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Here today. I gotta get outta here. 30 seconds. Is

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it 15? Okay.

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All right. Like to call the September 15th.

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2026, a school board to order. Can I get a

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roll call?

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Maggie Larson.

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Excused, Carrie Clark, your

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Marsha brown excused.

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Excused, Kirsten Gowdy here.

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Sarah O'Brien Hart excused, crystal D Croix here.

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And Patrick KVIE here.

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And let's rise for the pledge of allegiance.

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Reliance allegiance, do the flag.

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States of America.

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I like to open the floor.

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To public comments.

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Comments? No. Okay. Seeing none.

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They're oh, yes. Thank you. Oh, are they coming up?

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I'm so excited. I was OK. Come on up.

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Okay.

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Almost got us. .

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Almost gosh.

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My gosh, I just want to.

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Note that we are a small board today, but we

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are in quorum, so that's good. And then.

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What's the wish of the board for the consent calendar.

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Move to accept the consent calendar as presented.

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Second and all in favor. Aye. Aye.

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And then

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reports committee seeing there's no student representative.

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You wanna say what

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the enrollment report. Yes. Thank you. Patrick enrollment report. Thank

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you.

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Is that superintendent, was it in the consent calendar? Oh.

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Oh, okay. So we already proved that. Perfect. Perfect.

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Thank you. I can tell you.

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I can tell you the numbers start of the year,

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about where we expect 'em to be. And what's noteworthy

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is that the early grades are solid.

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So in terms of the ongoing, you know, we don't

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always know where those numbers will lead us, but we

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do have a fair number of incoming students.

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Students. Okay. And moving on to 4.1 student representative report,

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none is here.

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But we do have some student representatives.

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Representatives. I, we have the senior representative junior class representative.

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The sophomore representative is being a may have already, that

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election may be completed, but it's happening.

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Same freshman rep would like to serve again, but there

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was a challenger and the ninth grade is picking their

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rep as well. So we'll have four representatives.

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Representatives given the pattern in the past of having moved

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from two meetings a month to once every three weeks

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is kind of the norm here.

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I had suggested to the high school principal that it'd

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be nice to have a rep here. Every meeting.

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It's only four or five times a year. So that's

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probably what we're gonna aim for. It may not be

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perfect, but that'll probably begin with the next meeting.

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Perfect. And then city council updates.

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Updates city council has not met since our last board

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meeting, so I don't have a report tonight. Okay, great.

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Thank you. And then business administrative reports.

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Yes. I did hand out an, a handout to you

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before the meeting.

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I'm giving an update on the final year end report

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for last year's financials.

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Financials. We had a total expenditure balance of just over

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$500,000.

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We also had total unanticipated revenue of $93,000.

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And then we had a small return of fund balance

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that we retained from the prior year that the city

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council allowed us to keep from the, the prior year.

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So that brings the.

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Total amount returning to the city general.

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Fund of $621,503 and 28 cents.

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Cents. So in terms of expenditures, as you know, due

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to the school care assessment, we were in basically a

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soft freeze most of the year in order to save

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money, to return to.

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The, the general fund of the city for giving us

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the 4 48 at the end of the year to pay

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off that assessment.

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The majority of the savings was in the area of

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special education. We had a lot of paraprofessional openings all

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year long. We were averaged about seven all year. We

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also.

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Had some savings and special ed transportation.

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Also contributing to the balance, the administrators in all the

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buildings at a really good job of trying to hold

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tight and being mindful of their spending.

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of.

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Really not spending the funds in her budget to have

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the, that balance at the end of the year.

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I just wanna note, typically at the end of the

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year, we would be coming to the board, trying to

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spend that balance down. We typically do our facilities upgrade.

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but because of the assessment, we weren't able to do

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that, that this year. So that's why.

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There's a bigger than normal balance there. Otherwise we would've

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tried to spend that down.

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in the areas of special ed aid.

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Preschool tuition indirect cost, which we get from our federal

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grants and CTC tuition, both coming from other districts, as

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well as the state.

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We did not get what we budgeted for Medicaid. However,

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the overages in the other areas compensated for that.

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Shortfall in Medicaid reimbursement.

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Just to note unanticipated revenue that we are not allowed

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to spend that, so that automatically gets returned to the

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city. So I just wanna point that out. That is

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not money that we can spend.

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I've submitted all the DOE 25 reports. I have them

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in front of you tonight to sign.

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Obviously we haven't been audited yet. So these balances could

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change. They don't typically change.

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But if they do I'll report back once the.

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Audit's complete. It's not up to us to determine how

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these funds are, are spent once they're returned to the

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city, the city council and the.

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Finance director determine how the, the funds are spent. Typically

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they're either put back into the general fund or sometimes

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used to offset taxes. So once the tax rate's set,

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is it.

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In October, I can report back on how those were

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utilized.

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And then in terms of this year's budget right now,

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I'm working on updating the budget with all the new

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staff and leaving staff.

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And I should have an update for you at your

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October meeting of where we stand this year with savings

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Anything else that happened.

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And that's all I have.

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For Katie? No.

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Okay. And then superintendent.

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I'll just begin by.

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Repeating a couple of things. Katie said, cuz they're important.

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And also just how utterly dismaying it is, where that

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we landed, where we did.

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The city council generally generously gave us about half of

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our budget shortfall for this past school year back in

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the couple of Springs ago.

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that was close to $500,000. They got us about halfway

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where we needed to be for the budget year. That

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just ended.

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We put $240,000.

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Towards school, school care, the city council generously.

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Match the other two-thirds of the school care.

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And it was a fair agreement that we would go

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into a soft freeze and do our best nor do

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end of year expenditures.

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So basically the

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increase that we got the generous support from the city

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council on.

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We did not get to spend any of it and

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we're returning a fair bit of it. So the year

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that wrapped up financially was hard.

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And now we're going into another year where given the

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city council's generous support of the school care, we didn't

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get anything on a 2 million shortfall.

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So I just want to be really, really clear. I've

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said this two or three times, and this will be

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the last time I say it, but that.

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At a time when stabilizing the budget was kind of

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really a high priority.

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In terms of just getting us through this bumpy stretch

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and, and, and writing the ship and figuring out a

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plan forward.

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We are now going to the second year of really

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not having what we need.

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And I think we're feeling it. I really do.

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I'm looking at two of the senior district leaders over

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there.

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Three times a day since the school year started just

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bad, hard financial difficult news staffing has been difficult folks.

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Are a little bit strained.

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We going into an important meeting tomorrow night and hopefully

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get this Nelly may grant.

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But we're, we're on skin of our teeth right now.

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I just really, really want to be clear about that

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to the folks that are watching it to the.

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School board. I just think I have an obligation.

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To share that we're continuing to do our best, but

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things have been hard.

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I, I appreciate the good work Katie did on that.

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But to not be able to use this, the combination

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of the soft phrase, we're gonna do better on special

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education budgeting, because we now have a director of student

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services and.

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First time full-time field deposition. We've been kind of stretched

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a little bit.

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But it hurt not being able to do anything at

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the end of the year on facilities.

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On potentially a second van to get us where we

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needed to be with those dollars. But we'll.

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And it's nobody's fault. It's just the way that it

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worked out, but it's been pretty difficult.

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Superintendent's report I think is pretty.

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Short, I wanted to share with everybody.

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That we will be audited. It's called a pegs audit.

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This school year.

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Special education program approval and general supervision.

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The program approval and general supervision. Part of that is

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where it gets its pegs acronym. P a G S.

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S this is through the department of education, the New Hampshire

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department of education.

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It's routine.

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Regular cyclical audit that happens about every six years. Sometimes

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it gets off schedule.

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This is our year. Our new director of student services

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is embracing it really because it's kind of at a

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time when we're coming in and, and looking hard at

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what we're doing.

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Well, and what we need to do better.

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Not because of any individuals, but just cause of stretch

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budgets.

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No district is ever 100% in compliance. So just be

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clear when I say that I'm not being flipped where

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you know, we're not a hundred percent in compliance.

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We hope we can do better and move forward with

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the resources that we have.

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But that'll be going on beginning next month and, and

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running through the spring.

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A lot of it will be done remotely and digitally,

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but we'll also have a presence from folks here from

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the department of education.

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Working, particularly with our special education staff and with Rachel.

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And, and Rachel will be eager to come to a

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school board meeting she's already slated for a special education

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presentation.

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On November 17th, which you have on your.

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Master board schedule that went out earlier.

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Not on the, the one on your agenda, but that's

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coming up. Any, any questions on that one?

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Just wanna make sure folks were aware of it.

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It is time consuming. It is some work. There will

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be some frustrations I'm sure. But.

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We are, we're looking forward to it, cuz it'll really

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kind of help us get to a good place. And

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this is the first time in several years, we've began

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the year.

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With special education and student services staffed appropriately.

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And so we're looking forward to hopefully having some good

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things come out of that.

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A quick heads up.

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That counselor Austin and the city council will be considering.

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A motion from the mayor at the next city council

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meeting on the 21st for the city of Summersworth to

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join in the Rand case.

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By joining an Amicus brief. This is the case being

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fought by Bert. I think there's seven or eight cities

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involved now.

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attempts to basically rule that the state of New Hampshire does

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not have a constant state constitutional obligation to support public

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education or.

