[0:06] Okay, I have 702.
[0:08] I'm going to call this meeting to order and we'll start the Pledge of Allegiance.
[0:11] Mr. Shane, we lead us off. Please
[0:13] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
[0:16] United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.
[0:20] One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty
[0:23] and justice for all.
[0:28] Thank you, everybody, for coming and attending.
[0:30] We are going to start with correspondence, Mr. Balke.
[0:33] Thank you. A couple of things to bring to the board's attention.
[0:36] The first one is you may recall we had a student, Dominic Lorinda.
[0:42] Lorinda Belinda even had me practice.
[0:44] Lauren.
[0:44] Dow, Lauren Dow, Lorena Lorenzo.
[0:48] He's a delightful young man, even though my pronunciation is terrible.
[0:52] But he is doing a recognition on Sunday, October 4th
[0:57] at Camp Carpenter in Manchester, recognizing his Eagle Scout project
[1:02] so the board may recall the board approved him doing his Eagle Scout project.
[1:06] He worked on the cross-country course out back and we received an invitation.
[1:12] No speaking required.
[1:13] Nobody has to give a speech or anything, but I was asked to share this
[1:17] with the board if anyone would be able to attend.
[1:19] So that's in the correspondence folder.
[1:21] Also, we received correspondence actually, Mrs.
[1:25] Paz did from Health Trust, which is our health insurance provider,
[1:29] on behalf of all three entities, Goffstown, New Boston and the saw.
[1:34] And they are
[1:35] there's a process that they have an annual board meeting
[1:38] and they have a board of directors, if anyone is interested in that information.
[1:42] And lastly, in the correspondence folder,
[1:46] I have a press release from the New Hampshire Education Department.
[1:51] And this is pertaining to highlighting
[1:54] gains and continued opportunities for growth in New Hampshire schools.
[1:58] And we would like to highlight that under mathematics,
[2:03] Bartlett Elementary School was identified as the top improved school in the state.
[2:09] And Mrs.
[2:10] Koehler made me promise not to share this until it was released.
[2:14] So I, I have been patiently waiting to share
[2:18] that Bartlett Elementary School jumped 29% from 34 to 63% proficient.
[2:25] That's awesome.
[2:25] And Bartlett
[2:26] Elementary School also increased its reading and writing scores by 28%.
[2:30] So really incredible gains.
[2:34] The department was very gracious to work with Mrs.
[2:36] Koehler. Mrs.
[2:37] Koehler has a great quote in here.
[2:40] So just congratulations to everybody at Bartlett for a job well done.
[2:45] Anything to add to that, Mrs. Koehler?
[2:49] Just we were really excited.
[2:50] Suzanne shared this news
[2:52] with the staff over at Bartlett and they were just ecstatic.
[2:56] And it's just a testament to all that they do for our students.
[2:58] And that's everyone from our teachers to our custodians who keep the building
[3:03] clean, our food service workers who make sure that they're fed well.
[3:07] It really was a full group effort for the amount of work
[3:10] that they've done over the last two years.
[3:11] So thank you.
[3:13] Thank you.
[3:14] Also under correspondence, it's not in the correspondence folder,
[3:17] but I wanted to share with the public under policy
[3:20] BBC we did receive a board resignation.
[3:23] Vanessa Hayes has resigned from the board.
[3:26] It's unfortunate that she was not able to fulfill her term.
[3:30] I wish her best of luck and I can say from the bottom of my heart,
[3:33] I will miss her
[3:35] being a member of this board,
[3:36] but I know that we're going to talk about that under new business later on,
[3:39] but I wanted to share it as a correspondence that we had.
[3:42] Okay, let's move on to
[3:44] cheering and better news, good news and communication, Mr.
[3:47] Bulky.
[3:48] Actually, we'll start soon.
[3:50] And good news to share, Siobhan.
[3:53] Clubs have been people have really been participating a whole lot.
[3:56] Sports are doing great with the girls field hockey
[3:59] getting some really great wins
[4:03] overall.
[4:03] It's been a great couple weeks with everything
[4:05] really starting to get underway after the drop period.
[4:09] On this being.
[4:11] I have a lot.
[4:12] Sorry. I'm sorry.
[4:14] It's all good news.
[4:15] Good news.
[4:16] Lots of people who wanted your attention.
[4:18] So here we go.
[4:20] At the beginning of the school year,
[4:21] students participate in an abbreviated day at the high school where they see
[4:25] all of their classes for about a half an hour.
[4:27] So they get the opportunity to meet
[4:28] to go through their on day schedule in the afternoon.
[4:31] Then they get an hour
[4:34] to discover new clubs, eat lunch, connect with friends,
[4:38] and then they go through their even day classes in the afternoon.
[4:41] It's the only time they do this all year long, but it gives them a chance
[4:44] to, like, see that routine and meet all their teachers.
[4:48] See who's in their classes following
[4:51] four days are add drop period where kids can
[4:57] meet with their guidance
[4:58] counselors on a first come, first serve basis during their study halls,
[5:02] and they can attempt to change classes if there's room in the class.
[5:08] During these four days, 426 students were welcomed into the school
[5:13] and received individual guidance and support from their counselors.
[5:17] We appreciate guidance, appreciates student patience and understanding
[5:22] as they work through things to get a smooth and successful
[5:24] start to the school year during September workshop
[5:29] here at high school, our teachers were beginning
[5:31] to prepare documents for our for our knees and C
[5:36] accreditation, which we have the two year process
[5:39] starting this year and rolling into next year.
[5:42] Teachers work by department and by common teachers teaching
[5:45] same courses to create a curriculum document for every course.
[5:51] So each course
[5:52] had to break down every unit that we teach,
[5:56] how the the vision
[5:58] is portrayed in the classroom.
[6:02] They had to develop essential questions for the unit competencies,
[6:06] skills assessment.
[6:08] Strategies.
[6:09] Enter.
[6:11] Disciplinary competencies.
[6:14] And they had to relate the competencies to add 306 standards.
[6:19] We're going to continue to build on this in our September department meetings.
[6:25] Our school nurses, Kelly and Sherry Salter,
[6:29] certified seven GHS and one Mountain View
[6:32] employees in CPR.
[6:35] And then Mr.
[6:36] Greenland wants you to wants to share how proud he is of his students
[6:41] from last year who all successfully completed that services program.
[6:46] He got the results after we had wrapped up for the year.
[6:50] This achievement is highly respected in the food service
[6:54] and hospitality industries and can be included on their resumes,
[6:59] job applications and professional portfolios.
[7:02] It's a it's a it remains valid for three years.
[7:05] So by students earning this credential while they're in high school, they
[7:09] they gain a competitive advantage as they pursue job opportunities
[7:13] in the hospitality industry. And.
[7:19] He wants to just congratulate all of his students
[7:21] for their hard work and commitment to passing that test.
[7:26] And finally, we had our first home football game last this past Saturday
[7:32] with athletes, cheer, music, and students all working together.
[7:38] These games are always a great show of what we're able to accomplish.
[7:41] And that's it.
[7:42] Coming from Goffstown High School.
[7:46] This is the superintendent, Wendy. Great.
[7:48] Thank you.
[7:48] So over at Glen Lake, the kindergarten and preschool classes are settling in.
[7:53] And this week they will be celebrating Dot day,
[7:58] which is a celebration of creativity and developing confidence.
[8:02] The Dot is a book by Peter Reynolds, and it's the story of a caring teacher
[8:06] who dares a doubting student
[8:08] to trust their own abilities by being brave enough to make their mark.
[8:13] So by Glen Lake, students and staff will participate by making their mark
[8:16] and decorating a dot
[8:18] in a way
[8:19] they would like, and they're going to post it
[8:20] in the hallway for everyone to see, and they will be on display
[8:24] for Bring Your Family to School Night later this month.
[8:28] Also coming up at Glen Lake.
[8:30] Glen Lake is turning 20 on October 2nd.
[8:34] So to celebrate, they're going to be having a birthday party,
[8:37] which will be presented by the Glen Lake School Partnership.
[8:41] It will be outdoors on the playground on Saturday, September 26th.
[8:46] There is a rain date of October 3rd from 930 to noon.
[8:51] There's going to be a mr.
[8:52] Aaron concert at 10:00 with crafts, stories, raffles, touch a truck and more.
[8:58] So the Glen Lake Partnership is also working to raise funds
[9:02] to make the playground more Ada compliant and accessible to all of their students,
[9:06] and they'll be doing some fundraising at that event over at Bartlett.
[9:11] Beyond the good news that Mr.
[9:13] Bulky shared earlier, they're very excited that their fourth grade strings
[9:17] program will be starting up next week.
[9:19] And we have 46% of the fourth graders at Bartlett that have signed up
[9:24] to be part of that program, which is pretty remarkable.
[9:28] Beyond that, all of the students over at Bartlett will have a new opportunity
[9:33] to learn and play the ukulele as part of their music class.
[9:37] So I'm sure every parent is really excited to hear the ukulele at home.
[9:42] The only thing more fun than that, Mrs.
[9:44] Koehler, is, of course, the recorder.
[9:46] I would agree. You're welcome. Parents. Yes.
[9:49] Yes, yes, I think I said
[9:53] from my children playing that so
[9:56] and over at Maple and Bartlett,
[9:59] the the buildings would like to thank the parents who came to open house
[10:02] last week and were able to see classrooms and meet staff.
[10:06] It was a huge event at both buildings.
[10:08] So thank you to everybody that came out for that.
[10:11] And over at Mountain View,
[10:13] they are also looking forward to meeting parents at open House.
[10:16] They have it this week for fifth and eighth graders
[10:19] and next week for our sixth and seventh grade families.
[10:22] Thank you.
[10:24] And Godstone High School has theirs October 1st.
[10:29] Any other
[10:31] shame?
[10:32] Because I was just reminded Jack and.
[10:35] I were able to attend the Bartlett Open House last Thursday,
[10:39] and we had a great time.
[10:41] So many awesome families, cool events.
[10:44] They were handing out
[10:44] Aroma Joe's cards to people that came in, so it was a great event.
[10:47] It was good to see families and the kiddos running around.
[10:49] A lot of the kids were walking in and saying what
[10:51] their favorite part of the school was, which was often the gym or the lunchroom.
[10:56] Same thing, I guess, but so it was great to see the families
[11:00] and I'm really glad that we were able to attend.
[11:02] And I'm sure you guys had a similar experience at Maple.
[11:05] Jenny.
[11:06] Yeah, I'd like.
[11:07] To commend the New Boston Beacon, the newspaper
[11:12] on their happenings pages.
[11:15] Down at the bottom. They put a
[11:19] goss down
[11:21] sports autism.
[11:25] Anyway, at the bottom of the page,
[11:27] you can cut it out easily and put it on your fridge.
[11:30] It has all of the games on each day of the week,
[11:34] if they're home or not, at home and who they're playing
[11:38] and what time they are for the for the month.
[11:43] So I thought that was really handy.
[11:45] And the people that don't necessarily have kids in school
[11:48] can just cut that out, put it on your fridge.
[11:51] And if there's any games that you'd like to pick up
[11:56] when if you have an afternoon off, really easy to find.
[12:01] I thought that was really kind of cool.
[12:03] Thank you. John.
[12:04] Any other good news?
[12:07] Okay. Close. Good news.
[12:10] I'll move on to public comment.
[12:11] Are there is there any public comment for this evening?
[12:18] Seeing none, we will close public comment.
[12:21] Okay.
[12:22] Moving on to our second item in the agenda,
[12:24] the review of the August 24th board meeting minutes.
[12:28] I know there are some questions comments.
[12:31] So Adam, I'll let you go.
[12:34] Hi guys.
[12:36] On page like the bottom of page six.
[12:39] On page seven is the votes about the contingency
[12:43] fund that we did last meeting.
[12:46] I know we discussed the purpose of the continuously fund.
[12:52] I know I voted, you can see I voted in opposition to it.
[12:55] I would like the minutes to express
[12:59] what our conversation was about and my opposition to it.
[13:03] So I'm going to suggest we just tabled the minutes until
[13:08] our next meeting.
[13:11] Are there any other points of emphasis in the minutes
[13:13] that we should take note of for today,
[13:17] so that we can review them at our next meeting?
[13:20] Am AC, I and I.
[13:24] So yes.
[13:25] Stelling Dan's last name.
[13:28] Always important.
[13:29] The worst part is that I corrected it.
[13:33] Okay.
[13:35] Yes, superintendent.
[13:36] Yeah.
[13:37] Adam, can you just say a little more about what you're looking for
[13:41] just to make sure Belinda's clear?
[13:43] So, I mean, it's the.
[13:46] When we talked about the 12 failing interactive boards
[13:50] and using the contingency fund for that to pay for that.
[13:55] I expressed that I just don't think that's the purpose of the contingency fund.
[13:59] I know, like read, I had some follow up questions like,
[14:02] I know we kind of talked about it back and forth.
[14:03] So I just think for clarity in there, especially where the vote was 530.
[14:09] Just a little explanation of
[14:12] what that conversation was.
[14:14] Clear, Jenny.
[14:17] I believe the CNE meeting date needed to be changed.
[14:20] I know as well.
[14:21] And that's reflected. In the card. Right? Thank you.
[14:25] Any other takeaways from the meeting?
[14:28] Minutes. Okay.
[14:30] So we're going to table the August 24th board meeting minutes
[14:33] until our next opportunity to present them to the board.
[14:39] Okay.
[14:40] Three presentation of the timber frame project.
[14:43] Come on down.
[14:44] Mrs. Cole,
[14:45] would you like to do the introductions and set the stage a little bit?
[14:49] Sure. I'd love to.
[14:51] We have two fantastic teachers with us, Mr.
[14:53] Chad Bourne and Mr.
[14:54] Bracey, who have brought along a fantastic student here from Goffstown High School
[14:58] to talk a little bit about the timber framing project that they did last year,
[15:03] and to introduce something that they were hoping to do
[15:07] in collaboration with Mountain View this year for a new project.
[15:12] So at this point, I'll hand it over to them.
[15:15] Thank you.
[15:16] Yes, Aidan with us, who is a kind of a graduate from our program.
[15:20] Last year,
[15:21] we sat before you a year ago to introduce the idea of piloting timber framing.
[15:26] And he was in one of those classes.
[15:28] So he got to join us all year as we sought to create
[15:32] this new curriculum and had the goal of putting together
[15:37] the timber frame that was alongside the first field at the high school here.
[15:41] So we kind of want to reflect on that and then talk about plans for this year.
[15:45] Yeah.
[15:48] So yeah.
[15:48] Year ago.
[15:49] These were our kind of our plans.
[15:51] Really grateful to Wendy for helping us secure that grant,
[15:55] which made all of this really possible.
[15:57] There were a lot of new tools that are really focused in timber framing
[16:02] that are outside of the the wood shop tools that we would normally use.
[16:06] Creating the design. Mr. Bracey headed that.
[16:09] And the big idea of using traditional mortise
[16:12] and tenant joinery to piece that all together.
[16:14] So putting together this pavilion that really only had
[16:18] nails or screws at the base, holding it to our foundation,
[16:21] otherwise just traditional joinery there.
[16:25] So we were very excited to do our raising day
[16:29] in June of last year, and excited that a handful of you joined us for that day
[16:34] on the left here.
[16:35] That was kind of the original plan for what we were hoping to build.
[16:38] And then on the right that's a picture of the completed project.
[16:41] So if you haven't already, or hoping that you get a chance to go check that out
[16:44] at some point, it was super exciting the day of the raising.
[16:49] I feel like the overwhelming response was just wow
[16:52] as people walked out to the backfield very excited.
[16:56] They were hearing how we were making this all year, and I think people kind of
[16:58] had visions of just like a shed or something like that, to see that,
[17:04] just to stand next to it and see the beauty of the centennial,
[17:08] really exciting for people.
[17:12] Anything to add there, Mr.
[17:13] Bracey?
[17:14] I would just. Full circle.
[17:16] I got to be sitting in the third. Floor. Of.
[17:18] The press box on Saturday and watching our band said that
[17:22] Finding the Shade on a Saturday afternoon, it was kind of cool to see.
[17:25] So they are appreciative of the ability for them
[17:28] to have a space to be during the ballgames.
