001we'll talk more about that in a minute uh Andrea fome I'm doy Loma Michael flynner superintendent Michelle clar our business administrator Laura Taylor our assistant business administrator Jody Conan board secretary extraordinar Noah A-frame Loa seent reps and Matt uh oh my God Stone back in the corner second I almost said Matt Taylor okay so welcome everyone let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right okay we have two sets of minutes for today one is from the February 4th public hearing um and the second is from the February 18th regular school board meeting do I have a motion to approve both sets of minutes
002so motion second okay any discussion all right all in favor I any opposed carries thanks guys uh we are at the first public comment portion of the evening if you'd like to come up and make a comment uh please state your name your address and we ask that you keep your comments to 3 minutes and if you just come the microphone okay all right I think that means that everyone wants to hear from our amazing middle school championship girls basketball team so um do the other stuff first or you want to go to that um we could do uh yeah that's fine we can do the other stuff first let's hear from our student reps while we have other students here yeah go ahead um okay so there's not too many updates um just coming
003back from break we have the Nordic state meet tomorrow um at Great Glenn so we will'll be leaving at 5:45 a.m. for that um and then do your oh um next Monday the levels of or Spanish 45 the highest levels of our Spanish program are going to Spain which everyone is looking forward to uh Senor rag has done an awesome job putting up putting this on for us and we've uh we saw the itinerary it's G to be awesome it'll be awesome so we're looking forward to that um and then while they're in Spain there will be the math State me on not this not like next Monday um and then also a blood drive next Thursday and we have to recruit two people so if any of you guys want to give blood I
004will send you the link for it the National Honor Society do is there a place they can sign up what times you have open what they have like all throughout the school day times open yeah from like I'll give you blood yeah okay I got you I'll send you a link for that also um for uh our school we have like a news club now and Noah and I are going to record a little segment on the budget so that kids know about it the budget we will let we will send you that if you want to watch it we would love that we would love it that's great okay cool um who won Winter Carnival I think we all are dying to know senior uhhuh but was the actual winner The Faculty at Battle
005of the Bands uh no yes it was The Faculty was phenomenal it was really hyped however was very hyp I think the seniors were the best yeah good that's good that's great okay well great to hear from you guys uh we'll do quick board comments uh Rob do you have anything tonight can I do Norm comments now you can do Norm comments let's do it all right so this is Norm's last meeting so my first meeting with Norm was at the transfer station when he was running and I don't think he knew that I taught at the school so here's this guy who's telling me all about the school and I'm like who is this guy and then a year later I end up on the board with Norm it's board comment time and Norm
006is doing his Norm thing and I'm like who is this guy and then in the last five years what I learned is this is a guy who's been on building committee walked us through that part of the process incredible amount of effort CIP finan with me multiple phone calls um just does amazing work for the school and the community and always H gotcha and he always always putting other people first you know so thank you for the last 5 years and I've Got a Friend for the rest of my life that's really nice okay Jonathan do you want to say anything I don't okay Andrea do you want to go um so I yeah I guess I'm going to do my my Norm comments as well um although I think Rob Rob did it best
007I have sat next to you I think for the most meetings and you are the most um Physically Active board member I think I've ever sat next to I can always gauge how you feel by like how much you're levitating off of your seat um but but similarly you know we as board members have had many a difficult conversation um but we've also had the opportunity to do some great stuff together um so I will miss you levitating and vibrating and I have to matap you sometimes next to me but um you know our kids are in the same grade so yeah gradation yes all right Norm I think the number one thing about Norm is that we all know that Norm loves this town uh it has been a refrain I think for the
008last six years of you being on this board you were a tireless budget committee representative you walked us through the building committee you got us eversource rebates so we could get the audit Stu done on the schools and not have to pay for them um you help get EMC off the ground you go to select board meetings if it's relevant you go to budget committee meetings you go to public hearings you are there you are cheering at the sidelines for kids like we know that you are in it and here for our kids and that you are tied to what we do I think with all of your heart um we'll miss you a lot you have a lot of heart and Norm I just want to say that anytime I had a question you
009are always there to answer it for me and it was great to be on the board with you that's right um do you want to say something really you know Norm was hired me I don't know if anyone watched the zoom back then but he held up a Snickers bar when he introduced me uh and said this guy's hungry but I think what I've been thinking about I know what I've been thinking about since when people ask like all right well you know what do they really like or who how are they you know Norm is what you get what you see um and that is all the time Andrea did a good job of saying he doesn't hide his emotions or doesn't hi but it goes back to I've never met a person that
010cares so much about the town uh or the community but more specifically the school um him and I got in a fight after our first meeting because of some of the things he said and I'm like you can't say that um and we've come a long way in the four years but uh one thing for sure is the advocacy for everyone all of the students at all the times uh he's putting them first so uh also think it's great that you're moving on because this is a hard game to keep up for a long time so it'll be good for you and your family and your kids um but definitely thank you for your time and then you have a little bre for you oh thank [Applause] you I like you guys um you can
011take it out this is your last four comments ever uh y that's what we thought mhm um so I was going to save it for the end of the meeting but you want me to say stuff now sure yeah all right um so I've never speechless right um there's more people here I expected um so six years ago when I um joined this board I I really wanted to give back to the community and for me it was a a hot really hard you know I wasn't well known the community um I really worked hard to show the community that I really wanted to be in in this seat it has been the biggest honor of My Life um I don't I never took this seat for granted I realized that um I could bring
012energy bring humor bring snacks uh really make this about um having healthy discussions and doing what I thought was best for all taxpayers and for our students and for our faculty um you guys all brought out the best of me I really hope you guys know that I um am a very difficult person to work with I I am very passionate about my work I sometimes don't listen as clearly as I should sometimes and I get that my wife knows that she like did you hear what I said um but the most important thing is is that this board is just so awesome the the changes that we did from when I came on in 2019 to having subcommittees from having a strategic plan through mik um a CIP uh it is so different from
013when I from when I joined this board where I felt at peace to leave and know that whoever sits in this seat will bring the same energy and love for the district that I do and for me as someone who's going to be on that side um in a couple weeks I'm thankful and I understand the work that you guys have to do one of the things I can promise you is when I'm out there and there may be controversial things happening or things that maybe I may not understand what you guys are doing I'm going to get it I'm not going to jump to uh jump out of my seat being like Oh my God the board's hiding this hiding that no you guys have developed great communication with the community you guys have
014done more than than I ever could imagine with our budgeting process and you recognize our students I ask you guys to be here for my last meeting because I really w't miss this y because it is about and uh good boy cry that's okay you're doing great Norm all right but um I will say this I'm thankful for you guys I'm thankful for the taxpayers who voted me and I'm very thankful for my family um believe it or not you know it does take a toll in your family you know you miss birthdays you miss other things to be here to give back to the community and uh I'm very thankful for that um real quickly just you guys were PARTA of the best student representative I've ever had um you guys would have the
015most mature conversations with me when we'd be talking and passing um Flo you bring in the PE credit to this District that will that should be named Flo credit yeah it really it really it really has and the what you've done for our students below you know senior you know helping them through learning anything you know from Sports to understanding how the school operates Noah you're energy with our under classman and basketball and baseball and all that goes a long way and I'm so excited you both are going to continue for another CLE more months um with this District so I really appreciate all you guys have done really appreciate it Jody I'm sorry I've made all your handwriting all your notes longer than you needed to be um um for minutes Laura um I'm
