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All right, I'll call on our meeting to order at 702. Anyone present to speak?

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Excellent. All right, any communications and

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Mr. Hartling? I don't have any formal communications. I will say that since the last meeting, I have had a couple of emails for parents just

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just inquiring about the tuition out of students and asking questions about what's going on.

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It's just a done deal, and that's sort of the thing.

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Voicing a little bit of frustration, but after talking to them, just explaining what's going on.

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I'm encouraging them to come to meeting, especially the 23rd of the figure, what's going on.

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So there's been some communications around that, but nothing formal.

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I've had similar communications, some great superintendents report.

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What I wanted to do is go over a couple of the end of the year activities that happened at the schools last week, there was quite a few.

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The graduation was on Friday evening, well attended the weather was cool, so it wasn't so bad.

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Sometimes the gym gets pretty heated at this time of year, it was actually a nice day.

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Kids did well, it was Deb Austin's last year of doing that.

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Pat Pany also was there doing awards last year of them being involved, Deb Sullivan showed

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up, so it was good and Tom did the actual ceremony which was people, you know, gave a lot

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of good kudos to Tom. The field day last week also was a big hit, the whole hospital did

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a field day and what they do is that T-shirts reach a great level and they go out and they

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two series of competitions. It was also a nice day and it's been going on now for about four

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or five years and it's turned into quite the tradition. Get really good into it and it's

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been run. It was started by staff and it was run by staff and a lot of work was into it.

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So, you know, Kudos to all the staff who participates in making that happen. The success

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assembly also was a big hit on the last, was it Friday? Friday morning, the last success

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the assembly of the season. It was a little bit of a send-up for Tom. The Jazz Manplay, the

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Coral Group saying, but a lot of awards were given out. Was anybody there? Was anybody

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at that? I came later. It was very good though. They do that three times a year.

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Hall Idol was another big hit earlier in the week Thursday, I think, and they have to know

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All Idol was one of the fifth graders, I forgot, who was the one.

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But it was a big hit that you've never seen

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all Idol when you've got a chance on the end of the year.

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The kids just run just like American Idol,

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where the kids actually go in and they sing and try to get an early competition

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to get selected to participate.

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And then they put on a show when you see little kids get up and

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And we had, you know, some of the high school kids

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for the one prior years came back to Georgia.

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It was a big deal.

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So the kids had a lot of fun.

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There was also a math day at Center School,

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where I think I forward you a video,

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but Phil Stevens had a pirate day.

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And he actually did a video of himself

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and he convinced Joan and Patrick to dress up as pirates.

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And they went out and they had a bunch of gems

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and jewels and stuff that they had and they were, the video was great, they used the green

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app and they were actually on a beach and then they wanted a pirate ship and they came

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and they arrived at a center school and as they were walking in, they were dropping, there

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was a hole in the chest and they were jewels and dropped it all over. So they showed this to the

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kids and then they set it up as the, not last Friday but the week before that that would be

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this math challenge and the kids came in and they started up by seeing the video, kids were

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us this pirates and they had to find the jewels and then what they did was the data collection

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so they were charting them by where they were found, how many were found by class, colors,

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you know so they turned it into old math event which was really good and it was just it was

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perfect because it was very academic in the way they approached it but it was so much fun and they all

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had a good time with it and Phil I think is crazy doing that stuff but it was very cool and then

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This week I want to thank the Board for the professional development for both the two days

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that we dropped so that the teachers could do that and the kids didn't come back.

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We had professional development on yesterday that was mostly technology-based.

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There were about six or seven workshops that kept on repeating and people got a chance

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to go to all of them and included in that.

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We did some of the mandated stuff like the DCF training from the state.

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We also did a training on the new web page, which, well, the staff was able to get in and

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start setting up their web pages on that yesterday.

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We had brought in a couple of homes from Nashville, and she did training on Google Boxroom

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in Google.

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It's not interesting because she was, she was, she was a teacher here, and now she's a great

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group.

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That was very good too, so they had a very good day with that yesterday, and then some of

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new teachers came to attend and also today they did training on the most of most of the

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staff was training in the restraint training which is now mandated by the state also when

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I was a six hour training. So there's been you know it was really invaluable to have that time

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to get some of that stuff out of the way. Restraining. Restraining. The use to be that you

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have like a response team and now it's everybody needs to be trained. So so it was a good opportunity

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and things went well.

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I also wanted to just go over to all the new hires.

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There's so many this year, and they're almost all full.

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So actually, in some of these I've already told you,

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but now that we're getting the whole thing,

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I'd like to run down the list with you.

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The new map teachers at Ashley Springsteen,

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she was at the training.

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In Special Ed, we have the two new Special Ed teachers

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of Center School, Mary Rodo, and Ashley Milardo.

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The Ken Craig is the new principal who had been back and he also came to the training yesterday and spent the day at the staff and participated in the training and that was really good too.

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Kylie Ellis is the new art teacher. She was also at the training and she's going to be a lot of fun, I believe. Michelle Shine is one of the new elementary teachers. She comes from Killingway.

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Pre-K, we just finished today, Lori Pailini, she's going to be coming out from Stafford.

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What's your luncheon?

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Pailini, P-A-O-L-I-N-I.

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The social worker Sarah Heber is on board now, just wrapped up this week, and she's going to be

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coming out from killing me also.

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I'm extremely enthusiastic about the new staff that we have, it's just looking.

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The gift position is not in Philadelphia, and the proposal that was made at the last board meeting to do this thing where we got the IT set up, and the parents would be added.

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We added to Jeff Pepin, Tammy Dolci, and Linda Cooper to the Wilmington staff members as opposed to contract with your visa.

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see, there was anything else that I wanted to hit that's not on the agenda.

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No.

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That's what I have for my reports.

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Is that a full floor staff?

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Not well, the gifted.

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And then later on in the agenda, there's that other position that the...

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The position.

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I've actually, because we were doing the elementary interviews,

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we've interviewed and have established who we would like to bring on.

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But during the budget season, we cut that position of the interventionist.

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And the plan at that point in the way we budgeted was that there would be a, the interventionist

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would be bumping into the elementary position.

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And then there was a lot of people talking about that.

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The parents came out pretty adamantly opposed to that and wanted it.

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And we said, look, we believe that as the year winds down, we might be able to make it happen.

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and then at the last board meeting a transfer was made to cover legal costs into next year and that amount of money would free up enough so that you could tonight make that decision and if so we would fill that other position.

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And then the only one that would be outstanding would be to get that in town, which I'm in the process of looking and I've met with several people and there's good prospects out there, but it wasn't as high priority as some of the other positions at the moment.

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Not that to get the position isn't but I feel like, you know, we want to get the right person

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We have the time

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Thank you

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Any committee report?

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The policy committee did me and the policy committee met and the two policies that we're looking at is a social media policy and also the board goals policy, which is underneath the

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It's a love note one or something, it's dope.

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The bylaws are the board sort of thing as the board goes and those would be coming up in the summertime.

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I didn't get any feedback from the committee after the meeting, so I'm not.

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I don't have a policy to bring forth.

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But those are the two things that we're looking at and we'll be bringing those again into the song.

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That's the only committee I believe that not.

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The fire is coming in and we've come up there and we're moving on May 24th and we have Dr.

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Sian.

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Right, sir?

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Good, sir.

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She spoke on the home point in the risk units that are processed, especially

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And also we had a regular meeting of the board and we went over to the budget, which was

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I'm gonna set these to the end of the day and dollars.

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We're not going to be, again until August.

