001It was Labor Day. >> Okay, we're live. >> I think we good. >> All right, it is 5:00. >> We'll call this meeting of the Littleton School Board to order. We'll begin with the pledge of allegiance. The flag is that way. I 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. We will begin with item two, the consent agenda. We looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda inclusive of minutes from the August 13th school board meeting. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I oppose. Stain motion carries 4. Be looking now for a motion to Oh, no wait. We'll go to the business report. Um, I don't have a
002lot. I will just highlight um that the adequacy a figures were finalized. We received them the other week. We did receive 138,000 more than we had estimated in March when we took our budget to the town. Of course, it's still less um than we received last year, but we knew that during budgeting season, but to um receive more than that was a nice surprise. The town still has not filed their MS1 yet, so I can't do an accurate estimate on our decrease in tax rate, >> but that 60 cents is what as a percentage of what was estimated? >> What percent of that? I >> No, no, no, no. I'm saying what was the what was the estimated tax rate that is now 60 cents less? >> Um I don't even have that on me.
003I'm sorry. >> I was just wondering% 5% 10%. >> I don't remember. It was 134 something like that. >> I know it's but that's just truly an estimate because it's based on last year's. So I provided all that last week. Did I not include the tax rates? I thought I did. Can you look look at that? I don't I did not print them off. Um but I thought I uh actually I thought I attached the estimated tax. >> Oh yeah, you did hear you. >> So So proposed March of 2548. So you're saying that's now 60 cents lower >> or this 1448 is with the 60 cent reduction. Well, one is the September estimate. Um, >> I don't see anything labeled as a September estimate. >> Um, it's on the bottom on the tab giving
004you a description. >> I'm in this I'm in that one. Estimated tax rate September final. >> Yep. So, the 1448 is with the 60% decrease. >> All right. So, it was went from 1508 to 1448. >> Yep. That's what we estimated. And that's still kind of an estimate because of some jiu-jitsu with the town. I don't understand >> with their um their ree evaluation. The grand list has changed >> but at the moment it's a 4% drop from what we had presented deliberative. >> Yeah. So for right now until I get the the definite then I'll know. I I don't know yet. I checked today actually because it was due September 1st to DRRA. So, and I can see what they file. They can see what I filed from DRRA and nothing has been filed
005yet. >> Again, my interest here is solely in correcting the egregious error made. The egregious misstatement made by the town manager at a >> meeting a couple cycles ago. >> So, we need to make sure that we have those final numbers. We update the budget committee and the select board. >> Yeah, I'll keep an eye on it because once they file that, then DRA will start working on our tax rate, which we should be doing within the next well, it'll be a month from now. But I'll I'll keep you guys up to date on that as I find out exactly what it's going to be. But it will be a decrease because we returned funds and we got more adequacy. Does that 60 C reduction only factor in the increase in adequacy or the adequacy
006plus the anticipated re return? >> It's everything. >> Okay. >> It's it's everything because the 1508 I only estimated a $200,000 fund balance. >> Got it. >> So yeah, it's everything combined. Um let's see. Um, the only other thing I want to touch base with is our joint loss management committee and safety program. Um, we're going to be meeting next week, the committee, and we got a request from the Department of Labor. We have a bunch of stuff due October 1st and we're going to be looking at the plan and bringing it to the board for um approval on the 22nd so that we can get it to the Department of Labor Department of Labor in time for the October 1 deadline. So, I just wanted to give you a heads up on that. Um,
007as soon as we have all of our attachments, I might just send it out to you guys anyways, just share it with you so you can just start taking a look at it knowing that after we meet um there may be some changes and we'll bring it to the meeting on the 22nd. So, yeah, that's it. That's that's all that I have for you guys. It's budget time. So, we are gearing up and coming up with some type of plan and a proposal. >> Does that plan include calendar dates? >> Yes. >> Y is handling that schedule >> is in the file. >> Yep. >> Oh, sorry. >> Yeah, I should. Any questions then for the business administrator? Move on then to new business. Item A, College Board National Recognition Program. >> Yeah, this was
008this was shared by Christine Leoy and she just said that the college board has recognized the following students nationally for their performance on last year's assessment exams. Um, so this is last year, some of last year's junior students. Joanna Cody, rural and small town recognition, school recognition award. Ryan Mayhe school recognition award. Isaac Larose school recognition award. And Luke Hennessy recognition award and former student Noah Cameron first generation recognition and school award. These are just u acknowledgements by the college uh board of students that did especially well as compared to their their peers on the SAT. So, bit of good news there. I want to put it on the kind of up front and center on the on the agenda. >> Thank you. Any questions on that? >> We'll keep going then with the agenda.
