001Uh we'll call the uh meeting to order at 601. And uh please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Right. Welcome. I think we'll start with a PTO update. >> There you go. Um. Whoa, that is really loud. Okay, just getting it started. Um, yeah, this is the last we had our last board meeting last week for the PTO. So, kind of I'm just starting to hand things over to the incoming presidents. There'll be two next year. Uh, Jesse King and Kate Kotoski. Um, and so they're all getting ready to go. They're already planning stuff for the beginning of next year. So, um, very happy
002with how the PTO has come such a long way in the last few years. and um it's in good hands. Um so one of our goals for the year for next year is to update bylaws and I know I talked to Heather a little bit about that. So I've passed on that email to them and they're going to look into to doing that. The bylaws were written in 2005 and they're really um outdated and need to be updated. Um already planning kindergarten meetups for the summer. So if you have a kindergartener, you hopefully will get something in for an email. Um there's going to be three during the summer where you can go to Main Street Playground with your child and meet some parents and also um have your kids meet other kids in in
003their classes. So it's a great way to get to know other parents and get kind of going with um starting your journey at Main Street. Uh the Get Fit and May race was really successful. We had well over 500 people show up total runners for the fun run and for um the race itself. I was stationed up at sees the beginning of sea and there was just so many happy people coming through. So it was just we couldn't have gotten luckier with the weather. Um we had a lot of same day registrations. Um we definitely met our budget for everything this year. So, we're very healthy for our budget going into the next school year, which is really exciting because then we can do more things. Um, and we had a really nice ceremony. I'm
004sure Beth will talk more about it, but um the PTO bought a um something for Susie Finnis for the butterfly garden. So, we dedicated the garden to her this week and I'll let Beth talk more about it, but she was instrumental in getting that butterfly garden going. Um, so the PTO bought a dedication plaque for her and we're committed to making sure that we beautify the garden and do spring cleanups year after year so it maintains um how it looked when the beginning when we put it in. And I think that's it. Any questions? >> Once again, the get fit May was fantastic. Thank you. >> Yay. Thanks for participating. >> Just thank you again for your leadership. It really is tremendous all that you've done and accomplished with the whole PTO and we're really
005grateful and I know all of the caregivers and students have really benefited. So, thanks for helping to make this such a community. >> You're welcome. >> All right. Um, so we're going to go ahead and open public comment per RSA 1897. Um, the total allowable time for public comment is 30 minutes. Um, and we will start that now at 6:05. Is there anyone here for public comment? Come on up to the mic. Welcome. >> Thank you so much. My name is Anthony Pansio. I'm the executive director at Great Bay Kids. Um, for anybody that's not familiar with Great Bay Kids, we're an early childhood education nonprofit serving infants through fifth graders. We have two centers, one in Portsouth and one right down the road on Heeping Road in Exit, as well as an afterchool program
006that we run out of Main Street School. Um, I'm here today just to say thank you um to the Exit School Board and to our community for partnering with us in our efforts to serve kids um especially in that afterchool program. If anybody's not quite familiar with what that after pro after after school program looks like, u it's an opportunity for our students to come and spend the hours of 3:00 to 5:30 um with our trained group leaders and site directors. They participate in a group activity to get some physical exercise. They'll have some free time, an opportunity for an enrichment like an arts and crafts and also a healthy meal that we prepare right at our center and bring over from Eping Road. We're so grateful for this partnership. um partially because a lot
007of our students actually end up coming with us uh coming to us at age six weeks when they're born all the way up through fifth grade. So the opportunity for us to keep that continuity with our families and our staff as well uh is so important to us and our mission. Uh I wanted to just give a couple of quick statistics that we're super excited about. We average about 65 students a day from Main Street and Lincoln Street combined, which ends up around uh 550 hours of time in our program for each student or 36,000 total hours annually. Uh which of course is time that our parents can continue working into the afternoon uh thanks to the partnership that we have with SAU16 as well. it ends up to be about 1434 sorry 14,000 uh
008healthy snacks served for those students kind of extend our goal of making sure that each of our students has the healthy food that they need to thrive in the afternoon. So I'm just here to say thank you um and really say that this partnership is part of what makes our mission of serving students of all ages um really come to life. So again really appreciate the partnership and thank you guys for having me today. And then apologies as well. I will be sneaking out because I have to get home for bedtime for my two babies. So I won't be staying for the whole meeting, but want to be here. >> Thank you. Thanks for introducing yourself too. >> Can I say something? >> Of course. >> This is on or not. >> This thing on.
009There it goes. Um I also wanted to say thank you. I have a um one of my kids has participated in Great Bay um even agile right now. And I have another one who's entering and is looking forward to participating and I would echo all the things you say. Plus, the staff are super friendly and very professional and very creative and they have a great relationship with the kids there. So, it really works out well. And one other thing I wanted to say is that we've as a board have had a long-term relationship with Great Bay going back to when Great Bay used to be a part street at one point in time before you built your beautiful home that you have now. And so, it's great to see that that partnership has continued in
010a different form. So, thank you for staying involved with the school. It makes a huge difference. One last thing I keep thinking of things is um we've struggled at times with the calendar and you know with working parents at times when we've had these weekl long breaks or sometime longer breaks and Great Bay has frequently stepped in to sort of fill that void as well and I think that's been a great service to our community as well. So thank you for doing that. >> I'll pass that along to our staff and directors as well. >> And I'll I'll also say thank you. uh both of my daughters attended uh the location down the road. Uh and you you provide such a critical uh service to our community and um you certainly do wondrous work to
011prepare uh the children who attend there for um for kindergarten. So, thank you so much for all of the great teaching that goes on uh at Great Big Kids as well. >> Thank you so much. And just to piggyback on all the goodwill, um I want to say Anthony, it's been a pleasure to see you step into the ED role there. Um and really make yourself visible and accessible to families. That means so much. Um just just being able to walk by and see you in the office and wave um really means a lot when you're entrusting a center to your children. So, um, I appreciate you making yourself available and accessible. Also, >> thank you so much for meeting. >> Great. Thanks again. Um, so we're going to go ahead and move on to
012the approval of the meeting minutes from May 12th, uh, 2026. Give you guys a time a minute just to look them over if you haven't had a chance. I just had one thing um on the area. It's probably the same correction I had. >> Yeah. Um it was the equity committee portion and it said um that I said that the equity committee hadn't met but I think it was Kate. >> Okay. >> It's page three. >> This says Shony instead of me. >> Okay. [snorts] Any other observations or changes? >> All right. Um, so, uh, would anyone like to make a motion to approve the minutes as amended? >> I'll make a motion to approve the minutes as amended. >> And do I have a second? >> Second. >> All right. Uh, any discussion? Further
013discussion? Okay. All in favor? I I >> Great. >> All right. >> And Tim abstains. He was not at the meeting last. Great. Um we're going to move on to our principal reports and we will start with Main Street School. Good evening everyone. So just wanted to highlight a few things that have happening lately and that are um coming up on the calendar. Um just yesterday we did um h hold the butterfly garden dedication for Susie Fennis. Um it's if you haven't seen it, it's a beautiful space um with a lots of um newly fresh um uh plants and um so yesterday we held I would say there was probably about a hundred guests um from students to caregivers to staff that attended. Um our the butterfly garden um is located on the side of
014Main Street School. Um, so if you're like on the playground and you look up, you can kind of see it. Um, and there's above on the wall is part of that project were some small u butterflies and flowers and things that were part of our art uh department creations this year as well. Um, but it's really a beautiful space. Um and yesterday as part of the dedication ceremony um the visitors um were welcome to uh decorate rocks to put into and add to the garden. Um and so it has lots of nice pictures and lots of color. So it's really nice. Um the other piece too is that um Sus's uh some of Sus's family was able to be there and attend as well. So that was a nice um opportunity. Um and moving forward
015for that space um the the PTO and school will collaborate uh to continue to keep it a beautiful space. Um and we'll get the kids involved as well. Also last night we held our grade 2 musical celebration of learning. Um it was very well attended. It was like standing room only for our caregivers. Um our students performed many songs. Um they uh did such a lovely job. Um and um for some of them it was their first opportunity for performing in front of an audience. Um and so it was really impressive. So that was a nice event last night. Just some um summer activities and programming for students that are coming up. Um we have um a couple of summer programming uh opportunities that will be happening at our schools. Um, and the Brown Center
016is a big part of that that they will facilitate cooperative activities for our students. Um, and then the PTO, like Sarah had mentioned, have a number of uh pre kindergarten meetups that will be happening on the playground at Main Street School this summer. And then just a couple of highlights as far as our um professional development opportunities for staff this summer. um one is um is an opportunity in July around multi-tered systems of supports. So we'll have some staff that will attend that and the goal is to walk away with um uh a workable multi-tiered system support plan for next year. Um and also uh next week um the district is holding uh the annual summer institute um and staff will um staff and educators will learn about uh universal design for learning and also
017um AI integration um to create more accessible, engaging and personalized learning for students. And just another quick highlight this week, um we are uh welcoming our prek students into our building for our kinder connect days. Um today was our first day. Um and it was just a lovely opportunity for the kids to come in and we get to know them, they get to know each other. Um and and uh we look forward to a couple more days this week of being able to do that. Thank you. >> Does anyone have any questions for Beth? I just wanted to say um that those assemblies of the performances are just the most moving, [laughter] tearjerkery experiences. They're so sweet. Um and you know, especially for the kindergarten parents, we were all just so moved by the language