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Oh yes,

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okay.

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All right, thank you.

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The next item under new business is approval of our regular meeting from May 10th.

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I'm gonna change the motion.

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There are second, half second.

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Sean's second.

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Any discussion?

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All those in favor?

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Any abstentions, sweet, abstain?

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Most in passes. Next item is approval of our May 18th special meeting. I moved to accept the minutes from the May 18th meeting.

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I'll suck in.

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I can buy Sean Kualchen.

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Any discussion?

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All those in favor?

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I'm an amson-stom.

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On the antifstains.

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Big motion passes.

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That was a very short meeting.

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When we approved the hiring of the hospital principal.

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All right.

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Any nutrients for us, Mr. Hardy?

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Yes.

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Here.

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Oh, thank you.

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Yes.

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So there's a transfer, this is for

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$3,136.82.

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And what happened is the IT position that we have left early.

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We knew that we had the resignation and that we were moving forward with the custom contract in July.

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But the person left in mid May.

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And so what I did is I contacted Custom and asked could we get some support early and so they

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sent out for the last two weeks of school I had somebody that was one of our regular people

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who had been working with us for two days a week and then they gave us that two days a week but

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I needed somebody for the additional three and so they sent somebody out for the three days and that

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is what I did is I transferred, I'm asking for a transfer to take the money from what was

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the balance of the cost of the salary for the person to apply to purchase services so

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that I could help offset the money for the contract.

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I moved to accept the transfers presented for $3,103 to $8,020,000.

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So second of my curve.

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Any discussion?

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Was, well, I know he would have left before the turnover of all of our iPads, no issues with those.

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No, everything's going well.

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It's actually, you know, I'm a brag a little bit and say that when we said to go and move towards this single get away from the single point of failure and having the cusp, you know, having a company behind us to do all this stuff.

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Somebody walks out one day and if there was a time when that would have been devastating for us.

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Especially IT with one IT person, a whole district and they walk out and we're doing all the stuff at the end of the year.

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I had to state reports, being taken care of, everything, all the

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technology that's being turned.

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Actually, I would say that my inventory today is better than it was six weeks ago.

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So, I mean, we didn't just to be, and it was good, you know.

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I'm moving to the next level.

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Would it be so flexible and accountable?

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Yeah, they've been that way, so I'm very pleased with that.

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All right, any other discussion?

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All those in favor?

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All right.

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All right, unanimous? Motion passes. We need to talk about a board of ed. Retreat. So typically our July meeting is.

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We're not July 12, I think we have a meeting.

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We could do several things. I mean, we could combine a little bit. I have also retreat with admin that day.

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Um,

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well, typically when we have a retreat, we need for a couple of two or three hours.

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Maybe it's like around dinner or something like that.

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We could do something before the July meeting or we could set a totally different time.

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I don't know what your calendars are like, and if people are even in a beer,

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I know sometimes July is tough because people are going, right?

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Um, I am here, though.

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It's hard to know with two of them.

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I'm not.

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But if I find out from you guys, and I could query them, be an email tomorrow or something,

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I'll be back all this second, but I want to make commitment and notice rather than that.

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You're going for July, are you on?

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Okay, so July is out.

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Well, so this could be in place of, so typical, in the past.

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We have canceled that regular meeting and had a board retreat.

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We could do both.

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We could do a board retreat separate and then our regular meeting.

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They're just as typically a lot of business.

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There should be a lot of business in Brighton, right?

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It's very rare.

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If we were to cancel that meeting and something more to come up, we could schedule a special meeting.

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With that item of business, I'd be in favor of canceling that July meeting and having a retreat.

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Yeah, I would really like to be at the retreat.

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Okay.

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But that would require an August meeting and I know that people are more likely to be in vacation in August than in July.

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I'm going to do it backwards this year.

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So I don't know if there's a week that all five of us at least are here in August as an option

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If it means I have to miss it. I do. Right when did you say you were back August

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So we could we potentially do the third of it. Well, we also I was just going to grab we have a board meeting on the night

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We could potentially do the third

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I can't promise the night that is my week of vacation one week in the summer

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That's why I brought it up because yeah, right we're gonna have right we all have conflicts in the summer

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Could we do something the week of the 15th to the 19th of people for you that we only

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With the farther away and we can it sounds like there's always gonna be a conflict with at least one first. Right. Yeah, so

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What would like to keep our regular

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If we could do a lot of meeting Michelle and then if you're the only person who wasn't able to,

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when you come back, what you can do is when you come back on the analogous step first week,

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you can meet you and I can meet you.

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That's good.

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What can you call in?

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I do stuff on.

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I'm going to be in Europe, so it would be very expensive, so I know.

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So I think you should call in and let us know what you're doing here.

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I'll send you a picture of it in and then go silent.

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We had a meeting in Brian called in from Indonesia.

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We'll take a little break.

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I don't think I'll do a break.

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I don't think I'll do a break on that way.

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That's why you don't have technology.

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So are you proposing to, are you proposing to, cancel the July meeting and do a retreat?

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I am.

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It'll be a very cool meeting.

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It'll keep the same day to do a retreat.

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Do a retreat.

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And do the evening?

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Okay.

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And do just maybe instead of doing seven, two.

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The downside to that is like, couldn't do earlier than that night.

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If we did the 11th through the 13th, I could be flexible with time.

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I could do the writing for the 9th and 13th.

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I'd thus I could do anything.

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We could do Monday the 11th.

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It could say like 530.

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I found good everyone.

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I put it down to the 11th and 530 for victory.

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And then I'll reach out to the other members.

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Is that you?

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Is that you?

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So does that mean we would then also accept us August 9th?

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Probably.

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Yes.

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More than likely we can keep the place to be determined.

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Okay.

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August 9th is still on.

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Still on.

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Has a board meeting?

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As a regular board meeting.

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And I think that's important.

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To have this the last board meeting.

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Do you be forced to think that?

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All right.

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Anything that comes up in our retreat.

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We will, you know, if anything has come up with the issue with the agreement with

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and we want to touch on those before our school year starts.

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So I think it's important to keep that, I'll get this meeting.

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Good.

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All right.

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So the next item on the agenda is the position at Center School.

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So when we looked at the budget, we added in several items.

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And unfortunately, when our budget went to the Board of Finance and the amount was reduced all of the items that we added to the budget were then removed.

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Dave had come to us, maybe March, late March, and a role mentioned that there could be a possibility of funds and we could pre-paste some items.

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And if that were the case, we could still do the things that we had wanted, and felt that we needed in our budget

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if we prepaid for next year.

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And that did happen in the transfer last month.

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We prepaid some legal fees.

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So that left funds to be able to reinstate something.

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And in this case, I believe you guys came for the position at Center School, the Interventionist position.

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And when we prioritize, we prioritize that over the kindergarten paras, we were already able

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to do the keyboards or music class.

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Or music class.

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And the keyboards are fantastic.

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So to do something other than that with those funds, I think would totally go against

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what we felt that we needed when we went through budget season.

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unless some other need has come up in which case I think Mr. Harding would bring that to us.

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I feel that we felt strongly that the interventionist position was still necessary at center.

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We certainly heard from parents and other town members that that they felt that that position was needed.

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It was an important position, our administration felt the same way,

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so

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what do you have

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exact figures on that?

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Well, what we did is we transferred the $60,000 to pay the legal fee.

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the position we were looking at was approximately $56,000, because what it was was the cost of the, it wasn't the end.

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The interventionist position would be the cost of the teacher coming into that position, plus like a master's, plus a single insurance.

