001Good evening everyone. I'm going to call the May 28th meeting to order at 7:01. If everyone could please stand for the pledge of allegiance. All right, roll call. Melissa Bacon here. Carmen Barski. Suzanne Bower excused. Mark Cardazano here. Elizabeth Day here. Michelle Felisetti here. Anastasia Ferguson here. Eric Garrison. Jod Lane here. Thomas Lee here. Jennifer Mayo here. Amy Morrison here. Wes Finny here. Adam Tangway excused. Angela Tardiff here. Judith Valent. Walker Viviian here. We have a quorum with 14 directors present. I have a couple adjustments to the agenda that I'd like to make a motion. So I'm going to make a motion to remove um the recognitions and celebrations, the first and the third of those. Um we still will have Abby here with us this evening. and then to also add three additional nominations
002which are on the updated agendas that Caitlyn uh brought this evening, FG, and H. So, I'll make a motion for those adjustments. Any discussion? All in favor? Uh, can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? Motion to approve. second. So, the consent agenda includes a couple of second reads, but you'll note that the standing committee's policy is not there for a second read. That's going back to policy next week uh based on our discussion. So, that will come for a second read on the 11th. Um but other than that, is there any discussion on the consent agenda? All in favor? That carries. Approval of the minutes from May 14, 2025. Make a motion. Anastasia Angela. Um, any questions, corrections, comments on the agenda? I mean, the minutes. That's what I meant. I knew
003what I meant. All in favor? Motion carries. Public comment. Do we have any public comment this evening? Next up, board chair report. We will start things off with recognitions and celebrations. Mr. Okconor. hear me now. Um, obviously I'm not Miss Grantham, but I am here speaking on her behalf. Abby has no idea why she's here, but she's up here and it's a big deal that she's standing up here right now. Right, Abby? Super nervous, right? Doing great. So Abby, we are here to recognize you. Um this is a certificate of recognition. Um in recognition of your creativity, initiative, and outstanding dedication to school spirit. After seeing the aging mascot at a football game, she didn't just noticed the problem, she became the solution. Through various fundraisers and pure determination, Abby raised the funds needed to
004bring two brand new matching mascots to life. one for each school. From cheerleading during seventh and eighth grade basketball games to bringing joy at unified basketball events, she's brought energy, joy, and unity wherever the mascot has gone. So, this was a a big big deal. You put some energy into it, made it happen, brought a lot of energy to the crowd. So, congratulations. This is for you, Abby. Good job. Can we get a picture real quick, Tim? Can we get a picture real quick? And also, um, that mascot costume is very hot, so we didn't want Abby to have to wear it, but we have a couple pictures that were sent that, um, you guys can take a look at and we can we can pass those on to you of the new mascot costumes
005and, um, yeah, we'll send them. We'll send them. So, I know. It's great. Yes. Um, so we're going to take a photo first. So if you look right there, turn right around. There you go. Hold up your certificate. There we go. [Applause] Um Um, fantastic job, Abby. um when you go to unified games and and the middle school games and uh I was at one game where first of all, not only did she raise funds for this um mascot, she is an amazing basketball player. So, um during uh one of the games I was at, I bet she scored like 40 points probably. It was like every time she shot, she made it in. Is that correct? Yeah. Just a really, really great player. And uh so thank you for all that you do and
006for the spirit you brought to the middle school and and to the high school. Nice work. You're all free to stay for the rest of the meeting, but also if you want to excuse yourself and enjoy the weather, we won't hold that against you. But thank you all for coming in. Thanks again, Abby. that doesn't apply to boards. A couple brief items for my board chair report this evening. Um, a quick reminder to to those who are up for election or reelection on June 10th. If you can get sworn in before our meeting on the 11th, that would be great. I think it's Waterborough, Lyman, and Alfred that will be doing elections that day. Um, and the what's that? It's after. So, I did want to take a moment and recognize that tonight is Angela's
