001You don't see Shelly? Shel's unless that's her, but I don't see her on YouTube. This is meeting is now streaming live on YouTube. Is that live now? That's Yes. Okay. Even though before we started the meeting? Yes. Okay. We should probably do that after we start the meeting, but that's okay. Is that how you've always done it? Yes. Oh, yeah. Just because it's 6:30 now, right? Um, well, I can't call the meeting to order until I have a quorum. Right. So, one, two, three, four. Waiting for one more person. Media space is not a board member. Yes, it is. It's Mike. Mike. Oh, it is you, Mike. Thank goodness. We were hoping it was you. We're golden. Okay. So, let me just get out of this and I will call the meeting to order at
0026:31. The regular board of education meeting Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022. Um, so roll call. Oh, no. I'm sorry. Pledge of allegiance is first. So 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. Thank you. Um so roll call. I will um call the people who are here and you can just second that. So I see um Deb Sherman here. Mike Kuza here. Joe present. Vic Tom Prowski, Stephanie Miller, and Steve just joined. And Steve just joined here. Um, okay. And then obviously in attendance is uh Mr. Anthony Hibbert and Dr. Robert Miller. Uh, are there amendments to the agenda? No. Hearing none, we can go on to our minutes. And I'd like to
003have a special thank you to our jack of all trades, Debbie Sherman, who has now um you know been charged with doing our minutes or cleaning them up um for the time being being. So thank you Deb. No problem. You're the best. Anything for you guys? Yeah. Thanks Deb. Thank you. Go ahead Deb with the motion. Motion to approve the January 20th board of education special meeting minutes. Second. Second from Mike. Are there any changes or discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor? I I oppose. Abstain. Motion carries. Motion to approve the January 25th board of education meeting minutes. Second. Second from Mike. Any changes or comments? All those in favor? I oppose abstain. Motion carries. Um if there is anyone in the audience of citizens that would like to address the board, uh because
004this is a Zoom meeting, you can just either put your hand up or you can indicate um that you would like to speak. No one else here. Robert, you No one else is here. Okay. Um Deb, is there any board correspondence? There is not. Okay. Um so budget discussion and um possible approval. Uh so now we've been working the budget. Um the the finance subcommittee has met. Um we've given the whole board as much information as we have. Um Mike, is there anything else that you'd like to add? We've gotten our budget down to a um a 2.97% increase which um the finance committee is is comfortable with. So did you want to add anything to that Mike? Uh not at this time. I think everything has been collected, presented um and gone over. I
005think the Yeah, I mean at at this point uh I I'm ready to present it to the board in its final draft at this point. Great. And the budget book that we gave and the revised document that highlighted how we took from the first proposed budget to the 2.97 is the same exact document that was presented at the last board of education meeting. So nothing changed from last meeting through tonight. Okay, great. Um is there any further discussion or does anybody have any questions or comments about um the budget before we um make a motion? Okay, seeing none, um Deb, do you have a motion for that? Motion to approve the budget proposal for 33 million $13,90 or a 2.97% increase. Second. Second from Joe. Um any further discussion hearing? None. All those in favor?
006I oppose or abstain. Budget passes. Thank you everybody. All right. I do have Yeah, I do just have a quick question. Um, do we have a date that we have to present it yet to the board of finance? Yes, we do. We are scheduled for Hold on. March 3rd at 6 PM. Okay. And that's at town hall. Town hall. So, Mike, I'd like to have a conversation with you in the next couple days to discuss how we want to um present that. What's the time again? Um 6 p.m. 6 PM. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Um and then we have an under action items, we have a kindergarten registration request. So, uh Robert, if you can just kind of fill the board in on that, please. Absolutely. So, um, by state statute, kindergarten students need to be
007born prior to December 31st in order to register for kindergarten for the following school year. We were approached by a father that believes that his child should reg or could register for next year. The child's birth date is late January. I'm not going to identify whether it's a war girl or um the the birth date just to keep confidentiality there. The principal's had a conversation with the parent to inform him that in her um entire entire extent of teaching and administration in Quaker, there's only been one request that has reached the board level. Um and the board um decided not to take any action on allowing that student to register um early. Um I had a conversation with the father twice now. Um tried to dissuade him from registering for a number of different reasons.
