001e e e Co-op board meeting thank you everyone for being here tonight especially the students and advisers for taking time out your busy people and the moms and dads and grandparents that are here and Friends looks like um I'm Dr Esther asbell superintendent here in sa6 I'm going to ask everyone to introduce themselves and then we'll do the pledge and then I will ask for nominations for a board chair so be thinking as we're doing that I'm going to start right here I'm Tammy gunst and I I'm from stratum I uh Joe Pace ex uh well that was right Joe Pace kington Neil Blen exitor Melissa Lions East Kingston Bill gothier exitor Don bullins exitor Aon Garcia de PR stratum Amy Ransom newfields Brian Duffy Brentwood kette Provo CMS rep L mcau CMS rep Molly
002o'keef Director of Finance uh Mike Monahan principal of the high school and joining us will be Heather Murray who is our director of Human Resources um can we all stand for the pledge I pled Ali to the flag of the United States of America Na indice and now I would entertain any um nominations for board chair you want to goad I would like to nominate bill gothier for board chair I'll second a second thank you any discussion seeing none any other nominations seeing none I would like to take a vote to have Bill gothier be board chair of the exitor co-op board all those in favor hi hi opposed abstain no I I thank you I thank you for that I appreciate that and um I can't believe there's no discussion boy all right well
003get ready for another year thank Youk thank you so thank you very much I appreciate that so I would like to uh see if there's any uh one that would like to vote for or nominate someone for vice chair I'd like to nominate Melissa Lions I think that's an excellent I will second that um anybody else would like to any discussion I'd like to say a couple things there we go you promised only miss one okay um so all those in favor from Melissa lines being Vice chair hi say hi all right uh opposed abstain excellent congratulations thanks Bill good all right moving on uh so I will since I'm chair thank you for that I will uh open up for public input public input will start now we'll go for 30 minutes so just
004ask that if you have anything to say we'd welcome you to the microphone uh please state your name and where you're from and i' love to hear from you so I'll start there anybody want to step up parents and Grand parents yeah you guys are on the agenda in a few minutes okay good yes you on the agenda I just see Neighbors and stuff so I always want to welcome them in and always happy to chat with them all right so if uh just if you change your mind please step up to the mic uh and then we'll so we'll jump in with student reports tell us what's going on um so on March 10th we had a schoolwide assembly during which teams participated in multiple games each team played games like dizzy hobby horse
005RAC and survey says um Team 91 with more than 400 points uh this was a fun day for all and everyone had a great time last Thursday and Friday the CMS drama club presented this year's play game of tiaras both both shows had energetic and Lively audiences and great effort from the performers that show wrapped up the 2024 to 2025 Drama season but stay tuned for next year's shows as the program continues to grow we had a Valentine's Day spirit week in February Monday was bring a snack in in to donate uh Tuesday was crazy sock day Wednesday was twin day and Friday was Valentine's Day colors we also have an upcoming spring spirit week Monday is spring pastels Tuesday is crazy hat day Wednesday is anything but a backpack day Thursday is merch day
006and Friday is Pajama Day the CMS basketball and wrestling season is now officially over and trouts for spring Sports will be held the last week of March and the first week of April spring Sports at CMS include baseball softball lacrosse and track and [Music] field on January 24th there was a CMS steam night where multiple of each grade's projects were represented and 300 people showed up there were 50 student volunteers half of them were from the high school there were 20 different stations showing many projects from E each grade and there were there was even one from UNH the night was put on by all three steam teachers at CMS Mrs wheeler Mrs Nash and Mrs Shulton some of the projects represented were an interactive Vex robot a PVC pipe instrument and those who could
007attend could play it um a huge planetarium built by sixth graders that took up 1/8 of the cafeteria uh 3D print and later laser Cuts project made by students and a 3D printer demonstration this was a fun night for all ages and everyone had a great time in the past month current CMS 8th graders picked their courses for freshman year this process can be difficult if you were unfamiliar with the high school but luckily students had the opportunity to talk to several exor high school guidance counselors the guidance counselors first came to talk to the students in a Grade wide assembly and then again when they came around to each pod to answer any lingering questions there was also an information night held at the high school and an individual meeting with every student's current
008guidance counselor to help them choose their class levels all the support and resources have been extremely helpful for students during this sometimes stressful process that that is a lot there's a lot going on isn't there um L you mentioned that the winning team got 400 points you said yeah 400 points and second place had 200 points it was more than two times the second place oh my goodness that's what I was curious about who was who was the winning team uh Team nine okay that's what I was looking for yes Lo and you weren't on that team I take it no I'm team 10 all right well congratul I'm so excited to hear so many great things happening at the middle school so thank you keep it up good luck with spring Sports anybody else
009want to sit have questions or great thank you guys for the update thank you um so Carla's not here Olivia Olivia oh okay um welcome thank you thanks for coming thank you for having me um good evening I'm Olivia fornier I'm a senior at exra school and a student at the CIS and education program at the SEO School of Technology and in my second year and I'm the co-president so through CIS in education I have been offered so many different C and education opportunities volunteer work job shadowing and internship currently I'm an intern at the Lincoln Street School job shadowing Mrs Bishop a speech language pathologist speech language pathology is what I plan to do in the future I'm committed to the University of New Hampshire in the fall for communication sciences and disorders which
010is the undergraduate degree to then go on to my masters in speech language pathology so that I can practice in the field um before I was doing my internships I was doing job Shadows once a week for the four weeks that I wasn't in my internship I visited the Middle School Lincoln Street school and Main Street School looking at class teachers other speech language Pathologists and other interventionalist Specialists I got to learn about all these different fields and that really helped me solidify my career last year I got into the program not knowing what I wanted to do I knew I wanted to help people and especially children through that program I was able to find different paths that I wanted to take very quickly I noticed that I didn't want to be a full
011classroom teacher I enjoyed small groups more than a full group setting I got to learn this through my time at the right start preschool which is our lab every chapter at the seos club technology has some sort of interactive lab and ours is the preschool it is not a daycare parents pay money to send their children there we are not babysitters we do real life learning everything is play-based learning so we Monitor and observe the work that they do and we keep student record so doing your lesson plans with small groups versus reading aloud to the whole group is how I kind of differentiated what I wanted to do um during that we did job Shadows to The Cooperative Middle School where I got to pick the teachers I wanted to see I got to
