001Thanks for being patient. We are going to call this meeting of the Hampton School Board to order. Everyone, please 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. So, do we have anyone here for public comment? The girls go. We do have some special guests for public comment tonight. Want me to tell them where to go? So, you guys are going to go Yep. So, you're gonna go, Annie, you're gonna go right up to the microphone and you're probably going to want to pull it down. So, Yep. And you're going to turn and kind of face us right over here. And you're gonna stand right here. Um,
002we are troop 60204 and troop 63034. We came to report us finishing our bronze award project. First page. Our project was especially planned for seal awareness day and fidget box or calm down box drive for people who are fidgety. Sometimes we all need to relax and refocus so it is easier for people to who have these tools to use. If you have ever visited Miss Whitney, you would know about how we made these boxes so kids can calm down and be ready to learn. You also may have spotted them in other classrooms. We first thought that we should add dead phones to the boxes like the original ones, but we quick but we quickly realized that that it would just be easier if these boxes consisted of fidgets, writing utensils, and small notepads. With all
003this planning, we also had the idea to do a go green day for celebrating mental health awareness. On that day, there were many students and teachers dressed in green. Even though that spirit day was only created the day before, it was still a brilliant way of showing respect towards mental health. From there, we had made posters and plenty of lunchtime talks were heard about our seal bronze award in the making. We are proud to announce that we are now almost done with our award and we just wanted to tell you a bit about how we Girl Scouts are working to make the world a better place. 3. I am a Girl Scout and I approve this message. And here is Berkeley with a few words. Hello, my name is Berkeley and I am a very
004proud member of Girl Scout Troop 60204. This year, my troop and I worked very hard to earn a bronze award. We wanted to think of a way to help our community and make a difference. We created countdown boxes for our friends at school when they might be having a tough day. Some of the things inside were physs, squishies, notebooks, crayons, and putty. We hope these can help our friends at school feel happy. This is just one of the things we did to help others. We are glad we could help make a difference. Thank you for listening about our project. [Applause] Thank you friends. Good job, Girl Scouts. Do we have anyone else who is here for public comment? Can I just follow up to the Girl Scouts presentation? First off, I really am so happy
005to hear about your project. I think this is fantastic. As you know, we have been able to support many of the scouts with their projects. Um, we help create a softball shed. We help create the stations around the walking path. Um, we've done a number of things. So, um, we're always happy to help you in any way you can, we can. So, if there's something that comes up that you would like our assistance with, please don't hesitate to reach out to any of us. me in particular, I'm always looking for ways I can support you and things that we can do as a district or community to ensure that you reach those goals and you get those badges. And when we do these things together, it makes us stronger as a community. So, thank you
006so much. And um I do appreciate all that you did with these calming boxes. This is this is great. Um but if you need any support, please be sure to let us know. We're happy to help. And it was great to see you tonight. What a what a great surprise. So, thank you so much. Thanks. And I will say I think actually that the schools have been helping them with their bronze award and they have been they've had boxes of the schools collecting kind of unwanted fidgets and things like that to go into the boxes. So, yeah. So, that's been great. Thanks everybody. All right. So, seeing no one else here for public comment, we will table the rest of our time to the end of the meeting. And do you want to go ahead
007and do um so yeah can you sure do that? Yeah I can do that. So we are going to recognize our 2025 retirees. So I always we can go I'm always unsure which way I should face but I think if I stay here on the side I can see the people in the audience but I can also see the board. So this is important um to recognize these wonderful people. Some people were unable to be here tonight but we will see them at another time whether it's at the barbecue or at a staff lunchon. I think this is that time of year when we really try to take the time to recognize those people who have made an impact on our district. And so I'm going to start with Kathy Tuck, who is our SA90
008administrative assistant. In fact, when I was talking to Kathy about um what she thinks would be her lasting legacy, she said, "I am the original footprint of SAU90 because I was one of the first people that actually helped create it 14 years ago." So, I love that. So, she is the original footprint of SA90. And it is with deep appreciation that we recognize Kathy Tuck, administrative assistant of SEU90, as she prepares for her well-deserved retirement. Kathy joined SA90 in the summer of 2011, bringing with her 14 years of experience from SAU16 and exit where she served in a variety of roles including assistant to the chief financial officer, administrative assistant at the cooperative middle school, payroll accountant, and accounting clerk. Her extensive background and dedication to education has laid a strong foundation for the success
009of our district from the very beginning. Kathy was instrumental in establishing the SAU90 office, developing and implementing the policies, practices, and procedures that continue to support our district today. Her exceptional organizational skills, deep knowledge of school operations, and her unwavering commitment have made her an invaluable member of our team. Cathy's professionalism, reliability, and ability to manage change, whether in policies, tax structures, or staffing, have been crucial to navigating the many complexities of our work. Her quiet strength and steady presence have supported the district through times of transition and growth. We are incredibly grateful for all that Kathy has contributed over these years. Her legacy will continue to positively impact the district for many more years to come. So, a big hearty thank you to Kathy Tuck. [Applause] And the person we were just celebrating um
010on our leadership team is our SAU90 pupil services director, Dr. Lois Dilva Napton, who completes her five years. Little bag right there. Um so, come on up. Please. It is my great honor to recognize Dr. Lois D. Silva Napton for her dedication and service as our director of pupil services. Dr. Silva Nap D Silva Napton began her tenure in July of 2020 right in the midst of CO 19 a pandemic a time that filled that was filled with uncertainty and unprecedented challenges. That summer we spent countless hours planning for a school year unlike any other. Despite the obstacles, Dr. Dilva Napton remained focused, committed, and student centered. During her time with us, she implemented numerous initiatives to support our students. She established the neck program at center school and the inspire program at Hampton Academy.
