001recording. We are okay. We'll call the Arlington School Board meeting to order at 5:30. First item on our agenda tonight is public comments. Have any public in the room? Have any online not? See anybody? No, it's just me and Kendall. >> Kendall are with us. >> Okay. All right. Next is the consent agenda, which is our minutes, warrants, retirements, resignations, salations. I will read them into uh the record minutes. We have the November 12th and October 8th meetings. Uh they are in the packet. Warrants are in there. Retirements, we have none. do have one resignation or separation that is Lori Vistasio, our school nurse. We have no nominations and no field trips. Chair would entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented. >> Made by Perry, seconded by Dan. Discussion. >> Do we
002have an RN on staff? Lori leaves. >> He's staying in Latin here. >> Okay. But after next year, >> so we'll have to open up. >> Okay. Because we have to have one RN between two buildings and Aaron is still here. >> Aaron is still here. She's Lory's on a prorated schedule right now. So right now Aaron is our two days a week and Lorie is in three days a week. >> Okay. Aaron's technically in our end, but we set as a student. >> Okay. >> During her nine or two days. >> Okay. >> Didn't know if she had gotten. >> Yeah. >> Any other discussion? >> All those in favor? >> I I >> I. Next we have finance which is our FY27 budget update. We do have ARM copies here for those who
003wish to have them. >> So I am trying to share my screen. Is that working on your end? >> Yes. >> Great. Um so good evening. Um nice to see everybody virtually. what I am um going to present tonight a little bit different than what we've done before, but I just wanted to go over what is um in front of you printed tonight. We have the first five pages of what was posted um with the meeting warning. So, it's our budgets, our budget by category, which is showing us three years of actuals, the current year's approved budget, and then the proposed FY27 budget for next year. The second page is just kind of a highlights um showing you the biggest kind of cost drivers and changes in this budget that you have before you. That
004third page is your FTEES which I will um share in just a moment. Uh then we have revenues and then tax rate calculations. So in uh the packet online uh there's a lot more information. We have the budget broken down also by function or department. um we kind of break it down by both with um all of the um so it's by department and then also with by category and I also had a separate file in there which is the line by line detail. So to get us started um what I have here is page one. So that should be matching um what you have in front of you. Uh this draft of the budget does have uh factors included um for salary adjustments. We know that our collective bargaining agreements are currently uh being
005negotiated. So we do have factors. And for that the budget does include all of your current FTEES um with the addition of a an additional 0.2 FTE for an elementary reading teacher. So if you recall, we added a 0.2 2 at the beginning of this year um due to some reduced funding at the federal level. Um in preparation that that might happen again, we added another.2 um so it's a a 1.4 uh total FTE in your local budget for reading teachers. sit down. >> This budget also um includes transitioning the current nurse at the high school from an LPN or what's on the support staff contract to on the teacher contract, which would be um a a licensed educator's um basically putting them on on the teacher scale. So that does include that transition um
006in this budget that you have before you. So, those are some of your um biggest cost drivers in that salary line. Benefits. Um we're looking at about an 8% increase in health insurance rates. Uh we just received word last week that while our dental rates have been flat for the last couple of years, um they have proposed an 8% increase on those premiums as well. Um I am hoping to get some more information on the dental this week. um if they're going to refine that number at all. And then also we received some information at a meeting last Friday that um while the uh health insurance rates have been proposed, they are currently being reviewed by the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation, there has been some back and forth um between uh DFR, so the
007Department of Federal Regulation and VIH. So VHI is the Vermont Education Health Initiative, which is part of um Vermont School Board insur Insurance Trust. So they're basically our insurer. They um feel pretty comfortable and confident in the the back and forth that's been happening. Um and I'm hoping that we get a little bit better information on that to see if if they're going to refine those um those proposed rates at all. Um this is my 10th budget cycle um being in this role and I haven't seen a year yet when DFR actually pushes back on VHI to change the rates that they've proposed. But you never know. So if we do have any more information that will allow me to refine any of these numbers when we get ready to look at the next draft
