001We really for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. It is 6 o'clock and yep and uh per RSA 18974 we um are going to open the floor up to public input about 30 minutes for public input and they have I'm not I know I was trying to use my theater voice for you can you hear me now? Yep. Okay. So, um, do we have any public input? All right, without seeing anyone, we will start with our PTO update. Are your mics on? I just turn back. Hi guys. Um, so since it's the end of the year, we don't have a ton of updates this time, but first of all, just want to say thank you so much for such an amazing year and thank you to administration.
002We've had a really good time um, working with you guys all this year. So, um, other than that, we do have two board members that will be switching over for next year. So, we have two stepping down, and we were able to fill both those positions already, which is great. So, we have two incoming kindergarten families, which is even better. So, we got them before they even came into the school system, which is awesome. Um, and they're excited and already getting started. We've got a couple kindergarten meetups that we're going to do over the summer, so they're already starting to plan those. We have three of them, one in July and two in August that um two of the kindergarten parents are taking over. So, we'll have ice pops, let them meet at the playground
003just so that they can kind of get used to the playground, meet other kindergarten families, and feel a little bit more of a smooth transition into kindergarten. Um other than that, let's see. We also have our lovely race director, Sarah, um for our Get Fit in May race is stepping down as well. So, we were able to fill that position, which is awesome. And let's see, over the summer, we're planning to get together to put together um we had talked before about the funding form that we're going to have for staff when they are submitting funding requests. So that way next year when they are submitting a request it will be a more form for formal process where it will go to us and also to administration and then we'll be able to review those
004requests with administration and make sure that we're getting the money out of the correct pockets because I know this year we were kind of like oh do we pay for this? Is this supposed to come out of the schoolboard budget? Where is this supposed to come from? Um, so in order to streamline that, streamline that a little bit, we're going to put together something over the summer um to hopefully make that process a little bit more smooth next year. Um, the most part, the rest of us are returning board members. Sarah and I will be um co-presidents again next year. So, familiar faces. And yeah, unless you guys have any input for us for looking forward to next year, um, I think that's kind of where we're at. I just want to thank you and
005and Sarah and the whole PTO. I think just as a parent in the community, I've just heard a lot of enthusiasm for all that the PTO has done this year and I hopefully you're seeing that engagement both on the parent side but just in the you know activities you're hosting and you guys did a lot and um and I know you've put a lot of time into it. So just thank you from Thank you. Yeah. No, it's been great. I think that I mean our main goal for this year was really to kind of get more parents involved, kind of increase the connection between the parents and the staff and I feel like we've definitely taken steps to make that happen and hopefully just keep building on that next year. So um you know I
006think I I think we talked about this last time but the plan is to kind of try to have a few set events and a few set things that the community can look forward to each year. So, our plan is to have like the movie night in the fall, the glow party in the winter, and then the GIF and May race in the spring as like our main three PTO events. Um, and then we'll do our, you know, side events, um, like our fundraising events and things like that as well. But those will be our big three community events. So, hopefully people will start to kind of know what's coming and and we'll get more connection through those events as well. So, but thank you. Thanks a lot. Anything else? And May was great as
007well. That's all her. She takes all the credit for that one. Sarah has big shoes to fill, I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah. I I wasn't even able to go this year. I was really bummed. So, all of my kids had something. I was like, of course. But, um I know I heard such amazing things. So, Sarah did great. Thank you, guys. All right. Um our admin update administr SA 16 administrative update. Okay, so the manifests are up there somewhere uh right there. And then also up there is the annual schoolboard questionnaire. And on that they just the auditors asked you just put your name, the number of years on you've been on the board and a brief, very brief description of who you are. Um so I'll click those after. Um and in your board pack
008there was a current year of financial. It is the last one of the year. Um, so we did add $95,000 of expense since the prior month and I did note what that was. A lot of it had to do with change in student need. Um, you'll see in the operations and maintenance, that's where we start to close out a lot of the utility incumbrances that remained open. Um, did anyone have any questions on those items? Happy to see we have a balance. Wasn't there a point in the year where we were worried? We were worried. Yep. And so we're hoping that that balance will we're hoping that balance will grow as we close out the year. But um as of right now, that is the projected balance and we did take a really good scrub
