 because we have a quorum. Ray, you can start recording Rochester Stockbridge Unified Board meeting, special meeting. Hey Carl, can you just give me a thumbs up if you're going to be able to keep stay on or if you're going to find another way in because I just want to make sure he is here so that we do have a quorum. Carl, are you there? He's there Ethan. Oh okay, I didn't see it. Yep. Yeah, he gave you a thumbs up that he was going to be able to continue. I'm standing on opening the meet on my phone. Great, thank you. I know I see that. Great, thank you. All right, we are now recording Rochester Stockbridge Unified Board meeting, special meeting, Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 6.30 p.m. via Google Meet agenda. We've called to order adjustments to the agenda. I believe we have adding in a executive session to talk about a real state issue. So that will be, we'll make that five. And Ethan, I think that when Christie put this out, she missed public comment for some reason. Yeah, I thought that too. Thank you. Let's put that, let's put that at five and six will be executive session and then adjourn will be seven. That will be our change. I'm actually, well, I do have a comment as the board chair, just a quick one. So maybe we have to bump all these numbers because that would normally go at three. So if we don't mind, let's, let's bump all the numbers there. Three become four, four become five, five become six, six become seven and then seven will be adjourned. Got it. All in favor, we have to just want to get a motion to accept the changes to the agenda as moved. I move we accept the changes to the agenda as presented. Thank you, Carl. Second. Seconded from Justine. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Great. You guys have it. We have. Yep. Okay. Just to make sure Jenny. Yep. Jenny's here. Great. Megan, Megan. Don't see Megan. Okay. All right. All right. So quick board comment. Just to let you all know that there is an informational a school basically about the merger and informational meeting next Tuesday the 23rd. I thought that we had one on the 23rd and the 25th and I may have put out information to that. It is only on the 23rd that we would ask for the entire board to be there to be present to answer questions from the Stockbridge community about the potential merger and unmerger and all the actions that we've taken since to address some of the concerns. So I believe that meeting is at 7, Jamie. Am I correct about that? I got a look, Ethan. I'm sorry. I'm pretty sure at 7 o'clock I just put in my calendar again. And we would get an invite sent to us by the Stockbridge. We will come on as panelists so we will be present and I would ask that you be visually present because I think it is important for us to be seen. And then we will be asked some questions and we'll basically divvy up sort of who answers that depending on who we think is the most appropriate, but it would be great to have a good showing there. Yes, it is at 7. Thank you. Good. Do we have anybody who thinks they can't be there on Tuesday the 23rd at 7 p.m.? Yes, I am not going to be there. I'll be halfway through the bar exam and I'm not going to be at that meeting that evening. Good. Thank you, Justine. Amy, do you know? Yep. I'm looking at my calendar right this second and no, that is the meeting that is scheduled at 7 o'clock. So I'll be there. Good. Thank you, Jenny. Yeah, I'll be there. Great. Thank you, Carl. Good. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you all very much. Okay. Moving on. Article or item three discussion items to 2022 budget final draft. So I can just kick things off and, Ter, I don't know if you sent this stuff to Ray and if you did or if you didn't, we'll get it to Ray so that we can project it. And Megan just joined us. Good evening, Megan. You indicated to us that you were looking for us to have a proposal that got us underneath the threshold without having to use the exclusion. So we went back. There was since the last budget draft, we had talked to you about a reduction in force within the teaching ranks. We had a retirement announced since then and for next year. And so we figured in, there was significantly more savings based on the retirement as compared to reduction in force. Bonnie, you want to announce the board who the teacher is. It's going to be retiring. Yes. I'd like with a great sense of gratitude to her who announced that Deborah Burrell, who has been an interventionist the last number of years in ARSUD has decided to retire. She has certainly given tremendous support to youngsters in our district and it's with a sense of sadness that I recommend you accept her retirement. And is that an official action we need to take tonight? You could hold off until next meeting and we'll have the letter to present to you. Excellent. Let's do that. So are we going to need to replace her then? No. That was, yeah, so we were going to have a reduction in force. Now we don't have to reduce in force because of that announced retirement. So we were going to have to rip someone based on the last budget proposal, Amy, but since she is retiring, we no longer require to have to do that. So the budget that we last proposed to you was down a teacher. Oh, okay. So it had, it had room. Okay. Thank you. The difference is there's, there's more savings with the employee who's retiring versus if we hadn't done a reduction in force. Question. How do we, how do we make up for her presence in the buildings? Well, we had decided instead of having 1.8 interventionist at Rochester that each building would have 1.0 interventions. 1.0? Yep. Each building has a full-time interventions. And that was in the last budget proposal. And do our, our administrators feel that is appropriate? Yeah. We did last time and I think we're still doing that. Okay. So the additional change in this budget is that we are proposing, I'll let the principal speak to this. We're proposing that we would go down to 1.0 FT principal across the two campuses. And that Lindy would be the principal that goes across two campuses. She has been currently, since we returned to in-person learning and going across both campuses. And what I would then plan to propose to the SU board here in the future is that with some of our S or two money that we plan to get in regards to responding to regression due to COVID-19 and our recovery plan, you'll see me talk about that in my board report tomorrow to the SU board. It gives us an opportunity to really get moving on this math initiative work that I've been talking to you all about at the SU level and locally, really for the last, I don't know, four or five months. Bonnie has a great expertise in math and in curriculum work around math. And she was part of an initiative in her prior SU to support math work. And so I would look to have Bonnie take a role in assisting with that math initiative work over the next couple of years with a math team at the SU level. And we could then utilize different pot of money with ESSER funds because we would be addressing COVID-19 recovery and that those funds that we didn't budget for at all because we didn't know we were going to get them would help pay for some of that math initiative work. That will be a big area that we'll look to address under S or two funds across the SU. But specifically to our set, I'm going to turn it over to the principals for them to talk to you about the why because we do believe that this is the real really the appropriate next step to bring your district together as one and to bring the two schools really together as one school across two campuses, both K6 camp pre-K6 campuses, but to ensure that we have implementation of fidelity and equity across the two. These two principals work unbelievably closely together, but you know, we think that this is the next logical step for your district. And I'll turn it over to them. Wendy, you want me to go first? Yeah, go for it. Okay. As Jamie said, we do think this is the next appropriate step. And as I look back over the last couple of years, particularly before the whole COVID piece hit and kind of change the way that we operated is we have been moving toward this step. We have done joint professional development together in both staffs. We have had some activities that our youngsters, we brought our youngsters together to do. Lindy and I have planned professional development, talked about implementation of programs. Lindy's been in our school. So most lately, she's been there two days a week. And I think it just makes sense that this would be the next step that our district takes to unify these two schools under one district at two different campuses. Lindy's highly regarded. I don't have to tell you that. She's an outstanding administrator. No doubt at all that she's well, well respected by the staff, not only in Stockbridge, but also Rochester. The other piece is that some of the curriculum work that I'll be doing that Jamie mentioned, I'll continue to do in Stockbridge and