001Check. Check. Mic check. M check. Evening everyone. It is 700 p.m. So I'm going to call the meeting to order. We have everyone here except for Scott and our two student board members. So everyone else is present. I would invite those who are able to stand and join me in the pledge of >> 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. At this point, I will entertain a motion on approval of the minutes for our regular meeting of April 15th. >> So, second. >> We have a motion. We have a motion and a second on the minutes for April 15th. Is there any discussion, edits, um, changes? Not seeing any. All those
002in favor. Any abstensions? And any opposed? So, we have one abstension. All right. Um, we have an adjustment to the agenda. Uh we have a new item uh for a field trip to approve field trip for Wagner. We'll also be changing the order of the new business. We're going to move the Honeywell contract to item C, the field trip to item D, and the approval of the budget to item E. And at this time, I will turn it over to the superintendent for recognitions. >> Thank you. Uh at this point I would like to introduce Mr. Matador. Uh Mr. Mador has a group with him today that received a nice recognition lately. So if Mr. Mador you could come to the podium with your uh students and participants and let us all know who they
003are and what they're here for. Hello. >> [clears throat] >> So, I have with me Sadie Saunders and I have Bennett Oranowitz. And Sloan, would you like to come up with me? It's okay. All right. And I have Sloan Saunders over there. And we are, this is a small amount of our group of Best Buddies. So, Best Buddies works with getting students with intellectual and developmental disabilities um to be having a sense of belonging and inclusion in their schools. So, I started the group this year thinking maybe we'll get 10 kids. We got 80. I thought [laughter] maybe I might have one adult help me out. I got seven. And it was an amazing team. And throughout the year, we've just grown and had amazing um events together. And just recently, we got school of
004the year for our friendship walk that we went to. We raised the most funds. And then we also were just uh given main elementary chapter of the year. >> So uh very excited. And I I want to invite Bennett and Satie to maybe say a couple things about what they like about Best Buddies. Um, I like about what I like about Best Buddies is it teaches you about like inclusion and equity and all these like factors that will will go on to help you in life. >> Um, it also teaches you about like like respecting the kids with IBDs and how like how you should treat them. And I think it's been a great experience for me and I really enjoyed >> spending time with Mr. >> What I like about Best Buddies is that
005it can teach me how to like interact with other people and like being kind to other people who sometimes don't be kind to me, but I can still help them. >> [applause] >> Thank you very much and congratulations um Bennett and Satie. I think a lot of people even my age have a hard time coming up to speak at a podium in front of a bunch of adults and I know that there are some adults here tonight that are going to do that and struggle with it. You two were phenomenal. You did a fantastic job and Kudos to both of you. Congratulations to you and your group and to Mr. Mador. Uh very pleased with how you're representing Weatherbe and RSU22. Keep it up. Hopefully get some more [clears throat] kids and adults helping out.
006Good job. Thank you. [applause] >> Uh next group that I would like to introduce are some staff members and I think uh all three of them are here. So I want to have uh director Pete Merritt come up and with his two participants you can introduce the two as well as why they are here. >> These two don't want to talk at all. Actually >> I'm Pete. I'm the food service director here for the school district. And this is Hannah Liberty. She's the chef manager for the district and also the kitchen manager for Weatherbe and McGra and Brenda from WA school down in Wport. And so we are the winners of the main department of education farm to school cookoff state competition this year. Um it was a lot of work. Uh there were regional
007rounds that uh challenged food service kitchens all over the state to scratch cook and hit certain benchmarks um nutritional benchmarks, costing benchmarks and make the food taste good. Um and so we were able to do that. Um our we had to do a breakfast and a lunch. Uh and the breakfast was a really great uh granola uh parfait with strawberries and blueberries. They hand homemade the granola from Maine products and everything. It was really good. Used USDA blueberries and then we did a burrito uh that used USDA stuff also. Beef and cheese burrito. Was really fantastic. Individually rolled, individually wrapped. And this is stuff that we do at our schools also. We did them. You rolled three or 400 yesterday. I know. >> 375. But who's counting? Um, so, uh, they really practiced. They worked
008a lot. There was a lot of paperwork. There was a lot that went into it. They got together on the side to make sure they had their routine down because it was just like any cooking competition where there's time and certain rules and I couldn't talk to them or coach them. So, it was pretty easy for me once they set everything in in motion. So, they did a great job. Um if you're over at um the McGrath school and you see this great big state of Maine wooden carved plaque thing, that's uh what we got and it's nailed to the wall over there. So nice job ladies and you made us all proud. Thank you. [applause] I guess either one of you want to talk. >> Not particularly. >> Okay. I do I figure uh
009[laughter] but there we do have a gift for you. Um, we're very proud of you. And so, part of our maker space program with Mr. Moore and Mr. Huff, we had some sweatshirts uh designed for the two of you. So, give those to you. And congratulations. I won't force you to to talk. [laughter] [applause] Those are great. >> Thank you. [clears throat] >> Thank you so much. >> Congratulations. >> Uh the next two I would like to invite up uh Mr. Moore and Mr. Huff and they can introduce a couple of the students that they have here on two different topics. Uh, good evening. Thank [clears throat] you for having Miss Moore and I here tonight. It's that time of year again when we get to recognize Hannah Academyy's Skills USA participants from UTC. Skills
010USA is a partnership of students, teachers, and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce. Skills USA helps each student excel by providing educational programs, events, competitions that support career and technical education in admissions classrooms. This year, Hampton Academy had eight students compete in the competition which was held at United Technology Center, Cross Insurance Center, and Easter Community College on March 12th and 13th. Mr. Moore is going to announce those students that participated. The following three students represented Haymon Academy in their respective competitions. Ava Black in photography, Mariah Robbins in customer service, and Liam White in emergency medical technician team F. [clears throat] The following five students received medals in their respective competitions. Madison Austin, bronze, crime scene investigation team C. Riley Frasier, bronze emergency medical technician, team D. Andrew Green, bronze in