007last meeting with us because she's not running for reelection. So, I wanted to thank her for her service to the board. We really appreciate it. So, yeah. No, after the election. And you can always stay on as an interim member. If no one gets elected, we'd be we'd love to have you then. That would be perfect. So, but thank you, Angela. We appreciate that. Right. Also, anyone who was elected or reelected in March, if you have not filled out your updated uh freedom of access training, that's due within 120 days of election or re-election. Um, I have mine because I haven't done it. Um, so if you can get that, go through the training and get the paperwork to myself or Caitlyn, um, then we can update that. So it has to happen within 120
008days of election or re-election. But that's all I have. I'm going to pass things over to Dr. Marky for the superintendent's report. Um, Walker, I'm going to actually hold on you for one second and then I'm going to come back to you and then I'll share my primary report. Um, but I do want to start my report by sharing um or introducing uh Caitlyn Carol back here. And Caitlyn has joined us um as the administrative assistant to the superintendent and really the school board. And we're really really um thankful that she's here. She's really doing a tremendous job. She's hit the ground running and uh is asking great questions. Um, and the learning curve is steep, but she's climbing at a very brisk rate. So, thank you. We're glad you're here. Happy Walker. Okay, good
009evening everyone. Um, so, uh, the last edition of the student representative report, um, covered the fact that there was no school on Memorial Day. Um, and with seniors at Master Bic High School looking forward to their upcoming graduation. Other grades are wrapping up their school year. So, the senior class at Master Bic High School has an exciting week planned to finish their high school career. They're having a class trip to Six Flags and their final academic day. Then, a senior breakfast marching practice. And then they'll witness a hypnotist in the auditorium. And then the day before graduation, they'll visit their old elementary school and then have an evening awards ceremony. And then Thursday, June 5th at 4M, students will arrive at the high school and board a bus to the Cross Insurance Arena where they
010will have their graduation which begins at 700 p.m. The Mustang Theater had a bottle drive last Saturday at the high school. And the MHS student council hosted a unified prom. The Massique Middle School sixth grade parent night on May 20th went well. Parents were able to meet their principles and learn about what changes the transition into sixth grade for will bring for their students and their families. On Friday, May 22nd, the seventh grade had a field trip and on May 29th, the eighth graders will have a field trip to SRTC. The last meeting of the Massistic Middle School and Massive High School game club and chess club happened recently as well. On Monday, May 12th, 16 Massic Middle School students travel to the 7th annual student leadership conference at UNE. They are able to spend
011the day with students from other schools learning valuable leadership skills that they are already applying to their everyday lives. Kindergarten screening has been happening and Master Basic High School National Honors Society students have been volunteering to help run the process. On May 30th, Alfred Elementary School will have a music showcase. They uh sign up for their annual variety show which uh is takes place on the last day of school. We're due by May 16th. and they have other events upcoming like their anything but a backpack day and their due date for their yearbook orders. Uh on May 14th, fourth and fifth graders at the school presented their research projects about the Great Barrier Reef. They were able to learn a lot about the reef and specific animals and learn about the research and presentation process.
