001e e e yes test test test test e e e my one over good evening everyone Welcome to our norish organizational and regular meeting uh it's my privilege to start the meeting off but I'll be handing it over very quickly um before we get rolling here I'd like to welcome Gina De Kanye board member you so much for joining us thanks for having me and um our first order of business is to appoint a chair and so I will entertain nominations for for chair yeah okay then uh we'll vote on the nomination that's before us all in favor of Garrett as chair congratulations Garett thank you apprciate it's all yours now oh I guess sorry I'm on the you might at some point Garett so you can just get me in yep I just all
002right thank you okay so appointment of Vice chair is our next uh item do I have a nomination for vice chair I would like to nominate m a second on that one or any other nominations I should doing second nomin no you don't so that's the beauty nominations do not require a second okay we have any other nominations all right a vote all those in favor job last year I all right our vice chair on TI to see our appointment of a secretary you I would like to nominate Gina and keeping the tradition of the newb gets to be the secretary I'll give my um thing Janice so my first year I actually took notes because we were on Zo for Co and I thought I was supposed to submit all the notes at the
003end of the meeting and I was all nervous I wasn't getting everything but the secretary actually does okay what is the responsibility it's a honorary if the chair and the vice chair are absent then you get okay all right do I have a Vote for Gina for vice chair that was Al okay on to committees usually what I think we do with this is is why don't we go through the Committees tonight maybe just to discuss them and then maybe next meeting we actually we're going be in favor to a little bit of thought just to kind of J being new um and on my new computer so G what we do get and what everyone is we actually have an A Google sheet that has all of the responsibilities what I would say say
004once you get your email address ask Ryan or who gives access to that Ryan gives access to that that's actually helpful because it actually goes through all of the board positions for the entire for SAU Dresden and Norwich and then it also has some color coding and whatnot to kind of give a sense for when they're active and when they're not active and the general level of um effort so so like if you're a tax accountant for instance you probably don't want to be on the superintendent Review Committee because they need at the same time so okay just it helps you look at stuff like that okay thank you um but just to go over them a little bit quickly is maybe just giving a quick discussion and this also helps I think so as
005far as um the negotiations committees we have both a teachers negotiation and a support staff negotiations both those will be active again this year right for Norwich correct yes and listed so yes I don't know I'm not sure if Brian they're not it's not a comprehensive these on I think it was just maybe some examples so those ones and those will get active in the fall okay is that corre I'm kind of looking at NE Myer by October by October um for both of those and we typically do with that is so on those boards last year it was Neil and Michael run the teachers negotiation and then Neil and Lily were on the support staff negotiation it is a good one for different people to participate on to make sure that we're kind of
006taking the knowledge through but also having at least a person that's been doing it for a long time um and then the other kind of ones that get timec consuming of the budget last year that was Neil and myself on that one I we could have three people on we typically try to have two her committee um but we could the budget at least that last year again that gets busy kind of right coming out of the summer break usually kind of the just as school is starting we're starting our our initial meetings to get the read up but you know the quick model that um the finest part puts together and then kind of over the course of the fall and then it gets kind of you know really kind of hot and heavy
007in the October November time period um the other one is let's just see I'm just going through some of them policies so I do that um at the SAU level with Ben and a couple others on the Dresden board that one actually meets fairly frequently one or two times a month um and it's come a lot of work just because we constantly updating policies but it's all you know Ryan's at that meeting Jay's at that meeting um I'm trying to think of other committees and of course we have all the dresing committees as well which you have negotiations we have budget um as far as policy and sa has sort of the same too so but it's helpful I think I look at that Google spreadsheet kind as far as other norch ones other than
008negotiations budget and then we do have a norch technically policy committee which is just me okay it's basically just kind of help Ryan's helps kind of pull stuff with between me and J and Ryan making sure that we try to make sure that that everything that we're doing in Dres is consistent withy policy and there any other major commit for nor there's the representative to the um grant for the MCS the which L you did and my spot did that so the ones that were Miss basically if you were just move right did ly was steing that one and then she was doing the the negotiations for sports staff that's the enrichment GR yeah there we go I I knew there was a fancy name for it and then the the last one listed here
009at least is the BBA representative which currently Neil's been doing correct like it would be good if some at some point like that's one where we should have someone on that and Ne Me I declined this year just because last year I got a littleit overheated I think work with the state but um that's a good one it's a very good group up there and those were the ones I was going to point you to um with regards to some of the scre board member stuff you have to sign in for that stuff uh so I think you might be getting a little bit confused so this role is basically a vcon role so basically a board member sort of track what's going on with BBA what's going up in my failure during the legislative
