001stand and justice for okay so our board chair is doing other things probably in warmer weather so you have me tonight hearing of the delegations Y public anybody I ask all right we have a quorum consideration to approve the minutes for February 5th and February 12th board of directors meeting so Mo Bradley second yes da second yes I'll assume we a good discussion uh in the minutes I noticed that uh it did not say that I requested that the board go back and look at the issue of uh the generator it's not there so I would like the minute amendment to say that I don't know February 5th feary 5th so it is in my construction report tonight that you requested but yeah I'm happy to concurs part of the reason if I can help
002everybody part of the reason why we are where we are in this discussion is a lot was said when the middle school was built and there was no documentation so what you have is in people's memories of what they were told was going to happen and we don't have the documentation so it really is important that you put things into your minute so that when you go back to say yes we did no we didn't you have it there so that's so can you ref me doing Nancy requested that the construction committee uh look at the middle school generator a second time I like the whole board I'm at the whole board so I I guess yeah you can say it that way and then get done and it will right in about five minutes
003how quick we get there but yes so again the minutes would be amended under construction uh facilities say Nancy requested that the construction committee uh look uh take another look at the middle school generator project thank you anyone else we had a second right we did bradle Don all right now we get a vote all in favor I wasn't here for the fifth I was so this is the toughest minutes of we soain Jen obain Amy obain Jill 12 who abstains the fifth Jen and Amy fifth Beck I hope you're with me who abstains the 12 Jill Allison got it perfect thank you all okay consideration to approve the proposed agenda for March 5th Board of director's meeting Don second Bradley all in favor thank you all student report good evening the winter carnival took
004place at the high school on February 14th students from all grade levels had a great time participating in numerous activities such as Snowshoe bracelet making baskball pingpong cookie baking and cornhole the senior class put on a winter semi-formal dance on March 1st all students took the main integrated youth Health survey earlier today the sophomore class will take will tour the Lake Region Vocational Center on March 7th the junior class will travel to GOC March 6th to the 8th Adams Family the musical will take place from March 21st to March 23rd and spring Sports begin on March 2 thank you r anybody any not so this is for the whole board um the issue with Canada in the United States right now uh I'll assume there a plan B not that I'm aware of no get
005on the bus things are not good anything else [Music] okay business finance reports finance committee so I will take that one uh the state Subs has been received and record as you can see four of the five towns were received which is why the net revenue went down a little bit one town was missing uh aering revenues continue to exceed expenses and expenses continue to be in line with the budget uh Food Service you'll see fell behind from 5,000 to uh 117 Please don't panic uh food service is being received uh revenues are being received and will meet expenses the year progresses the January net revenue uh had a loss due to the 3-month payroll in December and some invoices uh that were book to to January adult dead Revenue ACC expenses are in line
006with the budget and I'd like to thank the finance committee uh for approving a copier purchase so we had several copers here in the district that were a past useful life a million copies or more uh it was suggested by that group and we are going to try to sell the four copers uh the company did say that they were worthless to them so we'll see if we can uh get money back for the taxpayer by taking the ad out and trying to sell the copers that we had bear in mind these are a million use copers I don't know what the market is for a million use copers but we will try and get some money back for the district and I'd like to thank Finance for supporting that purchase they were really tired
007old past useful life and thank our team for negotiating a good deal [Music] question did the company providing the copy give you an idea what the value would be of the he said he would try to get 200 to 300 per copy per copy so it be $1,000 and something good he said it might be possible person so can can can I go back one issue the SOP class tour location Center on 9 7th very invested in that that be the whole class or only those that express it I class child is a sophomore the whole class awesome they also went when they were in eighth grade the same group of kids refres they may decide that something's open their eyes that they want to do what they had thought about thank you Bradley okay
008what's next construction transportation and Safety Committee report February 12th so great that'll be me as well I have a couple small pieces both uh good news and then uh turn it over to what Nancy mentioned at the at the start of the meeting so the high school elevator I've mentioned several times not working consistently uh shortly after the construction meeting they did come back adjust relevel it has been working if you can find some wood for the last 3 weeks without interruption so we feel like we finally have a high school elevator working and thank you to Johnny for his work with the company trying to get that done I also mentioned to the constru construction committee our septic at the elementary uh manifolds were frozen put heated blankets they have thought and our septic
009is now working uh and they'll do some work to make sure that they don't freeze again I think it's the winter without I'm getting out of my depth here so please don't ask any questions but without the snow pack and the cold weather the cold went deeper than it typically does at the start of the Season caused some issues so they were able to revive it and get it back but they'll do some sort of insulation to try and make sure that that doesn't happen again so two pieces of good news that we uh got fixed and now turn it over to the the generator project so at the 2525 board meeting Nancy uh Perkins asked that we discuss the generator further at the construction meeting which we did uh at the construction meeting it
010was requested that I send the briefing document that the community Emergency Management Group created to the entire School Board which I did send out the next day on the 13th you should have all received that document uh there was also a request that the board considered doing a load analysis with a local electrician the price that was quoted for that analysis to the community group was $100 we did double check with the individual and the cost uh would remain $100 so I am going to turn it over to this board uh I think you have multiple options so you could discuss the document that I sent out from the community group if you'd like to you could wait to discuss it at construction you could talk about approving the load analysis now for the $100
011as a school board or wait for construction to decide uh so I think you can either have discussion now as a board about the document ient and the lower analysis or wait for the construction Committee in a week and I would defer to all of your good judgment about how you'd like to move forward the only thing that is wrong with this and this sometimes happens is that second page and third third page the unfortunate part of that this gentleman was asked what of the possibilities what should have been across this which whenever you do this folks you ask someone their concept about what cost are going to be right draft across it because this this was just him picking numbers out of the air and that's the unfortunate part because when someone sees $375,000
012or $500,000 they have a tendency to go and that is um that's the unfortunate part it should have been a draft document for discussion and I think what we decided at that meeting was that until you got the analysis done by the uh master electrician you don't know you have no idea where you are I think probably the B I would hope we would spend $100 uh and do it and I if the district doesn't want to do it I know that the emergency preparedness group will do it give you the $100 you're going the generate is at the end of its LIF standand so what are you going to do anyway are you not going to replace it is that your plan of action are you going to replace it if you are going