011Next year, thanks to her vision and leadership, we will also be launching a neck program at Marsden School. These programs represent more than just services. They allow our students to remain in their neighborhood schools close to family and community. This is a tremendous accomplishment that benefits both of our fa both both our families and our district. In addition, Dr. Dr. Dilva Napton partnered with the early intervention outreach worker Patrice Baker to create the preschool task force also known as Hatch Hampton alliance for thriving children. She has also been an active member of the SE coast cares team and is overseeing grant writing for our title grants always seeking new opportunities to support and enhance student services. Dr. Dil Napton brings to her work over 39 years of experience in education. She holds a doctorate in
012educational leadership from Argoi University in Sarasota, Florida and has traveled internationally to Singapore, Soul and Nairobi as part of an educational initiatives with missions of hope and choice theory. Her career has spanned a wide range of roles. Superintendent, director of special education, educational consultant, high school principal, special education coordinator, teacher, and adjunct professor. Through every position, she has remained steadfast in her commitment to helping children succeed. We are grateful for her leadership, wisdom, and compassion. Dr. Dil Napton's impact will be felt for years to come. Please join me in celebrating and thanking Dr. Lois D. Silva Napton for her outstanding service and wishing her the very best in her retirement. [Applause] Do you want to say anything? Just thank you all for accepting me and letting me work with your most challenged children and building
013a community. So, I'm honored to have this be my last place. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Yep. Yeah, we will. Okay. Um, next I'd like to recognize Heather Cronin. She is our speech language pathologist for Central School for the past 23 years. Can you come on up? [Applause] We are honored to recognize Heather Cronin, speech language pathologist at Center School, as she prepares to retire after a remarkable career in education and speech language services at Center School. Heather joined our district in 2002, relocating from Massachusetts, where she built a strong foundation in her field. She began her professional journey at Massachusetts General Hospital and went on to serve in the Newton, Lexington, and Chelsea public schools. There she provided diagnostic evaluations, treatment, and consultation for early intervention, preschool, and elementary age children with a
014wide range of special needs. Heather holds degrees from Boston College, Boston University, and Southern New Hampshire University. She has a bachelor of arts, a master of science, and her CAGS um certificate as well. She's always demonstrated a strong commitment to professional growth and learning throughout throughout her time in our district. Heather has exemplified professionalism, collaboration, and compassion. She has consistently focused on improving parental engagement, ensuring student safety, expanding her expertise, and supporting her colleagues. She recently completed the rigorous letters training and maintains regular collaboration with teachers to align her services with classroom instruction. Heather has also deepened her knowledge of augment augmentative and alternative communication AAC using these tools to make classroom routines like morning meeting and center time more inclusive and interactive to her students. Her dedication to lifelong learning has had a lasting
015impact on both her students and the broader school community. We extend our health heartfelt thanks to Heather for over two decades of outstanding service to our district. We wish her the very best in her retirement and look forward to celebrating her many contributions. Thank you so much. [Applause] And next, Mary Wilson, could you come on up? First grade teacher, center school. Mary Wilson is completing her 28th year here at Center School in Hampton. Mary joined Central School in the fall of 2008, hired by then principal Mrs. Nancy J. Andrews as a kindergarten teacher for the school's new full-day kindergarten program. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Mary had already been part of the school community as a title one tutor since 1997. From the beginning, she stood out as an experienced and dedicated
016educator known for her strong rapport with students, families, and colleagues. Despite her status as a beginning teacher, she was quickly recognized as a master teacher. Mary Mary's love for her students have been has been evident every day. Her classroom reflects thoughtful planning and a commitment to meeting the diverse needs of her learners through whole group, small groupoup, and individualized instruction. Her daily routines are rich with engaging learning opportunities including morning meeting foundations but um phmic awareness lessons and amplify boost. She also fosters strong school-to-home communications and connections encouraging family engagement through take-home reading folders and other meaningful family activities. As a valued member of the first grade team, Mary has contributed significantly to the professional learning community meetings and collaborative grade level discussion. She continues to grow professionally, recently expanding her knowledge through the Lexia
017letters program. Mary has been an invaluable part of center school family. Her presence, professionalism, and passion for teaching will be greatly missed. We extend our heart heartfelt congratulations and best wishes as she enters this well-earned retirement. May this next chapter bring joy, relaxation, and cherish time with family. Thank you for your years of service. Yes. You're welcome. Did you hear? Yep. Make sure it's right one. I also um want to recognize Denise Townsen who's not here tonight, but we want to make sure that we recognize her for her 23 years of service at Central School as a special education par educator. Denise began her work as a substitute teacher in our district. Previously, she was a volunteer at Village Preschool. In March of 2003, she was hired as a special education pareducator. A reputation for
018building relationships with students, she promotes inclusion to its fullest extent. She is truly a team player and works collaboratively with all staff to determine how best to support and include all students. Denise has been an asset to our district and is a skilled para educator. She has been a valued member of the center school team for 23 years. There have been many changes in her time in our district as programs have evolved with the times. However, true to her profession, she has always worked hard with the most complex and diverse population of students. She has a tremendous she's had a tremendously positive effect on her students and was instrumental in their success. As noted on her most recent evaluation, she works side by side with her classroom teachers, case manager, as well as specialists, and
019maintains a level of professionalism that should serve as a role model to others. Thank you for all of this and more, Denise, and congratulations on your retirement. [Applause] And last, but certainly not least, Amy Murphy, fifth grade teacher at Marsen School, 26 years. [Applause] We are pleased to honor Amy Murphy as she retires from the Hampton School District after a remarkable career dedicated to student growth, professional leadership, and educational excellence. Amy began her journey at Central School in 1999 as a title one tutor after moving to Hampton. At the time, she was completing graduate work in education, determined to pursue a career in teaching. Her experience as an intern, student teacher, and substitute teacher in Georgetown, Massachusetts, made her an exceptional candidate for the position. Even in those early days, Amy stood out for her
020ability to build strong relationships with students and for designing thoughtful, creative, and focused lessons. It was clear she possessed the knowledge, attitude, and personal qualities of an outstanding educator. Just one year later, Amy was hired as a second grade teacher. A natural progression for someone with such promise. Throughout her career career, Amy has demonstrated unwavering commitment to her profession. She has actively participated in school improvement and curriculum initiatives, responsive classroom trainings, and numerous school committees. Beyond her classroom, Amy has been a passionate ad advocate for educators. Her leadership has been instrumental in her work on negotiation teams and in her long-standing service as an officer for the SE Coast Education Association. Amy is also the embodiment of a lifelong learner. She earned her master's degree in education with a focus on curriculum and instruction specializing
021in reading and elementary education from the Grand Canyon University in 2012 and completed her certificate of advanced graduate studies in 2021. I also want to offer a personal reflection. When I was principal at Mars School, Amy was transferred to join our team. It was during this time that I witnessed firsthand her extraordinary teaching talent. She has an exceptional ability to meet students where they are, guiding each one toward meaningful growth while fostering a strong, inclusive classroom community. Over time, Amy became not just a colleague, but a friend. An unexpected connection we shared is that both of our fathers are buried at the same veterans cemetery in southern Florida. Amy, your passion, professionalism, and heart have left an indelible mark on our schools. It is no surprise you were nominated for teacher of the year this
022past year. Your legacy will live on through the many students you've inspired, and you will be deeply missed. We are profoundly grateful for your years of service and wish you joy, relaxation, and fulfillment in your retirement. Thank you so very much. [Applause] So, if we could get those retirees up here for one last picture, that would be fantastic. So, come on up. And maybe would you take it, Sarah? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll say. Yeah. Wendy. Yeah. We'll have so easy to do. You know that, right? So, all right. Do you want us to be up there, Wendy? Do you want Mariah to take it? Why don't you have Mariah take it and Sarah, you can get in it. All right. I don't have an opinion. All right. Where do you think would be? Where do
023you think's the right place? Actually, we usually do it on the stairs. Let's be fair. Yeah. And that'll kind of spread everybody out. Everybody else will Everybody congratulations. Okay, everybody. Thank you for your patience tonight. I believe we are going to start with uh schoolboard member updates. Does anyone have anything that they would like to report? Um, and oh, I'm sorry. We actually have overlooked. We should we should discuss the fact that two of our members are actually absent tonight. We kind of dug dug dug right into the meeting of the the meat of the meeting. We do actually have two absent members tonight. They both had um some work conflicts and were not able to make it. So, uh, Mrs. O'Neal and Mrs. St. Jeene will presumably be with us uh, next month for
024our July meeting. So, uh, the one comment kind of in Mrs. O'Neal's absence, we do want to point out to everyone that legislative things are happening fast in our state. So today the state voted to um expand vouchers um so that any basically any family in the state of New Hampshire um whose child goes to who is homeschooled or goes to um a private school will be eligible for the voucher system and we are waiting to find out financially how that will impact our our school system. We don't know. Um they also did sign into law the new parents bill of rights which I think is an update on a on a existing law. We are waiting to find out if uh open enrollment is going to pass and again how that will impact us
025and we don't know. So lots lots going on. So I think that's probably it for committee updates. Um, PTA Party on Park did, as we've all enjoyed our our lovely weekend weather, did have to be postponed and I believe they are going to try to reschedule in September, but I don't think that's a definite yet. We'll we will wait and see. All right, with that settled, Mr. Robbitai, would you would join us, please? Sorry. All right, happy June everybody. Um, got my report, but just a few things to highlight. Um, had a really good year of our professional learning communities. So, I did just want to highlight all the hard work that the teachers put in this year to um, continue to develop curriculum, look at student data, and, you know, make informed planning decisions
026um, you know, when looking at all that information. So, just wanted to pay kudos to all my teacher teams and all the hard work they put in this year. Um, the center school was able to bring back week of wonder this year with support from the PTA. So, I just wanted to uh say thank you to all my staff that went above and beyond to uh contribute an offering of something they enjoyed to do and share it with the children of center school. Um, so we were able to offer a day to each grade level K1 and two and hopefully we'll be able to build upon that next year. Um, a big thank you to Mr. LJ Dutton who also he took a very heavy hand in spearheading getting that up and running. So, and
027thank you to the PTA for financial backing. Um, our grade two to three step up day took place on June 3rd. Um, our second graders came back buzzing about Marston School and everything they have to look forward to. So, that was awesome to see and thank you to Marston School for hosting our second graders. Our kindergarten concerts went off without a hitch last week. um a lot of delighted parents to come on over and see the musical and artistic happenings of our kindergarten class and they were very excited to perform for their big audience. So that was a nice special day. And then Friday was a got a little dicey but we were able to pull off field day. We were only a half hour late uh but everything went off also without a hitch.