016really excited to see how things go with you um in future you know I have told you multiple times you get the brain of someone who works with finances and you really understand what goes through that I'm excited to see us see you in the future with your um additional work thank you nor Michelle and I had an agreement that she would go at the same time I would go that that was the um that was the uh that was the rule and I appreciate all your hard work Michelle especially being the vice chair on the building committee you really we really let a great project and I'm extremely proud of that project Mike you were not supposed to leave before before I um you know I didn't get an opportunity to say anything Mike
017you kind of didn't want me to say anything and you weren't here but um you know I will come to your last meeting to thank you as a community member but as a board member I have to say I'm excited for you I'm happy for you and I can say this that they are getting one hell of a super desent than and I told you a couple Millions ago you have a gift and that gift will definitely be um seen over in Dairy um and if it gives you an opportunity to see your kids more you have to travel some more it's even better because being a father and being with your family is the most important thing real quick with you guys um no no no just us no no um dely when you
018were elected to the school board I was so happy because for me the first thing that came through my mind was like someday she's going to be in her Father's Footsteps and there's nothing more prouder than to see that generation of leadership continue in your family and I said the day that you were the chair I hope you realize how proud you are and your parents are proud of you because someday it's going to be one of your kids up here I'm sure oh my God oh my God centine yeah uh so I really and you know our friendship doesn't end here will still be in touch and communicating so I thank you you and I we have been on a rodeo together through Co um I put you through a lot of crazy meetings
019as when you were chair and I still do to this day but you always were patient with me and really understanding that I um I wasn't perfect but I was able to give it my all and corrected me appropriately when needed to be which I think was appropriate Jonathan we've only been the board together for a year but we were on the budget committee for three and a half years and my goodness it's tough to get a smile out of you but I can tell you I got I got I got a couple from you when I was here no um and I do appreciate all you do for this board Robert W Robert I'm be done be done with this because I really want to be out them I got cookies for you guys
020too so Rob when I came on to the board I knew who what you did as a teacher and it really meant a lot that you understood the quality of education and what goes in out to the schools but I have never met someone who's been as patient as you when it came to teaching me any question I ever asked anything that I needed you were there you walked me through it um making you mad was not fun but you always gave me the time and respect that I needed you never went forward with the decision in finance committee without checking with me to make sure we were both on the same page and definitely friends for a long time you're going to be teaching me Nordic for free next year and um teaching me
021Nordic for free it is just a great PR CH and I'm really excited that you're still here and that this community has all four of you guys amazing and to you parents thank you for bringing your kids I love you guys all let's this going with the girls okay thank you guys you did great thank you nor Jody did you get all that in a minute yeah every minute we got it every all right thank you Norm thank you all right we have some Champions here Chris do you want to come up and introduce your team um I share a quick story with nor when uh Jake moral came on board and I was G you know sharing the names of our board members and stuff and I think he asked you know who's who's
022that guy I'm like that's that's Norm he's everywhere and he said yeah you're right um including at basketball games and stalking kids from running going so Mr misser and I can enjoy a little bit of the game instead of Poli um so thanks for all your service you appr um yeah so here I here we are again um it's uh it's been a a great ride the last two years I've been doing the coaching thing for uh a a long long time um never thought when I started here that I'd be coaching a team here at the middle or high school um but when I had the opportunity last year to you know pulled back out of retirement so to speak uh and it's been a great ride um it's a great opportunity for for
023me to work with kids outside the classroom setting um I always say to them you know that their their job right from the beginning of the season is to make my job tough we put the team together um and it just makes it tough to End season um fortunately we have a few games left we're doing a two tournaments so um we'll have a few practices left and play a few tournaments so the the the ride's not over yet but the regular season is and to over two years years in a row about losing uh a division game is is pretty remarkable um especially for the four eighth graders uh that were on the team last year seventh graders to go back to back that's pretty special because there are a lot of lot of
024athletes that go through their middle school and high school careers and and don't even get through the first run of playoffs so to do that two years in a row uh my hat's off to down you know they say sometimes you just got to keep your cap to the other team uh i t my cap down with one of my players because um we don't get there with they're so I'll turn it over to uh the captains or anyone else that may want to speak if you have questions for them um but uh publicly and I'll see it again on Thursday night ladies thank you for all that you've done for me uh you make my job that much more enjoyable um and gives me something to look forward to in a very long winter
025practice and see you know how hard you work in your growth uh throughout the season every one of you has shown a tremendous amount of growth through the season Al over the last few years I you know gives me a lot of watching the nce Raiders play gives me a lot of lot of pleasure watching them play uh and I'll continue to watch them as they go through the high school so I'll turn it over them great whoever like to speak answer questions because they have tons of do good evening I'm Gwen belty I was one of the team captains for the Middle School girls basketball team um I would like to start off by thanking you guys um and Mr Flynn Mr murve um and the hopkington booster club because you guys were kind
026of like the behind the scenes people who made our season possible um I'd also like to thank my teammates because we had so much fun in every practice um it was a really great season thank you to the parents for coming us coming and supporting us at all of our games and fanss too um I also like to thank Mr Kelly some people ask me like oh how's it having the principal as your coach and I kind of laugh because it's not as scary as you would think but um yeah thank you coach K you've made these two years um just absolutely amazing um probably the best years playing basketball for me as a player so yeah amazing any questions what was like what's your um what was the hardest part of the season was
027it like a really hard game or really hard practice um hardest part of the season was probably for me our cier sge games yeah because we hadn't faced any competition like that um and it was good challenge for our team to see our um compatibility and chem chemistry um in the second game against kir arge we were feeling a little ill so that didn't go as well you were feeling ill were walk oh my god really wow very cool yeah you know anything about basketball well fun fact the coach of the C Serge team is my sister she's a very good Lexi yeah okay amazing yeah great you know I'm your biggest fan and I love I I I didn't have the basketball in my life my son went to Nordic this year so I
028really went to as many games as I could and the energy from the team Chris Kelly with his fist Pals yell Celtic what does Celtics mean by the what is what is that part of a what oh it's a play okay cool all right good to know um but just the amount of energy you guys had in team spirit and just supporting each other was remarkable and Chris to be a principal and then turn on your face as a coach is tough you know because they're two different shoes right I really appreciate we bring out the best of these students because it showed with good sportsmanship and that goes a long way when we're playing other districts that's really what makes hopkington very special it's a sportsmanship so great job threee threee yeah but um
029thank you very much pleas yeah Jonathan and R I have a question okay off Court okay so best memory anybody out there on the bus wherever you stop for meals if you allow that stuff team dinners like what's the best off Court memory from the season okay I don't know about them but I have a really good one um on our first team dinner it was at my house and we went Christmas Caroline around my street and there was this one house on my road and I um the guy opens the door and he calls down his wife in their kit and they're like he's like honey come down come listen to them sing and we are not that good of singers um but that was definitely one of my favorite memories for sure amazing
