[0:01] Next, our visitors, and we have the report from student, perhaps. Hello, it's a good to see you in here again. It's wonderful. It's a great pleasure to meet you, Angela, and Ellie. You're a good summer. You have to go to the office. Are you glad you're at? Yes, I'm here to talk to you.

[0:25] So here's the pre-score report. Welcome back to the pre-game. As you know, a pre-game that

[0:30] members grew during the summer and summer school was held with even more activity as we

[0:35] began the 2020 school year. Our wildest welcome at the summer pre-game report for all students

[0:39] in the district. They came in with their masks on and what it was to see the last patterns.

[0:44] We have trains, kittens, and medias just to make it clear.

[0:48] The Pre-K parents join the Superheroes' Whereas Mask campaigns and provide pictures on

[0:52] themselves and masks for the students to see when they add to the building on the first

[0:56] day.

[0:57] Thanks to all the parents who have their support and practice with masks wearing.

[1:01] Students use their new dust shields to take masks breaks and eat snacks so much.

[1:05] There is time for outdoor playing special classes to be on the first day.

[1:09] The Pre-K teachers are so excited to be back in the classroom singing, teaching and of course

[1:14] washing hands. The human lunch is all about me and my family's. Students will also be using

[1:21] apples to weigh in my gym during my pet activities while they're learning about school routines

[1:25] and making new friends. Three day wishes everyone a safe and healthy school year. Go wild cat.

[1:33] On this report is combined to both bottom and out group. The first day at one school in

[1:38] out group was very successful. The students were very excited to enter back into the building after

[1:42] if I didn't have lots of info.

[1:44] Suffolk eagerly started back in their own classroom environment.

[1:48] He just introduced all of her new safety protocols

[1:50] that I didn't close with her students.

[1:52] But I had to address her with personal survival

[1:54] and this result, we knew this wanted to be a challenge.

[1:57] We made it through the cooperation of parents

[1:59] and support from the staff.

[2:01] We had over 100 parents that live in 165

[2:04] a mile a day, dropping off the weekend for children.

[2:07] At lunch school, during the arrival

[2:08] are not four-year-olds employed for a course at a time,

[2:11] and not mild praise, there are five adults who are waiting five times our time,

[2:15] allowing for a better flow of childhood compared to the first day.

[2:18] We will make a few adjustments for the dismissal to improve

[2:21] the mild time takes to make the exchange of custody.

[2:24] The one and mild praise staffs are going to think

[2:26] on the facilities to drive their long-term and its staff

[2:29] for having to build a super clean and looking fantastic.

[2:40] The middle school is up to a great start.

[2:42] We are so happy to have our students back with us.

[2:45] On Monday, August 31st, we welcome our six careers in eight different cohorts for orientation

[2:51] and tours.

[2:52] The first day of school brought welcome smiles and excitement for both students and

[2:58] staff.

[2:59] Additionally, our remote learning students had an opportunity to have a meet and greet

[3:03] with their new teachers by as soon.

[3:06] The middle school is starting an instruct, train, reinforce, and remind approach to all our

[3:12] safety practices.

[3:13] Students observe to safety video outlining our new protocols, as well as plans for ongoing

[3:20] trainings. All students receive their Chromebooks today and are ready to hit the grand

[3:25] run. The high school is open for business. After months of preparation, our teachers and

[3:32] students are back in the classroom. On Monday, Ms. and Freddie and the Student Advisory

[3:37] as your council conducted a freshman orientation.

[3:40] In small groups, ninth graders

[3:42] toured the building and took part

[3:44] in a panel discussion with some upper class men.

[3:48] Later that evening, Ms. Nantredi and Ms. Lens

[3:50] held a Zoom orientation for the ninth grade parents.

[3:54] Yesterday, Mr. McGonick conducted a Zoom meeting

[3:57] with the students to review the physical distancing

[4:00] and safety protocols that have been implemented

[4:04] in the building.

[4:05] Classes took the classes of NASS and breaks outside throughout the day, today all students

[4:12] receive their new products. It's great to be back.

[4:18] Thank you very much.

[4:21] And next item is public comment. Do we have anybody here who would like to pick any comments

[4:26] or words?

[4:29] Well, I have one. And this is, we received this

[4:33] this is from Olivia first off who is a Muslim teacher and also we have

[4:39] President, she was unable to attend and wanted to have this read the week. I'm

[4:44] reaching out to you ahead of this meeting for the occasion meeting to give you some feedback

[4:49] from the Muslim teachers concerning a return in person or to in person learning in

[4:54] hopes that you'll read the statement to the rest of the board. Over the past

[4:58] several weeks it has been over the summer we have seen and heard teachers from

[5:01] other districts discussing going back to school. From the start I knew we were

[5:06] ahead of the curve for everything from teachers and students and community

[5:10] engagement to safety protocols. While everyone's emotions over the situation

[5:15] had to tighten, our admin team, Board of Ed, Aaron and fellow teachers, had risen

[5:22] to the occasion. When other districts were beginning to manage hybrid learning

[5:26] with varying degrees of success, we had been able to begin live at in person

[5:31] We are excited and happy to be back in school with our students.

[5:35] Teachers at the middle school are feeling safe with everyone

[5:38] if you're into mass wearing.

[5:40] We feel confident when we are dedicated to them.

[5:45] We feel confident when our dedicated custodial staff throughout the day

[5:51] might be down services.

[5:53] We even appreciate seeing the cleaning schedule in the bathrooms.

[5:57] By including teachers in all parts of the reopening,

[5:59] listening and responding to work and letting us wear our own masks, the administration has shown us that they are truly working with us.

[6:09] We hear teachers and other districts who live and other districts and we know that Lionel Lion has done it right.

[6:15] No day one is perfect, but this year our day one is pretty close to it because it felt like this is usual, which these days isn't always as easy to come by.

[6:25] We will gladly take the technical

[6:28] afflictions because we're back in school with our kids and they were as happy as we are to be back.

[6:34] Thank you for your time in consideration.

[6:39] Okay.

[6:40] Our next agenda item is registered reports and we'll start with being superintendent report.

[6:46] Okay.

[6:47] So we'll start with the personnel report and we continue to look at that.

[6:52] you can see we've been quite busy hiring people. We did hire a new pre-K teacher to fill that

[7:00] additional spot as was the last meeting and we it's again because everybody has said break

[7:07] to see the kids batching building. So now all of our pre-K classrooms are being used to be recall,

[7:13] the had actually built a sixth classroom when we did the renovation and anticipation of meaning that

[7:18] And now that's full.

[7:20] So that's good news.

[7:22] We've hired a number of instructional assistants

[7:23] to fill various positions.

[7:25] And as I mentioned last time, we've hired five permanent

[7:28] substitutes to a high school and one of each

[7:31] of the old entry schools to make sure that we had substitute

[7:35] should we need them if someone has to quarantine

[7:37] or be out for another reason.

[7:39] And they've already been very helpful to us.

[7:42] Majority of them are certified teachers or people who

[7:45] are looking to get certified.