Rochester. So it's not like I'll walk out the door and be gone. As Jamie said, I think that one of the things that Lindy and I would be most proud of is the way that we do work together and the way that we look at our SUD kids is our kids and have figured out what's the best ways we can, you know, grow the educational program and offer opportunities. So I don't see us working together as changing a whole lot, except there will be a single principle for the two pre-K6 campuses. I don't know if you want to add. I just think it's also important to emphasize that staff are competent and capable of this. I think when we both started in this role together, both buildings needed some TLC. They both needed support staff wanted to and this has started to become the new normal and staff are okay with that and understanding and we share a lot of staff already between our two campuses and it's important in unifying us even more that it's one of us, even though I would consider us one brain a lot of times, but it's really important. It's the next step. I mean we've cut significant pieces of this budget out we need to start thinking about how to unify more and how to continue to restructure more, so we're not cutting educational opportunities from our students. I think you've both, you've heard both of us say that over the years it's about how this budget can serve kids and we are at the point where that's what's going to have to happen if we don't start to make some more steps towards that and it has to start with adults and that's us. Yeah there's just two other quick things I would say is that within this budget that you're looking at, the budget that Tara sent you, there is a stipend for a lead teacher so there will be someone who's designated to be the go-to person in the event that Lindy is not in a particular building when something crops up. I think the other thing to say is that Lindy and I have approached these two positions with two I think really important common traits. We always look at the fact that we are we are answerable to the taxpayers of the Rochester Stockbridge communities and one of our primary goals is to grow and expand opportunities for our youngsters so as we looked at what the next steps would be in this administrative model we think that this decision we've made supports both of both of those goals being financially fiscally accountable and making way to try and expand and support opportunities for our SUD kiddos. By first question, do you feel ready for this? I mean, I know that logically it makes the question but I know you thought you had another year when we talked about this and I just want to if this feels right to you. This does feel right to me Ethan. I'll say it a little more bluntly because I think it might be the elephant in the table for some folks. I don't feel like I'm being rushed out the door. What I feel I'm doing is taking the next step after a good deal of conversation with both Jamie and Lindy that best supports our SUD youngsters while at the same time giving me an opportunity to do something that I truly enjoy doing which is working on adult learning and working in the area of mathematics. So it's a very definite yes I do feel ready for this and I believe Rochester's ready for this. Well I mean there's going to be more of this. I just want you to say I don't I can never overstate what you have done. I think you get chocked up. Well thank you. You have changed you know what you have changed in this school system what you have turned around the battleship that was headed in the wrong direction that you have turned around the mentor you have been to Lindy the you know Lindy it's just when I think about the interview and choosing her and just your advice when we first showed up at a board meeting and you had three pages of notes for us and I had no clue what it was to be a board member and you taught us and taught all you know all of us and included all of us in this vision that you had that this could work and so it's with great reluctance though I understand and I you're right as Jamie said next step next step but I'm I am so glad you're going to be part of this and maybe part of this with fewer of the headaches and more of the joys of this process but to just know you know that how deeply we appreciate what you have done for us well thank thank you Ethan and what I will say and I'm I'm not I'm not trying to deflect that I that's heartfelt and I really feel it I think it's also given I don't think I know it's given me an opportunity to meet some tremendous teachers meet some tremendous kids and some tremendous board members and most importantly to have the opportunity to work with Lindy and Jamie even if only for a year um has really just been a wonderful part of you know whatever time I have left to spend in uh in education I will say though I've overstayed my welcome I came for three for six months and here I am what three and a half years later Rod Rochester and Stockbridge are going to be in great hands no abs I have absolutely no doubt about that but thank you for your words further further comments um I just like I just echo exactly what Ethan said thank you yeah I said I think Ethan I think you summed that up very well this is Megan I just I Ethan you said that perfectly Bonnie and Lindy you guys are have been a blessing to us and Bonnie I do not want to see you leave um but I understand it is a necessary step I guess I just have a a couple of questions um in regards to I I agree that this is a good step I'm just my concern is with COVID happening and continuing to happen this how we're going to is that going to be too much for one principle to take on the context all the the necessary um you know things that are keeping our schools in person and in session yeah so Megan I'm happy to speak to that and I'm not a big uh to my own horn type of person because I feel like uh my work actions speak louder than words but I I want to praise our staff because what we considered hurdle when we first reopened buildings they do without support they're doing the health screening they know the routine those pieces of the puzzle they know the six feet they know the masks all those things we just didn't know when we reopen the staff in both buildings know the dress to the point that they're answering questions as they're asking us when we come to those scenarios I also would say I've technically been running a whole mother's school virtually this entire time that is true and it and I've enjoyed it I love it but in person it's definitely my thing I really love being with in person girls it's just part of the joy and adults but um so I think that's what also gave me a little bit of confidence that I as an administrator am capable and ready for this next step I will just like everybody said be forever grateful for Bonnie's mentorship and also friendship which is invaluable to me I know that I could not have started anywhere else as a brand new principal without her um but I really do feel confident and virtual gave me that push and Jamie as well and Bonnie as well that I'm ready to take this step as a leader and I think it's important for our kids and our staff even though they do see Bonnie and I as one it's just one more step um and I also am not scared to help ask for help I I feel fairly confident and that Bonnie's not really coming anywhere she's just switching hats so that if if needed if we got to that point Megan we could always ask for her okay um and and you're I am so sorry I you are completely correct in your example of you running the virtual school as well no no no I didn't take offense to that I just wanted to remind you that it's probably been going the whole time it's incredible and I just have one more question about there's a reduction in administrative staff um is that at the Rochester campus um or is that the Stockbridge campus I saw I saw that in a draft oh earlier an earlier draft Megan I just wanted to make sure that for if we are losing someone you know an administrator like Bonnie we we're not like reducing you know the office staff that makes all this stuff also happen so what the budget supports Megan is a secretary in each building but what we added was a everyday floating sub we brought everyday floating subs on this year due to combating COVID and a lot of teachers being out and a lot of the administrators recognize the importance of just having someone that you could count on the sub every day and they're filling those gaps so we did budget for an everyday um floating sub that would be there to assist in filling gaps where they they may be and that could include secretary award so is this somebody that is in each building every day it'll be someone that reports and then Lindy will deploy them where she needs them to um whether it would be at Stockbridge or Rochester okay so they report to our district for today and and Lindy puts them where uh wherever needed and we still budgeted budgeted for additional subs as well but this is just on top of that so