001Lucy Beardmore and the man behind the curtain, head of it, Matt Stone. Could we please stand for the pledge of allegiance? >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Very good. Uh we have um four sets of minutes to approve. I'm going to do them all in one go, but if you have something that you want to call out, let me know. We have the public hearing meeting minutes from uh September 9th. We have the school board public retreat minutes from July 8th. We have the school board non-public minutes from July 8th for the retreat. And we have the school board meeting minutes from September 23rd. Do I have a
002motion to approve? So move >> second. >> All right. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. All right. Any opposed? Great. Motion carries. Um we are now at our first public comment portion of the evening. If you would like to come up, please state your name, address, and please keep your comments to three minutes. Great. Okay. Lucy, what's going on? >> Um all right. So, I think at this point, you know, we're into October, the sort of beginning of the school year, excitement is sort of wearing off. I think we're kind of getting into the swing of things at the middle high school. Um, that swing has been made a little more interesting with our backto-back exchanges. Um, I talked about the German exchange already at a couple meetings ago. Uh, but now we have
003the French exchange happening. So, we have um a bunch of French students from Normandy um staying in, you know, with families. Um they're doing similar field trips um compared to what the Germans and the ones that we went on with the Germans. Uh the Millard Museum, the State House, um the Native American Museum in I believe Warner. Um yeah, I think it's going well. Um yeah, that's been interesting. Um, homecoming was last weekend. Um, so on Friday we had the parade. Um, this year it was all um, decades themed. So every class was a different decade and dressed up and decorated their float like that decade. Um, this was new to me. Um, the past few years it's been like all random themes. Um, so it was kind of cool that it was all cohesive.
004Um and then immediately after the parade, there was the booster club um spaghetti dinner for um fall athletes. Um and then the next day on Saturday, we had all the homecoming games. Um so all the teams went undefeated. There was a tie, but still undefeated. Um and then cross country was at um Academy in Vermont, which is our furthest away meet on homecoming. Um but yeah um the girls team got 10th there. Um it was really hot but that was also successful. Um and then there was the dance which was at 7:00 p.m. and it's normally 2 hours. This year it was 3 hours. It went till 10 p.m. Um the musical um I think the musical was revealed last week. It's um Once Upon a Mattress, which I think was um the musical from
005seven years ago or so. Um yeah, it's always a really big deal when they revealed the musical. It's really built up and hyped up on the morning announcements and things. Um and then there were auditions over the weekend and the cast list came out this morning and then there's the cast read through tonight. So yeah, musical season is going. um NHS induction. So, National Honor Society. Um the induction was on September 29th. Um our honorary member um for this year was Mr. Clearary. Um and so for people who are inducted, there's um academic standards and then there's also um 20 hours of volunteering. Um, and people have already been volunteering um, and doing their service hours. Um, I know there will be people at the Warner Fall Foliage Festival this weekend. And then a few
006of us, myself included, have been helping out in middle school math classrooms and tutoring um, some students there. Um, yeah. And then upcoming um, uh, we have the home cross country race. So coming from a place of personal, you know, um Saturday at the fairgrounds, the first time there's been um a home cross country race there since 2019. So right now um the Hington cross country team is the only team in the state who knows the course because all the students who would have ran on it have already graduated. So that's kind of interesting. Um, but yeah, the first race is girls at 10:00 or girls varsity at 10, boys at 10:40, and then the open JV race at 11:15. Um, yeah, that's it. >> Any questions for Lucy? >> That was amazing. >> That
007was a lot. I'm sorry. >> Wonderful. Outstanding color. >> Yeah. Any questions? I will just say I do have a handwritten petition uh from my uh second oldest child about the lack of candy at the parade which I understand there may be some legality required now. It's actually addressed to principal Kelly. >> Oh yeah. Uh but there are some small people >> there are some small small people soccer teams that were just bereft but it was great. It was wonderful and it was a great homecoming and then NHS induction was wonderful >> and congratulations. >> Thank you for coming. Thank you. >> Anything else for Lucy? >> How are the how's the cell phone policy going just while I have you? >> Um good. I think it's sort of like maintaining at this point. I
008don't I haven't noticed any issues or heard of any issues. So, I think it's going well. >> Cool. Great. That's exciting. Okay. Um, board comments. >> Wow. >> At my first CIA meeting. That's That's it. >> There you go. >> Yes. >> Wonderful. >> All right. Uh, that's great. All right. So, we are going to just turn it right around back to Lucy to talk a little bit about the EAC at the high school. >> All right. Um, I have my notes on my phone for this one. Um but yeah so um sorry um this year we are sort of starting with new leadership a lot of new >> so I'm going to interrupt you can so I want to save you a dollar so you have to tell the universe what EAC stands for
009>> point okay so environmental action club um it's been I think it's not an exaggeration to say we've had a pretty significant impact on the student body and sort of their tendencies towards sustainability and things like that. Um what we call the campus culture um in the last, you know, few years. Um I've been part of the club, um since I was in 8th grade, maybe seventh grade. Um and now I'm one of three co-leaders for the club. They were supposed to be here, but that's okay. Um uh yeah, so last year we graduated a lot of seniors, very good seniors. Um but yeah, so we're still sort of getting our bearings and our feet under us for this year, but I think it's going well. Um at this point, we're pretty much fully sufficient
010with compost. Um it's sort of, you know, it's been going for a few years now and we have a pretty significant amount of compost that we've accumulated. Um I think this year compared to last year, students have been more willing to compost at lunch and it hasn't been as much of an issue with people not willing to do so. Um we also have uh metal silverware. Um I think that's been for the last two years we've had metal silverware. um plastic silverware is still an option, but um that was another program we had going. Um and then our last sort of smaller thing is we have sort of like a long-term project where we're collecting um like soft film plastic um that will be turned into a bench um that's sort of a joint project
011with the rotary um in town. Um yeah, so our big project for this year is um getting our greenhouse functional. Um the greenhouse was started by Mr. Miner when I was in 8th grade and it's sort of like been an an incomplete state since then. Um so right now we're trying to get all the panels that are falling out back into the greenhouse. Um try to rebuild the door so that it's functional, get it sealed, get electricity. um running to it. So, we've been working with um Mr. Rziki and facilities and things like that to get it going. And then we're hoping to um this year get some stuff planted in the greenhouse um potentially using our compost um as sort of fertilizer. So, that's sort of like the long-term goal. Um and then in
