 Do we have adjustments to the agenda? I have one. We don't need the second executive session for person. Okay. I think it would probably be good to move the finance committee appointment until after we. Do the. New. Board member. Okay. So, if we move. The 8.1 to. After 15, I guess we could do that as like 15.2 or something. And if it would be all right, if we could move the celebration of learning up before the reports to the board, just. So that you can. Get it done before dinner time. Then we have anything else. Okay. Okay. So, I'm going to move to the board. Okay. And just to try and keep everything relatively. Relatively moving. Andrew. Can you repeat what's being moved up to an earlier time slot? 9.1. 9.1. Above. The board. Above board comment. No, we can do it after board. So reports to the board. Got it. Okay. So I'm going to move on to public comment. Yes. If this was more of an agenda thing, we are not ready to talk about the regeneration core. Tonight. Okay. I was tasked with getting some information and I haven't gotten it yet. So. Can we move that? Another agenda. Yeah. Future agenda items. Thank you. You got that Lisa. Yeah. And Lisa, did you have something? Yeah. I think that we may have members of the Bethel equity and inclusion committee with us here this evening. And they might want to share during public comment a little bit about how. They envision support for us. So I just wanted to offer that. Bit of an introduction, although I'm not positive. If they're here. They had said they were going to be. Public comment. Okay. And they were going to do that as part of public comment then. I think so. Yes. Okay. Well, I guess we could. Adjust the agenda to offer public comment a little later if. There are two public comments. We have one toward the end. I just thought that if they were here already and somebody wanted to chime in now would be an okay time. Right. All right. So I guess now we'll open it to public comment. Is there any public comment at this time? Let's move on to. 5.1. To approve the minutes of Tuesday, March 16th. 2021. I would make a motion to approve the minutes of March 16th. 2021. I have a second. I'll second. All in favor. Or is there any discussion? I guess. All in favor. Say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. And then it's approved. And I guess that would bring us to board comments. This is Lisa. I have a clarifying question that was, maybe it's been figured out by now, but. When I went into. Sign the. Diplomas. Donna was wondering. If the previous board members. Rodney. And Bob. Should be signing those diplomas since they were on the board. It goes to the new appointees then. Okay. That's kind of what I thought, but I'm sure that she was asking those questions because she was. I'm sure she got that figured out. So that will mean whoever we appoint today. We'll be signing as well. Okay. Do we have any other board comment at this time? Okay. I guess we'll move on to. Okay. We're going to do the celebration of learning 9.1 next. Andrew, sorry to interrupt. Maureen for some more. Here she is. She had it on her calendar for tomorrow. So here I just surprised her by saying. Surprise. It's tonight, but. I don't. Sorry about that Maureen, but Maureen, I know that the students. And you worked incredibly hard in your wicked proud. So I'd love to have you at least be able to talk a little bit more about that. I'm going to introduce Tyler's Tyler with us. Yeah. He's getting signed up. Great. Maureen, you're. Hear me. I've done presentation to Ray. Where you'll be able to get it. I didn't send anything to you. So I don't know. If. Tyler's able to send it to you real quick or. Anyway, so my name is Maureen row. I'm a student of the College Central School as well as the sixth grade math VLA and Tyler. Yes, he's in fifth grade, but he came up. Stepped up to be in the sixth grade math class. And I know he's back in person now, but I. I presented. This opportunity to the whole class about 15. Students in February. Saying that this is an. A. Class of 2016 and a G. M statewide math there as an extra credit. Independent study type project. And Tyler went above and beyond with his. I'm sure his dad and everyone else I'd kind of just planted the seed. And Tyler like grew that tree man. And then he presented at the math. There and we are very happy that he took home. students. So that's a little introduction and Tyler knows in person he's still kind of staying on the virtual track with me which I feel very humbled by. So yeah that's a little quick little intro. So I'll just add Tyler it's really good to see you when I attended your class you guys often had your cameras off so it's good to put a face to who I was talking to but Tyler sorry to uh there was a little miscommunication between myself and this row around one one night the board meeting was out so I'm sorry that we're we're kind of not as a well-oiled machine as as we have been the previous two presentations but this row way to jump on in your car and uh you know I'll just speak to uh real quick as Tyler's warming up here um to present to you all. I'm hopeful that we're going to have some type of celebration and learning monthly for all the boards. It's been well received and it's something that I'd like us to continue and this was a way for us to kick it off to celebrate some of our virtual learning academy students who really went above and beyond to extend their learning which I'm really proud of. I just wanted to speak to Miss Rose, Miss Roseman, to three different board meetings this month and I think it speaks to the interdependence that we're trying to build across the SU with her being a Stockbridge elementary teacher but stepping up serving in the VLA also teaching in person throughout the school year and then having the wherewithal to in the midst of COVID take three students to this expansion of learning which I'm so very proud of so thank you Miss Rowan thank you Tyler oh you are a good thank you uh so I um I got this game called Mastermind for my um birthday um and I had never heard of it until then and so I and but it turned out to be a pretty cool and interesting game so I decided to do my project on basically um the mathematics of that and how I like it works so first of all Mastermind is a code breaking game where one person is a code the code breaker and the other one sets the code or um or just randomly sets it up um and then the code guesser has 10 code breaker has 10 guesses to um correctly guess the the um the code that the the other person made and with each guess the um the uh the code maker grades the grades the um guess within red pegs or white pegs red pegs are incorrectly placed but it's the correct color and red pegs are the correct um color the correct color and it's in the correct space but the it doesn't it doesn't specify which space um it is so for each guess you probably you have to um base it on your um previous scores to see if it matches up um and to code this um me and my dad use the um we use Python um which is probably the simplest coding language um the first thing that we wrote is the function that basically just makes a completely random code and then we coded something so that if you could score the code like it um basically takes the guess and then it compares it to the code and it then it um returns the number of red pegs and white pegs in a list um thirdly we made the play game which basically just um gets gets the player's guess and it keeps it keeps scoring it using the score code until it