November 18 2025 SAU90 Hampton School Board District School Board Meeting

001I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Hampton School Board. All rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Right. Okay, a little here. All right, welcome everyone. We are going to start the meeting by asking if we have anyone here for public comment on agenda items. >> Hi, my name is Amy Hoy, 90 mil road, and I'm here to discuss the tax impact statement not being on the town ballot. Last November at the budget committee meeting, I was the person who asked why the tax impact was not on the sample ballot for the SAU warrant articles. To say the reaction that I

002got was unfortunate is an understatement. Miss Curtis, business administrator, became extremely agitated and acted completely unprofessional. This was witnessed by many people. After the meeting, Dr. Costa let me know that she would ask the school lawyer. I did not hear back from her. I also did not reach out to her as I wasn't really motivated to call SA90 after the way I'd been treated at the previous meeting. Asking for the tax impact to be put on the ballot is not controversial, especially during a year when some residents taxes went up exponentially. It's a reasonable ask. I would later discover that the video that the SAU presented that evening to gain the recommendation of the budget committee stated that the tax impact statements for the warrant articles would be on the ballot. They were not. I

003approached Dr. Costa at the deliberative session and asked if she had talked to the lawyer. She said she had and explained that the lawyer advised her not to put the tax impact on the ballot. I asked who the lawyer was and what the reasoning was and I didn't get an answer. Moving on to the October 29th meeting a couple weeks ago. How surprised was I to watch Miss Curtis, the business administrator, and her dialogue around this topic. She stated, referring to the tax impact, that she could not that she could, but would not put the impact on the ballot. She addressed the board and said the board could ask her to put the tax impact on the ballot, but you didn't. And that a lawyer by the name of Mr. Gordon Graham advised her not

004to do it because it would be confusing to voters. She then disclosed that the SAU was supposed to have put a warrant article to the voters as far back as 2012 asking them if they wanted this information on the ballot. As I stand here tonight, the only reason I have from you to not put this information on the ballot to the to the voters is that voters would be confused. Miss Curtis did outline a few options that I think should be considered by this board. If the main objective is to put to get this year's budget passed, the easiest way to be transparent to the most amount of people would be to put the tax impact on the ballot. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have anyone else here for public comment? Hi, good evening.

005Erin Hobbs, uh, 8 Heritage Drive, Megan Brook, Presidential Circle. Uh we are here tonight to announce that the friends of Hampton New Hampshire schools is a registered nonprofit with the state of New Hampshire and we are here to tell the community about our organization and announce our launch and fundraising campaign starting this week. Friends of Hampton Schools mission is to enhance the educational experience of each and every student attending Hampton New Hampshire schools by providing resources, support, and opportunities and furtherance of student academics, arts, athletics, and extracurricular activities. To reach this goal, our organization will be working collaboratively with school administrators and teachers to identify innovative learning and engagement opportunities that go beyond the school's budget. This can include a variety of initiatives, but our first goal is to support the financially disadvantaged students on

006the upcoming DC trip. It is important to note that our organization will allocate all funds as a gift to [snorts] the receiving school for spec specified use and we are aware that the school acceptance that the acceptance of such gifts will require a vote of approval by the school committee. As our organization grows, we are hoping to expand our reach by funding a variety of enrichment opportunities in all SAU90 schools and Winnate High School. I would like to extend an invite to the board and community to join us this Sunday at WHIM for our kickoff event from 4 to 7:00. We are looking forward to discussing our mission with the community and begin our fundraising efforts. The community can also follow us on uh Facebook at friendsofampton schools. And lastly, we are happy to share

007any information with any school administrators, especially if they want to spotlight it in their um newsletters. We value a strong collaborative effort as we work towards our goals. Thank you. Thank you very much. We appreciate that. Okay. Do we have anyone else here for public comment? Okay. Seeing none, we will table the rest of our time until the end of our regular meeting where we will revisit that. We are now going to do school school board member updates. Oh, I'm sorry. I we actually should make a note, sorry, that uh Mrs. St. Jean is absent this evening. It is because of a conflict with the budget committee meeting and she did feel that um as a good representative of the school board to the budget committee that um she should she was going to prioritize

008that meeting this month. Um so she is there building and facilities. Mrs. Elliot, do you guys have anything this month? >> Okay. Um >> you want to go ahead? So, one update through the um PTA may be looking at a new piece of playground equipment. Um and I am told that the HVAC project will be wrapped up at center school Thanksgiving. >> Nice. That's good to know. >> Uh Mrs. Shepard, do we have anything on curriculum or if honestly if you want to hit all of your stuff at one time, that's fine. >> All my stuff. Um first of all with curriculum at Hampton Academy um they're using Delta Math which is a digital resource um to help um adapt assignments and I thought it was especially for extended learning opportunities for maybe more advanced

009problems um and adapts assignments for students needs and gives fe it has fe gives feedback through the program which I thought Hampton um academy computer using design software 3D printing technology ology which again um is enhancing the that computer uh curriculum really nicely and social studies grade six they took their passports and became world travelers which again I thought you know they're they're just they're really extending the learning opportunities in so many ways and I was fortunate to actually experience grade seven um working on hurricanes and hurricane um project for all our future meteorologists were which um was really fun is a good time. I'd like to talk just briefly though um about professional development because I think or I I I I believe that a lot of people in the community and in the

010public don't know the extent of how much professional development has to be done by the staff in our schools. And I would just like to hit a little bit of this. Um the professional development Hampton Academy I believe they're meeting either tomorrow or Thursday with demonstrated success. I could be it said like one date but then it said Wednesday so I didn't have the right date but anyway >> it's actually tomorrow. >> Yeah they're working on um again differentiating instruction and extending learning opportunities which is amazing. also um their other uh the 504 coordinators for instance are have been participating in Drummond and Woodsome three-part virtual series administrators and representatives um did a virtual indicators 11 um training on on doing evaluations Tim Smith has been going to cyber security summit um again and then

011in return giving PD to teachers and a lot of this has to happen during the day and a lot of it has to be done on their own time. The thing that I would really like to emphasize here is again the staff all of them need to do meaningful food allergies, use of an EpiPen AVQ. Did I say that correctly? Uh glucagon administration, use of Baxammy. Did I say that correctly? Okay. because some of these things I've I've never heard of. But suicide prevention, Alice training, DCYF reporting, bloodborne pathogens, cyber security basics, stop the bleed, social media ethics, ethics and code of conduct, bullying, cyber bullying, um prevention workshops, uh preventing harassment in the workplace. All of these things the staff has to do on their own in addition to everything else that they're they're

012working on. And I I don't mean to make that sound like, oh, woe is me for the for the staff, but I just want people to be aware that they are constantly constantly daily, weekly, monthly, throughout the year, u making sure that their professional development is occurring in all aspects of the school setting. And I really wanted to emphasize that and thank them for, you know, I I mean, they have to they have to do it to keep their certification and licensing, but it's not just that. It's it's really encompassing the whole child and the whole school and making sure they are as prepared as they can be in the event of who knows a hundred different things coming their way on any given day. So, I wanted to just put that out there. Great.

013And I think a lot of that has to be done like by October 31st, right? Like really early in the year. >> All right. Well, thank you. Um I don't think we really have anything big for legislative yet. Do we know if has there been any discussion um about getting the first meeting with SAU 21 and the legislators? I we usually start doing thinking about that around December, January. >> That typically happens in Yeah. In January it will happen. Yes. >> Okay. Yep. >> All right. Uh let's see [sighs] what else. I don't have any particular reports from the NHSBA. Um looks like you guys had a policy meeting. We have a number of policies on the agenda tonight. Did you guys have anything else to add or Okay. Um professional development. Do you guys

014have any announcements for the PTA? See if I get this all. There's a food drive coming up at Marston uh that I think kicks off December 1st. There's an ongoing food drive at center. The Interact Club at the academy, which is newly formed, is both looking for volunteers to do a community uh food pantry shop at 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. on the 29th. So, they're looking for middle school volunteers to select food for um food insecure folks in town. um on that day. So, talk to your kids about that. Uh they're also looking for volunteering opportunities. So, any um local business or local organization that may have an opportunity for student participation uh in a volunteer capacity, they are very hungry to participate there. And I am told that you can reach out to

015Mr. Dhy, Mrs. Bowen, or Mrs. Tom Burelli at the academy. Um, and they will point you in the right direction. >> Leaving myself a note about um, Interact Club so they can do stuff at the library. Um, okay. But I am the next person to talk. Sorry about that. Um, so recreation department, I did want to note I I think everybody's probably going to have their own updates on the holiday parade that's coming up on the 6th, but the recck department does want to remind everyone of the uh tree lighting that has moved to Founders Park. That is going to be December 5th from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. If you went last year, it was a really, really great time. And I think it's going to be even better. They've expanded it. They've added lighting

016in different parts of uh the green and Tuck field and Founders Park. It's going to be a fantastic event. So, we hope hope everybody can can join us for that. Um I think that's about it. All right. I think we can move on to reports. Mr. Robbitai. [cough] Good evening everyone. Um just to recap a few events that occurred throughout the month of October over at center school. Um we did have our um all school meeting on the one anti-bullying presentation that was led by our school guidance counselor and the integrated arts team which kind of kicks off our building levels anti-bullying initiative which leads into the oveas lessons that happen in all of the classrooms. Um, so that went very well. Um, between our IIA team, we al also had, uh, coach Jackie came

017back to help us out with that. Um, it's always a a crowd-pleaser for the students. Um, we also had our zones of regulation kind of kickoff meeting for the year as well. We separate kindergarten from grades one and two. Um, and zones of regulation is an SEAL tool we use building aweside so that students can associate how they're feeling with a with a color and the emotions that come along with it. Um, and they're always trying to make their way back to the green zone, but we also talk a lot about how all zones are okay places to be. Um, and the tools that we need to kind of get back to green if we're not having a great day or or something's going on. So, um, I appreciate those teams putting those presentations together

018for our students. Um, we also had our Halloween parade on the 31st. I appreciate all the community members that came out to support our kiddos. Um, that's a huge deal for them. A really big event and it went off um, very smoothly. Um, we also just came from the PTA meeting, so a big thanks to them for getting the trunk or treat back up and running. Um, I was able to stop by at the beginning for a little bit with my uh, son. He was he's only two, but he was very interested in everything. Um, so thank you to them for getting that back up and running. Um we also brought back our Veterans Day assembly which um I know the other two buildings have strong histories of. I believe center did one at one

019point. Um but we had about 23 veterans um show up for our afternoon assembly. Um so it was good for the student, you know, our our youngest students to be able to see veterans in their community. Um many being family members of uh current students. Um we have parent teacher conferences coming up. So our primary dates are going to be Thursday of this week and then Monday the 24th next week. Um, so again, great opportunities for families to come out, um, talk with their classroom teachers, uh, make sure they have a good sense of how the year has started off and if we need to, um, get any feedback from families, um, as they're their child's greatest advocate. Um, report cards for trimester 1 will be available in Alma on Monday, December 7th. Um, noted

