School Board Meeting 6/16/2026

001First year, Amy Doyle, our amazing business administrator, Laura Taylor, also rounding the corner on her first year. Jodi Kahneman, our board secretary, who is wrapping up her fifth year, as will be discussed tomorrow. And Matt Stone, director of technology. Could we 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, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, guys. We have two sets of minutes to approve, one of which just came in. Under the wire, thanks to yours truly 1 was for the regular meeting of the school board from June 2nd and also the 2nd is for our school board retreat, which was last Friday from 12 to 3 at the library. Do

002I have a motion to approve both sets of minutes? Great any discussion. All right all those in favor aye aye any opposed. Great, we are now at the 1st, public comment portion of the evening. If you'd like to come on up, please state your name and address. And I ask that you try to keep it to 3 minutes. Good evening, everybody. Lauren with E6 Maven Street. Two things. First one was several of these consumables came home year-end, and I have brought this up in the past that they seem to be very underutilized, and I just want to mention it again. This particular one is Fly-Five, but there was Amplify and some of the other ones, and I don't... I don't know if it's just my particular student, but extremely underutilized consumables. And I just hope

003that we look into this and get some feedback, whether it's the staff that doesn't like what's in them, or if it's the kids not jiving, but something's not great there. I've got a staff, I've been saving them. So, and then the 2nd, this, I believe on the agenda is a discussion about unassigned fund balance and what it might be used for. And I would hope that you guys might consider the 2 con axis that are being rented at the high school. We bought outright if we plan to use them. For a long period of time, because. Year over year over year, we just continues. Expense to the district. Fund balance, I think that would be a very appropriate. If their game plan is to keep them there for the duration, if they're going to go,

004that's a different story. Thanks. Thank you. Thanks, Lauren. Anyone else. The light totally just changed. Okay, we do not have, guys, our student school board reps, but in classic form, being the highly organized students that they are, they sent in written commentary, which will be emotional to read. Oh, jeez. I know, you just looked at me. No, I can do it. Okay, this is from Kip, okay, who is in Maine. Sorry, John, to make sure that he was still able to provide a student update, which is amazing. Okay, here we go, from Kipling HeadQuest. The past couple weeks have flown by. Graduation on the 5th was exceptional with lots of heartfelt speeches, including Andrea, and also notably commencement speaker Mrs. Hintros. The Concord Monitor even published a sweet article about it. He linked below. Sports

005all wrapped up with both lacrosse teams heartbreakingly but respectively losing the semifinals to the eventual state champions. Several athletes competed at New England's for track and field. Last night was sports awards night, and with that concluding, my high school career really feels like it's come to an end. A couple days after graduating Lucy and I went and visited HMS to make another maintenance staff appreciation banner. Do you want to pull it up? The youth involvement and that was truly exceptional and this trip was unquestionably the best I've experienced all year. The kids were so enthusiastic, heartfelt and understanding. Their excitement to help and show their gratitude provides great testament to the upstanding character of the Hockington schools. Hms and mms mss also had their field days to help wrap up the school year and mss

006had step up day high school finals Seemed to go smoothly this past week and wrapped up today Lastly the german exchange trip is officially underway, but i'm sure lucy will have updates for that next year I hope everyone's meeting goes well, and everyone has an excellent summer Yeah And then I can do it. And then they made this amazing, really cute banner, which is amazing. Thank you. They were into it. And then Lucy wants everyone to know, this is amazing, that she's in Vienna right now with the German Exchange Group. Everything has gone great so far, and no one has lost their luggage, which is a win compared to France. That's my editorial comment in parentheses, not due to Lucy. And to have you provide a more complete description of our experiences in the fall,

007good luck tonight at your meeting. So that's it. Reporting from abroad from our news desk, they do their elections. What's up? They do the elections. They did do the election. So our reps next year will be Lucy again, which is great. And 1, Jillian dumb lap. So we will have a dumb lap double header. Both sides of the table, which is pretty exciting. That happened here. That was good. All right. Any board comments guys. No, I was texting Lucy earlier today and sent you the picture. They're having a blast. Yeah, right. Well, that's great. They got there on time. Everything will like clockwork. Yep, if people have not gotten them also, we do each have word correspondence to each of us. There are these wonderful notes from the students at Harold Martin and Maple Street

008to thank the board for the artist in residence program, which we will hear about. I think we're going to do a presentation about it in the fall. Kim, but I really like painting on a big surface. It's the best. So thank you to the students for your beautiful cards. Yeah, that's right. Way to do it. Anyone else? All right, great. We have a pretty exciting student highlight. We have more champions for our women's track and field event. Do you guys want to come up and tell us about your season? Maybe? Hopefully? Possibly? a really good season. Like last year, I think we did lose a lot of seniors, so we always have a lot of nerves going into it. We were kind of unsure whether we would be able to win the state championship this

009year. We were always keeping track of the points that the teams we thought were close were scoring at all the meets, but I think that everyone performed really well on the day, and we all trained really hard off-season. And I think everyone just had a really great day on that day of state, and we were able to... get the win, which is super exciting for us, especially because we have a lot of freshmen. And our 4x18, which is mostly freshmen, did really amazing. And they made it to MFC. They got six of the major champions and then made it to New England, which was super exciting. And we had a bunch of other athletes go to New England too, like some throwers, myself, actually. So it was really fun. Amazing. Hi, my name is Gwen

010Belty, and I'm a freshman. So coming into this year, last year, track, I knew the workouts were hard. I dreaded it. But with this team, I knew that I could get through any workout. They were always supporting me along the way. So I'd just like to say that it's a great team. I had a lot of fun. I will definitely be coming back next year. Amazing. Hi, my name is Ashley Madden. I'm a senior, well, not a senior anymore. Coming into the season, like Maddy and Gwen said, we had to rebuild all of our relay teams, so that was pretty tricky because, you know, losing Shaley and Grace and then some of the sprinters like Christy, it was hard, but all our relay teams did well this year, so yeah. Awesome. Anything no, I just

011like to thank all the work you guys did to help us along the way. Yeah. Any questions for athletes? How big is the is the team? Because this isn't all of you guys. There's more. Are you serious? Yeah. How does that compare to other schools? So having like a small team and scoring and winning i mean that's it's hard yeah so kudos to you i want to know what events you all did and then is there anything that you're going to do differently next year you're going to try something new I'm like mid-distance, so I did the 816 and I did the 3200 once. And maybe like I'll try going short next year. Go back to my middle school roots. I did that a few years ago. It's pretty hard, but I just do it.

012Yeah, I've kind of been like flip-flopping kind of all over the place this season. Like this beginning, I started out with like the 100, 200. 400 4x1, but towards like middle of the season I would kind of switch to 1600 and 800. So I kind of honestly really like anything, but personally I like this one so I'll probably do that again next year. I'm most a sprinter. I tried the 100 meter hurdles this year and really liked that. And I did very well. I also ran the 4x1 after getting like subbed in because we had to change up our relay teams. Okay. What was your hardest workout? What was like the most singularly hard? I think it was 800s where you go fast, or 300s, where you go 800 pace, slow down, 800 pace, and

013then you reverse it. It's hard to explain. But, you know, my stomach started to hurt. For me, that was just the worst. Worst one of every run. I was on the ground, but I got up, finished the workout with my teammates cheering me on. You ran eight seconds. Oh, good. That's insane. Yeah, I think it's noteworthy that you guys train on the weekends, right? So it's not just a weekday thing, but I saw you guys there every Saturday during softball games for the little kids, but it's remarkable the amount of work you put in. Any other questions for Jack? And does anyone, or wait, no one here is field for women's? You guys are all runners? You're all track? I'm through. You're through? Yeah. Cool. Okay, amazing. I know, no jumpers. We can work on

014it. Anything else? Oh, yeah, go for it. So Maddie, you would never bring this up, but you won the 3200 for all of New England. It was like a big deal. The girl that you beat, she was like at home when you finished. Like it was a big gap. And you were also faster than last year. So maybe you could just talk about that for a second. That was like kind of a race where, well, like the two weekends before at divisionals and meet of champions, I kind of. went into them expecting to kind of win. So those two were like really fun and exciting, but going into doing this, I was definitely a little more nervous because I knew that I had good competition going into it. But I also knew that a bunch

015of the girls who would be like around me time-wise ran a mile beforehand. And it was also like 85 degrees and the track was black. So it was insanely hot. So I wasn't really expecting to go out for any time or anything like that, but I knew that I was capable of running faster than I did last year. So I just tried to go out, and I didn't try to go out too, too fast at first because the weekend before, that kind of killed me in the second mile. So I tried to be more conservative in the first mile, and then I was able to, like, close pretty well and kind of just continue to get out the field as I went. But it was a really fun experience, and I was really excited to

016get my third new England title. So it was really cool. Like, so amazing. Thank you. Thank you. That's really great. Ashlyn, are you the only graduating senior from the fleet? Well, not on the team. We definitely have a lot going on. But, yeah. Everyone else is like, yeah. On vacation. Okay, cool. Coaches, do you guys want to say anything? Are you good? Sure. Come on up. So it was a remarkable year. We had six school records broken this year. Wow. And Maddie took it down multiple state records for our division. You know, we're a small school, 300 students. And I think the largest school in our division has close to 600. There's 43 schools in our division and to have our little school 3P, not just once, but twice, but 3P as state champions is

017remarkable. Not to let the boys down, but they came in sixth overall, which is their best going since 2016. And Maddie's very humble. She's a very humble young lady. This is now her third New England championship. And she was just awarded. not just awarded, but the Gatorade Cross Country Athlete of the Year for New Hampshire. And she's also now the running for New Hampshire Track and Field Gatorade Athlete of the Year, which will be held in about two days. Okay. Tough competition right now. Yeah, it's interesting how they take into account all those great superstars. Right. It's a big. It's a big. It's a big deal. And I have to thank my fellow coaches, Mark Rothkamp and Kim Emerson, who joined me this year. They are amazing around the track. And our team is just

018super all year. They've been so much fun to work with. That's amazing. Do you guys have anything to say? I will say we have three of our graduating seniors are going on to compete in college. Wow. Really? You are? Amazing. That's great. You're going to keep sprinting? Yeah. Okay, that's great. We'll come watch you. Okay, good. Cool. All right. Can we do a picture? Congratulations, you guys. It is amazing. And three, two, one. Thank you. All right, guys. With that, we have our principal reports. Do we want to start with Kim? Sure. Kim, do you want to come on up? You didn't give us a chance. We're going to rock, paper, scissors. He volunteered his tribute. I did not know. Happy to be here to present on behalf of Mr. Kelly and Hudsonville High School.

