001good afternoon everyone thanks for being here um just going to call this uh special meeting to order uh can stand for the Pledge of Allegiance please pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right well thanks for coming out uh this is to discuss obviously contract uh give us um the ability to discuss and negotiate a um tuition contract with West Bath um and so we're just going to start with the motion to elect a moderator and then we will go from there so I I move to nominate Greg im as moderator great can I have a second okay second by Megan any discussion all in favor great so Greg I'm just GNA
002come over so we can do this [Music] part no no other nominations now it's on right yeah okay so uh I Greg M do swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and of this state as long as I shall continue a citizen thereof so help me God I do swear that I will discharge to the best of my abilities the duties incumbent on me as moderator for this meeting or election according to the Constitution and laws of the state so help me go I do okay all right we just need to sign you can counter sign y all right here we are again my name's Greg M and happy to moderate this uh hopefully brief meeting uh so this is actually kind of within a board meeting this is
003a meeting of the legislative body of the RSU which is the voters of the RSU um and it's because the legislative body is required to approve the article that's on the warrant to authorize the board to enter in a tuition contract with with uh West bath so um this is a lot like the the budget meeting the annual budget meeting that you guys do in May probably um and so and I'll dispose of any um procedural things until they're needed because I don't think they will be um so but briefly you know I'll read the article um I'll look for a motion in a second and I'll open the floor for discussion after discussion we'll take a vote on it and I'll declare the results so um I'll just March right in so article one
004shall the school board of Regional School unit number one be authorized to negotiate a tuition contract with the West Bath school department to accept W West Bath secondary students for a term of two to 10 years so is there a motion so moved okay and maybe a second okay so and I'll take that as a motion to approve the article as written um is there any discussion on article one fine we're not setting the contract tonight we're just voting to bring it to a special election right no we're voting so that he can negotiate with the superintendent so the superintendent can sit down and hopefully so no monetary value tonight right no we're just authorizing the board to have the authority to to do this so Emily and I would try to work out the
005details and then she would bring it to her board for hopefully approval and I would bring it to you for approval um you know at at some point in the near future okay and um when does the current contract it ends this at the end of the school year okay so going anything else okay seeing none we'll vote all those in favor of article one the clerks want to vote opposed okay I'm gonna say that the article one carries um and that's the end of our business so I'll entertain a motion to adjourn second all those in favor of adjourning thank you we're adjourned e e e good evening everybody thanks for coming tonight um get all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance please pledge of allegiance to the flag the United States of America
006and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right well welcome everybody uh thank I hope every all the kids and the staff everyone had a good uh winter break uh for those who had a winter break so uh welcome back and we're going to get right to it uh if I can have um any comments or do you want to approve the minutes I move to approve the minutes as written a second any other discussion or questions all in favor okay okay great and as far as adjustments to the agenda we're going to move 11.1 which is the new high school course um after as 7.2 uh part of the staff reports okay any other issues okay uh now we are move right
007into public session if anyone is here from the public that had any comments about what's uh on our agenda wanted to speak no okay we're going to get right to it then I'm going to hand it over to Patrick want to introduce our guests for 7.1 BMS gifted and talented so we have Katie Willis here who is our gifted and talented teacher at BMS and uh I'll have you come up and I really appreciate you being here tonight and I know you brought some student friends with you and so we thank them and their parents for coming out tonight and bringing them here so welcome and thank you for being here yep so I'm Katie Willis and I teach gifted and talented at bath Middle School um but today I'm going to talk about my
008enrichment program because I also do enrichment which um has some of or actually has all of my gift and talented students in involved but I also have some non-identified students who partake in the enrichment program and um the enrichment program at BMS covers all students are a part of it and they do math Ela or science and they rotate um every trimester all students rotate between those three subject areas but in my enrichment it's more for the students who don't really need the extra practice or number play or the skills that they're learning in the traditional enrichment so I do more of an advanced um type enrichment and I'm kind of free to do any curriculum I choose so for my eighth grade I do um drone and aviation technology and for my sixth and
