 Any adjustments to the agenda? And we'll go to, yes. Actually, I'd like to add possibly in conjunction with the Torium Roof Temperature Monitors for the high school anymore. Repurposing is ready to fund some temperature monitors and also the people that don't check them. I think we can add that seven three as part of high school. Okay, we have the minutes from August summit in front of us. Is there a motion to approve those minutes? So any adjustments that need to be made? That's approved. Second. Nice, been moved and seconded. Any adjustments or questions or comments? All right. All in favor? Stand by by saying aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed? Great. The consent agenda passes. Do we have public comment? With me public. No public. Okay. Well then let's move on to board comment. She said one I would have the honor of being at the White River Valley Supervisory Union kickoff meeting at the Wildcats, home of the Wildcats and Monday, when was the date on that? 28th. 28th, yeah. And this is an opportunity. This is where the whole team, that's your team is together in one room. Celebrating, I think their return and also kind of recommitting themselves to why they're there. And Jamie led the charge and then they after a very interesting presentation they went to their various schools for continued. This is the second year I've been there and I'm a positive guy, but I read a lot about how body language and just kind of the feel for people. And this year, the feeling in the auditorium, not the auditorium, excuse me, the gym, everybody's sitting in the bleachers. It was just really great. And Jamie just has that feel for and connecting with his team. And I felt the team just were happy to be back. I'm sure there's issues and challenges ahead, but I've been in our organizations where you don't always have that. You've got a lot of people here looking at their watches. They're talking while somebody is, instead of listening, that wasn't the case here. And part of that presentation on that that says suicide, you can hear a pin drop. So I think that is one indicator of how fortunate we are to be part of an SGO that is strong, committed, and psyched from the top all the way through that. I just wanted to share that with you. That's great. I'm really glad you're able to go, Bill. I have some school board representatives. Oh, well, those of you that have to work for a little bit. Right. Yeah, I'm blessed. Yeah, it was wonderful. Thank you. Okay, is there any further board comment? Okay, well then let's move on to the superintendent's report. Yeah, so you have my report in hand. I did want to just highlight a couple of things. One, we are still down a bus in Beffle, which is creating some problems for us. I think we've sorted a lot of it out for our tuition students from Rochester, Stockbridge, getting to our high school on time because we utilized that third Beffle bus to help with that. We have partnered with Tri-Valley Transit. We can get students to school on time via Tri-Valley Transit and we have figured out how to get them home in normal time now via our yellow bus. We're providing two different options. So they can use public transportation. They don't want to do that. We're still running a yellow bus from Rochester to Stockbridge to Boyleton. But it gets there about 20 minutes late to start the school day. We're hoping to have that final driver in place by the end of the month. We have a driver actually hired, testing got held up during the floods in Montpelier. So that's what's pushed us back. So the good news is we were down four drivers at the end of last year. We're still down one, but it's just because they haven't passed the test. So good news is we'll be fully staffed here in the next couple of weeks, which I'm excited about having brought on a new contract and stuff. So you said, by using Tri-Valley Transit, we are able to get it on time. We can still get kids there on time if they want to use Tri-Valley. Some folks are public transportations. We're running it from every sending district to our high school. Plus we're running yellow buses. I would say some folks are using Tri-Valley. Yeah, that just goes right now actually. That's actually our late bus. So we're running a late bus from our high school all the way to here in Dorochester in case kids are doing activities. Of course, very nice. What's the cost to families or to the district for a tribe? We're using our community schools grant and RUD's covering the additional costs the Weaver Unified District will cover. As we see it as part of a service to our sending town. So there's no cost here. One of the things though, I will talk about at Granville Hancock that I've been trying to get in place and the timing is not worked out is being able to leverage Tri-Valley Transit from your Rochester campus to Granville Hancock for your after-school programming for our students that attend from those tuition towns. Mike Rear, I'm probably trying to grab the last thing. Yeah, his partner, his wife's actually on the Granville Hancock Board. Now, he's working hard to try to make it work. He just hasn't been able to get the timing worked out. It's just too late by the time they get over there. So that is still on my radar because I do think that that would be a good thing as if we had a late bus that could run up and hit a couple stops up there for after-school programming. I've heard from Granville Hancock families that that would be a real desire. And maybe she'll talk about it later in her report, but we are up some tuition students there last this year that didn't, that we were sought down last year. So that's good news for us at ARSA. So guys, I just want to update on that because it was impacting some of our families in ARSA attending our middle and high school