 She'll go you ready We have person in red and they were gonna be online Yeah, yeah, and are they online yet? Not yet. Okay. Okay. Um, let's give them a minute or two Lara's gotta go to address your personal search right to get the student presentation moving. Oh, God Do you have a live stream coming from the theater No, I mean like right now to your computer. Can you see what they're doing? No That would be amazing, but there's an option to live stream the show if you can't go in person. Oh, that's cool So what shows it 12th night? Oh, I Shakespeare, but it's set in the 1980s on the college campus case you couldn't tell from the earrings Oh Let's get started because it's 632 It's called the order six or two meeting of the Muffler Roxbury Board of School Directors and For sort of business public comment I Don't have the screen of people who might be watching in Libby or Anna. So if you're good I'm gonna be I can tell you if somebody's got the hand raised right now. You're good. Good. Okay, and no one in the room either So that's what we're gonna do the consent agenda after the student presentation just mix that up a little because Alara has to is Let's scoot it out of dress rehearsals and let's do back at some point soon. So Let's do that and we do have one hand raised for public comment Okay Well, you just let that person go if you could introduce yourself that would be great Sure. Hi everybody. My name is Amanda Garce Parent of two children I am here just to I read the report the superintendent's report and Read about the literacy bill. I just want to encourage this school board to really stand and ensure that there will be That we will not as a district be against this bill Maybe there are concerns about the 40 hours that is totally understandable But there is a lot of great components in that bill that will impact all of our students in the state and in our school as you know, there's a lot of concern part of parents around the literacy and dyslexia in our district there's a lot of things happening that We are concerned about in terms of how we are assessing our kids needs and Are our assistant are the literacy that they're receiving and we have been really happy for the commitment that the district took for the two-year training that the elementary school teachers are taking and We still see a lot of inequities. There's a lot of parents that are paying out of pocket for tutoring outside the district There's a lot of parents that cannot afford that and it still is a huge huge component of Inequities in this in this district So I really hope that If you are going to testify against that bill that there is a lot more information that you listen to the vpr news Cast that came out with represent a senator gulick talking about the bill Those other literacy educators in the state and there's a lot of information out there And I really encourage all of you to be informed and really be on the right side of history for this. Thank you Thank you, Amanda Is that it anyone else That's it. Okay. Thank you Laura and Miriam pick away Okay. Hi We just have a little student presentation about what's been happening in the past few weeks at MHS So keep everyone updated and like talk about some really fun positive stuff. That's happening in this school I look like this because I'm in the middle of dress rehearsal for our show 12th night By William Shakespeare set on a college campus in the 1980s. That's why I have like a lot of blush on Yeah, so we can go to the next slide That's a little I try to make it fancy, but you know It looks very official. I could just share what on my computer. Well, are you look gorgeous? First of all, I love the makeup. Most people don't dress up for board meetings I can't seem to advance the script like I can't seem to advance it when I'm yeah pulling it up But hold keep going. I'll keep trying Okay, so We had a few events in the past week We had our spring choral concert March 19th, which is really fun. Miriam performed. She was really great Then we had The day after this first ever event at our school called soul and soup for the soul Where our cooking class made soup for the entire school and as a whole school We sat in the gym and we ate soup and we had a community meal And it was so great because you just saw everyone Mingling and talking to each other and it was one of those events where you were like, wow This is a really great school. Like I don't know anywhere else that does this And then on March 27th, there was a student organized walkout for in support of ending the occupation in Palestine Where students marched to the state house and they gave speeches In support of Palestine then this past Saturday, we had our annual spring fling We hosted four other schools and we had over 500 students dancing and sweating and having fun and Things like that On Monday spoken word poet Steven Willis came to our school and he ran a few workshops with the English classes about how to construct like poems based on identity and He he made us fill out this like chart About like stuff about like race and gender and ethnicity and then we wrote five metaphors on what it meant to Exist as that identity in society and he was like five metaphors You just wrote a poem and that was really cool And he shared some of his poetry from his book which like chronicles his life story as a black man growing up in Chicago Our science department was doing some pretty cool stuff. Our physics class was doing an egg drop in the hallway, I Don't think it was that messy because they're really good physics students thing happened our biology class did a fingerprinting lab which kind of mimics like The technology they use in like forensics labs when they take fingerprints of like evidence and how to like track DNA and things like that And then in our AP biology class, which I'm in We did a lab where we used Plasmids to make bacteria glow in the dark, which was pretty cool and Yeah, tomorrow we open 12th night we've been working on this show since January and We were sold out, but then we added more seats So you can buy a ticket to begin person or you can buy a link to the live stream If you can't make it in person and it's really cool And those are my student updates of what has happened at this school. Oh wait, I promise Okay, so I was in the class that made the soup. So I promised my teacher. I would like talk about this We had leftover soup and So we packaged that up and we donated 40 quarts of soup to another way So what we were able to have share our soup with our school community, but also our outside community. Yeah And that's it Yeah The play is at seven and then on Saturday, there's a there's a two o'clock matinee and a 7 p.m. Right? Yeah, yeah, I wish we had a full house to hear all of that I Mean if you guys get done early, you might be able to peek your heads into the theater and see what we're working on Yeah, I'm gonna go and finish the show now. So thank you. Thank you, Lara. Thanks Miriam Great, so let's get back to the consent agenda for those who are tuning in No one's in the room the because that agenda is essentially items that are pretty routine in terms of just things you have to prove to keep business moving like minutes from former meetings and Co-curricular contracts we actually are ratifying one of our Union contracts, which is a big deal, but we usually do it like it's that agenda So it just it saves time and moves things along and if anyone has a question about it We just pull it out and discuss it. I do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Do I have a second a second a discussion The AFS CME contract what employees is that cover? That is and let me make sure I get it right It's it's basically everyone who's not an IA or teacher who's in a cotton who's in a union support staff Technology our custodians those are the three main groups the registrars Okay, and it's like, you know, I took a quick look at the contract Is and it was pretty long like 40 something pages Is there anything that you feel like we should know that's changed since the last contract? No, we didn't we had some language changes this time around Nothing particularly significant Other than just very typical negotiations and language changes Okay, it was it was a long negotiations process But it resulted in a few major changes I have a follow-up to that do can you give us the highlights of what the salary? I'm just guessing salary increases over the years Yeah, so keep in mind that this is a very small group of employees. This is Around 15 to 20 employee like there's not many in this union And so we settled on 5% each of the next three years And just in case anybody's wanted 