001yes e e e you entertain anybody no I didn't you good I the library we're back to we're back to public so let's [Applause] see approval or modification of the agenda the only thing we need to modify is adding resignations under the four member no under the full one all of us right or just no that's never mind resignation on their for member right so it's number eight yep okay sorry sorry for the confusion all right and then I'm going to make it really confusing for non-public meeting minutes and I'll explain it because to try to help with some of the confusion um so we have a version 1.1 and then a version 1.2 because we did all five of us and then we had some stuff to talk about with just the four so
002what we discussed as all five is on the first one and then the second one is just the four and I'll write up at the top four member only five member just for clarification as it's coming around so 1.1 was the five member correct and 1.2 was the four member correct and I did both of us when we voted at um to leave I did it the same on each just because it covers it technically covers both so okay thank you there's both of them so we'll wait until that goes around all right so the public meeting minutes approval of meeting minutes for the public meeting on March 10th um did anybody have any gross errors issues or concerns regarding the minutes from March 10th seeing none all those in favor of the minutes on
003March 10th say I I you got up here okay I'm see opposed abstentions me I didn't know if we reviewing them was enough no no no you weren't here so yeah they they were sent to me so I just assumed the non all right um then the nonpublic structure yeah but he's chitter chattering about them so that's fine so I need um what we need to do is do a ratification of the March 18th restructuring committee non-public minutes um we did approve um we did a like a voice approval but we're going to ratify it because we did it via email sorry not um we did it via email so we need to ratify them because they need to be um available to the public within 72 hours which they were which they were so
004that way um we did it via email so we could all review them because we did a zoom nonu um with our attorney so I need a motion to accept the minutes from March 18th um all right I'm not sure which month we're in one of the meetings talked about of that we were going to be talking about the longevity uh stifen and it said the treasur dipen from 300 to 4325 I I think that gives the impression it was going from $300 to so that's the March 10th minutes okay I wasn't sure which one we were doing we were already approved the March 10th but that's fine okay well technically that the way it was written made it sound like it was going from $300 to 4,000 instead of not a $300 was going
005to be an increase of $300 which would take it to so I'm sorry that I was behind the eight gotcha no no that's that's okay I'm a little SL was a little slow on understanding what you're talking about um so how does it read sorry I can it says um under four member voting agenda treasur stien increase proposed is from $300 to $4,000 325 okay so it should say increase by $300 two yeah yeah to the full amount okay thank you increase by $300 thank you I'll correct that so what what we we need to do is re approve March 10th minutes public meeting minutes as amended I need a motion to approve the March 10th meeting minutes as amended so moved second okay any further discussion bran anything else okay uh seeing nothing else
006all those in favor say I I opposed abstentions okay thank you y okay all right now we'll go to the um non-public meeting that we had on March 18th um we did an email approval of the non-public minutes we need to ratify that email approval um I need a motion to accept the non-public minutes for March 18th for restructuring so moved okay I'll second any further discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I I opposed extensions next uh meeting the March 31st non-public meeting minutes from tonight I need a let's see so we're going to do version 1 one first I need a motion to approve the 1.1 minutes so moved second okay any further discussion see none all those in favor say I I opposed extensions okay next version 1.2 for member
007board only um I need a motion to accept the minutes from non-public meeting tonight so moved okay second okay any further discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I opposed extensions okay we move those on next we will open it up for public comments Aubrey fredman Bridgewater uh just one topic tonight I'm sure you heard about the New Hampshire School Board Association advising all their members to uh redo your anti-discrimination policies regarding transgender students because of the president's executive order also the New Hampshire inter uh scholis Athletic Association is also advising its members to line up with the federal policy again because of the president's executive order regarding uh transs uh students you know Sports and also in Maine I'm sure you heard about that the commotion versus the US Department of Education
008versus main over again same issue uh transgender and sports so my reason to bring that up tonight is again I have we I've said you spoken about this before taking Federal friends Federal money There's Always Going to Be Strings Attached now in the past it hasn't really been an issue but I'd say this is an issue so I'm kind of U you know it's the federal government is uh they're they're threatening or will threaten to cut um any of the funding that they've been giving so it is a big issue and um you know are they are you going to allow them to determine how we run our schools here or will be local control so it is kind of a big issue now administrations come and go this one is going to be here
009till early 2029 and but there I think it's bigger than just this Administration uh having different policies than most School boards have and especially and ours especially so um we you know it's it's you know and it can be with other issues too curriculum not just this whole transgender business so um I want to just bring it up again I don't think it's a good idea as I've complained in the past by taking the federal money the federal grants and maybe we should rethink this because this time it is an issue and I'm sure we're going to run into some legal expense over this issue and I'm just curious um you are going to do anything if anything maybe maybe you aren't but I'm just curious that's it that's my only comment tonight all right
010we're not live streaming no we're recording okay help all set it up so okay I've told you i' already getting a message when it's not working not me just for the record not you this time yeah okay so all right anybody else for a public comment okay seeing none we will move on uh response to public comments I mean have you even gotten a spring update on policies no uh our spring update but uh we did get an alert from the New Hampshire School Board Association that they are crafting um sample uh policy it's not ready yet for us to adopt but they are in the process so on that very issue okay thank you next correspondence I didn't have any correspondence do anybody have any correspondence nope okay next announcements and recognition superintendent report
011can you go first oh evidently we'll go so I just so I don't steal your thunder on anything oh wait a minute I'm I'm totally going to steal her Thunder for her oh I was going to do that but go ahead good well well now we can just put her on the spot and tell us you have to tell everybody your good news now cuz I I'm not going to steal it from you but I know it about what which about I believe you may have texted my husband like two days ago about your good news about some um acceptance letters you've received as well um I did yeah so I very excitingly I got into upen and Princeton and Harvard and I've decided that I'm going to Harvard this [Music] fall we yeah new
012found kid will be going to Harvard um fantastic I'm super excited I've already joined like the class of 2029 group chat and we've already just we've been talking this whole time it's like yeah I'm I'm very excited but it'll be a big change from here so I hadn't heard of the decision so congratulations I'm committing officially next week when I go visit again but gotcha yeah congratulations thank you it's fantastic and your bills moving along yes my bill passed the House of Representatives with a Voice vote so it wasn't that close that you needed a roll call but it now goes to the Senate so we'll see hopefully that's good um what else did I have our math team competed at the state competition on March 17th and they they did pretty well um The
013English Department took students on a field trip to the Museum of Fine Arts on March 19th and I heard that they had a blast we've had career exploration opportunities at the high school including visits to Gunstock Hearts turkey farm and an upcoming horiculture career exploration trip on April 17th last week while underclassmen were picking their course selections for next year seniors took part in senior scholarship day and we were able to work on applications for various local and Statewide scholarships and we are very grateful for the support provided by the guidance Department with that the robotics team just came back from their University of Vermont competition this past weekend and and they did well and the GSA leadership team attended a conference at snhu and if you could hear that the Matilda cast and crew
014have been hard at work every day um with rehearsals continuing for their upcoming performance in May and project promise has had the opportunity to apply for some steam grants so science technology engineering art and math through the 21st cclc grant that we are currently funded through and we if we get get this grant we are looking to provide a 3- week stem camp for elementary schoolers at Bristol and Danbury this summer and help fund some stem courses at the high school level this summer and it is due on April 13th and we won't know until early May if we get that but project promise and the PTO at Bristol co-hosted two nights of family stem night with white mountain science last Tuesday and Wednesday and both kns had over 80 people in attendance wow which
015was amazing there were a bunch of families that came out and made zip lines for little Lego men and the kids had a blast so um both sites at the Elementary and high school are finishing up their fourth session and then starting their last leg of enrichment activities when we get back from April break looking ahead the next few weeks will be busy because it's PSAT and sat day on April 8th next Tuesday high schoolers favorite day and the end of quarter 3 is on April 9 and then we start our last quarter of the school year already the senior project showcase is set for May 14th and that's where all the seniors present the work that they've done and put into their senior projects around and about here at the high school are you
