001Uh, good evening everybody. Thanks for being here tonight. Um, I'm going to call the meeting to order. If we can rise for 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. Um, well, welcome back. I can't believe it's the end of August. Uh, really hard to believe, actually. Um, but we've already the great uh set for success, right? That all went well. So, thank you Jamie and thanks for everybody who participated and made that happen. It's always a great way to kick everything off so the kids get what they need to start the school year. And I heard there were a lot of haircuts um that they were
002they were uh Jill was pretty overwhelmed. I guess there were a lot of people. So, that's good. But um thank you all for everyone who participated in that. Um we're going to move right into it and uh we're looking at the minutes from uh June 9th and then again at June 16th. Has everyone had a chance to review? And are there any comments, corrections? If not, can I have a motion? >> Oh, yeah. You weren't at all of them. Go ahead. >> Yes. Thank you. And a second. >> All right. And uh all in favor? >> Great. Thank you. >> All right. Adjustments to the agenda. We're going to have one um like to put uh for 6.5. So right after the public session, uh patent free library update, which has to do with uh
003Steve's here. He's going to talk about it. Has to do with how we've had him a member on the board and how they're rethinking that structure. And so we're going to let him uh speak to that and then anyone on the board who wants to speak to it. All right. So that'll be 6.5. Um public session. I don't think there's anybody here from the public who's going to speak as I recognize everybody else. So we'll go right into 6.5 patent free library. Steve, come on up. >> Thank you. I am a member of the public. So you can you can count you can double count me if you want. Right. Um well thanks thanks for uh getting me on the agenda. Um I I will be brief. Uh I I serve as a trustee of
004the patent free library board. Um I I uh came on the board as the RSU representative. It must be close to 15 years ago maybe. and then uh since then have served as a trustee um elected by the uh corporators. Um we we have been um the trustees have been working on a set of bylaw amendments um which we would like to which we intend to bring to our corporators at the October annual meeting um of the of the library. and and one issue um uh affects the RSU pretty directly. Um currently there are 12 elected trustees and what we call three um municipal trustees. Uh the RSU being one of those municipal um trustees, city of Bath is another and then we have a rotating municipal member uh from the other served communities. So,
005Bath or excuse me, the RSU has a designated seat on the RSU1 board. Uh, not on the RSU1 board, on the patent Free Library board. Um, Patent Free Library though serves two other school districts. The West Bass School District and Georgetown are also our served u among our served communities. So, in our discussion, it it struck us that it's it really We really had to struggle for a reason to continue having the RSU as a single as a designated seat. And the recommendation that will be made um to our trustees from the governance committee which is a committee that I chair will be to eliminate that R is one that designated R isue1 seat. uh we are replacing those seats with with me um a designated representation from each of the served communities. Uh so
006we're not we're not eliminating uh eliminating municipal member uh municipal representation, but we're just shifting it. So there will in instead of a a city of Bath R is one and a rotating municipal member there will be five municipal members one from Bath Woolitch um West Bath Arouse and and Georgetown. Um we we we there's a generational thing here. Megan has served uh as as the uh patentree or as the RSU1 rep on the patentree board. Anita does now. Um, and like I said, I did as well. There's always an ambiguity um, as to what that that membership means. Um, we are we are m um, as it turns out, one of our trustees is Don Lee. So there there is our issue one representation uh, on on the uh, on the trustee board at
007at present. Uh but there is am there's I I know Megan certainly expressed it. I think Anita has also expressed it and I know I did too. I made a comment at one of uh first member or first meetings that I went to. You know am I am I really a member of the trustees or if I am I just there you know for one year uh as a sort of a titular thing representing the RSU. So there there's some ambiguity as to what that what that representation uh was was intended to achieve. Um and like I said, in order to balance to to complete the argument that there should be school representation on the or on the patentree library board, we we would end up adding three members or or adding two additional members
008uh to really be to really be fair. So the recommendation u and I'm here to get your get your feedback if if if that's allowed. Uh the recommendation that the governance committee would like to make to the trustees or intends to make to the trustees would be to eliminate the RS the designated RSU1 seat. Um we we don't feel that that diminishes the input that school districts will have in terms of library uh governance. Uh but it does but it does seem fairer to us. Uh again, you know, the the the other solution is to add a Westbath uh representative as well as a Georgetown representative. So, um there are other changes uh other bylaw changes that we're recommending, but that's the one clearly that has uh the most impact on the RSU as a