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Fund public education, which is just an outrageous idea that

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we are now here, but almost doesn't seem to get

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the attention that it should.

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And that'll, this is another, just yet another side of

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the school board and city council working.

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Hand in hand together on important education matters.

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And the last thing I had, I was gonna mention

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some of the grant work that Stephanie Lareen has done

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to.

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Provide us some additional positions, a handful that are outside

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of our regular school budget, which are critical help from

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our title 1, 2, 3, and $4.

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And other grants that come available. I didn't get the

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update from Stephanie yet, but I'll share that in the

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future date. Just so folks are aware of it.

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And the last thing I have short of, maybe having

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a little bit of discussion about committees. If we choose

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to do it here or add it to the agenda,

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I just wanted to share a note.

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From the summer's worst city rec department.

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To the school board. We at the Summersworth recreation department

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would like to send our heartfelt thanks for allowing our

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department to use the Maplewood school facilities for.

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Our summer camp during the 2026 season.

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Being able to use this facility allowed us to offer

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our campers more enrichment opportunities as well as more time.

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At camp in years past when camp was based at

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noble Pines park, we would have to send campers home

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due to inclement weather. We did not have to do

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this during our 20.

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26 camp. We would also like to thank Jay Lilly

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and the staff at Maplewood school for helping make this

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a great summer camp. This partnership is something we hope

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we can continue.

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Into the future. And again, on behalf of our 20, 26

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summer campers and their families, we say, thank you.

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Andrew Gray and Jenny Holmes signed it on behalf of the

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rec department.

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And just remind everybody that the spirit that the school

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is board has brought to these things from the beginning,

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as these are public buildings, we will sometimes.

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Charge just for cost of staffing, something, but otherwise,

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their rec department was curious whether they'd have to.

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Pay for paper towel use during the summer. And we

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said, no, you know, we're in this together. And basically

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there are kids anyways, just in different setting. So that's

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been going.

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Well, I, I lost track. Did we want to talk

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about.

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Committees briefly here rather than add it as an agenda

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item.

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So I know we sent out.

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We can talk about it quickly if you want to,

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but we did send out.

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Already about board information and committee assignments.

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I haven't heard back from everyone. So I think that

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we're still waiting.

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To hear it back from all the board members.

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But we did want to highlight.

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Personnel in and in negotiations committee with John Shay being

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the admin team, leading the, the negotiation.

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Process and updates will just come.

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To the board as it happens, cuz we're so short

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staffed now.

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And then I believe the rest are staying.

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As they are with one change being the budget and

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finance committee.

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Was gonna be chaired by Kirsten Gowdy.

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And crystal be St. Croix.

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And then just kind of combine those two.

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If I think that's all it.

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It's currently.

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And so I hear back from all the school members,

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what we're doing.

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Is that what we all agree currently. Okay.

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I'll I'll I'll stress. Whether we have seven school board

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members, eight school board members, or nine school board members.

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Far and away right now, the policy committee, which is

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always a lot of work mm-hmm is, is on

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steroids right now because of what's happening at the state.

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And.

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We have our assistant superintendent on that, but that is

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big mm-hmm and requires significant and thoughtful participation from

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the school board.

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Personnel and negotiations, which

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is oftentimes an easy committee.

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Is probably at the very top of the list from

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now through the spring, because all three collective bargaining agreements

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are under negotiation. So.

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Strategizing thoughtfully about how we best support our teachers empower

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educators.

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Educators and set ourselves up for the strategic plan is

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huge.

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And budget and finance.

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Which is also typically a normal process is no longer

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a normal process because of the tax cap.

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Legislation that's before us requirements to figure out SA U

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piece of this beforehand things we had done in the

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past with Rollinsford.

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So those three committees, which are really the bread and

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butter of the board to begin with for various reasons

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are all.

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Escalated. And I it's doable with seven school board members.

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It's doable with eight, it's doable with nine, but I

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just really, really want to stress that.

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That it's gonna be a big, thank you. Mm-hmm .

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And just to be clear, those committee chairs like budgets.

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With budget being the one off.

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Will save the same. Marsha will still be.

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Committee chair a policy and then.

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I think that budget

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what a business, what is it called? Hold on.

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Budget and finance budget revenue.

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Budget and financial. Right. But then.

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We'll merge together with

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facilities you mean facilities?

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Correct. Okay. Got it. We all kind of, I think

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that'd be helpful.

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Right. Okay. And then

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so moving on from there. I just wanna say a

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quick, like,

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recap of what you had mentioned. Thank you for all

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of your work of the admin team and.

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You yourself this summer.

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I mean, it's you guys have done an amazing amount

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of work going forward.

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In the past ending committee updates currently, I don't think

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we have anything other than.

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We have policy.

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Correct. And then I think that's one that's met, but.

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We did have a meeting and we'll be presenting our

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policy.

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Readings later in the agenda. So I don't know that

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there's anything else to report at this time, other than

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what will go.

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When we do our policy readings.

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Ratings. Okay. And moving on to the presentation for tonight.

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Your slide. So let me know when .

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This is the brief presentation that we tabled from last

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meeting, feeling that we already had a lot in a

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shorter meeting and we.

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Got a small audience here tonight, but just basically some

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important reminders of how things fit together at the beginning

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of the school year.

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Without going super in depth. If there's pieces of this,

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you wanna.

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Talk about in greater depth. That'd be fine.

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So after this wonderful introductory slide called direction forward, there's

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just four slides about where we are and what we're

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doing.

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Thank you ready? Yes, .

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The

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you can tell Melanie helped me with these. Otherwise it'd

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be even, it'd be much more boring than that.

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the hill topper promise.

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Reminder. There's a lot of things in motion right now

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with the strategic plan and the, and the mayor's commission,

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the hill topper promise doesn't change.

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This is our north star. This is our guiding document.

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This is we're committed to forever.

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Until such times that the board may choose to revisit

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any aspects of this.

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But this is the, non-negotiable the introductory statement about who

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we are and that we value the diversity of our

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community, including everybody. And that.

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Equitable opportunity is essential to who we are.

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It states that in Summersworth we report to the Summersworth

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community and Summersworth values and Summersworth decisions are what guide

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us.

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Yes, we have to abide by federal and state regulations

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and laws, but first and foremost, it's about Summersworth and

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we will push back as we have in the past.

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And fight things, whether they come from the federal level

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or the state level that are not in line with

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who we are and what we care about.

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It establishes the three purposes of education that as we

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look at the strategic plan and the work we're doing

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to have a vertically aligned pre-K.

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pre-K through high school graduation, coherent curricular framework. So that.

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If all of our teachers move to another state tomorrow

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and we hired a whole nother group of teachers, there

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would be a curriculum here and in front of them.

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And it's here. It's, it's an important piece to have.

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We've had bits and pieces of it in the past.

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It's no fault of our.

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Principles or building leaders. It just hasn't been prioritized in

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the past at the district level.

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This is underway. This is a two or three year

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type project. It has begun in earnest, similar language, similar

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little framework, all the way from pre-K.

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pre-K through high school graduation, but the focus.

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Will hone in on the three purposes of why we're

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educating our kids.

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Number one, and this is kind of that second tier

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there.

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To prepare for meaningful and fulfilling work in our economy

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and to participate, to both define personal fulfillment and to

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contribute to.

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Our economic good second and parallel. This is not an

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order of priority. And this one is generally missed by

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most school districts.

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Districts equal to that. Finding a meaningful and fulfilling career

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is meaningful and fulfilling participation in civic life.

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Which arguably is fundamental as everybody here knows serving on

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this school board.

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To what it means to be a part of a

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community and a healthy contributing member of society.

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And it's also critical to the vibrancy and future of

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our democracy.

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And the third one is the one you always hear

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from parents about those basic life essential skills.

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And they're really about everything connected to home ownership or

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renting finance.

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Tech all the basics, automotive transportation, just kind of make

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sure those skill sets. And if.

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If who doesn't have anything to do with those three

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things, it shouldn't be in our curriculum and we shouldn't

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be doing it because we got, we need to hone

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in on those things.

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Five key skill sets are pretty obvious.

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Those are the things beyond the purpose of what we're

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really gonna focus on.

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Literacy math, higher order thinking skills, including executive function.

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Interpersonal skills and habits like collaboration and leadership and technology

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skills. Last on the list.

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For a reason because that's not the end all and

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the be all in this world, you need to understand

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them, but we need to start embracing healthier views of

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what that entail.

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Entails the five core values to the right will replace

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or be integrated with a lot of the language we

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used across our schools. It wasn't always consistent and including.

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With P B I S.

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And I, and I hope we get to a place

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where everybody on the school board knows these.

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You begin with integrity, you know, that's a good starting

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place. It's it's.

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It's something you don't compromise ever in my opinion. And

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a lot of folks would agree with that.

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Then number two, you look around you. Kindness, compassion.

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Number three, not just kindness and compassion for some people.

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But for everybody, inclusion, doesn't matter where folks are from

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that, that step. You get all those things in place

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and you work hard and you're responsible. And you do

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the things you say, you.

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You're gonna do and you show up and you don't

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give up. That's the fourth. And number five in order

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to do all this stuff, you gotta take care of

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yourself.

