 602. I'm very happy to see where we have evidence of the presence of all of you who are here. And Keith, I guess, how do you want to, how would this be easiest for you? So I have the breakout room set up. And I think if we just do them maybe one at a time, if we start with the, either one is fine. Education quality is the first one listed. So if people wanted to let me know who wants to go into the quality committee room, I guess raise your hand and I'll start putting people in. Okay, I see Kari, Jen, Kelly, Mia. Let's see here. I have a question kind of here at the pleasure of the negotiations committee, but if they're going to be an executive session, is there anybody have an idea of where you want me or I don't think we'll need you for our session meeting. Do you, Jonas? I think we should be okay. No. Okay. So you're muted. Jonas. I will take care of those minutes. Okay, so I'll just kind of be in La La Land until you guys come back as a board. Normally we have someone take notes for the quality committee. Do we have a recorder for that this evening other than you, Lisa? I don't think so. I've never done that. So I'd be happy to pop into that one if you want. Okay, that'd be great because I normally we have another person, but I don't see anyone else here. Correct me if I'm wrong. Please send me a bunch of face shields. Okay, go ahead, Flora. Can I ask a question? So if I go into negotiations right now and then come out, can I join back to quality or just let me know and I'll switch you. Yeah, I'll be here just watching to if people want to go back and forth. So it's going to be our traffic hop tonight. Right. So far I have Jen, Kari, Kelly, Lisa and Mia in the Education Quality Committee room. Is there anybody else that wants to go into that room right now? Yeah, I will. It's Marilyn. Okay. Thanks. Okay. And then negotiations. Who should I be putting into negotiations? Alright, so give me one second. It's like Lindy, Jonas, Steven. Floor. Got floor. Chris and Deborah. Scott. Floor. Okay. Okay. Okay. Look, are you going into one or the other of these? Steven, you're on the negotiations came right? Yeah. He's on it. And Chris raised his hand for that. Okay. Okay. So I think what about George? I don't have George in our room yet. I'd like to listen in on negotiations, please. Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Just that all of those squares that I've, that I'm seeing have people actually behind them and listening. Welcome to all of you. Very happy that you're here. This is, of course, our second to last meeting of the school year. Amazingly. I do believe that the chat function is re enabled. So hopefully that will, that will help if we have any problems with it, though, we might have to, might have to shut it down if it turns out that it's getting in the way rather than helping us. So. Welcome, as I say, moving on to agenda revisions. This is the second or last meeting of the school year. And with that, it's the second or last meeting that we have Deborah with us as our interim superintendent. The chief revision that I'd like to propose is to add an executive session after future agenda items as a new 9.0. This will be part one, I guess, of Deborah's end of, end of assignment debrief. There will be a part two at our next meeting on the 17th. I'm hoping that by dividing them in half, we'll be able to do justice to everything that, that Deborah has to share with us during, I think you will all agree, one of the most eventful years of the history of our, of our schools. Are there any other agenda items that, first of all, is there any objection to doing this? Great. Okay. So nine new 9.0 executive session. Deborah. End of, end of assignment debrief part one, which touches on a whole variety of executive session topics from contracts to personnel evaluations, and then, I'm hoping that, I'm hoping that, attorney client privilege, there's, we check off a number of the, of the executive session boxes for this. So are there other agenda revisions that anybody would like to suggest, Flora? I would like to do what you suggested to, to reaffirm the VA's say, great. Should we put that under board operations maybe? Should we have that as a, as a 4.01? Maybe do that first after, after Mia and towns have had their, have had their say. Any objection to that 4.01? Okay. Any other public, any other agenda revisions before we move to public comments? If not, let's go to public comments. Do any members of the public have comments that they'd like to share with us? Do any members of the public have comments that they'd like to share with us? Because it's hard for me to see. I would encourage. A member of the public to just to speak up. And. Yes, David. Yes. Hi. Well, that's all. My main interest at the moment is wondering about the new school year and how things might run with. Some kids staying home and some kids going to school. It seems like that's probably the hardest, even harder than just remote working, trying to do both in present, in person and remote at once. But I'm only speaking up because you're wanting a member of the public to speak up and say, so hi, I hope everybody's well. I hope you continue to do well. That's, that's wonderful, David. Thank you. And I think we might take your question and if we can hold it for agenda item 5.1, the superintendent's report. Deborah, are you willing to. To take that on when we get to your. To your bit. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you very much. So if thank you so much, David, I, it just reassures me that the public is there and, and paying attention. Any other members of the public before we move on to. Mia and towns. Very good then. Mia and towns. So once again, I don't know if there are a lot of. I don't know if there are a lot of. Sorry. Yes. Alpha. Please. After you. Yeah, you should speak. I was just going to start off by saying that. This is the second anniversary of you 32 raising the black lives matter flag. So that's probably the biggest thing that's happening. The pandemic in the school community right now. So there, there's going to be an event tomorrow on zoom. I could get the link out to the board members. If that was something you'd be interested in. Yeah, you should speak. I was just going to start off by saying that this. Is the second anniversary of you 32 raising the black lives matter flag. So that's probably the biggest thing that's happening. The pandemic in school community right now. So that's probably the biggest thing that's happening right now. So I could get the link out to the board members. If that was something you guys would be interested in. And there's that's what people have been talking about. And everything that's been happening nationally. With George Floyd and. Yeah, you could type it into the chat. If you happen to have it handy. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yes, I was also going to mention that. I'm going to go through 30 to 430 tomorrow. And I think that. Just as an example of. Like just as a direct representation of what. The student body has been doing and thinking about. It's a really great. Way to see. How students have been. What work students have been doing. And what work they're planning on doing. Yeah. So. May I just ask how you're feeling about the end of the school year. Yeah. I think that's. Very different for a lot of different students. Personally, I. And. Things are. For ever for students. For every student summer is going to look very different. That ever has before. There are a lot fewer job opportunities. There are a lot fewer just activities in general. So it's not. People are still excited to finish their work. But there is also this knowledge that. It's going to be a very, very different summer than anyone has ever had before. And that it is just going to feel like there is a feeling that it is just going to be more of the same. Of being in your house. And. You know, just. Existing in a certain place that you've spent already spent so much time in. So I think that there are mixed feelings for everyone. I bet. Thank you, towns. Mia. You're, you're graduating. How, how is that? How is that going? It feels. A little weird. Like. And. Really feel like. Your. But. Definitely. Yeah. Mia, I'm sorry. It's, it's hard to hear you at least it's hard for me to hear you. You can hear me. You're coming in and out. Yeah. I think. An echo too. Yeah. Your mom. I think is maybe. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Okay. I think it feels a little weird to be ending the school year. It kind of feels like it's ending, but at the same time. Doesn't really feel like the end, but I'm excited to be done and to be moving forward. Yeah. Yeah. Do you see sort of the same, something similar to what towns. The same that a summer like. Summer has never been before where you're kind of. Constrained. Couped up. Yeah, I'll definitely be. Something different to navigate, but I think. It'll still be okay. Any board member questions for Mia and towns. Just real quick. Mia, I've heard a lot of people express sympathy for the scene. You're graduating this year. Because of everything that you're missing out on. And that, you know, there are these sort of milestones and these traditional, you know, hallmark, you know, high school moments that you guys aren't getting. You know, I think that there might be also something to the fact that you guys, you know, everyone who is 18 graduating from high school right now has this shared experience that hopefully will be unique to everyone. Yeah. That's definitely an interesting way to look at it. Kind of like that. Yeah. Hasn't been something I've been hearing a lot of. But I hope that maybe I'll hear more of it. Great. Any other questions? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I hope to hear more of it. Great. Any other board member questions. For Mia or towns. If not. Thank you both very much and we look forward to. Well, look forward bittersweet feelings to the last year, last meeting with us, Mia. Yeah. Yeah. But towns. You'll be continuing on, right? Yes, I will be. Good. Thank you. Happy to hear that. Great. So. In that case, let's move into 4.0 board operations if there's no objection. You'll notice that there's a lot of stuff in here, most of its housekeeping. Sort of. Pre summer tidying up of various actions. Yeah. So I'm hoping that we can go through fairly briskly. Pardon me. Okay. So 4.01. As floor has suggested is the new agenda item. I would like to, if I noted it down correctly to affirm the board support for the VSBA, VSA, VPA statement against systemic racism. Would, would anybody like to make a motion. Floor. You're muted. There we go. Yeah. Sorry. I was just going to say, I had written something quickly, but I think we can, I can just type it on the, on the bar and see if it feels right to, to you guys. I was just saying Washington center and if I school district school board wants to support our students and staff of color, we want to reaffirm the statements from the VSBA, VPA and VSA, and also continue to educate ourselves so we can continue to support our communities. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you, do you see it there in the sidebar? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm like that is acceptable. Would you like to move it? Yeah. I would like to make that motion if it looks. Yeah. Well, we can talk. Yeah. I'll take it as a motion and ask for a second. I'll second it. Maryland seconds. Thank you. So any discussion. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Something that. Like, I would want to start it out with like, I agree with what the VSBA with the statement that they put out. And I think that like, you know, publicly putting ourselves in a place where we, you know, reject racism and try and work to be better as a good thing. And that's not to like, you know, argue against the motion itself, but just that. To keep in mind that. A statement isn't. Action, a statement isn't. Isn't progress. That we still need to, that, you know, committing ourselves. To the work of. To the work of, you know, fighting racism within our district. Is. Something that we need to. Physically implement. And like we need to work actively work against. Yeah. Yeah. And so I hope that, you know, we take this as an opportunity. To make actual change, but to do that we do need some kind of plans. Like some kind of. At least like idea of the specific areas we need to improve. How we're going to improve them and the steps that we can take. To do so. I guess those are just my thoughts. Thank you very much. Excellent. So. Other other comments from board members. I guess I was inspired by Steven's. Email to all of us today and by the work that I know that students have been doing for. For a while now. And, you know, I know that the work is never done, but I think they, there's, there's been a lot of effort and I am completely supportive of. Then all of us doing. And professional development. The leadership team too. On this area. So I am hopeful that the statement is not. You know, like you said, Scott, you've got brought this up too in an email to us. And I was just feeling like it would be good for many. To not come just from administrators or just from the BSBA. It could be good for us to support it too, especially at this time. Thank you, floor. Others. Anyone want to. What about the language of what floor has. Proposed. I would remove the. No. To tower. No. I would remove the. No, no. To tower is going to say to let's remove the wants to support. You know, but I think town's point is well taken. You know, let's not pat ourselves in the back for supporting. Let's express that we want to. Good. Any other comments? Shall we move to a vote? Okay. All in favor, please click your yes button. Opposed. Click no. And I see. I see only green. So the motion carries. Thank you very much, floor. And thank you, everyone. Good. So superintendent transition update. Just a quick mention that. Well, first of all, Deborah, would you like, do you have anything to say about this? I have continued to meet weekly with Brian. And this week we met. With both Jen and Kelly as well for an additional hour. And we're going to be bringing in our leadership team members, particularly the central office set first. And we're going to be bringing in our leadership team members. And there has been, I'll be speaking shortly about our, how we plan to initiate fall reopening planning, but we intend to involve Brian in that as well. As a leadership team when we work on that. And the leadership team has met and discussed. Brian's entry plan and have provided or plan to provide him as well. I haven't been directly involved in that. And I think other than that, I think that's a fairly quick summary of where we are. And anyone like to add to that from our leadership team. Brian's going to meet with a small group of us on Friday to go over the feedback that we've generated around his entry plan. But I think there's four of us that are meeting with Brian Friday afternoon. That's great. Thank you. And I'm working with Lori and Carla and Brian on his mentor contracts, which will, which will, you know, get ready. And, but is that something that, that you all are, you board members are okay with having me sign? It's within, it's all with going to be within the framework of our master contract with Brian. You remember that there were, there was some language about mentoring in that contract that we executed with Brian. You okay with that? Okay. Good. Thank you. That's all I've got. Oh, Chris, did you want to say something or was that, was that a thumbs up? I was just agreeing thumbs up on your being able to sign contracts. Okay. Thank you very much. Good. All right. So moving on then to 4.3. The blanket authorization for check orders, which you can find on page three of your, of your packet. I will entertain a motion. And then we blanket order. Okay. Linda moves. That we approve the blanket authorization. Chris seconds. Very good. Any, any. Comment. Discussion. Okay. So this would go. We're just going to affect after our next. Yeah. It's an annual determination you have done in the beginning of June. And so it's the 12 month authorization. From this point forward. It's from when we don't meet as I understand it. You already have signed one for this fiscal year. This is for next fiscal year. But just like the warrants, we would need an email signature because you're not meeting in the fiscal year. So. Yes. Okay. So remember everybody. Sorry, Diane. Go ahead. So I just have a question that I understand that it goes from year to year, but there is that one line that says this will remain in effect until further notice. So is there a reason why that line is in there? If it's an annual renewal. That statement and as a cushion in case for some reason next year, you don't meet in the month of June. Interesting. Yeah. Okay. Are we good? Should we go to a vote then. All in favor of approving the. Blanket authorize it. Authorization. For signature of checks. During times that we're not meeting, please. If you're in favor, you can click. Yes. If you're in favor, no, if you're opposed. And. Once again, I see. All in favor. Thank you very much, everyone. Okay. Next is to authorize the superintendent to approve. The fuel oil propane wood ship and wood pellet. And paper bids. Which is in your packets on page four. Do we have a motion please? Move that. Okay. Chris moves that we approve. This authorization for bids on the above named items. Second. I second that's a Diane. Diane seconds. Thank you, Diane. Any discussion. In that case, if you would please. What is. Go ahead, Chris. It's all yours. What is the timing on when we anticipate these bids and my question is, if it, if it's after July one and Brian is superintendent, whether or not there should be some consultation with the school chair. I don't think there should be any consultation with the school board chair because of his newness. They'll be in next week. And the reason why we do this is because many of the bids have a 12 hour window to sign the documents. Otherwise you might lose that fuel oil guaranteed pricing. So they're coming in next Friday. On all of these items or just the fuel oil. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. If for some reason something doesn't come in, I guess we could let you know at the next meeting. If for some reason we couldn't get bids for wood chips or something we could let you know at the next meeting. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Good. All right. Anyone else. If not. Let's go to a vote. Once again, all in favor of author. Of approving the authorization. And then once again, all of these various energy supplies, please click yes. If you're opposed, please click no. And once again, all the yeses. Thank you, everyone. And going. Back to the next one. Authorize the superintendent to sign all documents. And contracts. On behalf of the Washington central unified union school packet. So you can see there's a motion sample motion wording at the bottom. So if someone would like to go ahead and make that motion I move to authorize the superintendent to sign all documents and contracts on behalf of the district. Thank you, Jonas second. Oh, is that George? Okay, thank you, George. Got it. Okay. Sorry about that. So discussion. Oh, there are limitations on what contracts are involved here. And just because it seems very broad to me. I believe this is something that you've done each year. Chris, but Lori can fill us in on that. It relates to the superintendent signing contracts, such as individual employment contracts that the board has approved when we hire a new person or when we complete a negotiations and we just and we develop individual contracts for all of our staff. Those are signed by the superintendent. As an example, I was going to report later on that I have signed on behalf of the board, the Kingsbury net metering contract earlier this week, which was approved by you. Any specific work that's that requires the board's approval on a bid would be contracts for construction. I signed those. So there's probably a very long list. But those are ones I've been doing recently come to mind that all relate to authorized activities and specifically in the areas of personnel and finance. And my question is really going to would the superintendent have the power to bind the district on contracts that the board does not know about? I can speak to that somewhat. So in the past, there are contracts like special education contracts that the board is not aware of. In the past, it's been if it was over budget, the superintendent would bring it to the board for permission. If we meet the budget, then the superintendent would just follow the budget. So that's been our past practice. There are options if you felt you needed to put in limitations in there. You're okay, Chris. Any other I'm just thinking about didn't we limit the finance committee authorization to a certain dollar amount? And I know this might be a little different in terms of superintendent being the CEO of the district and basically having the authority to sign contracts just to keep the operation running. But it just seems very open ended to me. But I imagine it is limited by the fact of the budget. Right, I would agree. Yes, and I friend that we've done that we've done before. And I actually think we changed that a little bit from what it was. And Lori can correct me if I'm wrong from what was with us. We've made some changes already. So I and Steven Luke might remember this better than me. So I feel okay with the way it's written. Yeah, one example is I think that there are times when waiting for two weeks for a board meeting so that the board could sign a contract. Could it be limiting? So for example, the recent meetings, the board's been approving bids. Those bids then take the form of contracts. And there's a period of time that we're the owner, which is the superintendent considered the owner or representative of the school board on these contracts and the contractor have to negotiate the terms. And occasionally, an attorney's feedback is required. But I think a two week delay on contracts for construction could be problematic as long as the superintendent is carrying out the approval of the board and within all legal expectations. So I think that if you put a dollar limit on that, then that would, you know, the contracts that you've approved, the bids you've approved were between two and 300,000, for example. So but understanding that those were authorized and they were budgeted as was stated. Jonas, I'm looking at the minutes of the meeting last year where we did this. And there is there's no note of discussion. The motion is so Bill shared that one of the results of an audit from the past was to recommend this action. Then floor moved, you know, the same motion that I just made now, George seconded and it carried unanimously. So it seems, you know, just a little bit of historical context. Jonas, that is an absolutely magnificent use of the archives. Thank you. All power to Gmail. Excellent. Are we ready for a vote then? Once again, all in favor, please click yes, opposed, click no. Okay, I see all the yeses. Thank you very much. Um, God, can I ask a question? Yeah, please carry. My recollection is this these last four items are very much housekeeping and standard items that we do each year. I wonder if we can make a note for next year to just think as part of the consent agenda and try to spend as little time on it as possible. How have you managed to read my mind? What we should do is make sure that we have Jonas with us who will be able to tell us a year from now what what we did today. So yeah, I think that's a great idea. Is there any is there any objection to it? Do I hear? Okay. Nope. Okay, so let us then continue what I hope will be rapid progress to revenue anticipation note and investment bids. As I recall this this particular item came in a separate in a separate document. We had to wait for the bids to be to arrive, which was early this week. So they were emailed to you and I will read them in case you haven't located it's fairly brief. So the revenue anticipation note and investment bid typically we annually provide revenue anticipation note investment bid documents and loan documents for board member signatures. After conferring with the community bank, they recommend the board approve the bid as usual. And they are also suggesting a second motion to authorize the board chair to sign on the loan document for the board by electronic means. So there's two motions. One is to approve the revenue anticipation note and investment bid from Community Bank. And the second is to authorize the board chair to sign the loan document on behalf of the board via electronic means. I apologize for reading that. But in case you weren't able to get your hands on it quickly. Thank you. Founded in the meantime. So would anybody like to make that first motion? I'll move that we approve the anticipation note from Community Bank. Very good. So the the full text Lisa, do you Sorry, do you mind reading the full text a bit for you? Do you have it with I don't have it right in front in front of me. Hold on a minute. I just moved to the board to approve the revenue anticipation note and investment bid. Yes, an investment bid from Community Bank and a and then the shall I read that second one? So I think we better might as well do them one by one and just try to dispatch them as quickly as we can. Do I have a second for the first motion? Jonas, thank you very much. Jonas, but you too, Chris. So discussion. All in favor then please click yes. Opposed click no. And once again, I'm I'm seeing all the yeses. Thank you very much. Okay, the next motion. Back to our packet. Right. Beyond page six. Well, the second recommended motion. Oh, sorry, I thought you had finished that already. I apologize. No, no, we still have this last bit. Sorry. Yeah, not a problem. Do we have anyone who will move to authorize the board share to sign the loan document for the board via electronic means? So moved. Chris moves. Second, please. Seconded. Thanks, Diane. Diane seconds. Thank you. Discussion. If not, then let's move to a vote. All in favor. Click yes. Opposed no. And all the yeses. Thank you once again, everyone. Alright, so back up to the construction bids on page six. Yes. Okay. So first is the Romney sidewalk bid recommendation. And it's recommended for the approval of the bid provided by J. Merrill construction LLC in the amount of $115,280. And please be appreciate a motion and certainly can answer any questions you may have. Okay, very good. How about a motion to approve the Romney sidewalk bid? Make that motion to approve the Romney sidewalk bid in the amount of $115,280. Thank you, Chris. Second. Dorothy seconds. Thank you, Dorothy. May I suggest adding the who were awarding the bid to to J. Merrill construction LLC, please. So to award the bid to J. Merrill construction LLC. Thank you. And Dorothy, your second still holds. Very good. Great. Okay. Any discussion of this? I just get a quick description of what was wrong with the sidewalk there. It was it is cracked and rising up. It's people are tripping over it. It has, it needs to be replaced. It's unsafe. Okay. Other questions? If not, let's move to a vote all in favor of approving the bid as moved by Chris and seconded by Dorothy. Please click yes. Opposed to click no. I see all yeses. Many thanks yet again. And we move on to the U 32 gym equipment, I believe. Yes. The