001We are ready to go. So uh roll call show everyone is present and stand or the flag 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. >> Can I get a motion to approve the agenda? >> Moved second. Can we get proceed to vote? All in favor say I. >> I. Motion passes. move the legislative listening session two before this. Sorry. Okay. Uh board review policies and leadership governance policies. So this month we had a couple 4,000 series. Um I think nothing really stuck out to me on either of these. Anybody else looking through those? I did nothing. I didn't see anything. >> Okay. concerning. >> Okay. Excellent. All right. Uh same thing with the review
002the board leadership governance policies. Anything stick out to anybody on those? Okay. And then our board of self assessment. We have finished all 13. going to surmise that you have all spent a decent amount of time within that document over the past couple days in order to complete our other document for later this evening. Really this month's goal is purely to say are we okay with where we were with those ratings and are we ready to reset for another year? I think we'll >> I think some of them I I would maybe change now, but at the time that's how we were feeling. >> So I I don't know. It's fair to change now. Reset reset for next year and see where things fall. Okay. Good. Due to the time we are going to table
003our book study until next month. And we are also going to table our administrative reports until tomorrow evening. >> See, I didn't have to cut. >> Well, it doesn't look like you sent us your report anyway. >> Tomorrow, it >> I don't have mine doesn't show now, but I thought it was clear the agenda. Sorry, Mr. Roar. >> That's okay. His ground is probably older. It's just not >> Oh, okay. Purchases exceeding $5,000. We have Long Building Technologies for $11,000. >> This was a major maintenance expense. long last year did a pointto-point on our HVAC system, all the electronics that turn the valves and everything else around the building and found where there were some faulty pieces and and are working with Mr. Bus and rest maintenance crew to go through and and replace those.
004This was uh what comes out to be the the final bill for the work that they have been basically doing for a year. >> Explain what you're doing. What you said? Uh they're changing out ball valves that have either corroded over the years or they're open and closed so many times that the rubber pieces are are not quite the doing their job anymore. They're leaking through in the process. Mr. US has has also recognized a lot of places where uh our system was full of gunk and is continuing to flush through that and it's been quite the process. There's there's some element to that that I I want to go back and visit with one of the contractors we had work last fall because we paid somebody to flush our system and they did. I
005just I think they flushed the main line of the system. They didn't get all the branches and in the process of getting all the branches we're finding valves that needs replaced and so it's electronic components. It's valves. It's It's just >> Any other questions on that? >> Okay. Um All right. >> There are there are a couple Long's employees that have been attempted to just give their own employee badge so have to continue to give visitor badges every day. Okay, moving on to discussion items. We've got a few. So, October professional development reflection. Put that on uh for Dustin, Gina, just to provide us anything from the time you spent with us in October and if you wanted to share with the rest of the board. >> Um, it was a great experience. Um, the
006presenter was phenomenal. I'm terrible with names, but she was great. And um I really wish that I had the information that she presented when I was in high school and grade school. It would have made English and writing a whole lot easier. She just gave such wonderful ideas that make it so much easier. And it's understandable. You know, it's she had a great technique. She helped the teachers with how to present things. how body language makes a difference, how your voice tone makes a difference, the how fast you say something or how slow you say something, how you use your hands to talk and stuff. She just really brought along a lot of points and I know she'd worked with the house kids prior to that and had a real successful meeting with them. So,
007it was just a really great experience. I'm glad we went. >> That's awesome. I'm glad they came here. exciting activism. >> How come when you get close to me? Hush. >> Speak it up. >> Sorry. We're a small group now. I I just thought I think it's awesome that she came here. I'm glad you guys got to go. >> I missed it. >> I enjoyed it. >> Very neat. >> All right. Recalibration. Recalibration topics. Uh you guys uh did receive an email from me. All staff received an email from me as well with regard to what came out of. We had an opportunity tonight to hear from some of the legislators that are serving on the recalibration committee. Certainly President Bidman and and Representative Kelly are both on that committee. And there are some important