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You gotta take care of yourself and to kind of

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build that as a critical value.

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And we want to engrain that. And we, this all

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played out last year, but now all of our building

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principles and leadership teams across the school are looking to

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00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:12,867
integrate.

517
00:25:13,333 --> 00:25:15,367
This language and this dynamic into everything that we do.

518
00:25:16,166 --> 00:25:18,100
So we just have a tight, tight focus. That's more

519
00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:19,367
likely to get these things done.

520
00:25:20,367 --> 00:25:22,367
And then all of this as we've discussed is on

521
00:25:22,367 --> 00:25:23,734
a foundation of purposefulness.

522
00:25:24,567 --> 00:25:26,734
Kids need to show up every day for a reason.

523
00:25:27,834 --> 00:25:29,500
They get it. They're here for a reason and they

524
00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:33,634
understand that. And, and a foundational element of joy underneath

525
00:25:33,634 --> 00:25:35,500
that. Yes, they work hard.

526
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,066
You think about that might sound soft to a lot

527
00:25:38,066 --> 00:25:40,433
of folks, but some of our best experience, whether it's

528
00:25:40,433 --> 00:25:43,100
as a, a musician and all the practice that went

529
00:25:43,133 --> 00:25:43,500
into that.

530
00:25:44,367 --> 00:25:47,333
Or doing a project in a particular class or in

531
00:25:47,567 --> 00:25:49,433
athletics, it's really hard work.

532
00:25:50,467 --> 00:25:51,634
But at the end of the day, there's a certain

533
00:25:51,634 --> 00:25:54,066
satisfaction of it that kind of stretches into that, that

534
00:25:54,066 --> 00:25:56,567
element of joy and winning and working with others.

535
00:25:57,533 --> 00:26:00,133
That is our guide and less than until we choose

536
00:26:00,133 --> 00:26:02,567
to revisit everything that follows is aimed at that.

537
00:26:04,166 --> 00:26:04,300
Next slide.

538
00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:11,634
On October 27th, two school board meetings away, we will do

539
00:26:11,667 --> 00:26:14,033
a mockup of our four key performance measures.

540
00:26:14,867 --> 00:26:16,367
Measures just as our first take on what these look

541
00:26:16,367 --> 00:26:16,634
like.

542
00:26:18,166 --> 00:26:20,367
We do not have a data system to support doing

543
00:26:20,367 --> 00:26:23,300
this easily. We're not using that as an excuse. It

544
00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:25,734
just makes this tricky, but we'll do in October.

545
00:26:26,100 --> 00:26:27,433
27th school board.

546
00:26:28,166 --> 00:26:31,033
Mock-up we also have summers with middle school presenting that

547
00:26:31,033 --> 00:26:33,033
board meeting. So it'll be the middle school and this.

548
00:26:34,500 --> 00:26:36,500
But this is number one. Sorry. I know that's hard

549
00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:38,834
to read, but we know it. It's presence showing up

550
00:26:38,834 --> 00:26:41,100
attendance at the top of the list. You can't do

551
00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:42,066
anything if you're not here.

552
00:26:42,300 --> 00:26:44,734
Number two is climate and culture. We have, we don't

553
00:26:44,734 --> 00:26:47,266
have a thousand indicators for climate and culture, nor do

554
00:26:47,266 --> 00:26:49,033
we have one we have about seven or eight.

555
00:26:50,100 --> 00:26:52,100
And we'll run through those and we've kind of want

556
00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:53,667
to really get to a green, yellow, red kind of

557
00:26:53,667 --> 00:26:54,000
mindset.

558
00:26:54,867 --> 00:26:57,734
These indicators are good. These indicators in between these are

559
00:26:57,767 --> 00:26:59,734
on red, high alert ones that we're looking for.

560
00:27:00,667 --> 00:27:01,867
Third is learning.

561
00:27:03,066 --> 00:27:05,834
We'll do a little bit on this on October 27th, but

562
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,734
Kat will do a lot on it at the next

563
00:27:07,734 --> 00:27:09,634
school board meeting. Cause that's kind of a presentation and

564
00:27:09,634 --> 00:27:10,033
of itself.

565
00:27:11,066 --> 00:27:13,066
And fourth is okay, you get all this stuff, right?

566
00:27:13,066 --> 00:27:14,433
Where do our kids go after they graduate?

567
00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:17,533
Do they have a plan? Are they satisfied with the

568
00:27:17,533 --> 00:27:19,867
plan and statistically tell us where they're going.

569
00:27:20,767 --> 00:27:23,066
There is no magic formula to X percent should be

570
00:27:23,066 --> 00:27:25,066
going to four year colleges, X percent should be going

571
00:27:25,066 --> 00:27:28,066
to technical schools, but we'll track where they're going. But

572
00:27:28,066 --> 00:27:28,767
most importantly, we.

573
00:27:29,133 --> 00:27:32,100
Want 100% in a school district, our size 100% of

574
00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:34,767
students saying I have a plan and I'm satisfied with

575
00:27:34,767 --> 00:27:35,000
it.

576
00:27:35,834 --> 00:27:37,533
And by checking in with 'em six months and a

577
00:27:37,533 --> 00:27:40,066
year before I graduation, if they're not there, we, we

578
00:27:40,066 --> 00:27:40,767
should get 'em there.

579
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,066
This is also

580
00:27:43,834 --> 00:27:46,500
Rox solid non-negotiable we're moving everything else around to deliver.

581
00:27:47,233 --> 00:27:48,367
On these four key performance measures.

582
00:27:49,533 --> 00:27:51,100
Measures, which are the best thing we've got as a

583
00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:52,100
proxy to the hill topper.

584
00:27:53,133 --> 00:27:56,000
Promise. It's not a perfect overlap, but generally the things

585
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,066
we care about in terms of who our graduates are.

586
00:27:58,867 --> 00:28:00,900
Are difficult to measure. You mostly wanna know that 25

587
00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:01,433
years from now.

588
00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:05,100
They're a happy, contributing human being. And that's a little

589
00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:07,066
bit difficult, but I think this is the best. We've

590
00:28:07,066 --> 00:28:09,667
got a lot of participation on this. This went through

591
00:28:09,667 --> 00:28:10,266
the school board and.

592
00:28:10,667 --> 00:28:14,033
Was approved last October, shortly after the hill topper promise.

593
00:28:15,367 --> 00:28:17,000
And we'll measure lots of other stuff.

594
00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:20,000
But I would argue that most school districts.

595
00:28:20,934 --> 00:28:23,166
Districts don't prioritize what the most important measures are.

596
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,300
And it's easy to bury lots of things or highlight

597
00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:27,533
lots of things or.

598
00:28:28,567 --> 00:28:32,033
Flood the public with a bazillion different statistics. We want

599
00:28:32,033 --> 00:28:33,300
to be responsible for these.

600
00:28:34,333 --> 00:28:37,000
When we succeed and when we come up short and,

601
00:28:37,033 --> 00:28:39,266
and we'd like the community to hold us responsible for

602
00:28:39,266 --> 00:28:42,333
these. So those are the, the things that.

603
00:28:42,667 --> 00:28:44,166
Are in place. The next thing is our strategic plan.

604
00:28:45,834 --> 00:28:48,166
Which we would continued now, now as an E with

605
00:28:48,166 --> 00:28:49,567
the thing over it on front of it, that's a

606
00:28:49,567 --> 00:28:53,033
new addition. those were a little, those were little.

607
00:28:53,533 --> 00:28:57,066
Bullets earlier. That's okay. Don't be confused by those .

608
00:28:59,166 --> 00:29:01,000
This is an eight and a half page document. That

609
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,000
is almost a tighten up two page document.

610
00:29:03,834 --> 00:29:06,000
That as part of the Nelly may grant that we're

611
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:06,367
applying for.

612
00:29:07,233 --> 00:29:10,033
On Friday, we'll kind of be incorporated in there in

613
00:29:10,066 --> 00:29:12,033
a way that fits pretty well. I just really want

614
00:29:12,033 --> 00:29:12,567
to stress.

615
00:29:13,333 --> 00:29:16,533
That the health topper strategic plan five year plan.

616
00:29:17,533 --> 00:29:21,066
Is about improving significantly improving the school system, as we

617
00:29:21,066 --> 00:29:23,767
know it, which is different than rethinking and redesigning the

618
00:29:23,767 --> 00:29:25,300
school system. So this is the.

619
00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:28,266
Hard work, curriculum instruction. Assessment is the top of the

620
00:29:28,266 --> 00:29:28,500
list.

621
00:29:29,333 --> 00:29:30,533
We've already piloted.

622
00:29:31,634 --> 00:29:34,166
And chose iReady as our.

623
00:29:35,066 --> 00:29:38,367
Main assessment across the district from the early elementary, all

624
00:29:38,367 --> 00:29:40,500
the way through 10th grade to know how we're doing

625
00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:41,433
in math and literacy.

626
00:29:42,467 --> 00:29:43,900
And you'll hear a little bit about that from me

627
00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:46,433
at the late October meeting and a lot more from

628
00:29:46,634 --> 00:29:46,867
Kat.

629
00:29:48,166 --> 00:29:50,367
That that was huge in picking that one and settling

630
00:29:50,367 --> 00:29:53,033
on it. We now are rolling out a math curriculum.