008draft, I will certainly do that. Um, another thing to mention on the benefits line is that the Vermont Municipal Employees Retirement System contributions will be going up another quarter of a percent next year. So, that has been factored in. And I've also reduced um by 5% what we're budgeting for health reimbursement arrangement contributions. So, this does not impact what anybody has access to. It's simply what I'm budgeting for. Um, we have enough years kind of under our belts with these with these plans now to see what our our usage or the demand is on those HRAs. Um, we're seeing that typically we're around 70. Some districts are a little bit more in the upper 70s um 70 percentage rates I should say. And um, I felt pretty comfortable with what we've seen in the trajectory
009over the last couple of years. So to pull that budget um down from 75% down to 70 and this budget to try to save a a little bit of money. >> How much does that add up to just out of curiosity? >> Oh, I could get you the number, but I couldn't tell you off the top of my head. Um you know, it depends on the classification of employees. So support staff, if they're on a single plan, they get 1,900. Um actually, no, I take that back. 2,200 and 4,4400 for a family plan. The professional staff get 1,900 for a single and anything beyond that 4,000. So, I'm only budgeting 70% of what that actual exposure is. Um, all right. So, I I told you about the municipal retirement. So if we look down um
010the next line that has an increase that's not um just level funded is the operations budget. What you're seeing there is u health not health insurance excuse me our property and liability insurance rates. Um so adjustments to those and then some small adjustments to uh rates for things like uh rubbish removal uh pest control utilities um things of that nature. So, small small adjustments there. On line six, tuition. Um, this is really just a placeholder at this point for Southwest Tech. Um, they have not announced their tuition yet. And I was going to say that we were waiting on the FTE file from u the agency of education, but that just came out about 20 minutes ago. So once we have announced tuition from Southwest Tech, I will be able to refine um that budget
011there. And then the $5,500 increase you're seeing on the supply line um is just an adjustment for athletics. Everything else has been level funded. Um and then the other line you're seeing with a an increase is the assessments. So, this is based on draft two um of the SPSU budget, which is a 2.5% increase overall. And I can tell you for Arlington, almost all of your assessments are decreases except for special education. So, in the current year, um you had a pretty significant fund balance on special education, which kind of artificially deflated your assessment for the current year. So, we used that up. Um, and there's only about a $20,000 fund balance available to be used next year. So, that's why that's bouncing back up. So, that is um kind of all told the the
012expenditure drivers. Um, as I mentioned before, your FTEES, this is uh the budget before you includes all of your current um positions with the addition I have highlighted there of an additional 2 reading teacher. Um, and we look at revenues. The adjustments that I've made to tuition are mainly based on what I know right now. Um, and the students that we have uh, tuitioning in. The prek number for next year is just assuming a um, three incoming. Um Deianne, if you have any better intel on that, I can certainly refine that number if you know that there are going to be more than three, but it's just a placeholder at this point. Um the incoming elementary tuition, I have uh 19 students at the current tuition rate, but I've also bumped that up 5%. Um
013in the coming weeks, we will be refining and announcing what our tuition is going to be. Um, and it it's it's based on many things. It's based on what our protected budget is, but also student counts. So things there's a lot of moving parts at the present time. So at this point, I've just kind of blanketed a 5% increase for both the elementary and secondary tuition. Um, so again on the elementary side, that is uh 19 K to6 students incoming with a 5% increase. And then that uh secondary, we have 21 incoming or tuitioning in students grades 7 to 12 for next year that we know of at this present time. >> How many did you say for elementary? Again, I missed that. No, >> 19. >> Thank you. >> Three of those were going
014to be sixth graders at um at the high school, but they still count as elementary tuition. Um and then we have a drop in our fund balance. So um that's a you know a driver on this budget as well. But then I have highlighted there the education funding line. Now this as I you know mentioned every year this is the really important thing to look at because this is what we are asking the education fund to give us back. like that's what we need from the education fund to run our schools. So we take all of the other incoming revenue out of it and that's what we have left. So as you can see that's a 12.4% increase. So it's actually higher than what the overall budget increase is. So that is um something to
015to just keep in the back of your mind as we roll through a couple of more slides here. Um just a couple of graphs really quickly to show you kind of trending across the SU um Arlington ADM. So that's our average daily membership. This number factors into our long-term weighted average daily membership, which is one of the pieces of the puzzle of getting to our tax rate calculations. So, um, Arlington's kind of on the decline. Uh, San Gate's kind of bopping up and down. The other districts within the SSU are trending downward as well. So to summarize the budget that you have before you draft one overall expenditure budget of 10.6 million about an 8.8% increase your education spending um is about a 12.4% increase which we just looked at on the revenue long-term weighted
