1 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:13,840 That's a test. 2 00:13:45,230 --> 00:13:50,580 But if you, if you, yes, I don't think- 3 00:26:26,060 --> 00:26:56,040 Welcome everybody to the Richmond School Committee meeting. We are here at the Richmond Middle High School Common Room. It is August 13th, at 6pm a little bit after, and we are working with new microphones. So if there are any technical difficulties, just be patient. We have with us tonight our full school committee, myself Amanda McDaniel, Russ Hughes, Jen Small, Leonna Knight, and John Pratt. We also have with us our Superintendent Chad Kempton and our new 4 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:00,460 Principal for Marsha Bucar Elementary School, Alison Woodard. Thank you so much for coming. 5 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,380 Let us start with the Pledge of Allegiance. 6 00:27:19,300 --> 00:27:19,940 Looks 7 00:27:26,020 --> 00:27:32,200 like there's been a lot of work being done in probably some adjustments to the agenda. 8 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:36,140 Can we have a motion to accept the adjustments to the agenda? 9 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,620 Excellent, any discussion about that? 10 00:27:46,980 --> 00:27:49,840 All in favor, and as unanimous, 11 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:56,760 we have approval of the July 16th, 20th, 26th, regular school committee meeting minutes. 12 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:57,960 Do we have a motion to approve? 13 00:28:00,740 --> 00:28:02,160 I'll make a motion to approve. 14 00:28:02,860 --> 00:28:03,520 And a second. 15 00:28:03,740 --> 00:28:04,540 I'll second that. 16 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:05,760 Any discussion? 17 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:09,120 All in favor? 18 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:10,940 Excellent. 19 00:28:10,940 --> 00:28:15,980 Moving right along, public comment, or one public commenting person? 20 00:28:16,420 --> 00:28:16,800 No, nothing. 21 00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:17,600 All right. 22 00:28:18,260 --> 00:28:18,780 Excellent. 23 00:28:19,380 --> 00:28:24,460 I mean, any kind of report on the weather, no, we're good, we're good. 24 00:28:24,940 --> 00:28:25,640 Thank you. 25 00:28:26,220 --> 00:28:26,880 It is. 26 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:28,140 All right. 27 00:28:28,380 --> 00:28:32,320 Moving into committee reports, Finance Committee met on August 11th. 28 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:37,220 Yes, John and I met August 11th with the superintendent. 29 00:28:37,220 --> 00:28:45,220 We reviewed the monthly budget report, which is now at 91.6%. 30 00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:52,440 It's looking good. We have one more payroll to meet, and then we'll be able to close out the previous year. 31 00:28:54,600 --> 00:29:01,800 So I think we're looking between five and 600,000 being carried over in the new year. 32 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:11,620 So, pretty good job. Ashley has done awesome. Chad has done great job. The monthly report 33 00:29:11,620 --> 00:29:16,780 for this year is at 4%. So I'm not worried about going over yet. 34 00:29:18,940 --> 00:29:20,760 We also reviewed the summer 35 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:25,900 projects and everybody should have that document. I won't go through it. 36 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:48,060 Okay, and we did discuss the superintendents plan to raise the wage rates for substitutes mostly driven by increased minimum wage and keep them even with the increase in minimum wage. 37 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:57,660 There was actually a couple categories that were going to be below minimum wage and we didn't do that. 38 00:29:57,660 --> 00:29:58,420 That's it. 39 00:29:58,420 --> 00:29:59,140 So, one. 40 00:30:00,110 --> 00:30:21,470 It's important to know that there are some positions for the education sector that you have to be 125%, or 25% above, it's a minimum wage rate of 15, 10 an hour, and there's others that you have to be 15% higher than the minimum wage. So that's what drives our wage rates. 41 00:30:23,970 --> 00:30:30,250 And lastly, we finished up. We reviewed the potential purchase of two new vans. 42 00:30:31,950 --> 00:30:38,170 one is kind of old but has low mileage on it and we got a good deal on that and in 43 00:30:38,170 --> 00:30:45,310 2023 is seven passenger. It's fantastic and it's ADA compliant. Is that correct? 44 00:30:45,890 --> 00:30:54,470 2012 is ADA compliant. I haven't mixed up. So that is pretty good news and we're purchasing 45 00:30:54,470 --> 00:30:56,230 You know, we're not taking that alone. 46 00:30:57,110 --> 00:31:06,330 So I know we've run into some criticism in the past that we're taking out loans when we have enough money to just pay cash form. 47 00:31:06,670 --> 00:31:13,090 So these are both being paid for out of local entitlement funds, special ed funds. 48 00:31:13,890 --> 00:31:19,930 And they're going to be used primarily or solely for the use of transporting students with disabilities. 49 00:31:19,930 --> 00:31:26,760 And that sums up our report from the Finance Committee. 50 00:31:27,660 --> 00:31:34,260 It's a small learning that I had at the beginning of the School Board member. 51 00:31:35,060 --> 00:31:44,600 If you're not in the education world, you're wonder, you know, your fiscal year starts July 1st and ends June 30th. 52 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:51,200 And educators typically have their payroll spread out through the entire year. 53 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:58,740 So that's why we still have a little bit left on the last year's budget, and then we've already started this year's budget for things that don't pretend to pay roll. 54 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:05,400 And it's just, you know, you don't think about it. And if you're not in this world, we're like, oh, teachers are done for the year. 55 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,700 Oh, they're still getting their paycheck and God. 56 00:32:10,660 --> 00:32:16,320 So we did not have a reason to have a personnel committee meeting, but we move on into policy committee. 57 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:24,960 Policy Committee met on the 11th a couple days ago, and we reviewed a couple of policies, 58 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:32,500 the grading policy, the child find policy, and a second grade for our public participation 59 00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:33,160 policy. 60 00:32:34,220 --> 00:32:39,220 We also had some handbooks on our agenda that are not things that we are voting on as a school 61 00:32:39,220 --> 00:32:43,260 committee, but some of them connect to the grading policy in particular. 62 00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:46,780 So that was it was wonderful 63 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,540 moving into our discussion items. 64 00:32:51,540 --> 00:32:53,880 We have first readings of policies and procedures. 65 00:32:54,680 --> 00:33:04,060 We have current policy IKAB and we have a proposal and then the same thing for IHBAC. 66 00:33:04,460 --> 00:33:07,400 Do we have a motion to accept the first readings of these policies? 67 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:07,560 Please. 68 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:20,340 I make a motion that we approve the first reading of policy IKAB and IHBAC. 69 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:21,740 And a second. 70 00:33:24,690 --> 00:33:25,130 Just this. 71 00:33:25,570 --> 00:33:28,490 What do you like us to hear about these? 72 00:33:28,970 --> 00:33:35,950 So the grading policy changes are coming out of what Carl was presenting was about last 73 00:33:35,950 --> 00:33:36,650 meeting. 