001Okay. Okay. It is 5:01 p.m. Starting late due to technical difficulties. We'll call this meeting a little more order to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty, justice for all. I'll begin on behalf of the entire school board. Happy birthday. That's hot today. Nice try though. But it was like two days ago or like a couple. Okay. So I think with permission of the board we are going to skip ahead to section four new business item A the robotics presentation. Is my understanding that we are going to go for a walkout. Yes. No, I'm not here today. [Music] Okay. So, we'll resume uh we'll go back to section two, the consent agenda. will look for a motion to approve
002the consent agenda which includes minutes from the April 17th joint quarterly meeting as well as from April 21st. So move. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I I oppose. Motion carries for zero. Start again. We'll move on then to business report. I don't really have anything to update you on. Um the latest budget report isn't closed. the fund balance um did not have an opportunity to update that today. We didn't finalize POS today. We're doing it tomorrow morning. So, I see the sense of doing it, but it's not more accurate than I've already provided you guys. So, um, once we get to the grant section, um, can give you some figures, additional revenue that we've received that will increase that fund balance, but as of right now, I don't have
003anything else to report on. Okay. Any questions for Patty? We wait for finalization. [Music] And then with the agenda going back to new business and item B, the transportation aid discretionary grant. So I wrote a discretionary grant um for reimbursement of the transportation portions for CTE for year 23 and 24. And I also put in 25, but because that wasn't totally filtered out for the reimbursement, they didn't let me pursue that. But so I ended up being awarded 100 Littleton School District is being awarded 172,892 and that is covering I tell you what it covers a daily bus transportation for FI23 and 24 some field trips van purchase. So we bought a van in 23. It's reimbursing us for that van. um some individualized transportation for a student um that's out of district. So it
004comes to $96,421 for FY23 and $76,471 for FY24. So that will if if you approve that, I'll write it into GMS this week. hopefully get everything written um so that then we can bill out that and that goes towards what end of the year unanticipated revenue so our fund balance would automatically increase by that amount so sorry the number that we have thank you the number that we have in the um request to vote doesn't seem to add up to the so I thought that too I was I sat here for at 4:00 and try to figure that out. So in the grant under the if you're looking at total transportation cost of 101489 what numbers do you have? I have a total of 172892 which is the letter. That's what I'm Yeah. But you
005right which equal doesn't you said 92 something and 96,421 plus 76,471. Oh, okay. Never mind. I withdraw my comment. Any questions forelle? I'm in politics everybody. Major in politics everybody. We got our hand. Very well done. Very well done. Any questions or comments for Michelle? Well done. Then we'll look for a motion to accept the transportation aid discretionary grant from the New Hampshire Department of Education in the amount of $172,892 to cover the costs outlined in the budget included with the application submitted by the Littleton School District. I'll make a motion. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed stayain. Motion carries 4 Z. Any additional new business to bring for the pool. Okay, then we'll move on to unfinished business beginning with the residency program. Anything new there? No, nothing new to report
006there. Lakeway, I know we're working on setting a meeting with the committee, but anything else to report in the interim? No. Okay. Any other unfinished business? We'll move on then to committee reports. The negotiations committee did not meet. The facilities committee, we have not made that since our last meeting. And the policy committee, we're Yeah, we're on the We are scheduled later. Okay. We'll move on to the student representative report and the superintendent report. Okay, short tonight. Uh happy to report that we had good long April vacation in between last board meeting. So, uh haven't haven't been in school much since the last board meeting. Um did want to comment on career affair. Um and ask Michelle Al Melissa to fill in fill in the blanks here. But it seemed like unfortunately I was tied
007up that morning. I couldn't go to it. But share with the board a little bit what happened there. I saw pictures. I saw lots of feedback on Christine Moy put a lot of work into it. Christine Loy, guidance council put out work in and I I felt great representation from the business community and it was well received by students. Uh we had students visiting in in three distinct groups um nth and 10th graders, 11, 12th and middle school and I felt they were very engaged as some good questions and good rapport back and forth with a lot of the folks in the business school. I thought I thought you know we haven't had such a career fair since co really and so I think it's a great start and we hope to continue every year
008continue to build those relationships very well. Yeah, I too I missed that day because I was um I was somewhere I don't remember where I was. Um but I had heard feedback um from Ja Corey which was very positive. Um they had given their thoughts and I just um over the weekend ran into uh board McCusker down at the Littleton Diner. Uh we invited him to come up um to speak to um the business and uh his aspirations to eventually one day own the Littleton Diner and he was thrilled to be here uh with us. He said, "Please um let me know about next year. I'd love to come and um try to see if we can get some more young people um into the diner working." So, he was very enthusiastic about it. I
