001going. >> All right. I would like to call this meeting of the Mount of Scotney School District Board to order on this Monday, April 6th at 6:30 a.m. We are 210. >> Uh first up, any changes or additions to the agenda? I do I do know we're gonna flip the administrative supports student presentation learning is first >> and the um executive session is 313 not >> any other changes I don't see any either Oh, Amy just tried. >> Hi, Amy. >> Hello. All right. Uh, we're on to item three, which is approval of minutes from March 9th, 2026. So, if you haven't had a chance to look at those, please take a look at them. And have something on minutes. >> Uh I'll I'll take a motion to approve them and then we'll we'll do
002um discussion. So I'll take a motion to approve the minutes from March 9th, 2026. >> Second. >> Thank you. And discussion, please. >> Um yeah, just that my name is spelled incorrectly throughout. So I thought maybe get that fixed now. Sure. >> Do you want us just to have it have it Liz Frederick throughout? >> That's fine, but my last name is spelled incorrectly. >> Oh, it is. Yes. >> Yes. There's an E between the >> Excellent. Thank you for pointing that out. >> And yes, Liz is fine. It might be easier for every That's what I go by. My legal names. >> So, there's an E between the D and the R. Awesome. Yeah, if you're if you're cool having a Liz and your last name spelled correctly. That's >> so there is one
003like this is correct. >> That's correct. >> We got a fun new font on these. I appreciate that. >> Any other discussion on the minutes? Very thorough. Yeah. Next time we have a reorganization meeting, we don't plan a full school board meeting after we talk about that. >> Yeah. >> Um all right. Uh if there's no more discussion, I will uh I'll take a voice vote for this one. So all those in favor of adopting the minutes uh please say I. I >> I >> uh and I uh any opposed? Any abstensions? >> All right. So, we have adopted the minutes. >> Yeah. As as corrected. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. With we've adopted them with the correct um All right. Next, we have item four, public comment on non-aggenda items or announcements. Public comment is
004not legally required, but we believe it is crucial for us to hear from our community members about their concerns over issues. Through these meetings, our board models for our students how to conduct public discourse and that the board and members of our community can approach controversial issues in a civil and constructive manner, excuse me, and can demonstrate mutual respect. Having said that, please note the board is here to listen. Uh public comment period is not designed for discussion. Please start by identifying yourself and what town you reside in and please limit your remarks to three minutes. >> All right. Any public comment? >> So they trip up the mall tomorrow. >> What grades are those? >> Third and four. Okay. Who can you tell us more about that? >> Um, not much. I just know
005that I gotta get I gotta get the board there a little early. >> Yeah. They're gonna go check out the state house and go to the museum on site. >> Yeah. >> Oh, they go to the history the Vermont history museum. >> Yeah. >> I went there with my my nieces and nephews last fall and I've never been there. It's awesome. Such a cool museum. >> That's great. All right. I I have one uh brief announcement. Um, I got a chance to go to the um the VS SBA regional um like Windsor County Group had a meet up last Thursday I believe. Uh, it was really great to connect with some folks from uh from Mountain Views and uh you know elsewhere in our region. Um, and I know that I get to talk to
006Neil for a while. We had some great presentation from BSBA about the resources they have and we had a chance to kind of share our our collected efforts and and challenges the current state of legislation happening for moderniz education. So it was good to get to learn and get to know folks and you know do a little little bit of kind of area grievances as well. Um yeah I just want to encourage other board members you know keep an eye out for those things. I know that uh uh Neil um Odell who's our regional person uh he's looking to do more of those. Um so we we did some feedback deciding how we would do them. I know I I advocated for just quarterly some kind of small get get together but um he's going
007to be reached out about that in the next month or so. So yeah, it's pretty fun. Made good food. Worth checking out. Any other announcements? So, so we will move on to item five, which is our administrative report. That is going to start with student presentation alerting, which I think is this guy over here. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> So, I'd like to introduce seventh grader Gavin Cardi. Um, his teacher, Mr. Lord is on the call and can maybe support Gavin as he goes through um or what he's done. Just a little more context about recent project they have done in class and then I you're supposed to have a couple more students who were unable to make it today, but I do have some other projects to share that way done. Take it
008away, Gabby. >> All right. I did my project on the Iraq War of 2003. It was part of a class project about the Middle East in general. Uh next events leading up to the war and just precursor events in general. During 1990 to 1991 after a long area of tension, the US invaded Iraq as a retaliatory event to invasions of their neighbor Kuwait. The US led a coalition of countries like the US, UK, Australia, Poland, few other countries and invaded Iraq to disperse their army and such. This action destroyed their economy, their army and displaced a lot of their population and fueled a long time growing resentment to the US inside of Iraq, especially within Saddam Hussein's regime. Another event that was leading up to the war or caused the war in some way was