030anyone else okay I would love to buy you guys some cookies seriously cookies and quizzers yeah one second yeah wait and who is eighth grade can you raise your hands wow holy smokes and so is there two one seventh grader two seventh graders two okay are you ready next year sure sure it'll be great okay she all right great um congrat any other any other questions from the rest award great job you guys we're really really proud of you it's great to see you last year and this year can we get a photo yeah everybody all right you ready yep Norm's not blocking everybody we're good not blocking everybody all right yes all right three two one thank you all right congratulations ready my God unbelievable all right you guys want some cookies all right
031you guys are totally welcome to State we are going to have Mrs Brown from Harold Martin do a data presentation we also understand if everyone wants to clear out for their Tuesday night thank you all for coming thank you parents for driving than Gregory bye guys they're like than God we're out of here all right Patrice are you ready let's do it oh yeah they're delish and if anyone's wondering where Flo was she has to go to a Nordic uh pre-championship dinner yeah sit I like it yeah it's um you're doing B it's a read Across America week and today was jogs my mind am and then I had to represent for our hockey team co-op with John Stark yeah no Saturday begin who would be watching my children think about that one so Patrice
032is going to do a presentation on um some of our assessment data so we can get an understanding of how we're doing this year couple of the trends that we're looking at and how we Implement um how we actually use this information in the district I can't wait it's amazing RI it I did take my son to the doctors today dress like this with the bright green leg warmers and all he he took me really serious for a while and he and finally he was like so you work in a school right I was like yes that is why I'm dressed like I'm going to put this in the drive right now Schoolboard drive not diligent it's not attached off he was like Fonda day I was like yes I'll go with that yeah all
033right if you guys know Mrs Pratt she was like full like 80s workout gears todaying right colors and all the things so okay all right let's do it let's just kind of Dive Right In so this has been really exciting last was it last week or two weeks ago last week we were on February vacation so two weeks ago we met um as the curriculum and assessment committee and looked at this data and I'll talk to you a little bit about the process and you know how we use the data towards the end but it's always exciting to share especially when we're seeing such great growth so just as a reminder one of the reasons that you know the assessment data is important is that it aligns with our strategic plan and our goal to
034really develop and deliver that foundational awesome education right so we want kids to be successful in everything they do and one of the ways we kind of track that is through standardized testing there's a lot of confusion out there and we do um some conversations with parents especially in the beginning of the year um of the different types of Assessments so at the elementary school for example we do Universal screening in the fall the winter and the spring and then from that data if there are any flags for a student we'll go ahead and kind of dive in with a diagnostic assessment to dig in further to see exactly which specific skills they're missing so families are pretty used to they get we mail them or we email them now the assessment results from the
035fall the winter and the spring um and then if they you know flag for anything we'll send them the secondary assessment results and a plan if we have concerns so that we can monitor them um and then we kind of go through every few weeks um we do six week cycle six to 8 we Cycles throughout the district um when we are working on those intervention plans and we send those plans to families as well so this was just really kind of helping break down that big assessment that's our first level really looking at large Trends throughout the school and the grade level and then diagnostic when we're digging into student specific um needs any questions on that part so there's a few different sets of data that we use to determine um how well
036we're doing and where our students are at one of them is the New Hampshire Statewide assessment system which is known as the New Hampshire SAS that's given each spring um to students in that says K to8 that say 3 to eight sorry about that um in grades 3 three in English and math and in uh grades 5 8 and 11 in science grade 11 uses the new ham or the SAT as their score set for English and math so they don't do the New Hampshire sass assessment this first chart shows um our basic levels of proficiency in mathematics in GR 3 through 8 so you'll notice that um there's a different color in each of the chart and that is each grade level and then it's grouped by proficiency level so the majority of our
037students falling in that proficient or above proficient range in mathematics if you look at this next slide um it does it by grade level so green in blue are proficient or above and proficient meaning that we're on grade level so you can tell by each grade level where they fall and this is based on a percentage of the grade I think it is important to note when you're looking at these scores especially for that third grade that's the first time they've taken the assessment a lot of the times um we do some practice with them but our level of typing and writing there's a lot of like click and drag and Tool pieces that I definitely think um present in some sort of um some barriers to some students as they get more familiar with
038it I think it becomes a little bit easier another way to check to see how our proficiency level is and where we are um is using the nape assessment which is the Nationwide assessment for what students know in um mathematics and English as well this report came out in the end of January so if you're looking here the nape score show um in that First Column is the national grade four math scores um then you have New Hampshire's grade four math scores and then the following column you have our New Hampshire SAS scores it's impossible to use nape specific because not every District takes the nape test but the proficiencies should align between the two assessments nape is a randomly selected group um I will tell you having worked in a district that are randomly
039selected seven years in a row I don't believe that it's actually random but um us too they say they say it is right so um so you have different scores and then there's the eighth grade you can see National New Hampshire and hopkington as well so again you're looking at that green and blue area being proficient grade level or higher um and as you can tell from both our fourth and our eighth grade scores um they look good comparatively signicantly better yep yeah so same thing again here's our um Ela proficiency which stands for English language arts again you're seeing a majority of our students in the proficient or above proficient um category and each grade level is broken down um throughout the different colors and then here is a view of it by grade
040level again you'll see that third grade is a little bit higher um and then it kind of goes from there these tests are done in both um for ELA reading and writing um so that's an important piece to note um and they are several hours long um it's interesting uh and the tests are um randomized so some students may get a narrative story like write a story about your best friend who's going on vacation and someone else might say like explain to me the importance of ancient civilization and that's just the two vastly different ones as you walk around you can kind of see and kids will talk about it and I'm like o all right and again that um New Hampshire SAS vers nape score there National on the left New Hampshire and then
041Hopkin hin with our SAS scores that's great all right science proficiency um is the next one so science has only done in grades 5 8 and 11 and that is uh that is represented here here you don't see as clear um of a picture but we do have a majority of our students you know in that the whale is going in the right direction of the proficient and um the above proficient and then here it is by grade level this was a topic of conversation when we had our CNA meeting about um in elementary school primarily in our younger grades where really our focus is teaching how to read and math and we do science and social studies in addition but our Focus um as they're younger because they need to get those reading skills
042in order to do those next steps pieces um so kind of how that reflects as well so outside of the Statewide assessments as a district we do U benchmarking through the as web assessment and this is the assessment that gets sent home to each family um during the season and this is uh we use this K through n um for Math and then for ELA we do it 3 through n um talk a little bit about that so this chart represents our fall to winter um scores so green is on or above grade level as you can see as you're looking here um we again have a lot of our students at our above grade level um and we've made a lot of growth uh in Fall I in from fall to winter in mathematics
043this next chart is our winter our sorry our winter is our reading from fall to winter this one as well as you can see that growth from fall to winter um and it doesn't have scores for K to2 because of that alternative assessment that we'll talk about as well one of the pieces that makes um this a little bit more challenging when you're looking is the New Hampshire SAS and the nape have the four levels where SAS has three levels so um um tier one is really that above at or above grade level tier two is where we're on Watch and tier three is where we're doing intervention and then finally we use uh early bird for kindergarten to second grade this is a game based digital um assessment tool designed for children it evaluates
