001All right, we're going to call the meeting to order. Um, can you rise for the pledge of allegiance? >> Pledge allegiance 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. >> All right. Well, welcome everybody. I know we're in the midst of uh conferences. It's uh Thanksgiving week, so I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving coming up and uh I know probably in good news and also student report you'll talk about Mohiba, but it was a fantastic one of the best Mohibas in recent years and uh all the acts were great. All you guys are great um love to see everybody collaborate and I think it was what about a quarter of the student population that
002was involved. I mean that's that's impressive. 150 kids. That's awesome. So great job with all of that. It's great to have everybody here tonight and appreciate you coming and we'll get right to it. We didn't have any um amendments or anything, right? Um so minutes from October 27th. >> Move to approve as written. >> Okay. Any second? All right. All in favor? Okay. And no adjustments to the agenda. Public session. Not seeing anyone for that. And so we're gonna get right to the staff report with another another moable legend um David and I'll let if you want to introduce Yeah. So it's our pleasure to have to kind of highlight our criminal justice program here at um Bath Tech. And so we have Mr. Borgar here to kind of give an overview and then we
003have Bryce. I hope I get this right. Bamante. Is that close? >> All right. I'm glad to to give kind of a student perspective. He's a senior here. So, thank you guys for being here. I appreciate it. >> Absolutely. All >> right. Uh, so criminal justice program, um, we from our standards that I'm required to teach our students, they come from the main criminal justice academy. Um, and there's 20 standards taught at the academy to the uh, recruits that are going in there. uh things like criminal law, civil law, constitutional law, um search and seizure and arrest, uh ethics, power, authority, discretion, uh crisis conflict and deescalation. Um but we also move beyond just the main criminal justice academy uh standards. Uh we have a college credit course uh and in the first year class
004that is a criminal justice class and criminal justice includes law enforcement, the courts and corrections. So all the jobs that are respond that are inside of those areas, I teach them about those jobs and uh how like we go through the court system and what what each person does inside of the court system as well as the correction side of things. Um all right. So those are part of the uh program highlights I had written down is exactly what I just talked about. Um but then we also go and experience it. So recently I've got my senior class doing ride alongs with the Bath Police Department. I've spoken to um several other agencies that are on my advisory board and their detectives divisions are waiting for the students to come in um so they can
005go over certain things like how do we cover a burglary in our agency or we go to a different agency. It's like well how do we do it over here um and how do we investigate things? So I give them like the nuts and bolts but then they go to the agencies and figure out the differences of how those things actually fit in. Um we're going to the we haven't been to the court yet. We went out to arraignments last year on one of the marshals this year. Uh there's going to be a murder trial out at court and he's trying to get us in there for opening statements for the murder trial. That should be coming up in December. So keep your fingers crossed because these things don't always uh take place and but
006we're hoping for that. We went to the main state prison this year. I think Bryce is going to be talking a little bit about the main state prison trip. Um but we actually go inside the prison and have contact with some of the prisoners. It's really an eye- openening experience and it's one of the highlights for these guys over their couple years. Um and then of course outside instructors coming in. So we have other police officers coming in. We have attorneys coming in. Um FBI agents, DEA agents. Uh Mr. Stanton's son, uh Paddton came back came said his name wrong. Um came in and talked about his job both in the Secret Service as well as his Department of State job now. So that was really neat for the students to hear what's available outside
007of just being a police officer in Bathbane. They get worldwide experiences. Um the uh mainstay police came in with their polygraph unit and put a student on the polygraph. I think it's one of the pictures up here. You see the the polygraph stuff up behind her. Um college visits. CMCC recently went to Thomas College. Um and some students don't get the chance to go with their parents to colleges. So we want to give them that experience. So we take care of that for them. Um, so we had people from the main um, uh, USM's uh, school of law come up and talk to our students about law school and what and what they're doing, how they get on there, but they also gave them a a test or a uh, an experience like they had
