 Hi, David. How are you doing? We don't have any guests except for David. David, I assume you're here for the usual reasons. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Are there any agenda revision or comments? Any public comments, request comments? Is there a motion to approve the minutes of May 9? I'll make the motion. Thank you. Seconded by press. Any discussion of the draft minutes? If there's none, then everyone in favor of approving the minutes of May 9, please say aye. Aye, aye. Opposed? Abstentions? I'll abstain. I wasn't here. So we basically have one decision and maybe a short meeting. Maybe not. We never know. But maybe we have one decision to make. My understanding, since I wasn't here at the last meeting, is that there were a couple of options discussed for article 4. If I understand correctly, the first one, which you should have in front of you is to say that a school shall not be closed, essentially unless approved by both the majority of the union district board and the voters residing in the town in which the school is located. My understanding is that there was essentially consensus on that in favor of that. And then the second option was to basically the same thing, which would require votes by the board and the voters in two successive years. And my understanding is that the straw poll on that one was basically 6 to 5 in favor of that option. Is that a correct account? Yeah. I have a proposal to make if people are willing to entertain it. Here it is. I have a feeling if I had been here last week, the straw poll would have been 6-6. A feeling? A split on the two successive years. I'm kind of in favor of, I like the fact that we have consensus on this other option. I think that although we do make decisions when we have to, our boards do typically try to find options that a strong majority or even a consensus are in favor of. The union district board obviously will have the discretion when it is seated to do what it likes with our recommendations. So there will be another opportunity for another body to take a whack at this and change it if they want to and revise this to the other option if that's what they choose to do. And I guess my proposal would be for this committee if there's no objection to take our consensus option and make that our recommendation to the union board. I'm happy to have discussion and you want to speak. I persuade people and yeah, whatever. Can you make me clear on which one was the consensus on the two-year or the not two-year? This is what I understood from four, so again I just, I wasn't here and I didn't watch the video. It was the consensus was that a majority of the union district board and the voters was having in the town in which the school was located would be required. Which is option two on this handout. Right. Is it option two? Yeah, it says option two. That's why I was a little confused. I didn't see that, sorry. So option two. My understanding is that was the consensus. Okay. There was a consensus in favor. Are you going to give us another option? Isn't that what you... The other option is that we discuss it again and we take a vote. But I have a feeling that as the group is constituted tonight, that the, my feeling is that option one might not. And if we had all 12 members of this board, we would split. So that's why I'm suggesting that. Yes. Because our job is to push one forward. And then that new board... We could, my strong preference is for some decisiveness or resolution of this, but yeah. And again, some likely members of that new board are here and can carry the conversation to them. Yeah, we just keep the paper from reading it. There you go. So we could make a decision and could the new board change it if they wanted to? Yes. So I would favor that personally. Just so we make a decision. Yeah. So it sounds like there's consensus on the consensus. Okay. So since there's no objection, I guess we have the line. Yeah, so what I want to say just so everyone's aware because of the type... And we're going to get into 3.2, but this is leading into 3.2. So I just want everyone to be really clear. One of these Chris Leopold and I said was that he was going to create warning and ballot language, which is more than what we have right here. He gave you a rough draft of what he thought it would be for the language. Pretty much the language that you see in the packet on pages 17 and 18. And then there was red there, which is these two handouts. But he's going to start because it's so quick next week. That's why I want everyone to understand it is quick. We're going from a 22nd and by the 24th everything has to be done if there's a June 25th vote date. And so we're going to be going. I'm going to be giving him all of this to say create warning and ballot language. I remember each amendment, each individual amendment will be a warned article to be voted on via Australian ballot. And if there's other questions about how I'm saying that, if I'm not saying that quickly and if I just want everyone to understand where we're headed, because next week is a very compact timeline. So we have to vote by 24th. By 24th the warning has to be posted. It has to be posted. That's why the new board would meet the night after the election. Yep, and you would have one other night. You possibly could the 23rd if you needed to. When the executive board would meet. Yep. Because if you don't do that, you lose the 25th and you're going into, you could have a possible election not on a Tuesday, but you're, I mean, 30 days is that Friday. Have we previewed that for the candidates, the importance of these few days on the calendar? Hence why they've had the, what I said, I gave to you, they've all had an email saying this is what the agenda started to look like. I can't say that every candidate has that because they haven't been in every entire conversation. I just, I try to be as comprehensive as possible every time, but I can't guarantee that. But we're all getting emails with those dates. We being all the candidates. All the candidates. I think so. We've been looking for them. Yeah, yeah, we've been. Even the maybe candidate. Right, I said to Chris, I put everyone on. Good, should have, should have been that way. Put it on there, because we, maybe on the Thursday to 23rd, we're coming back to a second meeting. Because otherwise you lose the 25th. Yeah, we want to consolidate all of them. Yeah. Well, either way, I mean, you wouldn't consolidate and be putting on another date. And the best day of the week from what people know as tradition is Tuesdays. Okay. So does that change anyone's thinking? Or are we? So unless there's any other discussion that, that essentially dispenses on 3.1 and we have a finalized set of recommendations and amendments to the argument to be moving forward. Which is great. That's been about six months in the making. So express my appreciation for that being done. Okay. So we'll move on to 3.2. Which I think is, I'll let you. Yeah, I just, this is one of the things that I'll tell you, I want to tell you organically how this came about. Laura and I have been having agenda maps for a month. Then just a week ago, we kind of said, hey, we need to put this on each piece of paper, what agenda starts to look like. And we've been doing it for transition meetings and for the WCF. So I will tell you as you go from the 22nd to the other week, you'll see they start to get thinner. But it's because I don't know what else is coming. I think there'll