 Adjustments to the agenda. Yes, James. There's only needs to be one executive session for a personnel not to Okay, we'll get rid of The second one. All right, any other adjustments? I think we'll just try and keep things Running smoothly. So I don't think we'll assign specific times to anything. We don't have a Busy agenda here Move on to item for public comment, we have any public comment I don't think we have any public at the moment We'll move on to the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes of Tuesday April 20th? So moved. I'll second that. Any discussion? I Would recuse myself from that. Okay. Oh Oh, came in and who refused? Peggy, Peggy recused yourself. Okay, so Yep, all right all in favor say aye Any opposed all right, so we have approved the minutes of Tuesday April 20th Move on the board comments. Do we have the board comments? I've got I got two I guess made questions One is, you know, I guess with the COVID stuff And we're now in the spring with seasonal allergies and stuff What's the what's the guideline again to families on on like what to do with their kids if they have allergies and are Sneezing and have runny noses and stuff What's the what's the protocol? I guess just to remind people about it and stuff really don't work And to coordinate the nurses they're getting really good at knowing their students and the families and they'll help you best navigate that and then they connect with Shane if we have a you know, they connect with local pediatricians both at Gifford and You know, you know, there are pediatricians office right in town. So I would say school nurses the best point person Okay Yeah, I mean, I mean personally our daughter had to stay home a couple days because of stuff He knows for allergies And I thought we had put it on the forums that she had allergies But the nurse said she didn't have that and we explained that it was allergies But then we still had to go the doctor I guess and get a note saying that she does have allergies It was either that or the cobit test so And once Okay And so then I guess my second question that I had to is I guess, you know We're getting to the end of the school year and and getting into next year But you know families are already starting to have to fill out forums and stuff for next year At one point a year ago, maybe two years ago You know, I asked if we could maybe try to find a way to to go to like a digital process for filling out all the school forums But right now it's still on paper. And so I just wonder if there's anything that we can do to Maybe streamline paperwork for families I know for us having three kids in the school next year having to fill out all those same forms over and over again It gets a little Tiring I'm just wondering if there's a more efficient way to do it that makes it easier for families and probably easier For you all too for tracking if you're doing anything, you know Digitally versus having to enter all that data and that's been put on sheets manually Right Chris that's in the budget, but not until July 1st So you probably saw a kindergarten form which is still on paper. I hope to have an update for you by the middle of July Awesome. Do we have any other board comment at this time? Alright, then we'll move on to the report to the board Jamie Good evening. I Hope you all get outside today and join a little of this wonderful weather. I have not yet. I plan to tonight So anyways, I'll let folks know I mean As I said in my board report, I mean this this time of year school just wind up They don't wind down and so we're in the thick of hiring I have committed to interview every finalist That works for the organization. So any new person we bring on I meet with And so I will meet with new teachers new Paris certainly of course new administrators and I do know that the special services Director committee has forwarded a finalist for me to interview on Friday. So that's good news that information will come out Excuse me in the SU board packet We have successfully completed all the budget process other than first branch. So Tara and I are navigating that And then we have a big vote happening today in Stockbridge because Stockbridge had a Reconsideration vote in regards to whether or not they might they want to still continue to pursue moving forward alone instead of in partnership with Rochester So those are some of the things going on across the SU. I had a delightful two-hour meeting with your principals this morning I'm really excited about the direction of the organization and I Think there's really Exciting and bright days ahead for Rud As we look to really continue to beef up our proficiency work our personalized learning or pathways You know, I think there's a lot of groundwork being laid as I said in your report The amount of teams that you guys your administration and faculty have proposed to get together over the summer is pretty amazing And our recovery funds are going to allow us to fund that so our recovery funds are being specifically focused on Making certain that, you know, we have high-quality PD that we have intervention in place specifically math We didn't have math intervention in place in any of our districts for target intervention. So we're looking to focus in that and so There's just there's a I think a real great excitement this time of year to look forward to what we're going to be able to Really roll out next fall. And if you have any