001e e e good evening everyone and welcome to the Sak Schoolboard committee uh meeting for October 23rd Wednesday at 5:02 p.m. would you please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance thank you I'd like to make note that we do have all members present with the exception of Schoolboard member waroff Schoolboard member roach and Schoolboard member Gail at this time um Schoolboard member Gail usually is on his way from work so he may be showing up in just a few moments okay the first item under item three is the approval of the Schoolboard minutes is there a motion Madame mayor School Board member Truman I move we approve the school board meeting minutes dated October 9th 2024 motion has been made by Schoolboard member Truman is there a second second School Board uh second by
002Schoolboard member prebble any discussion on the minutes okay not seeing any roll call vote School member Purble yes Schoolboard member Richards yes School Board member Truman yes and Schoolboard member Johnston yes motion passes 4 Z okay there are no adjustments to the agenda this evening there are no correspondents that now takes us to item six and that is public session if there are any members of the public wishing to speak please step forward to the podium state your name and address for the record and you will have three minutes to address the school board okay not seeing any members seeking recognition now takes us to item seven and that is the superintendent report superintendent Ray good good afternoon everyone um a few items to report uh tonight on Monday evening we had a joint meeting
003with the city council and I've attached the memo where we covered some issues of school construction enrollment um as the major items and then certainly the need within our community um for students uh who are impoverished um just knowing that the homelessness is kicking up and as we head into winter time some of the pieces we uh have done but always a pleasure to meet with uh the council so we can discuss issues additionally we also had Don Roth there that night um to give an update of the combined uh facilities and how that's moving in a very nice Direction still a big learning curve for everybody um but Don's uh a wonderful IND individual uh and then also just very thankful that Mike G is still around uh to help us out still working
004some to provide some of that transitional support um because Mike has a great deal of knowledge in his head um and a lot of experience in the system so he knows uh you know he really knows the bones within our our structures and the um all the pieces that have been done in the past so thanks to Mike as well um this week is national school bus safety week um and we personally thanked our drivers with the barbecue lunch yesterday uh they play such a critical role in guaranteeing our students of uh Safe Transportation to school uh and we're grateful for them and couldn't do it without them so a big thank you uh to bus drivers if you're watching at home this is a great week to thank a bu thank your child's bus
005driver because it is a tough job uh with all of the traffic distracted drivers um and so we thank them um I want to congratulate will Curtis who's a member of our staff uh in transportation who officially passes bus driers license test this month um and a big thank you to veteran driver Jess uh Doris for training him um that's another addition to our staff we were able to pick up a couple of bus drivers in the last couple of weeks but it's still um leaves us with like seven openings so if you know people send them our way uh we'd love to have them join our staff um recently you may have seen the passing of Larry rein harson who um worked as a gifted and talented teacher at Sako middle school and was
006also had the role of Vice President of the association for several years uh I just want to thank the sea and Sako middle school for Combined making A1 thousand donation to the Portland Public Library uh in the honor of our late colleague uh a reminder that tonight uh if we got got out of here by 6:00 you could go to Thorton Academy and see a screening of the documentary screenager uh Under the Influence which addresses vaping drugs and alcohol in the digital age uh the event will be held at TA and includes a panel discussion in resource Fair uh certainly dealing with Technologies and our teenagers is always a very difficult piece especially with all the other influences out there and then finally um just a reminder to all parents and anyone watching please make
007sure that you have your um updated all of your student information whether that's on talking points or in others if you get a new cell phone new email address uh those types of things because we're not that far away from thinking about winter weather uh and we want to make sure that people are well connected to us in getting the announcements so please do your best uh to uh update your information and if you need any help please reach out to our schools thank you great thank you very much any questions or comments for superintendent Ray okay not seeing any that moves on to item eight and that is the chair's report Schoolboard chair Preble um I don't have anything to report this evening thank you okay item number nine there are no staff reports
008this evening item number 10 is the board subcomittee minutes and the a policy and Personnel committee minutes are attached in your packet and the next meeting is November 13th at 5:30 Item B is the finance and infrastructure committee agenda the next meeting is January 27th at 4:30 p.m. and item C is the curriculum committee and the next meeting for that is October 28th at 4:30 p.m. item 11 there is no old business this meet evening item 12 under new business item a is new hires is there a motion Madame mayor School Board member Truman I move we approve the nomination of Brook Dunham human resources manager and issue a contract for the 2024 25 school year motion has been made by Schoolboard member Truman is there a second second second by School Board member Johnston
