001like are you are you ready? Are you good? We're good. Okay. So, I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Brookline School Board for April 23rd. Um before we get started with any agenda adjustments though, I would like um let's just take a moment and welcome Heather Ren. She wasn't here with us last time, our new board member. If you don't mind, can we start at this end of the table and just do introductions so that um we're all acquainted with each other? That would be great. Sure. I'm Donna Smith. I work at the SAU and I'm the assistant business administrator. Trisha, principal at CSDA. Hi, welcome Dunai, principal at RMS. Hi, Heather Lauren Diro, director of student services. Hello, Gina Bergock, superintendent elect, chair. Tracy Perry, vice chair, P member. So, thank
002you. And so, thank you for uh running and and serving and joining us. We're excited to have you this year. Welcome aboard. Um, all right. With that, uh, we do have an an agenda adjustment for this evening. Um, policy BDE does state that standing and special committees and delegates shall be appointed by the chairperson of the board. Committees will meet as needed on problems pertaining to set committees and will make recommendations for action by the full board. This policy does not require formal action by the board on committee appointments. Therefore, a request was made to amend the agenda this evening by removing the first deliberative item which is related to committee appointments. Um, that's just how the agenda was originally laid out. Um, so I'll go ahead and just make the motion to adjust the
003agenda as requested. May I get a second? I second. Thank you. So, that being said, Oh, yeah. Thanks. Um, all in favor of adjusting. All right. Thanks. Yeah. I'm I'm off running and you know, hey, keep me honest. All right. So, the first thing I'd like to do is speaking of um appointments, I would like to make those. And I I had sent an email to the our fellow board members here about um can you take one of these pass down about these? I don't think I have enough for everybody, but you can do that. I tried my best to describe there were a lot of questions surrounding like what the committees are. Um, and I want to thank Jennifer and put two on these descriptions. There's a there's a list of committees. There's five
004of us. There's there's a lot going on here. So, the first thing I did is I worked to consolidate some of these committees um and group them in the ways that made the most sense. So, if I look at our list of committees, typically from what I've learned also in speaking to other board chairs is that the Brooklyn policy committee chair is also usually the SAU41 policy chair. So, I group those together. Um, the finance committee and the budget committees kind of all go together. So the so I grouped the SAU41 and the Brookline school board budget committee together and I also rolled into that finance and I'll talk about that in a second. The cooperative study I left by itself. I coupled the teacher lunchon and the wellness together as one committee. Facilities and
005construction kind of go hand in hand. So, because I think that really is the same thing from what we had talked about. And so, I paired those with the planning board and the town capital improvement. And on this little handout that I passed around, I kind of talked about how I did that. Um, and then the superintendent, the spec committee is a standalone. The exit interview committee, which isn't on here, is a standalone. And then we have the two negotiating teams. So in an effort to streamline our work and to not have um huge loads across the board, I did my best to condense. So if you look at what I handed here and you can pass this I think to Dawn so she can have this for um minutes. The we decided last meeting
006that the signer of the manifest would be Lyn and Heather and then um Johanna's the alternate. So that comes through email. You guys will see that Johanna did ask to be on the policy committee. She also agreed to do the governing board, the SAU41 governing board policy committee. So that'll be Johanna's bucket. Um for the uh Brookline and the SAU budget committee, that's going to be Lynn and I coupled that with the finance. Now that's kind of that is a extension. If you can act as a liaison to the Brookline Finance Committee, that would be great based on your time and your availability, how much you want to grow that role, that is totally up to you. Um, so if you're able to work with the finance committee, see what they've got going on, share
007with them what we're doing, and kind of be that voice outside of just when they meet with us during budget season, that would be great. the cooperative study um Tracy offered to do which I appreciate but I actually made it as a co-chair with you Lynn because I thought it was important that somebody from the board who helped write the warrant article was on that but then also because terms are going to be up next year it would be great to have somebody on the committee that if in the event somebody doesn't rerun um that we have that knowledge and experience should the results of that study propel us forward in a direction based on those findings. I also thought that coupled where with coupled well with budget which is why I did that. Um
008the wellness committee uh is Heather I see if you could do that that you meet with people across the SU once once a quarter on Zoom. Um it's also helping with the Brookline teacher lunchon which Johanna really really loved doing last year and was like please to let me do it. So, I made her alternate sash co. So, just she's got a spreadsheet and everything. It'll be it'll she's excited about that one. Um, last year Tracy did a really great job with our um strategic plans. You're really involved with the town. Um, so if you can I appreciate you volunteering for your continued involvement with that. Um, and then on this one actually there's kind of two extensions. um the planning board which is also like a lot of capital improvements in town if I'm
009remembering that correctly. Um I think they're the same. Are they the same committee? The same are they two different committees in town? Yeah, there's the CIP and then the planning board is is every month. Okay. So as possible I'm not see these extensions are not requirements. You don't have to, but however you want to grow your role that you feel it would benefit our board um with our work. Um that would be that would be great. Uh for the spec committee, uh based on the language of the description of that, it's me. Um however, I'm making Johanna the alternate because that is going to come during a time of year when I know my family is incredibly busy and I want I am preemptively assuming that I might have some issues fulfilling that portion of
010my role. So, I'm going to make Johanna my alternate there. Um, I'm serving on the superintendent exit interview. And then we get down to the two negotiation two negotiating teams. For the BESA NEG negotiating team, it'll be Johanna and Tracy. And then for the Brooklyn Teachers Association negotiating team, it's myself. I do need a second. Um, I didn't want to assign the negotiation teams out because they are a significant amount of time. Um, and so I didn't feel it was fair for me to just assign those. But Lynn or Heather, are either of you interested in in the teacher contract negotiations? Yeah. I don't mind maybe helping out. Can you when you say significant though? I don't know. Can you define that as best you can? Is that like once a month? I'm sorry. Is
011that once a week? Is that every day? It is. No, couple times a month probably. I think it was every other week, right? So it it really depends um on how quickly we can move through. We're going to have some communication that gets us going on that. Um we depend so the committee meets and really plans out everyone's availability. We try to frontload them because it must end um with deal or no deal if you will by January um 10thish. So we like to say by by December for Brooklyn just because of SB2. So that becomes like once every like a meeting every 2 to 3 weeks and then as we get closer to that date if we're if if we're not um at an agreement we need to potentially meet weekly for a little
012bit to get that moving and that's an hour couple hours at a time like we'll build on that too. We sometimes also have um we also have so we'll meet as the negotiating team with the union for some meetings every other week but then we'll also have shorter meetings in between with strategy a strategy for the board and the administration to talk in between those meetings. So it winds up being approximately once a week to once every two weeks for maybe two to three months. Okay. I mean I don't mind stepping up. Um be awesome. And it sounds like there is like obviously some flexibility. Um, oh yes, we we all work together with our schedules and we'll do in person, we'll do Zoom. There's a lot of options. Yeah, I'm a I'm a Zoomer
013just given my crazy work schedule, but whatnot. So, that's how I broke these down. Um, now there was on the list was the committee, which I want to talk about. It's not here yet, but um, Tracy had raised that at the last meeting. So last year there was talk about us having anal committee. Never I don't believe it ever really got off the ground. At one point there was work being done in the schools where there was anal committee and I believe a board member was invited to some of those. Are we still doing that? Like how how is functioning in those schools? I just want to figure out where we can support because there's an interest in supporting um without creating whole separate buckets of work. Um so I mean we typically circle around
014through like staff meetings discuss it there. Um it's being taught just like throughout the school day classes or specials morning meetings. Um the committee hasn't met like we did two summers ago to develop all the posters that you see around the building, right? Um I think that's where we were involved, right? We had some that was that was the just to get it started and then but a lot of great work came out of it where we developed anss committee. We developed some new like I said expectations across throughout the district. Um at CSDA we have the Brown Center that comes to the school in the fall. It's followed up in June with the sixth graders going up there capstone and we have in budget for next year that is not going away obviously. Right.