009seventh grade we started with this kind of robotic unit where they're learning electrical circuits and um applying those to trash items so and that's what you'll see today so we'll start with will start with that if you want so after learning about electrical circuits and how they work we were given toothbrushes which we would take apart take part take apart um take the battery out and extract the motor and battery holder then we would tape the battery inside and the cover to complete the circuit and attach that to a brush um we would then use the motor to create Shake That Shake would move and it would slide across the table we would cut off brushes so it would move one way or another to reduce drag um and we would use counter weights to
010make it move one way or the other to try to like pull it to move in the way we would like to this main move we going to some go straight some go backwards some you never know what they're going to do um depends on the day yes and we had many competitions with them including a drag race where they were two rulers Lanes on the floor and two Bots would be set on each hand and they would race to the other side and first one there one and each enrichment group had a bracket and we would have one winner for that we had the Sumo which was a 1V one bot fight in a circle and the first to either leave or get pushed out loses and the last stay in wins um then
011we had a j where we attach one item and try to push the bot out like that and then we had a creativity and design contest where we would all um decorate the Bots and try to give them personalities and then we voted on all of them unanimously unanimously these are our art bots so we would start by taking the same motor and a battery pack and placing it inside of a cup either that way with markers facing that way or like me who's the only one who did it like this like that with all the motor stuff inside or on top and then we' create a switch out of a piece of cardboard and two bobby pins and a paper clip where when you would put it on now it's vibrating by just pushing
012down the paper clip and then put it on a piece of paper Mar open and draw lines we could manipulate the way it would move by placing weights on one side or the other so that would not move as much on the other side would have more but be more free to move um many people just had to switch on top I chose to cut a circle of cardboard so it would fit on the top and make it all nice and sealed um we had four different markers of our choice and many many different designs some went straight some went zigzag one of them made an absolute perfect circle um and some you could almost manipulate by just turning it somehow don't know how that works but it works [Applause] so after the art Bots
013and the brush Bots we used what we had learned to make our own robots out of different junk that we had brought in and wheels like this one when you turn it on it will move and the fan will blow it so when you put it down it'll move forwards and then some of them have like this where you turn it on and it'll roll across the table this one goes in circles and chases an apple around and and then I decided to put legs on my robot which was a challenge because we had to figure out how to First attach the legs to make it walk first so our first model had legs like this that when you turn it on they go up and down like this but when you walk your legs
014don't go up and down like this so when we put it down it didn't walk so then after we did some research we found this model but when you turn it on it kind of the cardboard is too flimsy and the steps too wide so when it walks it just Falls over and the plan at first was to attach it a crayon box but when you try to attach it it doesn't really stay on and it overweighs it on one side the final model I turned it into a chicken and he walks on a table when the feathers don't get stuck he hobbles across the table and these we worked on for three weeks yeah so and everyone had different um models and ideas for what they were going to build using different Motors and
015pieces to their BS so yeah and at first we made drawings about what our final model was going to look like and we got to we have to reflect on how they have changed since our first draft and so some of them have changed drastically and some have stayed pretty [Applause] [Music] so I guess my question to the students would be um one what did you feel like when your initial hpo hypothesis or initial design didn't work like did you just give up and say I don't want to do it anymore or what what did you do so there were some days where you had I stood up and I tried to do it like when the first and second drafts wouldn't work and then I would have to back away from it and kind
016of come back to it the next day and do more research on it because there would be points where I had no clue what to do next because when it doesn't work and then so and then it got to a point where I had to take it home over break to finish it and be able to like revise over it so there was some points where it started to crack over breaks so then we got worried but we were able to fix it by turning the legs backwards so she kept telling I've come too far to give up now um for my junk bot one of my personal struggles was the wheels and how it would move um I was able to get pretty much everything other than that fine but I decided to tape