009the war on terror. After the 911 terrorist attacks, the US launched the global war on terror which was one of the starting events of being invading Iraq in 2003 because of the rumors that they had nuclear weapons and were supporting supporting terrorist groups. Some preparations made by the US. Some CIA teams entered Iraq in 2002 with goals such as convincing the Iraqi generals to surrender when the invasion started, figuring out where Iraqi top generals and leaders were positioned within Iraq. And possibly one of the more important in things they did was persuading the Kurdish Peshmer to be a northern fighting force of the invasion. The Kurdish Peshmerga were a fighting force of around 70,000 at the time that were fighting in northern Iraq for a while to try and gain autonomy or independence from the
010Iraq government. The United States wanted to recruit them to their side because they had no way to get to the northern area of Iraq. after Turkey declined to troops being able to move through their soil. Mark start the first technical fighting of the war began on March 16th, 2003 when US troops troops bombed some strategic points along the Iraq Iraqi border with Saudi Arabia. Though despite the initial fighting, President Bush gave a televised ultimatum the next day demanding that Saddam Hussein and his sons leave Iraq or be invaded by the US-led coalition. The next two days were followed with many anti-war protests across the world spiking in countries such as United States, United Kingdom, and Australia who were the main people involved in On March 20th, the first official fighting of the war began with
011largecale strikes hitting major cities such as the capital of Baghdad. Fighting would continue like this between the US coalition and the Iraqi army until around May 1st when US captured Baghdad and large and a lot of other major cities which caused the formal ending of the war and the official disbandment disbandment of the Iraqi army on May 23rd, 2003. Though the Iraqi army was disbanded in May and Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003, the fighting would not slow down. A lot of people didn't like the US in Iraq and a lot of people also did not agree with Saddam Hussein's regime being overthrown and replaced. This led to around 100,000 people in 20 plus groups fighting the US coalition in guerrilla warfare for I think it was maybe around 10 years. This ended in
0124,800 coalition deaths. Some of the most notable groups fighting the coalition were al-Qaeda and Iraq formed in 2004. They were an offshoot of al-Qaeda which mainly focused on bombings and they both hit civilians and military targets alike. Another large operating force fighting the US coalition was the Islamic State of Iraq which was formed from a bunch of smaller groups emerging in 2006. And this group was also a direct precursor to the modern-day group of ISIS. The coalition left Iraq in 2003 because the main objective of setting up a new government was completed. However, they would be back in less than two years because of an invasion, I believe, from the um from ISIS. This is mainly because of a lot of long hatred in the region between religious groups such as the different branches of
013Muslim and ethnic groups such as the Kurdish and Arab people. These long rooted hatreds is what led to the groups like ISIS, al-Qaeda, and even Saddam Hussein's regime being formed in the first place. That's all. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Lord, would you like to add anything about um Gavin's presentation in class or any other students and topics? >> Well, I' clearly I'll be stepping down now and Gavin will be teaching the rest of the year. Um but we we've been sort of going around the world. It's world geography this year in the two-year rotation. So, I've we've been trying to cover as much of the globe as we can and init had initially planned to go into Southeast Asia, but with things happening um over in the Middle East sort of beginning right as
014we were about to make that make that step, I just pivoted hard and we went into the Middle East for that unit and really tried to focus a lot. We did a few different projects. uh one was based on looking at different elements of Muslim culture and looking at the each of the different countries and then really trying to give them as much of an understanding of sort of the the overlapping connection with America and the history that our country has in that region and sort of looking at the histories of each of those different nations through these projects which would give them more of an understanding of sort of the geopolitical situation we're in now. Um, and then we've been checking in with the news every day just to, you know, keep keep up
015to speed and and have a better understanding um, than we did going in. And so this was just one of the there's a huge list of choices that the students could make and this was the one Gavin chose and it was really just a highlight of the presentations that I saw and they were all great and and I think they do they I think that I'm hoping and I really feel like we came out of this unit with a pretty good understanding or better understanding of sort of where we are as a country and where we are as a world um in that part of the world at the moment. So I'm sort of rambling on. I didn't didn't prepare my words very well. Um, >> but they did a great job and I think
016that's really ultimately the goal is just, you know, we live in this a small town and we don't all get to travel all, you know, all over the world all the time and so as much as we can sort of explore the cultures of, you know, different places, the the more worldly we are as a, you know, as a community. So, >> thank you, Mr. Lord. >> Yeah, thanks so much, Mr. Lord. And thanks, Kevin. Really fantastic. I'm going to share a little bit more of the middle school updates and some other projects. So, if you want to go to the other >> Oh, Elizabeth, >> thanks. Um, really outstanding work, Gavin. Uh, I apologize for not having my camera on, but I'm a little bit under the weather this evening. Um, I wondered if
