001I hear you >> and we're recording. All right. So, call the Northwest School District board director's meeting of February 9th, 2006 to order at 603. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> So, move. >> Second. >> Any adjustments? All in favor? >> Any opposed? >> All right. Uh move motion to approve the consent agenda. There second. >> Second. All >> in favor? I. Any opposed? >> All right. We have no action items. We're right on discussion. Boom. >> So, budget communication. We have a preliminary budget. We will send it to the voters. We need to tell the voters about it. Um, I think Harrisburg has already talked to their board. >> For Jen is ready tomorrow. didn't have any questions. >> Two of them or did you have a good showing? >>
002Was there a lot of people there? >> Maybe a whole select where I was there and um there was a couple listeners there. >> Uh and another gentleman >> not a lot of people in the audience, but those get those often get watched remotely and stuff. So they and they were all very happy that we were there. They did have questions but none of them were like >> no >> complex. >> We also sent you sent them and I sent them the presentation. So >> okay. And then maybe I know you wrote something up for welcome. >> Yeah. So um I haven't been asked to meet with the select board yet. I usually do that but um they seem to think they're too busy to include me on their agenda. And the town meeting is
003the night before voting Monday night. So I'll do that and meet with the town. >> Well, we've got a couple of new people in the administration. So I think they're trying to figure out, you know, new clerk in person. >> Right. >> And I know Regen's is scheduled for tomorrow night. So anybody from wants to be there, go for it. Um, >> um, they met last week and I was out of town and they don't have any more meetings until after the vote. So, not really sure how I'm going to attend one of their meetings. >> Maybe we just do a front porch forum statement. >> That's Yeah, we do the best we can. And Martha's not here, so we'll find out for later, but I think she's I'll see her probably tomorrow. >> All
004right. So, we're there. >> Can I just ask? >> Yep. >> So, Ferrisburg team. So, what did you mean you sent them the presentation? What >> the So, that is that final that one we saw last time. >> Okay. Um there was um one change that impacted not anything you voted on but impacted the um union tax rate slightly but it didn't change the projected after CLA application at all. So, wherever we had uh communicated that the range would be from 5 cents to 11 cents or whatever, that's still true. But the um actual union tax rate is now um 1.7513 or something like that up slightly from where it was. And don't remember specifically why that number changed. Oh, it was because of the cents discount that we were getting um was was slightly
005off. How we calculated that preliminarily was slightly off and we got hard numbers for it was just a tiny bit different. So um so that is now updated and reflected correctly in the presentation. But if you had a printed copy of the presentation at the last meeting, those numbers would be different. But the flyer is correct. So presumably the Yes, I love the annual report is correct. Everything else is correct. >> Oh, that error that was in the ED was only the headline on the online corrected it. The story itself is fine. The print version was fine, but somebody screwed up on typing the headline. >> They put last year's like they approved a budget of last year's budget number. I was at the basketball game and I saw this like are you kidding me?