028Um so we just had to battle a little bit of rain in the morning but that was a special day for uh our center school students. Um, report cards are being issued on June 17th. So, again, families, if you have any questions after those go out, uh, I'm certainly available to answer any questions um, that may come up as the teachers start to pack up for the summer. Um, I did just want to circle back. Um, earlier this year, the PTA had donated the funds for a new buddy bench on our K&1 playground. So, that has now been installed. Thank you to Mr. Tim Harrington. Um and then we also had um guidance go down and talk to K and one classrooms at lunch um about the the appropriate use of a buddy bench and
029why it's there. Our second graders are already pretty well verssed in it. Um we'll be kind of hitting them with a a a more comprehensive lesson in the fall when we get back. Um but we were able to get that put into the ground. Looks great and the students got a kind of a mini lesson on how to use it. Um and that's kind of it for my report. I did attach draft versions of the 2526 schedule, the master, and then an example kindergarten schedule. So, still in draft form, but um just so the board can take a look at that and I'd be happy to answer any questions um the board may have. Just a quick So, what did we end up with? Do we think projected for the sorry for the number of
030sort of kindergarten, first grade, second grade classrooms? For class sizes? Yeah. No classrooms. I just I know there was some rearranging. M six kindergarten classrooms, five first grade, six second grade. Awesome. And then again, our two are four total sessions of half day of preschool. Yep. That's great. Awesome. Okay. Anybody else have any questions for Mr. Robotn? All right. Thank you for your support for first grade year. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, absolutely. Welcome, Mr. S. Hello, everyone. Would it be okay if when I'm done talking I bring my crew up? Of course. Thank you very much. Um, just a ton of stuff going on in a short amount of time. Tomorrow night will be our celebration of learning. 5 to 6. Caring adults and students are welcome to explore the school and see everything
031the kids have done this year. And then at 6:30 we'll be over here at Hampton Academy for our fifth grade annual end of the year performance. It's going to be another great show um written by Mr. Carlson and the students. So, it's going to be great. Field day. Um, ours was actually supposed to be today and the weather didn't work out for us. So, we're moving it to Thursday and we still have a pretty fair amount of um parent volunteers that'll be coming in. It's going to be a great day. So, big shout out to Miss Cassie Cruz and Fizzed for planning, organizing. She's the maestro behind it and it always works out well. Um on June 16th, we'll have our fifth grade farewell assembly and we sent out some additional information to fifth grade
032parents today because um you should arrive sometime between 1 and 1:15 and then we try to start as close to 1:30 as possible. So that way if we go over it all, it doesn't impact much in terms of dismissal in the end of the day. And then of course on the last day of school, we have our final schoolwide morning meeting. Um it takes up a fairly large chunk of that early release day. But um it's a great opportunity to recognize, celebrate, and honor students. And we always guest from Lane Library. Um hopefully some guests from the Rotary who help offset the costs of our read 100 t-shirts. And um there'll be some other recognitions that take place. So just looking forward to an exciting week or so left, but a lot going on in
033that amount of time. questions. I have a quick question. Do you have buddy benches at Mars? Yes. I um I you'd have to look at the history of how we got it. I remember some company or organization in town. Do you remember Dr. Costa how we got the buddy bench back? Someone a local group organized it. It's out on our playground. So if you ever go where all the climbing structures are, it's seated right there in a pretty central location. So if students are on it, there's always a lot of hubbub and action around it. But we have one right now. It's a beautiful wood. It's been there for a while. Yeah, it has been. Maybe we could invest in a second. Sure. And I'm going to even throw it out there. And I know
034it sounds absurd, but in this day and age, we might even want to get a couple of buddy benches at Hampton Academy because the nice thing is, you know, Marston's not just used during school. It's kind sort of a community playground. So, it's great. Also, I feel like we just need to do a little bit more to encourage kids to look out for each other. Definitely. and maybe investing in a few more buddy benches might be one step toward that. Absolutely. Not a bad idea. Thank you. So, at this time, I'm going to bring up um Mr. Shrek and Miss Lazar. They're going to talk about our um nature and environment club, which is also sort of a garden club and an outdoor education club, but they're going to just share a little bit about
035it. We have a few students who are going up here and share some of their um thoughts and insights about it. So, just welcome them, please. Thank you very much. We're happy to be here. So, Miss Lazar and I have been working together the past few years to start sorry, a nation and environment club. Um, and we started it because we believe outdoor experiences really help students increase their understanding of their natural world and helps to lead to a sense of place. And through the connection to play, students develop stronger environmental attitudes, civic behaviors. Uh outdoor learning and play experiences are an integral part of raising the next generation of active citizens like these ones right here who take care of their natural and human communities. So basically, in simpler words, when children are exposed
036to outdoor experiences, they develop a greater appreciation for nature and are therefore more likely to care for the environment and their local communities. Um outdoor studies have shown outdoor nature play is good for both physical and mental health. It can decrease stress and anxiety levels in children and adults. We also have a lot of fun out there with the kids after hard days at work. It helps develop a sense of self-independence, confidence, creativity, decision-m and problem solving skills, empathy towards others, fine motor skills, self-discipline and initiative. So through providing both structured and unstructured activities, we were able to observe all of this in action. Uh we hope to continue to grow the program as well as integrate it more into our school day curriculum moving forward, thus ensuring more students get the full benefit of
037getting outside. So we hope that you guys um stop to take a look at the gardens we just created over the past few weeks and continue to support us as we work to make it a part of the culture of the Hampton School District. So, I'll just give you a little background. Um, I'm Hannah Lazar. I teach third grade. Um, so this is our third year doing nature club. And, uh, when I, this is also my third year at Marston. And when I started, Jason came up to me and he was like, are you the person that's going to help me start a nature and environment club? And I was like, this is the first time hearing of that, but yeah, that sounds awesome. So, it's been really exciting for both of us. Um, we've
038had over 170 students participate throughout these three years. So, um, as Jason was saying, we just think it's really important to get kids outside. Um, I think the kids have been having fun with it. We'll let them share their experiences with you in a minute. So, uh, it's changed a little bit over the years. Our first year, we kind of just based it all on unstructured play. We got the kids outside into the woods and just let them explore, have fun. No, we we had a few safety rules, but really it was just do what you want to do, stay safe, have fun, be inclusive, and it's been really fun to see what the kids end up doing with this time. Um, that's been a really popular event. So, we've continued our unstructured play days
039each of the three years, and we'll continue doing that just because it's fun. The kids love it, and we find it's really important. Um, and it connects nicely to the community book club that we had this year as well. Um, Anxious Generation focuses a lot on the importance of unstructured play, so this is a great opportunity for that. And we're just utilizing more of our school space out in the woods, which has been awesome. Last year we also included some orientering activities. Um we created bird feeders, did some nature art. And this year our big project was our pollinator gardens. We split this up into a few days and we had smaller groups for this. Um day one we were building frames. So, the kids uh the kids that came were really excited to use
040some tools and they helped us measure. They helped cut the wood, which I think was harder maybe than we anticipated. Um, but they they did an awesome job and were really responsible. Um, gained some new skills hopefully and were able to put together our wooden frames. Our second day, we started preparing those beds. So, this is a really hard work day. We were digging in the dirt and pulling up grass, finding lots of worms, naming a lot of worms. So, um, we had a dirty hand contest at the end, and then finally our third day was planting. Um, so the kids came together, they worked to dig holes, put the plants in, we spread some mulch around, and um, we're excited to see how these start to take hold. Um, they're looking great so far.
