001also figuring out No, I really And how are you? Good. Hold on over there. Jo basket and a rabbit. No, I didn't. It's so It's for Patrick. That is so nice. That is so nice. No, we actually lost this lottery called health and so we got this basket. How's he doing? He's doing well, actually. Okay. that I'm really tired and like right now he's fighting some congestion which is not it's you can't really say like is it a cold did it catch a cold somewhere or is it like so it's really weird like because you're like paranoid about everything and anyway when was it on day first day on the 6th so it's been like we're right in between no I'm sorry on the 16th we're right in between right now and I'll have another
002one on the 6th on June 6th so It's a real small group tonight. Are we all ready to get started? Awesome. Well, hello. Thank you for joining us. Today is Tuesday, May 27th, 2025, and this is the special meeting for the Litfield Elementary School District Governing Board. I hereby call this meeting to order. The first item will be the Pledge of Allegiance. If you could please stand and join us. I pledge algiance 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. Next, we'll take a moment of silent reflection. Thank you. Uh, next we need a motion to convene into executive session. I move to convene executive session. A second. Having a motion for Miss Moran and
003a second for Mr. Mike. I'll call for the vote. Miss Wallace, yay. Mr. Mike, yay. Mr. Owens, yay. Miss Moran, yay. I'm also a yay. Motion passes. We are now going to be in executive session. Where are we moving to? In the little room. Okay. Yeah. Okay, we are all done with our executive session and going to reconvene our regular meeting. Uh we have no speakers tonight, so we'll just skip right past that. Uh, I will move on to the adoption of the agenda and consideration of the consent agenda. We'll go through and see if anything needs to be pulled off of consent. Miss Wallace, no. Thank you. Mr. Mike, none for me. Mr. Owens, nothing from me. Miss Moran, I would like to remove item 7.3, certified personnel employment. Okay. And I have none.
004You grabbed my one. So if there's nothing else, then someone wants to make a motion. I move to adopt the consent agenda as presented without 7.3. I will second. Having a motion for Mr. Owens and a second for Miss Moran, I'll call for the vote. Miss Wallace, yay. Mr. Mikes, yay. Mr. Owens, yay. Miss Moran, yay. I'm also a yay. Motion passes. So now we will move on to which will be 8.1 certified personnel employment. I'm actually going to just let Dr. Davidson talk about this. Thank you, President Zida and members of the board and staff committee and so forth. Um, thank you for giving us the opportunity to highlight the new uh, assuming I shouldn't shouldn't say that with board approval the potential new principal and assistant principal at Verado Middle School. So, I
005was sporting the the Mustang for a reason tonight and um, you know, we had an unbelievable process for both principal and assistant principal. I'll have Dr. Dusy speak to that. But uh Miss Christy Sartiano is here tonight. Yeah, that's right. You have to have that Italian accent and display. But um she is here as well tonight. So if you have any questions as we move forward, certainly we could uh go from there. So Dr. Ducey. All right. Good evening. Um President Zida and governing board members, my admin cabinet as well as the community. Welcome. Um we are happy to present to you for um approval um principal Christy here with us and assistant principal Cassie Broite um for Verado Middle School to kind of tell you a little bit about the process. Um we had
006for principal we had 13 original applications that came through um through a screening of those applications. We identified nine applicants that we wanted to learn more about through an inbox activity. um from that inbox activity having several people score using a rubric. Um we narrowed it down to our top four candidates. Um those four candidates um met with a panel that had um teachers from broad middle um a community member, a parent, um myself and Mrs. Benjamin. We also had classified and certified staff as well as also someone from HR. So it was a pretty big group for a whole day um to meet our candidates. Um then we narrowed it down to our final two. Um and then brought that those applicants to admin cabinet and then here we are today making our recommendation
007for Christie. And then for Miss Boatright um for um the vice principal ship or assistant principal ship we started with 10 candidates um narrowed that down to send inbox activities um to six candidates. From there we narrowed it down to our top four. Again scoring it using a rubric. Several people took part in that. Um and we came out with one final candidate and that was Miss Boatright again with a panel that represented um different roles as part of Verado Middle School. So I will take any other questions you might have. Miss Wallace, did you have any questions? No questions. Thank you. Mr. Mike, no questions for me. Mr. Owens, no questions. Thanks. Miss Maran, I do have a question. Um, parents at Verado Middle would obviously be familiar with assistant principal Boight, but they