008pieces. I know you heard at the beginning of our legislative session tonight that consolidation is not has not been brought up. It's not something that anybody I think is hearing in any corridor right now. And I think that's a nice thing because every time that that recalibration has come up, that's been one of the major hinge points that that is part of conversation. I think as you go down through this and and I clarified for Chairman Pusc last night, these are not my these are not my musings. Uh this is merely as as the committee said what they wanted to see in the draft bill and took the notes and wrote down what they said. Um, so while we heard earlier tonight that the draft bill is going to be the evidence-based model and the
009recommendation from the consultant, that is line number one. And I think you can see that the document doesn't stop at line number one. So there are some pieces that are going to be part of this draft bill that that aren't necessarily part of the consultant's recommendation. The one uh the one that worries me the most doesn't necessarily even fall uh show up here. What line number one says is take the recommendations of of the consultant. And one of his recommendations is that they fix the small school adjustment. And the fix the small school adjustment, which over the years has had something called a cliff effect that when you get from 50 students to 49, you lose something like $300,000. Districts around the state have experienced this, right? they a school in their district will go
010from 51 students to 49 students and they lose $3,000 and they're guaranteed >> and it just it doesn't seem like two kids should make that kind of a difference. So they have a fix for it that one of their younger uh statistitians came up with this year and it's a really good fix. It it is absolutely it has to happen. It's it's the right thing to do. But what's in the recommendation right now is let's fix the small school. And because we fixed the small school, we don't need a small district adjustment anymore because it's going to be taken care of. And we get the small school adjustment right now gives us about six teachers in addition to what we would have if if we didn't get that. The small district adjustment after that gives
011us 4.57 teachers. So, I think my biggest work and a reason that I'm going to continue to be involved in this uh through January when the bill draft is is provided and through the legislative session is I think that all legislators need to know that while every other school district in the state, 43 of the 48 school districts in the state that don't receive the small district adjustment are going to be saying Please, this is perfect to fix the small school adjustment. This is exactly what you need to do. I need to be there and say yes and we've also got to make sure we take care of the school districts because 4.57 teachers to us in terms of the funding model is $350,000. It's 10% of our budget AND IT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE
012the way that we need to operate. There's not a whole lot more I I really want to talk about with what's here. I think as we heard tonight, we're really going to have to see what gets drawn up and the exact wording and everything else before we dig too far into the weeds. But that's that's the biggest piece that regardless of talk of consolidation or not, there's a a I would say existential threat out there to small districts and us being the smallest we're going to have to stay. >> Thank you for all the efforts. Appreciate that. See information that you need to let's look at the delegate assembly. This is who's remind me >> that you okay I couldn't remember. Um there's three of them right? >> Yeah. Perfect. So, what we're going to
013do now, we need to go through them, discuss them, and then give Kelly a direction so that next week when we go down, she knows which way to vote that reflects our board. >> Start with the first one. First one says, "Be it resolved that the WSBA urges WDE to modify a special ed reimbursement schedule to provide timely reimbursement to school districts for special education funding." We heard Representative Kelly talk about this tonight. Um, it it actually has found its way into the recalibration recommendations. They've heard districts say that. So, one of the one of the pieces that's outside of the consultant's recommendation is that the the state begin reimbursing based on a a monthly basis throughout the year or a quarterly basis throughout the year for special education placements rather than it being totaled
014up for the year and then divvi up in 12 payments the year after. And largely this comes from again some small districts that have had families move in that have a a special education student that may have uh higher level needs than they are able to provide in their school and they need to reach out and place them in a residential facility could be in Wyoming, could be in Utah, could be in one instance Massachusetts and uh this student that's placed in Massachusetts is costing one of our small districts over $700,000 a year. And right now when they have to front that payment and pay for that food, they get to claim it next summer and they're going to get paid back over the course of a year because the state has 100% reimbursement for
015special education. So it's not a matter of saying should the state pay for this or not. The state already pays for this. It's just a matter of right now districts can't really afford our reserves are not much more than $700,000. If we had a student move in tomorrow, >> it would put us in a tough spot. So then this is asking help us out with that. And I think the legislature is is realizing it's our money anyway. We're going to pay for this kid. What's the matter if they form right now for 18 months from now? And I think >> the money the state has to reimburse the schools come from the federal level. >> No. I say qualified now. >> Okay. I didn't know if they had to wait for finances to come in