018that's being utilized, helping them to understand all the ways to be good citizens of the world. Um, it really just is beautiful and we were all so moved. So, thank you for you all putting that on. It's it's so special and so sweet. >> Any other questions? All right, over to you. >> All right, good evening everybody. Great to see you all again before we head off to summer. Um, as Sarah said, we had an absolutely fantastic day for Get Fit in May. Very well attended. Um, I was able to beat my wife by a second in the 5K, which [laughter] she may or may not see in the notes, but um, we've had [laughter] we're going to bring it back. [snorts] Um, we have had just a really tremendously busy, um, last month of
019school. And one of the things as I kind of go through some of the events is I think this is the first year where like every single end of year outdoor activity has been met on a with a day like this which I can't remember when we've had just such a streak of good luck with being able to have our field days, being able to have our celebrations and all these different um really culminating experiences outdoors. Um so on the 14th of May we had our art show, we had our band concerts for fourth and fifth grade band. We had our chorus concert and our strings concert. Um the some of the pictures are streaming on the TV behind between the Get Fit in May and the art show and the and the concerts. Um
020students did a fantastic job. Um our our music program continues to grow in the right direction and we're just really happy to be able to continue to support the arts throughout the school year. Um we also had our field days. Main Street on the 26th, Lincoln on the 27th. Um I want to recognize our fifth graders who helped out to help run the Main Street school field day. That's a nice leadership and again culminating experience as they finish up their elementary years to be able to go down and help the younger kids as well as our eighth grade alumni who come back to Lincoln Street for the main for the Lincoln Street field day and help our Lincoln Street students have a good day. Um last week on the 2nd we had the senior clapout
021where students K through five lined between Main Street all the way up through the Lincoln Street um playground and cheered on the seniors before they had their big day this past Friday. It's a really cool tradition that we've done for either three or four years now. And again, weather has cooperated. Um we had our incoming third grade parent night last week on Wednesday. It was really well attended. Um the first half of it students were lined up right where you're sitting and they led the majority of that part of the presentation and then families were divided into four different third grade classrooms where our staff um provided some additional informations and opportunities for question and answers. Um we had our fifth grade celebration and wreck day last week. This was the first year that we
022held our celebration outdoors. It was incredible as opposed to a fairly warm and stuffy gym. Um, we had a new guest speaker, Ed Gerity, was able to join us. Um, he is a motivational speaker that travels across the country and was willing to donate his time last Thursday to speak to our fifth graders. Um, so that was wonderful. And then the next day, the students went to the exit wreck and had um just a lot of fun outdoors. Um, on Monday of this week, we had our fourth grade reading carnival. Students earn tickets by reading through the month of May and have a whole bunch of fun um outdoor carnivallike activities that they get to participate in through the morning hours. Um we have our stepup day tomorrow where we'll be welcoming all of our
023third incoming third from Main Street as well as fourth and fifth grade students will be moving up. um they'll have the opportunity to meet their teachers and then tomorrow afternoon we'll be sending out um an email to all families with placement information so the families also know who their um next year teacher will be for their student. Um the very last thing is on Thursday of this week we have our all of our student growth and academic information and all the end ofear stuff goes home. So, we have our Alma report cards that will be um emailed home at the end of the school day on Thursday, which is an early release day. Um we also have our I Ready spring diagnostic scores for both reading and math. And that will be sent home um
024by paper and backpacks on Thursday as well with students. And then we have um for New [clears throat] Hampshire SAS, the state assessment, um an email was already sent out earlier this month um for with information for families to access the parent portal to be able to receive that information. So, a lot of information goes home at the end of the year that we hope um provides a really accurate and clear snapshot um for families as far as where their students started, where they've landed. And again, these are just little snapshots in a much larger picture as students go through the elementary system. Um Beth already spoke about our summer PD. We're excited. We have staff signed up to participate in both of those workshops and um we're excited to finish the year on a
025positive note with our students in a couple days. Thank you. >> Thank you. That is a tremendous amount of things to celebrate but also coordinate. So, thanks to you and all of the teachers and staff that make that possible. Um, it's a really impressive from both schools. Um, amount of things that you guys have done to make to round out the year. >> Do you guys have any questions or >> Yeah. Yes. >> Sorry. Yeah. Um, so that was our school year wrap-up and then, um, we also have our summer programming for students that, um, Deanna was just going to speak a little bit too. >> Um, >> can I can I say something before we do that, which is just, um, >> again, to continue the love fest theme for the night [laughter] is,
026um, >> just that the clap out that you I think that's what you call it that you had. I I spoke to both a little kid participant and a older kid participant who's graduating and it's just so cool how they both love it for different reasons and you know I don't I suspect some of this is intentional or maybe a lot of it's intentional but I also just think it's it's so great for these little kids to see themselves as graduates and to and to see that right now and I don't know that we have a huge issue with kids not graduating but to the extent that we do the more that we can encourage it the better or you know the same thing is probably true about thinking about college for that matter but
027just for kids that don't necessarily have siblings that have gone through that to be able to visualize that and to see the joy of it is just amazing and for the older kids to go back and to see their old teachers and to see the long journey that they've been through there's just so many amazing things and it's just a really fun event it's just it's a great tradition that's been developed so I applaud it so to Yeah. And on to piggyback that the fifth grade celebration was sort of a similar event where it was a great to see the fifth graders really be celebrated for their uh six years here at these two buildings. So um appreciative for you. I think that you helped start the this event and create the event. So I'm
028glad it was finally uh we had the weather to be outside. Yeah. [laughter] As a vision. So finally, we we've it's great that your vision has been fully realized. So kudos to you all. >> No, that was a really fun night. It was nice to do it outside without thunderstorm threats or heat. Um so I just wanted to give you an update on Exter Summer Skills Academy that starts July 6th. Um it is Title One funded. So all of our funds or most of the funds that we have go to fund this program that we have in the summer. Um we have about 72 students from both schools that have enrolled. We also have about 105 content areas. So some students are in a slot for math or reading or both. So there's about 105
029slots that are being covered for students. Um the Brown Center is contracted again to help us. Um they will be working with us during and working with students when they're not having their targeted instructional time. So they'll be working on structured play um with social emotional learning and they do all kinds of really fun activities with the kids. The kids don't even know. They're just like, "We love it there." So, they're um really a big part of our project of our program. So, that's great. Thursday, we have our family engagement night. Uh the Kona Ice Truck is coming where families can come and get a Kona Ice and meet members of the Brown Center and meet their summer school teacher. So, just wanted to give you a heads up that that is starting. Yes. >>
030For folks who don't know, could you tell us a little bit more about the Brown Center, who they are, and >> Sure. So, they're out of UNH. um and they run a program. It's sort of like nature's classroom where you can go to their facility and do team building activities like ropes courses and things like that. However, we are we convince them to come here um because we can't bust children there for um for what we need. So, we are the first school or the first first organization that they've come to us um and so this is our fourth fourth year that um they have come to us and they really like it. they have to hire staff just for this program. They are as a they are at Main Street and they are at
031Lincoln Street. So the kids get to know the counselors that are there and um they are very professional and they are re to hear them talk to kids and how they support them in like problem solving, conflict resolution, how do you get somebody to play with you? What do you do when they say no? And those kind of things has really been helpful. They also orchestrate our drop off and our pickup. So, parents get to have communication with them as well, which is really nice. So, they're um they're they're really great. I'm really great that it's we're really lucky to have them come and they're trying to actually spread out to other schools and I was like, well, wait, hold. [laughter] We're number one, which we are. It's okay. But any other questions about Extra
032Summer Skills Academy? No. So, we're here. >> Thank you. All right, thank you guys. Um, we'll move on to our central office update. Um, so I'll turn things over to Dr. Bryant. >> Thank you. I sent each of you earlier today the draft of the enrollment capacity report. Uh, this is connected with a policy that we'll look at later this evening and which is just for read only this evening. Um, and [clears throat] this again we spoke a little bit about this at the joint board meeting. You you might recall that conversation. This is really in um in response to some of the open enrollment legislation that we've been watching. You may have heard that that's been tabled at this time. So um no changes for us for the upcoming school year, but still felt
033like it was a priority to provide boards with um a report just letting the boards know what the capacity of the building is. This is still very much draft form. So, there's a lot of information you'll see included in the report and we some of it's there, some of that we're still collecting. Um, but the idea was to allow the board to to get a sense of what this report would look like and um in the event that we adopt a a policy in the fall, uh, this report is referenced in that policy is something that we would share with boards. Any questions about that? >> I just have a question. I see an asterisk by it, but I couldn't find the reference. Is what determines the class size cap? >> That's a good question.
034Um, the class size cap, there's a I believe there's a state um um cap um but but then we also have a policy which I think is a little bit less. And so that might be and I'm not sure actually if what that asterisk is referring to. Um that could potentially be a conversation for the board if if you wanted to look at what what we wanted to set as capacity. Um so I'm not sure if that's what the asterct is, but I can do that. >> Yeah, I was just curious if if the actual facility also >> Yes. >> obviously determines how many students we can accommodate. >> There is definitely a number that goes with the square footage. Um >> Okay. But I think that may be larger than what most districts adopt.