008a case they had to try and figure out what they're going through. So that was pretty pretty good for those guys. All right. Um, other highlights, Skills USA. Um we go up to Bangor and compete every year uh where there's a criminal justice component where they do a traffic stop and a couple other things that patrol officers would do. Uh and then uh there's a crime scene investigation one. I've been the chair of that for the last few years. Uh where they actually they have a crime scene set up and they have to go in and do everything on the crime scene. So um from the very beginning um and collecting evidence, identifying it, collecting it, preserving it uh and and writing reports on it, sketches and everything like that. Two years ago um we
009won states. We got to nationals and we went down to Atlanta for a week for the competition down there. Uh that was a really really uh good thing for them. I'm almost done looking at Bryce. Uh student highlights. Uh this program, this is my fifth year, so I've only had four classes that have actually graduated. Um so of those people have uh they're in two-year schools, four-year colleges. So SMCC, CMCC, Husten, UMO, USM, U. uh their criminal justice majors, their forensics major, psychology. Um I spoke to one uh graduate a couple weeks ago, and she's going from the two-year uh CMCC program into a four-year program uh focusing on psychology. Her goal is to be working in f in human trafficking um and forensic psychology, and she really hopes to get into the behavioral unit
010in the FBI. Um there's another uh student graduated a couple years ago. She's in the accelerated law program at USM. Uh she'll be finishing that up this year, taking her LSATs in the spring summer. Um and hoping to get into law school the following year. Uh workforce related. Um I've got a graduate at Sagodok Communication Center. She's been there for a couple of years. Um I have one out of two Bridges Regional Jail working in corrections right now. Um, so at 18 you can't be a police officer, but you can work in corrections and you can um work in jails. Um, the difference is carrying a gun or not. Um, there are some security places they could do. They can't do BIW security because BIW security carries guns. Um, and you have to be 21
011or or over. Um, and really exciting. Um, one of the graduates from a couple years ago, one of my first classes, um, just got hired on at Felmouth PD full-time as a police officer. He sent me a picture of him swearing in. that picture is up in this. And then today he sent me a picture of his first overnight shift. Um, and I didn't get that into the PowerPoint for you guys. Um, but it was really cool for him to to make that get that achievement. So, and then hopefully you've enjoyed some of the things that we've been working on. So, as a police officer, you got to know how to change a tire. So, we went down we combined with auto and and change tires. Um, and a couple of these things we do
012physical fitness. Um, sometimes I have the students teach the class and that particular one is a dance a girl who's who dances every night. So, she taught us dance. We did the warm-up and some of the physical activities in that in that one. All right. So, unless you have any questions, um, which I great to answer, but I'm sure you want to hear from Bryce. Good. >> All right. Bryce Busonte, he's a senior in the programs as a second year. Um, he's been doing some really, really good things. >> Good evening everyone. Um, Bryce Bamonte. Um I'm I'm a senior here at Morris High School and um this year will be my second year in the criminal justice program. Um um I'm also a member of the National Technical Honor Society. So I picked this
013class because I dreamed of being a police officers and um made sense for me to apply for this for this class and it teach me about the field I'm interested in and helped me get a head start in the understanding of the criminal justice system. I like this class. I mean I love it. I get to do hands-on stuff, cool stuff like investigating mock crime scenes, busting Morrison bad tech staff for expired car registrations, and we get to go on field trips. Like what he said, he went we went to main state prison, courts, college stores, and local police departments. I've also gotten to meet and talk to people who work in different areas of the of the criminal justice system. We have guest speakers from the FBI, homeland security, local law enforcement agencies such
014as detective, police officers. Um, it's interesting to hear about the many different types of jobs that are connected to this uh criminal justice field and to hear from people who are actually working in these jobs. I think one of the coolest things that I've been been able to do as a part of this program is to visit the uh main state prison. We actually got to talk to the correction officers, the prisons, the the inmates and the other staff in order to get a better understanding of the prison itself, its employees and its inmates. I would have never imagined that I would I would be able to go inside the prison and have a firsthand conversation with these people. It's a cool experience. Um, being part of this class has taught me a lot about