but this is like as this is like a new staff member though this is we have them in all the districts now we're using COVID money to pay for them because we knew we just needed people to report it's part of why we haven't had to shut down uh due to staffing shortages plus people being unbelievably flexible but we knew we needed people to show up every day so that we had a bench um and so what we decided to do is to keep those types of folks in certain districts and I would just like to add a piece to something that Lindy said when she was talking about the staff has just picked up with these um you know COVID recommendations and changes to procedure etc. Jamie held uh interviews today for the um the position of the chief academic officer there he held final interviews and one of the candidates asked me what I was most proud about in our district and basically my answer was what Lindy just said that I was most proud of our kids our teachers um very grateful for the leadership of the superintendent because when as you've heard the last couple of days people across the country are struggling with how to open their schools and we're headed into our seventh in-person month of really successful um instruction for youngsters I have no doubt that uh this this change in administrative model is going to be met just as successfully by our youngsters and our staff because that's just the kind of people they are they sort of want to know the lay of the land want to know what they then they move forward and they do it I know today was day 100 it was I appreciated the 100 or rather appreciated the 100 jelly beans 100 M&M 100 M&M only because I counted in way don't tell my secrets so um so going forward next year Lindy you you will not be doing anything with the I mean you may you may be passing on the virtual academy or whatever format of that would be happening so your responsibilities will just be to our two campus two campuses correct correct and as far as the the the lead teachers that are being being uh uh named will there be one at each campus so there's someone uh to step up when when you're at the other building or is there just be one that rotates or how how how does that model work I think it's still yet to be determined Carl how how that would happen whether it be one at each that stipend or if it's one that's shared Lindy have we uh you have been uh coming to Rochester two days a week for the for how long now uh since we came back from in person or from virtual excuse me again in May um so January after Martin Luther King Day what is that for weeks and um I assume this lead teacher position is something that um your experience since you've been split to the two campuses you feel that this would be an appropriate uh thing to do yeah thank you uh Bonnie are you finishing out the year is that the plan uh yes because of an underlying health condition I asked Jamie if I could step away until uh my husband underlying health condition my husband I asked Jamie if I could step away until we were both vaccinated um and we're only about four weeks away from that so yes I will finish the year as soon as I get back to school um as soon as those four weeks stick off great okay thank you you're welcome maybe we'll be able to do something in person by then to say you know wave and fly thank you the plan would be just continue the Lindy being in the Rochester campus two days a week though the rest of the year as part of the transition oh even when Bonnie returns yeah Lindy will you be leading faculty meetings and staff meetings at Rochester or with Bonnie there or how how's that going to transition we're still kind of working those pieces of the puzzle out um but yeah we will start to do that ultimately the goal I got to be honest is like bringing some unit more so unity together so it's one staff meeting it's not two separate campus meetings like those that's the next step we're at we are at the step where Bonnie and I have been doing stuff very similarly on both campuses but still sometimes separate we're now at the step that makes sense that we start to bring both staff together to have the same conversation and make sure everybody is on the same page um and that's that's a little bit of sanity for me because it's got to be the same uh there's great unique pieces to embrace on both campuses but those are things that can be shared and done on both campuses um but also that idea that we can just really offer these robust even more so professional development meetings as a whole staff our staff crave that because they're so on an island by themselves at the grade level that they teach so when we bring them all together they have something they don't get on a normal basis they get to share instructional information with each other share different strategies do these things and um while we've been doing that on the half days the next step is to do that as a whole more frequently in our weekly faculty meetings data point all those things we just it's another step to be unified gotcha great I think I think another way to say that is that there that there probably is nothing that is going to happen under this new model that hasn't happened to some extent already joint professional development joint faculty meetings joint conversations about youngsters sharing of expertise lindy and I have been working on those things for the last two years so um this is sort of just the natural next step I think for our faculties I I don't think it will be a huge um a huge step for them and when we were virtual in the spring we actually ran all that together anyways as one staff to save folks from screen time very good um do we need to act on this in any way well the budget document the budget document essentially is your policy statement right gotcha I had a couple more questions go for it all right well we could just do hand raising if people want to bring in other questions about the budget yeah that if we're ready to move on um I just had a question okay great so my question had to do with the um the last budget draft um it was noted that there was a reduction in the um no let me it is the yeah it is the music reduced um in this budget from what we're here yes okay now um and I see that it's a 50 50 split between the campuses and I do notice our student body is a 34 66 split um does the 50 50 allow for appropriate music at each campus so the position being restructured as a whole in general she will has an outdoor ad background as well Amy so she will be doing music and outdoor education and students would receive the same amount at both campuses right um so uh does that reduce her her overall employment with us to not full time then or to not 1.0 yes um she is still a 1.0 no she will not be she'll be 0.8 oh oh that's different than I understood okay and the and that that is what was in the last draft as well no I know I but I didn't understand it as that I did not okay so so that and just so I can jump in so what we did was sorry this just so I want to make certain everyone's clear about what we did the the music position has been reduced to incorporate outdoor ad and music at the equivalent of a 0.8 the other 0.2 has been used the reduction in force there was then used to provide 0.2 foreign language we didn't feel like we could add money to the budget or an FTE to the budget without finding an efficiency somewhere else so what we did is we used a 1.0 position and changed it up to be music outdoor ad and then in the additional 0.2 a foreign language so what is the addition of the um outdoor education specific person there's no same person same person but wait what's the divide between music is music 0.6 and outdoor ad 0.2 the what I would say is the contract will say 0.8 music slash outdoor ad and then as Lindy goes to build the schedule with the teachers I think that that will dictate what the percentages are um do we have I mean I know this is well this is kind of executive session stuff I mean I just you know I mean I really want foreign language I really want foreign language but is this the same no this is not executive session I mean this is what you guys talk about it's what it's what you want to prioritize whether I mean I think you know the board talked about this we want foreign language um when we when we brought the idea to us um I also want to keep a really um a good music program as we've had and I don't want to send a message that is there anywhere else we got a 0.2 we can get her up no okay I mean in principle it's correct me if I'm wrong I think we believe we can do this without cutting programming well I just you know yeah okay does it cut the we were over staffed in that position but it does it cut does it cut the position in terms of health care or benefits or anything like that it does yes okay because we can look at for our school district your size at one point on musics that's a lot of music I think you you struggle to fill that that amount of staff I mean one of the examples I could give you is Sharon who has 160 