008uh but he still feels that um it's with his right to ask the board to consider um taking action whether or not um he could register for the following um September. So that's why I'm bring it to you tonight. Um once again, the state statute is December 31st. The child's birth date is late January. Um and that you have to that that's just I mean I'm sure that's obvious, but you have to be five by December 31st. Yes, I should have said that. Thank you. No, that's okay. Um, so, so even those kids who are born in December are really starting kindergarten at age four and they're not turning five until December, right? But, but that's within the parameters and it's the parents parents to send them in. Um, right. So, um, does anybody have
009a comment or um, thought about this on the board? I just had a question like maybe it's not relevant to me but what was the rationale? He believes that his his um child is academically and socially advanced and would um do well in attending kindergarten next fall. Child truly shows some sort of advancement at this age and it's not a parent's wish to I mean you never know but really just to drive it because their belief system period. That's correct. That's correct. I'm sorry. What's your last part of your sentence, Steve? I didn't hear it. Well, I'm just I was surely trying to parse out, not that we would know the truth, but is this really a parent who sees a child who I don't want to use the extreme of a savant or something,
010but is so advanced that they clearly could benefit from this, right? Or it's just one of those parents that my kid's going to go to school really early because I think it's the right thing to do, period. Right? I mean, according to the father, he believes his child is academically advanced. I can vouch for the credibility to that statement or not. That's what he's told me. My challenge is um if we decide to allow this child to enroll in the fall, it's a slippery slope. Now we're going to begin to having any parent that says my child birth date isn't is January. Where does that line cross? Where do you stop? Well, that's a precedent, right? But I don't know how many people take up take us up on it, but yeah, I get it.
011So, I just have a quick question. Does this child attend preschool or do we would we have any feedback on that? The child does attend preschool right now. The child could in our prek model. No, not not in our school. Um well, a couple of things. Um, number one, um, it is it's very, um, precarious to test, um, I mean, there are evaluations that could test giftedness in children. You know, if you're talking about pure giftedness in children that young, however, they're they're not necessarily that reliable. And quite frank frankly, if the if the child is that advanced, then they're going to always need some kind of supplementation because they're going to be beyond their kindergarten. they're going to be beyond first grade, they're going to be on second grade, you know. So, um, so
012that's number one. Um, number two, I agree with, um, Robert that, you know, so whenever this child's birthday is, the child that's born the day before, then we'd have to let them in. The day before that, we'd have to let them in because, you know, we're just opening up that, you know, that Pandora's box. Or somebody saying, "Well, my kids's born the beginning of February." So I so I you know I um I agree that I think it's a um slippery slippery slope um to to start um to start with that. So um anybody else have a comment? Yeah. What do we have a policy on this specifically? We do not have a we it's state statutes. Um the state allows local boards of education to make a decision. Um if um the parent request
013beyond December 31st. Yeah. State statute says December 31st, right? Yes. Correct. I think I'd agree as well. I think it sets a precedent. Yeah. Okay. So, it sounds like I'm hearing um that the board is not um going to grant this request. Is that okay in accurate or does anybody have anything else to Can I ask one other question? Does the parent want to enroll this child in our prek program? Is he, you know, is there a peer model? Yes. And it's a conversation can I can have with the parent. We did not discuss that element. Shel's trying to get in now. So Shel's now in attendance. Okay, good. So that's at 6:42. Deb, if you want to Hi, Sh. Hi. I apologize for I couldn't get in. So, um, you want to add me
014and I'm going back on mute till needed. Thank you. Okay. Just to let you know, we just had a discussion on a a request for a kindergartener who is born after December 31st would be five in January. um requests to um start early and the board members that are here um so far the consensus is that um it it we're not in favor of changing that statute. Okay. Um too late to vote, but I No, no, we haven't voted yet. We're not really voting. I mean, we we're not right now. I mean, we're not voting because well, there's nothing right now to vote on. We're just having the discussion. And at this point, you know, the board is um not uh granting this request. Understood. Okay. Thank you. I certainly agree. Okay, great. Um so,
015anything else on this subject, Robert, that we need to do? No, that's all I will let the father know that the board um discussed it and the decision is not to move forward with it. Okay. I do like the idea of trying to get the maybe the child as a peer model in our prek. So maybe we could reach out again on that. That's a good idea. Yeah, I will definitely suggest that. Um and report of the superintendent, Robert. Okay, just a few items. one, I attended a state um call this morning um with the department of education, part of public health and they provided more guidance on the changes um effective um the 28th or March 1st if you will relating to mass and quarantine and the one piece of advice that they had
016is actually two. It's all a matter of risk tolerance. What are we comfortable with as a district in terms of the rules and priorities we're going to establish? Um the one thing that they kind of um heads back to was quarantining. Um and that being if you're sick with COVID, they recommend to stay home for 5 days before returning to school. Um they would like schools to continue heating that guidance, but everything else is really up for discussion at the local level. That's the one piece that they're recommending. Um they kept insisting and this is just sound logic. If you're sick or you've got symptoms, stay home. And same advice you've always had even before COVID. If you think that you're ill, don't go to school. Stay home um until you're feverree for 24 hours.