017you researched at all. Can you hear me? All right. >> Yeah. Okay. I wondered if you researched at all um uh what the number of civilian deaths were during all of that uh all of that time in Iraq. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um I did not, but I assume it was a pretty large number. Next one. So, some of the things coming up in our middle school or going on is this Thursday evening we have our National Junior Honor Society induction at 6 PM right here in this room. Um, congratulations to Zoe Martin, Roxan Kamik, Lucy Moore, Jazia Sammonella, Emry Hines, and Maline George, as well as because it's our second year of our National Junior Society. It includes our eighth and ninth graders, and we have two ninth graders joining the group, and
018that is Michael Shaw and Roberty. So, we will have eight students inducted this Thursday night. Um throughout the schools we're having our student led conferences. Um parents are invited to come see the hard work the students have been working on in their PLPS. Next Friday, we have the day to to schedule lots of those conferences, but we're also offering times after school next week. And students are sharing their goals, a little bit from each of their class growth and learning from each area on throughout the year with some artifacts and pieces that they would like to share with their families to get feedback and talk about next steps. Our eighth grade when we come back from vacation are going on a CCV visit and this is access days and they kind of do like some
019mini courses. If you want to click on it, Christine, it's less than a minute kind of um little recap of what they do at a CCB visit. And we've been doing this for a couple years. Well, starting strong. >> CCV access days are when we bring >> I can share. So, >> middle school and high school students to CCB centers to expose them to college and career pathways. They always feature mini college classes taught by CCB faculty so visiting students can get a feel for what it's like to be in a college class. Today we're having one focused on business, finance, accounting, and marketing. And we've involved some Vermont professionals in those areas. Really, we want students to leave Access Days feeling inspired and feeling like they have some sense of what's out there for
020them and all the opportunities that await them very soon. If you're interested in it, you can email me directly. I'm Dana Oliver and it's just dana.olivercc.edu. See you at the next access day. They offer about three to four um middle school access days and every year our eighth graders get to go. So, Miss Stanley organized their trip for the day we get back from vacation and they'll be able to participate in a couple classes, have lunch with them and with faculty. Um two other performances coming up is our middle school theater performance. Um they are going to be doing a mix of musical numbers and short theatrical scenes and they're going to be doing an afternoon performance and an evening performance 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. We also have our middle school and high school
021spring concert on May 13th at 6 p.m. And some of the other pieces that are represented in these pictures here. This picture in the bottom left is also a picture that Gavin is in that Mr. was happening in Mr. Lord's class which was when they were having discussions on the branches of government and they divided into three different groups each acting as a different branch of the government and had a a dilemma that they all have to talk about like why each group had different decisions to um what was the pros and cons of the dilemma and what why each group decided what they did. So they have to work together on that piece. Our second picture is our crossgrade learning with one of our eighth grade mentors, one of our third graders. And we
022have started the fourth quarter today. So we have some new mentors coming into some of the elementary classes for the fourth quarter and hope to grow this program even more next year. Our bottom right picture is our students of the month from March. Congratulations to Lucy Forton, Parker O'Neal, Ryan Perry, and Parker Row. And in the top right, we have um elementary students giving Miss Lawyer flowers for receiving the Cliff Grant. And um if you don't mind, Tracy, would you like to share a little bit more about what the Cliff grant is about? >> Yeah, I have it in mind, too. Oh, then we can >> that's okay. >> We can um the clip grant is it's the year of the book and essentially it's it's a large >> Sure. >> Am I? >> No,
023you're gonna come back to >> We have There we go. Um we um the CL grant it's uh it I believe it's 25,000. Just a lawyer um applied for the grant. It's and we're so lucky we benefit. It's a K6 grant. So, she agreed to do all the work and I and we benefit incredible. Um, it will drive our family engagement, our um we're hoping for some residencies and some author visits and a lot of um opportunities to put books in in famil family's homes. And um we April 1st was the day we found out and we received the award. There'll be a lot of um you'll see media coverage about receiving this. There's a lot of work that goes into it. So, prior to applying, we made sure we had a team of teachers