[17:31] And here are a couple pictures of the raising.
[17:35] It was a field trip for our students.
[17:39] There were close to 20 of our students that took place in the raising that day,
[17:44] but also throughout the day we had classes from Gastown
[17:48] that were kind of just coming out to really look at what we were doing,
[17:51] and we had enough helmets to have them join with us.
[17:56] A few of the times that we were raising some of the big timbers, for instance,
[17:59] the picture on the right, we have these two huge posts with a tight
[18:03] between them, very heavy structure there.
[18:06] So we had 15 people pushing that up.
[18:10] We could have gone with the crane, but it was a very cool to use
[18:15] human power, human power to bring it up
[18:18] and some mechanical advantage as well.
[18:23] Here's a parent reflection.
[18:25] I'm going to read this.
[18:27] So this came from.
[18:28] An email after the fact from a parent of one of our students.
[18:31] So there's nothing more rewarding in seeing our child
[18:33] grow in confidence, responsibility, and pride.
[18:36] This experience has given our son much more than construction skills.
[18:39] It has given us stronger sense
[18:40] of belonging and connection to his school and community.
[18:43] And I think this parent hit the nail on the head for this student.
[18:47] He came into our class in the fall about super confident,
[18:52] new to us down, and I think he created himself.
[18:56] A community of classmates was created around him.
[18:59] He created friends.
[19:00] He created the ability to connect with people that I don't think
[19:03] he would have happened otherwise.
[19:04] And I think that wasn't just a story for one kid.
[19:06] I think that this kind of a project allows
[19:10] a greater sense of self and a greater sense of community.
[19:12] You're forced to work together.
[19:15] Aiden, do you want to
[19:17] chime in on your experience?
[19:21] Yeah, I definitely agree
[19:23] that the sense of community is necessary for this kind of project.
[19:28] It would have been impossible to do without working
[19:32] with each other and communicating with each other.
[19:35] So I definitely still remember working with my classmates,
[19:40] and I know I'm friends with most of them now, and I've made friends
[19:46] that I'll probably be friends with for a while in that class. The.
[19:50] This was a great hands on experience and I to be honest,
[19:55] I didn't know how much I was going to like the class at the beginning, but
[19:59] I found myself really enjoying going to this class period.
[20:03] And it didn't.
[20:04] It didn't feel like a chore at all.
[20:06] And I'm in the class again this year,
[20:09] and it's a really fun class period to go to.
[20:13] So I'm really proud of what
[20:16] we made last year, and I think I'll always whenever I go to the football field, I'm
[20:21] gonna look at the the posts that I made and I'm going to be proud of it.
[20:26] So that's a really great feeling.
[20:28] We're we're really lucky to have three students
[20:32] who took the class last year and who are working with us again this year.
[20:35] So they're kind of acting as mentors, but also there's so much to learn
[20:40] continuously as a timber frame. So
[20:44] so that leads to
[20:45] kind of plans for the future.
[20:48] And we have our middle school friends behind us here
[20:52] because we've been talking and working with them about
[20:54] bringing a project like this to the middle school.
[20:58] On the left I have a Google Maps picture of the the middle school,
[21:02] and there's a little star there if you can picture yourself driving up the drive
[21:07] with the softball field on your right as you go up to middle school,
[21:10] and there's a little roundabout, there's a space,
[21:13] a field behind the softball field that would be perfect for.
[21:17] A outdoor pavilion, outdoor classroom, a multi-use structure
[21:22] that would be alongside the ball fields that can be used for many purposes.
[21:28] So that would be using similar joinery.
[21:31] We have more students this year and we'd be able to actually use
[21:34] do something a little bit more complex in terms of the journey that we're using,
[21:39] but you'll see the style of this is a gable gabled roof
[21:42] instead of the shed style that we have before.
[21:46] Other thoughts on the structure here?
[21:48] Well, it definitely a little more complicated, more intricate
[21:51] joinery on there, but
[21:54] still within the wheelhouse.
[21:56] What we can accomplish with high school students.
[21:58] I think the really cool part would be it's in a location
[22:02] that's useful during the school day and outside of the school day,
[22:06] and also as you drive up the hill, you'll be able to peek over the corner
[22:10] and see this amazing king post sitting at right at you. So
[22:15] and just thinking about the day, our raising day when we go there
[22:20] with our students, and then the middle school students will be there
[22:23] to be able to see what we're putting up, getting excited about our program
[22:27] and what they could be doing at the high school is very exciting.
[22:34] And then just a shout out to
[22:36] some of the community members who have been pivotal to the program,
[22:42] the Beaufort Brother Tree Service, again,
[22:44] donating trees that went into kind of some of our woodshop classes,
[22:48] as well as the finished timber frame, and then Lee Sperry at on point concrete,
[22:53] which made the foundation possible for the pavilion as well.
[23:02] That is all we have.
[23:05] If I could also just mention Mr.
[23:08] Bracey, Mr. Chad Vaughn met with Mr.
[23:10] Loring and with Mr.
[23:11] Gross and went over all the plans and met with the Mountain View
[23:15] administration as well to make sure that everybody was on the same page
[23:19] with what it was going to be used for, to make sure that it would work.
[23:24] So all of those things have happened prior to them coming to the board today.
[23:28] Well, Mr.
[23:29] Lucas and Mr. Lewis are here.
[23:31] Would you guys like to come down and
[23:34] join in?
[23:36] You get dragged out, you might as well.
[23:40] So this is the what's what's being proposed is.
[23:43] So this evening you saw a great presentation of what they did
[23:47] this past year.
[23:48] And now you're seeing what they'd like to do this year. So
[23:53] thoughts on the space guys.
[23:57] You go.
[23:59] I mean I think it's.
[24:00] Absolutely a fantastic.
[24:02] Opportunity for Mountain View for.
[24:04] I. Think the high school students to be able.
[24:05] To do something.
[24:06] That middle school students can see.
[24:09] Happen and.
[24:10] Look forward to moving forward when they go to the high school,
[24:14] something that the community can look at when they come.
[24:16] Through.
[24:16] Whether it be spectators watching a game, whether it be people coming from
[24:20] a different school
[24:21] and seeing that we have this
[24:22] awesome structure
[24:23] and we get to talk about our high school students being the ones that built. It.
[24:27] You know,
[24:27] I think that it's a really, really awesome opportunity
[24:30] that I don't think a lot of other schools really have the opportunity to have.
[24:33] And I think we're we're pretty fortunate to have this opportunity for us.
[24:38] Yeah.
[24:38] And the location is great.
[24:39] It's right by the softball field.
[24:41] So when parents are watching softball games,
[24:43] they could actually be sitting under this pavilion area.
[24:46] It's very close to the fifth, sixth, seventh grade wing in the school.
[24:50] So teachers can easily be able
[24:51] to sign this out and have an outdoor classroom area.
[24:54] It's perfect spot.
[24:55] So I think and it's very flat already.
[24:58] It's like,
[24:59] so there's really no Groundworks or anything that has to be done to to prep
[25:02] the site for it, which makes things cost a little less as well.
[25:08] Thank you guys.
[25:10] Any questions from any board members? Yeah.
[25:13] Next year.
[25:13] Can you do an addition on Glen Lake instead of the.
[25:17] 20 year old Glen Lake on the way?
[25:20] That's right.
[25:21] This is wonderful. This is really cool.
[25:24] Other questions or comments?
[25:27] Jack, I.
[25:28] Like to see it and. I'd like. To. See. The. Kids get involved.
[25:31] I know that
[25:33] it's my trade, I do carpentry.
[25:35] I got a fever for it here.
[25:38] When I realized I might not be able to
[25:41] survive in the corporate world with my rent. And.
[25:46] Right when I have a chance, and my daughter
[25:49] and we work on projects on our house, the empowerment that she gains from using
[25:55] just a battery operated tool or a hand tool, and the confidence
[25:58] that that gives her to do other things is is really huge.
[26:03] And so I applauded the kids getting a chance to have that opportunity.
[26:09] Jenny.
[26:10] I was there the day that you raised the structure,
[26:14] and it was cool to see how excited the students were about their work
[26:19] and about how it was coming together and stuff it.
[26:22] It was really wonderful to see such
[26:26] pride in their own work.
[26:30] It was great.
[26:31] Great
[26:33] questions or comments.
[26:35] Mr. bulky, do we have to have. A vote? Yeah.
[26:37] If the board is in concurrence, we would ask for your approval
[26:41] of the creation of the new pavilion at Mountain View, which is 16 by 24.
[26:46] Right, guys?
[26:47] Approximately.
[26:48] Approximately.
[26:53] To be.
[26:53] Determined. Going to be 40 by 60.
[26:56] This is plus or minus, like a little teeny bit
[27:00] school students from.
[27:03] These guys.
[27:06] I'll make a motion
[27:07] to approve the Mountain View Pavilion
[27:11] as presented by the GHS
[27:16] timber teachers and the the
[27:20] administration.
[27:22] I have a motion by Shane, seconded by law.
[27:25] Any further questions or comments on the motion?
[27:28] Seeing no questions or comments, I'll call the roll.
[27:30] All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye.
[27:33] Any opposed? Any abstentions?
[27:36] We are unanimous.
[27:38] Thank you guys. Thank you very much.
[27:40] Thank you very much for being here and appreciate you guys coming out tonight.
[27:44] Thank you. Yeah absolutely.
[27:48] Well done Brian.
[27:49] Just because we did receive some public donations for this work,
[27:54] did we send any or do we send anything to those companies
[27:57] like a thank you card or thank you note or anything like that?
[28:00] Yes, we definitely sent thank you cards.
[28:03] But it would also be great to be able to put up a little plaque that acknowledges
[28:07] the fact that students did it in some of the businesses that were involved.
[28:11] Great.
[28:13] Very good.
[28:13] Thank you.
[28:15] Thank you guys. Okay.
[28:17] We'll move on to committee reports.
[28:19] We will start with Doug in finance.
[28:23] All right. Great. Thanks.
[28:24] Jeff. Are you planning on going.
[28:25] Over manifest.
[28:28] System as I.
[28:44] All right.
[28:45] I'd like to make a motion that we accept
[28:49] the manifest from August 10th to September 8th
[28:54] in the amount of 3,604,117 $0.77.
[29:02] Second motion by Jack, seconded by Adam.
[29:07] The manifest reflects three payrolls.
[29:10] Even know one of them was short,
[29:13] the payroll line being 2,821,940 $0.05.
[29:19] Would the major thing be in payroll?
[29:22] 1,491,000.
[29:25] Payroll taxes 470,000.
[29:27] And health insurance benefits being 822,000.
[29:33] We had one speed expenditure over the 5000
[29:37] for out of district placement, 58,515 and $0.08.
[29:43] And then we had
[29:47] the general expenses
[29:49] totaling 651,887 $0.19.
[29:55] Biggest thing being
[29:58] a payment that that will come out of the CSC
[30:02] are the the CRF of 1600,
[30:07] 167,675
[30:12] IT equipment for 74,000.
[30:16] Of course switching for 34,000
[30:19] and other miscellaneous
[30:23] said the total food service is no expenditures.
[30:27] And so that brings us to a total of
[30:32] 3,532,342
[30:38] and $0.42, leaving somewhere in the neighborhood
[30:42] of 61,000 of checks that were under $5,000.
[30:48] That can be found on our website and the check register.
[30:54] Any questions for Jack?
[30:58] Okay.
[30:59] We have a motion by Jack, second by Adam.
[31:02] No questions or comments. So I'll call the roll.
[31:05] All those in favor
[31:06] of this manifest as presented, please signify by saying aye. Aye.
[31:09] Any opposed?
[31:11] Any abstentions.
[31:13] You are unanimous.
[31:15] Okay. So that takes care of the manifest.
[31:17] And Doug is going to go over the budget transfers to.
[31:21] Or is that you.
[31:21] What do you think? Yeah, I think. It. Should be. You done.
[31:25] But I'll muscle through if you want.
[31:27] Me to know. I can get this. Thank you.
[31:30] That's a budget. Transfers.
[31:32] We have quite a few tonight. So tonight I just kind of.
[31:33] When we compare the list of the positions we were unable to feel like
[31:38] other school districts.
[31:39] We are struggling to hire speech.
[31:41] Sometimes we struggle to hire OT as well as PT as well.
[31:45] But tonight you'll see it's mainly speech that we had many positions,
[31:49] whether that be at Maple, the middle school,
[31:52] as well as we have positions for life skills at the high school,
[31:57] rights at the middle school and high school.
[32:01] So those were positions we were unable to hire.
[32:03] And then we also have just some transfers of positions between the buildings.
[32:09] So as we have our budget, we look to stay within our obviously within our budget,
[32:13] but also within our headcount that gets approved by the town as well.
[32:18] Now with that, you know, every year there comes
[32:21] different needs at different buildings.
[32:23] So this year we had more of a
[32:25] need at the middle school, both at the sixth grade due to enrollment.
[32:29] So they would have benefited
[32:29] from an additional teacher in fifth grade wasn't part of the budget process,
[32:34] but we wanted to bump up the the teacher into sixth grade.
[32:38] This will be a one year position, as when they go into seventh grade,
[32:42] when they combine with New Boston, they won't need an additional teacher
[32:46] due to size of New Boston, but also just how seventh grade is
[32:49] configured a little bit differently at the middle school as well.
[32:52] And then there was a need for some additional help
[32:56] in math in Sanford, eighth grade at the middle school.
[32:59] So we took a position from an elementary school
[33:02] which was not as needed, moved it to the middle school
[33:06] in a position from a district position and moved it to the middle school.
[33:10] So again, each year we're looking at the needs not only of one school,
[33:13] but of the whole district, and then looking to use what the taxpayers
[33:17] have approved in order to fulfill those needs as much as possible.
[33:22] So those are the main ones which would need the school board authorization.
[33:27] A motion to accept all of those at
[33:30] the very bottom is also other transfers which have occurred.
[33:34] So transfers over 10,000 require school board permission.
[33:37] Transfers under 10,000 do not.
[33:39] But we always present those transfers to the school boards as well.
[33:44] So key amongst this was Bartlett was two FM system
[33:49] shy of having an FM system in each of their roles.
[33:52] So like other instances where special education
[33:56] has been seen to see a best practice, FM systems are the same way.
[33:59] So what it allows,
[34:01] it allows the teachers voice to go be projected through a speaker.
[34:05] So whether the teacher has a cold
[34:07] or whether the teacher is looking at the board
[34:08] and not the students, or in a corner type of thing,
[34:10] every student has the same access to the voice,
[34:13] no matter if they're sitting close to the teacher or not close to the teacher.
[34:16] So it is something that pretty much a lot of schools have been trying to,
[34:20] you know, kind of adopt.
[34:21] Having one per room Maple have already has it.
[34:23] And this will bring Bartlett up to that as well.
[34:26] Or did bring Bartlett up to that as well.
[34:29] So so you can see there is an amount that we'd be looking for a board
[34:34] authorization, but definitely willing to take any questions before that.
[34:39] What questions do we have for Doug on these transfers or comments?
[34:46] Doug, I know that you said it, but I just want to reiterate
[34:48] these are not new positions that we're putting in.
[34:51] It's taking positions that have not been filled.
[34:54] And unfortunately, using contracted services
[34:57] which are a little bit
[34:58] more expensive for us to to do because we couldn't feel those positions.
[35:01] And then the movement that's also listed here again is not new headcount.
[35:06] It's using existing headcount to cover the needs that we have within the district
[35:10] for this particular year.
[35:11] So just want to know new heads as associated
[35:15] with any of these motions that are coming out.
[35:17] That is correct.
[35:19] Right.
[35:20] With that, I'll accept a motion from somebody to accept the transfer
[35:23] amount requested of $670,632 from
[35:29] some lines into other professional services,
[35:32] and also movements through schools.
[35:35] So that motion is being made
[35:38] by Jack, seconded by Reta.
[35:41] Any further questions or comments?
[35:46] Seeing none, I'll call the roll.
[35:47] All those in favor of these transfers as presented signify by saying aye. Aye.
[35:51] Any opposed?
[35:53] Any abstentions?
[35:55] We are unanimous.
[35:58] Okay.
