MSAD #51 School Board Meeting July 19, 2021

001okay okay welcome to the july 19 2021 florida directors meeting for msad51 thank you everybody for being here on a july evening in the summertime um tonight we don't have any recognition um we do have some new board members i'm going to go a little out of order here um just because it seems weird not to welcome them right in the beginning so um i don't know tom mcginnis from north yarmouth vanessa bryant from north yarmouth and jason record from cumberland if you all want to just say hello or say anything you're more than welcome to i'll start i'm tom mcinnis from north yarmouth i'm excited to be here a little nervous and thank you to to all the board members who have been so welcoming i'm really excited to work with you over the

002next three years that's right thank you vanessa bryant from north yarmouth i am as well excited and i thank you community members again for voting for me and i welcome the board and all their opinions and it's been a learning experience thus far jason record from cumberland glad to be here i'll do my best and take all the guidance i can get along the way thank you welcome excited to have you guys here um and thanks for your commitment to the district so next we have approval of minutes for june 21st 2021 do i have a motion so moved and a second i'll second any discussion and for those of you that are new obviously you don't need to vote so all in favor thank you so next we have public common uh public comment

003is reserved for anybody in the public i will keep track of three minutes for each person i will awkwardly interrupt you if you go over um thank you for your patience in that in advance um so you're welcome to approach the podium just state town and your name and we will listen thanks jason curry i'm a high school teacher here at greeley high school i've been employed here since august of 1998 and i'd like to say as the new president of the msad 51 education association that i very much look forward to working with all of you to developing a working relationship with each of you individually and i'm really looking forward to solving the issues and problems that will come out of the next school year the term of the president of the education

004association is one year and i plan to be a lame duck already so i will do what is right to work with you and for you to solve all of the problems that your staff can help you with so just wanted to introduce myself thank you very much for the hard work you've already been doing and welcome you who are new to the board to the hard work you're about to endure thanks thank you hi i'm olive i am from north yarmouth i go to greely middle school and i'm going into seventh grade my parents told me at the last board meeting there was a comment made about the stickers being handed out in front of gms since i was one of those people who made and handed out the pride stickers i thought it

005was important for the board to hear my voice i go by they them pronouns and i have always wanted people to know where i stand and who i am part of who i am is i identify with the lgbtqia plus community i like to tell my teachers because it makes me feel more comfortable and when i see a rainbow flag in a classroom it makes me feel more accepted and it is easier to tell the teacher who i am and how i identify i am proud of who i am but it can also sometimes feel alone seeing the pride flags makes me feel welcome i am here to in support of the equity statement thank you for your time uh hello my name is jeff kandora and i'm a resident of north yarmouth and the

006father of two msad 51 students a rising fifth grader and a seventh grader who should be very proud of themselves i'm here tonight on behalf of my family in support of the district's work surrounding dei we are also slightly disappointed that we even need to be here to advocate for this work that's necessarily important my wife and i are glad that we live in a district and our children are being taught in schools and by teachers that are willing to take a hard look at how to create the best educational environment possible and continually improve upon its practices we read and hear quite a bit about cancer culture in the news and in social media we've heard those opposing the dei work claim that they simply want both sides to be presented but black brown

007and indigenous voices and stories have been canceled for hundreds of years the stories of and voices of women have been canceled for hundreds of years queer voices and stories have been canceled for hundreds of years when we refuse to look at the hard truths in our history and the context in which they took place we aren't looking at both sides we're continuing to cancel the voices who have been kept silent adding books to our curriculum that include diverse characters or accurately teach the history of our country and the varied people in it is not some nefarious plot to indoctrinate our children they are sincere attempts to educate and prepare our kids for the world in which they collectively live and do it better than we have in the past we must strive to do better

008i learned about the tulsa race massacre by watching an hbo series about fictional superheroes the extent of my education about the indigenous people in new england in the 1600s was that they helped to teach pilgrims how to fertilize their corn using fish that's embarrassing this is the type of incomplete and inadequate education that leads adults to cherry-pick martin luther king jr quotes that they think support their position because all they know of the man is the i have a dream speech and it's gratifying to know that 51 is doing better than my own public education 30 years ago learning about the tulsa race massacre does not saddle my children with racial guilt but it does teach him the consequences of hate and the need to inoculate ourselves against it learning about the stonewall riots does

009not threaten straight cisgender students but it does allow my seventh grader to see themselves and their story in the story of our nation accurately examining the role of slavery in the founding and development of our country does not make students hate america it teaches them that patriotism is not blind devotion but rather an expression of hope hope that we have the capacity to improve even when that improvement is challenging or uncomfortable thank you for doing this work we support the draft statement of the equity committee and am heartened by the work that has been done we urge the district to continue its commitment to diversity equity and inclusion thank you thank you hi i don't public speak so bear with me my name is wendy simmons and i'm from north yarmouth i'm here tonight to

010express my support for the equity equity committee and their work i have two children one graduated with the class of 2021 from greeley high school and the other is in eighth grade at gms equity and inclusion is personal to me i have seven nieces and nephews from three siblings who are biracial my sister is here with me tonight also in support my children have friends from different ethnic backgrounds and from the lgbtq plus community regardless of my personal experience equity and inclusion is important for the health and well-being of our community society and humanity we did not create the situations we are in today but inherited it from our ancestors these difficult conversations must start somewhere and it should be with our generation in the 21st century i'm not willing to kick this can further

011down the road for our children to deal with thank you for your time and everything that you do [Applause] thank you hi my name is zach bouchard i live in cumberland maine i have two kids in the school i just want to thank the school board for their commitment on equity and i think the updated equity policy is quite thoughtful and well written while i find it shocking that there are people who are against this equity policy is unfortunately a sign of our politically divisive times i think it's important to note that in the most recent school board election there was only one candidate who has outspoken inactively against the work of the equity committee that person received a total of 822 votes the number of votes that were split among the remaining four other

012candidates was two thousand nine hundred and seventy four specifically only twenty one percent of the votes went for the one candidate uh outspoken and actively against the equity committee it's also worth noting that the one candidate who was the most vocal and active supporter of the equity policy and work received the most votes with 915. the overwhelming majority of our community members support the equity policy and the work of the equity committee while we should certainly listen to the views and opinions of everyone in the community even to those that the community at large disagrees with we simply cannot let the vocal minority derail the process of educating and promoting equity inclusion and diversity i urge you not to be intimidated by the aggressive and embarrassing tactics that a few have taken as a community

013we need to focus on healing and unity and shake hands with our neighbors whom we disagree with and not shame either side in the meantime in this democratic process let's implement the goals and wishes of the vast majority of our community thank you so much for all of your hard work on this difficult issue thank you good evening my name is jennifer mancini and i live in north yarmouth and i have two children in the school district and i've come here tonight to wholeheartedly express my support for the equity work done by msad 51 on behalf of my husband peter and myself we actually read the leaked draft policy and are very curious what part of its content were deemed objectionable to those who spoke in opposition to it we didn't hear any specific detail

014objections to the draft but we can cite a few specific things that we welcome in the draft for example we like that it addresses confronting harmful stereotypes we appreciate that it recognizes richness and valuing diverse heritages including one's own and we definitely agree with recognizing the need to close the existing opportunity gaps my family enjoys learning from unique expressions of the human experience it is not a threat to our values or our lifestyle or our heritage we embrace the richness that diversity brings to our lives and as the world becomes increasingly globalized we believe it would be a disservice to our children to neglect to teach them about these issues thank you okay hi kate perrin north yarmouth i have three children that span across three different schools it's really weird to be over here

015hi everyone i just wanted to very specifically put in my support for the board in when when you're reviewing your goals in august at your board retreat i would just really like equity to be continued specifically on the goal of passing a comprehensive equity policy i think that's really important and it's a continuation of work that got put on hold because of kovid and other unfortunate situations in our community so i'm here to support the board keeping the goal of equity uh for the next school year thank you [Applause] hi everyone my name is katie simpson i live in cumberland that's my lovely family over there and i'm here because i fully support the equity committee and all of its work and i came here without writing a speech because i wasn't sure exactly what

016issues might come up but after hearing olive's amazing testimony i wanted to share my story about growing up in rural maine many years ago but in a time when it was not safe to be an out bisexual person and so i was not an out bisexual person i was a closeted bisexual person throughout my school career and it definitely impacted me and the fact that msad 51 is a place that is striving to be a safe place for folks to be their full selves and supporting students no matter who they are and how they identify is very important to me and i will keep showing up while you all keep doing this work and i really appreciate the work that you're doing thank you hello sherry boothby from cumberland i have one daughter in gms

017going into fifth grade i didn't prepare anything i just have three brief things i want to say i really want to just say ditto to what jeff said but i'll i'll go with what what else i wanted to get off my mind get on uh get out to you first of all i want to thank you for last year for keeping our kids safe i know it was a challenging year it was very challenging for me personally but you know we've come out on the other side for the most part and i just want to thank the board and the administration for keeping our kids safe second i want to also say that i support the equity and inclusion work that's been done that's being done and i hope that will continue as other people

018have said it's very important and then third something that jeff said that i agree with is that i don't want our history education for our children to be whitewashed and dumbed down so that it's not accurate anymore i was taught pretty much the way he mentioned he was about you know nothing being accurately portrayed so that also i am in support of thank you thank you hi there my name is jennifer benham i'm a cumberland resident with two daughters at gms i'm here in response to the public comments of the school board meeting on june 14th in which community members including newly elected school board member jason record opposed the district's working draft of the equity policy in its very earliest stages i'm extremely disappointed that an elected school board member whose task it is