009agree. I was there. This is Ijected this. They were really happy that we did it. We also did um for job fair as recruiting for some work. So a lot of students that they had practiced with their adviserss on resumeumés and being able to how to submit everything online for their jobs. So that was what received as well. So the other thing we I did share and had had Sheena link to the agenda today. I don't probably have a chance to look at it. the trail bra trailblazers of education. And uh this is just a little a little note of appreciation and I think recognition uh coming coming from the state and so just talks a little bit about things we already know frankly about the uh the programming and and the the vision for
010preparing preparing kids for the future proof skills. I'm not sure there is such a thing as future proof, but it's there are we think there are some areas that are more be more resilient in the future than others probably. It's kind of a nice little rundown of of the programs CTE above the notch things that are going on. I just I wanted to put that into the record and also if someone ever asked you about so in you know 500 words or less tell us about about this programming and what what what we're doing I think it gives you a pretty good overview certainly doesn't do it justice but it certainly does give us some idea the things that are going on there and it's nice for Michelle to get the recognition to get the
011recognition so I want to make sure to share that with Thank you. Just a couple other legislative funding, all all the good stuff. We just kind of are sitting kind of waiting. Um, you know, at the federal level, um, you know, there's some significant cuts to to programs that were announced last week by President Trump in the skinny budget, which is just it's just a very simplified first run of the federal budget. it still has many many processes to go through legislatively with the Congress. Um I was happy to see that uh Title One and special education weren't weren't cut. You know, we would always like to have more in those areas, but they they certainly weren't passed. They were in in the in the president's budget were level funded. A lot of other programs
012weren't so lucky. I asked for Michelle tonight. I'm still wearing the adult head. What a little bit. What What's your impression on that at this point? Back and forth. AP is still out in the state budget. Yeah. Um here um which is the adult for program. We have a lot of 16, 17, 18 year olds that serve under that. And then um we have um the adult ed from the federal level and then the workforce. um they're looking to cut the entire workforce and we know that out of federal budget. So not really sure how that was to we're told to train everyone to go to work but I don't have any money to train them. I'm not really sure how that's all going to play out but that's just the first round of the
013president's project that we haven't heard anything from the state for a few weeks other than you know they hope that they'll get some guidance from the feds here in in May. Nor normally this would this would have happened well before now but things are we're in a state of change probably understated a bit. So we we just have to wait and see with our you know the big things we're waiting on now of course for title four uh title two which potentially pretty pretty good size kit if those two programs go away. Uh that's what's funding a lot of our t our teacher staff development our programming with entities like whimsy. Um so there's there's some some programming there that is at risk or at least uh will require some other other methods or source
014of funding perhaps if we if we do in fact move forward some. So I think that's it. I don't know any any year end events any any highlights all that anybody wants to talk about. I gave up your invitations to graduation. It's always the Thursday before Memorial Day weekend. Um so that's scheduled for 6 o' very busy time. Have a school concert tomorrow. Yeah, that's right. That's good enough. Tomorrow night and next week we're going to start moving into NHS testing for middle school and 11th grade science. There we go. National teacher appreciation. Oh, thank you Erica for picking that up. Yeah, this this week is we we celebrate for everybody, not just teachers but all staff and did the same kind of a gift as it were out to teachers and staff as we
015did last year. Holiday pancakes cut a good deal. Patty, thank Patty for doing that and yeah, this is a a good week to celebrate that uh going forward. It's kind of seems like most years we've had it by now. is a little bit different this year. Yeah, I want to recognize people for that. I'm not jetlagged at all. No, I'm not actually forgetful. Sorry. Thank you, Erica. We're team to pick each other out. Thank you for that. That's one thing I don't certainly don't want forget to talk about. Okay. Any further questions for superintendent? We'll move then to public input. We'll look for a properly worded motion to enter into nonpublic session. I'm making a motion to enter the nonpublic session paragraph 2 section 3 RSA 91A right to know law for number one the
016dismissal promotion or compensation of any public employee for the discipline of such employee or the investigating of any charge against him or her and number three or just number one? Number one. Uh number three also and number three matters which is discussed in public likely that affect the reputation of any person other than a member of this board taking with us superintendent. Is there a second? All those in favor roll call vote please motion cars 4 now on public. Thank you. Yes sir. See you. Thank you.