010session the other the other one is actually a VBA Regional rep position and I hold one of the two Windsor area seats current so the V sorry vsba rep is Ty Neil just because he's been on that but then that's the the rins rep was the one that I reached out to see if anybody wanted to run for that spot nobody did and then [Music] I used to be the president ofba so it's just it's easy enough since I am on the vsba it just makes sense for me to be the rep this for because I'm already there and just so you don't worry the the four chairs usually get together and look at where everyone is committee by so that no one's overburdened or committed to everything that's in Spring and nothing in Fall
011so and Ryan does a really good job of keeping making sure that we're on track for that so and do you like to leverage people's TR or yeah I have an idea of something that would be good for me to be on given what I do but I can share it there when's that meeting you think we'll do that far our next board meeting yeah probably like as soon as we El all the chairs in the next week we'll probably have a board chairs meeting May week yeah you know assuming you're I guess at this point kind of we might default to the existing ones but if people of Interest maybe send me a note between you know that make sense as far as what ones you might want to serve on and that way
012when we're kind of moving around the chairs we're not just flying just put people on things or reach out to me individually too to do this anymore not do this or El should be on okay um any other questions on committees um all right so move on to the next item our annual policy reminder for board members these two policies here are the conflict of interest and the roles and duty of members um so again I would just read these over it's good to read these over once a year um just to remind everybody both what these two policies just to make sure back mind SE was kind enough to print a copy of the conflict of interest policy which we asked the board members to sign so knock that out tonight I bring it
013back to there are more signature lines that they have perfect [Music] that um and then I think I would also en encourage everybody at some point too it's always good at this time of year the VBA has excellent presentations on what being a board member is all about all the that kind of thing it's good to sometimes go back and look at those there's little webinars that they do um and you know you have to sign up those now I want to get these for Gina to pass on you have to actually log in to get some of those yes so some of the vssb website is now on passw prot make sure that you know the right people are getting the right information it used to be you could just click on them and
014get things it'll take a little bit of time um so you know we had elections uh just yesterday so it'll take a little bit of time for vsba to get all those new board members set up with the accounts but you'll get one okay and then at that we have access to site I will say that if you're looking for prior um webinars they might be available off of the sba's YouTube channel okay might they might be there okay all right so on to that that's our election of officers and reorganization any other discussion on that item there okay we'll move on to our regular meeting now so agenda review does anybody have any additions changes what not to the existing agenda stand move on to our PTO report um comment oh sorry public comments
015do we have any public comments oh sorry I did totally skip the public comments sorry are there any public comments and sorry am am I on the zoom now is a [Music] [Laughter] that was your subconscious now I'm join okay many public comment from here anybody see anybody with the hands raised in the audience I don't see any just particip I don't see any hand raised there that you sorry just okay a PTO report sure anybody giving that report now we got a very thorough report last meeting so that's okay okay all right we move on to our business reiring discussion um appointing approvers I swear we just we just switched like last month so okay I'm fine with keeping it so I think we should just keep an eye what this is is for
016J so um basically for all the payroll and AP and whatnot someone has to approve it so we both we split it between norch and Dron folks and we basically every few months will change that just because you it's not a huge deal but you kind of monit you when you're checking your email that and then just say that you have to give and it's basic I say you and before you asked to do it you can the business office take you through it and show you what you're looking at what you're has to approve [Laughter] yeah but that won't be changing over now for okay we have a policy here this is our sustainability policy this is our first reading of this we had discussed this I you address in our both meetings uh
017for M and we had actually last time to we actually Chang the yes so it's actually been changed and based on our comments on the add put the sustainability in the context of the schools in the context of for those of us in nor might be catching up and not paying attention what happened in Dron so we had the um planate action plan was it's a great plan it was presented and and um is now in the hands of the administration and alongside of that we have a policy here that that's that's the what references the F action plan here um and again is sust sustainability policy that at least gives all of us is what when we're doing budgets administrators when we're looking at doing things with capital Improvement plans and we're looking at
