001good evening this is the meeting of the Granton Board of Education being held on Monday February the 24th um 2025 at the central office this meeting is being held in person and online on the first order of business good catch there you didn't hurt yourself don't throw his papers first the business is to Pledge of Allegiance and I'll ask mat us I pledge allegiance to the plag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God and indivisible liberty and justice for all thank you next item is recognition of our Luther King scholar and I will turn it over to Dr ay I tell you it gives me great pleasure to oops I'm sorry I tell you it gives me great pleasure to introduce Mahi fatel to
002the board Mahi is an um 2024 Martin Luther King scholar to become a scholar uh requires a a a a great uh you have to write an essay we review all of your academics we review your contributions to this to the community and then there's an interview that's I would say uh challenging more or less challenging but I'll tell you that interview was I think one of the most brilliant I've ever seen so let me start with um mahi's connection to the Community First of all she she volunteers at the Graton public library and at themes River magnet and at backas hospital because she wants to be a doctor so and she got her EMT yes so that's in um I guess a tribute to uh what we do at fit at fit senior high
003school as well and I just find found out tonight she's a full IB student I did not know that at least I didn't realize all I probably did know it um and she's in the the um I guess it's a club an association that Dr graner started More Than Words which it brings together students from Ledger New London and Gren in a communal uh um a way to uh bring respect to one another and to the community itself at fix high school there were so many academic achievements for Mahi that I'm not even going to to bother with with them because she does so much more but there were so many of them that we'd be here for till 8:00 just doing that so however she's on the varsity tennis team she's on student council
004in the National Honor Society she's a peer mediator she's president of the Key Club of the Kats and of the black student union uh and get used to seeing Mahi because now she's a representative to the Board of Ed and I'd like to also thank uh Mr Brown and M M Hodge for accompanying Mahi tonight so not Mahi told me tonight that she's accepted at nor Eastern University and of course she's going to be um become a doctor and her area uh is going to be Dermatology but I'll tell you I don't know why Mahi doesn't want to be a teacher because when we did I have the uh Scholars over every weekend to practice their spee es and to give feedback and when I ask for feedback mahi's feedback is is is so brilliant
005it's just so insightful and respectful of the student that she's speaking to so that's everything that I know about Mahi and the only thing that I would ask you to do is if you have any questions to please address them to Mahi and I'll go sit down and she'll answer them she could take the mic and tell us whatever you want to tell us um I don't have much to say Dr acrian said most of it um but I'm really grateful that I had a chance to um be here and um I would like to thank all of you for inviting me and um representing me um and I think achieving the Martin Luther King scholarship has been one of my greatest achievements so what was the hardest part of the whole process of getting
006the scholarship um the interview yeah or actually the process in um for the dinner yeah yeah going every Saturday working with Dr acrian um feedback change yeah for how many Saturdays um I how I feel like it was it was from 5 I want to say 5 Saturday yeah yeah it's from when when you receive this reive until satday yeah so it's a lot more than five yeah so I could tell you're respectful already they didn't say too many sday very respectful my are you going to introduce your mother um this is my beautiful mother um she's raised me beautifully and everything I've learned so far in my life and even wanting to become a doctor has become been because of her um so yeah I just want to say thank you to her you're
007welcome Matt Mahi I hope you will find a way to stay in touch with fit to stay in touch with this district and to share your trajectory with the ones who are coming behind behind you because you have been inspired by your mom and others and now it's your turn to inspire others we look forward to sharing in your joy yeah I look forward to it too we'll be very interested after your freshman year to see how prepared you are that's true they really felt like their preparation iy is gonna prepare me and I pretty sure Mr Mor has made that very clear that all the students are well prepared for their freshman year College that's what he tells us to yeah yeah questions um just want to say congratulations and um very uh proud
008to share a neighborhood with you yeah and uh so uh yeah definitely look forward to hearing uh updates as your uh you know academic and professional career advances thank you thank you congratulations for me as well um you know Dr akman was disappointed that uh you you you might not choose a teaching profession I see why that why that's a medical uh degree is exclusive why you could become a med med school Professor that's actually been in my mind actually I'm trying to look at this and say what was that I want to say it was that that you get to medical school and you're done and I hope that you sincerely hope that you consider teaching I'm actually am considering it once I am a doctor do a couple years in it I want
009to be a professor yeah when she's ready to retire from a medical yeah yeah you do what your heart desires yep that's what I've always been doing that's it mhm anyone else we thank you again for coming thank you we wish the next item on the agenda is comments from citizens regarding the agenda items and other subjects of concern that lie within the jurisdiction of the Board of Education this is the portion of the agenda where the board welcomes comments from citizens sometimes each presentation should be limited to 5 minutes or less and citizens should if possible submit written comments pleas presentation should be related to man matters Peron to Granton board members will only ask questions in order to clarify the speaker presentation and cannot respond during comments of citizens portion of the board
010meeting citizens should make their presentations from the podium and state their names and addresses for the record would anybody like to address the board tonight um Porsche bordelon uh 24 Jefferson Drive Gren for full disclosure I'm a town counselor um also the spouse of Ian on the board Fitch high school graduate mother of two that graduated from Fitch and worked um in the Gren schools at one point as a Pera um for a few years back in the day um congratulations uh to my neighbor so um and I was at the dinner and it was just marvelous to hear uh your speech and presentation um and as a woman of color my myself um I just you know commend you for your efforts and pursuing um all your desires and dreams and um I wish
011I was on the panel here to ask questions because my questions would have been about what barriers are at fit that you think for minority students especially dual language students that could help them um so I encourage you to bring those types of things back because I feel like um a lot of our services are underserved in my opinion but with that that night um it was stated by a member of uh recipient that they um did not have enough English as a second language when they came to this country and had to work doubly hard um so I again I come tonight speaking in support of Education it's not the percent that we raise the budget or what we approve I I would give you a 10% raise like as long as the money
012within those object codes are going to fully support our students that's my goal so it's not the number of the raise it's where the number and the money is being allocated within those object codes and obviously I have concerns again we should be closing achievement gaps we cannot be funding all of the higher level classes and not making sure that the students that the most need have the supports that they need with that English has a second language we have students that come here on grade level in their country and at home they speak their native language and it's not their fault they're learning English and we have an obligation I know that you did increase them at one point but it it's still not enough um those students I spoke to a parent who