next page or a few pages down page eight, I believe you will see the recommendation for the U 32 equipment project. And we recommend approval of the bid provided like lodging nests, interiors incorporated in the amount of 54,775. And this includes repair and replacement of the stage rigging batting cage, fold up curtain bleachers, basketball hoops, fold up curtain at the gym division shooting station, net and overall some overall defective equipment repairs. Okay. So do we have a motion? I move we approve the bid provided by lodging nests, interiors ink in the amount of 54,775 for the U 32 gym equipment. Thank you, Stephen. Second. I'll second it. It's Lindy. Oh, I thought I saw. Okay, Lindy, your voice spoke before Kari's hand registered. So thank you. Any discussion of this? If not, we can move to a vote. All in favor of approving the bid as moved by Stephen and seconded by Lindy, please click yes. Opposed, click no. I see all yeses. Motion carries. Thank you, everyone. Once again. And moving on further to U 32 sidewalk bid. Yes, this is phase one of a multi part project where we're going to be repairing the sidewalk in the front of U 32 building at the entryway similar to Romney. The sidewalk requires repair because of cracks and areas that have been risen. And it is again unsafe for folks who are walking and or utilizing any kind of wheelchair in that type of equipment. We will come back at another time in a future year to complete the remainder of the sidewalk project, but it's a portion of that due to the project. Okay, thanks. So it looks as though this will be two separate actions. Yes. Okay. Would anyone like to make the motion? So moved. I'm not sure we've actually made any more specifics. Please, Chris. I move that we award. Okay, award a bid in the amount of $166,000. It concludes a transfer of $20,000 from the capital fund. We may have to do that one separately is Chris Chris for a second. Yeah, I think we might have to do the other one separate. Okay, so I move that we award the bid to the U 32 sidewalk reconstruction to Avery excavating in the amount of $166,000. Great. Thank you. Second second. Thank you, Stephen. Any further discussion of this part? If not, please click yes. If you're in favor, no, if you're opposed. And once again, all yeses, the motion carries. And now the second motion for the capital fund transfer. I move that we transfer $20,000 from the district. Oh, I think Lindy was, he was often running Chris. No, it was Diane. Oh, it was Diane. I'm sorry. Yeah. Diane was often running. So a transfer of $20,000 from the district capital fund as the project costs for the project. Okay. Second. I'll second it. Thank you, floor. All right. Discussion on this one. If not, we can go to a vote all in favor of transferring the $20,000. Please click yes. Opposed click no. And all the yeses. Once again, the motion carries. Now, I think, are we then? Is that all for the construction bids? Yes. Okay. Now we have an insurance bid on page 11 of the packet. So we have received a bid from Liberty Mutual. We recommend that the board approve the bid for workers' compensation insurance and also for property liability and related insurance carriers. Oh, I'm sorry, workers' compensation is to the amutual insurance company and the property liability and related insurance bid to the Liberty Mutual insurance company. And the details are in your packet. This would be a one year period. Can we come the appointment of Dennis, Rick or Brown as our insurance agent? Does that require our action as well? I believe it does, yes. So we could take them and there's also a note for the to authorize a superintendent to sign the contract associated with these. You may have already covered that in your last motion. Yeah, yeah. Can we combine these two? The appointment and the award? Sure. Okay. Would anyone like to move this? Move that we appoint Dennis, Rick or Brown as the WCUSD insurance agent for the school year July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 and to award the insurance bid in the amount of $222,434 to Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. Thank you, Kai and Chris. I'm just wondering the total is 222,434, but that's split, right between Liberty Mutual and AIM Mutual? I just needed to clarify the column is under the combined total 198,433 is the bid. The budget is the 222. It's the 222. Thank you, Lori. So if you could just award the total and you've worded it perfectly, I think we're good. Great. And we're under budget by 24,000. Okay, so I'll amend that motion to have the award of $198,433. Very good. And Kai, seconds still? Very good. Any discussion of this? I have a question. I'm just curious. Does anyone know our workers comp modification factor? Lori, do you have that information? The last audit we had was a 0.7. So we're in very good shape. It's less than 1%. That was a pro question, Kai. Okay. So 1.0 would mean more average. So 0.7 means we're 30% safer than average. Which is fantastic. It means we're saving a lot of money. That's the business headache question. Yeah, that's really good to know. And thank you for that explanation as well. So if there's no other discussion, shall we go to a vote then? All in favor of the motion as made by Chris and seconded by Kai, please click yes. Opposed? Click no. And once again, all yeses, the motion carries. Thank you very much, everyone. Now, I think that does it for board operations. And we can move on to reports, superintendent. Yes, good evening again, everyone. If you've had a chance to review my report, you know that it's full of very positive and exciting things in regards to, hold on one second. Jill is joining us. In regards to our end of your celebrations. So on June 12 is our scheduled virtual high school graduation. And you've already heard a bit from Mia about that. I believe and if Stephen is on the line or Amy, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but we did settle on 6pm as the time the start time for that live stream event. Is that correct? That is correct. Awesome. Please note that that is a remote only event. So we will not be able to accommodate large numbers of the audience for that. But you are welcome to observe it live online. It will be through Orca. We also wanted to invite our board members. However, if you wish to join us during any of the to observe or welcome or thank you, excuse me, any of our seniors who are graduating, you just need to give Leslie Fitch a call and tell us whom you would like to be present for. And there will be, as you can see from this report, a space set up in the in the parking lot for you to come and observe and wave as those individuals. Now I understand that since I wrote this, there's been an adjustment to the date, the dates from which we will be providing the vehicle distribution of diplomas. It was initially to be two days, but I think we've switched that to one. Is that correct? Stephen, I know that was something I did yesterday. Yeah, so what we learned was that the we school doing it, we have over as time that it would take us for each graduate. So we found that we could do it in a shorter amount of time. And and so we did shorten it to Saturday instead of both Saturday and Sunday. Okay, great. So this is incorrect. But it's just because it was a late breaking change. And once again, we welcome your participation. Please feel free to email Leslie. And she will let you know where your specific graduate is going to be in terms of time. So thank you. Any questions about our high school graduation for Stephen or myself? We're all set. Okay, just for doing it. Oh, right. A lot of organization from you guys. And thank you. It means a lot to a lot of students and parents. Absolutely, it'll be a great event. I know it will. Our elementary schools have chosen to use the same format for their recognition of sixth graders as they transition to the middle school. So as you can see in the bottom of page 12 on the top of 13. What I've noted here are the start times for the vehicle diploma pickups. However, each of the groups will be having a virtual ceremony, some of which will be recorded and some live streamed. And if you're interested in more information about those you can contact me and I will or kind of the principles directly. If you would like to learn more about that if you wish to accompany the vehicles and the parking lot again for that drive through ceremony. And again, there's been a lot of excitement about that. And as always great community planning. And I think it'll be those will be wonderful events. And they begin next week starting on the ninth and concluding on the 11 questions about those. Okay. So there were some questions earlier about the summer and how we're moving forward. So you can see here that we are in the process of summarizing survey information from our community and determining what type of scale of meal provision we're going to be required to provide. So we don't have the details on that we appreciate you're giving us the go ahead to put the details together and we will be providing meal delivery but the exact numbers are at this point still being calculated. And we will continue to do that or originate that