013to replace it finding out exactly what is needed what the costs are and then having the discussion with whether it's the I would assume it should be uh the emergency preparedness group The Selectmen from the five towns and representatives from the school board so that you have a community discussion which takes some of that animosity out of this um that would be my recommendation forworth any else sorry i' like move that we hire the electrician to come in and do an analysis for 100 bucks you know uh to do this and at least let us know whether we want to go further or not go further this that's a pretty inexpensive analysis to get something done and the as she said the generator is 19 years old uh how many years has it got left
014you going place it anyway and I do think that that number which I think I really feel was pulled out of the air for $500,000 to do this was not even close so I have a motion BR made a motion to uh move forward conducting a load analysis for the sum of hund $100 for the Middle School generator second I have a second by [Music] Allison so we have information that we are in need of replacing our generator no I have no information I have the I have the document that I sent you to be honest it hasn't no I probably it sounds reasonable but we Saku Valley to the best of my knowledge haven't done any anything with a generator that I'm aware of which is to say it is I don't think anybody
015could argue how old it is and potentially could go bad I mean badly in break I I am not a generator expert okay and haven't put much time and effort into the generator admittedly so I'd like to know that um in the community I work in we just we just completed our third generator project of this size I think 500,000 is probably going to be reasonable especially if we want to upgrade this building so how big of how many proper just was we have three we've gotten three generators on a grant so a generator of this size in in New Hampshire it's a $5,000 Grant with the state of New Hampshire every 5 years so the school would have to I'm not in favor of the school buying a generator for a shelter so I'll
016put that out there but um I think we need more information I I'm okay if we have some issues with our current generator um but here's everything I the current generator I think works it doesn't run very much I don't know if o is the right word it doesn't have o like it doesn't run the whole building it runs portions of the building and some Outlets but I think it works when we turn it on yeah it works for what we use it correct correct will it allow us be on 19 I don't know the longevity of a generator I admit to being a on that subject okay well a generator to to power up this facility in in its TIY that's an expensive project um we did a $5 million expansion on our public
017library and we got our generator a year and a half later so that you're also looking at that for these size generators and Transformers and things that need to run them are a year out anyway so um but that's where I'm at to be respons for 100 bucks to be responsible to the community the tax payers um I I think to get this information to find out what's going on is is not an unreasonable request uh regardless where it goes from there you know and K has already said he doesn't know he thinks the generator works all right um off of the woods I think it works all right um I would have been much more comfortable say hey what can we find uh I think is I just don't want yes I think last
018spending money to check our generary and this is a load analysis right so this shows your Peak kilowatt hours load for the critical parts of the building this tells you what size generator we need mhm so we can find that out as well okay but is this person going to tell us our generators I guess we're going to have to find that out we do that's what I'd like to know so would I so to be before to clarify my last April when we had those two days our generator did work I don't know the last time we tested it I don't know the last time we fired it up my assumption is it works it turns on when yes most places check the generator once a month thank you yeah it should be set
019residential perfect so there you go and then and in this facility it must exercise once a week probably if we want to spend money to find out about our generator I could be I could be down with that but to do this project that's okay that's just my opinion anyone else oh they're blending in with the cup who was first man um part of the reason why I cor corrected the minutes is because there is uh a population in the community that was active whether it was Superintendent at the time or teachers or whatever citizens in the community who voted for the middle school because they were told there was going to be a shelter the generator was purchased to do that and what happens and we're talking a national disaster we are not talking
020the power is out for 12 hours I need to charge my phone I need to run to a a a warming shelter or in the summertime a cooling shelter to get warm or cool whatever the scenario may be that's not what you're talking about you are talking about uh State designated disaster that requires people to have a place to go the generator is one issue you you're going to have to do it anyway then you have to deal with the other whether you want to or not promises were made and you cannot have a small community like this torn apart because you won't have the discussion you have to have the discussion the community has to come together we are not in a position from my perspective as a school district to say to the
021community no not without having that sitdown discussion where all options are looked at and that's the unfortunate part you have anger that does not need to be there back up and say what's the right thing to do for our citizens and I'll tell you one of the comments that came out at that meeting was what do you mean we can't have this conversation that's our school that's the way the people in this community look at these these Reb buildings they're ours yeah they're paying have for it's my my property taxes my state taxes my federal taxes you're getting nailed three ways to pay for this but that's not the point the point is we should be all working for the same thing not arguing about you know exactly what you know who said what when
022this when that building was built because there are people who do know and did vote for that and I've listened to it and I just I don't want to see something that can be talked through cause a major issue back up folks is it worth it before Jill go I just want to say en and Thomas came through again on facilities how often do we test our Middle School generator we test our Middle School generator every week on Mondays it works well yes so we test it every Monday and yes it's still working well so to answer to clarify that I thank Johnny cantes for taking time out of this evening to answer my questions thank you Johnny if you're watching all right someone that knows better than me so our maintenance technician does that
023but do we have a technician like say like a gener technician come out or anything like once a year or to get serviced or anything like that they have to be serviced once a year their fuel has to be changed um that's CU if not that's something that I would like to see done sure yeah a generator of that size must get inspected and it must get it's it has a fuel filter changing system so we're talking about right now I'm talking about a Genera generator that um the one that in the building that I'm in which is a large building and runs our whole facility runs weekly is serviced yearly fuel's changed yearly I'll I'll find out I'm not sure Jo I CU my in-laws have one that's H to their house and they
024have it service like like twice a year or something we get a service John's right if you still twice a year well I don't know well I don't know about that one but I know that they do I know about that one twice a year yes something comments I so I think this requires a whole lot more discussion I don't dispute that um and I think if we're going to so the emergency prepared Miss group who is that it is a selectman in the towns it is uh the Rescue Unit it's the Fire Chiefs um some of the uh the Oxford County EMA person has been there um I go Greatful anded um the health center is there who else is there so I don't take this L and I and I I think that
