 Okay, I'm going to start recording and call the meeting to order. I think she's played at the flim. I'm sorry. Thank you all for being here. Hi, I'm Jodi Emerson, Superintendent Director of the Central Vermont Quarry Center School District. And it looks like we have our board, we have our business manager, Michelle, we have our minutes taker, Stephanie Olson, and we have one of our instructors, Carol Madison here. And then on screen, I see four board members, and then I have three here in the room with me. So Scott, Jim, Jason, Guy, thank you all for joining online. And Alice, Lyman, and Jana, thanks for being here. Our first order of business today, we're kind of over the shoot. I got it. Yeah, I'm fine. We can also turn on the overhead lights when it starts getting darker. We get to reorganize this group. That's great. And so do I have a nomination? Oh, first off, has everyone, and I guess by everyone, I mean Alice and Scott who are new back. Oh, and Josh, welcome aboard. Have you all completed your oath of allegiance and not with the city clerk prior to getting here? Probably done it for your setting boards. Yes. Awesome. Thank you. So do I have a motion for board chair? Oh, no, please. I move that Alice be our board chair. Alice Farrell for our board chair. Okay. Okay, so Jana moves that Alice be the board chair, Lyman seconded. Are there any other nominations for board chair or any other interested parties? Alice, are you interested? Yes. Excellent. Hearing none. Is there any discussion? All right. All those in favor say aye or raise your hand. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion is carried and turn it over to you. Okay. All right. Well, thank you all. Our next order of business is to elect a vice chair who would serve in the capacity in case the chair is not able to be at a meeting or at a board meeting. Guy has this guy has, what have you got? I'd like to nominate Lyman Castle as vice chair based on his experience and excellent job for the last couple of years. Second. Okay. We have a motion and a second. Any other nominations? All those in favor of Lyman Castle being the board vice chair. Please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. All those any discussion All those in favor Say aye. Aye Anyone opposed? Seeing no opposition motion carries Yes He's quick on the nomination for anything can happen now our regular board meetings are So in the past year our regular board meetings were the second Monday of every month from 6 to 8 I think when we think about that for moving forward if we want to keep that that's fine except for April 8th Which is the eclipse day? Okay? Okay? We can do that any other suggestions for meeting days guy Does that does that meet with the new board members because I don't know what What days your your boards meet so No, we're very good Yeah Unless they've changed right Okay, so the second Monday the reason I asked is I didn't know in reorganization whether people that change So the second Monday of the month except for April 8th, and we'll figure out What we're gonna be doing on April 8th How we'll handle that all righty board retreat date. Do we have a retreat date? Do we do a retreat? I believe we've done it in June. Okay, obviously, so we just start one of our June meetings Our June meeting early not one of okay Okay And then we took July off. Yeah, okay So the June meeting June 10th Okay, great, and then we start at what time then for four all right, so June 10th at 4 p.m Scheduled for retreat Committee assignments We have finance facilities policy program quality and negotiations I mean let's just skip to the bottom here if I made negotiations. Do we have negotiations this year at all? They will likely Move to start for negotiations because the current contract takes us through this year and all of next but they'll be negotiating for FY 25 So probably start November. Okay, so Negotiations committee will begin in November Two oh two four Now do we do this voluntarily guy you have something yeah, I'll I'll volunteer to be on negotiations and and volunteer to get them done by January Okay guys on negotiations Question yes, sir. Are we going to Oh, I'm sorry, Jason Now what that was it that you were volunteering for Negotiations Okay, and then you're automatically on negotiations No, no, I thought it's the board chair That might have happened to gel but Don't be shy, it's a fun time Alright Sure, sir The policy committee as though it we've done it as the full board and not had a committee or we still comfortable with doing that That way One of the things that we the previous board had agreed to was that we were hiring the BSBA to do a Policy review this year. And so once they're done with that, I still think this full board could do the work Do you know when the BSBA will approximately have their report done? No, okay, I have to reach back out to floor. Okay. Okay. All right So So that takes care of policy for our new members. We haven't done an extra meeting for policy. It's been in the board meeting itself And it's worked out for it's been fine Yeah, I'm sorry if I missed this but what are the standing committees and How many what what has been the practice in terms of number of committees that that board members are on and number of board members on That was really confusing. Sorry No, you can you can handle that. Okay, so we have a finance committee a facilities committee a program quality committee and negotiations Finance facilities and program quality meet once monthly in the past finance and facilities have both met on the first Tuesday of the month and Program quality has met right before this board meeting Previously negotiations is as needed and We have three members on each we can have more but not less Okay, I'd like I'd like to stay on that program quality I would also like to stay on the Janna And I was going to volunteer for program quality, but if someone else would like to do that I Can either do program quality or finance easily Would you be would you be comfortable on the finance committee Scott? Okay, very good. We'll put Scott on there. I'll stay on that finance committee Okay, was that Jim who spoke up Jim? Okay, I'm going to get everybody's okay So we've got So program is full And we have Mike Bishop is not online. I don't think from the Harwood district and then we have One person home need to be appointed from from Washington Central at large. Okay, so What we have left then here is one person on finance all three on facilities and One more for negotiations. Yes, I can I can volunteer for facilities Okay Thank You Joshua and when does that meet again? I'm sorry We get to decide that today, but it has all right the set the first Tuesday of each month We have finance we used to have finance at four and facilities at five Facilities is taking on a really big project. Hopefully floor warned you of that and so I yeah There may be additional meetings with the architects. It sounds like a really exciting project. So Okay All right, so we need Yes, could people just say what that who they what board what committee they were oh Okay, they come from because I don't know. Oh, okay. So the next the next time around if you're speaking Introduce what? Regular education district board you are from and that way we can recognize you for your home district and I am my name's Jim and I'm from the Harwood Union I Malice Farrell and I represent the Barry unified Union School Board I'm Jana Ossman and I represent Twinfield