001Welcome to the meeting of the Londereary School Board to be held on Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 at 700 p.m. in the cafe at Londereerry High School, 295 Mammoth Road, Londereerry, New Hampshire. The meeting will be also be broadcast on local cable access channel 8 as well as the district YouTube channel. Could we please rise? Pledge of Allegiance, please. I aliance 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. We have uh one retirement tonight, Kathy Gford started her career at North School as a special education assistant for two years and then became a first grade teacher. Mrs. Gford has been an anchor of our first grade team for the past 25 years, dedicating her
002career to guiding, encouraging, and educating our youngest learners. Mrs. Gford has been a leader on our first grade team, bringing in creative ideas, making learning fun for our youngest students. From the first day of school jitters to the proud moments of newfound reading skills and lifelong friendships, Mrs. Gford has been there for her students and families. Her classroom has always been a place where children felt safe, loved, and empowered to explore the world around them. Beyond the classroom, her positive spirit, mentorship, and dedication have touched the lives of her colleagues and helped shape the heart of our school. She has truly embodied what it means to be an educator. While we will miss the magic she brought to her classroom every day, we are so excited for her as she begins the next chapter of
003life. We hope it is filled with relaxation, traveling, and time with family. Congratulations, Mrs. Gford, and thank you for your 27 years of service to our students and families. Thank you, Sarah. Um, continuing on with upcoming meetings, May 29th, 2025 is our adult education over in the gym at 6 p.m. And on June 3rd, 2025 will be a regular schoolboard meeting right here in the cafe at 7 p.m. And on June 11th, 2025 will be senior recognition night up at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Conquered, New Hampshire, uh, starting at 7 p.m. And on June 12th, 2025, uh, graduation will take place at, uh, SNHU Arena in Manchester starting at 7:00 p.m. Could I get a motion uh, to approve the consent agenda, please? So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Amanda.
004All those in favor? I I 50. Thank you. All right. Moving into committee reports. Schoolboard liaison. I know it's only been a week, so I don't know if anyone has anything. Amanda salsa, Sarah Zeta, I have nothing, Tim. Nothing there this week. All right. I just have a couple updates. Uh um Cell School had their PTA last night. Um during um break, they had some generous donations uh done out in the courtyard. uh landscaping, picnic tables, um did a dedication to some space out there to a former staff member from years ago. Um and they wanted to thank uh all the generous people that came out and helped them during that. And then upcoming events, uh the spring picnic will be held on May 29th, 5 to 7:00 p.m. And uh the last popcorn day
005will be Friday, 5:30. And then the fifth grade sendoff will take place on June 16th. So, a lot of good things happening at South School. All right, that wraps up schoolboard leaison and student representative Dylan. Welcome. Hi. Uh, I do have a few things for this week just that popped up and realized I didn't say last week. So, uh, we have NHS inductions tomorrow night. That'll be over in the gym. Um, and then we've got like the student council and the tri uh inductions. I believe student council's here in the cafeteria and triumphs in the gym. Um, and then there I'm sure there's others some are holding meetings and others are doing formal inductions. Uh, student council is going to our spring conference of uh the all the student councils of the state up in
006conquered at the state house. Uh, so we get to kind of sit in the seats of the representatives and see what that's like. And then we vote on our own student board um for the n on the u state level. And then next week is the music awards banquet over at the Castleton as well as uh the week after that is concert on the common. And then uh quick thank you. I saw all the banners go up today. Um I was driving past and I saw them going up. So a big thank you to Mrs. S or Miss Sullivan, uh the London Rotary and everyone involved in those. It's always a great tradition and um I have to make sure I'm not I'm watching my eyes on the road as I'm looking down the road,
007but um I love that tradition. Uh and then one final thing is for AP testing. Um just some some concerns about kids that have take that are taking a lot of APs. Um we think the AP tests are very important. We're happy that they're free with the grant that we're given and um but there were concerns about kids that have four to five and they are missing a whole week of school. Um and so that was difficult because they're despite only being at school here for three hours, it's it's exhausting. So, um I've had some teachers and some students uh talk about that maybe if there's a way to opt out of one of them because there's going to be some tests that like I can't study for this one because it's difficult and I've
008got all these other ones that I care more about. So, um I think maybe just if uh maybe a survey could be uh sent out or just something to hear from the students and the faculty on that because it's also difficult for the faculty to plan around uh our different tests that were gone for a week. So, um overall the AP testing went smoothly aside from Friday which should be going on tomorrow. Okay, great. And then um a quick thank you for all you guys. Um it was it's crazy. Two years ago over in the band room um that meeting was very chaotic. It was very like well there's all these people here. There's all this stuff going on. Um and I had no idea what was going on here. And so it's been great
009over these past year years uh learning about what goes on here, what all the work that's put in. Um, it's been really valuable for me and hopefully to some uh some people that I can explain all the stuff happening um and kind of give a better perspective because not I'm sure there's thousands of people that have walked through these halls not knowing any of what the school board does. So, um I really appreciate it. Um if I had any recommendations going on is just keep asking us stuff. Um, I know we've had some opportunities here to talk about the cell phones and other things going on around the school, but um, the students are willing to we're willing to talk and hash things out and so we'd love to contribute. So, keep asking. Yeah, Dylan,
010uh, right right back at you. Uh, it's been a pleasure having your input at these schoolboard meetings. you've uh really uh stepped up in this role and position that I've seen over the past seven eight years um being engaged in the meetings and uh taking it to another level. So, um you know, you brought brought a whole new look to our student representative of the of uh the school district at our school board and I've been honored to have you sit here and and uh represent um you know the students that uh at this school. You've done a done a great job in that. So, appreciate everything you've done um you know moving this this forward. So, we've got a little uh gift and a card for you I'd like to give to you. And
011uh again, thank you for the time you've put in. Um and that much appreciated. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Bob, do you mind if I add to that real quick? Sure. Absolutely. Um, I just wanted to say, Dylan, that it's taken most of us the better part of our adult lives to be able to come in front of people and say how we feel. Um, and you do that beautifully, but you're also so measured. So, I hope you recognize that you can definitely do some big things in your life with the skills you have and communication. So, thank you. Good. And Dylan, what time does that NHS start tomorrow night by chance? Um, I will I want to say oh seven. Uh I can get back to you here in a second. Just if you knew off
