001There we go. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. Um so I need a um motion to approve slate of administrative nominations. Moved by Julia, seconded by Jess. Uh, all those in favor of the slate say I. Any opposed? Perfect. I need a motion regarding the waving of policy JB for the student at Salisbury Elementary School. David. Um, second. Yes. All those in favor? Yes. [Laughter] Julia? Yes. All those opposed? No. Thank you. That motion failed. I need a motion regarding elementary school. Oh, thank you. moved and second. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? Okay. And I need a motion to wave the retirement date notification for a retiring. Moved by David, seconded by seconded by Julia. Um, all those in favor of waving the retirement date say I. All those
002return to committee reports. We did. I did all the student report. Sorry. No problem. You guys made me wait a bit longer today. I do have a fairly heavy report. I'm sorry, guys. I'll try to make it go. All right. So, um, the valley is going to be very, very, uh, busy this month. Uh, there are a lot of dates. I'm going to be kind of spewing out. So, make sure you guys are ready to go to write some dates. Uh, write some dates down. There are a lot of things coming up. Uh, before I get started, I just wanted to, uh, recognize our teachers. This is teacher appreciation week. Uh, so big thank you to all the teachers here. Uh, everyone, all the students here are very lucky to have you. um clubs here
003at MBHS and other groups around the district are celebrating in many different ways. Uh the week before vacation, many clubs and classes around celebrated birthday, many students walk around the campus trash events. Um I just wanted to quickly highlight some opportunities within the classrooms coming up. Um I am currently a part of the sporting class here. Our teacher, Mr. Tom Clark, has been doing great at getting us guest speakers to really talk about the world of sports. Uh, recently we got to meet the head boys lacrosse coach for New England College. Tomorrow, we get to meet with the former NHI athletic director and current head of the NHI sports management program. And then this Thursday, we get an online interview with the PA announcer for the New England Patriots. Uh so our students truly get
004a uh get so many great opportunities to grow academically and also kind of professionally to uh kind of learn um the professional sides of sports. Um moving on to some athletics. Uh the uh the spring college signing ceremony will be held on Wednesday, May 28th at 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium. Again, Wednesday, May 28th at 5:30m. This ceremony will honor any senior student athlete who is committed to play a sport at the collegiate level. Um, I'm going to go over some current team rankings um for here at the high school. Uh, baseball is one and six. Softball is seven- one and is first in division 2. They're doing great. Boys lacrosse is three and three. Girls lacrosse is three and one and third in division two. Uh, boys track has had a very strong start.
005They won two of their uh they were winning the past two tournaments including the black bear invitation like pro ground where they finished first place out of 29 schools. Uh so that's very great and that they say that that uh that meet is kind of the um the preview of kind of what the boys track team is doing really well and then girls track won their last two as well. Those were great. Um, some senior nights coming up for our spring sports. Baseball senior night will be Wednesday, May 21st or at 3:45 p.m. Softball will be Monday, May 12th, this coming Monday at 3:45. Boys lacrosse will be Friday, May 30th at 5:45. Everyone's across Friday, May 3rd at 5:45 at 23 p.m. Find all that stuff on the newsletter. Uh the theater department will
006be hosting a fundraiser this Friday at 7 PM the auditorium. The event is called the cost. It's an award show for everyone involved in the productions this year. Admission is $5. really recommend if you kind of saw the music store play, we get to recognize several of our other members and everyone that does that. Um, Tuesday, May 13th at 5:00 is the district and elementary concert here at the high school. Um, Tuesday 20th at 6 is the MBMS spring concert at the high school. Thursday, May 22nd, the high school spring concert. And then May 29th, 30th, and 31st, the high school band and chorus will have taken a trip to Hershey Park in Pennsylvania to perform in a competition and also enjoy a lot of great chocolate. Um, some other important dates. Middle school community
007project night will be Wednesday, May 28th from 6:00 to 7:00 at the middle school. Um it's the mini version of the senior project here for that for our current eighth graders. Um next Thursday, May 15th will be the honor society inductions here at the high school. That will start at 4:00 as all five honor societies will welcome new members. That'll be followed by underclassman awards for the sophomores and juniors at 6 pm. And the underassman awards take a moment to recognize the hard work that put into their education. Great that um you guys for that. Last thing, Saturday, May 17th will be prom grand march will start at 6 p.m. in the grapon center in conquered. So make sure the students all start. I have some jokes. What you call a thirsty crocodile? Gatorade. And