020that our food drive is up and running. Um, we, um, connect with St. Vincent Depal. Um, and all that that is donated will be picked up the Tuesday before Thanksgiving recess. Um, our Hatch Play group is finally getting off the ground. U, so that's restarting on Fridays. Uh, this Friday, November 21st will be the first uh, meeting of that group. It's from 9 to 10:30. There's been an active post in my newsletter. There is a link for registration. Um, Patrice Baker is the contact if anybody has any questions. Um and then we just have a lot of just a lot of stuff going on. It's a very busy time. U the teachers are doing a great job, but it is um you know there's just a lot going on. It's it's all good stuff, but

021it's just a busy time to be at center school. So um appreciate the board support and if anybody has any questions, I'd be happy to answer. >> Have a good night. Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Thank you, Minister Sadler. >> [clears throat] >> Hello. Um, it's November and December. It's a wonderful time in an elementary school. We'll have conferences as well on Thursday and Monday. And just again a shout out to the PTA, not enough for this, but just the ongoing things are continuously doing for our schools. It's great. Um, as stated before, we are doing our lend a hand food drive. Um ours is slightly different in that we're looking we're doing it even more different but um we're looking for not only things um like for a traditional meal but we try to

022offset some families are home for 8 n days. Um so you know snacks and other food items. So think about if you know you're bringing your children a lunch what might you pack and those are the types of things we'll be looking for. And the other side um we know that there's a lot of food pantries in Hampton that are are low stock right now and we always produce a tremendous amount of food. So once we've given to families, we then like to take the excess and bring it to local food pantries. So that'll be happening from around the 1st till the 15th um which then gives us time through the remainder of the week to get it distributed and in people's hands before the break. Um and then on the 6th of December, we'll

023be part of the Hampton Christmas or holiday parade um this year. So um we'll send some information out from each of the three schools about how we do it. I know at Marston, we're always looking for students to march. um we just need at least one caring adult to be in charge of those students um just to keep them safe on the parade route and account for them when we get down to the end. So I know in the past we've had, you know, one parent, six or seven kids and and that's great. Um but if you don't have an organization already in town that you're participating with, you can always come with the school and we love it. Other than that, we're just, you know, looking forward to a busy December and um you

024know, a great time. It's hectic, but it's it's wonderful. Enjoy. So excited about it coming up. Questions about my report or anything going on? Just want to comment on the uh New Hampshire energy education program. I had an opportunity to see that last week. It was pretty exciting. I think the kids really enjoyed it. >> Some great pictures and fifth grade um found that and it's a free offering. So, it's, you know, and it ties right into their science units. It's hands-on demonstrations and explorations for the students. Every time they come, we get a lot of information from the kids and um uh persuasive writing about getting solar panels for the school and things like that. But um it's a great opportunity. So I appreciate it. And the kids were pumped. You know, they I

025saw Dr. Costa there, but it's a lot of it's a lot of fun stuff. So appreciate that. >> And a great Veterans Day assembly. >> Yeah, it was I I you know, the office keeps count, but not everyone signs in. Probably one of our biggest crowds um in terms of veterans. It was awesome. Um we had a lot of people who were like, "We've never heard of this before." And I was like, "Tell your friends and spread the word." But um it's just really meaningful and impactful for the kids when there's actual veterans in the audience and they understand like we're celebrating them they've done and it's more than just something you're reading about or watching. >> We're fortunate that we have so many people willing to give their time to to come back and

026and celebrate with us. And again, we do it in May and the Memorial Day. It takes a little more somber tone um more about remembrance, but Veterans Day is a is a big celebration. We really enjoy it every year. >> Awesome. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Nathan. here. All right. Dr. Campbell, please join us. >> All right. Hello [clears throat] everyone. Uh, I will start off with our Washington DC report we have here. Got a worksheet for you. So, just wanted to cue everyone in on where we are. Um, just a reminder, we have 95 students in our eighth grade. Um cost for the trip with insurance is is uh $12,000 sorry $1,265. Right now we expect to have 80 students traveling with us. Um but our final uh final numbers are due on December

0273rd. So we're doing a we're trying to reach out to as many people as we can to make sure that everyone who wants to go has the opportunity to go. Um we have 75 students registered as of uh the 16th. Sorry for that typo. and 76 have paid insurance dues through students love travel. Um the insurance has to be paid and then they're able to to keep monthly payments throughout to keep up uh to break up the cost so it's not the not a one- payment. Um eight students so far have not uh turned in the required paperwork. Emails and phone calls have been made to the families um as of 11:13. Um seven students have completely opted out of the trip um who decided that it's not appropriate for them. Um, our fundraising so

028far, our seafood festival was about $500. Um, Chick-fil-A, uh, which was held a couple weeks ago, was uh, really successful. We had $950. Our PTA donated about four uh, donated $4,000. And our collaboration with Mac 5 t-shirts so far has been $475. Sorry, $476. We expect that that's going to continue to go as the holiday season comes up. Uh, I'll touch base a little bit more about the Mac 5 t-shirt collaboration in my board report. um our individual fundraisers, the calendars that the eighth graders do, um you is used to offset the trip cost per student. Our non uh people, we had about 31 students raise under um $100, uh to offset their cost. We had 39 students raise between $100 and and $399 off of their trip. and we had 22 students um earn

029over $400 or more to offset that trip by the calendars. Um big thanks to Judith Clark and Andrea Dutton for putting those together. In total, we've earned roughly $7,08,000 um between 7 and $8,000 to offset the cost of those individual um fundraisers. Our upcoming fundraisers on the on um dece on December 15th from 4:00 to 7:00, we have collaborated with the community oven again. will get a proceed of the amount of uh total sales by the end of the night. Um included at the door, we'll have 50 50 raffles and uh raffle off gift baskets. Um we're also continuing to work on potential fundraisers which um we have not reached out yet, but we are working on the several places. I put two of them on the on the report for you. Um our student

030financial assistance um I put those numbers there for you. Um, we're looking uh total assistance that we uh estimate to have is approximately $6,000, but we're currently in a really good state to to cover that between the budgeted amount and the SAU and our student activity fund. Um, one thing there we are and I did send out a letter to the eighth grade parents. We're still currently looking for an overnight field trip nurse. Um, we I received an email today, someone who might been interested. Um, we do have an posting opened up on SA90 if anyone would willing to participate. Um, but uh so but if we were to contract with an overnight nurse, remember the cost would be roughly um anywhere from $5,000 and $6,000 um is what the was quoted me. Depending on

031if there was any emergencies that happened overnight, that cost might go up because it is an hourly rate. um there is a uh predium rate that they have hourly and then they have an on call overnight. So that's something that um we are prepared to move forward and facilitate as far as medication and monitoring student health around the trip if we are unable to fulfill this. Um but if we're talking about needs, that's one of the areas of needs. Um we've also done um a tenative stayback plan for our students which you can see our theme would be discovering Hampton. Um that would involve visiting town hall, um having uh picnics, beach cleanups, uh Tuckfield play, um attending an art gallery, and and just making sure that the students around the area are really familiar

032with uh discovering what all the great things that have that Hampton half uh has to offer. Uh again, this is tentative and so um things might change areas uh days and depending on availability. Um, before I move into my board report, does anyone have any questions on that DC information? >> Uh, anybody? So, I found this is fantastic. Thank you very much. This is This is exactly what we were looking for. So, I big thanks to Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Dutton, Mrs. York, I'm guessing, and you for putting all of this together. So, >> yeah. Thank you to everyone. It's uh we've uh the team is a big trip and it requires a lot of a lot [snorts] of man hours, woman hours, person hours to uh get it all together. So, we appreciate that. >>

033Um on to if you guys don't have any more questions onto my board report. Um just would like to start off um that Hampton Academy was recently ranked 13th best school in uh New Hampshire by US News and World Report. Um it's definitely very nice to be recognized for the hard work that we do. U Miss Shepard has definitely uh highlighted some of the the requirements that we're asking our teachers to do and um this is an a testament to them. Um they really work hard and they put their students first and I'm really proud to represent them. Um the second thing I would like to bring up is a copy that I provided to you. Um is a copy of our middle magazine. Um cancel. Um I'm also going to provide I'm just going

034to launch this up here. Um this is just in this is one of our uh tier 2 intervention or sorry tier one interventions that we extension opportunities that we had for our windb block. Um and this is the middle magazine brought to us by uh Miss NATO in our seventh grade. Um one of the classes that we had offered and elected into um and I'm just going to scroll through a couple of these things. This is completely student generated um with the guidance of uh with the guidance of Miss NATO. Um as you can see these are the students in the class with their pictures. Um and we really go into some some of the important things that they feel which is really great to see um your healthy lifestyle um back to school mental

035health team that we that people can go to explaining the different rooms so that when we bring these things up and people go here we really have a sense of of why people are attending these uh attending these different rooms and the purpose for them. the importance of staying organized, especially in our lockers, which I which I really really uh uh appreciate. Um studying habits, and it just goes on. Staying focused in your classroom, tips from other students. It's really cute to see um where these kids are coming from. Here are some uh this is explaining our wind block and down to our spotlight with our interact club, which is a very which is a new club that we're really excited to highlight. Thank you very much to Mr. Dhy for bringing this back. Um,

036and now we go into our little sports section and uh Miss Amber, uh, Miss Lavine's uh, favorite page, which was the best ski hills for the winter. We're excited about that. Um, so you can see this is just some of the things that we that our students are able to generate. Um this is again our seventh grade uh wind block and um you know I think we can use this as we do look at our wind blocks as opportunities to differentiate for students in different levels. So really excited. Thank you very much to Miss Nato for high for bringing this. Um if you have any more questions about that I can definitely go back to it. But um while we were out, our sixth grade attended the uh Camp Mir Vista environment environmental camp they

037where they took part in outdoor uh environmental education and team building and leadership activities. These activities are brought back to our advisory programs and we're looking to build up on that. Uh it was a great opportunity for for our students and staff and our students and students to connect. So thank you very much to them and all the hard work that they put in. Um, we did again attend the MTSS training. Um, and so, uh, one of the more important things that we learned here from that training is that we're a little bit ahead of the game. Um, I think, uh, it's really great to see all the great work that's been laid out. Um, you know, we learned a lot from it and we're able to take where we are and, uh, blaze a

038path forward. So, we're really excited about that. I do apologize for the typo. tomorrow we do have demonstrated success coming in to work on professional development for um differentiation which is super important with our class and to piggyback on that we integrated just like Miss Shepard had said the Delta math integration uh it's a program that I used um when I was teaching math and it was a great opportunity to to highlight students and really focus them in on areas that they need support in an immediate sense so if I you know if a teacher is able to see that a student is not working well with fractions um they can quickly create a couple of work packets for them or an assignment ment for them to do on the spot and they can um

039and they can work on that and provide the individualized help with examples and videos and um you know it's a really success really successful tool. Some of our new teachers came over from Timberlane um they were using it. I brought it there and so I'm hopeful that we have the same uh the same success here. Uh moving on to the back we have our Hampton Academy decals and logo logos. Again, this is a partnership that we have with Mac 5 um with the Mac 5 uh printing company. Uh our six our eighth graders designed the logos. Um the winner features when the winners featured uh on a new clothing line, our sixth and se or seventh and eighth graders a uh voted on the the favorites. And so um in our link in our uh

