 It's 02, and welcome everyone. Sorry, reception guests, sorry. Guests, I'm sorry. Maunee, any revision to the agenda? Anyone? No? Any public comments or correspondence that anyone would like to share? Who would like to be the timekeeper? Could we just appoint it? Can we retroactively identify Caroline as the timekeeper for the year, if she would say that? No, I thought we did that. You mentioned that. Oh, we did, okay. Caroline. So we can take that off, right? So I did get a public comment at one point that that was someone's favorite item agenda. Every month they look forward to a point timekeeper. They would show up and leave after that was done. So let's deal with the consent agenda, and it's approved minutes for March 28 2018. Do we have a motion? I will. I can get through. Sorry. I'll get through. I will too. Okay, so we have a second. Any comments on the minutes for March 28, 2018? All in favor of approving the minutes for March 28, 2018? Aye. Aye. Okay, fine. So we'll move on to our discussion agenda, and about the interview of Allison. Mahoney? Mayony. Yeah, yeah, it's the Irish. Where's the E? The E is for Mahoney. Yeah. Yeah, and I have traveled to Ireland, and it's the only place ever that I've been where people don't say Mahoney. They don't, you know, slaughter my name. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, we couldn't join the list. So there's the Mayonys and the Mahonys, and, you know, I'll do my part to try to, you know, educate the world, the rest of the world. Well, thank you for coming out. Thank you. Is an interview open session or executive session? That's the sense of the word. Do you want to have an executive session for the interview? Yeah. Yeah? Okay, so. I think that's protocol, right? That's what we've done in the past, but. Okay, so that's it. And is there a motion to go into executive session? I'll move to go into executive session. Second. Second to the personnel. On favor? Second. Aye. Aye. Okay. At and when at 6-0-4. I make a motion to approve the administrator's recommendation of Allison. Not Mahoney. What did she say? Manning. Manning. Thank you. Manning. Allison Manning as the library media specialist, technology integrationist position. Second. That was a well-worded motion. Thank you. It was tricky. Any more discussion? Okay. Any more favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you very much. Thank you. And then can we put as a future agenda item to discuss continuing with the practice of the board interviewing candidates? Sure. It would be great to have that as a discussion item. Sure. So next up is Denise and. Denise and Annie. Annie. And Denise. Yes. Thanks very much. We'll go around and introduce ourselves. Okay. We have names, bases with the names now. Chris McVeigh. Allison Cornwall. Woden Teachout. Caroline May. Brian. Amy Tom. Bill Campbell. Denise Perry. Annie O'Shaughnessy. Okay. Thank you for coming out. Mm-hmm. How much do you know about us? A lot. I want to know that you've been Googling me. Wow. I saw that picture of you in college, Annie. Thank God there was no, but none of that back there. I probably wouldn't be here. There we go. But yeah, first of all, I just want to do, introduce ourselves. So I'm Annie O'Shaughnessy. I work half-time at the Center for Technology in Essex. So I teach 10 to 11th-12th graders. And getting a master's in mindfulness and then tons of training and restorative justice. Has led me to being kind of pushed out into training schools and working with schools, mostly. But I've worked with conflict within schools, between teachers and so forth. So I do a lot of stuff. And I'm here out of empathy for you all and for what you're going through. And just hoping that we can add some positive movement towards where you're at. So any questions about my background? I know kind of trustworthiness is important. So anything you want to hear about? Do you see Teach? Yep. What about? I teach the Center for Technology in Essex, CTE. Is that part of a school? It's housed in Essex High School. But it's a separate high school, a tech school. So I teach English. So I don't teach programs. I teach English to kids who are taking automotive. So it's awesome because I get to practice what I preach. So I train teachers. But then I'm like, yeah, and yesterday, this didn't work at all. You know, this work, of course, as you know, with human beings, is not predictable or perfect. So I get a lot of lessons in humility versus kind of knowing the theory and bringing that to the world as a perfect little package. So a lot of messiness. Yeah, anything else? And I'm Denise Perry. And I am a leader. I'm a conflict coach. I'm a conflict teacher. I jump to faculty at my college. I'm a consultant. I have clients. I actually work with Ben and Jerry's. We do the compassion training with Ben and Jerry's. I'm a leader for the state of Vermont Family Court. So I do a lot with just meeting parents and helping the parents build comparative plans. And yeah, so I work a lot in conflict. And my passion is to help people who are touching kids figure out how to model good problem solving. So that's a little bit about me. Any questions or about what I do? It was the first time we've worked together, but we've discovered a ton in common, including I have a background in long-time organization. I was president of two nonprofits, and she's been in corporate. So I also have that, like, things got to get done. There's procedures. It's got to be effective versus kind of kumbaya land. Let's all piece out, you know. So although I have lived there, I've been doing circles for 20 years for myself personally and around the country in three-day retreats for adults to, for