019We had so much going on this spring, and as my first year here, it makes my head spin sometimes, the amount of different things that are going on. When we did the sixth grade parent information night, and there was foreign language clubs needing to watch foreign films at the same time. It's amazing the life that's in our building. We've gone through various sorts of assessments, which I'll leave for later. We've done things like Similarity Awareness Day, where we worked with a school counselor to bring in a woman whose wheelchair fell, and she shows the kids how to adapt to playing sports in a wheelchair, so they all got to play. Handball game, which was really fun for the kids and terrifying for me and I almost lost my toes We had different awards nights for

020seniors and underclassmen last night we had the athletic awards these kids were all just at and I do have to give credit to Mr. Reserve I thought it was a fantastic ceremony albeit very hot in the gym but we made it work I really enjoyed seeing the team captains take the microphone after their awards to give credit to their team, their coaches, their parents. I really just appreciated that a lot. Thinking about school safety and facilities, the school is working with the New Hampshire Homeland Security and Emergency Management team to review our emergency operations plans as well as our building. Just kind of keeping that updated, looking at things to make things better, getting that feedback from someone who's outside of us who thinks about these things all the time. really value school safety in

021my role. I thoroughly enjoyed the process and I was told we got an A plus before the other ones. We completed our self-study for our NEAS accreditation process, so we'll have a visit for the first part of it this coming October, so that's something to look forward to. And then we've had so many end of year activities, including tomorrow we have a step-up day for 7th to 8th grade and 8th to 9th. So it kind of helps loosen the nerves a little bit for especially the 8th to 9th graders. They're going to go down to the high school and meet their board teachers for the fall. Looking ahead, our priorities going into next year is building more on the Portrait of a Learner. We've already started to meet to talk about rolling that out more.

022And then our other goal is looking at our core curriculum templates and continuing the process to create a consistent format for all of our curriculum. That's both public-facing and internal-facing. ease for a new teacher coming in to be able to hand that over to them and not have to start from scratch. So there's been a lot going on. I've really enjoyed my first year in the school district and learning about Hockington and the immense amount of pride that this school district has. I do enjoy green, so that is helpful. And I'm really excited for the summer now that I know what I'm doing to plan for next year and to hit the ground rolling in August. Great. Amazing. Any questions for Kim? Kim, what was the hardest part of your first year? Hardest part of

023the first year is probably not knowing everything that's going on in the building and learning on the fly. I feel the same way right now. It's all good. Exactly. Winter Carnival was essentially a little crazy because the middle school does things different than the high school, and I'm just going, like, where do I go? What do I do? Fortunately, the staff is fantastic and they'll answer my questions and point me to where to go. And I am thankful that there's an event calendar that I can have on my Google Calendar so I know now what's going on each day, what field trips, learning about all of that is really helpful. The security redesign, looking forward to that, right? Planned, I'm sure there's been some talk. I'm curious about... Plans for shoring up the back entrance

024and kind of changing that student behavior or once the bell rings that way to go around And there's been talk about that plans The main office right now is a complete mess as we pack everything up and get it ready to move on out so that Monday they can start breaking out. Or whatever they do. How's the temperature on the fourth and fifth floor? I know it was hot last week and it routinely gets pretty warm up there. It did get a little hot later in the week. floor classrooms do have an air conditioner in the window so it made it easier and then with finals going on in the high school there were some open rooms that were available so teachers collaborate and they found creative uses to move spaces um i know like

025the science classrooms have a great move into the auditorium because there's some classes going on there so the staff is pretty used to it at this point we'd love to get more recs i'm sure but they adapted and figured out ways to make that work. Great. Anything else from this land? Awesome. Thank you. You're welcome. Happy almost last day. Patrice, want to come? Yeah, come on up, Carrie. You're great. Come on up. Yeah. Okay. Let's do it. You got it. Yes. So some late-breaking news. We had a deal day yesterday. Mrs. Roth's class won the tug-of-war. Amazing. We were very excited. Tracy Martin found some old trophy somewhere retrofitted with a person holding a little string like a rope, and this is a coveted award in the city. We also had step-up day this morning,

026which meant the 4th and 5th grades stepped up. It doesn't mean they met their teacher. They don't know who their teacher is quite yet, but they had. presentations from all the teachers. The existing sixth graders, they have already gone to the middle school, did some activities with the unified arts teachers. So it was a great day. We did get to participate in our artist in residence experience thanks to the Hockenham School Foundation. We had an artist, Jess Dickey. does a mural. She's out of Portsmouth and she painted a mural on the shed, which I pictured in my board report. I love it. It is so vibrant. I don't know why, but it reminds me of like a farm stand. I don't know. Maybe that's just me. The kids really, really enjoyed it. They designed the

027mural. They had prototypes. So it was a pretty involved process. All the grade levels participated in field trips since the last time I visited. Fourth grade went to the New London Historical Society where they learned about colonial days, which aligns with their study of New Hampshire. The grade students went to the Krista McCollum Planetarium, and sixth grade students walked out to the Houston Field for the sixth grade send-off. In previous years, they had done a Rose Force or a really big field trip. Last year, we took a step back and we went down to Houston Field, and they absolutely loved it. We had a cornhole. We had ice cream. There was a dunk tank. So it was a lot of fun, and they really enjoyed it. I received a few emails, actually, from parents just

028thanking these teachers for putting that time and energy into it. It was a hot day. The kids loved it. We also did transition activities for fourth grade students. They came to visit at the end of May. They got to experience a whole class morning meeting in the gym. They got a tour of the school, so it was really nice. And on the evening of the 21st, I also hosted incoming fourth grade parents, which was great. It was a great turnout, wonderful questions. The Maple Street Yearbook was recently distributed to students who purchased one yesterday, which was great. It's filled with photos and memories from the past year. A huge thank you to Mr. Woolner, who is our resident photographer. I know I've said this before, but you should have seen him yesterday in field day

029during tug of war. He was like the press. I'm going to give him like a press pass. He's like down like this. He just had the most beautiful pictures. So if you look at the last page of my board report, fun little game. I list four pictures. I have taken one. Mr. Wollner has taken three. Can you find the one that I took? Garden Club and Mrs. Martin. Yes, I did. But joking aside, you know I communicate with pictures. I chose these pictures to show some of the unique things that we do here. So photography skills with Mrs. Emerson. Not only does she coach track, she's a fantastic art teacher. She does photography. These are the sixth graders. Course with Mr. Levergood. Half the school participates. Science with Mrs. Roth. That's Jackson Whitley. And he

030is generally that excited. when the egg goes into the bottle. I happened to be in the classroom that day. Thinking to next year, I won't be here. Teacher assignments will be shared with families on August 3rd. An open house is scheduled for the 24th. Of course, we staggered because there was not enough parking for us to have it all at once. And it is not on the same night as Harold Martin. Good to know this is going in the calendar. Sorry right now and it can go on the newsletter. Yeah. Great. Any questions for Dr. Thank you. I was just going to say, thank you for bringing together. I thought the mural came out beautiful too. Yeah, I just wanted to say, um, really appreciate your, your work here. Um, and your presentations to us

031have always been very informative, but, um, I think you've been a real. real leader in this building so certainly wish you well thanks care doctors and Donnie all right that's Reese I'm so excited to share a little bit about what's been going on at Harold Martin. I included in my board report a lot of our fun activities and also we did some one-pagers for our academic data and our behavior data which just really put things in perspective for us. We shared them with our staff at our faculty meeting and so I'm hoping you guys had time to kind of look through that. We'll talk more about the academic data at the next part. But it has been a great end of the year. It's exhausting right now. Yesterday was field day for us, so it

032was a perfect day. It wasn't too hot, and it wasn't raining, and we did it a little bit differently this year. We did field day activities all morning, and then Mr. Aaron was there in the afternoon for a show and performance, and all the kids were up and dancing. And at the start, a handful of third graders were too cool, but by the end of it, they were all doing it. And then he made the mistake of teaching Ms. Follins-Bee how to beatbox, and she has not stopped. So she's just walking down the hallway beatboxing and practicing as she goes. So she has decided when she grows up she'd like to be Mr. Aaron, so that was good. Kids were also very excited. We focused a lot this spring on our portrait of a learner

033and really kind of integrating that and making it visual. So there was a big HMS sign that Ms. Emerson did for us and each of the characteristics had a different color sticker and each week we focused on problem solving and empathy, collaboration, and as teachers saw students exhibiting those traits, we gave them the stickers. They went out and they put it on the HMS. It didn't have their name on it. It was just... visual mark that someone was doing it. It was really fun to see. Perseverance was a big one because that was during our state testing and our AIMS-Buy testing so we were seeing a lot of that during that time. And then some teachers did some portrait of a learner certificates at the end of the year so different students got different awards

034based on the characteristics and the skills that they were able to show which was nice. We did a lot with our sustainability and our student-led kind of environmental pieces. So our agri-ponic garden, if you guys remember, the second grade came and talked about it. We figured out today it was over 20 pounds of lettuce. I think it's actually more than that because I did three pounds today. It is a crazy amount of lettuce that we were able to provide the cafeteria for everyday lunches. And then today we went down and we're like, who wants lettuce to the cafeteria? And they're like, we have enough lettuce. So teachers just took bags of lettuce home with them. They said it was the best lettuce they've had. So that was nice. We saved some for the ninth custodians

035as well since they have a steam machine on, but they never get to eat from it. We also did a lot of composting. We had our third grade compost crew who had their little badges and they helped our elementary school really go through what was compost and what was trash and what was recycling. Massive amounts of food we could save from there was over 200 pounds that we were able to take out of the trash can that Ms. Hino has been really working with the kids in kindergarten and the third grade representatives to organize that. We added our book vending machine this spring and that was partially through a fundraiser. We received some funds from the Kyle Bedringer Memorial Fund and then we had some principal funds as well and every student gets to pick

036a new book with a book token on their birthday. We got in the middle of the year and every kid was insistent that they got to do it this year as well. So we just gave every classroom teacher the bookbending machine tokens for this year. And they have been having a great time going down, picking out the book they want. Everyone's going to get stuck, so we have to open it up and they're all excited to see what the inside looks like. So that's been really nice. We also did artist in residence as well and I was not sure, Kim told me having 200 elementary school kids paint a dumpster at the same time is gonna go fine and I'm a little nervous but it actually did go great so they did a really nice