017popsicle sticks or Chopsticks I don't know what they were wooden sticks small wooden sticks um and I plastic wheels and then I did not have any idea of how to keep those Wheels in place because the other fixed Wheels you would need a straw and a metal thing but I was using an orange juice can and that wouldn't have been long enough to reach across the whole thing I could have cut a hole in the bottom but I decided to try to glue Lego pieces to the ends of the straws and try to put the wheel in the middle of that and that wasn't really working so I decided to switch gears and make it a boat um I took just the wheels off scrapped that idea took a piece of foam two pieces of
018foam glued them together cut it into a circle stuck it in the lid it where you drink from or pour from and stuck an extra shaft onto the motor so I could stick it all the way through and keep it waterproof then I hot glued the edges of it so now there's a rod going all the way through the foam with a propeller on it and I am not done with it but I am adding some uh styrofoam pieces from a thin piece of Styrofoam that I've glued together and a bigger piece on the bottom of it and a smaller piece on the end so the little lid sits in the water so the propeller is in the water um I'm I don't know how that's going to work yet it hasn't really been tested
019like that if that doesn't work I'll probably either going to add more flotation to the front and or weights in the back not just say I failed at first you just had to keep redesigning and changing how you were approaching something yeah I had redesigned a couple times and then that shows flexibility and that's that shows determination so those are great great things to learn thank you thank you I I have a question for you well who's um brushbot won did I show the brush spots who who won the competition oh um and why do you think they won I don't remember but it was mostly a whichever one went more straight it wasn't really speed it was just whichever one went the straightest and didn't turn to hit the wall oh and jousting were
020some of the ones that made a tighter Circle and didn't really move and hit other things I decided to attach a yard stick to mine and that would hit other Bots and my original idea was since a spin would hit those and push them off the edge but that kind of backfired when the popsicle stick would hit on their bot and my bot slid off edge selfbot my idea to that although it would validate the rules of the one item was to tap pencils to the end so it would almost hook the other bots so I couldn't fall off the edge but that would be against the rules of the competition any other questions thank you go ahead I was gonna say no questions I just want to say how impressed I am with the
021presentation and and how well you did with the public speaking which is is not an easy thing to do but I think you're both natural at it yeah no that's huge that's that's that's great yeah they are Naturals at it um very creative thank you so much appreciate it all right next so parents students thank you for being here and you don't need to stay so thank you really appreciate your time and thanks for coming out tonight did a great job so next uh we have the elective new mors high school elective and uh Danielle or Eric do you guys want to just I know we have the backup um do you want to just maybe just give us the reason for how this came to fruition and then see if there's any questions uh
022so the whole idea is that we'll have a half credit just in the fall semester uh stem or steam competition um elective class the idea came up because well I've done so many um semem competitions or a bunch of them in the past 20 25 years um in education and um the Windstorm challenge uh I did with a physics class years ago up at eain um I used to coach uh ocean bowl and you know we made it to Nationals in Colorado that was a great experience um and um I did SE perch one year which is underwater rovs and these are really great Hands-On experiences for kids um for much the same reasons that you just heard you know being creative troubleshooting um resiliency um but there's not always a lot of time to
023work this into a a class with curriculum um I do a a little video competition that connects to p uh population growth in my AP Environmental Studies CL or class every year and it's just it's hard to squeeze in it always feels like I'm taking away from the time I should be spending on the curriculum this would be this elective would be um kind of a a chance to Mentor students and give them some structure um and allow them to pursue a pth uh whether it's um doing some research and entering the main State science fair um doing like a cubat challenge um doing the entering the Windstorm challenge at UMaine again um or doing some other kind of um you know there's a a main app challenge there's um a National Geographic challenge there's
024all kinds of different stem and steam competitions out there and um they all have some kind of structure most of them have their own rubrics um but I would be there to help uh give the students some structure to set goals to troubleshoot when they run into those kinds of frustrating moments where they don't know what to do next it's not working out the way they thought it should or would um and to help them meet deadlines and that kind of thing um uh it works best in a fall semester because most of the competitions are in the second half of the year so a student could or team of students could continue to touch base with me through Builder block or after school um after their first semester elective class ends um but it