024ready to dig in because there'll be a lot of work that goes to this goes into this. Um, and it's next year we're already putting the advisory group. So, today we paraded um we paraded uh down the middle school hallway to um shower Miss Lawyer with flowers to make sure she knew how much we appreciated all of her hard work. And that's the picture that >> yeah it's so it is our K through six who are going to benefit. It is a lot of she said about eight books per student K through six school next year the author visits writing workshops. I believe it's $25,000 grants. So pretty exciting. And she said there is the possibility of stretching it into a second year with what they have momentum grants but they have a lot of
025options. So, um, yeah, that was really exciting and new. If you want to go back to my slides, Christine, let's back up. So, that is what we have going on currently in middle school and then I will share with you a couple more of the learning um projects. The next one, one of the other recent projects in our um eighth grade science classes has been their Newton's laws and their STEM challenge. They were working on prototypes for the last week, week and a half and they did their balloon drops today. It's a very big deal to see who makes it to not having their balloon pop. And then after they collect their data, they will be um redoing the prototypes, redesign, and they will do a second um test later this week. So they drop
026them from the back bridge. And there's definitely a cleanup crew. And some of the I think one of the successful ones was a little bit more like a um parachute design, but there were some that look like soft crates. Some had like cages, but safety car designs and things like that. Went really well today. Our next one is our career projects in sixth grade. And with our sixth graders, we had students presenting um all different types of research on careers of their choice. We had proathletes, coaches, car mechanics, environmental engineers, diesel mechanics, state trooper, fashion designers, music teachers, military, veterinarian, software engineer, game developers, um performers, singers, actors, sports medicine, archaeologist, counselor, teacher, race car drivers, and M. lawyer asked them to not only do their research on the career but also to be working
027on the stepping stones to get there. So some students did some interviews with people in these careers and some people were making business cards or business plans and that is what I have to share with you this week. >> Thank you guys. Thank you Gabby for doing keep going. Um we the elementary um we held our family engagement kind of the big talk on March 19. It was a tremendous I think there were 15 teachers K through eight. It was wonderful people um had some students from Albert Bridge join us. Uh it was it was wonderful. um so much feedback from the community about just a really great night. We gave away some incredible prizes and just a real fun night. Um such a what I sent out to staff after was it was just
028a to me a great example of when people take on small parts and you just trust your your your co-workers and your departments to to do what they say they're going to do and you just watch it all together and it was really amazing. That was a lot of fun. And then um we have conferences coming up the week of April 13 to 17. We have been on the move also. Um the third grade went to the Chris Mcall planetarium. The fifth through 8th graders traveled to the um a little snapshot of the Percy Jackson play in Hartland. It was like they got to see little clips of of the performance in H Heartland and that was really well done. Our kindergarten and second grade metan opera house and our first grade has been doing
029some in-house travels. They went to the third grade to see the trout and they brought in some guest speakers who have been um some students in the school who have been making their own maple syrup. So they brought in some in-house guest speakers. We've completed our boots and staff assessment and um we're actually beginning looking at next year. We're already posting and looking at the intervention position. Spring is busy. So, and if you haven't, um, our last little followup to Winter Enrichment, Jade Enis, um, who created some incredible banners, he took on a banner task for, um, winter enrichment. And when you would go in his room, they'd be working on these letters, and I had no idea what his kids were putting together. But before you leave, if you will walk into the back
030hall, they are unbelievable. Yes, these banners. Um, and these this is a terrible picture of an amazing project that hands hangs in the bar stairwell where a lot of people don't go, but you have to go because >> two floors high these banners are. And he just did an outstanding job with I think they're about 60 students, five banners with real communitydriven messages. I have to send Christina a video because they are just um really beautiful and so well done and he's already thinking about what kind what other kind of community project next year during winter enrichment too and we've got to find a more central place because they're they're really wonderful. So if you get a second free >> they look beautiful in the space even though it's not a stairwell that everyone uses
031were beautiful there all of a sudden it's a it's a great place to be and yeah kids often read they're so so nice we gave him a big shout out at the last leadership assembly where the families are in because they came together >> we're also done with most of our testing we have a few makeups left we finished Maple had a great maple festival in celebration actually attended by families and community members come. Um we actually finished going our sap today on the stove and we've got more than a gallon which is great. Um so good fun there. Destination Imagination. We sent three teams this year to the state level. Um, and one of our teams took a second, one took third, and we're one of three schools that sent an early group. So,