016from above before they could redistribute. >> There are there are elements of IEA funding, grant funding, etc. that works its way down through the state, but uh a residential placement is is very unlikely to fall into a grant uh which would be a 611 or a 619 grant at the state level. Um this is this is general fund dollars coming out of the state budget. Is this specific for residential placement or just sped in general? >> I think the way this is written, it's sped in general. >> Okay. What uh do you guys have any thoughts? Uh because the WSBA recommends to affirm it. Do you guys agree with that or do you want to oppose that? Um Well, I'm always of the opinion that we can better manage our money than the government. So,
017I would rather have I mean, if it's coming anyway, then it come to us when it's due in a but >> this would be more of a quarterly payment versus at the end of the year be paid through 12 months the following year. Okay, I'm I'm I'm for that. I think we need our money up front. Like again, if we got hit with something, >> I DO THINK THIS ONE SAYS MONTHLY. >> MONTHLY. >> I THINK WHAT THEY WHAT THEY may be contemplating is this is how much we spent this month. >> Write us a check. This is how much we spent this month. Write us a check. >> I like that. We could We'd have a problem. Child came in was cost us $700,000. So I'm I'm okay with affirming. Okay. Any thoughts? >>
018So affirm that one. Okay, Ellie, we'll move on to the next. Next one asks WSBA to support a change to a state statute that uh talks about the hearings for dismissing a teacher. And >> I I don't it doesn't necessarily speak to what the what the change is. Although in the rationale it talks about wanting to make sure that uh a dismissal proceeding when brought to a hearing there's a certain timeline written in the statute that says a hearing has to be provided within x number of days. I think it says here 45 days but there's no statute that says the hearing has to be over by day x. So, I can I don't know what's going on here, but I can only imagine that a district has found itself uh opposing a lawyer or
019opposing a teacher. Uh both likely that the 45 days happened and now let's uh I need a continuence because of this. I need to delay because of this. I need more time for finding this out. I have to and and it's gone on and on and on and on and they can't ever actually get in the room to talk about the things to say this teacher should be fired or this teacher shouldn't be fired. >> So, they're paying benefits out until the end of it. >> Is that what I read? >> They I I would not be paying this teacher in this situation, but >> I think you're mixing this one and the next one. >> Oh, okay. Sorry. I wouldn't I would not be paying a teacher in this situation, but if you lose
020the hearing, you're going to pay everything back that you didn't pay. >> Well, it does say this will cause Wyoming school districts to pay out substantial amount of money and pay in benefits while a hearing is drug out over many years. So they do kind of Okay. Any thoughts on this one? Kind of neutral. I can see the benefit of it, but is it something that we really need to be lobbying for? >> I don't like it being drugged out for months and years. I like having a deadline. So I'm if that's how I'm understanding this. So that's kind of the way I'm going. I'm saying, you know, affirm >> Yeah, I I I agree with Doug. It says the 100 days is a recommendation and could be changed to another reasonable time frame so
021long as a time Yeah. as a time certain is identified to limit how long the hearings can drag on for. So it does give some wiggle room like for case by case basis. I mean I can also see what what Kelly's saying like is this really in the purview of >> Yeah, I think I was trying to remember and wish you were going to say because I hate to put words in someone's mouth but um Trinity was still on the board last time, right? and she her I think her stance was that we should let let the um process leg the normal legislative process play out without pushing an idea one way or another to via a lobbyist if we want to reach out and be active citizens. I think that was her stance. >>
022Is anybody remembering that differently? So, I tried to kind of keep that in mind because I think that's why we went with no on everything last time. Um, and so I tried to keep that in the back of my mind just, you know, however we feel about it. Do we feel strongly enough that we would want it to be lobbyed for that? >> Yeah, I mean we we fought I mean it's it's state law. I mean 217110 we have a policy that reads exactly that hearing has to start within 45 days. This is how it's investigated. everything else. >> Okay. >> The real I I don't have a whole lot of opinion on this. I think that if if an administration is doing its job and needs to fire a teacher, they're going to have