025would be it would be get you know designated time within the school day where they could um research design build trust double shoot carry on a long-term project um and have a place for it in school where it could stay in a corner or shelf in my room um we had a few years back we had a student who tested the effects of ocean acidification on copor um and I was one of three science teachers that supported her work and she went on to win an award at the main State science fair and had offers for scholarships and stuff and it was incredibly re rewarding it was a lot of after school time and so this idea is like bring it within the school day give some kids and teacher mentors the time within the
026day to make that work um and this could be an individual who wants to pursue something or small team of three four or five people did I say too much no no you're good is it so when you're saying team so it because some of the competitions right it's not just individual it could be a team of kids that correct that um sign up for it correct okay that's great um do you have questions for I think um it sounds really exciting and fun and do we have and I'm not sure who to direct this question toward but do we have the funding to properly support it or is that part of what our budget will Encompass going forward I can say that some of these competitions don't cost anything for instance the Windstorm challenge
027when you register they give you a kit with the um couplings and stuff that you need to incorporate into your uh design and that can be made of found objects um some of them like the C perch have like a $100 investment and I foresee you know writing small grants on you know donors choose and that kind of thing that would help with that um yeah and and we are talking about non-labor budgets in a couple of weeks but uh we we did put some money aside for this and it's not huge money but um just to cover some of the costs of that we don't exactly have dialed out but I don't see it being a huge bu budget item so yeah i' I'd also just one thing I thought Danielle did a great
028job but one thing I'd point out is in terms of like time management one thing that we found this is really invaluable for students to have these sorts of original opportunities that they can write about their next stages you know college applications and so on um that are different than I took these courses and I got these grades um the challenge that we always find is that students who are interested in pursuing those things are pursuing many things and the time after it just doesn't always work out and we've seen a lot of really great successes but we've Al also seen students burn out on the process of maybe the mainstate science fair or something because it's just just like they just couldn't make it all happen um and so I think offering that time
029management and that place and those deadlines and reminders would be would be great yeah go ahead um so by doing this extra project will this impact any of your class room time will will it will you have to like offer less classes or you know does that no this wouldn't affect Staffing um you know it's a oneoff in a rotation so it meet three times a week for one semester okay um and so it might mean that it's always a balance when we have students in that process right now we have students sign up for courses and then we evaluate what the interest is and which ones that we're going to offer because not every course in our course book is runs every year and um so it might mean that there's a couple more
030kids in a class or or um that there's um you know that that more students are interested in this this semester but not another semester so if we if if Miss Young didn't have the candidates one year we wouldn't run it um just like other courses okay um and you mentioned something about rubrics the rubric for the class is that it's not the fact that the they're successful in any competition right I mean there is the ability to carry through and meet deadlines and do that kind of thing okay yeah there are rubrics that are specific to each competition as well right um but the rubrics for self would be you know uh we we would agree on them for each person or team at the beginning of the semester and there would be self-evaluation
031as well as um teacher evaluation but it's a past fail too okay so yeah no letter grade thank you and how many uh students would you need to sign up for it to or is that vary I mean depending on how many sign up for other electors is that what it is you we usually put a hard on a something like this we would especially out of the out of the gates it's not necessarily going to be a huge so we would usually try to look for eight students that we could get it going with for the first semester um but it does you're right it does matter what it's competing against you know if Miss Young had she teaches other like Mar right she teaches several different science so if we had a big
032group that wanted Marin science well might we might not be able to offer that that year right right any other comments questions this is an action item so we're voting on this so did Patty did you have a question oh so if um then I would need a a motion to approve to approve the class I move to approve the steam compet I elective class great may have a second all right Megan seconds it any other question concerns no all in favor all right you got yourself a class good luck thank you for presenting it to us it sounds really exciting I think it'll you know be great yeah as I just mentioned to Eric we had this building designed with a beautiful steam or stem space in it can actually be used that's right
