001Okay. I'd like to call to order the Weathersfield School Board meeting for May 13th. It is 6:31, I guess. 6:32, sorry. Um, and I guess we'll start off with the Pledge of Allegiance. Marley, would you like to lead us one last time, right? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America. and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Um changes or additions to the agenda. Okay. during public participation. Is there anything else? Okay. Um I'll take a motion to approve the minutes of April 8th. So move. Okay. Um all in favor say I. I. And those are approved. Okay. And then we have public participation which I do have Laura Powers like [Laughter] I'm Laura Powers. Okay. Um so
002what would you like me to start with? How would you like me to start? You got like five minutes so go ahead say what you want to say. So, the staff of Weathersfield School uh feels very strongly um that we are coming into the next school year um short staffed for things that we need to provide for students. So, we've provided a letter to the school board stating um why we feel that another elementary school teacher would be helpful. We are currently at a combined K1 class um which is not as beneficial as it sounds for young students to be combined. Um plus there are numerous other reasons why. Um and we are also asking for the possibility of a dual licensed PE and health teacher. Um Laura Barry, our PE teacher, is currently required
003to teach two classes a week per grade level or per class. Her schedule is as tight as it can possibly be with no minutes in between for transitions. Um she gets her 45minut prep and her 30-minute lunch and that is about all she has for the entire day. Um we also know that health is a requirement by the state to be taught. Um, we do the best we can within the classrooms, but it's it's minimal at best. So, we would like to ask if the school board would consider. We understand that it the budget has passed for this current school year coming up. We understand that asking for something like this would possibly put the school in a deficit starting next school year. We also know that oftent times um we have budget or surplus
004that happens um once all of the monies are in or out um and they have figured out their fiscal year. So we are hoping that there is a way that we can find some type of solution for one or both of these situations. Okay, questions. Yep. Does anyone have any questions or anything they want to know more about? Sounds like the first if you had prioritized the two is that the first request a higher priority than the second without speaking to my colleagues. Um my personal preference and I can't speak for everybody else would be to help the schedule of our PT plan. She has been suffering for years with as tight of a schedule as she could possibly get. And um if you look at it in terms of equity, the other um teachers
005in the building have more free time to be able to do things, transition times in between classes where they get to have a ba bathroom break or a water break where she barely gets the opportunity to do them. Has to ask other people to support her to be able to get those times. That would be my preference, but can't speak for everybody. Anything else? No, I think her letter explained the situation well. Okay. Well, thank you Marie. Oh, yes. BJ asked if I was gonna speak about anything else and I didn't acknowledge it. Can I speak about this or no? Yeah, sure. I won't be fine. Okay. I just want to point out um another factor that um and it's not necessarily in regards to a new teacher. Okay. So, I just want to speak
006about Horberry, one of my colleagues. So, as Mr. Martez knows and BJ knows and some of you do, when basketball is used, we used to have an adult volleyball thing going on inside baseball softball practice. Laura cannot set her gym up like like let's say she's doing bad with the kids this week. She can't leave the nets up because we're going to have inside practice because it's raining or you know it's basketball season. So she has to come in in the morning around 7 710 every morning so she can set all of her stuff up if she wants to do candle pin bowling or put mats out for gymnastics or anything like that. She can't leave it in like all of us classroom teachers. My stuff is all set up. PE teacher, she can't. And
007as Vincent knows with, you know, sports and everything that the gym is used constantly at night. You know, if there's a dance on a Friday night, she can't leave Friday with her gym all set up for Monday morning because there's a dance, there's an assembly, there's a community thing, there's town meeting. So, in regards to the gym, she has a lot that she has to do every morning versus us teachers who can prepare our stuff, get it laid out in our classrooms ready for tomorrow morning. I just want I mean I know some of you already know this um but just another thing that hinders her with her PE gym. It's not you know her gym. It's used for everything else and that's creates you know her morning issues to try to run around and
008get things out. So I'm just wanted to speak about that. Thank you. Okay. Do we have any other We don't have any other other participation. Um so we will move on to the administrative report. All right. So, this is the administrative report for May 13, 2025. And we'll go ahead and start off with our mission statement. always like to start off with that to remind everybody what our mission here at Weathersfield School is and then we're going to go right into the wonderful PTO president Jamie Richardson. Hi. Hi everybody. Long time no see. First of all, I want to thank uh Carrie Juel who has been my proxy for months and months uh of coming and presenting on what the PTO has been doing. So Carrie, I know you're online and thank you so much
009for uh doing double duty with PTO and athletics. I'm not speaking about athletics tonight, though. It's a great game going on. There's some booster food. It's it's been great, but that's about as far as I can go for this. So, usually we come here um at the end of the year. I know June is your um your retreat, so we don't often get to say um you know, thank you and goodbye and have a great summer. Um but that's sort of what I'm doing here. So, Marley, it's been wonderful to see you as a representative. That's been congratulations. Big big changes coming your way and we appreciate you being on the on the board there. So, I just want to thank all of you for um all of your support throughout the year. It really
010means a lot for when I come in in August to present our calendar for the year and you ask a few questions, but for the most part, it's I mean, always been very supportive and um we genuinely thank you for showing up to events and being supportive of them. and you know, usually always approving our calendar are wild and creepy ideas to help support these characters behind me. All this talk about uh Mrs. Barry, but she was just recently uh creating some mischief around the school for our staff appreciation week. So, thanks for being a good sport. Uh we appreciate that. I think Mr. Asking for you also might have been a suspect, too. So, anyway, um but I tease. So, um, we've had a great year and I know that Carrie has shared a
011ton of what we've been doing every month when she's coming. Um, so I'm not a ton and we just want to uh celebrate all the things that we've done so we get bigger and wilder every year and and hopefully we can continue to um do some great fundraising and also, you know, the other side of that is to have some fun events and support uh our school folks and our kiddos. So, we always are trying to balance the celebrating our kids, supporting our kids, and celebrating and supporting all the staff here. And coming off of last week's staff appreciation week, we're exhausted, but we're riding on this wonderful high of celebration. And um we hope that everybody had a lot of fun playing some games and and celebrating um each other. And um you know,
012it really is one of our most favorite events of the year is is our staff appreciation. So, um, obviously we're gearing up. We're already starting paw drop meetings. I know that probably doesn't shock anyone anymore that we're already starting that, but we've had our first meeting. Um, and we're um, you know, always looking to do bigger and better things this um, this fall in September. So, there will be this start of some pipe built around paw drop and you'll hopefully see it all summer long. Um, and then you know, no, I'm not gonna say before we know we'll be back to school because we haven't even finished school yet, but uh it is our biggest um and most fun fundraiser really of the year and has become, you know, a community event really. So, thank
013you so much for continuing to support that. Um, and you know, I know Carrie talked a little bit about the comedy night was another great success and we are doing a spring apparel sale that's been great. penny wars or coin wars, we've never done before, but we see it on, you know, these Facebook posts all the time and other schools are always they're like, "Yeah, see, unbelievable." I mean, you pick a cool game like Mario Kart and away it rolls. The kids get into it, the families get into it, and we were really successful. And for years, I think I've been standing up here talking about um how successful we've been with fundraisers. And I don't want to steal anybody's thunder, so are you planning on talking about the Nope. I left it all you.
