001There we go. It >> would help if I turn that on correctly. So, I'd like to call the October 6 meeting of the Marramac Valley School Board to order. It is 6:32. Um, and we will start with roll call. >> Tracy Bricky, >> yes. Here. Sally Hersh Dickinson >> here. >> Julia Jones. >> She's absent today. >> Tom Liberty >> here. >> Melissa Muzzy >> here. >> Jessica Wheeler Russell >> here. >> Laura Vincent >> here. >> David Nesbet >> here. >> Stacy Jarvis. >> Laura Carile >> here. >> And Amanda York >> here. Thank you. And uh pledge of allegiance. >> Jen, will you lead us? >> 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
002all. So, uh, first would be the review of the previous board meeting minutes, September 8th, uh, school board meeting. >> I'll make a motion to accept the minutes of the previous meetings. Thank you. >> Second. Seconded by So, um, Candy, uh, motion was made by Jessica Wheeler Russell, seconded by David Nesbbit. >> Okay. And that was for previous meeting, >> right? Previous meeting minutes. >> Okay. >> Sally, >> um, I did send the suggestions that were strictly grammatical and proof reading. >> Can you speak into that microphone? Sorry. >> Um, yeah. Ahead of the meeting, I had sent uh my standard roster of suggested edits. Uh none of which change the content in any meaningful way. So, I just wanted to put that out there. >> Okay. Thank you. Um so, Candy, I will forward
003those. Um did you already send them to Candy? >> Uh I did not send them to Candi, but I sent them to you. >> Okay. I will forward them to you and next month um Sally will send them to you. >> Okay. >> As you know. So next uh is good. Oh, so the motion is to accept the minutes um with the few grammatical changes that Sally has made. Um any discussion? >> All those in favor? I >> I >> Any opposed? >> I am going to abstain. Um I know that I could have read them over. I just didn't read them carefully and that's on me. I'm sorry. I'm going to abstain. It's just because I was not here. >> I'll abstain too. >> I was not here. >> I just didn't read them
004carefully. And next finance report, Sam. >> Okay. So, um, the finance report is is in there. It looks very similar to the one that I think Randy started doing that, um, he indicated that the the board like that particular format where it goes by function. Um, as you can see at the top, it states that function totals over by more than $2,500 are highlighted. So, there is one function currently. Um that is function 2162 for physical therapy services. So we had an increased need. So that's over by $4,000. The other place that I'll point out is in the 1210 function under purchased services. That's where we're going to put the contracted services. So whether they're a contracted parah or a contracted professional, that's where we'll put that. I know last year I think there was
005some confusion as to where it belonged, but we created lines um for all of our contracted services at at each level. Um besides that um you know there there are a lot of um negatives in the salary lines and that's really part of a bigger overhaul of making sure that the correct people are located in the correct location being paid out of the correct account and that's going to be an ongoing process as we move through the year. Along with that, as we have staff that may leave and come in, um, you know, this budget is is done in March at the annual meeting when when it's voted in, and then we may have a staff member leave. We may have to hire someone that's a little bit more expensive, someone that takes the the
006health insurance, someone that doesn't take the health insurance. So, all of those really are in fluctuation as we as we we go forward. That's why I think using the the function total is is really the best way to move forward. Any questions? >> Jess, >> well, you beat me to my first question which was about salaries. So, thank you for preempting that. But I had a question about 1210 the line you were talking about 300 purchase services. So it says zero, which I understand kind of like why, but we might be able to elaborate a little bit more why the adopted budget says zero, but then we're going to be encumbering. So why what that might look like maybe in the next report? >> Sure. So we don't um put any funds in that because
007we're hoping we don't have to use that line, right? because we're hoping that we have enough current staff, we have enough current paras, enough current special ed teachers to fulfill those in our regular functions. Um, so we don't put any money in that particular line. Um, but it's just a location where we're going to keep track of how much we're spending for those contracted paras and professionals. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> I got two quick ones. Yeah, just on the salary one um to elaborate a little more. So when I look at regular red, I see a negative $258,000. Is Thank you. Um is that made up in other lines as you said you were? >> So it it's really made up as as the function total itself. So if you notice