012the top of your head. Yeah. I'm trying to think. I'll get back to you here in a second. Look it up. Thank you. All right. Moving into uh announcements and presentations. Um Dan, I noticed you put this uh policy on here. BDDH public participation at board meetings and KL public complaints. Um I read through that again and what I'd like to do is just table it for another meeting and I want to just see because I definitely don't want the board to get into a situation of infringing on someone's freedom of speech. So I I have some terminology I'd like to run by the attorney that I could address if this does come up in that in a in a prior meeting. And I I'm assuming that's what you're regarding is Yeah. You know, if
013they name an employee or something. Yeah. So, I just I I just wanted to connect the dots very quickly. And um you know, most likely the the K part of the policies is something we come to soon. The B's might come after. Yeah. But there, you know, there's a specific line in BDDH and I'll connect it to the law next. Um but, you know, it says speakers may offer such objective criticisms of school operations, program policies, etc. has concerned them. However, the board cannot in public session allow personal criticism of specific individuals involved in the school system. Uh for the protection of the individual, this can only be allowed in executive sessions. So, if you go to the 91A law, uh it's 91A, I have it right here. Sorry. 91 C. Um if someone uh
014that's not the the five of you or me is talked about in public, they're allowed to ask for a non-public session. And that's basically what it's saying. And I just want to protect our employees because I think twice, you know, in the last two board meetings, someone was named specifically. Um they were I I think intended to be disparaging comments and that's not fair. I mean, Cindy McMahon has been a wonderful employee for more than 20 years um in this district. She did a great job as our our health benefit specialist for years and she's, you know, been a great leader for the last three years and been one of the reasons why we become a stable school system again. So, we have to make sure we just protect our employees uh in them. Yeah,
015I mean these are these these policies have not been touched in 30 to 40 years. Correct. So we can definitely look at them, but that's just a connection. We've had pretty calm board meetings for years now, which is wonderful. We just have to kind of remind the public when they come up, you know, the five of you and me, I understand people can say what they're going to say, but we have a really good process for dealing with complaints and we have the law to follow when dealing with, you know, individuals who are employees of the district. Yeah. So we will put this through the process and that but I I do attend to you because there is something that I can say as a chair too at the point when when something is said
016to that point just to warn you know that there could be situation down the road um if something is said as a personal to an employee. So I've got some wording on that that I'd like to to run by you and and the board and that. So appreciate it. No problem. Okay. Thank you. Um all right. 5.2 from uh tunnels to towers mobile 911. So I'm going to turn this over to Vinnie Curo can come up and uh uh you know he reached out to me I want to say two to three weeks ago. Um and he he's talking about um you know kind of a a potential memorial or a mobile memorial we can bring to the lenary that that that that uh you know shares 911 um with our students and the community.
017I thought it was a great idea. um I saw with my own kids when I went to the uh memorial uh last year. I forgot they didn't even know the world, you know, they they they they were born much much later. Um so I think, you know, we're coming up on the 25th anniversary, which is crazy to think about and I think he has a great idea that I want you guys to consider. Sure. Welcome, Vinnie. Well, thank you so much, Mr. Black. Thank you. Uh Chairman Slater, thanks. School board, thank you for giving me a few minutes. Uh, I am a call firefighter in the town of Leader, which means I'm a paid volunteer. Have been for 34 years. Sorry. It's so important. Um, on on September 11th, Lieutenant Steven Siller got off duty.
018He was a lieutenant New York City Fire Department. Got off duty. Was going to go play golf with his family. First tower was hit and they call it an all hands call is what it is in New York. That's everybody who's available goes. Lieutenant Still Still turned around, went back to his firehouse, grabbed his gear, tried to make it to the towers. He had stopped at the tunnel because the tunnels were all blocked. He parked his car. He ran five miles with his gear to the towers. I practiced this like four times, too. Sorry, Dylan. See, you're doing a good job, dude. Keep going. Take your time. Take your time. He um subsequently lost his life when the towers collapsed. His family has started the ST Steven Foundation. You've probably heard it called the Tunnel
019the Towers Foundation. The original goal of it was to help the firefighters who were injured that day and their families and also to help the families of the firefighters who died. They have paid off mortgages, taken care of medical bills. It's such a great organization that they now take care of all first responders and military families that apply. Um I had the privilege so part of the the whole thing is they also um provide educational materials to the school districts. I would strongly suggest that the curriculum coordinators um take a look at what they have available. You can get just about anything you need for any age from kindergarten all the way up. As Mr. Black said, all of our students don't know what happened on September 11th. There's a lot of our teachers in
020the school that weren't around on September 11th. I know where I was. Does everybody else knew where they were? Yeah. Okay. Um, so a few years ago, one of the educational aspects of it is they have a mobile exhibit. It's a 53 foot tractor trailer. It opens up on all the sides. It's a walkthrough exhibit. Different stations. Each station is manned by an FDNY person who was most likely at 911 when it happened. That's the they try that's their goal is to have someone there. I was able to um go through the exhibit in Salem a few years ago and I made it a commitment then to bring it to town. I tried and when speaking to Mr. Black, we were trying for next year for the 25th anniversary. I was I just found out
021recently that because it is the 25th anniversary, it's not um traveling the country because they're offering um several special exhibits throughout the country and that's what they're going to concentrate on. So my goal today is and the two questions that I asked Mr. Black was are we able to bring this to town on the school property and are we able to work it out where the kids can go through it? Um when it went to Salem what they did is they opened it up for a couple hours in the morning for local fire departments to go through. Then the schools um from surrounding towns brought their kids in and then it was open to the public in the afternoon. And that's kind of what we would like to do here. Um, so with it being
022said that next year is is not an option, we would look to bring it into town in April of 2027. Great. Any questions? Questions from anybody or Sounds great to me. Sounds great to me too. So that you know like anything there is a cost involved in it. We're work, you know, we'll work on on getting the cost. The main thing right now is that we can get a commitment so we can send in the application. Uh there's insurance policies just like anything else that that happens um that you know that we can meet with. But I think, you know, everything happens for a reason and I think going to 2027 will just give us a little bit more time to plan ahead and be able to do this right and and be able to