014Is that okay? Yep. So, we've been all of our fundraising endeavors go back to recreational equipment on the playground. We've been buying all the balls and the toys like to supplement some of the school supplies out there. And then some of you, you know, mini grants and all those things, but we've been fundraising for years now and we're sitting on a little bit of money and um we were really really blessed with the Hicks Nichols grant a couple last year to be able to help buy the television screen um outside. So, we're like what do we do? We need to do some more. So, we've been working with Brian and BJ to get some an estimate to bring in a new swing set uh for the playground. So, we're staying in our lane of not
015figuring out how to get it in the ground. That's you guys. But, um we were really happy to support it and financially uh help them purchase a new swing set for our playground. So, it's it's kind of funny. You can I'm so shocked you can't hear the squeaking right now of the swing set, but we have new swings out there. Um, but the whole thing will be redone and um, you know, there's probably a lot more that Brian and BJ can talk to about that, but it's a pretty substantial contribution on from our fundraising endeavor. So, we're really excited to see something fresh and new on the playground. You know, we have big dreams of course of like, oh, what can we do? There's more space. Let's fill it in. Well, we we don't want
016to do that. We just want to come and help, you know, get the kids some something new. the school has now the expansion has been a few years and some of the equipment is getting a little weathered and so um thank you Brian and EJ for working with us for the last few months trying to get to a place where we can um agree to um support that. So we're really excited to see that come to fruition. So, that doesn't mean that we're not going to continue to do great things and continue with all of the equipment and active play supplies and, you know, continue with all of our um mini grants and teacher initiatives and field trip support and all those things. We just have done really well the last couple of years and
017it's time to give a good chunk of change over. So, um more on that I'm sure. Hopefully, you all can see it in action and not hear it in action over the next Everybody knows the squeak. I think I hear it in my dreams um here often enough where there's a lot of swinging going on um in the on the sunset. So um anyway, we have um done eight teacher and sta or staff and student touch points throughout the year from cider and donuts to treat boxes and the L thing that we do for the teachers and we just had a great weeklong celebration of for staff appreciation part partnered with literacy night for camp read a lot um which was super fun. giving out thousands of dollars in mini grants this year. Um, always
018looking to decorate something because that's what brings us a lot of joy is, you know, coming and throwing some decorations or building a photo booth or or something of that nature. And then willing to support um as a volunteer for any dances or drama productions or field day, which I don't know Carrie put out the email today like who wants to participate field day? You might have the whole PTO. This is very I don't know. We're just all excited probably for the Kona ice truck which is coming down. Um, so we've seen an increase in our attendance at meetings and events. We have this incredible pool of volunteers that were uh looking to continue to nurture that relationship with our students um and some of our, you know, older students who are looking for some
019volunteer hours or some of the families who are curious like what are you guys up to and how can I participate? So, it's been really nice to see that growth as some of us are already realizing that our times are, you know, almost starting to trickle down. were like getting what one of the uh folks in the PTO meeting recently said that she was like the new class or then you know and I was like okay I'll burn the old class up and um so uh in closing just thank you so much for a wonderful year in supporting our mission and what we're trying to do and we're hoping that you see it going back into our staff and our students and just the school community as a whole. Uh we're really proud of the
020impact that we've made and we're hoping that we will continue to um you know rise to the next level of fun uh next school year. So, anyone have any questions about anything we've done this year or things you make sure we do or don't do next year or anything like that? I just want to say you guys are awesome. I mean, you do a great job and thank you so much for all you do to support the school. Appreciate it. Everybody appreciate all appreciate all of you. Really Thank you, Jamie. All right, next up we have Carrie Juel, our athletic director, and I believe she's going to do a quick report from the virtual world. Yeah, super quick. Uh we're in between things happening and so the most exciting thing is signups for fall sports
021opening this week. So they can sign up for soccer and cross country, kindergarten through 8th grade for soccer, fifth through 8th grade for cross country. And those signups will be live this week. Thank you, Gary. Awesome job. Thank you. All right. Next up, we have Marley. So she's going to talk about some of the eighth grade things that are happening are coming up in the next couple of weeks, next few weeks. in the last 22 days. Can you read that, Mar? Okay. Um, basket raffle at leadership day. We talk about that a little bit where they're doing the Oh, there we go. Yes. The basket raffle that is for the eighth grade um trip to Boston. Um change plans on Burlington. Um there's like a we're going to do a bunch of activities like we're
022going from early in the morning and I know we have like some mini golf. Um we were good with our budget but we couldn't get the bus so now we have to get a price here bus and Miss Dillson has been on all the eighth graders about that and Miss K also so about getting our tickets in getting our money. Um so we have a bunch of baskets. Um, I know there's baking, movie night, self-care, uh, car supplies, gardening, like a beach summer basket, toys and games. I think that's like most of them. Yeah, seven. Um, but some of the eighth graders are working up working on them upstairs and uh, we have some of the eighth graders and their uh, guardians and parents bringing like their toys and games and stuff for that. So
023that I hope that goes really well and I know it will because when's running it run something it goes really well. So I'm excited for that and I just hope that like the people like really like it because I know the eighth graders are kind of excited for it to see if they know someone will get it. So how come people buy tickets Marley to win a chance at the raffle? Um because the money Oh, how how how do they get tickets? Um they go to an eighth grader or an eighth grade will go to them. Uh $2 for one ticket or like a little booklet which is six tickets for $10. Um I know I'm signing them and a bunch of eighth graders are signing them. Well, not bunch, all the eighth graders would
024be signing them. So yeah, if you come to school like you can come to the school. Okay. Did you bring tickets with you tonight? No opportunity because there's a slide that um I don't have tickets. Um there tickets get money and then get the the toys and then we had bring to Miss Stilson's today. That was fun. What's next? Um, eighth grade dinner and dance. Eighth grade dinner and dance. Um, so we most of the eighth graders have um been trying to pick um the food because we get a little selection for that and that was fun. Um, some people were really joking with like flaming yummy. It was really funny. But uh the eighth graders are going to have a they're like a little fun dance just eighth graders and then they're going to
025have a a dinner. Um I don't know if it's like just families. I think it's like families with the with the dinner and um just like the last kind of minutes that the acres like can get together all in one and have like a fun time. So I think that would go really well. I'm excited. And then you you already talked a little bit about your eighth grade trip to Burlington. And then graduation day, June 9th. June 9th, graduation. Um we're going to have one eighth grade student talk. We still have not decided that people want me to do it, but some of the people want to do it, so I'm going to let them if they want to. Um so that's June 9th. Uh some of the eighth graders have been counting down the
