[2:07] Here today. I gotta get outta here. 30 seconds. Is

[2:12] it 15? Okay.

[2:15] All right. Like to call the September 15th.

[2:19] 2026, a school board to order. Can I get a

[2:22] roll call?

[2:25] Maggie Larson.

[2:27] Excused, Carrie Clark, your

[2:30] Marsha brown excused.

[2:32] Excused, Kirsten Gowdy here.

[2:35] Sarah O'Brien Hart excused, crystal D Croix here.

[2:39] And Patrick KVIE here.

[2:42] And let's rise for the pledge of allegiance.

[2:46] Reliance allegiance, do the flag.

[2:52] States of America.

[3:07] I like to open the floor.

[3:09] To public comments.

[3:12] Comments? No. Okay. Seeing none.

[3:16] They're oh, yes. Thank you. Oh, are they coming up?

[3:20] I'm so excited. I was OK. Come on up.

[3:23] Okay.

[3:24] Almost got us. .

[3:27] Almost gosh.

[3:30] My gosh, I just want to.

[3:33] Note that we are a small board today, but we

[3:35] are in quorum, so that's good. And then.

[3:39] What's the wish of the board for the consent calendar.

[3:42] Move to accept the consent calendar as presented.

[3:46] Second and all in favor. Aye. Aye.

[3:50] And then

[3:53] reports committee seeing there's no student representative.

[3:57] You wanna say what

[4:00] the enrollment report. Yes. Thank you. Patrick enrollment report. Thank

[4:04] you.

[4:05] Is that superintendent, was it in the consent calendar? Oh.

[4:09] Oh, okay. So we already proved that. Perfect. Perfect.

[4:12] Thank you. I can tell you.

[4:14] I can tell you the numbers start of the year,

[4:16] about where we expect 'em to be. And what's noteworthy

[4:19] is that the early grades are solid.

[4:21] So in terms of the ongoing, you know, we don't

[4:24] always know where those numbers will lead us, but we

[4:26] do have a fair number of incoming students.

[4:29] Students. Okay. And moving on to 4.1 student representative report,

[4:35] none is here.

[4:37] But we do have some student representatives.

[4:40] Representatives. I, we have the senior representative junior class representative.

[4:44] The sophomore representative is being a may have already, that

[4:47] election may be completed, but it's happening.

[4:50] Same freshman rep would like to serve again, but there

[4:52] was a challenger and the ninth grade is picking their

[4:55] rep as well. So we'll have four representatives.

[4:57] Representatives given the pattern in the past of having moved

[5:00] from two meetings a month to once every three weeks

[5:03] is kind of the norm here.

[5:05] I had suggested to the high school principal that it'd

[5:08] be nice to have a rep here. Every meeting.

[5:10] It's only four or five times a year. So that's

[5:13] probably what we're gonna aim for. It may not be

[5:14] perfect, but that'll probably begin with the next meeting.

[5:18] Perfect. And then city council updates.

[5:22] Updates city council has not met since our last board

[5:24] meeting, so I don't have a report tonight. Okay, great.

[5:26] Thank you. And then business administrative reports.

[5:30] Yes. I did hand out an, a handout to you

[5:32] before the meeting.

[5:35] I'm giving an update on the final year end report

[5:37] for last year's financials.

[5:40] Financials. We had a total expenditure balance of just over

[5:42] $500,000.

[5:44] We also had total unanticipated revenue of $93,000.

[5:48] And then we had a small return of fund balance

[5:50] that we retained from the prior year that the city

[5:53] council allowed us to keep from the, the prior year.

[5:56] So that brings the.

[5:57] Total amount returning to the city general.

[5:59] Fund of $621,503 and 28 cents.

[6:03] Cents. So in terms of expenditures, as you know, due

[6:05] to the school care assessment, we were in basically a

[6:08] soft freeze most of the year in order to save

[6:10] money, to return to.

[6:12] The, the general fund of the city for giving us

[6:14] the 4 48 at the end of the year to pay

[6:17] off that assessment.

[6:19] The majority of the savings was in the area of

[6:21] special education. We had a lot of paraprofessional openings all

[6:23] year long. We were averaged about seven all year. We

[6:26] also.

[6:27] Had some savings and special ed transportation.

[6:31] Also contributing to the balance, the administrators in all the

[6:33] buildings at a really good job of trying to hold

[6:36] tight and being mindful of their spending.

[6:38] In particular, the CTC Caitlin really did a great job

[6:41] of.

[6:42] Really not spending the funds in her budget to have

[6:44] the, that balance at the end of the year.

[6:46] I just wanna note, typically at the end of the

[6:48] year, we would be coming to the board, trying to

[6:50] spend that balance down. We typically do our facilities upgrade.

[6:54] Upgrades, our technology purchases, things like that to get ahead,

[6:57] but because of the assessment, we weren't able to do

[6:59] that, that this year. So that's why.

[7:01] There's a bigger than normal balance there. Otherwise we would've

[7:03] tried to spend that down.

[7:05] In terms of revenue, the additional revenue we got was

[7:08] in the areas of special ed aid.

[7:10] Preschool tuition indirect cost, which we get from our federal

[7:13] grants and CTC tuition, both coming from other districts, as

[7:17] well as the state.

[7:19] We did not get what we budgeted for Medicaid. However,

[7:22] the overages in the other areas compensated for that.

[7:26] Shortfall in Medicaid reimbursement.

[7:29] Just to note unanticipated revenue that we are not allowed

[7:31] to spend that, so that automatically gets returned to the

[7:33] city. So I just wanna point that out. That is

[7:35] not money that we can spend.

[7:38] I've submitted all the DOE 25 reports. I have them

[7:41] in front of you tonight to sign.

[7:43] Obviously we haven't been audited yet. So these balances could

[7:46] change. They don't typically change.

[7:49] But if they do I'll report back once the.

[7:51] Audit's complete. It's not up to us to determine how

[7:55] these funds are, are spent once they're returned to the

[7:57] city, the city council and the.

[8:00] Finance director determine how the, the funds are spent. Typically

[8:02] they're either put back into the general fund or sometimes

[8:05] used to offset taxes. So once the tax rate's set,

[8:07] is it.

[8:08] In October, I can report back on how those were

[8:11] utilized.

[8:12] And then in terms of this year's budget right now,

[8:15] I'm working on updating the budget with all the new

[8:17] staff and leaving staff.

[8:20] And I should have an update for you at your

[8:21] October meeting of where we stand this year with savings

[8:24] or.

[8:25] Anything else that happened.

[8:27] And that's all I have.

[8:32] For Katie? No.

[8:35] Okay. And then superintendent.

[8:39] I'll just begin by.

[8:41] Repeating a couple of things. Katie said, cuz they're important.

[8:45] And also just how utterly dismaying it is, where that

[8:49] we landed, where we did.

[8:51] The city council generally generously gave us about half of

[8:54] our budget shortfall for this past school year back in

[8:56] the couple of Springs ago.