5% is what Christina had in our budget for next year for FY 25 That is what she budgeted for FY 25. So It's right in line with our budget. We don't have to change anything. That's good Yeah, the MRE SSA contract The working day starts at 730 and ends it I believe three. Is there a time frame for this group of folks? There's not a there are for custodians. There's specific shift times for custodians These jobs do have very specific job descriptions and them Most of them work from 8 to 4 some work from 7 to 3 some work from 730 to 330, you know, like they're it depends on the job But the the custodians are the only ones in the contract that have very specific hours because their shifts Is there Let's just hypothetically if the district were to sort of totally hypothetically were to Add a position that helped with transportation Would this be the union Group that it might fall into or would it have to be outside of the three unions that we work with right now? I Wouldn't know we'd have to design the job description Yeah, I doubt it would not fit under this unit probably Thanks Hi, thanks, can you all hear me? Yeah? Thanks Yeah, I just had a question about the superintendent's report would be in particular the legislation that sounds like it's moving through I think it was sent it to house in terms of the literacy education Modules, and I was just curious like around It's just details like the why the what I'm curious It's kind of the modules that they're recommended Recommending are these congruent with our current approach to literacy at MRPS, and I don't know nobody's seen them Nobody's seen them. Okay, and have has this been based on testimony from particular groups or individuals and just wondering in their process of kind of reviewing What they're considering are they going to be seeking feedback from literacy Specialists within the state or a superintendent's group or principals group. Lots of people have been testifying to the house around this I'm not sure where the 40 hours came from I really have no idea because it's not based on any kind of research whatsoever So I don't know where that number came from and I didn't follow who how they came up with that number That's just what's in the bill So but now the house ed will hear lots of testimony from lots of different people to including the superintendent's association and teachers in the NEA and the principals association and the Stern center and you know, that's that's just how these bills work So they'll hear plenty of plenty of testimony around this And so we don't know the nature of the modules are kind of the philosophy and whether or not it's sort of You know syncs with what we're already doing or if it's a departure from what we're doing We don't really have any content I don't I don't know what they're what are in them if people don't know they haven't been shared with the field Yeah, okay. All right. Thank you So christin, there's a um, there's a really good piece on vermont edition that I don't know if it answers all your questions and I didn't listen to the whole thing. So um So there's certainly a lot of information about what's being discussed out there. Um, and yeah, um, um Certainly a fan of vpr or vermont public. So um, You could you could watch I'd listen to that podcast Okay, thank you Now it's it's a it was yesterday maybe aired. So now you can listen to it on podcast, but yeah It was aired live. I think during the the tuesday afternoon show Any further discussion about the consent agenda Just being a new guy question, but what are co-curricular contracts? I didn't see a link to them or they're like they're coaches Coaches or advisors for clubs or something like that They were one of the attachments doing it. Okay. Yeah, they're not they're not in the um public board packet because they're confidential until we Approved them or whatever in the consent agenda So you wouldn't find them online in the board packet, but they are attached to the email that board members get And I think they're even confidential actually maybe even afterward because it's a person and what they're getting paid and they're not They're not really an employee of the district. Yeah new guy question. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, and they're Very small sums of money Yeah, they rival you might say the stipend of a school board member I have one other question. Libby you referenced the blog that the administrators are putting out How would people sign up for that if they wanted to get alerts for that blog? You wouldn't you wouldn't get alerts for that. That's a that's an internal document that's sent out We're putting a pdf in the board packet Was there one in this or are you gonna start doing that? I didn't see one should it should have gone in the board packet Oh, we should that was supposed to go in the board packet. I apologize Okay, we'll make sure that Anna gets the we got one went out today. So we'll make sure that it went That the board superintendent report probably didn't make much sense without it. I'm sorry I remembered that you had other kinds of Communications of that nature and I thought I was signed up for them at one point and that's why I was a little confused So now this makes a little more sense now the board I'm sorry about that. The pdf should have gone into the board packet. I did see it today. I read through most of it today I don't know when exactly it appeared, but it is available in now Good, thank you Anna attached in a follow-up Could be But they'll they'll now go in the board packet just as a right They'll be a pdf They won't be because they have live links, but the links are for teachers to fill things out things like that So like that's not appropriate what I wanted to show I think it's good communication and good information from our central office administrators and it's just Good, I think for the public and for the board to see the information that's going out the messaging that's going out Yeah, agreed. Okay. Thanks I'll look again Any more discussion on the consent agenda I'm glad we did a large presentation first. Yeah, right All is in favor. Aye. Any opposed consent agenda passes So now we're gonna do committee assignments. I believe So what we thought we'd do with these is have the current chairs to the extent that there's there with us I think I think everyone except Emma and Scott or I can do a little just do an overview of the committee And then, you know, these are open for complete Reassignment if you want a different committee, you can have it a committee if you know I think the only person who's not on a committee is is tim, but um, you know, definitely shift around if you're Um, if you are looking for a new challenge, um, or Uh, looking to to get into a different committee definitely Let us know. I mean, I do want to say that You know, this is probably true like a lot of committees have a lot of ongoing work. Um So it would be nice to have some continuity on the committee. So it's not a complete reset uh, but, um Yeah, but but committee seats are completely open for reshuffle A important committee is going to be negotiations because we have two two contracts um And in not the most flush of financial times so um Those those could take sometimes to be on the committee, but they're also super super important Uh, and I think having keeping four people on the negotiations committee is good because then we can split two and two um um But yeah, that is one of the most important committees and also one of the most time consuming committees and Sometimes not the most fun Uh, so I don't know who wants to start. Um Who's the current chair of the finance committee? Is it? Brett You want to give an overview? finance committee is uh Probably one of the less demanding committees. It's there's a quarterly report. We review the quarterly report um Summarize that committee meeting um on a quarterly basis for the school board You know, we there's a little bit more of a dive into the budget and how things are going um Opportunity for questions and learning if you're new to the board It's a great opportunity for kind of getting an understanding of kind of how things how things work and The way that the budget functions um That's the story with the finance committee Any questions somebody else is that Accurate is unless anyone else It's pretty much it any questions about the finance committee Brett Uh Unless you want to do it scot. I can do policy So you okay, uh, so the policy committee not surprisingly Helps with our policies, uh, essentially we We make sure our policies are current There are policies already changing based on Law and kind of recommended practice the vspa