008in the benefit line is a positive $839,000. So that whole 1100 function is plus $772,000 overall. Um so it's not that you know we're making it up with other lines but the entire function is in the positive itself. So those salaries really it really will depend on on who comes in comes and goes once the budget is set. >> Okay. And my last question, Sam, is uh looking at the balance. Are they available? I guess is what it says for um and it has $9.2 million. Is that We had talked uh earlier about encumbering things a lot quicker. Is that a result of that? >> Um I I don't think it's a change on how things are are encumbered. I think the one change um is that we've encumbered the the different transfers to the
009federal to food service which wasn't always encumbered at the beginning of the school year and it looked like we still had those funds when we didn't. Okay. >> So that's definitely going to make up some of that. >> Anyone else have any questions? Sorry, was trying to catch up. Um, so I uh need a motion. >> I'll make a motion that we accept the finance report. >> Seconded by Sally H Dickinson. >> Any other questions? All those in favor of accepting the financial report as printed say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Perfect. Okay, then good news. So the good news was in the um was online um >> oh >> let's do public comment. >> So public comment for agenda items is next. Okay. Public comment. Okay. Then now I can talk about good
010news. That was in the online version. Um and uh there was a ton of good news. It it was all really looks like um the beginning of school has been going great. And I'm sure that Randy and Katherine will tell us more. So, um, question. Okay, Randy. >> So, I can just kind of jump my report to good news since, as Tracy said, there was a lot of it. So, first we'll start with me showing you my t-shirt. [Applause] So on uh you know I know you saw the cover of the packet and now you've seen a t-shirt and also this past Saturday at the UNH football game. We won't discuss how UNH did against Villanova, but we will discuss uh at halftime. Uh Fred and family were able to go out uh onto the
011field to be recognized uh in front of all of the fans at the UNH game on a on a beautiful day and a lot of cheering much like you folks did. Uh and it was a it was a great day and for certainly for a great honor for a for a great guy. So that's my report under good news. >> Thank you and thank you for all you do, Fred. >> You really are wonderful and we will miss you. Sure you don't want to stay. [Laughter] >> Okay. Uh next, Nick. And um Nick, I'm sorry. Can you um because I am new to this month, can you introduce me to your counterpart, please? >> So, this is Silus Ree. He is a freshman. Uh >> yay, Silus. >> He talked a little bit about himself
012um last month. Uh he does theater, he does band, all that sort of stuff. You will hear uh he has some stuff to report on uh later in this report, but I will start first um real quick. College fair this Thursday, the 9th. A college fair is just a great way for the students here at the high school to find um career paths within these certain colleges, talk to college representatives. So that'll be this Thursday the 9th. It's just a great way, like I said, for students to to get out there. Um I know some teachers bring their students down during class time. Um and it's a great way, especially for the freshmen, um even though they still have a few years to start thinking about where they want to go and what they want
013to do. NHS is going to be hosting a blood drive Thursday, October 30th during the school day. If you would like to get your uh blood drawn, please contact the NHS advisor um Mrs. Abigail Prescott at a prescdprime.org. It is open to um any of the board members that would like to get their blood drawn. Boswinn Elementary School has been fortunate to win a grant from the Children's Literacy Foundation worth $25,000 for the 2025 2026 school year. So on Thursday, September 25th, Duncan McDougle, previous director of Cliff, visited Bees to talk to talk about our year of the book activities. He also provided students with the opportunity to select one free book to take home. >> Nice. >> Homecoming was a few weekends ago, very um very well attended. Uh the sports teams did great.
