001Mic check. Check. Check. Nice check. Evening everyone. Welcome to the Indian Academy Library and calling the RSU22 board of directors meeting uh [clears throat] calling it to order. Um it looks like everyone is here except for Jessica and she uh let Nick and I know about that. >> Oh, and Holly's not here. Thank you. >> Apparently, I've got to look both ways. All right. Um I would ask everyone who can to um stand and join me for the pledge of >> allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley and justice for all. >> All right. So, at this point, I'm looking for uh an approval of minutes of our meeting on October 20. >> So, move >> October 15.
002>> So, move. >> All right. So, will moved and Luke seconded. Is there any discussion or amendments to the minutes? All right. Not hearing any. All those in favor? Any opposed? And any abstensions? >> There are no adjustments to the agenda, although for the board there are a couple changes in the notes. Um, but that there no new pieces of business in the agenda. Um, so I'm going to turn the floor over to Superintendent Raymond for the um recognitions. >> Thank you. Good evening. Uh, tonight we actually have three individuals or groups to recognize. Uh, and so what I would like to do, we're going to start with the Reedsbrook Middle School soccer team. And is it going to be Miss Bells or Okay. So I will introduce uh Mrs. Bell Rose who is our
003dean of students at uh Wagner and Reedsbrook as well as athletic director at Reedsbrook and she will be uh joined by Paty. >> All right. So I'm really here just to introduce this fabulous lady. She's our B boys soccer coach. She's been working with us for a couple years now. She's brought um such great energy to our team, to our school. She's been great with these um young gentlemen here. Um I'm very proud to have her be a part of our coaching team. Um and she's going to talk to you about this initiative that she has done over the last couple of years which um will tell you guys all all the reasons why I'm very proud of our team and Py. I'm a horrible speaker. Um so we've been doing this for three years
004now. Um 2023 was my first year coaching and Um, as a coach, it gives you the perfect opportunity to not only teach skills, but life lessons and thought this would be a good thing to have the kids be a part of the community and what they could do to give back. Um, I asked them what they would like to do, um, who we could donate money to and there some ideas thrown around. Ul, ultimately can't take care of me. and it happened to to be we had a teammate who was going through the process of chemotherapy. So, it kind of made it more meaningful for us to give to that um Northern Light and be able to help our team. Um first year we raised $3,000. Uh second year 3,910 and this year they just
005blew me out of the water. $6,555. So that's a total of $13,465 that they've given in three years. Um because of this they were recognized as the champion the cure 2026 youth champions. Um so they'll doing some other things with um Northern Light to help promote the youth and how the youth can help out and give back to the community. Um yeah, I'm super proud of the kids. I'm going to bring the boys up and they can give their names and grades. Come on up, boys. >> First, >> you guys your name and what grade? >> I'm just gonna >> I'm Lucas Silk, grade six. [applause] >> Adrian Ellenwood, ninth grade in a Greensburg graduate. [applause] Noah Dennis, eighth grade, sixth grade. [applause] Sixth grade, eighth grade. [applause] Savage, sixth grade. Jackson, sixth grade. Hston,
006sixth grade. Ben, seventh grade. David, seventh grade. Wyatt, sixth grade. >> So, just to give a couple more facts. Um, >> all right. This is real quick. Um, we didn't get a chance to do this for you at the end of this season, but as a mom, um, I can't thank Coach Py enough. and coach Ro who couldn't be here tonight, but on behalf of all of the boys from both the A and the B team, I'm telling you what, these two right here are phenomenal coaches and everyone should be feeling really proud and I think the boys would agree. So, this is just a little gift from us to you guys because we didn't get the chance to do it at our parents versus coaches and so thank you so much. >> Thank you
007very much. So, just to kind of break it down this year, um, we had I don't keep the stats for the year for the goals, but I do keep the stats for the donations. All right. So, three players raised over $500. Uh, one player raised over 700. Nine players are 200 or more. One player 300 or more. Six players 100 or more. 10 players 30 to 100 and the coach [clears throat] 900. So, as a team, we did this and and that's what I like to promote is that we're not individuals. We are individuals, but as a group, we're stronger. And that just proves it right there. Good job, guys. [applause] >> Thanks. I do have one question for anyone who's brave enough to answer this. >> I promise it's not hard. I'm just curious