Hi, I'm Joshua Sevitz and I'm coming from Washington County Scott Lowens Scott please He froze he froze him guy. Oh, he's frozen What power I I'm the at large number at the new USDA board and I Would also like to volunteer for facilities again Okay Guy will put guy on Scott you want to try again? It froze up a little yeah I think my kids are eating up on my bandwidth Scott Lowens Montpelier Rocksbury School District Okay, and I'm Lyman Castle. I'm the at-large member from Montpelier Rocksbury Okay, so I'm Jason Monaco. I'm from the Cabot School All right, you meet Monday Yeah, next Monday So I'm most likely you'll get repointed unless somebody else We're counting on you Jason Now I think we have everybody in the room on At least one committee, yeah So do we just continue for the next? Talk talk to the folks who aren't here and see what they would want to do okay so The next thing we have to talk about is the district spokesperson and Usually the district's post person is the superintendent of schools and or the board chair Does that meet with everyone's approval it's Jody and Alice all right, we've got that and We need an authorization. We need a motion to authorize the chair to sign employee contracts So we need a motion from the okay Second any discussion on having the chair sign employee contract tracks the contracts would all be reviewed Anyway by the full board it would not be anything that we'd be in a closet somewhere doing that so All those in favor of having the Authorizing the chair to sign employee contracts, please Say aye. Aye Any opposition? Hearing none motion carries Okay, here we go Next page A Motion to authorize the chair to sign other contracts and Jody what would those other contracts be for example? sometimes they are with companies like The architects that we're working with we might have a contract with them, okay So contracted services all righty So authorize the chair to sign other contracts for contracted services. I need a motion like facilities use Yeah, okay, and Facilities so moved. I need a second second, okay second Jason anyone Any discussion? No discussion all those in favor of authorizing the chair to sign other contracts All right, any opposition? Motion carries Designate Okay, right designate the person to sign the warrants and Usually after the board has reviewed them that is the superintendent of schools here at the career center Can we get a motion to that effect to have the superintendent of schools sign the warrants? So move guy I Need a second Second Jim second Jim any discussion? All those in favor of having the superintendent sign warrants, please indicate by saying aye Any opposition hearing none Ms. Emerson is our signer for warrants And I'll turn a designated alternative person to sign the warrants in many cases That is the chair of the finance committee so Do you want to do when they have a chair? They don't have one yet. They don't have a chair. Yeah So when they organize well, let's wait on that and Have that person appointed after this finance committee appoints a chair. Is that acceptable? Yes, okay. Yes To be determined. All right Just as information there there's no need to vote on these The the location for posting agendas in minutes or is the town and city clerk's offices the front porch forum The career center website and the fit and the career center Facebook page Does anyone have any other suggestions where we might post agendas or minutes? All right going forward Do we agree on the use of Robert's rules of order thumbs up? Okay. These are just There is a suggested code of ethics that's in the packet It's a really very simplistic Code of ethics, but it covers everything that's needed guy never follows it True true confession, thank you Then We authorize Can I have a motion to authorize the use of that particular code of ethics that we have there? Okay, so move I need a second second all those in favor of you any discussion keep forgetting about discussion Talk among yourselves But Any discussion on the use of the code of ethics? No hearing none All those in favor, please indicate by saying aye Anyone opposed Right, then we will use the code that code of ethics communication practices Communication practices I imagine it is that we speak as a board that that basically what our what the tenant is is that when Anyone has a question and that question might be directed to them as an individual member of the board that that should be shared With the board or any public communication that goes out to any Information source like a newspaper or front porch forum that it we speak as a board Anyone have any problem with that No, it's also the reminder that You are all in a board group, but if you start a discussion in email, then that's a board Conversation and so you don't want to do that. So you'll see that I blind copy the board in my emails every time I remember And so you just reply to me and that way it's not a board conversation that hasn't been warned All right, we everyone any questions about that? All right board development opportunities I extend the invitation to anyone to come visit the career center and see what it is that you are supporting and just let Me know in advance and we'll schedule that tour and Otherwise if there's any questions, I think Jenna can speak to you just reach out And I usually make myself available to support whatever you might need Everyone all our new members should have on an email address. Hopefully that's working for you at this point And you're receiving my communications And then we'll do other development at a retreat Local and statewide education advocacy responsibilities and as far as the career center is Concerned there are some substantial areas for advocacy not only at the legislature, but at various Union or organizational meetings that we can speak about the the career center So does anyone have any suggestions what we might add to that list? No, okay but and my question to the members of the board would you be available either through email or Direct contract say for example with state legislators to advocate for the career center We're all on board with that Okay, very good. Thank you Our designated newspaper is the Times Argus The board packet format is both electronic and paper so that you can get it Get the information prior to the meeting and then have a paper copy to record any notes or whatever you might want to write on your information If you need a paper copy in advance, please let me know and we can mail it to you all right, and then the health the Voting delegate for statewide health care bargaining is usually the chair of the negotiations committee so when the negotiations committee has a meeting and Organizes and appoints a chair. We will insert that person into this line To be determined Okay, I believe we have done everything We are supposed to do to be organized and we now may consider ourselves organized Wait till tomorrow Alrighty So now we will move into our regular agenda number three Comments for items not on the agenda. Is there any public comment or comment from the board? There's a note about reviewing the agreement and the norms. Do we have those who have the normans in here? Yeah, okay, we'll do that. Okay, so we're set with that Are there any changes to the agenda? That anyone would like to see Anything to add remove table? I Don't see our student appointee here. Okay Do we have a student appointee? Okay, we do but he took a job that takes him away most Monday nights