001Same circle. So excited. Yeah. Ah, there. Oh my god, our old eyes can see now. I was wondering what was not quite right about the room. All right. Good evening. I'll go ahead and call the school board meeting to order. Let the record reflect that all schoolboard members are here and that the mayor is absent due to a travel conflict. Would you please join us for the pledge of allegiance? All right. First item on the agenda is public hearing for FY23 school board proposed budget. Okay. This would be the time where uh public would have an opportunity to come up and talk about uh the school budget piece. If anyone wishes to address the school board regarding the budget, please come to the podium, give your name and address and address the school board. Okay,
002seeing none, I guess I will close the public hearing, which brings us to item four, which is the approval of schoolboard minutes dated March 23rd, 2022. Is there a motion? Motion. Uh, I move we approve the school board meeting minutes dated March 23rd, 22. Second. Second. School member Prebble. Yes. Any discussion? Okay, roll call vote. School board member Archie, yes. School board member Prebble, yes. School board member Richard, yes. I vote yes. School board member Gail, yes. School board member Truman, yes. And school board member Johnston, yes. A motion passes 70. Okay, that brings us to item five, adjustments to the agenda, which I don't believe there are any this evening. Okay, next item six is correspondence. Do we have any correspondence this evening? Okay, that brings us to the public session. If anyone wishes
003to address the school board, please come to the podium, give your name and address, and address the school board. My name is Holly TR and I am representing the SACO Education Association. The SACO Education Association would like to thank the SAGO school board for adjusting the budget to include the new CDS preK special education teacher. We're excited about this position and its anticipated positive impact on both the future preK students and the preK staff in our district. This support was crucial and we would like to extend extend our sincerest gratitude. Furthermore, we're grateful for the new administrators in our buildings at CK Burns, Young and SMS. There have been a lot there has been a lot of change in administration from the 2021 to 2122 school year, and we're thankful for the quality of the
004administrators that were hired at our schools. We found that they're caring, supportive, and work closely with the association to problem solve effectively and quickly. In addition, we understand that the water that um on the agenda tonight is the water mitigation issue. We understand that that takes time, but we also request that you do all that you can to help resolve the levels of lead in school water as quickly as possible for the safety of our students and staff. Obviously, it has a big impact on the functioning of the affected schools, even at the curricular level. We request that any necessary fixture changes occur as soon as possible and that any fixtures that are not deemed necessary to replace after they're flushed or rechecked on a regular basis to be be sure that they're not building
005up lead deposits from pipes underground or other unknown sources, ensuring the continued safety of our students and staff. Thank you for your attention to this crucial matter this evening. Thank you. Anyone else wishing to address the school board? Okay, I'll go ahead and close the public session and move on to superintendent report. Okay, good evening everybody. Um, first thing that I'd like to talk out is everybody in this room and from from the board to the public, circle May 23rd on your calendar. Uh Megan and I were able to lock down uh the date um time to be announced, but it'll probably be about a 6 p.m. start. That will be our next public meeting on building project on at that meeting. We will talk about the vernal pool reports from all four sites. We
006should have them back on those dates. We will talk about our programming options in other sites. Uh and we hope that this is a big meeting in the community uh because we got to start picking up a little bit of steam and making some decisions so we can look at the path moving forward. Our goal uh I think we're looking at SMS hopefully that night if it's available. I got to check with Jeff uh but making sure we have a large enough space um for the public at that uh event. On April 21st um Jess Clark and Chris will be attending a job fair at BEu. Um it is our goal to kind of reach out a little bit more regionally for recruitment of future employees. Um both uh we've been to Farmington job fair
007now one in the Boston area as we know that as we enter the hiring season um we need a larger pool to draw from more diversity trying to sell the fact that the Saco Bifford Dayton area is really only 1.5 hours from Boston. There's a train that stops here. We can commute easily. um and try to just broaden and and grow that applicant pool. Um it's always exciting when we get to say that April vacation starts tomorrow. Uh certainly you can see that uh some of our staff and some of our families are taking advantage of that early start to break uh which we know can be helpful for our pocketbooks and uh for our mental health with a few extra days of sunshine. Um once we come back from vacation, we're going to need