033there you go all right sounds good thank you okay um moving on to the uh student board uh Representatives uh report how you guys doing good to see it you have a good break yeah we had a great I had a great break I don't know Charlie it was excellent it was excellent good to hear yeah all right what you got for us coming back uh so just before break that Friday we had our uh second quarter recognition assembly so we got to recognize a lot of students in our student body um some that stood out were Ren coffinger and Haley Boron buron Bergeron were both recognized by the Scholastic art and writing Awards uh a win for our art Department Ren received a gold key in the drawing and illustration category and Haley received
034a silver key in the sculpture category uh our student of the quarter was Otto shamberg a senior and a member of the school rock band he's known for wearing great sunglasses on stage it's very fun um and the main principal award recognizing school spirit academic achievement and good citizenship went to Sam Lambert this year he's now automatically considered for a $1,000 scholarship excellent um and then other happenings we had um a couple of sports um state championships over break um so these were swim which right now are having an historic season as we covered before um on Tuesday February 18th the boys swim team won the class B State Championship uh this is the second state championship for the program and first more state championship since 2009 um which was won by girl swim uh
035this year this year the team saw five team records broken and four new State records uh in particular swimmy swimmer Gaffney McDonna was a part of nearly every record breaking relay and his very own state record in the 50- yard freestyle um having a good year then uh wrestling saw multiple Podium finishes at their state um their state meet and then indoor tracks saw um shayen brochu who was crowned the state champion in the one mile race with a time of five minutes and four seconds uh where she qualified for the New England championships set to take place this Saturday um the Morse ski squad run and ran and organized by um Juniors Eva beaten and Levi rigs has beened in the recent snow uh taking student lead trips to Black Mountain Sugarloaf Sunday River
036and more and the Morse High School Green Club um is starting up again this year um and is looking forward to collaborating with the newly founded rsu1 uh climate resilience working group uh to make a combined effort toward uh making the district more sustainable right that's great great stuff going on thank you for the report any any questions questions or comments for the students thanks for that great report and welcome back all right uh we're going to move on to um good news superintendent's report yeah I mean I think all of you know this and the whole Community knows this but I think it's one more worth mentioning one more time that Micah deer who was a science teacher at bath Middle School was recognized with the milin award and I think you probably saw
037some things online about his his reaction and it was a just a well done event and that organization we just want to thank them for um for choosing Micah but also for all that they did for us that day and they were past recipients it was probably 10 or 12 past recipients from Baine that came and took the time to meet with him that day to talk about next steps for him and just that recognition so very impressive uh Department of Education board knows this but uh February 5th and 6th they came and they visited bath Middle School FSB Burg and Fisher Mitchell and dyn and that's the school construction visits so they come they talk about our applications they ask follow-up questions and then we do a tour with them and so we had
038some very positive visits and I would say that they spent um the most time between the D noal sites the one that burned and the one that they're in now and they really were thorough and asked a lot of good questions so 96 schools applied and the ranked list is scheduled to come out by June 15th I believe so that's where're with that uh Bath Tech held its student of the semester breakfast on February 7th and it's always a great um event one student from each program is is recognized and I think we had close to 100 people in The Culinary and just great to see the families come out as well as the community members to that event just a reminder it's in your backup but Morse will host their annual Fine Arts night
039on March 5th and there's just a lot of different things that will go on that evenings you can see artwork there'll be student performances and coral and instrumental so um if you can come out that night at I think it's at 6:30 Eric um it's always a great event uh students stole my thunder about the Athletics but I'll just mention this I'll just mention it again shaying can certainly run faster than I can that's for sure but also um you know boys swimming and Diving just have a very rich history and I would like to thank you know Todd Marco and other former coaches that were with us for many many years Todd maybe maybe he should have stayed another year but anyway but also congratulations to Spencer holwell who's our first year coach um
