001for the meeting of the Londereerry School Board to be held on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 700 p.m. in the cafe at Londereerry High School, 295 Mammoth Road, Londereerry, New Hampshire. The meeting will also be broadcast on local cable access channel 8 as well as the district YouTube channel. Could we rise for the pledge of allegiance, please? And it's it's behind that. You got another one. We got to face this 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. Thank you. Jump into our consent agenda. Um, we have one retiree, uh, Steve Panis, a custodian from South School. Amanda Steve has been employed for almost 20 years as a custodian for the
002Londonerary school district. He currently is the second shift supervisor at South School. He has taken great pride in keeping our schools safe and clean for all of our staff and students. He and his wife Leona, who has also worked here 25 years, have truly dedicated a great deal of their lives to our district. It's time for Steve to relax and enjoy his family. We wish him a long and happy retirement. Thank you, Amanda. Uh upcoming meetings uh will be our next schoolboard meeting will be July 15, 2025, right? Uh won't be here in the cafe. It'll be upstairs in the library at 7 p.m. Uh could I get a motion to approve the consent agenda, please? So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Amanda. All those in favor? I I thank you. And moving
003into public comment. Anyone for public comment? Seeing none, I'll close public comment and we'll go into committee reports. Uh 5.1 school board liaison. Anything Amanda? No. Sarah? No, Tim. No. And uh I've got some stuff later on to talk about that went on at the council uh regarding uh district office which we'll talk about later in the deliberations um and that with a potential uh spot for that. So, we'll uh hit that back in uh later on in deliberations. Um, moving into announcements and presentations, I'd like to welcome up uh uh Coach Johnson and the uh state champion girls softball team. Please welcome. I'm not I don't know if I can adjust this. I'm vertically challenged and it's still too low. Oh, we can hear you. You can hear me, right? Yeah, we can. Okay.
004Um, this is our second time. Well, my second time meeting all of you guys. I uh thank you for your time. Um, this year was another great year. U, I think I told you we would be coming back and we did. Uh, this year we went undefeated so we get to put that up on the banner again. Yeah. Um, we had an exceptional group like I said earlier is uh all returning players. Um, they're here today and I I want to give them an opportunity to speak about our season, but I'll just give you an overview is we won 22 games in a row. Um, they weren't lopsided. U, there were some uh some tough games and uh these girls are battle tested. Um they're great teammates and they really work together uh like they
005should really. Um and it's an honor for me to be the coach. Um they're uh we beat Pinkerton. I think everybody would be happy about that. I know hopefully the TV. Um but uh we beat them twice this year. We beat them at the end. Um, and this team has has gone uh 33 games in a row without a defeat. That's counting last year. Um, and they're so far in two years they're um they're 42 and two. So, it's pretty impressive. Amazing. And um I do want to introduce you to one of the captains. She did a great presentation to our bank in our banquet. I'm putting her on the spot is Abby Austin. She'll be the first one to talk in front of you guys and then I'll have my other captain, Elizabeth Carney.
006Okay. Thank you. Yep. Hi, I'm Abby. I am the only senior on the team. So, this um well, this year was like really special because I definitely wanted to repeat um the championship and I knew we could with this group of girls. And so I definitely wanted to and I knew we could work hard to do that and we definitely did. We had some hard-fought like wins with especially with conquered in like our regular season and our semi-final game. I would say those were definitely some hard-fought wins by winning just by one run and um we stayed together and I couldn't imagine having like our my senior season with an any other group of girls. these this season was special and I'm so happy to have a twoe championship and even if we didn't I
007couldn't imagine another season without them. So, thank you. Congratulations. I'm just going to make this quick. Um, I'm so blessed to be able to play with all of these girls and I want to thank the community for always um, supporting us and, you know, being there for us and we had a great season and we're ready to go get them again next year. Thank you. I'd like to I want to put these two on spot. Jen Raza, she was up here. Sure. At the beginning of the year, we had we had a our our c our catcher had graduated and moved on and we were in a spot and Jen Raza was a uh player that uh was uh what do you call it a utility player the year the previous year and she really
008stepped up for us. I think we we owe um a lot of gratitude to her. Uh she was defensive player of the year this season and I'm going to have her talk a little bit because she was had to catch Elizabeth. As you all heard, Elizabeth is the Gatorade player of the year. It's a national honor. It's first one I've ever coached. Um she was pitcher of the year. She was first team all state the second time. But she uh she u she needed a catcher to step up and Jen uh was the one this year. And I want Jen to talk now. Um, yeah, it was a great season. Um, obviously I love all these girls and it was so much fun, you know, being undefeated and I definitely learned so much this year
009catching for Elizabeth. She's great and Abby, they're both great. So, yeah, I'm just so proud of our team and all we've done and can't wait for next year. Thank you. Great job. Okay, the the next player The next player, um, she's a three-year starter. Um, she's on her way to be the second, um, uh, player that I've is going to get to 100 hits. She's at 82 right now, and I'm I'm pretty positive that she'll be well over 100 her senior year. And that's Jenny Flattery. Um, hi. I had a bit of a rough start to the season and like when I wasn't performing my best, I turned to these beautiful girls over here and I'm truly blessed to be with them and have the opportunity to have them support me and I fell back
010on them and it really showed how last year we learned how to be together and play together on a field and this year I think we really just truly stuck together and I can't wait to play with them again next year. Awesome. Thank you. She just showed one more player just showed up. Hey, uh, this is your time. I know. Real real quick is, uh, Shannon Crowley. Um, she ca she was injured and she kind of didn't tell me that she was injured. She had played through the injury for about two weeks. And I kept on asking her, "How's your hand?" And she she said, "No, I'm sorry. How's your arm?" And it was her hand that was injured. So, I wasn't being specific about her injury. Um so she she came back with u