013says my daughter on her is in the higher level everything comes here and because of the support she's falling behind because the English has a second language person is not available to help them in all of their classes one person in one school at the high school especially and Elementary so I just encourage you guys to really look at this also at the high school um making sure students have all the supports they need um enrichment um but also on the elementary level closing those achievement gaps looking at those math scores um as Matt was here is here as the principal um he was my son's tutor at one point because we couldn't find tutors in math that's unacceptable I'm thankful for what he did but to say you don't have the higher level math
014tutors available or the math tutors you have and it's no disrespect to them they didn't they could not do the upper level math they were only up to here at a certain level then what we need you know if you're providing a service you have to be able to support the service um and then saying oh all we have is Falcon Academy well not every student wants to go to Falcon Academy I think back when you were in high school do you want to admit that you're behind or struggling to your peers it's kind of embarrassing or can be right you could have a top level student who's struggling and has to go ask a peer finding that right peer that's going to match is a is a hard concept we should be able to
015provide adult tutors that can do that and um looking at our math scores that you guys presented we are lagging behind and some's running deficient so I do support this board's mission of looking at elementary education if we not learning to read and write and do the math at the beginning foundations once they get to the high school level they're just patching it all together trying to get them through what they can Elementary Middle School you have to close achievement gaps so in looking at this you need the supports and the teachers to do such I was concerned when I saw the uh superintendent's proposal and areas that she was looking to cut um again not cutting anywhere that's not directly impacting students but you know looking to make sure that you're you're keeping the
016ports in place um when looking at that also I am concerned that we voted um you guys agreed to fund a uh finance software something I was passionate about seven years ago when I first got elected and finally started to see it come to fruition when are you guys going to make that an agenda item and vote it in haven't seen it um it needs to happen um I know before it was waiting oh for a finance director at this point you don't have one so we can't wait to buy the the alart cart one that you want for them pick something I encourage to go with the same one the town has and get it get it going and use that for whoever is coming in our software is so far behind so it
017is a major concern so where is that money in this year's budget where is that being expended I I couldn't see that um what are the timelines of the inquiries in the decisions on whether or not to conduct the full investigation and the allegations on all of this uh stuff with our financial director I mean that's been in the newspaper that's a concern as well um one more minute thank you um and the HR Director we don't have a financial director the HR Director hasn't been here and you guys are in the midst of your budget that's a bit of a concern to me as well so I'm not sure what's going on there um but I definitely think that $115,000 um needs to be kind of brought to the Forefront so again all in
018supportive education we need to make sure that we're moving the number it's not just voting on a number and saying oh we gave the board of that a 6% raise it's where you guys choose to move that money to best support our students is what you guys are tasked with and that is the obligation education education education and I do not want to see High School Services cut as a means of that um again the minority students in the upper level classes are still very low um it was like that when I was at Fitch and you guys it shouldn't be a discrepancy we need to be closing achievement gaps and everyone should have fair and equal access to education and that should be making sure everyone has the tutors and the supports provided to
019them um and also we need a full-time career counselor if we hire another part-time one that would be great but we cannot help students get to uh College on one part-time career counselor thank you thank you uh anyone else no I have a letter that I found in front of me that the person has asked me to read into the record it's from Sandra San Lucas she lives at 19 Quin Court here in Granton and it reads as follows I am writing to you regarding the meeting that took place on February the 10th 2025 where parents were given an opportunity to express the challenges we have encountered with special education and pupil Personnel Services unfortunately I was unable to attend due to personal reasons but I feel it is important to share my experience and
020concerns with you when my son Nicholas San Zumba began high school he was physically restrained on more than one occasion by multiple staff members these incidents caused him significant distress anxiety and fear which in turn posed a risk of triggering a seizure this all occurred prior to the covid-19 pandemic and and as a result I had no choice but to withdraw him from school for a period of time the Granton School District was not equipped to handle these situations and he was homeschooled for several months as a result as a nonverbal child my son struggles to adjust to new individuals which makes it very difficult for him to work with unfamiliar per professionals he has only been able to build trust and form a connection with one individual throughout his educational experience this is a
021challenge that I know many of the parents with special needs children also face currently my son is enrolled in a transition Academy where he continues to work with the same power professional he he has had since middle school as parents we understand that children with special needs often require consistent support and that parent professionals play a vital role in providing this support it is essential that they are compensated adequately for their dedication and hard work I trust that as a committee you have the power and influence to make a difference and I ask you to advocate for increased funding to ensure that our children's needs are met it is imperative that the budget you propose includes Provisions to retain the dedicated professionals who are essential to the success and well-being of children like my son
022thank you for your time and attention to this matter I look forward to your response and appreciate your ongoing commitment to improving services for our children and that's from Sandra San Lucas I'll give this to you so you can give it to Jan so she can put in the record and we will follow up with the mom okay here you go okay here's El thank you okay next I any response from citizens any response to comments I'll just say I'll thank all the citizens for the input and I look forward to working with the board to address a number of those issues anyone else okay um student representative report up she has a two-part here um so I wasn't told uh by previous representative um she told me that I only had to say a
023couple things um oh she lied so tell us what you know the theater Club is showing Greece next month um The College and Career Fair is on March 4th after school um and then the James River magnet children's fair is on March 23rd I believe um and the yearly kiet's blood drive is also set to take place mid-march and where is that going to be it's during school for seniors oh okay anyone 17 or older yeah thank you question um mayi uh I love hearing about the events that are going on in school but we live in stressful times at least we adults do and sometimes that washes over the older students or maybe even all over all the students so I would hope from I'm speaking only for myself not for the board I
024would love to hear from time to time if there are feelings or emotions that are in the school that you think uh we would benefit from hearing about uh if it's something that can be dealt with an open session I invite that if it's something of a more sensitive nature I'd like you to go to Mr Brown or to Susan but please your role is more more than words and more than and more than telling us just the wonderful events that are going on thank you can I also add more than words is going to be doing workshops at our Middle School I'm very excited about that Gren middle did you want to say anything we had done this in ledgard yeah last year that's really I'm looking forward to that I did it last
025year too um but I won't be able to make it to the one on the 28th um because I have school projects yeah I can't make but we will be there and our More Than Words students will actually run some of these workshops at grot and middle with all of our seventh graders and it really is the whole opportunity for More Than Words is to lift student voice and to teach our middle schoolers how to lift their voice and tell us their concerns and things that they're dealing with yes a board if a board member were free would one be able to observe yeah just let me know most of the adults we kind of hang out in the hallway andek in because we don't want to interrupt them but it's certainly exciting to see
