0011 at at 2025 at 5:15 for the withdrawal of funds from the school district bu building repair and maintenance fund for the following not to exceed $112,000 for kitchen equipment uh not to exceed $50,000 for a hot water heater at hopkington middle high school not to exceed $30,000 for classroom and cafeteria Furnishings District ride and 42228 .23 for the performance contract payment for a total of $134,200 $ 22823 at the school board meeting immediately following the hearing the board will vote on an action item regarding the withdrawal from the school district building repair and maintenance fund um and all interested residents are welcome to attend and we will ask for public comment uh in just a bit here um Jim do you want to come on up please all right tell us what we got
002all right thank you for this public hearing on this item so uh just a brief overview of the specifics of what the ask is so um the kitchen equipment is for here at Maple Street School uh we had we currently have a unit a gas unit that's a um oven and stove mix um it is about 40 plus years old we can't lock down a date but it's fairly old and uh about half of it if not 3/4 of it is not working uh we've had a uh person come out to try to take look at repair it um but they just don't make those type of parts and elements anymore so it was deemed unsafe and shut down so that's why the need that we would like to replace it a lot sooner than
003wait till after July we got still some school year left on it so the strategy is is to get instead of a combination unit is uh replace with a singular oven which that is currently 28 years old and replace the so so instead of one item it's going to be two separate so that's for the kitchen over at Maple Street uh the 50k for the hot water heer this um was this failed late January it failed prematurely um it was installed back in 2020 so not old at all um so this was very very concerning um we had uh some more investigation on it um through Denon Hall which who we call initially um there's no real rhyme Reon of why it failed like it wasn't crack because of cold weather or overuse at all
004it's those hot water tanks are commercial they're supposed to just go for 10 15 years um we did make a call to our insurance company um and they came out and did an evaluation and uh they will be um assisting in uh the cost of replacing that so um however um the one thing that just took a little bit more time uh to to get information on is whether we want to make the jump to switch from oil to gas and uh we met about this in CIP several times and as a committee we agreed that this would be a good time to make that that jump into gas so uh a little bit more expensive than a like for like replacement but we felt um supplementing what we feel or think we're going to
005get from um insurance and uh a little bit more money nrn will will set us in that path to Energy Efficiency longevity um of course uh we will be reviewing those bids after this meeting we we part we're going to partner with EMC U to take care of the project and um we have some sever different options um so I know some people are thinking what it's did you go like hybrid um for a gas for a unit for a water heater that that large to handle the high school um there's we don't have enough power for it to be a hybrid option all electric option so that's why we're we're going to be kicking around a couple different units um in case you're wondering um how are we heating the high school right now
006for hot water uh we actually have two oil fired units the other one is a little bit smaller than this one that went uh it was it was piped in such a way to handle just the kitchen uh but we're thankful that those piping modifications to bypasses uh we we those are interchangeable so we're using one heater to heat the whole school right now of course it's not designed for that type of capacity but uh the other positive thing is that uh through the course of Renovations and remodels over time there's been a lot of lowf flow fixtures and a lot of the um the locker room showers have been removed so our water consumption overall is low uh which that hot water tank is able to keep up but that's dat 2017 a little
007bit nervous but um looking forward to go further on it um and then second to last is 30k for furniture um we're going to continue with the bulk of that 30,000 to go for uh our cafeteria replacement um cafeteria table replacement plan over at the Middle High School um with a little bit of residual for just some um some random furniture passs from different departments um and then the performance contract is a set amount and um I think we low that amount for the next 10 years we asked for it so great was longwinded but no that was good any questions from the board no and I'm guessing I'm just going to ask this was there any warranty or anything on the the hot water heater that failed there was a threeyear warranty so we
008missed it by two years proba about a year okay all right okay fair enough I'll park here if anybody has sounds good all right um now we're open for public comment if you'd like to come up please state your name address and we ask you keep your comments to three minutes my name is Alan Shone 2264 Hopkinson Road K took of New Hampshire all right um I do normally do not get involved in town issues because of the the way things flow in town but I've been in facilities or actually I'm retired at 66 I was a facilities manager for 18 years for the largest truck dealer in the Northeast at the time and for 40 years I've been involved so if at the end of year iuce these items when two weeks ago we
009had a town meeting that to me is concerning if these things happen in January and Beyond why were they not line items on your budget the other thing is um I do not see in the world of private I do not see competitive bidding is there competitive bidding we have three competitive bids what is the turn very good idea to go gas electricity is not the way to go but what is going to be our return is it seven years before this unit is paid for is it 10 and also on a commercial unit what will be the coverage in the mechanical room I guess it appears we only have one and a half heers have we looked into a staggering system you can only give certain temperature to I worked for Dartmouth for 9
010years you can only give certain temperature to the average human you have to have cleaning possibilities to your kitchen so you need a mixing system it's all in this in fill and if not why isn't it and for $50,000 I'm going to tell you that water heater would be go LED I do not rule that this should go forward we have any other public comments Lauren Clement 86 Maple Street um I had a um question about the converting to gas and if we are set up to handle that in the utility room that it's going in or if that's part of the additional cost if there's already gas plumed into that area um if not that would make sense that it's adding to the cost um but I do understand that gas generally there less
011maintenance in the long run and runs cleaner um we've converted several things to gas ourselves um the other question is and was I don't know if Jim covered it was the performance contract payment um I got a I put in a right to know to get a copy of the performance contract and read through it and I think we're on the sixth year of paying into this and as years go on we're supposed to get a return on the um from what we put in and I'm wondering at six years how that performance contract is keeping Pace with what the projections were it seemed like there was a lot of dot eyes to Dot and to check and that if you didn't do them all that you we might be void on that contract it
012it's quite complicated in a quick reading over I think it's 70 or 100 Pages um but that was my understanding of reading through it that we're supposed to get some return on electric savings and gas savings and I believe boilers and some of the items were purchased through that um I know we're getting some boilers down the road and I'm just curious how that performance contracts holding up thank you thanks I answer some questions yeah I'll answer a couple questions so um the hot water heater replacement the performance contract payment the kitchen appliance replacement at Maple Street and the classroom and cafeteria Furnishings are detailed in our CIP um our document that was in both the bulletin and uh I think our uh slides and our handouts at district meeting um the hot water replacement
013is under the 2425 school year because that's happening this year and we're pulling up items from the 25 26 uh due to due to need uh we do bid out uh projects um I think that that is more than do you remember Michelle and Laura what the there's certain threshold based on our policy as to the value right but we bid everything out we do go by the policy yep and we received I think two bids yes we had two interested biders on this one I think also even in my presentation on the water I I talked about the water yeah yeah so we do do that um we Jim do you want to talk a little bit about the equipment or are you good I think it's okay yeah yeah okay um questions yeah