[35:59] So see our report here, Mr. Totten.
[36:01] Yeah. So expenditure and revenue. Revenue.
[36:04] We don't really receive a lot during the summer other than from the town.
[36:09] As far as what is the school taxes
[36:12] that are paid towards the town and then disbursed to the school.
[36:16] In regards to the expenditure report, you'll note a couple of things.
[36:19] One is that we have not encumbered health insurance at this point.
[36:23] So we wait for a couple invoices to come through so we can see
[36:27] where health insurance is going to kind of level off
[36:29] after some choices have been made by staff.
[36:32] And then what we do is we encumber after that point.
[36:34] So we should be encompassing pretty soon.
[36:36] Health insurance obviously, along with salaries, that is a larger expense.
[36:41] You'll also see if you're on page two that the other
[36:45] professional services is a -612,000.
[36:49] So that's partly what we just transferred into.
[36:52] So while contracted services are more than we would pay our own teacher,
[36:57] so we won't be able to fully cover that with our expenses with our transfers.
[37:02] But we'll that 612,000 will shrink
[37:06] due to the board's decision to confirm the transfers from there as well.
[37:10] So I don't know if there's questions about revenue or expenses.
[37:17] Thank you.
[37:17] Doug. Appreciate that.
[37:18] Seeing no questions or comments we'll move on to the audit.
[37:22] Contingency and encumbrances.
[37:25] So everyone I passed out and was not part of the board packet
[37:28] because we did not get confirmation back from Plaza until late last week.
[37:32] But there are pages stapled together.
[37:35] And so what happens
[37:37] is that we have our audit done and we get our financial numbers.
[37:41] Then I look to create the Doe 25, which is down to the penny as far as expenses go.
[37:47] And then Plaza checks the work for the Doe 25.
[37:50] So they got that work checked back to me late last week,
[37:54] at which point we have very confirmed numbers here.
[37:58] So what you're seeing is page one of the Doe 25, because the board
[38:02] still has a choice to make at this point.
[38:05] So page one is about the balance sheet.
[38:07] So about your assets which equal your liabilities and your equity.
[38:11] So the bottom left hand corner I kind of put into a box
[38:15] because that's kind of the last decisions that the board has to make on equity.
[38:19] And I used some colors to kind of coat it to the next page.
[38:23] Partly just to kind of
[38:24] go gives me a chance to kind of go over what equity looks like for a school
[38:28] so you can see, you know, equity or what we kind of truly own
[38:33] because it's no longer that that liability,
[38:35] the assets you have to take away what you still owe people as well.
[38:38] And again, an audit is a is a point in time.
[38:41] So for our point in time, it's June 30th 2026.
[38:45] So our equity is broken up into the following categories.
[38:49] So it's reserve for inventories.
[38:51] So this is actually what was in the and propane tanks
[38:55] or in this case propane tanks at the end of June.
[38:59] So we actually use a dipstick figure it out.
[39:01] And that's that's partly what the the town owns at that point.
[39:06] We also have reserved for prepaid expenses.
[39:09] So while we run off of a June to I'm sorry, July through June
[39:15] fiscal year, other places like prime runoff of the calendar year.
[39:18] And so sometimes when we're paying a bill,
[39:20] we're paying for the whole calendar year.
[39:22] And so when we got the bill in January
[39:24] for fiscal for calendar year 2026, we paid the whole thing.
[39:28] So we prepaid for July through August.
[39:32] So that's showing that prepayment amount.
[39:35] Then we have reserved for amounts voted.
[39:37] So this is where the taxpayers have a say in regards to the CRF fund.
[39:41] And they voted if there was unassigned fund balance, which we do have,
[39:45] that 300,000 of that would go to the CRF deposit reserve for encumbrances.
[39:51] So this we talked about last board meeting,
[39:55] and the board decided to zero out quite a few of those encumbrances.
[40:01] But we have some which are still due,
[40:04] and those are known expenses that we haven't had the final invoice for.
[40:08] So that can be for transportation, that could be for
[40:12] something needed to be fixed. But we haven't got the invoice for.
[40:14] So we know we have to pay it, but we haven't got that final amount yet,
[40:18] even though we might have 100% or 95% sure of what that final amount is.
[40:24] The next area of equity is a contingency fund.
[40:27] So at the June 1st meeting, the board decided to keep it
[40:31] the same amount as what it was for fiscal year 26, knowing
[40:34] that there would be an additional time to vote for it as well.
[40:38] So that amount is at 1.731 million.
[40:43] It could go up by $24,558.
[40:48] Because the town has allowed Goffstown to hold
[40:51] a maximum of 5% of the money that they had
[40:55] previously put towards taxes for education.
[40:59] So the board tonight could increase the contingency or decrease the contingency.
[41:05] And then lastly, the amount is the unassigned fund balance.
[41:09] So this is what's used to offset the taxes as we work with the Drey this fall.
[41:15] So we can see that at this point
[41:19] the board has
[41:20] made different decisions and there's different legal requirements.
[41:23] So really what can be changed is the amount that's in the contingency.
[41:28] If the contingency is increased then unassigned fund balance would decrease.
[41:34] If the contingency is lowered, then unassigned fund balance would increase.
[41:38] It's important to note that at this point, we are projecting that we would
[41:42] offset taxes by $1,714,362.49 during the budget season,
[41:51] we predicted that we would offset taxes by 1,350,000.
[41:56] So as we look at these numbers, they are large.
[41:59] And if you know, if it was our own personal finances, they would be large.
[42:03] And they're still large then they're large here.
[42:05] And sometimes people say, well, you have a lot of fund balance left over.
[42:09] So whenever we move into large numbers, what I always like to do
[42:13] is also look at that as a percent as well.
[42:15] So we know our budget is over $50 million.
[42:18] So if we have 1.7 million left over, we have less than
[42:22] 4% of the budget remaining that would be used to offset taxes.
[42:28] So if we had our own family income
[42:31] and we had 1.7 million left at the end of the year, we'd be excited.
[42:34] But if we had less than 4%, we'd be like, okay, we did a pretty good job.
[42:38] You know, we were within budget.
[42:40] We didn't spend every dollar just to spend every dollar type of thing.
[42:43] So, you know, we what I do is I look at it as a percent as well.
[42:48] So that 1.71 million
[42:52] can go down by 24,000 or up by more.
[42:57] So as we look at the contingency fund, if we go down towards the bottom,
[43:00] you can also see that we also have kind of a running balance
[43:04] of the contingency fund, because we have that 1.731 million.
[43:08] But then the board has made
[43:09] some decisions due to age of equipment or failure of equipment
[43:14] to purchase things.
[43:16] So that would be the middle school generator
[43:18] which broke and could not be fixed.
[43:19] That is Promethean Boards, which was a partial replacement
[43:24] as well as a plow and sending vehicle, which would it cost a lot to fix?
[43:28] Noah.
[43:28] And given that it was a 2012 model truck, decided to purchase it.
[43:34] And then we had a placeholder for the Bartlett roof section replacement.
[43:37] So we have that 1.731 million in contingency fund,
[43:43] but our running balance is truly 1.15 million.
[43:48] So since the fiscal
[43:52] year 27, contingency kind of in a way occurs
[43:56] before any of these bills happened, we couldn't
[44:00] bump up the contingency back to the 1.731.
[44:04] We couldn't go well, we have 1.731.
[44:07] We spent money.
[44:08] Now let's bump it back up.
[44:09] We can't bump it back up by that amount because we started
[44:13] towards the maximum amount of what the contingency is.
[44:17] So what
[44:19] the board can make a decision with tonight is do
[44:22] we want to move forward with the Bartlett roof section replacement.
[44:27] And do we want to bump up
[44:31] the contingency to the maximum amount we're allowed,
[44:35] which is again up by $24,558.
[44:39] Knowing that even though we bump it up,
[44:41] we still have that running balance, which brings it back down.
[44:44] So this past year, we had a contingency of 1.731.
[44:49] This year our contingency will not be that high.
[44:52] But we also have a new generator, you know, a new truck
[44:57] and things like that, which is desperately needed for us to move through this year.
[45:02] So the Bartlett roof section, I don't.
[45:06] This is I'll be honest, I think we had a breakdown
[45:09] of communication where we were trying to get to the board,
[45:14] how emergent
[45:16] that was needed, and the timeline that it would take to complete it,
[45:20] because knowing that it would be partially, maybe on the weekend,
[45:23] but mainly during the school day.
[45:27] Whenever you're talking about
[45:28] redoing a roof here, you're talking about a lot of noise.
[45:30] So we got part of that information, which is that
[45:33] it should be able to be wrapped up in five days.
[45:35] But unless we have any new information for anybody else here, we did.
[45:40] We do not have information present on how desperately it is needed.
[45:44] Again, that's a breakdown on our part for communication, which I apologize for.
[45:49] Well, but we do know that this section of the roof has leaked
[45:52] repeatedly, storm after storm after storm.
[45:56] So every time it rains, we're having leaking issues.
[46:00] We're replacing ceiling tiles.
[46:02] So it is a you know, it's an old roof that's had a lot of issues.
[46:07] It's been repaired a lot of times.
[46:09] When I spoke to Mr.
[46:10] Loring, he was confident that the roof could be done within a week.
[46:14] So we felt pretty good about that.
[46:17] Obviously you'd have to time it with weather,
[46:19] but Randy was pretty confident that if we were going to move forward,
[46:23] he could try to get it during like a vacation week or something like that.
[46:26] So that's what he would attempt to do.
[46:32] So whether we do it this year or we do it
[46:35] next year or the year after, we will continue to make repairs on it.
[46:39] They will continue to disrupt,
[46:42] disrupt the school, and eventually it's going to need to be done.
[46:46] So either I thought this one, the understanding I had dug was that
[46:50] this has repeatedly leaked over and over, and that this is that
[46:55] there are really concerns that it hasn't been an air quality
[46:58] kind of thing, but we don't want it to be that.
[47:00] No. Yeah. So that's my understanding as well.
[47:02] I think what we were looking to get was
[47:04] has it caused any damage and how much damage does it cause.
[47:08] Type of when it leaks beyond
[47:11] say, replacing a ceiling tile type of thing.
[47:14] So with with that
[47:17] this is something that doesn't have to be decided tonight.
[47:21] Either.
[47:21] All that has to be decided tonight is what amount
[47:25] you want to set the contingency act.
[47:27] Do you want to keep it the same as that one $1,731,296,
[47:34] or do you want to raise it to the maximum, which would be an additional 24,000,
[47:39] or do you want to lower it for different reasons?
[47:43] So those are kind of decisions.
[47:44] So that money, whether we whether the board votes to do the roof
[47:48] tonight or not, will not impact
[47:51] fund balance because
[47:52] it would either sit in the contingency or not set the contingency type of thing.
[47:56] So, or it either be part of the running balance that would decrease
[47:59] the contingency or that running balance wouldn't be as large.
[48:03] Therefore, the running balance would be a little bit larger in the contingency.
[48:08] Doug, I just want to make sure I'm doing my active listening.
[48:11] So we didn't encumber funds for the Bartlett
[48:14] roof at our retreat or at our last meeting.
[48:17] I thought we did because we talked about this several times, but I thought
[48:20] we had voted to encumber funds to do this job.
[48:23] We have.
[48:24] And so the funds are there as far as the running balance
[48:28] and the permission to move forward with it for the contingency fund.
[48:32] But it was that last project that when we talked about it.
[48:36] So we encumbered in June.
[48:38] We talked about it in
[48:42] August.
[48:42] And what was decided in August was,
[48:45] do we really
[48:46] need to move forward with this year or because what's kind of the damage
[48:50] that's happening was what the board asked us to bring back information about.
[48:53] So we had like we pushed the decision
[48:57] more to this meeting where the board made
[49:00] several other decisions last time to unencumbered money.
[49:04] And part of those decisions, that unencumbered money is the reason
[49:07] why we're able to offset taxes so much going into next tax rate season.
[49:15] So this was a decision that got pushed to this meeting.
[49:18] And again, it doesn't have to even be decided at this meeting.
[49:22] The Doe 25 can be completed without a decision on this.
[49:26] The tax rate can be completed without a decision on this because again
[49:31] last year, the 1.73 1.73 million just stayed in the contingency fund
[49:37] the whole time and didn't get expensed, didn't move or anything like that.
[49:41] So that that, you know, contingency fund is in a way a separate fund
[49:47] than what
[49:47] could be considered unassigned fund balance as well.
[49:51] So I just want to make sure I understand, because this is two different
[49:55] fiscal years, I think in my head that we're talking about if we encumbered
[49:59] the Bartlett and all of these projects based on the FY 26
[50:05] fiscal year, which is now closed,
[50:09] this wouldn't have any impact on this
[50:11] year's contingency fund that we have.
[50:16] So that is a question I brought up with the auditors.
[50:19] And they said that you can only
[50:24] you can set the max contingency number, that 5%.
[50:29] And since nothing has been expense from that,
[50:33] you can't expect it, can't expense it and then reset that number.
[50:37] So because we haven't you set
[50:40] the contingency fund at 5% going into fiscal year
[50:44] 27, even though we know these projects are important.
[50:48] At that point nothing had been expensed.
[50:52] So you set it at the max and now you have a running balance
[50:56] as soon as you start spending from it.
[50:58] So even though that we encumbered these costs in fiscal year
[51:02] FY 26, it's actually
[51:05] hitting our contingency in FY 27.
[51:09] So encumbered.
[51:12] Because encumbered it also
[51:14] means that it's money set aside to execute for that fiscal year.
[51:18] But it doesn't sound like that's again
[51:21] explaining to me because I might be not understanding the process.
[51:26] No, it's you are understanding the process of encumbrance.
[51:30] But I think the contingency fund is slightly different.
[51:34] We the board has to encumber fiscal year $26
[51:39] in order to use them in fiscal year 27.
[51:43] The contingency fund, though, is something that lapses
[51:46] years or continues throughout years with board approval.
[51:50] So there are slightly different.
[51:53] In that case, you can't.
[51:54] If the board made no decision on fiscal year $26 to encumber
[51:59] it, that would be used directly to offset taxes, pretty much
[52:03] where because it can't move forward, where a contingency
[52:05] fund can happen and be funded every year type of thing.
[52:09] So in some ways it does move forward with that same amount of money.
[52:13] So I brought up both those situations the same way.
[52:16] You're explaining it to me,
[52:17] and the same way I'm explaining it as well to the auditors.
[52:21] And they said you have to go with what I now say.
[52:24] So I was hoping we could also do that
[52:26] because I talked about it being encumbrance, and I talked
[52:28] about the dates of it being encumbrance, and why can't we push it back up?
[52:32] Because I wanted to see what our options are,
[52:34] because we always want to know what our options are.
[52:36] And the information I got was that you already maxed out
[52:40] the contingency, or came close to max and out the contingency.
[52:42] You can only bring it out by that 24,000,
[52:46] and that these expenses would have to draw down from there.
[52:50] So draw down from FY 27 or FY 26.
[52:54] In away from FY 27. Yes.
[52:59] There is mud to me.
[53:02] Okay.
[53:05] What questions do we have Adam.
[53:07] So in terms of the Bartlett roofer replacement are you looking for in.
[53:12] Order to move forward with this even though the money is encumbered,
[53:17] are you looking for another motion to move forward with it?
[53:21] So we said that in August
[53:23] we'd come back depending on if the bill got vetoed or not.
[53:28] We knew we were moving forward with the generator, but we said
[53:31] we'd come back with everything else for the board to give that final okay with.
[53:35] So yeah, it is that final okay that we're looking to move forward.
[53:38] The board in August came back with the final K for the Promethean
[53:44] Board's partial replacement, as well as the plow and sanding truck.
[53:48] So we are looking to uphold our part of what we said
[53:51] we would do for the board and which is that final.
[53:54] Okay. Whether the board wants to move forward
[53:56] with the Bartlett roof replacement and not.
[53:59] So the motion is not to encumber the funds.
[54:02] It's not. The. Ones are already encumbered.
[54:04] It's to whether.
[54:05] It's execute execute. Yeah.
[54:09] I will say like I've made my stance
[54:11] on the contingency fund a couple of times now
[54:15] when water is coming in the building, every time it rains,
[54:19] that only gets worse every time it rains.
