001Um I am starting uh the June 9th school board east school board meeting session. It is 4:31. Uh public comments will be open for 30 minutes and individuals will have a limit of three minutes uh per person to start. So if there's public comments, please do so. Uh yes, go ahead. I see where the sign was on the agenda. Were you discussing that tonight or not? Um, we can discuss it. It wasn't on the agenda. It's not on the agenda. Nope. So, can they make an uh new business? Can it be under new business? Yeah, they can make a comment on anything. Anything? Yes, you can make a comment on anything. It doesn't have to be on the agenda for you to make a comment. I still, you know, feel that that sign is is
002more than adequate. And you know, it bothers me when I see, you know, the schoolboard policy in favor of DEI and then we get hit by these expenses that aren't mandatory. It really have nothing to do with educating kids and it it's with a higher tax rate, we're excluding people from living in East King because they can't afford the taxes. So, if you're really into inclusion, I don't see how you can vote to have the a new sign. Just doesn't make any sense to me. Okay. Um, announcements. I don't have any announcements. Nope. Nope. Okay. Business and financials, Molly. Okay. Um, so thank you for sending the manifest. Actually, that that file right there, there should be two payroll and two accounts payable manifests. Um, we are going to ask since this is the last
003schoolboard meeting, we won't be able to bring you the remaining manifest. We do have expenses we're paying through June 30th as well as into July when we receive payments um for stuff that occurred for the fiscal 25 year, which is the current school year. So, when we have all of those complete, you'll probably be getting an email from me to just come to that schedule and sign. That way, they can all be uh complete before our auditors come in the fall. Um, then also at that time, we're also going to be completing the DOE 25, which is your year-end fiscal report, which will ultimately decide what is given back in the tax rate. Um, and so right now we do have the monthly board pack which projects how we're going to do on the DOE25.
004Again, it's not set in stone because we still have to go to June 30th and there could be some unanticipated expenditures until then. But um, since last month we did relieve $2,000 $2,254 of expense. Um, on the board pack we did quote what it is. There was very minimal changes. This time of year you'll see PO clothes. That means purchase order closed. So when we know there's going to be an ext an expense, we encumber it in a purchase order. Sometimes things come in less than expected. Um some a lot of times for facilities and maintenance, we'll encumber what we project the utilities to be for the whole year. Um and as we get closer to the year, we always start to relieve meaning decrease those incumbrances. So does anyone have any questions? And there
005are no trusts that were put on the warrant. So the projected return at this point in time to the taxpayers would be about $25,000. But again, this year is not done. So that is not a set number. And the 25 is a combination of your expenses less than planned, your revenue more than planned, and the food service loss that was planned in the tax rate. When when do we get the actual number for food service loss? Um, so that will be when we finalize everything. So that's the June 30th on the DOE 25. So on the DOE25, you're going to see it. When you come in to sign it, you'll see it's it's like um kind of like an Excel format. One column is what's called your general fund. And then the next column is
006your food service fund. And so you'll be able to see how much loss we actually have. And then my other question is the adjusted um the adjusted number the 9,4400 number that's what we have remaining right now and that's what we should be playing with. Am I hearing you like that's the number what's left? So that is right now your projected under spend on the appropriation. Okay. Um I wouldn't use the word play um because that is a very very tight number. I've never actually seen it that tight before ever. Okay. Um, so and just in case we had any unanticipated expenditures, we still have the motion from the board from a few months ago to draw down on the trust if needed. Needed. Okay. But we would not intend to do so unless we
007had to because you cannot overextend your appropriation. Yep. Thank you. So if that if that 9401 is remaining at the end when we're officially wrapped the school year, does that get added to the projected FY25 return of taxpayers to or No, it's already So that's what the calculation is like. So basically we started the year last year of 153,000 which is unassigned which was last year's number that we ended with. Then that all got given back in the tax rate. That's why you see the minus given back in tax rate. So then you start fresh. And so we have $7,000 of additional revenue which is your earnings on investment food loss that you discussed. Yeah. We had planned for a $9,000 food service loss when we did the tax rate. And right now we're about
0089,41 under projection on the budget. Okay. Which again that will change as we close out the year. Right. Um resulting in the 25,41. Now if you were to need any expenditures such as the sign or whatever it might be, it would come out of the 9,41. And what if we elected to do the sign say in August? Would that still come from that budget or next year's budget? Next year. So, so if you were to make a motion tonight to expend it from the current year budget, it could happen in the summer, but it would come out of this year's budget, but we would open the purchase order, which would be the commitment to buy before June 30th. So, sometimes when things can't happen, like you can't pave a parking lot when the students are