[7:46] so that's been very helpful. We have a few openings still to fill. We're still looking for

[7:54] a couple of IAAs to fill positions, but I can assure you that Melissa and I are continually

[7:58] interviewing people to make sure that those positions are filled. We're always looking for substitute

[8:04] teachers so I would again remind people that our substitutes, daily rate, has gone up to $95 this

[8:12] So hopefully that will bring in some more substitute steps for us if people are out.

[8:18] We do need to hire a new transition school to career coordinator.

[8:22] Elizabeth Shabby did resigning from that position.

[8:25] And unfortunately, the school's psychologists that we hired to fill Iris position

[8:28] in the 24th year in the center school decided not to take the job in the fish.

[8:33] She was commuting from the Springfield Massachusetts and realized that just was not peaceful,

[8:38] even though it's only a two-day-old job.

[8:40] So, unfortunately, we were still looking for a school psychologist.

[8:44] What we're doing is we have at Marseille, New York.

[8:47] Our A school psychologist has an intern this year, so we're trying to use that intern

[8:53] to help fill some of those gaps and have Marseille time down here to do some additional work

[8:58] that the interns picked up for are back in high school.

[9:02] So pretty busy in terms of hiring, but I'm happy to say, as I've shared previously, that

[9:09] all of our teachers returned and to the classroom and we're ready to build for

[9:14] day one and as you heard we're very excited and very pleased with how that

[9:20] first day first couple days went. So moving on, well any questions on the

[9:27] personnel work? Okay moving on to the enrollment report. So you'll note that the

[9:34] enrollment currently is 121 students that's down slightly from the 13

[9:39] We knew a three that we had in June,

[9:41] but keep in mind, we graduated 127 seniors,

[9:45] and we only brought in 77 kindergarteners.

[9:48] So if we just stayed exactly the same,

[9:50] we would have actually lost 50 students.

[9:53] But we have instead only lost 22 students

[9:56] so that I would consider that a gain of 28 students

[10:00] for a year over a year if you look at that.

[10:03] So that's good news.

[10:04] I have shared with you in the past

[10:05] that we are getting a lot of interest

[10:06] from people who moved to the community for a number of reasons. Some claim the city,

[10:12] saying to stay here, some having the capability to work remotely, and a lot of interest from people

[10:19] who schools are not opening, or even remote learning, or I've heard in the day, or choosing to come

[10:24] here because they knew that we were going to open fully. So very positive, and that continues to

[10:31] to see more of our end items tonight is the addition of

[10:34] more tuition students, so that level of interest is still out there

[10:38] and it's still continuing to grow.

[10:42] Any questions on the enrollment report?

[10:46] Okay, now moving into the meat of my, my report,

[10:50] which I'll talk about in the reopening,

[10:52] and this is really what we wanted to focus on tonight.

[10:55] I shared with you in an email,

[10:56] and I said this publicly, a pink card.

[10:59] Our first day could not have gone any better,

[11:02] Well, it doesn't perfect as a limited notice, the majority of things went exactly as planned.

[11:09] Little things like traffic, we anticipated, and while I thought I would continue to be an issue it looks like on day two that has already started to fade away a little bit.

[11:20] If that doesn't continue to fade away, we do have some alternate plans in place to eliminate some of that traffic.

[11:26] And fortunately part about traffic is, even if we are to eliminate in a mark

[11:31] campus, all it does is push the traffic on the line to the real reality is the

[11:36] light down here underneath the bridge is what the issue is, and fortunately

[11:41] our local and state police were there today, managing that, and I think that made

[11:45] a tremendous difference. So we're going to ask that they continue to do that. We're

[11:49] also looking at the options of, I spoke to the Lyharn Academy about using the

[11:55] access really much of their property and I expect that we will get approval for that as well.

[12:02] That will only be for cars that will not be for buses and again they don't want people to think that we've

[12:07] approved that yet because we still do need their approval. That is one of the things we're considering.

[12:12] You're about to fire away the current is a part of life.

[12:15] So it has a gate on it right now. It's locked. That gate is our gate. It's on our property.

[12:21] we put it in during the construction when we built the high school and assuming

[12:26] the information which I believe you will, we will open that gate for probably at least

[12:32] that student's exit that way just to clear things out so the buses are held up.

[12:36] Because the first thing the buses were held up about 10 minutes because they just

[12:40] couldn't get out. Today they were out on time and I think again in large part because the traffic

[12:46] the line of students moving. So, that makes a tremendous difference and we'll continue to work on that.

[12:51] I was hoping with the parents, I think Stacy was telling me that, you know, things look a lot better from the parent perspective.

[12:57] So, I think that's working out. I mentioned to our staff a convocation or mantra this year is flexibility.

[13:06] And we really, all of us have done a great job. I think in being flexible, we would anticipate that with so much traffic,

[13:14] people might get upset. I did not see anybody who was angry or upset about that.

[13:18] Everybody understood that it was a process and I think everybody was pleased to see all the

[13:24] students going back to school so that certainly helped. It's funny that I mentioned the flexibility

[13:30] issue. The very first day we had teachers back, we had our congregation and normally as you know,

[13:35] we do that in the auditorium this year we decided to do it via Zoom. About 20 minutes before

[13:40] for complications to start.

[13:42] Michelle walked into my office and said to me,

[13:45] by the way, did you know Zoom's down?

[13:47] So I thought, oh, well, this is my first test

[13:49] for this school year being flexible.

[13:52] We were fortunately able to set up the Google Meet

[13:55] and we were able to have a complication and work out fine.

[13:58] But again, a good example of being flexible

[14:01] and that's things that we're gonna have to adapt to

[14:04] and adjust to and have backup plans

[14:06] and be prepared for those things.

[14:08] And so from day one, we were testing and so far it has worked out.

[14:15] Just a couple of highlights from convocation.

[14:18] We were able to recognize our teacher in the year.

[14:20] And we do have a chance to honor them.

[14:22] They come October our teacher in the year and our employee

[14:25] of the year.

[14:26] But I will let you know that John Gauss was our teacher in the year.

[14:29] And Ray Bell was our employee of the year.

[14:32] So John teaches tech and high school.

[14:35] And Ray is our security person here on this campus.

[14:37] Both wonderful, wonderful people, wonderful employees, and interestingly enough, both residents

[14:44] who have students in the system.

[14:46] So we will get a chance next week to recognize that.

[14:54] I also wanted to alert people for those who are watching online and through...

[15:00] Thank you as well about what's available on our website. We do have been sending information out to families and but we also want to make sure that people are aware that it is available on our website. So, if you look, okay? If you look up here, that's not the screen I wanted.

[15:17] This screen is what I was looking for. So, if you go to our website, this pop-up comes up and the first option is to view information on the reopening schools in the fall. You click on that that takes you directly to our reopening.

[15:30] page where you can find all sorts of things, some of which I want to highlight for example

[15:36] our daily symptom screen which is very important. All students and staff are expected to screen

[15:42] themselves before coming to the building every day, take their temperature, check to see if

[15:46] they have any new symptoms. So if you click on that the daily symptom screen will come up.