023get, you know, the kids through. Um but this is this is important. So, we need the kids to know. We need the parents to know. We made a vow that day to never forget. Yeah, we can't. So, sound good, Dan? Yeah. No, I I think we definitely have the space to do it. I think um we can easily work with our building principles and curriculum coordinators and teaching staff to figure out putting the kids through this. And definitely when I think about the age ranges and kind of when we do it and also making a community from talking to Mr. Curo, it sounds like what other communities have done is there's times during the day where the kids go in and then it's still open like maybe after 3 p.m. for the community part of
024it. So I think that's that's a good thing and and I think too if we can work with town council across the street make it community event. I think it'd be a really important thing to do. Yeah. So is it one day? No. No, we can bring it in for um up to four four days. Um Salem brought it in for uh three. They brought it in for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. um they were able to get, don't quote me exactly, but I think they were able to get like six different school districts in during the day. The kids, you know, mostly high school students at the time. Um and uh and then they opened it up at 4 in the afternoon for the public. We went uh my wife and I went Friday at
0255:30. It closed at 8 and we were turned around because the line was over three hours long. These these men and women do not leave their post for eight or 10 hours. Wow. I mean, they they're offered food. They don't leave. As long as there's somebody standing in line, they're there. So, um we provide, you know, part of the program or that their request is that we'll provide hotel rooms for them. Um you know, we have to have a security area. It need requires a police plan, but I don't think that's anything that we can't accomplish here in London area. Sure. Well, sounds like um we'd love to be part of this and uh if you can work it out with the superintendent and as many days as possible, um we can we can hit
026a lot of the commun local communities as well as our whole community. So, excellent. Sounds great. Thank you so much, Vinnie. Appreciate it. Thanks for all you do. All right, moving right along. Uh, I'll open public comment. Anyone wants to speak? Name and address, please. I'm here as two people tonight. First of all, represent as a representative Christine Perez, 5 Wesley Drive. House Bill 231 passed and it goes into effect on July 13th in 2025. So the policy around it will have to be put into effect because it goes into effect. Okay. Now I'm going to turn around. Citizen Christine Perez. Good evening school board. Um Christine Perez. I'm here um reading this for my friend and fellow resident Mora Ryan as she is otherwise engaged today. I want to re she wants to remind
027the board that she came for you came before you one regarding the memo advisory advising how to avoid giving services to special ed kids authored by the school district's law firm. Two, regarding the found complaint whose existence was denied by the current superintendent. Three, reading from the found the founded complaint which involved a class of students not getting services. Four, paying for services in 2022 2023 which the student never received. Five, a 2024 whistleblower who reported special ed violations. I'll leave out the name because I did hear what you said. and six four open investigations being conducted by the federal office of civil rights. This board stated that they were not aware. She's reminding you that you have been made aware twice. She's looking for any updates on that. She's also waiting for a response
028on this. Um, she also wanted to make the board aware that asurances from special education are due from the district to the state at the end of this month. These are required to receive specialended funding. She would like the district to release those asurances and allow public comment on them. She suggests that the board also re review those asurances carefully. Respectfully, Mora Ryan. Thank you. Thank you, Christine. If you could just pass along, I will reach out to her tomorrow. We have her answers all in writing for her. Okay. And I will get them to him. All right. Seeing no other further public comment, I'll close it and we'll move into deliberation. 7.1 RFPs for purchasing. So, Brandon and I are here for some um purchasing approvals tonight. Brandon, you want me to go first
029or do you? You got some? I got some, too. Okay. Um I did give you an updated memo. I also put it up there. The memo that was posted online um had a placeholder part. We were waiting for a couple of bids to come in that had part of a roofing that should have been the bathroom floor. So, the updated one um is what we'll discuss tonight for the last request. So, um, first we had an RFP, um, for the North School office entry roof. We posted on April 21st and it was up until May 12th. We did receive the three bids for the project, um, from Theion Roofing, BR Jones, and Skyline Roofing. However, Skyline Roofing came in with a plan. They just have done our gym project that we had done. Um, so
030they had some interesting feedback to give. They looked at some of our other roofs and they had an an innovative plan that involved a rubber membrane um that was um just as effective according to our maintenance guys and to Joe. Um so Joe reached back out to the other two roofers to see their thoughts on that and if they wanted to bid um that option as well. The did get back with a bid. Um theirs was 74346 and Skylines was 63550. So, we would like to move forward with Skyline um for that bid. Do you want me to do all of them and then let's do them and then we'll just go through them. Okay. Um additionally, we had two HVAC um projects that were listed for the summer. Um one is the LMS office
031and the other was the LHS weight room. Both were under the capital reserve as was the roofing project. Um, and we had used one of the local HVAC companies to get the numbers during the budget process. We reached back out to them and another company as well as the two bids we received. They're already full for the summer. So, they said that they felt that um they couldn't take on us as well, so they chose not to bid even though they'd helped us get pricing. So, we had Echart and Johnson and Pinnacle that put in for both projects. Um they walked around with our HVAC technician and Joe Parzek. They both looked through the things um for the first one for um LMS. Echarts came in um higher, but they were going to replace the
032force hot water coil and the piping where the other company was going to reuse current equipment. Johanna felt like the equipment should be replaced for the whole project. So we would like to move ahead with the higher bid to cover the new piping and the coil replacement as well. So that one's for 66500 which is about what we had put in for the capital reserve project. Additionally um for the wait room EART came in at 54 and Pinnacle came in at 48 but they had different um products listed. Um, the Mitsubishi came in through Echart and Johnson and Pinnacle included Samsung and Joe did Johanna did some research and he felt like the Mitsubishi equipment was better for us. So, he would also like to he recommended that we go with Eart and Johnson for
033both of those and it seemed pretty reasonable for those. Um, now we move on to the epoxy bathroom floors. We started this project last summer. We did two of the bathrooms. We did get three bids at the time, but north northeast borings was the best bid that we had this time. The reason why I didn't have it in the initial memo was because we were waiting to see if we would get two other ones. Um, he had reached out. We did not. Um, but Joe crunched some numbers and what we paid last summer was $2816 per square foot for everything when all the work was considered. um and their bid for this year is lower because they gave us a volume discount since we were doing more bathrooms and it came in to 1782 per
