001you have to do it that's right it all right we're g to call the weather field school board meeting of March 11th to order at 6:30 uh the first item on the agenda is for us to reorganize so I going to start by taking nominations for the board chair oh back up sorry [Music] of the United States of America to the stands one nation indisce okay um now we're going to go to the first item on the agenda which is reorganization and I will start by taking nominations for uh the election of the chairperson nominate am right is there a second second you get it all right are there H do you accept yes I do are there any other nominations right hearing none uh any discussion Okay g be a roll call vote okay
002all right start with Sarah how do you vote I or yes John I I Vince I I you are the chair and you are taking over the meeting thank you okay um up next we have the nomination and election for a vice chair um I'd like to nominate Vin are there any other ntion anybody second I'll second sah any discussion all in favor say I that's unanimous okay so should be writing these down right so even know remember the main ones but sometimes the smaller ones you forget um let's see um the clerk of the board that's right you're supposed to be the um John you've got time during the day right you have to go down to the Su and sign and sign the Manifest and things like that do it you it's just
003like twice a month every couple of months you sign manest every week two couple of every couple of months once yeah you'll get an email get stop are you okay with that anybody else want to all right and I'll nominate John to be the uh Clerk of the board I have a second I'll second okay Sarah's going to Second all in any further discussion all in favor say I I I okay that's unanimous down for the the board so does he do oh and the manest sorry yeah TR to do it separately or we should do it I'll do it separately okay so then also um like to nominate John to be signer of the Manifest second is anybody up want to nominate anyone else any discussion all in favor say I I I and
004that's unanimous okay um nomination of Representatives to the Su bargaining Council now this is so this is um who steps up to do um what Mark was doing right yes so this is for support staff right now negotiations yes it's support St corre for this year but there won't be uh teachers for this year correct no the teachers will for two more years okay so really finishing out this cycle for this stuff yeah okay is anyone interested in doing that I can help you can okay okay so um I'll nominate Megan do I have a second sorry okay um any discussion any other nominations no all in favor say I I I that's unanimous thank you Megan um we don't have on here uh okay well we can do the board but we also have
005um the lias on to the select board as well um so we have nomination of Representatives to the Su board um as I was saying before I the chair needs to be on the Su board so that would put me on it and then we need two others Sarah would like to continue on it um John would like to do it Vin okay John would like to do it you are you interested in being on the board at this point okay all right so um so the nominees would be Sarah John and myself for the Su board um do I have a second I'll first second I'll the second okay thank you all in favor say I so we have um I noticed that we don't have on here the leaz onto the selectboard yeah
006we can add it that one um can add it on next Mon's agenda whatever we didn't add it at the beginning did we get to changes or additions to the agenda yet no not yet that's so we can add it okay all right we'll do it at that point okay um designation of a Trent officer and uh Chief Daniels do I have a second I mate Chief Daniel second John second any discussion all in favor say I hi hi that's unanimous um designation of an official newspaper and what we use the Valley News use Valley News and Eagle times Valley News and Eagle times so um I'll make a motion to um have the Valley News and Eagle times the are official newspapers anyone want a second second second any any discussion all in favor
007say I that's unanimous um establish a regular time place and date of the monthly meeting um is everybody still good with the second Tuesday at 6:30 good okay so the second Tuesday at 6:30 and I think the hybrid has been working out well we have usually a few people show up online and in person so I think it's good all right um and then the last one on there um we have to vote on that the Roberts rules oh oh vote on the oh too okay so um so I'll make a motion that um we do our our usual second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 and hybrid and the iners part takes place at the school second I'll second that okay all in favor say I I I okay we're good um and then
008the last one out is the Roberts rules for small boards um that makes it so that we can do without the second it's rules for boards under 10 I think 12 Under 12 and since we're five makes things a little quick little easier uh and so we've been doing that for the past few years is Anybody Everybody okay with that continuing okay so um a motion to continue with the Roberts rules for small boards do I have a second I'll second okay any further discussion all in favor say I I I and that's unanimous okay up next we have the um changes and additions to the agenda um and we wanted to add on um nominating a select board leison I Nate myself I think I actually was this year you were yeah yeah so
009again didn't do much of anything um is anybody else [Music] interested or John John you're not you're not don't mind doing it it's up to you he's always there yeah sense yeah it's mostly during project yeah so which hit whoever I'm okay with either one of you so coin I no I'll just I'll draw um so John I'll nominate John to be the leaz on to the select board anyone oh we have second that's right we already Roberts rules um any further discussion all in favor say I I and that's unanimous okay um up next we have the approval of the minutes from February 11th um I think unless you were here I guess Megan was here uh John were you here that day no I don't so you have to recuse yourself but um
010um so does anyone want to make a motion to approve the minutes from February 11 I'll make a mo okay any discussion any corrections anything good okay um so anybody so I'm I guess all in favor say I Iain one abstention um up next we have public partic ipation do we have any public participation today no any online okay and then we're ready for the administrative report all right so welcome to our board meeting for March 11 first off before we get started with administrative report i' just like to thank all of our communities weather field for making sure that we passed our budget so thank you very much um I know that's a big ask and we appreciate the support and we'll continue Excellence that we have here at school so I am going