now Oh, yeah, okay, who is our student appointee? Yeah, I am aware of him. Okay very good So any public comments anyone from the public here? In our list of ten people Anyone who would like to all right moving forward The consent agenda. There are minutes from February 12th 2024 that need to be approved Okay, any discussion on those be on those minutes So There's two ways that we can do that we can either have a Thumbs up thumbs down on the minutes or we could just say that because there is no discussion that they can be considered to be approved so Shall we do a thumbs up on the minutes just to be sure? Okay, very good. Thank you and then Approval of the minutes from the annual meeting February 26th 2024 Approval back like I need a second Any additions or corrections to those minutes? Do they get a second? I didn't get a second on there All right Jim or Lyman, they're both at the same time And then I need a motion to approve those minutes. I mean a any discussion All right all those in favor approving the minutes of February 26 2024 All right, very good. All right minutes. Okay now The appointment plan for the Washington Central at-large position How are we going to go forward with that? When this happened before our first year We had people write in that they were interested in the one year because we can appoint for one year Okay So I suggest that we do that and then we give a timeline Prior to our April meeting which we do need to set a date for And then they can show up at that meeting to be interviewed by the board. Okay Okay, we have to post that job somewhere I will share it out. Okay, and all of you can share it on Facebook or On whatever you're on. Yeah, Instagram Okay, very good Dancing video we need Sorry to get carried away sometimes well and largely we need to remember it has to be somebody who lives in the Washington Central Yes, so There were lots of writings across all of our towns nobody got the 60 required writings and Most of them were not eligible because they didn't live in that right in Washington Central district. I Know a number of us got calls. Oh, you're looking for someone. I said, no, no, we're not looking for anyone from this district We're looking for Washington Central, right? Okay Now committee reports We have finance and facilities any report from finance Her budget passed. Yes So our finance committee was Jill and floor who are no longer on the board and Jim So Jim's are one member of the finance committee who's still here. We're excited that our budget passed That's one thing we don't have to worry about and we're gonna be spending a lot of money on architects Anything to add Michelle? No, I mean that was really it. We were just talking on our last meeting. We were talking about the new facility looking over that that contract as well as the habitat for immunity contracts, so We do have Per the negotiations our teacher contracts must go out by April 15th So if the board is gonna review those in advance, okay, make sure that our meeting takes place before April 15th Okay, we'll write this down by Four fifty Two oh two four. Okay, very good Any more discussion or reporting about the finance committee anything else Jim you have anything nope I Have a hard-out at seven though tonight, unfortunately Okay, we'll leave it. We'll work on it facilities committee Any report from facilities? Guy do you want to say something? well, you know, I don't know I can't remember who else was on the You know the kickoff for the visioning with the next Collins, but There's a pretty exciting time we have the There's a rope. There's a road trip coming up this week. So You know people are gonna, you know visit, you know some of the projects that they have done so Hard to believe but we're moving forward. Yeah, here's my last offer anyone want to join us on that road trip we're taking a bus up to Maine Thursday after school and We'll be visiting three centers that were designed by the Valley Brentsinger on Friday the 22nd And then coming back Not yet we do we do have 16 of our staff going Yeah, it's a great opportunity What what what were the dates again from that Jody we leave this Thursday at 3 p.m. From this career center and We'll go up to Rockland, Maine and spend the night up there and then we will be back late Friday So we're squishing in three centers and in the day Friday cool We'll see I'll look for an email from you, maybe Oh Style All right Please do please if you're interested. Let Jody know Thank you very much Now kick off and visioning with Truex cullen. That's what that was just talking about. Okay, so that's that's the road trip Okay meeting we had last week on Tuesday Which we did record that and you had it in one of your recent emails and it is If it's not already there it will be in No, it's there. I saw I watched it today. Okay All right Next is program quality. Oh guy. I'm sorry So, I'm sorry Jody I'm trying to remember I thought there was a discussion about With the with the contract about hourly rate versus flat rate And did that get settled There were questions about that and they did give us some clarity about that both Prior to the last facilities meeting before we signed the contract and then again In that meeting the kickoff meeting And what was the final final answer? Of course you're asking that it was a it was a combination based on One what they could Say definitively How long it was going to take there are things like The site site selection is hourly because they don't know how many sites we're going to ask them to look at Okay, I just I I couldn't remember. Thank you for doing. Thank you. Yeah Now moving forward any more before we go any more facilities concerns questions information One of the things that the facilities committee was also looking at prior to this shift in the board Is a space for a welding program. We're looking to open a welding program for next year We did hire a teacher on board to start developing that program And the space that we identified that we wanted was the is currently the maintenance stop shop for buusd It was the old tech ed classroom And so there was some outreach. I did a formal request to The buusd superintendent and he um declined Okay, and at that time sanya was Representing berry for us And so she asked some questions, and I don't know if she ever got I didn't I was not copied on her response. So I'm sure if she got one We would still like that space project workshave came in work safe. Sorry Came in on friday and said that it is indeed viable for a 16 student program And they're going to give us the information as to how we need to upgrade it to make sure that we can Put the welding program in there, but we need the aoe will not approve the program if we don't have permission to use the space Obviously, okay, right. So it's one of the many steps To opening the program that we need to do it's great that it's viable. Yes Well, it's great for us. Maybe not for berry All right, looks like the lights on in here now. Yeah Yeah Guy do you think we should get together and approach mr. Hennessy about that? You and I that Alice. Yeah I didn't hear you Alice. Um, do you think that you and I should get together and approach mr. Hennessy About using the maintenance shop for the welding program We're not sure there was no substantive answer as to why he declined um the use of that Facility for the welding program He declined it We'll be more than happy to I mean, I've got some Some opinions on it, but I'll keep him quiet