016in that yes I will be doing that um spring Sports have begun practices and students are very excited to be back in Action um in other news the DeLorean that was built for winter carnival made the front page of the record Enterprise on Thursday so for. 75 cents you could have a copy for yourself um and I actually have to leave soon because I'm meeting with a member from the National School Board member Association um she wants to understand what student reps do in New Hampshire and we're actually meeting tonight in a little bit so I will be doing that yeah talking about what student reps do in New Hampshire and why it's important and they want to extend their Outreach into New Hampshire so so yeah pretty impressive you'd be a good candidate for
017Harvard thank [Music] you see you checked off a lot of the things on my list so that's why I had you go first I think sorry piggybacking on a couple of those I did I hear you I don't think you said in there that our onea play um is going to our one act play um got chosen at the regional competition they are going to state competition our senior one act so that's in Gil in a couple weeks so we're very excited about that today 13 students were recognized and conquered as New Hampshire scholar athletes and spring Sports enrollment this year 115 students are signed up across three teams of softball baseball and track the highest we've had in athletic signups since before the pandemic so that's just the high school just the high school
018okay just the high school I just want I don't even haven't even received the Middle School numbers yet gotcha so I'm waiting on those I'm hoping they're is as high as well so right I wouldn't be surprised I know there's a lot of kids practicing um some other stuff uh we um this is the time of year we've received some monitoring from the state on our federal grants from the past um before most of us at the SAU were even there but I want to say that the the SAU the new SAU staff including with the help of some of the veterans staff have survived all these monitoring processes I think with flying colors which is you know digging up data and justification from the past of activities you put in the grant isn't an
019easy thing to do but they really they did a great job and the state uh complemented them on the work so uh would like to uh point out Donna Evans um who has been with the district for well over 20 years and has been the administrative assistant at bees and then the high school has just finished her first couple weeks as executive assistant at the SAU and she's doing a fantastic job um she is a quick learn and and the SAU is is very lucky to have her um just one of the last things I'll share is um one of the things that my Association meaning the superintendent Association does every year is they recognize certain individuals like um retired Educators or um folks in the in a community they call their Champion for children
020program and at Newfound we've had a couple uh winners in my recent past um a uh before the pandemic we nominated Les Dion from the ttcc and she won not only the regional but also the state champion for children um a few years a couple years ago I'm losing track of time Chief suckling was nominated and he also won um well this year as a first time um superintendent and my first official nom nominee I'm pleased to say was chosen as Champion for children and I nominated um and unan unanimously chosen by the Association was uh Tracy mlan um for those of you who don't know Tracy I'll say this for home is uh Tracy was um a very involved parent um over many many years here at Newfound um she could um be seen
021um at every event every game taking pictures of of all all children not just her children baking cupcakes surprise senior gifts taking people into her home giving people rides um one of my Fondest Memories of uh Tracy was um during the pandemic when we went into lockdown and those seniors of the class of 2020 were not you know they were being robbed of all those traditional senior rights that others have or rights of Passage I should say um and she and another parent uh teamed up and visited every parent every senior at their home and back then people were only greeting you from your front door and and she took a porch strit a senior pchr of every graduating senior that year um sadly Tracy passed away this past summer in a car accident and
022um one of the immediate effects uh you could see that she had on our community all the photos that she gifted families over the years everyone changed their social media page a picture that Tracy had gifted them so I'm pleased to announce that she's chosen as this year's Champion for children so for the Lakes Region for the Lakes Region we'll find out if she will be chosen as the state winner at the presentation in uh May which her family will attend with us so that's my report thank thank you and well deserved for Tracy I think that's a when you told me about the nominee and her um being successful with the Lakes Region superintendent to be nominated um I wasn't surprised because she didn't just take pictures of our games here I mean she
023everybody knew I see in The Lakes Region and she worked up at Plymouth and somehow had time to take pictures for them too so actually Plymouth Co wrote and and sent a letter of recommendation for my nomination as well oh awesome so next we have up to in presentation [Applause] see we we had to talk too [Laughter] much it got sleepy [Applause] it's always the moment of you um well thanks for having me tonight really appreciate uh coming out um so tonight my presentation is about uh culture and climate and so um culture and climate isn't just about having fun and about w weling people into our schools climate and culture talks about how we uh plan how we build systems the leadership style how we hire and keep uh good people uh how we
024have Traditions how we evaluate and how we get feedback so um when I ask my staff um what they wanted us to talk what they wanted me to talk about and celebrate of what our school this was the topic that they asked uh me to do um so culture refers to Shared values and beliefs and practices that a school has uh climate reflects the overall atmosphere and experiences including physical and emotional safety for students and staff um you have to have both of these um in order for students and staff to feel welcome to have U belonging and so that learning can take place um and I'm a big quote person so I like this quote uh test scores don't change climate and culture climate and culture changes test scores and so how do we
025do that um here at New Hampton Community School the first thing and this is several years old but what I love about it is that it has stayed with us um throughout the years so this was one of the first things we did uh way back when I became uh co-principal like a principal in New Hampton in out in Danbury uh we we wrote a mission statement with all of our stakeholders uh in in our community and um so the big thing is nhcs cares and so we talk about um character achievement uh Excellence responsibility in in spirit we have a school song uh we sing are you going to sing it for it I am not going to sing it nor would you want me um to sing it but this mission statement comes
026back uh for instance last week uh my fourth grade class um really didn't make a great choice with with a a staff member in our school and so I was invited I invited myself up um to talk and and I just wrote down our mission statement I just put nhcs cares and I asked the students what does c stand for what does you know a stand for for and and they can tell you and then I talked a little bit about um the incident that occurred and then we brought it back to resowing all of these characteristics that we want to show so um so it's a living document it's something that our students know as a staff we talk about um when decisions have to be made we try to bring this up um
027all the time and then I just love that you know in every school um the future of our world our in our schools so what is culture it's the values that our Collective group of people believe and so we value uh academics and I think elementary schools are those foundational times where uh we build that success for students as they can continue to grow we value our soft skills that we teach our students like punctuality and politeness and kindness and respect we valuate our school staff efficacy and this is the shared belief that we as a group can make positive impact as we confidently in our ability achieve the outcomes that we want so again we talk about it we talk about what are the outcomes that we want um as a group and it's
028all of our people that we talk to about that we value teamwork collaboration and communication we believe that all students can learn and grow every one of our students can learn and grow we believe that our school is a partnership between Educators families and Community stakeholders we believe in high expectations for everyone and this is everyone and and I think that is takes time to build and I think it takes time um but uh whatever I ask my staff to do I would do for them and they would do for me um we have high expectations um for our custodian the way of the school looks but when the custodian isn't in for the day our staff steps up to the plate or when kids see the paper that's on the floor they'll pick up
029it so again we try to show and have high expectations for everyone we Implement research based curriculum we Implement tiered instruction we Implement assessments so we Benchmark for all and we progress monitor for some and we Implement consistent and clear behavioral and social expectations but those are all words and so I want to show you what does it look like what does it truly look like in our school so those top three pictures on the left is whole group instruction so our teacher is again the whole group the whole class is sitting around and the teacher instructing the whole group then we have small group instruction um so again the teacher will meet with a small group they might be reviewing things they might have extra practice on a a topic that they might not
030have m mastered yet um and then the other students are working independently on skills that they're that they need and then you have on the the right hand side our onetoone intervention and we believe our instruction needs to be eyeball to eyeball instruction and so um yes we use apps yes our students are on computers but we really feel that the best learning um and the best things that happen in school is when we're eyeball to eyeball um teaching our students you can see a group of three of our uh teachers are sitting around talking about um they could be talking about what went well that day they could be talking about what was the challenge for the day um they talk about ideas they throw out ideas to one another so um they'll meet