026yeah um sorry I just want to talk a little bit about the field trip okay um so I've been going to the weekly meetings for more than words after school and they've been discussing about what they actually want to focus and Target and they've been trying to Target um how middle schoolers are very quiet and like don't open up about the issues that they've been facing to teachers and admin and we feel like they would be open to discussing issues with high schoolers because we're like they're bigger siblings in some way right um so that's what we're going to be targeting um awesome that'll be great thank you Jen you have a yeah was this um do you happen to know the date for the play or musical if not you could just I'll make
027sure I'm trying to get that in board notes but I'd like Joyce to like almost put together a calendar we're getting to that time of year there's been so many things happening to get you kind of a calendar so you know um there's a lot going on there's a lot yeah a lot of ECC wins too by the way in sports I saw okay now I know that Mr Brown's here and Miss ha is here but I'd like to know how has your experience been at fit so far the POS positive and a negative positives are I've made a lot of connections I did not come into High School thinking that I was going to make connections everyone was like make sure you make at least one connection going into school um and I feel
028like in my personal um you admin and teachers make it a lot more easier to connect with them at least my teachers um and they make life a lot easier especially for coming from an IB student um all my teachers make it a lot easier um some of the harder things that I want to talk about uh one thing is Junior and Senior year when I did do the diploma program there's nothing you can really do about it but it's the group that you're put with for two years it can be a little struggle to stay with those same students if you don't get along with them so that's been a little bit of a struggle not just for me but I feel like any IB diploma student can talk about that a little bit
029so if we try to expand the program so that we widen our circle of friends that will help one of the goals yeah yeah yeah but in the meantime maybe we can think about like she's saying that having the same group two years together shake it up a little yeah sh maybe open the classes to students that aren't in full diploma like the um theory of knowledge class that's a mandatory class for IB diploma students but it's also open to other students but other students don't really know about it there were only two kids that um were in that class that weren't from IB diploma um like the course but they really loved it because we just talk about um any sort of topic and how you would go about thinking about it how there's
030different viewpoints towards it it's just it's a course where you can just be openminded about any topic talk about it in any way and it's just such an interesting class and I feel like if other students who weren't in IB diploma took it it would be a lot more helpful for us so we can make friends other than the people that were stuck with um and then um sort of like I'm stuck with these people a little bit a little bit yeah yeah yeah but you had for four years so great recommendation I hope Miss hod and Mr BR they're getting ready to schedule we're getting ready to schedule anyway yeah any other questions thank you so much thank you thank you thank you um next I'm going to ask if it's the if the
031board doesn't mind if we can go right to action items and get these action items out because we're only supposed to have a board meeting until s so I like to do these action items first and then come back to we have time to come back to the other stuff yeah thank you so I'm going to go to action items number eight and um I have a motion for the consent agenda so moved a second second Thomas okay thank you photo and I don't know if she has it okay thank you thank you everybody conratulations thank you again any questions or comments about got the consent agenda it's approving um minutes for the special meetings January 27 February the 3rd February 5th February the 10th two meetings on February the 10th February the 11th and
032February 12th no comments questions okay all those in favor of approving the consent agenda say I I I oppose okay the next next item is old business a discussion and possible action regarding a second reading of policy P513 1.81 electronic devices and the motion leads to approve policy P513 1.81 electronic devices as the second meeting do I have a second Matthew okay um Matthew you want to talk about it well this been a long road we've shared a lot of documents the history for almost a year I believe that we've been working on this uh the policy is brief and clear the regulations are also clear to summarize them and correct me if after all this time I've got it wrong I'd still take it as a favor if you correct me our policy in
033short is no use of cell phones whatsoever in the elementary school level and there's an asterisk to that that I'll come back to uh in the Middle School no use of cell phones from first Bell to last bell with an asterisk and in the high school no use of cell phones in instructional periods with the ability to use them in between classes and during lunch hour with an asterisk the asterisk is some students because of their IEP may need to have a cell phone for medical or other the reasons there may be emerging situations that develop from time to time and there is provision for a student or his or her family to speak to Administration primarily through the principles to get a temporary waiver to get the student through that situation but by and
034large students are in school to learn from one another and we hope that this will strengthen that okay any other discussion no I'm I'm all set u you know I feel like we uh the policy committee vetted this one pretty thoroughly uh made a number of changes so I look forward to uh you know positive Vote or any constructive criticism anyone else okay so all those in favor of approving um policy P513 1.81 electronic devices as a second reading say I I I oppose i j a i extensions approved um the next is discussion and possible action regarding a second policy second reading of policy p3120 budget document that's attachment number 13 and the motion leads to approve policy p3120 Z budget document as a second reading do I have a second second Thomas all
035right Matthew no I like my colleague Mr Thomas to speak to this okay Ian uh yeah so this one um has to do with the budget document how it's uh constructed um both by the superintendent and then also um deliberated on by the board um so there was a lot of discussion um about the uh what is now the middle paragraph um uh but I believe we got to a good working compromise um the first and the third paragraphs are just basically um more or less uh slight variations of the boilerplate that comes out of cave um but the middle paragraph has to do with Communications with Town officials uh by Administration or board members um that uh have to do with like substantive uh budget changes including but not limited to moving items in
036or out of the budget uh so basically this policy um encourages the reporting of such things and then uh in conversation one of the uh sticking points was like how this is going to be regulated um and so in the policy meeting uh the superintendent agreed to um allow me to uh participate in the forming of the regulations so that that we can get some specificity in there where it's appropriate as to like how these communications will be documented and are expected to be communicated to the to the full board in a timely manner we've already kind of started that practice in a way with the tracker sheet and and trying to keep track of everything too I think we've already kind of started a process that might work out in the future even agreed
037so I look forward to working with the superintendent in the future on on uh flushing out those uh regulations any questions or comments okay all those in favor of approving uh as a second reading policy p3120 say I I oppose exensions approved next we're going on to new business and it's discussion and possible action regarding regarding compliance with executive order 14190 ending radical indoctrination and K through 12 schooling um the motion reads to comply with the provisions of the executive order 14190 ending ratical indoctrination in K through 12 schooling Federal Register citation 90r 885 53 Federal Register document # 2025 d022 32 until such time as it is amended or superseded in any other federal state local and local regulations that any policies or practices in violation are hereby no and void you have a