Usually does a good job of letting us know when policies need to be Changed and then oftentimes will give us a model policy to work from and and We You know oftentimes oftentimes change it, you know, just to make sure it reflects what works for our district in terms of values and goals Uh, sometimes we have to you know, either work with Pietro the district's lawyer at least be cognizant Of legal changes because we are not at liberty with some policies to do whatever we want because sometimes are mandated by law and um They essentially have to ensure that we are compliant with the law um and they range from You know for one they're they're what? Guides are decision-making because we are a you know a kind of policy focused board But they range from everything to uh You know from our policies about alcohol and substance use in buildings to firearms to Uh, you know how we conduct ourselves as a board So they're pretty extensive. It's I would say it's a medium to high workload committee We've got you know kind of several policies right now that we're noodling on we've got a few that I think we need to get moving It's not a bad thing to have a bit of a legal background because sometimes that can help you know when you're You know what what what the guardrails are and what you can do when they use that little s squiggly thing. Yeah, exactly Uh, so that's that's a policy committee anything anything to add scott I think you know that yeah Uh questions about the policy committee Equity christian you're all right. I believe that's mia Yeah, okay She's okay. Yeah. Yeah, okay Um, but we we have we're working on Uh interdependent leadership on the equity committee. So we all we all work together as a as a team I'm going to read from our draft charge to give us the the um Uh basis of what the equity committee is about we function to actualize commitments of the board in our Diversity equity and inclusion policy. That's policy f 22 Namely, uh take concrete action to provide a barrier-free safe and supportive learning environment for all our students The equity committee supports the board to identify and dismantle systemic obstacles that place limits on academic achievement and access to opportunities by mrps learners based on race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation Religious affiliation mental and physical ability financial resources and family structure um, so that is What we've drafted as far as a charge goes and to be perfectly honest I think the equity committee as we have gotten underway has tried in different ways to figure how to actualize that and um, I think there are things that we've done that are very helpful and I think we're still sort of finding our way about what it means to um Lead the board or support the board in meeting the goals of policy of our dei policy Just a couple of examples of what we've done We created an equity tool that mostly the policy committee uses um to kind of run The decisions around policy through uh an equity lens. We also for the last three years I think have um Uh conducted the climate survey of how uh what it's like to be working in our schools um, and we Supported the or we worked on the on behalf of the board to find and hire the consultant who is um doing the equity audit um, so those are a few things that we've done to like I said try and find our way um through that in um executing on this charge One new idea that we have um that um is certainly related to this and in how um accessibility and communication relate to equity is that um, we've been talking for a while about having a committee of the board that works on communication Um, and as you can see from the list in the board packet, we already have many committees So one idea of the equity committee is that we could take on some of the initial work to figure out what communication and engagement with our communities look like and um then set in place some structures that all committees could follow Or the board follows because we don't really have much in place right now So that's an idea if you're interested in that the equity committee might be the place for you Oh, and one other thing we will be getting the report from about the equity audit Quite likely at the next board meeting. They're still putting the finishing touches on it as well as the presentation and um after that, I'm sure there will be other things that the equity committee will want to um Be focused on it'll just be a matter of Um, how to best use our time I love the idea of the communications Thank you for thinking of that sure Yeah, I was going to bring up whether we should form a communications committee Um That report you're talking about we don't have it yet We have the draft. Yeah, there's a niggling going on. Yeah cleaning it up and stuff What's the idea behind like what's the What's the headline of it? We I mean not not result but what's the We hired the firm to do an audit of the whole district in terms of how are we doing essentially at providing an equitable education to all of our students And so the report will highlight how we are doing Yeah So the next one is That's what it's you christen facilities and energy Thanks, Jim So facilities and energy committee is About three years young And kind of it started at a time when there was this sort of this confluence of various different facilities You know issues coming up or deliberations coming up in combination with we were hearing a lot from the community in Montpelier in particular about Our goals the city You know established and been aiming for and a desire to see some kind of matching congruency Supporting those goals. So um, yeah, so about three years ago. I think when I initially or the facilities and energy committee was Was born and since then and we kind of our initial Um Our initial effort was to really get into our buildings as a committee and to understand them to make this crap or the ues cafeteria or Yeah, you know the town hall at rdf, you know that we had a good sense of what our facilities Are are made of um, so it's really kind of having a familiarity with our facilities and our building inventory such that um, you know when they're coming up as you know issues of Conversation um that we can kind of understand them and represent them And speak to them, uh, you know to the board to give you all a better sense of What that looks like And I would say in the last Couple of years the big push has been around Net zero and this committee came up with a resolution that the board signed off on in establishing a a net zero goal to match that of of the city of montpelier and um We started to make the steps of creating an ad hoc committee that would help to advise the board and um, and kind of prioritizing and figuring out how do we actually Zero a lot of that Hold because we've been on this kind of micro focus with budget things over the last six months um But that was has been a big um focus of our attention. We we work really closely with andrew la rosa our facilities director for the district And he is just consistently giving us updates on kind of projects and needs and things coming up andrew produces a really inclusive and Manual facilities report. So we're kind of the first group that received that And He's back on that Cutting it out a little. I don't know if it's your mic or something because it doesn't seem like it's your connection You just your volume keeps going and then back to normal Interesting. It's always something um Well, I don't know what to say about that Okay, because I'm on my computer. So I guess I'll keep trying it. You give me like a thumbs up or thumbs down if that's good Okay, and so Yeah, so we work really closely with andrew la rosa our facilities director and and kind of reviewing that report and getting a better understanding of it and getting into the details um we tend to meet monthly and That's uh about it anybody else out in the crowd. Oh, and then of course we also have the um Facility strategic planning process that is underway that was initiated in December and we are waiting to hear a kind of draft um report from the you know from the vendor that's been conducting that for the district so Turns out we actually have a lot going on Um, so if you're if that's a feeling and you're interested, uh, that's what we're up to Yeah, awesome. Thank you christin. Yeah, no and uh Yeah, now as you mentioned with that study coming out and uh Yeah facilities is interesting and the net zero stop is going to be really interesting too. So um, that is an exciting committee to be on um Superintendent evaluation you want to Sorry about it. Yeah, sure. We um conduct the annual evaluation of the