034square foot for um the work. So, we feel like it's fair. We'd like to move on with this. These are all projects that need to get done this summer before school starts. So, we would like to go with Northeast flooring for the $28,740. Okay. All right. Let's start with the uh first roofing at North School. Anyone have any questions? I'll look for a motion to uh approve skyline roofing for 63,550 for the north school office entry roof, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I I 50. Okay. Moving on to the HVAC for the LMS office HVAC project. Any questions on this? Yeah, on this one. Just because of the disparity between the two. Yes. Um you said that the for Pinnacle they were going to just use
035the existing piping um but it was evaluated that it would be recommended for replacement. Now is it is life so so Joe Hannah walked around with both of them um both of the people that came in they felt that EART was more thorough and took more measurements and looked at the equipment a little more um substantially than the other. But what Pinnacle was going to do was they were going to reuse the hot water coil and the piping that was already there. So it would be less work. Um, Ehart was g is going to replace that coil and the piping. So, the project would have both of those. So, that's why it was more Yeah. My question is more is it necessary to replace that? So, Joe Hannah said yes. He said to do this
036project that if you don't replace them both at the same time, you're looking if that coil goes that we would have to do that as a separate expense. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. Seeing none, I'll look for motion to approve uh Echart and Johnson for $66,500 for the LMS office HVAC project. Please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Kevin. All those in favor? I I 5 Z. All right. Moving on to the LHS wait room HVAC. Uh, any questions on this one? Seeing none, I'll look for a motion to approve Earten Johnson for a sum of $54,000 for the LHS weight room HVAC project, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Amanda. All those in favor? I I 50. And the South School bathroom floors. Uh look for a
037motion to approve northeast flooring for a sum of 28,740 for the bathroom flooring at South School, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I I 5. Thank you. Thank you, Amy. Okay, test the mic. Welcome, Brandon. Hello. Okay. On May 2nd, uh we went out to bid uh for four items here. Uh we have interactive displays, Chromebooks, student laptops, and teacher laptops. Um I'll go through each one. On the interactive displays, these are the um they're like TVs, but you can touch and move stuff around in them. Um, we want to award this bid here for $17,766 to YNS Technologies. They came in with the lowest um bid. They also came in with the latest model. Um, so this is a vendor we haven't done business with in
038the past. We checked the references and they've got excellent um references. So, um, student laptops, um, we recommend for that one, uh, connection. We recommend connection for $199,880. Um, for those comes in at $526 per unit. Um, teacher laptops, we recommended to go with YS again as the vendor for a total of $13,350. Um, and for the Chromebooks, we are recommending to go with vendor Wall-E computers we've done business with in the past. Um, for a total of $172,620. We had multiple vendors bid this year. Um, two vendors didn't um didn't want to bid this year. I don't know why because they won stuff in the past from us, but um we still were surprised at the number that we did get. Yeah, it's good to see 9 to 11 vendors bidding this. So, correct.
039Gives you a good range of where everybody's at. So, appreciate that. Um, I just had one quick question. Um the uh interactive boards are we adding or we replacing those are replacements. Those are all replacements. Yes, correct. Okay. And you went with YS Technologies on those, but yet you are looking to use uh connections which is about $50 more per laptop for the students. Yeah. Because it's actually a better model. Okay. Okay. So, it's going to be more rugged, more durable. Um, and we just thought that would be a better option for us because it's still within what we had estimated for budget budget. And these are the ones the high school kids get like as freshmen. So, if you want a more durable Yeah. Because we've used this model in the past, the other
040one that that we did not choose. Um, and they've been fine, but we just feel that the the u the one we recommend is a better model. Okay. It's the only question I had. Anyone else have any questions? Yeah, just one question on the um connections. Have you used connections before? Is that a a repeat vendor? Yeah. Yeah, we've had a relationship with them for probably the 19 years I've been here. Okay. So, no concern with inventory. I know that's sometimes a problem when you're doing large laptops. No purchases. We haven't had a problem with them. Last year, one of the vendors that won the bid was a new vendor to us. We went with them. We had issues. They didn't respond to us. We They were really late. I mean, they cut it short
041like in August. They delivered stuff to us. So, fortunately that vendor didn't bid again this year, but yeah. So, we get a little worried about which vendors we're going with. Yeah. No, that was my that was my concern with the laptops and knowing that the laptops and Chromebooks in particular are timely. You know, the the interactive boards are a little delayed. It's not good, but it's not the end of the world. Both kids having to have them first a concern there. But, you use them and have that confidence. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. And our employees get, you know, they were extremely nervous last year cutting it short that close to school Yeah. Yeah. No, that's that was my question. So, that's good to hear. Yep. Good. Y everyone. Good. Um, you want a motion for
042each one just to Yeah, I'll do for each one just so you're covered. Yep. In that, but I appreciate the due diligence on this and the explanation on why we spend a little more in areas because that's important. So, thank you for doing that work. Um, and that. All right. I'll look for a motion uh to approve YS Technologies for the in uh interactive boards at 1279 per unit for a total of 17,766, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Kevin. All those in favor? I I 50. I'll look for a motion um to uh purchase the student laptops through connections at a cost of 526 per unit for a total of 199,888 please. $80, sorry. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Amanda. All those in favor? I I 5 second
043on this. Um, Brandon, on the teacher laptops, and forgive me if you already addressed this. Sure. Um, there were two bids by Y and S, you went with the the higher one. What's the difference that we're going? Yeah, they they bid a couple of different models. Um, and the one that we ended up going with has a it's a the the chipset is newer, so that basically the the technology in it is a little bit newer. It's a better um that's what I'm looking for. It's got a better um power usage on it. It's more efficient. So, it's basically 50 15 watts versus 30 watts. So, you get a little bit longer battery life on that. Um so, that's why we decided to go with that one. Okay. Good. Yep. Okay. Uh look for a
044motion uh for the teacher laptop laptops to go with YS Technologies at a cost of 6.89 89 per unit for a grand total of $103,350, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah, second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I I Chromebooks. Uh look for a motion to go with Wall-E Computers at a cost of $274 per unit for a grand total of $172,620, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Kevin. All those in favor? I I 50. Thank you, Brandon. Thank you. Appreciate it. Just to follow up really quickly, um just to give you guys a heads up, we have a paving issue um that we think we need to address. So, we just posted an RFP today about um the high school main entrance and then back by the JB press box.
