 adjustments to the agenda. Now, I have one question, Bruce. So I am on the sick bank committee. I think I'm the only board member on there. And I had something to come to me today. Does that go to executive session or do you want to talk about that separately, that request? I think we should go into non-public for that. Okay, but I don't know. I haven't had a request for a sick bank committee since I've been the sick bank committee person. So I didn't know where we talked about it. Yeah. Okay. I'm on that committee too, apparently. I didn't know I was. Okay, so maybe we should have a long time or you get the committee together. If it's a grievance matter, then you, you know, you, um, it's not a really might talk about that. And I don't think you have a place in it yet. Okay. So Bruce, can you get, I think you're on that committee too, aren't you, Bruce? Well, yeah, it hasn't been very active. So am I adding an executive, just an executive session to discuss? No, no, I think Sarah's right. I think we need to have, it's something that's been long for a long time. So we need to take care of it quickly, Bruce. Okay. Yep. All right. So I'm hearing that there are no adjustments to the agenda. Okay. Moving forward, if everyone could just mute and then unmute if you wish to chime in, just so we reduce the amount of background noise in this call, that would be helpful. So I'm not seeing any public, but do we have any public for public comment? Right? I'm just scrolling down through my list. We have no public for public comment at this time. I'm also taking notes just so you're aware. Okay. I heard from Ray that he's agreed that there's no public in the comment area. So we got some minutes from April 27th and May 26th. Does anyone want to discuss those minutes or? I do. Okay. Great. I just, I put an email out to the board at least, I believe. I'm trying to pull them up now. So anyway, there's the comment, there's the notes on it that I think are inappropriate to be in it about our conversation around the FBUD grievance on reduction enforced. And I don't believe that it was appropriate to bring that to the to the SU board or executive board because it was at the superintendent level and that's where it stays until it goes to the board, which in this case would not be the SU board, but would be the FBUD board. Now, the reality is that we talked about it. And you know what? If I was a smart union member, I'd be making sure I read all the minutes because I think they have a grounds there for making for losing for the SU or the FBUD to lose the grievance on that. I think it's been resolved. So it might be a matter of a moot matter, but I think we need to take some. We need to be more cognizant of what we're doing and what we talk about. And where it's at, it's not our place to talk about grievances when it's at the superintendent or the principal level. Okay. And it's not our, it's not our, our place to talk about FBUD or Straford or any other grievance when it's at when it's a single district one. And I think we need to be careful of that because we lose, we risk hurting ourselves if we do that. So I don't know if we can take it out of the minutes, but boy, if I was Uniserv, I'd really like to know it existed in the minutes. I tell you that much. Bruce, you're muted. I agree with you that it ought to be taken out of the minutes. I, it is at the arbitration stage now. It's gone past the board and is at the final stage and that'll be heard in October, I believe. And I don't want that in the minutes either. So I mean, but that's just the status of, of where we are. I don't know how you take out of the minutes something that was talked about. I don't know. We have minutes until you approve them. Still, it was discussed in an open session or, you know, and it was inappropriate. Just want to remind everybody that we're recording right now. Right. So regardless of what the minutes reflect, we do also have a recording. I don't, you know, my, my bringing it up is, is not to change the minutes because the minutes, I think, you know, it was discussed. I think we have to be really cognizant of what we're doing from now on. Totally inappropriate to have done that. We are standing and agree with our standing being the district in this case. So what I put in the minutes is that we need to be mindful of points of order when discussing grievances and the concern. I'm going to leave it right there. If that makes sense to everybody. Yep. Okay. Thank you. The Stacey's message, she'll be on in a minute or two. Yes. Thank you. All right. So are there any motions related to these minutes or any discussion of the May 26th full board minutes? I make a motion to accept or to approve both sets of minutes. I will second that. All right. All in favor of approving the minutes of April 26th, I'm sorry, April 27th and May 26th, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Okay. So they unanimously pass. All right. So that brings us to the superintendent's report. Yeah, I don't have a whole lot. I will be on the call tomorrow, the information meeting for our SUD to help in any way I can and also on Thursday to help the G-HUD board, Grandville and Hancock board with their information session. I will be in the office tomorrow and Wednesday and from there as needed, I guess, I was in today as well. So I'm trying to finish out anything that needs to be signed or whatever. I know it's not around for the next day or two. First, F-FUD has a meeting on Wednesday and we might want to use the office depending on who's going to be at that meeting. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'll be there if you want me to be. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah, F-FUD's. It's our regular meeting, but I'm sure we're going to talk a lot about budget. We can get down to this on the agenda later on, but we have three people we want to talk about for restorative classroom hires and Deb's on to be able to fill in some of the gaps around these three people. One of them is a current employee, but their role is expanding and the other two are new employees. So we want to talk about the three of them for the restorative program somewhere down on the agenda. And I guess that's all for me. Everybody else, Arizona, Ray's on, Mary Ellen's on and they all have reports. So now Stacy's here. Thank you. Well, sorry, it's so late. We got delayed at the bike track. So whoever's next on the agenda, unless you've got questions for me. All right. Thank you, Bruce. Business managers up next. So we in the business office are working on year end reconciliations for FY 20, and we got our audit checklist for FY 20 the other day and are starting to gather all the documentation to get that up. They're going to be doing it a little bit different this year. They're providing us with a secure drop box to upload all of our documents into rather than them coming to our office and doing the pre-audit process. So we're working to get all of that done. We're finishing up May bank reconciliations. And then once June closes out, we'll get those usually mid July. So those are a lot of projects. Jane's been working to get special education reconciled and the grants reconciled. We still have the submissions we need to do for the month of June for the grant reimbursement. And then we found out on I can't remember exactly what day it was last week. But we received our FY 19 special education additional reimbursement from the state finally after many, many months of waiting for it. It was a little short of what we had anticipated was to come in. We're still trying to collect about $22,723 from them. We're going back and forth on that. So I'm hoping that they will stand behind it and give us that reimbursement as well. So now that we have that number, we can actually now finalize the FY 19 audit for the SQ. So I've been corresponding back and forth with Bill today and Rose and I and Jane on getting that wrapped up. So hopefully we'll see that final draft in the next day or so, so I can get that out to everybody. We have many reports that are due in the next couple of weeks for food service. So I am trying to get my head around what I need to do for. These are our renewal submissions for food service and trying to plan how we're going to do it with both in-person and then if we have to go back to summer meals. So trying to get an understanding and working with the food service program at the state to try and understand that and how we need to best objectively anticipate for that. And I think that's all I can think about. Think about the moment. Any questions? Oh, and I have all my budget books finally done for all the meetings that are coming out. Rochester Stockbridge did their own. And then I did with the boards, FBUD, G-HUD and Straffords. So we finalized G-HUD and that went out to all of their voters last week. So that was a big project that's now off our plates. So hopefully we have those two informational meetings this week and then they both go to vote, I believe, on the 30th. So and then obviously we talked about FBUD earlier. So back to the drawing board on the FBUD budget. I sent out the tan docs today to the Rudd board chair and clerk. I think I sent it to you. If not, no, I sent it to your treasurer. Sorry, so it's coming to you tomorrow because she needed to sign it first and Sharon, but Don's not here tonight. And then Straford, I'm going to readjust your tan now that you have an approved budget and get a new cash flow out to your treasurer to review and sign off on and get a new submission from the bank because now I don't have to just be stuck at the 87 percent of your prior year budget now that your budget passed. So that's on my agenda to do tomorrow. And then I think that's it now. Sorry. All right. Thank you. I just like to thank Tara for all the work that she I mean, I think those report the Straford report that went out looked really, really good. I know it was a team effort, but she wanted to pull it all together and it looked really, really good and really helpful at the informational meeting for us. I think that just how you know the way you presented things was really reassuring to people and I really appreciate it. Thanks. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you, Stacy. Oh, thank you, Kathy. All right. Thank you. That brings us to Deb's report. Hello. So this is what's going on before next week with COVID-19. We finally have gotten some financial direction from the state as to how to look at expenses and usage. Fortunately, since March 13th, when we closed, we have kept a lot of had people keep a lot of documentation and what I'm doing this week is going through it all. Separating out, you know, there were there were a few paras that worked exclusively on food service. And so we have some things to be written off to COVID-19. For the most part, things things look good. We're also doing para assignments and switching kids that are transferring schools, switching caseload. So it should be all set for when Don comes in next week. Don and I have met consistently up until this past week when he's been on vacation and I'm not going anywhere. So if he has questions, he knows me. He'll call I'm trying to think. Oh, in terms of do you want me to talk about the personnel now in the restructuring of we're changing the structure of the restorative classroom a little bit. Bill Ketterer is only going to be with us one day a week instead of three days a week. And in that one day a week, what he's going to do is training and work with the staff around problem solving and kind of be there. And it's not necessarily going to be like Fridays, it'd be on site. It will be the trainings are every Friday afternoon, but then he will be on site during the week when he's needed. He'll try to schedule it divided between the three programs. So in order for him to do that, we are going to work, have Michelle Pringle, who was the team leader for the RC3. She is going to be the director of the RC program. So she will be going between all three programs and I've worked it out with Jamie and Dawn. She'll receive a stipend for doing that because she will not be an administrator, but she will basically we always basically be the problem solver and working with teams when she's come up. So it's an additional amount of time for her and she's currently working. And that's the reason for the stipend. Yes. How many more hours, Deb, did you say there was? Basically, we're looking at between five, on average, five to seven more hours a week, over 38 weeks. And basically, the stipend comes out to somewhere around ten thousand dollars for one hundred and ninety two. I think it's two hundred and ten hours or two hundred and fifteen hours. And what we're going to do is track it and see if that's realistic or not. What what we're doing is taking it's no new money. So we're taking the money that we would have spent for Bill's time and we're just staying well with budget yet. The duty. Can I say something about stipend positions in conversations I've had with Jamie around stipend positions just in the F, but stipend positions are not where he's wanted to go. So he wants the stipend position is what you're saying. He's more wanted to look at salaries or things like that, then have all these stipend positions, because we have a lot of them around the S.U. And I'm leery of adding another one without having input. Jamie was involved from the get go in this whole thing. And I met with him last week. Bruce and I met with him and went over these three positions. We had and so basically, Michelle, you know, Michelle is on a T contract. So and she's not an administrator. So in order to compensate her for the extra time, the only option is to do a stipend. She's more than willing to become an administrator eventually. And so the other option was to have her do a provisional for an administrator. But that's not really we don't we don't really feel we need another administrator. So that's kind of where we're at. But, you know, Jamie's been involved. And if they want to change it July 1st, they certainly can. You know, but he he and Don have they have the job descriptions. They they've been aware of this whole thing. And it was just last week that Bruce and I met with Jamie over this. Yeah, we would move forward if he wasn't interested in doing this. The Debs had a lot of conversations with him. I met to try to figure out salaries for these other two candidates. And we did talk about what we were talking about with Michelle at that meeting. So I'm not aware that he's opposed to any of these that we're talking about. And I know I know he's opposed to stipend positions. And the other two I knew were we're going to be on here, but I didn't know we were going to be adding a stipend position. And I I'm not confident that. I guess I'd like to have a conversation with him about that because maybe wires are crossed. And is there any reason we can't do if you're saying July 1, we can change it. But if we offer somebody money, we can't change it July 1 really. Well, and I'm also coming from that right at this very moment that I. We need to save money. Is this in the budget already or is it new money? No, it's in the budget already. So we've already stipend already. No, no, Bill Ketter is going from three days down to one day. So what. What does Bill Ketter? I mean, what do we pay him for a day? I guess I'm wondering roughly. He has a independent contract depending on the work. So he and I, Lisa, I can't remember off the top of my head, but an hourly rate depending on what he's doing. There's three different. Three different. So he doesn't charge one rate for everything he does. Right. Because