008would not be as familiar with our new principal Sartiano. Am I saying that correctly? Okay. So, I would love to hear just a little bit about um, Principal Sardano's experience and where she is coming to us from. Oh, yeah. You want to come on up? Yeah. Thank you. Hello everybody. I am Christy Zartiano. I am currently the Canyon View um freshman academy principal. Um I have been an AP at Canyon View for the last four years. Before that I was Ruth Fischer Middle School's AP um for two years. Before that, I was an instructional coach for several years and I was a tap mentor teacher. And when I was teaching, I was a middle school teacher. So, I was a seventh grade science teacher. Um, I also taught writing, math, and all basically everything. You
009know how middle school goes. I taught it all. Um, so I've been in the business for 18 years now. And, um, a lot of Verado Middle School stu parents actually feed into Canyon View. So, I'm very familiar with Verado. We we're we're basically Verado as well, just as much as uh, Verado is. So we are very familiar with the neighborhood. That is our fries. That is our that is where we go to do all of our food and eating and shopping. And so Verado is our family as well. So I think that's kind of me in a nutshell. Any other questions? No, I don't have any other questions. Thank you and welcome aboard. Thank you. I'm excited to be here guys. Can I just say I'm so excited again. We are taking somebody from the
010high school instead of the high school taking somebody from us. Thank you. Thank you. This is an exciting day. Um we're very excited to in a minute welcome you officially to the Lich Shield family. Uh with that, if there's no other questions or comments, I will entertain a vote. A motion, not a vote. I move to approve item 8.1 as presented. I second. Having a motion from Miss Moran and a second from Miss Wallace. I'll call for the vote. Miss Wallace. Yay. Welcome, Mr. Mice. Yay. Mr. Owens, yay. Miss Moran, yay. I am also yay. Motion passes. Thank you again and welcome to the Lichfield School District. Okay, now that we are done with that, we are going to move on to our action item. I don't think so. Carter, do you have to take
011a picture first? They're asking up here. Just thought I'd find out if we need to do that. Yes, we should. Apparently, we've decided we should do that. So, we're going to do that. It's official. We have to put one smile. Thank you everybody. Yeah. Okay, we really are going to move on now to our action items. so that we can try to mosey on through this meeting. The first item on the agenda is going to be consideration of the employee cont Dr. Davidson's contract which hold on that is done by me. I was just pulling up the stuff for it. Okay. So, the board has met and discussed the contract. We've worked with our attorney and so um unless Mr. Dav Dr. Davidson has anything he'd like to add to this? Anybody has anything they
012want to say on the record? He can. Do you have anything? Thank you, President Z. I'll just say one thing for the record and certainly not knowing how you're going to vote, but I would say that if the board so chooses to allow me to continue my employment here, it's also a vote on behalf of the team. Um because certainly the success we've had over the last couple years isn't just about Carter. It's about every one of us that's sitting here today and those maybe before them that contributed to um the great things we're doing. So, just wanted to add that and tell you thanks. Okay, Miss Wallace, did you have any comments or questions on this action? I don't I do not have any questions. Um, I just would like to say that we
013are very happy with how your second year has gone and we are pleased to be able to offer you the contract that we're offering and feel that it is welld deserved and competitive for where you should be. So, Mr. Mike's, yeah, no questions, just comment. We're, you know, excited for um or we appreciate everything you've done so far and speaking to the team as well. It's a great reflection of your leadership. Very excited for the next uh next couple years of the contract to see what uh will will come of it and excited to see the growth that we're going to have. Mr. Owens, no comments. Just kidding. Yeah, we're happy to get here. Looking forward to the third one, too. Hopefully, we'll see. Miss Maria. Yeah, slow your roll there, Owens. Um, I would
