001state. >> So if water sheets on it basically >> I'll adjust the volume on here. Yes. >> All right. Thank you everyone for your patience. Um we're gonna reconvene the meeting and I'll still gentlemen wait time for you to comment at the end. Um Jessica All right. Um, I want to bring up a few points that were brought forward at the referend referendum meeting um, as a starting point for the conversation tonight. Um, I think we all recognize the building either needs to have significant improvements or be replaced. Um, some things that were brought up at the meeting was a concern that we did not have a great timeline. Um, we were about two weeks out from the vote at that point and the budget had only passed by 14 votes. Um, one thing I
002want to point out is the 1.6 million has already been set aside, but um, as pointed out, we didn't do a great job selling it to the public. Um, we do have a 7.3 million fund balance as confirmed by Mr. Raymond. Um, and we are waiting on our current audit due to lack of auditors, which is beyond our control, and have filed for an extension with the DOE. Um it was brought up at that meeting also um that it was hard to find um some of the building committee meetings online. Um when I went back through it looked like there were nine meetings starting in 2023 on the website that referenced work on this particular building um or the fact that there needed to be work on this building um and other subcommittee um documents
003as well. um they are public minutes and they maybe were a little bit harder to find on the old website, but we do have a new website which is easier to navigate. Um and so thank you, Nate Savage. Um I think we can all agree that we do need this building. Um and so can we develop a timeline in messaging, working with the budget and community relations committees. Um my thought is that patching it up is a short-term solution. Um and that we really do need to think about replacing the building. I don't think that we should override the public and vote in session to move forward with a a catchup situation. I think that we need to send it back to the towns to vote with a clear timeline and messaging and that our
004goal as a board should be to work together with the communities to rebuild trust. >> I think I think what is this working? >> Okay. I think one [clears throat] of the things that we really need to be clear about when we're talking to the public is that the money that's set aside for this building has been put there for quite some time over time. Uh I think people believe that that money can go back to the towns where it can't go back to the towns. I think they're looking for tax relief and that was their way of perhaps hoping to get some tax relief. So, I think we need to sell that part better that it's like a we had a savings account specific for the building and now we're using that savings account.
005People can relate to that and so I'd like to see that be part of our presentation back to the communities. >> Thank you. Other comments or questions? Does the building committee have anything to say >> about this? Like it's committee. >> Okay. Um I've been on the building committee since last year. >> They have to hold it. Maybe not. >> Um, I've been on the building committee since last year. Um, and it's not something we really talked about a lot because most of the quotes and everything were pulled together by Nick. Um, I think well over a year ago at this point. Um, so I don't I don't know how much feedback I have from a building committee standpoint on it. Um, it's definitely something in the future where I think we need to include
006more of those things in our meetings. Um, I will say some of the feedback that I've gotten from other people in the community as to why they voted uh voted it down. Um, one thing was the location and having to relocate the orchard, which I know that we've talked about some, um, those trees aren't viable. Um, and I would like a little bit more information about that, too. Um, because I know that they're still getting apples from those every year. I'm just a little curious. But um another suggestion that was made to me was looking for alternatives um that the admin building might not necessarily have to be on campus. Um and whether or not there was maybe some kind of office space or house in the surrounding area that we could purchase instead. Um
007that's kind of some of the feedback that I've gotten. Don't know if those are if the having a building outside of the um campus is completely viable. Can I just ask a question about that particularly? If we go off campus, we are set for a different thing of taxes. Correct. Like on campus, we probably have some tax shelter maybe or it's taxed differently than if we were a plot of land not on campus. Or am I incorrect in thinking that? you're on the right track. Um, we have >> it's on but I haven't tal so when the code enforcement officer reached out uh there are restrictions as far as our land some of our land is considered residential parts of our land are considered town center and uh business I believe so where we had
008intended to put that where we where we had intended to put that was fine. We did not necessarily need to go um and and do anything different. We had all the rights to put it exactly where we uh had anticipated. However, if we move that building or if we build a building in a different location, we are bound by different restrictions. And so what those are, we never investigated because we were not looking at other places. Uh we were looking at places or spots that were our own property and fell within the town center and business center of the town of Hampton. >> So there would there would potentially be different um property tax implications to going offsite. I I can't say tax implications, but there would be restriction, different restrictions on the building itself
009and the construction of the building. >> Do we know if the quote is going to be even still usable for the future? Uh I don't know that answer exactly but I would doubt that the number that we were provided in October would still be true. Now >> I have a question. At one point we had well when we presented we had UTC students doing a good majority of the construction the inside construction. Um is that still viable? Is UTC still willing to do that seeing as they were planning on, you know, a certain group of kids doing that? >> Uh, yes. As far as I'm I know, uh, they won't be the same kids because of the timing obviously has changed. So, the kids that we saw in our public forum probably would not be
010those involved u just based on the timing and when they leave high school. Uh, but as far as having UTC involved, yes, the intent would still be to have them involved and I'm very certain that they would be receptive to that. Um I've heard from the public an often question is um would there be space on the third floor of HA for administrative offices? >> No, there is no space up there. Those are all classrooms. Um [clears throat] uh one of the common things that um I see uh people ask the most is why it costs so much in the first place when it's not not a really large building. So I'm wondering if going forward we have a more detailed um itemized list of why um and when we do present things more to
011the town we break that down further. Um so all of our quotes uh when we put this out to bid in 2014 I believe uh all of our quotes had breakdowns of the prices uh including the modular genius one that we went with. Um, we can certainly provide that. Um, but again, I don't know what will happen with the prices. Um, but we certainly can provide a better cost breakdown rather than just the total dollar amount. All right. I also want to remind everyone that the price does not just include putting up a new building, but removing or or taking down and removing the old building as well. So, it's a it's not just a matter of you've got a lot and the site's cleared and ready for it. There's some work that needs to
012be done for that as well. So, um so costs can add up pretty quickly and materials costs are are changing all the time. Um, has [clears throat] the um location been vetted for when we have our turn on the list to get a new elementary school built built so that it's not encroaching on that design. >> I'm not sure when we're going to be approved for a new school quite honestly. Um, last time the cycle happened it was seven years ago and we were 20ish on the list. We did it again this year. we are 20th on the list. Um so if they continue with the same cycle, we're looking at 7 years from now that we would be approved and that's about a 5 to 10 year process from approval to actually full construction
