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I am going to call this meeting to order, roll call, public comment, please say.

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Jessica Packard, Mickey Murphy, do you guys want to?

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If we could all stand for the pledge of allegiance, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, in the visible, with the receipt and justice.

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So I think we're just going to, is there any adjustments to the agenda?

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I just wanted to talk about it in the United States of the United States.

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So we'll just add that to the

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motion.

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Yes, I'll make the motion to add that toward Moderna.

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Do I have a second?

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Second.

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Discussion.

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All in favor?

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Hi.

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Motion passes.

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OK, on to action, I spoke with Kyle and capital planning

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was the discussion that you guys had come up with.

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So I will let you guys start.

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If you would like.

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Yeah, just a little bit of the idea that we have

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for a couple of people is we've operated as

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people.

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You guys have a paving project in doing this year.

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Maybe we've tried to fit into the same project with, you

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know,

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literally anything that comes up if you guys are buying the

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equipment.

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Things that you guys do occasionally,

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that maybe the town could help with it.

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It's said like, why do you guys have lower to lower lines?

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We also have probably the same lower and public works.

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Why do we have two pieces of equipment when it's all the same town?

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My friends here, you guys know our stuff with a small lower and we pay your ads or we know you're a step with our lower and we interact with that's just an example

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Yeah, I did also want to pick samples like where we can work together a little bit more and probably save the tax credits to my

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I agree Jeff

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Yeah, and I see Paul's one of them

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This has been discussed and tried to be worked on several times so we've

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had the needs and the school district needs of the talent and

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kind

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But it

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can't be looked at again, but we've been down this road before.

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Generally, we're going to

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look at, or

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sit us into

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that.

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So then over,

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it's that I haven't been through these valleys in the

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past one year.

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We do ours in the next year.

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So it becomes a flatter tax impact.

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Fitting in these

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categories of lavishery.

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Looking, say, 10 years out.

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We'll try to figure out what we're going to

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be doing.

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That pretty much covered.

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Pretty much, so essentially the planning board has the Capone Purpose Plan, which is

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under state law, it should be combined with the towering of the school, and that's

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required to be at least a six-year lookout that I haven't seen school projects in years.

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I shouldn't say that, but four years ago there was the school,

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and I don't know if the

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or Rodney, Paige was building his guy, they had, it was just, it was a big piece of

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table that they rolled out, so it was called the scroll. But there really is a place for some

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long-term capital plan and we know what we need to do on this side and we get some ideas

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where we need to do this. And certainly at the town, we actually had a 40-year look out that

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hasn't been updated for a few years, I don't think, but we had a 40-year capital program for this plan,

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which was nice because then you've got in the school buses or 15 years.

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See, if you look at six years, you're not going to catch the school buses.

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But if you buy a school bus every 15 years, you get those in

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Roots should be 50 years, so that probably out of the country.

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You get some a good long-term look at it and just,

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and some hard numbers, it's just,

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okay, right now it's $150,000 for a bus.

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And the form that we had on the town side,

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applied, you use that in the year 30, but then you also had 30 years of inflation

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budget. So it did two things. One, the bottom line that was what got

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inflated, so it didn't show that it was 350,000 dollars for a bus, or on the

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town side a million and a half for a ladder truck, because it was just one

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number that was inflated. But it does a nice job of trying to level out the

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expenses, something that I think it's possible to do. I know Kate has been working

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along trim plans for some capital things. So it's probably doable.

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All right. Going back to what Rachel was saying,

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isn't possible that it for us to look at some of those pieces.

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Like we have pest control.

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On the same thing, you will have pest control, right?

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For your buildings, can they be the same person?

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A little bit less expensive.

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I don't know, right? Like it's those little things.

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or a heating oil, or fuel could they possibly...

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It could fit those together for, or we said, getting this kind of 5,000 gallons

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if we're done suddenly getting 10 or 15,000 gallons to remind you of what it'd be cheaper.

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It wouldn't be, yeah.

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So, my apologies to the even, probably, last time the town bid fuel, there was a paragraph

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that said, and this bid may also include Newport School District at their choosing, they

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use 10,000 gallons of fuel oil or whatever it was.

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So they were included in the town's bidding.

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And it was at the schools up, and if they wanted to buy it,

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but it saved two entities having to go out to this bidding process.

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I know Kate's done a good job bidding stuff for the last year or so.

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So maybe there's a paragraph in it, it's like,

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But that's the, the other thing is mowing, going back to mowing is a long history there, when the fields were built back in the late 70s or 80s, the town got,

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A lot of grant, we had to lease the land because we had to have some legal tie to the land to get the grant.

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So there was a maintenance agreement, a moan agreement, and the town did mo, everything from here to the sort of, well, sort of, that did exist with that long time.

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and then the school reimbursed the town and that went along until probably about eight years

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ago and then years ago there was some personality conflicts which always seemed to happen

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and the town couldn't mow the field hockey field one day because it wasn't scheduled

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and people got in a sniff and at that point in time and then they say it on the wrong side now but the school built a kingdom of buildings and grounds and started acquiring all the equipment.

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I mean they used to have just a little 36 inch mode to do the half mode.

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But now they're doing all the things they're doing everything so they've really started following the equipment at that point in time.

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and it really wasn't supposed to push down which is sad.

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I don't know if it improves staffing.

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I know short staffing on both sides and budgets are great on both sides,

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but it certainly something that can be looked at.

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Jeff?

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Yeah, the other thing, if we say,

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you realize the same equipment for both entities,

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we're wearing that coordinate place of Spanish too.

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So it does impact the lives.

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And one story about Paul remembers this of, you know,

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David, the parking lot out there.

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The school one time tried to do a laundry

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to pay him deferring to the parking lot.

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Now, it's there.

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It failed.

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So I put it at the time, tried to translate this research,

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and said, that's actually down the front.

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So the town put it on her, and it got a pass to pay

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deferring to that parking lot.

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So it was actually school working with us.

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What's that?

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It was Rick Thomas.

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Rick Thomas.

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Rick Thomas.

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Rick Thomas?

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Yeah.

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So it goes that much further back.

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It goes that much further.

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And also, if we're talking about lab maintenance and all that, I want to point out

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that Kyle Harris or town manager for the previous life, was the public works director

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through a very much larger community that this one.

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So we probably have some insight as to best practices.

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What works and what he's trying to do.

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Like did they ever do anything like like what we're doing right now in the collaboration between school and town?

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In town I was in the school board in town in New Jersey and in that town the public works had a contract with the school to do the modeling but it was always scheduled for the weekends.

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We had a little bit more flexibility there.

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But in my experience, there's going to be two sets of priorities.

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We're going to have a week of reading up to the world.

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The semeteries are going to be 12 inches high.

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And you're going to have baseball games.

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What's the priority there?

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You can't do both.

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Someone's going to lose.

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And that's where you run into, you know, you do it one,

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it might work great for three years in a row.

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And then that fourth year.

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It's done and we're in a room shouting at each other

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because the seven threes of parable in the baseball field is not viable.

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Also, one of the things I know is a huge thing between town and school is the sidewalks

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during winter.

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Yeah, you know, that's one of the hardest things, you know, a majority of our kids walk to school,

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every single day, rain, snow, whatever, whether it was on the warrant article this year.

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It was on the warrant of the second year in a row.

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The town has seven miles of sidewalks.

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That unit is a 2012.

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It breaks.

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A lot of snowstorms.

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For us to use the Bobcat Lover to go to the sidewalks.

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I'm talking 15 to 20 hours to do that distance.

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And curious why I used to live in Massachusetts

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and it was the residence job to clear this

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I will turn around.

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Why does state law still must change?

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I don't know, it's logical.

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I suggested we buy

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Interesting.

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I was wondered why that was.

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The agency is the same way we showed our own.

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Made it was the same way.

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We've asked this question.

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Yeah, one kind of something to keep in mind about the sidewalk.

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do we go by?

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So a possibility that if you put it back on the warrant that we on the school side say, hey,

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this is needed so that the kids can go to school on snow days, right?

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You don't want the two hour delays.

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You don't want the school being closed.

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This helps with that.

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So let's like cut that back of our brains.

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We even had a grant for this year that covered 25% of the cost of it.

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you fail. Fortunately, the grandmas was the expired December this year. The state is allowed

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us to extend it for additional year, so we're going to put it back on, but the cost of the

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sheen is now, can this maybe also over 20% is 20%? I hope it's for like 70%. But I also think

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if the school board gets on board, I don't know if you guys saw, but Melissa made this amazing,

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And I brought this up yesterday, amazing for sure, breaking down our foreign articles.

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And this is what happens if you vote, yes, this is what happens if you vote.

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No. And so many people were like, this is the best thing because they get to voting.

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They're reading this and they're like, the legal terminology is hard to understand.

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I have no idea what this means.

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So we've heard a lot of feedback this year on what we have done the last two years

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within a lot of warrant articles.

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People actually kind of want us to go back to a budget with all

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of what we could support in it.

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So we're considering maybe going back to a one budget,

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have put the firefighters in it, put some of the large items

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back into the budget, instead of keeping them separate.

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So we've heard a decent amount of feedback that,

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hey, this is great.

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It worked a couple of times.

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But if you guys really think it's important,

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you should put it in the budget itself.

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So I think it's a bit of a little.

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Well, I mean, I really think we just

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I think our board, your board, needed to not set this

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for a lot of people in town, thank you to school board

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versus the blackboard, is yeah.

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And that's the way it's been, I mean,

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Paul has even said it.

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We really need to try to cheerlead for each other

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and try to work together to, you know,

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unite in front of a, this is the town,

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this is the two buttons the town needs to operate.

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And you and I have had great conversations about that.

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And I'm glad this is fighting.

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I've been talking about it for over a year, but if we can come all as one as a United

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Front, maybe people in town will just be like, okay, maybe we can work with this.

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Because we all shared the same thing in town, and maybe we can come across some places and

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will help, you know, unfortunately on the public education side, we're kind of screwed

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from the state of New Hampshire, you know, that's just what's happening to us.

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But other things that could possibly be helpful from in the town side, there is.

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Oh!

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Thank you.

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It's called towards 6.30.

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Excellent.

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I'll say I'm on the snow side of things that I think one of the problems isn't so much

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that snow will be going me.

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There is no negligence.

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It is done.

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The most efficient

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at school or can't walk on the road.

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But whatever they may be on the school side,

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there were some reaction to that.

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So the town does a great job instead of I see things like, I can't believe teachers are out there and they have to shovel them in front of the school buses.

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I mean, and if that were happening, that would certainly be on school property, not on town property.

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So I think just trying to in some way to calm down the public,

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everyone's working really hard.

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I would say that the most hourly tasks that people are physically, all of it,

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during snow events, and the last thing we need is people who are a retired out there doing

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things just to appease a school day or something else to do. So anyways, it's just, we live

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that age of a lot of social content. We work more years. We have a common, you know, common.

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It's difficult.

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Two of us go, we say, well, the school didn't work at the town didn't play out, so we're

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a college school, I'm in like literally straight college. That's where we're like, we're

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going. Our machine broke down five minutes in to try to clear the sidewalk. So we're

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It's always pointing the finger. It's, it's, it's, it's your fault. It's your fault. And forgetting that people are awake over

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24 hours a day out there doing their job trying to make the town safe. It's just,

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some of the things that I'm starting to think they work almost 30 hours. It's crazy.

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Which is scary. That's scary.

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And we're going to have the white book.

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Yeah. We're going to do this.

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Oh, and I understand that.

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You know, I want to go to Clare in the sidewalks, if it's snowing like crazy, the cloud goes by and goes more snowing.

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The earthquake on the snow is over, before we call for sidewalks.

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Instead of spending a lot of time and money, breaking the cloud, and then not getting it down late.

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Or let's just wait till the storm is over.

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Then we'll take care of the sidewalk.