012terms of other projects, um we are sort of undecided on what we're going to do for like a smaller project this year. Um so you know the hope is to have the greenhouse um at the point where it's usable by the spring so we can um be planting things but at this point we can't really do much with that until the spring. Um, so we've been um sort of tossing around ideas as a club of sort of like some smaller um campaigns we could take on to just sort of get some mo excuse me some mojo for the year. Um yeah, and then sort of related to compost and greenhouse um there's been talk of the Interact Club, which is the community service club at the high school affiliated with Rotary. um working to build
013a um outdoor classroom. So, there's an outdoor classroom at Maple Street um and I believe at Harold Martin as well, but we don't have one. Um a lot of teachers go on walks and things like that during class, but there's really no space to actually do class outside. Um, so we've been, you know, thinking about potentially, um, combining efforts with interactive club and environmental action club, maybe building some raised beds out in the outdoor classroom, um, to use the compost there. Um, yeah. So, that's sort of another long-term project. Um, I think that's it. >> That's awesome. Wow, Lucy. I wonder the hydroponic tower that's right in the entryway here. I wonder if you could work together to get some seedlings started for the greenhouse when you guys are ready. >> Yeah, that is a
014good idea. >> Kind of a fun interdisciplinary. >> That would be great. >> Yeah. Oh, um, on the topic of interdisip disciplinary, um, I also meant to mention that we're trying to sort of either start a middle school EAC or get middle schoolers involved with our high school EAC just cuz there's kind of a disconnect and, you know, Mrs. Roth and the sixth grade teachers do such a good job at Maple Street and then there's really nothing in middle school and then they get to the high school and it's sort of like starting from square one. So, if we could keep it continuous, you know, get the middle schoolers involved, that's another goal that we have. >> Amazing. >> Lucy, is there a uh like a faculty person who's spearheading the current greenhouse effort? >>
015Um, so the initial greenhouse effort was Mr. Miner. >> Um, I mean, we have Mr. Ross Camp who leads the EAC. Um, and then Mr. Christy, the engineering teacher, and you know, Woodtech, um, has been, um, helping with all of the door related projects. Um but yeah, >> so sort of watched the greenhouse project over the years, you know, sort of gained steam and it and it seems like >> it it almost should be a schedule B kind of thing where somebody is, you know, that takes a lot of time, but I'm not sure that's going to happen in this this point. Um it may be something where you reach out to the community for a long time. um forgetting her name. She's one of my neighbors, but she did the the gardens out front.
016Mr. Kelly probably remembers. Um >> Oh, yeah. I remember. >> But, you know, a community volunteer who really is sort of energized by this might help get things rolling because really that greenhouse, I mean, winter is when you should be starting your process, >> right? Um, but it seems like there there needs to be some more energy around an adult who can help bring this all to fruition and not just a part of their teaching day, which is kind of hard to do. >> Yeah. >> So, >> I agree. Isn't there a Huffington Garden Club? >> Yeah, >> there may be. >> Yeah, I think there is. >> But I I think if you put some, you know, got together with your club and and Mr. Kelly and put something out into the wind. You
017just might find that there's two or three very energetic members of our community who would be willing to help. >> Yeah. >> And get it to a point where it's sustainable. You know, you sell plants in the in the springtime, make a little money, self-generate the thing. But >> it has had difficulty. This is the second or third greenhouse in my time in Hopkin that is >> come to fruition, died, come to fruition, died. >> Yeah. And we do understand it was funded by grant money and we really do need to get it going. Um but yes, I agree. A person with energy about it would be helpful. >> Um that's exciting about the metal silver row that has been like a three to five year journey. >> It has been. >> Yeah, it's a
018big one. That's great. Really, really good. Cool. Amazing. Wait, so how many members are in the club? >> Um consistent members maybe 15. I think there's like 30 on the Google classroom. >> Yeah, that's great. Amazing. >> Yeah. >> Okay, cool. Any other questions for Lucy? >> Wonderful. Thank you. That's really exciting. >> Thanks, Lucy. >> All right, Mr. Kelly, you ready? >> Do you want to come sit next to Lucy? I think you also have a copy of this in your folder. Yeah, we do. Yes, >> there we go. All right. So, um, in my opening board report at the beginning of the school year, I referenced how we're getting ready to, uh, embark on our NEAS accreditation, which is the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Um, so I just wanted to
019give the board an overview of where we're at currently as we begin this process. um because it's a very important process for schools. Um the break so NIASK as I said is the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Here you can see the two primary purposes that it serves for our school and for our community. Um but really the purpose is for us to really take a look at everything that we do. um from uh school safety to culture and climate to curriculum to instruction to assessment, anything you think of that can go on in a school. We really get a chance to do a self assessment of ourselves and a self-reflection study um and take a look at what we are doing um where we may be falling short and what we can
020improve upon. Um but it's a great process for us to do as a school community um to really just get an idea of how well we're doing. Um, this is a process that happens every 10 years. Um, and the process since last time we did this back in 2016 has changed. In 2016, they did one visit over 4 days, but now they do two visits. The first visit is a two-day visit, which they will do, I'll show you in a timeline here, uh, but they'll come in October of next year, uh, to do a two-day visit, and then in 2028, they come back and do a a full 4-day visit, and they really dive in at that point to everything that we're doing. Um, the accreditation process is um is a very thorough process, comprehensive
021process. Um, we take a look at a number of standards to make sure that we align with these standards, which I'll show you as well. and the um all backed up through uh research um on what's best to do in schools and really the outcome is to like I like I've mentioned really to strengthen what we do uh on a daily basis and how we function as a school. So what's the value of this process? If you take a look at this slide here, I included some bullet points. Um, but as I mentioned, it really ensures that um, we're meeting standards, that we're making sure that we're aligning our goals with not just our strategic plan, but things that are going on as far as the state, as I mentioned before in a previous report,
022the ED new ed the new ED 306's, making sure that we're aligning with those. Um it is um there's this value added because we collect feedback from students, families, and from our faculty in a in a self-study, which I'll talk a little bit about. Um and it just also supports the school board here for the things that you're looking to do uh and get out of our schools. Um and it supports myself and and and Miss Leighton as we continue to work on developing goals, but also, you know, what's in our strategic plan. Um that is a driving document for us as well. So these are the five standards. Um Rob, you'll remember there were seven standards when we went through this. So they've been really trying to realign this process to make it uh
023I don't want to say easier, but a little bit more efficient. Um so they've gone from seven to five standards. These are the five standards here. Um and the requirement is that we have to show that we align with these standards. Um there are five these five core areas which is the learning culture, student learning, our professional practices, learning support and the learning resources um that we have available to all of our students. Um there are a total of 40 what I would call uh foundational elements that fall underneath each one of these standards. So think of them as substandards. Um but we only have to meet a minimum of seven, which is kind of like you would think that there's 40, but there's only seven. um to maintain our accreditation. That's for maintaining. Um
