001Just a few seconds. Sure. Okay. You should be live. Okay. I'd like to call to order the regular board of education meeting Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 at 6:33. Um, could we please say the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flaggation under God, indivisible, indivisible, liberty, justice for all. Wonderful. Thank you. Um, so roll call. I'll do a little differently just from the uh board members that I see are on which is Deb Sherman, Shelley Lacy Castellott, Nicole Lavine McGrath, Stephanie Miller, Joe Matisovich, Steve Kak. Um so right now we do not have Vic Tomski, Mike Kuza, or Vinnie Cordella. Okay. Um just for clarification, the reason the meeting is Zoom, as you know, we changed our uh first and third Tuesday meeting, I mean our second and fourth Tuesday meeting times to first
002and third for the month of April because of April vacation. Um so that threw people off of their their work and traveling schedule. So between that and some other um issues that board members may not have been able to attend, instead of um having to cancel for lack of quorum, um I decided to go with the um with the Zoom meeting so that we can continue doing the work that we need to do. Uh are there any amendments to the agenda? No. No. Okay. Uh approval of minutes. Motion to approve the March 28th, 2023 regular board of education minutes. Second. Call second. Are there any corrections or anything that needs to be changed? Discussion hearing none. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstain. Want to abstain. Stephanie, I was missing one. Okay. Thanks, Steve. Motion
003carries. Next is audience of citizens. And it's been a little while since we've been on Zoom, but if you would like to address the board, you can simply raise your hand or you can put the the hand up in your in the Zoom um you know, the Zoom option and you can address the board. Um Lee Webb is put your hand up. Okay. Sorry. Hi. Um Lee Webb, my address is 2A Spelac Lane. Um and first of all, I just want to say thank you to the board. I'm sure that you know people you don't see eye to eye with everybody all the time but you know I do recognize that it is a lot of you know unpaid hours that you guys do volunteer. Um my concerns have kind of been like over the
004years mainly having to do with costs and you know spending money. Um I feel like Oxford is always on the lower end of per student spending and I feel like that has always been something that has been kind of celebrated as a good thing. Um, however, like I feel like when I look around our district, I don't really think, "Wow, we do a lot with so little." Instead, I think, "Oo, we're a little bare bones." Um, so recently, I feel like there's been further just, you know, small little cuts that I've heard of, things like stipens at the high school or like the amount of pay that, uh, teachers were getting to cover classes during their free period. Um, and you know, adding that to, you know, I feel like people have joked about like
005the supplies are rationed and um, you know, now we have that new cell phone policy which I feel like kind of treats teachers like kids. I feel like it's we're not doing anything to make Oxford like an employer of choice. Um, I get it. There's a shortage of teachers everywhere, but our teachers seem to be leaving for other districts, not necessarily leaving the profession. Um, and then another cut such as middle school sports buses. I feel like that should leave some extra money, but it's not clear where that extra money is going back into the district. Um, not sure if we can reallocate that money for like maybe some additional equipment for the kids or, you know, not having to make the parents pay $25 for a hat or maybe bringing back like the end
006of the year sports banquet, things like that. Um, and then also the I was looking through the minutes, the finance, insurance, and personnel committee meeting minutes from March 21st, which reference a discussion about a two-tier or three- tier busing schedule, which to me suggests that we're still considering combining middle schools and high school. Um, so I just want to make sure that all things are considered, including like sports schedules. I feel like my high schooler leaves early to get to her competition so often already. Um, you know, I just want to make sure that, you know, nothing will uh make them have to leave even earlier, more often. Um, and then I guess, uh, you know, even with those busing, I guess I'm just most interested in hearing how we will be spending the money