041So hopefully next time you're at Marston, you'll take a look at them. They're right out front for everybody to enjoy. And I'm going to turn it over to the kids who hopefully have some of their own experiences for you. Hi. Hi. My name is Lola. I'm in fifth grade. I have attended the Play in the Woods and last year I attended the arts and crafts program. I like playing freely with my friends and picking and picking crafts that I would be interested in. I think they are a good I think they are good programs. They are educational and I have lots of fun with friends. I would recommend it to other to other students to attend these programs. [Music] Hi, my name is Willow. Nature Club is fantastic. I think you will love it if
042you try it. You get to do all sorts of things like building and planting, and you have lots of fun. You also get to make lots of new friends. Hi, my name is Griffin. I like how I got to plant seeds and plant in the garden. Before that, I dug the dirt and I found so many worms in it. That was good because worms help make the soil healthy. I think this is a great idea. So maybe next year we can do this again. I met a lot of new people and made some friends. And the only thing was on the days I went there, there was a bunch of girls and there was only two or three boys. Hopefully next year more boys will sign up. That's right. before they leave. I didn't know
043if any had any questions for the kids or the staff. Go ahead. Oh, so who's going to maintain it like over the summer? So, they're all perennials, so they don't need too much work. I'll come in and make sure they stayed water and pull some weeds when they come up, but we put a nice layer of mulch down there. So, the plan is also in the future, one of the things that the nature club will do in the fall is kind of do a put the gardens to bed activity and all of that. So, how did you choose which plants to put in? Did So, we chose we found a list of all native New Hampshire or New England perennials that are pollinator friendly and we picked from that list what we could find that
044was available. Good. That's awesome. Just a fantastic um offering for our students. You know that after reading Anxious Generation, the more we can get kids outside, whether it's structured or unstructured, but just playing with nature is great. And um just a big thank you to the PTA. Some of their donations have help offset some of the costs and actually um the Hampton Garden Club also made a nice donations to us in one of our initial years. So we're starting kind of small with the pollinator garden, but um these two have a lot of wonderful ideas and I'm excited to see how we're going to continue to grow this in the future for the students and school community. So next time you're at Marston near the um bus loop, you know, take a look at them
045or over the summer take a look and um hopefully you'll see a lot of action happening over there with their insects in nature. So, thank you again for allowing us to come in and share this with you. Thank you, [Applause] Dr. Campbell. All right. Always a tough act to follow there. Um, so yeah, uh, wrapping up the end of the year. We're really excited. a bunch of things coming our way. We want to congratulate our band and chorus students uh for their phenomenal performances last week. Uh congratulations to Miss Reno and Miss Gay um putting those together. Um tomorrow our track team is going several members of our track team are going to go to the meet of champions. Uh we had a really successful year in track. So we want to uh thank out
046thanks to all the coaches who stepped up and filled those roles and thanks to all the coaches. We know how important sports are um and getting kids involved and meeting new new people. So, um, very excited to see that. Tomorrow, my first field day. I'm excited. Should be working the hot dog stand if you guys want to come down. On Thursday, uh, we will, seventh grade will be having their outsiders day. Um, had a couple of field trips for our seventh graders. A great way to see everyone who don't normally connect really get together and start meeting, uh, you know, cheering each other on during some of our events. Um, also if you're a new registrant, new registration, uh, new registrant or new to the town, please call to set up an appointment so we
047can get you set up for next year. Um, this Friday we'll have our sixth grade bridge breaking uh, event in our math classes. Uh, students are building bridges and they are going to test how strong they are. Um, we do do our parent fifth grade parent information night um happened in in uh, May. It was excellent. We sent out a little brief uh cheat sheet if anyone who uh was unable to make that. Um but we plan to definitely hold more to help ease the transition into middle school. Um Monday will be our final assembly for our eighth graders. Um that'll be at six o'clock. Uh weather looks pretty good, so hopefully we will get there. Um and we're still looking for a chorus person. Um if anyone knows anyone who likes to sing or
048wants to teach some kids how to sing, that'd be great. looking for a long-term ser sub for uh Miss Reno. Um since my report, there have been two uh additional bullying investigations, one substantiated, one unsubstantiated. So, um I also attached a copy of next year's uh master schedule. You'll see some changes. Um team and I uh myself, Miss Lavine, and a team of teachers uh really wanted to prioritize making um our classes align. found that our three grades were operating on three different schools and it was tough. It was uh tough for our um to help provide services and pull kids when we needed it. Um we've added a wind block which will you know stands for what I need. So it'll be an an opportunity to provide those tiered systems of supports. We're going
049to be pulling our reading and our math interventionist and looking at the data on how we can really drive those. We're also going to be providing extension courses in areas of interest so students will be able to select those. So, we're working on those processes for next year, but we're excited about the offerings. Um, we also have it built in um what we call a little community time, I think. Um, especially for our middle school uh students, we really want to help the students learn how to be students. So, we helping them organize their things, reaching out to uh reaching out to teachers. It's also an opportunity to touch uh for teachers to touch base with students they might need extra support in. um but also you know bring in more community events and talk
050about what it means to be a community and uh you know we are still expanding those options but we're really excited about the new changes um it's been receiving overwhelming support about getting everyone on the same schedule um bell schedules will be um you know little on the same time um and so we're really excited about that with that said um do you guys have any questions oh and last but not least seventh grade will be going to Washington see or sorry, eighth grade rather. Have have people put together a fundraising team and has that team been able to connect with you? I adjacently you see and hear things. I just wanted to check in on that. Um yeah, do I've been reaching out to several people. Um they are looking to form a fundraising
051booster club type of a situation. Um we had uh I had reached out and spoken to with two different people particularly they're hoping to organize over the summer um and then kind of hit the hit the fall rolling um fall with some events like car washes and um these they're pretty they're really excited about the opportunity to fund raise and I think a booster club would definitely not just benefit eighth grade or uh Hampton Academy but I think it would definitely provide support for all the schools. All right. Any more questions? All right. Thank you very much. Thanks, D. Thanks, Neil. Okay. Dr. Dilan Napton. Good evening. Um, you do have my report and I just wanted to say that the special ed audit team's been working really hard. We have our final meeting this
052week. Um, Dr. Costa is going to get a full written report um about that and um I think we've we've looked at a a lot of things and we've aligned some things vertically and we're pretty excited to roll out a few new forms and some um kind of common words across the district for what we're doing with our kids and our IEPs. Uh the consolidated grant has been submitted which is really great. The state extended the deadline of July 1st but it was June 1st and we just wanted to stick to the deadline so we did. Um and then um I have been in contact with the new director just so everybody know we're she's great. It it's going to be perfectly fine and I will continue to stay available should she need any information.
053Um and lastly we did get another hundred our last $100 for the Hatch uh coalition. if you would please um accept that. And the um Hatch Coalition does want to thank the district for being kind of the you know the money person. Um it is a community coalition, so they're going to be moving to a different fiscal agent. So, thank you for everything. Numbers are well, I mean your numbers because people see them, but we are at 22.1%. Yep. I just want to make sure is aware of how the special ed numbers continue to climb. 22.1% of our student body is enrolled in our special ed 207 which is 207 students. Yeah. So, so we when we pay our when we pay our property taxes, when we look at money that's coming from the state,
054I believe the uh I believe when the Senate adjusted the uh their version of the budget, um they paid for vouchers in part by taking money out of the special ed increase. So, just so everyone keeps up with that, right? Yep. So, more kids, less money, right? That's Yep. And more needs. Correct. So, thank you for everything that you've done. We appreciate it. Thanks for everything. Thank you. Have a great retirement. Oh, I will. Thank you. All right. Mr. Smith. Hello. adjust that. I don't have very much to add to my board report. Um, just standard end of year stuff, trying to get everything checked in. Um, we are in the process of collecting Chromebooks and their Chromebook chargers. Um, there are some that have been a bit more challenging to locate at this point.