009in the building, right? You can't necessarily do work on the sign as students are going on the buses. And so any of those type of expenditures need a motion by the board before June 30th with a purchase order open with a vendor before June 30th with a commitment to buy so that we can expense it in this year even if the sign was installed in July or August. Now, if we choose not to do anything regarding the sign and the expense just happens in August because that's when it happens without a motion from the board to make it part of the FY25 expense, then yes, since it's after July 1, it would be an FY26, meaning the 2526 school year. So, in order for it to to be part of the current year, we would
010need a motion from the board to have it be an FY25 expenditure. So then technically there is a way that the cost of it potentially still could go back to the taxpayers this year and then it could be paid for with next year's budget and still be done. You just as long as the commitment to buy happens after July 1, then it would occur in next year's budget. Now you just want to be cautious because if it was not planned for in next year's budget, then you would you would need to determine what wouldn't happen in next year's budget to support that. Sure. Got it. Can I just ask about when I was at not the last well the last meeting I attended there was this $25,000 I thought actually it was 26 but it
011said at the time there were 21 days of school left and perhaps you needed to buy more books for those 21 days. So will that be coming out to this money or were they never added as you need books? I don't recall it was books. I thought it was subs that we were discussing. No, it was it was books as well as books as well as sub. So on here we've encumbered everything. An incumbrance is an expenditure that has not actually been physically paid yet. But we know we will have to pay it. For example, we encumbered salaries because we know we have to pay those salaries. Um if somebody needed books, we would have encumbered the books. Well, I would have thought if they were needed for the last 21 days of school that
012they would have already been ordered so that they could be used. So yes, we are we the guidance we gave to all schools within the SAU is that all purchase orders meeting the commitment to buy needed to be in the Friday before communication which was Friday April 24thish 4th. Yeah. And and after that we said at that point in time it should be really as needed expenditures if your boiler breaks or the water pipes burst something like that because we said if you don't know it by now you wouldn't really need it. So books would have been encumbered for quite some time if we were still buying any. And at this point in time, most of the orders are done. And we're working with Brandon and team to close out all those purchase orders and
013get the invoices from the vendors. That makes sense. So you don't know if they've been I wasn't Mr. French knowed. I wasn't there. Did they? I mean, if we Everything Everything that we needed was ordered in April. Yeah. Yeah. So, there shouldn't be anything out there right now that we're missing. No. At this point, unless there's a stack of PE like there could be bills that they're still processing, but they're out there. So, you But they already have been ordered. Yeah. Everything's been ordered. All orders have happened. Okay. And any orders that have happened and hasn't been a check cut to pay for it yet, which should show up in your encumbrances, which are all part of this number that we're talking. not talking about um right at this point in time there shouldn't be
014any orders that aren't encumbered unless it's a total surprise. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Uh approval of minutes. Um, I'm going to make a motion to approve May 12th, 2025. Second. Second. All in favor? I, uh, principal's report. Did you want to approve the nonpublic? No, non-public. Sorry. Uh, uh, make a motion to approve the non-public minutes on May 12th. Second. All in favor? I I kidding. No. All right. Can we have a redo? Cuz JD wasn't here, so we can't approve the meeting minutes. Yes. Abstain. No, you have to abstain. Yes. And I wasn't here either, so I didn't realize that. Okay. Mr. French is keeping us all honest. I love that. Thank you. Okay. So, approval of minutes May 12th, 2025. All second. Second. All in favor? I. And one obsession. In
015one. Yep. And then approval of minutes for non-public second. All in favor? I one an abstension. Okay. Okay. Now check. Principal's report. Thank you. Uh we're up to one more since the last meeting up to 24 students that have registered for kindergarten. Um, enrollment numbers as of June 1st have remained at 113, 16 kindergarten, 18 first grade, 24 second, 21 third, 12, fourth, and 22 fifth graders. Uh, last week we had our annual field day and family barbecue. Uh, was um really well attended, especially the barbecue. A lot of families came out and participated. We want to thank Mrs. Cattle, our PE teacher, Mrs. floor and Miss George from the kitchen for um all the delicious food and our parent volunteers that helped out field day. Uh we do have the uh you'll see up
016here we do have the I guess you can call the preliminary because it's not officially out yet, but our schoolwide data for uh for New Hampshire state assessments. I'll have more information on that once we come back in the fall that first presentation in the fall. But I wanted to unofficial. So this is where we were last three years in math. You can um see 2023 with 44% jumped up to 70 last year and a and a small dip this year down to 68%. This is schoolwide third through fifth grade. Uh science we've seen a steady increase uh which is just fifth grade science from 2023 from 37% up to 58% proficient. and uh ELA uh another huge jump. Um two years ago we're 52% efficient up to 72% this year for 250. We also