014just like to say that having done this numerous times before, I am very happy to say that I have zero reservations about extending you a three-year contract. The success that we have had is due to you and your team of course and I'm happy to provide some stability for not only the cabinet but also our campus leadership and our teachers and staff to know that you will be at the helm um and continuing to lead and guide us through this Lichfield learner journey. Uh, I don't have any questions, but I will say uh I agree with Miss Moran in that I have no reservations about this either. You have made this job as a board member much easier. I feel like I'm very happy that we found you when we did and that we get
015to keep you for a little longer. And um I'm excited to see the things that are coming in the future because we've already seen so much growth and change in the district that was much needed. and I know that we're going to only see that continue as we move forward and your team is amazing, but that is a testament to you as the leader. So, uh, thank you for all that you do and to your team as well. I'm excited to see what's coming next. Uh, with that, if somebody would like to make a motion, I'll move to approve a three-year contract beginning July 1st, 2025 with Dr. Carter Davidson as superintendent of the Lichfield Elementary School District. I'll second. Having a motion from Mr. Mike and a second from Mr. Owens, I will call
016for the vote. Miss Wallace, yay. Mr. Mikes, yay. Mr. Owens, yay. Miss Moran, yay. I'm also a yay. Motion passes. Now you're stuck with us for three more years. Okay, we're just going to keep moving along. Next is authorization for the superintendent and or our CFO to sign and execute any and all documents related to the construction of Troy Gilbert Elementary School and related land. This is going to be by CFO Vaughn. Madame President, members of the governing board, Superintendent Davidson, colleagues and community, thank you for joining me tonight to discuss uh providing myself and the superintendent authority to sign and execute documents related to the construction of Troy Gilbert. The intention of this is to allow us to keep the project on timeline between board meetings. Our intention would be to bring anything that
017would have otherwise required board approval back for ratification at the next regularly scheduled board meeting. This is simply just to allow us to keep the process going through permitting and and things of that nature. um because there always seems to be some surprises um and the scheduling of board meetings um can just slow down the process a little bit. Assistant Superintendent Stone and I are available to answer any questions you may have. Miss Wallace, did you have any questions? I do not. Thank you. Mr. Mike, none for me. Mr. Owens, no questions. Miss Maran, I do have a question. So it brings me a little bit of pause anytime that we delegate our authority. So CFO von do you know of any legal or ethical issues or dilemmas that could arise from this process? I
018don't I I actually view this pretty similar to how the governing board each July gives us authority to issue warrants and things of that nature between board meetings and then bring it to you for for ratification. Um the board has already approved the GMPS for uh Troy Gilbert. So really at this point it shouldn't be things with with large dollar amounts attached. It's really just administrative processing. And do you have any reservations of putting some sort of stipulation on certain dollar amounts or you're good with that? Okay. Yeah. All right. I trust you, Miss Moran, if you wouldn't mind. Um, Mr. Von, could you share just the kind of what we're dealing with right now so the board understands or a little bit for the re the rationale for the agenda? Yeah, I'm actually going
019to throw that to to uh Dr. Stone. The reason this came up was in dealing with the county real estate department. Uh our draft letter has to be then approved by them and knowing we only had one meeting in June, we would have to wait till that June 17th meeting for you guys to sign it even if they were really ready to start moving ground. And so it was really strictly nothing to do with with dollars and cents, more just about permitting uh and to not have any hold on it waiting for a specific board meeting. Okay. I do understand that time is of the essence. Um, in that case, is it something that we're approving or is it something we've already approved? And for example, President Zida could come to the district office and
020sign. So, this specific permitting is giving us the approval from the county to contain all of the land around us and build the streets. Right. So, under the agreement that this is our school property and we already own that, we have the deed for the land. It's just granting us permission to to create the easement into the city street. Okay. Um, and so of course the new one becomes the irrigation line on the south side or the north side of the property right next to Glendale. We're dealing with Maroba Water District again even though they've branded it to us and now it's our lawyers and their lawyers coming to agreement of what that looks like with the cost um which is already built into all of that. Okay. So really, this is purely just logistical