some of it's more specialized than other. And because he was there a lot, we couldn't afford it if we were going to just pay one rate. And the other had two resignations. Now, my mind is blanking on. On Alex, do you remember his last name, Bruce Alex? I remember his last name. He was the team leader in the RC one and he's going back to graduate school. So he honored that. Thank you, Alex Frauner. So he resigned and we were transferring on from the RC two to the RC one is team leader. And that does not change salary. It's just changing his title. And he has worked, had worked, worked with us for the past two years. And he had worked at DCF for many years, very confident. And he's going to be the team leader at RC. What we're doing is we need a team leader at RC three to replace Michelle. And so we have a potential candidate. He has not given a definite yes yet. His name is Christopher Smith. And he has a lot of experience in New York State. He worked at the new school in Montpelier. He worked in Middlebury and he's worked at in Bristol at Monday. And he's going to he has a master's in social work. He's going to be the team leader for RC three. And then we had to replace Sean, who was going to the RC one. And so we have a classroom counselor for the RC two and her name is Nara Moore. And she actually had law degree, but she had worked at DCF as kind of the liaison between schools and DCF. And she is coming in as a classroom counselor. So we're not going to force you on the we're going to ask you to approve the Michelle Pringle stipend. If you're not comfortable with it, the other two are just straight hires to replace people we've lost. And Nara Moore and Chris Smith. We have Devin, Don have interviewed them. I don't know about Don, but I know Deb has interviewed them. Yeah, Don was not able to interview. He's seen the resumes. He's he's seen he's talked to Bill and I. He was finishing up his job so he could not interview when we interviewed them. And Jamie's seen the resumes and talk to Bruce and I about all three of them. So I support the two new hires that I'd like to hold off and and see what Jamie's thoughts are on the stipend and maybe I'm off. But it's a totally different conversation about stipends than him and I had. So I don't think it hurts to wait until our next meeting with him. I think the new hires are one thing I think adding. I mean, I realize that it's an offset with what's his name going down three days, but one day from three days. But having just had our budget passed and being in a position if it hadn't passed, what the hell were we going to do and where were we going to cut? It seemed really hard to me to have us gone spending more money at the SU when the local district is feeling a big pinch. It's actually I'll just mention to all of you and remind all of you, this program saves you a ton of money in not having to place kids out at the district hundreds of thousands of dollars and all of you have used it at one point or another. So. And I'm not suggesting we don't do it. I just would like other feedback and I do not want I do not want to add more things right now because if this is a place that, you know, if I just. Is it is it possible because I also want to be sensitive to the fact that this person may want to start some work over the summer and some planning? So is it possible for us to come back next week and have a special meeting for just this one purpose? I mean, my evenings are not fully booked these days. So as far as I'm concerned, I'd like to work with some expediency if we are not going to approve this tonight. I'm surprised you're volunteering that you're not full. Can I just try it then? About ten thousand dollars. Can I can I make a comment, please? I want to be very clear that this does not add more money to the special ed budget. It actually saves money because the cost of Bill not working for us for two days is far more than a stipend. The other option just so you can have it in your head to think about it is to make it a administrative position. And and Jamie, Don and I spoke at the beginning of this, when we were talking about it, this was when he first started several months ago that he strongly felt that we do not need to be adding another administrative position. I'm on the same page there with that. So that's the other thing to consider. I mean, it is a supervisory role, but it's not a full out administrative role. So it's somewhere in the middle. And, you know, Jamie might have some great ideas. So, you know, I'm fine with with waiting and and you guys can figure it out. I just wouldn't want to wait too long. That's all. Yeah, Stacey, Carl, I haven't heard from either of you about this. I'm trying to remember I was looking back in notes. I was trying to remember what we've done in the past when we've had schools that have had a lead teacher in a role. And I want to say it was a stipend, but I also want to say that this was back when it was Windsor Northwest. And John Paul Jasek was the superintendent. And he had a lot of there. There were a lot of people that received stipend. So the stipends were kind of his philosophy of how to add some responsibility to lead teachers or to principals to compensate them for