001I'll call the special meeting to order. This will be the 5:30 p.m. meeting. Um, so this will be uh in your packet as 5:30. We are a little behind, but that is okay. Is there any objection to waving the pledge of allegiance as we've already gone through this hearing? None. Uh, quarum call, please. Director Black. Yes. Director Crods here. Director Dotus. Director Heath here. Director Marian. Director Moses here. Director Mazerv here. Director Sergeant here. Director Sylvester here. Director Welch here. You have 10 members present. 10 members present. We have a quorum. So number four on our agenda is appoint appointment of the chair person of the board. Easy for me to say. Uh the nomination period will be considered open. I'll entertain motions for board chair. Director Sergeant, can you put put your uh microphone
002on too, please? Or Miss Heath? I nominate Paul Welch for chair. Second. I accept. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none, um I will give a very brief um speech, I guess. Uh although I've been spending the past month and a half campaigning for our school budget, which fantastically did pass, and for our board members that we're running unopposed, um I still have plenty of energy to dedicate to the district, to the people that work here, to the people, the students that go here, to the the parents, the families of the district, to the people that are paying the taxes. who have no children in our in our district. Um, I look forward to, if elected, representing all of you and speaking for this board with one voice. Thank you. Sandy, can we take a
003roll call vote, please? Director Black, yes. Director Croitz, yes. Director Dotus. Director Heath, yes. Director Marian, yes. Director Moses, yes. Director Mazerb, yes. Director Sergeant, yes. Director Sylvester, yes. Director Welch, yes. You have 10 members voting yes. 10 members voting yes. A chairperson has been elected. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Oh, Mr. Carlo. Mr. Carlo. We cannot hear you yet though. It might be in the room. I have my audio on. Can you hear me now? Yes. This at the next meeting. Okay. Um I just wanted to speak in support of your nomination, but that's not necessary. you've been elected unanimously. Um, and I wanted to congratulate you and convey my full support of your leadership. Um, I regret I can't be there in person to pass the g to you. Um, but I want
004the board to know it has just made a phenomenal choice. Um, having served with director and now chairman Welch over the last two years um, as vice chairman and over the last longer than that as in this capacity as a member. I've gotten to know Paul quite well. Um his support for Bonnie Eagle, uh students, staff, faculty, and parents, taxpayers of this community um is unimpeachable and I'm so proud that you are sitting uh at the roster as chairman and I know that you will make great decisions for our district. uh and I wanted to convey to you my personal congratulations on this uh excellent achievement. Thank you Paul for your service to our district. Thank you Mr. Carlo. So on to number five, appointment of the vice chairperson of the board. I do want
005to bring a motion at this point to table this discussion um since Mr. Carlo is interested in running but is unable to until he has signed the signed the paperwork and taken the oath of office. Um this would be something that would have to be second and would have to be voted on. You'd have to uh approve this um this motion. So having placed the motion on the floor I look for a second. The motion is to table the search for the or the uh the appointment of a vice chairperson until a time when Mr. Carla will be able to be at a meeting. This is something that would need to be seconded and would need to be voted in the affirmative or voted down. Question. Yes. And I don't know if we know the
006answer to this. I do. Maybe. Are we can we appoint can we put him up for nomination if he's not officially signed in? Is that part of the issue? Correct. Yeah. he would not be available to vote in any of the coming this meeting the special meeting and the meeting after that until such a time that he's been able to take the oath and sign the paperwork to yeah I mean the voting I'm not as concerned with but you know if we can't even nominate and he's interested obviously that doesn't seem super fair I mean so I I'll second it to put the motion on the Or we can still discuss. Yes. Yes. Or if we if we choose not to second it, then the motion would not be before you and we'd move to
007nominations. I'll second it. Erica Croitz has seconded it. Is there Let's uh have discussion. Mr. Chair. Yes. I made the motion. Yep. before we vote on it. Um, if he's attending the meeting remotely, has the state rescended the right for us to have remote meetings? No. No, it's not because No, it's this is because he is not able to sign the paperwork because he was up for re-election as well. So, as he has not taken the oath, has not signed the paperwork, he's determined that he would not be a voting member at this point and not eligible to be um appointed or nominated as a vice chairman. This is something he is interested in doing. Dr. Moses, I'll defer to the majority. If you want to put it off for a week or two, that's