026days and some have just totally forgotten about it. Um, but eighth graders do not have to come after they graduate, but I know some definitely will because mainly because the parents are just like go to school and want to come. Um, and I hope that most eighth graders come back for field day to help out in like stations and to have one last fun time all together. So that eighth grade graduation is going to be sad and just like but a good time. So I'm excited for that. And I know a bunch of eighth graders are too. All right. Thank you, Marley. We truly appreciate all the work that you've done this year and you've been such a great helper um with morning announcements and then when I know I need something from somebody, you're
027the All right. So, there you go. All right. Marley is a gift because she can add them during morning announcements which is very very hard to do. I can throw something at her and say here do this and next thing you know she without missing a beat Marley you've got a gift for that. Use that. So I'm very proud of you. Thank you for everything you've done for us. Thank you. Oh show us what you got. Oh okay. So I got this wonderful card that's going on my wall. I'm going to really miss this. You always have never forget the difference that you cry. [Music] Thank you. You still got a few more weeks of doing announcements. I always panic a little bit when she's not here in the morning and I realize I have
028to go back and do them. I used to love doing them, but now that I have her, it's a lot different. It's a lot more fun with her. All right, so we had family steam night on May the 1. It was pretty awesome event. Um, we had kids that got to do virtual reality goggles and experience a VR world. There was hands-on activities that the students got to do, which was amazing. Um, lots of families were here to be able to support it. Um, and kids. And it was the quickest hour and a half that I've had in a long time. It went by like that. Um, and the kids were engaged. The parents were engaged. Um, I had one set of grandparents that were working on some glasses that they were making. Um, and
029it was and they had to do it with the the doodle art little hot. It's like a 3D pen. 3D pen. Thank you. Um, and I didn't have the patience for it, but they were sitting there doing it and they came up with a pair of classes which was really cool. And I know the kids had a really good time. There's another slide on that one. There's more kids that are engaged. What was great is we had um the River Valley Tech Center here. We had Black Rock Innovation Center here. And then we had the RAD's drone drone team that was here. So kids got to fly a drone in the gym. And the last time I flew a drone here, it ended up in a tree. And then when I was flying them in
030California, they kept hitting the inside of the ceiling of our multi-purpose room. But our kids were doing an amazing job with that. So I want to thank all of those groups and then thank Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Roarts, and Mrs. Sell for doing a fantastic job on putting this event on. So thank you very much for all your hard work. We appreciate you. And then we had a third through fifth grade folk dance night. And so that was last Friday and I heard it was pretty amazing. So we had our third through fifth graders here with Miss Town, our music teacher. And they were teaching the audience how to do different folk dances and they were quite engaged and they had a good time doing that which was nice. And the kids came back
031with some knowledge of folk dances. And then thank you to Naomi and EMTT for volunteering to play as well. Um, so that was a picture of them before. So that was an awesome minute. And then one of the things that Miss Town does is she does something that she calls an informat. And so they had the kindergarten one last night, first grade is tomorrow night, and then Tuesday is on Thursday night. So last year she did them within the school day. Um, this year she's doing them after school so that kids are there with their families for sure. It makes it a little bit easier for parents to be able to get there so they don't have to take time off from work. and they do a little performance with it's just the kindergarteners in
032here and it's really and then just the first graders and just the second graders. So, it's just a really an awesome opportunity to have a little bit more of an intimate experience with the kids and be able to do that smaller venue for for there's not as many nervous students. Did you were you able to go? Yeah, it was really great. They actually um walk through exactly what they do in the classroom and um I heard my little guy sing. He's not a singer. So, I was surprised grabbed that mic. He's quite shy and quiet. Mrs. Pinson can speak to um it was a really nice um opportunity. We're really happy we came. Nice. Good. It's just really great opportunity for the kids to be able to perform a little bit and make it nice
033for the parents because there's not a bad seat in the room when you're in here. So, thank you very much, Mtown, for bringing that to our school. Um our book fair is coming up next week, May 19th through the 23rd. Awesome opportunity to buy books. It happens to coincide with leadership day. That's sort of weird how that worked out. Um but that way families get an opportunity when they're here during the week or on leadership day to be able to help out our library and purchase books and it gets students ready for the summer to have a big bag of books to read all during the summertime so we don't have that summer slide. And then the eighth grade raffle. I had this slide up but I wanted to see how much Marley could remember
034which she did an awesome job. I don't think she missed any of the baskets. So, um, those are the baskets. Tickets are $2 or six for $10, and you guys can buy those here. All right, elementary update. So, we were lucky enough to get an amazing teacher, Anna Brunck. She's coming to us from Hartland. She was there at H Heartland for a year. She got displaced because of numbers. Um, before that, she was in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and she made the move out here last year. Tried to make it the year before. Um but she is pretty phenomenal. The um hiring committee really liked her. Thought she was going to be great and a great fit for a spot here at school. And with that being said, um originally it was supposed to be a fifth
035grade spot, but then somebody that was on the hiring committee approached me and said, "You know what, Brian? I'd really like that fifth grade spot." And I said, "Are you sure? Think about it. Talk about it." And then that person came back to me a little bit later and she said, "Yep, I want to do it." And so Lyanna Robinson is going to teach fifth grade next year. She's making the jump from kinder to fifth. And it's a good jump. I I did the jump of kinder to six. So I I I know how that is. And so she's awesome. We're excited to have her in fifth grade. And then Anna is going to teach the K1 combo. So she's excited about that. And that's in her wheelhouse as well. So it was a think
036win-win for all of us. Um, and we're excited to have Anna here and we well, but Laura will be happy still. Um, but we wanted to um and we're excited to have Anna here for the K1 combo. We're excited to have Lyanna teach fifth grade to fill out that spot. And then our science teacher, we're still in trying to figure everything out. We have a candidate. We're just making sure everything works out. So hopefully we'll hear more information about that. We're fingers crossed. Um, enrollment. So for elementary, we have 168 students. We have 95.5% average daily attendance middle level 95% with 75 students safety drills. So we'll be doing one more in the month of May and then Chief Compo and the fire marshall will be here tomorrow to walk the school and go over
037anything that needs to be done for the school. So we get to do a walkabout with them tomorrow. You hear me? MRA, which is the measurable results assessment, will be given to students the week of May 19th through the 23rd. And then families will have the opportunity to do the parent portion on the 23rd when they're here at school for leadership day. Upcoming events, there's a ton of them. It's the end of the year. It always happens that way. So May 16th is our final pride assembly. This Friday, 19th through 23rd, I already talked a little bit about it. Is the book fair. Panther Cub Night is next Tuesday um from 5 to 6, which is an awesome opportunity for incoming kinders to be able to go into the classroom, see what's going on in