023the evidence in place to fire the teacher. You're not going to fall into this boat. So, >> speaking that as well. >> Okay. Kind of wishy-washy again. Can I I don't that's a question in my head but can you really legislate that with a pairing with YOUR >> YEAH. We'll find out. >> That's a good question too. I think it would be an interesting thing if you place a 100 day cap on there and you can you can make up your own scenario for what happens to a superintendent or a teacher or a principal in between days 45 and 100 that for some reason they literally can't be in the hearing room on a certain day. Right. >> Sure. There's a lot of things that can knock somebody out for 55 days. And I you
024can't just keep extending without I mean does a judge have to approve >> hearing officer? >> Okay. >> Hear an officer. This wouldn't be to a court yet. >> Yeah. I I guess that's kind of my opinion. If we don't feel real strongly one way or another, then >> I hesitate to vote for the lobby group to take one certain side. >> I think that's fair. Anybody have an opposing opinion to that? Okay, moving on to the third one. This one says if if you have a teacher or employee mess up. And I guess it just says teacher, not other employee. If you have an employee mess up and you're going to investigate, they've been charged with a crime, they haven't been convicted by a court yet, that you don't have to pay them. You
025can basically assume that the the charge is going to carry through and then if they're found to if they're not convicted of that, then you have to provide back and give them their job back. seems a little counter to innocent until prison. >> I was going to say, aren't you innocent to >> but I guess it depends on what you're being charged with. Maybe if you're you're dealing with minors, >> this says felony or a crime involving moral turpitude or immorality. Okay, >> which is going to take care of I >> Well, that doesn't mean that they have to be working, right? I mean, either way, that employee would be placed on leave. It's just whether or not you have to pay them leave or not, right? It's not like they're continuing to teach students
026either way was my impression, but maybe I'm off on that. >> Yeah, I think that I think it's merely speaking to not paying. >> Yeah. Well, and it says upon the dismissal of the teacher, you know, the teachers are then dismissed or the individual. It says here in the law. So, I'm sorry. right now they aren't getting paid or that's what they're asking for >> right now. Uh let's make it simple. A superintendent of a small district in northeast Wyoming is driving home at 97 rather than 70 and has pulled over and receives a felony ticket. This says that district I'm going to contest that. If if said superintendent contest that then uh the the board could start a hearing process, stop paying and if they're convicted of the felony that we are going to
027have a hearing to dismiss, they will not need to be given any back pay. Don't have to get their job back. everything else. If they are not convicted of that felony, ple it down to a misdemeanor, whatever else, then you have to give them back pay for the time of the hearing. Have to give them their job back. >> In your example, just so I'm clear, typically this would have to do with what's happening with our students. Well, >> rather than I feel like >> traveling like to and from work but not in the role of superintendent. >> It was a it was a stretch. >> I'm just trying to make sure I understand like say your example you are you have a felony charge. >> You can still do your job. I mean the
028superintendent in your example can still do his job. He you know >> I'm only stretching that part because readiness is readiness, >> right? I guess I would be I guess I would want more specifics as like are we dealing with felony with minors or felony with co-workers like in the school system itself >> rather than you got a DUI which admittedly is not a great example that you should be giving your students but it doesn't pertain to your ability to do your job and it didn't happen while you were associated with you were on your own And I guess that's where I'm >> we're holding you up to or an employee here to moral standards that don't involve the job. >> Yeah. >> And trying to dictate how they want to behave on their own
029time and whether it's a drunk driver or whatever. I mean, but then again, you could have someone so horrible as, you know, they they're a pedophile out there, you know, outside here. They didn't do anything here. But I mean, so yeah, it's kind of like >> Yeah, I suppose you could think that like maybe it's we heard over in in Buffalo at the right thing. Maybe it's uh possession of child pornography. >> Got nothing to do with the job. It's not at the job, but do you do you want to fire that person? uh have a hearing and not pay them while you're having a hearing or do you want to pay them while you're >> I feel like as we have pointed out right now there's too much gray area >> it's not definitely
030>> and I still I I agree with the first statement made innocent till proven guilty and we're going to withhold pay assuming that you're guilty until proven otherwise that goes against >> you have to prove yourself innocent >> our constitutional Right. Essentially, >> I guess it depends on if you're able to still do your job or not. Because >> if you're not here doing the work, then you shouldn't get paid. You should be taking either PTO time or you take a sbatical until this problem is solved. Like, that's my opinion. Like, you're not do you're not putting in work, you don't show up, you you shouldn't get paid. >> You're in jail for your felony until they can bail you out. Well, I mean, or like I don't know. I I don't know if I