037job. It was a nice community piece. We have that ongoing right around Memorial Day as well where we have the town band. come for our tradition and do a big memorial day assembly out on the front lawn. So we had a lot of active learning activities going on outside. We also this year got the middle school jazz band to come down and play on the dinosaur side of the building, which was really cool. They sat up on the road and we sat up in the bark mulch and answered questions with different instruments and pieces like that. So we did a lot of outreach and community connection in the spring and really Trying to engage yourself in learning in different ways not just with our workbooks We also had arts and science day and there was

038a lot of fishing going on there So that is very good We talked a little bit about the custodial appreciation sign that is up there. But what we didn't talk about was Miss Gorgel retired or is retired this year after 41 years. So her classroom parents reached out and wanted to throw her a surprise party. And the kids and the parents did a whole big celebration in her classroom. And, you know, I keep expecting that she is just going to slow down at some point in time, and she's not this morning. We were out there doing multiple takes because her kids want to do the good morning in New Hampshire with the 250 day. So we were practicing that and the wind was in our way. So we made a lot of videos of her

039kids doing that. And she is going to be on it all the way up until the day she leaves, which is going to be nice. And then the other piece that I didn't write about was kindergarten screening has gone great. We have 50 kindergarten students, kindergarten students sign up for next year, which is more than we typically do at this point in time, which is really nice. The team has worked really hard to get all the screenings in. We did that in two days and then preschool did them in some afternoons with some of the kids who went to that. So we do have days set up for this summer where we always get at least 10 in the summer. So for new students coming in, kindergarten students. So they'll have information on that. And

040then Carrie spoke to it a little bit, but we will be August 24th for our ice cream social in Oak Bonnehouse. That is the day before school starts. And that will be staggered as well. But we have everyone come at the same time. We just have half building in and half building in ice cream, and then we swap. So we are pretty excited about that. And then we did step update today as well, just to introduce people to the new teams. We were really fortunate. So we had the pond who's getting married will be in this Hinton was able to join us. So she met the new incoming students. And his breed was not able to be there. She's another 1 of our new hires, but we did have a big picture of her base

041and this cover here. So the kids will be familiar. So it was a really great experience today and a really nice end of the school year. Awesome. And then for, well, any questions for Patrice? Ms. Brown? Did you want to talk about the one pagers or wait until the data? Yeah, I mean behavior data in the presentation because we focus on academic, but I do think it's important. The behavior team at our arm has worked really hard this year and in looking at all the data from our Aspen system, we were able to notice that there was a 60% disruption reduction since the peak in November. So that was really good for us here because November was really hard. It's a typical Kind of, we come in at the honeymoon stage, we've got some new

042players, and they kind of go up. The other really big piece to know is that 43% of, I think it's 43%. 43% of our incidents this year came from five students. So it's really, like, that's a big deal number for us. So, you know, once we identify, you know, who our heavy aid centers are, really just being receptive to the data and flexible and then targeting our interventions. So as a team, we talked about really doing that early screening, paying attention to who's starting to bubble up. and then creating those support plans for high frequency students and then also working on that enhanced peer to peer engagement. How do you lose? How do you play? How do you ask someone to take a turn? So we really found that our interventions worked once we were

043able to kind of create those support plans and we were able to settle the whole system down with kind of that push in instruction that they were doing during hot time and Black 5, but also really having some of those clear and consistent expectations. So they did a nice job. And, you know, the end of the year peaks up a little bit because transitions are hard and we've had weird days, but it's been really nice to see. Awesome. Any other questions for Ms. Brown? Just on the behavior piece. This was also... Just remind me. I also want to say that we had supported bringing in a bit more support Yeah, because this is with returning back to that student support specialist so that we had Four years ago before I came there was someone that

044role then he moved that role to different spots Then we didn't have that for the past three years. This is our bird here returning to that And that really has been a nice addition. It's not just Ms. Kleiner and myself responding to behavior, but there's actually more of a team that's available. And when you've got five kids who might all be running in different directions at the same time, it's nice to have more than two people. Cool. Thank you. Thank you. And I got your note through Parents' Square today. I know you're moving on as well. Thank you so much for all your time with Harold Martin. Thank you. We really appreciate it. Thank you. All right. And then are we going to go straight to data? Yeah, let's do it. All right. For the

045district-wide data presentation, if you remember, we did this in the fall. So this will be somewhat of a comparison with updated data. And we also have an interest rate assessment data and SAT data. So, as you remember, the idea of delivering the highest quality education is really grounded in data. That is how we make decisions. That's how we make instructional decisions, how we allocate resources to really meet the needs of every student in our district. So the role of data really serves four purposes. It allows for accountability. It allows for equity for students by identifying achievement gaps. It also assists with the vision of monitoring the progress of the five-year strategic plan. And it also supports educators with actionable information to ground instructional insights and their approaches in teaching. Yeah, so we've talked about it

046before, but there's a few different types of assessment. There's a universal assessment. That's just a brief assessment that's given to all students to gauge general proficiency. And this is what we do 3 times a year with our aims web and our early bird. There's diagnostic that helps us identify baselines and kind of lets us dig in a little bit more. Formative happens a lot in the classroom. This is that ongoing instruction that teachers are doing with exit slips and conversations and raising hands and thumbs up and down. That's just really helping them monitor whether or not students are understanding it. And then those summative assessments evaluate the learning at the end of the unit or at the end of a school year. You could use that piece too. So, we use 2 different types of

047assessments to check our math and literacy aims web is used for math skills. K12 and then we use. Um, aims web for grades 2 and up for literacy, but it only goes to grade 8. right? Or does it go all the way? Um, 9. 9. okay. So it's not key. It's K to 9. And then we use early bird, which is now called imagine plus and that is for grades K to 2 and that's just for early literacy. For data, we have the games web map assessment. So what you're looking at are both the fall and spring scores, and I'm sure you know how to read this, but you want your red and yellow to go down and you want your green to increase. So it's interesting to look at the differences, for example, between

048fourth grade fall and fourth grade spring. It's especially exciting for me to look at sixth grade spring where the majority of students made adequate growth in English language arts. Maite, do you have anything to say about that slide? My slide? It's missing my spring scores, but I can get that information for you. Yeah, in terms of math, looking at math, looking at the progress made from the seventh. 8th grade and 9th grade and seeing the yellow and the red go smaller. That's what we want to see. That's our goal to be green and we can see it in 7th grade in the spring this year. They were all green. Which is fantastic. It is fantastic. I had to look at it twice and then I brought it to Michelle corner and I said, is this

049accurate? And she said it absolutely is. They made incredible growth in both 6th and 7th grade for English language arts. That's amazing. So, my, I can, um, I'll update it there, but we went to almost full green in all of our categories, um, for math. So, um, they call it the trees in our building and we have lots of trees. Um, our kindergarten scores, um, have a worse, where did it go? Um, it looks like 96% are green. So, we went fully up there, which is nice. That's a good question. Sure. So when you guys get the spring. Data, what do you do it? Like, does this data get passed on to next year's teachers? So we'd like to try and get like, you know, you would like to have at least 3 data points.

050So this is 1 data point. Okay. And you have to really understand the assessment and what it's for. It is, it's basically a screener. Okay. So it's not the end all be all of information, but we give it throughout the year and it's really for progress monitoring. And it's also for instructional decision making. Students will also take this in the fall as well when they come in. Sure. And that is really your starting point for intervention groupings and things like that. Okay. Yeah. I just noticed stuff like, like the eighth grade. their yellow decreased but like their red increased. And it's interesting to compare AIMSweb to New Hampshire State Assessment because AIMSweb, the assessment, it adapts. So if a student gets a question wrong, it will go down. If they get it correct, it will

051go up, where the New Hampshire State Assessment does not do that. So that's really having a good understanding of each assessment and the function of each of them. Sure. And that's why we triangulate to really get the best picture. All right. Yeah. And the bar for... Spring, like, they, when they take the spring test, they've expected that they're expected to have learned over that year too. So the bar goes up like the correct. Yes. Not the bar graph stack bar graph, but the expectations. Yeah. And he does a really nice job of parent reports where you can see that where they've got the national norm and then you have the student and you want to see that trend line going up. That's exactly as a parent. I saw that each time. And it also gave

052you categories of. I don't remember there's some. Literacy competence, like, like, oral literacy. Like, what is that? Like, right? Yeah. Yeah, they're very nice. This is the same assessment literacy. I'll give you just a moment to look at that again as the principal of this school. I'm very excited by the 6th grade results. And it's also an important assessment in addition to the state assessment to really assess the amplified curriculum and what we're doing. Are these scores increasing when you look and what we have in a few slides, then we have a historical 10 year view of New Hampshire state assessment to say, okay, this is what amplified came in or this is where I am came in for our math curriculum to really make those high level decisions. Great. Early birds, not my world.

053So I'll talk about that. So, to answer your question to you about using the data in the spring, both math and reading met with each team to kind of celebrate their progress this year, which is was really nice. You'll see here from the fall to the spring in the same categories. A lot of growth. Um, kindergarten letter sounds looks really good from where they are the predictive profiles. That is the biggest, um, kind of. Panic button for parents, I think the way the early better for report comes home. It has like a big percentage in a different color box. And it was like, you have this present chance of being able to read. Um, and it is so intimidating. And if you look at the 1st grade predictive profile, um. Majority of the students almost

0543 quarters of them, like, flagged us, like, not being able to read words and that was like their prediction. And then at the end of this year, you'll see that it's flipped the other way around. And that's what we want to see. And that really is a testament to the amplify program, but also the hard work of the teachers and the intervention staff. Um, this year we did our title 1 a little differently and we did the title 1 tutoring that. definitely also helped impact our numbers and our proficiency levels because all those kids in the Title I tutoring we saw immense growth from as well. You'll notice that in almost all of the cases, our reds got smaller and our yellows got smaller, which is really good. That's something that we're looking to see.