right now. Okay Do we have any alternatives spaces that we could say you could use this for your facilities thing We did offer up one of the storage sheds, but it's not heated and So it may not be we also offered to allow because our programs currently are more than only To allow the maintenance staff to be able to use some of our tools and equipment In any of the programs and also to seek the support of students in Making those repairs that they needed to during the program day Do you have a copy of that letter forward would you for that? Yeah All right guy you and I can talk about that and see whether or not we need to um appeal to a higher source A better with a better angel. Okay. Very good. It may be a board to board. Yeah situation at this point So you may want I don't want you to put you in a place of conflict of interest So we may want to also see if anyone else on Facilities josh, I know that puts you in a weird space since you're the one other person right now But you might want to be involved in that conversation So because Alice is a appointed from the BUSD. So it's a challenging space Yeah, I understand I can uh I'm If there's a conversation if I need to be involved with the conversation that'd be great and I'm happy to touch base with Folks beforehand you get a little more background info and that kind of thing before I just sit there wide-eyed Right. That's probably really important. Yeah, I'll send both Alice and josh those Emails from before. Okay. Very good. That will give us some good background information mr. Sevitz Alrighty Can we move forward now from facilities? Are we ready to move on? All right program quality The clna presentation everyone have this packet What's your thought should we go through it or should we Do it next in April I think we could do it. I mean, I don't think it's that late. I think we could do it at a germ time you think Jody, what's your I think we could too. I'm going to need to do it All right, all right We're getting set up here so we can share a screen and everybody can see what's going on Sure Well program quality looks at the different programs and looks at the standards in order to achieve at a high level understand What the level of satisfaction is of the attendees in the programs their families Uh future plans and goals how we bring other students in to the career center Possibly earlier on than they currently may be to see if we can grow the the interest Of those who are interested in the programs that the career center offers Because we have a huge waiting list and we reject people And so we try to design programs of a high quality with a tremendous amount of certification Offered and college credits and dual enrollment credits For for the work that that happens at the career center So we look at all of those things and we also look at how The different constituents who are involved in making this whole program work so well How we all work together and And the clna was a comprehensive local needs assessment in order to be able to receive Funding from from Perkins, which we do every how many years three years every two years We have to do that. So it's really a deep dive into how the career center is working and how Effective the program has been for the different students within the different programs Anything else you'd like to add Blathering Can everyone see the presentation So thank you for that introduction Janet because yes every two years All career and technical education facilities have to do a comprehensive local needs assessment And that's across the united states and that is for our Perkins funding and for us we get about 260 270 thousand each year allocated of Perkins funds As long as we're doing this and we're moving forward this year We actually got a little over 300 000 because they reallocated some unused funds from last year And so this is really for this career center is what drives our strategic planning and our action planning So you'll see why we're moving towards a new center, for example in some of this work So I try to always make sure that we incorporate our vision as a district and a center in and so I've done that And as you can imagine we're working to prepare students for career and college And the diverse society and workforce that they're going to be entering And we have some very specific programs in which they're doing that For the comprehensive local needs assessment. There are six required components of our study And so we look at what's called accountability data some performance data You might have seen that information that I shared when I received it from the state We look at how our programs align to the labor market information that's available to us We analyze the side scope and quality of each program with and the Programs of study with some documents that the Vermont agency of education provides for us to do this And we analyze some of our strategies for recruiting retaining and training our staff Many of you who've been here for a few years will know that for instance We've had difficulty filling a position in plumbing and heating and so we did so with a lab assistant who got an emergency license and a Contracted worker from vhb. So we still have that going forward for the rest of this year We are not going to be able to get that Instructor and emergency license again next year. So we are looking again for a plumbing teacher But right now we have Pete from vhb who joins us three days a week and that's a contracted service And then we have the the lab assistant who have stepped up and took that emergency license opportunity And has been Instructing the class throughout the rest of the time. And so it's been a great partnership and Unfortunately due to licensing regulations. We can't continue that but we're hoping that we can figure out something moving forward to keep that program open And then the last thing that we look at is our progress toward implementation of equal access to high quality cte programs for all students And most of you have heard the mantra over and over again that last year We had 408 students applied and we accepted 208 So we're looking for ways to expand so that we can take in the students that are interested This this chart that's in front of you now is a comparison of our accountability data that comes from the state We submit a report every year just like all all of our sending schools do But ours is very specific to some cte related things along with the how many of our students graduate in four years, for example One of the pride and joy of cte is that the majority of students do graduate in four years You could see that our negotiated target Well, that'll be on the next one, but our negotiated target was about 96 and we hit that last year Um, and that's something that when I've spoken with Folks in the legislature, they're really proud of and they want to see all high schools in vermont hitting that kind of target Um, one of the things that I would kind of warn you about this is that I'm trying to show some growth from f y 21 20 to 22 and then 22 23 and then overall But these are different cohorts of students and I'm not sure that that's a valid Way to look at the data. I took this template from another center and decided to try it And I would love your feedback at some point as to whether or not that's something you want to see I mean, if we look at the academic proficiency in science, it looks like wow, we've done a great job But that might not be us. It might