Okay, go ahead. Good evening and welcome to the Subtender regular meeting for the Annover Board of Education. Um, you can do the cleansing of the Legion. Good. I'd like to thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The Republic for which to stand. One nation under God. It hinders the wall with liberty and justice. Um, do we have any public comments? Uh, first step? No, I'm all set. Thank you. Um, happy hearing that. I'll set. Thank you. Send the gold record. I'm all set. Thank you. Liz. And can. Hey, I'm here. I'm here. No, I don't really have anything for now. Thank you. I was turned on mute. You said that on true social, current, horizon, social, and politics. And you're special. That's it. It was a call from your attorney point of view. I say what you have. It's a beautiful country. I think. Yeah. Okay. And Anne? Nothing. That's all. Okay. So move on on to communications to anyone have communications that are not addressed elsewhere in the agenda. I handed yours out that we were seeing from pain,
then that is your, um, both credits are on this floor. Their forces that you've taken. Thank you. We have student celebrations. It's not a direct student yet, but I would. It's a celebration. Um, I, Cassina Frazier and I last week were able to go over to RAM and meet with Hebrew and Marbro and RAM and talking about ways to elevate our invention convention and hold a regional invention convention in between ours and the fight. That's super exciting. So I think it's a celebration right. So we're really excited about that. We were able to do some really cool collaboration and then RAM and their students that are in the National Technical Honor Society. I think it's, I hope I'm saying exactly right. We're part of the meeting and thinking about how the students they could support the younger guys and all of the elementary schools in this work.
Um, So we are looking at being able to bring all the details are totally mapped out, but 10 to 15 students from each town, um, into the RAM regional, um, semi-finals, while still ensuring that each town gets there are a lot of spots. We won't lose out, but it will also it actually will allow us to potentially send more if we were able to. The top three of regionals would go plus your three for each town. So that also adds a little more opportunity for us as well as of course that regional piece and getting the kids together. Yeah, that and it just gives them more. Another level to display and talk to people they don't know. And so we'll be able to invite the community. So we're really excited about that. Obviously way more details to come, but I just couldn't wait. I want to celebrate that. That initiative is in progress. So. Awesome. Um, Okay, we have approval of minutes from our obvious meeting. Does anyone have any concerns with them? Some of you, Mr. Chairman. Okay. They spelled that name on. I did. I saw it. Well, does that change come? It should be a and then be cremate. Other than that, like a motion, you accept the minutes of the regular board meeting of August 13, 2025. Thank you. All in favor. Hi. Hi. Hi. Anyone opposed? Okay. Good. Um, does anyone want to add or to meet any items that we have on the agenda for tonight?
I don't have anything. Very good. Not really. I think it's fine. Eventually I'd like to see us. And then something with the. The boards. Presence with other items. I mean, we can take them. Four to a time. And not at all once. I don't want to say, I don't want this to become long. So. What do you mean, other, I guess I just don't know what you're talking about. Well, I see. Several things that there are on the discussion and actions in normal funds. Hmm. Something I like. To have a 20. First the. bathroom project and our roles will be on the action item on the night. Thousand policies. Some things are just. And I was, I was, I would count on shatters to 12 victims all up. And the other ones are maybe things were going to initiate, let me have an initiate, and this will take me to work. But just to take them one at a time. So the review for the 9,000 policies tonight, just so that we're all on the same page, was to say, is good as it is with fixing a couple of grammatical errors in one pile. Need to really fix our change things in another pile.
And then we look at it again in a month. Yep, right. That's good. So in terms of tonight, I don't think we're going to get down to like, super nitpicky stuff. We're just going to try to put them into piles. Okay. Sounds good. Because there's, it's a stack. Yeah. I mean, I potentially would like to add some thing in the buses. I wanted to give Taylor a chance to address like the bus schedule first, but I do. That's being addressed in her report. Yes. Happy giving up. Okay. So in terms of the oral report, the only thing I have is just to think everyone for their feedback, in terms of our evaluation for the board. And written evaluation for the superintendent as well. I really appreciate everyone collaborating on that. So that we can get to that written reports for both those. If anyone has further questions, just letting go. Aside from that, everything that should be addressed in the agenda. I think in terms of the, the goals and strategies for how we achieve our goals. Really just a discussion for tonight. I think so last for some stuff on them. I'm going to put I would be good for a second. But yeah, just some ball. It's tonight. I don't think they'll take a long time. Good. Well. All right. So a few of the things that would normally be here are already down in yours.
So we don't really have to talk about that stuff now. We're going to get human in just a few minutes. So after school grants, I know everybody's asked and I have emailed them every single day, gently. So that they're not like, oh, they're out of the pile. They promised promised promised that we'll know by Wednesday morning next week. As they've already been scored. And. Well, a special day. Yes. Next Wednesday. Bye. Bye. Oh, bye. That they are already scored. That they do know who is getting them and who is not. That it's a matter of going into the e-grad management system and putting everything in for who got them. We didn't get them. And if you got one in, it wasn't what you asked the ability then for them to put the messages in and say, this is what you asked for. This is what you got tonight. I have to change your budget and your goals. So we should definitely know by Wednesday on next week. Even the kids are asking me now. They're like, hey, are we got it? I'm like, I'm so sorry. So we will definitely know that by next week. And as soon as we know, we'll tell everybody. And Tuesday at midnight. I know. Every day. I'm like, please let us win. I'm going to need to win something so so much my life. I did do also the first two episodes. It'll be every Friday morning of the information in four minutes, 11 seconds or less. The only two people that wouldn't get it.
VSC saw are Jerry and Shannon, which I sent it to them separately. So that way they should. We are a campaign post. We will. She's meeting with the type of website. Yeah. We're going to have a list on town Facebook. Things or from the PTA, maybe on Facebook. PTA. Absolutely. Yeah. We're hosting them on our fireball YouTube channel. Yeah. Then all we need to do is direct about link. Okay. Anybody. Okay. I certainly wanted to share it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know. Okay. So. And you know. I know like the first one. And I know like the third one. The next one. I'm going to put a lot of people to look at it.
It's easy to watch something that short, you know, this less than four minutes. So I do think the people will do that. And everybody will get more people than giving me ideas for what they would like to see out there. Yeah. So, of course, obviously we're going in as soon as we find out, if we got the after school grant. There will be a quick one. So that parents will know what to expect with that. I will work. So it's it's it's good. It's good that we. anyways are definitely looking at them. So that's a good thing. So we'll try it. We'll see how it goes. Let's see. Taylor is going to do an LGP update as part of hers with the new preschool
in terms of other grants. We still will have, we didn't use this summer, all of the rest of the summer mental health money. We're going to have to kind of, as the year goes on, see what we can do with it. That's not summer because it expires in June, June 30th. So it will expire before we start our summer program for next year. So, you know, I'll have to go back through and kind of ask and inquire as their stuff that we can do in preparation for activities for next summer. I just didn't want to call the grant people until they tell me about my afternoon grant and I don't really want to annoy them. But then I will find out because there is some money left with that HM did some services
this summer, but they didn't quite spend as much. They were transitioning with staff and so they gave us a program, but they didn't make it as robust as it could have been financially. So we'll see, you know, we may, at worst case scenario, be able to work with HM to do something from June 15th to June 30th before that money goes away. So that would be it. Yeah, after school lunch, right so it as long as it's expended by June 30th. It's good. So we're working on that. Our title grants will be given to us this year again. So that's good. That will offset a little cost of our on reading interventionist, which, you know, we didn't know if we were getting it this year or not. So we're grateful that it worked out to that advantage, you know, that we will have that. We will continue to have our IDEA grants as well this year. So the good news for us is some of that $170,000 that we didn't know if we were going to have to take that out of our 2% non-lapsing with these grants being secured for this year again, some of it should be able to go in there. So we will have more news happening to school year. You know, come much. I would say let's see, 14 is one of them. Three is title two. Three is IDEA 619. So those I know of for sure. So, you know, I would say that there is a possibility in the
air of 20. You know, provided that we can put those expenses there. Which I think we can. So that will help. Let's see. And then let's see. I'd send you guys all the legislative updates. If there were any questions on any of those, let us know. I know Taylor is working on the ones that were directly related to policy procedure for a principal. So we talked about some of the things that she's had to do as a result of that. We're still waiting on, well we'll get to solar, we're still waiting on that. But we had a what do you call it? An energy audit. They were free through many businesses that are looking to see who qualifies for more of the ever source programs. And so Scott and I made sure that we took advantage of this one because one of the things that we
know we've gone to do after the solar is to get the lights in a hallways change all the LEDs. And we had just one small area at the top of the stairs. I was at the office down to, you know. And so this Vince, because Dan's a came in with the owner of the company that was assigned to our region here. And they've done the complete energy audit. They went through everything related to the boilers. One of the things was the steam traps that we had got fixed. Those were on the board. Remember this thing that we had where they had come through and they had taken all the pictures of all of the steam traps. And they had created a report in the end that told us about their functioning levels and what needed to be fixed. We did this two years ago. And we had 16 of all of them at the time and we had prioritized them. Well now by now we've already fixed the 16. So he's going to be looking into whether or not part of it would be a rebate program. So things like that that they're looking at for us. So we're working with them. And like I said, they've already come in. They've done everything they need to hear. And hopefully by next month we'll have that. In terms of radio facilities and operations, we don't have their report yet, but we're getting away
now. Yeah. And normally cake the way it works is they'll give you a list of like projects. And then they'll tell you what rebate were program would be associated with it. So it may not be stuff that we are even looking to do right now. But they would say, hey, if you did this project, you may be able to get X number of dollars back 80% paid, 60% paid, whatever. So we'll definitely look at whatever programs they'll offer us. In terms of other facilities and operations stuff that was done this month, we've had the past control done. We've had the good done in the kitchen, the fire panel antenna done. Just prior to the start of the school year, we had the outside of the windows cleaned and we'll do that every two years. The deficiencies for the suppression system in the kitchen were done. Ian fixed prior to the first day of school. And then two other things meant that they were a faculty member. Oh, when we get down to the project update, the specialist sampling was done in past that has met for the bathroom. The oil filters were changed on all of our units. The fire marshal inspection was done. The fire mars specialty designed block-down door had either placed. When we did the first test of the button for a lock-down, the lock needed to be repair. Yeah, and then the service station inspection of the oil tanks
and meter roof done. So all those things are good done updated. And I think that's it. Oh, when we're waiting still on, it's been going up and down. I probably should have considered it. Then we first got the pricing a month ago for oil, but you never know. You never want to go to the first one, right? And we're like, you don't go down. It's not going up significantly, but we're still in the 50s and we're in the 50s now. So we're 259 with this contract. And it had come in at a low for us at 251. And we were just hoping to get it with 40s one day. It was like 149 and we were like, you know, getting lower than that. And then it went up the very next day. 149 or 149 or 149. So it's been a long time. And that was like one day. And I was like, oh, man, I missed the vote on that one. But we still watch it every day. And it's still in the 50s. It's not higher than what we're paying now. So we'll still watch it for another couple of weeks.
And see what happens to it. London is occupied. What, what, what, when do we usually lock in by? Um, it depends. It depends. It's easier. We didn't lock until January. Oh, following year. Okay. Not actually that year, Sherry was here. Yeah. Year, wound up the best price. Okay. Um, so, but if we get in the 40s, I want to lock it. Yeah. Um, because it's still we'll be a savings every year than for the last three years. Okay. So that's that's where we are with that. So, okay. That's it. I mean, questions? I like your four 11 pieces, but you laid up on them. Well, I, I hope that they make it. I hope that they will meet the needs of people. We don't pick like that for things. That's a very fluidity. Works, it works. It does work. We want to get here. Thanks, Bob. Yeah, thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Okay. Just a few updates to start. Um, yeah, we're back to school. In it, we got a great opening. Um, very smooth. Um, just kids just subsided to be back. And I think, um, teacher spelled that staff felt that kids felt that. So we're excited. We can feel the growth. You know, we can just, it's just funny having fourth grade in a new wing and getting adjusted to five six and just, you know, there's a lot of kind of growth and change and it's going really smooth.
And so thank you. Um, for all your support there. Um, a couple of quick updates before I will present survey results. So our website, um, we are meeting next week with EastCon with Nick who does our tech here with. He's going to take it over the website work as well because now we're just an updating mode and he can do that. But there's some changes. Um, just with what's required on our website. And also what we think would be helpful. So we're going to be adding as we talked about some more of that professional development information, also some of the curriculum maps, um, and then, you know, the videos files to just kind of some other pieces. But we what happens when you have a website, you start adding and you just start adding new stuff like random places, it gets a little. So we really want to be strategic. I don't want to just keep throwing things up there. Um, so we're meeting next week to really think about the organization and
make sure that it's logical and parents can find things that they need. Um, so that'll be good though once we can get some of those updates, um, on there. Professional development, um, we had our professional development prior to school. And we talked about, yes, keep thinking because we had PTA was bored about. That was prior. Yes, we had, um, kind of we talked about building thinking classrooms, some math professional development. We do some safety and security professional development, some health, um, professional developments. We look at, um, some data initially. We're not data heavy on the first day of school. But we do look at some of the last year's data that we have to prepare for this year. So a lot of moving parts. And then we also do a lot of special education, file reviews and kind of trading because new teachers and making sure that, um, kids are ready to go and date one. So that's kind of the majority. There's a lot of work. I just said a lot of the things that went into those three days, um, prior. And then we have a half day professional development coming
up next Friday. So that's when we have a half day, that's a two-hour session that we have with staff where we will, um, look at beginning of the year benchmarks, which we are making plenty of progress on already. And then we will do, um, looking at that data, how that's going to impact our work in the math, building thinking classrooms, that professional development. Um, hopefully, if you have kids here, they already experienced some of that work. And we've really, I'm amazed at what are we on today day nine. I think of school, how much, um, teaching and learning has already occurring, um, which is just amazing. So lots of good things happening there. Um, buses. I know that became a concern for some parents on busry. So right around, um, this, I think was the second day of school that Friday. Um, a couple of students have reported that busry was feeling very full.