students has a part-time music teacher at 0.4 and Rudd their two elementary schools together have a 1.0 okay good thank you for those examples okay um I think we let Carl had his hand up Amy are you done well I I had one more question I'm done with that topic I do have another question about the R FTE because I have a hand written note on that it was reduced by 0.2 um then the last budget what does that make that position now then is it a 0.6 0.5 no it makes it 0.2 it has been reduced to 0.2 so it was 0.4 currently yes reduced to 0.2 does that help yes that's what I was wondering so that is that um 0.1 is one day no 0.2 is one day yeah one day okay so the idea would be that that that that position would complement the foreign language yeah you would schedule them so that they would they would flip when you're when you're planning your schedule okay yeah so that those two but those two positions would complement themselves when he goes to build the schedule and what is our library position what's that uh FTE 0.2 on both campuses so 0.4 total and that is um two separate staff members right correct okay okay I'll set back for a minute good thank you Carl is next and then Jenny and then Justine um a couple questions for Tara so I see that you know we we've taken the uh 3100 food services transfer out the $56,000 food transfer out but it doesn't seem like we really increased our uh SU assessment I'm assuming that the food transfer came out because it's gone it's all been centralized is that not so is getting billed to us later I thought that's yeah so we are in an attempt to centralize food service for FY 22 that has not that decision has not been finalized yet but we need to determine where food service will start and then it will become an assessment after that okay so taking the initial general fund transfer out of the local districts because when it becomes an SU program you're not going to transfer money from your general fund to the SU specifically for food service enterprise fund so it will then be billed back at a later time once you do determine and establish the how it will work but in the meantime we're looking at a forward-facing document that doesn't have any expenses for food service it shows us $89,000 of the reduction in this total expenditure budget 56,000 of that is the well we're kicking the food service can down the road I really can't this budget really needs to have some sort of estimated food service cost shown somewhere because I can't I can't believe that it's going to be free so I I really think this budget needs to have needs needs to reflect that and we can't just say well it's a fee that we're going to pay sometime next year because this budget is supposed to cover all the fees we're going to pay sometime next year the second question I have is it looks like we're so you want an answer do you call oh yeah go ahead and answer the first question so Carl I mean the idea is is that food services enterprise fund and so the idea would be that we would open up an enterprise fund if it's at the SU level run food service for a year see where that enterprise fund comes out and then build budgets the following year based on that we wouldn't have to assess you out on that enterprise fund at the end of next year just so you know so that would that be a two-year we'll be paying for two years at one time is that well what we're going to discuss with the board is a two-phase plan about food service around next year centralizing and then the following year looking at how can we possibly find even further efficiency that would be a regular year assessment to the from the SU to the local districts and you sorry make this into a timeline for me so I understand I don't know what an enterprise fund is either and if the in the key part to this is let's say the SU board decides they don't want to centralize food service yes if you guys run a deficit within food service and the enterprise fund then you'd have to address that at some point but it wouldn't need you to address it immediately but it would be a deficit we carry over to next well I mean yeah I mean based I think our son's going to have to do something different with food service period right I mean 56,000 a year is more than a half a teacher every year that you're losing and so whether we centralize it or keep it ourselves I would say we have to do business and food service different and you'll see on Monday your per plate cost at Stockbridge is $13 a plate so it would behoove us to look to do something change something within food service and so you can add the money back in here I'm just saying we don't know if that's going to be going to your enterprise fund and the SU doesn't plan on assessing out that enterprise fund next year anyways so but then where would the SU get the cash flow to run said enterprise fund for for a year for free well I mean we get reimbursed Carl from the state and federal government based on our reimbursement plans right so those are that we have to establish those as a SU wide enterprise fund not eight individual enterprise funds okay I'm just so we have to basically build the enterprise from the ground up okay and it will be funded by the SU and the reimbursements that we get from the states right I just have a problem with a budget that doesn't you know that that doesn't have any money for food whatsoever because I mean we need to we we historically have paid that and putting in a placeholder for 50 grand assuming we're going to find say 10 efficiencies or whatever right away I think that's more transparent than than just trying to show that we're saving $90,000 over last year because we're not billing we're not paying for food this year I mean I just I really have a problem with the budget pretending that we don't have food in it what are other SUs doing with how are they dealing with this in their budgets that you've talked to so far other districts well I mean obviously some of them are also getting rid of their their their food budgets because it's going into this enterprise fund are they all going along with that well I mean we've had these conversations with each district and a lot of them have decided that they weren't going to tackle the food service issue this year they weren't going to worry about funding their enterprise fund so hope would be that we centralized it to the SU we run it at the SU level for a year and then we tackle the enterprise fund the following year so you're saying most all are all I mean a bunch of them uh do not have any money carried any money for food service okay that's the question do you hear that Carl I mean does that change that we're not the only ones you guys can definitely budget it I'm just saying that I don't plan on I don't we don't plan on assessing that out next year well the the fifth the 56,000 that is in the budget for the current year that we are using now we're not going to probably not going to have to make that transfer so that money right but that money we transfer that money to pay for the food our $13 a plate you know a meals well what about the money that we're getting from the state and federal government to feed the kids Amy you're going to see ours said continually leaks that money out in food service on Monday Carl's absolutely right I can't I can't fix a $13 a plate issue that that's our issue right like our our cost with staffing and benefits is such that I can't produce enough plates to make up that difference there are other districts right now running in the black but our set is not one of them so let's just get let's let's stick with this for a sec because I think we need to know a consensus going forward with the board Carl we've heard your point I think we need to hear from other board members if we feel we need some money in there or whether we essentially trust our SU advisors that this is going to work out for us without gouging us I hear Carl's point but I'd like to hear from everybody else and see what you think Amy how do you feel yeah it's a little bit of a surprise but I um I I'm fine with it I I think that they are SU has a plan going forward and and I trust that plan I also know that we still you know are dealing with our fund balance that is in a surplus that we're going to be working through so I'm not I'm really not too worried about it okay Jenny what's your thoughts on this issue yeah I definitely understand the point but I also um you know would look to Tara and Jamie trust that sounds like they have a plan to move forward with this to sort of look to them for direction on this okay justine um yes while I while I I feel the same way I was I was curious about that and kind of uncomfortable with it being um open but the plan does seem reasonable so I I feel like I'm okay with it and Megan um I guess I I under I guess I understand the plan it makes me a little definitely makes me nervous not to have something in there and it's going to come back to get us that seems to be usually what happens um but I'm going to trust in the administration