008to spend uh a little bit of time with our principles and with our city uh department heads just thinking about all of the summer programming um that come that we work through with the grant that we received for title one for special education summer school for ELLL summer school for the parks and recck program and making sure that we have a a plan in place and understand you know when we need to be out of buildings where people are at uh so that Mike and his crew can do plenty of uh all the cleaning and maintenance stuff that happens in the summertime. Um, at an upcoming meeting in May, we will be honoring our SACO retirees. I am going to plan that uh hopefully for the five o'clock meeting so that we can have a
009little bit of a reception beforehand uh for our retirees going into that um going into that evening. Um Jeff and Meg are working on really as we are hopeful that our work tonight on the budget and the city council and furniture for the middle school. Uh they're really trying to work on solidifying what those final counts of desks, chairs, tables will be. We believe we're having another set of products dropped off tomorrow, Meg, so that staff can look at those. we can get some input, work on what colors uh would match the school. And then uh we'll be working with Oakpoint uh just to make sure that like paint and chairs and tables and all those things have some sort of color scheme that goes together. Uh and then finally, we'll also be working with
010principles and admin after vacation. Um just to look at the start and end times that we have for all of our schools. We know this year that we we can't have all three elementary schools starting at the same time and we had to make some adjustments and we need to just anticipate the traffic patterns and the changes so that we can have, you know, five five or six minutes in between so we can get buses out of the out of the yards and across town. That will be something that uh we'll do right after vacation. Any questions? Any questions from the board? The only one that that I have is just a followup regarding the retirees. Do you know know off the top of your head what day that was going to be the five
011o'clock meeting? I believe that's the second meeting. So I think we would be aiming for the 25th. Okay. Moving on to item nine. That's the chair's report. I don't have anything specific this evening. So I'll move on to staff reports of which there are none in this particular agenda. Um item 11 is board subcommittees. There is a uh strategic committee set of minutes in there in the packet. We have no old business this evening. And so moving on to new business. The first item item A is new hires. There is no action that is also in the packet. So item B is resignations and I believe we would have a motion to go with those chair of Fortune. Uh I move we accept the retirement of Carol Powers, CK Burns teacher, Kathy Baggeron, sorry if
012I butchered it, CK Burns teacher, Patricia Molton, occupational therapist, Janice Johnston, Sako Middle School counselor. Sherry Kovville, Fairfield teacher. Deb Carroll, CK Burns, social worker. Lawrence Rin Hartston Middle School gifted and talented teacher effective at the end of the 2122 school year. Second. Second was Beth Justin. Yes. Okay. Any discussion? I just want to say thank you um to everybody for their uh commitment and um dedication to our students. Um and the only one on the list that I've had my own um experience with with my with my kids is um Sher Kovville. And I just want to thank her for all the great work she did with the reading program. And um yeah, thank you for everybody else for for all that they did and are doing. Okay, roll call vote. School board member
013Archie, yes. School board member Prebble, yes. School board member Richard, yes. I vote yes. School board member Gail, yes. School board member Truman, yes. And school board member Johnson, yes. Okay. Motion passes 70. [clears throat] That brings us to item C, which is And we have one more. Oh, we do, don't we? Yes, we do. I move we accept the retirement of Lisa Arnold, Fairfield teacher, effective October 28th, 22. Second. First and second. Any discussion? Again, I just want to say thank you um to Lisa Arnold for for her service with the SO schools. Roll call vote. School board member Archie, yes. School board member Prebble, yes. School board member Richard, yes. I vote yes. School board member Gail, yes. School board member Truman, yes. And school board member Johnston, yes. Motion passes 70. Brings
014us to item C, which is Sako Middle School principal recommendation. Mr. Mr. Chair, I move we approve the nomination of Marie Susi, Sako Middle School principal, and issue a contract for the 2022 2023 school year. Second, any discussion? So, I'd just like to say that I'm pleased to recommend Marie uh to serve as principal at SMS uh beginning on July 1. Uh we were fortunate enough to have 10 quality candidates for the position. Um and Marie quickly rose to the top of that that list uh based off her background as a middle school teacher, her background as an assistant principal at York Middle School and currently as the principal at uh Ry Junior High. Also during the process we were able to include 25 different members of either faculty or the community. Um and uni