045Um they've deteriorated a little more quickly than we anticipated. So, we'd like to get some of that work done this summer. So, we'll be bringing that to you um next meeting. Okay. Thank you very much, Eony. All right. Um moving on to 7.2 two overnight field trips. Bring up our athletic director. Good evening. Hi. Um we're here to talk about two um new overnight trips. Um not the annual ones that are, you know, kind of added to the list that you guys approved. These are these are new this year. Um so we have a request from our girls basketball program um to do a a trip in August um August 1st to 3rd in Saratoga, New York for a summer tournament. I think you guys have the memo and and all the information, but um
046yeah, I don't know if there's any any questions I could answer for you on that. Any questions for anyone? No. And then the other one is for uh boys um u varsity football and that'll be in October, October 3rd to the 4th. Um, we're going down to Ducksberry, Massachusetts to play Ducksberry High School. Um, not all the details have been ironed out as far as uh just just a handful of things. Uh, but can certainly fill you guys in on on those things as they come about. We're still few months away. Um, but if there's any questions I can answer tonight. Any questions on this one? All right. Um, having no questions. Um, yeah, if you want to just get us an update or record could update us, you know, once everything's set in place
047for the football. I know it's a larger trip with a lot of a lot of moving pieces there. That'll be fine. Y. Um, but yeah, I'll look for a motion um to approve both of these overnight requests of uh the basketball and football team, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Amanda. All those in favor? I I 5 Z. Thank you. Thank you. All right. 7.3. Uh first reading to amend policy JFCI life of a Lancer co-curricular code of conduct. Mr. Barnes and Mr. Lazon. And I think there he comes, Mr. O Connor. So both of these fine gentlemen have been working really really hard uh really since day one since I started last year when we started looking at our life of a Lancer code of conduct. Um obviously I recogn quickly
048learned how big a piece of it is of our school culture and district culture. Um, it's something we value quite a bit and drives a lot of our our expectations for our athletes and as we know we have many of them. But going through it, we've we've been making these edits over a period of time. Um, and we've come to there's they keep kind of continuing to build and so we wanted to get this in front of you sooner rather than later as we start to look to the fall season ahead of time. Um, there's been a lot of changes in other policies and some wording. There's been situations and we would are moving to um, make this a little bit more of a fluid document. maybe along the lines and you can correct me
049if I'm wrong uh Mr. parent that we'd like to see it like a program of studies maybe an annual review if we have changes we can just bring up for you I know it's a policy now and that might be a bigger discussion but there this things change kids change technology changes situations change and we want to make sure this document is accurately reflecting what we're dealing with on a day-to-day basis and so it can always be relevant and useful so I'll turn it over to to these both these guys I I think um there was some language that was necessary to change just because it's it it really um it's the overarching guidelines for for all of our student activities and it was really geared towards um student athletes only. So, we needed to
050adjust some of that wording. Um but we also wanted it to align a little bit more with the student handbook um and some of the behavior um consequences and things like that that would match um the tiers in which are stated in the um handbook. and you there was a lot of gray area um in some how to handle certain character things and we just wanted to have some more parameters and guidelines on some of those things. Last amendment was in 2019 and a lot has changed since then not just in our school but also in the community and the world. Um so like Rick and Jimmy said we we need to reflect that in the code of conduct for life of Lancer. um you know from things as as straightforward as how our school
051monitors academic progress. We've moved from a quarter system to a semester system. So these changes need to reflect the handbook. Um but also from an administrative standpoint, the things that we encounter. Um the code of conduct originally leaned heavily towards addressing drugs and alcohol, but as it as you can read in the opening, it's a privilege to participate in extracurricular activities and there and we expect our uh students to be held to a higher standard. Uh and that also includes things that aren't just related to banned substances. uh its behavior as well. Um so things that are um connected to character bullying. Just last year we met as a middle school and high school administrative team and did a Facebook live session explaining to the community how we address bullying and how we we try
052to prevent it. And we wanted to try to tie that that information in with life of a Lancer not just for athletes but for any students who do extracurricular conduct uh extracurricular activity and it's important to also know we brought Serge Bolio into this too because music and band um plays a big role and falls under this umbrella as well. Yeah. Any questions? I think um being a coach here for so many years um and seeing the changes to your point, Sean, and and um it is. And is it is this something we can do an amendment to as things progress rather than wait for a total rebuild if we set up this policy and just kind of keep up with the times moving forward too? There's I think there's two ways you can go
053about it. One you can treat it you I suppose you could keep it as a policy with the expectation that we come back annually. The other way to go procedure is a pro make it a procedure. You could you could have a general policy that just says life just references that we have this life of a lancer code of conduct and the expectation is that it's part of the student handbook and this becomes procedural. That would be a lot easier because then it lives there and we know we have to have it. Then we can make those tweaks because it's just fine-tuning things. It can be little things, but they end up being really big. Something's as simple as when does the school day end? If someone has a party on the last day of
054school and it's the school is out a little bit early, did and they're in the playoffs. You start to get these gray areas and all of a sudden someone's playing, maybe they it just opens up Pandora's box on something that seems really innocuous. So So you could actually update this procedure before the handbooks go out each year. Yep. So it doesn't tie your hands to wait for three readings and a policy change. So just go into a policy and procedure with with this I Yeah. And the the other piece that is we open up, you know, try out registration June 1st for the following year. So, you know, we have to be, you know, like working well ahead of time. So that would make it a lot easier. Okay. Any questions? Guys like that idea.