[54:22] And what starts as a simple roof repair
[54:24] quickly becomes a lot more than a simple roof repair.
[54:27] To me, this is why we have a contingency fund.
[54:31] I'm all for it.
[54:34] Yeah, I would second what Adam said.
[54:36] I would hate to spend more money repairing the roof,
[54:41] pulling for us to replace it in a year or two.
[54:43] So to me, it seems like we'd be spending a lot of money
[54:46] to kind of patch holes and then, you know, we'd be spending.
[54:51] Likely. More than. The 110.
[54:53] Thousand in a couple of years.
[54:54] So I'd be in favor of the roof replacement.
[54:57] Also. Jack, I.
[55:00] I would.
[55:01] Echo those things, and I also think that there's no
[55:05] reliable way to go.
[55:07] This is how much damage to leaking roof is costing until you rip the roof
[55:11] up and go, oh crap, it's worse than we thought.
[55:14] So waiting is only going to make it worse.
[55:17] Cost more money.
[55:19] We have the funds.
[55:20] Whether we feel we need to pitch 25,000
[55:23] more in there, or 24 or 558, that's something else.
[55:27] But I would say let's get the roof done before replacing sealed ceiling tiles.
[55:33] That all comes out of cost.
[55:36] Yes, I agree.
[55:36] I was just curious because I know it's just a partial replacement
[55:39] like this is just a repair that we're talking about.
[55:41] So I don't know how old the roof is or where is it
[55:44] in the CIP for a total replacement and all of that.
[55:47] The different sections are in CIP.
[55:49] So we we do all the roofs we tend to do in sections
[55:52] because doing an entire it just cost prohibitive.
[55:57] So we do it in sections.
[55:58] This is a section over the oldest part of the building.
[56:01] It's the part that's in the sort of
[56:03] in the back of the school, on the side of where the playground is.
[56:08] Okay. So that. Old process to do a piece by piece.
[56:10] Yes. Okay.
[56:11] And in fact, we've done some of the other sections over the years.
[56:15] Yeah.
[56:19] I have no problem.
[56:21] And I'm not going everything that everybody else said
[56:24] for the roof replacement, I have no problem with somebody making
[56:27] a motion to execute using the funds for the roof repair today.
[56:32] Because we've talked about a couple
[56:33] of meetings, I think we know it needs to be done.
[56:35] The sooner we make the motion to get moving.
[56:37] I would
[56:38] welcome somebody to make that motion so that we can get moving on that Jack.
[56:42] I will make a motion that we vote to execute
[56:47] the roof repair at Bartlett School for $110,000.
[56:53] To come from the contingency.
[56:55] From the contingency fund.
[56:56] Motion made by Jack, seconded by Dan.
[56:58] Any further questions or comments?
[57:02] I have a motion seconded.
[57:04] No questions or comments.
[57:05] All those in favor of executing the Bartlett
[57:09] Roof Repair section 410,000 from the unassigned
[57:13] fund balance signify by saying I, I and he opposed any abstentions.
[57:19] We are unanimous.
[57:21] So I know that's not what you asked for, Doug,
[57:25] but. The final part
[57:27] would be that contingency fund vote.
[57:30] So my recommendation, because we're offsetting taxes
[57:33] by more than we projected and we're and we're talking about going up by
[57:37] $24,558 would be to go up by that amount.
[57:41] And the contingency fund max it out, knowing that we are spending
[57:47] a decent amount of that and that our running balance is truly lower.
[57:51] So that is where that handwritten number is on your sheet.
[57:55] Of that 1,755,000 854,000.
[58:00] So tonight is kind of that last night to make a decision on whether you're
[58:04] keeping the contingency fund the same, increasing it by that 24,000
[58:09] or if the board wanted to,
[58:10] which I would not recommend lowering it at that point as well.
[58:14] And that's again the maximum number, not necessarily the running balance of it.
[58:19] Okay, Dan, I saw you hand up first.
[58:22] Just would like to make a motion. Motion.
[58:24] Go ahead. Make a motion to increase the.
[58:26] Contingency fund balance.
[58:27] By 24,000 $558,000 for grand
[58:30] total of $1,755,854.
[58:35] Okay, I have a motion by Dan for the increased amount.
[58:39] Do I have? Does Dan have a second?
[58:42] I'll second Jack.
[58:43] Seconded.
[58:44] So we can have discussions about the broader conversation.
[58:48] But the motion is for the maximum amount allowed.
[58:52] So I'll open up to what questions we have.
[58:57] So I just want to clarify that when we say maximum amount allowed,
[59:01] that is a maximum that the voters have agreed to previously.
[59:06] That's where that. That is correct.
[59:08] The voters have agreed two different times.
[59:10] At first when contingency fund was brought up, the maximum amount allowed was 2.5%.
[59:15] They voted for that.
[59:16] And when the when the amount was allowed to go up to 5%, the voters
[59:20] then also voted to allow Goffstown to retain up to 5%.
[59:25] So any taxpayer at that time could vote.
[59:29] In any expenditures that would come out of that would come before the board.
[59:33] Further. They would have.
[59:35] Regardless of amount. Yes.
[59:37] With a public hearing, which we had in June for this.
[59:42] Right? Yeah.
[59:44] Okay.
[59:46] A follow up question, Adam, are you good for this for now? No.
[59:50] That's my.
[59:52] I know you're going to go into a comment. So.
[59:57] Any other questions for what's before us?
[1:00:00] Okay.
[1:00:01] So we'll switch over to comments. Adam.
[1:00:04] And as much as I think we need to be cautious on how we use the contingency
[1:00:10] fund because, you know, we have put it before the town and the voters have agreed
[1:00:14] to 5% raising it up to that is reasonable to me.
[1:00:20] The voters have have made their stance on that one.
[1:00:22] And so I you know, that's within reason to me.
[1:00:27] I just think we need to be careful in how we spend that money.
[1:00:33] Then just to piggyback off that, my intention
[1:00:37] raising it to the maximum amount is to absorb as much as we can
[1:00:41] of emergencies that come up through the contingency fund
[1:00:44] so that we're not going back to the taxpayers when something comes up.
[1:00:47] So having that money aside is really about protecting them.
[1:00:52] When things do come up, 24,000 might not sound a lot
[1:00:55] when you when you boil it down to a to a tax impact to a home.
[1:00:59] But as we have seen,
[1:01:00] there are a number of things that wouldn't even cover
[1:01:02] the Promethean board replacements that we had talked about. Right.
[1:01:05] So but having that money aside does help
[1:01:06] protect the taxpayer, which is the intent there.
[1:01:11] I just want to make sure I understand that.
[1:01:13] Correct.
[1:01:13] So if we do this though, it's part of the unassigned fund balance.
[1:01:16] If something were to come up, we'd have the public hearing.
[1:01:19] If that didn't pass, it would go
[1:01:20] still in the contingency fund, which would be to offset taxes.
[1:01:24] At the end of the year.
[1:01:26] Correct?
[1:01:29] Other comments.
[1:01:33] So my comment
[1:01:34] simply is I agree that we should keep a contingency fund.
[1:01:38] I know the statute says we can go up to 5%.
[1:01:41] I think the number that we set forward initially is fine,
[1:01:46] and increasing it constantly allows us to potentially use it, which I know
[1:01:51] that we are very, very diligent not to do and we only use it sparingly,
[1:01:57] though I do agree that it should be close to the 5%,
[1:02:00] I'm going to stick with the same number.
[1:02:02] I'll be voting no.
[1:02:03] Just I know it's 24 grand is a difference,
[1:02:06] but it's just that we put a line in the sand
[1:02:08] and I like to keep the line in the sand that we initially had.
[1:02:10] So that's why I'll be voting no on this.
[1:02:14] Other comments
[1:02:17] okay.
[1:02:18] Well wait wait for Jack.
[1:02:21] We'll be going.
[1:02:22] So we have a motion for maintaining a unassigned or contingency
[1:02:27] fund of $1,755,854 for the fiscal year 27.
[1:02:36] It's been motion seconded.
[1:02:37] We've had robust conversation.
[1:02:39] All those in favor of increasing the contingency
[1:02:43] fund to that number signify by saying I
[1:02:46] any opposed, nay, any abstentions.
[1:02:49] So there's one on position.
[1:02:52] Motion passes.
[1:02:54] Okay.
[1:02:55] And then lastly for the finance reports I see an annual board authorization.
[1:03:00] Doug. Yeah.
[1:03:01] So we work with a lot of vendors, some vendors, you know, have a 40 day
[1:03:07] turnaround for when they expect payments and vendors have a ten day.
[1:03:10] Some vendors don't give us the invoice as quickly as we would like.
[1:03:14] So every year for the last several years, the board has authorized
[1:03:18] the business administrator to process accounts payable and payroll
[1:03:21] out of sequence checks for that fiscal year, and knowing
[1:03:25] that these types of payments will be included
[1:03:26] in the subsequent school board manifest, which is subject to review.
[1:03:30] So this is just that typical motion that has been used for several years now.
[1:03:36] And this is the duration for the full year. Correct.
[1:03:38] Okay. Any questions for Doug on this
[1:03:42] okay.
[1:03:43] Who would like to make this motion.
[1:03:44] I will make a motion to authorize.
[1:03:46] The business administrator to issue a sequence
[1:03:49] payments for the remainder of the year.
[1:03:53] I seen seconded by Adam.
[1:03:56] Any further questions or comments?
[1:03:59] Seeing none, we'll call the roll.
[1:04:00] All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye.
[1:04:03] Any opposed?
[1:04:04] Any abstentions? We are unanimous.
[1:04:08] So, chair, I do have one more thing which made the packet
[1:04:10] as far as the dates, but didn't make the agenda.
[1:04:14] Is this for information or for vote?
[1:04:18] This.
[1:04:19] So information and a change will be needed.
[1:04:22] But that change doesn't have to be decided tonight.
[1:04:25] Okay.
[1:04:26] So this is in regards to the budget calendar.
[1:04:29] Last time we talked about the fact that the Budget Committee was moving their
[1:04:34] deliberations back to December, the board decided
[1:04:37] to move their workshop meetings to November.
[1:04:40] And at that point they chose November 16th and 18th.
[1:04:44] November 18th is a new Boston, and it was a new Boston school board meeting.
[1:04:49] We met with New Boston and we said, hey, you know, we now have two meetings
[1:04:53] this day.
[1:04:55] Honestly, we told
[1:04:55] Boston you guys were first type of thing, and we talked with New Boston,
[1:04:59] whether they could switch up their meeting.
[1:05:01] It wasn't necessarily possible for them to switch up their meeting.
[1:05:04] So they are on November 18th.
[1:05:06] So the only way for us to fulfill us
[1:05:09] coming here on November 18th as well would be if we divided and concord,
[1:05:13] which is not typically the direction we want to go in, we prefer to have,
[1:05:19] you know, the majority of us at each place.
[1:05:22] So we would be looking for the board.
[1:05:24] And again, it doesn't have to be tonight to move their 18th meeting
[1:05:30] to, you know, if they I don't know which date you want to keep it.
[1:05:33] If you want to keep the same week 17th or 19th or.
[1:05:42] I know that
[1:05:42] for everybody bring up the calendars.
[1:05:46] So we'd be looking at having our regular school board meeting on the 16th.
[1:05:50] And it was proposed the 18th.
[1:05:54] The following weekend is Thanksgiving, I believe,
[1:05:58] so that would be bad doing that on a Wednesday.
[1:06:04] I would ask the board, how do they feel
[1:06:07] about our first kickoff being on the 11th, which would be the week before?
[1:06:12] That's that's Veterans Day.
[1:06:21] Or the ninth,
[1:06:24] ninth and 16th.
[1:06:25] So the ninth would potentially be a.
[1:06:30] Change.
[1:06:30] It could move. Move.
[1:06:33] I got policy.
[1:06:37] Shane will skip it.
[1:06:38] Never mind I flights never.
[1:06:39] No no balls either.
[1:06:42] No but how does the board feel.
[1:06:44] So we have a regularly scheduled board meeting for the 16th
[1:06:47] though it would be shortened for budget reviews.
[1:06:51] But how do we feel about potentially doing November 9th?
[1:06:57] Which would be the Monday before?
[1:06:58] So we'd have a board meeting November 2nd.
[1:07:02] Voting day is November 3rd.
[1:07:06] The following Monday would be budget review.
[1:07:09] That's where we'd start off, and then we would finish up on anything
[1:07:13] for budget related on the 16th.
[1:07:16] I would just be unable to do the ninth.
[1:07:18] But if most of the people can do it, then.
[1:07:22] What do you think, Mr.
[1:07:23] Totten?
[1:07:25] I think that's good.
[1:07:26] I always like having several days in between the meeting.
[1:07:29] That way the board, if they have any questions for me,
[1:07:31] they can get them to me and I can be prepared, better prepared to answer them,
[1:07:35] or we can all be better prepared to answer them.
[1:07:37] So if they met on the ninth and then had more questions,
[1:07:39] then we'd be even more prepared.
[1:07:41] Wendy. We.
[1:07:42] Do have and scheduled for that evening, but we do have CNE next Monday night,
[1:07:47] so I could speak with the committee about changing our meeting date
[1:07:52] to be able to have the whole board together,
[1:07:54] which I'm sure that I don't want to speak on behalf of, of everybody from CNE,
[1:07:59] but I believe that would be easier to have a smaller portion of the board
[1:08:03] available for that meeting.
[1:08:07] The other for the meeting on the 16th.
[1:08:09] Are we starting at 6 or 7, 6:00 or 7:00 for the 16th.
[1:08:16] To the board?
[1:08:18] What do we have. At seven.
[1:08:20] Seven.
[1:08:21] Seven, seven.
[1:08:24] Right now?
[1:08:24] Seven on the six.
[1:08:27] And the reason why I say this is, I know that I think the past two years
[1:08:30] we've been very prepared,
[1:08:32] very diligent looking at the budgets and every line item beforehand.
[1:08:35] We've been able to usually knock it out within one meeting.
[1:08:39] But that might be a long day for for people.
[1:08:42] But I again, I'm
[1:08:46] I'm good with whatever the board wants to do.
[1:08:49] If we want to start on the ninth and then finish on the 16th,
[1:08:52] or if we just want to shoot for the 16th, knowing
[1:08:54] that it's going to be a shortened school board meeting.
[1:08:57] But a majority of it
[1:08:58] will also be on budget and hopefully start at 6:00 on that Monday.
[1:09:04] We don't need a
[1:09:05] decision today, but unless if somebody wants to.
[1:09:09] I like the 99th and 16th. Yeah.
[1:09:11] That's better for me.
[1:09:12] The Budget Committee, 17th and 19th until
[1:09:16] fantastic.
[1:09:17] Busy week for you, Jack.
[1:09:22] I think it's better.
[1:09:22] 17, 19, 24th. Yeah.
[1:09:25] They're all in there. What are you.
[1:09:28] I like two meetings.
[1:09:31] I was just going to say it's better if we're going to add a meeting.
[1:09:34] It's better to get it on our calendar sooner than later because
[1:09:38] then we're going to lose more people.
[1:09:40] So if we're looking at the ninth, I'd rather make a decision.
[1:09:45] Is that.
[1:09:46] That's a hard.
[1:09:50] Okay with New Boston too, right?
[1:09:52] No, not for. The night. We'd be good with New Boston.
[1:09:54] Yeah. Well,
[1:09:56] okay.
[1:09:57] So the ninth and 16th will be.
[1:10:01] Great, but the second.
[1:10:02] Will be. Yes.
[1:10:05] But you're always welcome to come this field.
[1:10:07] Until all of it. And.
[1:10:09] Interject and ask questions.
[1:10:13] Nothing wrong with the questions that better asked.
[1:10:16] Okay.
[1:10:16] So tentatively let's let's put down November 9th and then November 16th,
[1:10:22] both starting at 6:00 including on the night people
[1:10:26] okay with that or they need to starting at seven on the ninth.
[1:10:32] Anything to make sure we finish the same day.
[1:10:35] We start 6:00 6:00. Okay.
[1:10:38] Well let's push our luck.
[1:10:39] How about 550.