74 00:33:36,650 --> 00:33:47,200 With thinking about the weight that the lamb would carry and the child-fined policy the 75 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:54,600 changes are driven by needing to add the three-year-olds, like the range of ages for which 76 00:33:54,600 --> 00:34:00,680 we would be responsible for conducting special education for children has changed, so we 77 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:01,420 have to change our policy. 78 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:06,060 Chad, are there other things you would want to add about the grading policy since you haven't 79 00:34:06,060 --> 00:34:07,060 open there in front of you. 80 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:11,400 Yep, no, the biggest part of it is that what the middle 81 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:15,800 high school wants to, or what Carl had proposed is having a 82 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:21,220 semester midterm exam and then having a final exam and 83 00:34:21,220 --> 00:34:25,500 building those into the matrix of what the total grade is going 84 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:29,640 to be. So your first semester is going to count at 90% for all 85 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:34,600 of your daily grades. And then the midterm exam will be 10% 86 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:41,660 and then your second semester grades will be 90% of the second semester with a 10% factor for the final exam. 87 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:59,590 So all adds up to 100%, but it's just adding that first semester exam in there as a way to implement more long-term exam aspects of the grading policy. 88 00:35:00,870 --> 00:35:06,450 And probably a little more pressure to make sure that your midterm isn't just, oh it's 89 00:35:06,450 --> 00:35:06,710 a test. 90 00:35:07,530 --> 00:35:09,250 You know, this is a little more pressure on that. 91 00:35:09,650 --> 00:35:16,350 Part of this is the development of transition out of the standards-based practices that 92 00:35:16,350 --> 00:35:22,050 were in place with RSU-2, going to the more traditional practices. 93 00:35:22,670 --> 00:35:29,330 So they started out with those being a more lower-level exam but a comprehensive example 94 00:35:29,330 --> 00:35:35,410 for the semester. Now they're adding some weight to it. So just a progression as kids get used to 95 00:35:35,410 --> 00:35:41,490 the new system. They're gradually beefing up that aspect of a semester, for example. 96 00:35:43,190 --> 00:35:50,850 Do we have the proposed policy online anywhere? I see the current one, but it said it would be 97 00:35:50,850 --> 00:35:53,890 and then we'll have a link to the proposed. 98 00:35:54,730 --> 00:35:59,010 The proposed is in the agenda. 99 00:35:59,910 --> 00:36:01,430 So just click on the link. 100 00:36:01,850 --> 00:36:04,690 I see the current, but it says proposed will be handed. 101 00:36:05,650 --> 00:36:06,750 Oh, did you? 102 00:36:07,390 --> 00:36:08,010 It's a live. 103 00:36:08,410 --> 00:36:09,830 There's a newer agenda. 104 00:36:10,290 --> 00:36:12,610 Should be a live document there. 105 00:36:12,930 --> 00:36:13,450 Okay. 106 00:36:13,570 --> 00:36:14,490 I need to go with the box. 107 00:36:14,650 --> 00:36:14,750 Okay. 108 00:36:14,890 --> 00:36:15,130 Yeah. 109 00:36:20,290 --> 00:36:26,470 As a family, we received our letters for our kids about this and reviewed it with our kids 110 00:36:26,470 --> 00:36:30,370 and said, hey, this is going to be vastly much more important than it has been in the 111 00:36:30,370 --> 00:36:30,610 past. 112 00:36:30,750 --> 00:36:35,310 You guys may have to learn it to actually study at home and take some time to do that. 113 00:36:36,050 --> 00:36:37,510 So we're excited about the change. 114 00:36:40,540 --> 00:36:48,220 With the child-finding policy, if you could just 30 seconds, you know, how this actually 115 00:36:48,220 --> 00:36:54,020 works in real life because reading through it almost seems like you know the school has 116 00:36:54,020 --> 00:37:00,600 to go out and do some sort of survey or something of there's census of the town to you 117 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:05,720 know identify all the kids you know if there's a child that's been home schooled since you 118 00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:12,620 know they were five I would we know and you know or is it just when they come to our attention 119 00:37:12,620 --> 00:37:35,620 The biggest change is the age range because as we went into cohort two for the students or the children with age three to five with disabilities, so CDS used to do the work as far as finding children or working with children ages three through five with disabilities to put 120 00:37:35,620 --> 00:37:42,740 IEPs in place and get services in place and they've transitioned over to or our transitioning 121 00:37:42,740 --> 00:37:47,900 over to public schools doing that work and so where we would normally have picked them 122 00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:51,340 up at age five we are now picking them up at age three. 123 00:37:52,340 --> 00:38:00,720 So CVS is gradually going out of the mix as the cohorts but so we're in cohort three 124 00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:05,360 now the last year of it is cohort 4 and that all schools in the state. 125 00:38:05,620 --> 00:38:14,940 So we jumped in early and are doing what CDS used to do as far as the late work on identifying 126 00:38:14,940 --> 00:38:22,200 students with disabilities and then doing the IEPs and also implementing the services. 127 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:24,100 Right. 128 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:29,180 I guess my question though is we're not actively going out into the community to identify 129 00:38:29,180 --> 00:38:37,140 My kids that we're not aware of, this is children that are referred to us or they're already in the school system or parents contact us. 130 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:37,300 Yes. 131 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:37,740 Yeah. 132 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:40,120 It's a combination of that. 133 00:38:40,380 --> 00:38:53,000 CDS will still partner with us as far as doing some of this because people will report to CDS for a period of time until the transition really takes effect. 134 00:38:53,000 --> 00:39:03,860 But we'll be working with residents that are of age of age three through five that have 135 00:39:03,860 --> 00:39:12,260 disabilities and will start picking up developing IEPs and services, occupational therapy, 136 00:39:12,620 --> 00:39:15,700 physical therapy, speech are the big three. 137 00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:23,460 And so we needed to adjust the age bracket which you see up on the top. 138 00:39:23,980 --> 00:39:30,520 And then the bottom part was really if the screening was something of a function of 139 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:36,820 CVS and now that's something that we're doing as part of the change over. 140 00:39:40,860 --> 00:39:48,920 The Bonnie brought this to my attention last week as we were talking about the pre-K program 141 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:54,540 and we've pulled the policy up and we feel like we're going to fix this so we're bringing it through policy to 142 00:39:54,540 --> 00:40:00,240 We talked about it months ago, but I guess we never updated this. Yep. Yep. 143 00:40:03,910 --> 00:40:05,850 Any further questions? Yeah, I'm sorry 144 00:40:05,850 --> 00:40:08,270 I cannot find the new policy anywhere 145 00:40:17,850 --> 00:40:21,590 Kelly sent us an email on August 6th that had the agenda. Yeah 146 00:40:22,050 --> 00:40:25,550 I've linked to the agenda that doesn't have a link to the changes. 