024I I'm happy to report that, you know, we're hitting those seven um minimum standards, which I'll talk about here in a second. Um and I'm confident that we'll hit quite a few more than just the seven. Um but we we will begin this process tomorrow. Um and looking forward to just jumping right in. So what are the foundational elements? So the foundational elements represent really those essential building blocks, those substandards that I t that I'll show you here in a second. Um, and schools accredited by NEAS, like I mentioned, have to meet those seven. Um, and if we're not aligned to those, those become our priority between that two-day visit in uh October of 26 into October of 28. Um, but as I said, I think we'll be able to expand upon those seven foundational
025elements. So what are those se seven foundational elements? So the first one is the learning culture >> school uh as you can see here it talks about u an emotionally safe environment for our adults and students in the classroom and do we have a written document that describes our core values and beliefs and a vision of a graduate. Well I believe that the school community does provide uh an emotionally safe environment. If we go back to if you go back to the strategic plan there's there's data in there to support that. um when we and of course that was two years ago but still it's still relevant um where a majority of our faculty staff and students feel that they are safe in our school um and our school counselors have been doing a lot
026around the social emotional piece and as I mentioned I think in my opening board report we're we're doing cartwheel now um which is on where we're offering students uh online counseling so that's just an example you know the work that Beth has done uh at the middle school level to help with transition so again that all ties into that social emotional piece uh to making students feel safe in our school and and as you know you've heard from uh Patrice and others uh about the portrait of a learner which is the same as the vision of a graduate we just call it something different but it's the same thing um and we already have our core values and beliefs back in 2015 we went through that process um after this visit it may be something
027that we go back and take a look at but those are those are how I believe that we would meet the these two standards um the student learning uh where there's a written curriculum, we have that written curriculum. Um it's not something that we've gone back to revise probably in the last five years. So prior to co is we were doing some work in Rubicon on that. Um Matt has recently given me access to those downloaded um uh curriculum that we have uploaded to that. So that's been shared recently with the faculty. So we can utilize that as evidence as we go into our um self-study and begin that tomorrow. So I believe we will meet that standard. The professional practices, the school currently has a school growth or improvement plan. That's where our strategic
028plan comes into place. Um, we don't have one specifically for the school, but we do have a district-wide strategic plan that, um, as you know, when I've shared my building goals with you, I've tried to link those building goals to the strategic plan and how it supports that. So, I do believe that we'll be able to meet that standard. Um, 3.6A, we don't have to worry about because we're not a CTE school, uh, career technical educational school like Conquer High School has. So, we don't have to worry about that one. Um, standard four, our learning support. Does our school have intervention strategies designed to support learners? Um, this is an area I think we could continue to grow on. Um, both Amy and I have talked about some different intervention strategies. I know Mandy has
029talked to you about um some different intervention strategies she would like to bring. Um, but when I think about the area of special education, I think our our our teachers and the special education department, they do a lot with intervention strategies and I think they work closely with our teachers. So, I think we'll be able to have some evidence there um to help support that. Um, and if if we meet it, great. But if we have some work to do, that's okay, too. Um, but that's always an area I think that we're looking to expand upon because interventions change quite a bit um over time. Um, and the last minimum standard is the learning resources, the school site and plant support to deliver curriculum programs and services. I think we're going to meet that. That
030was a big uh topic of discussion in the last NEAS accreditation which led to the revitalization of our science classrooms and project leadway classroom. Um and the uh renovation of the fifth floor. If you remember, we moved a couple classrooms down so we could get to the elevator without having to go through a classroom. Um and if we think about the 5 uh 5.5A school provides a physically safe environment for students and adults. We've done a lot around the physical safety of our building. Um from uh how we enter our building with a buzzer system. We've now have the raptor system. We have a dual entry system in through the yurt as you know. Um Jim and his his team worked to put uh the film on the glass on those doors that that he
031has talked about. We've added and expanded our um our cameras in our building. So, we've done a lot there. Um and with this new project that we've been talking about with the safety redesign of the main office, um again, I think we'll meet that standard. um the more I think about and read about what it is they're looking for, um I I feel like we're in a really good spot to meet these minimum standards. Um and then uh really looking forward to as as we get into the process tomorrow um to see what we pull out of our evidence collection. Um so those are the five minimum standards that uh we'll be looking to meet in order to maintain accreditation. I and I feel pretty confident that we'll be able to do that. So what's
032the accreditation process look like? So in our initial steps, we need to administer opinion surveys and we've done that already. These are surveys that NIA has uh supplied or supplied us back at the beginning of September. We shared them with our faculty. We did this in a faculty meeting. It took about 20 minutes. Um and then students did them uh in their middle school class. I think in seventh grade they did them all in their English class and then eighth grade hawk time and then advisory in the high school. So we have closed those surveys. Um they were open for about three four weeks. So there was plenty of time for the for the community to go in and complete those surveys. Um we are now going to wait four to five days to receive
033the results of those surveys. So we won't have them for the initial step tomorrow, but that's okay. We have plenty of work to do tomorrow. Um and then we'll utilize any evidence that we can get out of that to include in our our self-reflection. But that's a a great opportunity to get both an internal perspective and an external uh perspective on on what we're doing on a daily basis for our students in our school. >> Do you know what the participation rates are yet or do you It all goes back >> I don't have that. I don't have that yet. I mean for our faculty it's you know 100% we're all there. U for our students you know they we were all taking them at the same time. So, unless they were absent, um, and
034as you see here, you know, um, what the commission, uh, expects is 95% or more, I I'm sure we met that. Uh, and 25% or more from from our parents. So, um, I'll learn more hopefully next week by the end of next week about where that's at. Um, so, um, today I was able to meet with the liaison online through Zoom. Uh, and she asked if it was okay to close those. So, we closed those today. So, I'll get those hopefully by the end of next week. So the second step after we administer those surveys is to form a standards committee. And the way we approached it this year um was to send out the fact send a Google form to the faculty. Um in a faculty meeting I explained what those five committees were,