040for the the state champion ship that state championship is always an elusive Target that not many teams or individuals get so congratulations to them and I also like to congratulate Jason Rowan for earning his hund 100 wrestling Victory I don't know a lot about wrestling but I've gone to a few meets and I know it's not easy and I think he got it in his last uh regular season match here so congratulations to him it's a lot of hard work and then lastly just for the board finance committee cost Center reviews just a reminder that it's the first one is next Monday from from 3: to 6 roughly right here and the other one is on March 13th I'll have Kim sent it a reminder as well but that's when those are the two dates
041and that's all I have is that March is that March 3D March 3rd is a Monday and then the following Thursday March 13th is the other one and March 13th both start at three three till three into the afternoon okay um great thanks for that reminder and any questions for Patrick De you all oh go ahead I was Patrick could you walk us through the the scenarios for June 15th if we are I don't know like top of the list for the school and then if we are not yeah I I don't know the the cut off I mean in the past it's been maybe top five a top seven that get um guaranteed not I wouldn't say guaranteed but they're in a good position to receive funding but it's a it's kind of a
042Debt Service revolving piece of the projects they have going on and once that freed up then so that again it could be if you take the first seven it could be certain ones get the to start rate off but then the other ones have to wait a little bit um but again I I don't know all the answers but again we're looking at top five or seven has typically been where you receive a fair amount of State funding as a result if we weren't in that top selection there is an appeal process that the board could consider um um doing thank you Patrick if if we are like just generally when would that just ballp parking we were talking about in a year we would start building you know when we'd have to pass the
043funding for that when would that come in in terms of time frame or is it just that too hard to answer it's challenging to answer I would say you know from the time you get the actual go-ahead I think four years three would be really ambitious I think four would might be doable um but again there's that 21 step process that we have to follow from the state so the first thing you do is you uh put together a building committee and you have to select an architect and then things and but you know the nice part for us is if we do get approved for D and we combine with Fisher Mitchell um we already have done that site study and some visioning work so the site so if we know the site and
044the board agrees that that's a viable site that we could build on then we don't have to we spend a fair amount of time with Morse looking for property and looking for a place to build and having hearings about are we going to renovate and are we going to build new and I don't think we need to talk about that on this one forgot right you blocked it you blocked it great anything else and we' have a celebration yeah that's great um go ahead Deb so tonight we're looking at January um seven months into the year we've spent almost $23 million um we've got encumbered 15 million dollar and the majority of that is salary and benefits um so we're in line with where we spend is on the expense side 12.9% remaining last year
045it was 12.2 um as far as Revenue we've brought in almost 26 million and once again we're at the same um amount pretty much of how we spend every year um tuition's coming in I expect it to be a little bit less than what we have budgeted only because the number of students and the rates a little bit different but you know we hope that some of the other revenues come in to close that Gap um once again we've listed all the federal funds and that's just basically what we received there's no expense of you know no description of how we've spent everything or year to date and um couple of those Lincoln Health Grants and we're working away at those and um that's about it everything's as planned pretty much you know just keeping
046our eyes on things no un nothing unusual nothing unusual at this point good so any questions on go ahead so funding expectations and changes of funding in terms of federal funding is there any way to predict anything that we're looking at or we've heard anything back from our funding resources that say this program may not be funded or this funding might be stopped or anything like that in terms of no I mean we just hope hope for the best okay you know I mean at this point you know this shows like one and a half million in federal funds and OB viously we're seven months into the year so um you know we haven't heard anything so I mean hopeful keep in touch with Robbie fineberg who's the new Communications person for msma and just
047keeping keeping in touch with him uh I think Deb did a nice job of outlining for you on that report that lower leftand column would be certain funds that are federally federally funded that I guess one could say if something's going to be impacted it might be one of those but also our food service program not just ours but everybody's in the state of Maine also could be could be impacted if um you because it is federally funded but again we don't we don't have any information at this time and do we have the do we how much percentage of these funds do we already have like is this this is what was awarded that's what's awarded annually okay and is there any kind of concept what we already have in our have drawn down