006>> But that's the only place it was wrong. They have since corrected the online version and >> it was it was correct in the story and it was correct in the print version. So >> that's much better about it and I did the print version. I'm like what are they talking about? Everything's fine here. >> Yeah. Because I got I sent them a message. They sent it back to me like what are you talking about? I got a screenshot of the print like oh >> um I'm still planning on writing an op ed but this probably has to be done in the next week or so so people who are going to vote absentee will be able to see it we talk about front porch forum >> yeah you want to use what you write
007out there >> pretty much >> okay so you'll do that >> y um >> yay >> do we have other >> I said something to parents yesterday. Um I was going to put it in video form, but then I was like, I'm just going to put it in regular written form. Um I can still do mini videos if you want. I don't mind doing that. >> I think it's a good idea for people who aren't readers or don't read their >> So I'll just do that and put it on the I don't I don't think we want I want to do the whole presentation, but maybe like a few bulleted. Is there going to be any student presentation? I know we didn't do remember. >> No. So we had talked about anything like that. Their
008concern is that if it's not a voluntary thing that it can feel like um I don't know trying to influence the student body just getting us confused with other school. that I remember. >> Yeah, we had talked about previously like what John was talking about in their presentation, but that since like the group that I was working with on that has been shifted in the um conference talking about >> other suggestions that we should be doing or reaching out or >> No, but I have a question. Um I have a constituent that had reached out um when he got the um flyer and he was asking me about the bar about the pigraph on it and I hadn't looked at the flyer. I I got it and I just didn't even look at it because
009I'm like oh well you know I see all this stuff all the time. And so he said, uh, in the salaries and part of the pi graph, is that both, um, staff and administration? And I said, oh, no, I it's it's broken out on the graph. And I sent him the picture that I have from our presentation that's different than the one that's on the um, flyer. And uh just wondering why I guess both of those pigraphs are on the um presentation, but just wondering why we picked that one versus the other one that seems to break it down. So we we chose the graphic that's with the categories and that's the slide where every category um totals out to the 28 million and it's very clean and matches the table that's um in the
010other page of that the department is just showing um what makes up the various departments and then shows just a piraph but it's not calculated out to match the total. So, I think that that's why Gloria actually selected the graphics to use and she did make a somewhat modified version of it, but it's the exact same information >> as I can put it up here in a minute. Um, >> and it's all in the presentation. It's all in um in the book that >> has both of them here for a minute. So, um This is I don't know it is um but this is this is the information that shows the categories and how they total out to the 28 million and then this is the departments and that one doesn't have totals associated but
011this is the one that was used again showing the categories and the total of the 28 million and their pi graph representation. So, this is the one that's used in the flyer. Although it's the same graph, it's slightly different colors and the labels have arrows pointing to the teeny tiny slivers. Because on this one, you can see that some of the categories don't show. If you hover over it, you can see that that pink one is principal and interest, but it gets too crowded to populate on that circle. So all Glory did was take the same exact information and make the graphic such that there's a line pointing to each um thing which I probably have a picture of that too somewhere what you created but it's the same exact so >> he was hoping
012for administration broken out and I I'm just going to send him the other I'm going to send him the book and and the presentation right to give him more information. >> This I mean just to keep in mind that this even this pigraph when we say administration is not the salaries of the administrators in the district. So we could have the percentage of that if that's really what his question is. Um and that is really what his question is percentage of the whole budget. My guess is it's somewhere between five and seven% of the whole budget but we can calculate that out. only I'm only saying that because that's what it calculates up to out to at the edge fund level, right? You talk about reducing the number of superintendents, that's about 5% of the
013of the overall budget. But if you're talking about principal, anyone with an administrator license, it's not just superintendent, it's everybody. Yeah, it's difficult to know what constituents are talking about when they're talking about admin, whether it's just >> right >> the um superintendent's office and budget office or whether they're talking about um yeah principles and um yeah >> in the annual report there is the breakdown of the actual budget too right so all the 2300s I think are what is tied to that administrative category and even you can see office of the superintendent you can even see those categories on a line by line. So um >> it's a onepage document that we know about like if you want there's more information and you can go for a deep dive and I I'll give I'll