011our biggest game against our first game against um Pinkerton. Um she got hit three times from a kid that throws just as hard as as Elizabeth and um and she was already injured to begin with. I mean she was just coming back. So but the biggest hit of the season was our semi-final game. It was going on and on. It was 1-1 all the way to the 10th inning and she delivered the base hit to get us into the finals. And I'm going to have her speak now. Nice. Um hello. Uh I was just happy to um accomplish what I did this year with this team. Uh it's a special group of girls. Um we're going to miss Abby Austin a lot. Um, and I'm, you know, happy we're able to do what we can
012do and hopefully we're going to go for a three repeat next year. Awesome. Great job. Okay, last one. Okay, she doesn't want I'll speak for her. Um, she called she actually text me at the beginning of the year. She got injured in soccer. She was my leadoff batter the previous year. She went four for four in the finals. She was my second leading hitter in 2024. She batted 443. We and she was uh she was going to be our obviously our starting uh outfielder. Uh she couldn't play this year, but she asked me if she want can I still be part of the team? And I said, "Of course." And she she practiced, she showed up for everything. She supported her teammates. And next year, thank God we're getting her back because we're going to
013be even stronger. Um, so it's a Addie Browning. Okay. And I think we're pretty much done. Okay. Thank you. Guys want to add any just want to say congratulations. I'm a a Lancer alumni softball player myself. I won't tell you how many years ago, but um this is amazing to hear. And I'm not going to lie, I was up at 10 p.m. watching Game Changer against that game against Conquered. So good job Shannon. That was a big hit. Good run. Elizabeth here coming in. So good season. I love to follow you guys. So, we're hoping next year as well. And I went to Pinkerton, but I'm still glad that you guys won. And sounds like you had some all had some adversity this year. Um, but I always tell my kids, we don't play sports.
014Um, just to win. That's part of the game and working together. And it seems like you got the best of both worlds. You got to experience that and also grow as a team and then come away with the big win. So, congratulations. Yeah. Thanks for making us proud. Yeah, girls. Girls, I'm I'll hit on what the coach said. To go 22 and 0 and to have a 42 and two and back to back is pretty astonishing. I mean, London Lancer is so proud of of you girls of what you've brought um on and off the field in this community. So, we are so proud of you, you girls and and what you've done uh for the softball program as well as the school district and our community. So, we are also very proud of all
015he is. So, thank you so much and uh take some time this summer. I know most of you play club, so you're probably playing this weekend. Um but enjoy some time and uh we'll look forward to watching you again next year. Should be pretty exciting. But we'd love to have you come up and and shake your hand and congratulate you and then get a quick picture here if you guys wouldn't mind and start here. Congratulations. There you go. Well done, Jake. Absolutely. Congratulations. Great job. Well done. Good job. Congrats. Awesome job. Congratulations. Well done. Nice job. Awesome work. All right. We want you back next year. That's it, coach. Congrats. Good job. No, we'll just stay back and put them in the front. If we can put you guys in the front. Coach, come on
016up here. Get in the picture. Thank you guys. There you go. Nice job, ladies. Thank you. [Applause] So cool. So exciting. All right, we're going to jump into another exciting on the education piece and uh talk about the Eddies. Yeah. So, very quickly, I'll just uh recap our Eddies. Uh our five hours worth of Eddies, I think that we all we all experienced together. Um, so somewhere between hours 2 and three, we got to celebrate uh London High School teacher Melissa Breal, uh, who's a digital learning specialist here. She was a Susan Jennos technology impact award. She gave a nice little speech, so there were great pictures of her. And then towards the end, you know, the the the final call there, we got to we got to witness the elementary school of the year,
017obviously, South Elementary. Um, you know, so we got some pictures here. Uh, we they they let everyone kind of get up on the stage, which I think was a really nice moment. Um, and Deb gave a little speech and then it was like 30 minutes of pictures in all these different forms, you know, we just kept going picture after picture after picture, but it it was it was really really nice. So, I thought it'd be nice for Deb, Alexis, and Sean to come up and show their banner that are now that's now hanging in the hallways. And if they want to ring the bell, they can ring the bell. They don't have to. Um, but we're very proud of that. That's so cool. [Laughter] Ring the bell. Ring the bell. Ring the bell. [Applause] [Music]
018[Applause] Did we win? Did we win? And it was very long. It's hard for kids to wait. So it's hard for all of us to wait. So it was just really to have them keep asking did we win? Did we win? And then when they found out they were just so excited, all of our such a great experience and we thankful for all of the support of everyone here and who have ever stopped with us. [Laughter] It was it was a long wait, but it was Yes. Congratulations. Great job. And it was a great event. Um it was worth all five hours. Believe me, it was. But great job and great support. I mean there was 40 staff that attended this event and uh 10 um you know from administration and that and and other
019uh school administrators too to support you. So that was nice to see with 50 plus people standing up on that you know next to the stage and up. It was the biggest group there supporting that award of the evening. So that tells you, you know, what goes on in that building and that. So congratulations to you all. Remarkable year and uh several years and can't wait to see what you bring bring in next year. Great job. Thank you. Good job. [Music] [Applause] All right, moving on to 6.2, 2 the uh elementary principal summary of full day kindergarten roundt please. Yeah. So I I'll turn it over to Paul and the rest of principles pretty soon but we had you know a a really highly attended roundt two weeks ago. Um it was great to see
020that level of investment in the community. So, we just kind of wanted to share uh some of some of the conversation that happened that night and and kind of give some guidance um kind of towards the end of of uh having a few more roundts maybe the summer and kind of make sure we're keen to engage with parents and families on this issue. So, I'll turn over to to Paul and the rest of the form crystals. Welcome. Good evening. So, elementary team is back to report and share out that we held our first full day K round table as Dan shared on Wednesday, June 5th. It was great to see a strong turnout uh during a very busy time of the year. It was filled with passion um and feedback and the room was filled.