014EMC looks at like the the return on investment is something that or Energy Management what do we our it's our en Energy Management committee right uh looks at return on investment and this was actually part of a recent presentation in that committee looking exactly at your return on investment how soon you can pay we will essentially be paying um getting that return on investment for different options yeah so those are all things that you know of course are are considered when making these decisions not by us yeah um and then we are in uh year six right now of 16 of the performance contract um and that's something that we look at I think on a annual basis to see where we are so yeah but we can I wrote down return on investment but
015I we can get some more actuals for you we don't have them right now yeah okay okay any other public comment perfect timing yes I'm still the same person you're telling me that you look at energy and you have two bids but what are they if I was to present the needs to the owner of a company and tell them I need this much money to put in a new boiler or a new hot water heater a new over head doors they want to know what our return of investment is going to be what the energy cost is going to be now and what is going to be projected to be seven years from now and 10 years from now and the same with two bids no not two bids three because you always take
016the guy in the middle you don't take the low one and you don't take the high one then what's the guarantee on their work and labor is it tnm time of materials or is it not to exceed not to exceed in both cases so basically you're politically playing me you're giving me information but you're giving me nothing I guess I don't know what we're looking for what I think it's okay okay all right um with that we are going to we're not going to vote on anything until the actual school board meeting so I'm going to close the public hearing um and we will start the board meeting minutes in 5 minutes yep great yeah I mean have to give my information I know it was being e e e all right everyone um to
017move that to at the end right yeah great okay welcome everyone to the April 1st meeting of the hopkington school board this is our regular meeting at 5:30 um we are here today with Rob NATO Jonathan Cohen Suzanne carmichel Andrea fulson myself Dy M laa our superintendent Mike Flynn Michelle clar our business administrator Laura Taylor assistant business administrator jod Conan board secretary extraordinaire student rep Noah aame student rep clapis and Matt Stone on technology if everyone could please rise 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 all right we have four sets of meeting minutes to approve one for the uh superintendent committee meeting of the school
018board at for the search committee on March 12th one for the superintendent search committee meeting for the school board on March 17th one for the superintendent search committee meeting on the 19th and one for the regular meeting of the hopk and school board on March 18th do I have a motion to approve so moved second okay any discussion all right all those in favor I I any opposed great so we do have an additional set non-public um they're in the nonpublic bter Y and though let me just look at those real quick all right and we do have a set of non-public meeting minutes um for uh the April for March 18th March 18th um do I have a motion to approve the non-public meetings meeting minutes for March 18th don't moved second all right
019um all those in FA or any discussion all right all those in favor I I okay great Iain I wasn't at you not there thank you okay um we are now at the first public comment portion of the evening if you'd like to come up uh please state your name address and we ask you keep it to 3 minutes I we have one at the end okay great awesome um student reps what's your commentary this evening oh what's the commentary this evening um all right so I guess I'll start um spring fors have started we'll start with with mrve in the building I think it's an appropriate place to start yesterday we had the scholar athletes award Awards night ceremony it was really nice um it was at conquered or the capital Center and there
020was how many athletes were represented 13 athletes were represented you need a B+ and to play two Varsity Sports in your senior year so it's a it was pretty it was pretty awesome and a great representation from Hopkinson um the civics class just went on a field trip to the Kennedy Center and it was awesome as always um a lot of positive feedback from that which there always is Miss C field trips they they Rock um you want to take this one uh yeah sure we had a student advisory council meeting um last week and we discussed parking as usual we discuss discussed eating lunch outside because it's nicer now and then Mr Kelly tell us some interesting things about the competency system next year and um that was just interesting for us to learn
021about the changes coming um the middle school is performing the play the 12th night I think um High School 12 night is oh that's the high school play yeah there's okay there's a different real School play I'm not sure that is I don't think they've announced it yet okay okay to be deter so high school play the 12th night on April 11th and 12th yeah okay that sounds cool and then the environmental action CL is um hosting a clothing swap on Earth Day April 22nd and we're also working on getting the greenhouse going and the rotary gave us like plastic bag recycling things that they have around town so hopefully we can get a bench for the school as well if we like Give Them Enough plastic recycling then we can get that so yeah
022I think that's the update bring in all your plastic filmit stre next week you are oh talk about the Apple testing oh yeah you guys imple implemented that so we we're starting to get at least for the upper levels of language we're starting to get the results back and they're super super positive good I did you did I think I got I5 whatever that's for another conversation um but um so yeah no there're super positives uh super positive improvements from last year upon everyone in the class so um it was it's awesome and it's it's it's really working the language Department which is exciting awesome cool all right any questions for our student reps there's lots of plastic to be found at the transfer station if you need any extra you can slide over it's
023it's specifically stretchy plastic though you have to be able to if you can stretch it with your thumbs and it doesn't rip then you a bag type of thing I don't know there's probably a lot of like green bags that aren't going to be used now so they might can't believe we're doing that right now it's true day going to talk about the new acquisition but you know do that amazing well cool guys do we know how many meetings you guys have left we down to like our final eight I can tell you six how many one more in April two in May one in June yeah four oh my God you guys vote for that's how's the recruiting [Music] going it'll it'll happen okay you tell him about the salary yeah yeah we did
024youday great mean mean letter of recommendation though yeah that's right that's good all right cool thanks guys uh board comments Rob I'm good thank you all right Jonathan uh yeah I'm I'm good thank you okay Suzanne are you going to send out is are they uh taking donations for the C swap yeah we are we're going to put it in Susan cover and we've got buckets at like the library and B basket and in the high school so great awesome stop all right Andrea I was I was going to talk about the 12th night Shakespeare happing April 11th and 12th that's exciting Good Time 12th night that's right on the 12th night okay great and I have nothing uh so that's great so we're going to move to current business that sounds good with you
025all right so our first order of business is we have our superintendent nomination which is a pretty exciting thing to be doing we are going to miss you to be clear um so you know I just I I might be more excited than everyone here okay uh so as everyone knows uh we ran a search process over the last month or so uh where um we got uh the we started inviting applications ran those for two weeks we also put out surveys to the community to teachers to administrators and got uh I think close to 160 responses there that were actually like pretty consistently uniform in terms of I think what everyone was looking for in our next superintendent um got six applications moved it down to four for the screening committee made of uh
026administrators teachers and three board members then went to to two final interviews and then uh we were thrilled to Pieces um to to I think you know what some of the things we were looking for was like a real educational leader who's strong in curriculum someone who I think understands some of the demands of this District which includes special ed uh someone who I think can really connect with our community um and who is also a strong administrator to continue some of the the work that we've been doing um and so it was with great pleasure and extreme excitement that we would like to nominate Amy Doyle to be the next superintendent of the Hopkinton school [Applause] district and I think we have a couple excited former students of Miss Doyles here because Amy was