016ADM. This number is a little bit different than what you have in your packet because I I did want to provide you with the most updated information I had. However, when I put this together, we have since received two more versions of long-term weighted AVM. It it literally is changing every day. So, this number is a little bit higher. Um, version 8 just came out again about 20 minutes ago. Um, the numbers are ticking up a little bit more, so that's a good thing. Um but when we compare that to where we are for the current year, um it's still a significant drop. And this is really going to be the the big hurdle to overcome with this budget because these numbers are are heading um in that downward direction as as we're seeing across
017the state, right? So what does that mean? Um, with that version of the budget and that uh long-term weighted EDM, which is version six, the estimated tax rate is 206. Um, current is 162. So, that's a pretty significant tax rate increase of about 27%. Um, now to give you a little context, um, if we were to completely level fund this budget, so we were going to wipe out $865,000 whether on the expenditure side or somehow increasing revenue. So 865,000 that is going to drop that tax increase to 25 cents um and be still be about a 15.5% increase if we were to wipe out um the increase to education spending. So that's a little over a million dollar. That's only going to drop that tax rate increase to 21 cents. still be about 13% increase.
018And then just out of, you know, a ballpark, I was like, "Oh, well, what, you know, 1.5 million. What does that look like?" That only gets you to an 11 12 cent tax increase. So, it's major major dollars because of the decline in the student population is what's driving this. I mean, of course, along with increased expenditures and fewer uh revenue dollars coming in. And just one other piece to um kind of share, at least with this draft of the budget, a penny on the tax rate is about $46,000 equivalent. So, that is what I have for you tonight. I'm happy to answer any questions or if you have any feedback for us. um toss it back to you >> because all I can do right now is laugh. That's it. >> If I I'll
019add some context for state. I sat in three different meetings today before 12:00. Most of them attended by superintendants there. And Renee has been very patient because the as she said the the state is now on its eighth version of the weighted student count. And that is a concern up and down the state. Everybody is puzzled as to why the numbers drop so dramatically. And so um just to let you know that we are not the only communities wrestling with this. I heard some very pointed feedback from some very experienced veteran superintendents who are like, "What is going on here?" So, quite frankly, it's absurd that you drop 41 ADM when your population doesn't change that much. >> Yeah. >> You know, it I literally feel like they're making numbers up as opposed to using
020data. They're going to >> the poverty Yeah. poverty numbers. Um, we've been told that the feds changed what qualifies for poverty. So, they they raised that bar. So, families that may have been on the cusp of being what used to be reduced lunch perhaps have fallen off, fewer families qualifying for Medicare, Medicaid. Um, so those are all things that are working against us essentially. >> Trying to explain that to the public is not going to be easy because they're going to look at what do you mean we lost 41 students? We did students. >> Yeah, they're definitely Yeah, that's harder to explain to folks. But you can also share the entire state has gone back. I mean Rene has already done this made everybody go back and count the numbers again but up and down
021the state that's everybody had the same reaction. Oh my god, what' we do? We didn't count the numbers when they went back and the numbers are square. But now we're hearing back that well we've changed the classifications and guess what you're going to have learning here. Well, at the end of the day, we have to cover my opinion and it's going to burn a question about it. We can't present, in my opinion, we can't present $850,000 increase and then say, "Hey, by the way, your tax 44 cents per vi because for some people that is a that's a $1,000 increase in your taxes. So, we can only control what we can control. And we're not saying we're going to go, but we have to be prepared to those sugar. I just don't understand why I
022don't it's nothing that we hear, but it's it's got to some of this has to come from income based. Can't just keep going off property taxes, right? I don't see what's taking so long. Everybody has to know that. >> Well, they haven't made that change for us yet. >> No, I think we did I did start to hear a consistent request from superintendent today and I share that is how we fund schools. We got to go back and look at that because you you have to give communities some stability. like it's not it's not anywhere realistic to ask folks to take a 41% increase a 25% increase and the governor has come out and said it's going to be an average of 12% and that's sent scramble through it too. So I don't know what