031um and and just talk to each other which is amazing we we have the colorful um uh spreadsheets there are data so we we keep track of our students data or their test scores from year to year and so we color code it um to see how they're growing anyone of of concern um the books that you see there are are um research based curriculum that we use so Eureka squar cka you'll see a chapter book in there we think it's important that again um students are reading and they're reading independently and they're reading chapter books of their pleasure what they like to read um you'll see it says rate your and so that is a system that we put into play and I think that's important is we have systems so when students come
032to me or our parents give me a call and they say a child's being unkind or a child's being rude or mean or even bullying we use this chart to kind of talk about well why do you think it's bullying is it could it be there just being mean or could it be you call it mean but it's actually bullying and so we use this uh chart to really guide our conversations and to have it be clear and consistent on the far left hand side um is our Behavior processing sheet and so again when students have difficulty um they'll spend some time with myself and we'll kind of talk about well what was your action and how were you feeling and and what was happening during that time and what was the next thing that
033happened and okay now that we're kind of in a better place what could we have done differently um if we were able to do that again and so we used that again uh tumula Valley taught us that several years ago and it's really nice way again that we use with all of our students and it not only talks about Behavior and the poor choices you make it talks and shares with them well what could I do better what skills what choices could I do in a different [Applause] way moving on to climate again climate talks about the atmosphere so in Hampton Community School we greet in the morning we have greeters outside in the morning every morning and we say goodbye in the afternoon every morning we do morning announcements our atmosphere everyone knows your
034name so again we're fortunate enough that we're small enough school um that all of our staff knows everyone's name and and we and we you know use students names to make them feel welcome our teachers most of our teachers use Class Dojo which is a communication tool um and then I also send out Friday newsletters we communicate uh you know through things through Infinite Campus our atmosphere we have an amazing dedicated PTO organization in our atmosphere at New Hampton Community School we have outstanding parent participation at our open house and teacher conferences and we have amazing Community Support so our climate it also is about the experiences that we give each child throughout their time with us and it's those Traditions that take place it's the field trips that they go on it's the fun
035fridays that we have it's the PTO events it's the staff meetings that we have it's the sunshine committee it's again the celebrations we have as adults so that our adults feel valued and feel that they want to come through the doors every day also in climate is that physical and emotional safety so again we have those cameras in Buzz systems and for some of our students that makes them feel safe and secure we also have our full-time nurse and full-time school counselor um both of them were out uh two weeks ago they both got sick at the same time and uh let me tell you you learn a lot what people do and and how you miss those people and the skill set that they truly have when they're not in in your building so
036again we are so fortunate um to have those people we have um support through our district Behavior specialist in in social worker and again I think one of the things that we really need to celebrate at New Hampton Community School is how our staff works together and they support one another um again we had uh one of our teachers um a family member got sick pretty quickly and I had teachers stepping up to say how can I help plan what do they need copied what can I do to support that and um we have our you know support staff um that go out and um help our students in in a lot of different ways too so again what does climb it look like in a school on the far left there uh you'll see
037myself in two of our second graders uh over our intercom um we do our daily announcements every day and so we welcome everyone in we do their pledge we celebrate some birthdays um this year we're doing a joke uh for the day um and and so it's just a nice way that we kick off our school um the picture with the dad and the three children is our veterans day assembly so one of our Traditions that we have is our Veterans Day along with our one book one school literacy event um which is we're reading pie this year we've read many different Classics different books over the years you'll see we again one of our Traditions is our winter program um the bottom with the festive holiday uh sweaters that's our holiday sing along and
038what I love about that picture those those are two of our fourth graders and um they were friendly you know in kindergarten in first grade second grade their friendship has grown so much and it's so fun to watch the two of them support one another push one another academically and I just love this picture because it's their families together sitting together at our holiday sing along this year and then they wanted to have a family a picture together with both families so I thought that was a super cool way that our families you know come together and and are part of our school uh we do a whole school rock paper scissor contest so it that's just a fun thing and then uh Fenway Fenway comes to our school uh and Fenway again is listening
039to a third grader read a couple other things that we do just again because this is important um we do Elf on the Shelf or Elf on the campus um but in this picture it's kind of neat to see um here is Julie bison uh sitting uh she just stopped by one day uh to have lunch at our school and so Julie's on sabatical this year um but she just stopped in and there she is having lunch with our kids that day you'll see our two adults that have lunch duty you know just kind of ones helping you know greet kids as they're going through the hot lunch line and then U Mrs dens you know walking around talking to kids our next um one with a parachute that's our PTO egg drop um which
040is again a tradition that our students love families love doing you'll see our school counselor and myself out greeting students every morning um no matter what the weather is we're out there um and that is an amazing you get to not only know parents but as students come off the bus you know whether it was a good morning or not so good morning you know whether in an half hour I want to check in with that student and see how we can support them um it tells a lot as you uh we talked to the bus drivers and we have some conversation you know to support our bus drivers so being out there being visible in the morning is important we have our annual spelling be those are our two winners um this year the
041bottom you rock ceremony um I made it up I um and it's one of my favorite days of the year and um and some of you have been teachers or parents and and hopefully you remember your child coming home with those Ur Rock cards um every year our PTO does a fun run um Halloween uh those tie Dy that's a Friday fun day of of tie dyes um we just have different themes almost every Friday there inexpensive and we try to do them over again so families don't have to spend a lot of money um doing or being a part of um for their children to be a part of our fun fridays um so you'll see that was a well hit a great hit for the day and then um that's our third third
042to fifth grade lunch we have music on Fridays with Mr Bean so one of our teachers uh is a DJ on Friday for them and they put in requests um to listen to music we look at some things and then we change some things so uh last year we had a tough time with our bus behavior um so this year we implemented uh positive bus Behavior celebration so every month we celebrate students that show positive bus behavior and um so they get a certificate we have a quick assembly and then they have a special lunch with me and then I used to wear uh a poster on Friday say if you want a hug um get a hug if you want a high five get a high five yeah really wasn't my cup of tea
043personally um and so I changed it this year and so being a part of our every morning announcement um I say to them you know if no one has said I love you yet this morning please know how much we love having you in nhcs so again sometimes it's my own thing I tweak uh sometimes it's feedback from other people but it's the same message just sent in a different way we have amazing Community Partners ships in teamwork um at New Hampton Community School and this just celebrates again uh we have some Community hairdressers that come in right before Thanksgiving and they do quick haircuts in hairstyles um our egg drop again we have our tree company the one two tree comes and uh there so excited this year they're going 100 feet up in
044the air for our egg drop this year they're um so thrilled to do that uh local Partnerships with our community church and the uh police department and fire department is amazing again a lot of these events a lot of our Traditions can't happen without our amazing PTO we have the New Hampton School we use their ice rink um this is their hockey team um skating with our skaters on the last day of our uh winter program then you have our uh Lego guy his creation um this happens at the Gordon Ash Library once a month and then in the background you'll see Chris Honeywell one of our former teachers uh goes and she spearheads uh this and then off on the Shelf again with our fire department this year we also want to really celebrate
045um we again Ella's Army um and so our community came together to support one of our fifth graders uh we held a boot Drive uh with the new Hampton First Responders Association um Abby group so Jason CV we uh saw him a little earlier today at the printer um the Abby group they helped us r a spaghetti dinner um for ERS and her family um our new Hampton staff did a family night out on the bottom left is Starlight Honeys uh gave a benefit concert um for for Ella's Army um the ribbon and we all got free t-shirts to wear that say Ella's Army that was donated through outside Unlimited in Jeremy hilts um in the Bristol fire department came over that day to take the picture for us um we've had over 37 sponsors