009Item B, the town school capital improvement plan update. Okay, if you want to click on the link and you've seen this document before, but we're kind of now headed down the home stretch under the next committee meeting coming up in a few weeks. Uh we're expected to present this and uh and also and Dale's been working on a little bit of write up on each of the items, a little bit of a history on each of the items that are on this document. So I just wanted to make the board aware of this and I'll be presenting this to the CIP committee here in the near future. So, if there's any any concerns or questions or anything we need to talk about, now is the time to do it. Any questions or concerns about list
010as prepared? Thank you Dale and Steve for preparing the list. We'll move on then to item C, the pilot update. >> Okay. As as you know, um the select board in in the uh hydro electric plant did negotiate a settlement basically and resulted in a in a new pilot agreement for the next four or five years. Um average I think is around $4.3 million a year that'll come in. Yeah, I think uh I you know I Dale was there for a good part of the meeting. I was there. You know, I think that uh I did state our again our concerns about the effect it has on the tax base. Um how the revenues distributed um not to a whole lot of avail. I don't I don't we'll keep best thing we can do now
011or I can continue to press the town and DRA for how the revenue is distributed so it doesn't uh distort the tax rate you know as t as Patty was talking about the tax rate that's another factor of course uh if the uh this time if the pilot all the revenue flows to the town and none it to the school that will obviously have an effect on the tax rate as well so just wanted to update the board make you're all aware of it and anybody who may be watching this uh either live or will look at the video and have questions about I wanted to at least touch the basis on that entertaining questions or comments anybody might have >> what was the dollar amount of the previous pilot annually >> 41 so it's
012a small increase >> amazing >> yeah I think there's a year I can go back and look at the agreement there's a year in there it's a little higher Uh but it's it's around a 43 average I believe in that in that r in that area. >> That's amazing. >> And it was unanimous. Yes. >> Great. >> Well, thank you for continuing to represent the district's interests. Any questions or comments on pilot? If you think there's any way that the board's engagement would benefit the situation as you keep an eye on how the revenues are being booked and >> I'll keep the best I can. >> Move on then to section or item D. I'm sorry, item E. No, item D. I was right the first time. Strategic planning. >> Okay. If you want to
013click on the link, please. Is there is this a like a recurring committee or is this like a >> It's an ad hoc. It'll it'll I've got a got a rough schedule here. Six meetings. I don't know if we'll be able to do every week, but uh my idea is to try to get this done fairly quickly and not drag it out too much. >> And sorry, what's the composition of the strategic planning committee? Um, we need a board member, uh, at least one administrator and then a mixture of staff, teachers, uh, support staff if we can get them, a community person or two. Um, it won't be a huge committee, probably six, eight people. and you know the kind of try to lay out a little bit what each meeting will focus on, give
014a bit of an idea how this will proceed going forward. Of course, the board uh has a has final say on the strategic plan. So, that'll be that'll be that comes at the very end. You know, I I think that some of these once we get this going, uh we're going to need to leave a little time on the survey, get some information back on the survey, but uh I'd like to try to make this pretty much a weekly meeting and kind of like we did some of the other committees when I was here before and get it done. Otherwise, it stretches out forever. It's not that it's not that complicated, frankly. We could pay sold 20 or $30,000 if the board would like or you know I'll facilitate it along with my administrative team
015and I think we can do a good job with it. Just say I think that was one of my goals the board had for me last year, but we didn't didn't get to it. But, you know, we got we got a good start for for one thing. the work we did on 818 with the full staff gave us some ideas for the mission statement and vision statement and that was a pretty good engaging process but uh that's all we we could have uh we tried could have tried to hammer out a mission statement that day that's kind of long and tedious especially with a big group and the idea was to get the core ideas and then kick it over to hand it off smaller group to do some of the work which would again
016be this this committee Steve, you said weekly meetings. >> Yeah, though I think we're going to need I would for one for there's going to have to be more than a week in between meetings one and two because we're going to send we need to send out a survey and we're going to give that a little bit of time to uh before we schedule you have a schedule of these meetings already established. I have a I've set a Tuesday, you know, kind of just kind of put a put a in my calendar at this point because that's about the only night that's not consumed by something. So, uh, you know, so that, you know, going forward that's kind of what I'm thinking. Um, set it up on a set it on a Tuesday and, uh,
017that that'll be driven a little bit obviously by the composition and the what's best for the committee members. But, uh, that's a the night that, uh, I think would probably based on based on several calendars I've looked at, it's probably the best night. >> Feels like Greg is getting ready to volunteer. >> I want to say, do we have a board member already? >> That's what I can we do Tuesday at 4. >> We can do uh, yeah, four, five, whatever. Is that what you're saying? >> I care a little. I think I have less going on than on you probably. I'm not coaching anything. >> Yeah. >> So, >> I'll volunteer to do it. If it's Tuesday at 4, 4 or 5, I can that work. >> In the evenings, I can do that.