017And that's really the the the primary um takeaway I took from this morning's call. The the second piece of information I have to convey to parents tomorrow or Thursday is that buses fall under federal guidelines um and not state guidelines which means any student or adult on a bus needs to continue wearing a mask. That it's going to continue at least until mid-March, possibly April. Um and that's not done at the state level. That's federal and there's tomorrow nothing that we can do about it. Um I'm just going to let parents know that um children need to wear masks in the bus will have um disposable disposable masks available in buses. Um we're not going to um have bus drivers pull the buses over and call parents. We're just telling parents children need to wear
018masks and buses. We might see an uptick on parents dropping kids off for a period of time. Um, but this is not something that's a local or state decision from what we're find. Okay. Tomorrow and yeah, you had a question. A quick question back to point one. So that's the bus point. So at this point the state has made some recommendations. It's risk tolerance. At this point we we are not as a board um following any specific recommendations. Correct. And no, we need to have some internal discussions with our administrators and nurses. For example, one of the advices that a lot of school districts are doing is if you go to the nurse's office, then you need to put a mask on, which kind of makes sense when if you go into a doctor's office,
019you're ill, you're protecting people around you. But other than that, um we are once we suspend the policy this evening, it becomes personal choice. Um we are encouraging our staff to have conversations with children um this week and they started last week about respect in the classroom and respecting each other's choices um at personal level. Um I don't see us putting any restrictions on music or other activities. Um the only thing that we're we're hedging our bet on is um participants um at events large scale events. For example, there's a large scale event this weekend at the high school. We're limiting to four four like 450 500 people. We're not unlimited um attendees, but other than that, it's it's pretty wide wide open. And I agree, getting ahead of the the potential bullying component of
020it. Yep. Um I'm completely on board with that. And there was one more question I had. Um, are we is there still a policy of when you're quarantining if you're vaccinated, unvaccinated, it's five or 10 days? Is there still guidelines there, Phil? Or is that gone? The the guidelines um kind of changed um for everybody on December 31st. And that was if you're sick, stay home for the five days and return on day six. And then we're masked six through 10. We basically will tell staff and students, return on day six, and we're not going to require you to wear a mask. There are some statistics that might and we have to watch the numbers. If the numbers take the other direction and and go through the roof, then we need to reconsider some of
021our our local decisions. But we are not going to be requiring people to wear masks. Okay. And so there is no discrepancy between that anymore. Okay. Between No. And we we we stop contact tracing in schools. Um, if you happen to believe that you are in contact with somebody that's COVID positive outside of school, um, and there's a high risk that you could have it um, then stay home and quarantine, but that's not a requirement within the schools. We stopped contact tracing two months ago. Okay. I didn't pick up on because I thought we had still done some um and I was wondering when that was going to get lifted and we kind of got freed up. But yeah, it really became a family choice and letting the nurses know if they had contact outside
022of school. Our nurses have been pretty much outside of the contact tracing business for a little while now. I probably got stuck on your note saying this many kids are in quarantine still. You know, that's probably where I Sorry. Yeah. And all those numbers are are self-reported for families. Okay, got it. Sorry if I'm confused. That's okay. I I have a question. So when you when you do have the conversations with the nurses, so if a child goes to the nurse and let's say has cold symptoms or a fever, um then we will not be we won't say you have to present a negative COVID test in order to come back. It's just like you could have oh the child has a fever just like any other time a child is sick with a fever
023they're sent home and they're asked to not return until the fever is gone 24 hours right the only difference is now we have COVID test sent home with the child to see if they want to take it at home which means it's not something that we are requiring it is not okay and I just um with when we let parents know about the bullying with the masking and I just I'm really concerned about kid-to-kid bullying, but I'm also worrying staff to staff. So, I can we just um maybe cite something out of the pol the bullying policy or state where they can look at the bullying policy because I'm really concerned because there are people in, you know, kids that and parents that um might not necessarily um understand how it might affect other people.
