate that. And might say uh something more about Jay's comment. Um I disagree about it was in a way, but it was more about addressing the comments that were made at the board meeting. And if people are tuned to this, they might also be at the board meeting address. So, he spent some time talking about the board meeting and I wasn't there. So, I don't know, but apparently there was a discussion at the board meeting and he wanted to make sure we understood what our place was in relation to the board discussion. Yeah. Because I don't think that he had So yeah, that's a good way to put and yeah on the direction and alignment.
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Okay. So um that's it. That's what we did. Um, so needless to say, next time we have to determine a date when we can all meet. Hopefully soon. And hope Yes. board meeting on the 15th. Testing really hard to pull people off. Study session. Yeah. Yeah, we can we can delay the study session. Yeah. In April or May? Uh I think we're in makeups for AASA the week of the 14th and then we're in as we're scheduling the next week post test is first do we want to look at the week of the 16th May 16th April April 16th April 13th is a Sunday. Oh, the 14th. Okay. The Friday of that week is declared holiday. Looking at the week of April. When is the board? The 18 is a board declared holiday. Yeah, that's what I just said. about the 60s. So if there was if there was a there was a consideration of a not Wednesday, we looked at Monday the 21st.
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If the Gw. Can we just do a Wednesday? What about the 25th? Maybe next year. Friday. Yeah, that's Friday the 25th. That's great kids great grand kids conference. Yeah. Can we just do the 16 do the Wednesday and then another year? Yeah. 16th 23rd [Music] I can't do the 21st. I can do the third. I can do the 16th. I can do the 16. Okay. How about the 16th? Will that work? Oh, what about a Thursday? We weren't Thursday the 17th. Thursday the 17th. I feel like we're like 17. It's okay. Okay. How many cannot do the 17th? Well, our streaming person cannot. So, okay. Okay. Another date. The 23rd. 23rd. Friday, April 11th. Next week. Yeah, I April 11th. No, I can't. Uh, that's Yeah, that's part two. Part two, Matt. But that's my site and Josh is running it. Um, I'd be could run it.
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Dr. Bridges, you're going to be a training on May 2nd for title 9. April 11th or April 11th? No, it's um Wednesday the 9th and Thursday the 10th. April 11th. Oh, we're going April 11th. Yeah. What time are we gonna be done with this on April 11th? Uh, what time are we starting? We haven't decided. Is it a full day or half day? I could do a half day. Well, I have to I'm doing the girls camp, so I have to be back at Gateway by 3 to get on the bus for the girls camp. Okay. April 11th. I have a 210. Yeah, if we did till I can handle the 11. 8 to two. Yeah, perfect. Okay. Um, April 11. April 11th. April 11th is testing. What day? What do math? Math two. Testing day for you, too. Then I think our best bet is a Wednesday.
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Nor Wednesdays are usually makeup testing day because it's a short day. I think our best. April 30th. I can do this Friday. No, this Friday. April. How about April 30th? Well, let's think of let's think of cascading effect for timing. The next board meeting after that be May because we have to do a presentation. Yeah. May 6th. So that would be the study session and then the um approval of the agreement would be on the 20th. I guess that's probably fine. That gives time to our budget. Yeah. Numbers would be April 30th. And what what time frame, Joel? What are you saying? What do you think? 8 to 4. And then if we're out, we're out. Okay. April 30th. April 30th. Somebody will send us a calendar. Yes. Maria. Maria's on it. April 30th. Okay. So, the majority of this um agenda will be on the next agenda.
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Um we'll finish our recommendations. I do believe we'll get through them. Um, I don't know if we want to use that meeting to prepare for the board meeting sometime in the afternoon. Yeah, [Music] we'll see if there's any we'll add calendar dates for anything that needs to be accomplished. Joel, I'm not really familiar with mindset training. Um but uh that came up as maybe something that would be for next year. For next year. Yeah. For IBM, right? Is that something that you would be interested in? I'm not familiar with what it is, but someone that would like explain that. What's the question? Mindset training streaming. Should I go on the mic? It was brought to my attention that some of you might like to have mindset training like to or would benefit from because mindset training is part of the student outcomes focused governance framework.
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uh that really sets the criteria and kind of builds understanding about what SOFG is all about and sort of the philosophy behind it and what the um what the direction and the the mindset needs to be to be accomplished in this work. So that yeah some of that work is mindset work but the study session I don't think they broadcast the mindset work. Yeah. But that's that was the whole day. We we said Yeah. If it was right at 9:00 then Yes. Yeah. So that's there questions posed. There's conversation. There's it's really looking kind of internally about our commitment and our process and you know who we are in relation to what the the work is of student outcomes focused governance. Is that something that you would find helpful for this team? For next year. Yeah. Do you want to wait till next year? A rec.
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So we need to make we need to make a recommendation from this team. Okay. I'm totally confused. Okay. The board will make a recommendation for us. Okay. Okay. I guess we'll that's it would be part of our prework. No, no, next year. Next year. Okay. And the remainder of the items, which really isn't a lot, um, we'll do at the next meeting as well. So, April 30, we'll have all the budget, I'm assuming, for every option, and we can then prioritize the remaining options that we have with the budget next to it. And that'll be easy to do, I believe. Yes, Lordis. Um, is that Dom, you wanna Okay. Um, that evaluation don't fill out only because I have it I wrote it because it's supposed to be our last one. Um, okay. Because you're going to fill it out again next time because it's written as this is our last meeting.
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So, if you didn't fill it out, don't um don't bother because you'll fill it out next time. If you did, just keep it and give it to me next time and add to it unless you really want feedback on process. The second question is about process. Okay. If you feel comfortable, if you want to um I think there was a question on there about do you want to be a part of IBN? Yeah. First and third again, we can't second question. I think we should. Okay. the answers to um I think that's it for today. Um most of the things that we did not get accomplished we'll do next time and that next meeting will be our last meeting.
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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Ashlin Select Board meeting for April 2nd. You're going to need to mute your There we go. Um little bit different stuff going on today. Michael Herbert and Jen Ball, our manager and assistant town manager, are both going to be joining us remotely, as is Joe Minani going to be joining us remotely. Um and we are kicking off our meeting today. I'm officially calling us to order at 7:02. Um we have always had the last number of years runners that run for the town of Ashland. And as select board members, we'd always get to meet them the Saturday before the marathon. And in chatting with some other people, I said, you know what? Let's let the residents of Ashland meet the people who are running with our BAA numbers who have to fund raise for our BAA grant program.
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