 Anything you want to say to ski today? Yes tonight. Yeah, hope it doesn't rain all of this nice snow. All right, approve the minutes of January 21st. I would take a motion. I'll make a motion. Can't operate my pages. Don't mind me. Do you need one? I have one. I have one. Thank you. I guess I'll take it. So I don't have to move on my phone. No, not that I know. Seeing none. Should I give you a minute? I'm good. You're good. Hearing none. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. Town meeting preparation. I don't know. Is this live show going? Yeah. Other than that, thinking about what you talked about last month. You're just going to do like a little update on. Right. Yeah. So we're meeting on that Saturday, right? Yes. The only addition that I had and just thinking of what we just talked about is that maybe we should make a word of community and our work on trauma and how the staff, you know, that's a great opportunity for them to know and be informed and ask questions. What better time than getting them there? That work is going to come out in the town report. So I'd be happy to speak to it or answer any questions if they come up. So they'll have something they will have read by then on the work. So it's always worth actually saying something. Yeah, so we could make it like part of our little cheat sheet or whatever. Yeah. So this live show, a few words from you and the work that is being done. Sure. I think it would be really great for them to know how many teachers are involved in that. Exactly. There's actually a wait list. Yeah. I didn't say anything in the big meeting, but I just want to say again how grateful I am that you guys are doing that work. It's really important work. Yeah. The punishment paradigm and to something more constructive is really. So I had a question about that as well. Or not a question, because I love the work, but how do you balance the effects that outbursts have on the other kids versus the needs of that child to remain in the classroom? Yeah, that's a very, very tricky one, because if that's having an impact, like that could be traumatizing everyone in that classroom. And that's something, it's great that you're here. That's something we talk about, struggle with all the time. And I think we always have to be cognizant of it, but then there's also sometimes a classroom where there's more sensitive kids that have an impact is teaching a lot of empathy towards that student. And it's also knowing when to remove that student. Like when, you know, there's times when we need to have empathy, and then there's times when we just can't impact everyone's learning. Well, then you have to have empathy for the larger group. Exactly. Right. It's tricky. Yeah. So I think one of the things that we've been seeing a lot of day of knowing was the fact that a lot of that outbursts and disruptions are public. So you can have class-wide conversations. You know, if a student has to leave the teacher can sit down with that class and say, wow, that just happened. How's everyone feeling? Do you have any questions? So it's not a private thing to have each one of us. And I always encourage teachers to process with kids, if and when we have to leave, you know, a student has to leave. And then if parents bring up individual concerns with kids that are really affected by things, always mean that then their child, try to figure out why, share as much information as they can, you know, concentrate on those to try to reassure that student. So just to be clear, you guys know I'm around quite often, and I completely appreciate how you guys are handling, how you guys handle these situations. And it just, I've been thinking about it quite a bit, because I, you know, like, we've had interactions where I know a student was struggling and you came in and didn't remove him, because we've got, you know, he'd kind of, the student had kind of settled a little bit on his own or with help. And I just wanted you guys to know that I do appreciate it, but it just made me think about how do you balance that? It's tricky and it's always case by case in moment by moment, but I think what Michael was talking about, that's been a huge mind shift for us, because in the past we always wanted to protect that student or protect the class, and it's like unmentionable, right? You know, just don't talk about it, but everybody sees it and knows it. And we even had to have a conversation with a sixth grade student this year who had an outburst to say, so we have to talk to the class about this. And the student was really upset, and we said it wasn't a secret, they all saw what he did. In order to build and repair relationships, we have to acknowledge it and talk about it and get it. So it has been a huge mind shift for us. There's no empathy piece as well. You know, there's a student, you know, the student this last week that the mother said was really upset. I mean, he wasn't upset because of the child's behavior. He was upset because he wanted what could he do to help that child act like that. That's amazing. So it was like almost a full 360 on why that student was upset, which is amazing. I think our kids do an incredible job with empathizing with the kids of all different situations in our school. And I think building that as opposed to shushing out and thinking about it and as they grow with those kids and understand that they have some issues and they're empathetic and don't trigger them. You see that sometimes on kids with push buttons, kids push buttons. I think the other thing is just communicating with families if your child is being impacted. Talk to us. Let us know we had that actually happen in a classroom this week where the teacher and a side of parents talked about their little young student who was really struggling and starting to develop his own behavior