027uh assistant principal for Herold Martin and Maple Street and then became principal of Maple Street uh and uh ruled with the best kind of leadership I think so any comments from the board yeah yeah you got to make a motion oh I have to make a motion can I can I have a motion to to H nominate Amy Doyle as superintendent of the Hopton School District effective July 1st 2025 so moved second all right question and comments so I just wanted to again thank everybody for the process that went you know very smoothly and of course equally excited or as excited as everybody else see Amy coming back on board with us so looking forward to the coming year we will miss you Michael is about Amy is about Amy all just want to make
028sure you know no well anyone else okay oh that's me yeah I do uh I'm also thrilled I think that um you know this was for Rob and I both this was our second time going through a superintendent search um and so uh I think the process worked really well we learned a lot um when we got to hire Mike and we were able to put that into action ran a a tight process um and a fair process and I think you know through some really great interviews um it was just really clear that Amy is the absolute right choice for our district um to keep moving us forward and could not be more excited to work with her yeah so um I'm also really excited Amy has been was a math teacher for 18
029years and Bo before she came to hopkington and then she went to go be the assistant I know Donna's thrill to Pieces Don's like yes I know H and then went to go be the assistant superintendent marac which is a larger District um and was also the curricul leader there and now she'll come and join us in in July um so we're thrilled yeah um just we yeah go ahead met Amy four years ago was uh worked with her for a year you know the one that got away type of thing um spent time in marac which is a very large district and I think the cool part is when I got hired four years ago it's like who's this guy what's he about what's he doing you she gets to pick up and kind
030of go because there's a baseline for Amy um whether you like her or not which I told her was part of the job um there's at least a baseline for everyone that knows what we're what we're doing and um I think it's also pretty cool um when I met her four years ago she said she wanted to be a superintendent and it's like passing you know here you go so um district is absolutely probably in better hands maybe some people's minds which is also fine but I think she's going to do an absolute phenomenal job and be here for a long time so I'm excited a congrats all right shall we all right all those in favor I any post great all right welcome Amy come up do you want to say anything do you
031want to say anything you don't have to if you want to yeah so thank you all for your kind words and going through the process a second time here has just been again affirming for me that this is a wonderful Community one that I'm so happy to return to there are um old on the leadership team and in the community and on the teaching staff and students now that are getting ready to graduate and go into the world but I'm also really excited about meeting new faces and making new relationships um here and I'm just thrilled to be coming back so thank you so much all right thank you we to sh in yeah okay yeah all right congratulations it's great all righty um do we want to do h do you guys want to
032stick to updates or do you want to do haa first they want to do ha first yeah do ha all right so another another great um thank you principles um and thank you administrator team for being here really appreciate it um we have our haa contract which was approved at the school district meeting two weeks ago yep on um and we are have the members of the h a negotiating committee here to go ahead and sign it so um we just want to do this formally all together all right just before you get there you know a couple weeks ago we kind of reflected on the district meeting um as I'm doing Reflections after four years we passed every contract we put forward the vo voting um to the body uh unanimously overwhelmingly um it's
033just another siment of the community of how much uh they value what we do and how we do it in working with the kids um negotiations is always interesting I think we've built a pretty good partnership through these These Times um and I think that uh this how do I say this district is really set up for Success over the next couple years uh only only know that because of some of the challenges I'm already beginning to face in in my new District that uh you guys are going to be able to continue to recruit and retain and have high quality individuals all right all right committee come on up this is an exciting day got a realen a yep there's a pen right on got a lot of yeah just above where your name
034is something it's blue how are you good no I just want it to be blue because I know it's not doing anything the spr mine can mine's black they're all black can you give them the pen that I gave to dely please oh that one that one do you want me to sign over no I just I just want at least one signature that's blue so I know it's an original oh [Music] very yes I'm not very TR yeah we need one more blue over here if your P blue pen no it's black we can do this is black as well we just need one more blue one blue over here got it that [Laughter] isend and then everything else can be in Black yeah gend of principle I don't explain God I've seen your
035true colors in the last month and a half but you know we're fig I think she's there I think she's just chatting with people yeah she to chat oh good one we get all sign as well here yeah we screwed that up one that was that you do you guys want to take a picture I think we had to do the like great we signed on the wrong L Mr Z we doing a picture we're going to do a picture cool you're um all right supercan your name is on the board he made it you are a board member J yeah but he made which is great mil more g$1 million budget more great BB I know I know no Chris isn't here last one well brand new baseballs with torpedo BS honor usually the
036meetings aren't this like sporadic y we the new superintend just need they're the negotiators can we like come in a little bit you guys come in a little bit why we're come in Dy there you go all right three two one hold on oh my God went to video hold on you don't need a video Miss Jody I know I'm slacking in my duties thank you congratulations hello y oh did you get one here you go and you know it's original sign mybite no we got extras yeah we got two extras we got two and I think the sooner rather than later iron awesome you bud got it n we should just wait that's right I say end a we don't have to do it again thank you teachers 297 thank you guys have a
037great night all right here is the other one right and now without further Ado what yeah there's no one here you guys just you can make a motion and just we can sign it at the end move on to teamsters and then let them okay all right um we also approved at the school district meeting two weeks ago our Teamsters contract which is for our custodians and uh maintenance staff um do we I have a motion to approve the teacher the teamsters contract so Mo second okay any discussion no thank you to them though as well they do hard work and our schools look great y so I'm really happy we have a fair they did excellent contract for them all those in favor sorry okay so I need you to I also make a
038motion for AA yeah y so we just yeah we had we had approved it but I don't know if we actually made a motion to to do it so do I can I have a motion to approve the haa contract all right second second any discussion thank you all right also thrilled all those in favor great sign this at the end great okay cool they just with that um we have our three principles here today updates about their buildings um car and spring green let's do it what the I know I'll go from left to right you I don't know if you notic a new format and I I a hyperlink in um this is to keep up with uh Mrs Brown's graphic design skills so I would just like to highight one of my
039students jce Marshall he is one of three students in the entire State of New Hampshire that is being considered for the New Hampshire Civic Soap Box um speaking competition he wrote a very moving speech about unseen disabilities he is very open about the fact that he has a vision disability so it was very impassioned it was very um well written so we're we're super excited for him and I'm really proud of him that takes courage not only to speak publicly but also about you know one's own disability um another thing that's relatively new is there was a student Agency Group at um Hoppington Middle High School that wanted to create a positive transition for sixth graders they do the traditional stepup days where they're actually going tomorrow for a stepup assembly um but this group