008what this means to you to be part of this team. Is there anyone that would answer that? [laughter] >> If not, that's okay. >> Well, I I will just say if no one's willing to, I will just say certainly I'm very proud of what you guys have done. Uh, I think I speak for everyone here on the board in RSU22. We're very proud of the the character you have and what you have done for the school and the community and what Northern Light has uh awarded you with. It sounds as though it is very welld deserving. So, thank you very much and congratulations. [applause] >> Thank you. The the next one on our list uh is the boys cross country team. So I would invite uh our athletic director at Hman Academy, Mr. McCallion, to
009the podium. >> Good job, guys. >> Hey, congrats, guys. Good job. So, I have some uh a little bit older gentlemen with me tonight. Um, if you if you haven't heard, they are the class A state champions for cross country. [applause] >> And we also have our awesome coach here, uh, Danielle Johnson. And, uh, she's going to talk to you guys a little bit more about the season and, uh, then we'll, uh, introduce the athletes as well. >> Um, yeah. you know, thank you for having us. Um, thank you for yesterday we went to um the other schools and showed off all of our hardware. Um, it was great for the boys to be recognized for their hard work. I'm sure that you guys all see us running all over Hampton and they're like, they're
010crazy. Like, what are they doing? But um you know all of their dedication, all their miles, all their sweat, all the massive amount of calories that they have to intake to um get to the level they are is quite amazing. Um I'll say that our win um was just I'm getting emotional because it was an emotional day. Um was really um kind of unexpected because the week going into states we had um someone who sprained their ankle. We had someone who got a concussion kind of and someone was sick. And so it was kind of a rough week for us emotionally. Um the boys will test. Um [cough] and if you don't know how cross country works, um they take the five best the five first boys on each team and they take their place
011and they add them. It's a little more complicated than that, but that's kind of the gist of it. Um, and we are up against Portland and we knew we had to like kind of get three people in front of their pe people in order to win. Um, we got two in front and then it was a Portland and then our third and then all of Portland's team came and then our four and five and so we all walked back to the tent and you know we were like you know that was a good effort. We did our best. It was just you know the kind of cards were not dealt for us this week and um I remember we you know, we thought we got second and um then we kind of found out that
012we won and just to see their faces like I'm not that emotional, but I was almost in tears because I was just watching them and like they've worked so hard. So, I'm really just so proud of them. And um yeah, so they're gonna kind of introduce themselves and then um Asher, one of the captains is you can heard Wild and I'm a senior. >> I'm Ashley Valentine. I'm also a senior. >> I'm Jack Scott and I'm a junior. I'm Zach Valentine. I'm a freshman. >> I'm Andrew Green. I'm a senior. >> I'm Charlie McDonald and I'm a junior. >> I'm Jeser. I'm a sophomore. >> I'm Josh Lane and I'm a freshman. >> Yeah. So, I just wanted to quickly talk for a little bit. This season was like the season to do it for
013us. Um, we all really wanted it and we had won states like the seniors here had won states our freshman year and so we just wanted to end our seasons of cross country on the good known um so many years of sacrifice and um overcoming just like the hiccups and um yeah it all just came together at that state meet u me and Gunner were able to get um top 10 which is all state and so it was really just a great moment for us but I think she's going to hate me for this cuz she doesn't need attention but I think the main reason we did it was because of Miss Johnston. Um even from I think it was like even the third day of practice this year she pulled me aside and she
014was like this team is special like I really really think like you guys can do it this year. And so just the entire time she had that belief and we had times during the season when we were struggling and um having a hard time but she believed in us the whole time and she knew we could do it and that was really the difference maker for us. So thank you Mson. [applause] I'm open to any questions. I do have a question, but I don't think it's going to be directed at you. So, I understand I know that you all went around to the schools yesterday and one in particular made the crowd of students go a little crazy and I want to say it might be Gunnar. >> Gunnar, would you explain what made the
015crowd go crazy? >> Or you could say the >> So, we were at I believe Smith school, elementary school. And I don't know how many of you parents here know about this, but there's a pretty big joke going around that consists of just the two numbers six and seven. Um, so I thought it would be a pretty good bit to step up there and just throw out a little joke. And the line went um something like this. I said, "We [snorts] had a very good season. You know, we finished very strong and we didn't come in sixth or seventh place. >> [laughter] >> And the kids loved it. You know, they had a very good time with it, I think. So, >> I did hear the through the grape vine, so I appreciate the story.