009any discussion on the new hires okay not seeing any roll call votes Schoolboard member Preble yes Schoolboard member Richards yes School Board member Truman yes and Schoolboard member Johnston yes motion passes 40 okay Item B is resignation um with that there are is a memo in your packet but there is no motion needed this evening item number c is the administrative realignment for the new prek k and grades one through five building and I believe that superintendent Ray okay um in your packet as a memo um as we are probably at least three years out um from the opening of new buildings uh in Sako Megan I uh along with you know some of you as well and our staff have really started to think about the importance of um making sure that people understand
010uh what our leadership structure would look like also I think we also have learned how much planning is needed and involvement um from administrative staff uh throughout this process so we felt that um for respecting our staff thinking about the transition uh providing Clarity uh on leadership um and proper planning that we would recommend to you um our recommendations for administrative assignments um our administrative assignments would be at the Sako Elementary School which is one through five a recommendation that April Noble uh is the principal Jeff mir's assistant principal and Tom Partridge assistant principal with our Sako Primary School uh which will have and when we think about enrollments we're thinking about like kids and 400 kids is uh in these buildings with the Sako Primary School having a principal of Wendy leblan and assistant
011principal of J Walker um the other pieces that we have um five individuals in this configuration that are very very competent at what they do they do a fantastic job and this also gives them uh an opportunity and us an opportunity to think about the the buildings and how each of them will gain an experience um through the building process of having input into some of the decision makings um thinking about pieces of a building they may be passionate or more pass or less passionate about that they can lead up um and we really need to start getting that process um moving forward whether that's around colors and flooring to playgrounds to drop off dismissal to safety to all of those pieces um and we have five individuals that when you think about um building
012projects of this magnitude it's not something that a lot of Administrators get an opportunity to be part of uh so this gives a valuable experience and opportunity for them as well um and we can kind of clearly Define our roles um moving forward um so I respectfully request that um we make a motion tonight to approve and and get this one step in the process and then we need to get to work uh as a group because I would like us to think about the next layer of this becomes all staff assignments and how we can give the same notice um and planning hopefully three years in advance of where room assignment well not room assignments but where Wing assignments would be and where staff would be because there will be some juggling throughout which
013then allows people um that if there's openings over the next couple of years and they prefer to be somewhere else that we could start that process of getting uh employees into a place where they would prefer to be okay great thank you very much any comments or questions for superintendent raid regarding no I think we have to do a motion to approve this yes I'll take a oh yep take a swing up uh I move we approve the leadership assignments as listed in the administrative realignment memo for the new prek and K and one to five schools motion has been made by Schoolboard member Truman is there a second second second by Schoolboard member Johnston any discussion or comments on that I just I'd like to add that I I think this is a a
014really great plan to um give people an idea of like where they'll be in a few years um the the few principles that I have talked to since the memo came out they seem very happy and excited about this uh given this what's the word I'm looking for heads up about where things are going to be with the new buildings and um I'm very excited I hope they are too so anyone else School Board member Johnson I think looking ahead this way is absolutely beneficial to the entire ire organization to the individual employees but also to um putting our best foot forward with the new construction and the new school and I appreciate the fact that superintendent Ray has and I'm sure other people that he works with have been thinking along these lines thank
015you great thank you anyone else okay roll call vote Schoolboard member prebble yes Schoolboard member Richards yes Schoolboard member Truman yes and board member Johnston yes motion passes 4 Z for the alignment okay item D now is Elementary construction update so I'm gonna ask um Meg to come up um as I had uh said on Monday night in the joint meeting that we are in the phase of pulling some people together uh we had a wonderful experience that men get to be part of of having some fifth graders give some input but uh over the last two weeks Meg's really been uh leading up several different meetings and so it' be best to hear it coming from her so we've had an opportunity to meet with five different stakeholder groups our um most important first