012On May 21st, Wyman Elementary had a music showcase and then the next day they had a mu another music showcase for the upper grades and students were able to demonstrate all that they've learned in their music classes this year. There also a few upcoming field trips at Chappley Memorial School. Students had to uh will have to return all their books to the library by the end of the school year and are no longer to check out any new books. During the first week of June, all grades at the school will be participating in a tie-dye project for their art class where they can have a fun tie-dyed shirt to begin summer vacation. Order forms for chapel yearbooks were sent out and are due by May 30th. And all fifth graders will be given a yearbook
013from the PTC during their graduation ceremony. They have an annual egg drop challenge which is occurring on May 30th where students design a safety device for their egg and drop it off of the roof and try to uh keep it safe during the journey. Uh parents are welcome to attend and support their child's safety device. Uh the Boomer Bookworm reading program had a high level of student involvement at the school and participating families are invited to two special Sanford Mayers games this summer where students are able to have free entry, free books, giveaways and other fun things. There was a great turnout at Chappley Spring Bookf Fair and Family Night where there was a showcase of learning and ice cream social and Lego activities. And there was a form sent out to fifth grade parents
014to fill out if their child is interested in joining band next year at the middle school. And on May 21st, the Mass Basics Middle School principal visited the school for half an hour to talk to fifth graders about the transition into middle school. And finally, on May 30th, there will be a stuffy day for the school spirit day. And that concludes the student representative report. Thank you as always. Great job, Walker. There any questions for Walker? Okay. Um, in your minutes after tonight's meeting, you'll have all the dates that I'm going to share. I'm going to kind of rapid fire. There's a lot going on. Um, you know, the first couple weeks of school and the last couple weeks of school are just really exciting, joyful uh times to celebrate kids and their accomplishments. Um,
015so on June 5th, that evening at 7 o'clock in our high school gymnasium will be the senior awards night. Um, sorry, June 4th. Um, I wrote it wrong. I was just testing you. That's what a good teacher does sometimes. They test their students to see if they're listening. God, I wish that were true, but I messed up. So, June 4th at 700 PM in our high school gymnasium. I was wondering why Mr. Thurlo gave me the hairy eyeball when I said it wrong, but he didn't save me. Um, and then June 5th, I repeat, June 5th will be graduation cross center. Um, there's nothing better. I've been talking about this several times today. our high school graduation. The setup, the organization, the detail that our high school administration and staff put into that event is
016um I've been to several graduations in that facility, always at the university level, and uh they only wish they could do it as well as Masses High. So June 5th, 7 p.m. On June 18th at 6:00 p.m. will be the um uh Massabis adult um graduation here in our gymnasium in this building. And then there'll be a reception the follow. I love all of our graduations, but I'm June 18th at 6 PM. I'm glad I didn't mess that one up. Oh, you got um and uh that is like my favorite graduation um by a long shot even though our high school one over at the cross is quite exceptional. So I hope that you get a chance to attend those. Um we will be talking later in the agenda about some summer meetings u because
017we do have to by statute have meetings. Those will be really brief meetings really about approvals and then any any action items that the board might have. but it's really about hiring staff um at that time. And also we'll talk about the the board um workshop that follows a a nice um gathering with board and administrators for dinner just so you all get to know each other over time. um in the backup um or on the agenda. Student enrollment information is um in the backup uh as well as um Walker's report. The truency report is in the backup, but we're going to give you more detail at our next board meeting and that will be provided by Dr. Doyle. So, that was a a request, but um we didn't actually have time to pull that
018together in a in a way that we would like. Um over the next several uh next couple weeks, we're going to have just loads of things. Um I encourage you as you're able um and you're on campus, there's always something happening throughout our district over the next two weeks. Even tonight, we had senior night for our softball team. There's a big game going on out in the stadium. So, we have performances, we have concerts, lots of awards, recognitions. I know that um some of you were present um at SRTC last week. What a great event that was celebrating our our students who attend SRTC. I think we had 22 scholarships given to Massaic students last week. Um Dr. Doyle, myself, Mr. Lever Virtue, I know you were there. I saw you up in the stands.