038second second second beam all right this question can I just say that I really say as the superintendent of schools that there is no curriculum or belief system in our district that we are to indoctrinate any of our students in any particular way so to me this is kind of a moot point because we don't do this anyway so we wouldn't intend to indoctrinate kids so I think you know if they are thinking that schools do this this is not a district that does that and I don't know many that do but or the ones that I've been in I can't say have done that either Matthew could I add to to Susan's comment uh during the election season when I visited with Community organizations some of the national discussions about supposed or real uh
039indoctrination what was the status in gron and my answer was to the very best of my knowledge know there is no indoctrination no indoctrination from the left no indoctrination from the right no indoctrination from the top no indoctrination from the bottom and if you know of or believe if you have firsthand information of something you think falls into that category go through the channels through your teacher through your principal through the superintendent and then to the board and it will be dealt with responsibly and fairly thank you Matthew yeah I just like to Echo uh Mr Schulman's um uh sentiments there as far as like they're being channels um of redress if if any Community member feels that there is something of concern in the curriculum um you know I I don't agree with the
040language of this executive order I think it it takes great liberties with uh interpretive uh language but uh you know such as it is uh executive orders do carry uh some weight um of loss so that we have to uh go through this process um but uh you know um what's it saying I'm kind of struggling for it now um legal does not equate ethical um or something like that and we just heard from a student that said that her voice matters in so many ways and taking the theory of knowledge course where kids are really expected to read a lot of research and and look at different viewpoints and not to only think of one particular way of thinking and that their voices matter their thoughts matter and their you know contributions all matter
041so that's what we're trying to cultivate here in gr Public Schools right and are you done well I just wanted to follow on that saying that uh you know critical anything that that has like critical thought exercises in it is critical across the board you know critical thinking is uh one of the main Tools in analytical um writing and reading you know like you you you have to apply certain lenses and be able to apply those again across the board um I think of one of my literary Theory classes where you know we discuss like how you use different lenses to analyze texts and you know that that you know it should not be attached to any sort of personal you know it's it's not necessarily a recommendation or requirement to think a certain way
042it's more about giving um you know students the ability to use different tools to think for themselves so it's like sort of like uh you know analogy would be like opening up a toolbox and introducing them to screwdriver wrench Hammer these is what these things do this is how you can dismantle a text and and see how it's put together and uh you know so I think there there's there's occasional times like you know there's some nervousness about words like critical thinking that uh you know get misconstrued at times thank you thank you Dean I find it interesting that while we have a book that's about this thick filled with policies most of which are designed to deal with situations that aren't going to happen but just in case we have a policy for it
043we wait until something happens and then have a policy well sometimes that does happen like with the electronic devices policy that's meant to address an actual situation we have a lot of policies that are in place just in case why because Council told us because cave told us Etc but with this one there's discomfort and there's discussion I just find that interesting I know why but I just wanted to highlight that we have plenty of policies that are there just in case so I see this as it's there just in case because it does happen maybe it doesn't happen in Gren but it could in the future with different leadership and it does happen in other school districts so and there are tens of thousands of them across the country and if gron is clean
044as a whistle that's not necessarily representative of all the school districts so okay thank you Dean I just uh would want to express my appreciation for uh for Dean's um perspective on that and I think it is worth considering that from that perspective is that you know radical indoctrination could mean any number of things and it could be coming from any given direction and you know having adjus in case policy you know it's important yeah not so bad um but uh you know the question is like how do you how do you classify that and you know I think some of the hesitation at least for myself on this one uh was the timing and the source from which it came of course yeah anything else and also the I should say also the language
045if you read the full text of the dear colleague letter like you know there's uh I was reminded of Dr aiman's concern with the excessive use of adjectives and adverbs good teacher still yes well I think there was also precedent enough okay all those I'll take a vote all those in favor it's not a policy but just ending dis um saying that we're going to comply with the executive order all those in favor of um this motion say I I I okay um oppose exensions so Iain is that your mik yep I okay um actually I'll obain as well actually I only now I'll explain real quick it just hit me right now I'm looking at the wording again and it says ending and I guess maybe ending as if it's already happening it's assuming
046an active role yeah like sorry I just didn't pick up on that right now but yeah I'll obain okay um so all those in favor say I did I do that already yeah yeah you did pass Dean voted yes Adrian voted yes Andrea voted yes Matthew you were a yes yes Jen you were a yes correct Jay was a yes and I was a yes and Matt and Ian obain I got that Matt no oh no I'm sorry Mike Mike starts with a name starts with starts with an it's different okay next item um new business discussion and possible action regarding resending policy p411 18112 p514 5.5 prohibition of sex discrimination approved on January 7th 2025 and V State policies p411 18112 and p514 5.5 sexual harassment revised on January 25th 2021 Matthew you want
047to read the motion I move to resend policy p 41181 one2 and policy P 51455 prohibition of sex discrimination approved on January 7th 2025 and operationally reinstate policies P11 18112 and p514 5.5 section harassment as they appeared in their January 25th 2021 iteration do I have a second second Dr a all right discussion let me turn it over to Denise Denise is here or you want to talk about Matthew and then turn it over to Denise I'll I'll talk about it though you can see from my demeanor that I have some nervousness in talking about it the policy the history of this policy is that in 2021 we passed a policy on sexual harassment and another one policy on prohibition of sex discrimination one is directed at cases that involve students and the other is
048involved in cases that involve faculty or staff that in 2024 I believe it was August the Biden Administration uh issued final findings on a proposal uh I guess it was a 2024 proposal went about a I guess close to a year in review and they approved it in August and uh gave us a lawful order to pass it some people agreed I did some people didn't agree but it was a lawful order and we passed it with the new Administration they issued a policy saying and correct me if I'm wrong Denise that some ass aspects of that were unconstitutional in the naming of certain classes that would have covered coverage well some people agree with the administration some people disagree with the administration but it is a lawful order and whether one agrees or disagrees
049we're trying to teach our our students not only how to read and write and understand science but also how to be citizens and part of that whether or not you like a particular thing is to act in a lawful Manner and for that reason though I as you could probably figured out I'm not terribly supportive of it I respect that it's a lawful matter and I will vote in favor of it Den you want any sure so in August uh 2024 um the previous administration uh changed the guidelines that oversee sexual harassment in schools and they changed the definition to include among other things uh sexual identity and that ended up being struck down by a federal judge uh saying it was unconstitutional um and we've since received guidance from the office of civil rights
