001Miss Earler here. Mr. Shader here. Mr. Summers here. Mr. Leapac here. Miss Mercer here. Mr. Libre here. We have a quum. Thank you. If you could please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation indivisible with liberty and liberty and justice for all. Agenda item five. We have public comments. Uh Nicole, did we have any emailed comments? We had one emailed comment and one in person signed up. Okay. Go ahead. The emailed is from Suzanne Shrader. The address is 1759 Pine Street, Stevens Point, Wisconsin 54481. The agenda item to be dress addressed is item 8A, election of board officers. The comment is I believe Jennifer Bushman should continue as board president. That is the end
002of that comment. The other person is Chris Scott. So I'm speaking to item 6A, voting method. Chris got 3340 Whiting Avenue, Stevens Point. Um, I'd like to encourage the board. Um, you have a few options here. And in for many years, uh, board members would initial their vote and then should the community be interested in seeing because it was a secret ballot who was voting, um, they could come in. I can say in 21 years, the only person I know that had looked to see was me because someone said that they voted for someone and they didn't. And I'm like, what? So, I looked. Other than that, no one has ever in my 21 years and I think before come in to see. But I just hope whatever you choose, it looks like one of
003the things you could do is just do it in person where everyone knew. Be transparent. Yeah, it shouldn't be something that people are wondering about and you have the right not to do that, but I also think it's very transparent. Board members don't have to guess, you know, did someone vote? Did someone not vote? I think transparency for the community is the right way to go. So, that's my comment for 6A. My other comments, um, and the reason I'm here was for agenda items. I'm going to kind of put them together. Nicole, if I get out of line time wise, let me know. I'll try to keep it very brief. And those are items 9A and 10A. And that is the committee chairs and members. So, one I want to mention is a couple years
004ago, um, I applied to be a community member on the business services committee and someone else applied, I think, for ed services and the policy says they can apply, they will be approved. We were approved, but then the board decided that the way the policy was set up that they should be adding something more and they added a rubric to that. So the same people who applied, one of them said, "I'm not doing this." And I did come back. people, you know, they felt like I don't know what I felt like it was unfair because I think the type of rubric was not something that the community who is willing to give their time, their effort, um their knowledge for and it was almost like they're taking a test. So, I thought it was something
005that was was way over not it was bad, but it was way over for what this position is. you're asking people from the community to volunteer and my thought was you know volunteer your time volunteer your reason for being here what can you learn what can you add those are the kind of questions you want and I think that would be fair to them so what happened when the uh the new committee members came in it was already two or I think it was two months over um and then there were all these cancellations of business services. So the first year from 23 to 24 there were actually five committee meetings that I was able to attend. Five out of 12. The next year which is 2425 because of all the cancellations there were seven.
006Now think about this two-year commitment that's 24 meetings and there were a total of 12 that we could attend because of all the cancellations and because of pushing forward. um initially. So, number one, if you want to serve again, you can reapply. For me, I don't I don't think it's fair to me to have to reapply. Number one, um I've done all the work. I'm probably more educated and knowledgeable. Uh Tom is leaving. I've worked with Tom for years. I know Mike's coming in. So, I just want to say I hope you'll look at that rubric and I hope you'll make a consideration that I would not have to reapply again since I only served half of what the commitment was, which is two years. Thanks for listening. Thank you, Chris. Okay, thank you. We
007are moving on to agenda item six. We have our voting method, a selection, a form to vote, and I'm going to hand this off to Cy. Sure. So before we start um the process to pick our new officers, the board each year makes a decision how they want to do the voting for this. So there's three options. You can do a written ballot with initials, you can do a secret ballot with no initials, or a roll call vote. So with that, I'm just going to open it up and allow a board member to make a motion if they so desire. I would make a motion to do this with initials. Can you You have to state what that is, right? The ballot. Written ballot with initials. Second. A motion made by G. Second by Marne.