048this um I'd say probably like 60% I mean it depend you know I draw it down monthly based upon how we're spending so in February I'm drawing down what we spent in January so we're moving along and trying to we try to spend it you know fast yeah well we can get it because we just don't know yet all right any other questions for Deb all right thanks Deb appreciate it all right we're uh moving on to Old business youve we've got four different uh policies that are action items so you've seen them before the IGA field trips and other student travel ebbb accident reports ECA energy conservation Management in the schools ECB Pest Management and school facilities and on school grounds on are there any issues with any of these that someone wants to
049discuss and go ahead um I think this is what they call a routine technical amendment that wouldn't be has no really substantial change any the policies but could we um just take a look at them and the very first paragraph when it mentions the board of directors first if we could just slice in there the rsu1 board of directors I think I think that's enough to say identify it like in that first line and then every time it says the board after that I think it's easy to infer that but just as we just to look at those ones that were taking action tonight and just update that a little bit but nothing just so that it's specific to rsu1 versus any Board of director okay all right any other questions or concerns I had
050in the JJ OA field triops yep the very first sentence there's two th one needs to be removed and then I think the word of school sponsored trips as a means needs to be put back in so you have recognizes the educational value of school sponsored trips yeah it seems to me everyone follow that yeah okay any other edits maybe a little too technical but on ECA is it the nation's natural resources we want to conserve or the Earth's well it's a good question if folks thing you want to change it to Earth there a reason it's nation was this something is that a new word in there or is it how it was before how it was before and is it in reference it's a new policy oh it's a new policy um so
051what do you all think sounds good sounds good who owns them um is everyone okay with that is there a reason not to I was just trying to look at the context which one was where are you at you see so let's see effectively managing School unit finances yeah I mean I can see why it can be either but it's I'm fine with either which what do people want to go yeah Earth making friendly Amendment friendly Amendment yes okay okay everyone okay with that all right so we'll put that in Earth's natural resource uh anything else any other edits sure okay everybody's good so is we okay taking this as one vote all right uh so I just need a motion then approve the uh policies has written okay and a second from okay second
052from Patty all right any further discussion no all right all those in favor okay passed with amendments small friendly amendments okay um it's nice when it's friend friendly all right moving on to new business uh Katie good to see you um hope you had a good break instruction update instruction update is very short because I was actually hoping to answer Jen's question about title funding but I haven't sent any information out yet so I stand behind Deb's former answer um and then the only other quick update I had um that's non-budgetary is I did get a request from Maddie Do's office um to either go in person or write something and I will write something because it's for this Thursday um they are bringing up the 8:30 later start time again um and it's going
053to be heard testimony will be heard um this Thursday on for the educational committee so I I don't know anything other than that I will write something because I know that um the board had said if other folks do it we would want to reconsider um that and so I'll let you know any updates if I hear of them but other than that I have um nothing to add and hope to um be able to speak more about Federal funding next time great yeah know we know Maddie's always been the one putting it up there now that she's the Senate President right yeah yeah so she's got a little more influence so that'll be interesting to see what they do on the state level if anything right and what gr that it it would be
054for um every anyone essentially at middle school and high school would have 8:30 or later start time and often in the states who do it there are stipulations for if you start the younger students early how early they can go too so for instance when we were looking at it we were looking for roughly a just before 8 o'clock start time for the littles and then I think it was like 8:35 or 8:40 for the older students so I'll let you know if anything comes with it great um you're all set then nothing else okay thank you um so yeah I guess now uh approval of the school calendar and thank you for that um and all the uh continue with all the holidays and everything any comment you want to make KY anything different