019to represent the best interests of all students would stand up in front of our entire community and declare that a portion of our students are not deserving of protections that ensure physical and emotional safety equitable opportunities and representation within classroom curriculum i briefly like to acknowledge the opposition to the policy that was voiced based upon a person's religious beliefs what was heard was a narrow representation of the wide range of religions and belief systems in our community many of which support the advancement of equity work more importantly i would like the board to recognize separation of church and state with all matters regarding district operations and policies concerns founded on the basis of personal religious beliefs have absolutely no place for debate within a publicly funded school district the work of the equity leadership steering

020committee is the most important work we are doing in this district we can only expect students to thrive emotionally socially and academically when we are ensuring their safety inequality i cannot fathom finding controversy and voicing opposition about leadership at msad 51 working toward ensuring that students are protected from discrimination and inequalities the argument that we should all be colorblind or culture blind and live in a culturally ignorant bliss in which kindness saves the day is at best a misguided assertion it's a fallacy and the only purpose it serves is to perpetuate the invisibility of marginalized groups of people we all need to see and hear the historical and present day voices of people of color of those living with disabilities and of those who identify within the lgbtqia plus community without a clear-eyed look at

021our past and present-day differences excuse me without a clear-eyed look at our past and present-day differences strengths struggles and injustices there is no hope for understanding or meaningful progress toward equity i am here to emphatically state that i strongly support the continued development and eventual passing of the equity policy it is essential and it is overdue most importantly i want to publicly say to all the students of color in our district to all the students living with disabilities in our district and to all the lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer intersex non-binary asexual and pan students in our district i see and respect you you make our district stronger i will continue to raise my voice to ensure you have equal rights protections opportunities and representation in our schools thank you thank you um hi my

022name is stacy caulk i'm a resident of north yarmouth i have two children a incoming fifth grader and an incoming pre-ker i would like to say ditto to everything that she just said she said much better than i will um but i'm here today first of all to just say thank you to all of you for all of the efforts you've put in over the last year and a half it's been incredibly difficult and i cannot imagine what you've all been doing but so many of us are so thankful for all of the hard work that you have been putting in i also wanted to speak on the equity policy i read that draft when it came out before the last meeting like some others i tried to get into the equity team meeting and

023had a hard time no big deal but when i read the policy i had a really hard time i was trying to read it through the lens of what could be problematic and i had a really hard time sort of envisioning for myself what would be problematic about that statement i thought it was excellent and i wanted to say thank you to everyone who worked on it but then i watched the meeting and i recognized that in fact not everybody agreed with the policy which is why i'm here today to say that my family and i we support this policy but not only do we support the policy we also support the need for the policy it sounded like perhaps some people may be questioning whether this policy is really necessary i would say that

024this policy is probably necessary in every district across our country and perhaps in the few districts that it's not necessary there would be no argument or debate because it would exist and would have existed for a long time i also wanted to follow up very specifically on a few comments that were made last month to some applause more applause than i would have expected about our lgbtq students and community members our trans students are students and they deserve all of the same access to opportunities as all of our students and they deserve to know that they have access to all of those obviously the equity policy goes beyond that but that is a specific comment that i think came up that needs to be said so that students who are watching this and family members

025who are watching this recognize that there are members of the community who support them and that their identity is not up for argument and is not up for debate on that same point i also just wanted to say thank you for the seemingly simple um uh the seemingly simple action that was taken at the middle school during pride that came up during um during public comment last time it brought tears to my eyes that is the kind of thing that um is is seemingly small but has a large impact and i think i thought to myself had something like that happened in schools across this country 20 30 40 years ago there would be students or there would be adults walking around who would be just in a different place in their life had they

026had that support but also that there would also just be more people amongst us this is you know there is a real mental health crisis that has been affecting trans students in particular um but the lgbtq community as a whole um and so i just think again this is why an equity policy like this is so vitally important i support this and i want to thank you and i look forward to being engaged in the process as it continues thank you hi i'm jill o'connor i'm a cumberland resident and parent of two middle school students in my professional life i am a youth services librarian so i work with kids and deal in books books showing youth of color showing lgbtqia plus youth showing differently abled youth showing american indian first nation youth who live

027who play and who learn like everyone else help black brown asian pacific lgbtqia plus first nation children see themselves and that is empowering and white children can actually grow accustomed to seeing people of other races ethnicities abilities and sexual identities and stop having to view them as the other nina cruz who's an illustrator of a book called a girl like me says when you see yourself reflected in the pages of a book you're part of the conversation you're part of the story you're not ignored it gives you a sense of ownership to the world that you're in she says every child deserves that and the consequences of children not seeing themselves and the characters that they read about can be i think she said well i really need to continue to look at as we

028look at our curriculum and the way reporting students in the district representation matters a tough year filled with racism speaking for my husband and also thank you thank you thank you to everyone that spoke next on the agenda we have communications we have already welcomed our new board members thank you guys for being here um i didn't know if any other board members had anything they would like to share i will say that mike williams and i attended the farmer's market on saturday this is something that mike brought up as a way to connect with people outside of this meeting in the public um and so um it is now being held on the i'm sorry it's the third or first third third saturday thank you maybe you should do this um third saturday of

029every month which kind of lines up to meetings um soon thereafter so mike and i sat there for an hour on saturday got to see a few people we also were joined by town counselor tom gruber it was it was great we didn't get a lot of traffic but hopefully maybe if we move our table a little bit more in a different spot people will come say hi so better signage signage yes more cumberland needs more signs so um yes um sorry um so anyway that's one thing we are going to be doing and i've reached out to the cumberland uh residents if they are interested in joining and i would assume there's probably an opportunity in north yarmouth as well so maybe we could set that up for north yarmouth residents is there anything

030else that anybody would like to bring up for communications okay so then we'll move on to our presentation from for this evening which is being present uh presented by oak point yes oak point associates as you know is the architectural firm that has been working with the district on creating a concept design for a new primary school the district and the facilities committee on the board have also asked them to take a look at maple i wilson school in terms of any renovations that need to be done so tonight um after a fairly long process of of getting to this point um oak point is here to present a final concept design for the board talk about the final price tag that is being shared with the board this evening for consideration and i think

031peter will probably after the presentation talk about potential next steps going from here so just want to welcome oak point back to to give us this final concept design at this point thank you jeff it should be coming up on the screen for board members to be able to see as well okay is technology agreeing um i'm not seeing anything down here just a black screen that would be great yeah come on [Applause] thank you derek is there any way to raise the projection so it's up above our heads okay awesome i'm worried about jason oh that's great dirk thank you good out there all right tyler we're ready excellent well thank you all for having us here we've been uh hard at work over the past i bet i guess year and a half

032now um on this project starting out with a number of different things so to start uh some quick introductions my name is tyler barter i'm an architect and project manager with oak point i'm joined tonight by with sarah smith she's an interior designer and educational planner allison d mateo who is one of our landscape architects and also a site planner jack gagnon our civil engineer and rob tilletson he's the principal in charge and president of the firm quickly on the agenda we wanted to take you through a little bit of the uh kind of the high level look at how this project came about what the overall need was some of the things that that started these discussions even before we became involved in the process through that we'll take a look at how we

033can expand an additional building on this campus and why that makes sense for the long-term viability for for the district in the capacity we'll take a look at the middle school r excuse me the new primary school plan the enhancements at mabel eye and the addition there the impacts on msd central office and how we're going to going to relocate that facility we'll take a look at the budget and then quickly go through the schedule and milestones leading up to the next steps and up to a potential referendum in in november so starting on what the need was back in 2009 there were two enrollment projections done that indicated a long-term decline in the overall enrollment of the district we've graphed out those two districts two sets of projections that's the the orange and the

034blue line and then what you'll see in that gray line those are the actual enrollments uh starting from from 2009 and then going through the 2019-20 year in 2016 another set of enrollment projections was done in response to kind of that flatlining that you see of those projections it really became evident that the decline was not going to proceed as originally projected and it really gave a different picture of the district overall this next graph shows those projections in actual student enrollment uh the blue ones are through 2020-21 and then the yellow ones are the the next set of projections going out uh to through 2028 to 9. with that you're looking at an additional just over 600 additional students enrolling into your district and needing some some management on the population side and the

035capacity within your buildings in order to make this work so what we found out based on the analysis of these projections that were done in 2016 is that you need an additional school somewhere within the district we did some did some site looks we looked at some other options in north yarmouth and then eventually ended up back at the the campus and we'll talk a little bit more as we go forward so that led to the idea of a pre-k to one facility that would house the entirety of those grades provide some relief for mabel eye the next thing we took a look at it was how is the mabel eye facility going to respond to this enrollment increase over the next few years so taking a look at the pack capacity and the long-term

036flexibility with an on-campus solution we knew that we had to take a really hard look at how the vehicular and pedestrian traffic was going to be managed within this this campus we know that there's a lot of traffic on both tuttle and main street so making sure that all of the improvements and the additional capacity here at the campus was going to be able to be managed we wanted to make sure that both of the schools that we're touching really get some long-term flexibility so giving you the ability to to adapt and change with ever-changing educational programs so making sure that those those facilities are are as long-term flexible as we can we heard a lot both when we talked to the community educators and then administrative leaders that outdoor learning and play spaces was

037really a critical thing on this campus especially since a number of the play areas around the maybelline facility have been kind of displaced by the ever-growing portable farm that you're seeing and then we wanted to make sure that if we were going to impact the sweetzer school that we can maintain that somewhere on the campus so those are these are kind of the overarching guidelines that we were utilizing as we went through this process so what is the plan so what we're going to talk about tonight is the new new pre-k to one facility and then mabel eye and how that impacts the other the diagram on the left is how your schools are currently set up with the three on campus facilities on the right you'll see how we're gonna start to kind of

