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Good evening, everyone. It is 6.03. I'll call the meeting to order. Sorry, we're three minutes late. First, I'll start with the roll call. Cody, could we start with you and just go down the line?

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Cody, here. Michelle, here. Bessie, here. Sorry, here. Nancy, here. And Chris is here. And could everyone please rise and join me in the pledge of legions?

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the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, individual, obligatory, and so it's for all.

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Thank you. 2.1. Is there any new agenda items to add?

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No? Okay. 3.1. We want to move into recognitions and celebrations and appointments. So you can academy first day.

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Good evening, everyone. For nearly 25 years, Bacon Academy tradition and first day the

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Bacon Way has brought our school community together and helped us begin each school year

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with energy and excitement. The entire day is planned and run by incredible students

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of the first day committee. Our student leaders organized a school-wide

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pep rally, outdoor activities, and a variety of events designed to welcome our students

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and staff back to Bacon Academy and celebrate the start of a new school year.

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This year's theme was Make It Count.

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This theme is developed by the First Aid Committee.

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Part of that committee's summer work is actually

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working with their advisor to develop leadership skills

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and play out this entire day.

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What Make It Count means is they want to encourage their peers

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to make the most of their time at Bacon by getting involved

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academically and socially, showing school spirit

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and making each day count.

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I would like to take a moment to recognize

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the First Aid student leaders, Delaney Walsh,

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Maddie Ives, Evie Gustafavez, and Alexis Smith, these students work throughout the summer,

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including fundraising efforts to make this day possible for their entire school community.

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We're incredibly grateful for their leadership, dedication, and commitment to bake an academy.

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They are a wonderful example of pride and spirit that makes tradition so special.

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Thank you to our first committee and their advisor, Mrs. Handel, and it was a great successful first

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say. Thank you. Thank you.

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Next, we have up as a trip to Costa Rica.

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Good evening.

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I have Lynn Liska, we're a language teacher and Abigail Van Zyland, one of our state

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graders who are here to share information about their trip to Costa Rica that they took this past

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June.

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First of all, thank you guys for allowing this trip.

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20 students took advantage of it.

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I know some families already had just planned or just didn't work out, but 20 students were able

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to go and I saw four of you at the middle school, so I didn't lose all that enthusiasm and

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experience to the high school. Did you want to pee through it or do you want to just say

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a few things?

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All right, we're going to go by the slide. It was a long trip, it was 18 hours

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board of door, but it's self-interpreting.

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We went to Estina Doka, it's a coffee plantation, it's

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very high up, some of the miles and we learned about how they grow the beans, how they harvest the beans.

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We also learned that most of the immigrants that come to do it are from Honduras,

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Nope, Nicaragua, and they earn about $40 per day for this by hand out in the sun work.

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They also count on the rainy season for the coffee and it did not rain the week we were there

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and it did not wait to be in the week before,

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because Mrs. Nadoo's daughter was there,

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but count on your topic.

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This is going up.

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where are our guide Ed Gardo took us to a waterfall?

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It was very sweet, but very hot that day.

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And it's nice to see the waterfall,

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so it was very hot.

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This is like RNA, which is where we went the same day

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as the coffee plantation.

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And RNA is actually a volcano.

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Not active, they're fine.

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It's enjoyed the pool. There are incredible views. As you can see, it's a rainy season. Everything is lush and green.

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We went to our first community out of three community projects. We helped find home.

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We climbed up and kind of now finished home and helped play it out rapidly.

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I was thinking as I was driving here that this would also be a good field trip or science

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teacher to take because we saw so much flora, fauna, different ecosystems, cloud forest,

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rainforests, that was really amazing.

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We went kayaking in like R&R and then we went to hot springs, which were self-for-hot springs from the volcano.

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It was really cool because a few of us make it out that the hotel would make you.

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Oh, we could see our hotel from the lake view like I am.

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Afterwards, we is defined at 100 kmph.

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It was a nice view very high up.

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Oh, but it was like awesome to get the experience of this show.

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This is one of the reasons that international travel is so great.

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This is just one of those things that you stumble on too.

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We had a kind of a quiet night at the hotel, which would have led to mischievous children.

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But our guide went down and saw some people playing Ultimate for his Vanny.

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Ask them, hey, we've got some students up here.

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Can they play with you?

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So our students went and spoke in Spanish as this person's with people that just lived there.

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we played Ultimate Frisbee, some of the other kids played soccer, some of us

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showed that on the sidelines and you can't get that, like you just travel is

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great because all of a sudden you have these opportunities and it's real and

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it's authentic,

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really good, it's going to be incredible.

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Afterwards we traveled about a hundred and ten miles

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The view was very good and ready to

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run the bus, and so almost everyone took out their

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phone just to get what it was for.

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We also went to a butterfly enclosure, which was attached to a nearest one.

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Our second community based project was helping out our school to catch and helping in their school gardens so they could go there and fetch the bulls.

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It was really cool because my group saw two blackers on us, which are really rare.

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While we were picking up trash from the classroom.

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More of the wildlife we saw that is a blacked one there.

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The nose is different and they bite, as opposed to the grain of bones, which I'll get you

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with your tail.

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Some of the girls took a walk down to go into the Pacific Ocean and another example that

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I was hanging out by the pool.

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You just see there and see the wildlife.

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This on the left is an old mill for making wheels for the ox parts which is how they used to get the coffee to the coast and they actually turned on the old water wheel and we can see all the workings with the mill and that's just some examples of the fish.

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And it was really sweet, because all the kids were concerned about buying souvenirs for their parents and the things that they put on my hand.

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Afterwards, since our third-guided potato was buried on the lookout for animals, we were able to skate on how their monkeys, on our way to a place that you can get over.

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We got to see some folk art stands and we got to take part as well.

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Our last day, we participated in reforestation at our last community based project to where it was helped.

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So since I'm still a middle school teacher, I would love to travel again with middle school

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students, so I expect maybe in the spring I'll be talking to you about maybe going to

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Panama.

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It's almost as long as a trip to Spain, but there's no jet lag.

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And that's a real bonus for your faculty.

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Thank you so much.

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So thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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I'll move on to 3.1 employment of a bacon academy assistant principal.

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I would like to welcome Christian and I've been pronouncing this all night.

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Marcynsic up to the podium where I can introduce her to the board of

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with my recommendation, and then you can have the opportunity to ask any questions that you might have.

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So welcome, Christian.

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It's with great confidence and enthusiasm that I recommend Christian to the Board of Education for appointment as assistant principal of Bacon Academy.

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Our interview committee and some of whom are here tonight.

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Look forward to welcoming Christian to Colchester Public Schools and to the Bacon Academy community.

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Christian is also an experienced instructional leader. Her work has included supporting curriculum

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implementation, leading professional learning, conducting classroom walkthroughs, analyzing

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student data, supervising and evaluating teachers, and working directly with teachers

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to strengthen instructional practices. Her director of teaching and learning specifically

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Highly highlighted Christian's ability to build teacher capacity and increase rigor through curriculum work as well as her skill in identifying and supporting effective classroom instruction.

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A particular significance is Christian's commitment to school climate, student belonging and restorative practices, which ties directly to our goal too.

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She has provided professional learning for staff, modeled restorative conversations, and

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helped develop systems designed to strengthen relationships and student accountability.

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Her leadership reflects an understanding that strong schools are built through positive

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relationships among students, staff, families, and administrators.

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Her references similarly described her work implementing restorative practices, recognizing

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positive student contributions, partnering with families, and creating a school

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environment in which students feel valued and connected.

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Christian brings meaningful high school experience and perspective. She began

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her career as a high school social studies teacher, and her current school, Captain

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Nathan Hale Middle School, operates on a connected campus with commentary

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High School, for schedules, transportation, staff, and resources are shared.

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Christians work there, therefore includes regular collaboration with high school administrators and faculty.

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Christian brings experience, professionalism, energy, student-centered leadership,

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that we believe will complement the administrative team at Bacon Academy.

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Most importantly, she demonstrates a genuine commitment to supporting students, staff and an understanding that effective school leadership requires both high expectations and strong relationships.

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And her official start date, if approved, would be October 13th.

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Does the board have any questions for Christian?

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Any questions?

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questions.

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Thank you.

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One comment.

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Question.

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Hello again.

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I was fortunate enough to be on the panel for the last interview and I just want to say thank

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you.

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Thank you for bringing your wealth of knowledge for your experience and your overall enthusiasm

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for what you do.

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Thank you for bringing that to our district.

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We are so happy to have you.

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I hope that you always know how happy we are to have you and that we're here to support

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you, and I think that you're going to be a fantastic bit with us, so welcome aboard.

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Thank you so much. I really appreciate this opportunity. I want to thank everybody on the interview committee from the parent on the committee that's in the audience today to all of you guys. I'm super excited to be a part of this town and community and you guys have such pride. I'm excited to be a part of that too. So thank you. The other questions or comments.

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I was also part of the final panel and it was easy choice to put it that way.

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I congratulate you and doing so well and I welcome you to our wonderful town.

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Thank you so much.

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I appreciate it.

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Anyone else?

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I'll take a moment and also just say I am really excited to have you here in Colchester.

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I think bacon best days are ahead of it.

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I know we've been through some interesting budget season this particular year.

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I am one thankful that we have a budget pass.

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We can move forward and also thankful that we have leadership coming into our town

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that can really move us to the focus that we all want to be on, which is how do we make our schools

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as best as possible for the next generation. I'm really excited to see what you could do at bacon

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economy. We have to make a motion. Is there a motion to appoint a new system principal?