[15:50] We've also printed out stickers that are on the front of each building so every visitor has that

[15:55] And it says, you know, don't come in the building if you have any of the following.

[16:00] You have a model classroom video.

[16:02] It's that one.

[16:02] You might take down in a little bit because now that school's open, everybody knows what the classroom's look like.

[16:07] So that one's going to want me to not be using anymore.

[16:09] The fees are important as well.

[16:11] So first, the guidance for COVID-19 scenarios in the school.

[16:15] This is a decision tree that really shows you what would happen if we actually had a case.

[16:22] So this is something that Lechlight created from a random five of the state plan, which is a more detailed

[16:31] Decision tree and that is available

[16:36] Under COVID resources for families and educators

[16:39] So if you click that that takes you to the states page where they have a volume and then they have all the plans

[16:45] And then the five is the one that specifically addresses what would happen if the other case

[16:50] And again, as I've said to you before, there is no one single answer that really depends

[16:55] on the details of the situation.

[16:58] We have a lot of questions.

[16:59] I'm just going to go back up here about contact tracing.

[17:04] So we did post there was a PowerPoint put out by the Department of Public Health that does

[17:10] go into pretty significant detail on how contact tracing works, why we would implement contact

[17:16] tracing.

[17:16] It defines things like what is a case, it defines things like what is close contact, it defines contact tracing

[17:23] And it walks you through what that would look like if you were involved in an actual case

[17:29] So that's another helpful resource. And then the kind of get school learning model indicators

[17:34] That's a link to a website

[17:37] And that's where they show all the health data

[17:40] So that is the tool that we use to make the terminations and all the districts use to make determinations

[17:46] on whether we're doing in-person learning,

[17:49] whether we're doing hybrid learning

[17:50] or whether we're doing remote learning.

[17:52] And as I've said to you,

[17:53] there are a number of different factors that they look at.

[17:55] But the number one factor is the number of cases

[17:59] for 100,000 people in each county in Connecticut

[18:03] over a seven-day long average.

[18:05] Last Thursday, 11 counties percent was 0.9%.

[18:10] The cutoff to go hybrid is 10, 10 cases.

[18:15] So we were at 0.9, so that's extremely low.

[18:18] I can't remember if we were in the lowest county,

[18:20] but we were certainly in one of the lowest,

[18:23] if not the lowest.

[18:24] And that comes out every Thursday

[18:25] that's from the Department of Public Health.

[18:28] And that is available for anybody to look at.

[18:30] So that link is up there because the public

[18:33] is encouraged to go look at that.

[18:35] And then underneath that, we have all of the updates

[18:37] that we've sent out.

[18:38] So if someone says, you know what,

[18:40] I can't really get something out on August 19th,

[18:43] But I can't refine it in my email.

[18:45] Well, it's here, including all the links that we have.

[18:48] So every communication that we've sent out

[18:50] about the reopening, including building level plans,

[18:55] the district level plan are all included here.

[18:57] And this actually goes back to July 8th

[19:00] when we first came out with our first communication

[19:02] regarding this year.

[19:04] So very helpful information.

[19:07] Again, some other stuff down here

[19:08] that State Department of Ed's website,

[19:10] see guidelines are reopening plan and then we also have last year's stuff if

[19:17] you're really interested in reviewing our old communications but that and that

[19:22] goes back all the way to March when you first left school. So a lot of

[19:27] information but we want to make sure that it's readily available to the public so

[19:31] please encourage people if they have a question we are doing the same to go to our

[19:35] website because it is all there. I have also shared with you that we have developed a child care

[19:43] program for staff members and that has been running since the start of school and it has gone

[19:49] very well. We actually have quite a bit of interest from students and they have done a great job.

[19:57] They are here at center school. They are expected to follow all the same rules. We do the same

[20:02] things with them, we take them out, we give them mass breaks, they're required to bring

[20:08] their own bunch and they hit time outside to exercise and run around and they are required

[20:14] to bring their own device and they log on to whatever their school system is doing.

[20:18] We've set it up so teachers and other staff members can drop their students off where they

[20:22] need to report to work and then pick them up at the end.

[20:26] We expect that most schools in the area that are doing hybrid models anticipate switching

[20:32] need to pull in person learning sometime in October.

[20:36] So this is obviously temporary,

[20:37] but we will adjust depending on what the means are.

[20:41] And obviously that's a benefit to us

[20:42] because it allows our teachers to come back to work

[20:45] and not have to worry about getting a coverage for their kid

[20:47] or not being able to come to work

[20:49] because they can't get coverage for their kids.

[20:51] So people are very appreciative of that.

[20:53] How many of you would start to get the only few names?

[20:56] So far it's been I think the first day was about six

[21:00] and then today might have been about eight.

[21:02] The list says that's not about right,

[21:03] so it's not a huge number yet,

[21:05] but the interest level was much higher.

[21:07] The interest level, we thought you were gonna have

[21:09] about 20 on the first day, but that could be

[21:12] because not every school system has started,

[21:15] and some teachers may have said,

[21:16] or staff members may have said,

[21:18] you know, like it's not gonna come and sit there

[21:20] when they have nothing to do,

[21:21] so I'll send them to grandma's house,

[21:22] but they have something to do,

[21:24] I'll send them to the school.

[21:26] So, it is not every like Madison starts tomorrow,

[21:30] a couple other districts around here.

[21:32] The Clinton doesn't start September 16th,

[21:34] so there's a lot of different scenarios.

[21:38] But right now it's been relatively small number,

[21:41] and the ages range from three years old,

[21:44] all the way up to 18.

[21:46] I haven't got any of the 18-year-olds.

[21:48] We did that about three-year-old first day,

[21:51] so it worked out very well.

[21:56] Just a quick update on the masks.

[21:58] As you know, we do have an expectation

[22:00] that everybody in the building wear a mask,

[22:02] and I will readily admit that one of the things

[22:05] that kept us up at night was the concern

[22:07] over everybody being able to wear a mask.

[22:10] And not gone wood, that has gone incredibly well.

[22:14] There was some concern about young kids,

[22:16] where the new mask off has not been problem.

[22:19] There was some concerns about some of the older kids,

[22:22] you know, just being fined, taking their masks off has not been a problem.

[22:26] The mask piece has been perfect, we haven't had any issues with masks.

[22:32] We did purchase, we have this great idea that, and I still do think it is a good idea,

[22:38] not so great anymore, but it's a good idea to purchase clear masks so the students could

[22:47] see the teachers' mouths.

[22:48] So we went out and we blocked these masks and have them delivered here and the concept's

[22:54] great.

[22:54] If I put it on, you'll be able to see my number.

[22:57] The problem is plastic is not coarse.

[23:00] So even though they say they don't fog out, they do fog out.

[23:04] And they're also not really comfortable.

[23:07] They're not made clogged.

[23:08] They're made of some other pleather or something.

[23:11] I don't know.

[23:13] So those did not really work out too well.