015unanimously uh Marie is our choice. So I'd like to you know before the vote comes in I really want to welcome Marie to the SACO school department. She is very familiar with SACO. Um, and I think that uh we're just fortunate to have a quality candidate like this to be able to uh lead our building in the future if if you approve. Thank you. Any additional discussion? Just congratulations and welcome aboard and we're excited to have you on. Okay. Roll call vote. School board member Archie? Yes. School board member Prebble? Yes. School board member Richard? Yes. I vote yes. School board member Gail. Yes. School board member Truman. Yes. And school board member Johnston. Yes. Motion passes 70. Welcome aboard. All right. That brings us to item D, which is the CO update. I'm just
016going to have Marie come to the mic. Oh, sure. For a second. Thank you. I just want to say thank you to the search committee and superintendent Ray. As it was mentioned earlier tonight by Miss Tardier, this is a excellent group of administrators that I'm joining very dedicated and also a great uh group a staff at Sco Middle School and I'm really excited to work with this school community. So, thank you. Okay, moving on to item D. It's the CO update. So, in your packet is a a memo that continues to list the number of positive pools and cases that we've had. Uh we've been on um almost knock on wood a very good run after the last few weeks. Uh and let's hope that as we return from vacation that we are still in
017a positive situation. For any parents who are who are out there, we have plenty of COVID tests available if you want to contact the school and pick those up. Um, as you think about traveling or a week of different uh environments that you'll be in, whether that's camps or uh away, we want to make sure that people have access to tests so they can reach out and get those at the school. They come in the boxes of two rapid tests. Um, also just uh, you know, of note is that we did have some conversations the last few weeks uh with the CDC and the DOE about whether pool testing will continue. That's still something that's up in the air. Uh they're really shifting their focus to having rapid tests available at schools so that if
018somebody has symptoms, we can just quickly test uh and move in that direction. So, it'll be interesting to see what happens after vacation or if any of the upticks in the Mid-Atlantic states um change things for us here. Marale, Superintendent Ray, just a quick thing on the on the tests. Would it be possible to have on our website um just like a call out box that says that these are available for folks to to pick up at the school or or just yeah get a hold of that? Yeah, we can make that happen. And then just in terms of that pool testing piece, um kind of given the uncertainty, um was there discussion if if they get rid of it now because of case counts being low, what is the cost or how long will
019it take if there is an uptake uptick in that moving forward to reinstate something like that? because just speaking for myself, that pool testing was critical for for our family and and it worked out really well and and the nurses did a great job. It was really seamless for us. So, one of the pieces is that the contract is only available towards the end of this school year. So, um whether that comes back in the fall, I does not appear to be that way. The other piece is that and we're at BA2 now, right? That's that's the variant. is that in the conversations with the CDC the other day that what they're seeing in other you know parts of the world and across the country with the BA2 is that the pool testing that the
020transmission rate is so is so much quicker with the BA2 variant that the pool testing essentially is not any good because in the day and a half that it takes to receive the test back person has been shedding so much virus in that time and so that was his concern about as they start looking at which variants here in the state is that he was concerned that there could be a false sense of security like with other strains that were different where you could get you could catch it, you could move on, you could understand and catch before you're transmitting someone else. And that's not the case in this situation. And as a followup to that, um I know that they've caught a bunch of people that have been asymptomatic um in that realm with
021the pool testing. So, uh in the same, you know, vein that schoolboard member Gail was speaking of, it has given me a bit of peace of mind to know that, you know, anybody who is asymptomatic that may still be spreading any of it around has been you know, a little comforting. Um, and I also know that, you know, rapid tests are only are only so effective. So, it'll be interesting to see what they do. Um, superintendents, when we met with them, we asked for a universal decision throughout the state um or region. If you see a region that was different than others, then maybe we could understand that decision. But we felt that um this isn't a local this isn't a local issue. This needs to be something that we're in one situation or not.