035Right. [clears throat] >> So, just to clarify, I mean, I know we just got this today, so we'll maybe can spend some more time on it at the at our next meeting, but um this would be something h how would this be shar beyond being shared with boards and having on having this on hand? what is, you know, what would be the intent of who who would be the audience for this report? >> The audience would really be the board as we're making as the board is making decisions about um potential policy around open enrollment. >> Okay. And again, we'll continue to follow any any updates on open enrollment legislation and and keep boards in the know about that. >> I think this also applies to the policy we just approved at our last meeting
036around age of entrance um is a it's a good data point. I think if we have students who want early admittance to school, does anyone have any questions? Great. Thank you. And then we have two resignations that I would just look for the board to approve [clears throat] this evening. The first is our nurse at Main Street School, Caitlyn Anglia. And the second is our speech language pathologist at the preschool. That's Caitlyn Teneaglia. >> Do we have a motion to approve the resignations with regret? [snorts] >> Uh Make a motion to approve the resignations with regret. >> And do we have a second? Second. All in favor? >> I I >> I. >> And then just one final note just to add to the the theme that seems to be coming up this evening. Um,
037I just wanted to recognize our building administrators who are not only at the end of the year, um, facilitating some great activities and supporting our students and our staff, but also already looking ahead to the next year. It's a it's a busy time of year and they are constant and consistent and positive and set a really nice tone for our buildings. And so, just wanted to to share my appreciation for you. Great. Um, on to our finance office. >> Good evening. In your board pack, we gave you the financials for the month. So, we started the month with remaining expense of $322,926. We spent an additional $14,339. that consisted of some supplies, some substitute costs, some encumbrance adjustments for special ed, some technology, um an actual decrease in some contracts and and incumbrances that we
038had for maintenance specifically around utilities, some transportation increases, and some small benefit increases. Does anyone have any questions? I don't have any questions. I guess Dr. Brian, if you could I know we were going to have a budget workshop and we could I don't know if you could speak to that as it pertains to the >> unassigned fund balance. We um we were looking at um increasing our blue light system at both the at Main Street and Lincoln Street and in researching a little bit more determined that we couldn't confirm that the work would be completed by June 30th which is typically what the expectation is for those funds. Um we've done a lot of work um the principles have done a lot of work just looking at options. Um, and we uh I think
039and they can speak speak to this as well, but we're definitely looking at um what our options might be next year, budgeting for the following year, downsizing the request. Um but it but because we couldn't um we couldn't confirm that that everything would be done in in the month of June, we needed to hold off on that request. How much is it again that what in terms of the the undownsized amount that you were that looking at originally? >> The the original amount was >> the original for Main Street was 29,000 and change and then the original for Lincoln was 39,000 [snorts] and change. Mhm. >> And and can you sorry I don't want to hijack your thing, but can you say can someone say more about that again just to remind me at least
040what what the purpose is and why there's that need. >> So uh it's a safety it falls under safety and security. And so there are emergency blue light systems that are alert systems that are put in um various places throughout the buildings so that in the event we had an emergency and we had to go into a lockdown and whatnot, it's a it's an actual pole station that um looks very similar to like a fire pull station so that they're just more accessible. >> Okay. And there's sound um that goes along with it as well as um a light strobe system and things. >> Are there any other schools in our SEU that have that have that system >> or is that would be the first school in our the >> I'm not actually our
041preschool does have them. Preschool has them. Yes. Yep. So it's a it's a different way to access the alert system at the preschool. >> And do we know other [clears throat] other school districts that have it? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. and and you've gotten feedback that it works well. So, >> yes. Yep. And and the the why behind it is that is that it um it reduces time. It can be seconds where um um staff can access um any of them in in a matter of moments if there's an emergency. um it's different than what our emergency system um alert system looks like now. So it saves time >> and I'd be happy if if we feel like we need to go [clears throat] into a non-public I can we can explore this
042topic a little bit more deeply if that's helpful. >> I'm just curious so our options if we want to pursue it would be to wait till the our next budget cycle to add it to the budget or is this something that would fall under capital reserve? Yeah, that's what I was thinking too, but I mean I think one of the things that so I know we don't have a motion on the table or anything, but >> I think one of the things that's tricky about >> uh safety and security cost and I understand maybe there's something that's even more imminent about it is that I I feel like you know go if we go all the way back to Sandy Hook which is a long time ago in terms of when the safety and security
043committee started is that you there's so many great upgrades that you could do and all of them would enhance safety and security, but you know to try to balance that out with we also have technology needs. We also have other sorts of needs. There's a lot of needs that are there. It's not to say safety and security isn't important, but what I hear and you know just knowing knowing you and you know knowing knowing the uh folks that are sort of having this bubble up that they're taking that into account is what I'm I'm reading into it in terms of why this is more important. And in the scheme of things, if we're talking about $45,000, is that what it is? I mean, there are other ways to potentially fund it. It could be through
044capital reserve, for example, where that isn't tied to the budget cycle. Um, if that if that really is a need, and this is the last time we're convening as a board, um, you know, it could be a need that we could potentially try to address tonight instead of just waiting to see if maybe we can do it sometime next year. So, I I I don't I don't know. I wouldn't I wouldn't just take that option off the table, put it that way. Um I don't know what other people think. Again, I didn't I haven't sort of made a formal motion, but it does pique my interest to to think that maybe this is something we should move forward on and not wait just because we might get stuck with a you know, in terms of
045how it falls in the middle of the summer. I don't think that should be the reason why we don't move forward. >> I tend to agree with you, um Patrick. I think yeah I I think there we should exercise an option to try and move forward for sure. >> I know that we were going to have a budget workshop but then um and you were going to prepare some estimates for us but do you do we have estimates for what the true cost would be? >> Yes, we both present them. >> Yeah. I I think one of the reasons why we hesitate on the budget workshop is just in all transparency, our unexpended funds are a little bit lower than in past years and we're trying to be cognizant as we've spoken at kind of
046this time the last couple years as far as when is like we need you know timeline wise when's the right time for this to happen. So I think that was kind of where the hesitancy came from. Um but with regards to the cost >> and and the cost we did look at a couple of different options where it's you know uh for Main Street it's uh 29,000 and change for the for the full system to be installed. Lincoln Street School it's 39,000. It's a little bit more. >> Um and then I do have a couple of quotes um around uh reducing that a little bit. If we said like at Main Street we just wanted to do the bottom floor um it's slightly reduced um to $23,79 um and then at another point do the
047second floor um because the the brains of the system is probably the most expensive part of it and we have to install that in order to do um any of it. Um, so if we did the bottom floor, it's there's a slight cost decrease, but it's not it's not a huge decrease. And it's a and it's and it would be um it would be different than how we access our alerting system. Now, um I don't want to go into too much detail, but I can c we can certainly do that at at um in nonpublic if you wanted to. It's just it it's a matter of um saving seconds maybe minutes in alerting um you know the school in the event of an emergency. And it's a visual system as well as a sound system.
048And that's um it's internal as well as external alert system. >> And it's internal to the school. Does it report out? Does it report out to first respond like? >> Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yep. >> Yep. If we couldn't do the whole thing, would you be more in favor? I know this is putting the two of you against one another, I guess, but doing one moving forward with one school or doing part of each school? I mean, is there is it effective just to have it on on one floor and not have it on all floors or, you know, again, I mean, would you rather have a little bit in each school so at least both schools have the ability to access the system? So I think um I I think coming if we did just
049the first floor to start what what that because when you think about second level like it's less likely to for an intruder to be uh accessing our second floor without going through our first floor first. >> So if that makes sense. So it would it would be the bottom floor at Main Street it and it would be interior bottom floor and exterior part of the building as well >> and then the second phase would be the second floor. >> Is it one of those things where if you add a floor it ends up costing you more in the end or is it >> is it about equal >> like what's what would be the return cost to come back and do the second? >> Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean, the the the just doing
050the ground floor um >> is almost almost the whole cost. You're looking at like $6,000 difference. [clears throat] >> And it's pretty intensive labor labor-wise. So, um >> so I have a a recommendation. We are we uh Dr. Brian and I thought maybe we would go into non-public sooner in this meeting before the committee reports because there's quite a bit to talk about to let folks go. So if there are more questions that you know maybe can't be answered related to the why um that I'm just saying that is an option to discuss them in non-public and then come out of non-public and and >> I I'm not personally I'm not concerned about the why. I'm I mean it's not that I'm not concerned about it. I think I understand enough of the why without
051needing to hear examples or something because I, you know, like I said, I respect the folks that are bringing it forward and know that they're prioritizing things already. So, um, and I do appreciate the comment, by the way, about just the budget in general because I was participating somewhat remotely and I was I found myself thinking I would be reluctant to approve a lot of funds out of that because it is a lower amount than what we typically return and sometimes we have a million dollars. You know, we're saying like, yeah, let's take care of these three or four projects that have been sort of there, but that's not where we are this year, which is fine. Um, but I do think that is one of the ways that the capital reserve fund could be