040of students CA came to us and said we'd like to work with individual students that may have issues transitioning or it may be difficult for them so a lot of care was chosen in matching the high school students with Maple Street School students they came last week they met them and now they're planning activities to do together so it was really positive Performing Arts Club is in full swing title of their play is what happened Once Upon a Time based on a series of fairy tales we have 26 sixth graders performing in that parents can come to the um dress rehearsal and then they'll do it for the entire School the following day I won't go down all my list of upcoming events we we have quite a bit I do want to highlight the
041sixth grade mock trials those are happening next week I spoke about that last year where um you have retired um legal professionals that come in and they actually kids actually play roles in a court case and today attorney Dina chedz and state representative Robert Lynn came in to prep the students for this so they knew their roles they understood the court case so it's really really cool um I don't know if you noticed the large apparatus once when you walked in I spoke about this last time but the Hydroponics unit is here it's called a fork Farm um questions included is it a tanning bed um who is going to go inside of it um so I'm literally revealing a little bit each day over the announcements um I have elevated my position um to
042a farm manager um there's one of three of us Mrs Martin's doing that Mrs ra is also doing it the seeds are germinating as we speak we're going to grow lettuce basil lavender Tomatoes spinach and kale and we're going to involve kids in the cultivation crew of harvesting it and contributing to the cafeteria so we're super excited for that was cool amazing right cool thank you thank you questions for me what's the turnaround on the Hydroponics like when do you expect that to actually yield lettuce is relatively soon lettu is within a few weeks yeah yeah we we have the capability to produce 25 lbs of fresh produce and then does that get integrated into like lunches or that it's going directly into lunches they actually recommended we keep doing it over the summer and
043then possibly donate it to the food pantries I just think that's a great project really good to bring some Whole Foods and sort of think about you know where where your food comes from and eating healthy it's that's a really good project and there's a lot of chemistry in it as well like we have to test the pH the the nutrient level there's a lot of math involved in that so students will be doing that we're going to teach them how to do all those skills yeah that's I just think it's just really great very excited about that all right thank you thank thank you thanks car right you said left or right all right it's Kelly licking all over all right first said get three minutes from you speak youve got a lot of
044updates to be fair there's a lot in here so there there was a lot in the board report but um you know it's funny a lot of people say it's the end of the school year things must be winding down and it's quite the reverse of that uh this is probably the busiest time of the year for the front offices and uh just for our school counselors and our teachers especially our ad teachers we're getting ready to um prepare them well we've been preparing them for the AP uh exams that are coming up we're also preparing our students for the a so there's a lot of assessment that's going to be taking place in the month of May so that's been going on um going along the lines of uh or keeping in mind the
045EAC or the environmental action Club it was really cool to see them today we've done with them showing up the forks it was really cool educating our middle school kids about utilizing our metal silverware and our plastic silverware so it was really cool to see our high school kids interacting with the middle school kids um we have a couple dances coming up the big one is the pr on May 9th so we want to come and see all our kids all dressed up and help Jake and I sh on that we are welcoming anybody no there doesn't work you have to be fingerprinted it I don't have any um in the guidance department they are ramping up we had just finished our section allocation meeting so we're getting ready with our Master build again with
046a goal in mind to get our student schedules in their hands at the end of the school year that's a big thing for us we're able to accomplish that the last two years we're going to keep that going um and obviously uh some of our new courses like a film studies course is really well subscribed so I'm excited to see these new courses um really gain a lot of interest um by our student body um so also in there in the Middle School news you know transition we' been talking a lot about transition from neighor Street School to the Middle School um and one of the things I really enjoy about just all of our staff is how they continue to think about how to support our students so on top of what you'll see
047in the board report um I just had a meeting this morning with two of our Middle School teachers um well bestern school counselor and Liz Kar and they're thinking about more of the students that are on the periphery and how can we do a different activity for those students uh to bring them into the fold get them outside of these other transition activities so we're looking at things about bringing in staff on The Brown Center at UNH to work with those students um and applying for some grant money from the Haring schools Foundation help support that work on top of the S to sth grade when we get to that point so those are exciting conversations to have when staff continue to think outside the box of how we can include all students so I'm
048really excited to see some of that work uh come together um as we continue to support what it is that they're thinking about um you heard about 12 night looking forward to seeing that coming up couple trips coming up um the Spanish trip went off wonderfully I talked to Senor booth that was a great trip for our students um and they're getting ready for another one I I don't think you talk about it the king arur B scho wowor so you be going dark you remember that yeah Thursday Thursday I got you um so just another example of trying to get students outside the classroom and learn a different environments um and we also um if you remember I think I talked about we had judge broad come and talk to the Middle School um
049and then we did apparently um and um you never know what kind of attendance you're going to get when you hold those kind of events I was pleased that we had about 25 to 30 people in the audience that night um so we had the Supreme Court Judge brck there we had um we had a social worker a doctor there to talk about childhood and mental health well-being we had representatives from Nami and riverb there as well that answered questions and also talked about the services that they can offer um so again it's you know just kind of all these different things that we're doing at the end of the year it's not just teaching the person it's lot of mental health stuff thinking about all our students not just those that do well in
050school but students that just need our support so if you have questions about the board report that I submitted but those are just some of the extra ones yes yes for so for I know for that was very well done for someone who tries to stay under a certain time limit all the time um for the the Justice broaderick piece is there anything that we can share either on the district site or go out through the nest or the skims because I feel like it's a great resource especially if all those people were there if they had any material just in terms of if people have questions about I'll ask Beth if Nami left some materials so I'll ask her if she collected any of that material that we can share out y um yeah
051I'll talk with her when I get back just because it's a Tom if people weren't able to go it's still nice to be able to be able to point people in a direction um also the I remember and these guys probably remember but the transition from Maple Street to the middle high school is terrifying um as a child and so it justes the work that I think you guys are doing to help them transition is terrific and I really really appreciate it and uh it I think it just makes it less ferociously scary so thank you remember we changed the SL to seventh grade and how it works so when they come up it's not about just playing some of the games that we used to set up they actually follow their schedule for their
052core classes and the teachers actually get half an hour with them y uh before school even starts so great we get a little sample of what it takes to navigate the building half an hour with a teacher they get to do a get to know you kind of activity again I think it just helps to set it up that first day through the doors that's great um mentioned the first selection process yes um and I appreciate you getting the schedules out to kids before they leave I had a question regarding the requests versus the actual ual assignments does the curriculum and assessment committee have access to the request just to sort of St request yeah the look at needs like right if you have like a ton of kids asking for say wood shop but