147 00:40:26,230 --> 00:40:26,370 Sorry. 148 00:40:26,610 --> 00:40:27,090 Yeah. 149 00:40:27,390 --> 00:40:27,690 Find them. 150 00:40:27,970 --> 00:40:28,330 It's weird. 151 00:40:28,510 --> 00:40:28,630 Yeah. 152 00:40:28,930 --> 00:40:29,090 Okay. 153 00:40:29,650 --> 00:40:30,050 Let's see. 154 00:40:30,470 --> 00:40:30,850 Oh, 155 00:40:38,630 --> 00:40:38,630 wait. 156 00:40:38,770 --> 00:40:38,850 No. 157 00:40:39,090 --> 00:40:39,750 Now it doesn't. 158 00:40:40,330 --> 00:40:40,950 That's weird. 159 00:40:41,630 --> 00:40:42,470 It did it. 160 00:40:42,810 --> 00:40:43,590 20 minutes ago. 161 00:40:43,730 --> 00:40:44,330 Resend again. 162 00:40:45,210 --> 00:40:46,430 I'm going to, uh, 163 00:40:50,450 --> 00:40:51,470 share this one. 164 00:40:51,550 --> 00:40:52,030 That's weird. 165 00:40:57,220 --> 00:40:58,560 Does that group include? 166 00:40:59,100 --> 00:40:59,220 Yeah. 167 00:40:59,400 --> 00:40:59,840 There she is. 168 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:01,920 Perfect. 169 00:41:05,140 --> 00:41:08,820 So I'm sharing the document that I'm using. 170 00:41:08,820 --> 00:41:20,200 for over a minute and I'll also share the original document yeah that's 171 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:22,780 funny 172 00:41:22,780 --> 00:41:27,180 because mine did have the links it did yeah oh well technical difficulties 173 00:41:27,180 --> 00:41:34,520 the game right now and all those links should be I'm just kind of don't use this 174 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:41,970 anyone with the link and be a viewer yeah so when that Google Doc so I have it all 175 00:41:41,970 --> 00:41:45,470 Thank you for the discussion 176 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:57,340 on this this is the first reading we already have a motion and second to approve. Are we ready to vote? 177 00:41:58,740 --> 00:42:00,580 Okay. All right. No in favor? 178 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:12,240 It's unanimous. Excellent. We have another action item here policy BEDH public participation at school committee meeting. Do we have a motion to approve this policy? 179 00:42:13,380 --> 00:42:15,400 Yes, a little bit approved policy. 180 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:16,460 And a second. 181 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:17,380 Second. 182 00:42:18,020 --> 00:42:19,200 And discussion. 183 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:20,300 Some highlights. 184 00:42:22,020 --> 00:42:24,620 And we wrote this one last month as well. 185 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:32,980 There are schools, school boards that have had significant disruption at school committee 186 00:42:32,980 --> 00:42:37,160 meeting, school board meetings, and MSMA put out a new draft policy. 187 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,580 We did not simply adopt the new draft policy, we kind of looked at what was in that and 188 00:42:41,580 --> 00:42:45,700 what was in ours and came up with what we thought would work for us that gives the chair 189 00:42:45,700 --> 00:42:52,080 some authority to determine exactly how things will proceed but sets the parameters that 190 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:56,700 gives that chair the authority and you know it says we could establish time limits. 191 00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:02,820 We could ask people to sign up but not that we have to given that oftentimes when we have 192 00:43:02,820 --> 00:43:08,220 public comment it's a person or two and there are many fewer meetings that have large numbers 193 00:43:08,220 --> 00:43:09,780 of people coming to comment. 194 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,700 And we also feel we've discussed in the policy committee meetings that Russ and I both feel 195 00:43:14,700 --> 00:43:18,680 that it's important to let people share what they want to with the school committee. 196 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:24,720 And we've done quite well, I think, as a school committee at letting people come and share 197 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:26,560 what they want to and listening respectfully. 198 00:43:27,460 --> 00:43:32,180 And we've talked about the fact that in some places school board members are on their phones 199 00:43:32,180 --> 00:43:34,380 and not paying attention, having side conversations. 200 00:43:34,380 --> 00:43:40,060 So we haven't put etiquette for school board, school committee members into this policy, 201 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:44,040 but we're actually looking at having Russ update our ethics policy to include something 202 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:45,660 about that in that one. 203 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,800 Because we feel like it is really important for people who are at the podium to have our 204 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:55,300 attention and have the respect of the committee, whether or not we agree with what they're 205 00:43:55,300 --> 00:43:55,540 saying. 206 00:43:55,820 --> 00:43:56,180 Absolutely. 207 00:43:57,220 --> 00:43:57,600 Absolutely. 208 00:43:59,060 --> 00:43:59,700 All right. 209 00:43:59,940 --> 00:44:00,220 I love it. 210 00:44:00,220 --> 00:44:09,460 I need to further questions on this one favor that is unanimous thank you no field trips 211 00:44:09,460 --> 00:44:17,780 nah moving into nominations resignations so we have one resignation our middle school high 212 00:44:17,780 --> 00:44:25,760 school school counselor Barrett pinion took another position I think in the Portland area 213 00:44:27,540 --> 00:44:31,760 and was said to go, but it was a family decision that they had to make. 214 00:44:32,020 --> 00:44:32,020 So, 215 00:44:37,270 --> 00:44:41,610 and nomination, we have one nomination for this meeting. 216 00:44:42,090 --> 00:44:45,350 We've got a couple in the pipeline that will be coming in September. 217 00:44:46,290 --> 00:44:50,910 But Emily Snowden is going to be one of our pre-K to five special ed teachers. 218 00:44:51,950 --> 00:44:54,850 Marsha Buick, her element to school should be coming in at step two. 219 00:44:55,710 --> 00:44:59,790 She has been with us as an ed tech three in the special ed department. 220 00:45:00,140 --> 00:45:08,580 For the past, I think, three years, as she's worked on her degree. And she and Ella, the 221 00:45:08,580 --> 00:45:16,080 one of the new special ed teachers that we brought forward to you last month, will be sharing 222 00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:23,760 duties with the pre-K program and the K5 program. So one of them will be out with a pre-K program 223 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:28,600 in the, during the morning session, and one will be out during the afternoon session. And while 224 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:32,020 While they're out, would that group, the other one will be with the K-5 group? 225 00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,740 So we need to vote to approve. 226 00:45:37,060 --> 00:45:37,260 Yes. 227 00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,580 We have a motion to accept this nomination. 228 00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:40,960 A motion. 229 00:45:42,380 --> 00:45:42,640 Second. 230 00:45:44,140 --> 00:45:44,860 Any further discussion? 231 00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:50,240 I'm glad to see her stay here and work in this school system. 232 00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:52,160 She's well respected in this community. 233 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:53,400 We're very lucky to have her. 234 00:45:54,340 --> 00:45:54,800 All in favor? 235 00:45:56,140 --> 00:45:56,620 Excellent. 236 00:45:57,020 --> 00:45:57,760 It's unanimous. 