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All right, I'm going to, all right, hello everyone, I'm going to call the meeting to order at seven o'clock please rise for the police.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation.

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Okay, I get a motion to approve the agenda.

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I have a couple of changes.

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One I wanted to add the minutes from the special meeting.

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It wasn't included as part of your packet.

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But we didn't get that on the agenda, so we're going to add that.

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And I'm also going to move the MRU presentation right after the approval of the minutes, so

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that Eric can go ahead and then maybe go home and keep wants and let's see, enthralled

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with what's the conversations I were having.

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So, would someone like to make a motion to approve the agenda with the changes?

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Okay, is there a second?

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Great.

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Any discussion?

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Hey.

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All in favor?

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All right.

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Any opposed?

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One of the extension.

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Dave Cornwell of stained motion passes.

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All right.

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Is there any public comment?

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Anyone on?

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No?

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No, okay, so let's start with the approval of the minutes from nine to twenty six with someone like to make a motion

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Okay, Rich is there a second? I second Sarah

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Okay, any discussion any corrections go ahead rich just one under committee reports

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at one point

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The chair is called Rick Clark. Just so. Okay. Just type up. No biggie. Okay.

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Any other changes?

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Call the motion. All in favor?

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Any opposed? Any extensions?

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This is for the minutes. Yes. Okay. Staying for that. Okay. So just stay. David? There wasn't

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Yeah, okay. All right, and then approval of the minutes from the special meeting 9, 11, 26.

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So moved. Okay. There are second.

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Okay. Josh. All right. Any changes?

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I don't know if it needs to be a change, but I just want there's a lot of sort of ideas in opinions that we're discussed in here,

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But one that Linda set Rose raised about, how important it was that we made the decision

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to move surplus over there and how that plundered into the decision and made this

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an easier thing.

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I just think it's a good lesson for our constituents to understand that that had a real

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positive effect even while it might have sounded.

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It did so controversial when Josh described it, but it always did when I did, so I think

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that I just hate to see it like Fala.

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Well, I think it says Josh explains that this is the reason they asked voters during

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budget season to place surplus funds in the building and ground fund, which Lennon

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is good to look back on when moving forward when projects become more expensive.

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So do you want to add to that?

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I'm sorry.

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I was looking later in the discussion, I thought I brought it up at the end, so I looked at the end for it and apologies.

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Okay, perfect.

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It's perfect.

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Any other discussion of the special meeting minutes?

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All in favor.

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The posed abstain.

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David's abstaining.

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Other, although board members here, I didn't.

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Cam is not there.

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We're just meeting him and seeing him as in here.

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So there's nobody's Steven.

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And Steven, my jump on, usually jumps on after a while.

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If it's somebody notices, we'll have him present himself.

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OK, so we're going to go to the MRU presentation.

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You ready?

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All right.

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Cool.

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Cool.

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I have a t-shirt today because of the spirit weed.

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I think you should put that fancy.

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I am not holding that jacket.

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Or not that long.

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I've had enough.

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I have no idea what we're doing tomorrow.

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So it might be interesting.

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Thank you for giving me some time tonight to talk.

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I want to talk about how things are going in November.

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And I want to process a little bit differently.

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Simply giving you a list of things we've accomplished since July 1st, I'm going to do a little bit different.

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So there's not a lot of things going on.

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We've opened school.

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We've changed schedules.

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We've hired people.

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We manage athletic transportation issues.

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We work through student issues.

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We've established new systems.

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We've divided the building leadership team into operations and systems.

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We respond to parents, community members.

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We've handled everything.

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It comes along with opening a school.

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like a champ but those things I didn't sound so don't really tell you what the

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school's been doing. Sometimes I want to talk about something a little bit

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bigger. I want to talk about where I believe November is right now. What we

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learned thus far and what I believe we need to do next. I want to frame that

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around something I've shared with staff as students when school started. I believe

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there are six fundamental needs that we all share as human beings. Certainty for

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significant connection and growth and contribution.

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The more I thought about Mill River over the last couple months,

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the more I've realized that those 60s actually provide a pretty

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good framework of thinking about school.

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Because students need them and adults need them too.

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Our first thing, certainty, we all need to feel that we are safe.

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We need predictability, we need stability, we need clear expectations.

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We need to trust that when something happens, there's a system for

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to it. That doesn't mean school is predictable and will never be. Anyone who spent even a

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minute in school will know that high school is not predictable. So I won't forget something,

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a boss won't show up, as soon as it makes the decision they probably should not have made.

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A crowbook ends up where it should not have ever gone. A parent calls and planes,

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schedules change, that's public education. Certainty doesn't mean nothing unexpected happens.

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Sorry, he means that when you unexpected happens people know that we have a system for

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That's been one of my primary focuses since I've arrived here. It connects directly to what I've heard during my entry work.

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One of the strongest things I've heard was the desire for stability and accountability.

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I heard about relationships that have become strained over time. I heard about loss of hope. I heard about concerns about inconsistent expectations and inconsistent fall through.

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From out of the department, sometimes operating independently rather than as a whole school.

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My entry plan is leading me to describe the building this way.

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Our school is a float, but the crew is sometimes growing in a different direction.

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That doesn't mean the boat is sinking.

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It means we need to get everyone growing in the same direction.

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And I believe that work has already begun.

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We have been clarifying roles.

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We have been establishing expectations.

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We have been looking at procedures, we have been rebuilding the building leadership structures and we have been addressing problems

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instead of allowing them to sit in the Fester.

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And most importantly, we're doing it together.

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Being present matters.

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I think people need to see that the principal would show up.

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Not just at school, but at like events like tonight, at community events, at meetings like this one.

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In the hallways, in the classrooms, in conversations, I believe that presence had been one of the most important things I've done since I've been here.

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The second need we all have is a need for variety and challenge.

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This may sound like an opposition to certainty, and it certainly is. That's part of being human.

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We all need roots, but we also need to ruin our wings.

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Our students see opportunities to try something new, they need to take risks, they need to

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fail, they need to learn, and they need to try again.

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Adults need to need that too.

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And one of the dangers in a school is this phrase.

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That's the way we've always done it.

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We have to be willing to ask, is there a better way?

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It doesn't mean we change because we can or things that we've done before are just the way we've done things.

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Our legacy matters.

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In fact, one of the things I believe strongly in is that we should respect our legacy by focusing on the present and looking towards the future.

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But respecting our legacy doesn't mean we're trapped by it.

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It means understanding was made in Mil River special and then asking what our students need from us right now.

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The third thing we need is significance. I matter.

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Every student needs to know that. Every adult needs to know that too.

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It's been a lot of time listening since I've arrived, and the one thing that has become very clear to me is that people know and want to know that they're work matters.

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They want to know that someone sees it, they want to know that they're contribution to the school's important.

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And that's true whether you teach AP English, sound three math, art, PE, special ed, maintain the building, answer the phones, work on the office, or just be somewhere, everywhere you need to be when you're asked.

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We all matter, no river.

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And I think it's important.

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I think it's a leadership responsibility to make it important.

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If we expect our staff to make students feel seen

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value it respected and important, then we need to do

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the same thing for our staff.

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The fourth is connection.

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And I think this may be the most important one for our school.

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It's always learned better when they have a relationship with adults who

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And that doesn't mean we always agree, we won't.

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In fact, that disagreement is healthy.

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We needed to have enough trust in each other to know

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that we can have difficult conversations,

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that we can ask for help, that we can give

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and receive critical feedback.

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And we need to assume good intentions.

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And this is why my thing about the culture

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the building has evolved.

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I can't walk in a mill river and simply change the culture.

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I can't.

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Culture is bigger than one person.

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But it can't help change a climb in the building.

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I think we've been doing that since day one.

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We have to stop thinking that's their problem.

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And we have to start thinking that's a middle river problem.

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And we have to work together to solve it.

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The first thing we have is growth.

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And this is where I think our work becomes particularly important.

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We want students to grow.

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We have to have the willingness for our cells to grow too.

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That means accepting feedback, reflecting on our mistakes, trying something different,

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looking honestly at our practices, and asking whether we are producing the results we want.

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That's particularly important when we start talking about data.

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One of the things I learned during my entry process is that Mo River has a lot of data everywhere.

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But having a data using it are two very different things.

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I found data house and individual spreadsheets that there wasn't necessarily accessible to anyone who needed it or wanted it.

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And there were limited structures for actually analyzing and using it.

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And in some cases, I hate to say that it was being used to explain why we should continue to do what we're doing instead of looking at whether it's helping kids or not.

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That's a change.

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Not because data is the answer, but because evidence shouldn't form our decisions, and

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we should be asking every day who are our students, what are they learning, who is succeeding,

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who is struggling, where are the gaps, where interventions are not working,

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and what

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we can do differently because or is students are not learning.

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That's one of the reasons why I want our PLC, professional learning committees, to change

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the way we work, and become more purposeful.

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I don't want PLC to be just another meeting on the calendar.

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I want them to produce something.

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I want them to understand our students,

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I want them to understand that their actions

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or their investigations that we can lead to action.

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The 16 that we all have is contribution

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and that is simply what I'm giving to something bigger than myself.

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This one is particularly important to our school

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because schools are communities.

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And communities work when people contribute something bigger to them from themselves to others.

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Our students should leave November knowing that they have something to contribute to their families,

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to their communities, to their teams, to the workplace, to the world.

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But they learned that from watching us.

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They see teachers who contribute by helping the students who refuse to work and to stop trying.

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They see coaches who teach lessons and have nothing to do with the scoreboard.

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They see adults cheering at games.

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They see people solving problems before anyone knows this is a problem.

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They see people stop in a hallway and pick up a piece of trash.

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Those small things matter and they matter a lot.

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That's contribution.

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And that's what makes this school community.

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So, we have some real challenges.

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We have building-based leadership structures that need to be modified and changed.

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Our PLC's new work, our intervention systems new work, our data systems need work, our

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supervision and evaluation practices need to become more meaningful, behavior reporting

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and consistency need to be.

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Attend it to. Some roles and responsibilities need some clarification. And some relationships, well, they need to be rebuilt. Those are real issues. Now, I'm not going to say here until you can all be done this year.

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I'm going to tell you right now, we started.

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I don't think these problems should frighten us.

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What's encouraging to me is that I don't see a school that lasts caring people.

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I see people who care deeply for students.

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I see people who want no river to be successful.

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I see people who are willing to suffer forward.

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I am seeing people begin to think beyond their individual responsibilities towards a larger organization.

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A school.

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That is because you can't build a strong school for the efforts of a handful of people.

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It takes the collective responsibility.

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And I think we're beginning to move in that direction.

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One of the things I've noticed, particularly over the last couple of weeks,

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that admitted all the craziness of the school is that we are still laughing.

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I was talking to my office team the other day, and we just stopped.

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And we just busted out laughing.

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It's still there.

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The school year is chaotic.

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There's problems all day long.

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It's the first few days of school.

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It's going to happen.

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People are tired.

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We haven't figured things out yet.

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If people are still laughing, they're still talking.