[23:15] We had a couple of staff members who cut the plastic out.

[23:19] So we get back into a clock mask and we thought,

[23:21] oh, that's a great solution.

[23:22] Maybe we should go and look and see if we can find those.

[23:24] Unfortunately, even those, the same issue occurred.

[23:27] I was talking to Piri Wind the other day.

[23:29] She had made her own.

[23:30] And just because of the condensation, it drips into the mask

[23:32] and it's all wet.

[23:34] So we may have abandoned the clear mask idea.

[23:37] The other piece, too, is the heat teachers

[23:39] that I've seen are wearing them.

[23:42] Although we told teachers they didn't have to

[23:43] on the first day. We decided that wasn't going to work. The teachers that are wearing them,

[23:49] it fogs up within an hour or within 20 minutes so you can't see them out in the teachers

[23:54] mouth anyway. We've also spoken to an audiologist who suggested that it's not necessary for

[24:01] children to be able to see the teachers' mouths. So we're probably going to abandon that concept

[24:10] at the clear mass unless we can find one that somehow is clear and doesn't create that

[24:16] condensation inside the mass.

[24:18] So, yeah, there is a product that, on the phone, many factors, you know, using deferred

[24:27] machines and stuff, and I think that they're actually using a good less, that's called

[24:30] nobody, you have a craft.

[24:33] And they may have had a project, but I don't even need more.

[24:35] Yeah, that'd be good.

[24:36] We've tried a couple.

[24:37] We've tried Dawn Dishwashing.

[24:38] so we try to ring next, we've tried all mean sorts of things, and none seem to make a difference.

[24:44] It does help with people's glasses, because those are glasses sometimes are, yeah glasses

[24:48] pulled up, but it hasn't really helped with these, but yeah, if you can, if you have any solutions,

[24:53] we're open to ideas, but for now we're not going as with that. I did mention earlier the traffic,

[25:01] and as I said, that was the one struggle really the first day, but it seems that we're

[25:06] that are on day two. Other than that, transportation is on very well. It's certainly very staggered.

[25:12] And what I mean by that is we ask that families try to have to use the bus and not to use it and

[25:20] people are great about that. I was standing outside my own creek in the first day and the re-bosses

[25:25] showed up in a row with three students on each one. So I thought, wow people really listen, that's great.

[25:31] And we get some buses that had larger amounts.

[25:34] So what we're going to do over the next couple of weeks is start to evaluate some of

[25:38] those buses where we may be able to converge parents to get their kid back on because of

[25:43] three students.

[25:44] We have plenty of room to make sure that everybody's distance, but the kids, again, have been

[25:49] great about the masks and the bus about not getting up and moving around.

[25:54] Even though, again, our youngest students, and we will continue to monitor that and adjust

[26:00] is needed, but right now the buses we still are encouraging people to drive

[26:05] the weekend and as we get more information about ridership, we will adjust

[26:11] that. I can't tell you, you know, people ask you, well, how many people are

[26:15] riding compared to last year? It's not an easy question answer because we don't

[26:18] really monitor how many people ride the bus because it's not the same group

[26:21] every day. You know, you could choose to ride the bus one day and choose not to ride

[26:25] the next. So we don't track who rides the bus and who doesn't ride the bus on a

[26:29] basis so to give it comparison is not possible, but I can tell you just from my own observations

[26:34] I would say definitely less than 50% ridership as compared to previous years and in some cases

[26:42] it has set me only three students on a 72 pass through bus, it's much much lower.

[26:49] There were low learners as gone well, as Papua just saying to you because I know she's busy

[26:55] been busy in the last couple of days, there have been a couple of minor glitches, the

[26:59] biggest one, the biggest struggle with that has really been the audio. Teachers are not

[27:03] accustomed to just sitting in front of the computer and teaching, so when they're moving

[27:08] about the room, sometimes the microphone can't pick everything up. So we are doing a couple

[27:15] of things, we've got nicer cameras for each one of the classrooms, so cameras can connect

[27:19] through the smart boards, so the remote learners will be able to see my understand much wider view of the class and be able to have more access to that, but also we are looking at, we originally looked at connecting through the sound field systems.

[27:39] You would probably talk about those in every budget here and we installed those and everyone

[27:44] on our buildings.

[27:45] Unfortunately, sound field systems don't interact with computers.

[27:49] They run on an FM system versus a Bluetooth.

[27:52] So you could run a core, but you think it's probably a better investment just to buy Bluetooth headsets.

[27:57] You'd see somebody who answer his phones all day hearing.

[28:00] So we're looking to possibly purchasing those.

[28:04] So when it comes to walking around the classroom, the remote learners will be able to hear what's happened.

[28:09] in the matter where that teacher is.

[28:12] We've been very fortunate that we have found great resources in terms of getting PPE because

[28:19] I've still have two other districts who are struggling to time PPE to reopen but on

[28:26] a great job of finding us wipes and sanitizer and masks and everything else that we need

[28:35] the love and face shields and everything else that we need to make sure that we have the appropriate

[28:41] fee for CP. We also did, and I don't know if I've mentioned this last time, we installed two

[28:46] syncs, two slop syncs in each one of the cafeteria's so the students can wash their hands before

[28:53] lunch. And, you know, those probably will remain even after this, but they've just good practice to have a

[29:01] to be able to watch their hands without having to go up the bathroom and do that.

[29:05] So we have those in each one of the buildings.

[29:08] Our students at the elementary level who are eating lunch in their classrooms, we have

[29:13] desk shields.

[29:14] I think if you watched our video you saw that they have shields in front of them so that allows

[29:20] them to be able to meet without spraying any of their germs through their neighbors.

[29:26] And so for that, because going well, we've also started our sports school.

[29:30] program at the ice pool and that right now is limited for CIC guidelines to

[29:36] cohorts of 10 students at a time and just to conditioning practices. There is

[29:42] a disagreement between the CIC and the Department of Public Health as to what

[29:47] happens after September 13th regarding football and volleyball. All the other

[29:52] sports they're in agreement with so we are waiting to see what the results of

[29:56] that those ongoing discussions are that could intact her.

[30:18] We have continued to look at, what we should say, look at, we have utilized outdoor spaces for classes, and for mass breaks.

[30:28] you remember people brought that up last month and while we haven't put anything

[30:34] permanent and we certainly are looking at the possibility of installing permanent

[30:39] structures in our courtyards but for now we are utilizing outdoor areas so

[30:45] some of you are picking up your students in the middle school may have seen the

[30:48] middle school they end up on the corner of the building the other day and we

[30:53] and it's realizing the field and other things.

[30:58] On a rainy day, that makes it a little bit tougher,

[31:00] but perfect example of one of our teachers

[31:03] was looking for a place for kids to can aspirate.

[31:06] So Jim was able to walk them into a stairwell

[31:08] where they were able to separate the students,

[31:10] open the doors and take a mass break.

[31:14] So nobody was close to each other.

[31:17] So that seems to be working out well.

[31:19] And we continue to evaluate all of this.