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I'll make that motion. I'll second it. There's a motion. There's a second. Any discussion.

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All right. All those in favor? Say aye. Aye. Opposed? Opposentions?

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Cody, also vote aye. All right. Motion passes. Welcome the cold Chester.

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Thanks so much.

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Moving on to the consent agenda. There's only one item which is our meeting minutes from August 18th.

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Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda?

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Make motion to approve the consent agenda.

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All right. Thanks, Custy. Is there a second?

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A second. Thank you. Any discussion?

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All right. All those in favor? Say aye.

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All right, opposed of staying motion passes.

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Now we'll move to public comment and we'll keep with the standards that we've been doing as

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a board of ed. We'll start in room and we'll go online. Three minutes code you will keep time

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and just remember to keep it civil. Could we always have family and children in the audience and listening?

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So with that being said, would anyone in the room like to make public comment?

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Not seeing any hands. Any hands raised online in

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online?

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Okay, closing public comment. Now we'll go to report from student board members.

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Good evening members of the board. I am happy to announce that the beginning of the school year

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is going well. The first day of school held the bacon way ran wonderfully. There were watersides,

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food trucks, and many more outdoor activities. I as a senior am confident to say that all of us seniors

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engineers enjoy the special event that makes bacon special or makes bacon bacon.

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On the second day of school, students and teachers alike transitioned back into their

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normal class routines.

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Although it was a bit hard, you know, going back to school, this transition was fortunately

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successful, with many students feeling ready and prepared to tackle the upcoming year.

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Looking at more recent events, much has happened.

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Among them include the release of SBAC and NGSS exam scores to students, the former being

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the Smarter Balanced Assessment Corps in Hortissonium Exam, which tests English and math

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from 3rd to 8th grade, and the latter, the Next Generation Science Standards Exam,

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which tests science in the 5th, 8th, 8th, and 11th grade.

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Seniors have also taken their senior portraits, and students have already taken their pictures

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on picture day, which was last Thursday, September 3rd.

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Looking towards the future, we have many exciting events taking place.

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For example, next Thursday, September 17th, Bacon Academy will host its annual open house

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where parents and families of students can come and see what their classes are like,

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develop a sense of what activities are offered here at Bacon Academy, etc.

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They're also very excited to announce when the homecoming dance will take place,

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which for the very first time, at least for the time within which I have been at Bacon,

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will be on a Saturday. Specifically, Saturday, October 3rd. The day before, on Friday, October 2nd,

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will be the actual homecoming game against the Amistead wolves. All in all, vacant

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academy is transitioning well into the new school year, and the student body is looking forward

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to the future events that make vacant vacant. Thank you, members of the board.

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Thank you. Any questions?

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Nothing heard. Now move on to 6.1 report from school

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and town leazons. I want to have a report they want to like to make.

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like to say, any of the school year, the open houses that have been at, back

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to back to R&S, BES were wonderful, the schools looked beautiful. It was just a

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very nice welcoming feeling in the buildings and I was there as a

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grand time, but also as a board member and I was really,

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people really worked hard to look at me.

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I also went to the open house here at a wonderful school.

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It was fantastic.

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Everyone was very welcoming.

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I got to feel, I guess it's because I taught middle school

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so long.

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The six graders came in, nervous, shaking,

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seeing parents sort of pushing them forward.

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The eighth graders came in all kinds of, you know, I am the head and you can see it was

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really cute.

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The thing that really I thought was adorable was the sixth graders trying to open their

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lockers.

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They were having all kinds of grief and of course they were told no parental help, nobody can

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help right?

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Why so that stuck along and helped?

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I said I'm not a parent, I'm not a grandparent, so it sort of works, but it was wonderful.

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It was a great open up. I want to thank them all for welcoming me.

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Thank you Nancy. Anyone else?

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As the bacon liaison, so I was not able to get to first day, unfortunately, that whole job thing gets in the way.

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But I did want to remind everyone that we have some really monumental events coming up at Beacon.

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We have our very first game on the brand new turf field at Beacon this Saturday at 11 a.m.

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We have a girl soccer match that I think the the schools the athletes just everyone is very excited for and we're really proud to show that off.

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so I'm very excited for that. And then shameless plug for the football team,

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since that's what my son plays on Friday night September 25th at 8 p.m. and I think it's

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the first time ever in Coldchester history that we're going to have Friday night lights for football.

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So I'm also really hoping to see a great turnout for that because you know we're we have one high

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school in this town. And everybody can root for the same high school. So, again, whether you're at soccer this Saturday at 11 a.m. for the first game or the first night game, which will be held the football game on 925.

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I hope to see a lot of folks out there yelling and cheering with us.

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Thank you.

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All right. Now move on to 7.1 old business budget update, which I think was not here.

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think it's worth just taking a moment

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and saying, thank you to everyone who participated in a rather long process this particular year

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and looking forward to really focusing on the operational side of it. But I don't want to overlook

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look, just how much work went into getting the budget, asset referendum, this go around

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by a ton of people all throughout town.

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For everyone who participated, regardless of which way you voted or anything like that,

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just thank you for everyone who participated.

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The town is better when people get to participate in the town government, so thank you.

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New business, capital plan and facilities, and I think we'll get to this update in a little

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bit but we sort of merged two of our committees into one so we now have a budget and facilities

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committee that's not the official name but basically that's what we did and the capital plan

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review was last kind of our agenda we did not get to it so we're going to throw it at the top of

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our agenda for next month so if all the other board members are okay with this I think we just

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keep this on the agenda for next month and we'll discuss it then that sounds good everyone

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one. All right. In that case, we'll go on to the superintendent update.

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For little people's play place to update. So last Thursday, September 3rd, I met with

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Jill Kelsey, who is the owner of Little People's to review the contract that I've worked closely

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with Shipman and our insurance agent to strengthen an update. So the focus of the agreement is

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to ensure the district is appropriately protected, the revised contract includes more specific

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language regarding responsibilities, requirements, and protections for the district.

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Mrs. Kelsey will now review the contract with her attorney and her insurance carrier and

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once that review is complete and any necessary revisions are addressed, I will bring the final

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contract forward to the board for review and consideration.

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questions on that.

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The next is district goal.

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We can move on. Okay.

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Perfect. You can't hear

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me. Is that better? I'll move this up more. I just feel like I'm so loud. All right,

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we go. So tonight we want to provide an overview of our continued district goals for the 26,

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26, 27th school year, share some of the work that's already underway across our four schools

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and explain how these goals connect to our district-wide and ask accreditation process.

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I'm also going to take and pass down this, take a booklet, everyone can have one.

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Our goals are intentionally consistent and focused.

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Rather than making changes at this time, we are concentrating our efforts around merging

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our goals with the self-assessment process of the Niasca accreditation process.

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Our first goal is centered on what is ultimately our core responsibility as a school district,

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increasing achievement for every student and ensuring that students demonstrate growth.

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One important part of this goal is that we're not defining success simply through one assessment.

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We look at multiple measures such as state district and classroom assessments focusing on individual

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student growth. That includes SAT, PSAT, NGSS, SBAC, Star Dibbles, I ready benchmark in

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other classroom data. Lots of acronyms as usual. But in all seriousness, these are just some

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examples of the assessments that we'll be talking about a little bit further on. And certainly

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as the year goes on, particularly in our snapshot in November when we look at district and state

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assessments. The work underneath the school is just as important as those assessments. We want

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rigorous and engaging learning experiences, strong multi-tiered systems of support, access

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to read-level curriculum for all students, and opportunities for students to make choices

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and explore their areas of interest.

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Major emphasis this year will be ensuring that intervention is still not a replacement

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for strong tier one or otherwise known as core instruction.

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Students need access to read-level learning, while also receiving all of the supports that

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they need.

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second goal recognizes that achievement does not happen in isolation.

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Students learn best when they feel connected and belong and our staff do their best work

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when they feel valued and connected to the organization.

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We want Colchester Public Schools to be a district that our students, employees, families

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and the community are proud to be a part of.

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We will look at participation in school and district events as well as stakeholder surveys

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feedback to help us measure progress.

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This includes prioritizing student and staff wellness,

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celebrating successes, creating more opportunities

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for our school to interact with one another,

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and finding additional ways to welcome our community

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into our schools.

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At CES, school one was connecting to strengthening

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the multi-tiered systems of support process.

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An important piece of that work was making sure

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that all students

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Including students with IEPs and 504 plans, had equitable access to grade level instruction. And we're intentionally part of all academic behavioral and social emotional conversations. They also continued building the building thinking classroom work and mathematics. Students increased their ability to explain their mathematical reasoning, made connections, collaborated, and developed conceptual understanding, rather than

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simply learning procedures. For goal two, CES benefited from the connections across

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our district. The Bacon Academy peer mentors were a great example as our youngest

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students looked forward to spending time with our high school students. Mystery

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readers, classroom volunteers, and a strong partnership with the PTO through events

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such as Science Night, Family Game Night, Cardinal Carnival, and Book Fairs were

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There are also examples of how CES created opportunities for families and the community

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members to feel connected to the school.

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At GGIS, the instructional focus was based on coherence and consistency.

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They collaborated to be sure that curriculum, pacing, vestments, student interventions,

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and instructional practices were all aligned.

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Their team put in significant work refining the MTSS, otherwise known as intervention process.

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by looking at how students are identified,

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how teams meet, and how the tiered interventions

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were being delivered both in and without the classrooms.