007that are saved. Um, you know, I I feel like, you know, Monroe next door has a great middle school STEM program. Woodbury has a whole list of great middle school electives. Meanwhile, Oxford, I feel like, is trying to figure out how to, you know, cut ECA from our kids. Um, so, you know, I just I feel like I personally would be more uh agreeable to change if I knew like, hey, I might have to give up this, but this is what I'm getting in return. So, thank you. Great. Thank you. Would anybody else like to address the board? and and you know just I'm sure that you've gone on um Miss Webb I'm sure you've gone on and the budget is on the website and it's kind of delineated um but I I see what
008you're asking. So I I'm sure we're on I'm on the finance committee with Deb and Mike and um if you want to shoot me an email then I'll have your email and we can answer some of your questions. Uh anybody else? Mic Rob I am not seeing anyone else with their hand up right now. No, right. Somebody's connecting with audio. Could that be Vic? I It's a question mark so I don't know. Okay. So, I will move on then. Um board correspondence and communication. Um Mike is not here. Um, none that I know of. Deb, how about you? You have to unmute. You're still muted. There you go. Am I done? Okay. We did get a um email from a parent um thanking the board for their um efforts and understanding. Um so I can
009um share that with the rest of the board. Okay. I think it only came to the three of us. So, right. I can share that. Sure. Okay. Okay. Thanks, Deb. Um, van bus driver and job coach positions. Yeah. So, at our meeting, I think two meetings ago, I proposed the the creation of two new positions. One being a straight um um exit three positions, a van driver, um a life skills um job coach um driver, and a third brail transcriptionist. I reached out and had a meeting with the PAR association. Um they've agreed to bring into the association the Braille transcriptionist. So I'm working with them on um that position right now and I'll have the proposal to the board shortly of what that would look like. Um the association has rejected the um the
010the van driver and the um life coach um position. Um, so that returns back to us to set the parameters for not only the the job description, which is always ours, but the the salary for the position and the specifics behind that. So, I'm returning to you this evening um to discuss the um the salary, the hourly wage that we'd apply to both of those positions. Um, just as a reminder, one of those positions, the life coach job, um, description, that is basically a full-time person that, if you think about it this way, is a part par profofessional, part um, driver driving the van, and part um, with the students in the CP program um, at the various job sites. So, it's it merges three different roles simultaneously um, into one. Um and then the
011second position is um a part-time we need a specific um run done before school or after school either the van or the bus. It could be um because officer doesn't wanted to go down a certain route because we can't get a bus down a a specific street and can't turn around and we now need to provide transportation for a child which we have um right now we have that that issue. Um we also run into the issue after school. Um, we heard the comment a few minutes ago about middle school athletics. Um, we often don't have middle school um, transportation for sporting events, not because we can't afford to pay it, not because it was a budget cut, because Allstar doesn't have the bus drivers or the the buses checked to transport the students at
012that hour. But we have we purchased a bus and if we can hire a part-time driver that can drive around that time, then we can actually drive the students on a middle school team and transport them on the bus that we have. Same thing with athletic um at the high school. So, it gives us more flexibility. Um so, they're basically the two positions. One is the life school position on the salary for that and the second position is the part-time position. I'm just driving either the van or the bus. What I'm proposing is that um the past couple years we when we did um pay out of the contract, out of the work hours, we're using base pay of $25 per hour to drive the van. So, I'm proposing for the life skill position that
013it's a flat hourly wage of $22 per hour and then the times the person is driving the van or the bus, it's an additional $2 per hour. So, it becomes $25 per hour. And the um part-time position driving the van or the bus would be paid at $25 an hour um straight up for that position. And what happened is for the licycle position when the person is driving um on their time sheet they're marking down the times that they're driving they're getting paid accordingly for that. So are in the in the um description that you sent out um is that what the final job description is? That's the proposal from um Megan from um from her perspective as to what she views the position. still can go through some tweaks, but that's essentially the position.
