Um I do not have a date yet because I first I need to have the um authority to sign document which is a part of the governing board um um agenda today and the um set up the meeting with um legislative for um the sales district. It's a little bit more complicated. We need to have a letter of support from the BIA. Um we have been in communication since we kn we were informed in January um that we needed that additional document as part of the checklist. Um we have provided uh a long history of attempts uh trying to get a hold of anyone to provide that uh letter or support with no respon response. we putting it back on HRDC to help us navigate through that um uh obstacle that that we're facing. Um also uh um it is the um authorization u um approval from the company board to authorize me to sign the lease.
You might move several forward but not all because if they don't meet the objective criteria, then you have to be rethinking what it is you're trying to do. Does that make sense? >> My major fears also is that district is going to be sitting behind the scenes because you told us that every option we came up with had to be based off of that survey the district ga gave us. I didn't see this anywhere on the district survey. So now what I feel like if the triad behind the scenes have meetings and make decisions and then they bring stuff to us and some of us are kind of like no we don't want this we didn't even ask for this where did this come from it doesn't matter that some of us are kind of like where's this coming from if the majority of people want it still would go through so I feel like we're putting the triad in a position where they can make decisions behind the scenes without the rest of us cuz CA wasn't a part of that triad.
Um, and and I can say that I've lived through um that sort of thing happening in this town um where we did end up having to lay off multiple teachers and um I was on the school committee at the time. It was devastating. We lost electives at the high school, things that we never got back. Um, and and to this day, it's really, I think, a weak weakness at our high school that we have don't have as many electives as a lot of school districts. Um, and a lot of those things were related to chapter 70 funding, which was so poor, and and you know, there's an impact. Yeah. Sure. Karen's been in the Senate for a while now. She's done amazing work around uh school funding and but for all the years when we were not getting what we really should have been getting and and other communities were getting three four times um the amount of money per student as compared to us.
And once I have those documents, um, I will then be able to go through a documents review and set up a a meeting also with legislative. Um, that will complete the process.
>> So, we're putting the district in a position where they can make decisions behind the scene and come to us and that right there just does not feel like I'm sorry. >> Okay. Uh Ivonne and then Eve, >> I just want to the conversation. I appreciate all of the the comments, but um I want to extend on the comments from um Ariel. Um when it comes to trial, they're not making the they're just making recommendations. and the recommendations that came through the survey and through many of the stories that are shared through us representatives as Daniel said it's always an interest of having greater benefits than employee so this is one example of how the entire system is bringing more benefits or more choices for the um for the employees and uh I just want to say that I I I agree in in regards to not one person having the power to veto because everybody here around in the group has great minds and great hearts and great desires and so even if we don't understand it and a few minutes ago I was not understanding the the benefit but then it was thanks to all of you your comments and then a one-on-one conversation that I'm like oh I I I have my facts now I can see what everybody else was was was seeing and so I I I I do believe that I trust everybody in the room and even if I feel sideways, I'm like I go with the room because I trust everybody in this in this room and and where their heart and their minds stay.
Uh it it's it it takes a toll and it's really sometimes hard to ever make that up. >> You never catch up. you you're always you know you started so u low that it's hard to catch up. So I think this meeting on Tuesday night is going to be particularly important for people to watch to participate uh to learn um to ask questions and and um you know if you have questions that you have now please go ahead and send them you can send them to uh any one of us to the select board to Michael um to anybody in the school committee or or Mr. Adams. Um, and you know, this is nobody nobody wants to have our nobody wants to pay more money. I don't want to pay more money. We pay a, you know, a a good amount as do all of us.
Any questions regarding the lease? >> No questions. I just want to make sure to acknowledge um for the public and for the board that this has been one of the things that Mr. ideas has been very diligent on over the past year and prior and I do want to make sure that it's also um some of the questions especially from sales district and I don't and I don't think that they're questions to to try and be difficult there there are legitimate questions which I'm sure Mr. Diaz and he did answer um very upfront because one of the leases was due in 2012 and the other is 2019. Um, and those were things where he was very pointed to say, you know, grant it. Um, I I think that there's opportunity, of course, for us to to to speak uh to those questions, but also to really give genuine uh response and and be acknowledging of what are we going to do next?