011to go ahead and start off with our wonderful PTO so I just put PTO board because I wasn't car wasn't sure who was going to be here so K's gonna be presenting on some of the stuff that PTO has been working on over the last month or so yeah couple months so I think our last update might have been November um so just a couple of highlights of things that we've done um we did do our make it and take it craft event at the end of November and that was wildly successful um we had over 130 students that attended um and community members that made gifts for loved ones um we did a quick little Thanksgiving Bingo for staff and students so over the break they um could do items that were on the
012bingo card such as taking a nap um and playing outside watching football um and we did have H quite a few get turned in um Lanna Robinson won $50 and a get out of Duty free card which they love um so uh that was fun uh in December we purchased more playground balls um kind of replenishing the ones that still end up over the bank um the fence could be about 20 feet higher but it's right uh uh we provided Refreshments for staff um for one of their lunchin um we hosted our annual holiday shop for the students um where they could shop inexpensively for friends and family members um and we provided a staff gift of some gloves with a weather skill school ice scraper um and then in January we Ed all the
013teachers which is where they get to select from a menu of items to have delivered so they get um you know packs of 24 Sharpie markers and real paper towels nothing brown ones that push the slash around the actual real Fels and napkins and tissues and stuff like that so kind of whatever they need to replenish their classrooms um so we did that uh we helped out the leadership um students with the Snowball Dance um we did a mini grant for new swings um and chains for the swing set uh in February we hosted our annual family dance that was for K through fifth grade families um we provided Refreshments to staff for another luncheon um we hosted our first annual coin Wars which was so fun it was Super Mario themed and um students
014and families brought in change in money and we kept track grade level at a time uh and kindergarten came out on top hopefully did you have some picture um so kindergarten won a great prize that it looks like Brian will highlight um and we raised uh just over $4,000 um in four days so that's pretty amazing um and then we were partners with the school for uh Camp read a lot which I'm sure Brian will highlight as well um we did some decorations and provided some uh giveaways for the students um coming up this month we have our our um comedy night at the Common Man fundraiser which is um for adults only uh we have sold so many of our tickets um there's it's it's exciting where we've doubled the food that people will
015get uh we've got some fun prizes for games um so we're looking forward to that on March 29th um we have a spring apparel sale that will be opening in the next couple of weeks um and we are hosting what we're calling an open house meeting it's not really an open house it's our regularly scheduled April PTO board meeting but we're really doing an active invite to get um the community or other families to come um we're going to have some snacks it's in this room um so we're hoping some new folks um will come and see what the PTO does and what we're about and hope we want to get involved and then we are going to be celebrating our staff for staff appreciation week coming up in early part of May um and
016the last thing for the PTO is as part of our hips Nichols Grant award that we got to partner with the um digital sign outside is that you do a survey um to the community on that project which we did we had 65 responses to the main question is is the board helpful in communicating information and prominently visible um so that staff students and the community can read it um 65 responses 98.5% positive stating that it was a helpful and welcome addition to the school so feel a bit about that um we had one comment about hoping it wasn't on all night and it's not that is just a question we get um it's on a timer to come on I think it's 6:00 a.m. to 900 p.m. um by and large that's kind of
017like the school hour so that's what we've been up to and have coming up are there any questions turn around and change and now Kathy car's gonna give our athletic reports uh so we just wrapped up um a couple weeks ago our basketball season which ended a little bit shorter than usual because we did not have teams in tournaments this year um the way they fell coaches commitments um vacation really kind of hurt us because most of the tournaments are over vacation and we just didn't have the numbers um so it was a little shorter season um but I do want to publicly thank the coaches um for their commitment and dedication to our program and our athletes um it was Eric Nissen bom Christina Hughes Alicia crane Jessica Martin Kristen Gray Kamari gray Brian
018Ellwood Ira Russo Jesse w Bill GOI John Richardson Mike Bon Shane tany Dan Stevens Megan herel and Ethan Brown um also want to highlight that we have excellent referees and officials and can't thank them enough for spending their time at Weathersfield they're they're needed in a lot of communities and they consistently um stick with us have Scott Richardson Bill GOI cam Kasa and Ryan Keith um and I believe that we're retaining the highly qualified officials each season do in part that we give um decent pay much higher than um they make for other schools in the area which is certainly a draw but we also have athletes and adults that are being respectful in letting the refs do their jobs I think that we have um very positive game environments and I think that's certainly
019helpful in having the rest want to come back here so um I appreciate the budget that allows for us to pay just a little bit more for our WS um spring Sports registrations are open so people can be signing up for baseball softball and track and field um however based on our numbers that we've pulled um we are not able to have Middle School softball and baseball there's we're not even kind of at a line where we can make it work it's really they our eighth grade class is only 18 or so students 19 students so it's it's tough um so we are taking the registrations as soon as the snow is gone and the fields are sort of dry we'll get started so it's still a couple of weeks out for sure um and
