 it's 530 so I'll call the meeting to order at 530 seeing no guests I'll ask are there any agenda revisions hearing none any public comments or correspondence none we have just looking so on 318 we approve the minutes we did not approve the minutes for 3.5 I would I would take a motion as a slate to approve the minutes of all those second all second discussion so anything you've noticed in any of them hearing none all those in favor of approving the minutes say aye. Aye. Opposed? Extensions. Discussion of Act 46. Does that floor usually gives us a report on time? Does the transition board have anything to? I'm not on the transition board. We haven't, we got, except after the meeting and that was to get everybody on board so I don't really have a report. Other than the vote and who's running was in the paper so just the two of you. Yeah. Wait just you on the floor? Okay. Something was, a guy I work with mentioned that he had heard something on the read the read this morning from Calis does did anybody here. I couldn't find it anywhere so I just brought it for him. They did have a thing about how it is on the Calis front porch board. I think I'll add it was I walked today to see if I could find anything and there was a Vermont Digger article from the end of last week where they talked to the joint committee that's trying to resolve the differences between the house and the Senate and the the just that I pulled from the report is it had four or five meetings and hadn't resolved anything. It seemed from the report that the Senate still has their basic stance in the house has their basic stance and haven't made much progress. So okay reports to the board. Typically, we don't really get a report unless we have questions but if it's appropriate. I've asked Alicia to perhaps at least talk about you for one and four to mention. Yeah, I'm happy to. So there's a superintendent's report from Bill and I don't know if there's anything in there you wanted to and then the director's report which was basically just all of the assessments that are coming up. The superintendent's reports the same one we got in our March. Yeah. It does talk about some of the costs that they're incurring for at 46 merger work. It's pretty self explanatory. I don't know if there's any questions around on my report. We hit the ground running today after break. It's like as soon as April break is over. It's the dash to the end of the year. The night. We forgot a dash anymore. No, true. Although it feels like it. So we're we're working. We're finishing up configurations for next year. Something I can give you an update on that's on in here. We have right now only 17 caregivers coming in. We have a small very small group. And then next year the year after kindergarten or next year's four year olds. It's another healthy size to classroom. So we're working on configurations right now. Trying to figure out with that small crew coming up that we know about you may have seen it. A couple of times like if you have a five year old, please let us know. I feel like we know a lot more with that one 66 with Universal Pre-K because we pay for kids to go and a lot of parents to use that, but I've heard from nobody. So unless we have that influx in July, which has happened once before, we almost likely only have one kindergarten. Is 17 an awkward number for one? No, it's a fine number for one. We met we've met multiple times like what is the cutoff for K? And I think teachers are feeling like anything more than 22 is too many. I mean, that's a very large current, but two classes of eight or nine. That's not good. So, but we also have had a number of children move in in second and third grade this year, like a lot. So those numbers have gone up. So we're looking at just shifting a teacher to accommodate because right now in second and third grades, we have like 22, 23 kids in a class. And that's a lot for especially with some of the needs we have in those grades. So this week, the hope is to kind of finalize what configurations will look like. We know they're almost likely be at least one or two multi-age classrooms just because of the strange numbers. And then the next step will be placing teachers in those classrooms. And then we'll ask parents for feedback or input into placement and then place students. And then finalize. And I tell parents, you cannot. Let's keep our roles completely separate. We don't do teacher shopping, but so that's kind of where we're at. I don't know if there were any other questions. Did Ashley name the baby yet? Yes, Ella Rose. I visited them on Saturday and little Mzo. So Mike, so Mike Landry, the PE teacher had, they had their baby on Monday. Ted and Ashley had their baby on Friday right before break. And I met them both and they were both beautiful and all doing well. Yes. My baby was in the parking lot tonight. Oh, again? Yeah. Yeah, he's been a few times. Yeah, I think it does. I was rushing out to drop Samantha. Yeah. Well, anything else in the principal's report? I'm just looking if there's any other. We're gearing up for SPACs, but we'll start next week. I think that's about it for me. Anybody with any questions? I do have just to give you another heads up. I have two ESP, so ESP contracts have not come out yet. Teacher contracts have, but I have two ESP who will not be returning next year. I'm not sure that I'll let you know about it. Then if you turn to page 13, Alicia, could you talk about the fiscal? This has not changed at all since you last saw it. So Lori has been doing kind of a fall, winter, and will be a spring update. We closed down, we had teachers kind of finalize all of their order and everything before April break. I don't think it will look a whole lot different from this. But we have him, Lori has not updated anything. It'll probably be another month before you see a change in this. So we're significantly over our 4%? Yeah, and probably will end the year that way. Quite a bit of it has to do with the height. So we had some teachers retire and those that we hired were less expensive. Similar to where we were a year ago. Any questions around the financials? I think it's fair to say, Bill's not here, but for the executive committee, I think their work is consumed by the interim superintendent. That's pretty much what they're doing. Is it at a point people are buying yet? Yes. Yeah, they're going to have, there was just talk today of