It'll come down to just about a minute left when she gets this shot off. Well done by Forster. She drove in close to the goal. She's able to stay outside the crease. So, a minute two left and Ashland does get that ninth goal. Right now it's a six-goal deficit. Ashland Forster on the scoreboard with her first goal today to go along with an assist. Ashland see if they can get one more here and close the deficit to five. Yeah, blue. >> Ball up Paint Trip comes away with the draw control, tries to pass it but batted down but collects it back to herself. She's going to try Oh. That was a little bit of a push there. Ball stays with Ashland. Kendall Westerlind couldn't collect that. Shrewsbury comes in. >> [snorts] >> Warded off behind the net. Shrewsbury will be trying to get that goal number 16 in that seven goal victory.
Um so specifically my knowledge when it comes to that um it's something that I do daily in my job um as far as tracking students' chronic absenteeism, um tracking the data in terms of what is the barrier um when it comes to chronic absenteeism. Um we can't combat it without knowing what the reasons are. So in order to to you know best understand that uh being able to provide my knowledge I think is is useful. Please give specific examples of your ability and or skills in working with a team or committee. Sure, absolutely. Um so within my um district that I work in currently, um I have been on multiple different committees. Um I've been a part of the uh multi-tiered systems of support committee um where we have looked at um you know revamping MTSS as I understand you know West Berlin that's been going on as well.
The only major well the control system which uh he saw had the wires hanging down uh that is in the SFD. Uh it's slated about a almost half a mill project to bring the main district back up to date. Also that cooling tower is currently in the works as well. Uh the cooling tower itself cost about 180 just off the factory floor plus installation. So that one is in the SFD as well as uh yeah that would be the main HVAC. The it it's really when we didn't start getting big projects through the SFD. We started attacking small projects and we started just kind of nitpicking them as much as we could for a compressor here and a compressor there. um getting anything that we could out of them at that time. Uh but >> does that and that seems to work with go asking for smaller money.
Ashland had an opportunity to with the ball with about a minute left there but couldn't get into the zone. Here comes Shrewsbury. Alana Duffy is right there, gobbles it up. With 10 seconds left, she's going to stay in the crease for a few seconds then run it out. Three seconds left, two seconds and that is the ball game. Final score from Ashland High School, Shrewsbury Colonials 15, the Ashland Clockers nine. Ashland drops to four and four in the year while Shrewsbury improves to four and three. Thanks to Jeff Hall in the booth, my camera man here Mackie. This is Kevin McGuinness. Until next time. Thanks for watching. Take it or break down all this stuff afterwards. That's good. Of course. I'm here to break down the camera, right? Right. Nice shot.
So I specific knowledge when it comes to that. Um I understand that there are certain barriers which we can implement things you know obviously I'm sure many of you sitting here have grander ideas as far as what we need to put in but there's a very realistic um view when it comes to the budget. Um so that's been something that I've worked on as far as my own ideas combating with other people's. Um I understand that everybody has different ideas as far as how we should implement things. Um however, I think that's that's what's important. Um I think having those those conversations are where we find the middle ground and also um have challenges against your own ideas to see through you know the the things that we're not seeing. So I think that that is important. Thank you. Thank you. Um what do you see as the role of a school board member?
kept us floating, but I don't know what we can say has worked and hasn't worked. >> Well, and as you know, as there's turnover within school facilities division and they're running short on funds and stuff, sometimes there's not really a rhyme or reason why they approve things or don't approve things. In my mind, I try to be a really rational, logical, and efficient person. I would think that one of the things they would fund first would be 30-year-old air conditioning units, but that you know. All right. Do we have any other public comments or questions on facilities? Okay. Well, we will have some time at the end for general publics and comments. So, the next uh presentation we want to bring up is is Mr. Neil on technology needs and one of the things uh I want to preempt this presentation with is we have looked at a lot of things recently and we've heard the community talk about the appropriate use of technology in the schools and this is something we're committed to looking at because I think one of the things we all agree upon is when our kids need to take state testing when it's that time we need our our systems to work because we don't want our kids to perform poorly.