009as an institution, as an organization. So if you have questions fine if >> that's great. Anybody have any comments or questions regarding this all in agreement? Yeah. Go ahead J. >> So Steve you're reducing the R an RSU1 seat but you're adding two municipal seats. Is that do I understand that correct? Correctly. >> The net will be to add three municipal seats. >> Right. So you were >> reducing the RSU and adding two or three more municipal seats. >> Right. Right. Right now we we have a rotating again Bath has a designated seat and other serve communities uh are are treated in a rotating basis. So one year Westbath has a representative, the next year um Woolage would have a representative, the next year etc. uh one year doesn't really give a an individual an
010opportunity to really learn what what you know the library is about to make a contribution. Uh so we are we are ending that practice and each of the served communities uh again Bath Bath loses its uniqueness in that sense. It just becomes one of the five municipal seats. Um and and th those representatives can serve for three years. >> Is there any tie between those municipal representatives and the school districts? I mean, because you're saying you're serving all school districts by serving all towns, right? Is that the connection that you're making? >> That's that's the connection. >> Okay. And so is there any tie between people who serve from those towns and their involvement or commitment or exposure to the school districts in their town? the the design the designation of the municipal member will
011be left up to the governing entity, the select board of each of those communities, right? >> And certainly appropriate for in their selection for them to indicate that they would like someone out of the school community to to represent that town. >> Sure. >> Yeah. We're we're trying to, you know, we're we're trying to give people uh give communities a little bit more agency, a little bit more of a sense of ownership of the library. I think as as many of you know, we've had we've had issues at town town meetings. >> Yeah. If I >> could I just speak to my experience on it? Yeah, >> I I don't and I don't know about Anita Anita's experience, but I don't feel having an RSU1 member got the library any closer to our schools that
012are affecting there. there just didn't see there was a disconnect or I don't know but I think the bigger connection to our schools through patent free library is through their librarians not the people who make the decisions in a once a month meeting but it's making those connections with the librarians who are seeing the kids during the summer and outside of school >> and the and and I know I I know from just friends who work in RSU and that those connections are already made and things are happening. And then I think probably like you said, I think it'd be better for those smaller communities to feel like they have like with the West Bath have a connection or have a a say or >> Yeah. Well, >> are represented >> a connection hopefully a
013feeling of >> so I don't think this is a loss like I don't see this as a like if I'm making sense. I don't know if Yeah, we we don't Yeah, it it's not being proposed that as a punitive way to take something away from the RSU. You know, we think that that it's a way to represent communities more effect more equitably, frankly. So, >> thanks so much. Thanks for coming, letting us know. >> Great work, Steve. >> All right. Thanks, Steve. And that's getting voted on when? In October. it it uh well it'll it'll come to the U trustees in September. Okay. Next month >> and then they'll put it out for your annual meeting in October. >> The annual meeting. >> Okay. Great. Thanks so much. All right. Thanks for coming. >> Okay.
014Um we're going to go right on to 7.0 superintendent report. Uh Patrick. >> Yeah. A few good news and then just some updates. um share with you the graduation reports uh for uh RSU1 is 93.37 which is um still remains very strong and compared to the statewide average of 87 to 88%. Uh STEM plus M we talked about that last year that M stands for manufacturing um they they came when they said they were going to come. They brought an 18-wheeler on August 4th with all of the supplies, equipment, furniture, curriculum materials, and they arrived here and they unpacked everything. Thanks to Dennis and his crew, they put a fresh coat of paint on the floor, and the walls at BMS in the STEM room, and the company, Diversified um educational consultants, they came and
015they set up everything here and at Lewon Middle School. And then last week they trained three of our teachers along with Lewon teachers. And um so we're all set up. We're good to go with new technology, new curriculum around STEM. And so I think the students are going to be very excited when they walk in there what it used to look like, what it looks like now, as well as all of the tools, um equipment and everything. So that is set up and good to go. Uh Lou mentioned this set for success. We had and Jamie you might have different numbers but we had 503 students that we had checked off that came through and just would like to thank Jamie and her crew for organizing this all the community volunteers and also the RSU1
016staff that were there that gave up their time on the Sunday. So very successful. Jamie, do you want to add anything to that? >> Uh just my thanks to Dennis Buzz, the whole crew that take care of us and allow us to do this so easily. the NYC crew and all of the donors that um really come together to make sure everyone has everything they need and more. >> Uh so as you know we have first day with staff Wednesday and then we have Thursday and we start with K to9 on Tuesday and all students on Wednesday. Uh schools look great thanks to Dennis and his crew. He's going to talk about some of the major projects in a minute. Uh just get to give you um just an update on openings that we have.
