 revisions or changes to the agenda public comments or correspondence from voters I would take a motion to approve the minutes of March 19th I'll make a second any discussion of the minutes of the 19th no discussion further discussion all those in favor of approving the minutes as presented we say aye thanks I'm response to the AOE regarding Act 46 questions assuming has seen the materials that Matt sent around earlier I would make a motion that we they're not in the packet that we floor do you think approve so I have a question because this isn't the discussion agenda and the action is later I'm always confused by this piece and I'll be honest the two boards that I'm on operate differently so the second board that I'm on it's all matched together the action and discussion and one in the same so I keep forgetting to split the technically according to Robert's rules you're supposed to have a motion in a second before you discuss okay so that may be something that we should think about in terms of the building our agenda so that we if we want to follow Robert's rules then we should actually have a motion and a second and then we discuss and then we take a vote instead of the discussion piece and then having to take a motion in a second and actually it's going through the literal motions I will make sure with bill that there's no reason not to do that but if there's no objection to doing it that way I think the only reason that we sort of break things out is that there are items like board orders and stuff that don't need discussion and then there are items that often have that are more sort of standard right so my motion would be to endorse the response to the AOE regarding act 46 questions I will second that and I do have a little discussion about it okay so you know Matt and I went back and forth in it so we had a chance to read it the last two paragraphs last two paragraphs on the current status the current current status so if the others suggest so by adding those two paragraphs sort of eliminating sending to them our the superintendent report of January January my computer just died but so I was thinking that we needed some evidence so we made that a little synopsis of what we're currently doing something that I thought it was important because most of what we have said today right now is is plans that we have for the future if so what one of the things that wanted to discuss is if it would be if it'll be worth it or if it makes it too long we decided to take it out but we were unsure if it's worth it to send that those minutes or that packet that was sent to us of what this is just like it just references to the package of the superintendent's report yeah so you look at the current status you say you can but for under March 28th 2000 carousel meeting in the there's a list that can be found and I just feel like so that's how we decided to do it for condensing and I was inclined of including the package because I think that even if it makes a larger they don't have to read it but it's there and they don't have to go looking for it our minutes are not the easiest thing to look through in our in our website or so I'm just asking the question I felt that we don't lose anything if it is true we went back and forth because felt like we if it makes it too long they don't read it but if we just put it as an attack I don't know so I'm looking for input so it might be just fine as we left it well my input would be if we approve something different than the other board there's nothing happens right then they have to go back and vote to include it as well yeah I was supposed to bring it up and then I should have brought up I kind of feel like yeah if they got this yeah and they were they they saw this part they could they really want information they call yeah bill okay and say please submit that you referenced we can't find it on your website or we would prefer a hard copy yeah okay okay and that's sort of what they're thinking was but I thought I'm brainstorming you guys because I agree with Stephen if we decide something that's true every other board's gonna have to meet to decide yeah okay further discussion so everybody comfortable is sort of lumping 5.1 in with yes all those in favor of endorsing the response please say aye 3.2 school safety I'll be honest I'm not immediately remembering what that I'd like to I'll take advantage of it because I had something to say at the full board I mean I spent a lot of time trying to come to grips with this as as far as what our responsibility as a board should be and in the awkward way just tried to describe it to the full board was I feel like we shouldn't be saying specifics but just like when we have the budget we say this is what we expect so for instance the for instance I'll use is a resource officer I don't even want specific the we have I feel like we need to give Alicia some guidance on on how we feel about school safety and I don't think we're ready to do it yet but I think we should have discussions on and with the community on what level of school safety doing want it because in my mind I'm more familiar with the collegiate level but safety in my mind is always a balance this balances between safety and accessibility if you're really super accessible your safety is compromised if you're super super safe you're really restricted in your accessibility so I think the board needs to provide to the administration where are we in that spectrum because Alicia and the administrators can design any level of safety we want and I just feel and you can chime in Alicia I feel it's unfair to Alicia for us to say make the school safe and give us feedback well you know what the traffic's like at what times of the day and when things are coming in yeah I would very much appreciate that I feel like when we did the renovation there was a lot of talk about safety and a lot of what we put in place was to address safety issues which was really helpful for me knowing you know what the community and the board stance was on it we really