001Um, I'd like to call to order tonight's um, Weathersfield School Board meeting uh, for Tuesday, December 14th at um, 6:08 p.m. And um I guess we will begin with the pledge of allegiance. 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. And um I would also just at the beginning of the meeting like to call for a moment of silence for um a former uh Weathersfield School PAR educator, Gary Burke, who passed away at her home on November 13th. Okay. Um and then uh are there any changes or additions to the agenda? Okay. Um next we have the approval of the minutes from November 9th. Did everybody get a chance to look over them? Yeah,
002it's they seemed good to me. Um, do do I have a motion to I'll make the motion to approve the minutes. I guess I'll second it. I'll second it. Uh, so Jamie made the motion. Becky and Ann is going to second it. And um I guess you can still vote though, right? Or should we wait? Kristen's on. Oh, is Kristen on? Oh, Kristen's on. Okay. Hi. Okay. Um, did you get a chance to look at the minutes from November 9th? Yes. Yep. So, um, so Jamie has made a motion to approve the minutes and I seconded it. So, and, um, I guess Jackie wasn't at the full meeting, so she's going to abstain. Um, so we'll take a vote now. All in favor say I. I. I. Okay, that's unanimous. See um up next we
003have any public participation or announcements from public not currently on the agenda. Does anyone online have anything? Okay. So then I guess we will move on to the principal's report. Fine. Thank you. Let me just get on there. All right. Welcome to our meeting for December 14th. This is our lead learner report for this month. First off, um before we get started with the report, I just wanted to thank Heather and Julie and Craig who made our incredible community dinner tonight. So, they work extra hard to get that done. Come on out. Come on out. Um they are our who feed our students every day and they do an amazing job here at school. So, we truly appreciate it. coming from a whole another state um and a whole another part of the world it
004seemed like um Vermont definitely does it well and I don't think anybody does it better than Julie and Heather and then Craig who is in charge of our child nutrition services program our food program so we appreciate all of you guys and we just want to give you a round of applause for thank you very much for your tireless efforts for our community and our students we appreciate you guys was an excellent turnout for the first one look forward to doing more yes and we will do more so thank you very much We appreciate you guys. Thank you guys. Everybody, thank you. Happy holidays. Okay. And then also, um, the swag there on your guys's table is for you guys. Happy holidays from Weathersfield. So, we just want to make sure that we take care
005of you and you guys, we're working on our brand and making sure that we have lots of it out there and we're representing Weathersfield. I know. I love it when I go out in the community and people know that I'm at Weathersfield. Maybe because I'm the new person in town and they just automatically think that, but I don't know for sure, but it's it's nice to be able to show off that brand. Um, we do have a couple presentations tonight and our first one I'm gonna let Mr. Wilmont come up and introduce. Um, so one of the things that we do in fourth grade is we do a Weathersfield history unit. And um one of the things that we're trying to do with the Weathersfield history unit is try to bring more contemporary Weathersfield history
006into our our teaching because it starts 30,000 years ago. And um so what I did was I challenged some of my students to do a more um recent historical project and Gwen Kelly decided to do um a recent project about the last dairy farmer in Weathersfield. So I would like Gwen to come up and show you um her project on the last dairy farmer. It's not going online. I see it here, but not okay. Yeah, there it goes. Very good. My Weathersfield project dairy farming changes. In my project, I will be talking about the dairy farming changes. Since 1969, 84% of Vermont dairy farming has gone down. $285 million on programs was spent to help dairy farming since 2010 to 2019. People were going out of dairy farming businesses. Half the Vermont dairy farmers are
007people 55 or older. Dairy farmers relied on migrant workers who have reported bad living conditions and/or have reported bad working conditions. Dave Fuller was and is Weathersfield's last dairy farmer. The beginning of the end. In 1977, the last dairy farmer in Weathersfield, Dave Fuller, graduated from the University of New Hampshire, and a little while after that started milking 18 cows. Dave Fuller convinced his mom and dad to buy a farm in Perkinsville, Vermont. Dave Fuller owned 230 acres of the of land on his Plains Road farm. The most cows Dave Fuller had is 100 milking cows and 80 calves. In total, 180 whole steam cows. It was busy at the farm with corn planting in May, harvesting in September and October and ting in the summer. In 2016 and 2017, Dave Fuller didn't make enough
008money from milk, so he chose to stop dairy farming. Ben Fuller is Dave Fuller's son and country country singer. Candy Fuller is Dave Fuller's wife and a Weathersfield teacher. Kristen Brusso is his daughter and a Weatherfield school board member. Pictures to help you visualize my project. [Applause] Thank you very much, Gwen. That was great. We appreciate that. Anybody have any questions for Gwen? Thank you very much. We appreciate that. Oops. That one out. I'm sorry. Back to that one. You see my tab again? still see. Okay, let me switch out of Gwen's here. Emory, you're there. This is Dave Fuller. Hi, Dave. Yes, I'm here. Hey, I want to thank everybody for that. It's the first time I've seen it. I kne I knew right who she was talking about as soon as she said
009the last dairy farmer in Weathersfield. Thank you for letting us do that with you, Mr. Fuller. Really something I'm proud of to be the last. I can tell you that. All right. you doing share a tab, right? Yep. All right. You guys see my screen again? There it is coming at you. All right. Next is we do have So, the other day I got the privilege of going into Mrs. Fuller. This is all about the Fullers today. Mrs. Fuller's classroom, her first grade classroom, and her students shared with me some of their ABC books. So, Mrs. Fuller, I know you're there. So, I'm going to go ahead and share this and then share this tab instead. All right. You guys seeing the tabs with the students? All right. So, Mrs. Fuller, do you want to
010introduce it? Yeah. Yes. Um, I don't have video here at home, but I definitely have audio. Um, so as part of our Wheatly ELA program, um, we do a first an alphabet book and I decided several years ago to do it on Weathersfield. I thought it would be, uh, you know, a great spiraling thing as we go on and get up to fourth grade. It just would be a nice little intro to that. So, um, we did we had lots of fun learning about different things, um, about Weathersfield and the students got to choose their favorite page that they did. We look at pictures, we talk about it, they illustrate, and then we do a little writing about it. So, I anxious for you to hear it. Thank you. Thank you for sharing this with
011Mrs. Fuller. technology. I know we had it all worked out. Always happens. You'll get it. All right, hold on. Go back to your tab. Okay, here. I see it on screen. E is for Dan Foster House. It was built in 1785. Today it is a museum of Weathersfield history. A is for Stephanie Mountain. Its elevation is 3,140 ft. E is for E is for eagles. These birds of prey are found nested in dams across the Connecticut River. I love eagles. K is for lime k. In the 1800s, lime cam were heated to 900° to turn limestone into quick line. H is for Hawks Mountain on June 15th, 1947. A B29 plane crashed on into Hawks Mountain. 12 men lost their lives. S's for school. In 1869, there were 13 schools in our town. Now we