032we actually had three kids that went as first graders um and they don't compete in in that way, but they get feedback and they get practice the um experience. So, that was good fun. Uh we had our science day and day of play um which our student leadership team advocated for making day of player science. So we actually had like microscopes and stuff out for kids um instead of just what we've done in class which is very open. So lots of lot of fun coming up. Uh we do have our fancy dance coming up. Um everybody's invited. Skip is hosting it over at the town hall this year. So, we're hoping to encourage lots of community members to come together. Dancing is a great way to um bring people together, trying to bring a lot
033of that energy back. Great. We're starting our gardening unit for the end of the school year. Our kindergarten days are starting on the 19th where the kids come in the afternoon and hang out um and play with the other current kindergarteners just to get a feel for the school. We do that a few times before we have um it get to the end of the school year and as we all have student conferences coming up and it's just really fun to see the kids getting excited about sharing that work and deciding what they want to talk about they don't want to talk about is um just really fun um experience just letting hearing them talking about what they care about what they um Right. Kate is um everyone knows she has to get a root
034canal and they get her in tonight at 5:30. She is in a lot of pain. So go. >> So for the high school, they're also working on student le conferences. We're always actively encouraging participation for everyone. I know that um in the middle school and high school we have a lot of um staff members who want to support students who might not be able to make an appointment with their family. We have so many support staff who say I would love to be an audience member for our students. So um we do try to help them all have an audience. Um, March intensives were a huge success in the high school and I know Kate and the team are looking to um, offer more connections to the community for next year, community members to um,
035help offer even more in March intensive um, offerings. Uh, in uh, this week we have a performing arts for the high school spring coffee house at 6 PM. And I do not know the location of the room because I know it used to be in a different room. So, we'll have to find out where, but it's um 8:00 p.m. Sorry, 6 p.m. on the eth this Wednesday. And then a month later, we have our high school um theater performance happening on May 8th and 9th at 700 p.m. and Saturday, May 10th at 2:00 p.m. Greek mythology tales. Um, our high school just had their National Honor Society induction this past Thursday. Congratulations to Izzy Cigarelli and Audrey McFarland, doctoral presidents, Jaylen Lman, treasurer, Mars Percy, Grace Blanchard, and Jocelyn Pson. And we have students who
036have been inducted into the tech center and that is Bailey Athorne, Tatum Flanigan, Chase Hodgegen, Allison Liry, Madison McDonald, Mia Martin, Ella Pish, um Grey Walder, and Alden Weld. Congratulations to all of them. My turn. Um wanted to start with some uh pictures from the trips and the march intensives that just spoke of. We had kids all over the world. Um the trip that they uh Mr. Bick Johnson and Mr. War came to talk to the board about um Norway and fundraising for Norway while they did it and um they took kids to Norway and they had a fabulous fabulous time. Uh they were in Iceland for a bit as well and uh said the weather the weather was not that pleasant but the trip overall was great. Uh we had kids who were um
037engaged in a trip to Boston. We had kids doing uh college tours, kids um that went skiing. There was a multimedia um march intensives and one that has to do with the army. some kids were investigating the army. So, it was really a great success and it gets better and better each year and staff put a lot of time and effort into it and community certainly supports a lot of the work um and fundraising that goes into it. So, just a shout out to the staff at Cave. Um, Culture Institute Wellness, you heard Jennifer mention her gardening unit is in the works, and I happen to be there with some kids that were outside um cleaning up one of the many beautiful flower gardens at Elbert Bridge that go around um the property, which is
038if you garden at all, you know, how much work it is. So, it's nice that the kids are getting involved in building culture and community together. Um there's some kids there working together and it's just a shout out to our staff because they recognize how important building a relationship is and they create opportunities for that within their classrooms and that helps build a positive school culture. So >> did you miss the slide before that those pictures? >> No. >> Oh that one correctly for a second. >> Yeah. >> There's one one picture is like it's like flour salt and water I think it was called Mr. By did it. happened to stop in there and they were making all kinds of things with those ingredients. So, they made pasta, homemade pasta one day and they
039were making bread and it was pretty cool. Um, okay. So, just a quick legislative update. I don't know if you've been watching the news. There will be a press conference tomorrow with House um Ed Peter Conlin will be there and some other folks. They have um a bill out. I'm going to just read a little bit to you about it. Um, so I picked little little pieces. Um, so it's a act 73 related committee bill coming out of house ed. It is the intent of the general assembly to work strategically, intentionally, and thoughtfully to ensure that each incremental change made to Vermont Vermont's public education system provides strength and support to its only constitutionally required governmental service. So this is um this is a recognition that that communities and um students and staff and administrators
