001Okay, at 5:' we'll call this meeting of the school board to order. We'll begin with the pledge of allegiance flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley and justice for all. Then we will begin looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda which includes minutes from the June 23rd 2025 school board meeting. So moved. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I stay motion. >> Ohing. >> Okay. Motion carries 41. Are we going to hop to new business before we get into the business report or >> presentations? >> We got a couple of presentations. Yes. >> So, um shall we begin then with new business as applauded? We begin with new business section
002for item AI update. >> Yeah, I offered Audrey Richardson. They don't mind hearing about field hockey. So there are our guests tonight that'll be speaking on item two. >> They have dogs in the car. >> Good luck. >> Um I just saw the coach actually walking in right now. So >> awesome. >> Or the former coach. So maybe she can if she wants to speak give her the opportunity to speak first. >> Hello. >> So you're right on time. We're right at this the update. >> Okay. >> Brock was suggesting you might want to >> have some stuff you want to share. >> Um I have a bunch of girls walking down the hill right now. >> Okay. Um, so >> do you want to wait then? >> Sure. >> Okay. So, let's be let's
003move then to new business 4B. Uh, we'll go move to the carried away presentation. >> So, my name is Rick Neb and this is Audrey Johnson. I'm the founder of Carried away. I'm a faculty member at NYU and a dentist and I'm working up here full time. Um, we have funding from Delta Delta to restart a program in the capital region, expand the school program to the north country in our secondary, which is what we're what we're doing here tonight. Um, the I'm going to sidetrack for a second. I'm 90% of Americans have cats and adults. So, I'm assuming that all of you have had cavities, been to a dentist. You're >> I go to the dentist all the time, but I don't have any cavities. >> So, you're one of the one of the
004>> who never has had a >> Here's the part where you tell her it's genetics and nothing she's doing. >> I'm not. >> So, the bottom line is a preventable infection, but I wasn't trained to treat it. I like that. I was trained to drill. So, typically you folks have been to the dentist, you sit down the chair, you get an injection, you start to sweat, the dentist takes the drill, you feel the vibration, you taste the water, you smell the smell, you get all this junk in your mouth, you spit it out, and it doesn't leave. You go to the front desk, the bill is more than you thought it was going to be. And they want you to come back for more appointments. Then you get to the car and you say, "That
005was the best thing I've done in my life. It's better than dissing. >> And it doesn't have to be that way. It's an infection. We have medicines that are FDA approved. We don't train dentists to do that. We tr we tell them, but we don't train them. And that medicine is called silver. It's silver and we can paint it onto a cavity. Kills the bacteria that cause cavities. And then we have a glass ion armor um which is like an epoxy or for the women a white nail gel that we can pour into a cavity. It sets up hard. It's white and it's works as well as a dent. We can do that at schools and there's no shots, no growing, no pain. We can see a child at 15 minutes, 20 minutes at the
006most. So the child doesn't leave school. parents don't leave work and our efficacy. We prevent 80% of cavities. This based on multiple publications that we've had from work here in New Hampshire in the Chapel region in Massachusetts and New York, 50% cavity reduction. We also increase school attendance. So when we compare kids that have cavities and kids we've treated that didn't get care, it's a 5% difference in absence, which ends up being nine days and 180 days school year. And when we look at quality of life, when we survey kids that do have cavities and didn't get treated with kids that we treated, the quality of life doesn't improve. So we would like to be able to provide care in elementary and junior high middle school and we're asking you folks if you would like
007us to do that. We're currently in a dozen schools in conquered Pittsfield and Marc >> and we have agreement from two school districts up here. So that's that's my pitch. Uh we think we help kids. We don't charge uh the kids. There's no out of pocket expense. We treat any child with informed consent. We will bill Medicaid or if they have insurance, we will build Medicaid because our third item on the delta list is to figure out how to make it sustainable. So that's our pitch. Get kids healthier, have them do better in school. Is there so the silver medication that fuels the causy silver? >> So silver fillings actually are the silver and silver fillings is bound up in metal and it has no impact on the infection. >> Right? Is there any mercury
008in this? >> No, there's no mercury. It's just silver and fluoride. That's it. No mercury. >> And then on the insurance side of it, the parent has a deductible that >> there's no we don't co-ay, no co- bill, nothing. Um if they at the child or parent doesn't have insurance, we see them anyway. So I would say half of the kids that we see for >> the other and I mentioned this one before the other other kind of hot button thing fluoride talk a little bit about fluoride and how that how that >> so good point. So the controversy in fluoride is about water fluoridation and continual intake which goes into the body and the data on that is cumulative. So the fluoride we apply is once on the tooth and it is about 100th