but should be solved in the next few weeks. Otherwise, I've been thrilled with how transportation has actually kicked off. It was one of the things I was anxious about just having a new transportation provider and some new drivers. And we actually did keep all your, pretty much all your ARSA drivers. Actually, it's funny, the Windsor Northwest drivers that everything worked for us, our retention there was almost 100%. One driver didn't stay. It was just interesting because I think they were really loyal to these schools, right? But it's a company to them as where, we had some drivers leave in Royalton. So I was just a little anxious about brand new drivers and dialing in routes and things, how it would go, but it actually went well. I was, I don't know if anyone followed the news about in Kentucky where they, yeah, it took them five hours to get kids home, until almost 10 o'clock in the night. So that was, you know, anxious. We're all clear by four o'clock. Wow. No one up in the hall is trying to drop kids off. The other thing I really wanted to highlight is out of my report, and then I'll take questions, is that we're gonna be hosting a table at the Tumbridge Fair. And we're doing that, I've had a couple of boards say, so what's the real goal of that? Well, the real goal of that for me is, you know, we hold these community conversations and things to try to share the work we're doing. And when we really just need to get in the community and share the work with you. And so I, you know, it's one of these goals for me to start to model for our schools, but as an organization, like we've got to get out in the community. We can't expect folks to have the time to necessarily come in our goals. And so my hope is it's a way for us to share the work we've done with our strategic plan, share some of the exciting things that we have happening academically, talk to them about some of the work that we've done in our buildings without having to go to bond. I just think we have a lot of things to help educate our community about. Our communications coordinator and Ray and I are gonna meet to give like a one to two page fourth point thing for folks that are manning the table so that they just have things that they can talk to folks about. And then we'll have, we've already started working on brochures that we'll have for folks that we'll have strategic plan available. We've got a one page application that folks can fill out if they're interested in subbing, mentoring, custodial, like, yeah, like a pair of educators. Frankly, I still need a music teacher and Sharon, like, and we're gonna have a list of what we're looking for. So folks could just fill it out and so we can then have that to follow up with folks. So that's really the purpose for this year. And we'll see how it goes. We've got some pencils to give out, stickers to try to just draw some interest and get possibly kids to bring there. There folks to come over so that they'll talk with us. So, and we're gonna be in the pavilion, which is right near the pig racing. Yeah. Great. I did want to comment on your report. You do talk about the full board presentation on the Adams did, and I was at that meeting and it was a wonderful report. It was such, it was a report for such a celebration of the learning that is happening in our different schools. There's three different schools and those three kind of different techniques that were being used. And I would definitely recommend it. But it has time to take a look at that video. It's really, really good. Thanks. Bill. Yeah, a couple of comments. One is, I'm really pleased how well with that hiccup on that driver, but having accessible transportation that's convenient to parents is a essential building block if we're gonna expand the tuition students here. Here, now, and so that's, I mean, that's just huge and the superintendent has provided maybe this is a priority. We've changed companies. We've got, the bus drivers are joining us because there's a credibility with this SU. But if kids from outside can't get here or can't get home or they can't rely on us and that's where the hiccup can, we're gonna have to. We're not gonna get there as far as the growth in our enrollment. And we have to have that growth if we're gonna get the state aid we need and be able to finance the educational resources. Now, obviously the results have to be there and that's where we've been heartened by the efforts of our teachers and the systems. And I like to believe that our son had the highest results for both math and in readings in SU, not that we're competing or so much, but that's important and our teachers are coming through with Lindsay, one of these leadership. I also wanna mention the mentoring. My son has led efforts on mentoring. He's got a little company doing that as part of his effort with Tufts University and it's so powerful to have somebody that you can connect with, listen to, have your back and also guide you through and make suggestions on what they might be doing better or who they might be to talk to, all those things come through. And so the fact that we're doing that and really focusing on that is gonna pay benefits. New teachers, boy, they have a troubling start. That could last the whole year and then are they gonna stay with us? So it's, and the kids are penalized for that. So that's another huge thing. The ECU climber, I'm a big data guy, but there's a difference between data and information and what it sounds like what you're doing through this system as well as other things you're doing is you're taking data, which is numbers and formulas and everything else and package it in a way that you can understand what they mean and with that understanding of what they mean, then you can take action. And it sounds like this system is combining a