046come forward to help support l that and that doesn't count the $5 the $10 $100 checks that we received through Community uh member support and then um I shave my head as exciting news I get to woohoo grow my hair out now Ella's finished chemo um which is phenomenal and um still has a journey to go still has a lot of physical therapy um but her 25 rounds of chemo um have recently finished in um this was earlier in the fall when a couple students and I um shaved our head and finally all of this could not happen um without our amazing group of Educators and uh for that I am truly grateful and um the final quote is if you don't get school culture and climate right nothing else matters so there have a
047little tidbit about you school and the great work our faculty and staff thank you very much does anybody have any questions for an if I could say one thing is the um maybe once a week sometimes maybe it's not every week um uh new Hampton's on my way to and uh work and um if you want to start your day off right I stopped by there I find an excuse to meet with an but in doing so you walk that Hall everyone does know your name they say hello to you and um an and the guidance counselor are out there every morning greeting every parent every child and calling them by name and that culture starts at the top and and and you know she's quiet about her contributions but you see her as an
048elf all over the building and you see her shaving her head as long as her student is in chemotherapy and you thank you for your leadership thank you for all you do thanks it's my staff really yes it's the whole staff absolutely all right Financial manifest do we have manifest for February February okay so I need a motion to approve manifest for February so moved I'll second any discussion all those in favor say I I oppose abstentions I love that I was like just like yeah yeah you have to exactly all right next budget update so um I just wanted to acknowledge and I know we'll talk a little bit about this later when uh we have the elections and the election results on the agenda but uh the budget did not pass by um
049six votes originally and by a little bit more after a recount um so which puts a difference of about $230,000 between the um proposed budget and the default budget um I just wanted to um let everyone know the board and the public that the uh the administrators and um uh both at the SAU and um at all the buildings are working really hard and at looking at um you know ways where we can uh to make sure that we still have everything we need to have and which includes that not this will not affect people or positions um we're we're going to be able to realize a lot of savings through savings and Technology as we're migrating from uh laptops to to to Chromebooks uh we we're going to realize a lot of savings there
050um possible Savings of up to $85,000 next year which puts a big dent in that shortfall and along with that migration there's kind of a ripple effect of when you um migrate to uh Chromebooks versus the traditional laptops you're also saving on like sofos licenses which is another $25,000 we're also looking at as you saw um Angela presented was it the last meeting or the meeting before uh projected you know where we are going to be at year end this year we have uh we may have some Surplus this year that um you know we would um pay off some debt or do some purchases that weren't necessarily meant for next year's budget but for any time like we would make sure we check with our Auditors like for example we've needed a golf cart
051this year that has already died but didn't think we could afford it till next year we may be able to afford it this year so I think just to rest assure I think that shortfall we will be okay and looking at the the neighboring districts that are have a budget cut or shortfall to make up of $2 million $1.6 million I think as a as a team we're coming together and we're going to we're not going to cut anything that's going to hurt students so thank you for the update all right committee reports I don't know if there's many many committee meetings the past couple weeks um budget committee they have a new budget do they have a okay uh facilities we're meeting April 16th so okay policy committee I will be scheduling one soon
052for April to May probably two before the year is over so okay curriculum I believe Ariel has s a tentative date I don't know if it I don't think it's posted as a public date she's sent it out to the committee as hey this is our tent date and she's waiting for committee response and then we'll post it because I think what we'll have as a topic is I'm on that committee I just realized I'm on that committee I don't remember seeing an email okay I'll double check with her um I feel like she has sent something tentative but okay uh we'll have we're looking at possible approval of some um geography books for the Middle School okay that were probably last updated when I taught geography at the middle school so just a little
053while just a little while just a few boundaries have changed I'm sure and names as well um let's see restructuring we had a non-public meeting and then actually I want to try to schedule one for next Monday I'll send something out okay and we'll P we'll put public okay notice on it so building committee I know they had a meeting we did have a meeting on March 12th um it's very productive um we did discuss things like the fifth grade study committee preschool and so on um we discussed ideas about moving forward uh we talked about some data that we needed to collect uh to move forward um costs per breakdowns per each School uh not something that you could just you know quickly look up um so we're going to wait till we get
054that information there are a couple of people um later on tonight's agenda that want to join the building committee um and so we'll take those up shortly ironically I also call the State of New Hampshire uh the building aid department just to get a feel for where they saw potential building Aid coming in the next couple of years um which was like don't hold your breath that there's nothing in this year's budget Uh current budget or in next year's projected budget but I what I found the most ironic about the discussion was the gentleman that called me is an alumni of new found so he knew all about the schools and stuff and uh was from action from Danbury so um we're working on it um the uh our minutes mentioned the Bank building uh
055the SAU office we rent from the bank uh that's closing in June so we potentially will need to be relocating that office so we're going to be looking at alternatives to that or other potential uh scenarios so so we have our work cut out for us we're moving forward we're going to try to do an analysis existing buildings um getting more current update as to their status um enrollments uh as we all know with the three towns leaving our enrollments are definitely changing um might be somewhat of a everchanging um depending depending on which way pasani goes with some of the uh sixth seventh and eighth grade with their options for school choice whether some of those students will want to stay in sa4 or so there's so many unknowns so we're working on it
056and as soon as we get all the data collected we'll be scheduling another meeting and we welcome the public to come and we're also talking about doing another survey of the public just to get their thoughts and ideas because the reality is with four towns and four schools that um consolidation may be the possible resolution um it's something that has been pushed off and pushed off but I think in all reality when you've gone from 1,600 students to a thousand um we just want to do it with the least pain possible for students as well as um employees and just to jump add to it France that is one of the things that for reasons for a new survey one is um the data was taken across the seven towns quite some time ago now
057this would be the uh the remaining four towns and this time doing the research she mentioned about Poss facilities ideas and about um possible costs of you know person how does it how much does it cost to run our current schools individually versus how much it would cost to run here's these various scenarios putting all that out there and then taking a survey so people are actually answering a survey question with information that's already been done versus an opinion about something that's an unknown so not that to criticize last time but we all like you know hindsight's 20 of hey let's get some informed feedback based on some possible real scenarios was um there was that company that did the yeah they have we given them a direction yet um we had armen's task from
058the committee was to start working with them on different scenarios and my task was to do the finance piece uh that research that FR mentioned so we are gathering both of those vanell had done um the survey of the buildings themselves the classrooms square footage and and so on and when the gentleman from banwal spoke with us um in a presentation a few months back his offthe cuff potential for a regional Elementary School a new one would be in the $40 million range um in talking with the gentleman from building a he said he kind of laughed at that um so the new schools that are currently being built are substantially more than that yeah so um it's time to take a close look at our current facilities and what it would take to bring
059them up up to standards um and potentially move the chairs around on the deck so to speak thank you fifth grade movement study committee um we haven't had a meeting we decided kind of at this point to kind of put it on hold but do you want me to take it off the agenda moving forward as a standing committee report is that I think so because I think you know they did a vote and then it kind of then you know I think as a board we decided to send it kind of to the building committee at that point because it was maybe hold off on that and send it to the building committee into a bigger as I call it the 10,000 foot view um and really assess everything as a whole um so
060yeah I would think I mean I don't know what others think um but when we go over um committee assignments okay we can look at all of them because there's a few others that either aren't on the new one or were on the old one that we just need to look at I personally that's my two cents but so uh Wellness committee well the wellness committee met on Wednesday except I thought the meeting was on Thursday so while I was driving to the meeting on Thursday I got the minutes for the Wednesday meeting that I didn't go to it was it's what happens when you have an entire month off you don't remember anything um but our superintendent took great minutes so um we had really been um looking to uh have all the schools