025this kind of discussion should be more than just a few minute discussion tonight personally I think each of the towns should be voting if we designate this or somebody should be voting or it should be some kind of separate warn article one so that you can memorialize it in history on what everybody wanted to do instead of trying to go back and look in minutes and see what people talked about and what they did so I mean this would be a he that's $125,000 for the school district not necessarily not necessarily we're going on estimates but it's going to be a cost and to me that is a cost that the community should agree upon so I I ne don't really take this lightly I don't this is not for a quick meeting tonight we
026need a whole lot more information can I put in my two cents if you've got something give a time yeah you can it's just not how it goes yeah sorry Joe no see we're not really having a public hearing you know so it it's a big topic and I think it to me it would require a vote of the community so I can somewhat agree with what you going what you're saying about this should not be decided tonight however uh if you go on and have another meeting about this and you haven't heard anything from the qualified electrician or anything what what additional information is going to be contributed to the discussion if you if you don't vote to have the guy come in to do an assessment of the thing you need that information
027to to have another meeting don't you I agree we need an assessment that's not what we're we're asking to do we're asking to do a load analysis so and and maybe after that a load analysis is needed uh the other thing is is uh I was teaching at Bon Eagle in 1998 when the schools were closed for 12 days uh my classroom was occupied by a family they were not in in with any classes everything was shut down and it was every classroom was occupied and the gym was occupied uh and you know it provided a situation for people who are cold homeless and hungry uh and I think and I'm not looking for this you know if we have a 12-hour blockout or whatever uh I I think this is something that we've got
028to look forward to you know and be ready now not be scrambling to what are we going to do when it happens uh that's that's a going to be a pretty poor representation of the school board which say oh we should have thought of that um so I see nothing wrong with you know moving forward as far as getting the analysis getting more information uh because you know as she just said uh the school belongs to everybody in the school district uh and you know if we're out of power for 12 days here and you say no we can't we don't don't have the capacity to put you in here but we don't want you in here that's not going to go [Music] well that might reflect with the next year's school school budget yeah
029I agree with doing the analysis for the electrician but is there any way that we can also get like maybe the records from the services for the generators we can know like things that may have been replaced or that are going to need replacing in the future as you know I've embarrassed myself times I don't want to promise anything but I will do what I can and then maybe once we get those things would it be worth us setting up like um a meeting with the people on that board to talk to them about more is that something that we can do as SCH board members so a meeting with people that on the emergency I think to Beyond just just say this from my CH I think it's beyond the superintendent level I really
030do I think it's the board and the select boards and the someone else to decide what we what we do with our schools I do think we're at goverment body level making these choices because I think that like we need to see where they stand with it too and being willing to even give us money before we and like go through all that we make a decision on our own it would be wise to have an expert come in to analyze the generator so that we can make decisions on somebody who's an expertise he can probably evaluate some things based on the make of the generator and how heavily it has or has not been used uh in according to how many years it's existed uh but un Fort like most mechanical things even cars
031it looks fine it goes well but when you look at something mechanical you don't know if it has four months or two years left before it has a major heart attack so his analysis would probably be based on making machine how heavy it's used how hitched up how many appliances it draws on it uh and and that would probably be sound enough to get along with it but life expectancy that's guess work I'm going to agree with everything we just said I think one thing that left out that needs to be addressed is what part of this building does the current generator service and what part of the building with a new generator take care taking care of everything the needs if we need it as a emergency situation and the other thing that I
032this I just popped into my mind we see what the weather's doing these days folks if it keeps on getting hotter and hotter maybe uh air conditioning in other areas of the building would be worked into this as [Music] well at least it might be an option I I think that if if we're going to spend money on an electrician we should probably go the route of seeing what's what the status of our generator is and if it has I think we would hear if it has issues but um for this emergency parar group you usually in order to be designated as shelter you have to have they want the school cuz it has the kitchen and the shower resources and that's how you get designated for an emergency shelter so but I mean I
033would gather some of the older elementary schools don't have those resources which why why they haven't looked into that well you only have two that are functioning if you will Baldin is just put in aren't you putting in a generator and the in the town we've always have the I'm just about the select told me I know that I can there's a little brick building out back it's been there for well I don't know how many years this is what the there's no sense to I'll take you over and show you say may not be behind the door nothing I don't know one of the select was at our meeting and said that they were having trouble getting it picked up and putting in one and parsonfield does have one us has just purchased a
034generator but it's capacity is the problem was this provided from the emergency preparedness group no it's from this a I think it's a part par that's how I got it guess that is um Jen who is the person who leading our group as and I can't remember what his name is asked him to give us some idea and so this that's why I said it should have draft on it because it's a concept it's not a proposal okay and it was reviewed by the emergency parness group and the Selectmen of each town before it came here no because it hasn't been to all five Selectmen those who have come to the meeting with is there a plan for it to go to select this is a discussion group yeah and about the discuss it's people
035who are interested in making sure that all the people in the five towns have resources whether it's a cooling and warming shelter or whether you have the Emergency Center so it's the whole thing I've got that reversed but it's that whole concept of what do we need to do so that we don't end up like we were last April where we had people who could not get out for 3 or 4 days we it was just very poor communication and so it's looking on all aspects of how do you help the people in these Five Towns be prepared if we have a national or a state mandated emergency whoever determines it I I understand the concept and I understand what we want to do sometimes the public doesn't and so that's why I tend inform
036I am concerned about the public understanding because in this document the proposed ideas is for the school to pay 125,000 or we pay $75,000 and then H Porter parsonfield and Cornish pay 12 or any combination of this but none of these communities have ref reviewed this proposal I would prefer to see something okay but I would prefer that this be something the communities already support before we yeah I mean $125,000 is a position and benefits in in our school budget I think that we should really think heavily on doing the analysis whether if it's not a load analysis just making sure that our generator is working how is working and then board members from the school the towns the community need to have L media an open hearing which I agree is probably further than