055That means that our Tier 2 instruction is helping. So not only is our everyday instruction in the classroom working, but we're targeting those kids that need a little bit of extra support. Maybe not the specialized instruction of an, but just, um, you know, kind of some help to get them across with a certain concept. And this data is showing us that that system is working. So that, um, that tiered system that we put in place, um, really has taken off for both math and literacy and showed us the results that we were hoping for. So, um, the, the 1st. The 1st grade was the biggest piece and the 2nd grade, their numbers being where they are is also huge because that 1st grade team last year worked a lot with that 2nd grade team. So

056they were really proud to see those numbers. And when we shared our success this year, we shared it school wide. So that everyone could kind of see, like, we're all in this together and your hard work in 1st grade and then their hard work in 2nd grade. And we're really seeing these really great results. Like, we're all they're all our kids. Um, and we can kind of see from that overall view. So now we approach the New Hampshire State Assessments. As you know, that is the statewide assessment that is given to students in the state of New Hampshire. We're looking at student mastery. It is one tool for measuring the degrees which students are on track to graduate high school. And they also use the term college and career ready. And it's also used to

057inform instruction in the classroom. So I will start with math. And I really feel like the next slide is a little more informative if I may go ahead. This is extremely interesting. So if you look at this slide and you follow the diagonal diagonal lines down by the colors, you will see the growth of 1 cohort, same group of students over time. And that's very telling. So this has gone back 11 years. So in 11 years for math, you've had different teachers, you've had different math programs, you have had COVID. So it's interesting to see the trends of what has happened. For me as the principal of this school, I look at what happens between fourth and fifth grade because there is traditionally a dip that happens. And again, if you look in 2017, for

058example, we did not have the IM curriculum. I did not have the same teachers for the most part in place. And I've really had conversations with different professionals to question. The assessment itself is a more language heavy in the fifth grade versus other. We're not sure, but that was somewhat intriguing to me. Kim, did you have any insights for 7th or 8th grade for math? Now, I just I like this view over comparing them directly because you're comparing two different groups of students who've had two different experiences, who went through COVID on two different years. So I really appreciate the growth that this shows. There is that little dip this year in eighth grade, which can happen. The content gets a little harder getting into some pre-algebra concepts. So I wouldn't say that that's necessarily

059surprising. and looking at it compared to over the 11 years you continuously kind of see that little drop so when i look at that that makes me go okay that's not unusual to see that drop and then i would be looking at that comparing to when we get the psats in the future and and that's a different assessment but you can still compare them and pick them up from that So you're saying that even though it dips there, because you can see like that dip in eighth grade and that's kind of scary. It's not unusual once you start, I'm putting on my math hat here, once you start thinking about solving equations, which is something they haven't done, incorporating systems of equations, and then you've got the accelerated class that's learning so much in a

060short span, which is not probably the lower parts there. It's not unusual. Algebra 1. Covers a lot of the same topics against that reinforces it more. So in their freshman year. I'm wondering too, like, I'm curious about the culture around testing and. The enthusiasm for testing, like, at the lower grades, I wasn't surprised by the 8th grade because. I work at the higher levels and that's where you get that. But, but, but, but, and I was curious about, like, are you creating, like, how are you creating this culture where the kids are like, you talked about celebrating the successes? Like, what is happening? Maybe at the 7th and 8th grade or are they nobody's excited. Um, but like, how. But it impacts, you know, we're publishing these numbers next to budget items. And so I'm

061curious about how we're grading. I mean, I can speak for this school. We really focus on growth, not necessarily the number. With kids to really view it with that lens. Yeah. But they take it seriously. I feel that they do. And how do you create, I guess that's my question is how do you create that? Well, I mean, these students have grown up in a culture of assessment. So this is something that they're used to. You know, we, for me, there's a fine line between not putting undue stress on a student, but also creating that enthusiasm for it. And I really think if you focus on the idea of growth. This shows us how you've grown. This also shows us how we can better help you and how we teach you in the future. To

062get them to understand the function of assessment. I'll just say at the middle school level, we have some snacks. The teachers will plan fun activities for after the test, but they're all trained. So it gives them a little bit of a reward for. Making it through, um. I mentioned because I'm super excited for us to be able to give the or 9th, 10th and 11th graders in the fall. I'm looking at different incentives for that and I'm starting that conversation with our. Director of counseling to Jeff daily 1 of the things that's fun about that is we also have. So many opportunities with so much staff that I would have to be involved to really try to make it exciting whether that might be like a clap in to celebrate. Hey, good luck. Let's do

063it. Um, I did that at a previous school and it was kind of corny for the kids, but they saw that we were excited about them taking the test. Um, and I think even small things like that goes a long way and just for the kids to recognize that. We want them to do well, we want them to do the best that they can do and. Not take it too seriously because you don't want to stress out, but for them to understand that we're rooting for them and where we want to represent Hopkinson. So that's what I'm excited about for the fall. Thank you. Okay. Um, also. The same type of view for the assessment for English language arts. Give me a moment to look at that. So if you look at this again with

064the same lens, you know, where Amplify came in and what gains you would expect to see with Amplify, I think it's very exciting because we are in our third year of Amplify. And really, I would be excited to get a fourth grade student that has had Amplify since kindergarten, where they understand the routine, the rituals, the rich language, the text that they're exposed to. There's exciting things happening in kindergarten already where these kids are so excited to be reading. To get a student that has had that background their entire academic career is exciting. From what we've seen, our scores have increased. Yeah, that's actually pretty amazing. Any questions about that? We started to amplify 2025. Is that right? Yes. Yes. We pilot. No. 2024. Thank you. A few teachers piloted in 2023. So 2024. That's

065great. But there is really a nice improvement there. Yeah. Yeah. Great. This is basically the same information that I just showed you a moment ago. I fully get and understand why we track on a class or a student level and individual level, like. Where you start to where you end and then what's your progress? How do we compare as a school to, like, on the New Hampshire testing. To the rest of the state, we tend to outperform the state average. I can get you that information if you would not necessary to. Dive into it for me, I just like on this 1 on science. Like, what does the state consider normal adequate? Well, they would consider normal, you know, their idea of advocacy would be 100% sure. Then it should be all of our goals.

066Right? True. Statistically, the New Hampshire state assessment for science has been lower. I have it in my notes somewhere of what the state average is for this year, but we outperformed the state average. I can tell you for fifth grade in my school. I find that assessment to be very language heavy. It is a lot of navigation of tabs and diagrams and moving the screen down. I was actually on the team for the state that helped develop that assessment where we were looking at validity of questions and cultural bias and things like that. Where prior, you know, the assessment that we gave was hands on. It was an actual inquiry where you were blowing sand with a straw and you were measuring things. So this is now a computerized assessment, really assessing scientific skills. So

067I still think there's some work there. Is the proficiency that we're talking about in these charts, this is not based on the state assessment of proficiency. This is based on the program, Amplify or whatever. So Amplify is English language arts. This is science. Right, right. I was looking back at the other one. So just when we're talking about proficiency, we're looking at these prior charts. Is that based on state? The state average proficiency, or is that based on what the program is determining? These are our district proficiency rates for each grade level. Yeah, but the, but against what has their own standards, right? New Hampshire staff has that's what I'm asking. That's measured by the state's benchmark, like, like, cut scores. So the state says that a cut score between this and this is proficient.

068Okay. So it's based on the state assessment. Yep. This is based on state, um, a state norm. So, I'm just curious, because I think you said you worked on the. I think I read an article it was a task force to a few weeks ago. Sometime within the last month, this is in the times I think about that states have been lowering proficiency. Standards and so it's difficult to tell exactly how you're doing even if you're hitting proficiency, because that's a moving target. Right. But I re, norms frequently as well. Okay. Yeah. And there was re, norming significantly after. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, to provide you a similar slide for the science proficiency, you can see. As I said, we definitely have worked to do. Kim, did you have anything to note for the... 11th

069grade, I'd like to note for the 11th grade that. It's going to be changing for next year. The state is actually shifting it to 10th grade so that it better reflects what they're learning in 9th grade and 10th grade science because a lot of the test is not. Any of the upper science, it's more physical science and biology. So next year, it'll be 1 year of an overlap where we have both the 10th and 11th graders testing that, but then it will continue at just the 10th grade level. And I think that will be. Better numbers in a sense that the content is fresher in their head. Because right now our students are taking science and physical science and 9th grade bio and 10th grade and then a year later practically a whole year later,

070they're taking this. Assessment and obviously there's going to be some regression in there. Skill set, because they're not doing that same type of science anymore. So that is 1 change that's coming into play next year. So I think these numbers will be really interesting to see, especially, although I don't like comparing groups. It will be interesting to compare the 10th grade to the 11th grade taking the test in the same year. I heard that 1st hand with a daughter who took AP physics this year and said, yeah, I took that test, but it was all something 2 years ago. Right? I would do bad too. The state average is 38%. For science? For science, yeah. It's usually low. Right, this is your world. So I have 2 slides on the data. I just enjoy data.

071Um, what I like about the is that for this 1st chart, it's looking at the percentage of students who meet the college board benchmark score and that is set by the college board, not the state. And that's the likelihood. of students succeeding in a college level course for English or math. So if they hit that benchmark score, which I know for math is a 530, I think English is a 510. They have a 75% chance of succeeding in college, which I think is very interesting. Since we've asked about comparing to the state, this is a great time to look at that. So this is the spring assessment. So we can see compared to the state, we have a lot more grants. We have a lot more of our students reaching that benchmark score for each

072math and English. Compared to the state, they are... way better. In terms of math, math always has a bit more of a red. It really just depends on where students are in their math progression. So the math SAT covers content from Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, a little bit of Statistics, and that's not normally where kids struggle because it's looking at graphs and charts. But for some of our students, they come into freshman year and they do Algebra 1A and then they do 1B. So they may or may not even be fully in Algebra 2 by the time they take this test as a junior or they might just be. 3 quarters of the way through it, so it's obviously going to be harder for them to. Reach that max potential that we're looking for.

