001Welcome to the meeting of the Londereerry School Board to be held on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 700 p.m. in the library at Londereary High School, 295 Mammoth Road, Londereary, New Hampshire. The meeting will also be broadcast on local cable access channel 8, as well as the District YouTube channel. Could we please rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag to the flag of the United States of America? It's our excuse me, it's our privilege to recognize Mrs. Lori Pritting, the middle school library and technology assistant who will be retiring at the end of the year. Lori has worked for 15 years in various roles throughout the school district, starting with volunteering and substituting at the North Elementary School Library while her children attended school there. She then transitioned to London High School where
002she got a position in the food service department and from there she moved to South Elementary School as a library assistant and then finished at medical school. Throughout her tenure, Lori has been an instrumental member of the departments she has served. Conscientious, kind, and hardworking individual whose service to the children and families of Lond will be greatly missed. Lori is looking forward to spending time with her family and friends in her retirement. Those who know her well will miss her dearly each day. On behalf of Glenberry School District, we wish Lori the best in her retirement. And next is James Burns. Jim has been employed by the Legendary School District as a custodian since 2018 and has decided to retire August 31st. During his seven years, he has supported the goal at Matthew Thornton, Moose
003Hill, and the middle school to keep our schools as clean as possible for staff and students. Although he will be missed, we all wish him well as he turns the next chapter of his life. Congratulations, Jim, as we wish you a long and happy retirement. Thank you, Kevin. And next up is Donna Stall. After 22 years with the school district, Donna Stall has made the decision to retire and relocate closer to her family in New York. She started off as an instructional assistant at South School, but after two years quickly moved into the administrative assistant position, where she helped hold South School together for 17 years. The past three years have been spent as a district-wide benefits coordinator. Donna was very committed to each of her jobs and always went above and beyond. Because she
004is so easy to talk with, often employees return to her for information or sometimes just an easy, pleasant exchange to brighten the day. Although she will be missed by all in the district, we all wish her well as she turns the next chapter of her life. We all hope retirement extends her the time with her family that she deserves. We all hate to see her go, but are very happy for her. Congratulations on a fantastic career and be happy in your retirement. Thank you, sir. Um, moving along in our consent agenda, upcoming meetings, uh, next meeting will be, uh, May 20th, 2025, regular school board meeting, uh, in the cafe at 7 p.m. On May 29th, 2025 will be adult ed graduation over in the gym at 6:00 p.m. And on June 3rd, 2025 will
005again be a regular schoolboard meeting in the cafe at 7 p.m. Uh, could I have a motion to approve the consent agenda, please? So, moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I. I. Zero. All right. Moving along. I'll open up public comment. Um, just name and address, please, for anyone that would like to speak. Where do you want me to go? Because this is a lot. Yeah. Anywhere they are. Okay. That's fine. My name is Mora Ryan and I live at two Snowberry Hollow in London. Um, attended this high school and that is my son right there. Um, I came before you at the last school board meeting because I talked to you about a 2020 Drummond Woodsome, the law firm that represents this school district which guided uh, school
006districts on how to avoid giving special education students services. On top of that, I also mentioned that there was a state complaint which was denied um by the district which was a founded complaint which I read from at the next meeting which affected an entire class of students. Um I also mentioned that during the 2022 2023 school year services were paid for for a student that did not receive it. And I said that in 2024 a whistleblower came forward to Cindy McMahon and gave her information on violations of IDEIDA. uh done by the school district. So at that point in time and at that meeting, you said that you would give me a response, but I have not yet received that response. So I want to make you aware of that because I would like
007a response. On top of that, um I was asked to comment on a statement that I received from Mr. Black um which basically said that those were the two only instances of violations of special education. So I'd like to ask the board one question. It's a yes or no question whether you know it or you don't. So, I'd like an answer now. Are you aware that at present there are four open investigations by the Office of Civil Rights in the by the federal government against this school district right now? Okay. So again, I'm going to repeat that this school district has school school district has a systemic history of not giving services to special education students that I have no confidence in the current administration and that I think that they should be removed. You
008guys are not asking the questions. You guys as the board are responsible for the governance of this school district. These kids are not getting services and they're going on to leave school and be not capable of self-employment and not capable of post-secary education. At present nationally, only 4% of students with disabilities who are on IEPs get any type of post-secary or meaningful substantive behavioral employment. These are definitions from the government, which basically means independent living, which is the entire purpose behind IDA. So, I'm going to repeat that I would like a response to my initial public comment from the school board meeting April, April 22nd. I would like to reiterate that special education is not what it should be in this district and that change must happen. The students need it to be independent and
009to be able to live meaningful, gainful lives. And the problem with this is we think of special education through the lens of the 1970s which was a very specific definition. It includes people like myself. I graduated from an Ivy League on half day kindergarten. Okay. I have dyslexia. It has impacted my ability to read and I did not succeed in school until I reached high school. So it can be done. It must be done. Our kids need it. And that's my public comment. Thank you. Anyone else? Public comment. Seeing none, I'll close public comment. All right. And I will look for a motion to open the public hearing. Motion by Sarah. Second, second by Kevin. All those in favor with a roll call vote, please, from left to right. I Kevin Rick. Hi. Tim Porter.