trying to have an executive committee meeting on, I don't remember the day, May 2nd or 3rd. The deadline. There's already a meeting scheduled early in May. Oh, transition board schedule in the first week of May. Yeah, we just got it. And so executive committee is looking to, Matthew just sent a request around to see if they could meet before the transition board meeting. To provide an update on where everything's at. I can say three members of the executive board met with the leadership team a few weeks ago, Matthew Floor and John Blake from Calis. Dorothy? Yes, thank you. They met with us a few weeks ago and tomorrow we're meeting again with Mark Andrews, who's leading the search. That was in the executive? That was in one of the executive committee minutes. Yeah. I think it's, and you can read the minutes, it's fair to say. And appropriately so, I think that's where they're concentrating their time and effort. Anything on either one of the other 44 or 45 policy or school quality? I think there's policy that hasn't met. Negotiation committee, I'll just, well, I could talk now. I mean, we're going to vote 5.2 for the DSP contract, but I can't go into specifics other than what the contract is. But negotiations, I can say, as it is with the teacher negotiations, they're very respectful discussions and went very well. The whole ESP took one evening. So, and that was it. There's no specific in here. Do you have the specifics of that? No, I haven't seen it. When we get to the action agenda here, I think I can remember everything. Well, I remember the key ones. I have not seen it. So, to move to the action agenda, proved expenditure of paving for capital fund, Alicia, do you have an information? Sure, yeah. So, this is, I brought it up over the winter because it was getting unsafe and it's worse now, but it's the, so if you go out the back of the building, we have that graph, which you all remember we had to do. So, we get a quote from the people who had done paving for us before remote paving because it's under 15,000. We didn't need to go out to bid for this, but the total cost for all of the sidewalks all the way around back to the front of the building near the music room is 13,000. I felt like it would be appropriate for this to come from capital rather than try to find it. No, I think that makes sense because we're over anyway in our capital. So, I would ask that you would approve that, that we have had them come back and take a look at it. The nice thing is, is it's compacted down pretty well, so they don't have to do much other than get the grass out of it. Get those metal things out? Yeah, very unsafe metal. Their hope is to start the day after we get out of school and just have it done. Cool. I knew we didn't have to send it to bid, but was there any discussions with any other companies? No. You didn't kind of talk about concrete, right? Well, yeah, we did bid. Yes, we did look at which would be, because some thought it would be more aesthetically pleasing to have it match our sidewalks, but it is not. The cost was very prohibitive. So, yeah, they have done, they've done paving for us. We did our basketball courts and we've been happy with their work. Any questions? I would make a motion to approve. Expending $13,000 from capital for paving. I'll second it. Discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Abstentions? Thank you. 5.2 per VSP contract. So the key points are salary was a 3.5% increase. And health benefits went from 78, 82 to 80, 20. Can you repeat 80, 20? 80, 20. Oh, no, that was already, that's already been approved. That was negotiated at the same time as the teachers, so that, that went, but it is. That's what's in this contract. Yeah, it's 80, 20. And as, as a reminder, even though we went 80, 20, cost to the districts is neutral. We, even though we went 80, 20, we really didn't gain any additional savings because we eliminated the deductible. There was a $250 deductible for single and 500 for family. So that financially had some more money, but the feeling was we were still going to net out some gain because eliminating the deductible saved the SU office a fair amount of time of having to administer it. So there was a feeling there would be some net financial gain from that and in the associations both had a lot of dissatisfaction on, not the SU's fault, but, you know, from the way everything was administered. So to get rid of the deductible for them was something that was, and then there were, I won't remember the contract language, but it was, there were two or three items that were just language changes within the contract. I use one, for example, that I can remember it in the contract. It's still referred to civil civil unions. So that term was still in the contract. So it was the, the wording changes were just wording changes like that that, you know, it just needed to be updated. So there was some of that that was non-contentious. It was just both groups understood it and just they passed. The changes that would be of more significance. Right now ESPs go under the, I won't get the language right. There's a retirement policy that's currently used and there's also a municipal retirement policy and currently our ESPs that are in the, in the association use the non-municipal one. It's run by RSU, if I remember correctly. And what they wanted to be able to do, a lot of the newer members preferred the municipal retirement fund for the options that it had. There was a cost, we, a maximum cost that we estimated at about $10,000 if people were going to switch. And it was a one time they were going to switch. And then there were some, some nuances of the policies. So current employees could elect to stay on the one they're currently in. If they wanted to opt into the municipal, they can. But the language of the municipal is if you opt into it, then you're in it. And there's no like flip flop them back and forth. So it was a relatively minor risk to the, to the districts. So we supported that. And then there's also a provision that's going to allow ESPs to get issued a- The behavior intervention? No, what's the computers that- Oh, the Chromebooks. So ESPs will now be provided a Chromebook. It may not be given to them, but they'll be assigned a Chromebook. And that cost wasn't significant to do that either. But, you know, they made a very compelling argument that they get their emails and all the