023they'll that was the feedback to the elected officials who were brave enough to sit with us today but that's what our ask was for. You've got to got to even out this pace or else we don't know how communities are continue to support us legal budget. No one offered an answer in that session. I mean can't help to feel a lot of this is political but conversation for here. So what we can do for now is to start a plan as identifying areas that we can cut to the best of our ability without completely destroying education. Renee and I talked about and we this is not the only board that's going to have this conversation and offer you that what we offered as first steps was um any asks any additional asks that you put
024on the table talking to the principal and saying all right should we take those off the table's already you know had our conversation with this the other piece I would encourage is that any position where you have a resignation or retirement that you pause and have a really good convers conversation with your staff and your principal about do we need to replace this because attrition would be it would be a more desirable pathway than to have to have those conversations of eliminating position a lot easier. Yeah, absolutely. And the SPSU Renee and I in preparation for these we have three board meetings this week. The SU Renee correct me if I'm wrong about 300 teachers across the district. On average, it's between 25 and 30 teachers will retire or move to another position this year
025about 10% which is pretty much the average for the state. So there are opportunities. Now will it be the same percentage in every building? I can't tell you that. But that is an avenue that we could pursue. We know someone's going to leave. We know someone's going to retire. We could put that on the ledger on a side to to help us a little bit. >> Yeah. I think I I mean at this point I think almost everything's on the table. I think um I think there has to we have to have conversations about our current structure. We have to have conversations with our special ed directors, associate directors to find out because you know we we're looking at potentially a $200,000 increase in special ed spend. Is there ways that we can cut there
026to help alleviate that? Now I don't know the answer to that. The answer could be absolutely not based on our student population and needs. But I think we have to look at everything going to cut this. Now I can walk into town meeting say hey it's going to be a whatever a 25cent increase in your taxes and show them that the only thing we have control over is this budget. But I can't walk in there and say we have a 40% increase in taxes and we're asking for $850,000 more because they'll pitchforks and and the flames will come out at that point. So, you know, we can I can straight face increases, but it's outside our our control. Can't straight face increases when we have some control. Now, I'm not saying you have to cut
027all $854,000 over that increase because I'm still hopeful that maybe on the fifth or sixth try that they'll increase our ADF or, you know, or the the legislators will do the right thing and put money into the ed fund which will increase the tax shield, you know, and those tax rates will drop. That's what's normally happened for the last how many years. On the surface, I have to the best that we can. And when I say structure, I mean administrative structure. Like those conversations have to be thought well everything. And we got to do what we can not to affect education, but it's going to affect education. No matter what, any changes you make here are going to affect education. But you have to look at that. Do you want to talk dollar amount or
028do you want to talk penny? Like do you want to say to me cut x number of dollars or do you want me to cut pennies which I can convert to dollars? Like no fact I think you want to look at dollars dollars. If we focus on pennies in order to get I mean few level fund are at 25 cents which still sucks bad. >> Renee we talked a little bit about this. So the school budget is up 8%. Would that be a good place to go and say, look, if we if we take the the budget down to a zero%. Your ed spending is still going to be in the positive. It's going to I know it's not a percentage for percentage, but if you take down uh that might be a good place
029to start first. Let's see if we didn't grow the local school budget by anything. It just took a zero and then we can Renee can calculate that. Deian and I can have conversations about how to get to that and we can tell you how that although Rene did give us a little bit. It's not going to be your saving grace, but it can at least tell you where you're going to land as far as spending and your tax increase. >> Yeah. I mean, I think that's an overall goal. I'm not saying we're going to get there. It's my opinion because but if you look at this like if you I'm just throwing this out hypothetically like if you can call 100,000 special education and that's that's 100,000 that doesn't come out general education you have
030to look at we we have three administrators for two schools is that really the model that we need it maybe I you know I don't know just saying look at everything that's that has less of effect on education than cutting we're cutting two English teachers right you know obviously we're not going to do that we don't have that many English teachers but those types of things and then bring then the board has to in a workshop decide what's what we can do without with your input obviously you can look at us be like we can do this but it's going to hurt bad it's going to s you know and we put that back but identif finding something close to that I think is half that we have to be prepared for and meanwhile hope