013and move in. Um so I don't see that that being an issue immediately. Uh, and I don't think it would even be an issue anyway because the plans that we had originally were just simply to uh construct a building where the current buildings are right now anyway and combine them. Combine the two. There's really not much property between the road and the fence because we have but uh a residential property over there and then the baseball field is uh next to that. So, there really isn't much property to begin with. Thanks. Yeah. So, I think we've batted around all the ideas already and you're like the administration has done an extremely uh detailed amount of work to get to where we were. So, um I mean I'd like to see us spend some more time
014talking about public outreach. Um and I shared this in the community relations meeting that I think we should take a significant amount of time whether it's a year um follow the structure that we did for the school consolidation where we held um public meetings in towns and we had a a moderator and someone to facilitate those discussions and there was a true back and forth from the public where we could in that moment address misconceptions and address all the rumors. that are happening. Um, so I think in addition to the infographics and whatever we're trying to do here, I would love to see us have um in-person town meetings. For my clarification, Kristen, so it sounds like to me you're saying let's not make a decision on which way to go. Let's look at the
015three paths and present those to the community and then see what other ideas might come up from those forums. Um, yeah. I mean, I guess I personally have faith in the work that Nick and the team already did presenting us with the three best options. You know, I don't I don't think like us spitballing we're going to come up with a an idea that nobody's thought of already. >> I guess really what I'm looking for. So, but don't let's not make a choice right away. Let's put it out to the communities and see what what their feedback is. >> Um, well, I mean that I guess that's one option. I get I think presenting it the way Nick did with the PowerPoint of saying, "Sure, here's the three options. This one clearly makes the most
016sense." I think most people that attended that public forum agreed. Um it seemed to be a timing issue. So I guess my thought would be continue with that messaging of sure there may be three options. There's a clear one that makes financial sense here. Um but just having that forum available to have people ask all the questions that they're asking on Facebook that you know we're not allowed or not able to address every single one. >> Got it. Thank you, Jessica. >> I just want to piggyback um off of what she said in that I also would like to move forward with with the option that was given by Nick for a couple reasons. one the that is the only option where we get to collaborate with other community centers UTC right we have students
017we are directly giving back to the students the students are directly giving back to us and I think there is no other option where we get to have such a valuable relationship within the community if we do move forward with that we would need updated prices right and so having an updated cost breakdown would be essential to that messaging as Well, um, and I think too if we do sort of these small group meetings, inviting those UTC students and and instructors as well, so that they can really like I think they did a phenomenal job explaining their role and, you know, the students did a great job. It just didn't get to many people because not many people showed up, right? So, if we have that messaging and we can get that out sooner, then
018more people can attend and really hear what this collaboration could be. Thank you. Um Nick, if we went that route, would it be problematic to get quote because I mean it's great to get updated quotes for the option that we'd want to go with, but for a true comparison, we'd also want updated quotes for the other options as well. Would that be problematic or No, but it will cost more money because we've paid for the floor plans. Um it won't I don't think it will cost more money to receive new quotes from the [clears throat] modular company. However, we did have to pay for um a quote for the remodel for both of them because that was an outside person that did that who works with an architectural firm. >> I think that's a great
019idea going out to the public and having those sessions. I'm just worried about the timing if I don't know how long it will take to get new pricing and to schedule those and then I mean if we're going back out in June I'm just wondering if it allows people enough time >> the long yeah and the prices of material keep increasing and but I am for it I just don't know how long you know we have >> I think We need to give people three very clear options. And I don't think those were presented in a way that people understood or could see what those options were. Um, number one is we can kick the can down the road and it keeps getting voted down and then we're going to have to look at allocating
020significant money in rehab and rebuilding pieces of that building because it's not functional the way it is. Period. like 100 150,000 every year or two into that. I think people need to understand what it's going to cost to get that building functional to where it needs to be and show that to them. Number two is we can just vote and not go to referendum, lose even more trust and get an expansion of 599 square ft and put you all up at very high expense to the taxpayers in some other location that we have to lease. and will spend tens of thousands if not hundred $100,000 just on temporary location. um have to store very sensitive information, do a lot of different things. People need to understand that's option two. That and was that more than
021a build? >> People couldn't see that. >> It was presented >> it. It was presented where 30 people were there. That's not good enough. Like it costs more to to go without a vote than it does to get approval. And I don't want to go without a vote. I don't think anyone wants to do that. And then the third is to go and get this better information showing the clear choices and the clear costs for what this is going to be because I think we understand what the best option is. Other people don't understand that. They see $1.7 million and they're like, "Heck no, they don't need that. We already pay them too much." But if it's 1.7 1.8 because the current state is not possible. We're going to have to put money into that
022period. Ellen, >> I I think um one of the areas for growth here is that, you know, if we could get an infographic out, put it on each of the Facebook pages. Um and also, I've heard the idea if we invited PTO leaders from each of the schools, they have huge Facebook followings. They just received information. whatever their take of it is, whether they're for it, against it, they're helping to get information out that they've um viewed. Um, and then hopefully they could repost our infographic as well. I think it's just, you know, we need to get the information out. >> All right. will. And then I'm gonna wrap up our discussion with a a comment and then open it up to the three people, Eric, John, and uh you want to listen to >>
023And I just want to say I feel like everywhere we're seeing boards are inheriting situations, whether it's a county, a town, whatever. We can't talk to deferred maintenance from 15 years ago that got things to where they are. We all have to face what it is we're dealing with today. like you can't we that's the best we can do and do it in the most cost-effective functional way possible. Um I mean we're all dealing with it every day in our community. So and I know in the finance committee we're all very aware of that and are paying very very close attention to all those things. So we we hear you very clearly, but some things can't you just got to do the best you can with what you have. [snorts] >> Thank you, Will. Uh
024I want to close things up there. So this is a workshop. We can't take a vote on anything regardless and it's not on the agenda for our meeting. So we can't take a vote there. But I would ask you to consider and Ellen, I I I like your idea with the PTO. I think this is important enough that the the administration and the board has to take the lead on this and we can't rely on people saying what they want. We need a unified message and and go out to the community broadly um with that. So I think it's it's yes, I think we should the PTO should be part of that plan. Um but we don't want them just posting stuff if we don't know what they're going to say about it. Um, so
025let's think about that. There might be a way for the community relations committee and the building committee to work together on getting a message out there and maybe some public forums and we can have a broader discussion and and Nick maybe bring it to um the February board meeting um for uh action. Does that sound good to everyone? Thank you. I'm going to go in the order in which you signed up. Um, do any of I I don't I could read the the policy. Um I would ask you all to um adhere to the three minutes not to bring up any employees positive or negative and um and we will um go in the order of 3 minutes for um Eric, 3 minutes for John, and then three minutes for Matt. If there is someone