020those seventh and eighth graders have been released officially to register at other schools I did that a couple of weeks ago um and I helped all of the families by giving them the local athletic director contact information who to contact how to get um connected to another team so hopefully that works out um and we have just five eighth grade athletes from the winter season I would like to um recognize that's ason crane Wendel and Kelly Marley McLoud is our student board Kaye Roberts and Mason s so wrapped up one season taken a breather we'll start spring season soon questions about [Music] Athletics all right so we're going to do something a little bit different tonight because one of my goals is not to talk as much in general and truly let our students truly
021let our students leave learning so Marley's gonna give quite a bit of she's gonna do all the fun things about my report tonight all right right sit you want to sit or stand okay all right we had Camp real last Thursday last Thursday yeah sorry that was really fun um it was for grades K through this and um there was actually a lot of kids and a lot of families and we had like a bunch of different things set up around the school we had uh Peter Pan uh cast members in here like uh Pirates bre Girls Lost Boys And just really anyone that was kind of invol it was maybe over there they would um I was in it also they would read books and it was like kind of like set up as
022for we had stuff in the kit not the kitchen the cafeteria and there was games in there and Mr MZ was in there it was really fun to see them uh Shadow ended up coming through and kids loved it um my favorite part was definitely the gym the gym was definitely like uh we had helpers um set it up and it was like foresty and wintry and there was tents in the gym and kids could pick a book and read it um and Leadership kids definitely help a lot um they help guide people they took care of a lot of stuff they helped decorate and it was definitely just a blast it was a really fun time and I'm glad I was there to see it so I hope we can do another one of
023those soon because I want to go to it and there's just some pictures and spelling be we had three uh these are sixth graders we have haly fet Addison Craig and II mallister and um they were all in it and they did amazing so that was also fun to hear about and know that we have some good spellers and some people that are interested in spelling in Middle School Vermont st4 on the 24th they're going on to Vermont States so definitely good for them and I'm so like happy for them uh play upate um I know it's going very good because I'm in it and I had rehearsal today actually and it's so fun it's so cool and I it's going to be so magical because there's a lot of rehearsals um they participated in
024for a lot that was in here um there's the preview on April 4th at and is that Heartland y Heartland will be coming to watch our show I know that Art Kids theater kids and I don't know if there's another group of students that are going to Heartland to see their preview and for their Charlie [Music] Brown de production so that's going to be fun and silly Shing and ice cream so uh krie was talking about um the coin war and how that was and the kindergarteners won and they got two like prizes they got some ice cream delicious and they got just so Mr mes the whole out there that was so fun to watch there's like kids screaming and laughing and having just a good time um and at the end there was
025a bunch of kids chanting to for him to roll in it I might have been one of them CU I joined him with the little kids and he didn't roll in it but that's okay it was watch and get silly Dr coming out in like a big plastic bodysuit and gloves just all weird up get so Str that was amazing I love it and then I walked by the cafeteria and I saw at the tablecloth and I was kind of sad I didn't get ice cream that's okay I'm so happy for the kindergarteners because they definitely had a blast so must be fun for them motivational assembly so he came in was it yesterday yeah uh his name was Chris he was from Rhode Island and he has been biking for a long time so
026um he did some cool stuff for us Middle School is outside and he definitely I like I loved it so much um he talked about the main thing was respect respecting everybody and he went through some things that that you can do to get respect and give respect so that was very nice and very cool and um he like walked us through like some important parts of his life from when he started viiking and to like current timeses and he told us everything he has experienced in his life and what he has done to like go through life and how he has found happiness in his life and a constant routine that has helped him and that it was definitely motivational for me and I loved it so much so and he was actually here
02715 years ago he came so it was definitely such a blast to see him oh and in the end this is probably my favorite part Miss Miss Cole and Mrs Keith uh actually got to lay on the floor for him to got people middle schoolers really happy and like chanting and he also rode his bike around like a surf it was very cool and so I was definitely very happy it was scary it was very scary [Music] want to screw that we didn't see the right they live they live and he was like going on about how either Miss ke has like a 5050 chance and he didn't know about Miss Cole Miss Cole we'll see what happens and uh PE fun there was cross country skiing um around the field and a little bit
028in the woods there's like a little oneway track in the woods and that was very fun um and snowshoeing for some of the younger kids that is I know that is very fun because we uh Middle School I started out snowshoeing and going on big hills and I I had a class and a lot of my friends and peers had such contact and some the younger kids are doing circus activities and I know there's like spinning plates and there's I don't know what they call there's big um Y and the what do they call it devil stick Devil's sticks that's what I'm thinking and they're just so fun I can't wait to see what they're doing and I know they're definitely having a b because I know I did so that was fun and we
029have music March Madness so there's daily competitions between two songs for um kids to vote and the boat get sent in to this town so I thank you very much for having to count all those and adding them up I could never um single elimination one of those get one of the songs get picked for the day um the brackets they end up going against each other and in the end they keep going against each other till we have our final winner um and one final winner and it's NCA style I don't know what NCAA is NCAA it's like the best okay so I don't know I don't know what that is but it's it's very like fun and I love it because you also have to listen to music every morning and it's so