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We're still having one another, we're still showing up, and to me, that's the Lip Distance

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for a strong building.

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It tells me that underneath all the challenges, they're still energy in the building.

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They're still hope, and it's still a sense that this could be an amazing place.

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There's something else I'll be very clear about, and I don't want to, I don't want to

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We have another committee, we need to have coherence.

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We need to have a few important things done well.

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We need to follow through, we need to sit systems that people understand.

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We need to adults who trust each other and agree with all problems together.

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We need to continually ask, is this making our school better for kids?

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As we move into the fall, and I see the work becoming increasingly focused.

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we still need to strengthen our PLC's, we still need to build better bad data practices.

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We still need to strengthen our intervention systems.

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We still need to clarify some wood leadership roles.

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We still need to continue to develop our learning center.

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We still need to strengthen our supervision evaluation.

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We still need to work.

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But we're building trust.

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And we're moving forward.

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A school has to be a place where people will feel safe.

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We're students in adults feel like they matter,

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where people feel connected, challenged, and where they can grow.

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And where people understand that what they do contribute is something bigger than just to themselves.

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I want to board to know that I'll be watching a few things.

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And I'm not going to measure my first year by having things I change.

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I don't think it would be a very good measure of anyone's leadership to just change things for

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changing them, whether it can or not.

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Instead, I want to know, are we becoming more stable?

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Is communication clear?

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Are our expectations clear?

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Are we following through?

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Are our teams actually producing something?

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Are we using evidence to make decisions?

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Are we getting better identifying students who need support?

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Are we working collaboratively?

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Are students feeling more connected?

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Are we creating more opportunities for students to challenge themselves?

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are we growing? And are we contributing to something bigger than ourselves? Are those things

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that are those things that make us better? I think they will. I think they will be.

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When I think about a school that I wanted to be part of it in November, I don't envision

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a completely different school. I envision a stronger version of the school that's already

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here, and that has been here.

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The school that respects his legacy, loving trap by it,

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we're students feel safe, school where people belong,

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the school where students are challenged,

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where the adults are valued,

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where people know that they're work matters.

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The school where both students and staff are growing,

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the school where people understand

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they are part of something bigger than themselves.

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That's the middle of every eye I'm going to be part of.

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And I believe that no river has no river we can do this together.

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I came to no river because I believe in the school.

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I believe in students, I believe in the people, I believe in this potential.

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After his first few weeks, I still believe all of these things.

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In fact, I believe him more strongly.

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Because I'm a much clearer understanding of the work that needs to be done.

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Our job is not to pretend everything is fine.

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Our job is not to preserve everything simply because it's always been done that way.

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Our job is not to change things simply because we can't change them.

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Our job is to create the conditions in which students and adults can thrive.

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That means certainty, that means challenge, that means significance, that means connection.

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That means growth, that means contribution.

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And notably, it means remembering why we're here.

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Why are we here?

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We at the center of days, helping young people figure out who they are, what they're capable of,

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what they can contribute to the world. That's why we're here.

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Thanks for your good stuff.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Would anybody like to comment?

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I have a question.

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So I think the list of things that you've brought up is issues in the school.

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They're not new.

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We've had several principles have a very similar set of issues.

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And I think one of the hardest, especially because we've had a bunch of principles, is how do you get buy-in from the adults in the building?

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How do you get buy-in to say, this, these PLCs are different than these other PLCs?

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What is your strategy for that?

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because having, I, I, from the tropes of not ever been in a school is just like, oh,

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new principle comes in and here's some changes. And I know you spoke to that, but do you have

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a specific, like, game plan or just like a one point of it that you could talk about? Sure.

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I don't think you've had a principal show up to a board meeting with a fliming little coach. So I mean,

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that's pretty good. Oh, no, I mean, that's a legitimate question. So I would say, you know, slow

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fast, slow smooth, right? So for me moving at a slower pace, think of it as, you know,

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water, right? Water never stops. It keeps on going. Even when it's damped up, it still

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wants to go. So I have no momentum to keep on going and going and showing up. And that's

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way approach. Adults are approach to building. College is here. She can speak to the way we've

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up the leadership team.

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And it's not, we're going to do this, we're going to do that. No, let's stop and talk. So even in the leadership team, there are too many people in the room to make decisions. So I'm like, okay, what do we want to do? Let's see. We have operations, like day-to-day stuff, and we have four taking systems that really need to be done. So I'm like, who wants to do what? And they naturally divide themselves up. Great. So now you're in a group you want to be in and want to work with. And you're in a group that you want to work with. Now we can actually work together because they're not fighting each other. So taking decisions like that. And we're

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really pausing and moving slowly together, you know, things I'm seeing, there's some past

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practices that have been going on the billing night, don't I say agree with? Letting people

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know, hey listen, I see something, I don't necessarily like it, let's work on what we need

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to do to move forward. Is there a system in place that has been confusing to you? I can't

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hold you accountable, but I can't say we don't do this anymore and we work towards how to

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fix it and not by myself but with a team.

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So I don't know if I can answer your question anymore

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than if it goes slow and be personal.

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Can I jump in because there's two things I think you

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talk about always that you're not saying here.

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One is you're highly visible and that is a big change.

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I would say there's probably a group of young men in the park

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in the morning that are not really thrilled to say.

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But not only visible students, but visible with teachers and your relationship building with the people.

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And that's part of what you mean when you're questioning it.

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So I just want to add that because I just see that as your strengths and moving it forward.

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David, did you?

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Yeah, well, you mentioned, well, two things, one, easy one, have you put any structures in place to see how kids are appreciating our new food service company?

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And because we, you know, would like to know how that's going, how is it being perceived, and how is that working or taking improvement or is the food quality and better than it was last year?

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So I'd like to sort of get some data from kids and from, you know, on that.

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But my other question was around PLC's, what is your vision for PLC's and how are they structured at the river and what's your vision for what do you want them to accomplish?

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What's your goal?

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Two good questions. So actually I met with pseudo representatives today and I got the thumbs up.

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So I pass an information on to the food service and say listen kids are saying it's amazing.

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So keep on keeping on.

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I know they are structured in a way. I can't speak for them, but I had the conversation with them.

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The first month, they have to roll out the food as a company has said they roll it out.

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So all the schools across the nation who have this food service are getting the same menu.

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And then afterwards, the food service here could start changing things and making it through.

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But today, the meeting today went great to the kids are like awesome.

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So it's as best it's been in two years.

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I don't know, I don't have the school lunch.

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I don't really get lunch often.

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But from what the kids are saying today, it's going well.

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So for PLC's, very good question.

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So what I'm trying to do, instead of, I've told staff,

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I can't just bring something to you, say, let's work on this.

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I've been here for like two minutes.

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What I can do is ask questions, like,

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what is working, what's not working.

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So a PLC's, what I want to do is I create the leadership teams,

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both operations, and systems taking four things.

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From those two teams, my idea is that we build our PLC's,

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using the data that we're working on, using the steps that we're working on.

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So right now, we're working on just looking over prices,

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drills, just how is that working? We need to start looking at the

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accuracy base learning. There's a lot of things we need to work on. What I need to know is

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that what the staff needs to work on. Because no matter what I bring on the new

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guy, I'm going to try to bring in something else, right? Well, let's work on what we already

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know is or is not working either fix it or improve it. That's how I'm going to

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run PLCs. So right now, unfortunately, I only get three days after school with

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three Wednesdays in a row. The first one would be a staff meeting. The second one I'm

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going to devote to department time. I heard time and time again that departments don't have enough

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time to work together. It's not like elementary where they have their own planning time. So they

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need that time. I've heard that over and over and over again. So we're going to be working on that

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what that's going to look like. I want that to produce something. It's not down time as we work time.

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And then from the leadership groups we're going to be working in driving our PLCs. And the PLCs might

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actually be driven by departments. So if departments say hey we have this major issue we need

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work on, maybe some of PLC's will be department PLC's also.

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Yeah, I just, I was curious to know how PLC's are structured and how that's interpreted

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in the river.

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Oh, I know.

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Oh, I know.

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In my office, what they're supposed to be, I don't know they were that last year or

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not.

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I am looking at this year as what do we need this year?

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What can we work on this year?

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It's that has been very vocal about what they need, what they don't need, during on what

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on one meetings.

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And they've been very upfront.

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And they have not held back.

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I mean, there's one thing I know about our staff members.

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is that they believe in the school, they believe in the kids.

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So what they're giving me, especially when

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back up over and over again, is legit.

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Like they want to see improvements.

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They want to see things run better.

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They have done their very best to keep the building

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of float and moving forward.

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And now they want to start growing in the same direction.

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Eric, will you define PLC's

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because not everybody on this board is in it?

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He did, though, because I always listen when I get an acronym

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And his first use of the acronym, he defined it then, and I was going to say thank you.

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Hey, you say it again.

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Think about like many people sitting in a room working on a problem.

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That's it.

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Personal learning.

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Professional learning meetings.

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People who want to work on a problem, get together, and they do it.

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That's what we're looking for.

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Any other questions or

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And a time of move fast and break the things I appreciate the approach you just laid out.

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All right, well, thank you, Eric.

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I was going to say that you're Friday newsletter that you wrote about going to the football game.

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I found that very moving.

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I don't know if anybody else read it or I was like, oh my God, that's so good.

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It really is a game.

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I mean, I've been here as a spectator before, but not as a principal, obviously.

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And just the connections.

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I mean, I was with kids, I don't get to see kids enough, but um, so I got to see some of the kids that were not playing and then the adults

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I mean, they're in it, they were right there and what was really impressive is that even when the others I mean, we all want our team to win, right?

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But even when we got hit a couple times, uh, maybe weren't they weren't they weren't cheering they were like, yeah, great boy

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but you know, and not so happy, but they were respectful, and that is not something you

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always see high school sports, and our fans were very, very respectful to the Elisine.

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Thank you. All right, anybody else? All right, well thank you so much for coming.

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Thank you.

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And, um, yeah, we'll see if it's really great.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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We'll do it.

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Go home.

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I think I'll.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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That should be the school uniform.

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Yeah, I know.

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All right.

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You have ideas for tomorrow?

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Let me know.

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What does it mean?

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Yeah, but it's like Italian great name day, I don't even understand that.

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I don't know what that means.

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I ask you to tell me what you don't want to do.

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We're brown and curried baseball bat.

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No baseball bat.

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Yeah.

467
00:30:15,340 --> 00:30:18,160
I kind of like pajama day the other day.

468
00:30:19,460 --> 00:30:19,520
Yeah.

469
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:20,400
The pajama day is good.

470
00:30:22,660 --> 00:30:23,580
That's good.

471
00:30:23,580 --> 00:30:25,180
Every day for my students.

472
00:30:26,220 --> 00:30:26,660
Oh yeah.

473
00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:30,020
I'm leaving.

474
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:31,480
I'm leaving.

475
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,760
Less so no school now than five years ago.

476
00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:37,480
Okay, Stephen, will you announce yourself?

477
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:38,580
So, I'm leaving.

