001good evening we're going to call the meeting to order at this time please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance 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 justice for all so we're going to begin with the assignment of the board positions I have a second all those in favor carries and and abstention yes okay 401 so I'm going to pass the torch and we're going to switch seats okay all right [Music] all right get terrifying right next we need to nominate a vice chair do I have a nominee for vice chair I'd like to make a motion to nominate Andrea for vice chair I'll second that all in favor and one exstension right it'll be fine we'll just
002hold this out here it'll be fine so yes the next thing we are going to do is we are going to go through actually public comment on agenda items is next on the agenda so we'll do that and then we'll go through and reorganize committee so is there anyone here who would like to make a comment on agenda items seeing none we will tuck that time at the end of the meeting um we will go through the Schoolboard member committees so first committee is budget committee if we have a vict a volunteer for that yes objections Molly is going to take Budget Building facilities oh uh yes we should do an alternate for bucom um if nobody has an objection I'll I'll be the alternate for that so okay building and Facilities to have a
003volunteer it has been Mrs Shepard Contin to be you um um and I will say I do think Sarah has some interest in it so maybe if you guys can both yeah you I'm going on the list that we created I have I'm using I'm using the agenda she's using the agenda you might want to go with this one because we had to well that's fine go for it go for it do the agend okay um CIP Molly are you still good with that yeah absolutely are you master planning M good continuing with that yes NHS ba um I'm good with taking that yes sorry I should explain what it is yes New Hampshire Schoolboard Association policy two volunteers for policy okay you okay that Mom yeah and how about PTA one volunteer or we
004could do two yeah okay so why don't we alternate both okay wck Department I am happy to keep W Department unless somebody else C and sespa negotiations we don't need that for this year we won't need it we need to put in why don't we do that just in case something should come up like coaches that would be great yeah I'm thinking for the coaches we'll have to do that that'd be great Andrea y for see perfect steering do you want to stick with and also for wellness okay there any on your list professional development professional develop oh it doesn't yeah that wasn't and yes we had so just so the public is aware the list for uh these committees is the the policy that goes along with it is pretty loose and it allows
005us to essentially add whatever we think is important as a committee and I actually would like to add legislative Lea on to that list um essentially there are three you say three meetings a year at wonet yeah well at least two anyways at Le at least two at least two yeah and I have been going to those I would like to continue um and that position would basically report back on sort of big legislative things that are going on if anybody else would like to be on that as well and just so you know you are all invited to those meeting what come up and the invit go out to everybody on the Hampton School Board they do provide dinner it is a great evening evening with um just all of our local Representatives that
006try to come so everyone's welcome to that I just no that's it we're good we're good yep thank you I think we actually can move on to reports Mr robai you ready good evening um welcome to the new school board members look forward to working with you both um a couple things going on um at Center School um we were able to purchase a new buddy bench um I think I may have mentioned that once but it's been delivered now so we look forward to um installing that this spring in the kindergarten and first grade playground um and also educating the students its purpose and how to use it um it's a great addition um to the property so we're very excited and appreciative of the PTA for uh helping put that together um it's
007March so there's a lot of literacy events going on um at Center School um last week we had a special character day and guest reader day so just again a big shout out to all the folks that came down as guest readers um it's a great event it's great for the kid kids that connect with community members um and get an opportunity to read a book to them um we have a grades K to2 author visit coming up this Friday and that's Marty Kelly so we're looking forward to hosting him um and then we're also kicking off our one school one book initiative at the end of the month um the students have also had a special reading challenge where they're trying to read a thousand books collectively so they could pie uh myself and
008Mrs Hayward in the face so um they've already achieved that goal and now they're on the next thousand so we're proud of our readers um just a couple things coming up that we want the community to be aware of um you know we have parent teacher conferences uh this coming Thursday March 20th um it is an early release day teachers have sent out their um appointment slots so families if you feel like you haven't heard from your classroom teacher um feel free to reach out to the school and make sure we get in touch with you um trimester 2 concludes on Friday March 21st so again just to be aware of that report cards will be uh issued in Alma on Monday March 31st um and then I also just wanted to make the public
009aware that we have our kindergarten in information night coming up on April 15th so again just want to get the word out to the community that that is coming up and certainly an important night for families um to get their Kinder their student in the kindergarten process um and then just wanted to make note to uh myself and a few of the other leadership team members um one SRO got to attend um Alice instructor training over February vacation so um that was a very informative two-day um um instructor course it was pretty intensive um we felt like we gained a lot of important knowledge about how to keep our school safer so we bringing that back to the leadership team and kind of evolving conversation on next steps so uh we appreciate um the district
010supporting our attendance of that so um and with that uh be happy to answer any questions of the school board okay have a great night thank you Mr Sadler hello everybody so just a couple things um I checked a few things off because Mark already went over them tomorrow we've got a couple exciting events going on Earth do will be at our school um I would recommend you Google it if You' never heard of it it's a 19t high by 22t wide inflatable Globe um they talk a lot about geography environmental issues it ties in with all three grade levels social studies and science units so every student will have a 30-minute presentation two classes at a time where they get to explore the outside with a presenter and then they actually get to go
011inside of the Dome and learn a little more about some of the Earth Systems and features of our planet so kids will be talking about it tomorrow night we have our soldout variety show here at Hampton Academy at 6 p.m we completely sold out it's one of the first times we've done that which is awesome but um it'll be a great event showcasing this students for those you that can't attend it'll be taped and put out on the local channels the website probably Facebook everywhere else um a couple other things on Friday uh parents and caring adults should look for a flyer yearbooks will be on sale um I don't have the exact price off the top of my head but just keep an eye out if you're interested in purchasing a yearbook for your
012student and finally just more of a community update um we found out from our instellar that the pieces of our playground that were damaged early this year should be coming in anytime in the next few weeks and those will be installed um so we can finally take down the costume tape and have some um fresh playground equipment for the students to use and enjoy and the community to enjoy um outside of school but other than that it's March it's busy um it's a great time conferences are coming up report cards and then we get into April and we'll talk a little bit about New Hampshire SAS coming up that month and a few other things that'll take place but otherwise I'm here for questions if you have any all right take care thank you thank
013you right Dr Campbell all right good evening everyone um we are going to start off with a little uh video that um our new teacher uh Mr Brian G gray um created for our new robotics program uh Mr Gray is new to our school um by the way of Sanborn high school he's um a real star in our building so far he's uh was nominated for Teacher of the Year and was a finalist uh for New Hampshire teacher of the year and is currently a finalist for the presidential award of excellent for Math and Science teachers we're really excited for all the things that he is doing um we were to make a video of all the great things that he's he's doing in his class we'd be here for another hour so we're just
014going to work on our robotics um program that he's started off with some money uh that we got from some some grants and I'll with that I'll let him take it away Mr Dr cam was a little taller than I am all right thank you Dr camell for those kind words I appreciate it uh really excited to come and talk today about our robotics curriculum it was something that when I came over I actually didn't know much about um did some research on it and really liked um the different robotics that we're working with thing I really like about it it reminds me somehow a little bit of the old Erector Sets where you can like build stuff and put them together which means they're customizable we've already started using the new bamboo 3D printer