009with um especially the special education department just to make sure we didn't have any unanticipated expenditures that we didn't know about on here. So um but again, we still have bills to pay. So I did bring the manifest tonight, but you will be getting an email from me in the middle of the summer to come in and sign the rest of the manifest because we still have bills coming in. We still have the incumbrances out there for everything that needs to be paid as well as the last payrolls. So, when we complete the DOE25, I'll just send an email that way you only have to come in once. You don't have to keep coming in um just to get your final signatures. I have one question and I may have already asked this and I
010can't remember, so forgive me, but on the the the amount that was budgeted for DEIJ services was 10,000. It looks like we spent um a little over 2,000. Was it was there something that didn't happen that we anticipated or it's not that much but I just was curious what said I think when we started overspending with special education we kind of froze on some other things that we initially thought we were going to do. Okay. Thanks. Makes sense. And then um Patrick I just have the joint board one for you that if you want you don't have to put I'm just gonna say see other questionnaires so we don't have to list 33 people. And that's all I have. Thank you, Molly. Thanks, Molly. Couple of items. Um, this time of year, of course, we're
011in the middle of hiring. So, in your packet, you'll see um I appreciate the board giving the superintendent hiring rights. And as you can see, we um have done a pretty good job, particularly in the area of special ed, some difficult positions to fill. And so, we have some great candidates for that. Um, we just that's pretty much just to inform you of who we've hired thus far and I don't I don't know how many more positions there are to fill. I know there's one at least one at this point. So, we've done a great job. So, thanks administration for getting those in and rolling and bringing those forward because as you can tell these positions are well sought after for many districts. So, we get them. So, that's great. Um, and then there's your
012calendar for your meetings next year. pretty much the um second Tuesday except in November because the second Tuesday is Veterans Day that month. And then uh per usual, you'll notice that that Tuesday and I'm sorry, it should say Wednesday on January 14th. That's the snow date for um your public hearing. So, I will correct that. And then I did run by um Chris, your moderator, Chris Hilson, the dates for the deliberative session and the snow date for that. and those are both a go for him. So, um I also put in that earlier start time at the end of the year because sometimes the board wants to meet if there's a fund balance to discuss about year-end budget reviews. So, that's just built in in case you need it. This year, we didn't need it,
013but it's built in so people can plan accordingly. Um most of those um public hearings, well, the public hearings and the deliberative sessions are all RSA. That's why those dates the are on that so you know they have to be between those dates. Mhm. Um just just with the RA we also you'll see that petitions are due by 4 p.m. on the 13th. That's why we don't want to have it before the 13th because if a petition comes in you'd have to have another public hearing on a citizen's petition. So we try to not have it any earlier than the 13th. Um so that's the schedule. any changes or um to that all looks good. We'll post that and let it roll. I'll just make that correction from Tuesday to Wednesday. That is it for
014me. Unless you have any questions about SAU stuff. All right, Ryan, wrap it up here. All right. Hello everyone. Welcome to June. Um, we've had a lot going on. I tried to capture as much of it as I could in pictures and just kind of the end of year update, but we were able to avoid the, you know, inclement weather for field day for both schools. It was a lot of fun. Um, we had our third annual senior clap out. Um, which is always, you know, just really fun, especially I think for the fifth grade, just to be able to see kind of that next phase. Um, we had a really successful grade three incoming grade three parent night was very well attended. Um, parents asked really great questions. I thought that they left feeling
015very comfortable about where their um, children are going to be coming in the fall. Um, we had our grade five celebration last week. Um, it's about 130 degrees, but we were able to um, endure. We had a couple of absolutely amazing guest speakers in Dwayne Davis and um Colette Provost um who captured the middle school experience and provided some advice that I I don't think I hear very often from middle school. That level of wisdom, it was great. Um we had our grade four reading carnival which we had to move indoors last Friday but you know teachers pivoted in the last minute made it great. We had a lot of parent volunteers to help make that successful. Um, our DARE wreck day for grade five was supposed to be today, but we saw the weather
