 and say to the guests that we have here. I liked having the times on there, I just have to say. And I didn't know if you wanted me to go ahead and adjust them so we can end on time or thank them. You don't have to say, is there anything given time? I hate to put it off in the day, but I think the staff work relations and communications just doesn't matter. Anybody have a problem with that? No, I think work plan. Like, we have actually six and a half. Do you have a time? That's what she asked me to read. I do, not printed. If you would not read it on the end. First to our community, it's one of the hardest jobs I ever took on and I appreciate your time, thought, and dedication to improve your writing to express my strong opposition to prevent the consolidation being encouraged by the State Board of Education for Act 36. The writing's on the wall, folks. Rather than invest our time, expertise, and money in a risky and, I believe, ultimately doomed effort to oppose change, we need to do our consolidation plan. When I was on the board and we read an impasse over teaching negotiations, our superintendent asked us, are you ready to fall in your swords over this? Even though we were angry and upset with the teachers, we agree that strike is the worst possible outcome for students and buckles down on the hard work and complied on the contract. Are you ready to fall in your swords over this? Are you ready for the backlash of anger from townspeople and the price students will pay that their leaders attend? It's time to stop fighting and get to work on unifying, equalizing, and strengthening. We received an email from a community member last night. It's not a public, I guess it wasn't a fair official public comment, but just expressing their position on it. Yeah, we're at, yeah, is that in the moment? So next up is to our June 6th, 19, is that in the 19? Now we want to do this separately. Is there any comment? Is there a motion to move forward on June 6th? On the 4.2 page three, 4.2 under fiscal, the remainder, it was 70, what was it, it was up to the level, it was up to a certain level, I can't remember the date. We were looking at a budget at the time, and yeah, I think the number was right around 7,500. So I was like that, but instead of the 10,000. The potential, it was, yeah, like a potential surplus looking at the budget. Yeah, I just wanted to clarify 3.2 review process. I think that I don't see the value in the board just interviewing what's already been recommended from the principal by the current committee and the Supreme if the board is to be involved in. Just to clarify, do you think it was said during that meeting? Well, a little more clear, but I felt like his main part of his plan was that we increased the skill of our teachers by coaching them and the way we get the money to do that is we've made out fair professionals. But wait, hold on. There are also minutes for the retreat. I'm just trying to know, do you think that was part of the discussion that we had in the library at Romney on August 28th, and therefore these minutes are inaccurate? I do, because I thought it would be, I felt like it was just venous to not say that to them. That you said it? So we were talking about, not that the board shouldn't be talking about these. And we're sorry, we're just sorry, and Jenda, we're doing Act 46 and budget process. But in budget process. We'd appreciate feedback. There's, I would say, there's a caveat to that. There are, for our board, there are other schools that have, there was an example shared of that at our retreat. Again, just through attrition, it was just, I mean, like teaching. Also to read the meetings of the audience. You're discussing the articles or we're just appointing someone? Just appointing someone. Different articles of agreement that require you vote. That votes. It's the, you knew you, you voted as the new. Is there anybody who's willing to be interested in being the representative for the force margin? Sorry. Unless we change our roles. Proposed by the state in their draft. So we probably could change our clerk now. No, we can, well, you can't. It's as of July 1st. Oh, I'm sorry. But in the post, yeah. So, I think one of the, go ahead, I'm sorry. If that's the case, I guess I sort of felt like the people on this team should both be involved and almost certainly be on the team. But I think we should. Want to serve, or is not in a position to serve in that capacity. There's other questions that, as I understood it, that would be the charge of the subcommittee to then also report back to, I see, the board. Is it a nomination or anything? It's been out there for so long, but just for those of us, you know, for those before. When is our November meeting? Yeah, we would have to, because it's for talking November. That's budget. And the October meeting, I guess is another carousel. I think it's starting half an hour earlier. The costs are something that, the costs of a loss, the highest cost. I'd advocate for those that are developed. Talked about our meeting protocol. So that's the approach that I'm going to take for a take. I don't see it being in that transmission to survey what now, but we pursue this. So be it. Wrote down what the other, what the board members' statements were when they had 90 seconds. And then I sort of ranked them to see like how much of me agreed. And I tended to fall more with people who were talking about reasons to wait with one exception, which was Woden's comment. So Woden's comment about merging is not necessarily not best for kids. He probably said it differently. So I've always been nervous about Act 46 because I taught in a state that did have merged, merged, I guess, supervisory unions. And there was a huge difference in how schools were, how decisions were made financially that impacted the school. And that's always been a concern of mine. But when I heard the statement, losing a lawsuit can make things worse, that made me a little nervous. I would like to know more about how that, what that could potentially look like. And that if you're not sure you can win, you shouldn't join. I don't feel very sure that we could win. I'm uncomfortable joining it. And the other statement was that it was premature to decide because of not knowing about cost specifically and just needing to discuss. I guess I would need to know a little more. What would it mean to have our name, Middlesex School Board, on the litigation? What does that really mean? And without having a really clear answer to that, I'm not comfortable tonight doing it. I also wasn't totally comfortable with the second question that was asked at the SU about if we would in the future. I wouldn't join litigation purely because the state was forcing a merger. It would really depend on more information about the litigation and what that means and what is the toll on our administrators and our students, certainly any type of distraction is not best. But I did like today after school kind of find myself wishing I was doing like a little poll. What do you think we should do? What do you think we should do? Because I really don't know where the majority of the community falls. And I think that we've said that before at board meetings. So at this time, I just don't have enough information. And like I said, the people that kind of spoke most of what my gut and my feelings are were the people who were opposed. So at this time I would be opposed to it. That actually means that we... The idea that we only worry about that the money of the lawsuit is very... So I'm worried about things like, okay, it's like taking state funding. Like when, I don't, I guess I, yeah, my concern is there are things that we get from the state, fall on the sword. So then how far? Because some schools in Vermont years ago, they did the independent route and then they don't get any state funding. So you're talking about Dodie and Callis and the effect of them if they merge. There's a whole other effect if then we're in this litigation and it goes one step further and then one step further and then it's us against the state. You know, the thing that didn't come up at all, and I kept thinking of it in June when we were reading the forced merger and some of the sense of trusting when we were sending out the draft proposal, sorry, it wasn't June, it was last December and feeling like the people that we were sending it to at the agency of education at that time were the ones who were the experts in education. And so there's this piece, like when I hear that statement of, but are they looking at it with good intent and this is their recommendation for us? I don't know, that part to me, like I said, I did not go in to all of this for merger because I had that experience, but I also am not totally ready to be completely opposed. Anyway, that's it, I just, I don't know, I should have thought of it before. I think we have to do the, well, yeah, and appoint the representative or proxy. We got the email, or it was in the packet. Or the visiting. Yeah, and did I read it right? Bill wants it to be him. And then if somebody else wants to go, they can go as well. There's reason for it, like keeping open the budget season.