008why was the broom late for work? It worked. I like you. Do any does anyone need any? Oh, that was uh districtwide elementary. That's all I got. Thank you. Sorry. No. Next is committee reports. All right. So this [Music] is we policy as well. Um complete their course that will no longer be offered as students that are um and I have a tentative meeting but I think we need to negotiate policy. So maybe maybe we can all report 14 Yep, it's in here. S and web store and we also are beginning to have we don't have any right now but in the future it's There were certain people on a level. Next year, if I can just add the only other major topics we talked about in the meeting was the proposal. Our tentative need
009right now. Yes. But Yeah. Um, so you discuss like the area panic a walking zone for about mile radius around the school. So that would be like no bus service for those students. It would eliminate two buses currently bus 12 and our policy a little bit more. Our current policy would allow Um and um I did I did know about I had asked some questions. Um I I will be going through that. I will just summarize it right now. But I guess more like a question statement. Um you know being a parent within living this area I have massive safety concerns. So I should bring now potential that we might Okay. Awesome. So I I will I will try to attend that. So if the committee were to make determination of that to go forward
010with that bring that before the full board um the one timeline that would need to be a decision that would be reached next for us. Do we have any You know what? that's something I can bring to the next committee meeting. So policy also met um met on April and we took care of business as far as chair nomination um and then policies a12 and um we have not received feedback from any of the board members um regarding policies or any questions um so they are in packet on them. Um there'll be primary requirement for um are decline in a lot of those were just um corrections with commas periods punctuation um so long ago there was one particular thing I just have not been able to pull it out in terms of like what
011was the one that added um these will come before us again we are actually going to go back to policy um and re that one Um and it went from that one is not in tonight but it will so for tonight we are looking for action on AA R1 A R2 and JC um to Thank you. I'm sorry I read the letters wrong. Um to accept them to get them to our current manual. Um like I said as these are policies that are impacted by changes that are still kind of looked at legislation. So I have a question. So, we are going to have to go back and look at a then wait on action for these or um no because the um stuff that's in there right now and appropriate irrelevant I do not
012I do not know at this point we have to I mean I'm sorry the AC document like a very length back from trim it down to make it um clearly um we want policies to able to be able to read them and understand them and we were struggling with this document and sometimes make it more complicated but we are looking to have them in working is all of it necessary is there but right now the other documents need to be up to know already so you the same fac. Okay. Okay. It is right. Yeah. Yeah. These are very similar to what is already in the policy. A lot of the things said were commas, punctuations based on what we were getting. Um, there was one piece that I can't remember off my head what it
013was. I tried to go back and read them. Well, that's the thing. We've been looking around for so many months and we've got I know we had a lot of questions when we Yeah. And that's what we we talked about that in terms of the plan. Like I said, these have just been for so long. So moving forward back and forth. So we lost. Yes. There's a little bit of like okay what was the initial thing and most of this point are just grammatical. So, can we have a motion for A C A R1 A and C A R2 together or do we need to do change procedural procedural again. Yeah, it was clarification on the language. Yeah. So then can I have a motion for AAC A R1 and R2? Okay. Thank you. All
014those in favor of those say I. Any opposed? Excellent. I have a motion for JLC. Thank you. Thank you. All those in favor of policy JLCD say I. All those post. Perfect. Next is old business. The Oh, sorry. Catherine wants meeting. She's like that. Um, okay. So, I'm gonna toss some out there and then So on the 19th, could we do and policy six that would allow those who are then transportation that on the on that the hour before I apologize. Yes, for transportation on June 2nd at 5:30. Anybody? Yes. Uh even though this is beyond the next board meeting which is real estate will attend uh like a facilities um meeting on June 9th. Does 5:30 work you? Um, so again that'll be June 9th for facilities. You're going to see a short presentation
015from Fred and I further down or we're probably going to meet over at the Washington Street School. So then I will be sent but we can we can work that out because again we will meet before that time. We'll maybe we won't all meet at you and over on the screen there. Remind us who's sorry. What happened? I'm still going to request and um I So, I did send out an email to prom and tell him that I was not going to call for a financial meeting. Um, I just feel that it's a little premature to um have our finance committee meet in May. Um, we just got the audit for this year. We're just wrapping things up here. our VA um will start until July 1st and um we don't usually get our first
