001Good. >> Thank you. All right. It's 502. We'll call this meeting of the school board to order. >> Maybe. Oh, hold on. Well, wait a minute. Now, >> technical difficult. >> No, you're good. You're good. >> We'll begin with the pledge of allegiance. Why is that? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And as we begin uh couple of points of order. One is I want to welcome our furniture budget select committees. Thank you for being here. We look forward to our discussions with you. Uh and we look forward to your input collaboration. I also want to acknowledge at the top the passing of Brian Ward and would like to ask those
002assembled to uh observe a moment of silence in Brian's honor. But to give context to those at the meeting and to those who are watching, I'll read a paragraph from his obituary. to the town of Littleton. Brian left a legacy as an advocate for both his community and the entire North Country. His lifelong commitment to public service included serving as the president of Littleton Littleton, sorry, the president of Littleton Little League, Littleton's Economic Development Task Force, Planning Board, Main Street, Inc. Earth Day Committee, Littleton School Board, Industrial Development Corporation. In addition, he also served as town the town of selectman, the economic adviser, and New Hampshire state representative, working as vice chairman of the education committee. His substantial contributions led now that we take a moment of silence in memory of Brian. >> Thank you.
003We will begin uh then with a regular course of business. And if there's no objections from the board, the school board members present, we will uh move right to new business items A and B so that we can cover the two field trip uh requests. And then of course, Mr. Marks, you're welcome to stay for as long as you mean I'm done. >> Yeah, please. If there are no objections, I think we start with you. Go ahead. >> Okay. So, I'm Christopher Marks, faculty and the alta adviser here at the high school and middle school. Um, so I'm here before the board tonight. I'll keep this brief because it looks like you all have quite a bit of work to do. So, I'm here to seek board approval for two overnight field trips. They're coming
004up in May, so I'm kind of kind of ways out. Um, one is the wilderness first aid course. This would be the third year.