012see three from different grades and then I got to do an interview with the specialist The Specialist is where I really got to learn what they do obviously speech language pathology can be used in so many different settings we have speech language Pathologists here there are some at the middle middle school there are some at the elementary schools there are also in medical positions that kind of helped me figure out what age I wanted to work with so I learned that Middle School wasn't really for me I didn't like the kind of work that they were doing it wasn't interesting to me it's very social language not language disorders same thing with high school it's kind of using what you have to make inferences about the communications that you're hearing but Elementary School was really
013what was calling to me you were working in interventions and language disorders and seeing that incomprehension and actual work that they were doing which is why I like the Hands-On part of it um I am also a part of Educators Rising which is our national network that we are through I have competed at State competitions two times in a row last year I won first in the state for educator Rising moment where I produced and spoke a speech about my moment that made me want to become a future placing first in the state means I got to go to the National Conference in Washington DC I got to present my speech at the national level and meet so many new people at that conference I met two of my dear friends who are in the
014Cru and education chapter but in the White Mountains we have stayed connected through the years I go and visit them they come and visit me this spring I competed again but for job shadow I created a resume and a cover letter and I was interviewed by two people from our district for a PA professional position I had to produce samples and answer lots of questions I don't know where I placed yet but I do know I placed in the top five so I'll be returning to Nationals this year in Orlando Florida so through the corisan education program I have had so many opportunities to explore what I want to do and meet so many people and have amazing experiences My Lead Teacher Don Russell has really been the biggest influence for me she's always by
015my side she pushes me really hard and I know it's out of love because she knows what I can do and she wants to push me there I would not be able to have gotten into the college and the program that I would have wanted without her and have figured that out without her support thank you for letting me speak today oh my goodness well thank you for speaking that is phenomenal what a a testimony to to SST yeah thank you you know I I typically say congratulations for getting to UNH but I actually think UNH is lucky to have you thank you so much uh you are going to do great I'm so glad I was voted in his chair because if people knew you were here um so no really great job I'm
016so excited for you that uh you speak so well thank you thank you for representing SST tonight thank you anybody have any questions if you when you look for a job would you consider coming back here then I yes yeah we love um District wise yes I would love to I really like the other special Educators in the exor community they are really really great A lot of them are unhlm and I've had a lot of time to spend with them and talk about the program um I really I went through the exor school system so I'm familiar with all the buildings and all the staff that are still there so I would definitely be interested but that's about six years down the road good luck in Orlando thank you Olivia once you want you
017have your experience hopefully in our district right as a um speech pathologist then perhaps while you're doing that you'd want to take some administrative courses oh maybe maybe I'll see what I can get done just planting the seed now planting it now you have many mentors here so you'll do well thank you so much really appreciate your time thank you great um all right so uh we're going to go on to approval minutes although should we change that up I see a team here probably want to hear from them first sure yeah I can definitely if you want to go here and do the two what what do you think that then they can go because I I know they might want to stay but I'm sensing all right yes I know I can see
018them now yes so uh we have two groups here tonight would someone like to go hopes Squad hop squads here okay oh that's right okay and the robotics yes hi my name is Ava seagull my name is Molly riyu I know and we are the co-founders and co-presidents of a um new club that was just founded here at exra high school um have someone from robotics from Office that's right um yeah um so as a squad if there's a 16 or 17 of us we created a mission statement just specified exactly for our school yeah perfect excellent yeah perfect so that is through collaboration through compassion and collaboration and vulnerability hope squads a safe and welcoming Community who empowers teens to advocate for mental health awareness so what are we we are a peer support
019program that um is aimed at preventing suicide and raising awareness for mental health here at extra high school we Foster more peer-to-peer connection um because we found that we are lacking that um we have many helpful resources here but there is a lot of um disconnect between students with mental health resources and connecting with each other um at a deeper level um and our goal is to create a safe and supportive environment where this program that's just um newly implemented um can allow students to openly talk about their feelings mental health um to other fellow students that may be feeling similar uh yeah um so as we started off at Hope Squad um even and I attended a conference in Portsmouth there's a safe schools conference through our psychology class and a couple students from
020Falmouth High School presented what their hopes Squad is similar to this and how they started off um so then from there we there was a safe schools grant that they showed us at the conference which we applied for which was um an essay contest with a video and we won that Grant it was $1,000 which we put towards the training of our advisers because they were all trained in the summer it was a little pricey um so then we were able to um yeah we're supposed to give them the grant with the money and then we're actually the first school in New Hampshire to start a hope Squad in high school and the second School in New England with Falmouth being the first so over this past year some of the um important trainings that
021our advisers have uh walked us through um are the Hope approach so that was a pretty big one that was the first one that we did and we all found that to be incredibly um useful so it taught us how to report and actually um support students who may come to us at extra high school so what that protocol may be and how it looks um and then another significant one was it's called Break the stigma and that's at the bottom and that's just the importance of fostering open connections at exitor high school and how that can allow us to break the pretty strong stigma around mental health and allow students to feel like they are well supported here um hop Squad we aim to benefit everyone within the community and the community as a
022whole provides like a culture of like caring and reducing like negative stigma about mental health um and just way way to open up conversations um it really benefits the students the most because mainly like the aim to be peer-to-peer for like the students who don't want to just go talk to adults so it's someone with like within their age range that they can talk to which is easier for them to communicate with but it can also help with the staff and administration because it aims like specifically to our advisers um who are like trusted adults to help talk to students and support and provides network of trained staff to help provide like a positive School environment so then how we've been spreading our message so far um as you can tell we have T-shirts so