016report for this year until October. We do have a budget already that was approved. So we know um what those budget items are at um when we talk about the two buses, the two buses are already in the um are already in the budget. So um and we won't be working on our board goals until June. So I just think we continue to work. So that is my feeling and all you want to do. That's I had said I had said that I thought maybe this summer once was over things up but um it I mean it's up to you guys. I I just felt that May was premature. Right. Yeah. But I mean it's like another I like to give a session. Um, I mean I I just so um I have I um
017I asked Laura to be the loud rep on the finance committee as our finance rep was Dan and Um, a new another new finance committee member will be Laura goes to all the again like Jessica Laura goes to all the finance committee meetings anyway. So, um, she's a good rep from the fin. So, it's Tom, it's Laura, it's me, it's Melissa, and it's Julie. Yes. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Yes. Yes, it is. Jul. Okay. Laura, the only thing is is that our um and I'm all fine in July. Only thing is our BA starts July 1. um that sounds fine to me. Um, what I know we have had, don't get me wrong, we we've had, but we had meetings before in July. Not like we don't work in July. This should be
018towards maybe Okay, that sounds great. Um, yeah. Can we um No, okay. Thank you. So the 16th works fine for July 16th at 5:30. Oh, six. I'm sorry. Oh, I I'm sorry. I thought you said 6. Yep. So, finance meeting is July 16th at 5. [Laughter] It'll be at the uh SAU. Thank you guys. Yeah, this room is okay. Perfect. All righty. Um, next is old business which is the memorandum of understanding. No, memorandum of agreement. Thank you. um within your package. Next to the last pages we had quite a bit of discussion about this last month for this meeting. I don't know if there are any additional questions that come up either or I can can answer. This is not agreeing to anything other than likely part we're still waiting on some uh potential
019federal uh grant money or some congressional uh grant money coming in as part of this agreement. just sort of that A8 approach and it was either going to be this for services or looking into for school for students that we already send to other places to create a new school doing things we're already doing. So questions This will be coming through a change of hands. Correct. There'll be multiple folks. If the grant money comes through then um meeting that attended and you know as an employee with a couple of us that some of it will depend on grant funings that won't it's really idea this is something we talked about even when we're looking at some regional agreements the same thing we're justing our region a little Yes, a parent has the right to say
020no any part of the special ed [Music] process in any case Right. Right. It wouldn't be a student at Boston services and we're going to become maybe Anybody else have any questions? Okay, I need a motion that um sign the memorandum of agreement for the special Julia David. Thank you. All those in favor say I. Any oppos? Perfect. One. Right. Or recuse. You shouldn't say. You should definitely say she recused herself. Yes. Well, it shoots holes in all of the examples that I was using, right? So just about everything that I said I I spoke with Katherine Murphy and um you know her you know she was talking with the board because they have the ones on the receiving not really you know looking other than you know maybe a smaller environment and things like
021that they weren't different but they were um the whole idea behind sort of this mini open enrollment I mean there's some legislation right now um I to get through. I didn't think it was going to be huge numberwise. Anyway, the examples that I gave you mostly centered around comfort. I'd be surprised if we had one or two kids uh take advantage of this. I still think it's the right thing for the board to sign on because who knows and we are getting out important things with a little more guidelines than some of the legislation that's out there. Um, but I think it definitely impacts even some of those examples that were very concrete regarding the CC kids classes, right? And they would have been able to get two credits for the price of one by
022going down there. And um so but I think we if we were let's say in a jam and we had a senior that needed some credit I think we could probably work something out with concret and just do the same try to work with them and other Okay, so next new business general insurance mic for a little bit. You'll save me. Um so uh general occurrences are just uh there's something that can be signify that [Music] we follow the reporting of these Well, the one link um you may have received from the association um saying that maybe the end of the shifting landscape at the federal level um regarding DEI programs and you may have seen something in the press about um some schools and some districts signing um a letter early on and some
023choosing not to because of uh some of the federal legislation and what they're suggesting um is measure waiting until the end of May which is the next three weeks or so some of that will settle. So I might recommend the board that you give permission for us to sign that which again we need to do federal grants. We don't have any of the DEI programs that would be infringing on current. Some of the the worries are that because it changes so much would it be um you know having a Girls on the Run program because you're taking a particular group um would that kind of fall under that same umbrella. I think that's all going to going to settle out. So what you could do when you approve this is contingent upon um the end