053we don't have it available that might impact you know what we might do on PR limit assessment committee or like do we do we know those number like you know those numbers does the curriculum committee have access to those numbers shared them with the curc assessment committee um we we've just used them inh housee to determine how many sections we need um of each course across all curriculums um or I'll use them you know with a superintendent if we're looking additional at any point in time or things on so it'd be interesting just to see if kids are requesting something that we can't meet usually we can need quite a bit of yeah oh yeah I mean there's always just because they request it doesn't mean they always get it right because we'll run the
054schedule I mean there's probably I know six or seven runs that we do that schedule to continue to get that that acceptance rate up high yeah we today was a perfect example then you you called me and said hey I'm really getting high on some of the we won't go into details but some of the UA sections yeah so really trying to evaluate do we allocate a class or not so but CNA could certainly do a Daya dive if they wanted to okay thank you yeah awesome hopkington news yes so I was watching the the video clip of the the Hopkins and news thing like so how's that all like where it looks like there's got to be a green screen because I know we don't have that so where's that all happening and so
055if you remember um Flo mentioned the student advisor ccil and that was one of those ideas the students started talking about and I said yeah let's let's do it and uh K and fr um who volunteers to a lot U volunteered to be the adviser of that group um we actually had a student who transferred in from another school had some experience and he's been kind of leading that um it's kind of impressive to watch how he's been putting that all together and they're the ones doing all the work putting the news Clips together they've done Sho um so in this video that you saw the background I'm not sure the doing thaty I don't know if you I think yeah I think they use the green screen in the library maybe library and then
056everyone it's cool like a bunch of kids just record on their own like even at their house or at a different classroom so it's like tons of kids involved so this this second video so first continue I think it's their third video this we only showed two I think yeah yeah they may have made three but yeah yeah yeah it's really cool sure something like probably hook up with mu and get some they've got a lot of broadcasting stuff that they're doing right now but good news and are you doing the Empanada thing are you going on that with the fourth fifth Spanish so so the King Arthur yeah yeah I'm going all right well you better take good notes because I'm working on my empanadas and I I will take the best notes don't
057worry I will share them with you and make sure you bring samples to the next board meeting I'm only making I'm only making six well you're going to make them at home after and bring them here okay okay I can do that I can do that I'll help you out all right am thank you Kelly thank you Chris this is exciting thank you all right Patrice Mrs Brown Excuse me fin figure out I was timer he was at 9 minutes it's okay he had great questions so that's really what matters that's right good engagement I don't often get to goaps this isting um so we had a great month of March at Harold Martin it was a blast to celebrate literacy in a variety of ways we started the month off with a themed week
058for read Across America where we really just focus on some easy ways to celebrate reading and take some opportunities to just have some fun reading uh the mass reader was our big event last week which was huge um they miss Falls we went above and beyond a giant bracket of 16 books and she videotaped all the teachers with emojis over their faces and reading the books and everyone was getting very into when they got knocked out and all the teachers were getting you know all like there were all there was there's a lot of talk going on the hallways the kids were also involved in it then that she was printing out the pictures from the videos that there was like a visual piece of moving down and you know we were all claiming every
059every was cheating and it was you know a hop but um in the end chickas one with how the coyote how coyote created the Milky Way so it was um all by student V student vote so we had a kindergarten bracket a first grade bracket second third grade and then by the end it was full school so it was really exciting and fun um and then yesterday we ended the month with a schoolwide read aloud and we had revealed all of our secret readers so the kids were really excited into that and and waving and doing all the things so it was really nice um yesterday's school I real allowed was the book the world needs who you are meant to be um and it really focuses on how everyone is different and some people
060like to work together and some people like to work alone but uh in the book they create different uh hot air balloons and in the sky you see how all the different hot air balloons looking different really makes a great picture so uh each classroom got a copy of that book and a blank Journal so that students are uh able to bring to a home home share with their families and then create what their hot air balloon looks like and talk about what makes them special in their family so really just kind of wrapping up in that family experience that we've been working on this year um speaking of assemblies we also had the new market jump rope team come I had never seen the new market jump roping team I was expecting like adults
061for coming in to jump rope and these like second graders or fifth graders walked in and there were 25 of them and their like coordinated shirts and outfits and there was an eight count and there was a lot of jumping and twisting um it was a fantastic show the kids were fully engaged and it really launched our um hard rope or jump for help the heart rope for help jope for heart jump rope for they changed the name Jump Rope for Heart it's been going on forever used to be the heart hell fundraiser so um but it was it was great I think one of the greatest pieces that we took away from there where the kids um well very skilled performers occasionally there were mistakes and the teacher who was there coaching them didn't
062let them make the mistake she said okay we try again and then she had them go again so it was really cool to watch our students who maybe don't know how to jump grow at that level make a mistake and then we're like oh remember they made mistakes and then they try again so really that whole um area of you know that growth mindset was really exciting for us um I know we talked a lot about amplify and the addition of that knowledge component to our curriculum but it has been just so exciting for the students and staff um from you know king T to to mythology in third grade to exploring the solar system at various levels uh we have just really tied our um lessons and our activities into this lesson uh third
063grade the other day learned about the difference between convex and concave using a spoon and drawing pictures of their face in the spoon um they thought it was the greatest magic trick that when you turn the spoon around we were upside down um so this like let I mean they're all running around with Miss Gregory spoons because no one else wanted to donate their spoons so miss Gregory shout out to her formal fan spoons being used through out but um it's been really nice we just recently first grade went to the Mcall Shepherd Discovery Center as part of their learning unit and that is a field trip that we hadn't done in the past with first grade so that was really exciting for them so we have a lot of really cool things going on
064it's becoming that crazy time of year um we've got family board game night tomorrow night pizza board games uh everyone is really excited to share off their best this might also be as much of a competition as the reader of who has the best board game for our teachers but it's good uh we have tiger coming later this month so this is our month of kindness um teger will come and do their performance and we'll hit on all of those um key key competencies uh kindergarten information Day is coming up it's kindergarten registration time so we'll start that whole process um and then you talked about w we have Kevin scarupa coming so Mr Kelly if you want I can get you hooked up with Mr scuba we pretty close okay I you come on
065over and I'll I'll get you and then we have the town the town BS coming for Memorial Day they in the past have come for flag day but that's so closely after Memorial day that we just thought let's do something all together um then so that'd be good um and then not listed on here is we have Step Up dat at middle school or to Maple Street uh May 28th so we're organizing all those pieces so a lot of fun things going on I didn't even mention testing but that's also coming out so it's a crazy end of the school year for us but we're really doing it with a lot of fun and smiles awesome question I have seen I think uh a screener thing populating around I think for both prek and potentially