044um foundational literacy phic awareness bonics oral language nonsense word fluency um it is a little bird that goes to little like islands and collects things to bring to like this party at the end and they all love it and they find it adorable um and each of the like they elephant friends it's like a whole zoo got free I don't know what's going on but they think it's great um so this is our first year doing it in second grade um and this is actually the first year that they're offering it for second grade so this hasn't been normed for full year we're we're norming at the end of the year right now so you'll see that the scores um here are not as um not as glowing as the as web assessments um but
045that's as to be expected as someone who sat in the test with them some of the words on the second grade assessment are like prescription and receipt and ones that we haven't taught them yet um I also think that as we continue with our amplifi curriculum those words will be things that our second graders will have because our new Ela curriculum scope and sequence is so much faster than our old one uh that it's going to take a little bit to catch up and you can see that in the data here too so they did non uh non-word reading and word reading subtests first grade had three subtests they had deletion non-word reading and word reading you can see here the growth from fall to winter I can tell you that that has a lot
046to do with the reading program using but it has even more to do with how amazing our staff is doing and not just at my building but throughout the district the effort that they are putting into an energy of making sure that we are understanding what kids are missing and then figuring out how to fill those gaps so we can build that solid foundation to move forward is just unbelievable I talked at our staff meeting today that they not only like started this curriculum like in the middle of the air in the plane but the plane wasn't even fully built yet and we were like reading the instruction manual as we took off and it has been great and to watch first grade especially um they do a really nice job and they are making
047some huge gains um we're using our uh skills time and it's divided up amongst the grade level not classrooms we're really going in between each one and targeting the needs of each student so you can see that reflected here and then finally kindergarten um had blending in letter sounds it was really hard for us at first um because you don't need to know the name of a letter to read you need to know the sound and we teach kids the name of the letter first and then the sound so then they go to read they tell us the name but they can't figure out the sound it confuses them um so our new program teaches sound first and that was really hard for us to switch to um but kids are reading at a far
048greater Pace than they were in the past and we had kindergarten kindergart ERS in December who were where typically they are in April and they're sounding out sounds and they're blending it together and they're proud of themselves and they are just taking off and going so um I'll be really excited to see the spring scores as well because that's really um been nice for [Music] them and then kind of putting this all together why does it matter because that's you know always kind of what kids ask me why do I have to do this right yeah you guys know this right so um um there's a couple different places one it's so important to inform families just where their kids at having them be part um of the conversation aware of where their students U
049performance levels are at and you know what next steps if any need to happen I have families call the time like my student is so far behind in Reading I'm so worried and then we look at the scores together we're like No actually they're right where they're supposed to be it's hard to know um always where your kids supposed to be in each grade level if you're not in education right so I think you know being able to Prov that data and be transparent um with families is important as school levels we review the data so we go through um each building with their instructional leaders their teachers we look at it for big grade level Trends try to identify you know is this something that we missed is this a hole in the curriculum
050is this something we need to double back um we use a lot of our wi time or um Hawk time or whatever our buildings call it to kind of once we've isolated what that is address it during that time so we're filling in those gaps and then one of the other final reasons is the district curriculum and assessment committee reviews all this looks at this data discusses the trends the wonderings the implications um and really uses that to help guide the district forward so there's really a lot of different uses for the data and it paints a really good picture of where we're at and where we need to go thank you do people have questions yes yes Rob no um so first I like the way this is laid out it's it's pretty easy
051for folks to interpret it also shows a lot of green trees in progress pretty much across the board which is terrific um both in New Hampshire and Nationwide um so kudos to the staff and to the kids for doing well um the question the thing that's like jumps out at me as probably did to everybody on slide 12 the the New Hampshire pass in the eth grade um has got this big block of red which leads me to think that something funky is going on here um was that the science that was the science one so I mean my curiosity is having proctored way too many kneecap tests um you know where is it given how is it proctored you know you talk about kids not having skin in the game so to me this
052this is an outlier like something else was going on here besides just SAS Tes and I'd be curious to that is one of the things that we did talk about at CNA because it was um you know as we were going through that's the most glaring piece right so um we had a couple questions and wonderings about that I think it's going to be interesting to see what the data says this year too um to see if it was something that was like our science curriculum or if it was something that was you know there was a different barrier that happened you know maybe everyone was really sick at the time of testing last year or maybe um there were you we need to change instructional approaches so if we made like if we course
053corrected and is that still a problem that's going to be my question I think anecdotally for me having again proctored these things um at the high school anyway you don't always get 100% investment right um we always felt like if the kneecap scores were actually on your report card or what went out to schools or to whomever it would have a lot more value um there are kids who sit down at these tests and they are in it to win it there are kids that are sort of like doing and then there are kids that are checked out from the beginning um so and in I mean not to be well I guess to be direct sometimes where they are taken and whom is proctoring makes a big difference in that outcome uh so those
054are all things that I would highly encourage we look at and see what's going on um there was an Infamous year at the high school where we connected n AP performance to getting Junior privileges early and scores shot up really quickly um was kind of an astounding thing so everybody had direct investment there so that that's the one that no I would agree and I think also um communicating to the students why it's important and what the purpose is sometimes we miss that step and they don't they're like I'm going to pick ABCD ABCD all the way down um and when they are invested and engaged like you're saying it's a total different game um can we get this on the district website I think this you know this is important information for the community
055to see in real time where performance actually is being measured and how the school district is performing as opposed to some of the narratives that we hear so it was hot off the presses that's why I know black and White's hard as hell but it the color one is online it'll be online and we'll get appr Pro it for sure great thank you great report I would also say I think the the looking at the literacy scores especially for our earliest readers like kindergarten in first grade is really really really encouraging it's so fun I encourage you guys if you ever want to just come and like do a win group with us and like hang out and listen to the Marine I know it's I want to come so exciting receipt I was like
056that doesn't feel fair and I can't say anything to you um it'll be interesting when we get those spring scores too so yeah hang out a little pit it's just it's another piece of evidence so that what we're doing is working yeah right um but I know you mentioned it it's the compliment to our teachers you know they're the ones that are implementing it as we're as we're moving along and also Rob I know you I mean in my time you've said I it's not always rainbows and unicorns like show the wards yeah eth grade is that area is definitely an area that we need to evaluate what's happening prior to that assessment um not necessarily a kid problem it could be an adult problem could be a curriculum problem could be the timing so