015myself. I have learned skills such as how to talk to all kinds of people, professionalism I've and have gained energy from my future. My participation in this class has helped me build confidence and encourage me to explore justice system in other places. When I was visiting my family in the Philippines, I spent a day with a police officer there to see what their job is like compared to the United States. And everything was very different. The police officer work 24-hour shifts. They don't wear body cameras. They communicate through uh Facebook messengers. So now I have a better understanding about my path I can take after graduation. Participation in this program has helped me build a strong foundation of knowledge in the criminal justice which makes me feel confident and provides me with a head start
016in this field. I am happy that I've made the choice and it have and have a big impact in my future. So, thank you so much. >> Questions for them? >> Questions? Go ahead. >> Do you different I mean, yeah, you would get that, but like we we're learning how to do the uh the mental stuff like about how that that kind of um like you just said like the me the whatever you said, I'm sorry, the >> the differences. >> Yeah. So, we we get to learn how to to handle it and what to expect and all that type of stuff. So, like >> do you think like how to evaluate the situation to figure out what's >> state somebody's in? >> Yeah. Talking people down, I guess, versus Yeah. >> And so, Bryce,
017what again are you thinking of doing? >> So, right now after graduation, I'm thinking about going to the military before because I can't join until I'm 21. >> Right. As far as to actually be a policeman. Yeah. >> Or just go to college and go to school for criminal justice. >> Cool. >> And Yeah. and wait until >> so looking looking at those couple options. That's great. I'm sure you'll do great. >> Any any other questions on the program? >> What was your biggest takeaway from the prison to uh visit? >> Uh everybody expect that every every inmate is like bad or whatever, but they have this like >> what was the word? >> Earn living unit. where like inmates could have a pretty much free living like just walk around. They have their own
018kitchen, the living room, they even have pets and they have like carpentry carpentry room in there and all that type of stuff. That's what I learned that for the prison because I didn't I thought the prison is just like you know bad and everything but I got to that and I saw that how how it's just different you know they have this all this kind of um they get to learn stuff because they've been there for a while and getting into the into the earning living unit you have to be there you have to be good for like five years right you have to Yeah. >> Yeah. So yeah. >> Wow, that's fascinating. Thank you both very much for that's there's a lot of detail I hadn't realized that's really in that program. So thanks
019for highlighting it and bringing it to us. Appreciate it very much. Thank you. >> All right. Um, wow, that's impressive. It's just really great. And let's move on to the student board report. Yeah. Well, like you said, we had Mohiba this past weekend. Um we had 150 student participants from Morse, so about a quarter of the school, which included um an act from the unified class um working with a local organization which was Spark um inclusive arts. Um and then we also had four separate sports teams which um my freshman year so three four years ago we there were no sports teams acts which was a a big longtime tradition of Morse um in the 80s and 90s um and then that's kind of starting to rebound now with um one in 2023 and then
020two in 2024 and now we have four different sports teams which are boys and girls soccer um football and cheer doing an act. Um we had a full house the opening night um with,00 audience members between the two nights. Um and this whole event serves as a fundraiser for the drama um department at Morse. We don't have an official tally just yet for how much this event raised, but it's all grant funded so long as we keep Moaba free in its optional donation. And then we have a couple community service things that are are going on or have gone on recently. We have our adopt a family project which is national honor society partnering with SCC to raise money for a few community families for Christmas donation gifts and everything like that. So we're actually