015Okay. For the Browns. For the Browns. Yes. And then we have assemblies you know we have our awards system. Okay. Last year we did a presentation year it looked like. Right. Right. and you guys are always really good about sharing with us what you are doing from anal view standpoint within within the schools. So I guess then I I kind of want to I'm going to put this back to you Tracy because I I understand you want there's an interest in supporting the work is going on in the schools though so I just want to make sure we're not as a board overstepping. So I don't know if you have any other thoughts or you want to elaborate a little bit more on Yeah. the interest. Yeah. Um, maybe I had heard wrong in in
016the news, but I thought I'd heard that choose love was going away um based on some state mandates or state. So, if that does happen, I'd just be interested to see kind of what takes its place or how how that gets um how that gets a new program. I can show you that at our school um we haven't used shoes for probably over a year. Okay. a year and a half and um in place of it our staff got training with responsive classroom and that's been really good and I think a lot of schools have actually moved away from choose love there was a lot of great components but yeah oh good okay a lot of our staff wanted responsive classroom and that that brings in the whole meeting closing circles um I think it's
017been about a year good so then we don't have to worry about that and you know I also just have to say I loved the report outs that you um and and Trish had done um kind of around behaviors and things like that. Um you know, if those could be incorporated more into our into our meetings. Um I think it would just help us get more of like a snapshot of you know, kind of how students are feeling or behaving or you know that that sort of thing. If there's anything that we can do to to support that, um I'd love to see that too. Yeah, I think I think it worked I was going to speak for a second. I thought it worked out really well last year where we um it was asked
018for us to collect the data and we did the end of the year report. I thought that worked out really well because then we able to share how we plan to go into the summer with budgeting and then there was some discussion about here's our data where should we go? We gave some options and that's where um this the psychologist came out of it. We had the teacher in there at the time the school counselor. I mean, I'd be happy to share the results from this year at the end of the year. Yeah. And it also helped um you know, we have the school counselor going in at each grade level monthly. Um and we kind of turned around as far as we set up what our themes would be each month. Um and for
019her to we talk about it at the assemblies and then she'd go into the classes and if I was available, I'd also go in. Um but looking at the data from last year, we were able to kind of turn around where, you know, preemptively, you know, maybe this particular topic would be better served earlier in the year or later in the year. Okay. Um does that knowing that that's still going on in the schools, knowing we're not going to let that go away, are you I just want to make sure you're comfortable with that. Yeah. Um and not having that called out as a separate line item. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think just hearing some of those numbers would more than, you know, once a year would be great. All right. Maybe we can because
020at one point it was almost every I think every month we were talking about kind of some data based on behavior or the climates of the schools and maybe we can figure out a way to work that in a little bit. We were collecting every month. Um I still have just in case it was asked but um happy to produce it. It's definitely timeconuming. Can we resume? Can we start really rolling it into the principal report maybe just as a even a snapshot maybe or no? I so I will just say like yes they were planning on reporting out at the end of the year presentation for the status. Um I don't know that looking at data monthly makes a whole lot of sense. You want to collect it over time and and do comparisons
021but maybe you know we always do our um opening year goal setting presentation. We close it at the end. Maybe we do a a midyear like mid year appropriate and then that way we have a check, right? It's a good temperature. Yes, I think especially with some changes the changes that are going to be happening at CSA. I think it I think that would be good just to make sure that we're able to help provide the support especially with the transition if there's anything that we can do from our chairs here to be supportive. Right. Um okay. And then the there was another proposed committee um surrounding legislation and a like a legislative committee and I'm kind of talking this way to see if anybody here is interested in adding another committee. Um so it
022was it was raised that with there's a lot of changes going on obviously at the state federal level and that if somebody was interested in really keeping a very close eye or pulse on that I know that we are from the SAU level. I know that we have a we have lawyers that are watching all of that for us as well. I didn't know if there was anybody though who wanted to just kind of was interested in tracking. Was that kind of the intent I think of just you know there's a there's a lot going on now. Obviously not all that's going to pass but it would be good if we had a heads up. I know we're watching it on one end. But I didn't know if there was somebody else over here that
023was interested in, you know, kind of keeping a pulse on and raising things that maybe we might want to start thinking about should they move forward. I mean, I don't mind keeping track. I don't know what that entails exactly. So that's where whereas you know maybe I'm just in touch with the attorney you know on so the schoolboard association sends out regular updates and it's um it really just kind of pulls out the bills that are related to education potentially um potential policy updates that we might need and and they send out regular reports that are it's a lot of information um so I think you could really just um review the the email that comes out every once in a while. That's fine. And maybe just if there's something pertinent to like flag if
024we are already not talking about it. Um start there. Um okay. And then the other thing that was suggested that I want to I I think is actually a really good idea is um we have our principal report in the reporting section of our agenda. I would like to add a standing line item for committees. We don't always call out I don't think we call every committee every month but instead of having to do agenda adjustments if a committee has something to share out or report on if it's are we able to just do a standard line item and we can say kind of like principal report is here it's included if there's committee work that you guys are ready to share information on or share out um that we would then just have that
025bucket so we wouldn't necessarily it would be nice if you if there's some blurb or something to prepare in advance. I would assume that you'll be ready and prepared. So you might have something that you can send myself or Gina so we can get it into the packet. But if not, that way we have that line item there that if there's something Oh, yeah. I probably should have submitted this. I forgot. Life got away from me. We have that bucket there under reporting in our agendas. So we can just say, "Hey, any committee?" Yeah. So Hollis has the enrollment committee and co-op has the facilities committee and they throw those as the last item um under discussion and it's just uh there's usually no backup as part of the packet. It's really just a discussion