631
00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:57,433
We're piloting three different math curriculum curricula, and we'll be

632
00:29:57,567 --> 00:29:59,900
choosing this year and determining how we wanna move forward

633
00:30:00,033 --> 00:30:01,900
on that one. We're making.

634
00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:04,333
Progress on literacy and we have been making progress on

635
00:30:04,567 --> 00:30:06,333
literacy and we have a plan on literacy.

636
00:30:07,433 --> 00:30:09,300
But at the moment math has been done.

637
00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:13,066
SP, you know, good things happening, but without any coherence

638
00:30:13,066 --> 00:30:14,066
across the district,

639
00:30:15,100 --> 00:30:16,667
so that piece of it is huge.

640
00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:22,033
Assessment consistency of language and grading and reporting that is

641
00:30:22,033 --> 00:30:24,533
valid and reliable. That is all on the table. So

642
00:30:24,533 --> 00:30:25,500
there's a lot happening.

643
00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:29,000
There's enough right there to keep everybody busy.

644
00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:32,367
Without the rest of the strategic plan and without the

645
00:30:32,367 --> 00:30:33,100
mayor's commission.

646
00:30:34,667 --> 00:30:38,033
Health wellbeing and enrichment. We are in crisis in terms

647
00:30:38,033 --> 00:30:40,333
of the number of students that report suicidal ideation each

648
00:30:40,367 --> 00:30:40,634
day.

649
00:30:42,066 --> 00:30:44,734
D C Y F involvement and all kinds of things

650
00:30:44,734 --> 00:30:47,100
happening. We have kids that arrive at school well fed

651
00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:49,033
and ready to learn, but we have large numbers of

652
00:30:49,033 --> 00:30:49,066
kids.

653
00:30:50,100 --> 00:30:53,000
That are struggling and are struggling with their mental wellbeing.

654
00:30:53,066 --> 00:30:55,133
And all of this is typical.

655
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,734
Of other schools as well.

656
00:30:58,667 --> 00:31:01,033
That doesn't mean we sit back, we need to address

657
00:31:01,033 --> 00:31:03,166
it. So we're doing what we can there. And we're

658
00:31:03,166 --> 00:31:04,500
trying to, this is all about.

659
00:31:05,333 --> 00:31:07,900
Broader mental health and programming and counseling. And.

660
00:31:08,934 --> 00:31:11,100
The plan is also to involve more partnerships.

661
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,767
Throughout the city, but that's gonna take some more, an

662
00:31:14,767 --> 00:31:18,033
additional grant work. Climate and culture has been a huge

663
00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:19,533
priority since day one.

664
00:31:20,367 --> 00:31:22,000
The district had been through some tumultuous years.

665
00:31:23,634 --> 00:31:25,867
And we're doing our best in that regard to both

666
00:31:26,066 --> 00:31:28,567
measure and hone in on climate and culture.

667
00:31:29,767 --> 00:31:31,000
I would suggest that the.

668
00:31:32,033 --> 00:31:34,500
Key to good climate and culture is to have 50,

669
00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:36,066
50 equal balance of.

670
00:31:37,133 --> 00:31:40,066
Clear high rigorous expectations that are well communicated.

671
00:31:40,934 --> 00:31:42,100
And a supportive, caring community.

672
00:31:43,066 --> 00:31:45,066
Not too much of either one, but exactly down the

673
00:31:45,066 --> 00:31:46,500
middle. We continue to work at that.

674
00:31:47,667 --> 00:31:50,433
Strategic budgeting, both how we spend our money measuring three

675
00:31:50,433 --> 00:31:52,767
years out and kind of building some cycles, not just

676
00:31:52,767 --> 00:31:55,000
for the capital improvement plans, but.

677
00:31:55,634 --> 00:31:56,333
Looking hard at that.

678
00:31:57,900 --> 00:32:01,033
Staffing and consistency and, and clarity of human resource policies

679
00:32:01,033 --> 00:32:02,266
and practices. We are.

680
00:32:03,233 --> 00:32:04,834
We're not where we ought to be. Just in terms

681
00:32:04,834 --> 00:32:05,133
of having.

682
00:32:06,100 --> 00:32:10,000
Clear consistent well-communicated policies, documents, and practices, and we're working

683
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:10,300
on that.

684
00:32:11,533 --> 00:32:15,000
Technology two years ago, you know, getting us to where

685
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,500
we need to be in terms of infrastructure and devices

686
00:32:17,533 --> 00:32:19,133
for kids. Not that they live on them.

687
00:32:19,634 --> 00:32:22,300
But they need them. We've made huge progress on that

688
00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:22,867
one already.

689
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,166
Data systems are still weak and that remains a huge

690
00:32:27,567 --> 00:32:27,767
priority.

691
00:32:28,667 --> 00:32:31,367
Facility security and safety is ongoing. And what.

692
00:32:32,367 --> 00:32:33,133
Just happened, unfortunately, with

693
00:32:34,667 --> 00:32:37,100
returning the money that we're returning to the city this

694
00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:39,567
year, those are all it would've been good to have

695
00:32:39,567 --> 00:32:41,066
two or 300,000 of those dollars.

696
00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:44,000
For facilities projects as we have in the past.

697
00:32:45,467 --> 00:32:48,266
Part of the strategic plan from the beginning was the

698
00:32:48,266 --> 00:32:50,734
collective bargaining agreements, which are now all aligned.

699
00:32:51,634 --> 00:32:53,734
And doing our very, very best to provide good salary

700
00:32:53,734 --> 00:32:56,767
and good benefits for our teachers, but also doing our

701
00:32:56,767 --> 00:32:59,066
very, very best to put more flexibility in the collective

702
00:32:59,066 --> 00:32:59,500
bargaining.

703
00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:02,100
Agreements so that as we move forward with strategic direction,

704
00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:03,100
we have that flexibility.

705
00:33:05,433 --> 00:33:07,834
The last one on the list, we've done close to

706
00:33:07,834 --> 00:33:09,100
nothing on and.

707
00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:11,900
That's not anybody's fault, but this is a pretty full

708
00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:12,033
list.

709
00:33:14,367 --> 00:33:18,100
A lot of school districts throughout the country have professional

710
00:33:18,100 --> 00:33:20,500
communications directors at the district level.

711
00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:24,533
Even districts are size. It is so far from even

712
00:33:24,533 --> 00:33:26,266
in the next 10 things we would ask for.

713
00:33:27,066 --> 00:33:30,533
With funding, but because of things like education, freedom accounts,

714
00:33:30,767 --> 00:33:31,367
and because.

715
00:33:32,166 --> 00:33:35,066
Deliberate efforts to demean and.

716
00:33:35,834 --> 00:33:39,367
Attack public education over the last 10, 15, 20 years are working.

717
00:33:40,634 --> 00:33:43,166
To better communicate and strategically communicate.

718
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,667
Who we are, what we do a powerful website.

719
00:33:47,634 --> 00:33:50,367
A powerful social media campaign would be helpful.

720
00:33:51,667 --> 00:33:54,634
But it's just not, it's one of those things, as

721
00:33:54,634 --> 00:33:56,900
I say, circling the airport and there's no room on

722
00:33:56,900 --> 00:33:58,433
the, it hasn't many room on the runway for quite

723
00:33:58,433 --> 00:33:59,333
some time. Our ability to.

724
00:33:59,834 --> 00:34:01,033
Bring it down, but that was last.

725
00:34:02,133 --> 00:34:04,500
And that's the strategic plan that we've been looking at

726
00:34:04,867 --> 00:34:06,634
and has been in place for about a year and

727
00:34:06,634 --> 00:34:07,033
a half.

728
00:34:07,834 --> 00:34:11,166
As we move forward, hopefully with a Nelly may grant

729
00:34:11,634 --> 00:34:14,066
and a few more grants, we will begin to figure

730
00:34:14,066 --> 00:34:15,033
out which of these things.

731
00:34:15,834 --> 00:34:17,133
Rise to the top and we can make happening.

732
00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:19,767
So they're not all circling the airport.

733
00:34:20,567 --> 00:34:22,100
What we've done so far is pretty impressive.

734
00:34:23,066 --> 00:34:24,367
Trying to land them all at once.

735
00:34:25,333 --> 00:34:27,634
Would not be good. And I think we push we're

736
00:34:27,634 --> 00:34:30,300
pushing ourselves in that regard. And we've had a few

737
00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:32,734
crashes, but we're doing our best to kind of make

738
00:34:32,734 --> 00:34:33,266
this make.

739
00:34:33,700 --> 00:34:37,066
This work. So that's the strategic plan. There's nothing crazy.

740
00:34:37,066 --> 00:34:39,767
There. There's nothing radical. There there's nothing that would have

741
00:34:39,767 --> 00:34:40,900
the community going. Whoa.

742
00:34:41,734 --> 00:34:44,533
You have a social media strategy, you have a better

743
00:34:44,533 --> 00:34:48,066
website. You know, you have a math curriculum. This is

744
00:34:48,066 --> 00:34:48,100
all.

745
00:34:49,133 --> 00:34:52,867
Ketchup good solid stuff. And there's a lot of gain

746
00:34:52,867 --> 00:34:54,767
that will come from getting all this done.