017So, we have world language at Woolwitch that we've had advertised for most of the summer that's still open. We have uh an edtech and a teacher in the uh SSP program at Bath Middle School, but that could change as early as tomorrow. Um we have a uh Fippsburg prek edtech and a 4-year-old program edtech that are still open and a diagn. So, those could start with a long-term sub at the beginning of the year um if we're able to um locate and secure that. So, that's what's open right now as we look to start the year. Katie, I was going to give a quick update, but do you have this as well? The title monies? >> Okay. Do you want to just give them a quick overview or do you want me to start and
018let you finish? >> Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. So for title one, it looked like it was uh increase from 25 to 26 of 14,325. And then for title two, it was a small decrease of 4600 and title 4 uh positive of 2,000. Okay. And then they and my only question was about combining title four with title one. >> Yes. Okay. So, um, essentially we waited for a very long time, as you know, to find out about, um, title 4 and title two, and the money ended up getting, um, put right back in, um, after the review happened of the funds federally. Um, and so I think overall I would say we're about neutral across the board, um, with, you know, the little fluctuations Patrick just mentioned. Um and so the plan remains the same of
019what we'll fund um which is our interventionists at Fiser and Dyke Null um a teacher at Fiser for class size reduction some professional development um and all that title four money does get rolled into title one to help pay for that essentially um I think we'll continue to have to think about um as this money on a good year stays the same and salaries go up. Um, and benefits because that's also included, you know, of will there be a point where we need to think about a different way of funding personnel. We're not there yet, but you know, in the next couple years, depending on what happens federally with the Department of Education, um, we'll just have to keep our eye on that. But for this year, we're everything looks fine. Katie, did we lose
020any funding for our homeless students? Did I read that somewhere? Was there >> um There was one grant that was is not getting refunded or refilled. However, we do have um money because we were one of the spenders. There is more funds that were put in from others that didn't spend it. So, we have a little of surplus there, but we also um I just want to remind you all are part of a main housing grant which is fully funding the project that used to be um coming out of that homeless grant essentially. So there will be a little money for transportation and our homeless grant and then through NYC. Um we will still um be able to fund our homeless liaison Donna Verhovven who works with our students. Um and then families all get
021is it $850 or 750? I think it's $850. An $850 um essentially grant family grant. It's 850 per student in a family for the things that we were using the other grant that Jen just spoke of. Um, you know, clothing, um, food, transportation, CMP bills, um, phones if a family needs a phone, just immediate hygiene needs, like any of those sorts of thing, hotel bills, um, back rent is one I often get a request for. And so luckily because um we have someone who wrote a really good application on our behalf um we will still have that money and that service for families and is that main housing grant this is something I don't know just one year >> pilot yeah >> continue >> okay and it's neat too because it's now it was always
022under the old model MS875 and our district and this new grant um it's a much more community um wide thing where we have Brunswick, we have Richmond participating. Who am I forgetting? >> Those four. Yeah. So, it's a ton of students and families that are getting their needs addressed. And I I probably get emails from Donna and one of the other leazison whose names, pardon me, I can't remember, um weekly. And you know, I think just today I connected two families with Donna for help. So it's fabulous. >> that housing first separate. >> Yes. With some of these, it's nice if you are diligent about spending it and making sure it goes to the right places. Other districts who don't, they end up taking the pot of money and redistributing to those who are, you
023know, we're good at spending money on kids who need it. So, that's good. >> Great. Any other questions? Are you all Is that it? Okay. Uh Deb, come on up. Financial report. >> So tonight we have two financial reports to look at and probably the most interesting one would be the one um as of June 30th, 2025. And this basically shows that we had a balance in our expenditures of 205,000 which is 5% of the budget. So, we came very close. Um, and then as far as the revenue side, um, we actually ended up receiving about 35,000 more um, which was thanks to additional subsidy and um, interest on investments and that helped close the gap from our shortage of the tuition revenue. So, that worked out great. So between expenses and revenues um you