022Um and we plan to meet again after vacation as a group of regional superintendents. Any additional questions or comments? Okay, moving on to item E, which is budget review and adjustments. Okay, we're at the point in time where we met again last night with the city council. Um, and in the last week, we've talked about the fact that our health insurance rates came back in at 8% versus the original 10% that we had in our budget. We had had meetings where we talked about the addition of um the bus right software um CDS position, adding an additional maintenance person um for the school department districtwide as we currently only have one and we need to probably have more than that. And then we've spent a lot of time talking with the council about new furniture
023and paint upgrades at um Saco Middle School and that is estimated at about $400,000 and we've had several meetings and I feel like we're at a very kind of comfortable place with the possibility of adding that. And so really here um for us tonight is we have two revenue sheets. the original revenue sheet, which is a $219,000 increase to the taxpayer or 77% or revenue sheet option number two, which allows us to start looking at the replacement of furniture and improvements um at SMS, which would be a $619,000 uh to the local or a 2.19% increase in taxes. Now, please remember that even when we say when we say those numbers that we work handinand with the city in their budget and at the same time um understanding that mill rates change, valuation changes. In
024that first piece of the budget, we were actually looking at a decrease in our mill rate by about 50 cents on the school side. You know, that needs to balance out. Um, but this is a again an opportunity where we would now have not only $500,000 in the budget to handle some of our roofing issues at SMS, but another $400,000 to look at paint and furniture um that is 40 years old. So, as we start to move forward and we start to get a plan in place about what needs to happen with our facilities, we have some built-in funds in the budget as we go up and down. So, this is uh an option that we need to send forward a recommendation to our to the final vote to the city council. And so, I'd
025entertain any questions um or a motion about what we think is the best thing for us moving forward. So just from a logistics standpoint in terms of the motion, it's which of these two revenue sheets plus or minus any changes that get made this evening that is going to recommend to this to the city council for whatever our next meeting with them. Correct. Member Gail. Um, just a quick question that may kind of bleed into the next item here, but the timing of this of the lead testing I feel like is is uh just because of the state requirements and all that. nothing on our end, but um do we have funding in either one of these options to address the um replacement, especially at at SMS of some of these fixtures kind of regardless
026of what that second if if the second testing comes back and confirms elevated levels, do we have funding here to take care of back. Well, so if that comes back, that's something we're going to need to fix immediately. And so we would pull from our current budget situation. We're in very good shape in the current budget situation to be able to address those because again, my belief is all of those are going to be fixture situations. Um, and that's not the most expensive thing in the world world for us to replace. So I have full confidence that we would just handle this immediately through this budget and move forward. Um and and again, part of the reason that, you know, there's some confidence in that piece of that this not going to be this crazy
027cost is the fact that we're on public water. And so this is not a uh like if you had your own well that you were dealing with, you're dealing with a situation of what's inside the building. Um, and considering that in all of our buildings where there was an issue, it wasn't the entire building, we're going to be looking at a pretty specific situation. So, I don't think that we're going to have an issue where this is going to roll over. We'll take care of it now. Any other discussion? or emotion. Take a stab at emotion. All right. For the purpose of moving discussion along, um I move that we that we adopt the option two and recommend that to the city council um as our school budget for FY23. And I can include the
028numbers if that's necessary. Second. Okay. Any discussion? I guess just briefly, I think it's a um it's it's great. I think the additions are are terrific. Um the busrite software I think is going to be something that um the public and and our kiddos are really going to benefit from which I'm excited about. And then the the um just the the furniture and painting at SMS I think is a great uh great and needed expenditure. as we move forward into future budget years, continuing to emphasize maintenance and preventative maintenance is is um is smart going forward. So, it's great. My pearl, I would also echo everything you just said. Um but I would also just I'm excited to offer some more support to the prek program with the special education teacher um and other things.