Uh a school board member like I said, I think that they're um you know, a a part of their role is helping overcome the barriers when it comes to education. Um you know, there is a budget that we have to adhere to. There are very real students that come into the building every single day, very real teachers, very real, you know, educational assistants that are have their own barriers, and I think that part of the school board is um you know, helping provide the the means to overcome those barriers. Um when it comes to the budgeting. Uh can you please describe some previous community or nonprofit experience? Yeah, absolutely. Uh so, I grew up in scouting. So, uh I'm an Eagle Scout myself. So, I had to um you know, create my own project, get community involvement. My project was at the AWA War Heroes.
because they don't have access to um a network or a computer that does it. But I think we can also agree that back in the day, you know, um well, let me take a step back. The RTI methodology says any child can learn anything with between five and 250 repetitions. You can teach anybody anything. And until we get all of our kids passing, that class time is valuable. Back when I was in school, when a student would complete their work, you know, they were given uh, you know, something to color or, you know, go ahead and open up a book and read it. And I think what we want to do, number one, is value class time. And I think we could all agree that now, um, kids, we're an electron electronic generation and kids have a tendency and and a lot behind the computer scene is screen is secretive.
So, I had to work with the community. I had to work with the AWA directly uh to to figure out what it is that the projects that they were looking for. I couldn't just come in and say that I'm only going to do this. Uh you know, the community has very different ideas on what education should look like. Very different opinions across the board. Um so, I think that my knowledge when it comes to that and and and understanding is is useful. Um what areas would you like to strengthen in our district? Absolutely. I think that first and foremost, I think community is always important. I think that there um especially in 2026 when we're used to having screens in front of our face, um it is a very real challenge to create a strong impactful community and foster that and have that ongoing. Um I think that's uh a big solution to the chronic absenteeism is having a strong community.
And so, Mr. Neil's one of the first ones to point out that our kids are are getting um into places in electronics. And so what we that you know maybe isn't the best thing for learning and there's sites out there you know like cool math that you think your kids are doing math. There's no math on there. It's games. So as we're getting the reports and the kids are logging onto a site like cool math because they can get through the web filters and get to cool math and they're just playing games. That's those are the things we want to eliminate because they have all you know all afternoon and and evening and whenever they're out of school and that's between their parents and them how much screen time they want to allow. We don't want to add any unnecessary screen time. So somewhere between we need working computers that work for state testing and and important features and we we need our teachers to have working computers to take attendance and log in.
Um when parents trust the school, they're going to feel okay sending their child there. They're going to feel okay when there's a problem and the teacher needs to call home. They have a trust that they have in that teacher that, you know, their child's best interest in mind. So. Uh are you aware of the time, training commitments, and ethics law disclosures required for school board membership? Absolutely. You're all good then. I understand. >> any issues with the time constraints or anything? All right.
But then we also do not want to have those times when our kids are are spending their times gaming at at school. They need to be learning while they're at school. And instructional time is so important. One thing I have never heard a teacher say, I have too much time. I don't know what to do with my time. So, um, so I think we're committed to bringing in a committee and looking at that and what what our, um, technology integration looks like in the classroom. And so, I'm excited to hear and move forward with that because we have heard that from the community. So, getting together and having our our teachers and community come together and commit to what that looks like and with Nathan helping to lead that. But go ahead, Nathan. I'll but that was my little preemptive and I'll let Nathan take it over.
Do you have any questions for us, really? I don't think so. You guys ready for the Flyers? We got to wait till Saturday. Are we ready for the Sixers? We'll see about that. Hey, hey.
>> And thank you for that. I'm a computer guy, so I don't talk much. So, thank you for all of that. I can skip now, so thank you. Um, so yeah, as we're talking about old things, uh, we have, uh, technology across the district. So, uh, basically what we have up on the screen here is a list of kind of what every classroom looks like in in Blige. We have a teacher laptop, we have a projector, we have a wireless display that the, um, teachers connect their laptops to to present in the classroom. We have an access point for wireless. Uh we have the servers and then of course uh we're a onetoone school district. Um and you can look at the board here and see that just about everything's about 10 years old and those in the tech world are about to roll over.