031can get on board with this because like you said, there's too much gray area. There's too many what ifs. >> Well, like we talked about, it could be anything from a speeding ticket to child pornography like 29 there, >> right? >> Read reading these two. Um I think Larry County School District had a >> I was going to ask that too. something they had the last two. Yeah, >> I think they had a not very fun time last year with something. >> Yeah, >> they decided to try to fix up the legislation instead of tightening up their own policies or asking their administrators to do a better job. >> That's a gunshot effect to everybody because they had a problem and now you're mandating to everybody, all school districts. >> That's right. >> So, yeah,
032the last two are kind of >> and and again, we're not voting on the bill itself. >> No, we're just voting. We want them to lobby. >> Yeah. >> I I I personally don't think we need to. >> Nope. I agree. >> I don't want a superintendent to not work because he had a speeding ticket. >> I appreciate that. >> Although I think it could happen to judge. >> Not that I heard anything, but >> you know, >> okay. um 2027 2028 are we are looking through our calendar it says graduation date >> that graduation date conflict is left >> and I don't have this suggested at the top uh what I wanted to talk about and DSCS met and talked about a calendar for 2027 2028 uh the last couple meetings again we we've
033been approving calendars basically on a a rolling basis to keep ourselves two years out. Uh DSC I think has would strongly like to move graduation from being on a day where uh seniors graduate on a Sunday before the end of the school year to sometime after the end of the school year. I don't understand what that's very open ended. >> Sure. Um the teachers, teachers, DSC, etc. would would like to have our seniors attend class until the end of class. There are a lot of things that we do our last week that uh certainly last year we had seniors coming back to participate in. um you know, if we don't have them in class, it just creates some issues that that may not otherwise be there. We talk a lot about rigor and pace and
034pushing our level of instruction. If we're holding off till that last week to have some of our final assessments of students, they're not there to participate in in those final assessments of students. So, there are some reasons that DSC's brought up with wanting to move graduation to where it's it's after uh school's out. And we talked about moving it to the next Sunday from the Sunday that it's on to the next Sunday that would correspond >> dead center Memorial Day weekend. Their their recommendation or desire was to have it on the Friday after Worldation and wanted to have YOU GUYS DISCUSS THE 20TH, the end of the quarter. I mean for this calendar >> it seems like a longer school year than normal. >> You're still starting. >> What day are we starting here? >>
035The 16th. >> This year we started on the 18th and we're finishing up on the 21st which is the third Thursday in May. >> Next year we're scheduled to start on the 17th of August and finish up on the third Thursday of May. >> Fourth, no fourth. >> We're looking at two years out right now for discussing graduation >> and 27 27 28. What what happened and why it looks that way is that this year and next May starts on a end of the week day and we're shifting back to a calendar where May starts on uh a Monday. >> Oh yeah. >> So rather than being the third Thursday, it ends up being the fourth Thursday. We're still at 148 school days. It's we're basically starting the same time. We're ending the same time.
036But May uh starts earlier in the week. So it it looks that way. >> And also are there sometimes some conflicts with Johnson County or something on that one Sunday? >> We moved graduation last year to later in the day earlier earlier in the day so that families could attend both graduations. >> Right. But if we do this the 26th of May, we'll have that issue changing times. >> Right. You do run into like I guess would you do an evening graduation? >> Did you do it? >> Is this still Labor Day weekend or Memorial Day weekend? >> Yeah. Start start. >> Folks might have a lot of family coming from elsewhere this holiday weekend. I'm I'm okay with the 26 and in the later time. >> So, here's my thought. And I know we're
037getting ahead of it and it's just me reminiscing. That was my when I was a senior, but it was a big deal. It was a big deal. Like, it was a big um I don't know benefit of being of graduating. You didn't have to go that last two I think it was two weeks of school for me, but and we're getting ahead of it. So they'll know well in advance that they're not going to get that benefit. But I don't know, that's my hesitation on it. But again, I feel like our staff knows better than I do what is needed for that final stretch of school. And I'm in favor of honoring their requests. I just in thought for the seniors of that year as well. Why did they do that? Start graduate weekend. >>