037where we are now yeah you know I agree yeah to do something about it I think that's the best lat I [Music] do I think the as I'm going to explain again the intent of the emergency preparedness group is to have all key players at the table they're all invited does everybody show up no as we notice at these meetings there are people have obligations other places um and it's doing the analysis and because in past history and you may find that the the Middle School only has the cafeteria the kitchen and the um the gym on that generation you may find that we don't know and so that was the place that and the school district is at our meetings it's not like they're not there uh Kyle and Suzanne have been to our
038meetings we didn't sit in the little corner and decide these things it was open to everyone because and and another thing you got to realize we're not the only place in the state that's going through this whole thing it was a April was a wakeup call you cannot just pretend things aren't going to happen and then you see Asheville North Carolina you see California you see all of the horrible things weatherwise that are happening all around the country and we're sitting in the middle of a forest I understand so I think think what caused this whole thing was opening the door and saying all right folks all of those who play a key role in this we need you at the table and one of the things was asking for this we got a draft
039of what it could be but we don't have enough information we do need to know that because you are the largest building and who whomever was in charge at that moment in time made the promises to the community so uh all I'm asking is that the school district honor that and that do that first initial step of finding out what's there what's there how well does it work and no I don't know it's lifespan I'm 1967 convert works better than my car which is new I can't help that but but you do get this shelf life if you will they can tell you that that we know that generator has a performance period of X it's information you use the information to make a good decision all and asking am I on you're on um
040we look at all the calamities that are going on all around the country uh so far we're not subject to tornadoes uh we're really lucky I've only seen two or three hurricanes in my life uh however those of you who are a bit younger I would encourage you to go on the internet look up 1947 and um to see what happened U because we had huge forest fires on both sides with Brownfield got wiped out uh Newfield Limer all of those towns got wiped out uh this place probably could be and would be saved because you know they I'm sure that fire trucks would run pumping stations uh pumping from the river and we get a pretty good water supply down there uh but these are things that we don't know that could happen uh
041and you know just to have this as a I'm looking at as a security blanket maybe it never gets used you know it's like I'm sure everybody here pays Insurance on their homes and hopes it never gets used this as far as I'm concerned this is insurance and that's all it is this is Insurance uh and it's it's an insurance protection for the taxpayers um I do have another question how long are the tapes of these meetings retained I think it's tape is digital isn't it yeah on YouTube whatever it's digital okay so how long it's on so how long get a meeting last January a year ago January I can find it could thank you that's wonderful for me I don't know Jen I think I'd like to propose that we just kind of
042move off of this discussion maybe just decide I I don't know how everybody else feels I think I felt a little blindsided like whoa why do we need a new generator now that we've had talk I think maybe the Approach at least for probably the majority of this board I don't know is like let's discuss some emergency prepared preparation plan like let's have let's find out what we have let's that may have been a better approach than like here we need a generator you know so why don't we maybe make a plan maybe have some meetings maybe discuss what we do have already and then go from there I don't think there's anybody here that's disagreeing that we probably need to have a plan so should our Construction committee review our current back to where
043we started we go to next construction committee and I have Johnny there who is far more of an expert obviously than I am in terms of generator and how it service and what the records are and how long it should last Etc and do we discuss this discussion March whatever 12 I think 12 um if they if they service that twice a year then they would have records and you can get those perfect yeah just have those ready Maybe great I'll have Johnny come fully ready to discuss what it runs how what the useful life is what it runs on what Outlets work it's beyond me I'll definitely need Johnny um so we want to not table this but have this discussion at March 12 is that what we're saying March 12 we'll have Johnny
044come for everything he knows about the generator and make a decision of where we go that what I'm hearing then we'll update the board in April that sound good everyone yes so I had the motion I had the motion second are we letting the motion second go oh sorry that's okay are we keeping the motion I have a motion and a second to conduct a load analysis for $100 for the Middle School generator is that just not being acted upon Are We Now replacing that with conversation on March 12th we need to withdraw it or we need to vote on it so would it wouldn't it be nice to have that information for the master 12 meeting if [Music] possible I think that you know how can you discuss something that you don't know what's
045going on uh you know 100 bucks is a pretty easly am amount of money if you're going to bring this to front of the construction committee I would think that would be a piece of added information that's necessary to have to to have a discussion full disclosure revealed my ignorance a million times I have no idea how long a load analysis takes I don't know if it would be done that I I don't even know what that means honestly I think it means how much juice runs on what but I don't really know what that means so I don't think we're there yet but it's if we want to do we want to vote on it or do we want to withdraw it I think we got to vote on it okay let's vote on
046it so I have Brad with a motion to conduct a load analysis for $100 from the Middle School generator seconded by Allison all those in favor one two three four five those opposed one two three four five six unless someone's missing I am missing yeah you're not vo I am abstaining yeah I I don't know don't okay I don't know enough yet if that $100 is paid do we can you one second is can I just get the nose one more time that's the the nose I mean sorry the yeses would be easier because there's only five yeses Wes I think Brad Allison Nancy Dawn Brad Allison Nancy Dawn got it okay so now Nancy sorry just wanted to get that right that's fine done okay is the issue that you don't want it done
047or is it the issue the $100 because it's the $100 the emergency group was planning on pay paying that anyway they did not make a request for you to pay it there's your question well if they want to pay it and do it then they can it doesn't have to do with us but then wait one second we are we're blessing them to come in our schools and do something on behalf our school so you would still have a question so that should have been that should have been yeah I had no idea that's what we were doing that see that's why this is this is little I did hear NY say that at the beginning of the meeting will I do not want to spend school budget so do we to do the 100
048bucks so if the groups got you would authorize the electrician to come if the emergency group paid him the $100 I think the vote should be would we authorize an third party electrician to come into this school and conduct a load analysis on our electrical and we don't care what it costs if that's right that's a different sort of vote so who chooses this person I think the person's already been chosen I'm doing you said it without a price but I didn't hear about the the uh I wasn't sure it was going to be the same person so that's why I my understanding I don't know if I can say this or not but I'm got my understanding is going to be Keith Logan that's my understanding Master a master electrician yes we're not hiring