024of the month things being a little more level and if you needed to special meeting um or is June 1st with a deadline um or be uploaded so if we needed to we could uh do a special meeting as long as we form with the board together if there was something that needed to be changed from the general choice Any questions for Randy or I need a motion. Um, so this will allow us to sign the general asurances. Not I'm sorry. actually said that's what all those in favor say I. Any oppos don't know why I was doing it. Um next is a personnel update from Kathleen. Thank you. We had submit that's in the packet. Um we have another retirement notification that after the done and that is what will be retiring in June
025of 2020. Any questions for Kathleen? Any questions for Fred? Kidding. I'm kidding. Um, next is the July board meeting. So on paper we have uh July 7th would be our regularly scheduled board meeting. in past years. We have um the board has decided to forego that but um there was some discussion about the the school board association doing a professional development uh training for the board and I did have them pencil in July 21st um as a day for both uh the Maragnali board and the Andover board um for meeting and that would be just the not the administration and uh and either will or Barrett or both would um opportunity for you folks. So I wanted to uh see if we wanted to go in that direction. Will and will of in lie of
026the July meeting. Will is the attorney and Barrett is the executive director. the same maybe do like a 5:30 start if you get it going. Sometimes they they kind of play off of, you know, the questions that the board may have and um they they can do one hour or 10, you know. So, I wouldn't recommend 10, but So, um, it would be here July 21st at 5:30. Um, yeah. Um, it's Do we need to actually vote on that? I mean it's a change it's changing the date of our um meeting so okay no it's not a meeting oh I see so we do need to cancel our July board meeting so July 7th was the original date. So, um July, no board meeting no no we will talk about it. I will talk about
027it a week after that, which would be our August meeting if it's okay. We'll still get to talk about it. What? Yes, we'll still have our Yes. Yeah. And then the um August meeting is the first Monday of August. So it's pretty darn quick after. So thank you. So, so Jessica, Julia, all those in favor of cancelling the July um board meeting and uh having a training here on the 21st say I. Any opposed? Good. Um next is New Hampshire School Board Association resolutions. all the stuff that sneaks up on me and if you're not sure what looks like some examples on the um schoolboard association's website talk to you about them um we don't have the current ones that are being proposed yet because it hasn't been set this meeting happens in October, but
028proposals are receiving August. So, if you were going to something, you would need to forward meeting. there's a process that can be official on there to you. But the idea is if you can present something that so if you have questions about that I'll be happy to follow up. Like I said the delegate assembly is typically the third week in October. Um the not yet probably um a lot of them funding favorite meals. Sometimes they go in, but they stay on and they get any time they have an opportunity to just one of our allies. Again, happy to talk more about it if people would like most likely um I don't have the data for you. So I of August. Yeah, I know last year they were due August 2nd, but again that doesn't mean
029Okay, next graduate 2026 on you, Nick. So, uh, typically we have second Saturday with the calendar falling the way it does next year. actually the first Saturday and next already talked about putting on a like on top of my graduation Catholic birthday. So do we need do we need a motion to change it to the first Saturday? Okay. And it is the first area this year as well. Yeah. Just how the last school ended up. So I need a motion. David made the motion and just um 66. certainly could have. It's the board voted previous board had voted always have Saturday. Um people start calling they probably already have um yeah it's just you know Yeah. I mean, I I think we probably could know where the last day of school falls. November, March. How
030many days exactly? Oh, I see. Yeah. So, the motion is for graduation to be on June 6, 20, excuse me, 2026. All those in favor say I. Any oppose? Okay. So, next will be our new board member appointment. Um we all receive letter of interest from Amanda York who is in Lowden. Um Amanda so your mic and tell us why you want to be a school board member. Sure. Why did you be a school board member and what do you think that you bring to the school board that a good fit? I agree to it that a good fit is um I actually love the policies and if you know me at all you'll know that I will policy with requests I make. Um I I think after especially all the so much and I
031was quite surprised there was no I feel that I'm sorry, Amanda. Can I got a um Okay, I'm sorry. Okay, it's just the screen. It's not you. So, I was worried that it was that particular microphone, but thank you for letting me um um why I wanted to um I know commitment And I know now have the time. Anyone else have any questions they want to ask? Amanda, Stacy? Um, I just wanted to ask you as a potential schoolboard member, how would you respond to the effect of special interest groups who advocate curriculum that we have that's perceived by them to be in conflict. Okay, thank you. Um, I have a um, what you see when it comes to thriving. What is what is the role? So, you're asking me what the role of schoolboard