026what happened. And sometimes it's the committee didn't meet or the committee's waiting for the budget committee's input or you know something to that effect, but it's um we've never really like called out our committees here. We haven't to say hey are are you know what's the work that's going on? Is there anything and and there are going to be some months or some meetings where there isn't something from every committee but I think having it in our agenda as a regular line item. This was a really great suggestion. Um, so thank you Tracy on that one. Um, to have it there is a good reminder to everybody. So that is what I would like to do. All right. Sorry. I know that was really longwinded for committee appointments. So thank you. I like the chart
027being patients. All right. Um, the next thing is um, member rearen here at our last uh, meeting and uh, a policy was brought before the board. Um it is policy BCA which is the board member code of conduct ethics and I we just need you to state that you are in agreement with policy BCA board member ethic or code of ethics. I am in agreement. Awesome. Is that sufficient? Yep. All right. Perfect. All right. Um Gina, do you have any nominations or correspondence? Oh, I do. And just so you know, um I'm going to report them out and then I'm going to need your signature on all of them. So I'd like to start off with a nomination for Nicole Leighton for the position of grade one at RMS. She's a bachelor's in elementary ed
028from Plymouth State University almost I think next week. So she's bachelor step one with a salary 45,680. All right. So, you ready for a motion? Yeah. Um, I will make a motion to accept the superintendent's nomination of Nicole Latin for the position of grade 1 at RMS step one and a salary of 46,680. May I get a second? Second. Thank you. All in favor? Okay, I would like to bring forward a nomination of Brianna Demurs for the position of grade four teacher at CSDA. Brianna has a bachelor's in elementary ed and math from Plymouth State University. We would like to place her with a bachelor's step five for a salary of 51,413. All right. So I will make a motion to accept the superintendent's nomination of Brianna Demurs for the position of grade four at
029CSDA step five and a salary of 51,413. Second thank you all in favor. Thank you. Excellent. Okay. Next we have nomination for Kyle Chamberlain for the position of grade 2 teacher at RMS. He has a bachelor's in molecular biology from UMass Amherst and a master's in education from TUS. Um we'd like to place him on M's step three for a salary of 56,417. I'd like to make a motion to accept the superintendent's nomination of Kyle Chamberlain for the position of grade two at RMS at a master's step three three and a salary of 56,417. Thank you. All in favor? Are you voting? Oh, I thought after I second I didn't Oh, no. You always vote. You always get to vote. All good. Perfect. Thank you. Okay, next we have Danielle Troy for a position uh
030sorry for a grade two position at RMS. She's a bachelor in history and elementary ed from Assumption and a masters in special education from Assumption. We'd like to hire her at master step 10 for a salary of 69,386. So, I will make a motion to accept the superintendent's nomination of Danielle Troy for the position of grade two at a master's step 10 and a salary of 69,386. Second. All in favor? Thank you. There more. Oh, we do. You all have been busy. Yes. All right. I'd like to nominate Jessica Carrier for a position of kindergarten teacher at RMS. She's almost a bachelor's in elementary ed from Riv. We'd like to place her at bachelor's step one for a salary of 45,680. I did these in the wrong sheets. All right. Um I would like to
031make a motion to accept the superintendent's nomination of Jessica Carter. Corner carrier. Carrier. See, I can't read my own writing. carrier for the position of kindergarten at RMS for a bachelor's step one and a salary of 45,680. Second. All in favor? Thank you. And I'd like to nominate Kina Culage for position of case manager at RMMS. She's a bachelor's in criminal justice from Franklin Pierce and a masters in elementary ed from Franklin Pierce. would like to place their um mast's step seven for a salary of 63,499. What was your first name? Kina. Kina. I will make a motion to accept the superintendent's nomination of Kolina Kidge for the position of case manager at RMS at a master's step 7 and a salary of 63,499. Thank you. All in favor? She also has special education. Yeah,
032that's but not her degree. We're good. Is that it? So, those are my nominations. Okay. I need you to sign them. Oh, nice. Um, and then I have I don't have resignations. Was there wasn't one? Oh, I don't have that one. That'll be next month. We got to keep things exciting. Excellent. Um then, uh for correspondence, did you want to read this correspondence that came to you? Oh, yeah. I guess I should. I'll sign these in a minute. Y. All right. So, do I have to read it? I don't have to make Okay. Yeah. So, we got this correspondence. It is, "Dear Miss Manion, this letter is to inform you that the Brooklyn Teachers Association desires to bargain a master's contract for the year beginning 2026 to 2027. This notification is in accordance with the
033require requirements of RSA273- 3. Please contact Karen Pillian to set a date for the first negotiation session. Sincerely, Karen Pillian, president of the Brooklyn Teachers Association, NEA New Hampshire. So that kicks off our teacher bargaining negotiations. Yeah. Excellent. And then a final piece of correspondence. I just wanted to update you with all of our hires. We have many positions that were posted and interviewing folks across the entire SAU. um including across the entire SAU, we have four school psych positions that are posted and um um we would love more applicants to come our way, but we are a little bit concerned about um about the applicant pool overall for all three of our districts. Um and so we are looking to try to figure out ways that we can um alternate ways to meet our
034need. If you recall, we added a school site in Brookline. So, we had one split between two buildings and we were hoping to have one per building just based on the needs of the student. So, some of those um pieces can be managed with alternative um methods, if you will. Um and we've been engaging in interviews for our co-op position of social worker. And um we're just wondering thinking and I'm just putting it on your radar thinking that that might be um a direction we go in to meet the needs of the services on a service grid for a student um if we cannot fill with a school psych. Okay. So just putting that out there that that might be a way to meet our needs. There any questions? Is there anything we can do
035to help support you guys? You can go to school to become a school psych. I have my social degree, but I don't know. Yeah. No, it's just it's challenging. Everyone, well, I would say across the state, but probably nationwide. Yeah. Are just really struggling to find school psychologists. And so, you know, we're not alone in that, but we still want to make sure we're meeting the needs of all of our students and doing so in a way that is best for everyone. And so, as we know, contracted services are incredibly expensive. So, trying to potentially like rearrange what it is that we're looking for and how um those needs are allocated. So, that would be like an LICSSW or a CSW or something like that. Yeah. And we would focus on ensuring that it had
036a New Hampshire Department of Education certification. Oh, okay. Yeah. Or social worker. But I it's just something that sort of came to us as we're trying to brainstorm how do we move forward. Yeah. Okay. Do you need anything from us? Not at this time, but thank you. No problem. All right. Um I believe that's everything for adjustments, nominations, resignations, and correspondence. So moving on to the approval of minutes. Um she included this part. Do I need to go over this? No. Okay. It's just about right. Just gives information. Yeah. Okay. Um there is there are we need to approve the minutes. Um there were some for the Brookline school board meeting for our organizational meeting that was held on March 26, 2025. Uh there was a following amendment offered. It was on page six, line