009the dose of what a child would get in a water community fluidation in one day. So the issue of water fluidation is a continual water that you take in your body this external essentially and it's one of about one of the What's the threshold for informed consent? >> Sorry, >> what's the threshold for informed consent? >> Uh written informed a parent has to sign off. Is >> there some sort of waiver that you have standard that or something that we create as part of the program? Um so typically the process we would give the school informed consent paper that goes home or electronic that goes home and they would sign the informed consent. So it's active not passive informed consent. Is that what you mean? >> Thanks. >> Yeah opt in. >> Yeah it's an
010opt in not an opin. >> And you may have said that I apologize if I missed it. What are you do you need a set amount of space or do you have a mobile vehicle that does this? What's the >> 12 x 12 room? I missed it. I apologize. >> Yeah, we like to think we're like Casper the friendly ghost. We don't leave a footprint coming in or going out. All we need is electric plug in a bathroom. Just going to ask this. Is there any potential of linking this to our demo program that we have with the CTC as far as at least exposing our students to their process? >> Oh, great idea. >> Have a shadowing piece and >> I don't know if they're coming in with our demo. >> Yeah, we have
011assistant program. >> Oh, that that would be fantastic. We would love to work with them in the Cockard High School. They have a program and we're planning this next year to work with them to have them shadow us and we were just talking on the way over here on having uh the students do a student voice like Tik Tok so the students could actually advocate >> students who are interested already kind of program and help do that and we get to educate them too >> and the only thing I would ask Steve is probably There's HIPPA complaints which doesn't apply to schools but in this case I would imagine it does. So for those students that would be doing shadowing they would I would assume be tied to the HIPPA requirements of the program versus
012versus FPA which is not going to apply to this. >> Yeah. So, so you bring up a really good point that we have not yet investigated HIPPA for students who were working with and we need to look into that. In terms of HERPA, um I shared a minute ago that in New York we were able to differentiate uh school achievement for participants and nonparticipants and we went through New York City Department of Health and New York State Department to allow us to access that. The NYU lawyers also. So the decision there was once we have anou with the school system and the principles that we can share um information with the school on how which kids we saw and how they were because if there's an emergency just like breaking on in a school we
013want to defer to the nurse in their system but to be able to do that we have to be able and our allows us to do that and similarly for Yeah, that would allow us to access question for Steve or Patty that we looked at. Have we had our council look at any liability implications of this proposed? >> No, I can't make motion obviously, but I would get there. on the signoffs because that's a box that we should check. Any additional questions? >> Now you accept the program. Oh, motion prepared by New Hampshire84 school >> as presented or contingent being precise. That's my job. >> Which one is Hold on. Which one is it, please? I'm not clear. >> Contingent on you seconding that motion. >> Yes. >> Any further discussion? >> All those in
014favor? >> I oppose. The same motion carries 5. Thank you very much. >> Thank you for being here. Feel free to stay as long as you like, but also feel free to leave. Appreciate it. >> Thank you all very much. I really appreciate it. >> Thank you. Thank you for bringing us to [Music] Oh, this brand new. >> We didn't turn it all the way up though because it's too loud. on me or what? Oh, >> okay. So, we're back uh to new business item a field hockey update. >> I'll turn it over to whoever's doing the talk. >> So, I'm Karina. Um Thank you. >> The girls have been doing some recruiting via text, phone calls. I don't know. Um so we have a number of um seven returning players and four new players
015so far. >> Okay. Um so I guess I'll speak now. Um, apologize Brock Engles. I I wasn't here on the 16th when this was brought up. I really wish I was um because I could answer a lot of questions at that time. Unfortunately, I wasn't. Um, so I I am disappointed I wasn't here. Um, it's it's tough to to get to where we're at tonight. Um, but I think I think there's a lot of questions that that people want to ask whatever, but nobody's really reached out. We've had some discussions about it. Um I have had ongoing discussions with White Mouse Regional about a possible uh co-op situation um for since starting in last fall and we have um gone back. You know, it's not every day, but we'll go and we'll we'll talk about
016what we're looking at for numbers. She she's explains to me where they're at. I explained to her where they're at. Um I had to go back and watch the meeting from the 16th and just kind of figure out like all right, you know, what are the questions to answer or whatever. Um the thing is is is is nobody's looking to cut or remove corporate. Um numbers has been an issue since I've been here since 2019. There's 2020 we had 17 players. um numbers. It's it's been a in a a tightroppe situation since then. Um my in discussions with um Mr. Nus uh we we've talked about certain things. Um we have petitioned up a lot of kids from seventh and eighth grade to make varsity teams uh since and I I did some math and