026else who would like to speak on this, I do have the signup sheet for the board meeting that's occurring at 7 o'clock. So, if you'd like to speak and didn't get a chance to sign up, um there's an opportunity at the board meeting as well, Eric. >> We need to press and hold. [clears throat] >> Thank you. Um Jessica, thank you for your introductory remarks. Those were spoton. Um at the presentation there were actually four options. Option one, option two, the November 4th referendum and then the re an option where the referendum was not needed. So I want to clarify that there actually were four options, not three. Um I would ask the board chair and the superintendent a specific question. Has this board seen the letter from code enforcement that was received by the
027district before the October meeting? I think that would be very informative. It's not gerine to our discussion right now, but it would be important because quite frankly, my reading of that letter suggests that maybe there are going to be some challenges with UTC if you go with the modular. Uh, and maybe I'm just misinterpreting it, but I think it's worth the board seeing that as well. the fact that UTC was only uh involved in the November 4th referendum that we got to see as voters. Of course, it's going to be less expensive because the other two used probably union contracts. You were we were comparing apples and oranges at the time. But here's the big challenge and this is why I might and I think it was Kristen who alluded to this. The voters in
028June are going to have a perfect nightmare. Waldo County has a 16% property tax increase. Uh, Ponobskot County has a 17% tax increase. The voters in Ponobskot County are going to be looking at the movement of the jail. Do we want to ride something as important as this on the back of things that are already going to be controversial and overwhelming to the public. And that's why I would suggest to you that perhaps waiting a little longer does make sense. laying the groundwork and making sure we and and those of you who were who were at the October meeting will remember I endorsed this but I said the timing was wrong and I would still maintain that June may not be the proper timing because of all of the hurdles that the voters have to
029face in June. Thank you. >> Thank you. [clears throat] Good evening. My name is John Clemens. I uh am a Newberg selectman and I'm also the director of public works the town of Hampton. [clears throat] So I want to go over a few different things here. Um and first and foremost, we're going to talk about deferred maintenance. So I'm on our third large capital project for the town of Hampton dealing with deferred maintenance in the town. There are multiple ways to go about doing this. However, I want to inform you that I'm currently building a 6,000 foot building for $1.26 million. If you break that down, that's 210 thou $210 a square foot. If you want to do a renovation of a 600 foot addition on a building, you're looking at about $150,000. So, my
030question is, did we hire an engineer? Did we look at a renovation of that building with an addition and then go out and get competitive bid process? I've seen this $1.8 8 million figure and I find that a little insane that that number was presented based on what I'm building for the town currently for $1.26 million. [snorts] The other thing I want to bring up is that this approach of sending these bills back to the town, right? We've done this with the budget and you guys are talking about doing it now. People stop voting. You know, they vote once, they want their voice heard, but this continue to send it back to the town to push things through is what is losing the trust with the people. Um, the other thing is that from what
031people I've talked to, people think demolishing a building is a complete waste. So, you're you're compounding demolishing an apple orchard and [clears throat] demolishing a building that could be perfectly renovated. That was one of the biggest issues I think people voted no in this last election. Another thing I want to bring up was that the modular company you presented was out of state. We're living in a very dry climate. I'm talking to contractors constantly and there's not a lot of commercial work out there right now. So, if you guys had presented a competitive bid process with local contractors like I did to our Hampton Town Council for our Hampton public works building, I bet you would have had a different outcome. [clears throat] The other thing I want to address, prices are coming down. Prices
032are not continuing to climb. They're actually coming down pretty rapidly both in labor and material costs. I see this every day. >> [snorts] >> Um the other side thing I want to bring up is that I feel that this is a very big want versus need um with our current infrastructure. You know this [clears throat] is to provide it one you know specific function to the RSU right and it is not even directly tied to our students education. It's office space. We can renovate a current office building and it doesn't need to be as crazy and new as something like this. >> [snorts] >> Uh, the last point I want to bring up is that office trailers for staff can be utilized during a renovation. We have a company right in town, Main Trailer. They
033provide both office trailers and ConX boxes that can be used for storage and office space. You're supporting local economy by doing that. I'm sure I'm coming up on my three minutes, but those are just some points I wanted to bring up to you guys. >> Thank you, John. Thank you, uh, Matt Lance, Hamnham Council Chair, uh, echoing both their sentiments on all of your comments. Um, very much appreciated. Seems like you guys are all on board with coming forward with a a common sense approach and educating the public on both what needs to be done and how it's going to be done. um in a fiscally responsible manner and I think that's going to be uh well received from the public. Um so I I would applaud you on that. um to John's point, excuse
034[clears throat] me, um on uh the buildings um and temporary temporary storage uh conx boxes, uh storage trailers, uh [snorts] finding a way to properly inventory your files somewhere where they're going to be in climate control, whatever. I don't know if you need to look into some sort of third party location for storage. All of the slides that you showed at that very well done slideshow showed that that is definitely a big problem in that building. I think probably getting all of that uh storage needs out of the square footage of the current building would free up a lot of space in that building. Um I understand that ADA accessibility uh was a big problem, the roof being a big problem, bathrooms being a big problem. Um, $1.5 million would get a lot of renovations
035done. Uh, I also know $1.5 million build a heck of a building. Um, so to the points of local labor, that's a big deal, big deal to voters, big deal to local economy. Um, putting staff in a portable building. There's lots of buildings that you could put a portable building adjacent to an exit instead of immediate access to restrooms, cafeterias. Um, there are other solutions that I think could be investigated further. Um, again, the need versus want I think could be looked into a little more. Um, it would be nice to have a nice big building as was designed and presented. On one hand, it does make sense. When you compare 1.6 to 1.5, comparing those two options, it makes sense. But if there was other options on the table to choose from, those ones
036might not even be considered at all. So, um, also continuing to educate the public on the needs. Again, the the 9 days before the the last referendum was very short notice. It would have been nice to get more information for you guys out to the public so that they could have made an informed decision. This would be nice to get more people out to the ballot and see that the money is already spent and spent wisely and it'll make it for an easy affirmative vote. Thank you. >> Thank you, Matt. Thank you everyone for your comments and participating. Um Nick, did you want to comment on uh Eric's question? Uh I can certainly [clears throat] the email that uh Mr. Jary is referring to came to us on October 16th. Um most of which within
037the body of the email was a moot point because we had not had a a positive uh vote at that point. It was dealing with the permitting uh the fire marshall information that all would come after the fact. The only one that was prior would be uh relevant prior to the vote was uh his concern about inind work from UTC and not having licensed uh individuals doing the work. Uh and that was already done and handled through UTC. UTC ensures that all of the individuals overseeing it are licensed and so therefore it was not something that uh we felt was appropriate or necessary to mention at the meeting because it was already done. Uh just another thing too to John's comment about the bidding. We had four we we put an RFP out. We had