030fun to hear silly songs like really good songs at every number so yeah that was good thank you very much thank all right so I always like to put our mission in there the mission of other schools to prepare and Empower students to be Leaders with a global by helping them develop critical thinking communication collaboration skills and creativity all right we are getting ready to start vtap which is our state testing so that starts officially next week on the 18th yes it is earlier this year because our window from the state our spring break Falls right in the middle of it so they opted to have it done prior to spring break because there's a c amount of time that you can get it done without having to do all this Shenanigans so we start
031off next week with Fifth and eth grade science and then we'll hit um Ela the following weeks gr 3 through eight and then finally math so most of those the tests are a two-day test um so we do we typically test on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and we do makeups in between and then before we go to spring break all the test will be done so hopefully we'll get that information back to us sooner but and if St live the embar that would be great too all right um so enrollment for fy2 236 students had an average of 220 there's there's a few bugs going around had kids that have been out sick and everything else and I know at other schools my son and daughter School they've been having lots of illnesses so 93% attendance
032rate which isn't bad um safety drills we did do an evacuation drill where um we had the students evacuate to a different location which was important and so we had them do that on the 28th of February practicing those monthly deal deals leader and me right now we're focusing on habit seven sharp and soft so every morning when Marley does announcements she touches on the leager me seven habits and this month like I said it's habit seven and then next month we'll work on the hab at8 which is fighting your voice you Happ they had it so we'll work on that one upcoming events we have lots of things happening in the next few months um or a few weeks so obviously School Board tonight um we have an innovention invention convention by fourth graders
033that will be happening on Thursday in the AP room um we also have our pride assembly on Friday with our leprechaun traps our first graders are making leprechaun traps that's always a fun and exciting opportunity for kids to catch a leprechaun and then March 18th BC cap starts the 21st we have an early release day for all students and then April 4th and 5th is the P GL pan Junior play all right with that being said we have our wonderful music teacher here Miss town and she's going to be talking about possibly doing some music department fundraisers for an upcoming major opportunity for our students I'm back of town I'm the music teacher um we are going to Six Flags for music in the parks with the whole Su I don't actually know the last
034time that we went to six FL that the Su went to Six Flags I know I did when I was in high school um and it was always such a fun experience you get to hear all of these different choirs from around the not the state um New England um usually you're pair like the same age so we should be seeing other Middle School ensembles um I don't know that our Su has ever gone for band so this is exciting that we're going for both um it used to be just the high school level that went this year we are doing um an Su wide band and course so Heartland Weathersfield and Windsor were will all combine into one choir and one band um and then the day before May 30 nope May 29th um
035the Thursday before we're all going to meet up in Windsor and the two ensembles are going to have a full day of rehearsal and then we will have a sendoff concert so we'll perform the pieces and songs that were performing for Six Flags for the competition for as an open concert so that parents and families can come and see um there are lots of benefits to this one of which is that our kids don't get to play in big ensembles in our school as much as we want that to happen um we are not the size of school that promotes a 40 person band or a 60 person choir um and especially at the middle school level um it's a numbers game and there's strength in numbers and our kids get the chance to do
036that here um so with that being said there is a cost to this trip um it's I think $97 a kit um that includes admission to the park their um the programs music in the Parks their entrance fee into the contest um and we're requiring for all students to have a food voucher to make sure that everyone's eating and drinking while we're there um and then the price kind of goes down if families have season passes we're able to flex that in and out but the fundraisers that we have that we are hoping to do is a Singo night like Bingo um with music um we will have kids doing the drawing the Bing old calling with catchy songs in the background you are not required to sing but you might be tempted anyways um
037and possibly some student performances during the intermission um during that night you can also do the two other fundraisers that we were planning um which is a School Song Contest so two or three small groups um with b and choir will work together to write a new compose a new school song so the tune and the lyrics um and then have the school vote on it like coin War style so you place your ballot the one with the most coins wins and then the idea is that we can then s sing that song at school events so like at Pride assemblies at our special events um so that would be open for voting on that night and then I had a surprising number of students that were very interested in doing a craft sale I'm
038hearing that they're very into making bracelets um I have some shers I don't think I have any Ms um but they're wanting to sell some crafts for the event um I guess I had a question about bingo I don't know if we can do cash bingo in a school I don't know the rules but if we cannot do that can we do a prize bingo I think you can do a prize thing now I don't know have cash we have not but I do know that when I was doing the research for Raffles because it's cash chance you can within a school a certain number of times you just can't hold it weekly it can't be a regularly scheduled event um so it's my research appli to yes once a year would be okay for