040Friday newsletter, you'll be able to uh see those logos and have them for sale. Again, thank you very much to the Mac 5 uh printing company. Those proceeds go to the schools. Um, in our sixth grade in our in Mr. Gray's class in technology, uh, is a 3D bow printing, which was a really cool assignment that they did last year. Um, we are going to highlight that next next uh, we're going to highlight that in the next board meeting. So, um, I know Miss Shepard had touched upon the geography day and the hurricane project um, which were excellent to see. Um, uh, students were working really well with with all the information up in our library brought to us by Mary Saunders. Mary Saunders was able to to really utilize her tool and help uh

041help our teachers expand um and provide resources that were effective for our students to help analyze trends within our within our hurricane systems and then create their own hurricane. Um hopefully none of us none of them hit hit this way. Um for communication, our parent teacher conferences will be held on tomorrow and on Thursday. I will be holding coffee and conversation um uh tomorrow from 10:00 to 10:45 in the community room. Again, I'll send out a link via reach my teach if anyone cannot join in uh in person. And kind of our shark news is a um Shark News is uh is something that I really wanted to highlight and actually uh I'm going to try to I'm going to post a video that uh the Shark News uh students over at Shark News had

042had created about our community day. um at uh down at the beach. Uh it was really impressive. Uh as a ELO coordinator at Timberland, I was really trying to do create something as special as what these kids are able to do. So the video that you see here of our our community beach cleanup um was all shot and edited by students at Hampton Academy. Thanks, Nick. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hello, I'm Luka and I'm here with our [music] own teacher, Mr. Grio. I'm going to be asking him a few questions. So, Mr. Griffard, how did this whole thing come together? >> Wow. Well, it came together probably over a couple years. We've done some really small beach cleanups um [music] with the uh with Mrs. ELP program and last year we

043decided how do we [music] make that even bigger larger and when I'm not at school I work for an organization called Surf Writer Foundation and myself and some other [music] folks run the New Hampshire chapter Hello, I'm Gracie at [music] Shark News. Today I'm with Juny and we're here to talk about the Hampton Academy School Beach Cleanup. So, what was your favorite [music] part about this beach? >> Um, I really liked um getting to be at the beach [music] and hang out with all my friends and it was nice to like make an impact and get to clean up all the trash. [music] >> I really liked it. It was a bunch of fun being at the beach and being able to be a part of the community. [music] Our group collected a lot of

044trash and I realized [music] how much trash is on the beach and doesn't look like there's a lot here but there is. >> Um maybe next time go to the [music] beach if you see any trash pick it up. >> Um clean up more and [music] take more care of our environment. maybe not use plastic as much or next time I go to the beach, make sure I clean up all my trash to pick up other trash around [music] me. [music] Um, I thought like the craziest thing we found was like a shoe. That's actually really [music] interesting. What I saw a lot of was a bunch of straws and um cardboard. [music] I don't know why there was lots of cardboard, but we were >> I saw in my home room teacher bucket of

045bathing suit. [laughter] It was like a 5-year-old. >> I love that. [music] >> Oh, hey. So, you were here with us for the beach cleanup, right? >> Yes, I was. [laughter] >> And did you have fun driving on in that? >> Oh my gosh, we had the best day ever. The the weather was beautiful. Gus had a ton of fun in the ATV. And you guys did a really good job cleaning up the beach. >> Although the beach might look clean, it's [music] really, really dirty, much more than you would think. And we have tarts full of stuff just over [music] there right now uh that we have to count through. a way to make a schoolwide beach cleanup for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. So, everyone at the school can get involved and play

046a part in creating a cleaner beach for us. >> Thank you, Nick. Um, yeah, >> very nice. >> I uh you know, we put it in our in our board meeting every uh in our board memo. Um, but I just wanted an opportunity to highlight that for the community. Um, this is really unique to our school and it's great to see the how advanced our sixth, seventh, and eighth graders can can utilize and edit and shoot and know exactly how to do it. So, um, really really something that sets us apart. Um, for us to folks a little bit more on culture and community. Tomorrow we'll have UNH volleyball read bully beans to our sixth grade students. We had them last year was a great opportunity to discuss um, what it means to be a

047bystander, how do we stand up to bullying? Um, our school counseling department will be leading uh more age appropriate uh uh sorry, more age appropriate bullying and bystandard lessons um during our their wind block. Thank you very much again to our student to our uh school counseling for an excellent red ribbon week. Um our universal team really was able to help us tie in more bullying um anti-bullying and anti-drug um awareness to that week. Um, our students of the month. Um, big congratulations to Camden Isaac, David Leman, K, uh, Caitlyn Curtis, Emma Hayy, Tim Curtis, Llaya Hartman, Colin Milberg, and and Logan Griggs, um, for their excellent work this year. Our Veterans Day speakers, we couldn't thank them, can't thank them enough. Their stories provide meaningful insight. Uh, thank you very much to Susie Frost

048for collecting organizing two the collection of 288 pounds of candy that's going to be donated to to uh to the troops. Um, I don't know if the dentists are appreciative of that, but I know I am. And uh, we have our school we have our school book fair going on uh, the 17th to the 25th. So, if parents are in for parent teacher conference night, please go up to the library and take a look. Um, we have our school dance uh sponsored by our field uh sponsored by our uh uh student council on December 5th and 4 to 5:30 for 7th for 6th grade. 6:00 to 7:30 for 8th grade. Our band will be on December 8th. Our band concert will be at 6:00 p.m. Um we like I said, we have the community oven

049and check out for uh December auditions for the academy players will be uh coming up soon and more communication will be out for that. Um, I do believe that is it for my board report. With that said, does anyone have any questions? >> Um, I don't I don't necessarily have a question, but I do have how can we get this and Shark News out to the community more. >> Yeah, I think that was my goal and trying to highlight this and so I um knowing that this is broadcast on our TVs um this is something that I really wanted to highlight. So, um, >> I would even think that maybe I I don't know how many you could use, but down at the town offices, over at the library, >> certainly over at the library,

050we have a spot. It does unfortunately cost money to print, but >> but this it's a it's an investment though that I think would go a long way if we can get people out in the public who don't necessarily have kids in the schools >> to see this because it's it's a good quality um product here and >> you know all student um produce. The other thing is the shark news and things like that. I don't know. Do you have a um at the library? Is there a like a >> There is not. I mean, I know that it at least used to be published on YouTube if I remember correct. So, it's >> still published on YouTube on your YouTube page so everyone can access it. Uh we did send out the link. Um

051>> what was that? >> Channel 8 >> and channel and channel 8. >> But yeah, channel 8. It shows and so um like I said, we do a lot of great things here and so we just wanted to take a moment to highlight them. uh most importantly the all the great work that the students are able to do and all the great learning that they're that they're already able to do. >> Okay. >> It could be a cool fundraising idea to gift someone a subscription. I would definitely sign up if >> Yeah. >> I had the opportunity. >> Thank you. >> And WUR I think has picked up the the beach cleanup, hasn't it, Dr. Campbell? >> Um I sorry. Uh I don't know. I always try to uh hold my breath and then we

052see what happens on those things. That would be great if WMURU. We haven't been in contact with them. You can reach out. Um I know we've made news out in California with this beach cleanup. It was one of the biggest beach cleanups. First time a whole school had ever done a beach cleanup um with in partnership of the Surf Rider Foundation who is a very big beach cleanup fun and pro ocean uh organization throughout the country and maybe around the world. So >> yeah, a big thank you to to Mr. Grippo and to Dr. Campbell. So, what everyone might not know is it's been one of Dr. Campbell's goals since he got here was to basically >> bring our our our students here at the academy sort of and get them more involved with this

053great natural resource that we have right down the street. And that was >> we have a great way to do it. Very unique community, one of the best in the world, I would say. Um really trying to connect the students to the natural resources that they have here. I think I was attended one of Mr. Grippo's uh beach cleanups over at Jennis Beach a couple months ago and one of my students from New York was running the local chapter. So it made a big impact that she decided that this was the pursuit that she was going to do for a career. So [gasps] I was very surprised. But >> does anybody have any more questions or comments after your marathon session? >> No. Sorry. Yeah. Thank you very much for the time everyone. >> Thank

054you. We appreciate it. >> All right. Miss Jensen, please join us. So, part of my report is going to be a little bit redundant because Miss Sheper beat me to it. [laughter] Um, so we had staff attend 11 training through the NHED on November 3rd. Indicator 11 is um reflective of timely evaluation specifically for initial evaluation. So for students who are initially referred to special education, um I had a member from each of our buildings attend along with an administrator from each building because we understand how vital it is to make sure that we are keeping a breast of any changes and really looking at how to remain in compliance with all of our state and federal guidelines. Um, and it's important to note that there has been a change. Um, New Hampshire has um

055more strict guidelines in the federal government. So, they are reflecting that when they are um giving us our percentages of compliance. So, for example, the federal government says that districts have 60 days in which to complete the evaluations, but that doesn't talk about how long it takes to meet with the parents to review the evaluations, whereas the state of New Hampshire gives us 60 days to complete the entire process. So, that's just one change that we're keeping updated on. um the 504 coordinators across the district along with members of administration have been participating in that 3-day 504 training. It's been great. Um you know, it's really been great to have us all in one room so that if questions arise, we can kind of talk to each other about them. Um we had the second

056session this afternoon from 12:00 to 1:30. Um and then the final session is right after Thanksgiving. We're really looking to align what we're doing across um our buildings to help support students. The next piece of my report is really about the LEA determination process. So, I didn't know if you wanted me to do the slide deck now or to come back and do it, whatever works for you. >> I think we can do it now. That's fine. Yeah, perfect. >> If you're okay with that, >> I queued Tim up. [laughter] Um, a as we get talking about the LEA determination process, I really want to point out that this is not meant to be an I got you from the state. Um, the hard thing to wrap your head around is that we received the

057LEA determinations in April, but they are for the previous year. So the determinations we got in April 2025 were reflective of the 23 24 school year. So if we have changes to make when we get our LEA determination this April of 2026, it's going to be from last year, not about anything we may be doing this year. Um so I really just want to get to what are the determinations? Um what do they mean? Where are we? how are these scores determined? Um when do they come out and some of our next steps and within my um board report I kind of outlined some of that as well. Really what they are are um the US department um office of special education programming needs to make sure that states are holding districts accountable for following

058guidelines. Um, so this is really how New Hampshire is doing that. I will be the first to admit I've been in many, many state meetings where honestly this is a somewhat flawed um procedure and the state will share that with you. Like when you talk to them, they'll say, "Yes, we know, but we're trying this for x amount of time and then we're going to make some adjustments." The other hard thing to kind of think about is in this when you receive a score, you can receive a zero, one or a two. Zero is good, two is bad. [laughter] Not really bad, but it's not what you want. So, it's unlike everything else where the higher the number, the better. So, um, as I had mentioned, we receive this every every April. And really, this