038reduce the the percentage of the pie that each one of these facilities is going to handle so you'll see that the new pre-k allows us to move some grades out of mabel eye we are also able to absorb one school one grade level from the middle school into mabel i wilson with a strategic addition allowing these three facilities to have really good long-term flexibility going forward i wanted to talk a little bit about the process as well so when we were hired back in october of 2019 pre-pandemic we really were able to do a lot of really good work with the district so we had a couple community forums we've met with all of your educators administrative leaders we've met with you a few times we met with an advisory committee that was helping us

039guide that process at the early on through that we were able to evaluate the sites which included a site in north yarmouth we put out an advertisement for the district to purchase land we had a few offers that we were able to evaluate during that time that didn't pan out we continued to meet with the community throughout this and then we worked with the administrative staff to develop the program so what needed to be in these buildings to make them long-term and viable in january of this year is when we really i think finalized that this was going to be on this campus and a number of things that we'll talk about in a little bit really made that an advantageous decision for the district some some things that weren't available when previous looks at

040the district's campus were were had from january through may we took a hard look at our building concepts so taking a look at how these facilities were going to take shape how they would fit on the site how we could manage both parking parent drop off creating that safe environment creating those natural outdoor play spaces and then tying that all into the campus architecture so what are these buildings going to look like and how can we best create a a full campus feel with some new additions we started with some draft budgets at that time as well and that's kind of led us up to that next piece as we've worked through some of the facilities and finance committees adjusting the the concepts really trying to refine these and then move on to this last

041step which is tonight so presenting this full plan to you i wanted to talk briefly about the um the existing campus before we get into the technical piece so when this was looked at previously there were a number of i think concerns about the ability to put another facility on the campus and one of the things that changed that i think many of you know about is that additional two and a half acres that has been put under contract and directly adjacent to the superintendent's office currently i think this really opened up a lot of opportunities for us to take a hard look at how to fit a new facility in and then make some adjustments to the traffic patterns that will help hopefully in the long term give you some really good queuing spaces

042places on campus for buses to safely pick up and drop off for these two facilities and jack and allison will discuss that in more detail as we go forward from there this is really the a story of three different projects so the first one is that blue area that takes over the superintendent's office in the adjacent parking lot a little bit of the access road there that's the primary location for the new school this purple area is where we're looking at for improvements at mabel eye including the addition and additional parking which the the campus desperately needs and then finding a home for the the sweetzer school in the central office relocating that up onto main street giving it the same level of visibility while respecting the historic nature of both the structure and the

043area that we're looking at so moving on to the the new primary school the first thing that we did was we took a look at the enrollment projections that had been provided and we identified the largest number of uh students for any of the given years and that really served as our baseline as we started to take a look at the size of this building in kindergarten the largest year was actually this upcoming year so it'll be kind of interesting to see how uh enrollments coming out of a pandemic impact this overall objection so that's uh just about 202 students we're looking at a class size of 18 which led to a total number of classrooms of 12. so that gives us an extra capacity within that building of 216 students so you still have

04414 extra spaces before we start needing to talk about flex first grade is 207 students in that 2022-23 we've used a maximum class size of 20. and we know the district really has an emphasis on keeping those class sizes small that provides 11 classrooms for 220 student capacity again you know making sure that this building isn't full on the first day giving you that extra buffer of another 13 in that grade level uh the other thing that we've also included in the in the plan because we really understand that that these projections are are still a moving thing it's an evolving piece of data that updates is some flex classrooms that gives you some long-term flexibility we've included two in this uh overall plan which gives you the ability to use those for either kindergarten

045or first grade for an additional 40 student capacity so if a bubble does happen to come through the district that you're in a good position to manage it without additional construction this program also includes two pre-k classrooms and that was something i think the district decided seemed to be a good fit while still working with your outside partners to manage those programs i'll turn this over to sarah to discuss the educational model thanks tyler i'm just going to review the plan for those of those who are not familiar with the layout um this right here is the lower level of the of the new building and as you can see here is the main entrance that brings you into a secure entry and a stair that brings you up into the upper um into the

046upper floors so we have a secure administrative area in the brown up in the red areas those are more of the allied art spaces so we have the gymnasium and cafeteria on this space here's the cafeteria here we have the gymnasium space we have art and music on this floor we also have a what we're calling an amphitheater space but we're doing it in a flat in a flat layout so that offers a lot more flexibility within that space for indoor play and indoor indoor recess and things like that that creates a spline between the cafeteria and this open space and the gymnasium so there's a lot of open play space in here for indoor recess which we have in this climate quite a bit in the lower area we have down here we have

047the pre-k that leads out to an outdoor play and learning space that's designated just for that grade level oh sorry gotcha sorry about the technical thing here we had a lot of things on here there we go so on this is this is the upper level this is going to house both the kindergarten and the first grade along with the flexible spaces so what you see here is the 12 kindergarten classrooms in in the back here in green and then in the blue we have the first grade and one thing i want you to notice in between you'll see a lot of gray spaces and what these allow for interactive learning environments so there's spaces that are impromptu for large groups to get together but they're also spaces that are really flexible if you have

048to have focused learning for a child that maybe you know needs to test outside of a class or needs to have a specialist come in and work with them within their learning environment that's the one thing when tyler was mentioning the whole flexibility of spaces that's one thing that we've really tried to hit in all of the areas throughout this building so that there's a lot of impromptu learning that can happen the purple is the flex spaces that we spoke about centralizing those within the in the classroom wings so that it really doesn't matter which one is the one that's the growth area it's centralized so that they can stay within their pods this next box that you see in the reddish color that's the library area and again we have access to the outside

049play space so we'll be able to have outdoor gardens for the library space that would enter right into that same level in the yellow again centralized so that all students have equal walking distance shortening the period time of any student having to go into special services so that they don't have to walk with our distance from their classroom and that concludes the walkthrough thank you so just briefly to talk about some of the site features that are associated with the new primary school um okay thank you um so the just to re just to orient you this the lower level that sarah was going through is really this this band of space that runs uh from top to bottom on the building and then the wing that goes from left to right as well as

050the space here that is sort of the upper level one of the challenges that we have on this site which we're trying to turn into an advantage and i think it's a great um it's a great marriage that we've been able to make with the building and the site is that there's a pretty significant grade change um from where the uh where the parking and drop-off area is on the site to the natural grade at the at the highest point of the site um up on the sort of north west edge and what that results in is that we have to have some place on the site where we do a great break um so that's what what sarah was talking about we've sort of divided the outdoor play and learning spaces on the site

051into two zones one that's associated with a lower level and is adjacent to the pre-k area and one that's more associated with the the upper level where the library is and some of the the older grade classroom spaces so talk about that we're going to zoom out into the campus to talk about the overall pedestrian vehicular circulation in a minute but this the point of this slide is to really orient you closer in to the school so the main entrance um that that sarah talked about is secure entrances right here on the plan and what we've done one of the things we did was to be able to economize on space we've actually combined uh the bus loop for both the mabel i wilson and the new primary school into a single bus loop that

052takes place on the connecting central uh drive that runs between the high school and the middle school so we've effectively kind of carved away a little bit of the outdoor track area the straight run out for the track is being relocated and proposed to be relocated and you'll see that in the overall campus slide and and we're shifting that connector drive between the high school and the middle school up toward the track a little bit to be able to make room for that shared bus loop which is going to be able to allow some flexibility in terms of busing and safe pedestrian circulation between the two schools we have a new drive here which is actually predominantly during the drop off hours and an exit although it's a two-way it's wide enough to be a

053two-way drive and that is aligned with public street across the way essentially the the drop off is coming in by mabel eye swings up around the new school and drops off and then there's a visitor and parent parking lot as well as some staff spaces directly adjacent to that drop-off area we're gonna we're proposing a a terrace and outdoor seating area off of the cafeteria which would be great to be able to provide some outdoor dining and seating opportunities that are directly adjacent to that space as well as a generous outdoor plaza area and then the pre-k playground is in this area it's actually a pretty large uh pretty large space for uh the number of pre-k classrooms that you have but that space is sort of doing double duty because it's a long tuttle

054uh tuttle road and it's sort of acting as both a buffer space as well as that pre-k playground so we wanted to make that place generous so that you could have a variety of outdoor plane learning opportunities be able to do a lot of different have a lot of different experiences for the pre-k level whether it's a loose parts playground whether it's sort of a imagination stage type of playground whether you wanted to do like stand-in water play if you want to do an area for gross motor if you want to do so we've got places for gardens we've got a lot of different areas to be able to give you that flexibility but also to be able to kind of create a little bit of a buffer between tuttle road and that pre-k outdoor

055area um and then this upper area really the the play and learning area kind of encompasses this entire um kind of back area of the school we originally when we were putting the school together we we kind of had everything flipped and we kind of had some circulation up there in terms of some of the drop-off and and what we heard back from feedback was that's really the the kind of the attractiveness of that site is really that you can have your outdoor play and learning areas kind of backed onto a quieter more residential zone so we really in the plan that we ended up with are taking advantage of that the fact that that's really a very residential very quiet feel back there and really putting more of our kind of busier spaces away

056from that that outdoor plan learning finally we do have every school has to have some area for service and so the service area for the site is really kind of off the edge of this bus loop which would allow us both easy act access to the kitchen spaces and the mechanical spaces that really do need that kind of close um access for service as well as be able to have direct access off of that sort of central spine in terms of not having to kind of go around the building to get into a service area we're using the grade change on the site to be able to kind of tuck that in as well and then this is a little bit hard to see but we wanted to sort of show an overall campus map