032official is in a public I'm not asking a long question in that it is huge answer but there's so many opportunities and there's so there's so many options to answer that question um I do know that there is policy offer for orientation I think that is something Okay. So, cliffnote snippet. Um the board's responsibility is their staff. Um, so I think it's important to advocate too. So the good news is that the training that's happening in July on July 31st voted on will be perfect for all of us. I mean we'll all be there. So um it's that would be something that and any other questions that you have you could ask them. And the good news is also the student association all their webinars are um are well I'm going to use the old
033fashioned word meditation are recorded. Thank goodness I almost said who that was terrible are recorded and so you can actually watch Anybody else have any questions? Um, hi. Um, just um I was born and raised in I have four girls. I ages of 5 to 17. Um, my 5-year-old is at L Elementary School. 10 school freshman here in this building and I have a home. Okay. Thank you. Uh, have you done anything with any anything along those those lines? I have not. Um it's not and I bring this focus on relation to go down. Um, but I do think that it helps you, especially when we first then Sorry. Several years back home. Um several years back this used to attend few we started that back another question around louder with Um I think is
034the reason my daughter is my oldest is homeschooled is because special education budget failed her and was not able to provide the resources she needed to what I believe the services she And that is actually where I would start my fingers and I do think I wouldn't say I understand what I'm sorry me. What is your district? You know, there's so much behind that most is unknown to me. Um, I think something that did recently happen that should at the time I was not willing to commit to prior to does that mean I'm an automatic I'm not sure that I should be coming tonight because I'm the only um But back to your question, um, my daughter is going to There's so much clear. I'm really just asking what was the last I don't last.
035Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Um so there we do have to take action. Um, so the motion motion David second laorn. Perfect. Yeah, the motion is that Amanda York will be. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? The eyes have it. So the um motion stands. So Amanda, you are the new board member and you will be starting in June June. I'm thinking what the date is June 2nd. And at that time we'll talk about what is on also. Um it won't necessarily be just the committees that Dan was on because um I know Dan was on finance and with Laura. So um but that rule so June 2nd is the um next meeting that will be there. Congratulations. Thank you. Um, if you're interested in postri you are you're welcome to as
036board member you just won't be able next is uh Valley Learning Center facility study and the plan. Um I know that in I know that in uh when was it in June last year that we voted to to Oh, forget it. We don't I don't need to I don't need to hurt myself. He'll tell us when I did that. This will be uh Fred and I doing a little tag team. So he'll have a remote and run over this one periodically. Um so there was quite a quite a time and the original study approval and now there is a long delay and we'll get into that. um board approved uh some funding group to evaluation building at the time wanted you know what do we do um with this this facility and um in 2324
037um why it got sort of expanded from just being the learning center was the idea of performance which looks at improvements that must be done around the district over an extended period of time and does it work out we get some of that work done the high offsetting expenses so let's say we switch to LED and we save a certain um amount of money from the budget. Does that allow us to get some of the so it had to expand to full district of what what CIP that gave us I think a little bit more uh information to expand. We expanded the CIP. You may uh notice that we extended it out to a 10y year. So we looked at overall you want to add anything to what I just said. Um performance contract. Uh
038projected with a little says that was because we look districtwide projects that would save the school district including conversion to interior LED lights into the at this point a lot of traffic going out. We have new It's a lot different. So instead of heating it from 10° outside in the winter time, you're only warm air or stale air that you're dumping out. And you're only bringing that up 45 as opposed to roofs because a lot of roots But it's not something district and you can save $400,000 a year. You would take that in essence all about pay school. location. So the maintenance costs at the learning center are no greater than you are the building requirements on the first only building did the walk through 234 and one of the things that we've done already