015to start putting like bumpers on them and different um kind of ways to accessorize it a little bit um so we've been working with that um but the robotics have they can kind of be used for all different purposes I've used a little bit in each of the grade levels as you'll kind of see up there doing something with um the cyberp which allows you to do motion sensor um games where you can move it around kind of like a Wii and you can code a game that works with that all the way up to having the robot be able to be voice um commands and things like that so this is kind of like the Baseline curriculum and then we're going to build it up from there but I was kind of learning as
016I was going and I'm really happy with the results that we have so far starting to work on with my second semester of eighth graders and just today they were able to get into the classroom learn a little bit about the software and then by the end of the class they were um controlling the robotics doing their own code with the Bluetooth keyboards that we have in class so um I'll have in a second we can roll up the the video they told me to queue them first so I give him a little cue instead of just saying here's the video so um if you have any questions afterwards I'd be happy to answer them so in the videos just kind of shows some clips and has some interviews um from some of the students
017from um sixth seventh and eth grade and the robotics class in technology we did a lot of Step by steps on how to work the robots and then we also did step by step on how to build the robots I thought the robotic unit was very fun and I learned that you should use like teamwork a lot I love the robotics it and I learned how to make a robot and I thought that was really cool we did a lot of coding and coding from the keyboard and then switching from the keyboard to the controller and we also have to figure out how to add more code onto an original code how to save codes how to combine coating together it was really fun in the robotic student I think that I got a lot
018of problem solving skills and I really enjoyed it being able to build things with my friends and make them actually work and see that happen my favorite moment I think is probably when we were first testing the robots or when we built them I really liked building the robots and getting in the machines trying to figure out how to screw it all together how to plug everything in so it was pretty fun I feel like one of the best parts was just having fun by building the robots and putting like all of it together and being able to C it back I feel like my favorite moment was trying to figure out what shapes I can make the robot make just by like moving it and coating um so for our robotics competition we had
019to create a code on our computer and to make these robots actually move and like all the buttons do different [Music] things um we really enjoyed kind of like the competition and the whole process during it cuz in the end we won so yeah that was what we kind of enjoyed my experience with the robot careform at Hampton Academy was very easy open and inviting to all the robots we used in The Tech Lab really fun we got to experiment with different kinds of coding and different kinds of robots with sensor games and driving robots around and what we did was this coding thing called make block and we use these like cyber pie things and with the Cyber pie you can control robots make them do dance parties pick up blocks and even make
020video games like where you have a hammer and you have to attack the monster but really it was just a fun cool thing that we could do in school [Applause] yeah Rasberry P so yeah it's great question it's not a raspberry piie it's a cyber pie so it's it's a little bit smaller it's like the size of like one of those mini like candy bars maybe a little bit longer You' get but the cool part about it is you can connect it by bluetooth or by um wire and so everything that you code in because you can do block coding and then you can also do python coding which allows them to actually do text based coding as well that's going to be the next level up but it's basically puts all that information in
021there and then you can just plug it right in and it starts working or it can work independently on its own as its own kind of computer as you saw the students moving it around and hitting it um like making but it does other things too it sensors 360 and everything so so yeah it was really cool learning the stuff and playing with it and every day it was kind of like hey what can we do with this and sometimes the kids came up with stuff on how to use it better than I did sometimes because I gave them a little bit more of a blank canvas sometimes hey try it out cat it see what you can do troubleshoot it I think that was my favorite part was seeing the students troubleshoot like because
022the code didn't work perfect but they could go back and then comb through it collaboratively work together in fine code when we did the first robotics unit especially the um competition I don't know how many times the kids went and tried it and it didn't work and they went back they actually like Turned sometimes to Python and went looked on like line 32 and was like this is missing this is missing and then they fixed it and then went back and it worked there was one team that troubleshooted the whole time and I was watching them do it and with about like four minutes left in class they got the robot to work and they were able to compete because it was like a three minute round and so they were like so excited to
023see it moving and going but I think with what we're moving towards as a society the more you can you know valid something and learn from it and do more is the better off you'll be success-- wise especially with robots so that was my favorite part about it and if you follow my Facebook post you know that um our Center School and Marson School use ozobots for their programming and coding so it's amazing when you look and see what Center School students are doing right K12 but then when they get up to Middle School the kinds of coding that they're actually doing problem solving and all of that so it's pretty remarkable to see that kind of you know that progress which is fantastic yeah anybody else have any questions thank you very much for
024coming that was a great presentation thank you guys for having us appreciate it he's very modest but um all the things that he does inside of his class has been has been amazing um on top of that he um facilitates the shark news um I say facilitates because it's really student centered as you see in his class he really lets the kids take control um he's also been uh really um on the Forefront of allowing kids to design different um logos in his class which then he's able to then put out to some really nice gear so I got my Shark news on um and so you the kids the the amount of times the kids say oh my gosh my design is on a shirt how cool is that and they all vote and
025um it's been really great to see um follow up with that shark news did have a field trip to um studio lab which is a professional uh Studio where they do all types of all types of filming from professional commercials to to film um and that was a really enriching experience for them um to be able to see how AI is now playing a playing a role in there um but to move on to some other things at Hampton Academy our geography wrapped up um our winner uh Ryan June was our winner congratulations to em and morocca for our second place and Colton very for third place um we had Hampton players do yearbook this weekend it was an excellent performance um it was really great to see them get better and better and better
026congratulations to the Hampton Academy players and Judith Clark for that excellent performance um another successful Sports here including our unified basketball team um big shout out to those guys Bonnie Heath and Miles Panet for um bringing together a really cool event where um all of our students from different backgrounds are coming on to the court to really help kids and um it's great to see a gym full of people rooting on students with disabilities um and tomorrow morning you at 7:45 to 8:15 um if you would like to learn more we have a coffee chat over in the um community room with myself and Miss LaVine um just an opportunity for you guys to come and you know share some ideas or anything like that and just kind of get a pulse on on what
027we're doing here and how we can make it better um excuse me I we have our early release day on the 20th again parent teacher conference just want to emphasize anyone who does want a conference they are eligible to get a conference please reach out to their team teachers and we will definitely get you into schedule one um but on top of that we have our uh a blood drive here in the cafeteria going on that day so please make sure if you're able to donate please do so and also a ancient trade Roots Market um for our sixth graders is going to be a fundraiser from 2:30 to 4 over in the gymnasium our students are working on um different things that they items that they might be able to sell so bring a
028little cash um we're going to give you uh tickets and then you can go to each one of the tables where each student has something that unique that they can go and sell um on the 25th music of our music and our schools concert will will um be over at wiut at high school um on the 26 the at 5:00 pm the eighth grade or torical presentations will be going on um like like everyone said our report cards will be going out on April 13th we are excited to have the port I mean sorry April April 3D we are excited to have the port Portsmith Portsmith Naval Shipyard in for a stem day so it's going to be grade level um stations um where they're able to really focus on science technology and and it'll