communications are electronic. And they don't have an office and they don't have a desk with a computer. So those were the significant changes. That's similar to the teacher one because it's only a one year contract. There wasn't a lot of discussion about multiple areas. And the areas that there wasn't agreement, both sides were pretty quickly. But the just, I mean the key thing is that it's a 3.5% pay increase. I will say we want the last negotiated contract. ESPs had a bigger raise than the regular than the association did. And it has a lot to do with minimum wage. So the lower paid members in the ESP contract, there was concern if it wasn't at least, you know, in the 3.5 range, we might find ourselves in violation of not paying minimum wage because the minimum wage is going up. So we wanted to make sure we provided for that. So it's a 3.5. Does that provide enough? But I think if the motion is made to approve it, I'll make it, I don't care. Prove ESP contract for academic year 2019-20 as negotiated by the negotiated committee. And if I could have a second to that motion. Any discussion? Yep, do you have the agenda? So it's 5.2 word for word. I was not feeling particularly creative. You all set? Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed? Abstentions? I have a motion for the board orders. I would make a motion to approve the board order in the amount of $52,979.39. I'll second that. Did you say it's low enough that she heard you? Did you get that? 52979.39. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed? Abstentions? Future agenda items? I think we only have one more meeting. On slate. So if, I mean, we're moving quickly. So I don't mind, but if you want to take a minute or two to just think. Yeah. It's quite possibly our last meeting ever. So is there something. And we want to make sure. We want to make sure that we talk about or know about or see about. You know, me is the one that is always the stick in the mud for presentations. But maybe do we want to look for some kind of student or staff. These will be. Opportunity. So I can tell you we have been. So with every administration of our star 360 and reading and writing assessments, teachers have been looking at that data and then setting goals for the next. So I'd be happy to share kind of a. Overall how this year has gone because we set we set goals in the fall. And by the time we meet will be. I'm thinking at least around the window of the final administration of those. I'd be happy to kind of give you what. There won't be a huge elaborate. I'm thinking it won't. I honestly don't know because we usually do a spring monitoring report. But it's not been mentioned yet. But I'd be happy to do a version of that for you. Regardless. Would people be interested in that? Yeah. Okay. It would be good. At least it would get it in the minutes. And you'd have. So if we weren't continuing them, those minutes could go forward. And there would be a record of it. Anything else? So just some logistics. So obviously we would be then and then again at the end of the year. Okay. So we would be one more meeting. Yeah. And then. For the audit. Right. Will we be even anybody? December. May 21. And the. We're still responsible. For the audit. Okay. Because the audit is looking back to this year. Yeah. So after May. That. We can see what we'd be one more meeting. Yeah. And then. There has to be. That's what I have done. That's the third. Yeah. Okay. So just like true does not do anything. And we do not. Or. If they do do something. Well, if there's a delay, then we could be a school board. Running everything just like we are now for another year. Right. And I assume we have the proposed schedule. For that. If we have meetings. Do we. Otherwise. Yeah. We just got. Another updated. Bill. I meant for our meetings. So we. I would think we would just go on our same schedule. So we do one more. Okay. That's that was my question. Yeah. We've done this. Yeah. But you didn't. So if we need to. We'll just. Yeah. We'll have to. When you met in March. Yeah. Okay. So yeah. I mean we'll have to wait till May. And see. So. Do we not need to meet in June. There's an early June meeting. Full board. Like the fifth or something. I just pulled up her draft. Was it. Was it from Chris? Carousel June 5th. Yeah. So we. Okay. So we'd be meeting that. Yeah. Sorry. I was just. Yeah. I thought we'd have to meet at least twice more. I'm going to touch. So. Good to be. I think it's twice more. Once more. Here. Once in June over there. And. What's your word. Yeah. Because. I'm at a conference. About the state. So. For that. Carousel. But. Any. Other agenda items. No. We'll ask. You should make that presentation. Yeah. I'd be happy to do that. And I think. I think we all. Clearly understood that. It'll be what it is it. Well. It won't. You'll. You'll. Present what you've got. The other thing they wanted me to mention. Is that the next meeting it will be. I think it's the same. We're getting contracts that's the last. To come. Hmm. I think that's it. And then I'll let you know of any. Attirements. Or. Resignations because they're all. Do that before then. Yeah. When are they do back. So teachers are drew back I think it's may. 11 through 12. Yeah. They were delivered like April. Right before break. I think they were the 11. Here in the goes. Shaded. Wait. think we negotiated that with the association that they were coming later this year because of all the votes and budget confusion and all that stuff so those are all coming back now and then now after this the ESP will go out and they'll have the same timeframe in board communications hearing none we'll adjourn 557 I just have a question it's fine that it's over how did it go in here for celebration learning did you have many come no I was here when I left and Darcy came in there were three or four people came in right away anybody that were from school just outside there were two that was not the celebration of what oh that was the one right yeah and that was Bruce and Don from the town office came and one was a guy was the Saturday no no that was the Tuesday the Monday night before the Tuesday night and there were only two so one got elected moderator and the other one made all the motions well and I think they were pretty clear to take pretty much came because they weren't sure it was going to come anyways it was identical to what was presented at the meeting