001e e e good evening everyone and welcome to the school board meeting for January 22nd 2025 let the record reflect meeting beginning at 5:06 would you please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance thank you and I would like to make note that all members of the school board are present with superintendent Ray um we are missing uh School Board member Caroline waroff this evening so that now takes us to item number three and that is the approval of the minutes is there a motion Madame mayor School Board member Truman I move we approve the school board meeting minutes dated January 8th 2025 motion has been made by Schoolboard member Truman is there a second second second by School Board member roach any discussion on the minutes oh jefff I'm sorry School Board member Richards
002okay any discussion on the minutes okay roll call V vote School Board member Preble yes School Board member Richards yes School Board member roach yes Schoolboard member K yes Schoolboard member Truman yes and Schoolboard member Johnston yes motion passes 60 okay that takes us to item number four this evening and there are no adjustments to the agenda item number five there are no correspondents item number six is public session if there are any members of the public wishing to speak please step forward state your name and address for the school board and you will have 3 minutes to address hello uh my name is Anar snon I actually live in Scarboro but I'm the CFO for thoron Academy um and I just want to speak very briefly about a chart that I noticed is in
003the agenda tonight under new business that makes it appear as though the per pupil cost for Sako prek to 12 students is about 177,000 and that ta is 18,000 um and I think that that number is misleading there to be fair there are two separate databases that are kept At Doe one is a more comprehensive cost number than the others um the one that is listed here is the one that per doe superintendents do like to use because it breaks cost down into categories that they like to focus on managing but if you're going to look at the all-in cost of ta the most appropriate comparison is with the other database and I do have copies I've given some to those that are on the finance committee I'll hand out to the rest of the
004school board members if I may when I'm done um but showing that the actual out-of-pocket cost that that Sako paid ta last year is $1 16,540 we could discuss all day what things you might like to add or subtract to that uh the note the the report that superintendent Ray has put together lists a cost for TA of about 18,000 I will tell you that's higher than we would we would accept as a number but for the sake of this discussion let's assume it's even 18 um the average cost for soer prek to 8 per pupil last year is 23,8 36 the lowest school is CK Burns at 22 in change the highest is the prek program at just over 26 so if you're going to do an Apples to Apples comparison of the Allin
005cost if you will it's important to use the higher number for Sako if you're adding everything you can possibly think of to TA um I know superintendent Ray and I were just talking we're going to have to agree to disagree on the math behind this um if you offset some of the spending with the revenue that the the city gets you could perhaps bring that number down that that may be how that that lower number is there um but I can tell you that if we're going to do that we probably also need to subtract the $88,000 or so of subsidy that Sak receives from the state for every student at TA so I think we just need to be careful if we're looking at Allin expenses again even if ta were 18 which I
006will say firmly it is not um then we would need to be looking at the 23,000 number for Sako I will say again with all due respect superintendent Ray is not is not misstating facts here there is another database also reported by the districts to the state it's just not picking up all the expense so again if we're looking at 18 for ta then we need to look at 23 for Sako so I'd like to hand that out and again I'm I'm happy always to answer questions from any of the school board certainly uh from you mayor mcf and any member of the public feel free to reach out to me I'm I'm at TA I'm the CFO I can be easily found may I approach the school board to hand copies of this to
007those that were not on the finance committee thank you thank you am R appreciate that update okay if there are any other members of the public wishing to speak please step forward okay not seeing anyone uh seeking recognition and for the record I would just like to state that Schoolboard member Warren off welcome it arrive and item number seven this evening is the superintendent report superintendent Ray so we've had well I shouldn't say it but knock on wood low temperatures haven't disrupted schools yet uh but I'm sure that by tomorrow Burns or young or someone will have uh a challenge out there um we I just got to bring up my email because I lost the piece of paper that I had hold on in just a second so we have coming up um in
008our schools the first week in uh in February during February we will participate in the Department of Education read to me challenge and encourage our community to join us by reading to or with a child for at least 15 minutes um we ask people to snap a a photo or a short video uh 15 to 30 seconds and post it uh with your challenge to others to read aloud for 15 minutes with your child use the hashtag read to me and tag others parent resources um will be included in our principal's news uh letters um want to say congratulations to our Sako middle school students who completed the Annual Spelling be this month this year's school be Champion was Olivia blae and the runner up was Leo lalian Olivia and Leo will advance the York