um until it finds the correct answer and then it sends a win message and also returns the amount of the number of turns it took to um guess it and then finally we wrote um something that would just basically allow bots different bots to play so that then we could get um our in our information or statistics um to put into this slide um to evaluate the bots um we had we had an average minimum maximum and win percentage so to get those things we got a list of results which is the number of turns per game and then we calculate the average which is the sum of the results divided so you add all those together then divided by the number of games it took to um win and then the minimum is the lowest number in the um results list and the maximum is just basically the offset with the highest and the win percentage is the number of wins which is 10 or below turns and then you divided that by the number of games and then multiply that by 100 um and then finally we made a graph to make it so you can show I could show the um number of turns or distribution I mean to distribute the number of turns and I mean my dad went over a couple of different graphs but I ended up deciding on the histogram which basically just groups um the results together in equal size um not equal size um well the in buckets or bins and so and then for each thing each um each notch in that that goes in that bucket it adds one to that until you get your entire graph um and I decided that that was the best one so we went with that the first spot we made we called it super computer because it literally just randomly guessed it averages about 1400 turns before it actually got to the end to the ending guess the random um load it just guesses and guesses and guesses again um it only wins basically one percent of the time and I think the maximum is pretty funny it's 16,124 turns when you're supposed to be only getting 10 um then we just did that one we copied the same code but then we just had it repeat I mean if it was a repeat of a previous guess then it would just randomly make another guess to um and then it would guess that as long as it wasn't one of the previous guesses this one wins basically the same amount of times as the um first one the maximum is it was brought down by 4,000 and it average it was brought down by the average is brought down by 1,000 from that so not much difference um this is a white it's called white peggar and it basically only uses white pegs from all from all of the previous scores um and it either and it keeps the some colors the number of white pegs that there is the not that number of random colors the same and but then it just moves it them to a different spot those ones to a different spot and this one average is about 523 turns each game and it wins 2.7 percent of the time um then this one is called red only well um and we copied the um the code in the first spot and then put it into this one um and then the number of red pegs that there were you would keep for the um some that number of colors in the same spot in the next guess and this one what it worked um way better than any of the other ones winning 8.9 percent of the time and the averaging 28 turns each time and if you look at the histogram um it's a lot better than any of the previous ones which go um up way higher the next one we made was the probabilistic bot which guesses whichever thing is the most likely to be in each spot um if there are no if you get a score of zero and zero then you um then you put all of those different those different all of those the probabilities of each of those colors to zero so that that way they're not guessed again at all um and if you get a red peg then you increase the probability of the color in that spot um and we tried to do something that would basically do the same for white pegs but it turned out to be a waste of time making the average way worse um so it wins 24 percent of the time and average is about 17 turns each game the next one we made was called color stepper it first guess is all one color and the number of pegs return tells us how many of that of that color um there is and then we just keep those ones the same in the next guess and it has that number of pegs but the rest are all a different color and you just keep doing that until you get um four different um different until you get the all four colors are correct and if it's not the um the correct the code then you just shuffle those around until you get it correctly this one wins 100 percent of the time it never got above 10 10 turns and it averages about five or six turns each game and the last one is called score matcher and this one does it's basically the same code as stupid computer but it it randomly guesses until it finds one that matches the previous scores but and then it guesses instead of just guessing randomly it keeps all of those random guesses except for the ones that correspond with the previous ones this one is actually is um averaging by four or five turns each game and it also wins 100 percent of the time this one is only slightly better than this um the color stepper at um as the highest is in the maximum in color stepper is nine and then this one is um maximum of seven um the final comparisons are um split into two box plots because um if you put the the score matcher and the probabilistic and color stepper on the same one as the um the three other ones they wouldn't be even visible um so that's why we had to split them into three different things so the blue sections are where most of the guesses are in those little circles that are above them are um the ones the outliers that um didn't uh that are like either that they're too high to be put in that blue box and that thin orange line is the average and as you can see the um the first spot did horribly and score matcher and color stepper did the best um the best spot is matcher horse spot is stupid computer or the first one um the my favorite bot is color stepper because when it to be honest i just like the way it looks on the actual board because everything's all color coded um and we figured out that the boss got that that better um every single time we gave them more information from the previous guesses to judge against and then we eventually narrowed them down to have that have them win all the time Tyler thank you so much great job the board has any questions uh that was pretty amazing i feel like now i might actually win at this game yeah it's just fun yeah i also i appreciate your explanation sometimes it's hard for me to follow information about coding and that sort of thing and i feel like you explained it really well thank you and congratulations thank you um his presentation is on the vctm website so if you want to go there um i can i think great it has a link or i can send that link to you folks so you can comment and whatnot um so there is still some stuff and hopefully this week will be in the Randolph herald as well i i hopefully met the deadline this afternoon oh thank you ray all right thank you Tyler thank you good job Tyler have a great vacation buddy you do very much you're welcome okay thank you i'm gonna i'm gonna head out now okay well bye bye uh thanks miss roeford um well yes i'll see you in class next week okay Tyler yep bye all right well move on to the superintendent's report now so one more um so you have my report in hand um i'll uh we have a busy i'm off i'm gonna actually take three days off this the rest of the week hopefully we'll see how that goes COVID allows it um but