[0:10] Sue's gonna do the chair tonight. She's in person.

[0:12] That's perfect. Let's roll it.

[0:14] Sorry, I couldn't hear you Sue.

[0:16] Oh, that's okay. You're

[0:17] Gonna have to speak up a little bit,

[0:18] but we gotta get the mic closer to you.

[0:20] Where is it? Oh, that's okay. I'll look that way.

[0:24] Alright, I'd like to call the meeting to to order.

[0:26] Are there any adjustments to the agenda guys?

[0:32] Oh, I've got one. Okay.

[0:34] And I think we can throw it in under Jamie's report.

[0:39] I just would like to revisit our discussion about,

[0:42] you had said that Washington

[0:44] and Orange had come to a full board meeting

[0:46] that expressed some interest in the SU

[0:49] and I've got myself very excited about that

[0:52] and I'd just like to kind of continue that discussion.

[0:55] Yep. Thank goodness for a second.

[0:58] I thought it was the stage, so, well that's

[1:01] Going in the back of my mind.

[1:02] I had a few of, it might be that too.

[1:05] I have not forgotten it.

[1:06] I'm just trying to get EEI to sit down with us again, but,

[1:10] Okay, perfect.

[1:11] I added it. Okay.

[1:12] Prove the minutes of Thursday, November 4th.

[1:19] Look at those. I'll entertain a motion.

[1:21] I'll make a motion. We got a second.

[1:25] All those in favor?

[1:28] Aye. Aye. Opposed? Go Public comments.

[1:32] I think we got Karen. We good Karen?

[1:38] We're good. Okay then celebration

[1:42] of learning, do we doing that online or what?

[1:46] Yeah, so we actually have a little update.

[1:48] Our librarian need a little bit more time.

[1:50] So Jess is gonna present in January and it worked out fine

[1:54] because we actually have a mascot to share with you

[1:58] for review and consideration tonight for Tum Bridge campus.

[2:03] So I wanna share a little bit of the process

[2:04] because the process, Chelsea's also going through,

[2:07] we just are a little bit ahead in the process I think

[2:10] 'cause we have little people

[2:11] and it, it was a, it's the tiger so it's a little bit,

[2:15] I think easier to work with right now.

[2:16] Yeah. So just real quick, we'll go to the next slide.

[2:24] Just to recap up for learning, handed off the results,

[2:26] it was sort of like now what we knew

[2:29] that we were refreshing our traditional mascots

[2:33] and what we did was did an all call for graphic designers.

[2:36] We did not find any.

[2:38] So we did go through the community

[2:40] and we found a community member recommended Matt,

[2:43] Matt on Denton.

[2:45] He's done some work with one planet.

[2:47] He's done some murals in the area. He's local.

[2:50] And we interviewed Matt

[2:51] and we had some children sit with us in that conversation

[2:55] and they were so excited to get Mr.

[2:56] Matt back for an art project

[2:57] that it was really a hands down, like no brainer

[3:00] to bring Matt to the conversation.

[3:02] And again, we know their bids or inquiries.

[3:05] I think it's a complex graphic design

[3:07] to take on historical logos.

[3:09] So that's what we found in our

[3:10] initial understanding of this.

[3:13] And Matt was really warm and welcoming in the process

[3:16] and really reassuring that we can do this.

[3:19] He, so we, we'll go to the next slide.

[3:24] This little bit about Matt on his webpage,

[3:26] you can see's really bright colors, clear images

[3:31] and logos.

[3:32] Really ideal for, for mascot work.

[3:35] And this is him working with kids

[3:37] and actually this is, these are pictures of him working

[3:39] with one planet when they did the mural at Tum Bridge.

[3:41] And he's also done the mural here at Chelsea

[3:44] and he did another project with Jeb Interland last year.

[3:47] So Matt is really familiar with us

[3:49] and his website is, it's like color the world

[3:52] or colors Matt the world.

[3:54] So you can definitely check him out.

[3:56] We'll go to the next slide. The process was, Matt met

[4:00] with students during lunch and recess.

[4:01] He asked 'em questions such as, you know,

[4:04] what does it mean to be a tiger?

[4:06] Who are we? What do you love about school?

[4:07] And so if you click this image, we have a link

[4:11] to his full two pages that he was able to get from the kids.

[4:16] And it goes on for like all the qualities of Tiger.

[4:18] And some are just like what we saw in the initial

[4:21] visual logo reveal, like a lot of crazy ideas.

[4:25] Matt narrowed them down for us

[4:27] and then presented some ideas.

[4:29] And you'll see that in the next slide.

[4:32] Yeah, you see the kids had a lot of ideas

[4:34] and yep, they keep going.

[4:38] A lot of conversation around sports.

[4:39] They wanted to make sure their logo could be on like sports

[4:42] t-shirts and things like that, which was exciting.

[4:46] Yeah, all, all the details.

[4:48] Eating cheese, there's one, right, all the things they said.

[4:52] So we'll go to the next slide.

[4:57] We pre, he presented some drafts

[4:59] and then we sent back some influencing tigers we've been

[5:02] using and then we provided feedback.

[5:04] The good news is our staff was really excited

[5:06] and kids were excited about the TI tigers

[5:08] that we've been using a lot

[5:10] of different tigers since the beginning of the school year.

[5:12] We've embraced all tigers.

[5:13] So you'll see like Tiger Cubs image, you'll see a lot

[5:17] of different little rascals, you know,

[5:18] so we calling them all over the building,

[5:20] which has been really fun.

[5:22] And so we went back and forth with the wording.

[5:23] Sometimes the tigers were scary, sometimes they were,

[5:26] they weren't what we were looking for.

[5:28] And Matt was really great about listening to us.

[5:30] And the next slide, the final step faculty gave feedback

[5:34] based on the responses classes,

[5:36] based on the responses classes, using a lot

[5:39] of different tiger pictures by using all tigers.

[5:41] Reduce the pressure of just to pick one tiger,

[5:43] which has been like a really big aha moment for us.

[5:47] By default you'll see tigers

[5:48] of all kinds in Tage, which we love.

[5:50] And here are some of the ones that you'll see

[5:52] around the buildings, like reading intervention.

[5:54] I love that. And they're just really fun and hip.

[5:55] And with AI now you can put something in

[5:58] and get an image that's really sweet.

[5:59] We've got tigers with chickens in some places.

[6:01] It's, it's really fun. Yeah.

[6:03] And really the moral of the story is pick something cute

[6:05] and have a lot of fun with it.

[6:07] And so we also knew that we did want some sort of

[6:11] overall image for our building.