039sure um we have tons of performances coming up so anyone that is want or able to come to those performances would be amazing support our students I am singing a as well my um yeah do we so we should vote for you want to do it under items for discussion you want do yeah I guess somebody can let you know Bute all right I'm up next first wanted to say how impressed um was to hear the amount of money you raised coin War that's incredible so PTO here is is strong and uh other PTO learn from learn from PTO so um so I just wanted to start with a budget update uh first of all thanking the community because the weatherfield budget did pass um on the first try which is wonderful I also want
040to announce that all the all the wcsc budgets passed which is great news so just thanks to the communities for supporting our budgets and education um just a little tidbit about the state as of last Friday um 92% of the budget that the state had passed they have not all voted yet some some districts vote a little bit later um based on their community so out of 101 budgets that have um happened and nine failed so a much better rate than last year I think that just shows this Vermont's strong support of public education to me it sends a signal that we know we have to do some transformation but we need to do it very carefully and mindfully and not um and deliberately and not make rash decisions so just wanted to announce that
041um as you know the legis L of session is in session they were on um break last week right before cross over the big the big Bill in the um legislature right now is the governor's Bill age 454 I sent you all a summary of it today you found that helpful I found it helpful it's a 190 page document was released with lots of details not all the details but um a lot of details um so that summary is a nice snapshot of um what those pages say um I have heard that the Senate and the house are working on their own version consol I participated in the um my I watched the uh the webinar that the I did too was informative very informative um it's on they record though so if anybody's interested
042if go on the the SBA website um it was uh Peter conin who's the chair of the the education and um Emily Kornheiser Kiser she does Ways and Means for the house so it was pretty informative about was a lunch and learn hour hour long session um I can't remember if I announced the director of curriculum at the local levels I know I did at the SE level so we' hired I think I did um we've hired a director of curriculum instruction and assessment as our um current director's retiring this year and we've hired a director of student support services so um we're very fortunate to have found a very qualified um person for especially the director of student Support Services it's hard hard to fill because position so we have Jennifer Holz coming she's
043from the North Country she's got a wealth of experience in special education so she is moving to the area and will'll um take that position and we've hired Bridget buriel for the director of curriculum instruction and assessment um Sarah participated in all Sarah was a trooper she participated as an initial screening member and on the administrative Team level interviews so uh just we're we're starting to onboard these these people um the current directors have set up some meeting times with them so they can start to transfer the things that they do and show them you know the ropes both of the um both of these people will attend we have a short administrative retreat in um the spring so they're going to be able to make it to that which is great in our in
044our summer Retreat so you'll meet them um you'll meet them soon um my last slide is we have worked for the past seems like really intensely for the past three years but I know it was prior to that on building a strong instructional coaching program within um each each of our schools and across the supervisory Union so for the past three years we we tried to build this coaching program um by combining the role with our current interventionists and um we it's it's been okay it's it's been hard uh and the feedback from the people in these roles has been it would make much more sense for there to be a designated coach and a designated interventionist so their time is not divided and their efforts and their energy is not divided so um we've
045worked uh collaboratively with the folks in those positions our Union leadership the principles and I think we're at the point where we've made it happen so um the title will be in instructional team leaders they will be coaching they'll also be spearheading a lot of our mtss work um which which they do currently so I just wanted to let you know you'll probably be hearing that term instructional team leader I think in this building it will be um yeah we hav we hav't decided completely so I won't make I won't say won't say your name ton but you'll hear eventually um so we're pretty excited about that we think it'll help move our Universal instruction that tier one instruction forward in a really positive way so and that is the end my report if nothing
046to take questions there are okay um so next we have our items for discussion um so the budget debriefed and as both of you have said thank you so much to the voters of Weathersfield for passing our school budget um there were a lot of voter turnout I heard they had to go over to paper ballots because there's so many people voting and I'm just I'm glad we have such great Community involvement and um so and thank you very much for passing our budget um I know that um we're still looking to fund the Hubert is that how you say it yeah hbert trip um so we've secured fding for this year for next year for FY six already so we have that so that's already been earmarked for that and for four wi so
047those are covered and so we'll look for a different source for the falling your okay great um anyone have any other questions about the budget or comments okay um next we have the Athletics booster club Bill goie how's it going guys I have just a little packet hand out just one of the things that we are trying to work on yeah so real quick I just wanted to meet to um sorry I'm over um to introduce myself and um the booster club that we started um first of all little background about me I grew up in wetherfield I went to this school graduated in 2004 from wetherfield so not this fancy school we bought a house here in 2015 and I have a fourth grader and a uh kid coming into kindergarten next year um
048I've been coaching you Sports since 2009 is so Forevers like um and I'm the assistant Recreation director over in Windsor for the town wior um so uh a little bit about the booster club we were organized um and our mission was uh the weatherfield booster club is organized for the purpose of supporting Athletics atfield school um are working towards getting our 5013c all situated so we will be nonprofit um I the president our vice president is Shane KY who has two kids in the school now and another one coming um the secretary is my better half she has two kids in the school system um the treasurer is Jess Brown is over here she has one kid that graduated from here and another one in the school um and then to round out the board
