 contract I have to ask you know if you did not miss the deadline to renew his contract why the resignation and settlement agreement agrees to pay him you know for another nine months plus benefits please all right thank you so the only answer I have to that is that the board did what was in the best interest of the district and then I'm gonna move on to actually take a moment to acknowledge that we have received dr. Rickus resignation or agreed to dr. Rickus resignation as was publicized last week and and as Steven mentioned when he called me earlier today it seems all dark and ominous and secret because of the the limited public statement and the and I just want to say that as I said to Steven earlier today we as an employer really value the confidentiality of our personnel and we would hold the same for any employee in the district and we all wish Brian absolute best in his next challenges and next endeavors and we look forward to hearing out hearing soon what those might be and I think we're all gonna miss his enthusiasm and positive energy and we're gonna have to teach the new superintendent to say happy Monday as well as Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and good morning so that's all I have to say but I'm gonna move to the consent agenda could please add three items to four items to the consent agenda all of which are in front of you there are three sets of minutes two for March 26th one for March 29th as well as a co-curricular appointment on the blue paper so those are in addition to the approval of the minutes of March 21st and the approval of warrants and for payroll and accounts table for April 15th and the approval of bid on the Union Elementary School bathroom project and I would like to remove one item from the consent agenda to ask a question about it can I just do that or do you need to you can just do that okay great so I'm going to remove the bathroom bid from the consent agenda and I would love a motion on the remaining consent agenda items a move that we approve the consent agenda as outlined on the agenda and by the superintendent with the exception of the bathroom bid second all those in favor all right on the US bathroom bid when we we saw bathroom plans a couple months ago and we had the architect here from Black River and it was in the context of the budget conversation and I remember Lisa Frost one of the representatives from Roxbury pointing out that one of the bathrooms we were constructing was intended to be a gender neutral bathroom but had a urinal symbol in it which seemed inconsistent with a gender neutral bathroom and we were told at that time that we would have another opportunity to actually look at plans and I just wonder if this is a different bathroom bid or I believe so because I think what we looked at we're talking about the bond yeah yeah the bond includes two bathrooms okay this is a third bathroom so there's three that we've done wanting to do this one with fund balance so there'd be an operational bathroom okay before we actually got into the construction project with bond and then closed down two sets of bathrooms so those two that you're talking about we will have time to go back to those plans okay great all right can I ask a question since you pulled it off so it's more of a question for Grant Grant why is it that the board has to approve the bid is that a statutory requirement it is over a certain dollar amount this one this one probably isn't over the statutory limit it is in line with what we have established as I think we established 50,000 that the next board meeting might approve the policy that would make it so because it's kind of already above the threshold that we were considering and because it's a use of fund balance I don't just understand thank you it would be but this is within the fund balance allocation so all right so can I have a motion second all the favor I all right so then we have item 4 under limitations 2.7 compensation benefits there's just a change in our HRA situation or just our approval of what has been set up just our approval so the HRA for Montpelier public schools took effect on January first okay obviously there were a lot of things going on trying to make sure people were getting paid so there were kind of two items one make sure everybody's getting paid and all that's processing well to get a plan document to us I told health equity I'm not in rush on the plan document just make sure that we process payments first and so it I didn't push them so this is just now plan document coming to us I realize it's kind of it's almost like a move point because in three months we have retained so there'll be a new plan document that the new board will have to approve but this is just a cleanup to document that we have a plan document in place for the rest of the fiscal year and it's it's boilerplate I know it's a long document but it's pretty much for the plate and it reflects the plan that we've had in place since January 1st any questions or comment from the board it's a standard stuff I'm going to accept the HRA plan document and you need an approved grant to sign the plan document second all those in favor already there we go so I'm fine under limitations 2.4 financial planning and budgeting we have a fund balance realignment which I understand is good news yes so you got a one-page fund balance sheet and basically what happened is although you'll notice my comments I didn't update my comments I apologize I forgot to update the comments so the high school bathrooms and the middle street middle school boiler room project all the bills have cleared we're all done and on the bathrooms we came in about $10,000 under what was reserved for the committed for fund balance and for the boiler room about $11,400 below what we had committed from fund balance so what I wanted to do is just clean that up and before auditors get here the least number of things that are on that fund balance list trying to get zeros and clean it up this would zero out those two lines and clean that up so all I was asking for is instead of changing the committed fund balance amount just take those amounts from those designated projects and roll it into the bond architect work because we are still as you know Michelle we are still meeting with architect doing plans so we're still going to incur those bills so I just want to make sure we have a little extra in there and then whenever we get the bond and we start billing against the bond then whatever's left over we can zero that out as well and perhaps at that point we might even be looking at rolling it uncommitting that money and just putting it back into fund balance okay I do want to just mention one thing because most of you are on the next board as well the next board is going to have a resolution I forget what the language is declaration of intent to reimburse bond expenses what that is about and why it relates to this is that's the declaration that we would need if we want to use the bond in July to pay any bills that we incur before we got the bond so we can use the bond proceeds so this bond architecture work I'm hoping we don't spend it all and we also have the opportunity to go back and try to charge the bond proceeds for some of this and give it back to the fund balance okay but for right now this is just a clean up to to remove the access from two lines and put it into a third so I think there's some like suggested language on what the motion consistent yeah so I move that we realign twenty one thousand four hundred fifty dollars and fifty two cents of committed fund balance maintaining a total balance of one million three hundred four thousand four hundred twelve all those in favor thank you thank you and that is it for my killer