035what the roles were going to be or expectations for those committees and then um they gave us our first and they gave us their first and second choice to join a committee. On top of that, we asked if you were uh interested in leading one of those committees to also let us know. So, um we went back and took a look of that took a look at that feedback that they gave us. Miss Cros and Mrs. Stern are um part of the accreditation committee, but they're also part of that leadership team working with me uh to help get us through this process and work through this process. Miss Cro has been through this before. Miss Stern has been through this before. She works in the middle school, Miss Cros in the high school. So again
036that works well to continue to have those perspectives when we have these meetings and then we went went ahead and and formed that standards committee. So this has been completed. Um the the charge of that steering committee is to really to lead the staff through the entire accreditation process. Um and here it talks about what the members are myself we have three to eight faculty is what it typically asks for. We'll have a total of eight because we have five committees and our two accreditation uh coordinators. and then um they'll help to oversee you know the the writing of those reports for all five of those standards um as we get closer to collecting that evidence and get ready to submit a report. So how long does this process typically take? Um with this new
037format NEAS uh suggests that it could take 3 to 6 months to write these reports as we collect this evidence. Um our plan is to utilize faculty meeting time to allow the standards committees to get together and write the reports after tomorrow's evidence collection and we go through that. So um I don't know if it's going to take three, I don't know if it's going to take six. It all depends on how quick they write. Um the timeline we begin our self-reflection training tomorrow. So uh Kristen Smitty is the um liaison for us from NIA who's going to join us tomorrow. Um we met for about an hour today. Uh we talked about the process for tomorrow. So she'll come in and lead about an hourong faculty meeting just to talk about the process. Um
038I met with admin council after school today and encourage them ask any question that you feel is that you need to ask to make sure we are clear on the process. Um because this is not something that we had available to us the last time uh that we started this process. So um again I think this just helps to really set up that collaboriveness of this approach to this to this visit. Um and then as I mentioned in 2026 in October we will have a collaborative concert uh concert uh conference visit. Um and then the uh next visit will be on 2028 and uh actually in December. I thought it was October but will be in December where they'll be here for four days. So that's a timeline that we're looking at between us starting
039the work and then completing it over the next two years. So it's a long process, but um many hands make light work. Um so it's not just going to be the steering committee that's going to be doing the writing. What I've asked the chairs to do is that as we get into this work and we get ready to start writing is to take um those foundation principles and assign them to somebody within the committee where they would write anywhere from two, three, four paragraphs that would address that one um foundational element. But keep in mind there's a number of those foundational elements. So four paragraphs, three paragraphs may not sound like a lot but if you have nine st nine foundational elements that becomes a pretty substantial piece of work. Um but again many hands
040may like work if we're all involved with this. Um I just think it will bring a lot of pride to our faculty for the work that we do uh on a daily basis. So that's I don't know how I did on minutes. Jody, did I do all right? Okay. >> Just under my sleeping time. >> Okay. So happy to happy to answer any questions. Really the goal here was just to kind of give you that broad overview of the of the work that we're going to embark on because it's important work um and being accredited is is an important important thing to have um for our school. Um and it just gives us a sense of pride as a community that we are an accredited school and we're able to report on on what we're
041doing really well um and just identify some things that we can and want to work on really. Um, so I'm looking forward to getting this work uh underway tomorrow. >> Just um what are the sort of big picture benefits of being accredited? >> What are the what are the detriments to not being accredited? Like sort of big picture. Well, big picture, I think it gives the community asurances that the school that they're sending their students to is want by being accredited that we're we're being assessed against a set of standards that means something. Um, I think people in the community want to know that their their children are graduating from a high school that's accredited that meets a certain set of standards that says that the competencies and curriculum that we have are are rigorous.
042Right? I mean, we don't want to be a school that doesn't have a rigorous academic program. And I think we have a history of that. I think that's why people move to this town. We've hear that frequently. I think people want to know that they're sending their students to a safe school um not just from um making sure the doors are locked um and that we have a procedure to check visitors in, but that inside the school they feel safe and comfortable and productive in our school. So, that's another big thing. So if I think about those things that we hear a lot about with schools, feeling safe, comfortable, and productive in the school and making sure that there's rigor in the school and also making sure that we have the appropriate supports in place
043for those students that may need those extra supports. And that comes from our guidance counselors, our school nurse, and it comes from our special education staff. So when I think of that three-legged stool, that's that's what I would say are the big picture pieces. The detriment of not being accredited is where we are today. I think if you think about going back to the Claremont um lawsuit and you know I I went to college with a a a good friend of mine who almost didn't get in to the college at Keen State because he graduated from Stevens and they were not accredited. >> And that's I don't want to be there as a school principal. I can tell you that. >> Do do you have a sense as to how many schools in New Hampshire
044like are accredited versus not accredited? Like >> Oh, I don't know how many are not accredited. I I'd be if there's one I I'd be surprised >> if there's one that's not accredited, >> right? >> So, even talking about like you just said, Claremont, like you think every school in >> Yeah, I have not I don't know if a list exists. I don't know where I would find that list to be honest with you. Uh but I I don't >> like I said I I meet with principles on a bi-weekly basis and I it's not something that comes up of our school is not accredited. were really struggling. Um cuz even Stevens is an accredited school. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> And thank you for this. This is helpful. Just
045getting the 10,000 foot view. >> Sure. You're welcome. >> This is sort of probably a tap and obvious question, but does any of this work tie into like the curriculum committee >> like because you're doing >> it may later on down the line. So as we go through the self-study process and then next year when they come in for those two days >> um depending on the evidence that we upload they may find some areas for suggestion of things to work on. Okay. >> Um based off the curricul um as part of the I think it's part of the ed 306es. I was talking about this with admin council today and I know that in CIA we talked about it last year about embarking upon like a fiveyear cycle of curriculum review. Um, and you