747
00:34:56,900 --> 00:34:59,033
Last slide, which doesn't have much on it.

748
00:35:01,133 --> 00:35:03,066
This was the last piece of the strategic plan from

749
00:35:03,066 --> 00:35:05,333
the beginning was the plan B outside the box thing.

750
00:35:05,333 --> 00:35:07,500
What if the strategic plan's not enough? And when we've

751
00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:08,500
originally drafted it.

752
00:35:08,934 --> 00:35:10,634
We weren't really sure this would ever matter. And now

753
00:35:10,634 --> 00:35:12,033
we are crystal clear that it does.

754
00:35:12,767 --> 00:35:14,634
Because there is significant, and this is what we're talking

755
00:35:14,634 --> 00:35:16,000
about tomorrow night at the.

756
00:35:17,133 --> 00:35:19,734
The mayor's commission on re-imagining and redesigning the summers war

757
00:35:19,734 --> 00:35:20,166
school district.

758
00:35:21,133 --> 00:35:23,767
Community forum on the suture of the summers war schools,

759
00:35:23,767 --> 00:35:26,333
permission to think outside the box. Everybody repeat that with

760
00:35:26,333 --> 00:35:28,000
me as it .

761
00:35:28,767 --> 00:35:31,100
Six o'clock tomorrow night at idle Hurst, six o'clock tomorrow

762
00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:33,133
night at idle Hurst. It'll only be an hour.

763
00:35:34,867 --> 00:35:38,100
And we are hopeful. We have good turnout because we're

764
00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:39,266
gonna find out tomorrow night.

765
00:35:40,166 --> 00:35:41,867
A week from tomorrow night, there'll be a follow up

766
00:35:41,867 --> 00:35:44,133
session. Not required. You can come tomorrow night and then

767
00:35:44,133 --> 00:35:45,100
decide what you wanna do next.

768
00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:47,667
And then two weeks after that one, there'll be a

769
00:35:47,667 --> 00:35:50,100
second follow-up session just to kind of get us going.

770
00:35:50,867 --> 00:35:53,066
We are not presenting a plan to the community. We

771
00:35:53,066 --> 00:35:54,767
are asking the community to.

772
00:35:55,634 --> 00:35:57,166
Support this. We're not asking them to figure it out.

773
00:35:57,233 --> 00:36:00,567
That's our job, but we want their involvement and we

774
00:36:00,567 --> 00:36:01,433
really need them.

775
00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:04,867
Whether in the background or if they have the capacity

776
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000
to join in saying, yes, I get it. Let's do

777
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,900
this. Let's let's make all these things happen.

778
00:36:10,667 --> 00:36:12,734
But this is where we begin to think. Not about

779
00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:15,266
ways to improve the system, the things that are in

780
00:36:15,266 --> 00:36:16,133
the strategic plan.

781
00:36:17,133 --> 00:36:20,133
But really rethinking. And re-imagining the very system, how the

782
00:36:20,133 --> 00:36:22,867
curriculum is organized, how time is organized, what a school

783
00:36:22,867 --> 00:36:24,333
looks like, what our facilities are.

784
00:36:25,333 --> 00:36:27,066
What the role of the community is how we earn

785
00:36:27,066 --> 00:36:27,367
credits.

786
00:36:28,567 --> 00:36:31,066
Credits everything is how we organize students across grade levels.

787
00:36:32,767 --> 00:36:35,166
Is where we're headed. The beautiful thing about the Nelly

788
00:36:35,233 --> 00:36:38,100
Mae education foundation grant that we are applying for on

789
00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:38,266
Friday.

790
00:36:39,266 --> 00:36:42,100
Which will be $500,000 over three years, if we get

791
00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:44,300
it, which is probably about a quarter of what we

792
00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:46,734
need over the next two or three years to really

793
00:36:46,934 --> 00:36:47,033
do.

794
00:36:47,433 --> 00:36:50,734
The strategic plan and the mayor's commission work well.

795
00:36:53,033 --> 00:36:55,734
Is it's really a bridge between the strategic plan.

796
00:36:56,767 --> 00:36:59,066
And the mayor's commission kind of work. A lot of

797
00:36:59,066 --> 00:37:01,767
what we're doing with Anelli Mae grant sits firmly in

798
00:37:01,767 --> 00:37:02,734
the strategic plan.

799
00:37:03,834 --> 00:37:07,367
Math literacy and executive function skills for all of our

800
00:37:07,367 --> 00:37:09,867
students, particularly those that are economically disadvantaged.

801
00:37:10,867 --> 00:37:14,500
Disadvantaged from pre-K through eighth grade and really beginning that

802
00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:14,834
work.

803
00:37:15,634 --> 00:37:17,834
At birth slash pregnancy and figuring out all the things

804
00:37:17,834 --> 00:37:18,567
that happened beforehand.

805
00:37:19,900 --> 00:37:21,867
Which sounds very strategic plan. Like.

806
00:37:22,667 --> 00:37:24,266
But then when you talk about how do we rethink

807
00:37:24,467 --> 00:37:27,900
what birth through the year before high school looks like.

808
00:37:28,767 --> 00:37:30,100
And how do we get everybody to within a grade

809
00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:32,567
level on math, everybody within a grade level on literacy

810
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,734
and everybody at an age appropriate level on executive function.

811
00:37:36,767 --> 00:37:38,867
You begin to tear at the fabric of the assumptions

812
00:37:38,867 --> 00:37:42,300
of what elementary looks like, and simultaneously we're gonna be

813
00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:44,734
doing some of that work around high school as.

814
00:37:45,133 --> 00:37:46,834
Well, this gets really

815
00:37:47,634 --> 00:37:50,834
really hard because everybody says they want.

816
00:37:51,834 --> 00:37:54,300
Better and everybody says different. And then as soon as

817
00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:56,433
you talk about what better and different might look like,

818
00:37:56,433 --> 00:37:59,266
there's generally like, whoa, but not, you know, that's not

819
00:37:59,266 --> 00:37:59,533
what.

820
00:38:00,066 --> 00:38:02,133
That's not what I thought or my school looked like.

821
00:38:02,867 --> 00:38:05,033
So it, I don't, I wanna make sure we all

822
00:38:05,033 --> 00:38:07,767
go into this with our eyes wide open. We begin

823
00:38:07,767 --> 00:38:08,000
this.

824
00:38:08,367 --> 00:38:11,066
Process. It's my opinion that really over the next couple

825
00:38:11,066 --> 00:38:12,333
of months, and maybe.

826
00:38:13,133 --> 00:38:16,500
By January. We're probably either gonna know that the community

827
00:38:16,867 --> 00:38:20,000
is behind this and energized around this. And we've got

828
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,100
the Nelly may grant and we've got.

829
00:38:21,533 --> 00:38:23,133
Another grant on the way. And two others that were

830
00:38:23,133 --> 00:38:25,734
on the are in the works grants tend to breed

831
00:38:25,734 --> 00:38:28,066
more grants. I was very clear with the LA Mae

832
00:38:28,066 --> 00:38:29,367
education foundation. I.

833
00:38:29,900 --> 00:38:31,300
Met with the New Hampshire director about a week and a

834
00:38:31,300 --> 00:38:31,767
half ago.

835
00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:34,834
The three year, $500,000 grant.

836
00:38:35,634 --> 00:38:37,667
Would be appreciated and would be nice.

837
00:38:38,467 --> 00:38:40,900
What we need is a 10 to 15 year partnership

838
00:38:40,900 --> 00:38:43,734
from the Nelly Mae education foundation and a couple of

839
00:38:43,734 --> 00:38:46,367
others, maybe U NH included to have.

840
00:38:46,867 --> 00:38:50,100
A school district, our size of our significance, but small

841
00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:51,867
enough to really kind of do some things differently.

842
00:38:52,934 --> 00:38:54,100
Show the whole entire state.

843
00:38:55,066 --> 00:38:57,066
While under attack, what public education can be.

844
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,100
And so all of this is hopefully gonna be a

845
00:39:00,100 --> 00:39:01,367
step in, in that direction.

846
00:39:06,233 --> 00:39:07,500
Any questions for

847
00:39:08,567 --> 00:39:11,100
I just wanna say thank you for your efforts. This

848
00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:15,033
is a lot of work, honestly, for everyone involves here.

849
00:39:16,033 --> 00:39:17,100
I'm excited. I do know.

850
00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:20,367
Change is hard, right? Change is hard for most people,

851
00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:21,100
but this is.

852
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Exciting and hopefully

853
00:39:24,166 --> 00:39:27,333
it goes well, any questions for John? I did have

854
00:39:27,333 --> 00:39:28,066
one more thing.

855
00:39:29,100 --> 00:39:30,133
That triggered a thought

856
00:39:31,233 --> 00:39:34,033
odd enough with my brain mental health.

857
00:39:35,066 --> 00:39:35,834
You talked about that.

858
00:39:37,834 --> 00:39:41,734
Numerous times and how our children are struggling currently. And

859
00:39:41,734 --> 00:39:44,033
it made me think about our health clinic, how where's

860
00:39:44,033 --> 00:39:44,634
our health clinic.

861
00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:47,767
Doing SL you'll off topic.

