[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.