014send him some links and uh we'll generate some more conversation. I will show you as well. I kind of glossed over it there real quick, but um on the page where our presentation is on, this is actually our web page. And so on our phone is the web page. So this is the budget page on the website which you can click on from the homepage. So our final budget presentation is talking center and then um a little lower down is the annual report. So, um, you can you can make it bigger by clicking on this and then you can just page right through it. >> So, all of that information that he's looking for is in there. >> It's right there is where it starts, right? So, all that really heavily detailed information is all
015all right there. >> Perfect. Thank you. a question about act 73 and if we're asked how that will how is act 73 supposed to provide us with some savings and where how >> I know well what response would be the best >> response what's the best way to handle that >> so that's really the issue Right. So the conversation has turned to maps and caps and all kinds of things. Um without a lot of modeling of if we do use these maps and central offices look like this or you know school districts look like that it will save us x like that modeling is not done. >> But on a very simple schedule in this very simple way we're going to operate the same number of schools it's going to cost the same amount of
016money. So whether you divide this line around them or that line around them, it won't matter. >> Well, I think they're I think the implication is okay. So we reduce our administration to >> from 50 to 26. That's not going to do it. If we're operating the same number of schools, >> that's a that's a drop in the bucket. There's an idea that it's a lot of money, but even if you got rid of all the superintendent in the state, that's so it's not that isn't that isn't what that isn't really what's going to be achieved here, I guess. And that's not even what's being proposed. That's going to go to zero super Yeah. >> zero losses, right? So I think one of the things we mentioned was related to the foundation formula and basically
017said that >> if that was imposed in Addison County, our district is one of the hardest hits in terms of >> being able to pay for our schools and and teach our students, right? So that was one thing that we you know because that answer that or talking about how act 73 is going to save anything is impossible. So there's the there's the base funding formula that we're meant to get to, right? And then as sort of a step along the way, there's conversation around like a a growth cap of not more than 3%. Um, which would be pretty hard to achieve. You can imagine if that were to be imposed as well if if healthcare costs come in at double digits next year or we negotiate salary increases that are more than 3%. like
018how would we how would we achieve that without compromising student programming? >> Well, we made it below 3% this year. We had a million dollars surplus to put against it. We're not going to have that, >> right? Because that is that per pupil cost. That would be the capped cost, right? Not the expenditure budget, but the per pupil cost. in our 3.39, but that's with the application of a million dollars, which we most likely wouldn't have next year. And we probably won't get lucky two years in a row with 7.4% health care cost increases. So, so I don't I'm you know, the answer to the question you asked is that is not that has not been modeled. So, how will it save us money? No one knows. Mhm. >> Um that has not been modeled.
019Um, and there's been sort of a shift in how some legislators are talking about it now or folks maybe a folks others talking about it being maybe more about equity um and more about opportunity for students and that by changing this footprint um or establishing other uh costs uh factors we would be leveling the playing field so that every there are places um where they're not paying spending nearly enough for people, right? They're way below um what's proposed to be um you know the the block grant amount. Like there are places where they would actually have to increase what they're studying in their schools, but but maybe those places aren't, you know, offering the same number of things that other places are. So those kids start getting same kind of equitable experience. So there's an
020idea that by by leveling the playing field in that way things would be more equitable for the state and that question came up in Ferrisburg there were like what Christina was talking about and then there's also um the idea of the post model of sharing without having to necessarily consolidate districts maybe share some more services. And also the idea that really in order to save money to lower taxes, we will have to close some of the small schools in our state. So, but nobody's really talking. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Anything else on budget? So, just going back to like about the budget, are we should we put the flyers out in places like the library and the post offices and have they been mailed to all the homes of the district? And then we