014Yeah. Um I mean I'll start and then other people can jump in um if they have other other things to say. I I would like to see the job coach position be a little more specific that would distinguish it from what paras do in the responsibility. So you have the the you know description or the qualifications and then in the responsibility it kind of hints not hints it it does say that you need to be um able to uh you know secure job related whatevers uh you know for for the students but I think in the in the description there should be something that they have the ability to work with um you know with students with disabilities in community and vocational setting that they need to have knowledge of different career paths and committed
015to help students achieve employment uh related objectives because you know I think it might be clear in your mind or Megan's mind and Linda's mind what this person is going to be doing but I don't think that that um was delineated in the the paper that you gave us. We certainly can add it. It seems like you were reading something. Can you send me that text and we'll incorporate that then in there? Um, I ju I just did a search. Um, okay. Okay. Copy and paste it and it I just I kind of did a search and I took it You're right. I took it from um I'll be glad to send it to you, but I you know actually I have several of them in here. I just kind of plucked out a few
016of them. So um you know another one is liaison with employers to identify possible job careers for clients with disabilities. So, it's kind I'm kind of saying the same thing, but I think there's a way to say it that it was um you know that that we need somebody who has a little um more um you know skills in that in that area. Yeah. Well, I'd be it makes sense. We can certainly um incorporate that in there and I'll Megan to do so. Anybody else want to add? Go ahead, Shelley. No, I was just going to say Stephanie, you took every word out of mine except that, you know, the ability to analyze whatever the job or task is. And it's not always an easy task to do that. I think I sent Rob just
017a picture of a um you have that one with the um car wash safety. Uh Rob, we don't Yes. after. So, um I don't think we actually even have to share it, but um just to add to Stephanie's briefly, you know, you have to be able to understand what makes the job difficult. You know, is it um the student individual supposed to hang things back on a rack? What are those subtasks um each of which the student would have to be successful with in order to um you know correctly and adequ accurately adequately do the job sorry and um so I think it's important that um somebody have everything Stephanie said but also um some knowledge of how to analyze to break the task down and then the ability especially to look at something like
018and that was an actual client I had years ago. Um they had to analyze he was offered a a position for his uh paid internship in a car wash. And so they had to analyze was it a safe um environment and if it wasn't what could they do to make it safe? And he also had social skills uh problems that were challenges for him. And so it should be somebody who knows something about that as well or can get input from it. I mean, they don't have to have 100% of the job um traits that we're looking for, but you know, we certainly should look for as many of them as possible and if need be um have them trained to do the rest of it because we want to do it right. Yeah, those
019suggestions make sense and that we can incorporate them into the job description. Um and thanks Shelley. And then another question, what is the um what's what is what are paras what's the top you know for the the top salary scale for this current fiscal year for paris is um 24.88 88 which is step five and step one is 1825 and there's there are five there as I said there are five steps in there and next year um step one is 1871 and step five is 2550 okay so again and then if you get the if you get the special needs differential it's 12 and a half% above that right I mean yeah for for those kids I don't I don't see that you would need the the differential but um and um what was oh
020so this is So, this would be a um a yearly contract. So, it would be negotiated on a yearly basis with the Yeah, I would come I would come to the board every every um end of May, beginning of June like we do with the other um non-contracted positions with what I'm projecting the salary range would be for the following year and you'd approve it each year. Okay. Any further discussion or questions on this position? Nicole, just a minute. Michelle, Nicole, I just wanted to say, Rob, that um you know, I think we're looking to try to elevate the community explorations program and it's very important that we get the right person into this job. So, um we start with the the job description to make sure we're we're vetting the right candidates for this
021position. So, I don't know if we could work some life coach stuff into this as well as just career coach. And um originally when we talked about this back in February, there was some discussion about should there be a certification required and I don't see that in this current um job description. I look I will talk to Megan about that to see what we could add for that. And it might be we need to hire somebody then actually get them part C trained for that like we do in some other positions. But certainly we can look at adding that. That's a good idea. Yeah. And honestly, I mean, in most of the job descriptions that I saw, especially in schools, you know, it ran the gamut from, you know, I think if people were running
022the program, then you had to have special ed degree and, you know, experience in vocational um, you know, dealing with um, students with disabilities and vocation and career paths. Um, and a lot of them had the the that you have to get this I forget what kind of license it is, series 2 or something like, you know, to drive the van. Um, so that's very normal to have to do that in that kind of position. I didn't see anything. Um, so maybe Megan and Linda would know. I didn't see any Oh, you have to pass the PAR, you know, if you don't have the associates, you have to uh pass the PAR um exam, but I didn't see a certification. Um, do you know of one, Shelly? Like a a certification for job coach? You