[1:10:43] Five zero?
[1:10:43] Any of you work
[1:10:46] six? It is. Yeah.
[1:10:47] My my school board stuff.
[1:10:48] It doesn't cover.
[1:10:52] To be clear, you don't get a school bus stop.
[1:10:54] You just want the people at home to be clear on that.
[1:11:00] So we'll be looking at November 9th
[1:11:01] and November 16th will be the school board workshop meetings for the budget.
[1:11:05] There will be a shortened an abbreviated school board regular agenda
[1:11:09] for November 16th on both meetings to start at 6 p.m..
[1:11:14] Can we get updated calendar invites?
[1:11:16] Linda will be sending them out.
[1:11:19] Thank you, Mr. Science.
[1:11:22] That was very lovely of you to do.
[1:11:24] Yes, it was.
[1:11:25] Very helpful.
[1:11:27] Mr. ton, is that the final piece for.
[1:11:29] That is the final piece. Thank you.
[1:11:30] Are you sure, Mr. Todd?
[1:11:32] This is shorter than last.
[1:11:33] This is where the last good.
[1:11:36] Shaving off like 20 minutes of meeting I.
[1:11:38] That is good.
[1:11:40] So budget Committee, I'll start with the budget committee report.
[1:11:42] There was an initial meeting that was done, a joint meeting
[1:11:45] between the Budget committee and the select board to look over
[1:11:49] the fiscal needs of mostly the town.
[1:11:53] So that was a great session of both boards coming together to talk about
[1:11:59] some of the priorities that are occurring
[1:12:00] and some of the discussions that have occurred in the past.
[1:12:04] So that was attended by the school
[1:12:06] board, reps and decent meeting.
[1:12:09] Jack, I know has a calendar.
[1:12:11] Jack I'll turn it over to you for upcoming meetings.
[1:12:13] Sounds like they're already in the calendar of activities.
[1:12:15] Yeah. They're in the calendar.
[1:12:21] The next budget one is September.
[1:12:26] Highs are getting worse September 22nd in 29th.
[1:12:30] And that'll be to hear about the fire on the 22nd.
[1:12:33] We'll hear about fire department needs and budget concerns for that.
[1:12:38] And then we'll go on to other
[1:12:42] info about the default budgets
[1:12:44] on the 29th of September.
[1:12:48] And those are right here in case anyone wants to come see.
[1:12:53] Thank you. Jack
[1:12:55] a sip. Dan.
[1:12:57] Yes, I had the pleasure.
[1:12:59] Of presenting to.
[1:13:01] The planning board
[1:13:03] most. Of the.
[1:13:04] So if you if you imagine the meeting.
[1:13:07] Let's say.
[1:13:07] There were eight questions before I started.
[1:13:09] So that was the last one second last to go.
[1:13:12] So I expected. Eight or.
[1:13:13] Less questions like 25.
[1:13:15] So it was really a lot of fun.
[1:13:17] If you want to see me ever sweat, just pull that video right out.
[1:13:20] You have a great time.
[1:13:22] Most of the commentary
[1:13:25] focused on questions are on how many computers are in a
[1:13:28] are in a kit, you know, what were the cost increases there?
[1:13:32] There was some commentary around how there's so much weight on a bond
[1:13:36] proposal a few years out, and then questions
[1:13:40] around the Norman Road
[1:13:43] review that was in there.
[1:13:44] That was because there was two lines for it.
[1:13:45] There were questions about the one on one for the devices.
[1:13:48] And so for those of you who have not experienced CIP,
[1:13:54] their primary focus apparently
[1:13:56] over the last 10 or 15 years has been this year
[1:13:59] or next year, not necessarily a few years out, a few years out.
[1:14:02] It's kind of really written pencil chalk, like definitely not pen.
[1:14:07] And so there's there's not like a huge focus on what's going to happen in those.
[1:14:11] But a lot of the a few of the individuals on the planning board didn't know that.
[1:14:15] So there was a lot of intense questions about things four years out.
[1:14:19] And the answer was, you know,
[1:14:21] we'll let you know in 2 or 3 years when we get a little bit closer.
[1:14:24] So overall it went fine.
[1:14:26] The packet did pass.
[1:14:27] Overall I think 5 to 3.
[1:14:32] So yeah, that's about it.
[1:14:34] Any questions for Dan.
[1:14:38] Moving on.
[1:14:38] We'll be talking about the next Goffstown school board meeting under new business.
[1:14:43] So we'll move on to A and F.
[1:14:48] And Mr..
[1:14:52] Next meeting.
[1:14:53] Next meeting is before our next meeting.
[1:14:56] Yeah that's.
[1:14:57] Right which. Is well said.
[1:14:59] October 5th. Yeah.
[1:15:00] There you go. Thank you. Yeah.
[1:15:03] Great PNC. Park
[1:15:07] you're. Right.
[1:15:08] I went right. I checked it off. See you.
[1:15:10] Thank you. Jenny.
[1:15:11] We have. Not met since our last meeting.
[1:15:13] And our next meeting will be.
[1:15:15] September 21st at 7 p.m.
[1:15:18] at the office.
[1:15:20] And we will be discussing Gage's new courses.
[1:15:26] Great. Thank you.
[1:15:27] Okay. Now PNC.
[1:15:28] Now PNC.
[1:15:29] So PNC met this evening,
[1:15:32] and we had a lot of the standard items
[1:15:36] on our on on our agenda.
[1:15:40] But first, starting off with the open House,
[1:15:42] we heard about that a little bit earlier today.
[1:15:46] And that it seems like those went really well.
[1:15:49] We turned these around very quickly.
[1:15:51] It went from a thought to being implemented within a couple of days.
[1:15:57] So we just want to acknowledge we didn't have all the materials
[1:16:00] that we hope that we will have in the future.
[1:16:03] We're working on getting some more materials presented
[1:16:08] or printed out in talking thinking.
[1:16:11] Long term badges are coming up, so we'll all have our badges and opposed to board.
[1:16:17] Will we might be able to get that done for this time around,
[1:16:20] but at the very least we'll probably have some temporary tablecloths.
[1:16:24] So we've got thank you to all that have volunteered.
[1:16:28] There's a couple of openings
[1:16:31] that we might be able to backfill, but everybody an opportunity.
[1:16:36] Glenn Lake on Tuesday the 29th.
[1:16:39] We're looking for one more rep if anybody's interested.
[1:16:45] And then the
[1:16:46] other one is Mountain View Middle School
[1:16:49] on the 22 day, the 22nd.
[1:16:54] So if anyone's available and wants to do it.
[1:16:57] Let me know.
[1:16:58] Otherwise, learn Laura and I will be doing some backfilling.
[1:17:02] So it sounds like it was a really good opportunity.
[1:17:08] Remember, our word of the year is engagement
[1:17:12] and just having a presence there.
[1:17:15] It seemed like it went really well.
[1:17:16] And I think wearing the t shirts now that everybody has their t shirt,
[1:17:21] if you have a your t shirt available.
[1:17:24] I wouldn't need one because we have more if anybody needed one.
[1:17:31] Great.
[1:17:33] So let's see what else we talked about.
[1:17:37] Social having a social media presence, school board versus school district.
[1:17:43] More on that. We're continuing to talk about that.
[1:17:46] And we'll bring a proposal when we have it more solidified.
[1:17:50] We also revisited our strategic communication plan.
[1:17:55] That was really pretty aggressive, getting it done by the end of the year.
[1:18:00] We think that that timeline really needs to be pushed out.
[1:18:03] So we'll we'll circle back with that next time.
[1:18:07] And the big the big one I think is thinking about the board retreat.
[1:18:13] And there's been some suggestions
[1:18:15] of moving it earlier in the year.
[1:18:19] And we'd like to put forward
[1:18:22] having it in April, maybe May.
[1:18:26] That will give whoever is elected to the board.
[1:18:28] We will have a new member, at least one new member.
[1:18:32] The only
[1:18:33] thing we'll need to think about is, you know,
[1:18:36] if it's the third week, you've got school vacation coming up.
[1:18:40] Also what the agendas are going to look like,
[1:18:43] because we try to keep the board agenda somewhat small
[1:18:47] and if necessary, we could move it after April vacation.
[1:18:53] But that's just the general idea.
[1:18:56] So I'm we don't need any answer right now.
[1:18:59] But I would say, you know, in the next month
[1:19:02] or so, we'd like to firm up what is going to make sense.
[1:19:05] So, Brian, I think Scott will be coming back to you
[1:19:08] looking at what's happening in the buildings.
[1:19:10] And I'd like.
[1:19:11] To reach.
[1:19:11] Out to Saint Anselm College and check on availability of the room
[1:19:16] that we typically use at the institute and politics.
[1:19:19] So we'll see if they have April and May availability.
[1:19:23] Yep. Sounds great.
[1:19:24] And if we could get a smaller that that room was it seemed a little
[1:19:29] it was great being in that room, but it was.
[1:19:32] You can share all of that with Mr. Gross.
[1:19:34] You will be able. Okay, great.
[1:19:36] Yes. So our next meeting is scheduled for November 2nd.
[1:19:42] I just don't know.
[1:19:44] That's a regular meeting now, right?
[1:19:46] So we would be meeting at six.
[1:19:50] Any questions for Rita?
[1:19:53] Oh, yeah.
[1:19:54] Go ahead.
[1:19:55] You said Glen Lake. Was a 29, right?
[1:19:57] Yes. We're going to talk about your new business, too.
[1:19:59] Thank you. Yeah.
[1:20:01] As a comment, I want to personally say thank you
[1:20:04] to you, Laura and Scott for taking an idea and put it into execution in.
[1:20:09] Very little time.
[1:20:10] And I thought it was very successful having those open houses
[1:20:14] and the crash course.
[1:20:15] I know Laura and I had that Maple was great, but no great job on that.
[1:20:21] Again, idea execution.
[1:20:23] Very good velocity on that.
[1:20:24] Thank you very much.
[1:20:26] It was it was a team effort.
[1:20:28] Yeah.
[1:20:28] Name tags will be appreciated
[1:20:30] because they did check out the pictures to make sure they could find Shane and.
[1:20:33] I on it.
[1:20:36] It will work on.
[1:20:37] We're going to have something a little more fancy.
[1:20:43] I think having us, you know, school board
[1:20:45] as part of, like, maybe a scavenger hunt for the school would be great, you know?
[1:20:49] Yeah. Okay.
[1:20:50] Goffstown policy change.
[1:20:52] We have not met, but we. Will.
[1:20:54] Be meeting next Monday, September 20th.
[1:20:56] First at 530.
[1:20:58] P. M.
[1:20:58] At the Saw offices at 11 School Street.
[1:21:02] So we will be. Back. In action next Monday.
[1:21:05] Thank you. Shane.
[1:21:06] Board meeting.
[1:21:07] The next SEO board meeting for budget presentation is October 15th,
[1:21:13] and the working session for the Saw budget
[1:21:17] will be on November 10th.
[1:21:20] So any member of the public that wants to come and listen to the Saw
[1:21:25] budget, because that is now going to be part of the warrant article.
[1:21:29] You are welcome to those meetings on October 15th and November 10th.
[1:21:33] And those are at the South Office at 6 p.m..
[1:21:39] Okay.
[1:21:39] With that, we'll move on to the superintendent report, Mr. bulk.
[1:21:42] Thank you.
[1:21:44] Unfortunately, I'm going to start with sad news this evening.
[1:21:46] If you hadn't heard, I just saw today in the paper, Pat Keough,
[1:21:52] who was a long time teacher at Mountain View over 40 years, passed away.
[1:21:57] So she she's she'd been retired for a while.
[1:22:01] But those of us who knew her, she made a lasting impression. So.
[1:22:05] Good lady.
[1:22:06] And I was really sad to see that she was an excellent teacher.
[1:22:09] I have.
[1:22:12] Yep. Good.
[1:22:13] Good woman.
[1:22:14] Next week is Constitution Day, so we have a number of activities
[1:22:18] planned across all of our schools. Mrs.
[1:22:20] Koehler will give an update
[1:22:21] at our next meeting afterwards of what all those specific things were.
[1:22:25] She does have a list of prepared if you want to know the sneak preview.
[1:22:29] If not, we can wait till after.
[1:22:31] I wanted to let you know that House Bill 1300, which is the bill
[1:22:35] that created the tax cap question in 2026
[1:22:39] and then again in 2028 has been legally challenged.
[1:22:43] So at this point, we don't know exactly what's going to happen.
[1:22:47] There's been a request for an injunction.
[1:22:49] And essentially the argument of the case, from my read of it, is that it is
[1:22:56] the tax cap question is unconstitutionally vague, is the
[1:23:00] and unclear is the kind of argument that's being made.
[1:23:03] So we'll have to see what happens with that.
[1:23:07] At this point we're planning on the tax cap.
[1:23:10] Vote is happening.
[1:23:10] We're planning budgets.
[1:23:12] We're planning everything accordingly.
[1:23:13] And if there's any kind of an injunction of any sort, we'll let the board know.
[1:23:16] But as of right now, we're anticipating that that remains as planned.
[1:23:22] We're taking a close look at all of our bus runs.
[1:23:24] So this is the time of the year
[1:23:26] where we start to really evaluate how many kids are riding busses.
[1:23:29] Do we have any busses that are maybe more full than we need?
[1:23:32] So we're evaluating those.
[1:23:33] At this point, we'll let the board know if we have any significant concerns.
[1:23:37] And the last piece I wanted to share with you, it's been a long time coming,
[1:23:41] but policy b e DB,
[1:23:45] which is agenda preparation and dissemination.
[1:23:48] The board will recall.
[1:23:49] Speaking of admin retreat or excuse me, board retreat.
[1:23:53] You had a board retreat item that we just completed which is allowing
[1:23:57] now for a consent agenda as part of our monthly meeting agendas.
[1:24:02] So we did not do that
[1:24:04] in preparation for tonight, we wanted to give you the heads up
[1:24:06] that starting in October we're going to start to do that.
[1:24:09] So you'll start to see and members of the public
[1:24:12] who might be watching the board meeting might see that the board
[1:24:15] might not take a motion on the minutes, the board might not take a motion on
[1:24:20] the staffing sheet or some of the other things that have been before
[1:24:23] the board in the past, and that will be part of the consent agenda.
[1:24:27] I did speak with Mr. Totten.
[1:24:28] We thought it was important that the manifest be discussed
[1:24:32] and kind of processed outside of that consent agenda.
[1:24:35] We thought it was important that the board had a conversation about the manifest.
[1:24:39] So it was our recommendation to not include the manifest
[1:24:42] as part of the consent agenda, but meeting minutes,
[1:24:46] things like the staffing sheet and some of those other things.
[1:24:48] If there are things that have already been before the board,
[1:24:51] the board has already deliberated on.
[1:24:53] And if there was,
[1:24:54] some of those things could also be added into the consent agenda.
[1:24:57] And then consistent with that new policy, if there are board members that wanted
[1:25:01] to remove something from the consent agenda, that you can do that as well.
[1:25:04] So this has been a long time coming.
[1:25:06] It will be a slight change of how we do business.
[1:25:09] It probably means a few less motions and maybe it speeds things up a little bit.
[1:25:13] So that's what we were hoping for.
[1:25:15] And that was all I had.
[1:25:16] Mrs. Koller, anything to add, anything I missed?
[1:25:19] I don't. Believe so. Thank you. And we're happy to answer.
[1:25:21] If there are any questions for myself or members of our team.
[1:25:26] Get around the consent agenda.
[1:25:29] I know there's a policy there, but, you know,
[1:25:31] we've been doing this for a long time.
[1:25:34] We know what to expect not to expect.
[1:25:37] Will there be some sort of orientation or, you know, like,
[1:25:41] you know, anything that we need to know about how this works?
[1:25:44] Or, you know, like if we want something to be on the agenda,
[1:25:48] what the process will be.
[1:25:52] Yeah. I'm just throwing that out there.
[1:25:54] What I would encourage is I'll speak to Mrs.
[1:25:56] Science about this in terms of how we're organizing and structuring things.
[1:26:01] We'll we'll put it on the draft agenda.
[1:26:03] You'll see that it might look slightly different.
[1:26:05] And this this is all new for us. Right.
