001Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carries 4 Z. Now look for a motion to approve the renewal nominations related to board list number one. I'll make a motion. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed and abstain. Motion carries 301. We'll look for a motion to approve the renewal nominations related to board list number two. So move. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I oppose abstain. Motion carries 40. Now we're going to move on. Motion looking for a motion to approve the renewal nomination list. A I'll make a motion. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. 4 Z. Look for a motion to approve the That's Lake. Yes. We
002skipped we skipped three. We don't need to deal. She's not up. He's the only one on there. Oh, okay. Okay. So, now we'll look for a motion to approve renewal nominations. Listen B. Make a motion. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I oppose. Stain. Motion carries. 4 Z. Look for a motion to approve the renewal nominations list C. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Stain. Motion carries 4 Z. What do we just do? See for a motion to approve renewal nominations list D. I'll make it. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I oppose. Stain. Motion carries. 4 Z. Look for a motion to approve the renewal nominations list. E. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I oppose. Abstain. Motion carries. 4 Z. Look for a
003motion to approve renewal of nominations list F. So move second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Same motion carries 4. um because of a weird series of circumstances for the vice chair's absence and I have to leave due to a conflict consulting board policy and Robert chose order which are the governing laws of the board when there's not something established otherwise by state law policy I can appoint a chairman prom who will run the meeting and so given that we're going to appoint Travis Howard as the chairman prom for this session so that it can continue. We'll go from there. Okay, dismissed. It's an awesome feeling. The agenda is three, the business reports. We do. I actually got to add authorized signers and I added the farm school grant. at the end of
004your business. Yeah, that is um but she requested that you guys just vote to add them as authorized signers. Anyone willing to make a motion to add them as authorized signers? Are they the only authorized signers? Uh yes. Yes. Or is it Well, authorized signers for what though? Like are you are they asking to be authorized signers to sign? Well, it says like local, state, federal agencies, but you're still going to come to the board first and then you're just out waiting for us to to sign contracts. Yeah. Contractors, vendors after it's been approved by the board. Yeah. Unless then unless specified or the board chair is required. Uh but yeah, it just said she said that we should be doing it annually. So there's we have the authority to sign those documents but yeah
005we don't need board approval obviously and then I assume do we have a different assigners or different assign people to sign for bank documents or yeah the treasur yeah I'll make any discussion all those in favor I opposed abstain. Motion carries 30. indicator. Yes. So then on to new business section A Littleton FFY 24 indicator for significant discrepancy analysis. Yeah, we try to we try to again report these supposed to be reported publicly, good, bad, or otherwise as I've been able to do throughout the year. happy to report that they're very good. Um, and again, this this looks at discipline rates and are they are there are there disparities in terms of race u and and to look at so is there big differences and obviously the discrepancy report didn't identify any big difference as
006a matter of fact we're way below the threshold. you start looking a significant discrepancy would be 3.5 times the state rate which is would be put us roughly well over three and we're well less than the state actually just want to recognize that and report it publicly on new business B we decided to table that for summer school for 2020 the next board meeting we need full full board. So, sorry I've made you come for nothing, but we need we need we need a full board. So, that will have to wait, unfortunately. Got a nice walk. Yeah. Try not to do that to you too often, but it is what it new business seed procedure for renting facilities. Um, yeah. And this this was in Patty's board report. Um, was that No. Um, yeah, sorry.