066for kindergarten is is there a way that we can just amplify for everyone for potentially incoming kindergarten parents all of the things for kindergarten information night what they could learn yeah cuz uh I will get that information as a current parent but if there's any new parents I think we want to try to get it out through Susan yeah we just talked about doing that U Mrs Ian was researching all the ways to get information out very detailed research paper going and one of the things she realized is that we need an A-frame out near our sign as of like kindergarten registration happening so oh I honestly thought that you meant an I I can get the news around don't worry I can get Noah over at my building that would be awes but when
067you drive by like a lot of other schools have something out there that says like it's half kindergarten registration um that will help us out yes we're going to do that we can we not get one where the letters melt when it rains because that's that was my last experience okay so that sounds great I also would like one that when we hit it it doesn't fall over okay we'll work on that together I don't do either doesn't Dr doesn't drown the big puddle doesn't drown on the big puddle no does he fall over I think Noah could be a time you need go to new job yeah I wasn't listen great so yeah so it I think getting that information out there is important and getting people to register soon we haven't put out
068the dates for kindergarten screening yet typically when we do that then everyone starts registering but going through that whole piece so okay cool I also I also know that for the board game night tomorrow so for setup that's going to displace Mrs D and the after school yep so I just want to make sure that we're trying to communicate as early as possible so that they can make because that's a a program that really benefits a lot of people oh yeah that have kid so to try to give as much heads up as possible to her yeah we always work with that when we do night so that they have that information yeah so and it's very rare that we interrupt during their program time y cool thank you Patrice questions I just excited to
069see that J jump for heart is still going I remember doing it I had puff paint t-shirts love jump for heart I mean there's going to be an opportunity for people to come in and swing some jump ropes and do some jumping if you're do double jge there's a solid double judge Chris Cross yeah yeah it's great awesome awesome thank you Miss Brown thank you like four Elementary memories right good stuff going on all right I think principles if you want to stay you are welcome to but I also godp speed good night okay's just watching her yeah just okay cool uh we have our staffing renomination yeah I say it every year but it's my one of my favorite agend items of the year it's the renomination of our staff members at ATA specifically
070uh for the hopkington school district you received it in your packet a week ago uh there have been some couple minor changes I worked with a few board members on another change say me Mike so I think we finally got it all squared away if there's any discussion about a specific person would have to go to nonpublic uh with the contract signing tonight and the time of the year um just makes me happy it just it's one of those I know nerdy things but uh so I would look for a motion from the board to accept the ha nominations slate as presented so moved second okay I need to discussion or then not has to go to non public okay all those in favor I I oppos great motion Carries On a related note how
071is early hiring season going so so far Patrice has her position posted as an elementary educator because depending on where placement is we changed that practice I think last year rather than targeting third graders I think we have about 14 15 applicants already in that world 8th grade Ela I think there was about eight or nine and then High School Ela I think there was about 10 so those were the early entries on yeah I mean I think that's what helped us out last year if you remember how early we posted right and how quickly we hired I mean I think we were done by May honestly so are we going back to the Plymouth State recruiting so we did not go back because the results were not good but there was a new one
072I can't remember where but um so far the the the pool feel like we might not be going that way we're ahead of what's funny is we're posting ahead of those things right so but I'll keep you guys updated on that mean I I would encourage to keep going because we want to stay on the radar screen um whether you know we have a position or not but if we can talk about our school to people and stay in the loop with those teaching schools that yeah within driving distance uh so we did handshake through PSU okay um but I there's a new one that we that came across that we are looking into okay because Carrie and Patrice went last year and does Kean do one maybe that was it I I would think
073that that would my guess nhti I think ke is on handshake that what it was ke's on handshake too what does that what what do handshake handak the new educational wire no it's it's a recruiting well sorry we've been using it sorry it's new to our world MH but it's not just for Education it's for any company that wants to basically recruit across any college campus and so and for alumni and so you can post jobs of any type uh but it gets to all of the students and it's probably the best user interface it's nice it's good what the cool kids use I mean well I was definitely taking notes I was looking at the school I'm going to and they were broadcasting their handshake websites interesting yeah that's a big that's a that's
074a big feater which is good okay cool that's good we voted in favor yeah you approved we're good we're okay great okay do we do we sign Teamsters oh we'll sign it at the end y we still have to sign we voted but didn't sign it just yet okay last but not least under current business we have the approval of the ms22 um Laura Michelle do you want to walk us through what it is this is also something to sign the m 22 is a summary by function of what was voted on at annual town meeting so this is everything all of the warrants combined and into the respective function groups that they fall into um it's done every year and is due to the uh Dr Who it's their form the Department of Revenue
075Administration 20 days after the town meeting yep amazing great actually you don't need to vote we don't need to vote to sign it the signing file um it does have a school district clerk on it as well as as she handles the minutes and she's coming in tomorrow morning to sign so I'll ask you guys to sign tonight she'll come in tomorrow morning and then we'll get it to Dr great okay um we also have the minutes from the annual School District meeting do we vote to approve those as a body they come from the school district clerk no that's what she's both into do okay okay but just for you guys to review those are in there I didn't think that we did but um helpful and again huge thanks to Sarah poo for
076doing that it's a it's a wonderful thing she will also sign the ms22 I mean big thanks do we de say we're sending this to budget the minutes MS2 ms22 Rob I think we talk about sending those to budget uh we did yeah so after we sign tonight we can just ship Mo ship that over to budget committee the ms22 sure just so they have it just want to make sure we didn't lose y yeah okay all right and last but not least we have to vote um uh on the the public hearing yep all right so we earlier this evening at 5:15 we held a public hearing for the school district building repair and maintenance fund and so I would look for a motion uh for the to approve the withdrawal of funds from
077the school district building repair and maintenance fund for the following not to exceed $122,000 for the kitchen equipment at Maple Street school not to exceed $50,000 for the hot water water heater at Hopkinton Middle High School knocks to exceed $30,000 for the classroom and cafeteria furnishings districtwide and $ 42,2 2823 for the performance contract payment for a total of $134,200 I think my my memory serves that we don't always get we may put out but we don't always receive three bids that doesn't mean that we're creating so if we have two that's because we didn't get more than that not because we're trying to not meet that standard that is the standard that we try to meet but you can't force people to bid on sometimes the challenge in this profession is the timeline so
078most work's done in the summer so whether their crews are available whether they're not available um but it is open to everyone to bid on um but we're seeing that Trend I know there was one recently that went out in Plymouth they got one bid back for one and dairy we just put out for um a bid for a facade 10 walk through one bid um it's just kind of the the timeline in the turnaround so just for the the public can you just kind of talk about what that means like when something goes out to bid what is the conduit for that like how do people know and you know how they how do they know and then how are they responding so um some of the items don't need an official bidit so