052used. it's appropriate. I mean, sometimes it's there. Of course, if something breaks down and just wasn't budgeted at all mid year, but it's a similar kind of thing. It's not budgeted. It's a something that's been identified as a need. Just because we're don't have something broken, per se, doesn't mean that we can't use the funds for that. So, um I mean I I mean I I'm in in I mean I'll just say I don't know an amount to sort of propose, but I am in favor of trying to if we're not going to have a budget workshop to to try to address this tonight and to approve some funds out of the capital reserve fund. what that amount should be I don't I don't know in terms of doing that but approving capital reserve funds
053to either start this process or complete this process of installing this security measure >> and I mean I'll just I'll add in just because it was mentioned in in the conversation I mean if we're looking at maybe starting with one school and then you know looking at this as like a 12 to 18month process um you know I think Main Street would be an appropriate place to start and then move up to um Lincoln Street that's taken the lead on a lot of this work and gotten a lot of information. So, I think Main Street would be appropriate. >> Mhm. >> Do we know how long it takes from the start, start to finish? >> It would it would be ready by the fall. I mean, we were to do this. Um, for example, I
054mean, we we >> asked them about the June 30th deadline that we kind of had in our heads and they said that they could have the majority, if not all of it done by the end of June if we were had to put them on that tight of a track. >> Is that accurate? >> I mean, the it's you're looking at 140 for for Main Street, you're looking at 145 hours of um of labor time roughly in the estimate. So, um, it we would, you know, anticipate that it would be completed in time for the next school year. >> So, just to clarify, we're probably not still talking about you using the unassigned fund balance. this would have to come out of the capital reserve >> entirely for both schools or one school and then
055be budgeted for the >> I was just curious if it was um like a you know if it took all three months if it took you know a significant amount of time um and whether there was going to be any disruption to the summer programs that are happening on the campus if if that's the case >> my conversations with the company have been very um positive and they um um they have said that they will work around what what we have as far as programming. I mean we typically when we do facility updates happen over the summer big facility updates with minimal impact to programming. >> I have a question. um if this was activated in one of your schools, would the other school hear it or be notified in some way? So that I'm
056saying like if it was you were saying there's an external light and sound. I don't know if you you know it's feasible that it would travel through the forest but but if there's some connectivity to alert like this has been activated in one of the schools that at least the other school would be aware there could be a there's a threat and e even if it weren't installed right up front in both schools. I don't know if that is a question we could ask but >> I mean we can certainly look into that. >> I mean you're just so close right? you're basically on the same campus. So to to have some kind of ability to communicate that to the other school would be a great asset to us. >> And I mean in the
057past when we've had emergencies, we have um communicated via phone or radio um just so that we can um alert the other school as far as what's happening. But that's a great question. I mean, I guess I I know we haven't there's an emotion on the table and so maybe someone should make one, but there I guess in looking at the fact that there was um there's an approved amount to be added after June 30th to the capital reserve, I guess I'm sort of in in the sense that I guess I I'm either in the favor of doing one school and then waiting or doing both schools. I kind of feel that it's, you know, there's probably doesn't sound like there's a huge cost savings and it feels >> um right to execute it fully
058if we're going to do it. >> Yeah. I my I'll make a proposal. I'll make a motion and then people can >> discuss it and we can revise the motion. I'm not not married to this motion, so to speak, but I'll but the motion I'll make is to approve funding to uh for this security measure, whatever the technical name is, um for Main Street School to fully implement that over the summer. So, and you said it's about $30,000, $40,000, $30,000. >> 20 Yep. $29,45. So up to $32,000 or, you know, to to get some flexibility for other things, you know, to to cover that. I mean, I think that's a that's very reasonable amount within our budget, you know, what we have for that. It still preserves a lot of it. And then we can
059talk even in the fall about uh how you know if there are other funding sources for Lincoln Street in terms of working into the budgeting or using some capital or funds to offset the cost for it or whatever. I think we can you know we could do that going forward. So, anyhow, that's the I guess I'm speaking to the motion, too, but that's the the motion of [laughter] >> the motion is to uh I would move that we approve $32,000 from the capital reserve fund to fund the security measure at Main Street School. >> And I'll second uh discussion. Any discussion? >> Do we do why don't we want to do both schools? Is it is it just that that amount is too much given or or >> I don't know. I'm sort of in
060you're I just feel like if we're going to do it and if it's a priority it feels I just think we should do it and um >> if it's if it's a priority for both schools and >> I guess to your point Patrick I mean the only other the only other thought I have is like we could do it for Main Street school see how the process goes if you're happy with it and then look at it in the fall >> to use capital reserve funds to do the second school. I mean we can access those funds at any time. >> I'll just speak loud just to be transparent. I mean the window for the work to be done is probably summer. >> Yeah. >> I mean even if we approve fun that window >>
061it sounds like we're talking a multi-week project. So >> because there's kids back in school. >> Yeah. So, I guess I'm I'm of of that same mind, Tim. I think if we're gonna if we think it's important and we're being told it's a priority that I think we should just do it. >> I guess I mean, I'll speak to my only hesitancy. I'm not opposed to that possibility. I So I So, as I said, I was a little bit wishy-washy even in how I spoke in defense's motion, but I think I think the thing that made me hesitate a little bit is that's about 25% of our capital reserve fund on one project. Um it's just it's just a lot of the fund and the fund isn't something we have done motions you know to
062replace it or replenish it but um and I guess you know next year the board may decide to continue to do that and the voters may continue to um accept it but it's not it's not something that's budgeted every year automatically. >> You know we have to make a decision if we're going to put more funds in it and the voters have to approve it each year. So that's that was my hesitation because it's 20 it's it's a it's a big chunk of the fund. It's 25% for something. It's not an emergency need, but it's but it's a need that we're trying to address. >> But I I could be persuaded either way. Go ahead, Johnny. idea about >> what do you guys >> I I >> honestly I have I'm so sorry. >> Sorry.
063I >> I have a fear now that we've spoken about it. I feel like we should do it in schools >> because I I feel like if next year there's a need at Lincoln Street School and we don't have it, what if what was our justification for choosing Main Street over Lincoln Street? >> That's sort of my that's where I sit a little bit. But I hear you're >> 20% as well. >> It's about $70,000 to do both schools, right? >> Yeah. 75,000 would be 25%. So, it's closer to that. >> Yeah. >> With um I don't know how the House bill on capital reserve funds is going to go. Um but if at any point, you know, money is snatched or taken and then we can't use that and we have to go to
064the voters, I think that will be really tricky. Um I mean, you know, we don't need a boiler, right? Like we're good. like you know [laughter] it's like when you sort of look at the broader picture it's like okay is everything in like working order like you know is this is this money that we can spend but I think Kate is right like once you kind of open the can you can't like like tuck it back down and be like we're going to wait because knowing what we know >> those are the moments right where it's like ah really probably should have done that when we had the chance to do it and we don't want to find ourselves in that kind of position. Um there's a lot weighing on it that I think could
065go the wrong way if we don't do the thing instead of just doing the thing. >> And I feel like if we could do it in the fall, I would I would be more comfortable with maybe doing Main Street first, but we're really talking about putting Lincoln Street out a year. >> Right. >> All right. So, I'm going to I'm going to ask if I can withdraw my motion that instead of taking a vote on it. So, is that our Mr. Chair, you'd have to agree to whoever second it would also have to agree. >> So I >> to withdraw the motion. >> Withdraw the motion. Yes, I second. [laughter] >> So I'll make a new motion to approve funding for both schools um for the the project. Um and what's the total amount that
066you have towards dollar amount? >> 29 and 39,45 for Main Street and then 39,000. >> So I'm going to say up to up to $75,000. It's a capital reserve fund up to $75,000 so that there's some flexibility. So that's the motion. Some second. >> I will second the motion. >> Can I say one thing about the motion? >> You can just that [laughter] >> um just I will I I will just say I'll speak for myself and I will caution us as a board to be a little careful about not chasing security measures because I think anything that has a label of security you can always find yourself in the mindset like wow we didn't put that in. What if something happened? Wow, we didn't put that in. What if something happened? There's there's a
067lot of security things we could do with these two schools and spend several million dollars and it would make it more secure and not necessarily take away from other things, but we can't chase that because we do have a ultimately we have a limited set of funds and a lot of needs including academic needs and other kinds of needs. Safety and security is important, but it's not the only need we're trying to meet. But I am absolutely in support of this particular initiative and um I am supportive of my own motion surprisingly. Can I ask our our administrators just another question to the point that was raised earlier around are you aware of any other capital needs that we should be paying attention to in the in this summer before we you know in this
068coming academic year that you know like a boiler that could go or a roof that you know I'm just I haven't heard of anything of late but just as we're thinking about you um things that would be on our radar. Um I think that would be helpful to know. >> Sure. Um we I mean it's it's an old building, so there there are some other areas that we need to address. I don't know how public you want me to make those statements, but there are some other things that I have. Some of it's budgeted for, some of it I'm half budgeted for, and I'm looking out a year to budget for. So, I mean, if we wanted to open that conversation, I just don't know how much we want to just talk openly about it.