011plumbing. And Carly Croll, Career Pathways, Business, Team C, and Brody Miller won gold uh in heating, but that's a stateonly competition. We do have Carly here tonight. She's right there if anybody has any questions. >> Carly, do you have anything you want to say about Skills USA? Um, I just wanted to say that skills was a really great opportunity for me and for other students that participated with me and I think it was really unique to be able to compete in it. >> So, how many students did you participate against? >> Um, I competed against four different teams and I was in a group of three. >> Okay. And what was specific to your project or event that you had to do? >> Um, so for mine, we showed the other students in UTC how
012to build a resume, complete a job application, and we did mock interviews with them so that they're ready for the world outside school. >> Thank you very much. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> UTC also had their any year awards night last night and today we received a list of award winners and Mr. Huff is going to announce those students and their awards. [clears throat] >> So there were four different awards given out last night to the students. uh an outstanding student award where each instructor chooses no more than two students who have excelled in their program. A growth and grit award. This award is presented to no more than two students per program who have shown tremendous perseverance and self-improvement throughout the school year. A UTC Compass Award. This award recognizes leadership through service to our
013community and culture. And a UTC Ambassador Award presented to a single outstanding student who exemplifies the very best of career and technical education. We had 23 students out of 87 that we send that got one of those awards >> and I'm going to read those off now. For diesel mechanics, Carter Austin won outstanding student and a compass award. For law enforcement, Madison Austin won an outstanding student. Video and a audio production, Ava Black won a UTC Compass Award. Health occupations CNA Brian Carile won a Compass Award. Small engines, Alex Frank won an outstanding student. Emergency medical, Riley Frasier, outstanding student. Plumbing and heating, Andrew Green, a Compass Award and an Emark scholarship recipient. In electrical, Benjamin Hooper won the UTC Ambassador Award and the Compass Award. In hospitality, Amy King won a Compass Award. Uh,
014business leadership one, Carly Croll, a growth and grit award. Medical assisting one, Kendra Leblanc, an outstanding student. Medical assisting one, also Annabelle Lebec, outstanding student. Plumbing and heating, Brody Miller, outstanding student. Business leadership one, Cadence Moran, a Compass Award in culinary, Desireenko, outstanding student. Small engines, Ian Robisho Compass Award. Also in Small Engines, Sev Rogers, a growth of grid award. In law enforcement, Jessica Sass outstanding student. [clears throat] In welding, Isabelle Sosier, outstanding student and compass award. Uh, electrical, Miles Shane, a growth and grid award and a tool ship award. Construction operations, Owen Wayoth, a growth and grid award. natural resources and outdoor rec recreation Rowan Wickham growth and grid award and emergency medical Liam White outstanding student. So that's quite a list. Uh Mr. Moore is now going to announce students who are inducted
015into the National Technology Honor Society [clears throat] back on May second. So the following students were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society. Carter Austin for diesel mechanics. Breen Bates for digital arts and software. McKenzie Cunningham for medical assisting. Amy King for hospitality and law. Jessica Sass for law enforcement. Isabelle Sauier for welding. Miles Shane for electrical and Michaela Shaw for medical assistant. That that completes that list. Um we also have with us tonight a few Um, no, we already did that part of the questions. So, now we're going to change gears a little bit and talk about students. >> Can were you going onto the drone piece? >> I was. >> Can we just talk a little bit about uh UTC just quickly? Typically at this time of year there are students that go
016to the National Skills USA. Correct. >> And so I think you mentioned one person that had a gold, correct? >> And ordinarily that individual goes on but is not this time. And you alluded to it a little bit, but can you explain why that Um the plumbing and heating is uh for it's a state exam only. All the other states have so many different exams. So Brody is not eligible to compete at the national level. But he did win gold at the state level. >> So we typically if it's a program that uh is on is sponsored at the national level, we often times will sponsor registration for them to go to that event. And since we don't have anyone going uh that's not part of the new business. But if Brody and the situation
017had the ability to go because the national uh competition sponsored it, then we would be doing that for today that >> So uh we're going to change gears a little bit and talk about students and the Hayman Academyy's new drone program. And Mr. Huff and I would like to recognize the following commercial drone students who have recently passed their part 107 exam to become commercial remote pilots. Andrew Green and Dorian Hills both passed their exam last week. Don Gamble and Dylan Newmeister passed their exams today. And tonight we do have Don and Dorian if you'd like to come up. >> Who wants to talk? >> The exam is so much fun. I'm kidding. It's not. But so, uh, last week I went with my dad to Augusta to take my part 107 exam and it
018was really tough. Um, cuz a lot of the stuff I wasn't really sure on, but it was a great experience. Uh, it was really cool to go to the airport and take the test. Uh and uh it both the classes this year have given me a great opportunity to explore technology like up and coming that not a lot of people like are aware of yet and it's really cool and now I have much more opportunities to kind of pass the test. So >> um I'm grateful for the opportunity to have been able to take this test by Mr. Moore and Mr. teaching this class to us. And um though it was hard, it was worth it. I'm curious about the test. Not that I want answers or anything like that because I I know I
019wouldn't be able to pass it, but is it a practical test where you're actually flying or is it a written test or is it both? Can you explain that? >> Uh it's a written test. There's no flying involved. Um yeah. So, so you could be the worst flyer, Dorian, to on these uh drones, but be able to pass a written test and you have your license. >> Uh yeah, [laughter] >> I can promise you that these two are not [laughter] >> they do a really nice job, but hypothetically speaking, they were not good at flying. >> A lot of the questions are about regulations and all the stuff that you have to obey. And so, by knowing that, you can be a better gun flyer. >> [applause] [applause] >> Can I ask a question before
020you leave? So, getting this license, what does that provide for you or what is it you're able to do now that you have this license? >> Um, so now that we have our part 107 license, uh, we can fly commercially. So, we can uh get hired by a business and like take pictures or like there's a lot with like agriculture going on. Um before as a recreational pilot, you can't do that. Um so, uh because of the new windows that drones are opening up uh nowadays, uh it opens a lot of opportunities for um pilots uh drone pilots. >> Thank you. Congratulations. >> We also have six more students that will sit for the exam next week. Aiden Saran, Rogan Lord, Sawya Worcester, Silus Bryant, Sawyer Castro Long, and Nick Dwil will be sitting next