049yeah so we're just blessing electric and Johnny would come with him they want to do that I'm fine with that I so then can someone motion to authorize uh third party authoriz an electrician name him you know you know what it is name him well if it changes yeah he sends one of his subs or something I think is I don't think that's his name something com up will you authorize an electrician uh someone motions to authorize so master electrician it has be to authorize a master electrician to conduct a load analysis on the middle school someone want a motion that Bradley someone want to second that second I miss it was Allison Allison thank you think it's discussion and vote I have Bradly motioning to authorize a master electrician to conduct a load analysis
050on the middle school at the expense of at the expense of the emergency prepared committee paid for by the emergency preparedness [Music] committee one more time okay Brad motions to authorize a master arci to conduct a load analysis on the Middle School paid for by the emergency preparedness committee seconded by Alison that's what's on the table he's happy okay we ready to vote all in favor any opposed all right beautiful so moving right along I will have Johnny work with the master electrician to schedule that make that happen with no promises for the meeting on the 12 I have no idea 11 [Music] okay there a question does this uh construction media on MAR sh is that going to have to be person uh it's at 5:00 and now it could be long so maybe
051we'll send out the info this week yes but that's a definite maybe yeah y okay yeah maybe okay where we at like the definite maybe I love okay curriculum committee report uh February 12th meeting I think you have the written document but principal Hughes and DEA students Ashley D and Conway came and shared with us they had two slides typically for each grade level showing things that are going well things that they continue to want to improve on and each of our unified Arts also did the same included some videos of student work and some students engaging in some of our classes um challenges the elementary continues to struggle with is that shared space of the gym and cafeteria always trying to find more time in the day um they shared some of the highlights
052of things that are happening coming the spin Drifter jump rtin is coming in March the NED show is coming in April and they're really getting excited about their celebration of learning that happens in April May and at the end of the meeting um it was just commented that sometimes our administrators have been taking the entire time not leaving time for board members ask questions so we'll try to be more cognizant of that and then when we have the new committee assignments double checking if the date and time of the meetings are still working well for our school board members anybody have any questions Brad um we didn't get a chance to discuss this at the previous meeting when we had with the Middle School I'm really concerned about something that mik lane brought up about
053the number of absences you know three kids have missed 30 days so far this year six kids missed 25 days 11 kids missed 22 days and so I went made an appointment spoke with Miss blae the disturbing thing that I found is that you know first of all I'll tell you I don't think this is a kid problem this is a parent problem and I'm not sure that it's being addressed correctly if if it is a parent problem you know he's telling me that the kids those that can show up many of them are sleeping in class because they play video games all night um and the other question I asked him how many of these kids are in the same grade that they were in last year and the answer was none of them
054so how are we having kids that halfway through the year that are missing almost half the school year and they're going on to the next grade with a big smile you know what are what are we doing or are we doing anything or how we what's the what's the plan to correct this this this is really upsetting to me um it's almost like um we we're training people to you know you don't have to do anything and you can survive anyway is there a plan our administr has been working on this they're going to they'd love to get some board support and talk with you about different ideas that they have at state of the schools we're concerned about student attendance as well well I'm hopeful that the next time we have a state of
055the school semester meeting that it's televised because the last time it was not and I think the public needs to know what's going on again those people who are supporting this place and I'm one of them uh you know it almost looks like we're training your take you know you don't have to do anything you're going you're going you're in the fourth grade you're going to be fifth grader next year no problem I'm wondering and I I know that I'm going to hear that statistics say that you know keeping them back a grade does not accomplish anything uh I'm betting if you keep half of them back you'll accomplish something because it'll send them message to all of them uh and it's it's time that the school and School Board takes a stand uh you
056know here is the 39 20 kids that I'm paying a teacher a minimum of 45,500 a year to basically it's not the teacher's fault to do nothing because nothing's being accomplished you know it's it's up to and and again I don't think it's the teacher's job to get them here it's it's nice for the teachers to be nice to them and so forth but this board is this board is responsible for that and I think we need to demand a plan that can possibly can work and and I realize that this school district is not the only one it's that's going on all over the state but I'm not paying taxes all over the state I'm paying taxes here Whata that's so F all right I think Jill was first I think a plan is
057great but unfortunately if a parent doesn't care enough to get their kid to school are they going to care if they stay back right well they they will when they in the third grade and they're 12 years old but if they don't care enough to get him to school and they just don't put them on the bus don't wake them up they don't care if they're playing video games all night do you really think that they actually care enough that they're going to care that they're not doing their work they're not they're saying back they don't care let's try it out and see or we're just going to get a lot of irate parents and then we're going to say it's a you problem not a US problem and concerned about irate parents irate parents
058those same irate parents probably I'm also paying taxes to support as well but the kids are still suffering and it's not even the kids fault for not being here it is how it is so you're going to tell me a third grader it's a third grader's fault for not going to school if he says he doesn't want to school mama says yes it's okay dear but it's a parent problem not bringing their kids the school are getting them here or fighting with them to get them here okay right well I I think we need to take a stand I really do and you know it's been my experience in life if people are inconvenienced they can change their minds right off Qui and I think the school district has a way to inconvenience them I'd
059love to hear the ideas for it what you say Brad raises a couple questions particularly in in middle or high school students who miss a lot of days are we going to keep them back if you keep them back you could end up uh in freshman year 14 15 year old have a 17 and 18y old student there 3 years older it's a different situation in high school they have to pass every individual class so the administrator can't say we're going to send him freshman off well well not that it's derogatory bad but but that can happen and also how many of these students that miss a lot of days eventually after they turn 16 years old drop out of school they don't come anymore okay and also I had a talk with t uh
060don Isaac before I became a member here so that would have been 13 14 years ago and I raised similar the same same question and never forgot a clear answer but one of the things that you have to proc them through school as they get older CU eventually they're going to go enter out into the world and have to work for a living so so where's that line drawn it's pretty foggy and when they get out the Wilding make a living and they can't do fourth grade math where are they going to make a living right now like that there's no clear answer they come to Pish on every Thursday morning in the back of that dumpster okay it raises a lot of questions okay well I have a question oh Kyle can you explain