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Okay. So it was around 57 and 58,000 dollars was the cost.

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So the 60 would cover a new elementary teacher coming into center school.

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Which is what we would be doing.

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Can you entertain a motion?

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Yes, I would.

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Okay. I moved to reinstate the intervention positions at a school that was cut during the budget season.

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I'll second of that.

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Second of my show.

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Is there any food benefits?

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Yes.

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Right.

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Because the first year of teacher typically comes out at between 48 or so and then those people

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have to take the insurance, a single insurance.

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It just depends on if they have a master's degree or if there's stuff where you know

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stuff or something like that.

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Can you tell me roughly now do you know what our numbers for kindergarten are?

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I asked for the other day and they were still at the high 30s, but there's also typically

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in the summer, we'll get some, but then the question was, because I said, well, what

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if you don't, and it was class sizes of 13 or something like that, 12 to 13, and he said,

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well, if we went to two, then you'd have to go almost 20, you'd have to get Paris.

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And so it wasn't any negligible cost difference and we felt it was better to have a small classroom with a teacher than to have a large classroom with a teacher in a parent.

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And you can't garden. So if the numbers go up a little, we're okay.

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You know, because we could go three glasses of 14 or 15 as opposed to the 13.

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So that's where we are at the moment.

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Did we still have an advantage if the two of us to be shared, or did that?

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No.

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Okay, we're all, unfortunately, but we did look at that in terms of, if you remember, that was never something that the administration had brought forth in terms of sharing because there was, again, negligible of, you know,

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You're going to have somebody there that you've been like now, not.

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Can you say something?

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Yeah.

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And there are resources.

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Remember, with the interventionist position, just put back in, there are resources at the

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building level.

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Any other discussion?

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Right.

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So the motion is to reinstate the interventionist position at Center School, all those

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in favor.

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I see unanimous vote, no abstentions, no vote, motion passes,

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okay, review, we need to review,

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lunch and breakfast prices, yeah these prices, this turned into quite do or deal last year,

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yes it does, I just wanted to put it out there when we start, I want to avoid that, the lunch prices are

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Currently, the breakfast of both schools, 155, HMS, 245 for lunch and center is 235.

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My recommendation would be to leave things as they are.

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I mean, we've been through this.

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We did a waiver.

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You could increase.

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But we do have the balance and we're functioning just fine.

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And one of the things last year that I did check was I checked with other towns.

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and they weren't going through the same thing that we were.

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I felt like we were getting all the special attention from the state.

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A little bit.

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I moved that we maintain the current one should know prices.

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It's all set.

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Any discussion?

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There's no equipment needs or anything better.

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No, even when there is, we could ignore that.

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Okay, good.

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Any other discussion?

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What is your site?

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Michelle.

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All right.

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So the motion is to leave the breakfast and lunch

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price is current.

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I'm sorry, I have to leave.

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Well, that's it.

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Yes.

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The thing is we've notified the summer.

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That's why it's important to do.

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Now, so that all our publications that we do, the websites and everything,

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we'll put the prices on, right?

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Okay.

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All those in favor of leaving the breakfast, lunch and milk prices,

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the way they current wear, all right, no extensions, no opposed, all right, all this is.

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How's our website?

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Okay, that will, it's really, I gotta say that.

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You know, it's kind of nice to hear the intervention's position.

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The website, and I had just mentioned that the keyboard,

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you went during the budget season, those were three hotbot issues.

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And we said, you know, let us go through with this,

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and I think that at the end of the year we'll be all right and we'll get all of these things in place.

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And without changing the budget that was proposed to the Board Finance, we have now that interventionist position back in.

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The key boards are actually at the school, they're not set up yet, but they're there in Jason's room.

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I talked to them about them just the other day and the website.

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We did the training on it yesterday. It looks great. It's not totally finished because

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Some of the things are sort of template boiler clay language that still like you know Mr. Peter's welcome to this

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You know welcome, Mr. Peterson. Well, that's

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But all that stuff what we were going through yesterday is just showing everybody how to you know manipulate the webpage how to

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Use it. We don't have the social media setup yet

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website is capable of doing the social media so it would have the Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,

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on the top and what's nice is that when we get to that point the teachers and that's part

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of the social media policy, people will communicate with everybody via that and it will have

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the same look as the webpage. We'll actually have a mobile app for phones which is really nice

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And we've created that.

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The mobile app will have the exact same look.

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We choose the buttons.

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It doesn't matter what device you have.

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It will automatically conform.

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So you don't have people who have the device.

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Where it's something's off.

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So everything will conform to the device.

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It looks really good.

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If you want to see a preview.

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It's a life can we look at it now?

405
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No, because it's because the language on there is not.

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Because it's one of the things.

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But, well, it's more of a way of all the art pictures

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And we have all of our quick links, all the drop-downs are there and a lot of them are populated with the things that we have on our current website.

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But there's other things that we need to still make that.

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But if you want to see what the website, I can tell you the template and the school that is new on the public schools.

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If you look at new London public schools, that is the template and that's the model.

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And like we don't have our calendar on the left hand side, but if you go to the new one then public schools you basically will see the functionality of it.

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And I think when you do, and when you do that, take a look at the social media and see how it has the same theme, you know, colors, fonts, everything carries over.

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So if you do, when we get to the point where we do, we'll post and then we'll go to wall.

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So we're really pleased with it, and again, the cost was basically because we want a school

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messenger not much different than what we were paying for our website before, and we pay for

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school messenger by having school messenger, they gave you discounted price, so we got more

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functionality for a slight increase, like in the hundreds, not thousands.

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I can't remember if we talked about her at this school in that center, have the ability to text.

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I suppose it does mean it.

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I think it does have text, I guess.

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We have phone text and email.

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Is it something we thought about in, with delays, whether it's no delays,

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And there's something that region 19 uses and it is a nice feature, it's a lot easier.

425
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:15,980
It's a lot easier.

426
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It's a lot easier.

427
00:31:16,140 --> 00:31:16,800
It's a lot easier.

428
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It's a lot easier.

429
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But even, you know, it's a simple thing they do, and I know it's on the news and that's how we use it.

430
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But you know, Smith also sends out that text on those days.

431
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So it's as simple as using that.

432
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Do that and it doesn't call everybody, you don't need to call your 14-combat.

433
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Yeah, I will look at that.

434
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But maybe it's something we could use since...

435
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I believe it does have all the, you know, the bigger things we want, you know, emails, good.

436
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But I think Texas is really, I think it's the way people communicate now.

437
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I hate to say it, but I think emails a little bit more archaic.

438
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Do you want to change your device for smaller things and more instantly?

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If it turns out that our package can't do that, it believes there's a workaround with politics at the UFSB.

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because I get rid of it when I get the text that says you have to be rather than you.

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So there are work around it.

442
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And also ways to do it.

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I have something to do.

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So just need to have directions clearly.

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Gross.

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And on the website.

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So just something to think about.

448
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:17,680
I'm sorry.

449
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Yeah.

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I'm so excited about it.

451
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:20,620
And the other thing.

452
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I haven't do it at all.

453
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The two friends play.

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So I want him to be able to upload.

455
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You know, I want to have that.

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So the point is that we will have to roll our first.

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It's the same thing.

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It's still here with the new website.

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It makes sense because then over the summer teachers have had a big change in their social

460
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,240
businesses and that's how we set it up.

461
00:32:38,420 --> 00:32:40,340
It really does sense for a couple of people.