050which oversees the implementation of Title 9 in schools um and we have been ordered really to because the August uh 2024 regulations and policy is deemed to be unconstitutional we've been directed to revert back to the 2020 regulations and policy which our district adopted in 2021 so we are reverting we are proposing that we revert back to the 2021 uh Title 9 uh sexual harassment um policy regulations and the associated forms um so that we have we are in compliance with federal law and we have um procedures to follow in the case of uh formal complaints of sexual harassment any discussion or question just for and I know we have better business to get to uh have your business later so I'll keep this brief one thing to bear in mind is we talk about
051one Administration the other Administration the both of them three of them all of them have to work within the language the statutes that we call Title 9 this is legislation passed by Congress and like with other legislation the executive branch has some latitude for creating rules procedures interpretations Etc is possible for an Administration any Administration to overstep the bounds and any Administration is regularly called to task by a federal judge that's that disagrees with the expansion um uh on the language and apparently what's happened not a student of it what's happened is that the prior Administration said this our interpretation of Title 9 uh works it's it's covered by Title 9 the new Administration disagreed said it's outside of Title 9 a judge apparently has agreed with the new Administration that in fact the prior
052administration's interpretation exceeded what Congress intended with when it originally drafted Title 9 that's how that works there's scope but there the scope is limited you still have to live with a congressional language as interpret so these aren't just whims um just yes I am just a slight uh correction I guess for the timeline um to my understanding the federal judge that issued that decision was based on a a lawsuit that came into play shortly after the August uh 21st issuance of the executive order order um under the previous administration so and that decision the federal district court judge um came to that decision on January 9th is that correct yeah so um and then we received some guidance and communication around the 10th or so between the 10th and the 23rd um there is some
053communication with the attorneys and our Administration regarding like actions that we may need to take based on that decision and in the time since that decision there's been no appeal filed that we know of that the administration or that any of the board members have been able to or at least like us on the policy committee have have been able to discover so um so yeah then after the inauguration and the new Administration took hold that's when the um executive orders were issued but the federal district court judge actually made the decision before the new Administration took office just know it's it's yeah I a little quibble quab but if I if I imply that the federal decision that the federal judge uh okayed uh subsequent executive order that was not my intent okay I
054think that they may be in sync they may be in agreement but right uh more or less but yeah your timeline is correct but what I said still stands as a general role yeah so um along that lines when it comes down to protections for students well you know I I concur with uh you know Matt's assessment of the situation in the sense that uh uh one it is a is a matter of of legal um impact and so that we do have um responsibilities to respond to that uh whether we may agree with it or not legal is not necessarily ethical uh as we can a review of our country's laws over time past 250 years would show uh we don't always get it right so F your Congressman yeah exactly there's a process
055for that of them so um so to that end um as far as like how this impacts the school Community um you know again if uh the policy committee that uh meeting that we had shortly before this meeting we did discuss it in in a good bit of detail that you know as far as protecting the student population and ensuring that we have a healthy respectful School Community for both the staff and the students the change the resending of this and shifting back to the the older one will in my opinion uh doesn't have that great an impact on the prevention of of bullying and harassment um as a matter of how it's classified so uh this resending um and restoration basically just takes gender identity out of the sexual harassment Arena as as grounds
056for uh filing a complaint um but as far as like bullying and other policies that we have to protect the SC student Community those are still in place and don't depend on gender identity that's correct they depend on other matters of uh encouraging a healthy respectful environment that's correct so um it still would be prohibited Behavior right so so I think it's important for our community to understand that um bullying and and harassment of any sort is not tolerated in this community and towards anyone right right towards anyone for any reason that's right um so I just wanted to say that and we will do what we have to do to maintain our um you know good standing with the the law of the land as it currently exists I imagine we should I don't
057know I reserve my judgment till I actually vote Denise do you want to say anything else no no that was perfect thank you anyone else okay J J um well I can't say it any better than he and I want to thank him for um reassuring everybody that uh while this is a policy change on paper uh that we're still committed to our students that's right and this will not um affect uh the way they're their rights are protected and thank you Ian for uh the way that you presented that okay you all set for a vote okay all those in favor of approving resending all those in favor of the motion say I I abstain Iain the mic okay did you get the opposition no I didn't do that yet okay oppose okay motion
058carries all right we have I think we had seven in favor two extensions and nobody opposed okay the next item is discussion and possible action regard in transferring the nurses expenditures to DOD supplemental impact Aid and I the motion okay okay I'm just that's what I was told motion hey um that that motion needs to be amended I didn't need the motion he's she's got the motion oh okay yeah I didn't need the motion yeah all right the motion to approve the transfer you're going to have to changes on your paper asz I'm making a some changes to improve the transfer of the nurses expenditures to DOD supplemental impact Aid and nonone lapsing account okay to approve the transfer of the nurses expenditures to DOD supplemental impact Aid and nonone lapsing account second Thomas okay
059all right this um you going to talk about well right I think this was the original plan from the board's perspective and we decided to go ahead and um we've had to pay for the nurses of course and that's come out of operations so fortunately um we are going to be um making that transfer and Ry you might want to talk about that transfer too when it comes up but um so that those funds go into DOD first and then we will pay until um you know that runs out and then we'll go into the non-aps funds should we need them and you'll see on the transfer itself we consumed the $494,900 of of DOD funding um and then we're moving 47911 I believe it is into uh non lapsing as well these are the
060entire um we're doing one transfer per per person if you'll notice I'm relieving each line from each School the total uh expected dollar amount if at the end of the year we have some left we will pull it back uh if we have an excess that might be transferred we will transfer back from the non lapsing to make a few more dollars available it looks to be about $20,000 uh left in your non- lapsing account by the time we're done but I'll validate that once all the transactions are finished Ray do we know what the nurse's expenditures is going to be yes ma'am we have all of their salaries right now as well as their incumbrances that's what's that's what's on these sheets can you give us a dollar amount to put on this motion
061oh oh God you wanted there's must be 30 lines here you want each to line oh no I don't want that's not how it's normally done but I can I mean we'll be here about another hour they're all summed up um and broken out going to the proper line uh you'll see a summary of what's going to DOD and what's going to non- lapsing on the second page of the transfer okay had a question uh no I just wanted to um uh I guess note that we did discuss this as a board I believe in our July meeting and voted on it as a plan in our July meeting uh in response to U you know how to pay for them yeah how to cover the nurses so um yeah any other questions or discussion