and know that we have a plan and hope that we aren't going to find ourselves in the situation where we are in a deficit well I I I certainly see the political issue of this with some people who you know challenge su su central control um I I think there's still a major trust issue that's being rebuilt by the su currently um in terms of handling our money and being trustworthy um so um you know we're taking a leap but I'd say that's a majority uh feels like we're going to go ahead with the plan and the budget um unless we feel Carl you feel we need to vote on that that seems like a a consensus and then we'll get to your second question okay um yeah I can't support a budget that pretends that we're going to get free food so you know I'll just vote against the budget I really think that I I I really think that you know not having some I mean we put $56,000 in there last year at the recommendation of of our business manager because that's what uh she assumed was going to be required to fill the gap between the federal reimbursement and the money we collect from our families and the cost of running the food program that we run we intend to run a similar food program or we intend to feed our kids similarly next year I can't in good conscious support a budget that that you know doesn't uh it doesn't address or allocate some funds to that um you know that's just I I I even even like I said I I just I I just feel feel that way so I mean I can vote against even though even though there is a plan and they they feel like this isn't going to come back to bite us it's going to be a way to assess later how it comes back to us yeah I mean I gotta say if food sir if you guys centralize food service Carl we're not assessing you out on 3100 on that function code next year we're not assessing out that enterprise fund next year right but you're you're there's gotta be so you would budget for and it would just stay in the general fund you're gonna run you'd run a surplus or spend it in other places that's why you're gonna tax people on that on that money and we're not going to assess you out on it so Jamie then then explain this to me like I'm five where does the money to pay for next year's food come from it would come from us getting reimbursements and fees across the entire SU and looking to do business very differently okay so if we want let's say across the SU you're gonna see SU wide we're running deficits in food service of over 300 000 so the idea would be that we trim that significantly we run food service as an SU for a year we see what is it that we actually run as far as a deficit if we centralize it we'd have money coming in throughout it's not like we're gonna run out of money in that enterprise fund and in the following year we would assess the districts out you would budget for it next year based on your percentage of the SU budget but the enterprise enterprise fund can run a deficit it's not like the general fund it's a whole different fund right right no I understand that but the the I question whether so what it sounds like the core of your argument is is that you believe that we can run this at the at the SU level in such a way that the base expenses of all the cafeteria personnel of all the food that we're buying will be covered by the reimbursements we get from the families that are paying in and from the federal government it's not going to require any dollars from the district that's correct I find yeah I I I I I'm sorry I find that very I mean put in half the money then let's put in let's put in 25 000 as a as a food service placeholder but I mean we put in placeholders to cover you know predicted contract settlements when we don't know what that money's going to be I think putting in you know but I think putting in zero dollars because you know we have I have not seen this plan that tells me how all that money is going to is going to cover our base operating costs and we're going to get to we're we're going to get to a a place where we don't need some some sort of subsidies so yeah I mean I mean the only thing I can base that off of is other districts don't do subsidies nearly as large as you and they've been running hundred thousand dollar deficits in food service year after year within their enterprise fund and we still feed the kids I mean I just we can you we can budget it it's just that the only way that that's going to actually come out of your budget is if we don't centralize it if we centralize it we don't plan on billing the districts for it until after the first year it does I mean it does keep sounding like at that point it becomes an assessment Carl after the after year one of centralizing food service so in FY 23 when you build the budget for FY 23 and the SU builds the budget for FY 23 food service would then become a portion of the SU budget in FY 23 but won't we have been under budgeting for that amount by a year yes they hold yeah everybody will we don't know what to budget is my point right like we could have we could have just thrown out imaginary numbers at every district would you yeah I mean you could say as a placeholder throw out some percentage but we weren't planning on assessing back after until after the first year well and part of it is it's a two-phase attack that you will hear about at the SU meeting that I need to talk to some still some personnel that I'm not comfortable talking about right now in public okay I just want to Jenny you raised Jenny raised your hand could you get in here please thank you um so when it gets built back would that be retroactive billing for this year as well or just next year no we we just will use it to build the budget moving forward and once you hear the full plan the idea would be that we stop running deficits in food service and that we start running food service at a place where it's neutral or even possibly hopefully in the black that's the goal of this Megan I'm gonna I'm gonna have to agree with Carl I'd like to see a placeholder in there because we are potentially gonna put nothing in the budget for something that we haven't actually decided on at an SU level officially yeah no that's I mean if you guys are banking on you keeping your local district food service then you can definitely put a placeholder in there it's not banking I just want to make sure that you know that we're not left out to drive in case it does not actually get taken on by the SU well yeah that's a good point I mean we we have to prepare this word you're asking just to vote on this budget and maybe we don't vote it on tonight because of that maybe we wait and see what the SU decides before we before we go ahead with this how do we that's a good point Ethan how do we feel about that I mean here's the thing you know we put $25,000 in there and that I imagine there goes there goes our foreign language that's the kind of trade-offs we're talking about right now yeah I mean again I guess what I would say is you asked us to come with a budget under the threshold and that's what we did yeah and you said make it hurt and part of the herding is happen to look at food service well food service and you know other things that you know good good staff members things like that Jenny you raised your hand again if I'm looking at the correct document that Tara sent around and I I assume that we'll be looking at it but it looks like we're about $300 under the threshold so it does look like if I'm looking at the right document that there's a little bit of wiggle room if we wanted to add a placeholder in yeah Tara do you know how much wiggle room we have to the to the threshold and actually it'd be nice to know what what $25,000 will do if we don't worry about the threshold if we just worry about the penalty like we had the last time we looked at the budget that's what we meant Ethan yeah oh the threshold so we we're not under the we are under the threshold and I'm going to ask Tara how much you could add back not to get over it got you $55,175 so you could easily put in $20,000 now you put in anywhere up to that we'll take you right to the threshold at $25,175 but if we if we take if we add 20 back just so there's something there can we still get foreign language and keep all the other staffing levels as they are yep yeah you can add up to that $55,000 in as a placeholder and still keep everything else under 50 40 percent is that amy you've got your hand up what do you say uh yeah I was just wanted to say I don't want to reduce our programming and our education because of of the food uh so I do understand Carl and the comfort level of having nothing there so I see the direction you're kind of going now with putting something I don't think we should go all the way up to the threshold on put $50,000 in but maybe maybe put 20 in or something on I'd be comfortable with that I just I don't want to reduce our programming for what we're offering education for our kids just because of of this food I agree and I think I think that you know I I you know Jamie has delivered on on the