057so that sort of end on the the new runoff on the track is shown in this location we've also um are relocating the shot put i think back up into this area because that is affected where this new drive is relocated but that's how that sort of fits on the site you can see the bus loop between the primary and the mabel eye school and then the red uh stars are really the main entrances into the school as they're envisioned with some of the the proposed changes so the primary school we've already talked about we will talk a little bit more about mabel eye and then those two areas that are shown are sort of the parent drop-off areas so the thought with the the new primary schools that primarily circulation would come in off

058tuttle road and go through the existing mabel eye-wilson front parking and be able to cue through there through the parent drop-off and then exit back onto tuttle a little bit further west the maybelline wilson school basically would come in from either direction either from up by the middle and high school along central drive or from tuttle road and have a drop-off at that near the main entrance at mabel i wilson and then we're also creating a little bit of a connector um between those two drop-offs for parents who need to do two you know we're dropping off one student at one school and then moving on to another school and jack can talk a little bit more about that there's also the yellow star is really a secondary entrance at the mabelize wilson school which

059is proposed to be able to be more convenient for children being dropped off by the bus so they're not walking around the school to get to that and that front entrance but they're really using a convenient entrance that you'll see when you see the floor plan is really kind of a straight shot through the school to the main entrances there's a spine there i'll turn it over to jack to talk a little bit more about parking circulation and some other civil type things thank you alison as alison mentioned one of the items that we've incorporated is utilizing uh some increased cueing for the drop parent drop-off which is currently an issue on tuttle road and um so as you can as alison mentioned we're using the uh existing parking lot in front of mabel eye

060as a additional cueing length and there's also quite a bit of cueing length available for the mabel eye provided there's a proper signage to direct parents to utilize a turnaround up at the middle school that was currently that was used during the pandemic he thought that worked really well as far as getting traffic off of tuttle road in addition to the um to address the queuing issues um we've had a traffic engineer look at the site and get some existing counts and projected counts for the new populations and they've made several recommendations for the improvements to tuttle road for this it would be uh consists of a turning turning lane for title road it would serve both the queueing entrance onto the new primary school and it would also serve the existing road to the

061middle school and uh this is the uh the overall campus and uh as you'll see that we go through various uh areas that are going to be used for parking for the individual schools and the primary school we've allocated a parking lot at the new parent drop-off loop and a portion of the mabel eye wilson parking lot as well as utilizing some unused parking up at the high school where the performing arts center is and we chose that location because as a for for staff parking because of the entrance on the upper level that can be used by staff mabeli wilson we're utilizing some existing parking along the campus connector road and uh we're expanding parking where the former softball field is currently now and a portion of that softball field is also going to

062be used for the playground and the middle school will pretty much have the same parking it did before and the high school is the balance of the parking up the performing arts center the osgood drive and behind the uh the existing high school and there's some additional parking going in for the central office as well that's really just going to be an expansion of the existing driveway that runs through there now and these are some of the uh off-site uh improvements that are recommended on main street um we're proposing a dedicated left-hand turn lane for both the osgood drive and the campus drive entrances the uh traffic study has um determined that that was necessary and met all the warrants for that the uh the next improvement is over at main street and uh tuttle

063road in blanchard there's been some feedback we received that oftentimes the traffic backs up almost to the north yarmouth line there and a right hand turn lane onto blanchard would relieve that significantly as well as some traffic signal improvements and uh along with these improvements that we're proposing with the turn lanes and and the uh we're also looking at a bike access too so we're allotted for that and the last segment on here is the title road turn lane again that's going to serve both the mabel eye wilson parking lot it's going to be used for parent drop-off as well as getting into the middle school campus drive so we figured we end the discussion on this primary school with a few of the images that we've been working on for what this building might

064look like we would say that this is kind of our interpretation so materials could change colors those types of things but we really wanted to make sure that this had a really good presence as you looked both from the street and from the internal campus drive so this this blue object in the front really kind of serves as that little piece of jewelry on a utilitarian school building as we move around you can see the grade change starting to head up on campus drive and then mixing in some some traditional brick architecture as well that really pays homage to the rest of the the campus really trying to be sympathetic to the to the environment that we're in this is a view of the outdoor terrace that allison had mentioned we're envisioning some sort of

065uh some stone wall or something around that to help define that space and provide a safe spot for for young learners to be outside and then good visibility in to the cafeteria as well looking at from the opposite direction it really demonstrates that there's some really good visibility out of that main office that's that small rectangle that you see kind of on the left-hand side next to that the blue box we're looking at some a small set of entry stairs and then a ramp to the to the right hand side that would take you up to that terrace before we go on to mabel i wilson do we want to stop for questions or should we get through the entire presentation and then open it up keep going up next is mabel i wilson we've

066got a an intro elevation kind of of the new secure entrance that we've been looking at as we move through we did the same analysis on this building um taking a look at what the the three grade levels that we're anticipating being in the facility and then taking a look at what the largest enrollment is projected to be over the next uh 10 years what we found for the second grade was that it's 212 students in the 23-24 year third grade is 222 in that 24-25 and then fourth is 2 30 and that's that 20 25 to 26. you notice that each one of those grade levels the largest year is progressing by one year and what this is demonstrating is something you may be experiencing now is kind of a bubble class moving through

067the overall district so you know the largest class moving one year to the next to the next so we've utilized those numbers as kind of the baseline to set the overall number of classrooms both for the projected enrollment and then that long-term flexibility so we're providing 11 second grade a dozen of both third and fourth what that gives you is 220 student capacity for third second 240 each for third and fourth if you take a look at what the projected enrollments are again we're leaving just in the general classroom spaces eight to ten students in that flexibility at mabel eye after some discussions we've worked in one flex classroom there are also some additional allied arts classrooms in this building that may be able to be repurposed this is something that i think the addition

068is something that we're trying to manage the overall size both on the impact to the overall site and also the cost of the total project in general this is a diagram of how the improvements at mabel eye are envisioned the gray space is your existing facility these are spots where we're going to be doing two major pieces so we're doing some building envelope upgrades it was asked and we took a look at your existing windows they're in tough shape most of them don't operate safely so those are all scheduled to be replaced the other component within that existing building is your current sprinkler system while adequate for what is there now it doesn't meet today's standards and with the amount of work that we're doing in there it's going to require some pretty significant upgrades

069so we've taken into account those upgrades new ceilings and then new led lighting throughout so we're going to be able to do some really good energy efficiency upgrades in addition to bringing up your your sprinkler system to today's code the orange areas are spaces that we're going to be doing some heavy renovations if you're looking at the plan next to the existing art room that's a space that's currently divided we're going to make that one one allied arts space the cafeteria what we're planning to do in there we really need to provide capacity for your lunch period so looking at taking out the stage popping some windows to the outside and really starting to make some really good improvements in that space for for the quality of both the light and the air so the

070other component with that uh your air conditioning is non-existent in that space and the existing air handling unit is kind of nearing the end of its useful life so we're looking at replacing that and providing air conditioning as through that renovation the last area is the the red adjacent to the main entrance so that's the existing combination of admin suite and then a couple special education suites across the hall the plan is to repurpose that to serve all of the the growing administrative needs of the building so providing appropriately sized offices meeting spaces and a larger nurses space that's going to be needed for the increased enrollment the blue area it represents a total of about eight additional classrooms general a couple special special education classrooms that sarah will discuss and then also a secure

071main entrance and something that we've heard a lot as we've worked with many school districts around the state times are changing so making sure that we have something where both visitors and parents are greeted at the front entrance by by staff before being allowed into the building what this means is about 8 800 square feet of renovation and about just under 20 000 square feet of new educational space and almost all of it is is directly related to education so new classrooms small group instruction spaces and that small new entrance thank you so we're going to walk through this space the same as we did before um as you can see in the blue outline this is the new secure entrance that we've made this building's a little tricky the way that it has so

072many levels on it so approaching the way that we would address this um is going to be sort of a two part of it so as you come in the main entrance there the to the left-hand side there will be a check-in office that would be on that main entry level for handicap accessibility into the main office space to check in but then you go through into a much larger entry foyer which works out nice for the number of students that you have coming into this building now before it was really kind of condensed in this colony area up here but we've been able to add this extra space which allows a lot more freedom of flow for the students to come into the building so as a visitor you'd come into this space here

073check in here you can come into the main office and up into the office or you can come around into the ramping system as well to get into the office so in that yellow area is where you see most of the administrative spaces so the office space the nurse space up to the north as tyler had mentioned also some large conference spacing some small conference spacing teacher support spaces as well so really in that hub of the central area would be the administration administrative wing up into the blue area so this is the um the pathway that allison was mentioning here along this spline so this is the spline that continues all the way through up this ramp and to that back entrance here so this is where students are coming in for the buses

074and here's where they're coming through as the parent drop off we do have a central stair right here that brings students in and then also there's going off to the left-hand side when you come in so what the way that this is laid out works out really well to to bring children into the building and kind of separate out as they in age groups so that they're not all following the same path so some of them can feed up this way into the upper grades feed up this way into the second grades and then come up the stairs for the third grade so it really starts to separate the number of students coming down through this school all the time we went ahead with the boxes so the blue area represents the second grade these

075classrooms have been sized to have bathrooms within the classroom themselves and so we've added space for that um to be a full 800 square foot classroom not including the bathroom so that there's space to spread children out in a cobot type of situation or things like that making sure that the classrooms are sized appropriately for the for the children's play area in that space as well the next area in the purple you see these are small group learning spaces so sort of a breakout area in the central part of the pod that's an open space with a teaching wall in here that can really act as an area to bring classrooms together and then some additional small group learning spaces as well over in the green we have the fourth grade in that area and