016Um, but I will say the group in front of you, uh, led by Mr. Johnson has a very high character. U, we're very proud of them. I know a few years ago we recognized some of you that were here. Um, but it just goes to show the program itself. The program has a significant high character and we're all very proud of that. We're very proud that you won a state championship, but even more so, your character and your drive will take you much further in life. So, we appreciate that and congratulations. >> Thank you so much. [applause] >> And you'll want to get pictures of each group. So, I we'll have one more recognition. And what we'll do is uh the Reesebrook kids will just get behind us first and then the boys cross country
017and then Lily will get a picture with us in a moment. So don't leave yet, but it'll just be a few minutes. So at this time I would like to introduce uh senior at Hampton Academy, Lily Mloud. And as Lily is coming to the podium, uh her teachers could not be here tonight, so I'm going to join her. Uh I am very honored to uh recognize Lily tonight because Lily um scored very well at Skills USA. For those of you that are not aware, uh Skills USA is a competition that is done through um UTC and uh we recognized some students uh this past spring from UTC and Lily was not able to be here that particular day, but she was able to move on to the national championship or national competition in Atlanta. And
018so what we're going to do We're going to play a little reporter and uh interviewe interviewee and um she's going to answer some of my questions. So, Lily uh as I mentioned is a senior. So, Lily, just talk to us about uh UTC in general and the skills competition here at the state first. >> Okay. So, I'm a part of the business leadership um program at UTC. And I originally entered this program obviously last year during my junior year and it's a very hands-on learning environment which I very much like lean more towards. Um I have dyslexia and so I like to do things a lot more hands-on and UTC was a great thing for me in that aspect. And I've learned so much incredible information being in this program and learning about how I
019want my future to look and learning through amazing program teachers has really helped me in my education and has really helped me in the step forward that I want to take for my future. >> So what place did you get in the state? So, I got first gold for the state >> and that allowed you to go into [applause] that allowed you to go to the nationals. >> And so, what did you place in the national one? >> Um, I'm second in the nation for the employment application process. [applause] What is the employment application process? What does that look like if I'm going to compete? I won't win, but what will that look like? So [clears throat] the employment application process is a competition obviously in the skills USA. Um it's specifically for um the
020business program and it's you go and you have to create a portfolio and you also have to create a resume for the designated job that you want to have. So I want to go into the cosmetology industry and I want to be a hair stylist. So that was what my portfolio was based off of. And then for my actual competition, I had to go into a room and I got interviewed um like a real business um for whatever like field I wanted to go into. And then I gave them my portfolio. And so I was graded or I was scored on my portfolio and then my resume and then how I did in the actual interview itself. >> So as you can see, she's very well spoken. Um, I remember Lily as an eighth grader
021at Wagner and Lily actually did she was half of the announcers. Do you remember what the last line of the Wagner announcement was every single day? >> Wagner. It's something with Wagner Pride, wasn't it? >> Keep your >> Wagner pride. >> Keep your Wagner pride high. >> There you go. And she has uh she certainly has um made Wagner look nice, look good, and she's certainly made Handen Academy and RSU22 look good. So, I really appreciate your efforts and congratulations. >> Thank you. >> So, we'll get Lily's picture first and then we'll do Reed's Brook and then Three, two, one. >> And if we can get the Reese Brook team up here, please. That's great. >> No, I think three, two, one. Let's start. All right. Three, two, one. >> I don't like to get
022too close. That's the second. All right. So now we have one person on the list for uh addressing the board. Um we do have a policy uh the board has a policy bet on public participation at schoolboard meetings. Um but Dr. Jarby I think unless you need me to read it then I'll uh dispense with that. So you can get up and uh I'll have this assistant superintendent start the timer. >> Thank you Mr. Chairman. My name is Eric Jeremy and I live at 10 Sophie Lane in Hampton. My message to you tonight might best be titled The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly after the 1966 epic spaghetti western film classic starring Clint Eastwood, which probably few in this room remember. The good. I am proud member of the Hamn Kuanas Club and we
023are working with the RSU22 curriculum director on what we anticipate will be a three-year project to supply enough dictionaries for every student in second through fourth grade in RSU22 classrooms. The ban the November 4th RSU22 referendum to build a new administration building did not receive voter approval. At the October 21st public hearing, I publicly supported the new administration building, but contended that the timing of the referendum was ill advised and details were not well communicated to the public, making its passage problematic. Having been led to believe that RSU22 might have received communication from the town of Hammond regarding issues related to the referendum, I requested a copy from the district of any such correspondence on November 10th. The response I received was, and quote, "I don't know where you received your information, but once again,