haven't talked since then just so you did I tell me if I told you this last week but I had a state police come to visit me okay so there was the announcement made that every school will be visited by the police right and we would review our safety and that did happen a couple weeks ago or maybe it was just last week and we and we reviewed the policy and kind of or the procedures and what we do and you know the first thing he said was I was pleased to know that I couldn't just enter your building I had to get buzzed in and so we talked about you know different schools he's visited and what he's seen and you know any recommendations or suggestions he might have and then he said he asked if there was anything I felt we could use help with as a school from from them and I said you know one of the you know just one area and this is just one small example we have two cameras right now I think everybody knows right they're at the two main entrances there's a lot of the building interior next year we don't can't see playground is an example you know and so but that's nothing we've never we've never talked about any of that and I would love to hear your position or you know the community's position because it's been at least five years since we and a lot's happened in those five years and he was he was a great resource and but I also didn't know how to tap into him because I didn't know what you know what should we be right right I personally think there should be more cameras I agree yeah but in a school that we have them in every parking lot when kids do donuts on the field we are able to see what kind of car did donuts on the field those kinds of things but so but we have you know we find beer cans a lot and other things up in the parking lot I mean just things happen even just thinking about kids coming and going from recess in those doors we you know you're not standing right there you wouldn't know what's going on but that's just one example of so for my like I as a community member I parents I don't know what I want so would it be beneficial to have a state trooper come talk to us about that like I about what he sees and what his expectations are because I think from my I don't I just don't know I I think the cameras would be a great idea I you know I've heard things about cars and traffic in the parking lot at night that maybe that would help deter and but that's a reactive tool right so but I just think for safety even during the day somebody could be up on the playground that you're going out for recess you don't know and if you know where I teach the main person has a screen that's just all the cameras and it's just clicking through them at all time I don't think she's sitting there watching it all the time no but it's there being there and people know it's there yeah and it's it's on 24 hours a day so then I wonder if it would make sense as maybe heading into our budgeting discussions to have almost like an annual check-in where are we on the paradigm of accessibility versus safety versus is there a best practice right is there are there and it may be that we get that from a police officer or somebody who is sort of in that world what are the recommendations for a small yeah a few years ago I had the Montpelier retired resource officer Marty who now does secure your building yeah I used to work with Mark so he came and did a whole audit I would be happy to send that to you that might be a nice starting to because it was after the building was renovated he came in and he spent a lot of time in the building interviewing Todd interviewing myself and he did a pretty extensive report like you know and it goes it talks about accessibility and security you know bulletproof glass getting in the vestibule then what happens like there's he kind of walked through scenarios so why don't I share that with you and that might be a place to start to look at because you know with everything this money right and at that point we just said thank you this was helpful to have in case we ever need it but it was done not that long ago and I'm happy to send that to you yeah that sounds great mm-hmm and then we'll have a starting yeah it's just being a little more intentional than we have been right because we had a discussion about cameras when the vandalism happened on the playground we had a discussion about building security when we were doing an end-to-end renovation maybe with yeah just be a little more proactive about having those conversations I agree I think being a little more intentional about that would be behoof us all yeah yeah good anything else on school safety or moving to the ports to the board so maybe that can go next month's agenda and yep yep I'll put that on as a future agenda item what school safety report it was security safety inspection audit and I thought we looked at that back then it was it was I don't think I don't remember talking January 2015 is when I when he sent this to me he spent a bit of time that fall 2014 right after the building was done yeah and it's a pretty extensive report over 20 pages right yes we know those reports yes systems instead of buildings do we have a board order today that's what I thought but we had taken all the under the administration report so we still are yep so bill alluded to it you know if you bedtime look at the other principal reports some of what I saw in that was distaste in the executive committee so around curricular work you know how we should have curriculum alignment between the schools and the maple sugar was a good thing that we talked about at the executive committee where we can have alignment without being cookie cutter so you know because the maple sugar and came up and they're like well we feel you know strong this group done in some other groups right well we wouldn't want to do that and I said well what we talked about was curricular alignment could be and I'm just bringing it up for us to think about individually but curricular alignment could be we want part of our schools curriculum to be