021week for their test. Uh, out of all the the 16 that we have in the commercial drone class, 11 of them are sitting for the test. Um, and we Charlie and I would just like to take this moment to thank the district for the commitment for this program and for the students. >> Can you talk about the guest? [laughter] You had a guest a visitor the other day. Would you talk about that? >> Yes. So, um, we had Sergeant Zach Monroe. Um, and it was a connection that I had from rural basketball coach who's a forest ranger and I saw him back in March and he sent gave me contact info for Sergeant Moro who runs the whole drone program for the forest service. So he came in a couple weeks ago and talked to
022our class and talked about how they use their drones and what the training program is like. Um, and then he brought in a very nice drone that we'd like to buy, but [laughter] so and he was able to demonstrate to the kids and have them uh interact and help them set up the drone. And we didn't have a lot of time to fly, but uh he just actually contacted me again today and he's probably going to come in next week and do some mapping missions and then show the kids the software that all those mapping missions and the pictures go on and how they're used in real life. the reason why we had to post. >> So, he was coming in, he came in a couple weeks ago on a Friday, was going to come
023in on Tuesday, but that's when the unfortunate uh plane accident happened with the game warden. Um, and he got called from that for maybe half an hour before he was going to come to here to to HA. So, he went to there um to use his drone. He was put in service for that reason. So, and they were joking about getting this drone and I I knew that we could not afford it when I saw the three luggage suitcases that this drone came. It was actually quite impressive. >> The uh the camera alone on his drone costs as much as our expensive drones >> and he had well and he also had eight batteries I think in its own suitcase. Yes, >> we both thought he was bringing three different drugs until we actually opened
024[laughter] them up. >> I I do have a question for you. Maybe two. Um, are you aware of any other high school in the state of Maine that offers a drone program? >> As a matter of fact, yes. And we just kind of learned this. Um, we're going to UMI tomorrow to do a presentation for our drone class and uh this school for MLI. And there's also um a school from Saco and we're unsure if it was Thornton Academy. It just says so schools on emails. I don't I'm not sure if it's Thornton Academy or the middle school down there or what, but they do have a drone program as well. >> Okay. And my other question is what type of opportunities I love this program. What type of opportunities um can these students pursue
025after high school with with their pilot license? >> Uh it's really endless. I mean, they can go into video production, cinema, um they could get hired by Disney. Um drones are everywhere in movies and uh just there's uh one of our instructors last year when we went through our training, he uh primarily flies, so not primarily, but one of the things he does a lot is flying over our solar fields and he can use his thermal imaging camera to detect the panels that have gone bad and then he sends a report to a team and they go out and fix that panel. >> So, there's there's a lot of opportunities out there. Real estate, there's so many different things that drones are used for now in a good way. >> Thank you. All right. So,
026now we're at the public comment part. So, I'll go through my spiel first. Um, comments by individ I'm going to just give a the synopsis of the uh policy on public participation at schoolboard meetings. Comments by individuals are limited to a maximum of 3 minutes at a meeting. Um and individuals may not relinquish a portion of their aotted time to another speaker. Um unfortunately I do have to we have to hold to this. So when we get to 3 minutes the timer goes off. I'm going to ask you to to wrap up your sentence and then um we'll wrap it up. At that point uh individuals who wish to speak are required to fill out the signin form. People have done that already. Um, each individual will be required to state their name and the
027town city of residence before beginning their remarks. I'm going to ensure the orderly conduct of um the meeting and um so speakers will be recognized by me and comments should be addressed to the board chair. Requests for information or concerns that require um further research may be referred to the superintendent for further action if needed. Um, speakers are expected to follow rules of common etiquette and decorum and refrain from engaging in disruptive conduct, including but not limited to using vulgar and/or obscene language, yelling, threatening others, using words or by action, making defamatory comments, exceeding the allotted time limits, talking over or interrupting others, offering repetitive comments, and offering comments on matters unrelated to the school unit's programs, policies or operations. Discussion of personnel matters is not permitted during the public comment period due to the
028privacy, confidentiality and due process rights of school unit employees. For purposes of this policy, discussion of personnel matter means any discussion whether positive or negative of job performance or conduct of a school unit employee. Discussion of matters involving student individual students are also not permitted during the public comment period. due to the privacy, confidentiality, and due process rights of the school unit students. Um, any concerns about personnel matters and or student matters should be directed to the superintendent or another appropriate administrator outside of board meetings. Um, I'll stop. any public comment that is contrary to these rules and any individual who disrupts a board meeting yes asked to leave in order to allow the board to conduct its business in an orderly manner. Um and given that um Mrs. Boon who do we have first
029>> we welcome Sahara Japan. >> Hello. Hi there. My name is Sahara Jagner and we say Camden, right? Hampton. Um, so for those of you who are not here last month, I am a critical care nurse by trade, but first and foremost, I'm a parent to a child who attends McGrath School along many other families who care deeply about the safety and well-being of their kiddos, staff, and as well as community uh specifically surrounding drop off and pickup plans. We truly recognize that many people within this district work incredibly hard every single day in and out for our kids and they ensure that they are safe, supported, learning, growing, and cared for. And we're generally, excuse me, genuinely grateful for that. I also specifically wanted to acknowledge the positive interactions regarding concerns within the school