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Last year, one important shift was providing

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that tier two instruction using a push and model

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to further grant access to the core curriculum.

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Build connections, JJS created many opportunities

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to celebrate students and staff

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from lunch with the principals and rocks rallies

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to a talent show, fifth grade send-off,

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performances, and other teacher recognition.

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Because of this, attendance relationships between adults and students and students understanding

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of expectations were identified as strength.

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Here at the middle school, we had some very positive attendance data.

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With end of your attendance rates between 94% and 95.7 across grade 6 and 8, and if you were

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have worked in a middle school, you know that's incredible.

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The school continued its writing revolution work and utilized multi-tiered systems of

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support across tiers one, two, and three during what they call win, which is what I need

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now. They also refined the schedule for this year, specifically looking at instructional

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minutes, intervention opportunities, and student choice. That directly connects to our district

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goal of providing both appropriate support and greater opportunities for students to

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explore their interests.

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For goal two, Puma unplug days provided opportunities for SEL, social-motion learning,

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wellness, team-building, character development, and celebrations.

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The Puma Excellence Awards and Puma positives were additional ways the school recognized

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students.

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They also provided cross-district and community connections through the growing partnerships

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with our senior center and Bacon Academy peer mentors, supporting students with tutoring

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and homework.

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Last but not least, we certainly have accomplishments for celebrating at Bacon Academy as well.

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I'm in 2026 82% of students taking advanced placement exams earned a score of 3 or higher

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with 296 AP exams administered in total, that is incredible.

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We also had approximately 97% participation in the school day SAT

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and the next generation science assessment.

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Bowl 2 is equally as important at the high school level,

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as it is with the others.

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We continue to find many ways to reconnect the academy

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with the larger Colchester community.

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For example, the community wide open house, senior send-off,

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alumni hall of fame, youth programs

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participated at athletic events, the new memorial garden, the new athletic complex, they all

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help make it make bacon a place that belongs to the entire community.

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An update on our NASC process, the Commission on Public Schools officially accepted Colchester

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Public Schools as a candidate for the district accreditation process which will last through

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2020-29. The candidacy includes Bacon Academy, William J, Jack Dr., C-E-S, and E-R-T-A.

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In its report, the Commission specifically commended our strong central office leadership

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and readiness for pre-K-12 strategic planning, our district leadership model, including

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district leadership team and administrative team, the readiness of our administration and steering

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committee for the accreditation process and the experience of our BAKIN Academy Steering

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Committee members who have served on the Niasque Visiting Committees.

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So this fall, we move into the self-reflection phase, which will be our primary focus for

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the 26th-27th school year.

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The next part of this presentation is important because our district goals do not stand alone.

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They connect very naturally to the work we are beginning through district-wide Niasque

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accreditation. This project is funded in part by CAHPS and NIAASC and is a three-year process.

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NIAASC framework looks at five broad areas, learning culture, student learning, professional

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practices, learning support, and learning resources. When you look at those standards and then look back

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at our two district goals, there is significant alignment. Achievement, belonging, multi-tiered systems

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of support, wellness, instructional practices, and resources are all part of this larger,

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continuous improvement framework.

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we think this graphic is especially important because accreditation should not be viewed as simply

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preparing for a visit for earning a designation. It's a continuous improvement process.

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As the graphic shows, the process emphasizes and validates growth over time, engages schools

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as partners in this improvement and allows schools to identify priority areas for growth.

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It's intended to be authentic and valuable at the same time.

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So, our goal is to not complete this work simply for NAS, but we want to use NAS to help us

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examine and further strengthen the work we are already doing.

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It's also a long-term process, so we're beginning, as Judy said, with that self-reflection in

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in this current school year, 26, 27,

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followed by a collaborative conference visit in 2027,

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that leads us to the development and implementation

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of a growth plan followed eventually

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by the accreditation visit itself.

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But we appreciate about this model

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that it's not a one-time evaluation.

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It's designed around reflection, planning,

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implementation, measuring our progress over time.

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We also work closely with the NES Commission

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and our steering committee to learn more

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and recognize multiple viewpoints during this process.

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This work could not belong to one person

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or just a central office.

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The NASC process specifically builds structures

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for shared leadership through a steering committee

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and self-reflection writers.

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The steering committee oversees the overall process

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and communicated progress

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while self-reflection writers collect and review evidence

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and help prepare the district's self-reflection.

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This gives our staff an authentic voice in examining what we are doing well and where

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we need to grow.

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As we begin the district accreditation process, four themes are emerging that will help

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organize our work, vision of the learner, culture of student learning, developing a growth

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mindset, and student health and well-being.

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These aren't separate from our district goals, they give us another framework through which

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to examine them.

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We want to be able to clearly articulate what we want a Colchester graduate to know, be able

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to do and demonstrate, and then make sure the experience from preschool through grade 12

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intentionally builds towards that vision.

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Finally, this slide gives the board a sense of where we are in the process.

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Nias conducted the candidacy visit last spring and the commission voted on candidacy in June.

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Later this year, we'll begin the district's self-reflection process.

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The most important takeaway tonight is that there are not, these are not separate initiatives.

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Our district goals, the work happening within each of our schools and the district,

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me ask accreditation process, all connect.

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What are we, we are focusing on two fundamental questions.

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Are our students learning and growing?

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And are we creating an environment where students and staff feel valued, accepted, connected and supported?

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it. Our goal is continuous improvement. We certainly want to celebrate what is

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working well here at Colchester Public Schools while also being willing to

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look closely at our practices. Listen to our students, staff, families, and

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community and continue to grow together.

451
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:22,660
I know you have more things to get through

452
00:40:22,660 --> 00:40:26,680
on your update but I think that's a good spot to pause and ask questions. If anyone

453
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:36,920
has any? Let's see. I have two. One, I could be wrong but I don't think that was, I don't think

454
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,600
the presentation was attached to the agenda so we'd use the minutes or whatnot if we could just

455
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:44,240
make sure there's an public who are interested in flipping through the slides and do that in some

456
00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:51,400
way, shape and form. The second thing and the more content focusing and I am getting a world-class

457
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:57,320
education on sort of the current state of education across our country for my day job and I

458
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:01,580
So as I was looking at our goals for this year, one thing I was reflecting on, and this

459
00:41:01,580 --> 00:41:05,880
is not really even looking for an answer right now, I'm just kind of hoping I could

460
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,280
plant a seed and we can come back and revisit it down the road.

461
00:41:09,340 --> 00:41:14,900
But, you know, it's, I think, natural to want to set a goal, assess students along the way

462
00:41:14,900 --> 00:41:18,720
to see if they're reaching them or not, but I also feel like a lot of our assessments end

463
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:23,560
up defaulting to this sort of like four-year college or bus mentality when you use an SAT,

464
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:27,960
when you use a PSAT, when you use a bunch of these standardized tests as your core or

465
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:32,140
cross-cutting assessment, framework or approach or whatnot, and I understand why we're doing,

466
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:36,580
I'm not saying we shouldn't, I'm not saying we should get rid of it all, but when we use those

467
00:41:36,580 --> 00:41:41,740
assessments, you're kind of inherently telling everyone in the district that we won't need to be

468
00:41:41,740 --> 00:41:47,000
gearing students to a college expense, and yet the electric boat just got like a hundred billion

469
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,200
dollar contract, they're going to have jobs that can pay a living wage right out the gate,

470
00:41:50,200 --> 00:42:01,200
We have a bunch of industries in our neck of the woods and I just wonder if in our current way we have the goals which are not back goals, but I wonder a little bit of worry a little bit that we're

471
00:42:04,020 --> 00:42:09,440
unintentionally sort of elbowing out things like durable skills or more project-based learning approaches that can

472
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:17,240
take students and still get them to a good SAT preparation, but in a slightly different way that makes them a little bit more ready for the workforce if they want to go that route.

473
00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:19,600
So I just want to throw it out there.

474
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,700
I don't have like a specific thing to change at this point,

475
00:42:21,700 --> 00:42:25,600
but especially as the state is looking at a career pathways commission

476
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:28,380
that the governor launched and there will be a report coming out in November.

477
00:42:28,740 --> 00:42:30,740
And I think there's a lot of excitement at the state level.

478
00:42:30,980 --> 00:42:33,000
And I think cold trust should be in a really interesting position

479
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,320
to be at the front of that wave and hopefully with some more state resources.

480
00:42:38,860 --> 00:42:41,420
And I think if we can just start doing some thinking

481
00:42:41,420 --> 00:42:45,780
throughout the district of how do we embed a career pathways mindset.

482
00:42:45,780 --> 00:43:00,740
So you can really set up students to be have options both on a career side and a college side because college is still a pathway to a good career and like not saying it's not, but you know the durable skills, a project based on getting exposure to a couple different industries in our neck of the woods more we can do that.

483
00:43:00,860 --> 00:43:03,300
I think the more we can do both in a really good way.

484
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:06,100
I agree.

485
00:43:09,250 --> 00:43:13,950
Any other questions? Comments? Concerns? Nothing heard? In that case, let's go

486
00:43:13,950 --> 00:43:20,570
to the office per professional MOU update. Or we're good with the personnel report.

487
00:43:21,170 --> 00:43:23,210
Oh, sorry, personnel report.

488
00:43:30,380 --> 00:43:33,280
Okay, so the personnel report really just goes through

489
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:40,080
resignations. They'd occurred from June 1 through September 1. I'm hoping this

490
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:49,360
was attached to the packet. Okay good. Retirements. Some were later and then also

491
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:50,040
new hires.