073The test is different now. It's adaptive as well. So, depending on how they do on the 1st section of math or English will dictate what types of questions they get asked. So, that's really helped him kind of change the scores a little bit. And then the 2nd slide is looking overall at comparison between our seniors and how they did last year when they took the test in 2026 compared to our juniors this year. Again, I think it's always hard to compare directly to different groups because they're taking a different test in a different year. I think looking more at a diagonal chart like that is a little bit better to compare directly. Historically, the junior classes performed better on these assessments than the senior class. So that doesn't surprise me that this is how it's

074shaping up. I think that's going to change each year, but I think overall, it's important to note that we are doing significantly better than the state. Um, we actually received a survey from the state asking about what we do for English prep, because our scores are so great. So I received the same 1 as well. Yeah, something to kind of celebrate there. Um, and adding with the, we are now a Saturday test center. From and that came directly from our student leadership group asking. The seniors were wanting to take the for a 2nd, or 3rd time and some of the nearest locations were an hour plus away. So we had our 1st, small group test in May. We will be doing 2 in the fall in September and November, and we already have a couple

075of our students signed up. And part of the good. Thing about signing up for that is. New this year in the fall, they're going to reserve 40% of the seats that we said we could give for our students specifically. And then I'm the coordinator for it. So if we run out of seats and 1 of our students wants it, I can change the number because that is ultimately the goal, right? Is to have our students be able to come test and a place where they are. Comfortable. I can tell you that made a huge difference for the juniors because the next round was on June 9th. They took the STDs, and Jillian and some others, and they drove to Manchester high school and that was a. It was a stress of driving to the school

076and getting there and getting ready to drive to Hopkins and they know that totally made her feel more relaxed about the test. Okay, can you not just do your thunder before the last slide here, but did you say on the SATs. But depending on how you do in 1 section, you get different questions. How does I just, I'm pretty far away from that. So I'm curious. Yeah. And how does that work? And why, to be honest, I'm. Not sure how that changes the overall score grading. I've done a lot of research for that and they've been very vague about it. More difficult or less difficult? Yes, more difficult or less difficult. So if they perform really well in the first section, they'll get more of those harder algebra two, almost pre-calculus level questions. If they

077perform less well, they'll get a little bit of an easier path. Does that raise the total point score for the... In order to get... They're weighted the same? Well, it does change your score. So in order to get the perfect score of an 800, you'd have to do fantastic on both. And correct me, I think games web and both work that way. Yeah. Yeah. So, your kids will probably be, they haven't yet. They'll probably be hitting. So, they should be in there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

078Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I'm guessing that's to make you not feel so bad if you're getting just getting all these questions wrong. I'm not sure. Like I said, college board is really vague about it. I did a lot of research when this 1st started a couple of years ago as as a department head and. They don't really specify. They also don't break it down as much anymore into subsections. They're just broad categories. They used to break it down a lot more for you. They're trying to make it a little trickier, I guess, too. Yeah, I'm just curious as to why. It seems like

079a way, though, of basically being able to hone in on where you are. So you're not able to hit the really hard questions, but you're also not meeting the super easy questions. So it's kind of figuring out where you are. So two tiers. On that scale. Three to four tiers. Yeah. I've understood it and the jury and the GMAT dude also do it that way too. So, like, and the assets now. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like I said, I'm pretty far away. I will also say as a parent, it's your teachers, at least for at the Harold bar. And I don't have the kids at maple yet. But if you have a question about your kids assessment, being able to email and say, hey, they dive bombed on this particular thing and they can say. You

080know what for aims web was after SAS and they took an hour long test and did it in 10 minutes. So that could be the reason why your student maybe did not get the result their mother was looking for, which is okay. So context does come from situational awareness. And if you're a curious parent, I think it's always good to email. We have a lot of families that reach out. We have a lot of families who teachers who will meet with families to explain it. Our interventionists also do. I've met with families. It's always important, especially a lot of these tests. It's 1 moment in time. Like, we had a family similar situation whose. Daughter didn't perform the way they thought, but she had a fever and wasn't feeling well, and then was out for,

081like, the next week and, you know, of course, she didn't do well when she was sitting there, you know, so it's taking that into consideration. That's why we look at that big picture. So. you'll notice that we talked about you know we share the data with the family three times a year for amesweb that's sent out pretty easily through parent square for early bird they make it really complicated so we print it all fold it and put it in Envelopes or tape it together, but we're really looking at that K12 continuum, looking at those data conversations to provide a foundation for the upcoming year and to help us. Is this a 1 off where they're exhausted because they just did all this other testing or is this a trend that we need to be thinking

082about so we can get some of those 2nd tier 2 strategies in place? And then in the spring, really looking kind of overall at our proficiency levels, our growth, our rate of improvement. And, you know, how does that inform our instruction and programming for the upcoming year? So, I think, you know, there's a lot of work that goes into it and the kids definitely work really hard, but it does provide us with some information that helps us shape next year and next steps. We have any issue with participation percentages. My percentages were under 95% at Harold Martin this year. So we do, I mean, we have several families who decide to opt out for whatever reason, and that is their rate. But under 95%, those scores get factored in as a 0%. So in our

083average. It's an interesting campaign to try and increase participation. I recognize that the state allows parents to opt out with their child. Um, but then on the flip side, they penalize. Right schools scores if they don't get at least 95%. So they count that as a 0, like, like. They flunked every question on the test, so it lowers it takes a little more than 5 years. If you have more than 5% of your student population does not take the assessment after that 5% mark. However, many students you have that is a 0, which in a small district like this is 2 or 3 kids sometimes. But we legally allow them to opt out. I feel like in some circles, it's encouraged. We, like, we have to send out a letter to tell them how to

084do it. Yeah. And that's that's the SAS testing aims web probably is a private. Party that we, they don't do that. Yeah, is just our local assessment. So we don't do that. So they all take games up. So there's some compounding data. Yeah, absolutely. Always anything else here. I was going to spend the time to put all this together and compile it all because it's not 1 school. It's it's it span all 3 of us. So, we enjoy these things though. Well, then you're like me about how we spend our time. I walk to talk on how to do Excel at night. So, um, it might be good in the future to include the number, like, in the grades or some somewhere in the matrix, the number opted out or the percent adopted out just

085to know how much that tank the average we're seeing. Yeah. If it's easy, like, this is probably hours and hours of work. The opt out, so there is a platform that. The maintains called, I achieve, I can send you a link and you can look at the state averages. They give you the assessment participation for the whole state and then the proficiency growth and the achievement levels. And then there is a place for you to travel specifically to Hockington. So you can compare those numbers, the participation rates. It would be hard for them to do it at this time of year, because the window closes for SAS. Is it this week? Yes. So. Oh, they did. Okay. So we might be able to get those participation rates, but they usually don't finalize them until later

086in the summer. I mean, even meant for ours. Like if we're trending up or down in participation rate and percentage, not absolute numbers, but. Yeah. Yeah. And then just quickly before you leave, I did update in the board folder, um, the updated slideshow that had the, um, Carol Martin math data and that's the slide that you're seeing here. So our spring math data, I told you was a lot of green and it really is. So you're looking at kindergarten and 1st grade with, you know, almost full proficiency levels. Um, and then 2nd and 3rd grade. Uh, you know, that doesn't surprise me that we have more tier 3. this is where we start to see more specialized instruction and with, um, and, um, you know, specific disabilities in those subjects. So, um, you know, it

087does look really good though, from where we went from the fault where we went to the spring and, you know, Karen Victoria celebrated also with the staff on those numbers. So, um, that is updated in the board folder. I apologize for that, but I did want you to see it before we left. I will also know as a party thing is that parents did not necessarily get assessment data prior to, I think, starting this was not shared with parents and we did not, I think, do a data presentation like this. At the district level, um, in the same way prior to Patrice and Carrie starting and I just want to say, thank you to both of you. I think this has been so fun for us. Um, you know, Rebecca had done some, but I

088think this is like a really helpful way to think about the way the district looks at its work and like, the different testing things and pieces of data that we look at. So, thank you both. Um, it's hard to think that we're going to have 2 new principles next year, but I hope you both. Have a great transition and we wish you the best of luck so much. Thank you for being part of Huffington. We appreciate it. Right. And Kim, we'll see you next time. Thank you. Got to break in the new. Okay. All right. Thank you guys. Thank you ladies. All right. Who wants to kick things off a school lunch pricing? Lauren, you want to go for it? Sure. Okay. In your. Older tonight, there's the original memo that we wrote for the

089last board meeting and I did put an update in. Do either of the Jonathan's want to speak regarding what we discussed it at finance or would you like me to tackle it? Unless you want to, we had a good discussion regarding. Food service and our, our program in general, and taking a look at the fact that we sell about 2 thirds of our revenue comes from meals and 1 third comes from all cart. Yep. And the finance committee's recommendation is to do the following to, um. 25 cent increase in milk for snack milks. To for breakfast and lunch meals, a 10 cent increase. And for any adult lunches, 25 cent increase. Okay, do you believe that adult breakfast at the same price? So I don't think there's a 25 cent increase there, but that is

090their finance committee's recommendation after speaking and looking through the data. Okay, I mean, it was like threading a needle. You already you did a nice benchmark analysis and. Your findings were, were the higher end of meal prices already and 10 cents isn't much, but it helps set off the offset the deficit. So it's. Threading the needle and I think, um. You know, it's it's revenue in the sense that we, that money comes in through it, but it isn't revenue in the sense that it's ever going to pay for itself or turn a profit for us. So it really is, um. More of a service. To parents who are trying to get their kids ready and out the door, but I think also to kids that are coming from homes where they don't have the money

091to. Maybe have a hot meal otherwise. So, yeah, I do think that, um. You know, it's important and even if if it isn't like. Profitable it's an important, uh, I think that's something that. Informed us in terms of, you know, a marginal increase to try to reflect the, you know, the anticipated increase in costs, but also. To weigh that against people's abilities to pay. Yep. And I do thank the Finance Committee for talking it through with me and Amy and realizing that this is a service that we provide to the kids and to staff members and that we'd like to make sure people continue to have access to it as it gets harder and harder to get free and reduced meals nowadays. That's a question about the, did we get any more participation in the

092free and reduced? I know that was something that, I don't know. You guys were actively like sending out and kind of left it open for the newsletter multiple times like as that increased. i'm just trying to think of like yes it's a service but i also hate to say like everybody else pick up the tab for that i mean yes like right university yes yes but in the current system that we're living in um and i am wondering if there's a way to tap into any of the other community civic groups to kind of like are they i don't know i watch these things where people pay off lunch caps like is there Is there a way to. Well, start that yeah, around or is there a group that wants to sort of take some

093of that on? It's just worth thinking about. Yeah, because it's the hard, you know, how do we get people to participate in the free and reduced and then do people even qualify? Is it just. We got used to not paying during and we've maintained, you know, not paying the bill. Um, and there's really not much that the school can do. Right. Well, the new mail charging policy does. Delineate between essentially delinquent debt and bad debt and does say that the negative balance carry over into future years for students. So, those negative balances are not going to clear based on the new meal charging policy. They will continue and be there next year. And if I remember correctly, this is going back 2 or 3 meetings ago, finance committee wise. The outstanding balance debt was pretty

094low, right? It is 4,000 dollars, 4,000 dollars out of the 85 that were roughly. Going to be budgeted in the negative for food services. Yes. Right? It's not, it's, it's a factor, but it isn't the driving factor on why this is sort of a losing proposition. I think a bigger factor is the federal. Regulations that we have to comply with in order to continue to receive federal dollars. To answer your question, our free and reduced numbers have gone down. They have gone down this year, I think more because people are hitting that threshold and no longer qualifying. It's about $27,000 per family of three. Are you serious? Yeah, it's very, very, very low. Well, at Harold Martin, it went from 10.79% last year, and when I just got my application this year, they're at 7.56%.