038four uh companies that put a bid in. Three of which were I'd call local and then uh Modular Genius from Maryland. Uh the three that put that were local were not uh closed price-wise to uh Modular Genius and trying to be fiscally responsible. That was the reason why Modular Genius was chosen. >> Your number for renovation was that competitively bid. So that was with our uh UT uh UT that was with WBRC and they use uh a separate estimator or quote person that they utilize uh and they supplied that to WBRC who did the architectural work the designs. >> So the answer is no. >> Yeah. >> All right. Thank you everyone. Um we have two minute adjournment before our regular board meeting. So, run >> get your snacks and drinks. And uh last call
039for um sign up for public comment. [clears throat] Check. [clears throat] Check >> John. expensive building construction. [clears throat] >> You not the viewer. >> Oh, no. I haven't been >> Yeah. >> [laughter] >> So I took but I wasn't That's I'm going to call the meeting to order. Um so welcome everyone to the board of directors regular meeting now. Um so everyone is here except for Brooke and uh her absence is excused. Um I would invite everyone who can 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, I'm going to go in the order of the agenda. So I will entertain um
040approval of minutes from our regular meeting of December 17th. >> Any discussion? >> All those in favor and any opposed? Any abstensions? All right. So everyone but approved. Now um the meeting the special meeting board meeting um of December 17th, 2025. >> All right. Any discussion? All those in favor? Any opposed? And any abstensions? All right. The two student vot board members and Ellen abstain from that vote. Are there any adjustments to the agenda? All right. And recognitions. So in your packet, uh there's a recognition for uh school board appreciation month. uh you'll have a certificate as well as a little token uh that should have been left right on your folder uh UTC. Uh and so on behalf of the district, we want to uh thank everyone who dedicates their time for uh the
041little finances that they get out of it. Uh but we really do appreciate on behalf of everyone at RSU22 and and your towns. Uh we do appreciate the time that you dedicate to the school. uh the entire district and to the students and staff of our RSU22 district. So, thank you very much. Uh just a small token of our appreciation. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Um I I mean that sincerely. It's it's an honor to to serve the district and some days it seems harder than others, but it's uh you know the posts I see going out from all of the principles for the schools and the good things our students are doing is really good to see. Um we're going to now go to public comment. Do you have the um >> the list?
042Excellent. I'm going to go through because we've got new people um who haven't commented or commented in a while and go over our um public participation in schoolboard meetings. So um we realize that we serve the communities and uh which our schools um operate and so we um value public comment. Um but we also um realize that we meet once a month and so we do set limits on that. Um so our public comment um policy sets forth um you're limited to three minutes at a meeting and you may not relinquish a portion of your aotted time to another speaker. Um individuals who wish to speak during the public comment period are required to fill out the signin form which people have done already prior to the beginning of the public comment um period and
043to review a copy of this policy which I saw was up there. Um I'll please ask each individual to state your name and your town of residence before your um beginning your remarks. Um the board I'm responsible for ensuring the orderly conduct of meetings. Um I'll recognize the board chair and comments should be directed addressed to me. Requests for information or concerns that require further research may be referred to the superintendent for further action if necessary. 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 other actions, making defamatory comments, exceeding the allotted time limits, talking over or interrupting others, offering repetitive comments, and offering comment on matters unrelated
044to the school units programs, policies, or operations. Discussion of personnel matters is not permitted during the public comment period due to the privacy, confidentiality, and due process rights of school unit employees. For purposes of this policy, discussion of a personnel matter means any discussion either positive or negative of job performance or conduct of a school unit employee. Um, discussion of matters involving 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. Any concerns about personnel matters and/or student matters should be directed to the superintendent or another appropriate administrator outside of board meetings so that they can be addressed through an alternative channel in a manner consistent with privacy, confidentiality, and due process rights of the individuals involved. I will stop
045any public comment that is contrary to these rules. Individuals who disrupt the board meeting may be asked to leave in order to allow the board to conduct its business in an orderly manner. Um, and that's all I had. So, who's the first person on our list? >> We welcome Mike Shaw. [clears throat] Uh good evening. I'm Mike Shaw. I'm from the town of Frankfort. Um tonight I'm here to talk about a couple things. um primarily the eighth grade recognition um being removed from sports for middle school uh that you all 14 got an email on and four you had the common decency to reply to. So I appreciate that. Um since then a lot of no communication from people I can't name that run the athletic department. Um and that's just it's very frustrating. Uh
046I do enjoy that we open the ceremony tonight with you guys getting recognized because that's amazing because you guys are worth recognition but those eighth graders aren't. So that's where you guys are sitting on this. It's become very clear to many families why we are frustrated and disappointed. This didn't decision didn't happen in a vacuum. The people I can't name decided to eliminate the eighth grade athletic recognition stated directly they would not be reconsidered and then stop responding altogether. That's not how you build a relationship or trust. That's ridiculous behavior. I wouldn't accept it from my 10-year-old or my 12-year-old. I wouldn't accept it from an adult. Only four board members decide to respond. Um, so just the rest that the rest of you said nothing. When the administration of the board members stop responding,
047the message to families and students is unmistakable. This isn't worth your time. Anger strong. [clears throat] Let's talk about what we were actually asking for. We were asking for a brief pregame ceremony for the eighth graders of both Wagner and Reedsburg Middle Schools where the flowers would have been donated by a local business. It was a cost issue. I got the flowers donated. The athletic the person I can't name who runs athletics for the school still said no. We still decided we couldn't do this. They were free for 13 and 14y old boys and girls. They were free. Let that sit in a little bit. Middle school students, especially eighth graders, are at a fragile formative age. For many of them, the high school middle school sports are the end of their athletic journey. Especially
048coming from the Wagner school where my daughter was on the championship team for in 8th grade and by the time they got to senior year, there is no winterport or Frank kid on that basketball team. None. So, they get weeded out. This happens big fish in big [clears throat] pond and small fish in a bigger pond. I get it. But not to have one kid from Wagner raises suspicions across the levels. What makes it harder to even accept this is the district regularly provides public recognition for adults, teachers, and staff and even schoolboard members. Recognition is clearly valued when it comes to grown-ups, but apparently not to these kids. When someone in a leadership role makes a decision that affects children and families without you should expect professionalism, communication, respect. Ignoring concern to refusing reconsideration