046know, I think that's something that I'd like us to kind of get into. Um, because curriculum changes can change frequently. If I think about the I use world language as an example today in my admin council meeting, you know, they they brought a lot of new um ideas and approaches to um how they write their curriculum, how they approach their pedigogy. Um, and I don't know that's been updated or reflected in what's currently in or what we current what we had put in group but what we currently have >> on digital paper. >> Um, so you know I use that as an example. I can see that in this process that might be a recommendation that we come up with some type of curriculum review cycle process. >> We were actually talking about that. >>
047I don't know. Do you want to do you want to talk? >> It's on the list of things to do. We recognize that as a gap um that there isn't really a formal process and and we're looking at where that um kind of lives. I think you know with the super and with and with the buildings but having maybe the board and the curriculum the CIA committee kind of just helping to kind of supervise the schedule I guess or oversee the schedule or just you know have our finger on it because we recognize that as a gap. >> Yeah. I mean, I think the the the unique thing about Hawkman High School is that you have a lot of singleton teachers and so we don't have a department like we don't have an English department
048of of 10 English teachers like Conquer High School, right? Maybe even more at Conquer High School. So, it's it's not like you have four teachers teach teaching English now, right? Where they're all working on the same curriculum. We have one teacher working on one curriculum and many times they developed it. So there's a lot of ownership, right? There's a lot of ownership in time delivery and development of that curriculum. Um but once they develop it, you know, sometimes they're just getting that on that road and they're they're going along, they're doing really well and the kids are the kids are receiving great instruction, but we we haven't carved out the time to allow those teachers to go back and say, "Okay, what would you like to update?" >> Yeah. >> Um that doesn't mean that
049it doesn't happen, right? like I think our >> or to even record right because things become teacher dependent and if somebody leaves retires >> gets a different then you're like oh what do we have recorded in terms of what was the curriculum and then vertical team alignment and planning and >> you know all of that stuff needs to happen so >> but I I will say that we just went through this at John Stark um we got last year two years ago and it was a long >> through yeah it was our a long and I've been around a long time so I think this was my maybe third. Um and uh it has changed but and it was a long process but it was very obvious to us like oh we don't have that
050um or we don't you know oh we should be working towards and it became I think um the focus of a lot of our work for the last couple of years to make sure that we were um not only in compliance for but also just they were things that we should have had done that had fallen through, right? Because you're >> building the plane as you're flying it and you don't always have time to >> make the repairs as you're going. >> Well, any other questions for Chris? >> No, no question. >> Oh, yeah. Question. Well, one question is you have to budget for some stuff, right? Because they come and we pay for that. But >> we met on budget today. Yeah, I mean I think the thing for me about NEAP is we
051have state standards and but nobody from the state ever really comes and validates what you're doing beyond testing that we do. And this is the one time when people that are teachers, that are principles, uh guidance counselors come and you've done your work, you've done your self-reflections, but then they're going to check your evidence. They're going to go into the room with all those files. They're going to meet with students. They're going to meet with teachers and see if what you wrote is the real deal. And it's it's a great time to really think about how well we're doing things. Um, yeah, it's pretty it's a pretty powerful process. So, you know, to go back to Jonathan's like what's the benefit? benefit is it really is self-examination of your craft against a set of standards
052and forces you to say, "Oh, we could do better here. We're doing really great there." And then some other folks come in and say, "Yeah, you are." >> Yeah. And they're all practitioners, right? I mean, they they do NAS does a nice job making sure that they do get an administrator, you know, on the committee. um and you know they look for someone that's you know involved with the fine arts and then maybe someone who's stronger in curriculum or as you mentioned a school counselor. So the the last committee the committee that I served on in the spring when I was in Summerssworth um it was it was a nice cross section of different people. Um it and what was nice for me I got to work I don't know if you know Clint close
053or not um from CRTC and conquered but I had known Clint for a long time. Um, but it's all so it's good just to reconnect that way and um just see what other schools are doing. Um, and then maybe get some ideas you can take back to your own school. So, >> you almost feel like you're showcasing your school in that way. It's like >> they give a lot of data. I mean, I just feel like as a building principal and as you turn the page looking forward with the new high school credits, implementing comp competencies, learn everywhere, like there are a lot of opportunities, I think, for reflection. When we went through it in my previous district, they give you a lot of information and then there's that accountability piece, right? Because you have
054to follow up in a in a year or is it six months and then a year and then >> Oh, you mean Well, there are I mean, yeah, there are progress reports that you have to write. Um, I would imagine in this new process, you know, after a year, I'll get a letter from the commission asking me to give me a yearly progress report and then like I said, in December of 2028, they'll come and do that main visit and then after that we'll give further recommendations. Um, and really now it's it's either you meet it or you don't, you know, when it comes to the standards um, and to the foundational elements. before was like meet it partially meet it working on it like so there's no like which drove me nuts because I'm
055like well either you're working on it or you're not right and if you're working on it you haven't met it yet so I was really we're really glad to hear that that's where you know we're going so it's it's pretty you know straight and dry I mean it like Rob said I mean it's um I I never thought I'd say that I'd be excited about an ES process but I think I'm excited about it because I at least have gone on another visit to see the new process in action and I just having history in the building just know what what we have for for the quality of faculty in our building and the work that they do and um in in the things that we've done from a facilities perspective I I feel conf
056like I'm not nervous I I feel confident are there going to be areas that they're going to highlight yeah absolutely and that's as Rob said that's what that's what the process is for u but I yeah I'm anxious to see who comes out of tomorrow. >> Awesome. That's exciting. Thank you for telling us. >> You're welcome. >> I had no idea that it was like four years of visits and meetings. >> Yeah, it's pretty I mean the two years, you know, that makes it longer. It's not like they just come in, right, >> and then they leave. >> They come back and do an assessment. Yeah. >> So, that's I I kind of I kind of like that. It's like a preassessment, >> right, of what we're doing and then we get two years to
057reassess and work on it and then take the test again. >> That's great. Wonderful. Thank you, Chris. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you for spending your evening with us. >> Sure. >> You're welcome to stay. >> But we are also welcome to go. Exactly. >> I think somebody said this Thursday night football. >> Yeah, >> that's right. >> Sure is. >> He's playing tonight. >> Happy, Rob. I haven't even had a chance to check today. I just have to go home and make sure my football line. >> That's right. Thank you, Chris. I really appreciate it. >> Okay, cool. Um, I belatedly shared a um early draft of the newsletter. So, uh, thinking about brief introduction of who we are, uh, where to find information. Our first newsletter, as you guys might remember, last year