079per our policy if it's 25,000 to 7499 I believe it is um whenever possible to get three proposals or quotes um so a lot of the time it falls in that bucket and so we don't have an official bid document but one is coming up um that actually we're going to be looking to have a public hearing at our next meeting because it's the boiler replacement here at Maple so Jim has um put together a bid document that Laura and I have looked at um the ad right now um is being reviewed for the conquer monitor for the public hearing as well as um we will put an ad in the conid monitor for the bid um and we'll put it up on our website my recollection is that we changed those numbers within the
080last couple of years because we weren't getting bids correct right so we were reaching out yeah and those quotes go to CIP for review before any it's not made by Mr Riki it's it's made by yeah and then the bid would be approved by the school board it would come here just wanted to clear that thank you okay all right any other discussion okay all right all those in favor I I any opposed great that carries thank you guys thank you all right on to you Mike Personnel FL do I have it here um so I will say the first one on our Personnel report tonight we've already done um official vote has already been made to hire Amanda Amy Doyle as the new superintendent as of 7125 um the first resignation on our list
081I'll turn over Mike yeah this is going to sound odd but this is the official resignation of Michelle uh last year that whole time we were working on a transition plan it was about retirement um but I know you hate this there couldn't have been two people that hate the spotlight more other than Amy and Michelle uh and they're both on here but it is going to be official we talked about it for years um you know I was going to run numbers like the Jim O'Brien thing we did but the numbers got too big for me to keep going uh how many budgets she's been through how many district meetings how many school meetings um how many rotary meetings uh you've been embedded in the community not just the ba for the district um
082that's pretty cool on to bigger things too as well the bill r a little different down there in Ms but um I just wanted to say thank you for my time here um you know talk about learning by water host sometimes you really you really slowed it down for me on several occasions but um I just wanted to thank you for your time so thank you is it is getting tougher as the time gets closer believe it or not because I have made um such great connections in the community um and I love the district and I love who I work with and um but um but it's time for me to move on and lur to uh move in and uh go on to the next thing so I appreciate all the support that
083you guys have given me in the community it's meant a lot I miss you a lot Michelle thank you thanks Michelle all right back to you just before I'm sorry before we move on like you know I have a I have a fond memory of my first year on budget it was right it was the first year following the voting down of the big Bond and I was new to budget and um I can remember at our meeting with the school trying to hammer out a number that the budget committee could get behind and the number of times I was coming over to you and you were recalculating and throwing out what that number would look like to try to bring the contingencies together to agreement which ultimately we did um so in addition to
084all the meetings and everything else how many recalculations you I would draw attention too so it's a was a real um it was a real educational year for me on how the sausage is made so thanks appreciate appreciate your leadership welcome thanks J all right uh I just want to say a big thank you to everybody for allowing me to work with Michelle for a year um the amount of knowledge that you have is immeasurable um you know I've been here for nine months now and um I haven't even scratched the surface of the things Michelle knows about district and about um what is coming up ahead of me so I am thankful for her time and that you are continuing and willing to still talk to me after abolutely absolutely yes I'm not going
085away too far so as we look to the rest of our resignations on our list we have three teachers who will not be joining us next year they have provided resignations and we'll move on to their next Adventures um Andrew Coto a math teacher at hopkington High School Kimberly Meyer 8th grade special education case manager and Eric Rogers middle and high school special education those three teachers will be moving on and then lastly on our new hire uh sheet tonight for personnel we have a leave of absence request one year for the 2526 school year for Ashley Gallagher who is a teacher at at Maple Street School she was requesting a one- year leave absence okay any questions on Personnel donations um donations are to come in two parts tonight if I can oh see
086this is what she this is why she's so wonderful there's a schedule B that I missed um we have a nomination for the assistant Varsity softball coach Elizabeth Chandler oh wow that's great Elizabeth Chand is it Libby no that would be my guess that would be my guess she's an alumni she was a fantastic softball player if this is Libby Chandler then that's really excited you're ahead of you right y oh pretty sharp yeah said it still got it yeah sorry go ahead yeah okay that's great um so first part of donations is the standard part we received $11,000 from Health Trust for wellness committee this is money that comes in every year they receive $500 per building because we do have a district Wellness committee Health Trust contributes to that for wellness activities so
087we Reed 500 for Harold Merton and $500 for Maple Street they are Wellness coordinators in each building and they will along with the wellness full Wellness Committee of the district use this money for those activities great so thank you to Health Trust thank you to Health Trust the separate piece that I need you to vote on independently is a grant opportunity that the district has uh from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Sciences it is a reimbursement for expenses that the district has already incurred in fy2 for lead Remediation in the schools we know that we did some lead testing in the fall and the get the Le out program has been around for a few years now where they provide the vials and things free of charge for you to do the testing however
088we didn't receive a grant and for any of the remediation work to actually get rid of the lead piping and the faucets and things like that this is the grant to to be reimbursed for those expenses up to $13,500 there's a motion in your packets though for you to approve that all right do I have a motion to approve the uh New Hampshire Dees Le Grant opportunity uh remediation Grant through the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services for read the full motion yeah there we go SAU 66 is eligible for a grant to cover the costs incurred for lead remediation and drinking water in schools the hopon school board is voting to accept and expend up to $1 13,500 in Grant funds from the drinking water and groundwater trust fund the hopon school board also
089designates Michael Flynn superintendent of schools as authorized representative for the purpose of entering a grant agreement and Furnishing such information data documents and dispersements pertaining to the grant as may be required so moved second okay any discussion this is great thanks for going thanks for going for this grant Jim it was Jim yeah Jim's been chasing this one for a while so excellent it's been great and I think there was just an article in the monitor in the last day or so about the high levels of blad and drink and water so time one yeah it's a big deal um and so if we just so I know if we approve this then we basically get the grant or is that we can okay great terrific cool is there any catch no well the catch
090was actually you had the work done first a little bit of a different Grant so it's a reimbursement the the tricky piece with this one and why we're doing it this way is that they want to see that the school board has motioned to approve the money along with the application um since this is considered unanticipated Revenue there are some districts around the state that can't accept it so that's why we have to do the motion first so that Dees knows that you can accept the Grant and that you're willing to Great okay we will accept the grant um uh all those in favor I I any opposed allay all right thank you okay no financials right no no um just superintendent of and I know Miss Doyle is still here um as we as
091tonight's official uh M do and I have set up uh a meeting next week um as well as uh we're going to set up a plan in regards to transition I think it'll be a positive uh obviously we work well together I don't know but uh just so that everyone doesn't think that she starts slide first cold uh we have several things met uh set up she's going to meet with all the administrators on the 10th we're going to do a leadership meeting uh we're going to do several transitional activities so that really it's not I stop she starts it's more of a work together uh to get going now she has to work with her schedule with her district and all that stuff but that's all In Motion um so that we make this