069But there's nothing that I would just say is so urgent that it has to be done tonight. But if we wanted to have a broader conversation, we could do that. Main Street is in a little different place because we've had we have a new addition, right? It's a pretty good place. Um, and so, um, I'm not aware of any other capital um improvements that we need to make right now. >> Okay, we have we have a motion on the table. Is there any further discussion? >> Can I just ask one more question? Um and I don't know if you want to answer this in public, tell me no, but was there a situation that created the interest in doing this alert system? >> I I think we should answer that in non-public. >> Okay. Yeah,
070I'm just I I'm feeling like we're I think we either should address the motion on the table or if we have more questions around the why or you know I I think I'm feeling like we um should go into non-public. >> Me personally, I could vote on it without doing that. Me too. >> Okay, any other questions? Okay. Um all in favor? I >> I >> any I didn't Shy, did you? Were you in favor? >> Oh, I said I. >> Okay. >> Yep. All in favor. [clears throat] Okay, great. >> Thank you. >> So, we wait we went off track a little bit to talk about that. So, back to you. [laughter] >> One last thing. I'm sorry. Before we before going, which is that I I really appreciate just um even with the
071way that you bring things forward. I think that that gives me just a lot of confidence because I I do feel like I I know there are other needs that are out there and I feel like you're prioritizing them and filtering them out before they ever come to the board. So, the fact that you've come back to the board several times with me carries a lot of weight and I think that was one of the things that you know I'm glad the board's our board is responsive to that. But I think it it's also because you are filtering these things out. So, thank you for doing all that work behind the scenes. We we know this isn't the only thing that you need, you know, going forward, but it's but it's a need that needs
072to be taken care of. So, that's great. >> So, this is meals. >> Are we at meals now? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> School meal costs. >> Okay. So, the next item under the finance office is the school meals cost to >> Before we go to meals, I did have one question for on on the FIN financial report, which I just forgot about. There was the gr there's the list of grants still um uh the grants that we've received and the balance to allocate >> and so is are those balances set to be drawn down by June 30th and are those mostly for our summer program or >> um is so each has a different end date. >> Okay. So, so actually Allison works with um the principles to create activities for activities that can
073fulfill the grant. Um so she is working with them right now. >> So So we don't leave any money like it's it's all spent down but >> it's it's our goal to spend down. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Title four has been a little uh some of the rules around how you can spend the grants have changed just a little bit. So, um but but a lot of these we have um >> we have until September 30th of 2027. So, we just we try to spend down before they run out. >> Great. >> Thanks. That was it. Thanks. >> Okay. So, then uh the next item is the recommendation for this would typically be the recommendation for um school meal cost. And I think you probably get this every year as a school board. Uh
074the food service directors every year use the the USDA paid lunch equity tool to determine what would be a uh an appropriate amount to um charge for meals. It's it's just a number. It's this is a recommendation, but of course it's uh the board's perview if if you want to make any changes to the price. So currently our breakfast price is uh $2 and lunch is 315 and there's a re recommendation to go up in each uh by 10 cents. So 210 for breakfast, 325 for lunch and then a 15 cents increase in uh the price for milk. Um, that conversation is obviously a little bit different for for exiter and Michelle can probably help with that. Just so you I think you you understand like that would be the portion that the the board
075would pay. Um, but if I'm missing anything, let me know. >> But wouldn't that also be the cost that which we still need to talk about? Um because there was a discussion, I don't know if it was last meeting or a couple meetings ago about whether or not students would have to pay if they ate more than one meal or if they got more than one milk. So it would also be the cost that they would have to pay for those sort of things depending on what the policy is about that. >> The seconds right now is actually a higher fee because it's not we don't get funding from the state for second meals. So, right now, I believe lunch is I think it's $4 for lunch. And we I know the school meals advisory
076committee will speak to that a little bit later. Um, but that would um the the reimbursement I can give you the reimbursement rates that that we have right now from the state. um which is uh the reduced lunch rate. We we get a $249 reimbursement and from uh for the lunch we get $469 um reimbursement for free for free students who qualify for free meals [snorts] and you're right. So, we'll we'll talk about the seconds later. >> Yeah. >> So, could you repeat? I'm sorry. It's hard without seeing the numbers in front of us. The the what the cost increases are are being proposed. >> The proposed cost increase is 10 cents for both breakfast and lunch. And then 15 cents for milk. >> So, 210 for breakfast and 350 for lunch. Is that what
077you're talking about? >> 210 for breakfast and 325 for lunch. Guess I don't Can you explain to me again and I know you just said it but and how it's different for extor why this number matters because it because if it's if it doesn't come out of one fund it comes out of another fund if we're paying for it. >> I guess that's what I mean. So typically when we present to the board, this would be the number that goes directly to families, but because the board's covering it, >> right, it might not um it might not [clears throat] make as much of a difference, right? Because you're covering you're covering the cost either way. Do I have that right? [clears throat] >> It doesn't really make any difference, right? Because ultimately we're just paying,
078right? >> Whether we whether we say we're paying $4 or $3 or $5, it doesn't make any difference to the extent that it's coming out of right >> board funds. is just coming out of a different section in the budget. Right. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Right. And then the you know if if you ever went back to charging you know that that would be the >> right >> the the amount on the books. That would be the only other consideration. But you're exactly right. >> Yeah. >> But does that that 10 cents and 15 cents gets added to [clears throat] the base of what a cost of second would would cost. So it's already more but that would be and it it would be 10 or 15 cents more on top of that. There's
079not a recommendation to raise the second price. >> Okay. >> So, you are looking for us to make a motion as to whether to accept the price increase or not. >> You could either make a motion to increase it or just leave it as is. Okay. [snorts] Any >> I would leave it as is. my my feeling. >> Yeah, I mean that's my reaction is to leave it as is. I know we did that last year as well and it was more intentional because we weren't sure about other costs. So, we were trying to be sensitive to not raising costs that were passed on to families. This isn't happening then. I guess I think it's something I would prefer to I mean my initial reaction is to leave it as is but to have the
080the committee I know we have a couple to really wrestle with this and think about it in terms of what would be the impact particularly if we need to go back to charging families so that we don't all of a sudden go from on the books it's $2 and we say okay we haven't changed it in five years so now it's 350 or something that it's you don't want it to you don't I don't know I mean just to to try to think that through But in the short term, I don't think it changes actually any of our budgeted amount for what we're doing next year. >> So, and you said it doesn't affect the second numbers, right? Either way. So, I would it's sort of a tend to agree. >> And I may have
081misspoke. I think we do have to set the price. So, you may have to make a motion. I think you have to make a motion to set the 2627 prices. >> So, be setting the price at the same what is what your Tim was suggesting. >> Yeah. [clears throat] >> All right. I I'll make a motion to um not increase our uh breakfast and lunch costs and milk costs for the next school year. >> Does he have to name the price in the motion? >> That would be helpful. >> Sure. >> Oh, do you need them? >> Is it $469 for lunch? >> No, it's um $2 for $2 for breakfast. >> Okay. >> 315 for lunch >> and 50 cents for milk. >> Okay. All right. Okay. I make a motion to set the
082prices for the ne for the 2026 2027 school year to be $2 for breakfast, $3.15 for lunch, and 50 cents for milk. >> Second. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor? >> I >> All right. Did you want to go now? >> No. >> Sure. >> Okay. So, we have a lot of staff here. um who are involved in you know who and so I just uh and we have a lot of things to also continue to discuss. So we um Dr. Brian and I are suggesting that we go ahead and go into non-public now and then come out of non-public and finish the rest of our agenda seeing that there are no other members um here for public comment. Um so um I'd like to make a motion um to go into non-public session per
083um chapter 91A 32 and then it's um a C and I is that correct? >> What is that for? Just tell me what what it corresponds to because I'm not just >> um dismissal, promotion or compensation of any public employee. Okay. uh matters which if discussed in public would likely affect adversely the reputation of any person and consideration of matters relating to preparation for and carrying out of emergency functions. >> Okay. Um so roll call vote >> need a second. >> A second. Sorry. I'll second the motion. >> Okay. And roll call vote. I >> I I >> I Okay. So 707, uh, we will go into non-public non-public at 8:15. Um, so we're going to move forward with our, um, board committee reports and assignments. Um, so our first committee is our equity committee,
084Kate and Patrick. >> Um, I'll speak to it because the last meeting was before you were on it, I think. Um the last meeting was last month and that's the wrapup for the end of the year. Um talked a little bit about the um public um discussion or the public community meeting um that the conversation around that was quite positive although the numbers were low. So there was some discussion about how we get that available to more people in different ways maybe than just having that meeting. um and sort of planning for what they're doing moving forward in next year and making goals for that. >> Great. I'm going to come back to policy because there's several policies including one that we um are going to talk to for first discussion. So, we'll do that
085at the end. Um and I don't believe there's been a strategic planning committee call meeting called. Um so, our next is facilities. Patrick has there we've we obviously had a discussion today about but yeah any >> anything further >> um Wheelright Trust >> that's me again we had a meeting this morning the remaining funds are $11,24866 the discussion was around that um they'll send out to staff um an opportunity to submit applications towards the end of August and then we'll be looking at that Okay. Um, so sbatical and professional growth doesn't meet until um, January. Um, so there's no um, update there. Um, Tim, over to you for superintendent evaluation. >> Sure. So um, we met with Dr. Andriski on the afternoon of May 26 to go over the evaluation. Uh Patrick as the joint
086board chair was there uh as well as myself and we walked through the um the 360 uh survey, the board uh individual board uh comment summaries uh and had a good conversation about uh his first year. Uh so he was very receptive to the to the feedback and actually I think he wants more uh check-ins uh throughout the year instead of just getting the evaluation at the end which was really good comment from him. So, uh, yeah, it was it was good. And then the the committee should meet again um toward the end of the summer before uh we we'll get a next meeting set up before um the September board meeting start up again just to go over the protocol for the next year and solidify that and um then start to um uh
087get the uh next year's uh goals from Dr. Indriski as well. Great. Um, we also have safety and security. Um, so Shony and I attended the last meeting. Um, Tim will now be moving forward with Shony on that committee. Um, while we can't speak to any particulars from that meeting, um, I don't know Shy if you want to surface any anything that would be relevant. >> Um, robust conversation. um and collaborative activities that lend to the the progress being taken for our our student safety. >> Great. Yeah, I just continue to really appreciate how seriously the SA16 takes safety and security um and the readiness um around that. So, it's um was valuable to be part of that. Um, okay. So, um, I'm going to actually, yeah, let's go ahead and do school meals. So,
088that's Kate and Shy. >> Um, so you all received, um, we've met once and we have a meeting scheduled for tomorrow. Um, you I believe all receive the, um, information about the number of extra breakfastes and lunches. Um the big decision that needs to be made is whether we're including access to second meals. Um so the numbers looking at that sheet the numbers amount to essentially $30 a day or $5,92 which is 001% of the amount that we added for those meals. So it's a pretty small um percentage because we in total added from the money that we added into the budget. Um so the reason we have to decide we have to make that decision moving forward but also the accounts need to be closed on the books if we're not doing second meals.