031that things change to stay a little bit too and and I would also say this prioritize like these are the things we can do without these are the things that we could manage without but would not would not be good for the school also um you and I have talked about this when the legislature buys down a tax rate. You know, last year we heard that again this morning, they spent over hund00 million from other funds to help lessen the tax burden. The tradeoff for that is the next year you start whole. And I'm a little concerned because it's it's appealing for the legislative process, but talking to elected officials who were surprised that we are now standing in a hole. I I Yeah. So if folks are going to write an email and say
032please or a phone call to their rep saying please buy down the tax rate just know that that has a that it helps you in the immediate it hurts you in the long term. >> Well we have this conversation every year because we have traditionally never used our surplus funds back toward our budget because of that exact reason. We traditionally have taken our surplus funds and put them into our sync gate funds, but because of the volatility of everything for so many years, you know, with CLA's and the tax deal going down and the changes, we have opted to use that. And every year I do it, it makes me cringe for that exact reason. Yeah. And this year, we're kind of we're kind of taking a little bit of that because our projected or
033buses are are less than we anticipated, which is a known thing. And I agree with you 100%. I'm never a big fan of this legislature doing that, but they almost need to do it till they come up with a better tax plan. You know, they have to come up with a better tax plan. And I'm not saying they have to do it all, but every little bit helps the taxpayer. And I'm also the other piece of this, I'm in full transparency, like I'm not shocked. we kind of knew that this was a potential moving forward instead because we've actually been pretty good for a long time of having good tax rates uh and those types of things. You know, if you really look back like 10 years, you know, our tax rates go up to
034$160,$165 and then we get them back down to $144. So there's been es and flows and uh we knew at some point there was going to likely be a large increase. Didn't expect it to be this large group. >> Just have to do what we can what we have control over. That's just the budget. >> So just to be clear, you mind me to start with the 865,000. >> Yeah. I don't think going below what our current budget is is tells you not to be. I mean, I'm sure I'm now you saying we're going to get the 850,000 because it's going to be very very difficult. The other piece like I don't know what you budgeted for for raises, anything like that. You know, I take a look at that. That is not something we
035talk about public session. But yeah, those those are conversations that negotiating team can have with you so you know where we're at those types of things. And I know we might be taking a little bit of a gamble there because it's not settled yet. But maybe a gamble we have to take, >> right? And and I've got two years in this one, right? So we don't know where we're going to land this year and I'm trying to budget for next year on top of it. So yeah, definitely a lot of moving parts. So and I know that those may not be huge numbers, but every $46,000 helps. So our marching orders is to come back to you with a budget that was at instead of eight and a half is a zero reasonably close. You
036know, if you could get half a million from that, we've we've made strides, right? >> Absolutely. You prioritize it too. So that >> I'll give you 865 and I'll prioritize it. I mean we've been here before, right? Then you go not this, this, not that, that >> I would love to sit, you know, I'd love to sit here and go, hey, I'll try not to your salary too much. >> Clarification. Does that conversation happen in public or is that a side budget conversation? We we so normally what happens from here um is we'll do another budget meeting. You all come with potential cuts prioritized. The only thing that we don't discuss here in public is anything that's going to affect an employee potentially. So if you said I'm going to cut I'm going to cut
037all four janitors. We know it's not going to custom. If we're going to call four custodians, we can't talk about that. We go in there and we just say staffing cut here. Yeah. We don't talk about specific anything's going to affect the person here. Fortunately, we'll probably be talking about some things in the accepting session to know how you cut that much money without offending personnel because that's our number one expense. by huge amounts of money. You know, you look at what is it just in salary and benefits that is 7.5 million out of $10 million. I'm super good at math basically selling frame right where you're supposed to be. But that's right where right rene most budgets 70 to 80% is going to be salary and benefit. That's right. You're right there where you
038need it. >> Anything else with finance? >> Press great news. I know we're kind of picking it back up. >> When will you do when will that next meeting I just How long have >> uh I'm going to have a phone call with chairs because we're going to attempt we have the window for meetings is between January 5th and January 22nd. And we want to get them in earlier probably so that everybody can have a second meeting should they need. So I should have a calendar worked out this week. I just need to get all the chairs in one phone or I need to contact all the chairs. I'll make sure that happens. >> Say you can thank your vacation. >> Yeah. Just so you know, warnings have to be posted between January 22nd and
