001Point M cond and our two favorite people of the day Noah and Flo uh you know what Noah Le Us in the of alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all sir uh so first we want to welcome Miss Carmichael congratulations on running a successful campaign and welcome to the school board uh Miss Clark did swear her in prior to the meeting uh quite a long swearing I I don't think you were prepared for that there were a lot of big words English teacher and this is a moment for you to say anything if if you want if not we will continue on on to the nominations I just want to say thank you had
002a lot of nice well wishes and and texts and emails from people in the community so um I will do my best to live up to expectations awesome okay well congratulations uh we're excited as well um I have to say one last time Norm I'm sure you're watching that's thank you for your service uh and we're going to move on from there so at this time uh it is my pleasure to to uh begin the nomination ceremony for the chair and then at that point the chair takes over again and I'm back to the sidelines and then we go to uh Vice chair uh remember it is wonky I do have to legally ask it so many times so um at this time I'm going to ask for a nomination uh does not require a
003second and I have to ask three times before I close it uh and then we will vote on depending on the nominations and then we take over from there so is there anyone that would like to nominate someone to become the chair of the hopkington school board for the 2026 session I mov Dy Madden Leoma okay Dy has been nominated for chair are there any other nominations it's weird are there any other nominations still not still all right one more time though is there any other nomination absolutely still not okay well I don't know about the absolute but still not all right so at this time we are going to close the nominations for chair um since there are no other nominations I still need to make a call so Rob yes Jonathan yes Dan
004yes Dy okay uh motion carries great um and at this point you now get to repeat it okay on to you okay so okay do you have the actual langage yeah it's in the folder but here just take mine it's quick okay great um now I will take nominations for thank you everyone excited I will take nominations for vice chair for the 2025 2026 uh school year I will ask for Nom uh for nominations it does not require a second I'll ask three times before I close it and you will vote and then we're done so do I have any nominations for vice chair I will move Andrea folon for vice chair all right uh Andrea fulam has been nominated for vice chair are there any other nominations for school board Vice chair are there
005any other nominations for school board Vice chair yeah are there any other nominations for school board Vice chair okay that will close the nominations for school board Vice chair that pleases the board we'll vote in the order the we will vote from here Rob yes Jonathan yes Suzanne yes doy yes great amazing okay excellent wonderful um we are we're all set if you are in control and we are back to the regular agenda okay so then we are up to our first public comment portion of the evening yes um approve the minutes no we did not approve the minutes we did not okay back to minutes we have uh minutes I was looking at them earlier today for the uh March uh fourth meeting of the hopon school board uh do I have a motion
006to approve them yeah I'll move second any discussion all right all in favor I I any opposed motion carries uh extensions I'm assuming exstension would be Suzanne yeah I mean I watched well awesome all right and now we're up to a public comment if you would like to come up please state your name address and we ask you keep it to 3 minutes okay thanks Laur um and now we have our student rep FL and no what's happening in the schools oh yeah we have few updates we do um I guess I'll start it off yesterday we returned or I guess last night we returned from Spain our four five Spanish class went to Spain for eight days it was absolutely unbelievable seor ragy did a phenomenal job creating the itinerary and enacting a amazing
007trip it was it was unbelievable um it was it was truly awesome and I'm glad that it went so well so other kids can experience the same thing in the future um today we also started Apple testing which you guys introduced a few years ago um and four or five languages are doing that right now um and then I think later maybe this month or next month the um the younger um languages are going to start taking the Apple test cuz they want to do the seniors earlier so that they can get the seal by literacy if it's before graduation um anyway the Nordic Saga continued but it finally ended and so the Nordic stavy was like a week or two ago and we got third for the girls side six for the boys which
008is pretty impressive um and then uh all of the girls qualified for me of Champs last week and two skiers went to Easters which is top 24 in the state so that's awesome um and then the state math meet was yesterday and we took a team of 10 of our best people except for some people in Spain and so we took the team of 10 to the meet and we unfortunately did get fifth because we did really bad that day um but I think it was overall a fun experience six there were like yeah there were tons of team there so it was pretty good um and then also last week the National Honor Society had a blood drive and I think it was successful I think they got a lot of blood that's what
009you want right it is yeah that's it yeah awesome are you guys going to make it to the lower schools before you graduate do you think I want to let's do it we'll make it happen there you go that would be great awesome any questions for our student reps what was your favorite uh place in Spain my favorite was just being in Madrid Madrid it's a super fun city um and I've never been to Madrid before so it was awesome we got to ride the Metro we felt like real City people um so it it was a ton of fun uh the the food the topus so good uh that was probably my highlight the food but every day was jam-packed and a ton of fun a lot of Spanish yeah so a lot of