092transition as smooth as possible so look forward to working with you over the next couple weeks okay great and with that I would ask that you accept the consent agenda as presented second okay any discussion all right all those in favor I any opposed all right that carries all right so uh committee updates do we have anything for policy no we have nothing for policy um but I can talk about curriculum and assessment so for curriculum and assessment committee met last week um and be in light of the transition um to a new superintendent who does have uh a lot of background and and curriculum and assessment we decided as a committee that it would we were at a pretty good stopping spot it would be good to stop for the year um so really
093all that means is we are skipping one meeting um we did go ahead though and put together um what we would like to focus on next year um and that includes a lot of stuff I mean I I think some of the biggest things that are coming out of there is really looking looking at our curriculum and review process and formalizing that um we're looking to really continue amplify uh which is our Ela program that we instituted this year even though we have a transition in leadership um we're not going to be transition in our Ela program um and um really looking forward to kind of looking at goals and and getting off the ground running next so that that committee is wrapped up their work for the year there were no the only other
094reason that the committee would need to meet and we reached out to Chris ahead of time is the committee also reviews and approves any new courses that come forward and there are no proposed new coures for next year so you have nothing to review and approve great cool uh CIP Jonathan anything else other than what we talked about tonight no okay uh Safety and Security nothing new okay um EMC we were meeting this Thursday and then finance budget okay so actually quite a bit um so we met yesterday I'll go through some quick stuff and then get to SB 297 in HB 675 um so we talked about Medicaid billing and that whole process and how it's reviewed um sent some questions to to Mike to do some work on that in terms of accountability
095uh Michelle and Tracy got together and did a whole bunch of food service data you remember a couple meetings ago we were we're down so was it counts or was it money and it definitely seems like it is counts at two schools U not so much at Maple Street School so going to dive into that a little bit come up with the top 10 items and uh have the principles through their advisories work with kids about what do we really want to see but anyway a lot of Q&A around how we can increase those numbers back to where they were um Laura put together some stuff on contracted services in terms of projecting where that part of the budget might be in future years that was there and then we spent some time talking about
096two bills that are going through conquered right now so Senate Bill 297 which has a lot of folks concerned about Health Trust and it's well Health Trust is essentially saying that if this comes to fruition it may very well dissolve uh which would put us in a quandry we'd be safe for 2526 but probably not the following year so it would mean that we would need to reopen with all of our bargaining units in this coming year to resolve that and I don't know how much you guys have been reading but it seems that at face value for me anyway what the secretary of state is trying to do seems reasonable um Health Trust has a very different view of that and part of what we talked about was maybe getting a representative from Health
097Trust to come and talk to us about their perspective on it um you know this the reader digest version that really sticks out is the secretary of state if their contingency reserves fall below a certain point would be able to require essentially that we get charged money to bring those reserves back up to 12% and Health Trust apparently does not believe that process I don't want to say too much for them because it's pretty complicated anyway long and short of it we need to understand the process and what's going on so that we either support or not support either collectively or individually and also make the public aware and our bargaining units aware that this may be coming down the pike so to speak okay um the HB 675 I'm just going to switch over
098here to a email from I got from Dave luno uh so the update on this there was a lot in there initially and most of it has been stripped out and is now in the Finance on the house side and essentially what they are looking to do is to from the top down cap School District budgets at 5year average of CPI within a certain Subs sector um I looked at a three-year valuation of that was about 4. 4.06% and then in the second year uh they would add in that it would also look at our average daily membership as part of that tool um but it also puts in a caveat two years out I believe that would allow school districts to override that cap with a two-thirds majority vote at school district so I
099mean I don't know I've been to the state house a couple times this this year and it seems like you're talking to a blank Shield um Dave's Dave Luna's recommendation was to write letters um write letters to the committee head write letters to the governor um in this one it seems to me that the best approach would be to talk more about local control than the cap itself it seems counter to what both the governor and the Republican majority believes in and yet this seems to be the position that they want to take when last voting in most districts was against these kinds of caps um we had talked about in budget committee last year when we talked about setting targets part of the problem is they're using the Consumer Price Index I don't want
100to get too wonky here but it's like measuring the cost of avocados when we don't buy avocados they really should be using the employment cost index for secondary education and the cost of health care that's measured by another indicator um so they're trying to say let's cap it to what people pay for other items versus then what we actually buy which makes absolutely no sense um from a you know functioning scenario it's like you're you produce products with aluminum but we want to know how much watermelons cost doesn't make any sense uh so you know if we all could think about how we might want to proceed um I'm happy to draft something on HP um and then bring it to the board and do we want to move it forward there was some word
101smithing from my experts um as a board letter or just do it individually I don't people are at okay update that's great do you want us to weigh in on a board letter do you want to wait for another meeting I mean just feedback if you want to you know we got there time yeah you know essentially the difficult thing that's going on with 675 is it's going to more likely than not get embedded in the budget the same way that efas got embedded in the budget and the governor chose to ignore that he perhaps didn't like or didn't like you know didn't want to deal with that or shut down a whole Budget on that one issue and this very same thing may happen with this um I would hope Governor aot has a
102different view but I think that Echo needs to be loud and clear early on is this really the governor you want to be um and if you support it then you know you support it we'll see what happens in two years but again I think it's all about the messages local control more so than the percentage change because no one's going to change their mind on that yeah those voting members in the house and I don't know about the Senate yeah I would be happy to have a board letter um because I think that you know unless the it's from a local control perspective when the vast majority of the budget is funded by the local property tax burden it it makes sense for us to decide what works for our town I don't for
103me it's not um partis it at all where it's come up the Caps were defeated this year so it doesn't not what the public wants I will say that um s24 board sent Theirs to to that uh in response uh also the bill that's I think just moved um about any public school being you know accepting from other districts um it's also so if you look at a you know a town that lower cost per pupil it looks like an 820 where the sending District would retain 20 um and and the receiving would get 80 and there are ways to sort of block it if you're full or whatnot but it remains to be seen um again it for me it becomes a heav and have not situation but it also could destroy what you
104know our numbers are kind of looking out you're adding 20 30 40 kids to a class so I I I would say We join other boards in respon seems I will draft something and then send it around to the wordsmiths and that's great great thank you thanks Rob you're welcome that is up for committee updates um thanks guys uh we are now up to our second public comment portion of the evening if you want to come up name address it's okay thanks guys all right um I don't know if anyone has any other business I don't that was pretty great great uh we do not have need for a non-public tonight uh so at a whopping 648 it is still light out we are going to adjourn this evenings meeting do I have motion to
105adur oh mo second second all right all those