061do a survey which was a uh something that was UN form across the schools so we got a preliminary report from four of the buildings um the highlights um and impressions of the data collected so far was that there were a lot of thoughts about physical education Wellness education access to healthy food and safe facilities uh there was a presentation by Jason CV that guy's name just keeps coming uh and Miss hollerin who have piloted a breakfast to go initiative at New Hampton with the intention of bringing it to some other schools um so that's pretty exciting uh the committee gave all schools a deadline of March 1st to complete that survey and we will meet again after March 1st uh to look 1 or March I'm sorry May 1st May 1 um we'll meet
062again see I can't do I don't March 1 wait a minute that would have already happened before the meeting um and so um will meet again after May 1st when we have all those results um to yeah to look and review anything you want to add Paul nope I think that was well said thank you you did you did great not all right Tech Council they haven't met again since but um just to reiterate one of the pieces of work that that group is doing is leading that charge for the migration from the PCS to the Chromebooks which is going to save our district U not only save our district a lot of money we're actually going to get uh better warranties and it looks like we would shift to a lease versus ownership so
063then having to get rid of outdated machines off warranty our we would actually our cycle would just keep rotating into new machines that are leased every four years so gotcha right then you don't have to pay to get rid of them yep all right professional development presentation on April 14th of our new proposed uh PD plan for the next five years okay and yeah because I was supposed to be on that but usually the meetings are too early uh strategic planning we had our second Community night and um to get community feedback just last week we had one at the beginning of March and then one at the end of March we're still uh assembling all the data and then the real work will will happen as we um oh well and the next step
064step is to actually uh get data from uh all of the schools and all the students as well as put out a community survey um just a widen the net then rolling up our sleeves and amending our Five-Year Plan that just came to an end and we'll be renewing a new 5-year strategic plan uh we want to have at least one more Community night once we have that draft to have people the opportunity to react to our collection of data especially those that have shown up to these Community nights to get their eyes on it again we expect to have a final proposed uh fiveyear strategic plan to the board first thing in the fall okay next old business Treasurer stien raay so and we presented last time to raise uh the stiped by $300
065because it hasn't received a raise in about three years um I proposed it for July 1st to go into effect for next year the um current Treasurer um who's been the treasurer for a great number of years now um has asked us to reconsider and put it into implementation for this year since this position hasn't raised been raised in three or four years okay I need a motion I make a motion that we raise the treasur stien by $300 second any discussion see for this year yeah effective immediately here we go any further discussion all those in favor say I I opposed extensions uh next all right so next we have new business six member V board agenda all right board meeting [Applause] schedule so that was I didn't am I losing it in the
066I didn't see it in the minutes or in the board packet or am I just losing it I thought tonight you would just set the board meeting meeting okay just little like we like we do now words okay normally it was printed out with all the dates oh okay but that's mine my as a proposed to vote on yeah okay that way all the because of all the vacations and things because that way because we've already done the school calendar so does this board still want to do second and fourth I didn't know if that would be the discussion and then I and then I think better I think we'd be better off coming back with all of the dates and then approve all the dates because it just makes it easier because that way
067it's planned for the year and we got April all the ations not missed and hopefully we're not that Monday before Thanksgiving because that's always just chaos so I can put that together for April 14th to officially vote on yeah is that I mean I think that's how we've done it in the past is it so a calendar all the way through next month yeah that way it's just a little bit we can see it versus I think every is everybody good with staying second and fourth and just kind of staying on the same schedule I just wanted to make sure that before I created it okay okay so staying on a second and fourth yeah Monday and then what we can do is we'll just officially approve the Cal the new schedule calendar whatever at
068our next meeting that's fine all right sorry I didn't catch that go for perfect okay uh next board committee assignments so this is a little funky this year so that Jen you're only up for like what uh let's see five meetings it yeah something like that uh not that you've got it counted down um but um some of them are easy enough to continue and then maybe what happens is the new board member just takes over those kind of assignments or something I don't know what we decide as a group um but I think some of the meeting some of the Committees we don't need to appoint to this year but it needs to stay on the list with no assignment because like the Hills School District that's not up that contract's not up yeah
069so it's not an active committee correct it won't be active but we have to keep it on the list because because of the way because of our partnership that way if there's any issues um we usually keep it on the list and just write not an active negotiations for like contract renewal or whatnot but there were some things that were missed so let's see contract negotiations facilities now we had two people assigned to the football oversight Committee in the past do we think we still need two or do we just need one I bet one's fine okay they hav that's why I brought out that's why I brought out my old list to see how many people were assigned to which committee um that was one of my questions and I don't have that okay
070how many yeah um because we've added and moved around things um oh the other thing that we'll have to go back on there is n negotiations they have that contract negotiation oh oh okay that's for the union y okay sorry the other thing maybe to be mindful looking at something like policy says it has three members if we're going to end up being a five member board you probably want to drop that to two members right right so we have football school board um the new um the delegate oh I don't have it on the nsba Delegate for the meeting in O in the fall and then we used to have a legislative rep but I don't think that positions as long as I've been on the board for eight years I don't think that
071position's ever done a thing I I mean Fran you you're the legislative rep but I imagine you haven't done anything for that huh I watch what they're doing well I know that but like it's never been like I don't know I is that something you think we should continue with no okay that's why I was kind of like I think it's always been a position that's been filled but I don't think anybody's everever really done anything no and this actually came up recently in my Lakes Region superintendent group and they're all moving away from having one great because I mean if there is anything that's big or comes up it should be as a discussion personally that's my put you in the very awkward position you know do you Lobby for it do you Lobby
072against it and once you go down that path you know and who are you representing right yeah okay and you don't have and you would hope that if the legislature makes changes that since we paid a belong to the Schoolboard Association that they would send out updates and say oh by the way um there is a lot of legislation uh dealing with tax caps and mandatory tax caps not necessarily ones that um get voted in but that will be automatic ones appli to school districts and not only the Schoolboard Association but so does the superintendent Association both both of them they have representative legislative reps that are doing that work and then sending us the updates so you guys probably could sleep at not if you knew half of what was going on with schools
073and legisl yep I've watched a couple of meetings I just I'm sure the union also has a pretty strong presence when it comes to legislative actions yeah yep okay um restructuring committee I mean that on June 30th that will go by the wayside well we have Hill and we anticipate that there will be ongoing contracts with Pani so could be a Pani Committee just to acknowledge relationship active or we could just combine them and just do con you know District contract because the hill and peswani will be opposite years anyhow yeah and I can't imagine us doing different for one than we do for the other the basics basic skeleton of it will be the same right well I mean then you have the well then you named it instead of the N negotiations you
074named IT contract negotiations committee I mean we as a board if it's our prerogative we could put all of the contract negotiations under one subcommittee because you always need to have more than you need to have an odd number on any contract negotiations anyhow so all three of them would have to have three members of a board of five that's a good point you know and just put that way when Hills renewal is up it goes under there and then when tesani or Tani goes under that that you know the teachers union it's all just that way if there's three people assigned every year even if there's one year that there's not anything maybe like Hill you have to prep two years ahead of time like we have to do intentions ahead of time or
075just being that go-to people if there's a question for any of the contracts too was there ever anything discussed at those meetings that wasn't contract related I can't remember if there ever is it'll come it always comes back to the I think if there's anything outside of actual contracts the actual contract or negotiations regarding that I think it would come back here personally that's I just think trying to have three different designes for multiple different things CU any of the contract negotiations would have to have multiple because you're not having public on those committees you'd have to have three members of the board I don't know I mean what do other people think think that makes sense okay and we can when we approve them we can write on their contract negotiations Hill peswani and