478
00:30:38,780 --> 00:30:40,720
No, you're here.

479
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:42,040
Your unmute.

480
00:30:43,660 --> 00:30:44,660
You didn't.

481
00:30:45,660 --> 00:30:45,900
Yeah.

482
00:30:46,420 --> 00:30:46,480
No.

483
00:30:46,620 --> 00:30:48,280
He's muted, but maybe we don't.

484
00:30:48,380 --> 00:30:48,860
We don't.

485
00:30:49,460 --> 00:30:50,260
We have a mute.

486
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:51,260
Hold on one second.

487
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,160
Can you see what's going on there?

488
00:30:53,420 --> 00:30:54,180
He's got a mute.

489
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:54,740
He's got a mute.

490
00:30:54,740 --> 00:30:55,220
He's a mute.

491
00:30:55,220 --> 00:30:57,200
It doesn't say he's muted.

492
00:30:57,420 --> 00:30:58,200
Yeah, yes.

493
00:30:58,360 --> 00:30:59,160
There's two.

494
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:00,140
There's two sounds.

495
00:31:00,140 --> 00:31:01,500
That's a different thing.

496
00:31:01,620 --> 00:31:02,660
There's one on the...

497
00:31:02,660 --> 00:31:03,260
That's what he does.

498
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,120
Because I think that sound thing that's above his head is just the universal sound.

499
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,120
Hold on.

500
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:12,320
Jody's to the rescue.

501
00:31:13,580 --> 00:31:14,880
Maybe he could be on it.

502
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:16,500
He's working.

503
00:31:17,260 --> 00:31:17,600
He's working.

504
00:31:17,620 --> 00:31:19,020
Steven says something now.

505
00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:20,700
He's not.

506
00:31:20,780 --> 00:31:21,000
Yeah.

507
00:31:21,300 --> 00:31:22,020
Like it's registering.

508
00:31:22,020 --> 00:31:25,020
speaker symbol the line for what's on good time

509
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:27,740
yeah

510
00:31:32,810 --> 00:31:34,130
his face

511
00:31:36,670 --> 00:31:37,490
this is

512
00:31:40,230 --> 00:31:43,250
there you go Steven say something

513
00:31:43,250 --> 00:31:45,770
but he still has the mic rate

514
00:31:45,770 --> 00:31:48,630
the speaker was the line

515
00:31:48,630 --> 00:31:51,750
we're going to move on

516
00:31:51,750 --> 00:31:53,850
and i think that's what we use

517
00:31:53,850 --> 00:31:54,910
welcome Steven

518
00:31:55,750 --> 00:32:01,890
be hard to do his finance committee or meeting without the meeting. What about the meeting but not his face.

519
00:32:02,030 --> 00:32:06,170
Try to get his time. I'm just going to sign in to the meeting on my computer and put it really loud.

520
00:32:06,510 --> 00:32:10,990
Oh, no, don't do that. Just have Stephen just sign out and sign back in.

521
00:32:11,150 --> 00:32:12,730
I think we just did not.

522
00:32:13,130 --> 00:32:19,270
Yeah, well, I'm just thinking for later when he wants to do his finance committee report and stuff.

523
00:32:20,430 --> 00:32:21,890
All right. Now he's on mute.

524
00:32:21,890 --> 00:32:24,270
that other thing has nothing to do with it.

525
00:32:24,370 --> 00:32:25,610
Oh no, that's not that's summer.

526
00:32:26,730 --> 00:32:28,630
Okay, I'm gonna move on.

527
00:32:28,630 --> 00:32:29,950
You didn't have a microphone.

528
00:32:30,050 --> 00:32:30,490
It's true.

529
00:32:30,510 --> 00:32:32,230
The board meet in three.

530
00:32:32,230 --> 00:32:33,330
It's a little like a school.

531
00:32:34,110 --> 00:32:37,610
We got a, I think we forwarded to all of you,

532
00:32:37,850 --> 00:32:42,830
but Libby McPhee, who's the mentor coordinator

533
00:32:43,470 --> 00:32:49,870
for the district has scheduled, a board meet and greet,

534
00:32:49,870 --> 00:32:52,350
for 10.

535
00:32:54,900 --> 00:33:01,300
What is that the 19th I think? October 19 from 3 to 4. That's what it is.

536
00:33:01,940 --> 00:33:09,600
And this is a time when new teachers and new parent educators and other new employees meet

537
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:17,960
are available to meet with board members in the library last year. I think Lenny and I were there.

538
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:23,620
not sure who else was there but if you can make it it's really great it's nice to meet the new

539
00:33:23,620 --> 00:33:30,240
teachers they like meeting members of the board and talking about their jobs and their roles and

540
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:35,640
so we're all invited and they usually have pretty good cookies so perfect. And that's at the

541
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:42,860
moment. Yeah it's at the library from 3 to 4. That was 10. 10 19.

542
00:33:45,820 --> 00:33:47,560
So the next thing on the agenda is

543
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:59,740
I will review and so I we had quite a lively meeting and community engagement about the merger

544
00:33:59,740 --> 00:34:06,880
committee and the CSIC committee and all of that. Yeah it looks like Stephen go ahead

545
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,380
and just talk to let's see if we can hear you.

546
00:34:16,980 --> 00:34:26,520
So I went through, I went through the bylaws and did, I'm going to do a quick summary of them.

547
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,960
I'm going to hear me talk in for a while, which is why I let Eric first.

548
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:40,380
So, the bylaws have, I think, 11, only six, many sections,

549
00:34:43,070 --> 00:34:43,890
nine sections.

550
00:34:46,270 --> 00:34:52,330
And I think going through them really kind of focuses us on what our job is.

551
00:34:52,450 --> 00:34:56,710
I don't know if any of you have read all the way through them, I've read through them once

552
00:34:56,710 --> 00:35:00,190
before, but it helped me to go through and kind of outline everything.

553
00:35:00,270 --> 00:35:01,650
So, I'll try and make it short.

554
00:35:01,650 --> 00:35:15,710
So the first section is the purpose and it just is our governance approach and the focus is on operating as one system of schools was shared vision rather than a patchwork of separate schools.

555
00:35:16,030 --> 00:35:31,330
So I think initially when the consolidation happened, that was the first kind of job number one was to go what's to get all the schools to operate as one district.

556
00:35:31,330 --> 00:35:33,190
as opposed to separate school districts.

557
00:35:33,470 --> 00:35:35,550
I mean, each one used to have their own board.

558
00:35:36,610 --> 00:35:42,090
So that's, so the bylaws are established to help that happen.

559
00:35:42,990 --> 00:35:46,570
The second section just talks about board membership.

560
00:35:48,710 --> 00:35:51,150
And it's, you know, if we have 11 members,

561
00:35:51,350 --> 00:35:53,710
Clarendon and Wallingford have equal representation,

562
00:35:54,630 --> 00:35:57,310
and no district test fewer than one board member.

563
00:35:58,370 --> 00:36:01,990
And the vacancies are filled according to statute.

564
00:36:04,530 --> 00:36:09,550
If the clerk or the moderator leave,

565
00:36:10,490 --> 00:36:12,650
there's a vacancy in either of those positions,

566
00:36:12,930 --> 00:36:14,430
then it's our job to fill that.

567
00:36:16,110 --> 00:36:20,170
But the vacancy as a board member follows the state rules,

568
00:36:20,490 --> 00:36:21,770
which we've been through that.

569
00:36:21,770 --> 00:36:25,150
I think a couple of you were appointed to the board to that.

570
00:36:25,150 --> 00:36:27,510
So we've experienced that because it's just,

571
00:36:27,850 --> 00:36:32,030
but for the representation two years or three years ago,

572
00:36:32,250 --> 00:36:33,910
I did, because the new census came out,

573
00:36:34,250 --> 00:36:37,430
and I did just check to make sure that the represent numbers

574
00:36:37,430 --> 00:36:38,690
are still fine.

575
00:36:39,070 --> 00:36:41,090
And it's still like, I'll just like read my next question.

576
00:36:41,450 --> 00:36:43,210
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't official.

577
00:36:43,270 --> 00:36:46,070
It was just me doing a spreadsheet of Kathy Pacy numbers.

578
00:36:46,150 --> 00:36:47,430
But I was like, oh, is it still right?

579
00:36:47,530 --> 00:36:53,250
And it was basically, okay, not enough change to tweak anything.

580
00:36:53,250 --> 00:36:58,210
Well, yeah, I said that was before my time on the board so we would have to wait for the

581
00:36:58,210 --> 00:37:01,510
decennial census anyway, because we're such small communities.

582
00:37:01,910 --> 00:37:04,410
Twenty-thirty would be the next one, right?

583
00:37:06,650 --> 00:37:16,230
The next section is the organization and election of officers and includes the duties of the officers.

584
00:37:16,670 --> 00:37:19,410
And this is where our committees come in.

585
00:37:19,410 --> 00:37:29,970
And we actually can have members of our committees that are not board members, but they might be public who have expertise in the subject.

586
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:46,840
No matter of the committee work, I know when buildings and grounds was looking at the field. We had several people who came in and participated with our meetings. They weren't necessarily members of the committee, but they were giving, given pretty broad access to participate.

587
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:58,600
And as we know, we have five members. If a member wants to leave a committee, you have to do so at a full board meeting, or to join another committee.

588
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:05,320
you have to, that, that has to be approved by the full board. So, and ad hoc committees are created by the board.

589
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:12,880
They're given a charge, the civic timeline and provide regular and final reports, and the members are appointed by the chair.

590
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:23,080
And that's our supervision and evaluation committee is our only ad hoc committee that we have going on right now.

591
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:31,000
Carol, I just wanted to note that a member of a committee that is not a member of the school board can't vote.

592
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:31,980
Right, non-voting.

593
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:33,940
So it's interesting that the committee is being noted.

594
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:34,640
Yep.

595
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,400
It's non-voting members of the public.

596
00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:39,100
Thank you.

597
00:38:39,260 --> 00:38:41,320
I don't think I said that, but I meant to.

598
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:48,820
So, you know, our committees are building the grounds, community engagement, finance, negotiations, personnel and policy.

599
00:38:48,820 --> 00:38:56,680
Now, another thing that came up that I was looking at are the Educator Education Quality

600
00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:06,580
Standards, and because it was in this week's report from the SBA, and so I clicked

601
00:39:06,580 --> 00:39:12,740
on it and there's a rubric and there's several categories that are essentially the

602
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:19,700
administration's Bellwick. But there's a couple of that kind of align with our

603
00:39:19,700 --> 00:39:26,680
committees, like building in grounds, there's facilities, standards, finance,

604
00:39:27,060 --> 00:39:32,020
there's finance standards, personnel, there's personnel standards and

605
00:39:32,020 --> 00:39:37,980
policy standards. So one thing maybe we can think about is how we integrate

606
00:39:37,980 --> 00:39:45,540
those standards into our committees and just make sure that the committees know which of those

607
00:39:45,540 --> 00:39:48,320
standards they might be looking at.