021put a handful of annual reports at the town offices and other places, but we largely don't mail those unless requested because they're kind of expensive to mail. But there's plenty of extra copies around if somebody wants a copy to just let us know. We're happy to mail it and you could have a few in your back pocket if you wanted to. >> Oh, I need another. >> Yeah, those I don't know if we have extra of those. Those go mail directly from the printer to home. So we don't manage that mailing. >> Yeah. >> I don't know that we get extra flyers. >> I asked for a few extras just to put my file. >> And you want to set which one dates for posting? How many posts do we want to do and the
022timing of them roughly? Just so I get them on my schedule. overload, but >> yeah, >> probably I think it's once a week up until election. >> Okay. >> And I think people really liked the way we did it our third vote where we just broke it down into bite-sized pieces. Wasn't trying to do the entire budget, but this is understand this little section of the budget. Understand this is what. >> So maybe you and I can try and figure out topics in the next day or two coming days. >> Okay. >> I don't have that in my head right now. Okay, sounds good. Plus, school vacation, too. So, tricky. >> Am I making it up that we have like less than a 10% voter turnout? Why does that stick in my head >> for
023all years? >> Yeah. >> For like uh give me a few minutes, >> but that worries me more than almost anything. like there's so much great, you know, so many great ideas here. Talking about communicating it and then like he'll be showing up and so maybe really pushing the early voting would be something to consider. >> Um our our ballots are all at the town offices. Folks could stop by their town office any time and vote. Um >> so >> yeah, I mean we definitely >> Yeah, that's what I mean. like maybe get out early with that because I I do feel like you run the risk if you wait till town meeting day and then it's a day like this where it's freaking cold or snowing and then you just don't feel like leaving
024your house >> or one thing or another gets in the way of going. I've had that happen to me and I don't vote. >> Yeah. I mean, the last vote is 16,600 out of 7,500 um people like registered voters. >> Okay. I feel tiny bit better. >> Yeah. It's just Yeah. whatever we could do maybe to >> you know that year that we had the the third vote um that was 3500 out of 7500. Um so next we're up on vote number one. >> Yeah. Yeah. No. Uh I think that's that's sometimes our struggle on on town meeting day. >> That's why that's why I'm mentioning it, right? I'm just like I don't want to do a second vote just because people forgot to turn out that would be good. >> Yeah. >> Just a
025request if you do a front porch about early voting if you have the space. Could you put the town office um hours >> cuz like only open two days a week for like three hours or something when you could go and >> vote only open two days a week. >> You can also request mail. >> So then there's a limit on >> right I don't know to get back. >> Yeah. Yeah. But we can do that. make sure that people know >> so it's easy to find. >> Yeah, >> we could start posting our own voted, right? I'll go get mine. I'll go to month and get mine done and out of the way. We can do little Facebook post about that. Do it. >> Would it be helpful to add the town links? >>
026Yeah. Okay. >> And then you'll at some point have to decide who's saying what um for the >> info. The principles are all on board to come and do their slides, right? Info slides. So they'll be here and that's new and different. So that's nice. >> Has her slide. >> This is where you vote. >> Take that away from you. the money. >> Yeah. >> Whatever you do. >> Anything Carol, Michael, you have anything you want to add before we move on. >> All right. So, statewide task force, I actually met for the first time in three months with that task force or that work group, whatever it's called, um, last Wednesday. And then we had a couple of the main focus was so how big should a school board be in general terms and
027had a couple people within the state who have lived and breed superintendent and the SBA and boards and stuff for a number of years and their suggestion was it depends which was logically that three to five is too small especially going to be in a big district you have really that's a lot of work. You can never not be quorum then. So you really want more than that. You get to 12 or 15, you get kind of big. Some people don't show up because there's so many other people and you might not have a quorum because enough people just didn't come. Um and if there's if it's too spread out, then you don't feel like you really need to be part of it. So, they're like in the 7 to 12 range, but it sort
028of depends on what the boundaries are and how many different municipalities there are and how they want to go about it. But it was a good conversation, but we're still waiting for maps. Until there's a map, we can't figure out a voting ward. Until you figure out a voting war, you can't figure out what you're going to do about sports. Um, consume to what is our next agenda item. The task force has discussed baking student representation into that foundational structure of whatever the new boards are. There should be student representation. Whether it'll be voting or not, it's we haven't gotten that far, but we do want to make sure that we have student reps as part of the process. Um, we're meeting again in a month. There is at least one map floating around. Peter