030community. They have been consistently uh in my interactions kind, engaging, and responsive with these interactions that I've had recently. I just wanted to offer I know I can't do shout outs like you said, but I do want to just highlight that I am so grateful to be a part of the McGrath school and I really appreciate every single teacher and every staff member um that are a part of our community. So, we're here to address again our parking lot uh situation, not just McGrath, but also I wanted to highlight uh weather theme. April 15th at 700 p.m., several parents attended the school board meeting to advocate for addressing the safety concerns regarding this issue. Since then, more parents have continued reaching out, communicating with one another, and trying to understand what the appropriate coordinated path
031forward is. Over time, multiple families have attempted different avenues to raise concerns as well. Some parents have emailed administrations. Some have spoken directly with school staff. Others attended meetings. Others attempted to raise concerns through district communication. Many of these efforts existed long before I personally became involved as well. Because of that, when parents began connecting with one another, the goal was not to bypass anyone or ignore procedures whatsoever. The goal is to work collectively as many families had felt that they had already individually tried different pathways and channels without a clear resolution or coordinated path forward. We understand that uh there may not be a quick or easy solution. We know that there isn't but we do want to be able to discuss uh involving in the involvement of different levels of responsibility that including
032school administration, transportation operations and district planning. Um this is going to take a lot of cooperation from all of us as a community ultimately focusing on protecting the kiddos. This is exactly why many of us believe that an ad hoc committee could be valuable. Not to assign any negativity whatsoever, but meaning to pull everybody together, an appropriate means for everybody to collaborate. I do just want to end with that um tonight is concerning. Uh I there's not a lot here tonight representing themselves, but they did um sign this. uh 75 parents are showing their concern tonight and are supportive in creating a hawk. So I would like do I give that to you sir? >> Yes. >> Thank you M. >> Thank you. >> And we refer just ahead. Hi, I'm Jessica Madden. I am
033also a parent from um or I live in Hampton. I'm a parent of one kiddo immigrant and two more coming in. And I just um want to come alongside um Sarah and Farah and just representing uh the importance and significance of trying to collaboratively uh discuss this moving forward regarding uh coming up with uh solutions for the parking lot specifically a pickup there. I won't get into detail but it it is uh very messy there. So just want to come alongside these ladies and support them and just uh show my presence here with them today. Thanks. Thank you. And Sarah Perry, please. [cough] My name is Sarah Perry and I reside here in Hampton with my family. Um I would like to just share an email that I think um will just kind of shed
034some light on how long this has been an ongoing problem for the um district. So this email was sent to the superintendent's office on June 12th of 2025. Good morning. I want to start by asking you to read this as a challenge or problem to solve and not as a complaint. My youngest daughter is completing her prek year at Agra. My oldest is finishing her sophomore year at HA. I've been around a while. This past year, I've been with a totally different group of parents than I was when my oldest was up for. It seems as though we find ourselves in the same situation we have been all these years with no improvement at all. The fact that parents in Hampton often prefer pickup and drop off as opposed to bus service really isn't part
035of this problem. I suppose that's a right parents have probably each one for our own reason. The challenge is there's simply not enough room to navigate buses and commuter traffic in the existing space safely. This whole year, I've experienced this in one capacity or another. In fact, one day I walked out from pickup to find this, which I'm happy to circulate if you'd like. My car is the white car by the bus, which there were no buses parked there when I arrived. It felt very intentional to park far closer to my car, not allowing me to open the passenger door and put my 5-year-old in her car seat than to the bus sitting next to it. The space between the other two buses in the picture is much smaller, so it didn't feel necessary except
036to make a point. Yesterday, I arrived at school for field day lunch only to have half of the parking lot unavailable for parking. Everyone knows that Mcgrron Weatherbe Field Day is happening. I think we can make a plan for buses to be elsewhere that day. I heard lots of complaints from parents, but I'm not sure if if it wouldn't move beyond complaining to each other, although how can we make it better if we don't share it with those who can make a change? This morning I had arrived at drop off and nothing was different about the morning except someone from the bus company was standing in the middle of the parking lot telling people they can't park where they park every morning to drop kids off. When my oldest was having field day, I had
037to park a minivan in a tight spot and I parallel parked along the road only to be laughed at, pointed at, and mocked by the circle of bus drivers that were having a barbecue on the same day as the kids field day. Again, half the parking lot was blocked off. I actually filed a formal complaint with the bus company at that time for such unkind actions from a group of their employees. I do love the bus drivers. I do want to make that clear. Um, we teach kindness to our kids at RSU22 and reward them for displaying it. And yet, when they arrive at school in the morning, they are met with these interactions. Who owns the parking lot? Is there a different area in Hampton for Seir to operate out of? What we have
038been doing this whole time isn't working. We simply have too many commuters and a bus company that appears to own the parking lot that we need to leave our cars at for the two minutes it takes to walk our kids to the door. I'm really hoping this can bring a conversation. Maybe it is an existing one and I'm not aware of it. I would take any recommendations you have of who needs to hear these concerns who we can do better in the future. And I'll just wrap up with this. This is an invitation we all as parents received at least at McGra I'm assuming at B2. Uh an invitation for field day. It's going to be on June 3. They're inviting parents and siblings to come and enjoy lunch together. I think it would be
039a great opportunity for us to park the buses elsewhere for the day so that the parents can actually park and participate in an event that we've been invited to participate in. And if anybody would like to see the picture, I'm happy to pass that on. >> Thank you. >> And that concludes today's comment. All right. So, um, public comments over. I actually have before the parents leave, um, a brief announcement on the parking situation. So, I want to thank you for coming in this evening to share concerns about um, school pickup and drop off at the Mcron Weatherbe schools. Um, we hear you loud and clear. As parents and community members, the safety of your children is your top priority. We understand that. It's ours as well. That care doesn't stop at the school doors.