superintendent including the midpoint evaluation and um, we basically hold the process and then get it in front of the board and work with liby on it and work with uh to get input from um Members of liby's team we get input from members of the um from the board And we also try and bring in some of the top level takeaways from the climate survey to Put it all together and that happens once a year um, and Outside of that time, we don't the the superintendent committee doesn't really meet too much Unless there are things we want to do to update the process that we go through And then I will say putting my equity committee chair hat on for one second The equity committee was hoping to hand off the climate survey to the Evaluation committee given that it's a little bit more in their The container of evaluation overall um, and Because if the equity committee is going to be taking on the work of communication trying to get communication um an engagement A little bit more structured and going then um, that will be A lot of our focus and we don't and we don't think we would have the time For the climate survey and we do need to conduct the climate survey Not only because it's really good information for us to have and for the community to have about What is it like to um be working within our schools? But also because it is a contractual obligation that we have with our teachers So that is quite likely going to be some of the work of the eval the superintendent evaluation committee as well Which we might rebrand as just the evaluation committee Because ret has for a couple years now had the idea that we should also be doing a board assessment like looking at our own How we work together and giving ourselves our own evaluation. So we may just become an evaluation committee We'll see you can be a part of that if you want to be on the committee I also want to add that with a lot of work for me, uh, we Restructured the tool that we use to evaluate the superintendent. It's and that was a lot of work hats off to me, uh And it's a much better and more effective tool. So I just want to throw that out there Thanks, right, which means we also don't have to do that again this year Yeah, no, and it's one of I mean evaluating the superintendent knowing like turn into evaluation committees, but Evaluating the superintendent is probably one of the you know, like really kind of our three main tasks are passing a budget top three. Yeah evaluating the superintendent and um policy and Both policy and also lays on the community um And there was a period of in time when we did not have a superintendent evaluation committee and I I want to stress the importance of having the superintendent evaluation committee. It's it's um, it's not the most work-intensive committee, but I think it's one of the most important ones Because hiring and keeping a good superintendent is really probably the most effective thing a board can do district um So the future of rocksbury village school committee has been is starting to get up and um going, um I don't know christian orlyn if you want to talk about that and also do we have people that we need to nominate and appoint to that committee Um as part of this because I know that that's that's open and we've gotten some expressions of interest so Well, we met monday night for the first time I think it was monday sometime this week. It's all kind of blending together anyway, um and um, we selected people from each town teachers and parents and students to be on the committee um, and we have given ourselves the charge. I think of uh focusing on Initially the transition of kids to the schools here and um, or the elementary school here and then once that's kind of figured out and things are in place we'll move on to How do we want to support the community in using that building? Because that gives us the rest of the year to do that Um, and I think we'll be worth did Do you know christian? Did you get the all the results of the survey figured out? We're going to meet weekly. I think for the next month because there's so much to do And then we'll move Every other week or something. So we were figuring out when everybody could meet. I don't know when the Meeting is yeah, uh, I think I've heard from most folks But not everybody yet, but we're trying to land our standing committee Meeting day day and time, but in the meeting on monday Yeah, there was there was kind of universal feeling that this is going to require It's a real front-loading and that we would meet weekly over the kind of in the in the first month and then from there I'm trying to attempt to a more bi-weekly meeting schedule um So Yeah, but that is to be determined. Hopefully in the next, uh, I don't know 12 hours In terms of But it is, you know, it is great that we've been able to We've gotten Interest and we've been able to respond to that interest and we've been able to let folks know that they are Officially invited to join us on this committee and the intent to get the work going in earnest. Um quickly Yeah, no, excellent and thank you everyone for stepping up and and being on that committee, uh and we can Do we have a running list of the people who we want to appoint? Great question. Um, I do have a list. I would love to get feedback on what the process for appointment is. Um It have been informed that they're on the committee. So if there was something that we Want to board at large that is great to know. Um I mean, I think we have to formally nominate and appoint them. So that way it's it's a standing body And it's also one of those things where like obviously people, you know We we can we can add people as they go along and um Yeah, I think the only thing it Matters for things like quorum and any action, but otherwise it's obviously an open meeting Then you know, if we want to add people people drop off. Um, we can we can do that on a rolling basis Okay, so does there need to be a formal process? Should we? Yeah I mean we should we everyone that you've Told is on the committee. We should we should nominate and appoint And then, you know, if if we need to add folks we can we can do that later, but Pretty easy we can just put and we'll probably just do this all as a As one motion once we get um Yeah, everyone's preferences set we can and now we can just put those names in um, and you can either Tell me or you can just send me an email and I'll I'll read it off when we um, let me get to the nominate Okay, okay great. Um, yeah, and then on that is uh, it's myself and lin and ret and um that and uh Lynn and myself have Volunteered to be co-chairs of that committee. Awesome. Oh, thank you Yeah, excellent, then we'll just get the rest list. So the rest of the positions have all been um Have all been already appointed. We did those uh On what was it the six that we met? uh Tim you the you know, it's new to it. Do you need a refresher on on those positions or do you feel like you've The one we've already appointed we've appointed, um, you know scott stepped up uh to replace jill for the Okay, you got that. Okay, cool. Um So I don't have us to do this scott um, I I don't either I just want to um, I need to come off of something I've already had four board meetings this week. Um, and so um, I'd like to come off policy. Maybe sorry jim And that's what I want to come off of too So we got a clean slate Um, which doesn't do well. I think that committee in particular needs continuity or maybe doesn't I don't know But if we both leave and then Emma's already gone That leaves. I think somebody should be on it who has been on it for a bit distance Yeah, I I I may I may stay could I first suggestion the just for a bit that lindside gave me an idea that you could just do it for like Two or three months to to do a smooth handoff and then we could formally allow you to step down Instead of having it be like you're looking at the next year Oh, yeah No, I'm a member of all all the committees that you're currently at and we do we just for everyone We we we do shift committees in that stream if if people are feeling overloaded or Or whatever. Um, yeah, so Uh, You are not locked in stone Has anyone been on policy besides the two of us on this current board? I have Yeah, it is I'm interested in the policy committee You'd be able to go back. Yeah I mean, I can't be on every committee No, you can't You can try reds I don't recommend it though Well, and I think tim is interested in you're interested in finance, right? Yeah, would you want us would you want to step off of finance? Sure Okay, what what is the negotiation season? Is it august september? Yeah The teachers are gonna want to start early they already talked to me about that So I