be more things added on. This is what we can foresee as of Monday this past week. But, you know, as I've been saying all along, the two things that the new merge board needs to get set to start July 1, there's a lot of operational things we need, both either the transition board or the WCUSD board. There's some operational agreements we need to sign off on. But the big things that are budget and policies, because there won't be any existing policies, and the least amount of policies are the required policies by state and federal statutes. The nice thing is most of all those policies are common except for one. And I don't remember what it is, so don't ask me which one it is, across all the entities. Then we get into other policies and things like that. So those are the big pieces to get to. As you all know, we've been taking a minimalist approach. What's the minimum we have to have to get the organization up and running? So this is what we can see right now at this point. We have a big to-do list that's actually really getting smaller, which is nice. And I was noticing on this and the one, I guess it's the same one, Chris just said, but it says six o'clock. Is that a new? I'm just doing that at the first meeting. Pick the normal time. Usually boards in this actually meet somewhere between 5.30 and 6 o'clock. If a random sample would be all over. So I just picked six o'clock on May 22nd to post for a call for that first meeting. And Mary Armsley is going to be there to do a square in and seating of everybody with forms so people don't have to run all over the place. It's just going to be right there. And our articles of agreement allow us, allow her to do that. Plus she's a justice. Not JP, she's a notary. She needs to be. Because the clerk can be the one to square in. Bill, these are meetings for the transition board, not the new. This is for the new board. The new board. Transition, as far as I understand, this will be the last meeting of the transition board. Okay. That's one clarifying question on that because I'm looking at, this is article nine. Which is the duties of the transitional board. Right. So it says, prepare a draft of the proposed fiscal year 2020 budget. The transitional board shall provide to the new district board for consideration at the first meeting of the new district board. Yeah. So I assume that by voting to approve a recommended budget to them that we basically accomplish. You can accomplish that. If you feel you need to be there, please be. But I feel that you've done that by the way you've done and there's such a transition. All right, let me say that differently. There's such a membership. There's a number of members here that will be on that board that understand what is happening. And so, you know, we're putting together. I wanted to make sure there was no expectation that the members. Not that I know of that that's required. I know some people have done to that formality. And in terms of this outline, this is basically just for us to look at and see. I'm trying to communicate so people aren't taken by like surprise. Right. Here are the things that I start to see happening. There could be many other things that happen that I'm not aware of sitting here today. There could be conversations that want to go over. And I could think there definitely will be about how the board wants to operate and governance and all that. I just couldn't foresee that. So I just put that on the first agenda. And that's what no creek with any thought of how it's going to land. I just put it there to put it. It's typical after an election. And this is the first first board and most of the boards that have merged and remind those conversations go on for usually. Quite a bit of the first year. Are the individual boards then are dissolved as of the election day? No. So because of the judgment that hasn't officially. No. The end of the year. The end of the school year. The draft article. And the default articles agreement. Is that June 20th? No. December 31st. And what is the role of the individual school boards after? After. May 21st. July 1st. It actually goes to June 30th. Local boards have the authority that they maintain their authority. And it's July 1st. And it transitions over to the new board. But then they stay in effect. So you said December 30th? December 30th. Auditing for her audits. Okay. And so the local boards even after the election of the WCUST board. So the WCUST board still has control of the school? Yes. Okay. Sorry. That's been a little unclear for me what. All right. Okay. So I don't know if anybody, but I mean. This is just for reference. I guess this. Yeah. Is there any discussion? And I would take any other items. People see something. Anybody in the district board sees another item that should be added to the agenda. Yeah. If you see something for the board or something we should do. Share your. Oh. Here. Do you have extra stuff? Okay. Thank you. But there's another one. Okay. One more time. We'll be right back. Okay. I'll send this one. No, yes. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. So I'm not sensing the desire on the board members to do anything about this. And this is. This is only the schedule for the Washington Central Unified Union School Board. I don't have carousel meetings on there or the SU board meeting for the. Potential IRA in terms of superintendent. I just did. I only did this one is only specific for that board. We have other calendars that have all that. Those are. Every Wednesday, Mark. Yeah. And I don't know if it's going to be every Wednesday. I just, I do want to make any assumptions and same Wednesday is an assumption as well. I could see once a week. I could see. We skipped some. So we do have an item on the action agenda. I guess that makes sense. I should have done something 3.1. I guess we haven't had a formal motion to recommend the. Agreement. To the. So is there anyone who would like to make that motion? I can make that one. Lisa, do you need me to repeat that? Yeah, please. To approve the recommendation of articles of agreement as drafted. Are you going to specify which option option to. No, I think we, because the minutes will reflect that we had consensus on that. So I guess I'm including that in the answer. Fine. Just want to make sure. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. That's from my language. I would say amendments to the particles of agreement. Okay. Are approved because you're not approving the whole article. You're approving those amendments. Yeah. And those appear on as they appear on page 17. And 18 with the addition of option. Okay. We made it simpler. My recommendation to this committee, to this board is that specificity is actually better. Yeah. Okay. So I will, I will repeat that. So Carl's motion is to approve the recommendation of amendments. To the default articles of agreement. To the UC, the WCU USD board. As drafted on pages 17 and 18 of our board packet. With the addition of option two. For article four. Every second. Yes. Thank you. Is there any discussion? Motion. Hearing none. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Abstentions. Thank you. There are no future agenda items. So I guess I will just close by thanking everybody for serving. As brief as it was. And I appreciate everyone's input and contribution above all time invested in this process. Thank you. So there's nothing else we will adjourn at 5.56. Now I'm going to have to make dinner for crying out loud.