devoted towards working in the environment and Romney decides to do it by doing maple sugar and maybe he's one pillar does it by bird watching you know what I mean so the curricular alignment is general how the schools do that is can be highly individualized based on community and what's available and that kind of stuff so things to be thinking curricularly it was a sort of a mind shift in the executive committee for people to start saying you're right we can agree to do things together and it doesn't have to be the same the theme is the same but how you approach the thing can be incredibly there's many ways to get to those standards right yeah so what would you say would be helpful you know honestly we do these in a vacuum I have no idea what the other principles are writing or what about or you know I think that's fun it's always a surprise but I'm wondering if it would be helpful if like say each month or something we reported on a standard or in a subject I don't know if to see like how we're doing it in the different schools how we're addressing different things well for me so in a board meeting so under administration if there was a short report from the leadership team on if it's if it's around curricular stuff here's an area of coordinating curriculum that we're talking about at the leadership team it's about this concept or this idea and we wanted to let each of the boards know that the leadership teams having that discussion and here's kind of our current thinking just so then it we're informed and we're like we can either be like oh that's great keep having that you do a great job don't bug me or well that's something maybe we should think about and get involved and then that would give a common thread right all the principles reports but still allow them to be you know really different I think what you're gonna I think that's a great I'm gonna make a note of that to bring it up at our next leadership team but I think that's a great point and I you will see the principles reports start to look very similar because we will have a common continuous improvement plan this year because it helps me it's an accountability system for me every month I'm like what are we doing in these areas and it keeps it right at the forefront of the work we're doing but so that will shift a bit because everyone will have a common continuous improvement plan but I like something coming from the leadership team because we do meet twice a month yeah in the under the high-quality professional development I had a couple of just the second bullet I think there's some acronyms there like Tabata for the PE but it doesn't say what that is and then down at the next of the last bullet you had workshops with Dave Melnick who we've worked with at our school but it doesn't say in what because in your mind you know what you met with Dave Melnick it says they will share their could you add those kinds of details for actually I was going to link and I can't tell you Tabata what it exactly stands for but I was going to link actually it's I think it's a word from it's not an acronym I don't think it's an acronym but it's like it's a series of 20 second of activity 10 second of rest 20 seconds of four-minute cycles you do eight rounds of I was going to link presentation for you but then I thought that you might think that was overkill so I didn't but though that's helpful for me to know just the topic yeah because you give the professional developer's name and then if it had set in trauma or it is so it's all what floor was talking to you about last week wanting you all to participate in bill it said it would be great for Dave to come to the board and I'm glad you brought it up tonight to everyone I know that it was kind of yeah because it's it's worth that even at the awareness level I think would be helpful like you've done a lot probably more than we've even done with him well and all the things that we're talking about are linked to that even safety safety so yeah it shouldn't be in capitals it's a word it's a Japanese word that's why it seems like it's not it's a person's name Dr. Izumi Tabata you're clearly an educator that's why I can be in a meeting and somebody throws an acronym I lose the whole meeting because I'm trying to figure out what they're doing right what is that yeah and he does he does capitalize it blanched us but it's a Tabata so what it basically and he's been teaching kids and for those of you with students who will be doing student like conferences you're going to learn more about it but he had so he trained the teachers by going through this in a staff meeting so we actually went through it and it it's a whole study that he did when he was teaching in Massachusetts and the whole school did it and it's basically you know getting your body in a place in your mind in a place where you're more available to learn so we talked a lot about and I think we're the only school that does all student like conferences in the spring in this SU and that's been a goal of ours for a couple of years and we finally have everyone on board and we talked about rather than the you arts teachers writing long progress reports still having kids share that learning like how can you like practice the record third graders play the recorder as part of the conference come and let's look at the artwork on the wall and and have it be more student directed and this is one of the ideas that mr. Blanchard had was have to have the students go through a Tabata exercise with their parents and teach them how they're using it school and the staff are very engaged any more on reports we don't have the fiscal report correct we did that last week we've done our action agenda we don't happen board order we've talked about future agenda items for communication that brings us to adjournment so just so you know I have a group of eager students that will be coming on the 24th to present we'll put them right up front in the agenda so they can yes coming up so 7.3 student presentation okay and we will adjourn at 7 30