061about the law that was in place about uh parents being required to bring their students to school and what happened to it in terms of truancy yes uh I can't speak to that one directly but I can tell you uh that Tracy is something that we definitely struggle with so I think we have a lot of people working very hard uh doing the phone call to the parent doing the phone call to the kid we miss you at school we'd like you to come to school they continue to miss school we'll send a letter from the principal hey you've missed X number of days you're treny level then we'll send a letter from the superintendent uh we'll send a letter we'll call DHHS about our trence and I can tell you I don't uh all
062the steps we take doesn't seem to do a great job of resolving treny issues how's that we spend an inordinate amount of time trying to resolve these issues there doesn't seem to be a lot of teeth behind it and once people figure that out I think it becomes extremely challenging to get kids at school or parents will excuse the absence I'm not not knocking any parent right you kid Miss oh they were this that day so then we change an au absent unexcused to an AE and then they're not in violation of the treny and to Brad's point I hear about the retention we have a policy on retention that takes into account many factors they're achievement of the content standards believe it or not some kids that miss 15 or 20 days can achieve
063the standards I'm you taught school there were kids that didn't have to be there every day that could uh achieve results achievement of cross-curricular skills potential benefit from repetition of the grade so if you're fighting with a family and a family's dug in that they're not going to be a second grader no matter what that chance of having a successful retention uh is diminished severely I'm not saying we don't do it I'm just saying it sets up for a pretty poor Dynamic but when you have the support parent we did retain some at the middle of this year I don't know if I should say but I just did uh sometimes when you retain people take an alternative route um maybe go online scho on online school or home school it's not there's no to
064West this point there's no easy answer I'm not saying we can't or shouldn't try more retention but we don't have a lot of teeth in our attendance Tru and see LW sometimes retention isn't successful maybe if you sent the word to enough that you're going to be retained if you miss X it might send a message to everybody and have people uh fall in line it's a very challenging issue that you're right that everybody faces I can tell you without a doubt our staff administrative team spends a lot of time trying to get kids to come to school we have not seen a lot of results from the time and effort we [Music] spent that's exactly what Mike ly told me and and and I feel bad for them and but we've got to come
065up with a better program so on and one of the things I I did over the week was looking in all the after the announcement that the Department of Education was going to be elimated I started looking at how that was going to affect us and looked at all of the whether it's Essa or Esa title X title 9 whatever what if was and one of the Contin ities in that if you start looking at all of the laws have been passed every one of them has been trying to address this issue of how do you get the kids educated that's what this bottom line is and and it was fascinating because the thing that I came back to afterwards because very many of them talk about either evidence-based education or proficiency based education which
066means that there's a there is a line drawn in the sand and it says maybe it's only in the high school where you say like using the accuplacer the acup Placer says if you do not meet that standard you have a year and a half to fix it and if you can't fix it you don't get that you can get a a certificate of attendance but you're not going to get a diploma but it was and that's what this is a long discussion about how you get kids here and how you make them meet the standards and we've had multiple programs and I don't know if you're even doing proficiency based still or you're doing evidence based on Anno what you're doing are you doing the acup Placer yes yeah so there is a point
067where you can stop them that's the unfortunate part there's 17 or 18 where you get there that's a terrible plan but um it is what it is to Bradley's point in credit Bas said the high school they just don't move on so the high school solved its own problem because you don't earn the algebra one or the geometry or whatever Ka and and your point about if a kid misses 40 days and can pass the test I have no problem going to next grade I'm not saying that's all of them Bradley but we do have know yeah we do have but the point is this is the the ones that you know are learning at home or getting there are some kids that find it boring and they don't want to come to school and
068they can do the work anyway okay if they can pass these tests and so forth fine s them into the next grade I don't care uh but it's the ones that can't that we're putting out on the street that I'm going to have to support in 10 years it's certainly attendance and achievement and retention very U challenging complicated issues that we're all dealing with yes for sure okay anyone else I just I would like to make a couple of comments um and when I read through this report I do I would like to say it does appear that the staff is trying to make some some interesting fun things to engage students and make school fun like as I read through this report there's some cool things here including this QR code iPad binder I
069think that's pretty Savvy to getting youngsters to read and then what do spin Drifters um it's yo-yos so they come do yo-yo tricks which so we're excited about having it's connected to the American Heart Association and the jump rope for heart um but we're excited about having them come because lots of students don't have a yo-yo anymore and doing fun things like thought so I like that all right thank you sure okay that was curriculum committee and they next meet on March 12th at 3 p.m. Wellness committee had no meeting next meeting March 28th 2: p.m. Lake Reg vocational advisory committee report of February 28th meeting is that in our that's Bradley yes bradle you doing that report it's in your file some I can find it it's a two page one state thank you
070so the term enroll enrollment over there uh this is just for the SV Sak Valley kids uh in each of the U situations um law enforcement last year uh the enrollment was a horror show uh and uh they couldn't get anybody to go into it and if I was a parent with a kid in school I would be on that same team I wouldn't want my kid in law enforcement either but uh I I talked to David Moss and he said this year he said it's uh it's improved we're up to 7 and they said you know that's just shy of what we usually have um and I think that's good that somebody wants to go out and be a law officer today to and contend with some of the people that as adults we
071just talked about I think um the uh Health Anatomy physiology class only has two kids uh the last time and I think it was in November that uh after the meeting break up and go to the uh different sessions and that was really really interesting in in what with teaching these kids uh and one of my last years of selling real estate was a socab girl that um actually bought a house from me that she had many of her nursing credits before she left SOC before she graduated from SOC and at 21 years old she was a degree nurse uh and uh capable of finan buying and financing a house which is I think is pretty commendable for kid that young uh and so that's why I'm so interested in this is is that uh
072these things are a head stat for a lot of people uh to get a job for a lifetime the auto tech by the way uh they got their first uh electric car okay uh which is you know uh the train these kids to be able to deal with those and work on them and all um and by the way they take in cars from the community um many of them were on the teaching staffs and so forth to do break jobs and this in alignments and you name every and everything that was going uh new Springs whatever and uh they do it it was it was a this time the this last time I went through the auto shop and it was really pretty good automotive technology um anyway they also uh talked about remote