021So, that was great. After a full hour discussion, we just wanted to highlight some of the takeaways uh from that first community forum. So overall, one of the um persistent themes was strong support for full day K. Some of the comments, there was wides widespread agreement that full day K is what's best for students. Also voiced was preschool and grade 1 educators emphasizing growing needs and a lack of time in the current half-day model. Some families want to see a plan that keeps young learners at Moose Hill while other families, many families just wanted to option for full day K regardless of the place within the school district. Kind of echoing the same sentiment in the survey that we conducted last fall. So, another area that came up that we talked about was um facility
022and space challenges. And we had heard from the attendees that were there that many families did still prefer to have the children at Moose Hill in that early childhood setting, but they did seem to leave the meeting understanding that Moose Hill does lack the sufficient space for that and the infrastructure as it stands right now to be able to support full day kindergarten moving forward. And we talked um through some past projects and suggestions um that had been we had been pre previously considered such as modular classrooms, adding extra modular classrooms at Moose Hill School. Um using some of the existing town spaces like the Lions Hall or perhaps some overflow at the high school. And also um we discussed the proposal for the scaled down version of Moose Hill. Um, and we just kind
023of talked through some of those and got some feedback on that and some feedback from the attendees around the district office issue in combination with the Moose Hill um, full day kindergarten piece and how those had been linked previously. Um, and the general um, feedback from that was looking at dividing that out and that having those two together had um, caused some concern. Additional feedback included a tuition or a bridge program where students could be offered full day or halfday K. Heavily discussed was the 60% vote threshold for capital projects and that it is a big hurdle to clear and the room understood that we were close with last year's vote, the closest that we have been in the past. We shared towards the end of the meeting that most communities have just recently shifted
024to a full day K with the space and the staff that they currently have once New Hampshire began funding for full day K in 2016. The problem in the past was that we did not have the space. Uh, one of the other areas we discussed was community outreach and uh, gaps with that. And so families um had expressed some frustration with the communication especially for our preschool families because they're not connected um, like our uh, leap through um, 12 even connect is connected as our K through 12. So they expressed some concerns with that. Um, quite a few said that they were unaware of uh, roundt discussions and um, full day kindergarten. and one parent has shared that they had only learned about the issue through a local um mom's group. So that was um
025some concerns that they expressed about just the communication. Um another item was a clear need emerged to improve our outreach strategies from that and expand communication beyond just the current school uh channels and how do we connect with those families in Londereerry um that have younger children and figuring out a way and a strategy um to reach those families as well. Um, and then some attendees expressed um that they were looking for a script and bullet points to share with their neighbors to better understand the process and how to uh talk about this and be able to um communicate with their families, their network groups um in the town and just having that information and knowing what to say. The last piece that we just wanted to share were some of the questions that the
026community members were repeatedly asking or had brought up again at the round table. Um so questions were asked about next steps in the process and what families can do to move forward or take action. How do I help? How do they help? How do they get involved? What is the process? So where are we now and what does that process look like? And and basically just what is happening now. So just a clear idea of where we're at with with everything. So, what we offered up kind of towards the end of the meeting was um our time to come back uh together. Uh and and I think so we're we're we're making time on July 23rd and August 24th uh at 6:30 in Matthew Thornton and it's open to the whole public. Um and and
027um and you know what we saw that night was a tremendous amount of passion. I think we were all a little surprised as all the principles know I texted beforehand we may not get a big turnout. Same thing happened and I the prior year and then there was a ton of people in the room. That's amazing. So I think what we hope to do is just I could see from the room um a lot of the parents just didn't understand the process of how a school district makes a big decision. So we have to kind of get people used to the budget cycle and the warrants and all those things and just help them understand the the decision-m process. Um continue to get feedback is always going to be helpful. But I think the most
028important thing we want to do internally this summer is do a five-year study and kind of a five-year plan of what enrollment looks like, what that means for space, and what that means for staffing. Because with last year's plan, we knew the capital costs. We didn't know all those little pieces. We were we weren't forced to figure that out because there's a one-year delay in kind of implementing it. So, what we want to do is be able to give really good advice on how to operationalize last year's plan and really look at like what the next five years could be like if enrollment continues to go down, if enrollment stays smaller like it is now, you know, where would our pressure be if it comes back up again and really give the school board and
029the community really, really good advice. So, so I think we're in a good place to kind of do that over the next four to six weeks so we can start sharing that um and kind of giving giving everyone lots of information about how to operationalize uh last year's plan in a thoughtful way. Um and I think too it's like you know one thing that that was clear again is that communication outreach somehow we have to would do a better job of definitely you know being part of the preschool world being part of preschool families and families in general because clearly a lot of people in that room just didn't even know all the things going on. So, it was I thought it was a productive night and I think the passion kind of caught us
030off guard because we we didn't know it was coming and it it was good to see. So, just just a quick update. Any questions? Yeah. Oh, sorry. Wh Okay, Sandra is correcting me as always, as she should. July 23rd and August 14th. I got the dates wrong. Okay, so we'll we'll we'll put these out on our social media. Any questions? Good. Good. Okay. Thank you for the update. Thank you. Thank you. We'll see you in July. All right. Moving into deliberations. Uh July school board meeting work session. So at the end of the uh round table um you know uh Bob asked if there's uh you know if we want to do things differently because a lot of the families in the room um you know wanted it to interact more with the school board.