029I think we've included the maintenance which I think is really important to give some support in that department to maintaining our schools getting them what we need making them quality environments to both work in and to our students. So I think it's important we included all of those things as well. So I'm excited for this budget. I'm I'm making that motion for option two for all of the same reasons and it's It's really encouraging for for a change after what we've been through for the last several years to start kind of doing things that are not just firefighting and have a bit more of an eye towards the future of where we want to go, things that we would really like to do. And this recommendation that we've been that we've been provided here with
030the additions that have been made up to this point, I I'm I'm really I feel really good about this. School member Archie. Uh yeah, I'd like to second the motion. I think actually school member Prebble second it. All right. Any further discussion? Okay. Roll call vote. School board member Archie? Yes. School board member Prebble? Yes. School board member Richard? Yes. I vote yes. School board member Gail, yes. School board member Truman, yes. And school board member Johnston, yes. Motion passes 70. That brings us to the next item which is the water sampling update. Okay. Um [snorts] certainly everyone is aware that uh main schools need to requ new law requires um lead testing of all water sources in schools that have to do with eating, drinking, those pieces. Um we went through that testing uh
031in in Saco during February vacation and as part of the law anything that has four parts per billion um of lead in it needs to be immediately taken out of out of service and retested. Uh the federal thresh threshold for lead is 15 parts per billion. So Maine's uh school drinking water program uh is much stricter than that. Um what we have put together is because certainly throughout the district there were fixtures that came back with a level of lead that was above um the four parts per building uh per billion. And in your memo and on the website is the ability to see a mitigation plan of all of the fountains and the rates kind of in one document. the process for um the as they sent you was a little bit clunky in
032the fact that they kind of came back peacemealed like some schools here and even sometimes even like we would see like uh different fixtures coming back at different times and so we have a situation where everything is labeled um and we know which schools and which uh centers things need to be addressed. Obviously SMS um big one is uh in our kind of home ec room is is the biggest place and some water fountains. Um as you think of a lot of the water fountains, it's important to remember that they have been shut down uh for several years because of COVID. So what will happen next is now that we have all the test results back, Mike has uh scheduled the retest of all of these which is scheduled and planned to happen over April
033vacation. Um certainly it'll take a few a little bit of time for those test results to come back. Um all of these situations will receive a flush. You'll need to flush the system 8 hours beforehand uh the test. So Mike will administer a flush. They'll come in. They'll sit for eight hours and then they'll be tested. Um, and when the report comes back on the fixtures that need to be changed, we will move in that direction to change out filters, uh, uh, fixtures, and then you'll continue to go back and do a retest of those fixtures again just to make sure that it's not something else down further down the line. So, um, everything's right there for you, uh, with the schedule and the dates and so that we can update things, uh, fairly quickly.