[6:13] And if you go to the next slide,

[6:17] we have drum please a proposal for you.

[6:21] Next slide. Our tigers,

[6:26] based on what the kids have shared with us,

[6:27] our staff has shared with us.

[6:29] The official one is more for what our like letterhead.

[6:32] And it's, it's a mixture of a curious tiger

[6:35] yet not too intimidating.

[6:37] And then we also have like a sports tiger

[6:41] as long as they're out there way to go.

[6:42] So we've got two different ones to use right now

[6:46] and staff like carefully using them just

[6:49] to kind test them out.

[6:50] And we ask for feedback

[6:52] and sometimes when you don't hear a lot

[6:54] of chatter it means that it's fine.

[6:57] And between us having a lot of ability

[7:00] to use other little tigers in other spaces,

[7:02] this feels good to us.

[7:04] And I think we're ready to move on this, on this first kind

[7:07] of, you know, version one of Tum tigers, if you will,

[7:12] for the elementary school.

[7:13] And then that will focus attention over here at Chelsea and,

[7:16] and use the process

[7:17] and maybe be a little different with middle

[7:19] schoolers to refresh. Chelsea's little

[7:22] Coverage was tigers, weren't they?

[7:24] Yeah. But I like how they did this whole process

[7:26] and came back miniature time.

[7:29] Baby tigers cute. Yeah, it's so cute.

[7:31] Yeah. Yeah. So we still use the green, we still use,

[7:35] you know, it what the kids really felt when they were really

[7:37] excited about the tiger part, right?

[7:38] Yeah. And we hear a lot about, you know,

[7:41] it's a great day to be a tiger.

[7:43] A lot of teachers are using

[7:44] the language in different ways, right?

[7:45] It's tiger time, you know, it's time to focus.

[7:48] So it's, it's taken off

[7:50] and it feels really good to have something beyond tie dye

[7:53] to anchor into right now. So, and, and

[7:57] The process seems long,

[7:59] but it's also just sliding right in.

[8:02] I mean, it it's really good. Yeah, I like it.

[8:05] So these are, this is the tiger proposal for you. Yeah,

[8:09] No.

[8:10] At some point Kathy, does this go back to

[8:12] where there'll be a motion one time? I think

[8:14] That's, yeah, Do, do we need

[8:16] to do a motion on this, Jamie?

[8:18] I mean you didn't actually change the

[8:20] mascot, the mascot's the same.

[8:21] You just changed what it, I mean, I think looks like, so

[8:24] Yeah, so I think, Think, don't

[8:26] Think it would be worthwhile for us to say we weren

[8:31] and approve these though because Okay.

[8:34] We can, I mean we can warn it for action

[8:35] to approve the logos is what I can say it is.

[8:39] And I, my only thought behind

[8:41] that is if something came back that we didn't,

[8:43] that the board wasn't comfortable with, we'd want

[8:46] to take action in the other direction.

[8:48] But I, I think these are great.

[8:50] Oh, I do too. I love the face of the guy on the left.

[8:53] Yeah. So we can just put it on that next meeting

[8:56] to final to finalize the logo.

[8:59] I I think in the meantime, Janet,

[9:00] if you're biting at the bit,

[9:02] if the board doesn't object, go ahead

[9:04] and roll with it. I think,

[9:06] Yeah, I say roll with it.

[9:08] I mean here's the thing. We, we kind of, so I, I like

[9:10] to think 10 miles down the road, we did do a student

[9:13] and staff shirt year with the tiger paw

[9:16] because we needed it for the tage fair.

[9:18] So we would like to use this on sort

[9:20] of our letterhead and so forth.

[9:21] But I also wanted to make sure I gave people a lot

[9:24] of runway to discuss this.

[9:26] So we are not pressing to do anything right now.

[9:29] But we are happy to use it if you're okay with it.

[9:32] We're okay. I'm a hundred percent, hundred percent.

[9:35] I love it. Okay, great.

[9:36] I'm a hundred percent also

[9:38] and I would say don't hold back from using it.

[9:40] We've been waiting this long, let's get it done.

[9:43] We certainly are gonna come back next

[9:45] month and be like, we hate it.

[9:46] Yeah. And Jackie was, Jackie was a quiet thumbs up.

[9:50] It would be a longer term introduction Yeah.

[9:52] For other people. And our hope is by using that

[9:56] and I have to say the work he did

[9:58] behind the scenes was very minimal in cost.

[10:00] It was such a good deal. Yeah.

[10:02] That if we have nice process,

[10:03] the middle scrollers can adjust their process.

[10:06] And I think that's one

[10:07] that's gonna take a little bit more time.

[10:10] Perfect. Thank

[10:12] You.

[10:13] Awesome. Great job

[10:14] Reports going to number six reports to the board, Jamie,

[10:18] and we'll include the Washington Orange update.

[10:22] Yep. I can include that in my report.

[10:24] So I sent a letter out earlier today to the community to try

[10:28] to, to provide some more context around Act 73

[10:31] and the December one tax letter.

[10:35] And some folks were requesting that as they planned

[10:38] to attend the December 17th meeting, to be able to highlight

[10:42] some successes that we've had in the SU

[10:45] both academically but fiscally.

[10:49] I also provided you

[10:51] as board members just some different links to some articles.

[10:54] But also there was a joint session last Wednesday

[10:58] that brought together the legislature

[11:01] to receive some reports from different cabinet

[11:06] positions and it's, it's just worth reviewing in regards

[11:10] to giving some context to the December 1st tax letter.

[11:16] And then I also just wanted to remind you again,

[11:19] so I put in my reports the minimum class sizes

[11:22] that we're working toward getting to as

[11:25] provided within ACT 73.

[11:29] And your building based leadership teams are working

[11:32] to take steps forward to comply

[11:34] with those minimum class size numbers.

[11:37] I've met with Principal Rivers where the middle school had

[11:42] some work to do it, it,

[11:43] we've run the class size minimum averages and,

[11:46] and it's not, it's not too heavy of a lift,

[11:49] but they're gonna need to do some reconfiguring

[11:51] with their schedule to get into compliance.

[11:55] But Dan has a good, good idea with the staff around

[11:57] how they're gonna work to achieve that.

[12:00] And then I also just wanted to highlight

[12:02] before I turn to Echo Valley

[12:04] and take any questions is that I will be in Chelsea

[12:07] with the principals on Monday

[12:10] for the Chelsea community Senior meals

[12:14] at the senior meal in Chelsea to visit

[12:17] with community and folks.