007So, I hope you had a chance to look at the procedure or the document for the board policy. Uh we did we did as you know have a have a stakeholder reach out patient reach out ask about the the process we use the policy so on which I I did send to that individual. Um I also said that we would certainly bring it up. We we could uh we could direct the policy committee to do something differently and the board can say no we're we're happy with it as it is. I think the big I think the big the rub here a little bit is uh is the idea that you know do we do we we do we do give locals a significant break I think but should we do more basically so I'll
008I'll listen to the discussion of the board and direction of the board if if you wish to pursue something different if you think the existing policy is sufficient. Yeah. I'd like to talk about this at the next meeting of the not. Okay. So, we're moving on to item D. DBNS title one schoolwide designation. Yeah. That is that is D. Daisy Brownson um last year was applied to be a title one school is a is a a targeted assistance and a targeted program means that you have you provide services to individual students and we have the high enough pre-introduced numbers and need that we can do something called schoolwide which means basically we can provide services to anybody not just students that we've identified specific typically is needing is needing title one services. Gives us a
009little more flexibility and so Melie Harper's worked on that along with Melissa to get that done. So we were notified of that. So that's that's good news because there's more flexibility comments. Moving on to section ect instructor on a job description. You want to speak to that? It's one of those job descriptions that had just got overlooked for somehow when I went to post the position that you've just approved. Um the job description has never been approved. So, we adjusted it slightly based on the board of nursings. Um, which you can see there it opens it up a little bit more to allow for a broader people to apply. It was posted on Schoolring Indeed um in the paper this time um to try to find out who qualified candidate for it which I think
010we did a good job with. But it's just a it's one of those that it's not in their file um for approval that says it's approved. I'll find more as I move along. Every year I come with whatever job positions that we're posting. They they don't have seem to be approved by anybody. Questions about the job description. Everything in red is that being added or being eliminated? The red we added to it to Okay. Associates degree and then we added some more lines down the road. Yeah. I believe so um this is RN preferred but it doesn't require an RN to be the instructor to be the LNA instructor to help does not require. It needs either LPN or um CNA. They have to have CMA. Now, the nursing home piece. Um and because um
011our current instructor for health one is an RN, she it covers the license piece for for the two other positions because they're not full-time positions. Looking for a vote to approve the job description. Is there any motion? Yes. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed abstain. Motion carries 30. Farm to school grants. Anybody have any? I I finally did get it open. Grant agreement. Yes. The state of New Hampshire guarantee hereby mutual agreements follows general provisions departments including the state agency name the grantee name school district. So we just looking to approve this. Yes. Yes. That she grant for just anybody have any questions? Is it I'm assuming it's going towards is it going towards our cafeteria? What's it's from? Department of Agriculture Markets and Food. They do. Yeah,
012it goes to the food. Okay. Everybody gets the food services grants. She She does. She knows. What was the Is there anyone willing to make a motion to Is there a second? Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Abstain. Motion carries 30 business G student assistance program funding. All right, that one talk about that one. That one's the um SAP person um that we have a portion in the general fund. The rest is um comes out of a grant and it's this is the part of the JSI grant for student assistance network with the amount of 62,476 from July 1st to June 30th next year. That sounds good. Any questions? Is there any willing to make a motion to accept a student assistance program funding grant in the amount of 62 $62,476? Is there
013a second? Second. Any discussions? All those in favor? I opposed. Abstain. Motion carries 30. Moving on to unfinished business. Teacher residency program. They ask me to uh share with the board a plan. So I'll deal with that tonight and share this electronically with Matthew Bill. As we look as we look to the upcoming year, first of all, I do want to comment a little bit on the uh where we are with the residency program for next year. We did go through the selection process. Uh we interviewed six individuals. We determined that two met our criteria. So we will have only two residents next year. Um I did we did all we could to find a secondary resident. We had two of the initial applicants who would have been promising. Uh unfortunately they pulled out of