work out of the spot failure as we had discussed before because of our construction at the kitchen at you 32. Summer school our plan at this time is remote services and there's no in service in person work this year for that. We also are gauging the community's interest in our summer camp. And we have surveys out to parents and we will see what kind of interest there is this summer camp is a child care type of camp run by community connections. We will have limited spaces available here. And again only at East Montpelier due to construction and other sites. So I think the next section kind of talks a bit about planning for the future. We just give you a few highlights. We have a team of folks who are putting together a survey which we will send out to our parents both to gain feedback about the success of our remote learning this spring and advice and information that will help guide us in our planning for the fall. But this time we are anticipating guidance from the a we perhaps this week or next that might provide us with some parameters around our planning. We expect it will be primarily contingency planning. We'll be looking at hoping for in person instruction but developing remote plans as a contingency or perhaps a combination. And as some of you who are present in the quality committee. I'm certain heard from Jen there's also going to be the opportunity when school resumes for our teachers to assess our children's progress and make determinations of exactly how we need to proceed with our instruction in the fall. We have identified a task force groups numbering 11 at this point in time. And those are to address many of the logistics that are associated with planning for the contingencies in the fall. Just as you hear if any of you have had an opportunity to hear from the governor almost every time he provides a press conference he'll say what I'm going to be suggesting to you now is contingent on guidance from the CDC and the public health situation as it evolves. And I think that you'll hear us saying that for the next several weeks and months and we will be prepared with a number of contingencies but really until we come closer to the start of the year will be we will still be needing to guide our decision making based on the health and safety of all of our students. Let's see. I think that pretty much covers where we are with the next fall. But let me pause for a minute and see if you have further questions there will be much work to do many plans to make greater than if it's possible the crisis planning that we did this past spring when we were informed with a few days notice that schools were closing for the rest of the year. So this planning the good news is that we're experienced planners. But we also realize that there are many, many provisions and parameters that will have to be taken into account as we move forward. Tired planners and imagine it too. And thank you for addressing David Lawrence's questions also Deborah. That's great. Other other questions from board members. It's pretty comprehensive. All right. Okay. I just wanted to mention quickly that we we did if you don't mind I'll quickly say that we did send out our letters to support staff to all employees regarding the early retirement option as well. And that deadline of September 15th. And I just wanted to once again thank our staff. I know we'll have a chance to do that again on the 17th but school will end on June 11th and our staff will remain through the 19th to assist us with all the planning that we have scheduled and as well as the curriculum instruction work that we typically do during that time frame. Thank you very much Deborah. That's great. All right. What I propose that we do is we take five before we start climbing the mountain of policies that Chris and his committee have prepared for us to tackle today. Any objection to that five minute break back at say 804 by my computer clock. Okay, let's go. See you soon. Thanks. Hey. Hey, I see 804 on the computer clock. And welcome back everyone. I hope you feel refreshed. We're on 5.2 policy and I count no fewer than 11 separate policies. Is that is that about right Chris that are up for second reading and then one for first reading? Yes. So how do you want to proceed in terms of moving them? Moving the second reading one more late? I would I would be happy to move all of them as a slate. If you're if you're up for that. It does. Does anyone have an objection before we do that? Speak now please. I can't necessarily see you if you object. Okay, if you speak now move late. What was that again, Chris? If you're gonna speak now move them as a slate. Right. Okay. So let's move them as a slate. Who would like to do the honors? It's a long motion. So kind of your department, Chris. Okay, I will move that we approve as a slate. The following policies be 40 non retribution slash retaliation. Number C2 student alcohol and drugs policy. C3 transportation. C5 weapons and firearms. C6 home study students. C7 student attendance. C8 pupil privacy rights. C10 and C10 P prevention of harassment, hazing and bullying policy and procedures. C11 student freedom of expression in school sponsored media. C30 student medication. C32 18 year old student policies. And I'd like to amend my own motion to take out C7 student attendance, because I think we are going to revisit that at our next policy meeting. Okay, so the Chris has moved the list of policies under 5.2.1 all for second reading, which means when we vote on them, we approve them. They go into effect. How about discussion of these? Oh, no, we need a second first. Sorry. Dorothy seconds. Okay, very good. And Lisa, you got that C7 is coming out of that batch. Yeah, I got it. Thank you. Wonderful. Thanks. Thank you, Lisa. Okay. Steven, look, what do you think about these policies? I've been through them and was satisfied with the adjustments made from the first reading. Great. Um, are there other other other questions or comments or concerns? If there are none? This is a big batch. But they've been they've been gone over, I think quite thoroughly and seriously. So if you're ready for a vote, all in favor, please click your yes button. And if you opposed to that slate of policies, please click your no button. And I see all the yeses the policies passed unanimously. Fantastic. That was that was the biggest chunk to swallow. So moving on to 5.2.2, the first reading of the search and seizure, the student search and seizure policy. Chris? Oh, I think you're muted. Okay. Okay. Any questions on the search and see? We have, I think we're going to be working a little bit more. I don't know, not on this one, but a different one. Any questions on this search and seizure policy? Any comments? Can you just remind me what what page it's on? 52. 52. No, 52. Thank you. Sorry, I was just having trouble finding it again. Ah, yes. What we went around and rounded was the definition for personal search in terms of how how intrusive that could be in terms of clothing removal. And I think we hit upon a good solution here, but we really like to hear your comments. Sorry, you guys did somebody make a motion on that one yet? I was tuning out for a minute. No motion, Lisa. Just a first reading. Okay. Okay, thanks. God, I'm muted. Sorry. Anyway, thank you for that honest admission. Okay, so comments, particularly on this question of, of loosening or removing clothing. This is Jill. I just was curious, Chris, why you guys took out the the list of the examples and changed it to this product, this term primary layer of clothing, which I have to confess, it doesn't seem like a term of art. So I was, I mean, I think it's probably okay, but I was just curious what you're thinking was. I think to to so it wouldn't be restricted to those particular items. We think it's just a little bit broader too. So like, if it was, yeah, that's, I think that's the reasoning behind the change. And so any reason not to say something like a student's primary layer of clothing such as a shirt or pants shall not be removed just since primary layer of clothing is not, you know, may not be actually entirely self evident. You know, if that's the, the is to the board, I have no qualms about that. I mean, we started off that way. And it just may be, you know, that might be a good guidance to what we what primary layer means. Right. As a pedantic member of the public, I'd say it actually needs a definition, because I could make a convincing argument that your primary layer is the first layer you put on. So why are you talking about my primary layer? I think Jody said, said there were problems with what a sweatshirt was, that there could be a t-shirt under it, or there could not be. And so was that, you know, I think that's why we began to explore a different way to describe it. That's my memory. This is, this is Steve. So I'll weigh in now. Discussion started when I read it. I read it that all the clothes could be removed down to the layer of the underwear. That's what I interpreted primary layer of clothing to be. But now hearing others talk, I can see we're seeing primary layer of clothing could could be quite vague. I mean, am I right? Is that what the policy committee was