[12:19] And then my plan is to be at the TUM rec meal

[12:22] both in January

[12:24] and February leading up to budget conversations

[12:30] In regards to Echo Valley, they did join the SU board.

[12:34] They indicated that they're interested in remaining within a

[12:38] supervisory union unit.

[12:41] I think it was a positive meeting with the SU board.

[12:44] I mean, they're not interested in any type

[12:45] of like consolidation among districts at this point.

[12:48] They wanna remain their own district is what I heard.

[12:51] But they're certainly interested in the idea possibly

[12:54] partnering within an SU umbrella.

[12:58] And so we encourage them to reach out

[13:02] and convey that on the record with the task force of which

[13:07] I'm not certain whether they did or not.

[13:09] Alan, I do have a meeting with some

[13:12] of my colleagues on Friday

[13:14] and I will add that down to connect

[13:15] with their superintendent

[13:16] to find out whether they actually officially

[13:19] submitted any type of document to the task force

[13:22] of their desire to remain in an SU structure.

[13:27] I know the other district in their SU indicated they would

[13:30] prefer to go to the north

[13:32] where it seemed like Echo Valley was much more interested in

[13:34] possibly staying to the south

[13:36] with a an su structure down our,

[13:41] If if by some chance

[13:44] this consolidation thing falls apart in the legislature.

[13:47] Do you think they have any interest in joining RSU if there

[13:50] wasn't any kind of forced thing going on?

[13:54] I thought the conversation was really positive.

[13:56] I I did not get a sense whether they were in a position

[14:00] and Kathy was there.

[14:03] I can't remember. Was any

[14:04] of the first branch board members there for

[14:06] that SU meeting or not?

[14:08] I don't think so. I didn't get the sense that they were

[14:13] in a position to unilaterally pull out of their current su

[14:16] to join ours, but that they were interested in willing

[14:21] to talk about further collaboration possibly

[14:23] as a larger organization.

[14:26] That's the sense I got.

[14:27] Right. And I, I think right now

[14:29] with the maps falling apart, everybody's kind

[14:34] of scrambling and figuring out what's gonna happen next.

[14:39] So I think we'll probably,

[14:40] I'm guessing we're gonna hear from them

[14:43] again in the near future, but that's, that's my hopeful hat.

[14:48] Well I mean I think we should do everything we can

[14:51] to welcome them if they're have any interest in

[14:55] any kind of collaboration.

[14:57] Yeah, I think the full board did a pretty good job

[14:59] of that at our meeting.

[15:00] We, we, everybody was pretty interested in welcoming them.

[15:05] I mean, I mean maybe, maybe we could invite them to one

[15:10] of our board meetings just to see

[15:11] how their closest neighbor operates and, and

[15:15] That could be a really good first next

[15:16] step. Kathy actually

[15:18] Yeah.

[15:19] Could reach out and invite them to come sit

[15:21] with us for a meeting.

[15:26] Which I can do that if you would like, Alan.

[15:29] I mean I don't, I don't see any harm in it. Right?

[15:31] Is there No, there's no downside or

[15:33] Nope.

[15:34] I I don't see any downsides to it at all. Me

[15:37] Either.

[15:38] I just keep thinking back

[15:39] to when the first year thing happened 25 years ago

[15:42] and we didn't pursue Right.

[15:45] That when we should have

[15:47] and could very well be part of our district instead of

[15:53] Riverdale right now if we really pursued that.

[15:57] I think you Yeah,

[15:58] I just wanna make sure we don't miss the boat on something

[16:00] that could be positive for us.

[16:02] Yeah, no, I'll, I'll reach out

[16:05] and see if they wanna come to a meeting.

[16:08] Yep. I I think that that in some ways would be,

[16:12] it just would be, I think you,

[16:14] you have everything in common.

[16:15] You meaning I just think it could be a real comforting

[16:19] meeting between the two of you.

[16:22] I mean their configuration is essentially the

[16:25] same as first branch.

[16:26] They have an elementary school that's unified

[16:28] and a middle school that's unified.

[16:30] So I think they may see that there's a lot

[16:32] in common right down the road.

[16:34] Yeah. If nothing else, we can share ideas about

[16:37] how we're making things work.

[16:40] So I think that's a good, good step.

[16:44] Yeah. Jamie

[16:48] Did everybody, oh, go ahead.

[16:50] The letter you sent out today, there's a phrase in here

[16:54] that I may need some help responding

[16:57] to in the community once the letter goes out, it says,

[17:00] as an example, the residential tax rates in Grand Granville,

[17:04] Hancock, Walton, Sharon,

[17:06] and Stratford all decreased in FY 26.

[17:11] And then you give an example another one that list

[17:15] 100 or percent increase

[17:19] 0.01 increase.

[17:22] When our people read that, how does it, how,

[17:24] how should we respond to the fact that we didn't do

[17:27] that when other district,

[17:30] Well we, I will run the, have Tara run the data

[17:33] and get it to you in regards to your five year average.

[17:36] You'll come out underneath that 40% mark

[17:39] and I think you can respond that way.

[17:47] Meaning like your taxes haven't gone up 40% over the last

[17:50] five years, your residential tax rate.

[17:55] I just can't tell you what that percentage

[17:56] is until we run the numbers.

[18:01] Wonderful. Anybody else got anything for Jamie?

[18:04] If not, let's go on to the

[18:06] Principal's report.

[18:07] I wish I could have said your tax rate went down.

[18:10] I almost didn't do that

[18:11] but I just, I was trying to grab different examples

[18:14] but we're working hard on your budget this year to try

[18:17] to get it as best we can.

[18:18] Right. Jamie, did you wanna talk about the meeting in

[18:21] South Royalton that this,

[18:24] Well that's on for discussion item I think 7.1. Good.

[18:28] Yeah. Okay, cool. Yep. All right.

[18:31] I just wanna make sure we talk about

[18:33] It.

[18:34] Yep.

[18:35] Back onto the principles.

[18:37] Okay, so you have a report. Let's see some highlights.

[18:43] We had some professional development happening at Ambridge

[18:46] campus the 31st and Halloween.

[18:49] And it was really great. We had staff presenting an

[18:51] EBL L to other teachers.

[18:52] That was the program action based learning

[18:54] that the board heard about.

[18:56] And then we had some sponsorship come in

[18:58] and our kindergarten teachers

[18:59] and PE teacher were able to turnkey to take

[19:03] that action based learning further into classrooms with how

[19:07] to adjust for different learners and needs.

[19:09] So it's not just about the physical activity,

[19:11] it's also about the connection in the classroom.