And that students were seated three or four to a seat. Um, I contacted Deco right away. It was the middle of the day. The bus wasn't there. Contact a debt pull right away. They stole who's our manager there, said, I will look into it right away. You know, I don't imagine that, but certainly I will check. Um, and he confirmed pretty quickly that that wasn't the case. Then I, um, of course, in that afternoon when I'm on the bus, and there was at least seven or eight empty seats. So I found that, I mean, pretty, the busing didn't shift that much, and who was on the bus today too. The bus driver did indicate at that point that some students were sitting three to a seat, and then she offered other seats, and they declined the older kids, particularly about their vehicle. Yes, yep. Um, and so that was interesting. And then, um, bus three. So,
so we, we were feel very confident that we had the right appropriate amount of kids on the bus. Bus three's root was taking typically, since I've been here, bus three is always the last one to settle into the on-tut in the morning route. They're, they're quick in the afternoon, but, um, then the challenge was they had a sub driver. Um, early on in the school year, last week, and a little bit into Monday, and so they were arriving later than we'd like to as about 840 to 845. Yesterday, she's, uh, today is Wednesday. So yesterday, she was back, our regular driver, and they were here. They're now here 832, 833. Still not sufficient for us, so we are pushing those stops just back, um, four to five minutes, and that will get us right where we need to be. So I'm feeling,
like that, I better than all the buses, none of them are very crowded at all. Um, in fact, we would encourage more kids. They're welcome to take the bus. And we're fully focused. Um, we are clapping in today was 409, um, which is pretty, that's a little quicker than usual from last year. Okay. Um, at our last bus check in yesterday was 414. Oh, that's what the, I mean, just bus two though, it looked like the last scheduled stop is after 430. It's always that way on that schedule. And so, I'm going to just, I'm hoping that there's not kids who are, uh, especially like little, so that are on the mess for an hour and a half. No, we haven't been past 414. The first day, I think we were 427. The, the roots always look very long. And when I first got here, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, this is, and that goes like, no, no, it's because
we root everyone. And it takes time. We don't take people off the route. And so, they reassured me that was not the case. And I haven't been the case because of the road closure for bus two. They're, they're routing looks late too often because of the 3 to 4 students who are affected by that road closure aren't on the bus. They're just not taking the bus right now. But if there is one or two of them that occasionally do, they're still there last or later, but it's, it hasn't been now that we're in the routine past 415. So I'm not, I don't think that road's going to be open into like, I think it's a, was it December? I had no December. That's what I have. So I'm, come on, kitty, I just don't year on it by the way. That's, that's her family side. But it's not something like that. That's again. Oh, no, it's, that is a D tour. Yeah, I mean, there is. And those are bus kiddos up, you know, regular, so I'm sure there's always our hopeful. They can ride the bus. I want you to know that's very much an option to them. And we have a route for it, but yes, they would be, you know, in that 420 to 435 time is what Doug was estimating. And occasionally like I said, one or two will, but those parents are, are good and aware of what that looks like. So I think we've smoothed out there. And hopefully it's still sailing there. LTP. So are the local governance partnership, which is, if you remember, formerly school readiness, early start funding,
that group, we've been meeting and exciting this week. We started our interviews for our parent ambassadors. So that's the behavioral that the EastCon has done a great job. And I'm sure other organizations advocating with the state that we needed more than one parent ambassador, because these are regional groups coming together. And so, you know, you can understand why we've not more than one. So we are now going to have three, which is awesome one from each town, Hebrew and and over in Lebanon. So that's great. We had each town had multiple candidates and that our fantastic, and we started that interview process. So we hope to finish that by the end of September. So they can begin their work in October, which means we're, we're looking out, we're working on bylaws next week. I think if anyone's willing, come to that. I'm your welcome. And then I'm going to come on and then by October will be up and running, so to speak. And the big work of this year is the parent needs assessment. I think I talked to us. Really, we're just supposed to be working towards what does the community need? So how do we gather information throughout the year on what particularly the zero to five family needs? So they'll be doing that. Okay. Questions on that before I do surveys? Any of that? Just to just the website, and I know I had the email to you, is there, are you going
to put that active school calendar back up? Because I guess that was helpful. It really was. Yeah. Okay. I'm not on that home page right now. It's the stagnant school calendar. We were worried that people wouldn't see the first day of school change. So we wanted that, like smack in their case, all summer. Oh, that. Yes. We didn't see people. Yes. But we wanted it right as much as we could. But it will go back to that fluid. Yeah. That was great. Okay. That by month. So you can see like the event. Yes. That was great. Okay. Okay. I think I'll throw it up in appreciation for the bus drivers. There was one day we were following a bus along with three or four other people.
And the driver was perdius. She pulled over. I think it was actually on the first year. Pulled over and let us walk past. I said to Anne, I said, did the stop-up work, why? It's, you know, the great, great, great lights are on. But they weren't flashing. But she said, no, that you can pass them right here. And I thought it was kind of kind of them to be considerate of those who must follow. Yeah. Open you want to get behind. Sometimes you can't. Oh, you can't un-get behind. And along her road is tough. Yeah. Yeah. We have great bus drivers. So and they've been, you know, I've had the same since I've been here. It's the same bus drivers. We so was new a couple years ago. But that's fantastic. Our bus manager also subderives, which I find helpful because he knows the kids. So even when I'm working with him on any sort of issue, there's just a little more context, which I think is nice. He knows the life of a bus driver self. All right. Okay. I'm, and again, I'm sorry. I don't want to get too much time tonight. But I do want to show you the survey. So let me see if you want to share the screen. Survey. Lachio. Okay. We just need all these little things to go in. Okay. If I start moving. Okay. So we have three surveys tonight. We're going to talk about family survey staff survey students survey. Okay. And so these were all administered back in May. Family survey this year will start with a lower response rate.
That's what it is. And unfortunately, you have to take that for what it is, right? When you look at the data, which the data is good, but what I love to see 200 of course I would. We were a little surprise. It was not that I believe the year before I wrote it down. Is it was not in the 90s? Really? So this is a family. That's just to say. That's never a fan. So keep well, not necessarily. A mom and a dad could feel like that. People don't put a place. So it's also we don't know that. But we assume it is. But I don't know. My husband and I both filled up the survey for bull and not even knowing the other one did. So you just don't know. So that's what that's. Yeah. I know. So that's something to think about for this year. We thought about that. The year two years ago, we had a paper copy at our evening of the arts that we collected some results from. Again, we probably got 15 that night, but maybe it would be 15 in addition to this. I'm not sure if those were 15, what have done it at least? You know. So you send it out as an email as well or was it only on T-Saw? It was on T-Saw and I think even I think we even had classroom send it out because sometimes that works better too. It's on the teacher. I will say for myself personally, I have a very more time seeing the things on T-Saw because it's very simple for something like this. If I
got it as an email, maybe definitely you're going to do it. But if it's like a link on T-Saw, I might come from T-Saw. Yeah, the C-Saw communication sometimes get lost too. Like if you get multiple, like alerts or something, it's lost that ether and that's never coming back. So we're working on that. It's one of the things this year. I don't know if you are. If you're parent, you notice instead of sending me send a communication through message, we're doing those posts in a classroom because the feedback we did get, there's a couple of comments here about not being able to go back because we all miss things like we're all busy, right? I don't look at it when they send it. We're hopeful in a post more, you can just go through the
feed now and say the last four things I posted. I said that I still can't read them because it's tiny. And then it's like this big, interesting. But on your phone or yeah. Okay, yeah. So somebody can look at me. Maybe I'm alone. Like this is the only place that I look at any. Oh no, no, no, no, no. There's a setting where I said it's a mobile view. But it's something well, I'm lucky that we have staff parents. So I can usually test out. Can I see your phone? I want to see what this looks like. So I'll take a look at that. There's anything that's in slides. Okay. Or anything that's like format it as a slide. I can't look at it. Good feedback. So we'll work on it. So anyways, 48. That's where we're starting. Okay. But we'll look at the data, right? Okay, look at that. It's 48. We want to give them their moment. So as a family, we feel connected to what's happening at AES, if you'll welcome into the school community. I don't want to do math while we're talking. So here it is, 91.7. That's agree and strongly agree. That's fantastic. I think in terms of looking at
feeling welcoming connected. Meeting the academic communities of needs of their child 87.5%. I also love that there's no strongly disagree here. So that's always a good thing. Neutral and disagree. So again, another area where we're doing very well. My child's feels safe. That school one is trusted adults to talk to 89.6%. So that's again, those right now and known as a breeze. We staff was very excited to see this. That there's a couple of neutral, which again, you're not sure exactly how to interpret when a family chooses neutral. But I think that's great. That was a somebody trying to enter behind here. So sorry. Come away. I know you don't want to know what somebody. Sorry. Let me just do that real quick. I don't want to risk it, but it was something you didn't know. I'm sorry, no. That's it. All right. There we go. So that was great to see no disagree there. Just can another person. That was that one. All right. Regulantly informed of my child's progress at school. This is the last multiple choice and this is the question that we used to drive our work for parents this year. So 75% not terrible, but certainly we love that to be 90% as well. Again, more of a neutral. So with 48 people, I think this is only
one or two, you know, people. So some things we're working on for that. In this strategic plan, which I'm going to share in more depth next month because that has so much academics in it too. And if we're going to look at that data, but you'll see a part on, of course, family focus. And what the leadership team really talked about in the past few weeks is making how do we make that clear? Because I think a lot of teachers are sharing progress, but sometimes it doesn't have meaning a significant meaning to families or they don't know how to make meaning out of it. And so that's what we're going to work on this year. Sharing benchmark data, that will be new. It is state required. And so with that, we want to be very intentional. And how we share data, that parents can make sense of it. Because that can be overwhelming to get benchmark data. That means the data we gather three times a year on every student. You might see a yellow and just like, what does this mean? I don't know, should I be concerned? Now people are concerned. So we're really going to be a part on creating these parent friendly guides to help you to look at that data.
And be like, okay, I understand this about my child. This might be what's happening at school. Or if it looks like this, here's what might happen. You know, things like that. So that's the work. And then report cards too. We've done a little updating. Nothing dramatic that you might think, whoa, what they do. But just looking at the standards, making sure they align to our curriculums. But even that, if you, your child gets a two on the standard, what are we really saying? Right? So good. That's a little bit hard for a parent to rock their head around. Or to take any action on. There's, you know, we're very lucky. We're in a school community. We're parents would not to be engaged in their child's education. And we want to give them the tools to do that. So sometimes you look at it and they're like, I want to help. But I'm not sure what you want to do to fix that. So just creating more opportunity for parents to know and understand whether they're child is that. So that's family. So comments families can also or move that, but I'm not going to put it. I'm like, skin also comments. Just narrative on this survey. We had 20-ish comments. So out of the 48 respondents about 20 comments. A couple of things. So because again, it's a low number of respondents. Most of these only have one comment. But I, I, it's worth talking about. It's worth understanding and thinking about. So the first one was fundraising. Someone was concerned about fundraising and wanting the money for field trips or any
of those enrichment to just be built into the budget or things like that. And so certainly, if you're not aware, we do two fundraisers a year for the school. And we're, they're going to look a little different this year. We're going to try something new popcorn. Everyone loves popcorn. We do two fundraisers a year. And that's so that we can fund those field trips and those enrichment opportunities. We don't ask families to pay for field trips or enrichment opportunities throughout the year. And so that money goes directly to student activities and families will support that. When I send home a promotion slip, you're not asked to send in $20. So your student can go, or to Boston, you'd be asked to send in much more than $20 to do that trip. So that is why we do those two fundraisers. And certainly there's no obligation for families. We still aren't even if you don't fundraise. You're not charged later for that trip or anything like that. And we do well. But I understand that I understand that families choose where to send their money and sometimes
those difficult decisions. So we do have two sub-PTA. We'll often, they may have some other initiatives they're working towards, but the school does too. I want you guys to be aware of that. A couple of comments on enrichment and after school programs. And like, yes, I agree. Just are we going to be able to bring those back? So my mom tried to talk about the words we are looking forward to that. And the other, the nature of the enrichment comments are we're starting to see that more in-class, but more and more. And that's really the more work that we're doing. And again, we're excited in the way the board is supported fully staffing us to have a little more opportunity for that now this year too with our STEM and innovation. Communication, we just talked about CSAT. There were a couple of comments about CSAT and trying to streamline communication.
So that is the way one of the ways that we're doing that this year. And that's specifically on building events. I did not have any negative feedback on communication directly from teachers. It wasn't about their style or anything like that. It was just about those building events, which is what we were talking about. So really trying to figure out the best way to do that. And so right now, we're doing this post. You've joined a classroom and hoping that that feels, again, even if in the moment you miss that alert, if your routine is just on Sundays to go, take a look at that and be able to scroll through. Look at the sizing to make sure that we can fix that,
but it's a little bit more of a stable place to hold things. We do have school messenger that we can use for emergency alerts and things that come up that will be a little more direct calls your phone, like snow closing, any things. But what can be difficult and the challenge that all schools face is we have so many flyers that nowadays that we send digitally to do that via emails is tricky mass email systems that you know. And so we we we we love CSO in the way that it works for kids and the way that it allows parents and teachers to interact. So we want to continue to just
give it another shot and see if we can manipulate it to to be successful for us. But certainly if not, then we would look at all their alternatives. Parent trainings. This did come up in a comment about offering opportunities for parents to come in and maybe gather about parenting's ways of parenting or ways to support kids. And we immediately thought of the LGP and our parent ambassador and kind of that work that's happening and so I think that will be a really nice tie-in to serve families in that way. And in particular is year to five, but how does that translate to our elementary, you know, certainly something for us to think about. And then honestly, which is great most of them are about their positive school experience. So questions on family survey. Hi. Good. I'm good. Great. So students survey. We surveyed third through sixth grader. So last year it was 103. Occasionally, I'm not sure exact enrollment.