018I can't do four. >> Do you want two board members? Because they'll both equally volunte at least one. >> I'm I'm okay with that. Absolutely. We're gonna we're gonna whether we have one or two, we're going to post these meetings anyway. as as we should. So, yeah, absolutely. I think it's important that the board be represented obviously. So, that would be excellent. >> You want to volunteer as well? >> No, I'm not available. I'm close to it. >> I'll send out a good advice. >> Oh, that's a good outline. Thank you for sharing it. >> Sure. The only thing that I I thought of when reviewing it is and I don't know how you do this depending on the composition of the committee but I wonder if once you get you know toward like meeting
019four >> if you start to look at in what ways does the application of the goals of the strategic plan or the core of the strategic plan is there any variation in how it gets applied. building to building. >> Sure. >> So, I think we have maybe some some similar challenges and some unique challenges, but >> I think that'll all be part of the process. >> Yeah. >> Yep. Yeah. There's not not there's definitely many strategic plans have different different aspects to it based on the needs of of the district and the in and the uh unique uniqueness of some of the buildings and situation. We try to avoid doing too much of that, but that certainly can be part of it. Cool. Any other questions on that? >> We're going to move on then
020to section or item E, the IET grant award. >> So that's our workforce development grant for adult education for $18,645.72 this year. We currently have we're running CDA Child Development Associate Certificate and MOS Microsoft Office Specialist um computer and we it's Excel and Word right now is the two we focus on. It seems to be the ones the offices the medical offices want to have people know how to do when they come in for interviews and jobs. So that's the one we um work on the most. And then the CDA uh we had three complete last year and two have already scheduled with Living State to test for the official exams and that's for employers at Boys and Girls Club and um Head Start. So um those are the two. The third one that we're
021working on and looking at is manufacturing and we've been asked from the manufacturing specifically Bernie to run a CNC. So if I can figure it out with instructors and whatnot then we will likely launch that in January. And the other one that we've been asked to look at is medical assisting. Is there any emerging opportunities for AI and bringing in some AI force work? >> We can look at it. >> I use I haven't figured out how to use AI. >> Yeah, we talked with Jeremy about that a little bit too. >> Yeah, we can. >> I just think either it's going to be the biggest fat ever or it's going to cannibalize everything. >> Y >> it's going to go one of two ways, right? and and if there's an opportunity to prepare students
022that are of a particular bent right on that, I think it gives them a an advantage. >> Yeah, >> Greg probably hears it 15 times an hour. >> I don't think it's going to be a fast >> I don't think so either, but I just hold out that possibility, I suppose. But >> I just more and more. I went to several trainings last year and I will say that once I grasp it and figured it out >> um and how to save it and how to go back and forth, especially in the grant writing world, >> it has made night and day for us in some of our title grants that how fast AI has. >> Yeah. The only reason it made me think of it was when you said Word and Excel because of
023course we use those all day long, but like how much longer is that, you know, going to be the the the case? I guess it remains to be seen. But for now, they're king. But any event, when I first read those thoughts, it said $18 million and I got really, really excited. >> 18,000. >> But thank you all the same. Any questions for on this before we put it for a vote? We'll look then for some enterprising member of the board to make a motion to accept the fiscal year 26 workforce innovation and opportunity act integrated education and training grant award estimate in the amount of $18,645.72. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? I >> I opposed motion carries 4. Thank you and group. We'll move on then to item F. Budget
024calendar and parameters that which Erica has sought. >> Yep. >> You want want to take a look there? [Music] So how do you distinguish between board discussion of preliminary preliminary parameters and board priorities? >> Um >> so 98 and 922. >> Yeah. I think I think that uh to me the we'll talk about the parameters here in a minute but uh to me the parameters are a little around engagement with a leadership team budget committee um a little bit about what the board feels is different if anything about this budget season that we ought to be thinking about um as we start on the administrative side putting it together. Um and then and then obviously some of that flows into the uh into the uh board priorities for the budget. Uh what what what are