012only have one. R is for friendly pond. It was a a a old glacial glacial pond. It that that filled it in in thousands of years ago, but it it became a dog. L is for library. R Parker Library was dated in 1903 and was a gift of Benjamin Franklin blood. B is for the Black River. It is 40 miles long and is a tributary to the Connecticut River. N is for maple sugaring. Voltos have made maple syrup for centuries. [Music] Adorable. Thank you, Mr. We appreciate your class sharing. Thank you. It was fun. Thank you so much. Good. We appreciate it. All right, let me go back and make sure I'm sharing the right tab now. All right. Now, we have so working on mental health issues here with within our SU and especially
013here at Weathersfield, we have Sean Perry from We Are Hope and he's going to talk a little bit about what he does and what they do with our students. Absolutely. All right. So, take it away, Sean. Uh, thank you. So, I'll just I'll start by saying this is the second uh board meeting that I've been to in in two weeks and I always it seems like I'm always behind pretty awesome presentations ahead of mine. So, I don't I don't even know if I can do well now. You know, setting you up two weeks in a row here. Um so, first I just want to uh thank everybody for or thank Brian specifically for inviting me to this uh board meeting. Uh we are hope has been part of uh Weatherfield in the Windsor school district
014for uh four years now. Um and do you want to see one of these? Um, and you know, we created this organization based out of a need that we saw um, working in a private mental health care field where it costs $90,000 for children to get support between, you know, for 60 to 90 days. And my business partner and I, you know, James thought, you know, that's just not fair, right? I mean, what happens to all the other students? So, we created this modality around uh life coaching, cognitive behavioral therapy, and emotional CPR that would go in and support students directly 5 days a week for a half an hour a day. Um, and really focus on our main focus is anxiety. And a lot of people say, well, if you're only focused on anxiety,
015how do we get to all the other stuff? Right? We have kids that are struggling with depression. We have kids that are struggling with trauma. And the reality is is that anxiety is something that we all struggle with. And when we see kids in classrooms that are having behavioral issues or having uh traumatic responses, that's actually also an anxious response, right? So if we can't deal with the why, we can't get to anything else, right? If that makes sense. So that is, you know, that's that's really what we focus on. Um we utilize cognitive behavioral therapy techniques because they work. there's, you know, 30 40 some odd years worth of data saying this is the number one modality to use for anybody that is struggling with um anxious behavior or, you know, with therapeutic needs
016in general because it it supports a lot of different mod um um disorders. So, um we don't claim to be therapists, right? Um we are all certified life coaches, cognitive behavioral coaches, and then I have a bunch of other stuff that I do as well. And what this allows us to do and the reason why this modality works is because we support kids daily. So if you look at any therapeutic basic model go to therapy on Monday on a Monday we'll just use a Monday as a and then we got Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. There's a lot of days in between for things to go wrong in our lives. Doesn't matter if you're an adult, doesn't matter if you're a teen, doesn't matter if you're a kid, right? So this model allows
017us, what we realized was that what worked really well in residential was consistency. And so this model allows us in our role as coaches to be able to support kids every single day. Make sure that they're getting support in more, you know, in the morning consistently, then again in the afternoon consistently, so forth and so on. So this year what we've done is we have partnered with a company called BH Works. Uh, behavioral health works allows us to collect our data for the GAD 7. Um, and it's instantaneous, right? So, I don't have James sitting in the office at home counting numbers like I used to have him do. I need to know what that says. I need to know it like today. Um, now we do a behavioral health survey which spits out information
018immediately. We are able to find out if a child has PTSD, suicidality, uh self harm, um severe depression, anxiety, trauma in general, um sexual abuse, physical abuse, we're able to find out on the spot. Any kiddo that comes through our comes through our door. That is a tool that you basically can't put a price tag on that, right? instead of having to wait for these things to go out to the state and this to come back and then we don't know what's going on. We can support the child right then and there go, you know, we head down to the office and say, "Hey, Brian, we got an issue." You know, "Hey, this one, we have an issue. What do you want us to do? How do we support?" What you'll find, um, and I
019guess I'll just start there. What you'll find is if you go to the second to last page, these two pretty colored pages. This is the adoles the adolescent behavioral health survey. There's two behavioral health surveys. One is the child and one is the adolescent. The child is the one that the parents do at home based on their age. Meaning we don't give it. They get a link and it goes home and the parents answer the question uh the questions with the child. Now the interesting thing about that is we all know how sometimes things can't be true. So we kind of have a um a fail safe in that regard is that we do it at the beginning when they start with us and when they exit our program we do it again. So we
020can see any differences and then it also allows us to see what changes because there's some things at home that we're never going to be able to fix right um or change I should say I don't think we're fixed and then there's some things that we can see a significant change based on the work that we do the gas seven is and what you'll see on this is so for instance we have one student for depression moderate or severe that's how they based on their score we have another student with significant anxiety another one at risk for PTSD another student with a history with uh suicidal ideation and another student currently struggling with suicidal ideation. That is really important to know. Really, really important to know. We have another student with an eat that's at
021risk for an eating disorder. Right? These are things that are not going to pop up in a normal conversation in school. They're just not going. Um we have three students um struggling with uh and a child one struggling with uh moderate or severe depression and three students with significant anxiety. So again this this helps to pull that information immediately. Um if we go back to the front we have the GAD 7. The GAD 7 is a generalized anxiety disorder survey. Every clinician on the planet pretty much uses it. It's not just a clinician tool. It's a tool to measure data. Right? So, by these specific questions that have been mapped out over the lifetime of uh therapeutic supports, these are the there's a a standard set of questions and that spits out a number what
022lets us know where they're at on the anxiety scale and what kinds of supports that they need. Um you'll see that we have supported so far this year 12 students. Um, as of right now, I know Lindsay's the coach for this school and she just sent me to three reports to read and get approval on um, graduating three new students or three or four new students. And so that means we have those three or four coming out with four more coming in. And that's the great thing. So when when we're contracted within the district for six hours, just so everybody knows, that supports a student every half hour, that means we support 12 students every single day. Now, as those students roll out, we then fill that spot. So that 12 turns into 24 so
023forth and so on, right? Um, so we can support, you know, 36 to 40 some odd students this year depending on how they're doing and the rotation of it, which again is unheard of, right, in any school in the country. Just so that we're aware, there's no organization like ours in the country at all. We are the first of its kind. We've created the ground floor. So um right now we have if you'll look at the oh back to this page we had the standard score was 11.9 on the anxiety scale on a GA 7 after 60 days with us. So no one's graduated yet. Like I said we have a couple students in in the process of graduating at the end of this month. We're down to a seven. Right. That's a huge decrease