You know how that goes depending on kiddos. But that's how many we have. More than our family. So that is I always point out in this one. There's not a neutral. We do an I don't know for kids because there are kiddos. Sometimes you read a question and they don't know what to put. We don't want them to just guess. So we'd rather them have that out. And then deal with it on our end. What we need to make sense of it. But that's just so you know, we don't let parents say I don't know. But my kids can't. So adults in my school care about me 84. My school percent. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I don't know. You don't know. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. But you find in the student survey is whatever is not positive is mostly I don't know. There's not a ton of disagree and strongly
disagree, which is great. But that does. I don't know. We'll be stronger. A bigger percentage than sometimes it would be right. Which makes sense. So 84.4%. I like coming to school. We know this is a stretch to ask kids. So bear with us. 62.1% positive. Which at first you're like, oh, but remember, we're asking 8 to 12. You're 8 to 11. And a half to 12 year olds on any given day how they feel. So we're actually with the I don't know is we're not terribly upset about this. That's pretty good. Yeah. And then the school work I do feels we like. We like this one. How does the school work feel? And I think a great show once I just write, I think it's and that's pretty good. Not, right? It's just like, whoa. And I, so I think it's a nice spread. What I actually, what we don't like to see is a lot of blue is actually for us a harder, a worse indicator. If you know what I mean, because kids sometimes kids will say too hard no matter what. But two easy really things. A lot of kids are thinking it's too easy. I'm sure I just say that also no matter what. You're right. You are, you are, I don't know, you mean healing. You're absolutely right. So I think we were, we were pleased with this friend. I've a trusted adult. I can go to
when I need help. We were really excited about this 86.4%. That was up from 76% last year. And we really feel strongly that that work we've done on climate and culture and with our houses have helped that we also added in a little more to the question, just some examples of who that might be. When you need a trusted adult. So we were happy to see that. I like that you added specifications. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're all the, we don't actually call it always a trusted adult. So I don't know one down. Yeah. Yeah. So so clarity and actually and I'm cutting
to the chase here. But as we looked at this as a team, we talked a lot about how do we give clarity to the questions for kids without we're not trying to leave. But we just want them to know what we're asking so we can give get good data. Teachers help me when I need it 88.4%. I think that's really high. I think there's a really strong number for kids that just speaks to the relationship they have with teachers here. So that was really exciting. And again, a little bit of I don't know here. I feel safe at school. So this is 75.7%. That's the one we obviously as our lowest chose to kind of focus on. And we need to dig deeper into this, right? Because to adults, this means a lot of different things. And we're not sure exactly, right? What that means to an eight-year-old and doesn't mean something different to the 11-year-old. So this is the area. And again, higher, I don't know percentage too of like, they're not sure because if you add that together,
you're at 80 by almost 90%. So we really want to dig deeper into this one. So some of the ways we're going to do that is starting with more frequent check-ins. We're not talking about, I promise we're going to heavily survey your kid every month or anything like that. But we do want to do more frequent dips of just seeing what if we're going to focus on that, we want kids to have feedback. Because when we get this feedback in May, it's great. But those six graders, goodbye, and like, we didn't get to act on it, right? We didn't get to try to improve the situation for anyone. So we want to look at doing that a little more frequently so we can act and make some changes. Again, with safety, it's an adult assumption. We are assuming right now does that mean peer to peer, right? And that conflict, but certainly it could be something different to kids. We have to examine that more. But those are the kind of peer to peer and then student to teacher relationship we're looking at. One thing we've put in place that we're really excited about this year is restructuring our fifth and sixth grade luncheon recess waves. So our fifth and sixth grade, both have about 26, 27, well, sixth grade, a 28 students, if not, I think they're definitely both a 20, but fifth is separated into home loans, right? That is one of the most of our conflict
in this. It's the age, right? A fifth and sixth grade, we're peer conflict increases. Our kids have also been together for a lot of years in one realm of things for a long time. So we have the normal developmental and then we have that layered in, right? And so we wanted to create a way for teachers to have some flexibility to make social groupings that need sense. So we actually have luncheon recess in an hour, right? To my best, where fifth and sixth can be mixed, but separated. So that makes sense. So some of sixth and some of fifth could be out at recess, block A and go then go eat lunch, block B, where the other fifth and sixth graders are lunch first and then going out to recess. And in sixth grade, students were able to get some choice and movement in that. So they were able to identify, oh, I'd love to go out lunch first, and this is my best friend, and we're going to play this, and really just starting to create what we're on safety, not to them, but to us, because we need to get to a base on what every student to feel safe at school. Not to say, and I just want to reiterate, we're not same students should never face challenge and should never, you know, interactive peers, they don't normally get along. That's not what we're doing here. However, we need to
reduce at that age, some of the tension that can spike from a day, and allow them that downtime, which is what luncheon recess is in a way that that feels good. The other benefit is that can be flexible, right? So students and teachers can move into those blocks without impacting math. So when things change and social dynamics will deal, they can change. But that's more great. It's also in one of those recesses. So that's nice, because there are some kids who want to play big team sports, there's 36 of them, so they want to play something really. And there's others who want to sit on the block tough and read, and they don't, they're annoyed that that basketball game was even when it happened. So again, not that we're saying you never have to be in a space that you're uncomfortable in, but there's not a need to create a space you're uncomfortable when we don't have to. So that's really, it was weird at first kids were a little like what's happening, and now it's just really settled in and so we're excited about that. So things we're working on, we're continuing in our houses, we're continuing zones. Our counseling team care, we're excited that they, you know, last year were able to move her, we had some more funding in the mental health grant, not the summer, the regular one, to move her to four days a week. I only asked once a week for her to be five days a week, so you know, sure. But that is a huge difference, because that what that means is I have
a counseling staff here every day of the week, because my age M counselor is here a day and a half on that off day, right, that care is not here. I can't put into words the effect that has on a building, and for having someone there to step in, to help a student in a moment that needs it. That support can feel very different coming from counseling staff than from the principal, and there are moments that you really need that to feel supportive and not visible. I promise I'm supporting them, but it's just different, right? So we're excited about that. I'm talking about some, sorry. Questions on questions on students. Okay, let's get to staff. So staff also completes the staff survey. 32 respondents of about 50 staff. It's a better ratio for us. Again, I can't see who it is, we can't require them. This is all staff, so we are not, it could be a pair of, it could be a custodian could be a teacher, just so for your mind so you're looking at it. There's a lot more questions, so I just did them a little bit differently, so you could just see the scales one to five, strongly disagree strongly agreed, and this is the average right here. So I won't go through them all. Yeah, there, this is a, these are great scores for this first, this first one, and I do work with leaders, unions, to try to make sure I have questions that feel that are represent what people want to express too, so sometimes that we shift in add things.
Then we have these, and we're going to talk about this one, the information is communicated, I'm going to show you kind of what we're doing this year. That was where we were a little bit lower. We increased special time, we made sure we have collaborative planning here. When we talk about this as a staff, and they also tell her I'm always going to give you a one, like I want it to be all day everyday. Like they're, so you know, that one's, we are always looking for more collaborative time, not enough time in the day, not enough time in the day. But these, you know, there's certain ones that really matter, right? If you haven't heard in value, that's great. We're above a great. I love this one. Recommend what, that's a way, would you tell a friend to come here, right? Because otherwise, sometimes you wouldn't. So we really were pleased with all of the results. Is it work, my work alone is reasonable, is that like specified, like we're not enough or too much? Or it does not. Okay. That's a good point though. Yeah. I'm not sure anyone's saying that I'm not. I'm going to be shocked. But baby, you know, you're not not going to ask a little more of it. Yeah. Put anything more. I mean, I just want you to tell me that. I'm bored with what I'm
doing. I want to learn a new thing. You know what, you, you're not, you were right. I don't think that was the case here. Whatever. And that is only because I think all of our employees are working double time all the time to do what's best for kids. So again, there was no even when we debrief when we do this as a whole staff. So even if you didn't take the survey, you're part of the debrief and we have some all group conversations and kind of what do you think about this? What can we do? Yeah. And then. So this is just an example. When we talked about the communication
on, we said, what is it that means? And it was calendars, calendars, calendars. So we actually, this is just a screenshot. We created for the staff. We have a whole doc now by month where you could see it goes straight down. We put every single thing on that calendar because what people are missing and if you weren't going to school, you would know. But like if fourth grade's going on a field trip, you might be in fifth grade. But you don't realize they're out. And then one of the fourth grade teachers had duty with you and you're like, where's she? And then you didn't got like, there's things that happen that you almost just don't anticipate. So we really needed a lot of things to do with this. So some staff created this, which is awesome. Again, our staff survey feels really driven by staff and it's a team. It is don't get me wrong of a reflection of me as well. But they really, we want to work together. So they created this and that's going really well so far. That's great. Yeah. They have a few opportunities to write feedback. And so I just share trends. What's one area in our school community? You've seen the most progress or it's blocked. But that's what this is. All the comments were really into these three categories. Bookworms, which was our new reading curriculum, our houses and our climate, our school climate.
So they were all in those. One area you think we need to continue to focus on. That was the communication piece. We talked about the calendar there. And then there was a couple other topics that came up, continuing on community and collaboration, challenging behaviors and our houses. And lastly, we ask about any areas you feel some the cis professional development, would be good for these. Right here came up the most math, which you know I've talked about, what we're doing. We're continuing our zones in SEL and we're continuing working at bookworms. A couple narrower I saw called, Paul then or less common topics that come up. Paratrating, which we've already implemented, we're seeking some more information on autism and the state funded three. It's called 321 Insight, a paraprofessional portal. It was okay last year. This year we were happy they added almost like a level two
which our pairs were more than ready for, which really had some action steps and some more. So they started some of those modules before school started. The early early childhood standards and specials connections team. That's our induction program for new teachers. So we started that tonight. They were here till five, going through kind of what that looks like for them and in science and social studies. And overall we talked about as a staff, what came up is our professional development has to be personalized because to fit the needs of you know, 30, 35 staff that require professional development. One size went fiddle. We can't do one professional development and hope everybody gets something out of it. So that's PDAQ, which is our committee that plays professional development. It's really working on that. That's great. What questions can I do? Any questions I can answer, but I wanted you to have a lot of good stuff and a lot of clear areas where we can have direction on and I think you'll see that next month where we do student data too. A lot of great stuff and a lot of clear directional areas. And I think the strategic plan that you'll get a copy of will really reflect our plans to address those. I have a question. What are the check-ins going to be like those like what are you envisioning? Like so. It's a little bit like, oh you're a
school form still. The kids are most comfortable with that strategy, but it will be specific. If you won't be like, we won't be asking all the questions every time. So we're going to think about ways to craft. When we're thinking about how students feel safe, what is that actually that feel like sound like to a kid up? So how do we craft that now into maybe three sub questions, right? So this week is going to take the survey. Yeah, I'll just like they did. When somebody and I when somebody isn't nice to me, I know what to do. Like you know what I mean? Like there might be just some we need to break down a little bit. Okay, figure out what I feel physically. Yeah, right. We sure how do we know what that really means. So that's kind of the work we're going to start. And that will happen in the next month. There's so just to get a better direction to go with kiddos. And it may be different, right? Maybe third and fourth is something different than fifth and sixth
or whatnot. And our current third graders did not take the survey last year. So we have to keep that as well as what's to place them. And then what do you do with like then how are you going to address it, you know, magic? I don't know. Yeah. We can still go a couple of ways. So our school psychologist already emailed staff today and was like, okay, how can I come into your room? What are specific areas and date? You're already seeing that you want some whole group lessons on, right? Sometimes it's that. Sometimes it's whole group instruction. We see a 70% of kids are not sure what to do and someone's mean to them. Okay, we're going to design lessons explicitly, just like we would teach multiplication, right? We're going to teach that explicitly. Sometimes it's small groups. So sometimes if you remember our students are not anonymous, we don't feel like that's healthy because what could happen is we could get some startling or unsafe answers that we wouldn't be able to act on. And that's I just don't but I just don't believe that's healthy for kids under 18. So that also though allows our school counselors to take a look and say, hey, Joey is really concerning. Like do we know about this? Well, how do we go about it? So there's a twofold way that we look at that. And it
may be in certain areas of the school. I don't know. Maybe it comes up that the cafeteria is feeling overwhelming for a kid. You know, I guess I don't know until we know, right? Okay, we want to figure. Thank you. Yeah, I'd like to say thanks for the work you're doing here. I think you truly know this kind of skill I call them. Thank you. So there's families, kids, teachers, staff, and I think it really makes a difference. These people in this environment feel cared for and knowing that you're going to act on any problems. Well, the one thing about the council of being a chef, from personal experience, I can tell you that when they come in for a recess, we're all being interactions sometimes to collide. And you're a teacher, you have the other 28 kids in your room, and you have this two of them having a problem for what's happening to happen to recess, and you have nobody to go to. We had a school, I was working in, of course, we had a school social worker. Whenever I had a problem, he was there. Yeah. And she took that problem and she
brought the kids that a problem solved. It's happening. And that's support. It's really, really work. Absolutely. And kids come to trust and rely on it, right? They build relationships with their counseling staff. So, um, so let's just take fun, second, taking back a fun, Jared's comment. Fun, Freddy's Jared, one of the reasons why we absolutely do need to have some of their five days a week, and right now currently we're four days a week, so that will go into our budget, um, you know, for next year, because nothing happens until that last day. Yeah. Today, I'm also our nobody's here to help you today. But Taylor, can you just take a second because you've done something, you know, amazing. You've created a leadership team. Sure. I can tell them how many people in the building, and there's not a big position. I don't know. Okay. Can you tell them just briefly about your leadership team? Yeah. So, um, we have a lot of teacher leaders in the building and teachers just step up, step in, want to help out. And so this year, we decided to kind of formalize that a little