010Hi, Bob Slater. Hi Public hearing is open. Yeah. So, we're here tonight to talk about the Jacob Nar scholarship expendable trust fund which was established in May of 2021 under the provisions of RSA 198 col 20-c vi in memory of lenary high school student Jake Nar who was killed tragically in a car accident. Um, this scholarship was established. It has over $150,000 in the account right now. So this this year we are looking to um award amounts of $2,222 to six seniors who show the qualities established in the scholarship um and make this with withdrawal under the provisions of RSA 19820-B and the amount would be 13,332. Any questions? Any questions from the public? Seeing none, bring it back to the board. I'll look for a motion then to approve under RSA 19820b the amount
011of $13,332 uh for the Jacob Nar scholarship trust, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I I 4 Z. Thank you. I look for a motion to close the public hearing, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Kevin. All those in favor? I I public hearings closed. Committee reports. Uh school board leaison. Sarah. Um just a couple updates from the middle school. Um the music concert this past weekend. I was was able to attend the seventh grade concert. It was amazing. and I have heard great things about the other concerts as well. Um, promotion ceremony is June 16th, Monday, June 16th at 12:30 at the high school. Um, and that's about it. Okay, thank you. I have one from the Matthew Jordan PTA. Um, so when
012all is said and done, uh, they raised a profit over $33,000 from the booster thawn last month. Um, so they'll be meeting with buildings and grounds this week to start discussions about playground overhaul, which includes new mulch, moving swing set swing sets to be closer to each other, and finding out best spaces for new seating and shading. All should happen over the summer. Uh, staff appreciation week went great. They had donations of food from Chick-fil-A, Tuscan Village, Lacaretta, and Lundere, and Raisin Canes in Manchester. and PTA wanted to make sure they sent a sincere thank you to the community for sending in gift cards and monetary donations. Uh they're going to be working over the summer as PTA to refresh the staff lounge which includes painting the lounge, getting some basic new equipment like another
013microwave, new refrigerator that they are in desperate need of. And finally, the fifth grade dance is this coming Thursday, the 15th, and they are in full swing planning for the rest of the year, which includes fifth grade funday, field day, and volunteer appreciation day. Thank you, Tim. Kevin, anything? Uh just a few updates for North uh PTA. Uh they also had their staff appreciation week last week um where I was lucky enough to be able to take some recess duty on. Um they had a coffee truck and Chick-fil-A amongst other things um for the teachers and the biggest hit of it all that we saw was the cremation caricatures of all the teachers. I really wish I had Mr. Dutton's right now to show it was pretty fantastic. Um but it uh seemed to be
014the hit of the week over there as it was posted up uh in the hallway when you first come in. Um, other than that, the fifth grade t-shirts and yearbook are just wrapping up sales and fifth day funday planning and field days are in the works as we speak. Thank you, K. And uh just a couple updates from uh town hall. They they've been concerned a lot with the zoning regulations coming out of conquered and there was a big meeting on that last week uh about 3 hours um worried about uh growth in the town and disruptive of some some changes coming out of conquit as we are in the education world too. So, they are uh continuing to monitor that and um I'm continuing to get updated uh from some of our representatives that
015aren't happy with some of the school um changes they're looking to do. I know a lot of the voting and um been to a couple of meetings with them over the last two weeks. Uh trying to uh looks like the governor may change a few of the house rules set. So, stay tuned for that over the next few weeks. and um as far as uh budgets for school districts as well as some of the the uh EFAs and that coming forward. So, there's some some talks heavily talks going on inside. So, stay tuned for that. And uh they're willing to come in and update us u moving forward too with uh what's going on there. um three out of our seven are you know against some of these changes but um I understand what's going
016on and we we just got to keep doing what we do and we'll get through it. So, just a quick update from Concert. Uh, that's all I had on my move over to uh Dylan, student representative. Got some guests tonight. Do um so if you want to say your name uh and you guys know your position um for DICO. Okay. Because we had a little bit of change up this year. So, speaking of which, our class elections ended uh before break. Um so, this is uh Hi, my name is Kale Dubes. I am I currently hold the or for the next school year I will hold the position of special counsel's chair as well as co-chool board rep for student council. Hi, my name is Alexis Adams. Um next year I'll be the activities coordinator
017for student council and co- um school. And you guys are both in 10th grade or going into I will be a sophomore next year. I'll be a junior. Great. So, um they're going to kind of take on my role half and half, which honestly will be great because then they can kind of work together and reach out to other schools. Um just because we had some different rules again with or uh roles assigned with the election. Um but aside from that, uh for uh some announcements, we've got uh again class elections were over uh before break. Uh the mural is hopefully starting to get painted this week and next week. Um the plan is for a senior bonfire. The seniors will I believe it's before or after. I want to say before we're going to
018um someone's going to paint our hands for us. We're going to put it on the wall over in the 100s the by the math uh classrooms and sign our name and that will be the first uh part of this big tree that will eventually grow with all the seniors and all the classes um after us. Um the class club spirit days ended right before break as well. Uh the spirit days went well. Um most participation came from the juniors as well as um same thing with the class cup which we started this year. Um it's a smaller thing but hopefully we can each year kind of build that class cup meaning like we take all the spirit days all the spirit events and try to get it into this one trophy and um we're working