them to kind of take stock of their lives. So we have, I think each of us has both of those elements because we notice that it's a holistic process and it can't just be kind of effective, efficient, and neither can it be all kumbaya. And then I think that it overlaps. You know, there's a lot of overlap. And we both study and practice mindfulness and meditation, and I came at it through the science, really through my teaching. So I think it's all going to kind of come together today. We appreciate being asked to come in. A bit of a leap of faith. You came well-recommended with multiple people. And thank you personally, Bowdoin, for the help that you've given us in sort of navigating the situation. Our first conversation with Bowdoin was on Friday, right? Yeah. So we've tried to move really quickly and understand the situation and get to know each a little bit. And so it hasn't been that long, so we'll be doing some learning tonight with you as well. So one thing that's important to me and an important of restorative practices is that we kind of step into a different space. So this is a board meeting space. So I'm just going to do a little process that is borrowed from our restorative process that will just kind of shift us and do a different space. If that makes sense, it makes sense when we do it. I first want to tell a little story, because storytelling is about creating a different space. It's my belief no one wakes up in the morning. Very few people wake up in the morning with the honor to do this to hurt other people, to betray other people, or to cause conflict. But in our unconsciousness, a lack of awareness, we bump into people figuratively and literally in our lives. And it takes a certain level of courage and self-awareness to look at those places where we're not conscious or hurting each other. And the story that I have is when I was in college, a person I had that really great connection with her, and then all of a sudden she's like really mean to me and pushing me off. She's like, you're just so artificial. You're so fake. And for years, I was like, you're just so wrong. And for years, I wondered, what is actually talking about? And it just stuck with me, because I thought it was really real. I was able to share with people really right away and be very deep with them. And I thought I was really good at that. And it wasn't until years later when someone who probably went to a nonviolent communication training and was able to use I-statement said, when I talked to you, it felt like we were really close. You shared a lot. I shared a lot. I've never actually shared like that with anyone before. Next time I saw you treating me like just another person. And in that moment, I realized my way of being with people which is really open to her was the first time ever. And by her saying, I just kind of felt betrayed when you didn't fall. I thought we were best friends after that conversation. To me, it was just another conversation, because that's how I talked. And so in that moment, by her saying, I felt betrayed by you not following up with that really intimate conversation, I was able to hear that. And that's exactly what that girl was trying to say when she said, you're artificial. But I couldn't hear anything about that because of this, right? But I could hear it when someone said, you've impacted me. I feel this way. So just trying to shift our minds around how we talk and how we kind of own, I feel really does have more purpose than just kind of putting it out there. It opens other people's ears and it shifts the conversation a lot. So as we go through this process, you know, calling chairs, which chair am I in? I'm in that blame chair. It's your fault. Am I in the blame myself chair? It's all my fault, always my fault, which is a form of avoidance. Is it empathizing with myself? I feel really not really great right now. I don't feel trusted. Or am I empathizing with others? Man, I can recognize how uncomfortable you are. So there's four chairs we can sit in. And every time we're in a conversation, we can choose a chair. And if we're down here, the blame resolution is not going to happen from here. It just can't. It can't come to resolution if I'm in this chair. So if I'm in this chair and I can't get out of it, which is the blame chair, I either got to figure out how to move over there to empathy, or I got to just say I can't in this conversation. Because this resolution doesn't come from here. So those are my strong beliefs around the restorative process. And that's why we do the restorative process is it allows people more easily to sit here. We get to hear peoples. We get to be heard and we get to hear wow. I had no idea that affected you that way. You might not agree, but at least there's that human connection. So this is not going too long, but this is supported by neuroscience around neuroplasticity, openness to hearing things. They're really digging into this to see. And you'll see it in social science books. You can't change someone's mind with your mind. People don't vote based on their thoughts. They vote from their feelings. And they don't get convinced by your words. They get convinced and change their mind from here. And that's why it's so tough. Because how do you create the auditions to be speaking from here? It's very hard. So what we do is we keep speaking from up here and thinking we can just convince the other person and it's really a hard way to go. So restorative practices provides the structure and safety to create conditions in which people can actually sit here and be effective and change. So it's an effective place, not a kumbaya place. It's an effective, efficient place to get to real