057uh definitely an valuative piece for us so yeah yeah I mean the fact that you don't see it in other parts of it and only in that one particular one tells you something was funky with that particular um way the test was administered would be my guess there was great discussion that CNA about it yeah so any other questions from the board okay thank you Patrice much wonderful very helpful I'll fix that typo and then get it to you thank you oh no I'm G than you all right oh can I ask one more question yeah so we always have this great debate at home about comparing which is kind of weird I know um but comparing test scores like what's the fairest way to do it is winter to Winter better because now you've
058woken up out of your summer Slumber you're back in it like what's yeah so that is it like there's a lot of different viewpoints on that I you know and I don't know that have a correct answer one of the challenging pieces with winter to Winter um for us at the lower levels is they might not have taken as web so I don't have that data set on that previous winter I have fall on all of our current students and I had winter on all of our current students but the shifting of grade levels um and then if you're going back um the grade levels and people coming in and out sometimes you get a different um subset it is it's an opinion it it yeah because I I mean I I could tell you
059my my daughter who's a July baby like forget about fall assessments it's it's like forget about it um I would tend when when I was at the middle school as the principal we would tend to really lean heavily on winter to Spring yeah um on on that growth so that we knew where we were going into the next grade but it's it is a it's an interesting debate because yeah and winter testing is right after the holiday break too so it's always really interesting like when you do those like there's so many different variables that really show up but it's something yeah we talked about it and just trying to figure out if we can also have the data like if it's Warehouse basically so you can even just look at it from year to
060year because that's a part of it too like there's data operations and in one place so it's easy so it's a great question thank you great thank you thanks P oh the last thing I would say that I think was a really good piece coming out of CNA was also because I was like can we look at this again for winter to Spring but then I think the question is also there's other assess that happened in the spring and so part of the discussion that I think the staff was thinking about was over testing versus yeah like you don't want to over test because then your kids are just testing all the time and you lose weeks um but that I thought was a really good discussion that I think everyone's thinking about so like
061how do we get enough data without getting too much data at the point of the detriment of curriculum the other piece we talked about was um when they get to the upper grades if they're proficient in the fall and they've been proficient do they need to keep taking the test each time or do we just say you need to prove proficiency and then move on um was the other piece of the conversation so not over testing our highest testing kids who are taking it really seriously yeah we yeah we ended up doing that yeah interesting awesome we really appreciate it thank you have a good thank you thank you what's tomorrow's day sungasses tomorrow is a wacky outfit and hair day so thankfully I was here today and not tomorrow but tomorrow with PTA so
062never mind you will also see me tomorrow that's right tomorrow is PTA thank you Patrice that's right yesterday I had a a Pikachu hat that had like balls in it the ear stuck up I mean let me tell you plumy right in my I got that's right she would she would that's correct thank you Miss Brown all right okay guys so we um have our school district meeting in 10 days yeah on March 15th at 9:00 a.m. we wanted to go through the final schedule of events we want to talk through final materials that we're putting together and just like get everyone on the same page there and we wanted to talk through about a call for volunteers to be ballot uh ballot Co ballot counters ballot counters um so we can start with that
063first but if there's anyone and we will can send out messaging around this but if anyone wants to be a ballot counter during the school district meeting that would be great please send a note to Jody uh JC con sa 66. org um and I would also recommend that for anyone who's listening if you wanted to show up early I was thinking that maybe we could reach out and this is probably more of a not live conversation but see if there's any student groups that wanted to sell Donuts or something thank you thank you um because I think if people remember thank you thank you so much uh we are going to ask people I think to show up early to to check in given that I think given last year it took quite a
064long time to clear through so people wanted to get other groups like SC sell cookies y question yeah so I think we'll open up at 8 see what we can get checked in and go from there but we have the new speed system so it should be a lot faster right no we don't you can't use the pole pads what yes the state recommends that says that you can't use them town office the other day and we were talking about they won't let them use them yeah you can't use the pull pads they're going to do five book I think they said they're going to do five books but you also can't register that day any either because the new house bill yeah so you can't um the but people can register up until I
065don't know if they can do the 12th and the 13th but if you show up to vote on the 11th you can do same day registration at the Town election so register on the 11th come on the 15th uh you cannot register to vote on the 15th but you can check in okay and then um hopkington rule that we can't use modern technology or is that like State rule the the secretary of state says no State that's not allowing them do my recollection from last year is we have we go by last name right yeah is that there was a disproportionate number of like a through whatever that was and that we ought to reconfigure there do yeah that was you could there was a discernable long line and then some shorter lines I think
066that caused a big Jam the supervisors have done um have been very thoughtful I think and they've been very communicative which is great so that's good um so when are we testing the view of the screen oh because I so I'm going to be there Friday setting up the gym with the custodians they're my beses so we are going to set that up so I don't know how we can test it t look at the sign I really want to be visible make sure that's legible th viewable that's fine we can we can figure that out yeah I want to do it this week okay yeah so that if it's wacky we're not like last minute so so we need to do it whether you the key is whether you presented here or in the
067gym we're going to do handouts this year right so we're going to have a significant amount of handouts to help because even today when we were doing it at the library still wasn't great because of the content in the handout so maybe what we can do is when we're moving the article it's something that's really Visual and compacted on a piece of paper we can say in front of you like on the stool is some papers if you want to grab if you want to have a better view or something I don't know no I think yeah I think we so people are aware literature there yeah it's also viewable on a phone right is that projector always installed orop like what is the deal in the gym like easy to get to one weel
068like we can reel it out any time screeny is it up in the library Donna have it yeah we can do it we can do that anytime Matt is there is there a way to make that easier to pull up on one's phone so they don't have to navigate yeah multiple screens so that they can somehow somehow so that's very easy for people to pull up on their phones can we do a q code a QR code I mean we can definitely do something with a presentation just has presentation has to be mobile friendly first place so I mean Google Slides aren't too bad if you want to do that way yeah let's I'm just saying something to think about yep we got it we can whatever content we produ definitely make link on our
069homeage the first see right maybe for that day we just moov the budget page up okay great thank you great yeah okay I would just say that it's help we have content at least mostly done in day ahead of time oh we have a Thursday production deadline for you Matt Stone this year we are running the show and we should have some years and not last year but you know 858 on Saturday deadline and that's been sh it's fine we're totally fine no one ever does that no one's ever done that at the table um the if people do have spoken commentary we've talked about this before so we'll have we'll have everything to mat I would say the goal should be for Thursday um if people have like commentary that they want to have
070be in the book um I would say try to get it to jod also for Thursday um you can also bring Thursday of next week Thursday of next week yes or you can also print and bring your own just you will have to remember to bring it up to the left turn with you okay does that make sense I will send out a note for everyone with this that doesn't make sense okay explain that so if we have talking points if we want to have bullets or whatever that are already in there that are in the the the book send them to jod by Thursday and she will print them and have them in order I'm just going to put you on the spot jod if you need if you're working in them Friday then
071you just have to print them yourself and bring them right if you missed the deadline you're on your own y right but also it's very helpful for the clerk to have them ahead of time that's really yeah okay it it goes up on the podium and it stays yeah Thursday but Thursday evening yeah we'll work on it on Friday FR all right we can maybe connect on those slides yeah yeah definitely connect on the slid we got you on the okay right okay um one of the things that we talked about a couple weeks ago was whether or not um the school board would offer commentary or response in SP2 um I wanted to talk through it tonight with everyone um I think but my perspective I'll just kick it off is that we should