024in their overall anxiety in being able to manage what's happening for them internally. Um like I said, you know, when we started this, we are we pride ourselves on being innovative, right? We were the first company to be this this kind of company. Um and we were the first to be a youth coaching virtual company. So when CO hit last year in 2020, well that 2020 CO hit in 2020. I'm not sure if everybody's aware, but we didn't have a lapse in service. There was no lapse. We were automatically virtual. All of our kids had a link. They went virtual on their laptops and they got the support that they needed while other organizations were trying to figure out how to make it work. That said, what we are doing now is I recently had
025a meeting last night with Shiva Enu, Shiva Land. I'm not sure if anybody's familiar with the metaverse. We are hope is is aiming to be the very first youth mental health company in the metaverse. So, we can meet people everywhere at any given time virtually, create our own office, you know, kind of almost reach out and touch them if that makes sense. So, we're constantly innovating and trying to do new stuff. Um this this past week, every principal in every school they're in received an email from us. What do your students need? Please give us a list of what your students need for Christmas, those who are struggling or food. And so these are the things that we do within the district. We take our own money, we put it back into the district to
026make sure that the kids, not only the kids that we support, but other kids who may be struggling and families who may be struggling have access to food, clothes, whatever the case may be. Um, so yeah, I mean that's that's who we are. That's what we do. Um, does anybody have any questions for me at all? I mean, this is the first time I've met the board here. So, do you guys have any questions for me? I just want to say I think it's great that you're actually in the schools because you can see the stressors that the kids are under and help them to process it like right in the moment instead of having to wait to go to a doctor's appointment like after school and then be telling them about something. But you're
027able to, you know, help them deal with that issue right as it's happening. Well, that's I mean I think that's the thank you and I think that's the key. You know, one thing that I'll say is Dr. Baker, you know, everybody should be really thankful to Dr. Baker because he saw the vision, right, when we came to him, right, and saying, "Hey, look, you're going to be the first, right?" I think that's what we said. Like, David, this is new, man. Like, you're going to be the first. You're going to be the innovator for the state of Vermont. And he has been, right? So, you know, we we recently just locked in uh um Orleans, every school in their district. So, these things are, you know, we're growing as an organization, but our roots start
028here in the Windsor school district. um in in Weathersfield specifically. And I'm not sure if anybody knows, but we were only here about three hours. Well, no, it's like one or two. And now we're here for six hours a day. So, that's that's really awesome. And we thank you guys for having us. Um and being able to support the kids is is huge because parents don't have to leave their home. The services are coming directly to the kids. So, any other questions, comments, concerns? Anybody on screen question, comment? Yes. Um I'd have to be curious been here for four years. So have you seen different stressors over this? So when we first came one of the biggest things that I'll say that as we saw um were a lot of behavioral struggles. That was kind
029of the thing that Gene Marie was dealing with here. Kids that, you know, a lot of like that's what we saw. Um, we actually had a kiddo on our case load that we kept for three years. We have no problem doing. We typically rotate him out, but she was adamant we were not to let this kid go. He had nobody else. We are hope was his only support and so we kept which is goes against, you know, the rotation piece, but Chimar got Marie wanted if you didn't know that. Really? Yeah. She was awesome, man. She bought she fought for what she wanted. I love it. Um, so, you know, that's what we saw. Then we saw, you know, there's always that that that plateau or that plateau of just constant anxiety that is growing
030in in our youth right now. And so, one of the things is that we have to understand and realize is that our youth is more disconnected than it's ever been in human history. And so, that lack of connection is causing anxiety, depression, basic, you know, trauma. um a lot of different things. So, we're seeing a spike now, I believe, in trauma because of the COVID response, right? So, you know, we're looking at parents losing jobs, uh parents being home, making it more traumatic than what, you know, than than previously. So, there's a lot of things going on. So, it kind of es and flows, but I would say the main things that we're seeing are anxiety, depression, and trauma. Those are those are the things. And it's and it es and flows. Um, I think
031it depends on on what's going on um within the community, you know, as a whole, you know, during that time. So, that answer your question. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? I'm just curious, um, like when you when you teach these kids that are in the program these coping mechanisms, are you seeing them then teach the other kids at the school? That's sort of the other kids picking up on Yeah, that's really that's really interesting. So yeah, we do see that from time to time and it's I was in the playground. I'll never forget uh not last year, the year before. I was in the playground with one kid. I was kiddo. I was bringing him out to say, you know, hey, let's let's finish up our session and we were going for a walk.
032I was dropping him off and one of his peers came up to me and says, hey, can I work with you? Can I come see you, too? And I said, can you come see me, too? I said, do you even know who I am? He goes, yeah, you're Sean. I go, okay, wait a second. And then he says I said, well, do you even know what I do? And he goes, "Yeah, you help people with their anxiety." Kid I was in first grade know. He goes, "You help you help people with their anxiety." And I go, "What do you know about anxiety?" He goes, "Well, I know that my father hasn't been around and I haven't seen him in six months and now I have to see him, so I'm pretty anxious about it." And
033I went, "Huh?" I go, "Let me go get you the paper. I'll go see BJ right now." And that's I mean, and I've worked with him for probably about three months. Um, and so, you know, there's a lot of kids that are having these conversations. we are seeing some significant changes. Um, and I think the great thing about what we do is kiddos aren't forced to come see us. So, every kiddo comes through like kind of like an interview process, if you will. Um, they meet with the coach or they meet with me virtually and they have to agree with me and to see. So, I want you to guys to really process that piece. Every child who works with us has agreed to work with us. meaning they've agreed to do the work for
034themselves. That's pretty awesome, right? Especially thinking about a school setting where, nope, you're struggling, you have to go here. Nope, you're struggling, you need to go there. They actually get an option. And nine times out of 10, they they normally say yes. So, any other questions? Sean, I just want to say thank you. You've never given up on us. You've stuck with us and you're very visible as the owner of a very busy company. That means a lot to me. You've always made the time for us and our kids. That means a huge amount to us. And the boy that stayed with us three years, you made a difference to him. Yeah, we did. I see it every day. We talked to him. We talked that kiddo. I got to tell you about that kid.