029Conley played with the mapping tool and this week his committee on house said is going to talk about his map. He was very insistent when he first presented this like this is just an idea. This is just the starting point. This is not the map. We need to do something and I also know that house ed like we're almost you know we're getting a month away from crossover. We don't have anything. Someone's got to start something. So, I think they're playing with maps, too. So, maybe in the next week or two there'll be more floating around. But that's sort of where that is. Um, there's probably tomorrow you're going to get a very long email from the SBA, like 18 or 20 pages >> that I just finished writing. >> Yeah. >> About where we
030are currently in the legislature. So, the first month, here you go. Here's all the major pieces being discussed. This is sort of pros and cons. Here's all sorts of links if you want to dive into the minutia. They usually put out three of those a year. So we'll do one now. We'll do one around crossover. We'll do one at the end of the session. Um, any other questions on 73 or the voting boards or >> So, they're just planning on doing at large representation and with those kind of numbers, you'd never really be able to do direct proportional representation. But Peter's map is he's got like 25 or 30 districts. So you might not be able to have maybe not every town gets one to one, but you it's not the five districts where suddenly
031you have seven municipalities and you have five members. So I think that there's still potential, but there's still going to be bigger. It's still going to be Do you have more members? One per town, but you have a weighted vote. So Middlebury would have more powerful votes than Virgin because there's just more people or would you want like we do where you have bodies that have a single vote there's more from Virginia and Parisburg than there are welcome but that's we will discuss that you know what the maps are and figure out what's kind of best situation and it's just then we give it to the state board for their consideration they would be the ones to make the decision how a board actually structured. >> So just to be very clear that the assumption
032is all the boards will be structured the same way. Well the same basic premise. It might be that because of the geographics of the northeast kingdom they might need 10 and whereas maybe we only need seven. So there might be a range and so it won't be exact but for the most part all of them will be structured under the same basic guidelines. like in terms of whether you're getting bodies in the room or weighted votes ethics that would >> that would be the intent >> I remember from the merger study that this was one of the most like confusing tricky things. >> Yeah, I think the idea is that for the most part every board across the state should be the same. So if you were to move from board to board, you wouldn't
033be reinventing the wheel. Understanding how it's structured. You might have slightly different people numbers because of where you are and how many you are or you might have different times or dates. Maybe you decide you want to have a different subcommittee. But you know, you might give the these are the six or eight subcommittees you should consider. Pick the ones that you think are necessary to do. But some dark real >> when you look at this last map there's some places are super small how they like figure the numbers out tricky. Y >> there is another one floating around. That's as soon as it hits >> that would be super helpful. >> People started trying to put that together. So we >> are done little square. >> Yeah. >> All three school districts are one,
034right? >> Pretty much ours is just Addison County four or four. Sorry. Yeah. Sorry. All right, student voting. So, we've talked about it for a while. Um, there is currently a bill in front of House Ed for student votes. Student representatives would have the right to vote. Uh, it's based on some students who were governor's institute over the summer who wrote legislation, got a sponsor, and they presented it last week. um their idea which I think is a little overkill but you may as well shoot for the moon. They would like a seventh grade, eighth grade, nth grade, 10th grade, 11th grade and 12th grade representative. >> Wow. >> With the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th graders having a vote. I'm like, wow. If you have a five person board, now you have seven students,
035four of them with a vote. That could be tricky. Um but they also realize you may as well ask for it and have it done. I think that most of the legislators who were in the room like the idea in general and were sort of leaning towards the state board of education that gray was on where you have a junior and a senior junior non voting then become the senior's two-year term and the senior votes. >> So something like that is possible. >> Um but they just talking about it and then they said the the task force or the work group for the voting boards has also talked about it. We'll try and figure out how it works, but they can't be elected positions because unless you are a registered voter, you can't be on
036a ballot. So, it still would have to be either school elections or appointments or something of that nature. And you get into now you have eight schools, eight high schools within your district. How do you pick? So there would have to be things that are structured. But I'm hoping that as we start to student reps might have some thoughts not only on what the future should be, but what we might consider doing next year on this board. We can't give them an official vote, but there is the idea that we could let student reps tell us a non-binding vote before we take an action vote so that at least we know specifically what they're thinking from the student body's point of view before we make a final decision on our own. Turn to you guys.
