001Okay. Um the second one, the um the high school has a a generator inside of a boiler room. Massive uh cat diesel generator and it powers a good a good portion of this building, not the entire thing. And it's original. It's vintage. It's 1989. Um and um I had noticed uh some engine oil when I do my walkarounds leaking out of the engine all over the floor and it was coming from the cylinder head valve guy just smoked on it. Um and just because of age that's all. So I I did some analysis on this and to replace this unit as I put in my write up is very very cost prohibitive >> um they range depending on what kind what type where we put it inside outside the range that I got I got
002four PS the low end was 162,500 and the the higher end was 262,000 to replace that generator was something that was sized for this building but also with the potential for an expansion which we have been talking about. Um at this time to spend this amount I think is a much better option because this needs to be done right away. Um whenever the generator runs I have to go in there and clean the oil off the turbocharger which gets very very hot and this generator's inside the building. Not a good situation. So, that's something I want to fix immediately if if the board decides to go through with this. Any questions on the generator? Um, the last item, um, so that those of you unfamiliar with it, there's an operable folding wall in the, um,
003in the music room and it opens up onto the stage and that fell off the ceiling back in December. I've actually had this repaired because it was a danger. So, this has already been paid for. I didn't have any option. Um, so we temporarily short it up. Um, just told the music teacher, don't, you know, don't go near it, that kind of thing. And there's a company in Massachusetts that repairs these things. Originally, they gave me a ballpark of $4,400, but they came and did the repairs. Um, and it came in much lower, which was great. Um, so now the wall is fully operational and safe to use. Um, and that was something again that was an emergency that we had to do it. Um, or else we wouldn't be able to have students in
004there and we also wouldn't be able to move the piano under the stage or you know those big pieces of equipment because that stuff doesn't fit out the doors. So again, that's something that I've had done already. So the request is that amount um to pay for that repair. Any questions on that one? Oh, did you do another slide? >> Balances. I'm just curious. >> I did. >> Okay. >> That's our balance as of December 8th. Then if you recall the board on that night, um voted to $450,000 more. Um, so our current balance um is 1.376 million. Um, we still have one of the ones you approved from August 8th still not paid for. So there is 70 about 7,500 outstanding. Um, that was around the watted rotted wood and paint of >> this
005is this is at BES. Um, we ran out of weather so they temporarily threw some pores up to keep the animals out of the building. Um, but that rot repair will be done. >> Okay. >> In the spring. >> So, the work hasn't been done. >> Not yet. That's why it hasn't. >> Just verifying that you're not late on invoices or >> No, no. We just basically ran out of nice weather is what happened on that. >> Um, and I want to add one other quick thing if I may. Um, maintenance trust fund over the last month. These items are older items that we just had haven't brought to the board yet. Um, but there's been a lot of other things, I'll say, that have um, broken in our district that I've been working on
006since, well, Thanksgiving, to be honest with you. Um, there will be quite a few more requests. Um, on Sunday when I was here trying to fix the boiler that broke down, while I was waiting for the tech to arrive, I started a list for the next meeting. And I just want to let the board know there will be quite a few more coming just unfortunately due to um some emergencies that have happened um over the district, not just this school but the rest of the schools. So be patient with me. Um the next several meetings you will probably see me doing this and I just want to give you a heads up on that. That's all. >> Thank you. Um, quick question. The music wall, is there any way because it's 2017 that we can
007put it out of the general fund? >> We don't know right now. >> Okay. All right. >> I actually asked that same question. >> Okay. Well, sometimes what we'll do is we sometimes we'll have discussions that we'll take it out of the maintenance trust, but then towards the end of the year, sometimes we'll star it kind of a thing and then at the end of the year we code them. Sometimes we can adjust them and take them out of the general fund. We'll switch them >> as soon as the um yeah, we could do that. Start it or pause it if you approve it and then but we can turn around and say we can um as soon as um the budget season is over, I will um put it on an agenda for us
008to have how are we running on budget this year as a year to date so that we can have a projection of are we running close to budget or we running where we see a little bit of um extra that we can talk against. >> Yep. >> Because sometimes the smaller ones the you know 11,000 the 2,000 sometimes you know if we're going to have a half million dollars or you know whatever it might be towards the end of the year for a fund balance sometimes those 10,000 2000 ones we can sometimes sneak in. Yeah. >> Um, so in years past we have said, "All right, we'll approve them to come out of the maintenance trust with the caveat that if we can try to use them out of a general fund, um, let's try
009to do that. That way, as we know, there's the boiler issue here at the high school currently. Um, that we have some other bigger projects um, and fixes that, you know, the money could be adjusted that way." Can I ask a question or yes? Okay. >> Um, >> for the board's purposes, um, would there be is there a dollar limit, um, that you would like me to sort of have in the back of my heads, um, if it's a small item like this to not bring to you or would you prefer that I bring it? >> I do. I think we've looked at this before and now I can't remember. Um, the original maintenance I don't believe that there is a dollar amount on the maintenance trust items. I don't believe there's a specific dollar
010amount on them. >> They just have to be >> general maintenance. >> Yeah. >> For the buildings, >> there isn't a dollar amount. I I I saw it recently, >> right? Because we had to look for it. gone through the last u actually all the way back to 2012 looking at some um deliberative session minutes and warrant articles. >> Okay. So, >> right. And it was it was like we had to we were looking at it for one of your prior maintenance trust requests. There was a question that came up about was there a monetary amount or something like that, but I don't believe that there was. So, >> may I ask one more? >> Yeah. >> Question. >> I lost my train of thought. >> Sorry. Um the items that I have since I've
011since last January when I started doing this um the items that I typically will bring in here, not typically but always bring here are um things that are completely unbudgeted. That's why I'm bringing in because I look at my budget and I don't have the money in there. So, is it safe for me to say that even if it's two 3,000 $4,000 and it's it's totally not budgeted for anyway, still okay to bring those kind of things in? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> And then we'll just have a board discussion and sometimes what we'll say that's why I say like um we'll give direction to like star it or just if we can toward you know if it can be re um for accounting purposes realigned under the general fund um you know versus the
012maintenance trust if we are if we have that ability under a maintenance line item you know um because we can always you know it's a bottom line kind of budget so you know as long we can always overdraft on a maintenance if something else might be under so >> I the reason I asked that is um like I was just talking about just a moment ago was over the last four or five weeks so going back Thanksgiving. Um there's some pretty major things that I've been dealing with. Some of you know. Um and it's going to it's going to use some of that. Well, if you approve it, it'll use a lot of that maintenance trust fund money. Um so I understand using general fund money. I get all that. >> Um I just want