608
00:39:49,260 --> 00:39:54,460
Yeah, I think, because when we do reorganization, we have that worksheet that goes through, that

609
00:39:54,460 --> 00:39:57,120
might be something that we wanted to add to that.

610
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,080
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, that's the idea.

611
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:12,260
The next section is around the treasurer and the district treasurer and it's really about what the duties are of the treasurer.

612
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:15,200
Are you the treasurer, please?

613
00:40:16,060 --> 00:40:19,280
Yeah, Denise is our treasurer and it has her duties.

614
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,060
It talks about the audit and budget proposals.

615
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:31,760
The next section is the transaction of business and this is about quorum's, quorum's, and voting.

616
00:40:36,610 --> 00:40:43,770
Then the next section is local input and public comment and it refers we have a policy on public comment.

617
00:40:44,150 --> 00:40:52,830
So it refers to that. Transportation is another error is the next section and that's our policy F9, which we kind of looked at.

618
00:40:52,830 --> 00:40:57,330
I think at our last meeting, or was it least shared at our last meeting?

619
00:40:59,510 --> 00:41:09,290
So Section 9 is important in terms of what's happening or being talked about with mergers

620
00:41:11,270 --> 00:41:17,630
because it refers to policies regarding school use and buildings, which we have, but it includes

621
00:41:17,630 --> 00:41:27,090
from the articles of agreement, the process for school closures, and any school closure

622
00:41:27,090 --> 00:41:32,890
requires a unanimous vote of the board and affirmative vote of the town in which it

623
00:41:32,890 --> 00:41:38,990
is located. So if, you know, if there was a recommendation to close the school, that would

624
00:41:38,990 --> 00:41:44,650
be the process that would have to follow the whole board, but after unanimously vote to

625
00:41:44,650 --> 00:41:51,630
prove closing and then it would go to that town to make the determination as to whether they want their school clothes.

626
00:41:51,850 --> 00:41:59,290
So I just want to highlight that and then any by-law changes the by-laws outline the procedure,

627
00:41:59,710 --> 00:42:06,370
which I think we have used in the past since I've been on the board and it's laid out there.

628
00:42:06,750 --> 00:42:13,130
So I just want to do a broad overview of that and I see people are kind of following along and that's good.

629
00:42:13,130 --> 00:42:18,270
And then if you continue on the bottom of that page,

630
00:42:18,270 --> 00:42:21,910
if you go all the way down, the articles of agreement follow.

631
00:42:22,270 --> 00:42:24,150
And those are the articles under which

632
00:42:24,150 --> 00:42:26,990
the consolidation occurred under Act 46.

633
00:42:28,030 --> 00:42:31,150
So just all good information for us to have.

634
00:42:31,590 --> 00:42:35,450
Anybody have any questions or comments about that?

635
00:42:35,950 --> 00:42:40,650
For a few years ago, we changed in the bylaws,

636
00:42:40,650 --> 00:42:48,830
how many members we had on committees. We used to have six or seven and it was very we had

637
00:42:48,830 --> 00:42:56,130
a problem making for them. And I just want to thank everyone here and the admit of that it

638
00:42:56,130 --> 00:43:01,710
very, very rarely happens and it was the worst to come down here and be ready for a meeting and

639
00:43:01,710 --> 00:43:07,770
then not be able to have a meeting. It was very frustrating. So I just appreciate everybody's

640
00:43:09,150 --> 00:43:10,110
Yeah, definitely.

641
00:43:11,010 --> 00:43:11,810
Sure, definitely.

642
00:43:12,750 --> 00:43:14,430
Our committees are quite active.

643
00:43:15,090 --> 00:43:18,270
I watch school board meetings, you know,

644
00:43:19,650 --> 00:43:20,610
I know why.

645
00:43:20,890 --> 00:43:22,050
I was about to say well.

646
00:43:22,190 --> 00:43:22,870
No, no.

647
00:43:23,010 --> 00:43:24,930
Well, I like to see how other boards operate.

648
00:43:25,170 --> 00:43:27,710
You know, I was interested in consent agenda.

649
00:43:27,850 --> 00:43:30,570
So I watch some boards with consent agenda.

650
00:43:30,610 --> 00:43:32,670
I don't think it saves them a whole lot of time.

651
00:43:32,670 --> 00:43:40,870
So, but they have either very few committees or the committees rarely need to.

652
00:43:42,870 --> 00:43:43,510
So,

653
00:43:46,310 --> 00:43:52,870
what happens if under the current reform efforts that this state has put forward,

654
00:43:53,190 --> 00:43:55,650
they decide that they want to close the school.

655
00:43:56,770 --> 00:44:01,610
But the school board doesn't vote unanimously and or the town rejects the proposal.

656
00:44:02,350 --> 00:44:05,590
The law says that it goes back to the town of Cervantes.

657
00:44:06,230 --> 00:44:07,630
It's the town votes on it.

658
00:44:07,790 --> 00:44:10,510
So at the end of the day, the town, so even if there's like,

659
00:44:10,530 --> 00:44:13,890
the recommendation is that that school be closed,

660
00:44:14,130 --> 00:44:15,590
it's up to the town and make that final decision.

661
00:44:16,670 --> 00:44:19,310
Doesn't even, that was my question, too.

662
00:44:20,190 --> 00:44:22,550
Even if that school serves multiple towns,

663
00:44:22,810 --> 00:44:23,510
there's a venue.

664
00:44:24,010 --> 00:44:25,490
They'll be all the towns.

665
00:44:25,950 --> 00:44:28,270
Yeah, like, if they said they weren't a close middle river,

666
00:44:28,430 --> 00:44:30,410
then I think I would think of the towns.

667
00:44:30,410 --> 00:44:35,990
Isn't there, like, leverage the state has to drive that change?

668
00:44:37,750 --> 00:44:40,090
I mean, I had to add something to that.

669
00:44:40,570 --> 00:44:40,610
Yeah.

670
00:44:41,050 --> 00:44:41,730
They're right.

671
00:44:42,530 --> 00:44:49,850
But if the student population is under 750, then a state can look in and say,

672
00:44:50,230 --> 00:44:51,170
we think you should.

673
00:44:51,770 --> 00:44:54,270
I think it ultimately goes back to the voters,

674
00:44:54,550 --> 00:44:58,630
but they can recommend it on the basis of that.

675
00:44:58,670 --> 00:44:59,550
Yeah, I think.

676
00:44:59,550 --> 00:44:59,970
Oh, wow.

677
00:45:00,660 --> 00:45:05,640
We said it seven, seven, eight. There's required, when I get into the

678
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:12,320
challenges, though, I want to say that there were districts that the state had said you have to close your school.

679
00:45:13,020 --> 00:45:17,780
And then the school, the town said no. And there was like legal issues around that.

680
00:45:17,860 --> 00:45:22,780
Implying that the state had taken more serious actions than just saying, you really should close your school.

681
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,800
Can they work if it was just you need to close your school in this town?

682
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,640
I was like, no, I think there was more to it than that.

683
00:45:31,780 --> 00:45:37,200
Well, I know, you know, up north at Cabot, I think, is they've been trying to close, they've

684
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:42,780
been trying to get about to close that school, and they just have not succeeded at that.

685
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,820
So, I believe that's coming from the board and the superintendent.

686
00:45:45,860 --> 00:45:50,800
Yes, it's coming from the board, you're right, it's not coming from the state, but it's different

687
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:58,420
to, like, what originally was being proposed with like a seven district state, like none of

688
00:45:58,420 --> 00:46:03,000
districts would exist anymore. And then it would be the purview of the new district. And then

689
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:08,520
are all of our articles of a corporation are gone because we're not. But that's not what

690
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:14,600
they did. So then the question is, is if we are walking down the road to merger and it looks like

691
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:20,940
we have to merger, that is one of those, that was one of the sticking points of our consolidation

692
00:46:20,940 --> 00:46:26,240
is you know, it was that. So it's like that's going to be a huge sticking point because every

693
00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:31,220
thing nobody want, you know, nobody in, I think in our area really wants to, there's not

694
00:46:31,220 --> 00:46:37,220
the discussion of them closing their schools. So that is going to be a huge sticking point

695
00:46:37,220 --> 00:46:40,500
in the future. If we all agree, say oh yeah, we can all keep our schools then.

696
00:46:41,740 --> 00:46:43,340
What's the advantage?

697
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:54,620
I think I spoke with, I don't remember her name, the lady from the Vermont School Board Association that came in.

698
00:46:55,300 --> 00:46:56,420
Dev, sing hi, sir.

699
00:46:57,020 --> 00:47:10,420
Yeah, and she said that unless the state changes something, our consolidation stands.

700
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:24,500
So it's, you know, the state would have to mandate by law that this district no longer exists kind of thing.

701
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:38,240
And as long as we have the articles of the corporation and all of this material, it's going to be much harder for them to change it.

702
00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:43,860
Well, one of the things that we're talking about is that we consolidated under Act 46.

703
00:47:44,060 --> 00:47:46,200
Act 46 still exists.

704
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,800
Act 46 still stands.

705
00:47:49,580 --> 00:47:58,920
And school districts actually legally can consolidate without the merger committee, without any of that, without Act 17.

706
00:47:59,100 --> 00:47:59,260
Yeah.

707
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:03,420
So we've already done that work.

708
00:48:04,900 --> 00:48:06,020
And that's what she said.

709
00:48:06,020 --> 00:48:12,100
as well. She reinforced that. But at heart, I mean, we're not a federal system. We are

710
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,560
towns, every government entity is the

711
00:48:17,740 --> 00:48:23,420
creation of the state and the state can change laws in the, in the way. So they can change the laws,

712
00:48:23,900 --> 00:48:28,600
this isn't like federal government where they can't. Right. There's no cause. It's all within.

713
00:48:29,180 --> 00:48:32,000
Oh, we have a state. What the heck is that? It's probably not right.

714
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:36,220
What I'm getting from conversation though is that because Act 46 is still in power

715
00:48:36,220 --> 00:48:37,820
Yeah, it would require

716
00:48:37,820 --> 00:48:45,580
Actual legislation in the legislature to either amend that or repeal it or something to force a closer

717
00:48:45,580 --> 00:48:50,140
Just course the closure because we're operating under legal rules. Yeah

718
00:48:50,140 --> 00:48:52,060
So good

719
00:48:52,060 --> 00:48:54,500
Stay tuned. I think it's uh, yeah

720
00:48:55,620 --> 00:48:57,260
More to cut

721
00:48:57,260 --> 00:48:59,560
I just have a question

722
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:06,180
Yeah, there's cuz I'm confused and I'll bring it up later. I'm sorry. They're mine.

723
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:09,200
Well, is it by the way? There's two groups.

724
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:14,580
Oh, the seaset and the merger. Yeah,

725
00:49:17,540 --> 00:49:26,880
You're not alone. Yeah, really, you have good company. You explained it really well, though. That one was really gigantic. Yeah, so the seaset is the

726
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:31,480
operative, educational, something, something. What's the essay? I don't know.