>> Thank you, Eve. And then Dorothy, >> um I I just wanted to speak to being in Triad. I am in Triad. um this came up as a benefit or an option and in that moment all we saw was the slide that showed the potential savings for the employee and for the district. In that moment when that came up we said this should go to meet and confer and then it was added to the agenda. We did not in that meeting we did not say this is amazing. I can't wait to have this. Nobody said that. We looked at what was being offered and the the team said this needs to go to meet and confer and then they came today and presented more information. I still didn't really understand what they were talking about at Triad. It wasn't until today that I actually understood what the cost savings was going to be for both the employee and the employer, but no decision was made.
and um and we're not in a position it's difficult to faced with all the rising costs that we've seen and um you know we talk about health insurance and and how that just goes through the roof and our utility bills go through the roof you know and those are things that we have such little control over and um but we can control giving our students and our community the the services, the education that they they deserve and really need to become good citizens. So, I didn't mean to go off on >> So, part of the part of the tri board will be opening it up to the public to ask questions. Is that correct? Has that been decided as part of the agenda for next Tuesday? >> I have not had that discussion yet, but if that's what we want to do, then that's what we can do.
You know, this is where we're not going to have that happen anymore. And part of that response was, you know what, we're going to stick it into the boardroom and put a a big plaque on it that says this needs to be renewed in this year and don't forget because you know, who knows who's going to be here >> at that time um that it does need to be renewed. But I I also want to make sure to acknowledge and thank um the HRDC committee uh who's continuously put the item on their agenda to make sure that it is not given any less of an attention and acknowledgement that it is important and that Mr. Diaz continuously goes to give updates and reports. Um, I do want to say as well that the HRGC committee has been very supportive in in essence of this this letter that was I felt like it was brought up out of nowhere by the realy um the realy program Miss Naen because I think the legislative council also acknowledged that well we haven't had anybody have to go ask BIA in a long time about using the land that they're already using.
I just want that to be really clear because when we start to say things like people are making decisions and we don't have a voice and we're being live streamed again that starts to question people's integrity and I think that's really unfair and it's not factual. So I just wanted to be real clear that it was brought to us as a benefit and then the triad said bring it to me and confer and let them make the decision. Nobody made the decision without it coming here. Thank you. >> You should not have a vote. >> A vote of what? >> Nobody's Nobody's voting though. >> Speak and then can I call a what do we call >> a caucus? Dorothy and then James. >> I I definitely don't want to be confrontational at all. >> Daniel, >> but Ivon, you had really strong feelings about this until you understood that it wasn't going to affect you.
Also, just because we're talking about it, we'll talk more about it Tuesday, but there is going to be a public forum um on Thursday, March 26th, hot off the presses. We just kind of started to get that finalized. Um and that will be something that we as a select board, if we decide we would like to to to sponsor it, I think that would be the right thing to do and to also have um give the school committee an option to co-sponsor it with us. So, so we all are posting it together. >> I'm sorry. Do we have a date as to >> the 26th? >> Okay. So, we need to post it uh at some point if we're going to be together as a board. >> Who's organizing that? Who's discussing that? Who's >> So, I've been working with Michael and Jim um on getting that organized.
Like it's kind of a a shot at to me a shot where it puts something in the way of us completing what we need to do and making it making it a process where where obviously you're making the attempts to try and talk to the BIA superintendent for the Tonam agency and we get no response which has been over what three months now is give or take. So I I think it's really important to acknowledge as a board that we we have and have been getting reports and have attended meetings where we're humanly able to and possible as board members again full-time jobs understanding families and understanding that the time and the the effort has to be um really acknowledged and and I want to say thank you to you Mr. ideas and your entire team um for for putting the effort forward for the DIS for the school district.
What if the cut off had been 50 and now it was directly going to affect what your retirement was going to be? Would you still feel the same way that hey, whatever you all feel is great with me or would you feel stronger about that thumbs down? >> Thank you for the question. So yes, at at the beginning that was my position, but after I understood that even though if it was 55 and I needed to make the choice of 43B or the other health account, I can still have two to three weeks to pull out the money. And so in that in that sense, I'm like I can put it in this account, save seven and 65% money for not paying FICA or if I change my mind, I have two to three weeks and then I get my money back. And so once I realized that, not only personally I felt like I'm not losing, I'm not at risk, but everybody else.