008Discussion. Well, I would say that this is something that I did bring forth to the board a couple of years ago. It's something that uh state law does require allow for and I don't believe that this particular option of secret ballot means that you're not transparent and I know that many people have different interpretations. The reason for me doing so is because the first year that I served on the board, I felt like when people and there were board members that went to look at who voted for whom, it was a bullying and intimidation tactic. I don't believe that we should have that as board members and I just feel like it's a way to protect those that might feel intimidated or bullied for any particular reason. So, it's not going against being not being
009transparent. For me, it's about protecting the integrity of the individual board members votes without them having to worry about being um bullied or intimidated against. Other comments? I guess I'll note in in the years that I've been on the board, um, we used that ballot method to allow, especially if there there was clearly if there was more than one person, for each board member to feel comfortable voting. Um but also to allow the public in the event they chose to want to take a look at who voted for whom that they should be entitled to do that because ultimately as elected officials we are answerable to the public and the public should have that information available if they would like it. Um, I hope we are all recognizing that this is business. The votes we
010take are not personal and that we need to respect each other's votes and we need to accept each other's votes and then we need to move on to work as a board together as we have been doing. So, I am supportive of the motion that G presented. I've been supportive of it the last two years. I just had been on the losing side. I thought about it um going into this because I knew that it might come up as a topic and I I don't think anybody should ever have to feel intimidated or bullied. Um you know, I feel very strongly about that even in my profession. Um but I also do feel an obligation to be public in my choices um regardless of what they are and and what the fallout is for that.
011So I would hope that we are all mature enough not to engage in those activities or to call each other out for it and maybe we'll talk more about that in the trust section. I don't know but that is why I chose this way but I I fully agree no one should have to feel bullied and I have experienced that personally. So that is my experience and I do believe that you can go a secret ballot and still accept the decision and move forward as a board together. I don't believe those have to be mutually exclusive. Any other comments? I'm full of support of making it with initials. Um I think that we have a grievance process with the board and if members feel intimidated by other board members then we have ways to deal
012with that through our policies that we have adopted as a group. So I'm a big believer in public transparency. I think that when you run for public office you make that commitment um to be accessible and open to our constituents. And I think that applies to every vote we make. That's just my personal philosophy. Thank you. Any other comments? Okay. All in favor say I. Oh, roll call vote. Ready for the roll call? Yes. Mr. Pope? Yes. Miss Mercer? Yes. Mr. Kowalsski? Yes. Ms. Earler? Yes. Mr. Shader? Hi. Mr. Summers? No. Mr. Mr. Lee, no. Mr. Liebreick. Yes. Six. Yes. Two. No. Jen Bushman. Oh, sorry. Bushman. Yeah. No. Thank you. Okay. So, we will move forward with a ballot and initials for the rest. Um, and then now we're moving to agenda item seven.
013We have our selection of temporary chair person. And so I'm looking for a motion to appoint Superintendent Hersbrunner as temporary chair. So moved. Motion by Will. Second. Second by G. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Opposed. I. Motion carries. Thank you for the honor and responsibility of serving the board in this role. Um the following procedures will be followed for the nomination and election of board president. I will announce that the nominations are open for the office of president. Nominations will be accepted by from the floor by any board member. After each nomination, I will announce the individual that has been nominated. I will then call for additional nominations a second and third time. If there are no further nominations, then I will announce that nominations are closed. If there are more than
014one indiv if there is more than one individual that's nominated, we'll allow each individual to say a few words about why they are interested in serving in that role. If more than one candidate is nominated, a vote as determined by the board, which you just decided, written ballot with initials, uh will be taken. If no candidate receives a majority, the voting will continue. Candidates who were nominated will remain on the ballot unless they voluntarily withdraw and then both Nicole and I will tally the votes and then we will announce who the new president is. At that point then the president will continue with the nomination process for the other positions. With that Yep. If they're on here, do they need to be nominated? Yes. Yes. Yes. And just know that if there are names up
015there and you want your name removed, we can do that also. Or if your name is not up there under a certain category and you would like to be considered, we can still add names. Any other questions? Ted, once um it's time for you to vote, you can just email your vote to Chris Nimon. To Chris Nyman. I will do so. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. With that, nominations are now open for the office of president. I will nominate my girl. Miss Earler has been nominated for board president. Are there any further nominations? I nominate Jen Bush. Miss Bushman has been nominated for board president. Are there any further nominations? Are there any further nominations? If not, nominations are now closed and it's time for you to vote. Are we going to say Oh, pardon