Well, if you don't have any questions for us, that's good. We're We're all right. No questions. Yeah. So, we're going to go into executive and have a brief discussion, and then I'll email you within the next coming days. Okay? Thank you very much. Thanks for coming out. Thank you. Have a good night. Have a good night. Hi, Tina. Hi, Tina. All right. Happy wet. We're going to close public comments um because now we don't have anybody here. So, um can I have a motion to second to close the public portion of the meeting? Motion. Second. All those in favor? Opposed or abstained? All right. Let me let Tom know that we're going to um I think we need to go into executive. Looks like he's working on the computer. I'm sure he is. He's listening to me. Big brother's listening. I know he's always listening.
We're about to roll over model years in the tech world. So this time next month they'll be 11 uh model years old um on there. And not to mention as well with budget constraints this year like technology took a 28% cut. Um, so we have older equipment that requires more repairs more often and we have less staff to do that with. >> Is it safe to say, Nathan, that that the last uh bond bought all of those things? >> Yes, sir. Yeah, we we did um we bought originally we bought um the one to one um laptops for students and we were actually able to refresh those um with bond dollars as well um and get those COVID um era type devices um for the one which is actually when we actually went truly onetoone was during that COVID era um and so yeah it's been spent as is as we said it would be spent uh for I believe for the most part we could uh elaborate on that.
There he is. >> Mhm. >> Thank you. Thank you. You guys two are live. Uh-huh. Mic for sound, quiet for sound. You guys can keep talking if you want. We do. We do. Just so amazing. So thankful. I remember all those things in the review. Yeah, just save it for the review, guys. Save it. Which is soon. Yeah, I got my thing that I have to do it, right? Where did you get that at? No, I didn't get it I have something Maybe that might have been final then. I have to I have to finish filling out everything and go get it by next week. At some point next week you'll get it. Where the final? Next week? This is audio for 2025. These are all blending at this point. We're live. Thank you, Tom. All right. So, we didn't have any actions to be taken coming out of executive session.
Um, so with our classrooms, again, we're one to one school district. Um, we lead the White Mountains in, uh, digital equity. Uh, because of our 1:1 program, every student in our district has um, access to a computer um, while they're on campus here. um to keep us in that lead. Going back to one to one, um staying at one to one, we're just doing the maximum numbers here. Um would be uh classroom teachers totals with projectors, laptops, all that about 650. You guys can read the numbers on there. Um but that's what we're looking at as far as just classroom modernization. And here's a little bit further breakdown of kind of what that looks like. Going from desktops for our faculty or for our staff members that are um desk deskbound positions um attendance clerks, those types of folks. Uh laptops for faculty. This includes uh administration that has laptops, teachers, um across the board with those.
So, at this point we're going to do a motion and a second to adjourn the meeting. Motion. Second. All those in favor? Opposed or abstain? All right. Thank you all and I'll see you in 2 weeks. Or I'll see you on the 6th. 6th and the 7th. And then I'll see all of you on the 7th. Yeah, the amount of times in a day also that you go when I do this with my hands and the kids are like, "Soo soo." I'm like, "I can't do it." Well, it's funny cuz my kids are at a point where they're like, "Mom, take me to It's what? They're like, "Girl, yeah." Well, the more I think
um maintenance, transportation, um maintenance uses theirs uh to do work orders, um those types of items, docking stations, um in certain cases, especially admin, um where they can take their laptops to a meeting, come back, plug into big monitors on their desk, full keyboard, uh full mouse, those types of things. Um I won't read all of these to you, but they kind of continue to go down there. Um which is funny because I saw Miss Hoffmeer's report earlier that our technology spend on the last bond was like 1 6ish. Um so we're very close on there. Um and again these are kind of inflated numbers. Um we recently got a new quote on the teacher laptops there and that's dropped about 38% um with our most recent um um negotiations with them. Um so that's the that's just the devices that you need in the classrooms um and with the uh students there.