038there, get some activities to do, and walk out with a fun bag of materials to be able to do during the summertime. Um, we have a spring music ensemble at 6 PM. Leadership day, of course, is the 23rd, which also happens to be an early release day for students. So, all students get out at 12 and then it gives us the opportunity as a staff to come back together and talk about everything that went well, things that we could improve on leadership day, and just have an opportunity to bond together for one more opportunity. Um, the 26th is Memorial Day, no school. The 30th is music in the park, field trip, band, and chorus. 8th grade dinner and dance is also on the 30th. Spring sports night is on the 3. Eighth grade trip to
039Burlington and beyond since they're going to a couple different places. Eighth grade graduation, field day. And then finally, the last day of school is June 13th. And that is also an early release day for students. And that's about it for me. And I will turn it over to Christine. Okay. My report's not as fun. Sorry. Well, the first part is um so it's the end of the year as you've heard. Hiring is underway. Um I will say we've had more candidates this year than we have in the past couple years, which is promising. Um I think, you know, with the um projection for teacher shortages over the next 10 years, I feel pretty fortunate that we're getting applicants that um want to come work at um Weatherfield and across the SU. So, we are not
040quite there, but getting close to being fully fully stopped. Um, oops, I went too fast. Um, I wanted to let you know that our instructional team leaders, so that that position we talked about with all of you, um, they already met with our new curriculum director, Bridget Ariel, that would be from Weathersville, Kristen Hunner. She's taking on that role. Um, they, uh, on the agenda, um, at that meeting, they talked about coaching. What is instructional coaching? Why is it important? How is it going to look um going forward? Because it is a a program we're developing as we um you know, we're building the plan as we apply it, which we do a lot. Um talked about the assessment calendar when we're going to um align our assessments. We're trying to we're trying to align
041our STAR assessments with parent teacher conferences so that teachers can share those results um with parents in person. um we don't have a lot of leeway o over vcap testing. The state sets those dates. So um it's just a calendar of of assessments that we um that we give throughout the year. Uh they are working on the fall professional development plan. There's been a lot of um feedback that our grade level teams across the supervisor union would like to have more time together agreeing. So we're going to try to build that in. um over the course of the year. They're working on the literacy plan and planning summer work. So, it was a busy meeting and we have a very um strong team. So, we're excited about the work they're going to be able to
042do. Um I'm going to bring you a little bit of a legislative update. Um if you're the SU board, I mean, you've heard some of this. Some of it's a little bit new. Um so, H454 is is the biggie in the in the um legislature right now. Draft 9.1 of the bill um is currently in Senate Finance this week and it's supposed to be um out of Senate Finance on Thursday. That's what we we've been told. They are doing a lot of work around the foundational formula and um the weights. And so what I've what I've heard is they that there's a scenario C um which adjusts the weights that um that are set to this current year's education payment. It um eliminates the CTE weight which is the um current teched weight which is
043one of the weights in the long-term um weighted um long-term average daily membership. um and the variable school size weight. It maintains the federal poverty level weight at 1.02 and estimates provided do not include special education weights or categorical aid. Um from what I've heard, the legislature did a lot of research and looked at a lot of different plans to come up with their foundational formula, pieces of of different plans. oldest report. I think one of a picus report, you probably heard those coming out of um the legislature. Um they set uh per pupil cost around 14 and change, I believe, and they're basing their um school opportun their education opportunity payment on that number. And what that means for different districts um you know is to be seen. Uh I think districts that are
044really well everybody's calling for tax relief, but there are districts that their per pupil costs are in the $10,000 range and they will get hit hard if this um goes through. So, they'll be spending more money than um they currently are and that will have a that will have an impact. So, that's what I've heard. Nothing is set in stone. Um, when I looked at the kind of preliminary numbers, Weathersfield's opportunity payment would be, I think, $170,000 less than this current year. Um, Windsor was around $70,000 le $70,000 less than H Heartland was about 2 million. So, so that's how much would need to be cut from each budget. You're saying that's what that's what it's looking like. Yeah. So, anyway, I'll keep you posted. We should know more on Thursday. Um I will quickly
045just share some of this with you. Let me click on it. This is the side by side of H454 um out of the um the House version and the Senate version. So quickly um for school district district boundaries the house version um they proposed a working group under the commission on future public education where some people in the field retired superintendents are appointed so that they can help um do the gathering of information on where boundaries lines should be drawn if that happens. Um and it calls for a minimum school district size of uh to share this instead. Sorry, 4,000. The Senate version um does not uh it just has legislators on this committee. I think I heard eight now instead of six. So changes happen um frequently. And um the there the the language
046in the Senate proposal uh calls for the continuation of access to independent schools for towns that currently have choice. The proposal must include the continuation of both supervisory districts and unions. And then it calls for a task force um which is made up of four I believe four members of the House and four members of the Senate. um school size and and and school uh cl school and class scale. Um the house version there are class size minimums and uh also um sorry and language that um each public school operating grade 6 through 12 or some subset of those grades shall minimum average daily membership of at least 450 students. Um the Senate version does not include language about school class size. Uh statewide cohesion under the House plan. There is a call for a
047statewide calendar, a statewide financial uh system and a student information system so that everybody would be using the same systems which would be an undertaking to say the least to get everybody using the same system. And uh statewide graduation requirements. The Senate bill only has graduation requirements. Um, when we're talking about prohibition on school closure and transition to paying tuition, the House bill requires that district close schools to to designate up to three public schools rather than moving to full choice tuitioning. Senate bill does not include that. They both include some um work around state aid for construction. I think they're recognizing there needs to be um some construction funding for towns. um they differ on tuition eligibility. The House bill allows tuitioning to independent schools that have at least 51% of their student enrollment
048composed of um publicly funded students attending during this current year. Those are the numbers that they would use. And the Senate bill um uh changes that to at least 25% of its student enrollment um from this current year. Um, and it does allow for state tuitioning to public and private schools in neighboring states and provinces. Uh, two more quick things. The state board of education appointment authority. The House allows the House and Senate to each have the power to appoint one state board member um without expanding the board and the Senate's version does not expand that. and tuition payments. Um, in the House version, tuition paid to public or independent schools is equal to the base amount and any weights that the student carries in the foundation amount. And the Senate um does not include
