 That's called a meeting to order. Are we recording? Yes, I see it there. 531 welcome everybody happy new year to everybody. Hopefully everyone had a little time to rest. It's nice to see everybody's face here today. I wanted to start quickly just by acknowledging that letter that I sent you all I don't see that we have a lot of community members here today but I just want the staff to know that, you know, we, you know, we understand how stressful everything is right now, and that we really appreciate everything that they are doing to keep our schools open our markets needs and to keep everybody engaged and just wanted to say that out loud before we start the meeting. And now let's just move. I don't see any public here and I know that Jodi is here to support the warning. Yeah, so let's move right into the into the agenda. Yeah, no guests. Any agenda revisions. Okay, okay. Yeah, so you all got this afternoon, just a few minutes ago, the, the warning, I'm going to share it on. Do you want me to share on the screen, or are you okay with just having it. If you could share it on the screen, just because I can't access it. I'm going to, I'm going to do that. Sorry, just taking me a minute there. Share screen. Can you see it? I'm just going to share the desktop because so it's, can you see it. I'm going to reduce you guys so that you can see that. Okay. So basically, this is the warning you guys are familiar with the warning similar to what what we did for our district. I'm going to give you a few minutes to read it. The, the only thing that I didn't change here is we'll insert a date for everybody to stop by and sign because everybody will need to sign this and our budget warning to and the other warning that we approved, we're going to need everybody's signature so we will have it available for everybody to stop by the office and and sign it. So I'll insert this date tomorrow. Because I believe that's when we will be submitting it to central office, not tonight. And that's any questions. Can I stop sharing or Thank you floor. Article one on this version. Does that also need to say Washington central union or sorry, can't hear. Yeah, it does I can't remember what it was when floor shared that I know that she received that from me late yesterday because I hadn't put together everything that needed to be put together so I apologize for that. And then it looks like she filled it in with all of the information so she probably missed that one. I missed that one completely missed that one. So yeah, and I even revised that again this afternoon before send it to you so I will, I'm revising that as we speak right now. I can't see that. So I will insert the date of tomorrow in that and tomorrow just for the day that it will be received a central office. And then I'm going to change that in article one thank you. I'm changing it right now so I can't see you. Any other questions. Sorry, I just realized I can't see I would just add thank you for letting me be here and for taking this on that this is just what we need. We need each of our school districts are sending school districts to approve so that it can, the language can be on the ballot for March 1, across all 18 sending school towns. And we can find out if we'll create a new central Vermont career center district or not. And in the packet, we had that little flyer for the 10 reasons before we were just using that as a warning but we needed a formal or formal warning. So, any other discussion any other questions otherwise I'll be looking for a motion. Scott is that any question or is that your hand from the previous. You're frozen, I think it's new. Just, I'm sorry, I'm so nitpicking, but in article two in the first line on the ensuing term commencing, I believe, March 2, 2022 with a C in place of the D. We get to their first line of article two. I'm there. Okay. Come in. Yeah, I didn't put that in that came from. Okay, so are you okay with that, Jodi? Yeah, I'll try to update it on everyone else is. Okay. Yeah, and I'll send you this. Thank you. Okay. For. Yeah, sorry, I'd like to move. I'm trying to type at the same time and I don't see everybody. Okay. I'd like to move that we, I'd like to move that we approve the warning with the, with the changes noted by Scott. Okay, an excellent copy editor. It turns out. Thank you. Second. Second by Diane. Was that the, yeah. Okay. Any other discussion. Seeing none. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Okay. So the motion carries any opposed. Should have done that before, but I heard all eyes. Okay. Now let's move into the personnel. And we have some teachers. And 4.1. Lindy, are you prepared to, to do the new. Oh, no. You just came. Can I have something else? Yeah, I moved to approve the new teacher nomination for Jenna Howard as a callous elementary school literate literacy interventionist. Second. Second. Yeah. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed. Hearing none. The motion carries. And then we have one, one resignation. I will move to accept the resignation of Erica Moore. You 32 school social worker. Thank you. Have a second. Carrie. All right. Carrie seconds. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. And that's all we had for, for that. And I'm going to give it now to Jen to update us in big vacancies. Sure. We just reviewed the vacancies today and we're getting closer overall. We have a para educator position and the lead maintenance position that Berlin still. They're still looking for a 10 hour para educator position at East Montpelier. And the student services support person at Romney. We have the driver's ed position remains open. I want to say a little bit more about that in a few minutes at you 32. There's a vacancy for a food service worker and an administrative assistant where we're making things work, but we're still looking. We're looking for a long term sub for the library. And now the social worker position at you 32. And across the district. We have a para educator for early childhood special education. And now we're still looking for the Berlin special educator. That's the position where we were filling it, but we'd like to move to an instructional coach position. We are also looking for a driver for student transportation and site coordinator for some schools that through community connections. And if you will remember a few months ago in the fall, we came to you with this dilemma and we have a memorandum of understanding. We had an agreement that the memorandum of understanding for us to work with outside agencies before and as we're still actively seeking