017have uh our I Ready data that we just finished last Thursday. Um I just have the fall where we started out the year uh for I Ready in the fall. 36% of our students were uh honorable grade level. Remember the yellow is students that were ready for instruction at grade level and then 14% of our students were in the red that were uh two or three grade levels below. You can see again you know the huge jump uh from red to yellow uh a drop from 14% of our students who are not ready for grade level selection that is down to 5%. Again this is this is first through fifth grade reading. um 10% of our students this year are approaching grade level and then the jump to uh 84% of our students that are
018on or above grade level to end the year with reading. Very similar in math. Um 7% of our students were in the red to start the year that were not ready for for grade level instruction. 66% of our students were ready for for math in the fall. And then it's 27% of our students who are honor above grade level. Another another huge jump. You can see all the green here as we end the year with math uh with 90% of our students that are on or above grade level in math. tiny 1% in red and then 9% of our students are in the yellow. Brandon, that I mean that's a that's fantastic. It's a great jump. How how do you sort of correlate that or what's the is there anything there between this and then
019the previous 68% the 2% drop that you showed me in proficiency between last year and this year? Are you talking about for the for the SAS testing? Yeah, for the SAS testing it just because it see like that just seems like it's a huge closing of a gap. Yeah. And then there's a minor drop in proficiency for the SAS testing. So I didn't know if there's just any correlation there at all or anything. There usually is a correlation. Uh there is a correlation with reading. If you look at the reading and uh SAS and the math, I think where we which we'll talk more about grade levels in the fall, but what we did notice is we had a drop in our fifth grade math scores. A lot of those students went from fourth to
020fifth grade. Yeah. Um I think one of the biggest challenges our fifth graders faced was the staffing changes we had mid year. Sure. That were really unexpected um with the resignation in December. Yeah. You know I can't speak much about the test right because I don't know what was on it and how that looked but you know I think it was one test you know that our students took. This is a whole year year sample right. Yes. So we we we look at the test and we take in in the spring with our testing. It's one it's one data point right. Um, but this is a whole year's worth. So, yeah, I wish I had a better answer. No, no, I it makes sense. I was just curious. Yep. Uh, so, you know, we we
021we celebrated last week as a staff. You know, we we try not to get too high on the data and too low. Um, but there are really great things going on here if we're just looking at data across the board with SAS testing and with our I Ready scores. Um, we did see the huge jump, like I said, from ELA in both SAS and I Ready. Um, showing just really great growth. We're we're we're really attributing this to our tier one instruction, really starting with our youngest learners. Uh our our current second graders are the first group that started with Morton Gillingham instruction as kindergarteners. Our first and second graders didn't have one student in the red for I already read. Oh wow. Not one kid is in the red at the end of the
022year, which is something really to celebrate. it it shows all the work that our teachers did to get trained coaching is really working because our students are learning those foundational skills. Um and then how we're providing targeted intervention support students. We really spent a lot of time with tier 2 and tier three instruction over the last couple years which is showing with these students here seeing the red drop significantly both reading and math. So, we're really excited about that, seeing the growth, not so much the scores, but the growth of our students and um you know, again, math and science are improving from two years ago to now. Uh great I already growth um that our students are progressing and um even that even though we had that 2% dip from our fourth sorry for
023our math and SAS from from last year to this year, it's still really really positive proficiency with our students. next steps for us as we think about next year and our our leadership team that you know have have had our final meeting last week. Um something that we are adding for next year is being more strategic with our what I need downtime our win time which is providing intervention or extension to students who who need it or are ready for it. Uh this is going to consist of scheduling which it's in our master schedule how we're going to use our staff during those wind blocks and having well I should say continuing our clearly defined intervention. We want to maintain the momentum in ELA and use the success that we have in ELA to really
024grow to truly guide our our our professional development for our teachers. We have another group going to the PLC at work conference uh this summer. I can't say enough about that with really setting up a system here that uh we're using across the board and part of that is going to be continuing with our vertical team time of K to two and three to five teachers and next year for the first time we'll have team leaders that will be um setting the agendas facilitating the meetings they'll be working directly with uh me our director of curriculum Jill Azir and our interventionist for reading and math to set agendas and make it a uh to give our our teachers even more opportunity to lead this amazing school and the process that we have. Questions? Sit down.