095They had 26 kids that qualified, and now they're down to 18. And then maple street still qualifies as title 1 school 10.09% and now they're at 6.32% 22 kids to 12 kids. So some of those kids shift from building to building. Um, but certainly we had more students last year than we do this year that have filled out the application and they qualified. Um, but, you know, them qualifying that's not the lady said that's not the driving factor. But as you educated me yesterday, staying in the federal program ties to our title 1 and title 2, 2, 3 and 4. and adequacy state aid and this is why we took I mean, it's a little tangential, but. This is why these regulations are why. We can't get milk from creamery and we can't get works

096on farms vegetables because that would then. Disqualify us from this federal dollars, which is. I found a little frustrating personally a lot frustrated. I will say Tracy does, Tracy Berger does such an amazing job staying on top of all of these. And EMC, we talked a lot about these food regulations, trying to decrease the use of plastic. And, I mean, she's just, she really is. She knows all of them. It's a lot. Trying to reduce the plastic and also the ultra-processed food. Yeah. Yeah, and it's... It's hard, so I really appreciate you guys, you know, looking at all of this and I really appreciate all the work that you put into this. Yeah. Yeah. Do you need a yeah. So do I have a motion to accept the to approve the changes to the school

097lunch and milk and breakfast to the school? Meal prices, school meal prices as presented for the 2026 2027 school year. I'm sorry to interrupt. The only thing is as presented orally, because I think it's at the very bottom. I did the same thing. Okay. I'm there. I apologize for interrupting. Yeah. As presented so much. Yep. 2nd. Okay. Discussion. I think you team really appreciate it. All those in favor. I. Thank you Tracy and I talked today and we both agree that is the. We really think that that's the best option for us for next year. So thank you. Right so at the last meeting, I presented a project list for on a set fund balance and then have been asked by some members of the board to just highlight what our priorities would be. We

098talked at finance yesterday that are on a set fund balance amount continues to go down, which is great. That lets us know that what we have asked for, we have used and so we're circling around 88,000 right now. I think at the last. memo, it was around $136,000. And since we discussed the finance yesterday, we've onboarded some new employees. And so we're thankful to have them on board. Those come across so in terms of benefits, and then we paid a lot of overtime as we tried to fill that employment that have onboard that employee. So, um, so I've gone ahead and just highlighted the projects that would be important to me in the area of facilities. I've talked to Jim, our facilities director about the neutralizer tank. That seems to. be a priority for everyone

099that you talk to. I don't think we want to manage. Yeah, it's really gross. So we don't want to manage that being. not effective. And then also the NPR storage door at Harold Martin. There are a lot of small humans that live and work and show up to Harold Martin. And that door makes me nervous every time I'm down there. I'm a small human here, so let's be clear. um i'd be nervous about you being near the door it is i'm concerned about it um i know we had had a discussion about the weight room project at the high school um i would like to contribute in some way the students have been really engaged in the renovation of that space not just athletes but Um, our students that are taking wellness, um, we have

100developed some new courses, uh, to meet the, um, and so I'd like to contribute something to that, whether it is a few pieces of equipment, um, to collaborate with the graduating senior class. Um, there is a, uh, a discount on shipping if we hit a particular threshold. Um, so I'd like to work with Jim. Um, they have a list of equipment and, um, maybe even, you know, um. I know that treadmill or a rower or a gazelle, you know, one of those gazelle machines, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah. So they have just like to look at what the students have asked for and then the replacement of the soccer goals. We have a lot of students that participate in soccer and we are not the only users of that field. So I think

101that would benefit everyone that would use. the soccer fields. And then for the music and performing arts replacement of the risers, we have, as I mentioned previously, three good risers that we replaced a couple of years ago. So this would be replacing the remaining three that have met their end of life. And it's no surprise that I'm going to continue to support curriculum development. I think it is one of, I'll just say, I think it is the most important thing that we do. And so ensuring that we have the most up to date materials, and these are requests that are coming directly from teachers and we spend a lot of time asking teachers. What is it that you want or need to improve? And curriculum continues to be at the top of the list. So.

102This is certainly doesn't total 88,000. And so as you go through this list, and this is your last meeting, I would just ask that you provide me the opportunity. If Laura comes and says there's actually a little bit more money, we would choose something from this list. Or if another priority would come up, we would look to fund that. Questions about the list or. What we've discussed, no, I mean, I appreciate I think this is a really thoughtful list. I know that there's a lot of things that are. Um, for commercial use and that there's a lot of things, as you said, whether it's the door at Harold Martin, or otherwise, it gets a lot of, like, hard use with the number of humans we have moving through in various forms throughout every day. Um,

103I think that, uh, being able to invest in these projects, some of which are. But minutes, really the curriculum stuff, I think is very well worth it. Um, and I, I appreciate the research that you and the team have done to put this list together. Thank you for prioritizing it too. They're all important, but it's great to make our decisions. What is the most important thing? Obviously, the. It's tweaking. Yeah. Yeah. As someone who has a firm, we don't just start dumping those out. Well, also that will eat through all of our pipes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I recognize that there's like, actually. Water. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I also really appreciate the, um, partnering with the seniors and their senior gift. I just. Having a student driven. Goal on here is I just I think it's

104really important. Thank you. Me too. I just It is not often that we see something where we see students taking on something like this And I know that they've worked all year on that room I actually think they started They started talking about it before this year because I remember hearing about it last year. So I just I really appreciate And Jim and his team have done a great job. They did do a cleanup over the Christmas break and put a fresh coat of paint. But now we're ready to replace some of the equipment. We removed all of the broken equipment. It used to be covered in mirrors. I don't know if you remember that space when you were students there. Yes, but not in a good way. I never went into that weight room.

105I was not that kind of kid. Well, but I wonder, but now there's a bunch of different uses for it, so that's good. All right. Do we have, are we going to motion this? I just do want to, may I mention one thing? What's not? Back when we were doing budgeting you're talking we were mentioning the storage pods Jim and I looked into it It cost about three years the annual rent To purchase one Hope is no our goal is within a couple of years to get rid of them Right. Yeah, I was going to say, I feel like I remember from the conversation that the reason we were renting is because we did not want to keep them because we had purchased we had owned some, we got rid of the ones that we

106owned because we did not want storage. And we did not end up needing to put more storage containers out for the Georgia's park renovation. We were able to use the high sub pod. For that, right there is a stance. So, when. So the only thing that I would say, if we're going to rent for three years or purchase and it's the same cost, we may be able to recoup some of that by selling them. They are so difficult to sell. So we sell storage containers. They often go to, like, transfer stations. And, I mean, they are, you don't get a lot of money for them. Good scrabble. I mean, they're, I don't think, yeah, they don't go for a lot of money. There aren't a lot of places. Well, sure, you can pay. You pay

107to rent them because they are such a pain to maintain. It's like a dead asset. Yeah. Unless you're a transportation. Great. Thank you for looking into it. But just to understand this, this doesn't really require a vote, right? I mean, you can, you can make these expenditures as we need to. Well, I think we need to direct. I think we need to do we need to do we need to motion anything. You you really don't because everything that's on the list is really under 25,000 dollars, which is your minimum to get 3 quotes of your purchasing policy. Um, and under that is at the discretion of the superintendent. So you do not officially have to motion anything to allow us to do this. This is more, I think a notice and a show of support

108that you would support that show of support for these projects. Great. I dig it. Okay. Thank you. Can we take a minute while we're talking about the jazz and fund balance and talk a little bit about what's moving through potentially the state house right now just so we can start to surface it here. I know it's not an agenda topic, but I'd love to really make sure we can start general education. Don't you worry? I came to bed. Thank you. There are 2 bills in the house right now that are awaiting. They're on their way to the governor's desk. She I checked again today. They have not. They have not cleared. The first is HB 1610, which is the one that I'm watching the closest. It modifies RSA 198 for B, which is our contingency

109fund. That's... Has been approved by both the Senate and the house and the current language is essentially 3 fold and how it changes the use of the contingency fund. So, it liquidates everything we have immediately. They, I will say that the security redesign and the use of fund balance for tax relief is also safe at this point. The 2nd, is that it becomes an annual adoption on a separate warrant article at town meeting. If we want to have a contingency and the 3rd is that it becomes 3% of our budget appropriation, which is essentially our operating budget. That's on article 2 and that can only be spent by permission from the commissioner of education. So that's what's in HB 1610. We are unsure at this time if it is going to pass or not. So,

110with that, if it passes the contingency fund shall liquidate everything that we currently everything that goes. As of June 30th, and then anything that you were looking to vote to maintain for next year would also be liquidated. Then it's sister article is each be 1300, which puts a tax cap on our state general election on November 3rd, 2026. That general election is before we start talking personnel budgeting. So that is before we have our full budget in place, before we have our first round in place. And it puts a tax cap of essentially the CPI over your current taxable. Now, if we were automatically return the contingency fund, which remember the 5% is about 1.1M dollars. It will swing our tax rate down and then the tax cap would then be artificially lowered for what

111happening and actually has for tax taxes. And that would be every 2 years on the state general elections. The tax cap would be in place for 2 years. So, you try to educate me yesterday and calibrate me here and check me in the board that I've got this wrong. 1610 eliminates contingency budgets lines that exist and they get. Put up for vote every single year that yes, the whole point of them from my understanding was that it steady and made the tax base a little more steady state. And by eliminating it, there's a huge chance to go to yo-yo mode. Yes. And you get less money taken out of your mortgage this year, but next spring, you're voting to go backwards the other way. And it just, like a sine wave, goes up and down,

112up and down. Yep. Because 3% of our budgeted appropriations this year is about $867,000. So that would be your swing every year, up and down, depending on what that, if the warrant ever passes or not. So, yeah, it would definitely be a swing contingency budget was put in place. So that a boiler goes down and help Martin or the roof collapses in the section of school. There's a rainy day fund to fix that. And I guess I'm at a loss of what the motive of that legislation even is. Other than to wreak a little havoc and sending money back to the taxpayers is always good. I'm not against that idea at all. It's just a. Leased in our town, the town meetings I've been to. There's been a huge push initiative to get a better

113grasp on long term spending. And plan for contingencies and problems. And this seems to want to wipe the slate and erase that. So, what we see with a lot of school districts right now is that. When you have students that move in that are unanticipated, and they have special education costs, the contingency fund has been able to be used to cover those expenses without that in place. You're going to see school districts moving to trusts and moving to trying to build trusts to have protections. Trusts are not being looked at right now. So, but you can only put money into them during the warrant articles or a special meeting. So that would be an annual vote then that we would also be looking forward to. And many districts, I would say to your point, has