072um given I think that we've thought a lot about this both as individuals and as a board over the last several months um that said I'm very happy to get feedback there and and defending one really feels like that's not the right thing to do then we can talk through it yeah and I mean I am certainly um I mean just based on how many people seem to be asking and talking about it I think it's not inappropriate for us to say something about it I think the question is if we decided to do that how to distill that down so that its comments from the board that reflects the opinion of the board U because I know that we we have various thoughts about Chris um I I am certainly willing to deliver um
073comments on this issue and I certainly have as I think I've expressed before some thoughts on it um and I can say generally and people can chime in if they agree disagree or have other thoughts you know the things when I think about sb2 are and this is in no particular order number one I think that town meeting has value particularly in today's day and age maybe more now than ever because I see our culture as becoming very siloed and very online and I think that there is Great Value to being in a room together with people that disagree with you and having to listen to them and having to sort of make the sausage together so I think there's Great Value to it I think that the chief reason that I have heard given
074from folks that support sb2 over the years this year being no different is well what about people that can't make it to town meeting and I acknowledge that that is a problem with it but I also think that um if you go to sb2 then there's a deliberative session and the same people that couldn't go to town meeting for the exact same reasons may miss the deliberative session corre and so I don't see it as solving that problem yes they would be more likely to be able to vote but now they are voting on what is coming out of the deliberative session and the concern that I have from a democratic standpoint is if you have 101 people that have an agenda and they go to a town meeting where there's 800 people their voice
075is not going to carry the day unless they can persuade the majority of those people that their position is right if you have 101 people that go to a deliberative session where only 200 people go which when I read the articles on sb2 in our surrounding towns is what ultimately happens then their voice is much louder and they can carry the day and then the people that vote have an up and down vote not on what's happening in these public meetings over the Year from the school board with the advice of the budget committee putting forward a budget you have an amended budget coming out of the deliberative session where this outsized voice can make people have an up and down vote and I think that I never like to look at National politics and
076our local government but I think it is an uncontroversial thing to say that in some of our national elections we have seen that sometimes if you have a a vote between two positions neither of which you like then that's a difficult vote to make and sometimes people just won't vote and so these are my sort of thoughts when I think about sb2 and when I think about why I think town meeting is a better um is a is a more democratic and a better way for us to govern our town and our budget so great great thoughts I agree with you um recently there's other I know we should focus on just Hopkinson but I also look at other areas that are going back to traditional meting does anyone here know why they are changing
077from sb2 back to traditional meting because that data is kind of interesting because they've gone through it they know exactly what's going on we haven't gone through it in Hopkinson but that's the question that I'd like to know like I think there's two areas right now two districts going back try to go back but has anyone read why no okay it's a good point it's because for me it's like everyone pushed have the equ opportunity to vote you know everyone wants to vote but why they're going back is something I'd like to dig into so okay okay do we are people thank you I think that's good to look into are people good with having the board offer commentary and Jonathan you're good with it yeah AB I'm fine with with delivering it I just
078want to make sure that it is reflective yeah I mean of our Collective I mean obviously VI ly not word for word but I I I wouldn't disagree with anything you just said and I think that you know as I said at the last meeting things continue to evolve um at both uh meeting last whatever day it was um hopkington Dems meeting that I went to to present and talk about the budget and then again at the candidate Forum um you know it came up what you said it's really not solving the problem in terms of a form of government we still have that conundrum but people not able to go so maybe more time should be spent in thinking about that versus something that's going to fundamentally switch the problem from one location to
079the other um so no I I I have no qualms whatsoever about what you just posited as a position that I certainly would feel comfortable AG we go second on the after they move it we'd go second correct yeah because what they share we want to make sure that the community has a facts and this not misconstrued or anything like that so I want to make sure that we're able to deliver an appropriate message to what's being shared to the community yeah well I think and I think we have our perspective and I think that that goes so okay great thank you Jonathan Okay Okay Okay so Thursday so going back to all of that Thursday for for printing to go into the Bible which is what the spoken word the bers called in in
080event in EV lexicon all right um sorry uh it is that's what people call it at events yeah okay so thank you a couple other things that I want to talk through just to make sure that everyone who might be listening knows um we have six more events between tomorrow and next Friday to get out information about the budget and provide Q&A hang on I'm sorry just on to that yeah so do you want that written comment like do you want me to write that comment or just deliver a com like which what are we what are we doing I think it's up to you I mean as as a speaker I would write it out just so I have bullet points if you feel comfortable I think doing it and and yeah no in
081terms of like delivering it that's that's different than whether we want something in whatever is go like going out like as Jody is putting right so that's up to you as a speaker man in terms of delivering it um I'm not I'm I'm fully comfortable with that it's just a question of whether we want something in writing or or just want to deliver our comments and then that's it because frankly everybody I mean this is not a new issue right I think it just depends on you and what you feel comfortable with on to write I don't need to write out your speech and the thing I just put Jonathan's comments fine you that's fine yeah y okay which is I think what you did yes last year I think you had your your talking
082points and you went and delivered them okay that's fine sorry to interrupt I just want no that's great that's good um uh okay so we've got upcoming budget events these are on the school district website they went out through parents Square to everyone I think Susan covert included them in her newsletter and I've sent them to a few other people across town but Rotary Club is meeting tomorrow at 7:15 with Rob and Mike so that'll be pretty exciting we doing slides for that I'm going to talk to you after the whole time yep um Jonathan are doing the pre- senior lunch crowd at 11:00 a.m. at the ceser center I'm super excited uh and then Andrea and I will be at the PTA meeting along with the principes and Mike at 5:30 tomorrow at Harold
083Martin school for which child care is provided so everyone is welcome to any of those um in addition Mike is doing his uh Second and final as it turns out Muffins with Mike on the 6 at 3:00 p.m. at the slester center uh cookies with Cass uh had probably 30 to 40 people today so like that should be I think really fun um and then next week Jonathan and I are meeting with we're doing a small group Q&A if people want to come and just ask us questions um at 2: p.m. at the library and then also on Friday and I will be there at 1: p.m. to round it out ahead of the meeting at 9:00 a.m. on the 15 so hopefully there are lot of opportunities for people to on the 13th 2
084p.m. on the 13th okay I okay yep I will send an invite I don't think I actually send an invite yeah yep um but uh we will hopefully have lots of opportunities for people to come and talk with us and the community has appreciated it many people have thanked us for having me so thank you to the board for getting the word out yep um the I think the last thing is the last piece of material that we want to do we should go through if you want to update anything for the presentation um obviously we'll work on slides but um we have been working on the mailer that will go out um hopefully to print tomorrow um to get delivered this weekend uh everyday direct so it'll go to Every Door in town um
085with information about um let me pull it up here I think you guys have it shared um but it's basically welcome message the onepage snapshot Rob's page uh a page about key budget drivers um Financial overviews for both contracts and then the warrant articles and then information and then a few FAQs and then information about sb2 so we're trying to keep it to where is this it should be in your inbox yeah as in mail y okay um and it's on the drive yes saw on the drive drive it is yeah it's under shared I think the draft Yeah uh HSB March newsletter y um and so there is if you look on the left there's a bunch of tabs that but basically look at the one that calls it's called pulling it all together