049that provision and they're working right now on on um their funding um plan. So, more to come this week and in the next couple of weeks because the session ends at the end of the month and they may go longer, I believe, if um if need be. although that costs money so I don't think that's a very popular um thing to do. So I will keep you updated. It's ever changing. Um but we're trying to keep up. So and that is the end of the administrative report. How many districts does the Senate bill? Have they given a number of districts? No. Well, I know that in the Senate plan they're supposed to come back. I think it's by January with with their plan for, you know, redistricting. The House plan, they were supposed to come
050back um the um commission was supposed to come back with three different versions for them to look at. So, I don't know. Um I know the Senate version says if this doesn't h there is something in it that says if none of this happens, um we're going to go back to Act 46. Um something like Act 46. So, that's in their language as well. But, um, from what I've heard, uh, it'll come out this Thursday. I don't know if this is true or not, but, um, I've heard it may just go to committee. And when it goes to committee, it's a group of people from House and Senate. I believe they hash it out. It comes out of committee, it goes to um a vote, which is an up or down vote. No more changes
051after committee. And then, and then it goes to the governor. John, you confirm that. I got that right. Yeah. Yeah. So, we'll see. See what happens. Okay. Um, back to you, Annie. Okay. All right. Um, so next we have items for discussion. And the first thing we have on our list is Hicks Nichols. Dana, we'll have you give your spiel. Um, so I asked be on the agenda tonight because I wanted to present an application. Um, the Hicks Nichols committee had met on May 7th and we approved this, but we're presenting it to the board for their approval. Um, so it's for Jessica Civer. Um, it's for going to be for K8 for all students. It's called Screenagers. Um, so it's going to be um, we approved for a three-year membership. It's a two film
052uh school membership to screen users and um there's an elementary edition. It's just basically it's a resource, a curriculum, lesson plans in regards to how much time you use on the screen um and the effects of it. Um so it's going to be the effects of the brain, the culture, your health and so forth. Um and then she would do an evaluation with students and parent. There also is seems to be something that could be involved with parent involvement in this. So it's given them the students real world dangers of screen usage as well as how to navigate through this digital age that we happen to be in. So that's So it's one uh So it's $2,500 for three years per year or no 2500 for the for the membership for three years. Um I'll
053take a motion to approve. I'll make a motion. Okay. All in favor say I. I. And that's unanimous. Thank you. Oh, sorry. the the hick nickel fund u the principal will stay the same we're just spending the y so the only problem with that is that the inflation is chipping away at the principal but but I don't think we're even spend with 2500 you can't be even spending all of the interest this year no who does the investing I'm not sure if they just change companies it's it's it's really um managed through the trustees of public funds we just get an interest from that money every year. Okay. As we the school meaning the school the Hicks Hicks Nichols committee has the interest gained from that year. But it's really managed by the um H
054the trustees and um we just they just changed the um name of the bank that they're using and I can't think the name of it right now. John, that's okay. Yeah. And also you had something else with the appointments. Yes. Oh, by the way, um just to let you know in housekeeping at our this past meeting on May 7th, we kind of noticed that maybe some people's terms had expired. Um so I would like to talk to the board and and you know get that approved. So um we have a new person, Jordan Bagglola Spalding, if that's how I pronounce it correctly, a community member that would like to join the IK Nichols committee. Um so she would be under a one-year term. recently Josh Compo joined. Um so then on our current members uh
055Tara Smith, Jessica Brown, they are on a two-year term and they expired this particular month in May 2025. So if I could get the board's approval to give them two more years, so they would go until May of 2027. Mhm. Um Ben, um there's myself and um Amy Beth Mine who expired in March of Term expired. Pardon? Term expired. She didn't. That's a good point, John. I still hold my own. Our term expired. Thank you. Always will count on you. And so we our term expired in March of 2025. And we are a three-year term. Amy, Beth, Mane, and myself. And so we would like to have another three years with the Hicks Nichols Committee. And so we would expire in March of 2028. And um Vincent is is Oh, sorry. Right. He's appointed as
056well, but do we have um so what's his term? Is it he does not have a school member? Oh, does not have a term. Oh, okay. He just can be a school member or and or the principal. So it can be at least two community members. Okay. one parent, two teachers, and school board and or principal member. Um, that's our Does anyone have any questions about that? I'll take a motion to approve those appointments or continuations of appointments. Well, one appointment and the rest are Okay. All right. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. All in favor say I. I. And we're good. Any other things for Hicks Nichols? All set. Thank you all. Thank you. Um, next up we have the tax anticipation note. Yep. So, um, is every year we have to approve the tax anticipation
057note every year. Um, I have the numbers for you. The rate is 5.85 fixed. The amount that you're borrowing or potentially borrowing up to 2,491,794.33. And that is um we we do this in case we um can't pay our bills because the tax dollars haven't come in. Sometimes we have to borrow money. We try not to. Um so it's borrowed for a short amount of time and paid back. Um we don't have to do it every year, but we need to have it on the books in case we do. So you'll approve tonight, but sign in June of the retreat because you can't sign. to sign within 30 days of the expiration of the current one. So, all right. Does everyone understand what that is? We've had it explained to us before, but I don't
058know about the new members. It's we hope not to need to use it, but it's if for some reason the tax money didn't come in, we have that there as a backup so that we can pay teachers and other staff members. Um, so it's basically thing that we sort of have to approve because our choice, but And we we did try hard not to use it and we don't use it that often. Correct. As far as I understand. Yeah. So it'll still require one more vote if the No, not another vote. Just we're going to have to actually sign it. It's like Yeah, we sign it every year, but we won't be able to sign it until next month. We can vote on it now. Yeah. Okay. I'll take a motion to approve the t
059uh the tax anticipation note of you have to use Yeah. 2, 2,491,000 491,794 794 and.33 cents and.33 cents. So move. Okay, John made that motion. All in favor say I. I. I. And that's unanimous. Okay, that's a short term though. Like yes, just months. Hopefully. Yeah. Hopefully not at all. We hope not at all because it's kind of a waste of money if you got to use it. But yeah. Yeah. Um, are you reading updates? You already did that, right? It's part of your That is my part of my report. Your report. Um, okay. We eighth grade algebra. We need to approve though, Anna. Oh, we need to approve Anna. Oh, okay. All right. We need to approve Anna. I am. She's on her way to graduation. All right. I will take a motion to
060approve the hire of Anna Brun. Brunswick. someone. Okay, Sarah made that. All in favor say I. I. I. And that is also unanimous. Um, up next we have eighth grade algebra. Um, I thought we had already talked this last month, right? Yeah. And we decided that it was a go. It is. Um, I don't know why it's on here past all of us, but um, yeah, I know that it's on the SU agenda for Yeah. Monday. Yeah. And that is because curriculum is um by by law um at the SU level. So it was approved as a program at the SU level. So it has to now go back to the SU board. Okay. Um I did tell them where the field made a plan. Hartland um discussed it at their meeting. They um Lindsay's