114spent the better part of a decade, if not more adding to article 10. so this is not something that is taken lightly. Like, we have worked really hard to slowly add savings to this every single year and to have it go back in 1 fell swoop again. Like. It is, I think we all want to return. We want to manage our dollars return money to taxpayers, but given the swings that we've seen 2 years, 3 years ago, we had a 20% increase in GMR. We've had transportation costs. We've had special ed like, the $50,000, especially cost. Right? It's significant. So I, I think it's, um. To your point. The inability to have cushion and stability to help smooth smooth the sine wave. I think it's deeply problematic. Well, in combination with. The tax tab, I

115have real concerns about the ability to negotiate because it's not taking into consideration previous. The contractual obligations, right? We don't know yet. So when the legislature right now says that when you have a collective bargaining agreement, the master agreement is a separate warrant article as an individual warrant article. We are unsure if that tax cap includes the individual warrant articles or if it's only the article you're looking at for your general fund. It's not clear yet. Because, I mean, insurance could fluctuate so much that that would be. Your entire path and that would be no, you know, that would be the fault of like, say, three, four or 5% raise for, you know, expense. Yeah, control is. So, where, you know, just all of these factors kind of coming into play. All at the same

116time. Yes. And the tax cap puts it on local on our local ballot. So when people come to vote for governor, that's when they would see, do you want to enact a tax cap in Hopkinton for two years of the prior taxation amount plus CPI essentially plus your bonds. They can't take bonds have already been agreed to by legislative bodies. So those are outside of this, but even like the bond budgets. Yep. Yeah. default budgets have to legally include contractual obligations but if the tax back doesn't i'm just yeah it just doesn't make sense to me i'm not opposed to like keeping things within this is as far as we can go you know a tax gap but i am opposed to doing it in a way that just meets it also puts us in

117a position where if something happens early in a school year Like a roof leaks or a boiler goes, or a student needs to all of a sudden. Have a significant increase in special ed that we could be frozen for the majority of the school year and services would be affected. Or whether it's athletics or, you know. Just to try to make it if we don't have any cushion at all. It could put us in a situation where all of a sudden services are extremely negatively affected or a school year because. We had to pay for that thing. Yeah, that happens. Yeah. Or we watch Claremont, they had to lay teachers off in September. Right. I mean, that was, I had never seen anything like that in my 30 years in public education in New Hampshire.

118Or spinning out the parade of horribles. You could be in a situation where you return money to taxpayers and then ask them to come and pay for the sports season. Right. And give it right back. Right. Yeah. But it's less efficient. So maybe it costs them more. All right, thanks for the update. I mean, I don't like it, but appreciate the knowledge. I will continue to watch it. Continue to look every day. I think a lot of our partner associations are also watching the legislature because it is effective immediately. Right. Stay tuned, guys. And we believe that we should have an answer by the end of the month, one way or the other. Yes. Okay. I just wanted to get it, make sure we were talking about it. So if there are people who are

119watching. Got contacts. Okay. Great. Thank you. Policy you ready? Yes. I have a whole bunch. These are my final final reads of the of the school year. So we've got our slate of J policies and then our 1 E policy. So we have a student conduct on school buses and it. I always call it appendix. Thank you. Amy. I always call it an addendum. It's not appendix, which is just called our school bus conduct rules. J. C. D. student discipline and due process. J. I. C. D. D. Student discipline out of school activities. J. R. A. student records and access. J. I. C. J. unauthorized communication devices. This is the 1 that we put in place. Last year, and we had basically only put it into place for 1 year. And so we removed that.

120So this is now. We're continuing to not have cell phones in school and then, which is sustainability and natural resources. So, with that, um, did not hear from anyone. So I'm assuming folks have no questions. I'm looking for a motion to approve these policies as presented. So moved. Great. I need to leave this 1 part. All in favor. Hi, thanks. Any books now you can be happy. Okay, guys, everyone should know the students per 100 started. 8 years ago, 8 years ago, close to a decade. So there are students who have continued to be part of trying to get a sustainability policy passed even when they are so far past high school that they are getting their PhD. So, this passing of this policy literally represents a decade of work by students to try to

121bring this thinking into the role of the school district. And I'm very excited to email a whole bunch of students and former students later tonight. Because I think it is remarkable and thank you so much for your support. Okay. It's good stuff. Great. I have 1 other curveball before we get to the agenda. Is that okay? We did not talk about goals, but I just will include a overview of the retreat topic. Is that okay? So, just so everyone knows, we had our retreat last Friday. It is a public meeting. It was held in the history room of the town library from 12 to 3. And we, in addition to meeting with our trainer, talking about some, like, recent moving changes in Legislation, including what Laura discovered, um. And things that are coming down the

122pipeline for school boards. We also talked about what our goals are going to be for the 2026, 2027 school year. Um, they are under the same buckets. It's everything from, um, curriculum and assessment to finance to safety and security communication. Culture and climate and sustainability. Um. We are going to go through and we'll talk through these there. We're going to they're in a draft form. Now, Amy, and her team will do a turn on them this summer with their level goals. And we'll go through these in detail at our August meeting when we start to really kick things off. All right. Um, but I thought it was really productive meeting and I think you all for your time. I know we all spend a lot of time together and I really appreciate even more time.

123That's it with that. All right. Ladies, let's go. I do apologize in advance. We have a relatively large content agenda tonight versus our personnel report. New hires. Morgan ran folks. Did I say that? Right? Is being nominated for speech language pathologist position for the next school year that has been contracted this year. It's been vacant. So we're very excited to bring somebody on for that next year. Rachel French is being nominated as an IA or an instructional assistant. She's replacing Mary Tripod at the Middle High School for next year. Hannah Wood, that is an ID for new hires. Resignations. Hannah Wood is an IA here at Maple Street and has put in her resignation for the end of the school year. We thank Hannah for her service. She came to us at the beginning of

124this year, and she is moving. And then one that is very sad for my personal daughter. She loves Mrs. Bickford so, so much. Michelle Bickford, sixth grade teacher, has chosen to resign at the end of the school year for personal reasons. And so I want to thank her for all that she has done. Yeah. I'm only smiling. I'm incredibly sad about this resignation. I am smiling because there are tears on either side of me. Do you want to say anything? I can't. Okay. If I may, I will. So my, yeah, there you go. My daughter, Sam, came to sixth grade last year for the first time. Terrified, scared, shy, anxious. And Mrs. Bickford, she was in her homeroom. She took her in. sat with her at lunch on the first day, introduced her to all

125the kids, and made her student of the week on the first week, and got all of the kids to write all of the things that they really liked about Sam on this poster that we brought home so that she felt welcome in this new school that she didn't know. And it was one of the kindest, most caring ways for her to show Sam that she's a part of this community and welcome. And even though she hasn't been here since kindergarten, like 95% of the kids in her class, she went on to teach Sam how to write in sixth grade, to teach her how to like social studies, to teach her how to be a good human. And I appreciate everything that she's done. Very much. For just 1 of the hundreds of students that have

126moved through her class. In the past 12 years, I'll share a quick quote from this morning. Amy was talking about how 1 of Michelle's trademarks is to have their weekly meeting say, how, what can we do to make the students feel better and more loved? Right? Which is just going the extra mile. I think that passionately exam feel included from week. 1 is incredible. I saw Mrs. Bigfoot this morning. I started crying when I saw her. She will be dearly missed anything else. Okay. Okay, thank you on the speech pathologist 1. We're paying an outside service, some exorbitant amount of paying the profit margins and everything else right now. So on a non theory subject, bringing us back is going to save us money overall. Yes, absolutely. Yep. Yes. I will also, I'm sorry, also

127add contracted service. It's really hard to embed them in your community because they don't work for the district. So, 1 of the things that we had talked about a finance is every time they attended meeting above and beyond what has been contracted, or it is not just expensive. For that contract, but anything above and beyond. So, Morgan coming on board working for us will just be a real game changer. I think for for everyone. Do they come with any credentials? So, speech paths are certified through allied health, I think is their governing body. It used to be that the Department of education issued a speech and language specialist license directed just for educators and they really have shifted. So it's more like occupational therapy where they are. They're certified through their governing body actually. I'm

128sorry. It's that is speech. That's also another resource in the district that we have on your side. Yep. And then the last on your new, your new higher resignation sheet is Elizabeth Baron. She is currently at Harold Martin. There was a vacancy when we did extended school year last time and Elizabeth Baron will be taking the vacancy for great. Thank you. Any questions on the regular new hire sheet? Yeah, that's tough. One change to Schedule B, extracurriculars for next year. We had a vacancy for the freshman class advisors, and Scott Zipke has signed up to be a freshman class advisor with Allison Smith. Okay. All right. And there is the student council opening at Harold Martin in case anyone wants to step in. And the Kindness Club. And the Kindness Club. That's right. Both are

129still available. Great schedule be for coaches for the fall. We have nominations. I will field hockey varsity is Kate Hovenberger who we know is our PE health teacher at the middle high school field hockey assistant for varsity or JV depending JV coach, depending on how many students end up signing up is Liz Kovar. Soccer boys varsity Scott Zipke. Soccer assistant boys varsity and soccer boys JV are currently vacant. Those positions are open. Soccer girls varsity is Mike Zahn. Soccer assistant girls varsity or JV coach is Alyssa McDonough. She will take one of those two roles. Golf is Ted Wells again this year. Cross country varsity is Rob Roth. Cross country assistant varsity is Norm Goupil. We, even though it is the fall sports nomination slate, we're jumping on this early. We have a new JV

130basketball coach for the winter, Amy Ober. We are asking for Amy to be approved tonight as well. Is she for girls or boys? I want to say she's for girls. Oh, right. Because Kate resigned. And then for middle school this year, field hockey, Tim Upton, cross country, George Stable, who we saw earlier, boys soccer, Travis Martin, girls soccer, Elizabeth Sides, and then assistant cross country is currently vacant. Great. Thank you to our coaches. Yes. And if anyone wants to coach either Assistant Employees, Varsity, or JV, please do contact Dan Meserve. Thank you. Also, Assistant Cross Country for Middle School. That's right. Donations tonight. We have one in-kind donation for you to approve. Hertz Furniture has chosen Hopkinton High School for a full-out makerspace classroom valued at $27,000. Wow. They will deliver it. They will set

131it up for us. And we are very excited for it. They're going to hold it for us for a little while while we make space. Where's her spring? Hertz Furniture, I believe they have a showroom down in Bedford, is what they were. They said it's like showroom furniture, right? Yes. Did we get blocked? Like how? Yeah, that's what it was. So Donna Zecca is our media specialist. Do you mind if I? And she went to a show, a vendor show, and spoke with Hertz Furniture and told them that we were interested in doing a makerspace at the library at the Middle High School. And they remembered and chose us for this. This project she made an impression. Yeah, for sure. So you're asking for you to kind donation. That's great. Yeah. Oh, it's really cool.