be all of your sending schools that you represent Because typically we get 24 students here for their ninth or tenth grade year But the majority of students are here in their junior and senior year So we might not be able to take Responsibility for some of those pieces In the last two rounds of clna the literacy and the math were scores from work keys, which is um A career readiness assessment that does literacy Reading writing and math So you'll see that those are coming from the work keys and not from your sending schools Test whatever it is that they're doing now for students that they have to take any questions Before I move on And always feel free to raise your hand or interrupt as well So then I went and looked at because the last time we did this was in FY 21 We looked at the FY 22 data specifically So that you could compare it with the FY 23 And if you look the yellow areas or areas that we just need to look at and try to figure out maybe what's going on A gold area is something that I must include in my clna Plan, which is my four-year plan and my action plan like uh perkins application. So any of those things Blue lets you know that That's a requirement for that program. So those are industry recognized credentials. Some of our programs That's required. Some of them they can choose either industry recognized credentials or college credits Some of them have to do college credits. So you can see that in there as well One of the things that I noted with the program quality group earlier. We we met we just didn't take action on anything um is that The teal piece was we don't have enough information in those areas and it's For me, it's a little shocking because I look at building trades Electrical and medical professions and I know it's not zero So I need to do some research as to why there's no data there for those three programs And we need to make sure we we collect it I do know that there are students in the field and usually this is from our We reach out to the grads recent grads and find out. What are they doing now where they go? And it could be that's related college. It could be military. It could be into the job Some of the really exciting things about this FY 23 data Is I was told by the state person that represents cte Ruth Durkey that we are the top school The top cte when it comes to students attaining tier two industry recognized credentials and college credits So not only did we highly exceed our our negotiated target But we are above everyone else in the state. So I'm really super proud of that and I hope you are too The program size scope and quality is a document that asks teachers to look at a variety of different areas And to recognize whether we're meeting our goals there And so you'll see that the minimum quality quantity of students two programs did not achieve that and this is their second year So that includes emergency services to and design of fabrication And so they need to have eight students in each program to move forward next year Um emergency services to we're looking forward to a wcax interview and story this week So we're hoping that that will help us and I know Carl is on screen and may have something to add but He and his students have been also doing a little bit of a rev show at any place that has an emergency services program where students get an emt certificate because once they get that they can move into our ems two Program that's a paramedicine program with uh, Vermont state university. It's the only in the country. We believe Right carl I know he's there. Yes. Sorry. I had to find the mute button Yes As far as we know from our research We're definitely the only second year program in the state But and and new england but yeah across the country at this level where You know having high school seniors start their paramedicine program and stuff Getting two-thirds of the way through it Three quarters of the way through it actually by the time they graduate high school It's phenomenal and every student in that program is working actively or volunteering in an emergency services Program locally so you might see them if you're in barry town and they're out and about or Waterbury, you know northfield and randolph and there may be a couple other places where they're supporting So it's phenomenal to know that these kids are out. They're on the ambulances Working and they're coming into school every day and they're also going to the bgc program every thursday with carl and they're there with the btsc who folks Did you say what our numbers currently are but we have four in there? We we accepted seven and four came okay, so that's that's also something we need to think about We can we can't exceed What we expect to have in the program like what we can if it's a program where we can have 16 we can't Accept more than 16 kids so we start a wait list But in this there were two programs this year that lost a number of students who had said they were coming and then did it after the summer So that's an area where we are doing a little work Can the kids go from emergency services one to two in our program? Yes, and do we have a Full of class ones this year. We have This year was a smaller group In that class and a couple of them are seniors. I think we have seven in that class right now And it's the first time it's been that low in a while next year. We have a much bigger group of kids Based on our first run application says and the road show that carl and his kids did they did get three applicants for a second round from that So we're hopeful Design and fabrication. I think it's we've gotten a lot of feedback about that's our stone arts program and folks don't know that from the title and A lot of the tours don't visit there So we need to really do a little more work on marketing that so we may pause that program for the year And look at how we can market it better And we'll be instructors be on hold for a year and come back. We'll probably have to talk about them All right Um when we look at the Sidescope and quality by program we see a positive trend line in our enrollment overall at the center Um, it's like increasing some non-traditional genders and the heavy trades especially in the past You might have walked through a tour and seen like one female student and automotive for example And and that has gone up And the skills emphasis and exploratory shout out to staff one of our exploratory teachers That had some really great highlights in it and we would like to extend that across the center Some areas of growth Obviously the number of students we turn away Is disheartening and it impacts them And so we'd like to be able to accept more students We need to figure out how to overcome the barriers to students enrolling or being interested in design and fabrication And there is also um because of the tuition formula There's a perceived competition between us and our sending schools If especially if they're experiencing declining enrollment And so how do we overcome that and if you've been following one of the things that the cte directors have been working towards Is a non-competitive funding formula and so i've been at the legislature Especially in the senate uh education committee several times already this school year Um advocating for that Did you have something i mean the pin i have a pin The other thing that we did is look at program of study and else i don't have a pin but put this one Doing a little i have to break into carl's room and go get some tweezers