more and say, hey, who are you in the building that really wants to move forward? Who wants to drive the work with me? Um, and I had 10 people immediately, which is a high number. Remember, we have 17, though. I have a little under 30 certified staff. 10 of them immediately were like, let me join the leadership team. I was like, where are we going to meet? I was like going to do it in my office. I thought there was going to be like three, and I was like, all right. Um, and when I offered it,
there was just a Google forum, right? If you want to do it, and I just put a question like, what excites you about this work or something like that. And everyone was like, because I want to move us forward. I want to be part of the forward movement. And that is, I believe true of all staff, but to have 10 really step up. So, we're meeting weekly. We meet every week, um, which is a lot. But it's, that's the work. And we've already, they already have, um, two learning walks planned, where the leadership team is going to start by, they walk through all the rooms and they're looking at lenses. I don't go to that. It's not a value to it. This is like, coworker peer to peer, like, how do we move forward? Which is huge. Um, and then they're working. I gave them my draft of the strategic plan. And it was almost like, thank you. You know, like, well, go, we'll take it from here. And we have early childhood stuff being added in that I hadn't quite quite, you know, identified it. And so I'm excited. I'm excited about that work. And again, the work has to come up, right? It can't, you know, you guys set the vision here as a board of bed, Valerie then says, here's the vision. And I say, here's the vision, but they're the people on the ground, right? What are you going to do to play? So I'm excited about that. Um, the work was happening, but now we're doing it kind of all swimming in the same direction. So our work this year will keep using this
clarity, clarity. We need to be really clear on where we're going. Um, 10 people that have heard of the, not a single night. And I wanted her to stress that because this is why we have the best teacher here in the neighborhood, not a single question. And we'll do our campaign for this. And I think it might be me, I was like, remember, this is a lot of work. Yeah, it's like, I need a couple of hints in it. Yeah, that's what I think I haven't seen it. I was thinking to understand that commitment, that level, I haven't seen that anywhere. A third of them said, let's do this. That's what it's
looked like a family. Yeah, hello to five of them on here. Right, all five of them. One, three, four, five. Yeah, that's why I wanted to acknowledge that because you won't find that anywhere. And that's, that's, you know, very important. You won't find that anywhere. And it just, I mean, the representation from all parts that build it, too, which is great. You're, yeah, also is on that. That's made it for our time. Yeah, that's right. So that's all. Thank you. Yeah, we're going for a movie. This is again. It is. This is not an awesome. Okay, I promise. I'm done now. We're next month. Yes. Um, that's back. And I'm ready. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So we'll do SPF will be the summit in, of course, the summit of last year. And then by, we also will have all of the benchmarking for this fall, which includes, I ready, dibbles, and our M-plus math. So lots of fun stuff to present. I will keep it. It's nice. Right. Well, yeah, we'll do my very good. Yeah, you know, one of us mentioned it. So
long last Kudo here, but either one of us mentioned September 24 on the calendar is the, the back school, back decision. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I was just, just for anybody who's watching. And it is September 24 that on the calendar, but I'm fortunate to be the one that said, definitely not prior to. So we can't wait to go off on the family. It's on the school side. I know it is. Yeah, but yes, I don't know. You know, but I'll let the board know. We said, and we are continuing in our family engagement activities each month. So we have planned those for the whole year, which is great. So I'll be able to send those to families and they can mark their calendar. You know, right? Nope. So they will come. Yes, PTA. I was like, guys, you don't have them in your calendar, and I thought, well, you'd have to send them. Yeah. It helps. It helps. My whole, but I will get those out, and then that way, you can mark, you know, you'll know them way ahead of time, which is hopefully helpful to families if you want to get it as rotating this day. Yep. They're all just, just, smattering the days. And that is why we moved our back to school event this year to a Wednesday, just to, mix it up a little because sometimes we do get family feedback. Everything you guys
do, a whole school is on Thursday, and that doesn't work for me. So, absolutely. I'm not chipped. Now I'm done it. Okay. My name is Audrey Vart, I'm a third. Terry's on vacation right now. So we'll get to that, you know, but prior to that, we do have that position to host it because it would be Terry's last year with us. Yep. She is going to plus, I retired during the course of this year, but work part-time with the number of hours that she can work and still be retired. So people will see her all year long, but we will begin the screening process next week because she's not here this week. And move forward. Hopefully we'll get a number of people that are interested in, you know, of a part-time position. So we'll update you next month with Larry R with that. The paper that I just passed around, that was the most up-to-date addition to the financials. And that is the pre-K page. Okay. So you guys did receive the expenditure report as of September seconds, and you received the custom expenditure reports that's about object code there. Does anyone have any questions on those two specifically? So so we went to the analysis. I don't have any questions. Any funny on those? No. Okay. I know you've just got it, but this is that sheet that we promised to be included with every single financial update on the
pre-K. So you'll notice that if all of the anticipated revenue comes in, that's that first line on the top there for tuition. And again, that means that we've received the tuition agreements back from all of the people that are enrolled in pre-school. And if all of them make it through to the end of the year, because remember there's always that option too, that we could line up on the first end. They decide not to stay here. If that happens, then 252 is the anticipated tuition there for the year. And it's broken into three categories. And it's broken into three categories, because that just lets you know that that is the tuition and the anticipated to come in from the students who fill either a regular slot, a early start slot, or a smart start slot. So that's the reason why they're in three categories. That's it. Because that's in addition to whatever we get from grant funding. So somebody could fill a smart start spot. We get this smart start grant, which is 65,000, but then those candidates also pay something. And that will total 31,000. Does that make sense? Yeah, it's just a lot of budget numbers on there for the for the for the teachers. Like, like, I get that's the expected revenue, but there's no like expected cost. Am I missing that? It is not on this team. What you see on the right hand side there is what the what's come out so far. Sam says two teachers in three pairs. Yeah, I think it would be helpful to have like what. And then it says teacher. Right, it would be
four teachers and four care for veterans. It would, but we don't under this column, right? This can't run over. That says budget. So right now, this is the expenses that have gone through Edmonds to date. Right, but under budget, there's nothing there. Correct. So can you guys add that? So that I'm into she would but in Edmonds, it won't be in there, but I will ask her to give you that in a separate in a separate box on the bottom. Because this comes right out of Edmonds. Okay, so like it's just being helpful. Yes. Yes. Yeah, so we're dating with everybody. Yeah, like what we get right. Yeah, it's not in Edmonds. She's going to have to create you for you. Yeah. Do you see on the bottom where it says smart start? Because you put that budget into the smart start grant, it says to the right on the bottom 60,000, 60,000, 60, seven dollars and 50, four cents. Do you see that? So that's already in our system, because it's in there under the anticipated expense for smart start. So she has to just create another document for you. And I'll never know that you want that. And the document will just show you what the salaries are for those. I mean, we don't have broken down. We have to do this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So absolutely. Well, that's it. Okay. And then in your package, so if you don't have any questions on that one, the other things that we're included there, we're, it'll actually wind up leading right into the Northern Bonds. But you see the the big statements that are in there as well. Yeah. So the first one of just remind you that says school improvements account,
that's our two percent non-lapsing account. And this one is as of it says statement period July 31, 25, and I say that just because it will match up with the other one that's in here that came right off of their system. So this was as of July. And it was at 25. The next one is still only that original seed money that went into the on capital of the 8,700,700, right? The third one on here is the cash value that is in that known school of all. So this receives interest. The cash available in there is 14,200 and 80 else. That next one is as of June 30th, but this was the balance sheet by class on the town side in their financial system. So not the bank statement. And this one is the one that I'll show you
the two side by side, the school improvement that shows you 259. That capital with the surplus from last year that had been added to it. And that's the 527. Yeah. And then the balance sheet on the next page shows you both the cash of 14,000, 270,000 in the North Indian and the investment of 22,000 for the total of 78. This is the first time we've seen that on here that it has both of them together. And that's why it says 58,000 is restricted because that's bank of America. The top fold I have the odd fold. It is. Yes. That's a little bit. So then on the next page,
she is showing you where anything that has been paid out in that account as of June of 2025 to that date there was taken out. So like in the capital fund, you can see a total of 45,545, it's been taken out. That's why it's not going to be on. So these are ultra helpful. So I'm glad that we were able to get these and moving forward. I hope you can move them every month. And so that way we can see that on the regular basis. If there are any other questions or things that you want the size adding the salaries to the next month's size. I think just adding the salary. Yeah. Yeah. If we can put this with that stuff so we can see that before. Yeah, before him,
yeah, that makes sense. Does anyone have other questions on my items? Specifically. I do not. I don't know. I don't know. I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry. Tuition. Are you expecting that to taste the done first change? Do you have a student that is now focused? Okay. Well, that the team answer is what's in front of the time you're for that person? It is for our known expenses, which include tuition and the known responsibilities to the IEP. Okay. So remember when there are other meetings that take place, that could change. So it is the ones that the expenses that we know are so far with that particular student. So it could go up and we're down depending on the wall, go down, whenever somebody has placed any new environment, it is the services that are there, try to not be too. The services that are there, for example, hypothetically, are tuition and power support. So that is a must. There may be other expenses. Okay. I will also tell you that we have a student that's in a magnetic program that you'll also have a responsibility to for services. And it won't show up separately in this line item.
It will show up just as is that tuition still. So that's best. What about transportation? So the under student transportation? Yes, but we at this time do not require a separate glass for the student that is out placed. So it's a mileage reimbursement. But that would change. Correct. Right now it's a mileage reimbursement. Are you able to share how long that expense period is out identified as student? Got it. I can tell you that regardless of the grade that student would be in here for the whole year. Yeah, I guess that's what my question is. How old is that amount of money that's in Combered? Yeah, and then covered in the known extent of the rent. It could go up low. Depends on the rent. Right. Based on what we know so far, that would be the early expense. Right. Okay. That's what I was after that. Yes, but it's a year. But if there are more services that are right, then that will increase. Um, do you have other stuff? So I'm just fine. Anyone else? I don't have any questions. Okay. So we're not. We're gonna go back to the room. Yes. Yeah, we'll go back to that. I'm going to use on reports of things. I'll be already heard about the L. G. Oh, sorry. If I'm supposed to wait. No, you're not here. I'm. Anything for a sample? No. Anyone else?
Again, and we had our first meeting on Monday. Just set in the calendar and look at a different activities and fundraisers and, you know, working with Taylor and other members. So we had a good meeting. Good turnout. So very turning. Looking for a good year. Okay. So this has been kind of a project in the making here. Um, so I'll tell you how it began. Real quick here is that the Norton Commission actually received this that said you have a check for a dividend in the amount of $345 that's not been patched. And the Norton Commission was like, well, thanks, but it's not us. And so can you pass them? Yeah. And so they were like, thanks, but that's not us. And so they did contact the treasurer and the treasurer was like, I don't, I don't know what we mean about that check. We didn't receive this check. So the packet that I just put around kind of could put it in perspective for you. So it started with, um, and this was an August that the treasurer did reach out and say the town doesn't have this check valve, um, according to the Z-mail exchange with the Norton Commission, you need to contact the BOA, which is Bank of America and request a replacement
check. But I didn't know about, um, the relationship with Bank of America and we're not on there. So I couldn't do that. So that's why a lot of the stuff that I'm looking up and trying to, I've got a lot of pieces to the puzzle. I've been working on that for a while, but to put that together, we're going to need some some more information. Um, and so you'll, you'll see through here, um, that it started in August. And the second one then, um, the second page there was a little confusion for the treasurer, because she, she did it really have a lot of information. And so I said, like, I have the information I'm piecing it together. So she did issue a foyer request for this that I've been piecing together. And I told her that I spoke with Eric. Eric came to my office. I showed him everything that's in here, so that I could explain to him like, look, we have this. We have this, but I need this and this for us to be able to put it together. So I did, um, just make a verbal request. Actually, I need email request that just said, hey, can you tell me what you have on your side for all of the transactions that occurred in this account? So in that packet, it's really tiny if you look here. Sorry about how tiny it is. So I kind of, you know, wrote on the bottom here. What the treasurer provided was the transactions from 2021 on the North and School account. And what you can see there is there's a debit of 52 44, but I'm not really sure we need to get them to get some back information for us, because we didn't take anything out of
that account. So I'm not really sure what that's for. And then there's a credit in there for dividends from some length of time for the 5900, but then it shows an overall negative balance if you look on there. So I'm not really sure. I think that it might just be a matter of a decade of money, not quite being put where it was supposed to, maybe not everybody knew. Maybe there was confusion about North and School fund or in commission or in library fund. But I think as I explained to Eric, I think we need to do some more work together on this to be able to figure out kind of what's been going on with them, because I think if the North and Commission was a little confused, like that's not us, I think maybe over time there might have been some confusion there. So I think the
other thing we need to do is we obviously need to see what the dividends and the interest were. I think we need to make sure that there is another co-person on this account, and I'll show you in here where from 1963, there's been a couple of times that the Board of Education has said maybe we would like to do that, and it hasn't been done yet for whatever reason. And so I think that we do need to make sure that whether it's the same situation that we have with our accounts where it's the the board share and the subordinate, just to be able to get those statements, because it looks like, I'll show you in here, it looks like they tried to do that before, and then maybe they did a minute just when there was a change of staff or whatever. So I think we definitely need to do that. So the first thing I did, just to kind of see the history, if you look, because I went back through from 2016 to the actual audit banner. So you're looking at those pages that show you just the page
from the audit that has the names of the funds highlight there. And so in 2016, you'll see there there wasn't expenses. It says Berkshire for 2015, that's because I saw the $2,000 deduction, and I'm like, what is this? So I kind of went through everything I could find, because in here, I do actually have a file that has everything, I give them a lot of credit that everything that's ever been purchased all the way back to the 1960s, the kiln. I mean, and they've got these great old, I like a lot of everything history related. So, you know, everything that they've purchased, they bought an Apple computer for $3,257 in 1987. Oh, my vision. Yeah. That's like, we got a lot of good hospital computer calls, you know. They bought for $69, there's a cowards home and model record player at some point in 1972. So it's kind of
