 to call the meeting to order at same adjustments to the agenda. But signing times and a timekeeper that hasn't been on our agenda in the past. I love it, though. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it. That's fine. Well, if you have read the odds and ends, I'm trying to become a little more efficient on the board meetings and things. So do people have recommendations? You can take my lead, or you can say no. So let's go to the reports to the board. For this first time, I don't want anyone to feel cut off. So Ray, could you share how long you think you need for your report? Eight minutes. OK, that's my site. It's a style, right? And that includes the website. There's a seven point home point. And then business manager's report, you'll be doing that first. I will be recording for you. OK, how long? Nine minutes. Good guess. All right. So we have an ascending time, OK? Superintendent's update? I'll just put both of those together. Let's call it nine. No, both? Yeah, for both. Are you sure you don't want like 15 or? You want more? No. I think superintendent should talk forever and not say more. Principal's report. We've shared it. Right, so I've read it. But there's little reporting that you need to report. Yeah, 10 minutes. Are there any questions? 10 minutes to go ahead. Just for time. OK. OK. Fourth comment, we need minutes for that. How many do you think we need? I think we need to have at least 10. OK. Under discussion. If someone had public comment, would it be open? I think so. OK. Home school outreach and access, 10 minutes enough for that, we think? Yes. Future agenda items. All right, there we go. Thank you all for doing that. Just me see agenda was three minutes. I'm not the time keeper. Who would like to be the time keeper? I have a really nice time. Does anyone else want to volunteer to be the time keeper? OK. All right, which brings us to public comment. Yeah, I've got a question. What about the heating system that we don't think might not last to meet the winter? Any updates on that? OK. I believe our updates are that we have done the report or we've got the report on what we need. And we're waiting until we have the details from the audit to know financially where we're at because it's a pricey item. Probably Owen and Andra know more about exactly where we're at and can update as needed. Yes, Redmond? Well, I would like, as soon as we know when the audit is done, we know we have the money that we lock somebody in for it for next summer. Yeah. I think that's the best we can do for this winter. Well, I don't know. Well, what do you want? Do you want to do the furnace now? We've got to do something, sir. I'm telling you. We'll be very lucky if we make it through this winter. But one thing, the compressive field, the dryer for the compressive field, and it filled every single pneumatic lineup that services the family stats with water, destroying all the family stats. So I don't know what you're going to do because you probably won't have to put my feet in here. I guess I have a point of order. And I guess I'd like to ask the principles. Was this discussed with you at any point before this meeting? I know it wasn't discussed with me. And we do have some order about how these things go. And I guess I felt kind of blindsided the last time something like this came up at the board and hadn't been really discussed before this. And I guess it's a perfect right of people to ask. But I think we do have to establish some process in how this is going to be done. So that's just my point on this. I believe in July, when I was approached about it, I did an email conversation, which we can go back to, which we discussed with Lisa. And Lisa, you replied with what you just said about we're waiting for the audit. So I don't think anything's changed with that for the last time. Then why do we spend $50,000 for a survey and then go out for a bid, which we get a bid? And the people were telling us, OK, we need to start July 8th. And as of July 8th, we did not want to overspend our budget is the bottom line. Owen. To respond to Bruce, I very briefly heard this afternoon that John Hubbell is the other person. And Wendell Wills said they were coming. Meaning they have not approached me about this. I did not know about these. Is that a problem? We have asked you a number of questions about this. What have you asked me and when? About what is going to happen about the heating system. I would recommend that this is done professionally and not in a public meeting. We have not spoke about this. And there's a couple of things here, Wendell. First of all, you're working right now, right? Well, I take it off, I have my lunch break. So you move to your lunch break? Yes. The communication breakdown here is really embarrassing. I'm the supervisor with Andrew of this building. I'm hearing about the sideways from you two. And there's three things you want to talk about, right? Sideways. You never came to me or Andrew. You know the answer on the boiler. We don't have the money. We don't show the money. And we need to take care of the money. We didn't have problems with the thermostats all last year. This is the first I've heard that they were filled with water. And I'm hearing about a meeting. Sorry. I think just as a point of order, because things are muddy, because we have a situation where this is personnel raising this concern out of chain of command at a meeting, that if we were to move further, that we need to address the chain of command and table this, I feel badly because you are public. And we can add this to a different section of the meeting. Do you want to say anything on your way out? Under your breath or? No, no. You want to say a lot? I don't know. We have talk you. Thank you. And we'll talk tomorrow. Excuse me. All right. Sorry about that. Is there any other public comment brings us to the consent agenda? There are minutes in the packet. I have to view the minutes from those four meetings. I would move that we approve them all as a block, if no one has any edits. I just have a couple. The minutes from our retreat on August 9th were not complete. There are some incomplete sentences that I'd love to just flesh out. And then I got some extra clarification around the pre-K program. So I could either amend that and save it for the next meeting, I guess, for everybody to review and approve. Would that be the thing to do? Or how would you like? They're pretty simple, but I just don't want the minutes to stand as they are with sentences that aren't finished. OK. So for August 9th, we'll amend for the next meeting and table those for now. OK. So we look at the remaining three as a block. Any questions about the others? I know. I usually read them when they first come in. So some of them feel like they came a while ago. I think motion on the approval of the other three minutes is printed here. All right. Second. All in favor of approving the minutes, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Thank you. OK, reports to the board. Director of technology. Oh, board comment. I'm so sorry. Yes, I think we do have four. I have a couple board comments. I sent an email to Lisa a couple days ago because the agenda had already gone out. We just decided we'll start a new board comment. So two things. I'll do the, well, the first one is I was recently approached by somebody within our community wanting more clarity as to why we have board administrators and why they're paid, the salaries that they're paid. And I know that we've had comments about this at past informational meetings as we were reviewing the budget, and as well as letters to the editor, things have gone in the paper. And I know there's been certain responses, but I just thought instead of just kind of pushing this aside, if we were to come out with something that was clear and comprehensive as to what it takes to be an administrator, what kind of expertise is required, what is the pay scale that we see within our state? Just something that is well explained because there's obviously reasons behind this, but to put it in three minutes at a public comment or it's too much, but if we had a document, I thought it might be a nice proactive way of keeping our community informed and doing it in a way that wasn't confrontational. So I just thought I'd bring that to a board meeting and to see what everybody thought. Yes, Tammy. Have you used the word administrator in your context? And I'm not sure if you meant administrator or director and I need that clarification. Principles. Great. We have four administrator principles. Principles. Great. Okay, just want to make sure I didn't confuse the rules. Okay, thank you. Yeah, and I think in my mind I'm clear about why we have four people and why we offer the salaries that we offer, but I do agree that being transparent about that and proactive would support, I