025Um I have a question about professional learning. So you've sent um or we've spent funds on sending teachers. They're not certified in OG, but they're going to get trained in OG in in that space, right? Um we hired a new teacher. Is that new teacher going to OG training? She is. She's she's um taking the comprehensive OG training um later this month. Later this month. Okay. And and then my second follow-up question to that, so that's just training. So the certification of having OG people on staff, are we going to have OG certified people on staff? have one OG certified person within the next two years. Okay. She's she's just started this year. Oh, okay. Okay. Um and the PLC leadership training. So, yes. Um that that's phenomenal. The intention and the strategic way of
026of pulling that data and being data informed when they go in is really important. But the people who are becoming leaders, are they going to have their own specific training on facilitation? They will. Yes. with uh with Jill and me summer. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Great. And I guess my last question is we're budgeted for that. Correct. That's in the budget for next year. Use a grant using grant funds to send them. We are using grant funds for that for the PLC conference. Oh yeah. That's okay. We use our reef grant for that and not OG. Do you use you use so one teacher is being trained in the morphology in next year's budget. The other teacher being trained um this current budget cycle is is uh grant grant. Okay. Great. Thank you. Welcome. When is
027um I ready testing stuff going home to parents with report cards? Friday. Okay. Any other questions? Are those I ready tests? Are you are those used throughout SA16? Yes. Is there any uh insight as to how comparable what the what other school how other schools? Yeah. How good we are. We we'll uh we we we typically meet as principles with with Jill, our curriculum director, um as a principal team, and we look at the data together and we look at any trends that we might see, both positive and not so good. Y um and address those as an one of the benefits we have um is our low ratio that we have. Um but the the thing that's working to East Kingston's benefit is this very strategic intentional um data collection on each and analysis
028on on each kid um and what their needs are. So that is that is spot on um as far as becoming a a top-notch school. So congratulations. Okay. um tenative hiring update. Yes. So, we um I think I mentioned this at the last meeting. We're still um we did uh nominate uh the part-time art teacher to go um to the SAU. I think she's at the contract stage now. I think she's just going inside her. We're hoping to have an update for you today to say yes, she's official, but that's happening as of today. So, okay. She'll be all set for the start of the year. Start of the year. And I'll just need um you to come in and sign her contract. Okay. At some point in the at the SAU. Okie dokie. Thank
029you. Um meal price increases. Um so some of our other schools are having this conversation as well. And um the board needs to make a decision about raising the price of lunch and breakfast. Do we do breakfast here? We do. We do. Yeah, I know. I thought that was something new that we started. We started this year. Yeah. So, a lot of kids use it doing it though or was there There's a handful to 10 maybe on a given day. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so the USDA suggests that we raise our pricing to 340 for lunch and 240 for breakfast. And I think that is a 15 cent increase for lunch and a 15 cent increase for breakfast. The board can make take any action on this if you want. You cannot raise prices. you can
030raise it by a nominal amount. Um, I'm just sharing you what the USDA recommended. And, um, our food service person, Deb, also works in Kensington and Kensington did raise the lunch prices to 340 and 240 um, respectively for lunch and breakfast. Um, so it's really up for you all too. We do have a loss every year and we have you haven't really raised it and it would not be the most expensive in the SACE and the recommendation is based on just rising cost of goods. Yep. The cost of food. Are we still in the 30 minutes? Can I just ask what the sample breakfast and lunch menus are? Just out of curiosity. Does the board want any answer? Yeah. Yeah. I mean for I can do lunch. I can't I have no idea what we
031do for breakfast. I don't look at the breakfast menu. Um, but I would say there's always fruits and vegetables. There's always a full meal of like a full sandwich or um anywhere from chicken noodle soup to turkey dinner to pizza on Fridays. Um, so that's a it's a typical hot lunch. So it's a proper hot lunch. It's a Yes, it's a typical of a snack. No, it is definitely a typical hot lunch um for the kids. Yes. Yep. Breakfast could be um uh could be hard-boiled eggs and uh an apple to um you know a bowl of cereal with there's always a fruit, there's always a dairy and there's always a protein. Yeah. There's laws governed by what we have to serve at each meal. So they have to hit certain points. Yeah. Um I
032guess my by raising the cost. I mean we have such a lo I feel like we have such a loss um for food service each year. I remember talking about it last year. Um you know raising the cost for that you know how much are we really gaining back? probably not too much because of the inflation. Like if we're um how many kids actually utilize hot lunch on a daily or weekly basis like what percentage are we talking about? I don't know. Yeah, it's not okay. Um it it Well, I shouldn't say it depends on what's being offered. Yeah, I was going to say Fridays of Fridays is a you know, you know, so for me that's like probably not a loss, you know. What are what have we done to acrue like some of
033these costs that parents owe and is that that's only one one bucket that needs to be, you know, filled, but are we losing money because of the cost of things going up in the world? Is that really the biggest is it are parents paying? One and two, are we losing money just because of the inflation? Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, I'm curious what goes into food loss, too. Like what? Yep. So, the food loss, so everything that is used to support the food service program has to be ch charged to the food service fund. So, it's everything from salaries to if your oven breaks, the repair cost for that um to packaging of the food um to items need in the kitchen. So, it's it's a lot of fixed costs on top of salaries. Um that