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We discussed that for some of our overnight plumbing this year, because obviously these old prices are much higher than we've put in it before.

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If all of that is doing some other stuff, so if you feel a price keeps

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stays for a pattern, we can go up, we might have to say, hey, if there's only two

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which is a snow on the ground, we're going to wait until morning to apply

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what instead of buying and twice throughout the 90s, keep that it to snow off the ground.

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We're going to deal with this again.

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Yeah, going back to the social media thing, Jeff, we deal with it with snow days when the

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superintendent calls the snow day and then half, you can't wait either way, right?

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It's either, my kids can't get to school because of the sidewalks, but you're still putting on school.

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And it's like, it's no supposed to stop by, you know, either nine.

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I'm sorry that the sidewalks aren't done, but there's ways the kids can get to school.

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We're just on Markham Cardi.

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Great.

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I don't know if you've been to sleep.

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And go ahead, Melissa.

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And I agree, and when our superintendent puts that message out, it can be a simple, hey, thanks to the town for being out there working right now.

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Just that little bit of a thing will flush whenever complaining might happen.

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So, I would just that communication is not really far.

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I mean, where I went to school, which was near here.

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I would just go to

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school.

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You think it's school?

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Yeah, that's the way it was.

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The school buses might not run.

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The sidewalks might not be done.

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And you just got to school?

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Sure, you're done?

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Yeah, I believe.

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And there might be late.

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It might not be teachers there.

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The school was never canceled.

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It was just the policy.

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I don't know if it's the policy now, but that's what it was.

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Eighties when I went to school.

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Yeah.

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That was pretty simple.

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You know, it's what it was.

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The damn if you do, but damn if you don't.

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Exactly.

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So what's just new?

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And if I could, I think, I think, to keep it simple part here,

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is let's just make it simple.

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There's a lot of complex issues we're trying to do up right now,

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but it really comes down to you.

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It doesn't support any other.

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And no one's finger pointing.

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Finger always points in and never out.

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And now, the school side can support the town and the town side.

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It can support the school.

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So, again, I'm brand new to you.

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conversations that are so we're here about how weak and move forward united and it's

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an a place where it's hard and it's hard to get to that place that you can say and

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but it's hard to get married, so I want to be sure that the services is outside the

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improvement.

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Idea is something that's a possible.

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I'm reminded that it's actually saving you.

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At least open to those ideas for me as a number of young people, to get my

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history here is six weeks but that's great to hear that there's the open conversations

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just like a voice. Yeah, definitely. I think it was, I have, if I look in town for like

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four years now, but two school administrations ago, that was, I feel like that was

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some of the problems. I don't think you'll have anybody on this part disagreeing with you.

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That was then. That was then. I think all the town out on any of those things.

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Oh yeah. Previous administrations were going against each other. Yeah.

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The last

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I have had very cordial conversations back and forth, and I've said this board has one of the best boards I've seen in a long time for the school board and I can say the same for you guys.

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And I think that's why we're able to sit down and have this conversation right now.

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Back to what Jeff brought up earlier, I definitely think we need to get back together some time before by this season.

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And you guys, since we talk a word, looking after large ornamentals, you guys need to hear where you're looking at the word, large ornamental, so we can say maybe we're going to put one or two cars.

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We have a couple of here and there, so that you know, school can be asked for any of you have us this year.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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We're in this next year or whatever.

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Just to work together on that.

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So, the table is that packed right?

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We're just in the cost of putting it into the talk of your mouth is quite a lot.

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Yeah, I'm just just an example of that.

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I'm just going to go to them.

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I know so.

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It's just an example.

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And not necessarily for sure.

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They're just thinking.

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Well, we are in need of a playground of riches.

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If you all have any ideas.

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That's all this way.

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This is a very important part.

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All the states say, what do you think?

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Yes, you did.

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Yes, you did.

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And this is a note thing.

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She said she's coming back to town.

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She had their bail on the previous visit.

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But I was going to hit that for a bunch of earmarks, surely we got through the community center, we got some work system work system work, you've worked putting together a package just to work you have to do the impact of it on that, so that you can reset it to her or one of the other federal representatives.

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you have. You basically get a congressional earlock perhaps. You set through the house and send

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the finance community there.

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Jeff, if I can piggyback on that also in years past, the town

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has done a really good job of having the governor come in and have the governor counsel come in

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and spend time in the town for the day. Much like we're doing here with this joint board, it might

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be prudent if we have that invitation again for the governor of government council, yet that I have

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council meeting here in Selma County, especially here, but it's another great opportunity

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for us to get with the governor, especially for you folks to get with the governor to talk

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about the school funding in the inequities that are happening there, not just here, but

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kind of across the state to see firsthand.

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So we do a good job representing the town and showing the towns, needs, but good up to them

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if you jump in and join with us on that also.

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One of the epa in that, or essentially we can't sort of turn the outcome.

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So it's often important.

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Very much interested in what's going on.

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I have certainly an invitation to look at some of the beats that are in which you try to

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You probably appreciate that.

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Which I can email her, too.

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One thing, Kyle, when you get invitations from the legislators,

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is that Congress and senators, you could follow that too to Rob, which is, I don't know,

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schools around the imitation of this.

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Yeah, I don't think so.

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No, they're not.

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Really?

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Just like for the year marks for the year marks?

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There was also consistent emails coming from Caitlin Davis to our previous superintendent

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that was supposed to be shared with the school board on a consistent basis on what was

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going on down in Concord that I don't even think the previous superintendent was doing before

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our last superintendent. I had a personal conversation with Caitlin Davis about a month ago

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and she was like you're not getting any of our emails and I said no. So I'm hoping that once the

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school starts and you start getting emails from Caitlin you can start forwarding that to the board

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so you don't have to do the research yourself.

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I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay.

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I know Kyle and Olivia have been really good at getting grants

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for town stuff.

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I don't know who your grant person is for the school district,

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but maybe they should collaborate,

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because they've played around the key opportunity

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set record, it's a liberty for people who are like,

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get the grant first, and then ask this for the money

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to finish it, don't ask for the money.

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So I think that's a good opportunity there.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Also perhaps, I can't remember,

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very little town money with the playground and the corner of the street.

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They were here.

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That was good in five, six years ago after, you know, we took them to the house, we took the taxes.

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Maybe it was a good figure out how that was when we were in the town.

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You'll see those same opportunities of this.

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Yeah.

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Hi, I agree.

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I was all proud of it.

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It was not time for me in that.

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There were a couple of organizations up in the webinar that we probably reached out to

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Pizzer, health-based, and a TV-based, so much kind of thing.

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It was not just something that would be used by school.

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During school hours, right?

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It's after hours.

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It's on the weekend during the summer.

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You know, that playground at school was used a lot.

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And it's not up to standard code either now, you know, if we had somebody come in, I mean they'd shut our playground down.

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You need to be metal slide back.

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Yes.

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Conqueror Thomas.

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Conqueror Thomas.

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Good old days.

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I like the fix.

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They need to take that too.

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Conqueror Thomas.

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Yeah, you do it.

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I love that.

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They still have one at Moody's Park, you know, 15 years ago.

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But yeah, I, I probably agree and I think if we can keep this up and, you know,

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right before a budget season starts, you know, going over and collaborating on what we have

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for more and articles.

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I like what we're seeing on our end for budget, but you guys are seeing at least kind of

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just you know like you guys you know all of us with our how hard we had to work just

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to get our default budget because that was just seeing you know so many come up and say

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nope we're gonna cut it down to this and we had to work so hard for people to vote no

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on that.

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So speaking about it on a boat he needs to be turned 300.

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That's what he needs to have.

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Yeah it does.

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Yeah it does.

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No, it has an excitement.

444
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Yeah.

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No, it has an excitement.

446
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I read it a bit bit a bit but you can't even...

447
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You go into the press releases out of your business office.

448
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So it hasn't been talked about that.

449
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No it hasn't.

450
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That's something that Kate had brought up whenever last meetings and if it does pass, yeah.

451
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Thank you. So that part went through that? That was a second ago.

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That was, yeah, that was.

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Okay, 1,300 has a 6% cap on increases to the insurance.

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That's what?

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A 6% cap on increases to the insurance.

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Which will impact us, so we cut our curriculum director out.

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If we tried to add that back, we'll see that cap.

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And then you get into a...

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Who did our grants?

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Supermajority to override the cap.

461
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Yeah, I think $1,300 said that you can do this three tests

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to pass and then to remove the cap to be three tests again.

463
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Yep.

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That's what we ran to the sidebar factor, because it was a pawn.

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Yes, you have more yes if the nose did not have three tests.

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So I think I'll talk about this year, just run it into the

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straight or an article instead of a pawn.

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So that's something we'll consider a compudgeon time.

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But I think we've all get on the same page

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and support each other in the communication regarding the

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a budget cap coming up to the election, the important, I don't know whether it's

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vacation or whatever, but when you guys are meeting with the other school districts

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for their tuition and stuff, I don't know why they come and talk to me and don't

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have your meetings, but they've put a lot of people saying, why are there these other towns

475
00:31:17,410 --> 00:31:22,730
on the paying $17,000 and we're paying $30,000 for students?

476
00:31:22,730 --> 00:31:26,930
We don't respect 30,000, there's no one.

477
00:31:27,230 --> 00:31:34,050
If you look at the average cost per person, you put it on your party for us.

478
00:31:34,310 --> 00:31:36,470
Why are we talking to other tasks? 30,000 dollars?

479
00:31:37,890 --> 00:31:41,970
So they're asking why does it cost our students?

480
00:31:42,410 --> 00:31:47,430
30,000, right? We're only charging them 17 because we don't charge for us.

481
00:31:47,630 --> 00:31:51,950
I watched a meeting at yesterday to kind of get on the same thing and figure that out.

482
00:31:51,950 --> 00:31:55,550
My only real question was, you guys raised the question right?

483
00:31:55,930 --> 00:31:55,970
Yes.

484
00:31:55,990 --> 00:31:57,350
From what to what?

485
00:31:57,610 --> 00:31:59,450
It was 7...

486
00:32:00,890 --> 00:32:01,410
17...

487
00:32:01,410 --> 00:32:01,730
12...

488
00:32:02,330 --> 00:32:03,330
12, 13, 12, 15...

489
00:32:03,330 --> 00:32:04,450
You know, for each town.

490
00:32:05,210 --> 00:32:06,970
Well, we have one difference.

491
00:32:07,470 --> 00:32:07,970
Why, why, why?

492
00:32:07,970 --> 00:32:09,170
We just have, we have one.

493
00:32:09,650 --> 00:32:10,370
I agree.

494
00:32:10,950 --> 00:32:12,930
Because, because it's the way it's the way it's the way it is.

495
00:32:13,890 --> 00:32:13,970
Yes.

496
00:32:14,110 --> 00:32:17,590
I find that thought that's the way it's the way it's the way it is.

497
00:32:17,590 --> 00:32:17,790
Yes.

498
00:32:17,930 --> 00:32:21,150
Because to me it looks like the equation for the patterns only raised,

499
00:32:25,050 --> 00:32:53,760
So the other thing that happened with a certain town is a certain prior super-intended promise, the same exact tuition rate for the longevity of time and some things were manipulated and signatures were just pasted on and so that's why there was some arguments back in the past.

500
00:32:53,760 --> 00:33:01,040
course between the two towns and we had to stick to okay fine we'll do it this year but this

501
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:07,920
is what it's going up to next year this is what it has to be because we had to go back and

502
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:13,240
look at somebody else's I'm not even going to say mistakes it was on purpose it was done

503
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:14,120
purposefully.

504
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:18,160
That makes sense because I mean like you'll tell people hey they weren't going to fix it so

505
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,680
just watching the meeting like there was a lot of back and forth between you guys and like

506
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,600
We have felt like, why are we charging for all services?

507
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,640
Why are kids outside our district,

508
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,420
getting services for free when at best case,

509
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,200
our kids are beginning more time with those teachers or services?