doing things at the SU level without having to put on put on put on staff at the level. So I'm curious if there if we have any history with with with things like like a lead teacher role or how it's handled because, you know, I understand that we want to be lean. I understand that we're trying to have responsibilities cross roles. But we're trying not to not to add new bodies or create responsibilities for other people to justify hiring them. But how what's another model besides the stipend? Carl, the only one that I'm aware of is an administrator. And I know that lead teachers were used for many, many years in lots of buildings, not just in the old Windsor Northwest, but in other SUs to add responsibilities to a teacher that, you know, was not called an administrator. Because what it what it means is that they don't have evaluation responsibilities. Yeah, I'm only aware of one other stipend did position that we have going right now. And it was a person who we were paying a stipend in order to try to pull all the MTSS people around the SU together so that they could plan together for student issues and student needs. And that's Shane Oaks. But he's he's not paid by the SU other than that stipend. The rest of his pay comes from his work in the Piper Valley Unified District. As an MTSS B person, he's been very, very valuable. He's looked up to by everybody else, guidance counselors and other behavioral people. So that's the only other one I know about. Or I don't know, Taylor, do you know of any? I lost my internet and just barely logged back in. So I have no idea what you've been discussing. If you want to bring me quickly up to speed, are you aware of any other stipend positions other than the Shane Oaks position for special ed? For anything. We pay a lot of stipends for mentor stipends and stipends for when people do special tasks. There's past stipends. Yeah, I know about the mentor stipends and that's been going on for years. Yeah, the big thing is that those are all kind of one time stipends or short short term. You know, your leaders training initiative, you're going to lead this curriculum shift, you're going to do something like that. So we're going to give you as the teacher that's organizing the move to bridge his math. We're going to give you a couple grand over the summer to do the work. And I remember our contract used to have language if it doesn't any more. But talked about how superintendent could force a stipend down someone's throat. Someone couldn't, you know, the stipend was offered. It had to be offered by, you know, via seniority, you know, so that whichever teacher was going to redo the math curriculum. The senior teachers got the shot at getting the stipend first. So I know I can certainly see there's a lot of, you know, there used to be a lot of of issues around it. I think that if, you know, I'm willing to fit in as long as it's after the 30th, I'd like to, you know, I'm willing to fit in a quick special meeting to address it once we've gotten, you know, I understand where where Kathy's coming from once we've gotten some feedback from Jamie and Clarity, you know, make sure that the way that we want to be going forward. Fine. And also having budgets passed, hopefully. I feel like if we can get back to that. Yeah. Yes, Stacey, there is that. So thank you. You have to get after there. I can give us your exciting news. I am so grateful that ours passed back in March. I can't tell you how grateful I am. I just thought our budget goes down. My reelection is going to go down, too. So either I'll have a budget and and things will be good or, you know, I'll be reading about this in the Herald. Oh, no. What you just said doesn't make Kathy feel any better. I'm so sorry. What does your shirt have? So what's your shirt? Good. Listen to mother. You're a mother. Nice. Well, everybody should have listened to their mother and voted yes and my budget is on the top. All right. So it it sounds like there will not be a motion to move forward with stipend, the stipend position right now, but I'm hearing that maybe people are open to accepting those two new hires, Chris Smith and Nara Moore. I'll make a motion to hire Chris Smith and Mara Moore. Did I say that right? Is it Mara or Nara? Any or OK, I'll make that motion. Is there a second? OK, Carl. All right. All in favor say aye. Aye. OK, any opposed? Any abstentions? All right. And that was unanimously approved. Those two new hires for the restorative classroom. All right. Do you have anything more for us, Deb? I do not. All right. Thank you. You're welcome. And that brings us to our tech directors report. Hello, everybody. So working this week to start putting devices back out in students' hands for one planet tutoring, extended school year services and eventually advanced placement. I thought it was important to bring the devices back so that we know how many we get back, what condition they're in, and a certain set of devices would have a warranty that would be ending June 30th. So if a device comes back and needs service, we physically need it to evaluate it to send it out for repair. I'm going to say six weeks ago, I'm not exactly sure at one of the Thursday meetings I mentioned an issue with the National