062no I have a quick one actually I I would like to have that total dollar amount in their motion the total dollar amount is 92,7 19530 of which $494,900 40 will be U transferred to the dod U impact data account and the balance of 47911 will be assigned to non- laxing all right can you say that again but slower so I can write it down so the total is 9909 99 total doll amount being transferred is 999,000 oh God now my tongue's getting in the way 92,7 n530 the amount transferring to the dod impact a is $494,900 47 800 and what 8347 the balance is 407 911 and I don't have the sense I rounded round it up going to non-aps this is all on the uh second page of the transfer request is part
063of the packing okay okay I don't see the split I see the total oh wait yeah d o here's the right here up this one okay so I'm going to make an amendment to this motion so we get some dollar numbers on here to to approve the to approve the transfer of the nurse's expenditures to DOD supplemental impact Aid totaling [Music] 88347 and none lapsing account for a total of $ 47,9 for a total amount of $2,795 30 right on that's to do it okay so just a point of order go ahead um I think uh I think Ian seconded that original motion and and probably just have have you two agree that you're in facted the original one and then you've got this new one and he can second that one too I do
064have a second for the amended motion seconded yes okay well well what I'm saying is so now we'll vote on the amended on the amendment and then we'll have to vote on the the motion like you know I'm saying or you could retract it and just do one vote no we're here now yeah we're here now yeah we vote on the amended motion the amendment the amendment okay all those in favor of the amendment well no finish finish the amendment then I'll okay all those in favor of the amendment say I I I I oppose approve go ahead Adrian um so do is this the total cost of the nurses um and if it is does that include um the benefits in health figures benefit it does say benefits too I do know that the
065the benefits for the full year because BNA um still promised them to take care of like at least half the year so it was a reduced number any other questions I I just want to say I also think that the for last year the nurses were still covered through last summer for salaries too and so this dollar amount is not an annual amount but it's what what we need to cover this year that's right right y you're right thanks for saying that mik and I do want to add if there's anything that is overstated let's say uh one of the incumbrances may have been off we will relieve the okay now we vote on the motion as amended as amended all those in favor of voting on the motion as Amendment as amended say I
066I I I I I okay all in favor all in favor thank you all okay now we'll go back to the beginning and we'll have um the superintendent report can we short and sweet short and sweet it was all in board notes the big shout out was that we made national news at Charles Barnum um with the project that we have with the partners at EB and also Goodwin College and it was an awesome article about our students and also our Gro students which are some of our students too so just a shout out for career Pathways because it really is important that that is absolutely a pathway for kids all kids so am Mar you have anything you want to say okay all right next is u ray your report Ray excuse me you
067really want to go through my entire report I may I may I make the suggestion B for because we're pressing for time tonight for the budget process if anybody has any questions email me and I'll get back to them this week with with a response all that's you had you had a lot in there um not only the narrative but you also had um information that we were waiting for on health insurance and that kind of thing too so kind there's all kinds of data in there so I'm going to ask if you have specific questions email me and I'll try to get back back as soon as I can okay so if you have any questions for Ray about all his attachments attachment 1 2 34 um this email Susan and she can get
068me to Ray okay um Sam you have any updates you want to give us uh yes um I I want to report um that uh Dr Kennedy and I attended the uh Planning Commission uh meeting last week to uh go over the uh CIP items that were moved forward by the town manager and those items were uh the plans and specs for the manufacturing center at fit high school that were working with EB on and that was in the amount of $100,000 that we spoke to them about uh the second item that I spoke about was the Fitch High School water heater uh as you uh may have uh may remember we have one water heater that is in operation the other one is is bad so we need to replace the second water heater
069uh at a cost of $85,000 uh and so that was my second item Dr Kennedy uh spoke about three items uh the $330,000 district finance software item he uh spoke about the FID High School PA system for $63,000 and school video um cameras in the amount of 00 $1,000 uh we both felt that uh they uh received it uh in a positive way uh I I've been looking to see if I can find if there was an actual vote after that what was the third one I'm sorry the third one was school video cameras for 100,000 and the second one was what uh fish High School PA system it's as old as I am it was it was put in in 76 when they graduated when I graduated so it's done its fair share anything
070else Sam no that would be it for tonight thank you how are we doing with the charging station did you cover them up like at D River magnet school I mean that was one of the concerns when we went to the school that um one or two parents talked about the charging stations and how they keep them if you could keep them closed during school time I I haven't covered them yet but we have no trespassing signs that we're going to be installing um on all the campuses and uh we'll get a special sign at the uh charging stations that indicate no charging during school hours so okay when do you think you're going to have those signs up uh within the next two weeks we should that okay had some nice weather coming for
071a I think Clinton you have sorry you have something coming up with the police department to try them the new software that we have to WN 911 all schools all schools are going to do a practice run with our mut Mutual link system with both town in the city J Sam I'm just following up on the boys's bathroom across from the cafeteria if we ended up getting doors for the Stalls uh I believe those were ordered the other day okay perfect as long as some around the district see if we had anything that would fit we didn't have anything that would fit so um Billy was ordering those the other day okay as long as we're making forward progress thank you and Ian I'm sorry yeah um so just this's a a question for uh
072Dr Kennedy I guess um so as far as the um the CIP for the budget software the fin like that Financial software for $330,000 yes sir um is is that a CIP that funding would come all from the town that was a it's it's a joint proposal that would I'm working with my counterpart Liz Spelman on the town side okay and we've engaged with the same Tyler Technologies which is the owner of munus um on a discussion of a quote that was originally uh gotten by Irene Lynch um we've now expanded that so we're working through what this would look like for a single instance of the software in the the cloud that would be used both by town and Board of Education uh Tyler has 37 municipalities in the state of Conneticut that are
073set up that way the town is working through their I don't want to say challenges their plan should we proceed to go from an on premises situation to a them in the cloud and then we would then be part of the transition from e finance which is in the cloud part of our power school Suite to also join that munus financially it makes the most sense for us to have a single as opposed to multiple ones um but obviously there's details as far as what the transition would look like for the town they have had a plan on the books I don't mean to speak for them but my understanding is the plan on the books to continue to update their on premises uh system because of this joint project that we've now started working
074on to really figure out what the plan can be going forward they've changed position and are investigating how we can come together as well okay so uh as a joint venture that $330,000 is is a curious figure because that's 115,000 * 2 so is this where the $115,000 that we assigned I don't believe so25 budget that is a that is a quote that we got and it's not it's 330 is is an approximate number I think it was 328 and change or something like that all right I'm more than happy to share the quote with the board um well a couple things to build off that I guess you know I again would like the board to officially review the idea and vote on the ideas for as far as going shifting over to munus
075uh I feel like that's one little bit of business that we just should just clear out off the board if that's our action our desire as a board we should make it official uh two I'd like to keep track of that $15,000 that we allocated for the 2025 budget um that was targeted for this transition and make sure that it is applied towards the transition whether it's this year or next okay um and if we have to bounce it through the nonlin fund to get it to the next budget cycle so be it but we did allocate that money for transition software um so I should we should spend it on that we felt that it would be um not appropriate this year because we really want to move to that next software and to