years. Just because he was so confused by what he was seeing and couldn't process it. So we went and known otherwise if the parent hadn't talked to us. So just keeping those lines of communication open. Let the teacher know. Call one of us. Because we don't always know the impact. Even the adults don't always quite know the best way to handle it after the fact after an episode happens. There's a big blowout. You see Michael hearing the student down the hall. It can be upsetting and if we don't know that someone's impacted we can't help them. But it's been great work. We were jokingly telling Kat to go up because she's been so involved in this for so long and with her counselor background. And for most of us it's new learning. It's thinking differently about how we've always done things which is exciting. And we're seeing impacts on teachers in just the way that they're totally shifting the way they respond to it. Different behaviors, yeah. It's good. Anything else for town meeting? I'll have everything set for you for Saturday. You'll need the mic. Are you going to do, are you doing that? So much. I don't know. I don't think we do. So it'll be just the mic. I guess that's a little bit of a question. We can do it without presenting a budget. Yeah. We could still show where we put in the money and just make sure that we're keeping the pies where we want to keep showing that most of the money is going to the instructional pie and everywhere else. So it'll be a smaller version of your presentation just as the information. I think that's going to be the tricky part. So you are recommending something. Yeah, absolutely. We've recommended a budget. So it may be a good idea to do that. Yeah. All right, so I'll... A small version of your usual version. Right. And if there's anything you need, just let me know. I guess just when the slideshow is... All set. Is Lori working on it or are you working on it? I'm only doing the amazing things that have happened on the slideshow. Beautiful. Not the... I can ask Lori what... I don't know what's happening with all of that. I'll ask Lori. And I'll try and turn that around fast. In the middle of February already. Okay. Anything else on Act 46? Sorry, town meeting. It was like Monday. It's fine to move us. Right. Okay, that's going to move us to Act 46 now. Okay, everybody good? Yes. I think we should be prepared for answering some hard questions. That day. Especially knowing that Berlin and Palestine are now putting their budgets to vote. Yep. So just having a quick cheat sheet. We are putting that article in the signpost with 80 that it was a collaboration. I was a little afraid of putting something out after the last article because it might be all not right. By the time it completely changed by the time it comes out. When does it come out? It will come out right before town meeting. Right before town meeting. So it's not right. Just the last week of February is when it comes out. So it might be completely out of date. But I think after this February 19th meeting that would happen or not happen on Tuesday and see how it wouldn't happen now. Yeah. Unless something drastic happens on Friday which would be surprising. Yeah, so Friday is the hearing. The first hearing. But I can't imagine that he's going to do something that the judge will do something right away. So it just still has to. It's forced. But it still leaves us all in limbo. Which is the part I'm not so... Well, I mean we are and we aren't. There's this is my editorial a little bit. But I think there's a lot more sense of being in limbo than we actually are. I mean the reality is that from an operational perspective at this point nothing has changed. There's a whole bunch of things that are happening in the background and I but none of them have turned into something that anybody has to do anything about. Yet. But we don't have a date to vote in our agreement. We don't have certainly anything. Our school is not putting a budget to vote so we're assuming the process is going... I feel very much... So my perspective and I think a lot of the community maybe was confused as well by the article that said it was the postponement. Like to me it wasn't super clear that it still had to go through the senate and you know what I mean? It seemed like... It was not presented. It missed important details. Details, exactly. So I think that's why there's a feeling of limbo to me. So if that passed the senate we would be in the category B which means that it would give us a whole extra year agreed. But unless and until that happens so that we can waste another year getting nowhere and talking about all the ways that we can't work together. It doesn't require anything of this board. I guess... Just to oversimplify this board has no change of course. Just like we've had no change of course with the exception of the delay of the organizational meeting and the election of the new board. That's the only sort of operational thing. And from this board the budget our process as a board hasn't changed from a budget perspective. Well it kind of has because we normally present a budget for the voters on town meeting day. We did not do that. If anything changes we then have to then present the budget to the town. But what I'm saying is that this my expectation has been right along that we as a board would not present a budget on town meeting day and that was a conversation that we had last month. And nothing has come things moving and I can acknowledge that but nothing has solidified to the point where that course of action has changed. It's sort of like what Bill was saying. If and when something changes then we will address that. And personally for me unless and until something changes just moving ahead because trying to anticipate all of the possible eventualities is crazy making and I just have no