019Saw you there. Um, and we also had three of the student of the year finalists and the award winner. So, there's just a lot of things happening. We'll have recognitions. We'll have field days at our elementary school. We'll have student expositions at our middle school. Um, there'll be variety shows. There's just a lot going on. So, there's nothing better than this time of year. Um, Waterboroough Elementary, I think I shared last time, has um, their art exhibit opening. Um, Miss Nucci does a tremendous job. She'll be bringing some of that art and putting it on display in the superintendent's office. Um, I myself or Dr. Doyle, she might type this right now. It might be nice to have some of the student art put into this room as well. Um, we've been in the throws
020of testing. Final testing concludes on Friday, but the vast majority of our students have already completed testing and we as an administrative team have been talking about those assessments and I think the results are coming back in a very favorable light, but we're really going to dig a lot deeper on springtospring testing as well as throughear testing. We really believe that when a kid is testing in the spring and then they go to another teacher, we want to make sure that we're assessing how they left one teacher and how they leave the next teacher so we can actually look at that data. A lot of times we do uh schools do like fall to spring, but it's really spring to spring. So you'll be getting far more information about that in the near future. That
021concludes my report. As always, we appreciate your your ongoing support and uh these are busy times. We're hiring a lot of really good people with diverse backgrounds from all over and then also a lot of recent grads. So, you'll see in the backup that some of those individuals don't have a lot of relevant experience because they're just graduating now and um have just finished student teaching and such or they're coming from all over. Um, most recently this afternoon, I interviewed somebody from Utah who's going to be really, really dynamic. Um, and that adds a little flavor to our school system as we're getting folks from all over. Any questions? You have any, Dr. Doyle will answer them. Okay. Great. All right. Thank you. Next up is standing committees. I know that curriculum, HR, and PR,
022tech have all wrapped things up for the year. So, we will do the other three. Finance, building, and maintenance. Wes, yes, finance met tonight. Um, our next meeting will be June 11th at 6 PM. Tonight, we discussed the fact that finance won't be meeting over the summer unless there's a particular business that we need to meet on. and Colin Walsh, our finance director, will uh keep me ab breast of things and we're liable to just have to meet. Um the modular project is close close to being done. I know we keep reporting that out, but Colin feels that that should be happening real soon for us. um the paid family medical leave uh that we voted to go to the main school management um that was chosen by us previous meeting as a board uh
023main department of labor labor did approve this um a parent teacher group um gave a donation of a vending machine um to uh allow the purchase of books out of for Alfred Elementary School. The value of it was $6,190. The finance committee uh unanimously voted to accept that gift. Tokens will be used in that machine, not money. Um for the budget update, everybody remember uh June 10th is the district referendum vote if we can keep spreading the word on that. Um some year end items. uh fiscal working on closing the FY25 books and we'll be opening up uh on an ongoing basis FY26 very soon. Um also on July 28th the auditors are going to be here on site. Um there was a discussion on the uh stadium scoreboard advertising at the June 11th meeting.
024will bring before the board uh a recommendation for that. Um that was pretty much the basis of the meeting. There were a lot of discussion and ongoing review of uh upcoming issues for the summer projects and um there'll be a list of those available if anyone needs it through Colin. That's the report. Thank you Jody. Thanks Wes. Any questions for Wes? Next up, policy. We have not met since our last boarding board meeting. We are meeting next Tuesday the 3 at 6 pm right here in the east building to wrap things up for the year. Any questions on policy? Uh transportation. Jen, um we met last night here at 6. Uh Colin gave a budget update. He said that they don't see a lot of changing uh between now and the end of the year.