questions, I'll entertain I'd be curious to see the amounts proposed for the SR3 or whatever grants for you know, just so that I can conceptually know like what scale of PD we're talking about compared to what we've funded in the past and you know, just be curious like Yeah, we can roll out what those figures look like I think we'll roll that out across the SU board to the SU board Andrew Because that money came to the SU and we're kind of strategically implementing it across the SU So once the SR2 grant is submitted and approved it's submitted. I'm waiting for approval I'm happy to roll out where those funds are going in the percentage breakdowns Okay Thanks Any other questions for Jamie? We'll move on to the principal son. So I think I get to kick us off. We Had a exciting teacher appreciation week, which we tried to celebrate everybody who works in the school So sorry, there's side people talking over here. They're not supposed to be in my meeting Anyways, so and we're working hard and filling a bunch of vacancies And I think that the thing I'm gonna mostly report out on is our goal number one Which is that we are excited to keep on leveling the playing field and we're gonna have Elementary middle and high school go to the summer best all together and keep on working on Aligning our systems, which is something we kind of talked about a little bit last last board meeting with like there's a hat rule Here and not a hat rule there So we're gonna keep on having those conversations Which sometimes hard to have during COVID times when you're not always allowed to be all around each other. So That's goal one And I've got gold to We just finished up an Intensive period about started back in February. So a good solid Three months of working on our continuous improvement plan. That's a document. We send to the agency of education annually That includes very specific Middle goals or improving student reading scores to student math scores Working on flexible pathways and a few other goals kind of looking at data about our school. What's working? What's not where we want it to be and and how do we Make make our best efforts to make some changes that'll make an impact on that the continuous improvement plan is Kind of the SU level to be submitted to the agency of education There's a kind of feedback process there, but we expect that at our August meeting will be Bringing that back to you for your approval and kind of talked to you about some of the details of that There are also equity goals specific to that Where we're looking at specifically students academic performance who are Qualified for free and reduced lunch and how can we target? Special support to help raise their achievement levels Thank you. The other huge that we've wrapped up in the last month is Identifying work that can be done by teachers and staff over the summer to make some headway on some of our goals here And we submit to you a link on the report of all the summer work teams And what their objectives are? Thank You Reed and on goal three. I get to talk about that first, but the three of us will add things here this is the one about community outreach and Pandemics really You know clipped our wings on this But now we're ready to go back and start having events and outdoor stuff And I'm gonna leave the the principles to talk about where it's happening with them But and I will be reporting in the middle. We're gonna go through this chronologically by age Andrew So it's not quite all the way open up So we're bringing Vince to us for an end of your field trip for both campuses We're really excited to have that opportunity to have Vince come to us and to do Something at the end of the year when we maybe usually are used to going on field trips Planning field days for both campuses And pan down Ray Maybe not And then I think we're also doing some moving up ceremonies in-house so not opening it up yet to to maybe having people come in but Want to celebrate our fifth graders as they get ready to launch into into middle school. So, you know cake it's all about the cake and Finally, I think just this week we were I wrapped up mailing out our welcome to the new babies in our communities So mailed a board book to every baby born this past year that was listed in the town report And I got I think almost all the elementary people to sign it to sign the welcome letter So hopefully people are receiving those That's a great Activity that you do Andrew. I'm really I wish I lived in your town when I had a little kid so My piece in the middle school is there's a lot of bulleted items there And I encourage you to read them all I'll highlight one But this is we had the Taren Institute interview some middle school students and Find out how the pandemic learning was for them And we got some great feedback two things I'd highlight is Students were talking about having less classes per day and longer blocks of time and that created less transitions and it was easy to remember for them and then the concept of working in projects and Was really really important to them and student voice and choice Because we worked with students the teachers did and negotiated the curriculum. This is a researched Thing that middle schools and other schools do it's kind of the constructivist educational model of Construct the curriculum or learning together Including the assessments and those are usually done in presentation mode The other thing I