001ready for this break. Okay. Um, call to order the November 22nd regular board of education meeting at 6:38. Apologize for the delay. Please stand to the flag of the United States of America to the stands. One nation, indivisible, liberty, justice for all. She's got a roll call. Starting with Stephanie Miller, Michael Cusa, Vinnie Canadella, and Shelley Lacy Castellot via Zoom. So, chose Okay. Are there any amendments to the agenda? Hearing none, we'll go to minutes of education regular meeting minutes. I'll say that again. Um any changes or issues with that? Okay. All those in favor abstain. We're here. Okay. So just stay motion cars. Um audience of citizens if anyone would like to talk to the board. Is that mic working? Wait, what did you say? grade Oxford School Musical. I'm here. We're not quite
002sure how the um site was coming out last year, but um the kids are very eager and ready to go. They are very devastated that um program was not supported. Um obviously these are our theater students that are heading into the high school. Wonderful performances they put on there and not have time to prepare for school like this. Um it's difficult to find somebody who will basically work for less than minimum wage amount of time something like this. So I'm here to support that. I hope that the board will consider putting that money back into the budget. Thank you. And you know, just to be clear that money that is something that's those are things that are negoti negotiated between the union and administrators and so it's it's on our agenda. Thank you for telling
003us again, but I think that you're going to be happy with and we and you know we support and I don't think it was ever just so that you understand please that are not supported. So, you know, whatever happened, I'm really not sure either, but you know, it's quite sure. Well, either way, you know, exactly. But thank you for bringing it to our Hello. Good evening. Uh Dave, 178 road. So I'm here tonight to discuss it was brought to my attention um my daughter uh for hospital school hospital is that the assessments or remediation if you will were being used as homework grades um supposedly as directed from the the superintendent. So I just wanted to kind of address the information that was given to me. So for those of you familiar with I Ready
004is a diagnostic tool for educators in addition to some remediation and possibly some slight it's an adaptive platform which allows students to work on gaps within their learning. So the assessments that would be coming out of that would be ones in which kids are still learning skills and you kind of land on this zero homework. It does two things. It kind of gives the artificial grade if you were to think about it if that goes into a student's overall grade. I don't know about you, but as a parent when I look at a grade or 100, my assumption is that my child has acquired I don't know 80% 100% I'm reading but when you're pulling this software some client and you're either giving a student Plus, if you have students that are going through a
005process where they're actually learning skills, of course, we're assessing it, but as an educating what that score is, drilling down deeper into the software to find out where the teacher would then step in to help support that student. So, it seems like there's either a lapse in judgment or a misunderstanding, one or the other. Um, regardless that this shouldn't be the case. I mean, it should be a part of the kids chemother record that we're kind of looking at in order to figure out where that child is on the spectrum of you. The principal with this and you were Oh, might as well do it now in case I got here. There's miscommunication over that. Some teachers were counting the students um as part of the homework participation and they whether it be Ire or
006any other type of students as that's about it all great. Um but the student actual performance or mastery on the ID that wasn't supposed to be part of any created part of the students academic success. There was this miscommunication there around that. I'm glad to hear that that there was nonetheless 5 to 10% is still creates an inaccurate not to jump too far ahead but to have a compliance grade for homework. um when we fall into compliance as far as grading as regards to assessing where they are within the standards, we go down very slow. So just as a as a district, right? And and to speak to your the point of the teachers are struggling. So they could differentiate boost with those students instruction specific skills. they can pull those students aside and now
007work with those students that need. That's the whole point of using those differentiated groups that students can get the targeted instruction around the skills that they need through the program itself. Thank you. So then I guess it's another discussion about the spin for eons. How much do you count homework? But that's for another day. Okay. And if you look at the best 15 years of research, there is no effect size on homework at least all the way up until high school. And even that, it's only if it's targeted. So we did our homework. That's fine. All right. Thank you so much. Anybody else? Okay. Thank you. We have none. Um let's see what she's talked to about this. Um so our next is board officers discussion and possible action. Um so as we know that
008um Shelley Lacy Castelot stepped down as vice chair. So um we have that that opening. So I would like to open a a nomination uh for a vice chair uh and then we would um we will you nominate Mike. Once we have a nomination then do we nomination? Yeah. But what if we have a second nomination? Do I ask for other nominations now? Second floor. Um so hearing hearing no exceptions take it away. I'd like to make a motion to nominate Debbie Sherman for vice chair. Um, any discussion? I motion carries. Congratulations, De. Which now I also am accepting Deb's resignation as secretary. nomination for secretary. Sure. I'd like to nominate my second. That was well done. I know we needed 2/3 and we have that. So, I think it's all it's all good. I