03723 to replace school with academy. Does anybody want to make a motion to amend? Otherwise, I can do it. Can you just ask a question about it? Yeah. Why are we doing that? What's the intent? Oh, of correcting? It's correcting the transcript. Um, was it just wrong? Yeah, it was just it was just Okay. It should have said academy the whole time. Yep. That's exactly right. So, that's all. Um, so some meetings will have a lot of them and we'll read a paragraph full. This one happens to be one, which is not so bad. Um, all right. All right. So, I'll make a motion to accept this as amended. Second. All in favor? Yep. You can. So, I was going to say I wasn't here last month, so I know I can't I'm not usually
038allowed to approve minutes or anything like that. So, I just was wondering it's a good time. I'm going to go over this. Okay. So, actually have a little note here and I think it's because we're still a little bit new and that's okay. Um, so an absention is not voting even though you're sitting at the table. Um, according to governing board, according to our governing board meeting on October 10th when our when um our attorney Christina was there, um, it it was stated that an in an abstension is not voting. So, you're sitting at the table, you may may or may not be part of the discussion. You're not participating in the vote. A recusal is where you get up and you leave the table. You may stand in the audience. You may go out
039into the hallway. So, those are just we defined what an abstension and recusal are. Um, it is recommended that exemptions occur in very limited circumstances. For example, if you missed the last meeting, you might abstain from the vote on whether to approve meeting minutes, right? Um, it's we had asked at that meeting if it was optional and they were stated that it was. So, just a little bit of housekeeping. Typically, you use your best judgment whether or not you should abstain from voting, whether or not you should get up and recuse yourself um from the conversation or vote alto together. Historically, if you weren't at the last meeting, historically you abstained from voting on the meeting minutes, but it is perfectly within your prerogative if you want to agree that hey, yes, let's make this
040correction. So, uh just a little clarification for everybody on that on that front. All right. Um in that case, then I think we are on to non-public uh our non-public uh minutes. Non-public minutes. That's right. So, our non-public minutes, um, I we just need a vote to accept the non-public, uh, minutes as they were presented. So, I'll just go ahead and make that motion to accept those non-public minutes from the Brookline School Board meeting on March 26th as presented. I'll second. Excellent. All in favor? Perfect. Um, all abstained, I will. Perfect. All right. And on to the principal's report we go. Okay. Good evening. For our principal's report for this month, uh we have our enrollment history from the past many years and then our breakdowns by grade levels. And right now we have 560
041students in the district. And then onto the second page, these are our um upcoming events, some that have already passed. Um some of the highlights were RMS. We have our grade three concert tomorrow. Uh we're excited to have the students perform. They did a great job today in their first um rehearsal and they they'll perform for the school tomorrow morning and then tomorrow evening for families. And then we had our book fair which the PTO did a wonderful job of putting that on during the week of April 3rd. And the one thing that sticks out every year is the PTO does a great job where they make sure every student leaves with something. So I really appreciate that. Um all the students left with a smile on their face, happy with a book in their
042hand. So thank you to the PTO for um funding that portion of it, but also holding the book fair night and having the volunteers be here for every classroom visit. And then we have grade two that just went to Beaverbrook um today and they also went uh last week as well. And all of our classes have started doing their uh walking field trips to the library. So today we had a couple we had a kindergarten class go today and that will continue all the way through the month of May. We usually do in the fall, but we picked the spring this year because there's a new Brookline uh children's library in there and they they weren't there to run it, so we moved it to the spring. And then coming up when we return from
043vacation, we have New Hampshire SAS uh in the Brooklyn schools. That's starting the 6th. So, Tuesday, May 6th for grades three, four, five, and six. And at both schools, we're testing on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Is that accurate for you, too? Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. All right. In my in our building is Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday. And then we have grade one has eyes on owls program coming. That's uh sponsored by the PTO and grade one will be going to the field trip for a field trip to Stone Zoo. And then we just have a couple pictures for RMS. So, thank you. Good evening everyone. And for CSTA, we've had a busy month already. Um grade six completed their AS web testing the first week in April. um they traditionally do those testing, their in-house testing um
044benchmarks so that they'll have the data for transitioning to middle school when they're doing placements. We share that information with the middle school. Um they had a very successful grade six had a very successful um visit to the middle school on April 9th. We bust them over there for a few hours and they got to have lunch over there as well. Um, so they really enjoyed it and they got to um also associate with the kids um from the sixth grade over in Hollis. So, uh, the kids when they returned, I happened to be up there for some meetings. Uh, they were excited to be there and they did say the food was phenomenal. So, they're excited to go to middle school for a new cafeteria. Um, but they had a great time. Uh, we've
045been continuing with the um the puberty videos for grades four, five, and six. Um, we also had on April 11th the author visit. It was actually through Zoom and I was really worried about how was that going to be received by the students and staff. It was phenomenal. Um, if your child hasn't read The Wild Robot, there's a series of them. The kids love this book and I have to be honest with you, I haven't read it. It's on my to-do list u before the end of the year. Um, but the author is Peter Brown. He did a phenomenal job. um he spoke to the students about the process of writing a book. He pulled up um his redlinined um uh receipt, you know, pages back from the uh uh the publishing company and explained
046to the students that even though it's my book and it's my ideas, I don't always get to have the final say. So he said, "It's kind of like I have teachers out there correcting my, you know, some errors or giving me some ideas that I have to think about, you know, who my my audience is going to be." He also showed them, he's quite an artist, so he showed them how he comes up with his designs for all the pictures and then how he uploads them into the computers and how he um kind of makes them more comical there. Um so it was really a great experience. So um it was well worth the money that that was spent. And um Hollis Brookline High School uh students um came down for Red Cross safety for