237 00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,740 We've got some informational items. 238 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:09,820 Yes, I'm happy to see we have five ed techs on the docket for tonight and one bus driver. 239 00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:18,880 So we are actually going to be fully staffed with our ed techs at both Marsha Buker and 240 00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:24,420 the middle high school for the first time since I, the short time that I've been here. 241 00:46:24,420 --> 00:46:31,400 And we are also going to be fully staff with our special education teaching staff, which 242 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:37,340 is we've hired four special ed teachers this summer, which is unheard of. 243 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:44,120 So we the stars have aligned and we've got some great people coming in. 244 00:46:44,300 --> 00:46:45,760 So I think we're in really good shape. 245 00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:54,260 And we also obviously we have a bus driver finding any bus drivers in any neck of the woods 246 00:46:54,260 --> 00:47:01,620 and state of Maine as a major task and so we were very fortunate to have Tammy come on board 247 00:47:01,620 --> 00:47:07,780 a couple days ago and she will be joining our bus driving staff so I want to welcome all of these 248 00:47:07,780 --> 00:47:14,680 folks to the team here at Richmond. Absolutely wonderful news. 249 00:47:17,470 --> 00:47:19,650 False sports stipend and appointments. 250 00:47:19,650 --> 00:47:38,930 Yeah, so these are our all coaching staff and they are actually in the gym tonight with our athletic director is going over rules and regulations and expectations, communications, schedules, 251 00:47:38,930 --> 00:47:47,570 tools, tools and tools and so forth and so that is going to be a great thing to have 252 00:47:47,570 --> 00:47:53,610 as far as kids starting to populate the fields here in the next couple weeks and get 253 00:47:53,610 --> 00:47:59,670 fall sports up and running. So it's set to get some action going here on campus. So they're 254 00:47:59,670 --> 00:48:05,350 kicking off the fall sports season tonight and I believe they start on Monday. 255 00:48:08,010 --> 00:48:13,990 All the fields are good to go, and no issues, we get all the equipment, soccer and everything. 256 00:48:15,830 --> 00:48:21,070 The only thing that we're hoping for, and I'm working with the folks that do all the mowing, 257 00:48:21,550 --> 00:48:32,010 is to try to fetch both of the competition fields to get some of the grass that's kind of matted down underneath there. 258 00:48:32,010 --> 00:48:38,510 it. It chokes out the new grass coming in. So if we can get those, those two fields 259 00:48:39,810 --> 00:48:42,630 fetched, aerated, then that would be a really good 260 00:48:45,090 --> 00:48:47,950 practice for us to do, especially 261 00:48:47,950 --> 00:48:53,390 with, you know, help the new grass grow and be healthier. And the field will be a lot 262 00:48:53,390 --> 00:48:58,610 more playable for both soccer teams. We had some drainage work done last year 263 00:48:58,610 --> 00:49:07,490 Did we notice improvements to spring or yes, yeah, still wet out there, but it's better, it's better. 264 00:49:08,530 --> 00:49:13,750 Yeah, I don't know when the last time I have heard or had caused to use the word that. 265 00:49:14,830 --> 00:49:15,850 It's kind of fun. 266 00:49:19,630 --> 00:49:20,110 We 267 00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:28,760 went out on a high note. 268 00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,060 We went out on a high note. 269 00:49:36,860 --> 00:49:41,980 Co-curricular stipend appointments will be included in the September agenda. 270 00:49:42,140 --> 00:49:42,880 Next month, yes. 271 00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:43,360 Very good. 272 00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,300 And we've got some action items that we've heard a little bit about. 273 00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:50,300 It looks like we need to have a motion to approve the purchase of that 2023 274 00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,720 vehicle and the 2012 vehicle as well. 275 00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,080 Do we want to put a motion on the floor? 276 00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,800 In your packet, you'll see a quick 277 00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,540 So I just want to give you a visual. 278 00:50:02,420 --> 00:50:05,780 So the first one is the 2012 Dodge Caravan. 279 00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,580 This is the ADA equipped vehicle. 280 00:50:10,860 --> 00:50:13,440 And it's going to be a private sale. 281 00:50:14,240 --> 00:50:20,280 Even though it's a 2012, I believe it's got a little over 56,000 miles on it. 282 00:50:23,340 --> 00:50:27,380 Fred Riker and I are going to planning on going over next Tuesday. 283 00:50:27,940 --> 00:50:30,820 I will do a final drive test drive with it. 284 00:50:32,100 --> 00:50:36,880 But it was in, I went over and sorry at myself, it's in really good shape, a little bit 285 00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:43,500 of rust, but for a 2012, and the amount of use that we're going to have it for, a $15,000 286 00:50:43,500 --> 00:50:50,540 van versus the others that are out there, most handicap accessible vans are $60,000 to $70,000. 287 00:50:51,300 --> 00:50:57,260 And so to be able to find this one locally, and in as good as shape as it is in, 288 00:50:59,980 --> 00:51:00,280 and the 289 00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:01,380 really good find for us. 290 00:51:03,590 --> 00:51:08,130 And then the second one is a picture of the seven passenger van and this 291 00:51:08,130 --> 00:51:17,650 is a Chrysler product. It's a 2023. This two has I think 58,000 miles on it. And we're purchasing 292 00:51:17,650 --> 00:51:26,990 this from Tucker Chevrolet. And we'll be going down hopefully tomorrow and picking this up. But it is 293 00:51:26,990 --> 00:51:42,390 in a macular shape, it was a rental vehicle in upstate New York that the dealership brought in and they knocked $1,000 off the list price when we came in and I think it's going to be a good pick up. 294 00:51:42,570 --> 00:51:54,350 We've got two vans, the two white vans, one in two in three, one has transmission issues and over 200,000 miles, I've talked about this before and one has an oil leak. 295 00:51:55,410 --> 00:51:58,250 And we just had to have the oil pan replaced. 296 00:51:58,650 --> 00:52:02,990 And so really getting kind of nervous about the dependability of those two vehicles. 297 00:52:03,230 --> 00:52:13,270 So we're going to keep one as a spare back up and we'll have this new Chrysler as well as our silver being. 298 00:52:13,810 --> 00:52:21,710 So dependable vehicles and purchasing both through local entitlement funds or special ed. 299 00:52:25,750 --> 00:52:28,570 I make a motion to approve this. Do we have a second? 300 00:52:28,930 --> 00:52:29,510 I'll second it. 301 00:52:30,050 --> 00:52:33,690 Any further discussion? All in favor? 302 00:52:34,810 --> 00:52:36,690 Is unanimous? Do you get it, Chad? 303 00:52:37,090 --> 00:52:37,150 Yes. 304 00:52:38,190 --> 00:52:38,650 All right. 305 00:52:38,870 --> 00:52:42,670 And we move into our first administrative report from our new principal, 306 00:52:42,990 --> 00:52:43,670 a single word. 307 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:02,480 We've had a lot going on. 308 00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:07,740 And we've had a lot going on at school this summer. 309 00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:09,500 It's been a very active place. 310 00:53:09,500 --> 00:53:13,840 our enrollment is total 220 right now. 311 00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:15,900 I actually think as of this afternoon it might be 221. 