[9:00] And

[9:01] that was close to $500,000. They got us about halfway

[9:05] where we needed to be for the budget year. That

[9:07] just ended.

[9:09] We put $240,000.

[9:11] Towards school, school care, the city council generously.

[9:14] Match the other two-thirds of the school care.

[9:17] And it was a fair agreement that we would go

[9:19] into a soft freeze and do our best nor do

[9:22] end of year expenditures.

[9:24] So basically the

[9:26] increase that we got the generous support from the city

[9:29] council on.

[9:32] We did not get to spend any of it and

[9:34] we're returning a fair bit of it. So the year

[9:36] that wrapped up financially was hard.

[9:40] And now we're going into another year where given the

[9:43] city council's generous support of the school care, we didn't

[9:45] get anything on a 2 million shortfall.

[9:48] So I just want to be really, really clear. I've

[9:49] said this two or three times, and this will be

[9:51] the last time I say it, but that.

[9:53] At a time when stabilizing the budget was kind of

[9:56] really a high priority.

[9:58] In terms of just getting us through this bumpy stretch

[10:01] and, and, and writing the ship and figuring out a

[10:03] plan forward.

[10:05] We are now going to the second year of really

[10:07] not having what we need.

[10:09] And I think we're feeling it. I really do.

[10:13] I'm looking at two of the senior district leaders over

[10:15] there.

[10:17] Three times a day since the school year started just

[10:20] bad, hard financial difficult news staffing has been difficult folks.

[10:25] Are a little bit strained.

[10:27] We going into an important meeting tomorrow night and hopefully

[10:31] get this Nelly may grant.

[10:34] But we're, we're on skin of our teeth right now.

[10:36] I just really, really want to be clear about that

[10:39] to the folks that are watching it to the.

[10:41] School board. I just think I have an obligation.

[10:43] To share that we're continuing to do our best, but

[10:46] things have been hard.

[10:49] I, I appreciate the good work Katie did on that.

[10:52] But to not be able to use this, the combination

[10:54] of the soft phrase, we're gonna do better on special

[10:56] education budgeting, because we now have a director of student

[10:59] services and.

[11:00] First time full-time field deposition. We've been kind of stretched

[11:03] a little bit.

[11:04] But it hurt not being able to do anything at

[11:06] the end of the year on facilities.

[11:08] On potentially a second van to get us where we

[11:10] needed to be with those dollars. But we'll.

[11:14] And it's nobody's fault. It's just the way that it

[11:16] worked out, but it's been pretty difficult.

[11:19] Superintendent's report I think is pretty.

[11:21] Short, I wanted to share with everybody.

[11:25] That we will be audited. It's called a pegs audit.

[11:30] This school year.

[11:32] Special education program approval and general supervision.

[11:36] The program approval and general supervision. Part of that is

[11:39] where it gets its pegs acronym. P a G S.

[11:43] S this is through the department of education, the New Hampshire

[11:45] department of education.

[11:47] It's routine.

[11:49] Regular cyclical audit that happens about every six years. Sometimes

[11:53] it gets off schedule.

[11:55] This is our year. Our new director of student services

[11:58] is embracing it really because it's kind of at a

[12:00] time when we're coming in and, and looking hard at

[12:02] what we're doing.

[12:03] Well, and what we need to do better.

[12:05] Not because of any individuals, but just cause of stretch

[12:08] budgets.

[12:09] No district is ever 100% in compliance. So just be

[12:12] clear when I say that I'm not being flipped where

[12:14] you know, we're not a hundred percent in compliance.

[12:17] We hope we can do better and move forward with

[12:19] the resources that we have.

[12:21] But that'll be going on beginning next month and, and

[12:24] running through the spring.

[12:25] A lot of it will be done remotely and digitally,

[12:27] but we'll also have a presence from folks here from

[12:29] the department of education.

[12:32] Working, particularly with our special education staff and with Rachel.

[12:37] And, and Rachel will be eager to come to a

[12:39] school board meeting she's already slated for a special education

[12:41] presentation.

[12:44] On November 17th, which you have on your.

[12:48] Master board schedule that went out earlier.

[12:51] Not on the, the one on your agenda, but that's

[12:53] coming up. Any, any questions on that one?

[12:56] Just wanna make sure folks were aware of it.

[12:59] It is time consuming. It is some work. There will

[13:02] be some frustrations I'm sure. But.

[13:05] We are, we're looking forward to it, cuz it'll really

[13:08] kind of help us get to a good place. And

[13:09] this is the first time in several years, we've began

[13:13] the year.

[13:14] With special education and student services staffed appropriately.

[13:18] And so we're looking forward to hopefully having some good

[13:21] things come out of that.

[13:26] A quick heads up.

[13:28] That counselor Austin and the city council will be considering.

[13:32] A motion from the mayor at the next city council

[13:34] meeting on the 21st for the city of Summersworth to

[13:38] join in the Rand case.

[13:40] By joining an Amicus brief. This is the case being

[13:44] fought by Bert. I think there's seven or eight cities

[13:47] involved now.

[13:49] The

[13:50] attempts to basically rule that the state of New Hampshire does

[13:54] not have a constant state constitutional obligation to support public

[13:58] education or.

[13:59] Fund public education, which is just an outrageous idea that

[14:03] we are now here, but almost doesn't seem to get

[14:05] the attention that it should.

[14:08] And that'll, this is another, just yet another side of

[14:11] the school board and city council working.

[14:13] Hand in hand together on important education matters.

[14:20] And the last thing I had, I was gonna mention

[14:22] some of the grant work that Stephanie Lareen has done

[14:26] to.

[14:27] Provide us some additional positions, a handful that are outside

[14:30] of our regular school budget, which are critical help from

[14:32] our title 1, 2, 3, and $4.

[14:35] And other grants that come available. I didn't get the

[14:38] update from Stephanie yet, but I'll share that in the

[14:40] future date. Just so folks are aware of it.

[14:43] And the last thing I have short of, maybe having

[14:45] a little bit of discussion about committees. If we choose

[14:47] to do it here or add it to the agenda,

[14:49] I just wanted to share a note.

[14:51] From the summer's worst city rec department.

[14:54] To the school board. We at the Summersworth recreation department

[14:58] would like to send our heartfelt thanks for allowing our

[15:00] department to use the Maplewood school facilities for.

[15:02] Our summer camp during the 2026 season.

[15:05] Being able to use this facility allowed us to offer

[15:07] our campers more enrichment opportunities as well as more time.

[15:10] At camp in years past when camp was based at

[15:13] noble Pines park, we would have to send campers home

[15:15] due to inclement weather. We did not have to do

[15:18] this during our 20.

[15:19] 26 camp. We would also like to thank Jay Lilly

[15:21] and the staff at Maplewood school for helping make this

[15:24] a great summer camp. This partnership is something we hope

[15:26] we can continue.