would point out is kids didn't like being pulled from classes And this is I know music to all the educators ears of like They don't want to be highlighted as being pulled out for more and I'd love to change that culture but we want to push in more than we pull out and You know, I'm just so proud of the teachers that they they were Helpful in like saying yeah, let's ask the students what what works and what doesn't work So it was real some nice meta assessment of our own programming Really proud of them. Thanks and read you're gonna talk about the high school. We had a pool going read your muted All right, we We're in the middle of spirit week right now today was twin day and tomorrow We have color wars where each grade dresses up in a different color And we're having our spring carnival tomorrow afternoon with fun and games outside Including a special menu from the cafeteria which we're excited about and And capping off spirit week is our prom this Saturday at the Grand ballroom at the hammer-in. So we're collecting votes for the junior and senior court Today, we're gonna have a junior court in a senior court and two kings and queens Due to COVID then the you know, this event is being made possible by Our junior and senior parents who started to organize a couple weeks before the governor's announcement And have been raising money And at this point we're about halfway to our fundraising goal of being able to pay for the the whole event through parent donations Kind of taking them off of the classes for having to pull all that together So it's gonna be a lot of fun and looking forward to that we are moving forward with graduation plans for June 12th and You know constantly changing guidance, but we will have the tent on the green and That's all said it's more a question of how close people can sit together and how many people we can fit under the tent Did it which will determine how many tickets we can give out to each family? so And just a last little update if you've been on campus in the last week or so you've seen it looks a lot nicer Thanks to the efforts of the high schoolers who are out doing their green up day of service They painted almost all of the outbuildings On the athletic fields They did out of gardening in our courtyard Internally and then the front entrance in a rear parking lot areas of the school got some extensive Landscaping so things are looking up and looking great Thanks. I think I say that's our report Now we'll entertain questions Everybody have questions for the principles. Well, thank you. It's good to hear about these things that are going on Okay, Tara Thank you. So you have my report I'll give you a few of the updates as Jamie mentioned. We have submitted our S or 3 application We're waiting on approval for that or sorry S or 2. Thank you, Jamie. I was working in S or 3 today We have completed our pre-audit with the auditors. They wrapped up in the office on Thursday We are scheduled for final audit the first week of September and then on school food responsibilities Continuing to do the monthly reimbursement through the summer food service program and for our School buildings that were awarded the fresh fruit and vegetable program We're working to get the plan for the centralized food service for next school year and then back on April 20th the USDA extended all children would continue to eat breakfast and lunch for free and that will be through the Seamless summer option So that will take enough to effect on in October because summer food service goes through the end of September So none of our programs have used the seamless summer option So we all will have to go through training on what that means and how that all works and everything in comparison to normal food service or summer food service program on Your revenue and expenditure summary. I've updated the COVID reimbursement on both the expenditure and revenue side from 8,000 568 to 7,000 113 and we'll continue to see shifts as we move expenses out based on the coding for the grants and Then I reduced your health insurance overspending from 45,000 to 29 815 That was due to some of the individuals that have left mid-year We've increased the supplies and book savings from a hundred and three three thirty seven to a hundred and fifty two three fifty eight I added savings and staff travel to of ten thousand one hundred and twenty seven dollars and then I added Savings in the professional services of seventy five thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars on the revenue side on the other update I made was to your interest income and that was just based on the last month's reconciliation from 2009 80 to 2090 so those changes Result in an increase in the expenditure surplus from three hundred thousand eight oh eight to four hundred fifty two thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars It increased the revenue deficit from ninety nine thousand four hundred to ninety nine seven forty six Resulting in the overall projected surplus of three hundred fifty two thousand five hundred and seventy dollars Which is an increase from the March projection of two hundred and one thousand four hundred and eight So your faculty staff and administration continue to do a fantastic job And then if you have any questions, I will attempt to answer them Oh, yes in the finance committee had our first meeting ready. I have anything for Tara. All right. Thank you Tara definitely