029be a really good opportunity um we've done it in the past it's been great on the seventh we have a heart screening um check our newsletters for an online sign up it's about $20 for that and um the Washington DC final payments were due on the 15th so if you have not made those payments please do so uh on a side note um we're still looking for lacrosse coaches if you know anyone who' want to get involved we're going to extend until Friday but other than that we're going to have to close that um but besides that I really uh having a great time here as you can tell just getting kids involved but with that I will leave it to questions from the board so would you like to tell people what we do
030have for spring Sports uh we have softball baseball and track do we have the team that you need for baseball I know we've been talking about that our numbers went up yes great to hear that yeah what do you have the track coaches that you need I just want to throw that out there too if we need that yes we just uh we had two parents step up and we're excited to have them on board so is it will it be limited because of the only two I just think that's something that yeah we are looking at limiting it just because of the sheer numbers we want to make sure that we provide a safe um a safe experience so um right now we have about 60 5 students and we're looking to cap it
031in and around there so so I just I would put one more final plea out that if there are parents that want to help with our track team that will help us to ex keep the program expanded otherwise we would have to limit it due to the student adult ratios just we want to make sure that we're keeping all kids safe that was I know something brought to our attention last year so just want to put a plugin anybody any parent out there who'd like to help us with Spring Track we'd love to have you we could certainly benefit from an addition one additional coach would you say mhm yeah certainly thank you Dr Campbell no problem yeah all right thank you Dr dilva napton good evening and Welcome to our new board members nice
032to see everybody body um so let's see let me just talk about numbers first we are holding steady at just over 20% of our kids identified in the district we've been holding that pretty much since the beginning of the year um referrals are holding steady we are Staffing is we're across the board we're still doing what we're doing we're stretching ourselves to make it work till the end of this school year we've got some great hires that we're working on I know few of them are coming to the board right now hopefully next meeting you'll have some more and um I hope to be fully staffed you know in the special ed Department by the end of the school year um we did have some great events happen uh Dr Campbell talked about the Unified
033sports um we are one of two middle schools who have Unified sports in um the state which is really exciting so the two teams played each other and it was just a great great time um it was like he said the the stands were full there so many kids were involved um and we just this is our second year doing that and we did it's been Grant funded we Grant funded they got the uniforms um we're going to start buying some equipment and we'll just keep expanding so that's been really fun um the hatch Coalition we are one years old one years one year old of this um this month so we're just so excited I can't believe that that Coalition has just um it's just grown and flourished so much it's we're just so
034excited so I remember at this time last year we were sitting around the table saying oh my gosh you know I'm not a Grassroots person like I'm I don't like to be sitting around not knowing what we're doing or where we're going or what the heck is happening so we set some goals and said well how are we going to know we're successful at this time next year and we wrote up a few things and sure enough we've we've accomplished them we've done a bunch of events and uh two of them are coming up one of them is the advocacy 101 Workshop it's on April 1st I know Dr Costa has this in her uh newsletter so if you do want to get a there's a QR code um it we're working with new Futures
035who who's another hatch um member Alliance for us and they're putting on a workshop it's just for anyone and everyone to come out and learn how to be a good Advocate um at the legislative level it's for parents to be able to Advocate um for your friends and family we are serving dinner um and there will be free play club for your kids and play Club is an addition to the anxious generation book that we've been reading as a group in a community um we are taking that to the next level here in Hampton and we are um partnering with some college and a university in Massachusetts that's trying to gather data on the importance of free play and how it's working out so they've given us these massive play kits they're in a big
036bin it has all kinds of stuff in it like buttons and duct tape and whole stuff that you just wouldn't tubes and things just to play with and basically the point is you give this to the children and you watch them and help them play uh with these things so it's called play Club you'll be hearing a lot more about it and we're doing it in some of the classrooms now too and one more event Curious George is coming to town on April 12th um this is a pretty big event it's a partner with s partnership with se21 it's at wi count high school from 1 to three um Curious George is there the library is there we've got all kinds of vendors there um can get a free pass to the Children's Museum and
037again if you want to sign up for either one of these two events there are QR codes right on the Flyers and there's a bunch of Flyers all around town and they also the principles have been so good about attaching these things um but there's I know there's a lot going on right now March is very busy and often we think it's a short month but it's almost done so that's all I have any questions for me Dr DK what is the age range on that on the for the kids at the advocacy workshop for the play Oh I would say anybody and everybody will will will'll we'll play with all your kids and if they're older we them be you know peer Role Models sure it was my story time I was I was
038wanting to see if I should put out my story time so we do it's for anyone and everyone questions no okay thank you are all set Mr Smith please join us hello good evening um for us in the tech department uh same thing as always busy supporting everything that we can um getting ready for a report card roll out which means making sure everybody can log into the portal making sure that the report cards are displaying correctly for when they're sent out um also working with everything related to rostering for upcoming State assessments um Channel 8 is very involved in a number of projects right now they just helped out with the play uh geography B they'll be recording the variety show coming up as well um and then other than that we're trying to
039look ahead to next year a little bit uh because we have some concerns around availability of equipment and overall pricing with some of those things so we're just working with our vendors to make sure we're getting the best pricing that we can um and other than that that's pretty much where we're at right now so I open it up to any questions I I have one only because I know where you were today um so today there was a state workshop for anyone who wanted to hear a little bit more about AI I know that you were so kind to being si in January you did it last month you did a nice little over for you is there any um just one or two key takeaways that you might want to share with us
040not to put you on the spot but we're so fresh on on your mind um overall nothing too major uh obviously it is something that we're going to have to really entertain moving forward because it's not going away and it's a tool that will really benefit kids as we move forward uh we just need to make sure we're making the best decisions for how we're implementing it to make sure we're keeping everybody as safe as possible and that we have all the proper guard rails and policies in place um because the last thing we want to do is open it up and then try to rain it back in cuz everybody knows once once the C out of the bag it's hard to get it back in so you thank you for attending that on
041behalf of our district appreciate you and ni going thank you Mr Harrington excuse me I gave you all a form too from Mr Harrington regarding water just in case evening all okay yeah you want to get into that now whenever you might as well uh so that letter that went home today from Marson School uh get the let out program I don't know if you've heard of that um we take samples from every single school every single outlet every faucet that somebody could potentially drink from um I have not received results back for Senate school or hampon Academy yet but Marson came back we had two outlets out of 91 that had a higher level of lead um one of them was the spray hose for the dish machine so nobody drinks out of that
042anymore probably just leave that one alone and today we actually had the faucet in library was changed out today so we'll test that in a couple days and see how that and if not then we'll just put a sign up on that one too that it's not for drinking but I'm still waiting on results from the other two schools um any questions on that before I go away from that no okay um so my third meeting and I've been talking about the same stuff um the vestibule at the SAU we're getting close on that one uh the yellow fence is down the yellow fence is down um I got an email today that flooring is hopefully coming on Thursday between Thursday and Friday which will be good um we had doors worked on today I