[15:27] Into the future. And again, on behalf of our 20, 26

[15:29] summer campers and their families, we say, thank you.

[15:33] Andrew Gray and Jenny Holmes signed it on behalf of the

[15:36] rec department.

[15:38] And just remind everybody that the spirit that the school

[15:40] is board has brought to these things from the beginning,

[15:43] as these are public buildings, we will sometimes.

[15:46] Charge just for cost of staffing, something, but otherwise,

[15:50] their rec department was curious whether they'd have to.

[15:54] Pay for paper towel use during the summer. And we

[15:56] said, no, you know, we're in this together. And basically

[15:59] there are kids anyways, just in different setting. So that's

[16:01] been going.

[16:02] Well, I, I lost track. Did we want to talk

[16:04] about.

[16:05] Committees briefly here rather than add it as an agenda

[16:08] item.

[16:10] So I know we sent out.

[16:13] We can talk about it quickly if you want to,

[16:15] but we did send out.

[16:18] Already about board information and committee assignments.

[16:22] I haven't heard back from everyone. So I think that

[16:24] we're still waiting.

[16:26] To hear it back from all the board members.

[16:29] But we did want to highlight.

[16:37] Personnel in and in negotiations committee with John Shay being

[16:41] the admin team, leading the, the negotiation.

[16:44] Process and updates will just come.

[16:47] To the board as it happens, cuz we're so short

[16:50] staffed now.

[16:51] And then I believe the rest are staying.

[16:53] As they are with one change being the budget and

[16:56] finance committee.

[16:57] Was gonna be chaired by Kirsten Gowdy.

[17:00] And crystal be St. Croix.

[17:02] And then just kind of combine those two.

[17:05] If I think that's all it.

[17:08] It's currently.

[17:10] And so I hear back from all the school members,

[17:11] what we're doing.

[17:13] Is that what we all agree currently. Okay.

[17:16] I'll I'll I'll stress. Whether we have seven school board

[17:19] members, eight school board members, or nine school board members.

[17:22] Far and away right now, the policy committee, which is

[17:24] always a lot of work mm-hmm is, is on

[17:27] steroids right now because of what's happening at the state.

[17:30] And.

[17:31] We have our assistant superintendent on that, but that is

[17:33] big mm-hmm and requires significant and thoughtful participation from

[17:37] the school board.

[17:38] Personnel and negotiations, which

[17:41] is oftentimes an easy committee.

[17:43] Is probably at the very top of the list from

[17:46] now through the spring, because all three collective bargaining agreements

[17:49] are under negotiation. So.

[17:51] Strategizing thoughtfully about how we best support our teachers empower

[17:54] educators.

[17:56] Educators and set ourselves up for the strategic plan is

[17:57] huge.

[17:58] And budget and finance.

[18:00] Which is also typically a normal process is no longer

[18:03] a normal process because of the tax cap.

[18:07] Legislation that's before us requirements to figure out SA U

[18:10] piece of this beforehand things we had done in the

[18:12] past with Rollinsford.

[18:13] So those three committees, which are really the bread and

[18:16] butter of the board to begin with for various reasons

[18:20] are all.

[18:21] Escalated. And I it's doable with seven school board members.

[18:25] It's doable with eight, it's doable with nine, but I

[18:27] just really, really want to stress that.

[18:29] That it's gonna be a big, thank you. Mm-hmm .

[18:32] And just to be clear, those committee chairs like budgets.

[18:35] With budget being the one off.

[18:37] Will save the same. Marsha will still be.

[18:40] Committee chair a policy and then.

[18:43] I think that budget

[18:45] what a business, what is it called? Hold on.

[18:48] Budget and finance budget revenue.

[18:51] Budget and financial. Right. But then.

[18:53] We'll merge together with

[18:56] facilities you mean facilities?

[18:58] Correct. Okay. Got it. We all kind of, I think

[19:01] that'd be helpful.

[19:02] Right. Okay. And then

[19:04] so moving on from there. I just wanna say a

[19:07] quick, like,

[19:09] recap of what you had mentioned. Thank you for all

[19:11] of your work of the admin team and.

[19:14] You yourself this summer.

[19:16] I mean, it's you guys have done an amazing amount

[19:18] of work going forward.

[19:20] In the past ending committee updates currently, I don't think

[19:24] we have anything other than.

[19:27] We have policy.

[19:29] Correct. And then I think that's one that's met, but.

[19:34] We did have a meeting and we'll be presenting our

[19:37] policy.

[19:38] Readings later in the agenda. So I don't know that

[19:41] there's anything else to report at this time, other than

[19:45] what will go.

[19:46] When we do our policy readings.

[19:48] Ratings. Okay. And moving on to the presentation for tonight.

[20:06] Your slide. So let me know when .

[20:13] This is the brief presentation that we tabled from last

[20:17] meeting, feeling that we already had a lot in a

[20:19] shorter meeting and we.

[20:20] Got a small audience here tonight, but just basically some

[20:22] important reminders of how things fit together at the beginning

[20:25] of the school year.

[20:27] Without going super in depth. If there's pieces of this,

[20:29] you wanna.

[20:30] Talk about in greater depth. That'd be fine.

[20:34] So after this wonderful introductory slide called direction forward, there's

[20:38] just four slides about where we are and what we're

[20:41] doing.

[20:43] Thank you ready? Yes, .

[20:51] The

[20:52] you can tell Melanie helped me with these. Otherwise it'd

[20:54] be even, it'd be much more boring than that.

[20:57] the hill topper promise.

[21:00] Reminder. There's a lot of things in motion right now

[21:03] with the strategic plan and the, and the mayor's commission,

[21:05] the hill topper promise doesn't change.

[21:08] This is our north star. This is our guiding document.

[21:10] This is we're committed to forever.

[21:13] Until such times that the board may choose to revisit

[21:15] any aspects of this.

[21:16] But this is the, non-negotiable the introductory statement about who

[21:20] we are and that we value the diversity of our

[21:23] community, including everybody. And that.

[21:25] Equitable opportunity is essential to who we are.

[21:27] It states that in Summersworth we report to the Summersworth

[21:31] community and Summersworth values and Summersworth decisions are what guide

[21:35] us.

[21:36] Yes, we have to abide by federal and state regulations

[21:39] and laws, but first and foremost, it's about Summersworth and

[21:42] we will push back as we have in the past.

[21:44] And fight things, whether they come from the federal level

[21:46] or the state level that are not in line with

[21:48] who we are and what we care about.

[21:50] It establishes the three purposes of education that as we

[21:53] look at the strategic plan and the work we're doing

[21:56] to have a vertically aligned pre-K.

[21:59] pre-K through high school graduation, coherent curricular framework. So that.

[22:03] If all of our teachers move to another state tomorrow

[22:06] and we hired a whole nother group of teachers, there

[22:08] would be a curriculum here and in front of them.

[22:11] And it's here. It's, it's an important piece to have.