132We saw some photos and the donation. Yes. The donation letter from them is in your, in your, um, board support folder tonight. Welcome surprise in that folder. Sorry. That was a welcome surprise in that folder. Yes. We're very excited. Next up, we have some budget transfers. I believe that the prior VA, Michelle, would bring these to you essentially at the end of the year. These are for you to approve. We have one that is for salary transfers for some overages so I can clean up my lines. The second is for speech pathology contracted services. Because we are contracting, we have a $30,000 loss that I need to cover. That's a difference. And then the last is to cover the open enrollment student. As we've seen throughout that, that line has been upside down. And so

133that is to cover the open enrollment student. So, with that, we did talk about these on finance and the finance committee recommended them. Great and continue to. Sorry, I said, and continue to. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Is that part of the consent or is that a separate vote? It's part of the consent. It's just the documents themselves have to get signed. Great. The May financials are in your packet as well. I just keep going. Sure do. Sure do as Amy mentioned, our current projected on fund balance is 88,462. That is to return for tax relief or to use for these projects. We already have a guaranteed promised 400,000 dollars. That is going back. That is what we vote. We agreed to at the town meeting in March. A lot of the change between April and

134May occurred from special education and facilities due to placements for students and a new employee at the middle high school. And unfortunately for food service. May was a three payroll month, and as they are self-sustaining, they did not take in as much as they had to pay out for payroll, and we are experiencing a little bit more of a loss than we expected. Still under the $100,000 that is their budget. However, right now we're between $85,000 and $90,000. The audit is coming up and I will have these fine these numbers finalized for us for the 1st meeting in August. We'll have the trial balance is done and fund balance is completed at that point. So, I'll bring that to you then. Great, I don't know that it makes sense to do any kind of preliminary

135vote on contingency fund holding as. The 1610 is up in the air. Yeah. Um, so I don't know if that makes sense to do at this time. We can look at that in August. Great. I keep going. Uh, all right. Should we vote on all of that before you do that? No, it's all consent agenda. No, but he can't vote on it. Oh, oh, yes. Okay. Okay. So we have one other issue for which someone has to recuse themselves. Uh, so do I have a motion to present to accept. The consent agenda as presented. All those any discussion or that was a lot. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. All those in favor. Hi. Great. In case anyone's wondering before we go to the last item, Laura's coming up on her favorite

136time, audit season. I can't wait to audit season already. So just think about the fun she gets to have this summer. We are having so much fun. So much fun. Thank you in advance. It's really not fun. Yes. Of course it's not. I think everyone knows that audits are not always fun, except for people who are really audit people. Thank you. Okay, last item. That's right. Open air audit. Great. I'm just going to jump in. There is one more thing, an overnight field trip for soccer. Scott Zipke, it usually takes his soccer boys to on a camping trip. And so he has put in a preliminary request while things get worked out. We know he doesn't have an assistant coach just yet, but he's put in that request for an overnight field trip. Okay, now

137we're ready for you to right now after the approval overnight. Yes. Yes. And I have a motion to approve the overnight field trip as presented. Second discussion. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Great. Thank you. Last is a request for a new student activity account, which is called Sisters in STEM. The advisor will be Mr. Cleary, and the purpose is a mentorship program centered around women in STEM, joining together both STEM professionals and students with an interest. And it is being piloted by three juniors at the Hopkinson High School. One of them is Gina Lynn Dunlap. And they wrote a wonderful request, which is in your board support folder about this program. Currently, they already have about 15 middle schoolers, 7 high schools, schoolers, and about a handful of professionals that are interested in joining

138this club. So, I'm going to recuse myself for this 1, because it's killing. This actually came out of central out of the class this year. With design challenge network, so it actually came out of the school itself. That's so cool. It's amazing. I've talked with Jillian about it. I am really excited about the work that she and her sisters are going to do. By sisters, I mean like women. I would also encourage if there's anyone, any working professionals in Hopkinton, be you a physician, a scientist, a engineer, anything in the STEM field, a mathematician, I would say please feel free to reach out to the middle high school and offer your services. I think they're looking for all sorts of mentors to basically help. um shine a light on the pathways that exist for for

139girls young women women in stem yeah the advanced regenerative manufacturing institute has a great program that students can participate in and my winning team was the all-female team wonderful that today hasn't been a lot so it's a really cool years biotech Phones. So that's a great opportunity for that. And I noticed that in our, the schedule B, there's some clubs that aren't filled anyway. I mean, they may be eventually, but pick up this opportunity. That's right. That's right. Any other questions? I think it's just great. I think it's outstanding. So, do I have a motion to approve the new student activity account for sisters in stem as presented? All right any discussion. All right all those in favor aye. Any opposed? Recuse? Jonathan. Great. Nice work. Thank you very much. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Anything

140else that you have for consent agenda? Any words for the end of the year and reflections on your first year as superintendent? I have a lot of reflections that I'm going to take with me. Okay. Great. I mean, I guess just to keep it short and sweet, it has been a wonderful year. I know that we have gone through a lot and have spent a lot of time together. I'm so appreciative of my team. I know that both Patrice and Carrie are moving on, and those are good. Good news for them. personally and professionally. It's always hard when you lose members of your team, but I'm looking forward to the people that will join us. And I'm thankful that Kim was able to sit in front of you tonight and get super jazzed about PSATs

141and SATs. It is like one of the things that she really lights up about, and I hope you notice that. We have a small but mighty team here, and that continues to impress me every day. I feel so lucky to... Be learning next to Laura. She is really patient when I ask 5000 questions about why we can or can't do things. Um, Mandy is someone that I trust explicitly to make decisions that are in the best interest. And I really feel like you've given them opportunities. Each member of my team, whether it's Jim or Matt. Mandy Laura to come forward and show you what, how talented and. knowledgeable they really are. So I know that this is a privilege to sit and serve as your superintendent of schools. And I'm just so thankful for the

142trust that you place in me. I would like to say a couple things. You have had a really amazing first year, I think, as an entirely new leadership team between the superintendent and the BA. There's lots of high fives. I really appreciate all the work that you both have done. And Amy, I think that your leadership has been steady and in many ways visionary and I think really, really thoughtful. So thank you. Also, not that anyone else is going, well, Jonathan might be there, but. Um, something that I think I know every year is that when the kids, the 3rd graders leave here on Martin on the last day of school, they all sob like, it is like, it's deeply emotional event. It's amazing. We're so lucky. That's it. Okay. Last day of school. We're

143going to make it. We're rounding the quarter, people. Okay. Committee updates. Are we ready? So CIA, I think you guys said that we are not meeting. Anything else for policy? No. Great. Okay, cool. We're waiting for a few things to drop before we kind of plan. We did need, but it was before we got a couple of things. Yeah, because they have their policy packet. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. Okay. CIP. We have a non-map. We have a non-map. Okay. Safety and security, if not met, will be if not any chair. EMC, I just want to take a moment, you guys, and just talk through this. As we round the corner on this policy, I just wanted to do a quick summary. I'll do it again at the end of the year. But Lucy Beardmore made

144a share that the Environmental Action Club had 30 involved. Members that were led by Mr. Ross camp, who was here for track earlier. They met every other Tuesday morning for half an hour throughout the school year. Um, in December, they sent 5 members to the youth climate leaders Academy, which is hosted in Vermont by the Vermont, New Hampshire, energy, education, um, project, um, for the 2nd year in a row. Our clubs. Project was chosen to focus on and so that was a greenhouse. And so over the course of this year, he was able to actually get the greenhouse up and running by the end of the year, including with support from the Hopkins public schools foundation, which includes new panels. A new, uh, roof so many different things. So, like, they really put in a

145ton of time and that was like a labor of love for all of those students and for Mr. Ross camp and Pierce and Lucy also during Earth Day. And during the months prior, they helped to coordinate the, the middle school sustainability action summit, which if you just in Maple Street students attended, and then they're working on bringing more leadership in. From Patrice, you know, they started the hydroponic garden, which did harvest 537.2 ounces of lettuce and 30 ounces of basil since the end of March. They collected 227 pounds of food waste for the composters. And the compost crew really helped support and sort trash composting recycling at lunch. Um, with extra students helping, uh, they also added garden beds and outdoor classroom spaces. It's also worth noting at the high school. Those students also take

146the compost out every single day and oversee sorting and recycling and everything else, which is awesome. We also got reusable silverware at the schools, which was, um, wonderfully supported by this team. Um, uh, and it is where in the, the waste workers also did a clothing swap, which is you guys might. Remember, it was right before a dance. It was right before something else. But there was a lot of clothing that people could go and sort through to basically reduce clothing waste. I say this all because, like, the work that happens in this district is something that I think involves both students and staff and obviously the sustainability committee and the students. And we saw the waste warriors from April street earlier this year. They're really passionate about it. And I'm thrilled. This also impacts

147the bottom line. We get charged for every pound that has to be taken away as waste from the school. So, if we're saving hundreds of pounds, either in the form of foam trays, plastic, recycling, food, waste, et cetera, it really does. to reduce our tipping fees for waste management. It's worth knowing if we go above a certain amount or if it's overfilling, we get charged extra. So like this is work that the students really do to help us reduce our costs and also improve what we're doing. Any questions about that? I'm pretty proud of our- That's excellent. And all the work that our students and teachers do. Okay. Finance budget. Anything else from today? I think we covered it. Great. Wellness, silch, right? PD. Great. Okay, we're almost there. Um, we are now at the

1482nd. Public comment portion of the evening if you'd like to come up name, address 3 minutes. Come on up. I'm at 86 maple street. Um, I just wanted to add 1 other element that you all didn't discuss about Michelle tenure here. She, she was extremely involved in the theater at the school for. many years and if anyone's seen the theater musicals up at the high school I'm sure that her work earlier definitely at this level helped promote that and I think that was something that should be mentioned thank you for another year Thanks, Lauren. All right the last note of business. I'm so sorry. I forgot. I was not at graduation last Friday. I heard it was outstanding. I'd also like to publicly recognize Jody Condon as well as the team at the middle high

149school who does a lot of work. Pulling together the flowers, making sure that the barn, which is a sticky wicket in terms of coordination times and loaded and load out getting everything printed organized. Thank you, Jody for all the work that you do. Thank you to everyone. It's a middle high school who really helps, I think, put together a really, really nice graduation. That's very special and very. All right, and with that, do I have a motion to adjourn the last meeting? Hopefully school board.