462
00:32:41,580 --> 00:32:45,180
It might be something that a board committee might take a look through in the fall

463
00:32:45,180 --> 00:32:49,300
just to see the traditional things that we want to add in terms of marketing and telling

464
00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:49,800
our story.

465
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:56,900
And so the nice part about it is that this is a very user friendly

466
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:58,940
and in terms of formatting.

467
00:32:58,940 --> 00:33:08,040
You basically have big blocks of space, but within that space, like when you drag a picture and it automatically grabs, it formats again.

468
00:33:08,380 --> 00:33:12,360
So you have a lot of creativity of what you can do without having to play around someone.

469
00:33:12,380 --> 00:33:14,200
It's like using a word document or something.

470
00:33:14,500 --> 00:33:17,300
So I do think that the board will want to weigh in on.

471
00:33:17,300 --> 00:33:19,260
And I do agree that that's why I used to really look.

472
00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:28,160
We have a district site boss in the center, and we'll have a lot more capabilities that used to be even like the policies in curriculum.

473
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:33,200
in the way it will function. It'll be much much better.

474
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,980
The archives from the old site will move over onto this site.

475
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,260
We could guess for everything.

476
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,420
Matter of fact, I think all that stuff that was populated will be resorted right over.

477
00:33:44,860 --> 00:33:47,260
All right. Thank you very much. Can't wait to see that.

478
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,740
All right. So an update on our cooperative agreement with Mansfield public schools.

479
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,060
And I say our cooperative agreement. It's a discussion.

480
00:33:54,060 --> 00:33:59,940
Yeah, it's a discussion about a potential cooperative grant.

481
00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:07,240
The meeting is set for next Thursday, the 23rd of 730 at the Chamber,

482
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,140
the Council Chambers and Mansfield at the Pat Building.

483
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:15,720
There will be an official postate by Mansfield.

484
00:34:15,740 --> 00:34:18,940
It's technically a Mansfield meeting that we're invited to.

485
00:34:20,340 --> 00:34:23,880
The representatives from this board, it's open.

486
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:30,220
I mean to the public, but the representatives in the board, anybody who feels like they

487
00:34:30,220 --> 00:34:34,940
want to be on that, this freedom come participate as a member of the committee.

488
00:34:36,580 --> 00:34:40,180
There are some members, like I went to the Board of Finance in very a while at the gym,

489
00:34:40,240 --> 00:34:44,740
but look, they're going to come, but Jim said he'll come to the first meeting and then I

490
00:34:44,740 --> 00:34:50,280
think so back off in very, will be the representative Christina and Kim are both coming to

491
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:50,960
the first meeting.

492
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,340
I don't know if both of them will remain.

493
00:34:54,020 --> 00:34:55,660
We didn't even know if there will be a second meeting.

494
00:34:55,940 --> 00:34:57,360
That's what I just don't know.

495
00:34:58,260 --> 00:35:04,320
But the format of the meeting is going to be,

496
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,200
you know, because it's shown us here,

497
00:35:06,220 --> 00:35:08,740
I could go back to the history and just start over to there.

498
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:09,680
Absolutely, but it's one of the pressure.

499
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:11,360
That's really a good day.

500
00:35:13,740 --> 00:35:17,940
This came about as the Board of Ed's goal from two years ago,

501
00:35:18,980 --> 00:35:25,800
saying that we would look at sustainability and how to deal with decreasing enrollment at the

502
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:30,280
same time that we have increasing costs and how to contain costs. What are some options?

503
00:35:30,340 --> 00:35:35,060
So we started looking at all these options of different ways you can do things and we spend

504
00:35:35,060 --> 00:35:41,260
a little time exploring them and most of them get rolled up. We consolidate the schools into

505
00:35:41,260 --> 00:35:49,260
school. We had the biggest thing I think was the building. Inspector came over to our meeting

506
00:35:49,260 --> 00:35:54,620
at all school where he talked about the pitfalls that we would run into by starting to

507
00:35:54,620 --> 00:36:00,880
renovate all school in any way. I have very strong feelings about bringing, I would argue,

508
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:06,480
I would vehemently argue against bringing the youngest kids over all school because I think

509
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,740
It's a safety issue, the 32 is right there.

510
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,980
I think the building is not conducive to educating kids

511
00:36:12,980 --> 00:36:15,760
that are in that K-4, K-3.

512
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:17,200
I just think it's a bad move.

513
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,580
And so unlike these other issues where I say things like,

514
00:36:21,580 --> 00:36:23,720
I don't live here or it's up to the community,

515
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,640
I would be adamantly opposed to anything

516
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,780
or that brought the youngest kids over to law school.

517
00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:31,900
So that kind of was not on the table.

518
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,080
Plus it's 100-year-old building

519
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:43,460
And we would have potential problems with asbestos and we would have, you know, all kinds of things that could occur once you start renovating under your own building.

520
00:36:45,060 --> 00:36:50,040
The other option that we had explored was the thing about pushing students out of demand field.

521
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:55,060
But demand field was not interested in that option at the time.

522
00:36:55,860 --> 00:36:58,300
They shut it down, and so there was nothing to talk about.

523
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:02,500
Earlier this year, demand field, the new superintendent that they have a building project,

524
00:37:02,500 --> 00:37:09,740
And they were talking about their enrollment issues and I mentioned her that we had already discussed this and the

525
00:37:09,740 --> 00:37:15,580
Mansour was an interested and she said oh, well, I might be interested so we started having the discussion again

526
00:37:16,300 --> 00:37:22,080
It brought us to the board a couple months ago made a formal request to see if we could participate in the discussion

527
00:37:22,740 --> 00:37:27,380
With them about it and they now have a meeting set up for next week

528
00:37:27,380 --> 00:37:29,900
One of the options that we discussed is a new school

529
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:38,240
Support prior to this man's field thing being back on the table, the board was almost a universal in moving towards a new school.

530
00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:46,180
I mean, not everybody was as enthusiastic when I said it was universal, but it was sort of something that we should pursue, a new school.

531
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:54,280
Because that way we'd have a new build and we could close two schools. We'd save some money to put towards the cost of a new school.

532
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,800
I don't think it would be boss savings,

533
00:37:57,180 --> 00:37:59,380
there would probably be a cost to the new school.

534
00:37:59,740 --> 00:38:01,560
But we would have energy efficiencies,

535
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,740
we could have an ideal situation for our kids.

536
00:38:04,580 --> 00:38:06,960
We might attract more kids to the town

537
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:10,040
and families to the town because we'd have a nice school.

538
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,860
So all those things were part of it.

539
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:14,480
And that's still on the table,

540
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,000
but I think that at the moment we're discussing this thing

541
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,820
with Mansfield, what I'm going to do

542
00:38:21,820 --> 00:38:23,920
at this meeting in Mansfield is going to mimic what I do.

543
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,080
So I have 9 or 10 slides.

544
00:38:26,700 --> 00:38:28,420
The first one is posting the board goal.

545
00:38:28,980 --> 00:38:30,320
So it's called sort of how we got here.

546
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,500
The second one is the challenges.

547
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,640
We want to maintain good programming for our kids.

548
00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:42,520
We have basically our enrollment has been declining,

549
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,160
but it's stabilized now.

550
00:38:44,540 --> 00:38:46,280
But there's still increasing costs.

551
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,740
We have increased mandates.

552
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,140
We have now since we did the slides.

553
00:38:52,140 --> 00:38:55,280
we have, the state is withdrawing funding.

554
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:56,400
So there's a lot of issues.