049does not meet that standard. Choosing not to act is still a decision and right now the decision tells the students that their effort wasn't worth the ceremony. Their commitment wasn't worth a few minutes of their final season and it wasn't worth the trouble to have the adults organize this process. This is not the message we should re these kids, especially at this age. I'm extremely disappointed at every single one of you for not responding to me and not thinking about these kids. And the fact that you're sitting here with kids at home, you might want to start thinking about it because it could be your kids. There are kids that are never going to play sports again because they're not good enough. And that's okay. >> But you guys turn your back on. >> Excuse
050me. >> And I won't forget that. >> You're three minutes, sir. Do you have Are you close to >> I'm pretty damn darn close. Yes, sir. Okay, wrap it up, please. >> Yep. I expect better from you all. I expect better from the administration and I will not be treated like this again. I usually come here and I'm very positive and I push you guys' message and I do everything I can to support this district on votes and everything else. I work really close with Mr. Raymond. I work close with you guys on the budget committee. You've burned a relationship. Now it's time for me to figure out what we do next. Thank you, Mike. We welcome David Swart. >> Thank you, David Swart from Hampton. Um, for in regard to the building that the
051previous workshop was just about, I had a couple questions before I wanted to make any comment. The first was how many square feet is that building that's uh was in consideration for the new construction? Does anyone have the number off hand or an approximate? >> Unfortunately, we don't take questions during public comment, but we can definitely get back to you if you leave an email with us. We'll get back to you with that information. >> Thank you. Mrs. Boon gave me that email, so I will do that. Um, so then I guess that disregards the question section. So, um, the only comments I have, uh, once again in regard to the workshop that just happened because I wasn't able to get my name on that list before it started, um, there was a comment that
052the essentially that the money was in an account and an insinuation that taxpayers expect it to go back to the towns. And I don't think that's uh, it's definitely not what I think and I don't think it's what most taxpayers think. But if you do already have the money in a coffer, then you can ask for less money in future years. So if it's just to make numbers easy, 10 million a year, but you have a million extra sitting around and you keep asking for the 10, you could ask for nine and a half one year and drain down some of that excess. Um, then that's more questions. And then I guess my final comment is that uh everinccreasing taxes will drive people out of town. The student and the taxpayer base will decrease. So
053when I [clears throat] look around even in this room, this room is probably about twice the size it needs to be to have this many books, this many chairs, this many desks in it. You could easily put a wall right here and fit 8 to 10 cubicles in this spot. So, I don't know because I can't ask questions right now how many separate offices you're talking about in this new building. This is my first time being in this building and everywhere I see are wide open spaces that are very visually appealing but very wasteful. And when taxpayers taxes went up over for myself over 50% this year and that's before the revaluation's about to hit us, it's literally driving people out of town. And I'd like you to consider that stuff and thank you for
054your time. Thank you, David. [clears throat] >> And Matt Lance, welcome. >> Good evening. Matt Lance, town of Hampton. Uh, something I've been watching, keeping my eye on for a few years now is the uh law firm that the school district uses uh to represent us. um they have cost several school districts around the state lots and lots of money. There are now an influx of schools going away from that particular law firm. And I would encourage this board to shop around, look into other law firms that might have this district's interests in [clears throat] mind rather than, excuse me, their own interests at heart. It's becoming more and more clear that the interests of that particular law firm uh are getting in the way of their legal performance and I would encourage you guys
055to look into seeking alternative legal counsel. Thank you. >> Thank you, Matt. And I think that's everyone for um public comment. [clears throat] So board chair um report is uh I really don't have anything. I do want to to comment on something um because it apparently reflects poorly on you, but I was admittedly um late in responding to to Mike's um email and I it was an oversight on my part. There's no excuse for it. I didn't respond in a timely manner. And because I represent the board and you have um I have your trust, you know that typically I do respond. Um so I want to apologize again because it's not the board's fault that I didn't respond. Um Mike and so I want to put that that's on me. Um and [clears throat]
056but I do want the community to know that when we speak um that we're a group. where 14 people were elected individually. We make decisions individually, but when we make a decision, it's by the majority of the board. And so we don't have 14 different messages going out. Typically, the chair responds to emails. Um, and so for anyone who emails the board, we do respond. People do care. They do listen and and I'm the one who who usually gives the response. Um, so I just wanted to be that out there to know that the process is um and that we are listening and that people are concerned um and discussing these matters. Thank you. [clears throat] And so now personnel. All right, that's easy. I'm going to turn the floor over to Nick for his
057report. So reading our essential behaviors and outcomes this month is Scott. 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 in our community 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, Scott. And our monthly presentation this month is uh Mrs. Moore. Mrs. Mo is the principal at uh Smith School down in Winterport. Hi, I'm Don Moore. I'm the principal down at the Smith School in Winterport. Um, thanks for
058having me tonight. I'm going to see if I can balance doing this these two things at once. Um so welcome to the Libra H Smith School slideshow where um I'm going to talk a little bit about our attendance strategies this year. As you know that's been a focus for us for many years. Um so why we shifted our focus to attendance is in the past attendance worked central attendance work centered mainly on chronically absent students. This gave us important data, but it was difficult to turn into practice practical action steps for all teachers. We needed a more tangible schoolwide approach that allowed us to create a consistent tier one strategy. By looking at overall attendance trends, we can engage every staff member, every classroom, and every student in improvement. So, in the end, everyone benefits
059when we build strong attendance habits across the school. So what we do so each day teachers hang yellow bees or golden bees on their door frame so it's visible for all. So when they have less than um two students absent they get to hang a yellow bee. Once they get 10 yellow bees they get a golden bee and it's so everyone can see when you enter their um classroom how they've been doing. We also have a daily attendance display for on um as you walk in the door for everybody to see. Classroom teachers celebrate 100% attendance daily by um giving shoutouts in the classroom. We give shoutouts on the intercom. We have surprise events. We have dance parties, write your name, um extended recess. We'll be doing a build a snowman where um grade levels
060will be in competition and each time a grade level um has the highest attendance, they'll get a piece of a snowman. So hopefully we get a few snowmen built. These are just some pictures of some of the things I just talked about. about the golden bees around the classroom, the daily attendance display. Um, we do have a Smith school attendance pledge that we have all signed as teachers just agreeing to work our hardest to get students to be there every day. We also do um we are so glad you're here today where all the kids that were there on that day get to sign the snowflake and I will tell you for um prek four students that is like a treasure and they love just going and looking and make sure their name make sure
061their name is still there every day when they get to school. Um we also like I said have surprise celebrations because of course we have to go with the six seven um craze that was out there. Um and we also have freeze dances. If you're there that day, you are lucky enough to be able to dance. Some of the things we do is we have morning movement um our be fit which engages activity and the kids get to um run around the gym. We have daily jobs to promote connection to school. We have bus helpers. It's been really nice to have them um help hold the signs so that the other students know which bus they're getting on. We also do bubbles, not this time of year, though that would be really fun to do.