think, things moving forward in a more positive way, because I was blindsided last year somewhat when we had that person who came to a meeting and was asking if people would take a reduction in salary and those sorts of questions, which I think we know that if we want to attract the best people for our schools, we need to offer a competitive salary. So sharing what administrator salaries look like in Vermont might be worthwhile as well. And what kind of training they need in order to, and what kind of responsibilities they have at their position and how that compare, you know, I just think all that information that transparency will help everybody kind of understand how the school is run. Still a lot of work. But of course, so then it's a question of if this is something that people agree on or the board agrees on, I guess we bring that to Bruce. To, I mean, so I don't know, is this something that we need to go on or is there any discussion to draft? Well, I mean, the way it's the support doctrine. When we were trying to figure out a vision for leadership in this new configuration, this was a recommendation, I'm thinking I was probably the one that recommended it to you. And you, I think, if I recall, there was quite a bit of discussion about it. And we, it was something, you know, there always were four administrators. There was just a vice principal and principal at Royalton, not two principals. And then there were two administrators here. Kind of felt, especially at the Royalton campus, it was important that now that it was gonna be a high school and elementary school, that there were people that had the appropriate training to be able to deal with those grades and that it wasn't gonna be one size fits all. So there were always four administrators. They may not have been all principals, but it was another change that we decided to make. And it was certainly something that the board had it around when we were going through the new Articles of Agreement and how it was gonna play out. So, I mean, that's historically how I remember that we got to where we are. Today I actually had this conversation with the resident today. And what I told him was, basically people come to the board meetings, they want more, they want, whether it's world language or skiing or sports or everybody wants more. You're gonna add more programming, it's gonna take more administration to run it. That's all there is to it. And the way these are comparable to the rest of the state. So I don't have programming, I guess we can't be on staff, too, but they don't do that, so. And there's also still a question that I get, which is, well, do we still have vice principals too? And no one seems to understand that either, that the leadership structure changed so much. So I think a statement written, I think the board could write it, that this was a decision that we made and we made it together and we made it with a lot of thought and we support our principal team, our administrators and the jobs that they're doing. Does it make sense for us to work on a draft like a slideshow and then share it in October with the principals and then put it on the agenda to present it in November around budget time? I would recommend maybe more, we want to work with Bruce on this. And there are some things that guide us in this like for multiple quality standards and the ISLOOK standards for school administrators that really shows responsibility. So there's time to work on that. Okay, thank you. Okay, so the next one then? Okay. All right, one more item that I approach this about is that from September 20th through the 27th of the 28th is climate awareness. And on the 20th in specific, which is next Friday, is a climate strike that's happening worldwide, but also there's a lot of action happening at a lot of different schools. And so I was just curious if our... I was curious if there are any plans for bringing awareness to our schools about the climate strike and what that means or what's happening or even if there's gonna be some sort of an educational component on campus or if there's any plans. And I would just encourage some sort of awareness around that day, whether it's on campus or in town or whatever, but there's some amazing things happening around the state and there are a number of schools that are getting involved with demonstration strikes. And so I was just hoping that our school was gonna do something. And for what it's worth to find more information, I'll just add a little more Greta Thunberg, who is kind of like the leader of these climate strikes. She started back in August of 2018 with her own activism in her own country, but this has become worldwide. She's getting a lot of recognition, but she has traveled to the United States on a boat and she's gonna be traveling throughout the United States with a zero impact plan to raise awareness to our climate emergency. And so on the 20th of September, she'll begin Washington, DC. And like I said, if people wanna know more about what's happening, there are a couple different websites that have a lot of information and let you know what's happening throughout the state. And that would be vermontclimatestrike.org as well as 350.org, both have lots of information and guidance documents to help people figure out if they do wanna take action, what, how that could look, you know, very different formats for schools or individuals or the public. Is it 350? 350.org, 350.org. And vermontclimatestrike.org is another website. They don't seem to be cross-pollinating a whole lot, but I know that they're sharing a lot of similar information and there's some great articles on both those websites as well, giving you a little background story to it. Is there a question you wanna answer? I wanted to let, well, the first question was, are you aware of it? The second question is either Kansas doing anything and if not, I would encourage, you know, I hope that there's something that our schools do. Yes. There's some family-staking advantage of what's being offered in the state and I'm not sure about out of state. So they've informed us, the global citizenship class is talking about it and they're taking the lead from the students of what they want to do. Time's up. Yes. Same for the climate. Good, well, I just wanted that to be, I just wanted to say it out loud. I did read, probably has something to say. I was gonna. Yeah, and I've had several conversations over the last six weeks about this with folks. And this, unlike the youth climate rally which happens in April is the students who are organizing this want to all be students. So in honoring the leadership that's out there about Friday's event for me to be involved would be to print the students what they want at least the leaders of that organization. So I've kind of been sitting back to take the lead of any of my students who want to engage with that. You know, the event starts at 10 in Montpelier which would be pretty much from here means it's soon to miss a whole day of school. And I don't think as the administrator that would be my position to encourage students to take the whole day off of school and certainly not to provide a bus or anything for that. Like we might do for the youth climate rally which is coordinated with educators who kind of coordinate the day of education and that sort of thing. Right. Well, I know like the Sharon Academy is doing something I think right on campus. So students don't have to travel anymore. They could just raise awareness even in their gymnasium or walk outside and spend five minutes outside and then walk back in the class. There's so many formats in which to do it. I'm worried about safety just of the kids whatever they're going to do, you know? And I mean, I'm sure they're of the age of expressing themselves and that's quite appropriate. I'm talking about the high school kids especially. And I guess I just want to, are you going to do anything locally? I don't even know of or are they going to do anything locally? I'm not aware of any, nobody within the community has expressed any plans for the day. So I haven't been trying to encourage students walking out of their classes. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Any additional important comment? I know we're over time. Director of technology. Thank you. So I was made aware of an email with a conservative parent community member around the end of the last month about some aspects of the Bethlehem Routham website that we're lacking. So I met the four principals on September 3rd where we came up with a plan for a specific person to do some work to review the website and then start reading the edits. And then last Thursday or so I met with Principal Wells and he is now spearhead. Fabulous. Yeah. I appreciate you handling that so promptly. Does anyone have any specific questions? You have, we have a new iron, right? For the job that we've seen since last month. Yeah, I mean they heard that. Oh, sorry. Yes, and Nichols joined us. They have to Labor Day. Okay. I'm sorry, what was the name? And Nichols. Thank you. He works in Royalton every day except for Friday when he's here. Okay. Additionally, there's a policy on the disposition of assets which says that the board, along with may declare property surplus and then decide how it gets disposed of. And in reviewing this with the business manager and the superintendent, we are going to make a revision to the policy committee. But before that happens, I'm seeking your permission to at my discretion make those decisions up to a certain value until that policy can be changed. So at each campus, there's equipment that's 10 years old that no longer serves the school day today and it's essentially up to the volume. Okay. And so this, my understanding is this is sort of boilerplate, the $5,000 or less. The $5,000 only applies to federal money. Okay. So in terms of local money, it's, if I wanted to dispose of a pencil, I would have to get the boards approved. Oh, okay. So what, why haven't we heard from you then? Well, we haven't disposed of it yet. Okay, so he's very, very, very much asked for it. He just wants some freedom created by you guys, permissioned by you guys to unburdened, you know, the school of a lot of useless equipment, really. And so, why don't you tell them what you'd like. So if we have equipment that is not being in use, not set aside for spares or other such use, that unless the value of that is over $1,000, then I would like to be able to just dispose of that again until the policy of remuneration. So. $1,000, would that be current value or was the purchase value? Most of the things we would be e-wasting are gonna be essentially a zero dollar value. But as the policy's written, we cannot get renovated without your permission. So e-wasting is what? Properly disposing of it. Right, okay. In our context, that means taking it to the dump, to the transfer station. Okay. Yes, Owen. I think Chris was maybe asking, you asked the value we paid for it? Oh. Or the value of it now? Right, I mean, which one is it? It's a current value. It's a current value. It's a current value. So after it's depreciated for 10 years. That should cost them less. So it would be to replace it. It's already the current value. The spots that this equipment took up, they've already been replaced. Okay. It's not as if we're disposing an equipment that needs to then be replaced. Did you hear that, Andrew? Okay. Right. And is this a policy we'll be looking at in the October 3rd round of meetings? Correct. Okay. Which I'll touch on soon. Okay, and you're super attentive for it. Okay. So is there a motion or more questions? Of course, yeah. So do we, and this is, I'm just thinking and asking. I'm not saying this has to be this way, but do we need to consider any type of need of you determine that it needs to be wasted, but do we need to have anybody else sign off and just say, yeah, that's good by me too, just to make sure we're not making any unilateral decisions and that you're not just making decisions and then we're in somewhat a long way, somebody says, well, what happened to this stuff? And I'm just thinking about a liability, not really liability, but just for, I mean, even for like your own, for lack of a better word, your own protection, just to say that this was corroborated by somebody else. If somebody then later on came on and accused you of improperly deciding to dispose of things or something like that, just in terms of a check and balance that we have just a second set of eyes doesn't have to be the board, but if it's the administrator on the campus, one of the principals that falls under if it's a laptop for the elementary or something they say, yep, we agree all these old laptops are done and we're moving on to the new ones just to again have a for everyone's protection. Do you have like nurses facing working? Yeah, you know, just, you know, I mean, it's, you never know. Are you making that as a part of the motion? So, we're gonna rewrite this policy. So, we're gonna set the policy on until the third. Yeah, but what Ray's trying to do, especially when this district, he'd like to get going on making a start basically because it's gonna be a couple more weeks before we have that meeting. And then there's a long drawn out process of approval that has to go before the board for wording and be warned in the paper. So, it's gonna be a while before the policy is actually done, done. I asked him to come tonight to express what he needed so that he could get started with at least you folks and then do the rest of the districts, as soon as the policy's written. So, if you're comfortable with that. So, does it make sense for him to be in communication with the building administrator just so that? One of the administrators. Okay. So, would we say give administrators authority with the technology director? Andrew, do you have a thought? What's that? I'm not making a motion, of course, but I can make a recommendation Okay. All right. Since these are Bethel and Ruffin assets, not SU assets. Okay. All right, so we're giving the administrators the authority to approve. The recommendations of the technology director? Right. On items under $1,000 in value. Technology assets. Disposal of, right, disposable of technology assets under $1,000. Okay. Anybody making that motion? So, I'll try. So, I'll make a motion that we give authority to the administrators on the campus to, based on the recommendation of the director of technology to make the decision to dispose of technology items that are of a value of $1,000 or less. Is there a second to that? Second. Okay. All in favor of authorizing the administration to do all of that with, to dispose of assets under $1,000 when recommended by the technology director. Please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? No. Thank you. Is there more for your report? Just one last thing. Okay. Around the SU we're doing a lot of E-9-1 testing that was done in Bethel today. And we realized that there's a piece of that that is missing and we're working to rectify that, we believe without cost. Okay. All right. All right. Thank you. Thank you. That was two minutes over, too. Okay. Thank you. Just so you know, if we keep this trend, we're going to be 20 minutes longer. So maybe we need to amend it for next time to say 10 minutes for the technology. Yeah. That's your report. I'm sure he's not eager to come before you every meeting. Right. He'll be happy to be here. Okay. I want to have your message. Okay. Okay. Well, when we're on the agenda, we're going to have 10 minutes. And hopefully we will not have as ponki emotions. In the future. All right. So next we have the business manager slash superintendents report. So I will tell you, and I hope I'm not sure whether this is current, but the policy committee will be meeting on October 3rd. And I think Lisa, you were the person involved. Are you willing to continue that? Yeah. I'm going to try to, there's been a lot of things that nurses have submitted a policy on lice. And we have several other policies that we didn't touch last time that probably should consider now. We also have two that were circulated and there was one board that didn't like them and have kind of set them back, sent them back to the committee to be revised. And instead of having a whole new policy for one board, we have to try to resolve them, the wording in them to try to please. So we only, we have one policy that stands. So that'll be on October 3rd at six o'clock at the office. And I've pretty much assembled everybody from each of the, one person from each of the boards to represent. That means that you, that doesn't mean you can't show up if you don't want to. If you, yeah, I mean, if you want to be a part of it, go ahead, you can come and share in the discussions. It's not a big private agenda. I expect we'll maybe have a second meeting in December sometime. So to go into probably Tara, business manager and myself together, the report is that I was given a pretty direct goal in my goals given to me by the executive board that they wanted their audits finished in each of the districts by the 31st of October. And we were at that time slated to do the audits by the auditing company in late October. So we needed to get involved with them and tell them that we weren't happy with that time. The executive board wouldn't like that time and that we needed it changed. And they've been very responsive. They showed up yesterday and began only one person, but it's a start and he was back again today. I think they will be adding people as we go. And I think they'll be here this week and next week to try to do the preliminary work and then probably take a lot of it back to their office to