009County Spelling be held on Tuesday February 4th at 2:30 in the library at Massabesic uh Middle School um and then during finance committee we talked about you may have seen the article in the newspaper um where uh main housing looks to be closing the hotel um in Sako by September um I'd ask you guys to look at that article to get some details we'll be working with main housing um as we move forward um over the next year to see what happens I'm not really sure what's going to happen this spring and that's going to certainly complicate some of our budget pieces um because our budget pieces uh included some new positions and maybe students will or won't be here U but a lot up in the air right now right thank you any questions
010or comments for superintendent okay not seeing any moving on to item eight and that is the chair's report Schoolboard chair Preble um I don't have anything need to report this evening thank you thank you and item number nine this evening there is no staff reports takes us to item 10 and that is the sub uh the board subcommittee me uh Personnel meetings personnel and policy committee agenda is attached to your packet and the next meeting is scheduled for February 12th at 5:30 p.m. the finance an infrastructure committee next meeting is January 22nd that was today at 4:30 and the curriculum committee next meeting is January 27th at 4:30 item 11 there is no old business this evening item 12 under new business there is a memo in your packet for new hires but there is
011no motion needed this evening there is a memo in your packet for resignations and again there is no motion needed and item C is a building update okay the other night um we were able to go to the conservation committee and seeking and uh approval for The Cutting of trees which we moveed through that committee last night we were scheduled to be at the planning board um but unfortunately they couldn't they didn't uh have a quorum so we're going back to the planning board on January 30th um to hopefully talk so we can get the process of cutting the trees done before uh April 14th which we appear to be on target four so that's kind of the big piece that we're working on right now is um trying to get that land cleared uh
012and then we'll go from that process forward great thank you any comments or questions okay not seeing any moving on to item D and that's a lit aill literacy Grant notification and that we've got Meg coming up thank you I'm just sharing a memo regarding a grant that we applied to this is for some literacy learning modules that were actually available Statewide over the course of the summer and they've extended that but phrased things a little bit differently where they want teams of teachers within different buildings working on completing those modules and then also having some follow-up collaborative conversations about how the content in those modules might impact instruction and we had um actually applied for four different teams they were looking for prek 3 teams so we had a team from prek from fairfields
013from Young and from CK Burns because CK Burns is a 35 school they did not approve the grant for CK Burns but they did allow our third grade teachers to join either the young or Fairfield team and as kind of a financial incentive that goes back to our students each of those teams that complete that work will then get $5,000 each to uh collaboratively develop a plan to implement some of the learning either through student resources or teacher resources as related to that and our teams are looking forward to working together to kind of see that as a pot of $15,000 that we might be able to use strategically for students prek through three to uh better Implement effective reading strategies and Andor intervention strategies for struggling readers through the learning that we gain in
014those aim modules happy to answer any questions great thank you any questions or comments for M okay not seeing any thank you thank you for the update okay that now takes us to item e this evening and that is the main Department of Education 2023 2024 cost per student analysis and the doe per pupil spending link yes so uh worked with the doe they sent me uh out the spreadsheet this year as you guys know each year we approve a budget based off 11 lines that is required by law uh that adds up to our budget two things that add up uh to what our tax rate is we put a budget together with all of our expenditures we have money that comes from the doe and at the same time we have local taxation
015um when you look at that year last year's budget we were at around $52 million uh in Grand sum uh total of everything um and then this is a breakdown of the per pupil cost this is actually what we spent in a year by the number of students um broken down into the categories so when you look at where Sako is at about 737 uh 17 thir uh 347 per student you can see that we're slightly above the state average um in that comparison piece um as we start looking at the total budget as we come forward uh we know that this could be a very challenging uh piece for us the other thing that we will have to look at this year is we hope that the 279s will be out um by February
0161st is what they promised us and I suspect that we will see some positive in that because the mill rate calculation of the required Mill is going to be 6.1 and as I said to us last time the higher valuation cities the lower the mill rate is the more money that comes from the state typically what we have to be concerned about is that our valuation continues to rise at a rate that's probably higher than the rest of the state the other piece that will probably be pretty positive for us is that our number of students doesn't seem to be declining like in other places in the state and so that will help balance off some of the valuation increase um so when we look at what we're spending comparative to other districts in the