031Um you know so we certainly can set it up. It's just like that's not what a normal school board meeting is. There's there's a limited time for public comment and there's business. So, I think if there's any um if there's any desire in the schoolboard to do that, we can do that the July meeting as long as we get all of our internal work done, we can do our data presentation in August. We can have another meeting in in July if you want to. Um the main plan for the July 15th meeting was to go over how all the schools did on our test scores and behavior data. So, we have options um if we want to do that. It's just it's really up to you all and and uh and moving forward. Does it
032sounds like you're going to have another round table would be makes sense to have at the first meeting in August. You want to do it then just to have the community that gives them more time that's near the end of the summer. I don't know how many families are going to be around the middle of July. Yeah. But that'll give you another round table and then get the word out longer and then they can come in and ask questions rather than a public comment I thought was the right thing to do. Sure. because that forum is, you know, was asking you and and Sandra a lot of questions. I was there in attendance and answered some question, but I think the board should have an opportunity to answer some of the questions that the the
033parents and that and it'll give you one more round table to get some more information. Sure. And get the word out. Uh so our first meeting in August, if we could put an agenda item on to have people come up and and we'll open it up to the floor. Does that sound good? Yeah. Yeah. I'm also happy to go to that next round table. Well, I know you went last time and be being able to answer some of those questions and have that engagement if that's what people are looking for. Yeah. No. Cool. Okay. So, August 5th, but the round table's the 23rd. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. The 14th. Did we um did we set our school board meeting yet for August? It's not on here. Calendar in front of me. I believe it's August 5th.
034Let me just double check. Yeah, I think it's the first week of August. Yep. Because we have two that works. Yep. August 5th. Okay. And then we have our building tours on the 20th and 21st. Yeah. What was the 14th? You had said something. That's another round table. Another round table. Okay. Yeah. So, at least they'll get one in and we can answer any questions of the board and that on the uh on the 5th. Okay. Sound good? Yeah. Is that six or seven? The round table? 6:30. Cool. Good. All right. Um, moving on. 7.2 Adult Ed Grant proposal. Mrs. Rich. Hi there. I'll be super quick. Um, okay. So, in front of you, you have a memo. Um, I just want to uh clarify that this is an anticipated number um that I took
035off of one of the spreadsheets that was shared with us at our most recent adult dead director's meeting. Um the numbers the actual numbers have not come out from the state yet. So I based off of a number that they showed us and where we were last year and they're very comparable. Um so not much has changed in in terms of um anticipated funding. As we all know, there's some um situations going on at the state level where there's discussion about funding and even at the federal level on uh government funding for us. So, um I'm thankful to all of you who helped me reach out to Senator Carson who attended our graduation. She was helpful and uh I I just want to publicly thank her for her support. It was really nice for her
036to of her to come and um to share her thoughts um at the state level in support of us. As you guys know, we are a large program. Um aside from NSHA, which is an adult learning center, we are the third largest program in the state. Um and that puts us actually only 10 off from other schools. Uh Pinkerton, Goffstown, and Conquer. Conquered has a higher title two population than we do, which is students who are over 18. Um, so when you kind of look at our funding stream, there's different there's a different formula for title two students versus for day students. So that's a lot of the discussion at the state level right now. Um, so some of the things um I I know I keep you guys in informed of all the things
037that are happening. We had some really amazing highlights this year. Um, we graduated a lot of students. Um, so much so that the gym was so full. I'm going to have to add more seats if we continue at the base that we're at because we ran out of seats this year. Um, as you know, we also graduated. Um, Lou, who was our one of our adult students, he graduated at 75. I just received an email from him. He would like a copy of his transcript because he's applying to Berkeley. So, that was pretty exciting. Yeah, he's such a great guy. Such a wonderful guy. Um, we introduced some new classes including uh crafting entrepreneurial class where the students are learning to use crickets uh to divi design uh company logos um and create visions for
038their futures. A lot of them would like to start their own businesses someday and so we kind of started off uh working on those with those types of projects with them. Um but we're putting a lot of money into our staff. Um we are staffing 17 staff members who are taking on multiple roles based on needs that we have, how many students we have uh at enrollment and as you know we're rolling admissions for the entire year. So we're constantly picking up um um new students throughout the year and we continue to have anou with Campbell which is a wonderful relationship um between the two schools. So we're doing great things with them as well. So, that's kind of our update. That's awesome. Same old, same old. Trying to keep up keep up with everything