016end users the fifth grade class at CK Burns was able to provide some feedback on playgrounds and also hear a presentation from our landscaped Architects Architects and project managers we've also met with nurses nurses office staff facilities and nutrition staff to talk about those specific spaces both the furniture the use cases and again really focusing on not just how do they use their space now and what does that look like on a bigger scale or moving it from one room to two rooms but really thinking about how they use the space or how they would want to use that space what is the use case and then how can we backward design from what's best for kids to make that space userfriendly for students and for the community keeping in mind those folks that are
017kind of in the kitchens behind the desks in the offices and making sure that we're designing the spaces in a way that makes sense for their work and for students that enter those spaces so it's been a great process so far and we've been able to collect a lot of feedback and um Architects have made a lot of different notations on different plans moving doors or explaining where different counters or cabinets have to be and we're also getting a good sense of some more specific stakeholder groups as we met with our office group we um included the police department but we'll look to have a separate security team meeting to involve some other folks in that as well so as we have those meetings we either know which things are kind of shorted up and
018which things need more additional input as we design the space and I think we have about 15 more meetings of that nature with different stakeholder groups on the books in the next two months or so thank you any questions make not seeing any thank you thank you okay that now takes us to item e and that is an enrollment update so as you know uh we continue to provide that enrollment update for you guys uh every two weeks of where we're at uh it looks like on the elementary side we'll be at 1944 that is prek um through 8 um we did uh get our October numbers for Thorton Academy which is 91 which is up 55 students um from the springtime uh during that piece we are looking to you know make sure that
019Jen's working hard as I said at the Joint meeting the other night uh with Jen leading that in our office and Megan I and others um trying to make sure that we do uh a thorough job with residency verification to make sure that our tax dollars are going uh to support uh Sako students um on a tuition charge because each one who wouldn't be would certainly cost the taxpayers about $15,000 um plus you can see though that one of the things that has has clearly continued to change in an upward trajectory is that our El count is now at 242 students which is a significant increase we talked last um week about adding a couple of Ed teexs uh in the realm for elll um to make sure that teachers and students are supported um
020and as I reported the other night that our high number of last year at one time was 115 homeless students uh and knowing that we have all the varying needs throughout this and what we happen is we'll continue to verify movein move outs and residencies even though it's an October 1st count that is verified to the state on October 30th um and this is the number that sets us up for subsidy in the upcoming years of making sure those pieces are there I will tell you that looking at um the data a little bit more uh in depth which once I get the uh official count that is uploaded to the state we kind of get like this screen page that gives you all different types of demographic pieces you'll get that probably in the
021next school committee meeting as the print out we'll talk more but it appears right now that our free and reduced lunch uh counts are going to be up uh probably over 30% and we're trending uh where last spring when we were talking about one in four soer students being economically disadvantaged we're more like one and three now um so I think we're continuing to see the economic pressures uh that are there in our community um I think one of the pieces that we look at is as we comb through data uh we were combing through some data in the last week when we think about uh economics and you look at the fact that like the median home price in in New York county is over $500,000 Sako that was like 480,000 the federal poverty
022guidelines for a family of four is like at $31,000 yet main statistics for the entire state of Maine is that a family of fora making ends meet is around $999,000 that is needed so when you're looking at 330% of that federal poverty guideline uh we have a challenging situation that our families are dealing with and so I think we just have to be super of that issue as we move forward whether that be from programming um to what we're offering for assistance and help within our community uh I think our our staff in the school see it every single day great thank you very much Schoolboard member tman um as far as the residency issues um trying to verify where people live and everything my understanding is that it's the superintendent office that needs to
023verify all of those even for ta that is correct uh because because we are in the SAU which is the school administrative unit um and these are Sako students it's our job to verify that so some of the struggles is certainly people come and move in and out uh and you have you usually have a very good idea when someone's moving into your Community because they want to register their kid from school um sometimes what can be more difficult is when people are leaving your community and unless you have them in a classroom or a teacher knows or sometimes that can be a challenge uh because people want to be in Soo for our schools and so that outward movement would not be something that we would ever know unless someone reported that to us