desire to do it. I don't think it's constructive it just further muddies the water. There's enough confusion out there I think what we can do is be very clear about what our process is and not be reactionary to the various machinations that are going on out there unless and until we have to. Who's going to say as long as we have the ability to respond when asked questions about those potential? Yeah I mean this stuff is out there and it's happening. We don't know what if anything they will mean for this board. I wonder if after Friday and or Tuesday if something were to change it would make sense to call another meeting before that Saturday so you could talk about that. Yeah I mean that's a good idea. If something does change to be prepared so that you don't get there feeling like. The one thing that we can do via email is set up a meeting. If news comes down that we need to adjust and get our ducks in a row then by all means at that point we would meet. So do we know if Lindy wants to run for the board? I assume so but I don't. Well I was just going to offer to help speed the signatures and do what I did with Stephen and just take the forms to the school. Does she need to go through that? Yeah but we can't have the forms after the 19th. I thought you said tonight that you could have them earlier than that. I thought I just because I just asked Rosie and she said I can't have them until then. I thought Bill said we could have them before because it's such a tight line. You don't date the right petition. No you're right. So you can't give the petition for you yet however I can give you one and be in collecting signatures. Right. Is it for you and Lindy? We don't know about Lindy for sure. Well I think the conversation was two meetings ago. She wanted it. If we are able to pass our agreement our hope is that there will be people not too. But not this year. So I'll email her if you want me to get your signatures at the school. You are a rock star. You are a rock star. I'm going to school. But now that I know I think I'm going to stop at Rosie's tomorrow and try to do some tomorrow. I want you. Yeah that's a good idea. That's what I was thinking. I'll be there most of the afternoon. I'll hang out with you tomorrow. I'll be there. We'll be in unwarranted meetings. So get one for Lindy too and I'll email her and mention it. We'll make sure to sit at different tables. We're not boring. No I said that they passed something and that we can be there at the same time. Laura's coming to the third serving so maybe you can come to the first. That's the one. I'm the first here. But I should get there early though because the first two are the most attended. I can get the back to back to have we talked about act 46 enough? Maybe. I guess I could ask one question. Do you guys feel about the deal? I talked to you about the delay or not delay as we are since I'm part of the VCA I'm like always sort of and I'm in the executive committee I end up having to give input and if you guys are feeling that well the senate is going to accept testimony on if they should delay or not delay so extend a year. Do not extend it. That's my vote. Just get it done. So you don't feel misrepresented. Right. Don't extend it. We've had three years to talk about all the ways that we can't make it work. Another year is not going to change anybody's position. Thank you. Okay. Administration. Everybody has read the administration report. Do you have anything to add? I don't have anything to add. I was a little like that. I was a little bit late tonight because we were so we are doing a 12-hour training on the math menu which is really just kind of like the readers and writers workshop model for math and that is going on at school right now from three to seven so I was trying to stay because I couldn't tonight. I don't know if there's any questions. I didn't have any. Any questions? I guess my only question was I guess this might be one of the last reports that we've seen like this but remember the other kind of report that you used to do too with the red and where things are do we get to see that? Again it was pretty much just That was based on the continuous improvement plan which is now one plan for the whole district so it's not So what I've tried to do is make the the bold the bold is our implementation plan so I kind of shifted because our CIP kind of shifted into the implementation plan so I try like comprehensive on the balance assessment system scoring and reporting that's kind of the framework but if you like the table format better I'm happy to do that it just doesn't our CIP doesn't look the same as it used to it was just easier to you know I like the narrative but it was just easier to see where where we are to asking questions but it was it was easy for me to do as well but because the CIP isn't quite so at the discrete level anymore it's broader it was I couldn't really say like by June this was going to happen thank you Best Goal Report so you'll notice there are some changes there's a whole lot of January updates I can walk through those Laura shared kind of a big picture with all of you so on that first page I'm not sure what page it is it's 19 18 actually no 19 sorry yes so is it helpful do you want me to just run through all of the January updates sure I don't think it'll take long but the interest income is just so I think what Bill and Lori do is do a projection of what end of year closing would look like based on where we are right now so that's just a projection based on the interest rates and spending that $17,545 the next one down Lori talked to tonight that's the the shared benefits like she gave the example of Callis and Eastmont player share staff Sam Nishkin is a good example of that so Sam her FGE's is higher at Eastmont player than Callis so we pay in Callis-Ram versus is it still