018things for our buildings that at least we're getting some um you know stady guidance on how we should approach these things um which is why that we put kind of a definition of sustainability both in this context of the school facilities as well as the curriculum there's some bullets here this policy was written by some books in mental Club as well with their input over at the high school um and then we go through the facilities the operations and the curriculum which are kind of three of the pillars of the um long range plan just um if anyone's looking for the minutes of this it was presented at the sa the sa meeting yeah so if you go to the sa 70 minutes um the environmental Club presentation should be in there and com action
019plan part of that exactly you want actually it's a huge document very well done so again this is the first reading um I'm not sure does anyone have any comments or changes from nor perspective I have a question yes are these aspirational goals or measurable goals like I was writing okrs today but I to me these are more aspirational versus there's not a measured um outcome like where it says continue with and expand current building and grounds is there like goal of like 10% increased in efficiency or is it more we just want to aspirationally improve sustainability yeah sure I would say this policy is more aspirational the actual climate action plan does have metrics in it okay um and and some targets and they were very careful to not find the board um they
020use the term U fiscally responsible throughout the document because you you may have to make decisions like this board did uh they had to choose between a very expensive geothermal system um when upgrading our heating system um or something not quite as sustainable but but they actually went from oil to propane so sort of a half half measure but the other was unable so we said to work within the budget thank you yeah yeah again Jas I mean I think you know we had reviewed this in policy committee as well the um the environmental Club had put actually drafted a lot of the bullets and redrafted a lot of it as well and I think we all should trying to put some commitments in there but also not make it Ian I think every was
021just going Us in budgets and some things just aren't the best we can we all have a teaspoonful of plastic in our brains at this point we need to make definitive here at least that's my person one you miss that start to get things more Meed this okay any comments on this policy we'll bring it back for a second read and an adoption at the next meeting okay on to the school calendar so I believe this is we are we will be approving the calendar in our business cing action this is our last time this calendar it's been through many reviews uh for Jun and everyone else listening so obviously we also have had the calendar committee and this calendar I'll just say one more time do not have those colorcoded ones which are a
022lot of the other um holidays that are oberved by um various folks and those are going to be on this separate calendar AJ to at least lot of teachers and everyone to be aware of what days those are as far as um you know homework levels tests that got but this calendar here is really our calendar hasn't changed much over the years and it's really kind of in line with most basically directly in line all holidays I would just note before we publish it that I believe there's a typo in August says the through the 26 just just to save someone 10 emails nice catch thank you at previous multiple previous meetings I expressed my grumpiness about the twoe holiday I will not express that time really long break get those kids back to school
023but that's it we'll be voting to approve it this and just to say it out loud one more time for people who plan far far ahead for their vacations the February vacation week shifts in this calendar it is no longer the third week of February it is the fourth week of February and I don't want people caught off guard um by that so I think more we can draw attention to that the better will be because I think it's it's the first time since my kids have been in school that that's the case I think people might be excited because playing fairs will be cheaper a week later um well half the state does it a week later so it depends on where you fly out of yeah that's true as I say it's not
024Massachusetts is always presid St so we will not be comp be compe I just want to reassure the board that we we got the final approved Harford calendar which we try to align with and they didn't change anything major okay yeah um I will just add and I've said this before in other districts um uh while uh there's some people that are going to be very happy about that change in the February break I want to note a couple of things one um not necessarily particular to the Norwich board but particular all the Norwich board members that are here uh this is going to push the Dresden informational meeting to Saturday the 28th the other thing that I will note um that is our our wonderful prior board member really tryman um had gone to
025the select board this past year looking to see if they could change the informational meeting for town meeting to the Saturday before voting day which would also then potentially remove the informational meeting and the Norwich budget presentation to Saturday the 28th so board members at this table plan on taking that vacation and taking it all the way through Saturday the 28th there could be problems with that the last thing that I will note is that the state is considering a Universal Statewide calendar for the school year so next year we may not be deciding this by ourselves different [Music] vacation I think that depends on what the high school want to do be State still be har um yeah as far as the journal as far as the meeting goes I don't you know I
026think it's going to be a problem that is going to be I mean it probably is going to be a problem yeah um yeah and it can't that can't be done like a week out like on the 19th it has a it can't be more than x number of days or less number days I'll consult Ryan on that again just double check but sure don't have much Choice be we don't have much choice in addressing compact addess that compact specifically states that that last week in February is a break week that the information will happen on Saturday the select boards can decide I think almost whatever they want in terms of the informational meeting and we just go along for the ride okay so um something that maybe keep in mind I noticed that we