076then again centralizing the building um the special ed that supports all of the school as a whole and we also do have some special ed also within the wings themselves over to the right hand side the gymnasium remains in the size that it is now the library remains the size that it is now as well and then this is the cafeteria space that tyler was talking about that has been enlarged and also the ability to just bring natural light to that space right now it's just really kind of a dark space and anytime we can bring more natural light into a learning environment is really important um especially for that space to be used for other activities outside of the lunchtime and here we have allied arts which are in their existing location currently one

077of the things before i go how do you go back one of the things that we didn't mention on here in the center green spot right here the way that the addition was put onto the building this creates a courtyard and inner courtyard within the space that can be accessed from all the different wings both on this side and on this side into that internal courtyard which acts as a really great space for um for children to play for active learning for small groups to come in and story times there's all kinds of things that can happen within that space that will get further programmed when it goes further into design this is the second story space so again accessed through this main stair here that comes in off the lower level up into this

078upper third grade area and then also through the stair system that's down here that feeds off into the fourth so third grade and fourth graders sort of branching off as they come into the building the brown area is the third grade classrooms and then the green is the fourth grade this area also has some shared group learning out in that open area as well and then this one is in the center is the flex classroom that was that we spoke about centralized again in between the different class spaces and then some allied art space the one in the upper by the purple is guidance and then over to the left is one that has not been fully defined yet one of the things about this plan is that they're very flexible as far as locations

079so if for some reason third grade wanted to be where the fourth grade is or vice versa it's a very flexible plan to move the different grade levels around if you know in the future you find that there needs to be a difference of how it was originally laid out and then here again a special ed additional special ed class it's right in the wing so that they're not separated from the students too far and that concludes the layout thank you so i think allison and jack have gone over this slide fairly well but it's just quickly um i think the two areas that that are important to see is that we've really tried to to rebuild that playground space that you can see kind of on the on plane north and adjacent to it

080with the uh the increased parking so we won't spend much more time on this one so moving forward on on central office um this is something when we first programmed this out with the administrative staff the addition really started to get to be pretty significant and the costs were pretty high so we took a a circle back around and really dialed it into what the bare minimum would be and then giving some flexibility in the future so we've added a small addition to kind of the northern part of the side of the building so the the three additional offices the conference room and that specialized workroom slash lunchroom that's the addition uh the rest of it we've tried to leave as much intact as we can so the the original suites are building um where

081the administrative side is currently uh we're leaving that untouched your existing conference room is going to become the central record space it doesn't have windows so it really serves well as kind of that secure records area we've worked in a couple open office spaces for the special education department and then the two green offices on the right-hand side uh would be to go to the support that program as well and then we've have a another again secure main entrance here similar to what you have now where they come in greeted in a vestibule where they could be helped by an administrative assistant in the kind of the upper yellow piece and then let into the waiting area if needed so with the overall site here uh jack had mentioned that we've added about 17 parking

082spaces on that upper piece on the exit drive and then we relocated the central office to face main street while also still trying to maintain as many of those historic trees on main street as we can so we're trying to be sympathetic to both the historic nature of both the uh the sweets are building and the uh the existing look on on main street so that's the end of the the presentation so we're gonna move into the overall project budget next so i've broken this out into four different components we've got the three individual projects that we have spoken about with the primary school mabel eye and central office and then we've broken out the off-site improvements because those are really almost a stand-alone project when we start getting these out to bid you'll see

083on the next slide and in your packet that there's a further breakdown of what's in each one of these pieces but the way that the estimates are generally set up part a includes all of the items that go into the construction of the building so it's going to be all of the the actual general contractor costs the site development costs utilities all of those things that go into actually constructing the building part b the administrative cost and reserves that includes everything from the land purchase prices it includes mobile equipment so furniture technology all of those things that if you flip the building upside down and shook it everything that fell out kind of falls into that movable equipment piece it also includes the administrative reserves so we've got some money in there to pay for

084connections to central maine power water telephone data those types of things and then another big component in there is while are the two contingencies that we carry we carry a five percent bid contingency that helps to cover any of those market volatilities that we see very evident right now if you're following construction markets the other being the construction contingency for anything that becomes unforeseen throughout the course of the project part c is fees and services so that's everything that is needed to get the project through the design permitting and construction phase so it has the architecture and engineering fees we've got money in there for clerk of the works construction testing all of those things that happen administratively throughout the course of the project so working from left to right the construction at the primary

085school is just over 32 million dollars so that includes all those constructions we had some discussions with the administrative staff about some sustainability features we're planning on geothermal which is a fantastic opportunity here where we're looking at a fully air conditioned building it really sets up some really good efficiencies there moving down to the administrative costs and reserves that's at seven and a half million dollars that includes your land purchase prices and all of those other things that i mentioned part c the 3.5 bring up 43.7 is right about where we are for that primary school mabel i we're looking at about 12 and a half million dollars of addition and improvements within the building we've got the 2.2 set aside for the administrative cost reserves and just around 1.5 for fees and services for

086a total of the 16.1 almost two central office we are looking at a total project cost of the 1.7 million dollars so that includes actually moving the building on campus includes new foundations basement for that space a big cost of this is actually getting that area ready for the building with utilities so making sure that we have water sewer power all of those components over to that spot and then the administrative cost reserves there in a small contingency and again a small amount for the design and permitting site is that one of the things that's actually kind of been increasing as we've moved through this project and started to you know engage the town the department of transportation our traffic engineers those offside improvements that jack mentioned so we're really touching kind of three major

087parts of the surrounding surface streets with improvements with those turn lanes and then the traffic intersection work at main tuttle and blanchard and that's all all in just over two point or just under 2.3 million dollars so with this as we've discussed tonight and all of the discussions that we've had with the administration the facilities group and all of those things we're looking at a total project cost of just under 64 million dollars we'll go through each one of these lines in detail but we wanted to make sure that in your packet you had a little bit of a breakdown on how those things added up and what the breakdown for those different components were you know it's tough to see a seven and a half million dollar line item without understanding what those individual

088pieces are the last thing we wanted to do before we open this up for for discussion is go through the schedule this is what's been provided both from administration and bond council on what it's going to take to get through out to a referendum in november 2nd so i won't go through all of the individual days but feel free to peruse as you review this in more detail for us the next couple of major milestones is making any adjustments to the scope and budget over the next few weeks leading up to the august 2nd meeting with the two select boards and your entity to kind of go through this in more more detail and that's our presentation thank you so much so i'd like to open it up to the board for questions this is

089a lot of information for new members i'm sure so i didn't know if anybody wants to start or i can just kind of go down the line you want to go peter yeah just actually one one question what is the uh square footage of the new primary school uh all in with all the educational and utility spaces it's right around seventy four thousand five hundred square feet so if you add that you add the 20 000 of new space on wilson we're talking about 95 000 square feet uh more or less of quote new space so whether we did again just a rough thing where to solve the space problem problem we're going to need uh 90 000 square feet and it may be a new primary school plus wilson or if it had been

090done in another site we would still be talking [Music] 90 000 square feet but a different configuration is that a i mean it's very general but isn't is that a uh makes sense yeah it does um i i think most of you know we got pretty far along in the planning process when we're looking at alternative sites and when we had programmed that one out with the larger population the need for multiple gyms large cafeterias a lot of special education space i think we were looking at close to 110 000 square feet so what we're able to provide on the campus utilizing existing infrastructure has really led to a little bit of inefficiency or a little bit of efficiencies excuse me thank you you're correct thank you tyler yes go ahead okay i always have

091um a list of questions i guess so i guess my first question tyler is when do we expect the doors would be open um on this construction yep so i think um the preliminary schedule we had worked out earlier if it goes to referendum in november as planned you know it's about a year a little bit more than a year to get through the permitting process get all of our stuff in place for dep dot all of those entities that need to to um to be to weigh in so that kind of gets us through almost of 2022 out to bid in 23 and then about a little over two years of construction we're going to be able to hit that you know with a great bid period getting it out to bid in january

092february and about two years of construction so it's at 25. so it would be it would be the fall of 2025 is what we're saying correct okay the way that we had envisioned this we would look to get traffic improvements all of those things out to bid as quickly as possible to minimize the escalation that we're going to experience i think we think we can get both the central office relocated and the mabel i-wilson improvements done probably the year before maybe start an addition in the summer that way we're really taking advantage of as much of that early money as we can and limiting construction escalation so we would do this likely as for individual projects okay um when looking at the parking on the campus did we take into account um parking for our

093high school students that drive to school yes and are we decreasing the number of spots for them quite a bit by um the way that it's set up i don't believe we just decreased it at all it looks like it was increased oh for student parking for well overall it was increased it seemed like i guess why i say that is on the gca some of the student parking is there so the primary school would be parking there so yeah i think overall the the parking increased on the campus um let's see if i can find that number okay so we're including the the student parking correct when we're looking at those numbers yeah central office gave us based on this year's enrollment some rough ideas on what you were experienced for for that student

094parking okay that sounds good yeah we're looking at about just under 60 additional spaces somewhere on campus being programmed in which would make sense because we'll we'll have additional teachers and support staff with having a new building as well absolutely um my next question would be is i think i have a little bit of concern with the mabel wilson school in only having one flex classroom set up and have we looked at i would just hate for all this work to go into that school and then we outgrow it as soon as we we kind of move in so have we looked at kind of the projections after 2025 because the numbers here it kind of gives you that rolling large bubble class yeah that large bubble class kind of exits mabel eye in 25-26