[1:26:08] So if, if the board isn't happy with
[1:26:11] I mean it's your policy on how the meeting agendas are constructed.
[1:26:15] So this is for the board.
[1:26:18] And if you're not happy with how things are
[1:26:21] then you guys can ask us to do it differently.
[1:26:23] So I'd imagine that there will be
[1:26:25] a line item in our agenda to say approval of consent agenda.
[1:26:29] Before we make standalone agenda. Item.
[1:26:31] And before that, if there's anything that needs to be pulled out, we'll pull it
[1:26:34] out, approve it, and then we'll talk about that individual item as well.
[1:26:37] Okay. Great.
[1:26:40] Laura.
[1:26:40] Just regarding the bustling as the review is happening
[1:26:43] and as we're heading into budget season, I was just curious,
[1:26:45] is there still going to be a request for the, you know,
[1:26:48] if we could add more busses, what that would look like?
[1:26:51] So one of the things that is on a piece of chart paper hanging on Mr.
[1:26:56] Wall is a list of about eight things, and that is one of them.
[1:27:00] So we are planning there are a couple of things
[1:27:03] that the board acts to include for the fee 28 budget process.
[1:27:07] One is the universal lunch program that Jack has asked us.
[1:27:12] We call it Feed the Kids.
[1:27:14] So we've got Feed the Kids on the list.
[1:27:16] We've got some additional bus runs on the list.
[1:27:18] So yes. Great.
[1:27:21] Any other questions for the superintendent
[1:27:23] or assistant superintendent?
[1:27:27] Seeing none, we'll move on.
[1:27:28] So moving to old business.
[1:27:31] We have board authorization of our rear parking lot.
[1:27:34] So did everybody get a handout for this particular item okay.
[1:27:39] So let me show people in the handout.
[1:27:41] So the past couple of meetings we've talked about the expansion
[1:27:44] of the backpacking lot here at GHS.
[1:27:48] And the additional space is approximately 75 spaces that that will entail.
[1:27:53] They've gone before the planning committee.
[1:27:55] And Mr.
[1:27:55] Bulky, I'll let you kind of go through some of the other pieces that we need, but
[1:28:00] we will be looking for a motion to execute an RFP
[1:28:05] to get this project moving.
[1:28:08] So, Mr.
[1:28:09] Bulky, are there any additional pieces you want to add in?
[1:28:11] No, I think at this point, if if the board has an appetite for us
[1:28:15] trying to get this project done this year to have some benefit
[1:28:19] to the students, we would be looking to go now.
[1:28:22] So every step in the process is going to take time.
[1:28:26] So we need to develop the RFP.
[1:28:28] That RFP has to be issued.
[1:28:29] We have to meet with prospective vendors.
[1:28:32] We have to go through an evaluation process.
[1:28:34] So those would all be the next steps.
[1:28:36] Doug, were you going to speak a little more about those specific steps?
[1:28:42] So I understand that the RFP has been developed
[1:28:45] because because like the superintendent said that the goal
[1:28:48] is to get kids in these spots as soon as possible.
[1:28:52] So with that, though, we'd be looking for two motions
[1:28:56] during the public part of tonight,
[1:28:58] and one was to move forward with issuing that RFP.
[1:29:03] And then the second would be to allow the superintendent
[1:29:07] or doesn't need to review the RFP bid submissions and make a bid award
[1:29:12] and execute the contract up to the project's cost allocation.
[1:29:16] So it'd be that cost allocation that we'd be looking to set
[1:29:19] during the nonpublic, because we want the job done,
[1:29:24] we want it done for
[1:29:25] probably a certain amount of money or up to a certain amount of money.
[1:29:28] But we don't want to publicize that certain amount of money
[1:29:31] out to the people who might be bidding on it as well.
[1:29:33] So it'd be two motions during the public session, which would
[1:29:37] allow us to move forward and a little bit more of an expedited fashion.
[1:29:42] And that's the work that's already been happening.
[1:29:44] So Randy and Scott have already created the RFP, knowing that
[1:29:48] that was an important step in order to get the parking spaces available.
[1:29:54] It looks like hopefully, maybe sometime in December, early December.
[1:29:59] As a reminder of the board and the public,
[1:30:01] the funds that would be going to execute this project are not coming from taxation,
[1:30:07] they're not coming from grants, they're coming from impact fees
[1:30:10] that occur when a developer builds within the district.
[1:30:13] So it's either a user lose it for impact fees.
[1:30:16] We receive these as an impact into our school system.
[1:30:21] New buildings, new houses impact the schools.
[1:30:24] They set aside a certain amount of money.
[1:30:26] We either have to use it and a designated time,
[1:30:28] or it goes back to the developers for their bottom line.
[1:30:32] So this is not something that if we don't use it, it goes back to offset
[1:30:35] taxes as well.
[1:30:36] So I want to make sure everybody understands, especially in the public,
[1:30:40] the use of school impact fees for this project.
[1:30:45] Any questions for Doug?
[1:30:46] Adam.
[1:30:47] Can you also just explain, for the sake of everyone,
[1:30:51] what impact fees can be used for and what they can't be used for?
[1:30:56] So in a very broad sense, Yeah, should be
[1:30:59] because it's built by the people who are building into town.
[1:31:04] It should really it has to be used for, you know, expanding things
[1:31:09] due to an increase of people.
[1:31:12] So while the parking lot has somewhat worked for a while,
[1:31:16] it continues not to work because, you know, there, you know,
[1:31:20] there are people now moving into town that have kids that have actually become
[1:31:25] high school students as well.
[1:31:26] So as long as we're really expanding what we have, then we're doing a better job.
[1:31:31] So it couldn't be used.
[1:31:33] For example, for the the generator project, the generator was already here.
[1:31:38] We were using the generator.
[1:31:39] We didn't know that a part was going to fail, that we couldn't fix it,
[1:31:43] but it wouldn't.
[1:31:44] That's not something new that we needed because of the expansion
[1:31:48] of the houses or apartments in the town.
[1:31:52] Perfect. Thank you.
[1:31:54] Yeah, just a question.
[1:31:56] Obviously, this is potentially a lot of money.
[1:31:59] Big impact on the school's ability to provide parking for the students.
[1:32:02] Have what consideration was given on other projects
[1:32:06] that the money might be used to positively impact
[1:32:09] the accommodation for the extra students that we're experiencing?
[1:32:13] Or is this the only one that we considered before it was brought to the board, or.
[1:32:17] This is the primary project that we've been focusing on.
[1:32:20] There are some other projects that we've discussed.
[1:32:23] So the 110 acres of land that the school district owns,
[1:32:27] just back beyond the high school here, looking at doing some land assessment,
[1:32:34] wetlands evaluation, if you wanted to do any kind of evaluation of the land,
[1:32:39] looking at architecture and engineering fees, all of those would be permissible
[1:32:42] using impact fees, expansion of portable classrooms.
[1:32:47] If we had to add on an addition to a school, all of those
[1:32:50] kinds of things are what you could use impact fees for.
[1:32:54] And we landed on that.
[1:32:56] This was the most immediate, I want to say, low cost.
[1:32:59] That makes it sound, but low cost option is something that would hit
[1:33:04] soon versus like a longer term.
[1:33:06] Yeah. So we talked about a number of things.
[1:33:09] And Mr.
[1:33:10] Todd, Mrs.
[1:33:10] Koehler, please feel free to chime in.
[1:33:13] We certainly have talked
[1:33:14] about other things like we know we don't have a 90ft baseball diamond.
[1:33:18] So that's probably the other biggest project that we talked about.
[1:33:23] But as we know, that's a very expensive project
[1:33:27] well beyond the scope of what we could cover with impact fees.
[1:33:31] So this is this has been the highest priority.
[1:33:34] Parking has been a problem here at Goffstown High School
[1:33:36] for a number of years, and it's just continued to become
[1:33:40] more challenging, I think just more families,
[1:33:43] more kids with, you know, access to an inexpensive car,
[1:33:47] more kids seeking to drive,
[1:33:48] more kids getting their license when they're sophomores.
[1:33:53] We just can't accommodate all the kids that we have.
[1:33:55] And we know that kids are doing all kinds of things that they they need a car.
[1:33:59] So they're working after school jobs.
[1:34:01] They might be picking up a younger brother or sister.
[1:34:04] They might have an internship or something that they're doing after school.
[1:34:08] So when kids come to us, they have really good reasons
[1:34:11] of why they want a car on campus, and we support that.
[1:34:14] We just haven't had the space.
[1:34:16] So we do see this as kind of although I would really like a 90ft baseball diamond.
[1:34:21] We see this as
[1:34:22] being kind of the next important project that we're looking to to accomplish.
[1:34:26] Thank you.
[1:34:26] And we have discussed this with the high school administration,
[1:34:29] because both the 90ft and the parking lot seem to kind of rise to the top,
[1:34:33] and obviously they would impact the high school the most.
[1:34:36] They are in support of a parking lot as well, though they would really love
[1:34:40] a 90ft baseball diamond.
[1:34:41] They understand that the parking lot has been an issue for for a long time.
[1:34:46] It got more restricted,
[1:34:48] you know, due to some of the town's decisions, which we agree with.
[1:34:52] The town had more spots that they led available at the park type of thing,
[1:34:57] but they had to restrict that because they wanted anyone
[1:34:59] to be able to use the park during the day as well.
[1:35:01] So we agree with the town.
[1:35:03] We work really well with the town, but not restricted parking even more so
[1:35:07] parking was restricted already, got restricted even more, and we want to
[1:35:11] kind of support the kids and the families in a way knowing that more is needed.
[1:35:17] And the town of Goffstown is growing.
[1:35:19] I want to make sure people realize this last.
[1:35:22] So one of the associated with House Bill 1300, there's a formula
[1:35:27] that you have to use to figure out what your local tax cap would be.
[1:35:30] And part of that includes the addition
[1:35:33] of new properties that have been developed in the town.
[1:35:36] Not a reappraisal.
[1:35:38] Not you've added a percentage to the overall evaluation.
[1:35:43] We had over $38 million of new
[1:35:46] properties added to Goffstown in the last calendar year.
[1:35:49] Goffstown is growing, so the tax base continues to expand.
[1:35:54] That's why we have more money
[1:35:55] and impact fees, because there have been a lot of building projects. So
[1:36:01] 38 million, so.
[1:36:02] 38 million added to the added to the tax base.
[1:36:06] That's a big growth.
[1:36:07] And one year that's a lot of growth.
[1:36:09] Yeah.
[1:36:12] What additional piece about parking.
[1:36:13] It's not just schools.
[1:36:15] Anybody's ever been here for football or even voting or any of the other sports.
[1:36:20] Parking is a tough, tough sell sometimes.
[1:36:24] So it's not just for students in schools.
[1:36:26] It's also for the community as well.
[1:36:28] And if there's two organizations with things on the same day,
[1:36:32] then it's a mess.
[1:36:35] So really what the two motions that Mr.
[1:36:37] Totten recommended, we're not recommending this
[1:36:41] because we don't want the board to have oversight.
[1:36:43] We're trying to do this to make it a little more expeditious.
[1:36:45] So if the board is inclined, you're welcome to.
[1:36:48] We can put each step on your agenda as we go, the approval of the RFP
[1:36:53] evaluation, the piece of if what I think Scott and Mr.
[1:36:58] Loring are recommending, if you'd like to give us the green light,
[1:37:00] we're happy to do those on your behalf, and it'll happen much more quickly.
[1:37:05] Great. With that.
[1:37:07] Any more questions or comments?
[1:37:09] Not I will accept them. Oh I'm sorry.
[1:37:11] Comment that I feel like the students
[1:37:13] and community have spoken, that this would be hugely impactful.
[1:37:16] And so I feel pretty strongly about living forward quickly that.
[1:37:20] You are.
[1:37:22] Anybody like to make a motion?
[1:37:22] I'll make a motion
[1:37:23] to authorize the superintendent or designee to issue the RFP for the rear
[1:37:27] parking lot expansion project on or before September 15th, 2026.
[1:37:32] Motion by Shane, seconded by Adam.
[1:37:35] Okay, any further questions or comments?
[1:37:38] Seeing none, we'll call the roll.
[1:37:40] All those in favor of this motion to execute the RFP, please.
[1:37:44] Second, by saying I opposed.
[1:37:47] We want it. We want it.
[1:37:50] Absolutely. Any opposed?
[1:37:52] Any abstentions are unanimous. Okay.
[1:37:55] And then Shane, do you have a second motion?
[1:37:57] I would love to make a second motion to authorize the superintendent
[1:38:00] or designee to review the projects RFP bid submissions, make
[1:38:03] the bid award decision, and execute contracts up to the project's
[1:38:06] cost allocation that will be set in nonpublic sessions evening.
[1:38:10] Second by Adam.
[1:38:12] Further questions or comments.
[1:38:14] Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye.
[1:38:18] Any opposed?
[1:38:19] Any abstentions. Yeah.
[1:38:22] And again, I think this is great.
[1:38:23] Turning ideation into execution, getting this done as quickly as possible.
[1:38:29] Okay.
[1:38:30] Moving on to our second old business, our Q&A policies, Mr.
[1:38:35] Shane.
[1:38:36] All right. So we have four policies in front of us.
[1:38:39] And you will all recall that these are policies
[1:38:41] that are recommended for deletion.
[1:38:42] So tonight is our Q&A session.
[1:38:45] If people have questions about them and then they will come back to our
[1:38:48] at our next board meeting, which will be on October 5th for adoption at that point.
[1:38:54] So if anyone asks questions tonight, we can talk about those.
[1:38:56] Otherwise they will move forward
[1:38:58] and lay over until the next board meeting where we will adopt them.
[1:39:02] And by saying adopt them, I mean we will delete them.
[1:39:07] Any questions for Shane?
[1:39:08] Yeah.
[1:39:09] So the access to school buildings,
[1:39:14] why do we want to delete that.
[1:39:17] If I remember correctly.
[1:39:18] What are we talking.
[1:39:19] We talked a long time ago. Yeah.
[1:39:21] This is another example of about a 25 year old policy
[1:39:24] that essentially doesn't give anyone anything, any authorizations
[1:39:29] to be on or to access school buildings that they don't already have statutorily.
[1:39:33] So, okay.
[1:39:34] The school Boards association, a lot of these old policies
[1:39:37] like eBay repairs and Ed recycling, they're just super dated.
[1:39:44] So at the time, you know, in in the year 2000,
[1:39:47] that recycling policy was new and innovative.
[1:39:50] And now recycling is just part of how we do business, right.
[1:39:53] So there are things that we just don't have to have policies for anymore.
[1:39:57] And these four are examples, by the way.
[1:39:59] There are more coming.
[1:40:00] So we the Policy Review Committee has been kind of quietly and strategically
[1:40:05] going through all of the policies and are looking at anything
[1:40:09] that hasn't been touched in a while.
[1:40:11] We're making sure that we have the latest versions of of policies,
[1:40:15] and these ones are just really old and outdated.
[1:40:20] Okay.
[1:40:21] Yeah.
[1:40:21] I think one of the things we talked about is that when this policy was created,
[1:40:25] we have a whole new way of accessing the buildings now.
[1:40:27] So it's kind of like Brian said, it's outdated.
[1:40:33] But no action tonight.
[1:40:36] Any other questions for Shane?
[1:40:38] Okay. Seeing none, we will move on.
[1:40:40] So those will come back on October 5th and we will adopt slash.
[1:40:45] Delete that.
[1:40:46] Thank you, Mr. Shane.
[1:40:47] Thank you. Okay. Moving on to new business.
[1:40:49] Our first item is a guess.
[1:40:52] New field trip and something that will be brought to the board for approval.
[1:40:55] I will turn it over to the superintendent.
[1:40:57] So we have two requests.
[1:40:59] These are both out of state.
[1:41:01] So the reason these are coming to the board is because they're out of state,
[1:41:04] or they're overnight field trips, and these two are both out of state.
[1:41:08] We have a group that will be going to the Museum of Fine
[1:41:12] Arts, one of my favorite places on the planet, at the end of October.
[1:41:15] And a second
[1:41:17] trip, which will be up to Ogunquit, Maine.