061meeting with a high school math teacher to talk about H Heartland board member who's also a high school math teacher to talk about how it could work um in H Heartland. So we'll talk about it Monday. Okay. Up next we have our board retreat which um typically replaces our June meeting. Um, now I know we did want to give the administration some time to address this features um, letter and um, perhaps talk about that at our next meeting. Um, I don't know if we want to add an additional meeting or if we want to just if we do talk about something like that then it has to be a warned meeting. It it's it'll be warned anyway. Okay. It's warned anyway. So it doesn't really matter come but um yeah we should probably have a
062meeting before the end of the year. Yeah and our our meeting is after the close of school so we need a meeting prior to that the board meet your next board the retreat scheduled for June 10th June oh is it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. At five. And the last day is June 13th. Last June. I think for the sake of gathering information and maybe making decisions, we should have a meeting prior to June 10th. Anyone else? Yeah, I agree. I agree. Okay. So um so we will so we will just have a board retreat on June 10th at 5:00 pm and we will figure out um another time when we all can meet maybe the last week of May or first week of June and that meeting would be um to come back and discuss the
063teachers. Yeah, the teachers. Should we pick a day right now? Yeah. Um let me see what I got. Yeah, it's better if we do it while we're all here. Trying to do it over email is a nightmare. Um, May. I propose May 20th, May, which is a Tuesday. And I know Tuesday works for most people. I've got to clean and test it. Oh my. As long as we did it. I mean, that's the same we have. Oh. Oh. Okay. Which is fine because an cup night goes from 5:00 to 6. They gives us a week to go over that information. Okay. Yeah. And then the meeting at usual time available the 20th. Yep. Everybody. It's okay with me. Have a You're here. You're um No, Les has a Oh, baseball game. It's okay. I'll All
064right. So, May 20th. I would say there's also June 3rd if that works better for people, too. But I say sooner the better. That's our spring sports night. So that would be interfering with Okay. So May 20th at 6:30. May 20th at 6:30. And the item for discuss and the item for discussion is just um teachers letter. I don't um staffing. I don't know what it is. Jamarie, would you also know any information about the algebra meeting? Yeah. Or would that not? Um, we should we should have decided by then because when's the Oh, hold on. 19th. The 19th. I was going to say, yeah, since May 19th is the SU and that's at 6 PM now, the SU meeting. I got to remember that. I forgot last time. Okay. So that so that's a
065special meeting. Um and it's just to discuss that unless something as a special meeting. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And as far as our board retreat goes, did anyone have any topics they want to learn more about or want to talk about? um because it should be like more of an educational thing rather than really just so we can't be making any decisions or anything like that during like the board retreat. I was thinking we probably should go over open meeting laws again and just general duties of the board um for our new members. Um they haven't had that spiel yet. Um, is there anything else you feel we're lacking in knowledge of? I'd like to hear more about the 454. I don't know. We should know a little more about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And just
066and just how it affects us. Yeah. You know, um, I think it means we're out of jobs, right? I mean, we are. You guys aren't. Yeah, right. Because it does change board structure. Yes. So I think in God there's been so much uh it's so it depends on how many districts there we end up with but more regional boards with I mean one proposal said wards so you have people that um can't they're like not voting members. So you do you do lose you do lose local control. We do. Yeah. So, yeah. So, I would like to talk about that a little bit. Um, any any other ideas? I mean, we need to set our goals and set. That should be a big part of it. What did you say? Set our goals. Goals for
06726. Sarah. It's okay. It's okay. Sounds good. And uh we can do maybe a Google sheet as far as are we can do that for you. We're doing that here in this room last year. Yeah, we don't do a virtual option typically. All right. Okay. Um we do have need for executive session today. Um personnel matter the agenda first. Um setting the next agenda. Yeah, let's do that. Um okay. Well, we're taking on uh we got the What is our next agenda? It would be for the for August. It would be for you because we we did May 20th. We have we have what we're doing on June 10th. Um so we can do that on June 10th. Um can we set an agenda at the retreat though? Okay. It's more Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I
068mean because there might be a lot because we don't know what's going to happen. It's too far away for us. So um yeah. So let's let's wait and set the agenda for August at our June 10th meeting. Okay. Um, anything else? Does anyone have anything else before we go into executive? I guess I just if we're gonna we're going to meet back in a week. How is this going to work? Like I just want to make sure that everyone's productive, right? So that's a week's time. That's not a lot of time. So are you meeting with them again? Like how is that all going to work? We have we have their letter and we know their request, but how are we going to come? I think what she's saying, we need a mechanism to ask
069questions about the letter and for us to gather more information about what they're what they're asking for and then to ask you right uh for responses to that. Yeah. So, how do we what's the mechanism we use? Is is it going to be every board member can email questions and one person's designated to to get the information and respond or can we several we can't talk directly right to the to the folks. So correct um we have to figure that out. Uh individual board members could email administration but not correct not teachers right. So uh so do you have an idea like what I mean this is um you know you have a budget so this is really this is really a board decision um I don't what information would be beneficial for you to
070have well uh well for me I listen to the presentation regarding uh Mrs. Bar's day. Yeah. And I say to myself, how's how is she getting by every day? Is this a persistent issue? Yeah. Support we can give her. I don't think I mean, there's a there's a lot of teachers here today. So there's something happening here that maybe we need to address through this mechanism or uh you know we can't just discount the fact that they're they're saying we need help maybe is is that what I'm hearing well can you confirm that I mean I feel like we can't discount the fact that they formed a letter and I mean we're at they know they know that our budget doesn't hardly passes and there is no So, um, I mean, we we can't legally
071add to the budget. We can't just deter just decide we're going to have we have other avenues to Yeah, we have we would have to find that money somewhere else. And each teacher is over $100,000 in total salary benefits. Yeah. Yeah. But I really feel like we have to I mean, but we didn't get a chance to actually hear what's going on today. Yeah. So we need to communicate somehow legally, efficiently, effectively to hear what they need from this board, right? Because this five minutes that they were given today ineffective, didn't work, right? So we don't we didn't I don't understand I don't understand what they're asking for. So we need more time, but we need them we need to be able to talk to them somehow. That's where you guys come in, right? You
072were given that opportunity though in public participation. Yes. I asked if anyone had anything they wanted to bring up. Um I mean if you respectfully we got the letter like what yesterday? Yeah it was a little bit. So they all are here. Yeah. So if you have questions for them that would be the time to ask. Um or on the 20th I guess we can ask questions. Okay. Okay. So, I would like to know what a day as a teacher is like here and specifically uh why your group feels the need to add staffing to an already fully staffed school. So, are you addressing that teacher to whoever wants to answer? Are you addressing it to the PE health question or are you addressing the We can start with that. Sure. Yes. Which teacher someone