510
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,940
Worst case, they're getting, you know, we have to have to have other teachers.

511
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:44,590
If we track of that, they can afford and they're not paying for it, so.

512
00:33:44,750 --> 00:33:52,010
So we are charging, we are charging the district for those services as a separate entity,

513
00:33:52,010 --> 00:33:55,670
Not in the same, yeah, it's a super-

514
00:33:55,670 --> 00:33:55,770
It's a-

515
00:33:55,770 --> 00:33:57,630
It might be worth a little

516
00:33:57,630 --> 00:34:01,670
vacation on your guys' side to just get that out there inside had a lot of people

517
00:34:04,740 --> 00:34:07,440
They come to be about and say hey, this isn't the same right?

518
00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:12,380
Like, I would just say hey, go to the school board meeting and ask these questions.

519
00:34:12,420 --> 00:34:13,700
That's usually my first answer.

520
00:34:14,420 --> 00:34:15,660
But they're not wrong.

521
00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:23,040
I mean, they're not wrong, it cost us to educate and do more student this much in our tuition students are only this much.

522
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:24,120
They're not wrong.

523
00:34:24,940 --> 00:34:31,440
The difference is we don't include the cost of the buildings in those tuition students.

524
00:34:31,660 --> 00:34:35,600
First of all, I want to show you, because they require the buildings to be education,

525
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,980
they shall not have buildings to afford.

526
00:34:38,340 --> 00:34:38,940
That's the point.

527
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:39,700
Of course.

528
00:34:40,060 --> 00:34:41,600
They're choice to not have a building.

529
00:34:42,020 --> 00:34:42,640
They're choice to not have a building.

530
00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:44,360
That's sort of about that.

531
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,780
But I want to charge enough to make some money while recruiting.

532
00:34:52,740 --> 00:34:53,120
Try it.

533
00:34:53,340 --> 00:34:54,120
Stop making a money.

534
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:54,860
It's breaking even.

535
00:34:54,860 --> 00:34:55,200
I do not know why they

536
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:01,600
do not know how much revenue can

537
00:35:06,810 --> 00:35:07,070
be made.

538
00:35:07,130 --> 00:35:09,730
Because new parts no longer in English school.

539
00:35:10,970 --> 00:35:11,850
You know, you know, you can actually,

540
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:15,960
and split this,

541
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,440
class of the 30 cases in the two classes of 15 because an M district student comes in,

542
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:21,620
that is another huge expense.

543
00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:23,120
So why is someone speaking for track of that?

544
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:24,580
Oh, Kate is on it.

545
00:35:24,740 --> 00:35:28,960
The case on it and believe that I know that I've already gotten a couple.

546
00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:31,240
So we're going to be watching this.

547
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:33,060
Okay.

548
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,360
Well, it's not much different.

549
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:37,760
I mean if you had a

550
00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:43,240
student you would take it without

551
00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:57,240
me to the comment that

552
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:16,200
all the kids so I actually put it in a

553
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:17,460
90-degree request

554
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:23,600
30 years

555
00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:26,680
Completing it in

556
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:27,240
You know

557
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:36,440
my being a back to me like I can't answer this. There's not just kids they come in and we

558
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:37,260
Teach me

559
00:36:37,260 --> 00:36:38,660
Yeah, and that's what happens

560
00:36:44,710 --> 00:36:47,930
but from the other time you're actually getting some dollars

561
00:36:47,930 --> 00:36:49,510
So theoretically for removing

562
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,100
a tax rate versus surrounding towns that have, of course, that

563
00:36:56,100 --> 00:36:58,140
rates, they much lower than ours.

564
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,700
Well, they may be moving into a house that is

565
00:37:04,350 --> 00:37:05,630
ordered this time to be

566
00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:09,160
prepared.

567
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,060
It's not really increasing here.

568
00:37:14,750 --> 00:37:20,130
Yeah, if I could, we're mindful of the financial impact, that to be blood, our response

569
00:37:20,130 --> 00:37:28,230
is supposed to educate, and I get the fiduciary aspect of our work, ignoring that, but I want to

570
00:37:28,230 --> 00:37:29,970
show everybody's set foot, it's an arsenal.

571
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,680
We'll get to the best education possible.

572
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,180
And then I'm one of them.

573
00:38:01,180 --> 00:38:03,900
There's a lot of residents at that point of view in that.

574
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:04,620
Uh-huh.

575
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:09,060
I mean, we, as there's a couple of us as a tanker in a year, trust me, we reach it in

576
00:38:09,060 --> 00:38:09,440
the choir.

577
00:38:10,380 --> 00:38:10,660
You know?

578
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:17,840
I think it's important that we are filling, if DC's with tuition kids and not creating

579
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,340
DC's to fill with tuition kids.

580
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:20,520
Okay.

581
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,640
You guys able to turn people down at this too many?

582
00:38:22,740 --> 00:38:23,440
It's not too much.

583
00:38:23,780 --> 00:38:24,020
Yes.

584
00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:27,960
A lot of the industry that I don't know.

585
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,340
What sounds are going to be a new photographic?

586
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:45,420
Of course you have to figure out a way to go to a different school.

587
00:38:46,100 --> 00:38:51,120
It's just, that's the way it is because they already have tuition kids that are already

588
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:57,280
set in place from like Goatian, love story, you know, cried in, that already settled, have

589
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,520
I've already been going there.

590
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:00,800
Toysians are you paid?

591
00:39:02,300 --> 00:39:08,400
So it's easier to get that revenue in than to pay for another student that lives in.

592
00:39:08,540 --> 00:39:08,680
Right.

593
00:39:08,820 --> 00:39:12,640
And the only of one extra student who hired a whole teacher and everything is correct.

594
00:39:13,220 --> 00:39:16,540
So I think the only thing where I've come across is getting a little more communication out there

595
00:39:16,540 --> 00:39:19,320
might be good to kind of set the record straight.

596
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,000
So people actually know how our status is.

597
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:27,000
You know, revenue in, this is beneficial, it's not detrimental to the district.

598
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:37,680
And that's as active as taxpayers, specifically, people are talking to me, but it's, hey, why did our tax rate book, we didn't raise that the same percent? Why are they paying the cheaper, we're going to talk about the dollars?

599
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:50,280
Oh, it's always about money. It's not about, you know, what the town's doing, you know, this like board's doing for the town or the school board's doing for public education, it's all about money. It's always about money.

600
00:39:50,860 --> 00:40:05,160
So, I think if we can kind of work together to get that out there of like you said, explaining what is happening and why these numbers look the way they do.

601
00:40:05,260 --> 00:40:06,620
You know, breaking it down.

602
00:40:07,780 --> 00:40:09,220
I have a question for it.

603
00:40:09,380 --> 00:40:10,140
I don't know the Kyle.

604
00:40:13,570 --> 00:40:18,910
I think we do a really good job communicating with our parents because we have their emails.

605
00:40:19,490 --> 00:40:20,750
We can get that out there, right?

606
00:40:20,750 --> 00:40:25,090
it's those that don't have children in the district.

607
00:40:25,850 --> 00:40:31,870
What have you found to be successful to communicate with the community, you know, that

608
00:40:31,870 --> 00:40:35,150
they're not on Facebook or they're not whatever.

609
00:40:36,650 --> 00:40:44,570
Because I feel like we struggle with getting our word out to the non-famous in Newport.

610
00:40:46,330 --> 00:40:51,270
I think we're fortunate that a lot of people watch our NTTV broadcast, I don't know how

611
00:40:51,270 --> 00:40:55,690
they watch the school board, but there's hundreds that watch this, like, okay.

612
00:40:59,210 --> 00:41:03,830
Yeah, and the last several years with the addition of Kyle, we've gotten really good at

613
00:41:03,830 --> 00:41:09,270
our social media, really up to our game there, but to your point, there are that population

614
00:41:09,270 --> 00:41:15,010
that does not have that, the same your population that doesn't have access to readily access

615
00:41:15,010 --> 00:41:17,090
the emails or things of that sort.

616
00:41:17,850 --> 00:41:20,890
So to find as many ways to reach out as you can,

617
00:41:21,050 --> 00:41:22,830
and just keep throwing it, you know,

618
00:41:22,850 --> 00:41:24,310
and hope that you reach as many as you can,

619
00:41:24,810 --> 00:41:26,830
but we've really uped our game in the last couple of years

620
00:41:26,830 --> 00:41:29,450
where that social media and our public outreach completely.

621
00:41:30,890 --> 00:41:34,390
And we've seen a pretty substantial return on that.

622
00:41:34,710 --> 00:41:36,790
Could my viewer in person collaboration there, too?

623
00:41:36,830 --> 00:41:38,110
Do you guys have a really important message

624
00:41:38,110 --> 00:41:40,930
if you want to get out, maybe we'll re-share it on the calendar?

625
00:41:41,130 --> 00:41:42,190
Do we have something really important?

626
00:41:42,310 --> 00:41:44,990
Do you guys want to get out?

627
00:41:44,990 --> 00:41:49,790
you put out there on my personal, and if I haven't been put on what's up new port, because

628
00:41:49,790 --> 00:41:52,170
it's usually put on what's up new port.

629
00:41:52,470 --> 00:41:53,070
Yeah, that's true.

630
00:41:53,430 --> 00:41:53,630
That's true.

631
00:41:53,630 --> 00:41:54,030
That's true.

632
00:41:54,030 --> 00:41:54,430
That's true.

633
00:41:54,810 --> 00:41:55,570
That's true.

634
00:41:56,070 --> 00:41:56,950
That's true.

635
00:41:57,370 --> 00:42:06,170
So I think, if we both can really start getting it out there, I mean, we have a communications

636
00:42:06,170 --> 00:42:13,010
committee, and there are things where it's kind of, we can't cross a certain line when

637
00:42:13,010 --> 00:42:19,730
comes to, hey, this is what's going on with the school board, this, you know, so we have

638
00:42:19,730 --> 00:42:25,770
this clear and we don't have, we have somebody at the SAU office that does all the social

639
00:42:25,770 --> 00:42:26,830
media stuff.

640
00:42:28,050 --> 00:42:37,770
We personally, unless we're just doing it not as school board members, can't put certain things.

641
00:42:37,770 --> 00:42:42,350
I can share some of that that I personally received a fair amount of feedback on positive

642
00:42:42,350 --> 00:42:48,050
wise is the town managers weekly report or you know his biweekly report that he puts

643
00:42:48,790 --> 00:42:54,490
out just gives a good snapshot of what's going on within the town within all of our departments

644
00:42:55,070 --> 00:43:00,870
every couple of weeks and it kind of it gives the public an opportunity to see what we're

645
00:43:00,870 --> 00:43:05,970
doing where we're going and how we've reached certain decisions and it really paints a clear

646
00:43:05,970 --> 00:43:12,110
of needs and direction of travel for, not just the departments, but the town as a whole.

647
00:43:12,890 --> 00:43:17,930
So to kind of mirror and have some continuity consistency between what the school's doing,

648
00:43:17,950 --> 00:43:23,490
what the town's doing, I think is a more unified message, if I can, you know, and I think

649
00:43:23,490 --> 00:43:24,010
that respect.

650
00:43:24,750 --> 00:43:31,290
Our previous superintendent kind of tried trying, trying doing that, but it just wasn't,

651
00:43:31,290 --> 00:43:35,650
it wasn't consistent, it wasn't consistent, it wasn't connecting with the whole segment

652
00:43:35,650 --> 00:43:39,380
on our agenda, go to all different departments,

653
00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:40,580
what's happened in there?

654
00:43:40,620 --> 00:43:42,220
Hey, we're painting, or this, so that...

655
00:43:42,220 --> 00:43:43,660
Yeah, we do that with the superintendent,

656
00:43:43,940 --> 00:43:45,500
and we have, you know, the superintendent,

657
00:43:46,180 --> 00:43:48,740
you know, following up this is what's happened in the last...