047grade four. And basically they review um the safety precautions that one should take within their household and to share it with their families as far as what should you do and what what are the proper things to to think about in your house to make sure everybody's safe. Um and last night I have to say we had a wonderful showing at our steam curriculum night. Um the parking lot was packed, the building was packed. Um the students and teachers did a phenomenal job. Um basically every every classroom had something going on. Either fourth grade was showing their colonial villages. They created u every student was involved in creating a part of the village that they put together in each of the classrooms. uh fifth grade they used their uh state projects and actually decided to
048create something three-dimensional and they got to choose what it was. One student did a crocheted animal to represent their state. Um we had somebody else uh create um through decapage and um what was it the White Mountains and you know three-dimensional it was just phenomenal showing and grade six did their uh science projects with their had they had drag racing cars with their connects cars that they created and we also showed in the library uh sixth graders presented some of their research projects as a presentation In the gym, we had three sections. Grades four, five, and six took took turn. Students volunteered to work with uh Mrs. Van Dyke, the the PE teacher, to demonstrate what a typical PE class or a health class may look like. And we even got parents to take part
049in the in the lessons. So, there was a lot going on, and it was it was wellreceived, I think, by the parents and students. So, I thank everybody for for coming out. Um And that's uh like Mr. Molinari said, after vacation, we'll be starting the SAS testing. So, something to look forward to. Thank you both for everything. The um the the steam night last night was great. Um they really I really enjoyed touring and seeing everything across all the grades. I think I saw a lot of my colleagues there as well and it was it was definitely a lot of fun. And thank you again to the PTO for helping support all of our students to make sure everybody goes home with something new to read. Um, deeply appreciated for sure. I just want to
050add, I forgot to say during nominations, but I'll like to add this to Dan's principal report. I apologize, Dan, that we did do some other hiring from within. So, Kimberly Bodat, what's that? Hence, all the moves, too. Yeah. So, Kimberly Boddat is going into back into her role of reading specialist at RMS. Um, Caitlyn Carmealini is going to be the MTSS interventionist that we added um that position. And then Jessica Leaf will be the environmental science teacher. So, lots of great moves from within. Excited about that and I apologize for forgetting. Congratulations to our staff members. That's amazing. That's great. Good. So, when you look at all the move, there were a whole bunch of moves. One thing other thing we want to mention too is uh teacher and staff appreciation week is usually the
051week we return from it's recognized nationally May 5th week. Um we're going to be recognizing our staff the week after that. Okay. And that's when the PTO would like to do it as well. So just so everybody's aware in case you don't see us recognizing the teachers that week. We're doing the Let your teachers know that. We did. Okay. Oh, they do. They always do the week after. Yeah. We've been doing that for a while for a couple of years. It's like a bad surprise. It's like, ah, just kidding. I didn't think it would. Good point. Awesome. All right. Is there anything else from that end? No. Okay. Um, at this time, I'm going to open up public input here at 6:43. Uh, we don't have anybody here, but if anybody joins us, um, we
052will certainly invite them to provide input. And in that case then we can move on with our discussion while we wait. Um and we'll start with the revenue and expense update. Okay. So in your packet you have our revenue expense report from April 14th. Um you'll see that we were able to release some encumbered funds from last month. So we are in a little bit better um state than we were last month. um we were able to release some special education lines because as we end the as we near the end of the school year we're able to get a better sense of um what what we feel we'll be spending. Um so at this point in time April 14th um we have a unreserved fund balance of a negative $81,570. Um when you when
053we talk about the retained fund balance of $140,000, it puts us with a um deficit of 221 $221,570,000. Um primarily the $81,570 would come from the special ed trust fund. Um we did find this morning um another purchase order we're able to revise which is helping us out against that 81,570. So, um I think we're going to be in a pretty decent spot come the end of the year. Um but stay tuned cuz we'll keep we'll keep on it and we'll keep tracking where we're at. All right. Uh any questions? I'm just trying to find I don't know where to find this document. So, I'm um if you are able to get into the diligent um Sorry, I'm I'm new. No, no. I was having trouble cuz it's it was So, wait. Okay. It's in
054the drive. Okay. Uh, no. If you go to SAU41, just just SA and then go to um school boards Brooklyn school board or you can just there's diligent community right there under school boards. Go directly there. Show me what I'm missing. hover over school board and there should be dilig school board. Okay. Y to the on the bottom on the bottom right. I'm not sure agenda. Oh, it say does it say boardend that too. Okay. Which takes you to diligent. Yeah. Well, I had you. We changed it because I don't think people knew what diligent was. Recent meetings. Upcoming meetings. Today's meetings. Today's meetingings. I mean, it makes sense, but yeah, it says it says agenda and agenda packet packet. Okay. Yeah, that was taking me a little bit. Sorry. No, you're fine. While we
055pause for a minute, do you need help down there? Put that in. It's just it I keep getting dropped off the Wi-Fi. Oh, you're not just Okay. Yeah, cuz I don't have So, yeah. No. So, it just keeps bumping me. Okay. But you were with us otherwise. Yeah. Cool. I just want to make sure we're all we all have the information that we so we're here. Okay. Um All right. And then general asurances. Does that work? Yep. So you can see the general assurances are there um for you to review. Essentially these are the requirements that we have to agree to compliance documents um if we are in receipt of federal funds. Um, so this would be specific to our idea funds and title two um because we don't take title one and so we're
056not eligible for title four. So basically this is saying that um that I will follow all these rules and the board chair has to initial every single page and sign the end. And so we put that out there so that everyone you can do that at the end of the meeting. We put that out there so that everyone understands what it is that the board is um signing off on and that what I am held to, but it's really just saying that we're going to follow the law with regard to federal funding. And so um later on in deliberations, actually it's the next item. Um we we just make a motion so that the board is um directing Allison to sign off as board chair. Great. So to that end, we're going to need a
057motion. Okay. Yeah. Or what? I just have a question. I don't know if you can Sure. Um, so we know that Title Six has changed on based on executive order 14151. Um, how is that impacting does that is that something we can talk about within this document or is it a different conversation? So um, title six there that's an interesting piece that was sort of snuck into the general asurances that was an amendment here. Um but it's it was also sent out to all superintendent. Um if you go to the Department of Ed webs page, you can see which um school districts have complied and which school districts are not in compliance. Um so so the um the administration has pushed down to the states to require all superintendents to agree that um that we