019on incentives for that for next year because this year we had a lot going on. Um we're going to shortly go to the state house up in conquered um I believe not next Friday but the Friday after that and at the uh the state board there for all the schoolboard stuff uh or for all the STUCO stuff and then um the high school concert is this Friday there um believe the choir and orchestra starts around 5:36 and then the uh the band starts around 7:30 and this and it's at Windham High School in their auditorium. And then the final thing is is uh games are still going on for sports and um a lot of uh senior nights are coming up. So I'd highly recommend that anyone who is interested come up and show up
020and support the Lancers. Awesome. Thank you, Dylan. Appreciate it. And welcome to our new members. Look forward to you you attending our school board meetings. Thank you. Moving into announcements and presentations. Elementary leadership team, Sandra, Abby, Deb, and Paul, come on up. Good evening. As your four elementary principles, we've continued to receive numerous inquiries from parents and community members regarding the status of full day kindergarten and lender since the March vote. Following the recent school board meeting and the public comments made there, uh it's clear that there remains interest along with ongoing questions surrounding full day K. There is confusion um as we've heard from parents seeking clarification in when it will be implemented and asking why it's not been enacted despite receiving majority support the past two years. Um so there's that confusion. After
021listening, we believe it might be beneficial to bring our larger community together for a series of forums or roundt discussions to facilitate some of these conversations. These sessions provide an opportunity for us to engage directly with our community members, address their questions, and better understand their perspectives regarding full day. This dialogue would not only help to clarify any misconceptions, but also provide us with some valuable insights um into guiding any potential next steps. Before moving forward, we wanted to get your input and support for these larger community discussions and hope to have a school board u participation in these events if at all possible. I figure we're gonna hear from all I guess. Any questions? No. No. None. So you're basically going to go out, meet with community members, bring back some explain what we
022presented last year and that and try to give them the information regarding what we brought forth back in March. Is that what your your plan is? So rather than having these individual conversations that we're currently having, trying to have facilitate some larger conversations so that we're all getting the same message or conversations so that and it's based it's on the what we presented to the voters in March on the on the ballot. Okay. Hopefully get more information about what some of the barriers were to Sure. having it move forward. Yeah. Just overall feedback. Okay. Good with that. I'm happy to be on that as well. I think nice to have some round table forums, right? Just to get that feedback similar to, you know, the committees we had a couple years ago. I thought that
023that was um pretty powerful to get input from people in the community when we initially started talking about full day K. Um we had a good combination of different members um sharing their opinions, going back into the community and bringing us feedback. So maybe we could get some more um input and dialogue to figure out how to how to move forward. That sounds good. More information out there. As long as it's all the same, I think we'll simplify things too, right? And that so um I know we've talked as as of late, we looked at some other options moving forward too possibly for DO. So we'll see how that rolls out in the future, but let's keep it simple on what we brought forward in March and uh you know those the cost and that
024what some of the reasons why we did it and taking care of two issues with with the one project. So that would be uh fantastic. Great. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you. report on Washington DC. Come on up. Have you bored? Why don't you sit in the water? You're over here. You're right here. Olivia, you're right here. Get them all in there. [Music] finish. You guys have to speak kind of loudly and Mr. Parent will kind of help orchestrate as we go through slides with Mr. Black slides. Okay. The reason why I say that is they're kind of what they're talking about. It lines up with a couple pictures of this. All right. So, if I could uh let me say good evening. Uh this it's my pleasure to have with me tonight
025students representing all three of our eighth grade teams, heat waves, hailtorms, and avalanche. And they're shared here to share their experiences at Washington DC this year. Um I've asked them to kind of share an overview a little bit of what they like the best about the trip and kind of select two of the many activities that the kids participated in throughout the week. They've each selected some may have a repeat of themselves based on what what they did and what they saw. Um, and then at the end, if you have any questions for them, obviously you can see their names, which is nice to refer to. Um, please feel free to ask them any questions up there. I just happen to start off. Um, we were very fortunate. We were the first group to go
026through the White House. We were there. We happened to show up at the same time that three helicopters flew over and I believe they were picking up the president at the time. And I think that's the shot of the president leaving outwards when we first got there. We were just happened to be there and thought was going on and everybody was looking. I want to say that I would visited many rooms. Each room had a theme. One was a red, yellow. Some of you guys may remember that. I think that's the blue room. So when you actually walk through the White House, it's a self-guided tour and you get a chance to visit. And usually in each one of the rooms, there's somebody there to talk to you about what what goes on there and
027so forth. So that was my now you need to hear from all of that. All right, Jeremy. How are you? Hi, my name is Jeremy. Um, I'm on the Heatwave team and I would just like to share a couple of my favorite uh historical monuments and sites from Washington DC. Um, the first place I would like to talk about is the White House. Um, though planned last minute, this was a really amazing place to get to go to. We got to learn about all of the different historic artifacts and rooms in the building. And like he Mr. Vanvetum uh mentioned before there were different people in each room if you like need to ask questions of anything. Um but yeah, that was really fun. Um another monument that I really liked was the Washington Monument.