658
00:43:48,740 --> 00:43:50,940
What pretty blunt with...

659
00:43:50,940 --> 00:43:53,340
We've got these, you know,

660
00:43:53,860 --> 00:43:54,780
positional shortfalls,

661
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:56,240
and because of that,

662
00:43:56,240 --> 00:43:57,980
these are the things that are not getting addressed.

663
00:44:00,100 --> 00:44:01,660
I think the one thing that...

664
00:44:04,770 --> 00:44:08,350
concerning this pointing is that the lack of

665
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:10,540
person,

666
00:44:10,540 --> 00:44:10,820
the first

667
00:44:21,380 --> 00:44:22,760
committee's that we

668
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:29,880
have pretty much zero turn out, and that people think

669
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:34,900
that discussion can take place online. Only argument, arguing, takes place online.

670
00:44:38,110 --> 00:44:42,630
As opposed to, if you got some like deliberative, it becomes discussions that go back and forth,

671
00:44:42,930 --> 00:44:49,030
and you don't feel so much like you can attack here. However, for whatever reason, and I mean,

672
00:44:49,030 --> 00:44:53,530
effort that you put into to all of these meetings and have no one show up,

673
00:44:55,850 --> 00:44:56,390
really, you know,

674
00:44:56,390 --> 00:44:59,970
And yeah, so here we go, right, so, so, so.

675
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:27,400
So I always say, hey, do you want to be part of it? Come in to be part of the discussion? Come in and sit here so we can have a real conversation with us back and forth. And you can understand things better. I don't know how to get better or if it ever really does. But I was particularly surprised that the liberty this year that almost everyone who's that deliberately will somehow affiliated to this school of the town or the board member, almost exclusively every single person.

676
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,580
And we only had 116 people.

677
00:45:30,660 --> 00:45:31,260
There's a lot.

678
00:45:31,460 --> 00:45:32,060
We only had 15.

679
00:45:32,620 --> 00:45:34,140
We had the weight less than that.

680
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,220
Yeah, I was 116 that we had at ours.

681
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:42,860
But then you have the people that don't come to these, go and vote and then complain.

682
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:44,700
We're getting very vocal online.

683
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:46,380
Oh, yeah, well, that too.

684
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:48,240
And that's hard for us, right?

685
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:52,620
Because we can't say certain things.

686
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,860
We can't defend ourselves online.

687
00:45:55,100 --> 00:45:55,400
We can't.

688
00:45:57,020 --> 00:46:00,360
We have certain roles we have to follow.

689
00:46:01,620 --> 00:46:07,740
There's many of times that I wanted to jump on and say something, but unfortunately...

690
00:46:09,530 --> 00:46:12,470
I don't know if we could improve things one thing we discussed this year,

691
00:46:12,550 --> 00:46:17,490
which was not to do what's the change that happened to be the same as the story.

692
00:46:17,490 --> 00:46:18,210
That's the story.

693
00:46:19,650 --> 00:46:20,930
I mean, I don't know if you guys feel better.

694
00:46:20,930 --> 00:46:23,710
We talk to ourselves with how to be, maybe not, but...

695
00:46:23,710 --> 00:46:29,390
I personally think it's, I think it's a good idea because people aren't forgetting what

696
00:46:29,390 --> 00:46:35,770
they just voted for and March, and then going into May, and I'm just the opposite, right?

697
00:46:37,310 --> 00:46:40,070
Yeah, it's, uh, it's, uh, we want to swallow two small pills.

698
00:46:40,230 --> 00:46:41,710
We want to swallow one giant one.

699
00:46:41,750 --> 00:46:42,270
No, thank you.

700
00:46:42,330 --> 00:46:43,190
I want to giant one, right?

701
00:46:43,450 --> 00:46:47,270
It's, think about it in how the voters are going to feel financially, they're looking

702
00:46:47,270 --> 00:46:53,610
at the big hit versus maybe I have forgotten or to really understand right pocket left pocket.

703
00:46:53,610 --> 00:46:54,970
And the same pair of pants.

704
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:00,640
I do feel like the participation lady

705
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,760
activity we can collaborate well

706
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:04,220
and meet your leaders for each other.

707
00:47:04,420 --> 00:47:05,280
We would help.

708
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,620
I mean, not a lot of people came out for your vote.

709
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:09,140
Not a lot of people.

710
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:10,440
Listen, I've heard it.

711
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:11,920
It was not very meaningful.

712
00:47:12,620 --> 00:47:15,120
We had 7-8% of the vote.

713
00:47:15,300 --> 00:47:15,520
Right.

714
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:17,280
To me, that's dismal.

715
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:19,780
But when I understand,

716
00:47:24,190 --> 00:47:25,570
I mean, it's basically...

717
00:47:25,570 --> 00:47:26,110
That's average.

718
00:47:30,240 --> 00:47:30,860
That's unfortunate.

719
00:47:30,860 --> 00:47:38,080
We didn't that this the school one didn't hit that right, but I'm saying you know 20% of your voters are deciding

720
00:47:39,060 --> 00:47:41,340
Everything for everyone else

721
00:47:41,340 --> 00:47:48,640
People need to understand are they're sitting and

722
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:53,740
That's the other thing is we don't have a lot of people that are

723
00:47:53,740 --> 00:48:03,180
Age coming out to vote. They're all the older generations who we have to vote that don't have the kids in school and they're against a majority of the things that

724
00:48:03,180 --> 00:48:05,460
We're trying to do for public education.

725
00:48:07,100 --> 00:48:09,580
I also, we talked about this yesterday,

726
00:48:13,410 --> 00:48:14,770
you know, well, for both.

727
00:48:15,450 --> 00:48:18,030
For people to understand, it's a two-day process.

728
00:48:19,070 --> 00:48:22,110
You've got to go to the limit of, it's got to go and vote.

729
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,500
So how can we get that message out

730
00:48:31,460 --> 00:48:33,140
so that they understand that?

731
00:48:33,420 --> 00:48:39,300
And the other piece that I have found concerning is there will be people who will say,

732
00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:43,440
I don't own a home in Newport, so I can't film, right?

733
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,880
Like how are you still thinking that?

734
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,420
And how do you fix that message?

735
00:48:52,300 --> 00:48:54,120
Other than just saying, yes, you can't.

736
00:48:55,580 --> 00:48:55,840
It is.

737
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,800
Or I have written apartments or don't pay taxes.

738
00:48:59,500 --> 00:48:59,680
All right.

739
00:48:59,820 --> 00:49:01,040
Go ahead and do it.

740
00:49:09,060 --> 00:49:13,340
Kyle, could we ask the clerk if we could pass out something

741
00:49:13,340 --> 00:49:17,460
a little one-page information of pamphlet when they were to the car.

742
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:18,600
All right?

743
00:49:18,780 --> 00:49:19,780
Is everyone interested in the car?

744
00:49:19,940 --> 00:49:23,460
It's way to reach people to educate them about what they can or can't do.

745
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,280
It should be doing, you know, civically.

746
00:49:26,180 --> 00:49:30,240
I wonder if Lee would say that's okay or not okay for the state.

747
00:49:30,660 --> 00:49:31,700
Just I think about the process.

748
00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:33,140
No way.

749
00:49:33,620 --> 00:49:37,940
Just you look at what the voter turnout is for the primaries in the national election.

750
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:39,540
No, it's very high.

751
00:49:39,620 --> 00:49:41,800
It's getting them out too.

752
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:48,080
You know that Tuesday in March or in May is what the issue is because people seem to be working

753
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:53,320
Or concerned about the national level which has a less of an impact on yours than what the town did

754
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:58,760
With the town is doing so find something controversial for every ballot that brings them out every time

755
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,880
But make sure to yes vote controversial

756
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:08,860
Good point Paul. Thank you. Yeah, and I think we can do

757
00:50:08,860 --> 00:50:16,860
I'm trying to remember Richard's open house, I feel like there's always tables in the hallways,

758
00:50:17,940 --> 00:50:22,120
or there's something that Richard's does where community people come out and sit.

759
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:23,820
There used to be holes.

760
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:25,520
They haven't done it in the past couple years.

761
00:50:25,540 --> 00:50:27,180
That high school does Expo 98.

762
00:50:28,300 --> 00:50:34,140
So you know, that's a good time for both of us to be like, hey, are you registered?

763
00:50:48,630 --> 00:50:54,630
We had about three people stocked it all right, so maybe we need to put y'all in the hallway.

764
00:50:55,130 --> 00:50:55,790
That might help.

765
00:50:55,790 --> 00:51:00,830
Well, the big one thing, too, is that two years ago, our approach was very successful with

766
00:51:00,830 --> 00:51:02,850
another council on the solar alarm, or it was passed.

767
00:51:03,510 --> 00:51:07,210
I think a big part of that is that your are police union.

768
00:51:07,810 --> 00:51:11,950
But it was on it, and all the first unit was on it.

769
00:51:11,970 --> 00:51:16,070
So all of those people were out cheerleading for our budget, for the whole combos.

770
00:51:16,550 --> 00:51:17,270
Like, please be to your health.

771
00:51:17,430 --> 00:51:18,470
Please don't be less on this.

772
00:51:18,850 --> 00:51:22,850
And then two years ago, your teacher, meaning it was on this budget, and that went well.

773
00:51:23,850 --> 00:51:27,990
So I think a lot of it is engaging our people,

774
00:51:28,070 --> 00:51:31,330
especially our employees, people that work for our perspective

775
00:51:31,330 --> 00:51:34,670
size, and trying to make sure they don't have important all

776
00:51:34,670 --> 00:51:34,950
this is.

777
00:51:35,130 --> 00:51:37,530
So they're out here living with their neighbors and getting out

778
00:51:37,530 --> 00:51:40,110
there and helping communicate this.

779
00:51:41,150 --> 00:51:42,950
People just aren't going to be online these days.

780
00:51:43,490 --> 00:51:46,190
So we can go out there around social media.

781
00:51:46,370 --> 00:51:48,130
Some people will read it, but a lot of times,

782
00:51:48,410 --> 00:51:49,110
it's the boredom out.

783
00:51:49,610 --> 00:51:51,890
It's your neighbors that hate this really important.

784
00:51:51,890 --> 00:51:57,270
make sure you vote, you know, this is what I think is important. Say yes or no on or whatever.

785
00:51:57,990 --> 00:51:58,890
I'm just thinking sure.

786
00:51:59,950 --> 00:52:01,550
So this has been a very tough hero.

787
00:52:03,210 --> 00:52:08,160
So that's basically the point.

788
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:10,620
I think

789
00:52:12,670 --> 00:52:13,890
we've reached a breaking point.

790
00:52:14,090 --> 00:52:15,950
Because if you look at Aving Fail for us,

791
00:52:16,110 --> 00:52:19,310
Paving is something everybody wants and that fail.

792
00:52:19,630 --> 00:52:22,890
The ambulance fail, which is something that has passed.

793
00:52:23,670 --> 00:52:26,310
Probably for all as long as you were here, right?

794
00:52:26,510 --> 00:52:29,650
And the ambulance, you know, so people have reached a point where enough is enough.

795
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:38,960
All right. Melissa, you're asking about alternative ways to educate. Get the word out. Where in your curriculum is the

796
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:46,020
specifics aspect of it? That where are we teaching our kids? Are we getting a good foundation here, right? And, you

797
00:52:46,020 --> 00:52:52,300
know, 10, 11, 12th graders to educate them about what their responsibility is arguing for when one

798
00:52:52,300 --> 00:52:55,800
at the police school. Is that a lot? If I fit that on the curriculum, like we can do on the

799
00:52:55,800 --> 00:53:00,060
computer, get a specific website. They can still play in white websites. They can tell

800
00:53:00,060 --> 00:53:05,300
their parents. They do talk about it in 10th grade in their civics class. My son just did

801
00:53:05,300 --> 00:53:08,660
it this past year. So I know they didn't talk about a couple of hill trips we could do

802
00:53:08,660 --> 00:53:12,880
every year. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

803
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,800
I have a TV stand-off this class. I always had Bill Wormlock command for a week. And

804
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:20,720
And he would talk about local government voting,

805
00:53:20,740 --> 00:53:21,860
those things.