089So we need to sort of talk about that as a board. So thoughts on whether we are giving access to second meals included as a that they won't have to pay for them. >> So you're saying right now the to this past year the total cost or the total amount that we gained from second meals is $5,000. >> Mhm. >> For the year. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> The numbers are there. But that that's also knowing with I think the knowledge that second meals are not their full cost, right, to to caregivers and students that there's >> it's $2 for second breakfast and $4 for second lunch, right? And so these numbers, right? I think I believe these numbers I haven't done the math, but it's considering that, >> correct? So, I mean, I guess
090I'm just saying that the it's a greater cost to get the second meal. So, a disincentive in some cases to to get a second meal if you're versus if we're paying for the second meals. I'm not sure that again, we can't predict, right? And we don't know, but um just something to think about. I mean, I personally I'm leaning towards it's such a small percentage of what we're offering. Um, you know, the it's the total year was 176 extra breakfastes and 1,220 extra lunches for the year. Um, so the breakfast amounts to like one a day and the lunches are like seven a day. Um and and for me it feels like if if I want to feed them the first lunch and they're still hungry, I feel like I want to provide the second
091lunch. That's sort of where I'm sitting. And and in terms of the amount of money um relative to what we added and predicted, it seems reasonable that we won't go over budget. That's my thoughts. Does anyone else have any thoughts on that? Is >> that I mean >> if you guys have talked about it more, is that the the sort of the recommendation of your committee or is that sorry? >> I I certainly feel that way. I certainly feel like we should recommend paying for the seconds. Um it is it does change. It's an eb and flow in in the data that we have around how um you know how many it is, but Kate's math on the averages is not so substantial that I think it puts us out in any way. Um there
092was the alternative that was explained that this rarely happens at Main Street. It's mostly at Lincoln Street with the older kids um who are you know growing rapidly and have you know heartier appetites at that sort of age group um and fruits and vegetables are unlimited um in both schools. So if we didn't want to do that still sort of framing it that there is still more food for you to eat even if it is not the cheeseburger or the chicken tenders or the pizza or what have you. um that there is still more food available for them. Um so I think looking at both sides of that is it worth the one breakfast a day over the course of a school year and the seven lunches over the course of a school year for
093this amount um at that 0.1% or is it really push the fruits and vegetables um if you are still hungry? So, I think that's sort of where we'd need your input on that. >> This is sort of a maybe it's a question actually for school administrators, but I don't actually know like when you buy a lunch, what's on the plate? Like if someone would buy a second lunch to get the snack that's on the plate, but not want the rest of I'm just thinking also just about food waste. If we think when we're when students are getting a second lunch that it's because they want to cons they they're still hungry and they want the full lunch or it's oh they have cookies on the plate today or something else on the plate but then
094the rest gets thrown out. I'm I'm just >> I I I think the answer is both to be honest with you. Um you know it depends on the day and what's being offered. There is some of that particularly when there's a you know a special item maybe it's a popsicle you know whatever the case may be. We do see a little bit of that. Um, with regards to food waste, I mean, one of the things that's just kind of an ongoing challenge that we've tried to address just just to kind of paint a clear picture for everyone this year is when students sign up or, you know, check off I want the main meal option or I want, you know, whatever is going to be offered. That's the lunch count that we have. So, we
095know how many kids have signed up for lunch. We can't really predict how many kids sign up for second lunch. So depending on the allure of what's being offered on that day, sometimes we get three second lunch. Sometimes we might get quite a bit more. I know that you have the numbers in front of you, so I don't want to just throw numbers out without knowing them, but that's that's a tricky part because we get to that last lunch of the day and then it can be pretty tough. So, >> with >> the limitations that our kitchen staff has as far as like not wasting food, um, we'd kind of have to, and again, that's something we'd figure out in the fall about how many extras are we going to make a day, but then
096I guess that's just going to be an additional cost potentially. You know, if we're going to say we need to have 15 extra lunches and they don't all get used, I guess my >> Are you saying there's a risk that we would actually we could run out of lunches by the end of the day? Yes. >> Yeah. >> Unless we made more. That's what he said. >> Well, right. You'd have to gauge that over time, right? Right. And and that's just about, you know, our kitchen staff budgeting for how much they need to purchase so that they have enough there. But but this unlimited second lunches, I guess that's my worry is I can predict or we can predict through our sign up in the morning how many lunches are going to be needed for
097first lunch for everybody. It's really hard to predict what the second lunch would be. um making sure that we have enough for the last lunch that goes through at the end of the day. I'm not sure that's directly what we're discussing, but it's it is a factor as far as potential food waste and whatnot. I mean, I thought I thought part of the the financial model that we worked in was for more food. I remember that when we were doing that that that there was a prediction that we would have to make more food and need more staff. >> That was for the primary lunch though, not nec Well, I don't think we had this data yet around second. We never really actually made a decision regarding second lunches. >> No, we didn't. >> We
098just mentioned it, but we never made a decision because we were coming up with numbers, you know, we were trying to use the data, but knowing that it's not going to be completely indicative of what happens. And oh, and um there was some communication that um another board created that we were hoping to also try to utilize, which is communication going home to families about whether your child is inclined to want a second lunch. um to be able to have that data um [clears throat] sooner so that there is less risk of running out of lunches by the time the last um group is served. Um whether that's at the beginning of the you know whether that goes home on a you know Friday with you know with them and comes back on Monday or
099what have you. Um, but giving parents or caregivers the opportunity to kind of look at the schedule and say, "Are you gonna want another slice of pizza this day?" and make sure that that is presented. Um, so that was an option around it too because we know that there are sort of return clients on the second lunch. So those those returning clients for the second lunch would have the opportunity to explain with their families that yes, I always do get a second lunch, especially on these days. And so that can be worked into into that equation. >> I guess what I'm just thinking, I mean, I'm not I'm not opposed to it. I guess I'm curious are students taking advant like are those you know fresh fresh fruit throughout the day is it readily available
100students can get it access that they know they can access that um throughout the day I guess that's my most my biggest concern is hunger right like that students aren't hungry throughout the day and so you know not so much that they have like an extra piece of pizza if they just as a preference right it's that that we're actually meeting those the need for hunger and that are and it >> I guess it seems to me that there there's there's ready access to to fresh food throughout the day for those snacks. >> Um so I guess I'm just sitting with that you know if if we as we are piloting something a new or do we I mean I it's it's not to your point we don't really know we can't predict sort of
101it does it's probably not the hugest financial impact overall but I guess that's what I'm sitting with. >> I mean I hear you. I think when you give something that someone's not paying for, then the waste becomes an issue. And I think that that sort of maybe is education. But the other piece for me is that discussion about seconds and what they're choosing for seconds I feel like should not for me it feels like that should not be determined by your ability to pay for it. Right? So maybe there's a discussion about how, you know, and Dalia could talk more about this about how they handle seconds, right? Um, in terms of adjusting for that, but it felt to me like when we're going to, it's just another level that we're creating a payment system
102for. Just, you know, we're either feeding them because they're hungry or we're not. >> And then maybe we have maybe there's a different policy relative to seconds for everyone. Not just >> Yeah, that's a really good point, Kate. >> Yeah. >> So, I think our recommendation, you you and I, our recommendation was to allow them, but it was really to bring it to the board and make that decision because we need to have it by tomorrow. [laughter] >> I find myself I I support the recommendation. I I I think we don't know. I think there's a lot of unknowns and I I hear the concerns about food waste or predicting numbers, but I think we're just we're going to have to really track this and adjust and I think it'd be better to start off
103that way if we need to pull back. >> Yep. >> We pull back, we may have to pull back on the entire system if it really isn't if it undermines other things. I think the board has already made comments about that, but I think we should start off with not having a It seems just seems strange to me to have a cost for that when we're talking about >> recovering5 to $10,000 over over the course of a year. And if it doubled, >> it would be $10,000. It just it just seems strange to me. But I think we should track it like everything else. And if it's problematic and there's a lot of waste and or there's a lot of issues with running out of things, we we can adjust even midy year on a