comfortable to go through here. But so the last one, the last purchase that I could see in our records was a $2,000 purchase in 2015 bar trade right now. So it lines up nicely with this thing in the audit. So our balance had been 24,000 back in 2015, you see 2017 here, 41,000 under the North and School Fund in 2018, 45 and 2019. And this is just all I'm left with the $2,000. This one had 45,000 and then it looks like something changed in 2020. I don't know what happened with the 8,000 or the 5,742 there. I'm not really sure. Unfortunately, at this point until we work together, she wasn't able to give me any of that information either. So we're going to need more information on that. And then in 2022, what was interesting is that it looked like our money was split. And it looked like it was split because what started to appear here was do from other funds the amount of $2,159. So I'm not really sure why it was all turned if something, it maybe that's the year that they opened the Stific hand. It looked like an investment. Right. Well no, the investment
was going to be for that. But if they moved something over to a Stific hand or something, I just I don't have any other search to it. So what is what is the point that we're on? Why? Why does the letter? Right, there's a letter. It basically says that this this guy, Chester Noron, and his will, which I have made it as has made a gift to the town and that the income shall be suspended for the support of its public schools. So basically, it's basically saying the real report of your inquiry, because it looks like somebody, the board of education asked the judge that probably provided the will. Yes. And after exhaustive inquiry, the language of the will can only be construed as to
accomplish this fund, and it's used under the 1958 General Snapsuits, which provides in brief of the town treasure, as charge of the fund, shall keep a separate account there of, but the income of such fund is subject only to the control of the court of ed, to be applied for the benefit of the school. Right. And whatever way you need to. Yes. It absolutely. And we just have never, like not. And that was dated in 1961. Right. Yes. So, and then here's the will. Here's a copy of the well to the original balance here. And yes. And then it looks like the first time the board of ed
year kind of got an understanding that there were some shares was 2008, but I'm guessing in 2010, that's why I put this in here. In the minutes, it said, during school fund, it said, Jayly made a motion to approve that all the first funds for the Noron School fund be forwarded to ending the energy up superintendent, so that the stock fund can be managed in a timely fashion. So, I'm guessing that they probably had a conversation similar to what we're doing now in 2010, and so they were supposed to be getting that. But in 2011, on the next page, it looks like, and I don't know who this person is. I just know that they were first selects, man. It said, Robert Burbank, Martin of 2010. I mean, 11, it says that they tried to make it out. And this, and it says, no documentation was submitted to support the fact that this person was able to be the beneficial owner. So, he had this thing certified and sent in to Stover, see that? And the bank said, no, you're not the beneficial owner of this. And so, I included that for you. And then it looks like in 2011, probably this is probably why the
Board of Education said, in those minutes, time out, we need to have more of an active role, because the letter dated March of 2011 was a town clerk that was giving the authority to Mr. Burbank to oversee that account and said that he had the right to to be that person. So, if he's still not a person, that's what we have here. There's a lot of that person. Nobody's of authorized to give that person. What he wasn't supposed to be, but no board people were ever put on that account, right? Yeah. So, just like from the town clerk. So, that's where we definitely need more information for the last 10 years on this. So, that this board then can figure out, do you want to keep it as a bank of America's stock? It looks like some of it is liquid, we're already all of the interest. Like, but you can't make any decisions until we have all of that. So, we definitely need to get more information on this, but it looks to me like the last withdrawal would have been a purchase, an expenditure, 2015. So, all of the interest for 2015, so for 10 years, all of that interest does have to be there and available. So, that's why I think in this latest statement
that we received from the town in our financials, and I said this first time I've seen this, now that number 78 is appearing. So, I think that's the roughly 60,000 in shares, plus the team, that's somehow there in liquid form. We just need more information on that. And so, I haven't sure that Nelson, I know who that, I know who she is. She's on the North and Commission. She's on the North and Commission. And so, when they said, when separate, when the bank said, somebody needs to cash the check for 300. And actually, if you do the math, $345 a quarter in interest is about right for $60,000 in that investment. So, I'm pretty confident in that $78,000 number. What we just need from the town then is she printed that sheet out for us that she had accessible to her in her computer. We need them to do a little research and go back to all of the documentation, because when I spoke with Eric in my office, I said, because he didn't know either, not of us knew. I said, there has to be documentation that was given to the auditor from 2015 until now, as to the increase in decrease to that account. So, while we really need to do is to have somebody go back through the data, the information that they gave Michael the auditor to support that account from 2015 to 2024,
for us to see the ups and the downs of it, because all of that interest then would be yours for that account. And it isn't unrestricted account in the sense that, according to that 1960 letter that's so I just read, like, you can spend that on whatever you deem necessary. Not that we're going to spend it, but I do think long after I'm gone and you guys are gone, that they do need to have this account in order so that they know what they have available. And honestly, I mean, I've been saying as just as a town's person, I feel like if he wanted that money to be given to the use of children, like it would probably be a good idea for us as a burden to come up with a way
that we can recognize that on a community basis, but doing something with a percentage. It looks like, so I know that the Lord of Commission gives out a scholarship every year. That's what my confusion was that that's all I thought I thought. Well, I think it's the right. That's where it's being realized. And then there is something I think that's also affiliated with the library. Yeah, they got it wrong. Right. Right. So it's, it's really confusing to it. Right. I don't know. So they were three-norton. Three dollars. One-norton is a three-norton. Right. Three separate books. Actually, if you think, I think a one-norton from which three was created to benefit here from parts of the town. Right. He did it. He did it. He did it. He did it. He did it. Dean, library, commission, scholarship, board of ed. That's right. We didn't put that on as well. My word. He was talking about the children of the town. Right. Yeah. So he had benefited from it. Yeah. Yep. He benefited from it. No, he did leave the library separate. And it was, okay, money for books. Correct. Right. And so his will has all of his relatives in there too. It's quite fascinating. I'm all of his relatives in here. $1,000 to this one. $200 to that one. You know, $200. It was, it's fascinating. I love that stuff. You told who the his wife. I know. I wasn't. You're going to, like, to sum this up. You're going to keep investigating. Yes. But I, I do need this information from the town. And I know, like you said, I did tell that burn with the FOI request. Sure. I showed everything that's in this packet to, not the packet. Oh, yes. The original. It's too errant when we met. And I don't have a problem giving them a copy
of it. But right now, I'd like to get the other stuff over there so that it's a puzzle that I'm giving them. That's a fleet and that bits and pieces. So can we have a board formally across that information from the town or you're having it through conversation? I'm not getting. I would, I would like us to be able to formally request those documents. You need us to do, to make a motion to do FOIA or what, what do we have? I make a motion to do FOIA for the rest of the documents from the town, from the town. What are you going to do? We're done, everyone. Yes. I'll start with you. I'll start with you. I'll start with you. I'll start with you. Any discussion, further? I have a question, her idea.
What I think got her to give me the case, that's good. And I'm the way inside of the room. I had sent it. I would tell you, no, by communication, which has already occurred. That's what I wanted to tell you. What do you have in the access to the bank? It was an empty bank. It's been there. First of all, we do have to have a list of who's even on there. Because ironically, this did happen with something else that we were doing. This other account that we were doing for early start, where it was a core account, and believe it or not, the former assisted finance person to the town was the only name that was on there. So when I was asking Eric, he wasn't being computational at first. He was like, I don't know what you're talking about. And he didn't. None of us knew whose names were on there. And so then as it got further, then we realized that someone else's name was on there and then it became a project in a half. So it's possible, Jerry, that there's only one name on there. And that person may not even have any email that exists, which is why the bank reached out to
what they saw as the Northern Commission and said, Alice, because they don't like on cash checks at the bank. No, yes. I will request the original documents from town hall regarding that account. Do we need to add that promotion? No. So this promotion is on. But this one is indeed. Yes. You guys got on voting on motion on court. So we are going to ask for an FOI from the town for the rest of the documentation that goes along with the Northern button to finish the puzzle on paper. All right, move on. I, anyone opposed? Halfways. Jerry did done. I think I could catch. Solar project update. It's easy update. But the email is from Ryan Lineris explaining why we haven't put exactly on the calendar yet or getting there now. He said there has been high of a ball as well. There's been a lot of back and forth internally regarding that conduit path. We need to take to get to the building's main electrical room. I know that the original concept was to run the conduit on the side of the building. But we're running into a little bit of electrical code issue with that path because we're not using that one piece of the roof now. He said where we would like to propose instead is just to elevate that conduit about 12 inches above the roof. I did call him by the way. I said it's plain to me. Is there any other code issues with that? He said no. And so I said, does it interfere with any of the guidelines of the agreement that we made with you? He said no. I said, well, then by all means of that, you need to do it. And so he said by
elevating it, it's going to enable the town for the school to replace that roof sometimes in the future without impacting the solar project at all or the roof itself. We've done it on multiple occasions with several more municipal and other commercial clients and it's worked out very well. So once that was established, he said, we are looking to start this construction as soon as possible. It's a relatively quick process to get the solar room strong. Watch the staging area is there and the construction schedule can be set up, which I told him speaks to Scott and to Taylor about making sure that it won't interfere with anything that is going on. So by next month, we should either have this thing in or we should be on their docking. So that's the great things.
Backroom renovation. Yes. If anybody wants to see that report, there's nothing in here that's negative. It's just when there are things that have to be noted for a contractor. That's what's in here to say, just like when we have our regular specialists and things done, it'll say, there is a blackboard there. So if that were to be removed, that area could be a potential source underneath, just that kind of stuff. And it means to then be given to the bidders. And so the process is complete. And the list of contractors, Richards Corporation is the general contractor, Prestum Mechanical is the Mechanical Implumbing. Mark Hall Electric is the Electrical. Spectrum is the title and flooring, and Central Connecticut and Cruisetix is the sealer. So we're doing well. We're going to have, do we have, like, an expected date for demolition to start? We'll, they have, again, asked about the calendar so that they can, and we've already told them to have, and I've already told them if there's a portion. I was like, there's these great days in October. I know. They said they have our calendar. Yeah. And we know that if there is a day or two to give a long weekend where we have to pour it off a little part of the hallway during school hours, we're willing to do that. So they know all that and now it's just working with this group to make sure that we can get those together moving forward. So it's all good. And do we know what the total estimated bids are? No, because we have this now and then their next step will be
to, they were waiting to have that hazardous material inspection. And I just see that date on the Arizona August 25th, because any of these contractors would need to know if there was an adaptation to what they needed to their right. So yeah, so we're good. And then process just so everyone has aware compared to previous capital improvement projects that have been done within the school, like we're following the same process in terms of RFP and so action and making sure that it's not like someone's buddy down the road, they've got some. Okay, 9,000s, there we go, okay, I mean what else are you going to do on a five hour flight? Well, I read you. Thank you. Thank you. Excellent and I've done what to sleep reading. Okay, so I have like this table that you must be in on the side and then I think we just go through one by one. If someone has like grammatical or like little things that they wanted to change, I feel like maybe we should put those in a pile because I really can look at them after to even look at them. Like I have, I have like a silly thing because I'm not
on them. All right, so like every hand or version of IJ goes or like the share of the share and I also share them. Okay, 9,000s and then anyone have concerns with anything on that. I do, I do that. Okay, so we're going to put that in the in the good at a pile. Okay, 9,000, 10. I say, won't you know, I wrote on here, we're changing his to his or her. Yeah, I would say it's a little bit more of a thought. Yeah, yeah, I had that scene just changing that whole place. And then I had a question, oh, that's the next policy. Just kidding. Okay, so then we can put that in the good pile except for that small change. Yes, correct. Okay. 9, need 12.
I just said for number seven, do we provide for the performance prasal of person up? Do we do that number? Yeah, that's a goal too. Yeah. For the legal, yeah, we don't provide performance a prasal of personnel. I had six circles as well. It doesn't say, do you support and write? It doesn't do anything. Yeah, I did not write for you. I still, I don't understand that to provide for the performance prasal of personnel. I look that as we're providing performance of prasals of personnel for the school. If you state statutes, see on the top, it says, under state statutes and or town charter. Yeah, but not limited to. Okay. So in other words, you, you don't provide a way to bring in your favorite to occur. Right. Okay. I had a question on three. It says to elect a super-independent, which seems like an on-board choice. So I would change it to select, but just so you know there are other places, not here. There are other places where that person is elected. It's just not. I wrote a point. So select or select. It's fine. Okay. Okay. Well, um, and then I had a question on 13C. It says the school district shall provide. Yep, educational opportunities for students to interact with other backgrounds. Do we do that? Legal requirement. I understand. It was just we do. Mom, we have, uh, what do you call it? Um, we get together with people from people and model growth. I'm sorry, I missed it with um, which one? Rachel,
Athens, and Eqio, nom, and backgrounds that are different. So we also have the email that was where you would apply that we connect. Look at them. What was that? I can check out our advice. It's interesting to interact with students. Yeah. So actually, one of the things we just we were in during the last few years is our fourth grade participates in a grant funding, um, field trips where they partner with partner with schools in Hartford. It's just proud of our question. Yeah. So it looks different in different years depending on what opportunities are here, but that was last year. One of the big ones. Okay. So Emily, just for school. Uh, similar. So then they go in field trips. They get 100 pounds. Yeah. They have 10 pounds. So it's just different ways. All right. It was um, so a number of free we're going to change the left to select. Yes. And I don't think when we, the legal reference to the charter of the time of winter. Well, definitely don't. Yeah. I thought we could do that one out on there. Yeah. 90, 20. I, I know that it says that it's like correct whatever the way that it's written. I had questions in regards to, um, if we needed to update this to include like social media and a different way or we're really just the wording of like the distribution to staff members and parents, guardians, as a press release for is that stuff, the language that's used. Well, the social media is in districts that have it. They have different policies. So it's a different
house. That's something that's the way it is done. Yeah. This is about public statements. 90, 30. Don't, and I thought was important is just in the second line to say the end of a board of education recognized and need to maintain open communication between itself and the school staff. Well, I don't know, maybe it's indicative of like clear, but thought it was important to put in school. Yeah, the word school, January and the second line itself and the school's down here. It's self endless, all the stuff. Let's check it right here. This is a twist of clear. Clear, there we go. I don't know if they're up. Yeah, anything else on 90, 30? Well, 90, 40. Take out man. I wrote this man needs to go away. Yeah, to be chairperson, which is what's used in a lot of the other ones. 91, the 10.