014the application process before we interviewed them jobs. Uh we made every effort we could. kept reaching out to women um to and they did they did their best that they could but the fact that it doesn't fit the program I designed it doesn't fit secondary as well as it does elementary and just more interest at this point for special ed but I can I can I can assure you on my part that the effort was there and the desire was there to try to make that happen. And I don't blame anybody who feels like that's a big downfall of the program, but I think going forward we need to have a program that benefits the entire district. If we can't deliver on that, we may have to revitalize. um do we know if any of
015the residents that we have this year are being offered positions for next year? Um from other other places uh we haven't offered anybody here. Okay. Yeah, we haven't hired been able to hire anybody here. I I think that uh several of them geographically they they had some commitments other places but I you know I don't know exactly all I only know at this point we haven't made any offers here uh to current residents. Okay. Uh so just so this is a pretty this the barebones doesn't everything that could be done in the residency program uh is isn't here but the b big big things are if you go to actually the second page what it did was look at some of the the core functions of the resident program in terms of what needs to
016get done so observation evaluation state will provide that now or next here that in the past was was provided by the director of teaching and learning and uh it involves a fair amount of work. You'll see on their month by month the valuation and so on that occurs again Plymouth will pick that up next year. Um meetings and so you'll see the meetings referenced there every month. um onboarding co- teacher model that that uh that particular meeting happens in August um before the beginning of the new school year and involves some professional development with teacher model the employment state provides a lot of that we'll provide some of that our own work with them as well the monthly trio meeting that's the that's the resident along with the uh the co-teer I mean the special
017ed teacher and along with the the mentor uh those three meet monthly um and then monthly administrative meetings and that's that's a meeting where we meet with uh the state people Crystal myself Melissa will be involved in some of those next year even though we don't have anybody up here I have asked Melissa to help with this will be a part of conducting the monthly meetings administration. A lot of those details will fold into already she has already done work with this a little bit before maybe quite a bit but it falls into the same stuff we do with our new employees background checks getting educated educator ID front line those things can all help with that as well. Um the on to state project mountain official communications and so on. I I we'll take
018that on. I've already done some of that even I mean already I've already informed uh Crit Mountain of the fact we'll be using only two we only have two residents. That frees up some money that they for them to use for other other programs. um computer just helping helping the residents with their getting their computer access and so on. Kristen indicated that Chris O'Hare has been great with that housing support with that whole that whole piece falls under as Melissa to help me with that. Um, you know, and some of the mechanics of the housing, but more just some general support for the residents, another another person or person that they can go to if they have any questions or concerns or anything along the path that they have to navigate. Question Any questions? and
019then unfinished business. Number five, Lakewood Building Committee. Um I think there's a request to add a new member. Yeah, we got a uh email from the select board that they um they signed Paul and the new select person as a lake committee member. So we'll have to include him. Discussion. Is there anyone willing to make the motion at Paul Layman to the Lake building committee? We do it here. We don't do it in the community. Okay. So I'll make the motion. Oh, so any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed abstain. Motion carries 30. And the only other thing is the building a um application was submitted. Thank you very much again to all involved especially for the volume of work that required um committee reports negotiations for further money. One of the things that
020the new negotiated agreement involve small amount of money added into the sipons for co-curriculars. Uh unfortunately the timeline and setup of that's unattainable. So I have reached out to the to the union to adjust that timeline. We were supposed to be like having members already appointed and we're supposed to have a recommendation board by April 15th. This document was just surfaced a month two weeks ago. So there's obviously some typos in that when presenting. So we're work I'm working with Jeremy and the union to get a more realistic timeline. going for that. So we will be coming back to board with requests for board's selections for that committee in conjunction in addition to other people facilities. No need two weeks. Not well not this Friday, next Friday. So the 18th I think. Sounds sounds good.