062Um but kids enjoy coming in and having um bubbles. We have student recognitions um positive office referrals. The students get a picture um put on the wall. We have welcome signs. And just today we actually today was a glow stick party day. So if you were at school, you got a glow stick and you got to dance in the dark. So we make family connections. We try to build positive relationships with students and families. Um, in the beginning in September, we had a monthly family connection challenge where the teachers were challenged to reach out to every single family just to kind of touch base, see how things are going. Um, as I mentioned, we have school pledge. We have be our guest days where we invite parents in to participate in an activity with their
063children. We have all school share awards. We have um winter night, winter family night, literacy nights, PBIS night, reminders and newsletters. Uh, every year we participate in winter kids. We have a spring concert, open house, positive postcards, and this list is I could go on and on with the um how we try to connect families with us. This is um a picture of some students being recognized for empathy at one of our all school shares as well as our um be our guest. Our first event this year was third grade and they were doing a science experiment. So our attendance team consists of myself, our social worker, our school counselor, and our educational outreach coordinator. And the purpose of our team is to de develop a [clears throat] plan for um efforts, provide um follow
064up with families and support staff and families. And this is just a document that the staff has access to that it's a flowchart of what [snorts] happens when children have been absent so many times the next steps and it goes through steps and procedures and gives hints and trick tricks that can help to um promote attendance. And so our action steps um classroom attendance routines and celebrations. We ensure classrooms establish consistent attendance routines include clear expectations, visible tracking, attendance incentives, and regular recognition of positive attendance. We also hold morning meetings every day to build community in the classrooms. Action. Step two is um classroom attend attendance intervention support teachers to ensure that students in every class with 10% or higher ab absenteeism are connected to a tier 2 support such as check and checkout attendance
065monitoring and individualized plan for student and families. These are some these are the results of our chronic absenteeism over the um past few years which I will say is very impressive going from 30% to 12% last year. So, we're very proud of our efforts. Um, and this has got to be the best part of the presentation. So, [clears throat] let's hope that >> Why do you like to come to school every day? >> Because you learn stuff and reach is the best part of >> Why do you like to come to school? >> Because I get to sometimes um [music] do paint. >> Come to school every day. >> Um to see my teacher. Why do you have to go to school every day? >> It's good for your learning. Um because hang out with
066>> I don't really have an answer, but one of them is because um [music] of recess and all my friends together >> because I just love math because you get to play with your friends still. I like to learn math and writing so I can be good at school and get straight >> because almost everyone is nice and um I like [music] it and I wish that we have like such a big school. >> Why do you like to come to school every day? >> Cuz I like [music] Thank you. >> Any questions? >> Thank you, Don. I think there's a question from Ellen. >> Um, I just wanted to say those attendance numbers were awesome. That's that's really fantastic. It's so great to see that. And my one question was I know the outreach
067coordinator is a newer position. Do you have any um response [snorts] on on the effect he's had and how people are responding to him? So, I would say we're still we're still he's so new that I I can't say I have any results, but he's been really active in our community trying to make connections with families and students. Thank you. >> All right. Now, the assistant superintendent's report. >> Okay. Have three quick things today. We got an email today that our mobile van office is arriving. We're very excited about that. In next month's report, we'll share photographs of that. We have to do a virtual tour and approve it. For those of you that are not familiar, we wrote a grant. It's the dropout prevention committee brainstormed that we needed uh a person and we're
068talking about this outreach coordinator that Principal Moore just mentioned [clears throat] to connect kids with all the great resources at school. We're doing a lot of great things and if we can't get them through the door, she just said it all in her attendance report, right? So, this position is to coordinate with families. Uh it's funded by the opioid trust grant. So, it could be that they have an opioid impact or it could be that there's the potential for that, right? There's a a preventative measure around that as well. And we did meet this morning and we're ready to do the quarterly report for that grant around our expenditures. The biggest exciting part is that the bane is coming because what we learned uh in recent years and the think tank that wrote the grant,
069you've heard it all before. Uh when we go to families to make that first connection, that often makes all the difference. And if they are not comfortable coming to school or they can't get there that having that office that has the Wi-Fi where you can go and connect and sit with um Mr. Kartwrite and open the laptop and join the meeting and that's going to um get people on board. So we're excited that the van is on the way. We want to thank principles this month for their efforts last Friday during the strategic plan session. They gave great feedback this week at our leadership team that staff really engaged. You might remember that over the summer the edte gave us feedback. Our leadership team gave us feedback. Well, last Friday, your principles um coordinated and
070collected feedback from their educators in their building and they were pretty excited to assess and reflect on the growth that they've made according to the strategic plan. So, we'll pull all that together and report back out to you coming soon. And of course, then after we have a draft based on their feedback, we'll have workshops with the board and the community element. And finally, link 22 is coming. Again, kudos to our directors and our principles for their efforts. We used to contract that out. Remember the day when that happened. And now it's an in-house. It's a cost savings, but I still think it looks professional and it reaches every household in all four towns. It's an old school newspaper. And um it's this issue is telling the stories of things that you might not otherwise
071see. So it's not just the photograph that you're going to see on Facebook, the story of, you know, how do we get kids to be readers and love reading? How do we get them to engage in positive behaviors all the time when things are really hard? So, thank you for your effort, leadership team on the link 22 and Mrs. Moore, of course, because she pulls it all together. Well done, guys. Our monthly uh budget report, as you recall, we have encumbered all uh personnel at this point, all the salaries and benefits of the filled positions. So, we do still have some positions that are not filled uh specifically in special education. So, when you're looking through the budget articles, uh that would be article number two. Uh and many of those are our educational technicians.