023all of the members of Hope Squad actually have a t-shirt so during upcoming events that we will be hosting um we'll all be wearing them so we can be seen as familiar faces for other students if they want to reach out to us um we have hallway Flyers which we just recently spread that one around exra high school so that's for um it has our mission statement on it it just shows the importance and we've just been really focusing on spreading awareness this year just cuz it was newly implemented um we also have pins so we are starting to put pins on our backpacks and we'll probably have those on our backpacks every Wednesday and Thursday each week um just so people can recognize us just another way to recognize us um and then we
024recently just opened an Instagram so students can't um access or reach out to us through the Instagram due to liability issues but um they this that's where all of the websites they can access um useful resources if they are struggling and then also we're starting to post um cool statistics about mental health just to raise some awareness so I think we already have like 50 or 60 followers so it's growing um so we're really excited about that and then hope week which we'll talk about um in the next slide um that's hopefully before April we April vacation um and that is aimed at um I mean it it's a themed week based on our foundation and it just raises awareness and it gets the whole school involved with numerous activities so yeah if we can
025go to the next slide that will just show some of our brainstormed ideas um so one of our uh two of our main ideas right now is um to decorate clothes pins like put a little nice message on clothes pins color them like even just like a decorative thing and like clip them around on people just cuz like cuz then you turn around you have like a nice message on your backpack um as well as like the dress up themes we're seeing if we're can maybe get like guest speakers or any someone else to come in as well as like therapy dogs because some of the psychology classes can get therapy dogs just to like better spread that as well around um and then kind of with the Clos pin sending like daily emails that
026are just like just a sentence or two so people are more likely to read it cuz if it's smaller if it's a smaller message that people like will get every morning to start off their day and then other ideas we thought it would be cool to have a hope jar or some sort of um collaborative like board in the main foyer so when students come in if they would like to they can write a nice message or they can put in any sort of slip of why they have hope today or why they are grateful anything that can just share and spread positivity um and then we were hoping to do some sort of ice cream social cuz everyone at especially students at exr high school get very into the food activities so um an
027ice cream social different Raffles and we could also um we thought it would be a cool idea to um have a hope Squad table at lunch so if people wanted to come up could do crafts with us they could talk do whatever they want just to spread what our foundation is to every single grade So yeah thank you thank you good can we ask some questions of course this is great so I'll I'll leave I have a couple but does anybody have do you want to say anything to um yes what's really exciting that they left out was that um they have been accepted to present at the New Hampshire Administration conference for Innovations conference which is all student presentations April 9th Thursday April 9th I'm pretty sure up in conquered so they'll be representing
028sa6 along with some other groups they're also presenting but um they definitely are one of the groups there to present and I don't know who all your advisor are I know so can you just tell who all the adults that have helped here yeah um so we started off when we went to the conference was Miss anger Bron and Miss weeks coof field and then we also start Miss shagon was our psychology teacher who we went with and then um it's also Mr Lis Mr Soler um Mr Moretti Miss Tibido our nurse and um yeah I think that was I think that's everyone so we have multiple um advisers and they actually so we meet during advisory um every Tuesday and Thursday and our advisors switch out so um they take turns leading our club
029meetings um and so it gives us an opportunity to really connect with all of them individually wow so I love that the uh that you chose to pick this up you sounds like you went to Portsmith you heard something and you took the ball and ran it ran with it that is great I love it when students generate ideas so much I think so much more powerful right yeah uh do I know we're going to lose both of you soon uh to to bigger plans do you have do you have people that'll step up we're hoping that we could potentially do some sort of election at the end of this year and like and at the and also Al talk about like how to get see if there's like we want to bring more people
030into the club or if it's that we want to carry over the same people because we're not sure yet if we want to carry all the same people over and then or add more or not so we probably add more and then since we are like the co-presidents we're hoping that we can establish like a president co-president or vice president maybe a secretary as well oh great yeah I'd love to see this continue it's been such great work and I just I love the that's really cool you have all levels in your group now freshman sophomore yes okay all right good yeah so next year we're planning on bringing incoming freshmen into the club so it will continue and yeah every year election so that'll be great nice can I just I I think this
031is a fabulous idea I think there's nothing more important and I think this is just terrific and I know how important this is to Dr asbell and Mr Monahan and the entire community so my thought would be if you need help you need resources or what I mean this is fabulous stuff so you should mention that oh um I I actually met with them was that just last week yeah and so I just want to give them credit because I said I need you to come to the board meeting so they had like three days notice so kudos to all of you for coming and making that work um we also allocated some resources for that um week in April so that they can buy some things and do some activities to start to spread
032the word and then we'll continue to support that either through uh title 4 Grant which is safety right school safety um and or the budget so and and be creative I mean sounds like you are I mean like if you need space or whatever I mean this is terrific stuff thank you for doing thank you so much thank you and thank you for coming to present appreciate it thank you it's good to see you I know good to see both of you good to see you too thank you I I I just thought just like to Echo a little bit I mean they kind of sloughed over a little bit you know though they went to a conference and then poof this just happened I mean they uh they came back and they had that
033in their heads and then they sat down and they you know were kind of um dogged in their approach and they met with with myself and some of the other administrators and you know sometimes that's not the easiest thing in the world to do is sit in a room and talk to a a building principal or other folks and kind of sell your uh your your message but they did they did a great job and um you know I think from what other folks said I'll just Echo it I mean things that come from kids really you know connect and this is truly a Grassroots thing so I think it's got got some real potential for sustainability so I appreciate it nice next group robot yeah all right the Rob next we got our um