[1:41:21] I'm sorry, I should have said the Museum of Fine Arts is in Boston.
[1:41:25] The Ogunquit Playhouse is for
[1:41:27] a musical production of a new play called Small Town.
[1:41:32] So those would both be with supervised.
[1:41:36] Mrs. McCann will be going on the performing arts trip,
[1:41:39] and a number of teachers will be going to the Museum of Fine Arts,
[1:41:43] about 40 students for both trips.
[1:41:48] Do we want to improve them separately or together?
[1:41:50] Together?
[1:41:53] Any questions? Adam.
[1:41:54] So are these for
[1:41:57] classes?
[1:41:59] Clubs? Honor societies. What?
[1:42:01] Like that's the only thing that.
[1:42:02] So the the the performance
[1:42:06] at Ogunquit Playhouse is for performing arts students.
[1:42:09] And the other class is our art classes.
[1:42:13] Okay.
[1:42:14] So it's a variety of art enrichment knowledge for each.
[1:42:17] It's all art classes.
[1:42:19] It's three different art teachers. Okay.
[1:42:22] So I think the different classes have different areas of focus
[1:42:25] when they go to the Museum of Fine Arts.
[1:42:26] Yeah, but it's for students enrolled.
[1:42:28] In the class, enrolled in specific courses.
[1:42:30] Extracurricular or anything. Correct? Okay.
[1:42:35] The fine arts has no cost.
[1:42:38] Is that free to the students?
[1:42:40] That is correct.
[1:42:41] And the performing arts one is about $30 per student.
[1:42:46] And that includes the bus and the play ticket, which is a pretty good deal.
[1:42:53] Jenny.
[1:42:54] Yeah, I'd like to make a motion if we're done
[1:42:57] to accept both of these trips.
[1:43:01] Okay.
[1:43:01] I have a motion from Janine to accept the trips and approve them as presented.
[1:43:06] Seconded by Dan.
[1:43:07] Any further questions or comments?
[1:43:11] Seeing no questions or comments.
[1:43:13] All those in favor of adopting or approving
[1:43:17] these at a state field trip signify by saying aye.
[1:43:21] Any opposed?
[1:43:22] Any abstentions?
[1:43:24] We are unanimous. Great.
[1:43:27] Thank you.
[1:43:28] Okay.
[1:43:29] New business B board resignation.
[1:43:32] So under policy. BB.
[1:43:36] There is a process that we must go through to a point.
[1:43:40] A new school board member.
[1:43:43] I'm going to have the superintendent lay out the process for us.
[1:43:47] Talk a little bit about kind of the next steps associated with this.
[1:43:50] And the reason why we're moving on this is
[1:43:54] I personally feel it's important that we have a new board member
[1:43:58] and a full board represented as we go through budget deliberations.
[1:44:02] Budgets start the first meeting in October.
[1:44:07] So as part of this, I am asking for
[1:44:09] us to come back together the week of the 24th.
[1:44:13] But again, I'll start with the superintendent laying out the process,
[1:44:16] and then we'll kind of fill in and approve the details as we move forward. Yep.
[1:44:20] Thank you Jared.
[1:44:21] So what we would do is we would put this in the newspaper.
[1:44:25] We would put notifications out to the schools, including in newsletters
[1:44:29] and on social media.
[1:44:30] And what we're recommending is two weeks from today, which is Monday,
[1:44:35] the 28th of September,
[1:44:37] to hold a special school board meeting that evening for the sole purpose
[1:44:41] of interviewing and selecting a replacement for replacement for Vanessa.
[1:44:47] So I think we should also discuss, Mr.
[1:44:50] Talbert, whether we are going to do those interviews
[1:44:54] and those discussions in public session or in nonpublic session,
[1:44:58] and whether we do them on camera with GTV, which is what we've done in the past.
[1:45:03] So my recommendation would be the process that we've done in the past is
[1:45:07] we let people know that when they come in,
[1:45:10] we would ask people to give a highlight of their resume,
[1:45:14] they would submit their resume ahead of time.
[1:45:16] It would all go to Mrs. Shante.
[1:45:18] We would collect those and we would make packets for the board.
[1:45:21] When we have the session on the 28th,
[1:45:24] I would think we would probably do them in alphabetical order.
[1:45:27] We tend to not try to play any kind of favorites,
[1:45:30] and we would have people come in and generally the interested people
[1:45:34] would all come at the same time, and then we would just one by one,
[1:45:37] ask them to come up and talk a little bit, a little bit about themselves
[1:45:41] and why they're interested in serving on the board.
[1:45:43] And then the board would then go into nonpublic session.
[1:45:47] You would be able to deliberate as a board on which person you'd like to choose,
[1:45:52] and then you would come out and make that appointment
[1:45:56] in the public session at the end of the meeting.
[1:45:58] So that's typically the process that we would go through.
[1:46:02] It's entirely up to the board whether you want to
[1:46:05] again, do these on camera or not,
[1:46:08] and whether that date of the 28th, Monday the 28th works for folks.
[1:46:13] I completely agree with the chair.
[1:46:16] Having your full board seated for budget deliberations would be important.
[1:46:21] And also the other committees that Vanessa was on, such as support
[1:46:25] staff negotiations.
[1:46:27] We need to replace somebody on those all of Vanessa's committee assignments.
[1:46:32] It doesn't have to necessarily
[1:46:33] be the new person that you might choose, but we would need to do that as well.
[1:46:39] So let's let's first break down.
[1:46:41] So the action again is we'll put out in the newspaper to the public.
[1:46:46] And I believe it's a union leader.
[1:46:48] We will be looking for any members
[1:46:50] that are interested to provide their letter of interest
[1:46:55] or letter of intent to awesome executive assistant over here.
[1:46:59] By September 24th at 4:30 p.m..
[1:47:02] That will be the cutoff for receiving any of those applicants.
[1:47:06] And then I'm asking the board, are we good?
[1:47:09] Coming together on September 28th, which is two Mondays from today,
[1:47:15] to do a special meeting for the selection of an individual.
[1:47:20] So I'm seeing a head shake consensus.
[1:47:22] So call the chair.
[1:47:23] We will have a meeting 6 p.m.
[1:47:25] or 7 p.m..
[1:47:27] Good for people because I don't know how many applicants we might get.
[1:47:30] Earlier is better for six. Six.
[1:47:33] Are we okay with 6:00 on Mondays for the 28th?
[1:47:37] Will that be difficult for people coming from work that want to be applicant?
[1:47:42] If if some people have to show up a little bit late for work
[1:47:46] or after the 6:00, we will make sure to bump them to the end of the
[1:47:53] interview process.
[1:47:54] If they all say seven or later, then I guess we'll do it seven.
[1:47:58] But at this time we'll say 6:00 on the 28th
[1:48:01] and we'll be our special
[1:48:04] board meeting.
[1:48:05] One note from what the superintendent listed.
[1:48:08] I think it's important that we have full transparency
[1:48:12] on this process, inclusive of the deliberations of who selected.
[1:48:16] My approach is to have no nonpublic session
[1:48:20] for the deliberation or for the questions, and I just want to lay
[1:48:24] that out, that that will be the process that we move forward with.
[1:48:27] Unless if there is strong
[1:48:29] pushback from the board that we need to have this in nonpublic.
[1:48:32] Rita.
[1:48:33] Yeah, I will share what I shared the last time around.
[1:48:36] We did this.
[1:48:37] I'm strongly against having the deliberations in public.
[1:48:43] I, you know, as somebody who's hiring
[1:48:46] somebody, that part is never public.
[1:48:50] I don't think it's a thing of transparency.
[1:48:53] I really think we talk about people.
[1:48:56] We're going to talk about
[1:48:59] those people
[1:49:02] in public on recording, and you have to talk about things
[1:49:07] that are not things that you would say in front of a large audience.
[1:49:12] And if you even think about how we vote for our candidates,
[1:49:17] they put their names out there and their eligibility, and people vote in private.
[1:49:23] They're not having these conversations.
[1:49:27] It's a private thing.
[1:49:29] And I just think the HR standards of,
[1:49:33] you know, those kinds of things don't get done
[1:49:35] in public.
[1:49:39] Adam, go ahead.
[1:49:40] I just want to clarify first,
[1:49:42] the appointment is just until the election and Mark.
[1:49:44] Right. Correct, correct.
[1:49:45] And then I just I want to echo what Rita said.
[1:49:48] I'm strongly opposed to deliberating in public.
[1:49:52] Really for everything you just said.
[1:49:54] I'm not going to repeat everything, but.
[1:49:59] My rebuttal to
[1:50:00] what was discussed is just that this is not a higher this is not here.
[1:50:05] This is an appointment of a position.
[1:50:07] We get the same thing if we are, you know, the state is electing a Da
[1:50:12] or if they are doing a consent of an individual that's being nominated,
[1:50:16] it is always in public for the transparency that is needed.
[1:50:21] Yes, we must be and we will be governed by our policies.
[1:50:24] So again, no derogatory statements about any members
[1:50:27] would be accepted in public as well as nonpublic.
[1:50:31] But I just think that this is a political board
[1:50:36] because it's a political position.
[1:50:38] We are not individuals selecting our individual person.
[1:50:41] We are a board selecting the best person that we think would fit into the position.
[1:50:46] So I'm just trying to do what the state does
[1:50:48] and what the federal government does.
[1:50:50] And when we appoint a member of our board, that will be having chain.
[1:50:55] I would just say, as I believe, the lone
[1:50:59] member of the board who was appointed many moons ago.
[1:51:02] All right. Last one standing. As. We do this all the time.
[1:51:04] But but I.
[1:51:08] Would have no problem doing it in public.
[1:51:11] But I do understand from the HR perspective.
[1:51:14] That.
[1:51:15] I guess that perspective.
[1:51:16] As well. So,
[1:51:19] you. Know, I've been through the process and I remember.
[1:51:21] It was nerve. Wracking and you're nervous. And.
[1:51:24] But actually, if I'm the. Candidate.
[1:51:26] I'd like to see what people are saying about me on TV when I leave.
[1:51:30] But that's me.
[1:51:33] My gut reaction is to agree with Rita and Adam.
[1:51:37] I, I guess I follow up
[1:51:38] question of being a rookie is you guys have done this before.
[1:51:41] I know that for fact because I sat over there to do this once.
[1:51:44] Thanks, by the way, for not voting me in.
[1:51:46] What?
[1:51:50] How was the reception the voters spoke?
[1:51:52] How was the reception?
[1:51:54] I presume we did it the way Bryan described. Right.
[1:51:56] How was the reception?
[1:51:58] Having that conversation in public was there?
[1:52:02] I mean, was there any feedback on that?
[1:52:03] The people loved it. They hated it, or.
[1:52:06] We didn't do it in public.
[1:52:07] We did it in nonpublic.
[1:52:09] And I like that part like from a from a community perspective.
[1:52:12] Is there any pushback for doing that in private?
[1:52:15] No, no.
[1:52:18] It's always much better.
[1:52:19] There's always.
[1:52:20] Members, I'm sure, get feedback through our networks that that are there.
[1:52:24] But I remember during the time that you were applying for the position,
[1:52:28] one of the questions that I asked
[1:52:30] was, would you have a problem if we discuss the nomination in public?
[1:52:33] And every member said, I have no problem with that,
[1:52:37] and I would imagine that would be something that we would continue to
[1:52:41] ask if we are going to have that deliberation in public.
[1:52:45] Could you help, like
[1:52:46] interview them in public and then go private?
[1:52:50] That's what we had done in the past.
[1:52:52] So you could do it.
[1:52:54] You could do it in public.
[1:52:55] You just have to be careful that there
[1:52:57] you have to be very careful that these are people that are
[1:53:00] that are coming in there volunteering to fulfill this term.
[1:53:05] They're presenting you with a letter, their resume.
[1:53:08] And I just we have to be careful not to have any, any kind of harmful
[1:53:12] reputation discussion with people.
[1:53:13] So if you're having a conversation and you think Dan might be
[1:53:19] a great person to a point to the board, but another board member says
[1:53:22] I'm concerned about his availability, seems like he's got a busy life.
[1:53:27] You can't do that in public.
[1:53:28] You just have to be really careful.
[1:53:30] So if you want to do it in public, you can do it.
[1:53:33] You just can't harm anyone's reputation.
[1:53:36] So you could come together and you can have a very
[1:53:40] vanilla conversation about who you're supporting and why,
[1:53:45] but without the why,
[1:53:47] because you're not going to be able to say, geez, I didn't think.
[1:53:50] Dan, I thought Dan's background was weak in this area.
[1:53:53] I think he doesn't understand this. I mean, hypothetically.
[1:53:58] Here, here.
[1:54:00] Now. How do you feel?
[1:54:02] So I just want to tell you, you know.
[1:54:06] And again, we don't know if we're going to have one person
[1:54:09] or you're going to have 17 people, so you just don't know.
[1:54:13] And if you got 8 or 10 people, and to be able to have
[1:54:17] a thoughtful conversation in public about that, I would just caution you.
[1:54:23] Jimmy.
[1:54:24] I, I agree with my two friends here
[1:54:28] because sometimes when you make a comment.
[1:54:31] You mean it like terribly innocuous.
[1:54:36] But that person who's hearing it or other people
[1:54:40] look into that comment differently and
[1:54:45] then, you know, you look like a terribly bad person
[1:54:48] because of the way they're reading your comment,
[1:54:52] because we all don't have the same mindsets.
[1:54:55] So I think sometimes you could get yourself
[1:54:58] into all kinds of trouble by saying things,
[1:55:04] you know, just not meaning anything,
[1:55:08] but that it coming out to other people as,
[1:55:11] as being mean or.
[1:55:15] Laura.
[1:55:16] I might agreement with Jenny and Adam
[1:55:19] and that I think it's so important that the discussion happens in public.
[1:55:24] I mean, when we when you run for school board, you get the chance to speak.
[1:55:29] That's so important. And for us to have a Q&A so important.
[1:55:32] But I think for us to have a conversation and about a nonpublic
[1:55:36] is very important for the candidates privacy.
[1:55:39] I think that if we were to propose it that way, I would be afraid
[1:55:42] that would be a barrier to people coming forward as well like that.
[1:55:45] That just doesn't feel like a very welcoming,
[1:55:49] just in my opinion, I would be worried about
[1:55:52] how any conversation, how that could go just just in public
[1:55:56] like that doesn't feel like we're respecting them.
[1:56:02] I think now too, that where we're
[1:56:06] trying to get a candidate
[1:56:09] just before budgets
[1:56:12] and we're having a person come in completely new
[1:56:16] who has no clue about school boards, and we all know it takes
[1:56:20] you at least a year to have a clue of what's going on.
[1:56:23] If we're having a person come in and we're expecting them to jump in and
[1:56:30] having a part in budgets
[1:56:33] and all of the things that we're going to be talking about,
[1:56:37] I think we have to vote
[1:56:40] for somebody that we feel comfortable
[1:56:43] that will fit on our team and will work on our team
[1:56:47] and help us get to that budget that passes.
[1:56:52] And so somebody may be just a wonderful person,
[1:56:56] but if we don't think that that person can work with us and
[1:57:01] help us bring a budget forth
[1:57:04] that can get past, that's what we're looking for
[1:57:09] at this point, because their term is up as soon as our budgets done.
[1:57:14] So we're looking at a short term person
[1:57:18] for a very specific,
[1:57:23] problem.
[1:57:24] So I think we have to be comfortable and not necessarily the
[1:57:30] the community be comfortable with this person.
[1:57:32] I mean, it would be nice if they were, but I think they have to understand
[1:57:36] that we have a job that we have to do.
[1:57:40] If our students want to have a good school year next year.
[1:57:45] And I think that's more important than,
[1:57:49] you know, looking completely
[1:57:51] transparent, bringing people and listening, you know, in public
[1:57:55] because I think we have a bigger job than that right now.
[1:58:01] I thought.
[1:58:03] Just to that point, I think we
[1:58:07] we created the handout, what it means to run for school board.
[1:58:12] I think this would be a great opportunity to share this
[1:58:15] with anybody that's interested, so they know ahead of time.
[1:58:18] I recall the last time we had to do this.
[1:58:21] A lot of them had questions like this.