028It was kind of surreal to like go actually up to it and see like how big it is and stuff. Um, there are a lot of cool photo ops to take and my favorite part of the monument is we were waiting to go back on our bus and like we had just a little bit of time and a bunch of bus one and two kids decided to play um a big game of duck duck goose on the lawn. Um, but yeah, um, overall the whole trip was really fun, but those are just two of my favorites. Okay. Hi, my name is Avlyn Smith and I'm on the eighth grade heatwave team. Uh, this year's DC trip was super fun, mostly because of the people that I moved with, not only on my bus, but uh,
029to the places that we went as well. Uh, every place that we went to was fun, but I especially liked Ford's Theater and the American History Museum. So, though many people did not would not describe the Force Theater as fun, and to be honest, I wouldn't really either, but it I did find it interesting. Uh there was a room that had a glass wall with a bunch of artifacts that were used through Abraham Lincoln's life. One of them uh being my favorite was the medical kit that um that the doctor that tried to help Abraham Lincoln like when he was shot used. Um and that my favorite fact from the theater was that that doctor went to jail uh because for life because he did not save Abraham Lincoln. Um yeah. So, and unlike most
030people, uh I actually read around and other than just looking um uh my other uh favorite part of the trip was the American History Museum and this place was my favorite because of two places. One being the forensic criminology section of the museum. I myself am a big fan of uh criminal acts. Not the like I want to commit a crime type way, but just the I like I like knowing I I just like police records, old police records. Um uh in this section there was a photo of uh or not a photo but a mold of Ted Bundy Ted Bundy's teeth which I found really cool as well as a spatter head from the show Dexter. Um another area I enjoyed was the top floor which was the movie section. Some of my favorite
031shows and movies had their real life non-replicas right in front of me. Some being Captain America's shield and Michonne's sword from The Walking Dead. Um uh and of course all in all my favorite memories are with my friends which I got to spend the whole trip with. And I have over 250 photos in my camera roll to uh to show for that. Um and I hope these soon to be eighth graders can enjoy the trip as well. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Hi, I'm Olivia Douglas and I felt like the DC trip was a really good experience, but my two favorite things were like the FDR memorial and the White House. I felt like the FDR memorial was like a really like powerful and like emotional place, especially with like all the different parts to
032it cuz there was like multiple different like areas you could go for it. It wasn't just like one like statue or something. And I felt like having water at like some of the like like areas was like a really good like it gave a good message to like the memorial. And then my second favorite was the White House because I feel like it was a really good experience being able to like go into it and see it because not many people get like that privilege to be able to do that and I felt very honored and I really enjoyed it. Um, my name is Kelsey and I'm on the Hill Store team. And, um, during the DC trip, um, there was a lot of cool monuments and places to explore, but my two favorites were
033the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial and the, um, MLK, I have a dream speech spot in front of the Lincoln Memorial. I think I think that um the 911 Pentagon memorial was my favorite one out of both because it shared like a good story about people that died during the plane crash and in the Pentagon and it had a lot of like meaningful it had all the names and everything. And then during the MLK um in front of the Olympian Memorial, it like it showed where he stood and it was cool that I got to stand where he stood and where he gave a speech about and like how he changed people's lives. U my name is Ryan Ramos from the Avalanche Pod. Um I would first like to thank the members of the school board for
034attending here today. Um, now the first thing I'd like to talk about is the like part like the bus kind of the bus part of like the whole thing. So like getting on the bus um was definitely the most interesting part I would say. At first it was kind of quiet because granted it was like 5 in the morning. Um but after that I kind of like started finding myself having conversations with people I wouldn't usually talk with and you know like cuz you know you don't get to really choose who's on your bus. you get to like choose your body cuz that's pretty much it. It's like one person. But um I definitely found myself talking with like different people and like by the end of the trip it started to kind of feel
035like a family trip and not just like a trip with like a ton of people from my school that I don't talk to. So um yeah. Uh, second thing I wanted to talk about was like the mall experience. It was definitely fun because I got to like see people from like other like states and like meet different people and they gave us a lot of leeway just not like just sitting there eating but they kind of gave us leeway and like go look around and kind of like shop for things like I know a lot of people were like buying like glasses and stuff which was kind of funny. Everyone had like a pair of glasses by the end of the trip. So, that was definitely my favorite part about that trip. Hi. Um, I'm
036Lily in Paris and I'm gonna talk about the coach buses. The seats were super comfy and there was a little tray you could pull down, which was super helpful considering I don't have enough hands to hold everything. And it was super fun because you were able to choose who to sit with on the bus. like if you want to sit with a friend, you could choose to sit near the front or near the back. And it had great conditioning, air conditioning when it got super hot, which was a lot better considering it was super hot while we were there. And the second thing I'm going to talk about is Mount Vernon, George Washington's house. It was super cool. I got to learn a bunch of different things. Like got to see like how the rooms