work on. But we expect, I've been promised by Ron Smith, who is the owner of the company that we would have our documents back by the end of October like I was instructed to get done. So that's why Tara's not here. She is working with them probably till late tonight. She was here late last night and we're trying to get this finished so that you have the product that you were asking for. There's a couple of date switches that I want you to make note of. There was a meeting, executive board meeting scheduled for the 23rd of December. And because that starts the holiday, I'm gonna ask that we move it up one week to the 16th, which is Monday before that, knowing that I'm probably not gonna get, we're not probably gonna get too much attendance at that point in the year. So that will be a change I'm gonna ask the executive board to make. So the next full board meeting will be here on Monday. This Monday coming up at six o'clock and I'm hoping as many of you as can show up so that we do get informed. There will be reports from each of the folks in central office and I will be reporting out probably several of the things that we're doing right now. The raising readers agenda, as you've probably seen the banners on each one of the schools, they will be rotated so we're gonna move them probably on October. October eight when we have an administrative meeting. There are eight different banners around the office and they will be moved probably every five or six weeks as we go in order to raise awareness for literacy throughout the SU. I'm hearing really good reports. It's really early, but there's a lot of Amy Toth is very tired at the end of the week as she's been out to each of the schools working with the teachers on their literacy work and our latest meeting with the administrators we've talked a lot about some of the special interventions that go on and the need to make sure that those interventions are at least a half an hour long because to do anything less than that is really ineffective so we've kind of set with the administrators that their interventions that are taking place in that both literacy and math need to make sure that they're at least a half an hour to be effective so that's only a couple days old since we talked about that with the administrative staff. I hope you took a look at the Iowa Lighthouse Study that I put in Odds and Ends. It's my attempt to try to get us out of a lot of the weeds that I know you sometimes get in and try to talk about academic things which good boards do and that the Lighthouse Study is a little bit dated now, but it's a lot of boards around the country have used it. I think I sent you the link to what Connecticut has done and certainly it's something that kind of raises some awareness about the work that the board should be doing in order to be effective. I also in the last Odds and Ends that came out Sunday I sent around some links for new board members in training and I also sent some links for the VSBA site so that you could get some webinars that are there around refreshers if you've been a board member and so I'm kind of on this campaign to try to get board members who maybe live very busy lives and can't get to training and they can do it at home through webinars that are very good actually that the VSBA sponsors. I guess I'd invite any comment or feedback on the Odds and Ends that you might have things I can do better, things you'd like to see in there. I'm trying to get away from just telling you about dates coming up and some other things that talk about articles or various other things that I want you to see. And there's one that was authored by Sue Sankiewicz and I will send that around. She is the former principal at Brockton High School. Brockton High School in Massachusetts has a real turnaround legacy that she's credited with how they worked on reading and literacy and it really turned the whole school around and if you know anything about Brockton, it's a pretty tough place, very poor and they've never been really known for academics and now they are and I have that article and I'll make sure it's available to you. I think it's an interesting read. She also published a thing called the Brockton book which is talks a little bit about how they turned around and the difficult conditions. So I'll make that available to you. Any comments, any feedback? I appreciate the Odds and Ends and they're like, they're really informational. Thank you. I'm glad you're doing it. Can you remind me again where the next billboard meeting is going to be? Could you say here? Here, right here, yeah. And most of the wars I think at those meetings believed it was best if we could have them in either Royals Center here because it's central. That couple of years ago, a year or two ago, they wanted to move all over the SU at different locations to see, you know, get in other buildings. But some of the folks that weren't either end were starting to complain about the distance and we were seeing not a whole lot of attendance. So until I'm told otherwise, that's the new agenda which is to either be here or be in Royalton so we can stay, you know, central to our SU for those meetings. And I guess maybe in, particularly in the winter, it's probably a good strategy. So that's that. I also have been given the resignation of Wendell Wills who submitted this most recently. It says, please accept this formal notice of my resignation from the position of custodian at White River Valley Schools, effective November 15th, 2019. For care consideration, I've made the decision to resign in order to retire. Wendell's been here a long time and he, you know, he's really, I don't know how many years, Owen or Andrew, do you know? Well, this is the second time being here, but I don't know how many years. When I first was hired, he was the town constable. So I'll send that around to you. Right, but years before that, he had been here. So he's been here twice since I've been here. Yeah, quite some time. He used to catch me with even my window opened by mistake, didn't he? Oh no. Well, I guess I would suggest you might wanna accept this with your head, but it's up to you. Yes, but I was going to, yeah. He definitely has good relationships with many of our students. I would entertain a motion to accept Wendell's letter of resignation with regret. The second. Oh. Okay. Yeah. I'll make a motion to accept Wendell's letter of resignation with regret. I second. Yeah, all in favor. And the opposed, and the ascension. Thank you. I'm done. I'm finished. How long is that? Two or three minutes. I did. Three minutes. I had to train fast. I think everybody just needs 10 minutes. But when we had 10 minutes, we were two minutes over 10. Yeah. Whatever I'm gonna do about it. Or we all just need to practice it more since it's the same. I mean, it's just crazy. Okay. So this brings us to the principal's report. Do you wanna add two minutes for that? I think that's a great idea. Although we're gonna ask questions. We still might go two minutes over there, if that's just a quick question. So I was wondering actually about the update on the fire suppression system and some of the work that we need to have happen, which was in the principal's report. So if you wanted to share what you have, or what you have to say. Sure, be glad to. Okay. So the next step is to meet with the fire marshal to take a look at the kitchen and see what kinds of things are prepared there. You know, if you're cooking French fries and grilling steaks all day, then you definitely need a fire suppression system because of the grease. But if you're cooking doesn't involve a lot of that, then it's not required. So we'll come and take a look at the situation and advise us. We'll hear the sound about that. Yeah, that's right. It'll be the right maker on sandwich barbecue. And as far as efficiency Vermont, they're not in the business of offering rebates on the hoods. But they do have small rebates, like $500 or so for the electronic controls because modern hoods is just not on and off. They adjust to the need and temperature and all of that kind of thing. Thank you. Any other questions or anything else you wanna highlight? Just another, since Lily's not here, but this is around the kitchen, one of the other pieces of homework that was gonna be done was to consider whether a small sprint van to function as food delivery was gonna be actually a good idea or if it could be have multiple use suits. I think Lily was walking out. Okay, so I guess from the minute, I hope he was gonna try to have something this month, but he's still... I can follow if you want to. You wanna listen to follow? Yeah, I can follow. Was that an SU item? No, because it's just a restart. What is it, the retreat? Right. I think the conversation went to it could be an SU asset. Right, and then if it was, how could it be used? If it was handling