change. And I wanted to do that because that's the piece I bring. And I would bring that more to the if we had a community event. I wanted to give you a little psychological background around that because a lot of people do have improper assumptions about what restorative practices are. That it's about sharing feelings and that makes people feel good. It's got a lot more to the getting the job done. We have to go there. So any questions about that? Is that helpful to just kind of get that background? Because you may decide you don't want to go that route. I wanted to give you a piece of what I believe. I have a question. And it's kind of for the board. But when I'm hearing you talk about getting into a space that's a little outside of the board meeting, I'm wondering if anybody else feels like it is maybe appropriate to do this section of the meeting off camera. Open meeting, still have minutes, have everybody here. But there's a piece where if we're trying to connect on an emotional level, but there is a technology piece and we're not connecting with everybody who's going to watch it. And they're not in this space. So does anybody feel that it would violate our commitment to our community to just have this part be not filmed? I don't. I think it's still open meeting. You can't tell Orca to stop filming. Okay. You can ask, but you can't tell. It's their choice to be here. Does anybody just agree with us asking? So I think that's something you might want to ask. For me, that's a question for Chris, who's the director, but the person that runs Orca. Just to be clear that we are not going to enter into a restorative process now. But given, it's a great question, given the content of our conversations and what the subject is. Is that fair? I just want to make clear we're not going to do the whole process tonight. We're going to just sample it by doing an opening circle and just following a very, very safe open low stakes exercise. Okay. That would be great help. I don't need to ask Orca's permission to enter. Do you feel like your request was heard? Well, so do people want, are there board members who want to request Orca to not film or that would rather not make that request? I'm happy to support the request. I agree. I guess I'm thinking about what Bill's saying, is that we don't want to put this person on the spot and her boss, unless she is a volunteer, I presume she is not, but if her boss were to be actually feel differently about this, so perhaps we could request that that part of the film be edited if he were, so we could make the request of him and ask him to edit out that part of the film. Does that feel like a... I agree with you just because it's putting... We don't want to put you in a dead spot. I can do that. I'll just mark it. Thank you very much. Okay. Is that mine? Here we go. I do want to talk to you quickly about finance. About finance? Okay, great. Okay, so then let's move along and we'll talk about finances right now. So if you want to turn to page eight, I'm going to cut... There hasn't been any changes this last month, but I really want to be clear with all of you. So we just got a bill for 800 or whatever, 20. That's not reserved. There was never an action by the board to reserve money. You talked about it, but... You didn't do it? You didn't do an action on it. I swear we did one last year. We discussed it in our meeting and we talked around what the money was, but it's a good question. I don't think we actually made a motion to accept. I really remember that we did. I may be misremembered. Anyway, on this report, where there was an action, it's not in your financial. I'm on page eight. So what you will see here is that your total bottom line right now is $72,957. It's only 2.3% of the budget and I will tell you that even Doty, we don't go below $75,000 because when something major comes up we don't know and it doesn't take much, we can go through that money pretty quick. We've been pretty good, so I'm getting to a point where I'm really nervous. Maybe really is the wrong word, but I'm nervous about the amount of money that we have left by balance. Do we have any other anticipated expenditures coming up this year? Yes, we may. And I don't know about. Right now we've got our insurance. We haven't settled any of the insurance claim from what was going on right above us. We know that we have a $5,000 piece there that has been covered in the first $5,000 as ours and that's not expressed in this fund balance right now. Because we have an open claim, we haven't finished with it in the insurance company. There's a lot of moving pieces with that. That doesn't mean that's only all of your money, but that is your money and your general fund balance. You have money and other reserves on page 9 such as capital reserve, that's money that you have. I don't think it's... There are going to be things you want to discuss as a board about whether it's politically wise to move money. You have the ability to move money out of those funds back to your general fund balance. Then we have done that or gave authorization for that. But... I'm not advising you. No, but I don't actually remember us moving from a restricted fund back to the general fund. Maybe you have and I'm forgetting. We authorized it, but we didn't need to end up using it last year around some hiring. Right, so we... Thank you, Brian, that's what it was about. Thank you, I totally forgot. You'll see there's 157,000 right now in your capital fund. So, I just want to make sure that you're all clear about what your money is. I'm not trying to direct you in one way or another, but just knowing where your money is and knowing how I feel about that. I wanted