interpreting? So saying primary layer of clothing, you could have all your clothing removed to the underwear, but you had to keep no, no, no, no, the was does not get to the underwear layer. The primary layer would be basic basic shirt, basic pants, things like that. We were not intending to say, Oh, you can remove. And our goal was because it said about removing clothing. And the concern was clothing in and of itself is very broad. And so it could end up, you know, being basically a strip search. And we didn't want that. And so when we talked about primary layer, there's really to differentiate between a t shirt versus a sweatshirt, which we considered an outer layer of clothing. But pants skirt, you know, and then so if a student had pants or skirt, and then underwear, neither would be removed in the scope of a search. Same thing for you're like a kind of I imagine for, you know, undershirt, like a blouse or shirt and bra or black or shirt and undershirt, those items would not be removed in terms of a search. And that's what our goal was. So would it be helpful to as as sort of a sub definition to define primary layer? Yes, we could do that. Yeah, I have to confess, I actually read the primary layer phrase exactly as Steven did the first time that I had to read it several times to make because I was like, they can't mean that. So yeah, I get what you're struggling with. I didn't think you meant that. Well, I like Scott's suggestion. If if you added a definition of primary layer, and I'm not going to suggest to the policy committee this exact language, but something to the effect of the language that the primary layer is the layer of clothing immediately, it immediately covers the under garments or underwear or something like that. Some form of determining actually that's not mediating what the primary layer is. Actually, Steve, that's that's a helpful one, I think. Well, it was for me, I'm sure the policy committee can do better. Maybe that just gives you a place to start. Okay, any other comments on the overall search policy? I would just add like the addition of the outer layers of clothing. I did think that was clarifying given everything I heard. So I support that phrase being added. I think that's pretty clear. Okay. Do you have what you need, Chris? I do. Thank you. Great. Thanks, everybody. Yeah, thanks very much for your comments are very helpful. Wonderful. All right. In that case, we can move on to 5.3 the ESP negotiations. Jonas. So we had a really productive session on Monday. I we have a another session tentatively scheduled for next Monday. We are I think everyone in the room, everyone in the virtual room is is hopeful and optimistic that we will be able to get and get, you know, get to an agreement on Monday in time for the union to ratify and for us to hopefully approve the agreement at our next meeting before we get to June 30th. And thanks to everyone who joined the the negotiation committee executive session earlier today. Some really good feedback and I appreciate everyone's years. And we very much appreciate the work of the negotiations committee. That's a very difficult one. And thank you for your success in this. 5.4, unless there's any, any, anything for Jonas, we can move on to 5.4, which is education quality. Kari. Okay, thanks. If it's okay, I'll just start with a quick report of tonight's meeting. We had a fantastic committee meeting and just pull up my notes here. We talk briefly about the charter, which we'll we'll get into in just a moment. We took our monthly look at data. This time it was some SBAC results for three different cohorts for literacy and math over a five year period. Be happy to go into that, but probably another time. We also looked at post-secondary results. And, for example, our four year graduation rate is generally between 87 and 90%. It's been steady over the five year period ending 2018. I looked at SAT and ACT averages and some of the advanced placement classes and results and heard from our students about the challenges of taking the AP tests remotely this year. And then we approved a monitoring calendar for the year so that over the coming year, we have a plan to examine each of the different student learning outcomes and other aspects of our educational programs, including the continuous improvement plan and post-secondary updates. So and then finally, we had an update on remote learning. Got some insights about sort of complexity and the extraordinary efforts that our staff are making each day. There was a there was a request of the board I wanted to pass along, which was generally described a high level of planning and a weariness that sort of sat in with all the planning and looking to the future and just asking for some understanding from the board about all the learning and the planning and the coordination that the staff is taking on right now. So and one thing I wanted to highlight is that question for us, I think, is how are we going to share our findings with the full board? And that's something I'd probably like to talk with the steering committee about what makes the most sense in terms of board time and packet space and all of that. So if there are any questions about that, I'll move into the proposed charter. Like to mention that all the board members do receive the materials for both committees. So the presentation that Jen put together and shared with you was received by everyone. All right, would you like before? Sorry, Steven. Chris had his hand up too. I don't know. You know, Steven, it's going to be aged before beauty, so you can go first. So let me qualify my question by I'm thrilled by the effort that has been made since we've gone online. And my question is of the quality committee, are they satisfied with what they're seeing from the quality of the outcomes? Speaking for myself, I don't know that we're in a position to judge that. We haven't gone into enough depth to see what the outcomes are. We've only heard about the activities and the challenges and some of the successes. Okay, just so, I mean, Kara, you know somewhat how I feel. It's nice to know what's been done and it's nice to know the plan. I want to know the outcomes. So if it hasn't been covered yet, that's fine. I'll wait and when we have an assessment, I'll be interested in it. Sure. Lord, did you comment on that? Well, actually, Chris, now we can really do age before beauty. I was just going to just in terms of getting information out there, just post it on the website. If we're concerned about packet space and or anything like that and just notify board members either by email and saying this is now up on the website as a resource. Okay, thank you. Thank you. I was just going to say that before we had the new members on the board, we did spend a little time trying to go back to those goals that when you were part of the board that we had set for math literacy, especially for math. So we did do that back then and we had some findings. So, you know, not all schools were able to reach that growth that we had done, but we have been working towards setting goals and monitoring them. I'm more than comfortable to wait until the committee has something. They've had a chance to do their work and have something to report. That's fine. I'm okay. Anybody else with before we move to the action on the charter for the Education Quality Committee? Kari, would you like to move it and then we can discuss it? Absolutely. So, I'll move that we accept the proposed charter for the School Quality Committee. Kari moves. Second? Okay. Many, many candidates, but I'll take Jonas. I think Jonas went first. So, Kari, please. So, I mean the charter hopefully speaks for itself. Basically, we're here to help the board understand the learning that's happening and student success is defined by the student learning outcomes. One hope that we have, I think, is that the board will become proficient itself in assessing a variety of data sources and other evidence so that we understand how the system is functioning and we can use that knowledge eventually for planning and budgeting and community engagement. So, we've got some learning to do ourselves about our system and then we can turn that into action. That would be a good outcome. That's great. Yes. Any other comments or anything to say about the committee charter? Apart from that, it looks really good from my perspective. I shouldn't editorialize at this point, but there you go. Otherwise, if there are no further comments, we can move to a vote on approving the committee charter for the Education Quality Committee. All in favor, sorry. All in favor, please click yes. If you're opposed, please click no. And I see all yeses. Great. The motion carries. The charter is approved. Thank you very much, Kari, and many, many thanks to your committee. Okay. At this point, where are we? Consent agenda, the minutes of May 20th. Do we have a motion to approve the minutes? I move to approve the minutes of May 20th. Jonas moves. Second? Second. Actually, I saw, thank you, Stephen. I saw Flores hand first. Stephen is fine. Okay. Jonas moves. Stephen seconds. Any changes to the minutes? Any corrections? They look good. Okay. All in favor of