would imagine that the teachers get started right really in september. Maybe october The ias typically take a little bit longer to I wouldn't expect that like I usually have to push them to get started. So I'd expect them around november november ish hopefully And we oftentimes have PHRO help us with the teacher negotiation. Yeah teachers is actually less stressful than or less Work I'd say than the ias phro really leads the teachers. It's a different kind of work. I guess than the ias the eyes Aren't overly burdensome. They're just it's a different kind of work You just don't have More talking and conversation with the ias than phro leading the leading the way Yeah, you don't have the help of a highly skilled highly paid professional Right Which which can't which can't be useful um Do we have a word version of the community assignments or just the pdf? I just have I just have the pdf which I printed out and um I'm chicken scratching chicken scratching it And I bet you and it's on top of it. Yeah Yeah Yeah, and it is a does a great job of translating our chicken scratch into Not usable documents um Well, if it helps I'm on three committees and I like the ones I'm on and I'd like to stay there okay Done Unless you and she's like I'm not moving somewhere. Don't pull me on another committee. Yeah, that's what I just heard So scott would like to drop off of policy. Is there any other committees that you're That that's my preference. Um, and I think if I did that I would be at At a Yeah, when I after the first year on my career center, especially because I was the chair But even so there's some committees on that board as well for finance and facilities So I was sort of given the pass of not that being on negotiations is a pass But having only one other committee So I'm happy to take your spot on policy if that helps Oh Other than finance Tim where What what's grabbing your eyes? I you know, I figure I'm the new guy. So I'm also happy to take the last things hanging as a new guy, but I mean the things that I and policies interesting that Sort of evaluation committee sounds interesting as you were describing it. So Those are things And I'd be happy to do I guess what's the norm here two or three or what We're happy to do three because it seems like a couple of those are low I could Give you my spot on the evaluation committee And then I would stay with policy rvs and What's and then Yeah, that's a that's a heavy. That's a full load for you, right? Yeah. So so so you could take my spot on the evaluation committee Um, just a lesson things for me a tiny bit That works for anyone Yeah, finance is just quarterly meetings. Yeah, if he's on that and the others it's Do you want to do you want to put you on policy too and I can stay there for continuity and if If I can swing it time wise I'll stay and otherwise if you're getting up to speed I think that's maybe something I could step off Second I said to put you on policy. I can stand policy for continuity Um, you know red's going to bring a little continuity too and then We either keep it a four person committee or if I'm feeling overloaded I can step off and Um, you're a lawyer too so you can you can play that you can play that role if need be I'll I'll be the person in charge of this Yeah, there you go. I know exactly when to use it and are all the folks who currently are in the negotiation Is the committee happy with being on the negotiators committee and is there anyone who's just dying To be on the negotiations committee. That's when I actually would prefer to be on just because Work So that's so we can keep that as is um Is everyone who's on the finance committee with the except that they always switch to get Tim out for ret Um, just as anyone wanting to move on to the finance committee or wanting to move off of the finance committee I'm happy where I am You love finance committee I'm on the finance committee for the um career center too. So it's like the efficiency is upscale So let's say we have policy committee all set unless there's someone else who's interested in The policy committee and just to recap that's jim ret jill and tim on policy right now Jim is emeritus Yeah The equity committee, um, is there anyone who wants to step on or off of the equity committee right now? It's christin mia and the land and we can yeah, we can have four people We have five people on the committee. Yeah. Yeah, we have to swap out. Yeah We I thought that when I started there was a discussion around the optimum is three So that if two people are there you still have a quorum. They're still a quorum. Yeah, right And so with four if two people are there, it's not a quorum because it's not more than 50 percent, right Exactly. Although, I think that's just for I think you can still meet and do business just you can't take action You can't take formal action. Um, so it's not and there's not a lot of formal action It's taking the committee most takes the state of the board So it's not it's not a trend and I also think we try to like three to four is a sweet spot because if we try to I think we're all cognizant that There's only so many committees we can be on and only so many bodies Anyone wants to honor off the equity committee? It doesn't feel good to me that there are three women on the equity committee Um, and I also was told that I need to learn how to say no um, and so I'm like Can't tell you who told me I need to say no, but That's the one you might be able to guess. I mean it's good advice. Who gave it to you? It's good advice. Someone neared you So I'm contemplating Well, you can always join later I was just gonna say you you could assess how this new balance is working for you scott and if you're feeling like You've got a little more to give Just well we can appoint you to it and the meetings are open to the public. So you could visit Check it out Yeah So right now we're set with that scott may if time allows Want to move out of the committee at some point this year uh facilities and energy Right now it's christin lin and jake Anyone who is either interested in stepping on that committee or stepping off of the committee Awesome so we have Lunch times on the case Um, but we could move it to a time that's better for you probably Yeah, I feel like we've largely been meeting on either kind of early friday mornings Or or kind of lunch hour on fridays Yeah, I didn't hear who was that wanting to pop on Yeah Oh cool. Yeah um Yeah, we could try to figure out miriam. Um kind of a time that would work for you Yeah cool One quick question. Is the practice typically remote for committee meetings or they typically in Finance committee is often in person because it's like 5 30 immediately preceding a board meeting But There often is doesn't christina usually you kind of report. Yeah. Yeah, but that's the only one that I think And negotiations is generally in person. They're often before board leaves too. Yeah, or just at random times that oftentimes never end You're getting jaded Getting I'd had nine hour Nine hour negotiations meeting once. Yeah. Yeah um I'm brought next So it seems like we're do we the Current lineup of the facility energy committee is good with the addition of Miriam Great, uh, the net zero ad hoc committee is on there. Is that something we need to appoint folks to christin? Um, I believe we do um Yeah, I think I maybe need to have a conversation with you jim liby about just like 101 appointing um committee member or sorry community members to to I've already pointed members Have members We've had a formal process. However, that process has very much but um pause I just like having committee parties. So I don't acknowledge formalities um So Yeah, but anyhow, but that group has also not really formally assembled because at the time that we were finally getting momentum budget meteors hit so um Yes, but we have interested parties and we really need like a regrouping now that um We're starting to move forward Yeah, so it's it sounds like it may be in flux a little do you want to Kind of get the group that I think reconvening the facilities and energy committee would be kind of first step and then as a group You know kind of figuring it out from there. Um, you know, there's just been a lot of different Things that have occurred since this this group started So I think we need to start with a committee meeting and then you know and then go from there Listen, I also think that's a that's a good conversation and question to have with um The the people who are doing our facilities audit There's mention of net zero in the in the audit that you'll see so They will be excellent resources for the facilities and energy committee Great. Yeah, and