095right and that's when we're opening the doors right kind of for that so we based our how we've sized those classrooms kind of on the worst case for each grade level so there are no projections higher than what we've based and we were still able to give that eight to ten students additional buffer above and beyond that kind of max projection um and i it's to be i don't think there's been a new projection since this one was done so it's best available data that we're working with okay and i think um my last class my last question may be for peter or for for you tyler um is when we were when we've gone through this process in previous meetings this year we've talked about doing renovations to athletic fields and athletic buildings and

096also there was talk about doing some work at the high school and finishing up renovations there and possibly the pool has it appears with these numbers that we're not including it here is that something or where does that stand i think the presentation tonight was just related to the campus thing i think we've got numbers on the on the field and uh i'm not sure about the other stuff i uh when we get finished the discussion i think at the end of the day that next week the finance committee and the facilities committee are going to sit down and digest this thing to see what next steps and and i think jeff has got numbers for the other stuff but i think given uh the numbers that we're seeing right now that uh much of

097any uh addition uh we'll have to talk about but again that's a board decision so i think the the the key after we get done with the comments here is to again have finance and facilities sit down and digest this great that makes sense peter do you have something nope i was just going to add what peter just add on to it and we do have a estimate of a million and a half for a turf field if that was something the board was interested in pursuing the other components such as you know looking at the pool and things like that are part of the long-range facilities plan and and we would certainly be introducing that again at the uh town council and select board joint board meeting on august 2nd and in preview the

098whole presentation before oak point um opens up with that just to make sure people realize this is part of a long-range plan that doesn't encompass everything these are the most immediate needs obviously thank you jennifer mike yeah thank you tyler and team really appreciated the thoroughness appreciated working with you uh with the facilities committee uh just i heard you drop uh the term geothermal uh when you're talking about inclusion in construction costs is that built you said that's built into the cost that you put in there yes it is so that a it's the heating and air is run through a geothermal system is that right correct um i think the preliminary calculations it's somewhere around 60 to 70 wells that would be drilled kind of around that front part of the campus what we've

099done is we've sized it for air conditioning so there may be some some shoulder areas where we pick that up with an internal combustion boiler of some sort that we're likely going to have anyways in the building so it was a pretty significant jump to go for to all heating on that that side so we kind of use some best judgment on that one that's great um and you also mentioned other efficiency improvements so windows and such and but in the in the new construction uh did you build in higher efficiency windows and other items into the cost yeah we haven't gone as far as something like a triple pane window with just the amount of glass that we're looking at it's a pretty significant increase but we're looking at you know the best windows

100that we can get within that within that kind of standard range they're usually pretty good efficiency we're looking at increasing our wall and roof insulation as far as we can so those are two big pieces that we can do to really push that load reduction in all of our buildings we're looking at really high performing air vapor barrier systems that are integrating into those glass and insulation systems and that goes a long way when we start eliminating that air infiltration it goes a long way to help reduce those costs we've also factored in on the roof structure and internal setup making sure that the building is pv ready so being able to add photovoltaics to pretty much that entire roof it gives you really some some really good acreage there for for electric generation on-site

101with an all-electric building really lends itself well to that you uh you assumed my next question i appreciate that probably because i've asked it about four times of you um the uh the other part of that question though you mentioned roof upgrades to mabel wilson is it possible to do the same to make mabel wilson pv ready uh we certainly can easily in the addition so as we start moving through the rest of the building you have to take a pretty hard look at what the the impacts are going to be on the snow loading so i mean we can certainly take a look at that we are going to have the majority of ceilings down so you know if we're strategic on how we do it we can take a look at what we

102would need to do engineering wise to make that safe okay um and uh yeah that's all i want to ask on that the only other thing is um you when the offside improvements so um that it just it seems like it's a bit you know somewhat far the right turn lane onto blanchard but is that truly something that came up uh that that came up in discussions with the town you mentioned and so it's a you know the existence of the one campus model is creating a traffic flow issue right okay all right so i'm just apologies for thinking out loud here i'm just trying to probe in my own brain if that isn't nice to have or a must have and it sounds like it's probably closer towards the ladder yeah i'll defer to

103jack correct me if i'm wrong but we're going to be required to submit for a traffic movement permit and that's going to be kind of the extent of where they make us look um our traffic engineers already weighed in on this and agreed that this is likely something that they're going to direct us toward that a fair statement jack okay thank you okay thanks well it's ann um a lot of my questions have already been asked by everyone so thank you for that but i did want to ask i'm seeing here that in the breakdown for art acquisition that there's only funds allotted to the primary school and not mabel wilson or central office and i can understand perhaps central office but i'm wondering if there would be a way if we could think about

104ways to kind of have some art that carries over between the primary school to mabel i wilson to kind of give it a more you know as you're growing into these buildings and that also that this art be um that we keep in mind that it is diverse and reflects our goals of equity and inclusion certainly yeah well i mean uh we've carried it kind of in the new construction it's something that you know the state would fund up to that 50 000 but if you want to put it in the mabel eye we're certainly you know happy to do that madison or vanessa or jason you guys can with the roads um is that state roads or town roads that they're going to be requesting for them or where are we going to get

105state funding with those roads or like is it highway roads that you're going to take that you're referring to is it the state main street is route 9 which is a state road so they would be able to contribute no the uh the cost for this is a result of the school not the state so okay even if it's a state road yeah okay because we're they don't usually contribute towards that the the improvements at uh main street in tuttle blanchard are uh kind of a worst case scenario at this point we've carried some traffic controller improvements as well as the turning lane sidewalks and and bike lane through there okay and that would have to be approved at the state level once you're into a traffic movement permit they have the ability to reach

106up out up to i think a mile or two okay and analyze different intersections and uh any private developer would have to have to go through the same thing okay thank you jason um i don't want to get too far into details of this and that but um the the flex rooms that are in the primary school i think on the second floor like next to each room there's like a half a room what is that used for and could that be could two of those be paired up so that in the future there's more flex space like those two half rooms could become a full room down the road when we need even more space that's um let's see if i get back to that i don't want to get into the weeds too

107much but these these are good questions yep there so the blue areas between the green rooms i think you're talking this one yeah yeah so those are almost the kind of the anti-spaces we've kind of turned it coming around campus drive and i mean certainly something we can take a look at um at maybe combining those it'll change the layout but it's not off the table i mean these are kind of the concept level and we'll dial into more detail as we get going i think the big thing about those is those are really i think gonna serve a lot of different functions from special education to small group instruction to just small breakout areas for for smaller parts of class so i think those are certainly things we should discuss as we move into

108to more detail with the staff right that those flex spaces make sense to me now i'm just thinking down the road when we need to create two more rooms if they're next to each other there you go there's more space that's a lot of square footage on a square foot basis how does this project compare to others that have been built similarly in our area yeah i think um it's pretty on par with a lot of the publicly funded ones the state's a little bit more tight with their square footage so they probably wouldn't have given you those flex spaces so those are going to kind of drive up that that square footage per student piece but you know we we start all of these analysis pieces with a comparative piece with what we think

109the state would give and we're in the ballpark this this project is likely more square footage per student though for some of those things do we have any of that data for you certainly that would be great to see i know a little bit about like when this conversation started in north yarmouth and we went pretty far down that path but you said that that project was up to 000 square feet we're doing 95 000 here so obviously greater square footage but on a cost basis do we know how that would compare if we went that route and i'm just looking at it from the standpoint of general construction when you add on to something it's significantly more expensive to add on than to build new and just in very round numbers i'm looking at

110the primary school comes up to 586 dollars a foot versus mabel i wilson additional square footage comes out to 809 so that's a that's a big premium on that square footage so i'm thinking you know if this were in north yarmouth and without you know paying a premium for the land and not paying a premium for additional offsite costs the extra turn lanes and that sort of thing what would the number actually be if it were there and i'm not necessarily advocating for that i think there's a lot of efficiencies in scale and having an on one complex however um sort of dividing the assets also could make sense so if you could yeah i don't think we got to the point where we had a full project budget and um that really was pre-code

111as well and we've seen a pretty drastic increase so i don't think i can speak to the what the overall project budget would have been for that project and i think i'd defer back to administration on on the ability to actually get land in north yarmouth i think you know we put out ads we talked to everyone that that came forward and really passed the memorial school site i don't think we had a viable option in north yarmouth so that's how we really ended up here with that additional land on the campus it really became a much more viable option yeah so is it fair to say that since we couldn't find a place in north yarmouth to make it happen that we're paying a bit of a premium to put it onto this complex

112because i don't think i can answer that question okay and um event uh parking has been planned for as far as football games soccer games which are going to bring large numbers of people has that been calculated into i think what we would see i think the that area isn't likely isn't going to change much it's utilizing existing surface parking at the high school so i think we've we've added additional parking on campus for those you know that could be used for those things but i'm not sure we've we've changed anything on the high school side is that your check okay sorry okay thank you that's it much appreciate it tomorrow did you answer questions uh yeah so i have one question in particular first of all thank you for your comprehensive presentation you've given

113us a lot to think about um my main question is about um the impact on the maybelline wilson community while this work is being done do you have a sense of what that might look like both in terms of how how long this will be disruptive and in what ways it'll be disruptive for students and teachers sure i think um we're looking at somewhere you know an 18 month-ish construction period for for mabel eye i think the area where it will be the most impact is trying to get um we call them summerslam so all that work done at the main entrance in the lobby kind of done in one one summer to a place that we can get you know safely occupied in there so that'll probably be the the most disruptive piece you

114know we've often worked with districts to kind of shift uh school calendars to get a you know extra week or two on either end of construction projects to help buy that time we've been able to do that in the past so i think that's the area that will be the most most impact on them throughout the course of the school year while there's an ongoing construction project happening you will hear you know rotary hammers some other things that are going to cause disruption but i think the key thing for us will be making sure that our specifications are really tight on when they can do and what that utility shutdowns are coordinated that we build a really good relationship with your your in-school leadership team and the kind of the day-to-day construction team as well