862
00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:50,834
I'd have to get stats on where we are in

863
00:39:50,834 --> 00:39:52,900
terms of, yeah. I mean, we could that next meeting,

864
00:39:53,066 --> 00:39:55,533
just so we know like how airs a Hoff clinic

865
00:39:55,533 --> 00:39:56,433
doing are, is.

866
00:39:56,934 --> 00:39:59,734
It thriving. Is it struggling? Like what are we doing

867
00:39:59,767 --> 00:40:02,033
with that? Oh yeah, go ahead.

868
00:40:03,233 --> 00:40:05,266
To jump off of the mental health and.

869
00:40:06,100 --> 00:40:08,433
The clinic and stuff. Are we gonna get some input

870
00:40:08,634 --> 00:40:09,100
too from.

871
00:40:10,100 --> 00:40:13,100
Students in how they feel as well. I think with

872
00:40:13,166 --> 00:40:13,533
them.

873
00:40:14,467 --> 00:40:15,166
That would be a big.

874
00:40:16,767 --> 00:40:18,100
Yeah. To help out with these.

875
00:40:19,066 --> 00:40:21,066
Ideas and to get them involved. I think they would

876
00:40:21,066 --> 00:40:23,033
be able to help us. It's largely been anecdotal to

877
00:40:23,033 --> 00:40:25,133
this point, but I've reached out.

878
00:40:26,100 --> 00:40:29,166
To the high school and have asked for seven or

879
00:40:29,166 --> 00:40:31,266
eight people to recommend students, they think would be good

880
00:40:31,266 --> 00:40:33,000
to be sort of a sounding board council.

881
00:40:34,133 --> 00:40:36,133
And I will volunteer to be the one that meets

882
00:40:36,133 --> 00:40:38,667
with 'em regularly, but invite others. So as it'll be

883
00:40:38,667 --> 00:40:40,767
both an opportunity to ask them what they think should

884
00:40:40,767 --> 00:40:41,100
be different.

885
00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:44,266
But also an opportunity for us to like take ideas.

886
00:40:45,533 --> 00:40:49,100
Ideas take ideas and bounce them off of the

887
00:40:49,100 --> 00:40:50,033
students as well.

888
00:40:51,066 --> 00:40:52,333
We're doing that. And we wanna do the same thing

889
00:40:52,333 --> 00:40:52,867
with teachers.

890
00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:56,333
Teachers. I really wanna remind everybody that the work of

891
00:40:56,333 --> 00:40:58,834
the commission, as we've said multiple times, the commission is

892
00:40:58,900 --> 00:41:01,433
not to come up with a plan. We are facilitating.

893
00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:04,533
The process we are facilitating, convening the process. It will

894
00:41:04,533 --> 00:41:05,367
be the school board.

895
00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:07,734
It's one. It is not a committee work, but one,

896
00:41:07,734 --> 00:41:09,533
a big work of this, the school board as a

897
00:41:09,533 --> 00:41:13,066
whole will be evaluating these plans and proposals. They come

898
00:41:13,066 --> 00:41:13,166
forth.

899
00:41:14,567 --> 00:41:18,500
City council where it involves city council aspects, school board.

900
00:41:19,433 --> 00:41:21,500
The teachers union, the para-educators union.

901
00:41:22,300 --> 00:41:25,100
And teachers and voices throughout. So we're just getting this

902
00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:26,000
process going.

903
00:41:27,066 --> 00:41:28,867
But my hope would be that it's gonna basically run

904
00:41:28,934 --> 00:41:31,033
now through spring. If we can get some momentum.

905
00:41:32,066 --> 00:41:34,300
And there'll be plenty of time for folks to, to

906
00:41:34,300 --> 00:41:35,567
chime in. It may not.

907
00:41:36,367 --> 00:41:39,000
Fit well enough with next year's budget planning, but this

908
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,667
is gonna be five and 10 year stuff.

909
00:41:41,767 --> 00:41:43,634
So it'll be another year out before it can really

910
00:41:43,667 --> 00:41:46,266
fit into the budget. Cuz budget works beginning really now.

911
00:41:47,266 --> 00:41:48,634
For the coming school year.

912
00:41:49,533 --> 00:41:50,100
But we'll see where we land.

913
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,000
But yes, that's in the works.

914
00:41:54,300 --> 00:41:55,367
I do want to stress that.

915
00:41:56,767 --> 00:42:01,066
For teachers it's, it's always a matter of paraeducators. If

916
00:42:01,066 --> 00:42:02,033
you have the capacity.

917
00:42:03,066 --> 00:42:05,100
And you want to participate wholeheartedly in all this, please

918
00:42:05,033 --> 00:42:05,300
do.

919
00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:07,333
If you're at a place where you're new.

920
00:42:08,367 --> 00:42:10,066
Or you have three kids at home or whatever else

921
00:42:10,066 --> 00:42:13,066
might be going on where you're like, Hey, I'm my

922
00:42:13,066 --> 00:42:14,867
job is to take, do my job here.

923
00:42:15,834 --> 00:42:17,533
And, and I support the work that's happened around me.

924
00:42:17,533 --> 00:42:18,166
That's fine too.

925
00:42:19,266 --> 00:42:22,066
But in terms of the central office leadership team.

926
00:42:23,066 --> 00:42:25,433
And in terms of our building principles, there's gonna be

927
00:42:25,433 --> 00:42:26,100
a lot of strain.

928
00:42:27,066 --> 00:42:30,300
This is a lot of work and it'll be really

929
00:42:30,533 --> 00:42:32,634
nice if we can get support to this point. For

930
00:42:32,634 --> 00:42:34,433
example, the Ellie Mae education foundation.

931
00:42:35,467 --> 00:42:37,100
And support we've had has not.

932
00:42:38,033 --> 00:42:42,300
It has not alleviated anybody's workload. It has added significantly

933
00:42:42,300 --> 00:42:44,834
to a handful of us. So we need to get

934
00:42:44,834 --> 00:42:45,300
over the hump.

935
00:42:46,100 --> 00:42:48,166
It was very clear with an Ellie Mae education foundation

936
00:42:48,533 --> 00:42:49,834
director. What we need is help.

937
00:42:50,667 --> 00:42:53,066
We need like half of a person or another person.

938
00:42:54,367 --> 00:42:57,133
The day after we met, I was pleased to see

939
00:42:57,133 --> 00:42:59,667
that Angela Duckworth had a op-ed in the New York times.

940
00:43:00,567 --> 00:43:02,567
That said good leaders ask for help. .

941
00:43:03,433 --> 00:43:05,066
When they know when they reach their capacity, which I

942
00:43:05,066 --> 00:43:07,734
shared with her quickly. but needless to say,

943
00:43:08,667 --> 00:43:10,533
I think we're gonna be in a pretty tight place,

944
00:43:11,367 --> 00:43:13,500
the team effort, and it's gonna get a little hard

945
00:43:14,033 --> 00:43:14,734
as we go forward.

946
00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:16,767
Yep. Good.

947
00:43:18,467 --> 00:43:19,033
Thank you.

948
00:43:21,667 --> 00:43:22,033
All right.

949
00:43:23,066 --> 00:43:25,367
And so we're moving on to our policy adoptions. We

950
00:43:25,367 --> 00:43:26,000
just have.

951
00:43:26,867 --> 00:43:29,066
The second reading, do I have a motion to read

952
00:43:29,100 --> 00:43:30,000
by title only?

953
00:43:32,867 --> 00:43:34,667
Motion to read by title only.

954
00:43:35,433 --> 00:43:38,734
Second motion. Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye.

955
00:43:40,767 --> 00:43:41,834
You want me to read them? Yeah.

956
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:43,734
For our second reading.

957
00:43:45,333 --> 00:43:47,033
This evening, we have 7.1.

958
00:43:48,033 --> 00:43:51,000
Or I'm sorry, JH attendance, absenteeism and truancy.

959
00:43:54,900 --> 00:43:56,767
And what is the wish of the board for this?

960
00:43:57,533 --> 00:43:57,533
Policy.

961
00:43:59,867 --> 00:44:02,066
So, so this is the second reading. So we are

962
00:44:02,133 --> 00:44:04,834
to vote we're voting on this policy, correct? Correct. Okay.

963
00:44:05,900 --> 00:44:06,033
And who

964
00:44:11,066 --> 00:44:13,500
correct. You'll okay. I'm waiting for a motion to vote.

965
00:44:13,734 --> 00:44:16,066
I move to vote on JH 10 at absent.

966
00:44:16,367 --> 00:44:17,033
Absenteeism and truancy.

967
00:44:18,667 --> 00:44:21,634
Second. All right. And now open for discussion.

968
00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:24,867
Has anyone heard anything from the public?

969
00:44:25,867 --> 00:44:27,333
I know, I tried to reach out to some people

970
00:44:27,500 --> 00:44:28,433
and I I've heard.

971
00:44:30,533 --> 00:44:33,433
Positive things as far as making sure the kids come

972
00:44:33,433 --> 00:44:35,100
to school and holding them accountable.

973
00:44:36,033 --> 00:44:37,033
And I feel like that's all that I heard. I

974
00:44:37,033 --> 00:44:38,266
didn't hear anything other.

975
00:44:39,066 --> 00:44:42,500
Than that per se. Anyone else hear anything about? Okay.