492
00:43:54,940 --> 00:43:56,340
Any questions, comments, concerns?

493
00:43:59,740 --> 00:44:00,780
All righty.

494
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:08,080
The office

495
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:12,580
professional MOU update. Nancy did you want to join in on this since we've been

496
00:44:12,580 --> 00:44:13,780
working together on it?

497
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:23,460
We have been working with the OPs. I've started to learn all the

498
00:44:23,460 --> 00:44:31,280
different actions, and we began negotiations with them on the entire packet of most of

499
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:37,820
the MOU, and we're trying to come up with, right now it's in the lawyer's hand, and the

500
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:59,540
So we really don't have too much to be caught on at this point, except that they are working on trying to come up with how to do scheduling days that they would get vacation days, holidays, and so right now it's all in the press.

501
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:04,280
All

502
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:20,320
right, William J. Sports. I thank Matt Parsons for being here because he has a world of updates for us on this.

503
00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:30,220
Okay. Hi, Matt Parsons. So first.

504
00:45:39,050 --> 00:45:52,170
So a little update about WJ athletics as they stand right now. As you know, in the last referendum, it was removed from the budget. So since that time,

505
00:45:52,170 --> 00:46:03,010
I've been meeting with the leagues in town talking to parents and gathering various input

506
00:46:03,010 --> 00:46:03,610
from people.

507
00:46:04,990 --> 00:46:11,690
So I'm happy to report that right now, the paper that is in front of everyone right

508
00:46:11,690 --> 00:46:21,790
now, is an up to $12,000 donation from Colchester Youth Soccer to run just the soccer operations

509
00:46:21,790 --> 00:46:36,890
for this fall season. We did open up registration and right now just this afternoon we had over 50 athletes out there trying out for various teams.

510
00:46:37,230 --> 00:46:48,650
So that is the most athletes that I can think of and find record of in the last decade coming out for all soccer.

511
00:46:48,650 --> 00:46:57,670
This is the first time since COVID that we've been able to actually gather enough girls for our own girls WJ soccer team.

512
00:46:58,450 --> 00:47:02,870
And it's thanks to the donation from Colchester Soccer Club.

513
00:47:03,190 --> 00:47:08,510
Now, speaking to them and speaking with all the other leagues in town,

514
00:47:09,930 --> 00:47:14,510
and I can speak in general about some of the discussions that I've had with others,

515
00:47:14,510 --> 00:47:23,970
They do make it very clear in their donation that it is a one-time donation, and that this

516
00:47:23,970 --> 00:47:30,830
is not going to be a recurring donation every year, because they also have to run thoroughly.

517
00:47:32,350 --> 00:47:42,870
I also have been speaking with Colchester Youth Basketball, and Judy and Megan get my conversations

518
00:47:42,870 --> 00:47:51,630
at 9, 9, 30, 10 o'clock at night when I'm leaving these board meetings where they are actually

519
00:47:51,630 --> 00:48:04,590
donating up to $15,000 to run the WJ basketball so for the fall. So with that paired with the current

520
00:48:04,590 --> 00:48:12,270
rate of pay to play, we are going to still be charging our athletes the $135 to play

521
00:48:13,130 --> 00:48:18,990
And I've been, Sam's gone, and Melissa, they are the Presidents of the PTO.

522
00:48:19,490 --> 00:48:28,010
They are putting together their fundraising efforts through their donations on, I think

523
00:48:28,010 --> 00:48:32,110
their Venmo, remember Venmo or PayPal, remember which ones they are, Cheddar.

524
00:48:33,050 --> 00:48:39,470
They're going to do all of their fundraising and donate all those proceeds because I still

525
00:48:39,470 --> 00:48:47,770
I'm looking to offset the cost of basketball in general, because that is a lot of travel,

526
00:48:48,110 --> 00:48:52,710
busing and travels and officials are a major cost, and that's what we're trying to do.

527
00:48:53,710 --> 00:48:56,670
And the donation from basketball does not cover all of that stuff.

528
00:48:57,390 --> 00:49:01,750
So between pay-to-play, some more fundraising, I'm also talking to other youth leagues that

529
00:49:01,750 --> 00:49:08,130
are looking possibly at one-time donations, but with those one-time donations, they're looking

530
00:49:08,130 --> 00:49:16,850
for a commitment from the board to fund something or support a different program moving forward.

531
00:49:17,930 --> 00:49:23,550
I know coming into it last year as my first year as athletic director,

532
00:49:24,310 --> 00:49:30,090
there was a lot of interest in kind of expanding, especially in my part. There's a lot of

533
00:49:30,090 --> 00:49:37,570
interest in expanding the opportunities for students. And there's opportunities with other districts

534
00:49:38,130 --> 00:50:02,870
where we can get a baseball season going maybe that co-op volleyball where we could partner with some other places, give the middle schoolers some opportunities that aren't just in our youth leagues in town, but also bring back a school pride and build the kids up to then be ready for bacon academy.

535
00:50:02,870 --> 00:50:09,790
me, um, I know, you know, my son's trying out for WJ soccer, right? Um, and when I say

536
00:50:09,790 --> 00:50:18,230
tryout, it's the first time in five plus years that, uh, we're really debating. Do we really,

537
00:50:18,610 --> 00:50:24,270
can we support 30 boys on a team? Or do we need to actually make cuts, which is like very

538
00:50:24,270 --> 00:50:31,270
difficult, right? To the side. Um, we want to encourage, but also we're working off fundraising

539
00:50:31,270 --> 00:50:40,650
and trying to pay people, and right now we can only fund one coach, so how do we run that with that many kids effectively?

540
00:50:41,670 --> 00:50:53,770
So we do think that we will be able to run all of our programs right now through donations and some hard work.

541
00:50:53,770 --> 00:51:02,030
But there's a growing sense of that people want these sports and interest in the sports.

542
00:51:03,090 --> 00:51:09,350
So I just want to encourage as we go into, I know we just ended one budget season, but

543
00:51:09,350 --> 00:51:13,210
I know it never ends, it never really ends.

544
00:51:14,270 --> 00:51:18,910
To look at that because there's a growing interest in the WJ program.

545
00:51:21,670 --> 00:51:31,570
And then also, if people are looking to support athletics, I'm also working with sideline sports BSN, we use them up in high school too.

546
00:51:32,450 --> 00:51:44,310
So like this nice wj athletics shirt, I can now wear at work because sometimes you don't want to wear shirt and tie but you still want to have school pride and all that stuff even though I work at bacon.

547
00:51:46,810 --> 00:52:04,690
The portion of those proceeds will come back to the athletics department and also fund some equipment and that sort of thing. So I'm working on that whole fundraising opportunity too. So if you see those opportunities around and do wish to support these outside of the budget season.

548
00:52:04,690 --> 00:52:09,870
and please feel free to buy a whole lot of hoodie

549
00:52:10,510 --> 00:52:12,770
and then go down to the athletic complex

550
00:52:12,770 --> 00:52:14,450
and like watch some games.

551
00:52:15,970 --> 00:52:19,430
And the soccer team has their first home game

552
00:52:19,430 --> 00:52:20,230
right outside.

553
00:52:21,130 --> 00:52:24,290
So the girls and boys play at home at the same time

554
00:52:24,290 --> 00:52:25,830
and away at the same time.

555
00:52:26,010 --> 00:52:28,170
So our first home game right now is scheduled

556
00:52:28,170 --> 00:52:30,310
for next Monday at 3.30.

557
00:52:31,130 --> 00:52:33,070
So the boys will be playing right out here.

558
00:52:33,070 --> 00:52:35,990
of the girls to be on the back so you can sit in the middle and you can watch.

559
00:52:39,350 --> 00:52:39,930
Any questions?

560
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:48,500
I would just like to say thank you to you, Matt. I always say it's like Superman. He's literally

561
00:52:48,500 --> 00:52:54,900
everywhere. I don't know how you do it all in a day, but for really thinking outside the box

562
00:52:54,900 --> 00:53:03,420
to and really going above and beyond for our kids and anyone who's seen Matt at games or coaching

563
00:53:03,420 --> 00:53:22,460
All of the things that he does, he does it out of the goodness of his heart and it's really incredible so thank you for that thank you for caring so much to really take so much of the little time you have left in a day to get all this done so thank you very much and our kids are really better off having you.

564
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:28,680
And it really is about the kids, like it really is an opportunity, so.

565
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:30,440
Matt, I just want to second that.

566
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,540
I want to thank you so much for all your hard work and for making this happen.

567
00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:39,700
Anyone else?

568
00:53:41,870 --> 00:53:42,390
Thank you.

569
00:53:43,290 --> 00:53:45,030
Can you pass the folder back when you get a chance?

570
00:53:48,020 --> 00:53:48,920
A cafeteria update.

571
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:54,340
Process-wise, for a donation like that, I think we have the board to have to review them, assuming

572
00:53:54,340 --> 00:53:58,940
that will be the next month, I'm sure it won't be much of a hiccup.

573
00:54:00,020 --> 00:54:12,860
But I've seen that something add just logistics on it like yeah, let's talk about that at some point right or as far as accepting the donation and all that stuff so yeah.

574
00:54:13,820 --> 00:54:20,940
I don't know if we have to do it tonight, but I think we have to make a motion right to accept that one that letter or that donation.

575
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:23,840
We will at some point.