approving the minutes of May 20th. Please click yes. Opposed? Click no. Okay. Carries unanimously. Now, the board orders. I don't have them in front of me. Would someone be willing to read out the amounts, please, in a motion to approve? I can move the check warrant for 521, 20 to 603, 20 for 213,000, with 6, 213,000 and 6 dollars with 44 cents. And the capital warrant for 284 dollars with 31 cents. Thank you, Flore. Second? Dorothy seconds. Very good. Any questions about the board warrants? If not, please click yes to approve. No if you're opposed. And once again, all the yeses. Many thanks. And I know that a number of you already have sent in your in lieu of signatures. So please, if you haven't do that when you get a chance. All right. Personnel. Now the personnel actions were in a separate email and in fact an updated email is our call. Is that correct, Ebra? Yes. This is the time of year when we make a number of hiring decisions and there were some that were finalized Friday and the risk were completed this week. So if you could please check your emails for later this afternoon. There was a updated document of the Superhead Personnel summary for recommendations. And while you are looking for that, I can review if you would like or I can wait a moment. I don't think we need to wait. I think we could even start moving to approve the nominations for the hiring nominations if someone wishes to do that. So we are recommending Dawn Bates as an early essential education teacher at a full-time position and Meta Bravo's Calis Music Teacher at .4. Great. I move that we accept the recommendation to hire Dawn Bates and Meta Bravo's. Thank you, Lindy. Is there a second? A second. This is Jill. Thank you, Jill. Good. Any discussion? Questions? If not, we'll move to a vote. All in favor, please click yes. Opposed? No. And I'm seeing all yeses. Thanks, everyone. All right. I don't see any retirements this time. Is that correct? Not this time. Okay. There is however a resignation that we need to approve. Yes. Peter Arsenal is going to be, has accepted a position in a district in his hometown and had appropriately asked us for an extension of his contract and us subsequently resigned. So we will be seeking to replace that position. Very good. Is there a motion? So moved. Floor moves to accept the resignation of Peter Arsenal. Second? Second by Diane. Diane seconds. Thank you. Any further discussion questions? If not, please click yes to indicate approving the resignation. No, if you oppose it. And I see all yeses. Great. That motion carries. I once again seen, sorry, did I miss somebody? No, me, Lisa. Sorry. Oh, yes, Lisa. Can somebody spell the name of that person, the music teacher? Oh, yeah. M-e-t-a-b-r-a-v-o-s. Okay, thank you. All right. Thanks, Lisa. I appreciate your, you know, any time this happens in unique clarification, I'm glad you pipe up. It's good. Leave of absence request. I see none. But I do see a bunch of changes in FTE, which I presume we can vote as a batch, right? Sure. I'd be happy to review them first, if you would like. Sure. Do you want to take a motion, though, in advance of my discussion? If someone would like to make the motion, that would be great. I'll move. This is Jill. Go ahead. I was going to move that we accept the recommendation for the changes in FTEs. Great. And Jonas, wonderful. And Jonas, may I take yours? Is this a second? Please. Thank you. Okay. So, yes, please, Deborah. Yes. Michelle Tofel-Murray is our English language learner, ELL teacher, and we had budgeted a 0.5 position, but our anticipation is an increase in student needs that will require her contract to be at 0.8 FTE. And we'd like to, we believe we have enough sufficient information at this time to make that recommendation for the fall. We'd like to request that you approve that. Next is Kimberly McKellar, who is our U32 work-based learning coordinator, and we are looking to increase her position to a total of 0.8. She's currently a 0.6. Erin Galligan Baldwin, who is our U32 theater performing arts director. We would like to add 0.2 FTE so that she can teach an English class for a total of 1.0. And Erica Rose, we would like to add, for Callis, a 0.4 FTE as art teacher, and she would remain at Rumney as a 0.2 art teacher for a total of 0.6. So, exciting here that we're sharing staff across our elementary schools. Great to see. And similarly, we have a recommendation for another art teacher, Jen Campbell, to become an Eastmont Pelegre art teacher for 0.5 FTE and remain at Rumney for 0.5 FTE as an art teacher. So, she'd be sure between the two schools. She currently has a 0.4 para position and she would resign that. So, she'd be a full-time teacher share between two schools. I know that there's a slight change in her FTE at Rumney, but Casey assures me that will not affect students. Any questions? No questions. In that case, we'll move to a vote. All in favor of approving the changes in FTE as moved by Jill and seconded by Jonas. Please click yes. Opposed? No. And again, I'm seeing all the yeses. Thanks everyone. Okay. So, now we're on to 8.0 and 8.1. The future agenda items, the finance committee, has a treat for us. Brad Fleur? The finance committee in the in the last, we're going to meet at next the third Wednesday of the month at 5 o'clock. We would like, I think Deborah already, Krista shared the link for the efficiency study that we would like everybody to look at. We haven't met since our last report that we gave at the previous board meeting. So, I don't have a lot to really add, except that we are going to take a first look at the efficiency studies ourselves, but we have shared it with the board so that everybody is informed. Is there something else that you were thinking I will add to that, Scott? No, I just see that it says construction update is 8.1.2. Oh, that was, that was Deborah wanted to, we haven't had the meeting with the bill for it yet, but Deborah did wanted to give us an update in construction. Great. Thank you, Floor. Deborah? They can, no, at the next meeting of the finance committee. Oh, at the next meeting, future, future. Yes, future. Yes, thank you. Yeah, the future is now. So, that's great. In that case, that we have 9.0 executive session. May I have a motion to go into executive session, please? Can I have a clarifying question, Scott? Are we going to do both the teacher and teacher appreciation and executive session and the other subject, or how are we going to, because we, we skip 4.1 or what size leap. Oh my gosh, yeah. I don't want to miss the teacher appreciation because we, Diane has, we have information with us and I know that we want it still to be surprise for staff and teachers. So, we talked about this, the description of what it was, if possible in the second session, if that's a legal and okay with everybody. Otherwise, we would discuss now. Everybody in the meeting can keep it quiet. I don't know. So, sorry. What we could do, what we could do, if you wanted, is we could go into executive session and then come out and then I think we will have lost a lot of the people who might be surprised by that time. It doesn't matter. I just don't want to forget it. No, no, no, I'm, I'm so sorry. Your opinion too, but yeah. That is, that's entirely my fault. Okay. I also, I'm sorry. This is a, I was, there was a chat question asked earlier and I don't know if you want me to try to answer that. It was regarding our summer meal program. And I could, we had promised to report to you our estimate for expenses at this upcoming meeting, at this current meeting, but because we are just serving families, we couldn't give you the exact amount. But we can give you a rough estimate of 114,288, which would include busing at 24,828. And after revenues, the projected support would be 37,637. So if you'd be willing to agree to allow us to implement the program, we'd like, we anticipate that will be the overall expense, 37,637. And it could be less if we have fewer people participating, fewer families. So are you asking us for, Well, if you'd be willing, it would, and our team was, has been working on this and the information just came to light yesterday. So I wasn't able to warn this and I do have it in an email as an estimate. So it's, if we wait, then that will postpone our initiation of the work. So I suppose if you'd be willing to, at this late portion of the meeting, to consider amending the agenda to follow up from our last meeting, take action on this, your financial support for the summer meal program with an estimate overall output via after revenues of 37,637, that would allow us to begin the process and do the work. Yeah, I'm not 100% comfortable acting on money without without warning. But I would leave it if board members are in favor. It's a it's a board decision. My apologies for my apologies for not getting it to you last week. We just didn't have time to pull all the details together. So, excuse me, Lindy, I didn't hear you. I apologize. Is the money in the budget or is this a new expense? Lori might still be there, Lori. Are you still with us? Well, I'll ask you that question whether or not the 37,000 is in our budget. The 37,000 is not in the budget. It would be