034all then has to be supported against the revenue that you bring in. And so what happens is when we set your budget, we plan for the expenditures of the food. We plan for the expenditures of the salaries, the the any cost to operate the kitchen and then um the revenue coming in would go against that to determine what you have to raise in the tax rate to support it. Um, and then what happens is if your revenues don't support your expenses, which 9.9 times out of 10 in small schools like this, it won't, and you have taken steps like by even sharing a food service director with Kensington cuts down on the cost of salary. Um, that's an effort to reduce your food service loss. Um, any loss then has to be transferred over to
035the general fund. Now, I haven't gotten a recent report. I don't think that there's many unpaid services. I think it's very I think it's very low. Okay. Um there is some but I think it's very low and it's important to know that no child is denied a meal and so at the end of the day if if about if a student's account isn't paid the loss is transferred general but that is a very very teeny amount compared to great okay the actual food service loss and when we say food service loss it's the cost to operate the program is much more than the revenue that comes in. Yeah. Okay. Right. So, I guess your question is is like is the 15 cent increase going to make a dent or is it going to sort of
036sustain what we've been looking at for food loss year-over-year? I mean, it will bring it down a little bit. Yeah. Um, and I do believe there are regulations since you did end in a long situation that you would actually have to increase it. It doesn't have to be 15 cents, but you would have to increase it. So, have to I'd have to look what that just so I understand the options. Could we increase it to 350? Yeah. 10 cents. 250. Yeah. Do you get it? Yeah, I mean it's we're recommending 340 and 240 partially because that is what the other district did and you share the food service person and it makes things a lot easier for her that makes to do all the paperwork and all the applications. But again, it is well within
037your purview to decide what you want to charge for breakfast and lunch. And is that something that we would vote on today? Yeah. And then would we communicate that with the parents, Brandon, before the school year ends or would it be communicated with them prior to the start of the new year? I mean, I can and final newsletter just give an FYI and then it'll definitely be in my opening letter. Okay. When was the last time they were increased? I believe they're increasing. Most of them are increasing. I don't know if you I don't think we increased this year. We increased. We definitely increased two years ago. Two years ago, not last year. We did not. Seems like a pretty reasonable increase. um over two years. Yeah. And what was what was Kensington's reason to
038go to the 15 cents? They just went off the recommendations from the USDA. Okay. Decided to go off the recommendation for the USDA. No. Yeah. It's not I mean, we're not going to it's not going to open the floodgates and break anything even, but it's just a step. Well, I I think it at least tries to alleviate some of the inflation space that we're in. So, I'm in favor of it. formally vote on it. Oh. Uh, I'd like to Yeah, I'll read. Say what you want. It's just the prices are there. Yep. 501. So, I'm going to close public comment. Um, I'd like to make a motion to increase our uh breakfast and lunch. Um, the USDA suggests that we raise our pricing to $3.40 for lunch and $2.40 for breakfast. The price currently is
0393.25 25 for lunch and 325 for breakfast. Most of the schools within the districts have a higher lunch and breakfast pricing. Due to this rise in food costs, I suggest we raise our price by at least 10 cents. I make a motion to raise it 15 cents. Second. All in favor? I I Okay. And now officially close public comment. Yep. At 502. 502. Okay. Um, next thing is um permission for the superintendent to hire over the summer because the board does not have any meetings in July. Um, we don't anticipate having to hire, but one of my districts got a resignation letter today. So, it happens. You never know. And this just allows the um superintendent to hire on your behalf over the summer if something was to happen and a candidate presented itself. And
040we would always communicate that with the board. It's just you don't if you can um make a motion to allow the superintendent to hire on your behalf. Can I just ask a question? Yeah, Brandon, you're part of that. You're part of that, correct? So, he really does it, right? Yeah. He makes a nomination to the superendent the super and then the super superintendent brings it to the school board. Okay. But if the school board's not in session, can the superintendent offer a contract? But the superintendent would be in touch with at least the chair of the board. Okay. Just so that we could communicate. Yep. And you would need to come in and sign the contract. sign the contract. Okay. So, um I make a motion to give the superintendent permission or designate to hire
041over the summer. All second. All in favor? I I Okay. Um chair's report uh superintendent evaluation. We uh presented um Superintendent Asbel with her uh evaluation from the evaluation committee. Um we did a great data dive, gave her some really strong feedback, wished her well, and we will start the 360 cycle again with um Dr. Andrewski uh starting in the fall. Yep. We'll set goals with him and um move forward with that. We really like the process uh that happens. So I don't foresee anything changing on that uh policy committee. We do have policies. Um I have to read through them. No. Um I I don't know if you any of you read through the policies that were in your board packet. They're all revisions to current policies that you have and they're all based
042on changes in um the regs and LSA. So, it's not it's just updated based on the law. I don't know if you have questions. Is EA replacing E AJ essentially? Yes. Yes, EJ is replacing the ECA. Just word a little differently. School buses for school property. So, I think it's more all-encompassing for the new one, right? Yeah. Yep. Okay. Does um does school bus videotape fall under right to know? Um no. No. Because there's so many student. It depend. I guess the answer is it depends on is it a criminal? It just depends. Okay. But if it's just a right to know there um we don't let the only people that look at it is the transportation director um because there's so many children on there and we could not blur out all the faces.