576
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:24,780
Okay, not tonight.

577
00:54:27,330 --> 00:54:31,370
Well, we already went through the part of the agenda of adding new agenda items, so we

578
00:54:31,370 --> 00:54:33,510
do it next month without you too late.

579
00:54:33,670 --> 00:54:34,190
Does that miss you?

580
00:54:34,190 --> 00:54:42,010
No, so what I talked to Cole Chester soccer about, it's written in a very specific way, not

581
00:54:42,010 --> 00:54:48,430
knowing how, if we were going to be able to run a girl season or not, the amount of coaches,

582
00:54:48,430 --> 00:54:52,210
is that sort of thing, it's up to $12,000,

583
00:54:53,310 --> 00:54:54,730
which was the budget amount,

584
00:54:54,970 --> 00:54:56,910
the bare bones budget amount with no equipment

585
00:54:56,910 --> 00:54:57,750
and that sort of thing.

586
00:54:58,430 --> 00:55:00,530
Also, they donated some of the equipment,

587
00:55:00,850 --> 00:55:02,690
and these cones, soccer balls,

588
00:55:03,070 --> 00:55:07,190
like I'm getting some of my contacts into,

589
00:55:07,370 --> 00:55:08,750
like, get some of that stuff.

590
00:55:08,990 --> 00:55:11,890
So I was going to compile all the bills

591
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:17,670
for the season into one invoice for them to write a check too.

592
00:55:18,570 --> 00:55:23,150
And then I probably think that's the right point for us to approve it like every other donation

593
00:55:23,150 --> 00:55:27,310
It's like hey, we're donating a piano and like or we're donating

594
00:55:28,090 --> 00:55:32,750
X amount of dollars and you know exactly what it is. I think from a process perspective all the other board members

595
00:55:33,890 --> 00:55:35,670
That once we know the exact dollar amount

596
00:55:35,670 --> 00:55:38,010
I think like that would be the right time for the board to officially

597
00:55:38,010 --> 00:55:42,530
Reveit but considering we all got this because I wouldn't think that's too much about it

598
00:55:42,530 --> 00:55:48,790
And then do we treat it like a grant where it's your mark where it's your mark that as well

599
00:55:48,790 --> 00:55:51,210
So, like it has a special line-eye to fit.

600
00:55:53,070 --> 00:55:55,910
I think we could add that to the homework list.

601
00:55:56,070 --> 00:56:00,870
Because I do take the budget and facilities committee

602
00:56:01,810 --> 00:56:04,330
ask the administration to do a lot of homework over this next month

603
00:56:05,230 --> 00:56:07,530
in different ways, and I think that should add to it.

604
00:56:07,550 --> 00:56:11,010
Because I do want to respect the, and it's clearly written in here.

605
00:56:11,150 --> 00:56:13,730
This is a one-time thing, and it's going to be used for this purpose.

606
00:56:14,350 --> 00:56:17,050
And so we'll have to ask our administrative team to do some homework

607
00:56:17,050 --> 00:56:20,970
of how do we track that and make sure that this money is being used for exactly this purpose,

608
00:56:20,970 --> 00:56:24,910
obviously, if we're going to get some invoices and exactly what it was used for, I think that's

609
00:56:24,910 --> 00:56:30,650
an easy way to get it all up. We're just outside the normal monthly budget tracking and we know

610
00:56:30,650 --> 00:56:34,250
exactly where every dollar went. I think it'd be fair to the people donating it, but they knew where

611
00:56:34,250 --> 00:56:34,990
every dollar went to.

612
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:40,760
Thank you.

613
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:46,720
Appateria update. Last month at our Board of Ed meeting, when we talked

614
00:56:46,720 --> 00:56:53,660
about free breakfast and we made the adjustment in pricing. We shared that you know that I would

615
00:56:53,660 --> 00:56:59,360
bring back some numbers. So just being six days in when I got these numbers across the district,

616
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:08,940
we did look at there was a 94% increase in students getting breakfast. So because it is now

617
00:57:08,940 --> 00:57:14,840
free. So it's really a wonderful increase because making breakfast easily accessible helps ensure

618
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:17,960
that students begin their day nourished and prepared and ready to learn.

619
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:23,640
So it was great to see that people are taking advantage of that, the free breakfast.

620
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:29,320
And my last is the FOI clerk justification.

621
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:31,680
This is something that Elissa put together.

622
00:57:32,420 --> 00:57:39,680
It was actually requested at the July 10th special meeting that Elissa prepare an FOI analysis

623
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:44,280
this report, focused on the volume of records associated with requests.

624
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:49,140
You'll see that this one is a substantial request in particular.

625
00:57:49,580 --> 00:57:53,420
Her analysis is really just focused on that one.

626
00:57:54,620 --> 00:58:00,740
The district has a legal responsibility to respond to FOI requests, including this particularly

627
00:58:00,740 --> 00:58:01,960
large request.

628
00:58:02,660 --> 00:58:07,540
And to help with this, Alyssa has been devoting five hours just to this one.

629
00:58:07,540 --> 00:58:14,520
and we manage a very high volume of records while continuing to meet other operational

630
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:15,580
responsibilities.

631
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,320
So the scope of this particular request is extraordinary.

632
00:58:20,500 --> 00:58:28,040
There are currently approximately 225,000 documents remaining that require review.

633
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:35,820
So at this current rate she is showing that it would take approximately to review approximately

634
00:58:35,820 --> 00:58:41,720
me 600 documents each week is what she would be able to do, spending the five hours per

635
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:46,800
week. So we're sharing this with the boards. They understand the scope of the workload

636
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:53,660
and the operational challenges that she faces. This five-hour assignment gives us some capacity

637
00:58:53,660 --> 00:58:59,920
to continue moving the request forward, but it does not resolve the underlying workload issue.

638
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:06,880
Alyssa still works an additional five to 10 hours weekly on these requests so that we can keep

639
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:13,040
the board of ed, you know, that was request moving forward as well and then we will continue

640
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:18,760
to keep you apprised of this because that was what was requested to give you those hours devoted.

641
00:59:19,740 --> 00:59:21,560
So any requests on that?

642
00:59:25,010 --> 00:59:30,190
So multiple questions. Notice on the personnel file that there was a

643
00:59:39,310 --> 00:59:59,730
So that was my misunderstanding and we will not use that person, but when we met on July 10th and we looked at the first 1.5 proposed budget cuts, the 1.5 million, there was in the additions piece of that at the records and compliance clerk.

644
00:59:59,730 --> 00:59:59,970
You

645
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:09,300
For the 10,000, which was a durational position, for FOIA requests, when this was approved and

646
01:00:09,300 --> 01:00:19,060
we discussed having Alyssa keep record of all of the time spent on FOIA, I understood that

647
01:00:19,060 --> 01:00:25,300
as moving forward. So, but it is a durational position, so if we do not want to use it, we

648
01:00:25,300 --> 01:00:34,760
won't use it. So we can stop that immediately. So with that, if this is one for your request that

649
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:43,780
is in excess of 200,000 pages, we reached out to the FOIA Commission to see what their recommendations

650
01:00:43,780 --> 01:00:50,060
are as far as the scope of this request, if we can narrow it down. If we reached out to the

651
01:00:50,060 --> 01:00:56,680
personal, or to the requester, to see if they can narrow the scope, how much money has been

652
01:00:56,680 --> 01:01:02,620
accrued, is anything printed, is it electronically done? Could we have looked at creative solutions

653
01:01:02,620 --> 01:01:09,000
to provide overtime at a five hour rate for a week instead of hiring a person?

654
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:18,580
Yes, we did reach out to Russell at the FOI commission. He said that we had to do it.

655
01:01:18,580 --> 01:01:26,980
But I don't want to get into some personal things around why we needed to do that for

656
01:01:26,980 --> 01:01:27,680
this person.

657
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:32,440
But there were personal reasons that the person needed these things printed out.

658
01:01:33,340 --> 01:01:35,200
And we were told that we had to do it.

659
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:40,280
So yeah, before you commission, I'll tell you you have to do these, but there's no time limit

660
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:40,720
on it.

661
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:43,960
And we can do it on it when we can possibly get it done.

662
01:01:44,020 --> 01:01:44,120
Exactly.

663
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:45,140
So we could go to overtime.

664
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:47,440
We're not saying that we're not going to do it.

665
01:01:47,440 --> 01:02:01,040
But the fact is that we hired someone to do this one job and they're at a rate of 120 documents per hour and we're saying that we're going to hire this person for the next 7.2 years.

666
01:02:02,460 --> 01:02:14,400
Even though it is durational, this one request, have we tried anything else, have we used our own resources within the OP network at all the schools?

667
01:02:15,260 --> 01:02:20,700
Is there a specific training that has to be done for these people that do a FOIA request?

668
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:27,860
There is and the hard part is that would these requests, that the nature of a lot of times

669
01:02:27,860 --> 01:02:35,340
of what is being requested, is that whenever they're pulling the records and they're going

670
01:02:35,340 --> 01:02:42,920
through to strike, what shouldn't be provided, that's a lot of training, number one, but

671
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:48,980
number two there has to be that confidentiality piece and so having too many

672
01:02:48,980 --> 01:02:56,400
hands into these types of requests so if Chris was a person that I was pulling

673
01:02:56,400 --> 01:03:03,080
his emails and then you know four or five people were going through them

674
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:08,600
that is a lot of people to have looking through Chris's emails and possibly

675
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:15,980
getting them out there. So it just opens it up to a lot of people having access.