017area we know that we still have if we wanted to spend at levels like say rsu21 that is a way for us to go however we have to be responsible here to our taxpayers uh and this is a breakdown of all the categories um that we report to the state based off what we spend from our budget to the doe as audited hey any questions or comments Schoolboard member roach okay all right let's get back to thoron for a second um all right first question Jeremy um the regular con instruction um on this sorry says 13,300 correct okay is is that just mat that is mat just pure mat so if I times it by the number of students it's the 14 whatever the million yeah correct all right special education that is a separate
018payment correct by by the schools not math so it's part of our contract to add to that correct that is correct andar and when we're finished if you let me I was I was going to ask you if I can after I'm done with this question to bring anarie up so because there'll be a key question that I think only she can answer so okay sorry they can't hear you on the TV so yeah okay so the special ed piece would be what we pay to TA what we include for any out of District placements on top of the district has resources such as psych examiner speech language OT that's not a direct payment so we're really looking at a 9 through 12 cost for Sako those are costs that are to the Sako taxpayers
019paid for out of our budget that are associated for kids that are grades 9 through 12 okay um these uh support and staff support that low number is that like an estimate by you guys or is that a payment that would be the cost that we support for elll students for the teaching position that's paid for by the Sako school department but is that cash flow to thoron academy or an estimate we we own that we own that employee okay so you're paying that within our budget circles but for this exercise applying it to TA correct because it's a 9 through 12 cost okay uh Transportation it matches our transportation costs correct okay and that's because every other District in the area there's no breakup between 9 through 12 or right the bus the bus
020goes out goes to get the middle school students goes to get the um correct um whether the kids use it or not right correct look got it okay um operations and maintenance is that just an application from you guys that's insured value Factor oh I'm sorry that's IVF okay sorry about that yeah it's covers equipment and building but in this category it's called operations and maintenance okay okay um all right then back to Matt um Matt when when that for regular instruction that calculation by the state is to pay for regular instruction tuition and it does not not include food service no right correct okay hold on we'll bring you up in just a second wait wait okay and then my last question I think is going to be well it's what Amar had brought
021up in public comment is Jeremy do you think is the 18,000 calculated for ta um a high estimate or a low estimate for their per pupil cost that is a true expense of 9 through 12 education okay so then I asked permission if I could bring Emory up because she said the 18 was inaccurate but I don't know which direction so but I C to call are you prepared superintendent rayu okay yeah all right thank you um a couple of of clarifications the 133 for mat does include F Food Service that is the payment that thoron Academy gets from Sako for the entire cost to educate the student all the expenses that we incur including that the IVF Kevin that 931 is also um something stipulated by the state to a degree you know we
022have a contract that's that is specific to that that is intended to offset the cost of maintaining our plant and Equipment because the towns do not have the ability to go to the municipal Bond Bank for any kind of funding the transportation number again I don't this my comments weren't meant to tease out the 18 I said for the purpose of this conversation let's just assume it is 18 there there's over $200,000 that ta absorbs for Afterschool transportation that any other District would pay for itself and so if we add the 700 we need to subtract over 230 and again we can go around all day on the details of what we'd add and what's what we'd subtract that's not I me that's splitting hairs um the other thing that's important to know is that
023in most cases it's the same bus run that picks up the middle school students and the TA students so they go out to those neighborhoods one time drop off at the middle school drop off at TA so if ta were to go away you'd have some Transportation savings but it wouldn't be an entire route that came out and then the the off-site sped piece there is I can tell you the actual amount that Sako paid ta for for special education services last year was $2,314 and12 cents and that's as compared to the 3,59 so again it was not my intent tonight to be debating whether you should allocate another th000 but what is important is that the $23,000 number that I gave you does not include off-site sped Services I believe part of how this
024calculation is getting from 2,300 to 3,000 is that it is including that so that's all I'm saying is if you're going to add that to our number you need to add that to the $23,000 number too so again my apologies to get us into the Weeds on this that wasn't my intent so for the purposes of this even if we accepted the full 18 and didn't deduct for the extracurricular Transportation we're still $4,000 less expensive than the cheapest Soo pre 8 school and $5,000 less than your average and again the actual expenses per school go as high as20 $ 6,000 for prek I would also say this is not an assault on on the cost to educate Sako students providing a quality education is important the actual cost for ta to educate students last year