043had that done today where there we changed out the keys so we can get in to that with the SAU key um the railing they did not like so they're going to replace that probably midweek next week um and there were two pieces of glass shockingly shipped wrong so that's coming uh March 27th supposed to be delivered and then installed probably the week after that so then I think the last thing is the sprinkler and then that'll be it hopefully by the end of the month that'll be done at least that vest will be done still waiting on them to come back to Center School to do a walkth through over there still got a couple open issues over there that they need to address um talk about the hva upgrade hva system upgrades at
044uh Center School we've had two walkthroughs uh one with Denon Hall who uh won the bid last year um so they're familiar with the project and then Palmer and sard was in there too we did extend that date a couple weeks so they could get their proposals together for us um that's pretty much it I think uh Nathan mentioned the playground equipment I got an email yesterday I think that um they're hoping to have an answer for me by next week that that's coming and then uh Mark there's a senate School slide that I got an email about that today or yesterday also that they're going to get me uh a price and install date on that also so I think that's it any questions good perfect thank you Mrs bour come and join us
045good evening welcome welcome welcome so last month Andrea Shepard asked to me or uh to write to our Senators and our uh State Rep uh to protect School meals so letters went out and we got answers back and they got us on file that protect School meals and student debt and uh Community El eligibility um so we're on file and they did answer back and they want to protect School meals also and we'll see how that goes this year next year is going to be a challenge so that uh you for do that oh you're welcome so that's I know I know you're working with Emily fixler to on helping our families which I was really pleased we were seeing some great movement and we appreciate the work on that as well thank you yes
046great how's our balance we're good I mean we're 3500 today that's districtwide up a little um go you know last last month it was 2700 this is 35 we just have to keep on it after vacation we have to keep up get on the roll call email but Emily fixer has been great she's been helping and we'll get that down for next month and um if you want I mean you want to break it down there's 26 students that owe over $50 92 students that ow $665 so it's so we'll get there I think that's it any questions thank you all right thank you Dr Costa okay um I either way whatever you like um yeah we can do we have some donations or and then I can go into my report how about that
047perfect so beginning on got a number of tabs here on page nine we have a donation to Marson school I'm sorry for sener school for $78 89 um like permission to accept this that will go to I'll make a motion accept that second that is from the PTA it is thank you thank you to the PTA see some people there tonight appreciate you coming um also we have some donations for food service so let me get to that page as well so women Aid of Hampton made a donation of $950 to Hampton Academy for I believe it's food service so and then we have a second one from Jackie Kennedy for $100 just a big thank big thank you to these wonderful Community groups and people that we really appreciate so I take them motion
048I'll second all in favor might be Mar is there another one okay I think that was it okay great all right so um just looking over my report just a couple things to highlight to bring to your attention so obviously a big a big thank you to our voters for passing our warrant articles and our contracts we are greatly appreciative of the community support that we received last Tuesday and we're just grateful that um we've had so much support so that contracts for C and sespa pass as well as our budget and our other warrant article for maintenance so big big thank you to the community for the support of our schools we really do appreciate that and a big warm welcome on behalf to our new school board members we appreciate having you on
049this board so welcome to Sarah Elliot and to Candace O'Neal nice to have you here um so in my report you you'll see that I've been tracking the snow days and we've only had one this year so the last day would be Tuesday June 17th which should be a half day for our students and Wednesday June 18th would be the last day for school staff making June 16th that Monday would be the night of the 8th grade final assembly and also the fifth grade farewell so that is my recommendation um you you can think it over you can figure out what you want to do that comes later but that's in my report we are hoping that there are no more snow days but I will remind you that last year we did have that
050snow date in April so it's up to you what you want want to do with this you can you can make it um baring any more snow days and then we can always reconsider it so y okay questions any thoughts on the plan thank you very much um as as our principles have reminded us the last day of the trimester is this Friday meaning we that our report cards will be available on Almer beginning on March 31st conferences are this Thursday and we are always excited to see our families and to meet with them and to talk about our students and their progress this is the time to do it um as we do have one more trimester left so we're looking forward to doing that I know that Dr Lois to Sil napton talked
051about the those two programs that we have coming up and we are just thrilled to have that something that is new this year and was brought to my attention was um sudden cardiac arrest screeners for students this is probably something that might have um when you read it you may have been a little bit surprised but I can tell you that this is something that we're seeing more and more in schools and many of our fellow schools are doing this around the state and it is is just our you know intentions to give parents this option for getting a baseline screener so that they can track and monitor their children as they grow up and I'm a big fan of this as a as a daughter with cardiac issues and was diagnosed when she was
052at Marson school so as somebody who knows the importance of Cardiac Care um I when I heard about it I jumped right on it and so we were able to secure April 7th from 88: to 10:30 a.m. and so far we have over 20 students signed up so I'm thrilled this this is grade 6 through eight correct it is grade 6 through eight but they do offer it for students that are in fifth grade because it would be but they'd have to parents would have to pick up their children and they would have to bring them over so there but it is primarily I did it at the middle school knowing that most of our children would be 6 through eight but they do offer it grade five and up just so you know great
053question thank you y so I put it in my newsletter with the information I know there's more information coming out from Hampton Academy but I just want to make you aware of it I shared with you some information in the packet that talks a little bit more about it just another thing that we can offer our families so really excited about being able to do that um and then you notice that we're obviously continuing our work with the cook Center as we continue to focus on our social emotional well-being of our students you have a copy of the calendar for the month of April and you get a sense of the kinds of um offerings we have to our families that parents can participate in that I know our principles push out so that goes
054out monthly as well as our newsletter these are also on our website for families to access as well I just want to you know big shout out to obviously Mark robai and Dr Neil Campbell for attending our Alice training last week we did meet with our SRO along with um people from Hampton fire and rescue in our efforts to continue our conversations about um safety drills and safety training so we are talking about looking at implementing for next year a districtwide safety team that will be overseeing by our SRO and so we're really excited about that in the sense that we can come together and continue to be mindful of the safety of our students and our schools and our staff additionally this summer our assistant principles will also participate in the two-day Alice training
055which makes all of our administrators trained with Alice so we're we're we're we're happy with that because we know that preparedness is critically important as we think about the safety of students so moving forward with all of that and having those conversations and always appreciate our partnership with obviously Chief Reno from Hampton Police Department and chief McMahon from Hampton fire and rescue they are great partners and they are just just wonderful um asset to our community and our in our schools um this Thursday there will be a um training at in kirar around the cook Center and what they offer and how they are trying to support School schs Nationwide so I will be there representing our district as I talk a little bit about our initial work with them we've only started this in
056November of this year but I'm anxious to hear what they have to say and of course what schools are doing and how we continue to support all of our our children our families and of course our staff and then you can see that we are very busy with curriculum initiatives in terms of looking at math so our math Pilots are underway we're looking forward to seeing how those un unfold um potentially doing some visits to some districts that are implementing the program so we can ask teachers and see hear from students directly about their thoughts about these programs that we're piloting so we're continuing that work and then of course um we are sending um a team from each of the schools to the New Hampshire ASC conference at the koni center which is the