040and boards are saying, you know, we know there needs to be some transformation consolidation, but we need to do that on a timeline that makes sense and is reasonable. And um so that that honors that piece of that um that that work. So the part of the um bill incorporates Boseies across the state. I think there are seven of them proposed. Pulseies are as you know board of talkative service I'm going to forget boards boards of collaborative educational um they're changing the name to sees which is um cooperative education service agency. So, so they they should be used interchangeably, but it's CESA. Okay. CESA is a is a Boseies. >> Um, so, um, they're proposing seven Boseies across the state and then within those Boseies, the next slide, um, they are going to hire facilitators
041responsible for facilitating study committees to study the advisability of forming a UN unified union school district. um the committee's logic for assigning this role to the Vermont Learning Club, which is the current one and only Boseies in the state, which you're all will be the fiscal agent to hire those um facilitators that are going to come in and the community conversations. Uh it is um from what I understand, they're going to reenact the act 46 language, so there won't be forced mergers, but there will be um some incentivized U measures for communities to have discussions about what what it what makes sense to consolidate or merge or close I guess. Um so that um is hot off the press. Um the language adds contingencies related to the foundation formula implementation including a requirement for modeling
042newly formed districts enacted legislation that addresses how to fund the current unknowns of the foundation formula. CTE, cost of living adjustments, transportation, special education. If all the contingencies are met and listed here, the foundation formula would take effect on July 1, 2030. So, an extended timeline last year. >> Part of that um will be pre pre kindergarten education has to be worked out. Um and so there is uh currently prek students um are not fully weighted and so as part of the foundation formula that we have to make some decisions about how to appropriately fund prek. Um so I will keep you updated but there's a press conference tomorrow in Montilier. more time but to talk through that get to the quarterly financials. I did go over them with Larry prior to our meeting today
043and they are um on the website from the business department. Oops. Um bigger. Yeah. >> Okay. Is that good? >> Mhm. >> Um so there's there are some things that are, you know, in black, some things in the red. That's pretty normal. Um it's the year when you get to that was um revenues. And of course, we don't have all the revenues yet. There's some revenue for um tech centers that Larry tried to explain to me how that works. Mine goes fund doesn't come directly to us but anyway that's accounted for in there. Um these are expenditures by account summary. Then he breaks them down by account detail. Um I asked him about a couple of them. Yeah, there's one that was like 160%. >> This one was >> um Yes. >> of them that
044are substantially over 100%. >> Yeah. the um I looked at the substitute line which was over by a pretty significant amount that includes um that includes our nursing subs that money is supposed to come out of EPSDT funds. Um and he was kind of walking that back to see if that was actually happening. >> Okay. >> Uh health insurance is just up because depends on what people take for plans. workers comp. Um, I've been asking about that one. So, I can look into that one for you. I'm not sure. >> Yeah, I know. I know sometimes there's like reimbursements or other funding sources that haven't come through, which is why this happens, but I don't it's not everything. So, >> there's one down here like >> Yeah. >> Oh, okay. >> You just have four.
045Yes. I asked him about that one because that one um flagged me as well and he said um that short-term interest sometimes we have to borrow money, >> you can't make payroll and we have to pay for that. So yeah um overall we are in good shape. So to this projected um balance is uh will be in the budget by $800,000 and change. >> Okay. >> But it's not the end yet. So >> yeah, >> that that would likely change. >> I appreciate the projection. >> Yeah. >> But you know, overall his um comment was no sound is in good shape. So awesome. Yep. Um Yeah, I know. When the when the cement is wet on that stuff, sometimes >> Yeah, >> sometimes the numbers look scary. >> Well, it's all fun. >> Like the
046special numbers right now scary. >> Uh lastly, I did want to report out that we um did the required rate on testing in all our schools and we got no findings, which is good news. BT testing is almost complete across the SU. We're in makeups and one school is still still um testing this week. >> It's early. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And and Bill, I think you were at the same meeting I was at. The state is trying to get um data collected so that we can get I believe these scores out before February next year. The actual BTC scores. I think that's part of their in the data collection. So >> is that why they're doing the sprays? It's a complete. It really is. Um, and just the graduation dates. I know like I
047know a lot of you like to attend. So, we've got Windsor Middle School on the 10th at 6 and ABS the same day on the 10th at 1 and then graduation for the high school is the 5th at 7. So, it's been doing it every time a day comes up. And that concludes a minute. >> All right, you that the last learn just the first time I see. Okay. Uh so it looks like we are on to item seven and discussion followed by motions if needed. Uh first up we got community events. So uh last couple years we've done two of the well I think we did one community dinner two years ago uh and then two last year tweets at a good time. Uh the comment came up from and I want to give