024I mean, yeah. So, I just want to make sure that we let people know that we're not going to tolerate people bullying either way. So, either direction. And I I had a good conversation, a very good conversation with the student government at the high school last week. And we sp we spoke about what to do and how they need to be leaders and and and model for other students in the school not to be bystanders. If you see something that's inappropriate, you've got to say something. And that's the type of conversations that the teachers were expected to have across the district. That'll be a reminder for them to do so again the next two days as well. Thank you, De. I think you're right about the staff, too, because I mean, I had a staff
025member um sort of indirectly come to me and mention they were bullied for not being vaccinated. Yeah, it works. It works both ways. Exactly. Yes, it does. It does. It's it's a it's a matter of respecting first choice. Absolutely. Yeah. You know, we're we're doing what we're doing, but they need to also have respect for each other and have enough respect for themselves not to bring themselves to to get to that point. So, Right. Right. moving out of jail. Uh just real quick, I I I know we might anticipate an uptick because I really think if when we point out the fact that the kids have to still wear the masks on the bus due to the federal guidelines. Um, is there any way for with that announcement we might be able to reach out
026to the uh Oxford Police Department to assist with traffic on 188 andor uh Great Oak Road and so forth, getting cars in and off Governors andor Hogsback with the morning traffic. That's, you know, I could just see that possibly upticking traffic. Yeah, we could we could have the conversation with them. They can gauge to see how the first few days go. Yep. Okay. our our ASOS and SRO's also assist with that that as well. I was just gonna ask if they do that. They typically do. Um Jose is not outside of the high school. It's typically inside when students arrive, but the other ASOS and um um typically are out and about helping on traffic duty. You defin you you I mean the problem is like I give an example, the entrance at Oxer High
027School, it it gets really chaotic now. You know, if this might add to it. So I'm just I'm just concerned about that. That's yeah, we certainly it makes sense to monitor for the first few days and see what what happens. As long as we don't get a $250 an hour bill on shift and they're not on the call, they should be directing traffic. So, appreciate them for that. Yeah. Um, any other questions with buses or with quarantining or guidelines? I do have a question. Um, so I mean Deb hit on the bullying and several other people have. I wondered um this is the first question. Would it make sense to um you know uh push out some of our um anti-bullying um instruction or campaign or something um because um uh I'm concerned also that
028we might need to do more than send out communication, talk to administrators and all that. some kids that are being bullied may not come forward with a um uh with a complaint. So that's question one. Question two is probably a moot point because I think that people have their opinions and um they are um you know pretty uh locked into them. But I just read a study yesterday um of a medical study that they have found that not well the N95s KN95s um not sure about surgical math I will go back and check but that not only do they um protect other people but they have now found excuse me that they um protect the one wearing the mask um from uh micro droplets and so forth. I I don't know if it might help
029at all in the bullying campaign. I don't know if it would be even persuasive to anybody. But that was a um I felt a pretty important study, but I just don't know whether any of you think it would be helpful. Thank you. I I don't I don't really know what what the question is, Shel. Sorry. Um, so I I think I think what you're saying is that um, you know, maybe maybe we can um, you know, just ask the teachers to, you know, like Deb said, either, you know, review the policy. And, you know, the other the other thing is the the word bullying is just so um, and I hate to use another word that but so triggering. Um, I mean, it's just just be kind, you know I mean there's no reason why
030you need to you know because then you know everyone wants to know the definition of bullying and the bullying is more than one act in the same student to gain power you know it's just be kind and if you don't have anything say don't say anything at all and people have the right to wear a mask and or not wear a mask or wear a hazmat suit if they want it's their own their own uh protection and you know you just you don't have any right to to comment on it so right the the teachers are going to the teachers are going to have conversations already started kindergarten on up about your child, the student next to you may might not be wearing mask and they might be wear mask and that's okay for that
031to be different than what you're doing. What you need to do is understanding what your parents and your family have asked you to do, especially the the lower um levels. Um and kindergarten for a second will will remind students over the course of the day um that they need to heed that. But high school students and middle school students are going to make some personal choices in this. But it's all a matter of respect and continually reminding students that it's okay to do something different than your your your neighbor is doing. I tell you what, right? And I'll tell you what I'm even more, you know, not afraid of or but interested in, especially the K1 and two who basically this has been their experience in school. I have a feeling that the teachers are