013to make sure that we can still >> operate safely and have funds available to do those things. That that's all. Y >> and that's why I like if we can switch something to general funds so that we have funds to the bigger ticket items, right? You know, >> those >> expensive oh crap >> items that may come up because that's what happens in the middle of winter when it's really cold. Everything always goes sideways. >> Um and we had the big huge issue here with the septic issue as well. Um >> yeah, and you'll see me next month. >> Yeah. Um like I'm aware there's a couple big things that have happened at the high school. So like um those are going to be big ticket fixes. Um that's just the reality of what it
014is of having buildings aging buildings. Um so if there's smaller things that can be moved to general fund to allow those big fixes to allow everything to be done, >> it's a win-win. That's the way I look at it. >> Thanks. You're welcome. All right. Um, public comment on hearing topics on the public hearing for me. >> Yes. >> Shouldn't I make a motion to approve? >> Well, that's I was waiting for public comment first and then we can Yeah. >> Okay. >> I forgot about public comment. Sorry. We have to have public comment first before we make a motion because that way if they had comment about it >> we're still hearing. >> Okay. Um All right. Make a motion for the maintenance. >> You want to take them individually or >> we can
015do them all? Well, I guess the only reason why is because of the comment you made about if you want for the general fun >> for the music for me to hold back reimbursement from the maintenance trust fund and to see where our budget balance is, but for you to still give your approval should we need it? >> Have we done it that way before? Have we voted it that way before? Actually, you're right. I think we have done it that way. >> I think we did too. It was a painting one a few years ago on painting that we did that >> we did it that way. Yeah. >> Where where that money has already been expended. Can we make it? So I mean it was only 2,700 >> but we haven't reimbursed from
016the maintenance trust. >> Okay. Anyway, >> right. It's reimbursing like the general fund from the maintenance trust fund. It's just that accounting y >> um use of the fund. It's already been paid for. So, I'll make a motion to approve the $64,815 and then we can take out >> do each one individually. >> Okay. >> So, $50,500. Make a motion to approve that to finish the wellness solution, electricity and hydrants >> out of the maintenance. >> Out of maintenance. >> Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Oppos. Abstensions. >> I will make a motion to get the generator repair at NRS for $1,600. >> Okay, I'll second that. >> Yes. >> Isn't that one of the ones we were just discussing? >> It was the musical. >> Well, she said
017she said $1,600. >> I don't know. Let me ask. That's a question asked about the dollar limit. >> There isn't really a dollar limit. Do you want >> um Yeah, why don't you do both of those with the caveat that if we once we get a fund balance or a projected fund balance, we could look at either way so that Armen can spend the big money on the how he's been spending his weekends at the high school. critical things to approve that unless there is room for it in the general trust fund to pay for it out of the maintenance fund. >> Yeah, the just the general fund. >> Does that make sense, Ruth? Would you just repeat that >> to pay for the generator repair the 11,600 out of the maintenance trust fund? If
018there is not the ability to pay for it out of the general fund, no ability to pay for it out of the general fund. >> I'll second the amended. >> Okay. It's fine. >> Just repeat it. >> Any further discussion? >> No. >> Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> Extensions. All right. So, >> I'll make a motion to um approve the repair for the music folding wall for the $2,1715 out of the maintenance trust fund unless it's able to be covered by the general fund. >> Perfect. I'll second it. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Extensions. >> Could I just comment? >> Yes. >> Briefly, very briefly, sorry. The first item on there obviously won't happen. It's January. That
019won't happen until, you know, we can get fit in probably spring or summertime. I just want to let you know make sure that you folks know this, you know, as soon as the ground thaws, we have wells. It's going to take a little time. So, just FYI, that's all. >> You can't present. >> What? >> You can't dig up the ground when it's present. >> We can do anything. You got enough money. >> That that price wouldn't be enough. >> Yeah. Okay. Are you still working with Gilpwell? Um, not for this particular project. >> No. >> Okay. >> We do still work with them, but not just just not for this project. >> All right. So, we will close the public hearing. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. Thank you. >> Um, approval or modification
020of the agenda. Do we have any modifications? >> I guess not. >> You do. >> We Well, we were going to table an item, but I guess we can get to it when he's out there. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. Right. Here we go. Uh, wait a minute. Um, should you put on the information thing? >> I was going to do it as part of my budget update. Okay. >> Where I have update on FY27. >> Okay. Perfect. The facts and >> Okay, that's with that. Okay. Gotcha. All right. Sorry for today. All right. January 12th, 2026, the public board meeting minutes. Any areas, issues, or concerns regarding the minutes? >> All right. I need a motion to approve the minutes. >> Make a motion to approve the January 12th, 2026 board meeting minutes. >>
021Second. >> Okay. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Okay. We don't have what was it? January 22nd on there. >> That's fine. We'll just do it at the next one. Okay. I just don't want to forget it. That's all. >> It should be actually >> and then correct because we had a snow day. >> So, this will be um January 27th, 2026 nonpublic minutes. >> January. >> Okay. I'll second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. Oppos. Okay. Next, we will open it up for public comments. This what happens when we have snow days. >> A good old snow day. A real true snow day. >> I know. >> All right. response to public comments. Uh I do have correspondence. Um Newton
022area school districts. I've been thinking about our budget in issues a lot since it was discussed that the projected amount for next year is over by 2 million. I believe that closing Danbury Elementary and New Hampton Elementary would be the most efficient and long-term way to save money. This would not be just a temporary band-aid solution. Together, these two schools have roughly the same number of kids in classrooms as Bees, which would likely mean adding only one additional class per grade, depending on enrollment numbers. Consolidating would save significant money on nurses, electricity, building maintenance, and snow removal alone. There is already a serious shortage of paraprofessionals throughout the district. I believe that offering a reasonable wage to encourage contracted paraprofessionals to become district employees would actually save money in the long run. As one of
023those pair of professionals, I'm now fearful for my job, a job I love in a district I am proud to call home. I also believe that reviewing staff attendance policies could help reduce costs. Additionally, if schools were closed, selling unneeded equipment and materials could help recover some funds. I strongly believe that cutting special education positions would not benefit anyone. In fact, it would likely create more problems both in the short term and long term. I also do not believe cutting sports is the right decision. Sports provide important outlets for students and help teach teamwork, cooperation, and life skills that are essential for their growth and development. Thank you for reading. Just grace Bristol. I will give that to you. All right. Announcements and recognition is not here. So, we will move on to the superintendent.