014A lot of clubs and organizations had booths set up, so it was just a great day all around. And uh some exciting news, NVHS has opened up its very own thrift store for students here in the high school. There are all sorts of clothing items for free. Uh they also are planning on opening up a food pantry in the same sort of area. So any students in need um can get free goods and anyone in the school really anyone can get can get clothing items. I know they're going to be doing like dresses for prom and that sort of stuff. So it's uh really cool to see um that getting uh opened up and starting to run. So now Silus has some more good news. >> Thank you, Nick. Uh it's been a good uh
015time these past couple weeks at Marramck Valley for some apple picking and as such um seems the elementary schools have had the same idea as Mike Smith from the New Hampshire Agriculture in the Classroom program came to Webster Elementary to teach the second and third graders about apples and how they can be pressed into cer. Apparently, they made some themselves and the end product was pretty good. As well as as some students at Lowden Elementary in Miss Gilman's class got to make some homemade applesauce. >> Moving on from all the apples, uh, some of the world history students here at the high school attended the Highland Festival in Highland Games in Lincoln. I was part of that group. It was actually extremely fun. We learned about uh Highland culture, the clan life, traditional food and
016music, and we watched the sheep dog trials. >> Oh, excellent. >> There's some Highland cows there, too, which were my favorite part. >> He might already be better than me. Uhoh. >> No. Now we have some jokes. Uh, Halloween is at the end of this month. Can't believe it. Come so quick. So, uh, we got some Halloween jokes for you. What's a ghost's favorite ride at the fair? The roller coaster grown. >> What does a witch use to style their hair? >> Lots of scare spray. >> Thank you. >> And those are our jokes. >> Yeah. And our report. >> Perfect. >> Can I ask one question real quick? >> Well, I was going to ask some questions, too, but go ahead. >> Okay. Um, if we wanted to, you know, make donations to the
017thrift store, how could somebody do that here? >> Um, I'm pretty sure what would be the best option is you can just bring like bags of clothes to I'm sure the front office. I'm looking at Mr. Sage on this one. >> Yes, he's nodding his head. Yeah, you can just bring them to the main office here and you can donate that way. >> Thank you. >> And wouldn't mind just repeating what was the time for the blood drive? What date? >> So, it's going to be um October 30th. It's a Thursday, the day before Halloween. Um that is during the school day, but you can sign up for the time of day that you want to get your blood drawn. And for that, just make sure to reach out to um Mrs. Abigail Prescott, our
018adviser, at a prescott mvdpride.org, and she can get you set up with the time slot and how to sign up and all that good stuff. >> Thank you. >> So, Nick, I have a couple of questions. um actually for Silus and this reminded reminds me of I started to look over the minutes and Silas's name is spelled two different ways >> in the minutes. So I just would like you to um tell us what is the correct spelling of your name Silus. >> Uh C Y L A S. >> Thank you. Um so if you could >> that was my fault and I corrected it and I made him a name. >> Oh, thank you. Okay. is correct. >> Nice. Thanks very much. >> Sally picked that up in the minutes, too. So, >> oh,
019>> thank you. Thank you. Um, as I told you, I just didn't have time. The other thing is um I know that the New Hampshire Food Bank is um very involved in the um food pantry at the learning center and there is Where's Julie? Did she leave? >> She left. Oh >> I'm like >> And you're a new food pantry at Penook. Is that right? or >> um I'm not sure about >> okay >> with the new food pantry here at the high school. >> Oh, is that affiliated with New Hampshire Food Bank? Okay, forget I said a thing. Okay, so let's just move on now. Thanks. Anybody else have any questions for uh Nick or Silus? Okay, committee reports. First one is facilities. Jess, >> um if you don't recall, I had updated um
020because this took place before the last board meeting in September. So, I did do an update then, but just to remind folks, we met before that board meeting to discuss some of the priorities um and asked some questions um of our award-winning facilities director. Um and the committee also uh kind of scooted up our timeline. The original decision making around MVLC was going to be uh set a date for about December. We are um going to move scoot that up a month and hopefully we'll bring something to the board in November and we are meeting again in mid-occtober. um any questions around the learning center um please feel free to send me an email um and we can add that to the agenda for that um October board meeting, excuse me, October uh facilities committee
021meeting where we are going to be hopefully digging deeper into some of the uh logistics of our options. >> What's the date on that? >> October 20th >> 6 to 7:30. That's going to be over at the >> SAU. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions for Jess about facilities? >> Next is finance, Tom. Yeah. So, we're looking as of right now to have four financial warrants go before the bo voters in March. And that would be an operating budget, that would be a teacher contract, a maintenance capital reserve, and a special education capital reserve. Don't know what those numbers are obviously yet, but those are four warrants that we're looking to bring forward to the voters. Uh we talked about overcommunicating the budget. Um and um that would look like well it's going to
022be one of our next agenda items is to talk about what we can do before the public hearing. Um it's a daunting task for a small group of people to present a fairly large budget to a auditorium full of people like to break it down into smaller chunks. So, we talked about maybe the board rep uh board reps from every town going to possibly town meetings or well, not town meetings, um select board meetings. Um but that's going to be one of our agenda items for for next week to talk about how we can uh bring that forward to our community and maybe talk in smaller groups instead of bigger groups. And we also talked about um having a one-stop shopping um on the budget on the district site where it would have everywhere from
023the full detail of the budget uh in spreadsheet form to one pages to everything in between. We want people to be able to go on that site, click on it, and find the information that they need. Either a quick look or if they want to dig deep into the numbers, they can dig deep into the numbers. Um but we want to have graphs and charts and we want to make it uh again probably will be redundant but we want to really want to try to overcommunicate that. And one of the other things we talked about is if you remember um in 2425 uh district was hoping to to make up a million dollars um from the overexpenditure and it looks like uh we got some of it but not all of it. So um we're