food, what other things could it be used for and all of that? Mobile smoker, too. Yeah. Would it be possible to get an update on what our tendences or enrollment is looking like compared to last year? Just with people getting their tax bills, we're getting questions about taxes and being able to say... Yeah, it's usually October. He said they're planning October first is when they take official... I thought that you do it for like the average of October or something, so we wouldn't be getting it until November. I think he wants to know your sense of it right now. Yeah. That should be great. Okay. Just to ask a clarifying question about the two acts of the hood. Are we planning on pursuing doing variable speed controls on the hood or what's the plan with the hood or... My understanding is that we're in research mode and we would plan this into next year's budget. Yeah, because I think for those hoods, yeah, I think the rebate would be good, but then the savings, the operation savings on top of that would be where we would also see the benefit. So, even if we think that the 500 is small, it would be incentive to pay some extra for it because for those hoods, most of the time they come in and turn them on in the morning and then it's just running full speed until they get done at the end of the day. And a lot of times they don't need to be running at that level. And so if you cut the speed of the fan down to half of what it normally is, if you're cutting energy usage down to one eighth of what it normally is, so it's a cubic function. So there's lots of energy savings to be had versus just running at full speed all the time. So just a consideration of going forward with that. So efficiency or not might be able to help crunch the numbers on that or I might notice some students. Great. Also curious given the concerns over the boiler that came to light at the beginning of the meeting about potential repairs. So if in our October meeting we could know what needs to be done as it's getting colder, it just seems like that's the responsible thing to do. And I mean, I do know we were holding off, waiting to know what our resources were. So it's sort of just a catch 22 in a way. But yeah, Owen, please. I'd be willing to work with Chris on getting some sort of assessment of how dire things are. Do you want to help me with that? Yeah, I can help out as much as I can. Okay. What could respond to work there now that we're there? Recon. Okay. Could you also get Tara involved? Yeah. She'd like to be, I think. Well, I think the thing to do right away is to talk to the folks that manage our system and talk to the professionals about it. Okay. And not to be guessing. Right. I appreciate that. Andrea, did you want to add something? Sorry, I wasn't realizing that. I didn't add the Bethel open houses next Thursday. I guess we're switching off the boiler to do it. Thank you. Sorry. Yeah, I wanted to add something. Well, I just saw her eyebrows. Oh, no, open house, sorry. I didn't know that it was open house in that way. Open house makes me feel like a boiler. It's been here five times. It's been here for a time, right, Rodney? No, five. All right. We have 38 seconds. We can talk through your email. I've got a couple of questions. Okay. I think it would be helpful if you gave me questions. So you have a regular maintenance? Yeah. Boiler maintenance people? We do. What company you go to? Vermont. Is it, I mean, Alliance? Alliance. And Alliance is, they're all over the state. They've got lots of offices in different places, so they probably come up here from, like, White River Junction or Lebanon. You're here right away. Yeah, they do, they work at Vermont Tech and they do BLS and, yeah, they're at, you know, most, most institutions you drive by and a lot of times you're gonna see an Alliance truck and they're parking a lot, I mean, so. Anything else? How was the opening of school? I just, I think good, right? That doesn't bring that. I've heard all positive things so far, so I appreciate that. I think we should ask the question that I have a bit of an answer for. Okay. All right, we're gonna move on back to that topic. Guess that enrollment number. So we've got almost a student a day enrolled in school. I think we're up to 14 new students since school started, which is kind of crazy to try to figure out why that's happening. Some are students who had left in our returning. Some are students, a couple of kids from Petford have transferred in, so if you wanna go about that. And we've had two move out, mostly do the family situations in the high school. So I think we're up, maybe as many as four or five more students than we had last year. But again, the number changes every day and there's a lot of movement. We're up 24 in the middle school from what we had last year. Wow. The current sixth grade, which came to us from both hands. Is that, that's just. It's a larger group. Share numbers, you're up 24. Head count. Head count. And what about the elementary schools? I feel like we're about the same, but it's, we're full of little kids. It's easy not just to, like as a court on that. It's easy. It's easy. It's easy. Yeah. Female house and everything. They're all about that. They just don't test that one. It's a good one. Nice. Yeah, it would be, just as Andrew said, it would be nice, you know, when you guys have that information to send it to us. Cause we're having conversations with our neighbors all the time and to give them some, what sounds like good news. It would be great. It's an action item. Okay. That's right, action item. So that brings us to, so that is, that's a future action item, right? Yeah. Yes. You heard about this for the next four days, because we're just going to send it to us. Yeah, fully enough. Great. Yes. It's not in the report, but open house is coming up. Okay. It will be from Thursday for Bethel campus. We would love to have all of you there. It's 5.30 until seven. What's the date? Okay. It's 26. 26, and what time? 5.30 to seven. And if you bring a dish, that'd be great, because we need to. Okay. We'll provide hot dogs, hamburgers, and corn. Yeah. And I think the Royalton campus has one coming up also. So what is the date for that? October 3rd. 26th. And then October 3rd is the one in the Royalton. October 3rd for the Royalton. Yeah. Same deal of hot dogs, hamburgers, corn, and a lot of, what do you have there? And I think we're having lobster this year. Ah! One after the other. One after the other. Two after the other. Raising eight. Is it local lobster? No, it's local lobster for a lobster. Crazy. It's a rare delicacy. All right. So October 3rd, also 5.30 to seven. The lobster. Big one. You can help come, sir, or just name one. Johnny, yes, sir, no one at that time. I'm sorry. 5.30 to seven. 5.30 to seven, also. And generally, we say at six o'clock, we invite. I get five to seven on the camera. We're doing five. We're doing five to seven. We usually invite people to do the class insurance. Okay. And then make an announcement at 6.50 that we're closing. To school now. Yes. So the Bethel is from? 5.30 to seven. And Royalton is five to seven. Five to seven, yes. A lobster in Royalton. Yeah. I know. Yeah. Have you ever had to do my fist of it? No. Bottom feeders. Okay, they get top farmers, so. Sorry, I'm all upset. So that brings us to discussion items. If we wrap that up. Thank you for your principles report. I appreciate having it ahead of time with being able to read it and read the links and stuff like that. Oh, can I ask one little question on facilities? Okay. Dry well rehabilitation. Is it really a dry well or is it dry wall? So behind the art room, there's a dry well. It's 20 feet deep. Yeah. I think about a big manhole kind of great there. And we have an engineer come in and there's somebody who knows that sort of drainage they come in over the summer because we've had seasonal flooding there every spring. We had two or three days last year where we had a couple inches of water kind of coming through the walls. And so excavator came in and dug that out, expanded it, added fresh gravel, got all the erosion that had filled in the well. So hopefully that'll take care of the problems. About $5,000. So then they got hit up. Yeah. It was something we hadn't budgeted for. So. Do you want to have it on there? We'll need to figure out where it comes from out of our other budget lines. Can I make a comment regarding Drivers Ed and really the kind of where we stand with this? As you know, we did offer a summer program for Drivers Ed. It was kind of late because we had the late budget approval. We really didn't know we were gonna be able to run it over the summer, but when the budget was approved and we were in there, we decided to do it. I want you to understand the relationship with our area schools out of district in the SU and Drivers Ed. Even if these