073learning days and uh currently they don't have those and they're discussing this with the other school districts and the snow days and so forth and we've touched upon that situation ear year um anyway that's it you can read it you got a question [Music] yes what is Co-op Co-op it's where uh no it's not any it it's some my people at home uh it's where they can work with I hate to say this but in a business in the community and so forth uh we had this at one time here when I first got on the board and basically it was it was kids working for their fathers whether it was a logger or whatever else okay um um I believe there was a young man named M last name of mudget that did this
074and his dad told me himself he says I approve of the program but he ain't going to work for me and called school to work back and uh I believe he worked for Jack wodsworth but I thought that was pretty commendable that you would say you know yeah I believe in the program but this is not going to be a father son deal okay so do they have to work with family or like they can work with anybody it's kind and it relaxes some of the rules around how many hours they can work etc it's it's a great thing for some of as an educator I prefer that they work for somebody else uh I I was told that the owner of Hancock Lumber uh had two sons who were very talented athletic great basketball
075players I'm old enough to remember that uh and when they get old enough to go to work uh he made them work for somebody else for 3 years before he' allow him come to work for him good policy it is absolutely my daughter did this and and you they're responsible for taking the form and getting it filled out and having uh they have to they have to um like meet with the supervisor and go over it it's it's a good program it teaches them how to communicate with an employer right what did she do she she did have B Haven where she works yeah [Music] yeah okay so next anybody else have anything on the Lake Region April 10th at 5:30 p.m. is your next meeting that night dinner dinner yeah adult education advisory committee
076report of March 4th yep uh we had a meeting yesterday afternoon um I don't have anything published for you folks but I can go over some data um currently enrollment is at 443 and um they are expecting to approach 700 by the end of this year um so so numbers are great um we're also expecting to have as many as six graduate through um the highet testing be it's two right now somebody is in the pipeline to quickly shortly finish so there'll be your third one but there's a couple more that may be getting through before so there will be likely a graduation ceremony for adult day um spring groch Shore has gone to the public sh but isn't they wasn't back yet yesterday should be back any day now and they'll come out um
077but there'll be like 70 classes being offered this spring and a couple of new ones being developed there's a course in horsemanship um they'll be of course offered um around fruit trees and St of their own Orchard um they'll be a r Clinic in that cast and there's quite a few other other ones that were mentioned of new classes the um Reading Club has currently three families involved that um when everybody attends involves 18 or so people so that's pretty pretty impressive and then as far as the academic program their numbers are lower this year um but the number of folks that are enrolled are taking more courses and they're spending more hours in the credentialing of classes in the credentialing of their classes um so um I think um when you compare last year
078and this year the numbers look a little bit different but when we dig into how many hours each student is attending this year's enrollments are attending higher numbers of hours averaging more numbers of hours per student um [Music] um next meeting is set for 5:27 at 3 and couple of other highlights to mention there is a welcome Spring hot left lunch scheduled for April 9th at the Riverside United Method meth Methodist Church in order it's free uh run from 12: to 1:30 and certainly want anybody that would like to attend to attend and cing and then there's a favorite summer recipe swap on Wednesday June 4th uh 1:00 meeting it's at the Adult Learning Center and um bringing a favorite quick and easy summer dessert main dish appetizer finger food or even dog treat if
079you like um and photocopy um copies of the recipe so that you can share those recipes and there's potential um there was there was another one of these offered recently and now they're talking about maybe collecting these recipes and putting them together in some future cookbook of some sort so yeah it's a good fundraiser yeah so all right that's what I have thank you you welcome any [Music] questions okay policy committee report on February 12th meeting next meeting at 400 PM we have a policy our minutes are the next by action item reflects all those are all the policies that you to prepare for the we're just going to do [Music] these okay so we have action items consideration to approve the following policies as a first read kdb Public's right to know freedom of
080access EA students transportation services e a-r parentheses e a e f-r video cameras on Transportation Vehicles procedure EA EF video cameras on Transportation Vehicles how can we have that twice um one is the procedure one is the policy wee previously referred to it as E A but the new name recommended by msma is e e a e f-r so we would replace that naming okay gbj Personnel records and files do I have a motion to do these as a first read so Mo Bradley Don all in favor [Music] in favor right okay number two consideration to approve the following policies as a second read and adoption IB AA referral and use of general education interventions AC c-r grievance procedure for persons with disabilities I HB a k life sustaining Emergency Care J Ka AA use
081of physical restraint and seclusion jka a A- R use of physical restraint and seclusion procedures I have a motion move second all in favor [Music] okay so I think I didn't see every hand so we might go to the next round obain knows everybody everybody's good everybody say yes I didn't vot Iain you're read them all so I can't vote on Nancy are you voting Nancy G yes yes okay superintendent report okay uh so brief until uh the end I think the end is fairly brief as well uh appointments I know you can read for watching Chase Caris Library educational technician resignations Kyle Heath JB baseball Zach Mishu Middle School track assistant Don buram custodian at the middle school Alexa Stanley grade four teacher at the end of the year not right now Michelle Ridley
082Middle School track coach and cross country Amanda the grade four teacher effective at the end of the year and normally the board wants to know and normally I can't say but letters of so I'm not violating Alexa people watching on TV or Amanda they put in their letter of resignation so their letters of resignation are public documents if you look up the rules Alexis Stanley is moving to Texas that's why she's leaving so it' be hard to commute um and Amanda theer cited the long commute and how great this place was but she has a long commute to work so those were the re I normally can't tell you the reasons they gave but they put them in their letters so it's not a grade four problem there's just a commuting issue Texas obviously longer
083than probably where a man is driving from so that would not work out so that's why Alexa and amander are leaving uh and here's a quick we have a policy on uh weapons this is almost to the point of silliness and it seems like all of our plays Etc uh are having some sort of thing so a sword is considered a weapon however I want to show you what the obviously it's almost comical I hope it's a comical scene this day this is the sword we are talking about it is a plastic bendy with no tip you can only hurt someone by whacking I think they are doing a play fight with the sword and The Adams Family I think I only need your vote and you have voted on uh play Firearms with the