number of different data points or whatever you wanna call it, columns and helping them tie those together and make them worthwhile for our teachers and our administrative leadership. Does that have a name or do we just call it the data where it has to be? Well, it's called edgy climber. Edgy climber, thank you. And finally, the Tundridge affair, again, we need to let people know what great things are happening with this issue. And we've got to, I don't know about you, but reputations are hard to overcome. If you get a negative reputation, how do you show people that things have changed? How do you show people that we're one of the best if they've got that negative thing? So one way we have to work hard on and that's where transportation, that's where quality results, the Tundridge affairs is another small way that we can connect with and get people excited about what we're doing. And maybe they go, well, gee, I'm gonna give it a second. Look, so all those things make sense to me and I just commend what you're doing and like that to continue. Absolutely, you're here. And then finally, I'll just say I've been in both your buildings and things feel really good. Lindy's gonna go into that more, which says, you know, Lindy's here every day. I'll say, as the superintendent has been in each building, I'm really pleased to see routines happening, classrooms look good. I'm happy. That's a great, that's great. Thank you. Is there any other comment or question the superintendent on his report? Okay, well, let's move on to the festival report then. Yeah, so you have my report in front of you. Didn't feel like there was a lot to write about between August and September, but there definitely is a lot that's happened. Beginning with just we opened school successfully. We are very fortunate that a majority of our drivers came back last night. So that piece is going really smooth for families. We also have more students from Granville Hancock this year than we did last year. So we're taking a step in the right direction there to continue for those folks from surrounding communities to join us to help with our revenue, but also we're just happy to have them with us. I think the biggest thing that the kids will tell you right now is tomorrow is beat the heat celebration in the afternoon. Because they've done, they've been teachers and kids and staff have done an amazing job keeping up, practicing routines and keeping with expectations when it's uncomfortable. So wait, I'm gonna wear that. I'm not gonna complain that it's too warm, but uncomfortable for kiddos. They've done a great job. They've been out for Outdoor Ed. They've been out for pee. They're drinking lots of water. They're having a great time. So we have Popsicle and Sprinkler time tomorrow after meeting at about 2.20, I think it's what we talked about. So they're very excited about that. Lots of smiles leaving school. Did you even know you're giving us Popsicles tomorrow? I did. Okay. So that's great. We have, in addition to that, we also have two pair educators that will be joining us starting Monday in Rochester with some spots that we had kind of had to shuffle people. And then the person who originally met with for the kindergarten position in Rochester decided not to come. So we didn't have to make a last minute combination of a K-1. And that's where one of the pair educators will go in place of a classmate and teacher. What is the size of the class? There's 18 in that class, so. And very busy. 18 is the way I would describe that. Yeah. But Miss C, Megan, Cornelia does a great job with them and has taught kindergarten before. So it was a natural thing and she was very willing. Is she a good teacher with us? This is her third year with us. Right? So yes, I guess. But she's not on the new ones. No, she's not. And so we have some combined activities coming up for the month this September. Both four, five, six groups will be going to the Tembridge Fair together next Thursday for agriculture and education. And to see some classmates show. I think it's the way that's gonna work out schedule-wise as well. Yep. And then we're also participating again with the Conservation Corps and the White River Valley Forest Association to go snorkeling as well, which they are all excited about. And it was something each group asked to be able to do again for their new teacher. So we are up and running and then we'll talk about buildings when we get to eat. Any questions? Sounds exciting. It is. It really does. It is. And reading through. Feels good too. Yeah, that's wonderful. I did have one thing that I could just add to her. I meant to have mentioned to you guys that I was right in, is through the community school grant. This is our final year. So the middle school in Bethel was actually buying the recipients of the grant, came through the SU, and it was written that we'd focus on the middle school, then expand to the high school and then expand across the SU year three. So one of the things we're looking to get approved in that grant is, and I think we will, we've pretty much got preliminary approval already, Tarah, most of those things in that grant. Yes, that's correct. We're gonna help fund to get that finalized, the repaving of the skate park in Rochester. So we're gonna put in big one, Tarah, 15,000, or helping them finish their. Yeah, that's great. So I just wanted to ask you about that. That's wonderful, that's a great space to. Well, it's a good community space. I mean, it fits at the heart of what that grant's about. Okay. Yes. I really like to hear that the new teachers are getting immersed in Bridges and direct instruction and we only have like three weeks before they're tested, aren't they? And with the Track My Progress into September. Right, the window opens that into September, yes. So