024or you know they chose to enroll into another school so those are the pieces that we're spending some time on now is just looking at like home sales uh in the area to make sure that we don't have doubled up addresses or things like that um to try to monitor that the best that we can for the people who are say moving this does ta not like say they find out that that person's not coming to the school did they let you know um so I assume that they would I mean I don't think we have a lot of those situations where we have that piece of not because again if you're a parent of a high school school kid and you really wanted to Thorton why would you change why would you tell anyone
025um especially since you know for a majority of high school kids they're probably driving to school or taking their or going with family whereas um if you're talking about a first grader that's been riding the bus and always riding the bus that's pretty easy for us to be like oh you're not a bus rider anymore or the bus is like hey it looks like there's somebody else there or you're picking somebody else up at that house or you know does TAA provide any of the residency do they collect any of that information for you when the new school year starts and then provide that to you to show that they've so so one thing ta does is they send all students to um who are registering for uh to our office um so if you
026registered they would say Hey you need this they'll contact Jen uh and we'll get a couple of different forms um of proof of residency certainly leases can be a little bit tougher for us to verify um and we've actually worked uh really good with codes um and you know City officials to make that piece but in the amount of sales that there are in movement it become a little bit difficult uh for us to monitor that so we're looking at using some of our Technologies to help us you know Whittle down the data and be a little bit uh more effective in this piece so the first step for anybody going to TA is to stop correct at your door for a residency verification for residency verification okay and then the the real issue right
027now is trying to figure out has any of those have any of those students moved since correct okay gotcha thank you any other questions or comments School Board member Johnson um Mr superintendent if a student were to leave Thorton Academy me or I guess maybe anywhere else in their District but wouldn't they want to have the transcripts from ta sent to whatever their new high school might be but that we would not have access to that information is that correct so if a student left and they had the transcripts we would get a request in our data data system that a kid has moved or um so if a student were to move from Sako and go to scar high school scrabo high school is going to want to claim that student on their uh
028student enrollment as well and so that happens through technology it's more of like uh kids all throughout our system that parents for one reason or another have a strong attachment um you know again with the housing crunch uh there's a lot of families who maybe rely on relatives grandparents for daycare uh and so not wanting to disrupt their child's schooling uh sometimes it's you know you just wouldn't say anything and what's hard is that certainly while we' want to have all of these kids in our system we also have the situation where you know if you look at some of our classrooms at burn school for example they're pretty full um and so we have to think about all of those factors that go into that and the resources that we have um and what's
029best for all kids in that situation and there's a lot of times when a family moves or is moving in an example would be if a if a family came to us in September and said Mr Ray um asking for a superintendence agreement because we purchased a home in Sako and it's been delayed the building construction is delayed by eight weeks what we would do in our office is then say hey is there something you can get us from your Builder that gives us an estimate and if a kid's going to be here on October 20th we want the kid to start school at the beginning of the year with their with their students or if somebody comes to us in March and says hey we've got to move or Something's Happened can we please
030finish out the school year and we're going to go to the school of course because you want to do those things what's difficult is as we get more students or situations like that we just have to make sure that kids are residents because we do have situations where you've got 23 kids in the classroom and we want to make sure that that we're balancing those pieces without so try to do the right things in right situations while also you know it is my job to watch the expenditures that the citizens here you know provide for us each year great Schoolboard M Gale just sticking on that thoron theme um can you talk a little bit about the on the multilingual Learners piece of it um you know it looks like right now that there's quite
031a a dip um if you just per grade level and for example like in e8th grade right now we've got 19 but then ninth grade's got nine so next year um like are we are we going to see those numbers kind of rulate up to Thorton or like how and then how does that how does that impact on terms of the funding formulas so what's what's really hard for us to do is with the population of students who are residents at the hotel is it's very difficult for us to to establish a trend because people are typically there for six months to a year and then as there's an opening we tend to get new students at a different grade level uh with a with a different family that's that's moved in um I also