025most important uh in terms of and I I didn't put last year's up there. I should have done that probably. Uh but uh you know that should help drive at least drive the budget process. Um, you know, I get I gota I've got a kind of you see an alternation between the leadership team and the board to try to keep that keep the communication going in a a pretty linear fashion all the way out to when uh when we start meeting with the town budget committee. Um, and I can I can uh I can put the board let me put the board priorities up real quick from last year. I can do that. I think that would help to at least see what we said there. I think with parameters I mean of course I
026was and maybe we're not prepared to do that tonight but parameters I was thinking last year the parameters to the board was we want to keep it level funded if possible. That was that was the one one thing that was that was clear to us as we went into the budget season. I mean, I have some thoughts. I think Erica has notes, so she probably has thoughts. >> This is mostly Lakeway stuff, so I don't know if we want to. >> Is that next? >> Anyway, >> nextish. >> Yeah, the stand just the standing item there, Hannah. >> And it also looks like most of the board meetings that are around budget also line up with our board meetings. So, we're not it's not extra evening. >> Yeah. And I and I and I communicate
027this a little bit with budget committee saying I want to try to do this. It's up to the board. I mean if you want to do that but I think it makes perfect sense to >> do that November November December we're meeting every other week so just do it do them together. >> The only exception is 1023 is a joint meeting. >> That's the joint >> is that I don't have that on my calendar but >> is that six o'clock? at the court prep at the quarterly joint meeting wasn't that >> 5:00 community building. >> Yep. It got >> it kind of tried to kind of try to build some of those early means kind of around that. So I think it makes sense. >> That's October 27. >> Oh >> it's not the 16th.
028>> Okay. So I can just move it. Erica, do you want to get at what you were getting at relative to I think obviously one of the biggest parameters for the budget team to factor in was the discussion that we had last time around. >> Yeah, we don't have anything to talk about teacher residency. Sorry, >> we don't. >> No, I'm just >> Yeah, it's just the natural conversation. So, okay. So um I think that what Steve said is correct with you know our parameters are do we want level funded increase decrease or what they usually talk about and then priorities are exactly that what are our priorities I think that based on last meeting like way is one of our priorities um based on the four of us that are sitting here um as
029we know the building isn't getting any cheaper it's at 41 and change right now we did email BPS on Friday and again today asking for them to kind of go back and drill down the numbers and see um like pricing has changed on materials. We've also asked them to kind of look at the materials to see if there's any substitutions of quality um that might decrease price. So, we're looking to get under the $40 million mark without having to adjust the design. I don't want people thinking that we said, you know, this is like a basically a bare bones facility for what we're looking for now and then come back and say, "Oh, just kidding." Like, we were able to redesign and restructure and now we're we're a lot less. So, it's the same building
030design. We're just looking at different materials at this point to see if we can be a little bit more financially responsible um and do our due diligence that way. Um, we have 200,000 in the Lakeway reserve specifically for this project. We have after mid year, we'll have about 70,000 in the district equipment capital reserve account and a little over 200,000 in the district facility account. I don't want to have to use all of that money, but if you have to, it's available to us for Wway. Um, Patty, did they like any money that we give back to the town, I think we talked about this at last meeting, if we decided not to do that, we'd have to put it on the warrant for March to ask that that money be put into a into
031the leway fund. >> Yes. >> To appropriate it otherwise. >> Yeah. Otherwise, we'd have to have a special meeting. So, we might want to think about doing that during budget time, too. >> Yeah. And we just put them in the order of priority. Um, so you could always have like your third one be somewhat high because I think we need to continue with the equipment and the facilities because those are lower. Um, but then have like the third one lakeway and you could just put like 200 or 250 or whatever there. Um, because your retention will come first and then your capital reserve deposits and then what's left from there would be a reduction in taxes. Um, do we have to give back to the town for reduction of taxes? >> Yes, we have it.