kids go, I had a discussion with Sharon Academy last year because they were charging their kids to take Drivers Ed and of course we don't. And they were concerned because they felt that we had some responsibility to help them with that because we were in the same district. So I called the AOE to ask about it. And I said, look, they're claiming in the same SU, we might have some responsibility. And I said, that's not true, is it? And they said, no, here's the deal. If you offer it for free, like we have, we will continue to support that as long as you open it to those students from other districts, from other schools, including Sharon Academy. That's if we restrict it to just our own students in Bethel and Royalton, that's gonna be a problem. So since that time, and I've made it very clear to the people at the high school now, we are going by birth date, the oldest kids first, and there were home scores calling, and how can I get this? And so last week I had a meeting with Michael Livingston about this. It was one of the topics we talked about to make him clear he was, I think they've had a hard time running it because it's 700 to 600. I don't quote me on the amount of money, but a significant amount of money for parents. That's, and they've also not been given a lot of support from the state on this. So I said, look, what I've been told that we can keep our state status as long as we let other kids in to be able to access our program. And he said, well, are you gonna take your kids first? And I said, no, we're not allowed to do that. It has to be by birth date, the oldest kids first, and then from there it goes on in order for us to keep our state status. And so that's what I've basically instructed the folks at the high school to do is to keep a list. As we run these programs, our kids will be blended in with a rasp for either birthdays. And I didn't want you to be blindsided by this because it is a little bit of a change from what you might have understood. This is something that, like I said, the AOE told us that we had to do it this way if we wanted to keep it. Because what Michael was trying to get us to do is provide a program off our program for Sheridan Academy, and I had been assured by the AOE that that's not the way it works as long as we keep our program open to kids that don't even attend Royalton or about those schools that we would be fine. And I think we have had some kids from out of district, and so. So how does the funding work for this? Like we're getting some money back from the state but we're putting some money in as well, right? I was told by Tim Crowe when I looked into this two weeks ago that the amount he thinks we get from the state is $70 per student. So I haven't had a chance to follow up with Bruce, but in light of that information, it seems it would be wiser for us to forego state aid and charge tuition for anybody outside of our own students. And we might actually come out ahead by doing that. The $70, we added $20,000 in the budget for our summer program alone. So that we're paying over $1,000 out of our budget to our kids in our program. So it's a big underwriting that we'd be doing for other folks. But I don't have the hard data. Here has been pretty busy to go find out what the revenues are from the state for that. Does it make sense to explore that then and report back in November or December after the audit? I can accept that this is what it is for right now. But it does seem like there might be a more cost effective way to do it. It doesn't make sense to me that we're supporting the staff from our district, but the kids in our district who are ready to take the class may be sidelined because we're letting kids from other districts come in. I can see that, I can absolutely see the home schooling perspective, especially if they're local. But if kids are in a school and they've got access to another course. And if they're from the surrounding communities and they want our trackers, it would be great if they'd take the rest of our courses. This is new for Sheridan Academy. Michael was going to put the word out that if you come in and want to be part of the program that you wouldn't be discriminating against because you are not a member of Alley's student. Like I said, this conversation with him is a week old and that's what I was told by the state that had it worked that way. Why don't we investigate further before we spread it around? Because like he might want to change. Well, we're on camera right now, so I think spread it around. Sure, but I mean, we don't want to officially say that kids from Sheridan get tuition-free driver's ed if we want to then forego the state aid and charge them tuition. I didn't have a conversation with Greed about this, I didn't know that that's what he had learned. I mean, I don't have anything, and you heard that. And we may need to stay the course for this year and then next year do something different when we know something different. My question is, so it sounds like this change was pretty recent. I'm wondering if there were students who then thought they got into driver's ed and then when we changed how we were doing things maybe got blocked. And I would just ask if that happened with communication being exceptionally clear regardless of where they're from or whether they're home to school. We don't have any of that information. I'm pretty clear with the guidance department because I knew that this is what the state was asking us to do. I just think families need to understand the rationale if their child was previously told that they made it into driver's ed and then they don't have the right birthday. And what's the capacity? 20 students per session pretty much is what I've been told. And are we able to meet that or? We currently have 20 students enrolled and we have 14 who signed up for the spring already. We're on our list. There probably are more than 20 who've qualified to take it in the spring because I'm not supposed to sign up to see annual permit. A lot of kids will be getting their permits probably in the coming months. So it sounds like you're easily gonna fill it to 20 students and if we open it up to students from outside the district it's possible that they could be filling spots that are already technically filled by some of our students that would get bumped if they were younger. Michael, they asked me if we were gonna run a summer course. I said, I don't know until we do our budget whether we're gonna be able to do that. So can you get clarification from the state that we have to provide for the other towns for free? Even though they're not members of our district because that doesn't seem to make sense because they're not, like our taxpayers are providing money for this program basically and their taxpayers aren't. So it seems like we should be able to charge tuition. Our taxpayers are providing some of its money from the state. Right. But it doesn't sound like it's a summer course, right? It doesn't sound like it's a summer course, right? Right, roughly, yeah. Well, even the state could be telling us how much, do we need to wait for Tara? I mean, couldn't the state tell us how much money we'd have to buy for students? I think we could get that information. That should be pretty straightforward. I just wanted to be upfront and honest with you that this is new information. I don't think we've had a run on other schools in our program and we are about to have one if the Sharon Academy kids are told to come here. Right. Because a parent, given the choice of paying hundreds of dollars and then coming for free. It's gonna choose free, yeah. So. All right. Thank you. Is there, that brings us to homeschool outreach and access. I think that can be a relatively quick update. I think I've provided the list today, actually, of all the homeschoolers that we have listed for this district and also the other districts. I've given those to the principals and asked them not to share them that with other staff members because it's pretty confidential stuff, but that they have what I got from the state to get it a couple of times a year. So I don't know whether there were any surprises on that list. We just sent them out today. Yes, Owen. So I believe our plan is to draft a letter, share it among the four of us, share it with Bruce about offering programming to homeschool families as it's available, using the law as our guide. There's good guidance on the agency's website. Right. But that's the plan. Okay. So if somebody could come in for just one course or one class or extracurricular. And then are there ways to invite them to join any email lists to stay in the loop of activities? We can look into that. I think we can try. The list that's provided doesn't give. There's probably more data. It's up on address or have contact information. So. The agency probably has that. We'll start