037were still intact from the time it was first built and like the houses that people lived in from that time. And it was super cool. I got to see George Washington's tomb and his wife, which I thought was super interesting. And those were my two favorite things. Thank you. All right. Well done, guys. Yeah. Well done. Thank you for all that info. I'm surprised to find the bus. I don't know if I share the same bus. No, you're missing the branch. Where was the bus? I have to say, I've gone for a few years now. This was probably my favorite group that to take with them. They were amazing. We had some twists and turns kind of during the time we were there with things changing and um but they were great and they I
038think we all had a good time. I think I agree with Ryan. By the time we were done, it does feel like a family trip. We're ready to give them back to their parents when we get home, but it definitely I we have we definitely bond with the kids that we're with. So, yeah. You guys like Carmines? Oh yeah, I mean I personally I really liked it. I don't know. I don't know about everybody shot at Carmines. Medieval Times. Well, Medieval Times is super fun. I think we uh in Medieval Times we won. We won. We won. And I think we had the princess, too. We did. We had the princess, too. Yeah. I I would there any questions from the school board at all or J or anybody else? A lot of steps I'm
039sure. Um this starts kind of like a big step then we go to DC next week at floating lab and then eighth grade kind of slides into the end of the year. Um I I sent out the end of the year permission slip this year. So we're talking about canopy, we're talking about the dance promotion ceremony. Like it's all coming very quick and these guys are great and we're really excited to end the year with them. Nice. Well, we're glad the trip was successful and uh that the students had a great time and it's a it's a trip of a lifetime right at this at this age. So, we're glad to be able to put this together in our district and give you guys that experience. So, um, well done and thanks to thank you
040to the staff that went along, too. Please pass that on. And, uh, thank thank all the other students and that and, uh, we want to continue this so you guys, you know, set the bar for the next class, you know, to to to be to have a good time and to, uh, get some get a great experience out of this. So, thanks for coming in and sharing your trip with us. Appreciate it. Nice job. Great. special. All right, we'll move on to 8.3 initial participation rates at LMS for NHSAS test. Mr. Baron, yes. Uh so we're very proud of the middle school's efforts to increase participation rates uh within SAS. That's that state assessment. Uh we went from 111 students opting out last year to just 11 this year. And again we're we're I want
041to thank uh Megan Nason, our middle school administration, the teaching staff, but actually the students themselves really bought in uh this year and and put forth their best effort. So, we're uh looking forward to seeing some positive results, which I'll share in the summer. Um we usually give that spring report on how how they did, but we're really um pleased with the um focus this year and that significant drop in options. What do you attribute that? It's a great question. Well, several things. Um I think we did a better job communicating the value of the assessment, what it does for students and for families. Um, we uh we did minimize a step in the interaction as far as if student if families wanted to pursue that opt out, they were going to come in and
042have that conversation and actually fill in the paperwork rather than the convenience of throwing something out online and people not having the context of what this uh assessment was all about and just kind of quickly opting out their child out not knowing maybe. Um, so we we kind of took some uh some steps to really educate our families on the value of this and I think that was that was Main point of my question was whatever you did this year make sure. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Um if I could add one more thing where we had an excellent showing from our junior class who participated in the SAT as well. Um we met the attendance uh benchmark but the average score because we got the results um pretty quickly from uh this year for Londereary students
043was 1,036. That's up 22 points from last year on the SAT. that outpaced the state average of all public and private schools who averaged a 105 and it outpaced the US average of 964. Uh so that's a great credit again to uh Lundere High School. We appreciate the efforts of the administration and staff who I think created an atmosphere of excitement and importance around this assessment. Um and and our juniors, the class of 26 really bought in and uh a lot of them obviously will use it in their college application process. But this is another data point that we'll use along with their grades and their performance to kind of share how London are doing. Great questions. I think it's great news, Jay. um whatever the staff has done and and that keep it up
044as to what Tim said and I think you know I had a couple of calls from parents as well and explained you know how important it is that we know as a district you know what h how we're getting where we're getting each grade level and the participation is important to make sure we're headed in the right direction. So, um, and I know we had some questions. I think I talked with you earlier today on, you know, we've had some parents say, "Well, the testing doesn't cover what they're learning every day." It's just, I think, a format, you know, and it's something, you know, that we talked about that we can look at over the summer as well. Is making sure it's in line with some of this better. Sometimes you can present something two,