055I like that idea. I like this. And I think working with communications committee to kind of put it out before the start of the year. I think just today we were kind of talking about some of these policies and procedures that are important to get out to people at the beginning of the year. So, I'm just making sure we're kind of that. I like it. Great. Thank you. Yep. Appreciate all the work on this, too. I know it's been some some trying times between this building and that building and what's going on and how to handle things. So, that can be a full-time job in itself. Um, but appreciate what you guys are doing for the students and trying to make it more simple. Thank you. Appreciate it. We appreciate your support. Thank you. Thank
056you. All right. Moving into the superintendent STA update. Amity. Yes. I'm going to invite our bus company leadership team, Jen Willis and Jen Lombard up here to answer some questions, too. Um this is part two from our initial presentation a couple of meetings ago. So we have we took your questions um and have come back with some answers for you. Um so just to recap where we are um we already have some LMS and LHS combined bus runs that have worked for years with no issues. We're looking to do that for all the runs for the middle school and high school. Since we've presented this in April, the issue has been posted in the local newspaper twice. Um, and we've only received one anonymous document of concerns. We haven't received any other feedback. I'm not
057sure if you guys have received anything just the basic just the same comments that I mentioned before. How are we going to have fear of overcrowding on the actual seats and whatnot? Okay. So, we'll share some information that we have from a mockup in a in a minute. But so since then we also reached out to other districts and um especially in northern and more rural areas of the state. This is a common practice. Um I was very surprised to find out that Hanover does K through 12 altogether and they see it as a very positive. Um I know somebody that whose kids go through it and she said it actually was really endearing to see how the older kids in the neighborhood looked out for the little kids and it's just become part of
058it. They don't have issues. It's something that they really enjoy. Um but we know that Amherst, Conval, Hollis, Brooklyn, Keen, Lichfield, Milford, Oyster River, Palum, Portsmith, and Sanour all do this. Um with the combined middle school and high school, some have different variations of this. Um Gtown combines the other end, elementary and middle school runs, and Windham has the two schools for 5, six, and 78 that they combine runs in. So a lot of it, um when I was talking to the other business administrators, it comes down to proximity of where the two schools are. it won't work if the two buildings are very far from each other. Um, so where it's geographically possible and the schools are close in campus, it's a common practice. Um, and then again, like I said, the rural districts
059in Northern New Hampshire do this um, from K to 12 just because of the way that that things run. Um, so since we met to I know the concern was how much earlier was the um middle school students going to have to get picked up and how much later could the LHS um runs go? So we did just get this. They have a program called Traversa um that they could run um they took our current um list of students and they did a mockup very raw data like this is just for what the computer program would do. Can you pull that up for me Dan? So, they were able to get down to um you can see it up there. They were able to get down to 38 buses that could do it. Um and
060you can notice on this that it shows you how many stops there would be um how many riders would be on the bus. So, it looks like between 20 and 30 kids would be on the bus. And this didn't factor in the juniors and seniors are on these buses where we know in practice a lot of them wouldn't be. Um, and a lot of the routes, the average time looks to be right around 6:45 that that students would get picked up. Um, some a little bit later and some a little bit earlier. And this all is in direct proximity to where people live. So if they live further in the north end of town, um, they would be get picked up earlier. Um, so it was pretty interesting data. It didn't look like anything shocking.
061More efficient use of time, use of space. Um, and those numbers would only go down because again, this gave every junior and senior in this in the area a stop, but we know that as they get their licenses, they don't actually take the bus. Any questions about that? Forgive me, it's been a little while since I've been on one of these buses. Um, how many um I mean again that concern about the amount of kids per se, how many um rows of seats are. Yeah. So, the buses are 77 capacity. Um, that would be three kids to a seat. Obviously, we try not to do that. Um, so 52 would be two to a seat. And as you can see on this mockup, I mean, they're 27 28. So that's actually really good numbers that
062you're seeing up there. Better actually better than what we're doing now. Um because we do have buses that have three kids to a seat in a lot of high school and middle school. So this will actually help that. Um so again, the the roots would be starting much later for high school and either around where they were or a little bit earlier for middle school. Um, but as we were talking to and going through this, that's the the discrepancy in time that could change year to year. If you're on bus 26 one year, but the next year on 27, you were on bus 26 at the beginning of a route, but now you're on bus 27 at the end. So that sort of time could just be a natural part of how we redo bus
063routes from year to year. Um, so we did not find that it was substantial. It does look to take about five minutes to get from LHS to LMS um to unload. So the kids might be on the bus waiting for about 10 minutes, but right now there were about the day that I rode about 12 buses that were waiting and in that line just waiting for that to to be the case. Um, also at elementary school you have some that may show up at 20 and you have to wait until that bell rings at 8:30. Um, so there are kids waiting to unload in all of our schools and there haven't been any issues that have come as a result of that. Um, and again, we talked about the start times and the end times.
064The closer they live to the school, um, the later they would get to pick get picked up, but that might be if they're used to at the high school being a first stop on Mammoth Road, obviously now there would be the gap to go to the middle school. And we'd have to work with the crossing guard probably as well because that's where a lot of the um backup of the traffic goes. So that we just worked so that it wasn't a big backup that way. And with the space that we have at both the high school and the middle school, if we use the space better, we don't anticipate any of the traffic spilling out onto mammal mammoth road. Um, so that had come up as one of the both the crossing guard and the
065mammoth road traffic had come up as issues and in the document that we got, behavioral issues and seat assignments. I think we just um would be very clear that the front of the bus from the halfway point forward or whatever that um entailed would be the middle school students and the back of the bus would be the high school students. Um and they would do that assigned seats just like they do for the elementary runs and some of them already. Um and we the document that they produced we would have bigger capacity on the buses in this model than we do currently. So, and they were able to confirm that they could drop a bus um from the fleet in this model. So, it would save us about $70,000 to implement this for next year.
066So, that's what we have. Um, and we're here to answer any questions. See if you need any more information to go back. Any any questions? So, I just want to get the the timing right. So for for middle school, they be picked up in the morning 10 to 20 minutes earlier. So it looks like the earliest one was 6:32. I'm assuming that that would be one that was on one of the outskirts, but most of them were right around 6:45, which is which is the time that they are currently now. Um, so on that form, it says the run start. That's actually at the first stop. as well. So, where it says run start, those are the the times to the very first stop. Um, and I believe, Jen, correct me if I'm wrong, I
067think those times are right around the times we currently do it. It is already comparable. It is already comparable to what we currently do because the ones who live further out on the outskirts are already generally on a combined route because of how far out they are. We've got students that are on Brown A over in Manchester, some on the other side of the airport. So, no matter how much earlier we want the routes to be, we can't pick up their house and move it closer. So, we we still have to account for that travel time. I'm just trying to read. So, it wouldn't be more than 20 minutes then like from the current times that they're getting picked up. Earlier pickup, it shouldn't be. But it's hard. But what's hard to say though is,