312 00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,140 We had a kindergarten student who had not yet enrolled. 313 00:53:19,580 --> 00:53:22,920 They had contact at the school but hadn't filled up their paperwork yet. 314 00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:26,020 Come in this afternoon, so our numbers are looking really good. 315 00:53:27,180 --> 00:53:29,600 And I believe from what Carrie told me this afternoon, 316 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,600 that was 19 students for the summer that we've had enroll. 317 00:53:33,240 --> 00:53:37,480 And one currently that we have had move to another district. 318 00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:42,200 We've had, you know, our custodial staff has been in and doing a great job with summer 319 00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:42,600 cleaning. 320 00:53:43,940 --> 00:53:48,220 They had, you know, cleaned out all the classrooms and did the waxing on the floors and now 321 00:53:48,220 --> 00:53:51,580 they're going back through and cleaning desks and, you know, making sure those floors are 322 00:53:51,580 --> 00:53:52,520 staying nice and shiny. 323 00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:58,940 They came in the striping on the parking lots and then we also have had some drainage near 324 00:53:58,940 --> 00:54:05,120 the pre-K building, which I didn't get to see the pond or the skating rink, I guess, depending 325 00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:06,740 on what time of year that was going on. 326 00:54:06,740 --> 00:54:10,440 but other people who were in the building today to see this happening were very 327 00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:16,360 excited to see this drainage project happening so along with that in the 328 00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:21,180 beginning of July we had a scheduling team come together we had several goals 329 00:54:21,180 --> 00:54:25,960 that we were hoping to accomplish with this team we were trying to look at 330 00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,740 getting our kindergarten out of that end-of-day unified art schedule for 331 00:54:29,740 --> 00:54:33,120 several reasons you know they were having to take all of their belongings down 332 00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,840 with them and then tried to transition from there to the buses and it was just 333 00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:37,880 to a lot of transitioning for our kindergarten students. 334 00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:43,460 We were looking at staggering our literacy and math blocks to help with numbers in intervention 335 00:54:43,460 --> 00:54:48,100 and special education settings to be able to make sure that we're providing them the 336 00:54:48,100 --> 00:54:50,040 best education we can for them as well. 337 00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:52,320 And then we were looking to add a win block. 338 00:54:52,780 --> 00:54:54,340 Win stands for what I need. 339 00:54:54,900 --> 00:54:58,600 And so we were able to add a win block for every grade level. 340 00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:03,880 And we're really excited about that and getting our intervention team to be working with 341 00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:07,640 our classroom teachers at each grade level to provide students what they need. 342 00:55:07,860 --> 00:55:10,820 And so to accomplish these, we were able to accomplish them. 343 00:55:11,380 --> 00:55:15,440 We had to look at our lunch time and we had to change that by five minutes. 344 00:55:15,860 --> 00:55:19,300 We also got together and we changed our bus schedule a little bit. 345 00:55:19,860 --> 00:55:24,740 And that also in turn will then change the parent pickup time at the end of the day as well. 346 00:55:24,780 --> 00:55:26,100 It kind of switches pickup and bus. 347 00:55:26,700 --> 00:55:33,720 So we had several people outside of the team that got together sort of helping us make these changes. 348 00:55:33,720 --> 00:55:38,580 for our students. So we're very excited to see it play out. You can see our team there. 349 00:55:38,740 --> 00:55:44,700 We had Nikki Decker, Jen Merrill, Taylor Maloney, Troy Kendrick, Cindy Amanda, and then Chris 350 00:55:44,700 --> 00:55:50,280 Milliken. And they met for a couple hours in the beginning of July. And then it's been like constant 351 00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:53,700 emails back and forth. What do you think about this? What do you know? What about these changes? 352 00:55:53,860 --> 00:55:56,720 How would this affect this? Because when you change one thing, it's a domino effect. 353 00:55:57,420 --> 00:56:02,320 And so we think we're in a good spot to be able to start the school year and excited about the 354 00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:03,600 changes that we've been able to make. 355 00:56:05,300 --> 00:56:11,940 And then we also have a, we're calling it the MTSS leadership team, MTSS stands for 356 00:56:11,940 --> 00:56:13,440 multi-tiered systems of support. 357 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:18,960 So our goal this year with that team is to really look at the systems that we have in place 358 00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:25,220 in our school and try to make those systems work together as much as we can to provide what 359 00:56:25,220 --> 00:56:27,120 every student needs all day. 360 00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:31,800 And so we're taking a very, very close look at tier one instruction. 361 00:56:32,500 --> 00:56:34,920 That's the instruction that happens in the classroom every single day, 362 00:56:35,020 --> 00:56:36,820 that literacy, math, science, and social studies. 363 00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:43,580 And then we are also looking at, and we've been working on creating a school-wide code of conduct 364 00:56:43,580 --> 00:56:46,980 sort of to address some of those behavior needs that we're seeing in the classroom. 365 00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:51,680 And so that we have something sort of overarching for the school that everybody can refer to. 366 00:56:52,620 --> 00:57:00,500 We've looked at Title I intervention, we've looked at special education, we're bringing in school counseling, and then we have a goal of bringing in our unified arts teams on there as well. 367 00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:14,840 So this is our leadership, our MTSS leadership team here, and we have met several times this summer, and this work will continue a lot through the school year, but we will be meeting monthly through this year as well. 368 00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:19,840 just to make sure that we're on track with the goals that we are creating for 369 00:57:20,580 --> 00:57:22,260 staff and for our students, really. 370 00:57:23,860 --> 00:57:29,740 And then the PTG has set up a popsicles on the playground event for 371 00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:32,820 next Thursday, the 20th at 5.30. 372 00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:36,040 And I'm going to get to be there and help hand out popsicles, 373 00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:38,500 and help meet our students and our families. 374 00:57:38,500 --> 00:57:39,900 And so I'm really excited about that. 375 00:57:42,140 --> 00:57:42,920 Any questions? 376 00:57:43,760 --> 00:58:03,590 Yeah, so I noticed 41 you're projecting for kindergarten so I noticed that you're projecting 41 for kindergarten is that that's with two teachers that's with three teachers three teachers. Okay. Yeah, we have 41 and then three not yet in that we've heard contact from and they are not fully. 