076buy it and then just use it for a year or a half a year we thought what didn't make sense so we we did not spend it on any other software right so again I think this would be an opportunity to use a non-aps fund as a way to to to hold money that was targeted and allocated for a certain purpose for whatever reason the circumstances did not align for this year to be executed you know over time it sounds like we have the opportunity to to continue on with that um so I just want to make sure that you know if that money is allocated for it that we get it there right and we will have to look at not only the the cost of the project to implement it to get the
077software but also going forward what is it going to cost the board each year right I think Ian wants to see and then nlps in fun account he wants to see that $150,000 155 155 he wants to see that in the account so it doesn't get um mixed up with the town calls the general fund right exactly okay okay so Mike has his hand up yeah go with Mike first I Mike oh thank you uh I heard Sam talking about the PA system that $63,000 in terms of the cips was that a CIP that is going to go forward this year because I I think it's in our budget as well uh the the town manager moved our original uh CIP request for the PA system uh he did not move forward the other technology
078items that we were uh proposing uh and the planning and zoning committee again to Sam's Point didn't take a formal vote but was in favor of it so we have $63,000 in our budget for the PA system you're talking about some some other C I'm talking about CIP dollars okay that the the town manager moved forward through that ahead Mike so so that mean we should be taking it out of our budget because it's going to be in the CIP or I'm a little confused now there are no guarantees right this is just a discussion so I don't know there are no guarantees and there were other items certainly on on Clint list that he postponed so I would say it'd be a little premature to take it out because it is a priority and
079if we don't get it through the CIP we have to get it kind of okay thanks right Ian um yeah and I guess also to build on that I mean as the CIP process takes we won't know what the final CIP determination is until I guess the end of May yeah right that's right so uh we do have to kind of plan have a have a a fallback position ni um to that end though I think as far as like trying to encourage the town and the RTM Town Council and the RTM to support our CIP in particular with the budget software the financial software having us take review the package that we're trying to to to support have us review it and and and vote you know hopefully in support of it if it
080passes muster if it passes you know a good vetting um if we're in support of it as a board I think that could carry a good bit of weight showing that we're confident and comfortable with this Suite that it would address our needs and that we've considered the ongoing management and upkeep um that's required whether it's licensing fees or or upgrade fees that happen year to year um again I just you know I think if we hand handle that as a board sometime in March um that could go a long way uh to helping the Town Council and the RTM supported on their end as well uh clarifying question for Clint um I I understood you to have said that we're going to that's my understanding that we're going to go you're proposing that we
081go to the cloud and not keep these things local inous I hear that you referencing the proposed munus Financial software yes I would not be an advocate of any alternative other than a hosted in the Cloud solution yes so so let me ask the the question that I'm asking is another the cloud is next to heaven but if it went down what's our what what redundancy do we have it's a fair question and the vast majority of the student Information Systems Learning Management systems and so forth we have are all cloud-based so in the event that we see a catastrophic failure of internet access and so forth here we would have to go to an alternative um cellular and so forth we do have some backups it's a very minimal it's a fair analogy I
082think would be going from Interstate 95 to a a you know a gravel road um but we have redundancies built into our networks and our systems um and we've made a decision much like most corporations and schools and and so forth that from a data security standpoint a reliability standpoint and an uptime standpoint it's a better deal uh the IT team is wonderful that doesn't mean we could somehow guarantee more reliability hosting it locally because that opens up other potential options be it HVAC power security other things as well so there nothing is 100% my professional opinion is it's more reliable and more secure by putting into the cloud it's cheaper also but that's I don't want it cheaper I want it less expensive but I don't I stand corrected less expensive more cost efficient
083more cost efficient I'll take that one as well than since you're ever so slightly above my PID grade and knowledge on this stuff I trust you but I am concerned about redundancy so look at it again and be sure you're satisfied I I worry about that as well thank you again um so did they not discuss the HVAC system or oh did they not um discuss the h fact system cuz we need um Town Council support to apply for the grant uh no those were uh all zeroed out uh however um I believe that the town manager's plan is to put uh them all the AG projects together and uh oh go out in that way oh good yeah that was that's why I kept asking for the information okay CU he wants to put
084it all on the plan together that's good perfect thank you I um yes so uh to to answer or I guess like to address like uh Matt's concerns about the software and the redundancy and the cloud and how much how much backup there is in security uh again I think that would be great all all good stuff to have included in in a presentation where we look at that and you know if you could just do a cursory look at at you know two competitors that provide similar services from a Financial standpoint or from a feature standpoint or all the above um both yeah I guess I mean all you're directing me to go out and get quotes for other system I'm just no I'm just asking like is there a way to do like
085a ballpark like thumbnail sketch of what other things exist certainly I'd be certainly happy to look I think you know a lot of people have expressed that munus is has a lot of potential a lot of like you know and I myself also 99% convinced munus is the way to go but I feel like due diligence wise we should just take a a quick glance I wouldn't want to like spend a lot of time on it but like you know just quick glance at at at like what other options may exist and what ballpark figures how would they compare to munus and are there any like um critical fail points as far as a comparison goes like you know to those other systems vers munus I know munus is used by a lot of municipalities
086and um and school districts around the country so um you know I think they got the inside track you know I I think we're you know 99% there I just want to make sure we dot all the eyes cross all the teas and make sure we're can feel very confident in what we say Okay moving right along unless there's something else we C I just have a unrelated so kind of facilities but um the F Auditorium that I think the last time we talked about that the um sound was going to get um updated and I know that the sound kind of failed in the last um concert that I was at um so I'm wondering how how that's which one I'm just curious well they were using a uh a boom box I guess
087or a portable stereo because this something recently or yeah like two weeks ago two weeks ago I I have not heard of that but please by all yeah well they're using stereos because I think the sounds where are we with the the sound sound system has been updated recently and they are now have 12 packs of wireless mics and so forth there's a new soundboard in there new wiring and so forth so that is for the most part complete um so that's why I'm curious why someone would have a boo oh they were using the Taylor Swift concert they brought in some of their own equipment but they also used a lot of our equipment as well for for that um what we're working really on now is that RFP process and we've selected a