that gives us some chance to kind of recoup, but might've been lost through one and frolic in our summertime before they go into Track My Progress. I hope so. To me, there's a tendency to sag in that and our one planet program shall fill that. I was a little confused about, is it decibels or decibels? Dibbles. Dibbles and Track My Progress. So Track My Progress is a universal screener. That's what you see the results of when we do our academic data presentation. And I think we're in November this year because of the window to start. Dibbles is something every K through kindergarten through second grade students does and to diagnostic tool, meaning kids are reading words off what's called a nonsense word list and a phonics list to be able to make sure that there's no gaps in decoding or for new awareness. That helps us target specific skills. So the goal with that data is that independent workstations for kids will be structured on what the group needs. So if there's three or four kiddos in a classroom that are struggling, understanding the consonant vowel consonant sound, for example, that would be a workplace where they work on that in addition to getting the direct instruction. So what kind of supplements? They're kind of measuring different skills. They're measuring different skills. Well, yeah, I mean, track my progress does some foundational skills, but I would say those computer-based assessments doesn't give us as deep of a dive as this Dibbles data could. And it's a pretty quick assessment that's done with a teacher and student. And it's specific for phonetic? Yeah, it's really focused on phonemic words. Yeah, well, that's the baseline now. Very much so. So great. It's great. Yeah. The other thing was that I recall when we were asking you about projected enrollments for this year for our study, you thought that my recollection was pretty much was gonna be roughly the same. And now we've got an uptick, sounds like in Rochester, do we have roughly the same in Stockbury? So are we slightly up or were the same? We had several families moved out, families who started with us last year and finished with us last year, but then moved out over the summer. So we're about the same as what we started out last year. And then in Stockbridge, we saw a little bit of an uptick and it kind of plateaued, but we're right about the same as where we started. Those it seems, not the word, those that start with us from the beginning in Stockbridge staying with us all the way through where we see a lot of movement late in the past couple of years is those who come in part way through those families that are kind of hot. Yeah. Just different depending on the family. Yeah, a little more transient. Great. Is there any other questions or comments on the principal's report? This isn't from the report, but it's about the school and I was excited to hear about music from Alder. It seems really, he's already learned about eighth notes and quarter notes in the first week. I'm like, wow, he's really hitting the technique hard. So it's pretty cool to hear and I'm happy that there's music. So I just wanted to say that. That's great. That is pretty exciting for right off the bat. And how old is he? He's six, so first grade. So he's already playing games with eighth notes and quarter notes. And I'm like, wow. And that seems quick to just know that already. It's awesome. That's great. Thanks on anyone else. All right, let's move on to the business manager report. You have my report for the month of September which just identifies a few of the deadlines that we have happening in the business office for the month of September. This is a good month for us to get caught up on getting the rest of fiscal year 23 wrapped up and making sure everything's in place for fiscal year 24. So we look forward to the less number of reports that are due during the month of September. And then if there's any questions on my report itself, otherwise we can move to the fiscal year 23 end of year projections. So this is a look at financials. As of June 30th, I identified a few of the line items that we were overspent on. And then also the line items that we have some savings on in the budget. So overall, right now it looks like we are projected to have $110,356,000 in savings on the expenditure side of the budget. And then on the revenue, which we had known throughout the year, we were low on tuition. So overall, we had about an $81,000 deficit on the revenue side. So right now, based on the savings and expenditures, deficit and revenue, we're looking at potentially a $28,844 surplus at the close of the fiscal year. There has been some revenue that came in late which will be adjusted and added into fiscal year 23, including that donation check to offset the Rochester High School heating system. So that will also help. Okay, great. So that's a 12,000 plus. Yeah, that was $12,436. We did, if I remember right, we were picking up on this revenue shortfall. We did adjust accordingly for this year. If you guys remember, when we built the budget, we decreased the revenue to a year. Yeah, the tuition, yeah. Now the good news is we'll be able to let you know in the next month where that comes out. But just wanting to know, we had projected that shortfall. So we adjusted accordingly in this current budget. And then if there's any questions on that, that's all I got for you tonight. Well, I think I have a question to comment on. It's great to have $28,000 rejected in the black rather than something in the red. Absolutely. So kudos to everybody on the team that administered the contract and our financial management team that tracked everything, guided everything to make it come together. And there won't always that be. There's surprises in public education, just huge. So to be able to do this is