039that they need and make sure they feel success just as if as though they would feel it in day school or any other school that they've been at. Yeah, it's a great program, Crystal. Thanks. Every year seems to Thanks. just be better and better. Some of the stories too of some of the students. Mhm. Um unfortunately I wasn't able to be there because we had a game across with our rivals that night with with lacrosse, but um I watched it afterwards and it's just a great event. So yeah, the kids are so wonderful. Um and like I said at graduation, this is the first year where I asked for student speakers and I had so many I didn't know what to do with them and they just kept coming. They showed up to practice before
040and they're like, "I have a speech. Can I give it?" I'm like, "Yep, let's pivot." So they they really did great. I'm just really really proud of them. I just kudos to our staff. It's an honor to work for them. Um they are so dedicated. They're they're heartfelt. They persevere just as much as the kids do. Um they're just an amazing amazing group of of staff members. We're really really blessed here. Yes, we are. And thank you for all you do, too. Don't leave yourself out of that. Um but the staff are amazing in that. So, thank you for that. Yeah. So, is there anything you need from us? Just to accept the grant. Accept the grant of the 4389364. Yep. Yes. So I'll look for a motion to accept the grant for lenderary adult
041education 2526 year of 43,893.64, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I. I. 40. Thank you. Thank you, Crystal. All right. 7.3 dining price increases. Yes. I'm just following up to Crystal's presentation this spring. Um she talked about some of the things she'd done, where some of the deficits were. Um and since that meeting, um she met with the National School Lunch Program, went over items with um the department. Um and it looks like it would be in our best interest to raise lunch prices the minimum of the 10 cents. So this would only apply to student lunches. Um it would mean Moose Hill and all elementary schools would be 2.85 for lunch. The middle school would be 310 and London High School would be $360. So that
042raise doesn't quite um get us to where the shortfalls have been the couple of years. We've been lucky to have money that we got during COVID, but that's going to run out. But this in conjunction with some other ideas she has to do some more marketing should help get us operating in the in the areas we want to be. So, we're looking for you guys to um approve that increase if you are willing. All right. Any questions? Seeing none, I'll look for a motion to approve a 10 cent lunch price increase for 2025 2026, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Amanda. All those in favor? I I 40. Thank you, Army. Yep. And into 7.4 for CIP submission. Yes. So, the town um has a capital improvement plan. It's an important part
043of Lenar's planning process. Um they kind of look at where we have some deficiencies and what might be some upcoming projects um for future demands in the next five years. So, it's a multi-year schedule. Um we present it to the town, the town presents theirs. It is only advisory um but it serves the purposes of guiding the town council, school board, and budget committee. And during the budget process, it tries to stabilize the town's property tax rate. It aids in helping us prioritize and coordinate what should be um on the docket. It helps inform our community of plans to come in the next five years. Um and then it it it looks at our growth plans, ordinances for the town, um and just has that continued dialogue so that we're not all coming to the
044table with big big projects at the same time. Um so it's an annual process. Um this year we do plan to bring five potential projects that we have uh a couple of new ones but these are things that we would envision over the next five years to help improve our school. So the first one was full day K. So we just brought the plan um from last year minus the district office um and we used the price point um we were advised that probably it would be about 4%. Um, so we applied that in the new pricing and then we added an SAU office. Um, just left it pretty vague, left it at $3 million potentially with the possible of new building or real estate options. Three would be the high school. I think um,
045when we brought this previously, we were looking at like a super school. Um, last year at CIP, they said we really probably won't get our super school. Um, so we needed to to consider what we really would need in the next 5 years. and we were in agreement that phase one and the auditorium were some of the the big priorities to get done. So we we adjusted it um to just have those and then the added fourth and fifth things are turf fields. So we had the field study this year um and really turf turf saves so many of our our fields. It prolongs the life. It's safer for our students. It is a high cost um but we think it it's an investment at some point we'd like to bring to the community. um
046and have on the docket. We'd start with the field and then the fifth project is um to add the stadium the stadium seating um and the press box to it. So those were separated out with costs that Huntress um who did the field study had provided to us. So, um, we wanted to inform and with your permission, um, I enclosed in the packet, um, the sheets that we, um, give to the town and we would submit them by June 30th. Um, and then it would go through the CIP process this summer and into the fall. Any questions? I just have one question. So if we we still have flexibility to present the kindergarten and district office in the way that we see fit after our meetings and such. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's the
047the main thing and correct me if I'm wrong, Bob, is that we want to give them a basis to let them know that this is a priority, but we're still in the planning stages, but we have a price tag for right now. Um, and then they go through and and kind of see if they agree with our prioritizing and that sort of thing. But you we we had to do it last year um because the plane ch the plan changed significantly from this the summer to what we ended up going with in the fall. Okay. Yeah. And what how that works Amanda is there's a whole new board this year of CIP. It usually changes. Kevin's going to represent us. Um I'll go there with AMD to present in that night to answer any questions.