032think that one of the things I spoke about um the other night at city council that we have to be very mindful of is what does happen in the governor's budget does that program continue because there's a whole lot of kiddos um and families that are living there that could come off our enrollment and Not only would it affect our overall student student enrollment in another year but it would affect our elll counts which would send a drastic decrease in subsidy coming from the state so um I think it's been hard for us to find some Trends however one thing that we do see is that people who are finding housing are doing their best to stay in the area and become you know members of our community full-time uh and so I think that's
033been pretty positive um it's just so hard to predict does that elll funding like does does Thorton receive if there is an influx of of students um do they receive that funding or is do they have supports those so what we do is as a school department is we fund one teaching position at Thorton Academy so looking at the numbers in comparing to the ratios that we have throughout our district we would try to align those that could go up that could go down based off the number of students there and based off the ratios that we have throughout the district to try to equalize those services but then that teacher that's our our employee right our employee correct okay thank okay great anyone else okay thank you for that update okay that now takes
034us to item F and that a transportation survey Solutions and cost r okay so a couple of weeks ago we had put out a transportation survey we had provided you with results and we had to refine those results um a little bit more about things that we felt were doable what things could be immediately done what are more like long-term uh issues so we know that some of the problems that we have are just around Staffing and we' picked up two Staffing in the last uh couple of weeks and we hope to pick up more so that's a help so what does that allow us to do that allows us to have one person be kind of like a float driver which means they're going to help out when people call out sick or go
035out on surgery or or some of those things and we'll have one driver that will come on and we'll get a will'll get their own run what will happen with that is jeie would then look at existing runs and runs that have are a little bit longer and we'd start to to pull apart some of those challenge areas to try to decrease the loads on those buses or overcrowding to help solve the problem of kids being late to middle school and high school um timing uh we know that we have buses that are 1 to 10 minutes late uh frequently we' know that the traffic congestion is a challenge for us um and we know our schedules are tight tight turnaround between pieces so we tried to look at this as immediate action steps versus
036action steps that need more planning and more research um and we have four pieces that we kind of think should we would recommend that we we do first in conversations with jeie and Felicia one would be looking at purchasing 212 passenger vans and looking at the right routes that have kind of longer distances with fewer kids that's kind of a lot of that's your your nor Sako routes and the routes that tend to be late to school so if we could peel off some of that Distance by using Express vans that would be one thing that we could do to help those families help those kids and um you know overall improve the system cost of that cost of the van uh initially up front is the big piece and then we just we have
037open positions so we'd hire van drivers instead of bus drivers and find that solution talked about the new bus drivers and allocating those while continuing to look at hiring more staff to fill more bus driver roles one of the other pieces um is kind of a it's a two-part piece is one we do not have a full-time office uh kind of Secretarial support in transportation probably the place where there's the most communication now that used to be fine when you had um not having someone when Genie and Felicia could stay there all day long but most of the time they're out on buses whether they're being a sub or picking up a route and we don't pay subs that having somebody in the office to work on bus related issues to focus on bus related
038issues and to really spend some time with route optimization through our transfinder and getting to know that well I think what happens is that Genie's a master of taking a challenge on in the moment and figuring out the quick solution but we never have any of that real longterm look at how do we do this break it apart how can I use a computer to look at this option versus this option you know how do we quickly uh change something you know we're all living a life right now with construction on 112 and I suspect that once that's finished and there's different we're going to deal with a whole new situation which will probably happen during school being in session which will everyone will have to adjust to and then you'll try to figure out