the um we got a couple of busy weeks coming up because we have um four different district budgets still to get approved hopefully in the month of may uh so we have a bunch of special meetings um and in in informational meetings coming up uh Tara and i met uh with Amy Toth chrysler carno and mikaela martin last week um and did a bunch of work in regards to the consolidated federal grant for next school year and our um esser two funds um and so i feeling good about that the recovery um process is well underway uh step one of course has been submitted step two should be completed here in another week or so um the recovery team across the su meets on thursday afternoons um and uh it still looks to be that we're going to continue to focus on math professional development specifically and structured literacy uh we're looking to partner with the stern center to continue our momentum in literacy um also looking to uh bring in additional uh behavioral analysts and school based clinicians from the Claire Martin Center to support our students socially emotionally and i'll take any questions folks may have and i can't see any of you on my screen and i hope you can hear me we can hear you i i don't have any questions thank you for this yeah i don't i don't have any questions either but thank you all right thanks there's no other questions i'll just also add real quick uh that the a community group from ripton will be joining the executive board on monday evening um to discuss the possibility of whether or not wrbs u would entertain the idea of ripton um joining our supervisory union effective July 1 2022 uh board chair kathy galuzo and i did have an informal meeting with that community group that's um oversaw uh the decoupling of them from being with adison central um the reasoning for them looking to leave adison central was really about the fact that they were a supervisory district and the district had made the decision to close that building over the next couple years and ripton didn't want to lose its um community school so uh we do have quite a few students from grandville and handcock that attend rickton uh rickton looked and saw that we are a supervisory union with um several k6's uh in uh pre-k6 is there a pre-k6 several pre-k6 is within the supervisory union uh there's potentially maybe some desire from them to talk about uh whether or not rochester stockbridge might be interested and then possibly joining that unified district and so i think they'll give us some more details around that monday night but i did want folks to know that that is on the executive agenda for the upcoming month how far is uh ripped in from rochester is it about a half hour heading towards or is it closer than i'd say it's like 15 minutes oh that's not bad yeah and i would say uh in general uh rochester and then ripped in tend to get um quite a few uh tara probably has a better sense than i do because she's the registrar but rando handcock students tara is that our second largest um tuition school for that group it's the third for jihad okay so they get quite a few and uh they do go to the state board tomorrow and they'll do a presentation um i've been clear with the state board that we've not done anything in regards to saying whether or not we were interested in receiving them or not i do suspect that they're gonna say to the state board they think we make the most sense um geographically and i think that um the addison central district doesn't necessarily want to be a supervisory union it would rather be a district as uh they were after the merger and the other supervisory union that is nearby is rutlin northeast um and so that could be a possibility as well or the state board could say to addison central actually you're gonna be a supervisory you don't have any choice about it the end of the day the state board gets to draw the borders of supervisory unions and so we'll see how this all goes the state board could just also approve the plan to close them right i mean honestly uh act 46 my understanding is the state board if a district wants to break off you're gonna support the district to break off okay all right yeah act 46 is off the books so um they feel like they really don't have any legal um binding opportunity to say no you need to stay in place if they go through the decoupling process okay all right thank you so at the SU meeting we'd kind of just be stating our preference but we wouldn't have any actual control over this right well andrew oh yeah what i'll explain to the executive board is it really if we said yes we welcome you with open arms i think the state board would say well ripton wants to come w rbs uses it makes sense for them they're welcoming them with open arms i think that they would probably say all right let's do it um if it's voluntary in both directions if the su board says you know we've got some concerns the cons don't outweigh the pros i mean the cons yeah don't outweigh the pros then uh pros don't outweigh the cons sorry my goodness the pros don't outweigh the cons then um i think the state board would be perhaps more likely to say to addison central you're going to become a supervisor okay well i guess we can hear the pros and cons on monday um all right is there anything else for jamie shall we move on to the principles all right sounds like we'll move on to the principles i think i'm just going to start that we've been doing testing i think my biggest excitement is that we were awarded some pretty i think substantial grants for our preschools um and so we're just trying to figure out how to how to use that money best uh and if you have time i don't wouldn't suggest you hit play right now but you can watch a fantastic desk drumming video if you haven't already um i think that kary call's been super creative with what to do during music class when you can't always sing so that's a fantastic video she put together ah she's doing it all right if you have five minutes but maybe not now uh and then i'll just go right into goal one we're excited because uh all together our whole school we went and had uh tier three training through the for pbis uh we weren't all in the same place as far as the elementary middle school and high school but i think it's a great first step for us to um level our knowledge base and have the same training so i'm excited that we did that training so that's my big report out for mtss and i don't know who's talking on goal to i'm going to go to talking about proficiency based learning with attention to literacy math and flexible pathways uh the work on the first round of economic stimulus recovery funds esser from the state uh was prepared in and went out last week and a major initiative across the su is the development of our math program k-12 within rud nearly a hundred thousand dollars is earmarked for training curriculum and planning time uh over the next two years so uh taking on math then really trying to align that and develop the skills of our teachers uh is one of our major initiatives on the horizon uh in the area of flexible pathways uh we have a new intensive program coordinator that's been hired at the su level that will lead the wildcat institute and help get the high school alternative program off the ground uh that is a net roads who jamie has worked with before uh and we're also very close to announcing our new flexible pathways coordinator at the high school that person will work closely with the high school guidance counselor and with our community-based learning advisor mary waterman