great news about the Surplus that's great work everybody Yeah, just think Okay energy committee Chris my man you're on and working hard so Yeah Yeah, so I guess we have the SU energy committee and I've been I guess gladly elected the the chair of that committee so I get the So we meet on the what second Tuesday second Thursday of the month so We got the electric utility bills for all the campuses or all the the schools around the district or not the district the SU And I've been putting all the data into a software called portfolio manager. Let's put out by energy star and I've been looking at the last two years worth of utility data both electric and heating oil pellets for Sharon Because they have wood pellet boiler, but then I guess we're gonna add to it the propane for cooking at the different buildings and then we're also gonna look at water usage but Looking at the electric usage. I guess I can maybe I don't know if I should share I can just give the info But You know right now looking at the two campuses Between Royalton and Bethel On average, you know, we're spending more money Okay, right turn on where I can share So So this was just some initial data where I sort of gathered some info on on building square footages but then in each of the tabs I've got the Electric and and oil information for each of the buildings, but and then I'm gonna get updated area information from from Jamie But you know Bethel is roughly 56,000 square feet and Royalton's building is Roughly 71,700 square feet but on average Over the last two years on average the average monthly electric kilowatt hour usage for Bethel has been 20,872 kilowatt hours a month whereas Royalton is 19,054 I Added this in today. Actually the average monthly cost Bethel's They're they're sort of average kilowatt hour rate that they pay out when you factor in demand charges and stuff They actually pay a slightly higher rate than what Royalton pays so they're paying about 18 and a half cents a kilowatt hour when you factor in demand charges and stuff Whereas Royalton's effective rate is 16 16.73 cents kilowatt hour So but so on average, you know roughly Bethel's electric bill is about seven hundred dollars a month more Than Royalton and then on a square foot basis, you know Bethel is using more electricity Than Royalton Same thing with heating oil to Royalton's using a little bit more overall Over the last two years we've averaged just shy of 29,000 gallons And Bethel's just shy of 28,000 Royalton this year is actually up over this year is bigger than last year They're already up over 33,000 gallons of oil for this year But on a square foot basis again, it's about 50 cents a square foot for oil To serve the Bethel campus and about 40 cents a square foot for oil to serve Royalton You know, here's a plot of just what the monthly electric looks like for Bethel The orange line is their demand So we pay Part of our bill is we pay for the actual kilowatt hours of usage and then we also pay for the peak demand that occurs And that can be you know occurs anytime during the month But whatever that highest kilowatt draw that you ever hit you and you know, you pay for that and right now We're paying about $18 a kilowatt for those demand charges And and we do peak up and around close to 90 Kw and the in the during the year And then for Royalton And then here's what it looks like for Royalton So both campuses drop off in the in the summer and then they hit their peaks in the winter time You know the Royalton's interesting that it peaks each time in the like the January time frame Which is you know, I guess one of the colder months I guess it's right before the students go on February break and stuff. So But we hit the highest peaks then and then it starts to tail off after that but You know, so I think the The data, you know, it shows that you know, I think this performance contracting Stuff that we're gonna look at should be good and and hopefully it pays off I think you know, some of the renovations that have happened over the years at Royalton like with the gym Edition, but some of the rework that occurred as part of that, you know Helped, you know with some of the energy efficiency in Royalton, but I think both places have You know room to grow and and that's what we're we're looking at is looking towards the future and and making those numbers smaller so And then, you know, there's other part of the committee stuff I'll tell you I guess I got I meant this was one of my to-do list is to email Jamie about it but One thing we'd like to get for next meeting is to maybe identify prior to the next meeting identify maybe a Teacher at your school to to get in contact with to invite to the next energy committee meeting And just start to come up with some initial ideas for next year About ways to get students involved at all the different campuses around the SU but but for us, you know, specifically You know in Bethel and in in Royalton ways to get students involved in thinking about energy and energy use Excuse me does do your figures include the I'm assuming Royalton still has the solar installation on top of the building Yeah, the the numbers that I just did purely on the on the use side I didn't get into the production side. Although the production for those panels is Is pretty low? I think the I think the credit for those panels actually gets put over on to like either the baseball or softball field Utility bill which