058was all about like what does a school board do? So, kind of a synopsis of that. Uh, repping, what I would call repping hot lunch, right? So, like working on boosting sales and how it works in case you're a new family. Um, just an update on Belltoell. And then um a frequently asked question of why don't I find schoolboard information on social media, right? Um and where if you were trying to find things and you were frustrated you're not finding it on Facebook, what are the channels that you can go and look for? Is there anything else? I will flush this out, but is there anything else that you guys are thinking about for this first issue other than maybe like the redesign? Does that make sense? >> Um yeah, we could when when are
059you planning on having it go out? probably we wouldn't do like a full approval full design approval obviously for the budget meeting. So two weeks from now >> so we will still have um four info nights y >> after that. >> Okay, >> we've got one more. Well, we have one next week on the 15th and then we'll have one on the 29th of October and then >> Okay, >> five six in 20 in November. >> Okay, it would be great. Yeah, >> I can give you that schedule. >> Yeah. >> 11. >> I need to get that out to everybody. >> 116 1120 11:25. No, 11:29. >> Uh, yeah. I'll send it to you tomorrow so you >> Yeah, that would be great because I think we could include that and maybe include the
060rendering and then like the wise and make sure that's good. >> Yep. >> All right. And then I think that's our goal is to keep it at a design length of like three to four pages. That feels like >> Yeah. Not not not too crazy. Okay. Um, Rob, I'm going to look to you for some information. We'll jazz this up a little bit. Andrea will use Canva. I'm not a Canva queen. Uh, we'll have it ready for a review. Okay. If people have other questions, let me or other content, let me know. >> What's Canva? It's a >> We're clearly not giving the newsletter to Jonathan. >> No, it is a uh graphic design tool. It's like a more userfriendly version of like Adobe. >> It's pretty simple to use. Yeah, Patrice uses it for
061all of her uh nests in a lot of the classroom. >> Design your Christmas card, all of the things that I'm not good at it. >> Yeah. Cool. All right. All right. Policy. Suzanne, how we doing? >> Great. Um, so we have five policies that are in their second read and they were presented last meeting. Um so no motion tonight we're looking at um KA which is school family and community partnerships. Uh AC non-discrimination equal opportunity employment and anti-discrimination plan. ACR2 non-discrimination equal opportunity employment and anti-discrimination plan annual notice or contact info. ACA discrimination and harassment grievance procedure and ACAC title N sexual harassment policy and grievance process all required. So I think we're just at a point where if people have questions or comments to forward them to uh Amy, Andrea or myself and
062then we'll move them forward next meeting. That's great. Awesome. And as we noted last time, the AC policies, those are just revisions. They're not new policies, whereas KA which has been dy coded in the past with JL. >> Did we make any changes? I I wasn't at the last meeting for the ACA. Did we look at the total timeline start to finish of what what the length of that grievance policy grievance duration was and whether or not that was a because I know it's like a tricky thing between wanting pe people wanting to get to resolution but also having enough time to respond to each appropriate step. Right. I think what they what we did was put it just in um the recommended language procedure from the school board association and I think was it
063Amy correct me if I'm wrong was it >> um ACA that only had like the one paragraph addition >> yeah and that was >> title n ACAC and that's the one with the extremely long timeline but sometimes you're using title seven versus >> um ACAC and we always have our our typical um discrimination policy AC right >> they can guide but >> the title 9 process is very long that's by statute >> by it's decreed thank you great you thanks Suzanne >> guys that's it for our current business um Amy Doyle and Laura Taylor um tonight we're going to start with new hires we have one new hireer on our personnel report Greg Santini who is currently a substitute, has accepted a position as a high school IIA. Um, and I believe he'll be starting
064on Tuesday. >> Yep. >> And then we have unfortunately a resignation over at Harold Martin. Samantha Chicklas, uh, HMS's IIA is resigning effective 10:17 next Friday. So that will put um another opening for IAS at Herald Martin which now is up to two and a half. >> Yep. >> Um so anybody that's interested in a position please apply on our website um through Apple. We would you know we if you don't have the experience we're happy to train. >> Yeah. What are the requirements for that position? >> Superintendent Doyle. What are the requirements? >> I mean a high school diploma is or or equivalent. So a GD or high set but really it is you know on the job >> that you would >> meet a certain set of of criteria. Some people are better
065suited to work with students that need support with regulation. Others are better suited to work with students that need more academic support. So we do try to match the need. You know I do think right now it is probably more of the of the first one you know so helping students become acclimated to their environment and to support inclass engagement >> and that has benefits, right? >> Oh, it has a full benefit package. >> Yeah. >> And you know the the >> coverage from the H contract. >> Yes. It's often also good for for folks that are thinking if if teaching might be something that they're interested in or they went to college and have, you know, we often find uh new graduates that maybe have a psych degree or a social work degree or,
066you know, something along those lines, communication and they just want to know what it's like to work in a school. um that often. You know, we've gotten some kindergarten teachers that way where they, you know, thought they wanted to be a counselor or a social worker and as it turns out they'd like to teach kindergarten, which has worked out for us. >> So, if I would just encourage folks if you're at all interested to reach out and we can talk about >> what this what the requirements are. Are there any positions at the other schools or are we >> So Greg Santini I think filled the the one of the last remaining holes at the middle high school. Um there are some you know needs that have emerged I think so you may see something
067new coming forward. We're always looking at ways to improve the system and there may be there is an opening there but we may use that in another way. Yep. And Maple Street is fully staffed. >> Jinx uses say that out loud. >> I know. I know. Um we are also looking for a special ed teacher still at Harold. Have that resignation um of a kindergarten teacher. And you remember the shuffle that we did. So that job is also posted. Um so one special ed and two and a half IA that herald. Okay. Hello all your friends. That'd be great. New people to town. Great way to get involved. Okay. Yep. Um, next is schedule B. So, as we know, schedule B is co-curriculars and athletics. This is a couple of late in the game nominations
068for schedule B positions. Um, one of the new schedule B positions in category 5 that was added into the HA contract is Harold Martin School Student Council. And we h are nominating Michelle Marino who is our media specialist and Karen Victoria our um math interventionist to take share that role. In addition um one of the pieces that we added in was three category 5 clubs that the superintendent can designate and one of those is being used tonight. So news club is a pro a 7 through 12 club that opened and started last year. It has between 20 and 30 members and Kate Centro is the adviser. So, we are nominating Kate officially into the news club tonight. >> Any questions on schedule B? >> No. >> And it's named schedule B because it is the