uh specifically working on personal learning plans and enhancing academic and career counseling provided to high school students and i'm ready to hand it off to him good evening everyone and before i address goal three i would point you to the top of our report again point out that amelia marshall an eighth grader in our school had a third place finish in the hill dean lincoln essay contest this is a statewide writing contest and there's different regions and amelia's essay has not been released because they hold it till there's a ceremony but i would i would ask her if if it's appropriate to come and maybe present that to the board and want to be celebrations of learning on grant three we uh this is where we you know my words engage with the larger community and covet is our um you know boundary there still but we are having our second round of parent conferences and uh the in-person is limited except for where it needs to definitely happen and those are rare we continue to reach out into the community as resource and we are at the middle and high school working on our restorative imperative model and mindset that the way we can solve problems is through restoration reconciliation and repair so that's coming along very nicely and the high school is going to launch that in earnest uh next fall the middle school has been piloting that already and we're blending that with the elementary programming of pbis mtss social emotional learning there that's our report we do have our um social emotional learning data report later in the meeting so um happy to take questions and resist and read are very happy to take questions now nobody have anything for the principals right now sounds like not so we'll move on to um the next uh the business manager report good evening everyone so i have sent you my report and as far as the primary information the only update i have is as of today the usda released additional waivers through the next school year so we will continue to serve students through the summer seamless summer meal option through june 30th of 2022 so we'll work to get that all coordinated and figured out and continue our process for that and then um as far as the revenue and expenditure summary do you want to just go over the verbal detail i put in the report or do you want to see the actual report i'll leave it up to you um i think just seeing the adjustments is okay okay so on the expenditure side the covid cost decrease from the 203171 to the 8568 and that was adjusted due to the reimbursements that we have already received through the original crf funding for both the equipment grants and the h vac grants and then the actual crf lea the main grant i've adjusted the potential areas of savings the transportation extracurricular decreased from the 75390 to the 55683 because we've had some expenditures there supplies and books increased from 34900 to 103337 and then i added admin in services and training of three thousand dollars and as we get closer to the end of the fiscal year we'll continue to make those adjustments as we're seeing where expenditures aren't being done on the revenue side i decreased the interest from the 335 to the 2980 dollars for the most recent bank reconciliation and i added miscellaneous revenue of six thousand nine hundred and eight dollars and that revenue came in from you got six thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars from the trustees of public funds and then there was a donation of 225 and then i matched the revenue covid decrease to match the expenditure so these adjustments bring your expenditure surplus to 300,808 dollars and the revenue deficit to 99,400 dollars for a projected overall surplus of 201,408 dollars from the 173,290 that we projected in february so those are the updates that i made any questions on any of that um the decreased interest is that because we paid the tan off a little bit earlier so there wasn't as much money in the bank account yeah okay so presumable Andrew once we reconcile at the end of june for both the tan interest versus the bank account interest could you do earn money from the tan as well so we'll balance that out when we close out in june right so yeah um and i guess my other question was the transportation extracurricular decrease there are we like is the amount that's there it looked from the detail report that you sent out that that was basically that category what was left over in that category but presumably we will have some more athletic transportation and stuff correct yep okay so that's not like a projected figure that's just the current figure right this is through february yep okay i think in general it'd probably be better to like this is supposed to be the kind of projected thing so it'd be better to i don't know what to truly expect for your transportation so that's why i went with the actuals for the transportation because i don't know what you're going to be doing for sporting events through the end of the year so i thought that was a safer bet okay right but i mean when you're talking about potential savings i think you go with whatever's budgeted and then if we know we're going to be saving then that goes into this report anyway we can talk about this stuff in the finance committee reading whenever we have one does anybody else have questions for tara okay thank you tara um so next on the agenda is um so we're skipping over finance committee till later we've done the celebration of learning surrounding the social emotional data report nine two so we have for you a comparison from um we presented at the beginning of the year in september and it was on last year's data um and then update to now and i just want to share that it's sort of like comparing apples and oranges just because this year it's been so different um in so many ways so i think the big takeaways that you'll see is we're doing really great um the covid factor has definitely affected some things we know there's more to work on so i think each one of us is going to kind of go through our section so you can see in detail i gotta make this a little bigger on my screen hold on that physical aggression continues to be the most referred problem for our k-5ers and so that's towards one another throwing something or threatening to harm but if you look a little closer at this numbers um there's still pretty few and far between for us the next thing we would say is that while defiance is still the most reported thing um incidents of aggression towards others um also are growing concern so that's something we're working on what's i'm gonna do for our and then i think it moves on to middle school right mr bradley yes thank you mrs bowen for that big introduction hey in the middle school this is important 24 negative reports of behavior that's crazy what's the cause it's not covid it's in small groups with limited transitions so we're really pushing this with teachers and kids it's awesome we've been able to do so much work and learning and not that we want a pandemic but we need to figure out ways that we have those limited transitions and that deep meaningful relationship in those small pods and we're gonna learn from that and um i'm really proud of what's happening there in the school and a lot of that redirection is happening right in the pod and they're teaching about it right there through this reparative model we're doing that's me and for the middle school and in the high school while we have transitions because students have plenty of time and are let out of class