034folks I got gentlemen here from um our robotics team and um our our class so if they want to step on up they got presentation and as they're as they're setting up I'll just uh give a a Kudos out to U uh Pauline Cheesman who's um one of our physics instructors here who from she's been here for four or five years and from the get-go she came here she always pushed hard for robotics she had done that at a previous school she was at and really didn't have much here and she kind of just took it and built it um and kept kind of coming back to me and she got some grant money that she's been real successful at getting and um kept pushing and has been growing a robotics team and now this
035year we have a robotics class as well so between the two of those things um this is kind of the the the outcome from this and they've been real successful and they're real excited so take it away gentlemen all right so my name is Avery Sher I'm a senior this is my uh third year at uh robotics yeah uh my name is Toren kisten gerer this is my second year and uh my name is Cedric St Armand and this is my fourth year it's good now next one all right so um this is a Vex robotics class and uh team and Vex is an organization that every year they have a new competition that they create um they tend to replicate different sports but this year the game was high stakes where the main objective
036of it was to get as many of your color rings on these Stakes as possible and um the highest amount of points won and uh there's also a 2v2 [Music] game uh and again we have a class that just started this year and uh there are many students that this class is their introduction into engineering um so they start at all sorts of levels the first thing they is they have a robot that comes in a box uh with all the necessary pieces and equipment and the instructions they make that and then they have all these sort of Hands-On uh learning op opportunities excuse me such as um mechanical knowledge of gear ratios sensors and they do all this um in in the classroom one example is they learned how to or how sensors work
037uh playing tag with each other and a uh big part oh a big part of having the class is the extra time to work on the robots because we compete um we went to five competitions this year uh that is my robot and that is Cedric's or sorry torn to and um we got sixth place in the state for uh skills which is a just your robot against itself and um during the state competition that we got to uh Tor and I with Cedric also uh placed third overall we got to the semi-finals and Robotics has been an important part of my life um of course there's many real world opportunities uh in the future with jobs but because of uh this robotics class and Club I was able to apply for a uh scholarship
038at WPI that would be hopefully an additional 20,000 a year just because I have done robotics nice say a mom and then robotics of course not just engineering there's also a great large programming aspect to this and one thing that the Vex robotics class has afforded us uh this year is the addition of the Vex code VR software onto that so what the Vex code VR software is it's a digital simulation of the robot and the field so uh it's all the previous coding experience that you had with just coding the physical robot except you could also have a digital simulation of it and run that so it's another method to be able to test your robot and it also has uh very nicely a built-in curriculum for it that teaches uh basic coding and
039continues up with that such as building Loops nesting loops and then also all the way up to algorithms and has all the challenges that come along with that so it's you as long as while you are learning through the Engineering Process and you're building your robot you're also increasing your coding skill and knowledge and proliferating that and then just talking a little bit more about the uh program it's very uh self-paced in that regard the class itself is also uh a bit self-paced because you always have the option to go ahead you have additional challenges and there's always uh more that you can afford to do within it and it's very uh expansive in that regard and very applicable as far as to the field of engineering itself and then also to the realm of
040programming and so then a little bit more about the class it's built around reflection-based learning in that regard so as you build your robot as you build your program and as you go through all of your various Milestones you uh record you reflect you prototype and you go along based off of what you could have done better what you could have approved upon and it's a very active learning process that isn't really afforded in a lot of cases and it's very uh career oriented in that regard and so I have a demonstration of it this is my uh robotics engineering notebook which has all the documentation that I did so I'm just going to pass this around guys you can look thly confused will yes all of the uh designs in there you'll have to
041perfectly replicate them exactly it's my handwriting learning forgery uh but I'll just continue the presentation as that goes around so um so next I wanted to talk about a bit the talk a bit about the design philosophy that we use while making these robots um it can be really broken down into three different stages um that is the definition stage where you learn about the game um and then the development stage where you actually get in and build the robot and then the optimization stage where you actually perfect your robot to deta um so a little bit more about the definition stage so this is a stage where you first meet the game uh and you first start coming up with ideas on how to combat the game best um for this year for example
042our game was high stakes um so we had the mobile goals and we had to put the donuts on it we had to come up with a robot that could do that the best uh so you go through various different stages um and right at the top right that is a screenshot of a program called Fusion 360 um which is a program where you can basically model your robot before um you actually build it um that applies to a lot of real world programs such as CAD as I'm sure some of you have heard of um CAD is used in almost um every engineering firm uh in the modern day um yeah um then the next stage is the development stage uh this stage is the stage where most teams end up spending the majority
043of their time um this is where you really test out your ideas in action and then change them and make them better for example if you look at the top right image again or the only image um you can see that is the initial design of our robot right here um we just have one sheet of 24in plastic that goes up the length of the robot that was our initial idea for how to get the donut on but as we continued to work with the robot we realized that what that wasn't going to be the best so we switched to an intake where we use a chain at the top and then flywheels at the bottom to intake it so if you want to run that just so we Ed the chain to dunk it
044onto the goal and that's what we ended up switching to even though we started with the the hood design we eventually switched it because of this design philosophy um and then final finally is the optimization stage um this is where you really perfect your robot to make it uh to make it be able to compete at the highest level um for us this was really just tuning the hooks that we have on the robot um we had a lot of difficulties with making it go onto the goal perfectly every single time uh we to tweaked the angle about 100 times uh we had to change the length of the hooks and then we also had to change the start um if you look at the image on the right you can see our initial flywheel
045intake it's that little thing at the front uh that's right here um right there we only had five wheels on it and eventually we changed that to a total of seven uh because we weren't just getting enough traction onto the donuts that allows us to pick it up much better um and then that allowed us to go through the whole motion so um yeah now we'll give you a quick demonstration on all the things that these robots can do I just want we should talk about the final project I thought you were going okay sure fine no I can do it no I got it you got it um starting very shortly uh we have a final project where we're going to research um an industry that uses robotics uh for example I might do