039is started expanding which is the forward pass at selling this building. We were just keeping it making improvements. The first price tag on doing the whole thing was ridiculous 11 or 12 million but that was [Music] getting fire and to rebuild. We don't need to do that. we can slowly expand sort of a vision for this program. So right now for next year 7,000 coming from we have five five students who are slated next year 1000 putting in these. So process step. So we put an elevator up on the second and third floors. not only school district in kids and that these people said we're coming here or I don't I don't see you heard Marsh replacements that's great deal and um if we needed letters of support I racial see them. They'll say we
040have you want to talk a little bit. So, so we have uh the middle school special education program at the learning center. We have a high school special education program and we have an alternative school program. So if all we have around the facility point so you know who I'm turning the mic over to ask about facilities Wow. Even Nick throwing shots at trash. Wow. All right. All right. So, obviously hear a lot more about it. access to your classrooms. Newspaper 19,000 foot building small education The second thing would be to So we have high [Music] efficiency. That would be the second thing. Um, all three roofs. My three roofs. over 200 cost 450,000 for everything HVAC for three or four energy recovery units. There's three people want to be on the first floor. Um,
041you have to replace the door. Right now we have a door. We have to replace those interior doors because of fire code. So stay go another half an hour just because of you and hey we've been training all right we've been training So next step very broadly everybody there is no consider options after board meeting how that might a little bit of revenue as time goes on because we were going to three floors and what Julie said we have three programs 33 one student to expand that 12 kids per program one teacher and one pair professional that allows us 12 seats pennies on programs and if we did a split we then you know depending on the need here at Valley of just students so they really maximize that revenue move forward as we expand
042the project will impact overall. We do have a final a little more in depth. upload it tomorrow and take a look at that study and the June 9th trip. If you have questions for all the June 9th meeting or you can't come to the June meeting, please email myself and we can answer your questions. Um there's a couple of things. The way that people go about this is we take the long way washing the street is always the bear. um everything would get out. One of the things that they miss right now right now, excuse me, um I don't lose stuff very often. So, one of the things that Washington say is we put those in our house again. and doing it that way. Just think about that. So 725 7:30. Okay. Has there been
043an evaluation of taking those three programs? We uh draw some plans and met with uh folks because it would sort of expand especially you know expanding that program bring in revenue. um if we were going to ask was we wanted to students um we looked at what the cost would be to put on sort of centralized and I know that at one point um that's how it was an all head program and it was one wing it doesn't quite work that way the way it is the tradeoff to get rid of the building. One of the thing, one of the big things lose is the student space that we um utilizing that for the uh trade at least the last set of plans that we had what we could sell the building for. Not quite
044before can keep that centralized. So those more of a deep dive into plans by the architect um looking at the current setup of the school. Well, I think it was more about um overall uh space and people centrally located as opposed to their classroom there. I think building was structured different structure in the um program was there and I think we've seen a lot of uh growth program both physically as well as what they've been able to do uh by being in their own location. We still have the plans and I don't know if you want to you want to talk to that but I think um the given the potential revenue that that building can bring in if we can expand the program in that building where It's got um I think appears to
045be a more worthwhile uh direction for for the district whether it's not same programs expanding but I think anything will be on the table that would be the voters plan the idea of being able to step away at it chunking that we can do that without a huge impact and still expand the program if we're seeing need rise and not not go down. even with lower numbers that's always question if we've lost you know 200 students in the overall are our prices are going up needs are going up and cost so I think that's you know one of the things that um both that committee and then the full board could take a look at or you know ask that we go back to the drawing board with the um with the archet or with
046[Applause] Not sure if I have anything, CSI was on the first floor. that comes, you know, just so everybody knows, they pay $30,000 a year rent if you right now it costs $55,000 a year to operate CSI. Yeah, I knew what you meant. So obviously brand new construction going from anywhere between 4 and $500,000 [Music] building architected a 10,000 square foot building graduation [Music] Uh obviously in any job particularly if we windows I replaced the second story windows over there 28,000 So if you do first $75,000 investing that's I'll talk to the staff. If you don't, some of us replace six. All you have to do as much as so you just you have a you have a you have a decision. So we look at also want the taxpayers support. Thank you. Laura, yes.