024Well, my to make up for my long report a couple weeks ago, I have a short report this week. We have uh first of all, on March 9th, we have a substancefree athletics community night sponsored by the Newfound Coalition for Youth. Um it'll be a dinner for 75 u provided by the Homestead. It's a pasta buffet dinner. Child care and engagement um with um by high school students with with younger students will take place in the gym and in some of our classrooms engaging them in a variety of crafts, games um and more. Uh then there's a while this is going on there's a presentation for the parents and community members and caregivers and coaches and a wide variety of stakeholders invited by V8 team about substances and awareness and prevention especially around substances and
025and the athlete. Then on March 10th, the day after, uh, the town of Bristol elections will be held here at the high school. I guess the the town has been trying to get into the schools for, um, a while now, for years, and we've made it happen. We worked our professional development day to match election day um, so that there aren't students um, in the building, but we will have um, just our professional development going on. So, we're we're pleased to welcome um our our partners the town to have their um elections here this year and I'm glad it it sank in and I changed the Warren article to include that as part of the address. It's for years we've never looked at the addresses of where they are, but we did catch that. So,
026um, and then, uh, the New York the New York, sorry, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation awarded $3,000 to support the Acadia trip. Uh, there will be a letter to follow for board approval that's coming our way. Um, I just want to say I think Alicia Langelo is doing an excellent job finding a lot of alternate sources of funding for this trip. I part of the project promise goal is um that's written in the grant is to find ways to be self- sustaining and she's really done a great job this year at finding a lot of alternative funding for this trip that's outside the project promise. Um, and then finally, um, as Armen mentioned, the there's some boiler issues here at the high school, and we had to, um, have a custommade part made for us and
027sent up from Virginia, but they do need to shut the um, water off for the day where they where they install it. So, there was a remote day scheduled for this Wednesday. It actually the weather had slowed the cart from coming up north which I kind of predicted when I heard it was coming from the south during a winter storm. So that uh remote day is now Thursday. and much appreciation to the staff and the families on this, especially during the same week of a real snow day coupled with a delayed opening and then coupled with at the high school the end of quarter two all in the same week. So >> busy at the high school and appreciate everyone's flexibility. That's my report. the remote day just at the high school or just the
028whole district >> just at the high school. >> Okay. Next we have the new found teachers association literacy coverage. >> Did you need to present present? >> Um you said presentation so I made one thinking I have one. That's okay. It's short I promise. >> No worries. I just will take mine out. It's mostly pictures. This is Tyler Breenri. He is the president of the Newfound Teachers Union. >> Hi. So, um, so this is a new thing we started this year. Um, we actually reached out to the, um, AFT, which is the American Federation of Teachers, which is a national union. There's also one in every state. and uh they provide a program called uh reading opens the world as you can see here. Sorry, I'm just doing my projection screen. My myation board doesn't
029work. Um so what we did is um beginning the 15th of December till the 23rd, which was the last day before the holiday break in December, we went to myself and our vice president, Ryan Baker, uh were a actually went to each school and delivered a set of books that were grade level appropriate for each school. Um, and the goal was these were totally free books given and that any student, staff member, community uh member could come in and get some of these books. And so this was actually and uh we I actually did one delivery at the middle school. Unfortunately, I couldn't catch you on camera, but I kid you not, the minute we put down the last books, the bell rang and I saw about 30 middle schoolers all swarm this day. So,
030they really do um like the books. Um and this this was a huge success. We actually all these books were donated um to us by the AFT and some we did purchase through a grant. Uh the grant was given to us by the AFT and our librarian here Lucy Rand Tapley actually helped us purchase the book since that was her area of expertise purchasing books. Um apologize my computer. So, I just made a quick presentation. Technology wants to cooperate. Okay. doesn't want to let me uh present but um so the way that uh the way this worked is essentially um so free books were provided each school district received delivery of grade level books so the first this was a little difficult um this first year doing it because the problem they give us a
031pallet of a thousand books but they don't tell us the books that are on there and we had to spend the grant before the pallet was delivered so we didn't really get to coordinate that um the good news is this year we figured out where those shortfalls were for grade level and uh the hope is that now, you know, with that knowledge, having done this the first year, um we're going to be able to, you know, counteract it to make sure there's enough. So, this year we unfortunately did struggle with having enough for fourth and fifth grade as a pallet also provided us a lot of books for like preschool and and baby books. But the nice part was for a lot of staff who had ch like small small children or grandchildren or we
032even had some high school students who have, you know, brand new like newly born siblings or toddlers at home that could bring books home. Um these are made available to community and staff. Um, we did reach out to Laconia Daily Sun. Unfortunately, uh, I never heard back from them, but we did try to get these published throughout. There were signs put up in every school and flyers distributed. Um, and I just like to highlight that this cost the entire taxpayer population of Newbound, not a scent. This was all donated or grant funded. And the goal is to make this an annual event around the December holiday every year from the union. Um but so far we got a pallet of just under a thousand books and we ordered through the grant that we were given
033about another 600 or so and we have about 200 books left and that most of those are because um unfortunately due to you know the constant weather changes around the country at different times they just got delayed and didn't arrive till after our holiday break had uh ended. So we do have some that we're looking to give away next year. And then um I did include some pictures from the middle school that we received. So, this was the table the middle school had set up. We had set one up um at the front of the office as soon as you walked in the building, they were right there. Um this was one we captured of several students u maybe like two minutes after we put the books down. They were already ready to swarm. And
034then uh one of our school employees, her daughter grabbed the book and they agreed to pose for us for a picture. But the goal um here was every kid had the ability to receive a book to go home with for the holiday, right? And this is one of those things, like I said, we're just hoping that this will become an annual thing and will grow as time goes on. Um, so hopefully, you know, anyone reading this, this will be a thing we're hoping to put together next year as long as the grant money keeps going in. And the benefit of that grant is it's not going to cost us anything to put this on through either the newfound taxpayers at all. So >> that what the table is that's out. >> Yeah, those are all
035free books that we had out there. Those are just the ones that we have left from the break cuz unfortunately um the pallet came just about all of those are gone. It was the ones we ordered that came in in shipments and not all of them made it before uh before the holiday break with all the the gifts that are being shipped constantly. >> I found a sports related one out there for my 12-year-old middle schooler that I ended up grabbing one day and bringing home that he liked. Oh yeah, we found um so so some of the books we gave away were sports data ones that had um you know statistics from various sports. We had books about um we had Marvel ones. We also had one that's um for more of our uh