115we've done a number of these where we've actually built schools you know almost on top of other ones we did it over in portland at all school the new amanda rose so we can manage these things through some careful planning and good relationships i think and tight construction documents thank you kevin thanks um yeah wonderful job tonight appreciate uh appreciate you walking us through this i i think the the challenge um is looking at these the the pictures on paper certainly on the screen in front of us a number of us had that opportunity to travel with you to some of the other buildings that you built and so some of those pull out spaces and the um i think the creative and innovative way that you embed those into classrooms as we were able

116to watch students work within those and not have to leave that learning environment was very very powerful the things that you did over in falmouth were innovative functional and and the flow was exquisite um i think that if and when this moves forward i think that type of a tour to help any of the members of this board to continue to understand what you do uh is important the uh the outside spaces that allison put together down at the at the amanda rose school um are are certainly a testament to what can happen in outdoor learning so i again would advocate for that but then since you didn't ask the things that keep me up at night are looking at the looking at the spaces and as you drive through many of the streets in

117both of these communities you see a lot of new construction and i'm that nerd that looks at those and sees two kids in every one of these new homes i am also that person that remembers what happened five years after the ice storm in 1998 with the bubble that followed that and so i don't know if we'll have a coveted surge that follows this but it's uh you know that's going to be what 2027 um it could be large numbers and these just feel awfully tight to me and i i just can't i know i bring it up every time that we talk tyler but um it's a concern of mine have any words of wisdom to allay my fears well unfortunately i can't control how many people move to your district i don't want

118to go you want to go home or our house is being built put the message out will you you know i think you know on our side it's we try to work with the best available data so you know looking at these projections trying to build in that flexibility you know we we've kept the the class sizes as low as as we can we know that this is a commitment that the district's made there are some you know things that could be done i'm not going to say it because i know that there's a you know it's a touchy subject but class sizes could increase if you had a small bubble so i think there are things that you could do to manage this within a building and then i think you know with this

119this primary school we've got the ability to add another two to four classrooms on the end of it uh with the amazing amount of space that's left so you know if you do see a drastic you know increase with a in five years from that that coveted surge you know there is the ability to to kind of keep in making that improvement within the facility so hopefully the planning and the numbers that we were given you know hold and we've got some good flexibility in there for you thank you yes last thing on that i recall you also said before about adding on to the where you could add on those buildings at the end that you would allow um when you complete this project to keep like the utilities um where that would be

120easily accessible instead of capping and capping the lines yes yeah that's what we typically do yeah i i just my last thing is that the renderings really i know they're preliminary but they they do they look fantastic sorry um most of the questions that i had of course have been asked and answered i do have one kind of simple maybe more detailed question the parent drop off on tuttle road you had mentioned it's wide enough for a two-way there are we saying that people are going to be coming in both sides or coming in two different ways and dropping off people for dropping off students because that seems to be a little hairy so it's one direction gotcha yeah thank you because that made me nervous i knew you thought of that but i just

121didn't understand it and then central office orientation will that be facing main street the way that it's facing tuttle now yes so we would keep the historic piece face it to main street be sympathetic on that side the entrance would be on the back side though okay towards the parking lot correct okay and the last thing i just want to say thank you the renderings make us really are like i'll speak for myself make make me really excited because it feels a little bit more real after two years almost and i also just wanted to give you the feedback i really appreciate centralizing the special ed and pull out spaces um i think just the comment of every kid gets to walk to the same space or has the same walk to those spaces is

122really it means a lot and i just appreciate that that thoughtfulness in the planning does any uh jason sorry um what happens maybe this is a question more for jeff if we with the volatility of cost of materials and all that what happens if we go outside of the five percent cushion that's built in and then um other question along the lines of someone else brought up sort of if we outgrow this site you know if the growth in town continues within the existing site can you see very generally where we have more room for growth where's the next logical step does it fit within this land that we own with this project i think barring more acquisition that something meaningful would be very difficult on this campus yeah you know we could do smaller

123additions at the middle school or maybe or something along those lines but i don't think you're putting another new building on this campus i don't know the pre-k but if we do get into that bubble as pre-k an option to be removed if we know it stays unless and well i don't know maybe you speak i mean if we get to ease kevin at night is there is that an opportunity there for a temporary um or would that just cause more stress on the community um i think the pre-k program that we have is collaborative it's a collaborative program right now with cds child development services and um you know it's a relationship that we have right now with them in order to provide the the program that we have which is regular education and

124special education students in the same program um it doesn't mean that the board can't revisit this down the road it really depends on what the state is doing i know this this program proposal basically says even if the state were to let's just say mandate four-year-olds go to public school at some point the legislature has talked about this for years and years and years and the current governor has been talking about it um our what we're saying through this project design is that we're not expanding our pre-k program in the public school setting we would partner if we were mandated we would partner with private organizations that already exist or would exist in the community to provide that pre-k and we've by doing this design the way we did with only two classrooms um we're

125signaling you know to the public that's that's the approach that we would take if the state mandates uh four-year-olds to go to public school and um every indication is from the state if they mandated it they would certainly be encouraging uh private partnerships okay in fact they've been talking about that for a long time so that's a that's a decision the board is making by accepting this design thank you peter yeah i think it's kind of important as looking at the big picture again to the the what public is watching is that this particular plan uh developed as a result of us being able to have an option to purchase on that that two and a half acre piece that brought about advantages he that we had the ability to access power we had to

126hook on onto the town sewer system and the water system but uh and also as jason and several mentioned that that there are some efficiencies with a on campus location as we've seen in this as we've gone down into the the weeds that there are also are some uh limitations with doing this the first limitation being that we were limited in size as far as how big the new elementary school could be so that it probably without really messing things up was pretty much limited to a maximum of 70 to 75 000 square feet which meant that unlike what we did in north yarmouth that did require us with the additional classrooms to put that addition on wilson i'm not sure we anticipated it was that much but again we're talking about that 90 to

127100 000 square feet necessary now a couple of other disadvantages popped up at the same time that with more students on this campus it did as we knew it probably would be uh create traffic program traffic issues and so thus resulting the about of two million dollars that we're going to have to spend to mitigate traffic concerns because of the limitations of that size the second thing that popped up was the fact that we we would have to move the administration building and this is where you get into a political situation that this was a uh quote historic structure that had a lot of uh meaning to the cumberland community in this historical society so that this was one of these political things that pops up that in a cruel society the wrecking ball would

128have come in and we would have found some space but again that was uh that was not an option so it's kind of one of these things that that there's no free lunch out of this that this is this is what it was given the location of the campus and other situations would occur uh with other implications as we found out in north yarmouth so this was a plan put together to fit the constraints we had with putting it on the campus and being able to have everything together and for the needs and all this thing this was probably the best thing that we could come up with given the limitations uh that we were dealt with whether uh ultimately that does we'll be going through a process but i think it's important for the

129public to understand that you know there's no free lunch in this deal that it's still squash footage square footage square footage thank you peter kevin yeah just to echo um peter i i mean we we did an exhaustive search for property and i've got to tell you in in communities like these where we're surrounded by so much land the fact that we could find nothing um that that was suitable nothing that would meet uh all of the criteria that we're looking for now i don't think um at the time we ever envisioned that opportunity to be able to um harness the economies of scale that we have within this one campus model um and uh and i think it was a unique opportunity um i i think that uh again my fear is what happens

130in in beyond the 10 years in the 20 years but land that we couldn't find now isn't going to pop up over time and become more attractive so uh if we're able to do the very best that we can uh to expend the public money in in the best way possible to provide the greatest educational experience but then the way that you've talked about this uh time and time again of building these buildings in such a way that you can scale them uh within the constraints that we have of land i think is important so it will save us money as we look forward and yeah do the best that we can thank you kevin does anybody else have any questions i just wanted to just remind everyone that's listening and also the board of

131the kind of what steps are next and i know that you guys put this timeline in there but on august 2nd we will be having joint board meeting with select board in north yarmouth the town council in cumberland and of course this board and oak point will be joining us so thank you for um joining us then and then um right after school starts we will be having a couple of public input nights we're working on making those family-friendly so that people can bring their kids and really engage in the conversation so we can meet the needs of the community and ask answer questions so i just wanted to make sure that people are aware of those dates and we'll be putting out more information about those as well thank you thank you all we'll

132see you in a couple weeks okay so jeff is next with a superintendent's report and i don't believe we're putting it on here where we are oh okay yes thank you uh yep that's what i put it on i might have to do it again thank you jerk all right good evening i've got a superintendent's report tonight um just to update first of all on the mid-summer update i don't even think it's mid-summer yet so we won't say it um basically the going to green plan just to make sure that we're keeping everyone updated and this will be published as well in my blog this week starting tomorrow even though school is out for the summer we have a lot of activity going on on the campus right now we are getting ready for the

133beginning of the school year we do that all summer so in addition to all the normal cleaning and maintenance projects that we typically do during a given summer in all the deep cleaning of every space in our district we are adding 11 more modular classrooms to the district as well at mabel wilson school and gms as you know some of those modulars are already on site we're also doing site work right now at the middle school to prepare for those modulars as well and we have finished pending your approval tonight this evening we have finished hiring all of the 10 additional teacher positions that were vacant as a result of adding those positions for covet and keeping class sizes smaller for the next year so i have some photos for you and we'll certainly be