059doesn't indicate that the district is doing anything right or wrong. Honestly, this just shows areas of potential risk where the state may say, "Hey, you have more students who are out of the classroom than other districts or than our state targets or, you know, your scores may not be where we would expect them to be, things like that. It's not saying you are wrong in any way." And I'll kind of get into that a little bit more in a moment. Just for the public, can you say that the acronym LEA what it means for people in the public that might not know? >> It's local area agency. It's each district local >> Educational agency, >> right? I just want people to know what these acronyms mean when we talk. >> Sure. Thank you so much

060for that. We live in this world and sometimes we forget. Um, so really the the whole point of this is to be able to offer support to districts if they need it. This is really the way that the state is helping to provide some oversight and guidance and identify areas that may require some additional training or support that they can help and areas that they can help out. And some of that could also be allocating resources to specific districts who may need some extra help. The way that this dis that the data is collected is through a variety of means. So one way is through Nessus. That is the New Hampshire educator information system. All of our IEPs are written within Nessus. So the state can pull information from that. Another is GMS which stands

061for grants management system. So all of our grants through the state are in that system. So they can look at things like did you allocate all of your money? Were your report submitted on time? They also can look at I forc data or do a desk audit. Honestly, the state has not done a desk audit in a number of years because frankly they don't have the staff at this point to do it. Um so data is calculated using point values and percentages. [clears throat] Um and there is a rubric and then a determination category is assigned to each section of the rubric which informs the overall determination. So there are really four sections of the rubric. Um, you can be in meets requirements, which means you scored in a way that the state was like,

062"Okay, we don't need to do anything further." You could be needs assistance, where they're going to ask you to look at things and see if there's any areas that may need tweaking. You could be a needs intervention where you have an outline of things that have to be done. You need to do a root cause analysis. you need to try to look at, you know, why you may have scored the way that you did. Um, meeting with Lexi Ferrero at the state, she's the first person to say it doesn't necessarily mean anything needs to be changed. You know, the way your programs are, you may come up higher having students outside of the general classroom if you have specialized programs. Currently, there are no districts in the state that need substantial intervention. So, that's a

063good thing. The determinations look at four components. Resultsbased, assessment, compliance, and additional or other factors. So, resultsbased is that section about whether or not students are receiving um special education services within the general classroom setting. Assessment looks at proficiency scores. And this is one that a lot of people in the state have a really hard time with. [snorts] So what happens is they look at our state scores and they look at the number of students on IEPs who are proficient versus the number of students in regular education who are proficient and if there is a gap you may get um points for that. A lot of the directors have talked and said, "If we have students on IEPs, they obviously have learning disabilities. So, how is how does that work?" And the state says, "We

064understand that, but this is what we're looking at." The other thing in this assessment category, parents in New Hampshire are able to opt their students out of state testing. We understand that that is 100% a parental um option. It is up to them. However, if a parent of a special education student opts out of state testing, it gets held against us. The [snorts] state wants 100% participation in state testing. So, if we have any students who opt out, we automatically get points on that section. Again, we've talked to the state about that and you know, they're like, "Yep, we get it." So, I'm hopeful that later on we will have some um additional I guess um better rubric ideas. So, at this point, Hampton is a district um that needs intervention. So, we have done

065a bunch of things. We have sat down as a leadership team. We started this over the summer. We attended um a workshop with the state just kind of about what this rubric looks like and what it is. We did a root cause analysis. We have this whole timeline. So we had we actually had until November to submit our root cause analysis and action plan, but I submitted it I think at the end of September. And so we're well on our way and working on it. You know, one thing we noticed because one area that um we we had some at risk areas was really looking at that results base and the percentage of students outside the general curriculum. As the team was looking, our hours for each building, kids are here six and a half

066hours a day was listed at five and a half. >> It was a state mistake. It's nothing we could fix on our own. and I had to reach out to the state and say, "Hey, all three of our buildings are listed at 5 and a half hours," which drastically increases your percent out of the general ed classroom when you're looking at 5 and 1/2 versus 6 and 1/2 hours. Honestly, I think in that category that probably will take care of a lot of it. Um, we met today, reviewed every single IEP, you know, looking at that. And at this point, we seem to be in good shape for the amount of time our students are spending outside of the classroom. But for our next um leadersh, one of our next leadership meetings, we're really going

067to be talking about are there areas of PD that we think we should have staff go to in order to make sure that we are checking all of the boxes and doing all that we need to do. [snorts] And I think again the thing to remember is that when we get the determination in April, it may not reflect that we just adjusted those school hours because I had those adjusted over the summer and the LEA determination is for last year. So all of those I a lot of those IEPs last year may still have had incorrect hours. Does anybody have questions? I know that's kind of a lot of information and at this point this is probably the sixth or seventh time I've given this so [laughter] so go ahead and ask. >> Yeah, go

068on. >> Um, do we have any statistics on how many parents in Hampton opted out of this and and how that impacted our results? >> I don't know, but I can tell you that as soon as one does, we get a one. Um, and assessment was an area that we had listed as at risk. And you know what I mean? I think that realistically we'd love all of the kids to take it, but it may not be appropriate. And that's a parental choice. And you know, as much as those one or two points may have added to that overall at risk percentage, it's probably not going to make or break everything. That's a great question, though. Everybody else could. >> All right. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> It's hard not to take it personally,

069though. [laughter] >> I know. I know. >> It is. >> Thank you. We appreciate it. And thanks for kind of jumping on this right when you came in. We appreciate it. >> All right. I've lost track of who's next. Sorry. We don't have the uh >> we don't have our agendas printed out. Oh, here we go. Mr. Smith. expect you guys to just get up when it's your turn. >> Hello. Um, so I don't really have too too much to add. I do want to comment on the Shark News piece. It is available on YouTube. Uh it does play on channel 8 and then we are still in the process of working out some bugs with the cablecast app uh to get our channel 8 channel up on that so people can actually watch it

070on demand uh directly through that application. Um but other than that we've been just humming along uh working on all the things that we typically work on. Um and as mentioned by Miss Shepard, I did attend a cyber security summit uh at the state level. Uh it was really informative. Uh gave some clear ideas of things that are going on um and how education institutions are uh high-risisk targets right now. Um so we are doing everything we can to work on addressing and buttoning up any issues that we may identify. So with that, I open it up to questions. Are you doing a lot of work with um the teachers on AI? >> Uh so Mr. Garuso has started doing some refresher work with the AI stuff that we rolled out last year. Um just

071kind of reviewing it for differentiation. Um beyond that, we haven't really ventured too much into it. uh just because we're trying to make sure that we're using the tools that are appropriate for eventual use with students because we want teachers to become very well-versed in the use of those products before we actually start rolling it out to students to be using it. >> I think we're all set. Thank you very much. >> All right, Mr. Harrington. Uh just got a few things to update on. Um building us is starting to ramp up for us right now with HYA basketball and Hampton Academy basketball started. Um practices every night but Friday night for the most part. Um games going to start in December for those two programs. Um we had our fire and life safety inspection.

072They were conducted at each school on October 20th with Inspector Kyle Averil, the Hampton Fire Department. There were no corrective actions that need to be addressed, which is a good thing. Uh had a couple roof repairs over at Center School to combat that leak that has been um ongoing in the boiler room by the nurse's office. Uh after last heavy rain, I'm pretty hopeful that we might actually have it on the run, which is a good thing. Also, uh we have uh the leaning weather vein Andrea we had looked at the other day. Um yeah, I'm waiting on a quote for that. Had somebody up climbing on the roof. Um I did not go up there with him. Uh we've been shuffling some staff. We've had some illnesses um over at center school. So, everybody's

073been jumping on board and helping on over there. Right now, we got the crew from Marston. They've been about 8:30 heading over there every night after they, you know, get what they can done at Marson. They head over to Sen School to take care of what they can over there. Um, that's pretty much it. We've been getting ready for the inevitable snowfall. Uh, all the schools now have all the ice melt on hand and we've had the snow throwers up and running and be getting the plow on coming up. And then just the usual plumbing, lighting, heating issues that pop up daily. That's pretty much it. Any questions? Nope. >> I I don't Does anybody have anything? >> Are you fully staffed right now? You are, right? >> Well, for >> Yes. >> ish. >>

074Yes. If we didn't have a couple of health issues, yes, we would be fully >> staffed. That's fine. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> Yeah. We're just down to its center. So, >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> But we'll get there. >> All right. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. All right. >> Okay. And I It looks Is Mrs. Borg absent tonight? >> She is. Okay. All right. She is fine. >> I can answer try to questions. >> I will say I I really I don't know if everybody else got a chance to look at them, I loved the new reports. I particularly loved the menu with um the details on cost and labor cost and the USDA um what do they call this? What do we get for free from the USDA? >>

075No, the food the um >> the calendar cost per meal. >> Yeah. Anyway, yes, I love that. So that is that is fantastic. And the um >> we got the inventory cost this month and all of that is great. So that is that's are those all mosaic um reports >> I'm guessing >> um or something. >> The the meals is done by by hand. She has to calculate that by but yes >> yeah she's working really hard on those reports. >> That's great. Love that. >> Go ahead. The ones that said Hampton Falls, those aren't Hampton Falls numbers, right? [cough] Excuse me. School nutrition department. >> Yeah. No, these are Hampton numbers, right? Or are those examples from Hampton Falls? >> I think they're Hampton. I believe that she said >> they're Hampton numbers probably.