009wanted to double check that before I started meeting, but you got stuck in there. We do still need to do check signers. We do need to do a motion to remove So, I make a motion to remove Castella from the as a signer on the bank account. Any discussion on that? So, Mike will be available every other Thursday to sign checks. Okay. Um, so that's part of the work that urban building committee asked the board of finance board to fund was a side consulting with CS. That's See everything. for next week. So CSG is consulting and also motion to approve the ED specs as presented. Motion Elementary HBAC indoor air quality. Second night discuss partial significance in there. Um, it also But These two groups. Yeah. services. Can't see Mike. Or we could do a
010motion that supposed to be a one person that I'm just saying that you know Mark is part of a a group and it might not might not be solely dedicated to our school whereas Mike is now an employee might Is there a problem doing both? I think if you do stupid, I can find out if it only is there is there a benefit that I that I'm not getting only reason why I Michael Jackson and Mark. Okay. So, it's to sign the food service child uh child nutrition program. So, a motion to approve Mark Vizo and or Michael Dagino to sign the child nutrition authorized to sign All those in favor and with the contingency Rob obviously if we find out there's something that is the actual cost. So for the entire the Other states
011didn't have enough revenue to make. So our state gave to every district that make it free. Our money is gonna expire when parents returned from break in January for the first time since March or now students have had they're purchasing extra chips or things they do need to purchase more now with the base lunch. So we need to provide parents by state law federal law 30 days notice that we will begin to charge them once again you are aware that we're going to be charging expiring on December 23rd that we would then notify tomorrow on Monday as of January. Second, including our food since several years since the 1718, the last year static for a while now and we didn't need to address it during the pandemic because they're free because they're running costs and
012increasing like decrease. have difficulty in some cases I don't like starting in January prices now January that out of the gate say this is what they call that the document that you work there is some federal state reimbursement program meal So that hasn't changed. We still do. Parents are eligible even $4 per lunch. And we're still use are we using that same system of I forget what it's called. have here's you know an elementary right high school middle school even but if an elementary school child you know doesn't have enough um school box you know I just don't want anyone to have one of their faults it's not their fault or less discuss at our next meeting. There's no across the state, right? And also don't crack. No, there's an actual meal that students would
013get at. Yeah. and um nothing to do with them. So, is this something that we could not change the rate for the rest of the school year and then revisit it come August from when we start school? Typically, we which would set the rates of the bomb you're referring to now because the first I just feel like families are struggling. I meant like the increase 50 cents. You go how many meals is that times 50 cents? Like I'm just curious per child what you know is this are we looking at 10,000 20,000 you know it adds up when you have that number of students that many days maximum you're looking at 180 that's the if you're contracted to needs to pay their employers the food. So it's all it's all to cover if they were
014in a deficit we actually had and that has happened or that's happened historically. Okay. I don't know. I guess this could be be further discuss. I see Dev's point, but I also, you know, just knowing like, you know, with success, you know, I don't want them to to quality people or that, you know, if they have to be able to have staff as many and they struggle from a staffing perspective, you know, as you can imagine, a lot of these staff members are working, right? And if they can make a dollar or two somewhere else, they're they're losing staff because they're not just like we're having difficulties with our staff. they're having. Is it possible to get, you know, the combination between, you know, minimum wage increases for salary and the cost per meal per
015student factored in for the students, you know, because it there's a lot of variables in play, you know, are we looking I mean, it'd be nice to know if we're looking at five or 10,000 or if it's, you know, 80,000. And so to have a a fuller picture, I think that makes it easier to take action. Do we know the contract before we we have a contract? I mean what the cost is even though we're being reimbursed. I don't have the information here. Where are we supposed? No, no, no. I meant as far as making a decision because you said we have to give parents 30 days. We need to get a notification that we're get charging them and I think we're going to begin charging. I think we Right. So, but it sounds like