076then I think the restructuring committee would be done July 1st right June 30th June 30th yeah you know that would be officially done June 30th that's I see lot a head shaking I'm not just talking to myself okay just trying to consolidate from having to have three people on one another person on another and just trying to think of the fact that we're going down to five people and right now there's what 17 different committees and that would essentially make it 14 right you you'd eliminate right we eliminate Hill roll it under contract negotiations eventually restructuring will go by the wayside fifth grade study committee take that one can probably come off now at one point I had suggested that that maybe the building committee could be partnered with facilities I think the tricky part
077with that right now would be that the facilities committee I think if there's a lot of the I mean um if there there I think one Armen does both but I think it would be good if there was a couple or a board member that does both because I think there's a lot of overlap but that building committee has so many other individuals that are community members each Town rep and things like that that I think it would be hard for them to sit through a facilities meeting as well where that's more like an administrator another right projects versus the sole task of what is the future of our just because we have a lot of people on that building committee that are not the day-to-day maintenance but I think having you know you know
078there's you know having somebody doing both might be good cuz then it's building committee then perhaps if we could put our hats on it come up with a different not necessarily mean just title name change but concept of it that it might not necessarily be a new building but it might be um modifications or expansions on existing buildings and that was the charge that we had kind of given them everybody's thinking was we're going to build a new school it's going to be somewhere else and and I think that's kind of blinders on to just look at new building I think after the last meeting there was a big change just because they got yes that's what they were originally looking at just not knowing and then you know House Bill 349 came up and
079so then the building committee got put on C for over a year you know they haven't I mean yes they've had meetings here sporadically but nothing's really been achieved right like nothing's really been moved because we're so wishy-washy trying to figure out everything at first and figure out what the impact's going to be in this and that that I think there was all those things that need to get kind of waited through over the past year and now they're in a place where they can be like okay like I think you like you said your words were it it was a very productive meeting and this is what we need to give people the information to really look at this and I think arman's going to keep that building committee y I think you're going
080to see a difference I agree but I think that if we merg and you end up with some Marathon agendas sometimes so I mean maybe not all of them but and the committee be would become huge because the people we currently have on the facilities committee we need because there are you know administrators at different buildings and there's board members myself and and the business administrator went appropriate but then the building committee is a lot of parents and community members so all of a sudden joining those two will be a very big committee for two different purposes yeah yeah okay I think it's always good thought and to talk about and I I think this um budget committee District data comme I have not seen that run in my lifetime as a administrator which is
081I think it was an invention of Marie Ross when I was a seventh grade social studies teacher like where it actually met I don't know Jen can you help me with that because she was the eighth grade literacy teacher at the time so yeah I don't it it it was she sent people to data camp gave everyone before everyone had one of these she gave us iPods iPods to go around and collect data on the iPod that's right so yeah yeah yeah so we're going back 15 years but we might want to look up what the like documents on the data committee can we just discontinue it as a board which is fine we can vote to discontinue them but we should just look up at the history because I thought last year in the
082fall we had said oh we got to keep that because of something but I have no idea maybe I'm just making that up well when I first saw it I thought they were referring to the data um study that we did uh when I was on the budget committee that compared 16 different school districts with the level of spending and we are new found came in play um and so it was my impression that that's probably what it was talking about but now it sounds like it was something totally different it was it was and it was it was teachers collecting data on teachers it was it sounds like we don't need it it was an idea that maybe it was before its time and just never got off the ground and it was right
083around the same time that I think she also created that community relations and communication Council again which hasn't really done anything in 14 plus years either right and until you put that down there I don't think I've ever seen it on um one of our thing because it's I put it down there because it's listed in the policy see but like if we need to right so if we need to since we're doing this let's I'm sorry if we're going to do this let's do it right like if it's in the policy then we should get rid of that and amend the policy and amend the policy if the if we want if we decide as a board to remove the data data committee and the community relations and communication Council then we should um
084change that policy and just so you know what has been strong is the data teams at each of the schools so all of the uh our curriculum administrator uh takes a leadership role with that coupled with the School principles and some key teachers themselves are taking leadership roles at the schools so it's not like we're not looking at data so they're all looking at data Ann talked a little bit about it tonight and they're doing progress monit in you've you've seen our data presentations so it's not like we're we're saying data is not important just not sure it needs to be a board committee it's more something that the schools presented to the board so okay so those and that's in our which policy both is both data and the community Rel we have a
085policy that lists all of our committees and I'll when I schedule my policy committee I'll bring that policy to the committee and and remind them what we talked about here okay can I ask a s question changing policies what is the standard practice for that is that a board voted thing or is do we have to go through the state in any way shape or form for that okay we start we bring a policy to the policy committee um and they'll make a recommendation to the board of whether it's recommending a new policy recommending amending a policy or recommending resending a policy um we actively meet twice a year that could spread out over more than one meeting because of the work we're doing but then for a policy to change it has to have
086two board readings okay y those policies Sometimes they come down from the New Hampshire School Board Association kind of adopt their policy especially if it's based on RSA or something like that have to well that's what I was asking nationally accepted best practices I've had a lot of experience with representing the department at the office of legislative services departmental policies their administrative core rules I didn't know if we had to go through legislation on stuff yep our own even better our own little legislative body I like sitting on this side of the table um professional Development Council so that's for the professional development um that's one to keep alive but we really won't be doing much with it um for another five years when we re write a plan right okay uh and then we
087talked about fifth grade study 5year strategic plan committee same thing that's busy right now and then yeah I mean we'll be done by the end of this term again to present something yeah okay so all right next what is everybody's because then what will happen is we'll take all this information and then I'll ask you guys to email me what your thoughts and preferences are and then at the next meeting we'll actually vote on on assignments and which ones we're keeping and things like that um uh contract negotiations committee would have to have three people because it would be in contracts peswani and or Hill if we're going to combine them all into one we need to have it one it has to have odd and I think three would be good because tell me
088if I'm wrong because will be a five member board but they're the only ones on that because they're usually confidential pieces it's not like you have lots of Administrators and other people on that committee other than pop everybody did with three because that's what we had in the past be good with that okay I'm seeing lots of head shakes um facilities we always done two do we want to continue with two I think two is fine okay head nods and if you something if somebody thinks about it and wants to change it you can always send me an email and then we can rediscussed at the next meeting policy committee is currently three currently three could we go down to two would be good there's a lot of voting members of that committee yeah okay
089uh you guys all kind of good with switching that down I mean to two Okay policy two okay um School Board Association delegate you can only have one uh budget committee rep one we just I've always had one yep okay I'm seeing head nods legislative we said no professional development would be one Wellness committee is one rep everybody good with that okay facilities to building committee we have one everybody good we still just one yes okay uh curriculum committee has three three I would recommend one I think the reason why when we put in that curriculum committee I think part of the reason why was we we thought that only board members could vote there was some confusion if I remember where committee is just recommending an action to a board they're not decision we've