024know that will help continue us um fund our fund balance basically so that we can continue using like that million dollars for a beginning balance each budget year. Um the the real difference in the state subsidy was um out of district placement that was generated and the multilingual language monies. So, so that was great. Um, Hank is scheduled to come next week. So, we're moving along on the end of the 20 fiscal 25-y year audit. So, um, that should all be done by December. And then as far as July, um, here we go. We we're starting new. And um so this is just basically showing you the expenses that started in July which is July contract people a lot of ordering for um contracted fees and software and that type of thing. Um and then
025our revenue starts in with our assessments from each town as you can see that that came in there and our subsidy. Um, down below is the annual grant allocations, which for fiscal year 25, it's it's all filled up, but I'll fill it up as as we move along and we find out what some of the other grants are. Uh, Lincoln Health, I do know that BMS was just approved for 57,000. Um, and I know that I think MOS already is in line, but I don't know what the amount is, but I'll fill that in. Um, and then once again, October 1st enrollment. As soon as that's ready, we'll we'll put that on there, too. And and we'll start watching how the year goes. >> Any questions for them? Go ahead, J. Um I was thinking
026about the change in tuition and um revenue and I was wondering if if there's a one let's say school that would be most of our tuition revenue if we should be kind of tracking that school with attendant with enrollment as well. Like I know we track the enrollment of our towns but I was wondering and I'm just guessing like West Bath if if that enrollment fluctuates a lot. I don't know if that would be helpful in terms of looking at our overall enrollments. >> Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I can uh I can work with Kim as far as finding out the numbers of what that students or Georgetown student >> just might be interesting compared to that tuition change and also the number of people. Yeah. >> Um, and the appropriated surplus went
027up 100,000. >> That did and that came from the surplus that's put aside for the CTE because the vocational as you the um funding of it is different. Basically, if we don't spend everything that they allocate for CTE, it goes into a CTE balance. It doesn't roll into our fund balance. So, um, we were able to use a h 100,000 of that towards our whole budget because our CTE expenses were above um the allocation this year by about 100,000. >> So, we got more allocation then. >> I'm I'm sorry. >> No, we didn't get we brought in. So, that CTE is not in a separate fund. It's just But if we don't spend it, it's allocate. it's designated as CTE fund balance and can be used on anything that's for CTE. So, because our expenses
028were higher, um, we could use some of that fund balance that's put aside in the audit towards our fund balance. It's it's confusing. They when they changed the whole CTE subsidy, my opinion is they should have put it in a completely separate fund, but they don't. They pull it. They bring it all in with the general fund. >> So this is what our starting balance. So instead of having a a million dollars, you have a million >> 100. >> Yeah. >> To offset next year to the expenses for that, >> right? >> And when did that change? Because I thought our budget said it was a million dollars. >> Now this this is what we put in for our budget right from the getgo. >> Oh, it was a million100. Okay. Sorry, it was a
029while since I looked at that. Okay. Thank you. Dude, thanks a lot, Deb. Appreciate it. Okay, let's get on to uh new business and uh Dennis, why don't you come on up? Um let us know all the summer work. >> It was a great summer. >> That's great. >> It really was. We We really banged it. Telling you, we besides this work I'm going to talk about, we did we we completed 85 work orders, which is besides this work. And some of this work is really big stuff and and my team, incredible team, really stepped up. So, I'll get right at it. So, I'll start with Fippsburg. Uh, we paved the parking lot in Fibsburg. I feel by, but it they really did a nice job with that. Um, we covered the sophets on the
030side of the school with vinyl, vented sophets, so we still get the benefit of of the airflow. Um, we did that ourselves. Uh, we painted window trim up there and we did a light upgrade on the kitchen. The kitchen really needed some help. We put a new floor, new ceiling. We painted um, reconfigured the storage room. So, that came out pretty nice. Uh, that looks pretty good. Um, Bath Middle School, we remodeled the 300 wing bathroom. That's something to see right there. I'm I'm telling you, it's something to see. Um, it really came out nice. Uh, in fact, we got to do the rest of them because that's how nice it came out. Uh, we painted the stem room walls like Patrick talked about. We painted the floor, removed some wires, we did a lot
031of other things, too besides that. We, you know, we cleaned it out. We did a pretty big job there. And at the middle school, we painted 14 rooms, 14 classrooms. Yes. Yeah. Some of them in all honesty maybe was one wall. You know, we tried to prioritize what we had. We had a scale going and uh that came out pretty nice. Fisher Mitchell. We built a room inside of a classroom uh that Ross needed. It's a I don't I think it's a quiet room, but um it came out pretty nice. Uh we reconfigured his office. So, I don't know if you ever been in there, but he had a little little office off to the side. Now, it's straight ahead. We built a doorway there. He's got a nice office in there. It's pretty big.