024looking at about $800,000 this year and I I know Sam, you can probably speak better to that than I. I don't know if there's anything else to add to that. >> There really isn't, Tom. Um, you know, we're we're chipping away. It's certainly going to be a not a short-term remedy. >> Okay, it take any questions. >> So, we're $800,000 short. Instead of a million, we're now up down to 800,000 >> roughly. Roughly. Okay. Any other questions for Tom about finance committee meetings? Perfect. Next would be policy. Uh Melissa, there are several policies in your packet for a first read and the minutes are also in the packet for review. Y so policy met on September 15th and we um had reviewed what was in the packet from last month which was the EBB um
025for school safety and the IMA which is the daily physical activity policy. We didn't receive any feedback on those but they're in your packet for a second read and action tonight. Um, we also just uh made sure that we accounted for JICJ, which is the unauthorized communication device policy. Um, that was supposed to be on the packet, but wasn't. So, it went to it's in your packet. Um, it was in your packet for a first read. Um, and then for new business, we worked on policy AB, which is the New Hampshire Parental Rights Bill of Rights. This policy came to us from the Schoolboard Association with very like we didn't really change anything. um changes to that policy had to do with more of like um taking she he and making them they them or
026um we those are the way we've been doing all of our policies is is trying to get rid of those she they he or his her. Um so those were the only changes we made to that. It pretty much came straight from the schoolboard association. It's in your packet for a first read. Um, and then JIC, which is the student conduct one, uh, policy, that did have just one line, I believe, that we edited. I just got ahead. >> Wait, I have them in my other packet. Sorry, one second. Student conduct, the student conduct policy. We did have um just a couple of again the he she's that we fixed on that one. Um, we also took care of changing the headings so that they were in alignment with our other policies as far as
027not being bolded. And then the one change that we added was um we did put the that the online publications of the code of conduct shall be ADA compliant. Additionally, building principles shall ensure that verbal recitation of the applicable code of conduct is available as needed. Um, we had to add that to our policy based on legislation. So um minor edits to that with the inclusion of that line. And then our last policy sorry multiple documents in front of me that we brought forth uh for today is JLIA which is the supervision of students. Um and I believe I just got to get that draft. We clarified um just this is a new policy we haven't had before. I got that written down here. Um it was a policy that is required and um this
028is our first look at it. We did add to our original draft um where we had once it said once uh condition a dangerous condition should be reported to the building principal or designate. We added the or designate because if a building principal is not available there should be somebody else in charge. Um, and then we also, the original policy had um referred to buses and vans, but we knew that that was limiting the type of vehicles we may be using. Um, and so we just uh changed that to vehicles, but this is a first read for a new policy. So, and again, the draft was u provided with guidance from the National School Board Association and is required. So you have three in there for first reads. You have two I'm sorry, four in
029there for first reads. Two in there for second read I mean and uh action. And then the EBC chemical safety and chemical hygiene plan is still being worked on. It's kind of a lengthy document and we still need to finish looking at that. >> Correct. >> Okay. So, I'm looking for um action on EBB, which is school safety, and IMAH, which is daily physical activity. Those two policies. >> So, I'd like an I'd like a motion uh to accept EBB as printed. Uh David Nesbbit, motion. >> Jessica Wheeler Russell, second. Any discussion on EBB? >> Can you just highlight the changes of that again? I'm sorry. Did you do that? >> I'll pull that one back up. One second. >> They were highlighted on the in the digital packet. >> Looked at it in the
030digital. >> One second. >> EBB school safety. >> So, school safety we Yes. >> Yes. School safety was a sorry, school safety was a brand new policy. That's why there are no highlighted changes on that one. >> And this is from the New Hampshire School Boards Association. >> Correct. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. Then with the motion out there, all those in favor of adopting policy EBB, school safety, say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Okie dokie. Next, I need a motion to uh adopt policy IMH. >> So moved. >> Moved by Jessica Wheeler Russell. IMH, sorry. Um and seconded by uh IMAH is the daily physical activity. Um, and seconded by Stacy Jarvis. Um, are there questions about daily physical activity, which I don't get enough of, but >> Okay. All those
031in favor of adopting policy IMH, daily physical activity, say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. So that's it for policy. Uh thank you very much. Uh long range planning, Lorna. >> So the one that we just did. >> Yes. >> Hold it back out. >> Ready. So do we going to say you're handing it out? Okay. So >> Okay. >> Oh. Is it? >> Yes, it is. >> Yeah, >> it's on. >> I was going to wait till Randy passes everything out. >> Andy, can I have one? >> Okay. >> So, are they are they not going to get the two the new page thing though. >> Uh, no, we're still going to beat up the metrics. >> Okay. Okay. All right. >> So, at this point then we're just talking about the the
032new the three new goals for the 2526 school year transition slashpromotion slash community engagement of the Mirmax Valley School District business partnerships and Marramac Valley Learning Center. So, we've got some sheets and some metrics that we will be reviewing, but we will bring that for discussion for the whole board. >> Thank you. Any questions for Lorna? >> Okay. >> So, would like a motion >> on the goals? >> Lorna motion. So, we'll make a motion to bring these three goals to the whole board for discussion >> for >> well, we're already >> to have the board vote on the three goals. >> Oh, okay. Okay. >> Even though we haven't gone over the me >> to accept the goals. Yes. >> Okay. So, a motion to accept the three goals as presented. >> Thank you.