017I went back and kind of looked through my notes. uh since 2021 um we have 60% of our below nine are no longer playing below um for whatever reason I I I didn't dive deep into the data but there's there's 60% of the below nine are not playing um the signup list that was put up was put up at the end of the spring season so when the spring every every season when it ends out of respect to the teams that are currently playing and out of superstition. Um, sorry, that's a baseball thing, but out of superstition, I I I never want to put up a signup sheet until last season is complete because I have had a, believe it or not, had coach in the past, well, you you think we're done or you
018think we're going to lose, you're putting up the signup sheet for the next season. So, out of respect to them, I I do not use that. Um the signup sheet was up for I don't know the last few days of school. Um when I left the last day of school there was eight names on the list. Um I will say that couple of names on the list. There was one name that was on soccer and field hockey. Um and there are also names on the list that um there's grades issues and there's attendance issues. So you you have to factor that in as well. Um, now I know there was a a push on social media to um tell people to reach out, connect with me, send me interest. Uh, as of 3:30 today, I
019have not had one email from anybody interested in playing field hockey. So, as of as of 3:30 today, I'm not getting I even checked my spam spam folder. Uh I haven't had any letters of of interest to to say okay this is this is this is moving this is going in the right direction but um the assigner of officials has our schedule there's a schedule made we have sanctioned the sport with the NHIA so everything to that point is is done um the biggest piece is is numbers you need 11 to play we've you know and we need a coach Um, and we are and that's been watching the last few years watching the numbers piece play out in games. It's tough to watch sometimes. And again, your heart goes out to kids that are
020out there busting them, you know, backside trying to compete. Um, I don't know how to fix this situation. I know that we do offer other fall sports, um, not necessarily soccer. Uh we do have uh golf. In all the years that I've been here, we've had one young lady involved in golf. That would be great to see more young ladies interested in in a golf program because golf is a lifetime um lifetime sport. Um and we do have a teacher in the middle school who's a running fanatic, I guess you could say. Very interested in getting a cross country program off the ground. when I was approached about that last fall and I said, "Let's let's start a running club. Let's see what happens." So, in in talking, you know, there are options that we've
021discussed. Um, you know, and like I said, nobody's looking. That's never been the the push is let's get rid of food. It's it's been a numbers uh driven thing. Um, you know, I I've submitted uh to the regional I gave them a some a document to collaborate with uh back in March to kind of firm up and and see where they're at, see where we're at. Um, and we we've kind of been going back and forth with some ideas, but we cannot finalize anything until we we have a concrete set of numbers um as far as who's playing, who's not playing. And the thing is is is I've not just a signup sheet. We a lot of times I will see young ladies in the hallway and say, "Hey, playing field hockey, playing field hockey."
022uh I talked to some members of the team and said you know we need to do something to generate some interest comments I have I don't have any anybody interested to play about other kids tell me well I really don't want to play but I don't want my friends to be mad at me like so these are little things that that I deal with so it's not like oh I would just put up a sheet and boom here it is um there are discussions like we encourage uh the other PE teacher myself we encourage kids all the time to play whatever sport. I know he coaches tennis. I coach baseball. Um but, you know, if we're doing a a floor hockey unit and we see somebody that's, you know, really good, hey, why don't you
023try playing field hockey? Or we do a bad mitten unit, it's like, hey, why don't you try playing tennis? And we try to encourage kids that are not involved in sports more so than the kids that are involved in certain sports already. So, so there is that piece. Um, we don't try to recruit to one program over another. Um, that's never been never been a goal. Is if we could have 90% of our student population play a sport, that would be amazing. That would be incredible. Um, but it just so happens that field hockeyy's been the the lower numbered sport. Um, and you talk to other ads across the state. Um, I've talked to a couple southern ads. Um, there's one school down south that's got a really strong program. They have a big freshman
024class, but you know, he's gone on record to tell me that, you know, we're probably not gonna have it after this freshman group goes through. Um, you have big schools in the southern part of the state. I I just found out today, uh, Manchester Central, Manchester West, and Manchester Memorial are doing three school co-op to make. And that's that's a huge area. So, it's not it's not a it's not a knock against the program. It's not a knock against any any piece of that. It's it's what can we what are we doing? What can we do going forward? What can we do to get kids involved? And you know, that's that's kind of where we're at right now. Um >> sorry, a point just point of clarification to Steve. Maybe what is the board's jurisdiction?