[19:15] And the staff went through some

[19:16] of the action based learning stations.

[19:18] It was really nice for other staff that didn't get

[19:20] to experience that with kids to experience it

[19:23] and incorporate some new ideas for keeping kids on track.

[19:26] Especially with our new EL curriculum that's come in.

[19:28] Sometimes those, those blocks are long

[19:31] and they need a little brain break

[19:33] and making really meaningful connections

[19:35] with the action-based learning team.

[19:36] So that was great. We also had some ALMA training to work

[19:41] with our new report card system moving along

[19:45] also at TUM Bridge.

[19:47] We had a very successful book fair when

[19:49] Jess is here in January.

[19:51] I know she will speak to TUM Bridge's book fair

[19:53] and I know our library in here.

[19:54] Chelsea will speak to the book Fair it.

[19:57] The book fair is very big at first branch.

[19:59] It is definitely a community event.

[20:00] People come out, they get excited about it

[20:02] and it, it does bring in money for our librarians

[20:05] to buy other materials.

[20:07] Jess has been really great about securing these playaways.

[20:10] They are audio books without a screen

[20:13] and that's been a huge hit in the library

[20:15] and I think she's got some big ideas

[20:17] around adding more to those collections.

[20:21] In terms of other exciting events going on, we have

[20:26] a new site coordinator, Graham Leathers for one Planet.

[20:28] That was a position that was open.

[20:30] Haley Knight worked very hard to secure staff member

[20:34] and Graham has come in, the kids enjoy him.

[20:37] He has them outside as long as they can

[20:39] before it gets dark this time of year,

[20:41] which feels like it's happens really quickly.

[20:44] And there's other programs going on too this this month

[20:48] where we've got our craft afternoon coming up on Friday

[20:51] where kids get their books and mugs and art projects

[20:54] and they wrap gifts

[20:55] for all different holidays for family members.

[20:58] Basketball's underway, our concerts this week.

[21:02] So we are moving and grouping across the district is anyone

[21:05] have to talk about Chelsea?

[21:08] I can speak to our professional development.

[21:11] So Janet was working with

[21:15] action based learning type stuff

[21:16] and we were doing all the prep

[21:18] and so all almost a new student innovation system

[21:20] that taken on this year.

[21:22] And so we did a lot of prep work in terms

[21:24] of getting our grades in.

[21:25] And we have report cards that were out on Friday last week.

[21:28] And this system is unified across the SU now.

[21:32] Previously we were kind of doing our own thing over here in

[21:34] Chelsea there came report cards

[21:36] and the system was really streamlined.

[21:37] So I just wanna thank tech folks Parker Odds in particular

[21:40] helping our staff figure out this new system

[21:43] for reporting out grades and everything.

[21:46] I also wanna highlight life in the middle.

[21:48] We have this newsletter that goes out weekly

[21:51] and that's something that our, our teacher puts together.

[21:55] So she goes around to each individual classroom

[21:57] and checks in about what were you guys

[21:59] working on this past week?

[22:01] That's just been a really great way to showcase the,

[22:03] what our teachers are doing

[22:04] and students are doing in the classroom.

[22:06] It just creates more transparency,

[22:08] which I really appreciate in the community of, hey,

[22:11] this past week we've worked on this

[22:12] and this next week we're looking forward to this.

[22:15] I think that's just a great way to be sharing

[22:16] out some good work.

[22:18] We're doing other pieces.

[22:21] From November, we had a fundraiser for the Jamaican

[22:26] recovery efforts down there,

[22:27] that big hurricane come through.

[22:28] So Erica Baxter put together our new science teacher,

[22:31] she put together a movie night.

[22:33] So they watched Shrek over in the gym

[22:35] and they got to sell different things.

[22:37] Did a bake sale there and they raised over $650 for Jamaica.

[22:41] So it was really cool to see this kind of grassroots effort

[22:45] of different sixth grad are putting up signs across the

[22:48] building saying Hey, help raise money for Jamaica, come

[22:52] to the movie nights.

[22:53] And yeah, that was a big hit.

[22:55] I was really grateful for that efforts.

[22:58] Yeah, as Jan said, we got basketball going on,

[23:00] we had open gym.

[23:02] I always appreciate activities

[23:04] for our students do after school.

[23:06] 'cause sometimes in this area we really could use that.

[23:09] And so a couple of parent volunteers ran that

[23:11] for us on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

[23:14] Mr. Groat, Mr. Weed, two eighth grade parents.

[23:18] And that was great to have kids from middle school really go

[23:21] over there and tubes for a couple hours.

[23:23] And basketball season's now officially begun.

[23:25] So kids are in practice now.

[23:28] That kind of wraps up all the I my big college,

[23:30] but open to questions or, yep.

[23:32] I got a question. So I went to the, I don't know

[23:35] who signs out the gym to organizations.

[23:38] I went to the Christmas Bizarre. Oh yeah.

[23:40] Which was everybody from the streets with their dirty shoes

[23:43] and the covering was

[23:44] Not on the floor again.

[23:45] Oh, okay. And so I don't know.

[23:48] That was a request from last year. We did.

[23:51] And so here's the first thing that was just tons of people

[23:53] with their boots and dirt

[23:54] and su Yeah, just walking on the gym floor again.

[23:58] Yeah, we talked about that last year.

[24:00] That was feedback gave where I had custodian.

[24:02] I think it's, it's important who signs out the gym That's,

[24:05] that's who should be, maybe that's one of the criteria

[24:09] to do it because it took a beating.

[24:11] It had to have taken a beating that day.

[24:13] Yeah, there was opening and closing. Yeah,

[24:19] There was.

[24:20] So I didn't see this.

[24:24] I did. It does feel pretty long ago.

[24:27] This report, I do just wanna honor Mr.

[24:29] Tim is our custodian over at TUM Bridge. He's a a veteran.

[24:33] So the kids did do a little clap out for him and cards.

[24:36] He looks forward to it every year.

[24:37] And our kids and staff really do.

[24:40] It's just a really nice way of honoring him.

[24:43] And we also had a district,

[24:46] well tum hosted it,

[24:48] but we had a swap this fall for people to come in

[24:51] and swap clothing that no longer fits.

[24:53] And it was a really nice, just impromptu opportunity

[24:57] and it was nice for us to connect with folks

[24:59] and also help with sizing.

[25:01] And kids didn't see it as like something like,

[25:03] oh I'm getting swap clothing.

[25:05] They really looked forward to getting

[25:06] a few new things for free.