727
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:38,260
I don't remember. Anyway, that area starts. I mean, I'm just looking at the

728
00:49:38,260 --> 00:49:43,000
math, but it starts like, oh, not a valley. Right, super. That's all the way down to

729
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:50,120
Bennington. That's huge. Right. Then the merger committees. That same region has

730
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:58,460
one facilitator, that facilitator has, I believe, seven merger committees within that

731
00:49:58,460 --> 00:50:01,240
Sisa. So that's, so they would too.

732
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:02,880
Who is that facilitator?

733
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,020
A little bow, bow, bow.

734
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:06,080
A little bow, bow, bow, bow.

735
00:50:06,780 --> 00:50:06,920
A little bow.

736
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:07,420
Is that your spell?

737
00:50:08,020 --> 00:50:08,160
Okay.

738
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:11,620
Now what's David Jones?

739
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,680
He's the facilitator of the facilitators.

740
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:17,780
You wanted to be really wrong.

741
00:50:17,780 --> 00:50:18,580
We're not really wrong.

742
00:50:18,580 --> 00:50:23,240
interact with him. No. He's like the head like, you know, he's the umbrella

743
00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:28,580
organized or other. Right. No, he's the leader boss. He hired all the facilitators

744
00:50:28,580 --> 00:50:32,740
and he's training all the facilitators. Okay.

745
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:37,380
I'm following. Yeah. Okay.

746
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:43,900
bizarrely. Um, but you're on one committee. Right.

747
00:50:43,900 --> 00:50:49,180
I'm on the sea side, which is part of educational service area.

748
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:50,420
Thank you.

749
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:50,900
Okay.

750
00:50:51,540 --> 00:50:54,780
And that's made up of super tendons.

751
00:50:55,140 --> 00:50:55,360
Yes.

752
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,720
But it could be board members, but as it turned out,

753
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,460
everybody nominated their super tendons.

754
00:51:01,460 --> 00:51:01,780
Okay.

755
00:51:03,180 --> 00:51:04,340
And I'm on the merger.

756
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:05,120
Okay.

757
00:51:08,100 --> 00:51:09,360
What does that do?

758
00:51:10,780 --> 00:51:12,240
So there we go.

759
00:51:14,060 --> 00:51:22,560
No no no no no no let's talk about when I read David's email

760
00:51:23,220 --> 00:51:28,600
email and then I read the minutes from C-Supp

761
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:36,220
C-Supp it was like what we're not gonna do anything because we don't know what we're supposed to do

762
00:51:36,220 --> 00:51:39,100
that's exactly right okay that was the first meeting

763
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:47,120
And I have a feeling when we have our first meeting of the merger committee, which hasn't been scheduled yet.

764
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:47,300
Okay.

765
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,300
Supposedly by October 15th.

766
00:51:50,380 --> 00:51:51,060
Maybe on Oct.

767
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:51,760
I don't know.

768
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:59,580
I haven't heard anything that will be saying the same thing that we don't know.

769
00:51:59,580 --> 00:52:00,020
Yeah.

770
00:52:00,060 --> 00:52:00,780
It's supposed to do.

771
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:01,960
But that's the facility.

772
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,100
You guys did not have a facility.

773
00:52:04,100 --> 00:52:05,300
We did not have a facility.

774
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:08,060
So we will at least have a facilitator.

775
00:52:08,060 --> 00:52:17,320
So we really were looking. Now, at our next meeting Friday, we do have some information for some of our questions.

776
00:52:18,180 --> 00:52:29,640
Well, and then I read in today's paper that there's a supervisory union that doesn't want to belong to the one that they were chosen to belong to.

777
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:37,200
You have the right, because like Barry, Barry town just failed their vote again for them.

778
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:44,340
And so one of the just one of their, I can't remember which one, but one of them wants to leave and try to be over on the other side.

779
00:52:44,340 --> 00:52:47,900
because this school, something spring,

780
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:52,980
it wasn't mid-time spring, which is Wales and Mid-altown Springs.

781
00:52:53,980 --> 00:53:00,100
There was a school district under the umbrella of the Greater Rutland Supervisor,

782
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:01,840
yeah, I don't know what it's called.

783
00:53:01,980 --> 00:53:03,620
And they wanted to be part of it.

784
00:53:03,620 --> 00:53:05,440
My apologies to that number two.

785
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,140
Well, they had one board member who came to the sea,

786
00:53:09,300 --> 00:53:13,340
so who wanted Mid-altown Springs to come and join us.

787
00:53:13,340 --> 00:53:17,960
And when we first consulted, you were part of that, middle town springs was part of that conversation.

788
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:24,880
And they decided not to join us mainly because they didn't want to give up school, high school choice or school choice.

789
00:53:27,060 --> 00:53:31,140
So, you know, and they still want to go on to that.

790
00:53:31,900 --> 00:53:36,220
So that's, so they're not joining us.

791
00:53:36,220 --> 00:53:45,980
And then, what's interesting is Ludlow and Mount Holly, who also are in a similar district.

792
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:54,160
They have high school choice, or middle school high school choice, and they're sending quite a few kids to middle river.

793
00:53:55,580 --> 00:53:57,500
But they were in a different merger area.

794
00:53:58,180 --> 00:54:01,660
Is that because of the tech centers?

795
00:54:01,660 --> 00:54:03,980
Yeah, I didn't know about that.

796
00:54:03,980 --> 00:54:05,060
That's a whole different thing.

797
00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:05,280
Yeah.

798
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:06,400
Yeah, that's a whole different thing.

799
00:54:06,540 --> 00:54:07,500
I didn't know where I was.

800
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:09,260
I'm just worried about any of this.

801
00:54:09,260 --> 00:54:12,460
No, these are all these are great questions, Lenny,

802
00:54:14,700 --> 00:54:16,860
because we're all trying to figure it out.

803
00:54:18,900 --> 00:54:19,900
And so the text center thing.

804
00:54:20,060 --> 00:54:22,900
And that was one, one, like, so last year,

805
00:54:23,300 --> 00:54:26,740
there was, it was, let's base the districts around the text centers.

806
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:28,680
There's also, like, a whole other conversation

807
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:29,600
that's been happening.

808
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:36,200
That's not involved with any of this about how to do text centers better. Right, so it's like, oh, let's do this

809
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:42,620
But yeah, it they also is if you look at the map, which I don't know where it is anymore, but it's based you know

810
00:54:42,620 --> 00:54:48,300
Like we are in a group that makes up enough students and so they run around and did that everywhere

811
00:54:48,300 --> 00:54:56,920
Yeah, and so like the Ludlow Mount Holly district just makes sense for trying to get over to that east side of the state

812
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:57,980
and everything together.

813
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:03,820
Well, because they send their kids to three mountain tax centers.

814
00:55:03,820 --> 00:55:03,940
Yeah.

815
00:55:05,240 --> 00:55:06,840
Springfield, I think, is the tech center.

816
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:07,720
Each spring is.

817
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:08,980
Springfield is a tech center.

818
00:55:09,180 --> 00:55:12,600
Which is a lot farther than here up when I think.

819
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:14,180
I'm not sure I haven't done them.

820
00:55:14,380 --> 00:55:15,100
I don't know what I'm going to say.

821
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,720
One of my concerns is, and again, I'm not a proponent.

822
00:55:18,980 --> 00:55:20,480
I said, if any of these changes are proposing.

823
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:25,660
But it seems like right now the state is suggesting

824
00:55:25,660 --> 00:55:31,220
of voters that Vermont is spending too much money in education. I've seen apps from some

825
00:55:31,220 --> 00:55:37,280
various groups that are trying to convince me of this and the governor was pretty clear

826
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:41,440
that he wants he thinks property section the way up and it's going to be expensive and his numbers

827
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:48,960
are exaggerated but the messaging is that Vermont education cost too much as it is and we saw quite

828
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:55,040
budget's fail. Barry's just failed again. Well, Barry's city voted for a very

829
00:55:55,040 --> 00:56:01,880
town didn't, as I understand it, which again, my only concern is that there is a

830
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:06,580
perception amongst the general public that schools cost too much. That is being

831
00:56:06,580 --> 00:56:12,880
promoted by the current administration in my pillar. I would argue, you can

832
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:14,140
actually in a way.

833
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,500
But we are sort of like looking at what they're looking to do and be like

834
00:56:19,500 --> 00:56:23,660
ours, not happening. But I don't need it, it's kind of a joke, it's disorganized, it's chaotic.

835
00:56:24,300 --> 00:56:31,820
But I think that it is a real concern amongst a lot of our constituents that we do something to

836
00:56:31,820 --> 00:56:38,120
lower costs and make what we're doing more cost effective. So I think we need to pursue these things

837
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:43,940
as legally we have to but I think it's also we as a district need to consider like how are we

838
00:56:44,700 --> 00:56:51,140
responding concretely to pressure to be first responsible and you know that could

839
00:56:51,140 --> 00:56:56,520
could necessitate some difficult decisions down the road. I think our budget passed by some 250 odd boats

840
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,460
not even 40 or 40.

841
00:57:01,660 --> 00:57:07,040
So again I think it would be naive of us to continue to move forward

842
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:12,940
as if nothing has changed, as this usual, I think we need to obviously present the good things

843
00:57:12,940 --> 00:57:18,300
we're doing and get people out to vote for our budget, but I think we also need to consider

844
00:57:18,300 --> 00:57:24,580
what steps do we as a board need to take to make sure budget does pass before we have to make

845
00:57:24,580 --> 00:57:26,780
hard choices when we're forced to make the start choices?

846
00:57:27,940 --> 00:57:33,860
Just to follow up on David's point though, I mean we all understand the things that are outside

847
00:57:33,860 --> 00:57:41,200
of our control, the rising cost of health care, small economies and what that means for the

848
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:47,740
purpupil spending. But I think maybe it would be in our best interest as we meet and talk

849
00:57:47,740 --> 00:57:53,160
with people of who are concerned about the cost of schools and what we're spending is the

850
00:57:53,160 --> 00:58:03,840
cost of not having good education. And the cost of failing schools is far greater than the

851
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:10,420
the costs of the schools that we're spending now, and just, I mean, that just, it's never

852
00:58:10,420 --> 00:58:19,460
the alternative. It's cut or, you know, pay high taxes. It's not cut or, and cut, and then

853
00:58:19,460 --> 00:58:26,920
reap the, the, the, the, the, the hills that follow from that. Education doesn't cost, it pays.

854
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:43,160
So, in terms of the merger, committee anesthesia, we will be reporting back to the full board and one of the responsibilities of the member is to come back to the board after each meeting.

855
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:49,840
So, I'm guessing it's going to be an agenda item in the future once we get our first meeting under our belt.

856
00:58:52,220 --> 00:59:05,120
And any decisions in terms of whether or not decisions but recommendations for mergers will be brought back to the board for your consideration.

857
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:13,660
The other idea for why the merger districts are the way they are, rightfully or wrongly.

858
00:59:13,660 --> 00:59:19,440
So, the thing that we assume is going to come to the point of how we're going to keep

859
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:22,140
funding their schools, a foundation formula is coming.