032>> Yeah. I mean, it's just everything has to fall under those that order >> and then um I mean, you could put 500,000 for your third capital reserve if you wanted to. It's up to so whatever's left from 5% retention to your deposits. I mean, you could, you know, if people approve it with the understanding that that's what you're trying to do is, you know, bank away as much as possible, >> right? It's all the same pocket. So, >> right. >> Um, and then with that being said, um, if we go back to for a minute on the CIP plan presentation that Steve had quickly gone over, we have there's over 500,000 in academy projects. Is that a priority at this point? Like we have to kind of figure out. Nobody even said anything about
033gym roof replacement, floor replacement, asbestous, and then the large question marks on the sprinkler and the fire alarm system. So, if we're going to dip money into the academy, that takes 500,000 out of the taxpayers pocket that could be for Lakeway. I just think at this point, like if if we're doing Lakeway, we got to go all in and do it and and refigure what we're going to do with all of these other buildings. And that's where we're at with plus my side. So I think in terms of budget parameters then right I think from from my perspective understanding so for me just speaking for myself it's something less than level funding right it's trying to understand how much space we can carve out for um you know whether it is a bond payment for
034a new school or more appropriation for a much larger, call it whatever you want, fund that we can start socking money away into in preparation for whatever will come down the road. And I think in terms of we don't know yet if we can what that dollar amount looks like. Is it zero? Is it is it 10 bucks? Is it whatever. I certainly don't think it's 100% of an estimated annual bond payment as was reported in the Calibian from our last conversation. Uh but I that's something that I'm going to want to understand as the budget gets presented to the board. And some of the big questions that go into that I think are um taking kind of a zerobased budgeting approach to headcount both in the classroom and in the administrative ranks to understand
035if I know there's been over the last several cycles there's been um administrative overhead um removed or reduced. want to understand are we at the end of that process do we think there is more to go do we think that the changes in enrollment while they're not onetoone they do they change the math at all or how many personnel we need in the classrooms now I think there's still the question mark of the longer term administrative solution here in this building with the middle high school and the CTC and how all that hangs together so those are some of the things that um I would hope to see sort of answered or addressed uh in uh in the budget. I don't know what those are parameters. They're not priorities certainly, but that's just random budget
036commentary. Any additional thoughts? And then to clarify Erica's question, I mean that putting those putting those items on the CIP or to bring it to the CIP. Those are items that came out of the facilities committee, right, that we had reviewed at night, >> right, >> previously. It's not saying that we're we're not making any binding commitment that we're going to the taxpayers to do that or doing that in that order, but that's a list of the capital improvements that we think we will need to make over time. I would agree with Erica that if if we carve out space in the budget and we're going all in on Lakeway in March, then the budget needs to reflect that, right? Um certainly, but I don't think presenting that list to CIP is in violation of
037that. No, I'm just trying to make the statement that like I don't want taxpayers or voters to think that we have tunnel vision with lightway and you know if the if some of the people on the street are saying well first you want 40 plus million for lakeway and then you're going to come back and you want another half a million to fix the academy which back in the day we said you know that building's condemned we need a new seventh eighth grade building on top of the CTE and we're going to shut that building down and now here we are housing students again. And if the rumor on the street is we have plenty of room in the high school, then why why aren't we moving them over there? We need to be prepared
038to answer those questions both financially and just you know what's going on in the building with the decreased enrollment. So I think that that in and of itself is an additional kind of parameter a bit of commentary understanding that building's you know portion of the budget and how are we rationalizing that in 2025. We have talked about that a couple times over the last >> really >> year and a half. Greg, Travis, anything additional for either of you? No, I mean I think that you're right. This was stuff from the facilities committee that based on its current usage, if we continue to use the gym at the academy, then we are going to need to repair prepare the roof. We are going to need to repair the floor. >> But if a new school were
039to be built and that gym becomes a secondary gym for then, you know, then not replacing it would make sense. But in the meantime, if it's going to take us >> 15 years to get a school open, then we we're going to probably have to do something. >> Yeah. You look at that CIP, there's a lot of that. >> Yeah. >> You know that we things that do have to be done, but you know, not everything is equal. >> Certainly. I did. >> Is there a way to indicate on the CIP like what what projects could be impacted by >> a new building? >> Yeah, it's I mean it's indicated there. I mean obviously some of the late stuff, you know, we wouldn't obviously if we were going to go the new building route, we're