I think that's kind of what we were trying to figure out It was just like the timing of Of that piece and when to get this ad hoc committee if there was kind of things that we would be waiting on For them So there was just a lot of you know a lot of different threads that felt like we needed to pull together So yeah, wait for the audit on that because they they do talk about that Okay, and do we okay. Yeah, and I'll I'll get in may Okay may. Yep. Thanks Okay, do we have the Four members appointed to that Not yet. Yeah Well, no like with the future with the Roxbury Um transition future of Roxbury village school committee like we Decided on the four board members and then like got the community and so I didn't know if we And I should know the answer because I was on the board went in Yeah, I'll claim like a little bit of amnesia Around I just like some lee visiting is is necessary Um on the composition of that. So I'll check in and circle back with folks And the facilities and energy committee just kind of fold that in temperate fold the net zero in temporarily Yeah, I mean that's where it lives, you know, you mean the ad hoc committee Lynn Yeah Yeah, so the ad hoc committee kind of lives within the the facilities and energy committee. That was a kind of first initiative of the Resolution that the board passed was to create this ad hoc committee to kind of support The implementation of the resolution and get feedback from a group of you know, just informed and experienced stakeholders In that realm So that's that's where it currently lives So it's really an ad hoc subcommittee of the facilities and then it Yes, that feels accurate. Got my nomenclature right here. Yeah Yeah, I think in terms of appointing that probably could be a consent agenda item You just once you get the list you could just send it to anna. She could put it in the packet For the net zero, yeah For both, right? Yeah for both The important thing is that it's in the public record exactly the point thing is that it happens Otherwise, it's not a committee It's just a group of people party. Yeah, it's just a party. It's just a party. No formalities I think I'm I don't know. I think I'd also just like to say just taking this all in Um I I don't know how I feel that the rvs Transition committee work is going to be a you know, a big a big lift and The come the facilities committee alongside with this ad hoc committee I feel like that sort of puts me on three committees and I may want to consider stepping down from the equity committee as much as I Really don't want to but I think just realistically. I don't think I can hold all four of those pieces So if there was somebody who is really hankering for a space on the equity committee, oh double thumbs down from the uh, okay Uh, why I support that I support you setting boundaries and saying no when you need to christen I don't know if you can see jim is looking at me right now But I also don't miss you Yes, thank you and it seems like maybe scott if this could be a segue for you Oh boy Oh, but you also Anyways, he's working on saying no as well. The camera's about here right now. Which is good. Well, why don't you if you've got anybody why don't we Um, why don't we move you from the equity committee and just leave it to for now with the idea that that scott is Is going to go wrestle with Just put me on the equity committee There you go It's possible in june I could join another committee But not right now Can we ask you to join another committee so you can say no to that so we can like At least say you said no Let's see what else is it oh finance he's um He's on policy finance and no you just took him off policy. He's not you're not That's right. Not you didn't just take him off. He's on finance rvs. Oh and and now yeah, oh, yeah Oh, and and he's the the rep to the center for right and is on the finance No, we don't need to we don't need to repeat your cv to you. Sorry. You you get low marks on saying no Oh boy, okay It's might even be being watched All right So do you have names you want a list for the rvs transition committee I'm sorry one more time Do you have names that you want a list for the rvs transition committee? So we're going to just put those in and and approve them as part of the slate Yep, I would just need to scroll to another Give me a moment. Okay And so and just while you do that everyone is okay with the idea of the equity committee kind of doing an exploration of communications and Coming up with some next steps on that maybe even just an equity and communications committee at some Maybe yeah, I mean The initial thinking is that we'd have Ideas to bring before the board and then the board would figure out what to what to do with them and how to use them Yeah, yeah, perfect I'm good with that. That's been my deal for a long time. So awesome Okay I'm ready. So you want me to read these off and then I could like poppy paste these names into an email if that's Easiest. Yeah, perfect. And I see I send them to um Anna and me and lily Yeah Okay, so our our bs rock spirit village school transition committee Uh folks that we would like to nominate are amber wadley, uh, biva khan Diego soria Hannah bryant Hannah zajak Jackson renfrew garrard They have that right, um Katie swick Katie stevens favorite Peyton donahue Rachel poppily and victor warando Awesome students in there. That's awesome. Yeah, it's a good last We have three students two from rock spirit and one from monkiliar Thanks That's fantastic. Yeah, I think we have a nice mix of skills and people and perspectives and stuff. I can So can I have a motion to nominate the fault? Well before I do that any Any last minute changes Switcheroo's regrets changes of heart try not to all look at scott So that's just part from finance policy and evaluation. Yes, okay So I Scratch down the names and I'm not I'm going to repeat it. So the So I'm I'm going to go from bottom to top. So on the future of rock spirit village school the transition committee We have scott ret Um christin and lin from the board plus all of the people that christin just named that she's going to put an email to send to annadine for superintendent evaluation me Tim mia The net zero ad hoc committee will be formed Or at least Put an email it sent to us at a later date Our facilities energy will be christin lin jake miriam equity scott mia lin policy Jim ret jill tim finance tim scott jake Negotiations jill ret jim lin does that all sound right? Do I have a nomination Do I have a motion to a point that's late to What I just said they're on so moved Do I second second any discussion? All's in favor I any opposed great. Thanks And anna how much of that did you get and how much you need sent to you? I got it all updated on the google doc already. We're good. Oh, wow Dang That is awesome I just wanted to highlight one thing that I think win you you mentioned But I just want to make sure not only board members but also members of the public who are watching These committees meetings are open meetings just like board meetings are and these are places where members of the community can Serve as a member of a committee without without having to be a board member So if anyone who's listening is interested and says, hey, I'd really like to be part of that equity committee But is thinking maybe they're not allowed to because they're not a board member. That's not true. We can we can have Citizen members of our committees. Is that I think for some but not all right not like in negotiations that we probably can't We cannot no and for So if anyone's interested in any of them, please email school board at mpsbt.org to know whether or not it's one that you could serve on or if you want to get the like ongoing meeting schedule so that you Can participate in it if you want That's a quick question. Do we Like I knew that question again, but do we have chairs of each like will someone call a meeting that we will okay, all right And whether committees meet They can they can dominate their own chair Yes And we can we can set those those processes in motion Does somebody have revoked board messaging which I have to be 100 percent Honest that I'm not totally sure what that is. I can I can help you out there This is for the board to discuss like how do we What is there anything we want to do? leading up to april 30th to encourage getting out the vote and help inform voters about the new version of the budget Okay that revote That's revoked. Yes, not revoked. We are not I know like I don't know if we vote on our board must be like, okay um Can I start off hot out of the gate on this one? However you want um I was hoping so Your flurry of front porch