Yeah, and this is this is a thing we need to talk. We have to visit all of us. Yeah, first of all, when we, when we go to replace somebody on the board of ed, it's always for the remainder of the term of the board member that's being replaced. Yeah, and in thinking about that, it's very important that that occur because of how our town elections are done. So every two years, we do four, every other two years, we do three, to have a seven member board. But if we did what this was calling for, and I think what maybe in our charter, it is and later on in these bylaws that we would have an extra person
elected. I just think it's very important when we do it until the end of the terms for which we're replacing. So I said, any vacancy, blah, blah, blah, blah, shall be filled by a appointment by the board of education for the remainder of the term of the board member's place that is being filled, except that at the board of education, neglect to a point such member. For some reason, I thought it was six, six days. It was longer than 30. I'm pretty sure it's 60, but we need to check that. Well, that's that's you don't have the charter. I think it's in the charter. Okay. I don't think I think it was a minor ordinance, but it may be now in the charter. So then I until the election fill out the term. Yeah. So for example, Eric reviewed by Steve, right?
Yeah. I've got it. So he got like all of Steve's term. And then the other thing is obviously the term begins with the regular, I think it would be regularly scheduled November board event meeting because the election is always going to be before the first second Wednesday of the month. My question was should it be November or December because we did November last, last time. Okay. Yeah. I just I know we had issues with people being able to go into Hong Kong and get sworn in whatever it's been. Oh, it's not just how beautifully a member would have sent to December. That's why. Yeah. Well, so you're talking about Shannon, because it says term of office of the board of ad, shall be given four years yet to turn beginning. We've ever removed elections from man to remember. I'm just saying. So then the regular. And not, and I also think it's important to do regularly scheduled November board meeting so that we're not in case we change it from the second one. Yeah. That way is still just again. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So I wrote in things down. And I'll send it out to you guys before next meeting. But first, I wrote a file claim and make sure that it doesn't go against any of the state, whatever, stating to that. Okay. But I think we bring things. We want to thank you. Okay. Same thing with 91. I want anyone 20. Yeah. So I would just say at the November meeting of the Board of Education, the Board shall elect by ballet, a lot of lot of law. Right. And that, and this is where I said, we like get my right. And then I wasn't sure with the words of board officer,
but you can see you should be filed through special elections, held up the next regular meeting. Does it have to say regular meeting? Does I thought we'd have special meetings to, well, we think special meetings, what we elect officers, board officer, they can seize, shall be filled through special elections, held up the next regular meeting, filing the boards official acceptance of a resignation. We're not focused on that. I know. I would instead of shall may because it'll depend on Wendy. Yeah. Because it was with Steve, it was like August and like we're like, oh, we should just wait until after. Yeah. He changed it to May depending on a better person resigns. Maybe, though, you could do that. Okay. Makes sense. However, this same thing is like in another two or three of the bylaws. And I think this is the way we should order. Did you see them in subsequent bylaws and said,
how we, secretary is going to be filled with this way. Remember secretary and chair, our bylaws, the only two positions you need. Right. Yeah. Okay. You don't need to think that's a place that's a may here. Yeah. Because of course, the same thing. I feel that's heard. You could say, well, every time we have a secretary decides that I'm never a fireman. Yeah. You don't see. I'm questions me. I might as well say, chair is not in the reelection in November. You have another meeting without a chair in place, because you haven't had the following meeting. There's never somebody in face. I opened the meeting bylaw. I've always done it for you. And bylaw, we start that December meeting with nobody. She, she started it. And the student was stuck there. They're going to come in about November. You're going to have an November meeting, like, I don't know. We know. You don't look her out of the election. Because if Kate, let's just say, hypothetically, wasn't running. And she was at that, not there. That meeting would be run by another officer. It's the December meeting that will always open for us with no person. And that's in every district. Whatever that meeting is, where you select your, your people,
it's just superintendent that always opens that meeting. And every district goes through the process of selecting a chair. You guys do. And then the chair immediately takes over the meeting and goes through the other offices. So that's just how it is. And then you literally go like 10 minutes of a meeting without a meeting without a meeting. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Are your fans going to go in here? Yeah. 91, 21. I remember three, I thought we should put, um, approves the board meeting agenda as drafted by the superintendent. It says approved agenda as prepared. And I don't think it says what agenda, like it could be a budget meeting agenda. So I think it's just important to improve the board meeting. But it's the jerk person of the board of ad. Right. I feel like just saying the agenda makes it. But I don't want any meeting. So you think it's prepared always or is drafted is, I think it's okay. Okay. Yeah. My, my question on there in terms of duties was, do we need to add something about communication with the other boards in our town or no?
Yeah. That would be good. Yeah. I mean, you're the, the, the chair's the point person. But, you know, for to communicate. I might say, oh, hey, they can't reply. I've covered it. I, in case you don't want to have relations with any of the board's here after. Excuse me. No, it's not. It's not if you don't want to, but it's not replied. Number five, I think is a petal. It's not a catch all. I think number five reserves the right of the other six members to have a say and something. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Which is the goal of cave there. You know what? I mean, they're going to say, remember, you're a seven member board. So I think the good thing about number five is it's as directed by the rest of the board of education. So that's a chair person. Can't take it upon themselves to not the Kate, but you know what I'm saying? Like, right, do anything. Yeah, you know, out being directed by you guys. Okay. So anyway, there's a random. Okay. That was just a little bit. 91, 22. So this is where I was saying, see the last paragraph in the event at the chair's person. All of that is covered by 91, 20. Yeah. So I think we could reach the week of the aircraft, right? I said it's a little bit. Yeah. That's why I said to inflate it just that on a different policy. 91, 20. Okay. Here we go. And on 91, 20 here, it's also not the earth. That Yeah. Yeah. And on 91, 23, I did have a thing to add. Well, I think that the secretary should be responsible because this is what we've done for years of taking detailed notes
during the board's meetings to check the accuracy of the clerk's minutes. And correct the same that the subsequent board meeting. I just think that would be a nice thing to add. I mean, the secretary is supposed to take detailed notes in case the board clerk doesn't isn't able to do the minutes and stuff. So I just think it might be a good. So how would you want number two change mentioned? I didn't change number two. I added number three. I just said take detailed notes during the boards meetings to check the accuracy of the clerk's minutes and correct same as necessary. It's a good board meeting. I think we have add number two says keep the minutes of the meeting in the absence of the
board of education. Okay. Interesting. Okay. Right. And to get on the accuracy. So don't use it. Then we'll check accuracy. Yeah. So you can add it to that. I got it. But don't we all do that by reading the minutes? Like you know what I mean? Like we all do that. I think it should be somebody's point responsibility though to take the minutes or take the notes and to check the accuracy. We're all supposed to do it. But I think we'll be good to have a point person whose job it is. I just thought that would be the thing for the secretary to give. Well, how about Shannon then keep the minutes of the meeting? Like something about end submit in the absence of the board clerk. So in other words, you're always doing them. But you're the one then. Do you know what I mean? Like I don't know. How are you guys doing that? I like that. Yeah, just add the end submit. So keep the minutes and keep the minutes of the meeting and submit in the absence. Right. Yeah. So you don't want to add check the accuracy. You all of the middle. That's a vote for you guys. Well, I'm curious. You know what I mean? Okay, fine. If that was funny, that the legal reference on that one was salaries of secretary.
Yeah, right, nobody must get paid. That's because it's in there. That may be 95. They made a note that we need to modify it to improve career specificity regarding the duties of counsel. Um, because it also just says like submitted to him or her by by who by Joe Schmau by like I'll get you a couple of copies and send them. I'll just just say is there a straight template. There is. But I'll get you a couple of ways that people might have modified it and send them to you for 2125. Same thing for me to 9127. 9127 also says being more specific. Sure, talk to the same thing. I thought it sounds great. Wait, it is. I don't know. I can go out of things. Yeah, I thought it was fine. It was good. We did it. There's no one. I was like, oh, it was just a consider though. Yeah.
I guess we got 9131. I think it's okay to read it. Yeah. A reverence. No. We'll do that because it can be the whole instead of separate. Yeah. In the legal is 9132. I thought it was interesting that committee is a considering the insession for women year only. Did you just have to be mean with many, every year? Yeah, which we actually do with liaison still. Okay, because that's a yeah. Anyone have a concern about them? I don't have that. Um, 9212. Yeah, that was 9221. Same thing. We'll take out the board officer of vacancies. That whole thing because it's covered by 9120. But this one Shannon wasn't okay, right? Yeah. It's a, it said the bylaws. I'm not a reference to the state guidelines. So we need help on this one. Okay, and I'll say. Yes, I think the I said state guidelines need to be reference. So yeah.
Okay, and then my only question was the where it says vacancy. It says at a regular base schedule meeting. But I thought that it also could be a special meeting. How about maybe felt? Let's move to the trial. I think though. No, the maya was in there because it didn't depend on the offices, but I actually think. Well, your question was it's, um, that this is what I've said to you before, because it's chair person or secretary, and those are the mandated required ones that I think that does have to happen. But that's under the board of vacancies. It's not under officer. Right. So the second there's under board member vacancies. It says the vacancy will be filled at a regular base schedule meeting. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I guess my question is like, is that a state guideline or we're going to find out. I don't know if I can find out. Yeah, I couldn't find out. So we'll put that in a minute. And then paragraph one, um, I think when you did take out until the next regular town election, because that makes it compliant with our things. So any vacancy occurring shall be filled by a vote of the remaining members, and then of the board period. It's not until the next regular town election. Um, should it specify like to complete the existing term? We already did that. So I don't know if we
have it in the other policy. We'll just have to make sure that you're still listening. There's a lot of areas. Yeah, but it still goes in the end. It'll be 65. Yeah. Yeah. Um, forward member orientation, 92, 30. So the third paragraph has to be after the general election in November. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I changed that to November. And then the new members officially assuming I just said their positions. There's an have to say in July or whatever. Yeah. Just assuming that position, their positions. Yeah. I said, yeah. Let's say I think on that one, because I had to go through this, I think it's required that they attend. There doesn't have to be that month. It is required that they fully orientation, but it doesn't have to be that month. Okay. So the third paragraph, not finding given the opportunity to attend sessions, is that already? Honestly, Eric, what's going to be different is we're going to have to now put a legal reference in there. Oh, just legal. Right. It's part of, yeah. To say, you got to do it, the statute. Yes. Right. Um, 92, 40. Percussion on the ballot, then. You always stand that they, this says we need a statement on reimbursement. That it's a statement from some other. Oh, God, you're having to 50 paragraphs about reimbursement that we could use. They're very next one. And then, yeah.
It seems something to me to put it. Yeah. Why, two of them. I get it. But one is about our professional development and using, I think we're, you know, the son of the last mile reimbursement in general. Yes. Yeah. Hello, it's Pacific way states attending. Hi, hello, Plida. I'm maybe we should change a little something in there. Because we don't get people with a conference, it's fine. No, but it specifies registration fees, meals, lodging, transportation, and other ones, and then some of them read it. Okay. So, so you want to put those two together, then as. Yeah. I'm sure you can. I don't see a problem because 92, 40 doesn't have anything. We go backwards to say that that one needed to exist on it. Like, we'd send me a separate right now. I'll ask a little bit if you can combine them. Yeah, 92, 40 and 50 can go together.
Um, 92, 60. Good. Yeah. 92, 70. I just had a question. I don't leave a reference because I don't think I don't know a civil union still exists now that they're, um, Merry Drites. So I decided question for myself. I'll just find out. Okay. Okay. 92, 71. It's going difficult. Yeah, I have like two print out of all things, but I don't know how to get them to be open. Good for me. Tell me what a star chamber is. What were you looking? It's it's like a meeting, right? Like it's a, you know, it's like like it's like a secret meeting. A secret meeting, I like all of this. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a first sign on second one. A public call started. Yeah. Like a secret meeting is if you were like a cabal to some of you. That's kind of what it would be. Basically, like don't have a meeting that's separate from the meeting. Right. Right. I wonder if that changed in like a new version. I'm going to look bad up. In terms of like when it's a right. Yeah, I haven't seen that in the round or so I like I'd like to see that. Yeah, I need 300. Well, I'm one step to the 92 71. I think we might need and I'll look into this one also on another citation other than something from 1989.
Yeah. So, okay. I need to look at that as a good idea. It was not. We're so many more than you know. Okay, I was like that. No, come on, man. Oh, I did not. Oh, man. I was Taylor's wife. This one. T Swift was born then. We're going to see me. We're going to go. I could have been her. God. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Maybe. So, in between that one in 93 100, it says we should have policies. Potentially for civility and board member code of conduct. For 93 100? No, for 90. We need to add 92 73 and 92 74. For you, opening up. That's before 93 100. Huh? I'm opening them on the website. No, well, I mean, you thought you liked it, right? Oh, no, if I can. Okay. The emails have a digital. I have a digital. I really, really. No, the send mail. I don't know. I don't know. I really, really. I mean, I've learned a lot. I would also interested in that. That's just, we don't know. They're all putting enough.
But like, I've got a policy about like a student in the opening up. Oh, I mean, yeah, you have to go to half. I'm just concerned that the possible people like that show are going to bring them. Yeah. Yeah. Like in case the emergency, yeah, because you have something. Yeah. Where are we? Where are we talking about where the water recommended by love? Because they, the number wise, they come in between where we are right now. Right. Also one on civility for a number of code of conduct. And then electronic sort of end meetings. Yeah. I think that's interesting. Which we probably should have. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. But 93 100, you were that good, right? Yes, man. 93 11. The question was whether we want our new policies reviewed by legal counsel. I was like, do we want a case for that? But that was my question. My question was also about a policy committee. Yeah, I think we have a committee. We have a committee. We have a committee. We have a committee. So I said, for number one, the Board of Education we make suggestions and requests for policy development to the superintendent. And then the superintendent makes a gesture of recommend policy to the Board of Education. And it took out all the stuff about the policy committee. And I get rid of number two and three and took policy committee out of number four.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right, that's it. Sure. Yes, I do. We do this and we updated with game. We entitled to no services routine as these policies are revised over the years. But we're just pay for the review again. Just pay for the review. Yes. Well, it was only 400 bucks and it looked over gas. I mean, there was a deal. It was a long time ago. The full number. Oh, I thought it wasn't. Okay. Now, I think it was like 13. Yeah. 100. But it's not your, it was on well worth the well. Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, yeah, well, well, yeah, well, yeah, well, yeah, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, that we're good with, 90 3 11. Okay. Let's see. Yeah. Yep. 90. 90. Yeah. Yeah. 90. Yeah. Yeah. I was confused by the wording on this, but I don't know if I need problems.