046search and rescue we're going to research how they do it write a report and then we're actually going to build a robot uh that can basically do the same thing and that's our final project for this year yeah so thank you do a demo yeah turn your on yeah yeah I'll turn mine okay um so I'll just talk you through what they're doing so um at first we have a clamp at the back which we use to pick up the goals um and you can also drop them so let's pick that up yep that's the first part and then uh there's our hook chain um uh so of course we both have different approaches to our robot concerning that I decided so in addition to the mobile goals there's also wall Stakes on the side
047of the field which I believe was shown in one of the images and so I wanted to also be able to score that so I built this o there we go this mechanism right here which will be able to pick up the Rings and score them onto the uh higher mechanism so if I just demonstrate grabbing it I was always a better engineer in programmer than driver Aver is the real good driver here but so it's able to reach on to the higher wall staks which I believe are like 27 and2 29 in up off the ground and so those are just some differing uh qualities of our robot and different approaches that we took in the engineering design and something that both me and Avery have and Tor Avery and torren uh we also
048have a a uh knocker mechanism which is used to get uh grab goals and also knock rings out of the corner of the field so this is just wait hold on high five we get high five high five there we go there we go all right well that's do you have anything else you want to demonstrate uh any questions yeah these things aren't self-aware are they oh no not yet not yet give us two months we're on timeline for it that's so great I I like your shirts the the RO roll Hawks nice very good how much time is it take to design and build those robots uh it uh it honestly varies um to be honest uh quite a lot um the hook itself probably took us around a month to uh fully tune
049to get it to perfectly go onto the uh the ring or the the goal um that's actually his second robot that he built so if you want to yeah so a little bit more about the uh trial and error side of it but uh the first robot that I had if you look through the engineering Notebook on the first page the uh weird octagon shape that's uh engineering terms that would be uh an X drive so what that is each of the motors are offset at a 90° angle so then the robot can move in all directions the only problem that I had is I was horrible at driving it so I had to take apart the entire robot and rebuild it to uh my own skills as far as uh driving I'm not as
050good driving as you but that's that's that's not very relevant as far as that but it just shows a lot more of the design process that comes with that trial and error and the time that the class affords to us gives us a lot more time to explore the realm of engineering programming and design in general very very well done thank you very much was amazing thank you thank [Applause] you that is great stuff CL the wood on SCP catapult the class yes but they've had the robotics programming team for about four years he said couple these kids have been in it for about four years yeah it's great so that that is a great picture my goodness um so as we're wrapping up I do want to uh Colette llin you see all the
051stuff that you can do at EHS it's pretty amazing isn't it I mean that is uh so I hope you choose to take part in all this great stuff we need you uh stay involved but yeah all the students and teachers or parents you're welcome to stay or leave but I'm getting a feeling they're leaving so I I don't have to announce it so thank you very much appreciate thank you just want to note that good seeing you thank you you I just want to note that both Student Activities are Competency Based education at its best yes that is really cool congratulations guys good luck next year say it Lou thank you boy we know how to clear our room my goodness we're just not nearly as exciting as I know I thought I thought
052the next part would be more exciting Bo robots and suicide prevention can't it oh my sounds like a sci-fi movie in the works um so I will I will so true I'm wise uh so I'm I'm going to close public input for all those so it is 6:43 and public input is closed so you missed your chance all right um so we'll move on to the approval of minutes uh I know we have uh the January 16th and then the uh February 18th minutes we do have a quorum so I just ask that uh so I'll start with the January 16th any comments about those I didn't have any comments no no all right I'd like to make a motion to approve those minutes second second great any discussion great uh all those in favor
053please raise your hand say I I okay got one two should be six okay we're good yeah and three AB uh and then those abstaining great and no opposition great all right so for the February uh 18th any comments about the February 18th you read through those I'm going to make a motion to approve both the P public and non-public minutes for February 18th second all right great any discussion all right all those in favor of approving the minutes please raise your hand say on hi hi hi you you can't you weren't here wasn't there okay that's sorry we're still good we're still good yeah perfect all those uh abstentions okay four [Music] Obion very good turn over to you all right I passed out um it's this time of year that we do our
054certified staff nomination list the purpose of that is um to ensure that everyone on this list will get a contract for the next school year we do not have anyone not on this list unless they were retiring or not returning we have um nothing to go into nonpublic about unless you have a specific question about someone on the list I would ask you hold that question and we go into nonpublic to discuss that otherwise I'd look for um a motion to approve the nomination list of certified staff for the 2526 school year motion to approve a motion yes like to make a motion motion yep all right second second great um any anybody I I don't want to say discussion because we can't really do that so if there was discussion we could certainly go
055into nonpublic yeah we'll go into so with those so I'd like just to ask you to uh if if you accept please raise your hand say approve approve yes I think we're all in great thank you for that I also have um a list to circulate for um spring coaches nomination list should be coming around if you can pass me back the certified list nomination list that would be [Applause] great yes did you go I'll you thank you there should have been three there yeah one two three this on our side yes okay sh yeah I got I'm G hand a again um these are the this is the coaching list for uh spring Sports here at exor high school and CMS same thing if you have any particular questions I'd ask that we go
056into non-public if not I'd ask for a motion to approve the coaching list for the spring season is CMS on here is it nope that could be because we're in an interim phase so I might have to bring it next meeting okay what was that the CMS coaches cuz we uh high school because athletic director left and so we're in interim so that's probably why Mr chairman I make a motion to approve the list of High School coaches thank you that can we have a second second excellent um I would like to make one comment about this is that I just like to point out just I am always impressed with how many volunteers we have uh coaching stepping up putting in those long hours to help our students uh become better athletes and better