040It extends to the parking lots and crosswalks at the schools. To be transparent how about how we solve problems like this, the board's role is to set and monitor safety policies while our building principles handle the day-to-day operations. Because every school campus has a unique layout and unique traffic problem patterns and problems that come along with that. A single district-wide rule won't work for all of the schools. The best most effective solutions happen at the building level. To that end, our administration is actively looking into this. Uh we fully support our principles as they work together to assess the traffic flow, but they can't do it alone. They need your partnership. So, we encourage you to collaborate directly with the school principles um and the PTO to help share pract shape practical solutions. Um whether
041that looks like staggered pickup ideas or volunteer traffic committees. Um I again the board wants to thank you for bringing this to our attention and uh we're committed the district the administrators the the board are committed to working together to keep our dismissal and pick up uh safe and smooth uh I'm sorry dismissal and pickup are the same thing dismissal and drop off um safe and smooth for everyone. And so without further ado, we'll go on to you, Nick. >> So personnel, uh, coming up, we have a couple of resignations to announce. Uh, Britney Russell, director of health, wellness, and safety, uh, has resigned, as well as Gerald Peter, third grade teacher at, uh, Weatherbe School. Nominations, we have a couple here tonight with us. Uh, first and foremost, we have Emma Van Luven, Spanish
042teacher, hand academy nomination. Emma has five years experience in middle and high school levels. Uh she has a master's in English from the University of Maine, Bachelor of Art, major Spanish teaching, minor in English teaching from Brigham Young University and is being nominated at a salary of $55,682.98. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All those I forget. All those in favor. >> That's that's unanimous. >> I don't think >> she's not here. >> Okay. >> Uh, next nomination is Nicole Perry, special education teacher at Earl Gro School. And uh Nicole has 11 years experience as a special education teacher and manager at an outside agency. She has a bachelor of science elementary education with a focus in special education from the University of Main Prescott. Nicole was being nominated
043at a salary of $62,535.15. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor. Uh is there any discussion? All those in favor? >> And that's unanimous. >> And Nicole is here. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> Uh, a couple transfer, three transfers to announce. Kate Ford, grade four teacher to grade three teacher at Smith School. Rebecca Miller, kindergarten teacher to grade four teacher at Smith School. And Chris Beckwith, grade three teacher at Smith School to grade five teacher at Wagner. [clears throat and cough] And any of those that don't want to stay the rest of the meeting, feel free to go. If you like, you're welcome to stay the entire time. Don't want to force you. >> Congratulations. So, next thing on the agenda, reading the essential behaviors and outcomes is uh Kristen. >> Thank
044you. Um, education enables all students to learn the skills, acquire the knowledge and develop the attitudes necessary for them to reach their potential as citizens who can meet the challenges of a changing global society. We believe that all citizens and our communities share the responsibility to educate our children and themselves. Our schools are community support systems and should welcome and encourage all members of our communities to participate. And our schools will have a supportive and empowering atmosphere for all students and community members. >> Thank you. Ordinarily at this time in the May meeting, we would recognize our graduating senior. Um he is not here today because he does have a baseball game. So he did let us know in advance. Uh he is welcome to attend the June meeting, but more likely than not the
045graduating seniors are done once graduation occurs. So uh if Ashton does not join us again for the June meeting, we'll be sure to get them his uh uh certificate and letter. Uh but certainly we do appreciate what he has done uh it's two years that he has committed uh and we look forward to hear some positive things out of him because I I do think that he's uh going on to some big adventures coming up. >> Yeah. I want and I've known Ashton since he was three years old. So it's it's kind of an honor having served with them and seeing it's like you see kids grow up that you've known and and see the things that they do as they get older. And it's incredible what um how they serve and and then honor
046and then I read about his exploits on the baseball diamond the other day and he pitched a gem the other night. So it's a it's been an honor working with them and then Annabelle does a great job too but she's here for another year and I've only known her for since September. So [snorts] next thing in your packet uh you have the PTO reports. This is always a nice time to recognize uh the parent organizations that we have within our district, whether that be uh academic or just uh supplemental materials for athletics. Our parent organizations, as you can see, uh I think it was nearly $50,000 that they uh donated back to this district. It's it's a tremendous amount of effort that our parent organizations put in and just uh certainly very appreciated uh for
047what they do for all of our schools in the district in general. So that's a nice little summary. There is no particular way that they have to submit it uh but we just put it in a spreadsheet for you so that you can see. So um just a large shout out to all of our organizations. I don't want to single one out in particular, but all of them do a fantastic job throughout the district uh at each one of our schools. So thank you very much for that. First, I'd like to congratulate Brian Cartwright. He is our education outreach coordinator. He's been invited to be a presenter at the main opioid summit this summer in Augusta. He'll be taking our mobile office down and he'll be talking about his role as an education outreach coordinator.
048He's made a lot of networks and brought resources to us and um is is building the program out and we're proud of that. I also want to formally thank the administrative team in RSU22. If you get that when you get the next issue of link 22, you're going to see a lot of hours of investment in that because we had a conscious conversation about telling our story this year. And even though they have a thousand things on their plate and everyone in education is exhausted right now, I think that the quality of this newsletter coming forward is very obvious. There's collaboration across grade spans. Principles at the elementary level wrote collaborative articles because there are themes that we're trying of uh topics that we're tackling and initiatives that we're taking on. And so we have
049a very comprehensive link 22 this time and I wanted to thank our our administrative team for that. And uh project reconnect is the last thing. I want to thank parent Michelle Crystal. Um she brought to uh Mrs. Pratt and myself Eric Topper with the Ottabbon Society and plans are changing all the time with that depending on resources. We had hoped to have someone from the main climate institute come and start working at our uh Wagner school this summer but they canceled funding to that program I learned today. So, [snorts] um I have mentioned that to you I think before and I want to let you know that that piece can't happen but Eric has uh mentioned moving forward with other layers and our goal for project reconnect is um well there are many but the
050biggest one to put on the radar is immediately we're going to have our scout troops make some tree cookies and those are just 3 in two to three inch chunks of trees that the scouts will paint color on one side and transparent or clear sealant on the other so that they can flip them over and play games and it's for Wagner so that we have creative play area. We have fifth graders coming up there. Um they don't have a playground yet, but it is on our list uh even if we have to get some grants in the long term. When we did our research through Project Reconnect, we were shocked at the outdoor play areas that are supposedly nature-based and you could pay $160 for six hurdles and growing up in county those are what