055no nothing changed since when I spoke of it last time um we haven't had any trouble with the five to similar days from any of the other calendars that have been um submitted from the other districts so I think we should be good to go um to follow all those rules great there any questions from anybody on the school calendar you had a chance to look at it yeah thank you Katie I know this is not an easy process it's like a Rubik's Cube I'm sure never simple and so I have to say that Kim Burgess really does all the work and and she enjoys it um it's a strange passion of hers and she has anyone ever wants an archive she has every calendar dating back till 191 wow that's really cool so really
056we refer back to years with similar where days fell similarly and she's like our own historic record it's great that's great yeah cuz it's got to you know your this time Labor Day is right on right on uh right on the 1 so it's going to be an early September um okay great so this is an action item right we need to approve so we need to approve the calendar uh anyone have any other questions on it can have a motion yes okay okay and uh seconded by Megan all right um all those in favor okay calendar passes Aurora thinks nope not going not doesn't bu by me this time I'm done and for Charlie it's going to be the senior year it's a big deal all right so we've done that and where we
057at now we've got um first reading of board policies no action uh so look them over uh we've got graduation exercises facilities planning naming of facilities and memorials is there any comments or anything we need to know yes um for the graduation exercises policy I think we discussed in policy committee that we were going to add a section under the paragraph about special education there was going to be a a line that says like all the other groups individual responsible colon and then who would be responsible for overseeing that um and I think that would go under the special education sentence just so it kind of follows the same pattern as other names I think that was one thing um yeah I think I put it under four oh did I miss it I put
058it under four um oh oh I'm sorry there and because I just felt like that was more inclusive place to put it but nope thank you I'm sorry I missed that thank you okay that's good any other thing details things we should know that or look for I would just say naming of facilities and memorials yeah uh you know they can be sensitive and if you read those policies carefully they they do come back to the board for usually their final consideration and we haven't had much of that in this District but I think it's something that um you need to be comfortable with that's all okay great and with that regard so we have a Community member on our policy committee which I don't feel like I should say their names necessarily but there
059such a wonderful word Smith and really deep thinker and I I just want to say that the policy committee can't do the work that they do we do you know without a lot of help from individuals and people on the board and also the wonderful residents and citizens so it's a well that's great thank you for all those members thanks for that acknowledgement for folks that's great all right so of no questions on that for tonight yes there was on the memorials one I just saw the the he she that could be changed to they okay change that for the next iteration um anything else no okay let's move on to 11.5 overnight field trip requests it's an action item uh going to the lodge we need to any specific anything on this it's pretty
060straightforward no go ahead if you want say this is Leslie trundy fashion this is the group you can see the you know the students are responsible for some costs but the grant funds will cover if they can't go it's a Thursday through Saturday um yeah that's great yeah Jen I can't remember what she told me about this but I just thought about going 100 miles in the wilderness um is she there's the Wilderness first a thing called a wo or a wofer and is she a I couldn't remember what level of first aid she had and there's also one called wfr yeah I think she had I remember when she was talking about it I thought she had like almost everything okay not everything yeah she was she's up there she's okay yeah so we
061just need a motion for this so we can move approval and a second okay need a second and all those in favor and we are good thank you and then we're down to personel reports yeah just uh retirements Melanie Lewis who's an ed Tech in the system at Fisher Mitchell and would like to thank her for 38 years in the system wow yeah and then 12.1 B um I'd have you take off the agenda for right now just because we're still um trying to to work that situation out so um so I I would not bring that forward to you tonight we're not ready to okay all right we'll hold off on that 13.0 board goals Jennifer did you want to sure um I think that if in reviewing our accident report policy ebbb we
062met our goal to um I think in meeting a uh continued uh review of our facilities um you'd find uh review of the policy uh facilities planning policy 11.4 B um so I think those are a couple of things we also got an update on the con School construction which follows goal four um and I think that hits those goals for this great thank you all right so where we are now is we're going to go into executive session uh pursuant to one MRSA 405 to confer with legal counsel and so the students you guys can take off because when we get back we're just going to be adjourning and setting the next meeting date and uh everyone else can go and we'll we'll just need we need a vote to go in right so
063I just need a motion to go into to uh I move to enter executive session second second by Anita and all those in favor okay we we'll go into that as soon as everyone else clears out e e