I didn't include those yet either Any of the perimeter spaces so like for Royalton, there's the baseball and softball fields we get we get separate bills on those Bethel there's Softball there's the baseball fields, but then we also get a separate bill for just the parking lot lights And then they get a separate bill for the sign out front. That's on its own separate bill So I didn't add any of those but Yeah, the solar panels on the roof You know, that's on my to-do list. I guess just to look at those But you know the overall production it helps offset the the sports fields energy usage, but But I don't know You know, they probably be good to get some look at that data and then compare it like what's the size of the array? That's on the roof and make sure that it's performing. I mean, do we have any type of service contract on those panels or is it just? Or is it just sort of static sitting up there and producing? I don't know if anybody knows on that race Yeah, I don't think the company's in business anymore the one that installed it or did the monitor Yeah, so Yeah, I mean so we could look at it Maybe that'd be something where we can you know have a chat with like Betsy Ricker and get her opinion on it, too And but I know yeah a lot of solar companies you know, they offer service contracts and you know, there may be an issue with like the converter Or something in terms of you know, it's efficiency if it's dropping off or if there's some panels that are underperforming You know that can sort of have a cascading effect So I don't know any background on that system But it would be good to look at it and make sure that it is performing as best as they can We also get the separate credit on the bill for For the solar that we purchased from the solar field that's up on G Hill Road and We pay out Was it's like thirty six hundred bucks a month that we pay out for that But then in turn we get credit on our utility bill and I've added it up for you know For this fiscal year where there's still two months left on it but from from last July up through now the amount of Credit that we've gotten so far Equals the total amount that we will pay out for the year. So if you take the thirty six hundred and multiply it by twelve That's how much credit we've gotten year to date and so the next two months will all just sort of be You know the the gravy on the top, which is that ten percent savings that we get With the you know the rate that we pay that that solar company versus what we actually You know use on our electric bill You know that's what they offer us when they come to us with those things is that you know We'll pay ten percent less than what we would have if we were just purchasing it from the grid. So so that is That's working for now, you know, but So I thought that was good to check on too, but yeah Thanks for all the work putting in on this it's great. All right, so I guess we're on to the policy committee that so I sent around to the full board the Third draft of the anti-racism policy that's based on the feedback we received from different boards and community members I met with the consultants. They provided a draft Dina had a few edits and so this is after it's been proofed by Dina and so This now is out to the full board It'll be on the agenda for the policy committee next week and it will also be on the agenda for the full board to talk about So that's where we're at with it. So I think we're getting close. I'm feeling I know I'm feeling Pretty good about it at this point. So we'll see what other folks feel So that's our last one for this year and then we'll launch back up in August All right Any questions about the At their racism policy At least Lisa that just so everyone remembers. Sorry Andrew the full board meeting is being moved from Monday to Wednesday next week Because The I get a tumbridge informational meeting on the budget So it'll be next Wednesday at 6 and the policy committee will be Next Wednesday at 5 30 prior to the board meeting. Okay. Sorry. I just want to make certain. Yeah, it's out there All right, we'll move on to the finance committee I guess I'll talk about that Yeah, we met on Two weeks ago Thursday or Before last Thursday And it was a relatively quick meeting just to go over the updates on the Projections that Tara had put together and We are going like we also are going to be looking at the warrants more Which had because of the switch over with How the warrants were being done they weren't getting sent out to everybody So they're going to be sent out to everybody and so we can all look at them But I think that was mostly up for the finance committee meeting Does anybody have any questions about that? All right So we'll move on to regeneration corpse a point one Oh, and you want to take a lead on this get a nice meeting today. Sure. Yeah We meet every Tuesday morning as you might remember and First I don't know if we Welcome you yet Peggy. Welcome as a newest board member really awesome to see you in Another role then then grandmother. Thank you. Thank you. I knew we were more than a grandmother You may find out more than you want You are so lovely with for your with and for your granddaughter Today we met with some folk guy from the regeneration Corps And this is Lisa put us on to this. Thank you. Lisa McCurry And they're nine organizations that are in a collective of sorts and I'm doing my justice here And we met with Henry Harris