you to know that. The rest of them are small, little funds in there. And food service right now is doing okay. In the student activities, there are all the different little councils. There's 157,000 in the capital fund. We're going to put another 60 in it this July 1. You're going to put another 90 in it in July 1. Okay, so what are our anticipated commitments to this summer? So right now, just the boiler project that's being engineered right now is 65,000 for that construction. We're also doing some roofs. Bids are coming in on the 20th of April. We're out bidding right now. I think I don't remember Chris. I just don't even remember. I hate to even ballpark because I can be off by 20 or 30,000. I just don't have that figure in my head. I wish I did. Yeah, and I think I would not recommend moving because I think we ought to keep things, some things that we commit to the community that we're not going to not move capital money because that's not the purpose. The forum is not the purpose for that, I think. And that's a more responsibility. But do we know cost of mold remediation? So right now we're in an insurance claim. So our insurance company's got a claim. We've had a claim open since the roof was leaking in January, February. The insurance company's got, they've got soup to nuts right now. They've got our warranties, our contracts but we'll write more, see what was done. And they're still kind of waiting to see what the company, we all have the owns of warranty on the roof, what they do, and then if we get a bill from them, we're not. And then we also have, we know we're getting a bill from, which will go to our insurance company for the mold remediation from Crothers environmental. Is that cover by insurance? Well, that's what I'm saying. We have insurance claim right now. I don't know the ending part of that. I believe that the mold remediation will be covered by our insurance because they insurance against that, you know, losses in the building. And that's a loss in the building. And I'm sorry, I'm just tired. So I might have lost my words. And then does the insurance company get to choose who does the removal or you can send them a bill and get reimbursed? They knew it was immediate. That's one of the things of like, as soon as Amy, as soon as we got the report back from Chris, I literally texted Michelle, she called Linda and Arthur Jester, they put it on, I said, I'm going to get somebody and they're like, go just, and we've been in these types of situations before, so it's not much of a conversation. In my six years here, I've been down something before, like just choose it and we'll figure out the finance on the other side of it. Liberty Mutual is very good to us and understanding that you need school tomorrow. So get it open to what you need to do. You need to do a great job of communicating that kind of thing. It's a team effort. So that's what I know right now today, because I think you should just be advised of that. Okay. So it turns out we may need a motion to get the bill paid if there's no money to pay. Yeah. No, I don't need a motion from the board to pay a bill. And the one in his hand from tonight? Yeah. No, we already approved that in June. I'm saying I don't have it, but I don't need you to approve a single bill. I don't need a board to do that. I can do that from within the budget. What I'm saying to you is that there wasn't money set aside for that work. And I'm not sure if we actually didn't action either. We can re-look it so that everybody's on the same page, but I'm pretty confident that the way we phrased the wording was around that we approved to spend up to, and I think it was 1500, on the planning and implementation of the community. We didn't call it phone that night, but whatever we called it. And I would think that was everything they did was around planning. Cameron, what I'm saying, whether that was done or not, it wasn't the accuser. So whether or not the motion was there, can we pay it? Yes, we can pay an individual fee. But you're saying we didn't have money set aside from the budget. I can figure that out in the budget. I don't need the board to do that work. I've got to pay a bill. That we can do. What I'm just telling you is... Can you change the light bulb, too, Bill? Can you change the light bulb, too? No, I find somebody to do that one. But when you look at the literally the $72,957, that doesn't include $1,500 set aside for this. I've got to say, hey, Laura, pay this and it's going to come out of the fund balance right now. But I just want you to be aware of what your bottom line is. Got it. But when you mentioned going below $75 made you nervous. Yes. You take into account the time of year. Yep. And it still makes you nervous. We just took in a $100,000 kid in another school. $100,000. What does that mean? It means the cost. Yes. Is this your ADM year? That's Sharon Mutz? No. Is that next year? It's a long one. So... We don't talk about this. Because our next board actually will be to accept the resignation of Tara Victoria, our music teacher. I move that we accept the resignation of Tara, our music teacher. Hi. Is there a second? Second. We should thank Tara for her delight in bringing music to our school and our students. And just... I had a nice phrase I think she deserved that. What? Increasing the rigor. And increasing the rigor and employment for students. And which really showed up in the music program that I was astounded at some of the music I was hearing from our students. It was excellent. And we wish you the best overseas. We have a vote. Let's check. All in favor? Thanks. In the business that we need to attend to, can we adjourn? Let's move. Thank you.