058will not discriminate. Uh and so every superintendent had to sign off on that. Andy Corey signed off for the Brookline School District. Sent that in. Um and we're we're reporting out that we are not discriminating and we are also agreeing within these general asurances that we are not discriminating. Um I think some of the concern if I will just speak about my um colleagues the superintendents across the state there are some concerns because it's title six and then we throw in some language that some might feel is inflammatory in nature. Um but it becomes undefined. Um at the end of the day, the signature is complying with title six and that we won't be discriminating. Um who are we not discriminating against? Were we discriminating before? Um I'm just saying sorry. Who who are they
059but what policy is this over writing? I guess it's not overwriting anything. We're just now all affirming that we are in compliance with title six and then all the districts have to had to submit that to the state department of education and then um the commissioner is then reporting out to the federal government which communities are in compliance and which ones are not. And you know, this is the first time we've done this and it was originally sent out early April with a due date of April 10th. Um, and then the deadline was extended to the 17th. So, um, they then have to by the 25th report out to the federal government. The thought is that potentially federal funds would be in jeopardy, but we're not sure yet, um, what's going to come of that,
060but but um, Andy did sign off for the districts that we are not discriminating. Yeah, I just wonder. It says ending radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing. Because it says government DEI programs, does that affect school districts? And if it does, then what would that mean to us or and that that's a really good question that's um up for interpretation uh because it is not clearly defined or widely understood with a particular definition by anyone. Um, and so at the end of the day, Title Six is grounded on discriminating, and we do not discriminate. And if you look to our district, we're not um practicing um anything illegal. Um, and so we're affirming that we're not doing that essentially. Um, and like I said, that's sort of the inflammatory language that it has
061some folks concerned. Um, understandably. Um, so thank you. Yeah, I mean I would just hate Well, I guess I can't voice my personal opinion. I just hate to see DEI things head to the wayside. But agreed. Agreed. But I also have every faith in our district that if we have to remove wording that our practice remains steadfast in supporting all of our students in every aspect of their needs in education. And I don't think we I firmly believe in our school district that we don't need a piece of paper to tell us what the right thing to do for our families and kids is. We're just going to do it because that's who we are as a community. So, you know, yes, I hate to see it because not all communities are like that. I
062have a deep faith in our community that we are. So, and I agree. I think it's just I think the thing that's scary is the upper interpretation. Yes. Right. Yeah. Because it can be fun. That's all. Right. So, like correct. We agree that we do not discriminate, but just be interested. Okay. Yeah. This is not going to be the first or the last that we have to deal with over the next couple of years. And so we will just one step at a time it and we will just work through it together as a team. Yep. But like I said, that's one reason why we put this out there as a formal motion um to direct Alison to sign off or not. This very the title six uh sign off that Andy did uh early
063April. We're not sure what the ramifications be if we don't have this general asurances signed off. We know that we will um not be um allocated any federal funds at all. This the general assurances have been um a requirement for years now. So that I know is is a a direct result if you don't sign. Yeah. Because there were also changes it looks like made to title nine. Um so just wondering again if you know being K through six if that uh impacts us in any way or Yeah. So it impacts us um in a way that if you recall we we we moved through a bunch of title N policies and then there was a change in the law and then one year later we pushed through amended policies relative to Title N. And
064then now that the policy committee is up and running again, um pretty soon you'll see um those reverted back to what they used to be essentially. Uh so should I know what title? I'm sorry. What's title nine? Just like high level. Yeah, it says it prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. um including any guidance issued consistent with again executive order 14168 titled defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government. So that is the new uh I would imagine amended definition of title N. Yeah. So it's not really the def that's what they're saying is their perspective. But so in 20 2020 there were um up updated regulations with title 9. Um and so that was what our old policy was. Last year in 2024 there was an updated
065one for August. So, and that changed kind of the process and procedure for how to t how to handle um uh harassment and discrimination based on sex, those policies and regulations. Um with the new change in federal government, they've now requested we go back to the 2020 regulations and the processes that are involved and that's their rationale behind it. So, we're going to be reverting back to our 2020 policies that we've had for years. I mean, and so we're going to go back. Um, so that's really what's happening at that at that level and that RA what Tracy just read was the rationale behind it, but it's not changing what the 2020 procedures were for how we handle those those investigations. Okay. And so how does that change your process though just for does it
066not? Yep. Well, I mean from August until when we update it back to 2020, we have one process under our policy and procedures. When we go back, it'll be what the old policy procedures uh used to be. a lot of investigations like a lot of regulations around the timeline. The timelines, the investigation, the all those pieces, you know, how we handle um both the complainant and the respondent, right? That's all like not knowing the how the policies previously were. Yeah. No, we we have all that. Okay. Yeah. And when we need to rewrite those, those will ultimately come here for our approval. So, we'll see you'll see we'll see all the changes. So, you'll you'll get even more information to digest. So, those those will come. If they're not, they're not here today, but but
067they will. There's a lot of them here tonight, which is August. They're doing work. What's that? The policy committee has been doing work. Well, that's why we got that up and running last last too much work to worry about, but um um any other questions or concerns or anything else we want to raise surrounding that? Okay. In that case, then we do need um a motion and I have the verbiage here. You should have if somebody can make if you are comfortable to give me authorization to represent the school board. Do you want me? Thank you. Um the very top big paragraph. Uh, I would like to motion to authorize the board chairman to represent the school board and acknowledge that the superintendent has consulted with all members of the school board in furtherance of
068the school board's obligations, including those enumerated in RSA 1891A and pursuant to the school board's oversight of federal funds the district will be receiving and of the general asurances, requirements, and definitions for participation in said federal programs. Can I get a second? A second. Thank you. All in favor? And I'm going to abstain since it is about giving me permission. So, thank you. We appreciate that. All right. Uh what is this one? The pol uh policy for policy. Is that for data management? Um, it's the policy memo. So, did I miss the memo? It's just the So, I think if you have it as one big document, it it's actually the last document. Oh, okay. So, there is a policy memo at the end of our document. 72. That's why I got lost. All right.