860
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:26,900
We assume they're going to have enough backbone to pass a foundation formula, part of what

861
00:59:26,900 --> 00:59:31,420
these merger committees is because they couldn't, they couldn't do it as a legislative body

862
00:59:31,420 --> 00:59:37,680
of merging because they didn't want to lose their jobs or the political will to do it.

863
00:59:37,900 --> 00:59:42,280
There are school districts that if the form foundation formula comes into play, those

864
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:50,400
districts are in really really big trouble. So like we're about a 50% district like half of the schools in the state spend less than us half of them

865
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:59,940
spend more like and we're always somewhere in that bubble. The top 25% when the foundation formula comes they are in a huge trouble. And so those

866
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:29,980
Districts are being asked to consolidate without the foundation for me, the vote coming to pat, like so, they're being asked to consolidate so that they can save from money so that we can all, so we don't have to punish them when there's a foundation for me, because the other thing that they've added is they're going to keep cranking up the overspending penalty. So if you are one of those top districts, you're going to have to end up paying more than to try to punish you to try to put and to get. So by the time you get to

867
01:00:29,980 --> 01:00:36,460
the foundation formula will be okay. But so that's the other part of it. I'm sorry that I

868
01:00:36,460 --> 01:00:41,080
opened that. I just don't know if that was another important part of it. I think it's just

869
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:52,620
their daily. The state has repeatedly said that they were going to punish. I mean, I'm

870
01:00:52,620 --> 01:00:57,600
talking years ago now, but the reality was the state came out and said, you can't spend

871
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:02,240
And if you spend more than that or two dollars, you're going to be in trouble.

872
01:01:03,660 --> 01:01:09,860
I was in a school district that we've busted our tail to make sure we were under that number.

873
01:01:12,300 --> 01:01:15,580
Districts up north, in paying attention to it.

874
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:16,940
They just spent their money.

875
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:18,840
And nothing.

876
01:01:19,420 --> 01:01:20,240
Nothing happened.

877
01:01:22,380 --> 01:01:24,380
So we were cutting jobs.

878
01:01:24,700 --> 01:01:26,800
We were doing all kinds of stuff.

879
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:32,560
not we, the board did, and to follow the rules,

880
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:37,380
and mostly it was district's up north because

881
01:01:37,380 --> 01:01:42,420
I really, I say this, and I continue to say it, there's a big difference between North and

882
01:01:42,420 --> 01:01:49,140
Middlebury and South of Middlebury. There's, that's the line. And district's up north didn't

883
01:01:49,140 --> 01:01:54,780
do anything. And nothing, right? And that's one of the things that we try to communicate during

884
01:01:54,780 --> 01:02:00,440
budget season is that our percentages that the towns end up paying are different than what

885
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:04,440
our budget is and it's yeah it is because we have to go into the general pool and they have

886
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:10,540
to find all the districts no matter what the vote is. So there is no incentive for individual

887
01:02:10,540 --> 01:02:17,860
districts to be more cost efficient cost efficient. And so that's the theory of why the

888
01:02:17,860 --> 01:02:22,200
foundation for whether the foundation formula is a good idea or a bad idea it changes

889
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:32,040
the incentive model. You lose local voting rights, but in theory it forces a narrowing of what

890
01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:36,220
people do. And if you're in Slate Valley, you really don't like it because your taxes are going

891
01:02:36,220 --> 01:02:41,300
to go up. Yeah. Yeah. So that's the other part of that bottom-to-date version.

892
01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:48,680
Yeah, Steve Jones. Before I forget it, I started to David's point earlier about the importance of

893
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:54,400
And we'll have this as on folks' minds and sort of a finance budgetary sense.

894
01:02:55,620 --> 01:03:02,520
At our finance committee meetings, I would like to maybe get if over the next few months,

895
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:09,300
there is anything to report from Cheryl and Carol from the CISA and the merger committees.

896
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:16,440
If there's anything to report at the committee meeting, finance committee meetings that are

897
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:25,840
about like potential cost-related things just throw that out there that I would like those to

898
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:31,240
start getting any relevant reports that we can maybe add into our conversation throughout

899
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:36,120
budget season about this is what things are looking like as we kind of move forward.

900
01:03:36,460 --> 01:03:44,900
There might not be much between now and December but yeah yeah we will do that okay I'm going

901
01:03:44,900 --> 01:03:53,120
move on to superintendent's report, share providers of report in your minutes. I mean in your

902
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:56,260
packet. Do you want to highlight anything?

903
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,920
Yeah, I want to start with the positive thing and then I'll go to transportation.

904
01:04:02,340 --> 01:04:03,340
But both

905
01:04:03,340 --> 01:04:08,240
Eric and I received an email from the director of Stafford Technical Center just to let us know

906
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:13,600
that two of our students who attend there, Lidian and I'm going to not do a good job with

907
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:19,300
This last name, but Skiyathas says that this is, is the second year student in the Cosmetology

908
01:04:19,300 --> 01:04:24,520
Program, and she was elected by her peers to be a student rep at the Regional Advisory

909
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:25,100
Board.

910
01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:25,500
Thank you.

911
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:26,780
That we can tell you.

912
01:04:27,420 --> 01:04:33,100
And then Kaylin the mayor, who's also a second year student, who of ours, who attends

913
01:04:33,100 --> 01:04:33,760
there.

914
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:39,280
And she is in the public safety and criminal justice program, was selected to serve as a member

915
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:42,980
of the Vermont Skills USA Officer Team as a reporter.

916
01:04:42,980 --> 01:04:48,280
So, I wanted to acknowledge them and say congratulations to them.

917
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:55,160
Okay, and then transportation.

918
01:04:56,320 --> 01:05:01,740
So, we did have a driver who went through the process, has been in the pipeline,

919
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:07,440
and as of Monday told us, he's not no longer interested in pursuing it.

920
01:05:07,940 --> 01:05:13,940
So, that means I have one driver who I will find out next Thursday

921
01:05:13,940 --> 01:05:31,560
If they are able to move forward, I just want the Board to know that since this summer we have lost four different candidates that have been in the process for a variety of reasons, right, but they still didn't move forward.

922
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:37,740
I am hopeful that this person will be able to start with us the following Monday.

923
01:05:39,540 --> 01:05:51,660
If not, probably, not probably, I am going to look for outsourcing, because at this point we have no one else that's there.

924
01:05:51,780 --> 01:05:59,600
Up until this point, I felt comfortable, right? Somebody would drop out, but then somebody else would jump in and I said, okay, we're good, we've got this, you know?

925
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:07,920
And then at this point, if this does not work out for us next Thursday, we are out of options at that point.

926
01:06:08,620 --> 01:06:11,060
I don't know that that's going to happen.

927
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:15,740
I'm feeling just a little bit negative at this point, so pessimistic.

928
01:06:16,220 --> 01:06:19,720
But, you know, hopefully I will tell you that we have that driver.

929
01:06:20,780 --> 01:06:27,720
If not, I will be looking for RFP's to outsource, because I'm out of options.

930
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:31,160
Yeah, I just would like to chime in on that topic for just a minute.

931
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:36,340
I did a little bit of digging on the topic of bus drivers in requirements and because we

932
01:06:36,340 --> 01:06:40,880
had discussed briefly at the last meeting of the possibility of writing a letter from the

933
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:44,320
board to our legislators or trying to mount some kind of political pressure.

934
01:06:45,900 --> 01:06:48,060
But the state really doesn't control it.

935
01:06:48,220 --> 01:06:53,800
They control one small piece of it, which is the requirement that a bus driver have the bus

936
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:54,840
driver endorsement.

937
01:06:54,900 --> 01:06:56,060
That's a state requirement.

938
01:06:56,060 --> 01:07:03,240
But the CDL class B and the passenger endorsement are federal requirements.

939
01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:05,680
There's nothing we can do about it.

940
01:07:06,420 --> 01:07:08,840
So, you know, I mean, it would be nice if we could.

941
01:07:08,940 --> 01:07:12,960
I don't even know what that state bus driver endorsement involves.

942
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:15,520
But it's a small piece of behold.

943
01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:19,680
Well, I know it involves at least three tests for them.

944
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:26,220
it in test, but that would be ours I know, but there's definitely three written tests

945
01:07:26,220 --> 01:07:26,620
that have to pass.

946
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:29,980
But in terms of like the overall time, the expenses, that's good.

947
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:45,600
It's a relatively small part of that. Yeah, here. Right. So, and the only encouraging thing I saw was that there's a number of different possible grants available for people to get the CDL training, which costs $3 to $5,000.

948
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:50,680
But it takes time. Oh, yeah, it takes time. I mean, that's the main problem. Yeah, even more than money.

949
01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:55,000
But I guess my main point was, there's not much they can do in Montpellier to help us with.

950
01:07:55,020 --> 01:07:59,180
That's okay. Thanks for checking that out. Thank you.

951
01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:06,420
There have been any trends on why we're keep losing these candidates or is it just

952
01:08:06,420 --> 01:08:09,400
a problem for a variety of different reasons.

953
01:08:10,580 --> 01:08:17,360
We did have one person ghost us and then we've had different reasons that I don't know

954
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:23,420
that I'm at liberty to say in a public meeting, but that's been disheartening, right?

955
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:28,440
Because I think we've got candidates, that's great, we're going to do this.

956
01:08:28,440 --> 01:08:31,820
at one point I was thinking, we might even have extra.

957
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:38,160
Now I'm going to go and ask them to give me an extra person too, right?

958
01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:42,600
And then it just keeps changes, it keeps fluctuating all the time.

959
01:08:43,100 --> 01:08:50,340
And so right now we are, like I said, if we can get this person, we do have one person left

960
01:08:50,340 --> 01:08:55,860
and if this happens, I will know next Thursday, we will be set for a while, right?

961
01:08:55,860 --> 01:09:02,880
We're still not at full capacity, but I will be able to set up the 10th rule, which is really

962
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:04,800
what's bothering me at this point, right?

963
01:09:04,860 --> 01:09:11,300
Because if that person doesn't pan out for us, now I have no options for 10th method,

964
01:09:11,300 --> 01:09:15,360
and I don't think I can't continue to run it that way.

965
01:09:15,740 --> 01:09:20,760
Up until this point I felt like, okay, we've got, we're going to make this happen.

966
01:09:20,780 --> 01:09:23,440
We've got a month, we can do anything for a month.

967
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:29,620
But I don't know now, so and I hope next week I send you guys a nice email since I was wrong

968
01:09:30,660 --> 01:09:35,540
I know you probably told us this before but let's just say somebody showed up tomorrow

969
01:09:35,540 --> 01:09:39,520
And wanted to take get their CDL and the school district would cover the cost

970
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:46,640
And let's say they weren't they didn't have another job, so they had you know, they could just dive into it really all the way

971
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:48,920
I mean, what's the minimum time

972
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:54,120
it can be done in. Well, that depends on factors outside of my control.