051we called sticks of wood. So [snorts] we are definitely going to use common sense, use our local resources. Bill Booth is going to provide the tree cookies, which are the slices of the trees that kids can manipulate and do, create, play with, and then bring in some hurdles as well. And then we did talk to another troop leader. Um, she's going to uh fine-tune things in the next couple months because everybody has a lot of projects going on, but we hope maybe for a seessaw, also nature based, some things like that that are more permanent than the hurdles in the tree cookies. But that's just our first tier and it happened because people brainstormed together and this parent Michelle Crystal connected us with Main Ottabon society. So good things happening there and I'm appreciative of
052the partnership of the rec departments and the libraries uh and the school PTO's wag too. Thank you guys. >> Uh next thing on my agenda or my section is the board report, the budget report. Uh if you look through the finances, we have uh 12.6% left in the fiscal year, 10.27% in the school year. If you look down through the percent remaining column, uh there are two that stand out as larger balances left. One being article 2, special education, uh the bulk of that would be the unfilled positions that we've had throughout the course of the year. Uh article four would be the other one that is uh 20.3% left. the bulk of that would be uh due to we're finishing up the school year. So, we do have some um items that have not
053been paid for through the end of the year. Specifically, if we have facility rentals uh or officials to pay out the rest of the year, uh then you look down the next row, which would be article five, that looks like it is in the negative. Uh that's okay. If we do end up uh the conclusion of the fiscal year in the negative, we still have the ability to transfer uh money from one cost center to another. Uh there is certainly enough in any of uh a few of those cost centers that we could um transfer that into. So that should not be too much of an alarm. Um and I I know that I asked Chris the day after this meeting last time what the reason was and I am blanking as to why right
054now. So I don't want to speak about that. What I'll do is send it in an email to you tomorrow once I uh ask again because I don't want to misspeak in that situation. Uh but we're the rest of it we're looking good. I I don't think we're going to have any issues whatsoever. Uh we'll just continue to monitor that as we get through the month of June uh and close out our fiscal year. >> Thank you. And as there are no students uh there's no student board report. So Ashley didn't leave anything with me and did Annabelle leave anything with you. So we'll go from there. Now um questions of board members. We have several committee reports. Are there any questions for uh committee chairs? And please note that you may not have seen
055it cuz it came in I think between 4 around 4:30 uh community relations um minutes were were sent to us as well. >> One of the things that we're trying to do with the ED committee is give you a quick synopsis of the meeting that happens just prior to this one. Uh so today we did we finished up a conversation regarding AI. Uh there will be a committee meeting this summer uh to look at how we're using AI in the district and uh talking about how we will be using AI in the future. We also looked at attendance data. We looked at um what was the other thing? >> Behavior. >> Oh behavioral. Yeah. I would point. Uh so we did look at those two things also today and uh what kinds of things going
056to be done over the summer. So um it'll all be in the report next month. Thank you. >> Thank you, FA. Um, and I think with nothing else that I'm going to give the floor over to you for uh policy considerations. >> Yes, there were a lot of policies discussed at our last meeting and we have many more to go. The first one is policy JF CK student use of cellular telephones, smart telephones and other electronic devices. Due to changes in state law, we need to have this policy. It is part of the state law. And so what will happen in the fall is that students will no longer be allowed to have their cell phones to use, their smartwatches, and other personal electronic devices. I didn't know this, but there are some students that
057bring their own personal um laptop and don't use the school laptop. They will not be allowed to do that anymore. Uh so you did see the policy. This policy was reviewed uh and was created honest to be honest with you with Drummond Woodson. And so therefore, the policy committee moves to approve policy JFC, student use of cellular telephones, smart telephones, and other electronic devices for first reading as presented. >> Second. >> So, we have a motion and a second on the floor. Um, discussion. Jessica, >> I'm just curious why it's coded differently. It's J I CJ and not JFC. I can tell you the reason for that is because our old policy on cell phones was on JFC and so we just put it into that one. Along with that, have before second reading, FA,
058have you considered having either Nate or building administrators look at this to make sure that everything's okay? Good. Thank you. Uh, prior actually prior to the first policy committee meeting that we even discussed this, uh, the administrative team reviewed the current policy and the sample policy, uh, and gave suggestions. >> Thank you. There were some changes made to one from Drummond Woodson, but they were rather minor and what came out today from the DOE is covered in the policy that we have set forth before the board tonight. >> That sort of answers that. But do you anticipate any more changes coming from the state level about this where we'd need to revisit this again? >> I hope not. >> That's for the next legislature to determine. Luke is bell to bell what the DOE recommend?
059>> Yes, as a matter of fact, that's in the law. >> All right. Um, all those in favor of approving um first reading of policy JF CK, student use of cellular telephones, smart telephones, and other electronic devices. And that's unanimous >> and it's policy is policy GCK, professional staff assignments and transfers. A beginning paragraph was added to our current policy uh to ensure that we are always looking for the best candidates for any positions that we have open. Therefore, the policy committee moves to approve policy GCK, professional staff assignments and transfers for first reading as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor for first reading of policy GCK. Is there any discussion? Will >> um are professional staff strictly teachers? >> No. professional professional staff also includes our
060speech and language pathologists and there's a list of them but no it's not just teachers the third paragraph references teachers areas of certification and policies I didn't know if we needed to tweak that or not >> think we can change that to educators then it would cover there'll be an adjustment made for second grade >> with I have a question on that because when nurses are also professional staff, aren't they? And are they considered educators? >> Okay. Thank you. All right. All those in favor of first reading of policy GCK, professional staff assignments and transfers, and that's unanimous. Sorry, I can't talk and write at the same time. The next one is policy GBG, return to work in light duty assignments. Uh the revision was created um and therefore this pol this policy will now
061meet the standards of what we are currently doing. The policy committee moves to approve policy GBGE, return to work and light duty assignments for first reading as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor for first reading of policy GBG, return to work and light duty assignments. Is there any discussion? I just have a comment, FA. I I I know policy committee has a lot of work and I appreciate the fact that we're bringing policies into line with practices in the district because as as I know from when I was in policy committee that wasn't always the case with a lot of policies. So thank you. >> This committee works extremely hard and puts in a lot of time on these policies. So, I appreciate their work and their
062suggestions and all that we do. Also, >> we'll see if we can get a new whip for you to crack in the budget for next year. >> We are taking a vacation in July though. We are. We decided July we're not meeting. >> Fantastic. [clears throat] All right. So, all those in favor of first reading of policy GBG, return to work and light duty assignments. and that carries unanimously. >> The next policy is pol policy GDF, support staff employment. Again, this is updated to ensure that we have the best candidates selected from our support staff. Therefore, the policy committee moves to approve policy GDF support staff employment for first reading as presented. >> Second. We have a motion and a second on the floor for first reading of policy GDF support staff employment. Any discussion?