045three different ways and a test may come across. They may have learned it, but in a in a different formula, in a different setting. So it it seems like they haven't been taught that. But these are this is great results and can't wait to see what the results are and and it's just more good news from you know the science testing you know at the last meeting that you presented to. So I I think uh in all areas we we seem to be you know hitting benchmarks and higher. Um so good work good work by all. So look forward to uh um seeing those results over the summer. So appreciate it. Thank you guys. Awesome. Thank you, Jay. All right, move into deliberations. 9.1 general assurance approval and uh we talked about at the last
046meeting. Just need it signed off. Did I see an email a week ago or so from federal on making sure something at the federal level before we sign this? That was my only question, Dan. I didn't get a chance to look into it. Um, let me look into it tomorrow morning and talk with you and I can run by and sign it if if need be at the office because you'll need my signature and that. But I thought there was something by the schoolboard association that came out. Yeah. Was Was that on this general assurance with federal funding? I'm not worrying about it. Okay. I think some school districts are. Yes. We're in compliance with everything. Yeah. I think some school districts are um worried about messages they think are coming from the federal government.
047Yeah, I'm not worried about it. I just seen that warning from the school board association. So, I wanted to talk with you a little bit on that and they just haven't had a chance. So, I'll give you a ring tomorrow and and that if it's okay and um you know, maybe legal has to check in. I I'm not sure. Um I I think we're fine. You'd think we're fine. Um, you know, I I understand why why some people are are watching this more closely with, you know, what can be tied to federal funding and we we comply with all the rules. So, I'm not worried. Yeah, it's the same as last year. Nothing's changed. So, um, I just wanted to talk with you on that and I can run by and sign that tomorrow. So,
048thank you. All right. 9.2 copier machine bids. So, we're at the point in the year, I'll have some next week, too, where we're um submitting our uh request for proposal outcomes and who we want to recommend to take some of our purchases. So, this is one of our bigger ones. Um we posted the RFP for copers. We have seven in the fleet that are up and need new leases. Um we posted the RFP with all the specifics of what we need on March 27th. We had it open for roughly a a month. It ended um the 23rd of April and unfortunately during that time we only had received one bid. Um so we extended the deadline for one more week. We reached out to people who had um shown interest before. Three of the four
049people we reached out to said they were not going to bid on this particular um RFP and then one um submitted a partial bid for part of the fleet. It also had different machines. Um we had Rico's um is two of them that were submitted from Northern Business and they were all canon um that came from Usher Tech. Um so we just broke down what they had um what their monthly cost was everything for Northern Business is included in their monthly equipment cost. Um but then Usherwood had broken down the equipment cost plus the per page cost um for color and for black and white and then the service maintenance that would be for those seven. So when I looked at our usage and their cost and computed what that would be for a month
050that was roughly 3500. Um so it brought their bid about $400 more a month. Um so we are recommending that we go with Northern Business. Um they have served us well. uh they're bringing the cost down $9,000 from what we pay now. They also threw in paper cut which is um a program that we are going to add to the copers which will require a code to be punched in before um the copies come out. So this should cut down on any copies that have just been printed to the wrong printer. It should solve our confidentiality um problems because it won't print until the person who's there is entering their code. So they threw that in for no cost. um they have been doing our copier since 2007. You know, I talked um a little
051bit with it about, you know, in the future looking if we would start to break up the fleet. Um this was not a good time to approach that with Usherwood because the copers are spread out amongst buildings and that gets really confusing if something needs service and it's under a different lease than most of the other ones. So, um we'll look for that every year, but at this point we are recommending that we go with Northern Business. questions. Seeing none, I'll look for a motion to approve uh 7,190 for copers to northern business, please. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I I was. Thank you, AMD. Just that was fantastic. What? Just also that was fantastic. That breakdown in detail. Yeah. Wow. Well, like was a lot of math. Great
052job. Well, then you're going to be proud of what Cheryl did on capital Tennessee. That was a great like great job. Okay. All right. 9.3 capital reserve accounts. Yes. So, we're also at the point in the year where we make a request to withdraw from our capital reserves. Just as a reminder, all the projects are listed. They were voted um on the ballot um in March 2024. They were approved by the voters. Um so, we have three withdrawals from three different accounts. Um, and a a huge thank you to our finance director, Cheryl Rich, who has gone through and and organized all of this. So, first for buildings and grounds, this fund was established to cover the cost of large renovations and constructions projects for buildings and grounds. Uh, this request covered roof repairs at