073to talk about? Whoever wants to talk, whoever wants to talk. The letter was kind of uh in general asking for staffing to be different uh or to change. So, if anyone can elaborate on that more, that would be great. I can talk about my day. It's a very busy day. I get here at 7:05. Classes start at 7:50 about 8 little after 8. It's nonstop. I'm constantly on the go. I go four classes, grab lunch. It's very busy. Um my my bathroom break time if I don't, you know, it's it's I occasionally have a teacher who's coming and going saying, "Hey, can I take you? We give you a minute." But it's it's really non-stop. And then the switch over from classes kindergarten to the older kids, the younger kids, the schedule. She's done a
074pretty good job at making my schedule somewhat mesh, but it it's just with the equipment changes and it's it's physical. Um I try my best. I try to make the units somewhat similar so I'm not going crazy mentally with the changes of the kids in classes. Um yeah, like you mentioned setting up and taking down every day. I try to work with the AD and whatnot and we we've done very well trying to make it work for everybody. Um but it's tiring. Um it's sometimes frustrating. and I go home and I'm like dead tired cuz I just feel like it's non-stop. I mean I, you know, I know I signed up to visit. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying that with all the things coming and going, it sometimes just raining. But I'm
075doing what I can because I love it here. Kids are great, parent, the people are great, the parents are great. It's it's a great community. So much support. I'll chime in as well. So just as I put in the letter from staff, um one of the things to consider is the amount of growth that our school has taken on, the amount of kids that we now have in this school. And that means she alone has to be able to cover two PE classes for every kid every week, every day, you know, throughout the week. Obviously, um that that limits a lot of things. the schedule for next school year. Um, puts her prep period, which is her 45 minutes of getting ready first period of the day, because she also can't have the advisory morning
076meeting time because we've had to adjust the time of our schedule, meaning the periods in which the kids transition from class to class. We've had to change that because of her tight schedule. So her prep period is first thing in the morning and then midday maybe 11 11:30 is her 30 minute lunch. So she goes from first thing in the morning to do some and then she's straight through classes until she has a 30 minute lunch and straight through classes. It obviously that's a lot to be able to manage with not even five minutes in between her classes. So as soon as one ends the next class is there ready to begin. That's for next school year. Obviously, this school year is a little bit different, but not much. We currently have 16 teachers in
077our building, classroom teachers, and we would need 17 in order to make that work for those classroom teachers. That also adds obviously to her schedule. As you could see, it would add an additional class. That would be two periods of PE a week. So all of those things add up to her schedule being almost impossible really to manage. Just to jump in, um, and I think after I have a question on the K1 combo, but is adding health reasonable? It sounds like a really good idea. Yeah. To add this separately, but is that actually enough time? You're talking about a pack schedule plus teaching separately. I'm assuming I'm making assumption here in health class for 16 classes. Just scheduling wise, is that doable? Yes, because what would happen is probably like what we right now
078have for our social emotional learning class which is done by Melissa Cole, our guidance counselor, school counselor, sorry. um is that it's a pushin model. So that person would come into the classrooms, they would set that schedule just as we used to do with foreign language. They would set that schedule with the classroom teachers to determine the best possible time for them to come in and teach health, whatever the grade level appropriate standards might be. Um, this may be a silly question, but for K1 combo, is this one kindergarten, one first grade, or is this is that correct? Or no, one class. It's slotted to be 15 students. Okay. Nine kindergarteners, six first graders. And years ago, I don't know how many years ago, Laura didn't say it, but there used to be years ago,
079I remember when our students used to have three PE classes a day. I mean, three PE classes a week. So there was, you know, we needed to fill her schedule. So students got three PE classes a week, which was great. Um, and now her schedule is so busy that just fitting in two a week is challenging. And also some of her class sizes, you know, like can you have 20 plus students in there that she's trying to keep an eye on. Um, sometimes she has a terror, you know, depends upon the situation of the classroom, but usually it's just herself that's in there managing it all. So it says you're looking for elementary classroom educator for what which classroom? So that would likely be a first grade classroom. Okay. So there would be two kindergartens,
080two first grade. Okay. Like we have now. Correct. you'll see our projected numbers for next year are so with the K1 combo and the the solid K and the solid one we're looking at around 15 students. Yeah, they well I haven't shared that exact one but I pulled that up today but yeah I know it's about 15. Yeah, for the three classes we have about 15 in each class. So it's 45 projected numbers between kindergarten and first grade this year. So being an average class size of 15 in K1, kindergarten, first grade with three classes. We do have one large class there. That's our current sixth grade class that will be seventh graders next year. So that's 24 students. That's that bubble class that we have. Everybody else is divided up into two classes. So
081we do have a larger number in the incoming fourth graders. We have 16 in each classroom, but other than that, besides the seventh grade bubble class and the two fourth grade classes, everybody has less than 16 students in their classroom. And then the PE classes for the afternoon are divided up or for middle level for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, they are mix six, seventh, and eighth grade. So you divide about 75 students in that classroom and then that divides them up into 10 classes or five classes over two weeks or over two times. So that's about 15 students per class. Sometimes the numbers do fluctuate based on the electives. So we're trying to balance that out. And then we were able to yes um the PE teachers prep time is in the morning. Um
082but we also when we did divided up the schedule it is the kindergarten through third grade in the morning. So there's less switching as far as equipment. Then she does have a lunch break. And then there are three extra slots in there because there's seven slots per day that we can do PE. Right now like um they said that we need 32 because we got 16 classes. So 7* 5 is 35. So we have three extra slots slots right now that we're allowing the PE teacher to use as extra time to prep throughout the week. Okay. Um, is there an extra $100,000 floating around in the school somewhere? Not that I'm aware of, but we could look again in the budget and see if that's possible. Um, what is the because I know sometimes we
083do have um a surplus, but I believe this year is not looking like it's going to be a surplus year. It's looking like it might actually be negative. This looking like a surplus. Um, and Katie's going to report out Monday the special ed budget. We're not sure. So, it's over currently. We're not sure if we'll get round to cover. Um, I know she's looking at the data. We've had some moveins, unexpected moveins, um, students with some high needs that we didn't anticipate. So, currently our budget is over. So, what do we do though? Like, what do we do as we grow? I mean we growth has plateaued the past three years really close sort of I mean not really I mean we have we have within our SU we're gathering people um there's a lot