049we um had decided that it was a good idea to keep the current athletic director on the boards so that we're in touch with what's going on with um Athletics so we have Carrie and um John Richardson who also has a kid in the school um we are you know very early stages of getting this thing up and running we basically have the board we've had a few meetings we've got some stuff figured out we're working towards getting volunteer memberships going to help us with fundraising events and other things um some things that we had talked about the the booster club um helping with our uniforms um upgrading some game and practice equipment um up upgrading or maintaining facilities the fields and stuff um and potentially um like paron gifts for our eighth grade athletes
050that have gone through the program and just give them something to remember whether they're sealed by um we plan on raising money we've got a very active group um through merch sales and some other events um the PTO has talked about possibly handing over the concession stand to us loosen their burden a little um and then uh yeah we have um we have planned a a home run Derby event which we'd like to get approval to run events like that at our school get other people here to raise money and support this program in any way that the budget doesn't allow um one of our main goals and a lot of people have been talking with me in the last four years having my kid in sports was they really would like an outdoor scoreboard
051and um it's a big task it's a big chunk of money but I think that our group is motivated enough and and we can raise the funds relatively quickly I believe um but this would benefit um all three of our outdoor sports baseball softball and soccer um it's roughly $122,000 depending on stuff that we get donated and and get um volunteer stuff um which is in my opinion not that much money [Music] um I was talking with the company that um does all of the scoreboards basically in Vermont it's Vermont display play Incorporated and the lady was very good to work with she also gave me the history on winter which spins and we'll do field hockey soccer baseball and it'll spin into football and their board was installed 34 years ago and it's still
052going strong so um basically my point in trying to get on the meeting introduce you guys let you know that we're trying to support the Athletics program and Al ask for permission to get the ball rolling on installing one of these um what is the Home Run Derby so yeah so um basically you it's a baseball type event and you would set up a fence and Pitch Balls to the kid and they would try to hit them and every time they hit one over the fence that's a home run and so whoever it's the most home runs wins and how is that fundraiser people they so it or yeah so you you pay pay to enter and then you win a prize whatever so you pay to enter and then with that there's other little
053mini games you can play and and uh concession stands and all that bill if you send me something too about the athletic booster club I can also put something in the newsletter to get the information out there for families even more awesome so we can definitely have that communication piece out there so more people can join it on yeah and then one other one other thing that I skipped over um we also would like to um sell sign sponsorships so I don't know if any of you have seen baseball parks or whatever they all have these sponsorship signs and it just um up in Winter we do it for our little leak fields and it just makes it feel like a ballpark um basically you go to local companies and say hey we'll put your
054logo on this fence you'll get advertisement um for a sponsorship fee and then we in turn use that money which they are able to write off as a donation and then it helps us raise money that way as well any other questions so you're looking to get approval for to sell B to sell the signs for the baseball field and also for the Home Run Derby and uh and to start researching and just to see if it's possible like we don't want to put a lot of effort into getting a scoreboard if it's not going to be approved kind of so it's like oh okay they want they want approval that up so I have a question so the $122,000 is that just the sign or is that the sign and the installation that that's
055basic that I would basically cover everything wow okay and you're going to fundraise the whole thing and yeah it would be 100% no we wouldn't need to funds for anything I just want we the um the board had approved for the athletic department to sell Banner advertisements or space and defenses or whatever and I don't get to it so I'm like I just want to know that wanted you to know that I'm trying to have that taken over by someone else and it was previously approved by a different organization thank you so I guess my question is for Christine and Brian so at Administration level like what is the process for there like we could say yes of course because we think it's a great idea but how do signs work like would that be
056something what channel would that have to go through have to go through mainten building meance we have to talk to Jim for sure but if I'm sure it's something that's doable here we just have to look to see where we've run the electricity because we do have le fields and everything else out there so we'd have to get the all that but it shouldn't be an issue be able to run that and do it John a question you mentioned that you were trying to form a 501c and how is the uh how does the PDL handle their fundraising uh is that also 501c yes okay so they keep their funds separate from all in a different pocket yep okay is there a solar option instead of electric by chance for the sign solar for battery
057to run them that way it may not be worthwhile but um I don't think so I think it's all makes sense I just figured I'd ask so this whole sign lit up or only the numbers on it um just the numbers would be lit up y okay and led right yeah yeah and what what part of the field like the end or up here so that would be part in the planning um but in order to make it so that it could be seen from everywhere it would makes more sense to me to be sort of in the middle of the field along the fence so that you can see it when you're playing baseball or softball or Sidelines for soccer you like a five a lot of how does it work for the different