039over the summer what's really happening until school starts up so I think we really need to have that piece um and then really um looking at the software piece and putting some of the suggestions into play about consolidation of bus stops having some po policy look at those pieces those are some more immediate things um longterm uh we consider implementing Express routes in other places using bus um and looking at centralized locations I think there were some really good ideas that came back in the survey about okay what happens if parents went to this drop off spot that didn't congest things in the city you loaded a bus and you were able to go there I think that's a great suggestion you just have to then think about once you're willing to invest the time
040into that solution then making sure that that solution is something that people are actually going to utilize um that's a challenging one um looking at alternative transportation uh options like walking and biking buses but we have to also build routes for the entire year not just the warm months um thinking about a formal car pooling program what would that look like are there any incentives how do we make sure that people access that uh and that there's you know if Will Sarah and Beth are involved in car pooling each kiddos and Will's gone for a vacation for a week are we sure that Sarah Andor Beth can pick up that piece around their work schedule um because we can't build something and then have great fluctuations in it because then it will just be you
041know something that's failed um and then once you look at these things just really making sure that we would survey and get parents to sign up and like yes this is something I really want to do um so we would continue on working on some of these pieces our recommendation would be to look at the purchase of those two Vans first uh and explore that option um and I'd be looking for you guys to make a a motion to allow me to purchase those remembering that like finding a 12 passenger van may take several several months uh to Implement that solution um but but at the end of the day we know how difficult it is become a licensed driver for a bus and if we don't look at having many flexible options we're just
042going to continue to do the same thing because I do not think that 10 bus drivers are like going to walk through our doors magically and say I'm on it and everything goes away um because even with more drivers parents have routines in place too that are vary for many reasons you take your kid to school or not and those are going to be hard things for people to adjust to um until they see uh some of those pieces so it's where we are on that piece and you know uh thank everybody for their hard work and really thank you to parents who um I think for the most part really took this survey serious and put some thought into those pieces to um understand that one thing influences another in transportation and that it's
043a big picture item and not just a like hey this is what would work for my Road thank you Schoolboard member Truman how many Vans are you looking to purchase to we'd like to start with two and are you looking to have that secretarial support person is that something we need to approve as well or is that something well I'd like you guys to think about that one I think it's a need I think it's a need for sure I know jeie if she does answer the phone it's very quick and and on to the next thing and she's putting fires out I don't know how her blood pressure is but I imagine it's very high so ideally this needs to needs to happen and I was told that um several years ago you actually
044had this position before I superintendent in your budget and they never filled it um this is not a position that's in the budget now and we would need to again realistically we have seven unfilled bus driver positions so essentially you're just using the money from one of those uh to do some of that those pieces um and I know that everybody here would say wouldn't it be great if we could also convince that person to get their CDL and I'm going to say no and the reason because we will work against ourselves and be forced to put that person on a road when we really need to have someone dedicated to answering the phone working with families allowing Felicia and jeie to do their jobs um and to spend the time that we need on
045some of the the routing software to do a better job I mean I'm sold on the administrative piece too so so you you don't need a motion on that one or do you yes I would I would take a motion on on all the recommendations and we would start getting to work okay on those items okay perfect so um can I jump into it does anybody else have absolutely go for it uh I move we approve the purchase of two Vans for the transportation department okay motion has been made by Schoolboard member Truman is there a second second second by Schoolboard member Richards any additional discussion or comments okay not seeing any roll call vote Schoolboard member Preble yes School Board member Richards yes Schoolboard member Gail yes Schoolboard member Truman yes and Schoolboard member
046Johnston yes motion passes 5- Z one more can I just uh make a motion to approve the um hiring of an office clerical staff member to assist with the transportation department second motion has been made by Schoolboard member Truman second by Schoolboard member Purble do you need an effective date on that motion okay roll call vote School Board member fubble yes Schoolboard member Richards yes Schoolboard member Gail yes Schoolboard member Truman yes and Schoolboard member Johnston yes motion passes 5 Z okay moving on to item G this evening yes sorry just one other um when we're looking at in the future for the future action items just on the uh looking at that piece about centralized locations for pickups it probably would be helpful to to coordinate also with like Traffic Safety Committee with um