086but we're going for aiming for eight pages um because there's obviously more information on the website but make we want to make sure that people know when the meeting is what the warrant is what what what why are we asking for what we're asking for um so it is dense but I think the goal is to be um is to provide information in a in a pretty easy format and then let people know where that you can go to find [Music] more if the board wanted to take a look and obviously from the copy Ting crew extraordinaire uh we'll share it with everyone too um but uh I think the goal we feel good about this and we should be able to get something out the door I can't even read the one pager around
087my iPad yeah I think the the the only thing is the one pager if we have that in an Excel dock somewhere that we can make not colorful cuz this will be black and white printting Laura has it in yep y oh really okay yeah all right all right any other questions think we just got check the net decrease because that number is different than what I got in the mailer today from Mike and Janet Ward okay the 1.27% okay waren articles is blank we can go through this and yeah yeah I just thought oh yeah and just make sure that you're looking at the we can probably I can probably AR type all the other tabs since they're confusing oh I see yeah yeah okay um does that sound good okay the other part
088that I would ask people is as they're going through these meetings if you could just let me know if there's any questions that come up because I think we want to make sure those are reflected in the FAQs people can and should ask questions any time but making sure that information is accessible and if people have stuff they're thinking about probably means many people are thinking about it okay any questions thoughts concerns about that okay so guys that's it we are going to we're moving through um I think the biggest thing is get people out to vote make sure people have information and then make ourselves available okay thank you to all of the team and the staff and the administrators who have been very responsive to incessant amounts of quests uh at all times
089of day and night really appreciate it everyone thank you for being very very gracious uh you got to give you Andrew credit for really raging all those meetings it's fantastic that we got that done so we're getting there we it's a big it's one of our goals it's one of our goals for the year so fantastic we're doing it okay that's it on to policy there's no policy no policy great all right that was easy easy peasy can I ask a question about policy the Title Nine business that's going to be coming down and the emergent one that we validated last time yeah so I spent a bunch of time reading about the change first of all the background history to Title 9 and then the Biden changes yeah um and then some of the
090cases against that and then now the change is back through the Trump Administration I would just hope that as you're working on that particular policy I'm curious about two things so I I need a little primer on the history the the time line of changes I'm also very curious about what protections if any in New Hampshire state law outside of Title 9 would be provided to our students that might be trans non-binary binary Etc like are there any protections available if we are in a position where I'm just going to say it are forced to adopt this Title Nine as now decreed through executive order I use those words again um I just really want to know where where we're at and where those particular persons would be if we have to adopt Title 9
091as stated yeah that's great I'm just making notes so I don't forget yeah and the other thing we can do is we can um share out the redline versions with the notes you also mentioned employees to me last week I included employees yeah yeah I mean there's a lot of you know so the gray between what's covered through title 7 what's covered through Title 9 how this has sort of bled over Beyond just Athletics to other areas employees Etc um there's a lot going on there I don't think it's nearly as simplified as um some might believe it no and and the other reality is you know even between the last meeting and this meeting we received additional information that there have been changes to like the USDA their non-discrimination policies that are also sort
092of like the the one of the main changes that we sort of emergency adopted in the title 9 policy last week was a stripping out of a non-discrimination clause um and it appears that that's also being changed um in other policies so we're going to it's going to be an ongoing um convers I also think that you know as a district while we may not have things in policies that reflect um there's a difference between policy and practice I guess and that is something that we might have to address yeah I that makes sense thank you something we've talked about this is a good thing and we can table this to after um was thinking about having like basically a legislative update section of our meeting which I think given that so much which is
093happening from a policy and funding perspective it might be wise if Just One of Us summarizes what is happening that's a lot yeah or just like quick notes to hearing that don't see that's right I can read the NHS SBA uh updates but um but I do wonder if we think about and it's not every meeting but every quarter every month we think about what that is because there's a lot of stuff coming down the pipeline I had a couple questions today about what efas mean for our district um MH so like people are watching what's happening in the landscape and I think it's valuable to keep people it's a lot to try to keep track of right so okay yeah I mean I don't disagree with what you're saying I just I do follow
094what we get multiple times in a week and boy there's a lot to follow a lot well and keep in mind too that you know this is I mean things are changing on the ground I mean there's going to be a lot of lawsuits and so like you know I think at core all the laws of the State of New Hampshire apply to every person in New Hampshire so um and then we have to keep track of what's different judges are saying different legis I mean there's there you know this is this is a tip of the spear on on on political and social issues and so clearly there's going to be tons of changes so every week we get an email from the state of New Hampshire in regards to synopsis of what's going
095on and and there's a link that sends you directly to their to the New Hampshire Department website of everything that's steamrolling through and along with how it may impact us so that's out there for everyone to see in the state but it's definitely something we can continue to point through as we move through y I think it's valuable the the main thing with the federal stuff is we just have to have the funding yeah and you know I'll be blunt this it will be very very difficult for me to vote for something because it means money that I know is fundamentally wrong and also in many ways unconstitutional per the 14th Amendment to the Constitution I'm going to have a really hard time doing that um you know like that's where politics and core values
096American values are going to go like this because we have a difference of opin as to under what conditions a person is given their constitutional rights um it's going to be a tough one for me so that's why I really need to feel like are we making sure that we are treating everyone that they have equal rights as apprised by the Constitution both the New Hampshire Constitution which we all took an oath when we sat in these seats to uphold so um yeah and I mean this one is really sort of like kept me up at night a little bit um just kind of like thinking through it and what it means to historically go along when you know it's wrong right yeah yeah okay thank you yep okay anything else we're thinking about for
097Budget before we hand it over to Mike for the consent agenda that was policy actually that was policy yep policy and budget all time yeah go ahead right go for it consent the agenda yep we ready you ready okay we're going to kick it off to the business office for um ad retirement yeah so we have a we have a a hire so Shay Dixon um for an open position at the middle high school for an IIA um so that's that what mikee alluded to is um so Lori NATO is the HR accounting assistant and um she is retiring August 22nd of 25 she's been here for 33 years so thank you to her um she will be definitely miss she's actually the first employee the district has ever had wow when they separated she
098was the first hire ever so um yeah and um then we have a leave of absence is Gregory wider high school English teacher it's a at some point in May and be out for eight weeks um but obviously that we all know what happens um with that it's to be determined once uh things progress so that's it for um for a baby it's baby yes sorry yes sorry yes baby yes sorry um and about those experimental yeah I know right we have one donation uh it's from the New Hampshire charitable foundation and for uh some that have been board members for a while this is an annual thing so Su pazinski was a teacher here and um there was funds collected um and I probably it for all I know it still does because it's