[1:58:24] They didn't know how many meetings that they're signing up for.
[1:58:27] So I think it would be really great to share that
[1:58:30] when we make the announcement and put the information out there,
[1:58:34] because then they know ahead of time what they're signing up for.
[1:58:38] And the other one, and I don't mean this as a rebuttal,
[1:58:41] but I just want to say that this is not a political position.
[1:58:47] This is this is nonpartisan.
[1:58:51] This is a position about the schools.
[1:58:53] It's not one party or the other.
[1:58:55] So I think that's important.
[1:58:58] And I agree with you.
[1:58:59] I don't think it's like a whole you got an R&D.
[1:59:02] I don't mean that is a political I mean it's a voted position.
[1:59:05] That's what I mean by political.
[1:59:08] Any other questions?
[1:59:10] I was more for all the transparency
[1:59:12] until Brian brought up that I could be held.
[1:59:17] Liable for.
[1:59:18] Statements because I don't. Not you.
[1:59:20] The board. Would be. Yeah. So so.
[1:59:23] Maybe nonpublic is a better way to go, because Jack doesn't
[1:59:28] always know how to use.
[1:59:30] Only if I can just share.
[1:59:32] The board members are aware of this.
[1:59:33] Just maybe the public isn't.
[1:59:35] The board can't meet in nonpublic to talk about board members.
[1:59:38] So once someone is appointed or elected to the board,
[1:59:42] you cannot have a conversation in nonpublic about a member of the body.
[1:59:47] So until they're appointed you can.
[1:59:51] So once they're appointed, if if there was a question about how Jared
[1:59:56] did something or how Jenny did something, you could only talk about that
[1:59:59] at this table in public session, you couldn't go into nonpublic.
[2:00:03] But I just think and remember, you don't know how many you're going to get.
[2:00:07] So you might sit in this room for an hour and you might have three great people,
[2:00:12] and you're going to have a conversation and going to pick one.
[2:00:14] Or you might sit in this room for four hours because you have 20 people
[2:00:18] who want to come in
[2:00:19] and be part of the board, and then you have to deliberate on all 20 of them.
[2:00:23] And I just want to be mindful that I think the deliberations you do a nonprofit.
[2:00:29] Any further questions?
[2:00:31] I agree with what is said to I think with people coming in that
[2:00:36] you need to be really upfront with the calendars that we have going on now
[2:00:43] and that you're going to be coming to a Julian meetings,
[2:00:47] less whatever committees that you've been put on and
[2:00:53] you know, you're not coming in for two meetings per month
[2:00:59] because a lot of people just think they're coming in for,
[2:01:01] you know, two meetings per month.
[2:01:03] And that's the obligation of school board.
[2:01:05] It's not.
[2:01:06] And this specialized one that we're doing right now during budget season,
[2:01:12] I mean, you can just see all of the meetings that we have.
[2:01:15] So a person that's running for
[2:01:18] this has to know that they're going to put a lot of meeting time in.
[2:01:22] It's not the regular two months, two meetings a month.
[2:01:27] And, you know, a couple of committee meetings maybe.
[2:01:31] And speaking of a committee meetings.
[2:01:32] You know, with the new person coming in,
[2:01:34] we want to make sure it's the best fit for them as well.
[2:01:36] So we might have a little bit of reshuffling that may have to occur.
[2:01:39] Yeah.
[2:01:39] But I imagine that they you know, they go into where they they're needed
[2:01:43] and we might have to accommodate some of that as well. Absolutely.
[2:01:47] Any other questions or comments?
[2:01:51] So this is board discretion.
[2:01:55] I will accept a motion to overrule the chair to have a
[2:01:59] deliberation and nonpublic.
[2:02:01] But I will need that to be that motion to be made and seconded
[2:02:05] at this point in time, to override the chair, to have the deliberation
[2:02:09] for the appointment of this member to be in nonpublic.
[2:02:15] All due respect to our chair,
[2:02:17] I would like to make a motion that we do the deliberations in nonpublic.
[2:02:22] Have a motion.
[2:02:23] By due respect, I will second. Absolutely.
[2:02:26] And this doesn't hurt me ego.
[2:02:28] At all.
[2:02:31] Absolutely not.
[2:02:31] Just people that know me
[2:02:32] know that
[2:02:32] I've been pushing for certain things and this is one of them,
[2:02:35] and I completely respect the decisions being made.
[2:02:37] So with that, there is a motion and a second to override the chair
[2:02:41] to have the deliberations and nonpublic.
[2:02:44] Any further questions or comments?
[2:02:46] Yes, Shane.
[2:02:49] I think I'm going to abstain on this one.
[2:02:50] Just a heads up.
[2:02:53] I don't know, I just feel weird about the whole thing because I,
[2:02:56] I'm kind of off of the transparency but also see the both sides.
[2:02:59] So I'm going to abstain from this vote.
[2:03:02] But I respect both sides of the argument.
[2:03:03] And you I think you both made very valid arguments.
[2:03:06] So thank you.
[2:03:09] Any other comments?
[2:03:10] Great. Seeing none. We'll call the roll.
[2:03:12] So all those are overriding the chair and having the deliberations
[2:03:15] for the appointed position to be in nonpublic signify by saying aye. Aye.
[2:03:19] All those opposed.
[2:03:20] Nay any abstentions.
[2:03:23] Okay. So we got 711.
[2:03:26] Great.
[2:03:26] Thank you very much team and I appreciate it.
[2:03:29] 6166. One one.
[2:03:30] There's only eight of. Us right now
[2:03:33] one. Thank you Belinda and madam.
[2:03:37] Great.
[2:03:43] I appreciate it.
[2:03:44] And honestly I think that was a great, great conversation.
[2:03:46] Great debate.
[2:03:47] Thank you team.
[2:03:48] Okay so open house attendance.
[2:03:50] So I know that we had the crash course of open houses to have board members there.
[2:03:55] And again I appreciate Jack Shane Laura
[2:03:59] for kind of taking up the mantle of doing this
[2:04:02] without any kind of decisions, but looking at future ones.
[2:04:06] Belinda, do we have coverage?
[2:04:08] I know that Red has kind of
[2:04:09] talked about earlier, but do we have coverage for MVVM on the 17th?
[2:04:13] We're looking for at least two, if not three individuals.
[2:04:16] We we have Jared and Adam signed up for the 17th.
[2:04:22] Okay.
[2:04:22] And we are happy to take an additional one because I know that.
[2:04:26] We can have up to three.
[2:04:27] Yeah, we can have up to three.
[2:04:28] We can actually have up to four if needed.
[2:04:31] But if we want to have a third, I would ask for people
[2:04:35] to send an email to Rita and Belinda to get coverage.
[2:04:41] That's the 17th.
[2:04:42] What about the 22nd?
[2:04:44] Do we have coverage of at least.
[2:04:45] We've got Jenny and we have one opening.
[2:04:50] So is anybody available to take the 22nd, which I believe is it Tuesday?
[2:04:55] Tuesday? Yes, I know that. One second.
[2:04:58] I can do the 22nd.
[2:05:00] Dan can do the 22nd.
[2:05:02] And Jack, you want.
[2:05:03] To I'm out on the 22nd and the 29th.
[2:05:06] Those are the budget committee meetings.
[2:05:08] So let's get those early to Tom, right?
[2:05:11] Yes, exactly.
[2:05:16] Okay.
[2:05:16] I can probably do the 17th okay.
[2:05:19] So we got.
[2:05:21] So the 17th we've got two.
[2:05:23] So you'd be. A third. But yeah.
[2:05:25] And yeah being the third would be good.
[2:05:27] Yeah. And that's. That's very.
[2:05:30] Now am I wearing my shirt.
[2:05:31] Or not. Yes. Just wash it.
[2:05:36] Between.
[2:05:40] Okay.
[2:05:41] So we have three people for the. 17th.
[2:05:44] Two for the 22nd. Okay
[2:05:48] Glenn. Let's go to Glenn Lake.
[2:05:49] So we have Glenn Lake on the 29th from 530 to 630.
[2:05:54] What day. Is that?
[2:05:55] That's a Tuesday again.
[2:05:57] Do we need some more for. The 29.
[2:05:58] So I'm signed up for the 29th I think Jenny saying she's available.
[2:06:03] To do the 29th if you want to put me on.
[2:06:06] Okay, okay.
[2:06:08] And that's only an hour.
[2:06:11] It's great.
[2:06:12] You'll have the little puppy there as well.
[2:06:14] Steal the show.
[2:06:16] Okay.
[2:06:16] And then guess we have one day, which is October 1st.
[2:06:20] And what day is that?
[2:06:21] That's a Thursday.
[2:06:24] And our open house.
[2:06:26] We're going to have a table set up.
[2:06:28] We're going to be on our nice Sue 19 tie dye shirt.
[2:06:31] So you know who we are.
[2:06:32] So don't wait to see it.
[2:06:34] Gonna have my camera ready. So
[2:06:37] Jared and
[2:06:39] I am signed up for the high school.
[2:06:43] So if anyone else is Laura.
[2:06:49] I, I didn't.
[2:06:50] Okay. But if you want. Okay.
[2:06:52] So I've got you on.
[2:06:57] The Mountain View on the 22nd.
[2:07:00] And do you want to be a Glenn Lake or there's room.
[2:07:04] Yeah. That's fine.
[2:07:06] If we can have up to four people, if we go five, then we have to have a quorum.
[2:07:10] And it's just not what.
[2:07:12] We want to meet. Yes.
[2:07:15] So I mean three, I think three would be great for
[2:07:19] getting pushed, but no.
[2:07:22] And I appreciate that this is something new that we're trying.
[2:07:24] And I think it's been received very well by the individuals coming up.
[2:07:28] And I think as we continue to kind of iterate through these,
[2:07:32] I think it will be very beneficial for everybody.
[2:07:35] And I'm happy to send this out with everybody's name in it.
[2:07:39] And if if you want to be at any of the other ones, just let me know.
[2:07:46] Or just show up with the shirt on.
[2:07:49] And have the shirt on.
[2:07:51] Okay.
[2:07:53] Any further questions, comments about even the process that we've gone through?
[2:07:57] I know we've talked about a few times.
[2:08:00] Okay, we'll move on to staffing.
[2:08:02] So on the staffing sheet this evening, I'm very pleased that we have
[2:08:06] 123456789 student observers coming to Goffstown High School.
[2:08:12] These are all Southern
[2:08:13] New Hampshire University students who are aspiring educators.
[2:08:17] So we continue to hope and encourage young folks to continue to go into teaching.
[2:08:22] So no action required of the board for your approval this evening.
[2:08:26] And because this is kind of a long, a long list, I'm hoping that
[2:08:30] you'll just approve the staffing sheet without me reading all these.
[2:08:33] But we have a few folks leaving and some more folks coming in,
[2:08:37] and we also have our co-curricular sports and non-sports nominations.
[2:08:44] What questions?
[2:08:45] Or just just a curious question,
[2:08:49] are any of the student observers from Goffstown?
[2:08:52] Brian.
[2:08:54] I did not recognize any of these names.
[2:08:56] Mrs. bean, do you recognize any of these, Mrs.
[2:08:58] Koller?
[2:09:00] I do not.
[2:09:01] Okay, just just curious as to if we had kids.
[2:09:04] Coming.
[2:09:04] Back, but I think it's just a familiar sounding name.
[2:09:07] Okay.
[2:09:09] Other questions.
[2:09:09] Or comments. Is a comment. Comment.
[2:09:11] Go ahead.
[2:09:13] Just want to point out Brenna on the soccer boys team be a great job.
[2:09:19] That's all.
[2:09:21] Big fan.
[2:09:22] Thank you Dan.
[2:09:26] Okay well I will accept. A
[2:09:29] the approvals as presented.
[2:09:32] So we'd like to make the motion I'm sorry Jenny.
[2:09:34] Yep. Do we I saw in our information
[2:09:39] tonight that we have
[2:09:42] Eagle Scout that did our Crest country course.
[2:09:46] I don't see a cross country advisor.
[2:09:50] Yeah. It's already.
[2:09:51] In place.
[2:09:52] It's already. In place. Awesome. So we do have the. Team going.
[2:09:55] We do.
[2:09:56] Thank you.
[2:09:57] And I have not seen the course, so I'm excited to go out
[2:10:01] and actually see and get on the course myself.
[2:10:07] I'll make a motion to.
[2:10:09] No. No no I was.
[2:10:10] Going to motion.
[2:10:12] I want to thunder.
[2:10:14] All right.
[2:10:14] I'll make a motion to approve
[2:10:18] the staffing sheet as presented by the superintendent.
[2:10:21] Which by Shane, seconded by Rita. Yes.
[2:10:23] Sorry.
[2:10:24] You. Further questions and comments.
[2:10:27] All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye.
[2:10:29] Any opposed? Any abstentions?
[2:10:32] We are unanimous.
[2:10:33] Okay.
[2:10:34] So three things.
[2:10:37] Okay. Here's my list.
[2:10:40] First thing, the Maple
[2:10:42] Ave academic advancement. Yes.
[2:10:46] Second thing.
[2:10:47] And again you can vote any of these guys off the island.
[2:10:51] Second is the presentation of the GHS timber frame project.
[2:10:56] We they have been on the list before when we approved it.
[2:10:59] But this will be the end of the project.
[2:11:03] Number three has got to be the parking lot right.
[2:11:05] The ongoing. Oh he knows long as the.
[2:11:08] It was the last meeting we put the parking lot.
[2:11:12] So I actually put the not so much
[2:11:16] the board member resignation but that whole discussion.
[2:11:20] Okay wait wait wait wait wait wait.
[2:11:22] Through frugal administration of the school, we have saved the taxpayers
[2:11:27] 1.7 $1.689 million into the next year.
[2:11:32] We're not going to call that out.
[2:11:33] It's not necessarily a saving.
[2:11:35] It's a it's off the tax. Right.
[2:11:37] It's it. Is still the lowest K.
[2:11:40] To 12.
[2:11:41] Cost in the state.
[2:11:42] So yes, it is saving.
[2:11:44] Just the
[2:11:47] the pavilion.
[2:11:48] Can we mention in there that Ms.
[2:11:50] is going to be building or they're going to be.
[2:11:52] Because it's all part of the same thing.
[2:11:55] So in my my 30 character limit I'll try to fit that in.
[2:12:02] The other thing
[2:12:04] for Dan, I'll just share that the PNC is talking about
[2:12:10] not limiting it to three things, but to do kind of a summary
[2:12:14] of the highlights of what we think is the most important, but more to come.
[2:12:20] It's not a developed idea, but hold your thought.
[2:12:23] You know of a place in the future.
[2:12:25] I'll give you 15 minutes. Yeah.
[2:12:28] So three things.
[2:12:30] Just something I know we're kind of like try to get for.
[2:12:32] Okay.
[2:12:33] So the three things I have that I'm listening.
[2:12:37] You guys decide what you want.
[2:12:39] The the Maple Ave academic advancement, the president.
[2:12:44] Bartlett. You mean.
[2:12:46] I'm sorry.
[2:12:49] Corrected
[2:12:52] the presentation of the timber frame
[2:12:55] project and subsequent approval of the project at mEMS.
[2:12:59] And the third is the process for appointing
[2:13:03] a new board member due to. The.
[2:13:07] Lock it in.
[2:13:08] Okay.
[2:13:09] Now, try to get this out by tomorrow.
[2:13:13] Okay?
[2:13:14] We do have nonpublic.
[2:13:16] We have three sections of nonpublic.
[2:13:17] There may be some votes that occur in public after our discussions in nonpublic
[2:13:23] for the community to understand how for the first one that we'll be going
[2:13:27] in is under 91, a three Roman numeral two a the dismissal, promotion
[2:13:32] or compensation of any public employee or the discipline of such employee.
[2:13:38] I will accept the motion to go on and on public
[2:13:40] under a from Shane, seconded by.
[2:13:44] Seconded by Jack.
[2:13:46] We will start with Laura. Yes yes.
[2:13:49] Yes yes. Yes. Yes.
[2:13:51] Yes yes we are now in nonpublic.
[2:13:54] Thank you everybody. And.
[2:13:55] I want to thank you all for last week approving me.
[2:13:58] To be.