024it is not accurate." RSU22 has had no communication with the town of Hampton regarding next steps. I am now in receipt of a copy of an October 16th email from Hammond's code of enforcement officer to the district sharing concerns regarding the language in the referendum as well as clarifying the necessary approval process at the project received voter endorsement. This correspondence was received by the district 5 days prior to the public hearing, none of which was shared at the October 21st public hearing. The ugly. Last night, I attended a 5-hour meeting of the Ponopscot County Budget Committee where a proposed $36 million budget representing a 20% increase from FY25 for Ponopscott County was substantively approved by the 15 member advisory committee. The increase results from an ongoing shortfall which has created a roughly $7 million deficit
025in the country undesated fund balance, setting the stage for what will be significant property tax hikes for Ponopscot County residents. This major increase will serve as a notable backdrop as voters, especially from Hampton and Newberg, are asked to approve any proposed RSU22 budget increase in June 2026. Given this information, I appeal to the district to proceed cautiously in developing the next budget request. Thank you for your time and your comments, Dr. Jarby. All right. Up next, we have my report. And you will notice in your packet that I have um I have Becky include the policy on committees. Um since we are in the new cycle of election new being that the two people who are running um were reelected to the board. Um it's a good time we usually in November look at committee
026assignments. So I'm going to ask that everyone email me their top three committee choices. If you have more, feel free to include them. But your top three and and send them to me and then I'll meet with the uh vice chair and the superintendent and we will um uh look at committee assignments um by the next board meeting. So if you could email those to me um by December 5th. So that's the Friday, first Friday in December. And what we will try to do is make sure that everyone gets at least one of their top two picks if possible. And I say if possible because if all 14 of you put or all 13 of you put the same two committees on them, that's going to be a little bit difficult. But um but we'll
027go from there from there. Are there any questions? All right. And just so you know that um that the I do not designate the the board chair for the standing committees. Those are elected by the board uh by the committees themselves. And that is all I have. So I will turn it over to um the superintendent for personnel. I have one um nomination at this time. I would like to nominate Heather Love as a art teacher at McGra and Weatherbe. Uh Heather has a bachelor's in art education and studio art from UMain Orno. Previous teaching experience as a military instructor. My recommendation for Heather as an art teacher between Mcgra and Weatherby is a salary of $48,96.78. Second. Is there any discussion? All right. All those in favor of the hire. And that's unanimous. So,
028we'll call the vote. >> Excellent. Congratulations. Welcome. [applause] All right. And I think from my board packet, Kirsten, you are up with the uh reading of the essential behaviors. 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 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. And I'll turn it over to superintendent again for >> Okay, we'll move over to assistant superintendent. Okay, I just want to
029shout out the hand in Hanford who you can jump in if you if I miss anything. As I stated in my report, they donated $3,000 to RS22 schools to address food insecurities. Thank you to our school counselors for making sure that it gets to the families that need it the most. And thank you, Hannah, for your generous donation. Um, I met with the Pride Pack. They welcomed me last week. This is Pratt's team over there at Wagner. It's the PTO. I'm excited to share that we have good things in the works around the textbook, The Anxious Generation. Uh, more details to come. You've been hearing us talk about that for a year now. And there's a handbook, thank you, Mrs. Nixon, for telling me about this, the amazing generation, which is our guide for the
030student end of it because the first time I joined the parent group, they said, "We want to know about the data that supports um helping kids overcome having their frontal lobe be rewired due to technology." Right? But what are we? we need some tools in our tool box uh to support our kids with this and around it and set some parameters. And so this will be published in the beginning of January and Mrs. Nickerson has some on order. So we'll read that and we if that also has value like the anxious generation did then we'll determine what next steps um we could use for our community because this is the kid piece that goes with the parent piece. I'd like to update you that we've spoken with the we have an education outreach coordinator. You're
031all aware of that through the grant and we've spoken through the vendor that is uh building our mobile office and that doesn't have an exact timeline but they did want me to report out that all the materials have been ordered and in a time like this where there's a lot of um fluctuation and pricing and tariffs and imports um to make that back of that van into an office. It's good to have all the materials here and so they will be giving us um an update that has a more definite timeline. Originally they told us three months. So uh it's on the way and in the meantime the EOC has started. That concludes my report. Financial report is in your packet. Some things to uh discuss here. uh as we've previous previously mentioned all positions
032now at this point uh are encumbered that includes wages and benefits what that did I want to draw your attention to article five what you can see is a negative there what we have realized is that think a couple positions that we we identify as interventionist really is not technically an interventionist so it came out of article five erroneously technically should come out of article one And so those that was only uh recognized after this was printed. And so I wanted to make sure that you saw it and then you'll see the actual reflection once that has taken effect uh next month. So those will move back to article uh one where those are regular ed teachers but they are providing some sort of intervention. So they were taken out of that the wrong article.