[22:13] We've had bits and pieces of it in the past.

[22:16] It's no fault of our.

[22:18] Principles or building leaders. It just hasn't been prioritized in

[22:21] the past at the district level.

[22:24] This is underway. This is a two or three year

[22:27] type project. It has begun in earnest, similar language, similar

[22:30] little framework, all the way from pre-K.

[22:32] pre-K through high school graduation, but the focus.

[22:35] Will hone in on the three purposes of why we're

[22:38] educating our kids.

[22:39] Number one, and this is kind of that second tier

[22:41] there.

[22:42] To prepare for meaningful and fulfilling work in our economy

[22:46] and to participate, to both define personal fulfillment and to

[22:49] contribute to.

[22:51] Our economic good second and parallel. This is not an

[22:53] order of priority. And this one is generally missed by

[22:57] most school districts.

[22:59] Districts equal to that. Finding a meaningful and fulfilling career

[23:02] is meaningful and fulfilling participation in civic life.

[23:06] Which arguably is fundamental as everybody here knows serving on

[23:10] this school board.

[23:12] To what it means to be a part of a

[23:13] community and a healthy contributing member of society.

[23:17] And it's also critical to the vibrancy and future of

[23:20] our democracy.

[23:22] And the third one is the one you always hear

[23:24] from parents about those basic life essential skills.

[23:28] And they're really about everything connected to home ownership or

[23:30] renting finance.

[23:32] Tech all the basics, automotive transportation, just kind of make

[23:37] sure those skill sets. And if.

[23:39] If who doesn't have anything to do with those three

[23:41] things, it shouldn't be in our curriculum and we shouldn't

[23:43] be doing it because we got, we need to hone

[23:45] in on those things.

[23:47] Five key skill sets are pretty obvious.

[23:49] Those are the things beyond the purpose of what we're

[23:52] really gonna focus on.

[23:54] Literacy math, higher order thinking skills, including executive function.

[23:58] Interpersonal skills and habits like collaboration and leadership and technology

[24:02] skills. Last on the list.

[24:05] For a reason because that's not the end all and

[24:07] the be all in this world, you need to understand

[24:09] them, but we need to start embracing healthier views of

[24:12] what that entail.

[24:13] Entails the five core values to the right will replace

[24:16] or be integrated with a lot of the language we

[24:18] used across our schools. It wasn't always consistent and including.

[24:21] With P B I S.

[24:24] And I, and I hope we get to a place

[24:25] where everybody on the school board knows these.

[24:28] You begin with integrity, you know, that's a good starting

[24:30] place. It's it's.

[24:33] It's something you don't compromise ever in my opinion. And

[24:35] a lot of folks would agree with that.

[24:37] Then number two, you look around you. Kindness, compassion.

[24:41] Number three, not just kindness and compassion for some people.

[24:44] But for everybody, inclusion, doesn't matter where folks are from

[24:47] that, that step. You get all those things in place

[24:49] and you work hard and you're responsible. And you do

[24:51] the things you say, you.

[24:52] You're gonna do and you show up and you don't

[24:54] give up. That's the fourth. And number five in order

[24:58] to do all this stuff, you gotta take care of

[25:00] yourself.

[25:01] You gotta take care of yourself and to kind of

[25:03] build that as a critical value.

[25:05] And we want to engrain that. And we, this all

[25:07] played out last year, but now all of our building

[25:09] principles and leadership teams across the school are looking to

[25:12] integrate.

[25:13] This language and this dynamic into everything that we do.

[25:16] So we just have a tight, tight focus. That's more

[25:18] likely to get these things done.

[25:20] And then all of this as we've discussed is on

[25:22] a foundation of purposefulness.

[25:24] Kids need to show up every day for a reason.

[25:27] They get it. They're here for a reason and they

[25:29] understand that. And, and a foundational element of joy underneath

[25:33] that. Yes, they work hard.

[25:36] You think about that might sound soft to a lot

[25:38] of folks, but some of our best experience, whether it's

[25:40] as a, a musician and all the practice that went

[25:43] into that.

[25:44] Or doing a project in a particular class or in

[25:47] athletics, it's really hard work.

[25:50] But at the end of the day, there's a certain

[25:51] satisfaction of it that kind of stretches into that, that

[25:54] element of joy and winning and working with others.

[25:57] That is our guide and less than until we choose

[26:00] to revisit everything that follows is aimed at that.

[26:04] Next slide.

[26:07] On October 27th, two school board meetings away, we will do

[26:11] a mockup of our four key performance measures.

[26:14] Measures just as our first take on what these look

[26:16] like.

[26:18] We do not have a data system to support doing

[26:20] this easily. We're not using that as an excuse. It

[26:23] just makes this tricky, but we'll do in October.

[26:26] 27th school board.

[26:28] Mock-up we also have summers with middle school presenting that

[26:31] board meeting. So it'll be the middle school and this.

[26:34] But this is number one. Sorry. I know that's hard

[26:36] to read, but we know it. It's presence showing up

[26:38] attendance at the top of the list. You can't do

[26:41] anything if you're not here.

[26:42] Number two is climate and culture. We have, we don't

[26:44] have a thousand indicators for climate and culture, nor do

[26:47] we have one we have about seven or eight.

[26:50] And we'll run through those and we've kind of want

[26:52] to really get to a green, yellow, red kind of

[26:53] mindset.

[26:54] These indicators are good. These indicators in between these are

[26:57] on red, high alert ones that we're looking for.

[27:00] Third is learning.

[27:03] We'll do a little bit on this on October 27th, but

[27:06] Kat will do a lot on it at the next

[27:07] school board meeting. Cause that's kind of a presentation and

[27:09] of itself.

[27:11] And fourth is okay, you get all this stuff, right?

[27:13] Where do our kids go after they graduate?

[27:15] Do they have a plan? Are they satisfied with the

[27:17] plan and statistically tell us where they're going.

[27:20] There is no magic formula to X percent should be

[27:23] going to four year colleges, X percent should be going

[27:25] to technical schools, but we'll track where they're going. But

[27:28] most importantly, we.

[27:29] Want 100% in a school district, our size 100% of

[27:32] students saying I have a plan and I'm satisfied with

[27:34] it.

[27:35] And by checking in with 'em six months and a

[27:37] year before I graduation, if they're not there, we, we

[27:40] should get 'em there.

[27:42] This is also

[27:43] Rox solid non-negotiable we're moving everything else around to deliver.

[27:47] On these four key performance measures.

[27:49] Measures, which are the best thing we've got as a

[27:51] proxy to the hill topper.

[27:53] Promise. It's not a perfect overlap, but generally the things

[27:56] we care about in terms of who our graduates are.

[27:58] Are difficult to measure. You mostly wanna know that 25

[28:00] years from now.

[28:02] They're a happy, contributing human being. And that's a little

[28:05] bit difficult, but I think this is the best. We've

[28:07] got a lot of participation on this. This went through

[28:09] the school board and.

