001One, two, three, four, five. All right. Good evening, everyone. I'm going to call the July 16th meeting to order at 6 p.m. If everyone could please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Uh, roll call. Melissa Bacon. >> Carmen Barski. >> Suzanne Bower excused. Mark Cardzano here. >> Welcome back. >> Elizabeth Day. Michelle Felicetti, >> Anastasia Ferguson >> here, >> Eric Garrison, >> Jodie Lane here, Jennifer Mayo, >> Amy Morrison >> here, >> West Finny >> here, >> Adam Tangway, >> D Vigliata, Judith Val, >> Walker, Vivian >> here. >> We have a quorum with 13 directors present. I would like to make a
002motion to make one adjustment to the agenda and add an additional nomination, which would be letter G for Megan Taylor, a title one at line >> H G H >> I only have the right one. >> Look at the >> H. Megan Taylor title one line elementary what happens when you print it too soon. Uh so I'll make that motion. Can I get a second? >> Any discussion on that adjustment? All in favor? We'll add that one. Uh consent agenda. Do I have a motion to accept the consent agenda? Motion to >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion on that? All in favor? That motion carries? Public comment. Any public comment this evening? Um I have nothing for Well, my board chair update the I passed out hard copies. I'll
003get you on Adam of the updated schoolboard meeting schedule. I know it was included with your agenda as well, but there were some corrections to the committee meetings under finance. Um, some of those dates were wrong. So, um, I had a second set of eyes take a look at that with me and I'm much more confident that it's correct. Mr. So, that's all I have and we will have uh, Dr. Marquee give the superintendent report. >> Yeah, it'll be very brief. Um, we're going to be fast and furious coming in with new hires each time. I interviewed a couple people yesterday. I interviewed someone just prior to this meeting, which is Megan Taylor. Um, just so you're aware, it's there's a lot of moving parts with with folks coming and going. I do want to
004share uh an update related to our application for the 2425 um main department of education major capital improvement application. that was that it was a huge application that we completed. 95 schools in the state of Maine completed that. Uh I'm sad to say we we scored quite high, but I can't imagine that we will actually um be supported. We came in number 20 of the 22 high schools in the state of Maine. We came in number four in area of need. And uh personally knowing some of the schools at the top of the list, I can say with confidence the ones that I've visited were in far worse shape than our high school. Um so so we did move up. The last time around we were 27th. We moved to 20th. Um and uh I
005can share with you the full report at our next meeting. I did share it with um with Wes and Jody uh given their roles as board chair and um the finance chair just prior to this meeting because I just got it today and to Ben and Colin and Ty just so they have some time to digest um all the scoring rubrics. So we'll get that to you. My last item, um I was asked to give a report out about the um Supreme Court um decision related to the United States Department of Education, which um authorizes um the president to to do some some things that could uh that will likely change to the Department of Education. I'm not prepared to speak this evening um because that's so new and I and we haven't really vetted
006what that impact could be on the district or on the state of Maine um and how it actually gets rolled out. It's it's difficult to project right now because there's um so much drastic shifting in policy one day to the next. So, it's really hard to kind of provide you with meaningful information on the heels of that decision from the other day. That concludes what I wanted to share with you this evening. Thank you. Any questions for Dr. Marque? All right. Next up, our standing committees are on break for the summer. Uh we have no old business, so we'll move on to new business and we will start with nominations. I'm gonna try and read these. Um, Dr. Marquee hired to all the people with hard names this week. So, we have Benjamin Senakal, elementary
007physical education teacher, Waterboro Elementary. Ana Oberg, MLL teacher districtwide. Jessica Tumi, special education teacher, Lyman Elementary. Matthew P., physical science teacher, Massac High School. Michelle Priene, special education teacher, Massac High School. Katherine Drew, English teacher, Massac High School. Aaron Boyd, special education day treatment teacher, Massiec East. And Megan Taylor, Title One at Line Elementary. Do we have a motion to accept those nominations? >> Accept. >> Anastasia Mark. So, we have a motion and a second to accept. Any discussion or questions on the nominations? Judith, >> uh, what is meant by MLL teacher district? >> Um, it's for those students whose who English is not their native language. So, it's multil- language learners. So, they might come or have experience with non-English languages, could be French, could be Spanish, could be any number of languages. and
008the position um is required by law supports those students who are learning English. >> And um it's not an addition. We actually had um someone for the past year that came up from uh this um outside of the state of Maine that's returning to their previous location. >> Yep. Yeah. It's called uh ELLL, ESOL, MLL. It's It changes every couple years. >> Thank you. >> Yep. >> Uh any further discussion on the nominations? All in favor? >> Motion carries. >> And and just for your knowledge, as you're seeing a lot of these um applicants, we are having folks that are joining us from all over in this pool here. We have Texas um and slash v um Vermont. We have Pennsylvania. We have Arizona. We last meeting we had Utah. So we have a lot
009of folks coming in from around um a lot of people are moving to the state of Maine. >> Right. Uh we don't have an executive session this evening. Calendar and announcements are at the bottom of your agenda. Our next school board meeting is July 30th at 6 PM right here in the East Building. Um, I appreciate you all coming in to take care of this very important business, but we are adjourned. 6:10 p.m.