025was just over $119,600 so we spend a lot of money too that's that's what's involved to educate our kids in a way that we can all be proud of and to offer the the wide variety of programming and the high quality programming that we do so this isn't assault on the number it's just pointing out that this calculation that you're looking at that compares 17 foro and 18 for ta is not an Apples to Apples comparison and there are two databases At Doe both of them derived from information that is provided by the district so as Jeremy said the the 17 number is this 11 line number provided by the district Sako the $23,000 number is all also compiled by Doe from information submitted to them by the district it's just that it's a more
026comprehensive number and a more apples to apples comparison to what you're coming up with on this page is 18 so again we could get into should you subtract the $8,000 subsidy that the state sends the city for every ta kid or should you subtract something from the 23 to get to the 17 that again I didn't intend to bring the entire school board and the public into that level of weeds I just wanted you to have the more accurate APPL to Apples number to compare and I'm happy to take any other questions and all I can all I can say Mr roach is that we know the amount of money that we spend every single year because we have an approved budget by the voters based off 11 lines that I report back to you
027guys in like tonight in finance committee you get an 11 line budget because that comprises everything that is raised by public Andor State subsidy and we report and have those audited numbers and they're reported out by the 11 lines um and so that is the number because when you look at it and you look at the amount of money that Sako spent general fund last year of 48 plus million and we had carryover those numbers come together and I would say again both the 17 and the 23 are accurate numbers it's just when you're choosing which one to compare to the 18 the 23 is the better comparison it's a more a more apples to apples comparison and Carolyn did you have a question yes I just want I wanted to know how many of
028the students are self-pay versus how many do does Sako pay for Sako last year I know this report says 862 and that's just a a little variance this report is derived from the count as of October 1st and when we Bild Sako we actually take the average of the number of students on October 1 and April 1 so we actually build Sako for 859 students last year but that again that's noise in this report because it's calculated on a per student basis and anarie if you feel like that 23 number is the best number for us to use uh maybe you can provide us in the board with your explanation on why that mathematically would align that way uh I think that would be helpful for us to talk about it at the next meting
029happy to do that the 23,000 number I was told by Doe includes everything again except the local portion of debt service and off- premise sped and that is the most comprehensive number to compare if you're if you're grossing up ta's number all the way from 16545 to 18 we need to look at the total Soo cost net of any Revenue coming in okay great thank you Schoolboard member one more so I know the public can't see they can look up to see that we listed 17,345 as the Sako cost and there's another site that you're referring to the 23,000 in your opinion what's what's making up that difference I'd have to look at the detail Kevin but they're both to be clear they're both doe databases maintained on the doe website and there is an
030extract a line item extract available that ties to that 23 so I will pull that and I can share it with this whole group and Jeremy it might be helpful if you and I met cuz then we could look at the extract behind the 17 and the extract behind the 23 and reconcile that together that might be helpful for the group sure so I believe a big part of that difference 6,000 is Food Service it may be and again that that mat is intended to cover the cost of US feeding our kids it's the total payment that you make to us to educate our students yeah but I think I think you can correct me if wrong I think that I think you're in correct on that mat calculation because if mat mat is including
031Food Service gross spending expenses that would be impossible because I think it would be like five grand four grand per kid and you'd be left with only two-thirds of that for regular instruction I think what the state does and I could be wrong I think what the state does is calculate an assumption of you're going to get revenue for that food service just like the public schools would do but the public schools get free lunch now all public schools get free lunch and nine out of 12m get participate in the free lunch program of Sako they do so I don't think that they're giving you in Matt Gross dollars in food service and even if they're not Kevin again now you're mixing the the revenue with the expenses right I can tell you it costs
032over $2 million a year to put food on ta's campus and we do that so whatever it is Sako is paying us the 133 is all that we get to try to compensate that and again I don't want this to spin-off into that this is supposed to be about making sure that if we're looking at 18 we're looking at 23 but you you're you're getting Revenue then Kevin that would bring your cost down right our cost is higher than your cost but you're not paying us for that that's that's fine our food is federally funded though and you guys do not participate in that correct right so you're bringing in money from the food that we don't bring in money we have a third-party food service provider that we contract with to put food on