037>> Yeah. So, I've been some I'm on a subcommittee of the student rep group that I'm part of that has been working on writing an op-ed about the bill that uh is in committee right now. Um so, we've been talking about that and in our subcommittee we're in the oped we're going to suggest the junior senior um idea as an amendment. Um because we think that be like the most effective thing to do or and was like logical. I don't know. But we were a little worried about the like experience level of having like federal scores and just the like coordination and making sure everyone that is a student rep is educated about what's happening to the point they feel like they can contribute properly. Um but I've also spoken to someone at Harwood and
038and they have a policy that um all student reps get an honorary or like a they call it something special some sort of a vote that's not doesn't actually count on those records. Um but yeah, I think that would be a good thing to implement here. Um obviously like logistically there's some small votes where it's like an agenda or like a German doesn't really matter, but the larger votes >> um for action items might make sense. >> Yeah, I agree. I think that it might be helpful to like members to give a little bit more information as to like what the meeting will look like and what's going on just because like the first couple months can be very confusing and I think that if I hopped into the school board on my first meeting
039and had to vote I'd be like I don't know. So just maybe some more information that I think that maybe after like certain period of time I guess I'm I'm wondering if there's anything stopping us now from offering the preliminary vote before I I would be interested in that. I mean, if you as student perhaps are interested in having that responsibility, I would be interested in hearing how you would vote. And I agree like I'm like, you know, approving it or whatever, but I don't know, maybe there is something. Yeah, like I was talking to Sheila earlier today and I was saying that I mean as far as like if there's something I strongly disagreed with and it seemed like the discussion was going the direction that it was going to go the opposite of
040what I thought. I mean I think I would speak up anyway. So to that point like I don't know if the vote was >> would be me saying oh like nay actually that different than just speaking up and giving my opinion at that point. But I mean just for like to have it be an actual action I guess would be nice. But I don't think it would be that different than what we have now. >> I was going to ask that. >> We don't really have many things that are very controversial most of the time. >> Yeah. I mean, Walden closing >> that was but you guys I mean students spoke out about it. Um and yeah, you guys are pretty good about speaking out on subjects that weigh heavily on you. And I was
041just wondering like how do you think that it makes that much of a difference having a an actual vote even though it's nonbinding? Is is that something that would resonate with the student body as as having more agency in the process? >> I mean maybe. I'm not sure. I think that in general needs to be a little more um education and body like what we do and what the board does in general. I don't think actually understand what the board is or like how it's different than the principles and like school admins. So, I think that that could be part of it and that could be like an example to point to that then might be intriguing. But >> yeah, I agree with them talking about having like seventh graders and stuff on the board.
042I found that kind of interesting because I didn't know the board existed until so I feel like if we could get some more I don't know just like news out like informing new students about like what's actually happening and how you can get involved. >> When I was in high school I didn't know the board existed until I got my diploma and someone from the board. >> I think it's important to and I agree with John. I think there's nothing really stopping us from there's no deadline by which you know we need to make a change we can make it right now if we wanted to I think it's even though I appreciate that you feel comfortable speaking up another student rep might not right so it's both provides you know just a placeholder for
043that to to occur but it's also really symbolic and important that you know you're here for a reason your voice does matter and we should stop and pause and remember to listen to what you have to say Right? Otherwise, you know, to gloss over it feels like we're not really honoring your role or your time here. So, I think it's important you should do it. So um what about executive sessions would students so what would make it so they couldn't be included or they wouldn't >> matters of personnel um student matters you know pertaining to a peer um so that would just be part of the rules be executive session I think I know you guys speak at somebody might not. But it's also even around the table or doing something. There's a difference between