047uh police just to get a holistic view of of things as well to hope hopefully make things as as smooth as possible as we select yeah I think we'd also idea I think we'd also probably like public like public works too just like the plowing piece those are important ones to think about where you placed like Not only would you possibly be creating new stops but you might also be creating new challenges for like public works and and those pieces so yeah okay great Schoolboard member tman do you need a motion on anything else or should we have just done a blanket motion to let you explore all options on this memo I want to make sure I'm covering all my bases here I think we've covered it for now on the big ones I
048know that Meg's going to be looking at uh policy will be the next piece of reviewing that Transportation policy um and then continue to try to refine things and again maybe the solution really helps things quick and you say hey we need to go more in that direction and and what's the next steps and take it piece by piece okay I just want to make sure we weren't leaving you hanging and you left and you weren't like I can't do anything ma'am so thanks okay anyone else okay moving on to item G that's the first reading of policies is there a motion Schoolboard member Johnston thank you I move we approve the first reading of policies j i student public ations Jia weapons violence and school safety JK student discipline jka a use of physical
049restraint and seclusion jka a-r procedures on physical restraint and seclusion and JKD suspension of students and also to strike j i c-r student Publications procedures and JJ A- E1 JJ a A- E2 JJ a A- E3 JJ a A- E4 second motion has been made by Schoolboard member Johnston second by Schoolboard member Truman any discussion on the policies School member Johnson I just wanted to say that the policies that we are um suggesting to strike or those that [Music] are either just deemed inappropriate to be in the policy book um some of them are actually more like applications for certain involvement with co-curricular or extracurricular activities by private school students and um the Publications procedure we already have covered with a different new policy great thank you anyone okay roll call vote Schoolboard member waroff
050yes School Board member Preble yes Schoolboard member Richards yes School Board member Gail yes Schoolboard member Truman yes and School Board member Johnston yes motion passes 60 and for the record would like to note that um Schoolboard member Caroline uh waroff did arrive so now we have the six voting members this evening okay item H is the second reading of policies to strike is there a motion School Board member Johnston um I'm sorry just for clarification did you say that this was age yes okay it became age never mind item Sarah's clarifying for me okay um I move we strike policy CBI - R which is the administrator is lick standards which is becoming an internal document instead of a policy second motion has been made by Schoolboard member Johnston second by Schoolboard member Truman
051any discussion on that policy okay not seeing any Schoolboard member waroff yes Schoolboard member Preble yes School Board member Richards yes Schoolboard member Gail yes Schoolboard member Truman yes and Schoolboard member Johnston yes motion passes 60 okay that now takes us to item 13 and that is other information this evening um there is nothing listed but I would like to add two points to note um for the school board members who are not present at Monday's meeting um it was mentioned that recently the school board uh excuse me the committee the city council approved $5,000 to go into the ask program so from the city council we will be um putting in 5,000 to help get that fund started for the aako kids and on a second note can I add one more thing um
052I hadn't mentioned it earlier um Saturday I participated in the school board delegation conference um and all the resolutions that they had put forward had all passed with some of them with a lot of work but they had all passed um so I figured I'd just passed that along good thank you for that information as well um and then also some exciting news going forward um thanks to the bitterford Sako rotary group and generous donations from sponsors and auctions we are holding a groundbreaking on Tuesday for the much anticipated and new splash pad that will be located at the community center on Franklin Street um the anticipated opening date is May 15 2025 so construction is going to start and this is going to be a great opportunity um to provide kids of all ages
053and abilities um a fun fun safe place to go for families um so we are having the groundbreaking and if anybody is interested in more information Brenda from the bitterford taco rotary is going to be giving the council a presentation on Monday night at 6:30 when is the groundbreaking Tuesday afternoon two and you are all invited if anybody would like to yep but we uh yeah Brenda will be doing a slideshow presentation and giving all of the ins and outs and the uh important information on it on Monday night okay anyone else with some information or updates okay so that now takes us to item 14 and there is no executive session this evening and item 15 is adjournment is there a motion so moved second motion by motion to adjourn by Schoolboard member Richards
054second by School Board member Truman roll call vote Schoolboard member K uh waroff yes School Board member frebel yes School Board member Richards yes School Board member Gail yes School Board member Truman yes and Schoolboard member Johnston yes motion to adjourn at 550 passes 60 and thank you everyone and have a great evening what did I miss on transp