016me. Why? Oh, yes. Thank you. So, why don't we start with Meg and then we'll go with Jen. Um, I put my name as as board president. I think that I uh will do a great job for the board. I've been in the position uh was in the position for eight years. I attend every single committee member meeting. I have done that since the first time that I got on the board. I think it's important for the president to have an understanding of what's happening at those committee meetings. I think it's important both with respect to the items that don't come to the board but are informational and um and looking for ideas only options as well as being able to then work with the superintendent and the vice president to put together the agenda
017for the next meeting. I um commit to continuing to do that. Um, if you vote for me this year, um, I believe that we as a board are going to be facing significant challenges both locally with respect to our schools, with respect to the academic goals that we have set with respect to the economic financial challenges that we are all aware of and will continue to face. um also with respect to what is happening at both the state level and the federal level and I pledge my best um I believe my background um as an attorney and as a longtime um person involved in government affairs. Um I believe that I will do a wonderful job and so I would appreciate your vote. Thank you. Meg then I have um I feel really honored to
018have led in this capacity as board president for the last two years under my leadership. I have prioritized teacher and staff compensation and benefits and really ensuring that we're keeping our teachers and staff at the forefront of all the decisions that we're making and we have made significant advancements in the last two years under my leadership. Additionally, I believe that I've had substantive input in terms of communication and community storytelling. the perception of our district and um the perception that the community has about the brand of the district I feel like has been significantly enhanced demonstrated by just the attendance in our in our board. It's been it's been a quiet and I I think sometimes that quiet is a good thing. Uh I've also really prioritized fiscal responsibility. We have now a budget review
019process that we have at every single board meeting where we can let the community know how we are spending those dollars and that has been really important in terms of transparency and accountability. And because we had a past referendum under my leadership, I also have focused on academic achievement. We've made really good decisions as it relates to curriculum. We've made good decisions in terms of the goals that we've given Corey to kind of close that achievement gap. Recognizing we have more work to do, we've moved in a good direction. Um, I believe that being a parent with a child in an elementary school, a junior high, and a high school really does afford me a really unique lens. I've been able to use that because I experience that and my my children experience all of
020the policies that we make as a board firsthand. Um, and lastly, the April election results, I think, spoke volumes in terms of the community and their perception of me and my leadership. uh overwhelming and resounding support from the community that they have been very favorable about me and the position that I've been serving on this board. So, I I really would appreciate your support. Um also want to say that it's been very important to me as I've led over the last two years to do it impartially and this is a nonpartisan position. We just read the oath of office that we will faithfully and impart impartially discharge the duties of set office and I have done that. Um, anyone looking at my voting record could not cannot guess what I am in terms of political
021affiliation and so I think that's really important as a leader too. So I ask for your support. Thank you, Jen. With that, you have ballots in front of you. So please on your ballot um put the position and then who you're voting for and your initials. And Ted will be emailing his into Chris. [Music] Thank you. [Music] Congratulations, Meg Earler. You will be our next president. Congratulations, Meg. Thank you. So, Meg will now take over the rest of the meeting. So, we'll have Jen and Meg switch spots just because of the the video camera. [Music] Thanks. Thank you. We will move on to the election for the vice president. I am looking for nominations for vice presidents. Nominate Kowalsski. Ted Kowalsski is nominated for vice president. Do I have any additional nominations? I'll nominate Jen.
022Jen Bushman is nominated for vice president. Do I have any further nominations? Are there any additional nominations? Are there any additional nominations? Hearing none, the nominations are closed. We will now all vote for either Jen or Ted. We want to hear from the Oh, yes. Let's hear from both candidates. Um, why don't we start with Jen this time? Well, I want to say copy paste what I just said uh for the same reason as as president. Um all the reasons that I would like to serve alongside me and serve as vice president. Thank you. Uh Ted, thank you. Thank you, G, for nominating me. I'm very honored to to participate in this election. To me, vice president of educ or of education, vice president is stepping up to the leadership role of being president. You