076She pro Wow. >> It's Hampton numbers, but [laughter] even though it said Hampton Falls at the top. Wow. I just wanted to make sure that we all knew that these are Hampton numbers, not Hampton Falls. >> Okay, which makes sense. Yeah, looking through them thing. I would think they would be much smaller if they were Hampton. >> Yeah, agreed. [sighs] >> Okay. Um, Dr. Costa. >> Okay. Um, so November 1st is the deadline for staff to let us know if they're planning to retire. We only had one. >> I don't know why that's so loud. >> It's They're all having issues. I think I think the system is having issues. >> Okay, I'll try to yak away or come closer. >> That's going to get an adjustment here. >> Yeah, we just had the one

077one retirement just to let you know. And that would be um Mrs. Griffin that we talked about last month. So, that's that's all set. Um other than that, we do not have any other retirements just for your planning and information. We talked about parent conferences this week. We have um Hamptonmies are Wednesday and Thursday and center and Marsden are Thursday and Monday of Thursday this week, Monday of next week. So some overlap, but we'll have them all completed before the Thanksgiving break, which is great. um Emily Fixler who's here tonight. She's going to talk in just a little bit about how we can support our families in the upcoming months giving food insecurities and that time of year where we're trying to be thinking of all of our families or people who might need some

078assistance. So, she'll talk about that in just a bit. Um you heard we are going to participate in the parade. Um Aloha Hampton is the theme this year. So, we're looking forward to that. Um, we had a great turnout on November 4th for Mel Robbins, uh, book, Let Them, with Lane Library. Cameron and I, we had about um, 45 people registered and I would say probably about 30 35 showed up. >> So, a great a great turnout and more people that are continuing to be interested. So, we'll continue to um, do that. That's the first Tuesday of the month. That's here from 7 to 8 o'clock. Um, moving on, we are in the process of um conducting an audit of our website in our efforts to make sure that it is given families what they

079need. It's accessible. So, we're looking at the functionality in the content while considering alternative layouts and formats. We are working with Apigy. They are the host site of our website. So, we are working through that. We are also working on a communication flowchart. We want to we we have it completed, but we're just trying to figure out the format before we start adding other things. So, that's something that's also been done. We also um sent out we talked about email signatures at our leadership team and we did send out um just an information to our staff to ask that we have a standard format for how that looks so that it would include um things like obviously their name, their their position and then of course the contact number to reach them. So just trying

080to standardize those emails. We're going to do that and we're also going to look at how we do that with reach my teach. It's a little bit different but we'll provide a little more information for doing that in December after the Thanksgiving break. Um moving on talking about uh the Rotary in the sense that we now have a chapter at the middle school interact which we're really excited about. John Nyan, Patrice Baker, and I attended their first meeting. That was on October 21st. You heard about some of the things that they're planning to do. I also want to congratulate Jim Dherty and Sue Antico who are actually being inducted to the Rotary this evening. It is quite a process and so big congratulations to the two of them for um putting service above self and

081carrying out that motto and for being a part of that wonderful organization. We really [cough] do appreciate [clears throat] all that they do for us. Moving on, as you know, we have a safety committee that meets and we are looking specifically at reunification. We had a great meeting this past last Wednesday we did and continuing to have our plans evolved. Just to let you know, we talked a little bit about bully prevention month in the month of October and the activities that our schools are all engaged in. thinking about those pro-social behaviors. We celebrate National Kindness Day just um just in the last week or so. So again, focusing on that. You heard about our efforts to work with the state and demonstrated success on our multi-tered systems of support. It's a systemic way of

082looking at academics and behaviors. So that continues and we were offered the opportunity to do this with demonstrated success in the department of ed which would be free of charge to our district which is wonderful. Um you heard that there were teams that we sent to two of the trainings in conquered in the last couple of months and we're continuing that work which is really about looking at student data but also having a system a K8 system for how we address it. So um just being intentional about that coming up with district goals and then of course drilling down to the school goals. Next month I will talk a little bit about the Cook Center, but we have continued our second contract year with them. And just looking over, you heard that Neil mentioned that

083Hampton Academy was 13th in the state of the middle schools. That's out of 270 middle schools. I think that's important to know that out of the 270 middle schools, they are ranked 13th. But also, you should know that Marsen School ranks 29th out of 443 elementary schools. This is based on um New Hampshire SAS data, which is our assessment data attendance and that kind of information. Because Central School does not administer a state assessment, they are not eligible. That being said, we know that the work they do that they do do at center school obviously impacts Marsden and Hampton Academy. So, just want to clarify that. And then, of course, as we are, believe it or not, ending the end of the first trimester at the end of November with report cards being released in

084that first week of December. This is the time when we start to look at those first trimester benchmarks, thinking about are our students meeting those benchmarks? If not, what might we do to provide some support assistance, which is really what the multi-tered systems of support are all about? It's for helping our children who may be struggling academically or behaviorally and coming up with supports to help our students. So, that's what that's all about. And you heard from Mrs. Jensen regarding LEA determination. And I think that's really about it other than obviously we're just we have an an immense amount of gratitude for the support we get from our community partners and our PTA, our parents, and all of our stakeholders, the Rotary, the Chamber of Commerce, all of those organizations. And now the friends of

085the Hampton Schools, we're pleased to see this new organization that was here this evening and we will be sure to reach out to them to let them know that we are here to support them. I'm happy to put anything in my newsletter that might help to advertise the WHIM fundraiser coming up. I'm happy to do that and anything I can do to support those um parents that have come together in support of our schools. We really do we really do appreciate it. I'm sorry they left before I had a chance to say it. Hopefully if they're watching or they hear about it. Um [clears throat] they know that um I'm happy to help in any way I can to support their efforts and I guess I would just say that um there are some donations

086to approve as well. >> My suggestion is unless anybody objects that going forward that we put checks on the consent agenda. That is what a lot of organizations do. And then essentially we can do unless there is something big going on, we can do all of the checks and all of the minutes essentially in one vote without having to go through them individually. Does anybody have any concerns about that? >> Okay. >> No, just it's an opportunity though to give a shout out. So for example, Hanniffords has given us Yes. Uh, speaking of community partners and gratitude, >> Hanniffords has given our schools thousands of dollars and I just um want to thank them publicly, acknowledge them. Um, >> and I'm I'm sure the schools are going to be writing thank you notes, but it's

087also nice to do a public acknowledgement to Hanniffords here in town. Again, another community partner that we're grateful to have in our neighborhood. >> That's perfect. Yeah. And I think also there were several checks from the PTA. We would absolutely want to acknowledge that as well. >> Absolutely. So that's all we just like that opportunity. Yeah. To we we obviously the PTA is >> I would remove them. We can still read through and list them and then just essentially vote on everything. >> Yeah. Okay. >> All right. So I think we're actually at the point where we can invite um Miss Fixler up to discuss food insecurities. Thank you. >> Good evening. >> Hello. >> Got a little Can you hear? >> Yeah. >> Good evening. Um just have a brief presentation to share with

088you all tonight. Um to talk about resources for families and definitely with the holidays coming up, I know it's on everyone's mind. Um just to sort of guide the presentation um just talking about hierarchy of needs for students. It's really important to address these needs um before any academic content is achieved and this guides me with my work with students and families and kind of going forward we I'll talk about how there's what ways I address these needs with students and families. So over the past month, the New Hampshire Food Bank, which is located all over the state, has really increased their services for families, utilizing mobile pantries and connecting with local agencies throughout the state. So in every school district, many families access this resource and other resources to get food. And in every

089school district um including Hampton, there are students that struggle financially and and suit [music] kind of brings along some mental health concerns, trauma. Um so that that's in every school district and this is a great interactive map that anyone can use and it's great for families who might be more mobile or who um tend to move often. You can plug in just like anything your address and zip code and the food banks will come in for your location where you're at. And most food banks, they won't ask for they usually ask maybe for your if you have a SNAP card or an [music] an ID, but some food banks, they won't ask for any of that. So, it's a really great resource all over the state. And then I work with some great social workers

090in SAU 21 at the high school and also in Seabbrook and we really came together over this past month with the recent strain on families and the more of an increase in demand for food and we met collaboratively with Hampton Community Coalition which is right in Hampton St. infants in Paul right in Hampton Gather which is located mainly in Portsouth but they do do some mobile pantries and food service directors both at 21 and 90 to really collaborate and we put this out um this superintendent put it out in both school districts for families so they could access where you could receive a meal and also updated our pantry list for families. So, it was a great way that both school districts came together to address the recent food insecurities and and N68 hours is

091one of the most amazing programs I've ever worked with and we luckily have one here in Hampton. Um, the whole background, it's a national program, but the whole background is it's supposed to be filling the gap of the weekend, so students come ready to learn on Mondays. And it runs right in the community room at Hampton Academy. It's very private for families. Um, this program wouldn't be possible without the volunteers. They do a great job um, packing the food, labeling it, getting it all ready for families so it looks nice. And then food for thought is also a program run out of Hampton Community Coalition that supplements with fresh food which is great for families. So families and students are getting apples, produce, meat, eggs, dairy. So that's great. And sometimes they even put together

092little recipes for families to make and the whole idea was to get the kids involved in cooking and really um push that. And it's a confidential program. Um the bags are coded and again many families are already participating. So if there is any family who would like to participate, they're can just contact me and get them on the list. Another great opportunity is the RUN key card. Um so if families or students are interested in afterchool programs, sports, art programs, music programs, um it's a free membership and it's for mainly CO students, K to2. Um really to provide enrichment after school. So you could apply with your if you have a Medicaid card, you could apply. You could apply with a photo of your free and reduced lunch acceptance letter or have a qualified validator.

093So myself, a school nurse, a school counselor could refer you to the program and you'd get this little card in the mail. Um, and it gives you a lot of places do like half off tuition or half off scholarship. So it's a it's another great program if you're interested in after school activities. This this list goes out every year to families K to8 and can go out again if needed. It's a it's really who I would reach out to if families came to me looking for help with food and clothing, um housing assistance, health care, dental care, child care, um counseling services, and some additional resources like even first students numbers on there. So, it's a great way when a family's new to the district, they can see all the resources there are in Hampton

094and maybe in the greater sea coast and then it's great for me to refer to the information's right there. I have contacts at a lot of those agencies and can link families directly up if they need any services. So, it's it's definitely the a very busy time of year and it's just important to remember that many students and families may experience some more stress and I really enjoy being able to work with families during this time of year and it's a great way for me to start relationships with families if I don't already have one. So, just kind of an upcoming calendar. Um, some of the schools mentioned they do food drives. Each school does one which is a great way for students to give back to their community. um do some volunteer work and

095those all go to local pantries who likely are going to be hit harder this um holiday season. And so coming up is the fire department does their coat drive which is called Operation Warm. So students in need of a coat will get a coat. Um the Thanksgiving distribution's already coming up this week. Again, that's takes place in the community room. And then in December is the holiday giving tree which is a great program that's been running and the staff here and teachers really um are very generous and love to participate in the program. It's a way for students who may not be able to access gifts. They're able to access gifts and it really comes in through donations of staff, teachers, and other community members. And then the fire department also runs their toy bank

096every year. And then sort of thinking even after the holidays, I look to January when families might need help with fuel assistance, rental assistance. And again, I can refer refer back to my resource list for myself or direct families there. And if they need assistance filling things out, I'm happy to help them. Or if I can't help them fill it out, I'll direct them to the resource that could. And just to highlight some photos throughout the year, again, families really do get what they need during the holiday season. And the school resource officers are very helpful as well. Um, if there ever needs to be a delivery, they're they're happy to help me do that. And again, even after the holiday season, families may still need help. And we're here to support them. And if

097anyone needs resources, they can contact me and work with the family and student. Anyone have any questions or No, that was a lot of information. That was great though. It's [snorts] It's been a tough fall, right? >> Yeah, it has. >> Very busy. >> We really appreciate you putting all that together and putting it out and um we're trying to get that pushed out. I think I know that you guys have been pushing it out to the community. um not just our school community but kind of on social media and out to the the larger community as well. So we appreciate that. Does anybody have any I think Andrea has a comment question but so for instance all of this information is available the library. >> Yes it is. >> And all of this information

098is available at the town offices >> through the welfare department I would say. >> Yes. Yep. The town welfare office. >> Yep. Does it need to be more? So, so we send it out obviously um to our families. The families have received this. Um we can also put something on channel 8, our cable station, right? Just to get it out there. We could definitely do that. >> Um >> but SA21 is also sending a similar message. So cross families, we're we're getting it out K12. >> Um >> many of the local agencies too, I shared copies with them. So like Hampton Community Coalition, they have copies. St. infants in Depal, they have copies. So if families are there, they can share those flyers and resources with them, too. >> And I've had um community um