[31:22] so I don't want anybody to go back to that idea of flexibility.

[31:26] What we're doing today, a good change tomorrow,

[31:28] a good change a week from now,

[31:30] so we're just trying to stay on top of what's happening,

[31:33] what needs to change, what needs to be adjusted.

[31:35] Again, things like the clear mask,

[31:37] we might have to abandon some of our plans.

[31:39] We may have to adjust some of our plans,

[31:41] like I mentioned, the traffic issue.

[31:43] But I think overall, there's been a general,

[31:47] overall sense, a very positive sense

[31:49] about it, everybody back in the building.

[31:51] I mean, kids are excited, their teachers are excited,

[31:54] even the parents are very excited to see their kids

[31:56] go back to school, and it's almost like a bit of a

[32:00] side relief that everybody's back, and everything

[32:04] has been going so well, so I just wanted to open it up

[32:07] to any questions that you have any about the real one.

[32:17] Hi, one question.

[32:19] In the elementary school, we're going to be assigning seats

[32:22] on the bus, on the bus.

[32:24] Yes.

[32:26] And how is, what happens when you have students

[32:29] that haven't been writing?

[32:32] And they show up to write the bus.

[32:33] I mean, like I said, that's one of the things.

[32:35] If the ridership ends in close,

[32:38] sometimes you have days when the parent is unable to take

[32:42] the checklist.

[32:44] So right now, based on the number of students that we have,

[32:47] as I said, there's not a bus out there,

[32:49] the ones that have more kids up and down that room for additional riders.

[32:53] So we could accommodate additional riders.

[32:56] Again, I think that's one of the things we're going to evaluate.

[32:58] So as we see that, if that continues to grow,

[33:01] and the assigned, you know, we have that, and the assigned seat,

[33:04] we'll have to make sure that there's a place to make,

[33:07] and I'm safely distanced from others.

[33:09] I know Jim has been back there.

[33:12] Jim and Kelly both have been tracking who's riding the bus every day,

[33:15] which is, again, something we've never done,

[33:18] I'm actually taking plus attendance to see who's on there and who's not, to show me his color code chart the other day of that so we are those are things that like I said, we've never done before but we are doing now to make sure we can address situations like that.

[33:37] Anything that I'm missing on that?

[33:39] I look to see who's going on each bus each day and then I line them up to go on the bus.

[33:46] So the children are going to get off the last or sitting in the back so they get on the

[33:53] bus that way.

[33:54] So they don't have a specific assigned seat right now.

[33:58] They will load in this and mark in such a way that they don't pass each other and simply

[34:03] sit together but other than that, everybody's got their own seat right now.

[34:06] Yeah,

[34:10] and I, you know, I haven't done that yet because we had so many things up to the first day and we were unsure of who was right in the bus.

[34:18] But that's something that we're, we're configured in our building, we have to put a plan together to have them load last stop first.

[34:32] but we haven't. We haven't got that. Our buses are so light right now and the bus

[34:38] drives have always had a sign sees pretty much on most of our buses but that's

[34:44] something that I hopefully will have by arms around by the end of the week.

[34:48] Another

[34:54] question, there was a case, a presentation, or today, a new on ventilation and the effects

[35:06] systems.

[35:08] And there is also, I would encourage people to look at the state that sets up all those

[35:13] the Dentons, they cover some really good topics,

[35:16] one of which is one of which is ventilation.

[35:22] And unfortunately, one that was particularly

[35:26] very beginning of it, but it was very interesting.

[35:28] And it is recorded, so you can also go back

[35:30] and listen to the guest, anybody?

[35:33] I don't know, does everybody get the announcements

[35:36] of those kind of things from the physician?

[35:39] Okay, we'll make sure the equipment's over there.

[35:41] So, and they also report it, so you can't make it, and I understand that.

[35:46] So you can also back it, and you can listen to it if you'd like to.

[35:49] This will affect you pretty interesting.

[35:52] Do we have any way of, kind of, I know we've set the ventilation system in that

[35:58] affects the systems for the buildings to be, to bring as much fresh air as possible.

[36:02] Do we have any way of really evaluating that, or measuring that,

[36:12] In terms of, I don't quite know what I'm asking, but I guess, I guess this is like, is there

[36:20] any way to measure how, like, how clean the air is, and then we're going to sit in classroom?

[36:26] It's like thinking about, like, my pretty close-hand level.

[36:30] It's a master thing.

[36:32] So I don't think that Ron, you can jump in here, but I don't think there's any way we're

[36:37] necessarily test the cleanliness of the year versus I think that what's

[36:42] being recommended is making sure the filters are on the regular cycle of

[36:46] maintenance, which they are. We're actually running our talk about this today.

[36:50] We are ahead of our normal schedule with the obvious reasons and they also

[36:55] recommend that each school district have their each system entirely evaluated.

[37:00] So we had in the name of this company, John Thompson, given company name.

[37:05] Connecticut control? Connecticut controls. Go through every single one of our

[37:10] units and replacing parts of the broken, no any parts needed to be replaced.

[37:17] Keep in mind our systems as we discussed that's something that we're looking

[37:21] to do a project on. So there are some dampers that weren't fully functioning that we

[37:28] fully open so they're bringing in all fresh air when we figured out we're safe and

[37:32] I'm sorry, but they are, you know, doing their work in that

[37:36] technical capacity right now.

[37:38] And we do completely, the only system that really has

[37:42] the connection where we can show the movement of air,

[37:48] the high school system, and that is set to fully flush

[37:53] the building twice a day.

[37:54] And it's also set to the maximum exchange rate available.

[37:58] and their systems just aren't modern enough to have a readout of that one year or so.

[38:07] And what kind of filters are you using?

[38:10] That was a lot of topics.

[38:11] They came up with all these different kinds of filters.

[38:13] And I will say that the gentleman who they can presentation was talking about the fact that there's a lot of selling going on.

[38:24] I can convince you that you have to have this kind of filter in order to get it out on the

[38:31] side.

[38:31] Sure.

[38:32] That Ron's talking about the MIRROR 11 filters and all that.

[38:35] Yeah.

[38:36] There's different MIRR ratings which basically the size particle they capture, but a lot

[38:40] of times if you go to a higher capture it puts a lot of strain on your system, especially

[38:45] the old ones so they won't function properly.

[38:48] But the DPH and all that research just said the precious cleanest filters are the best because

[38:53] because even the particles for COVID are so small,

[38:55] you're never gonna really capture infiltration,

[38:57] but you will capture it if it's hijacked

[38:59] to some other particle.

[39:01] So the whole biz, the higher the rating,

[39:03] the more particles you catch that may have been corrupted,

[39:07] but they really stress that we use the air

[39:09] to take us just dilution as one other facet

[39:12] like we're in masks just to make sure we have.

[39:15] So, and they're also because they're such a hard cell,

[39:17] they're hard to find, just like PPE.

[39:19] Everyone decided they want those filters.

[39:49] We do have a we have a mix from 11 is the 13 is depending on what our unit can take

[39:55] So the mass breaks are definitely appreciated,

[39:58] and if anything, it's like, wouldn't they be a little longer?