676
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:23,740
Where is that current policy required training evidence for a POC? Do we have that on file?

677
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:26,120
Required training for FOIA?

678
01:03:29,460 --> 01:03:32,680
Well there's training that you can go to and there's training with the

679
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:36,500
state. And we still can we pull up with that FOIA record is?

680
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:41,040
FOIA it would be in our logs correct.

681
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:42,320
How long ago was it?

682
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:43,520
Oh, yes,

683
01:03:46,500 --> 01:03:48,040
what's POC?

684
01:03:48,060 --> 01:03:49,320
You said POC, what is that?

685
01:03:49,460 --> 01:03:50,300
Our point of contact.

686
01:03:50,500 --> 01:03:50,960
Well, thank you.

687
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:52,980
Just making sure I don't get off track.

688
01:03:53,540 --> 01:03:56,180
Can I just, just, that was advocate

689
01:03:56,180 --> 01:03:57,540
while you guys are looking for that.

690
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:01,060
If we, I'm not sure if I understand

691
01:04:02,020 --> 01:04:05,340
what would be the benefit of paying someone over time

692
01:04:05,340 --> 01:04:07,440
for the five hours, wouldn't that be a time and a half

693
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:09,820
for a full time person?

694
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,640
Well, is it time and a half over so many hours?

695
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:23,420
It's town half over 40 hours a week typically and we have that is it in the is it in the collective bargaining for the OPs usually is it though.

696
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:33,740
I don't know but I'm just wondering why we would want to I mean a directional person doesn't get benefits they don't we already pay someone $80,000 a year to do this.

697
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:37,520
And now we're spending another $10,000 in it.

698
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:47,560
Well, because we now have literally a quarter million documents that need to be done, is there a time limit on it like do we have to get it done in a certain period of time?

699
01:04:48,500 --> 01:04:49,940
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

700
01:04:49,940 --> 01:04:52,580
I'd be bucketized those personally.

701
01:04:53,360 --> 01:05:02,080
If we bucket the request into years, you know, and I say, hey, I need these people to look at this year to this year or anything that matches this criteria.

702
01:05:02,820 --> 01:05:07,500
and we've done that a multitude of people on this.

703
01:05:08,740 --> 01:05:13,980
I think we need to be very, very careful how we walk on this path because...

704
01:05:13,980 --> 01:05:18,940
I'm well aware how careful my personal information gets in there too.

705
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:22,760
I've been foiled before. I'm well aware of how important this is.

706
01:05:23,620 --> 01:05:23,620
Okay.

707
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:28,200
Well, so, go ahead.

708
01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:30,200
Pete, that's good.

709
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:33,420
It's okay. I was waiting to see what was coming up on there.

710
01:05:33,420 --> 01:05:34,180
I

711
01:05:36,220 --> 01:05:36,380
think

712
01:05:41,020 --> 01:05:47,060
I asked a question, do they do background check on people who are doing this?

713
01:05:50,690 --> 01:05:51,130
This is not.

714
01:05:51,270 --> 01:05:53,490
They do have to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

715
01:05:54,150 --> 01:06:00,250
So anyone that's working on it has to sign that so that they cannot talk about what they're seeing.

716
01:06:02,450 --> 01:06:07,070
The conflict that I was worried about is if we have current employees who work with current employees,

717
01:06:07,070 --> 01:06:10,390
when this could possibly, you know,

718
01:06:12,980 --> 01:06:20,320
we need to be very careful what we're disclosing to people who maybe are working with other people who may be involved. That's what I was trying to say.

719
01:06:20,820 --> 01:06:35,460
So, if you don't have a dedicated person who maybe doesn't work in one of the schools or whatever the case is, like if you were talking about bringing an opian who works in a school, we have to be very careful about what information is being disclosed.

720
01:06:35,460 --> 01:06:38,660
when that person could be sitting at a desk right next to the other person.

721
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:42,600
So that's the point I was trying to make.

722
01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:44,880
My question.

723
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:45,460
Okay.

724
01:06:45,580 --> 01:06:51,160
My point was that, you know, I'm sure for 28 years, we have to have a background check

725
01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:52,360
on ourselves all the time.

726
01:06:53,080 --> 01:07:01,500
So here we are having that done for the people that are teaching, and my concern would be

727
01:07:02,260 --> 01:07:10,160
Sadly, not everyone is honest that they will keep their mouth shut and we've seen it in the news.

728
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:17,200
You know, many towns are, you know, hurting because of leaked out for this leaked out.

729
01:07:17,660 --> 01:07:20,120
So, you know, I don't mean to be a naysayer.

730
01:07:20,780 --> 01:07:25,760
However, I think if you don't have a really bona fide contract with that person,

731
01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:29,660
and maybe it shouldn't be someone that is working in the school.

732
01:07:29,660 --> 01:07:37,800
So I think we have to be realistic and seek out people who would do the job, do the job well.

733
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:45,740
Don't know everybody in those documents because, again, I worked in different school districts,

734
01:07:45,980 --> 01:07:49,580
but there's money for all of us to be aware of.

735
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:56,060
So I just thought, if there is no background check, sometimes I know we look at,

736
01:07:56,060 --> 01:08:01,180
But even if they're in an office handling money, we look at what their credit rating is.

737
01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:08,360
Because are they desperate, you know, or possibly having a temptation?

738
01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:10,780
So I think that's fair.

739
01:08:11,980 --> 01:08:15,260
But this doesn't have money attached to it.

740
01:08:15,660 --> 01:08:21,320
So that might be something that we can just, I almost feel like maybe it's a discussion

741
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:27,860
for the future, because if that's the amount of time that it would take, that's a lot of

742
01:08:27,860 --> 01:08:35,380
reading, a lot of discernment, and a lot of, you know, concealing things that you really

743
01:08:35,380 --> 01:08:41,040
can't share. And we're, you know, in my classroom confidentiality, if you talk about a child,

744
01:08:41,540 --> 01:08:47,880
to their parents who's in the building, you're done. And that's what teenagers,

745
01:08:51,300 --> 01:08:51,300
and I've

746
01:08:51,300 --> 01:09:00,580
So, you want that level of trust because anyone who is doing the FOIA deserves that as

747
01:09:00,580 --> 01:09:04,500
well as the people who are mentioned, note that, so that's just my experience.

748
01:09:06,350 --> 01:09:11,730
I think, as we're discussing this, like for me, in top of mind, and by the way, I kind

749
01:09:11,730 --> 01:09:14,730
of got sucked into FOIA task force when I was working in the federal government.

750
01:09:15,430 --> 01:09:18,670
And so it's sort of like getting that training last minute and then getting thrown into that

751
01:09:18,670 --> 01:09:23,990
is something I have very personal experience with and it is rough on everyone, but I do

752
01:09:23,990 --> 01:09:29,490
think in the sort of way we're discussing this, one, our board typically has an approach

753
01:09:29,490 --> 01:09:33,590
to try to look at all this stuff twice before it makes a final decision and I think this

754
01:09:33,590 --> 01:09:37,110
is one where I way to you up for like I kind of want to see this again with a bit more information

755
01:09:38,170 --> 01:09:45,150
and putting on like my army hat is this is one course of action to approach this. I do

756
01:09:45,150 --> 01:09:48,430
kind of wonder if there are other courses of actions of training up and offering

757
01:09:48,430 --> 01:09:52,970
to other employees. And like, what would that actually take and look like? We don't,

758
01:09:53,250 --> 01:09:58,090
I don't think that requires like a ton more work, but I would kind of want to know what the

759
01:09:58,090 --> 01:10:05,430
different options are because the other reality is for many different reasons. We have a town

760
01:10:05,430 --> 01:10:10,590
that really likes for a request. And there might be another, might be here again two years now.

761
01:10:10,770 --> 01:10:15,590
And I, as a board member, would much rather try to figure out what's the system to this that we can

762
01:10:15,590 --> 01:10:20,810
implement that would make sense and when I look at this I kind of say we have one big request or

763
01:10:20,810 --> 01:10:26,970
maybe a couple of requests that add up to one big request and like one course of action is you

764
01:10:26,970 --> 01:10:31,410
hire someone to do spend more time on it every week but it also doesn't really seem like the

765
01:10:31,410 --> 01:10:37,010
sustainable answer for the next five or ten years and so I would be interested in sort of hearing more

766
01:10:37,490 --> 01:10:44,490
courses of action that would allow us to ramp up and ramp down and I don't really know what the answer

767
01:10:44,490 --> 01:10:49,770
is I just kind of want to know what our options are and then also want to look through the budget

768
01:10:49,770 --> 01:10:53,170
side of it and it's right and then we need to clean up. So we do make pretty clear on what

769
01:10:53,170 --> 01:10:57,050
our employees need to be trained on and what not more of those best practices make sure we get those

770
01:10:57,050 --> 01:11:03,290
in place too. So I am as much as I get though because there's a particular FOIA thing and correct

771
01:11:03,290 --> 01:11:07,110
me from wrong here but if we don't do anything tonight it continues to check along it for five

772
01:11:07,110 --> 01:11:12,530
hours a week which is in five to ten which is in compliance. I kind of think it's worth taking

773
01:11:12,530 --> 01:11:16,370
another one. Getting a bit more information. Does that make sense?

774
01:11:17,510 --> 01:11:25,350
Yeah, it's just the decision was already made. Like that's what I'm trying to point out. We made the decision we didn't vote on the last time.