who's one of them and they're doing work right now at deferred academy sharing academy and land off high school And they want to work with us also. They really like focused right now in our valley And Bale is part of it. So right in the village So they want to see a possibility of really like working right away with the high school students In the village and doing some stuff. There's an agricultural component. There's a racial justice component There's a climate justice component There's five or six big areas they focus on But what they want to do at this is work with students in agricultural settings They're also going to do a site visit at both sites And they're going to um, see how we might work together as a middle school with us And the f bud middle schools And we also thought wouldn't it be great if we brought middle school kids to south royalton campus Or to the village and meet with bale folks or do some other stuff But it's really sounds like the possibility of a lovely Partnership and i'm not sure if any board members are farmers, but we would encourage that too And they henry harris who met with us met with myself andra reed and janey So we had a really nice talk and we're followed up right away with an email We've included some faculty and some other folks from their organization. What I miss team It's a nice, I mean they're looking to secure their funding through other grants There may be an opportunity for me to build them into esser Um to help offset some of the incurred costs. We'll see how that plays out Um, but I really see this as another avenue when we think about multiple pathways for students I was very impressed with their ability to talk that language too um, and uh You know, I just want to emphasize one of the things we were thinking about is is a great opportunity for students from shearing from chelsea strafford as we look to really branch into more of this experiential and agricultural type learning Um, because that is something we all have in common throughout this su And I would say rochester stock bridge too Is to get students to come visit your two campuses I think that there's a real opportunity there when you think about genuine connection in the idea of recruitment Um of those elementary and middle school students that this could be a genuine way to to bring our kids together. So, um, we're gonna look to to really try to capitalize that on as well So thanks again, lisa. I I did ask and I said, why haven't you reached out? And it seems like they're just getting up and going but i'm really excited to to build that partnership Yeah, and You know, they did We tried to uh make this happen last fall. So they've been They've got a lot of energy and a lot of intelligence and a lot of good organizational skills behind them Very impressive and you know, their information is really thoughtfully written and I just wanted to also plug that as you work on ways to work with them There is a community garden in roilton and There's also a community garden that's in its second year in bethel Just walking distance from the bethel camp bethel school campus In case there's a need for You know some hands-on learning You know growing food within, you know, if that becomes an interest with part of their curriculum and giving students a place to get their hands dirty Um, i'm involved with the one on the bethel campus or i'm involved with the community garden. It's in bethel so If that ever if that's of interest by all means We would love to have some students involved And if it wraps in with regeneration core that'd be even better Did I make sense? It's quiet. Yeah, no, we're all shaking our heads. Sorry. You're taking notes. Yeah. No, that sounds great lisa Awesome, and I do think that that garden piece, especially at the high school this year. So we need that contact And um, we'll follow up. We're meeting. We're gonna have a meeting. So if you could Share that with uh read and I that'd be awesome. All right. I'll do that. All right. It sounds good So we're hearing more about that um Okay, so the next Thing in the agenda is the summer board retreat dates I guess we need to pick a time to Do worse I've done fall in the past too is my understanding. I just thought we should go ahead and look at counters and get these booked sure so, um For anybody who wasn't on the board before Um, we usually do a slightly longer Meeting in the summer to kind of just go over overall priorities and you know, kind of Do a longer form Dive into subjects that might not get as much attention during the regular school year so um You know in the past we've had food and stuff at them and But I don't know what the plan is this year if we'll be doing them in person. They're remote or I guess we need to talk about that Well, I can say you need to hope it's not a heyday because that's where I get Where I'm trapped We can come help Peggy we'll have the meeting in the field As long as we don't run you over with our bales um I guess uh, do people have preferences for Any particular times? I'm Going to be away and I can do or Join remotely, but I'll be away Um, kind of the first couple weeks of august will be Some time and then Week after like that week of the 16th work for people But it makes sense to do a doodle pool and float out and then people could check their schedules And then you can see what the has the least ramifications what can get most people Yeah Andrew, are you volunteering