[25:08] Anything left over went to the listen thrift store

[25:10] over in West London.

[25:11] So it was a really nice event of people unloading, people,

[25:15] swapping and then sending it on to folks

[25:17] that could use some the great materials that were left.

[25:23] Perfect. Now Business center is,

[25:26] is she here today? Tara? Tara

[25:27] Is, yeah.

[25:28] She might be another meeting. Jamie,

[25:30] do you have a sense of Tara right now?

[25:32] Yeah, she's with Stratford

[25:33] and then I gotta go back there for, she's there,

[25:36] she's in your building but she's there virtually.

[25:41] So maybe we would just push her report off and then her

[25:45] and I are gonna flip at some point again.

[25:47] Did you wanna go down to 7.1 Act 73 updates?

[25:52] Well we got the policy committee.

[25:54] Oh, okay. So we have two policies.

[25:59] One is a KA interest supervisory union transfer

[26:02] that would allow for transfers to happen

[26:08] at the supervisory union prior to the high school level

[26:13] K eight based on what a district operates that would

[26:18] keep average daily membership with the home district.

[26:23] But allow a family to have a process to request a transfer

[26:27] if the fit within their current school's not working.

[26:30] And that that would be ca at five total annually,

[26:34] meaning there would never be more than five out

[26:37] or five into a school.

[26:39] It's modeled off of the

[26:42] statewide school choice public school choice

[26:44] that occurs at the nine through 12 levels.

[26:48] There's sometimes where a fit is just not good within a

[26:53] district and this would allow for a family to make a request

[26:57] to go to another school.

[26:59] That student could then go to that school.

[27:01] Transportation would be on them.

[27:04] But it would allow for the average daily membership to stay

[27:07] with the home district with the ID being

[27:11] that the receiving school wouldn't cost more to, to educate.

[27:13] And some folks who have said, well what happens if they're

[27:15] on an IEP or if they're on a 5 0 4, if they're on a 5 0 4

[27:20] as the LEA, they would still be responsible,

[27:22] the home district to provide any type of services

[27:26] that are needed via the 5 0 4.

[27:28] Same thing we do right now with any student that you have.

[27:31] Grades nine through 12 as an example.

[27:34] And also just a reminder that special ed services are

[27:38] provided at the SU level.

[27:39] So the service would come,

[27:40] but it wouldn't change your assessment at all either way

[27:44] because it's assessed out, it's not a direct go back.

[27:52] And Now the po,

[27:53] the policy committee Committee spent a lot

[27:55] of time on this making sure there were guardrails so

[27:58] that we wouldn't, there wouldn't be a lot of kids moving

[28:01] around at one time or we wouldn't be depleting classrooms

[28:03] or making classrooms too big.

[28:06] The superintendent is gonna be keep track of all that

[28:10] and he has, they have the ability to say no if it, you know,

[28:13] there's a certain, there's good limits

[28:16] and stuff that we made sure were in there.

[28:19] And I think this will help a lot

[28:21] of families or some families.

[28:27] One question as far as, I'm just thinking through,

[28:31] we're starting to,

[28:33] sounds like work really hard on meeting minimum classroom

[28:37] sizes in our building for to stay happy.

[28:42] Would we be allowed to let that have any factor,

[28:47] like if we were gonna end up with class

[28:50] and no longer that minimum class sizes

[28:52] by letting say two students from the

[28:54] same class leave the building?

[28:56] Yeah, that is captured in paragraph two, Alan.

[28:59] That's why we worded it that way to exactly make certain

[29:02] that we could take that into account.

[29:06] Super. So when does this come for

[29:10] Reading or Approval?

[29:11] What's the next step? Well, this, this is reading too,

[29:14] so we're kind of waiting to see if there's any feedback

[29:17] that needs to go back to committee sue.

[29:19] If boards are, seem to be supportive, which is thus far.

[29:22] They have been. It could be worn for approval

[29:25] as early as next month.

[29:30] Okay. Would it take effect

[29:33] for the next school year? Correct.

[29:35] Yep. We would start that process

[29:38] of getting information out in February around that timeline,

[29:43] you know, the timeline that's provided via the policy.

[29:48] Do you see this becoming a workload for you if people walk

[29:53] to it and you have 20 applicants from a school

[29:55] Or No, I appreciate that question.

[29:57] I mean my sense is just based off when we've had requests

[30:02] already that it, it's not gonna be

[30:06] an an an abundance of request.

[30:09] I'm not gathering that and I,

[30:10] I think we're gonna be surprised that some, you know,

[30:12] I think there's a sense that requests will

[30:14] go one direction, not others.

[30:16] You know, example, I had a request recently from one

[30:20] of our larger elementary schools to go

[30:23] to the Stockbridge Elementary School

[30:26] and I think there's a lot of worry

[30:27] of like the smaller schools are gonna

[30:30] want to go to the larger schools.

[30:31] But I had a request based on a family situation to want

[30:34] to go toward one of our smaller ones.

[30:38] So my hope is not, I mean if it does Alan, then I think

[30:41] that's where I would come back to the policy committee

[30:44] and say we need to make some tweaks to it.

[30:47] Okay.

[30:53] And the other policy, this is required by statute.

[30:57] We have behavioral threat assessment teams in place now

[31:00] because statute required them to be in place

[31:03] for this coming school year.

[31:05] And the a OE provided a model policy

[31:08] that we worked with from this.

[31:10] So this policy that you have in front of you, C 36

[31:14] has been tweaked a little bit in

[31:15] regards to the policy committee.

[31:16] Did some wordsmithing

[31:18] and maybe cleaning up some grammatical things.

[31:21] But the intent of the policy has been

[31:25] provided to us from actually the agency of ed

[31:28] as as a model to use.

[31:39] So If you guys read through these

[31:41] and have any questions or concerns, please just email Kathy

[31:45] and I and Bill

[31:47] and we'll address 'em at the policy committee.

[31:52] Perfect. Let's jump back down to 7.1 again.

[31:56] The ACT 73 update.

[32:01] So we're gonna be hosting Senate ed on December 17th

[32:07] for a day long visit.

[32:08] And we have a student from First Branch, just

[32:13] so you know, that does attend Efford Academy joining us.

[32:17] I wanted to make certain, we had students from across the SU

[32:20] joining our student panel that chose

[32:27] like our high school as an example.

[32:29] There's actually a TUM student on the high school committee.

[32:31] The panel's only gonna have seven students,

[32:33] but there is a student from First Branch

[32:35] that has chosen White River Valley

[32:37] that's gonna represent the SU on the committee.