090also defined our committees better on who can vote we made that a little bit more definitive so what do you guys think about how many people should be on curriculum how often do they meet we meet as needed in the sense of uh anytime there's proposed new curriculum at one of the schools it's presented to the committee the committee starts asking some of the questions and Diving deep and then the committee's recommending to the board the approval of the curriculum so if for board memb is sitting on the committee do they have to abstain from the votes no okay for any of the absolutely fine I don't know to go from three to one you know if you have only one and they are not there then you have no input so two I would
091try to and see how it works and that there's no snags and could consider it for the following year okay um onless we went over technology counil I would keep one okay and keep one at the PD Council but again I I think Ariel's going to try to be a little bit more active than the past of convening the PD council at least once a year even if it's not a a planwriting year just to you know check in how is the plan going how you know fidelity but it's certainly not going to be active where that needs to meet a lot okay and um the 5e Strategic plan who's on that right now fan okay and that's just one person right yep and like I said our our our work will be coming to
092an end okay by the summer and then last but not least uh restructuring which should be the four of us until June 30th right everybody in a kind of yeah Okay and like I said it'll be official when we all vote on it with all so we'll do a spreadsheet with the committee how many are assigned and all that I'll do a lovely little thing so if everybody could email me what committees they prefer and you'd like to be a part of that would be stellar and as far as the scheduling of their meetings and things of that nature are there General times is what how can it depends on the committee a lot of times they'll email out and ask people's availability usually like facilities is usually evening a lot of them are no
093facilities has been going more like four five five yeah and building is the same I think it's to keep Armen from having to right come back right they usually most of our committees start around five okay that's that's okay I just want to make sure I can make it back from conid yeah one of the only ones that met earlier in the day fairly regularly was the PD because we didn't it was important to have the teachers on the PD committee and having them come back in the evening was harder than having one board member try to make it during the day hey I made it to one meeting you did but most of the Committees are late afternoon into evening like and I mean even if if if some committees are open to like
094having a zoom call or a teams call something for those that might not be able to be there in person yeah which you've done before too yes I have done before I've done interviews while I've been cooking in the past and you'll do this you don't need me to do this yes I'll work on this for you thanks I'll I'll take that task on my chicken scratch I will take that on um so yeah if everybody could just email me your committee committee assignment request um that would be great okay next we'll move on to first New Hampshire robotics Grant so I included the grant um first New Hampshire robotics awarded ,000 to our high school robotics team awesome accept it thank you any further discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I
095opposed extensions [Applause] okay he had to run out just right yeah he no he's like you can put absent for the moment because he stepped out okay it's fine um okay next approve the superintendent to accept resignations until the next meeting right yes or between meetings or do you have me do that every time I think we last year we did it every time just so that we would keep up on it so that there was no confusion we just reup it every meeting just to and the purpose of that is for us to get a jump on Advertising like I know there's two in the pipeline that may be going to other school districts one for a commute reason and well commute and salary and the both together and then the other one um
096salary that to wait two weeks to a month before we can advertise the position we'd like to yeah I make a motion we approve the superintendent to accept resignations so that he can get advertising out and timely fashion second okay any further discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I opposed extensions okay next uh graduation date Saturday June 14th it's been asking me for months to approve this I said let us get through snow season so here we are Saturday we're having nothing that will push off schools so cuz now we can switch to like hours no I remember one year the only snow no day we had was April 1st but you know you can always then you can for the seniors you can as they had a cansas school because Town
097had no power we'll find a way to stay on track for that graduation dat okay even if we switched out so that's back to a Saturday if you recall we did Friday night last year but the seniors this year would like to go back to Saturday fair enough good for them good for them the last class they voted and wanted Friday like it is what it is their preference all right I need a motion to accept graduation date for Saturday June 14th of 2025 so moved second okay any further discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I I opposed extensions okay next for member voting agenda election results we had to do a recount um and I mean you already mentioned it quickly but it went from it's now an 18 vote difference
098yes from six to 18 went from six to 18 that the budget did not pass um we I don't know if there's anything to vote on on this but just to put it on the agenda you know to acknowledge to the public which sworn articles passed and did not passed the the teachers contract passed yeah the um maintenance trust fund and Technology trust fund um passed and the amendment and recision the two different articles around the the um tax cap both failed okay all right thank you any questions regarding election result no all right next new hires oh I only have one uh so we have sorry um we have Emily finny who e e e um any further discussion see none all those in favor say I I extensions next memorandum of understanding Lakes
099Region High School Consortium agreement also Lakes Region superintendent slightly different group um in The Lakes Region this is mostly for the schools that are also sending schools to the same CTE program uh so kind of a subset of our full Lakes Region group that since we're already sharing um educational opportunities for the career and Tech technical education classes um knowing that you know there are teacher shortages and declining populations and enrollments that um unfortunately some of that um the victims are the students because we're unable to find a teacher to teach AP Chemistry or we don't have enough students in AP Cal to really justify running it is looking as a Consortium of since we're already sending buses between our schools and could we also make sure that we can share access to not just
100the special ed piece but you know all Realms like you know this school's running AP French this school's running AP Chemistry just same thing like signing on to this is keeping opportunities for students in times where it may not be economically feasible or even again just like the special ed services are dropping so we're like quality access to you know teachers so especially north of conquer okay I'll make a motion to accept I'll second any further discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I oppose extensions all right next building committee membership additions there is request by the building committee to add a member from the town of Alexandria um so Kimberly just cannot stay away um so Kim Bliss um from Alexandria and Britney Galvin from Bristol um would they would the building
101committee would like to add the those two memberships additions there we go whatever sorry so move okay I'll second any further discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I oppose extensions okay next resignations okay I got a bunch okay is that supposed to be Justina yes Justine Justine yep okay Justine Kimble from Bristol and all of these are be I'm just going to say it ahead of time all of these resignations are effective June 30th of 2025 Justine Kimble from bees special education teacher Rose Darrow bees special education teacher Vanessa Robert bhvs teacher Dorothy Beetle bhvs literacy specialist Kelly mlan bhvs teacher Abigail Mooney bhvs teacher Eliza Boswell bhvs teacher Linda green bees principal Kimberly Denton bhvs speech and language pathologist Sarah cormia hopefully I said that right bhvs teacher Katherine Roman bhvs
102teacher Kathleen Connor bhvs guidance counselor Lindsay Hogan bhps school nurse Meredith Leighton bhps preschool teacher Jennifer K BBS special education teacher Jennifer how do you pronounce her last name pinky pinky bhps teacher I need a motion to accept the resignations still move I'll second any further discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I I opposed extensions I'd like to thank them all for all that they've done for the district I know a lot of them are separating but I'd like to thank them all for everything that they've done are the people that are resigning from Bridgewater is it because of the withdrawal or because they're really resigning no well they're resigning from sa 4 okay right to work at Bridgewater okay they're resigning from Bridgewater to work at Bridgewater all right um next
103public comment on agenda items only 2 minutes per comment public comment uh Ary Freeman Bridgewater just a question so when you were talking about the election you know we have to go to the default budget $230,000 less and I'm glad to hear that needs to be laid off and you found ways to you know accommodate but I'm wondering especially the uh going from the PCS to the Chromebooks uh $85,000 saved or to be saved plus also software licenses why wasn't that put into the budget before the the voters voted on it he wasn't he he hadn't realized that yet we this is late late news and ongoing research same with um you know when he we started assembling this budget proposal last fall and again because we're SP2 and we start Gathering early like at
104this point I mean that was when he started budgeting for next year that was 78 months ago when he didn't realize he didn't have that thought process can we move because we've had kids at Chromebooks this is moving all the staff to Chrome versus you know and then there's been a lot of developments and Technology on the adult versions of chrome 2 to make them comparable to PCU because there was a lot of push back at first or worries like can teachers run the same programs they could on Chrome versus um the traditional PC like the Dells and the acers you know we wanted to look at especially those teachers that run special ed apps that run business apps that run engineering apps and a lot of you know our curriculum is also based in