069schedule B of the AA master agreement. >> As >> we like to do that, >> yes. As we look towards and knowing that we are still fully in fall and so this is an insane question, are there any coaches that we are short on for the winter season? basketball. >> I have not heard yet. I have a feeling that the nominations for winter coaches are coming in the next meeting, probably on the 21st. I have not received them yet. >> Okay. >> Um I don't believe we have openings as of right now. >> Great. Thank you. >> That is it for personnel tonight. For donations, we have one. The Mary Elliot Fund is a longstanding support of the school district and they have given $5,000 to the district um as a donation to students in
070need. So the trust is a group that we have worked with closely and they allow the district essentially to use this money to provide for our students as we need to for with food and clothing and whatever it may be. and then I report back to them annually on what we have spent it on. >> So we want to thank them for this wonderful donation fund. Yes, it's incredible. >> It is absolutely incredible. And we do not have any monthly financials. Uh but I do just want to speak with about one more thing very briefly, which is a health insurance update. So there's been a few things in the news recently about health insurance. I just want to clear the air. Uh, a memo was sent out last week through a few different ways. Um,
071we had it on our website, we had it through Facebook, and we put out through Parents Square that while school care is facing a $30 million deficit that they are going to, we use Health Trust, and so we are not a subject to that collection that school care is going through right now. One of the things that supports that memo is actually a document that Health Trust put out on October 1st. It is attached to our agenda at this time. Um, and it is for public use. It explains a little bit more about why Health Trust, who is our our risk pool, our health insurance agent broker essentially, is not facing the same challenges a school care is facing right now. They have a different model. And so anybody that's interested in insurance, please feel
072free to read that. We are it is still the best option for the district. So we are still planning to move forward with health trust next week uh next year and we will be getting our FY27 rates by the end of October. >> Um the other thing that was in the news, if you may have heard, is that Anthem in New Hampshire is pulling out of the individual Medicare Advantage plans. So they will no longer be offering them. Health Trust offers Medicare Advantage plans to our retirees, but those are group plans and they are not subject to Anthem pulling out. So those plans are not changing. We got a call today from a concerned retiree that the plans were going to it was going to affect them. >> They do open enrollment and start in
073January. So, I just want to put that out there that next year your um Medicare Advantage is exactly is moving forward. And also attached to the agenda tonight is information on an upcoming webinar that Health Trust is putting on for retirees on October 16th. So, please um use that link to register if you are interested. Do we have an a way? Do we have a list serve of all of our retirees? So, we can send that out to them and say >> they receive it already. I believe through Health Trust, they get emails from Health Trust directly. So, they should already have it. But, I just want to put it out there for our um retirees that may be listening tonight or hear about this. >> Your Medicare advantage is not at risk. >> When
074is the seminar? >> October 16th. Um, thank you. It is the 16th at 10:00 a.m. >> Yeah. >> And it will be a benefit education and open enrollment resource webinar for our members that will be signing up for open enrollment which starts in on December 1st. >> Yeah. I was I was just asking I I don't think the timing works but for the newsletter, >> right? >> But I don't think that works. No, >> that would be a tough Y. Yeah. Thank you. >> Miss it. Thank you. Great. Thank you. >> Um, so yeah, you're welcome. I just wanted to let you everybody know our health insurance is safe. >> Thank you. For the newsletter, they typically include a link for the webinars because they're recorded. >> Oh, yeah. Great call. >> That's a good
075point. >> Thank you. >> Might be able to do it that way. >> Live, but they can >> do it on. >> Yeah. Great. Thank you. >> Excellent. Thanks, Laura. >> You're welcome. Also, thank you for the proactive uh memo going out. That was appreciated, I think, by a lot of people. >> You're welcome. >> I appreciate the communication. >> Cool. All right. You ready? A lot of the things in my update have already been covered. Um I think Lucy and I were on the same wavelength of talking about homecoming and um but teaching and learning updates. Uh the fall is typically full of that early, um assessment to see where students are. So, at Harold and Maple, um they've had their data team meetings. We do the early bird screener to meet the dyslexia
076requirement. Um so that has been completed and we're looking at our intervention groups. So if you're, you know, getting information from an interventionist, um that means that we've completed that process and we're implementing support for students. Uh tomorrow there is no school for students in the Huffington School District. We have a professional development day. Um teachers will be focusing Chris talked a lot about the NEAS but at Herald and Maple they will focus on building and district initiatives. Um there's also no school on Monday. So we will see everybody back on Tuesday the 14th. >> Yep. Um student life homecoming was really fun. I think that I only caught that one goal was scored across all the games. Does that sound right, Lucy? Soccer, field hockey, there was one goal scored. It was like amazing.
077It was really a lot of fun >> against >> Yes, against Hington. It was like a total like we won every game, but there was really only one goal scored against all the teams together. That was just >> amazing. Um I was also happy to hear about Once Upon a Mattress. I saw it seven years ago, so I'll have a little bit, you know, to be able to compare it to. >> Um I'm interested to see who is going to be in parts. I cannot sing or dance, but I'm happy to play some cowbell if anyone needs me or or a triangle or something cameo. I >> just love to be involved. Um staffing, I've already mentioned we're looking for a special ed teacher, IAS, assist instructional assistance, substitutes, and I'm really excited. Um, Lauren
078and I had a marathon day of meeting with everyone about their budgets and it was really great for me and I'm looking forward to starting that process with all of you next Thursday. Um, trying to make, you know, purposeful conversations. You know, I I know Rob, you weren't there, but every, you know, every line Laura was like, "Well, that's new. Where should that go? Why do you need that?" I mean, it was really a great exercise. Um, towards the end, we were all like, "Okay, really? All right. this at one point we were $2 off. We spent a lot of time talking about those things. So, it's really important. I I'm looking forward to the transparency. At the same time, it's really given me an opportunity to look at what some gaps um when we
079talk about curriculum. You know, I I do feel like we have some opportunity that we would need some high quality materials in some particular areas. Um so, I added, you know, some funds that I'm hoping that we can do some piloting and be ready for next year. So, you know, as always, I look forward to people reaching out to me. The communication since I've, you know, been in this position, people are not afraid to email, call, stop by, you know, those are all great ways for people to let me know what their needs are. >> Awesome. >> Is everyone ready for next Thursday for our working session? >> Oh, we're going to be. We'll be there. >> Pretty exciting. >> We're going to be ready. >> Yeah. >> It's going to be fun. >> Yeah.