[28:10] Was approved last October, shortly after the hill topper promise.

[28:15] And we'll measure lots of other stuff.

[28:17] But I would argue that most school districts.

[28:20] Districts don't prioritize what the most important measures are.

[28:24] And it's easy to bury lots of things or highlight

[28:26] lots of things or.

[28:28] Flood the public with a bazillion different statistics. We want

[28:32] to be responsible for these.

[28:34] When we succeed and when we come up short and,

[28:37] and we'd like the community to hold us responsible for

[28:39] these. So those are the, the things that.

[28:42] Are in place. The next thing is our strategic plan.

[28:45] Which we would continued now, now as an E with

[28:48] the thing over it on front of it, that's a

[28:49] new addition. those were a little, those were little.

[28:53] Bullets earlier. That's okay. Don't be confused by those .

[28:59] This is an eight and a half page document. That

[29:01] is almost a tighten up two page document.

[29:03] That as part of the Nelly may grant that we're

[29:06] applying for.

[29:07] On Friday, we'll kind of be incorporated in there in

[29:10] a way that fits pretty well. I just really want

[29:12] to stress.

[29:13] That the health topper strategic plan five year plan.

[29:17] Is about improving significantly improving the school system, as we

[29:21] know it, which is different than rethinking and redesigning the

[29:23] school system. So this is the.

[29:25] Hard work, curriculum instruction. Assessment is the top of the

[29:28] list.

[29:29] We've already piloted.

[29:31] And chose iReady as our.

[29:35] Main assessment across the district from the early elementary, all

[29:38] the way through 10th grade to know how we're doing

[29:40] in math and literacy.

[29:42] And you'll hear a little bit about that from me

[29:43] at the late October meeting and a lot more from

[29:46] Kat.

[29:48] That that was huge in picking that one and settling

[29:50] on it. We now are rolling out a math curriculum.

[29:54] We're piloting three different math curriculum curricula, and we'll be

[29:57] choosing this year and determining how we wanna move forward

[30:00] on that one. We're making.

[30:02] Progress on literacy and we have been making progress on

[30:04] literacy and we have a plan on literacy.

[30:07] But at the moment math has been done.

[30:10] SP, you know, good things happening, but without any coherence

[30:13] across the district,

[30:15] so that piece of it is huge.

[30:18] Assessment consistency of language and grading and reporting that is

[30:22] valid and reliable. That is all on the table. So

[30:24] there's a lot happening.

[30:26] There's enough right there to keep everybody busy.

[30:29] Without the rest of the strategic plan and without the

[30:32] mayor's commission.

[30:34] Health wellbeing and enrichment. We are in crisis in terms

[30:38] of the number of students that report suicidal ideation each

[30:40] day.

[30:42] D C Y F involvement and all kinds of things

[30:44] happening. We have kids that arrive at school well fed

[30:47] and ready to learn, but we have large numbers of

[30:49] kids.

[30:50] That are struggling and are struggling with their mental wellbeing.

[30:53] And all of this is typical.

[30:56] Of other schools as well.

[30:58] That doesn't mean we sit back, we need to address

[31:01] it. So we're doing what we can there. And we're

[31:03] trying to, this is all about.

[31:05] Broader mental health and programming and counseling. And.

[31:08] The plan is also to involve more partnerships.

[31:12] Throughout the city, but that's gonna take some more, an

[31:14] additional grant work. Climate and culture has been a huge

[31:18] priority since day one.

[31:20] The district had been through some tumultuous years.

[31:23] And we're doing our best in that regard to both

[31:26] measure and hone in on climate and culture.

[31:29] I would suggest that the.

[31:32] Key to good climate and culture is to have 50,

[31:34] 50 equal balance of.

[31:37] Clear high rigorous expectations that are well communicated.

[31:40] And a supportive, caring community.

[31:43] Not too much of either one, but exactly down the

[31:45] middle. We continue to work at that.

[31:47] Strategic budgeting, both how we spend our money measuring three

[31:50] years out and kind of building some cycles, not just

[31:52] for the capital improvement plans, but.

[31:55] Looking hard at that.

[31:57] Staffing and consistency and, and clarity of human resource policies

[32:01] and practices. We are.

[32:03] We're not where we ought to be. Just in terms

[32:04] of having.

[32:06] Clear consistent well-communicated policies, documents, and practices, and we're working

[32:10] on that.

[32:11] Technology two years ago, you know, getting us to where

[32:15] we need to be in terms of infrastructure and devices

[32:17] for kids. Not that they live on them.

[32:19] But they need them. We've made huge progress on that

[32:22] one already.

[32:24] Data systems are still weak and that remains a huge

[32:27] priority.

[32:28] Facility security and safety is ongoing. And what.

[32:32] Just happened, unfortunately, with

[32:34] returning the money that we're returning to the city this

[32:37] year, those are all it would've been good to have

[32:39] two or 300,000 of those dollars.

[32:42] For facilities projects as we have in the past.

[32:45] Part of the strategic plan from the beginning was the

[32:48] collective bargaining agreements, which are now all aligned.

[32:51] And doing our very, very best to provide good salary

[32:53] and good benefits for our teachers, but also doing our

[32:56] very, very best to put more flexibility in the collective

[32:59] bargaining.

[33:00] Agreements so that as we move forward with strategic direction,

[33:02] we have that flexibility.

[33:05] The last one on the list, we've done close to

[33:07] nothing on and.

[33:09] That's not anybody's fault, but this is a pretty full

[33:11] list.

[33:14] A lot of school districts throughout the country have professional

[33:18] communications directors at the district level.

[33:21] Even districts are size. It is so far from even

[33:24] in the next 10 things we would ask for.

[33:27] With funding, but because of things like education, freedom accounts,

[33:30] and because.

[33:32] Deliberate efforts to demean and.

[33:35] Attack public education over the last 10, 15, 20 years are working.

[33:40] To better communicate and strategically communicate.

[33:44] Who we are, what we do a powerful website.

[33:47] A powerful social media campaign would be helpful.

[33:51] But it's just not, it's one of those things, as

[33:54] I say, circling the airport and there's no room on

[33:56] the, it hasn't many room on the runway for quite

[33:58] some time. Our ability to.

[33:59] Bring it down, but that was last.

[34:02] And that's the strategic plan that we've been looking at

[34:04] and has been in place for about a year and

[34:06] a half.

[34:07] As we move forward, hopefully with a Nelly may grant

[34:11] and a few more grants, we will begin to figure

[34:14] out which of these things.

[34:15] Rise to the top and we can make happening.

[34:18] So they're not all circling the airport.

[34:20] What we've done so far is pretty impressive.

[34:23] Trying to land them all at once.

[34:25] Would not be good. And I think we push we're

[34:27] pushing ourselves in that regard. And we've had a few

[34:30] crashes, but we're doing our best to kind of make

[34:32] this make.

[34:33] This work. So that's the strategic plan. There's nothing crazy.