in a metered pacing of six feet apart and travel one way around the building we don't see the same number of problem behaviors in the hallways they are almost all in classrooms and the two that stand way out on the right side are minor incidents that m there stands for minor minor tech almost always is a cell phone referral so that will be a student who takes out their cell phone in class and doesn't put it away when the teacher asks and it takes more than than one enforcement of the rule for the teacher to get compliance and or it gets referred out to a behavior interventionist who maybe takes the phone for a day but we saw we had 44 of those over the course of this year the the bigger one is minor defiance and the about half of those are related to students refusing to take off their hats when they're in teachers classrooms and other incidents of defiance so a student who refuses to get to work in class despite repeated attempts to get them to do that and they just simply refuse to comply with the teacher that could get written up as a defiance referral so that's the majority of offenses the other things you can see are are way down and it has really been a different year at the high school in terms of problem behaviors so I'll hand it back over to Andrew as we look at this data in a slightly different way by days of the week well I actually think when we talked about doing this I mean I'm happy to go over this but if I think it's just probably easier for you just to read it yourself and I think most importantly is just kind of to go to the end where there's um just the big takeaways and I mean uh-oh our baseball cap's not allowed to be worn there's a question for the middle school uh baseball hats are encouraged all hats are encouraged funny hats are encouraged anything that would distract learning is discouraged the high school has a different rule by the way there are no behavior reports on Wednesdays when we were at home it was good reason to stay home just nice there's no there's no hats allowed at the high school um is that something that should be discussed at some point like the hats allowed I mean it's it seems like a silly rule yeah it's probably not a board rule either but it's um something where does that happen then I mean you know you pick your battle your students I'm happy to respond to that even though it's not really I'm not going to give the answer to the question exactly I think us having the last training that we had all together was our step in that direction we have been kind of doing trainings very separately so the elementary was in there on their own course and then we were trying to bring the elementary together the middle school was on their own course and their high school was on their own course so I think having this last training that we had together uh and starting to set up our meetings so we're doing all of our meetings together those conversations will begin to happen and I think it's what's best for kids is that it's predictable and the same and our whole school regardless of the campus so those conversations are going to happen just it would just beginning cool and I I'd add from the high school perspective that um this is something I've encouraged some of my hat wearers to come up with a proposal that they could take to the student council uh who could then bring it to the faculty and we could talk about it and have an open forum and discuss why there's a hat rule and whether or not there needs to be one and I haven't found a student who cares enough about it to put anything down on paper yet and take it to the student council which doesn't mean that we shouldn't talk about it when you look at the data that says yeah we've got this issue that continues to surface so as we work on our uh reparative practices going forward we have a group called up for learning coming in that does a lot of work with student voice and choice and we'll be looking at some of the policies in the student handbook over the course of the next year to get student feedback on some of these things just because there are a lot of kids who want to wear hats doesn't mean the majority of kids at the high school don't want to have a hat rule one of the pieces of feedback I get often from kids is that they get frustrated when other students don't follow the rules they like to have the rules so that there's a sense of decorum in classrooms and they appreciate it so just because some kids want to wear their hats doesn't mean that that's how it's going to play out when it goes to the student body and the faculty the faculty are very divided on the matter some feel that it's very important and if you read teacher magazines you'll see that you know whether it have hats and dress codes something that you know rational people often disagree on so it'll be interesting but it's something we'll be tackling in the next year I just I wanted to add I across the SU have a major concern of office referrals for our males as compared to our females it's significant across the SU it's something that the recovery team is dug into I think it speaks to a few things I think one it speaks to we got to dig into our engagement practices but two if we think about it in general a majority of our teachers tend to be folks who really enjoyed school and tended to comply within school the rules of school made a lot of sense to them now we also have a primarily our teachers specifically at the elementary level tend to be female as well and in general we just know that males and females in regards to just how we're wired in regards to executive functioning are different specifically at the elementary levels I think my brain has finally matured at this age right like if we look at brain research so um so with all that said I think we need to do some more work around executive functioning and really looking into engagement and making certain that we at times don't define a behavior as misbehavior when maybe it's someone who's just really struggling to regulate and so those are all things that I just want you to know that's not just a rudd conversation that's a WRVSU conversation um so I just wanted to add that thanks for thanks for doing that Jamie um one thing I'd be kind of curious to seeing that you can't really get from the grass that you have is how the referrals are distributed by students so you know is this a few students that get a lot of referrals or are there are they spread out among student body and you know how that changes as we implement changes and whatnot we can show that going forward because we can show it by student number that'd be good I I did look that up Andrew this afternoon and it in South Royalton there are about five students who all have the in the neighborhood of two dozen referrals over the course of the year and I would add that one of the things that we've done in the last month since we met last is the three principals and the special educators and our MTSS coordinators attended a two-day intensive training through Vermont PBIS and one of the one of the focuses is how we use data like these referrals in team meetings when we talk about how do we get students to modify their behavior from what they're displaying in the room right now to the desired behavior and how do we bridge that gap from the current behavior to the ideal behavior through alternative behaviors that approximate the desired behavior and so one of the things we'll be working on is improving our intensive processes at the school which is like the highest