068you know, if you have a an eighth grader who is used to a specific time but now is moving up to high school and you have a fifth grader who's now moving up to middle school, their times are going to change anyway because they're now on a completely different structure. No, I mean like the same an LMS student going on an LMS bus again next year. It wouldn't be any earlier than 10 to 20 minutes. I'm just making sure I'm reading. It really It really shouldn't be. Okay. All right. because that was my main concern is that kids being picked up already earlier than they are, you know, like significantly. The other, now that you're saying that, the other consideration too would be sometimes in the course of the year, it seems like the stop
069gets earlier and earlier because so many kids are dropping off. Do you know what I'm trying to say? I do. So like all of these kids that are getting licenses and do I'm trying like I know that for us like I think it's been like six, seven, eight minutes earlier as over the course of the year because of these kids are dropping off. So just like the keeping an eye on the impact of what will happen is that we expect that natural progression to still happen. Do you know what I'm trying to say? So but I don't see how it would be earlier. I feel like it would be later if you have less students then the the driver will accommodate and start picking up later so that they decrease the amount of time that
070they have to sit at the schools. Okay. And we've had that when when I was at the elementary school as they have reshifted things that's when an email to parents might go up that hey we're going to start the the route five minutes later um to accommodate for that stuff. It's not Yeah. And I think that's important too cuz like four, five, six minutes isn't a big deal when you know about it, but when you miss the bus, then it's 30 minutes, 40 minutes on your morning. Yep. Especially if you haven't showered yet. Yes. Any other questions? So, from a cost savings standpoint, what we're looking at for having the earlier pickup is approximately $70,000. Yes. And it's earlier pickup just for LMS, but it's comparable. But it's like it's like 40 minutes later for
071the high schoolers. Yeah. And it So, and at 6:00 versus 6:30, that's daylight versus darker time. So, I think it's a lot safer for our um high school students not to be out there that early. So, we may have 10 to 20 minutes. I I don't even think it will be that much based on this. I think you're going to see maybe 10 minutes or the same, but you'll see a huge difference in the time that the roots actually have to start for the high schoolers. And when it says um LHS students dropped off 10 to 20 minutes later, does that mean at the school or their house? Their their house. Okay. Like so it's just reverse like the ele uh the sorry the middle school kids may be getting picked up a little earlier
072in the morning which would mean that the high schoolers might be getting dropped off that same difference in the afternoon. Okay. Good. I would also like to point out really quickly too how how it would help simplify things too for like PSATs when we've started implementing having eighth graders take PSATs and they get dismissed. So right now they're they're they have two separate bus structures and it was I had to re I had to redo the entire fleet just for one day to get those eighth graders onto their counterpart high school buses when we could just go from school to school, pick them up. They're already all set. they know which buses they belong on. They know already know who their driver is. Um and then like the end of the year, so this year
073and last year, I know the middle school will actually dismiss first and then the high school. So you could potentially run into like this year at the our buses will go to the middle school, pick up their students, they'll have to complete their entire routes, then go to the high school. So, we don't anticipate them being there late because it is a full half an hour, but there is the possibility that one or two buses may get to the high school just a little after 11:30 and that would decrease all of those those little scenarios. Any other questions? I will say my uh totally scientific um polling of parents at athletic events I of all the middle school parents that I've chatted with seem to be in favor of it particularly with the knowledge that
074their kids are going into high school soon and we'll be taking those absurdly early buses and they're like we're okay giving up 10 minutes now for the high school for the high school getting back 30 to 40 minutes on some occasions. Um, so again, totally scientific. I did find it interesting that it was one of the unanticipated things as I was talking to other communities that they they actually have embraced the age difference in the groups being there that they've come to look out for each other. It's fostered more getting to know your neighbors. Um, so I think that that could be a benefit that we didn't anticipate. Everybody good? What would you like from us tonight to to move ahead with it? Yeah, if you're ready to move ahead. I mean, again, we'll have
075to get the communication out there. I'm not sure how many people have been paying close attention to it. It will be a change. So, September is always trying to settle in with that. So, just that people understand it will take two weeks to kind of at least two weeks to to settle in to get there to see the full effects, but that we believe once that happens, we should be in good shape for that. Everybody got enough information to be able to vote on it? Okay. I'll look for a motion to uh approve going to the two-tier bus routes for 2025 2026, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Kevin. All those in favor? I I Thank you, ladies. Appreciate it. Thank you. And can I just jump back real quick to the
076uh my colleague here brought up the policy JFCI. Um, are we going to just go to policy and procedure? Are we going to eliminate that now? It was a hanging question I had in my head. Um, you know, do you want to look into that and Yeah. and and bring it back at the next meeting? Yeah. I think I think I think if we want to go to procedure then literally at the next meeting we resend. That's right. Or we could approve this version of it and then hit procedure from now on. You know, whatever you guys want to do. Why don't you put some thought into it and bring it back at the next meeting? Sure. And that way we do do what's right. Okay. And that to make it more fluid uh for
077for these buildings to interact. Sounds good. So thanks for bringing that up, Tim. I will say, can I jump in on that real quick? Um so our registration for trials is supposed to go out June 1st. I don't think we have a meeting until June 3rd. Until June 3rd. So if you and we can go back and change the system and try to send it all out on a different date, but if I would just publish it as a procedure right now, correct? For your meeting and then send that out and then you guys can Yeah, we just have to because there's a policy already. So we have meets to see if we're going to just resend it. So you the procedures approved. Great. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Um 8.2 capital campaign idea. Yeah, we're
078very excited to be here tonight to talk about some creative ways that we could um get some donations from the community and some of the local businesses to fund some of our projects, take the burden off the the taxpayer and um just try and find um we have a lot of rich businesses coming into town to see what they could help us with. So, our athletic director, Jimmy, went around and was kind of talking to see what other communities did. um spent some significant time with um Trinity leadership who who does this practice and has had great success with it. Um so we're just here tonight to kind of talk to you about what we would like to start doing, seeing if you guys um would be interested in us pursuing this um and seeing
079if we'd be okay spending some money to kind of get some marketing materials and things together as we go down this path. Um, so we really kind of feel like we pride ourselves on everything that we do. However, we have old campuses that have aged and we haven't been able to keep up with how they look. Um, so we pride uh ourselves on what we offer. Um, but we also want to do our best to keep our campuses looking fresh, safe, and innovative. Um, and we do our best to use the budget cycle and long-term planning to do that. But I think we've seen over the years that it really comes down to some of our needs and some of the the bigger issues. um and wants that we would like to expand on haven't
080been able to get passed. Um and we know that, you know, it it puts a burden on the taxpayer to get these through. So, we're looking at ways that we can fund these projects um through um looking, you know, getting materials together and going to talk to businesses and potentially alumni. Um so, it sounded like in Jimmy's research, they reach out to alumni. Um they have a database that they've used to do that and keep track of and then they reach out to local businesses with marketing materials. Um they set up meetings to explain projects and options like naming rights um ad space um to see if they can get some support that way. And then they also have some alumni drives similar to what you might see in like a college um to to