[34:37] There. There's nothing radical. There there's nothing that would have

[34:39] the community going. Whoa.

[34:41] You have a social media strategy, you have a better

[34:44] website. You know, you have a math curriculum. This is

[34:48] all.

[34:49] Ketchup good solid stuff. And there's a lot of gain

[34:52] that will come from getting all this done.

[34:56] Last slide, which doesn't have much on it.

[35:01] This was the last piece of the strategic plan from

[35:03] the beginning was the plan B outside the box thing.

[35:05] What if the strategic plan's not enough? And when we've

[35:07] originally drafted it.

[35:08] We weren't really sure this would ever matter. And now

[35:10] we are crystal clear that it does.

[35:12] Because there is significant, and this is what we're talking

[35:14] about tomorrow night at the.

[35:17] The mayor's commission on re-imagining and redesigning the summers war

[35:19] school district.

[35:21] Community forum on the suture of the summers war schools,

[35:23] permission to think outside the box. Everybody repeat that with

[35:26] me as it .

[35:28] Six o'clock tomorrow night at idle Hurst, six o'clock tomorrow

[35:31] night at idle Hurst. It'll only be an hour.

[35:34] And we are hopeful. We have good turnout because we're

[35:38] gonna find out tomorrow night.

[35:40] A week from tomorrow night, there'll be a follow up

[35:41] session. Not required. You can come tomorrow night and then

[35:44] decide what you wanna do next.

[35:46] And then two weeks after that one, there'll be a

[35:47] second follow-up session just to kind of get us going.

[35:50] We are not presenting a plan to the community. We

[35:53] are asking the community to.

[35:55] Support this. We're not asking them to figure it out.

[35:57] That's our job, but we want their involvement and we

[36:00] really need them.

[36:02] Whether in the background or if they have the capacity

[36:05] to join in saying, yes, I get it. Let's do

[36:08] this. Let's let's make all these things happen.

[36:10] But this is where we begin to think. Not about

[36:12] ways to improve the system, the things that are in

[36:15] the strategic plan.

[36:17] But really rethinking. And re-imagining the very system, how the

[36:20] curriculum is organized, how time is organized, what a school

[36:22] looks like, what our facilities are.

[36:25] What the role of the community is how we earn

[36:27] credits.

[36:28] Credits everything is how we organize students across grade levels.

[36:32] Is where we're headed. The beautiful thing about the Nelly

[36:35] Mae education foundation grant that we are applying for on

[36:38] Friday.

[36:39] Which will be $500,000 over three years, if we get

[36:42] it, which is probably about a quarter of what we

[36:44] need over the next two or three years to really

[36:46] do.

[36:47] The strategic plan and the mayor's commission work well.

[36:53] Is it's really a bridge between the strategic plan.

[36:56] And the mayor's commission kind of work. A lot of

[36:59] what we're doing with Anelli Mae grant sits firmly in

[37:01] the strategic plan.

[37:03] Math literacy and executive function skills for all of our

[37:07] students, particularly those that are economically disadvantaged.

[37:10] Disadvantaged from pre-K through eighth grade and really beginning that

[37:14] work.

[37:15] At birth slash pregnancy and figuring out all the things

[37:17] that happened beforehand.

[37:19] Which sounds very strategic plan. Like.

[37:22] But then when you talk about how do we rethink

[37:24] what birth through the year before high school looks like.

[37:28] And how do we get everybody to within a grade

[37:30] level on math, everybody within a grade level on literacy

[37:33] and everybody at an age appropriate level on executive function.

[37:36] You begin to tear at the fabric of the assumptions

[37:38] of what elementary looks like, and simultaneously we're gonna be

[37:42] doing some of that work around high school as.

[37:45] Well, this gets really

[37:47] really hard because everybody says they want.

[37:51] Better and everybody says different. And then as soon as

[37:54] you talk about what better and different might look like,

[37:56] there's generally like, whoa, but not, you know, that's not

[37:59] what.

[38:00] That's not what I thought or my school looked like.

[38:02] So it, I don't, I wanna make sure we all

[38:05] go into this with our eyes wide open. We begin

[38:07] this.

[38:08] Process. It's my opinion that really over the next couple

[38:11] of months, and maybe.

[38:13] By January. We're probably either gonna know that the community

[38:16] is behind this and energized around this. And we've got

[38:20] the Nelly may grant and we've got.

[38:21] Another grant on the way. And two others that were

[38:23] on the are in the works grants tend to breed

[38:25] more grants. I was very clear with the LA Mae

[38:28] education foundation. I.

[38:29] Met with the New Hampshire director about a week and a

[38:31] half ago.

[38:32] The three year, $500,000 grant.

[38:35] Would be appreciated and would be nice.

[38:38] What we need is a 10 to 15 year partnership

[38:40] from the Nelly Mae education foundation and a couple of

[38:43] others, maybe U NH included to have.

[38:46] A school district, our size of our significance, but small

[38:50] enough to really kind of do some things differently.

[38:52] Show the whole entire state.

[38:55] While under attack, what public education can be.

[38:58] And so all of this is hopefully gonna be a

[39:00] step in, in that direction.

[39:06] Any questions for

[39:08] I just wanna say thank you for your efforts. This

[39:11] is a lot of work, honestly, for everyone involves here.

[39:16] I'm excited. I do know.

[39:18] Change is hard, right? Change is hard for most people,

[39:20] but this is.

[39:22] Exciting and hopefully

[39:24] it goes well, any questions for John? I did have

[39:27] one more thing.

[39:29] That triggered a thought

[39:31] odd enough with my brain mental health.

[39:35] You talked about that.

[39:37] Numerous times and how our children are struggling currently. And

[39:41] it made me think about our health clinic, how where's

[39:44] our health clinic.

[39:45] Doing SL you'll off topic.

[39:48] I'd have to get stats on where we are in

[39:50] terms of, yeah. I mean, we could that next meeting,

[39:53] just so we know like how airs a Hoff clinic

[39:55] doing are, is.

[39:56] It thriving. Is it struggling? Like what are we doing

[39:59] with that? Oh yeah, go ahead.

[40:03] To jump off of the mental health and.

[40:06] The clinic and stuff. Are we gonna get some input

[40:08] too from.

[40:10] Students in how they feel as well. I think with

[40:13] them.

[40:14] That would be a big.

[40:16] Yeah. To help out with these.

[40:19] Ideas and to get them involved. I think they would

[40:21] be able to help us. It's largely been anecdotal to

[40:23] this point, but I've reached out.

[40:26] To the high school and have asked for seven or

[40:29] eight people to recommend students, they think would be good

[40:31] to be sort of a sounding board council.

[40:34] And I will volunteer to be the one that meets

[40:36] with 'em regularly, but invite others. So as it'll be

[40:38] both an opportunity to ask them what they think should

[40:40] be different.

[40:42] But also an opportunity for us to like take ideas.