033Uh the next one I want to point out is um article 8 the transportation we have also encumbered our contract with seir bus. So typically we pay that on a monthly basis and you see that uh decline each and every month but we have encumbered the whole contract there. So what will be left out of the transportation will be the small bits of transportation that we do the um stipens that we offer for uh tuition student transportation anything else from similar to that uh that will come from that particular line as the year progresses but the sear bus one uh has been encumbered. Everything else uh is pretty self-explanatory. Uh we're doing we're encumbering early so it's easier come the final uh the conclusion of our budget. Uh and then those positions that are unfilled
034uh are not taken out at this point. So you're aware of that. >> Hello. Um Nick, do other school districts encumber their salaries? >> Uh I I can't I don't know that. I'm not sure. >> I'm just wondering since Um uh I I'm not sure about other school districts. I know that with our new director of finance being in place, she feels that it is easier to go this route uh and to better project as we get to the end of the year. So what we have left Hold it. Sorry. Um, because we have it from last year and from this year and it's really hard to judge because they're not apples to apples anymore. Would it be unreasonable to ask her to encumber last year? So that otherwise I don't have a real good
035way of looking at last year's paper at all. it it would not be easy to do that because that is just simply a carbon copy of what it was last year at this time. If we look back, we're going to look back at the year end numbers because we can't look at the month-to-month numbers without them being encumbered or with them being encumbered because they're already paid. >> Yeah. So on the debt service, I'm assuming that we don't have that probably one more debt payment. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> And now it is time for our student representatives. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Raymond. Starting off our student representative report, the Hampton Academy Drama Club. All right, there we go. Uh, the Hampton Academy Drama Club's musical title, Into the Woods, is
036set to debut Thursday night. Also performing Friday and Saturday night. Uh, today they performed a 15-minute sneak peek in front of the entire student body. And for my impression, I thought it was an excellent show and I would def definitely recommend watching. Uh, this is a bit redundant, but as we just saw earlier, the boys cross country team won the class A state championship on November 1st. They even visited all of our district elementary and middle schools with their trophy in hand. And additionally, winter sports began on Monday. For more interesting news, students in Engineering 101 designed and created new purple team shelters for the turf. If you're not familiar with what these are, if you've seen on the turf earlier, sort of like the per purple circular canopies, that would be the best way
037to describe it. They made new ones as the old ones were damaged by I think just the weather. Um, also the JCL, which is the Latin club here at HA, recently had a fall convention and it was at HA. Um, they placed in many different categories. In first place, they got it in large school spirit, advanced GTOmen, and academics. And then there were other students that got really good places as well. Um, NHS is currently hosting a fundraiser for the Hampton Food Cupboard since it's getting close to Thanksgiving. We are raising money to go towards that. Um, the fundraiser is giving students an opportunity to pay and enter their name at a chance to buy a teacher. So, that's really fun and a good way to give back. And just since it's the student rep
038portion, um the two student reps that we have worked with me on a regulation. It's actually the student rep regulation uh from the board and uh Annabelle and I met and then we shared it with Ashton. So they have been able to uh provide feedback for that regulation. It's been very helpful and it actually came from the voice of an actual student rep and not just written by the board or the superintendent. So I would say that's probably the first policy or regulation that has ever gone through that process and it was very beneficial to have their their eyes on it and their input into that. So thank you both. All right. So now I'm going to open it up to questions of board members. quiet group tonight. Excellent. So, um committee reports are in
039the packets today, but we are going to have a a new part of our show tonight um where the education committee is going to give us a a brief summary of their meeting. When we did our self-evaluation, um the board brought up the fact that we kind of want to know more about what's happening and so we felt that through the education committee we give you a real snippet of what we did and we always invite you to come to the education committee meeting which is an hour before this meeting. Tonight we tonight we discussed uh title one staffing updates and uh physical impact of title one title funds that were lost this year. Uh basically what ended up happening is we had a reduction in title one and in title two and what we
040did was we took title four money split it between those two to kind of bring those up to where we needed to be. No positions were lost at that time for this year. Uh with the restructuring at the federal level, uh funding will be different for next year for our title funds be through a different group. And so we have no idea what that means for next year. Um another thing that we discussed was there is a state assessment survey that will be sent out to you. Uh we ask you to please fill it out. It's being filled out by lots of different people, teachers, administration. It's a very quick survey regarding what you would like to see on the state assessments. Um, it won't take you very long to fill it out. So, when