080>> Cool. We did identify just a few things today that need to be updated before you get the final sheets. So, I am doing my best to get them in as soon as possible. Um, but we do have a couple of updates we need to make before I can release the sheets to you. >> That's great. >> And we'll have printed >> big tabloid sheets as well like always. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> And and it won't surprise you that Laura has really done a nice job, I think, of streamlining really isolating what the new asks are. I really like that in the process today because we have >> asks that are typical from year to year but also including the 5% those aren't new asks right so I really liked how you did that
081you know and identify so that we can target those >> right >> did we do any of the some of the things from the strategic plan with the department heads talking to each other and kind of going through that process I know >> we haven't gotten there yet we are going to still we're still yeah oh yeah there's more >> okay Um, we're still looking to do that. Yes. We will not let that drop. >> We just may not have it done for the 16th. >> Okay. >> Um, we've really looked at every >> Oh, we I Yes, you I know. I looked at every line. >> She's like, "Really? We're worrying about that right now?" I'm like, "Yeah, we are." >> Yeah. >> This starts the season. I carry those sheets with me from
082now and when they are printed until March, they stay in my bag. So, it's fun times. Cool. Okay. Cross country. >> You have an you have a field trip nomination. >> Oh, I do. >> Oh, here it is. >> All right. Cross country. Let's see. They are taking a field trip. >> To the Nike regional championships in New York. Um they are asking to leave uh Hington Middle High School on November 21st and um returning on November 22nd. >> Cool. Awesome. >> Yeah, I went on this same trip last year and it was fantastic. It was the most competitive race I've ever done in my whole life. It was scary um to that effect, but it was great. It was a great experience. >> Awesome. >> Yeah, it looks like it's a pretty big race.
083>> It is a pretty big race. >> Yep. Very cool. Awesome. Cool. Okay. Anything else? Consent agenda. >> Um, nice thing is I think they're going to take our mini bus, >> so we will be able to save Yeah. save some money on that, but nothing else from the consent agenda. >> Great. All right. Okay. Uh, do I have a motion for approval of the consent agenda as presented? >> Yes. Second. >> Okay. All those in favor? Wait. Nope. Any discussion? >> Great. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? That's it. All right. Rob, you had budget committee last night. How was it? >> We did. It was wonderful. >> We uh went through the various town water precincts. Um talked about Laura's new formatting. Um I've got a few questions for Jim, Amy, and
084Laura that I can get back to you guys on later. um did make sure to let everybody know that our work session was next week and that it would be a good time if they really want to dial in and hear all of the details that that would be a good meeting for folks to attend. So hopefully we'll have some folks from the budget committee there. >> Great. >> Um and give them an update on our scheduling for security redesign. >> Well, awesome. Amazing. >> Have another one added. Yeah. >> Cool. And then you guys will do finance in two weeks right before the next meeting. The Monday before our next Tuesday meeting. Awesome. Um >> if you think of it, include me on >> what you sent. >> I'm sorry. >> If you think
085of it, include me on what you sent. You send your >> I know when you do. >> Um anything else in policy? kind of updated. I see. I also went to my first wellness. So, we got that back together. Yes, Miss Laura. Um, and I was really interested in um some of the features that Health Trust um offer and then Laura looking at scheduling some people to come in and actually talk to employees how to use Health Thrust and their benefits. So, >> right. Cool. It's good. >> Awesome. Amazing. Yeah, that's great. Um, CIP, before you guys get started, working on the spreadsheet additions that Mr. Feller requested. So, that's in the docket for this week. So, we'll get those rolled out ASAP. Anything else from the CIP committee? >> I don't think we uh
086safety and security, we have not met. Is that right? Or hopefully I haven't missed something. >> Okay, it's coming up. Okay, great. Uh, EMC, we met two Thursdays ago. Is that right? Um, and it was really starting to think a little bit about um, what do we want our role to be now that a lot of the facility stuff is underway with EMC, the company, the ESCO, and and you guys. Um, I was really starting to think about like what would that look like throughout the schools, um, both for curriculum and thinking about energy management, um, thinking about some practices that we could do and beyond. And so there's actually a survey that's going to go out to the entire faculty tomorrow as part of PD day to ask about um what are people currently
087doing? Is there um any uh uh inclination to lean in and and work with the committee and what would be helpful for people as they're thinking about what they're doing in their classrooms and at their buildings. So we got a new member of Hino. So that's pretty great. You know, we now have a teacher from Harold Martin which is awesome. It's a trainable population when it comes to composting. Um, but that's great. Anything you'd add there, Lizzy? >> I don't think so. >> Okay, cool. All right, I think that's it. So, with that, we are at our second public comment portion of the evening. Um, there is a uh email that came in that was posted um uh that you can read if you would like to do so. Um, and if you would like
088to come up, please state your name, address, and please keep your comments to 3 minutes. >> Are we able to read those? >> Yeah. Yep. >> Are they online? >> Yep. They're on dig. Y >> they they don't come in that often anymore, but we post them if they do. >> Tons. >> Okay. >> Yes, ma'am. Um Okay. Cool. Um, old business, other business, shout out for the security redesign presentation at the middle high school on the 15th from 6:00 to 7:00. All right, great. Anything else? Okay, I would just say following the letter that got posted, um, I'd like to commend our teachers. Uh there were uh there was a third grade class that was walking to the book fair in conquered and had to go buy a bunch of protesters. Um and the
089protesters were pretty active in getting in the kids' faces. And I think that the teachers did a really nice job of I think getting the students safely to where they needed to go. So thank you to third grade. >> They did a really nice job. Um the principal Brown went to the location, worked collaboratively with the principal of Chris McAuliffe as well because there were actually two elementary schools there at the book book fair event >> at the capital center. So that was unfortunate. >> All right. But they did a nice job. >> I guess the only other thing I I would throw out there is um that the kids clothing sale was very successful this past weekend >> at St. Andrews. They um raised over $1,200 which is going to the food bank. >>
090Nice. >> Um and they're going to aim to be doing two a year. So >> great. >> It'll be another one. I think they're shooting for April. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Would it be okay if I mention Lunch? >> Yeah. >> Um this week, uh Jod and I went to meet with the organizers of Got Lunch from St. Andrew's Church. And so we will be putting out some communication around that to ensure that if there are families that benefit from that program. Um I think they you know are always looking to support additional families and I think it was a really great meeting. It was our board Jod myself and Janette Sanchez who's our new Mckin Vento leazison. So again I think they try to do a lot in the community St. Andrews and
091we're thankful for their support. >> Awesome. Awesome. And with that, we do have a need for a non-public uh under RSA 91- A 3, 2, parentheses C uh for reputation. It's a roll call vote. Uh Rob Nato. >> Oh, wait. No, wait. Don't do that yet. We are going to go into nonpublic. There will not be a need for coming back into public following closure of the nonpublic. So, that's a wrap. Rob, >> I've always wondered what would happen if I said no. >> Um I actually, it's a great question. I need to I need to proceed to that. Great. Jonathan Khan, >> yes. >> Suzanne, >> yes.