We'll grab it from those problems. Okay. The second of two regularly to be scheduled meeting, not less than four weeks apart in the calls for which. Like, it's just, it's a run on sentence of awfulness. It is. Yeah. But it's supposed to be that. Oh, Kelly is drafted by a lawyer. It's your second reading. No, I, I know. Well, I don't know. It weren't even. That's been good already. It's not for me. It's a rabbit roll. She's right. Yeah. So he writes for me. I don't know if anything. It's nice. So, okay. I will see if I can remember. It's that I will say. I mean, it's what we're doing. But I get it. It's very, very, very, yeah, I get it. Yeah. Okay. By the words or everything. Put into English. It's. Yes. Now. So we're all preparing 13. They said we may need more of a sitters. We want to guess. More specific clients. Yeah. Some of those. Yeah. Great. And how is that different from like, with 2000s of what your duties are less than. I'm sorry. How is that different than the 2000s language that we have on your role. What it's just trying to do that. Those are what they're not. It's what I. It says in addition to what your job is. Freedom. You guys can ask me to do administrative stuff. That's what this is. Now, which we know that. But it this is.
It's just in here. So I'm ninety three and 14. Like a school, so that's. Yeah. Another one that I just I don't like. I have hard time reading as well. Okay, but this one came from a newly revised. We don't have to pay it out loud and then be like, Oh, the pain. Anyway. I find. It's not necessarily great. I need Robert rules for dummies. They're probably. We don't know. I see a Christmas present. I mean, grab your tools for better and the audience. 73, 20. The second paragraph obviously is a way to antiquated. Yeah, I cut it in virtual. Yeah. Yeah. Like, regular meetings of the Board of Ed should be held at the end of our elementary school. And then I put in virtual as we do. And maybe virtual. I know you don't want to stick like it always is virtual. But I think you should have something. And, you know, there should be something in there that I put unless otherwise agreed upon by a majority vote at the Board of Ed. Like, as we could, we could agree to have it in the town hall.
We could agree to have it in the community center. An emergency could cause us to go to live or something. On that second one. No, on the regular one. The third paragraph. Yeah. So I think their point on this one, though, she is legal. The Board sells, shall establish annually the dates for the regular meetings. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I've ever sent it. I know. And file a schedule with the town clerk prior to January 31. I'm required to do this. If there's any change that's made to where we tell them, for example, it's going to be. It can be noted that it then has to be a special meeting. Through a three of special meeting. We drove it. It can be. I can see if something changed with the fact that since 2020 was virtual options. But when you put out that calendar at the start of the year, the loss as that's your regular meetings. That's what you've decided. And so that somebody has noticed of your whole year's plan. If you make an alteration, then it's supposed to not be your regularly scheduled meeting. So Shannon, I will find out. If, in fact, there is a difference now that we had those changes the legislation about going remotely.
So there's possible, but that's the reason is because the public is entitled to have your schedule for the year. And the schedules weren't there. I think location virtual was separate. Yes, we'll find out immediately. So electronic board of education meetings, but it's 93, 21. Like it should be a positive right after this. So really ready to look at examples of that. It's been modified this. Yeah, it's like shit out there. I mean, what if something happened? And if we just put up a notice that it's here, you know, it's not here, it's over there. I absolutely check this right. But then to have it be a special meeting that changes everything. So then for the second paragraph, we're saying, like, we shall give notice on the school website, or what is it going to be? I used to take the whole thing out. Like the entire thing gone. This is recorded. I mean, this is any change. But it says, any change in such schedule. She'll be provided in writing to the town clerk. Oh, and as far as I'm above that. Oh, okay. You're like someone has to request. I think I took the whole thing out. We're talking about two different things. Because you have to send in a notice that you want to receive the notice. And that has to get made. You know, I got rid of all that. I'm just saying, it should still say we shall give notice of our meetings.
We'll care for you on. Yeah. The second paragraph. The more of it, She'll give notice. It says by mail. It should. It's so safe. It's not over. It's person who has filed their request. That a re-un. There's got to still be a legal requirement. Yes. That's the right amount of skin is right. It's going to be over. That's the whole thing out. The whole month old young males. There's got to still be a job of a fire. You made a living on a chin. It's not created. Well, would young people that's why. Okay. Number one at the bottom of the thing. I think there shall be written email notice of the meeting. To each Board of Education member. Not written notice of the meeting delivered to your home. We don't see that anymore. We don't need that. It could just say written notice. Right. Or just say notice. Yeah. So I'll get the update for you. I'm not hand delivered. I want it. I want it. It can carry. Yes. The show. I think at the second page. We could take out emergency. So I'll make use of the Board of Education regular and special. I'll be open to the public. Because they're only two kinds of meetings according to each one. Yeah. We could take out emergency. Yeah.
Exactly. So all the meetings of the Board of Ed. Come on regular and special. Come on. She'll be open to the public with the exception of executive sessions. Just wouldn't an emergency meeting be a special meeting. Yeah. There's a little trouble. Check because. There may be a guideline that says. Without 24 hours notice in the event of an emergency. You can have a meeting. Also. Right. There may still be. You know, because I'm in the relation that says rights. Okay. Without 24 hours notice. So you just say. But isn't. It's fine. I don't know. I think he's in shall be open to the public with the exception of an executive session. Just get rid of the naming. Right. We'll check it. Make sure. Yeah. Yeah. We'll check it. Make sure. Does I think electronic meeting is going to get into the. May. It's a 21. So what we're going to have to add. Yeah. The policy we're going to have to have. Yeah. And then. And then once we add that. I don't know. We're going to find this one. Okay. Okay. So about at least 24 hours prior to the time of the regular meeting. You're going to tell me. Post it on the school's website. We should be great. And I'm in town's website. Where are you? Oh, I'm on 92. It's like. It's. It's an Oreo. I thought it was so. Oh, my gosh. So. I thought. I thought it was. Would. No. You know. The. The. The. Good. And. Is. Good. So. I don't know.
I don't know. So. Okay, but. Sonny. You. Oh, she's out. I get it. I know. Sorry. You know. Because a problem. 93. Yes, fully. Why? Well, 93. 212. We're going to just get templates on that for that fun meeting for a great up then ninety three twenty three the second paragraph At least twenty four hours prior to the time of the regular meeting the agenda shall be posted on the school's website And on the town's website Would be awesome And take everything else out. I just put on the paragraph above. I put any member of the board of ed may call the superintendent And I put or and or chair and request any item to be placed on the agenda because the chair and the superintendent work together
To formulate the agenda, so I just thought maybe at by adding and or chair It's just one one more person that you can call to request an item to be placed on the agenda Really point Yeah, and then we'll just have to look at what it says in terms of online Post-it info Yeah ninety three twenty five So they would like to ask them to give us time limits on speaking and the paper and a big Your restriction Excellent Although I don't know how we're supposed to know Limit behavior is virtual but you just cut them off I guess I'll get wording for you It's usually it's two minutes or five minutes depending on what I've seen so I will get wording for you now I Missed Yeah Visitor for the school Emissive I like how it's for something It's a good form is Yeah, like the normal. I hope we start in at your 1034 form. Yeah, sure that's that's we. Yeah, I'm going to I put down earlier than an erudy Oh point for sorry we're on 23 still Anyone have anything on the point three I'm in 23 Yeah, no new topic will be started after 1030. I like that Yeah, like earlier than that yeah Hi, are we actually changing it? I think so I don't know but it's good. Yeah, eight 30. Well, so I'm going to say you either happen to put it time in you're going to take it out because the one above it says and on our gender You know how it always says the two third vote I think we're going to say we're going to put it on there at the start of a meeting
It's added to the agenda so we have to address it. So we take it out. Okay, yeah, just take it out We'll do that one in honor of Celeste To the board be it So yeah 93 20 I just definitely have as well as this to really should do our local I said glad to do our local the porn for Room 3 20 five or four It's a one to develop it because oh yeah, it's a problem with it. They did why and then they went to roll calling they did everything Oh, so I'll reflect how each board member yeah Yeah But it does if we do 7 0 0 it reflects It doesn't really might be an illness I will explain the matters is if we have somebody and we've done that where we Or tell what we don't mean it would also matter if like four people say yes two people say no one person I'm staying right but they but but they wanted they want to say like you know You know Shannon upstained you know like the roll plate. I don't think so so this one or the One of the ones that they put in here would benefit from about a little policy language
So let's get some additional language and see what you guys like Okay, yeah, yeah, and then also my question will be like does the town charter say something that I don't think about it. Yeah, no big set. It does not Um 93 27 I know why that was in place in electronic males electronic Communication in general a lot of time I also there's something is it was it in this one where it's like if you don't have a Configurer, weift yes, yeah, I believe so Okay, yeah Is I just take knowledge of specialists, that's Mrs. Frishner. It's TN. Okay. 9330. I had a question about the 50 cents per page and the fee exceeding the cost to the school district for someone asking for paper copies. I think the list of them. Like, like, are we allowed to update it to say just electronically provided?
So drives. So I'll look at an updated one because I know there's laws just like with FOIA and somebody needs our last. Yep. The actual law says that you can charge, do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. So I'll get you an updated one on this one just to make sure that whatever you guys choose doesn't conflict. 9350. Probably hearing. See you soon. Good. Thank you. That was a evaluation. I had questions on this in terms of timing because the times that it in the states are not what we have done. Traditionally, we've done it in like July or August. Right, during the summer. Yeah. So RV allowed to change that is there some legal implication have to just not been following the law correctly or... Because otherwise, I would say like May, right, like, scheduling in May. So report prior to, I don't know, August 31st or something.
So I will check for you because this one was actually revised by the board if you look at the bottom. It was in December 2020. Yep. And so I just, I will look back and see if it had to do with the fact that our elections were in May. I think, snap, that's why. So that's probably why it had to be done by May 31st because it had to be done during the tenure of the then board. Yeah. So I will get this for you and see because otherwise we could change the dates. We'll probably, they were only in here. And I'm lying to that. I didn't put that for me also I would be at the end of the season. Oh, my God. That's what we've got. Yeah, 20 also. Yeah. So I really, kind of, so we'll be, hold on. You've done one bill. 94, 20. No, it's just recognition. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That. Oh, cool. Whoa. I think it's a lot of news. You know what I was going to ask. You know what I was going to ask. It's not the news. What happened? It's not the news. It's not the news. It's not the news. Oh, what could we update about it? It was a plan for the five.
So since there's quite a few next time, where you go, we get the 10 years on. We stick with 9,000's right. We're not going to the following meeting to get another fact. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so there's a lot of, yeah. Yeah. And it might even be the meeting after that. Yeah, there's a lot that we need to. OK. So we won't do the next one or the two. Yeah. We'll be doing a new packet until we have it. Yeah. OK. Now we've had a few like, yeah, with two meetings ahead, but we'll wait, because I think we need these lunches to still do this. Yeah. So we don't have the goal was six to six. No, no, no. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's a bit wrong. I think. OK. The last thing that we have on our agenda is talking about goals and the way to measure the things that we put as goals for ourselves. So I don't know if we want to just quickly talk about that and brainstorm. And then we could have written rest of them or revise it and go on it next month. Yeah. What do that? OK. So the new goals we put off at the top of the agenda, so everyone can see them. We said elevate academic and social emotional growth for all students. So what are measurable ways that we can do at? Yeah.
You know, I don't know. Hey, Han, a couple of ideas. Ripped. A stat was classroom size guidelines based on or haven't been traced studies. I don't know how mine goes for it. OK. I'm going to go into the library. I move. I don't know. I guess not where my head was with. But this one was. But I think you have to separate the academic and socially emotional. Well, yeah, in terms of like there's in terms of an elevated you know, it's increased. I wish you academic. So those for all students. Yeah, I mean, been one for the emotional social emotional. Right. Yeah. So we need ways like what are physical things that we are going to use to show what are not mere achieving these goals. So like one example for academic would be, look at what I already testing in the fall and compare that data with I already or as back in the spring. Yeah. Could you use them in those surveys? The surveys. Because that's where I was going with that. Yeah, surveys just the. Specifically how you, you know, you're going to check in more, you know, and then kind of depending on what comes back, you know, date a little deeper. So I think that that definitely those those surveys. If you haven't social work, they can also look for what those social work are now. You know, she use the progress could be, because you tend to be original. I did question in terms of academic progress.
How often are they taking those. Three times. And honestly, I feel like as a board, we only ever look at that in the fall. Well, look at the year before. So is it possible for us without giving student data like to look at it in the middle to see like as a whole, right? Not even by great, but like as a whole, like how much have we moved forward. Yeah. I would say you probably want to look at it. By great. But yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we do certainly as a school. Yeah. They're just so like awesome as a board having that. Sure. With us more. And next month when I do the beginning of the year data, you can see the format that I shared it. And that makes sense. And how I would show it to in the same way. Yeah. So then that would be October. One hour. So our mid-year benchmarking. Some is in December. Some is in January. Just kind of so probably you probably want to go February.
So February. Yep. Because we've all been done all of it in January. Which is probably why we haven't done it. Because it feels like budget. I know. I mean, June as well. The problem is I can't report out because unofficial summative scores to you in June. I think I can't do it. I'm doing it now. That's what I've been the earliest. It is now public. So yeah. So with with the way our budget is now. That's done by February. We're done in February. Yeah. So whatever. March. However. I wouldn't put it. Yeah. So your purpose here is to strategize and and Eric started to say something that you said established. And I think the key is continue to support. Because I know where you were going with that idea of. I'd like to support X, Y, and Z. So why don't we have a certain number of students and that part. I think is less realistic. Then my goal was so that we can support. So your measurable's there. You just talked about comparing that data three times a year. There's going to be natural times. Anyways, that you're going to look at that data. Start in the school year to drive your goals. Maybe you're. Maybe you're here to drive your budget and be here. And end of year to drive your valuation. So we just say for time. And I think there's there's other data read my end of year.