104piece of it. I mean, I think this is a work in progress, right? We're going to be doing that throughout the year. >> I Kate, I think I really appreciate your point. I think that's maybe where I'm like, so what is our policy? You know, why if we have all this if we have fresh fruit throughout the day and things that people can access that are healthy, right? Or you maybe there's a question around >> do we need seconds, you know, if we're providing nutrition throughout the day. I mean, I think you're I do agree that if we're going to do this and it be equitable, it doesn't make sense for some kids to get seconds and others not. I think I'm just sitting with the seconds question generally and thinking about food waste and
105thinking about um just all of it. But I don't think that pertains to the decision that we're trying to make around this >> paying for it. Yeah. So, [snorts] I'll make a motion that we will um include second meals in the paid lunch. So, parents will not pay for a second meal. >> I'll second. Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor? I >> Is there anything else from the school's meals advisory committee that we haven't discussed >> besides? >> All right. Um so we have several um policies. I don't believe Patrick were you you were not at that committee either. So maybe uh Dr. Bryant would you lead us through it and we can then >> Yes. Um this is potentially somewhat easy this month. The first policy is one >> um the first policy
106is one that you have seen previously. Um there was a misunderstanding about whether or not it was a required policy for the exit for elementary school districts. It is um it's actually a it's not a new policy. I think the confusion is that there is one line that speaks specifically to a requirement for districts that have students in grades 6 through 12. Um, and I think there's actually a typo in that line, but um, if you look at number eight under the creation of the plan, there's there's one specific line to grades six through 12. The rest of the policy is required for any school districts that have students in grades 4 through 12. So again, there were just some minor um, changes to an already existing policy. Um, but we didn't vote on it
107last month because of that misunderstanding. Are there any questions about that one? >> I think I had the question when we went over this last time. I just wondered why why the it is 6 through 12. Why that one line is >> Yeah, that [clears throat] >> why are we only required to have someone who can do CPR if you're 6 through 12? >> It's a great question. That's that is just part of the change in um the law. So I you could I you know you could adjust your policy if you wanted to. >> Does that put is there a heavy burden of having that at through one through five? >> You know as a I had a son who had a heart defect. I mean so it's a pretty simple procedure to be
108no CPR. It it feels like I don't know why we limit it to grade 6 through 12. Mhm. >> I mean, I guess we could we could we could adopt, you know, we could you could make the recommendation, Kate, to extend it through our grades. It this is just the the recom I mean I I I find it con I think this is what it also says, you know, I think we need to change it so that we don't it doesn't say exit a regional cooperative school board. I think that I find if I were to look up this policy, um it it's confusing to me to have that line as written only in in our policy since we don't um serve grades 6 through 12, >> right? So, the other option is just to
109strike that that line for for this district >> or that that could be another option. >> [snorts] >> So, is the policy saying like if in second grade you have to have an AED >> there? Um, >> how many AEDs available? >> So, number six and seven, those have to be there or five and six have to be there. >> Correct. That's probably a bigger Yeah, I I think I would I would vote to strike eight. >> I agree. [snorts] >> I agree with that. >> I'm going to keep going through the >> um I think just since to to make it easier on you, Dr. Bryant, why don't we go ahead and vote like vote on them as we go because we don't have to go all the way back. >> Um, >> yeah,
110I think they're a little bit out of order. So, the policy, if you go after that policy is actually the policy brief and the rest of the policies, I think, or maybe yours is different. >> Yeah. >> Okay. But it's still the it's still the same name, right? >> Yep. >> So, I I'll go ahead. I I'd like to make a motion um to um approve policy JLCJ uh with um recommended um changes in striking A8 under creation of plan um and changing the reference of exit regional small cooperative school board to exit um elementary school board. >> I'll second that. >> Any further discussion? >> Okay. All in favor? >> I >> Okay. The next policy is EH A which is the use of generative artificial intelligence. This is a new policy. This is
111just for first read tonight. uh this will come back to the board in the fall. It's there's a lot of information, a lot of things to think about with this one. So, it really is an opportunity for the board to to review it, discuss, ask questions. Um and again, we'll bring that back to the board in the fall. >> I had just some general thoughts on this. I had a lot of thoughts on this, but just keeping it high level to start. I think in the beginning of this policy, I think what struck me is that we almost seemed to be the way it is written sort of espousing the value of AI, which I found kind of unnecessary to the policy that you know it's necessary for critical thinking and creativity and innovation. Um,
112and I I guess I I felt like we could cut a lot of that and just say this is um that we see it as a supportive tool, which is what I think the policy speaks to and that the policy then outlines, you know, protocols for using it. But I I guess I just found it a little heavy on the this is the these are all the possibilities of AI when it's such a hotly contested issue and I guess I'm not really comfortable as a board member fully standing behind a lot of those statements. Um and then I had some specific things under um guidelines. I I guess I I think also AI is a hotly contested issue in in in those who are in creative professions. Um I know of incidences with my own
113children when students when teachers have said you know let's say you have a book assignment and one of the instructions is to create a book cover and there's been an explicit instruction to say if you're not artistic you can use go ahead and use AI to create the book cover and so I think throughout this policy there's some language that could be used to you know what I I think we what we really want to preserve is original thought and creativity in all of our assignments. It shouldn't be used as sort of generating original content, thought or creativity, but used, you know, maybe as a again a support tool to edit or maybe to do some research. Um um I think I had some issues. I'm just going to keep going and then I'll stop.
114But um there was some reference in I think um under the staff of not putting personal or sensitive information in about AI. I think that's true for students too. It shouldn't be like without permission, but that we're really protecting students from putting really um personal information about themselves, other students, staff um into AI. So I guess these are like particulars but I found that it was a little light on some of the protocol to protect student priv student and staff privacy. Um and it led me to a question actually which is um in my place of work our policy we actually have our own AI account that is not public. So anything that is put into AI is is only accessible to those in our organization. And it made me wonder if the school has
115something similar that if we are to use it in the schools that it doesn't what's fed in whether it's student work uh teachers work right curricula policy anything it's we're not sharing it into the greater sort of bank of knowledge but that it's actually um SA16 specific or even school specific. Um, so I just I had a lot of particular things, but I guess in in many ways I felt uncomfortable with how kind of general it was and that it almost felt like it was we were getting behind like this is the greatest thing for innovation and creativity. Um, which I I I'm not sure is I guess necessary for the policy um as written. >> I agree. I agree as well. [laughter] much. I think it needs to be heavier on the specificity of
116the uses in a way that truly supports individual critical thinking and creativity instead of it leaning too heavily into if you can't think of anything, go ahead and use it, but please use these rules. I I think it needs a lot of discussion. >> Yeah, >> I don't think I also don't think that I don't think the policy is very consistent that there's a the introductory parts talk about this is a general guideline and then it gives a lot of very specific you can't do this specifically, you can't do that. It's not general, >> right? >> So, which one is it? I mean, I just think it needs to be cleaned up depending on what the direction of this is. It just kind of seems I don't know. It It seems like a reflection of
117us not fully understanding when I say us, whoever wrote this, not fully understanding what the implications of this is. And it seems a little tricky to create a policy that way because it doesn't seem to go really go together, >> the policy >> like it should be smaller in scope or something. It just seems to be a grabback. >> I say it should be much shorter. It's it's assuming that how AI is used and how it is it will continue to be this way for a long period of time and >> right >> it's rapidly evolving. So it should be a pretty concise clear uh policy. >> I mean one of the things that's on here is it says there's going to be an approved list of district district approved AI sources. I someone better
118be really up to speed and keeping that up to date because that that's that's like saying I'm going to have a a list of every you know every app that's on an iPhone back in you know whatever 15 20 years ago when they were coming out so quickly. I I just think it's just tricky. I mean I think those things are really changing very very quickly and you know the just the dominant ones aren't necessarily the best ones or even the most appropriate ones. they may be well funded, but I I don't know. It's just it seems like this is going to take a lot of thought really to have a coherent policy. >> I will say I'm really glad we're looking at this as a policy and I think it's kind of from my
119own kids experience um kind of everything is being is happening in the classroom right now with this. And so I'm really appreciative that this is being brought to the board and to the policy committee for discussion. I think it's needed. Um, but I agree with you, Patrick. I think also I'm curious how some of this is enforced. Um, just give I mean it's just a lot and it's ever changing and I think it's um but I I appreciate it. Tim, did you want have anything further to add? >> So, I guess the next step with this one, Allison, is that we would bring it back to the board in September. >> Yes. Well, it might >> or go to policy might be October because it will [clears throat] policy first. Yeah, >> great. >> Yeah.