032Um the office that he was in is now the nurse's office. We broke through the wall. We cut a hole in the wall, built a wall in the old front office next to it. So that's the layown room and has a bathroom. So that came out really good. Um we painted three classrooms at Fisher Mitchell at Dyke New. My my favorite job of the summer was mounting that flag pole in the front of the school. We now have a flag pole coming up the steps. I'm waiting for the light. There's a light that goes on top of it is solar powered so that we can put the flag up all the time, but it really looks nice. I put the flag up one windy day and it was just beautiful. It's just like yes. Uh
033we added a sliding window for for the office for safety. It didn't have that. It was pretty poor view. It had the wire glass in it. So, we we added a a sliding window and they'll it'll be uh for safety for the for the school in Witch. We did get the new server for the AC system in and the software. We got that up and running. Um seems to be working great. It's nice and cool in that school. And we painted five rooms in that school. So, our painters were pretty busy. We hired a couple um people that work for us in in the school year in the office or as a teacher or something. We hired three people and they did most of the painting. They did a really nice job with that. Um
034there's supposed to be a raised crosswalk over here at Mor Street, Morris High School over here going to the field where the little gate is that we put in. Um but they haven't done that yet. They're supposed to do that this week. I've been kind of after them a little bit. Uh, Bath Tech in the culinary. We repiped uh a dishwasher in there. Wasn't getting the volume that it needed. I think we're going to still do some work to that. Um, I I don't think we've quite got where we need to be yet with that. Um, districtwide we we painted all the CL uh all the parking lots, all the new lines. So, there's new lines in all the parking lots except for Morse, which we did a touchup for the worst ones, but we
035painted it last year. We're trying to get it so we're on a two-year rotation or twoear cycle. Um, that seems to work well. Once we start building up the pain, it'll last a lot longer. So that's pretty much what we did this summer. Although the summer's not over. We still have another few days, right? So >> that's fantastic. Thank you for all that great work. Does anyone have any questions or >> Oh, yeah. >> Any other things? No, that's fantastic. Thank you. What? >> Wait, does did um I just read the other day that Jason Libby was at the Witchtown Selectman meeting about transportation issues, traffic issues. Is that something that he's been able to So, I do I do I have been working on um somebody wrote a grant in Woolwitch for uh the
036flashing 15 mph speed limit lights. >> Oh, yeah. >> So, we're working on that. We I have to dig safe a spot. I have to get with the town and we've got we've got the the lights. We've got everything we need to put them up. >> I think it was more the people part I think the the fire department. I could be wrong. But I think it was a fire department worry about trying to get past all the cars parking on the road during drop off and pickup. >> Yeah, I'll I'll follow up with Jason. We talked about it once. I knew he was going to the meeting and he had some suggestions that might help um you know might help a little bit um you know during that time so I know he was
037exploring those but I haven't gotten any closure on that but >> all right. Thanks. No, >> I would say that that Dennis um and his crew, >> you know, that they do a lot of great work for us and also are willing to come out of their comfort zone a little bit. Um and so it was kind of fun to visit when they were redoing the bathrooms and seeing our guys do it, which, you know, saves us money, but also um you know, they they really did a nice job and took a lot of pride, even though they were the first ones to say, "I'm an amateur. I'm an amateur." But we really appreciate them. We ask them to do a lot here and um and they and they they step up and do it.
038So, thank you. >> They have a lot of pride. >> That's great right there. >> That's awesome. They should. >> They should. Yeah. Great job, Dennis. >> It's incredible. It's a good team. >> Yeah. >> Excellent team. >> Great to hear. We appreciate it. >> Thank you, sir. >> Thank you, Dennis. >> Yeah. This is the annual contract that we have with with Dr. Hannah and Nick Coast Pediatrics um for $4,000 and it's for the for the actual school year and Katie works with our nurses, our nurse group and we use um Amina to consult with during the year at various times, various issues. So, it's um the the amount hasn't gone up um from last year to this year. >> Great. So, this is unless there's questions um this is an action item. So,
039we need to vote. Do I need a motion? >> I move to approve the agreement for services between Dr. Hannah Pediatrics. >> Okay. Um, all those in favor. All right, that passes. Um, the next one is the and I think we got that electronically. Thanks, Kim, for sending that. Uh, the Lincoln Medical Partners contract, which I understand it's an annual because that's where I was confused. I just thought it was like a two or three year thing and I wondered why it was there again but Patrick said no it's annual. So um and you want to speak to that before we vote or >> it's just an annual thing. Nothing's changed in the contract and it's is it $14,000 $15,000 for one part of one position that we have there. um a a medical aid
040who's works officially for us two days a week and Lincoln Health for three, but together they let her do her hours here. So it essentially gives us a second person in the Morris Bath Tech nurse's office 5 days a week. And so that 15,000 is the only thing we pay for every part of the health center services, which is pretty extraordinary. And even though it's a yearly contract, um I believe that grant is on a three-year cycle, but we reup with Lincoln Health every year. And currently there's no sort of end in sight. There are some health centers that have been around for 15 years. Mhm. >> Um so it's my understanding is once you're locked in, as long as you're meeting all of your benchmarks, have um high number of visits, the insurance payments