016we'd like some more information before we make the decision. It it would be nice to know because it'd be, you know, how are we going to pay for it? So, if we decide to absorb the cost, we have to know what the cost is going to be and how we're going to factor in the payment. If it's a small number, it's a lot easier to swallow and and and kind of absorb. Not necessarily absorb the cost as a school district. We'll absorb it if they end up in a deficit, per se. Um, but what we will probably see is there trying to cut some cost by purchasing less quality food or having less options for students. The goal is not to to have a impact on the students in a negative way. It's the goal
017is just to know what is the cost to move forward with let's say increasing the price or not increasing the price but having the board of you know the district pay the difference. So, so there's not a deficit. So there's not a lower quality of food cuz my kids eat the food. We don't want it the quality of the food to go down at all. So I I don't think that you're necessarily going to see a cost impact to the district the impact on quality and their ability to maintain staff. But if I want to avoid the quality of food, there's a cost, right? And one is 50 cents potentially per family per meal per kid. per kid. So if that turns into a dollar amount, you know, so you say 108 days, 50 cents,
018it's $54. Okay. Well, how many kids would would that qualify for versus the free and reduced and and the diff because there's different variables in play. So are we talking, you know, how many students in each bucket, what is the true cost for that? So, if we were to do it, if if we didn't want to put it on the parents, we didn't want the quality to go down and we wanted to, let's say, cut a check and say, we'll pay the difference and hold it for the year and and kind of push this off to next school year. It'd be nice to know what that cost was quantify not to work in that way. They won't you won't know until next year. We But we can't figure out how many kids are on each
019bucket and then do the math. Not every student participates every day, but you can get a you can get a a ballpark. It doesn't have to be an exact number, but it, you know, there's a difference between $10,000 and hundred,000. Whether it's $15,000 or $250,000, our board here is not going to pay a single dime of that. Our contract is not designed for us to pay that that fee to the But you said that we have the deficit. Okay, that wasn't our new box said. Oh, okay. I misunderstood that. Okay. The way that works in order they're running a business. So that in other words, if we don't want the quality cut, then we have to increase the You have to amend the agreement. The cont the contract basically says that we as a court
020set rates for services. That's our obligation to set the basic. When do the rates reset? If it's set on an annual basis, aren't they set over the summer for the start of the fall year? That's how typically it's done. Since we haven't been charging was not done last year or was it not done previous these rates have stayed the same since 2017 during that time product um answer question asked Is there also a rule that purchased on December 23rd. But but that what that's what I'm saying is that our contract is not designed and school districts don't do that. We don't make up the difference in what a company loses profit. It's not that you you would have a self-funded system. We don't we wouldn't be outsourcing contract. It's designed for them to run a
021business model and to run the operation. We're contracted them to do that work. So you as a board, I would never recommend that you would say on record, we're going to absorb the the deficit then because they come back and say one year, here's our deficit. Exactly. So it sounds like we're we'll table this until we get further information, but we have to let them know in 30 days, but it doesn't sound like we're going to get further information. our our qu the question I asked is apparently not something that we're going to get the answer for. I'm sure it can be quantified with a with a basis, but if we're not if it's not something the board is going to be paying for and the question is whether parents absorb this hit come January
022or not, right? The cost the cost for the supplies is is going up regardless. the parents. If the parents don't pay that increase, then something will suffer for and it's going to be quantity, quality, like there's a minimum number of calories, but it doesn't have to be the most edible calories. Delicious. And no one wants to see that happen. So, why can't we just keep it the way it is and do more advertising if there's families in need or struggling and here's how you Well, keeping the keeping the way it is would not be increasing. I mean increase because we don't want we don't want to open up the agreement. We don't want big investment, right? Let's just go with the increase and then be more put more communication on it. Times are tough. You're
023struggling. We have a program. Please apply. Yes. Just keep it that comp. Maybe when we send the memo out saying that we're going to start to have to charge, we attach that. Any further question? Yes. Do you want to get specific to what it is? I think it would be specific. Well, you can just say elementary school. They're all 50ent. Motion to increase school lunches by 50 50 cents. Second. Any further discussion? I got you. All those in favor? I opposed or abstain. Motion carries. Discussion and action in regard to the MS spring musical. Okay. So the way that the spring musical at the middle school function way function high school when I first got here was very very informal. There was nothing in a single outside of the instructor itself that was covered by