016for tomorrow and we thought, well, let's let's make it sunny and 80 versus whatever today was. So, we're looking forward to that as well as our fifth graders are as well. Um, we have our Lincoln Street School Stepup Day, which is also going to mirror Main Street School stepup day um Thursday afternoon at the end of the day. Um we will be emailing families at the end of the school day as well so that they will get um an email stating next year's teacher for their child. Um our learning reports um we've been reading a lot of narratives over the last week and a half and they will be going home on Friday afternoon coinciding with the early dismissal for the last day of school. Um, for the second year in a row, we're going
017to have a staff barbecue on Friday afternoon to say thank you to the many, many, many efforts that go into making a school year as successful as the one that we've had. Um, and that'll be for EDP Main Street and Lincoln Street. So, we're excited to celebrate and it looks like the weather will be on our side for that as well. Um, we've been taking a quick look. I know that we're in the fall we'll kind of unpack our spring testing and kind of how students did in the spring, but just to kind of give you a sneak peek. really really positive across the board. When we look at our local diagnostic testing, when we look at NHS, when we look at what we're seeing in the classroom, we're really excited about how our students
018have shown growth from fall to spring. And again, we'll share that with more information, more um details in the fall. Um we have our summer institute um which we have about 12 um staff members from Lincoln Street Schools signed up and that'll be on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. So, we'll be doing some good work on gateways and some other areas of focus for the SAU. Um, and then my very last piece that I'm going to share before I turn it over is just August 22nd, which is a Friday, we will have our meet the teacher event. It'll be 1:00 for Main Street School, 2:00 for Lincoln Street School. And then I'm going to invite Deanna and Diana just real quick for an ESSA and ESY update. exit summer skills academy and extended school
019year for those that need that. Yeah, not to be confusing at all. They sound pretty much the same. Um, but Deanna and I spend as everybody is kind of, you know, winding down right now. We're gearing up because we've got kids coming in at least they start June 24th for me for certain population of students. um students for special education services come in because we want to prevent regression or they have disabilities that are are pretty severe and so we want to make sure um they have an opportunity to continue their their work with us. Um so yeah, so we do a program that starts for a group of students June 24th and then runs through August 7th three days a week um 8 to noon and then another population of students begin to join
020us right after 4th of July come in three days a week. We run it kind of as a school model. Um, we've seen that it's helpful for kids because we see that what happens is, you know, they kind of get disregulated in the classroom setting. So, give them a little more practice having a classroom setting and that's that's been pretty successful. We use the gardens. You guys do the same. Yeah. Oh, I'll let you do the Brown Center. Okay. So, Exor Skills Academy runs concurrent with ESY. Um we are offering it kindergarten through fourth grade this year. Not fifth grade because the middle school is absorbing the rising fifth graders, rising sixth graders this year. Um we have about 70 students between the two schools but we have 95 targeted intervention slots that we're servicing
021for these kids. Um it is a 45 targeted inter 45minut targeted intervention and outside of that they will be hanging out with the Brown Center like we've done in the past. Um ESY students will also be with the Brown Center. It's structured play, social emotional learning that they work on through play. They also do they can go and play on their own if they want to. They don't have to um stay with the Brown Center. Um and we are having a title one family night on Thursday night here in the parking um in the hot top in the back with the Kona ice truck for families to come and meet their summer school teacher, meet the Brown Center staff, have a Kona ice, and just sort of hang out for uh to get ready for
022summer. So, any questions? They're invited to to Extra Summer Skills Academy. So, okay. Thank you. Thank you. Well, I was checking things off as Ryan was going. There's a lot of things that are duplicated, but I did want to shout out to PTO Get Fit May was great and it was the weather. It's just been like the weekends have been unpredictable. So, we had a really good turnout. It was nice to see the kids come out and do that. Since the last time we've met, we also had our Main Street School Celebration of Learning open house for all of the grade levels. We tried something new this year where we did um kind of an invite only for some of our students who might have some sensory needs and they came in 30 minutes early
023to have because it was a full house and it was really cool. So, I think that's going to be something that we continue. That was an idea that came from some of our teachers. We've been working on our class list step up day. For our step-up day, students are going to receive a letter from their next year's teacher to come home. home and so that's how families are going to find out about their placements. We're working on our end of year assessments. I started looking at the data like Ryan said it does look pretty good um for both Lincoln Street and Main Street. All of our students I mean overall our data fell in the high proficiency and high growth column. So we're really excited to look at that and break that information down. I