806
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:22,720
I don't know.

807
00:53:22,720 --> 00:53:23,020
I need to continue.

808
00:53:23,660 --> 00:53:25,760
There were times in the past whenever

809
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:29,420
being invited into a civic class, you know,

810
00:53:29,500 --> 00:53:31,860
with a sweatshirt, basically talking about

811
00:53:31,860 --> 00:53:33,320
talent building and how it works.

812
00:53:33,940 --> 00:53:36,800
You know, maybe work trying to get more

813
00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:40,140
elected officials, trying to kid

814
00:53:40,140 --> 00:53:42,720
explaining what we're doing,

815
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:45,420
and stuff in how it works, and how it's working,

816
00:53:47,700 --> 00:53:58,060
I don't remember if it was Larry Chisel or Kathy Hubert that said they actually had an actual voting booth they built.

817
00:53:58,900 --> 00:54:05,260
I'd decades ago that they would bring into the school when it went to start teaching kids.

818
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:09,520
They'd make up a fake ballot. This is what you would have to do. This is the process.

819
00:54:10,820 --> 00:54:13,960
And either Kathy or Larry said they still haven't somewhere.

820
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:20,120
but I don't it's a good idea just to get kids to know it's not putting

821
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:26,120
pushing you know this is the way you're supposed to you know this side it's just

822
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,840
this is what you are supposed to do and educate that.

823
00:54:37,030 --> 00:54:37,190
Right.

824
00:54:37,530 --> 00:54:40,710
One of they are excited about it after class they're talking to their parents and maybe

825
00:54:40,710 --> 00:54:41,270
the first one.

826
00:54:41,490 --> 00:54:42,550
Yeah this voting next week.

827
00:54:42,850 --> 00:54:43,970
I should go and do that.

828
00:54:44,150 --> 00:54:47,690
Instead of always eating them and I forgot because it was busy all day.

829
00:54:48,270 --> 00:54:52,230
And when we talk to 10 granders, I get it because that's where it fits in the curriculum,

830
00:54:52,670 --> 00:54:53,570
but they're 10 granders.

831
00:54:54,330 --> 00:54:56,290
You know, two-year-olds don't know, that's a long way to go.

832
00:54:57,370 --> 00:55:03,470
So perhaps some sort of conversation with our graduating seniors, more than graduate of,

833
00:55:03,470 --> 00:55:04,610
hey, you're 18 now.

834
00:55:05,110 --> 00:55:05,930
This is what you do.

835
00:55:06,190 --> 00:55:06,530
Mm-hmm.

836
00:55:06,710 --> 00:55:07,170
You know.

837
00:55:07,410 --> 00:55:08,730
Question for the group, but I don't know.

838
00:55:08,810 --> 00:55:10,590
Sounds like voting happens for our new weekday.

839
00:55:10,870 --> 00:55:11,210
Yes.

840
00:55:11,750 --> 00:55:12,950
Two stay.

841
00:55:12,950 --> 00:55:13,570
And they did.

842
00:55:13,690 --> 00:55:14,510
Can never be a weekend.

843
00:55:15,210 --> 00:55:15,310
Yes.

844
00:55:15,310 --> 00:55:17,010
It has to be that state of the week.

845
00:55:17,770 --> 00:55:19,630
But the schools are not opening there.

846
00:55:19,810 --> 00:55:20,450
The schools are closed.

847
00:55:20,450 --> 00:55:21,530
Which we would like to change.

848
00:55:21,850 --> 00:55:22,230
Yes, we would.

849
00:55:22,530 --> 00:55:23,910
Because we don't need to go to school.

850
00:55:24,730 --> 00:55:28,330
In the past, the voting happened at the high school gym.

851
00:55:28,910 --> 00:55:30,750
So that was a PD day.

852
00:55:31,290 --> 00:55:33,970
But now the voting is happening at the rec center now that it's open.

853
00:55:34,110 --> 00:55:35,630
So we don't need to have that.

854
00:55:35,630 --> 00:55:37,590
We need to start closing today off anymore.

855
00:55:37,990 --> 00:55:38,470
Do you need to start?

856
00:55:45,540 --> 00:55:46,660
Well, yes, it is.

857
00:55:51,710 --> 00:55:52,110
But you're right.

858
00:55:52,250 --> 00:55:53,550
Like we have to.

859
00:55:54,170 --> 00:56:01,830
Nikki talks about y'all ages because I don't. I'm closer and aged to you. I'm

860
00:56:01,830 --> 00:56:08,050
old. I'm the youngest one. Wait a minute. I'm talking to that. I can't. I

861
00:56:08,050 --> 00:56:09,090
respect I get out of car.

862
00:56:14,610 --> 00:56:19,320
I'm about 18 to 20 boring girls and it's missing.

863
00:56:19,940 --> 00:56:23,020
Yeah. I know. And I don't know how to change that either.

864
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:26,000
Put it on their phone

865
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:29,580
somehow so they can do it while they're leaving work or something. Well, they're

866
00:56:29,580 --> 00:56:41,340
Also, no work ethic, they're either, so if they're not, I mean, there's no, like, I don't want to be in a dull. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing.

867
00:56:42,660 --> 00:56:50,700
When I was 18 to 24, I was busy of either working a job or college or whatever and just voting was like, yeah, I'll get to that someday.

868
00:56:51,500 --> 00:56:59,020
Yeah, I saw an interesting video about this is going to sound silly building ball sooner,

869
00:57:01,340 --> 00:57:03,320
I was kid I was building.

870
00:57:04,260 --> 00:57:11,360
And they talked about the effort involved in cutting out all the pieces and using a glue

871
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,300
and all kinds of things that are really bad for your health.

872
00:57:15,300 --> 00:57:19,500
But then you took it to the field that for a month or a month to see if it would fly.

873
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:22,060
And if it did, you did good.

874
00:57:22,220 --> 00:57:24,740
If it didn't, all you taken home would do it again.

875
00:57:24,740 --> 00:57:36,640
And all with like drones, everything is a computer such as operating with this, there's no effort, there's no reward.

876
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:40,180
It's no education.

877
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:45,300
They say that's actually earning work.

878
00:57:47,020 --> 00:57:52,520
That is a conversation that I believe strongly this morning to have a screen time in the building.

879
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:59,520
That is a big one on us, but I bet you those soldiers in Nevada would disagree with that.

880
00:58:01,510 --> 00:58:02,510
I'll sign for that.

881
00:58:02,970 --> 00:58:03,510
That school building.

882
00:58:03,510 --> 00:58:04,630
That's cool.

883
00:58:04,890 --> 00:58:05,830
That's the what?

884
00:58:06,650 --> 00:58:07,350
We're talking here.

885
00:58:08,030 --> 00:58:08,950
That's a common building.

886
00:58:09,250 --> 00:58:10,390
That's actually really good.

887
00:58:10,910 --> 00:58:11,230
Really well.

888
00:58:11,370 --> 00:58:11,910
It's interesting.

889
00:58:12,510 --> 00:58:15,030
Kids have embraced it very well.

890
00:58:16,150 --> 00:58:17,910
Really no complaints about it.

891
00:58:17,910 --> 00:58:18,430
Not for sure.

892
00:58:18,530 --> 00:58:22,210
There was more complaints from the parents than they were the kids.

893
00:58:22,650 --> 00:58:22,730
Yes.

894
00:58:22,730 --> 00:58:25,150
I think that their kids found the right to tell a couple of them.

895
00:58:25,450 --> 00:58:27,030
Yes, I can't reach my kid.

896
00:58:27,970 --> 00:58:29,070
Like, this is unfair.

897
00:58:29,630 --> 00:58:30,370
I call the office.

898
00:58:32,290 --> 00:58:33,310
Kids embraced it.

899
00:58:33,370 --> 00:58:36,410
They had an A phone at school that we could.

900
00:58:37,790 --> 00:58:38,270
Yes.

901
00:58:42,210 --> 00:58:45,810
It was also amazing for in school.

902
00:58:46,050 --> 00:58:47,610
The kids actually, let's talk to each other now.

903
00:58:47,770 --> 00:58:48,670
They're not on their phones.

904
00:58:48,670 --> 00:58:52,650
So, from my kids perspective, it was a great thing, too.

905
00:58:52,930 --> 00:58:53,930
Is actually, I read it.

906
00:58:54,030 --> 00:58:54,790
I saw a study today.

907
00:58:54,910 --> 00:58:56,710
I need to actually figure out if we're still dead,

908
00:58:56,990 --> 00:59:00,250
but I'm just saying that going to, like,

909
00:59:00,270 --> 00:59:01,770
from books, I said, a physical textbook,

910
00:59:01,970 --> 00:59:03,610
has actually been bad for attention's face.

911
00:59:03,710 --> 00:59:05,270
Yes, 1,000 percent.

912
00:59:05,430 --> 00:59:05,470
Yes, 1,000 percent.

913
00:59:05,470 --> 00:59:07,170
I mean, in that the next several years.

914
00:59:07,790 --> 00:59:08,930
That's a state thing, right?

915
00:59:09,130 --> 00:59:09,810
Like, yes.

916
00:59:09,970 --> 00:59:10,470
Yes, to do that.

917
00:59:10,810 --> 00:59:11,250
Yes, for now.

918
00:59:11,370 --> 00:59:15,490
Well, the state thing is that the state testing is...

919
00:59:15,490 --> 00:59:17,850
The state testing is on the computer.

920
00:59:18,490 --> 00:59:21,810
Personally, I think K-23, they're not going to be touching it.

921
00:59:21,810 --> 00:59:22,150
Correct.

922
00:59:22,370 --> 00:59:24,670
You should be learning how to write with each other.

923
00:59:24,670 --> 00:59:25,650
Hold a pencil.

924
00:59:26,370 --> 00:59:31,730
And reading a book and learn to write before you learn to type.

925
00:59:32,230 --> 00:59:33,750
Or learn to write in cursive.

926
00:59:33,950 --> 00:59:34,850
Well, that's...

927
00:59:35,410 --> 00:59:35,550
That's...

928
00:59:35,550 --> 00:59:36,210
My daughter...

929
00:59:36,210 --> 00:59:36,970
I mean...

930
00:59:36,970 --> 00:59:37,770
That's going.

931
00:59:38,190 --> 00:59:38,550
Really?

932
00:59:38,910 --> 00:59:40,490
It wasn't your handwriting.

933
00:59:41,270 --> 00:59:43,210
Oh, I love writing in cursive.

934
00:59:43,250 --> 00:59:45,590
My daughter actually asked if she could write her report

935
00:59:45,590 --> 00:59:50,430
by handing curse of this past year and 11th grade instead of typing on the computer and she was

936
00:59:50,430 --> 00:59:50,510
laughing.

937
00:59:50,510 --> 00:59:53,430
I didn't want you to want my teachers to be able to read it.

938
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:56,260
Yeah.

939
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:59,580
She wrote, you know, the person she looks up to.

940
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:02,680
So,

941
01:00:04,700 --> 01:00:29,660
has there been any talking, changing subject here just a little bit, but has there been any talk or discussion, long term, about enrollment, enrollment numbers, over the last say decade or two, of where we've come from, to where we are today, and where we're looking at going to be 10 or 20 years from now, and potentially, you know, are we unique in that, or is that a statewide or regional?