[40:45] Ideas take ideas and bounce them off of the

[40:49] students as well.

[40:51] We're doing that. And we wanna do the same thing

[40:52] with teachers.

[40:53] Teachers. I really wanna remind everybody that the work of

[40:56] the commission, as we've said multiple times, the commission is

[40:58] not to come up with a plan. We are facilitating.

[41:02] The process we are facilitating, convening the process. It will

[41:04] be the school board.

[41:06] It's one. It is not a committee work, but one,

[41:07] a big work of this, the school board as a

[41:09] whole will be evaluating these plans and proposals. They come

[41:13] forth.

[41:14] City council where it involves city council aspects, school board.

[41:19] The teachers union, the para-educators union.

[41:22] And teachers and voices throughout. So we're just getting this

[41:25] process going.

[41:27] But my hope would be that it's gonna basically run

[41:28] now through spring. If we can get some momentum.

[41:32] And there'll be plenty of time for folks to, to

[41:34] chime in. It may not.

[41:36] Fit well enough with next year's budget planning, but this

[41:39] is gonna be five and 10 year stuff.

[41:41] So it'll be another year out before it can really

[41:43] fit into the budget. Cuz budget works beginning really now.

[41:47] For the coming school year.

[41:49] But we'll see where we land.

[41:52] But yes, that's in the works.

[41:54] I do want to stress that.

[41:56] For teachers it's, it's always a matter of paraeducators. If

[42:01] you have the capacity.

[42:03] And you want to participate wholeheartedly in all this, please

[42:05] do.

[42:06] If you're at a place where you're new.

[42:08] Or you have three kids at home or whatever else

[42:10] might be going on where you're like, Hey, I'm my

[42:13] job is to take, do my job here.

[42:15] And, and I support the work that's happened around me.

[42:17] That's fine too.

[42:19] But in terms of the central office leadership team.

[42:23] And in terms of our building principles, there's gonna be

[42:25] a lot of strain.

[42:27] This is a lot of work and it'll be really

[42:30] nice if we can get support to this point. For

[42:32] example, the Ellie Mae education foundation.

[42:35] And support we've had has not.

[42:38] It has not alleviated anybody's workload. It has added significantly

[42:42] to a handful of us. So we need to get

[42:44] over the hump.

[42:46] It was very clear with an Ellie Mae education foundation

[42:48] director. What we need is help.

[42:50] We need like half of a person or another person.

[42:54] The day after we met, I was pleased to see

[42:57] that Angela Duckworth had a op-ed in the New York times.

[43:00] That said good leaders ask for help. .

[43:03] When they know when they reach their capacity, which I

[43:05] shared with her quickly. but needless to say,

[43:08] I think we're gonna be in a pretty tight place,

[43:11] the team effort, and it's gonna get a little hard

[43:14] as we go forward.

[43:15] Yep. Good.

[43:18] Thank you.

[43:21] All right.

[43:23] And so we're moving on to our policy adoptions. We

[43:25] just have.

[43:26] The second reading, do I have a motion to read

[43:29] by title only?

[43:32] Motion to read by title only.

[43:35] Second motion. Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye.

[43:40] You want me to read them? Yeah.

[43:43] For our second reading.

[43:45] This evening, we have 7.1.

[43:48] Or I'm sorry, JH attendance, absenteeism and truancy.

[43:54] And what is the wish of the board for this?

[43:57] Policy.

[43:59] So, so this is the second reading. So we are

[44:02] to vote we're voting on this policy, correct? Correct. Okay.

[44:05] And who

[44:11] correct. You'll okay. I'm waiting for a motion to vote.

[44:13] I move to vote on JH 10 at absent.

[44:16] Absenteeism and truancy.

[44:18] Second. All right. And now open for discussion.

[44:22] Has anyone heard anything from the public?

[44:25] I know, I tried to reach out to some people

[44:27] and I I've heard.

[44:30] Positive things as far as making sure the kids come

[44:33] to school and holding them accountable.

[44:36] And I feel like that's all that I heard. I

[44:37] didn't hear anything other.

[44:39] Than that per se. Anyone else hear anything about? Okay.

[44:43] So I have

[44:45] of informally reached out to some teachers that are in

[44:47] my circle. It's no, it's no.

[44:51] It, it's no mystery that I'm married to a teacher.

[44:53] So I, I speak to a lot of teachers informally

[44:55] all the time.

[44:59] We brought this up as it related to the administrative

[45:02] D with the high school, because we thought.

[45:04] Well, the administrative D, which is a procedure at the

[45:07] high school. It's not a policy. We kept getting hung

[45:09] up with wording last week about procedures that the high

[45:11] school has in place.

[45:12] Versus a actual policy.

[45:16] That

[45:17] is there alignment with this?

[45:20] The school policy and their procedure in place. And then

[45:22] we started talking about.

[45:25] The fact that this

[45:27] policy that we have in place has no.

[45:29] Teeth for lack of better term. There's no.

[45:33] There's no consequence for an overabundance of, of.

[45:38] Absences, whether they be unexcused or excused.

[45:42] Excused. I've had teachers tell me at the middle school

[45:44] at the elementary school level.

[45:46] That in the past years, they've had kids that had

[45:48] upwards of 60.

[45:51] Absences from school that's one in three days.

[45:54] And that they were still.

[45:56] Being pushed forward to the next level.

[45:59] At the end of the school year, because we don't

[46:00] have any sort of.

[46:02] Consequence in place.

[46:04] That holds parents and students accountable for.

[46:08] Not attending school. And we put an undue stress on

[46:12] our teachers.

[46:13] Teachers, because then at the end of the year,

[46:17] the treaters are, are asked to hold account for the

[46:20] fact that.

[46:21] They've lost a third of their instructional time with these

[46:24] children.

[46:25] And it's at no fault of their own, but yet

[46:27] they're asked to make up for it.

[46:31] So we, this is what's in front of us. We

[46:33] can't.

[46:34] Can't reinvent the wheel right in front of us right

[46:35] now.

[46:38] But I do.

[46:40] Think that

[46:42] the, the school policy for absenteeism really needs a good

[46:45] look at it.

[46:46] To see if there's any sort of.

[46:49] Way that we can start holding these parents account.

[46:52] Because the teachers are doing their parts, but the sometimes

[46:56] feels like the parents aren't doing theirs.

[46:58] Theirs. It's a tricky place to be for sure. Thank

[47:00] you for your comment.

[47:02] What is else? Anything else you wanna discuss about this?

[47:07] All in favor to vote.

[47:10] I I perfect. Okay.

[47:13] And then first readings motion.

[47:16] Should we by title only I move to read to

[47:19] have all the first readings by title only.

[47:22] Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye.

[47:27] J J I B

[47:30] school-sponsored athletic programs.

[47:32] Programs we voting on each one or.

[47:36] So this is just reading. Sorry. This is reading. Just

[47:38] reading. Yeah. JJ J access to public school programs by

[47:42] non enrolled residents.