023all know that was a a point that I made to our friend Dennis about his role because he had no interest in being president. I think this is a good training for that role and I think that down the pike that's something I would like to experience. I think my time as treasurer has taught me the procedures and and how to handle the leadership role of being president. And I think being uh and working with Meg would teach me the rest of what I need where uh I could potentially run for president of the board in the future. I would hope you would support me and I would look forward to working with Megie. Hey, at this time that was that was Oh. Double take. Okay, go ahead and catch some folks. We have to
024admit though that we have some um kids in our elementary schools that think that Ted and G are identical twins. Same president, just to note that we we actually have been told that I'm gonna leave. Not Ted's really good looking. So, let's go ahead and vote. Vote. You could email Chris. Thank you. I wonder who test [Music] Congratulations, Ted. You are the vice president. Woohoo. Congratulations, Ted. Thank you. I have a question. Since this is traditionally the vice president chair, do I have to know somehow switch to the be? Yes. And you have to have knee surgery. Yeah. And you you know what that's like. Yeah. No thanks. Yeah. Yeah. Don't do it till you need it. Just don't do it. All right. We will move into the uh position for clerk. Treasure. Treasure. Oh,
025it says clerk here. But we can let's let's do clerk. No, let's do treasurer first since we have a couple of people who are interested in that. Um so I am looking for nominations for treasurer. I will note although it is not required um traditionally um our board has recognized that it makes a lot of sense from just a practical perspective to have the treasurer also serve as the um chair for the business services HR committee. It just allows for that um seamless working between that one board member and the business office to handle um both the votes that we're taking as a board as well as the signatures and the duties and responsibilities of the treasurer after the fact. And so I guess what I'm putting out there is again um not that that
026is required um but I just want to put that out that the individuals that would serve as treasurer um were hoping that they would also um recognize an interest in serving as the HR chair. So the two who have at this point indicated that have also indicated they would be interested in that chair position. So I will call for nominations for treasurer nominate Jen. I would like to Hold on. Let me just note. We have a nomination for Jen Bushman. Do we have any other nominations? I would like to nominate Barney Mercer. We have a nomination from Marne Mercer. Do we have any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Hearing none, we will close the nomination and we will move on to having uh Marne and Jen speak. I will have Marne speak first.
027Sure, I'd be happy to. Um I I do have a master's degree in English, but I just want to say that I did take statistics and calculus in college, so I I do have the math background as well. My first job was for my father uh in accounts payable working for several years uh there. Um while my role now is in HR uh at the company I work for I support our largest business finance group. So I support our North America finance group as well as our tax treasury audit controller and external reporting groups. So I am heavily imshed in finance uh in my day job and uh used to uh looking over spreadsheets uh as it were um and have been on the uh business services committee of course now for the last six
028months or so um attending all of those meetings. appreciate the uh rigor to the process that has been brought there um and would like to uh continue in that vein um which is why I volunteered. So thank you Jen. I uh have been working in human resources for close to two decades. I currently serve as vice president of talent management and leadership development for a Fortune 20. I manage a day-to-day multi-million dollar budget. very passionate about being very good fiscal stewards of our tax dollars and that's something that I want to continue. Additionally, as serving as board president over the last two years, it has been a high priority for me that we focus on salary and benefits all within the realm of both treasurer and uh the head of of the comm head of
029business and the HR committee committee. So, I would appreciate your support so I can continue that work and build upon that momentum in that capacity. All right, Meg, may I add a comment? Um, I don't believe we're allowing additional comments. All right, thank you for asking. All right, if we could go ahead then and we are casting a ballot for the treasurer position. [Music] I'm slower than the other two next to me. [Music] Ouch. Congratulations, Marty Mercer, on our treasure. Congratulations. Let's go for that. Good job. Thanks, D. Um, well, we'll do clerk. Yeah, we'll do clerk first. Um, so we have no one at this point has indicated interest for clerk. Um the clerk position is a uh of course that leadership that nominated position the duties of the clerk really are about signing
030documents. I mean the vast majority of the time the documents are documents that are available directly after our board me and directly after um the meeting has ended and the board has taken a vote. The clerk's position is literally often with the president but often just as the clerk to sign off that yes that is the vote that was taken. um by our board. There are times but um very limited um where the treasurer may need to uh come in clerk may need to come in, excuse me, clerk, I'm sorry, the clerk may need to come in to the um business office to sign a document if necessary or the superintendent's office. Um but administration has always been very um good about working around the schedule of whoever is clerk to be able to um