not something to me, you just take for granted. It could be outside forces that can really hurt you. So I feel good about this. Now we divided that by six by the board members as $28,000. That's what I'm talking about. I hope we got that right for you. That was a joke. I heard you, I didn't want to capture it. No, that is good. I do not have any questions. Does anybody else have any questions for Tara on this FY22-23 projection? Okay, great. Thank you very much, Tara. The URBSU policy committee update. Yeah, so the policy committee had quite a bit of different feedback that they had received in regards to all three policies you had last month. So they did a bunch of work this past month, brought those edits to the full board. The full board was feeling supportive of those. And so, and some of it was based on the feedback you provided even in regards to the WRBSU access control, visitor management policy, and the fire and emergency preparedness policy. So what I'm doing is finalizing those drafts. Those will be worn for action at the full board level for September. And then we'll look for local district boards to take action. In October. And that's for two policies and what is the third? The third one was your, if you remember, back to that board member conduct that we've been working on. Oh, that was a couple times, yeah. Yeah, and policy committee, there was enough feedback that they need to draft it, but I think now we're in a really good place with that where I felt like the full board felt good about it. So we're going to go ahead and want to see what happens. Yeah, and so that will put those three through. And then my goal really is to now get to a place hopefully where we can start to, I know you're going to talk about it and probably retreat agenda, but even at the policy committee level, there's a lot of policies that got put through based on just the merger and you didn't get policy in the place that we need to really look at now. It's crazy to think I'm going into your forum. We've really been continuing to just build new policy the whole time, but now I really want to get a place that being able to look at policies, prioritizing and revise over the next like 16 months. Absolutely. So just to give you kind of a sense of what we're having. It's great. So a bunch of these, but I think as a board we'll be reviewing, you're going to start to see we're going to be reviewing a bunch of our policies with possible revisions. The policy committee is going to focus on. You have to decide what do we want to prioritize and then how do we want to go about revising them. Absolutely, that's what their purpose is, is to have them and to revisit them and reform them. Great. Okay. So there's no questions on the policy committee update? That is the one thing. I'm sorry. Okay. It just is the one thing in an SU I think I'm finding like, you know, we have seven boards kind of the SU board that policy does take us to do it well and to get feedback and for us to try to incorporate all the feedback. I do find it most policies take us about six months. It's crazy. Yeah. I mean, it seems like a long time by the time you know, boards read the first reading and we take that feedback. I mean, I think one of the feedback that I've been receiving is that boards feel like the policy committee is really trying to implement feedback from across all the boards to get to a place where folks feel good. Absolutely. I am finding, at least for our brand new policies that it's been averaging almost six months to find. Yeah. I don't think there's anything negative about that depends on how you spend the six months. So the six months is the policy committee trying to get it right. Yeah. And the district boards diving into it and we're learning. Absolutely. And so second draft, third draft, it started to get reinforced to us and then we're being able to make the policy better. So I think that time's well spent. I don't think the measure is in timely, not necessarily timely, it's the quality and the input. It seems like we're doing it right. Absolutely. I really feel like they're hearing the local boards and really taking it to bring it back. Great. Okay. Let's move on to seven, one, BEI, couple of improvements at Rochester Stockbridge Update. Yeah. And these are on top of this stuff, so. Kind of. Did ask them today if they were going to come training. So let's see. Here in Stockbridge, there's two things left to finish the updates relating in the classrooms. The hallway is actually already done. So you can take a look at what's kind of cool. You don't even hear the lights much anymore. It's a little eerie, but it's cool. And much more efficient. So they go off if there's an abortion. After like, yeah. Awesome. It's very quick. And the whole ceilings we've done in the hallway too, as part of that process and all the HVAC and the ductwork. So you can see some of the new vents coming in and the new ductwork. There's currently a temporary HVAC unit running on the top of the roof. The new one will go in on the 22nd because it comes in on the 21st. It will be up and on the roof before they can see and get off the bus on Friday morning. Okay. On the 22nd. That's what got worked out this morning. And then it's really just one final walk through here and we will be good to go. And then the controls will go live and the control updates will go live to control. In Rochester, Merrill Mechanical was there when I left. The new radiators for the classrooms just came in yesterday morning. So they were there working on the installation when I left and it will be done by Monday. There's still work going on in the boiler room and some final work going on the controls part. But next week, next Tuesday, will be the first boiler startup and tests that they have to do that the company has to come in. And then this is the wood pellets. This will just be to test the propane aspect of it. Okay, that's what I was talking about. We don't have wood pellets in it yet. Okay. Everything's there, there's just no wood pellets. Okay, so this is for the propane. Because they have to finish all the hookups to the classroom. Okay, I can do those things. So that's what's left and the lighting is still left. And yeah, and then my big question to them today was who was coming to teach us how to use the controls integration because it's all left-based. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I know, I was like, I don't wanna be a person that opens like the app or the website and all of a sudden it's like hot yoga in some poor teacher's classroom. So it's kind of the example give posture with the boiler. Yeah, exactly, perfect in my office. So that will come this fall as well. They're still working on those pieces. It would be great if, you know, as we're getting closer or wrapping things up, when I actually just did a walkthrough with the first branch, some of the four members tonight at Tumbridge because they were a little bit farther along actually the more we are right here right now, but I'll put an email out to see who's interested. Absolutely. As a facilities task force and do a walkthrough with the AI. Walkthrough. Yeah. So that's where we are with those building updates. Okay, Bill. I know we don't have an SU building and grounds cap improvement manager and I think that's something that that we should be seriously considering if we're gonna continue wisely taking care of our infrastructure and also planning and organizing the capital improvements to get us where we need to go. But sort of that, who signs off on the after the walkthroughs? I mean, it's not you, I mean, that's not in your skill says that certainly wouldn't be in my do is who's gonna sign off that these what is it? Yeah, I whatever it is is they've done the job and their contractors have done the job. It'll be the board and like tonight it was the board and administration. That's who signed off. I mean, the thing to know is is that everything's warranted, right? So like if there's an issue they're gonna have to come back and fix it. But we don't have like a clerk of the works. No, not like a clerk of the works. And actually I would say to you part of what this does is provide you with collectivities. Meaning EIs have people on the ground managing the subcontractors, right? So it's really, you're saying that's EI is doing that technically? That is part of what they built to have to get their work hold, okay? That makes us feel better. Yeah, they're representing us. No, they're definitely representing us. And I'll give you an example of that fall. I did not like how there was some finishing down the tile and during an owner's meeting I brought it up and they're like, you're right, we're gonna get someone in there to fix the tile. But they, you know what I mean? They jumped on it. They answered very quickly. Got you. Thank you. That's great. Certainly there's a certain amount of accountability because they're on the hook for the efficiency if it's not done right. Yes. That helps, doesn't it? Big time. What? Yeah, and they're already like they're meeting with First Branch and talk about what projects might we want to do in Chelsea. Next year, like the thing about them is I feel like they're really interested in building a one standing relationship with the organization acknowledging like there's been a bunch that we haven't done in some of our buildings. So I think they're committed to making certain that they get it right and that we're satisfied, right? Like if something's not done right, that's great. That makes sense of business wise for them and for our... Well, it's part of why they were appealing originally as an organization when they did the performance contracting, which we needed to be. And two, the fact that they were... That we didn't have a target of the works or had maintenance that they were able to provide that oversight and guidance with their folks so that we had that person overseeing these subcontractors. I'm turning the lights off. No one's moving. How did they go on? It freaked me out the first time I didn't understand what I was saying. I was in my office and they all shut down on me. I mean, I will say that that was... I was really impressed with that. And then we would do walkthroughs on Thursdays and regular Thursday owners meetings. But I was impressed that I was really concerned throughout like who was gonna stay on top of things. And I will say they were very responsive and really trying to stay on top of the subcontractors. There was a paving job that we had done in Beffle and they picked up on right away. It wasn't good enough and they made that they had them come right back up. So it was just like that level of detail, I appreciate it. Excellent. Is there any further questions or comments on the EEI couple improvements? Okay, great. Let's move on to final planning for the RSUD board retreat. So I've gotten some feedback from some board members and kind of rolled around some things with Jamie about possible direction for the retreat. And I kind of wanted to put it out for some feedback from the whole board. But the thing we kind of start out with discussing board culture. Just kind of as a quick check-in, how is everything going? Is there any needs that we have that needs to be met? Anything specific on somebody in some more training or just kind of a check-in? Then I thought we could do kind of an overview of Robert's rules, sort of just how the flow of a meeting goes. I know I think it'd be a good, good for us to have been on the board for a while, but for new members that are coming on to just kind of get some of that