055Uh so I'd just like to take the opportunity to make it clear that if a Chromebook is not returned to us, uh there will be a cost of roughly $350 charged to you. Um and as for the chargers, uh that's about $50 per charger. Um beyond that, we're just looking ahead to next year trying to get subscriptions set up and uh looking at um some enhancements to our cyber security, excuse me, cyber security moving forward. So if you have any questions, I'm open. So you guys are working on uh hiring uh is it a new data data manager? Was that what was that your previous position? Yep. So my previous position we were in the process of hiring someone and we did go through the interview process and we do have a promising candidate that
056I believe Dr. Costa is going to make mention to you either this evening or at the July board meeting. you can you can go ahead and tell a little bit about it if you're okay with that. Yeah, that's great. So, the candidate that we went with, her name is Julia Palazola. Um, she is a new grad right out of college with a degree in cyber security and computer science. Um, she was very enthusiastic about the opportunity. Uh, and I think she's going to be a great asset to the department and the district moving forward. All right, that's great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks to Mr. Harrington. Evening all um gearing up for summertime. I'm getting a crash course at uh what's happening in all the schools. Uh custo staff has been awesome catching
057me up to speed on what happens in every building. Uh, we've had I've had a couple people that I've reached out to and have reached out to me about summertime help. Um, so I'm looking to fill some of those positions. I did have one interview for full-time at Hampton Academy. We're still down a person there. Um, I had an interview with them on Monday. I have another one hopefully coming up at the end of this week. I'll be talking to them about full-time, but summertime help. I've had a few. I just got to go through them all and and get them in. Um, just a couple things. Get the let out again. I'm still talking about that. Uh, Hampton Academy, we had our last outlet that was taken here. We had one hit here at
058Hampton Academy, replace that faucet, and I just got the result of that today, and that is below the limit, so we're good there. Um, yeah, we'll um we'll have to do another full round of testing in September to be to be compliant with the get the let out program. Um hopefully nothing major with that. Uh, Marson School, the neck program is running and we're getting order. The wood is coming in next Wednesday. I think I had them a hold off Wednesday or Thursday till the kids were gone. Um they'll be delivering that and uh some of the um furniture is starting to roll in and some of the other things that they're going to be using in that room are are already in one of our vestibules. Um center school uh the HVAC upgrade, we
059had another meeting today with them. Um and Keith has been instrumental with that. He's been helping with that. Uh, every time we have a um, we had our usual Tuesday meeting today and then tomorrow we have a walkth through with uh, Turnstone, Denron Hall, all the parties that need to be there. Um, yeah, and hope we're going to be hitting the ground running as soon as school gets out with that. They look to be there. They're hoping to uh, drop some equipment off on the 18th in the afternoon and then 19th they'll be laying everything out and getting going. So, it's going to be a fun summer. Let's try to get it all done before before August. Yeah, exactly. Any questions or nothing? I think we're good. All right, go. Thank you, Mrs. Poor. Good
060evening, everyone. Hello. So, this is the time of year that's not very pleasant. We need to talk about lunch prices and possibly going up 15. Right now we're at $3.50. So I was hoping maybe we can go up to $3.65. Uh food costs are going up. Uh employment wages gone up. I don't want to raise it, but we maybe have to. And just to remind parents that $3.50 gets them a milk, two fruits, two vegetables, a protein, and a grain for $3.50 or $3.65. So, how do you want to go? Or maybe $3.60, go up 10 cents, or not go up at all. Mariah, would you like would you like to talk? We have tried not to put food prices up in since I've been here. It's 15 years. Um I think the last since
061co we've is like the really few times we've been putting up um the lunch money since I've started. Um food service is in the negative right now. um not as much as my report because we didn't have the revenues. They didn't give us the revenues and enough time for me to add that for that month. My guess, and this is just my guess, will probably be around 30,000 in the negative. 3,000 or 30 30 is my guess, but I really don't know when because the re, like I said, the revenues haven't been showing up in time and I'd have to pull a whole bunch of reports to do it. But um I understand where Mary's coming from it and in the P&L um when we do that every year, we're definitely behind what the state
062is saying for us to have for prices. And they do suggest that um because we are behind that it should go up at least 10 cents every year. It's almost really to be in compliance. Yeah. with the USDA they kind of make you go up 10 cents. That's what the P&L suggests if so the revenues that are behind or that are behind coming in is that state or is that federal? Just I know that's sort of related. It's both. So it would be the federal and then the state lunch and elk and Yeah. How are we doing on our um on our lunch balance? Yeah. Oh, spoke with a lot of parents today. Yeah, promised they were going to get me some money this week. Kind of reminded them we don't have too much time.
063Um, so with a 132 kids, the negative balance is uh $3,600. It's a district 132 kids. I mean, it doesn't sound like a lot, but it is a lot. And unfortunately, we do promise to feed students no matter what. And what happens is some people that can afford it don't pay for it. And then it takes away from our fund balance, which takes away from books and other items that it's really meant for. Um, which is a little frustrating. Um, and then the the students that really do need support, it would be great to fill out that freedom reduced paperwork because not only does it help you, but it also helps our numbers for Title One and other items that we get. um for free and reduced that people forget about. Yes. So sometimes being
064proud is not always the best option, but it would be helpful if even if we had had that paperwork filled out, we could help. Um but yeah, because that does come from our fund balance. What does everybody else think? We're definitely going to need to We need We We definitely need opinions on this. Need opinions on this. We should discuss it. Okay. to play devil's advocate and to kind of air my own hesitation. I don't necessarily know that coming into the economic situation we may be facing. I know we have to look at it both as it pertains to our balance sheet but also the pressure that the people in our community will feel and there is that blurry line between people who are maybe just taking uh you know they're not keeping up with
065it financially they could but for whatever reason it's falling by the wayside but then there's you know real people attached to that and 15 cents a day is not um a large amount when you look at it as one expense but it does add up and we have people who have more than one kids and more than one school. Um, and so I hate to put the solution on upping prices that will affect families. Um, I don't know to what extent we can get creative. I don't know. I know that it's very murky with asking for donations. Um, I have seen other districts do it and I'm not quite sure how they navigate that. I don't know if there is a potential in beginning of the year paperwork to opt in to pay a higher
066price. I don't know if we could do a sliding scale. There are a lot of unknowns. Um but I hesitate for the first fix to be something that places the burden on families who may already be struggling. So I'm torn because I 100% agree. I hate raising the lunch prices. It is not a first our first go-to. So we have for the last I think this is this is I'm at four and a half years I think almost every year we have struggled with this topic every year and we have done what are some of the things you've tried because we've we've had lots um lots of very creative ideas for how to like how to get participation how to get part yes I've done menus counselor uh you know student council did menus a
067tasting we do tastings things. Uh we even did a teachers menu. Hey, teachers day, their favorite uh foods. I I sit and I ask the kids, "What do you want to see?" You know, what do you want to see on the menu? What can I put on there that you are interested in? Uh I I don't know. And all our donation money that we have received that goes to our free and reduced kits because that's for extra food, right? Just just so parents know that it's not for if you're fall behind and you're on a paid list. That money goes directly to all the extra food that we give those kids that they are they are they need they want. So I know there was a student who raised funds for the lunch balance at
068the end of the year one year and I think someone left a sum of money. Yes. And that all went to free and reduced. Okay. So this is all paid paid money that paid kids. So the free and reduced kids, they're only allowed one breakfast and one lunch. So if they want that extra slice of pizza, where's the money come? So I that's the donation money. If they want a snack in the morning, where does that come? It's not part of the breakfast free and reduced program. The donation monies come from that. So that's where all all it goes. It goes to families that kids can't afford snacks and extra slices and and especially it's sixth, seventh, and eighth now they're getting extra hamburger or they want to take a sandwich for later, they want
069to take one home. You know, my oldest will will always go up for another lunch if that's might be our seconds, right? So, yeah. Could we I struggle myself. I know obviously a sliding scale would be very difficult but there is an option um through my schoolbox I think is the application we use to manage the funds or to for people to reup could we charge a different rate based on autopay so when a balance gets to a certain threshold if you opt to auto replenish without having to go in and do it yourself manually discount or but if if they're paying a lower price for auto replenish then you're not chasing around that balance for people and then that incentivizes people to to auto pay and then you're not left with that remainder to