973
01:09:54,660 --> 01:10:00,860
Thank you. So, to get a CDL, I believe it's three months, three months. You have to find a location that will do it.

974
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:11,020
Then once you get the CDL, just I know more about the passenger part, or the school endorsement part, then you need to take three tests.

975
01:10:11,020 --> 01:10:17,880
Uh, written tests, um, you need to do, I know one of them is on air breaks, um, but anyway,

976
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:24,480
then you do that, then you have to go, you have to drive, um, for X amount of hours with

977
01:10:24,480 --> 01:10:29,700
one of our drivers, that's not a problem. Um, and then it's then finally when that's ready,

978
01:10:30,160 --> 01:10:36,500
then you take your, um, you take your actual driving test. Um, when we first talked to the state,

979
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:40,900
they couldn't commit to how fast they would do that. They did say it could be up to six

980
01:10:40,900 --> 01:10:47,280
months, but the driver who we just lost, they actually took them right away. So that was

981
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:52,360
an issue, right? But like, I can't count on that if they're not willing to commit to it.

982
01:10:53,220 --> 01:10:55,080
So three months though, minimum for the city.

983
01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:57,140
But actually, hang on, I want to address that.

984
01:10:57,140 --> 01:10:58,940
How do you say six months to be done? Yeah.

985
01:10:59,100 --> 01:11:04,600
The actual classwork is, at least according to what I've reading is between 80 and 120 hours.

986
01:11:05,300 --> 01:11:10,240
That's just not addressed, however, how long it takes the state to scheduling exams.

987
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,800
It's a driver's clinic I forgot to innate our course.

988
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:18,440
That's outside of that.

989
01:11:18,740 --> 01:11:22,280
It's a little bit by other things to achieve a 120 hours of class time too.

990
01:11:22,380 --> 01:11:25,560
It's not just your time that you can think and do in three weeks.

991
01:11:26,940 --> 01:11:30,360
But I don't think you have the option to do that.

992
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:32,240
You can do that.

993
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:36,180
No, you have to follow along with your instructors.

994
01:11:36,620 --> 01:11:38,160
Yeah, you're taking your class.

995
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:39,520
you're taking across somebody.

996
01:11:40,020 --> 01:11:42,040
I do have a question now regarding 10

997
01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:42,560
myth.

998
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:44,080
How many students are we

999
01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:45,500
trans would we be transporting?

1000
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:51,260
About 52 that are not at this point.

1001
01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:55,180
So from what I can ascertain, the 10

1002
01:11:55,180 --> 01:11:58,580
month students haven't been the problem because there's

1003
01:11:58,580 --> 01:12:00,800
a lot of parents that are bringing them.

1004
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,700
It's been the students who are high school.

1005
01:12:04,180 --> 01:12:06,440
So the students who would go to 10

1006
01:12:07,160 --> 01:12:12,600
whether they were picked up or just dropped off there by their parents and then brought to

1007
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:15,140
Mill River. That's been really the hard part.

1008
01:12:15,380 --> 01:12:19,320
The reason I asked is, again, just from the little bit of digging I did, there is another

1009
01:12:19,320 --> 01:12:27,440
type of license that's easier to get that allows you to transport up to 15. So, including the driver's

1010
01:12:27,440 --> 01:12:30,000
to go back four than that, though.

1011
01:12:30,540 --> 01:12:32,520
Well, if it's 52, that doesn't really do you much.

1012
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:38,080
But even, well, but I had thought about the 15 for Shrewsbury, right?

1013
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:39,800
And then, like, moving people around.

1014
01:12:40,320 --> 01:12:42,780
But we keep getting conflicting evidence.

1015
01:12:42,940 --> 01:12:45,240
I mean, evidence, conflicting information.

1016
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:47,700
Some say we can do it.

1017
01:12:47,700 --> 01:12:50,420
And then, other federal stuff says that we cannot

1018
01:12:50,420 --> 01:12:53,220
if it's to transport K through 12.

1019
01:12:53,780 --> 01:12:56,020
So we've looked at that.

1020
01:12:56,720 --> 01:13:01,560
we keep getting conflicting information on that. So I think we can.

1021
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:08,280
There's two different kinds of permit. One is for like student activities not

1022
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:12,920
including transportation to and from school. But then there was another category

1023
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:18,940
that was specifically for student transportation as long as it was for

1024
01:13:18,940 --> 01:13:23,200
for transporting people back before I don't have the language of front of me.

1025
01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:26,920
But what I was looking into this, is listing the types of licenses

1026
01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:30,540
and one of them was for taking students back and forth this school.

1027
01:13:31,020 --> 01:13:35,980
And the other one was for moving students around for student activities,

1028
01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:40,360
but it did not, it specifically barred using that type of license

1029
01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:43,820
for transportation to and from, like in the morning,

1030
01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:47,440
so we could only use them the 15 year same like for sports.

1031
01:13:48,300 --> 01:13:50,780
No, I'm saying there's two different, you know, I'll look into it

1032
01:13:50,780 --> 01:13:55,220
to get back to you. There's two different kinds of licenses. One of which it's specifically

1033
01:13:55,220 --> 01:14:01,420
simply cannot use this for your basic fact of transportation. It's for other things. But one

1034
01:14:01,420 --> 01:14:05,840
of them, at least the way I read it, did permit that. And that is a CDL, or is it easy? No,

1035
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:13,520
it's easier to get. It's a state level thing. Okay, so I know that I'd be on. Yeah, if you guys want

1036
01:14:13,520 --> 01:14:20,060
to follow up, I think that'll be great. You can get back to us if you find out anything. All right,

1037
01:14:20,060 --> 01:14:22,040
So we're going to move in to committee reports.

1038
01:14:22,860 --> 01:14:24,120
We're going to start with personnel.

1039
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:28,280
Next meeting is October 7th.

1040
01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:34,160
And I'm going to set it for 630, which is a change from six.

1041
01:14:34,260 --> 01:14:41,040
But I don't think this time of year in terms of hiring bodies.

1042
01:14:41,980 --> 01:14:43,700
It's we're going to need a whole hour.

1043
01:14:43,700 --> 01:14:58,920
So I'd like to change that to 630, and I think Rebecca has already sent out in the agenda for six, I think.

1044
01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:03,380
But we can change it to 630.

1045
01:15:07,240 --> 01:15:10,480
Yeah, October 7, 630. Okay, policy.

1046
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:27,840
We met the other week, and we had some public input that urge does to look into creating, and I know this sounds like an oxymoron,

1047
01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:32,400
but mandatory volunteer is for our students.

1048
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:35,020
You know, school districts across the country

1049
01:15:35,020 --> 01:15:39,020
have had these civics requirements that have required students

1050
01:15:39,020 --> 01:15:42,700
to be engaged in the public and community life.

1051
01:15:43,340 --> 01:15:50,040
And so that was the thrust of the public input

1052
01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:52,660
that we had there and it led to some discussion

1053
01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:54,260
during that meeting.

1054
01:15:56,000 --> 01:16:14,400
Apart from that, we are still looking at the whole slate of reorganizing our policies using the categories that the Vermont School Board Association uses and organizing them in such a way that

1055
01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:43,620
Like policies will give we had a number equivalent to those that the number that the VSDA gives that on our next meeting we'll have look at one sort of proposal for that and if the committee meetings approve of that then we'll be bringing it to the board to vote on in one slate changing not that those substantive changes, but rather the numbers and

1056
01:16:43,620 --> 01:16:47,480
organization of principles of the policies that we have.

1057
01:16:48,020 --> 01:16:52,620
Our next meeting will be October 13 at 7 p.m.

1058
01:16:54,540 --> 01:16:56,840
Could I add some to more communication?

1059
01:16:58,340 --> 01:17:05,740
In discussing this idea of mandatory community service, we sort of decided to

1060
01:17:05,740 --> 01:17:09,280
discover that it was more of the operations piece that school administrators

1061
01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:13,940
would probably need to handle, and it wasn't really a policy issue per se.

1062
01:17:13,940 --> 01:17:20,380
And there may be ways that the administrative team could look to boost it within existing

1063
01:17:20,380 --> 01:17:26,840
structures or ways to add it in courses, but we didn't really feel that it was a policy

1064
01:17:27,620 --> 01:17:31,360
issue, that the policy committee would need to be taking on.

1065
01:17:31,860 --> 01:17:39,600
Because our graduation requirements, or this is where, is it a policy, do we have graduation

1066
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:40,240
requirements?

1067
01:17:40,240 --> 01:17:44,740
So, there are graduation requirements.

1068
01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:49,520
Jody, let us know that the state is looking at these.

1069
01:17:49,740 --> 01:17:54,260
And so we might be getting a new set of graduation requirements.

1070
01:17:54,780 --> 01:17:59,820
And so, anything we do now could be negated by this.

1071
01:17:59,960 --> 01:18:01,880
Did I, I'm, I'm corrected that.

1072
01:18:01,880 --> 01:18:04,840
Yes, so all of our graduation requirements are in procedure at the high school,

1073
01:18:04,940 --> 01:18:06,100
and all of our students at the college table.

1074
01:18:07,060 --> 01:18:09,540
Just, you know, based on, which is what you say.

1075
01:18:09,540 --> 01:18:16,640
And but a state level policy, which we have on this late for the next policy meeting, is

1076
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:22,720
like draft form is coming down, just to talk about proficiency based graduation requirements in general.

1077
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:29,020
But it is our belief that it is likely that really set graduation requirements could be coming down from the state in the near future.

1078
01:18:33,140 --> 01:18:34,780
All right, building new grounds.

1079
01:18:35,620 --> 01:18:42,620
We haven't had abilities and grounds, I just want to thank everybody for coming to that special meeting on Friday.

1080
01:18:42,620 --> 01:18:51,060
a very short notice to get the funds for 10 myths that painting project, just to recap

1081
01:18:51,060 --> 01:18:53,700
that, because we can count at kind of as a building background.

1082
01:18:56,420 --> 01:19:01,600
There was lead paint found on the old school building. Luckily it's not that much, it's

1083
01:19:01,600 --> 01:19:07,740
all it, it's the window casing has been the long-term problem, and even before the merger,

1084
01:19:07,740 --> 01:19:13,860
the consolidation there was work around of how to do it, deal with it and so it's

1085
01:19:13,860 --> 01:19:19,260
finally being dealt with actually and so now there won't be led there anymore and

1086
01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:26,400
there is significantly more rot that was on the building than was expected and it

1087
01:19:26,400 --> 01:19:31,760
was you know we brought it up at that special meeting of how important it is to

1088
01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:36,580
not neglect things because they will only get more expensive and my father and

1089
01:19:36,580 --> 01:19:42,180
just went to get some clabbards from the Valley of something and it was an absurd price for

1090
01:19:42,180 --> 01:19:47,260
what it would is going to be very, it's more expensive now than it has been previously. So that's

1091
01:19:47,260 --> 01:19:51,800
a problem. So it's like all the end-laborating more expensive. So it's like keeping things in good

1092
01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:59,380
condition so they don't get to the point that they need to be as hardly reaffirmed is going to be one

1093
01:19:59,380 --> 01:20:03,520
of those things that we're going to make sure we're talking about it, buildings and grounds and we're

1094
01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:06,760
talking about how much money we need to pull from

1095
01:20:07,780 --> 01:20:10,320
it to put into the building and thinking fun is going to be important.