[32:40] And there's a student from First Branch

[32:41] that chose Stepford Academy

[32:43] that's gonna be on our student panel.

[32:44] And I think that's important for Senate ed to get a sense

[32:47] of why choice is important for our communities,

[32:51] given the fact that we closed four high schools

[32:54] within the SU already.

[32:56] And I think folks lose sight of that, that

[33:01] they're, we have several school choice districts,

[33:05] but they weren't necessarily school choice districts

[33:07] until we did a lot of work already under Act 46

[33:12] to close our high schools.

[33:13] And that did re result in some additional choice.

[33:16] But that why students choose the high schools they do

[33:20] is typically personal.

[33:22] And it's, it's, there's just notions that

[33:26] that choice just results in kids going all over the place.

[33:29] When really if you would look at your tuition, you know,

[33:31] we have districts that tend

[33:34] to go in certain areas based on travel patterns

[33:37] and just historically where kids go.

[33:39] So we're gonna try to convey that on December 17th

[33:42] there's going to be a teacher panel

[33:45] which you have a representative of as well.

[33:48] We have a principal panel, panel in the SU

[33:51] and then there's gonna be public comment from

[33:53] two 30 to four 30.

[33:55] And if, and the time's not great,

[33:57] but that is just when the senate's been doing 'em on,

[34:00] on every visit and they wanted to keep it consistent.

[34:04] And what I would say is, is that if people can attend that,

[34:08] they're also taken written comment, which I

[34:11] provided in my letter, how to do that today.

[34:14] And if, if board members can just encourage folks

[34:19] to reach out to Senate ed and

[34:22] or join us on the 17th and

[34:25] or even if that time doesn't work for 'em, start

[34:27] to write their local elected

[34:29] officials, that would be great.

[34:32] And so what you have right now is a rep,

[34:35] two representatives, representative

[34:39] O'Brien, and then I can't

[34:45] remember how to pronounce Joshua's last name.

[34:48] Debra de dvi. Thank you. Dvi. Yes.

[34:53] And but you don't have currently in Chelsea

[34:57] in Tum Bridge a senator yet we await the appointment

[35:00] of a senator, which should be forthcoming.

[35:05] You know, prior to the session the governor has been

[35:07] starting to appoint folks.

[35:09] What the last I heard is

[35:10] that he was waiting on Orange County Republicans

[35:13] to provide him three names for possible appointment

[35:20] where we are with Act 73.

[35:21] Just to remind the board task force

[35:25] provided essentially a map that is status quo in regards

[35:29] to SUS and sds,

[35:32] but encouraged a five regional map

[35:37] that is much like

[35:38] what the governor produced in regards to sds.

[35:40] But with the idea being that those would be

[35:43] around centralizing services, like

[35:46] providing more specialized programming

[35:48] for special ed regionally, possibly looking to go to,

[35:53] you know, transportation contracts

[35:56] or to find savings, contracting,

[35:59] professional development regionally

[36:02] to find savings, things like that.

[36:05] But that the local boards

[36:06] and governance would still remain local.

[36:09] And it's more about sharing ideas

[36:12] and thinking about how could we become more efficient

[36:15] around doing more regional partnerships.

[36:18] And you know, I, I bring up special ed a lot

[36:20] 'cause I think that is an area in the state

[36:21] where if you look at costs year over year as a state,

[36:25] they're incredibly high.

[36:27] And we ought to be thinking about

[36:29] how we're gonna build better programming for kids

[36:33] and not rely always on independent

[36:37] or added dish replacements.

[36:38] I mean, you know, we built programming in watermen at the SU

[36:42] office this year to try to better do that as an su

[36:44] but I think about if we were to do

[36:46] that work across multiple SUS

[36:47] and sts, how much more efficient we could be even

[36:51] and how much better it would be for our kids.

[36:54] And so that is what that report highlighted.

[36:58] The governor is gonna introduce

[37:01] my sense a five district map.

[37:03] Again, you know, I don't have a good sense of

[37:07] how serious democratic leadership is, both at the House

[37:12] and Senate around really wanting

[37:15] to fulfill the drawing of maps.

[37:17] But they certainly have said publicly

[37:19] that that's their desire.

[37:21] There's one thing to say it publicly.

[37:23] There's another thing whether it's gonna be carried forward

[37:25] through the whole session or not.

[37:28] My biggest fear is, is that there is a,

[37:34] the Vs.

[37:36] Meaning the V-S-A-V-P-A-V-S-B-A coalesce

[37:39] around these two to 4,000 student sds.

[37:44] Like what the house originally passed to the Senate

[37:47] and that the house tries to work with a branch

[37:52] of Senate Democrats to then coalesce behind

[37:56] that original house bill

[37:57] that we had a lot of concerns about.

[38:01] That's the worst case scenario I see for us

[38:03] because let's say if we're put into 4,000 student sd,

[38:07] that's one district board from exit two up to exit five.

[38:11] 'cause we ran the numbers by R-S-U-O-S-S-D

[38:15] and CVSU and you're still just under 4,000 students

[38:19] and that would be only one board to make decision making.

[38:23] And that's when I get worried about that board starts

[38:26] to make some decisions around unilaterally closing schools.

[38:31] 'cause a reminder if those new boards take effect,

[38:35] the articles of agreement are no longer in place

[38:39] for any of our districts.

[38:42] Meaning there's no vote towns

[38:44] to close schools, things of that nature.

[38:46] Right. So everybody come on the 17th.

[38:49] It's a good time to get your voice heard

[38:55] and they need to hear from us as much as possible.

[38:59] Kate, turn around when this all would start.

[39:07] What was the question, Alan? I'm sorry.

[39:11] Turn around what school year that sort of start

[39:14] to affect students if it has?

[39:16] Yep. So if the maps are approved this year,

[39:21] the, the new boards actually start electing in the fall,

[39:25] next fall, the fall of 26 in November.

[39:29] And so they'll get elected

[39:31] and then, you know, their work will be

[39:34] to hire a new superintendent the spring of 27.

[39:39] And then that new superintendent will work with them

[39:42] to create new budgets over that upcoming year

[39:44] and hire like their staff and things.

[39:47] So that new district takes over in July one

[39:52] of 28.

[39:54] And we would be handing things off in July one of 28.

[40:01] So two more years we would remain in in

[40:03] place after this year.

[40:07] They do away with school choice.

[40:09] That is also the date that the school choice would end.

[40:14] Yeah, I mean that's, that's what the law would say. Yep.

[40:19] Whether or not those districts will allow

[40:21] to grandfather kids in

[40:22] or things that's actually not specified in the law.

