 738 Rochester Stockbridge Unified District Board of School Directors special meeting Tuesday, April 27th, 2021. And then, as I said, 738 following the budget meeting presentation by Google Meet. We called to order adjustment to the agenda. We just have mostly this is called for a special executive session to talk about personnel. I did want to just take a moment to talk about ballot and what the board, I just had a question and what the board was able to do in terms of encouraging people to or even having, if we had people who were eager to be on the ballot for different positions. So I'd like to talk about that for a moment. Can we put that into a, add that in before we go to executive session? So I call that a 2.2. Are we all okay with that? Justine, Amy, Carl, Megan, OK. So let's just go into this. It just came up because we did get questions from people sort of saying, hey, I'm looking at the ballot and there's nobody there. One thing I realized is we might have missed the boat in terms of getting, being a little more advocate and I take this on myself, advocating for people to sign up in the 30-day window back when they could have. So we could have names in there. I'm just wondering, and Carl, maybe you have some sense of, because you have such a good historical memory. Can the board play? Can the board suggest candidates? Can the board take any side in that? Or does it have to really come from the public if it's an open writing candidate? And anybody else who has a question on this? That's kind of a fine line. I mean, in my experience with Stockbridge, when we've had people, we had a board member have to leave because when we merged with Orange Windsor, they were a teacher at Sharon and they were no longer allowed to be on the board. We've had board members, you know, move or age off and in general, well, age off, get tired of being on it. Really. But so we've encouraged them to recruit people, but we've also been really, really careful that we don't have a board sanctioned candidate. So like when we brought Jenny in, there were a couple of people that were interested, so we did interviews. And again, I think when we were replacing Jenny, there were a couple of people interested in, so we did basic interviews. But it's the purview of the board to, if there's not six names that come out of Stockbridge, it's the purview of the board to appoint whoever the board wants and can get to agree to do it and they can serve to either a special election or until the next regular election. I would say that given that no one was trying to really be on the board for the regular election, I don't think the board would be out of place to appoint someone for a year. So if, for example, this Patrick Hudson person got five and he was interested and the board agrees with him, I have not met the person, so I don't know what their agenda is, but in general, when we've been interviewing people in the past, the big qualifier has been, do you have some sort of signature issue or are you just interested in serving kids? If you're coming in to save, to save on taxes or you're coming in because you want to have more of this, that or the other thing, we've always been kind of a little bit leery of those people. If you come in and say, I wanna have a good school in my town, that's been generally the interview qualifier. We've tried not to have flaming issue people, but I mean, it's up to the board. If the board does not get someone that comes out of the Australian ballot with six exact matches, then the board can do what the board likes. Amy, thank you for calling. Amy? Yeah, so I think that what I had been told was we can tell the public who is currently serving as our treasurer, which is Becky Klein, Rebecca Klein, and currently serving as our clerk, and currently serving as our moderator, right? Which is our moderator. Doesn't even really matter, like I guess it does. Dan McKinley, I think was our current moderator last time. So, McKinley for Rochester and... I think that that's about all we can really say is, and then people who want to be on the board and want to have their name written in and get six votes or the 1%, really need to go out there and beat some feet on the block and... And as far as the school district clerk, some town, some boards, you have the authority to pursue one of your town clerks to see whether or not they are willing for you to appoint them as school district clerk people. Is the clerk of the board, is that Jenny? Forgive me for not... Currently right now it is Jenny. Currently it is. So we are going to have to find a new clerk. Yes, Amy? Right, and the clerk of the board is... Jenny does take our minutes for us, which is nice, but that is not what we're positioned that we're looking for is to take the minutes. It's to do the other parts, which is the voting things. Taking the voting, getting the certifying the vote. Yeah. I do just have a quick question. If somebody, let's say Jenny is voted in, can she reject the nomination? Like if she ends up being the... Because everybody just knows her name, can she say no thank you? She can certainly say no thank you, but she would also get the position. If six people wrote in my name, I would have the position, pending my refusing it, because you can't just get people right in. It's the second constable rule of Vermont. Just because people say you're the second constable, doesn't mean you're going to show up and get the dogs off very long. Okay, thank you. Good. Okay, thank you. That covers that topic for me. I think I'm ready to entertain a motion to go into executive session for a personnel issue. I move we go into executive session to address a personnel issue. We will invite and, oh, sorry, enter a invite in our administrations and superintendent. Inviting in our Bonnie Bourne, Lindsay, and Jamie. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Amy. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. We are back from executive session with 844 PM, with no action taken. I will entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. So moved by Carl, seconded, please. Second. Second by Jenny, I think. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you, everybody. Good night. Thank you. We'll see you next Monday.