a COVID expense just like the program has currently been running based on surveys that we've received we don't believe we'll have as much participation as we've previously had this year. So, that is a very high estimate. I do have to add that every year our community connections program ran in the summer at a slate profit. But what seems to be different is the delivery service. So, I just wanted to let you know about that. Any other questions? So, because it's a COVID expense, it's subject to possible reimbursement? True. We could also designate savings that we've experienced this spring by not having sports, etc. If the COVID revenues do not come through. This is Jill. Deborah, did you say that if we delay the vote on this, it will delay the students getting the meals? Delay? What will it delay? Okay. What will it delay? Yeah, thank you for asking that, Jill. So, we are continuing to serve our students through June 18th. That's our summer, that's our school year program. But if we were to have your approval, we could prepare by assembling staff and ordering materials, having the transportation set up, ordering the food, and getting ready. If we wait until the 17th of June, it just gives us a few weeks before we start. I'm not going to be carrying out the logistics, but Jody Emerson is here and she's been overseeing that program. I think it would be very tight if we did wait until the middle of June for that approval. Chris? Can we basically take a straw poll and get a sense of the board in terms of support, rather than, you know, I think I agree with you, Scott, in terms of if we're going to do a money expenditure, we should we should mourn it and then file that procedure. But to give assurance to, for the planning purposes, we can also just get a sense of the board now, as to how the members feel, and then hopefully that would be enough assurance to plan and schedule and things like that. And I also have a question for Deborah. Did I hear you say that the expense would be about 37,000 after revenues? Correct, that's the most it would be. If I heard that correctly, what revenue, the most it would be. Okay, what revenue are we expecting? The COVID revenues. No, actually we receive reimbursement. So when we serve a breakfast and lunch, we get six dollars and 25 cents for each, well for both meals combined from the state and the federal government. So at the board it's already voted in favor of supporting our planning. We were asked, you were asked us to come back with us more specific information. Yeah, Floor. Oh, muted. In any of the parliamentary procedures you're able to do an emergency action and have that privilege, and this seems to be, you know, it's COVID-19 is an emergency. I'm not too worried about making a decision about money, especially because we had that vote at the last meeting. So, you know, we could raise that question, whether you want to call it a question of privilege or an emergency action. So I'm not worried about making it. I think it's an expense that we all agree at least wanted to have that discussion. And I can't think of anything more important that we could be doing to take care of our community. So that's just my opinion. Okay. So, Steven. I just, we did approve last meeting to go forward with this project, correct? The worth of planning, yeah. Planning. Okay. Oh, we approve going forward with the planning. Right. Yeah, we just didn't approve the dollar amount, just the planning to find out. And it's because it's outside of our typical budget that we're asking your approval. I believe that you have the authority to make, take action because you're in a regular meeting as well. And yeah, and floor floor's presentation of parliamentary parliamentary procedure has impressed me greatly. And I'm convinced. So I have a, I just have a clarification because this is, it's confusing me how it suddenly came up because it was in the chat. So I guess I'm surprised that it hadn't been put on the agenda in terms of getting an update around. I know that the money came in at the last minute. So the information was last minute, but had it not been posted in the chat, we wouldn't have even gotten that brought up. So it, I absolutely agree that this is very critical for us to support meals for our communities. And I'm also a little worried and would like information as to what other resources are out there for our families since this is a change in, in the delivery model, which is completely understandable as well. But I guess it's just confusing to me, we approved it for planning to come back and how it didn't get on the agenda for us to double check on. So it's just a procedural question, but I'm absolutely in favor of doing the work. So I, I went back to the team who was doing the work last week and I asked if we'd be ready and they said they weren't certain. And I did not want to post an agenda on for agenda for action without some surety. Kari, like any other board member can ask for an agenda item to be raised and included a course on the agenda. I would, I received the email just today, just moments ago actually when I inquired about the progress of the team. So it is a last minute piece of information. You're absolutely right. We seem to be faced with a lot of situations like this, this school year and at the end of the year with between the amount of, you know, the expectations for staff, their ability to pull information together, the changing guidance from the state of agency of education, questions that are difficult to get answered in a timely manner. So I, I apologized for not having an on the warrant agenda, but I do believe it would be helpful if we could have your feedback today. Yeah, let's, let's, let's do it then unless there's vehement objection from anyone on the basis of, of Floor's intervention just a moment ago. Do we have a motion then to approve the expenditure of up to $37,000 or whatever the amount was for, for meals in the summer? So whatever, okay, however the motions should be expressed, I don't want to mess it up. This is a budgetary, this is budget, you know, I don't want a 36 or whatever. What's the amount of money they were going to approve? The projected, the projected amount of money is $37,637 and Lori has stated that that would likely be less if we had fewer participation. This past week we had 100 fewer meals, which we think is a result of child care opening and people returning to work, but we don't know for certain what our summer requirements will be. So I would make a motion that we make an emergency approval of $37,000. What was the rest of the total, Deborah? $637,637 to fund the, and then I look to Deborah or Floor to finish the rest of it. Summer meal program. Summer meal program. Including delivery. Including delivery. I'll second that. Beautiful, thank you both. Any further discussion? If not, no, Kari, please. Yeah. This is for the month of July, still? Yes. Can you tell me what the wording was, Stephen, around the emergency part of it, just so I get the motion right? Emergency approval. So I just wanted to delineate in the minutes for someone in the public that might question why we were spending money in a non-worn format, that it was an emergency decision that needed to be made, and we were comfortable making that decision. So emergency approval of the $37,000, and then the rest of the. Okay, thanks. Sorry, now I'm going to second it. I'm losing it here, sorry. Oh, Floor. Never mind. Never mind. Good. Fantastic. So if you're ready to go to a vote, all in favor, please click yes. And if you're opposed, click no. Thank you, everyone. Kari, especially for having made sure that we didn't overlook this, and Floor and Stephen for getting us through that procedural tangle. Good. Now, so executive session. Do we have a motion to go into executive session? So moved. Chris moves, and Lindy, I saw your hand up. Would you be willing to second? Okay. Chris moves, Lindy seconds. All in favor of going into executive session with Deborah, Jen, and Kelly invited in, please click yes and no if you're opposed. And I only see yeses. Okay. What that means is that, Lisa, you don't have to hang out from this point on. We'll take care of things ourselves. And everybody else, thank you very much for being with us this evening. And we'll look forward to next time. Take good care in the meantime. Keith, would you be able to share hosting or put me in charge of the meeting before you hang up? And I think you can probably conclude as well. Is that possible? I can do that. Did you weren't going to use a breakout room? You were just going to continue the meeting as an executive session? No, I think we can go with the breakout room because Orca will be here. But I just meant you don't need to stay is what I meant to say. Okay. Yes, it's possible technically to do that. I can do that. I believe maybe what I should do is open the breakout room because you're all added into it already. And then I'll Debra, I would say before you go into the breakout room, let me make you the host. Okay. And then I can hop off. And if you need any assistance after that, just let me know I'll have my phone. Oh, that's kind of you. Thank you so much, Keith. Okay. Here we go.