105in and um you know has has to have certain platforms that they're able to access so he's had a lot of um people pilot the chromes this year to make sure they can do what we want them to do so who's he Oh Our IT director yeah thank you y any further public comment yes um I have perhaps a question I'm not sure if I'm able to ask that now but um so Christina bar from New Hampton um I believe Tess that I yes sorry um had mentioned something about the scheme camps this summer U and she mentioned directly Danberry students and Bristol students but not New Hampton students is that because it's the the 21st century Grant the only schools that qualified for it I believe and Alicia would or maybe you know the
106but I believe it's because of the Century 21 Grant and Bristol so it would have been Bristol Danbury and the high school were the only three schools that qualified for that Grant yeah so it would be an extension she mentioned it as being an extension to that a new title 4 B which is what the 21c Grant comes from it's a subgrant through title 4B so it's all schools that already Access Project promise money or 21 century money they're eligible to apply for the subgrid Goa okay thank you for New Hampton students that attend the high school will be able to benefit from right but not El not out yeah or the middle school because their test scores got too [Applause] good I have just one yes Jen McDonald New Hampton about graduation um I
107would actually encouraged the board to consider taking that um decision over um and out of the hands of the seniors um we were fortunate and new found to have an outstanding track and field team and over the last five years um we've had many kids qualify for the New England track and field Championship which is always held that Saturday so um did you know that yes oh okay okay I'm like I knew 1% of the kids of the class but it does impact them um and we now with our start date before or early we're starting after Labor Day but still on the second it's early um so anyway I just think that maybe you should consider that being a projected date that you set um for I don't care what it is Friday or
108Saturday but I think parents really were feeling the stress of not knowing until now and I know with um snow days you know that's an issue but you might just say it's projected for this Saturday and they know that and then but it will impact and it has impacted in the past it's hard for kids to have to choose obviously graduation is what they choose so they miss out on that opportunity seems like no I don't want you to change it this year it is what it is but in the future gotcha seems like the um field activity needs to think about changing their date yeah we we've had a student affected once every few years for um who is invited to participate and um she's right that they've had to make a choice in
109the past um Friday graduations would alleviate that choice but it is only a my kind kind of hard to have a Friday night graduation and a afternoon cookout right that's something um we can have our our high school Personnel examine and start looking at and with our athletic director because we've had kids not attend graduation in the past four yeah and I think there's potential for even baseball and softball tournaments to be still happening on that Saturday we haven't made it that far into the playoffs in several years good to know thank you yeah that's Father's Day weekend too bik weekend it's bike weekend Father's Day and a lot going on in other neighboring districts holding graduations I mean it's yeah inner lakes and Y is there's the 14th too yeah my wife and I
110get are two separate that day so gotcha okay all right any further public comments sorry forgot what I was doing we did miss a um a correspondence at the beginning only because I had it in the wrong and my binder um but it is actually from Jennifer McDonald's so not about graduation um about um something positive that um through her Grant Works uh made happen I don't it was to you and me and a few others back on March 7th oh no that's right that's the one that went to Max yes oh it went to Max and not but somebody forwarded it to me do you want to read it do you want me to read it you can read it okay um so it said Dear Chris Jacob Paul and Melissa that's me the
111principal of the middle school and the assistant principal of the middle school and your son who the other mck The Other M suckling uh before the week gets away from me I wanted to take a moment to share what a wonderful experience the teen Institute leaders in prevention retreat was for the sixth grade six middle school students who attended this group of sixth and seventh graders represented new found incredibly well and on multiple occasions both Jen karita and I received compliments about our team our students were not only kind and supportive of one another but they also welcomed everyone I witnessed one of our students approach a camper who was eating alone and invite him to join our group later when the same student was himself was by himself during the dance our students made
112sure he felt included by inviting him to dance with us when the students first arrived many were nervous shy and an I however as the weekend progress I watched them come out of their shells contribute their ideas to the group and reflect on ways they could make their Community better one of the retreat activities had the team create a plan for something they would do once they returned to school to improve their school Community our students identified that sometimes kids don't have enough to do and providing more activities could help keep them from making poor choices after a lot of thoughtful discussion they initially wanted to start a farm club and at one point they even talked about buying livestock and putting them in Kelly Park they will have to go to a different board
113than this through guided action planning process they worked through the necessary steps and ultimately decided to plant a garden bed of vegetables instead the final product wasn't the goal it was the teamwork collaboration and communication they demonstrated along the way that made this experience so meaningful you should be incredibly proud of our student students in our community we truly shine this weekend best regards Jennifer McDonald thank you great time awesome all right board member comments also I just realized as you're doing that I'm like oh yeah we forgot to talk about uh appointing a fifth board member for July 1st so board one of the warrant articles yes so one of the warrant articles that pass would be um us as a board um appointing someone as a fifth board member um we as a
114board the four members would vote on who it would be so um just trying to get the word out there anybody that's interested it can be from any of the four towns um you should send an email to myself and Paul and it's m suckling one um at sa4 um send an email to myself and Paul um of a letter of interest of why you're interested in the board um meeting or um appointed the appointed opening and then we as a board will invite whoever is interested to a specific meeting maybe in May because we only have one we have two meetings in May and only one in June one to two one to two in June and maybe it might be behoove us to do it in May because Fran's gone in June on
115our annual trip to the sunshine um so and then and that way it give somebody a couple meetings that they could come and maybe observe before they're up at the table too and feel more we have a deadline for submissions for that we should probably post that on theu a deadline with the deadline yeah so our anticipated second meeting would be see if we go second and fourth we wouldn't have a second meeting in May because the second Monday is Memorial Day then we do it Tuesday every time there's a Monday holiday we've done it Tuesday we run into that with Columbus Day we run into that with Veterans Day so actually October November are Tuesday meetings right because a lot of times but actually a lot of times in May I think we've always
116just had one I think from that's why I keep saying there's only one meeting in May I think that's why but where there's only one meeting in April we might want to have two in May oh yeah I'm fine with doing Tuesday that's fine with me we that the vacation yeah so let's do letters of interest to us SP you guys like May 27 before so it need to be before then so the end of the first week in May by May 19th which is a week ahead of time so that way I can compile them and tell them to come to the meeting on May 27th and that way we can get them out with all the board packet I can get them out to all the board members that makes sense for a
117year and then serve until March for yeah that's and then they'd run for if they wanted to run again they would run for that open POS Open seat which would only be a two-year cycle it would only be a two-year cycle because then it would be because it will be on the ballot uh the at large will be on the ballot when Alexandria so there's two people on the ballot so that way it will be every year it'll be two people two people and then one I forget who's the loan so you're saying have them do by May 19th to you and I Y and then those letters would be sent out to everyone for the May 27th meeting meaning all of you yeah to look at and then they would have them come to
118that meeting too because that way we can ask questions because usually what happens is if people are interested we'll ask questions and and then you would nominate someone that night based on their questions that they answer okay and their letters that you've read yep okay I'll put something together what we'll put on the website and show it to you in yeah everybody you guys okay sorry I glad I remember that before at the end of the meeting okay um I don't think we have to vote on that do we no I don't think just to advertise no I don't think so it was already approved by the voters right it was approved by the voters just just kind of us kind of coming up with the process so um otherwise I don't have any other
119comments sorry so board member comments anybody have any comments I'll just uh quickly acknowledge today's uh International uh trans day of visibility and uh just recognize uh the contributions of students and folks in our community uh and just say that I admire their bravery in the face of adversity right any other board member comings okay seeing none I you know motion to adour move second okay all those in favor say I I oppose extensions okay all right so I have two do sign right