036older middle school like seventh eighth grade high school. They're called Twisted Tales. For any Disney fans are basically like a take on um you know Disney, but what if this happened instead? So one of the examples is what if Captain Hook took Wendy to Neverland, not Peter Pan. It's a whole book of those stories and those were huge. I definitely saw quite a few kids um grabbing those but it was really nice to see kids get involved and you know engage with the book. >> Tyler, what does AFT stand for? >> Uh the American Federation of Teachers. So our Newfound Teacher Union um we're part of the AFT um which is once again there's a national level which is where the grant came from. There's a state level um and then unions at the local
037level can be part of that larger group. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you very much for talking. >> I like the idea that it's right before the holiday break. >> Yeah. The goal was to try and do something. So the union already helps out with the fire crack uh the firecracker race. Sorry if I'm not remembering that correctly. Um and then we also try to do the scarecrow. So the goal was to try and have something union related that could go um throughout the year. And we noticed there was a gap right in that December holiday. We thought what a great way to fill it with, hey, I if nothing else, you at least have a book to take home, too. You know, if you get two feet of snow on, you know,
038your holiday, you have something to sit down and read while waiting for uh folks to clear the snow. >> Awesome. >> Thank you very much. >> All right. We have >> We do. December. >> All right. We have December manifest. We have a motion to approve December manifest. to approve. >> I'll second it. >> Okay. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> Obstensions. Okay. Committee reports. Um, let's see. Budget committee. Well, they met the same day we did, so last Thursday. So, >> there two sets of minutes in tonight's packet as you saw. >> Yeah. Okay. uh facilities Joe >> he just threw out a meeting date today Armen I believe for February 4th at 4:30 will be our next meeting where he'll bring >> more items
039for approval for the maintenance trust fund >> okay policy committee has >> it's to be determined we have we did our big fall update we're waiting for some spring update >> okay committee we have a meeting February 17th at 5:00 p.m. Um, building committee has a meeting on February 3rd. I think I saw the email. February 3rd. They have a meeting. >> We do at 5:30. >> Okay. >> Wellness committee, >> we have a meeting February 11th at 4. So, February is my month of committee. >> I was just going to say February is going to be a month of committing. Tech council, >> nothing federal yet. >> All right. And negotiations is just on here. We're just pending the vote on March 10th. Okay. Old business Lakes Region Coalition Public Charter School. >> So
040throughout the um course of the presentations around the budget and the warrant articles, we talked about there may be a need for a warrant article uh for the voting public to approve the district to enter into the a charter school um one applicant pool. But um in their work um again um the superintendents of Franklin and Inner Lakes have taken the lead on this with our Lakes region group in their work with the group the pool and with the the lawyers that they've engaged that uh this will be put off a year. It will not be on this year's vote. So if if they go the charter school route rather than just a coalition without a charter school, um the the vote will be in the March of 2027. So >> there'll still be a
041study this year. So they did receive a grant for um a study committee to study the whole possibility of opening this regional schools. update on fiscal year 2027 budget. >> Put my my computer back up there. All right. So, I'll really just present the new items to you. I've kind of built on some of our past presentations as we brought the budget to you. We had both a a budget hearing and a couple updates at board meetings. And um this is where we're at at cuts. Um as of um yesterday uh the budget was finalized. Um we'll talk about that process in a minute and next steps. Um but we have a budget in our um in our accounting system. So these are just the warrant articles that we already have talked about and uh
042voted on. that from we remember from the last meeting there was a correction in the amount of the uh tax cap and the actual budget as well as a correction in the uh first year estimate of the uh teachers contract. These are not new. At the last meeting, uh we did vote to approve um a one article around open enrollment. I just wanted to show this again for anyone who wasn't at our last meeting. Um, this was to see if the Newfound Area School District will vote to adopt the provisions of the New Hampshire RSA Chapter 194D and become an open enrollment school district under the terms of the RSA and to emit a total of 100 students from outside the Newfound Area School District to grades K through 12 at all schools in the
043Newfound Area School District and establish that 0% of the resident student population are eligible to seek enrollment outside the district. Um, and for those of you that weren't here, this was done as um our our neighbors Pasquani have um they have are putting forward a warrant article to um also not send any students but to receive up to 20 students. Um you and if you've been listening to the news and watching the news, a lot of the school districts are now putting a warrant article um so that they become an open enrollment school. So right now that they can control the exit or the potential to leave and as we did explain I suspect there'll be some legislation this year that may change some of that. But at the very least, I think my hope
044is a study committee that pauses and really looks at the financial effects this will have on school districts. And then we did receive a petition warrant article um from the public in time to res uh their petition articles to resend the tax cap. We did read this into the record with the budget committee and the board at the last meeting. Uh the board of the budget committee does not vote on this as this is a petition order. >> All right. This is just the documents we had before for the tax cap. As you can see, the budget could only increase by $324,000, which really, even though it's a 2% tax cap, it's more like 1.2% because it's 2% of the um the property taxes, not the full budget or the assessment values, not the full
045budget. All right. So, this is kind of a summary of where we were and where we're at. So, this is our business administrator's categorization, but I'm going to take you through uh the more detailed slides of what these cuts mean. So this is what the budget came in at 29,739,341 and this is where we had to get to that tax cap number 27,28628. Um I'll post this on the website too. So the athletics co-curriculars and grounds and I'll I'll explain what we mean by grounds again. uh that came in at just over half a million. Then existing current positions and stipens at almost a million that we're looking to cut. Um some repairs and maintenance um which isn't doesn't sound like that's a great idea, but we're we're we're like we said, we're trying to
046rely on that maintenance trust fund when we're trying to hit a tax gap of about $166,000. some curriculum, technology, and supplies of 138,000. All of the proposed new positions of 131,000. This is a a new one tonight, but we did mention last time at looking at different staffing models of shifting the dees principle to a teaching principle. Um, I'll talk about that later in a in a a further slide. and um doing away with the evening custodial services at dees right now. That is through the uh contracted services that isn't one of our current employees. Um no raises for program specialists and administrators. Um program specialists are people on a director level or some of people's related to some student services as well as everyone at the SAU. um equipment and no new or replacement
047equipment and furniture. Looking at not having our summer bridge academy um no school assemblies on the general budget uh library books and field trips and then some other savings I'll talk about. So this is we presented last time the new positions. Uh there was only one real new full-time position, which was that shared guidance counselor position between the middle school and um Bristol Elementary School. Uh two large populations each only having one guidance counselor, but all the rest were uh stipens, new proposed stipens. They they have a student staff senate at the middle school now. The high school one has been in existence for about 14 years, but they do have one now at the middle school the last two or three years. um an advisory lead. There's a teacher out in Dbury that takes