with the letter and snail mail. Okay. That's awesome. And maybe encouraging them if they are interested to reach out. Would you join us on Facebook, the middle school and high school have been very good about posting opportunities on Facebook, at least for the extracurriculars. But there's also the school, the Blackboard. Is that a possibility to, if they gave their email, could they join? Sure. Well, we'd have to see how, isn't that possible Ray, because Blackboard is fed by a web-to-school and that's for people who are enrolled. So it would have to be a manually updated list. Group separate from. It's not impossible. And I think that once the website's updated, a lot of the information that people want to access will be at their fingertips. So that's exciting too. This is interesting, there are 10 students on the state's list at home schoolers in the middle school and high school. Give us some sense of the quantity out there. Although when I look over the list, I can think of two students that I'm pretty sure are homeschool residents of our communities that aren't on the list. So maybe Dan got their paperwork in this year. Well that's another part of providing a list of the principals that, we didn't want anybody to fall through the cracks. It's fine if they're on homeschooling, but if they're somewhere in between the school and homeschooling and never have finished signing up or whatever, I think that's important that we know that and maybe act on that. Right, if you know of families that aren't on that list, but you know that they're out there, find some way to include them in communication because I can tell you from experience, I've known of families that haven't been registered by the A&E Department of Education. You know, technically you're supposed to communicate with them because technically they're true and we're supposed to be following that. Yeah, yeah, and I think there's been years where they've been understaffed and so they're not catching those true individuals and so it's not uncommon that some get missed. Anything else? Do we have agenda items for our next meeting? Or is there another public comment? Oh there's another public comment, I'm sorry. Everyone looks at me because I'm the last one left. Yes, Tammy. I don't like to, I've gotta share some opening school concerns. Okay. The bus schedule for the Royalton campus, R3 was completely incorrect, leaving a 20 minute, not 10, which is accommodating, but 20 minutes earlier than expected. When I outreach to the bus system, they assured me that they had the student's best needs at hand and that there was some confusion in correspondence. Virtual messages on the Facebook posts or whatnot shared that. That will experience some of those problems and drew attention to that to double check the updated listing because there might have been an incorrect listing, but nothing was said about the Royalton. So many parents are kind of flying by the seat of their pants, at least those impacted by R3. And I don't mind following up in writing if it's helpful, but my first contact point was the bus system. The Crosstown bus is a cultural experience from Bethel to Royalton, where one learns to speak many things. I think it's been an ongoing experience and efforts have been made to try to address it by placing a staff member on the bus. And I think the short experience that I've had is that there's been, not personally, but there's been some improvement because those people are addressing the issue as soon as they possibly can. I thought picture day was today at both campuses. And it's not. And so I'm trying to pay attention to the branding that is used between both campuses for the particular student population. And even with my decoder ring, I can't figure it out. There's a flu clinic that's offered at the Bethel campus, and I don't know if students who are at the Royalton campus are saying, hey, what about the flu clinic that might or might not be offered at the Royalton campus? And so these are kind of gaps that on the receiving end, I think it's hard to project what these might be, but these are things that we've experienced. Just tonight hearing the positive progress of Bethel Open House is this time, Royalton Open House is this time, is a reflection of administration trying to make a change. So I don't want to be providing just solely negative feedback. I think there is work that goes into it. So this is just a gentle reminder. We're getting there, but we're not there. On the parent end, it gets a little confusing, and there. And you have one in each campus now, right? Yeah, so my decoder ring last year doesn't work for the decoder hanging to do this year. Okay. Yeah. So the communication disparities are particularly glaring, probably. Well, I, again, I can't figure it out. I think, just when I think I have it, I don't. And a mere reflection of that was talking to the Royalton office going, hey, what's the picture day login ID for the 17th and learning that it's not. She was very helpful at the front desk. So no, nothing was harmed by this, but we're making progress, but we're not there yet. When is picture day? Just for us that don't know. Bethel was too many. But we have retakes. I mean, I don't know when. It's out on the website because I shared a concern. If you check the face, actually, it's on the Facebook page. It's on the Facebook page. That whole picture day was on the Facebook page. Is Royalton on the Facebook page? No, the update includes both. They were posted together. But on Monday, when I went to search the Royalton Elementary website, I could not tell, which triggered the call to the helpful front-line desk person. I could not tell from the website that it was different dates. So again, reflection of progress, positive progress, we're getting there, but not there yet. September 27th in Royalton. Thank you for that, Richard, or Alexis. I'm just gonna underline. I literally emailed Kate this morning and said, is my email address okay because I'm not hearing anything and it's weird. And she said your email address is fine. And it just, it doesn't seem like we had a lot of communications yet this year. And I know there's been a huge transition and I don't wanna be that person except I always end up being that person. I emailed about the website, I'll confess, in April. April. And so I just, I'll say it one more time. It's a huge recruitment issue. When people go on the website, they can't find anything. It's a problem when you look for dates. I put the entire music boosters in a tizzy because I got a date mixed up and it wasn't on the website. So if anyone is also on the music boosters email address list. Hi, Karen. Hi, Harley. Sorry. But, and the third part is that, especially at the high school and the middle school level, we have a bunch of teenagers and teenagers gossip and teenagers talk and rumors just fly. And so if, for example, out of blue, you have a big, clear halls drill one day and you don't get an email later saying everything's okay. It can be an environment where you get a lot of rumors that everything is not okay or everything's okay or my friend told so-and-so this and this and this and it's to the giant and game of telephone from one person to another person to another person to another person. And I haven't seen that happen lately, but I know it happens, I know it happens a lot. So I always, you know, I feel like every semester I'm like, hey, don't forget communication. I have said before, and I don't think I've said it to this administration, I would love to have you guys just put in a real basic crisis communications plan, one of those things where you pull the card out of the box and say, okay, there was a minor fire and the fire department came and everything's under control and then you send it out and you don't have to think about it. Aside from focusing on the things that were actually important and you don't have the potential for rumors really festering when things happen. I mean, everyone in the school district has gone through, you know, and then the principal got arrested. So, you know, we all know that crisis has happened and it's important to get that information at the fast and accurate because the rumor can just go crazy. That's it, thank you. Thank you, Alexis. I had a choice, I'm sorry, I know he's very tough, but I'm her daughter, so you knew it was coming someday. I would say, kind of adding on to that a little bit, but not really, there's a lot of concern in the student body right now and I know a lot of us out here today, the student council people, they have stopped again, but we don't know when things are happening until they're happening a lot of the time. I was talking to a friend after school and he was like, you know, what is the bonfire? We've heard nothing about it and the only reason I know about it is because our seniors are freaking