025Uh they're on target with salaries and benefits maybe a little under budget. Professional services are a little over budget due to outside services needed which is required by state law. Bus repairs are on budget. Gas fuel are on budget. Um bus parts may be a little under budget because our mechanics have been doing such a great job keeping the fleet uh in order. and any changes that come will be brought before uh the finance committee. Uh Richie the transmission director gave his update. Uh right now he has three spare drivers and two van drivers are going for CDL. So we'll be looking for more van drivers. So far right now, all van all drivers are looking to return in the fall and he's but he's still going to be looking to do some hiring events
026in the summer and this year all routes were covered um which was pretty amazing compared to last year. The fleet is running well. Um the last two buses of 2025 are being outfitted with radios. They should be in by the end of June. We got a new um bus write software like a GPS tracking that went in uh 10 buses. A few of us on the committee uh since we have kids are kind of like guinea pigs for that. Um we've all liked what we've seen so far and the plan is to have all buses outfitted with them um by the end of the summer. See, um, there was a competition, I forgot the competition that some drivers and mechanics went to, um, but one of our mechanics got a third place, um, ribbon trophy
027and the whole Massabistic team came in first. And a big thing that I wanted to put out was um Richie stated that this year at that point yesterday they'd only not cancelled 11 roots but had fillins whereas last year it was60 at that point. Um we went into an executive session at 623 and that was the end of the meeting and we won't be meeting again in June. Thank you. Any questions for Jen? Right. Next up, old business. We have none. We'll start off new business with our nominations. So, tonight we are looking at Matthew Eastman, math teacher for Massbek High School. Tracy Hollingsworth, grade 8 math teacher, Massbek Middle School. Briana Ordway, grade 1 teacher, Line Elementary School. Anna Lavine, grade five teacher, Line Elementary School. Heidi Bruntton, assistant director of special services, grades
0286 to 12. Leah Richards, principal, Line Elementary School. Jillian Town, grade three, Waterboro Elementary School. And Lucy Tullis, Fizzed, K to5, Alfred and Lyman. I have a motion to accept those nominations. Second, Mark. So, Anastasia and Mark, go ahead, J. Um, I see Matthew on here, but it looks like we had voted him in in the last meeting in the minutes. What's he double? So, I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss something. Was he taken out last? Go ahead. That would be an error on my part. Um, where when I said that steep learning curve, I tend to put roadblocks in that curve. Um, so, um, so, so we we literally are interviewing up until the meetings. So, that was an error where I wasn't putting it all together. So, we already approved
029him, so he doesn't need to be approved. Okay. Yeah. Thanks for catching that, Jen. It's better to be approved twice than not at all. Right. And also, I'll tell you that Dr. Marquee and Dr. Doyle and I, it took the three of us to do the agenda for the May 14th meeting. Yeah, for real. All right. Any other discussion on the nominations? All in favor? All right. Motion carries. All right. Next up, school board summer meeting schedule. So, Dr. Marque and I spoke about this last week when we were setting the agenda, looking at the calendar for over the summer and the ability to approve nominations um so that the superintendent can hire during the summer um to take care of any business and not have that pile up for the first August meeting. So
030when we were discussing that meeting schedule kind of went a little off with um so in past years we have the first meeting in June and then we break until the beginning of August. So we added the second meeting in June bump the July meetings not on the second and fourth Wednesdays to get them further from the holiday um because we understand that people are busy during the summer. and then back onto our regular meeting schedule in August where we would start the school year essentially on August 13th with dinner with the admin and then our next meeting on the 27th. We'd also be looking to put in a summer workshop um in there as well and I would be com, you know, very open to any suggestions on what that workshop could and should
031entail. Um, I would love to have admin join us for another workshop, whether it's that one or down the road. Um, because I thought that that was very productive at our last one. Um, but these summer meetings would be six o'clock meetings. They would be very quick. I'm assuming the uh the two July and the second one in June would all be six o'clock meetings in anticipation of the approval of the realignment of the committees. And once that policy goes through the second read, then the board chair, superintendent, assistant superintendent, and the director of finance would have a meeting to set the committee schedule for next year with that realignment. Um I spoke to that at finance tonight. anything you want to add? What I would want to add is on July 16th and July