021and timing nuances that are already part of the process that we all know about and we're just moving it right along. I would tell you that if the permitting process was quicker, we would have already seen this. Uh but due to some unforeseen circumstances, I guess I will say uh it's taken a little bit longer for sure. Okay, no problem. Thank you. I don't have any questions, but um I I agree that I don't want us to delegate our job any more than we have to, but for this situation, we also want to keep things moving because we want kids to be in there when the school is supposed to open. So, I don't want to have any holdups for that either. So, I am good with this. If nobody has anything else, someone wants
022to make a motion, I'll move to authorize for the superintendent and or the chief financial officer to sign and execute any and all documents related to the construction of Troy Gilbert Elementary School and related land. I second. Having a motion from Mr. Mike and a second from Miss Wallace, I will call for vote. Miss Wallace, yay. Mr. Mikes, yay. Mr. Owens. Yay. Miss Maran, yay. I'm also a yay. Motion passes. Next on the agenda is the extracurricular and student fees for the 2526 school year. This is going to be by Dr. Stone or CFO Vaughn or Dr. Duzy, whoever is going to tell us. President Zida, governing board members, cabinet. Uh we wanted to bring to you a really a broken down um updated replacement cost of our Chromebooks that students use all around the
023student device and also the band equipment um damage charges. In the past, uh, we've had three categories for student device charges, keyboard, broken screen, and Chromebook replacement. Uh, we're able to do a lot more work than that. Uh, to break down the cost, as you can see here, it could be as as low as $15 depending on what was actually broken on the laptop. And so we wanted to just be a little bit more focused and not charging $65 because that was the going rate. But um just with the update with uh director Mononttoya, we've been able to break it down and and really focus on not replacing them more often when we can just fix them. Miss Wallace, did you have any questions? No questions. Mr. Mike's. So just in a sense it's um
024what it's doing is kind of in we don't have to jump the gun to replace a whole item. Correct. And additionally put that financial burden straight on some of the students or parents. We have a way to work around and going oh we don't have to dump the whole computer. Look we can replace it here. The the full cost of the computer is not on you and we can work with the families a little bit easier with when the when it comes up. Yes sir. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Owens. Um, this is just for the computer part, like the a um athletic participation fee. That's not changed. No change. All right. Thanks, Miss Moran. Um, my only question is not on a change, but on something that's on this list that I believe we
025implemented last year, which is the lost bus ID. Do we have any idea really rough numbers? How many students lost their ID? How much did we collect in this category? Do we have remind me of our policy. Do we have like a first lost ID is replaced with no charge and then the second one or tell me more about this particular item. Uh they were collected last week so I don't have an update on how many were will have to be replaced. Uh but as we grow into this process, the goal is to really give every student an ID. long term, I would love to connect it to our lunch accounts, our library. Um, and then it's all on one. Uh, but currently only bus riders have these ridership cards. Uh, and so once Miss
026Jenny Tassen has those numbers updated for us, I can put that in a Friday board report for you guys. Okay. Yeah. just wanting to make sure that this new system is being utilized and that if there's a problem with an inordinate amount of passes getting lost, you know, what can we do to try to help because families, I'm sure, don't want to be paying $7 once a month or whatever that might look like for some kids. Um, okay. So, yeah, keep us updated. That'd be great. Thanks. So, I just have a random weird question. Um, you have yearbooks listed on here. Aren't our yearbooks sold by our PTAs and PTO's separate of our schools? Some of the It's kind of by school. So, um the schools that do uh do it through the PTA and
027PTO, this isn't um related to that. It would just be if um we have a school doing it through um like an onampus activity, a student driven um yearbook. Can you tell me if we have a campus that does that? No. Uh, but I can look into it and give you a Friday. I I was just curious because like I don't want to make us commit our PTA PTO's to whatever they have to chart like Yeah. No, this would not be um this would not impact PTO's or PTAs at all. This would only be for um districtdriven uh yearbooks. Okay. Thank you. That was all I just was curious. So, uh, if somebody wants to make a motion. I move to approve the extracurricular and student fees for the 2526 school year. I'll second. Having