033>> Second. >> And Stacy Jarvis will second it. >> Seconded. All in favor? >> I have one question. >> No. I'll do that. >> Thank you. But let's have some discussion first. >> Um I have I I'll have I have a couple questions. They we'll start with the first one which is looking at the first goal which is a lot in one line. Uh transitions, promotions, community engagement. Is there a reason why we wouldn't have like transition as one and then promotion community engagement as its own? like what's the >> I think the only reason we combined them because there was so much interaction between those >> three things >> that they kind of all all are related to each other. But we did kind of talk about that beforehand and said >> yeah it
034could be three separate goals or it's it's three all combined because they overlap. >> And how do they overlap? Like what parts are overlapping here for transitions with the rest of them? Like I think the transitions we talked about and promotion um because we're promoting the school at the same time that we're trying to do transitions, you know, from the you know the younger grades to the higher grades, etc. But also going outside the community if they're going to go to college or they're going to have job shadow and then we talked about community engagement does involve job shadows. So that's where we kept saying >> the overlap was there. Okay, that makes sense. Um, I'll hold until other folks have some. >> These are similar to the goals you've had before, but >> they
035are similar. Yes, >> any other questions for the committee? >> I have one more. Um, how did you because I I I missed this meeting. Um, did you talk about how to measure what success would look like for the >> goal? Lorna did say that the metrics they were going to be continue to work on them next. So we don't have like an even kind of a general idea >> at all just kind of something next time. >> Well, I mean we kind of a little bit talked about that when we were talking about the student participation and I asked how do we know how do we measure that and and there are a certain number of students like that did this getting to Y program and so they can they know how many people
036did that and then we're hoping that obviously that there would be more um and again so I think there there will be ways to measure that. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Sally. >> So, I actually want to go back to Jess's earlier point. Um, you had noted that there is some overlap between transitions, promotions, and community engagement, but is there uh a tremendous amount of um resistance to the idea of breaking transitions out? That that's the one that seems to me like it could do well on its own. Um, I just I'm I'm just thinking that you might get overwhelmed or things might get kind of murky if you have all three of these packed into one. It feels I mean my my sense is that transmissions is really more of its own thing
037than the others. I don't know. I mean I I'm just wondering what the discussion was that led you to combining them. And I think it kind of was that um the presentation that we had the slide deck >> did kind of have trans the um >> transitions I think separate at that point but >> yeah you may remember last year's goals were transitions was one goal and then promotion to community engagement and in the reporting out from last year one of the transitions that was focused on was from high school and after high school um and I think that's where a lot of that, you know, sort of community engagement and pulling things in and really even the business partnership. So, I think it was, you know, that all sort of blending together and that's
038a discussion that we had earlier on tonight. Um, but I don't see that it's a major difference whether you have three goals or four goals to break them out. Right. Unless the committee has a a major problem with it because I think there's overlap and intertwining for for each one of these. You know, even as we talk about the programming at the at the learning center, you know, if that's going to be something that we're going to move on with that expanding that, we're going to be looking at some of the community engagement and transition. So, um, you know, I think that, you know, up to the, uh, the chair of that, but I don't see any reason why we can't break transit. You could break all of them out and have five goals. There's
039nothing magic about the number number three except in schoolhouse rock. But, um, >> beyond that, I think having five is fine. >> So, do we want to ask the board to take a vote on >> Somebody wants to make a motion. >> There's a motion on the table. Well, you can amend it. >> No. Okay. So, the motion is to accept the goals as stated here on this paper. Um, as we're done with discussion, all those in favor of the goals as stated, say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Excellent. Okay, then. Um, thank you very much for committee reports. Old business. um the New Hampshire School Board Association the resolutions um at the last at the last board meeting you elected Melissa and Jessica >> oh Jess and Stacy I'm sorry and um