072Uh so, everything that is filled at this point is uh encumbered with salary, wages, and benefits. Uh and if you look down through the percent remaining, uh we have used 47. So, we're we're approaching the 50% mark. We're at 47% uh of the school year and the fiscal year we are just shy of 55% um having turned the corner into January. Uh the one I would say uh that is higher than we would ordinarily anticipate uh at this point has u some rationale to it. That'd be article 4. That's our other instruction that's predominantly athletics. So much of the athletic pieces come from uh seasonal uh payments or seasonally. Uh that would be your sal your stipens and your um expenses each season each respective season specifically the winter season where we have a high
073number of facility rentals. So you'll see that uh dwindle away in the next couple of months uh specifically due to the facility rentals. Uh the rest of it is pretty well on par. our facilities management uh is higher than the rest of it uh than what you are seeing as a comparison because there's very little um personnel in there and those would be mostly custodial supplies. >> Thank you, Nick. And uh I'll turn it over to our student board members for their report. [clears throat] All right. Uh thank you. So, starting off a report, uh, Hammond Academy midterms have started yesterday and they continue until Friday. So, I'm just having the time of my life currently. Um, and this is also a rather short uh [clears throat] report. I didn't mail it in just because
074I'm busy, trust me. But, um, uh, additionally, uh, on Monday, we hosted a huge cheer competition here at HA. Uh it consisted of both high school and middle school athletes and it was a huge success from what I saw on social media and online. >> Um over >> okay over Friday and Saturday jazz had their all states in which three students got to attend. So that was really cool. Um, yonder pouches have been passed out throughout this week and they will be enforced on Monday. Um, three students got to show off their artwork at the Zilman Art Museum and yeah, that's all we have. >> Thank you, Ashton and Annabelle. Um, [snorts] questions of board members. Kristen, >> um, I just have a comment. I want to thank um Tina and the parent groups and
075the Winterport principles um for attending the anxious generation parent talk. Um I think we were hoping for some more people to attend, but um it was a really really good discussion um for those who aren't familiar with the book. It's um about uh the mental health crisis associated with our kids and phones and social media. Um, so we got some really good um, ideas for next steps that came out of that. Some screen free community events um, and just getting our kids to get together and play and do normal kid things. Um, so if we have another one, I I hope uh, more board members can attend. [clears throat] >> Nick, I have a question. It's related to the financial report. Um you said that we're down um primarily in special ed with the ed
076tax. Are we still meeting the needs of all our special ed students? >> Yes, absolutely. That would be priority number one. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um committee reports are in your um packet. There were four or five different ones. So, I encourage everyone to review those and uh contact committee chair, subcommittee chairs with any questions that you may have. Bay, I'm going to turn the floor over to you for policy considerations. We're going to begin with the first reading. The first one is policy GCQC, designation of school unit employees. Basically, if you looked at uh the adjusted uh policy in your packet, you'll see that there were very few changes that were made, but it does clarify uh what happens when a school unit employee happens. Therefore, the policy committee moves to approve
077policy GCQ, resignation of school unit employees for first reading as presented. >> Second. We have a motion and a second on the floor for first reading of policy GCQC resignation of school unit employees. Is there any discussion? All right. All those in favor of policy GCQC resignation of school unit employees. And that's unanimous. The next policy is policy EBE, school closings and cancellations. Again, you'll notice in your packet that there weren't a lot of changes that were made to it, but it does again clarify um what happens uh in regards to school closings and cancellations, especially in regards to the resumption of scheduled activities. Therefore, the policy committee moves to approve policy EBE, school closings and cancellations for first reading as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor
078for policy EBE, school closings and cancellations. Is there any discussion? Ashton? >> Uh, yeah. So Lester, I just have a question here. It's kind of general, but for this it's talking about, you know, exchanging over media or whatever it may be, announcement of school cancellation. I was just wondering if we could make it possible that students, if they so choose to be, are on sort of the call list or text list or whatever we use to notify parents if that would be possible. >> That's a it's a good idea. I don't know if we could put that into policy. Um but so those numbers those contact numbers are taken from powers school and there is a direct link from powers school in through the messaging system and with powers school not having student numbers. I
079don't know how that could work. I can check with Mr. Savage who oversees P school for us and see if there's an option if uh students supply their numbers. Uh but right now it wouldn't work simply because we don't have the numbers and it's not set up that way to my knowledge. >> Yeah, thank you. >> Thank you Ashton. Well, >> um at the allow resumption of scheduled activities, does that mean you can call school back or are you talking specifically about all day after school and evening school sponsored activities? And if so, you might want to clarify that a little bit because the way it reads, you could apply that to um to to any scheduled activity. And by media, do you mean like at the bottom of the screen in Storm Center? [snorts]
080I don't raise my hand so I could call on myself. Um I would also ask you to consider in the first line to the superintendent or designate in case superintendent's out of town while that occurs. I noticed that that's given. I'm not trying to take your power away, Nick. I still do. >> Um, but in case he falls on the ice and hits his head, can't be on the computer. Um, but it just we have it down lower for the resumption. So, I thought it might make sense for consistency to also have it at the opening. >> Can I ask Will a question just for clarification as I take my notes? when you're looking at you're you're talking about um clarifying what's in red allow for resumption of scheduled after school activities. >> Well, what
081I think you're getting at is if we cancel school and everything's the way it reads is everything's canceled, but if things are better at like noon and we still want to have the basketball game, we're allowed to call that back in. Right. So I just might say yeah I just might say resumption of activi scheduled activities. What scheduled activities you talking about? You talking about coming back into school at noon or you talking about evening and afternoon activities? Just clarify it a little bit. >> All right. Seeing no further discussion, um all those in favor of policy first reading of policy EBE, school closings and cancellations and that's unanimous. The next policy um is going to be renamed to um become records management and that is policy EHB which is presently school records retention. Um
082again there were very few the only thing that's changing literally is the uh title and also legal and cross references. Therefore, the policy committee moves to approve policy EHB, school records retention for first reading as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second for first reading of policy EHB records management. Is there any discussion? Jessica, >> this is nitpicky, but the cross reference and all of the type after that is in a different font. >> Sorry. >> Thank you. I'll fix it. [clears throat] That's what you get when you cut and paste. Seeing no further discussion, all those in favor of first reading of policy EHB records management. [snorts] And that's unanimous. We're now looking at a deletion for uh this is its first reading, but because we only do one reading
083for deletions, uh the policy committee moves to delete policy E D business management goals, um this was originally done in 74 and amended in 82. It is no longer needed. >> Second. We have a motion and a second on the floor for deletion of policy ed. It's hard to see if it's a D or a P with a strike through on it. Um business management goals and objectives. Um is there any discussion? >> Remember that remember that this is our only reading for deletions. So all those in favor of deletion of policy de business management goals and objectives >> ed and that's unanimous. I'm glad to know Lester it's not just me then it does. We'll move on to second readings. Uh the first policy for second readings is school uh policy CB, school superintendent.