03230th, those would be approval meetings for new hires. So, the real key is getting quorum. So, if you had summer plans and we could work ahead of time so we know that we have quorum. Obviously, we'd want you all to be president at every meeting, but that might be the time where um if you had conflicts, we'd want to support your conflicts and um we just want to be able to hire staff. Literally, I've offered, I'd say, five different positions this over the last two weeks, and people accept them and decline them after the fact. So until we actually get them approved, they um and we could be hiring people that still we need to rehire for later, but just want to stress we don't necessarily need 17 or 18 board members at the July
03316th and the July 30th, but we need to have at least say 11, right? So currently we have 16 board members, so a quorum would be nine. based on our current um seating that will be dependent the June 10th election. We'll kind of see how those things flush out. Um see if you know we can get some of those vacancies in Chapley filled. But so at this point we those with the June 25th, July 16th, July 30th meetings would be quick nomination approvals. anything that came up for um that needed approval over the summer if that works and if you can all take a look at your schedules and like I said 6:00 meetings six to six um yes I would look for a motion to approve the summer meeting schedule Beth and Anastasia good
034answer my other Absolutely. For those particular meetings, we set them at six. I think it could be a conversation point. It's a summer schedule. So, if if your schedule allowed and it's better to just throwing out an idea, you guys can push back. Say it's four or five or 9 in the morning. You could do any number, but it doesn't necessarily have to be at night. I'm only suggesting that so that it doesn't chew up your whole evening during the summer season. Just throwing that out there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's why like I didn't know if somebody might say, "No, five is better or 5:30 is better." Doesn't matter. 7 a.m. I'm already at work. Wow. It's negotiable with Right. I just definitely didn't want to do 7:00 meetings. Like six is good. 5:30 is
035pretty good. Um we can certainly adjust the time. I just wanted to throw those dates out tonight and then um I would anticipate that by the June 25th meeting we would have the 2025 2026 school board and committee schedule ready for you guys so you can um have that for next year. There's no discussion just to keep it um yeah any other discussion on the summer meeting schedule? Are we good with those three dates at six o'clock? All in favor? Opposed? Uh, motion carries. Next up, authorization for the treasurer to transfer up to the 5% authorization limit for fiscal year 2024 2025. Mr. Walsh. Good evening. It's that time of year where there's some customary stuff that comes before the finance committee and the board and this is one of them. In accordance with state
036statute as well as schoolboard policy, um what this authorization does is it allows Dr. Marquee as secretary and treasurer of the board in order to approve and authorize up to a 5% transfer between the 11 Warren articles. Um this as we close the books for the year, we close our purchase orders for the year. We have the audit performed. Um there may be a time where an article goes over just a little bit. Um, so the board is required to approve this authorization to authorize Steve to do that and then that anytime that this authorization is utilized, it goes back before finance committee, they are informed of it um either when it occurs or as the audit's completed as part of the audit process and then it would be reported out to you from a
037finance committee level to the full board. So, um, in accordance with state statute, I'd ask the board to consider, um, authorizing in this authority to Steve in order to do as we finish out the fiscal year. Do I have a motion? I hold on, wait till the motion's made. I move that the vote entitled vote to authorize treasurer to transfer amounts among cost centers be approved in form presented to this meeting in that the secretary file an attested copy of said vote with the minutes of this meeting go all right so that's made the motion Michelle seconded is there any discussion any questions on this all in favor opposed motion carries Bless you. Bless you. Uh, next up, notification of the disposition of district property. This agenda item does not necessarily need a board motion.