040not going to be expanding the gym or the lunchroom or any of those kind of thing. Probably probably very few of those actually. Uh >> well I guess that's the other question too like if we want to bring the new school down below the 40 million and and we just can't based on just pricing of material are we in a position to say yeah then decrease the size of the cafeteria and the and the gym and then compromise that way because those are big ticket items. That's that's you know >> I don't see any sense in spending $40 million versus 41 just so you can be stuck with the same >> well and I guess I once get back but maybe that's a you know maybe it's the difference between 41 and 37 or something
041I don't know >> we have to be prepared to answer those questions >> in terms of broadscale utility to the full district and to the town the cafeteria and the gym are it right like I mean in the and fields externally I mean those are >> those are your your core your core community district spaces so compromising on those didn't make any sense to me >> it did it did link last year's board budget priorities under the column D there >> thank you >> so you can see that documenting try to think about before we meet again. >> All right. So, until we meet again then any additional comments around parameters. >> Okay. Then I think we don't do we have anything new on the residency program? >> No. No, sir. >> Okay. We already
042talked. Do you have anything further on like Erica? >> No. >> Okay. So, we'll move on to section six committee reports. Item A, negotiations didn't meet to my knowledge. facilities >> policies. Could I ask a policy question before we do the new ones? How's the implementation of the cell phone thing going? >> Um, by from my perspective, but I'll I'll actually defer to three principles here and let them record. But from my perspective, it's gone really well. No cell phones have shown up in my office yet, so I'm happy about that. I can tell you that. Uh, I haven't seen any. I haven't seen any and I'm around in the buildings quite a bit. I haven't seen any any any students with phones out, but >> it's gone extremely well. I think >> good for
043you guys. >> You don't have those You don't have those um envelopes in yet, right? >> Not yet. Had to go through a series of steps and training, but they're on their way. I think the kids have been pretty good. I think they I mean they're they're smart. They read they read. They they've been talking about during the summer. They they know this is was coming. It's not something we did unilaterally. >> Students have been very receptive. They understand it. Parents as well. I haven't received any calls from parents with concerns. would just be curious to know too from the teachers and instructors like longer term do they notice any shift in what it's doing you know in the classroom or or know it's too early to know that I presume but I think it
044would be good to know longer term and if you can >> keep the board informed of anything that you >> hear on that I'd be curious to know >> I've had good feedback from my teachers to CTE teachers they really like not having the cell phone as the distraction or competing with the cell phone. Um, so students have been very respectful. They're in their packs or they're in their pockets. They do not come out during class time. Um, and then they just give me positive feedback about it. >> Cool. Sorry for that diversion. Um >> well speak speaking of your question and Kate the commissioner of education has asked the same question today and asked we I shared this with the building principles but uh basically the same question and and she gave a couple
045of surveys to send out to our teachers and it's like okay how's it going is this an improvement you know those kinds of thing. >> Cool. >> So it's pretty nice to see that coming from from her. >> All right we have a bunch of policies for first read and adoption. This is handful. >> You what? >> It's only a handful batch. >> So, can anyone speak to this? Are these all based on RSA changes? >> Some of the most of the RSA mostly RSA were were last time uh in with the ED 3 uh 306s. A lot of that a lot of the language there. Most of this is catchup um policies recommendations from the schoolboard association that we didn't get to um a little bit summer activities as a result of 306. Um
046for res instructional resources plan that's a 306 driven revision. Most the rest of it's just just stuff that's coming up because of the changes in in safety and so on governance. >> The policy that's there, the EBC, it's a template. Is that actually something we're approving or is it >> just I just put it there so we'd have it. Um and I haven't even had a chance to talk to Dale much about it but uh or at all but that's that's something that the school board association put out is is something for us to look at. >> Okay. >> We we do we do have we do have that. Uh but I I just put it there but it's part of the of the policy. >> So do we approve that or do we not
047approve that? Not >> approve. It's just information. >> No action. Okay. >> Yeah. No action. Okay. Okay. Any questions or comments? Okay. Then I think we are looking for a motion to first read and adopt policies BB A B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B C C B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B G A A E B E B E B C H I H CA and I
048J. I'll make a motion. >> Second. I'll second. >> Any discussion? >> All those in favor? >> I opposed obstain. Motion carries. 4. >> On the in the policy realm, I did just send out invitation to Erica and Bill today. We do have a we do have a few policies that um on the docket if we can get together next week or find some way at least to take a look at them will be coming to the board for the next board meeting. And many of those policies are related to uh the work that we're doing with the uh joint laws committee work as well as just general school safety. So there's I don't know there's a half a dozen or so policies that we'll bring bring here in a couple of weeks. Thank you.