942
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:39,980
thing. I had had some conversations recently on county government and about revitalization

943
01:00:39,980 --> 01:00:46,780
of certain components of government. So, Sullivan County is about the size of the city

944
01:00:46,780 --> 01:00:52,400
of Concord. So, you look at what the city of Concord does with a couple of administrators

945
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:59,360
and, you know, a team of people. And what this county does with the vast number of administrators

946
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:03,640
across all aspects of government, whether schools or municipal government.

947
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:08,500
And I'm just wondering, is there any thought from here, we are having this joint meeting,

948
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:14,200
but are there similar joint meetings between Newport School and say, Claremont or Sonopy

949
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:19,900
about where their Roman numbers are, and where they're going, right, if the trends continue.

950
01:01:20,020 --> 01:01:24,520
Because I know that at one time in the mid to late 90s, we were at about 1200 students.

951
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:25,900
Where are you at now?

952
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:26,420
Told.

953
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:38,220
So if Klamon is half of that, and Son of Peace is half of that, and everyone's moving in that direction, why we're not thinking about how we can bring these things together.

954
01:01:38,980 --> 01:01:41,760
Because you think about the number of administrators we have, right?

955
01:01:42,760 --> 01:01:52,100
And the ways to save money, how we can become more efficient, and I think it really is, we're moving in that direction, in this aspect of municipal government.

956
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:58,820
I mean, you look at what's happening out west and other parts of the country, right?

957
01:01:59,040 --> 01:01:59,740
They're not.

958
01:02:00,020 --> 01:02:03,420
You know, we wouldn't have to invent a wheel, we would just have to take a wheel to be

959
01:02:03,420 --> 01:02:04,560
used well elsewhere.

960
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:09,620
And just thinking outside the box about, you know, the reality is of where we are today

961
01:02:09,620 --> 01:02:13,660
and where we are likely to be 5, 10, 15, 20 years from now.

962
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:19,140
And what discussions do we have to start having today, whether it's a CIP program, right?

963
01:02:19,140 --> 01:02:23,320
that Newport's got looking 15, 20 years down the road and what clan muscle

964
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:28,400
in that 15, 20 years down the road and other opportunities to come together on a project

965
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:30,360
that really makes sense for the communities.

966
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:38,320
I mean, I can have a great, and you said out west, Montana only has regional

967
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:46,200
high school. They don't have individual town high schools. They have a multiple six

968
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:53,000
seven town regional high schools and it's just easier and they only have three to

969
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:58,580
four superintendents and they cover those regional high schools. For good

970
01:02:58,580 --> 01:03:02,980
stuff. For good chunk of the West and Midwest it is, you know, the county government

971
01:03:02,980 --> 01:03:05,840
is the local law enforcement for the entire county.

972
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:09,480
So, you know, you think about that one aspect, right?

973
01:03:10,260 --> 01:03:13,300
So now you get a solving county with, you know,

974
01:03:13,460 --> 01:03:15,420
12 chiefs, and now we're down to one, right?

975
01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:19,840
That's 150, 180 grand, you know, a town.

976
01:03:21,300 --> 01:03:21,760
One example.

977
01:03:22,780 --> 01:03:25,700
I think there are opportunities there that are on the horizon,

978
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:28,780
and I think it would be wise if we could,

979
01:03:28,820 --> 01:03:30,700
at least look at that, see where our trends are.

980
01:03:30,700 --> 01:03:37,260
Maybe we line up with what's going on, we'll probably have thought about it, that way that starts coming true.

981
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:44,600
We say, hey, we already have a plan, and then maybe we land in the schools for the areas that have different towns, I think, the schools for the area.

982
01:03:44,900 --> 01:03:46,320
We need to be able to have a plan.

983
01:03:46,540 --> 01:03:50,560
Well, with that, is everyone wants to own the Kingdom.

984
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:51,580
Right, yeah.

985
01:03:51,860 --> 01:03:52,600
It's a go, Jeff.

986
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:54,220
I mean, a couple of decades.

987
01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:55,900
Yeah.

988
01:03:55,900 --> 01:03:56,180
Awesome.

989
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:01,120
For this one.

990
01:04:07,090 --> 01:04:07,310
Perfect.

991
01:04:22,140 --> 01:04:22,940
I

992
01:04:43,650 --> 01:04:58,080
guess that's another thing too, I don't see, I don't see, I don't see a green to a regional school district in our area.

993
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:03,340
And that being said, everybody else around Santa Pico's to care such.

994
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:06,020
And it's a totally separate county.

995
01:05:06,020 --> 01:05:15,040
So if we turned it into a regional, you're going to have a large uproar of people and

996
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:17,020
son of being.

997
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:18,940
But his funding goes.

998
01:05:21,580 --> 01:05:22,580
Who does son of being?

999
01:05:22,620 --> 01:05:23,420
What does son of being?

1000
01:05:27,740 --> 01:05:27,920
Yes.

1001
01:05:32,650 --> 01:05:33,410
There ain't no God.

1002
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:39,680
I'm just saying, like, there's a stigma, right?

1003
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:41,700
I mean, we all know there's a stigma.

1004
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:46,160
But our hand might be forced at some point with the lack of funding from the state in the

1005
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:51,900
of educating kids, just going up and up and up that we have no choice but to come together

1006
01:05:52,540 --> 01:05:53,780
and figure it out.

1007
01:05:53,820 --> 01:05:57,620
And to what Rachel and Kyle said a minute ago about enough enough, right?

1008
01:05:57,620 --> 01:05:57,780
Right.

1009
01:05:58,260 --> 01:06:04,020
The voters will come to a point where they simply cannot, another penny, you know, to when

1010
01:06:04,020 --> 01:06:07,540
we're not funding the ambulances, we'll never have had that applicable.

1011
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:14,060
That's, these are red flags that we're seeing that we've never seen before, and it's

1012
01:06:14,060 --> 01:06:17,760
It's incumbent upon us to think outside the box,

1013
01:06:17,860 --> 01:06:20,000
to think creatively about where we're

1014
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:21,480
loosely are going to be.

1015
01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:23,860
And if we sit back and wait for the state to come in

1016
01:06:23,860 --> 01:06:25,200
and have their masterful on funding,

1017
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:26,780
I think it's not going to happen.

1018
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:32,320
So what are we doing to look forward to find new creative ways

1019
01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:35,900
to fund things, to get projects done,

1020
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:38,960
whether it's our efforts with grants or educated in the public.

1021
01:06:39,340 --> 01:06:43,100
It was all small pieces, but it's a long-term planning.

1022
01:06:43,580 --> 01:06:48,800
I'm obviously not skinny thing about this, but I wonder if there's a deal to be made

1023
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:53,280
in this state legislature, this is from what I'm carrying on side is obviously

1024
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:53,840
school

1025
01:07:05,460 --> 01:07:09,920
giving schools or funding and figuring out a way to combine school districts to be more

1026
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:10,800
efficient too.

1027
01:07:24,190 --> 01:07:27,770
Financial and not all that well, but there was, I think, a virtual encounter.

1028
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:42,020
Consolidate in the school districts, 12 school districts, one for each county, and I think Manchester, and Nashville, I don't think that was a true generation.

1029
01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:54,080
Because you have to think about the trend. Jim mentioned, I mean, in 1989, care sergeant left, Sonopy left in six, I think,

1030
01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:59,780
Freud and the Leipester left a few years after that, or Leipester and Gosha left a few years after that.

1031
01:08:00,420 --> 01:08:08,320
And I think in the past 10 or 12 years, there are 30 or 40 new SAUs.

1032
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:10,120
The least 100 in the family.

1033
01:08:10,840 --> 01:08:12,780
The community is, I said, if you want to go back.

1034
01:08:13,780 --> 01:08:16,360
So the trend is, the pension is gone that way.

1035
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:18,100
It's going to have to bring it back.

1036
01:08:18,420 --> 01:08:19,860
For a month, I was talking about it.

1037
01:08:19,860 --> 01:08:25,960
main did it and it's going to uproar they were just sad school administrator districts and they

1038
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:31,120
regionalized them and they've been nothing but fights um so and it is it's the it's

1039
01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:40,300
uh I want local control and the problem is local control is local cost and it's hard hard

1040
01:08:40,300 --> 01:08:49,160
that I know Vermont was having a hard time with theirs because some kids were going to have to be on

1041
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:52,160
for like an hour in the morning to get into their high school.

1042
01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:56,420
That's to me that's a tackleable challenge that's something to be figured out.

1043
01:08:57,720 --> 01:09:01,420
But I just think there's how many best things I just start counting.

1044
01:09:03,140 --> 01:09:05,240
First, what's our just administrative budget?

1045
01:09:05,440 --> 01:09:07,160
It's about a million dollars.

1046
01:09:08,300 --> 01:09:11,660
Just make it multiply that by how many essays there are across our...

1047
01:09:12,440 --> 01:09:13,120
Step 8.

1048
01:09:14,140 --> 01:09:14,660
And then figure...

1049
01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:16,540
You can probably do that for a month.

1050
01:09:16,540 --> 01:09:27,260
I think I think we're just in the middle of the county, right?

1051
01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:28,280
It's unity program.

1052
01:09:30,540 --> 01:09:32,020
That's the newest one.

1053
01:09:32,220 --> 01:09:32,980
So eight.

1054
01:09:34,160 --> 01:09:34,900
One, two, one.

1055
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:36,140
One, two, one.

1056
01:09:36,140 --> 01:09:36,600
Coinitions.

1057
01:09:38,020 --> 01:09:38,800
Grantham is one.

1058
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:40,160
Grantham is one.

1059
01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:42,500
Seven.

1060
01:09:43,740 --> 01:09:44,060
Nine.

1061
01:09:44,480 --> 01:09:44,980
Great.

1062
01:09:44,980 --> 01:09:49,820
Just 20 is a separate ICU from Plankford, but they share a minute for your services.

1063
01:09:50,300 --> 01:09:51,820
Oh, that's what it was.

1064
01:09:51,940 --> 01:09:54,060
One is a best ICU 100, Plankford.

1065
01:09:54,460 --> 01:09:55,040
That's true.

1066
01:09:55,160 --> 01:09:58,520
Yeah, that's what I was, that's so, yeah, 9.

1067
01:09:59,220 --> 01:10:00,180
Just in Sullivan County.

1068
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:01,500
We should be controlled.

1069
01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:04,620
Yeah.

1070
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:33,720
China state bubble.

1071
01:10:40,990 --> 01:10:46,630
It also would help if we got state reps that actually knew what was going on in their town.

1072
01:10:48,780 --> 01:10:49,120
Certainly.

1073
01:10:51,450 --> 01:10:52,950
Yeah, you talked about a long bus ride.

1074
01:10:52,950 --> 01:10:54,270
I went to Curse Research.

1075
01:10:54,690 --> 01:10:55,770
I lived in Springfield.

1076
01:10:56,370 --> 01:11:00,410
It was 45 minutes, 50 minutes, one way.

1077
01:11:00,830 --> 01:11:02,970
No more than half of this country has those kind of rides.

1078
01:11:04,210 --> 01:11:05,470
Why are we in a different relationship?

1079
01:11:06,050 --> 01:11:06,170
Right.

1080
01:11:11,820 --> 01:11:13,440
I mean, I personally think I did so.

1081
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:14,560
It was my co-host.

1082
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:16,600
...intire, it's maniacs, part-shared.

1083
01:11:17,220 --> 01:11:19,600
We are out of road-w Lookant.

1084
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:21,700
Because if the rape is gone, what's going to have?

1085
01:11:21,700 --> 01:11:22,300
Sums got it.

1086
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:22,580
Right.

1087
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:25,400
Think where the world is out growing.

1088
01:11:28,060 --> 01:11:31,220
you know a state building contacts or something and people will stay there so that's where

1089
01:11:31,220 --> 01:11:31,380
there

1090
01:11:33,780 --> 01:11:35,280
come you see state raising and contact

1091
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:39,460
there's got to be some I don't know what the answer is

1092
01:11:39,460 --> 01:11:43,200
I'm not in the bottom of this but there's got to be some solution that works for the new

1093
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:48,840
age that we're in that taxes people fairly and doesn't encourage them to leave and she

1094
01:11:48,840 --> 01:11:54,450
also doesn't need a small bit of an answer I don't have an answer I'm not an expert.