[40:00] It took a long, too long to get out of the building

[40:04] to have mass breaks.

[40:05] So it's interesting, how much they have to concentrate

[40:09] with four serious classes on Monday and study hall

[40:12] and lots of serious classes on Tuesday.

[40:14] And I have to talk to you about the whole schedule,

[40:16] but it's on the intensive day in this pre-stack

[40:20] I'll be bringing it by the end of the day, too, and I'm not 17.

[40:26] But day two, so we'll see how it goes.

[40:30] I'm going to say that I was in kindergarten.

[40:32] I was nervous.

[40:34] I was nervous about the elementary school.

[40:39] We're having more than that school day.

[40:40] I'm currently a schooler.

[40:42] And he's been so happy.

[40:50] and I was like, oh, there's this line on the bathroom.

[40:56] Like, I don't know if it's in the bathroom, but it's in like,

[41:00] that's all my fault.

[41:06] I'm going to send the other question for you.

[41:11] Thank you very much.

[41:12] This is the scene on the phone.

[41:14] Oh, gee, that's so weird.

[41:16] I'm scared.

[41:16] I don't have a question if you could on the buses and then there was an article with an

[41:23] newspaper about a shortage of bus drivers.

[41:26] Do you think that's going to be an issue?

[41:28] One's all the other districts reopen.

[41:33] Well, we are in very good standing with M&J because of the fact that we stuck by them when we had

[41:43] close last year and not everyone did so they have assured us that they will

[41:50] make sure that our runs are covered no matter what so while they're very

[41:56] well could be a shortage I think we will get first priority should you know

[42:02] if if haven't jade's in a position where they don't have enough drivers this

[42:07] has is not the first time it's been a driver shortage if you recall when the

[42:11] economy was doing very well, if I mentioned to the board, it's very hard to find bus drivers

[42:18] and we're in a similar bow now for a different reason, but so far for us it has been good.

[42:25] He certainly is something that we talked to the bus company about, but right now they

[42:30] sure as they will make sure all of our runs go as planned.

[42:35] Okay, great.

[42:39] Okay.

[42:40] Well, I'm just really, really thrilled that everything was going so well.

[42:45] I must admit, Monday night was kind of sweet, but for me too.

[42:49] I think it was for a lot of teachers and parents and other members.

[42:54] This is important.

[42:56] Oh, and you're on the news.

[42:59] I have yet to see it.

[43:00] I really am.

[43:00] I really keep texting.

[43:02] I haven't seen it.

[43:04] Yeah.

[43:04] It's very good.

[43:06] Very good.

[43:07] All right.

[43:07] So the next word of business is business management.

[43:11] That's a lot.

[43:11] It's very good.

[43:12] Okay.

[43:13] Evening everyone.

[43:14] Just taking a look at our year over here differential.

[43:17] It is a little higher than typical.

[43:19] But something to keep in mind on that.

[43:21] And contribute the majority of that.

[43:23] If you look at the debt service line.

[43:25] When we refunded our debt service last year.

[43:27] part of the savings in interest was that we moved a portion of the payment to the August

[43:32] payment.

[43:34] So and therefore we didn't carry that principle throughout the year.

[43:38] So we made a much larger debt service payment in August and we'll be moving forward until

[43:42] that debt is retired or refugged again.

[43:45] So that's really what is intruded to the differential in your year.

[43:48] Obviously, we have purchased PPE and disinfectants that we haven't purchased in previous years,

[43:54] but you know we've been pretty fortunate that overall our numbers are pretty steady and

[44:00] that service amount at the end of the year is going to be considerably less than the last

[44:06] year and also considerably less than what we would have anticipated to be having not refunded.

[44:10] So that's really the majority of of what that differential is. As far as revenues are concerned,

[44:18] We have received just over 4 million from old line and about 946,000 from line and that

[44:25] is through August 31st payments and any questions on the executive budget summer.

[44:31] You guys were so pretty early in the year, so to do a line by line and compare some, we're

[44:34] not really comparing apples to apples yet, so maybe another month or two and we'll start

[44:39] to see some evening out of those expenditures.

[44:47] Okay, hearing none on that, contingency.

[44:49] We have not spent any contingency at this year, so our balance remains at $200,000.

[44:55] I don't have any questions on that, but if there is, I'm going to take them.

[45:00] Good thing. Okay. And then just real quick, an update on our reimbursements that we spoke of last month to try to help cover some of these costs that we were expecting. E and I believe had already communicated to the board that we were a boarder granted, not that we're sure what words used with that some additional money is from the state at over $300,000. They're not just writing us a check for it. It's going to be a situation where we're going to

[45:29] to need to submit for reimbursement through mark expenses, et cetera, just like we've

[45:33] lived with the FEMA situation. That said, FEMA has put the script on us a little bit

[45:41] and we are still waiting their final determination on exactly what, if anything, they are wanting

[45:46] to cover. Last month when we spoke, they were going to cover 75% of our PPE and cleaning

[45:51] costs and now it doesn't sound like they're interested in doing anything.

[45:56] Our quarter to claim is still in, I've been told that it's been, you know, finalized,

[46:03] but I have colleagues in other parts of the state that submit a claim similar to ours

[46:09] and they were approved for about $1,500 in reimbursement on a $20,000 claim.

[46:14] So I don't have a lot of faith at this time that FEMA is going to stick to the 75% as expected,

[46:20] that they're shifting in more towards,

[46:23] they're looking to reimburse emergency PPE,

[46:26] which were not preventative PPE.

[46:29] So it looks like hospitals, et cetera, will do well,

[46:32] but it doesn't look like school districts and towns

[46:34] will be getting what they had initially expected.

[46:37] So I'll keep you up to date on that is more information

[46:41] comes and changes and et cetera.

[46:44] So any questions on any of that?

[46:46] Yes.

[46:49] Holly, this is Gene.

[46:50] I have a quick question in

[46:56] what was reported in the news, but that if it does come back,

[47:00] it does.

[47:10] Well, Gene, do you initially or on a claim, do you meet or at the end of the year when everything

[47:17] is all done?

[47:20] Because, you know, there was a report that came out of the news paper that said, here's what

[47:26] the state says they're going to get all these cameras, right, but that's not, they're

[47:33] not just writing.

[47:38] It's my understanding at this point in time that the monies I think will be treated almost

[47:43] like a grant where we request to drive down on funds like we would any of our entitlements

[47:49] that we get.

[47:51] However, there's still a lot of conversation about all of this money and the way in which

[47:57] it was allocated because when it was presented to the school districts it was presented as

[48:06] a survey of what we thought expenditures would be and then come to find out all of a sudden

[48:11] everyone got awarded these amounts and I don't think there's one district in the state

[48:16] that understood that to be as a grant application, which is kind of how it came about versus

[48:21] a survey.