to put that together? Absolutely not I'm happy to do it if you give me the dates. I will send out the doodle pool I could do a cheese doodle pool I just think when we've done them in the past it's the easiest way to figure out who you know Who's what date works best? So, uh, andrew I heard you talk about uh week of august 16th FYI, I'll I'll call in from somewhere So I can't be like arranged Going to be arranged on the 16th of august to uh, I don't know but 10 day span because Just so we have some more options on the doodle pool Yeah, that sounds good. Are we thinking like all day and evening? Break it into half days choices. I think yeah, I think afternoon Evening is probably what I would be thinking but Do rather people have thoughts Well, if we eat before we go then we don't have to spend money In the past haven't we started at like three or four and then we've gone till eight o'clock Yeah, yeah Did you say give people an idea of how much fun? Did you say july or august 16th? august Okay, that's the day elvis died. I just want you to know Okay Um, and then I guess we could do august 16th then one does uh in service days start Kind of at the end of august I believe they start on I don't have the school counter in front of me But they don't start until the Is it the 30th team? Yeah, I think that The the the front part of the week of the 23rd would be good But the back part of that's going to be like maybe why don't we say doodle poll 16 through like the 25th Sounds good I like it. Yeah, I mean the 17th of august is one of our regular Uh, red monthly meetings If we have an august meeting We'll have it. Yeah. Well, it's August So what if it went right into a meeting that night? Is that too much of a day? I think we've typically avoided doing the meeting and the retreat the same You know combining them so that we are focusing on stuff that's not kind of a regular order of business type things, but I'm I'm sorry. Someone came to my door and I had to step away for a minute. Um Didn't we usually do the retreat? It sounds terrible when I say it out loud on like a friday evening Just yeah, I've done that in the past september because A lot of people have it free um I don't know That that works for me. There's like no other conflicts except for I know to block it out from like social engagements Yeah, I think we have done in september before but I think that was because we wound up with conflicts in august rather than wanting it in september per se um But yeah, I'd be fine with a friday either Yeah, like friday the 21st, I guess both or no I guess we can see what the doodle poll says but right anybody else have thoughts about If friday is in my least favorite night to be out again, but if that's what you guys want to do, I'll do it I'll probably vote against that that's specific friday because I think vtc. I think we start back to class the following monday, so Uh, you know something earlier the week of the 16th Would be more to my liking than somewhat than later in the week So point of clarification if I was creating a doodle poll right now while you're talking Do we because we're having a board meeting on the 17th? We don't want to list that as a date or do we do want to still consider starting early for a board retreat Breaking for the and breaking a six Or not I mean, I guess you can have it on the doodle poll and if there's no other date that we can do it Then we'll do that day Okay, I'll leave it on If you make it the right way Of course she is this is what she does it means That's a compliment andra Yeah, she's she's also doing laundry and raising a child Okay, well one that's uh ready you can send that out and you can all see what day works best Um, so check it in the chat see if that looks right. I can fix it if it's wrong Looks good to me Yeah, looks good. All right um So we'll fill that out and have that on the agenda for next month Picking an actual date So now we'll move on to We don't have any action items. So are there any resignations or new hires? There were Do the principals want to go through them or I have a list of them here? I can take care of me Our resignations that I have in my hand are um And these are all, you know, we accept them with regret but uh, and they're all for different reasons I just wanted the board to know that both just personal like In regards to family changes from all kinds of different things. So Uh janelle rule is going to be leaving us uh to pursue a career at the harford tech center Um, so she'll be leaving the elementary school um Janet whittaker is going to be retiring after several years of service um Do we have any sense of how long she's been with us? A long long time is my understanding 31 years in bed 31. Okay. And and I think several more Yeah, it has to be longer in bethle because she was teaching fourth grade when I was a fourth grader I think it's 31 years as librarian Right And she was the homecoming queen a long time ago too I have that picture. I've been waiting for this moment And if you saw the principles report we had we're planning to do a really nice celebration for our staff At the end of the year that i'm looking forward to And uh kevin moran one of our custodians at the roilton campus is going to be moving out of town Um, and so he's wishing us the best um Claire etchuk is going to be uh retiring She is going to come back and do some part-time work for us in regards to intervention But clear after