or is it still higher at Eastmont player to hear more Callis has slightly less than us yeah the next one down reimbursement same thing um this was I think looking at WCSU cost in updating just where we're at for the WCSU budget the do you have mine may have been an older version I'm going to look at yours well those income reimbursements are the special ed reimbursements are ones for the local for the local special ed staff that went through the Eastmont player budget and the miscellaneous income reimbursements are changing there's other than just special ed from SU special ed staff but there are other little reimbursements there for their income primarily being yeah so special ed has its that's for the local the one above it's for special ed's special ed's to the speech language pathologist they've looked through so there was more reimbursement it was less expensive basically so you get some money back and then looking at the expense changes you'll see the salary and benefit update shared benefits so this is all from hiring Lori cleaned up from all of our new hires and who took benefits and who didn't and all of that so that's that update under the expense changes we had three I think three additional pre-K students that were budgeted for and that's like such a shot in the dark we never know who's going to take the reimbursement and who's not so that's the cost for that and then we had just a whole bunch of work done to the building in the fall painting repairs maintenance and those are the changes this might seem like a silly question two years in but I'm going to ask it anyways so that first section revenue changes why does the projected budget go up there but but down on a line below so you'll see some of those go together so are you looking at the third one up from the bottom and the revenue and the slancing of shared benefits the voter approval versus the projected adjusted budget okay so what's happening is you'll see there's about $20,000 we have more revenue than we think okay so we're expecting that projected is to be higher and that's okay because that's income okay the expense side we can't change we actually went down in expense right so okay so okay got it so what we're actually spending is the next and the difference will give you what the current total the difference between the two the sum of the two right right right right right right right right right right so are budgeting basically an expense budget correct and then what we're looking at here is the revenue side is we've got revenue from the state we get revenue from the local right we get reimbursements all of the bits and pieces so ideally that actual should be the same or higher because it's money coming in the other side should be the same or lower Felicia and I do anything beyond the voter budget we always try to keep the term 4% I came in because your negotiation was not that couldn't be here tonight so don't want the details I wouldn't mind getting them we're going to get them once we get the printed copy let's do that let's be we have considered it as a board okay so we don't have a board order there isn't one for east on third I'm just thinking about we're going to go into executive session we can let these folks go and not make you come back you want to finish everything with that yeah exactly well we're there do you want to ask bill about while he's here so we had a brief conversation about slides and so we're doing the presentation that we do every year and then we sort of wandered off into should we do the slides like we normally do and it seems like we should even though we're not giving a budget or giving a budget to the voters for approval we can still talk about the process and I think we've probably set that expectation maybe not completely intentionally but we've set that expectation that we would do that so I've made a decision with Lord and you probably do the most of any board yourself preparing your own slides almost there in my office yeah here it is just do the narration yeah Lori's done that for the last year or two so she does not have the time right now okay that's fine so then I will I will get last year's presentation and I'll dust it off and then I'll ask you for the CLA and all that stuff might be to that and the budget numbers and I mean we can and simplify like we said I think the most important thing and since in the theme yes I'll make sure that the pie chart that shows where the money goes is there so don't like kill yourself that's what I'm trying to say just like simplify it no problem okay okay so I will make sure that I make myself a calendar item to spend a couple hours on that if we can do that next week that's not happening this week is that the next week either I'm just trying not to have it I will be working during vacation but I'm trying not to do that no I mean normally I try to get the narration done early in vacation so that it's there and out there so and I will make sure that I I do we have a time on Saturday? 9 o'clock or 9.30 or not on Tuesday or Saturday Saturday now you're making me doubt I'm always there at 8.30 9 is close enough 9 okay okay so yeah can I ask you a question because we said that you know we might get some questions that day about act 46 anyway so how does Berlin and Kallas come to the decision and voting on their budget? they they had a discussion about it they decided to do it okay okay no sex had a discussion you said I just didn't know if there was anything or yeah okay I think that brings us to the last piece which is to do an executive session to talk about contract negotiations which I will move us into at 7.38 I would take a motion to move us to executive session I'll make a motion to move us to second it hi thank you I don't think I'm just trying to write I can't like run it all at the same time man yeah okay