010Spanish guess you are in Spanish uh that's right it was weird in all the classes though there were like no kids yeah are that's great though that's wonderful okay cool any board comments Rob yeah a little bit um so just glad to have school district meeting in the rearview mirror and you know positive support from the community so that feels good and of course what happens as soon as you leave school district meeting you start thinking about next year's budget so we're we're back in it and uh ready to get going but yeah it was a it was a good day thank everybody in the community for coming out and Yeah Co awesome johnon yeah I would Echo that I think it's nice to see that the attendance went up from the year before um
011so there was more people there and I felt like the votes were very decisive and sent a pretty clear message of support for the school board and our budget and um uh so I think that that was really nice to see kind of a clear message yeah and I certainly uh would take a moment to urge everyone to come on Thursday to town meeting because that's important too awesome Suzanne shout out to Senor Rago anybody who takes a bunch of students out of the country deserves a medal um and to that program because I had a child who was in it who um left Hoin in high school and tested into junior year college Spanish um that the program is robust so I'm glad folks had that experience and somebody get her a badge yeah
012Metal of Honor awesome um okay for me uh just touching up the National Honor Society one more shout out to the National Honor Society for child care through this season they had a lot of kids on Saturday they will probably have a bunch of kids tomorrow it is um Amanda davit runs the Child Care Program and it's wonderful and we are very appreciative to you guys because that's a key function um Suzanne thrill to pieces to have you on the board it is I think a nice time for us to reflect as Rob sort of said coming out of the meeting and thinking about the spring and we have some other transitions coming um and so it's a nice time to sort of think about you know the scaffolding and the the tracks we're laying
013down for the next year um and we're really excited to have you be part of the team thank you all right that's it all right okay so with that do public what's that did we do public comment yet did we do yeah um with that I was hoping to just do a quick debrief of um of the sort of budget process to date um I was hoping to talk through things that we thought went well things that um we uh might want to drop next year things that we might want to revise or evolve a little bit um I think we can keep it an open discussion the things that I thought about was timeline materials Outreach calendar our internal comms um and external communication but I'm happy to sort of think through of it
014um so I'll jump in so I think um in terms of the budget presentation materials and slides now we've used sort of a similar format for the third year in a row and I think that's really really helpful that people are seeing you know the data changes the message changes but the sequence and the format is the same so that's been super helpful for folks um so I would definitely keep that I think a lot of the Outreach we probably should review maybe some more like 6:30 7 o'clock Community ones um I got invited to Guess The Hop Dems and that was great there's about 35 people there um so maybe a couple more of those and a few less uh afternoons would be my suggestion yeah and you know to both you and Andrea
015and and Mike and the crew the the amount of material that was out in available FAQs you know the special ed perimeter all of that stuff was so well done that I think part of the reason Saturday was so smooth yeah most people that wanted to know did know a lot of their questions were answered to him so thank you so much for all of that that is really really hard work good work and greatly appreciate awesome keep that y keep that book going awesome yeah I would say um maybe a few less Outreach uh think it's good to be out there and I think it was effective but I also think to go out and have two people at at one is um maybe the timing has something to do with that but I
016also think um we could think about how many we want to do um but I think overall it was a good it was a good effort and a good idea and I definitely think we were out there trying to answer questions and educate people and that's important yeah I also think um this isn't so much us but I thought uh that was a great presentation by Christa and the budget committee uh really dovetailed well with our presentation next year I might suggest putting her up at the podium so she's speaking to the crowd instead of um because I would not say the budget committee is co-equal to some other person coming up and making a comment I think that that's an elected body and probably deserves to have have that presentation space um but otherwise
017I think presentation was excellent I think the format is I totally agree with that I think the fact that it is getting predictable Y is uh really effective okay is it possible to have Christa or the budget committee chair come for as a after opening comments instead of for a specific article since they do weigh in on all monetary articles it is it's up to the will of the moderator so we will have Mike R next year um we get to potentially weigh on that but it really the moderator sets the rules of the meeting I will say also I think it should be as close to the operating as it can be like it could be distracting to sit there and have them present and then get into something like s SP2 and then