032going to have to spend a lot of time reaclimating them to socializing. I mean, so it's going to be okay. you know, the kids were kind of taught and I I even see them just in general. They seem, you know, that of distancing and being, you know, um, you know, leerary of of being too close to people. So, I mean, I think that that, you know, from a psychological standpoint needs to be really focused on for the little ones because, you know, they they've grown up in the last couple of years saying stay away from your friends and now, you know, they're going to almost have to learn that they can they don't know what they're going back to that you used to be able to play and hug and hang out with your friends
033and shake hands and, you know, the whole thing. So, that that's going to be interesting to me. Well, I I um like the way that you change the word um Stephanie bullying to um be kind and all of that. I haven't looked at our bullying curriculum in ages. Um but um maybe if we push it out sort of in and using your words and you know I heard Bob say they talked to the you know teachers and so forth. Um, so maybe there's some kind of a message using um Rob's pushing out to, you know, administrators and so on and using Stephanie's words, you know, not the exact ones, but they, you know, Stephanie, that whole sort of bulleted list that you had regarding um um you know, how to phrase it and all of
034that, right? Um, I'm sure Deb got that word for word because that was just, you know, ramp on my part. So, okay. And you know what? Quite frankly, I I have to tell you that I trust the adults in these school, you know, in our schools and they're going to know. I don't I don't think we need to tell them to do, you know, bullying lessons or I think they're going to take care of it the way, you know, you would do under any normal circumstance and how you would handle it within your class and how you handle it at your age level because, you know, especially in middle school. Yeah. I'm just concerned about the kids that won't report it. But it sounds like you're saying you and Rob and that and Deb earlier
035that you think the teachers will really be on top of it and maybe they'll uh get a handle on it. So I think that answers that question completely. And the other one was just a throw out probably won't make any difference anywhere but I thought it was great new information to have if anyone was interested. Okay. And to that degree, um, Shelley, we have a supply of N9 K9 K N95 masks in the state that's available. Any staff or um, upper team that wants to have those, those are available and we've got a pretty heavy supply and there's supposed to be more if they're if we run out of that supply. Okay, great. Thank you everybody for um that discussion and Rob if you ever need that article or Stephanie or anyone um I'll dig
036up my link to it and send it along if it becomes relevant and thank you moving off COVID um for the moment um at the high school there will be conferences um tomorrow and Thursday early release days for the high school students on both of those days Anthony is currently working on the beginning of the food services bid. It was um it's done every um several years. Um our contract actually expired last year um but we had brought to the board to delay the bid um to this current school year. Anthony is currently working at um I put in the last update to you that the bid came in for the the water for the high school field. So, we need to schedule our next meeting for a facilities committee to talk about that bid
037package that came in um for those different options that we have. Um I mentioned the date um for the fac the budget we presented to the finance committee, board of finance. Um I also want to schedule some public presentations to our parents community about the budget. So, I'll get that started um for March. And that's my updates to you. Okay. Any more questions for Robert from anyone? Okay. Um I do not have a report, so we can move on to our subcommittee reports. Joe, anything in facilities? No, I think Dr. Miller covered it. I think the waterline's going to be the subject of facilities, so go for that. Okay. Um sorry to steal your thunder. No, you're good. Um, is there is there a facilities meeting um set up in the books or you just
038No, I'll I'll hook up with Dr. Miller tomorrow or the following day or even Mr. Hibert. So, we got one scheduled. Okay, sounds good. Um, Deb, curriculum. Our next meeting is March 7th at 4:30. Um, I posted up some agenda items and Rob and I will um go through them. There's a couple that we don't need to do at this meeting. We'll we'll send them out a little bit. Try not to have a two-hour meeting. So, thank you. Thank you. Um Nicole is not here. So, um Deb is uh her substitute. So, Deb, the master of all trades. No, you have in all honesty, do you want do you want me to do this part so that you can take notes? Because I got it I have it written down already. Okay. So, the um
039motion would be to suspend the face mask and covering policy effective 227 at 12 a.m. Second. Any discussion or comments, questions? All right. So that the only thing that's different in this is that when we when we talked at the last meeting, we said it was as of March 1st, but now uh Robert said that um it's midnight the 27th. So that makes it kind of a clean break. So starting Monday uh the 28th, that's when the masks will be optional. Um so that's the only kind of difference. And then um you know suspending suspending the policies means I mean we can do that at any time. So you don't need a second reading or or whatever. So um any further discussion or questions? Okay. All those in favor? I oppose abstain. Motion carries. And