need level of the MTSS system and really focusing on improving our use of data so you know just having these reports and spending more time with them gets us deeper into the data in a way that will help us to continue to focus on it and apply it to working with students in a way that hasn't been done across the board before. Thanks it does seem like the data is going to be a little wonky for until COVID goes away but I'm glad that we're keeping track of it and looking at it. Does anybody have any other questions on this? I don't know but I just want to let everybody know that the varsity baseball team just won 10 to 1 against Woodstock. All right. First game of the season big deal. Nice. The first of many we hope. Is that two touchdowns? Thank you Owen. Very very astute. Okay so we'll move on to what we're going to put regeneration corpse on a future agenda item so we're on to the ground maintenance contract 94. Reed is that you? It's me or it's Tara. I don't know I'm prepared to talk about it if Tara is not and I'm guessing she's not so I don't have the capacity to present. Reed do you just want me to put up the one bid that you received? Sorry. Yeah we only received one Tara so why don't you put it up and then we can speak. That was pretty funny it was almost to a second. I had to request a waiver because you only received one bid and the AOE approved that waiver. Can you see it? Yes. So is this compared to last contract we did? Last year was. Do you know it Reed while she's looking it up? It I think it's down from last year and it may be significantly down but even if it wasn't down the the level of precision in this it's a different vendor than we went with last year and we're we're excited to have have the detail here and the understanding of what needs to be done so even if this had been higher than last year's we we expected this bidder will give us a higher level of service. Part of the bidding process is we had a walk through for bidders and so we walked the grounds and talked about what we wanted and feel like we have a very clear understanding with Green Mountain mowing that we're going to get what we're looking for from them. They have done it in the past and they've done a good job so. That's awesome that was always kind of my underlying concern in the past was like not having any detail as to what they were actually doing. So this is really great. So it is up from last year the Royalton campus was 17,000 and the Bethel campus was 11,000 on the contract with your prior supplier. And that was the contract not what we actually spent because I imagine we didn't need as much for like baseball or whatever. Now that was the actual contract that you okay that was signed by the supplier that's what I have available at my fingertips. One of the wonky things last year was that we didn't have the contract in place in time for the season to start so we we paid separately for the first few mowings because we you know we had to pay per event until the contract came into line. So the other other big thing is last year we we really didn't specify anything about weeding and trimming and because of our desire to have more of that than we got last year that would would be a part of why that bid could be higher. Either way the lining of the fields included in the thing last time. Yeah, but that didn't go perfectly well. Okay. Yeah, Heidi really wasn't super happy with last year's service which may be why that that vendor didn't end up bidding again this year. Well I guess our option is to approve this or go back out to bid or something but it seems like you guys are happy with this contract. We do use the same vendor in several of our other districts and he does a fantastic job. Where are they based at? I think it says South Royalton on the quote. How does this fall in line with what we had budgeted for the coming year? It's less than we had budgeted although what do we split between this year and next year but it's it's within the budget. Well and I'll just add I think it's really important that we that our grounds really look professional and I will say as I did my walkthroughs across all the campuses last year the principals wouldn't know and certainly your head of maintenance heard from me concerns in regards to weed whacking, weeds. It was a concern that I raised with them back last August that I wasn't happy with just in regards to how our grounds looked. So I think it's important when families are touring our buildings and looking at real estate and thinking about enrolling their students and indoor if they haven't made a decision yet in regards to school choice that we make certain our campuses look professional, high quality, high expectations at all times. So certainly I I think if we're feeling good about this vendor that we should move on. Would anybody like to make a motion about it? I'd like to make a motion to approve the ground maintenance contract. I'll second that. Okay do we have any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right the motion passes. Thank you. Ray I can't find my button to stop sharing. You're not sharing too. Okay good. All right so now we're on to the vacant school district board position interviews. We have candidates with us at the moment. Good evening guys. So I we had two folks provide letters of interest to the board Robert Eddy and Peggy Ainsworth. I see Peggy on. Both were invited by Kristi Wake to join you this evening. We're sending an agenda. Robert are you on as well? Yes I am. Great that was the unknown I wondered about that. And so I also asked Kristi to forward you their letters. Did you guys receive those? Awesome. Kristi is a well-owned machine let me tell you. I don't know what I'd do without her. And so I thought that the board if they would like could ask some questions of each interested candidate for the board. And then of course we would go into executive session to deliberate and then come out and you can make an appointment. And I don't know if each if maybe you wanted to start off by allowing each candidate just to express their interest beyond their letter maybe. Is a good starting point. Yeah that'd be great. Robert you want to go first or Peggy? It doesn't matter to me. I'll go first I guess. So a lot of the board knows me from my work on the merger committee. I'm a Royalton resident. I'm an alumni of the old South Royalton High School. And now I am proud to be the father of three Wildcats. And I've got two children in middle school and one in the high school. And I am just interested in staying active in the school community in a way that I can. And I have the opportunity right now to time to be on the board. So I am willing to offer my services. Okay so I guess it's my turn. All right. I've been the last couple of years three years sort of out of the community service. I served on the select board and for 12 years and then gave that up when I needed to stay home and help take care of my husband before he passed away. I have two children in the elementary schools. I'll say grandchildren. I'm their guardian. I've one in the elementary and one in the middle school. And I guess this is a part to be involved in the community. And I don't know what else to say. I don't have any hidden agendas. I'm not out here to promote teachers or promote school boards. I'm just a tax paying resident offering to do what I can. This is Lisa. I just have a general question for both of you. Being on the board there's also subcommittees that we have and I was just curious what your