025What's being asked of us? I don't see where board actually I I think in this case does have the authority. I I can just you know I always say we're not good for discussion before last what possible scenario I think I think ultimately administrative decision board always has authority to discuss. >> So as the administration hasn't yet made the decision about what it's going to do with this board aware of >> No not we kind of where we are kind of did did what you asked us to do before this. >> Yeah. So I mean we've had discussions >> we've tal we started talking last fall so >> it's hard to explain because it's just it's so it's such a moving piece and there's so many little factors that go into it. Um, you know,
026we I have had ongoing discussions with the regional about co-oping. Um, which has been that's been an up and down piece. Um, but there are a lot of layers that we would have to work out with that if that was a um if that was a way to go. Um, we are both in agreement as of last Monday or Tuesday, I think we spoke that if we did ultimately end up co-oping that we should strongly look at doing a JV program for this upcoming year to try to build up some numbers and and and see what happens there. >> That would also void B2. >> Yes. Yeah. because >> they would combine numbers because we're midcycle. So, we'd have to be looking at a D2 schedule and there in our division there are people that
027are I guess you could say key people that are kind of aware that we're in the pattern we're at. The thing I do not want to do is I do not want to go into August 20th when practice start August 18th and notify all the people in our division say hey sorry we're we're not playing you this year because we don't have enough or you know we have to drop because that that's a scheduling nightmare. Somebody has done a lot of schedules over the years like you know try to be proactive with that. That's why you know our schedule that's currently it's given to the side by side of our officials they have that. So you know those pieces are in place. It's just a numbers piece. >> So you do or do not have
028a schedule. >> We have a schedule. There's varsity schedule. >> If you go down to a JV though, how how are you getting game experience? What are you what do you envision there? We would if we go to JV and and there would be a lot of layers so we would just reach out to to multiple schools and see where they're at. I mean we're we're not limited to we could probably venture to play St. John Academy. We could we could look at areas like that um which varsity we we're not we don't play them. Um we could you know I believe Lynston might have a program as well. So, so that is something that we could look into. The the thing about JV is you don't have to play a 14 game schedule. Um,
029you would try to regionalize the schedule so there's not as much travel involved. Um, but you know, you you might have to go wherever in the state you find some JD games. That's That's not a >> And so understanding your point about not wanting to get to August 20th, >> is there an actual deadline or one that you're imposing on yourself to say we want to make a decision by X? >> Well, I I was kind of hoping that we would get a firm number of who we actually want to play. >> Yeah. Um because I mean I can and I have spent a lot of time talking to people and try and trying to do things but I don't have an exact number you know if I just said well I might play I
030might not play like that's not fair to the girls that are interested in playing that's not fair to the other schools that we might play like there's there's a lot of pieces to it. um you know and and not having a coach is also you know pretty important. So um I I do plan to have a phone discussion with someone tomorrow about the coaching position. I just I was asked definitive questions and I can't answer those definitive questions without knowing what we have. So that's that's what I need. What do the numbers look like at White Mountains? >> So, as of and that's been kind of fluctuating. She told me she had, I believe, six high school and four incoming. >> Our our 11 all 9 through 12 >> uh for them >> for us
031uh I would have to go back and look at the list of names. I was just curious like would we have enough numbers in a co-op to have a middle school and a JV team so that the experiences are >> Yeah, that's that's >> comparable to their age. >> That's something we would have to talk about. But think there again, if we end up co-oping, we have to figure out, okay, where are we playing our games? Who's the lead school? Who's a secondary school? Like who's paying the coaching salary? Who's paying transportation? like there's there's a lot of pieces to that that you have that we have to figure out. Um and it's and all these things have been thought of. It's just without numbers, you know, like I said, you know, I know there's
032been a push, but there's been nothing said to me about yes, I'm playing. Yes, I'm playing. Yes, I'm playing. I need that. >> so the numbers we were given tonight for 11 weren't shared with you. like students weren't signing up with you as the >> No, I I've got like I said that sign up list there was eight names, one of which was on both sheets. Also, one of the names that was on the list I'd asked multiple times in school in the past saying, "Hey, you're playing you're playing." No, no, no. Last day of school names on the list. So, like it's it's tough for me to to figure this out without a definitive answer saying yes, we have eight girls that are committed, this many people that are committed like it's >> But
033you also said some of the people on that list are might not be even eligible. >> Yeah. So there are there are some names that grades are an issue. Um there are also school attendance issues. Um so you know >> cool how girls how do you feel about J Is that right? >> Yeah. Build the program. >> I'm sorry. What What is >> it like 10? Well, technically >> in this case, in this case, if we did have co-op, any it would be upper class as well because that would be the only option. >> There's a lot of things that we would have to to look at and try to figure out, but we would have to get and that's the other thing. a co-op would have to go to the NHIA and it would
034have to go to field hockey committee. I sat in on committee meetings before and it's it's um you just you have to have a lot of tees crossed, eyes dotted and things like that. So do you think it's even an option to do for this year or or a whatever? see how it's >> I mean if we wanted to just stay and just do J here >> we can certainly try that I don't know after speaking with uh the regional AD they felt that that if we did co-op that we would we should focus on the J program to try to to try you know, revitalize, rejuvenate, whatever you want to call it. But like I said, it's and maybe the reason 60% of our below N petitions are not playing anymore, maybe some of