070try and chase down at the end of the year when everyone's, you know, going in a million directions. Tracking could be really tricky on that one. That's all I worry about. You know, I think I mean I love I love the idea of creativity, but when I think we've been very fortunate when you think about Gather gave us a significant donation this year. Um, the Rotary gave us two significant donations this year. Um, I do I do see that community members gave beautiful donations this year when I think about it. Um, we've been very fortunate and even with these significant donations, Mary, if you had to guess or Mariah, how much would you say they've donated? Just just ballpark. I'm not looking for exact. I'm thinking of at least $4,000. I was just going to
071say about $5,000. Yeah, $5,000. And even at that, we're not we're not But it's not if you if you think about it, it's only 3,000. I don't want to say only. It's $3,000 that we are trying to collect from students. But the difference is because cost of food has gone up. So it's the 30,000 that you're talking about. That's that's the that's the issue. So I it's hard to we just have to decide. Are we going to do you want to cover food? Yeah. Do we want to put it in our budget or I've always wanted to put it in the budget to be clear. Or is it supposed to be and my understanding is it's supposed to be self- sustaining. Well, food service is supposed to be self- sustaining. So you uh it's supposed
072to be whatever is coming in goes out and it zeros itself out. that 20 years ago how how it's supposed to be. 20 years ago. Yes. And then you can have an account in your fund balance that holds it for transfer. They don't suggest it, right? The auditors don't suggest it. SEU 21 actually has a separate account that they use to cover their shortages in food service. That's good. Okay. If we were able to figure something like that out, but we typically we typically dot our eyes and cross our tees. Yeah. If if we're leading the district, and we are, you know, that for us it's about following policies and procedures. I mean, if you're going to tell us to do something different, that's your prerogative. But we have to follow the recommendation which is
073to increase the prices because of the deficit between what the food service brings in and what well and the state gives us a tool. It's called PL PL2 and it you have to fill it out and actually send it to them as part of the food service application and you have to be in a threshold and they suggest uh price increase and at the minimum it's 10 cents and for years and years and years and I'm telling you been here 15 years we've barely done it so we are so behind anyway on that. So then when you look at it for the past couple of years it looks like we should be increasing 40 to 50 cents. Um and we just haven't. The problem with that is our problem is kids aren't buying lunches. And
074that's another the more the lunches cost the less kids are going to buy lunches when their parents get a cheap loaf of white bread and some peanut butter and send them with a 50 cent lunch. Instead we are looking at asking them to pay almost $4 for a lunch. I don't I just I don't know long term if it helps our situation. I mean that it's just like a restaurant, right? Like you have to pay for the food that's completely increased. We've increased salaries of employees like salaries it's one of those it's it's a business are I mean I think we could go deep down a rabbit hole here. Yeah. I have so many more questions than answers. I mean, like, do we get all our food from one vendor? Is there an opportunity? We
075just saw this great nature club. Well, well, we're in a New Hampshire buying group. So, um, the directors from the state, so we're in a buying group and we go out for bid every year or two years, I'm sorry, it's a two-year bid. So, we go out, they give us the best prices and combined because we're a strong buying group, I believe we're in the5 million dollars. I might be wrong, but that's how much business we give uh to the vendor. I might be wrong on that, but anyway, it's about a $5 million contract that uh the uh North Center uses, but we do go out for bid three different food vendors. Uh so when when do you need to know? Um I don't need to know until the secretary start printing up. Maybe July
0761st. No, we need it before we do um the auditors. No, not the auditors. When I upload the state report to get approval to be able to when is a week I have to have it done by September. September. No. Well, so my Did they change it? They changed the date. Yes, they changed the date. I mean, obviously we need to know when school starts, right? How much are going to be? Um, I'm going to ask a lightly awkward question. Are you going to be around this summer? I could be around on video. money. Okay, that's I guess part of my concern is we are missing two people. I absolutely think that they we can vote without them. We have a quorum. Um we should probably bring the PL tool that the state wants. All
077right. But I think we should I think we should put I personally think we should put this conversation off um and maybe try to discuss it discuss it in July and we could have Mary here on video. That would be fine. Two or three years ago, we also had talked about making a warn article for feeding Hampton feeding all students and it was quite a bit of money. But we have discussed we have discussed options like trying to make it feasible. I mean healthy bellies make it much easier to focus. Yeah. I mean I give you know one fresh fruit, one canned fruit, one fresh vegetable, one frozen vegetable. So, I try to weigh it out. You know, my kids are all hot lunch kids. They They love the salad by me. And I hear
078the first thing I hear about when they come home is how much they enjoyed their lunch. So, thank you. Um I I do think maybe I don't know. I know we have short runway and time is like of the essence here. And you hear about districts who have a greenhouse and they the kids get to grow some food as part of science and then participate in that. And I think maybe long term we could talk about doing I mean it's a weird environment and it's not like we're going to have a lot of discretionary spending and people are going to be fundraising in 30 different directions but um maybe there's something to that and I think people would appreciate knowing what our price increases have been what the forum is having a little bit of
079time you know in case I I definitely think that Candace and Molly will have opinions too but just give everyone time to digest it and if they have a thought to show up I think that's So, if we can put it on the agenda for July to put it for July, a new business. Yep. Okay. Okay. Thank you. I don't remember when. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Pay your lunch balance. Yes, please. Yes. Please. It's funny. I was doing back of the napkin math. 132 kids. It's It's like $25 a kid, but it adds up. But it adds up. Yeah, it does. All right. Thank you. All right, Dr. Costa. So, um, obviously it's a very busy time of year where the bit the office is busy with exit interviews. It's busy with interviewing for
080next year. Um, we are we are just, believe it or not, we're wrapping up the year, but we're thinking ahead. With that said, um, we have most of our professional staff positions filled at this time. I anticipate interviewing two more positions for the middle school um in the week ahead and filling up all those professional positions. We do have some long-term sub positions that we're still um we still have out there. So, we're we're keeping our fingers crossed on those that that should come. You know, that if people have a choice, a lot of times they will look for a a full-time versus a long-term sub. So sometimes those get filled later in later in the summer, July, August. So we'll we'll see how that lands. I think you heard Dr. Campbell talk about his
081chorus teacher that he's specifically looking for that he has yet to fill. Um the principles spoke specifically about all of their stepup days and their end of the year activities that we are looking forward to. All of these culminating events really make a nice closure for the school year for our students and staff. We're excited to participate in those. Um we anticipate having some policies to look at um for next month. We have second reads tonight. I believe we have farewell assemblies that we talked about. We have a final assembly on Monday. And last Friday night was the winit graduation which was absolutely fantastic. Last week, those seniors came by for their clapout. They really wanted to spend time at their their elementary schools, their middle school. It was really it was just absolutely wonderful
082to see them. Um really a proud moment. Five of the top 10 were from Hampton. You had the validictorian, West Granger, who is off to Princeton. And of course, Skyler Mace, the saludiatoran, is I believe off to UVM, maybe. Yes. Yep. And she's playing lacrosse. Um, it just was wonderful. And of course, you had the the student body president, Zoe Mueller, gave a phenomenal speech. It was just a wonderfully proud moment for for all of us to be there and to see our kids and to just to be a piece of that. and were appreciative that Annabelle Holmes took the lead on um making sure that they could get the crap the clap out and the send off that they so deserved. And I told them I said as long as I'm here, they always
083have a place to come back to and we love seeing them. So that it's never a question. We love to see them and they're always welcome to come back. So some great pictures on our Facebook post if you want to take a peek. Um, obviously we've got things going on with our association. Mariah is the secretary for ASBO, which is the business officials. I'm stepping up as a Southeaster, and I will be on their executive board next um well, this coming August, September, so that'll come quick. We do have that big meeting which comes at the end of the month up north. So, we're looking forward to that. Looking at our safety, this past Monday, there was a team of us, six of us that went to Pelum High School for training on re reunification,