039February 1st. So that's the window that we have to have everything warned and then to the clerk. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Uh next we have policies. We haven't done. Next we have operations. Asked for this to be put on there because Jamie, if you all right remember Jamie came to us about improving some lighting and a small building over the electric bus plugging station. in your packet. Those are two bids he received. Sign them. We have one bid from Mike McDermott Construction LLC. $4,000 Baker Construction. That is for $6,400. Don't touch any of that questions. We don't remember it. If you ask the bus drivers, they absolutely definitely money and planning. It's fun. project thing. You did have that come out with a separate motion for us to approve that for sure. Look at
040it. Pleasure of the board. Take a motion. We accepting bid for $4,000 from Mike or 65. >> Is that a motion from you, Dan? >> Second from me. Motion made by Dan, seconded by uh Terry to accept the bid from Mike Durmont Construction LLC for the amount of $4,000. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Okay. Next is a principal report to clarify for the chair. There was a second there was electrical work in there as well. I didn't know if I know the recommendation it says just with clarification Randy Noatne Electrical Services only because there's another uh bit at the bottom that says electrical installation for uh total of 5850. Bring the total cost of the project to $10,000. >> Yeah. Flashlight words. >> Yeah. Second make a motion to withdraw the
041motion. Yeah. >> Okay. Dan made a motion to withdraw the prior. You second that, Terry. >> Second it. >> Any discussion on that? I'll just put it out there because it looks like the total project cost is going to be 98 $9,850 for that which is a lot of money for the light seen in planes or anything for >> I'm wondering about electrical they they can't do the electrical >> I didn't have that >> like a slight drawing would that be helpful yeah Applause. We're going to pause. I think for now I'm sorry. We have a motion on the table. All those in favor. >> I just think we need to see something. It's 10,000 bucks. >> I'm sorry. You It was cut out just a little bit. Is it You're withdrawing the motion for
042the entire project. >> Yep. >> Okay. Thank you. I just want I think we need more information like what is this like how big is this building kind of electrical work it just seems $10,000 at lights you can see something has seems a little bit ridiculous so um just need to dig into it more happy to go back and ask for more information Next question. >> Thank you for catching that. >> I have one correction from last meeting. I gave you the all lead information and I um misspoke and Tobias and David were named the cross country all league, not track all week. And I was asked to clarify that. So I am clarifying my mistake. Um, but December 1st, uh, all winter sports have begun for the winter season. Uh, we are off and
043running. Boys had their home opener. Middle school was playing today. And there's an entire week of events this week, including our rescheduled, um, concert after last Wednesday's storm. The, uh, coral and history concert will now be one night together in in the gym. Um uh the high school is halfway through the second quarter and we are preparing uh for midterm exams in January. Um with all students in grades 6 through 12 being dismissed at noon on exam days the week of January 16th 12th December 4th was our Fisher concert. uh very well attended. The kids did great. Um Darl as always put on a great show for everyone. We appreciate him and thank everyone for attending. It's the 12th through the 16th. There's the exam. So, we'll be dismissing. >> Um we've met as a
044staff to talk about expectations because this is new. We'll be sending out another email to families. We talked to them about parent conferences and we'll do that again before we dismiss and then again when we return after the holiday break. And Fischer ended their trimester uh and report cards went home on Friday with students. Uh and both buildings are participating in some holiday decorating and holiday fun. We kicked off this morning the holiday rogue game with staff um just to kind of keep upbeat and be positive for the week. So we have spirit week. Today was snowman versus reindeer. We have scheduled events for the rest of the week. And then I'll do holiday road here on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week. So we'll kick it out for both buildings and for everyone
045fun. And I've sent out or will send out I've uh outlined with staff input um our GS professional development days and I will share that with you at the next meeting about what we're going to be doing on those afternoons because they are fully scheduled. Soon as I send them out to them I will share them with you so you can see what it is we're actually doing. Um and I don't can't remember if we talked about this or not but do you approve a just bus for us? If not, bring it back. >> If not, I'll bring it back. But, uh, JB is working on a driver for that. And we're also going to drop on our way a group of five or six students to Gat is offering an opportunities for students and