047I just want to say in the late 90s. Knowing that there are students out there who could benefit that we could build programs and tuition. We've been trying to do this Okay, thank you. Huh? Not sure. So, we did have a discussion about moving when we talked about when we first well not when we first talked about it, but since I've been here in 2017 when we first selling that we have a discussion about bringing that back here. We had a discussion about the fact that this is not the place for that or any of those programs. Those programs need to be someplace other than here where those students were not those students were not successful in this building. That's why they're no longer and that was the discussion that we had. I think that
048we can have many discussions just not okay my turn and we can we can talk more um that haven't been How much work look at doing the smaller version the you know the four million um so but I think some of those things have been looked at so it's not that they're cast aside because they would have never um reached out to get you know the value of property and have have those thingscept blinders on. Next on the agenda is the chair. Oh, I lied. Manifesting journal entries. So, okay. Manifesting journal entries. I have um signed them. I need a motion. And I saw that I was kind of I had a slight question on a line item for a payment of correct. And you'll see on the financial report $248,000 on that next payment
049for the U. Anybody else have any questions? [Laughter] I we haven't voted on this. So all those in favor of the manifest internal entry say I. I. Any opposed? Texas. Okay, now we can go to the chair virtual report. Okay, so I wanted to remind folks that the retiree team will be on May 21st at 4 p.m. May 21st, 4 p.m. here at the Marmac Valley Cafet Area. And we will be on Karen Aette who has been here for 25 years. Jana Bis who has been here for 28 years. Mary Jane Colbear 20 years Fisher 28. Terry Pike 22. Lisa Smith 31. And Diana Zela Norris 27. So that's a really great slate. So that is May 21st at 4 p.m. The other thing that I wanted to remind you about is that on May
05019th at 700 PM here in NB there'll be a presentation oning and dropping taxes from the future school funding fairness project May 19th at 7 p.m. um here auditorium school funding project. Also, one thing that I went to this past uh month was the senior showcase. Um I don't know if anybody else had a chance to go to it April 24th. It was amazing. I stopped and did about 25 of the students about and every single one of them was articulate tell me everything that I every question I had they were and they were so um on Wednesday we'll get two presentations before our board Amazing. So that's it for me. Assistant assistant superintendent report. Okay. So um let's see. Uh a couple things I wanted to um you I'll start with. So we um
051service within the zone and we strive to provide as much advanced notice possible for these. We certainly recognize that uh we are continuing to communicate and work with our families and graduate seniors to try and resolve any that is send emails. We sent letters, we sent letters, and our food service department is more than happy to work in that respond to our requests that uh so we have um been the recipient of a number of um generous durations. by a software school. Uh the book of BAM has to partner with our district this summer to be the recipient. Um Salsbury Elementary School was selected for their schoolyard program. They applied for this opportunity. and this will add students have the opportunity to participate related to press release which has been chosen to receive children awards.
052So that so your book by $25,000 worthy children schools cost this program schools at high percentage of students receiving lunch and uh scoring low profit literacy assessments as well as schools that have enthusiasm, creativity and collaboration. by the school. So we result out receive up to $25,000 worth of literacy programing across two years. Um a wide variety of literacy literacy related programs visits new high quality programs and then there will be a followup momentum going out for the Okay, next. All right, just a couple things. Um, so Nick already mentioned teacher appreciation week. Um, certainly try to appreciate our teachers all the time, but this week it a little bit. We're uh doing a raffle each day where five employees from Ali and Andover eligible for anything from you know free pizza at a local
053place to we have you know some season passes for pass to our ragged quite a wide variety of prizes that we're trying to um allow some some lucky folks uh to receive as part of teacher appreciation week. And um in the idea of appreciation, I do want to give a a shout out to the SOU staff who um has really this past uh chunk months has just gone above and beyond. So in uh November and going into December we sat down we're trying to figure out certainly similar things about the financial challenges we were on audit. We had our group meeting and we need to do this with the auditor. What what can we do? Is there any way humanly possible for us to get caught up and going to take X Y and Z
054and it'll be a lot. Um, every single person in that building just looked and said, "Just tell me what I need to do." And um, on the email that I essentially, we now caught up on audits and we made up almost two years worth of of audit that we needed to and that was all due to the folks at the fulfilling and beyond. So appreciating people um for my appreciation to share that with you because that was um not not easy at least one of the ones coming that's Thank you. Um public comment. I just want to ask on the presentation tonight about 36 students in the elevator. Yeah, we have I haven't looked full. I think we could we could probably double what are currently doing in that. I wouldn't want to try to
055do that all in one year, but I think very easily with Thank you. Any other public comment? Okay, us a couple things. Um, one I had mentioned previously you newsletter is finally out there social media folks updates. um you can set up and I will leave you on the mailing list. Um second I will add situation um maybe this is opening in as well but um some parents didn't chaotic I was hoping that were aware that just another catch it you know electronic hiccups happen all the time maybe Um they found out when Yeah. have no Yeah, I can give you. Okay. Motion to thank you. Thank you very much.