majority of his of his promises fairly well you know I don't I'm not trying to completely doubt him but I I find it hard that we get from zero to 60 in a year so yeah let's put in 20 or 25 and I'm I'm suddenly much more comfortable um justine yeah I I'm fine with that I think putting in 20 it um is a good idea it's a good placeholder it does make me feel more comfortable I definitely not in support of of um taking away any programming uh in place of food service but I am hopeful that the plan that Jamie is presenting is it sounds really good to me so I'm hopeful that that's going to work out I'm okay with it either way Megan I am comfortable if we put in a $20,000 good and Jenny yeah I'm good with that it's good um I don't think we need to make that as a motion right you just take that and we'll just add it and then if you guys are willing to support the budget tonight Tara we'll have the new figures for you guys um just want to get Lindy Bonnie um how do you feel about that 20 but just just I mean you may not change our mind but I just want to hear it I may not feel like if $20,000 in addition was to be added back into the budget we could have added some programming back I have a lot of confidence in Jamie and Tara and what they're doing like a ton of trust and I know kids aren't going to go without food and I understand the concerns behind it but you're you know you just expressed a concern about the music person not being full-time yeah I would echo instead of listening and hearing out what Jamie's full plan is well that would mean I would Ethan I would just say this I think this is I mean I would echo most of what or I would echo what Lindy said I think with the music outdoor ed program what we always have to keep in mind is that as positions become more part-time they become more difficult to staff so a point eight position may or may not keep our present music teacher I um I'm worried about yeah and I think I think uh Jamie's plan moving forward a number of districts are moving in that direction for the very simple reason that they can't sustain these small food programs and they can't pay for themselves the way they're presently configured so I have to be bluntly honest if I had 20,000 to put back into the budget I would put it into programming for students and I would give this program I would give Jamie's plan an opportunity to unfold well I'm going to make another proposal and that is the other option which is we don't approve tonight we wait until we see what the SU approves this program and we come back and do approve by on this budget um on March and on March meeting I'm fine with that as well we might have we might have some more clarity around a higher yield rate that may that may make some of this penny pinching um not as uh painful as well I agree um okay AMA uh Jenny it Carl just brought up a very good point do we have any idea when the yield will be finalized no no but that that's not going to change your equalized pupil it'll help your tax rate even more and we will update your tax sheet as soon as the yield changes anyways but you know the the issue for us really is we did lose a couple equalized pupils again right and so that that's helping us and the threshold is about the per pupil spending it looks like compared to draft actually increased uh equalized pupils by two well it did Amy but you still lost them from last year still down from last year just last year I just now is that number finalized the equalized pupil yes okay thank you um all right so we've we've we've got a couple different ways but I hear this is an important issue um we've heard that um $20,000 was a good idea for a placeholder but then we realized that it could just don't forget that we're looking at a bare bone you know really down to the bare bones ouch level uh budget which is what we asked for um and that sounds like our administrators would actually like that $20,000 back to to spend in programming perhaps even a little more um we if we have a $51,000 uh gap maybe we give them 20 we maybe what's the cost of moving the music and outdoor teacher back to full time yeah so I was just gonna say I think the board could do the 20,000 placeholder Carl and you could probably move your music teacher back to full time and we would just be barely under the threshold I could be wrong Tara loves it when I say those things and then she has to start trying to write back 12 things a code but well is our concern that the thresholders are concerned the actual increase in tax rate because what this budget provides is um you know nine cents and nine and a half cents in Rochester of an increase and five and a half cents in Stockbridge as an increase um so as we increase the expenditures we're going to increase that tax rate is that what what's our goal is it to keep is it the threshold or is it the tax rate hi yeah there's a good question Amy what I had heard was you guys wanted to get under the threshold the last time we met was to come forward with a budget that was under the threshold um and so that's what we did but we also tried to get under enough to also get your taxes down the best we could but don't that's why we didn't come just under it don't forget Amy that also last time you said based on the projections going forward of what budgets we're going to be and tax rates are going to be uh we actually felt pretty good about last budget though I just want to put this plug in your ear I'm not I hate well I'm going to say to be fiscally responsible you need to remember we're in a pandemic and people have lost jobs and are struggling to make ends meet I know we're significantly below what was projected at the merger but there are some folks that this may come down to like we also want this budget to pass because there's nothing else left to change in it obviously as well to support our programming so we have to kind of keep that in mind too people you know there's lots of different levels to this and I just want to advocate for the fact that that could put a significant hardship on folks and say no you got to figure something else out when they go to vote well we need a I mean we haven't got a whole slew of other questions to ask here I think we're a long way I don't think we're one I don't think we're ready to pass this budget yet I don't think we I think we've got too many issues with it still but that's that's what I'm hearing anyway um yeah I don't know it's all it's up to our consensus is what do we want we've got we've got basically three different proposals we accept the budget as it is we put in a placeholder amount of 20 we do not pass the budget tonight and wait and see if the SU will pass this program um and then come back and revisit just so you guys know I didn't plan to ask the SU to take action on this until their March meeting I wanted to get a consensus if they wanted to move forward with the SU wide plan and then have them vote in March but that means we wouldn't have this decided for us so if you guys are uncomfortable with not putting money in it I would say you should put a placeholder in if you want to wait to see what the SU votes on other districts didn't feel the need to do that but I would I just in just being up front with you guys I wasn't going to look for the SU to vote on that I was going to look for consensus around were they thinking that they wanted to go that way um but I wasn't asking them to vote on it well then we've got I think we need to do some voting here I think we need to just make some decisions um there's leave as is add 20 placeholder um I don't think without him asking them I don't we can't wait till April uh to approve no no we can't buy the warning so I I'm gonna you know at this point I would advise you to put money in if you're worried about that that's why I'm bringing that up well and I think um then there's two options we add we add the 20 000 placeholder or we do not and I think that does need to be a vote um uh at this point so um let's say um I will well let's let's get a vote on um do we add 20 000 to this budget as a placeholder for the food budget um I don't know that we need to do a motion on it because it's not um it's just changing that right yeah but we have has Tara given us a cost on on restoring the music teacher to full time I know she's working on it is my sense but because I don't want to yoke I would almost want to yoke those two questions together I agree very rough number very rough number 11 744 dollars and seven cents so 30 30 000 roughly would get us there both I would say just to give yourselves cushion you would you would you would you would you would direct us to add 35 000 to the bottom line I mean that's what the board essentially votes on anyways right you guys vote and approve the bottom line so when you I would that gives you a you could we could add that into the food service and then you know we could add that full-time teacher back and add the additional money into the food service transfer line I would certainly personally just love to