048Elizabeth Burrows some credit for that that um it would be good to look for a community event in West Windsor to kind of balance it out. I think two years three years ago we did something in West Windsor and then not too. So it's been a little amorphous. Um but she had a great idea of looking into the baked beat supper that happens every year and volunteering for that. Um so unlike community dinner which we really have to do a lot of the kind of organizing coordinating uh that is a established group I think you said 91 years they've been doing it so I think it's probably down to a science over there I think for that uh the best way to approach it is I will I did uh it's the West Windsor Historical
049Association I think that puts it on >> society yeah we just got the association um their website says that there's a signup link and then there's no link next to it so I will reach out to them to see if we can get an email contact and then I'll forward it on to you all and I think that us just individually I would encourage you if you're free on that day. Uh if you can go and just kind of be a part of that and volunteer we'll certainly fairly sure I get a day free and that is I think I still have it up. Um that is going to be on Saturday May 16th from 5 to 7 p.m. Awesome. Yeah, Liz, if you just want to send that to me and then I'll I'll
050give that to everyone else. Um, and a reminder for, you know, Liz who's new and everybody else, too. We can coordinate more stuff on that online so we don't have to figure that all out here. Uh, that being said, for community dinner, um, I figured I would throw out just the initial dates that we could do for that. Um if if people need to look at their calendars later, we can we can take it out of the meeting, but uh I know Mary is looking to get those dates filled soon. Uh looking at this year right now, uh still open as of like last weekend was August 20th, September 3rd, November 5th, December 3rd, January 21st, and March 4th. Um, I would recommend starting from the November 5th date and moving on. I think that
051the a August and September can be a little tough for school stuff with vacation and that was kind of not or getting right back to it. Um, >> yeah, I I like the November date we did this year. >> Yeah, I think that's the same one we did this past year was the early November. >> Um, so tenatively are folks good with it's always I think the second fourth Thursday. I'm guessing that's the second Thursday um or first Thursday. November 5th. Um, can anybody not do that date off the top of their head or does it sound like a good one to aim for? >> Which one was it? November. >> November 5th. Yeah, it's the first and third Thursdays >> besides November you can get really decent meat sales. So, if I'm not here
052on that, I will reach out to Mary and let us know that that's good. Um, we are early enough getting appreciate that if for some reason you like a bunch of us have stuff come up, um, we'd probably move it, but I would just, you know, try to put a hold on that date. Uh, great. Next up, we have >> the other way. >> No, Tracy has one and has two. is moving away from education. >> The sound Can you hear me? The sound has gone out. Can you Can you say all of that again? Sorry. This is Amy. There still isn't anything. >> I don't know what year she's been. So congratulations to go observing stuff for Emily for a long time. The kindergarten classrooms small world. >> All right. >> Elementary because But
053if it's just to Jennifer terrible. I'm sorry would be my issue the whole meeting like a lag or something. So now it's All right. Uh, we're using Christine's computer mic now. Can you hear us again? >> Probably hear me because I'm close to it. >> Yes. >> All right. >> Okay. Well, we're gonna rely on this, you know, I'd say just people across the room, speak up a little bit. um >> record again or >> no the meeting itself is being recorded so that's fine but yeah yeah yeah sorry the owl like completely uh crashed >> but uh if you missed anything you missed Bill keeping me from voting to approve resignations that we didn't need to approve so thanks to Bill for that and uh yeah I was just observing that it's three people
054who are very different parts of their career and I'm glad that we have them all at Windsor and maybe we'll see some of them back here at some All right. Uh, last, let's see. Uh, 6C, we have Wick Leaison. Um, >> Elizabeth just asked if you can say who resigned. >> Oh, yes. Thank you. Catch our gaps here. Uh, so it's uh, and these are all contract non-renewals. Uh, Jennifer, >> not renewals. They're not signing. >> Not signing. They are not signing contract. Thank you. >> Non has a whole different thing. Thank you, negotiating folks. Uh, Jennifer, that would be different. >> Vander, >> Vanir, Karen Townsend, and Emily Fielder. >> I remember when Emily started at Bridging the Gap. >> I told her, "You should start taking classes to become a teacher." >> And
055that was >> quite a few years ago. Yeah. >> She take your advice. >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. So now uh all right I'm glad that they're hearing us now. Uh now we are on to 6C which is Wicklaison. Uh this is just something that got left off reorganization. Uh it is nominating app and approving a wiklazison. I have been the wikaison for two years now I think two or three years. It's been a while. Um happy to keep doing it. People want to talk about I can describe it to you. It's wick is the Windsor improvement corporation. It's a public private partnership uh that's affiliated with the Springfield Regional Development Corporation. Um Wick uh a couple of the really notable projects they've been involved into some I think the most notice noticeable is