057literacy Summit Dr Carol Tolman who is the co-author and Lead trainer of letters will be the keynote for that day so we're excited to be able to send a team from each school as we continue to think about the science of reading as that will be Statewide um beginning in 2027 our teachers are on the Forefront of that they are already doing that work I see evidence of it in my walkthroughs today I was at Center School and I was just fascinated with the work word work being done the writing being done the practice being done the systemic approach to ensuring kids get that bonics instruction which is one of the best practices that's supported by the science of reading so was glad to see that and glad that our teachers will have that opportunity
058to participate in the literacy Summit and then of course we will be having an extended year program that will run in the month of July this year we're gearing up for that and Kim Olen is returning to the um she will be in charge of Camp invention this summer so was delighted that Kim is going to do that and that will take place June 23rd to the 27th so I know that that's always popular it does sell out there is a waiting list so parents if you're interested in Camp invention this summer please make sure that you sign up for that because there's typically a waiting list and it is a regional summer camp so we're excited to be able to host that and you heard um Nathan Sadler talk a little bit about New
059Hampshire SAS testing that will be during the months of April and May pretty much and I think that's that's enough is there anything on my report that you have questions about happy to see the plannings underway for the neck program yes yep yep that's going to be a great addition I completely agree I completely agree yeah going to make great continuity going from Center all the way up yep I'm really excited that we can do that we it really is um some of the program that we're doing in our in our district is really a model for the state and and I would say that quite honestly Dr Lois the silven Apton has really um taken taking the lead on this it's been my hope and dream that we can keep kids in our home
060District district and being able to do that at all three schools next year is just um it's a big win for our district and our kids so really proud of that and that's that is the Legacy that that we have that we our children have that that that you'll be leaving behind us so we're really thrilled about that yeah have any questions on Dr Casa's report do we want to go ahead and look at the calar we didn't we didn't actually we looked at it last month and we realized later we yeah so that's the calendar for next year um that's in your board packet um that basically is on page page 45 and worked of course with sau21 who does work with seast collaborative because we all have to be in somewhat alignment so
061this was the calendar that we did come up with considering what the state department of Ed had recommended in terms of our vacation weeks we try to be consistent with that as well so it allows us to have some good early release time professional development but also it keeps us you know on par with really our schools when it kind where our high school students will go soing to kind of move our our half days and and development days Fridays which I think is yep I think parents have asked yeah parents have asked for that so we we're happy to be able to do that as well yeah correct so we do actually need to vote on this so I get okay finally have calendar for 25 26 thank can expect to see I'm guessing
062there is probably already a draft of this website but we'll make sure that we have a uh a final draft up so people can make plans for next year y one other thing just so on page five I just want to bring to your attention is policy BCA yes for my all of the school board members every year we do uh take a look at the board member ethics report which is BCA um it is a full page and a not read the idea is that it outlines ethics expectations for school board members so if you guys can take a look at tonight the second uh piece of paper has pass those over to me and we will thank you yes I I would love to make a motion for us to discuss whether perhaps
063as a board we could um consider submitting a letter of written testimony on hb15 which is the bill up and conquered that would remove the income cap on the voucher program we have a motion to have a second for for discussion okay so you give us an idea of what you're sort of what you're looking for sure so hb15 um for those who haven't been following up and conquered this is a bill that would essentially phase out the income cap on the voucher program in New Hampshire so in the first year it would raise the income cap to 400% and then after that it would eliminate it um which would result in a significant cost to the state and our school district um so what I was hoping that we could do is as sort
064of a united front as a school board um this is not a position on whether school choice is a good thing whether vouchers are a good thing simply our position on what this would do to us as a school district from a financial perspective Mariah do you want to weigh in on this as our ba I didn't know I just think you you are our money in sense so I did I know your asbo group does talk about this so I thought yes it it it would affect us um it if this does go through it will affect us um the the talk is if the vouchers do go through that the school districts then would be paying for the vouchers rather than the state paying for the vouchers which would definitely take away from
065our funds I'm it's it's really in the works there's no um which way it's going to be um but it does it it it they they can't support both also just add quickly and I can pass this out for the board as well just where the bill is currently because it was amended so it did pass the house um just last week and right now it's in it's it was sent to a second committee the finance committee because it does have a fiscal note um and so right now it's in a work session and then um at some point there will be a public hearing where we can submit testimony um according to the bill there as meaning a cost of $441 uh $119 per student um so obviously we don't know how many students
066would exit our school district if this became available to everybody but I think it kind of goes without saying that this could have a significant impact on us I have not prepared the letter yet no that's okay I'm happy to put together a draft I'd love to work with Mariah on that if I could for for some more concrete numbers what I have is a copy of the actual bill itself so what are our thoughts on sending this essentially request is to send this as an Something official from the school rather than going as individuals and I don't think we've done it it's bad be departure us just to kind of capture at a high level the plan here's the Bill here's what it would do here's what it would do to us uh this
067would be the financial implications were this to pass and then tacking a recommendation please consider keeping the income cap intact um please consider voting against this like what is the call to action that we're that we're requesting out of it because I think we can all agree you know just saying this is what this will do ostensibly to us um is great but then what what are we encouraging them to do instead so this would be written testimony submitted in opposition so we're asking them to vote against it um yeah we don't have to give our our personal opinions again and I certainly wouldn't impose that on anyone and of course all of us in our individual capacity are welcome to submit personal written or public testimony um but simply as a board I think
068it carries more weight if it comes from our school district and we um you know let our Representatives up in conquer know what this could do to our school system I will say that the vote was fairly close this last time through the house so we might be able to make an impact close is there a world where we do this and encourage through Outreach to other school boards for them to participate as well so we can be an even bigger united front I would love that world yes I mean there are organizations that are already working on this there's the New Hampshire school funding fing project um and I know they are already working on that I know I personally signed on to a letter that they sent um not representing the board but
069as as an individual um so that might be a way to get into discussions with other boards I'm sure they would be happy to have it officially not just personal they do know that if um you do research this and you want to vote against this you really should um single voices make a difference and the more that we get a voice and more go out there um it will change we've seen that with um arts and and Science and music and um sometime people don't get in the nooks and cranny of financial because it gets confusing gets difficult and um they think that we're just going to be able to survive and this will affect us for sure so um it's definitely something that everybody should read and get an opinion on and go
070go be a part of it because um when the town and everybody has been so supportive of the school district and the town and and keeping our town intact but they also for months prior to voting really focused on taxes and how much it's affecting their pocket and if you want to do something about that it's at state level and this is one of the items that you could really look into and um talk about and we're not going to have less students right so if our state funding is cut if our federal funding is cut the money is going to have to be made up somewhere and it will be either cutting services or raising taxes or a combination of the two no one wants to do any of those things yeah this was