021I don't have my calendar. The 18th 18th I have it on the calendar. 18th. Yeah. Anything from the policies committee? No the other student student representatives report. Move on to superintendent report. Okay. Um a a few a few things. Um we back in back in March we had an early childhood summit. Um that's that's an event that happens a couple times a year. Brings together early childhood individuals around the north country. I mean all of pretty much all co county and a little bit of grafting. Um so uh Elon Nus attended that. I did as well and Guy Leven's and um Sam attended as well as Terry Fillian. So we were pretty well represented here and like I said lots of early childhood educators involved. robotics uh team was out at UVM the past uh
022past weekend and uh I don't know anything you want to add or tell the board and anyone listening about the robotics event other than big and exciting. It was a I got to see a little bit of it. Yeah, it's a big um it was first time ever held at UVM um with 32 teams. Um the team's depth was um 30 years. So there are teams in there that have been in existence for the last 30 years for um and to our team that has been involved in first for the last five years but had only had a team up and running to compete in the last two. So um they the robot ran for every competition. Um they tweaked it as they went. The students work a lot on problem solving and learning how
023to use the remotes and how to maneuver through the competitions and it was I think it was an overall very good experience for them to see where they could go. Um a lot of scholarships were handed out at the end of the day. Um a lot of engineering um companies were present. So I think it's a great opportunity and it really gets our students involved in the manufacturing engineering um out of the business world. So yeah, it was a good experience. We had um 12 team members and most of them were seventh and eighth graders. So I mean we tal I watched a little bit on Saturday actually but you can get it on a program if you watch a video. It was pretty cool. that I got there Sunday. Unfortunately, our I didn't get
024to see the competition much with at all with our kids, but I did spend a little bit of time with them and watch some of the some of the competition going into the finals and so on. It's pretty pretty amazing what what they're doing there and the number just the sheer number of people that were there and involved with that spectator pretty pretty impressive. uh couple of uh you we have different days to honor different different elements of the of our school district. uh last week, Perry Educator Day, and did a great job honoring, recognizing Perry educators across the district. And again, I I think we, as we all know, they provide a tremendous amount of support for students. And we have we have many parent educators that have made a career out of it
025here in Littleton and worked as parent educators for many, many years. and uh they're professional in every sense of the word in terms of the amount of time and effort and years that they've uh they've given to the profession and given to our kids. So recognize them and librarians day, media specialist day. uh want to recognize that as them as well and our our two uh library media specialists and the work that they do to support students and in learning and it's a it's a shifting event or shifting profession certainly as things move forward. Uh I was uh was happy to the other night when I was at Lakeway for the for the math presentation the the library as before was very busy. Allison was busy busy selling books and the families were really really
026excited to be there and that was a nice event. So I wanted to also mention that as well. every uh year or two years uh we have to do something that's called office civil rights report which takes a lot of work and basically it's a federal it's required by the fed the department of education feds and uh that's a that was a time inensity report but relied heavily on technology support Dale specifically uh but a lot of work with in this case Chris Kepler uh Amy Lur 30 years in high school, Sheena uh made sure that I got my part done. I had a little bit, but I got it done because of her help and and colleagues as well. So, I want to thank people for that. Um there was a there was a
027nice press release uh from White Mountains Community College and the Knox Community School collaborate to offer new normal education. We're just acknowledging the the new program that we've approved some time ago working with the White Mountains Community College with adult ed in in Berlin and supporting supporting adult education in the north country. But unfortunately, some of that adult education ed has been going under some budgetary pressure right now at the state level. But uh we'll hope that uh that uh some of the uh maybe the changes there won't be too severe still in in the works. The other thing I do want to in the superintendent report and just publicly acknowledge what I I emailed you today a document and I apologize I had I had the document last week and should have emailed it
028then but pull your attention to it. You can certainly look at it later if you have in your email for future reference. But basically uh again it's it was a document requiring uh me to sign off on assurances which we always do with our grants anyway that we follow the procedures by title six. Title six is a is a is a law that outlaws discrimination based on race. And uh of course we do follow that very carefully, but that's a little different. We typically haven't haven't been asked to sign off of something along those lines is a separate document from what we're granting. So I have I will be taking care of that this week as it needs to be done this week. Think I think that's it. there are in the agenda. The only
029other thing in the agenda, I guess, is just I like what like what Joanne did with this last year. So, I stole our idea, but having a calendar I think is a great idea. It'll make your head spin. Those are Google Docs, so they're dynamic. Uh if things change, the doc the Google doc will change. If you you need to have a quick reference for what's going on, there you go. Thank you. Comments. That brings us to public input. Seeing none, is there anyone willing to make a motion to adjurnn? Is there a second? All those in favor? I abstain. Motion carries 30. Thank you. Thank you. That's it. Appreciate it. That's it. on your resume. Yes. Good job.