035So randomly at like 10:30, 11:00 at night, either James or myself will get messages from him on Instagram. Hey, what are you doing? We're like, well, we're getting ready to go to bed. What are you still doing? You know what I and he'll like he'll go on his spiel or his thing and tell us about you know whatever's going on. He hits us up over the summer. I mean that is what that's the kind of organization that we want to be. We want to be part of a community and I was just telling Brian this morning when I was walk or a little while ago when I was walking in I was on a conversation I was on a call with a school in Pine Bluff Arkansas. He wants to have we'll come down and
036the woman's name is Dr. Lewis who's trying to get us to come down there and she says okay well what can you do so forth and so on. I said, "Well, listen." I said, "I have meetings starting in January. I do a training for youth emotional CPR um starting in at the end of January, going into February." I said, "There every single Monday." I said, "But I'll tell you what, I will fly out Monday nights. I will be there Tuesday morning and if I can't find a coach for you, I will coach that school for the rest of the school year and just fly back home." That's the level of dedication that we have. We want to make sure that if we can support somebody and it's in our power, we're going to make sure
037to do it. And and and you know, we are grateful and thankful to Dr. Baker uh specifically um for allowing us to be here and continuing to push our program within the district. So, we hope that it continues to stay successful and we continue to work with you guys for many, many years. Thanks, Sean. Thank you. Thanks, Sean. You're welcome. And We Are Hope is definitely unique. We I did not have any of those things at my school in California. So, I appreciate Sean and Lindsay being here. All right, moving on. So, leader and me ongoing project here at school. It's amazing. Um so, we did have an opportunity on the 19th of November. We had an early release day um for staff. And so my challenge to them was because we have been going
038slow to go fast um was to put something in place and they had to do something with leader and me within their classroom. So I'm looking forward to hearing back about that and they're going to be reporting what they did. Um I know um Mrs. Huber um who's our literacy specialist was telling me about a lesson that she was incorporating within um with uh the holidays and it had it was I'm trying to remember which program it was or which it was um the year without a Santa Claus I believe and how she was able to incorporate that with the seven habits. Um right now Miss Cole is doing her um lessons using later me lessons like she has been. She's focused on habits two and three right now. And then she's starting to work
039on habit eight with our eighth graders, which is find your voice. Um because there is seven habits, but then they added an eighth habit, which is find your voice. And she'll she's working with students on possible service projects within our schools who want to give back. Um enrollment and attendance for November 10th through December 14th. So our in total enrollment is up to 236 students. Woohoo. Average daily attendance is 87.46%. four six% and we did have five new students. Our average daily attendance did drop a little bit from last month, but we did have quite a few illnesses and we'll get to the other part of that in a few minutes. So, oh, there we go. Um, so CO update for the school. So, we did have three cases or three classes that were affected,
040but the great thing is we've been able to utilize the test to stay to be able to keep children in school. Um throughout that process of the test essay, um we did have four positive test essays, but it didn't affect the other students out of 115 tests. Um we've had two vaccination clinics at school so far, and we're up to 40% 46% of our students that are fully vaccinated. So, and that number is growing, which is great. All right, building community. Um so, here's what's happened in the last month with in our um school. So, first off, we had the Weathersfield Veterans Day ceremony, and there's this um speaker there. And if you guys would like to later on, I did include the speech in there. Um they told me to keep it between five
041and 10 minutes, 9 minutes 51 seconds. So, that was pretty good. Um so, if you guys need something to listen to at sometime, then you can click on that link and go there. I won't worry bore you with that right now. Um, continuing our monthly conversation with the Chief SW Missouri Fire Safety. Um, naming of the State of Vermont plow truck contest. So, we did have Big Bessie here, which is pretty awesome. Saw Big Bessie the other day on 131. Really excited about that. And, um, the driver of Big Bessie happens to be one of our grandparents here. So, he gets to drive for Big Bessie. And Big Bessie is on 131 and part of Five. Um, communicated with town manager Brandon um, regarding our town report. And then we had our first community dinner
042tonight at Weathersfield School, which I thought was a pretty huge success. It was a great meal. Um, I will get the exact number of how many meals we served, but I know it was more than other schools within RSU. I'm just going to go ahead and say that. Not competitive at all. Not competitive. Um, so, but I I thought it was pretty awesome. It was nice to see the families and thank you again to Heather and Julie and Craig and BJ and our PTO for helping out there. And even Santa was there to visit students as well. John and John Harrison too. Thank you. Sorry. Representative. Don't want to forget anybody. So, um, so Big Bessie comes to Weathersfield. Here's a couple of the pictures that were taken. All of our students got out there.
043It was our It was a schoolwide event. We did practice social distancing as much as possible, but felt that it was important for our students to go out there to see some of their hard work. And then this is a little fun fact. Um, so the picture on the right where it shows um the gentleman in the middle is our driver and the grandparent here. But that picture right there, they I sent it to the Vermont Transparentation Authority or VT VT VR. Thank you. And so then I got this random phone call and I almost didn't answer it but then I did is so it was VR calling me back and so the Associated Press got a hold of that picture and they wanted me to release the rights since I was a photographer of
044that picture so that they could share that picture across the nation so I could be a nationally recognized photographer. So, a little far-fetched, but I thought that was interesting, but it was awesome to see. And um, believe it or not, that was my first time being in a snowup. Had never had that opportunity before. So, I did share that photo with um, some of my colleagues back in California and said, "Look what I get to do." Most of you have never done that. So, that was pretty awesome. Snow at school. That was also another first for me to actually have snow at school. um again shared some of these pictures of just the snow and doing um duty at recess time with the students and having to worry about not throwing snowballs at each other.