027sorry this is the h no this is the norw select board so if you remember Lily um had made a pitch that we move informational town meeting the thing that happened on Monday night to Saturday to allow for potentially greater participation of the town to be able to participate in in that okay I'm sorry and if we have uh School week that last week in February and the select board decides to move the information meeting from Monday night to Saturday that will have an impact I'm sorry I thought this was the I thought this was the Dresden thing where we met like last Thursday night both it's both because they typically have that on Thursday I thought you tell that would be on Saturday but in the event so the dring compact says in the
028event school break week Falls that last week in February the informational meeting will be on that Saturday rather than Thursday this not making sense rather than Thursday right which is what it usually is just point clarification are you sure it's the compact or the Articles the Articles ah so we can modify res can modify and then I think I guess I this is it would make absolutely no sense for the town of nor have the informational why would they not just keep it on Monday next next year uh Lily's point that she brought to the select board was she thought that it could encourage additional participation if the meeting was moved to perhaps Saturday afternoon and maybe they provided child care okay but I think next year given the fact that it's must to be
029on vacation that that would probably not be and I don't disagree with you I just think keep your eyes open on what to select for this considering sh should probably okay Michael so so just to make sure we're on the same page the two things that we'll keep an eye on are one uh if we want to amend the articles of agreement because we've caused a situation where a meeting will be held the Saturday of school break week we're students suboptimal in discussing the business of the school district and two will'll keep our eye on on our local select board to see if they want to move off that Monday one of the arguments is for increased participation having many school age families out of town would cut against one of the merits in that
030proposal I'll leave it to the administrative staff to bring back the articles of agreement issue just made a note for Ryan and all caps with question thank you check and sorry I'm just got to go one more question here what do you think Hanover will do for their dressed in Handover meeting read the warrant articles and whatnot you think that they'll still do that on that Thursday vacation week or would they do that may more J question because I that's Handover Dresden right and that's where I would highly doubt it because now that meeting I don't I don't think they would do that because they they're likely to be on vacation as well so can they do that the week prior I'm guessing I don't think so I think there was a I recall when
031this conversation came up when I first got here I think they you had meetings on Saturdays before or at least in Hanah where they had and there was displeasure around well tell maybe one of their ideas to do it on Sunday must be yeah sorry just to I was only raising it as an informational point for board members to just have in the back of their heads tonight would change our vote on the calendar okay all right so we'll move on we be here till 10:00 okay any other discussion on the calendar any comments from the public okay all right B action um I believe we can go through items B3 by consent do I have motion I move that we approve items B second all those in favor that's unanimous I got I'm offal
032just I hate to be a narrator but just just so you know so so the board often um approves all action items with what's called a consent motion okay just lumps them together if there's something special on there or some sometimes there might be a donation that we want to say a special thank you can't separate individual items from that motion um but but we've done that really to expedite the meeting agenda not to be a picky person but since I wasn't at the meetings with the minutes should I have tostain because for me to approve minutes for things I wasn't at other board you didn't go back and listen to the [Laughter] zoom yeah so it's not required uh the the the board vote on the minutes is really just an acknowledgement that minutes
033were taken as best you know it fairly represents what Happ of that okay thank you okay now we move on to our reports report of the chair I'll keep mine short I just want to thank the public for voting um our school budget forward this year um I know it's a lot of work I know you know there are towns people inevitably where it's a lot of money and taxes are uh a are difficult um I do think that we did a very good job as a board and as an Administration I will say again of keeping that budget to the absolute minimum and really a flat our budget guidelines it was actually slightly down for the non for all the educational items um as I always say a flat budget is actually a down
034budget when you are facing Healthcare increases and steps and all that kind of thing for salaries and whatnot and just the general cost of things going absolutely so um sorry Michael go ahead after oh um and then I think the other thing obviously wel and Gina I think uh you know I am happy having been on the board now for many year for several years that we continue to get good people to come to the board with a wide range of skills and I think Gina is going to be right there with us contributing um and helping us all with different perspectives I think if you look down this board with you know l living us but everyone on this board um I think it's it's a a great group to work with I enjoy