somebody. Both parties could mutually agree to extend that memorandum of understanding for the second semester. And the current MOU expires on January 14. So we're aware of it at the Labor Management Committee meeting and I've been working directly with Kate McCann primarily to just get the wording right for extending that memorandum of understanding into second semester. And I think it's really important for us in there also that should we need to, we'll meet in April and figure out if we're good for the summer and we've met everybody's needs, or if we aren't, and we continue to actively recruit. So those are the currently conceived. Thank you, Jen. So that is, that is all we had and then we're going to jump into this other meeting with the with Berlin. Yeah, for today. So, Jonas. Yeah, sorry just Jen one quick question about the community letter that just went out. Am I reading you correct that the districts from the testing on Monday the district's positivity rate is roughly comparable to the 12.6% seen in the state. Yeah, you are. And I will be prepared in my community letter that goes out each Thursday to provide some numbers for you. A little bit more concretely, I don't have those numbers in front of me, but I will make sure to to get them and include them but yeah Maria had checked in. Of course that was for Maria not you my apologies. Yeah, no worries she checked in with the Department of Health because we have that question given our current case count. Thanks for that question. Do you want me to step in Jonas. I do have those numbers in my head. Yeah, please. I don't want to hold anybody up but as a parent I would love to hear that. Sure, so I can tell you that we as a district had 85 cases from August to December from the start of school until December 22. And we have had 72 cases since December 22, which is in a two week period. So it's a pretty significant change. And the comparison to that 12.6 is that based on surveillance testing that was conducted on Monday that we now have results for. I haven't actually had time today to put that number together I was working from the fact that with the cases that we're aware of. And so there's like they're slightly different metrics actually I was working with if we have a 72 cases in two weeks. So we're looking to get a month, our average has been 20 a month. So we're looking at what 150 cases in a month. We also know that we have about 40 to 50 kids out in the district who currently can't find a testing location that are sick. So we're assuming a good bit of those are also positive so if you get us a little bit closer up to 200 that ends up being at 10 times our normal rate of positivity, and I can get Jen the percentages you asked for for. That's great and you know, after after the round of testing tomorrow as well you know seeing where that positivity rate goes is going to be super important for my family's decision making. Thank you for that and thank you guys for what you're doing. I didn't mean to open a can worms. We have a few minutes so hold on a minute Chris so Lindy with first. I'm super simple but the chat's disabled so I couldn't send it to you for Rosie Lecaire's name is misspelled on that. And so I can text Jody and let her know to change it, but I think you were making some change for us. I'm going to make all the changes and send it to Jody we just got it. It literally yes. Yeah, it's been quite the process. Yeah, I'll make that. Yeah, I'll make that change right now too. Thank you. Next was Ursula and then a quick question on the COVID positive numbers and I was curious if those included positive cases self reported from the testing that was sent out like Department of Health gave out testing kits to all the school age kids for those who wanted it. And is that where those numbers are coming from. Those numbers are coming from self self reported from the family. And our results from testing over the last three days at school, some have been rapid tests some have been PCRs. Thanks. Sorry I was muted. Thank you. Well, since you brought up the spelling of the names. Just the first letter of my first and last name or capitalized not the other letters. And then also, I'm curious, have there been positive cases in all the schools in the district. All but one. Doty, sorry, it's not a secret. Doty doesn't have any cases. I'm sorry. Mysterious. Okay. No, we have that in. Yeah, I appreciate all the information and I do think it's critical. What I would caution us though is from making some decisions. And I worry that some of some of that data that was being shared that we might be up to 200 because some kids are out sick. And that, so I think it is critical for us to have the information about what cases are out there. But I think we need to be very black and white and what we present and only go on the data that we have right in front of us. And most of us apply what we think to that, but I think we need to be cautious about our interpretation of some of that. And I don't mean any of that in a disrespectful way. I appreciate all that you are doing. I just wanted to put a little word of caution out there. I heard you. Thank you. Thank you now Chris. Sorry, thank you. Thanks for the information. So we have 72 positive cases that we know about based on self reporting testing. And what, what was the basis of saying that basically would double that just to get a month because it's a two week two week and then you want to month calculation. Right. So between the start of school and December 22 essentially four months, we had close to we had 85 cases. Right. So if we just had the it's the beginning of the Omicron spread, we just had 72 cases in 14 days. So if we project an average that gives me the numbers that I was looking at. Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. Seeing no other hands up. I think everybody can have a little break before we jump into the next into the next meeting. Any questions Jill I see that you on muted. Do you have a question. Just at 615 is the next one right just making sure I'm tracking. Yeah, okay. Next one and no, no decisions in, you know, sorry about the warning. I just got it. I didn't I should have reviewed everything. So I will send it out and I might email you. We'll get a final view. Okay. Can we just take it or do we have to sign, we have to sign. In that email, I sent you the link it's in your calendar, but I also send the link because we're not running it is. It's kind of birthing that is running it. So the link is there. Okay. Thank you very much. Everybody for being here. Bye. See you soon.