031allow them to do that that works best for them. So with that introduction um I am throwing out nomination for clerk. Is there anyone who would nominate? Can I ask a question? Do you have to take any notes or anything? No session. The o the only notes that you need to take are during close section during close se session. But but the notes literally are handling the roll call vote and recording what the vote is. You're not you're not acting as a secretary to record the substance. Very minimal. Very So it's very minimal. and and the I'll put my Okay, that's all right. Can I do that myself? I'm taking the same notes. So, between the two of us, somebody actually Do we have Do we have a nomination for G? I'll nominate G. All
032right, we have a nomination for G. Do we have any further nominations? Do we have any further nominations? Do we have any further nominations? Having no further nominations, I would ask for a uh vote. We as we only have one nominee. Um all those in favor of G as clerk with I I I. Any opposed with nay? Motion carries. Thank you, Je. If my name is on, is there any monetary liability that I There is there is no monetary liability. You are you are literally signing off on what the board voted on. Yeah, we keep a lawyer on retainer, so you're good. Yeah. Should have asked that question before we before. That's right. Thank you, G. All right. We will now move into the appointment of the board secretary. And I am looking for a
033motion to approve Nicole Bowman as the school board secretary. So moved. Second. All right. I have a motion from Will and a second from Jen. Any discussion? All those in favor with I. I. I. I. Any opposed with nay? Motion carries. Nicole has the job. Congrats, Nicole. Thank you. All right. We will now move into the election of chairs for the standing board committees. And the first one we will move into is business services. Um we have two individuals um who have indicated an interest in that. I will note that with respect to the vote cast, my understanding is that that is allowed for officers. With respect to the chair positions, we're just going to be doing a vote. Um, so we were going to be looking for a motion from for an individual to
034be in that chair position and um then we will vote on that. If that vote would fail, then we would look for another um motion. So I am at this point looking for a motion with respect to the business services human resources chair. I will move to appoint Marne Mercer as the chair. Do I have a second? Like to second. I have a motion by Will. I have a second by Ted. Could we have discussion? Any discussion on that motion? I didn't bring it up the first time, but I do have a decade in human resources as well. So, it is uh relevant, I think. All right. So, is there any discussion at all other than Mar's comment? Hearing none. All in favor with I. I. I. Any opposed with nay? Motion carries. We will
035move into the position of educational services committee chair. Um, so I am looking for a motion. Oh, motion to appoint G. Pope as it services chair. Do I have a second? Second. I have a motion by Will and a second by Marne. Any discussion on that motion? I think just as um Ted alluded to having someone new in the role that's experiencing what's going on in schools right now as I am teaching and doing it all. um especially with the reading act 20 stuff that's going on having that that lens of ad service is also important. So and I think that's um my masters is in business business education administration all those things. So curriculum um so I also would like to put that out there that having some do that as well with that
036experience that's living it also um is important. Are there any further comments or discussion? Do we need a There's already a motion made so we can't you have to fail the motion. You have to fail the motion and then got So do we have gee ohus we're just we're just having comment on the motion to appoint you as the chair of the committee. Okay. It's not a formal vote. It's not it's a motion just for you. Then we go to an another person. Do I say something if I want to? Sure. Mhm. Uh well, I have been the chair for two years. Uh and Ted will attest to the fact that every I know a lot of people introduced from years like 20 years 30 years and in the past couple years we got to
037meet all new people that that are in the district. So I think uh knowing and talking to people eye to eye helps and that's why one of the reasons we go into the schools is it's one thing to talk about a classroom of 30. It's one thing to stand in a classroom 30 and feel feel the pressure of kids in the hallways and things like that. So that's why I do that and that's I would like to be chair services committee for I'd like to add um that is very important and that is exactly what Alex does on a day-to-day actively serving as an educator in the district. um really reviewing all of the details regarding everything related to curriculum that we've been trying to move along both this year and last year. That's my
038comment. Are there any further comments? Hearing none. All those in favor of G Pope as chair with I I. Any opposed with nay? Nay. Nay. Okay, we have Do we want to call do a roll call? Can we call a roll? I want I want to call. All right, we'll do a roll call. Mr. Shader, hi. Miss Mercer. Hi. Miss Bushman. Nay. Mr. Kowalsski. I Mr. Pope. Yes. Miss Earler. I Mr. Summers. Nay. Mr. Lee, they Mr. Liebri. Uh, I six. Yes. Three. No. Thank you. We'll now move to populate the committees. Um, and I will remove my name from both as president and you can remove me from at services. I'll stay on business. So if we have the So if we have the chairs up there right now, we have G's chair of