023know, I looked too because uh when I was last working, I I know there was at least a certificate program. Um they had to go through certain training, but I'm going to reach out and uh do some further digging and see um whether that still is something that happens and I'll get back to you guys. Okay. And and I can and Megan I can also check around with her colleagues as well. Sure. Oh, absolutely. Nicole, when I was looking this morning, um they had said that from what I could find online, um most people who have this career coach, life coach, um designation, they have at least a bachelor's degree in counseling, business or a related field, and then um national career development association certification, which is four plus years of study. So there is
024there is something but um we'll have to look into what exactly that entails and for this particular role I think you might see somebody with those type of qualifications that's the the teacher in the program and this person is not the person that's teaching the students right are we pulling BRS sorry Joe go oh no Shel I was just wondering does is this license is does it have to be a commercial driver's license to drive the bus or is it to drive the van. No, to drive the the bus, it's it's a higher rate. It's a higher um license you need. Um but to drive the the van, um actually um Linda just got her license today and um so she'll she's can serve as a backup and um that's going to help moving forward
025as well. We want to get a whole range of staff that are ready to drive the van if and when we need to. Yeah. Yeah. The only reason I'm asking because if it requires a CDL, I think that the pay rate might be a little low because that person to maintain the CDL has to maintain a physical. You know, there's other annual stuff that that person has to incur some expense and I think it's a it's going to be a tough, you know, position to find a person that wants to do that and do, you know, it's that's my that's my only concern. So, this pay rate is slightly above what Allstars paying their bus drivers. So, we're we're we're we're viewing this as competitive for this area. If we find if we have difficulty
026getting it staffed, I'll come back to the board and say we need to take a look at the the pay on it. Very good. Thank you. So, do you um do you want us to um make a motion to um accept this new position with the understanding that there will be changes or do you want to make the changes and bring it back to the next meeting? Well, you've already approved the position. I'm looking for approval of the sal of this at the pay scale for it. Just the pay scale and we can go back and and modify the job description. I can send the job description to the board. We can um get feedback electronically um at that point. All right, that sounds good. Um does anybody have any more questions on the um
027salary or the pay rate? status. Um I think New Town has a pretty successful um program. So they may already have something that we could look at for the the job uh job description. So maybe just new take a look at that. Okay. I can I can reach out to superintendent there. Um so Deb, do you want to do a motion? Sure. Oh, wait. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Um, I don't know why, but tonight I can't find the hand raise button. I apologize. Just two quick questions. Um, are we pulling BRS in to um help the students with um some of these uh you know job training and um other you know technology and so forth. And the second part is I'm not how can we um determine the salary level if we are not
028done tweaking the job requirement. I don't have an answer your first question. The second question, um, we feel from looking at Megan's done some some looking around for this and we feel based upon what we've paid for this type of position and and how it aligns with the um the payment in the par contract that we feel this is a a good way to pay for this and as I you know if we're running difficulty I can come back to the board and and and ask for a modification. Now um or is it is it possible if there is some kind of specialized certification if we had a um you know a person who is running the program now to get that you know because I think there's two different things. I think Shelley what
029your point is I think if somebody was running the whole program and then you know you're starting from scratch then you would have a you know special ed certified job coach you know career coach certification that would be you know the top dog doing that. Um so you know I without without having that I think you know you need to go with you know just finding someone who um does have um you know some experience in working with um you know students with disability and the vocational training and you know blah blah blah. So, I don't know. And and I think it could come back. I mean, it once this goes out, if we have no one and and you know, then we need to tweak it. Does that make sense, Shel? To me, there
030to to me there's a sense of urgency for both this position and the and the the straightup van driver because right now we we have two vehicles that are not being used. Um we're having struggles and challenges getting students moved with the C program. um and um just in general. So, I'm trying to get this moving along. If we're struggling, I'll come back to you with with request to changes. Okay. So, um do you need two motions? One for the van driver and then one for the life coach. I think you probably need two. That's fine. Yeah. Okay. So, go ahead. Motion to approve the hourly hourly rate of $23 per hour for the job coach duties and $25 per hour while driving the van. Second, Steve second. Is there any further discussion? All those