024anything. The high school and middle school basically without office without anything that was as it's supposed to happen, right? We're just basically saying that we're hire and then we're just drawing funds and this access for that for that go and in some cases people just check so nothing was done as supposed to part of the work that I did all that I had to the this is how we need to um shore it up. Um it really was not fixed right so kind of set for me that um last year um I said to the middle school brand new principal said to high school brand new principal this is what you need to do. Um the middle school um followed a lot more instruction high school did we had to go back a lot of
025high school stuff um afterwards we created um for the high school. We got it signed. We paid in the way that we got um a lot of that took place post budget process itself. So good. A lot of that money was being drawn from the revenue of the actual place to pay for the system itself. Budget itself was really um as it was. So this year we're operating still on a budget that didn't have any of those positions really into the budget itself. We developed a new stipens agreement with um with you this past year. Um for the audience that are aware of how the siphons came about um I gave a list of siphons as they were to each administrator and to the teachers association. I said here's the site of positions here the
026title of it. Here is the amount that we ask for. Do you want there's comments and fund it? Yes. No. If not, what do it? Provide a job description for the site. Provide a who the person to be accountable. So the reality was a formal tell me how using this. The recommendations that came back um included in some cases changes to stip at all levels. I didn't personally go to anybody saying I want to cut this or cut that or make change the recommendation policy for both both parties. Um how they ended up where they were I can tell you exactly that they were chang the same exact process to more detail this year but the same process that that I undertook was actually more the same process that we undertook while I was here
027when when I was on board the negotiation for the second there was been process. It's always been where there's a negotiation between the teachers association and administration what those statements were. So where we are right now is that the current school year at the high school level we did create additional sitements to support the the fall play the spring musical when I say additional positions beyond just the director um but music coordinator set design those additional pieces people that really help to make the the fall musical drive and happening can't just all be one person the middle school statement um for this year the only position that was also through that negotiation was the um actual director for this musical not the other stage or music or anything else that was along with that. So
028where we are right now is that we have one that was not in budget that it was going to be funed the revenue and the other component funded through the revenue. I've had conversations with the budget finance committee and I think we as a as a team that we are fund athletics should be part of the the overall budget. I don't know if we can do that this year. Um we have um passes to pay the position that we need this year. Um, but moving to the next budget cycle, I'd like to see it put into the actual operating budget and support the arts the way that athletics is done. What I'm asking for tonight is authority for um Stephanie to develop anou with the leaders association to sign an to create a site for
029the producer set coner and local technical director to serve as the additional people that a director needs to make the spring musical happen at middle school. um that would make it one if the high school bring this home now high school bring these home it's a longer it's more complex so the stipens um just like all the other stipens when you look at um papers the the high school stipens are also this nature of the complexity of the work so I ask for Stephanie to help draw avenue um for these positions the actual map would be slightly less than the high school is that would be um consistent with all the other statements that would have um and we'd also be looking to address the site reducted to the actual director at some point that's
030kind of in the middle there to help compensate that person. So that's the motion of the table. So, so the stipens would be the same as coaches and everything else where they would have to be applied for and then the principles make the decision on who gets the stipen. They make the recommendation to me. Oh, to you. Okay. And it still is um I believe it goes to teachers have first crack at it and then if if there are no teachers then it can go to other support staff or anybody else. indications of fall play. Right. Okay. Um do you want to make a motion motion to allow the BOE chair to develop and sign to adjust the MS music director and to create siphon position for the following siphons for the middle school spring
031musical producer set costumes choreographer vocal and Second. Second. Is there are there any further questions or discussion? I I have discussion that I'd like to address. So, I I'm very much for the program, the drama program. I think it's very valuable to the district and to the students. Um, what I would highly recommend is that the way we go about communicating a problem should not be from individuals on staff to families to then have the families. You shouldn't have to be put in the middle. You can champion your children and I applaud you for it and I I thank you for coming. But we shouldn't rely on parents to fight for things that are reasonable, justified, and should go through reasonable, proper chain of command. If, let's say, staff members are looking at a statement