Just camp. Right. Because we don't like to double test kids. I don't do I ready in. May just when they're doing aspects. So it would just be diples. It would be more cave three. At the end of that is because I'm going to share. And those are your measurable means. Yeah, right. What about for a social emotional. So we use my surveys. Like she was going to do the surveys. Yeah. Multiple fine. Haven't. But we're going to. As I talked to. Yeah. It's new for us. And I think that that gives you something measurable then. Just like nature there. If you're utilizing them to see. And driving the goals. Yeah. In driving the budget and in driving the valuation. Um, I think I mean, you brought up class size. Maybe not. I think I feel like it's really big guns to to state like. Instituting like a massive moment. Yeah. Class size. But I will say for myself. Prior to the end of budget season last year.
Like I went and looked for comparison of class sizes. For a Marguerot when he brand. Just to see like how large our classes were comparatively. To the kids like when they go. So I didn't maybe like. A dressing that. Talking about it more. Because there are things there is there are differences. The danger is this is why a lot of districts get away from it. Is because there are other factors. Right. What is 28 or 29 look like when all you have is a teacher. And a part time psychologist. What does it look like in another district when you have 28 in the class. And you have three interventionists. Two Paris and a teacher that work with those 28 kids.
So that's the tough part is. Is it 28 kids? Is it 20 kids? Like we traditionally hear in my tenure here. We have been. I don't use the word understaff. But we have not had the privilege because our numbers have been down. Of having some of the support staff that they do have in our neighboring communities. For example, we talk about enrichment. And that's going to be a goal tail talk about that earlier. There is a full time enrichment teacher in Hebrew. That's all they do. Is is invention convention ends stem and enrichment. That's it. That's their job. So when we talk about, you know, and in other communities as well. So when we talk about, for example, what would that look like for us here?
We don't have that luxury. Maybe someday we will. But it is. For us right. And Paris and we are classes are actually larger than. Right. Right. And so we want to be a little careful about using a number. Because if you use a number, you know what I mean. Uh, by itself, remember, in the last year during budget season. I, I said, the year before we were able to do that. It wasn't easy on the teachers, but we weren't able to maintain that number. Based on the data that we had, we'll be forward to the 25 school year. We knew it wasn't reasonable. So we had a split. Uh, it just wasn't reasonable. Um, so. I, I do think that you guys looking at that data three times a year. We'll naturally drive those things. Yeah. Yeah. I'll probably drive the rest of those decisions. Yep. Okay. So that's probably enough. Uh, definitely. Yes. Yep. Um, develop additional communications strategies to reach
premiering and verdict with clarity. This brings up question. Um. Baseball or other distribution methods. Not like interactive, but just posting for information. Um, is that something that we should have? I personally thought for many years that we should. And we never have. Um, or do we try to distribute that in other areas? Or, or. That's undermind. That's a measurable for me. It is. But how we're like yours? How are we getting that to people that are not parents correct? Because we're not right now, right? Like you guys got it. But right. That was like. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with the, I think the face of page for the school would be helpful. Yes. We're in the school. Well, for the board of questions. Well, for the board of that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So we can, you can post that stuff. You could post the four one ones. You could post, you know, whatever budget meetings. You know, something like that. I think it would, I think it would be helpful. So then we need to flush that out a little bit. Um, are there any other, but I think we could put that as a measurable goal. Like having an informational BOE Facebook page. Yeah. Yep. Um. If you want to board chair, let's serve for King. Yeah. Can you kind of flush it out with them? I definitely have it. And if they do. Yeah. I went to last year at the. Um, the CE meeting. I went to one that was specifically just about that. And it was about 50, 50. Like in that breakout procession. And people were talking about like the pros and cons. And it seems like most of the cons were people who had it open for comment.
Yeah. And then got into discussions instead of just posting information. So I, I like very clearly. I think it needs to be just posting information. No comment. No comment. Correct. I just distribution. That's it. Yeah. For your information. We're having a meeting. Or, you know, whatever. You know, whatever. There's this video. Thank you. That's it. Um. Are there other methods of communication that help get our. Information across more security that we've heard partly doing. Well, I'm glad you're younger. So on to me, it was Facebook. But I think maybe you should be doing TikToks. I am not of that generation. Yeah. I don't think there's anybody on the board that is Gen Z. Yeah. No. And I don't think the theory of the people that you want to reach or on TikTok either. Yeah. Even, we need to grant. I just say it. I've already knew like TikTok. I'd be like, hi, boys. I don't know. You're on that generation. All right. That's going to help us with community. Oh, yeah. I think Facebook page is. I'm aware of that. My question was. Are there other ways to engage. The older generations in our town that wouldn't access this stuff on a social media platforms that we weren't currently doing.
Is there a way to have your videos accessible for. Like, can you play them at a senior luncheon or. Yeah. I don't know if they were to take an open there senior luncheon's. How ever for a minute. However, I am going to. I will be working again with the. Yeah. Yeah. With task. Yeah. I'm meeting. On another matter. Yeah. So the other thing is this year. I'm going to be back in part time. That's right. He can't keep on. Right. Yeah. So if there's anything that the board wants in there. I'll be able to put that in there. So, you know. And I'm and maybe this is something you're going to talk to east kind about. Are you going to have some kind of 411 link on our. Yeah. On the right. On the. Yeah. So I think another way communication. Why is this website website website website. Because to be honest, like in our. Our education part like B o e part of the school website is way better than what it used to be. But it's still in a really soft.
Yeah. Really. That's a particular say. On the fact that we're just like a list of a million things. I aesthetically, like it's not nice to look at or to access or to find things super easily. Maybe that's just my own. I would be super. I just would need clear direction. I can on that page because I was not. I was not really on our website list, but. But can't be, but to rearrange it. So if there's something specific you guys. I'm just in P.T. I can, I wouldn't write down specific suggestions. And it's not about content so much about. Like layout and accessibility or organization. Yeah. I also would really like to somehow be able to update the information that's on the town website. Almost. I know we don't have control of it. But. We get a lot of feedback from people who say they can't. Because they're only looking on those. And it. And it's on there is not correct. Right, but I think the town website links links our website. I know, like, so if they can't. I'm, I'm lucky, Caitlin. I know, but that's, that's. They got to figure that out.
But I'm sure that there's a, there is a link that links us. You, you can link that to the school website. There is. But I can't actually work with tests and say, hey, when you send out. You're in his letters. There's a you can put something on the bottom that says, hey, you want to know what's going on in the school. Here's how you find out and put our. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I'll talk to her about that. I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah. Because there is a newsletter. There is. Yeah. Yes. My mother-in-law gets it in Columbia. And like new about events that are community center that I had. No idea about it. I'll ask her.
Yeah. If that's okay. Yeah. With her. I mean, obviously, they, they control that way. Yeah. I will replace. And then you're going to do this. I'll get the chance to read it. So I was going to bring up the memory east. Is there enough opportunity? Go. I don't know if your counterparts do this with their chairs. But to do a poorly or semi-annual, like little right up. Yeah. Last year. Yeah. The only time I didn't have it in a lot of four times. Right. But yes. It's called the super tennis corner. So they let us do it. Yeah. It's called superintendents. It's what they're about. Yeah. It has to be from. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But if you guys didn't see it, there was a great article that was on, like, the first. Yeah. The boys are really awesome. Yeah. So. Okay. Good. With communication. I had one more idea. No. So I know the town usually does their ordinance meeting in the spring.
Prior to a budget usually. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's hard to like to know more information about the school. But it's budget or just. So they should come to our meetings that we already have scheduled. I. I. Understand that. But they don't. This is an Avenue. Where people are in the room. And then we'll just be a here's the same school. Hi. Got with that meeting. But just held afterwards. I just want to prevent out there as a way. You have 150 people in that room. To be able to communicate here. Would you hold it afterwards or before? Because sometimes those drive on for a long time. I'm talking about my list. How much are going to charge people and pick up. Don't prove. We. I'm a soccer. You don't just write. So you do report. Yeah. I'm going to do things. It's a good way to meet people where they are because it is. It is. I would just say. To be. I'm going to go in. I could just pretend it was before, because if it's just, uh, an overview. Yeah. Like you can. That would be a set. But it's a Captain, audience. Potentially. Yeah. Yeah. Ooh, we're trying to get the word out. Um, the other thing that I would like to try to achieve try to achieve is, and it may not be possible, but for our town budget needing for us to actually
have a seat at the table if they want us to be participating in the meeting, which did not happen this year, despite asking for it. And then there were feedback from town members that they didn't have information available to them in paper format, which should have been supplied. Well, isn't it right? They had enough the first release of the first one, so I didn't speak as that was a town. So maybe just like us being more pushy about those things occurring, right? And that's one does not require discussion. Update a six. I've been on an Aussie manual. We're doing it. We're doing it. We're doing it. Can you to do it? Yes, but I'm going to keep it on the edge of it. It's a 90 split. Yes. Yes. And then process for updating a one, five, and ten-year capital plan on either be basis. I like it. So we're creating a fleet that doesn't update it, or that's why I'm
getting like, so what are we looking to do then? We're creating a process to update it? Yeah, like I think we need to have specifications, or when it gets updated, who's involved in the process, when do we present it? What's on it? What's on it? Like how specific is it? Like item page? Is it right? And in order of importance? Yeah. Yeah. And I feel like to figure that out because there's no good example from our town, we need to possibly look at other school districts, or other towns, and see, like, for a town that's maybe similar in size to us, or relatively similar, like, what do they do? Yeah. What could we follow? Oh, good benchmark, basically. Yeah, like sounds that fun. I think there was also a discussion last time of looking at what it sounds. Sally. No, hi. Right. Right. So I mean, I'd also like to see that. To see that document, you got that stuff. And I did. It was, it was the one that just has the the costs on it. Yeah, we just none of us have seen it, or maybe I'm just to see it. Maybe Shannon has seen it in person. Jerry's seen it. The rest of us have not seen it. Yeah. And she's been at me. No, it was a dark window. Yeah. But she was scary. Yeah, but to get eyes on that would be helpful. Yeah. Yeah. I thought you said that. So I have. So I think in terms of, like, seeing that old one, and then that might help. I mean, I'm pair of comparing to other towns relative to our size.
Yeah. Is there a timeline with which when we would want to maybe do that by like to put it on the agenda at some point? Is there anyone that's interested in maybe looking into that further? I can put, I mean, the only, I, I, I work with the doorchair talent, but that's not comparable size. But it could be. But it could be. But it looks like what they do, you know, a little thicker. What a lot. But what other towns are relative that we should be. Or maybe that's where we need to start if like a monitor. Yeah. Yes, that's where we'll start. Well, because Scotland, do you guys have anything up in Scotland? I told you there's a town plan that ours is added to theirs. So we're not sitting down together. We'll still maybe look at that. Yeah. It's on town. No, I understand that, but Scotland, maybe look at Scotland's and just see what that looks like and then kind of go from there. It's very basic because we share any count. Right. So it's like, okay, it's not much fun. We have what we find. It's a start.
Like, it's a start. So I would say, so then I was one other one. So start. I'm going to be all kind of precise. It's a start now. Right. We've never had one. So let's try to look at like five. Okay. So maybe for for next meeting. Yeah. Um, like if everyone can try to look and we can try to see like water, maybe those five towns. Yeah. We don't have the chance of their own same demographics. And well, potentially. Yeah. We will be objects. We will do. No, just add. That's kind of capital. Oh, in terms of like, what makes them similar. Or you want to just the capital. Yeah. What do you want us to bring to the next meeting? How about how about just schools that have a capital plan that you can find? Okay. Because I don't I feel like that's probably not going to be that easy to actually find. Mm. Okay. Yeah, sure. And what it looks like. Right. But that's a place to start. Right. Right. Yeah. But yeah, if you're going to have a email us what. What Sally is what? Oh, yeah. What Sally. Yeah. And then we'll try to see let's just try to see everyone try to look and see what we can find. Okay. Okay. Anything else? Eric, give other thing. No. Good. Okay. Um, okay. So we're all good with goals and how to measure them for now. Yeah. Okay. That's way. Yeah. I like that some of them are very easy to measure. Did we update sex or did we not update? That's way. Right. So I did. Yeah. That we're up to comments from the public on agenda items. And do you have any comments for us tonight? No. I'm trying to think about it. I can get
my dad there's a plan from the town as you hear. Yeah. So there would be nice to model it after. I've seen where he put out a list just a little project summary for December of 2024. It was David and he puts the school stuff in with his. Right. That list that we had come up with of our three things. Yes. That was just added to their which is generally speaking. What I'm saying it happens in town. Right. Right. It's like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But he's still looking for something for you. Okay. Okay. Um, I'm going to join the goal drive. I am all set. Thank you. Thank you.
Can. Hi, Caitlyn. I actually do have a comment. Um, in your enrollment report for the packet, you mentioned that you have 62 children in the pre-K program. But at your last meeting in August of 2025, you said you have 68. Um, you can clarify that? Yeah. I'll answer that for you. Um, in preschool, as we mentioned before, there are students that have spots reserved for them, but they haven't had their birthday yet. And so those endover residents that are coming to us either from the birth to three program or the parents are holding them till that birth date. They are part of that number that Taylor has been reporting. They just may not be seats in the building until their birth days. Okay. Can you update this stuff? Because it says you have 68. They're not. No. Technically, they're not enrolled yet. So until they're enrolled in our system, we can't have put that on that official document that says enrollment summary. We can just continue to report to you that since they're anticipated, that's what we have as our unofficial
number so that we don't fill those spots with somebody else since it's already their spot. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Do you have any more? Thank you to all of you for plugging away into Loom was 10 o'clock at night to get things updated and things presented well and clear. Thank you. Christina Frazier. No comments. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone have any other action items that we did not talk about? Yeah. Our next board meeting will be October 8. I was for the next meeting. We talked about as back. Yeah. And I already intervals probably rehashing out specifically our goals regarding the capital stuff in terms of like which other towns. Yep. I'm a then re-looking app on 9,000 series. Yeah.
Anything else? If you want to update that important and to strategic point. Okay. I don't know how anything else? I think that's nice a lot. All right. Now make a motion to adjourn. Second. Now I forward to that. All right. And be a cupcakes for a game. Or hey, which for this week. All right. Yeah. It's nothing. Third.