043That's why I'm I'm like how how does that work? No, it like I don't see them either someone and so someone couldn't ask for that if they they couldn't someone couldn't people ask for it all the time and they are denied. They are denied. Okay. People ask to see the tapes all the time. It's denied. Yeah. Okay. So like we'll ask is there something specific you want but it's we don't let parents view on a on a bus situation not a doesn't fall under like a freedom information act thing. No that's right to know. I think that I think a children's right to privacy preference precedes that and it h it we'd have to have an order from a judge man mandating us blurring out everyone's face except for blank. Got it. I I believe
044I think that's accurate. Is there any policy on videoing school property? I'm going to use cell phones as my example right now, but what is like I don't know par the we have parades here all the time and we have stuff outside and parents are taking videos. Is there a policy on outside people taking videos of on school property? Not that I'm aware of. Not that right. That's No, not not parents videos or parades or anything like that. I don't think we have a policy on that. So off if the because we can't write a policy for how a parent the parent wanted to videotape their kids. So we can only do right like our school retention and video. Okay. Any questions? Okay. So um I make a motion to Do you want me to
045list off every policy? You have to. Okay. So you're going to you're going to accept Mhm. and then withdraw one. These though. Oh, I'm withdrawing these. Okay. So, um, uh, make a motion to pass. A CF E C A F E E A E E A A E E A E A E E B withdraw. E E A J second. Third. All in favor? I I Okay, Paul. Safety and security. Yeah. Um, again, I think nothing's really changed since the last time we met. Um, we're not scheduled to meet again until the fall. Yep. Um, unless Rene, there's anything else just broader SAU wise to share. But um I know obviously we're looking at potentially changing up assignments for uh committees. So um we'll see if that sticks with me for the fall. So Okay.
046Um SAU Wellness Committee, we had uh multiple people um including myself kind of um resign from the committee. We have mult people on the committee that are actually moving on, doing different things, retiring, going to new positions. So, that committee is going to have to regroup um in the fall under new leadership. Mhm. Um and I will not be on that committee. I was the parent represent uh representative on that, not a board member rep. Um strategic plan, Paul. Yep. Strategic planning. Uh the last meeting was held on May 22nd. and I unfortunately was not able to attend. Uh I know that when we had met in April, we were in the process of finalizing um everything that kind of came out of the strategic planning summit that happened at the end of March over
0473 days. Um so unfortunately not being there. I don't have much to report unless you Renee had anything to share. Um I was not I was not there as well but there was a um Dr. Andriski will be sending out the final strategic plan. And what they worked on was their indicators of success and just identifying since they got the themes and the goals. So then the committee was working on like a what do we have in our SAU to measure this or what do we need to add. So that will that's what's left and that's what you missed and then um um they'll Chris will send out a whole report in July or August to the whole joint board and then we'll meet again in the fall. Yep. Again, assignments potentially changing so. Yep.