[48:22] So I think there's a lot more to come on these monies too and possibly some changes in

[48:28] applications. It was before quite quickly and I'm not sure all of the details were completely

[48:36] thought out on exactly how it's going to impact. If it's like a grant it's money we can

[48:41] use but if it's like a FEMA reimbursement then that would eventually make its way back

[48:47] to the town because we can't nut those things against our budget.

[48:51] Great.

[48:51] Okay.

[48:52] So it's a work in progress that we can do flexible like everything else in here.

[48:57] Yes.

[48:57] That's a great way to put that.

[48:58] Yes.

[48:59] Thank you.

[49:02] From day to day.

[49:03] Yeah.

[49:04] I was changing.

[49:06] All right.

[49:07] Any other questions?

[49:09] Thank you.

[49:12] And this month we have no educational program.

[49:17] So we will look forward to something new next month.

[49:21] And I don't have specifically a report, two things I guess I would suggest again to look

[49:31] at the state sites because of death, those are very interesting and also if there's anything

[49:37] of the mood that you get in an outside of that in terms of programs that it was offering

[49:43] And they always record this.

[49:45] So they're always available to you at some other time.

[49:49] Some could be for them, we're interesting and useful

[49:51] than others, but they only last about an hour, so they can.

[49:55] But Kate has a lot of good information

[49:58] that they've been putting out.

[50:00] That's just a state.

[50:03] And there was specifically some things on the state

[50:05] like this, you mentioned on the contact tracing.

[50:08] And it's very detailed.

[50:10] So if you really want to dive into that, that's a big place to go and look at that.

[50:17] So we move on then to a new business and we have approval of one item, approval of those

[50:26] other reasons.

[50:27] So it's actually now students, originally it was tuition students.

[50:32] We did have one family with a broader request because they're actually considering moving here

[50:38] And we'd like to come here, but they're just ready to pay the cost at this point,

[50:47] so we do have a request for one additional student.

[50:51] The student will be a final freak and Kelly and I already spoke and we do have room for that student.

[50:58] The student has come and visited with her family and with Kelly.

[51:01] And we are recommending that they're approved.

[51:04] So, this will help our tuition student number up to 9 or 10 I close out my-

[51:11] Well, it's 9 or 4, so-

[51:13] Well, no, it's included up to 9, 9, 9, so it's 9 tuition students with this group.

[51:23] So, it's 9 here.

[51:25] That's- yeah, put it away, that was okay.

[51:28] All right, can I hear a motion to approve the tuition students request as presented?

[51:33] Thank you.

[51:34] Thank you.

[51:35] Thank you.

[51:36] Thank you.

[51:37] Any discussion on the services service request?

[51:41] You're in none.

[51:43] All in favor.

[51:43] The motion is pleased to be sent by my say aye.

[51:46] Thank you.

[51:47] Any comments?

[51:48] May.

[51:49] All right.

[51:50] Great.

[51:51] Thank you very much.

[51:51] That is true.

[51:54] And then, old business, we have the goals.

[52:00] 2020-21.

[52:02] So, if you recall last month, I asked for your feedback on concepts and as you took that feedback

[52:10] and you developed some goals as you can imagine, a lot of them are related to what's going on in the pandemic

[52:17] or in the morning and all sorts of other things.

[52:21] But just review these quickly curriculum goals to provide rigorous educational experience for students

[52:27] in all modes of instruction remote or in person because again we want to make sure this

[52:32] can adapt when change is we might have throughout the year that is in alignment with the

[52:36] ice standards and expectations of the communities we serve and like I said we felt that covered

[52:42] both any potential situation whether we're full in whether we're in hybrid or whether we're

[52:48] completely tough. Our human resource goals or goal is to provide additional support for

[52:54] staff to ensure existing and new employees have the resources necessary to perform the

[52:59] new research out by its level possible. So, some of the examples I've already shared

[53:03] tonight, purchasing the headsets with new cameras or providing daycare for their children

[53:09] and all of those I would consider as additional resources to make sure that our people can

[53:14] do the job they're paid to do and do well. Our community goal, one of the important things

[53:21] that we've really tried to focus on, especially in the beginning of the school,

[53:24] is supporting the social, emotional needs of both students and staff with emphasis

[53:29] on self-care and community responsibility during this time of uncertainty.

[53:34] Again, that idea of being responsible for the entire community.

[53:37] So, you know, wearing a mask, not just because it's going to help you with more importantly,

[53:41] it's going to help protect others so that those concepts of, you know,

[53:46] everybody being responsible for all of our health and well-being.

[53:51] Facilities is to monitor and evaluate our five-year facility safety and technology plans to

[53:58] ensure appropriate improvements and maintenance of buildings, grounds, and infrastructure

[54:02] in line with recommendations from the DPH and the CSDE because obviously there are more

[54:08] recommendations this year than they have in the past in terms of how we manage our buildings

[54:12] for both of those groups.

[54:13] And then finally our board of medical is to provide resources to support students and staff

[54:19] through a variety of different means during this time of uncertainty.

[54:24] So anything, obviously, that you need to use a group to help support our students and staff

[54:29] and ensure that they have the equipment and materials, the PPE, whatever they need to make

[54:34] sure that we can provide them with a river of syndication experience.

[54:49] Okay, I'm asking for the right-by and the message is for the 2020-21-21, just a bit cold

[54:55] rest for Sanchez.

[55:01] All right,

[55:04] so there's some discussion on that on the goals.

[55:36] I

[55:46] think they do a good job of speaking to how you meet this year is and that as you can

[55:55] to be from set throughout the entire year.

[55:57] I mean, I think one of the things we also have to realize

[56:00] is that we are going to be dealing with this,

[56:02] most likely throughout this entire school,

[56:05] here in this entire act right here.

[56:08] I'm hopefully, you know, maybe things will get better.

[56:11] Some of this will be saw in the spring.

[56:14] Maybe they're not, you don't know.

[56:16] So, we just,

[56:24] all right.

[56:25] During no other discussion, all in favor of the notion

[56:30] to approve the district goals to the public say aye.

[56:35] Aye.

[56:36] Aye.

[56:38] No opposed, nay.

[56:41] So they are approved.

[56:46] Next item is the closing of the fiscal project.

[56:52] If I can't do that, anything else?

[56:55] No.

[56:56] No.

[56:57] No, really.

[57:00] And then we have a report of the committee.

[57:03] So facilities, since we're talking, I'll let you know that he wasn't, and he's not

[57:08] here tonight.

[57:09] And the only thing that we wanted to mention was the fact that the cert is forum, which

[57:15] was scheduled for like the next few minutes, you could have been put back for a couple

[57:19] of weeks.

[57:20] And just in terms of making sure that everything can be carried as far as we're reopening.

[57:26] We have an attempt to see if we can run a library tomorrow.

[57:32] So it's on.

[57:34] It is now in McCone print.

[57:37] Thank you.

[57:42] Hello.

[57:43] Hello.

[57:45] Hi, this is your development.

[57:47] Oh, hi Joanna.

[57:48] We're not done with the regular part of the meeting yet.

[57:50] If you could just wait maybe 10 minutes, it will be all set.