063All those in favor of first reading that policy GDF support staff employment and that carries unanimously. The next policy is GDQB, resignation of support staff members. Again, this one was discussed quite a long time. Uh, this now supports um what we have what we have in collective marketing. The policy committee moves to approve policy GDQB, resignation of support staff members for first reading as presented. >> Second. We have [snorts] a motion and a second on the floor for first reading of policy GDQB resignation of support staff members. Any discussion? [snorts] FA, when you mentioned that it matches collective bargaining, this isn't not something that's going to change every time we negotiate a contract, right? Thank you, Jessica. This might be a collective pardoning question, but where there's a specific amount of working days notice of
064their intent to resign, is there a specific amount of time in which if they wanted to withdraw their resignation that they have to do that by? [snorts] All right. All those in favor of policy GD, first reading of policy GDQB, resational support staff members and that [clears throat] carries unanimously. Next, the next policy was simply reviewed. So we'll simply state that we reviewed it and that is policy GCFA employee social social media privacy. Um again no sub uh no no subsequent changes were made to that policy. Therefore no action is needed this evening. The next policy is policy GDC support staff leaves and absences. Uh the policy committee is moving to delete this policy um simply because this policy is governed by the collective bargaining agreement and therefore the policy committee moves to delete policy
065GDC support staff needs and absences. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor for deleting policy GDC support staff leaves into absences. Is there any discussion? All those in favor of deleting policy GDC support staff leaves in the absences and that carries unanimously. Just as a reminder, when we delete a policy, it does not designate a second reading. We now move on to second reading. Policy FF, naming school buildings and facilities. Um, no changes were made since our last meeting. Therefore, the policy committee moves to approve policy FF, naming of school buildings and facilities for second reading as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor for uh second reading of policy FF, naming school buildings and facilities. All right. Um they have one
066and I can't believe I didn't catch this last time on line three under parents. Do we don't we typically put parents and guardians in there? Could we uh amend the motion or do we just amend the policy and vote on that? >> I think we just amend the policy and vote on that. >> Okay. Again, just to keep the language consistent. All right. All those in favor of second reading of policy FF naming school buildings and facilities and that carries unanimously. The next policy is policy FFA memorials. No changes were made to this policy since our last meeting. Therefore, the policy committee moves to approve policy FFA memorials for second reading as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor for second reading of policy FFA memorials. Uh is
067there any discussion? All those in favor of second reading of policy FFA memorials and that carries unanimously. The next policy is GCA. Um the duplicated part of a sent sentence was alleviated. I thank you for bringing that to my attention last time. Therefore, the policy committee moves to approve policy GCOA supervision and evaluation professional staff for second reading as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor for second reading of policy GCOa, supervision and evaluation of professional staff. Um, any discussion, Jessica? >> So, on B, it's still on there twice. the it was on the three times on the twice. Sorry, [laughter] >> I'll fix >> I will I will fix it before it goes on the website. I promise. [laughter] >> Okay, while we're doing that, you'll want
068to make that a comma instead of a period, too. Okay. Thank you. By the way, just to justify myself for a little bit, this goes to him [laughter] to approve prior so I'm throwing him under the bus so I don't [laughter] look like an old lady who's losing her mind. >> In your defense, B, this is quite the packet of policies. >> All those in favor of policy. Um, see what everyone missed by reading early. Uh, second reading of policy GBA. Oh no, a GC AA supervision and evaluation of professional staff and that carries unanimously. I just had to tease Nick. It just had to happen. I'm sorry. Probably wasn't professional at this point. The next policy is GBEA staff ethics conflict of interest. No changes were made to this policy since uh the first
069reading. Therefore, the policy committee moves to approve policy GBA staff ethics conflict of interest for second reading as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and second on the floor for second reading. Policy GBA staff ethics conflict of interest. Is there any discussion? All those in favor of second reading of policy GBA staff ethics conflict of interest and that carries unanimously. And that finishes up policy. Um there's no old business on the agenda. So we are going to move uh not move in terms of making a motion but move to new business and discuss and act on administrative contracts for uh next academic year 2026 27. Nick, do you want to introduce this at all or Oh, that's right. So, we'll take any I'll entertain any motions. >> I move we accept the administrative
070contracts uh for the 2026 2027 school year as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second on the U administrative contracts for the next school year. Uh is there any discussion questions? All right. [snorts] All those in favor of the motion on approving the administrative contracts as presented in our packet for school year 2026 27. And that carries [clears throat] unanimously. All right. Next up is to um on probationary uh teachers. So this will be dug in two with two motions um for probationary teachers from year one to year two and for teachers from year two to continuing contract. So, I'll take motion on either one. >> I move to accept the superintendent's nomination of personnel to secondyear probationary contracts. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any disc
071discussion or any questions? All right. All those in favor of the slate of year one probationary teachers to year two and that carries unanimously. So next one I move to accept the superintendent's nomination of personel to continuing contracts. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor for year 2 probationary teachers to continuing or educators to continuing contract. Um is there any discussion or questions? All those in favor of approving the slate of year 2 educators to continuing contract And that carries. All right. As mentioned earlier, we are now going to um discuss and act on the building service contract as presented in our packet. uh the contract with Honeywell and that's only in our electronic packet. >> I move to approve the 5-year contract presented to us by Honeywell. >> All right,
072we have a motion and a second on the floor regarding the Honeywell contract. Are there any questions or discussion? >> I do have one quick question. Just a clarification on the contract. We talked about it a little bit in building. Um, is there anything included for emergency breakin work within that total cost or is it just those prescribed after hours like pay um like on an hourly basis? If you look on page nine, [clears throat] at the bottom we'll say of 12. Right at the very top there is a breakdown of uh 416 hours automation 832 hours that al also includes emergency time and so those hours were doubled this particular contract to make sure that we have more oversight throughout the district and then if there are emergency situations it could be embedded within
073those hours. >> Okay. So th those total hours do include emergency break. >> Yeah, I know there's just been ups and downs with HVAC. Um are what are the performance guarantees or like anything that they're doing to better support? I know they're giving more hours and they're doing some other things, but is there anything else in there that you know we're really going to make out better because of this? Um I'm not sure I'd say there's anything else in there. What I can say is that um we have met with them twice already since uh the springtime started. Uh and that's with the regional uh personnel as well as um the regional general manager which is out of state uh responsible for pretty much the east coast. So we have uh developed a pretty good