021doing um a pie in the face raffle ticket thing. So at lunch you can buy raffle tickets and whoever wins gets to do a pie in the face at our next quarter um assembly. Look, I'm getting pied. >> Yeah. And then Interact Club and football and a couple other students helped hang lights and wreaths downtown this weekend, which was nice. So, I think they're still working on getting a few more lights. We didn't have enough actually to finish all of the posts, but when you go downtown, you'll probably see all of those. And winter sports started up last week. We have the swim team, which are the boys are defending state champs. So, we'll see how they do this year. indoor track, wrestling, girls and boys basketball, and then the unified basketball program will start
022up a little later in January. So, >> fantastic. Um, any questions for the students? >> All right, get some rest this week. I know you guys weren't sleeping for about a week or week and a half. So, um, and then, uh, let's move on. Uh, superintendent's report. Yeah, I mean Charlie Charles did a nice job of recapping Moiba, but you know, it always takes me back of when we reflect on the the amount of talent that we have in this school. Um, and even above that, just to have students that normally would not get up on a stage as part of a skit and to that's something they'll remember for the rest of their lives, uh, whether it was, you know, stage crew or just a part of a skit. And so just a lot
023of talent and just the community support was was impressive and uh it was a a fun night and probably one of the best ones that I've I've sat through. Um so I really enjoyed it. Uh new school I gave you updates but just to share with the community, anybody that's listening is our date I think is Friday, December 11th or 12th for our RFPs to come back for architectural engineering firms for the new Bath Elementary School, whatever we name it. I'm just calling it that for right now. And um as soon as we have an architectural firm selected, then next thing will be is to look at the city of Bath and see what sites are available. Ideally, we're looking for 15 to 25 acres in order to have a school of of a certain
024size. So, we'll we'll have a company that will will work with the city of Bath and look at potential sites and then have to look at wetlands and all of the other things that that go with that. So, we're we're excited and um we'll be working on ED specs as well as we'll be doing some other things around um we have to probably do a a small study around consolidating um you know building for what more than one school and things like that. So, but we've got the green light to move ahead and so we're we're moving as as quickly as we can. Um, and we're excited about it. Couple other things, uh, you saw in the reports, just it's nice to see our schools and our students working with veterans and really getting to
025know them, their experiences, and appreciating their efforts. So, a lot of that went on in November. And food drives around Thanksgiving as well as around um holiday both holidays. Um, you know, it's nice to see the food drives in our schools that either go to the food banks around town or go to families in need. And last couple things is that we're offering Chinese as an afterchool club at Woolwitch. Uh, we weren't able to find, you remember in the budget process last year, weren't able to find a halftime teacher. Um, so we felt like there was, you know, what what else could we do? So, we have one of our ML staff persons that's willing to go over there two days a week. And I think it's just starting might be starting right after after
026the Thanksgiving break and we'll see how many students we have and and see how that goes. And then last but not least, just an FYI, uh I didn't bring calendars with me today, but our plan and I just want to see if you have any questions, but our plan very similar to last year is um to have the first three snow days be traditional snow days and then after that have them be remote learning. uh just because looking at the calendar where that Junth falls and then you know there's a a Friday after that and then end up coming back the next week for possibly a day or two. It just doesn't seem um as productive as we'd like it to to be maybe. So that's what our plan is. We've um talked with the
027association about that and so we'll be putting that out in communication to families. But any questions that board members have about that? Again it's similar to last year. Last year I think it was four days but we didn't we never used that many. So we didn't have to go remote last year. >> What's that? >> Does that start? What grade does that start? >> It would be everybody. >> It would Yeah, it would be everybody from Yeah. kindergarten. Yes. Yeah. And again, it looks a little different. I mean, there's an U. Katie and the principles did a nice job of outlining for our staff what the expectations are as far as being on online as a as a um faculty person, as a as a staff person and then how much is um you know