039ED services with Jim, Jeremy, and Alex as members. I would like to be on that one, too. So, we'll put Jen up there. We have Marne needs to be erased from business. We have Marne is well or needs to be put as chair. Yeah. But erased. So, right now we have Barney and Will and Ted on business services and we are missing missing. Who are we missing? Nobody services. We're not missing anybody. Oh, that's right. G That's right. Could you just put Could you put G in the C in that member ED services category with a line under him up top please? And then Marne also on business services just so we can see Yeah, we need three for each. So, is there anyone um that is currently um listed at ED services that would
040be willing to move to business services HR? I'll move over there. Thank you. Thank you, Jen. Thanks, Jen. So now we have Ed services G as chair with Jim, Jeremy, and Alex as members. We have business services with Marne as chair with Jen, Will, and Ted as members. Okay. Any um comments or any questions of board members about that? So I would look for a motion to approve. Let's first approve the committee members for ed services of Jim, Jeremy, and Alex. Could I have that motion? So moved. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor with I I I I. Any opposed? All right. Okay. Now, I'd be looking for a motion to approve Jen, Will, and Ted as members of the business services and HR committee. So, moved. Second. Motion by Mary and second by
041Will. Any discussion on that? All those in favor with I. I. I. I. Any opposed? All right. We will now take a look at the board um and committee meeting schedule our regular board meetings. Oh yeah, we can we can move we'll move to 12 and then we'll come back to that. All right. So let's move into the ad hoc committees. Um I am happy to remove myself from the committee um Boston school forest off of both Boston school forest and negotiations um because I think it's important that other board members are involved. I'd like to add myself to negotiations and I would take myself off of negotiations. Um, you can take me off Boston School Forest. It's been a great time though. It just happens to conflict a lot with my work meeting. So,
042so we've got Boston School Forest with Jim and Jeremy. We've got Tech Steering. Will and Ted are both interested. Negotiations. Will and Jen that tends to be two board members on negotiations. Um, if that's the case, you can remove me from tech. Sure. Okay. Well, are you going to be around for the next negotiations? I You did share that you were stepping down. Probably. Well, probably not. But depends on when they negotiate. It also depends on if act 10 gets overturned. It'll be next. It'll be next March, April. Yeah. Unless act 10 gets overturned, but No, it would still be next. No, but it still would be in March, April regardless. Yeah, you can rub me at that too if you want. Well, I'm just speaking if you're not going to be here. Is there
043another board member that might want to be and that also I'm not saying it has to be but oftentimes it is it is the it's the board president or it's the chair of business services HR because they are actually the with me with me the last time I was president I I stopped serving as negotiations and the the board of HR and business services did because they were the individual that was working the most with those two admin members. So I think it might be who Barney to you can put me back on there. I do negotiations at work. Yeah, just the negotiations for now. Yeah. So, we have Boston School force has Jim and Jim and Jeremy both interested. Text steering has Will and Ted. Negotiations Marne and Jen, that's usually two. CISA 5,
044Will and Ted. um a caution that that meeting is May 15th. May 15th. So, Thursday. And then we have the WSB delegate. Uh will G. Marne have expressed an interest in that. That will not occur until that January 21st 21st 23, 2026. So, and we need one member for Boston School Forest, one for tech, one for CISA 5, one for WSB, and then ne negotiations can stay with two. Yes, Ted likes it. He can Oh, sorry. Yes. Um, so for a WB uh if whoever is not the can they still go and and participate? I'll take my name off WB delegate. I've done that the last couple years. Marty can do it. Ronnie might have enough to do. Yeah, that's true. I I'd be would be interested. I still want to go. I I I
045have a lot of passion in that area, but you can take my name off as far as official. So, the So, the role of the WB delegate is that they appear at the delegate convention, but you can't get in. No, got to be. You can't get in unless you're a delegate. Our board goes through the delegates um the all of the various resolutions they brought forward and as a board we vote on which way we would like our delegate to vote. So our delegate does have some kind of direction from the board. However, as happened last year, there are amendments sometimes on the floor at that meeting that the delegate then needs to determine whether it remains within the spirit of what we, you know, had recommended or whether they need to make their own
046decision. So, I'm looking to I think I think Jen would be good at it. Yeah, I'm fine with taking my name off that. Okay. Okay. And then what about CISA 5 rep? And are you able to go to that? Um actually I do it on Zoom. Okay. Yeah, you can do that too. One meeting a year. One meeting. Yeah, it's okay. So it's Thursday. Yeah. Okay. Oh, wow. Yeah. Okay. So we're down to that tech steering committee. We've got Will and Ted on there. We've got Jim and Jeremy. Um I think it would be good if Do either of you have any interest in tech the tech steering committee versus the Boston school? Boston school forest meets 400 pm on Wednesdays by the way. It's usually quarterly. Quarterly. Yep. Yeah. I'm mostly interested in the