meeting flow through Robert's rules and know the logistics of it. I would, it was brought up about our annual meeting and I think it's important to kind of just have a quick discussion about like why we are doing it the way we are doing it, why the voting is the way the voting is. And then we can maybe discuss is this really the most efficient way for us to do this? Should we explore doing it differently? We can't really change anything. We have to put it out to the voters and they would decide so it's nothing we can change in the retreat, but we can have a discussion about the why really. Also as mentioned to me about having a, our sub booth at local events, like we have a Harvest Fair coming or other local farmers markets or other events I'm not sure what Stockbridge has. I thought it'd be really beneficial if we got feedback on how the temperature booth went, what types, you know, how that went and then we could kind of consider it's something we, how we can do it or if we want to do some type of booth like that at local events, you know, get it out there, get out into the public. I think that's such a great idea and we can't really expect them to come into our buildings but we can get out there and celebrate what we're doing. Then we should, I was thinking we should review our board goals. This is on mission, vision, mission statement and goals and we go through reviewing it and then really start the conversation about what new goals we want. And I think, you know, this would be a good time for, you know, all good discussion, you know, white board kind of just, and I was, Jamie had mentioned the possibility of getting a facilitator for that part of the meeting to really, so everybody can really participate in this general discussion and just overall conversation and you think about that and then if you guys all feel that we should suggest that I think we should. I just think it would really, you know, help us to have an open conversation, help also at the end a facilitator often helps recap some of the ideas that we've come up with, you know, some of the directions we've been talking about. And I also think that during that discussion, we can also talk about monthly readings and the policy familiarity, you know, like how we want to go, what direction we want to go in for those things. So that would be, that was what I was kind of thinking. So I don't know if anybody has any feedback or thoughts on that. That's on the 30th at nine to 12.30. So it's 12.30, so it'd be in stock, right? Can we get a full-size table and not a school lunch table? Great. Thank you. Maybe. We'll put it on the plate again. I can, I will hold a plastic folding table. We have a plastic one. Folding table, I can bring. And then lunch. Yeah. What was the date again? So it is Saturday, September 30th. Yep, all right, all right, all right, have a good night. Yeah. Oh, good. I was gonna say last meeting, everybody agreed to it like that. There was no, oh yeah, I'm available. What time is it again? Nine a.m. All right, I'm having an eight. Okay. Nine to. I'll be early. 12.30. And we're in person, I want to get free. Is that, are you trying to do hybrid? Well, I like to do it in person only. It's, it's if JC is able to. No, it makes sense. That's why I was asking. It would be for her that, you know, so I definitely want her to participate. So I don't, I'll just sign on that right now, or if we could just. No, no, no, just leading up. So I make sure we have it. It's likely that I'll be there in person. I'm just still working on the logistics of that. Totally understand. Yeah. That's why I wanted to ask though. Thank you. Well, I, I did suggest that, you know, I might actually take you up on that. You know, we need to hear back from someone else. So yeah, I'll probably work. You know, we don't, I mean, yes. Robert was on the school board back then. My sister who is 33 was a baby and he brought her in the little car seat and had her under the table. You're rocking her, you know, since it's a school board meeting. So now we definitely, it is fine. All right. Well, it sounds like I'll be there. So thank you though. So I do want to make sure that everybody has a copy to take a look at ahead of time of this Rutgers and Stockbridge school board vision, emissions, statement and goals. Cause this is what we'll, you know, be reviewing and revising and kind of working. I really like this format. It's really bolted, you know, so it's a measure and a comment. It's what, what are we going to do with really it's kind of specific and I really like that. And I was thinking that it really wouldn't hurt that prior to that meeting. If we can, if just individually, we can review the board governance principles and operating protocols, whether it's via this scorecard that we did last year or just to kind of have it in mind, you know, just to be thinking of the goals for the upcoming year. So it'd be a little more familiar. Something I forgot about. Do we go over our evaluation at this retreat? Like how we evaluate our self-evaluation? We did that, we did that before. Was that this? Was it the scorecard or was that a different evaluation? Is it the scorecard? I'm trying to get the date here. We did it first. It's down here at the bottom of what it's. Okay, we did it last year in the fall. So I'd love to be able, but it's okay with the chair to send out the same thing and we score ourselves. And then we can share that if that's okay. That is a perfect day. I think that's a great idea. I was going to mention it earlier. Actually, you know, this scorecard is exactly what our principles and protocols are. So that will familiarize yourself with that. I'm just going to run it in today. Oh yeah, you've got another meeting. Yep. All right, first. Okay, I'm going to grab some water. Should talk