040I have one more motion to suspend the staff. Breaking up. Oh, sorry. Yeah, just get closer to your mic. Yeah, that's better. Motion to suspend the COVID 19 staff vaccination policy effective February 27th at 12 a.m. Second. Any further discussion that Mike? Yes. Can I just say one thing? I know over the past couple years it's been really trying on a lot of people and and I respect everybody's views on stuff. It's just, you know, I think that uh as things have evolved, I I truly believe and I want to thank everybody's patience in getting to this point of this vote. So, I I appreciate that. Everybody on this board has done a great job. Uh staff, administration, even the students and the parents. Thank you very much for letting us have the abilities to
041make the sensible decisions on this. So, thank you. I have one quick question and Deb I'm sure you guys are um handling it but based on what Rob's call said about you know if there's any change in numbers or if the DPH tells us you know we need to adjust anything do we need any kind of language in there to that effect or um you know just subject to you know DPH or any of those um changeability uh items. We'd have to come back and have a discussion about it, but there's there's no other language that needs to be in there. Okay. Thank you. Right. And and Shel, we've had a lot of conversations about this um with our superintendent group. Um essentially, it would be no different than if there's a major outbreak of
042flu. So, if if we had that as an example, our local health um district could come down to us and say, "You know what? we see a 70% um transmission rate of flu, we we recommend that the school either implement these safety procedures or shut down for three days or or do x y and z. If they were to come to and say, "We see the positive rate of CO now spiking through the roof. These are the precautions that we're telling you what they need, what you need to do." Then we would probably heed that advice and follow them for that short period of time and exactly what we need to do for that. And that does not require a board policy to um follow local guidance in that regard. And that's no different than
043if there's But would it require um the board to have a discussion on it or is it just at the superintendent level? It would be at the superintendent level at that point because at that point it would probably be a very short period of time. If there was we need to mask on it for another three months, it would come back to the board. But if it's a matter of we need to implement the these guidelines for three or four days or for a week, that would not need to come back to the board. I think we should at least know about it. I think that becomes a slippery slope. Nothing geared towards you, Rob, at all. But our health departments and our DPH quite honestly have other agendas and have been the legislature has
044given them certain powers that are written in the code that just passed. So I I think it should be very transparent to us and and personally I would be in some cases wanting the data and backup from that DPH. Yeah. Yeah. I agree because I also believe that DPH is our guidelines as opposed to our hands were tied by executive order. So I think that makes a you know a huge difference um in what you are mandated to do and what you are guided to do. So right um I agree. I think we've all worked really well together through this whole pan crisis and whatever else has been going on. So, I I'm sure that Rob would would have a discussion and if we needed to, we could call a really quick board meeting and
045and talk about it. We we've all worked really well through it. So, I don't think I agree. And that's why I made the recommendation to suspend the policy because if if things went sideways and you need to have a discussion and change the policy, then it gives you the opportunity to to do at that point. Okay, those are all great pieces of information. I think you covered it and as usual you guys are all on top of it. So thank you. So I mean I also want to add there's a few things here. I mean one is right now the the there's state statutes that cover things and under with them extending the governor's emergency power those states you know this the state legislature has turned that power over to governor Lamont. those as long
046as that executive order and they keep kicking it down the road. Um, state statute does not cover it just like if it was a measles outbreak in the community. So, you know, he still kind of has his finger on the scale and on the button to to stop this and and no matter what we p, you know, at this point I would look at it as no matter what we think or anything until those executive orders and his executive powers are rescended by the state legislature, there's no way that those laws that give the department of public health matter at that point. it it they still have ultimate say, but you know, it's not going to matter what our policy is, but I mean, we could have a discussion about it, but let's be clear