034And again, other than drinking fountains, which will probably be something that a replacement of a drinking fountain would be the most expensive thing on on the list, um, and something that, you know, probably would have a little bit of a wait time on the order on some of those. Um, everything else could be, uh, done fairly quickly. Any questions? All right, thank you. Move on to the next item, which is item G, the math curriculum review presentation. You all saw this work seamlessly when I tried it before, so guaranteed to take a couple minutes here. So, I'm back to update you as to the curriculum design team's progress. A little bit of a brief update on English language arts and our selection of phonics and then a deeper dive in a recommendation for math curriculum
035resources for grades K through five. So just to kind of back way up and frame the work, we like to think about reviewing the curriculum with three different lenses. So what is the learned curriculum? What's happening with students with respect to that curriculum? What is the intended curriculum or what do we have written down that we want students to learn? And then what is the lived curriculum in terms of highquality instruction and active student engagement. So, we kind of use those three frames as we think about what's happening. So, we're not just zeroing in on what that paper is that says what we're doing, but encompassing those three areas. So, we've talked a little bit about all four of these curriculum design teams meeting. today is going to focus on math where we were really
036making a decision this year between Eureka Math or Eureka Math Squared which is their updated and more recent publishing with a couple of revamped areas that I'll highlight for you. Here you can see our team overview. I'll spare you trying to read all of these names, but we have quite an extensive team of educators that have looked at this throughout the course of the year representing a lot of different grade levels and different positions. So, back in um July, there was an initiation of the Eureka Math Squared pilot. That was kind of the first step. We've done classroom observations and some teacher feedback cycles, analyzed assessment results, looked at rubrics and ways that we can analyze the materials with our team and then implemented those rubrics on the resources. And now we come to you
037tonight with a recommendation of resources for board adoption. It is policy that guides the board's involvement in curriculum adoption, which is that these teams will make a recommendation and then there's a vote for those resources that are recommended when there's a change um in in what is suggested by the curriculum design teams. So, I've attached the memo. We had one teacher per grade level piloting. We did have ongoing support from Grapeminds, which is the publisher of both resources, and they were able to meet with our pilot teachers regularly to understand what issues they were encountering, what resources they could provide to support that, and also to provide multiple grade level teachers an opportunity to collaborate with one another to try to think through um any of the issues that they were encountering with those resources.
038We also offered for teachers who were not piloting three different ways to engage with and understand what was happening in the classroom with our pilot teachers. We offered live observations in a classroom during math instruction. We had a recorded lesson that was shared with teaching staff. Uh, this teacher did a fabulous job of inserting teacher reflections and processing throughout that lesson that was recorded in the classroom so that those teachers watching that lesson could kind of hear what the teacher had done to prepare for that instruction or hear what had come before or what would be coming after that sequence for those lessons. And then we also had a lesson modeled for staff in which a pilot teacher kind of played the teacher and the teachers in that scenario were playing the students to kind
039of walk through some of the routines and processes that are part of the Eureka Math Squared lessons. In looking at soliciting teacher feedback, uh teachers outlined three priorities as we look at resources. clear opportunities for differentiation or meeting students at different levels and advancing them in a grade level curriculum. Ease of use for teachers to be able to navigate those resources and utilize with students and the readability of student materials. We certainly don't want to hold any of our students back that might be struggling readers with accessing math materials. Then we uh disagregated the data that we collected on pros and cons in looking at those teachers who are teaching Eureka and those teachers who are piloting Eureka Math Squared. And you can certainly read through that in a little bit more detail. But two
040of the pieces that we noted that were pros of Eureka Math Squared also showed up on the cons list of the current Eureka programming. One was that readability of student materials and the ability for students to access less languagebased structures in Eureka Math Squared. And then also a more streamlined or reasonable pacing guide throughout the course of the year. They've kind of cut out some of the fluff and gotten right into the meat so it's a little bit more manageable across the course of a full year. We did take a look at uh assessment as well. Um historically since the adoption of Eureka materials which was in 2016, SACO has seen had seen a slow and moderate increase in student math achievement as compared to national norms. We've talked a couple of times in the