018go back to the numbers I'd rather have them write together I think that is their function I and I think that that's an effective that's what it it ties together so I that's just my only thought yeah that's okay yeah yeah but they could go in front of our budget presentation in terms of this is the dynamic this is how we sort of work together um you know I think the communication and cooperation between the two committee and our board is you know really good been really good um productive asking for feedback you know all that stuff so certainly different than it has been in the past and much improved and I think that helps everybody y um just including for a note for next year people I got a few comments from people they
019really liked having the printouts we did do a tally we probably used about a third of them like 250 of them uh so we can recalibrate I think the numbers obviously but I do think that's valuable for people to be able to look through I also want to make a note that like we can the information that's in the bulletin was not necessarily the same thing that was in the printout so I think next year as we're thinking through this we can think about how we think through that and I think it's actually okay but apparently like all the bullet the actual printed bulletins went like hot cakes at the elections so like we should be prepared for people like to have a couple things printed no matter what um and we don't control the
020check-in process right like that's the moderators that's the moderators and I talked with them a couple of times um the biggest thing that would be valuable would be if um our the I'm pretty sure his name is Bud and I'm thinking of Bud selig who is MLB not the same thing uh but the guy who control at the state level like if we could use pull pads it would exponentially speed up the check-in process um and so we're fairly hamstrung there yeah um I do think the process worked better having the line Loop out into the hallway and I think the other thing that we could make a note of is having the moderator remind people that you don't have to check in before you can come to the room you just need to check
021in before you vote um do they need to check in physically in the room like could you use the mini for the checkin and then they come in because H it was for me you know it was that kid talking in the back of the room while other stuff is going on it was really we've asked the last couple years and they've said they have to be in the room in the room so I don't know the doors are open it's a big disagree but there could be perhaps some conversation with the people doing the check-in I think it's good you know people in the community it's good to be friendly but that once the meeting starts it would be good to try to process as quickly as possible and keep convers you know and
022also the like name distribution of the alphabet was no they load balance those books they were equal but it's always the the first to get it's it's literally our town they like go through and they they tie it all out it's crazy so weird it's insane um that's also why pull pads would be great because then you don't have to be like you can pull up anyone on anything um also Al shout out the supervisors do a bunch of behind the scenes work definitely appreciate definitely that's thankless work yeah um but it's a good call it's and it's hard in that it's it's hard in that room to figure out like how to optimize it you know um uh other things um you do a raffle and you only win if you're sitting in your
023seat at 9ine already checked in that's right exactly are we telling we open the doors two hours before the meeting starts well I was just going to interject and just say that as we're seeing an increase seeing a lot of people who are you know first time or they're coming back after years maybe just even a notice that you know we're open hour and a half earlier and remember takes approximately blank amount of time to work through a line yeah the problem is people problem is Hopkins and time I get it you can remind but we could try yeah and and we I think that went out to say like doors open to eight Cub Scouts are there there's going to be Donuts but um it's everyone and to be clear everyone knows that I'm
024not the most ontime person but you know um two other things is I wanted to make a note that like um before we leave next year to like post the results online so people have them is sort of like the record I num y um and then one of the things that we talked about was we traditionally do an audio recording um figuring out if we take a video and post it after the fact or not like it's has not been our practice to date we obviously post and stream these meetings um we haven't done it for the annual meeting um whether or not that's something we want to consider on the mini meetings just you know last year hate saying it every time Muffins with Mike um oh yeah I mean we had nearly
02550 people and this year we had four yeah so it's going to be it's going to be tough to Target it's it was the same time last year and the same time this year right same you know so uh it'll be interesting on on the the mini or like different muff same mu they weren't as good there was no chocolate chips so to that point actually cuz I went through and tallied up I think we had about a 100 people over the nine meetings that we had not including your um when the de the Dems invited you to the three budget night tours and knights um those were actually great to experience but we only had six people I recommended to Mike that we move those off budget cycle and just try to get people