084Uh there were no Did I miss one? >> Oh. Oh, EI. Sorry, that was a reviewed one. Policy EI was reviewed. Um no changes were made to that policy and no action needs to be done by the board. Uh it'll simply say that it was reviewed as of this date on the bottom. Now I'll go to second reading. Um there were no recommendations at our first reading and therefore uh the policy committee moves to approve policy CB school superintendent for second reading as presented. >> Oops, I was looking at the wrong one. There were changes made to policy CB. So, I'm going to go back. Um, at the last meeting for policy CB, uh, there was a recommendation to, uh, put together, uh, two policies to create one policy. In your packet, you will notice
085that under CB there is the blue section. Uh that section reflects the other policy which is going to be which one the minute CBI. Thank you. So um it reflects what was in CBI. Therefore, now I'm going to do it is that the policy kid meeting moves to approve policy CB school superintendent for second reading as presented with the amendments. >> So now we have a motion and a second. Thank you for making that easier before we cast the vote on that or had to amend something. Uh is there any discussion on the second reading of this policy? Will >> I think you're talking about CHD combination, not CB. >> You're correct. >> Okay, >> it is CHD. >> Um, what do we do to get this motion destroyed? What's the I can't think of
086a >> CD, isn't it? >> Yeah, >> but I talked about motion. >> Correct. >> No, not at this point. We'll go to a motion when we go to the deletion of um CHD. Too many letters. >> So, Will, can I ask >> what you're getting at? >> Well, I [clears throat] think I don't think you put it in the motion, so we're probably fine. But you described combining two policies and you said CI CBI but it's actually combining CHD and I just wanted to clarify that. >> Right. But the motion I I did the motion as the policy committee moves to approve policy CB. Oh no, next one. Policy committee moves to [clears throat] approve policy CB school superintendent for second reading as presented. >> Perfect. Any discussion? Further discussion. All right. All those
087in favor of pol second second reading of policy CB school superintendent and that's unanimous. Thank you. >> Now we move to the deletion. Uh because we just put policy CHD as part of CB, we are now recommending this policy for deletion. Therefore, the policy committee moves to delete policy CHD, administration in the absence of policy. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor to delete policy CHD, administration in the absence of policy. Is there any discussion? All those in favor of deletion of policy CHD administration in the absence of policy have batt vote on that one. >> So it's unanimous. >> The next policy for second reading is policy CBI. Uh there were no recommendations at the last meeting. So therefore, the policy committee moves to approve policy CBI evaluation
088of the superintendent for second reading as presented. Second, >> we have a motion and a second on the floor for the second reading of policy CBI evaluation of the superintendent. Any discussion? All those in favor of second reading of policy CBI evaluation of the superintendent. And that's [clears throat] the next policy is policy CGC which will now be policy IHD. There were no recommendations for changes. Therefore, the policy committee moves to approve policy G CGC, which is now IHD, adult and community education programs for second reading as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor for second reading of policy CGC, adult and community education programs. As a note, this will be if approved, it will be recoded to policy IHD. Is there any discussion? All those in favor
089of second reading of policy CGC, adult and community education programs. And that's unanimous. And I think that completes our policy considerations. [snorts] I don't know what you guys are taking at those meetings. You're at the last few months have been a lot of policies through here. So I'm impressed FA that you get through that alphabet soup as well as you do. >> But there are several alphabets left to go. I think it was a mistake to always do the same letter or the same group because there's just too many C's in this one. >> All right, we don't have any old business today. So, I'm going to turn it over to yield the floor to Nick for new business to act discuss and act on overnight field trip requests. We actually have um two music
090requests for overnight and we have two athletic events for overnight. Um some of which are coming right up. Uh so the uh explanation [clears throat] was given to all of you. I I see that Mrs. Priest is here in the event that there are questions about uh any of the two music trips. uh one to New York and the state uh all state festival at UI, the alpine ski uh to western Maine and the cheering to southern Maine. Uh all of which to compete. >> I move that we approve the list of Hampton Academy overnight trips as presented. >> Second. We have a motion and a second on the floor to approve the list of Hampton Academy overnight trips as presented. Um, is there any discussion? All right. All those in favor of approving the
091overnight trips as presented and that carries unanimously. Next on our agenda is um setting meeting dates. Does anyone any subcommittee need to set their meeting dates? >> I just have a question. Do we have any idea when budget will start to meet? >> That's funny. I was going to ask that question too, Jessica. I also knew that those dates are are scheduled. So >> while he does that, I just want to share that the education foundation committee moved from last week at 5:30 till to to tomorrow at 5:30. And I should have shared thank you to the Marsh Island kitchen for partnering with R222 Education Foundation because our schools are going to vote on their favorite burger and then you can buy it the first week of February with a portion of the proceeds going
092to our22 Ed Foundation. So, tomorrow is our meeting for those of you interested. >> Tina, are we allowed to vote for each school? I mean, not in one, not at one meal, but they all looked good. >> You should go every day, less, and get a burger that whole week. And the pictures in the advertisement that are coming out in the link 22 may not be the burgers that the kids actually choose. We're [clears throat] working with principles right now to get kids to vote because there's an elementary burger, a middle school burger, and a high school burger. All right, go ahead. >> So, the dates that we have right now for budget committee and we will put this in the in the minutes as well. Uh March 12th, March 19th, March 26th, April 2nd,
093April 9th, April 14th. All of those are 4 o'clock here in the library. April 30th, if necessary. May 13th, full board. That will be a workshop like we did last year, 7:00 here in the library. And June 4th is the district budget meeting at 7 o'clock in the gym downstairs. >> Nick, can you have Becky add those to our district calendar? That'd be great. on the May 13 people on budget committend. >> So how we did it last year the intent is to do the same. It will be considered a board workshop similar to what we did with the uh admin building uh and you'll have the presentation and everything for uh that particular day. So everyone should be here from the board. >> Right. [clears throat] And for clarity as a workshop we will
094make no actions during that um that meeting. We don't have to go into executive session. And is there any other business that's popped up Nick? All right. Holly, >> I'll be quick. >> I [clears throat] just really want to recognize the um Wagner cheer team and the post that the Henman coach made a statement about thinking that they weren't ready for the competition and they've won two competitions. >> Yeah, >> I saw that. Congratulations. >> Motion to second. It was >> all those in favor >> technically by Robert's rules of order. I don't think you have to take a vote on a on I think a motion and a second are enough. Uh kitchen.