057sportsmanship so just a call out to all those people that are doing that we really appreciate it and uh it's a lot of time so with that uh I will uh if you approve please raise your hand say I I I great thank you would you like this back yes I would um I do have more matters to discuss but I would ask that we go into non-public to discuss those Personnel issues at the end of the meeting Molly you want to take over a financials sure uh thank you for signing the ms22 that's the next step in the budget process um everything at the ballot passed so the ms22 Zips it all together to get to your total appropriation so thank you everyone for signing that um also um some previous board members used
058to be our uh faithful signers of the Manifest so if anybody wants to consistently swing by the SAU office and take over Bob Hall's responsibilities um that well that doesn't go with the seat does it that would be greatly appreciated so I just want to remind everyone I we don't typically bring the Manifest here as you a lot of you have served on the elementaries there's just a lot more spending that happens at the co-op so um typically board members swing by the SAU office and we always have it on the desk in Michelle's section of our office so if you're in the area and want to sign great um also included in your board pack is a current year Financial you're going to see there's a lot of supplies because it's just about this
059time of year I remind everyone that they need to buy everything or encumber everything for what they need to get to year end um we did have some changes in uh student need and Rel related to special education um did anyone have any questions on this now we are getting a little bit tight and you'll notice I did put a little asct in the bottom right hand corner um we do have some savings on the close out of the CMS project I did not put that as unanticipated Revenue because it's going to flow through one of two ways either as unanticipated revenue or as a restricted fund balance either way it's going to impact your tax rate in November 2025 which in a good way I just like to add if you if you notice
060the um remaining expenses which is the Bold on the left hand side kind of near 2/3 down for 493 421 that's the funds that we have left to expend for the year which is low for us at this time of year so we're keeping um a very close eye on that we may have to go to the special ed trust fund but we don't want to unless we have to so we're holding off till probably May to have that conversation because there are encumbered funds like Molly mentioned say for snow removal that they're going to be able to release as the year and the seasons change as well as a meeting with um The Coop up special ed and administrators to see if perhaps they encumbered say a pair permission and then they weren't able
061to fill it so we may see that number fluctuate a bit but just to the high school administration is fully aware of the I call it a kind of a icing I wouldn't say a freeze but it's an icing of the budget uh certainly because that's a low number for us this time of year the only positive piece of this is that's why it's so important and the voters I'd like to thank them for not only passing the operating budget and the teacher contract but also that's why we can put money in that trust fund and that's why it's so important to continue to do that the money for the trust funds can come out of the revenue side so we should be able to fulfill those that passed um but just we're keeping a
062very close eye on that and please know that I may be coming to the board in May asking for an approval to take some funds from that special ed trust fund we hope not and that's our goal but kind of a heads up and the close out of the CMS project is pumping up um your fund balance and you notice the waren articles written from fund balance um so that's a good thing what's the um reason for why why is it so much tighter just costs up generally anyone um yes previously we had discussed our special ed costs were over a million dollar unanticipated funds from new students moving in as well as unanticipated outed District placements got it you and we've seen that across multiple districts within sau6 it's not isolated to The Cooperative
063correct thank you so that's everything I have unless anyone has questions thank you thank you Molly I only have one more um item for the board to consider and think about um the exitor junior baseball and softball league are and um Dan Provost is a leading member of this group um as you know that they use the car and W wal ball fields and they're looking at um perhaps putting lights up on that field um and they have they do have a request that perhaps they would have an extended multi-year field use proposal if they put the expense in for the lights they'd like some kind of extended year uh we have our building use form which they fill out every year and use um their hope is that perhaps we could do a longer
064commitment to them so I just kind of put the bug in year Dan is prepared to come next month um to answer questions and so I just want you to be thinking about that he's highlighted um the year-to-year agreement between the SAU and um the league to use the fields at no cost has allowed their league to offer affordable and accessible baseball and softball to players from throughout our community dating back to 1950s and in the early days of Little League versus Junior League split historically they've raised money and invested countless volunteer hours to make improvements and maintain the field to the benefits of the players coaches and fans we are currently exploring a fundraising campaign in matching grants to install lights at both properties before we get too far down that road we'd like
065to have a conversation with the board about extending a year-to-year agreement in a manner amendable to both parties so I thought I would invite Rusty you might have questions about maintenance Etc as well as Dan will come um so it's kind of a heads up about what to think about if you have questions that you want Dan uh and or Rusty please send them to me um at least 2 weeks before the next board meeting if not sooner because then I can pass those questions along and we can have that conversation at the April board meeting yeah if I may I mean I I don't have any issue with a um multi-year Arrangement that comes with an investment uh of that nature years ago I ran the Seahawks youth football program when we entered into
066a relationship with the middle school for the use of that field on a multi-year basis where we put in uh a building we put in the goalposts and scoreboards and things of that nature and it makes sense for the organization my question would be more along the lines of a land use one whether procedurally there would be the need to check around with the town with the butters around lights um so before you know what's the nature of the parallel process there would we want to have sort of a tenative agreement with the the Junior League and then understanding that there would be a longer process with our neighbors sure and I'll ask stand to speak to that I I know they've had multiple conversations with the butters Etc when they came to me so
067where that's at want to make sure not sure right we're not I know it's been part of their conversations and thought process and I think it's my understanding because my son played in that LE that they've been looking at this for a while it's a terrific program and they do a lot of good is this the same group that we did the IR they want to do the irrigation or is that no that was the um Seahawks football lacrosse lacrosse and they and they coordinated with the Seahawk football cuz they share that field right The Courier field is where uh the not the Main Street well the main Street school and Lincoln Street School come right behind there and Walsh is behind the sa yes yes so more of a heads up so you guys