031in favor I opposed or abstain? Did I hear something about abstaining? No. Okay. Uh motion carries. All right. And then for the van driver, motion to approve the hourly rate for the driver for the van or the bus at $25 per hour. Second. Second from Joe. Any further discussion on that? All those in favor? I I opposed. or abstain. Motion carries. So, thanks Rob. You can just once you get that, I'll send that stuff to you and Shelley can as well and then when you tweak it, you can just um send it out to us. That sounds good. I'll have a conversation with Megan and we'll get that going. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. We have next the draft calendar for 2324. Yep. So, this calendar has been um in the works
032a little bit of time. We there the state a while ago used to have a regional calendar that required every school district in a particular region to develop the same calendar. Um that got shifted a while ago. However um the particular rests have continued to build collaborate calendars together. So I took that collaborate calendar that was done by ACES and then modified it for our own particular needs. I shared it with our building our district leadership senate council. They went back to their school faculties, vetted it through teachers and staff in the school, came back to uh me with some revisions which we incorporated into it. What you're seeing here is something that has been um reviewed by um most of the district staff. In fact, there's even a link in one of my district
033newsletters um with the counter for them to provide feedback to. Uh there was a suggestion um by a board member I think it um at one of our last meetings um to see if we would want to do a February break. Um you'll notice that's not on the calendar. Um it's continuing the the smaller um February break. Um when I approached to the staff with that I didn't get a huge positive reaction to that mainly because I was extending the days um into June. Um but it was something that we did talk about. Um if it is something that you like me to continue to pursue, I can continue to work on it. But I did not get a lot of positive traction on on adding that February break at this time. Okay. Is this
034the same amount of um PD days as we've had in the past? Yep. Contractually um it follows the um the teachers contract which has the required number of professional development days that are necessary. Um which is basically the two days um leading to started school that year. Um, you've got the day on election day and you've got the um the full day um later in um Mar in March. I thought I saw a couple of half days and then we have in most of the months we've got early release days. Those are not per the teachers contract. There's um that follows um what we've been doing this district for the at least the last three years which is having uh pretty much once a month and when we don't have a full full release day
035having an early release um for professional learning. So what you're saying is those early release days are early release days for students but the staff will have some kind of PD in the so it's not it's not an early release day for them. It's a full day for them. Yeah. The only two days that are early release days for everybody um that are not professional development is the day before Thanksgiving and the day before um the winter vacation. Um other than that, all the other early release days that you see on the calendar are days that are intended for professional learning for staff, right? And I and um typically certified and non-certified staff stay um for so teachers and parents stay for that. Okay. And I did um I checked it. It works with our
036um first and third. April vacation cooperates next year. So we can keep third and fourth. I I can't I'm getting confused. Yeah. Second and fourth. Um okay. Are there any questions on the calendar or anything any input from anyone? No. Okay. Um, so just just quickly, Robert, um, did you have a a committee? So, who did I know that you you know the risks and everything else, but then you did you have a, you know, calendar committee or you just kind of put it through to administrators to see what their staff was. I I used my So, this year we implemented a district leadership senate council. And that leadership senate council is made up of a teacher rep from each school that collaborates with their their principal to run their faculty meetings in their school.
037Um it also has a representative from the pair association representative from the secretaries, one administrator from each school. Um has my um it um it has special education administrators and all of my district administrators. So it's a it's a big collaborative group of almost 20 people. So, I I shared the calendar with them and I said, "I'd like you to to give me feedback now, but I also want you to go back to your schools and get feedback from your faculty." So, they actually went back to their faculty meeting and said, "Here's the draft calendar. Um, give us feedback." And then they came back the next month and they provided feedback based upon those conversations. So, really, it was crowdsourced across the entire district. Okay, that's great. I'm glad everybody had an, you know, chance
038to to weigh in on it. Um, anybody else? my uh motion person Deb. Motion to approve the 2023 2024 school calendar. Second. I think that was Steve. Second by Steve. Um any further discussion? All those in favor? I 703. Well, yeah. He wasn't. Yes. So we'll we'll add him after this because he I don't think he was here for the discussion. No, I just wanted to know you could add it to the Thank you. Opposed or abstain? Calendar carries. Okay. Um can we make Vic co-host or something so he can talk if he needs to? Yeah, let me do that right now. Okay. Should be all set now. Okay. I don't know if you want to talk, Vic, you can just unmute with the little microphone in the bottom left. Uh report of the superintendent.