048the lead at um planning and putting a lot of the work into their advisory program they have at the elementary school out there. Uh adding a second um staff member to midstep um at the middle school in the summer and then the summer competency recovery for academic recovery for middle schoolers. These were all new proposed positions. So, existing positions to be cut. We talked about a math teacher at the high school that is currently unfilled. Five support staff uh positions across the middle and high school, a middle school math, a middle school literacy, uh high school French, high school English, ICT at the elementary level. We have two that service the the three schools plus help out at the middle school. So there's two across four schools kind of uh but we would go down
049to one. They they're they are the keeper of the library at each of these schools as well as um they teach the IT instruction and often are also the building level tech. So to now go down from two servicing three plus schools to one servicing I think the three schools and the middle school will probably have to go back to some shared supervision with the high school but we'll have to work that out. Um an out of district placement coordinator that currently is filled by retired special ed uh administrator director who uh handles our out of district placement students. um that I feel confident can be brought back in to our special ed department into our at the at the SAU. Um a case manager at the high school for special education and a case
050manager at the middle school. We talked about some stipens that either are currently unfilled or some stipens we could um you know not need to fill coming to about $15,000. The evening custodial services we talked about at dees is currently on contracted services. It is a small building and we have to um find other ways to make sure um whether that that building is clean enough for kids that Well, we're looking into that. Um, we're looking for a second hearing uh or vision machine because right now one is being passed around five buildings, but we will continue to do that. Um, we have no raises for administration, no raises for program specialists. No new technology hardware. Last time you might have seen this number we presented, it was at 101,000. The reason why it's at
05169,000 in realizing that when they originally offered all that up, it took it out of the budget. Some of that um money is existing leases for like the teacher the new teacher laptops they have right now. So that lease payment had to be put back in. So um we talked about the facilities and maintenance equipment. This included new lawn mower. This included a new van because their van right now is kind of on its last leg, but as well as a lot of projects at all of our buildings around glass, doors, paint, carpet, ceiling tiles. So again, when we talk about Armen having to come to the maintenance trust fund to say, "Can I have $3,000 for paint or carpet?" It's because we're cutting it out of the budget. uh curriculum savings and um Ariel
052has done a great job at really diving down deep of where can we get the best bang for our buck for what are what teachers need and what are they using. So all trip field trips uh that includes transportation and fees. We talked about all new uh or replacement furniture and equipment requests at the buildings, library books at all the buildings and supplies at the middle and high school. These are general supplies. Um so this is our co-curriculars. So salaries and benefits, this is the athletic director, the coaches, the club advisors, um the athletic trainer, the athletic coordinator at the middle school, transportation for all the athletic games at both the middle and high school. And then the grounds position is the uh you have two grounds positions currently. So if we don't have athletics,
053Arvin said, well, I guess we could go down to one grounds position. because one of our grounds people spends a lot of time on the athletic fields. All other costs, that's the dues, the fees, the supplies, the uniforms, the paint for the drama set. So that all comes to 147 for a total of just over half a million dollars. We did mention before there were a few positions we left in anything that was grant funded like TSA and robotics as well as you know not completely, you know, deplete the culture at the buildings like keeping things like class advisors, national honor society and student council and yearbook. Additional cuts. We kept having to go back to the table to get to that number. Cut some PE supplies at the middle and high school. We said
054all assemblies at the high school. We found a another three stipens that we could either two of them we cut in half and another one we did away with. Uh food service looked at their volume at each of their buildings and um their staffing and and offered that they could probably go down one food service worker between the five buildings. Uh and then we alluded to this at the beginning as Danbury u has the smallest population of students um that the principal there offered the possibility that she could be a teaching principal. Um seen this in a couple models around the state of smaller schools. Um sometimes it's that the teaching principal teaches an elective. Um and sometimes we have seen some teach a class. Um of meaning at grade level. So this would uh
055be one less teaching position at Danberry. Um I do want to say I did meet with all the Danberry teachers this morning and I did share with them that um we do have a resignation tonight on um on the agenda of an elementary school teacher at another building. So, you know, we did want to be transparent that this is one of the things we're looking at to cut to make under the tax cap, but you know, it's not ideal. We Danberry's come a long way from having to share a principle of two days a week to having a leader to help set the vision to help set the tone and the culture and to help um really coach teachers and and work with kids and families. So, it's not ideal, but it's doable. And um
056so I did let the DMA teachers know that there would be an opening at another building. And then uh not running our bridge academy and summer midstep which are those transition programs at the middle and high school. Some real uh some savings we realized like we knew to get there we had to look really hard at that budget. So, we looked at some of our spending patterns. We have two budget lines um around uh teacher um and staff uh absences. One of them is our substitute teacher line and the other is our emergency teacher coverage line. So, I I had our accounting department look at the three-year history of our spending. And I think in that emergency teacher line, we could comfortably cut $10,000. So, um, looks especially since before two two three years ago,
057I would have told you no way, but we're actually seeing a a resurgence of subs. We have more subs than we've had in the past, and um, we were actually going over budget on emergency teacher coverage, but now we're using a lot more of the subs. Uh, special education tutoring. This is a situation where a special ed student may need some tutoring because of a medical reason or because of a suspension um and for any of those reasons for some outside tutoring. We looked at the again the three-year spending pattern and looked that we could cut $5,000 off that budget line. So, um, some health care savings. Same thing like in the overestimating of when you budget like how many people are going to come in on a family plan or a single plan. Some
058of these are around contracted services workers who we don't offer um health care to obviously because they are uh contracted services but they were some of this is for the position the contracted services person is taking the place of you know obviously if we hire someone and our goal is to not have so many contract service workers it's having to look at that budget line of contract service work contracted services versus you So, we're we're taking some of this healthc care out, making sure that we can bring them on as the as the exchange and then looking into, as Melissa suggested, the van for more purposes. Um, not just athletics. We're looking at possibly um we wrote a grant actually from the state to buy another van that we could possibly use for some of
059our CTE runs. And I think even if we don't get that grant, we can still look at that, especially now that we go to both Winnwam and Huitt Center. So I do have um Jason Robert talking to the Huitt Center that we do do three runs a day there. When we used to go to Plymouth um instead of Huitt, we used to do two runs a day because they would kind of a lot like hey all the new found level ones have this slot instead of right now at Hwitt they just they'll run level you could be in slot one and two. So, I'm hoping they look at some efficiency. I think some other schools in the in in the region agree with that. Some of the schools have chosen to only run to one
060slot and say if our kids don't get seats, they don't get seats right now. I think that would be the to the detriment of our students accessing programs, especially since we've switched from Plymouth to Huitt, our enrollment in CTE has just, you know, exponentially grown. So, I would hate for us to get there where we have fewer spots for our kids by running less runs. >> So that came to that number slides. This was what we presented last time to around the default budget. That has not changed. Just a reminder, this Saturday, January 31st, 2026, is our deliberative session. Um, there may be a storm, but I think it's Saturday night into Sunday if it hits us. So, hopefully not changing that. But my my meteorologist here at the high school, um we'll just say