068can think about other questions you might have please email them to me and I'll get them to Dan so that conversation I didn't want to just have him come tonight and not be prepared Etc so okay thank you great thanks don't forget strategic planning strategic planning I'm I'm sure you got an email something from parents Square yes we had a few MTI so uh we have about uh I think close to 70 people that have signed up um so hopefully that'll be a uh continue to be a good turnout if everyone shows up again they'll be dinner there'll be child care if you haven't signed up we did leave it open till Friday um even though the deadline was tentatively a little sooner than that we left it open just in case people heard about
069it for the first time and wanted to come but um we have a lot of data we had almost 2,000 return on the survey from staff students and a small return from community members only about 30 that had no affiliation with the school um but for families and and parents and staff we got a pretty decent return so we'll be looking at that data we'll be considering the communication survey that the co-op board and we did one member for the SAU that data will come in as well as we talked about our mission statement with our Planning Group and um I'm looking forward to it we've really gone through that data and I think we're focusing we have so many core values about N9 or 10 if you look at our mission statement we're really
070focused down now to um what we're calling it this phase and this is may not how it ends up after planning um personal Excellence Equity growth mindset and not Financial stewardship I can't remember I'll think of it but we're Focus we're going to try to focus down to four core values to really build those pillars around so we have uh three days or three a half days of some super exciting activities and uh the isobar qual Trix folks are coming in to help facilitate that as well as our strategic planning task force members will also help facilitate those groups so I hope you can make it thank you yes um good so the um that okay so that was your report for stain Safety and Security we meet this week you meet this week all
071right perfect um policy committee um so you can see in the packet there are eight policies um that we would looking for approval this evening as well as two policies to withdraw good I uh I trust that everyone had a chance to read all the policies were there any discussions people would like to bring up and again thank you for the summaries I had just a couple quick questions and this they all look fine to me but one was about policy ACAC um and it references Title Nine uh but I think the subject line is title 10 is that a typo I think it's page we I have um no there's a x there for some and I'm not sure what some of them have an X after the colon is that what you mean
072yeah cuz there's other the one above it has the same X is whether it's a new policy oh yeah whether it's new like I it's like a check mark or whether it's a re review or revion of a current policy okay um and then e ebcd paid I think it's page 31 uh emergency closings yeah um there was something about the in the language um under Section G and it says this is just a small thing but um the Su uh it was about notifying appropriate media so it was you know on the weather conditions on the um or developed that would make hazardous to operate the weekends or the events the superintendent does Need resp for decision regarding cancellations or for notifying the appropriate media it just all the other notifications were to the
073parents and the objectiv is I think to notify the parents and the Guardians in the community as opposed to notifying the media and you just it was worded differently here and I just did you want to change that did you want to keep it the way like it was what you're trying to notify the parents and the Guardians as opposed to the channel and you could do it through you know just a thought for you did you see what I'm saying yeah look to Esther for weekend closing was that was that g you said it was G so was for weekend closing weekend closings yeah so so the way it's written is mentions media the superintendent's going to notify the media but in Prior references about notification it was it detailed the methods by which
074you could do it and I think you're not trying to notify the media so much as you're trying to notify I think on the weekends you might be trying to notify the media cuz you're not going to send a black last email to everybody over for like a Saturday morning building is closed email I I think that's if if it's a weekend game right you'd want to notify the parents and the kids right I mean it's not it would be wouldn't be for any weekend event is there a difference Heather Heather speak to it so normally what we would do if there was a weekend event like a sporting event or something like that the coaches would be notified and they would contact their players if it was on a weekend right um certainly we
075could add um and if necessary um parents or parents/guardians that's something we we could look at at I don't think that's a big shift or anything like that something we would typically do um anyway but we would use a different resource than um likely parent square or something like that right blasting all parents we wouldn't send every everything out we would try to go through coaches normally it would be a game or something like that it's the first thing we would get is you know fam saying why are you connecting with me weekend thing I would get would be many emails saying why did I get three notices on a Saturday that school was canell if we want to do that sure it you know whatever you want and and the last was just um
076on it was D on the school year calendar and it says the school calendar will be developed by the superintendent and submitted to the board for approval um but I think the question I had was which board is it because it says to the extent possible can be coing with the school chall of the SEO School Technology and Regional special education programs but don't you have to coordinate with the elementary boards too yes that calendar will actually go to our joint board first yeah it's not yeah y so it's approved not by this board this soar there so the joint board approves an SAU calendar right the co-op board approves another different calendar so and each Elementary School is also different because they have for example the high school and the middle school might have
077um parent conferences or not like the high school doesn't have a parent conference but all the elementary schools have parent conferences so some of the elementary schools have half days and whole days versus whole days at the high school if it's a voting year this year the high school SST and the Middle School were open and all the elementaries were closed because they had voting on site right so this would be to the the name at the top so I assume and I'm not sure there's an SAU because we have a few policies for the joint board that would have that calendar approval in it for the joint board this would be particular to the co-op board thank you yep all right great I appreciate that thank you any other I know you've probably seen
078these before yeah um good uh so I'd look for a motion to approve all uh policies with I'll make a motion to approve the eight policies and withdraw the two do we want to do that with with the correction so there was a correction that came up to uh the the to with the amendment okay with the amendment okay great okay thank you I can I can second that great um so yeah if you're in favor I'll ask for a roll call these are policies so I believe I need to no no I can need so all those in favor please raise your hand say I thank you that Anonymous all right uh SST governing board update sure um we just had a governing board meeting yesterday I think it was yesterday sure it was