040Jess and Stacy. Yes, that's right. And uh in the on in the online version the um of the packet the resolutions were there. Um we need to have we're going to have to vote on those resolutions, the continuing resolutions. Jess, do you want to say something? >> Yeah, I was just going to make a motion that we move these as a slate to open this for discussion. uh moved as a slate. Jessica Wheeler Russell. Anybody second that will >> you >> Laura? Thank you, Laura. Um do you want to talk about them at all? Do you want to? >> Yeah, I can. I mean, I can I've read through these um having done this before. Um but just to remind folks that what this is going to be is we will be going uh us
041as the representatives for the board will be going to the NHSBA. um deleg um delegate conference or assembly and this is these res the proposed resolutions are different resolutions that were submitted by school boards across the state to um ask the NHSBA uh to advocate for whatever the subject is legislatively. So if you had time to read through all of these, you know, there is a lot. Um, I didn't see anything significant in the NHSBA's response to the changes. You know, most of them were a lot of them were, you know, we already have this under this resolution or, you know, we disagree with that statement and I didn't see anything that stood out to me as I disagree with the NHSBA board. So, um, that's why I made the motion we just move these
042as a slate. And what will happen if we uh approve that motion is um as as we go through and vote on each resolution, I will um basically vote for um what we all approved tonight. So that would be basically what the NHSBA board has put forth. So >> I agreed with all the NHSBA recommendations. Anybody else have anything about the >> No. So, most of them they do not support, right? And I >> There were a lot they did not support. >> Yeah, there was a lot they did not support. >> So, when we vote, are we voting to agree with what they suggest? Is that what we're voting for? >> Right. If we're voting for these as a slate, what we're doing is we're authorizing Jessica as our voting member to say, I'm
043voting on behalf of the board. No, in alignment with any Yeah. And then the other thing is we also are giving her the opportunity if the um resolution gets amended on the floor that she can make the judgment on our behalf to say okay with that amendment I agree. So we do give her some of that authority as a board when we when they go to represent us. Um, but if we're saying we're voting as a slate, what we're saying is as written, we would support what the NH uh SBA is leaning towards or guiding us towards for those resolutions. And then if they get to the floor and something gets amended that is more uh appropriate, then she can vote depending on what you know the amendment is and she's representing us. >> Okay.
044>> Thank you, Tom. >> Any other questions? So the motion is to accept the slate as uh written. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. Uh new business personnel Kathleen. Um in your packet you saw I'm sure that there is a resignation. One of the teachers Nick uh Sika from the learning center resigned for personal reasons. We've found we haven't found a replacement, but the staff over there has all stepped up and they're covering the classes. Thank you. Manifest and journal entries. So, um, I signed them electronically. Melissa signed them electronically, and we just need a motion to accept the manifest and journal entries that you received electronically. Moved by Sally Harsh Dickinson, seconded by David Nesbbit. I feel like I'm looking over on that side. I'm sorry. I'm sorry
045to this side. Um, any discussion, >> Lorna? >> Just a couple general questions. There it seemed like a ton of Amazon Capital, but they had zeros, a lot of zeros in for the line items. It looked really weird. There were some with dollar amounts and then there were some that >> so that it it could be that they were reversed um at some point depending on how they were they were processed. >> Okay. And then the one other question too is the um arbiter sports LLC 14,000. I was just is that just somebody we deal with for >> that's how we pay our officials for middle school and high school. >> Oh okay. Okay. >> Thank you. Good >> question. Jessica, >> I had just one uh one line. I was wondering if you could
046tell me I'm looking at which folder is this? Um one of the last files um uees capital. What could you explain to me what uees capital is? It's Unatel. >> Is it? Ah, that makes a lot more sense now. Thank you. >> Other questions? Okay, the motion is to accept the manifest and journal entries. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. Next is board chairperson's report. So, as you know, I have um a second uh job and um one of the subcommittees that I am on right now is the um subcommittee that's looking at the consolidation of um SAUS in the state. Um there is a bill and I can't think for the life of me what the number is right now. I have so many of those numbers running