047of the avenue in the in the lane that we have to that they're in and what how much influence they could have over us. So, it's a good point, Joe, and I I do recall reading it in the whole legislature discussion and all of that that there is that possibility built in also. So, thanks for that point, too. Thanks to everyone. Were you going to say something, Robert? No, just that the executive orders related to the the face mask basically what the legislation state was that um the department down to the local level has the discretion of of implementing their own policies through June 28th. That was the date that they set in the legislation. Okay. Well, hopefully we continue on the trend that we're on. Um, any further discussion, questions, comments. Okay. Um, Mike,
048I think Oh, vote on Oh, we That was still a discussion. I'm sorry. I forgot we had a motion on the table. The motion was to suspend the um the vaccination policy. Yeah. COVID 19 vaccination policy. So all those in favor I I oppose abstain. Motion carries. Thank you. Okay. Thanks for keeping me on target, Deb. Um I'm just doing the minutes. That's all you are. You're the best. Um so Mike, I think that you know you've been front and center for so long. I don't know if there's anything else you need to add for finance. Is this uh Oh, good. I'm still on. Um it's just Dr. Miller and I will come up with a date for our next uh subcommittee meeting and uh you know we've got the presentation to the finance uh
049you know board and we'll just go from there. So at this point I don't think there's anything new. Right. I just like to make sure we um let parents know that when the meeting is. Yes. so they can actually because you know they seem like they were wanting to follow it whether they'll still follow it past this point or not but um I just think it's really important that we let them know when about the March 3rd appointment so do we know if there's a limitation at town hall for the meeting and is there going to be like a Zoom component I will find that out great the board of finance with Zoom is terrible so if we and ask if we can bring our owl with us if we can because I mean literally
050when they have their meetings they're using their you know Jima's laptop and it's it's ridiculous. So we can't hear anyone or see anyone. Nope. So especially if we're going to invite parents we should try and see if we can get the audio to be Yeah. Good point. Okay. Um, so we are now to liaison reports and um I don't have anything for Oasis. Um, Robert, when is when is that um is it the meeting with the parents? The freshman panel is actually the same night as the board of finance meeting at um the 3. It's in the evening. Yes. Okay. And did I did I read in the um in the weekly uh newsletters that this is um mandated? What they're doing is they're make it required for all freshman students, their parents to watch.
051Um it is a virtual event this year. The panelists are going to be live um at Vinnie's Church. Apparently it's in Antonio Derby. Um and then um there are a couple younger people that will be videoed and broadcast um as a recorded session. these um kids that have been in trouble with substance abuse. Um they just didn't want to do that part live. Um and then any student that does not watch it live will be required to in school watch it. Um all students will be held accountable by doing a Google form and some form of um literary component most likely tied to language arts. So there will be an accountability to make sure that all students watch either live that night or in school um after the event. Okay, great. Thank you. Um, anybody
052else? PTO PTO meeting was last week. They had a very successful Hershey candy bar sale. Um, they have this they're looking into whether or not they're going to have book fair because they can actually have a physical in building book fair. Um they're going to try and work with the elementary schools to have it part of their library day so that the kids can go down during their library class. Um and then they are having their annual plant sale um date to be determined. Um, we also talked a little bit about having um the community exploration kids give them a hand through some of these events so the kids can be out in the community helping PTO and um and then I I suggested maybe try the senior center if they're looking for for help.
053They're um very strapped for um parental help. So maybe now with some of the um policy changes, maybe people will, you know, want to help out a little bit more. But I mean, they barely had quorum at the last meeting and I felt really bad for them. So they're working really hard. So yeah. Um anything are you done, Dean? Yes, I'm done. Sorry. Thank you. No, it's okay. Um Vic, anything with the SOP? uh we had an additional meeting which was uh I think very helpful and it was just our subgroup and we're just trying to uh get most of the terminology agreed upon because there's a lot of terminology and then also to apply the smart program to establish things that are achievable and things that can be monitored but also looking at how
054do you do that from you from K to grade 12 because a lot of of the objectives are broad brush and they really have to be catered by the subgroups that they're in there. So, it was a good uh you know probably a 90minute meeting that was in addition to what we're going to have this this month. So, uh putting in the extra effort. All right. Thank you, Vic. We have a we have a second we have a second meeting this um um which will be this Thursday night for the full committee. Yep. Thank you, Vic. Uh, so I think that's it for our liaison reports. So at 7:16, I make a motion to adjourn this meeting. Second. All those in favor? I I Oh, have it. Um, there's no opposing or abstaining. So the
055motion carries. Meeting is adjourned at 7:16.