035that reason is, you know, you're putting seventh and eighth graders against high school kids and it's not an enjoyable experience. I mean, maybe that's part of it. I can't speak to it, but you know, it's >> Do you want to give your recommendation to the athletic director? I I just would like to have a set of numbers and once I have a solid, you know, names how many, then I can go to them and say, "This is what we have. This is what's committed. This is what's going to happen." Now, they they could come back and say, "Well, we thought we had this many. We don't we have this many." They're kind of in the same boat. I mean, it's it's a it's a tough it's a tough piece. Um, it sounds like the only
036option to keep this program alive is to either do a JV program or do a co-op. And for those for those athletes who want to continue the sport, it's going to be an unfortunate sacrifice to have to either do the JB or to do a co-op. Otherwise, it may not be sustainable as a varsity level. Doesn't sound like it's going to be. >> Respect. So, you said there was another option about middle school program. I would I'm I'm graduated. I'm all done, but I played a field hockey all four years. And in my experience as having some of the younger ones, some of the eighth graders come in, it's not exactly because they don't enjoy going against older kids. We're all we're all pretty much at the same level at some point. Sometimes you have
037seniors that go in and do, but I would say we all middle school and get them earlier because if you get them more involved when they're in that time period versus 9, 10, they're already decided. They're already done. They've already decided if they're going to do sports, if they're not going to do sports, if they're going to do a certain thing or not. And that's just kind of my little bit on it. If we can aim for middle school, I think that we have much more chance of getting This is Maria State, please. >> Oh, sorry. Facial. Good. >> Oh, sorry. >> Oh, yeah. Um, >> it's not roll call. >> If we were to do a um co-op, can we bring middle school co-op kids to us? She's saying [Music] try to get the
038numbers up for our school. >> We may we did a we did a JV. We could do a middle school. I mean we could do a co-op JV, right? Which could involve middle school. Am I correct there? Yes. So, here's another little issue. Yeah. >> Um the NHI bylaws the way they're written, um there are specific rules for below nine waiverss for division three versus division four. So, we would have to find out if a co-op team, that's one question that came to me over the weekend that I didn't think to answer, but that's one question we would need to ask. If we did go to cooperative agreement, if White Mountain was the lead school, would they accept below nine petitions to high school? >> Do you do middle school signups like you do sign
039up? >> Yeah. So my first year in 2019, we had five girls interested in middle school field hockey and we haven't had a school field hockey team since because we had to petition >> right >> to our right >> except for 2020 year number. But um there was 17 girls in 2020. >> Does White Mountains have a current middle school team? >> So they have the last two years. Um, and but I believe and I could be wrong, but I believe it's been a seven on seven type of situation. >> Um, so but they are >> Yeah. So they they're they've been advertising for a coach and they've had no interest. Actually, I take that back. She shared with me last week that um somebody submitted interest from the United Kingdom, but it's going to
040be here in two years. So I I I'm confused about what the board is supposed to comment on. So I'll just say that right. I think that just from my perspective appreciate the administration bringing this discussion to us. I know we asked for some followup. So thank you. But it sounds like you all saw in terms of what you want to actually do. I only say the only things I I can comment on is that wherever there's conflict between this option and that we should always choose the option that prioritizes the students, right? So I'm candidly not compelled about this argument that if we wait for office, we can screw up schedules. I totally get that sucks, but like the to get paid is what it is. If that's what we have to do trying
041to make a program, I think you should do that. the other thing and I what you're saying about um posting the list and suspicion is is entirely true of course but I don't think our recruitment policy for sports should depend on the fragment of baseball players. So I would I would encourage you to look at the revision of that just so that it's more consistent. That's just my perspective but I I don't I don't know what else there is for us to give guidance or commentary on. I appreciate the the update and information, but I mean I do know I I do know I was informed that there's the the Facebook post that went out there was at least 16 or 17 shares. So the word is out just heard nothing. So >> Okay. >>
042All right. Well, thank you. Sorry. I just need something. I don't know a lot about field hockey. So, we need 11 players to make a team. Correct. We have potentially we have those 11 players. So, if we get into the season and we lose a player, does that mean we all games after that point? >> No. >> Typically, we played we played short-handed. We've done that quite a few times. Yeah, I I came from a school. I understand that aspect. So, okay. Thank you for my feeling is >> that go for it. We got 11 right now. >> We've been here before. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, >> every year >> and and we managed to get the numbers and it may be scripping by, it may be a rough season with no wins, but >>
043you know, my daughter played the sport for six years, seven years. And, uh, so I have love for that game. Um, I'd love for to see it continue if we can make it work. Even if it means a year to restructure with a JB or with a co-op, still gives the the athletes opportunity. >> All options are on the table. It's just, you know, coming from somebody that chose a a career in being active, you know, and focusing on lifetime stuff, you know, you know, they offer several lifetime activities and, you know, if we added things and that would certainly help the list that I did have or the roster that we had last year, um, every every young lady on the team is a multi- app sport athlete, so not like >> spread only.