School Lunch Program reporting. And so the deadline for that report verification report was last Friday. It came to me the Thursday before that. And so the difference between what we reported back in November and what actually should have been reported. That's now much more accurate. And I don't deal with the grant side, but Cynthia told me the state had adjusted it as she expected. And those are the only two things I have at the moment. So that report was was completed and went as expected is what I should. After misquote, Cynthia. OK. All right. OK, as I think what she said, let me look. OK. And when you when you corralled back, all your devices was the breakage rate around where you thought it was, or we have a bunch of surprises or were we pleasantly surprised how good the kids were with their gear? I'll be honest with you, Carl. I don't have that answer yet, maybe in a week. How many are there, right? How many devices total? Yeah, I don't have that answer yet, either. I know that they were. Let's say 60 were looking to get back that I know of. And so that's a series of emails and phone call follow-ups. Thank you. So Cynthia is not on the call, correct? Correct. OK, and that would be our grant coordinator update. I feel like Ray shared a little bit of Cynthia's information. I can share that all the grants have been signed off on and we're up to date. They're all in and I do have to go in and tweak the tobacco grant. But other than that, everything else is been approved or is pending approval. And it's on the state's end, not ours. So. OK, all right. Thank you. And Mary Ellen, that brings us to your report. OK, so I've been working with the teachers in elementary. Amy Toth is going to be teaching a summer class about how to prepare for the first six weeks of school for the elementary and both literacy and math across the SU. We have the Tarrant Institute has offered to do a similar course with the middle level grades I've offered to do the course with the high school teachers. So that's what we have going right now to help them prepare and plan for the beginning of the school year. That's an optional course, but they would be able to get graduate credit for it if they continued completed all the action projects. And I'm also part of the covid task force group for the instruction. And we're coming up with recommendations about what do we think is needed to help open the school in the fall and the lines of instruction. So we are coming up with recommendations. We've already met twice. We've got two more meetings to go to go through to get that all finalized for the task force. So as soon as that comes out, we'll let you know. We've been also working on invoices, getting them all in for the business office as they finish up this fiscal year. And through the SU, we have several contracts that are across schools. And I usually look at them and renegotiate them or negotiate them with the contractor. So I've been in the process of doing that and correcting anything that I noticed that might be an error from last year and bringing that to the attention of the business office. So that's what I've been working on. Sounds like a lot. OK, thank you. Any questions for Mary Ellen? All right. Moving forward, negotiations update. I contacted Dina on Friday and we talked again today and I said, what am I to tell the board about what's going on? And she said, tell them that we will have an answer by the end of the month, which is the next four or five days from the union. I don't it's on the union's end, not our end. So we have a response we need to make to we need to have a meeting to respond to the letter that we received from the support staff that has not happened yet. Well, so we've got to have that meeting. Yeah, and you probably should schedule that maybe at the same time you're going to consider anything else. Maybe, you know, the first couple of days of the new new fiscal year. Dina said that we'll have an answer by next Tuesday from everybody so so a week from tomorrow. They may be waiting until I'm gone in order to deal with Jamie. That might be possible and I'm not offended by that at all. I just know we received that letter and we hadn't called the meeting yet. Yeah. Has COVID been responsible for the breakdown? I think a big part of it. We were we were meeting pretty regularly and then COVID happened and it was we seemed to stop meeting and then going back together has been pretty hard. Would you say Bruce? Well, we we did have a meeting with the union to try to see if we could reconcile some things and at the end of the meeting, they said they'd get back to us and didn't. I think I think COVID has been difficult for them as well as us. I don't think they want to do this work over video conference. But I don't know what they're thinking. We then as a board, you decided to give us final offer for support staff. And then that's what we've been on the track. We gave proposals to both of the support staff and the and the professional staff. They came back with questions and responses in a timely way. And now we have to consider those. I'm not I'm not sure that we know completely where we are with the professional staff, but we do have a response from the support