038I have no idea. >> Before your time let the seniors out before since >> because that's what the said too is it hasn't really been a historical thing. >> We never have let the seniors out before. Last year was the first year. >> Oh, really? Okay. Well, that's that helps. >> That helps a lot. Yeah. >> And I want to trust DSC. >> Well, I don't know about that one. Yeah. I only know for how long I've been here. >> Actually, my first couple of years, they did let him out, but then the state had come back and said they weren't enough days. >> So, we had to switch them to where they got out the same day as the rest of students. So, I'm not sure what the red and it's been that way
039ever since for me. >> What does a yellow mean? >> Well, yeah, that makes a big difference then if it hasn't been like a longunning thing because for me for us it was and at some point I think they did away with it in case too but it was a big deal that we got to get out before everybody else. My friends absence at >> Okay. So the question is the challenge has been extended to us of do we I guess challenge is the word I'm sorry are we okay with the 26th of May graduation evening graduation time >> 2028 so mark your calendar I mean this sentence this can change also in the next year or >> you guys you got to set a calendar and we we have to report a calendar to
040the state at the beginning like in the summertime we roll a calendar over. >> You can and if if this is on if this is the decision you make I would I would actually ask you to take another look at 2627 and potentially make the same change. I was just thinking that too because if it hasn't been or anything, let's not make it one and then begin. >> The only thing I worry about an evening graduation is a lot of the kids have graduation get togethers with the family that has come and if you do a night graduation, most of them aren't inclined to do it before graduation. It's usually after graduation. And if a party, you know, your graduation party is, I guess, is what you call it. And if you do it, let's
041say like a a night graduation, that throws all of that, you know, to me. It makes it harder for the families and stuff cuz some after they do their afternoon parties, they go home. They have that much more traveling time >> where if you do a night one, they don't have that traveling time till the next day. Just a thought, you know, if you do an afternoon, it would be, you know, a little bit different there. So, >> my thought was people having to take off of work that work on Friday. But >> to be fair, there too given more than a year's notice, >> right? probably do that. >> So, could you do like a Saturday afternoon instead of Sunday afternoon? I guess it would still be Memorial Weekend. So, I guess that wouldn't
042matter. Could we shift the whole calendar back a week? So, we start a week earlier in August. And then you don't have to worry about >> Yeah, that does put your teachers here like the second. >> Well, and I I haven't approached our teachers with this to this point. Um the state started a conference called Teacher Con this year and we didn't have teachers attend. It is that first week of August. Um I think our our teachers that value time at the Johnson County Fair may rebel against doing such a thing. >> But you have kids too. It won't be I know we approved other states there as as an excused but >> we start if we moved up just >> over so question is is it a day requirement by the state or it's
043a contact hour requirement by the state? >> Both. And we submit requests to the state every year to get less days because the state requires 175 days and thousand hours. We do our >> I honestly don't really care. I'm As long as it's not Saturday for Brandy or Monday for Brandy. Like I don't care. Although I would like to say again, I really think we should take a holy week for Thanksgiving. Every year I bring this up. every year. >> Yes, you do. >> Thank you. >> I'm there with you. I think we should take a whole week off for Thanksgiving. I think we should take a whole week off for spring break. And I would actually extend it to I think we should have three week break for fall and a three week break
044for spring and a three week break for summer. Call it >> just a day of school. >> That's how Arizona school districts. So that's how school districts that have taken and taken the step from saying we're going to do what's best for kids education to actually doing what's best for kids education. That's what people don't have kids that work on the farm still. >> Okay. Well, so I mean we aren't making a decision necessarily. This is not an action item. No, we'll we'll have the calendar to approve. Uh asking >> issue >> DSC is just looking for direction with regard to >> which way to plan. >> I What do you see? I hate to even throw it out there, but what if I mean, would it even be entertained to have the graduation and
045then as a ceremony, but they don't actually papered until they finish that next week? Or would nobody like any of them actually show up? You say that they have been anyway. Yeah. Yeah. This last year was the first time we just had with field day and other other events. It wasn't even that we asked the seniors to be there. They were just there. And something that I mean having largely now adults who feel like they're part of the school but are no longer part of the school. We don't necessarily have anything to help us with. It just muddied the waters a little bit. They had enough classes to go to, but they were here. >> I don't know. That's the only fix I can see. Unless you push graduation into June, you know, and we