044So, which is good. >> Well, I trust that the athletic director, the superintendent will make the right decision. >> I would encourage you girls to like really get after it sharing the Facebook post if you have Facebook. I know that's kind of older people want this. You are the best option with the passion to get players more than any of us. >> I agree. I will we will administrative team will meet and I'll inform the board of our city before the next meeting. How's that? Good. Good, ladies. >> Thank you for coming. >> Thank you very much. All right, we're going to continue. We're going to double back now to section three, the business report. >> We're really double back. >> Yeah, >> you're welcome. You're welcome to say. So, in my report, you will
045see I'm still estimating 500,000 plus from fund balance. I haven't started year end yet. Just finishing up our final check run for June 30th. So, I will be starting year end reports by next week. Um the during negotiations last fall between the LTA and the school board um MOA was created to create a committee to review the co-curric co-curricular salary schedule. That did happen. There were three members appointed by the board, three members appointed by the LTA. We met several times. A lot of communication happened. Surveys happened. Um a survey happened and was reviewed and a proposal um will be presented tonight. We will go into non-public first to talk about it and then we'll come out and talk about details and request a vote. Um Travis, was there anything you wanted to add at
046this time? The only other thing I have for action tonight is the food fund transfer to um cover the outstanding balances of parents. This year I'm requesting $5,376.13. Some of that was from prior year. $1,500 was from withdrawn students over the past few years. It was discovered that the reports that were being printed did not include withdrawn students that had negative balances. Um that has been since corrected. So for this year's negative balances, it was $3,77.71. It's a lot of sentence. um 3,200 of that is from Lakeway and F 496 is from the high school. Still, even though it includes that 5098 for prior years, it's significantly less than last year. So, I think some of the management changes we made this year and um having someone contact parents after hours really made an impact.
047um she just took on the elementary the latter part of the year. So I really anticipate that the lakeway number will be much less in the future going forward. Other than that, that's all I have for action. So if you want to vote on the negative balance, you can now like any question. >> You said uh six coaches qualify 300. Each coach, each coach will pay, but rather you mean like >> will be paid. >> We'll start here. We recognize that. Okay, any other questions? And I think we're looking for a motion to approve the general fund transfer in the amount of $5,376.13 into the food fund to cover $3,771 unpaid balances for the 24 year $1,59842 for unpaid balances from unin students prior to second discussion. All those in favor same motion carries 5
048Z. We'll move on to new business section item C, excuse me. Administrative assistant to career pathways, principal, athletics, operations, job. >> Yeah, this is Michelle will do quite a bit of work on this. Judy as well was involved with it. I'm just trying to kind of give a better description of what that job entails. And it's multifaceted to say the least could test too many down here three major programs along with an program. So this is just about more in line with Is there any discussion? We're looking at a motion to approve the administrative assistant to career pathways principal athletics operations job description as presented. So move. Is there a second? Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I oppose saying motion carries 5. We look for now, excuse me, new business. >> No. Who
049carried away? >> Oh, that's right, Erica. I didn't write it down. I'm sorry. She was had stepped out to >> Okay, moving on at the beginning of school year. Yeah, >> I've talked about this a little bit before, but just to kind of hit it again. Um, so One thing that we'll be doing on the 18th, we'll be doing a couple of things, but uh the big the big goal for that day is to start to to rewrite this the district mission and vision. Um again, this will be one time year we have everybody together regardless of what role an individual plays in district there on that day. Um, and in over the years, missions and visions have changed quite a bit. You know, we're not going to just disregard the work that's been done
050in the past, but right now we have a mission vision that the board did some years ago here before he got here. Work with Bill Bryant, great well members. Um the process that uh we go through this time will be to start the process with the faculty, the staff with some input from the community via survey. Uh and the the goal for that day will be again it's all within the context of you know what the case of B mission what what are the most important aspects of this district. One of the things that we as learners learners being everybody work together in this district along with community. What do we value the most? What's the highest highest thing we value? What are we looking for? What are we going to put the priority? Um
051and that again that'll be a process involves everybody. We already have we already have some feedback already on what some of the value should be. the survey that at some point we'll discuss in more detail but the culture survey clearly shows we have some work to do in the area of belief and so I think an expectation as a district mission we should we should talk about respect kindness you know those those aspects as being part of what who we are um and what we expect for people whether they're students or teachers or whomever to be able to uh exhibit as part of being part of this district. Vision is so missions. This is what we do. This is what we're trying to produce. The vision is is more along the lines of what's what
052do we value high? What what we value high, but what what do we want to be known for? and being known for is that whether that's a high participation in athletics or high or community involvement or whatever. District school district visions over the years have kind of gone back from a very long wordy uh statement to something that's kind of short sweet and just highlights a couple things. It's almost like an advertising slogan. You're all invited u not just our board chair who I hope will share some opening remarks that day but you're invited to say for as little or as much of that day as you wish see I did share the agenda with you schedule with you earlier but a full day on that I think is as we look going forward as