049>> Y >> I don't know as of yet we have a student representative. >> Next time Jeremy's promised me. >> All right. Very well. Move on to the superintendent report. >> Okay. Enrollment reports. Just a quick update. >> We take a look at what's the the line that's highlighted. >> I'm sorry. What's that? >> There's a line that's highlighted. I didn't know if there was a particular >> No, I I I don't No, there's no significance to that. It just didn't didn't get cleaned up when I cut it. >> Pasted it. >> And I fought I want you to know I did I do try to center things on a page. Google fought me mightily and Google won on the first on the first chart. Third table I find just gave up. She's gonna fix
050it. Yeah, that's um I highlighted that last year from that's first reported. >> Okay, >> that's why it was highlighted. >> So there's so there's a little bit just to kind of get an idea, you know, early early 2024 we're 582 roughly roughly, you know, that went down a little bit. So I guess we apples to apples. It's a little We're looking at 575 on 9924 and 98 565. Um, so about about a 10 student drop. And then if you go on down to the the second uh chart and that's just a a comparison or looking at the grade levels where we ended last year uh by grade level and where we're beginning this year by grade level and by building. So you look over there after sixth grade that 321 that obviously that's K6
051and >> and seven and eight and so on. Kindergarten numbers are interesting. They sat they they typically do this. We're probably not done yet. They sat about about 356 until the last week or so. We had a kind of that grade had more changes than probably any other grade, but that's pretty typical. Okay, I'm going to go back here to a couple other items and then out of district enrollment combined with CTC and and Michelle will give some updates on that. But I'll have I have a few other comments directly on the superintendent report that we'll come back to those others. Um I'll keep it pretty short, but I do want to share a few things. Um, opening of school has been pretty good. I think, uh, people came back in, you know, in a
052in a in a good fashion and we've had a strong couple of weeks. I think the opening day staff development, uh, went pretty well. You know, we spent some time, we talked to, as I told, as I told the staff, you know, you know, kind of like, you know, we're a big family. Kind of like families. All families have issues. I mean one one thing or another and some deal with them and acknowledge them and some don't you know and we're we're trying to look at some of the things of some of our data and surveys and things we already know just by observation and trying to get better you know specifically in how we uh work with students and relationships with each other um and then how we improve how we generally uh ensure
053that we're treating people fairly. So that's an ongoing process. We have had uh Percy Hill, our consultant uh in the stu student relationships area, Bulling specifically has been been in here uh three four days already and he has several days con scheduled in the upcoming weeks and months. So you know it's not like we'll bring a speaker in for a few days beginning the year and that problem solved. we are keeping him uh busy this year and trying to focus really focus emphasis on on the work with students. He's done a lot of work with students individ that's an outgrowth of some of our our data collection and thinking about how we need to get better. um Rotary last week. Uh I was we were happy to have a a student come and speak, Maddox
054Soa. Uh Maddox is a is a senior here. Uh he was recipient of a Rotary scholarship last year that would allow him to attend a art institute in in Maine over the summer. And uh he's his forte is graphics and visual arts. and he shared that with the uh the Rotary members and was they were pretty pretty impressed with him and his grandpa came with him and so want to want to thank him for coming and representing uh our district uh and school very very strongly. Freaky Friday. Anybody know what Freaky Friday is? >> A movie. [Music] That's the play that the fall fall musical that the dad is starting starting to work on. And uh I just saw in the hallway. I said, "Gosh, I was I was going to email you or call
055you, but so tell me how's it going?" Well, auditions uh 35 auditions so far. And she's thinking probably another 10 to 12 students, maybe a handful more that'll be involved in other ways with the play. uh whether it's a you know with the technical aspects and or the state building and so on. So that's that's exciting and uh I I know it'll be it'll be here before we know it typically in in November. It's a strong rumor that Dale's working. >> Yeah, we always have a few and you know I know we have a several several faculty that >> peer pressure >> have been there parents board members different different individuals. >> Did you say Dale's doing a dance summer? >> Solo. Well, not to be outdone, but someone was God. That's right. The voice
056of God actually wasn't actually going. >> Um, >> thanks for clarifying. >> Yeah. Yeah. Like there was any doubt. Um, the new commissioner of education, Caitlyn Davis, I mentioned her earlier. Uh, but she's been on the job since, uh, partway through August. kind of had to go through the process of, you know, the uh the process of getting the the nomination approved by the executive council which was very smooth and uh she's highly respected in the field. I can tell you that she's been in at the department of education for a number of years and oftentimes she was the voice and the face of the department often when it came to okay, how do we get this done? How do we make things work? How do we how do we uh how do we move
057forward? How do we how do we get beyond our some of our disagreements and move forward? So, I think everybody's pretty pretty excited about about her becoming the the new commissioner and I I look forward to working with her. I just wanted to share that a little bit with the board. Now, uh, back to a couple of our items and I want Michelle to talk a little bit here about CTC and ATN updates because there's some good stuff to share there along with out of district enrollment with CTC. >> I'll do enrollment first. So, CTE out of district is up 70%. From last year, which was great. Um we have 70 students um involved from out of district. We have 95 Wilson students this year. So 165 students on this campus taking CTE classes and