045Making sure they're wearing snow pants and snow boots for K through four, going over those rules as I'm quickly doing announcements asking BJ, okay, so what exactly are the rules for snow days? Because I was unaware of those. That was something I was unprepared for. But I was really proud of the the fourth graders right there. we were able to roll the two big snowballs together and start to build a snowman. Um, and so we used the bleachers out there to actually get one of the big balls up onto the other ones. It was funny, the sixth graders were trying to get it earlier in the day. That's the picture on the right. Um, and they couldn't do it and so we looked at it to see what we could do last Friday and we
046got it up there and so the students are pretty excited about that. Um, community outreach. So this month we've this past month we've given out um 16 family Thanksgiving baskets to our community. The extra food went to the food shelf as well. Um we have Christmas presents coming out to school families. So thank you the LDS church and the Scott Union church for the support. And then community and staff members um picked up the rest of the extra donations to help out. So those will be going out next week to our families here at Weathersfield. Um PTO update. So they've had two fundraisers fundraisers, sorry. They've had the Meadow Farms online gift um sale and then the Weathersfield apparel. So, we have lots of students. Those got delivered today to most of our students. Um
047so, it's exciting to see our brand out there and what Weathersfield is. So, we'll start to see more and more students with those. Um they also received a thousand um grant from the Claremont Savings Bank um to offer many grants to staff for innovation in education. Um and then they they are giving out holiday gifts for every student and staff member next week. And then they're still hoping to have that car show in May depending on what type of health issues we're having at that point to support eighth grade. So mission, vision, and core values. It is an ongoing process. I hope to be able to be presenting something to you this month. It did not happen. So that was my first fail, my first attempt in learning here. Um, so we have gotten additional
048staff input. We did that back on that November 19th day as well. We are working on getting our students. So, I do have a group of students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade that are going to be meeting with us to go over some of the ideas that the staff had and to also get their input on mission, vision, and our core values. And then to also look at our community at our next um coffee with the lead um the lead learner in January and then hopefully we'll be able to present something to you, the school board by February. So, that's our hope, but it is a process and we want to make sure we get it done correctly. So maker space at Weatherfield, I mentioned this last time, so I kept the slide in
049there um about the importance of a maker space and looking at what we want to do with it, benefits the maker space. I know I don't have to sell you guys on that, but then here are what our next steps are to create a maker space. First off, we'll be meeting with our facilities through the SU to um see about how we can use our existing computer lab to turn that into a current um maker space. Meet with outside companies to help develop that space. Um visit other maker spaces and schools and in the community. I know Claremont, for example, has a maker space, a community one. I'm checking in on that. um and then match an existing staff member who can be able to run that space and run it effectively for our students
050and our staff and then offer training for that person and that staff member and then utilize resources to help fund the maker space upcoming events. So, um it was really important to myself and to our staff to be able to have our holiday singalong. So, we will be doing that virtually. So, students have been recording that with Mr. Shambo um and they will be presenting that. So each class has been working on that. So we should have that all done and then we'll send you guys out that link for next week so you guys can see the holiday sing along. We are having an early release day on December 22nd. It was supposed to be this coming Friday the the 17th and we changed that to the 22nd as an SU to be able to
051help out with families. Um and then we have our winter holiday from December 23rd through January 3rd. We have a staff development day for um students on or for not for students for staff for um our teaching staff on January 4th. And what's awesome is about that is they had the opportunity we were planning that as an SU for teachers to be able to take some classes that they can if there was certain interest. we have that to teach the the teachers certain things and then they can also do learn their own leading or lead their own learning and then we'll have them back here at um the building for the end of the day and we have a special relaxation exercise that we've been working on so they're going to be doing a project
052as a staff together they don't know about it yet but we'll we'll share that with them when it comes a little closer and we'll show you some of the details some of the finished products when we come back at our next board meeting and then we are having our virtual coffee with the leader on January 12th so we hope to get some good information for our mission um vision and core values. So that is it for my principal report, my leader report. Thank you very much. Thank you. Um next is the superintendence report. David, yeah, Brian's gonna be my wingman here with uh I'm g have to hit that enter again actually just ah I don't know why it does that but it does that. And notice the green and red, right? The holiday colors.
053We got We got to keep this. Can't see it. Keep the mic. Well, sorry about you can on my screen. You can't up there. Sorry about there. I can see it now. Yeah. Get those glasses on. That's all right. We're going to move through this pretty quickly because Brian already uh did cover some of these areas. The CO update, he talked about that. What I didn't realize uh was that and neither did any of the principles or nurses how time consuming that test to stay would be. But I will tell you they're doing an excellent job and as Brian said with keeping kids in school which was the goal uh but it is you know it's stressful for the kids the staff nurses um but everybody pitched in to make it work. Next bullet. Uh
054yeah, and I think that just brings up those reminders that in this time of high transmission rates that we just need to go back to the basics, the masking, which we do, sanitizing, distancing when we can and and taking quarantine seriously and I think, you know, that'll be something we sent out some travel travel guidance and I think that's going to be important for people who are traveling especially and we do have some staff members who are traveling outside the country. So when we do that, we just have to be careful. check with the nurse. They know all of the rules and we can do this safely and get back here on January 5th safe and sound. Um, second dose vaccines, as Brian said, have been deployed. Uh, and whether or not we'll set up
055any other clinics, I don't know. We'll talk about that after the holidays, but I think it was great that we did we did, and it's nice to hear that almost 50% of the uh student body here is vaccinated. And I will tell you 96% of our staff across the supervisory union is vaccinated, fully vaccinated. So I think that's a credit to the board, the SU board especially, who put in that vaccine mandate early uh in the year. Next slide. Staff and student stress. I don't have to talk about this. Everybody knows that it's there. And I think that Weathersfield does a great job of trying to keep levity and and and a sense of humor. Uh but it's not easy and I think anybody on this call who works in this building will tell you
056that uh this is a much as we said before much tougher year than last year and part of it is the transmission rates are higher than they ever were back then and also we don't have the same flexibility uh like we have a class a particular class and we had this happen not in this building but in another building uh last year if it was a real high rate of transmission and you know we only had 8 to 10 kids could stay in school. We could just go remote and we're trying to avoid that this year and we don't really have the authority to do that. So the staff's being very patient about that and so are the students and the families um because that test to stay requires the families to also transport their
057own kids to do things in a timely manner to sign a bunch of paperwork and they've been doing it and they've been doing it uh gracefully and we really appreciate that. Then we put another bullet on there. Everyone is looking forward to the break. I think uh you know that would be nice that that's going to come next Wednesday. And then um and again I said that shout out uh not T Emily but to Emily and the staff for making all of this work. Next slide. Negotiations. Good news. And we have to take care of this tonight. I probably should have added that to the agenda. Sorry about that. Um Ann, but uh yeah, I haven't haven't known about it. Good. Yeah, we did settle the contract. Um, and so the board needs to ratify