024want to give a shout out to Moren Keel and Caitlin Anglia because they ran our first Main Street school art and bookfest which was an attempt of doing Scholastic Fair a little bit differently and also involving some community partners. We had a huge turnout and people came in and out all day. So, that was really interesting. We also partnered um with Mariam and some of the other parents in the um anti-racism group, but I can't remember what their group is called now. It's leaving my mind. Caregivers, thank you. They also came and they had kind of some recommended book list and discussion questions that they gave out to families, which was a neat addition. And then we had students that ran some craft booths and were selling some of their products, which was neat to
025see kids doing that, too. On Friday, we had our end of year assembly. Today, we had our symphony of wings, which was a second grade celebration, and it was a combination of song and then also um thanking some of our community partners for the artwork that was installed on the outside of the building. And so, it was a combination of that. And then I also just wanted to recognize that we have a few retirements. Jean Mishnu in our cafeteria who has been at in exit for over 20 years. And then Martha Martell, Margie Matlac, and Karen McQueen all have served many years in the district, so we're grateful for their service. Um, and and that's about it. We have some step-up days and a few last things to wrap up the week, but it's been
026a great school year. And just personally, I feel very grateful for my time serving this community. It's been an honor. I've loved this gig. It's been super fun. I've learned a bunch from the people that I've worked with. So, I just want to say thank you for the support, too, over my time here. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, huge shout out. Thank you for for just just an incredible job and your leadership and um I personally am excited to see what you do at the high school because I have two kiddos in the high school, but um uh it's just been it's been awesome to see all that you've been able to do um at Main Street School. So, thank you. Um and Ryan, thank you for and and Diana for hosting an awesome
027fifth grade graduation. I attended and it was really nice to have that kind of mark of passage and I know there's a big vibe around celebration right now and a lot of I can say buzz around how special that event was in particular um and that the kids felt really prepared and like owner felt ownership over it. So just shout out to you both for like a job well done and I thought that student was phenomenal. All right, we've skipped over the approval of the meeting minutes. So, um we had uh uh the meeting our last meeting on May 13th, we had a public meeting and then we went into non-public. Um so, and I think there were it was just uh Patrick, Tim, and I at that meeting. So, um, do I have a
028motion to approve, um, we'll do them both, the public and non-public meeting minutes? Motion to approve the non-public and public meeting minutes. And do we have a second? I'll second. Okay. All in favor? I. And those who need to abstain, Kate and Beth. Great. Thanks. All right. Moving right along. We have our committee updates. Um and uh the first is the DEIJ committee and I just wanted to check is that I know there was some conversation last time that there might be a name change. Um we met a couple of hours ago actually and the it it will be called equity. Um and the meeting was about really just preparing for uh next year, people coming up with things that they are interested in bringing up for the or goals for next year. Um and
029who's going to facilitate? So it was sort of a wrap up and preparing for next year. Great. All right. Um let's come back to policy. Um safety and security. I'm new to that one and I don't think we've we have not met met. Okay. I don't think they'll meet again until the fall. Usually October. October. Okay, great. Um strategic planning, Beth. Um I'm trying to find the date that we met, but we met the same night as the celebration of learning. Um so a couple weeks ago, um continued this work um from the strategic planning summit. This meeting was focused on identifying the KPIs. So the key performance indicators that are going to be like publicly available for view. So did we make it through all of them? We made it. We did make it
030through all of them and then um she the facilitator sent us that Google sheet that I sent out to everyone for further input so she can develop the scorecard. So some of the things we have a lot of discussion around what do we already have data for and what do we have like to get as baseline data in the upcoming year. So really great work and a lot of work is going into that committee and happy to be a part of it. Great. Um facilities Beth and Patrick. So, the facilities committee met last month and the focus of the meeting was to discuss a proposal by the junior baseball league about having a lease. And um we had a good discussion about it and essentially uh what the committee is recommends is not going forward
031with adopting a lease that we felt that the arrangement that we have right now is is working. Um, if there's feedback on the building use form, we're certainly open to hearing that. Uh, because there's some reference during the public comments that there might be problems with that, but it wasn't really specific to what that was. And certainly if there's ways to fine-tune that, we we'd want to fine-tune it, but we think that system on an annual basis makes um sense and seems to generally be working. Um, the proposal was for a 99-year lease of the land, which is something that we wouldn't really entertain. Um, and I mean, it's it's way too long, but even just even if we were to say, uh, you know, let's have it for a shorter period of time, the