041it comes your way through your email, we ask you to do that. Um, and so that was the pretty much the impact of what we talked about this evening. I'm not used to looking for questions. >> They when you say looking for the state assessments like the NWA assessments or >> right you know how they switched to the NWA. >> Yeah. >> Now the state is feeling like they're not getting the data that they want from that assessment and they're looking at changing the state assessments again. >> That's interesting. I don't know what kind of input I would have on that, but >> Stacy, um, what email address or what organization will be sending that out? Just so we can be on the lookout for the email. >> Um, I'm not sure if I can
042send that out to you or if that has to come from Lester or Nick or it'll say state assessment survey, but I'm not sure who will be sending it out. Thank you. Jennifer, do you have anything else to add to that? >> Certainly. In it is in legislature that every 3 years the state of Maine must put out an RFP, a request for proposals for the state assessment. So, it is time um to do that. They did it and they got back apparently choices that they didn't like. um and they felt like they didn't ask the right questions in the RFP for vendors to be able to respond to. So therefore, they want to put out another request for proposals, but they want to make sure that it is the voice of of Maine. So
043they're asking um edteexs, they're asking cafeteria, they're asking parents, they're asking schoolboard members, they're asking people to please, what do you want from the state test? I took it today. It says it's going to take 15 to 20 minutes. It really only took me about five to do it. When they ask you the question, for example, one question is, um, student growth can be measured from fall to spring or spring to spring. Which do you prefer? Watch this video. And then there's a two-minute video from Christa Ail, who is the head of assessment at the main DOE. She explains the different, you know, this is what it would look like fall to spring. This is what it would look like spring to spring. And very neutral, doesn't lead you in either way. But then that's
044what you you pick one of the two choices. Um you know what do you want it to include for um it's it's about four or five questions. But what I really liked at the very beginning if you do nothing else click on it and get the one pager the requirements of what has to be in a state assessment is nicely bulleted. So you can quickly look at that. And that's one of the reasons that they had to go to the main through year a couple years ago is because it can't be a normed test, which is what NWA is. So they had to make a criterion reference, which means you're judging kids against standards, not kids against other kids, which is normed. Um, and so that's why they have the main year assessment. So that's
045a lot more information than you probably wanted, but um I do hope that you know take a chance, fill it out, at least look at that one pager to understand what our our students are being asked and what is required as of right now from the federal government. So, this is probably going to lead to a a conversation outside of this meeting, Jennifer, but is it difficult if we're legislated to change the test every 3 years to look at students longitudinally um over a 12-year career? >> Sure is. >> Okay. >> Sure is. >> We can get into details in a private discussion. >> I mean, you know, you could ask your legislators to look at that. They did happily just because they were also on a five-year cycle for standards. I don't know if
046you knew that. So, every five years they change the standards in certain content areas. Um the legislature did just change that to seven years which we are very happy about because it takes so long to get everything up and running and to get your data that to constantly do that change is a lot. So, it it could happen. We could we could change it. >> Thank you, since we're at reports. Um, I know we have our minutes in there from community relations, but I just want to put it out there. We had a really good meeting. We had a really in-depth conversations and trying to partner at some point with budget and with building to get out um whatever communications you guys may need from us in the future with budgeting and the recommending stuff
047in the future. So, we're ready. We've got some ideas and ready to share them whenever you guys Thank you, Shy. I'm not going to ask you to make any comments on your report because we're going to hear enough from you in a few minutes. Um, any other questions for any committee chairs about the minutes that were posted? All right. And I'm going to yield the floor to uh FA. It was interesting because Stacy and I went to a a board chair workshop as part of the uh MSBA workshop and and in the meeting they said that everything should be directed through the chair and face should we change anything I said no you're doing a good job we'll begin with first readings the first reading is on policy BAA basically what we are doing is
048we are recoding it because now BAA is the policy on student representatives. So this is B will now be BBA. Uh and very few things were changed on that one. Therefore the policy committee recommends approval of policy BAA now recoded as policy BBA evaluation of school board self-evaluation for the first reading as presented. >> Second. So we have a motion and a second on the policy currently known as BAA soon to be recoded as BBA. Is there any discussion on the policy? All right. All those in favor of approval of policy BAA for first reading and that's unanimous. The following policies are their first letter is D. Therefore, it has to do with finance. The finance committee did review these policies. Their recommendations came to the policy committee and then updates were made. The first
049one is policy DJA purchasing authority. Uh the updated policy specifies that all person all purchases must be received prior from the superintendent prior to um the purchase. Therefore, the policy committee recommends approval of policy DJA purchasing authority for the first reading as presented. >> Second. So, we have a motion and a second on the floor for the first reading of policy DJA, purchasing authority. Is there any discussion? All right. All those in favor of approving first reading of policy DJA, purchasing authority, that's that's unanimous. The next >> the next policy is policy DB annual budget. You'll note that there are some changes uh on that one also um not major changes. Therefore, the policy committee recommends approval of policy DB annual budget for first reading as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and