035coming to these meetings personally um and interacting Administration the board members and it's always great too because everyone has a lot of different expertise I go home talk to my wife after and I say I have no idea that this person do these types of things and deals with this in their day jobs that actually helped us at our movs so that was my report oh sorry and I think the last thing I'll do is number three um I think at some point we always say this but if we do want to have other topics this is probably the time of year to do it last year we did spend a little bit of time at one point for example we had kind of a teaching on the budget process um it might be a
036good time to start to do this for another couple months if we have specific things that we want to do um I'll ask you had told me a couple months ago and I kind of put it on the back burner because of budget season but there are some board specific things that are of course we met I didn't have a board in a couple years we 5 use but we need to pay attention we want to be talking about District quality standards that go into effect one so why don't we would it be worth it to dedicate part of a meeting to that doing District quality standards but I can be mayp [Music] rather than just coming District standards talk um but that's kind of as as part of the board member training that we
037do and the chair meting training I always take this to heart that like our board meetings we can use them as working sessions for different things so it doesn't just have to be this agenda and we're given this usually by the summertime we end up getting into all of the workings and a lot of other things take the time but every since early spring to early summer we do some so that's my things so Michael you had a question first oh just two B comments um you know thank you very much to Neil for what's been doing the presentation uh meeting you know obviously it was really well done it was very accessible easy PE the education Finance system and the results were the votes which were strong strong um both confidence in our school
038system and to um you since the there were very few questions at the meeting at Tracy Hall um we only very quickly said the other component of the budget which is us being able to bring a reasonable budget that only has modest increases in a year where we had two separate labor agreements means that we've found common ground with our staff and with our teachers so a big thank you once again them being good partners most importantly being you know the key motor to adding achiev when you talk about topics Garrett I would just say I want some way this is just my opinion for us to help keep the public informed on what's going on with uh education reform and my pear but I want to do that in like a to time bound
039and specific way you could spend two hours with a lot of anxiety and speculation about what's going on a lot faer in my brain I'm trying to figure out what's going on right now uh what are you think is going to happen in the very near future and what's going to happen like further future okay what are we thinking for the summer and next year so I just think maybe um the next couple meetings a 10 or 15 minutes on here's the state of play and here's what we're doing about it it's an educational function without somehow getting sucked into an hour or two hours of anxiety and swirl about what could happen up what I can do too maybe is before the next two meetings um again I know heils all it is active
040as well and also probably reach out to our state reps just for any updates we are we we are having they've canceled the P they didn't have one we haven't had one recently just because things have constantly changed myself every so I'm assuming you might have that would be also a good time to just the okay uh J you had a question a build on Michael when I was getting my petition signed to run multiple parents asked me how is what's happening in mure going to affect us being the dress school district and just that I can 10 people ask me that question and I didn't know how to answer it um just want to flag that as that's hot on people's mind I'm sure you all know that yeah so toward that end U
041at the last Dres meeting Neil I believe it was an ex motion task the administration with retaining legal counsel sort of preemptively um monitor what's happening in monar and really from the perspective how does it impact resen and our participating in the um in the interstate School District so I had had that initial conversation with deaner two days ago and then we had a follow up this morning and so hey is going to be putting together um essentially an analysis of the proposals that are out there right now and then balance that against the provisions within the interstate agreement that may either conflict with plans that are being developed at this at the at the Vermont level and also what he's calling opportunities he thought there might actually be some opportunities in it depending on
042what they decide to do with the interstate operate um so I can make that a regular report out as Dean gathers that information bring it back to you yeah um just on the topic of topics um I think having something that is a an educational session or a forum about what's happening in Mt Filer and also what's happening in New Hampshire that affects our kids who are at the middle school and the high school makes sense um but in addition at least the emails that I receive as SAU chair are concerned about sort of what's swirling in the air nationally and it occurs to me that one way to talk about that without raising people's anxiety would be to have an educational session like we did about the budget about how curriculum decisions get made
043um and sort of what the board's role is in terms of overarching policy and then how the principles interpret that and then how the teachers interpret that and then how it gets trickled down to the parents and it just it feels as if that just might be a good way to to um help people understand how this works and who has the power over what happens in a classroom and um and who does not and so um just I would suggest that as an educational opportunity okay anything else thank you for those comments that is why you are the vice chair cover I missed very important okay on to the principal report Sean so I have provided a report that talks about four positions that were either different or new this past year just giv