976
00:44:43,233 --> 00:44:43,667
So I have

977
00:44:45,533 --> 00:44:47,767
of informally reached out to some teachers that are in

978
00:44:47,767 --> 00:44:49,567
my circle. It's no, it's no.

979
00:44:51,233 --> 00:44:53,367
It, it's no mystery that I'm married to a teacher.

980
00:44:53,533 --> 00:44:55,667
So I, I speak to a lot of teachers informally

981
00:44:55,667 --> 00:44:56,000
all the time.

982
00:44:59,233 --> 00:45:02,033
We brought this up as it related to the administrative

983
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,634
D with the high school, because we thought.

984
00:45:04,367 --> 00:45:07,100
Well, the administrative D, which is a procedure at the

985
00:45:07,100 --> 00:45:09,433
high school. It's not a policy. We kept getting hung

986
00:45:09,433 --> 00:45:11,734
up with wording last week about procedures that the high

987
00:45:11,734 --> 00:45:12,266
school has in place.

988
00:45:12,767 --> 00:45:13,900
Versus a actual policy.

989
00:45:16,033 --> 00:45:16,133
That

990
00:45:17,133 --> 00:45:19,066
is there alignment with this?

991
00:45:20,100 --> 00:45:22,634
The school policy and their procedure in place. And then

992
00:45:22,634 --> 00:45:23,533
we started talking about.

993
00:45:25,500 --> 00:45:26,667
The fact that this

994
00:45:27,433 --> 00:45:28,533
policy that we have in place has no.

995
00:45:29,700 --> 00:45:32,000
Teeth for lack of better term. There's no.

996
00:45:33,834 --> 00:45:37,266
There's no consequence for an overabundance of, of.

997
00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:41,433
Absences, whether they be unexcused or excused.

998
00:45:42,467 --> 00:45:44,367
Excused. I've had teachers tell me at the middle school

999
00:45:44,367 --> 00:45:45,567
at the elementary school level.

1000
00:45:46,667 --> 00:45:48,433
That in the past years, they've had kids that had

1001
00:45:48,934 --> 00:45:50,000
upwards of 60.

1002
00:45:51,066 --> 00:45:53,500
Absences from school that's one in three days.

1003
00:45:54,300 --> 00:45:55,433
And that they were still.

1004
00:45:56,567 --> 00:45:58,100
Being pushed forward to the next level.

1005
00:45:59,066 --> 00:46:00,667
At the end of the school year, because we don't

1006
00:46:00,667 --> 00:46:01,533
have any sort of.

1007
00:46:02,367 --> 00:46:03,634
Consequence in place.

1008
00:46:04,567 --> 00:46:08,000
That holds parents and students accountable for.

1009
00:46:08,767 --> 00:46:12,066
Not attending school. And we put an undue stress on

1010
00:46:12,066 --> 00:46:12,533
our teachers.

1011
00:46:13,533 --> 00:46:16,500
Teachers, because then at the end of the year,

1012
00:46:17,533 --> 00:46:20,533
the treaters are, are asked to hold account for the

1013
00:46:20,533 --> 00:46:21,100
fact that.

1014
00:46:21,900 --> 00:46:24,066
They've lost a third of their instructional time with these

1015
00:46:24,066 --> 00:46:24,166
children.

1016
00:46:25,266 --> 00:46:27,367
And it's at no fault of their own, but yet

1017
00:46:27,367 --> 00:46:29,033
they're asked to make up for it.

1018
00:46:31,066 --> 00:46:33,133
So we, this is what's in front of us. We

1019
00:46:33,133 --> 00:46:33,433
can't.

1020
00:46:34,300 --> 00:46:35,834
Can't reinvent the wheel right in front of us right

1021
00:46:35,834 --> 00:46:36,066
now.

1022
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:38,867
But I do.

1023
00:46:40,233 --> 00:46:41,100
Think that

1024
00:46:42,100 --> 00:46:45,133
the, the school policy for absenteeism really needs a good

1025
00:46:45,133 --> 00:46:45,767
look at it.

1026
00:46:46,867 --> 00:46:48,033
To see if there's any sort of.

1027
00:46:49,133 --> 00:46:51,133
Way that we can start holding these parents account.

1028
00:46:52,166 --> 00:46:56,066
Because the teachers are doing their parts, but the sometimes

1029
00:46:56,066 --> 00:46:57,266
feels like the parents aren't doing theirs.

1030
00:46:58,300 --> 00:47:00,300
Theirs. It's a tricky place to be for sure. Thank

1031
00:47:00,300 --> 00:47:01,000
you for your comment.

1032
00:47:02,066 --> 00:47:04,500
What is else? Anything else you wanna discuss about this?

1033
00:47:07,066 --> 00:47:08,667
All in favor to vote.

1034
00:47:10,734 --> 00:47:12,133
I I perfect. Okay.

1035
00:47:13,133 --> 00:47:15,000
And then first readings motion.

1036
00:47:16,100 --> 00:47:19,100
Should we by title only I move to read to

1037
00:47:19,533 --> 00:47:21,166
have all the first readings by title only.

1038
00:47:22,300 --> 00:47:24,266
Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye.

1039
00:47:27,900 --> 00:47:29,567
J J I B

1040
00:47:30,667 --> 00:47:31,767
school-sponsored athletic programs.

1041
00:47:32,934 --> 00:47:35,900
Programs we voting on each one or.

1042
00:47:36,767 --> 00:47:38,433
So this is just reading. Sorry. This is reading. Just

1043
00:47:38,433 --> 00:47:42,033
reading. Yeah. JJ J access to public school programs by

1044
00:47:42,033 --> 00:47:43,100
non enrolled residents.

1045
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:45,333
Residents JJ, J R

1046
00:47:46,300 --> 00:47:47,066
one appendix

1047
00:47:48,567 --> 00:47:51,367
access to public school programs by non enrolled residents.

1048
00:47:52,367 --> 00:47:53,734
Residents J I C K bullying.

1049
00:47:54,667 --> 00:47:57,000
Prevention pupil safety and violence prevention.

1050
00:48:00,934 --> 00:48:01,033
And

1051
00:48:02,100 --> 00:48:04,767
student activities and organizations, JJ, a.

1052
00:48:05,533 --> 00:48:06,767
Thank you, JJ. A

1053
00:48:12,567 --> 00:48:13,734
thank you. And then

1054
00:48:14,867 --> 00:48:17,000
just for clarity for the public. How many of these

1055
00:48:17,133 --> 00:48:17,166
are.

1056
00:48:18,300 --> 00:48:21,100
For yes, the state is being pushed through.

1057
00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:24,500
Or how many do we choose to.

1058
00:48:25,734 --> 00:48:28,133
So most of what we are working on is, is

1059
00:48:28,333 --> 00:48:31,066
because of legislation that's gone through that. We have to

1060
00:48:31,066 --> 00:48:32,100
either edit or.

1061
00:48:33,233 --> 00:48:35,634
Add to our policies that we currently have. So.

1062
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,634
We're looking at about potentially.

1063
00:48:39,433 --> 00:48:41,767
25 to 30 this year right now.

1064
00:48:42,834 --> 00:48:43,834
That we're working on.

1065
00:48:45,533 --> 00:48:46,900
For that, so. Okay. Thank you.

1066
00:48:48,033 --> 00:48:50,000
So nothing to go on for there. So we're gonna

1067
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,767
move on to unfinished business and there is none.

1068
00:48:53,533 --> 00:48:55,300
And then we just have one to add for a

1069
00:48:55,300 --> 00:48:58,767
new business. We just need to suspend rules to add.

1070
00:48:59,900 --> 00:49:02,433
Move to suspend rules to add to the new business

1071
00:49:02,433 --> 00:49:05,100
lottery truck. Yep. And then can I get a second,

1072
00:49:05,133 --> 00:49:05,634
second?

1073
00:49:06,667 --> 00:49:09,900
All in favor. Aye. All right. I'm superintendent. We would

1074
00:49:09,900 --> 00:49:14,567
need a board member motion to accept a $5,000 check.

1075
00:49:15,066 --> 00:49:18,033
Payable to Summersworth high school from the New Hampshire state lottery

1076
00:49:18,033 --> 00:49:19,266
as it's above the minimum.

1077
00:49:20,066 --> 00:49:22,367
And then a second and then any discussion and a

1078
00:49:22,367 --> 00:49:23,667
vote to accept mm-hmm .

1079
00:49:24,567 --> 00:49:28,333
I'll move to accept the $5,000 check from the New Hampshire

1080
00:49:28,333 --> 00:49:30,300
state law lottery commission. Mm-hmm .

1081
00:49:31,233 --> 00:49:35,333
Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any, well, I

1082
00:49:35,333 --> 00:49:38,433
guess discussion discussion first. That's fine. Pass. I think we're

1083
00:49:38,433 --> 00:49:39,266
all very excited about.

1084
00:49:39,634 --> 00:49:41,300
This. Okay. So

1085
00:49:42,100 --> 00:49:44,567
anybody wanna say anything about this? I just wanna say,

1086
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:46,166
I just wanna say thank you to.

1087
00:49:48,900 --> 00:49:49,567
I think it was

1088
00:49:51,667 --> 00:49:52,533
so the CTC

1089
00:49:53,700 --> 00:49:56,734
CTC person. My brain just leaves me guys. I don't

1090
00:49:56,734 --> 00:49:59,000
even know. No that's okay. This one, it was very

1091
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,734
good of high school principal, Mike blue into attend.