028a motion for Mr. Owens and a second for Mr. Mike. I'll call for the vote. Miss Wallace, yay. Mr. Mike, yay. Mr. Owens, yay. Miss Moran, yay. I'm also a yay. Motion passes. Next, we are going to move on to facility rental handbook for the 2526 school year. This will be by CFO von. Madame President, members of the governing board, Superintendent Davidson, colleagues, and community, thank you for joining me tonight to discuss the facility rental handbook for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. The updates in this handbook align with the fee schedule that was previously board approved on March 6th. Additional revisions include aligning the trust policies uh throughout the handbook. Previously uh we referenced our ASBA policies, changing the name of one of our fees to provide more clarity to user groups and inclusion of
029our InTouch receiving uh program as an online payment option. uh up in up through this year, uh the organizations renting our facilities had to pay uh by check or cash um through mail or or by coming to our district office. We're on track to implement the InTouch receiping uh platform for next school year, which will allow them to pay via credit card just by logging into an online account. um which I'm hoping our our user groups will appreciate. Uh I'm available to answer any questions you might have on the handbook. Thank you, Miss Wallace. None of the fees changed on here from March 6. Correct. Correct. It just reflects what was approved on March 6th. Okay. No questions, Mr. Mike? None for me. Mr. Owens, no questions. Miss Maran, no questions. But I will comment
030that I did like the policy improvement that will potentially disallow people who reserve our facilities and end up not using them. It sounds like maybe there was a little bit of probably not intentional, but um abuse there that um would hopefully allow people who want to and would like to use our facilities a little more um open calendar space. So, I do appreciate that change. I have no questions. If someone would like to make a motion, I move to approve the facility rental handbook for 2526 square. I will second. Having a motion from Mr. Owens and a second from Miss Moran, I'll call for the vote. Miss Wallace, yay. Mr. Mike, yay. Mr. Owens, yay. Miss Moran, yay. I'm also yay. Motion passes. Look, look at us chucking along. We're going to move right on
031now to our discussion items. This is going to be a fun one. We're going to do policy, but we're getting so close, guys. We're almost done with this policy thing. So, uh, we'll be doing the first read and this is going to be by Miss Sandy over there. U Madame President, members of the governing board, Dr. Davidson, and colleagues on cabinet, uh, tonight I'm bringing forward the last uh, policies that remain in our trust policy, chapter 4. uh for your um review. Uh our first one is 4-205 drug-free alcohol-free workplace. We recommend no changes to that policy. 4-206 um prohibition of tobacco use. We recommend no change there. However, in the associated procedures, we did make a few uh grammatical and uh punctuation corrections. Uh next we have the policy 4-302 regarding leave. Uh here
032once again we made some grammatical and punctuation corrections but basically we have uh implemented or are recommending the policy that is currently in place for our employees regarding leave um changes uh you know just were minor wording changes uh but as I said they're based completely on uh aligning with what is in place. Also there again we have some associated procedures and those two had just some grammatical uh changes there uh for your consideration. Um and uh I believe that takes care of it for chapter 4. Miss Wallace, did you have questions or comments about these items? I do not. Thank you. Mr. mics. No questions. Mr. Owens, I have no questions. Thank you. Miss Moran, I do have some questions. Um, these are this is all about the 4-302, the leave policy. So, I
033am not suggesting that we make any changes to this policy right now, but what I would like to request is that we revisit this policy. and I'll tell you um some of the things that I would like to know more about. If you know some of these answers, we can talk about those tonight. If you don't, we can talk about those later. But my my questions are about the personal days versus the vacation days. It sounds like everyone gets personal days, but maybe everyone doesn't get vacation days. Um, so I would like to know what what is the difference and what's the kind of thought process behind those two things. And then I would like to talk about um more of a long-term policy on the carryover piece of leave. It seems to me we've