Again, probably I don't know. It's at least a few decades. Do you have a sense read? Of how long claire's been about three years Is that what it is? I think so Yeah, I'm just going to be retiring at the end of this year Uh, allison morrow is going to be moving on. Uh, she's currently working at the south roilton elementary school as the kindergarten teacher She's accepted a different position And just today came across my desk, uh, corine's, uh, scopey Is going to be moving on at the end of this year as the school counselor and bevel And uh read I don't have any one else in my hands. I don't know if you're in possession of anyone else, but uh Hannah romeo Will be moving to school counselor role in hartford high school um and ingrid van steenberg our guidance admin assistant will pretend her And one of our special education paraprofessionals Who started working with us in november will be moving back to minnesota over the summer So, um You know as the board accepts those, you know with that, you know, we're working hard to Replace folks, but we've also started meeting as an admin team to say Is there an opportunity here to look at doing business any different in a different way? And so we may you may see as we bring new hires forward that we look to To just restructure some of the things to best meet our students need Just based on the vacancies and you know, just Applicant pool and how do we best navigate it to ensure that we have a really strong team moving forward next fall? And so we we did like I said, we met for about two hours today to talk about that on top of other things Do we need to formally do anything? Yeah, I think you should move and just accept with regret, you know and just send them all the their best I have to have a motion I'll make a motion To accept them all with regret Wish them all well, particularly our retirees I'm so good Any discussion? All in favor say I All right. Okay We've got those retirements Just wanted to make sure that We probably weren't really clear, but uh, we'd love the board to join us on the morning of the 18th. We're having a brunch in Trying to come to kind of together, which is like the first one We've really come together this the school year as a whole staff to celebrate Surviving this year and celebrate the people who are retiring and moving on And the newbies who maybe survived their first year So I know that I've heard that People love to have the board kind of present or one of the board members may be present to At those events. So just if any of you can make it, we'd love to have you June 18th That's the morning out. Okay Yeah, can you send out the details as far as time and location? Can do And just so you know the principals and I are cooking that day We're making the breakfast So I think that's why I thought that's why we're inviting the board No, we're having a throwdown mr. Bradley. I've been working on my omelet skills I'm I'm so good at napkins. Here you go. It's not having omelets It's on the south wilton campus We're talking about into the year events This would be an opportunity to invite all of you to be part of the graduation on the south wilton green on june 12th At 10 a.m. We will have front row seats for every board member who wants to be there um and Super intended canardy is going to be helping with passing out diplomas this year, but traditionally One member of the school board also goes up on stage and hands out diplomas as well if One of you is available and is willing to do that be great. Okay. Does anybody particularly Would like to do that? I'm happy to do that. That's my I'll have to What's that lisa You you could If anybody Okay, I'm I'm happy to help but if anybody else would like to I'm I'm happy for that to happen I nominate lisa floyd Okay, all right. I'll I'll put lisa in the program Thank you I've just known to many of them since they were babies That's great Thank you Okay, I guess we'll move on to the next thing which is uh public comments. Do we have any public comment at this time? Still don't have any public so Move on to executive session You know just be the born of night it shouldn't take long everyone else can go Enjoy the beautiful evening All right. Thanks. Good night everyone Good night. All thank you Just do you guys to make a motion and invite me in if you would I'll entertain a motion to enter executive session Make a motion Okay, and we'll invite jamie We started recording Coming out of executive session at 7 13 Um, I believe we complete our agenda. So I'm Your future agenda no action No action taken that's right. Yeah For future agenda items we have We've got Retreat retreat. Yeah, there'll be a bunch of hires. Uh, just so you know you get a significant data report next month You'll have all your local assessment data and your SBAC data Um, that would be a huge chunk of the agenda too What was that lisa? Sorry, we didn't get that Is it assessment data you said jamie? Yeah, yeah, the uh all the academic assessment data Uh, so star found us in penel s back. Okay. All right. So that next meeting will be tuesday, june 15th at 6 p.m and I would entertain a motion to adjourn I just want to say up front. I won't be able to make the june 15th meeting my son's graduating and I have events that week So I apologize All right. Thanks for letting us know And I'd make a motion to adjourn We'll second All right, thanks everybody This might be record tonight fastest meeting Yeah