026into the buildings I think it's valuable for people to see the spaces see where learning occurs and that can just be a good way of getting people in the building um I had an accidental like I was there for after um KN at cookies with Cass um due to a calendaring error I got about 15 people then I think you guys got like 35 at Rotary yeah um we had a good showing at pre- senior lunch umh and then the PTA meeting had about 10 parents and then all the other ones were smaller so I think you're right that we think about are those just one person doing office hours um those were all like three to five people mhm or not as many like one a week maybe yeah so I think that's great
027feedback um then 767 on Saturday which I'm really proud of um anything else that we want to think about or change this year the only no complaints on the one pager yeah yeah so that was tested and good having it in their hands just makes a difference also shout out to Dan M for adjusting the projector as different popping up he did great yep um and Matt with the organization structure he created on the website yeah the website was great Matt to be clear like you did responded to infinite emails um asking for modifications and postings and thank you you're always very very gracious about it um the LA I think that's kind of it the only other thing that I'd say is that like coming out of the last couple years we've typically always
028had someone be sick whether it's a board member or otherwise in December and this year it felt like we sort of had space that felt nice and then we could finalize in January but it didn't feel super rush to me or cramped like I felt like we had some time to think through things and that felt good do you think we start too early or are we starting around I think eliminating the one in October was a good move you did that and then I think the timing felt good I mean lord it's your first it's your first run through so what's your take on timing of like when we start to when we finalize thought it was that's good okay one good thing will be there'll be two not two negotiations that take place
029too so that tends to pull at you right at the same time so that's going to be a help for next year yep and not again right zero negotiation yeah none next I mean we won't have two at the same we won't have two at the same time again so right well okay anything else terrific all right next up do you want to do this part you yes so Staffing contracts we are that time of year uh a little unique because the timing of our meetings here um so we only have one meeting prior to the 15th of April so you're getting your first read this evening on teachers as I say every year if you have questions or concerns or discussions that has to occur in non-public under reputation um next meeting on April
0301st I will be looking for the board to approve the haa contracts okay so really first glance take a look uh and then when we come back in two weeks um mik where are they I'm in the they are in school board nonpublic oh okay gotcha and then there's a folder for 2025 2026 and then after that just so that every while we're talking about it while I go just poking around um H will be coming Teamsters nonunion it's typically a timeline great okay is's under board support uh School Board nonpublic okay we might not have okay we have four early retirements or three we're going to get into that shortly three early and one regular okay lot of Staffing stuff yeah the F folder called Schoolboard nonpublic and the Shar Drive minutes yeah and
031have all the early R retirees locked in now yes you see them on I saw I saw Cherry y Saturday and she's excited yeah y she'll be working at the bike shop don't worry wait really no you never know whatever can light whatever can lighten his load that's right okay cool any questions about that everyone feel good with the process great okay all right um next St superintendent search update Rob do you want to do a couple minutes there sure so uh we are halfway through initial interviews we interviewed two individuals last night and we have two more for Wednesday uh we will contact the folks that we want to interview in person Wednesday evening and we're scheduled for Saturday morning between 9 and 12 I think somewhere in there but so far it's uh
032it's going good we have a committee of 10 people uh three members of the board the three principals uh three teachers Miss Taylor and uh it's going going quite well so and it's the qu can we note on just that the teachers are across all three schools includ special cro from the Middle High School and de Smith who is special ed and was uh also down at Harold for a long time um and Joan Fallin B from har Martin school so we have representation across all buildings and with special ed as well Y and a union and Y great awesome thank you wel all right and do we actually have policy we are not we are at we are we got to get our schedules aligned yeah yeah we're we don't have any update on
033policy okay great awesome all right on to the agenda that's fine all right all right if new for our new hires resignations we have no um new hires tonight I'm going to just step in really quick um I know she'll go through the list but specifically Jake um is is you'll see his resignation here for the end of the year but like Beyond I'm beyond excited for him um he is now going to become a principal which is what his goal has been um and I know penar community school is going to be lucky to have Jake as as their leader uh all the time and effort that he's put in here and the work towards some of his goals it's just nice to to really see someone take that next step um sad it's
034not with us but there's limited positions in hington so uh he felt his time was now and I'm ecstatic for him uh the other one in here um is Becca gagan so her position is being eliminated and her contract comes to an end on June 30th so um Becca's been here forever uh for quite some time she took that transition um to that role and you know as we're reallocating resources just wanted to thank her for for everything she's done I know she's worked with a lot of families in this town um a lot of one-on-one stuff um but she's certainly going to be Miss so back to thank you uh Tana Montour longtime employee up at the middle high school she's currently in the front office has given her retirement so tana and her