074relationship with that team. they have identified that they are that there were some flaws and that they're willing to work on that. Uh so much so that they did provide us with a lower contract uh the second time around. Uh because actually on year five of this particular contract, it was less in year five than it was year one the first time around. And so I think that they have heard us that we we need we need better. And so they have made a commitment that uh we have individuals to speak to. We have direct phone numbers that we can call uh to in particular for this particular area and then we can always get on the phone with those uh regional managers and general managers uh as well as them lowering the cost to
075keep us as a positive partner. >> So they did come down on price at least uh they came down significantly on price. Okay. So, based on the reduction in price, what was the percent increase? >> I don't have. >> You don't have just let me know some point. >> Sure. I will. Sorry. Um I >> I will say working with Honeywell on commercial contracts in a professional manufacturing setting, um having additional emergency hours covered under your lumpsum costs is really beneficial. Um I I think that that's a pretty good addition to the contract. um are I was trying to look really quickly just to see in um any of the terms of service and it does look like they have um specific conditions set out to say if the equipment's not working a certain way
076then th those are kind of our expectations. Do we have anything that's additional in here like T's and C's that would allow us to potentially break the contract early if they're not meeting those? Um, I think any of our contracts, we do have a I don't want to call it buyout, but we have an opportunity to get out. I want to say it's 90 days, but don't quote me on that part because uh I don't have it sitting right in here where we actually have it written down. But there in all of our contracts, we have the opportunity to get out of it. >> But I I mean, what I can say is I know we went through some troubling times for a couple of different schools in the district in particular this year. They
077were very very responsive when um Bill and I got on the phone with them and uh they came here very quickly. They owned their mistakes. Uh the local people are very committed to us. Uh they're doing a nice job. I think it is more of a a corporation issue and not the local piece. Uh and I think that we have the the ear and the willingness of more of the corporation than we have had in a long time. So, I I do feel confident with this uh and I do know exactly who I can call in the event that uh something doesn't go well again. All right. Um so, all those in favor [clears throat] of the motion to um enter the five-year contract with Honeywell. Um if if you approve [clears throat] the motion
078and we'll call vote and that carries unanimously. All right. Next up, and this came in a a later email, is um approving the field trip for Wagner School to Six Flags. So that's going to be in a separate email. Well, as you're looking for that, there is no recommended motion for this, but just so you know, the trip ordinarily out of state trips have to be approved uh by the beginning of the second semester. Uh and this just came in at about 12:30 today, and they're going the first weekend of June. And so ordinarily I would have had this uh delayed for another month but the timing of it I did not want the students to be impacted negatively by going on this trip or not being able to go on the trip. Uh so
079any motion that would just give the approval for them to uh conduct the trip uh as presented in the document that you have in front of you in your packet uh would be very much appreciated. I make a motion to um approve the Samuel L. Wagner Middle School 8th grade class trip to Six Flags Amusement Park in 2026. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion or are there any questions? >> Helen, >> um where was the trip last year? >> Do they normally go out of state? It it var. So, it's a good question. The all the trips vary. They are all sponsored by parent groups. Uh, and some schools do it outside of the school year and other schools do it during the school year itself. Uh, but what
080we're trying to lean towards is that they're not missing school anymore. Uh and so as we progress into next year, um we will transition into uh weekend trips instead since they are all sponsored by the parent groups. Uh and so this won't have to happen next year because it won't be considered a school trip, but where it's a a typical school day, even though it's not funded by the school, it's funded through the parent group, uh we're still considering a school trip since it's during the day. If there are no other questions or discussion, all those in favor of approving the Wagner uh middle school trip to uh Six Flags and that carries unanimously. The last piece of new business and the most important um so everyone should have a pen at their place because
081we're going to have to sign if we approve this is the uh motion or is that on the voting of the budget. Yeah. Yeah. >> I move that the vote entitled vote to call and approve the warrant for the budget meeting and to authorize the notice of amounts adopted be approved in form presented to this meeting and that a copy of said vote be included with the minutes of this meeting. So, we have a motion and a second on the floor. Uh, any questions or discussion? I don't think I caught what you said, Jessica. >> Okay. >> Any any discussion about the budget? It was presented last week. So for most of us that's pretty fresh but >> 50 slides, hundreds of pages. >> You can go over them again if you would like. >>
082And just if there are no other comments, there are five documents that you will sign. And just to go over um each one of them, all of them are the same thing that you have done in the past. They are carbon copies of each other. We keep one copy of the entire packet. [clears throat] So we keep one copy in the district office. Each one of the towns has their own respective copy. It has every one of the articles 1 through 23 that will be voted on. Uh 1 through 11 are the regular cost centers that we're most familiar with. Uh 12 to 14 would be the raising funds for the school budget. 15 would be the summary of the total budget. 16 authorizes adult education. 17 is the authorization for grants and other receipts.
08318 uh 19 and 20 are our reserve accounts. So um excuse me 18 is the transfer among cost centers. 19 2021 are the reserve accounts uh technology uh athletic field facility and uh capital reserve. And then 22 is the career technical education and 23 is career technical adult education. So you If you want to see all of the articles, you certainly can flip through. I'm going to put the last page on the front because that's the signature page. But again, if you want to read through them, uh, feel free to do that. They are all the numbers and information that you have seen last week. If there are no questions or discussion, all those in favor of the proposed 2026 27 school year budget and that carries unanimously while those are going around for our
084signatures. Um, does anyone before we set meeting dates, I want to um bring everyone's attention that the district budget meeting is on Thursday, June 4th at 700 p.m. at the Hampton Academy uh gymnasium if you can make it. It's not a board meeting. We do not require quorum quorum but it the optics are always better if the board is in support of of and attending at the budget week and of course some of the I've already have one excused absence um that that has been cleared ahead of time but so if you can make it please be there uh and then I'll leave it to if any committee needs to set meeting dates. Is that even legal? >> Yeah. I'm going to get By the way, I should adjust what I said about Nick. He
085doesn't read the policies. He reads the minutes. [laughter] >> We need a motion for executive session. >> And then Nate can go home. >> I'll make a motion to go into executive session uh >> at 8:24. >> 8:24. Um, one MRSA section 405 C uh 6D for labor contract discussions regarding EA22 support staff contract. >> Second. >> All those in favor?