134have a lot more coming up i also have a link that will be in the blog i'm going out it's the same link to the same letter that i sent out on june 14th because nothing has changed in terms of our opening of school plan that plan remains the same the questions i've been asked recently the biggest question i keep getting asked is will people have to wear masks or will vaccinated students have to wear or unvaccinated students have to wear masks and vaccinated students not the answer is the same one on june 14th is that the state has said no masks are required in our schools whether in or out and we are not requiring masks of anyone come the first day of school on september 1st so that is the the update as

135of the 19th of july so we're moving forward with smaller class sizes we've filled teacher positions the modulars are starting to come on campus they're being rehabbed by skiavi right now and we are going to continue that process during the summer the next few weeks and the plan that was approved by the board on in june in the letter that went out on june 14th to parents has not has not changed um so some photos we have we have the just kind of the usual waxing and cleaning that we do this was just examples of of what the custodians and maintenance crew do each summer this is a photo of one of our new modular units that's being rehabbed on site this is a photo of the existing modular unit which we have at maple

136i wilson school and as you recall for enrollment purposes for this particular unit we're adding two classrooms in the middle of that unit so skiavi had to open the entire unit up and they'll be inserting two more classrooms into the middle of it and then closing that entire unit back up so they're in the process obviously of doing that right now one thing that i've been saying for a month or not a month a year now is that the commons really need a repaint and if you've been through it recently you probably would agree although we um our custodial and maintenance crew just finished repainting that room and it looks a lot better i will say if you go in there if you've been in there recently you're probably like uh we really tried to

137clean that room up um and try to make it a lot more attractive here at the high school and again this is just a photo of some site work the mlti update and dirk will enjoy this update since he's our technology director um there was some question marks about as you remember during the budget process as to whether or not the mlti program would be continuing in the state and if the state legislature would be supportive of that program which has been around for over 20 years and thankfully the state came through and we are we have signed on for 329 new student chromebooks for grades seven and eight and we will be using them obviously at the middle level those are um dare i say it free of charge because we are signing on

138to the state agreement for the chromebook so we're not paying any uh extra funds for that that was the offer that the state had made and we're going with that offer as we had mentioned earlier we're also purchasing an additional 73 chromebooks for student and staff use that we need beyond that and we're using about half of the amount of money that we budgeted in the in the budget as flex money if the board recalls there was 50 000 that we placed in the budget for flex money because we didn't know what was going on with mlti if we're going to have to lease the machines if the state was coming through or not so we're spending around 26 000 of that 50 000 to purchase those additional machines beyond the 329 that the state

139is basically gifting to our district so a very small bargain to pay for not having to lease these machines and getting them outright from the state so this is a really this is probably the best resolution that we could have come up with um no we didn't come up with it that the state came up with four districts in maine and we were able to take advantage of that so that's a great outcome dirk would you agree with that i would agree to we were very worried about that a few months ago and as tyler mentioned tyler and mike obviously we're meeting people at the farmers market we've got a photo of them in our blog um if there's other board members that would like to attend the farmers market with tom gruber or whoever

140the counselor of the of the market day is um we'd certainly love to have you up there as well energy project update you know we get reports from siemens industry as to the continued savings that we have i think now this project has been in place for six years in our district and we continue to make huge gains in a lot of the energy projects the payback for this project has exceeded the accumulated savings of what we were promised by siemens six years ago and we're up 52 percent over what they had originally promised as a payback for all of the led upgrades that were made at the schools and all of the building envelope upgrades that were made at the school six years ago so we're continuing to see savings on our energy from

141a project for many years ago so i'll continue to keep you updated as we continue to get those reports the spring season obviously is over rangers girls lacrosse team was a state class b runner-up i'd like to say congratulations to all of our athletic teams i know it was kind of up and down again with covid during the spring season the spring season was a little more typical than than the other two seasons during the year our kids performed admirably did a great job and very proud of of all of our sports teams and that is my report for this evening so again the blog will be out should be out tomorrow published tomorrow for people to get that update um on going to green awesome thank you jeff um committee reports finance kevin thank

142you um the uh the biggest thing to report is that we will be having that joint meeting next week with the fine folks from finance to take a deeper look at the numbers that were uh were proposed tonight and then uh ideally we'll be able to come back with some some insight to the rest of the board that will help with the decision-making process as we move forward thank you policy in no major updates so i did just want to let the community know since there is a lot of interest in policy aca that as the process moves forward i'll be sure um or someone else will be sure to pass on any additional information for opportunities to give feedback and to be involved in the discussion one thing that i also wanted to note

143is that our policy ann chapman from german woodson has actually taken it to the state so that it could be used by other districts throughout the state as well again not necessarily in its current version but with some work done in the future and i think that that is a really wonderful thing thank you ann uh facilities peter do you have anything else okay um curriculum we don't have anything for this evening student reports oh maybe we'll catch her when she comes back we do have ad hoc committee reports and i will just mention because of the interest in the community that the equity committee has continued to meet throughout the summer and we have set our two july and august dates they are uh july 27th at 4 p.m and august 20 uh august

14417th at 4 p.m both of those meetings are as with all of our community meetings open to the public to observe our work as a committee and they will be held at the greely shade structure in the in at the recess area so we just wanted to make sure the community knows that those meetings are happening i think yeah go ahead just from the communications committee just really quickly related what jeff was saying is that we're going to have a frequently asked questions nfq doc about getting back to school out to the out to the public in early to mid august so um trying to anticipate as many questions as possible but it will be a living document so obviously the questions that we miss we will add in there awesome thank you madison as

145you're coming back to the stage i didn't know if you had any summer student reports that you would like to share no not particularly you guys kind of yanked me out of my summer so so rude [Laughter] no i've but i have been on summertime i came into this and i was like i'm not i'm not going to know anything that's happening but it was mostly about a school that i knew was getting built so proud to know where i was all right thank you yeah nothing in particular i know that there uh the freshman orientation is starting soon and i'm fortunate enough to be one of the uh leaders and i'm very excited about that and i know that a lot of others are too and i hope that will be fun for the

146freshmen but not too much you're doing what you're supposed to be doing on summer time awesome thank you madison all right and then moving on to items for action do i have a so i we we were hoping to see avery this evening um we do have a new junior student representative because we now um no longer have elias and we now have a senior representative um and and for those of you that aren't familiar with avery um he was the student that made all the picnic tables and came in and did a recognition for him and i'm really excited that he is going to be joining the board with us so tyler yeah could you explain how this process is and um whether he what type of things he had to do to come

147forth to be nominated sure so i actually wasn't part of that was sure i wasn't part of that process jeff would you mind yeah margo um harrington was oops was the board representative for the board um in helping with the selection so there was an interview committee or selection committee for junior representative there's several students that came forward we interviewed four students if i remember correctly this was a month ago um four or five students um and um it was the high school principal at the time chris hoffman margot harrington from the board myself uh madison served on the committee and then am i missing someone i feel like i'm missing someone that's it so we interviewed the students the juniors rising juniors who were interested in participating as a student representative and at the

148end of the process the group selected avery after asking we had several questions for each applicant they did a great job every single one of them did a great job answering the questions and it was a very it was a real interview we you know went through that whole process with each one of them a couple of students expressed interest in serving in other committees after they were you know told they weren't going to be the student representative so we do have a couple students who apply um we'll actually be joining other uh committees such as a policy you know there's interest in policy um i think we have a student interest in the equity committee etc um and we've done that in the past these are students who are really committed to public service

149and helping out so we're excited to put forward avery's name tonight and also to let you know other students will be joining other committees but madison do you want to you want to add something i mean all i really could add was all the people that we interviewed were really strong applicants and it came down to more of a like it was very nitpicky of what made avery stand out compared to everyone else so i think that he's a really good fit and i'm excited to see what he has to bring to the board but yeah yeah i'm always excited about this process and the students that are interested in participating and really enjoy public service and and as usual we had a good interest this year so i think it's great that we have

150students on our board where you can see something i was going to give you a motion if you wanted to i would love one thank you i would love to make a motion to approve avery olsen as junior student representative for 2021-22 second any discussion i think we did it all in favor thank you and then the second looking for a motion to approve hiring professional positions which we can do in all in one motion so moved second any discussion i would just ask if uh jeff there's anything that you'd like to highlight about any of the the three candidates yep the first two is a great four one year only and a grade three one year only um these positions are uh coveted related in terms of keeping class sizes small as you know

151the commitment of the board to hiring the 10 additional positions so these are the last two of the 10 positions the administrators have been very pleased as i have been in doing all the final interviews of all 10 of our additional teachers to the district um these are outstanding applicants as you know for a one year position you always you know kind of cross your fingers and hope that we're getting strong applicants but we have gotten very strong applicants all for different reasons people have come forward to work in the district for a one year position and i'm just very excited about again these two applicants as well as all the other ones that we've been able to hire for one year positions the third position speech-language pathologist is someone who has left the position

152and it is a part-time position and it is hard to fill a speech-language position to begin with and then one that is part-time is even harder so we were pleased to be able to find a well-qualified person to fill this position congratulations on filling those spots that's a big task it must feel good to have that one administrators have done a great job all right all in favor i did was want to say one thing and that's that i hope that um because we have had so many wonderful candidates for one year positions and i just look forward to seeing how we're able to hopefully keep them in the district after their one year contract is up and we do we do have a history without saying too much but we do have a history

153of when we have good teachers with us even if they're in a temporary assignment and actually a lot of the ten teachers were in a temporary assignment as a long-term substitute for us some of them were yeah um and so we were able to eyeball them notice that they had great talent and then hire them on for this but in the past we've also been able through attrition to be able to to keep people on so i'm hoping that at least we're able to do that for some of the folks that are in one year positions okay and lastly a motion to adjourn so moved second any discussion okay all in favor everyone votes on that one everyone votes on that one thank you everybody welcome new members have a great night you