put that uh vote of confidence vote of financial um policy behind our music program I'm okay with that so that's a number of 35 000 is what's being suggested I suggest we say yes or no to that um and I'll call the roll here Carl yes justine yes Megan yes Amy yes Jenny yes Ethan yes good here we go whoo did everyone follow what I said so we'll add the full-time music and I think that will give us even a little more than 20 and we'll put it on that that function code line for food service hey can I can I can we wave the flag a little bit more about the fact that we're going to have a foreign language program next year because I'm really really excited about this and by no we're not publicizing it enough but we really need to talk about it a lot more because it's been something we've wanted for several years so anyway yeah it's one of the original things when we came together that we said we dreamed of so yeah okay more importantly we surveyed our community and they dreamed of it too yeah this was this was not just our idea well and um here's the thing you you did exactly I just wanted Jamie Tara Lindy Bonnie you did exactly what we asked you to do you came in with ouch we said ouch and we came back and that's exactly what we asked you to so thank you very much um the ouch was clear I think for all of us um good we will now carry on with Carl's second question and then I I think um the the second question is just that uh do all these labor costs in this budget reflect our recently settled uh contract uh agreements and our most recent guidance on where health is uh going to end up Tara yes correct yes yes sorry I'm doing the calculations in the budget but yes this this budget draft as have all the others that we've presented takes into account the settled teachers contract and the increase in health insurance rates thank you and then my my my last and sorry in sports staff and my last question is um have we heard from the uh the the the the trustees of public funds in Stockbridge that they intend to uh you know give us the the the same funds they've given us before yes they're spoken to the letter to me we're good great um then uh that's it for me good let's go back to I'm sorry it's been a while since there's some questions here so uh who else has questions on the budget moving forward anybody else Megan no I I feel comfortable with the questions I've asked so far okay good justine no thank you my questions have been cleared up over time good jenny same I have no more questions good and Amy um yeah and I kind of asked this before but we've kind of gone away from it so um this the outdoor education specific person from last all around that we were going to have one day a week for each campus is that um the same person for both campuses or is it um in each campus there it's there uh has a lead person right now that it's the same person so then okay same person thank you yeah it will be next year yeah yeah um and just thinking going forward and I don't want to make you know our teachers nervous but I just this idea of traveling teachers um it's proving to work really well and I'm wondering if it could work um in potential and I'd love to see some thought about this personally I would see and see what the board thinks about because my opinion individually doesn't matter um uh about the idea of traveling um grade heads if we could do that instead of moving classes back and forth if we have grade head teachers going back and forth and if that's another economy that's down the road for us potentially with scheduling you know even when you say grade has you mean like a grade four teacher complete teaches both second grade in Rochester and in Stockbridge thinking caps on yeah that there may be a way within a content model to do it well I'm just saying you know you're unifying you're unifying you're unifying I mean this is what you're talking about it's all staff it's all together um it's the logical to me it's a logical step but I don't want to you know I don't want to I don't want to scare anybody because that's obviously down the ways but I I think it's the next logical question if we're really and so as I said I don't need an answer tonight I I'd just be curious to know Amy would be yeah I think that this is all this is great conversation and discussion that we're gonna need to have going forward in a different forum maybe as like a round table kind of thing to just kind of hash out and get ideas out on the table so I well if even if it's even something we should even be kind of playing or not you know just the seems seems pretty logical in some ways but maybe not at all maybe maybe you have good convincing reasons why it's not possible so good I think it's very interesting it's very interesting idea I've been thinking a lot about ways to kind of combine the the schools in different in different in different ways but I also wanted to explore because we have an outdoor ed teacher we haven't spoken a lot about what that's going to look like either so I think it would be great to have some time to kind of work at work together in a round table situation on both of those topics how to move faculty around and use them efficiently and creatively and what outdoor ed even means in the future oh let's put those as agenda items for March that would be great that said I think we're at a point where we're ready to vote on our budget I just wanted to I'm sorry Ethan I just wanted to make a quick comment to your idea about rotating teachers um I recall hearing um I think it was at a VSBA thing but there was a discussion of alternate models like that and they talked about actually getting away from like grade level teachers and going to content area teachers I've heard about that instead of instead of rotating fourth grade teachers between two campuses you're rotating your math and your humanities and your science or your STEM teachers uh back and forth and you're and you're uh consolidating the learning you know by like kind of content area versus by grade level just so you're all aware some of that is already happening within buildings especially at that grade level I remember us we've talked about that before yeah we've definitely talked about that I know in terms of Rochester at least people having specialties um teachers having specialties so uh Justine you put your hand up again I just put it up again because I think that's a really interesting idea that I have thought of in comparison to Rochester when I went to there had an integrated middle school I know it's not it was a different level of education but um I definitely have thought about that idea not in a full um quite as full of a way as Carl brought it up but I wanted to thank him for bringing that up because it's something I've been thinking about and Jenny yeah I'm just going to comment on kind of what Lindy had said that at least in Starbridge I feel like some of that's been happening with the literacy teacher and I feel like more so especially at the um the virtual learning academy that's already happening um my daughter has one teacher for math and another teacher for literacy um so I can kind of see that something like that expanding we we we know we're headed down um a financial tube of some sorts and I think we have to be innovative and we have to be groundbreaking in our thinking to make sure we get great education um at a way we can afford that's and so this is might be an out there okay uh and if they're not being any more questions I think we're ready ready entertain a motion and uh that we accept the 21-22 budget as proposed is that proper how are we doing now we need the new number oh god you're going to need the new new education spending and per pupil spending correct Tara do we have that printed out so somebody can read it as opposed to having to memorize it or just I think I'm going to act so just for transparency I'm going to give you a tax sheet I'm going to share it on my screen in a second it's just going to show that we're adding the $35,000 that you wanted us to add to it it's not going to show you the breakdown because I'm still working on doing the breakdown no that's fine Tara they just need that overall number yep and we don't have to prove the warning tonight or anything right no no no but this will let me get to work on it because you get another I'm going to PDF this so he can share it oh thank you so as we're waiting for that no the the next thing on your discussion just to give you a highlight is which will help us with the warning is the board needs to actually take formal action to move that we would vote via Australian ballot the board has the authority to do that but I need you guys to take action on that tonight if that's your desire oh hey Jamie I sure I heard you say 45 minutes a couple times I think don't you know this is our side I thought you guys are going to be ready to rock and roll tonight I just I've emailed uh for David twice and said it's taking a little longer you know us you guys are awesome we can't we can't we just