032committee didn't feel like we should be binding the board for multiple years. Um, there is always the possibility that needs could change and we need to be in a position to adapt with those needs. Um, and I I think there's some clause in the lease that said, well, you could renegotiate or change things, but then why have the lease in the first place then? I I think there's, you know, we have a long history of working with the baseball league that goes back, I don't know, I think 20, 30 years. I mean, quite a long time. And we've um, you know, we've been we've been sort of good partners with them even though we own that property, including when we redesigned the whole area. This is I guess I'm recapping a lot of what we
033talked about. And when we redesigned the area with um Walshfield, we made a point of trying to relocate that within the SAU even though it was we didn't have space within um our grounds. It was relocated closer to um to where the old high school was. So um so in any case, we we felt like like historically it's worked well and recently we haven't um noted problems either. So uh you know, we'd want to keep that ability to sort of approve things as they come up. There's some discussion, for example, about lighting, potentially having lighting. There may be concerns about neighbors. We'd really want to be able to vet that as a board before anything like that move forward. We wouldn't want to sort of seed that authority to uh the baseball league. So, so
034we're not recommending I mean, it's up to the board to decide, but the committee is not recommending that we move forward with the lease. Um, but instead just to continue work with the system that we have and and fine-tune it as needed. Patrick, because I know originally the request came in around or we thought the request was going to be about the lights specifically. So without moving forward with the lease, do they is what would be sort of the next step if they wanted to pursue some kind of lighting. So they didn't make a request about the lighting. Okay. But they um I think that was what the board was informed they were going to come and speak about, but when they came here, they didn't make they didn't make any specific request about the
035lighting. They um said they've been fundraising. They said they they have other teams using the field. They just talked about current use and future use, but they didn't they didn't make that request. So, it's really up to them to make that request. I mean, I don't know what to say. I mean, maybe Esther wants to say more. I guess that's my question. Can they take that request without because I I guess my my understanding was that it was embedded in their request for a lease something along that line and I just wanted to understand what because I also came into that meeting think it was about lights originally and so right I think I it's my understanding that that's why they wanted the approval for the lease because they didn't want to and make it
036a large investment. So if they don't get the lease then they will probably pause. They can always come back to the board just like at the cooperative board the I think it was lacrosse team came because they wanted to add irrigation they can come to the board for a specific request then the board can got it talk about that but it's my impression that they were hoping to get some kind of guarantee before they made a large investment but that may change they can still come to the board as Patrick's noted if they wanted specifically for lighting they've come to the board in the past for example when they did some work on um sort of the dugout area and some of the supporting structures that were there and at the time the board felt
037like they even had the board had funds to even help contribute towards that. Um but certainly, you know, approved it and work with them on the on the design and whatnot. So, um you know, I don't know. I mean, something like lighting's a little more complicated because even during that meeting, we heard some public input by one of the neighbors without really bringing that before the public that had some questions or concerns about it. So, it it seemed like it I I don't know. It seems like that's something that that would need more information if if that's even a direction they want to go in. Any other questions or I don't have any? No, I think we probably I mean I guess we need to make a motion um because it's it's not the committee's
038decision. They just have a recommendation. I mean, I would I'll make a motion on behalf of the committee that we not approve the request to um to enter into a licensing agreement with the Junior Baseball League. I would second. All in favor? We need Is there any discussion? Any discussion? Sorry, mean to interrupt you. Okay. It sounds like from last month and just Beth in case missed the presentation, but um I would agree with Heather and Patrick that it was pretty surprising to be proposed with a 99year lease and when we were thought it was going to be a discussion about lights. Um and I think that the facilities committee sounds like had have thoroughly vetted that even further. So, um, I would agree with Patrick's and Heather's, uh, recommendation if that helps. Yeah. Yeah.