038It's more of anformational item. Um, in accordance with board policy, there's times during the summer in which we are um, obviously cleaning buildings, organizing, and working with principles and staff um, in order to get rid of things that may be broken, may be unsafe, things that aren't utilized anymore. And there's a word policy on this and it goes through finance committee as well um in the tracking of that and my reporting out on that. The reason it's brought before you is because there's been times over the years where someone is on our property during the summer and goes, "Oh, what's all that stuff outside and why is the school putting it outside?" Um it's to inform you as a board that if um you hear or see of that that you've got information before you
039as to why we're doing it and what's occurring. You're always welcome as a board member to ask myself, ask um anyone in central office, ask Steve about well why is that occurring and what is it? I like to be proactive with this one because these are taxpayer dollars. These are assets um and supplies that we've acquired over the years through the budget process. And I think it's important for you as a board as well to also understand that we're following board policy when we do this and that there's a specific board policy on that. Um so I'm happy to answer any questions on this. Um but I do think it's important in my tenure here, it's been important to just take a minute or two and explain it for you as a board to understand
040it and if there's questions to be able to answer them. Any questions for Colin? Thanks. Next up, authorization to allow the superintendent to pay debts of the district during summer 2025 without the prior approval of the school board. No, he said that no one that we didn't need action on that. That did not need action unless the board wishes to take it, but there's no action required on that. It's moreformational. Sorry, that's okay. authorization to allow the superintendent to pay debts of the district during summer 2025 without the prior approval of the school board and its finance committee. So, um this does not have a statutory requirement, but it is embedded within board policies and procedures in regards to the finance committee's authorization. They review what's called warrants or the bills we pay at each
041of their meetings. It's a standing agenda item for them. During the summer, the finance committee does not meet. they will see all of those warrants when they return at their meeting um either in August or September, but in the meantime um they typically see those at every meeting and they approve them at every meeting and make a motion. Um historically, the board has allowed the authorization um to pay bills and to have myself and Steve as treasurer to be able to continue to pay those bills without the finance committee meeting. Again, there's no statutory reading of that. It's more of the board giving that authorization, having it part of the minutes, and being able to ask any questions as to that process. All right. So, we would look for a motion to authorize the superintendent
042to do that for the summer. Anastasia made the motion. Melissa seconded. Any dis Oh, was it Melissa? Right. Um, any discussion, questions? All in favor? Motion carries. Thanks, Colin. Um, next up is the 2024 2025 school calendar adjustments. So, we wanted to bring this to you tonight because so we build our school calendar with 176 student days. The requirement is 175 student days. Um, we do like to keep that 176, but with the snow days that um occurred this year, that day we're now it's brought us around to Monday the 16th as the last day of school as an early release day. So, as a school board, we have the authority to make an adjustment to the calendar as long as we stay with those minimum student days. And we could designate um the 13th,
043which is a Friday of June, to be the last student day. Um there'll be field days and all of that. So, it would be a full day and then the 16th would be a staff day and kids wouldn't have to come back over the weekend. So, we have done this a few times in the past when that last day loops around um over the weekend. So, that's why I wanted to bring this to you tonight so that if we did make that decision um we could get the word out. Did you want to weigh in? Go ahead. Um first, I would want the board to understand um that this wouldn't be considered an annual event. I think it's always you don't the decisions of one board cannot tie the hands of a subsequent board. Okay.
044So um but given the way it falls to have Friday as a full student day because there are a lot of activities and it is currently a full day and then we could have Monday as a full staff day but kind of with a wrinkle where and I have not talked to the administrative team about this so this is news to Ty for example and Colin for example and even Amanda um That Monday would still be a full staff day in in buildings, but then we would have um what I would then want to do is do a um a send off for our staff at the middle school kind of a closure, acknowledge retirees and accomplishments of the year and then after lunch folks um can continue to pack up or if they've done
045it in advance, they would head off. So likely their day would end by say 1:00. That would be my recommendation based on my conversation with Jody if the board were approval. Again, not an annual thing. No. Because you never know what happens and it it really shouldn't be it does not create past practice, right? But we never had the chance to really say goodbye to people. why there is some benefit the way that this would roll out, right? Oh, go ahead. I just want to point out a funny fact, a little funny point. We tried to do this last year and Dr. Mark, he jinxed everything with the April snowstorm. So, but we're not having a June one. So, I know the no snow day year. almost. Um, all right. So, what is the direction
046of the board? I make a motion we adjust the 2425 school calendar to end school for students on June 13th. Full day. All right. Anastasia made the motion. Jen seconded. All right. So, this would bring it down to 175 student days, which still meets our requirements. um and a good send off for our staff on that following Monday. Any discussion, questions, comments? All in favor? Motion carries. We'll update the calendar. Um calendar and announcements are at the bottom of your agenda. So, anyone who can make it to senior awards night, that's a really great event. Anyone who can make it to graduation, that's a really great event. Um, otherwise we will see you at our next board meeting which will be June 11th at 7 p.m. Um, and if there's nothing else, we are adjourned
047at 7:45 p.m.