048Um and then there'll be uh one from town council, two from the planning board. um and one from the budget committee. So a committee of five and then they'll rate our projects even though we have done it ourselves. They will then uh converse over the needs in that as a committee and then rerate it and do point scoring and then and come up with a final tally that would once they come up with it, they would report it back to the school as well as then it goes to the planning department in November to get approved into the next uh next year's planning plus five years out. So I don't think much is going to change on our end. We broke up the high school. That was we're up about 120 million uh from the
049original quote, which we know we're not going to exceed. We we knocked it down to 40 million um looking at it and then did the turf field separate um just to kind of make it more realistic, okay, in that. So, um that's kind of how the whole um system works with them. So, they have a forecast. So if the town's coming in with 30 million and we're coming in and what's a priority on their end so everybody can try to get a piece of the pie and we don't go go into the taxpayers looking for $200 million in one year. So and and the dollar amounts can vary from what's there. We I think we carried a pretty good number from years past. So I think we're in good shape. So yeah, that all makes
050sense to me. I just think we have a lot to chat through. We got like a lot of feedback last time that people weren't interested in kindergarten until the district office, right, was, you know, dealt with and then now we have people I just want to sort through feedback and Yeah. I just wanted to to make sure that we had some flexibility with regard to what we ultimately put on there. Yes. Okay, that makes sense. Thank you. Yeah, you got it. Anyone else have any questions? You will I think you're good. Okay, then I'll sub I'll I'll submit it to the town and we will be within our deadline and then we'll go from there. Kevin and I and Bob, they have their first meeting next week. Kickoff meeting is next week for the committee
051itself and then the the meetings start. They pick their chair and and that and then they have six scheduled meetings after that. Y um per their charter, they're supposed to have upwards of six meetings to go through that. So they're all listed and out there through September. Perfect. So thank you. Yeah. All right. Uh 7.5 purchasing LMS carpet and then we have a couple of walk-ins that we'll go through after that. Yep. Um so one of our other projects um for construction this year was uh to replace carpets. Um Joe looked at a lot of different opportunities. Um he really wanted to get something that um was going to hold up, have longevity and durability. So he found a good product. Um he posted an RFP on June 6th. We accepted until June 13th and
052we had three come in uh 39,000 33 34,000ish and then 29,000. Um and we are recommending going with the low bid our Frasier at $29,890. Um he checked references their price is good. It's the same product and this would cover three full-size classrooms, an office, and the locker pod area. Uh, as well as demoing the old stuff and prepping to put this in. And then it gives us a good window to see if that's the product we want to continue to expand through um LMS and potentially other spots in the district. Great. Any questions? Uh, seeing none, I'll look for a motion to approve R. Frasier for 29,890 for LMS carpet replacement, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I I 4 Z. Thank you. All right. My
053second purchasing one is notably my most exciting one of the evening. Um it's the box truck um that has to do with the music department. So as Serge and I have been working through this, this was a new one for me. Um so we did post the RFP on June 6th and it went for a week until the 13th. We only had one person reach out to us and they asked a question of what we were really looking for. Um they did not have a product that we could drive without a CDL. So then um Serge found a great database that you could use to search box trucks. You could pick your um geographical location, all the parameters. He said it brought back a ton of different hits. So he worked with his music team
054and one of his band parents is a rider mechanic and they sorted through and found that um rider truck sales in Salsbury, Mass had a lot of different. So then they um limited down to three. Um, so they have one that was $47,495 with 81,000 mi and then one that was $54,54 with 134,000 miles and then one that was 53,000 with um 809 with 143 770 mi. This was the one Serge initially really wanted because it has an additional spot called a mom's attic. he thought it would be good um and they were going to go with that. But then the mechanic had some concerns about the maintenance um stuff. And so after doing due diligence and looking through these three options, they did go back to truck one. Uh the mechanic verified that. It
055seemed to make the most sense. Um we had budgeted $60,000 out of the vehicle capital reserve for this. This leaves the window because it also needs to cover insurance registration. He's going to get a music wrap and put shelving in. Um, so this is where we would like to proceed. Okay. Is this the one with the red cap? I I don't know. He was mentioning there was one with a red cap. I he was he wasn't sure so he could do it up with the blue and the red. So he didn't send me pictures, but when it's done, we're going to make sure we do a presentation on this music. Yeah, it's it's nice uh to have a mechanic go down and look. was great when he told me that at the senior awards that
056um had that flexibility to go with them and look at these trucks internally. So, y great job. Yep. And that So, um any questions on truck one? I'll look for a motion to approve uh $47,495 for the B trucks box truck purchasing, please. So, moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Amanda. All those in favor? I 4 Z. Thank you, Amy. Yes. So, Bob, before we do this next one, do you want to give your Y summary? Sure. Thank you. Um, I attended the town council meeting uh last night to talk about our situation where um you know, we're not sure what's going to happen with kindergarten. And that was the space we opted for last year was in Moose Hill. Um we are into um year eight of our lease starting in July. Uh
057it leaves us two years. Um I explained to them that we really didn't want to have to get into a renegotiate renegotiation of the lease. um if all possible at $220 to $250,000 per year for office space um and that we was it possible to talk about possibly building a one-story building like we had next to town hall um and get that priced. They told them we didn't want to spend any money for renderings um by an architect to redo the the floor plan and see if it worked with space. And Dan wanted to spend some time with them and see if it could work and uh if they would be inclined to um you know work with us on that like they were five years ago when we when we uh offered for the