099religious organizations reach out to me personally >> and ask. So again, I try to avail myself to any organization that is looking for support so that they know how to direct either their congregants or their families or neighbors or whatever it may be. And I think that if people don't know where to go, they can always reach out to the SAU. We we do respond back and we try to be timely about it so people don't have to wait too long and we can always connect them with the people they need to be connected to. >> And yeah, >> and Andrew, it may be that I know there's now a table in the in the foyer into town hall that has a lot of sort of handouts and and local information. And so it may

100be that that's what I'm thinking. Maybe >> if there's p if there's people in the public that don't have children in the schools and aren't getting this information through the school. >> I would just hope that there are places where they could go or or read. >> They are definitely the the library has done has done a lot. Um >> but I would hope maybe you're right there something at the town offices. I would I would guess I mean I can't speak to it directly >> up to the welfare office but just kind of right there that people to go >> that table right there as you enter town hall on the left has a lot of flyers and local information what's going on at the recck department how to register your boat stuff like

101that I would bet that it's out there and I always worry too about we've got all this information uptown but [clears throat] >> is it getting some place more available in different directions kind of. Yeah. So there you go. Y >> thank you very much. We really appreciate it. >> Thanks Emily. >> Sorry I have a lot of >> All right. >> What's that? >> Is it me next? >> Next >> update on the budget is actually next on the list. >> Okay. So, >> sorry. Up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up update on the budget is next on the list. So >> yes I >> you can go. It's fine. >> Um >> it's

102fine. >> Okay, update on the budget. Before I do that though, I would like to apologize for coming across hostile and rude last year during the last year's budget sessions. Um so if I did come across hostile and rude, I am sorry. Um it's not my intentions ever. Um, I'm really focused on making sure that our budget's accurate and transparent um as possible um by following state and federal law 100%. Is my main concern. Um so today I dropped off our budget books um at the town hall. I completely interrupted a town hall meeting. Didn't realize they were in session. There was nothing on the door. Um it was quite hilarious. I felt so bad, but I got to to say hi to everybody. Um, so the budget books are there for the budget committee.

103Um, and we have our um presentation December 11th at 6:00 at the town hall. Um, that will go over the budget um for the school. During that time, um, we'll go over all warrant articles. Warrant articles are still in draft form. Um due to there are new laws on the warrant articles that need to items that need to go on the warrant articles. Um I would like to explain why tax impacts I'll start there. Why we have not put tax impacts on our warrant articles. Um, ever since we were we became SAU90, um, we did not adopt RSA 32 col 5V-B with and the New Hampshire Department of Revenue um has us that we are not adopted that um that article. So that our lawyer suggests highly not to put tax impacts on that since

104we did not adopt that that article. Um so SEU90 never has yet to put tax impacts on that. Um however there is new law this year that um on our warrant articles um for budget school budget we need cost per student on that um that underneath that warrant article and we need profic proficiency scores on that warrant article. Um this is why our warrant article is still in draft because I do not get the cost per student from the DOE until the end of December, beginning of January. So, right before I have to post it. Um, so it'll be in draft form until then. Um, and the I'm working with New Hampshire Asbo in um our district south southeers and they suggest that we should all do the same number of costs per student and

105that would come from the DOE. Um, so again, that does not come out until the end of December. Um, so those are two new items that need to be on our warrant articles. The other item is we do need to be put tax impact on multi-year warrants. So it has to have five years of tax impact on multi-year warrants and that is for bonds such like bonds and leases and school, right? Um and and then they're still having a conversation about that if would be so if we um in 3 years do the C agreement with the teachers and we have a multi-year one, we'd have to put the um 5 years or 3 years or how many years on that one award article. Um they have yet to figure out how you are going

106to tally that tax impact because you don't know what each year is going to bring. So the suggestion is the same tax impact for three years would be the same as the first one. Um we don't have to deal with that this year. So I will still be researching that and find out what the towns in um our county have decided to do. Um the other report that we do have to do this year is um House Bill 1265 which has to be um put in the newspaper and posted with our warn articles. Um and there are 10-year charts for cost per pupil average teacher cost and the admin salaries. Um and that will be done. It has to be on a set piece of paper with no explanation, just a chart. So, you'll see

107that um I can't explain it. I just can do it. Um there's a couple I have to have a set title on it and set numbers and um but that will be done um during the budget um in de on December 11th. I do a presentation on that presentation. I always put tax impacts on that that that presentation is also presented on our news station. So you can see tax impacts on our news station because that presentation will be um showing on that. I also post my presentation on our website. So you can find um all of the information that I talk about and tax impact on our website after the presentation. Um I also make a flyer. So during deliberative and um the other town meeting I'll have flyers with that information on it.

108Um >> and we did >> so it is we discussed the possibility of actually >> doing that. Sorry we discussed offline a little bit the possibility of presenting that slideshow at the deliberative session. >> Yes. So um we have done that in the past. um just having it up. We're also probably having making a video again that will be running which will have that information on it. Um we have it in multiple locations for sure. Um other than that, that's really the update for the budget. That's um one other thing I do. So we have three articles right now that has been voted on by the school board and that's um the school default budget and budget. Um the second one is the um long-term maintenance for the facilities and then the third is um

109child benefit services. We had talked about putting a fourth on for property, but I'm not sure if we'll be able to complete it by then. The goal is to um I haven't I've working again with the lawyer to have it um written up. He's researching it. We have to have it on warrant. I'm not sure if the town has to have a warrant article to approve it. That's another thing I have to look into. Um, >> we should probably back up a little and explain. >> Yes. [laughter] >> Yes. Back it up. >> Which was next. >> It was It was a couple down. >> Okay. So, we can wait, which is fine. >> That's in not on my draft yet until it actually gets there, but um it doesn't have to be um voted

110on by the budget committee because it has no dollar amounts associated with it. So um so does yeah does not need to be voted on but we can talk about that in a second. >> Okay Mariah do you think um it would be important to have somebody from the law firm that we use explain the law so that um it's clear to the public. Um I'm certainly I don't think it's your intention and it's never my intention to be rude. I think we are we we say it all the time. We are at your service and we mean that you know um people are welcome to come in to talk to us about anything and we are pretty transparent about what we're doing but but we do have a policy and a law that we

111are following. So do you think it might be helpful because we did invite last time Matt Phillips to the meeting. if we could invite maybe Gordon Graham if he could come and if he's not available maybe somebody else who could explain um the RSA and the law and why we don't have it on the ballot. I'm just thinking that people should know why. It seems like that's unclear and I I'm not trying to be unclear. I'm trying to be clear. Um, also post it on on my on the website. Um, the actual law and what why they tell us not to put it on there. Um, I have that email and the law page. So, I can post that right on our website. >> I'm just thinking though that >> but yes, if we need

112if more detail I think we do >> I do think this I I think this will absolutely come up again at the deliberate deliberative session. um we may even see um you know citizen warrant articles related to it and which is fine. Um so again I think if Mr. Graham was available I think that might be helpful questions I've read it several times and it's still a little fuzzy to me as a as a non- [music] attorney. So and I guess one other thing I did want to say is I don't know if the public understands these meetings are not so bad. We are a small group of people. There is a small group of people that we know well sitting in the audience and the deliberative sessions are a lot. If your job is

113not public speaking, we are sitting on a stage in front of a large group of people. Some wish us well. Not all do. And public speaking can be stressful. And I just want to remind everyone of that. >> Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah, of course. Go ahead. >> I just wanted to add quickly having having read the correspondence from the attorney that we pay as a school district to represent us. I interpret it as it is not their recommendation for us to do this. However, there is a remedy for anyone in the town if they would like to see the tax impacts on a ballot, but that the appropriate remedy is to essentially petition for an article to have it on there. Um, so there is an avenue to do it, but

114that our recommendation and we're following the advice of our lawyer is that we as a board need not do that. I could be wrong in my >> I that was my general understanding. So >> y >> but okay I'm very confused I think. So, and and estimated tax impact like so I did the original tax impact with 20 2024 tax numbers because 2025 didn't come out yet. And so it's it's a guesstimate. It is not accurate. It's a guesstimate with the tax numbers. And I think that um one of the reasons why they suggested it is um it can get really confusing because you are just giving one amount by the thousands and people want it broken down by all these different ways and it's when you're already trying to have to come up with

115cost per student and now proficiencies and all this other numbers. It gets so that people are okay. Well, that you're saying it's 68 cents per thousand, but that's when they get their tax bill, then they turn around and they take that and it's not always that. >> So, I think that's some of the reasons why they stopped doing that because it is it gets muddy and and if you're going So, I'm not really sure where is it coming from. Is it certain warrant articles that they want it in there because they want to prove that it's not that much and you should vote on it or if it's that our budget is too much and they don't want to vote on it. So, I'm not really sure which way and why they're they're concerned about

116that. I understand like it's a lot of money. Like a school's a lot of money. Um, for sure. and and New Hampshire does is has their towns pay for the majority of the schools. And it's it's a tough cell. And I and I understand that. Um and I understand why some people want to see that, but it's it's um it's an estimate. >> We don't want to provide inaccurate information, right, >> on essentially a legal document. >> Yeah. But am I am I to understand that in the future you will need to put tax impact >> on a specific type have multi-year agreements >> multi-year so not one year and then we don't have still an estimate >> okay but we don't need to worry about that like this year because we've got multi-year articles

117that would >> right I think what we do have to add this year is cost per student and cost per student >> student proficiency and that is being added to the ballot. Correct. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> And I I think if a majority of the people in Hampton who show up and vote want to see our guesstimate of what this is going to do, there is a rem there is a path forward for them to do that. It's just this may not be the appropriate venue. >> Right. >> Would you repeat that path one more time? So, so essentially they can submit a petition or an article to say that should this be on the should this be on the ballot from now on going forward and if they were to succeed

118and had enough votes then yes it would be and I believe that's something that happened last year at the town deliberative session. I don't know how it ended up, but I know that they were there was there were motions. It was whether it was going to be for a $350,000 house or it was going to be per 100 or if it was going to be per 10,000. I mean, I remember that it was a >> it was a very that's where it gets a little >> Yeah, because you can't put all of those numbers on there. You have to pick one way. And so, >> and I think it's hard too because you never want to put numbers that can make someone feel a certain way when there's no avenue for context. >> So, is

119a school budget huge and is that where the majority of our property taxes are allocated? Yes. However, um giving people that knee-jerk reaction without the opportunity to explain why those figures are important and what impact they have could be a detriment to, you know, prioritizing education for the kids in our town, which I think the people in Hampton have pretty uh regularly and loudly supported. Um so I feel like there is a big potential for people to misunderstand or misconrue what we're saying. there's a tough challenge in standardizing that data in a way that makes sense to all the people who consume it. Um, and there's we're whether or not we're intending it, we're presenting it with a bias because we're only letting people see it through a tiny little lens. So, if I were