081fund some projects. Um so um we have some samples that we put together. the communication committee could definitely help um Jimmy with that. But they have like, you know, your folders, your contact information, um naming opportunities, different things that you could bring. And then if you have a specific project that we put on there, um what that might be, um and what we might need in the initiation, the planning, some of the donor funding, and how we could get through. So, you know, we we have all sorts of ways that we could put stuff together, but to get that stuff, there is a there is a cost. Um, as we were talking, these are just for template ideas only. We'd need some letters of introduction, the folders, potential digital videos to kind of get in
082the front door. Um, infographics um that we would like to put together. So, those are just some ideas that would have a cost to them. Um, we would also probably need to get a committee together. We talked about how a lot of these um projects come down to athletics and music um when you think of things like the auditorium, um turf fields, things like that. and that if we had some lists of potential projects that we would put together and then to see if they um have matches to alumni or certain businesses. For instance, if we were interested in um looking at the turf field, we have some local athletic businesses or alumni from um that were part of the athletic program that might be a part of it. So that we would target that
083if that became one of our projects. But we would need to prioritize what we wanted those to be. use things like our facility studies and field studies that we've conducted over the past years to help us with costs to figure those out. Um we would discuss and get board approval for costs associated with um further marketing materials. We'd like to get your blessing with that tonight if we're going to continue. Um and then we'd bring everything back as we got more ground for what projects we were going to go and when we started getting um donations. So, I did speak to our lawyer and Gordon said that um the best way to do this is probably to create an expendable trust. Um that is that way the money is for specific purpose. It's not an
084appropriation. Um and then any we would have to set that up either through um a warrant article or the board could do that. He would help us figure that out. and then any donation over $25,000 would need to have a public hearing for you guys to accept the funds and then it would go into the expendable trust. Um but he's more than willing, he said it's a cause near and dear to his heart to to get um funding to do projects like this. So we would have that support legally to go through and decide what the best approach to to hold the money would be. Um so that that's where we are. Are we are we open to spending money on the marketing materials, potential videos? Um, what do you guys think about the idea
085of an alumni contact information database? Um, how would you like us to proceed? Um, I'll just jump in for a minute. Um, um, Jimmy came to me several months ago about this idea and had spoken with uh, Dan and and Rick and Amity. Um, and I thought what what a great idea to try to get our local businesses involved in our school system. um as many years as the school district's been in town, there's been very little um thought towards this. I know there was some time back when the football scoreboards went up um and back then some things were decided not to move forward, but I think we look at the private school industry um in the education business that this is how they do their major fundraising and projects. And I think with
086the need of Turfield's um gym expansion uh auditorium um for the arts or some sort of building for the arts um I don't want to use the auditorium word. I want I know there's a better word for it but um no better way to put a package together. And then, you know, this may help us with our students too, juniors, seniors, with uh some some career pathways moving forward too if we have our businesses involved in the schools and trying to get some naming rights or um you know, donations, sponsorships, uh for uh sports equipment, uh building upgrades, facility upgrades, uh and education upgrades. It's not just going to be for the sports side. It would be, you know, into the building part. Um, with the growth of Pentingill Road, the airlines adding a couple
087new airlines there. Um, why not get out there and see see what we can do and get them involved in our school system. As we know, school funding is always up in the air. Um, taxes have been up. Our taxpayers have had, you know, have the burden. um you know, of of supporting our schools and trying to get bonds and that. If we could get some additional funding with some great business supporters um to come in and help us, I think our taxpayers, you know, would be uh much appreciated to the school district and uh we could get hopefully a lot more areas upgraded in a sooner period. Um I will say just on the turf fields alone um the amount of times games are cancelled that we have to cancel and not our other
088surrounding towns as we are one of two schools in division one and two with no turf field. Um so even uh these events getting cancelled and moved around um a lot of the sports can be played on the turf if it's raining and then in the fall with with bad weather. So, uh, I think the athletic director has put a lot of thought into this and and and Rick the principal and I think it's a great thing for our school district to do and love to see the board in involved in this. Um, you know, moving forward with some sort of committee and that. So that's that's my two cents and I've spoken to a couple of business owners I know in the local area and I think having the alumni contact because we have
089former athletes and alumni that have moved all over the country that work for these Fortune 500 companies and sometimes they just want to be part of a good education program, you know, to get their name out there and and that. So, um, why not start with a smaller project, um, and and market it and see how it goes and then move into another one and, um, and go from there. So, that was my two cents and, you know, I'm glad the school's looking at this finally. So yeah, just to add to what you said, Bob, I think, um, in the spirit of, you know, staying competitive, um, looking at some other districts that are able to hold events and and charge for that and have some return on their investment is going to be important.
090Um, but just in in terms of like the the impact on people wanting to live here and come here and the fact that things just aren't passing, like we're having trouble passing like buildings that we need and major educational things. So, the thought that we can't do that we're going to get a Right. Right. Exactly. And I don't want to wait forever for that because we want people to keep moving here. We want people to want to go to school here. It's just um I don't even feel comfortable like asking for that when we don't have a kindergarten, you know. So, I think that this is a great idea and I would definitely support it. Anyone else? So, what would you like moving forward? You need some money to put this together. So, probably So,
091I So, if I'm hearing you, you're you're okay with us exploring the database. You're okay with us moving forward with a committee. and you're okay with us spending some money to put to put some things together. So, I think um we would start at the next meeting um kind of what we'd be looking for in in a committee. Y um and then maybe out of that we could decide I can get some pricing of what databases would look like and what some of the materials would be and then we kind of get that approval, get that on the books and then let the committee start to do the work for the other stuff. Does that sound reasonable? Sure. Yes. Yeah. I think as soon as we can get it going the better. Um, you know,
092and and start making appointments once this is put together. It's going to take a little bit of time to put this together. Yep. And then having those uh appointments set up to meet physically with these people rather than on the phone. Yep. Um and have a real formal committee that can participate in those meetings. Y um and and have a couple board members involved. Um I think would be fantastic. Okay. So, we'll start to form a committee. Jimmy and I will meet next week um and and get some specifics for numbers that we might need for an investment and then see who's interested from the board on being on being with the committee and we'll go from there. Awesome. Thank you for all this work. U Thank thank you for the support on that. Thank
093you. Explain it. Well, thank you. Thanks for putting this together. Well, Jimmy gave it legs so it's great. Yes. Yep. It's great. Yes. Awesome. All right, that ends on that. Kevin, got anything? Kevin, Dan, J, you good? All right, with that, I will look for a motion to go into non-public session requested under RSA 91A 3, section 2B, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Amanda. I'll ask for a roll call vote from my left to right, please. Hi, Kevin Gray. Hi, Tim Porter. Hi, Bob Slater. Hi, Sarah Lawson. Hi, Amanda Butcher. Good night, Lenary.