or something Um our teachers looked at 89 different components This is a really short list of what some of those things were in each cte program So we looked at standards, we looked at student assessment, we looked at engaging instruction, access and equity, work-based learning, all sorts of different pieces I think it just went backwards Yep So some celebrations of that is that we um Have improved in some areas The amount of work that my instructors do for this process is phenomenal and i'm really proud of that We can highlight medical professions in this one They've done a really good job of taking those areas where they were unmet to holding math And a couple of our programs were kind of on that list for labor market industry Um as they didn't maybe weren't high scale high wage Sorry they're dealing with a tick issue here, so we're trying to get rid of it Um So baking and culinary and cosmetology Added some pieces to meet those high scale high wage high demand Requirements of the state so that we can maintain those programs And then there are ways that we can grow we can strengthen our partnerships with the industry We can employ the strategies that have been used in medical professions for the equity pieces and curriculum looking at curriculum across all of our programs We can improve access potentially with uh transportation Which could be a barrier to some And look at opportunities to collaborate with our sending schools to see if there's a way to provide space And programming for the students that we're currently turning away And we are hoping to implement portfolios across all of our programs Everyone's dabbled in it. Not everyone does it Our survey data is phenomenal if you haven't gotten a chance to look at the clna Um data and check out the surveys. It's pretty amazing. It's my favorite thing is that We had 131 students out of 186 currently enrolled that completed that survey. So that is phenomenal a huge group of students Um, we see from our industry folks that employability skills are high from our students Many of our students have said that the Atmosphere here at the career center is one that they really appreciate and they don't want to go back to their sending schools There are some concerns in our feedback from faculty and staff around some negativity And so even though the pie charts are generally positive one of the things that we were talking about in program quality earlier Is there's a large amount of neutral that we could move Um, the concerns and comments are the area that's not quite as positive in the faculty staff one Um, there are some concerns in the student feedback around safety and program for some And and the students when they were looking at this leadership team of students They said That they noticed that not that many students actually put comments But the ones that did said something positive and then they followed it with something They were concerned about and those concerns were safety and program or other students vaping in the center We saw across a lot of the parent surveys There was a one and some of the students a want for a full day with academics So they didn't have to take that bus ride back and then attend a class at their sending school We have a need to strengthen our math skills here and improve that And then we have concerns about From some of the survey data there are people who did not apply to come here because they felt like they couldn't access College in the future And so I feel like we have some work to do to let them know that they can start college while they're here In many cases so i'm just gonna give you a minute to look at some of these pie charts This one down here was the one where jenna was noting that we could really Move the needle on that neutral group into the positive or cdcc has a positive faculty and staff culture It worked in with that And i'm hopeful that this road trip on Thursday friday will help One of the things we talk about is our professional development because parkins can be used for professional development purposes And so i've basically included all of the trainings that we've done while i've been here. This is my third year here And then we're moving forward in the fall with the college writing program We're going to work on some professionally based instruction and scoring because we recognize that not everyone across the center All of our staff have the same understanding of what it means And we're going to build our capacity there And then we're one of the things to look at that faculty and staff culture is To look at some special development around the psychologically safe environment One of the things we have to talk about is how we are moving towards equity and access. So we do have an equity scholar in residence This is his first full year with us And i think his name is life and he is actually on the harwood board as well He has been a phenomenal addition and has collaborated with many program instructors In teaching different pieces that relate to their program. He um taught a A few of the programs some information about osha and how it was developed in berry So he's added a little global citizenship there Brought in some excellent guests to support some you might have seen in the newsletter today And i think my new board members probably need to get on that newsletter Mailing list Sorry So mostly it's about when we bring students in And what they're doing. So you see our admissions process is highly part of this Calendar of activities that we do Something that we're really excited about is may Eighth is our trades fair this year. We hold that outside weather permitting It's basically a career fair or job fair for a bunch of our industry partners Our students get to show off the work that they're doing and we're going to have signing day for first and second round Acceptances, so we're going to give the kids an athletic hat and and they sign in for next year And so we're hoping that builds some of their excitement Also in our clna meeting last week, which was on the labor market We realized that rosie's girls, which is a Vermont works for women activity that they can build new rosie girls Programs and so we can build one that's related to our design and fabrication program I did not know until last week You might have already seen these student survey responses They were the ones that we included in our annual report. So we just we added them to this presentation overall super positive About safety in the center how people are treated with respect comfort level Use of equipment engagement, etc And this is in the board packet so you can take a look at it there I send out a Um survey to any to our recruitment and mailing group into all of our santa school principals to send their kids And ask them to fill out if they were not attending cbcc or another cte Why aren't they and so the majority of responses and there were only 34 so it's not really a good Survey sample size But they're afraid they wouldn't make graduation requirements at their santa schools They didn't want to be away from their friends Which was some of the reasons that some of our students who had applied last year did not end up coming with us One student was very clear in every answer that the dress code did not work for them And um, some of them said that we just didn't have the right programming for them yet parents Yeah, go ahead. What is this? Safety first, yes So it depends on the program, but most almost all of them are