1096
01:20:10,840 --> 01:20:13,320
I just want to say that we drove past the

1097
01:20:13,320 --> 01:20:17,200
the tennis school community center of a day or two ago and it's

1098
01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:20,380
it's looking good. Yeah, definitely looking good. Yeah,

1099
01:20:20,380 --> 01:20:23,460
then yeah, I think it was nice because it wasn't finished so you could

1100
01:20:23,460 --> 01:20:27,000
see a part that had been done yet. Yeah. So it was like a

1101
01:20:27,000 --> 01:20:31,160
before and after. So that's all. That was gratified. Yeah.

1102
01:20:32,860 --> 01:20:37,620
And I'm sorry I don't have it up do you have the when the next meeting is going to happen

1103
01:20:37,620 --> 01:20:41,680
I don't remember I can look at my calendar really quick. I just didn't have it up

1104
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:47,460
Sorry, I will it's on the fifth at five o'clock October fifth yeah

1105
01:20:52,060 --> 01:20:57,220
Negotiations. I think we have news so we have a letter of intent to start negotiating. I just got that today

1106
01:20:57,220 --> 01:20:58,640
Thank you very much

1107
01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:07,380
And so, we'll figure out a time and then we'll set up a negotiation meeting for the people

1108
01:21:07,380 --> 01:21:12,560
in that board so that we can come up with the bigger plan to make sure everything's available

1109
01:21:12,560 --> 01:21:16,540
to be able to work out with trying to do, and I'm just going to tell you something about that.

1110
01:21:20,590 --> 01:21:21,410
Our community engagement.

1111
01:21:22,890 --> 01:21:31,850
We bet tonight for the first time in a while had a stimulating conversation about trying to understand

1112
01:21:32,370 --> 01:21:37,450
Because we wanted to reach out to the community and find there what they thought about the

1113
01:21:37,450 --> 01:21:39,450
merger committees and CSF.

1114
01:21:39,670 --> 01:21:44,150
But then we realized that we couldn't really tell them that much because it was so confusing

1115
01:21:44,150 --> 01:21:44,990
at our hand.

1116
01:21:46,150 --> 01:21:49,550
So we did decide that we were going to send out a questionnaire.

1117
01:21:50,610 --> 01:21:57,290
We're going to model it up over after questionnaires and other districts to get with a few

1118
01:21:57,290 --> 01:22:02,030
just to get the community's feelings about how they feel about mostly school closings and

1119
01:22:02,030 --> 01:22:09,550
things. We are going to meet again in October before the school board meeting on the 21st

1120
01:22:09,550 --> 01:22:13,370
from 6 to 7 and reviewed the survey.

1121
01:22:18,070 --> 01:22:19,330
Finance. Steven?

1122
01:22:22,640 --> 01:22:26,140
Yeah, I'll just start with the table.

1123
01:22:27,020 --> 01:22:29,980
Let's see, let's start with the count speed.

1124
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:48,700
Payable warrants. We have a general fund in the amount of $423,352 in 32 cents, general fund in the amount of 20,847 dollars and 25 cents.

1125
01:22:48,700 --> 01:23:04,960
and from the lunch in the amount of $2,974 and $0.48 for a total of $447,174 and 5 cents, with student

1126
01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:15,560
activities from November in the amount of $2,289 in 60 cents, and from Walling for

1127
01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:26,420
in the amount of $1,097 and $6,077, for total there of $3,387 and $27.07.

1128
01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:31,360
I'll make a motion to accept these accounts payable warrants.

1129
01:23:44,130 --> 01:24:06,810
Thank you and for our payroll awards from September 11th, a amount of $692,000, $351,066, I'll make a motion to accept this payroll warrant.

1130
01:24:08,070 --> 01:24:09,010
All set.

1131
01:24:11,480 --> 01:24:12,100
Any discussion?

1132
01:24:14,530 --> 01:24:15,050
All the favor?

1133
01:24:17,900 --> 01:24:18,680
Any unanimous?

1134
01:24:19,300 --> 01:24:21,160
Thank you.

1135
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:29,260
We haven't had another finance meeting in the little while since our last meeting.

1136
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:30,600
Since our last board meeting.

1137
01:24:31,540 --> 01:24:35,460
Our next finance meeting will be October 5th at 6 o'clock.

1138
01:24:35,940 --> 01:24:39,960
We'll be talking about kind of the initial budget ideas,

1139
01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:45,580
and it's surplus management, as well as survey questions

1140
01:24:45,580 --> 01:24:51,080
for sort of online option for the community input.

1141
01:24:52,320 --> 01:24:56,760
We have two community focus groups on the calendar right now.

1142
01:24:57,900 --> 01:25:03,020
Both in the middle of our library, one October 13th at 330,

1143
01:25:03,760 --> 01:25:06,740
and one October 22nd at 6 p.m.

1144
01:25:06,740 --> 01:25:14,080
to gain public input on the kind of early stages of budget creation here.

1145
01:25:16,870 --> 01:25:18,550
Yeah, I think that's all I've got.

1146
01:25:18,550 --> 01:25:22,290
I've got a newsletter basically together.

1147
01:25:23,510 --> 01:25:27,330
First newsletter of the season that I'll be getting out soon.

1148
01:25:28,170 --> 01:25:29,490
All of you.

1149
01:25:29,810 --> 01:25:31,330
And we'll get it up in the show.

1150
01:25:31,550 --> 01:25:36,450
It's very time for porch forum if you can pass along to your own town's papers

1151
01:25:36,450 --> 01:25:39,750
and from court for it. I'm so be much appreciated.

1152
01:25:42,130 --> 01:25:42,290
Thank you.

1153
01:25:42,290 --> 01:25:42,830
Thank you, Stephen.

1154
01:25:44,010 --> 01:25:44,270
Okay.

1155
01:25:45,370 --> 01:25:48,750
Transact other legal business. Does anybody have?

1156
01:25:49,150 --> 01:25:55,250
Just to make the note of it tomorrow is Constitution and Citizens Day.

1157
01:25:55,850 --> 01:25:57,770
We talked about civic engagement here.

1158
01:25:58,630 --> 01:26:02,130
It's worth, you know, I know that we pledge allegiance to the flag.

1159
01:26:02,130 --> 01:26:09,190
It started our meetings, but every federal officer pledges a oath for the Constitution, wouldn't

1160
01:26:09,190 --> 01:26:11,410
hurt to remind the students that every now and again.

1161
01:26:13,390 --> 01:26:16,810
Not all of our students say the pledge right in the middle of a district.

1162
01:26:17,610 --> 01:26:18,830
I have no idea.

1163
01:26:19,130 --> 01:26:19,910
Yeah, I don't know.

1164
01:26:19,950 --> 01:26:21,310
They can not be required by the law.

1165
01:26:21,310 --> 01:26:27,030
I've heard that before, it's by classroom by teacher, by school.

1166
01:26:27,990 --> 01:26:31,650
Yep, so they're not all saying it, but I'm not.

1167
01:26:31,650 --> 01:26:43,790
Yeah, and my point is that there is an oath to the Constitution that is the is an actual law not a symbol and it's worth this book.

1168
01:26:43,790 --> 01:26:53,170
And it's required for certain jobs as opposed to being a student, you don't have to take pledge of religion, but if you were for the federal government, you have to swear to uphold the Constitution, right?

1169
01:26:53,170 --> 01:26:54,290
That's a job requirement,

1170
01:26:56,380 --> 01:26:58,540
let's check anybody else.

1171
01:27:03,020 --> 01:27:06,600
Okay, agenda building, what do we have here?

1172
01:27:06,600 --> 01:27:11,220
Sports update and progress on board goals.

1173
01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:16,260
Did you want to include both of those?

1174
01:27:17,180 --> 01:27:21,980
Well, we just really wrote our board goals.

1175
01:27:22,460 --> 01:27:25,840
So I think I would send that off.

1176
01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:27,360
Mom, so we're at the beginning.

1177
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:33,420
Well, I think any updates from CSO or merger will now present.

1178
01:27:34,860 --> 01:27:36,320
And ad hoc committee?

1179
01:27:37,780 --> 01:27:44,620
We were going to do that for November, starting in November, we could do the charge next time.

1180
01:27:45,020 --> 01:27:49,380
Yeah, well let's do it, just so we have it done at Hock.

1181
01:27:49,980 --> 01:27:52,240
Because I just, I get concerned.

1182
01:27:52,900 --> 01:27:53,660
I'm on it right.

1183
01:27:53,680 --> 01:27:54,140
For Cheryl.

1184
01:27:55,180 --> 01:27:55,400
Yeah.

1185
01:27:55,940 --> 01:27:58,040
You know, we need to get it buttoned up right now.

1186
01:27:58,040 --> 01:27:58,320
Yeah.

1187
01:27:58,320 --> 01:27:58,700
Yeah.

1188
01:27:59,000 --> 01:27:59,220
Yeah.

1189
01:27:59,420 --> 01:27:59,440
Yeah.

1190
01:27:59,440 --> 01:27:59,640
Yeah.

1191
01:28:02,700 --> 01:28:04,960
But we did line outdoors.

1192
01:28:04,960 --> 01:28:09,160
time line. So if we stick to that we should be okay.

1193
01:28:11,100 --> 01:28:12,600
I just want to remind her.

1194
01:28:12,720 --> 01:28:14,760
Yeah, no. Appreciate it.

1195
01:28:16,380 --> 01:28:18,960
Okay, so I think we'll look at

1196
01:28:21,870 --> 01:28:24,510
there are some things that we should be reviewing.

1197
01:28:24,790 --> 01:28:27,090
I'm going to go through that maybe we can update

1198
01:28:28,650 --> 01:28:29,550
the calendar.

1199
01:28:33,100 --> 01:28:34,380
All right, we'll think of something.

1200
01:28:36,020 --> 01:28:43,120
And if anything added to the agenda, be aware that any board member can put an item on the agenda.

1201
01:28:43,700 --> 01:28:51,320
Well, I think that I'm very intrigued by this idea that there may be another, especially for the smaller schools for transportation.

1202
01:28:52,460 --> 01:28:55,320
So I think it'd just be nice to chew on that a little bit more.

1203
01:28:55,940 --> 01:29:00,700
All right, if you want to, we'll just put a transportation update.

1204
01:29:00,700 --> 01:29:07,360
Just share all pretty much does that as part of the subordinates. Yeah, exactly. So it's already here. Yeah

1205
01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:09,020
You drink about school buses

1206
01:29:11,100 --> 01:29:12,520
Which we would not

1207
01:29:14,940 --> 01:29:18,460
All right, well unless there's any other business

1208
01:29:19,840 --> 01:29:23,710
I'll entertain a motion to adjourn entertain a link