035husband Mike Montour who is our network administrator on our list they are both retiring on June 30th we also have the three acceptances of early retirement Terry Grady our Harold Martin teacher Bonnie mcauliff Harold Martin special education teacher and Trish Walton HMHS English teacher all three of them have accepted early retirement and we brought them to you a couple months ago to propose it can I just State something really quickly those three staff members have between them 80 years of service which is literally bananas um Mrs Grady was my teacher yes in second grade yes she was here with I here yeah exactly yeah and I'd be remiss to say that tnah has um a degree in economics for having shared that classroom with me probably on at least 10 occasions as my instructor assistant
036did a great job she was super with the kids very supportive to me um she she's done a lot of things for us just great great person and wish them well as I think they're moving south to be closer to their kids which is cool I would Echo exactly what Mr native just said she has a great relationship with every student she can name them all by first and last name you don't even have to say your name when you sign out she knows everyone's name it's awesome amazing we're a lucky District we are thank you thank you to all of them for their many many years of service with us moving on to donations we have two tonight um one from micro de for $1,500 for our robotics team and one from hea for
037$2,000 total $400 for the boys basketball team and $1600 for the girls basketball team um both teams did some volunteering for heisa this winter and so as a thank you they have contributed these amounts and they'll go into Student Activity accounts for the students to be able to use w wow nice it's amazing any questions on that no okay moving on to schedule B spring Sports nominations we have quite a few of them on this list so I will start for varsity baseball we have Kevin Hill assistant varsity baseball coach we have Rob y thank you I'm gonna ruin a couple of these I know I'm professional uh for vars softball Liz kovar varsity girls lacrosse Gus Madden and Bob Brown for JV girls lacrosse Gus Madden and Bob Brown they will be sharing responsibilities
038firsty boys lacrosse Deacon blue JV boy lacrosse Kyle deit for Middle School softball Lauren prochek and for Middle School track Brian den noncore and then did you talk about track and field did you already say that um we nominated them uh back in December but I'll certainly mention it um Peter naam and George Sable are going to be sharing coaching responsibilities for Varsity track and field they um essentially I think one works with boys and one works with girls but they're on the same team and then does this mean that we're still looking for Middle School baseball assistant Varsity softball and JV softball as far as I understand JB baseball JB softball um those are question marks based on a who signs up if we are going to run those teams or not okay um
039so I'm hoping that next meeting we'll if there's enough participation we'll have nominations for those spots okay can I ask another question about that if there aren't enough kids for JV do we just move the Middle School up to JV no no Middle School competes Middle School okay I don't knower graders AR okay cool and then I'm going to abstain my brother okay cool and we have one last change um one last item schedule be co-curriculars yeah so then we're going to want to make that its own agenda item so we're going to look for a motion to approve schedule b as presented sports sports yeah so move second all those in favor I say okay all those abstaining me thank you sorry know okay great okay cool and then schedule be for co-curriculars um
040is different and we have uh one small change we had previously issued a contract to high school teacher leam Callahan for academic competition advisor but we learned that should um that in itself essentially model un wasn't running model un wasn't running so that was a combined stipend instead we reissued him a contract for GR State Challenge because that is running in model and is not okay so we have a modified recommendation or nomination for him for Grant State Challenge thank you Mike great and finance yes so in the drive is the February Financial so now that we're getting closer to the end of the year some of the items that I tend to um anticipate that we're going to spend all of it um I realized that we're not for instance uh teacher tuition or
041teacher Workshop money um are big ones and some other items um like subs and things like that or positions that we haven't filled or changes um we actually saved and this is without health and dental um calculated because we do keep track of this all of our new hires um versus what we had in the budget for um this year we saved over 500,00 ,000 um with the new with that realm of um hiring um so yes very good guys yes very good um I will just say that um it won't affect us as much because I I'm anticipating that we're not going to get what I thought we would in Medicaid but that is an area that we're seeing a huge um decreas in and um Laura's been working um with Mandy and just
042to make sure that um everything's all set on our end and there's just a lag on the states uh or fed's end um but um I don't think that's um just Hopkinson I think it might be sh is that because we're sending fewer Medicaid I don't know requests or is that because they're not moving on their like what which side of the coin is this onor we're still Billing at our regular Pace that was what I was looking for yeah we're still billing our regular place it's on the other side is our billing like year to year similar I know it's different because we have different kids but are we like in the same ballpark or are we we are yeah it's the well I mean trying to give a better answer but I'm I