053we look at developing a strategic plan you this is the first place we what what are the priorities? What do we stand for? What do we believe in? Where are our shortcomings and build um some of the other highlights of the other days after the 18th, uh we'll go back to the building level. Uh we're going to spend some time in each of the buildings with Edge Climber Edge Climber which is a program that uh that Dale and the tech team brought in a couple year brought actually brought into use this year. Uh going back and making sure people are familiar with how they use that and and specifically gather student data information and so on. um seventh graders going to be visiting a middle school that that morning 19th and so it'll be a
054little orientation for them. Each of the schools will have a minimum of half a day uh professional development from gent by the name of Percy Hill who's a consultant we've used in the past but who's kind of built his reputation career on bullying prevention and response. So that that'll be a first of many PD throughout the year. Um and then a variety of other usual back to school organ organizing committees. So so that's a little bit of an overview of the first few days back all that future. We are going to offer some first aid CPR training on the 22nd or optional for coaches primarily and others lacking interest. So that's that is an overview of or at least a highlights of the beginning. Any questions? One thing I did I did mention we will
055be bringing back a consultant Brian Stack who will do some work secondary schools uh policy based education some other structural practices work this request for professional development funds I'm holding on Um, what I what I need there is just just I we got to pay for the stuff I just described. Normally that would come from title two, title four. Those funds as of about three weeks ago were put on hold. We've got we've got allocations for those funds already from the DOE and we actually had the numbers and they were actually pretty good for title two, title four and then those those funds along with our net funds which is a whole another animal. So you know we we need professional development needs to happen needs to go on. So I as I indicated my
056giving I well you we should use the funds at least part of the funds that were dedicated for the teaching learning position to support professional development this year we started 27 budget and those numbers Christmas the the total the salary for the for the director teaching learning was 84,000 the total cost was a little more than that but it's time to get in that's 112,000 so you I'm not asking for 112,000 at this point I'm just I'm just suggesting we start off with uh lining up our math PD, the math entire cohort that our elementary teachers and middle school high school math teachers go to. Uh NHLI, which I already described, Brian Stack and then some PD bullying prevention response. [Music] Then the other piece of this is the uh White Mountain Science Incorporated. So
057we we did all those things I just mentioned that would be right at 19,000 offset by the I'm going to say we'll spend all that. I'm hoping we'll get a grant fun. We'll hold off on that as long as we can. Patty can attest to this. It'll be tricky, but we sign a contract on one day to pay for another general fund and oops, now we got grant fund, >> right? >> I'm not sure I'm not sure how how we'll handle that because typically you >> approve before I make a payment. >> Exactly. >> Before you sign a contract. So, I don't I don't think anybody's thinking of that in in Washington or country. Oh, yeah. But the work we have to do needs to priorities need to happen. >> So sorry we seeking a
058vote. >> Uh no I just informing any questions concern I'll keep you updated what we're contracting was cost money. >> Okay just question. Okay, then we're going to move on to unfinish business. >> No. Uh, nothing other than just we'll have a full day of PD with them coming up in August. They'll be moving in. We'll be facilitating that. >> Lakeway building committee. Uh the July meeting scheduled for this Wednesday was cancelled. The June meeting consisted of school employees um and uh Dale had a tour with people as part of the building a application process. He wrote a really thorough email um summary which hopefully people have read and talk a little bit about that. >> Yeah. So that's >> Yep. So that's their their um required visit when you do the building a application,
059they visited the other two schools. So there's a total of three schools that submitted an application by May 1st, April 1st, sorry. um of the list that we saw from Amy Clark back in um that had 17. There are now four of those remain. Most schools um either funded themselves um went a different direction. Um or they're still on the list and it's still the number one school that's going to be on the list. The last time their project was priced was 176 million. So they would own the building a for bienium. Um so worst case scenario we're we're ranked seventh, best case scenario we're ranked fifth. Um however they did inform us that um legislation um cut building a for the current bienium. So the next option that you would even um be considered
060for our building aid and again those four schools or six schools wherever we rank ahead of us would have first priority um would be 2027 um in June of 2027 which would be available um with a pass vote in March of 2028 or around there and again schools ahead of us um would have priority carry Gorman, who's one of the members that came from the bureau of um facilities, reminded us that the last time the state went into a building a moratorum, it was five cycles, 10 years. Um so we don't have to sit here and do the math to to say that if that were to be the case, our project that we've asked for last year or estimated we didn't ask for it last year of 40 million is well over 50 million
061in 10 years, probably closer to 60 million. Um we spent three hours um with them. It was Brad and I um that that were present with the three members from the DOE. Um we talked about our deficiencies. Um then we walked the building, we walked outside. Um you know, they definitely saw some of the things that we did um or that that we talked about. um they without going on the record agreed that we made the right decision dealing with our deficiencies of recommending a new build versus a renovation. Um if the board were to decide to change course and go the renovation route, you're no longer on the list. You have to start the application process over again because you substantially change your your project. And if if and when we're on the list,