084which was a great opportunity for us to work with 120 people around the state on training called I Love You guys. It was actually um taken sadly from um a student that unfortunately did not survive a school shooting. It was one of her last texts and um all of the stuff is open source material. It's available. It's free. Next year we are going to work with our SRO's and Chief Reno, Chief McMahon on reunification training and really digging into some of these drills just ensuring the physical safety of our students. So, we're looking forward to doing that. On June 17th, we will host a end of the year barbecue for our staff. At that time, we'll also be sure to recognize our staff in front of their colleagues. We have their first year contract where
085your everyone is invited. School board, please come. That will be June 17th. We figured that will start at 12:30 at Hampton Academy. We'd love to have you come. Um, moving forward, just other highlights. You know, as facilities manager Tim Harrington said, um, we are trying to get the HVAC project off the ground at center school. Those meetings take place on Tuesday. Um, I have to give props to Keith Lassard as he comes in for those meetings. We really do appreciate it. Um, we know that Tim is more than capable, but I think what Keith has is the longevity and the historical perspective of what has had what's happened at center school. So, we really do appreciate it. Right now, we are looking at um the legal contract that I have to sign. So, our lawyers
086are kind of working through that as we speak. Um, there were three bully reports that I received. So, just a little update on that and two that were substantiated. One in two in the last week or so. Just wanted to make sure we cl I clarified that. Um, looking at professional practice, um, you get a sense of summer programming. um July 1st to the 24th this year, Tuesdays through Thursdays, 8:30 to 11 for K7. Our eighth graders will be at Winnant High School. Bus transportation is provided. We know that our students participated in the New Hampshire SAS assessments. Um very interesting um speaking with our staff at this time of year and looking at data and um talking with my first grade staff and one of the things we know is from the science of
087reading letters training Lexia they they tell you that if you implement this with fidelity that 95% of your students will be at benchmark. Now, when I heard this, because I did participate in the training this year as an administrator, there was a lot of push back on that virtual meeting, I was a skeptical. I will be the first to say 97% sounds awfully high. When speaking with first grade teachers, they were pleased to let me know that 97% of their kindergarteners, just give me the nod, center, were at benchmark this year. So, kindergarten. Yeah, kindergarten. You need to pull that back. Getting a little feedback. Yeah. So I mean when you hear that 97% of your kindergartens are at benchmark that is a huge accomplishment and one of the things that one of the teachers
088said to me is that they're convinced that this um letters training has been really instrumental in all of that. So was really excited to to see that. Um, on another end, we also look at our Sabers data data and I was with my mental health team just about a week or so ago and we were also looking at those students that were at risk at the beginning of the year and we kind of monitor them three times a year. So we do it in the we do it in the fall, we do it in the winter, and then we look at it at this time of year. And the number of students that move from at risk to mod moderately at risk or not at risk has also increased. So this data to me is
089is promising as I'm starting to see some good systems come together. So just want to um let you know that the hard work is paying off and when you see that you just it gives you some it makes you feel like we are doing the right work and it's just a tribute to the hard work being done by everyone. You can see that um we're looking at obviously end of the year assessments just to make sure kids are making the growth that we would like them to make. We're attending that conference that I mentioned the 24th to 27th. And then of course we are sending a team to the ASCD ISTY conference June 29th to July 2nd. An opportunity to take a look at curriculum and technology and we're excited to see what this first
090joint um conference looks like. It's the first one we're there together. So we'll see how that goes. And I think that's enough. Attached to uh my report was the last newsletter from the Cook Center, transitioning our kids from school to summer that families have received. I will make sure they get it with my newsletter if they haven't already just as another way of getting that out there. Um just a great newsletter. And then also, believe it or not, preparing for our leadership retreat July 7th through the 9th. Um and you can see the kind of work that we will be doing as we think about um our goals for this year. Thinking about how we did where we want to move thinking about the special ed audit that Dr. Dilva Napton talked about and the
091LEA determination kind of looking at that um an opportunity to work with Katherine Leswing who is from the department of ed on multi-tered systems of support. also doing the required webinar for the LEA determination that afternoon thinking about professional development planning and then on Wednesday we will be meeting with Primix. They are insurance holders. Carol Kilmeister will be there to speak with us and then we do have team building in the afternoon and we were debating what we were going to do. Last year we did a breakout room. Um this year I spoke with um Alexandria from SUP and little did I know that was Eric York's sister. So we spoke with Erica York's sister and it was kind of fun because um knowing Erica um PTA person and also my neighbor across the street
092um she was more than happy to host our team. So we'll have an opportunity to do some paddle boarding first time for many of us but it will just be a great opportunity for some team building. So, we'll hit the ground running and you can see that there are some other items that we want to cover throughout the summer as we think about policies, handbooks, safety, and our presentation to all of you in August. So, there's a lot there's a lot to think about, right? And trying to stay ahead of that um with everything else going on. Questions or comments for my report or something that you would like me to be thinking about? Are you still good? I was just looking at the date and in theory the board meeting would be kind of
093in the middle of that. Are you are you good with that? Yep. We we specifically picked it because we knew we'd all be here. Okay. All right. So, we did. So, we our our retreat will end around 2:30 3:00. We're going to be at the Kerry Cottage in Portsouth, which is a lovely spot. Um we were there last year and we'll we'll be there again this year. So, we're we're local. Can you give um just a quick update on the last math curriculum meeting? I sure can. So, um just to let you know that a decision was m met um made and it was a unanimous decision and they are deciding to um we are moving forward with everyday math. We're really excited about that. Um we also talked about um data points for next
094year thinking about um is the star data giving us what we want? So that's a conversation that we had. We're also going to be diving into differentiated instruction. Um, we also spoke about Acadians, which center school is using as one of their pieces of data, and I know that third grade is going to give that a try next year, and just to see how that works out to determine whether or not that might be something we might use K5. So, a lot of conversations about the everyday math pilot, the consensus that was built, how we going to roll that out, where we're going to build in professional development. So, um just some planning for that. You're welcome. Any more questions for Dr. Cost? Okay. All right. So, we've covered I also have um Sure. So,
095I'm sorry. I should have said this. We have some um donations. We should probably do that, too, right? Why don't we Why don't we just do those on the consent agenda and we'll do those along with the U minutes and we'll just wipe them all out at once. I'm great. That sounds good to me. Perfect. Um so, under new business, we've already done three of the four and I think really you touched on some on summer. I did you need to do anything else under summer updates? No, just that we expect that center school is going to be very busy this summer with a huge HVAC system all things going forward. Um, keeping our fingers crossed. Um, so we've got that going on. No, I think we did. We talked about it. Just to be
096aware of what's going to be happening. Awesome. With that in summer programming. All right, Mrs. Curtis, it is my turn. This means usually everybody leaves. I know, right? They don't want to listen to me. I get the boring part. They want to carry. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so Yep. Yep. Um, so, okay, we've actually for me to put a pause. We You need a break. Okay. We need to We're gonna Oh, it's okay. I guess they don't want to listen to me. We're going to We're just taking a short break while they clear out and we're we're good. Yep. Yep. Okay. Okay. calling the meeting back to order. Okay, so Mrs. Curtis. Okay, now I get to talk. It's nothing exciting um other than we have the rest of this month, which is a few weeks
097to get everything completed. Um all purchase orders are in and just trying to clean up all the purchase orders, make sure everything is accountable for call all our vendors to make sure we have everything. Button it all up, get all the revenues in. um finish up the grants, get the grant revenues posted. Um really it's all like hammering out everything. We have one more payroll and just full out complete cleaning up the system um before we end. Um once that all happens, I will have three weeks to have everything completely cleaned up and organized because then the auditors will be in. So, my goal um I do have a rough draft, but I didn't want I I did it because I was not sure if we were going to have a July meeting or not.