058sports like do they if you thumb through that it it'll show you so that the first page is just the color that we would get you know school colors and then that's the actual grocer for the board which is the most common one that she sells to small schools um but you basically you change a panel out and then the controller is actually what will handle the different SPL pretty okay um anyone have any more questions um so I know I was kind of a bunch of things at once but um the sign sponsorship is just just to clarify that those are temporar you hang them up during baseball softball season or soccer season and you take them down for the year are they like they're like banners they're like banners or metal signs or
059you know and and the businesses are aware that they're hung up during this time and then so that's kind of separate from the scoreboard that's a fundraising thing and then the scoreboard would be one of the things that we do with those fund okay any more questions or you want to um I think we probably do it separately the fundraisers and then the sign um I'll take a motion to approve the the fundraisers of the um the banners or signs on along the fence and the Home Run Derby I'll make a motion okay any discussion are we are we voting on just those fundraisers or like a blanket fundraising sort of like what Athletics has um because mentioning the use of school property in that ass in that request okay so um yeah I guess
060uh you want to broaden it and um you want permissions just to be able to fun raise on school property right instead of just right would that motion yeah I'll make a motion to approve the booster club to do any and all fundraisers on school grounds for the benefit of the bo any discussion all in favor say I okay so that's good and then um so as far as the sign goes um we can't really give total approval until we hear from the grounds but um I think we could probably do some kind of like preliminary okay to um to start research on it yeah I'll give okay I will take a motion to uh begin researching for the possibility of putting up a multisport scoreboard I motion okay any further discussion all in favor
061say I and that's also unanimous thank you thank you guys okay um up next we have substitute pay which um do you want to go over littleit yeah Bill asked for this to be on the agenda each local board meeting um we are um having difficulty finding enough um substitute teachers So currently um what happens when we don't have enough substitutes in a building uh support staff members of pult and that is um A disruption and uh there's a cost to that right maybe not monetary cost but there a cost to calling um staff members to do a job that leaves their job on on the so um the current rate for a sub we we upped it I think it was a couple years ago yeah it's $125 a day um I don't The
062Other Board um m scotney talked about it last night har was talking about it tonight but I was multitasking to meeting so I didn't hear what they talked about M Scot's bringing it back next time to talk about an amount um so I can it makes sense that we all have the same amount across the Su just for pay purposes um but it's a it's a local budget expense so I think the the figure that's being floated is either 150 I know i' I've heard getting to $200 which um would certainly attract people I think at 150 if I remember the math correctly we were doing it it would be about a $21 an hour um position which is competitive with a lot of local businesses like f food restaurants Etc um so I'm happy
063to bring I'm happy to put it on next month you want to think about it and talk about an amount next month and get more information on what their boards are thinking thinking of in terms of an amount yeah I think it would be good for us to coordinate um do we know what the like like what other districts nearby are paying um we did last time I don't know um I can do that research we'll find out I thought we were competitive but I think everybody's struggling so I'll reach out and find out how is it here at w field trouble we we have three pretty consistent Subs that we are able to use but um I can't guarantee that for next year because one of them will no longer have students here um
064but we do have to pull of time so okay all right does anyone have any other questions for today or want to hear what the other boards I believe it's also be discussed at the Su board meeting this month so we can come back and report on what was discussed the Finly question is for if you have you're going to try and you know form of the local budget can you pull your resources to to say instead of three Subs on this list I have maybe 10 for the and share that way is that possible yes it's possible that those people people that here don't want okay like share is there um what is the data like are you using sub a sub every day I mean are you the what's the demand for Subs
065like if it's every day that helps us TOS what's I was gonna say I mean that can help us determine how much we want to say well we're always deficient by one every day at least and then a figure yeah would develop based on what the demand is there's a attendance is probably a little bit better than some of the other districts I don't know you can speak to it yeah I mean we we do have more as far as people that are out on a daily basis it's more of our support staff than our teaching staff um so that and do Subs fill in support they don't right okay they don't um although if if you're a oneon-one sh have to sh things around that work we do our best to do that so
066assuming that for Subs it's how much notice you usually get you know an hour okay sometimes it's the night before people know they're going to be out but sometimes it's first thing in the morning your second call in say you could try incentivize hey this is the notice we gave you there's an additional with that but it sounds like that's for all of and always just a shortterm solution or they fill in like Vacations or time off requests outside of or I mean or is it literally just a shortterm solution that you have it's a d like uh teachers and Sport stuff don't get vacation days for vacation I mean they get vacation but it's buil into the the calendar um so it's it's personal days and time bement time um professional development um and
067is this something you're talking about now or in negotiations that are are they included um well I can't talk understand that okay yeah know what I mean but okay yeah we're talking about it now John's got a question how does the space feel dovea with if you need a longterm sub a long-term sub has to be a certified teacher in that in that um content area and so those contracts get negotiated lot different yeah yeah it's not the same rate what's the cut off for when they're regular sub in a long term six weeks six weeks anything more than um H 30 days 30 30 actual school days has to be longer yeah and and it's a struggle to find Long Subs as well so how to beuming 18 you have to have a high