[40:33] You know, and I was just with the high school staff today

[40:35] talking about why personally this is so important to me is

[40:40] that is when kids get lost,

[40:44] those districts ceases to exist.

[40:46] The new district comes on, they don't know the kids

[40:48] and kids no longer are individuals.

[40:52] They start to become numbers

[40:53] and they just fall through the cracks and get lost.

[40:55] And that, that is a major worry for me.

[41:05] Okay. Do we wanna move on?

[41:07] Back to Tara, are you done with this? Jamie,

[41:10] If you guys don't have any questions, I am, I need

[41:12] to go do a couple executive sessions in Stratford.

[41:16] I don't know how long those will take.

[41:18] I may be back or may not.

[41:19] But Tara is totally prepped even with your executive session

[41:23] with the data that you requested prior about PD funds

[41:26] and the event that I'm not back.

[41:28] Does anyone have any questions

[41:30] for me If in case I don't get back?

[41:37] Thank you Jamie. All right guys.

[41:39] If I don't see you, take care

[41:41] and I'll be up at four 30 to check the weather.

[41:44] 'cause I guess we're gonna get some snow in.

[41:46] Yeah, it seems like they're gonna be all day events.

[41:48] Like they start in the morning and go, this

[41:50] Is the worst.

[41:52] I don't even like it.

[41:55] Yeah, because if you, if you go

[41:56] then you're stuck driving home in

[41:58] It.

[41:59] It's like a, you know, look into your magic eight ball.

[42:07] The good news is, and then I'll go that one of the things,

[42:10] you know, with different cuts

[42:12] and stuff, the National Weather Service does do a really

[42:15] nice call now with superintendents at four 30

[42:17] where we can ask specific questions and things.

[42:19] It's really nice. They give us too meteorologists.

[42:22] They show us predicted maps.

[42:23] It's, it's, so I do feel like I'm working off as best data

[42:27] as I can, but it's the weather, right?

[42:30] Yeah. All right, see you guys.

[42:33] See you later.

[42:37] Jump back up to the top Tara

[42:39] before the audit and the budget.

[42:42] We're all the same time. Do whatever you want.

[42:45] All the same time. Okay.

[42:46] So we have my report

[42:47] and outlines what we're doing in

[42:49] the business office during the

[42:50] Month of December in addition to building budgets for all

[42:53] of our districts in supervisory union.

[42:56] And then wrapping up all of our fiscal year 25 audits,

[43:00] if there's any questions there.

[43:05] So did you go over any

[43:07] of the budget at all or did you skip it?

[43:09] Skip together?

[43:16] So in this draft, the changes that I currently have

[43:20] as placeholders, as you can see in my notes on the side,

[43:23] we don't get announced tuition rates until January 15th.

[43:27] So I'm using a 6% placeholder as the increase

[43:31] for secondary tuition

[43:33] and using your enrollment as of who we had accounted for

[43:36] on November 25th.

[43:38] And so overall, right now that's a projected increase

[43:42] of 161,000 just in the secondary tuition line.

[43:47] I have the FY 27 preschool tuition rate.

[43:51] So that is the actual number based on

[43:54] what the tuition rate is going to be

[43:56] and what the pre-K enrollment projections are based on the

[44:01] first statistics that our preschool coordinator gets for us.

[44:06] The other assumption right now in this budget draft

[44:10] is the assessment for both the central office divisions

[44:14] as well as the special education.

[44:16] This is based on the budget that was presented

[44:19] to the full se board last month.

[44:23] And then that will be adjusted based on

[44:25] what the final actual budgets are

[44:27] and what the final assessments are.

[44:28] We're still missing several key

[44:30] Points To

[44:31] Have in order to even make as far as the assessment

[44:35] and calculations are concerned.

[44:38] And then other than that,

[44:46] The other line items that I do an adjustment on

[44:51] are basically your utilities.

[44:53] And what I know, based on what we've spent

[44:56] and vendors that have notified us

[44:58] of any rate increases at this point in time,

[45:01] I use those numbers in my adjustments as far

[45:03] as your operations and utility budget.

[45:05] We made some adjustments to the nursing supply lines

[45:09] after some feedback from nurses throughout the entire

[45:12] supervisory union that their cost of their supplies

[45:15] and their needs in their nurses' offices have gone up.

[45:18] So we have made an adjustment in those individual

[45:22] supply lines as well.

[45:38] With all that said, right now we're looking at a potential

[45:43] increase of $517,556,

[45:48] which equates to a 5.66% increase on the

[45:52] expenditure side of things.

[45:53] Again, this doesn't take into account any work

[45:55] that we do on the revenue side

[45:57] or any work that we do on the tax sheet,

[45:59] which could potentially

[46:00] and a 9 cents increase using the FY 26

[46:05] because again, I don't have the numbers that I need

[46:08] 27 at this point.

[46:17] It's not horrible That the Blue Cross

[46:21] Blue Shield definitely help you.

[46:23] Yes.

[46:25] Yeah, I think that's also part of the narrative

[46:29] that when we're listening to all the articles,

[46:32] this is a place where schools can make a lot of choices.

[46:35] And I think this board has done a nice

[46:37] job in supporting needs.

[46:38] We've had, we've built these kind

[46:40] of insurance policies along the way with student support,

[46:44] math intervention, reading intervention, so that when we get

[46:47] to a year like this Yep.

[46:49] We've had these in place.

[46:50] So I just, I wanna say thank you for that because Right.

[46:53] We're not adding 'em this year. Yeah, we did it in the past.

[46:56] Yeah. Right. And it's working preschool,

[46:58] like we've done the hard ones of like, can, can this work?

[47:03] And now we're sitting here and we've got Visa place

[47:05] and the VCAP score scores were looking better last,

[47:10] like we're making the right steps.

[47:12] In fact, my progress is happening now

[47:13] to review data for kids.

[47:15] So I, I feel grateful

[47:17] because you're gonna look, see 'em around the state.

[47:19] People are gonna propose these numbers.

[47:21] That's exactly what the governor's talking about is

[47:23] the unchecked spending.

[47:25] And I think Tara's done a nice job reminding

[47:28] us as principal sometimes.

[47:29] And Jamie's done a nice job

[47:30] and welcome a nice job at thinking

[47:36] As long as you have those,

[47:38] We don't ruin the revenue part yet.

[47:39] We're, we're doing pretty good.

[47:41] So I mean, just tonight people are commenting like,

[47:43] these were the surplus tables

[47:45] that we purchased two years ago.