084of special ed growth which would contribute to the burnout I mean our numbers are experiencing so so even if they plateaued we're still working off of numbers from before and we've grown we like I said because we're so great, we tend to get um you know within the RSU, we have transfers and we're absorbing those. So what is the plan as we grow? I mean yes, we don't have $100,000 or $200,000 if we really need two teachers, but I mean at some point we're going to have to plan for growth if we're going to continue to grow. And that's where I'm always like, what what's our plan? what's our goals? Like we just don't talk enough about that. And now we have teachers that are kind of ringing the bell saying, "What are we doing
085about this?" And I just going back to this, I brought this up at the retreat last year, like what is our plan moving forward? What is our goals as we grow, as we get better? We need a plan in place. Like I know we just can't pull money out of the stars, but I mean if some schools are going down with numbers, but we keep going up, like our budget is going to need to change and we're going to have to find the support for it within our community. Um, whatever that may look like. I mean, nobody wants their taxes to go up. Um, but we have a great school and we're growing and it's desirable and we need to address that at some point. So, I mean to me it's on the table all
086the time like we should be thinking about this. This is not a huge surprise. I mean we've there's all the time that we need more social emotional we need I mean there's lots of things that we've needed. I mean I've met with the teachers multiple times like this is just kind of kind of been building I feel this is not a surprise to me but I know that we have Can I ask Christina a question? Sure. Christine. Um, so what does Hartland have for numbers for students? Around the same. It's around the same. Okay. And what's the setup for PE in Hartland? They are reduce the position. So they're they have one PE teacher next year, but in the past they've had they had two, so they had to cut it. So I mean that's
087something that I look at myself and say, okay, this is around our size, maybe 10, 15 off type of thing. but they had either a full-time and a part-time or two full-time. And so, you know, looking at H Heartland, who's similar to our setup, you know, that's something to to think about. But I think when they had two teachers, they did have more students. Their student numbers have been coming down, which is why our percentage has gone up. And they have a curtain that goes across the middle of the gym so they can have half of a lunch and half of PE two different PE classes. They do. So I you know you're on the right path that we need to plan about this because we are reaching staff you know the capacity of the
088building believe it or not is reaching Mr. Martz and BJ will say this, a bacon rum. What do you have for a vacant room? And you know, the PE teacher, she can't take any more classes. You know, her day is booked. One thing to think about, Diana, and this could all change with the funding formula. I mean, there's a threshold. Weatherfield stayed under that threshold. If you had another teacher on um another position, you probably you were close. So, you probably would have been over extremely close to you would have been penalized. Hartland was penalized. They're paying a hefty penalty for being over the threshold. Um, yes, they had two PE teachers. They are reducing staff because um their numbers warrant that um currently. I hear you. I I totally get it. No, I'm just
089saying that you know you know someone like all I want and and it having a health teacher has been something that uh previously when Mark was on the board that was something that was very important to him. Um we've been talking about that for years. We would love to add a health teacher uh health teacher. We've above you, unfortunately. I think we advertised for one. We did. We did. And there was no Same as Spanish. It's just it's really tough. Um, as you heard, next year our budget, while every costs are all going up, health insurance is going to be double digits again next year. We're going to have less money to spend. have to cut $200,000 probably somewhere. I mean if well these are these are you know I mean but that's that's that's
090a possibility. For I would say for the record though I think this board supports our teachers and our administration quite well. So I don't want to discount it by saying no. I I just want them to understand that we'd love to and we'd love to do that. Yes. But it may not be possible. we can do our due diligence with this instead of saying no it's not possible it's not the right thing to say no being new it certainly does sound like we need to plan for growth um is there anything else is if we can find it sounds like if we can look at it and find flexibility that's all in our best just is there any other way to do this? And maybe um I'm still learning, right? So, uh is there any
091is it is it a support staff? Is it part-time? Is it right? Like how can we we know we need to plan for growth? I think that's what I'm hearing from other board members. Um but how else could this be done maybe as a plan B or plan C? Is it someone part-time? Is it part-time for be no health? Is it a PAR solution? Um, is there anything else we can bridge to get to the ultimate goal of two more teachers to support this growth if that could be a possibility? Is there anything else? How can we get creative? I I don't see an issue with considering a part-time PE teacher. I think you're going to find that way harder to employ a part-time person. Um, however, I I I that's a possibility. Yes, I
092think the dual license piece was so that they have full-time job, right, was why we were asking that. not also because health is important and I think that we are not doing our due diligence in that area and I'm I'm saying me because it's easier for me to say I but I'm speaking for everybody um considering other options um par educators are fine except that's also a budget item in your we currently only have one par educator that is paid for locally the rest are all special education pairs and I I you would have to increase the budget in order to have one of those as well or multiple of those. So, it's not that we would object to having them. We would like to have more, but that's still also a budget item that
093we want to consider. Less less so than a teacher, of course, but what's the plan for the combo class? Like are they going to have a pair another person in the room? No. So it's just the teacher unless there was a one-on-one, right? Based on needs. If there's needs for specific pair in there, yes, there will be. That's the plan right now. And I'd ask the administration to take a look at the situation, take a look at the numbers, and come back with a report of some sort in a week when we meet the next time we meet. Yeah. Maybe come up with a bare minimum plan that we right might have a shot working with or that that might work for the situation that we're in and associated cost. I was going to say
094with or without or without money. Is a week enough time? Is that good? We could change the date. Okay. I was saying Okay. Okay. So, we're all set with that. And if you guys have your marching orders, your marginal set um yeah I mean I guess just yeah if there's any you can think of um money that can be found to a part-time teacher and then yeah the as Laura said it would probably be difficult to hire but uh dual certified. No not health if it was a part-time it would just be PE. Yeah, there's a lot that new in college. Yeah, and they're coming out of college with a PE and health certification now. Okay, great. But not all of them, but a good amount. Okay. A new science teacher. Yeah. What? Actually, I'm
095just thinking what about like a internship kind of thing like like you know somebody that's currently in because I know they have to get student teacher hours, right? It would be somebody that could come and help. Can they legally do that? Student teacher. Yeah. Oh, if they're a student. Yeah. They're not the teacher of record, but they can they can and that's usually a limited amount of time obviously are only doing student teaching for so many weeks. It's not an entire school year. Okay. Does that sound like a plan or for you guys? Better than a note. Okay. All right. Um, so I guess I will take a motion to go into executive session. Okay, Sarah. All in favor say I. Under. Thank you all. Thank you. You've got you need to