039And the minutes. Okay. Um, any other discussion? All right. All in favor? I I would the board like me to communicate that back to Mr. Provos on behalf of the board? that decision. Yeah, that'd be great. Yes, please. I mean, Esther, I know since you were also part of the you were there for the committee meeting and participate, you'd be able to elaborate on anything. Yeah, great. Thank you. Uh, the Wheelright Trust, no new uh submissions, so I think we're good until the fall if there's still. All right. Um, sbatical. I don't think there's been any requests for sbatical. Um, and negotiations is is in the fall. So, um, that will be something. Can I say one thing about negotiations? That will be something that I I suspect we're going to hear relatively soon about
040um, looking for dates to try to meet. I I know that that there's been a desire in the past to really hit the ground running and, you know, meet as early as September to really try to get things going. So, I anticipate we'll hear from folks soon. There is we're negotiating the teacher contract this year. Great. Thanks, Patrick. All right. So, um we're going to move on to policies. There were six of them and then one um with uh one that is being proposed to be withdrawn. And I'm just going to try to find this. Patrick and I were um unfortunately both had to me miss that meeting, but I think you all got a copy of the policies um with um annotation of what was the suggested edits and the summary which is always
041really helpful. Um so Patrick, do you want me to just dive in? Okay. Yeah, that'd be great. Um and uh so the they they're fairly straightforward. Um so there are several um new policies and a few um that are up for revision. So the first is policy code ACF. This is food and nutrition services anti-discrimination and civil rights complaints. Um so I think as you probably noted it's just the USDA's non-discrimination statement and then sort of a procedural outline of um you know things that need to be posted and and how to sort of follow up if you do have a complaint. Um, I'm going to just run through these and I would say if you have a question about one of them, stop me and then we'll we'll kind of take a vote on
042all of them. Um, the next one is policy code ECAF and this is audio and video surveillance on school buses. So, this is a new policy that actually replaces policy E AJ which is being proposed that we withdraw that policy and replace it with this new policy. Um and it's just uh really specifically outlined some of the legal parameters of when audio and video surveillance can be used in the buses. Um uh how parents and guardians need to be notified that that's being uh is being taken place and sort of procedurally if there is a complaint um you know what happens to recordings um and and all of that. So, that's about um audio and video surveillance on school buses. I'm going to skip the next one for a minute because the next one is
043policy code EAA and that's video and audio surveillance on school property. Um and so this is um a revised policy. Um it made reference the former policy made reference to policy code J. Um and really the only thing that is stipulates that is um it states the policy pertaining to when um records uh you know when pertaining to student records. So if some if something is is taken up um and and record and put into a student record what happens then and how for how long and um the the procedures there. So that one's about audio video in school property. Um policy code EA is student transportation um services. So, um this is just a again if there's um a a request on the part of a parent or guard guardian um to request a
044change or an exemption from the student transportation policy um and what what they procedurally should be doing. And then policy code EA EA. Um, this one I actually had a question about. This is policy named mandatory drug and alcohol testing. School bus drivers and contracted carriers. So it just uh stipulates criterion requirements for school bus drivers or those that the school district contracts to carry students safely. Um it actually covers my question is whether the name is appropriate because it covers um mandatory drug and alcohol testing but it also stipulates that there's a medical exam that there's certification and criminal background investigation. So when I when I read the policy it felt more comprehensive than just mandatory drug and alcohol testing. Um, and so I'm going to stop to see it. There was um, language
045in the policy. I got to scroll back down to it that I just wondered if maybe it just needed a clearer name, which was fitness for duty. It says to that end, the board has established this policy related to the fitness of duty of transportation personnel. And I wonder if some calling it something like that is more accurate to the policy. if anyone has any feelings on that. Yeah, I don't think that I mean I agree with you that the name doesn't do a very good job because that's only one of the requirements is about the drug and alcohol testing. The policy is also about certification and right criminal background investigations and medical examinations. It's it's really not just about that. That's one of the four or five things that are looked at. Right. So
046that I agree that the title is not a good a good title. Um just do you have a suggest the only I just pulled out that one line which is like it says this is about the fitness of duty of bus of drivers but I don't know if you have if anyone has if that one fits or if you have a better recommendation or I guess is the question are those other things need to be in there because it's like certification And background investigation are things that you do upon hire. You know what I mean? Like do they need to be in in here? Oh, in the policy. Yeah, I guess I don't. Yes, Can I help? Yeah, you can help. Thank you. If you look at the uh law references that this policy is