088candy for the lighting and projection and so forth that we're getting ready to go in there so I'd love to know what the complications are for sound so that I can run that down and understand better what's going on oh well it was they were using portable portable stairs which I maybe it's because they're not quite up to it I'm sorry which they were using a portable um uh portable stereo behind people singing so it was behind the stage um yeah are we talking about the two weeks ago we talking about weeks ago okay yeah for forgive me I'm not familiar with no one brought any issues to my attention um I did not see Mark but I'm sure he was all we go we'll get it we'll get to it later wondering how we
089so when when's the lighting um going to happen uh so as the RFP went out that we would have it complete by May 1 um I'm struggling with the final details as far as suon the additional power needs and so forth Sam's team has been great in trying to identify that um so I'm hoping that we can keep that may one date but as a fallback it would be over the summer mark there gra M I'm not familiar with this concert I don't think I was involved with it oh no it was um it was music concert I know cuz my daughter was singing and then the background music went out but um but it was I don't get in touch with them yeah we can we can talk about it later I don't think
090they asked us to help set up send me an email and we'll investigate well it doesn't need to be investigated well we'll find out you brought it up so you bur it up for a reason so to see if it was done well I thought it was all going to be done by now right why bring it up all right committee reports we don't have to do policy do we are didn't meet the finance and Facilities we met February 10th uh we specifically discussed only uh the facilities portion of it uh we were curious about um on an on the ground uh system for keeping track of uh complaints uh water leaking light bulbs out things like that where does it go how does that stuff get processed addressed uh Etc that's it you want
091more no no learn unfortunately I wasn't able to um go to the last learn meeting athletic fields oh um sorry yeah there was a meeting on the same night uh as the 20th and I haven't had a chance to review the recording yet okay um but we were in budget session at the time um real quick though I just the date um I was at that concert too it was February 13th yeah yeah it was February 13th Clint got Trails Matthew are you on Trails uh Trails meets in March meets quarterly okay Library um I chatted with Jen mey the librarian uh nothing to report at this time but there's an idea of maybe sometime in the future doing doing some reading with kids in school to have it somehow recorded and so we can
092have something we can put on the town TV station that parents at home who got little kids will have something to listen to uh there's a whole bunch of challenges it's blue sky all I'm giving you is blue sky right now oh um one I got one more thing for athletic fields uh just just remembered um was an email that Mark Barry sent uh to me and the board um as far as inquiring after like uh I guess it was just to me and I related it to the board but uh they're looking to come before the board and give a presentation on what they have and I shared that with the chair and you mentioned possibly sometime in March probably more like in April um my only concern with that is um there is
093still some hope to try to get that on as a referendum this fall but in order for that to happen uh a number of things have to happen early on in the process so um you know I I think time is of of great concern if there's a shot to get it on the ballot for this Falls election um so I would just encourage maybe looking at try to scre a way to get it in for March so that again the board if we are so inclined to uh you know put our support behind it as a board uh we could do that with some time that would maybe help get the process done cuz I know um based on the the Town Council um and town manager presentation that I saw there is some
094um concern about whether or not there is enough momentum to really get it on for a referendum and there's a lot of eyes to dot teased across to do so so we have to get started ASAP okay anything else all right um I did talk to Ian about reinstating the adack budget committee but your charge will be listen clearly just to look at the budget book and how we can make the budget book better how to make the budget book better okay okay all right so you can ask Jan whoever you want on your committee I'll leave that up to you okay okay well makes it better so I guess so that would not include like the uh how to manage numbers uh throughout the meetings I guess I mean like how to how do
095we deliberate like how do we go through the budget book or what time does the budget book show up on our desks we had that I thought we had that little calendar of um yeah I have it right here Tuesday October 15 Administration administrators meet with meeting and the budget book is supposed to come to the board I thought it was December 16th or somewhere yeah okay so yeah that if that calendar is still like yeah I was yeah okay then I'm fine with it if that's the calendar that we have on record as the list of expectations that'd be great then I'm fine with just focusing on the book construction yeah the only thing that I'm concerned about is I don't know if we should wait for how are we doing with a business
096manager so the posting closed and we will be starting an interview process you could start eting without and when we get a new business manager you can you know review it and they can tweak it if they need to sure and um so as as chair the membership is up to me to invite or are you inviting are you assigning um I could have signed but I probably would sign Jen and Mike give them first choice again yeah same that would be my inclination as well is to give them the right of first refusal right so um but I can follow up with them offline about that and okay I'll share that information when your meeting is sure do you want to be on that committee again oh and I I guess I should ask
097is there any um I don't know I would be if I was to adjust the committee at any way I would I would want to only just expand it to maybe four and invite Dean in if that was possible since he's been on you know chair of Finance he might have some perspective and he offered I was actually going to suggest Dean and eliminate one of the other two but I'm leaving that to you I don't think I have any better perspective than I do as a regular board member but I'm flattered that you're thinking of me also thought it'd be great to have he's going to be on negotiations too okay so he'll have his hands full you need me well we we yeah and you know yeah we could probably just call you
098in as needed some Dean I thought about Dean because he has a hish be about the budget right exactly and that's why I thought about Dean but then I didn't want to eliminate Jen or Mike if they really want to still be on the committee but you can always you have yeah I'm really busy trying to forget a lot of things about budgets to be honest yeah tired well and as as with other committees I mean we have pulled people in for you know guest appearances so we just do that too be guest like SNL exactly all right all right um moving right along uh information proposals letters communication comments by board members or meeting items or anything any other items in their jurisdiction um that because it's in my jurisdiction I just wanted to
099uh follow up on um Ian's comment about adjectives in Nord and I'm going to give you some advice to everybody and to everyone who's listening unless you're talking about Tom s's a paully never use a word that an in ly that's it okay adjectives in that suck the power out of your writing put it in a ver all right that's it done Matthew I'm good Jen all set in I'll take a pass this time okay Dean Dean I'm passing so we can get to the budget am adri okay I pass to on that um Advanced planning you have your um future meeting dates and everything and suggested agenda items I have um Ai and Dr Kennedy will give us a report on AI in March special education Denise isn't here but we're going to have
100a talk on special education this is going to be at Cal elementary education we still need to talk about health insurance insurance we need to talk about the software and somewhere I saw something about technology education 6 to 12 and of course the town and we should want to do it too talk about Federal funding and um and athletic fails I have that for future agenda items the fields M so that's going to bring us and I think Asian's working on something awesome um agenda item yeah are we going to on the referral tracking sheet are we going to work off that as well yes I don't have one yeah it's not here yeah we could do that in the cow but okay all right that's can I add one or um maybe like an
101update on Wht and wisdom and how that's playing out at the elementary schools now that it's been since September Whitten wisdom anything else okay motion to adour Dr a motion toour second Matthew a made the motion to adjourn Matthew made it second all those in favor adjournment say I we take four or five minutes five minut come back