form the post right before the original vote was great. Oh, thank you And I was really hoping that I think probably the front porch form activity is going to pick up again You know with all kinds of craziness Is there some way that we can nip misconceptions In the bud very as they happen like oh they want to do a truck and it's wobble wobble Why you know, it's like well, here's what we're doing on the track, you know It's $400,000 out of originally 1.9 for safety. Well, you know Is that possible? I think it definitely is. I mean here is kind of my thought on The budget I think we Did hard work and made hard choices and I think we've got a budget that's going to pass my concern is that people are just going to forget the vote You can turn this around people are going to forget to vote forget to vote And and I think like we can definitely do that messaging. I think getting frequent reminders out to the public that you know Walk walk to city hall vote. It's on the third. It's you know, it's a weird. It's a weird day People have already had town meeting day They're not thinking about voting Um, it's it's kind of not on the calendar. It's you know For state workers, it's not a holiday It's it's kind of a random Tuesday It's the first tuesday coming back after spring break where Maybe maybe folks have been traveling um John Odom um did some stuff on front porch form about the vote and I don't know if he would be willing to do something else But we could also remind people that they can get absentee ballots. You can walk down and drop them You can vote tomorrow. Yes. They are ready to accept your vote. Yeah. Um, so I think we should you know, that might help a lot with getting more votes in and reminding people and I think um We are you still doing stuff in the bridge? I'm planning to do another times artists artist article and I think you're planning to do something in the bridge, right? I could I could. Yeah. I think those are a component. I wouldn't say they're the only thing Yeah, the only thing we should do. Yeah, but I think like having just us ping folks and also using kind of having to be a constant thing in the like principles um communications to to caregivers that Walk, you know, you please vote We can't help people how to vote. We're going to please vote and you can Either vote on April 30th. You can request an absentee ballot to be sent to your house or you can just Go get one go get one and and take you know, it's go vote. It's it's a five second vote. I mean it's just a one It's one question so I I've been seeing I think there's like flyers posted on every school front door and the The weekly messages coming out from principles. There's that a similar or the same flyer Um, I think in my before I retired from you give me extension um, one of the one of the tactics we were really focusing on was was not Not not reinventing the wheel, right? You take the same content and you repurpose it for, you know, every possible medium And so if if you're already planning a times artists times argus article, you know What can we just take that and with some reformatting make it a front porch form post make it a bridge article make it a Whatever and rather than, you know, seven of us all creating something from scratch No, I think we should definitely do that and and you know the a link to the times Articles can be a front porch form post Yeah, yeah, I I just think like reminding people to To get out and vote Sooner rather than later. No need to wait. Yeah, no need to wait. Yeah, and especially especially with spring break because Yeah, people are going to be focused on going on spring break and then they're going to come back and then they're going to, you know Do we have to have a budget information meeting prior to the vote just like on town meeting day I think that was in the timeline. I think we do. Yeah There is an informational meeting. It's not a it's not a board meeting No, it's it's it's not a board meeting But there is an informational meeting that we have to have and we'll have Certain number of days prior to the vote. Yeah, well, christy and I are already planning and doing it the day before the vote They're pretty awesome flyers Not to sign me and all our up for more work, but I was thinking that If we could try and send those flyers home with High school students that could be a way to get them to the parents So we could potentially park ourselves in the doors before break and try and get them to people Can we ask teachers to put them in folders for like I know my kids bring stuff home From elementary school and in theory they're supposed to bring them home from middle school Well, immediately at the end of the week packet or something, isn't there? Yeah, it varies depending upon the the teacher and the age. I suspect but There is a mechanism for getting stuff home and I think it varies That's a question for liby and Brad. I see your hand. I'll give you a second Yeah, we we can totally send something home Scott you're right in that it varies in age as to what actually gets home But Crumple up underneath like last week's lunch, right exactly at the bottom of the backpack that you clean out maybe once a week I found orange juice and uh, yeah, exactly right I was just I think it's worth mentioning that It's likely folks in Roxbury will be quite motivated to vote um so For what it's worth If more failure supports this budget People should show up Um Rhett, do you know if the if tammy the town clerk has um has ballots already? We just know that john odom has ballots already and I don't know if they use the same printer or anything christin or ret do you know I don't know So we don't know if folks in Roxbury can we should just make sure we're cleared like we don't want Roxbury folks to go to the town Hall tomorrow and be like i'm ready to vote and have tammy go. Sorry you're not I'm not ready for you So we don't know from tammy. I'm not sure Okay, but I don't know if they usually if she usually tells us when the ballots are in I don't I don't think that's usually a conversation We have but it's not usually one with john either. I think john right because it's his pre vote right right I do think that john and tammy have been in touch quite a bit. So he may be better than we are Yeah, that's what john said when he Came here. He said that they were yeah Tammy was just like do whatever Roxbury was sounded like a lot easier Yeah, and then Montpelier and could do whatever worked. It's just a matter of whether or not He literally only has the ballots now because the printer was faster than he expected them to be So we don't know if she's using the same printer or whatever We don't want to be putting out false Get out the vote information that would be bad Christmas Did I I recall there being a conversation? that If you had Requested an absentee ballot in the first vote That you would automatically be sent an absentee ballot in this vote. Is that true? No, they changed that Yeah, he retracted that Okay, so that is request one again If you would prefer to do an absentee ballot, you do need to request one again from your town clerk An absentee ballot at home, but you can vote early and basically get an absentee ballot like at the desk And john had included that in his front porch forum post and there was I can't I think he checked with the department of state or agency whoever runs the elections, but and Second secretary. Thank you very much Okay Yeah, so So I get the time to very excited. I totally agree these gauntlets Recycle materials. We don't need to write the same thing seven times But I think it's really important to remind people in both communities about the date and How to vote where to vote and to vote Because it's a weird election and am I correct in saying we could send an email to our friends and neighbors as an Individual person that says hey The vote's coming up. You can vote tomorrow. We could do that. We don't have to It doesn't just have to be Front porch forum on the bridge and whatever we can do on facebook and yeah So that would be another tactic we could use as individuals to just say Want to make sure you know you could vote today at town at town hall. Yeah, if you're about clear Are we allowed to tell Ask our friends the neighbors to support the budget So I'm glad you asked that as an individual. Yes. I think I think if someone like Jake Feldman Should I go for this budget? I think it's like it is jake Feldman. Yes. I'll take you should you should I don't even say like the board on behalf of the board. I'm trying to vote on behalf of jq We unanimously voted to support the budget There is a public meeting to forward it to forward it to voters. Yeah, yeah, I