043can't we are billing all of our services as a regular and then some get accepted and some don't um the qualifiers I guess the question is and this is something we could talk about in finance in 10 days or so it's like can we compare last year to date to this year to date in terms of Medicaid billing is that possible without doing yep because if it's a revenue loss then that's going to be a question that the budget committee is going to want to have an update on and sure you know just kind of keep people arised as to what we're dealing with and one of our big goals as a board couple years is is to identify trending right so year to year yeah so can we identify what's going to happen and
044what's not so Laura will be my hippocampus that I actually asked that question thank you very much yes okay cool and uh that's about it I'm happy to answer any questions if there are Michelle I noticed you also said in the report that um Food Service revenue is down we've kind of seen that all year and so I was hoping it would just be an anomaly you know it was going to get better but it it uh it really hasn't um some of what um we do is not understanding exactly how much we're going to pay in food and stuff right um we're not going to necessarily use all this encumbrance of based on this report for instance 236,000 so I look at that um and then I figure what can I do to uh
045are we going to spend it and if we're going to spend it I wouldn't increase my Revenue right I wouldn't use Revenue but if I think we have too much potentially encumbered just dep depends on when we're getting bills and when they're coming to us um that might be an area that um I would put more in so that it didn't look as worse it didn't look as bad is what it could so if I for instance if I thought we were going to spend $20,000 less than the 236 I'd make sure that I had at least $20,000 more in the revenue as un anticip you know the um additional income not received because I don't want it to show 142,5 N2 loss when there was just jumped into my head so um so they
046obviously know how much they did in sales per day over the time do they know how many different people kids faculty that they've served per day whether there's cations they do know um because of the daily counts that are done um and reports um so they do know we do have quite a few adults that do um take lunch and breakfast at the high school um there's some at the elementary but not a lot um and so probably because of offerings and stuff it's more and that tends to be quite honestly and I've looked at this years and years ago when I first came because of food service being you know a uh a loss you know every year um having two elementary schools does not help us because historically in other districts you they
047usually don't do well in the elementary world uh because a lot of the little kids first want to bring their lunchbox second it it's not the offerings that they have at the middle high school and we don't do alart really we don't do we do a yeah yeah you're right we do a little alart which is the other miscellaneous stuff the elementary yeah but um but more of the alak cart is on heavy on the Middle High just remember you know we did that analysis last year quickly on what the kids liked and what we and we we did change our offerings so to speak but also the last couple years there's just been grants out that have helped fund our negativeness um and those are no longer it just would be curious to see
048total sales for a day versus unit of customers for a day and see if it's are we customer down or are we total sales down and that probably drives you to where maybe some changes need to be made um and by can I just ask a clarifying question just for everyone at home by Revenue we're talking explicitly about food sales in the in the building not necessarily like reimbursements from the federal government everything everything yeah so even the NFI buys lunch from us and we charge them so even those is considered a revenue in here okay I will tell you that all three lioma kids uh who are in the schools are getting lunch every single day this week so part doing our part yeah it it what what worries me and I don't want
049to get too much into it because we don't really know but I will say uh that we are keeping an eye on what's going on in the world about um funding yeah um I'm worried about food service um because USDA is getting affected that we know of and so that is commodities for us um so that to give an example we get about $40,000 worth of items for $4,000 I'll use an examp you know what I mean like it's a very cheap amount that we get right Miss government cheats yeah so well and other things but yes um so it worry it does worry me mhm um I will say yesterday I learned on the state call um that the grants um like Title One title two title four um they already got so our
050grants we haven't even got yet that they got approved for already so we they don't anticipate although we don't know if they're going to go back and take them but it looks like because they were already given to us by the government and it's not new ones and we just haven't got it yet it's not just us it's the whole whole state like that's I was amazed that actually they do that I thought it was odd because why wouldn't they just give a grant out when they got it but somewhere along the way there must have been a year behind right and so they couldn't give out two in one year type thing so I'm a little bit more comfortable but obviously they can still grab at that but the um state has not heard