120to kind of hazard a guess to why our attorney would advise against it, it would be that we don't have an opportunity to tell those people what those numbers mean in a way that will make sense to everyone. And so it's very high risk uh for very little reward. >> Agreed. >> So if you could come and explain that >> right and answer their questions that would really be >> the ideal if we could do that. >> So >> that would be >> all right. [sighs and gasps] So next on the list is Bachelder Pond Property. Um, this has been something that's been bouncing around for a while. Um, I am I I have tried sort of not to have a strong public opinion on it. And the truth is I do have a strong

121opinion on it. I personally believe and I would, if I had the opportunity, vote to donate the property to the town and the uh uh excuse me, the Hampton Conservation Commission. And I am not going to make a motion for that tonight, but I would like to consider that for next month essentially. Um Brianna Hagen was not from the Conservation Commission was not available tonight. Um, I think we should have a really big public conversation about it in December. Have Briana here, have Renee Budro. He is also from the recck department. He is also very interested in using the property uh to benefit the town to have uh to have programs. Um, we would need to discuss with them how much it might cost for upkeep for the property. We are currently asking the taxpayers

122for $50,000 upcoming for >> for vegetation. Yes. To clean up um >> The pond essentially. >> Mhm. >> Um so I just didn't want anyone to be surprised by that. Um I think you had spoken to. Would you like I'm sorry. Feel free to No, no. I I'm in agreement with you. The only problem that I see, well, it it's kind of out of our hands in some way because the conservation commission would need to come to us with a proposal. We wouldn't go to them and say, "Hey, you want would I mean, I think it's >> Oh, no. You can >> we could do it the other way around. >> Essentially, people all over town donate their property to the conservation commission." Um, we did there is a a letter from also from Gordon

123Graham um saying that we would need Essentially, we would need to agree that that's what we felt we should do and we would need a warrant article and the town would need to vote on whether they felt that that was was appropriate or not. Go >> ahead. Okay. >> Would we is the intent to get this on the ballot this spring? >> I would love to. I I don't know if we are going to be able to in time. Gordon mentioned that he was going to try to to make up a draft. So, he's working on language just in case um because it does take time because he has to research the land property because it has to say it has to detail >> to pull the deed >> pull the deeds. He has to

124the detail of how much land and and um I don't think we have to put an estimated cost on that to say what the propertyy's worth, but we might. So, he's looking into all that and then coming up with wording for us just in case. Um, so if that is the decision and the way we want to go, um, we'll have it handy. Um, I Yeah, I I think it's a great idea to to make sure that nothing happens to the property. >> Yeah, I agree. I [music] think like my understanding, not I'm not a lifelong Hampton resident, but I've been here for a minute. Um, it's like a beloved local institution that people who have grown up here and spent time here really care deeply about. >> Yep. >> I think we probably owe

125the public like a listening session. >> Absolutely. Yes. So, that is that is one of the reasons that that I wanted to put it. I wanted to sort of give everyone a heads up what I was thinking, what I was sort of hoping to do. We can talk about it more in December. We can >> talk about the deliberative session if we get there in time. And if not, if we don't, that's fine. I think this would be a great project moving forward over the next year. So, okay. I have like just [clears throat] two questions, I guess. >> Yes. >> Um, will it make a difference? And maybe this is something that the lawyer will have to tell us. Will it make a difference if just the conservation if if it's just the conservation

126commission accepting this land from us as opposed to the conservation commission and the wreck department? My understanding from Briana is that essentially the the conservation commission is sort of under the ages of the town and so we would be able to I believe we would be able to do both. My intention was to let the attorney do his research. We should have a conversation with with Wreck with um possibly with Jamie Sullivan, the town manager, and with Brianna. So, we are not necessarily right here and ready. Um but I just want to get us moving on it. >> That's my hope. My other thought would be >> how s >> I'm not trying to push it but I am trying to push it because we have been pushing this down the road unfortunately. Exactly folks

127but but we've just been pushing this down the road for forever it feels like [music] >> and I just wish we could have this conversation sooner rather than later. >> Yes. And if it was on the agenda for December, could we get the parties involved to >> I believe that Briana is okay to come. I'm happy to invite uh Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Budron and see if they are available because yes, I would like to let's get this ball rolling, right? Would you two be okay with that as newer members? >> Yeah, I'd be I'd be interested. I think Sarah's idea for a listening session is important. I think incorporating the town lawyer is a good idea because I'd be interested in hearing, you know, what kind of covenants can we attach to this gift?

128so that you know it can't be sold for redevelopment but also like what about school use you know those would be the questions that that I would have personally >> absolutely agree >> I believe when I originally talked to her last year >> um when once it's you start to do it legally you can put provisions in so say you you can't build on it you you can utilize it for these purposes so I think we have some say once we finally ize it with them. So, so there's a potential >> Mhm. >> again pushing the ball. There's a potential to get a warrant article for March without having all of the details ironed out completely. Just a general No, >> I would think a Warren article would need to have >> certain details on

129it. Certainly, >> I think it's just I think that the Warren article really just needs to say that they vote to give it to conservation. And if that's the case, then I think we we're able to do that and then once it's voted on yes or no, go to the next step with lawyers and finalize um the items. Well, I'm wondering if the language could be something to the effect of voting to give it to the, you know, conservation commission um with certain restrictions preventing redevelopment andor allowing school use, ongoing school use, something to that effect. >> Agreed. Yeah. >> All right. That's the goal. >> I know, right? I know, Candace. Feel free. Yes. You don't have anything else to do, right? No, no big deal. [laughter] I just would love to see it

130protected before Yes. >> it gets any longer >> and before it happens more money. That's the other thing. We want to see it protected. We also don't want it to see it becoming a continuing liability. Well, and I think it's hard because the town either if it's townowned or school owned that people are still going to have to fix it. Like we're still going to have to put it on our on a warnard. We're going to have to, >> you know, raise tax money to fix it. Um, unfortunately, but I think that it will I think that it's hard for the school to do that. And I think it it just it's a loved property. It really should be the towns, >> right? Okay. So now your actual report is next. >> Okay. So my

131actual report, so there's it's basic um finances. Um [sighs and gasps] I do want to mention grants have been a struggle. We've been um trying to get them passed. It's we're getting the funds, they're just taking a long time to approve our verbiage. Um like returning it 10 times and it's it's not the norm and it's not just our district, it's all over New Hampshire and it's been a it's a really hard struggle, but we're working on that. um and getting them reported and utilizing the funds. Um the other item is you did see Mary's new reports. They're lovely, but it shows that the average cost per meal for October was $4.50 and we charge 350. So, I just wanted to say that out loud. Um so when we do discuss why food service is

132um that the fund balance has to cover food service. These are some of the reasons just in the cost per meal is one perfect example. Um so but it's Mary is doing really good at trying to get the reports for us. Um, I think that it the main goal is to feed students and um, you know, fed bellies are so much better um, with education and being able to sit and focus. So, it it is definitely the school district's um, concern obviously is to make sure that we are feeding the students. Other than that, it's just our basic monthly report. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. Um, >> do you have a permission to accept also 57? >> Oh, yes, I do. For the town of Hampton for um cable franchise.

133>> Yep. >> For um $57,200 if we could. >> We'll do that when we go through. >> Yeah. Just do it all. We'll read all of them. Yeah. >> So, we don't forget. >> I think that is it. Does anybody have any questions for Mariah before we ahead? All right. Policy review. So, oh, I'm sorry. Personnel updated job descriptions. Second read. Um, so we did there was >> we added it >> the one that you were asking about that was added. Yep. >> That was added. >> So, do we have any more questions or concerns about the job descriptions? >> No. Okay. So, would anyone like to move to um I guess approve those is what we're doing. >> I'll make a motion to approve all of the different job descriptions that we were given

134on the various positions and SAU90. >> All right. All in favor? >> All right. And now policies. So we are looking for a vote on second read school board member authority board member or district officer resignation accident reports class size instructional resources and instructional resources plan. I believe that that is it for a vote this evening. Does that sound right? Sorry. Do you have a question? >> Question of absolutely. >> Okay. So >> let's see. Um, the DAFF, Administration of Federal Grants. Can I ask a question about that one? >> That's a first read. Why don't we do the second read? >> Second read. Sorry. Yeah. >> Yeah. We're going to vote. We're And then we can do Let's do Let's do the vote on second reads and then Yes, we can go through and

135discuss. >> Yeah. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> I don't have any on the second. >> You good? Okay. >> All right. Uh would someone like to move the one, two, three, four, five, four mentioned policies? >> Policy committee. >> You want me to make a motion? >> Yes. >> I'll make a motion to approve all the second read policies that we had done last time. >> All right. Um I'll second that. Does anybody have any questions or concerns on those? All right. All in favor? Okay. Okay. So, now we have now we can answer questions on first reads. >> Yeah. DAFF. >> And you'll have to give me a minute because there are this is 190 pages. >> The first one I had was DAFF. Administration of federal grants. Yeah. What page? Okay. It's um

136>> the second page of two DAFF. Is that what it is? >> Yeah. >> But what's page numbers? >> I don't think it gives it. That's the problem number. Okay. So if you go through it's the >> DAFF >> I'm having to put >> page two of two. >> Okay two. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> I guess I I just wanted to know what is HU AI or CTE technologies. >> Are you on page? is on. >> Oh. Oh. Oh. Without limitation. The UGG. >> Yeah, that's it. >> Don't know what this >> Mariah. Do you know what that is? UGG without limitation. The UGG. It's the DAFF one which is on federal grants and it says a policy establishes minimum standards regarding >> I'm going to guess it's based on a

137law because it's this is required by law. I'm going to guess this is the language you had we had in our prior the only changes are the red so that was in the previous one in 2021. Okay, we can find out for you though. I think we can we can put a hold on it. >> I don't know what it stood for or or what that what those technologies are. >> Hold on. When do you see the technology? >> CFR. >> I know what UGG is. I did find that out. Uh where do you see the technology one though? >> Oh, CFR. Code of federal regulations and uniform grant guidance. >> Uniform grant guidance. and code of federal regulations. So the uniform grant guidance would be the ones that are set forth by I would

138think the federal government as it pertains to federal grants >> and then the code of federal regulations is how they are regulated or how they are how we ensure compliance. Right. Okay. That's what it is. Yeah. It's on the first paragraph. >> I check another one. >> Go for it. >> Okay. >> I love it. Daily physical activity. >> What page are we on? >> Okay, first read it is I am a H. >> I am I am a H. Okay, we got to find it. I am a H. >> All right, hold on. It's got to be before J. I M B A [snorts] >> I M A H >> It doesn't It doesn't find anything. Not a single thing. >> Nope. >> I am Oh, okay. Physical >> It's called daily physical activity.