058that tonight. We're trying to get everything ratified by the end of the month and the teachers are trying to do the exact same thing. And Jackie was part of that negotiating team and she will tell you it was uh it was a difficult process as it always is. But I think in the end we came up with an agreement that is equitable across the supervisory reunion and was a win-win for both the teachers and the board. Support staff negotiations start tomorrow. There's no rest for the wicket as my mother used to say. So we're going to jump right into uh ESP negotiations. Uh and hopefully we're feeling cautiously optimistic about that. We'd like to sign much like we did with the teachers, a multi-year deal. We have a three-year deal with the teachers and this
059year is the first year of that. So, we don't have to negotiate for a couple of years, which takes a lot of stress off of staff. And we'd like to do the same thing with support staff, try to get it settled and get it settled for more than one year. Um, so we'll we'll talk more about that later on. Uh, equity task force is meeting. We've got uh we've got the task force that uh finished up last night uh doing an outline of action steps for roll out of our policy. As you know, we did adopt that policy as an SU uh the anti-racism and equity policy. uh and now we have to kind of make that policy actionable and uh and so we are going to right after the holiday take that outline of
060action steps turn it into a three-year plan so we know exactly what we want to do in the first year second year and third year we will bring that plan to the SU board who's a superintendent I think of New York has been doing this work for a long time he's sharing some professional development with a small number of us and then We are also in conversation with the Springfield uh school district because they are going to do a full equity audit. And by equity audit that means looking at curriculum policy and practices in the district and getting a baseline of how equitable they already seem to be. And we felt if we could partner with Springfield then maybe we could save a little bit of money and we could uh we're certainly close enough
061uh as an SU to the Springfield district. So, I've been in touch with Zach and we're going to try to do some things together with respect to that and keep those costs down. But, we did put money in ESSER for equity work. That's how we've been paying Melissa Crumb. That's how we hope to pay uh uh that's how we hope to pay for that future work. We originally was for a DEI, but we haven't hired one of those yet. So, that leaves that money in ESSER to to do those kinds of equity uh projects. I think is there one more slide, Brian? That might be it. Oh, yeah. The budget update. We're going to talk about that tonight. So, I won't spend a lot of time on that. Uh uh and Brian's going to Yeah,
062the local budgets are in development phase, but Brian will go over with Eds here tonight uh where we are. But as always, uh the state numbers will trickle in this month. The final CLA equalized pupil and and student yield. Uh we've got some tenative numbers, but nothing final. So, we will have to have one more meeting right after the holidays to finalize our budget, look at that tax rate. And tonight, hopefully we can have some conversations about um you know, how we might want to allocate that surplus. But that'll be we'll have more serious conversations about that when we know what the tax sheet looks like. So, that being said, I think I'm done. If you don't have any questions, then we'd be ready to move on. Actually, I do have one question. um positive.
063So weated vaccine what's being done about staff. Yeah, you know that's a good question and I almost brought that up at the SU meeting last night. Um because right now our mandate was for fully vaccinated first dose second dose for Madna and FISA and then the one dose for J&J. So, we haven't really done that yet. Uh, but I think we can talk about that at at maybe January's SU meeting. What what I've heard is that most of our staff from just anecdotal data is getting the booster shot. You know, I mean, it's being encouraged. Um, but uh we have not. That's a great question, J. I almost brought it up last night and forgot about it. Okay, we'll bring it up in January. Um, and thank you Jackie for all your hard work on
064the uh teacher negotiations. Um, I know you and Bill Yates and Scott Richardson put a lot of hard work into that. Appreciate it. Um, okay. Up next we have uh items for discussion and the first is an athletic update. And I think I saw Jessica is on the call. Jessica, do you want to take it from here? I'm here. Can everybody hear? Great. So, just want a quick update. I'll be super quick. We have started practices for 78 girls basketball and it's going really well so far. Uh, knock on wood, everybody's following the rules and and the mandates, which is nice to see. Our 78 boys team didn't quite have enough numbers. So, we've partnered with Windsor to get them opportunity to practice with Windsor and they're actually practicing with the JV team, which is
065really good considering we've lost a year of practices, which is really nice. Um, our K through six practices will begin in January. As we've discussed before, our numbers are a little bit low, I think, for a multitude of reasons, but one of them might be COVID. Um, so we are looking to go co-ed for 3, four, and 56. Um, other than that, that's our update for basketball. We are continuing with no spectators and masks required for once we forever, but once we get into January and then we'll re-evaluate that if we need to. Um, if things are going really well, as David Baker said before, we might start to allow some spectators with limited numbers, limited capacity for games, but we're going to try to figure out how to stream so that families will have
066the opportunity to watch their student athletes play once we get once we begin games. I also wanted to give everybody a quick update, and I know I've sent it to BJ and it's been sent around before, is that Ski Vermont offers a a fifth grade passport. And I know that some people are familiar, but some might not be. But they're also offering it to sixth graders this year, too, which is a great a great way to get a few more kids interested in skiing. It's $20 for tickets over 20, I think, resorts for Alpine and Nordic. So, skivermont.com will have information on that, but I just wanted to say that one more time in case folks are interested in learning about skiing. [Music] Thank you, Jessica. Does anyone have any questions for Jessica? Um, all
067right. Next up, we have um the FY23 budget. Okay. So, open that up. Everybody see that? Okay. Or you need to make it bigger. It's not on the It's thinking there for a second. It's thinking on the big screen. So, we don't need to pass the budget tonight, David. We're No, you don't know when the next meeting. Yeah. Thanks. So, that's good because we just got it today. So, exactly. That's my fault. I'm sorry. I thought I sent it to you guys earlier. So, I I take ownership for that one. Um, so our FY23 budget is the one that we presented last time at our November 9th meeting. And so that's the one that's highlighted in yellow for that column. And so that has our wages, benefits, and then this is with the recommendations from
068the BAC. And what the recommendations were was adding the world language teacher and then also the two PAR positions that we had from past years to put those back into the budget. um we were unable to fill those positions once people vacated them right at the start or right before the school year started and so we had taken those out and so the um BAC suggested that we put those back in. Um so if we wanted those conditions again we had them. So that's the difference in that where you see that the wages and the benefits went up. Everything else right now is exactly the same because we're waiting for the final numbers um from the town to be able to go there with the um the tax rates. So I'm just having a little
069hard time reading the right where it says the percentage increase. So 4.21% is what the new percentage increases and the original budget presented before was 1.61. I think I can actually I can make it bigger now. Came up. This is the same as what you sent us earlier today, right? Correct. Yeah, this is the exact one that I just sent you earlier today. And I apologize. I thought I said that earlier. And the difference, just to repeat, is the foreign language foreign language and the parap possessions with wages and benefits. That's the world language teacher. What that's for a full-time position and it's an average salary based on so that we're we're hit with Could be bigger. You probably been a at least three years without one, right? Um, no, it's just two years, right?