staff. So this the professional staff sent us sent us the one response and we responded to their one response, the group got together. And then the same similar letter came back from with different questions, came back from support staff and we we need to answer that letter. So that we basically just did one final offer. And I'm hoping that that can answer your question. Everything's been hard. Everything's been hard. The board's association doing negotiations training for board members. Yes, they do, they do. Because I know NEA does and I know NEA Vermont does. And I know that they're going to go to a NEA Vermont. Well, on any other year, other than this would go to a three to three day to a four day retreat where they'd get a, you know, just a one session for five days would be negotiations and how to do it. So they're coming in really quite prepared. And I mean, I think that you could see that they're preparedness from their initial bargaining, just in the way it was presented to you. I didn't go over to see what the content of it, but what it looked like. And I think that we're missing a, I'm not, I don't mean that I'm not pointing anything out, but it would, the school board's association, I think has a responsibility to us to teach people how to counter proposal and, you know, the process of negotiations, especially if you're into, you know, regular, you know, negotiations and not, you know, collaborative or whatever. Well, sir, I've done the training. I'm not sure I did it a few years ago. It wouldn't hurt to be a refresher. But I think it's something that the SU team, when they, when we decide on who those people are next year, should take it. It should be part of a requirement because it's just I was when I took the training. So and I think, did you take it, Carl? I know Don Shaw took it too. I'm pretty sure. So yeah, it's been about a year ago. That all happened a year and a half ago. Since then, we've had some turnover on that negotiation group. How long does I mean, what is it? Afternoon, an evening, a three day or what? It was an evening. And applied to get more if we wanted to. I think I know some of the folks went for more. But I think we've got a requirement. I think it's really important, you know, it's it's a. You know, they I mean, they get a lot. I mean, I know they get a lot of training. I know because I used to train them. You know, what it what what what they're trained in. And, you know, it's not an it's not an evening. It's not a three hour training. It's a five day whole day workshop that they go. So, you know. Not, I mean, I think we should have that for a future agenda item. I think we should go there and we should talk about it before we go into negotiations next fall or how do you do on that committee is also signing up to do the training. Well, I think it's a great idea. I didn't hear you, Lisa, what did you say? I said I noted that in the minutes that anyone who signs up to do negotiations should at least take that initial training. And I think the team can work together to, you know, and do some of their own thinking around, you know, what is this? What's our strategy? And, you know, so sort of block some time off about, you know, how do we want to do this? How do we want to be what, you know, what? Because I, you know, I mean, the note taking is really, really incredibly important. And it's what supports you if you get into fact finding and, you know, arbitration and fact finding. It's what you bring, the materials that you bring and what I've seen. And granted, I hope I haven't seen everything because I haven't seen a whole lot. It looks pretty pathetic on our side, I got to say. And that's, you know, that's that's a problem. Once we get further down, if we go to fact finding, we don't really have a whole lot to stand on from what I could say. Hopefully, I have not seen everything. I think you have not seen everything. I don't want to help in that in any capacity that I can. Thank you. Perfect. All right. Thank you all. Next up, we have policies. Everything's been put through. There's one in Rochester and Stockbridge that still needs to come. We put through eleven of them and we pulled back four of them that we didn't. Dina kind of felt we weren't ready to do what they've been they've been moved through. Anything additional to that will have to be something that Jamie does. I felt like I felt pretty good about getting them through all the boards as a as a package. They were warned in public and that's been done. So thanks for the negative or thanks for the policy committee for their hard work this winter doing that. It was kind of one of the things that covid didn't interrupt. Well, we're at least you know, destroyed. Thank you for staying on top of it and making sure that that got done because it was not particularly fun work, but it was important and I'm glad we got through it. No, it wasn't fun work. And I'm thankful to those of you on this call that were on the committee because couldn't have done it without you. Thank you. Um, how issues will be reorganizing after annual meetings is up next? I have no idea. That's that's going to have to be, you know, Jamie's responsibility because we're not going to get this finished until the 