139>> Okay. >> Well, you handed me all these and I did them. So, I just want you to know >> I went through Anyway, there's a typo. >> Oh, >> Wait a minute. Let's Let's I got to find it cuz I'm like [snorts] >> It says daily physical activity section I code I M Ah. >> Okay. >> What page is it? 120. >> Oh, see she's got it online and I'm doing this. >> Oh, 120 [laughter] by the paper. >> Thank you. My [snorts] PDF read. >> All right. So, which one is it? Number what is it? >> Okay. So, it's down under It's where the red starts. >> Okay. >> The district's well committee. And it should say wellness. >> Yep. Okay. And then right above it, number nine, institute a tracking and evaluation

140method to asssure that all students are engaging in developmentally appropriate daily physical activity. >> Yep. >> Um I guess our tracking and evaluation of the daily activity of our students is what their grade in PE their question. You know, that's something I'm sure that Ellen looked [music] at, right, is my guess. Um, we can certainly um follow up with them because >> you know what? It's only a bugaboo with me because as a former fizzed teacher, I know for a fact that our kids are not getting daily physical education in school and and there's nothing you can do about it. I I get it. I've been fighting this battle for over 20 years. My guess is that their recess time, their PE time, >> yes, >> all of that stuff would count towards it. But

141you're you're right. I mean, and I'm going to guess that >> that's what they're that's what they're counting that they're outside in fresh air. They're >> moving around. >> I just I guess I'm just >> putting it out there to the universe that our students are not getting what this policy says. they're supposed to get. >> And I guess like I said, it's just my little pet peeve. 30 30 to 60 minutes each day >> to minimize health risks in our case. >> Along with that, how many of the ones are we approving are additional subjects that [music] our state legislature is making sure that we add into our curriculum, >> right, >> in our already limited time. >> I think I think we could though I do want to say that the PE teachers

142have looked at this. So, I think what we could do is we could say just out of curiosity, because this is a first read, um we can go back to them and say, "Talk to us a little bit about this and give us how you might do that." And I know that >> Oh, I I know they've looked at it and I know that they're as much conflicted by this as as I am, but >> and the problem is it's a priority and is required by law. >> So, there's not a lot they can do about it um other than adhere to it. Um, however, to your point, you know, other than adding time to our day >> to make sure, and I do see, by the way, like a lot of times Marsden is

143out using the walking trail, >> and I do see that or they're walking when they can. >> Am I tracking it, you know, am I think that's that is the bigger question. But I would be curious to know um and I'm going to guess there's probably not a lot of guidelines to this other than that kids are outside, they're getting fresh air, and they're um exposed to physical activity. >> We do have there was a bill introduced this legislative session mandating it, which I I want it was either 60 or 90 minutes K through eight >> every day. Just note. >> Mhm. >> 60 to 90 minutes. >> I'd have to go back and dig it up. >> We would need to add time to the day. We would it was just >> I don't

144see the report on the introduction that >> jumping jacks while you do that. >> Just do counting 5 minutes in between classes. They would count that they're moving, right? It would be that kind of stuff. Five minutes in class that they're moving, >> the time as they're coming to school. I I think they would start doing those kinds of minutes. >> The time that they're outside, the time they're in PE, that's what they would do. But >> to your point, Wendy, you're right. We could extend the day. >> Yeah. That's a whole other Right. >> Yep. Anyway, sorry to open up a can of worms. Like I said, to me, it's it's an important topic >> to come in. Excellent. >> No, no, they've got enough on their plate. I don't No, I know that.

145No, I know that they are cognizant of what I'm talking about >> more than anyone else. They know >> and I would say that our our our principles are have seemed pretty aware of it. >> I mean, we know play play in the younger grades is >> as important, no offense to anyone, as reading and math. >> And I could say I feel more confident with K5 since they have a 25 minute >> Yes. >> um recess time and then they have >> Yeah. They're they're hitting it. It's really >> and it's tougher here. I mean, we've all we've all seen the kids sitting outside during snack lined up against the wall. There are kids who who play basketball, who do stuff, the boys who run around, but there's that group of kids who basically

146you can't make them get up. >> Well, that's the other piece of it. No, but that's where I guess and I know again our fizzed teachers are very good about this, but trying to get students more interested in recreational activities and lifelong pursuits. Also, let me just put the plug in. That's why we need a pool in Hampton. >> Anyway, >> I agree. Let's all let's all vote for the hub and it should have a pool 100%. >> Have a pool. >> I do not. I'm a represent. [laughter] I will let go of that now and I'll just bring to your attention one more typo >> if that's what you want. Okay. This is on remote distance education. >> Where are you? >> It's okay. It is the >> Is it imba? >> Yes, Imba.

147>> It's number seven on that list. >> Okay, I see it. And it says the principal will assign a teacher to monitor students progress. Dreading [laughter] >> dreading by dreading of assign testing. >> Okay, that's >> we'll just get rid of the D. Yeah, we got it. >> Sorry. >> Just again the dread. Yeah. >> And then the last one I guess I had questions about was the patriotic exercises. >> That's right after that. IMDA. It's right after that. >> That's the next one. >> Yes. Yes. And that's by the way >> new state law. That is new state law. And I can tell you that um we've always had to acknowledge Constitution and Citizenship Day. That's always been because we get federal. >> Is that the same day? Constitution and citizenship day. It's September

14817th, but both of those that is the same day. >> Yep. >> It is. >> Okay. And then >> General John Stark Day is new, right? >> Do we do we c do we acknowledge in April General John Stark Day? that is new and I put it on my calendar so I would not forget. >> Um okay >> but but yeah the anyone who receives federal grants and we do has to acknowledge Constitution Day or Citizenship Day and I know that that was always the topic >> and I I believe our schools are doing that from what I >> talk about general stock day but we'll [snorts] get >> No, that's the only one I said I know they're not doing General John Stark day. >> Google him after that. Yes, pocket. [laughter] >> I

149was cringing. I was like I don't know if everybody knows who General John Stark was. I did not I was expecting like a very polarizing >> Oh, you're mute. You're muted. Sorry. I can hear him >> at a high level. >> Thanks, Nick. >> General John Stark seems fine. [laughter] Ra, thank you for the rousing. >> Not problematic from my first >> delve into, you know, I'm sure if you go deep enough, you find something there, but >> you know, there could have been worse people to celebrate, I suppose. >> I think they w up putting it in my calendar just so we wouldn't forget him. >> Perfect. >> Yeah, we should have a party. >> Good job. We should We [laughter] appreciate I mean, it's a it is a state law. We do not

150want to get tripped up by something. >> Yes, I did like that. John Stark day, April 13th. >> John Stark. >> Think that's a good plan. >> John, >> I'll be honest. Do we want to put forth a motion to do away with spirit days? Cuz I could get behind that. >> See, I look at all the parents making Uhhuh. >> We should leave it up to them. >> I Yeah. >> No, I don't think you are. >> No, I don't. At least not in this room. Anyway, just kidding. sort of >> kidding. Not kidding. >> I know. They're going to be here any minute. Okay. Anyway, sorry. We're going down a rabbit hole. Um >> on JLCF Wellness. >> JLCF Wellness. And again, I'm sorry I'm doing it on paper. >> Yep, I'm there.

151>> JLCF. Um, I guess I was just wondering, do we have a trienal progress assessment by our food service director? That's what it says we're supposed to have. Um, that so that's a great question. Um, I can tell you that as part of our wellness committee, we do have it's every three years the food. So, so I and I know being on the wellness committee that we cover pretty much everything on here. I just didn't know if food service director did a trienal progress assessment >> on the policy on the I think we wrap it into our um wellness committee but I do think that it would be important for the new person coming on to realize it's a trienal trienal review. I can look to see if there's some in the past so we

152have examples because I'm sure that I've had to um upload it to the state so I can look. >> Um that would be if you could look and see. >> I have not seen one since I've been in this position. So, but I look and I could also reach out to the Miss Tuck cuz if it was done, she would have probably dealt with it. So, I can ask that too if we can't find anything. not following when when we're looking for funds. I don't want someone to say you didn't do this and you can't have those funds. >> I I do think that because of our health trust and we're required to have the meetings, we have them like three three times a year. I do think that that also helps, >> right? But

153this specifically says by food service director. That's why I just wanted to make sure that we've got that >> ready to go for the future. And then my last question because you're probably ready to shoot me now, but why are we rescending all of these ones that say rescend? >> Because the New Hampshire School Boards Association has pulled them. >> They have pulled them. Okay, that's what I thought. >> Y Okay. Yeah. JLC assess, but it doesn't say report. You're muted. >> Yeah, >> just leave it on, man. >> So, it does say um on JLCF that the food service director will assess. I was just making the point that it does not say we'll report on that assessment. So, it does stand to reason maybe she assessed it, found it compliant, and moved on.

154Yeah, I know. Every year I do get like all the minutes, all the items that we've done and I have a full report because I have to give that to the state. So, I'm sure we have >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> And I do think it kind of ties into the district wellness committee where it talks about no less than three times a year. She is on that committee. So, I'm thinking that it's probably all part of that work. >> Yeah. >> And you come to those meetings sometimes. Mostly. I'm at the No, I'm so I do understand but again >> Yeah. No. Anything else that you caught? Because I'm sure that given all the policies that we have been updating and there will be more next month because they're just it's it's um a

155hamster wheel for us. A lot of it is references what we found this past time we met on Monday. A lot of it was just adding references, but it is a lot of work for Erin who is then, you know, pulling them, writing them, updating them. It's a it's heavy eye work is what I would say, too. And sometimes to not see it happens. So, yeah. So, thanks for catching up. Actually, just a side note about Aaron um just so everybody's aware, she went through at my request um on the website basically our history of um agendas and minutes which were there but were saved in many different ways and not particularly searchable. She went through and basically created a standard for that. Um they are all in order. It is easy to tell what

156I know. I felt the exact same way. So it made me very happy. They look very nice and tidy and in order and it looks great. So much much thanks to her. >> That is a that's one of her skills. She loves doing that work. She loves she's a she's a huge organizer. She's great about formatting. >> Um I really I appreciate it tremendously too. >> I do too. Yeah. So >> all right. [sighs] So consent agenda. I would say we have two big things. So, we have checks. Yep. So, tell I will read the list. Tell me if I miss any. >> Okay. I have Center School has a Hannerford Helps check in the amount of $3,139. >> Yep. >> Marston, I believe that's the only one for center school. >> Um $2,500 also

157>> from Was that Sam? >> Center. Okay. Sorry. Um Craft Core. >> Yep. >> Okay. Sorry, I decided on the wrong school. $2,500 from Craft Corpor, which looked like that was going to be a donation to use for um school equipment. >> Uh so it looks like it's for classroom supplies for students. >> Gotcha. Which is fantastic. Um so then Marston is PTA $35 and Hannerford helps $2,914. Is that correct? That's amazing. And then Town of Hampton, $57,200. And that is cable TV money. >> Yep. Cable franchise fees. Correct. >> Cable franchise fees. >> Yep. >> All right. >> Is utilized to do >> which is amazing. >> And then for minutes, we have board meeting and non-public meeting of October 14th, 2025. budget work session minutes of October 15th, October 22nd, and October 29th.

158Does anybody have any sort of comments, changes, anything about the minutes? All right. Then, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> All right. All in favor? Okay. That gets all of those. All right. Do I have anyone here for public comment on agenda items? Seeing none, do we have any need for non-public session? It's a miracle. [laughter] Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> All right. All in favor? All right. Thank you very much.