047supposed to cover, you'll see it includes um the medical examinations, those kinds of things. So that's why I believe it's in this policy because it refers to all those RSAs listed there. So um I'm just wondering if you just want to use that language for the title. Um what was it? Fitness fitness for duty is fitness in the language of the policy but not the Yeah. I I mean I would just expand it a little bit. Sure. Is the suggestion I would make because it's the if you finish rest that line it says f fitness for duty of transportation personnel. Yeah. Well, that that's what I'm Yeah. Yeah. Just that list that whole Yeah. That whole line. Fitness of duty. Fitness for duty of transportation personnel. I I I like that better. Okay. Um could
048we leave school bus drivers and contracted carriers in parenthesis? So, because we do have people that drive our vans, which is the other policy. Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. Um, should we vote on that one now, Patrick, or just I would finish finish all of them and then vote on the changes. Make motions about some of their amendment. I have a potential amendment for another one, too. But I was letting you go over everything. Okay, perfect. Great. Because I have another memo, too, that I forgot. So, great. Um, hold on. Let me just There's so many and I'm losing trying to keep them all track here. There's just one left to review. Um, Patrick, if you have it up in front of you, can you just give it to us so that I
049can don't have to waste your time finding my place again? I'm sorry. I didn't hear you. Go. If it's Do you want to do it? Just go ahead and hear the last one. I got it. I got it now. Okay. Sorry. Yeah. Sorry. No, it's okay. EBB. EBB is the last one um of the six that uh for adoption and that's policy name uh use of private vehicles to transport students which is what Esther was just referring to. This is a revision of a current policy. Um and it was updated to include the use of school vans for school authorized transportation. Um, and it also gave some updated information around anyone using personal vehicles to provide school authorized transportation. Um, and and one of the big things there was that, you know, you'd need an
050inspection sticker from any state, not just um limiting it to uh those registered in New Hampshire. So, that was a specific change there. So those are the six policies that um that we dis that the policy committee discussed for adoption or revision. Um and then as I mentioned before there's the policy to withdraw which is if we were to adopt the new policy around video and audio recording on school buses um that would replace uh policy E AJ. Um, so we would replace that policy, withdraw that policy and replace it with ECAF. So, um, Patrick, you said you had other notes. Did you want to bring That's so going back to the student transportation services one, the EA. Okay. Um, I like the change that was made under the first paragraph, student conduct on school
051buses. We're striking the part that just says who are disciplinary problems. It's talking about suspending riding privileges. Yep. And it changes changes it to whose pattern of behavior and conduct on school buses endangers the health, safety, and welfare of other riders. So, I like that language, but I I would suggest I maybe it's not a big difference, but I would suggest instead of having and have or that it could be health or safety or uh welfare that doesn't have to be all three necessarily. I like that change. I mean, it's they kind of overlap. It might be the same thing, but I wouldn't want someone to dig into it and say no one was ever un, you know, it didn't affect their health. Yes, they were unsafe, but it didn't affect their health. And so
052you you can't suspend because of that. And Patrick, while we're on that line, I think the change that I was going to suggest is that it include other riders or the driver, right? No, the driver. Well, that's still Yeah. Oh, the fit. No, but if the misconduct on the bus, right, the principal will have the authority to relegated by the superintendent to suspend the riding privileges of students whose pattern of behavior. So, this is about suspending the riding privileges of the students. So, if they're endangering other riders, but they could be endangering the safety of the driver as well. Correct. I think that's fair. What about just others? Yeah. I don't know. It just seems more specific. Just take riders off. Yeah. Others. Just say others instead of others on the bus. Oh, of others
053on the bus would work too. Yeah, that does work. Get everyone. You don't want to say bus because if they throw something out the window. Yeah, that's the other thing, too. I mean, that's that's the other piece I was just thinking about as well. Others. I mean, what if someone's throwing something out the window? Yeah. So, it could just say of others. Mhm. Yeah. I mean, I don't think that typically happens, but just to cover everything. Okay. So, then it would read, "The principal will have the authority delegated by the superintendent to suspend the riding privileges of students whose pattern of behavior and conduct on school buses endangers the health, safety, or welfare of others." Yeah. Descent. Okay. Period. Were there others other comments because it it is limited to just to be clear it
054is limiting this to conduct on the school bus. So that's you know still consistent with that. It's not that if someone does something at school you're then you're then suspending their bus riding privileges. That's right. I mean unless they can't come to school at all. That's a different issue. But um so that that makes sense. I think that's a good I like that. What's that? No, doesn't say that. No, it doesn't say a pattern. They will have the authority delegate to suspend. It doesn't have to. Who's don't I want to say pattern something is egregious. It does not say pattern and we don't want it. It does say pattern. Actually, I like the word behavior. I like taking out the word pattern too. Yeah, that's mean. Mhm. Technically, a pattern means two or more incidents.