099held from somewhere else and we get the proceeds every year that actually go to the teachers of the year so that is for the approval and that is it great amazing the funds for super gear held at the New Hampshire the principal right so we're drawing the interest off every year yeah I think that's what it is is that they give us the interest they give us the interest y okay every penny goes to the teachers yep it does we don't keep anything all right superintendent update um so we had a water main break yesterday nothing to do with us as a school district that is the town of New Hampshire or town of hington excuse me but really the state because it's a little bit close to the road but they did a great
100job working on it I want to compliment the Chris B thank you Chris bodet great uh called me at 4:45 in the morning uh we were able to make that call rather than the last time at Herold Martin where we had kids come to school and then having to leave it so uh thank you to them for that um and then a compliment to Jim's crew yesterday we had a malfunction of it was not a frozen pipe but a malfunction in the kit I'm learning new things in the kitchen there is a release device because of the on and off of the kitchen sprayer that burst from the top uh so Jim was able to locate that replace that um so that all wor sent you guys a picture of the um waterfall from the
101ceiling so um couple pieces that uh I appreciate all the hard work from everybody um I've already gotten emails and phone calls will the students have to make up that day that is not anticipated um as long as the snow continues to go the other way um we should be all set with hours based and emergencies and all those types of things so that's it cool okay great um real quick for oh we have to approve we have to we have to accept approve the consent agend do I have a motion still moved yeah second okay any discussion all right all in favor I great amazing okay so committee updates anything from policy we just had a little bit of conversation okay good CNA is meeting in two weeks three weeks four weeks I wasn't
102at the last CN meeting calar the fourth Thursday fourth Thursday of the month y um and Patrice basically presented what we talked about so we went through all the assessment data we broke out into small groups um and uh that'll be great uh it was a really interesting discussion uh for CIP yeah we just met just before this Y and so we've got what we the stove at stove at Maple Street that we right here stove at Maple Street is going to to hot water and then the hot water heater at Maple Street at the high school at the high school sorry um so there's two hot water heaters at the high school one of them is the lesser of the two the greater one was set in the CIP to be replaced in a
103couple years but apparently has failed so now we're carrying on with the smaller one and Jim has gotten some different approaches to replacing the larger one which uh we talking about that tonight or are we gonna noil 1 yeah okay so we'll have to add that to the agenda for that more than likely there will be a public hearing on April probably in April yeah so so right now we're we're carrying on um but that's going to be a uh not as big as a boiler but a not insignificant item that we're going to have to deal with okay just one other side comment you know one of the things there was talking about maybe looking at the EMC and what they could do yeah um because they haven't done any work for the district
104per se so I had mentioned in the meeting that this could be um an a good test I don't want to say test but a good way of us being able to understand how the resources are used um if the numbers add up and they make sense for the district um he's got a solid proposal from them m and he said um lesser than what he's got so they may be a good Avenue to go for for the district um to use so I'm excited to see that down the road Co okay um Safety and Security did we meet I don't think we no we haven't met we meet next month maybe down the road it's on there somewhere when tells me but we haven't met great um EMC is meeting this Thursday we as
105people might recall we had a rescheduled meeting for the the EMC presentation the compan to EMC the committee that's happening this Thursday at 3:30 which we're really excited about got rescheduled because of a snow day um finance budget guys how are you feeling we got a meeting uh next Monday W Monday great cool awesome and contracts are done okay um so next up we have a public comment portion of the evening if you want to come up um be name address in three minutes please good evening everybody Lawrence I'm at 86 Maple Street um just had a question comment um not specifically about anything mentioned tonight but I'm just curious if the I know last year's um annual meeting um the gymnasium was pretty full and then um folks needed to filter out into the
106cafeteria space and I'm just wondering if there's an actual number physical um capacity that the town has at the gym and the cafeteria and if the cafeteria overfills where do people go because I know some people that were out there and having difficulty hearing the meeting and I don't know how your presentation's going to work for them in there so hopefully you can factor that in too because I I I know there's that that space was pretty full out there as well so that's my public comment thanks thanks Lauren TR Lambert 305 Galloping Hill Road boy oh boy so where did to unpack this one first of all I'm so happy to hear that we're worried about our constitutional rights now and that we don't want to accept money because that's what it means if
107you accept this new policy you're so that you could get Federal money well I where were you when my child who who you knew had a reading disability and needed to see faces and a mouth to read where were you when that child needed to breathe is there not a constitutional right to breathe and now we know the truth that I was correct you can disagree but I was where were you my son had a waiver I don't know why I needed a waiver in the end of the school year and when the thing came around where you had to get new eser money they made him put a mask back on on his face where were you you know I pleaded I pleaded with you my husband's family was in docal okay his grandparents
108were killed in aitz I told you this was absolutely harmful to our family generational trauma and you all ignored me and now you're worried about constitutional rights what is wrong with you I am so upset about this because you pick and choose what money you want generational trauma on these kids and now you're worried about it about some other select group of people what about those kids that couldn't read and learn and needed to see a face what happened where were you you think of me every time where were you the rest of you and by the way when you you put a mask on my child's face that August you never even voted till September and there was no emergency there was no state of emergency and you can look at me that way
109but you harmed these kids and now you're asking for money and I hope everybody sees this you're asking for all this money and you're wondering why special ed needs all this money yeah I'm sure those other things but this is a big one where were you for my child and his constitutional right thank you thank you Dave lamber 305 ging Hill just going back to sb2 um the deliver session you said they cancel through that or cancel through the town meeting and they cancel the deliberate session but they still have a vote I don't know why are we taking constitutional rights away from people who have a stake in this and you say no can't vote is it fear it sound like your reasoning was because you know then the whole big group's going to
110come in and vote down something well two years ago we had 200 people show up in the gym I me come on someone clly in the state moved sb2 to town meeting vote for it it's because they knew the people that wanted2 so they had an option to vote wouldn't be able to get there to vote to pass it so it's this inevitable you know hamster wheel of not allowing this people to vote if they're old and they can't get there they to work of course this this little snafu with the dates just prevented a whole bunch of people who plan ahead got the time off the little switcher was it a mistake yeah probably but come on that just negated a whole bunch of people from voting so I don't know why you like
111this voter suppression because all I hear through November is oh we got to have people have the chance to vote yet tal comes around put the brakes on sorry you can't vote I mean is it fear is that I mean fortunately the people running for the opening position are for sb2 so maybe there'll be some fresh blood in here I don't know but every year it's like you guys get behind and closes me like shut up you can't be for sb2 because you had a feelings for sb2 and then all of a sudden that got swells so I just I don't understand why V supression is so big in this town like why we have to shut people's voices out you know if they're out of town had a fly to Florida because a baby
112was born grandchild was born or can't work or I mean if you really want everyone to show up like it's 1792 again shut down everything in town shut the banks shut the library cancel all sports cancel everything in town so people can you know roll their wagons up to town hall we can all sit you know share our big goods and then vote but now Life's a lot more complex it doesn't happen but you know can't give those people a chance to vote that's scary don't want to do that mm no November yeah that's that's very important not town meeting that's that's scary so I maybe I'm just crazy okay any other business we do have a need for a nonpublic for under RSA 91 d a colum 3 comma two parentheses B for hiring
113so we are going to go into the non-public we will not return to the regular meeting no decision will be made no decision will be made thank you so we are going to a roll call vote roll call vote Rob is there a is there is there a motion to go into nonpublic don't Mo second all right Rob yes Jonathan yes no