041that they run through Lincoln Health are getting done, which we're passing all of those markers, you just continue on and get all those free services, which is pretty incredible. >> Great. And how is that going here? A lot of kids, a lot of people using it. >> Yes. >> Good. >> Um I want to >> Yeah. Well, convenient as a parent. >> Sports physicals have been happening. >> Oh, we can do sports physicals. >> Yeah. Um, staff use it often. If they don't feel well during the a day, they can come down and get a quick strep test. I mean, it's truly rather than just guessing and getting to go home. the so and and so just through there just to remind everyone we have um uh a nurse practitioner, we have a social worker,
042we have a dental hygienist who comes a few times a year, we now have a tobacco and substance use specialist who counsels students. Um and I feel like I'm forgetting something. Uh and we we're basically able to run vaccination clinics because of the certification that Katrina Barter and our MA have to have a special storage fridge. So >> the required vaccinations that all students need >> to come to school um we're able to give now. >> Wow. >> So again, not to inconvenience parents and it's access for the whole district. So we have families who come from all of our schools. That's phenomenal. I didn't realize it's that extensive >> with the vaccinations. That's huge. Okay, great. Any questions? >> Katie, how how many people outside of Mors access the services? Like most of it
043serves people at Mors, right? >> It I mean because it's so easy to just walk downstairs. Um I don't have those numbers, but I know we do off we do offer it. We do offer transportation and I know it is used I think it most it most it is used most by someone who has a student in Morse >> and then has other students elsewhere in the district. However, our numbers of how many um people are signed up and have access have gone way up. For instance, >> um I'm just thinking of the numbers from last year. Um I know when I looked just at September um the numbers of visits to the nursur's office had doubled from one year to the next just because of the amount of capacity rather than just having one
044nurse to have an MA and nurse and all those other people. So even in one month we were getting almost 500 visits to the health center >> and those are mostly MORs right I would think >> Morris Bath Tech students so even students from our um sending schools >> can go um and I don't know how many from other places >> it'd be interesting to see if we were serving the numbers compared to serving uh students from other districts and serving students in our district if that had any kind of correlation with each other. >> Yeah. I don't know. >> Yeah. >> Um >> I I because the data is the health data. >> Yeah. >> It's actually I can't see it. It's not in our system. It's run on their computers. It's all HIPPA
045protected. Um I'm not sure to be honest. I haven't probed because it's nothing I have access to. Um I'm sure I could ask the grant um Annie Pat who runs the grant. Um, but I'm I'm not sure if they actually collect when kids sign up what school they're coming to, cuz they're collecting their, you know, what insurance they have, if any. Um, how old are they? Like the usual forms when you go to the doctor's office, they don't ask you what school do you go to, you know, that's not part of your thing. So, I I don't I I don't actually know. >> Yeah. But I can ask her. It just be interesting, you know, in terms of the cost that goes into it and how it serves a good broad perspective, you know, of
046our community just to >> be able to say, okay, this is how many communities only be and it'll only it only ever will like those nurses won't ever go to other schools, right? Everyone has to come to Mory doesn't travel around. No, they can't because all of their gear that Lincoln Health had to install and the they can't use our computers. They have to use their own because of HIPPA. So they it's not travelable. >> But can can a nurse from another school recommend that someone? >> Oh yeah, that's what they do. That's what they're doing, right? They're referring like, "Oh, you can go here to get your strep test or you can go." >> Yeah. And we'll we'll have um you know nurses borrow one of our vans and bring a kid during the
047day. Um >> Yeah, that's good. so they can go. So there's it's really if people want to go, there's nothing barring them from going. Anybody can >> It's not a big big >> to make that happen. Good. >> We can always continue to do more promotion. But >> they actually that's part of the grant plan. I'm so glad you brought that up because I wanted when we were talking earlier, I thought, "Oh, I should bring this up." Um, our nurse practitioner and aid have as part of their plan to go to a lot of the events, they had a table actually, I believe, at set for success um for all the students and um a bunch of the different parent nights at all the open houses and stuff. They're going to have >> um because
048they want to get more families from everywhere. I should have mentioned. >> No, that's that's fantastic. So, yeah, it's building. So my point is we'll continue to do promotion but at the same but at the same time >> Arousic Bath Pittsburgh and Ward students are all being served y >> because they all come here at the high school. So trying to get that more K population will continue to do that. >> Right. >> That's awesome. Thank you so much. All right. So that sounds really good. So we need again this is an action item. We have to approve the contract. So may I have a motion? >> I move to approve the contract with Lincoln Medical Partners. >> Great. and a second from Megan. All right, any further discussion? All in favor? Okay, that passes.