028at that young age, how much is some packet work ahead of time as well. >> Yeah, they'll send them a snow day packet. >> Any questions for Patrick? Okay. finance. Deb, >> I think this is on. Oh, yeah, it is. >> It's on. >> Um, so tonight we're looking at October and um, basically we have spent almost 15 million so far this year. It's about 33% and it's on target with where we usually are at at the end of October. Um, and just an update on our audit. Um, for those of you who I think know that it's a two-step process with RSU1. Now, we have Hank who comes in and does the financial statements. Um, and then he and those are done. So, those are posted on our website. Um, if you want to
029look at those, if you want copies, I can make copies for you, too. It's it's a pretty thick document. Um the second step it goes to RHR Smith and um they basically test all the details that Hank has put in the financial reports and um but those audits that official audit um will not be done until after December. So, we filed an extension with the state and the big reason for that is um the federal government has compliance guidelines that they issue every year. Um and those haven't been issued for this year. Usually, they're done in uh let's see what Hank says. It's usually done by the end of uh June, July, and they haven't been done yet. So, um that audit may not be issued until later on in the year. But bottom line
030is you can see what's happened with the financial statements. They're just not officially audited. Um, as far as keeping my eye on the subs, the subs, the subline's about $1,000 less at the end of October this year than it was last year. So, we're in line there. Um, our special ed tuition is a little bit higher um than last year. we're at like 25% that we've spent versus like 17. So that's something we know that there's some out of district placements that we hadn't budgeted. Um revenues right in line once again with October and um that's really it. Budget versus actual. I have student numbers, but I didn't bring those to you tonight because we we'll wait for the rates to be issued and then we'll have an idea of where we're at versus budgeted
031versus what the revenue actually is. That's it. Questions? >> Great. Any questions? >> No, you guys are good. Okay. Thank you, Deb. Appreciate it. Um, okay. We are on to um old business. So this is second reading of board policies and I guess for the record I'll just go down through um this this is an action item now. So let's see uh we've got drug and alcohol use by students. That's that's one. Um guess I should read the whole J-R is student drug use guidelines. EBBD is temperature standards in schools. Uh GCQCA school unit employee references, GDA support staff positions and GDF support staff employment. Um and I know there was some you had given us some more info on this. Um, did everyone understand the clarifications where we are with these policies? >> Okay.
032I mean, if you're okay with it, then uh you want to we'll do Yeah, we'll take them all all at once unless there's a question on any individual one you want to discuss. Otherwise, just make a motion for the >> I move to approve the um board policies. >> Okay. Do we have a second? >> Second it. Okay. Any other discussion or question? No. Okay. All in favor? All right. That's all done. Um now we have uh first reading of board policies. Um you have uh BEDH public participation at board meetings and JOC school volunteers. Um I believe that first one the public participation board meetings is really just some for some more clarification with um a lot of uh a lot of different you know people showing up at meetings and you know they're
033not always local. And so the question is what does that mean? What doesn't it mean? So a lot of the language in there is just to clarify how we um proceed uh if we get groups of people who come here and how that works. >> Yeah. >> When this was >> Yeah. I mean both of these policies also just I mean 2009 and then 2012 was the other one school volunteers. So yeah. >> So yeah. So dynamics change and and so wanted to update them and make sure we're up, you know, we're we're with the times and that we can meet meet them. Any questions on it? It's not we're not voting today, so you've got time, but if there's any immediate questions or clarification after reading through it. No. Okay, I'll take that as
034a note for now. Um, so that we'll vote on that next time. Uh, board goals. I don't think we really have to unless you wanted to go through and Jennifer usually does that. She's not here. Um, just as a reminder, we are going going into the next meeting. Uh, we're going to meet at 5:15 because we are going to go into some goal setting workshops. It's going to be on Monday the 15th. little early uh obviously because of Christmas. So, um that's when we'll go over goal setting and uh excuse me. Go from there. Any questions on the next meeting date? No, we're all good. All right, that's a quick one today. Um can I have a unless there's any other business or anybody has any questions. Um motion to adjurnn. >> Motion. >> Second.
035Okay. All in favor. All right. We're good. Thank you all for being here and moving things along. And I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving and everybody's happy and healthy. Take care. 15.