033our campus but Revenue directly to TA but again $113,000 going to you for Max will allowable tuition 13,000 if it calculates Food Service in that that we are paying to cover your cost for food service that it is not going to be $4,000 $5,000 of that 13,000 I think we're talking about two different things what I'm saying is that is what you give us all in for the total cost of educating our kids it's up to us to educate the kids right and maybe Kevin that's part of the difference between the 196 and the 165 that Soo pay ta versus the cost for us to educate those students but again what we're talking about here is the cost to Sako to have ta educate your kids and 133 is what you gave us last year
034to do that however we spent it on the backside that's what we receive from Sako for tuition if you will then there's the IVF there's a sped as we just took people through so this this isn't about we could spend all day in the weeds of this but this is about this chart being Apples to Apples so again if if our cost includes the cost of food but this doesn't I guess you're telling me that you're not paying us for that but either way 17 is not the all-in cost to educate a Sako student per your own data it's 23 whatever do again I'm I will extract that data and share it with everyone because I think it's important that we all know yeah but both for the private eies and the public school revenue
035and expenses are assumed mixed because that mat calculation for 13,000 does not assume that you are on the hook to pay all gross costs for for Food Service it is assumed Med just like a public school that you get revenue for food service in the recent years it's been a free lunch program for all public schools and up to this point nine out of the 12 private this this doesn't this doesn't change with that conversation what this is a calculation of is how much is Sako paying ta not what is TA doing with the money whether we choose to to spend $2 million to educate kids outside of a federal free program we have our own free program I think everybody here knows that it's extremely generous we raise money largely with donations to fund
036that we have something called the Headmaster assistance fund not only do we provide free meals up to 260% of the federal poverty income which is twice what those inates outside of Maine have for free males but we also do things like pay for ey glasses we buy sneakers we we buy winter coats we do all kinds of things we have our eyes out on our kids and making sure that nobody is going hungry at TA that is a very different conversation than what we're talking about here making sure that we have Apples to Apples numbers I think all the superintendents use this chart do not add something like food service to the categories and also ta themselves has used this chart for comparison we never use that number because it's not complete you you have
037used this chart this chart here the guarantee you've used this chart guar I can tell you we have not Kevin the only the only other time we've been presented with this chart was during a confidential negotiation with your school board and we immediately dispelled it for this exact same reason it's not an Apples to Apples comparison no no I'm talking about before your time too that ta has used this chart to justify the yeah the deal that ta gives Sako and you've used the comparison to all all these communities these communities have a lot less student body to reduce that per pupil rate so when we talk Apples to Apples we want to make sure we we're comparing ourselves to the cities the big schools and I've said this before the class a football programs
038which that's where you compete with in sports and that's where you compete with with per pupil costs the only thing we're using it to compare to right now is Sako all of the other districts have numbers comparable to that 2 three and when we look at our total costs we look at their total costs not the 11 lines but all of the costs and I think that will be the piece that we'll have to get to because the 11 lines I think this is getting way into the financial weeds for this type of meeting so the the point is the eight if if we're going to use the 18 number the best comparison is the 23 number and again whether food service is in there I will find that out for you but it doesn't
039change the fact that the total given even if we were to assume all these extra allocations is$ 18 and it's still $4,000 less than CK Burns and $5,000 less than the soo average and again I suspect how we get to 17 is some Revenue offsets so then I think we'd have to take the $8,000 per student subsidy that the state gives the city off the TA cost but I'm not prepared to say that now I'd like to get the details and and work together on that and I think we can get the details on that the 11 lines is what we're required to pass here at our level and when we look at those costs those are costs to the taxpayer built in with State subsidy and any Revenue that we bring in and that
040is the cost to educate kids because if we look at the 23 cost and this is important for the public to understand that if you took the number of 23 and divide and multiplied it by the 1900 students that we have prek through eight that's approximately $45 million on top of that we know that we pay upwards of $15 million to Thorton Academy which would be would would mean that we're overspending our budget by $8 million a year which doesn't happen and so we will get the Department to I can maybe get the Department to come down or write a memo on this uh we can certainly work with anarie and what's in that number uh and we will put a transparent piece out there between what are our costs in our budget that are