049So, we got those two contracts done. Um 8.4 is our first reading of the headtech job descriptions. It's not an action item today, but um >> yeah, we don't we don't typically do job descriptions very often because once you do one, they're usually pretty good for a while. Um, but Megan, you might remember this and and obviously Deb, but this for those of you, we may not have covered this when we talked about the edtech contract last year. Probably talked more about salary and benefits and the package, but there was a piece in there that was in the contract that said by February of last year, March of last year, that there would be a committee put together and they would review the job descriptions because they they were over 10 years old. Um, so
050we had our special ed director, we had a a principal, we had a regular ed teacher, we had a special ed teacher, and we had three edtes that made up that committee. And they met at least a handful of times, if not more than that. And their focus was really to update the job descriptions that more accurately reflected regardless of what level you were, um, what they're doing now. So, it was that was the the attempt and what you have is the recommended changes. I met with him a little bit. Uh Karen Bracken, our new special ed director, used some different wording around some of the um the you know, you certain lines in there. Um the biggest thing um that I would just point out for the edtech, ECED one and two is is
051pretty similar here. We um our preference and our priority is to hire edtech twos and threes because of the education. So we I think we maybe had one edtech one in the system last year because it was it was uh necessary for us to do that. But the edtech 3 the biggest difference that we have is on the last page is number 27 and 28. So 27 is supervises in community based programs without teacher administration as necessary. So taking them out to a community event. And then 28 is introduces new pre-planned learning in cons consultation with the classroom teacher or appropriate content specialist. So more flexibility um more freedom so to speak, more autonomy with edtech 3 as far as introducing new learning to students versus two is more planning in conjunction and taking the
052teacher lead and and applying that um with the students. So, those are the major the major items. If you have questions, you have comments, I can certainly take them back to the committee before you, you know, the board considers this for approval in September. Um, but I'd like to thank the committee members for, you know, for their effort of looking through these and, um, that's where we're at right now. Patrick, I just wanted to know on number 29 on that page you were just pointing out, the word two is just flipped. >> No vote on that today. Were there any questions on >> and the the edtech um association has seen this as well? >> Yeah. I mean the other one they were >> or >> there was representation >> it was representation. They had
053three people on there and um and we've met since then because I had a few questions about what something meant. So we rewarded some things. But no, they're in they're in full support of these modifications. um and they would be the group I would take any questions that you guys have back to or comments that you have. So Patrick, I sent you an email about this about a couple of the items and um so I guess there were there and it was around um instruction and evaluation I think for the one and two and they said the lead small group instruction I believe it was on one and two and that to me seemed like it was was that I know it was something that we has happened but I thought that was a more
054controlled by DOE requirements in terms of who was allowed to do that in terms of certifications or education wise is that >> no they can lead that with a teacher with a teacher kind of supervising overlooking that piece they can always work with small groups and they would have instruction that they would work with students on >> it's also about who who wrote the lesson um so the teacher will often write the lesson but it's the edte too who might carry it out if they're not in the same room in a different room, but the teacher's gone over it with them and um has provided them with the materials >> and the evaluation. I mean, wasn't there an assessment with that that came in with the one and two that was in red, which is
055new? >> Yeah. Again, I I met with them. I asked them that question. I think I mean, I don't know if you're talking about administer score and record such achievement and diagnostic tests for students as assigned by the supervising teacher, right? So, again, assigned by the teacher, kind of overseen by the teacher, but that's what's accurate. I mean that's what's happening now that we're having done with a tech twos. >> And is that governed at all by DOE in terms of what any position should or shouldn't be doing? Is there are there guidelines with that? >> There there are DOE guidelines on each of the three tiers of edtech, but it's more about what you how you should be supported and what you're allowed to do on your own. So we work within those parameters,
056but they don't get so more specific than that. >> Okay. So the difference is that you're doing something on your own but you're not coming up with it yourself. You're following a direction versus >> right like an edtech 3 can work with a teacher and then plan some of their own materials versus >> um you know one would be given everything. >> Okay. >> And it would be explained by the teacher to the edtech and then the edtech might carry it out with a different group of students. >> And does the evaluation change between these three groups at all? the evaluation of the students or the teacher, >> the staff? >> No, there's an edtech standard form that we use for everybody's evaluation. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> And then if it something doesn't
057apply, for instance, a three might do things that a one doesn't do, we would just put an NA for the one under that part of the rubric. >> Great. Okay. >> But again, please feel free if you look this over after this meeting, just shoot me an email, ask any questions. I'm happy to meet with the group again soon. All right, thank you for that. Thanks for all the hard work. Um, and so now 8.5 uh Patrick, the uh about the school construction. >> Yeah, probably the happiest news that I've been able to share was when we got that phone call in was it July? Yeah, in July. So, so we are number one and 22. One is Dyke New 22 is or 22 or 24 I can't remember is Fisher Mitchell. So, just to