039Um sure. I'm going to be um rather quick tonight. Last night, I had the privilege of attending the middle school honor society induction. Um it was a wonderful ceremony. um they do a wonderful job of allowing each student to um participate in the event. Um the parents were there um and we honored um each student. They got the core, they got a certificate. I believe there's 10 students now and all. So it was it was wonderful to see these students um honored at that ceremony. Um last week um was another great showing um in the arts. The Great Oak Elementary School musical was Thursday and Friday. On Thursday morning, um the second graders from Quaker Farms came over and the students did performance for the second grade and third grade students in the morning and
040then there's the public performance in the evening. And I I stood in the back. It wasn't a single chair um that was empty in the room. Um and then the next morning um they did a performance for the fourth and fifth graders um in the school. Um and then that was followed by a public performance in the evening. Um and once again like um the previous night it was um completely packed. Um I was standing in the back of the room with um people. There was just not enough chairs. Um it was just it was wonderful to see our students performing. Um we had our faculty that were also engaged in performing as well. Um and the whole performance was written by our music teacher Aaron Smith. Um and I know that um the other
041music teachers in the district also helped completely packed. Um I was standing in the back of the room with people. There's just not enough chairs. that going. It was just it was wonderful to see our students performing. We had our faculty that were okay that's what it was. And we also had high school students participate. So we actually had high school students that came and they had helped with some of the choreography. Um they helped with the the sound, they helped with the the lighting and the and the performance. So, it was just it was an allaround wonderful opportunity to see our students and staff across the district collaborate for a performance um at the elementary school level. Um and this is the first time I've been here to see the elementary school do a
042musical. Um so, it's nice to see that tradition return back to the school. Um in um the high school um some wonderful news. Um we had a student that um has been um recognized as one of the top 10 students in New Haven County um in the chemistry olympiad um exam. Um and that's a wonderful accomplishment for for that student and he is going to be competing in the national exam later this month. We also have a high school student senior that got into Yale. Um and that is something that we should um celebrate as well. Um wonderful accomplishment um to that student. Um kudos to him for for reaching that milestone. Absolutely. Um and then um finally um not this coming Tuesday but the the following Tuesday is um the next board meeting and
043we have um students that will be recognized athletically from the high school from this past winter season. Um and we also have um the I Ready presentation. So I've got the reps from I Ready that will one rep is in Connecticut will be at the meeting with us. So, if there are specific questions that you have that you would like um that person to address, if you send that to me in advance, I can give it to that person so that um that they could tailor u make the the presentation and answer your questions when they're here that night. Great. Thank you. Thanks. Anything else, Robert? Um that's it. Okay. Um does anybody have any questions on what Robert just said? I just wanted to say that the kids did an amazing job at Great
044Oak. Um I sat next to Mr. Temple and that we tried to figure out the songs as they were starting. So I just think they did an amazing job and I thank the staff for being so actively involved in that process and it it was amazing and it was great to see the kids back on stage and even better watching some of our high school kids standing in the back dancing and showing the kids how how certain things to do. So it was it was really wonderful and I'm I'm very thankful that it was um able to be shown to so many people. So thank you. That's great. Yeah. So the next performance the middle school um students are right now practicing their um plays the um towards the end of April. I'll get that
045date out to you. Okay. And it is uh one of our former students who is direct I don't know is it directing or producing or both? Directing I believe. Yes. Directing the the play. So, so that's fantastic as well. Um, okay. So, for for my report just something, you know, very simply, um, next week is school vacation. So, I hope everybody has a wonderful week off and recharges for those of for those of you who have the week off. Um, and uh, wonderful signs of spring today when it was so warm. I know that Joe is very happy about that. Um, I'm sad to see the snow go. Uh, and I had a parent who um sent me an email and I'm can't remember what the beginning of it was, but um she eventually um
046recommended that we Oh, I know what it was that the board corner um she appreciated the the um blurb in the board corner in the newsletter and uh you know said that that was it made her understand you know the process um much more clearly. and she suggested that we post um our board meetings there. So, if you noticed in this week, you know, there's the board corner and last week, I'm sorry, last Friday was the board corner and we put the um the link to our our last meeting because we have a meeting twice in a row. It will be again for this one on the off meetings on the off weeks when we might not have meetings. There may or may not be something that we can put in there, but just so