070Two years. I'm just trying to remember when we when when stopped was the year after fall of 2020 was the time. So, we're working on our second year. So, and just trying to get somebody is is going to be a challenge. I mean trying to get somebody to Yeah. Yeah. Who's got that? Especially in this condition, you know. Although people want to come to Yeah, they people do. Wow. I love it, you know. So that's what the far away. Still trying to drag people from California here. So working on it, telling you. So So I think I think one of the things tonight, we don't have to spend a lot of time on this because we don't need to make decisions certainly until that next meeting. And and again, it's here. He'll get that tax
071information as it comes in. Then he does his magic with that worksheet. And uh there are things you're still waiting on, Ed. Um so there'll be a few things that'll change. Some uh the uh teachers retirement fund is um has a bunch of mechanisms to offset the million deficit in there. So for instance, if you're teacher that was hired after 2014, every year the schools have to augment their retirement with about 1350 bucks. So the number it goes up every year. So I haven't gotten that number yet. So I'm going to update that. Um I have we have the old number in here now. So it won't be like a huge difference. No, it won't be. It'll be 20 bucks. But those are the kind of things that I'm waiting for. It's not just the
072numbers to calculate the tax rate. There's some numbers that are part of uh figuring out benefits and things like that that will be in there. Hey, did you want to talk just for a second? I'm sorry. Were you done? Okay. Um because I don't know that the board realizes that uh because I I I didn't completely but that state special education or that state ed the money came in it was late right it just came in about a month ago which did alter the surplus situation in Weathersfield because I'm I'm not sure I I don't from the time that I uh in the last I gave numbers for uh fourth quarter of FY21 essentially your year end balance and uh the new year end balance is uh 275,000 $568.89 89 cents and it it changed
073a little bit because uh the end of every year I have to submit a report the final report to special eda special ed department and then they take that report and they calculate what we get back reimbursements and we only got the reimbursements for FY21 about two weeks ago. So when I presented it to you in September or or June, um the F21 numbers, it was an estimate of what that would be. When I got the numbers back from the state, it was a little bit more than more than what I had estimated. So you did change the balance here. And now is that the figure that we can apply this coming year or is that the Yeah, that is you could either take that money and you could uh put it towards tax relief
074or you could use it uh sometimes you put it into capital reserve. I think we as a board made a decision. I mean I guess we could change our minds but previously we made a decision to give that back to the taxpayers. So but I guess it's up to the to decide this one. Yeah, if you still feel resolved about that, then you know that's part of when Ed calculates the tax rate. He can figure that he can put that in the revenue column and then everything will flow from there. Ask a question. Does that rate the total up there that it's increased to, does that include the rate, new raises of the teachers? It includes uh my estimate, which is pretty close. I haven't put the uh new um salary grids in yet. We
075just got them, but I'll do that as well. I'm just curious. Yeah. Um, how are we doing with uh our tuition, our high school tuition numbers? Um, just trying to see. Uh, so I know that this year's eighth grade class is on the smaller side. Correct. A little bit. 23. Um, how does that balance out with the ones that are graduating? Graduating. It's about the same. There's only one or two difference. Oh, is it? Yeah. It's not much. So, it's going to be approximately last year. Have we gotten any um like rates from our schools that we send to? Uh your announced tuitions? Yeah. Uh yeah, we're starting to get some. Are they? They're relative. They're right around what my estimates were. Okay. Does anyone else have any questions concerning the budget? I think we
076should, you know, my only comment would be that when we set our agenda for January, I don't even have the date in front of me, but that that we should probably, you know, carve out a good chunk of time to finalize, talk about tax rates, and we've even we've even begun sort of preliminary discussion about how you're going to present the budget and those kinds of things. I would like to definitely invite the BAC to be at our next meeting. That would be nice. Yeah. Um those who can come, I'm sure they'll be willing. Yeah. Even if it's just online. Yeah. I guess we all need to kind of look over and digest it a little bit, but very much. Yeah. And thank you to the BIC for all their hard work. Um definitely take
077your suggestions into account and um think about them and uh about budget and figure out what we feel is best for the school and for the taxpayers of other students. Um, up next we have items for action which um the only thing I have on the list is to ratify the three years contract. Is there anything else that we need to No, I think that's it for items uh for action and um are you ready to just talk about that now? Yeah. The contract. Yeah. So, I think the good news on the contract side and Jack, you certainly if I if I leave anything out, let me let me know. We worked we worked for uh probably six months, you know, throughout actually throughout the summer. I mean, it was kind of an interesting negotiations,
078but we we got there. I think the good news is we did get a three-year contract uh which would include uh 2122 which is this year, 2223 which is next year and 23 24 which is the year uh afterwards. And uh the total new money increase which doesn't mean this is what everybody's salary increase is but it's new money to our districts was 3.7%. Uh, and then the second year 3 6% and then no the other way around 3.6% 3.7% 3.7%. Um and I think on top of that uh the other big change um was that uh there was a very inequitable uh matching annuity at Hartland and so there was some agreement as a compromise that we would start offering a match up to 1% of a person's gross salary out of 50 cents
079to every dollar that the employee puts in. we would put in uh 50 cents and um and then the H Heartland teachers who who had a 2% match they uh they agreed that those who had the 2% match will be grandfathered but everybody after that even Hartland will only get the 1% match. So it sounded fair it sounded equitable uh as we move forward. Jackie, did you want to comment on that? Yeah, I think it's important to say that uh we are the only other school district other than that. So that's huge. So if you couldn't hear Jackie, what you said was there are only two districts certainly in our region, Hartford and now Windsor Southeast that offer an annuity match by the employer. And what we were trying to do, and the board was
080committed to this, is attract and keep, you know, teachers, treat the ones we have well, but also be attractive. Right now, we know the employment scene is competitive. And so that was just a way our base is going to go up a little bit. But more importantly, I think we'll be able to uh to tell new teachers that are interviewing with us that look, we do have an annuity match, you know, and that can, you know, 25 30 years of an annuity can really pay off for retirement later on down the road. So I I think the board really worked hard. There were a couple of other articles where it was just grammatical changes and uh and some spelling. For example, one part our introduc our introduction to the uh to the contract talks about