555
00:38:56,580 --> 00:38:58,880
We have a crumbling foundation issues that's out there.

556
00:38:58,980 --> 00:39:00,560
A lot of things that impact revenue.

557
00:39:01,460 --> 00:39:03,480
So the slides will show that those are the problems

558
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:04,640
that we have, the challenges.

559
00:39:05,780 --> 00:39:08,800
Then I basically get into some slides that

560
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,720
a table of the assumptions, I have an assumptions page,

561
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,120
which is the budget increases over year.

562
00:39:18,060 --> 00:39:19,780
That we don't want to cut programs.

563
00:39:19,780 --> 00:39:26,640
These are things that we're talking about, but the basic slides I'm going to show with data are that

564
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:34,740
our 10 year projection of enrollment, and then a 10 year projection of budget, which is based on

565
00:39:34,740 --> 00:39:39,740
our current years budget of 7,883,000.

566
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,980
I think that's the number based on that.

567
00:39:43,980 --> 00:39:47,080
There's four columns. What would 1% look like?

568
00:39:47,380 --> 00:39:52,540
What would 2% look like? 3% 4% over 10 year period.

569
00:39:53,180 --> 00:39:56,120
And then I show a line graph that charts that data.

570
00:39:57,260 --> 00:40:00,260
And then I do a per pupil expenditure, the exact same thing.

571
00:40:00,300 --> 00:40:07,920
Start with a per pupil expenditure and show a table with the numbers 1% 2% 3% 4% over 10 years.

572
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:17,980
a line graph then to demonstrate that and then with a single slide that basically says what

573
00:40:17,980 --> 00:40:24,660
would be the advantages of doing this sort of the deal? What are the potential things that

574
00:40:24,660 --> 00:40:31,220
could be positive that we probably have increased programming some savings? Not going to get into

575
00:40:31,220 --> 00:40:36,840
all the negatives because I think the ruby of the other people is so angry about all the negatives

576
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:42,320
And so I just will present that as why are we even talking about this is because there is potential

577
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:47,180
just in a rational way to say, you know, this is what we've been charged with and that maybe

578
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:55,660
this is a solution. So that being said, I think that it will be very difficult to make it happen because of

579
00:40:55,660 --> 00:41:01,160
there's logistical problems with, forget about the emotion about having kids leave the town.

580
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:09,000
That's a given, that's a big issue. Logistical problems of the distance because the kids would have to be dispersed

581
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:15,670
You can't have a Wellington school, so then it makes for maybe too long of a ride for some of the uppercuts go to like any bed

582
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:25,180
And then another issue is that one of the big issues that they're trying to do this that they're interested in doing it is that Mansfield

583
00:41:25,180 --> 00:41:30,500
has a declining enrollment and they were actually talking about closing one of the elementary schools and

584
00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:36,320
you know, we're building a new elementary school and closing the three, and the parents want to keep the neighborhood schools there.

585
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,420
Well, if you take all of our kids and put them into their school,

586
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,500
it's going to disperse and displace some of the management students,

587
00:41:44,620 --> 00:41:48,640
what you're going to get a lot of opposition on there and for that, I think that's going to be a big...

588
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:49,820
Like redistricting them.

589
00:41:49,820 --> 00:41:54,660
Right, it will be, you know, we'll be talking about, you know, the first thing happened is we redistricting

590
00:41:54,660 --> 00:41:56,380
for them, which I think will be huge.

591
00:41:56,900 --> 00:42:01,940
I also think that in order to make it happen, they would probably have to reconfigure and take

592
00:42:01,940 --> 00:42:05,960
the fifth grade out of the middle school and put it back into the elementary schools.

593
00:42:06,860 --> 00:42:10,380
And then, because we would be taking all of our middle school students, you know, be a true

594
00:42:10,380 --> 00:42:15,160
six, seven, eight middle school, the fifth grade would have to go down, another big issue.

595
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,300
You know, these are not small issues.

596
00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:25,340
But when we started talking about this board goal, we knew that dealing with the issue of declining enrollment was going to bring

597
00:42:25,340 --> 00:42:34,340
not just positives, but some serious negatives, but to look at the big picture and to give a true assessment of what it is, you have to see all of those sides.

598
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:44,240
I think it's essential that we explore every possible event, so that we know that whatever decisions we make are found in the full knowledge of the object.

599
00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:49,160
which made a double cost would be as well as the benefit, which is, you know, the first time

600
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:54,580
it was declined to even entertain the conversation by both Mansfield and Asher, because there

601
00:42:54,580 --> 00:42:58,680
was no incentive to either them. Now there's an incentive to Mansfield, so the discussion

602
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:05,760
is opened up. And people, unfortunately, who weren't privy to our discussions over the course

603
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:11,080
of the last two years, it seems new and it seems immediate and that's not at all the case.

604
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:17,080
So I think you've done a great job with informing people of where the process is now.

605
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:24,080
As I talk to people, I say, come to the meeting and I'm not saying, you know, this is a good idea.

606
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:25,100
This is a bad idea.

607
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:29,140
I'm saying come to the meetings and voice your opinions on it because that's really what this is about.

608
00:43:30,020 --> 00:43:31,480
It's the whole thing.

609
00:43:31,700 --> 00:43:35,560
Part of the board goal was to come up with these ideas and then engage the public.

610
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:41,580
So, I mean, we're not engaging the public with it and seeing what people think about it.

611
00:43:42,820 --> 00:43:48,060
And, you know, at least people when they make decisions, I feel it will be based on facts,

612
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:54,100
so that we could say, if you do nothing, there's going to be an increased cost over time.

613
00:43:54,580 --> 00:44:01,600
And then when we get into budget seasons, if we just say, you know, I offered a plan that would say potentially say,

614
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:08,260
We don't know that well because we don't know what man chose going to offer but if it was a savings and then it was rejected

615
00:44:08,260 --> 00:44:10,780
I say we tried to save money there

616
00:44:10,780 --> 00:44:12,180
You know

617
00:44:12,180 --> 00:44:15,540
I think that there's support from the community has demonstrated by

618
00:44:15,540 --> 00:44:19,520
Everything that happened to maybe have an increase

619
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:25,240
But there's a lot of people as a foreign increase, but at least it'll be a discussion with facts as opposed

620
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:30,580
That's what it is it's too big an exploratory option

621
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:47,760
And I'm not approaching this meeting to sell it. I don't feel, I don't feel comfortable

622
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:56,480
nor my place to sell it. I think that my place is to present it. And love the people

623
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,980
What they want to do. I mean like I said I would be adamantly

624
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:16,000
Posts, because of safety issues, from moving the kids us, about 32. That would be different, and I would be adamantly opposed, but other than that, I mean, I tried to remain objective and just say, look at this yesterday and this is what it is, and people need to decide how they want to proceed.

625
00:45:17,100 --> 00:45:28,600
But, you know, too many times people don't come and don't know what's going on and then, you know, they come to one meeting during budget season, and they don't have any of the history of what we've been talking about for the last two or three years.

626
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:38,280
So I think that this will engage people in a way and I mean, it was kind of the unwellington group and all the movement that, you know, was against the gun range.

627
00:45:38,780 --> 00:45:53,820
And we saw things happen that never happened. I mean, they got a hundred thousand dollar allocation from the town to, you know, fight and people came together with very different groups came together to fight that and I mean, it was very good community engagement.

628
00:45:53,820 --> 00:45:59,920
And it would be great if we had that same sort of community engagement around the schools.