068school diploma okay high school and the professional development yeah all right so we'll bring that back and I'll try to get some rates for um surrounding your yep that would be great um support staff negotiation representative we got that we already have so we're done with that Meg again thank you don't thank we um and then approval of the music fundraisers is up next so um she wants to do the Singo night and included in with that or maybe separate or a couple of other small fundraisers um and it's all to go to the um Six Flags for the band in chorus and is that just seventh and eight creators or it's six s six sth and eight middle level M okay right I'll take are you question about it yeah how are those funds
069uh handled through the school because this wouldn't be a 501c no correct it goes through Student Activities correct yes okay those accounts get [Music] a um so so I'll take a motion to approve the music fundraisers for Six Flag trip so Mo okay John motion any further discussion all in favor say I um are we going to need Executive session okay all right so we'll skip over that unless anybody else here has anything okay um setting the next agenda um so what Daye is that second Tuesday april8 okay at 6:30 and that's here at school um and Hy online as well so hybrid um I know we had talked about um perhaps doing a tour of the facilities this spring um would that be appropriate to do for the April meeting yeah with JY or
070without April 8 yeah so if if Jim's available otherwise we'll move it to may but um needs to be one of those two because then school's out so June's our treat could we discuss uh support for the two there's a house bill and a Senate Bill both for a Statewide cell phone B in school could we uh discuss the support letter creating a support letter next meeting yeah so creating a support letter from the board from the saying that we support we have a cell phone we have yeah how different is it from do we know how the two differ is it a little bit different the Phill um bans cell phones in schools correct correct you don't you don't ban them um students can have them in their backpacks they can't have them on
071their you know out during the school day I I think from the bill language the biggest change would be that they would have to be put into a lock some kind of locking envelope or something think as they come in the school as supposed been their backpack I think that would be the only major change yeah um does the school pay foret lock Pockets thousands of dollars yeah when we when we surveyed the community um which we did before we put a you know procedure in place there was um really wide support of not having cell phones out during the school day especially K8 yeah but parents were um parents wanted students to have access to their phones in case there was an emergency which is not great because you don't want kids on their
072phones to emergency but I understand where you know parents are coming from so so that's where um we drew the line said they could keep them in their backpacks or in their lockers they couldn't have them out in classrooms now I think K it works pretty well yeah we have very limited amount of problems with cell phones that just taking them out um high school they're allowed to have their phones out at lunch and um the seniors typically write a letter and ask for permission to be able to use their phones during their um like as a senior privilege when they're in the senior Lounge which I'll get the language for the house build and Senate though so it can be forwarded out before the meeting yeah that' be great and then um like if
073we wanted to be supportive of it to certain extent like to [Music] invest yeah supporting something that the SCU may not yeah okay yeah so yeah if you want to get that out to everybody um we can have a discussion about it at meeting um so cell phone policy or cell phone bills sorry cell phone bills uh [Music] um let's see is there anything else that um I just had a thought and I left my brain um and you're talking about this the subsidy pay for for the next schol here right yes or the following yeah I was just thinking where where was that it wasn't the so it would be the following year not next year2 so cell phone bill substitute pay is there one more facil St the facility store would you want
074that at the prior to the meeting or during the meeting um actually probably is everybody okay with prior everybody for the board coming at 6 and then we'll yeah so we'll do the we starting at 6 we can do like Facebook live and walk around um I also wanted to uh talk about um the future for Four Winds coming up with uh trying to find another school to work with us um so I don't know I know I received a bunch of emails and support of Four Winds program and people offering to help and um I believe I forwarded all those on uh but um like the woman who runs the program she offered to go and try and find other schools in the area to help with that um so maybe if we could
075ask ask a couple of people to come who are involved in Four Winds to come to the next meeting and we can discuss with them uh or maybe if they could have some ideas of how to get other schools involved would that help with the budgeting for us or yeah yeah because right our for winds basically doubled in cost this year because Harland left it was originally we were paying $1,500 and it went up to $3,000 because we had to put the whole Bal ourselves it's a little less than that it's 27 yeah I'm not sure that they would per year I'm not sure if you all of a sudden there three schools it's three times the work so I'm not sure they um no it's they come they come and te you would train
076together you train together and yeah it doesn't it wouldn't cost any extra I mean I guess if we probably got a whole bunch of other schools involved it would probably want some more money but uh I think if we just had one or two other schools involved they would train them here for the same so the train it would the savings would be on the training end yeah because that everything else is is uh volunteers so um I think the training is the only cost right yeah okay um anything else okay um I guess I'll take a motion here journ we're done everybody's good okay I'll take a motion toour I'll make a motion okay all in favor say I and we're thank you everybody BJ what time did you get out here tonight and
077what time you were at work the next morning cool