050a second on the floor for first reading of policy DB annual budget. Uh if there any discussion, >> I also wanted to mention that this policy was originally done when we were um an SAT and therefore some of the language had to change. >> I was going is that why the 2/3 was in there before? >> That's correct. Because at that point we didn't have weighted votes and now we do. So that had to change >> and I did look at the statute for RSUs and this does follow the this the state law, the MRSA. All those in favor of first reading of policy DB, annual budget, and that's unanimous. Sorry, I have to flip pages. It's coming. The next policy is policy DID. Again, uh this one had a change because it used to
051be uh purchases greater than $1,000 and with the increase of costs that has been up to $10,000. Therefore, the policy committee recommends approval of policy DID inventories for first reading as presented. Second. >> We have a motion and a second on the floor for first reading of policy did inventories. Is there any discussion? >> They once again I'm the pain in the neck this time. >> Oh, that's great. >> What in the world is another desirable item? I was looking at that and I'm like, what does that even mean [clears throat] there? >> Never mind. I can tell you what it means. Basically, it's like we do inventory our computers, right? >> But their value is not more than $10,000, right? So, there are other items that we inventory that aren't above that threshold, but
052we will still inventory those. >> Thank you very much. >> You're welcome. >> All right. Any other discussion? All those in favor of policy DI first reading of policy DID inventories and that's unanimous. The next policy is policy DIE which is audits. Those of you that have been on the board for a while now know that we can never or we I don't remember the last time we had it done by December 31st. Therefore, was it two years ago? Wow. I guess I forgot. Anyway, we changed it knowing that it's not necessarily done by December 31st. Therefore, the policy committee recommends approval of DIIE audits for first reading as presented. >> Second. We have a motion and a second on the floor for policy. Um, DIE audits. >> Yes, please. Just a comment too, the
053state statute is still December 31st, but you can put an extension in. And so when we when we don't have the audit back from the auditors, we have to put that in. So, we will still try to get it by December 31st, but with the lack of auditors, it's extremely difficult to do that at this point. But if we do not, we'll have to put the extension in. >> Is there any other discussion? >> So, can we have a policy that goes against state statute? So it's just removing the December 31st deadline. It this is saying that the results have to be presented to the finance committee by December 31st. So the the state statute is that you're supposed to have it completed by December 31st, but the state even knows the lack of auditors.
054So they're very willing to give the extensions. This is just simply saying that the December 31st deadline, it will be presented to the finance committee. That has nothing to do with the board or the completion of the audit. >> Right. I think if we were to put in a date that was later than that, then that would be going against the statute. So I I think that that's a good idea to take it out and it allows us because the way the policyy's written, it really doesn't give the superintendent latitude to request an extension. We also added upon completion to that last sentence. Therefore, it would be presented to you on completion. Hopefully, that is December 31st, but if it's not, we are still covered under that. All right. All those in favor of first
055reading of policy DIE audits and that's unanimous. The next policy, um, at this point, we're looking for a deletion of policy DJC, which is petty cash. Um, the schools no longer have petty cash funds. The only time is might be like during the fall season when the athletic director uses cash to pay youth workers at soccer games. Um, so that's very minimal amount that's uh being put out there. Therefore, the policy committee recommends the deletion of policy DJC petty cash. >> Second. >> So we have, [clears throat] excuse me, so we have a motion on the floor and a second for the deletion of policy DJC petty cash. Is there any discussion? And before that FA this is the only vote if it if we approve the deletion that that's it correct or does it
056right it does not come back for second reading. >> So good I so everyone's clear on that >> I did just think of um another situation too. Would this include like the parent organizations? That that doesn't include any >> No, they're a separate entity. Okay. >> There is a cash in schools separate policy tonight. >> Yes. >> It's up next. That was a little teaser that you gave. >> All right. All those in favor of deleting policy DJ DJC pettic and that's unanimous. So now we look at policy DM which is cash in school buildings. Um other than removing the um number symbol uh no changes were made to policy DM. Um therefore it'll only be we don't need to vote but it'll be listed as being reviewed on the policy itself. Now we move
057into second readings. The first second the first second reading is policy G K A physical restraint and seclusion. Uh no changes were made to this policy since our last meeting. Therefore, the policy committee recommends approval of policy JKAA, physical restraint and seclusion for second reading as presented. >> Second. >> So, we have a motion in a second for the second reading of policy JKA, physical restraint and seclusion. And um before I ask for discussion, FA um can you confirm that this new policy conforms with the current statute and was reviewed by our director of safety? >> It was it was um reviewed by our special ed uh director and and therefore um she was part of the meeting. So yes, it has been re reviewed and it does meet current state statute. Thank you. And