closed-toes shoes And sleeps right and often you don't get to wear skirts or dresses in the program So you can get caught in the equipment, right? So it depends. So we have an overall Center wide dress code and then it varies a little bit that program Look for the most part. It's pants short-suit shirt or long-suit shirt But no paint tops great So that's what you would expect in the industry So it's not that you're requiring everybody to wear a serious real work brown No, khakis khakis. No, they don't it's not a uniform today. Although some programs do have like scrubs Right, and they might have medical scrubs or and students don't wear those every day, but yeah So I don't think that's uh outrageous Me either Again, the parent responses are largely positive There's one there where we might be able to move the needle a little bit And that's the I believe cbcc gives my child something valuable that they otherwise wouldn't have an opportunity to do or learn in high school So we might be able to help them understand some of the things that we do that are different Last week was our last clna committee meeting. Thank you janna and guy for serving on that committee Um Basically, we were looking at the labor market needs and recognizing that we we definitely need to add a protect foundations to help Build the skills for students who are applying as eighth graders and want to get in as ninth grade Students, um, this would help them We want to expand our exploratory program. We get probably double the applicants of what we can take in that program Is that right stuff? Yeah We're looking at developing additional programming welding would be for next year. Hopefully Child care for the year after and business management potentially either Year after next or the following year We're looking as you know to expand program space and extend and or extend our hours of use in existing spaces We need to improve that marketing for design fabrication if we're going to retain it in the future And our adult programming has been limited this year In the past we've done a lot of kind of been doing the health care type of Pieces and we lost our lna instructor this fall And so we haven't been able to fill that position. So we have our first Adult ed phlebotomy course is happening this semester But it's a lot less we used to have lna courses running almost year round And so we don't have that this year Some additional considerations we need to continue our industry partnership And it would be great to hold mock interviews with students to grow soft skills across all our programs. A few of them do it now thinking about other recruitment opportunities, maybe a summer camp, which I've told we did before COVID Collaborate with Vermont works for women to build that design and fabrication roses girls and providing additional training that is program specific across all of our Program so that we made the needs of our industry folks based on our survey responses And then when I looked at this I looked at the themes from our analysis And you can see that those are probably things that everyone has across all of our sending boards if you need We need to communicate more. We'd love to see more folks at our board meetings We'd like to know how to get feedback from folks that are not part of the board Um, we're always looking at our data and assessment and trying to learn and grow from that For us, we're focusing on those employability and universal skills. It might be transferable skills that are sending schools Looking to develop those partnerships with industry Continuing to develop our teachers Anyone who's new to cte our teachers are generally coming from industry They tend not to be teacher trained And so they come in and they start teaching in their first year and also start taking courses in a four-year apprenticeship model And so it is a huge and heavy lift for anyone who's new to cte Because they're teaching first time ever and they're taking college courses To get that licensure. So it's a lot of time and energy from them for those first four years Um, we're looking at program expansion and space needs and then safety and supporting our students And each one of those themes is broken down into a couple of bullet points throughout the rest of this I'm not going to take the time right now to go through each one of them But you do have this, um information and if there's something that comes up for you around this You can certainly reach out and or take it up in the committees that you might be in Welcome And this is online on our board page and it's also in the clna folder. So it's there's two places Should be able to find it. Thank you Any questions concerns comments? Thank you very much. We appreciate the information guy I may have to ask jim for permission to speak but I'm gonna speak anyway Jody you really thank you for allowing us to you know, sit in on that particular process Just speaking for myself, but I know janet, you know, feels the same way uh The the great thing for me was to experience other collaborators that are part of the decision making process, which is really You know really You know, a hot moment for me was Uh, you know, since we have a governing board and I think I've said this before You know, I I think the You know, we we missed the participation of the rap board members who are local, you know potential employers and stuff and while we had some that At those meetings, uh, you know, it would have been nice to have more Uh, but you did a marvelous job of you know, putting this together and I Really appreciate that one. Thank you. The other thing I wanted to say is especially for the new board members If you haven't scored the classes at the career center You need to take a few minutes to do that. You will be Absolutely amazed. You'll be doing cartwheels by the time you leave You know what these kids are doing is just, you know over the top I can't say enough about it. I You know, there's I think a little bit of a stigma And a little bit of misunderstanding And the more you understand it the more you see it, uh, you will be wow so Guys just want to sit really quickly Thank you for that invite and um, I am new to this board. I was on the rtcc board back in uh, 2009 and 2010 when I was uh in Illinois living in randall. Um, and so although I have not seen cvcc students in action, uh, I have This I'm not new to cte. Um, so thank you very much Thank you all any any other further discussion comments? All right moving forward to superintendents report You have a report for us It was in your package. Yep Anything else you would want to add Or highlight Let's see Um, I think I've already I talked about the budget already. Yep. Um, I've told you emergency services We're getting interviewed on wednesday morning. So I'll let you know as soon as I know anything from wcax on when to look for that um Poetry out loud our digital media art students did the livestream for that and then um two of our Alumni were able to finish off that day. So our students are here from 8 30 to 12 30 So they did that portion and then some alumni stepped in and did the rest of that day So if you see that video, that was our students or alumni. So our former students We did um close out our round one Application process and so students got notified on friday afternoon if they were accepted for next year our second round Applications closed the same day So we we have 180 students that we accepted and about 25 students who were put on wait