out, trying to figure out how to put it, the bonfire, together. What is the bonfire? It is, let me check. It's Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday. Is that the climate awareness? No, Friday is the 20th climate awareness. Which is good, because it would be bad to skip on those right now. Yeah, it would be really bad, but we, it's like, but we found out, somebody found out yesterday, I think, because that was when, we have a chat of fundraising ideas and somebody went, bonfire, what are we doing? And we were like, oh, okay. Look, I don't know if that's the game under, is that the game under the lights? Okay, so that's probably how we know, because they're trying to get the play soccer. But like, I don't play soccer, I have no idea what's happening. Okay. You know, you know, we used to have that newsletter that went out every Thursday, which was great, because we had a little calendar, so every week, we had an updated calendar, which had the events coming up. And, you know, you knew to look for that in the kids, like, binders, so. And that could be linked to the website. And email, you know? And again, that was an easy thing to move forward on to somebody and say, hey, your kid's thinking about going to White River School, look at all the cool stuff going on. Look at the kids, look at how we know about things. I certainly bragged about the guidance counts of the newsletter, which it does usually continue to come out pretty reliable once a week. Like, this is happening, this is happening. You feel like you're part of the greater school community when you get those communications statements. It feels good, yeah. Well, that's the other problem with our students, is that, like, some people know this is happening. Some people have no idea that they're not, like, one unified communication. Reid, did you, you started to say something? I think one of the challenges we're having in South Wilton is that we had a year without the front office assistant. And when we hired our new office assistant a week before school started, she came into a situation where there was a year plus of disarray, and on top of that, we've had the 15 new students that I told you about earlier in the last three weeks. So we are still trying to get student registration together. So we are very much in a, it feels to me like we're dealing with the kind of first week of school in the front office in terms of getting information back from the community. We still have maybe a third of the families that haven't returned the registration packets. We're trying to track that down. So we're behind, but when you look at this year versus last year, the seniors have four days to get ready for the bonfire game, because we didn't know when the bonfire game was going to be until four days ahead of them. This year, we know who the parents are who are picking up the lights already versus we were trying to do that the day beforehand last year. We're also in that nice position where all the faculty have all of the important dates for the year on a calendar that they have. So any students who had questions about something happening in March or April could talk to a staff member and would have the opportunity to know at least when we plan on having the event. It could certainly change, but it feels good to have that, but clearly we're not where we would like to be in our, what, 15th, 16th month as the White River Valley High School? So it hasn't helped that we traded our star tech support professional to the supervisory union, which benefits greatly, I think, the whole FG. The name of his own fuel. I don't know why. We all are going to benefit from it. But unfortunately, his replacement's been on the job for 14 days as the White River Valley High School. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. 14 days as of today. So he is just learning how to do some basic things that we need. Like we're trying to get started testing in, sorry, 360 testing him by the test window, but we've got to get all the new students into the system before we can do that. And we need to have everything together and do just a lot of challenges. So you've got the feedback. Moving forward. Okay. Chris. Were we ever able to figure out, because I think we had this discussion last year, were we ever able to figure out if there's any type of, like more automated system that could be used for some of the paperwork stuff, because we fill out those beginning of the school year paperwork forms every year. And my wife and I are writing down the exact same information each year. I mean, people that have more visits, they don't have to fill out all those forms, but. So luckily we have twins that were born on the same day. So we were able to, we fill out one form by hand and then we zero oxen and then write in the names and then check off the box for the other one. I should have done that. Oh, I didn't feel like I could because they won't color that. Well, my understanding is Web of Schools does have that function, but we have never used it in this place before yet. And we're looking at potentially a new system later. So Web of School has the ability in a limited fashion for a parent to log in, make adjustments to addresses and phone numbers, which would then go back to the registrar for approval before the change takes effect. But it doesn't have the ability to deal with the registration form and the nursing form and all those other things. And we still can't pay additional to have SNAP do the nursing piece, but it's an additional cost. So Straford does have a setup where they have an online repository of forms, which is actually done by the spouse of a staff member of Straford. But they're not interested in doing it. Okay, I'll ask for the interest. So, in the district where I work, I get the printout form from the student information system. And I just initial, or the parent just initials the corner if there's no changes. And that is tremendously helpful, I think. Five minutes for one kid, 30 minutes for the other, it was life changing. Life changing. Well, it just, the first night of school, I mean, my son always really appreciated that I had a lot of homework and he did not. Right. This one's at the preschool. I know a lot of preschool level parents were questioning that, I guess at the preschool screening, we filled out all the forms. And then the day before preschool started at the orientation, my wife had to fill out all the exact same forms again. And so every parent at the Loyalton campus had to fill out the exact same forms again that they had filled out previously at the preschool screening. And they were told that that was just the way it had to be. My wife said that every single parent was sitting there filling this out and just like, we just filled this out a couple of months ago. We just filled this out a couple of months ago. We just filled this out a couple of months ago. So I said I would bring it up here. Obviously, coordination needs to be done. And we'll put it on that as we do preschool registration for next year. Okay, thank you. Yes, Owen. I'd also recommend that folks go through the school principles. I mean, it's fine to do it at the board, but we can take care of things pretty quick on the ground if we hear about things. Okay. Thank you. I didn't hear about it as of the evening and by the time the forms were already filled out so there was no going back. Any agenda items for our next meeting? So that'll be our October meeting. I recommend that we start, we get a boiler update at that point in time from the Bethel campus. Drivers add updates and also a budget update just if we have some preliminary information from the other. Solution students as well. Okay. A Sprinter van. A Sprinter van, okay. Okay, that's what I have written down for. Okay. Anything else? And then I guess maybe an update on the potential plans for the preschool next year at the Roylinson campus. I was trying to again be in the same between the two campuses. We talked about that at the retreat, so. Anything else? Okay. And in November, I've heard from both town clerks that they would like to join us and start on the preliminary town meeting planning piece. So I don't know if in the minutes we can say November agenda item. Or school meeting planning. Town clerk, school meeting planning. Yep. Annual school meeting planning. Just, they really felt like they wanted to be more engaged throughout the process, which I think is fabulous. That was rushed last year. Yep. At the end. I think the audit threw us all off. So I'm so grateful that we're on target to have it by the end of October again. Thank you all. Oh, I, is there any motion? To adjourn. At the ridiculously early hour. Okay. Any second for that? Second. All right. All in favor? Great time. All right. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you all. Pretty cool.