081four school districts. So, it goes back to when we when we were four school districts. We just changed four to three. So, little things like that, but I think the big the big pieces with the three-year contract percentage increases and the 1% annuity management. I think people I think people deserve a lot of credit for the work they they put into that. Mark has his hand. Mark, go ahead. Would anybody like to address the changes in step for the public in That's a good point, Mark, because at the beginning of negotiations, uh, one of the things that the board was feeling strongly is that the there were too many steps. Number one, that takes a young teacher too long to get to that top step. But also, uh, those top steps were starting to get
082unsustainable. And I know that Jackie used that often in negotiations that we need to be able to sustain these salaries. So in uh in trade for that 3 uh 6 3.7 3.7 each of the two years, not this year but next year we lock off two of those bottom steps and the third year we lock off two more. So right now we have 27 steps. Next year uh we'll have 25 steps and then the year after we'll have 23 steps. Uh so that makes that right hand corner the top kind of compresses it a little bit and uh and I think that was also that was that was sort of hard for it but I think it was a win-win for both teachers and the boards. Thanks for bringing that up Mark. And and the
083reason for that was to be able to offer new teachers Exactly. more money. A more competitive starting salary. Thank you, Jackie. And everyone else involved. So, I'm sorry if they're on. So, I just wanted to say that um with the uh the savings plan at the meeting last night, it was mentioned that um younger teachers uh when they pay towards their student loans, we will we will match into their retirement funds. Yeah. At half half of what they pay on their student loans up to a certain%. Right. Right now, we're we're waiting for federal legislation that would allow us to take that 1% match actually and instead of putting into annuity, actually start paying off student loans because the federal government's going to allow you to transfer the annuity monies like that. Uh but they
084haven't adopted that yet, but if they do, there's nothing stopping us now from doing that. So, that'll be another benefit for young teachers. Yes. So, thank you very much because I think you did a lot to help uh attract new teachers to our district because what we want to do attract good new teachers to our district also keep our old ones but goodies as well. Yep. Um All right. Uh, so I guess um does anyone want to make a motion to uh ratify the teacher contract? And I'm not sure exactly how we should word that D. Yeah, I think that's it. I think the motion would be to ratify uh the uh contract, the teachers contract for the years uh 2122 22 23 and 23 24 as presented by the negotiating team. I don't know
085if you got that, Becky, but that sounds like it would be what we need to say. Mark, may I make that motion? You may. Thank you. I'll second. This is Kristen. Got it first. You got to be in person. Yeah. Darn. Okay. Um so, uh Dave, do I need to take a roll call on Yeah, you probably probably should. We'll do a roll call on this vote. Okay. And we'll start off with Jackie. Jackie says I. Jamie. I. Jamie says I Kristen I and Mark I and I also say hi. So that's unanimous. Yeah, good work. Thank you everybody who works so hard on this and thank you to the teachers as well. I think we came up with an agreement that everybody can be a little bit happy with. Yeah. And Becky, did you
086get you got that motion, Becky? Yes, I got to um make a motion to ratify the teachers contract for the years 2022 2122 22 23 23 24 as presented by the negotiating team. Perfect. Does that sound good? Well done. All right. Um, we need to set the next agenda which, um, let me just look at my calendar. Yeah, let's look at the date. Um, would be, uh, January 12th, right? No. Sorry, I'm on the wrong here. 11th. I was in 2021. Okay. The 11th. Is everybody good with that? That work for everybody? I think that'll be early enough, especially if all our reports are written, you know, to basically get All right. So, our next meeting will be January 11th at 6 p.m. And um the major item for discussion will be the FY23 budget.
087And we'd like to have the BAC here along with Ed. Yes. you'll take care of inviting the VA. I don't know if you think I'll I'll ask him. I I think you can be sure. Ed's done most of the work on the local budget. Any food before we start next time? We'll see. Um you and I will bring dessert. Okay. Uh, does anyone else have anything that we I don't think we can know the athletics update. Um, I know we were supposed to um DJ, did you ever get the Hicks Nichols committee the listing of um when they all their terms expire? Okay. So on the last meeting uh the meeting when they were assign nominated to or um you guys voted on the committee, it was I watched the um board um taping on
088that and so it said Sean had said that the committee will decide what their term limit should be. Oh, so they've got to work that out. Yes. So I've informed Diana Stilson that and she's working on it. Okay. Awesome. And they're going to meet again after the holidays. Okay. All right. So that's taken care of. Um, anything else? So, what do you have on You got the budget obviously, which will be a good part of the night. Um, I can't think of anything other than again the usual presentations. Yeah. Think of anything. Yeah. I think that's good though to have it dedicated to budget. Okay. And can you please get the budget immediately? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. very difficult to ask the question. Do you have I know the other part though the only change
089was just that one section. So yeah. Yeah. Do do you have um Yeah. Last time. Yeah. So if Ed can give us any of the other stuff like the Friday the Friday before our meeting so if we can have it so then that way we can all have the weekend to look. 10 date 9. So if you if everybody can have any information. So you'll have the tax worksheet, the tax rate, the you know. Yeah. And then and then the detail and that little summary. It'd be awful close to getting those figures. So don't be alarmed if he doesn't have because it's it happens around the 12th to 15th really January. Sometime depends on the legisl. Yeah. And it's always a projection, right? Because the legislature halfway through the legislative season could could change it.
090But I think we'll have enough that we'll be able to make a decision that night and at least vote on an expenditure budget. That's what you really want me to do. But we'll get it out of anything else. We can always add it on. It's just all Okay. Um do we need any executive session? Was there is there any new I think we're good. All right. Uh, I guess I'll take a motion to adjourn. It's like the quickest meeting ever. I'm working on a new record. You are. You definitely have a record for the Yes, you I guess nobody's going to make a motion. Nobody wants to go. I think Jamie just made it. Jamie made the motion to adjourn. Do I have a second? Jackie. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. Good
091night everybody. Thank you. Good night. Happy holidays everybody. Happy holidays.