05814 are going from Wilson High School to White Mountain Regional this year. And that's up from 9. It ranged from 9 to 11 and I checked the numbers for the last five years of who left this campus to go to White Mountain Regional. So those numbers are up as well. Um, ATN, we just started tonight, so the enrollments are are going to go up. Um, we're sitting at 20 tonight. Um, but we anticipate we have classes running Monday, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. For those who up, we do have out of districts coming in and being tuitioned into ATM this year from Lynwood and Profile and potentially someone from Lisbon. They're looking into it. Um some new things CTE we started um built a partnership with White Mountain Regional uh no yes White Mountain Regional High School
059and Littleton. So five students from each are on the White Mountain Community College in Littleton for welding. So they're getting college credit and they're there every Friday for this semester from um 7:45 to 1:15 is their class time and that's for college credit. And then um in that partnership, we have a partnership with the hospital and White Mountain Community College and they're doing their EMT course here on campus on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays for the semester. And then Bill Deur is instructing that. in CTE. Caitlyn in the health science is doing LNA first semester and then um AMP is being taught second semester for college credit. So we've increased there and things are going well um overall with all of those CTE courses with all of the changes we made last year. That's why I'm
060not with all of those changes. ATN is going to be interesting because the state changed the rules for the high school. Um, and as I get more information, which I have a meeting on the 17th of September to bring back, I'll bring that back to Dr. NIS and it will come back to you on how to what we will need to do for public services on the um in school students for about Thank you. Any questions for Michelle? Anything further from the superintendent? And for the super move that to public input, Steve, before we call for non-public session, I just want to go back to budget calendar and parameters. Do you feel like you have what you need from us at this juncture? >> Yeah, I just the calendar looks okay to everybody. Sounds like
061terms in sound like garage agreeable to not have an extra meeting or two or three. So, uh you we got kind of get that get that to the uh budget committee pretty early and give us a little time to work with them then. Um I think you know I would I would ask that the board be thinking about the the priorities. I have to work on that a little bit next time. Um by then by then we will have a a first run of a 20 fiscal 27 budget to share with you which is basically just what what if everything stayed as it is. just so you kind of know where things as a starting point and then I think the discussion about uh different u different scenarios you know by 1020 you would have
062budget options to the board is the the goal but so counter look okay >> I think in terms of I think I hear two of us saying all things being equal. We'd like to see a budget reduction to create space for a lakeway payment. I don't know to what extent Travis or Greg endorse that idea, but if they do or if at least one of them does, then that would be a I think the better thing to do then is not craft the budget based on assuming level funded would be to craft the budget, you know, with that as the sort of overriding parameter. But I don't really like to see it. Yeah. I mean the only reduction I would say would be based on student volume. I a year ago we were at 582
063or at 565. I don't know what that how that impacts the budget, but >> outside of that I don't know that we can make really that many more reductions. I think they've done a really good job kind of running a lean budget to begin with outside of the, you know, we always have money left over at the end of the year, but that's tough to plan for. So, >> well, did we have like a million dollars left over after we did additional projects that we had budgeted for? >> Yeah. And and 500 of that is your retention from a prior year. So you would anticipate if you retained 5% that you'd always have the 500,000 if you didn't go over budget and the rest of it was revenues and small lines, you know, small lines
064that expended but here we've done some you know we're Just have to see how it all looks once we get it into the first round of the 27 budget. Of course, there's always kind there's all kinds of unknowns. I mean, one of the big ones we won't know health insurance GMR, but we have to start somewhere. >> Contract up this year. >> It's It's every year. You mean with health insurance? >> No. A is there? >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> No negotiations yet. get the year off. >> That's true. >> Well, we were, you know, we were pretty strategic last last spring um with how we how we handle some of the positions that we had up here. Certainly uh looking at how we could uh find some more efficiency and people teaching multiple areas
065and you know we have you know pretty much uh pretty much every every CTE teacher is teaching a class within the the high school curriculum which is a big move I think uh for many reasons. So uh so we'll see some savings from that. you know, there are things that uh there things that'll be easy, right? I mean, that we're in this like something that's in the budget right now that you know, this year's budget that that uh unless unless there's a again that's part of the process, but we've chosen to go without a any kind of a director CNI or teaching learning or any of that, we didn't fill that position uh even though it was in the budget because when they did the budget last year, the position existed, but there's some things
066like that. So on once Patty uh Christine run that we'll have a much better sit much better sense of where we are with to start with at least you know I think that then it'll be a matter of us giving the board the best information about targets. If this is a target that's what it could look like. This is what would be different and so give you choices option. Okay, we'll look then for a properly ordered motion to enter into non-public session. I'll make a motion then print on public session under paragraph 2 section 3 of the RSA 91 A column three of the right to know law for number three of matters which discussed in public would like the adversity effect the reputation of any person other than a member of this board taking
067with us the superintendent there second >> any discussion all those in favor roll call vote Please >> Travis Matt say motion carries 40 now a non-publica I'll get you the