032and don't agree, well, honestly, ideally, it would be handled before it's brought to the administration for approval. after the fact it's very difficult because as anyone has seen our finance budget process once our operations funds are set it's hard to find undiscovered money we really don't budget for things we budget for some slack but not typically for stipen slack and and so we look at that and we go there's a proper chain of command it should be followed and when it's not it should be addressed so I I hope that those in the chain of command and have have some dialogue to avoid this from happening again. And we don't have we don't waste a lot of time because they're in they're in the their boots on the ground. They should be able to identify
033the problem faster, address it. We can still talk about it at the board of ed level. We could talk about it at the finance subcommittee. We should be operationally funding these positions and not making them have to fight for every penny that they need. um we handle it for athletics and I support athletics but we should also be handling this in the operational budget for you know our arts program as well right and and I think that what where we're at right now is from years of a bad model that we're now correcting and I think that course correction just got disrupted because stuff got solved for so long but I think that we're moving the right direction but I I do think that Mike is making a point about when you talk about you
034know different directions between social media in between, you know, that I mean, it it just really needs to be um you know, we're not the big bad wolf here. So, you know, it needs to and I had a conversation with the principal this morning. I know about that and you're pointing right there. There's proper channels to address and I'm sorry we can after sure when the meeting's over. I know but you I'm sorry but you can't though that's so I'm sorry I didn't want to ignore you. The other thing is is that the union's actively involved in negotiating the stipen. So um and I found our notes from that meeting and that stipen was reduced um to fund the um investors club. $1,000 was taken to fund the investors. So that was done by the
035union. That was not done by Well, what wasn't the point of record? What the did was to authorize the signing of the didn't came to us that way. Well, the whole process of the investors club was inappropriate. So that was that was fixed. Thank you. That was fixed. We have actually for it now rather than motion and we have a second. I second it. Any further discussion? No. All those in favor? I opposed or abstain. Thank you, Robert. So, here are some updates. First of all, I'm going to address athletic. I'm going to address um student um drama. I'll start with the drama. The student high school um plays Thursday, Friday, Saturday night. A chance to go both Thursday and Saturday night back brought in a Friday evening. Her students did a wonderful job. um
036the the performances, what I loved about it, it was Plato selected that it wasn't just one or two leading um stars that it was made up of of a small little tiny um acts and each act had basically two students that were starring in that act and every student had an opportunity to really shine to be a star and it was just great to see all around the performances there. It's funny that students impacted the state itself did a great job setting up. So it was just all around. It's wonderful to see our students performing at just a high level. I would love to see a greater audience at the musicals that our students performing. We got bright people get there but the students did a really did a great job. Um what how about
037the student attendance? Were there a lot of There was some um I think we got some graduates that had to come back to watch it, but I'd love to see more students come back. Yeah. Unfortunately, on Thursday night, it was when it was the meet the parents teacher for middle school. But I also heard that the director, one of the leading people was a former graduate. The director was a graduate. Yes. Yeah. and I've talked to her about how she wants to be participating in certain musicals. Great. Now, let me just ask you just in general, this is just an observation that I've had as far as um student body um body support. Um do you see it, you know, at at the football games and then do you, you know, see I mean obviously
038our soccer team was phenomenal. Um do you should there be you know, maybe I don't know, pep have rallies or something to get the student because you really want your student and yes, it'd be nice if you know, everyone from Greenscape, but you know, they really want the support, the teachers and even the teachers family. So, I mean, that should be just a a given of the people who are definitely going to be there and then the other people who go are just added on. So, I think we can do more things to motivating for students to be there either. I hate doing extra credit, but you could do something like that. You could do it in language arts where students are asked to do a petite write an article you can do so I'm
039saying I'm saying motivate students to be there right I mean motivation is that you're there to support your your peers so that's where you know everyone doesn't have to get paid to do you know paid no matter what you know to do things so I think that maybe on the student council student representatives you you know, we obviously missed having students on the board, you know, this year, but we'll definitely do that. Um, you know, there needs to be a ground swell of just, you know, we're in this, this is your school. These are these are your peers. These are the people that you should be supporting. I mean, we used to have, you know, people school spirit. We used to have people at swim meetings. I saw a lot more students attend the spring