775
01:11:25,910 --> 01:11:33,070
There was no determination of like, you shall do this. We talked about budget reductions, not allocations of bodies.

776
01:11:34,970 --> 01:11:40,530
so this is two part one we need to one be clear on if we're going to have

777
01:11:40,530 --> 01:11:45,570
somebody do this we've already hired them on board now we're having to

778
01:11:45,570 --> 01:11:51,850
scrutinize this to make like what did we try every possible coa we didn't

779
01:11:51,850 --> 01:11:57,550
actually hire anybody to do this yet yes we did yes we did it was in the 1.5

780
01:11:57,550 --> 01:12:05,270
million dollar proposed budget. So it was in the cuts but it was in there and we discussed it on

781
01:12:05,270 --> 01:12:10,490
July 10. I didn't realize. I know we spoke about the position. I'm sorry, just give me a minute.

782
01:12:10,650 --> 01:12:16,090
I know we spoke about the position. I remember speaking about everything. I wasn't sure if we actually

783
01:12:16,090 --> 01:12:23,470
took a person and said this job is yours. And we said it was a durational position. So it's not

784
01:12:25,150 --> 01:12:30,150
union so at any point this person can we can say no thank you we're all done

785
01:12:30,150 --> 01:12:35,430
it's decretional so so it's it's something that easily can be stopped at any

786
01:12:35,430 --> 01:12:40,190
point okay all right thank you for clarifying that and just to be clear too it's

787
01:12:40,190 --> 01:12:46,190
not just one FOI request it's multiple that was fulfilled but now we need to

788
01:12:46,190 --> 01:12:53,190
print them out for the person right right and we I mean not including this

789
01:12:53,190 --> 01:13:08,270
This number just I really can't even get over this 222,928 documents in addition to that and there were other ones that were right so there were other ones sitting in the in the queue waiting to go and then we added.

790
01:13:08,910 --> 01:13:11,490
Well, and they keep a quarter million pieces of paper.

791
01:13:12,250 --> 01:13:37,050
I don't have a choice about not I don't even understand how we're how we're affording to print out 250,000 pieces of paper we can charge for no we can't we're told by if the person takes them and leaves the Board of Ed office we can if they just come to look at them at the Board of Ed office and then leave and leaves the paper we cannot.

792
01:13:37,050 --> 01:13:44,490
So why didn't we do we tell that to you the we commission to see if it's a vexatious we did we call I called him

793
01:13:44,490 --> 01:13:50,130
Then no, but what did our legal did we get legal on board with this did they say that he said it will it

794
01:13:50,130 --> 01:13:57,590
It's a huge he said you would have to have way more in order to to be able to say that was there options of was this

795
01:13:57,590 --> 01:14:01,470
Specifically you shall print and I shall review in your office

796
01:14:01,470 --> 01:14:05,250
or is it, I can come and look at a computer and a PDF

797
01:14:05,250 --> 01:14:07,550
and they can scroll through it like old days

798
01:14:07,550 --> 01:14:09,010
of newspaper reals.

799
01:14:09,030 --> 01:14:09,950
It had to be printed.

800
01:14:10,050 --> 01:14:11,510
It could not be on a computer screen.

801
01:14:13,090 --> 01:14:15,270
The requester can decide at that point.

802
01:14:15,450 --> 01:14:16,530
I'm just making sure I understand.

803
01:14:16,610 --> 01:14:18,530
If the requester wanted to print something,

804
01:14:18,930 --> 01:14:20,790
they would have to pay for it.

805
01:14:20,970 --> 01:14:23,530
But we have to have it printed and ready to go, correct?

806
01:14:23,730 --> 01:14:25,570
And then now a person can decide.

807
01:14:26,230 --> 01:14:26,850
He said no.

808
01:14:27,550 --> 01:14:28,750
I did call him.

809
01:14:29,390 --> 01:14:33,030
I mean, these laws are like really, we have to...

810
01:14:33,030 --> 01:14:34,730
Not indescribably to be a paraphrase.

811
01:14:35,530 --> 01:14:38,370
The other problem might see, this is one incident,

812
01:14:39,090 --> 01:14:40,230
and I know there's been others,

813
01:14:40,410 --> 01:14:41,930
because I've been in and out of the office,

814
01:14:42,390 --> 01:14:45,110
and they don't work, and they don't work,

815
01:14:45,190 --> 01:14:47,490
and I don't know, can you do something

816
01:14:47,490 --> 01:14:50,390
or I'd ask a question, and they're working on FOIA.

817
01:14:50,570 --> 01:14:53,930
I mean, it's not just one person's request, right?

818
01:14:54,170 --> 01:14:55,510
There's been many requests,

819
01:14:56,390 --> 01:14:58,630
And how are we going to handle this board?

820
01:14:59,190 --> 01:14:59,850
Be higher.

821
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:26,180
I think it's a person to be, you know, to do a position, and they're supposed to be employee a person within that position. That shouldn't be the full time position. And now it's becoming more and more complicated. I think we really do seriously need to look at this whole picture. What are we going to do in the future? This is not probably going to go away. How are we going to handle this?

822
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:34,160
I'm thinking about it now and I do recall that we spoke of the position and we okayed

823
01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:34,520
the position.

824
01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:35,620
I do remember that now.

825
01:15:35,820 --> 01:15:36,360
So, I apologize.

826
01:15:36,580 --> 01:15:37,000
I misspoke.

827
01:15:37,140 --> 01:15:38,660
I had to knock the dust off a little.

828
01:15:40,220 --> 01:15:46,580
However, to Nancy's point though, these numbers are new to us.

829
01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:49,980
These numbers are bigger than, I mean, we've had some big requests.

830
01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:52,360
This is, but it's multiple requests.

831
01:15:52,360 --> 01:16:03,540
Right, so and and I think like what she said is that they're not going to stop so we have got to find a sustainable smart way and yeah

832
01:16:03,540 --> 01:16:09,500
I don't want to vote on it tonight either because I want to I want to wrap my head around this a little bit more to, but

833
01:16:10,380 --> 01:16:19,380
I this may be a position and I'm just putting it out there in my knee jerk response this may end up having to be a position.

834
01:16:19,380 --> 01:16:22,140
and just through the volume.

835
01:16:24,820 --> 01:16:29,140
And I don't think it can be somebody who is interacting

836
01:16:29,140 --> 01:16:33,460
with people potentially, you know, conflict of interest

837
01:16:33,460 --> 01:16:36,480
and ethics should be very careful with that stuff.

838
01:16:38,460 --> 01:16:39,300
Just my two cents.

839
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:43,300
Not only that, but we hire people to do a certain job

840
01:16:43,300 --> 01:16:47,900
with an OP in their office or someone in the central office.

841
01:16:47,900 --> 01:16:52,080
this is on a way beyond it.

842
01:16:53,060 --> 01:16:55,620
We need to have someone who is trained,

843
01:16:55,780 --> 01:16:57,400
who knows just what they're doing,

844
01:16:57,840 --> 01:16:59,920
who's meeting the rules and the laws.

845
01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:01,860
I don't want to be as a board of end member,

846
01:17:02,260 --> 01:17:04,120
find out six months down the line

847
01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:07,700
that we're not meeting the laws of this whole thing.

848
01:17:08,540 --> 01:17:10,120
I think we need to be thinking that district,

849
01:17:10,700 --> 01:17:13,020
right, I mean, we could put the district in jeopardy

850
01:17:13,020 --> 01:17:17,520
if something is not recognized as, you know,

851
01:17:18,220 --> 01:17:23,240
that has to be redacted or whatever the legal terminology is.

852
01:17:23,540 --> 01:17:25,760
So yeah, I agree with you.

853
01:17:25,940 --> 01:17:30,460
Like this is actually something that we have to be very careful

854
01:17:30,460 --> 01:17:32,220
because we could really put ourself in a bad spot.

855
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:38,100
Overall, I think what I'm hearing from most of my fellow board members is,

856
01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:44,060
and by the way, this is just like one thing we need to see the whole site picture here,

857
01:17:44,060 --> 01:17:49,040
of, or is the entire amount of requests are coming in.

858
01:17:49,100 --> 01:17:51,080
I know we have the FOIA log online that we can look at,

859
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:55,260
but, and we're all the forces of action

860
01:17:55,260 --> 01:17:57,080
for how do we approach this systemically

861
01:17:57,080 --> 01:17:59,180
and do it in a way that, all right.

862
01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:02,700
Fix this system that we can all wrap our head around

863
01:18:02,700 --> 01:18:04,480
and then like let's have that discussion.

864
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:09,540
That sound reasonable sounds like there's more homework

865
01:18:09,540 --> 01:18:11,160
to be done here before we can really have that.

866
01:18:13,740 --> 01:18:15,380
Okay. All right.

867
01:18:17,880 --> 01:18:23,220
We're clear on the homework assignment. All right. Any homework left and right today

868
01:18:26,930 --> 01:18:45,910
with that. We're going to move on to committee reports and possible action. So the budget finance and facilities committee, which is a new incarnation that's we bind the budget finance committee and the facilities committee is honestly you need all the same people table for both and a couple of things I'll highlight here on the monthly budget reports.

869
01:18:47,010 --> 01:18:51,310
For right now, they're all going to still have this massive stamp on them that says subject

870
01:18:51,310 --> 01:18:51,770
to change.

871
01:18:52,490 --> 01:18:57,630
And the homework that we asked the team to do is now that we have a budget and like that's

872
01:18:57,630 --> 01:18:59,630
a part that's got to change when you look at these.