055And so, there could be one significant incident that doesn't establish a pattern, but could be enough egregious enough that you felt that you had to suspend someone. So, you wouldn't establish a pattern and it would just say whose conduct on school buses endangers the health, safety, or welfare of others. No, you just I would keep the word behavior whose behavior and conduct. Okay. I had to look up those words. What's the difference? I don't think you have to say behavior or conduct. I think that's close enough. Behavior and conduct are pretty much saying the same thing. I I think those are good changes. Do you want me to read it again or you feel good? I have it. You got it. Okay, great. Uh, any other suggestions? [Applause] That was one of my Can you
056just give me the official name change again? Yes, it wasation. It would the This was for the suggestion for or the suggested change for EA EA was to rename it fitness for duty of transportation personnel and then in parentheses school bus drivers and contracted carriers. Great. Thanks. Mhm. I just noticed I think this is a typo in the suggested change in EAA video and audio surveillance on school property. There's a parenthesis. It's paragraph it's towards the bottom of the first plate. It's like the second to last paragraph. It says board policy pertaining to student records and access shall apply. And then it says parenthesis remove specific reference to policy J. That should be taken out. It should that's just an inferencing. Yeah, we just want to strike that from the policy. Yeah. Anything else? Any
057other recommended changes or things we should look at? All right. I'm not hearing any, so that's good. Um, all right. So, can I just say, can we make a motion to accept all policy as amended? As amended. Okay. Would anyone like to make a motion to accept all policies as amended? Like to make a motion to accept all policies as amended. Uh, do I have a second? Second. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor? I I Do I have to make a second motion to withdraw? Okay. Um, and I'd like to make a motion to withdraw policy uh E AJ. Um, replace and replace that with the newly um adopted policy ECAF. I have a second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I I I All right, we did it. Great. Thank you guys. All right,
058I think that wraps up our um our um committee updates. Do we have any new business? Well, I would just like to thank you, Esther, for your service. I know this is your last board meeting and it has been really tremendous to have your leadership at the SACU 16 and especially for our board. So, thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah. And we wish you the very very best. Thanks. Um, [Applause] uh, old business. Don't we have I'm sorry. Under new business, don't we have a petition we have to consider? I mean, I'm seeing it here in front of me. Well, that we're going to go into nonpublic. We're going into nonpublic. But that's what I mean. That's okay. So, business we're gonna we're going to go into nonpublic. We will go into nonpublic. Yeah.
059Right. Um but before we do that, is there any old business? All right. Um so, we uh uh I we do need to go into non-public uh per RSA 91 A32C. Um, and this uh this is under policy JB. This is a uh parent request. That's a roll call in Okay. So, we need a roll call to go into non-public. You need a motion and a second first. All right. We need a motion to go into non-public, which you just did. Yeah. Do I have a second? Do we have to discuss? Okay. I have a roll call. I I I I I All right. We're going to go into non-public at 6:48. to um so I I would like to make a mo motion to deny um the requested appeal. Do I have a second?
060Second. We can't have any discussion, right? So, okay. All in favor? I I I Okay. Um we'll adjourn the meeting at 7 uh 28.