044you some information about where they're at take questions about that two things that didn't make this report one this evening the first grade posted their singing dangerous dinosaurs floating about about I should say was a great event and second the PTO and school are partnering with Rebecca P for our next copy chat which is April 8th Rebecca has agreed to come and talk about some of the changes in education and her perspective and answer any questions that should be one way that we can give population wise we gained one student we have 324 3.3 last month and anyone have questions about it's an excellent update it's really useful to see that just regards to budgeting and what we very helpful um does anybody have any questions or comments for Sean right thank you okay um
045on to First J superintendent defer to my col okay I submitted my report and I am happy that answer any questions but I did note the federal funds that we currently receive for Mar so idea anything happens with those and we have been keeping an eye on that and then we had our meeting today which is great through teaching reading and writing and so we finished that up today and we're looking at Ela blocks coming up and we'll be starting to look the resources and hopefully develop a plan for budgeting for next school year fora resources so that work has been progressing since last spring and for me it's just really valuable to meet with a group and so they're just enthusiastic and excited about learning and so every time IET with them such pleasure
046so I just kudos to them they volunteering all of this time after school and it's been really valuable for me and that's it the questions for Sor yes do we um two questions do we anticipate Title One um will we meet the threshold in the future yes we will meet it for next year that we we've gotten the information back and we will be over 2% Lun so yeah and is it too soon to know about these other federal funds well there's good and bad without us receiving title one because we did not receive title one this year we will not receive title four next year and that's $10,000 that every year we really do put to good use um but we have been receiving some additional funds you know halfway through the year they
047end up having roll over funds so I'm hoping that that happens next year I did receive information actually today about yesterday about our srsa fund um that looks like we will be receiving about the same amount for next year and that fun so we'll see it's in the year and it changes for us every year and it seems like we lose funds every year right so and we going into the next round of budgeting should I mean we can have this discussion again right August July but if we should be assuming that Revenue will be down yeah and I'll have a better idea once we get to June July I'll start working on right around July but for us too because title 2 is mostly professional development funds we have some of those funds within
048the school's budget already so it just allows us to other things we might not be able to do um and for title one again it's we we have such a small population of tile one students but we really have to Target that and so you know it's nice to have but if we didn't have it would it be critical for us to run the school I would say no but it does provide us with some really nice additional materials and training and all those things what is title four funding I think ium one and two are what was for title four is four different things like technology well-rounded education for example this year we're using some of that funding actually chillian and Kaitlyn run an after school program and so that funds that program for
049students after school we have funded some technology through our title for funding like um we've funded some of our I ready program in the past we've funded things like some our science online programs so we can use it for different things like that after school program in other schools I've used it upon musical instruments when we had higher numbers and classes um so really it's that one is we can use it for so many different things yeah it's nice to have thanks and Jay keep me but just so for a little bit running commentary like you say so Title One and title two are mostly based on income levels in need of your student B that so when we were doing the budgeting a couple years ago deal with all of the the new student
050account it's one of the things that Jay pointed out correctly so he ran a whole spreadsheet because it's all public as far as what all basically all the title two title Title One title two and title four funding amounts were for every District in the state of Vermont and there are some districts that are I mean there's a million dollars going to some of these districts and to our point that was not part of the uh education funding formula they're getting that money plus they're getting the adjusted is of the student accounts right so it's was kind of like hey this is something you might want to think about of course now it might be a bit of a m point especially most of it goes away at the federal level and even tit for
051we' receiv received the minimal amount or funding that a school receive which is $10,000 and that's for school soing other schools is the block grant for special edit all at risk or is that that's okay that that should be fine but the federal IA funding who knows I know that quite as Vol fing all right Michael um so listen to you talk about your skill in getting grant funding over the years I do understand that we don't call for L Federal funding my understanding is that there are other school districts in Vermont that qualify for substantial Federal funding yes is one of your concerns that in the reshuffle of R head Finance system the feds retract their support more State support will flow out of norch to back of those fed dollars or has that