079someday this week it had to be yesterday um and they went over enrollment numbers to the governing board enrollment numbers are strong this year for SST exitor High School is very well represented uh in that grouping one of the reasons is because we're the largest High School of all the sending schools and um I also feel like our school counselors have done a great job of trying to build schedules so that kids can um participate here and get to SST for their programming um we did have the um Talk discussion around a couple programs that had lower numbers and some conversation around perhaps looking at adapting and working with um one program in particular there's a resignation that I'm going to ask you to approve tonight or retirement so that teacher will get a new
080teacher that program will get a new teacher and also there was some conversation about looking at adding an electrical program um so that you may see that in the budget as a teaching position next year for the following year cuz you have to go to the state and all those things but um we already have the space so it would be a matter of equipment and a teacher isn't a huge cost and there seems like the weight lists are in the trades so and what happens is when kids apply say for a building their backup is welding it's not biomed do you know so they get they ended up getting weight listed in both kind of thing um so they're hoping that by adding in additional trades then more kids will be able to maybe
081put that as a second choice or even a first choice and reduce those weight lists um for our kids that have a strong interest we did have a student two students from the auto program that came to the governing board meeting and one is already in the special Toyota program school program and um got a scholarship for I think he said $20,000 don't quote me on that but a nice amount of money to do that program and the other one is interning at the Audi de and stratum I did ask him about my um loner car but I was hoping I'd have a connection there but they're out there working you know in town in the community and they're just really excited and I just want to give that teacher has done such a great
082job he's you know this is his second year as a relatively new teacher and both he both teachers have really re-energized that program and then now there's a high need right there kids love it and so we have great teachers in all of our buildings and and we can see that with our enrollment numbers at SST continue to increase so that's great news for them I feel bad doing that report because Bob Hall love to do that so much but um hopefully when you talk about reorganization there'll be someone that will want to be the board member to come to those governing board meetings they are not every month I would say there's probably between five and six for the year um but it's a really fun meeting it's at 4:00 in the afternoon so
083if afternoon's a little easier for you that's a nice um committee to kind of be dedicated to plus you kind of get the inside scoop on what's happening at SST as you can tell you know like tonight they they just have amazing programs with amazing kids so what day of the week do they do that what day was yesterday Monday it's only Tuesday um yeah so mon generally Mondays and I think it's is it the third is this the Third third week of the month I think it's the third Monday yeah I would be interested in doing yeah so when Bill hits up the organization for committees for committees yes then that would be one of the Committees I was going to do that next board meeting is that yeah I don't but uh please
084keep that in mind so yeah so and so that we're going to go on to new business but we should talk about this is supposed to be our organization meeting as you put down but we have um s to look forward to for for next meeting I'd like to I think you typically what we do is we'll do our our board goals and we do those at the beginning of the school year but if we can back that up this year and be forward looking that'd be really helpful so we'd like to start working on those next uh next board meeting you'll see in the board packet we have our extra Regional Cooperative School Board goals for this year I think we we'll uh we could debrief those next time I think we've done a
085fairly good job of hitting most of those uh next year might look a little bit different but just be thinking about like what are their goals that uh we should incorporate at that same time we'll have the Committees uh and I'll ask for committee signups we've really I think this year would did a great job really slimming down the Committees and asking for commitments I I don't feel like people felt overburdened or anything but yeah we'd love to but just so that you know we have a policy committee uh the BAC uh which is the budget advisory committee we ask people to sit in on that saf we got the Safety and Security curriculum C sorry we had strategic planning strategic planning but we wouldn't have that next year we'll have a teacher not teacher
086contract but we have a contract professional uh we will have a parah contract negotiations and I know I know I know I wonder who's gonna be on that one I'm not quite sure but um so yeah so so I'll make a list of those so you and get them I think I've got the yeah I think so yeah we'll get that pulled next thinking about I can send an email about it and the board goals so appreciate that and then also coming up I think it's in April we'll do there's a wheel right scholarship um it actually might be in May that we do that but we've had students apply to the real right scholarship uh the guidance office yes yeah I I talked to the guidance office they are taking applications right now from
087students think it's but yeah I think it probably May and they got to go through the first round uh get students that they think are best match for that scholarship that scholarship runs through our board so it's called The Wheel right scholarship and we we'll we'll be able to pick the student that matches with that scholarship at that meeting so I think that that'll be a lot of fun to do uh it's a great award I already know a couple students that have applied so it's it'll be fun have we done that as a board before I thought didn't Bob go to those meetings yeah Bob did and and I asked that we have a little bit more involvement I was going to say I don't remember it but it sounds like we're going to
088bring it to the bring the finalist yeah I mean the finalist to the boards that we can have some say and it's it's a really wonderful scholarship and Bob took such good pride in doing it and he did a great job with it but let's you guys really lost out with the swap here Bob was you know the Workhorse Bob was yeah yes you have big shoes to fill but we're going to make sure you fill them sure I don't miss any meetings Jo welcome uh good uh any old business that we need to discuss all right so with that being said anything else that we need to go over okay so I uh going to ask that we go into a non-public session uh called under RSA 91a uh Pon AI so I I
089have a motion to go non public motion to go non public great I'll second the I'll uh do a roll call so um I I I I I I yes I thank you thanks 712 e e e um so do is there a motion anybody would like to make well I would just uh make a motion to uh approve the recommendations from the superintendent that were reviewed in nonpublic second second that great um all those in favor please raise your hand say I I I great um that concludes tonight's what do you want motion to adjourn yes yes a motion to adjourn a second all those in favor please say I excellent thank you new people thank you coming and yes they're all this exciting I know what bill was saying we will um for
090principal reports we try to rotate it among the principles and they try to come and highlight something from their building or it's data um around growth or something like that so the format's a little bit different so we can get the word out about the good things that are happening uh in the collop and part of that is when we when we do our organization if there's something that you want to hear from one of the administrators let me bring it and let yeah we can have them come in and chat and it's a good time to get the public involved thank you