629
00:46:01,340 --> 00:46:05,600
So part of this is I'm hoping that we get that kind of movement where people are saying,

630
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,700
Wow, you know, they're actually talking about clothes and not in the schools.

631
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:10,420
This is serious, you know.

632
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,640
I definitely don't see us at a point where we're ready to sell anything.

633
00:46:13,700 --> 00:46:15,460
We even even heard all the facts.

634
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:20,640
Right. You know, one of them is what would, what would this board look like?

635
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:27,960
But the sport even exists, you know, is there a seat at the table in Man's field and the answer more than likely is now.

636
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:33,940
So that's something else.

637
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:38,260
It's still in the very exploratory phase.

638
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:43,920
Right.

639
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:48,140
I think that's a mixture that we can't do with drugs.

640
00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:49,320
Right, this is just an excuse.

641
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,460
We can talk about this for a moment,

642
00:46:51,940 --> 00:46:52,740
for a few new times.

643
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,040
So I think as far as this one goes,

644
00:46:55,220 --> 00:46:56,860
although we're still in the explore toy phase,

645
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:02,960
it's a very large topic, topic, and it's not one that's going

646
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,920
to just be us at the table and no one's going

647
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:07,800
to be interested in hearing the options

648
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,220
until it gets to a different phase.

649
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,160
This is one from the get-go people here,

650
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:16,520
and they are concerned about letting say they have a right to be, but it is still, I think the

651
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:19,960
important thing is we're still exploring the potting deal with this option.

652
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:20,520
Do you have this thing?

653
00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:21,340
I think it's important.

654
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:25,040
Remember, when you talk about timeline, we've talked about it for years or anything like that,

655
00:47:25,240 --> 00:47:30,680
is that Manfield has a window because they're doing their going out of bed and the

656
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,260
fall for a feasibility study.

657
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:38,840
They're going to bring a farm into look at their buildings and so the opportunity was there

658
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:44,660
say, well, why don't you include one tenant and see if, you know, what would a plan look like,

659
00:47:44,660 --> 00:47:50,000
if you had four hundred additional students, what would it look like in terms of their building

660
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:55,820
study? And we can't pay for that, because you know, I went through board of finance to ask

661
00:47:55,820 --> 00:48:00,120
if we could do a feasibility study here and we cost money and they didn't want to put the money up.

662
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:04,660
The state is actually interested in this plan because they would love to use it as a model.

663
00:48:04,660 --> 00:48:11,720
And they might subsidize that study to include us.

664
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,940
I, I didn't mention regionalization.

665
00:48:17,420 --> 00:48:21,340
Well, no, and the reason is we, we five years ago,

666
00:48:21,420 --> 00:48:23,120
we had a regional study.

667
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,320
We spent the whole year studying it.

668
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,840
And because of two issues, we didn't do.

669
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,280
And the two issues that are very different

670
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:38,140
between regionalization and what's being proposed now is when you regionalize the

671
00:48:38,140 --> 00:48:43,780
schools remain and basically the region then takes over the schools and what

672
00:48:43,780 --> 00:48:48,900
happens with regionalization is two things go one is called equity and what that

673
00:48:48,900 --> 00:48:54,660
means is that all the schools in the region have to be equitable. You can't have

674
00:48:54,660 --> 00:49:00,400
five world languages in Mansfield and only Spanish and Wellington. You can't have

675
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:07,020
a Suzuki string program in Mansfield and not have one in Wellington because you're a region,

676
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,900
you're paying the same. Like when the kids go to Eosmith imagine if they went to Eosmith

677
00:49:10,900 --> 00:49:14,820
and said, well if you're from Mansfield you get to do this, but if you're in Wellington

678
00:49:14,820 --> 00:49:20,160
you get to do only this. And so when you do a region it's the same principle applies.

679
00:49:20,220 --> 00:49:27,100
So what would happen is we would have to increase our programming to match Mansfields or they

680
00:49:27,100 --> 00:49:31,300
would have to decrease. Now, you know they're not going to decrease. So that adds cost because

681
00:49:31,300 --> 00:49:36,620
of the additional positions. But that's not the big one. The biggest thing is you also have unions.

682
00:49:37,780 --> 00:49:41,460
And you have teacher unions, non-served unions, because they're all the different unions.

683
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:47,680
They would form a big union. They would join together. And the same principle would apply. You would

684
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:57,080
not believe me. The unions would not go to the lower salary. They would increase to the

685
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,480
absorbed into their union and they would get more pay.

686
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,460
And when you add the additional pay and the equity issue,

687
00:50:05,620 --> 00:50:09,680
it ended up costing willing to $1.1 million to start region.

688
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:15,540
But what I'm thinking is you would take their new school model

689
00:50:16,060 --> 00:50:20,760
and we would incorporate into that as partners as opposed to tuition.

690
00:50:21,220 --> 00:50:22,500
Because that would be a region.

691
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:24,060
I mean, really.

692
00:50:24,060 --> 00:50:38,360
So what you're saying is you become a region and make a K-12, yeah, but you would be closing our schools and make a region.

693
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:43,440
So the difference would be in the original model we weren't closing our schools, right?

694
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,720
If we tuition in, we're closing our schools, right?

695
00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:54,020
No, you're saying if we do a region now we would be different because in the original regional study, we did not factor in closing.

696
00:50:54,020 --> 00:50:58,840
school's because nobody would want to have their kids go there. It was you would do it to keep the kids here.

697
00:50:59,780 --> 00:51:06,080
No, what I know what you're saying about. We do the school. We do the tuition model. We're all

698
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:13,380
our kids go to a man's field and whatever new things they built, but we have a partner. I think what would

699
00:51:13,380 --> 00:51:21,950
happen and where you'd get additional cost in that and is in a region they own the schools. So basically

700
00:51:21,950 --> 00:51:28,290
like when, if we, the original model, they would form the region with own home and world school

701
00:51:28,290 --> 00:51:33,290
and center school. Okay? And so that if you had a roof project, capital project, it wouldn't

702
00:51:33,290 --> 00:51:39,190
be that Wellington would fix it. It would be the region. It should never, but here we are. So what

703
00:51:39,190 --> 00:51:43,270
would happen now? They're still renovating their schools and they're going to renovate and they're

704
00:51:43,270 --> 00:51:46,770
they're doing the building project. They're just trying to figure out if the building project

705
00:51:46,770 --> 00:51:47,950
should include us or not.

706
00:51:48,370 --> 00:51:51,410
What I'm saying is that if you became a region,

707
00:51:51,590 --> 00:51:53,510
what I'm proposing is that we're not paying

708
00:51:53,510 --> 00:51:54,970
to renovate their schools.

709
00:51:55,150 --> 00:51:55,850
Thank you very much.

710
00:51:55,930 --> 00:51:56,750
Paying for that.

711
00:51:56,870 --> 00:51:58,450
What would happen if there was a region?

712
00:51:58,510 --> 00:52:01,910
Not only would they have to relinquish their schools

713
00:52:01,910 --> 00:52:02,810
to a region,

714
00:52:03,930 --> 00:52:05,310
the management would have to give up,

715
00:52:05,390 --> 00:52:06,870
would it be Manfield's region?

716
00:52:07,030 --> 00:52:07,770
It would be a region.

717
00:52:08,290 --> 00:52:10,290
Region 19 is not Manfield's school.

718
00:52:10,350 --> 00:52:12,190
It's a separate entity that Manfield

719
00:52:12,190 --> 00:52:13,750
willing to an national joint.