041local dollars and State dollars for our prek through 8 education and what we spend 9 through 12 so this will be brought back for you um in an upcoming meeting with a little more detail if you have any questions before that present them to superintendent Ray if you have any specific breakdowns um that you're looking to see and I'm happy to take questions call me anytime time great thank you so much thank I do actually have a question that is nowhere near the magnitude of what superintendent just said but you've mentioned a few times before that you not only give kids free lunch but also um you know I don't know like equipment for sports things like that do you have any docum mentation that you could share with Ward about that um I'm sure
042we could gather it Beth and I think what you're referring to is a story I told you a couple of years ago when the the new maners the students who are larger living in the hotel all arrived and we wanted to integrate them into the the rest of the student body and they wanted to play soccer but they didn't have the gear to do that so we used those Headmaster funds to buy cleats shinguards and mouth guards for all of them so that they could get in there and play soccer with the rest of the students and that was a huge thing for them to be able to integrate along with the rest of the students so that's the kind of thing that we're able to do with that Headmaster fund we also have um
043ta closet which some of you may be familiar with but um we have employees and anybody else who wants to really um bring in used and gently used clothes and that's a place where the students can just go and take what they need and I know I have an 18-year-old boy and all of his clothes that are worth donating always go to the TA closet when he outgrows them so it's nice clothes it's clothes that kids would wear and so we just we have a lot of things like that going on but I can assure everyone that we have our eyes out for our students that have needs and we make sure to put our arms around them we have all 200 of our employees tasked if you see somebody you think needs to be
044in this free meal program and they're not in it let us know and we've had somebody bring a student to our attention at 10: in the morning and we feed them that day right there's no red tape there's no application to go through we see you we think you need it you're in so anyway we're we're very very proud of that I I appreciate that information I just think that this board might be better informed if we had more documentation about it and it sounds like a great thing I don't know what did you call it the Headmasters funds the Headmaster assistance fund that's when we raise donations and get grants to fund that program it's it's very important to TA not to have the restrictions that come with the federal meal program that's another
045whole you know can of worms but for a lot of reasons that's not the right fit for our campus but it is our priority to make sure that no one goes hungry on our campus okay thank you for your info and again a bit more information to this board would be helpful sure thank you and just just to follow that up I think that would be good information for the board to understand about the priority or the restrictions of a federal meal program and and some of that decision-making process because as a taxpaying resident with a child there um I have no problems with the restrictions putting food on ta's campus is much much more complex than putting food in a public school and I imagine at first glance a lot of you can can
046surmise some of the reasons behind that you know we have over 200 people that live on campus that we feed meals to 7 days a week we don't want to be restricted with what we can give them in that way we have a lot of people that you know because of their culture don't drink milk and as you know Jeremy the federal program requires you to put a container of milk on that tray or else it doesn't get reimbursed um so there's just there's a lot of details behind it it's just simply not the right fit for ta but if anyone is confirmed concerned about whether or not our kids are being fed they are and I would say to any person on this school board or any member of the public if you ever
047become aware of a TA kid that you think should be in the meal program and is not I'd like you to call me or rainy manard our Headmaster personally and again it'll it'll be less than an hour before they're in the program so we we want to make sure we've got our arms around everyone who needs assistance thank you I know I've taken way more than three minutes so thank you thank you emarie okay moving on to item s this evening that's the approval of the shared service contract for 2025 through 2027 bitterford Dayton is there a motion Madame mayor Schoolboard member tumman I move we approve the shared service contract for the 2025 through 2027 with bitterford and Dayton second motion has been made by Schoolboard member Truman second by Schoolboard member Purble any
048discussions or comments I'm just excited to uh continue our relationship with our neighboring town and with smack just with bford just I know just with I know just with bitford complicated is a complicated as soon as I said it I was like no it's bitterford but um but I'm happy to continue the the relationship with everybody and go from there thank you anyone else Schoolboard member Johnston I am very enthusiastic about this because I believe it's it's been an amazing situation for Sako school department and we have worked collaboratively I believe we haven't been in the way um so I'm totally in support of it Schoolboard member roach yeah I'll I'll just repeat a little bit but also from my own experiences how ridiculous the scho the school administration situ situation was before we we