061Logan as his first name, who gives me weekly or maybe almost daily weather updates, has a feeling this might just miss us and go out to sea. So, guess one can only hope. >> I know at one of the meetings we discussed having the bus company do an efficiency review. Yeah, I need to remind them that they promised me before the deliberative session. >> Perfect. >> So, I I just I have not heard back on that. >> The one caution they gave me immediately when I first mentioned it to them was a worried around a worry around wait uh ride time. They said, you know, eliminating a bus could increase like the the length of a ride. Right now on a perfect day meaning no weather issues the longest bus ride for a single student
062they tell me is 1 hour. So going down one bus they said may increase the ride time over an hour for some students. Their other caution as they looked into it was that they also this could also mean right now if it's possible unless it's a road that's or driveway impossible to go down everyone gets almost door-to-door pickup and they said that it would also mean there would be regional pickups if we started going down buses if that makes sense too. the part about um changing the respective town voting venue that it wouldn't be the respective town venue on March 10 because you said it was going to be here. >> No, that >> it's Bristol's that is changing to here, right? On March 10th, right? >> Yes. So, but others are Everybody else is
063staying the same. They're their their voting deck. >> But shouldn't we say that? >> No, this is this is going to be their respective town. >> This is this is the respective town voting venue >> for Bristol. For Bristol. So >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah, it's on the war article. Ruth. Yeah, it is. So this is their respective >> and I mean >> I mean at some point I mean some hubs or regional spots. I mean, >> yep. >> I mean, in reality, at some point, I mean, parents drive their kids to the end of the driveway or to the end of their little private road. I mean, it's literally I mean, from here to the door to the end of the other road. Like, they're already driving them to some location. Usually nine times
064out of ten, parents are driving them to one spot or even I've watched them drive them to the end of the driveway. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And it's like >> that's what I would have. >> You go you go a tenth of a mile down to the end of the road to the hub. >> Well, it's like where our houses are. Like there used to be if there's not a bus that goes by anymore, but there used to be and when they'd have to stop the fall and they don't go up the road, they make the kids walk all the way down to get on the bus. And I get some of it in in this district because of the rural, you know, piece in the sense of there are no sidewalks in these dark
065>> areas of Alexandria and Sundanberry and some other where, you know, want to do when I was a kid, I had a regional spot, but I also had sidewalks, you know, that I walked through my neighborhood and there was one pickup neighborhood, but we all had sidewalks. So, I get the concern here. But, >> um, all right. So, that's those are the cuts. Um, two more things about the budget before I'm through with my update before anyone has any questions is the board did ask last time because we have so many warrant articles and a lot of them, you know, some of them may be complex especially around open enrollment and and so we did make a they asked if we could make a kind of a fact sheet for each of the warrant articles.
066Um, so we we I I I came up with the facts and then our curriculum administrator, Ariel Maloney, did a wonderful job making the facts look nice in a brochure and in a poster. So, um, we will have these available for the public um to help them understand what each of the warrant articles mean and the indications like you know you know the cuts that we listed in the presentation, we listed them as a reality of a cuts as part of the warrant articles. So share these with the public. >> I think that's very helpful because then I mean then we're going to go through uh deliberative and have to change your information. >> Yeah. Then we'll go through deliberative and potentially may have to change it. So >> I'm sorry. >> I said if
067we go through deliberative and anything changes Yeah. It's easy. >> Well updating. Yeah. Ariel did a great job. >> But I think it's great. I think it's very it's it's straight to the point but informative but >> and also on the web, right? >> Yeah, she Ariel has already put it on the website. >> Y um so she actually updated the website with a lot of budget documents today. >> All right. Uh, and the last thing is >> you got to put on here like the current boiler is how many years old? >> Does it say it's from the original? >> No, it it does kind of over here. It just says that the building's 40 years old. The H it says it over here under the expendable touch fund, but not under the specific.
068>> Got it. That's the one that's like super I feel like the HVAC is kind of >> well I don't think people realize when they see a super tax that's only $300,000 for the entire every single taxpayer split up >> right $300,000 is really not that much and as much as it then I know a lot of people are on thems to do anything. That's not a lot of money. >> Yeah. I mean, healthcare went up over a million dollars. >> So, you see on there, special ed um is 25% of our budget. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. I saw that she's special education currently makes up 25% of the budget annually of 6.8 million. Am I >> But actually, that number is wrong. Right after we published it, Kathleen came to me and said, "Oh,
069I forgot to add the idea grant stuff that's covered there." So that's another 300 plus thousand. >> So it's over 7 million. >> Yeah. >> So yeah, our special ed budget is over 7 million of our 27 million budget. So it's important for people to know and that's up 25 26% now. Last year it was 22% and so we're seeing the the increase. >> Yeah. >> Um >> I think that's I think that's important because I think that's helpful. um for people to just have the information. Whether they read it, that's up to them, but at least we're making that concerted effort to get the information up there. >> So, as I mentioned, the the budget is complete in our in our financial system. Um the uh deadline with the DRRA to have the uh
070warrant articles, budget, and default budget uploaded on their documents in their system was yesterday. Um the warrant articles were uploaded um in time actually last Friday. Um the budget and the default budget um uh our our business department is still working on um getting them to work on their folks. So they are in touch with them. I think it will be uh you know this probably means we will have a another um procedural defect u in that they weren't uploaded on time. Last year if you remember they weren't uploaded on time or on the right forms. This year it will be on the right forms just not on time. And we were promised at our last last week. We were promised last week at our last meeting that they would be done correctly and on
071time. So I mean that's an issue like last year we had this procedural defect and people were not very nice to us about this procedural defect in us not getting things done correctly and appropriately and on time. That's why the question was asked last week. We were promised we were told that would happen, it would be on time. I mean, and again, we've missed a deadline looking down the pike of another procedural defect. And I mean, sitting here as the board, um, as a member of the board, I just I mean, we said last time this can't happen again. Um, and here we are yet again in the same position, it happening. So, um, it just it needs to be addressed. That's my my comment in regards to that. Um because again, if there's going
072to need to be another procedural defect, that's not fair to the voters again because now we're going to have to have the supervisors of the checklist come out and have another procedural defect again. And it's just it's just it's not fair. It's not fair to the voters. um when we were told last week that it would be done. It would be all set. Um and it's it's not fair. It's not fair to our voters in this district. >> Agreed. >> Next, we'll move on to new business. Um does anybody else have anything? Sorry. >> No, that's okay. You said pretty much everything like take the floor and move on. I didn't want to >> um any business um building a application. >> So, we're going to ask to table that until uh the next meeting.