052not been part of good conversation so that has not been part of the conversation as far as I know th far but who knows a lot I think it's I think it's very well founded in speculation worri and I asked only because I you know I me Healthcare is also under stre right now and so they're very quiet discussions about hey what happens if $250 million in Medicaid money disappears how does that get reallocated within the hospital Healthcare Sy and you know it' be very you have to make some very tough decisions not always sympathetic part of State funding right and you know I've applied for some things that we haven't gotten this because feel like we have adequate funding so thank you questions okay to the business administrator report um Teresa are you yes
053yes I want to mention that sorry something first Oh I thought that I thought that you were just no mine will be very very fast just I I already um had shared a copy of testimony I gave on Valentine's Day Before the house uh education committee uh as as was alluded to earlier we have been talking with our legislature or leg our local legislators about proposed changes and consolidations and I shared a story about um my experience with consolidation in Pennsylvania and uh was asked to go speak to the house education committee and we had a over an hour long conversation about the absolute lack of data that appears to have been used in deciding the five districts um and how simple it would be to actually use data to figure out what makes the
054most sense in terms of consolidation and how readily available that dat is so I've included that it's available publicly as well thank you okay now again ter thanks for coming I think again writing commentary being a little bit um we uh Jamie is also online so she's also the vs administrator Jamie is going to I think be stepping um aside this year and Teresa is going to become our main contact for this so we're going to be relying on Teresa's expertise now for this next fiscal year anyways over to you Teresa okay thank you um so I did bring the Manifest um it was a little more than what seems like normal because I think last month's meeting I was six so I didn't they didn't make it over here um so the only thing
055the thing I want to mention is that we also uploaded a document that Jamie and I put together um just kind of highlighting the different departments um just custodial maintenance department the Food Service happenings what's happening with the business and the finance office um I do want to mention that the audit is in basically in its final graft but um at this time there's still a couple legal documentations that before they release it to us um you know those those letters in their before so we're just W on that um I do want to mention that last week the town of norch um paid the second half of the final so we just received $7.1 million um which equals us all even for the the rest of the school year here they receiv all the
056funds um I know that Robin worked on a beehive grant that um here at the school staff room had some Renovations everything else so be high $15,000 and everything else so it's kind of nice that they were to from renov paint furniture and everything the stff room here Transportation the only other things so it won't read all through the could I provide just a little bit of followup on food service this is Jamie I'm sorry I'm not with you there tonight you're incable hands with Teresa and uh welcome to Gina um the actual state of Vermont sent out an email this afternoon encouraging all business administrators in the state to file Their Food Service claims by this afternoon because there is some concern Le that if you did not get your claims in by today
057through February that there may be um uh a holdup on getting reimbursements out from the feds to the states with what's going on in uh Washington so it it is starting to become real some of the changes that they're uh making and uh some of the orders that they're passing so we filed our February claim today so ours should be fine um depending on what happens on March 14th we'll see what happens with the March and April claims but we'll keep you posted uh other than that Teresa I think touched on everything and we'll bring the governance letter to the next meeting thank you um and so it sounds like bring this the septic is good now so I know we had a few issues with some of some smells and whatnot but it seems
058like all of that Tony and his team has yes figured out the cause and fixed it and that part seems to be there are some going back and forth a little door with the boiler there's some things that they're still working on there's a little description that but that septic thing was kind of an ongoing my knowled okay um sorry reports reportes address Middle School sports ask question teres we've got there three here four okay Neil can you pass this down he has to leave in about a minute um so he can sign him first if that's okay thank you so there are no committee reports um at this point we can sign these and uh we'll be moving into executive session and the purpose of our executive session tonight is to Personnel so we
059have a motion to enter into executive session so just exact detail go I would like to make a motion to enter into executive session in accordance of title one section 313 for the purpose of discussing complement of employees perfect a second Lisa all in favor right unanimous so we'll be moving into executive session for the public we'll be coming back out we will be approving our nomination list so I don't think there's really anything the stick out e e e the public session a will before um we are not going to need to nomination we're doing that in April so we do not need to approve that tonight right um at this point we will who's get agenda topics for the next meeting I think we actually number topic F folks but things to on
060that do I have a motion to actually sorry for the record Michael than you that's what I was gonna say um previous to our nonpublic session so Michael Costa is not here okay so do have a motion to adjourn believe G I move to adourn I'll second speak consistent all those in favor 77 wow J good luck all right thank you all we'll see you next any