1095
01:11:54,750 --> 01:12:01,250
I just want to understand why Vermont has the issues they have because look this up she wants

1096
01:12:01,250 --> 01:12:04,470
back. What is the highest tax state?

1097
01:12:06,710 --> 01:12:09,290
Is it California's number one? For

1098
01:12:09,290 --> 01:12:10,850
long, is number five.

1099
01:12:13,210 --> 01:12:14,990
And I was like, you got to get in here.

1100
01:12:15,910 --> 01:12:20,030
Because my knees rolled into here from California, and I said, how do you

1101
01:12:20,030 --> 01:12:24,790
talk about this tense? She goes deeper here, there is a California. So it was

1102
01:12:24,790 --> 01:12:29,570
nothing for her. One thing for sure, we're not going to solve the state issues

1103
01:12:29,570 --> 01:12:34,550
tonight. We all are elected to look after our community, right?

1104
01:12:34,550 --> 01:12:38,670
And these are things that we need to be doing for our community looking forward long-term,

1105
01:12:38,950 --> 01:12:39,050
right?

1106
01:12:39,050 --> 01:12:42,510
Because we cannot sit back and wait for the state to just fix it.

1107
01:12:42,550 --> 01:12:43,790
It's just not going to happen.

1108
01:12:43,970 --> 01:12:44,750
And not coming in.

1109
01:12:44,910 --> 01:12:45,590
I would like to.

1110
01:12:45,870 --> 01:12:48,490
We can't say we can't just be saying all the time.

1111
01:12:48,750 --> 01:12:51,630
Hey, we need to take all the problems because what if they don't?

1112
01:12:51,750 --> 01:12:52,950
The job is ours.

1113
01:12:53,590 --> 01:12:53,610
Yes.

1114
01:12:53,770 --> 01:12:58,050
But I think also Rachel, when it comes to public education,

1115
01:12:58,810 --> 01:13:03,590
like in bills that are trying to be passed on to see how's.

1116
01:13:03,590 --> 01:13:08,330
I would love for you to come with me and I would love to come with you when it comes to, you know,

1117
01:13:08,430 --> 01:13:14,130
certain things I have to do with the town, you know, with certain goals. That's what I do,

1118
01:13:14,390 --> 01:13:20,650
that's what I love to do. So I think collaborating on that. So you also know, you're not just reading,

1119
01:13:20,890 --> 01:13:26,610
you're actually coming down and seeing what our state reps and, you know, state senators are doing

1120
01:13:26,610 --> 01:13:33,030
down there, you know. I think it's safe to say that the past several years.

1121
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:39,040
No,

1122
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:45,160
no,

1123
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:49,800
that's a good thing to think about. Start working towards. Yeah. So I guess the next thing

1124
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:55,200
is trying to make a date for the next time to meet.

1125
01:14:07,540 --> 01:14:09,260
And I noticed there's a

1126
01:14:17,480 --> 01:14:17,720
different...

1127
01:14:17,720 --> 01:14:22,580
My understanding is that it can't because it's tied to the grant somehow. Yeah, it was tied.

1128
01:14:22,580 --> 01:14:24,440
Maybe wrong, but that's what...

1129
01:14:24,440 --> 01:14:28,440
The reason I'm bringing her up Thompson,

1130
01:14:42,790 --> 01:14:43,430
single hand,

1131
01:14:49,540 --> 01:14:50,760
who was named after him.

1132
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:06,680
I ran into his daughter, Laura Thompson, who we came to, she was wondering about that.

1133
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:14,740
And so I think, you know, the very little issue, you let the family know about the decision.

1134
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:18,880
If it is a decision, you change the name and the reason for it and such.

1135
01:15:19,500 --> 01:15:24,640
And I don't know if the original black words names around somewhere, perhaps it would change the use.

1136
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:28,140
Yeah, get to it, she lives in the gallery.

1137
01:15:28,740 --> 01:15:31,940
But, you know, pretty much.

1138
01:15:32,920 --> 01:15:35,020
The grant doesn't allow you to acknowledge history,

1139
01:15:37,300 --> 01:15:37,380
right?

1140
01:15:37,480 --> 01:15:39,220
Because they are just fooling on his prints, right?

1141
01:15:39,300 --> 01:15:40,180
Put the plaque up.

1142
01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:45,240
I'd say, I mean, it's the sort of thing we call down here,

1143
01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:47,700
whoever he conquered does this.

1144
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:49,000
It's like, hey, we want to honor

1145
01:15:51,470 --> 01:15:51,810
this.

1146
01:15:51,810 --> 01:15:54,790
Does the grant say has to be named?

1147
01:15:55,530 --> 01:15:56,090
I don't know.

1148
01:15:59,910 --> 01:16:10,270
I mean, even as something, as simple as putting a plaque on the floor, I'm saying, we just go name it, the blue tombs, with special thanks from the grant.

1149
01:16:11,830 --> 01:16:15,990
I mean, even as something as simple as putting a plaque on the floor.

1150
01:16:16,810 --> 01:16:19,890
That's, in this room is previously known as,

1151
01:16:25,410 --> 01:16:26,050
yeah.

1152
01:16:30,510 --> 01:16:39,510
Yeah, I think we can, yeah, I just, yeah, I think we can, I've already wrote it down.

1153
01:16:47,950 --> 01:16:50,230
Good point, Jeff, thank you for that.

1154
01:16:53,290 --> 01:16:55,490
Good point Jeff, thank you for that.

1155
01:16:55,790 --> 01:16:57,510
Good point Jeff, thank you for that.

1156
01:16:57,750 --> 01:17:03,150
So anything else that you guys would like to talk about?

1157
01:17:03,930 --> 01:17:03,950
Yes.

1158
01:17:05,810 --> 01:17:13,130
So, 13 or 14 years ago, the town in the school had administrative meetings.

1159
01:17:13,910 --> 01:17:16,070
It was a social gathering.

1160
01:17:16,070 --> 01:17:19,750
But it was a time when you could put it in a face to the name.

1161
01:17:19,970 --> 01:17:21,610
So I'm going to call and complain about sidewalk.

1162
01:17:21,910 --> 01:17:23,230
I know I'm talking to Chris.

1163
01:17:23,390 --> 01:17:27,690
I remember you from a cookie across the table from you.

1164
01:17:27,710 --> 01:17:30,430
I think different environments talk about things that they had.

1165
01:17:30,530 --> 01:17:35,130
And might have been actually not perfected twice versus on the school side.

1166
01:17:35,290 --> 01:17:40,070
We've got five new administrators, a couple of common faces.

1167
01:17:41,690 --> 01:17:43,190
But in new roles certainly.

1168
01:17:43,190 --> 01:17:58,390
So I talked kind of, I talked a lot about us supporting that type of meeting, probably just before school starts to third in the afternoon when everybody's still on the clock.

1169
01:17:58,610 --> 01:18:01,190
It's mandatory, it's not, I'm not going to make it.

1170
01:18:01,190 --> 01:18:08,410
kind of thing, but police and fire chief can see that the principals and vice principals are the

1171
01:18:09,570 --> 01:18:11,490
school can see who the

1172
01:18:11,490 --> 01:18:14,470
public works guys are

1173
01:18:14,470 --> 01:18:17,850
so I would encourage that and hopefully get support from the town.

1174
01:18:18,010 --> 01:18:19,250
I would say like that idea.

1175
01:18:19,490 --> 01:18:22,430
It's a great idea, punk. We have that rule top to them.

1176
01:18:24,690 --> 01:18:30,070
Also, I don't know what's been done recently, but used to be, I think, some of the teachers,

1177
01:18:30,070 --> 01:18:33,830
if someone would take in the teachers on a bus trip or on a taxi.

1178
01:18:34,550 --> 01:18:34,830
Yeah, yeah.

1179
01:18:34,830 --> 01:18:35,650
So they got to see.

1180
01:18:35,650 --> 01:18:37,030
It's part of the new teacher orientation.

1181
01:18:37,790 --> 01:18:37,890
Yeah.

1182
01:18:37,890 --> 01:18:38,930
They got to see.

1183
01:18:38,930 --> 01:18:39,250
Right.

1184
01:18:39,390 --> 01:18:40,010
The community.

1185
01:18:40,310 --> 01:18:40,570
Yeah.

1186
01:18:41,110 --> 01:18:42,310
They still do that.

1187
01:18:44,590 --> 01:18:45,750
It may be something I don't know.

1188
01:18:46,410 --> 01:18:47,650
What are your stories?

1189
01:18:48,730 --> 01:18:48,870
Yeah.

1190
01:18:49,030 --> 01:18:49,770
It is.

1191
01:18:50,150 --> 01:18:50,210
Yep.

1192
01:18:51,110 --> 01:18:51,290
Yeah.

1193
01:18:51,430 --> 01:18:54,130
The chamber is getting welcome back.

1194
01:18:54,310 --> 01:18:55,110
So they teach us.

1195
01:18:55,230 --> 01:18:55,630
Oh, nice.

1196
01:18:56,710 --> 01:18:57,350
Very nice.

1197
01:18:58,490 --> 01:18:58,670
Awesome.

1198
01:18:58,670 --> 01:18:59,610
So

1199
01:19:03,610 --> 01:19:07,890
I think that's something we can discuss and try to plan.

1200
01:19:08,390 --> 01:19:11,490
Yeah, I mean, be administrative level.

1201
01:19:11,930 --> 01:19:19,010
And we have a meeting schedule already for next week, so we can talk about that and get it on the books.

1202
01:19:19,550 --> 01:19:20,070
There we go.

1203
01:19:20,290 --> 01:19:20,470
There we go.

1204
01:19:20,470 --> 01:19:25,790
There are a few other initiatives that we do that I think would be nice to see a joint cooperation done.

1205
01:19:26,250 --> 01:19:31,550
For example, our cleanup cleanup week that we do was be nice to see.

1206
01:19:31,550 --> 01:19:39,690
The town is heavily involved, we got a couple of community members that are normally here in the audience that put in a mountain of time and energy into that.

1207
01:19:39,730 --> 01:19:48,950
But I know that our efforts could be really enhanced if we had more cooperation between the two entities in that direction.

1208
01:19:50,610 --> 01:19:57,390
That's just one of those examples that I think that there are many things that we do one or the other that, you know.

1209
01:19:57,390 --> 01:19:59,810
Is this the school district kind of table at Apple Prime?

1210
01:20:00,170 --> 01:20:01,110
Yes, we do.

1211
01:20:01,370 --> 01:20:02,070
We have it at...

1212
01:20:02,490 --> 01:20:03,910
No, we don't believe they said that.

1213
01:20:03,910 --> 01:20:05,930
We will technically check them in, yeah.

1214
01:20:06,250 --> 01:20:07,770
It's at the SAU.

1215
01:20:08,590 --> 01:20:10,010
But it's on the same day.

1216
01:20:10,030 --> 01:20:10,310
Okay.

1217
01:20:11,150 --> 01:20:13,650
Why don't we have someone for me to do the school board

1218
01:20:13,650 --> 01:20:17,330
or Administrator or someone come to our town tent and then it can be done?

1219
01:20:17,650 --> 01:20:18,010
I don't.

1220
01:20:18,210 --> 01:20:20,050
Because it's the day of last year, Apple Pie.

1221
01:20:20,650 --> 01:20:21,010
I'm done.

1222
01:20:21,050 --> 01:20:25,290
I'm just thinking stuff like that instead of us just having the town tent

1223
01:20:25,290 --> 01:20:26,730
and it was being our side of the thing.

1224
01:20:27,010 --> 01:20:29,730
The last year, you guys are buying three types of things up there.