377 00:58:03,770 --> 00:58:08,110 So you're looking at class sizes of 12 13 to 14. Yeah. 378 00:58:08,110 --> 00:58:16,450 Okay. Yep. Great. Which is a great size for kindergarten. What is unified arts? Specials. 379 00:58:16,770 --> 00:58:27,030 PE, art, music. Yeah. No. So, okay. So, arts, meaning you're encompassing PE, music, and art. 380 00:58:27,730 --> 00:58:33,530 Yes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. All of it. You know, so part of our schedule change was looking at 381 00:58:34,590 --> 00:58:39,270 where they fit best in the day, but then also to try to work that into MTSS, that's sort 382 00:58:39,270 --> 00:58:44,030 of our next step, and so each will try to connect students with some of those. 383 00:58:44,410 --> 00:58:47,550 You know, students who may struggle a little bit in the classroom, but they really excel 384 00:58:47,550 --> 00:58:50,810 in art, to be able to connect them with those teachers. 385 00:58:51,270 --> 00:58:55,110 Yeah, I've heard the term UA, but I never really thought about what it stood for. 386 00:58:56,070 --> 00:58:56,870 UA time? 387 00:58:57,270 --> 00:59:01,330 Yeah, I do go back and forth between specials and UA, but we really are trying hard to call 388 00:59:03,330 --> 00:59:06,650 I'll ask a dumb question. What is Title I? Because I'm new here. 389 00:59:07,590 --> 00:59:16,310 So Title I is the students who have moved from Tier I in the classroom to needing a little 390 00:59:16,310 --> 00:59:20,510 bit more support. So they will, that'll be part of that wind block. They'll be able to 391 00:59:20,510 --> 00:59:28,450 get some extra intervention time based on data, literacy and math data, mostly, and be able 392 00:59:28,450 --> 00:59:31,990 to get some smaller group instruction with that team of teachers. 393 00:59:32,670 --> 00:59:37,350 So these are kids that don't maybe have the individualized education plan but they need 394 00:59:37,350 --> 00:59:38,050 a little more help. 395 00:59:38,410 --> 00:59:38,510 Okay. 396 00:59:38,810 --> 00:59:39,010 All right. 397 00:59:39,250 --> 00:59:39,530 Thank you. 398 00:59:39,530 --> 00:59:41,670 And so that's sort of what that MTSS plan is. 399 00:59:41,730 --> 00:59:45,450 You kind of start out at tier one with what's happened in the classroom every day and then 400 00:59:45,450 --> 00:59:47,270 the teachers provide some differentiation there. 401 00:59:47,750 --> 00:59:51,770 And then if they're needing more support, they can move into tier two which is that intervention 402 00:59:51,770 --> 00:59:55,050 and then if they're still needing more support, they'll move into tier three which is special 403 00:59:55,050 --> 00:59:55,390 education. 404 00:59:55,390 --> 00:59:59,750 Can you give me a couple examples of 405 01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,980 Different students using the wind, what would it, what would that be? So our wind block is actually going to be all students. So if we're looking at kindergarten, we would have our three kindergarten teachers and then our three interventionists. And we will look at the data to be able to, we're going to alternate literacy and math so we're making sure to get that intervention in. And the real idea behind it, the wind block separate from other academic times during the 406 01:00:29,980 --> 01:00:33,360 the day is intervention is supposed to be a supplement. 407 01:00:33,860 --> 01:00:36,780 So we're trying hard to not have them if they're needing 408 01:00:36,780 --> 01:00:39,560 intervention and literacy to be pulled out of a literacy 409 01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:41,020 or a math block when they're not. 410 01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:42,840 They should be getting that instruction 411 01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:44,640 and then getting a supplement to it. 412 01:00:45,780 --> 01:00:48,500 And so we'll have all of our teachers at each grade level, 413 01:00:48,500 --> 01:00:49,920 along with our intervention team, 414 01:00:50,140 --> 01:00:52,840 based on data, will break up our students into groups. 415 01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:56,100 And so if you're looking really closely at phonics, 416 01:00:56,100 --> 01:01:01,540 it might be students who are needing more help with decoding or more help with you know 417 01:01:01,540 --> 01:01:05,820 encoding and writing those words and they'll be able to really focus in on what the students need. 418 01:01:06,260 --> 01:01:09,980 It also can be enrichment you know so not every student needs intervention and that's why that 419 01:01:09,980 --> 01:01:15,800 wind block is is so crucial because it's what I need. So I may need an enrichment while somebody 420 01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:20,980 else may need intervention and so that can be part of that. Sort of envisioning this as a elementary 421 01:01:20,980 --> 01:01:26,080 school study hall, you know, in a way, you know, like here you're getting what 422 01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:30,000 you need in that time block, whatever that might be. How long does that last? 423 01:01:30,780 --> 01:01:33,800 Right now it's 30 minutes. That's what we were able to put in for the school 424 01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:37,700 year, and you know, and ideally a wind block, and I think that this is a sort of a 425 01:01:37,700 --> 01:01:42,820 long-term goal for us, might include a student who maybe partners up with the 426 01:01:42,820 --> 01:01:47,400 custodian and is able to go there or somebody who, you know, maybe needs even a 427 01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:51,940 bit more space in the school's secretary, the administrative assistant is reading with 428 01:01:51,940 --> 01:01:57,060 that student and so really it's sort of all hands on deck but that's I think a longer 429 01:01:57,060 --> 01:01:58,140 term goal for us. 430 01:01:58,600 --> 01:01:58,780 Great. 431 01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:02,740 Have that when I had little so it's a new concept for me. 432 01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:10,980 You mentioned adjusting the lunch time and the bus schedule so did we change the duration 433 01:02:10,980 --> 01:02:14,360 of the lunch period or the length of the school day? 434 01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:18,380 We just, we, we pushed everything back by five minutes. 435 01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:21,320 So it wasn't a big change as far as the lunch, 436 01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:24,280 so instead of starting at a kindergarten starting in and going out at 11, 437 01:02:24,460 --> 01:02:29,780 they'll go in at 11.05, that made it so we could utilize that specials, 438 01:02:29,780 --> 01:02:33,700 that unified arts block that was right there before lunch to sort of get kindergarten 439 01:02:33,700 --> 01:02:34,900 out of that end of day. 440 01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:39,620 And so, and the bus schedule also didn't really change much, 441 01:02:39,620 --> 01:02:43,120 it's just that we kind of alternated a couple of times with the middle school high school. 442 01:02:43,780 --> 01:02:51,220 And so our student, our students used to get picked up on the bus at 2.40, now they'll do 2.30 and the car pickups will be 2.40. 443 01:02:51,620 --> 01:02:55,320 So it's sort of the same thing, it's just arranging things a little bit differently. 444 01:02:56,260 --> 01:03:02,600 Last year we had a situation where a group of kids were getting picked up over at most of you early. 445 01:03:03,460 --> 01:03:07,120 And so they were missing out on I think 10 minutes. 