30th. And in F bud was were people reelected or did you have some turnover? Sorry, all of our people. So our our board members are in force. They've been elected. They were on the floor the night of the vote. So, OK, that's done. We clear the 30th. OK, great. Now, being you're doing Australian ballot, Carl, if. Do the elections hold, even if the budget doesn't pass? So like if you get elected as a board member, is that that part of it done? Or does how does that? Yes, each article stands on its own. I believe so. I am the only balloted board member from Stockbridge in pain. The incumbent from Rochester is the only outed candidate from Rochester. Now, as I understand it, writing candidate could theoretically trump that. But I tend to believe that. You know, we will have we will see the board after whether we've had to pass a budget or not, I believe we'll see the board on the 30th. Great. Good luck, Carl. Carl, is this the first time you've done elections by Australian ballot? It is. It is. We Stockbridge, in particular, has always been a big old school floor meeting kind of town, as a matter of fact. One of the biggest issues that the town actually got all worked up about was we originally, back when the tuition didn't come out till February, after we started having a may vote, because we couldn't, you know, when we're tuitioning seven to twelve, we can't have any idea what our budget's going to be till we know what the tuition is are going to be from the receiving town. And once that got once those tuition announcements got moved to January a few years back, our town immediately was like move the meeting till town meeting. So we we ended up moving it to in Stockbridge Town Meeting Day for a while, and then we couldn't have it in Town Meeting Day because of the issues after the Rochester Stockbridge merger and getting the unified budget built by whichever business manager it was back in the day. So we went back to we were back at a May meeting, but. OK, well, good luck, Stacy and Carl, with your votes. Thanks a lot. Not that I want to be the only one without a vote. I'm still rooting very hard for you. We can either have it, we can either have a toast or a commiserating drink afterward, if anyone would like. Thank you. Covid 19 team and projects. I'm not aware of that. I think that's Jamie's. I think it's the task force, right? Mary Ellen's been attending those meetings, so I don't know. Mary Ellen, I know you are. I'm on the task force and have been attending the meetings. I think that I'm going really. I think at least I'm on the health and safety subcommittee of it. And I think that we're coming up with some really good stuff that will be really helpful. So I'm we're not there yet. It will be I think the ninth or the 12th of July, something like that. Mid July is when we want to have the report already. But I'm on the I'm like you, sir. I'm on the social, emotional and transportation group. And we've come up with some really good stuff, I think. And I think Jamie's going to keep you updated on a regular basis. The first letter went out recently. And I think it's going to be every two weeks. You're going to get a notice on the updates of what's happening from that committee. And I think Karen is in on there and also Ray, too. I'm on the building committee and we are working toward getting some consistency throughout the supervisory union, potentially on some bulk buying options to see if we can get a better response for some of the PPE and the cleaning products that we're going to need. And the last project that I was working on was reaching out to one of our extra teachers to try and get an idea of what it would take to move classroom to classroom rather than having students move the art room, the music room, what would they need for equipment, parts, that type of stuff to try and get some ideas and set up some guidelines around that. So that's what I'm working on. We also are working on setting up outside classroom and eating arrangements. So having some guidance around that as well. And that's all I can think of. It's great. All right. Anything else about that? OK, I feel like we've already discussed the restorative classroom new hires. Yep. So that is bringing us rapidly to the close of our meetings meeting our next meetings, I believe, is Monday, July 13th. I have not compared that against the email that I received from that we all received from Jamie about moving forward. But I suspect that's correct. Are there a few more meetings? What's that? That will be the reorg meeting on it. Yes. OK. So July 13th will be the reorganization meeting. And that's a part of our meeting, too. Right. I don't know if Jamie had mentioned having an executive board meeting sooner than that, so that may be coming just to give you a heads up. You mentioned it with him. Great. OK, so I'll look forward to hearing more about that. Would anyone like to make a motion to adjourn? Yes, make a motion to adjourn. That's seconded. Who made that first motion? Is that you, Kathy? Yes. All right. Thank you, Lisa, way to move it forward. Ruth, you'll set something up for the sixth bank committee. Yes. OK, thank you. Kathy, are you reading emails that came in just a little while ago on that? Yes.