073We had uh Tim Carney from the Department of Education uh coming last night to present on the the building aid application process to help the board decide whether or not it would be worthy investing into the process of building aid because it is costly to fill out an application. Um but uh the aid would be part of the consolidation project. So, but Tim was not able to make a snow date of tonight. So, we're hoping to have him in February. Okay. All right. Next on the agenda, we have resignations. We have Monique Cashion, the um SAU student services administrator. Um Julie from a teacher from New of course she's from New but New Hampton Community School. Um and Mr. Dudek from uh the middle school. >> All of these are at the end of the
074school. >> Yes. Effective date June 30th. I move to accept the three resations. >> Any further discussion? >> I'd like to thank all of them for their service here at New Appreciate all of their hard work and dedication. >> Jason and I started together at the middle school as teachers the same same year. So I think we were in the same orientation class. So >> all right. Um seeing nothing else. All those in favor say I. I >> I opposed abstension. Okay. Next fixed cash shared positions renewal. >> So these are the positions that um we have shared with Pasquani this year which were art, PE, music as well as social worker and behavior specialist. Um it is helped offset some of the costs for us. And um unlike the tuition lease, we've done a
075yeartoear on these positions. I think the eventual goal was to completely absorb them, sort of give our kids some more allied arts time, but um as you can see, this is not the budget year to do that. So, >> do they have their own ICT? >> They do. >> Their ICT person is also like their building tech person and you know having a smaller school have >> I move to approve the um fixed cost parttime positions here. >> Well, well, thisou's title is different than what we have on the agenda. So, like, uh, do I combine them? Uh, the fixed cost part-time position contract renewal. >> I'll second it. >> Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Extensions. Okay. Um, they signed it. They they they they p-dated it.
076They >> 221. >> I think she meant 121. >> It's not a fancy one. No. >> No. No. That's definitely Don't worry. That's why I was so >> I was like, is it a fancy one? Is it a fancy one? No. It looks like the two for 26. It looks like a Z. >> Yeah. >> Um Okay. So, I'll sign it when All right. Next, um reschedule March 9th, 2026 meeting. We need to reschedu that meeting due to the um event that will be here at the high school um to allow people to attend. Um we could do Monday, March 16th. if that works. >> That's what we agreed on. >> Okay. Um, >> okay. I make a motion to move the March 9th meeting to March 16th. >> Got it. >> Second. Okay. Any
077further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Extensions. Next, we have to set public hearing dates for the petition warrant article. We will and we're going to do for the >> you said between the 11 >> we're going to do for the um open enrollment warrant article as well just to be safe and cover ours and procedurally just be safe. >> Yeah. But they need to be two different hearings that night. It can't be two items on the same hearing. So we did open one hearing >> but I believe you don't have to stay open for a half an hour. I think you stay open so we can build the other one as hearing to follow immediately after the closing of the proceeding here. >> Perfect. >> So we
078have to we have to have four total nights because both of those hearings the same hearing can't be in two different places. Meaning we can't do Alexandria at five and New Hampton at six. So, it's one town per night and we need to do them between February 9th and February 20th in a quorum of the board. So, three out of five is recommended. >> I would address the 17th because we have the curriculum committee meeting that night. That's all I got. >> I'm gonna open my calendar as well. And then we have board meeting on the 9th. Anyhow, >> no on the 16th. >> 16th. >> Not till next month. >> No, that's that's March. Sorry, my mistake. >> I think there was one other day that I respond. >> So technically we could have
079Bristol's hearing. >> We could >> on the 9th. >> We could >> because we're in Bristol. We could because I don't think if if Armond is not having a facilities meeting to the 4th of March, he's not going to have anything in time to meet for a for a maintenance trust fund hearing that night. He'll have to wait till the March meeting. So, we could do, you're right, the Bristol meeting that night. >> Do you want to do that? >> I I I think it's silly to try to I think if we're having already if we can have one on the 9th >> we may as well have Bristol's on the 9th have it as a separate meeting. >> So my question on that would be since we do have two and there's potential do
080you want to have them at starting at 5:30 or 6 o'clock? >> 5:30. >> Okay. We would be doing two hearings. Yeah. >> And then >> I think start the hearings at 5:30 with the plan to have like if we have nonpublic have nonpublic at 6. >> Okay. >> And then board meeting at 6:30. I mean if the public hearings run over if by hokei people actually show up to the public hearings for these um and have lots of things to say. Um in the past nobody's shown up to half of these public hearings. So, you want me to do them at 5:30 then 6 or 5:30 or for the language of to follow >> immediately? >> Yeah. >> So that we don't have to have a specific time. >> No, because you have to
081have them on I I don't want to put them on the same agenda. >> Oh, yeah. >> They need to be on separate agendas because it is just for the town of Bristol. >> So, we'll do 53. It's a public hearing just for the town of Bristol regarding open enrollment and the petition warrant article. >> Yeah. >> On the 9th. So I would do completely two separate agendas. >> So the public hearing agenda is at 5:30 >> and that and then >> blah blah blah blah blah whatever we do it close it open the second line. Close it and then have it's completely a separate thing. And then the board meeting starts at six. >> Oh, okay. That's what I meant. So, >> yeah, but the second hearing can be slated immediately >> to be
082started after that. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. I thought you meant the board meeting. Sorry, >> the second hearing because we're going to book two hearings in the same evening and have the board meeting. >> Yeah, I think that those can be on the same agenda, right? >> I'll double check with her with uh Barbara. If for some reason she says no, I'll adjust accordingly. But at least we have the dates. >> But yeah, I think the public hearing has to be separate from the school board agenda. >> That makes sense. I also can't do the the 11th and the 17th. Okay. Because of the >> So, is the 12th available for everyone? Because >> we can do Monday, Thursday, Monday, Thursday the following week. >> Not available Thursday the following week. >> But
083we only need a quorum. >> Correct. So, right, we don't all have to be there for all four dates, but if we at least solidify the dates, send out an email and have people volunteer to step up to the dates that are available. >> You're saying 91 12 16 19. >> So, 12 for which town? >> It doesn't matter. I mean, we're going to do them all anyway. So, >> yeah. >> Um, if Melissa can't be there on the 19th, don't have that one be early to make sure that I'm on time. >> Why don't we do Danberry on the 12th so that while we know Melissa's in town? >> Okay. Like my goal is if we're doing everything at 5:30 to attempt to make it. >> What time would you like that one? >>
0845:30. >> It looks like last year's was 5:30 in Danbury. >> Can I ask a silly question? >> Um uh wait a minute. Sorry. Okay. I'm just thinking because civil air patrol, sorry, Thursday night civil air patrol night, too. >> So, we can do another one. We could do New Hampton that night. >> Is that easier? >> Yeah. Can we do January the 16th? >> So, is that's President's Day. Is that going to impact? >> Don't mess with me. >> Okay. >> So, New Hampton is Sorry. Can we do on the 12th >> at 5:30? >> Yeah, >> they're all going to be at 5:30, right? >> Yeah, I think so. So then Danbury, we were looking at the >> 16th at 5:30. Do we have um >> You'll have to reach out to Alexandria
085though to >> make sure. >> You could either do it in the old town hall or >> that's where they had us do it last year, >> right? You'll just have to real Jennifer. >> Yeah. Do you um >> And that's their late night on Thursday nights anyway. So >> Oh, is it? >> I think Thursday night is their late night >> that they're open. especially if we have any problems like getting in. >> Yep. >> And I can bring this up too because I'll be next week. >> We're probably going to place the ad tomorrow. So we'll call over there. >> So in order to have it on the 9th, this needs to be in the paper on um on Thursday. >> So the Laconia Sun Yeah. >> Is February night Bristol? >> Yes.