040musical than I saw performance last week. So, I'd like to figure out how we can get more And I've talked to teachers about that conversation about that. It's something I want to see. But again, is anybody talking to the kids and saying why, you know, that's what I mean by student council or student council talking to their peers and saying, you know, look, let's all go support, you know, Johnny and Susie and and and you know, that's what you do as a community. So I mean in instead of taking it up here, I mean, you need to talk to the kids. Yes. I think they need the options. Maybe they could do that. advisory. There's a lot of different avenues it seems. Were you gonna say something too? Agree with that. It comes down to
041school spirit, right? So, I mean, what you know, I know they do the color wars that, you know, there's a whole bunch of stuff, but it's more than just buying spirit gear, too. You know, I mean, correct. You know, there's there should be certain days that are flagged that, you know, okay, well, there's a game this week, you know, maybe it's it's, you know, wear your spirit gear today. You know, one of those things. I mean, and it when I say that, it just doesn't come from the the the uh students. I mean, teachers should be 110% supportive. You know, I I mean, I've been going to most of the football game this year. You know, you see your usual faces, but I I like to see strange faces there, too, you know, and you
042don't see them. That's that's a culture issue, right? Correct. Right. You're not supposed to name them, but and support. I mean, just support like we're trying to change that. So we are close to having just a bonfire, but the kids never showed up. So, it it ended because, you know, so many people went through to plan such a big two they had it for two years. The first year it was okay. The second year there was not enough kids. So, after I want to see an improve It's not just we're talking about the job right now. Yeah. When you go to the that we need to swim, but I think kids now their social life is their is their it's different. Um so it is something that we need to address. Yeah. Um in going
043back to athletics we um had a girl swim and died that um came in second and our boys soccer team team the tournament they got. I'm really proud of teacher Tomorrow I teach from middle school to um get a substance abuse program for the middle school students. So it's so totally needed on the spot and she's done tremendous work over time with student council government get students involved there. So I surprised her this morning and she was really really surprised. So surprised she brought the certificate in front of me but she she was shocked. She sent me a thank you afterwards. And my um staff member of the month is Marlin um who took a new role of course this year as our leading purchaser. She did a smile on her face. She's professional. um
044she's um communicates very effectively and she's done it at a very high level. So I wanted to know more positive attitude and stuff and getting work on that. So she's great her kids kind of I know congratulations our budget process um is underway. We've asked to work with their teachers, department chairs, content teachers, um, secretaries, their works. Um, I said to admit, I said to the educator of council, I don't want to hear from teachers and staff in December, January that they were not spoken to. Everybody in the district asked, what are your needs for next year? This your opportunity to go back and build that. Um the goal is to have the budget um spreadsheet back from the admin on December 6. We have some scheduled meetings now with the admin center um the
045next few days after that. Um and then my myself start putting the budget together. We'll see where we are from an overall perspective where we need to address that point. Um and then the goals will be going into early January having an internal number to begin putting budget together and then working finance committee. And then what I'd like to do is to do what we did last year which is between the first meeting in January and the second meeting in January to do a budget workshop. We had a special meeting that really just addressed the budget. invite the board of finance together last year and allow Senator and talk about the high level parts of the budget questions and that'll lead into the budget presentation um which really is more of just a budgeting the
046end of January. So that's where our budget perspective I'm excited by starting yesterday. Sounds good. Um we started the day with a captain meeting really team stuff and talking about the work and talking about first level we engaged in kind of bonding with the leadership team then took out all school administrator secretary so I can do too but he's excited um for um now I moved him into desk and Mark has moved to where um George's office has been so that um I mean Mike and I are going to be working very closely together officer to be in that same suite there so far and he he will be um he'll be taking over the the weekly communication that that's probably it might be nice for him to just one of the board meetings, but
047I think a lot of board members have that. So, if there's a chance, we could schedule that for the next meeting just makes sense. Um, yes. So, um, we're not going to do a newsletter this week because of Thanksgiving. Um, but we're going to start next Saturday. So, the December 3rd. Um, what's going to happen is I've asked each administrator to rotate. So every 10th week an admin's going to have an ad admin corner in newsletter. Um so basically the rest of the school year 10 it's not overwhelming um and it'll it's going to rotate. So I put Anthony the last 10 right there. Yeah. Um and also gives the committee an opportunity to hear from each administrator from their perspective their been on it. I've asked them to submit their um article to me