053North School, Matthew Thornton's hot water system, fire alarm work at both South and Middle Schools, and then some field improvements um at the high school, and then the south school playground work. Um, we had gotten $220,000 for 2025 appropriated and there was a carryover balance of 398,000 roughly and we have expended $415,700.37 leaving a balance of $22,37.50 for that one. And then the next one is for our technology infrastructure fund. So this is in the amount of $151,850.96. This was this fund was established to cover the district's network infrastructure and any equipment attached to the network. Um they were approved for continuing costs for network improvements. The appropriation was for $125,000 and there was a carryover balance of $106,27.71 and we have expended $151,850.96 leaving the balance at [Music] $79,356.75. So there's that one. And
054then lastly is the equipment capital reserve fund um for $123,85724. Um this fund covers classroom furniture um some other musical and athletic equipment and some buildings and grounds equipment. Again the specific lists are are in the packet. And after that the appropriation was $120,000 and then the carryover was $44,000 $104.20 20 and we did expend that full $123,85724 with that balance of $40,000 $246.96. So we're leaving a balance in all the accounts, but we were able to get a lot of the projects especially for the buildings and grounds and under what we had predicted um they were going to be at. So awesome. Any questions? Nice work. Yep. Again, it's a great breakdown in that. Um, you want approval on all three items. I'll do each one individual just so you get that. Yep. I'll
055look for a motion to approve expenditure of 415,737 for the buildings and grounds capital reserve fund, please. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Kevin. All those in favor? I I 4. I look for approval of expenditure of $151,850.96 to the district information technology infrastructure fund. Please move. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I I 40. And I'll look for approval of an expenditure of $123,85724 from the equipment capital reserve fund. Please move. Motion by Sarah, second. Second by Kevin. All those in favor? I I Thank you. Thank you, Amity. Again, appreciate it. All right, we've got some third readings. I didn't see any changes on staff and did you anyone here have any? So, I'm going to go through these uh six policies. Uh look for a motion to approve
056the third reading to adopt policy JLDA wellness policy. Please move. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I. 4. I'll look for a motion to approve the third reading to adopt policy J, internet access for students. Please. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Kevin. All those in favor? I I 4 Z. Look for a motion to approve the third reading to adopt policy JR Internet access for students acceptable internet use procedures. Please move. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor I I 4 Z. I'll look for a motion to approve the third reading to adopt policy GBF, internet access for staff. Please move. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Kevin. All those in favor? I I 4. Look for a motion to approve the third reading to
057adopt policy GBF R, internet access for staff, acceptable internet use procedures. Please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. All those in favor? I I 4 Z. And I'll look for a motion to approve the third reading to resend policy I I AE acceptable use policy for students. Please move. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Kevin. All those in favor? I I 4. Exc. Thank you everyone. Um 10.1 third quarter financial report. Yes. Yes, welcome back. Um, so this is the third quarter report. It ended on March 31st. It's in line with what we saw in quarter 1 and quarter 2. Um, and so far we're hoping it will reflect what's to come in quarter 4. Um, we're in really good shape. Um, as we noted, wind storms and more cold and ice
058did cut into the budget. Our heating costs are up and we did have some roof issues. Um, and we still have our old buildings which could at any point something could happen. Uh, but thankfully the damage done to the roof on March 7th was completely covered by insurance minus our $1,000 deductible and it was repaired over April break. So, it's all set. Um, the revenues are running well above expectation. We have $572,621 above. Some of that is because Medicaid reimbursements that we should have gotten last year have kind of come in this year. Um, and our bank interest has we we've gotten a lot off the bank interest for the bond and things like that. So that's great. Um we are also running below the approved budget on the expenditure side looking at roughly saving
059about $700,000 to 950,000. All of this is directly related um to staff turnover with the related savings and benefit accounts. Um and also the support staff DBA or sorry CBA um had $400,000 that had been marked for insurance um for them to use that wasn't used. However, we are running significantly over and out of district out of district placements um and in the retirement line, which is difficult to predict. Looking at historical trends and any commitments we have for the rest of this year, we're projecting about $900,000 to a million dollars left in the general fund. We have budgeted to use the first $145,000 uh to finance the equipment capital reserve fund and the machinery and vehicles capital reserve. So that leaves roughly 755,000. Um and then if you go to the next page, you
060can just see where the trust funds were before we had made any of the changes or accounted for things and then where the revenues came from. Then if we go to the expenditure side, um just to reiterate, we are done with our SSR funds. The SR3 ended in September, but the um breakdown of how it was spent is still on our website. Like I said, we're about 700 to $950,000 under the approved budget. You can see a lot of the savings come from the full-time salary lines um from support staff, professional staff, and custodial. All of them have surpluses um all due to staff turnover, retirements, um and positions that weren't filled in all three of those areas. However, because we still have a hard time finding special education assistance, you will see that we