044all of us. But if I like call out each person, what do you think? >> Yeah. >> You can say, "No, I'm good." But sometimes you have something to say. You're like, "Yeah, I'm not going to bother to raise my hand." And you call specifically suddenly you're like, "Yeah, I actually do have a couple of sentences that I want to say." So it helps that. >> Yeah. And I was thinking along John's line that we'll be reorganizing >> in just over a month. So that makes sense to do it at that point. >> Yeah. One thing I've learned is that a lot of boards do call vote and not always just >> which I didn't really know. I guess that's when we were this way. But is that something you've ever done or considered? I
045think we do it if there's we're not really sure if it's unanimous. There's not really a point around say yes. But if it's like well we're not sure like okay we want to know a real head count. We want people to have a chance to voice their support or opposition just so it's on the record that that this was discussed. It wasn't glossed over and we did consider different options so that when constituents say, "Well, why didn't you think of that?" We can say we did and we talk about it. It was raised and it decided to go this direction and not that direction. >> We are nearly always unanimous. So a roll call vote would really just slow things down. >> We do a lot of discussion before roll call before the vote so
046that we finally do get consensus. >> I'm thinking too that moving forward it would really be nice to have students of the student vote. We're going to be making some big decisions. >> Whoever decisions. >> Yeah, I'll definitely send you guys the bed when it's finished. And it gets >> Okay. Uh, teacher appreciation. We got a general email from J. I got it a few days ago from Jay just wanting to know in general what are we thinking so that they have days they're kind of plan the calendar for who's doing what when and we raise it today just preliminarily in the past we've done a breakfast one morning and then given flowers to the food service who prepared the breakfast. Um, is that something we think is still what we would like to do?
047So, Tuesday or Thursday are the two days that they haven't had anything yet. >> And just let them know. >> What are the dates of the week? >> Wednesday, PTO's and other organizations doing other things and they just wanted to know whether it or not. um through >> Oh, May 4 through 8. >> So, the the way it's been working the last couple years there we used to all donate to pay for all of it, including the food, but there's money in the budget for the food portion, which is, you know, around $700. It's um it didn't used to cost that much like when we first started. Um, and then the flower portion comes out of all of our >> just me or Christina Ben, but we will discuss specifics. I just wanted to get
048a general that still sounds like a good plan and I can let Jay know if he can pencil us into the calendar so that they have an idea of which days are being covered by what. Okay. >> Do you want to pick a date in the frame of that? Say we'll do Tuesday. >> I will do that. >> We'll do Tuesday. >> Anything else? >> So, public comment speaking. >> Please state your name, town res. I'm Sean from Panton. Uh I have a kid in the school. I work for the school and I own a house in the district. So I'm kind of your I've got every bit of stakeholder. Um in terms of what we're talking well you were talking about tonight and the state representatives. Um what I've noticed is that we have
049a senior and junior um in that last year, last two years, I had gray really took this leadership role and that allowed this is from my perspective, Quincy to ramp up and now she's taken that leadership role and taken that voice and is that mentor for the next generation, you know, and so forth. So um having student voice is is important. I would I would ask um um the board that there there is um a stakeholder that's not here um and that is um nonadministrative educator. Um and where that becomes important is as you discuss different policy, different ideas, getting that perspective from a teacher who actually will be then implementing those ideas and um and offering um you know these are potential unintended consequences or you know how this how this great idea would
050actually um impact what we are doing and how we're doing it. Um, and sometimes we don't always get that until it's there and it may just be even if it's a non voting. I think the reality is is that I can only talk to my the board chair or as a citizen I can go to my right. Those are really my only two ways to and so that limits what what information that I think we can provide the support we do. Um yeah, so I think that's that's my perspective on it. But I actually think um I've been very impressed certainly I was impressed with Gray. I've been very impressed with Quincy. Um, I think she's brought up some of their concerns that I have seen like, yeah, that in practice that may not work.
051And you're a high schooler, which is great. It's fantastic, but um, there are other voices out there that aren't able to be on the board from this community. Um, so I would just, you know, urge that else. All right. Motion to adjurnn. Second, >> right? This is a record. No. >> We're out. >> We >> have a budget.