034made changes recently to impact our employees paychecks. So, we want them to have more coming home in their paychecks. And I know we have this carryover policy that when they leave us, they can cash out their leave. Well, why don't we let them cash it out as they go along if we're going to eventually pay it to them anyway and impact them in the current year rather than waiting 10 years, 20 years um to actually see the benefits of this. Um so that's really what I want to know. Is this our policy because this has always been our policy? Is this our policy because this is what every other district does and we're just going along with what everybody else does? Is this just an industry norm? Is this in the best interest of our
035teachers and staff to keep this current policy? Again, I'm not asking for us to not adopt this. I plan to approve this, but I would like for us to discuss the purpose of this policy and if it's really meeting us at where we want to be as a district. I would like the opportunity to do a little bit of research before I respond. I'd like to I can think of many historical things along you know my experiences but what I'd like to do is check our surrounding districts and then look at as you suggested the why behind the pieces that we have in place and are they really truly in the best interest of the employees. Um, as things have changed, I do think it's important that we revisit and look at those things to
036try to make our district just continue to be the most attractive. So, it with your permission, I would I would would like to look into that before I respond. Yeah, I think that would be great. I think this could be a topic for our board retreat maybe um depending on when that happens if that would allow enough time. Um, what I want to try to get away from is we know that people who are looking to come to us and other districts look at certain things. They look at what is your salary, you know, what are, you know, and they certainly look at benefits. Absolutely. But I think that one of the best this I'll just give this as an example. So, one of the best benefits that we have is our retirement system. But
037I think a lot of people don't understand what a great benefit that is until they're getting ready to retire. And so I think this is the same thing where it's like kind of a pie in the sky. One day you'll be grateful for this. And I don't know that there are enough people who know what this is and how this works for it to really be um something that's um drawing people to our district. And I feel like if we had a more generous policy where people could see this impacting them um them not using their leave impacting them currently that that could be appealing. Okay. Thank you. And I'll be happy to look into that and bring back that information and a recommendation for your consideration. Great. Thank you. I don't have any questions
038either. I would like us to follow up on this though. So, thank you for looking into that and we can figure out when's the best time to address that conversation. Um, this is just for discussion. So, if there's no other questions or comments, we will move on to our next item, which will be the governing board retreat. So, perfect segue there, Miss Moran. Um, and that is going to be by me. Um, so usually in the summer we do a board retreat of some kind so we can talk about goals for next year and other things that we may want to discuss as a board, goals for ourselves, things like that. So the purpose of this conversation is to kind of see what my fellow board members would like to have be part of our
039board retreat when we do it. And then I know that Miss Contra is working with all the board members kind of figure out scheduling stuff so that we do not have to waste everybody's time going through a calendar or whatever. But right now I do kind of want to get an idea. We do have a brand new board member. So this will be his first board retreat. So if there's things that maybe you would like us to discuss um that you feel like you'd like to get more information about, we can definitely look into that. And then my other board members, what you guys are thinking you'd like to do so that we make sure this is worth everybody's time. And then based on that we can decide if we want to do a whole
040day or two half days or just a half day um depending on what all we want to cover in the board retreat. But I will not start with you Mr. Mike unless you are ready to go. Okay. Miss Wallace, did you have things that you would like to discuss potentially for our board retreat? I had not thought about this to be completely honest. So off the top of my head, no. Okay, now it's your turn, Mr. Mike. Um, I knew we had a board retreat coming up. I wasn't uh sure what the how the process for deciding topics or what that looks like. Um, there's nothing that comes to my mind presently. I do like what um Miss Moran brought up with that 302 policy. Uh, she made a lot of great points for that.