061did overspend contracted um services to about $233,000. Um temporary cost includes the cost of substitute teachers. Currently, we have an open balance with about $200,000 left, but based on what we usually see happen in the last quarter of the year, we're thinking we still might overrun it by about 50,000. But that is far less than we have run it over in the past few years. and we maybe maybe it won't be that high, but we're um predicting it will be overrun. And we still continue to try and recruit substitutes so we don't have to pull staff members who are more expensive to cover. Um we're about a million under for our um retirement taxes, health insurance. Like I said, that some of that is mainly due to the CBA with the support staff that was
062earmarked. Um we have workers comp with a savings of $68,000 that's directly tied to um claims being decreased in the last few years. Um costs of retirements at year end. At the point this was written at the end of third quarter. Um we had 12 teachers and three support staff. There will be more that have come in since then in quarter 4, but at this point it was $99,000 over. Um, as I talked about, the out of district placements are over by about $760,000 as well as those purchased services. Um, but we have the savings and salary lines to account for those and they're driven by IEPs with an overrun also for contracted nurses. Um, and some psych testing and services that was driven by IEPs by about 148,000. Um, vocational tuition is overrun by
063about $200,000. This is a problem statewide. Um we have a good problem in that we have more students participating so that's gone up but um the state used to reimburse 75% of the cost. This p the year before this year they reimbursed at 44%. So the sending districts have to make up that cost. So we get a significant bill um to make up for that. So that's what the overage is mainly attributed to. We are trying to work with um how we can better plan for that. Um, so that will come in the budget cycle. Um, and then we have some professional services for engineering and architectural work that went over that had to do with some legal costs and strategic future planning. And then if you turn that over, it had about $30,000 over
064in the software line that had to do with a move from the superintendence budget into um it. and we had um an interest payment about $27,000 because we had used an estimate during the budget cycle. And then as a side note, um there is a $330,000 cost sitting in replacement equipment, but that's the phone money right now. Um and that was what you guys had voted we would take from the unretained fund balance. So that will be offset, too. Um and then we have two different formats. So you can kind of see um and then there's all the supporting documentation with that. You can see where we're overrunning. Um, but salary accounts, um, savings, the dental premiums, and some of the retirement benefits, um, are where we'll make up for that for a bottom line
065budget. And then finally, dining service. We're we're showing a big loss of $420,000, but a lot of that is because she spent down, we had a a huge surplus because of the reimbursements, and she's been slowly dwindling that down to get within the allowed limits. She bought all the elementary schools, um their new tables, which she talked about at her presentation at the last meeting, and then she had some other replacement things. So, when all said and done, we think we'll have a loss about $400,000, and she's looking at prices for next year. She doesn't anticipate any capital costs so that we should get more of a a right size with that balance. Okay, great. Great. Any questions? the uh tuition. Do we have more students this year than last year? We do. Yeah. Um
066so Mr. Rober, he's going to be here in June 3rd. Okay. Kind of talk about career connected learning again. He had a really good chart that he shared with the high school on our March 11th PD day. The numbers are really going through the roof in a good way in terms of interest. Good. Yeah. Good. that with the not getting reimbursed of course is the additional but I'm glad to hear the numbers are up because there's more participation. Yeah, that's the good problem. That is a good problem and that that's going to be helpful for us moving forward too with Robin and that. So I'm glad he's coming in. Guys are all good with that. All right. Anything else? Kevin Dan, we don't have any investigations from the Office of Civil Rights right now. Okay.
067That was going to be Yeah. You know, that's usually referred to the, you know, the the federal government. Yeah. We would definitely know if we have like an Office of Civil Rights investigation right now. Okay. So, I don't I don't know what the comment was based on. Okay. Our current state. Yeah. Yeah. I I want to get back to Mr. Ryan in that and that but that was the first I've heard of it. So um and that and it sounds like you as well. So I don't know I don't know what the basis is. Some of the quote that I that I sent to Luminary Times we probably use some of that to get back as well but you know we can work together. Okay. Yeah. If we can get get some of her answers
068and and make sure we get back with her um on that'd be great. Thank you Dan. Yeah. Jay, you all set? All set. Thanks. Have any good? Okay. All right. Seeing that, I will uh look for a motion to go into non-public session requested under RSA 91A 3 section 2B and C, please. So moved. Motion by Sarah. Second. Second by Tim. I'll go with a roll call vote. Left or right, please. I Tim Corner. Hi, Bob Slater. Hi, Sarah Ros. Good night, Monary.