720
00:52:14,070 --> 00:52:16,410
So Manfield would have to give up their schools

721
00:52:16,410 --> 00:52:23,030
And we would have to have pay for the new project, building projects.

722
00:52:23,490 --> 00:52:28,370
And I think that would incur a cost that would probably be something that people here don't want to do.

723
00:52:28,630 --> 00:52:29,650
They'd say why don't we fix it?

724
00:52:29,650 --> 00:52:29,970
If we're gonna...

725
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:38,020
No schools in the answer, we build no schools here, which I would say that's a good idea. You know, that's a problem. That's what the reason we say is.

726
00:52:38,020 --> 00:52:41,120
That's the option that we still have over because that we go down.

727
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,980
Which I think is a good one. Yes, long term.

728
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:50,700
Yeah, that's my only problem is that we give up all of our schools and everything.

729
00:52:51,100 --> 00:52:51,760
That's a big problem.

730
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:53,940
We do with blind say. Absolutely.

731
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,500
And I think that's a parent's are concerned about.

732
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:15,340
But we said, we had to look at all of the possibilities to handle the climbing enrollment and this was one that the door closed quickly and now it's open and to do our due diligence we have to look at it and right and it would come down to the town voting on it anyway

733
00:53:15,340 --> 00:53:24,560
So it's important that they hear about it. This isn't something that we would just decide is important and we go one way the other and move on it would this would go to the town

734
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:27,880
So, no matter what we do, it's going to be artificial.

735
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:33,500
So, we're just doing the fact finding and bringing all the information back to them.

736
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:38,700
And it has, it has some good sides and it has some not-so-great sides.

737
00:53:39,300 --> 00:53:43,960
And so, we have to take a look at all of it before we could even say,

738
00:53:43,980 --> 00:53:45,120
have classed it on the table.

739
00:53:45,300 --> 00:53:49,460
When you mentioned that you would propose that before you mentioned that it was probably seven

740
00:53:49,460 --> 00:53:51,820
need to break this, right? Because that was seeing him.

741
00:53:51,820 --> 00:53:57,720
Yes, it was, it was only seven to eighth grade. And even then they said they

742
00:53:57,720 --> 00:54:01,080
had the room and they were really talking about just going to project at the middle

743
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:06,540
school. But is it going to kind of break protocol? I love that.

744
00:54:06,860 --> 00:54:11,260
Sean's never heard any of this and I've been walking all the meeting minutes for several

745
00:54:11,260 --> 00:54:15,680
years now. Oh, okay. So, but I was just curious if it was to maybe

746
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:19,240
be in present to speak. There would be a time in present to speak. There is another

747
00:54:19,240 --> 00:54:20,080
Okay, so good.

748
00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:20,780
All right.

749
00:54:20,780 --> 00:54:22,180
Is the very next couple of perfect.

750
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,100
But so great.

751
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:24,920
Well, thank you very much.

752
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:25,540
So that'll be next week.

753
00:54:25,540 --> 00:54:26,300
So that'll be next week.

754
00:54:27,240 --> 00:54:27,320
Okay.

755
00:54:28,340 --> 00:54:28,500
All right.

756
00:54:28,660 --> 00:54:29,680
So president is weak.

757
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:32,380
Honestly, the reason I'm here is.

758
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:34,680
Just need you to identify yourself for the record.

759
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:35,900
I'm sorry.

760
00:54:35,900 --> 00:54:36,120
I'm sorry.

761
00:54:36,220 --> 00:54:36,240
I'm sorry.

762
00:54:36,240 --> 00:54:36,500
I'm sorry.

763
00:54:36,500 --> 00:54:36,920
I'm sorry.

764
00:54:36,940 --> 00:54:37,300
I'm sorry.

765
00:54:38,420 --> 00:54:38,820
I'm sorry.

766
00:54:49,730 --> 00:54:50,530
I'm sorry.

767
00:54:53,690 --> 00:54:59,410
Yeah, I mean, what really happened to me was the distance on which we were supposed to be

768
00:54:59,410 --> 00:55:00,070
at a line.

769
00:55:00,330 --> 00:55:03,350
That was the person that jumped in my head and the person that made me feel like I need to

770
00:55:03,350 --> 00:55:05,370
be something even more involved.

771
00:55:08,670 --> 00:55:09,630
It's a distance.

772
00:55:10,590 --> 00:55:14,350
It's actually a little research from each one of the other schools that we've been

773
00:55:14,350 --> 00:55:14,650
traveling time.

774
00:55:14,750 --> 00:55:18,510
Each one of the other schools, that was further away than the other one of this.

775
00:55:18,510 --> 00:55:19,510
Yes, right.

776
00:55:19,690 --> 00:55:19,970
That is correct.

777
00:55:19,970 --> 00:55:20,170
Great.

778
00:55:24,930 --> 00:55:27,270
So we're on to board comments.

779
00:55:29,750 --> 00:55:30,610
I'll begin.

780
00:55:30,890 --> 00:55:31,670
I've quite a few.

781
00:55:31,830 --> 00:55:39,230
So I wanted to thank all of our retiring teachers and Mr. O'ork, and wish them well in the next

782
00:55:39,230 --> 00:55:44,510
endeavors, which I assume will involve some relaxation, some sort.

783
00:55:44,810 --> 00:55:50,350
I want to thank Mr. Harding and the rest of our administration on another successful year.

784
00:55:50,350 --> 00:55:57,910
It seems to end on a upbeat note, especially with an ending June 10th, almost unprecedented.

785
00:55:58,950 --> 00:56:00,830
My house that was a huge hit.

786
00:56:02,170 --> 00:56:11,190
So there are quite a few activities at the end of this year for eighth graders, as many of

787
00:56:11,190 --> 00:56:11,730
you know.

788
00:56:12,490 --> 00:56:18,570
I want to say a big thank you to Mrs. Saustine, who single-handedly handles all of these activities.

789
00:56:19,230 --> 00:56:25,390
they are a lot and we did have a teacher who has had to be out. So she picked up some additional

790
00:56:25,390 --> 00:56:34,170
responsibilities and she does them well. She does them with grace and really all of our

791
00:56:34,170 --> 00:56:39,770
students in mind and so I want to thank her for that. She has big, big shoes to fill next year.

792
00:56:39,870 --> 00:56:44,350
So I'm not sure who's ready to take on that but she is a fantastic time at graduation.

793
00:56:45,490 --> 00:56:53,530
Our music students went to Great East Memorial Day, Friday Memorial Day weekend, and they all did fantastic.

794
00:56:54,230 --> 00:57:00,450
Mr. Phillips once again started a new group this time. It was a gentleman's chorus.

795
00:57:01,130 --> 00:57:13,970
They received a platinum award at Great East. It's unusual to get 16 middle school boys who can sing, sing in tune, sing in tune together and do it well.

796
00:57:13,970 --> 00:57:17,570
And he really brought out the best in these young men.

797
00:57:17,590 --> 00:57:19,650
So if you had an opportunity to hear them,

798
00:57:20,670 --> 00:57:21,190
great.

799
00:57:21,370 --> 00:57:25,430
If you didn't, I encourage you to check out some,

800
00:57:25,610 --> 00:57:27,830
some of their singing, they were fantastic.

801
00:57:29,150 --> 00:57:30,230
I personally had one of them.

802
00:57:30,310 --> 00:57:32,010
I can't believe he could sing like that.

803
00:57:32,210 --> 00:57:33,470
I was impressed.