069So, on page 72 of our packet, there is a policy memo. Here it is. Um, the BSD policy committee. um wants to make the following recommendations uh per for the April 23rd, 2025 school board meeting. Since these are policy, do you want me to go through these or since you were doing the policy work, do you want to roll through a couple of these? Um so it depends I think if you want to uh do the policy memo as one or uh if you want to do them individually. Okay. So I'm going to actually ask our board members here. So, in the past, we've had a lot of we often get multiple policies at one time. Um, we would in the past, we've gone through them one at a time and voted on each one
070individually. Um, we shifted to a different format last year where I believe we talked through the policies and then we voted on them all together as a group at the end. And so, it was just one here's a policy memo, here are the changes either for a second reading or for a first reading or to adopt. and we would do it all in one. Um I know we've got new members. Are you comfortable um going through them and what the policy committee did as it pertains to the changes and then at the end based on the policy memo here and what the policy committee recommends that we do either move to a second reading or adopt and doing one fi one vote to capture them all or would you be more comfortable voting on each
071one individually as we go? And I I do want to hear from each of you. How many do we have? Well, it varies. Some nights we have one, other nights we can have 12. We have eight of them tonight. So, um, and that's why we moved because we we do a lot of pol we have been doing a lot of policy work. So, um, that's why we moved to just one final vote at the end after we review them all. Are you comfortable? I'm full. Okay, cool. Do you want to take us through the changes? Let's take um we'll do a motion to um approve the policy memo. Got it. We'll second it and then I'll go through and discuss and then you'll go through them. Okay. So, I will make a motion to approve
072the recommendations of the Brooklyn School Board Policy Committee as per as per the memorandum which is provided as part of the agenda packet and we just discovered on page 72. May I get a second? Second. Perfect. Thank you. And then Gina will take us through since Joanna's not here um take us through the changes. Okay. So, first there are a few policies that we're bringing forward for a second reading with no changes. So, these were brought to you um at our December 18th meeting. So, it's been a little bit, but we what we do as a policy committee is we look at the policies uh after the first read. We review the minutes from the meeting to see what the discussion was and if any ideas came up or concerns or questions. Um, and if
073none have come up and we as a committee don't feel that we need to make a recommended change, we just bring it forward with no changes. So, we have policy eh, public access to school district records. There were no changes recommended. Um, JLF, reporting child abuse or neglect. Once again, no changes. KFD, use of automated external defibrillators. Say that 10 times fast. No changes. And then I kab, special education evaluations. Bless you. also no changes. Um so those were uh you know fairly straightforward. Um I will also say that if you have a concern or um something that you are a question you might have about a policy you can email uh Dan, Trish, myself or Johanna and we can either get back to you or bring it up for discussion in a policy committee.
074Our policy committee meetings are also public so anybody can attend and they are 10 days prior to the board meetings on Mondays um at RMS 12:15 or so this year. Okay, that's what we decided on. So um so don't feel like you have to say something right now or no changes whatsoever. We also are presenting for a second reading with some changes EHR public access to school district records. So this particular one pause. It's on page 38 of your packet. Yes, 38 in case you guys want to follow along. I do. Sorry. No, that's good. Um, so there are so the beginning of it really is the same. What we brought forward as possible changes. We wanted some feedback from the board to get a sense of um what do we think? So, uh, basically
075for right to know requests, um, we've received more and more in the last 5 years than we ever had before. And some of these requests are very lengthy and time consuming. Um, and it's not so much the copying of materials for the request as the work that goes into finding um, and calling through all of let's say the email. So that we might receive a a right to no request that says any and all emails from any board member to any um or between any um staff members that include the word um rainbow, let's say, and then we have to go through every so that might be 35,000 emails that we're going through and we're redacting information as appropriate. Um and that, as you can imagine, takes a lot of time. And then if they're
076um supplied in electronic format, there's no fee associated with it because um the fee that we had prior was a copy fee. So, you know, hours and hours and hours of multiple people within the SAU and the individual building spending time. So, there was a change to the RSA that allows us to build differently. And so, there's copy fees. It says 15 cents. Um there's an extra zero. So that should be 15, not 1.5 cents for copying photo copies of records. Um, also electronic records. Um, it describes that if you want them electronically, potentially they go through email, but also if they're large enough in quantity and you want them on a thumb drive, you have to bring supply a thumb drive for us in its original packaging to ensure that there's no issue with
077it. Um, but then charges for certain electronic communications. So, we define what um an individual electronic communication is. We defined what um what requests are. And then we're saying that we would potentially charge 15 cents per individual electronic communication regardless of whether the records are delivered in hard copy or electronically subject to the following. So, the first 250 individual communications are no charge. Beyond that, we can charge per individual communication. Like I said, 15 cents per communication beyond that. And um anyway, so we didn't know in first reading, we didn't bring that forward as an option, but we didn't know if the board felt like this would be a protective factor for the district or um if you wanted to steer clear of it and simply um advise us to delete section 6, seven, and
0788. So, my initial reaction to this is that it is the public's right to know and we should not be charging a dime for it. That's my that's my gut and my two cents. I understand that it takes time. I and I appreciate all of the time and work that goes into it, but I also want to be respectful of the fact that they the public does have a right to know. Um I'd be interested in you say we've had an increase in that in the past five years not necessarily this past year. How much of a incre like so I will go to say that some of many of them involve our attorneys and have costed us well over $10,000 per request because we have to get the attorneys involved in order to redact.
079not necessarily in order to reject to review the request and it make sure it's in compli. So there every request is different and every request has different needs associated with gathering that information. Um and you know a reply often is can you narrow your request? The scope of that is very large and sometimes we work very easily to something that's manageable and other times um it's not. So, and some of these requests come from folks from all over the country that have um a lesser vested interest in what Brookline School District is doing. Um, and others are coming from residents. Um, and legally we can't say no to anybody. Um, but can we not charge our community and can we charge the can we split the difference here? Like are we allowed to do that?