048Okay. Great. uh schoolboard goal updates. Goal one, um I will be probably taking over once we decide um in August what we're going to do, but Brandon just did it. So, thank you. You're welcome. Yeah, that was perfect job for you. No problem. Um uh community engagement. Um we had our last meeting. When did we have our last meeting? May. Yeah. Yeah. Um right now, right now we are fundraising for different stools and um seats and riding areas to go uh in the community park. Um we hope to get well I hope to be working with JT um and with Brandon over the summer maybe a little bit to get a little bit more strategic about what the next year is is going to look like. Um, and then as we kind of discussed, things
049might be flipping around uh in the fall. JT will might be taking over the community engagement portion of of the board. So, Paul, great. Yeah. Goal three. Um, multi-year capital improvement plan. Um, you know, I think we've done a great job of sort of checking things off that list over the last couple years. Obviously, this is my first full year in this role in sort of managing this goal. So, I only know what I know over the last sort of 12, 13, 14 months. Um, I know that we're going to sort of reevaluate over the summer and sort of see where we're at. There obviously have been things on the list, I think, now for a couple years, given it was a sort of 3 to 5 year plan. Um, that we're just going to
050want to sort of reevaluate, rep prioritize. I don't believe that there's much left on that list from what I recall. Um, you know, Dr. Bernie, I know you mentioned the sign, but I do believe the sign has been on that list since Yeah. the list was created. So, um I think that's sort of the the major update for now. I don't know if there's anything else, Brandon, that you wanted to share in terms of No, I mean I I probably in in July. Yeah. Um to take a look and start planning for the future and as I start building next year 2627 budget. Yep. There's anything that's priority we'll need to That that was my that was my question. And do we keep that as an actual goal? Like now that if the three to
051fiveyear capital plan has been completed, do we create another plan for that? Um or is there opportunity to create another goal? It's up to the board what your goals are. Okay. It's 100% up to the board. Brandon will maintain a capital improvement plan and running sheet and maintenance update because he uses it for budget planning. Y um so it makes it easier if that's just part of the part of the gig. Yeah. Otherwise, it has to be an agenda item that we had every time. It does not have to be an agenda item. It doesn't have to be a board goal. It is a goal in the SAU and it is something that Brandon does anyways cuz this building is older. But I was saying if we wanted to discuss it, it would have to
052be an agenda item. No, you could. It doesn't even have to be a goal. Oh, it' have to be agenda, but it have be goal. You could ask for updates on the facilities plan at any time, right? And put it on your It could be an agenda any month. But as a goal, it just allows us to have the conversation constantly. Gotcha. Which I think is important business. That's I just wanted to know if it was Yeah. something. Okay. Um good on that. New business. School district clerk. Well, I would like to know what the school board would like to do. You have a 1, two, three, four, fiveway tie. Oh, wow. Oh, that's brutal. And they're all writeins. Not sure this is anyone has put their name on there. People just wrote their names
053in. They don't even know if they but it's a tie. So, what would the board like me to do? Would you like me to start at the top of the list and go down and ask them if they want to be it and report it back out in August or Cuz there's no way. Everyone's a tie. They're all oneoffs. They're all oneoffs. They're all Yep. They're all one-offs. So, you don't have a school clerk. You have May we look at that? Yeah, absolutely. Thanks. I I can give you a no right now. Absolutely not. I think we know. Yeah. Nope. I mean, I I think they're writeins, but do they write them all? It looks like the same handwriting that part. Yeah. Oh, no. Cuz it's the same. Okay, never mind. Same person. Same person
054that wrote it down. I was like, "Wait a minute. I answered my own questions." Okay. I I think the proper thing to do is to reach out to every one of them. I you know, I just know one of the replies on that one. However, the proper thing to do is to ask them. Mhm. Um and then um what we can do is we can call each person, let them know that they got one vote, are they interested in pursuing it, and then I'll bring you back names of people who are yes, and then you can decide like if you have three people that said yes, I'll do it. I have to bring you all three and then you can we have to pick you. Yeah, you can decide you'd like to interview all three,
055you'd like to just nominate. But that way just direction from you is to just and then it might be that you have no one and then we have to go out to bid again. But okay, I'm I'm happy to have Sharon Gullage go through that and then report back out and then in August you can take action. Okay. Thank you. um old business was scheduling uh board workshopping day for goals which um I think we discussed doing an hour before our first board meeting so we don't have to take another day. Okay. Uh is that still correct or do we want to open that up for another discussion? Remind me that do we have the date for the first board meeting? We do. Right. Was it in the calendar? I wasn't if you guys set