873
01:19:00,770 --> 01:19:04,210
It's sort of what the total budget line is, you know, last year's number.

874
01:19:04,350 --> 01:19:05,170
So now we have a budget.

875
01:19:05,270 --> 01:19:10,410
We have to go back and redo three or four months worth and that our next committee meeting.

876
01:19:10,410 --> 01:19:15,130
We will approve them all again with all of the, I'll call them forever numbers forever

877
01:19:15,130 --> 01:19:19,710
That will be that month's budget report and that won't change from there on out and we'll get rid of the stamps at that point

878
01:19:19,710 --> 01:19:21,870
Does that make sense for why the stamp is there for right now?

879
01:19:23,510 --> 01:19:25,330
Okay, with that. I don't think there's anything

880
01:19:26,990 --> 01:19:30,830
Too arduous to flag and guessing could you feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here

881
01:19:31,950 --> 01:19:34,410
One I want to spend a little time talking about are the transfers

882
01:19:36,770 --> 01:19:38,750
There's let's go under 5,000 first

883
01:19:40,390 --> 01:19:43,490
There is I think a $60 transfer that we approved as a committee

884
01:19:43,490 --> 01:19:46,230
I just wanted to make sure everyone's tracking that and aware of it and

885
01:19:48,310 --> 01:19:50,310
All staying with them bank and academy

886
01:19:50,850 --> 01:19:59,150
But then for the ones over $5,000 that committee is recommending the board to approve these and these are largely ones that were actually

887
01:19:59,150 --> 01:20:00,970
left over from

888
01:20:00,970 --> 01:20:04,310
Last month, so these are all last year's money by the way

889
01:20:04,310 --> 01:20:08,390
So end of year funds you can think of it that way, but this is

890
01:20:09,050 --> 01:20:12,550
Basically things have already happened that we're trying to make sure it's coming out of the

891
01:20:12,550 --> 01:20:15,670
to write line items and clearing up the book and get ready for the audit.

892
01:20:16,290 --> 01:20:19,870
We spent a decent amount of time talking about it and honestly trying to wrap her head

893
01:20:19,870 --> 01:20:25,450
around like what was the justification for each of these and this also generated more homework

894
01:20:25,450 --> 01:20:29,950
for the team to figure out how we're going to track this moving forward up until now.

895
01:20:30,050 --> 01:20:34,470
We've always, as a board, kind of tracked the object code level across the entire district.

896
01:20:35,110 --> 01:20:39,290
But then we were things happen with the same object code but across different schools and

897
01:20:39,290 --> 01:20:41,770
and particularly how we track transportation costs.

898
01:20:42,650 --> 01:20:44,530
They can account on the athletics versus academics

899
01:20:44,530 --> 01:20:46,970
or tracks in sort of two different silos

900
01:20:46,970 --> 01:20:48,650
and then special head has their own transportation.

901
01:20:49,330 --> 01:20:51,290
We asked the administrative team to really look at

902
01:20:51,290 --> 01:20:53,410
just how we're doing it and dive deep into it

903
01:20:53,410 --> 01:20:55,530
and see if there's a better way we could systemize it

904
01:20:57,190 --> 01:21:00,250
and standardize it so we can be able to wrap our head around it

905
01:21:00,250 --> 01:21:02,010
and provide better oversight across the board.

906
01:21:02,530 --> 01:21:05,770
But with that being said, for looking at last year's budget,

907
01:21:05,770 --> 01:21:10,950
that there is about $10,600 that was savings

908
01:21:10,950 --> 01:21:13,250
and tech transportation and paid a park

909
01:21:13,250 --> 01:21:15,930
and going towards travel for Bacon Academy Athletics

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01:21:16,430 --> 01:21:17,830
and Special Education programs.

911
01:21:18,710 --> 01:21:20,110
That's transfer number one.

912
01:21:20,350 --> 01:21:23,730
Transfer number two is about $9,700,

913
01:21:24,850 --> 01:21:26,910
coming from classified salaries,

914
01:21:27,070 --> 01:21:28,070
going to classified salaries,

915
01:21:28,070 --> 01:21:30,590
but once it's bacon to Bacon Academy Special Education

916
01:21:31,050 --> 01:21:34,790
and then about $13,000 from Medicare

917
01:21:34,790 --> 01:21:38,510
We take care to the unemployment bill that we received.

918
01:21:38,990 --> 01:21:41,130
So that's what we're asking the board to approve.

919
01:21:41,410 --> 01:21:41,750
Any questions?

920
01:21:43,850 --> 01:21:46,690
Is there a motion to approve these budget transfers over $5,000?

921
01:21:48,650 --> 01:21:52,670
I'll make the motion to approve the budget transfers over $5,000.

922
01:21:53,170 --> 01:21:53,670
Thanks, Michelle.

923
01:21:53,870 --> 01:21:54,230
Is there a second?

924
01:21:54,750 --> 01:21:55,230
Seconded.

925
01:21:55,570 --> 01:21:56,190
Thank you, Nancy.

926
01:21:56,850 --> 01:21:57,650
There's a motion, there's a second.

927
01:21:57,730 --> 01:21:58,250
Any discussion?

928
01:22:00,010 --> 01:22:01,350
None heard, all in favor?

929
01:22:01,790 --> 01:22:01,970
Aye.

930
01:22:02,530 --> 01:22:02,710
Aye.

931
01:22:03,290 --> 01:22:05,990
We are opposed of sanctions, motion passes,

932
01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:12,060
and then like I said, we are also the facilities

933
01:22:12,060 --> 01:22:15,420
committee meeting, but honestly, we spent so much time talking about the budget transfers

934
01:22:15,420 --> 01:22:19,480
and stuff we didn't get to that part, so we'll frontload that next month's committee meeting,

935
01:22:19,660 --> 01:22:20,980
and so we'll have more updates for everyone.

936
01:22:21,520 --> 01:22:23,740
With that, we'd love to turn it over to the curriculum committee.

937
01:22:28,610 --> 01:22:29,670
Thank you, Guessie.

938
01:22:29,710 --> 01:22:35,710
Yes, we are going to have a great year reviewing and revising some of our curricular areas, and

939
01:22:35,710 --> 01:22:40,110
And we forecast again that our first meeting we focused on a beacon academy English.

940
01:22:40,690 --> 01:22:45,150
And now that our staff is back, we look forward to diving in so we can anticipate a calendar

941
01:22:45,150 --> 01:22:46,970
date likely for October.

942
01:22:49,220 --> 01:22:49,520
Thank you.

943
01:22:49,820 --> 01:22:50,340
Policy committee.

944
01:22:51,140 --> 01:22:51,240
Anyone?

945
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:53,520
Yeah.

946
01:22:53,740 --> 01:22:54,840
We have not had a meeting yet.

947
01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:55,600
Okay.

948
01:22:56,320 --> 01:22:56,900
That's good.

949
01:22:57,340 --> 01:23:02,660
The one though I'll also bring back up, I'm back to the cool kit committee is we also talked

950
01:23:02,660 --> 01:23:05,420
a little bit about like really looking at all of our budget reports.

951
01:23:05,420 --> 01:23:12,300
It's all through the reports and everything else and not we have a budget really we ask for a lot of homework this month, honestly

952
01:23:13,300 --> 01:23:17,440
To really look at all this reports and like with a fresh set of eyes of how do we do this better

953
01:23:17,440 --> 01:23:24,440
So more conversation to come on that but if you start to see different formats of things we'll always explain where that stuff came from but

954
01:23:24,440 --> 01:23:31,620
I asked my fellow committee members and our administrative team and staff to just look at it all across the board and we'll be making adjustments to

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01:23:31,620 --> 01:23:34,820
and take our lessons, learn to implement them.

956
01:23:37,440 --> 01:23:39,540
If that being said, move on to board announcements,

957
01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:41,860
information items, next regular board meeting

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01:23:41,860 --> 01:23:47,300
is drum roll, please, tober 13.

959
01:23:48,880 --> 01:23:51,860
And then moving on to additional business,

960
01:23:52,340 --> 01:23:54,020
we have a proposed executive session

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01:23:54,820 --> 01:23:58,760
to unlock a tri-pronounce at much more,

962
01:23:58,900 --> 01:24:00,420
and who are you inviting into that?

963
01:24:00,420 --> 01:24:00,540
All

964
01:24:24,060 --> 01:24:32,100
right. Is there a motion to move into executive session to discuss at Mato versus cold

965
01:24:32,100 --> 01:24:37,880
trust report of a case and inviting in our superintendent and the attorney Peter Murphy?

966
01:24:39,180 --> 01:24:42,280
Make a motion. Like you guys see is there a second?

967
01:24:42,840 --> 01:24:45,400
A second. All right. There's a motion. There's a second. Any discussion?

968
01:24:46,300 --> 01:24:51,480
None heard? All in favor? I pose of sanctions for going into executive session.

969
01:39:25,780 --> 01:39:52,860
743, we're out of executive session. Is there a motion to approve this? I don't want to agree, but it has discussed. I approve. I second. There's a motion. There's a second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Any abstain? Motion passes? Is there a motion to adjourn? Don't vote. Is there a second? There's a motion. There's a second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Semptions? Is 743? We are adjourned.

970
01:39:54,100 --> 01:39:54,940
That was good.

971
01:39:55,300 --> 01:39:55,720
Thank you.

972
01:39:56,600 --> 01:39:57,340
We got that.