084orange chip and you said yes to those CL this is a weapon and we have a policy I just want to show you this is what's in The Adams Family you definitely don't need to vote unless someone has a massive problem with them having a think it's a play fight scene with the sword day unless someone has issue with that in the ISS family and sometimes we put a disclaimer is that worthy of a disclaimer that this play contains swords or is that not even worthy of the disclaimer on the that I would like your opinion I mean you don't have to vote just do I need to disclaimer on the uh what do you call Play Bill does anybody want to disclaimer that this play contains a play fight scene with comical plastic swords
085that bend no anybody feel like we need a disclaimer all right all right that's all I have on that okay thank you more action items Mee consideration to approve question oh I I just got to do this because my 45 minute discussion with Mike Lane uh I brought up about the fourth and fifth grade schools and Mike told me that the fourth and fifth grade the fourth grade special was a revolving door he obviously knew about this but he said it had been for the last two or 3 years what can we do to put a lock on that revolving door to to you know we've got I think we've got a pretty good starting salary here so yeah I what can we do I don't know I told you the two I don't know
086how to fix the two things I just told you I don't know what the answer is to those I mean in general I think a lot of them are like that go to a different place too far away um I'd have to look back at all of them and what's public and what's not but these two I don't know how you can fix these two I understand that but other I don't think for the I don't think these two are a money issue to your point about staring salary I think it's just moving and commuting are there other positions that they can be offed coaching this or doing that or whatever oh for sure look JB baseball is now open Middle School tracks now open Middle School tracks now open cross country is now open
087which would all supplement a salary and we're typically not flooded even at the varsity level we get very few candidates to coach so they're typically coaching openings that would supplement the salary for sure and unlike that surrounding schools our Elementary and high school all get out at the same time correct so so they could be available could be varsity coaches even if they're a middle school teacher that's true thank you you're welcome [Music] andry could I just say that if you were wondering about the Hawks corner like how did we publish that without the board's approval we did preemptively put this musical contains a comedic depiction of fake swords so I didn't want someone to see that on the back and think that we didn't we wanted to get this out so we aired on
088the side of referencing that there was a needed just so you know going forward we probably will not put that because it's so I mean no one's getting hering we have uh bigger weapons in the school that aren't that Plass S I don't I don't think it's the issue of someone getting hurt I think it's the issue of violence yeah right they're portraying violence but I think it's some kids are very sensitive yes so we probably won't put that disclaimer moving forward based on this board but yes we knew that we could have the play with these because it's not a firearm Etc but very Savvy M day thank you for pointing that out okay action items consideration to approve an overnight field trip to the university of Maine Oro for the all state music
089festival Bradley ol let me read you something please this is a nice thing about one of our kids superintendent Landry the all state music festival is taking place from the evening of Wednesday May 14th through Saturday May 17th at um Orno we have one student Autumn Niles who has been selected to participate in the All State chorus which is a big honor Miss manduka elaborated all of the particulars below specifying the transportation plans for Vision plan food and lodging forms and behavioral conduct contract for the festival Miss manduk will be accompanying Autumn as a chapon and Autumn will be driving home with her parents I've reviewed all this and recommend the board's app approval but really why I read that congratulations Autumn Niles All State chorus that's wonderful so there you go so it has
090a meth the right here to come to you so I have a Brad and Olen motion second all in favor Nancy Perkins are you good thank you okay consideration to approve the proposed 2026 school calendar which we have in our papers and then I take it once we approve this this will be on the website uh mayy does I don't know how quick we put it out there tomorrow morning tomorrow morning there we go for all your planning purposes so we did have a a brief discussion of this last month uh the only addition uh that you would see from the conversation that we had last month are the pink uh early release days that uh thought we tried to thoughtfully plan with our district learning team uh sud our quick coordinator I think does
091a wonderful job of leading uh the work on those days uh tried to be really thoughtful about when it will provide the most benefits to uh the professional development of our our staff and targeting uh some of our instructional techniques to our children so the only difference between last month when you saw this and this month is the addition of the pink Fridays the rest of it uh the two weeks at December uh the the days and I think the quarters Chang uh second quarter is back to January 23rd to be more Equitable and April 3rd to the end of third quarter so just full disclosure those are the only two changes from when you had your first pass at it last month any questions do I have a motion no well you can still
092probably do the all right n because education is under attack massively um and the fact that the state of main does not require students to be in class uh as many days as other states um I wonder if in the future if there's a way that you can go back to instead of the half day which um means it's a interrupted learning day um if you might consider it looking at a way to do teacher workshops full day so that you're not bringing students in and it's it's not a good it just isn't a good learning environment for for 8 to 11 um I I just think there are going to be a lot of questions there's a lot of questions about where we stand Nationwide uh I don't need to get into that nor
093we do not need to get into that but I think there's some places where you can look and say um when you look at this just at a distance and look at how many half days you have um [Music] perhaps next year you might consider another way of doing this so that you do not have that Interruption that many interruptions in a student's education in the year I just had a question for my own clarification if we do not you with this proposed schedule if we do not use all of the three snow G that are built in um would that back up the June 15th that is correct that's absolutely perfect so our our normal say uh no snow days at all we'd be out June 10th we use one traditional we go to
094the 11th a second traditional the 12th third traditional the 15th beyond that we would use uh remote learning days based on this plan if it continues to be approved by the doe which I think it will but I don't I can't predict that and if it doesn't we'll do traditional this but yes that's correct June 10 without [Music] snow so those half days student stay is a hot day counts as a full day of school correct correct students stay till noon time okay yes so the workshop in the afternoon does that count as a full day workshop as well no so that no we would count that as a full student day and then teachers do work until 245 per contract half it's about a half a half to professional time from 12:00 to 2:45
095students from 88: to 12 Workshop from 12: to 2:45 okay so the typical student day excuse me teacher day is is what 8 7:30 2:45 but then our contract says 45 minutes beyond the contract day so 10 minutes later stay 10 minutes later 10 minutes early leave 10 minutes but it's typically 45 minutes beyond the student day is the teacher day okay thank you you're welcome of course okay Olan you want to make your motion Olan motions to approve the proposed 25 26 schol Calendar seconded by done SL down his hand all those in favor bless you be missing Nancy I don't know opposed anyone else a vote NY no okay consideration to enter into executive session to discuss labor contracts negotiations pursuant to 1M RSA section D Bradley second done all in favor that's
096everyone thank you thank you all