047Boston school forest. Yeah. So, do you want to talk a little bit about what stick steering is? Sure. So Brian pulls a group of um people together periodically throughout the year um and he really uses that committee to just help direct and provide feedback and input into some of the decisions that he's making um in in his department. So for example, the cell phone policy he ran by that committee um you know to get some feedback and input before making those decisions. So, it's just really whatever's front and center in his um department that needs some feedback and and input and they only need one. No, they periodically they need one person one person every four to six weeks. And some of the things that we did was we looked at utilization of some of
048the software teachers talked about it that helped to drive down the costs in terms of licenses etc. So, and you can attend virtually the meetings. Ted's passionate about it. Then he can keep it. Are you passionate about that, Ted? I am. Sure. Yeah. Thank you, Will. And then Boston School Forest, rock, paper, scissors. That's how I did it last year. You know what? We'll just go with two for that. Yeah, I was going to say we have two passions. Yes, we're gonna have because there may be times when you can't show up. So, I think that's good. Are people okay with that? I'm okay with that. I'm good. Yes. Carlo will be pleased. Okay. The more the marrier. So, um let's do them one by one. Looking for a motion to approve uh Jim and
049Jere Jeremy as representatives to the Boston Cool Forest. Okay. Have a motion by Alex, second by Jen. Any discussion? All those in favor with I. I. I. I. Any oppose with nay? Motion carries. Could I have a motion to approve Ted on the SE tech steering committee? So moved. And a second. All right. I have a motion and a second for Ted to serve on the tech steering committee. Any discussion other than the woohoo? All those in favor with I. I. I. I. Any oppose with nay? Motion carries. Uh looking for a motion for Marne and Jen to serve on the negotiations committee. So moved. Motion by Alex. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Will. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor with I. I. I. I. Any opposed with nay? Motion
050carries. Uh a could I have a motion for the cease five rep to be Ted? Second. All right. Motion by Alex, second by Will. Any discussion on that? All in favor with I I I. Any opposed? Motion carries. And finally, agend delegate. So moved. Second. Motion by Alex, second by Barney. Any discussion? All those in favor with I. I. I. Opposed with nay. Motion carries. All right. We will move back to the board and committee meeting dates and time. Um, currently we're holding board meetings the second Monday of the month at 6:00 pm. Um, board members, we have some board members who have asked us to consider a 5:30 p.m. start time for for which one? For the school board. For regular meeting for the regular board meeting. Are there any thoughts about that? Just
051I know for people sometimes there can be tightness with that work work dinner family board transition preference doesn't affect me so is it a hardship for anyone else might be for me but I'll try to make it work well if I mean if it's a hardship for you we can stick with the six o'clock meetings it really is important that that board members aren't feeling that it would be very rushed And I don't know if I would be able to make it to every board meeting if it was at 5:30. Then let's keep it at 6. Then let's then let's keep that at 600 and we'll be um let's make let's take a motion on that. So moved. All right. Motion by Jen, second by Alex. Uh that 6 pm start time. All those in
052favor with I I I. Any oppose with nay? Okay. And then our committee meetings have been meeting ED services at 5:30 p.m. and business services at HR at 6:30 p.m. Are people comfortable with that? Well, and Jen, you'll be on the you'll be on the later one. So, is 5:30 okay again for everybody else for that ed services? Okay. Okay. So, we need a motion for the committee meetings, Ed services at 5:30 and business services HR at 6:30. So, moved. Do I have a second? Second. All right. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor with I I. Any opposed with nay? Motion carries. And finally, we have the approval of signature faximile resolution. Um this is something this is something that we do annually. Basically it's just um an electronic signature.
053So there are checks and things that have to be signed and this just gives us the ability to use electronic signatures um to do that and Nicole will have to get those from board members either in between this meeting and the next one or at the end of the last board meeting. It would be easier quickly now because there is a close session and Nicole gen generally doesn't stay for that. And we've got three minutes every year. Yes. I don't think I've ever been asked. We did it last year. We did. Okay. So, I need a motion to approve the two continue signature faximile use resolution and the new signature faximile resolution. So, moved. Second. All right. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All those in favor with I I I. Any
054opposed? All right. Our future meeting dates and times. June 9th is our next board meeting and we tentatively have the board retreat scheduled for June 23rd. Um I am looking for a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Do I have a second? Second. All right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor with I. I post.