071a um Federal conversation as you know I went out to the superintendent conference for the first time and it was a federal conversation they are very concerned about New Hampshire because of what's going on the concern is that you can't afford as Mariah said both systems and so they they said this is something that does demand our attention it just if we our concerned for all of those reasons you've said this is the time that we need to be coming together and to making our voices heard so I know that um Becky Wilson and I know Barett Christina at the New Hampshire school boards Association um along with many of the superintendents are trying to do what they can you know in their roles but they said that're they're more than welcome to help guide
072us too so that we can have Clarity because the other thing is is that sometimes these bills can change and so they said they're happy to guide us in any way that we might need it too so just to let you know that as well they're um you know I think we just all have the same concerns as as somebody who lives in Hampton myself I know I know when people are concerned about their taxes I understand that we all understand that and so how do we preserve you know our schools and take care of our kids and ensure that we're providing the quality of Education that we know our children deserve last year in fact I just had um I had the tech department run some numbers for me because I was looking at
073um who you know how many people were exiting the schools right and during covid we did have um we had more students at left right and I think it was because because of different reasons right it could have been people were homeschooling or whatever they were choosing to do or full day programs or whatever it was there are only six children that left last year and it average is around 11 at most and that's been in the last you know five years and these are basically we're we're talking about kids who didn't move out of the district but maybe clearly transitioned to homeschooling or transition to a private school correct correct so six this past year so I mean you see that people are making the choice to stay here um we want them here
074we're trying to build programs to keep kids here we believe we offer a great program um we work hard to offer a great program so I want to preserve that great program for our kids anybody else have any coms comments thoughts on do you think this is a good idea don't think this is a good idea um I personally am am going to support it um I think it's I think it's important I'm very happy that that Candace is kind of willing to take this on I would say if we were to approve this maybe after you get a draft of the letter you could email it out to the board members and we could provide feedback on it Dr Costa um we do actually have to vote Yes um just procedurally so um because
075of how fast these these bills are going to move especially with cross overc coming um you know my aim would be to get a draft to everyone in a day or two um it's possible this could go to a hearing next week so how do we vote on that to approve the I think essentially we are going to vote to designate you to present this opinion that I think we've we've discussed fairly in depth in the meeting and if you don't hear back from someone I think it's it's fine to move ahead I think the rest of us we'll try to take a look at it keep an eye on our email get back to you as soon as possible but if we don't I think it's it's fair to that yeah and we know
076it's timely so we're going to try to we try to turn things around pretty quickly so yeah let's vote uh for those who vote I to approve this that passes unanimously and I think we all appreciate you taking this on this is great there is a lot going on and we are all doing our best to stay on top of it I mean a simple thing and we don't want to get deep into it last we discussed at this moment in time we have not received any notifications of any cancellation or Cuts in federal grants no in the department was pretty adamant about um yesterday we had our call at 1:00 and they were all said said that they do not anticipate any cuts and this was a state this was the state and they
077all said the same thing now I don't and so I'm I'm going with it they they don't foresee any um cuts to federal funds um they they believe that we will get the allocation that we would typically get but if I hear anything you will all be the first to to know all right okay um Mrs Curtis okay so again I'm going to piggyback kind of on Lois and and say thank you so much for the support for um for our teachers and our Paris and our support staff um and administrators here at the Hampton School District um is much appreciated our budget passed um the vote was 223 7 to 1088 um so thank you so very much I do have today the ms22 that will need to be signed um so that I
078can send that to the state um also the teacher contract passed that was um 2,300 to 179 thank you so much for supporting our teachers I did update the teacher agreement already um so I have that here for you to look at that also needs to be signed by the board um and then once that's done I can post that on our website um the sespa uh contract passed and that was to16 um I have not started working on that update that's my goal for the end of the week um once that gets done I will have the um the only person that needs to sign that would be chair for the board so one um once once I get that I will visit you and you can sign and then um the sespa union
079signs and I can get that up on the website I'm trying to get both done because teacher contracts I have to have out um before April vacation and then I work on par um contracts after I get back from vacation um the maintenance um warrant was passed that was passed uh 2376 to 970 that was 300,000 from um maintenance for our facilities um Sacred Heart unfortunately did not pass and then the zero um budgeting past which is what we already do so it's kind of a move point but um if anybody has questions about how we work on our budget please feel free to see me um we start that pretty much in July and August already so it's as soon as this one's completed we start all over again so if anybody's interested Ed
080in um kind of understanding that process more feel free to contact me um Lois and I usually sit down with quite a handful of people that want to look at the budget while we're building it anyway and I make huge binders for the budget committee so um feel free to come have a chat about numbers I don't mind just give me a heads up and bring me a coffee um and then I have the report for where we're at for for the end of February most of our stuff is encumbered so um special ed is definitely encumbered but we have some ins and outs that always happen um we're just trying to work on cleaning up our expenditures food service is up to date you'll see um we have a little bit of a negative
081amount but we're not sure where that is because revenues sometimes take um two months to get in so that varies um on that it's the the state revenue that comes in um slowly because we have to report to them every month free and reduced so that could offset that a little bit but once we get closer to the end of the year we'll see where we're at I think we're going to be really close this year I think it's going to be one of our best years um and then I did give you this month title two Grant summaries so um next month I'll pick something different but I just want to keep you up update every month I'll switch out what we've done for Grants so you can see what we apply for [Music]
082um I have everything posted on the website to date um so the annual reports posted and once I get the ms22 and everything else sign that will be posted but um anything P you feel free to um go on our website and check that out last but not least um in our past meeting we had talked about our property at the tool Farm Road um it's the pond we own 32.8 Acres there we now have a year before we vote to discuss this we might want to get committees involved we might want to make a decision first within the board on which way we want to go or start a committee decide which way we want to go but we had started talking about that property the school owns the property we have to maintain
083the property we have and um we don't have we don't put funds in our budget to maintain the property we just maintain the property and hope for the best [Music] um there are a couple things we can do with the property it was donated to us because we were going to at one time build the hampon academy on that property when we went to do that it would have cost twice as much money to build a new building then to renovate and it was just too far away from the other schools that um the committee decided to renovate rather than build new so now we have this property that we have to maintain and it's got a dam and we have to maintain the dam and um so there were two options that we could
084really do one is well there's three we do nothing we keep it we maintain it we hope for the best that it stays okay um we could donate it to the Hampton Conservation Commission and if we donate that land um we can attach a deed that gives specific instructions on how the land should be managed and preserved um and then that takes all of all of the duties and cost and maintenance away from us so Pros is long-term preservation it kind of gives you uh personal Legacy it's community in you know Community impact um got a conservation easements and there's no maintenance responsibility so there's some pros to that some cons you can lose the loss of control and potential mismanagement that's about it the other thing that we we could do is sell the