1225
01:20:29,910 --> 01:20:31,470
They have two last years.

1226
01:20:32,090 --> 01:20:36,770
Yeah, we, so, and we give back Paxway and school supplies.

1227
01:20:37,030 --> 01:20:40,810
So, school supplies, so we have like elementary, middle school, and then high school.

1228
01:20:40,870 --> 01:20:45,190
I think it would help things to do with tapping a section of both of our meetings,

1229
01:20:46,130 --> 01:20:49,970
where obviously there are two or a time and a junior administrator pass back and forth,

1230
01:20:50,710 --> 01:20:52,550
like baby things that are going on.

1231
01:20:52,770 --> 01:20:54,930
So, during our time and age stuff, did you get to say, hey, this school district?

1232
01:20:54,930 --> 01:20:57,790
from the town or from the school section on our agenda.

1233
01:20:58,130 --> 01:21:00,090
On each other, it's appropriate to check this.

1234
01:21:00,370 --> 01:21:03,510
Yeah, maybe sometimes there's nothing, but maybe sometimes there's, you know,

1235
01:21:03,590 --> 01:21:07,030
they can issue a big event coming up that we can also say on our own.

1236
01:21:07,030 --> 01:21:08,050
Come on, at least.

1237
01:21:08,130 --> 01:21:10,990
Yeah, for a moment on both sides, so people are getting it.

1238
01:21:11,070 --> 01:21:11,350
That's enough.

1239
01:21:11,530 --> 01:21:13,890
Someone might watch your meetings but on ours, or a long time,

1240
01:21:14,090 --> 01:21:14,670
but on yours.

1241
01:21:16,230 --> 01:21:17,430
Can we go back to the Albuquerque?

1242
01:21:18,570 --> 01:21:21,270
What does it take to get a table in the group in the comment?

1243
01:21:21,930 --> 01:21:22,450
Very nice.

1244
01:21:22,850 --> 01:21:23,390
Very nice.

1245
01:21:23,390 --> 01:21:25,150
No, and you have to...

1246
01:21:25,150 --> 01:21:25,870
Here's a planning.

1247
01:21:27,430 --> 01:21:30,890
They are backed up and booked many years out.

1248
01:21:31,450 --> 01:21:33,250
We only got out of table a couple of years back.

1249
01:21:33,690 --> 01:21:38,630
They had to really work to find a space for us because it's...

1250
01:21:38,630 --> 01:21:39,110
So popular.

1251
01:21:39,130 --> 01:21:41,970
The premier event in the region in the summer.

1252
01:21:42,530 --> 01:21:44,390
So it's something that they book out.

1253
01:21:45,090 --> 01:21:47,730
The years in advance and new spots don't come up very well.

1254
01:21:48,090 --> 01:21:48,950
There's a waiting list.

1255
01:21:48,950 --> 01:21:49,070
There is a waiting list.

1256
01:21:49,210 --> 01:21:52,510
You have to apply for it and then interview and send pictures

1257
01:21:52,510 --> 01:21:58,490
of what you're set up is going to be like, and I will say that we have space at our space and

1258
01:21:58,490 --> 01:22:02,550
I'm sure you have space at your space that maybe we could share resources for the day and

1259
01:22:02,550 --> 01:22:03,630
have joint presence.

1260
01:22:04,770 --> 01:22:16,680
And I ask because the way it all started for us to be there in front of toll was not a positive

1261
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:22,000
way, and just trying to change that,

1262
01:22:24,270 --> 01:22:25,190
that if there's a way to listen.

1263
01:22:31,780 --> 01:22:38,340
And we think we're receptive to the time of having a table there to tell you it's fine to this part of our time.

1264
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:41,200
Thanks for coming.

1265
01:22:42,760 --> 01:22:52,900
Like I said, I mean, having, you know, made that table for a good many years that we have space to have a representative there.

1266
01:22:52,900 --> 01:22:59,160
And you have space to converse so that we could share resources throughout the day that you know, just about to open be that space.

1267
01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:01,340
I found a great last year while I was

1268
01:23:01,340 --> 01:23:03,680
over at your booth meeting some of the

1269
01:23:03,680 --> 01:23:05,180
administrators and the people involved

1270
01:23:05,180 --> 01:23:08,280
and putting a name, you know, my wife's

1271
01:23:08,280 --> 01:23:09,180
teaching at this, there's probably

1272
01:23:09,180 --> 01:23:11,000
good many years and to put a name with the

1273
01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:12,880
faces that I hear so much about that is

1274
01:23:12,880 --> 01:23:13,900
good things.

1275
01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:19,680
Anything else?

1276
01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:23,940
Just the next meeting. Just let's plan the next

1277
01:23:23,940 --> 01:23:26,520
the next meeting starting our budget

1278
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:28,560
earlier this year, right? A couple of weeks

1279
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:30,380
a year, but then the school is still

1280
01:23:30,380 --> 01:23:31,880
two months ahead of us.

1281
01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:36,260
We're hoping that we're starting to win.

1282
01:23:36,260 --> 01:23:38,100
Did you say next week?

1283
01:23:38,580 --> 01:23:39,840
Does it really end?

1284
01:23:40,060 --> 01:23:40,960
Yes, it's really end.

1285
01:23:41,420 --> 01:23:41,940
Honestly, yeah.

1286
01:23:41,940 --> 01:23:42,780
I don't think about it all.

1287
01:23:43,060 --> 01:23:44,580
Don't think you have to say that.

1288
01:23:45,320 --> 01:23:46,880
Officially we're starting to win the January.

1289
01:23:47,340 --> 01:23:47,760
We start.

1290
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:48,820
Board discussions.

1291
01:23:50,660 --> 01:23:52,320
I mean, we're obviously all thinking about it.

1292
01:23:52,680 --> 01:23:53,200
The administration will be starting.

1293
01:23:55,420 --> 01:23:56,300
We're obviously holidays.

1294
01:23:56,740 --> 01:23:59,720
November, December, a little rough to do extra meetings.

1295
01:24:01,620 --> 01:24:02,740
January, we have a ton of meetings.

1296
01:24:02,740 --> 01:24:04,460
But by January, I'm one, sorry.

1297
01:24:05,120 --> 01:24:06,220
Yes, we're going to wait for us, yeah.

1298
01:24:06,400 --> 01:24:08,980
I'm glad you're part of the public.

1299
01:24:09,060 --> 01:24:09,120
Yeah, we're maybe.

1300
01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:10,260
Yeah, we're part of the public.

1301
01:24:10,260 --> 01:24:11,080
That's one thing.

1302
01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:11,800
I'll just

1303
01:24:15,830 --> 01:24:17,790
talk to you about what makes sense.

1304
01:24:18,190 --> 01:24:19,190
We won't tell one

1305
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:24,100
house.

1306
01:24:25,100 --> 01:24:25,780
Talk to you about what?

1307
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:26,540
Talk to you about what?

1308
01:24:26,980 --> 01:24:29,760
So if we did, if we did,

1309
01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:31,940
last year we did our retreat in November.

1310
01:24:33,660 --> 01:24:33,860
Yeah.

1311
01:24:38,030 --> 01:24:40,710
I don't know about October would be enough time.

1312
01:24:40,870 --> 01:24:43,440
That's why it would be.

1313
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:44,780
It was the end in November.

1314
01:24:45,500 --> 01:24:49,000
It was November, I was like mid, I think.

1315
01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:55,280
It was like the 23rd, the 20th, there's something like that, because I...

1316
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:57,820
I don't rather have to look at some dates anymore.

1317
01:24:58,440 --> 01:24:59,500
Yeah, how about you?

1318
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:01,740
And it was the 22nd.

1319
01:25:02,180 --> 01:25:07,820
To see where she thinks we will be in that process if we're far enough along to have those conversations.

1320
01:25:08,300 --> 01:25:10,260
She might already have it planned out in her head and...

1321
01:25:10,260 --> 01:25:12,480
Oh, she might even have a house in the property.

1322
01:25:12,480 --> 01:25:13,980
Okay, no one can.

1323
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:15,420
I mean, it was her.

1324
01:25:16,100 --> 01:25:16,900
I mean, just to give the

1325
01:25:21,700 --> 01:25:22,120
information.

1326
01:25:22,220 --> 01:25:22,560
Yeah.

1327
01:25:23,340 --> 01:25:24,320
Reach any conclusion.

1328
01:25:31,070 --> 01:25:36,730
Well, hopefully, your hundreds of people that view and CTV are watching it right now,

1329
01:25:37,330 --> 01:25:41,070
and can see that, you know, we're starting somewhere.

1330
01:25:42,830 --> 01:25:44,150
Positive two day I don't have the population.

1331
01:25:47,850 --> 01:25:48,730
Isn't that what's the same?

1332
01:25:51,900 --> 01:25:54,580
But either way, I think definitely I think, you know,

1333
01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:57,260
probably school for the town and her.

1334
01:25:57,260 --> 01:25:58,980
Who gave really good communication?

1335
01:25:59,680 --> 01:26:00,260
Yeah, absolutely.

1336
01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:11,010
Okay, so Kyle and Rob y'all work on collaborating on a date and anything else you'd like to discuss?

1337
01:26:11,690 --> 01:26:12,650
Great, it's a good start.

1338
01:26:13,530 --> 01:26:18,710
Thank you for finally starting and doing this.

1339
01:26:18,730 --> 01:26:20,070
Yeah, thank you guys for the same.

1340
01:26:20,530 --> 01:26:24,090
So over the years, this has been a thing that we've done.

1341
01:26:24,090 --> 01:26:31,870
And some years, as Rachel pointed out, some administrations are more open to collaboration than others.

1342
01:26:32,610 --> 01:26:36,870
But this is one that I feel pretty strongly about an advocating for for a while.

1343
01:26:37,430 --> 01:26:47,090
It's important for us to get together beyond the same page and moving in the same direction and find ways to keep our budget flat.

1344
01:26:47,090 --> 01:26:54,830
Right to avoid the high peaks and the low valleys so that we can be more consistent year over year and give all of our voters

1345
01:26:54,830 --> 01:26:59,690
You know an expectation of where we're we're we're working and what we're trying to accomplish

1346
01:27:00,270 --> 01:27:02,610
So thank you

1347
01:27:02,610 --> 01:27:04,690
Anything else

1348
01:27:05,210 --> 01:27:06,970
It's like for it's first a third

1349
01:27:08,230 --> 01:27:10,470
Yeah, except for all of this we get a

1350
01:27:11,230 --> 01:27:13,350
Oh this is a temperance

1351
01:27:19,910 --> 01:27:23,090
Okay, I think we're the fourth first 14 fourth

1352
01:27:33,150 --> 01:27:36,330
I think I just heard Keith say he's going to attend the support you off.

1353
01:27:36,670 --> 01:27:37,110
Waspendor?

1354
01:27:37,310 --> 01:27:39,110
He hasn't seen the program.

1355
01:27:39,450 --> 01:27:40,330
And I was calendar.

1356
01:27:41,630 --> 01:27:42,690
Is that exactly?

1357
01:27:43,090 --> 01:27:45,610
One spot for more previous guys, don't make it.

1358
01:27:47,940 --> 01:27:49,740
I have to go send that seat.

1359
01:27:50,620 --> 01:27:51,540
See an emotion to adjourn.

1360
01:27:51,600 --> 01:27:52,380
Yeah, I say no.

1361
01:27:52,480 --> 01:27:53,380
I don't think that emotion.

1362
01:27:53,660 --> 01:27:54,420
Do I have a second?

1363
01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:55,080
Second.

1364
01:27:56,380 --> 01:27:56,980
All in favor?

1365
01:27:57,600 --> 01:27:57,880
Bye.

1366
01:27:57,880 --> 01:27:58,120
Bye.

1367
01:27:58,120 --> 01:27:59,940
Thank you.