>> Okay. Because I mentioned something to Michael, too. So, I'm It's nice to hear a date. So I'd like to if possible participate in some way. Okay. Absolutely. Yeah. March March 26. Mark it on your calendar. >> I know the FINCOM was interested in Yeah. in re reconvening too. >> Yeah. So that will be that will be a you know I think the we haven't figured out exactly how it's going to go exactly but the idea will be to present the budget to present the situation and be really just it's a listening session for for us to hear what people have to say and for people to ask questions and that will be I think it's I think that's kind of vital to this whole process is really having >> an open >> well it's critical we can't we can't really do anything without doing that.
Um, but I do want to also make sure that we're um acknowledging that that I I hope that they give us enough time to understand I mean enough time to possibly be present for the presentation at the legislative committee because I feel like sometimes those questions I hear them but they're not questions that you might be able to answer. not not in a negative way, but I think that there are questions that I really pose that are more like, you know, like, okay. Um, so the point being, I think it's I'm very grateful for the report and and so much of where you're at thus far on the update. Um, hopefully we get past whatever this next obstacle is with the BIA uh superintendent. I don't know what more else you can do. Um I think that there's been several attempts. I don't know what realy office expects you to do camp at her house or whatever it may be for the superintendent to say their super I mean yeah is it superintendent?
And so that's why I said it's a great benefit. >> Thank you. Uh Daniel. >> Oh, I think we want to do a caucus. >> I want to do a caucus. >> Yeah. >> Okay. How many minutes? >> Give me five. >> Five minutes. It is 10 21. We'll see everybody back in here at 10:26. I'll double check. Yeah. Okay, so we just returned from our caucus and have a couple of process questions. So the first one is um related to new options being brought to the table. So, we just would like some clarity on um one, is there a deadline for when new options can be brought to the table? We feel like that there should be a designated >> this meeting or this specific date where no new options can be brought because, as we've talked about, we could, you know, have another parking lot conversation or triad meeting or whatever and new options could come forever and ever and at some point we have to say that's it.
>> What What time is that um scheduled for? On >> 7 p.m. >> And thank you in advance to our friends at the planning board who are going virtual so we can do it in this room. >> Oh, okay. >> Do it here. >> We're going to do it here so it can be so easy to do it >> hybrid and so we can potentially have it recorded and >> everything else easily. So >> So it'll be put on our website so people miss it, they can watch it. >> We will. Yes. Well, yeah, >> sounds good. Thank you. >> So, but more more to come on that. >> All right. Scheduled on that. >> Okay, Michael. Thank you very much. >> Um, more information is always the best. So, um, I'll skip down to where we went off. We had a folks had a previous discussion uh at the last meeting which I was unable to attend.
Yes. Um to provide a letter that from what I remember the last superintendent saying they didn't even know what that meant or what it was and why why do we have to do it? So, um, just to just to acknowledge that for the public and and to say that, um, I see what you're going through and I want to thank you for for putting the best foot forward for this district and our students and for these lands that will see far beyond us and that they're in place for a really long time. Um, so anything else for the Lisa, I think from the board, Miss Sylvia? Yeah, I just had a question in regards to the BIE BIE superintendent. Uh, where is he based? >> Do you have they mentioned >> not in Kansas anymore? I don't know. I'm I I I have very little information.
We need to just move forward with the process. And so, we feel like that just needs to be clarified. What is the date where no new options can be brought? whether it's the district side, the CEA side, someone's opinion on whatever, no matter what or where it comes from, we need a deadline on when options are to be brought and then along with that how they came to be. So just a little bit more clarity on this was discussed in this meeting or I had this conversation with my colleague or whatever and this is how the option came to be so that both sides are clear because there was some confusion on one side having more power so to speak in bringing options to the table than the other side. Did I capture that accurately? Okay. And then the other clarification was on the number system.