051anything uh and as soon as they he they'll let us know but they say that pretty much we know the same thing they do well if it would be possible for Tracy to do some type of analysis of customer units versus total sales to see where the swing is if we're down y I wrote that in Food Service evaluations if we've got the same counts and money's down that's different than if counts are down good to know Co thank you right um super yep Laura why don't you get it you went I think it's a big deal go ahead Laura um the district bought a new van today and we traded in the HW B so we purchased a new um a new to us 2023 Ram proas van it has about 7600 miles on
052it Jim rosiki our facilities director went and test drove a few different types of Vans did some cost analysis and we feel like this one was the best choice for the district and we also got a good trade and value on the hawk van that was able was a help so we have a new van thank you Laura um for sending that memo on October 10th 2024 appreciate that sure that turn that night uh just one more thing suzan in my superintendent's update I just wanted to again welcome you aboard um I in my four years here have had you are my second turnover um with Jonathan being last year and it's exciting um and I look forward to having conversations and seeing uh you know goals and objectives and things like that but um
053it's always good to have fresh perspective uh and that's the purpose of these elections so thank you I appreciate thank you so with that I would ask you to accept the consent agenda as presented wait do you want to talk through the overnight field trips the ozam oam and two field Tripes so you will see the two field trips in the folder sorry um a is obviously winning which they always do um so they are just just facts and what was the other one this was the this isn't an overnight it's just from uh Christine Borg for uh birs birds and then there's one for uh the inos for civics and um yeah those shouldn't have made it on there it's just it's just oam great terrific congratulations to ozam so with that I would
054ask you to accept the consent agenda as presented so move second right any discussion all right all in favor I I all right next up um committee updates um I don't think that I'm doubting that finance and budget don't have a whole lot but if you do I would love to hear your thoughts Rob we do not we did have a safety security meeting today C off the presses uh three topics uh fire inspection was done I believe over vacation and all schools passed just a few minor issues GBL was very happy that he didn't have any major issues and I think that's a big Improvement um was a little bit of a microwave fire I guess at Harold Martin school not a fire just a little smoke smoke smoke although I mean microw it's
055a microwave though yeah but it was a plate in a mic I don't know anyway all good the kids great drill worked out very well and yeah uh Jim gave us an update on the the security grants uh two-way radios are in uh repeater is being installed in a couple of weeks so this building in the high school will be able to communicate main office video screens are in panic buttons at Harold Martin in Maple Street are done in middle high school tomorrow uh and then we talked about the um Architects design for an entry at the middle high school and our suggestion was to have Folks at the Middle High School their Safety Committee yep uh look at that and get some feedback up there before we even talk about like is this a
056viable thing I mean this is so far in the distance in terms of money and financing and all the rest of it but um so Jim is going to talk to them and have them review it and see what they think in terms of because there there's some movement that would need to take place because you would lose a classroom as currently designed um so that's that's it's going back to them before it comes back to us okay cool um CNA is meeting next Thursday um CIP we have a public hearing on the 1 is there anything else you want to add not since the last time okay we haven't met since we talked last all right uh EMC is we are influx but we met little two Thursdays ago um and we basically got
057the presentation from EMC the company that they had done for to EMC or to CIP the committee um and it was great and I think really helpful since we've been noodling through this and it seemed like there were few good opportunities that obviously you guys are going to be looking at in terms of major equipment uh uh repair and replacement yeah correct so that was great um and then we're we're done with contracts which is wild so any anything else on committees just want to make a note on what the plan is y for committees oh yeah um so what we were what we were thinking about is that last year at our uh board offsite in June is when we sorted did committee reassignment so it's on more of an annualized basis um I
058think everyone should think about when what they want for next year um in terms of either sticking with stuff expanding into stuff Suzanne we can have a conversation and talk through um through sort of like what's most interesting um when I came on the board it policy was floated as like a great way to you know get to know the district and everything but I think you know that's Jonathan and andrean I think everyone should just sink through it and we can put the pieces in and figure out the chess board all right good great great cool um next up we are on to our second public comment portion of the evening if you want to come up name and address in three minutes please no okay thanks guys um any I don't think we
059have any other business oral business anything for anyone it's a wrap that's a wrap okay we do have a need for nonpublic um under RSA 91a colon 3 comma 2 parth C for reputation we're going to go into nonpublic and then not someone's got to move that oh yeah I move it second okay can just do a voice okay I'll uh yes great all in favor I great all right when we go into nonpublic we will not have any business afterwards so we will not be returning to the regular I'm going to get there