120Thank you. >> The next one is uh again just a read only as we're um as we're considering potential legislation. That's uh policy JF enrollment and enrollment capacity. So, not looking for any uh movement on this one this evening, but again, just for the board to look at. And this will again come back in the fall um to boards. Any thoughts on this one? hearing none. >> Okay. And then the final one is a new policy um policy JL if this is a recommended policy um just reading the summary really quickly. Um establishes procedures for the district's use of registered sex offender information in order to support student and staff safety. Um, so really the intention would be to set some parameters around access to our campuses uh for registered sex offenders. Scrolling down. and
121and it outlines um when with um when a a registered sex offender would be be able to access the campus. >> Any thoughts on this one? I I don't I don't have any comments about the policy per se. I just just a minor consistency thing. I think we I think we've tended in policies to list district with a capital D and it just tends to have district with a small D throughout this pol this particular policy. Okay. >> So just to be consistent with whatever protocol we're using. >> Okay. Thank you. So, this one we can take a vote on. Um, >> would someone like to make a motion? >> I'll make a motion to accept policy JL if as written. >> Okay. >> Second. >> Okay. All in favor? I >> I >> All
122right. >> Thank you, Dr. Bryant, for um supporting us in that. >> Um so, moving on. Um old business um you did in uh we did include >> We have one more policy. >> Isn't it the JLCJ? Don't we have that? >> That was the um one on it's in there twice. Sorry. >> Yeah, it was there twice. >> So, make sure. Okay. >> Nope. That's Yep. >> That's good catch. Um so in your packets we did include the amicus brief. Um I know there was some discussion in in um from community that around transparency and um wanting to have a copy of that. So we felt it was important to include in the packet and make sure everyone on the board had a copy. Um so Dr. Dr. Brian, I don't know if there's
123any more context you want to provide on that, but we just wanted to give some space in the meeting for um folks who may have questions um or any comment around the amicus brief um that we voted in the last meeting to sign on to. >> Yeah. Nothing else. I I think you received this previous to your packet as well, but we as Heather said, we just wanted to make sure it was in your packet as well. So, >> y might have it a couple of times. I have two questions that aren't related to our board per se, but one is I'm just really curious why they didn't just list all the groups in alphabetical order, why they listed in that particular order. It seems like it's an order of size or budget or something
124like that, but I don't I don't understand the rationale on why why they did that. And I also don't um I don't fully understand why SAU 16 is listed because the joint board didn't take a separate vote to have SAU 16 on on >> sort of who voted who who authorized SA 16 to join the amicus brief. >> I'm not I could speculate on what the intention was there but I I'm not positive. So, I can I can >> It may not be that they're being listed as a separate group, but it just it it sort of gives that impression, but but maybe they're not. I mean, I I don't know. >> It could be that it's the SAU listed with the districts underneath, but I see I see what you're saying. >> It says
125now come SA 16. >> What page is that, Patrick? >> Well, just even if it's >> 22, >> the signature pages. Yeah. >> 22 and 20 whatever. I it's also on the page doesn't join. They do it twice. But even with the the introduction, it says now comes SU 16, exit co-op, exit school district, stratum, Brentwood, Newfield school districts in Kensington. So it lists them separately. They don't say they don't name those districts and say which comprise SEO 16. It makes it seem like SO6 is a separate group somehow. I think just in the in the spirit of transparency that's all just in terms of >> um I mean I think taxpayers have a right to >> weigh in on this and you know what do we what did we decide and I definitely stand
126by our particular board's commitment to that to supporting this. Just another thing is that on page I think I got confused on page three >> um sort of the first full paragraph on page three this third sentence it says however the extor it does not list SA16 there but it also does not list Kensington >> that's interesting >> in that sentence >> so when I was first reading this I didn't actually think Kensington was part of the brief but they're named in the signature page >> so It lists, but it also doesn't list SAU16 as a unit on that sentence. >> That's a good point. Yeah, but they are listed as one of the parties. Yeah, >> it's in the on the cover page even for looking for an injunction. >> I think it's just
127a mistake that Kenzie Tim >> Yeah, I I think it is too. I just >> Yeah, >> probably needs to. Thank you. >> Has has this already been submitted? They're missing. >> It says proposed and I assume the other school district too. >> Yeah, >> it's proposed. Yeah, >> wasn't this submitted or was it proposed? Because it says >> it says proposed on it. >> Oh, gotcha then. Yeah. >> Okay. So, it says it's a brief of the school administrative unit, but then it probably should be like a colon then listing the districts instead of a comma there, >> right? It makes it seem like they're separate part, >> I don't know if it matters that it speaks to SA 16 on page four. like SAU 16 addresses these issues >> like should that be
128I know it makes sense because that's true but in the context of this um should it speak to more of the each individual board not sure >> I think maybe just a global edit of clarifying when SA16 as unit is being referenced versus those who are signing on to the brief. I mean it says sorry I keep getting if I get more more into this on page three the first full paragraph where it talks about the interest it says the emuray are group of New Hampshire public school districts NSAU >> so it doesn't say >> it doesn't just stop there I mean it makes it sound like it's >> the different individual scope districts and the SAU >> right or that they list them all as separate parties. They don't say that comprise an SAU.
129>> The language that they're using makes it seem like the SAU is a separate interested party that's voted to participate in this. I think they should be more careful with their language if that's not the case. If the SEU CU 16 isn't separately or a separate party, >> it's a good point. >> Okay. Okay. Will we just any other further questions or comments? All right. Um All right. Uh going on to new business. I think Dr. Bryant has um the superintendent authority to hire as a an item. >> I would just uh request that the board uh grant appro approval for the superintendent to make hires during the summer months while the board doesn't meet. So think you've gotten that request in the past. Yes. Same. >> I' I'd make that motion. >> Second. >>
130Okay. Uh, any discussion? >> Okay. All in favor? >> I >> um All right. So, this next item I think has come up in many discussions around just um and I know has been a priority of um Dr. around sort of really helping to onboard and continually develop the school boards throughout the district. And um wanted to just kind of get a sense of um if this is of interest to the board um to potentially um uh do some training. I think we um we have some fantastic staff um at the SA16. Um, I know Arlland um has done some training around equity um and DEI with at least one other school district. Um, so I I'd be very interested in that in that equity really runs through everything that we do as a board
131in terms of making decisions around finances and policy and evaluating the superintendent. But I also recognize there might be other things that folks might want to explore training around and we could think about that. um scheduling some time for that next year um if folks are interested. So, just wanted to open that up for discussion and see how um you all thought about that. >> I think that's great. I think that is in line with the feedback that we gave Dr. Andy in the evaluation. So, I think that that's pretty great to see. He's already taking steps toward that and and it would be good to as a board member to be more informed of what are best practices of being on a school board. Yeah, I think any opportunity that we have to model
132the values of the district uh will be important and that I think is an also an opportunity for us to be able to widen our conversations around community issues and how they impact our schools and um and our students and our staff and administrators. Um so I think anything that that strengthens that is is useful. Um, are there particular topics that you all would like to have some more information on? Certainly implicit bias, um, unconscious bias. Um, I'd honestly I'd love to know more about special ed. It's a big portion of our budget and I think it's an important topic. it's related to our DEI work in terms of accessibility, but I I'd love to understand it better um so that we can support policies and decisions and financial decisions around um you know supporting
133kids with special needs. >> I have [clears throat] an interest. I don't know if it belongs in training or not, but I'll say it if just in terms of the legislative stuff um because that's changing so fast and something around even just h how to follow it, >> you know, would be helpful. >> Okay. Um Dr. Dr. Brian and I did speak about um bringing Arlland in to do a training probably prior to a board meeting, a regular scheduled board meeting. Um Dr. Brian, I don't know if you if there was sort of times in the fall that would work better for that or that we should consider. >> Yeah. Um I was looking at October. Uh spoke with Arland just to see tenatively if that might work for her and that seemed like a
134good a good month for her. So, >> how do you all feel about coming in prior to a a board meeting? I think maybe contingent on that board meeting agenda, you know, being >> she could be flex. I mean, it doesn't have to be October. So, that was just kind of an initial, hey, what do you think about coming in in the fall sometime? But I think she has some flexibility, too. If there's a time or date that works better for the board. Yeah, >> I think it would be nice to put it close to a board meeting as opposed to another completely different time. So, October works for me. [snorts] >> I think what Dr. O'Brien and I could do is just also just take us take stock of what is looking like it
135might like tonight is a very long agenda, right? So, I think we could also take stock of obviously the budget cycle and what else might be um on an agenda um and make a decision closer to, you know, coming back in the fall as to whether an October meeting makes sense or if we want to look at a different date. >> Okay. >> All right. Great. Um so our next agenda item is to actually look at our meeting our proposed schoolboard meetings for the 2026 2027 academic year. Um which is the last two pages of your packet. So I'll give you a second to look that over. Um Dr. Bryant, is there anything that you want to say about the dates or any significant changes? >> I don't think so. I I believe this was
136based on this year's calendar. So there shouldn't be um anything too different. Um Oh yeah, good. Never mind. I guess I don't know if it's a change because I think we do need the budget workshop you know toward at the end to make decisions but I guess per the discussion today is there any reason to move that to the May meeting so that if there is if there is a project that needs a little bit more time to be to be completed by um June 30th we have that bandwidth. I think that's a great recommendation. >> Yeah, >> I agree. >> Um, any other questions, comments on the school board calendar? >> I think one of the things that board has dealt with in the past is talking about with not Tuesdays is it's a
137clock works. It's should it be 6:30? Should it be 5:30? Should it be Wednesday? Should it be whatever day? I think Tuesday at 6:00 works fine from my perspective. So, I'm not suggesting that we change it, but that that's one of the things that sometimes the board is wrestled with if it ends up being that time ends up being problematic for folks. >> I I would hesitate to move it back further as right now we're at 9:03 and we, you know, meetings that um I think making it earlier sometimes on a special occasion is okay. I know that there have been board members in the past, I'm not sure about speaking to this that are running, you know, coming from Portsouth, [clears throat] you know, from work and so that can sometimes be difficult, but
138>> um I don't have any problem with it remaining at 6, but if if others do. >> The only thing that I noticed was that September 8th is New Hampshire primary, I think. Um so I don't know how that may affect people who can't get to the polls or whatever, but Our March meeting ends up being tend tends to be voting day as well. I mean always pretty much always. That's >> Yeah, >> it just wasn't on there, so I didn't know if it was missed. Well, I'm going to just put a motion to to um approve the um 2026 2027 school uh extor school board meeting schedule um with the one change of moving our year-end review workshop from June 8th at 5:00 to uh May 11th at 5:00. >> Okay, a second instead
139of Okay, I had a second motion. Any any Oh, sorry. I was It's hard to Yeah. Any second. Uh any um further discussion? >> No. >> Okay. All in favor? >> I >> Okay. I think we are almost there. We do have to go back into um our non-public session. So um we are calling nonpublic in accordance with chapter 91A32 C and we uh a uh make a motion to go into non-public at uh I'll make the motion to go into non-public. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Okay. All in favor? >> I I >> I >> All right. We're going into non-public at 9:06. >> Okay. Um great. We are coming out of non-public at 9:26. Um, I'd now like to make a motion to adjourn this meeting. >> I'll second that.
140>> Okay. All in favor? I I I I adjourning at 9:27.