049entered into this you know at the time you know didn't think of maybe only last a year until we got our feet in the ground but to to have the issues that were haunting Us in the past um not completely go away but just quelled I mean Ju Just just in my one year on school board but just seeing it beforehand it night and day night and day and and I I I I you know certainly thank Jeremy and his team and also our um uh our neighbors in in bitterford um uh you know I know that uh mayor and and myself back in the city council days it was it continues to be a struggle to try to meet some common uh ground but this is exhibit a of how we can work together
050and uh make things better for the entire community area here so thank you thank you anyone else Schoolboard member uh purle I just want to Echo what Kevin was saying but also kind of just highlight the collaboration of the communities not just through the school districts but other collaborative things that have happened like you guys started that organization to help out kids as well that needed things the forethought of planning um field trips making sure every kid has an equal opportunity in education experience field trips experience all of the extracurricular activities I think that's a real gift to the community so I look forward to continuing that collaboration thank you great thank you anyone else okay roll call votes School Board member waroff yes Schoolboard member Preble yes Schoolboard member Richards yes Schoolboard member roach
051yes School Board member K yes School Board member Truman yes and School Board member Johnston yes motion passes Z okay that now takes us to item G and that is the first reading of the listed policies is there a motion School Board member Johnson thank you I move we accept the first reading of policies ibac child find JL c-r first age and first aid and Emer Medical Care administrative procedure jlf child abuse reporting prevention and education JFC Dropout prevention SL student withdrawal from school jib student dismissal precautions J lf- reporting child abuse and neglect administ administr of procedure jf- suspected child abuse SL neglect Report Form kcb Community involvement in decision making klg relations with c and law enforcement and k lg- r SRO and law enforcement administrative procedure would which is a recode and
052to strike J lcf which is automated external def your later that's a word second motion has been made by Schoolboard member Johnson second by Schoolboard member Truman any discussion or comments on the listed policies okay not seeing any roll call vote Schoolboard member waroff yes School Board member Preble yes School Board member Richards yes School Board member roach yes School Board member K yes School Board member Truman yes and schoool board member Johnston yes motion passes 70 okay item 13 this evening other information um I do have a quick statement that I would like to read regarding the recent protest out to General Dynamics on North Street um as you are aware many parents of children at Young School were concerned about the protests that took place regarding the General Dynamics and as a result
053I met with the city administrator superintendent Ray the police chief Jack clens Emily Prescott from um planning and Leah rine from the law firm of Drummond and woodsom based on the review of the First Amendment Provisions during our meeting our consensus is not to implement any formal policy regarding the protest at this time if the protesters stay on the city sidewalks they are protected by the First Amendment the superintendent's recommendation for safety is geared toward a more longer term perspective and that is by adding screening with fence for better privacy and that will be reviewed upon at a later date um as that stands any other Schoolboard members wishing to have any other information Madam mayor Schoolboard member Ray uh Schoolboard member Ray superintendent Ray um just just to update uh on that statement that
054you made I have uh walked the grounds with Chief Clemens uh and have a meeting scheduled with Ryan Sumer to um kind of discuss more specifics of actually what would um what would go there if we if we go that direction perfect thank you I will be updating the city council with that as well on Monday evening Schoolboard member was the most recent protest what was two it was two weeks ago two weeks ago two weeks ago Thursday it's been multiple or just that two weeks ago we have had multiple but unfortunately the recent events were more visual um than they have been in the past CA cusing a lot of concerns by parents um bringing and dropping off at this at young school hopefully with some of the changes in administration at this point
055Federal Administration they may be calming down but we can't make any guarantee or um perspectives on that so okay item number 15 is an adjournment is uh I'm sorry the item 14 there is no executive session so we do have it listed but there is no executive session this evening item 15 is there a motion to adjourn so moved second motion made by Schoolboard member Truman second by Schoolboard member Preble roll call vote Schoolboard member waroff yes Schoolboard member Preble yes Schoolboard member Richards yes School Board member roach yes Schoolboard member K yes School Board member Truman yes and Schoolboard member Johnston yes motion passes 70 to adjourn at 554 thank you everyone and have a great night e