446 01:03:07,380 --> 01:03:10,640 10 to 15 minutes of their academic block at the end of the day. 447 01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:23,700 because of transportation. So, Harold and Allison and I already sat down was like how do we how do we fix this and so we had just adjusted the times and when students were getting picked up at Marsha 448 01:03:23,700 --> 01:03:31,260 Buker and when they're getting dropped off here to eliminate that so that those kids are there for the entire day. 449 01:03:34,380 --> 01:03:43,140 Part of that was switching students busing is going out first and walkers are gonna go 450 01:03:43,140 --> 01:03:48,620 second last year, it was Walker's first and Boston second, which was a 10-minute swing. 451 01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:53,000 So that was just doing little tweaks to make the system work. 452 01:03:54,140 --> 01:04:00,400 Starting over at Masha Buker, because we have a large group of kids, they get dropped off at the 453 01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:05,380 big care out front here. That will empty out one of the buses, so that the kids when they come in 454 01:04:05,380 --> 01:04:10,020 to the middle high school, they'll be seats on the bus because those kids have been dropped off 455 01:04:11,260 --> 01:04:15,060 So just a little semantics of how we played it out. 456 01:04:16,260 --> 01:04:16,740 Yeah. 457 01:04:19,770 --> 01:04:20,250 Excellent. 458 01:04:20,430 --> 01:04:21,130 Thank you so much. 459 01:04:21,170 --> 01:04:22,510 You survived your first one. 460 01:04:22,550 --> 01:04:22,750 Yes. 461 01:04:24,470 --> 01:04:25,430 All right. 462 01:04:25,510 --> 01:04:26,450 It's up to you now, Chad. 463 01:04:26,770 --> 01:04:27,190 It's up to me. 464 01:04:27,890 --> 01:04:32,090 So in your packet, you have the listing of summer projects. 465 01:04:32,830 --> 01:04:36,810 And I just, I went through this a little bit with the finance team, 466 01:04:37,310 --> 01:04:39,430 finance committee and the policy committee. 467 01:04:39,430 --> 01:04:43,510 but it's just that spreadsheet that I put in there. 468 01:04:44,270 --> 01:04:47,490 So basically we have eight projects that are ongoing 469 01:04:47,490 --> 01:04:51,370 or completed right now with our HVAC contract 470 01:04:51,370 --> 01:04:52,670 or specialty services. 471 01:04:53,330 --> 01:04:55,730 They, you can see on the, on the bottom side, 472 01:04:55,890 --> 01:04:57,090 most of them have been completed. 473 01:04:57,090 --> 01:05:00,470 We've got a couple where items have been ordered 474 01:05:00,470 --> 01:05:01,950 and we're just waiting for those. 475 01:05:02,810 --> 01:05:07,570 And the biggest part of the project is the phase one 476 01:05:07,570 --> 01:05:13,030 Then the HVAC upgrade over here at the middle high school, which is really going to focus 477 01:05:13,030 --> 01:05:17,750 on the wing by the gymnasium going down through the main office. 478 01:05:18,550 --> 01:05:24,590 So that section of the building, the control, the electronic controls will be upgraded this 479 01:05:24,590 --> 01:05:29,250 fall after all of these projects are taken care of. 480 01:05:30,160 --> 01:05:34,770 And this is something that was similar that we did at Marsha Buker. 481 01:05:34,770 --> 01:05:39,650 they did it all at once and we've been paying on that over a five-year period. 482 01:05:40,370 --> 01:05:45,050 We did a little bit different year, we're going to pay for it as we go, we'll do 483 01:05:45,050 --> 01:05:50,830 one step or one phase this year and then the rest of it next year. So that's the 484 01:05:50,830 --> 01:05:56,950 plan there. We did have, if you want to see the gym floor shiny again, the 485 01:05:56,950 --> 01:06:02,930 the company that did the install came back and did a second refinished, came out 486 01:06:02,930 --> 01:06:10,110 fantastic. We shifted gears from the company that we were using to this company just based on the fact that they 487 01:06:11,550 --> 01:06:15,990 refinished the floor last year and we wanted them to come back because they know what they need to do. 488 01:06:16,910 --> 01:06:23,770 And that actually paid off very well. We've got some, one of the big things that we needed to do is 489 01:06:23,770 --> 01:06:29,730 replace locker room stalls or the bathroom stalls in the locker rooms. Both the girls in the 490 01:06:29,730 --> 01:06:32,250 The boys' locker rooms they were in atrocious shape. 491 01:06:33,490 --> 01:06:39,550 Some panels were yellow, some were orange, some were green, some were fallen apart, and 492 01:06:39,550 --> 01:06:42,990 so we're in the process of getting those replaced. 493 01:06:43,870 --> 01:06:51,050 In doing that, we're also installing ADA stalls, one in the boys' rock locker room and one 494 01:06:51,050 --> 01:06:55,070 in the girls' locker rooms, so we're reconfiguring that space. 495 01:06:55,070 --> 01:07:03,610 and so that is scheduled for next week, I believe, two weeks from now when the panels come in. 496 01:07:05,050 --> 01:07:11,190 Some of the other things that are old news and they've been taken care of. We also have a 497 01:07:11,190 --> 01:07:18,430 vanity installation over at Marsha Buker for our school nurse. Our school nurse over there did 498 01:07:18,430 --> 01:07:24,570 not have a sink and a sink base in our clinic. She had to use the sink in the 499 01:07:24,570 --> 01:07:31,290 bathroom, which obviously is not acceptable in anyone's mind. And so we've got 500 01:07:31,290 --> 01:07:36,690 one on order from Hammond Lumber, and especially services going to run the 501 01:07:36,690 --> 01:07:41,270 piping for us for the water in the drain line. So those are the big ticket items 502 01:07:41,270 --> 01:07:45,550 there. Chromebooks, I think I reported last month, the Chromebooks are in. 503 01:07:45,550 --> 01:07:53,070 First and the Royce have prepped those for student use and so that is really it's going 504 01:07:53,070 --> 01:07:59,950 to get us up to snuff with our technology devices at both the elementary school and middle 505 01:07:59,950 --> 01:08:09,770 school and I think one last thing I would say is that the as far as a safety factor electronic 506 01:08:09,770 --> 01:08:18,110 electronic door access, we were able to update the door number four, which is over at 507 01:08:18,110 --> 01:08:24,250 Marsha Viewker by the library. And now that's going to be a key fob entrance, and then also 508 01:08:24,250 --> 01:08:31,570 we upgraded the key fob entrance to the pre-K building the modular. And so if in an emergency 509 01:08:31,570 --> 01:08:36,970 situation, if people need it again, they're not fumbling through a set of keys, they're describing 510 01:08:36,970 --> 01:08:42,190 having the fog, hitting the button and the door open so we can get kids off the playground 511 01:08:42,990 --> 01:08:48,910 faster and more efficiently and if we need to get them from the playground over by the 512 01:08:49,450 --> 01:08:55,490 modular into the modular, again they're not fumbling with keys, they're getting into 513 01:08:55,490 --> 01:09:00,750 the building and the door will lock so. A little bit of a safety factor there as well as 514 01:09:00,750 --> 01:09:01,710 a convenience factor. 515 01:09:03,470 --> 01:09:08,750 Those are really the projects, unless you have another one in there that I didn't touch 516 01:09:08,750 --> 01:09:16,750 upon that you have interest in, and the catch basin over in the playground by the portable. 517 01:09:17,450 --> 01:09:21,930 That was a nagging piece for the past couple of years. 518 01:09:22,410 --> 01:09:28,870 It pawns up, makes it difficult for the kids to get into the pre-K classroom. 