lists and second round closed with 75 new applications and we had Gosh 291 I think first round. So we are rapidly approaching that 400 Number that we had last year and probably going to exceed it with third round Um As you see we wrapped up our comprehensive local needs assessment So you got that presentation and the next step will be for me to put together The report that goes into the the grant system and um develop that four-year plan Which I will share with you before I submit And then I also already share that I've been working with the legislature and the cte directors Um, apparently when you become a member of the executive committee and it doesn't work here yet, but of the Vermont association of the cte directors when you become the secretary you then move to vice president and then Once your vice president you then move to president. So next year apparently i'm president So More to come on that and lots more advocacy I have for sure Uh-huh Is there anything that we as board members could or should be doing in regard to that advocacy for the the financing um So really right now what the cte directors are advocating is that we hold on the financing We want it to be a non competitive funding formula and the block grant that the interim secretary proposed Did not do that it it basically Just took the money straight from the ed fund to us right now. We have a complicated Right combination of some of it comes from the ed fund some of it We build back for tuition, but it still comes off the top of what you get for those seat students The six semester average of students. So For instance, I think u32 is sending us like 50 kids next year and Last year it was 34. So your six semester average is going to help you Another community. I think berries has gone down and so they sent us 75 this year and there there's less next year Then that six semester average is not going to be so helpful for them So that's we're trying to get away from that piece, but also Not impact our sending schools in the same way that we have so it's not competitive and uh the aoe had partnered with apa, which I cannot pronounce their name So i'm not going to but that's the group that did a study last year on cte governance and funding in vermont And so the aoe hired them to model a funding formula They're gonna put forth a recommendation in april and our recommendation is to wait for that Recommendation instead of doing something in the interim that doesn't seem like it's going to be helpful So that's if you can advocate for that as well I will always share our letters and stamps And then you can choose to share that out with Folks on that represent you if you wish Okay, all right. Very good That's it. Thank you, ma'am. Um accounts payable Can we pay the bills? So far We have a lot of unfilled positions unfortunately We have the stem coordinator and the the literacy interventionist So, um, we have some extra funds as a result of that. Okay, so we're good. Alrighty, okay Um staffing and personnel contracts letters of intent and art riffs. We'll talk about that in executive session. Okay Alrighty, so we'll move that to executive session Sesh Did anyone have questions on the warrants that I attached to that email? Joanie, I just had a Quick question I don't know if I've noticed this before but I I saw the word blanket a lot. What does that actually mean? Say again, uh, blanket blanket Yeah In the warrant. Yeah. Yeah, maybe I'm just dreaming but Michelle You just got back It's likely I'll go back and review this to verify, but it's likely a blanket p.o. Meaning it's a p.o. That's um encumbered for a Non-specific amount say a thousand dollars to one vendor and is drawn down. That's probably what a blanket That's what a blanket p.o. Is yeah, right was abash on one of those or rk miles because that those were we have open accounts and so our building trades instructor has been Off to rk miles quite frequently to get the stuff we need for the mobile home renovation for example Yeah, I just don't remember seeing it that often so Maybe I maybe I was paying more attention this time I think we are using it more Yeah, and we also have a new uh, we did a change in the department. Um Back in december so january was official where rather than kelly being our accounts payable. It's now lori morphen Um, and so she might just be and drinkings a little bit differently Okay, very good. Um 4.9 superintendent evaluation Executive session we'll move that to executive session. Okay, very good And um future agenda items are board development and gold setting placement into the workforce from programs Will the current process the co-op coordinator will explain that to us and program presentations throughout the year which are always very interesting to see those And uh, that's where we are anything else for a future agenda item That we might that the board might need to discuss Hearing none. We'll move forward we need to Reflection and summary of meeting next steps Anyone have any reflections on the meeting any suggestions? If you have any criticism you have to sing them we do need that april Okay, so we need the april april 8th is um solar day lunar eclipse day So there will be um much activity on that day. That also is the day of our board meeting We do the next week We need to but we have to be in we have to have everything done before the 15th Right, you have to have our board meeting before the 15th. Oh couldn't be on the 15th april meeting the 11th April fools Yeah, let's do April fools then yeah that that probably might be better to do and do it in front Do april first? okay Be april one so we'll have to warn that Prior to that and remind everybody that our meeting and it'll be here In this room. Okay, does that work for everybody because was somebody the first monday, which is why we changed year two from year one Aren't we the first monday the first year? We were but then we wanted to get finance ahead of it So we put finance and facilities on the first tuesday and then we put Board our board on the second monday Yeah, the only monday board meetings are jason's and cavitt So on april first jason will uh on april first Board meeting impact you in any way? No, I think that'll work. Okay Does that mean that we're going to have um A committee meeting at four o'clock that day Is everything going to be backed up since we won't be able to do it on our? Yeah, it's fine with me. Yeah five o'clock though, right? Yeah, it's five o'clock. So program will meet at uh at five Okay Okay, so the april meeting will be april first At six o'clock for the board program quality will meet at five o'clock here in room 127 We need to move into um executive session For personnel and the statement is We're we need to vote to move into executive session in order to discuss personnel because prior knowledge of The events could disrupt Whatever and it's personnel so we can't discuss that right So we'll do that but but the statement for moving into a personnel executive session is Owing to the fact that prior knowledge of any events would Disrupt the order of the of the business All right, so we're voting to move into exit. I need a motion to move into executive session By jana second By lineman all those in favor of moving into executive session I any any opposed No, all right, so it sounds like a motion to adjourn happened In the breakout room Yeah Because we were supposed to reconvene and go into the big room and then yeah So thank you orca. It looks like we're adjourned