085property um to fund repairs and improvements for the schools so what you would do is um and all of this would have to be communicated to the town multiple times have conversations it goes on a warrn article Town votes any way you do this except for keeping it um so the sale of the property the pros are Financial relief better allocation of the resources enhancing long-term planning and economic development the cons is the loss of future value it could be a negative impact to the community and it's a one-time solution so if you were to sell it you would have somebody come in value it get estimates da d da goes on a warrant article saying that you would like to sell the property this is how much they think you can get for it
086is it okay they vote Yes or No underneath that warrant article will be another warrant article that states if this property sells the funds go into um a maintenance funer bond to M to do updates and maintenances of the buildings for the school district and um I think that I I'm having I I am bringing this up because there are two great ways to handle this property it's two great ways um and they're very different ways but they're great ways one we still have the property well we don't have the property but the town still has it it's got walking trails it's beautiful blah blah blah the other is it could bring income to the town but it will bring income to the schools um marsten and senent School need new roofs they need new
087floors they need new windows and um they need new electrical and we've been slowly doing lights and we've been slowly doing maintenance and um we get 300,000 a year in maintenance and that doesn't even cover five windows so I it's um it's one way to make our buildings where they should be they're they're falling these two buildings are really old really need a lot of work um it's just a quick way to maintain it without asking for funds and um being able to do it in a year or two rather than 15 years um so those are the two it it's this is to start a conversation to maybe come up with a way to communicate to come up with a committee [Music] um and to decide if it's something that we that we want
088to do if not we do nothing with it but do know that has a dam it has property it has trees it's got maintenance and it's going to get costly if the first warrant article were to pass if we if we went the route of selling it yep but the second one would fail if it were to fail yep that void the first warrant article we could put tingent uh in uh tingent yes thank you in that where it does do that yes is there risk because of the nature of the land with a dam and and water that it won't be attractive to purchase I would imagine there's pretty significant building restrictions and forgive me if this has long been discussed being the new person here it's not it's just a starting conversation that
089we decided to start at the beginning of the new because that'll give us a whole year before we hit War articles y yes and then you have multiple like you now you have the time to I also don't really have a great understanding of exactly where the land is but um is there any feasibility of some sort of Licensing or rental something to generate ongoing income for the schools as opposed to to your point that one time um not unless we build on it there's nothing it's wooded it's got the pond and there's Trails that's pretty much it do you know where um let me try to explain I was going to explain where it was is that what you were going to do yes go ahead all right so do you know where um
090exitor road is and toll Farm Road is so you take that take that turn right like you're going to go to meril Industrial Farms it's right there on the right so there where they do like yes and then it's all that land there's a trail back there how many acres Mariah 32 I what did I say there was a hockey net apparently in the middle of yes on this week yeah um from the economic development Point ER would that would we be able to consult with like the town planner and the planning board and the Conservation Commission before we kind of like to get a better idea of what the economic impact yes we that's why I'm like I think we should start a committee and to H go and have these conversations before we
091make a decision um but it's we've just been holding it and I think that um if we're going to do something we should probably do something with it so you could make an other committee or you could have Molly and Sarah Sarah's on building and facilities and Molly's on CIP either way and they could kind of we could start these investigative process with talking to master plan submit it to Jason for the next mic meeting and kind of see I think it's a good idea to ask them what our next steps should be I think that would be great absolutely um I don't know that we need to do anything official to have that to start the conversations and then if they come back with re when they come back with recommendations you guys can
092bring them to us and we'll the master plan implementation which is just advisory but Jason's a part of those Mee yeah which is great great all right next on the agenda is hiring and renomination um I know some of that we are going to discuss in non-public but some we can yes go forward now yes correct yes um do we want to start with um Services position we can yep it's on the top of my pile yep you can um so um I believe do you have a copy of that yep I think you guys should have so if you take a look you should have a candidate employment profile and then a um a CV to go with it and so this would be to replace Dr Dila napton who is retiring correct correct
093so a little yeah I can and of course you were there too for the second interview so um so as as as you said Wendy um Lois did give us her her notice to retire at the end of the year she is going to be going back to Connecticut and we're delighted for her but we're obviously right that's creates a hole in our in our team so with that said we did do a a search we tried to do it early because we know that some of these positions are very difficult to fill as we know um we still have we were unable to fill three positions this year related to actually for related to special ed so with that being said we we advertised um and you know we interviewed we did a first
094interview second interview we discussed this with a leadership team we put a committee together and the candidate that you have in front of you she was the top candidate and so um it it is technically my hire but I always like to have the blessing of the board so I'm bringing it to your attention and just to let you know that this is the person that we would like to hire so I don't think we actually need to vote on this but does anyone have any questions about this just want to keep you all in the loop just think it's important that's great and yes I can say sure I was in on the the second interview and she's a great candidate very personable very qualified close um she's coming to us from Northampton which
095is great she's famar with the community so I think she'll be a great addition yeah so just to bring that to your attention and then um you also have um a candidate who we are excited because we've been without an eighth grade case manager so you have Nicole Elli's um paperwork in front of you and I am seeking your nomination tonight so that we can get her on board I had opportunity to meet her I know that she believe it or not was our parent in our district yeah that's great I know well truth be told we tried to hire her last year but they would not let her out of her contract oh so it was one of those situations that they would not so when she saw it open she was she was
096excited she still connected to some of the people still at Hampton Academy and she would just love to come back so I met her she's one she's lovely and would like to bring on board would you like to I have a second all in favor approved thank you and I think that's the yeah that's what we're trying to do we're trying to get out we're trying to hire early so that we can try to secure these positions um we're we'll try to bring him to you as soon as we can and then the other thing you have is you have a letter of retirement and it's up to you how you want a very sad letter of a very well a very actually somebody who made this decision um with her family recently and um
097you can read it and you know I we all recognize that the timing of this is a little later than we expected it to be but under the circumstances we are bringing it to your consideration thank you with her I think do we need to add that it would be with the full yep if we are and with regret and with much regret yes thank you we should actually say who this is for Yep this would be for Mary Wilson who's given us her letter of retirement it was it came she reached out to me last week and I told her I said let me let's see what we can do um you're you're a little late but the circumstances being what they are we would like to do that not to set a precedent
098but to honor this in light of the circumstances and so I was actually at Center school today and she said she was going to move forward with it after speaking with her principal Mariah and myself and we said we would go and we would advocate for her yep absolutely um I'll second that in favor for our new member so we do typically um we do ask the people submit their their particularly their retirements by November um it's actually in the collective bargaining agreement yes so they have to they supposed to so that's why I said this is to not set a precedent but it is an exception and we will honor it given the circumstances right so okay thank you we have nominations do we want to discuss nomination Ren nominations in public first um