804
00:57:33,970 --> 00:57:37,790
And I was honored to represent this board

805
00:57:37,790 --> 00:57:40,710
at a great graduation on Friday night

806
00:57:40,710 --> 00:57:43,250
to deliver their eighth grade certificates

807
00:57:43,250 --> 00:57:45,090
and see them move on to high school.

808
00:57:45,430 --> 00:57:47,230
It's yet another special class to me

809
00:57:47,230 --> 00:57:50,470
as I had an eighth grader, but it's always an honor

810
00:57:50,470 --> 00:57:53,570
to see them honor for all of their achievements.

811
00:57:53,970 --> 00:57:57,550
And we have some really, really bright young students

812
00:57:57,550 --> 00:57:59,630
in there, no matter what their levels are.

813
00:57:59,890 --> 00:58:02,010
Whether their name was mentioned individually

814
00:58:02,010 --> 00:58:04,470
and Friday night or not, we have some great kids.

815
00:58:04,850 --> 00:58:07,370
And I think they're going to do okay at Eonsma.

816
00:58:08,270 --> 00:58:10,890
So thank you for all of the great things happening.

817
00:58:11,150 --> 00:58:11,890
It's cool Mr. Herding.

818
00:58:13,250 --> 00:58:15,530
All right, I had along with Sean, get a thing.

819
00:58:15,930 --> 00:58:17,850
Well, I'm so happy I get to follow that.

820
00:58:19,810 --> 00:58:20,530
I'm so happy I get to follow that.

821
00:58:20,530 --> 00:58:24,270
I thank you for all our tiring teachers and the whole staff.

822
00:58:24,410 --> 00:58:26,010
I'm just happy that we've seen the,

823
00:58:26,010 --> 00:58:27,550
and I'm like a very high note.

824
00:58:28,050 --> 00:58:28,630
A lot of good things.

825
00:58:28,630 --> 00:58:31,790
I'm excited about our new principal at Hall School.

826
00:58:32,230 --> 00:58:34,770
And thank you Mr. Harding for all your hard work

827
00:58:34,770 --> 00:58:37,030
in your health for us.

828
00:58:37,310 --> 00:58:38,950
Well, we're nearly new board number here,

829
00:58:39,370 --> 00:58:42,430
but they're very helpful, so thank you.

830
00:58:43,750 --> 00:58:44,910
I think it's hard.

831
00:58:45,890 --> 00:58:47,830
Yeah, I agree with you, I heard that time.

832
00:58:48,550 --> 00:58:52,370
You've taken a little trip out, but you've covered a lot of ground.

833
00:58:53,090 --> 00:58:56,990
And I think Dave, I did excellent job this year.

834
00:58:57,990 --> 00:58:59,730
And we had a very good school year.

835
00:58:59,870 --> 00:59:02,050
I think we had a minimum of problems.

836
00:59:03,050 --> 00:59:05,990
And we were very successful, staffed at a new gym.

837
00:59:07,150 --> 00:59:11,310
I think the school principle at a service school.

838
00:59:11,310 --> 00:59:16,890
So, although we don't in this alleyway and I think you probably did a good job.

839
00:59:17,010 --> 00:59:26,890
I know he's been out in the community and there's a lot of things that I wasn't aware of him doing and just quite pleased with that.

840
00:59:27,410 --> 00:59:37,310
Also, we've finished the year with our programs pretty well in tact, and I hope that here we also maintain our curriculum and our programs.

841
00:59:37,310 --> 00:59:43,310
after that, I don't know what's going to happen because of the budget, but that's too

842
00:59:43,310 --> 00:59:47,410
sitting anyway. So again,

843
00:59:49,610 --> 00:59:54,350
well, thank the retirees for their years of service. Again,

844
00:59:55,790 --> 00:59:59,730
I'm going to read the right letter, so I'm not going to read it.

845
01:00:01,580 --> 01:00:07,680
Also, I'd like to remind everyone that today is flagged. I saw the flag in it, though.

846
01:00:10,620 --> 01:00:15,560
Which was celebrated last week at Center School since we were done so early.

847
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,800
A rarity, a rarity. Michelle?

848
01:00:21,660 --> 01:00:27,100
So in addition to all of the things that have already been said that I agree with, I would like to especially commend

849
01:00:27,100 --> 01:00:31,460
and principal Stevens at Center for his pirate themed math day.

850
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:34,900
I think that's an example of how learning can be made fun and engaging.

851
01:00:35,700 --> 01:00:38,920
And if school looked like that all the time,

852
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:42,080
we would never have an issue with kids dropping out of school or failing,

853
01:00:42,380 --> 01:00:45,620
because they would be so excited to be there, every kid at every level.

854
01:00:46,740 --> 01:00:52,080
So, it just makes me proud to be part of this town to have people who are that caring about our kids and everyone.

855
01:00:54,600 --> 01:01:00,880
And I have the opportunity to go to kindergarten registration process with my brain and

856
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:00,920
dog.

857
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,020
So you saw something special there, too.

858
01:01:03,100 --> 01:01:03,880
It was wonderful.

859
01:01:04,100 --> 01:01:05,500
Phil does great.

860
01:01:06,340 --> 01:01:08,040
He does an excellent job.

861
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:11,680
Because I'm not sure what the kids do, which he, my granddaughter, and at a ball.

862
01:01:11,980 --> 01:01:15,480
They were in the two classrooms doing activities and things like that.

863
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:17,740
But Phil set up a power point.

864
01:01:17,740 --> 01:01:27,480
And as a teacher, I have to say, we told incoming parents everything they could possibly need to know about having their child come to school for the first year.

865
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:31,160
So I was very impressed with that and thanked him for that.

866
01:01:31,460 --> 01:01:38,680
I also enjoyed attending graduation and was very impressed with how well the kids did, and the teachers, and it's great.

867
01:01:38,940 --> 01:01:41,020
It's a wonderful, wonderful evening.

868
01:01:41,020 --> 01:01:47,920
And also, thank you for all the day and all the teachers and everybody else who makes the schools run so well.

869
01:01:49,620 --> 01:01:49,940
Good afternoon.

870
01:01:49,940 --> 01:01:50,100
Good afternoon.

871
01:01:50,260 --> 01:01:52,740
Before you go on, I just wanted to say something about that.

872
01:01:53,880 --> 01:02:01,420
I have a picture of parents sent to me about that kind of garden orientation and food registration.

873
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:08,640
And, as Phil was doing the presentation, the PowerPoint, one of the parents had a younger

874
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:17,940
child that started to cry and Phil just went over and picked up the child and continued

875
01:02:17,940 --> 01:02:23,840
with his presentation and kept the infant in his arms for the rest of the presentations

876
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:28,300
and child come down and so parents said, that's going above and beyond the house.

877
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:35,640
so pretty special stuff yeah well that's great yeah all right would it be great to have

878
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:40,960
some of those pictures from Pirate Day yeah I will and you know what that's why

879
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:45,040
the new webpage is gonna have all this it's I out for the video that was fabulous

880
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:51,580
you'll be laughing so hard though with that I moved the we entered executive

881
01:02:51,580 --> 01:02:59,620
session at 804 and invite Mr. Harding for purposes of Superintendent's

882
01:02:59,620 --> 01:03:00,220
evaluation.

883
01:03:02,940 --> 01:03:03,800
for a second.

884
01:03:05,060 --> 01:03:05,820
All of us in favor.

885
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:07,880
All right.

886
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:09,900
Well, unanimous in favor.

887
01:03:10,940 --> 01:03:13,300
Mr. Craver, thank you for attending the meet.