048um the Wednesday of each week to give me time to review before it goes to newsletter. Um I've given them a Google folder for them to put their school newsletters since I'm putting form of structure behind it because I didn't want to have is might have to get up at 6:00 in the morning together. I want to do a practice together Friday. Yeah. And I move the timeline back to Tuesdays and Wednesdays if there's no school on Friday. that that's built into the schedule there. So, we'll see how that works. I think that with that structure there and the expectation they admin over the course of the rest of the year articles, right? You put that into next year for the first three months of school, they'll do four articles. It's not overwhelming. It's every
049two months and then I think that's so that will go into fact checks on Saturday. Um, I'm going to continue getting the like staff newsletter out and I'm going to put a little more structure getting some feedback from my cabinet for my Friday as well to get more information get more direct information from different as well. Um, the Hback we spoke about before just waiting for all the different minutes to come in. Um, as I said, further in the evening there on Monday evening, it's a public meeting um designed to get people to vote. I'm not even sure the structure of it to actually fund the $2 million. That's the final step. I need this to pass for the application. Um, I might not be able to attend the meeting, but I think I at
050this point for this. Yeah, it's gonna happen. Um and then my last two updates. Um, our schools over the last two weeks bus and over the course of all four schools they build food that was to 125 Thanksgiving baskets and fresh food. So pretty impressive that our students contributed Not just about helping those that are. So it's not just my final So before the chair, I'll pick up from that. Number one, thank you, Vic. Very nice of you to give us, you know, next year. Maybe you need to get boots for the guys, though. Kind of bad that they didn't get anything, but that was very nice of you. Robert does all the cooking. Um, and uh, last year I hosted my family had to celebrate through this bucket that I created and it was
051it said gratitude on it and all these little things. Now I have old boys. So now it's not is I'm not posting anything on purpose. They all got together. So going to my but I I did I told them that I saved the the gratitude tree bucket so bringing that bucket to my aunts to continue the tradition and that's exactly what they did. lol but to to show gratitude and and just like Robert with all of you guys and you know and and grateful for our community and the support um and support that we do it really is a great place to raise your kids here and a lot of board members have and are in the process of raising them. So um I'm looking why am I looking at you? Okay. So, of course,
052facilities. We talked about school in January. We talked about how much reading program we talked about science instruction at farms and go of the world language. Middle school. only a couple weeks ago. Thank you. Anybody has any questions? Now's the time on the website. I ask that we So, why don't you make a motion there's Any questions on that policy or second? All those in favor of exertion. Okay. We had a meeting uh it's pretty much Tuesday between all the board event meetings. Um, so our next one is set for December 20th. Um, we weren't sure if we're going to have it. I think we will as we prep for it might not be a full two-hour meeting, but um, still probably will want to have something just because it's, you know, it's budget season
053and it's important topic that we um, so it was a good meeting. We talked about spring musical as was addressed, lunch costs. So, Rob, a lot of the stuff that we talked about gets ported over to our our agenda. Um, we went over tuition and all the different breakouts. Um, oil deliveries, we're getting that filled before the end of the month so we can save the money before our rate changes. By the way, do we have any updates at some point? It'd be nice to know what the town does with the negotiations. Maybe we'll chat about in December. I know that Mark met with Jim Lea this morning to talk about because I don't have the details about the meeting but he did meet him this morning. Okay, that'll be exciting topic or terrifying. It's
054going to be an insightful topic. I just want to call out and I I great job on the finance um report. I mean, it's attached to this agenda and it gets better every week or every uh every month that we get it. Uh we give feedback, he takes it, he applies it and it's always it's greatly appreciated. Um we had special education cost center uh topic and we got a better understanding of how that budget flows and excess costs balance. Um you know, so far we're on the right side of that equation, but audles that happen throughout the school year. It's very possible that what we budgeted will not be enough. Um so we're going to watch that very carefully and communicate with the town as needed if we you know if things uh work
055out. That's one of the things in our our budget process and we're like so much slack based on what we're approved and we have to go to the well bus contract and still not we'll see how how things are going in other districts to see what's the best path to try to not have large cost increase uh hit us. Um I think hopefully we will revisit that because I think it's very important to the schools teachers and that we have the right number of subs um budget cycle we will want to do athletic director position. Um they're talking about starting their auction again. Anything from anyone else who's a for anything you