041That would be something I think that would be worthwhile. Um, other than that, there was a kind of me riding the wave for this uh for this one, but nothing nothing comes to mind initially with that. Okay, Mr. Owens. Um, first of all, these aren't retreats. We don't go anywhere fun. Like, it's not Cabo. It's a really terrible name. Just sit in a sit in a room all day. So, don't be No worries. It's not a retreat. But um I would um I wouldn't mind discussing the dissemination of information to board members um outside of the Friday report maybe or um just kind of timelines on key decisions that are made such as personnel hires or um choices that are kind of more up to-date or more current as opposed to sometimes finding out information
042um after the fact. Okay, I got that down. Uh, Ms. Marian, yes, there are two things that I would love for us to do a deep dive in our extended meeting, which is what I will call it now instead of a retreat. The first thing is I would really like to hear about our discipline data. So, we put in a new discipline matrix. I'd love to hear the feedback on how that's going. Do we think it's doing what we wanted it to do? You know, we get these um referral reports. We get these monthly data reports on the discipline. Discipline is still an issue. We're never going to actually solve it, but I'd love to see if we're making some headway or if there's more tweaks and things that we need to do to make
043sure that our classrooms and campuses are as functional and nondisrupted as possible. So, I think that would be a really great topic. The other one I would love for us to dive into more is our school letter grades. We always talk about those, but that's one of the most public facing things that everyone in the community sees and I want to make sure that we understand what goes into that that um we can give any feedback, you know, that we might think could be useful um or, you know, if there's any suggestions that the cabinet or our campus u leadership has that um we could consider that would be helpful in helping them to achieve higher uh campus letter grades. That would be I think a great opportunity for us to hear maybe even from
044some of the campus leaders. I know we do this in the summer so I don't know how that works with everything else but um those are my two the discipline data and the school letter grades are kind of my two hot topics if you will. So for me I already said I would like us to discuss what our goals are for next year for Dr. Davidson. Obviously, we want to make sure that we are um setting him up for success of what we want to evaluate him on next year. So, we'll want to make sure we do that. And also um I think we can probably flesh out this discussing disseminating information to the board of just an overall what we want for communication, how we want to make sure everybody's communicated to, what the
045timeline should be of certain things, stuff like that. So, I do think that could be a good conversation for us to have. Um, so with that, do we think we need two half days, a whole day? I I think I don't know that we can do all these things in one half day necessarily, but um I'm wondering if we want to I at least want lunch if I'm having a retreat. We we we will feed you lunch. I promise. I I I do try to make sure we have food whenever we have these meetings. We we might have to just meet in a out, you know, near Scott Libby at the facilities area, but we do make sure that you have food and I bring candy every time because I believe that candy makes people
046happy. Well, I know that the goals conversation is more timesensitive than maybe like looking at the school letter grades because I think that's more of a long-term, you know, moving the needle type thing. So, maybe we do two half days. I one day is can be really long and um my brain doesn't work as well as it once did. So, I think two half days would be great. And if we need to do one of those half days after the school year starts in the fall, um that could be an option as well. Yes, I think that that's looking seeing when people are available. That's probably going to need to happen. Um but what is every Are you guys good with breaking it down into two half days? I like the two half day approach
047so that you don't from my vast experience with these. Okay, Ryan, you good with that? Are you good with that, too? Okay. Well, then I we'll work on scheduling that how we're going to make that work because basically people are gone all the time. So, we will figure that out. But, I do like the idea of having one be our goals for the year and we'll throw something in there. We'll mix it up. So, Kim and I will work that out and we will send out potential dates for everybody and see what everybody thinks. Um, but with that, I think that that's all we really Dr. Davidson, did you want to add anything to our border treat? You know, we're discussing it. Maybe you have some things you want to share. President's nothing top of
048mind right now. I do appreciate the conversation. I think to Miss Moran's point, the goals are going to be important to to get that and and probably have that as priority one, just that um conversation around things I'm thinking about, our team's thinking about, and of course what you guys are. um the communication pathway will be a great conversation just as we keep moving forward and try and ensure that everybody has the information they need. So those are those are two critical pieces for sure. Okay. Well then Kim and I will get that worked out and we will let you all weigh in on dates. Thanks Kim. We really appreciate her. I really appreciate her. She keeps me in line all the time. Okay, with that then I think that we are all done everyone.
049I move to adjourn the meeting. I will second. Having a motion for Mr. Owens and a second for Miss Moran. I'll call for the vote. Miss Wallace, yay. Mr. Mike, yay. Mr. Owens, yay. Miss Moran, yay. I'm also a yay. Motion passes. Good night everybody. Thank you for joining us. This meeting is adjourned.