099what would you like you you tell me what we're what you would like to do do you want to offer up um if anybody has comments since we're still here that so they don't have to wait if people have that absolutely that's just my yes that would be well why don't we we also have policy y still to we should do that before comment so what I have in my hand are R nominations we are actually just going to set those aside for just a minute um we're going to skip ahead to policy review we do have some things kind of going on with policy review um so basically the way policy review works just for for new members um typically you will see policies twice three times because some of you guys are on
100the policy committee it'll be discussed in the committee it's brought in for what we call a first read for these meetings um you can ask questions if you have them but typically for the first read There usually isn't a whole lot of conversation um the expectation is that you will take them home read them come back on the at the next meeting meeting on the second read if you have any questions let any even let us know we can discuss them uh we do get our uh policies uh from the the basis of them from the New Hampshire school boards Association they do write those based on all of the current um rsas in the state um and as well as and we're going to discuss this in a little bit um things that come
101up related to court cases around the country which does cause them to change so what we have this month is we do have can we do second reads with new members it's a great question I think we can um The Only Exception I'm going to ask is that we not approve jjic because um Dr Campbell and Mrs LaVine have added some additional information they would like to add to it that I um hand carried and they want to add that on page three okay so it is really about criteria as it relates to um academic requirements with regard to inter Scholastic Athletics so want to push this to next month I I think I would like to do that so that you can take a look at it we can reformat it for you should
102all have this so just take a look at this so that'll be let's hold off on we can hold off on that one but the rest we're we're fine to move forward if people feel comfortable say do I have a motion to approve sorry gles ebch JJ IB jlf jlf DF jlp KFA that's it for right for right the second I just we'll need to do the the other one separately so do I have a motion to approve all of those as second reads okay I'll second okay all in favor okay so we will table uh jjic until next month um the second thing that we have um all the school board members should have received an email uh with title Title Nine revisions um so what we have what we are going to ask
103is that um on an emergency basis as suggested by the nhba we are going to let's see it isor policy bgb which is policy adoption does give us the uh option to it says on matters of unusual urgency the board May wave the two-e limitation and take immediate action to adopt new or revise new or revise existing policies when such immediate action is necessary the superintendant shall inform concerned groups or individuals about the reasons for this necessity I believe the reason was that was the court case the Court ruling in early February correct y so does anybody have any questions we did make a couple of kind of formatting and just position changes I think it call it called for pupil services to be in charge of something and of course we have the we
104have um I've already forgotten title special pupil Services director so we did just tiey some of that up um does anybody have any questions about those or any objections to approving them on an emergency basis have a motion to approve the Title Nine changes all in favor okay thank you and we may see more of those coming just so everyone knows this is the second time we have had to approve these changes to these exact policies on an emergency basis we are doing our best to keep up with the world as it is fair statement okay so the tabled uh public comment on agenda items is there anyone here who would like to speak seeing none do I have a do you actually do you want Ren nominations or do you want non that yes
105of course absolutely come on you got to move quick when I ask youve Sor CL it's okay know right hi everyone I'm Erica York um I really enjoyed hearing the updates from the school principles one thing that they forgot to mention and I'm just going to put it out there to the public the Harlem Wizards yes they are all playing my fault I skipped that part of the list because when we change seats it breaks me out that's okay I was going to wait I wasn't leaving until I got to say it so all three principles are participating in the Harlem Wizards we have record number of volunteers um and also I'm saying this now so it's out to the public this is mine and Sarah's last event for the PTA so the PTA is
106still looking for event coordinators um and I'm saying that publicly because I know there was a large disappointment about Halloween so if people are interested I know the PTA would really appreciate any type of volunteer um whether it be committee one event two event this is the only event Sarah and I have committed to doing this year um and it's our last event with them so uh Harlem Wizards April 7th it's going to be great um and last year we were completely sold out we can fit 900 people in the gym and I'm serious we were like at 1,00 so um tickets are selling games at 6:30 and that's it oh yes and there is a SE Co storm for the coopertown Community Oven fundraiser at um 5 to 9 at the community EV before
107and after the game Candace when is the last day you can buy tickets and how our ticket sales or you know should people hurry up and buy their tickets people should definitely hurry up and buy their tickets we're probably about 200 tickets out of 900 um you do get a discount for purchasing an advance and then the tickets do go up at the door and how do you buy the tickets is there a QR code in there is a QR code um Lois has sent it out in her superintendent newsletter so everybody can click on that but we have distributed posters around the schools as well as some local businesses in town the Harlem Wizards went ahead and created a Facebook group for us as well that links the tickets right there um and I
108think Lois plans to send out the flyer again as well as the schools so and the kids are going to have a assembly from the Harlem Wizards Wizards on the day of the event so they're going to come home really excited and begging you to take them that's how I originally found out it when my kid was in kindergarten had no idea what it was um and it's super fun and they only come every 2 years so this will be your last chance to see them until 20 oh I almost said 2025 but we are 2025 so yeah you know two years from now so anyway April 7th be there okay thank you big thank you to to you Erica and obviously to Sarah for the work on the PTA um yeah and thanks for
109that April Seventh reminder we did get it out again so thank you thank you all right do we have anyone else okay right I am going to move that we move to nonpublic under RSA 91 d a colon 3 2A roll call vote required start on this side this week yes you just have to say yes yes yes okay and we are in nonpublic sorry I know Erica said she couldn't hear me they told me not to put it too close but apparently it needs to be closer just say okay so we are going to vote on Ren nominations we have a list from Center a list from marsten and a list from Hampton Academy I think we can just vote on these as is um we can do all three at one time honestly
110I'll make a motion to um put forward all the names on the um list from Mar and Hampton Academy re nominations for those teachers awesome see thank you okay all in favor okay thank you okay and then we have the list of reappointments for uh Administration do we need to vote on okay okay um so we have a list there are no changes this is the the list of names is as is um we did have a discussion we are going to sort of rearrange how long the some of the contracts are strictly to line them up so that all of our administrators are on sort of the same cycle so um I think we are all set if I have a nomination to approve this awesome okay okay all in favor all right last
111but not least we have meeting minutes from the February 11th Schoolboard meeting um do I have any comments or any changes so you guys would our new meeting uh new members would just abstain on those okay second all in favor all against all abstain okay all right and we have making sure I'm not missing anything and then we have minutes from the nonpublic session also February 11th all in favor all opposed all abstain all right do I have a motion to adjourn just one thing before just want to let you know that sorry what there is one thing I did get a um I know people have gone but I'm going to I know that people will watch this because they're going to watch it on their cable um I got a letter from HCC
112and Patty McKenzie is believe it or not celebrating her 30 years wow as the Director of HCC so just so you know um I I am sending a letter of congratulator congratulations on behalf of the district because Patty is just incredible um as a Comm as a community member as a person and as just somebody who does so much for our town so just wanted to give a congratulations and shout out to Patty McKenzie on 30 years as HCC at the executive director so she's a partner a friend a colleague and I'm just delighted that we could recognize her as a school board and as a district so just want to let you know that that's awesome yay Pat yay patty patty that's right we love Patty she's awesome yeah that's it all right now
113do I have a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn all right all right all in favor all right wait wait wait I get to use it twice a day