no we had to talk about that that was that's exactly what you wanted us to talk about you wanted us to get down there to where we're like actually paying attention I mean everybody pays attention I shouldn't say that we really did we you know where we're no it's perfect I'm debating the real issues of where I need you guys to really you know assist me at the SU level with food service oh Carl you're going to be there for me right I'll be there I'll be there probably more for me in my opinions but I'll I'll support you well I'm glad you mentioned it because I forgot to have it in my calendar so there you go Monday evening it's a full packet so you'll all get it tomorrow I waited because we we just interviewed our finalist tonight for the CAO so you'll get their resume tomorrow in your packet Tara you got that number or are we waiting for Ray I just emailed it to Ray to put up on the screen so you could see everything great um just a motion adding $35,000 I can move that we uh well you will want you to approve um just the right yeah oh no he's going he's got it it's gonna come up let's wait for you so Tara this is the right one right considering we're we're still gonna be under our 300 a three hour minimum okay well yeah yeah sure we are sure sure no problem Tara will you let them know what you need them exactly to say because I know there's there's certain language yep I need you to accept the FY 22 expenditure budget of four million three hundred twenty eight thousand seven hundred and fifty two dollars and you can see we added a thirty five thousand yep for Ray highlighted to get that and then which results in an act 68 education spending after local offsetting revenue of three million two hundred twenty six thousand eight hundred and forty eight dollars and so I gotta say I move we approve it uh FY 22 budget of four million three hundred and twenty eight thousand seven hundred and fifty two dollars which results in an x68 spending amount of three million two hundred and twenty six thousand eight hundred and forty eight dollars second seconded by Amy any discussion I think we've done that so far but just give a moment I'll call the roll uh Amy hi Carl hi Jenny hi Justine hi Megan hi Ethan hi we have a budget very good thank you all okay moving on thank you very much thank you Tara thank you administrators principals uh for for making some things that you must have winced to do so I appreciate it I know it's hard but we're gonna have foreign language okay moving on to action uh five two Australian ballot for annual meeting um I think this can be pretty straightforward right yeah I actually have the wording right here of the motion from brought me to read it absolutely thank you Amy in pursuant and to act 162 of 2020 I moved to conduct the Rochester Stockford Unified School Districts 2021 annual meeting using the Australian ballot voting methods for all articles second and seconded by Carl um uh let's go right down our list again uh Amy how do you vote hi Carl how do you vote hi Jenny how do you vote hi justine how do you vote hi Megan how do you vote hi uh Ethan votes aye the eyes have it we are by Australian ballot good um we are now at public comment I will go to our list and we will start with Joanne Mills of Stockbridge do you have a comment for the board uh can you hear me yes very well oh good okay I've been practicing um I have to say I'm pretty excited about um the promise of um what's gonna happen I I think Bonnie has been awesome for us and I I'm excited that she's happy in her new endeavors um and I do think that Lindy will do a super super super job uh watching over both schools and um I'm gonna have an open mind about this one I think that Lindy will I I think it's gonna be really good um I would like to know what the foreign language is do we know yet no now that the board approved this um budget Joanne then we would look to move to post but I haven't even talked to Lindy at all yet about what that posting will look like it's very promising to hear that we're gonna get you know one of the things that was on the list um in the very beginning of the merge so I appreciate everyone um following that that's really that's really wonderful um Sonya that's all I have to say I I feel a little bit um lighter about this and and thank you so much for working hard thank you Joanne I appreciate it Karen Rubin do you have a comment for the board yeah the only thing I'd like to say is you guys did a really fine job this evening I'm very impressed and happy with the the work and the thought that everybody gave to this and I appreciate that so thank you thank you Karen much appreciated um moving down Patty Harvey do you have a comment for the board Pat Harvey do you have a comment for the board no okay I'll move on Tim Pratt do you have a comment for the board no okay um one phone number 802 star star three eight please press star six to unmute and identify yourself please no comment Keith thank you all right that concludes public comment thank you all what oh charity I'm so sorry charity I missed you yep you were at the top my apologies charity please give us a comment that's okay thank you good evening everyone um two questions one is quick I'll ask that one first um Justine kind of hit on it earlier but I know I'm definitely confused and not really sure what direction it means when you say you have an outdoor ed role so I know you mentioned you're gonna try and add more discussion in about that at the next meeting and that would be greatly appreciated because to me the vision I have in my head is does that mean a playground monitor I don't really know because this is a new type of role that I never experienced as a child so I'd love more information on what that person's role is and how it pertains to like educational piece of it um my other question is clarification from Jamie or Tara when you're talking about the food service program it goes into a one-year enterprise platform first at the su level um does that mean that it becomes a perpetual one-year retroactive program so the budgeting that you do is in year one gets paid for in year two and year three gets paid for it's it's continually perpetual like some of the that is exactly what we're proposing charity so it's not that there will ever be a true deficit it's just there's a one-year deficit carryover so it's always going to be a one-year balance out and I think that that's a concept that's hard for some people to understand because you're always going to have a negative number that's never going to balance in its same year um so I understand why there were people that were discouraged by that concept but I believe correct me if I'm wrong a lot of our federal funding for programs happens that way already and has for decades right yeah no absolutely and other certainly other districts do go about their food service this way um but it's certainly not how we've done it and what we're looking to do is take the opportunity if we centralized to go about it that way charity but you just said it in a much more articulate way than I did and that's why I'm the superintendent and not the financial officer I very much appreciate charity that simple dynamic of the backwards as makes all the difference in explaining this so I would advise Jamie and Tara to add that into your discussion with the SU and maybe a diagram too I like diagrams charity have anything else no that's it for me thank you everyone great thank you charity all right um that concludes our public comment hopefully I didn't miss anybody else um and we are now ready to enter uh I'll entertain a motion to entertain uh enter executive session um for real estate negotiation and uh we want to invite in I believe David Rowe and uh Jamie and it's uh and Bonnie and Lindy is that correct okay Tara you go home my friend who me I told Tara I told Tara she could good night everyone good night Tara thank you so and Ethan I just emailed David so okay good so we all know we have a separate link to go into executive session let us go there and and we will return to close out the meeting when we're done and take any action if needed all right see you there uh I move that the board authorizes Jamie Kanarney to sign the subdivision permanent applications for both the town and the state for the Rochester high school for the Rochester high school so moved do we have a second second by just Dean uh all in favor signify by saying I I heard enough it's so thank you everybody have a good night good night David um the other action is that uh the board has instructed our lawyer to craft a letter response to the select board uh we hope that letter will be going out uh tomorrow or Monday thank you all um that completes our action for tonight I would entertain a motion to adjourn look at this we did two hours people thank you for two items for two agenda items so that's about right we're about you know an hour per agenda I think good we have a move motion to adjourn so many seconds all in favor signify by saying I thank you