[47:44] Residents JJ, J R

[47:46] one appendix

[47:48] access to public school programs by non enrolled residents.

[47:52] Residents J I C K bullying.

[47:54] Prevention pupil safety and violence prevention.

[48:00] And

[48:02] student activities and organizations, JJ, a.

[48:05] Thank you, JJ. A

[48:12] thank you. And then

[48:14] just for clarity for the public. How many of these

[48:17] are.

[48:18] For yes, the state is being pushed through.

[48:22] Or how many do we choose to.

[48:25] So most of what we are working on is, is

[48:28] because of legislation that's gone through that. We have to

[48:31] either edit or.

[48:33] Add to our policies that we currently have. So.

[48:37] We're looking at about potentially.

[48:39] 25 to 30 this year right now.

[48:42] That we're working on.

[48:45] For that, so. Okay. Thank you.

[48:48] So nothing to go on for there. So we're gonna

[48:50] move on to unfinished business and there is none.

[48:53] And then we just have one to add for a

[48:55] new business. We just need to suspend rules to add.

[48:59] Move to suspend rules to add to the new business

[49:02] lottery truck. Yep. And then can I get a second,

[49:05] second?

[49:06] All in favor. Aye. All right. I'm superintendent. We would

[49:09] need a board member motion to accept a $5,000 check.

[49:15] Payable to Summersworth high school from the New Hampshire state lottery

[49:18] as it's above the minimum.

[49:20] And then a second and then any discussion and a

[49:22] vote to accept mm-hmm .

[49:24] I'll move to accept the $5,000 check from the New Hampshire

[49:28] state law lottery commission. Mm-hmm .

[49:31] Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any, well, I

[49:35] guess discussion discussion first. That's fine. Pass. I think we're

[49:38] all very excited about.

[49:39] This. Okay. So

[49:42] anybody wanna say anything about this? I just wanna say,

[49:45] I just wanna say thank you to.

[49:48] I think it was

[49:51] so the CTC

[49:53] CTC person. My brain just leaves me guys. I don't

[49:56] even know. No that's okay. This one, it was very

[49:59] good of high school principal, Mike blue into attend.

[50:02] In to attend this one kind of landed on our

[50:04] lap. There was, there was the New Hampshire lottery that wanted

[50:07] to do this.

[50:08] And we were told that they drew two high school

[50:10] names out of a hat, and that's how they ended

[50:13] up with Groveton and Summersworth high school.

[50:16] How the NASCAR driver got Groveton and the governor got

[50:18] Summersworth high school. I do not know.

[50:20] But the, the competition went.

[50:23] And both schools got $5,000 for being selected is what

[50:26] we were told. That's awesome. It's not that often you

[50:29] get $5,000.

[50:31] Without doing much, but it was good of the high

[50:33] school principal to be there with his son.

[50:36] Sun. That's very nice. And then upcoming.

[50:39] Meetings is below.

[50:42] Anything you want to, to stand out?

[50:45] I would like to say for the ninth time, this

[50:46] evening that I know the mayor's commission for reimagined redesigning

[50:51] the Summersworth school district forum.

[50:53] Tomorrow night for anybody that's watching and obviously for our

[50:56] school board members, but this will be the kind of

[50:58] thing that if you care about where the summers, where

[51:00] schools are headed.

[51:01] You will not only show up if you can, but

[51:03] bring.

[51:04] Five people mm-hmm and it doesn't matter whether you're

[51:07] a community member.

[51:09] Or a parent

[51:11] or just care about our schools. It'll be a good

[51:14] indicator of where we are. I know there's good people

[51:16] that care about all this that simply won't be able

[51:18] to be there, but we're.

[51:19] Hopeful we'll have a good turnout and get some good

[51:22] energy moving forward.

[51:24] You're not signing on to anything. We just want you

[51:26] to hear about things. You'll have the opportunity to participate

[51:28] in a few more meetings. And if you have the

[51:30] time and capacity, you can stay with us all the

[51:32] way into.

[51:32] The spring, but that one's critically important.

[51:36] Tomorrow night, 6:00 PM. Idle Hurst elementary school. There will be

[51:39] refreshments and there will be childcare provided for the hour.

[51:43] So anybody.

[51:44] That can't make it because they've got a young one

[51:46] with a little one.

[51:48] Our national honor society students, and at least one educator

[51:52] will be watching the kids.

[51:54] For that hour. Thanks.

[51:56] And then do we have, I know I'm public.

[52:00] No non-public is not necessary for. Okay. We had an

[52:03] agenda item, but it resolved itself.

[52:06] Okay.

[52:08] And then public comments.

[52:11] Comments by visitors. And what about school board members? Go

[52:14] ahead.

[52:16] So I am just going to reiterate what I said

[52:18] last week. We are now in school, athletic seasons for

[52:22] all schools.

[52:23] In the district.

[52:26] All of our programs are what we call pay to

[52:27] play. So the students are responsible for payments. We do

[52:29] have boosters clubs that are working to help alleviate that

[52:32] to all kids. And then to the best of my

[52:33] knowledge,

[52:34] all fundraisers for all sports are still going on.

[52:38] And most of the sports in the district have their

[52:39] own social media page.

[52:41] So, if you would like to learn more.

[52:44] About how you can support our athletes in the district.

[52:46] In the fall, we have players.

[52:48] Playing boys soccer.

[52:50] Football girls volleyball, a whole host of sports. Please look

[52:53] into.

[52:55] Either announcements from the high school or the middle school.

[52:57] The announcements from the schools, the school's teams in particular.

[53:00] So.

[53:02] We can support these kids.

[53:05] That's great. Thank you so much.

[53:08] Yes. I also just want to reiterate the importance of

[53:12] being able to join us for the mayor's commission.

[53:16] Meeting that starts tomorrow night and continues.

[53:21] Continues into the fall. We've done a lot of work.

[53:24] Trying to set up really worthwhile evenings.

[53:29] Evenings and have really tried to think about.

[53:31] Every aspect of

[53:33] what that night can look like. And tomorrow night is

[53:36] only an hour. The following week will be a little

[53:38] bit longer.

[53:39] But it's great information and we're really looking for the

[53:42] community to show up and, and provide information.

[53:46] To us so that we can help.

[53:48] Us all do the job of educating our kids.

[53:53] Very nice.

[53:55] And I just wanna take a minute to say we

[53:56] have two Mt. Seats on the school board. If anybody

[53:59] would like to join, have questions.

[54:02] Questions feel free to reach out to myself.

[54:04] Any of the board member, superintendent, Shay, anyone really.

[54:09] This is great work. Our administrators are doing great work

[54:12] I'm to help.

[54:14] Support them. We need our full.

[54:17] Board here would that

[54:19] motion to adjourn.

[54:23] Motion to adjourn.

[54:25] Adjourn second. All in favor.

[54:27] Aye. Aye. Perfect. Thank you. Stand adjourn.

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