mean as as For some odd reason like as a board body you can You can tell people You can ask people to vote You can tell them why it's beneficial for the school But you can't say go vote. Yes I thought the question was as an individual Even an individual board member I can say I supported this budget I think if I think if you have your board hat on you can say you supported your budget and why Just can't say vote. Yes, I'm a You say please vote on the budget and here's why I supported it I know it's kind of stupid, but I don't get it because obviously you wouldn't forward a budget to the voters that we didn't want them to vote yes on but Well, there are cases and I've never experienced this as a board member myself where boards are not unanimous For example, but that's not the case right now. Yeah, but I don't think that's the reason I think it's I think it's something else That's I think there's some other technical thing some weird quirk behind that That rule I would be interested in knowing what the weird quirk is But we definitely don't have to go there tonight since it doesn't since it seems like nobody in this room knows what the weird quirk is I don't think we have to talk about the word quirk. I'm sure I'm sure peter does and I'm sure I'll send him an email Um So those are ideas that we have for the sort of get out the vote. I think We could come back to jake's hot take about Engaging on front porch forum about around clear making clarifications Right. Yeah. Well, if if these articles were out there Um, then as the misconceptions pop up, we could say, you know, actually Here's this truth and for more information just check out this article or our budget page the budget f a q page There's a place I was to the budget f a q or times argus article. Yeah That was the idea Yeah, um One question I have about that is whether or not that's something we would sort of Empower any board member to do if they saw it on front porch forum or if it's something we want to task of a singular individual or or or a couple of individuals to do Maybe That the equity and communications committee could talk about that in the near term Um, it seems like it might get messy if a lot of board members were trying to take responsibility. Um I personally, I don't think I would be good at it, but you know, I'd be comfortable doing it. Why don't we Why don't we do it this way? Why not if you If you see something on front porch forum that you think should be responded to Send an email to livy and me And then I can share it with me that if you include me on the first one, then I think we get three And We can like and with even like a proposed response And then we can vet it And that way it won't get we won't be speaking with a bunch of different voices every a coordinated point But we'll all kind of be watching Um, you know, you can propose text and then yeah, we can kind of Like respond that way And I I'm not sure we I'm not sure we want to respond to Everything on front porch forum, but I think if there if if there are Misconceptions that seem to be building Um I think it's I think it's I think it's helpful to To correct them Yeah, I think engaging in a dialogue through front porch forum doesn't help But yeah, if there is Yeah, it's a wild rumor out there that everyone thinks we're you know spending $2 million on a On a swimming pool, uh, we probably want to correct that Now there will be No We might end up spending $2 million on the swimming pool, but it would be because of a flood Oh dear Or you could just acquire a swimming pool Okay, I think what you just proposed sounds good to me the thing I was trying to wait like the The what I was weighing in my mind was it sometimes has a lot of work to keep up with what's go with the The things that get posted on front porch forum So it would be a lot I think to ask of one person to to be tracking it all but if we have any but collective eyes and then a Central like a funnel that the communication goes through. I think that works certainly for the next month. Yeah Yeah, I was thinking like Themes that are emerging not necessarily individual Sure. Yep And not You know not over Overdoing that and sort of Because I think you can't get a little Back and forth you can get to attacking a sometimes so stick to the facts. Yeah I do think it's important to note. Um The very real heartache of having to close Roxbury village school when we do talk about these things that have made really really challenging and You know difficult decisions to arrive at this budget It's not a responsibility to take lately and just kind of remind folks who might start to sort of pick away. It's like this is This is after A lot of a lot of really hard work and some pain. Um, and just sort of honor that No, just that I don't want it to sort of be like, okay, that's that happened And and I need my player voters to understand How mad how massive that was Thanks for saying that Jill. I think um, I feel compelled to share that this is a really difficult vote out in Roxbury um the premise of this vote is moving our Youngest students to ues, which was not the will of our community Um, and that's really being felt right now. Um, I do expect there to be a number of voters It's impossible to tell how many in Roxbury that will vote no on this budget due to that factor Um, I know that the budget originally did pass You know, the first budget did pass in Roxbury and you know, I think in part It's an assumption but that budget passed because the budget did include um continued operation of rvs um, so, you know, rat and I are definitely in a in a different place. Um, and in a in a trickier place in terms of um, motivating the vote out here because um, this budget is is a hard one for a lot of folks to swallow um, so I think you know Uh, rat and I have I know we put it in the Roxbury Newsy that you know, this would be these are just the logistics of the vote and How to vote and and what have you but um, the nature of this vote is a really really hard one out in Roxbury um And I know that we have things to add to that conversation in terms of the whys of you know, why You know, at least I voted for this was the addition of the transportation funding the consideration of after school um And and things like that, but this is this is definitely a tough vote out in out in Roxbury Yeah, no, definitely and I think I think we should Encourage people to vote regardless of how we feel we're gonna vote absolutely So thank you already for doing the the work of making sure people know how to do it and when to do it. Yeah Anything else on that and I'll I'll get to that ta article For the next couple days Well, thanks for and and deli. I mean to jake's point you can you can talk to friends and neighbors as an individual kind of as you want and you know um Definitely encouraging people to get out as to vote is is important because it is it's a yeah It's a weird election. There's nothing else on the ballot. It's the timing's a little strange. So, um Turn out is probably going to be not as high as We see in other elections Um, so our final order of business and we may have have an under four-hour meeting here Is policy monitoring we have Three policy monitoring reports fm 100 which is budget execution um d7 special education and d 22 Uh selection of library materials. Do I have a motion to? approve those three? monitoring reports You can do it jake can do it. Anna jake was not his head, which I don't think counts I'll second it. Okay. Uh any discussion about the monitor reports as a general matter is it The case that when we're getting policy reports, they come with the approval of the policy committee Yeah, uh the policy monitoring is it's solely So these are these are policies that you know That were approved by the policy committee and then approved by the board and enacted and she just periodically Uh, basically reports compliance of those. So what we're proving here is nothing about the policy It's about those like addendums to the policy that says this is how we're Yeah, it's almost like we're accepting this monitoring report. Yeah, okay. It's just it's just yeah, we want to make sure that we're Um in compliance with all the policies and and we just put put them on a rolling basis Another new guy New ones that I didn't quite appreciate. No, it's it's a good question because it it might not be obvious Yeah, no, no, thanks for asking. Yeah, thanks for asking and like feel free to ask those whenever because Um, I know when I was new I oftentimes sat there and be like, what am I doing? um All is in favor Any opposed? um And then motion to adjourn I move we adjourn second Second that all is in favor. I