1092
00:50:02,100 --> 00:50:04,100
In to attend this one kind of landed on our

1093
00:50:04,100 --> 00:50:07,100
lap. There was, there was the New Hampshire lottery that wanted

1094
00:50:07,100 --> 00:50:07,567
to do this.

1095
00:50:08,367 --> 00:50:10,767
And we were told that they drew two high school

1096
00:50:10,767 --> 00:50:13,066
names out of a hat, and that's how they ended

1097
00:50:13,066 --> 00:50:15,100
up with Groveton and Summersworth high school.

1098
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,033
How the NASCAR driver got Groveton and the governor got

1099
00:50:18,033 --> 00:50:19,734
Summersworth high school. I do not know.

1100
00:50:20,767 --> 00:50:22,667
But the, the competition went.

1101
00:50:23,433 --> 00:50:26,333
And both schools got $5,000 for being selected is what

1102
00:50:26,767 --> 00:50:29,066
we were told. That's awesome. It's not that often you

1103
00:50:29,066 --> 00:50:30,433
get $5,000.

1104
00:50:31,834 --> 00:50:33,634
Without doing much, but it was good of the high

1105
00:50:33,634 --> 00:50:35,066
school principal to be there with his son.

1106
00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:38,300
Sun. That's very nice. And then upcoming.

1107
00:50:39,066 --> 00:50:40,867
Meetings is below.

1108
00:50:42,567 --> 00:50:44,266
Anything you want to, to stand out?

1109
00:50:45,133 --> 00:50:46,867
I would like to say for the ninth time, this

1110
00:50:46,867 --> 00:50:51,533
evening that I know the mayor's commission for reimagined redesigning

1111
00:50:51,533 --> 00:50:52,867
the Summersworth school district forum.

1112
00:50:53,533 --> 00:50:56,567
Tomorrow night for anybody that's watching and obviously for our

1113
00:50:56,567 --> 00:50:58,266
school board members, but this will be the kind of

1114
00:50:58,266 --> 00:51:00,133
thing that if you care about where the summers, where

1115
00:51:00,133 --> 00:51:00,900
schools are headed.

1116
00:51:01,900 --> 00:51:03,266
You will not only show up if you can, but

1117
00:51:03,266 --> 00:51:03,567
bring.

1118
00:51:04,367 --> 00:51:07,066
Five people mm-hmm and it doesn't matter whether you're

1119
00:51:07,066 --> 00:51:07,767
a community member.

1120
00:51:09,634 --> 00:51:10,634
Or a parent

1121
00:51:11,433 --> 00:51:14,033
or just care about our schools. It'll be a good

1122
00:51:14,033 --> 00:51:16,333
indicator of where we are. I know there's good people

1123
00:51:16,333 --> 00:51:18,266
that care about all this that simply won't be able

1124
00:51:18,266 --> 00:51:19,367
to be there, but we're.

1125
00:51:19,834 --> 00:51:22,367
Hopeful we'll have a good turnout and get some good

1126
00:51:22,367 --> 00:51:23,367
energy moving forward.

1127
00:51:24,166 --> 00:51:26,100
You're not signing on to anything. We just want you

1128
00:51:26,100 --> 00:51:28,266
to hear about things. You'll have the opportunity to participate

1129
00:51:28,266 --> 00:51:30,033
in a few more meetings. And if you have the

1130
00:51:30,033 --> 00:51:32,000
time and capacity, you can stay with us all the

1131
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:32,266
way into.

1132
00:51:32,567 --> 00:51:35,433
The spring, but that one's critically important.

1133
00:51:36,367 --> 00:51:39,166
Tomorrow night, 6:00 PM. Idle Hurst elementary school. There will be

1134
00:51:39,166 --> 00:51:43,133
refreshments and there will be childcare provided for the hour.

1135
00:51:43,467 --> 00:51:44,166
So anybody.

1136
00:51:44,767 --> 00:51:46,166
That can't make it because they've got a young one

1137
00:51:46,166 --> 00:51:47,333
with a little one.

1138
00:51:48,166 --> 00:51:51,867
Our national honor society students, and at least one educator

1139
00:51:52,066 --> 00:51:53,667
will be watching the kids.

1140
00:51:54,667 --> 00:51:55,333
For that hour. Thanks.

1141
00:51:56,934 --> 00:51:59,867
And then do we have, I know I'm public.

1142
00:52:00,767 --> 00:52:03,867
No non-public is not necessary for. Okay. We had an

1143
00:52:03,867 --> 00:52:05,634
agenda item, but it resolved itself.

1144
00:52:06,467 --> 00:52:06,500
Okay.

1145
00:52:08,767 --> 00:52:09,867
And then public comments.

1146
00:52:11,066 --> 00:52:14,567
Comments by visitors. And what about school board members? Go

1147
00:52:14,567 --> 00:52:14,667
ahead.

1148
00:52:16,133 --> 00:52:18,367
So I am just going to reiterate what I said

1149
00:52:18,367 --> 00:52:22,567
last week. We are now in school, athletic seasons for

1150
00:52:22,934 --> 00:52:23,500
all schools.

1151
00:52:23,834 --> 00:52:24,100
In the district.

1152
00:52:26,100 --> 00:52:27,533
All of our programs are what we call pay to

1153
00:52:27,533 --> 00:52:29,900
play. So the students are responsible for payments. We do

1154
00:52:29,900 --> 00:52:32,000
have boosters clubs that are working to help alleviate that

1155
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:33,533
to all kids. And then to the best of my

1156
00:52:33,533 --> 00:52:33,867
knowledge,

1157
00:52:34,300 --> 00:52:37,066
all fundraisers for all sports are still going on.

1158
00:52:38,100 --> 00:52:39,533
And most of the sports in the district have their

1159
00:52:39,533 --> 00:52:40,500
own social media page.

1160
00:52:41,333 --> 00:52:43,100
So, if you would like to learn more.

1161
00:52:44,166 --> 00:52:45,900
About how you can support our athletes in the district.

1162
00:52:46,367 --> 00:52:47,634
In the fall, we have players.

1163
00:52:48,367 --> 00:52:48,867
Playing boys soccer.

1164
00:52:50,667 --> 00:52:53,867
Football girls volleyball, a whole host of sports. Please look

1165
00:52:53,934 --> 00:52:54,100
into.

1166
00:52:55,066 --> 00:52:56,767
Either announcements from the high school or the middle school.

1167
00:52:57,734 --> 00:53:00,533
The announcements from the schools, the school's teams in particular.

1168
00:53:00,867 --> 00:53:01,100
So.

1169
00:53:02,467 --> 00:53:03,066
We can support these kids.

1170
00:53:05,900 --> 00:53:07,266
That's great. Thank you so much.

1171
00:53:08,166 --> 00:53:11,834
Yes. I also just want to reiterate the importance of

1172
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,000
being able to join us for the mayor's commission.

1173
00:53:16,300 --> 00:53:20,000
Meeting that starts tomorrow night and continues.

1174
00:53:21,133 --> 00:53:23,834
Continues into the fall. We've done a lot of work.

1175
00:53:24,567 --> 00:53:27,867
Trying to set up really worthwhile evenings.

1176
00:53:29,133 --> 00:53:30,634
Evenings and have really tried to think about.

1177
00:53:31,634 --> 00:53:32,333
Every aspect of

1178
00:53:33,900 --> 00:53:36,033
what that night can look like. And tomorrow night is

1179
00:53:36,033 --> 00:53:38,100
only an hour. The following week will be a little

1180
00:53:38,100 --> 00:53:38,367
bit longer.

1181
00:53:39,233 --> 00:53:42,367
But it's great information and we're really looking for the

1182
00:53:42,367 --> 00:53:45,100
community to show up and, and provide information.

1183
00:53:46,100 --> 00:53:47,433
To us so that we can help.

1184
00:53:48,166 --> 00:53:50,333
Us all do the job of educating our kids.

1185
00:53:53,700 --> 00:53:54,166
Very nice.

1186
00:53:55,266 --> 00:53:56,634
And I just wanna take a minute to say we

1187
00:53:56,634 --> 00:53:59,667
have two Mt. Seats on the school board. If anybody

1188
00:53:59,667 --> 00:54:01,500
would like to join, have questions.

1189
00:54:02,667 --> 00:54:04,033
Questions feel free to reach out to myself.

1190
00:54:04,934 --> 00:54:08,133
Any of the board member, superintendent, Shay, anyone really.

1191
00:54:09,100 --> 00:54:12,667
This is great work. Our administrators are doing great work

1192
00:54:12,700 --> 00:54:13,266
I'm to help.

1193
00:54:14,100 --> 00:54:16,133
Support them. We need our full.

1194
00:54:17,133 --> 00:54:18,867
Board here would that

1195
00:54:19,634 --> 00:54:20,533
motion to adjourn.

1196
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:24,000
Motion to adjourn.

1197
00:54:25,133 --> 00:54:26,500
Adjourn second. All in favor.

1198
00:54:27,233 --> 00:54:29,867
Aye. Aye. Perfect. Thank you. Stand adjourn.