056the housing units in downtown Windsor. Uh I believe they helped to acquire those properties and worked with Windsor Whim Housing Trust to to get that built uh and to find a way to pay for the rather expensive soil mitigation that had to happen. Um they also own a lot next to it which I think they're currently hoping to do something similar on that one. So uh you know they also the um railard area um Wick didn't own the park area but they helped to advocate for that. Um so it's really it's just a group that that helps make things happen in uh in downtown Windsor. Um and I have been working with them for a few years. So I will uh I will take nominations to be the wick leazison. >> You're looking at me
057like >> I mean anybody can >> Can you say what's the I know what is the ask when do they meet like just so every >> Oh yes. So yeah, sorry. Uh wig meets on the Let me look at my calendar. It is early on Thursday mornings. Uh, I believe it is the third Thursday of every month at 7:30 a.m. at the Windsor Welcome Center >> in Inerson meetings >> in well they're hybrid but yeah I've been going in person it's nearby and I can pick up coffee on the way on the way back sometime. >> I move to nominate >> second. All right. Any discussion? Um I'm I'm happy to keep doing it. Um I'm actually right now spearheading they um they have a public art initiative. They they also there's a lot of
058subcommittees of Wick and one of them is a downtown committee. Uh so they are looking to um identify some locations and and helped to secure funding for some public art projects. So that's something that I I sort of was directed towards and I'm working on now. So a little bit of plug for that, too. if you want to be involved, it's uh that's happening right now, too. But yeah, happy to keep doing it. All right, if there's no other comments, I will uh I'll take a voice vote on this one. So, all those in favor of uh approving me to be the continuing leazison, please say I. >> I was an eye as well. Abstensions. All right. Thank you very much. Uh, I don't think they would be super happy if I bailed in the
059middle of the public art thing. >> They'd probably just leave me for it if it happened. Um, awesome. Okay, so we are on to setting the next agenda. Uh, anything >> in particular coming up that we need to >> Well, I've got the tan on here, but I think um that's the tax anticipation. No. Yes. >> And I'm going to check with Deanna to see if um it's too soon. And I just vaguely remember we tried to do it in May last year. I don't know if we managed. So that's that's what I have. Um I also have a note on here that it's the high school student presentations. Um it's their turn. >> Awesome. And then um I think one of your board goals is um finding opportunities to engage with community and staff.
060So I had on here um staff uh input topics for discussion or upcoming events. So I know we surveyed them earlier in the year on topics that they wanted to bring to your attention. So >> yeah, if there's any any results from that um that we can look over No, we did. >> Oh, we did. >> Yeah. >> So, I don't know if you want more feedback from the staff or once a year is enough or you just want to focus on the upcoming events, um, community and school events. >> Uh, or just delete it from my notes. >> If you you know what, let's let's if you can send me the results of that one again because I don't want to just like breeze past it. Um, >> yes. One was accessibility. Jim came
061and talked to us about >> Got it. Okay. >> That I think that was the biggie actually. >> And cell phone. The other one was >> and the cell phone policy which we've we've gone over. All right. >> Working on pro working on procedures. I heard the board wanted procedures before they adopted the policy at the last meeting. I was >> Yeah. Yeah. Up at the SU level. >> So the ad team has looked over the procedures. Um, and I think just having a policy in place is going to be more meat behind what we're trying to do here. >> Sure. >> So, >> yeah, I mean, >> those were the things. >> Okay. Yeah, if we if we've covered those pretty effectively uh to date, I I think that would be something, you know,
062with um uh our retreat coming up, we should we should look at that again and kind of >> wrap our heads around it. But yeah, I don't think we need that at that meeting in that case. Uh, anything else that we want to cover. All right. Oh, there's nothing now. If you think of something between now and then, you can always shoot me an email or shoot me and Christine and Lori an email and we can uh we can get on there. >> Okay. All right. So that brings us to uh we do have an executive session tonight and I believe that's going to be board board and Christine only. Yeah. >> So all right. >> So everybody gets to go home at 7:32. >> There we go. >> Lucky lucky. >> Yes. >> Thanks
063everyone. >> Thank you. Make up for last time when we were there for >> Wait. Balance these right. >> Oh yes. Elizabeth, too. >> I feel like you've been sick like the last three times. >> It's been once in January, once you're late. a billion. >> Okay. >> Thanks, Liz. >> That's off. >> All right. Let me um stop the recording. First >> we need to vote. >> Good. Great. There you go. >> All right. So, thank you, Bill, for reminding us we need to vote to go into executive session. Uh, I will take a vote to go into executive session under 1 VSA section 313 A4. And that is >> I think it's 24, but let me just double check. >> Oh, A24. Yeah, >> it is. >> I have a 313 A. No,
064it was a A4. >> Yeah. And that is a disciplinary or dismissal action against a public officer or employee. All right. Um we'll do roll call on that. Starting in the room with Bill >> I. >> Megan. >> Hi. >> Amy. >> I. >> Elizabeth. >> I. >> All right. And I am an I as well. >> All right. >> And then I think we have one. >> Okay. >> All right. Having exited executive session at 7:46 p.m., uh, I will take a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Thanks, everyone. Hi.