046do graduation the next weekend after no one's been in school for a week to fit it in when it's not a holiday but still have students come the full year. >> What if we try what if we try to pull a day off of that week and we move the last day of school to Wednesday and graduate on Thursday? It's almost like Friday. I was going to ask really on the morning of the weekend, the 27th, is there anything wrong with that Saturday? Would there really going to be will there be an uprising about coming in on Saturday weekend? >> Okay, gotcha. See, I don't know that culture. Good. >> I don't know if it makes a difference, but if you look at the Christmas vacation, that's 17 days. that we maybe shorten that up
047a little bit to pull our calendar in a little bit for >> that. That'd be one place we can >> 17 days. I don't ever remember getting >> and and that's a typical break for us. But the problem is if if you take one day off of that break, it actually takes four days off because if we come to school on Monday the 20th, now families can't travel 17, 18. So 17, 18, and 19. >> What if you come back? >> You could have Friday, Saturday, Sunday off anyway and then have vacation. Well, that's just it. >> That's what we have right now. >> These days don't really have to be read, right? The 17, 18, 19. >> Because we don't go to school those days. >> Okay. Gotcha. Sorry. >> What if you were
048able to pull that last week back to just three days and the seniors don't have to come those three days or would they not be meeting their requirement for preparation? I guess the four day week, three days. Your concern is they're not here for like their like the map test or they don't do map testing. >> So what are they other than contributing to classwork? It's not like you mentioned the the last assessments of the year. I think it's I think that's something like right now we're not we we do have teachers that are providing assessments and it comes up mostly in a mixed class where if you've got juniors and seniors in a class then uh you're teaching that and you plan to have all of the assessments done maybe on May 18 because
049that's the last day that you're going to have all your kids. It creates a couple issues. I mean, now you've got four days of instruction that you have the juniors, but the seniors aren't there. What do you do? You keep going in a new unit? Uh do you >> what do you do to start a new unit the last week of school the last four days? >> Right. So, what are you going to do? >> Well, I'm I guess >> show a movie. >> Can you >> probably >> I don't know. I just that last >> I feel like when I did you can you offer their final assessment the week before >> I have to have have seniors take it without the last week's worth of instruction. >> Absolutely. >> Was DSD was going
050for they were good with Friday or this was your this is DSC's recommendation. >> Okay. Is it graduation on Friday? >> Yeah, >> they have a recommendation for time on Friday. >> What do you think? I'm serious. Yeah, I think um we areending limits time that much. >> I mean if DSC thinks this will work for the >> open to it. >> Yeah, >> let let DSC put the calendar together. It'll be on next month's January agenda for approval. If you if you guys have strong opinions one way or the other at that point then make a change that >> and then they'll suggest a time as well. So I trust their official opinion. >> I will push uh DSC to probably have a recommendation for 2627 as well. If if changes made here, it'll
051be there two different action items. You guys can have >> community lunch December 3rd, 11:30. Aubre's going to cook and cheesy potatoes. >> Okay. Thanksgiving the day before we get out Thanksgiving. >> What's that? >> Tuesday. Tuesday and next. >> Oh, nice. It's very exciting. >> Lunch, not dinner. Let's >> I'm boycotting Thanksgiving this year, so I should have to be here. Okay. Uh we're going to review the board agenda agenda quickly from Manchester. >> I just have one question. Yeah. On the um action items. Um we have that shop shop clock. Um is that what all is in in that amount of money that they're you know that they is it the whole thing is the installation? training just what is it? >> Yeah, it's uh shot clocks. I believe that that's going to
052provide us with two shot clocks. Uh it'll provide us with a new control board. I would have to double check with Mrs. Betts on that. Maybe maybe I can click it. Make sure it's got the new control board on it >> to display scoreboard color semi gloss. >> Why do we need a new? >> Yeah, it's got a control. >> When does that have to be? I think that it's got to be in by 2027. >> We don't need it for next year after. >> Um what we're finding and what Mrs. Bets is making the recommendation for is uh most schools right now are making a switch so that they can train people with how to operate a shot clock, how how it works ready before it's have to rep gives us a season to
053practice more or less And part of the electrical work in C in action item C is running the wiring so that we can wire the shop blocks. So that amount has already been covered to for installation of electrical wise. Okay. Any other questions on that? >> Okay. Uh any other questions on any of the action items or consent items tomorrow? Okay, let's go and see. Okay, can I get a motion to go into executive session? I move to move in the executive session to discuss proceed Can I get a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Move seconded. Vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All the same sign. Here we go.