047around in my head. Um one of the uh the chairperson of the committee put forward this document which um is actually the statute that deals with superintendent services and this is what every superintendent is responsible for. and he highlighted these um the highlighted po portions and he felt that um school boards could be in charge of these things that he highlighted. Um I told him that uh that's school boards are com are comprised of mostly lay people >> um and that um they are not trained in these particular things. But um I thought I would bring it to you all and you could look through and read through and let me know. Um, our next meeting is next Wednesday, October 15th. If you could uh if you feel like it, if you could get back
048to me and let me know how you feel about um being in charge of these highlighted um things and uh I will bring that >> as a school board member and I will bring that to the committee. Thank you very much. So, will there be a um public is allowed to attend but no comments? >> Yes. October 15th. Oh, I can't remember if it's in the morning. I think it's at 9:30. Hold hold please. >> Um yes, sa reduction is uh at 9:30. Um also in the afternoon that afternoon is um special ed commission um which is also looking at uh special ed and um those were the ones that that those were the ones that you attended right Laura Lorna and Jess you attended the special ed commission. >> We attended the um finance
049uh >> finance okay forget it. Um anyway, so um there are there are a number of um subcommittees and commissions that are working on retained bills and um if it's a subcommittee, those reports have to be done by November 1st. So we'll be looking at um taking a vote as a subcommittee and putting forth a report about SAU um SAU consolidation. >> And that's what this one is. That's what this one is. And this um I felt this is this is schoolboard members. This is us. And you know I I as I said I I don't believe that that's some these are the things that we all should be responsible for um in our district. But that's my and I need that that was my opinion and I wanted some feedback from all of you.
050Uh Stacy then Tom >> I just have two questions on E and Q. >> E pupil achieve >> E is pupil achievement assessment through grading and state national assessment procedures and the method of assessment to be used. Maybe I'm reading this wrong. Does that mean does that actually mean grading them pupil achievement assessment through grading and statement? >> No, we would we would I don't believe so but we can ask that question. >> Understand what that means. We can ask that question >> and then same with >> Q school calendar arrangements number >> not not Q sorry um pupil governance and discipline including age appropriate due process procedures is that our policies >> no that would be like discipline >> they want us to discipline children >> yes >> and evaluate staff >> staff that
051would be B evaluation of staff >> and I think it's it'll be great if you all share your feedback with um >> Tracy. >> I don't know why that was so hard for me to Tracy, but I I always have to caution and remind people, please do not send it to the whole board. >> Just email, if you're going to send an email to Tracy with your opinion on this, just send it to Tracy. We do not want this to becoming a board discussion online. >> And that I just And that's and I have no no desire to have it a board discussion. I just wanted it out there and I need feedback from you so that I can bring it back to the committee. >> So I just got a question on kind of
052procedure with this. >> So this is a piece of that um legislation. >> So >> this is not a piece of the legislation. The legislation is actually just um looking at the consolidation of SAUS. This is one person's this is committee chairperson's idea of if we were to consolidate sauus so that um I maybe toward a county or um some states do it by county so they have a superintendent for the county and then each district has their own >> whatever assistant superintendent. I think that Marmac County could have uh Katherine as the superintendent. >> So, so then >> this is just a part of if it were to happen then this is a way it could happen and they're thinking in terms of um economy of scale. So if if we didn't have somebody
053in each district as the person who does all these things, who would take up the who would take up these duties? And one of the ideas was to have schoolboard members take up these duties. >> Okay. >> So thank you. >> And you're saying the whole document or just the highlighted yellow? highlighted yellow ones are the ones that the the the proposed the proposal was that schoolboard members could take up those highlighted. >> Okay. Thank you for that clarification. >> Thank you and thank you for your help. I appreciate it. That's it. Katherine Katherine, sorry I didn't speak into the microphone. >> All right. So, the beginning of the school year provides lots of opportunities for professional growth. Um, just last week, a team of over 20 educators from both Marramac Valley and Andover, myself