058twotory building. And then I um kindly brought up that um it would back then the uh prior town council had offered us uh 2 million interest free to help us get started and that was actually seven years ago um before they uh we off uh tried to build and um then the district at that time and personnel u decided to go ahead with the lease and um and not partake in that. So, I kind of threw out I know the town just sold Gilchrist Road behind Home Depot and had 1.9 million left over after funding the um uh conservation commission of 750 and we have a sizable fund balance of 600 or so. So with those two funds, would they, you know, um, entertain possibly lending us the 1.9 for 10 years and us using
059our fund balance if we can get it built for around 2.5 million. And, um, it was a, um, wellreceived uh, some good questions from the council and uh, got consensus that they would be willing to work with us, the town manager, uh, which is fairly new. I'll get him to our next meeting. Um, I I didn't talk to him last night. I was trying to get him here tonight. Um, uh, also spoke that, you know, the the amount of interest we could save with not having a bond, uh, could be $300 to $500,000, uh, over a 15-year bond if we can use in-house money and, um, be back in the center of town and and kind of take that off the table because if if it does go forward, we're able to do this and
060it gets approved in March, it would take a year plus to build. So, that may that'll probably get us out. um eight or nine months early out of the lease and um we wouldn't have that hanging over our head of of where we're going to operate our our um school business on a day-to-day basis. Um so I it went really well and um AMD uh had reached out I had asked her to reach out to Marin Architects if what he could do with the plans we already have for the twotory and see what it would cost to come up with working with Dan and his staff a floor plan and some renderings that we could go out for some bids on on this before we went any further and could go back to the council
061uh with more information and take this because this is a 3 to five month window to do all this work between a rendering some uh preliminary pricing, spend more money on drawings to get to a GMP and then we're into budget season. U so it would be nice to have it going into budget. Um and that way we could do all our work that the town manager actually spoke of starting a small task force between a couple of uh uh counselor the town manager and the superintendent and school board so we can work on this together to make it happen. Um which I thought was a great thought and uh that's the price you'll see this here uh from Marin for about 15,000 to come up with some some rough plans to get a budget
062put together to see if we move forward or not. So yeah. Did that cover it? Yeah. Yeah. And Dan and I had a great conversation with Mr. Marines who was happy to to do that for us. Okay. So we're just looking for approval from the board to go ahead and spend 15,000 for this and see where numbers before we even vote on that. I watched last night um feedback from the council seemed very positive. Yeah. all around it was and from town managers. So, I mean, if we can get into a situation where in the current interest rate environment, we're able to get a hold of almost $2 million without having to pay interest, I think that would be crazy not to at least approach it. So, yes, please. Okay. Yeah. Good. I agree. The
063quicker we get on this, the better to have those plans and Yeah. see what our options are. Yeah. I love the idea. A part of me is a little afraid to start over on a different path because we've been down so many. But um whatever gets both projects done and gets us what we need, I think is going to Yeah. be what we need to do. Yeah. And what made me think of it, Amanda, was we're not sure what's going to happen with full day, right? And we have nowhere else. We've looked at real estate like I explained to the council. Yep. You know, Butrick sold and then the Roby house. Dan and his staff looked at it, but it's a 200-year-old home part of it. and you know, not knowing, you know, what could
064go wrong. If we can do something back at the center of town, um, and have a facility we don't have to worry about maintenance and have these warranties could be a a plus. Plus, I don't having the interest free money if that works out. That saves us three to 400 500,000 over 15 years. Um, so that's another u savings for the community tax- wise. So, yeah, that's a strong selling point. Everybody good? Yeah. Yeah, we're good. Good. Thank you. All right. Now, we're into policies. Policies. Um, so all these I think are are pretty straightforward. Um Um, so I'll just kind of review them. We'll go one by one. Yeah. So policy JCA is we're just bringing our current policy in line with with state law. You know, and a manifest hardship is a is
065basically a situation where um another superintendent would reach out to me or I would reach another superintendent and say it's in this child's best interest to leave the current school district and go to a new one, and there's just laws behind it. So, we're just trying to we're just trying to update um you this is not something that's used a lot, but it is obviously an option um for for parents and kids. Um so, we're just trying to update our policy to state law. Okay, any questions? Seeing none, I'll look for a motion to approve the first reading to adopt policy JCA, change of class of school or assignment, best interest and manifest hardship, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I I 40 and EC school property.
066So many of the next uh policies, what we're recommending to do is kind of weave them into a a procedure book and kind of take them off the books as policies. Some of them have not been touched in 40 to 50 years. Um you know, so it's definitely just a starting conversation. Um but for EC, um I'm just going to go to it so I can see it better. Um you know, I I don't know I don't know why this one was create created as a as a um as a as a policy, but it's definitely one that could be a procedure. Um, it's definitely something we take care of at a very small level, not a schoolboard level. Um, so that's why we're recommending it to a procedure, but we can keep it if
067if uh if you guys want it. No, I get it. Any questions on EC? Seeing none, I'll look for a motion to approve the first reading to resend policy EC school property, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Amanda. All those in favor? I I 40. And then ECR again would be a procedure. This is this is generally how we go about updating our buildings. Um and you guys are obviously part of that when it comes to the financial part or a big a big project. Um so we thought we just captured our procedure book. Um you know this one hasn't been looked at in about 40 years. So we thought it's fine to be in a procedure book, but it's up to you all. Yep. Any questions? Seeing none, I'll look for
068a motion to approve the first reading to resend policy ECR, building modifications, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I I I 4 Z and ECAB. So ECAB vandalism, that's something that's part of our student code of conduct, like a whole separate schoolboard policy. So, you know, we act on it anyway. Uh, so we figured we would just move, you know, some wording uh to a procedure manual as well. But I I think we do jump on any vandalism issues when we see them uh from our student body or members of the public. Gotcha. Any questions? Seeing none, I'll look for a motion to approve the first reading to resend policy ECAB, vandalism, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Amanda. All those in favor? Okay.