086>> Okay. Thank you. Yeah, we'll do that here at school board. >> Maybe I'll have her just do the ad for Bristol tomorrow >> if we can't get a hold of Alexandria. We'll see what we can do. >> All right. 19 we said for Alexandria. >> Yes. >> All right. Okay. So, we have those dates. Okay. Policies for second read. All right. Policies updated. JF AD J L CF K J B E B A motion to approve. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Okay, I have a second. Any further discussion? >> All right, seeing none, all those in favor say I. I oppose. >> Abstensions. Okay. Next, new policies for second read. Um, EBCA Ehlb JF JF-R1. I'll make a motion to accept the new policies. >> Okay, I'll second. Any further discussion?
087>> Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I opposed. >> Abstensions. Next. Um, updated policies. F A A F E H G B E B G C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C A D I C I H C D C A J I C K J L C J A >> I'll second All right, any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I oppose extensions. Next policy to resend GBGBA. >> I'll make a motion to resend policy GB GBA. >> I'll second. Any further discussion? >> No. >> Seeing none, all those in favor say I.
088>> I. Opposed. >> Abstensions. It's really easy when the only people you have are the ones that brought these >> who are the policy >> policy committee >> and they know why all we've done all this. >> All right. Next um public comment on agenda items only lively over there. Okay. Board member comments. >> Can I Oh, you can go. >> No, I got nothing. >> Can I make a comment on the the public um correspondence we received. >> Yeah, of course. >> Okay. So, within that, I know that the individual spoke about luring people out of contracted services to come to our schools as full-time employees. A lot of these agencies have non-compete clauses. So even if we were to entertain that at this juncture, there's no saying that all of those employees, any
089interested employees would contractually be obligated or obliged to come to our school district for a period of most of the times it's five years from what I've experienced. So that's just something that we should consider. Also, we we went to these contracted services at one point because there was a critical shortage and we couldn't get people to come to our district and work as full-time employees. We don't want to make that same mistake and find ourselves having to renegotiate contracts now at a much higher rate because we're entertaining putting that out to the public or or these places catch wind of that there. People start talking about it. It just could set a bad precedence for us. That's just my thought and I just wanted to say that based off of that public comment because
090we're not really in a good spot right now to be looking to pay more off any contract. >> Dennis is correct. Um most of these have no clauses. >> Yeah. >> Or buyouts. >> Yeah. and and that that would put us even in a worse position even you know >> I know nobody's looking at at excitably closing anything >> eventually that may be a thing I I still feel hopefully that at some point in the deliberative session that all our rules will be taken care of so >> the uh and the interesting thing about the we lost a lot of would I say paras we literally lost some of our paras but the market also lost paras um with the rise of these agencies because they were all paying more for a wage um and
091you know they were making their money on on the difference because some of the other things they don't have to pay for these agency pairs they don't pay into New Hampshire retirement on them so these paras that work through an agency are not vested in the system they won't get a pension when we raised the parah um rate last year by 10% we're finally competitive with what the actual agency parah is getting but some of them are now locked in with these agencies which it's unfortunate because like you said a non-compete clause >> can I throw one more just reminder plug out there just to remind people that the filing is still open in the towns till the 30th for anyone running for uh New Hampton um Bristol budget or board and the uh two-year
092member at large for budget and board and the town moderator or one year >> not town moderator school >> school moderator yes school >> I was just thinking about I'm like >> to know who's running >> what's that >> do we have to tell everything closed and now who's running? >> Yes. >> They don't tell us anything. So >> that's just >> Yeah, we won't know until after >> Christmas you don't get to open your present till the day comes. >> So um my only other comment I got thinking about it as we were going through all these policies. We've been working with Will Phillips to do a full policy review. Is that still kind of on the back burner? It started with Pierre. >> I thought it was finished. >> Steve kind of took
093a little bit. >> Yeah, he mostly worked with Sue Cross on it and that's when she did. She had that old organizational grid and that's why at policy meetings I bring according to that grid. I bring the ones that require yearly review by annual review. >> But did he actually go through it with her and be like, "Hey, you really don't need this one anymore." >> I think so. And then they did the realignment of some of the letters, which is why you see at some of these meetings why I give it new call letters because it's different call letters than what the schoolboard association uses. So I think he and Sue Cross finished all that work and I just inherited the end product. >> Okay. >> And I've been a spreadsheet. Okay. >> I
094couldn't remember if that was ever actually >> Yeah, it was finished. >> I know it's was back and forth and back and forth and then >> Okay. ones that are like 1998 that was last reviewed. >> Yeah, we have I have a three or four page grid that we're constantly reviewing policy. They may not end up here if there's no action item, >> right? >> But one of them actually did that we're working on that we did look at. I'm trying to remember which one it was. >> That was out of those ones for review, there was an action item on one and we're working. Gotcha. Okay. >> Between the policies here and the policies that I do for the president, my mind is mush. >> No worries. >> Anything else to bring forward? >>
095Okay. I need a motion to adjourn. >> I'll make a motion to adjourn. >> I'll second. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Thank you very much. I know it was just recorded.