054included, uh, had the opportunity to attend a literacy summit um, sponsored by the group formerly known as NHSD. I apologize, I can't remember their new acronym. Um, and it was focused on K toA evidence-based science of reading aligned literacy instruction. Uh, one of our high school English teachers, Erica Hall, uh, was invited to co-present with Dr. Leslie Ld on the implementation of think SRSD. Um, SRSD stands for self-regulated strategy development and that is a a writing framework that we are working on on implementing. And so Erica did a fantastic fantastic job and it was nice to see one of our teachers um work highlighted in that way. This week uh I am attending both the NHD assessment and accountability workshop as the kid law as well as the kid law conference. Randy will be at
055that as well. Um so both of these are informative and offer insight and resources that we are able to bring back and then share with administrators and it will de um directly inform um our our practices. Uh this Friday, a variety of professional development opportunities will be provided to our faculty. Uh these include signs of suicide training, non-violent crisis intervention techniques, think SRSD training, um some PD around elementary math, CPR, uh friends of Anya is coming in to do some training around grief support um and NIWA data analysis. So we we have busy schedules happening. um at all levels. Uh later this month, MVMS will be sending a team to MASCQ, which is a a technology education conference. So, while our PD and curriculum development opportunities have been substantially reduced this year because of um
056the budget reduction, we are trying to make the most of our title funds. Our title funds are pretty critical to our operation, and Title 2 allows us to continue to support professional development um for our teachers. One other highlight, and I I believe I neglected to mention this last meeting, but it's just a pretty cool thing, and I think we should be aware of it. Um, so I I think many of you know that we have a new commissioner of education, Caitlyn Davis. So, um, Caitlyn Davis's first grade teacher was Kim Bey, who was a third grade teacher at Lowden. So, um, when she was sworn in as the commissioner of education, she had reached out to Kim and invited her to be with her during that process, which was a a huge honor. and
057Kim was thrilled to be able to celebrate to celebrate that with her. So, >> um it was definitely a special moment. >> Thank you. >> That's cool. So, uh next superintendent Randy. >> All right. I'm not going to talk about Fred this time. Um but if one quick thing for the uh negotiations committee, if we could have a quick uh non-me gets over, we'll just go across the hall to the um high school conference room. if that uh if that's okay for the negotiation uh committee. Um and this is SAU46 news. Um Megan Philbrook was named the 2026 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year. So um you know very very close to the uh MV crew here. We're keeping it we're keeping the big awards in SAU 46 uh this year which is a beautiful
058thing. Right. Thank you. Thank you. Um >> um >> question, >> point of order question because we didn't talk about committee meetings in the upcoming months. >> Oh, we didn't. >> So, >> okay. >> So, uh so facilities, we've already uh we already have meetings. Finance, we already have meetings. Policy >> policy has a meeting set up for October 27th at 5 o'clock. >> Okay. Okay. >> At the SEU >> and long range planning, you already set up your next meeting, correct? >> Right. Yeah. I've already forgotten, so I look it up. >> That's okay. Or >> November 10th. >> 4:30. >> At 4:30. >> Okay. >> Um, >> are you thinking some other? >> Yes. >> Committee. >> We had discussed the ad hoc um streaming committee meetings. >> Oh, okay. >> Committee. That's
059right. >> We need to find a better acronym for that. Um, but those of us who wanted to join it, I would like to start getting that um on the books for next month. So, I know it was myself >> and it was Jess. >> Uh, David, >> was it you who said you wanted to be on the um looking at streaming committee meetings? >> Dave, Lorna, >> I think IC >> Stacy, thank you. All right. Who else? >> Jess, Stacy, >> we do need to have a >> We need probably more than one. >> Yeah, >> at least three people. So, David, >> thank you, David, for stepping up. I appreciate that. >> You have to be technically >> No, it'll be an overview, but >> you have to you have to be able
060to um set the you know, you have to be able to do Chris's job, >> right? on that? >> No, that's what I was going to open up to discussion. Um, so if it's the four of >> I'll I'll long as I don't have to be a IT person. >> Um, what dates work for you folks? Obviously, preferably Mondays, but >> um I know that we're kind of packed on the 20th is busy for most of us. I think the 27th around policy if we wanted to start that. I have nothing before or after. >> So policy on the 27th is at 5. You guys could meet at 6. >> Yep. >> For you. Okay. Works for me. I'll put it on the >> 27th at 6. Thank you, Jess. >> Thank you. >> Yes.
061At the SAU. Okay then. Thank you Jess for bringing that up. I had forgotten about it. Um next public comment. Okay. Um All right. No public comment. Thank you very much. Non-public Six. >> We don't have any non-public, so motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right, we're out. >> Thank you very much, everybody.