069I 40 EDC. Another one we're recommending to be part of a procedure manual. This is just um we don't normally loan equipment out. Uh but when we do, it's through our buildings and grounds department or through our IT department or through through other means, but we have a pretty good way to handle it internally. We didn't think it it needed to be a schoolboard policy, so we were going to put it in a procedure manual, too. Any questions? Seeing none, I'll look for a motion to approve the first reading to resend policy EDC, authorized use of school own materials, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I I 4 EAB. This one was funny. I don't know where this one came from, but but yep, everyone who has
070a bus ride in the morning does have a bus ride in the afternoon. So, we had a policy just clarifying that. Um, you know, so we we just we follow state laws for our bus routes. You know, we have a welloiled machine between our business office and our and our um the company we use. So, we would just keep things in a procedure. Um, but this this one was an you know. Any questions? Seeing none, I'll look for a motion to approve the first reading to resend policy EAB, school bus routes, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Amanda. All those in favor? I I 40 Z E A. Yeah, for this one, you know, we have real-time reports with um with our bus contractor. Um so we figured, you know, we we
071weren't not that this policy just kind of outdated. It's, you know, about 40 years old um or nearly 50. Um but it just says, you know, we need to have the number of kids on each bus, you know, on the first and last of the month. We have real-time information with STA. So, we figured we just have a procedure and kind of keep things going the way they are. Any questions? Seeing none, I'll look for a motion to approve the first reading to resend policy E A, student transportation records and reports, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I I I 4 Z. And EA. So, this one is not required by law. Um, but I thought it might be a good one to keep. It basically just
072says obviously education is the focus of what we do, but there's all these other support service need to happen to make education possible. Um, so having a good physical environment, having safe transportation, um, I I put in a new line. I when this when this uh, policy was originally written, you know, we didn't have functioning networks and devices and all the electronic stuff we have right now. So, I put that in there. Y um and all the support services we have uh which which are a lot, you know, so I figured this one we could keep. Um I think it's it's it's a it's a good one, you know, for a school board to be thinking about. What are the big picture things you want to have in a school system? Um so I'm just
073offering u an amendment if you guys want to do it. Great idea. Any other questions? Seeing none, I'll look for a motion to approve the first reading to amend policy EA support services goals, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Amanda. All those in favor? I I I 4 Z and EBD E ABCD. Um so all we're trying to do is amend emergency closings and kind of bring it up to how we function now. Um what was funny in this one, uh the superintendent would be calling the school board chair at uh 4:15 in the morning to see if we would close school. I'm usually up. Yeah. You know, so um all we did was kind of make updates to kind of how we function now. um and and just make it a
074little bit more modern because you know we haven't looked at this one in nearly 50 years. Um so this is a good one to keep. It kind of outlines how school gets canceled and the reasons for having it and obviously from this year from the roof incident in the high school, crazy things can happen, you know. Um so this one is a good one to keep and we're just updating it to how we function and make sure we follow all the New Hampshire statutes. Y any questions? Seeing none, I'll look for a motion to approve the first reading to amend policy ABCD, emergency closings, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I I 4 Z. Thank you, Dan. You're welcome. Uh superintendence report 8.1 enrollment. Yeah. So this
075is our snapshot of enrollment right now. Um you know, we tend to be on this trend. I'll go to the bottom first. We're, you know, we're we're down about 2%. Um, you know, so we're we're still on that downward trend. You know, as I said, kind of going back to that full day kindergarten, um, roundt discussion. We need some time this this summer to really play out what does this mean long term? What does this mean over the next five years? Um, you know, so here's where we're at right now. You know, uh, 3927. Um, you know, so it's about 2% down from this time last year. And you know, we have another small kindergarten class coming in. Um, we still have obviously time for people to register, but it's probably going to be between
076175 and 190 kids. So, it's even smaller than the last couple years. So, that's the information we have to kind of really think through and keep an eye on and give you all a way to operationalize kind of last year's plan with these smaller numbers because, you know, every time a class gets smaller, it changes the dynamic of our school system. So, that's where we're at right now and um and we'll keep an eye on it and um keep on sharing our enrollment information. Yeah, it looks like the trend like you said last year um this year and then the incoming year gives us three small classes. Y so another year or two we could you know be in better shape um for space in these schools. So be interesting to see what the final
077number is come come August. So yep, that'll be great. Any questions? Seeing none, that's all I have. Tim, got anything to add? All good. Sarah, Amanda, Dan, J. Good. All right. With that, we will uh look for a motion to go into non-public session requested under RSA 91A 3, section 2, B, and C. Please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Amanda. I'll go a roll call vote from my left to right, please. I Tim Porter. I Bob Slater. I Sarah Laughlin. I Amanda Butcher. Good night, Lenny.