058now I'll open the floor up for discussion. I was just thinking if there were kindergarten kids here and they're like, "Why is the floor never opening up?" Just things that popping into my head. Um, all right. All those in favor of approving second reading of policy JKAA, physical restraint and seclusion and that's unanimous. The next policy is the one that we did have discussions um at at our last meeting and that is policy and it has been changed. The policy code has been changed and corrected. It is E BB B D. Um it was an interesting conversation where we went back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. So tonight we're presenting you with uh a minimum of 62 degrees and a maximum of 82 degrees. Um, and so I'm sure we'll
059still have some discussion, but before we can, the policy committee recommends approval of policy EBD, temperature standards for schools for second reading as presented. >> Second. >> So, we have a motion and a second on the floor for second reading of policy EBB, temperature standards for school. Is there any discussion? uh where did the numbers come from? >> Um we reviewed several other policies u from other districts to see where those numbers come from. They do they are within the standards of OSHA um and so that's where those numbers came from. >> Talked to another board member at the MSSA conference and they had like 40 to like so >> well one one district did go as high as 100 by the way. Um and so it's just simply a number. The policy itself says
060that the superintendent is authorized to make immediate decisions. So the state when they passed the law did not give parameters. They just said you haven't had this policy. Therefore, that's what we did. Um, and I just noticed an error and so it'll need to be amended. Um, the my when I said the policy EBVD temperature standards for schools, I noticed on the policy itself, this is temperature guidelines for schools and therefore my minutes were incorrect and it should say temperature guidelines for schools, which is what what it does right now. So in that case they because I read the the um the what did you say is the motion? Can we go back? Um Tina, do you recall what language? >> Right. The >> the motion I made was the policy committee recommends approval of
061policy EBBD temperature standards for schools for second reading. Whereas it should read the motion should state the policy committee recommends approval of policy EBBD temperature guidelines for schools. Then I make I move to make a friendly amendment to change the motion to temperature guidelines for school approve approving second reading of temperature guidelines for schools. >> So we have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion on the amendment? >> Okay. All those in favor of the amendment to the original motion and that's unanimous. So now the motion is to approve second reading of policy EBB temperature standard guidelines temperature guidelines for schools. [snorts] We don't have to that was I I was because that was the >> Yeah, >> I was just restating what the amendment motion is on the floor. >> Thank you,
062Lester. >> Yeah. >> Any new discussion? So, I mean I because this is really not they're kind of advisory temperatures. They're not locked in stone. I just want it's what happens when you let an engineer leave the board. [snorts] Um because I'm like, who determines these temperatures? Where are they measured? Um how are they, you know, is it a student sitting by the Bunson burner or the open window where they're being measured? Um, so I just want to make sure that if the classroom we're not picking nets when we make these decisions on temperature and I want to make sure that this policy doesn't lead to that. >> Nick makes the final decision anyway, so we'll let him worry about those little things. >> I spend a whole week on temperature sensing in a class
063I teach, so we get into that. All right. Um any other discussion? >> Um is Mr. Reese still the art teacher? >> Can I ask a question off topic? All right. So, any other questions on the amendment uh on [snorts] on the amended policy? All right. All those in favor of the second reading policy EBD, temperature guidelines for schools. All right, that's unanimous. Thank you for not making me have to read that again. And I think that wraps up the uh the policy discussion. Thank you, F. All right. [snorts] There's no old business and there's no new business. So now we're going to um do any committees need to set meeting dates at this point. >> Um we don't need to set but policy is changing their time by 15 minutes for community relations. So
064um If you're on policy, it's going to be at 4:15 instead of 4 so that community relations can meet before from 3:15 to 4:15 >> On the next meeting, >> which is that on the 1st, December 1st? >> Yes. >> So, it's a two for those of you who want to get your uh >> Well, that's we're kind of we're stacking them in. So, we're trying to >> All right. So, our next uh building committee was scheduled for December 8th at 3:30. Maybe you were gone or someone was gone. Maybe Holly was gone. December 8th at 3:30 and finance was following is following that at 4:30 >> and we did make a decision at the finance committee to have a set schedule right for >> second Monday at 4:30 p.m. So we can all plan
065on that. >> And then if we can do building before that, does that work? Does that work for you? >> At 3:30. >> Can I ask a question now? >> Yes. Go ahead. >> Um, is Mr. Reese still the art teacher from the >> order? This is not the agenda. It is might be a personal question. >> Yeah. >> Um, do you want me to I'm thinking of it because there's a new art teacher from the Brown Weatherbe. So, I'm wondering what's happening to the current one. >> Yeah. It's not on the >> Yeah. Where it is personnel matter that's beyond the the scope. So, I would say we can discuss it on a future meeting, Ellen, or or direct it to the superintendent directly. All right. I don't I don't do this anymore. So,
066if someone would uh lead us into executive session, that would be uh fantastic. >> Uh I move that we enter executive session uh consider discussion with 22 pursuant to MRSA 405. We have a motion and second on the floor for entering into executive session. Um, all those in favor? All right, that's unanimous.