008fine, but I'm going to be gone. for a couple of weeks, too, because I'm head north. So, you know, we're going to have vacations this summer. 17th July, right? Yeah, that's what I was going to just say that just for clarity. The the next Well, we're proposing that the next meeting be is it the 17th? Is that Monday in July? That sounds right. 14th 14th 14th of July. It would be Monday the 14th of July is what we're proposing to be the summer meeting. The board could suggest a different date, but that would the July meeting is usually set at this time and that would be the next regular meeting after the one that follows. Director M. Yeah. Um I just I won't support this motion. I think we're all here. It's we need to
009get the office slate of offices in place. We all have choices that we have to make uh instead of waiting till the middle of July. Um, I think we ought to take the vote or if there are others nominated. Um, I don't know that there are any nominations currently on the floor. Correct. Not at this time, but there could be. So, I'm I'm go I'm good to go now. So, that's I won't support it. I'm going to be away in July, too, that week. Um, and this is what happens every summer. We, you know, we have holes in our membership because we only have one meeting in August and one in July. And so, can we nominate uh Mr. Carlo when he's not attending? No, we we could nominate others. We could vote for other
010people if we vote this down and they could be elected the vice chair, but we cannot nominate Mr. Harlo as a candidate before he's been able to oh take the oath sign the paperwork director Mariam so we can't nominate rep um Mr. Carlo because his term is expired and he was reelected and he needs to be sworn in in order to become an active board of director person and he's not been sworn in. So he's his term is expired. Other discussion roll call vote, please. Can you repeat the Oh, we're voting to table the uh appointment nominations of a vice chairman until the next meeting, July 14th. Director Black, no. Director Crods, yes. Dotus, Hold on just a sec. Director Dakotas, could you repeat your answer? Yes. Director Heath, you voting yes. What is your
011vote? Director Dotus says no to table. No toling. Director Heath, no. Director Marian, no. Director Moses, no. Director Mazerve, no. Director Sergeant, no. Director Sylvestri, yes. Chairman Welch, yes. You have three votes in the affirmative. and seven in the negative. Three votes in the affirmative, seven in the negative. The motion fails. Uh, open the floor to nominations for vice chairperson of the board. Director Moses, I'd like to nominate Miss Kelly Heath as vice chair of the board. Two seconds. Um, three seconds. That's a third. Do you accept, Miss Heath? You have to accept first. I do accept. Wonderful. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none. Would you like to make a speech? Yeah. Thank you. I'm very excited um to serve in this way and I think over the years I've been on the school
012board now for four full years and I've had some leadership capacities um namely that in the uh negotiations as chair of the negotiations and I think that and finance and facilities and that in both roles um especially in the negotiations I was had a really nuanced leadership of that and I work from consensus and to try and build consensus in everything that we do. And so I'm hopeful that um Paul and I will work really well together and I'm very excited with the opportunity and uh promise that uh I won't embarrass the board in any way with my antics. Thank you. Thank you for your confidence in my seconds. Dr. Moses, I just want to say in support of Kelly, um I think it's good to have new blood. Uh I've served on the board
013for a thousand years, it seems like. And um I've worked with Kelly in negotiations and I think she'll be a great second seat and provide some some new blood as we go forward as most of the blood in here is getting old. So, um speak for yourself. I appreciate that. Speak for yourself. Yeah. Thank you. Uh Mr. Chair, I'd just like to add a comment. Sergeant, yes. I served with Kelly uh on negotiations on this last round and she did a marvelous job and haven't been on negotiations before the previous rounds is really a thankless job because you've got many good people looking for increases and you have a certain amount of money and you have to balance all these things and uh I just want to say She handled the job very well and
014uh it was a pleasure working with her. Thank you. Thank you. Any other discussion? Roll call vote, please. Director Black, yes. Director Croitz, yes. Director Dotus, yes. Director Heath, yes. Director Marian, yes. Director Moses, yes. Director Mazerv, yes. Director Sergeant, yes. Director Sylvestri, yes. Chairman Welch, yes. 10 members voting in the affirmative. 10 members voting in the affirmative. Director Heath is our vice chair. Come on. [Music] Bring your microphone, please. You know, my middle. Look at the view. Number six, appointment of other officers of the board. There are no other officers of the board to appoint at this time. Um, Miss Cormier will send out the email that's going to ask for folks to put in their wants, asks on which of the committees that they'd like to to be on. Um, so I'll be
015eagerly looking forward to that and assigning folks as close to what their preferences would be as possible. I will uh go to number seven, adjournment. I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. Director Black. Is there a second? Director Sergeant. Um, roll call vote, please. Director Black. Yes. Director Croitz. Yes. Director Dotus. Yes. Director Heath. Yes. Director Marian. Yes. Director Moses. Yes. Director Moser. Yes. Director Sergeant. Yes. Director Sylvestri. Yes. Chairman Welch. Yes. We have 10 members voting yes. 10 vote vote 10 members voting in the affirmative. Uh this meeting will adjourn for two minutes and we will start a regular board meeting.