047that people know that that um is a place where we will post um post a link to our meetings so people can um if they weren't able to attend they could view the meetings there. So I I think I thank that person for the suggestion and I followed through and um so I appreciate it. Okay, subcommittee reports. Um Mike isn't here. Uh, oh no, facilities. You're That's you, Joe. Sorry. I have nothing to add for uh this meeting. It's just uh Dr. Mill, it's nice to see the work being done up at the high school and uh keep keep it going. It's nice to see uh progress all the time going on up there. So, okay. Thank you. Um Deb, I think we meet curriculum meets on Monday. You got unmute, Deb. There's too many
048background noises at my house, so I keep tell um the dog does not like being on line. Um we will probably be an online meeting so just everybody check their agendas, but we um will meet on Monday. Okay, thank you. Um Nicole policy, we haven't met since the last meeting, so there's nothing to update right now. We don't. This is the other problem with having weeks, you know, meetings back toback and we don't get a whole lot done in between. Um, and finance. Um, that's Mike and Deb and I. And I know we haven't met. Um, we're just waiting for the town to to um go through their budget process and then we'll have to get into to high gear and um, you know, and see what what number they come back for us. And
049we do have a finance committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday. Yeah. And I believe according to the board of finance schedule that they did in January, the the meeting is supposed to be on the 17th. Okay. Um so that I guess I believe that's the meeting where they come and ask everybody, you know, what they think and so that that should be hopefully well attended by um the public as well as the board members. So yeah, I'll get I'll get more information and make sure that's still happening. But when they did their schedule in January, that was the date they had chosen was the 17th of April. Correct. And I have not heard anything official from Jack Piler or anybody. Yeah, it was just on their schedule. So I'm not sure if that if they're holding
050to that schedule, but it had the town meetings, it had the public hearing and all of those things on their schedule. So right up to this point they have posted their normal finance workshops um last this week and next week but they haven't gone beyond that. Yeah. And so um between Robert and I mean I can contact Jack too and just say you know give us a heads up when it's going to be because if you remember last year we kept on thinking that it was going to be this date and we all showed up and then it wasn't that date and then we showed up again and it wasn't that date and we showed up again. I mean they get they get pushed behind which is understandable but um as soon as we know
051um you know we can include that in that um that could be something else that could be included in that board corner of the newsletter. Okay. Anything else for finance Deb? I don't think so. No. Okay. Um are there any liaison reports? Uh I'll I'll just go first as far as Oasis. I I have not heard back from from Vinnie Provenzano. Um I did reach out to him. I will do so. Again, um I don't really know any other way than email to get in touch with him, but maybe I can check with Anthony um at the high school might have a a phone number for him. So, um I'll just keep at that to um to try to get a middle school program um that Oasis can sponsor. And I know that they were
052tied up today. Oasis um it collaborated with the high school today um actually high school and middle school this evening actually right now starting 15 minutes ago um was their um collaborative presentation to eth and native parents um sponsored by Oasis is a 90 minute um in-person program on wellness um and to encourage conversations between students and families um so that's taking place um right now. Good. And that that went to uh to middle school eighth grade parents as well. That's correct. Okay, good. That's and and the meeting and the presentation actually is being recorded. Um so after it's recorded, we've got it available to share that link out to families. Okay, wonderful. Any other liaison reports? Um I can just tell you that PTO had a eighth grade dance on Friday night which was
053well attended. So um that's all I have from PTO. Okay. Um hearing nothing else then we can go into um our next is executive session. So we will have to um have pe you know we can put people in a waiting room while we are in executive session and then um you can be let back in when we get out. Um so Debb do you want to do the motion? Oh and ask a question before you do that. Is Mike on? I didn't see Mike. No, he's unable to join us this evening. I can explain my um when he come in a few minutes. Yeah. Okay. So, just invite Dr. Miller. Okay. Motion to enter into executive session to discuss matters concerning security strategy and invite in Dr. Miller. Second. I'm gonna wait. I need
054a second. Joe second. All those in favor? I approve or abstain. Motion carries. Okay.