[57:56] Okay thank you

[58:00] as I was saying we're meeting tomorrow to discuss that we

[58:09] felt that you know everybody's focused right now is on the opening that

[58:12] really we did we want to make sure that people are about to be focused on that

[58:16] make sure everything's up and running we want people to think we were trying to

[58:20] slide that corner and so we'll probably look at something more

[58:26] So people are more comfortable with reopening because they have to run into that kind of thing.

[58:33] So we will let you know if they can put it in at this week.

[58:38] I'm very good.

[58:40] And so I assume the finance has now had any convenings that correct you?

[58:46] That is correct, but we always keep it first.

[58:49] Right.

[58:49] Yes, we have not been on any of the facilities finance committee meeting schedule.

[58:58] There is, thank you for the first one.

[59:05] Okay, let me move on to communication and policy.

[59:10] We're having eight school students.

[59:12] And I mean, I did promise you two I would send you

[59:14] and the little busy, do another thing.

[59:18] I can't.

[59:19] I'm sorry.

[59:20] I was in trouble.

[59:21] I'm not going to worry.

[59:21] That's okay.

[59:22] I'm not so happy about you.

[59:24] Bridget is now here working in vector offices

[59:26] in the back of this room here.

[59:29] And we will have work meetings.

[59:31] We can talk about our first edition of the focus.

[59:34] I don't think there's any else in policy issues right now

[59:36] in the world, but we will certainly focus on communications.

[59:41] And we were meeting, Jean, what day the week was,

[59:45] is that still work, what day the week we were meeting?

[59:47] Yeah, it's been a long time.

[59:48] We shouldn't have had a day, we shouldn't have had a day.

[59:50] It's been a long time, it's been a long time,

[59:50] it's been a long time, it's been a long time.

[59:51] Yeah, we don't have a day, it's the week to four,

[59:53] it's the need for me, it's the time to, yeah.

[59:55] That day it was time to renew things.

[59:58] Is that correct, Jean?

[1:00:00] Or, yeah, either the week or two days before, so if you have a policy, you know, if we didn't get it all the agenda, right? Right, right. It's a two weeks before. It's so people with Wednesday and the time frame was, like, I've heard out everything from this frame.

[1:00:13] Yeah, we're saying pretty much the same things at work, we try to stick to six, six,

[1:00:18] three.

[1:00:18] Okay.

[1:00:19] And if that's a word, log in.

[1:00:22] Yes.

[1:00:22] Rigid schedule as well.

[1:00:24] Yes.

[1:00:24] That's a word.

[1:00:26] Okay.

[1:00:29] Next one is a learn.

[1:00:31] Stay with us.

[1:00:32] The board is not meeting this month.

[1:00:35] I don't know.

[1:00:36] I'm going to put the board on that.

[1:00:39] Prevention mode is in.

[1:00:40] Actually, we had a meeting this morning.

[1:00:42] Lisa McCartney and I met with our new coordinator and we're about to argue with someone who's setting up trying to figure out how he can do presentations,

[1:00:56] in this new world, and she's going to be setting up a meeting that's likely to have a meeting

[1:01:04] for some maybe, and it's trying to be situated in the schedule of the event.

[1:01:16] And the ability.

[1:01:18] I'm saying we've been not by meetings, but the next meeting is between 2nd and 4th Tuesday

[1:01:26] and in between the recycling, reduced reads, recycle, committee has been working on projects

[1:01:35] with headers, education committee, and hopefully we wanted to get something done at the beginning

[1:01:41] in the year for all students, like not a lot, that's some of the bigger input of the

[1:01:45] meetings, but we'll be throwing out, I hope to be rolling out some things to the committee

[1:01:50] for their approval and the board's approval, and I'll fill the room.

[1:01:54] Okay.

[1:01:55] Okay.

[1:01:58] The next item is correspondence.

[1:02:02] We did receive, I did not receive, but two members, I know the board, we see that anonymous

[1:02:10] this correspondence, I don't know if anybody else also received it, so Mary, you received it as well?

[1:02:15] I do.

[1:02:16] Martha, I didn't.

[1:02:17] I didn't.

[1:02:17] Well, I feel like that.

[1:02:19] I do, too.

[1:02:20] Um, so.

[1:02:22] Um, and that's it, but you know, response to particularly anonymous correspondence would be a

[1:02:28] no idea where it came from.

[1:02:29] It's from, or, you know, the committee member.

[1:02:33] But, um, it's an answer just the way of these mentioned in the correspondence and that's fine.

[1:02:38] And what that was talking about was offering early retirement packages to our teachers.

[1:02:45] And this is something that we had before just taken up on occasion in the past, maybe

[1:02:53] the last couple of years, but I think I was talking about it before.

[1:02:58] And it would be something that we would take up during budget time, that we feel that that

[1:03:04] Because basically, it is a fascinating measure for the district.

[1:03:10] So that's going to take that up very much at the time.

[1:03:13] Is it important for getting this anonymous letter in the mail?

[1:03:16] Yes.

[1:03:16] And I can pop it in the shredder like a lot of other things that I do.

[1:03:19] I was like, oh, this is first.

[1:03:20] I was curious, because I thought, oh, I didn't.

[1:03:23] I thought somebody's sending me at a time

[1:03:25] when we're opening school back up, and they're

[1:03:27] looking for cost savings ways with COVID,

[1:03:30] or increased risk to the teachers.

[1:03:33] And I was quite sure where it was coming from or why, and then I'm able to know if that could even be done.

[1:03:39] And if that would be an H-discrimination, or is that something that districts look at?

[1:03:44] What does standpoint? I'm having a nearby here, so I'm just curious.

[1:03:48] No, but it is done. And I plan on trying to look at it in the past.

[1:03:52] Not to get too deep into it right now, but there's a number of reasons why we haven't decided to do it in the past.

[1:04:03] And that time he would be, right, at such a time, we can, we can, we can, we can be able to

[1:04:09] listening, that time he is, sort of, it starts in this, January, December or, for us it

[1:04:14] would be January.

[1:04:15] So that would, that would where we would, we would ask, or we can always talk about before

[1:04:20] that, if you want to ask us to, ask the administration what to insure, but that, that's what you're

[1:04:31] We have no idea if they're even a community member, we don't know if it would be a gender

[1:04:34] issue.

[1:04:36] Thank you.

[1:04:37] Sometimes the union suggests something, and that's certainly required to bring something

[1:04:43] to the end of the discussion.

[1:04:48] All right.

[1:04:49] And then we need to go into executive session.

[1:04:53] And I need a motion to go into the tracking session, and I would like to invite the end

[1:05:01] And Melissa, can I give you a comment?

[1:05:07] Yes.

[1:05:08] Can I give you a second?

[1:05:19] Oh, okay.

[1:05:22] All right.

[1:05:25] You know, we can go to the wind.

[1:05:27] We're all in favor of going through a second.

[1:05:29] You know what I'm saying, right?

[1:05:31] All right.

[1:05:32] Any opposed?

[1:05:32] All right.

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