058give an update, I know people in the community have reached out and staff have reached out and we don't have a lot of information to share at this point, but I would say that we're asking when we can get started because we're very anxious to get started. But this list that I shared with you is a proposed priority list, but it was based on the ranking that the team came down to do. So, that list has to go from proposed priority list to final priority list. Um, and it will happen fairly soon. But if there is a school district that appeals their ranking, then I think the commissioner of education has 60 days to respond. Not saying it will take 60 days, but uh I so I do know that there was one school district
059that did appeal. I don't know if there's more than that. They had that that timeline has or their their time to do that has expired. Um, and so the commissioner would will take that final list to the state board of education for their approval. So I don't know if that could happen in the month of September at their meeting that they have or if it will happen in October. Um, that again I can't speculate on when they would get back about the appeal and then when the next step would be. So we are we have a chart in our office that is a 21st step process that we have to go through with a state funded project. The next step would be advertising for an architectural firm. And so we have that ad ready to
060go. Um but we have to be patient because we would not be following that process. And also as far as reimbursement, we would not be reimbursed for some of our costs as we move forward with this. So for us it would be being proactive to to um form a building committee made up of staff but also community members and get that solidified and then be ready to uh have a meeting with the DOE to talk about the possibility of um the combination of the two schools consolidating the two schools. That has to be a conversation. So um that's about all I can share at this point of where we are. We're very excited and um you know and and um thrilled that this is this has happened. So it's going to take some time but
061um but again we're excited. So I don't know if you have any questions. That's about all I can give you right now for for an update. >> Any questions? >> So Patrick, could could Dyke New get rebuilt but not be approved to combine with Fisher Mitchell? >> I guess I ass I assume once we had that the go-ahhead the number one, right? >> Yeah. I mean, I think um you again, I don't want to speak for the Department of Education. I can't speak for them, but um you know, the last couple cycles that have gone through have included schools that were that their numbers were in a situation where it makes sense to consolidate and to bring them together so that next cycle they're not funding another school that costs even more. Um and so
062from an efficiency standpoint, um that's what >> we've always known this was our intent. >> We'd like to do that. And so, but again, we submitted applications for both because that's what we have to do. So, it it's a conversation that we we need to have with the Department of Education. >> Sure. >> As one of the first steps, >> but it's but it's not a surprise to us. They knew they'd know. >> Yeah. So, if we if we didn't combine the new school, the dyu buildout would just be to replace what we lost. I mean just in general term like would it be just a rebuilding dyenule through the damages if we if we didn't get the approval to combine with >> I mean we're we're looking to build a brand new school okay
063facility where you know I I assume that we would do a uh you know we've done some work with the with the the high street no the old site we've done a site study of that and so we have some information on that Um, but I'm sure that we're going to work with the state to canvas this the city of Bath again to see what sites there might be for a new elementary school in Bath. >> Oh, okay. So, it would be one project to just rebuild Dyke New and then it would be a separate project if we were going to combine the two. Like it would be >> No, our hope is we're doing one project pre-K to 5, but I can't I mean, we have to go and talk with them. Sure. And
064so um that would that would be our goal because we think it financially makes sense and from an efficiency standpoint it makes sense but we have to get their um their okay and approval and support to do that. >> Uh yeah thanks >> great um thanks that was very welcome news. Um okay 8.6 is the uh out of state field trip request >> overnight. Overnight? Yeah, overnight. Out of state. Um, Morris High School to Warren Island State Park. And we need a a motion for this. >> I move to approve the um overnight out ofstate field trip. >> Great. Uh, do I have a second? Yep. Second by Patty. All in favor? Okay, that passes and we move to 9.0 board goals if you want to address that today. >> Sure. So I think we
065um in for communication, our number one goal there, the first goal um I think that we talked a little bit about maybe um using using more outreach to talk about the clinic services to all of our school systems. Um I think that the safe safe and supportive schools I think definitely having that health clinic available, you know, in terms of the health and and services to our students. Um uh I think the pre-K programming definitely having those updated edtech job descriptions helps you know teachers under teachers and staff understand what are the expectations and how they can serve the students. And finally for facilities I think the amazing list of summer work that was accomplished and and the wonderful news about dyenule um kind of hit. So I think we end up hitting almost all
066of our goals this meeting. Thank you. >> That's great. Thanks for that. Um that helps. And then uh 10 points. So, the next meeting date is going to be Monday, September 29th, right here. And uh can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> So moved. >> A second. >> Second. All in favor? We are adjourned. Thank you all for being here.