098But since we have a July meeting early, um I will have pretty much cleaned up final numbers for you on um suggestions on vote to return to taxpayers, what we should keep for contingency fund and where we landed for the year for food service and for us. Um, the number that I come up with usually is maybe $5,000 difference than the auditors because they have I do it fiscal year. They have to go by Gazsby and so we make adjustments of payroll and stuff from last year from the first of June and we kind of merge it together and come up with a final number. Um, so it's a little bit off than what I give you. I go by fiscal year. Um and then but we'll vote on that contingency amount and so when
099the auditors come I have that vote and then I can get ready for the DOE25 to be done um because that usually takes at least a week if not more um and then a couple new reports that are um due new rules with Gatsby has changed. So, I have a couple um new reports and then new state reports that need to be posted on um set paper, set thick of paper, set information like it's going to be a little different this year, but we'll get it done. Um I've I've been keeping up with um the laws and I'm involved in New Hampshire ASBO um like Lois said, so that um we're all on the same page and all doing the same reports. So that's quite helpful um so that we can stay where we need
100to be. Um but it's looking if just my quick estimates it's looking that um we'll have about $225,000 in revenues that we can return to the taxpayers. Great. And um then be able to put the rest in contingency. Um, and I'm not exactly sure of that number, but my guesstimate would be um 542,605. It's a guesstimate, but it sounds like a lot. That's not my fund balance. It's because the contingency that we kept from last year has to go back in as fund balance and then you have to refund it by a percentage. Um and we last year put in contingency um retainage of $58,79. So it's really not that much more added into that. Um but I will give you a complete breakdown of revenues next month. uh the revenue surplus, the estimated um
101turnback of our contingency from last year, where our fund balance landed, and how we could break that down and vote on that for next month. Um other than that, like I said, it's just crazy to the end of the year trying to get it all cleaned up. It as quick as it starts, it's quick to end. I can't believe it. We're just setting up a new system. Any questions? Oh, I did give you in my report um a breakdown of the credit card usage for the year. I try to do that every year at this time. Um there's real no invoices for the credit card. So what we try to do is um most of the expenditures that we utilize a credit card for is if food service needs to they run out of buns
102or items they have to run to the Shaws or um Hannerfords we have that for gas um for the truck for food service and for facilities. Um if there's conferences and we need to use it for hotel or transportation or hotel, it's for that. And then just random things that we don't have vendors for, that is um a little bit easier to do by credit card. But the invoices that we do, we try to make it where we purchased it from or what we purchased so that you can have that information. Um if there's any questions on any one of the purchase purchases, just feel to send me an email and I can give you that information. Um but I try to do that for you every year. And then next month I will also
103give you a breakdown of the all the grants for the whole year. Um and then Lois Dilva also started working on our grants for next year. We don't know the amounts yet but we had to do um a guesstimate of what we normally use it for. So um IDA would be our pairs and such and we pulled that together. So there is we should be able to start that process way sooner in the in the beginning of the summer. So I think that's it. It's busy and and she's working with the new people services director to so yes and I know um I did it in between um when when Lois was Janine and the Lois changed. So if there are certain things that need to get done in the middle I can help out
104with that too. Okay. Yeah. They had um yeah, they had some transitional time and also Lois is leaving her a playbook, which is more than anyone has ever had. So, it's a start. Okay, great. Okay, great. So, I'm appreciative of that, too. They Yeah, but yeah, she's come in and spent some time. And she said she goes, um, I think she even said it in her report, if you need me to call, she'll be here to help. I appreciate that tremendously. Yep. That is all for me. Thank you. All right, we are looking at personnel, please. Okay, so I'll start on page 61. How's that sound? Sounds good. All right, so I just wanted to bring to your attention that obviously Kathy is going to be retiring at the end of this year. And I
105know that I apologize if I was remiss, but just want to let you know that um Erin Allen has been hired and that was done with a with a um consensus. we had quite a large group of people that met and were involved with her interview process. And you can see that most recently she was the administrative assistant to the superintendent um down in Winchester public schools in Winchester, Mass. And she is uh moving to Hampton. So, it's we have a a new person in our neighborhood, but also somebody who's got some experience and um somebody who was brought to our attention and she was the one that we had consensus with. That's great. So, we welcome Erin Allen. Look forward to meeting her. Yeah. So, you'll get to see her. She she's also has
106done a number of days under Kathy Tuck. Um, which again I'm so agre appreciative and grateful when these, you know, very experienced people are willing to mentor those new people coming in. That will be a big adjustment and big change for the SAU. So, I'm grateful to Kathy and I'm also grateful to Erin for coming in. um the way this is um in order. I apologize, but you could see Kathy and I kind of share the responsibility of this, but if you go to I'm going to have you kind of go backwards because Yeah, actually page 73. So, you'll see on page 73, and I do apologize that we did receive um a letter of resignation from Amy Lungquist on May 28th. So for your consideration and we also have a letter of resignation from
107Megan Cargill submitted on May 29th and a letter of resignation from Nicole Wilcox submitted on June 2nd. And then I do have some Yeah. So have I think we are we don't have the Megan on page 74.4. Yeah. page 74. It's okay. Oh, there we go. Okay. Awesome. Yep. Do I have Let's see. Do I have a motion to accept Amy Lungquist's resignation? I'll make a motion to accept the resignation of Amy Lenquist. I'll second. All in favor? Okay. You guys want to swap? Do I have a motion to accept Megan Cargill's resignation? I'll make a motion to accept the um resignation of Megan Cargill. I'll second. All in favor? And I will make the motion to accept Nicole Wilcox's resignation. Do I have a second? A second. I'm going to I'm going to make
108that motion with much much regret. All in favor? Thank you. Thank you. So then going back to page 63, I apologize. It's it's a collaboration. Um, you'll see that we are looking to hire uh Anthony Baker as the French teacher for Hampton Academy. You make a motion? Yeah, I'll make a motion to um accept the Anthony Baker for the position of French teacher for Hampton Academy. Second. I was reading his CV. So, he's been at Winnacon, which is great. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. Okay. Um, all in favor? Yeah. Thank you. And then, um, you know that Heather is retiring. And so, on page 65, I would like a nomination for Elise Perry, who is um a speech language pathologist who is no stranger to Hampton. She went to the Hampton schools. She is a graduate of
109Winn Kit and um is now back in the area. You may remember her last name was Ren. That name means anything to you. So yes, kind of a full circle moment. Yep. Yep. I'll make a motion to um accept this from um Ely Perry for the position of speech and language pathologist. Thank you. Second. All in favor? Thank you. And you'll notice she's got her resume for your review. And then on page 69, um, with Mary Wilson retiring, we are looking to bring on Jacqueline Stillwagon. Okay. I'll make a motion to accept Jacqueline Stillwagon for the position of kindergarten classroom teacher. I'll second that one. All in favor? Thank you. And I do have um two interviews. Um Dr. Campbell just finished up that on Monday afternoon. I'm just waiting for that paperwork to land
110on my desk. Once it does, I will get them in. We'll interview them and we will um move forward and in July I will update you. I will I will want to secure that before the June 30th deadline with your permission of course. So I make a motion to allow Dr. Costa to um secure those two positions on our behalf. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Can you second that? Do we need to second have a motion? So, yep. Okay. All in favor? Thank you. Okay. Next, we have policies. We have a number of second reads. Um, was there something about JIC? I just know there was a there were some extra copies of it earlier and I didn't know if there was a change or Okay. All right. So, does anyone have any questions on these
111second read policies? My suggestion then if we don't have any specific questions is that we approve them as as a basically all at once. Do I have a motion to approve these? One, two, three, four, five, six. Sorry. Six policies and one form uh slprocedure. I'll make a motion to accept these six policies. And what did you say? The one one is like a pro uh procedure slashform. Yes. Procedure. Right. All right. I'll second that motion. Okay. All in favor? Okay. Thank you. All right. Oh, sorry. There's just something an old old paper. Okay. All right. We are almost there. Uh we have consent agenda. So for the consent agenda, we have four, I believe it is four checks. We have one from Lamprey Healthcare, Secos public health network uh for $100 to support the
112family playgroups project for Dr. Silva Napton. Um, we have one from the PTA to the academy for $15,000 which will support their growing technology program and enrichment for all three grade levels. We have one for Marston from Boxtops for $9480. And we have one for center school. I believe that is also yes from the PTA in the amount of $550. and that is going to be used to offset the cost of field day t-shirts. Um, we also for minutes we have draft minutes of May 13th, we have the draft minutes of May 20th. And we have the minutes of the non-public session also on May 20th. Does anybody have any comments or need to pull any of these out for specific discussion? Seeing none, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? I'll
113make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. All right. Thank you. All in favor? Okay. So, that gets all of those at one time. Thank you. All right. We are almost there. Um, do we have anyone here for public comment on agenda items? Okay, seeing none, public comment time is closed. I would like to call a non-public session under RSA 91- A3 2 A through M. Uh, this would be for student privacy. Roll call vote, please. Sarah. Yes. Yes. I Okay. All right.