interest would be in relation to I think we have a grounds committee. We have a finance committee and then we have various positions like being on the negotiations committee and there are a policy. There's a policy committee. What other committees are there? Any ideas? But kind of curious where your interests lie in those areas or what kind of strengths you have to bring that could fill any of those categories. Well, I've got 30 years of teaching experience from Berry City. So the one committee I would never be on is the negotiations committee. Other than that, I'm fair game for anything else. Yeah, I think I'm fair game for anything. I know a particular interest is the flexible pathways or the alternative pathways, whatever, especially for the high school students, but also for the middle school students. I'm not sure if the board is really how involved the board is in that, but that's kind of an interest of mine is supporting that. But yeah, I think any of the committees I would be happy to be a member of. Thanks. So one question I have would be this is a one year appointment to fill out the remainder of the term. And then would you anticipate running again next year to do another three year term? Or are you thinking this is a short term thing to, you know, help us out with an extra member until then? I would probably say that if the first year didn't kill me that I would probably keep going. I like Peggy's answer there. But yeah, I know that it was a one year appointment expect to have to run. Do you have a question, Chris? Well, I was just going to say, I think for the position that's up, it would be, wouldn't it be a two year position that would get voted for for next year? Because it was, this was a three year position for this year that went unfilled, right? Right. Good point. Any other questions? Well, I was just going to say, when I left the school board, not only did my husband need me, but my granddaughters really wanted me to be home. And so I spoke with them before I offered to take up this position and they both gave me their permission. So that's a good thing. Well, thank you. Thank you both. I guess we'll decide about that in a little bit. And for now, we'll move on to, we'll done the grounds maintenance contract. Just, we have a few resignations for one for this year and a few that will be effective for next year. Andrew, do you just want to go over those names for me? Sure, Superintendent Konarny. I thought you were doing that. I can do it. I can do it. So Janet Whitaker has given her resignation for the end of the year. She's been our longtime librarian on the Bethel campus. I believe it's 40 years. Sarah Dakin is not coming back at the end of this year. And then I think the other one that's effective immediately is Shannon Bonsignore. I think that's all of them. And then there's two that are, we'll go to the other board. Yeah, there's a couple that are special ed related around a retirement and a resignation that will go to the SU board on Monday evening. And you know about Jenny Lane on the South Royalton campus. Michelle Pringle would be the recommendation new hire for Jenny Lane. She currently works in the Wildcat Institute on the South Royalton and Bethel campuses. Very experienced and skilled and we're excited to be bringing her on. This one's at an SU level, but we're filling an empty special educator seat in the high school with Tanya Rodkowski. She is a former special education case manager who's been providing technical assistance through the AOE for the last couple of years. So really excited to have that level of experience coming into the building. And then we can announce that our choice for flexible pathways coordinator is Charlie Watson, who's been working at the SU level in a grant funded position and will be coming down from the central office to work in the high school next year. And I'll just I'll jump in. I interview everyone that's hired in the SU and the quality of candidates that we continue to have brought forward to me are very high quality and I'm I feel really good about our candidate pool and the candidates that have been selected. And it's a real privilege that we're able to keep Charlie within the organization and he has multiple licenses, which is going to really lend for him to be overseeing our pathways work in regards to monitoring student progress on those individualized learning plans and to be able to sign off in regards to students achieving core credit. So we're excited about that. We were pretty lucky to be able to take it to that as a run. And I'd add that because we have a resignation in the vocal director position, which is a very important position for us. And this is the time of year when people are signing their contracts for next year. As soon as we learned about that, we went right out and posted the job on a very short timeline. And the application deadline is this coming Sunday. And we hope to review the applications next week and interview the following week so that we can sign someone up in the next two weeks. At this point, we've got 11 applications. So it looks like a really healthy pool of qualified candidates. So encouraged by that. Lisa? When Andra shared that that position had been vacated, she said effective immediately. So I'm curious about what's happening with students now. Or is it really effective June 30? It is really effective now, but we've been filling the position with the substitute since February. Our substitute at the high school needed to return to their other duties. And what we've rolled out is a play. It's been virtual all year. So in the midst of all this, it's not like if we had someone, we could go back to having chorus concerts and singing because the restrictions still still limit that. What we have done is we've we've let families and students know that we're going to put an end to the virtual chorus at the high school. And so students will get credit for what they've done up to the end of the third quarter. And then they can choose to take the third quarter off or because our musical is going on after school. And we've hired a music teacher from within the SU to be our vocal director for the musical. Students who want to continue singing and performing can do that through the musical. And that will be counted as their chorus credit as we go through the end of the year. So, you know, I think we've seen some attrition throughout the year. You know, we had maybe started with close to two dozen students in chorus at the high school. And that number had dropped down to just under 15. And some of them weren't coming to the virtual lessons that often. And so at this point, I think we'll have six or seven kids who continue on through the musical and continue to get vocal instruction that way. And at the middle school, we have just suspended choral offerings because it's hard to pick that in and find somebody who would do both campuses. Thank you. And Reed, I just want to compliment you on the connection around the musical and giving students an opportunity to demonstrate proficiency that way. I think that speaks to the pathway work that we're trying to expand. So kudos for that. Go ahead, Chris. So I guess just thinking about, you know, what we usually do with resignations and stuff. I mean, I think we need to accept these resignations. And then, and then especially for the the librarian who's retiring, you know, do some sort of note of thanks on behalf of the board for her years of service. But and then for the other two, I guess, except with regret or something like that, is what we traditionally do. How many years was the library? You said 40 years? I believe it was 40 years. It seems like she was three, four, and I was in elementary school. Some way to do some sort of a gift as well. I mean, that's a long time. I mean, name the library after her. No, don't name anything after anybody. Lesson learned. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Then you have to take it away from Bucky Isham. It was a bad idea. I take it back. We can get her. We will definitely do some gifts for our folks that are retiring and moving on across the SU. She can have a parking space. It's called visitor. Or professional substitute. I guess I'd entertain a motion to accept the resignations. I moved. With regret, Tammy. We accept them with regret. Yeah. Accept the resignations with regret. And then what's the name of the woman who's the librarian? Sorry. Mrs. Whitaker. Okay. And I would make them close. Should we vote on the, do we need to vote on these or? So you can do them as a slate move and then accept. I mean, truth be told, you don't have any way you can keep a person on the job, right? It's a year to your contract. For the minutes, I think it's missed. Yeah. All right. We've got a motion to accept the resignations with regret. I'm in a discussion. All in favor say aye. Bye. Bye. Opposed? Motion. Okay. So I guess I would then also make a motion that we, you know, extend a note of thanks to Mrs. Whitaker for her years of service to the White River Unified District and previously the, was it the Bethel Elementary School? And Whitcombe High School, junior and senior high school. And Whitcombe High School. And be aware there's two people in the SU named Janet Whitaker. Really? We're not forcing the other one to retire, so. It is her sister. And Tammy, did you get enough information for the notes? You can put a message in there. Well, did we get a second for that? All second. Okay. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Send that note of appreciation. Okay. So I guess now we'll be moving on to another public session. Public comment. I mean, do we have any public that would like to comment this time? I just thank Lisa McCrory for coming in to sign diplomas last week. I think you've all gotten that message, but just a little reminder that it's that time of year. If you can come on down, we'll set aside a safe, quiet place for you to do that. And they've got chocolate there. Yeah, that's my office, FYI. If you had said chocolate, I probably would have come in two weeks earlier. There was no chocolate when I was there. Come back. I need to hold out longer. So we're about halfway done then with the signatures. Thanks everybody for doing that. Did people just do their first names? Halfway? All right. Any public comments? Now I guess we'll move on. So now it would be time to do the executive session personnel. So, Andrew, I'm thinking for this one, you probably just need the board. And if that's the case, you can move and go in. And then Ray will send you guys a link to do a breakout room. And the rest of us can await and you can come out and then make an appointment. Okay. Somebody like to make a motion to enter executive session. I make a motion that we enter executive session at 724 for a personnel matter. Second. All right. Both candidates were great. Oh, we need to wait for the recording to start. Okay. Anyway, so saying that it took us a long time to come to a decision because both candidates were really strong and it was just very hard to make a decision. And we hope both candidates would consider running when it's an open position so the voters can have a chance to work in as well. But we've decided to appoint Peggy as the remaining board member. We would like to offer if Rob has interest, we would love to have him on some of the subcommittees that we have. So is Rob still here? Yeah, I'm here. Okay. Would you have interest in being on the finance committee or one of the other committees? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Is the finance committee all right or would you like and we could also do the facilities or one of the other ones? Finance committee is fine. When does it usually meet? That's the only problem. It'd be the first Thursday of every month. What's that? What time of day? Five o'clock. I think is what we've done in the past. Okay. That could probably work. Yeah. Great. All right. And Peggy was on and then had to run due to a personal issue with that with one of the children. So, but I think she'll be excited. She seemed that when she was leaving, that's what she'd let us all know. Okay. Well, thank you for the opportunity. Well, thanks for putting your name in. Thanks. It was a very hard decision. All right. Appreciate you staying involved with the committee work. All right. Thank you. Rob, if you could let me know your personal email address so I can get you on the email rotation for the agendas and you can just send that to me. Sure. Call me either whatever is easiest for you. Yep. Thank you. Yeah. All right. So, I guess the next thing would be appointing members to the finance committee. We just have appointed Rob to the finance committee. Do we need to make a motion to do that officially? Andrew, we also, Louise is interested in continuing with us on the finance committee. Good. All right. Does that seem like enough or do you think we should see if anybody else would like to join? We have Rob, Louise, me and Tara and Jamie and our principals. Should there be another board member on the finance committee? Maybe that's something to, I don't know, see if Peggy wants to fill that spot or I know that I won't be able to do it. But there's another board member that might be interested. It seems like having a second board member on there would be good. Okay. Why don't we preliminarily appoint Peggy and we can then, if she's not able to do it, you know, we can come back to next month and see if we need to replace her. Do we need to officially appoint them or is this enough? I think if you just move for those appointments, that would be great. Okay. I'd entertain a motion to add Louise Burtz, Robert Eddy, and Peggy Innsworth to the finance committee. Any second? I'll second. Any discussion? All in favor? Say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? One minute is made. Motion carries. Okay. So moving on to, we did not have a executive session, second executive session personnel to do? Okay. No. Okay. So there wasn't any other and we have future agenda items. There would be the food service provision too and the regeneration corpse. Is there any other things that we should add to the agenda, Lisa? This isn't a future agenda item, but I wonder if someone has an email address for Peggy, if they could reach out to her and let her know that if she doesn't want to be on the finance committee, she can let us know. So she doesn't just see our draft minutes and think that we appointed her. Lisa, I'll call her tomorrow. And make sure now it makes certain that she gets sworn in. Awesome. And get her access to the new board orientation folder and all those good things. Awesome. And then I also was thinking about the policy committee and the equity policy that everyone's been working on that maybe that should be on our next agenda. Okay. Yeah, that sounds good. Okay. So our next meeting would be May 18th at 6. And unless we have anything else, I'd entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. All right. Thanks, everybody.