062even though there's no funding available, um every May the district is required to write a letter by May 1st saying that we wish to continue to stay on the list and our project has not substantially changed. As I highlighted in the email, I thought maybe a conversation with the sisters might be of value. um there everything goes well, let's just say March of 2028, we pass a bond, we get our state aid, our project will not be completed by the contract um that we have with the sisters currently. If we were to change sites, that does not substantially change your project because you're still addressing the same number of deficiencies. So, that would still be an option down the road, but I'm pretty sure we don't have a free parcel plan. um as an option
063down the road. So um good news was a lot of people fell off the list. Bad news is there's no money to give out um anyways. And uh based on what we've learned, you know, internally about federal funding and state funding, um I I would venture to guess that building a is going to be more than just one bienium cycle away. So, we keep putting the lipstick on it down there and make it look good as best we can, but we're going to have to figure out alternative or or move forward. >> Well, just for the public sake, too. We're not going to stop putting money into the existing building just because we're trying to figure out if we're going to renovate or build new apartments on that list. Um we had we had some
064new sighting. I don't know if anybody's been buying that. So um the public has been asking. So that's kind of the reason for that. Pursuing or not pursuing this project. We do need to as a board decide um probably at the next meeting in August or at the very latest meeting in August to decide if we're going to put this project on the ballot for 2026 or not. Um committee will need to start marketing and um seeking other financial resources or questions. Thank you for the report facilitating the tour. Okay, we'll move on to reports negotiations. Okay, great. Facilities >> co-curricular. I think we're going to talk about that. Okay, we'll move on to student representative report. Okay, we'll move on to the superintendent report. Oh, where did we go? Um, I I thought I'd
065emailed you sent forward this to you earlier. So, I I just for you tonight a whole list of stuff came from the school association. You can read it, you know, whenever you're feeling want to be cheered up. If we're feeling bored, just take a look at it. A lot of stuff passed. Some some good some good things really are. I mean I think one of the more interesting things they are trying to make it easier for teachers who are teaching like a community college level and teaching like running start classes or could teach running start classes at the high school without having having two certifications or two requirements because yeah the the community college has its own set of requirements that being a master's degree or some other significant requirements and then they have to
066have a a state credential to teach for us dual credit. They're saying they can teach up to 20 hours per week without that that additional credential. So that's that's good. Um excuse me. A few few other things you look through there that are are I think positive. I'm not I'm not here to say this that or the other positive negative. They're saying that require a lot of work. Uh we're going to be working on Patty just went to a meeting today grant grant meeting came away shaking her head a little bit and thinking okay a lot of strange for grants that we may or may not ever get but we'll we'll do our best to make sure that we're compliant with all of that. Um some of the stuff I I talk talked about already
067and I kind of bled in other parts of the agenda. Federal grants are kind of on hold again with certain things. Uh we did receive the good news is we did receive actual money in in the system for title one uh 40% of our allocation. So that's very good news but as of now that's the only thing that's actually showing up. Um once upon a time there are numbers showing up as well. So one of the title ones I think is history. We'll see see about the other um a lot of uh lot of planning being done. I had several meetings today. I'll be meeting a lot during this week. U people make sure we're set up for beginning of the school year professional development and all the activities we have coming up. Dale as
068he updated the mandatory training document. Thank you Dale uh for doing that. So that's one of the things that will be part of our back to school teaching. Um you know I think that's a few the highlights. There's a lot of things we can talk about the highlights. >> Any questions? Uh just clarification. >> No, it's a good question. Yeah, negotiations little little weird non meetings and stuff. We start getting individual people. Okay, any questions for the superintendent? >> Okay, we'll go to public input. I will add by way of public input that I received an email from people this morning. Uh as follows, our last meeting on June 19th, parks, recreation commissioner scheduled work session on August 14th at 5:00 p.m. at department pavilion for facilities that will support the drafting of the department's
069budget on this. She was on that wanted to invite the select board and budget committee, the CI7 subcommittee and school board members as well as the squad director to attend facilities. So uh August 14th at 5 p.m. Also for received a formal invitation to participate in the confirmation hearing. Tuesday, July 29th, 10:00 a.m. I'll go and say we don't want any. >> Yes, we Yes, we know that. >> Okay, great. We'll look then for a properly worded motion to enter into public session. >> I make a motion to enter into nonpublic session under paragraph 2 section 3 of the RSA 91A 3 of the right to know law number three matters which discussed in public likely adversely affect the reputation of any person other than a member of this board. Uh one >> one. Okay.
070The dismant number one, two. >> Oh, so one, two, and three. So number one, the dismissal, promotion, and compensation of any public employee or the disciplining disciplining of such employee or the investigation of any ch charges against him or her. Number two, the hiring any person as a public employee. and number three as previously stated to see if any of these are negotiations. No. Okay. uh taking with us the superintendent. >> Is there a second for such a vote? >> Travis second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Roll call vote, please. We're now public session.