[47:47] They're in good shape, we're taking care of the equipment.

[47:49] They're gonna last for a long time.

[47:50] We're not looking to buy furniture right now.

[47:52] And an economy where furniture is kind of off the table.

[47:55] True. S everything. Yeah. So board has invested.

[48:00] Well the first one is pretty good.

[48:04] Me, Sarah, you nailed to,

[48:06] You know, it's out of our spectrum entirely now,

[48:09] but does the,

[48:11] does the contract dictate insurance carrier state

[48:16] or is that up to the state board?

[48:19] All help is negotiated at the state bill.

[48:22] Yep. We don't get to have anything to say with that

[48:25] Is behi.

[48:26] Yes. But, but does the state have a,

[48:28] does the state have a discretion of whether they

[48:31] provide Blue Cross or MVP per se?

[48:34] Yes. We, our plans approved behi,

[48:36] which is our Vermont Education Health commiss, that's to all

[48:39] of the state health plans provide

[48:42] and they're underwriting company.

[48:45] So, but like, like I know, I'm just thinking out loud,

[48:48] like I know at our work we, we have an option of Blue Cross

[48:51] or MVP and we're

[48:53] Not.

[48:54] I know, I guess I'll just think like MVPs plans

[48:57] went up about 1% this year.

[48:58] Blue Cross went up 6%. Why isn't the state you a carrier?

[49:03] We are self-insured. So we have self-insured.

[49:13] I'm just like curious why the state might not be

[49:15] underwriting the

[49:20] Determine what plan we have to base our 80% on.

[49:24] That's all negotiated at the state level.

[49:26] Okay. So that's why like the goal, HP plan is the plan

[49:29] that we have to, for the silver CP plan for support staff

[49:33] that can choose either one of them.

[49:34] And that's what we have to base our 80 20.

[49:37] That's all part of the state negotiated.

[49:40] Yeah. And Alan, a few of us have tried from our SU

[49:44] to get on that committee to be part of that negotiation.

[49:47] And we have never got picked.

[49:50] I think the big, I think the big city Burlington

[49:53] towns get picked for that.

[49:56] I and I, I know

[49:57] that health insurance is totally out of our control.

[50:00] It just seems like if the states were like looking

[50:02] to close schools to save money,

[50:04] switching an insurance carrier could

[50:06] save millions of dollars.

[50:08] Well that's what Governor Scott promised is

[50:10] that it was gonna save us millions of dollars if we went

[50:14] to the negotiating iur insurance altogether.

[50:17] And we never saw the savings. We just saw the increases.

[50:21] Okay. Super. I try get that Mom poetry. That's a great

[50:27] Conversation about that.

[50:28] Actually, Stacy Dion called it,

[50:30] I remember one day I was driving home.

[50:31] I was like, I know that voice.

[50:33] I know that voice really well.

[50:39] When will you get the road segment? Until January.

[50:41] Next time. Next time. As long as I get all the numbers.

[50:44] Yeah, I don't have your mom turn. I did average.

[50:47] I just got the, you know, the first draft of the yield.

[50:49] I don't have CLOs yet. Yeah, okay.

[50:52] But yeah, revenue will be January. Yeah. Okay.

[50:56] Great. All right.

[51:00] Any other questions on budget? No. All right. FY 25 audits.

[51:04] So you all have the draft audit

[51:06] that was shared in your packet.

[51:07] Sorry, I don't print them because they're too thick.

[51:09] Just putting that disclaimer out there.

[51:11] If anybody wants to come meet with me, go page by page.

[51:13] I'm happy to do that. Otherwise,

[51:15] I just provide the highlights in my memo,

[51:19] which outlines usually

[51:20] what everyone's interested in knowing it's gonna find it here.

[51:24] But I did.

[51:41] So page 13 is your balance sheet

[51:44] and that shows the, as where we ended as far

[51:48] as fund balances are concerned.

[51:49] So at the end of fiscal year 25,

[51:52] we had an unassigned fund balance of $80,258,

[51:56] which as a reminder, those the funds we have available

[51:59] to use as offsetting revenue

[52:03] To Request the voters to transfer them into reserve

[52:06] funds in our annual warning.

[52:08] Page 15 is the statement of revenues, expenditures,

[52:11] and the change in fund balance.

[52:13] So that actually shows you the overall performance

[52:15] of the general fund in fiscal year 25.

[52:18] And then page 52 of the audit is your actual side

[52:22] by side comparison of the budget

[52:24] to actual expenditures spent.

[52:26] And I'm happy to report that we had a successful year

[52:30] with no findings in our office.

[52:33] Good. Great. Good job, Tara.

[52:35] Yay. Thanks.

[52:37] My whole team, we work hard to make sure

[52:40] our financials are where they need to be.

[52:47] You need us only

[52:49] Audit.

[52:50] Yep. So your action item will be

[52:51] to accept your fiscal 25 audit.

[52:58] So the actual

[53:00] Revenue versus Had a deficit

[53:03] Of 29,000.

[53:04] So you'll overspent your budget by 29,000.

[53:07] We had the prior year fund balance that

[53:08] Helped offset that.

[53:09] So I'll be more careful next

[53:14] year in May.

[53:16] Alright. Am I good?

[53:18] Can I have a motion to accept the audit?

[53:21] So moved. I'll second that. All those in favor say aye.

[53:27] Aye. Opposed?

[53:32] Okay. Public comments.

[53:34] I don't think we have any unless Karen changed your mind,

[53:38] but now we're good resignations in

[53:42] new, we don't have any.

[53:47] I don't have any. That is really,

[53:51] I think we just need to pause and celebrate that

[53:52] because yes, we've had in the fall

[53:55] where people have said thank you, but no thank you.

[53:57] And I think it shows like the mentoring current

[54:00] of the SU level is hitting needs.

[54:03] I think having principals in each location is hitting needs.

[54:07] People are able to get to us probably a little sooner,

[54:10] check in meetings and so forth.

[54:11] So I think the board should see that

[54:13] as a really positive step

[54:15] and us also being able to recruit and retain.

[54:18] So kudos to staff too. That Okay, great. Good to hear. Yeah.

[54:23] Yeah. Future agenda items.

[54:28] Did you have anything else that be the Tum tire?

[54:31] The tum tire? Yes. I like it.

[54:39] James, if you could do that, Tara? Yep.

[54:44] Kathy, I dunno what to do now. How do we get to there?

[54:47] Mom? We need to make a motion to go into executive session

[54:52] Second regarding.

First Branch Board Meeting, Dec 9 2025

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