056typically in the past the board has set the board meeting dates at that August, right? So we don't have an August session. Yeah. Yeah. In the past I think we've met the third week of August. Um and and that is when the draft for the school board calendar is finalized and sent out. Okay. So you just the week of the 18th you could do or I mean you that's what you I think we did my first year. We could you could do the week of the 25th. It's really you guys get to decide. School's already started the 25th, so so I'm perfectly happy with that. Um I'm going to say no to the 18th for personal reason. Yep. As a board chair, you get to You'll all be busy on um I'm fine with Monday
057the 25th. We'll make it work. That works. And the only reason I say that we're all we're all back in school, so kids are in their routines and we're all Wouldn't say they're back in their routines yet. We started them. We've start They're starting the routine. That is the first day of school, correct? Is that a nightmare for you? Probably. Probably. Okay. Um, what about Wednesday? How about morning? Would morning work better than night? I work from home, so I can do Yeah, we know. What what's easier for you? Doesn't make a difference. Next question is Brandon, is it better for you to do it before school starts? That's really hard for the public if you wanted the you the workshop and the thing would be open to the public. So, I mean, just keep
058that in mind. So, if we did like Wednesday the 20th in the like an 8 to 10, do you have teachers here? You do. You have new teachers here. We have all teachers here. Here. Okay. So, that's hard for you. do the the 18th. There's teacher start the 19th. Okay. I can do the 18th in the morning. I think that's new teacher orientation. So, your new superintendent would not be available in the morning. Okay. And she needs to be here. Yeah. What about the week before? Week the 11th. Yeah, I'm just trying to think middle of the week. So, anyone who's whatever I just middle of the week that week the 13th we have our admin retreat. Yeah, we would not be and the new assistant super will be there too. Okay. Could you you
059could do any day of the week. Could you do the 26th or the 27th of August? I'm in I'm in school. Okay. But I mean in the evening. In the evening I can because it's not the first When do we have to meet officially in September? It's the first month of September. You have to have a meeting in the month of September. Oh, okay. So it So that's fine. 27th in the evening is fine. Is that a Thursday? It's a Wednesday. Wednesday. Works for me. I'm flexible. Could you do that, Brandon? Is there any school events on Wednesday the 27th? Yeah. So, do you want to say 6 like later or 5? 5 5 to 7. However you I'm going to whenever you guys want. Well, we'd want to do the hour for the planning
060for the 5 to 6. Oh, to have the first board meeting. Yeah. No, to do our workshopping. Yeah. We do 5 to 6 and then 6 o'clock would be a board meeting. Got it. And in August six o'clock would be our board meeting. So there would be no September board meeting. Is that what you're saying? No, we have to. We have to do one in the month of September. So that's what I'm saying. Does it make sense to do it earlier in August? Why do you have to have a board meeting in August than if you're going to meet it? Yeah. Do we have to have a board meeting in August? You can decide. The board can decide when if they want to have a board meeting in August. The only reason why I would
061encourage you to have one in August, which is not always typical, is there is a lot of new laws that are happening. Some of them we will find out out come out of rules and regulations July 1st and I will send a memo to my school boards updating them on the laws and some action you might have to take the first week of August. I mean the last week of August, first week of September, right? So then would it make sense for us to have the meeting before school starts? Yeah. So either the week of the 11th or the week of the I think I think the week of this I think August 27th would work with the caveat that if there I would reach out if there needed to be an emergency board meeting
062but having something on the calendar for August 27th 6 5 to 6 would be your workshop and then from 6:00 to 7 would be your first school board meeting of the school year. There's a possibility of an emergency board meeting. Do we just have it before they start school? Yeah, Renee would just let us know actually I would email would be I would email and then we would send out a date and time. Okay. Um it's it's really up to you. I mean, like I said, I'm flexible. It's um I I probably have the least rigor with my schedule out of everybody here. So, I will not be available the week of August 4th through 8th. Okay. So, so I'm I'm happy to do August 27th 5 to me as well. Knowing that we might
063get a call. Yep. So, work. Brian, is that okay? Yep. Okay. And do I have to set um the agenda for the workshop, Renee? Um yeah, your work with your superintendent doesn't need to set it up. Um, send a draft to me, send a draft to Sharon, whatever you whatever you want. I can share what you did last year, what that draft said. It's just Yep. And if any other board members want something on, go ahead and send it. Okay. Yep. Okay. Well, I'll send a draft uh workshop agenda out to everybody and you can add your two pieces sense. Okay. Um, okay. Anything else? I have nothing else. This is um I would like to go into non-public. Okay. So, I need a roll call vote and need to do it under RSA 91A
064and then see I we've they've actually added stuff. Okay. So, I think it's G. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. I haven't signed. Okay. Um uh so roll call. I'd like to go into non-public. Uh Kirsten Sokco. You have to say under RSA 91. Under RSA 91A3 section G. Yep. Roll call vote. Kirsten Sroco. Paul Doyle. James Brown. Paul, did you second that? I second. Okay. Sorry. Okay. I'm going to close the meeting at 53 36.