080Next question. Are you um are you saying that you don't think anyone should be charged regardless of whether it's paper or electronic because paper the logic was also the supplies in those pieces but the um I was curious if there was a delineation or if you just felt across the board there should not be a charge. I feel across the board I don't think our our comm I didn't realize that this went outside our community. My gut reaction is that our community should not be charged to get information that they are entitled to. I get it with the supplies and everything, but they also do fund our schools and they are already kind of paying for the the supplies that we would use to. So, if we need to build out our budget a little
081bit more to support said requests, I'm I would rather do that than do you know what I mean? Like, personally, I don't I don't know what the gut reaction here is. Now, I don't know if we're allowed to though say outside of our community if the request comes from outside of Brookline if we're allowed to. We often don't know. Oh, interesting. Okay. because it's just a request that comes in just a gut reaction. Maybe I'll like So, don't we allow also if there's a request that they can just review the materials? Yeah, they can inspect. They come in come in respect. I was just going to throw this out. So, we're providing the materials for them to review, but if you we only charge if it's electronic or copy. So we're not we're not however
082we still so if depending on what they're requesting to see the the the labor is still involved and all that stuff. Just a thought, if you're opposed to that, could you uh ask for a donation in in response for the you know, say this, you know, provide an invoice and say there is no expectation you pay, return, but this is what it cost the school district, different things. No, I'm just I'm just I know they probably but I'm just I'm saying if there's an opposite I mean sometimes I mean I've given donations to things when you know when asked for you know I because I also don't know if everybody knows the cost that goes in. I didn't know you could charge you know be charged $10,000 for a single request. I mean it's news
083to me right? So I had imagine people don't understand you know the cost to the school not to the person. Right. Right. No, no, no. I understand that the cost of school, but there's a lot of discussion about taxes in the town and things like that and and if there was, you know, if if we are against, you know, charging per se, I'm just saying maybe al if that was the final decision at at least providing the information that that's what that costs and or would cost potentially. Just a thought. Is anyone in support of before we belabor this to charge? Oh yeah, I'm in support, but I just I mean I hope that it would cut down on malicious or nonsense um requests. Um I also think with Dan saying that, you know, people
084can at least come and look, maybe that would be lesser of a price for them. Um, you know, I think we get requests all the time just to probably not to any real great end. And so I would just hope it would cut down, you know, when you when you pay some for something, it means something to you, right? Um, so if it means something to them to ask for us to do this work, um, yeah, I would I would say yes. I'm in support of charging. I am too. Okay. Don't we leave it? What is what is the standard across the I mean what what is the standard across other districts? This is new, right? This is new for Well, it's Yes, it's a new RSA. So, we've only really looked at it as
085a policy committee since September. Um the other districts sort of were in the same predicament. Brooklyn the based on when the meetings are, this is the first policy committee to meet to actually put this forward. Um, so has the um has the like overarching school board um made any um guidance how are other school districts other than just ours? Do we know other school districts policy was when the policy committee was addressing this because it's new RSA so it's affecting all of New Hampshire, right? Correct. Yep. And so there's a variety of ways. Some absolutely adopted this, some did not. Some are um posting every request by the requester and the time it takes to complete that. Um making that visible. Um the now the charging for the copies has not been correct. It's the
086charging for the labor. It's for the labor and the electronics that's new, not the charging for the cop. So we we've had that 15 cents per piece of paper when we've done hard copies in the past. That's been in effect. So there's just parts of it that are that are new, but typically most folks just ask for it electronically. Now nowadays yeah in the past five years and they're actually posting who makes the request and what the request is. Yep. Because it's the right to know what everybody I mean of this I guess to Yeah. Um okay so we'll bring that back to the committee. Thank one say and Alice would would you become so they do do 250 pages free at no cost? No I'm just asking like would if that was increased I
087mean at some point I mean if it is 35,000 pages right? No. So I just didn't No, I I the point of when you pay for something, it means something. Like my gut reaction is always to just if somebody has a right to know something, especially in our community, my initial gut reaction is always to just be transparent with our community. However, I wasn't aware that it can come from outside the community. Um and so thus then to Tracy's point of you pay for something, it means something. So no, I'm comfortable with this. Okay. Um so that was for second read. And um then we have some for first readings with some changes. So DAFF, Administration of Federal Grant Funds. That's a very long policy. Um always fun to read. Uh, and some this will
088be interesting because some of the changes in the law that has required us to make these changes um encourages us and I'm sorry I'm trying to try to find what page it's on because it's so lengthy. Um, encourages us to um when securing bids hold on I don't want to misspeak so I just want to find the exact page. This is not organized in the way that is easier to go through for me. um contracting with small and minority businesses, women's business enterprises, and um labor surplus firms. So, we're So, this was a change in the law that came forward, which is why we are going to update this. I'm not sure if that will change and we'll have to revise um verbage revise verbiage. But, at the at the moment, this is one of
089those policies that we are required to have and we are required to put upload to the grants management system. affirming that we are in compliance with um all of these pieces and DAFF is is one of them. And so we have to update that. Like I said, I wonder if that will be amended in the in the law at some point. Yeah. I'm so sorry I'm not totally following you. So um the policy um is going to I heard you in terms of the vendor, right? So the I'm sorry. help me understand what was what is the current and what are we looking to change or Okay, so if you go to page 52 of the packet, I just found it. Yeah. And so anything that's underlined is new language. Um and if it has
090a cross through that means we're getting rid of language. So before it just said the district must take necessary affirmative steps to asssure that minority businesses, women's business enterprises, and labor surplus area firms, including without limitation, this is a new part, veteranowned small businesses or service disabled veteranowned small businesses are used when possible. And then it says target businesses. So, all I'm saying is um as of right now, we're required to make a various amendments that that's one of them to this policy. I envision that that might be revised again and you might see DAFF before you later, you know, whether it's right away or um you know, before we do the final adoption of this policy or um or next year. But this is one that is we are required by law to make
091these changes to the policy. So, we don't really have much of a of a say in that one. And then another first reading that we have coming forward is um parental objections to specific course material. Bless you. And so this includes a lot of we always had not always but since 2022 we've had this policy and you can see that it's mostly crossed out toward the end of the policy. This is page 69 and 70. Um and so this um the new language talks about sort of the process by which if there's a parental objection to course material, how that parent makes an objection and then how the parent works with the school to find an alternate um alternate materials for the for the student to work on. Um so that's that that's straight from
092updates in the RSA and that meets all the requirements. Correct. Yep. And then finally um for a quick question on that one. Is that just for the individual student or is that for us to talk about or Okay. Yeah. So this is just saying I don't want my child sure to um you know be exposed to X and then they there's a conversation whether it's with the curriculum administrator, the principal etc on okay well how are we going to meet that um you know the standard and we can just change the how. Um and then finally a first reading as a brand new policy is a visitors to school policy. So here nothing is underlined because it's brand new to Brooklyn. So we the whole thing is just new. Um and it talks about um
093basically who can visit the school and how that how we do that because we don't just have an open door policy where anyone can come into our schools at any time. So those are all of our policies. Any other questions or Do I have to do another motion then to accept? We did at the beginning. So we're good. Okay. So you just vote um what? So now you just vote on on the policy memo because you did the motion. Once you have a live motion, you discuss and then then we discussed it all. And so now I want to take a we'll take a vote on accepting the memo as written. All in favor? Excellent. Thank you. And so you can expect next month anything that said second reading you'll see as third and adopt.
094We usually do three readings so that there are three months where it's out there for discussion so the community um just can be aware of what it is that we're talking about. Seconds sorry first would become second readings etc. Okay. So thank you. Um and at this point I'm going to close non-public. We've not had any visitors this evening. So it is 7:18. I'm going to go ahead and close um public input at this point. All right. The only thing left we have is non-public. Yes. All right. So, I'm going to make a motion um that uh the board by roll call go into non-public session pursuant to RSA 91A 3 um 2A the dismissal, promotion or compensation of any public employee and RSA 91- A3 2 C to discuss a matter which if discussed
095in public would likely affect adversely the reputation of a person other than a member of the body or agency. gency itself. Um, may I get a second? Second. And we need to do this by roll call. So, start with Heather. Just Heather I. I. I. You state your name if you don't mind. Heather. Perfect. Lyn Powers. I Casey Perry. I Alison Manion. I Thank you. nonpublic at 7:19. And um Joe