519 01:09:28,870 --> 01:09:35,410 they had to use the ramp to go around the pond and so graciously enough the folks at public works 520 01:09:35,410 --> 01:09:41,950 are putting in a catch basin where the pond was and so as water builds up it'll get 521 01:09:43,090 --> 01:09:51,610 re-routed off into the woods area and speaking of the public works I would like to give a shout out 522 01:09:51,610 --> 01:09:58,550 to Jay and his crew for re-lining the parking lot here as well as over at Marsha Buker. They did that 523 01:09:58,550 --> 01:10:03,090 over the past couple days and dressed up the new lining that we had from the 524 01:10:03,090 --> 01:10:09,410 repays last year did a fantastic job and I just want to say how much we 525 01:10:09,410 --> 01:10:13,930 appreciate their their partnership with with the school department so thank 526 01:10:13,930 --> 01:10:22,150 you to to Jay and his crew you're mentioned of the Chromebooks is this okay are 527 01:10:22,150 --> 01:10:26,270 we sure ready to talk about a thing or not I just I wanted to mention in our letter 528 01:10:26,270 --> 01:10:31,010 from Carl Matullus update that Chromebooks will not be going home with middle school students 529 01:10:31,010 --> 01:10:35,050 this year, which is exciting, and you can stay at school and we don't have to worry about 530 01:10:35,050 --> 01:10:40,490 them getting Braktor still on or whatever is happening. That's just something new that 531 01:10:40,490 --> 01:10:41,950 I wanted to make sure, as mentioned. 532 01:10:44,310 --> 01:10:50,850 And one announcement, Bonnie, our special ed director asked me to do a quick little public announcement. 533 01:10:50,850 --> 01:10:59,210 We are extending, we receive funds through the Elementary and Secondary Act, ESEA or 534 01:10:59,210 --> 01:11:04,750 1965 and as part of that school departments are required to provide an opportunity for 535 01:11:04,750 --> 01:11:11,590 public comment on the consolidated application and we would consider any such comment as part 536 01:11:11,590 --> 01:11:12,390 of the application. 537 01:11:12,390 --> 01:11:20,930 So we are extending that public comment time through the end of the month and on the website 538 01:11:20,930 --> 01:11:27,510 you'll see this notice that is there and so Bonnie wanted me to update folks that if 539 01:11:27,510 --> 01:11:34,750 there is anyone that has a comment on our ESEA application to please email her and she 540 01:11:34,750 --> 01:11:40,090 and I will certainly take into consideration any requests or comments that people have. 541 01:11:40,090 --> 01:11:46,850 And part of that is that this money pays the way we use this money is we pay two of the 542 01:11:46,850 --> 01:11:49,210 ed texts for our Title I program. 543 01:11:49,970 --> 01:11:55,630 So it's federal money that we use to fund those two positions as a resource for kids, 544 01:11:56,270 --> 01:11:58,550 a safety net for kids in the Title I program. 545 01:11:59,390 --> 01:12:04,890 But again, she wanted to let everyone know that we're extending that window of opportunity 546 01:12:04,890 --> 01:12:10,950 for public comment and if anyone has a question or a comment or a suggestion to please email her 547 01:12:11,690 --> 01:12:15,070 and we'd be glad to talk with them about the new deadline. 548 01:12:15,850 --> 01:12:21,090 I'll be the end of the month August 3th 31st August 31st. 549 01:12:21,090 --> 01:12:22,130 Okay. All right. 550 01:12:22,850 --> 01:12:26,310 What percentage of students achieve very level for math? 551 01:12:28,510 --> 01:12:34,350 That is every year that changes every year as far as it. So we'll be getting into that. 552 01:12:34,350 --> 01:12:37,910 That will give you a report out as to how we did with the state assessments. 553 01:12:40,050 --> 01:12:44,250 And so our goal obviously, part of our goal is to increase that percentage each year. 554 01:12:45,290 --> 01:12:51,710 And so with a new population of kids every year, it changes a little bit, but one of the 555 01:12:51,710 --> 01:12:56,930 things that we have on our admin meeting agenda is to talk about state assessments and how 556 01:12:56,930 --> 01:12:57,250 we did. 557 01:12:57,510 --> 01:13:04,210 And then we'll bring reports to you folks as we gather the information and put it in an organized 558 01:13:04,210 --> 01:13:09,930 manage so that you guys can see how the kids are doing so we're going to are we 559 01:13:09,930 --> 01:13:14,910 talking about the September meeting I'm going my goal is September but it might 560 01:13:14,910 --> 01:13:20,090 be October and so on so we're going to get a debrief on and spring we is yes 561 01:13:20,090 --> 01:13:25,130 okay September or October yeah okay anything 562 01:13:29,540 --> 01:13:29,920 else 563 01:13:37,380 --> 01:13:40,100 I'm all set you're all set excellent 564 01:13:40,100 --> 01:13:43,380 so the next meeting we'll have opening day report outs by the building 565 01:13:43,380 --> 01:13:56,320 principles and tentative dates for future RSC meeting it cannot be tentative we're going to do September 10 we're gonna do something that's gonna happen yeah I'll change that to date yes date date at this moment, but we should 566 01:13:56,320 --> 01:14:05,380 probably coordinate the rest of 2026 pretty soon. We have that right in that link. Okay, there we go. Yeah, awesome. 567 01:14:05,900 --> 01:14:07,320 We're going to map out for the year. 568 01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:08,320 I thought we had it wrapped out. 569 01:14:08,440 --> 01:14:10,360 It's been mapped out for the year. 570 01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:13,120 Take that tentative off of it. 571 01:14:13,660 --> 01:14:16,140 Are we aligning the dates of the school committee meetings 572 01:14:16,140 --> 01:14:18,580 with weeks when we need to sign papers? 573 01:14:21,240 --> 01:14:21,680 Yes. 574 01:14:22,260 --> 01:14:23,480 Don't leave before signing. 575 01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:25,000 Want tonight. 576 01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:29,940 And the next meeting, do you think we could do a tour of the new 577 01:14:31,060 --> 01:14:33,660 locker rooms and a gym for the war? 578 01:14:33,660 --> 01:14:50,280 I want to see it. Yeah, that's amazing. They're not in yet. They're not in yet. So it's okay, yeah, it's not we did some painting. We did some reorganization last year. 579 01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:58,700 The bathroom stalls are or a big eye sore and so getting those taken care of. It's about a $7,000 bill. 580 01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:27,940 They don't come cheap. The next piece would be to tackle the shower areas. We've done a little bit of work in the boys' locker room, because when we were with RSU2, all the showers were taken out. So there was no showers in the boys' locker room. Zero. So we put two shower stalls in last year. The girls have, I believe, six shower stalls, but they're not in great shape. 581 01:15:27,940 --> 01:15:33,160 So, we need to do something down the road to dress those up, but. 582 01:15:33,480 --> 01:15:35,800 The boys locked room, they just have a little storage in. 583 01:15:37,790 --> 01:15:38,090 Sorry. 584 01:15:38,450 --> 01:15:41,450 The boys locker room used to have an open shower. 585 01:15:41,910 --> 01:15:44,090 So they took out of the wall, so. 586 01:15:44,090 --> 01:15:45,690 They took all the shower heads. 587 01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:48,940 I'm not going to ask why. 588 01:15:49,360 --> 01:15:58,380 So what we did is we put two shower stalls in that open space, partly for privacy. 589 01:15:58,380 --> 01:16:08,560 the gang showers of the 1980s really isn't popular item anymore and so we added two showers 590 01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:14,840 last year and then if we need to add more we've got room for I believe two more showers 591 01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:22,420 stalls in that space, but the girls' showers need to work. 592 01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:28,760 Definitely a place of neglect, if we need to tackle. 593 01:16:32,060 --> 01:16:33,220 All right, excellent. 594 01:16:33,640 --> 01:16:35,160 Do we have a motion to adjourn? 595 01:16:37,410 --> 01:16:39,010 I make the motion to adjourn. 596 01:16:39,210 --> 01:16:39,810 And a second? 597 01:16:40,190 --> 01:16:41,010 Oh, second thought. 598 01:16:41,610 --> 01:16:43,330 Any further discussion about this? 599 01:16:44,170 --> 01:16:46,230 Let's get back to the little bit of summer we have. 600 01:16:46,230 --> 01:16:49,470 of fallen favor and as you know I must thank you.