041fall and in the winter about how all those scores are a little wonky now and hard to depend on. But one thing that we did take a look at was comparing the pilot teacher classroom growth for students and the non-pilot teacher. Certainly there's a lot of other factors involved and we don't want to attribute causation to solely the Eureka Math Squared program, but there was a very slight um slightly better results for those students that were in the Eureka Math Squared classroom. So that was um helpful to see. And lastly, we had a rubric where we looked at materials and resources in four different areas, scope and sequence, the module overviews, five different indicators for the teacher daily lesson plans, and three different indicators for student pages, and then ranked the differences between Eureka and
042Eureka Math Squared. And you can hardly see any of the Eureka math on this graph because the team members that were part of scoring these resources were overwhelmingly rating the Eureka Math squared materials as being superior in all the criteria that was identified by the team. to dig into costs a little bit. There are uh recurring costs with both programs, but of course when you're adopting something new, there's some initial costs that you incur. And in you can see the breakdown with both um teacher manuals and teacher professional development. inching that over with a, you know, net difference of just over $17,000 for adopting the new resources versus the resources that we already have in place. So there's a much longer and fuller report that dives into a lot more detail in each of those
043steps, but wanted to make sure that you were provided a highle overview for the recommendation of the team, which is to adop adopt Eureka Math squared, which we feel is a comprehensive set of resources that's designed to include whole group teaching and independent practice for mathematical concepts for kindergarten through fifth grade. And I'm happy to answer any questions or if there are any comments. Oops. Sorry. My question was is this likely to be begin next year with Yep. that the team will come back and decide kind of what the implementation plan is, but given the timing that we're bringing this to you, we feel confident that there would be full or some high level of implementation for next year. Thank you. I have a question. Um, is there money in our we have we considered
044the cost of this in our budget that we're going to put forth to the city council? So, I just want to make sure that was something that was included. Yeah, it's already included in the per budget. Any other questions, comments? So, in terms of where we go from here, are we looking for a motion to move this forward? School member Archie, I I was curious. Um, is this something that U Bford is using? No, we do not use No. So, we couldn't do like a collection. Uh, no. I don't know if there's much cost savings there anyways, but throw it out there. Certainly, anytime you could do that. Um, if you could buy programs that way, there would be a cost savings, but we are in two very different places of what we've established from
045math programs. and bringing something like this together would not be something that you could do so quickly. It would take years and years of uh cross district work and and examination. Um and so that's not that's not for us right now at this time. Okay. I I just want to add too that I'm excited that the teachers seem to be very excited that we're part of the pilot program that they found this to be a really positive uh curriculum. So, so there's no motion in the packet. I can try one or someone can try one. Uh, I move that we um approve the uh use of the EGA math squared program starting next year. Second and second. Any further discussion? Okay, roll call vote. School board member Archie. Yes. School member Prebble. Yes. Yes. School
046board member Richard. Yes. I vote yes. School board member Gail. Yes. School board member Truman. Yes. And school member Johnson. Yes. Okay. Motion passes 70. Thank you. That brings us to item H, which is second reading of policies. Mr. Chair, I move we approve the second reading of the following policies. BEDB agenda preparation and dissemination. BEB-R agenda format. BEF voting method. BEG minutes. BEH public participation at schoolboard meetings. BE DH-E public participation at schoolboard meetings agenda item request form BB school board legal status BBBDA school board declared vacancy caused by absenteeism BDB board officers BCA school board member code of ethics and BG school board policy Second. First and second. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call vote. School board member Archie. Yes. School board member Prebble, yes. School board member Richard, yes. I vote yes. School
047board member Gail, yes. School board member Truman, yes. And school board member Johnston, yes. Motion passes 70. That brings us to other information. I don't believe we have any additional info this evening. Okay, that brings us to item 15, which is executive session. Is there a motion? Mr. Chair, I move we enter executive session pursuant to 1 MS MRSA subsection 4056D, labor contract negotiations. Second. Second by school board member Prebble. Okay. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call vote. School board member Archie, yes. School board member Prebble, yes. School board member Richard, yes. I vote yes. School board member Gail, yes. School board member Truman, yes. And school board member Johnston, yes. Okay, motion passes. We are in executive session at 7:46. All right. So we are back from executive session. Motion to exit executive session. So
048moved. Second. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call vote. School board member Archie. Yes. School board member Prebble, yes. School board member Richard, yes. I vote yes. School board member Gail, yes. School board member Truman, yes. School board member Johnston, yes. The motion passes 70. We are out of executive session at 9:53. Motion to adjourn the meeting. So moved. Second. Sarah Truman and Beth Johnston. Okay. Roll call vote. School board member Archie. Yes. School board member Prebble, yes. School board member Richard, yes. I vote yes. School board member Gail, yes. School board member Truman, yes. And school board member Johnston, yes. Okay, motion passes 70. We are adjourned at 9:53.