046then Davies will pick them up. I thought when we talked about this improved it because we have always upgraded it because it was part of the off station access. So we did I think even at one point the bus driving staff was instead of thinking some conversation about I'm sure we do fill up or something but if we can't find it I can say back and I can't >> I'll have Kendall check and then if not >> that's all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any questions for >> Yes. I would first of all I would say the concert was a big success. I was just impressed by how many people it was amazing and the program was run very smooth and he did a great job. So did you my next question is
047how's our bus driver buses? >> Fine. I mean the electric buses seem to still be causing some difficulty. Um, but we're we're getting drivers in. We've had three runs, but we're also in between right now two seasons and so and right now this week we have all home games. So, we're probably good until break, but then once the winter season kicks in, um, it may be a little bit of a problem. However, most of the winter sports leave after school is out. So if they can leave by 3:30 then we can have those same drivers do have some we're still working on the CDL and driving hours. So increase our >> and how are we making out with the buses as far as get these people to fix the problems that we're having supposed to
048have. That's a question probably for Holly. >> Yeah, Matt, I'm not sure. I know that they've been in conversation um and it's been an ongoing conversation. I think it's still a work in progress, but even I know we've had some stuff with the truck that's occurred over the last two storms and then there are just backups getting repairs and lies are standard. Wow. >> Yeah. So, um, they're like two weeks behind and kicks you in. If mainly for our January meeting, if bus repairs, electric buses, I called her, but she said she had to talk to Tim first. She never got back to an electric bus up update. Dad, do you want an update? Are you like a some details for the charging station as we closed? >> And then maybe maybe Dan and I
049build Grand sub committ have to go down there through it so we have a better idea what we're spending $10,000. >> Sure. I know with the buses, you know, we had all those problems and she was having trouble getting the people we bought it from to fix them. So that's really what I wanted. And she said at first they weren't it seemed like they wanted to do anything. >> Next we have superintendent. >> Make this really quick. Uh one change to agenda that you'll be seeing in uh that boards will be seeing in January is moving from the consent agenda the treasurer's report. Many boards have an outside treasurer. Uh and those reports don't show up every month. So putting it down in the FYI so when they do arrive that you have it in
050accessibility and doesn't require you to make it part of your voting agenda. It's a small thing but I wanted that know some folks will notice the changes that the other thing is I just wanted to thank principal uh I had the pleasure of coming here for the Fiser concert on the 4th. Uh I was uh truly amazed at how many folks showed up. A lot of folks from Bennington from Palmel. It was nice to see neighbors in Arlington watch it. Your music teacher is fantastic. Uh the kids were amazing and uh we got to see Santa. So it was a it was a plus all the way around. It was very nice to participate in it. >> Thanks for attending. >> Oh yeah. Mark the calendar. I your concert your double concert this week is
051what? >> Wednesday. >> Not be attendance. Gentleman got to say basketball game a still >> who know anything else this week. >> Next is chair's report. Um I don't have a ton. We're still a major influx what direction the legislature is going to go next 73. Um I I don't really have anything terms of that. It is budget season which we all have seen difficult for us to plan and it works as well but bring to our best so it's like all I have which isn't just one time so if I do um hear of anything I put that out to all of you it's not done meeting so at least a little next we have FY an FYI, which is our budget status report and internal finance control. And finally, we have an request
052for an executive session for one PSA 313A7 academic records for suspension of discipline of students. I would invite in the superintendent and principal into this. This should only take a few minutes. It's just an update rest of the board student issue. So I'll entertain a motion to enter an executive session. I think the motion motion made by Terry, second by Dan. Any discussion? Excuse me. All those in favor? Anybody opposed? Kendall will probably only be five minutes tops. >> Okay, I'll hang out. We were out of executive session at 6:30 p.m. There is no action. Any other business to be brought before the board? Okay, hearing none. Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> I make a motion. seconded by Terry. All those in favor. Anybody opposed? Ajourn 631. Thanks, Kendall. Hey, Kendall. >> Kendall,
053can you hear me? >> Yes, if. >> Yes, I can hear you. I'm sorry. >> Sorry. I left you in the waiting room and they just came out and said they are the meeting ended at 6. >> Dan made a motion. Terry seconded 6:31 adjourned. >> Okay. No, nothing done. >> Action taken. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thanks, Kendall. >> Have a good night everyone. >> Bye.