about piling all of that into a hand bus. Yeah, that's, I was kind of wondering. Cause I feel like we have all of them, but we don't have the handle. The handle. And that will hold everybody accountable. Yeah. I'm just going to take a quick break as well to get some more water. And we'll, I don't know, this is the pressure around the side. Keep break. Is it any better out there? It is. Oh, that's exciting. So this, this doesn't include hair volume? No, there should, there will be more air moving once the actual unit is hooked up. Right now it's very, that things probably are going to go over time right now, more than they thought. They've been up on the roof all the time. Just to check out the stuff. Thanks for all this. Thank you. Sorry about that. Okay. We're talking about horses. You know, Terri Farman? I do know Terri. Very well. Her grandson was here when I first started. Is that right? Yep. Good, how are you? He was a six-year-old. She's, her father. We've been talking about some of her name, and he's a mom. It makes sense. Now, one week. I'm talking to you. Farmer here, whereby someone was over-brained. Yes, it was. That's the way you want to call it for kids to, use and get a bit from a connection with you. I just thought, I'm really impressed with her operation. There's been a couple of kids that have gone up there. I can think of five. I'll say I'm gonna find out. Jana's been up there. Yeah. She usually keeps me in the loop. She'll call and ask questions and stuff. So anyway, we're talking about there. We think there's not the possible opportunity where a local rescue or instructor or a teacher. She has summer camps for kids. It's about four ages though. It needs her. We have partnership. We'd like to try and get that on. We'll have to ask you. And yes, there's, there's been kids from Stockbridge, I know, from Rochester, and Bethel. Oh. Yeah. It's just, the power of horses, they're just being around them. There could be a lot there. So, see if we could explore. Okay, great. So now we are back from our quick break. We were just finishing up the final plans for the border retreat. What is everybody's feeling about having a facilitator? Is it something that anybody finds beneficial or has any strong feelings? Yeah, or not? I've found that facilitators be very helpful. And really, that's one correct. Depends on the facility. Yeah, okay. I think it seems good. I feel like we have control over the facilitator. I mean, basically just having someone, would they be also like recording and doing the whiteboard too? Because what Ethan did last year was really helpful, but he was also part of the conversation. So, I feel like that's like that, but maybe not. Having pressure to think. Well, that's what I was thinking is, because I liked the whiteboard of just kind of like, let's just get stuff out and brainstorm. And so for myself to be up there trying to write down exactly, spell everything correctly, it kind of takes away from me being part of the meeting. So I would see them doing that. And also on, I think they would help us if, as we are going along, if we start kind of spinning out, they can kind of stop and recap us. Okay, we were just talking about this. And then we just help focus us. So if that's agreeable to everybody, I guess I would like to suggest to aiming to find a facilitator. Yeah, I like that idea. Okay. Thank you for thinking that out. Sounds good. It's going to help. Zendia, thumbs up. As long as they don't take our voice away. Okay. Okay, great. And you guys are, we're going to have lunch. Somebody's got an orchestra. Me and I will, of course, add you're probably on that. Okay. So the 30th, nine to 1230 in Stockbrook. Everybody ready to down? I'll be ready. With lunch to follow. Okay, great. Great. Moving on to 73. Are you able to speak to 73? So we've had the Roofing Company up there twice now. Once the end of June. And then again in, they were just there maybe two or three weeks. I think it was two weeks ago. They were just there. What was it? It's fixed. What is it? Was it a rubber roof or? I don't, you're testing my knowledge here. My facility's knowledge has grown tremendously. I just think it's pulled our roof and it needed, they patched spots. Probably where the traditions were coming through. Yeah, something along those lines. So they've been up there and I don't think it's really rained hard since then. I have asked Jesse to be over there checking after he trained. And we've been doing that a lot just because of the type of summer we've had in general. What happened? Who was the Roofing Company? I'll go get one. Vermont Roofing? I think so. Yeah. We've had a couple of different people over, but that's the same. I was wondering, now do they have any input as to what they thought there was left in that? If they did, they didn't share it with me. They might have shared it with Jesse, but I haven't heard a timeline recently really. And more frequently get a timeline on that elementary school than I do. Yeah. Like we've patched it a lot. There's so much we can do. Those words did not come out of anybody's mouth on this particular job. This was for the auditorium. Auditorium leak right in front of the seats. Yes, exactly. So we haven't seen anything recently. We just keep checking. Right. It wasn't a huge leak, but there'd be a puddle. Right, right, right. You can see where the puddle had been on the floor. So that just happened a couple of weeks ago. And that was the update. So just as a note, sort of a follow-up on, Parker had sent us an email about temperature monitors. Yeah. The problem, I mean, Wi-Fi temperature monitors are expensive, but this is, I believe, it's either by, I didn't look at the specs specifically, but you have to go around each one, download the data. But I think the repurposing committee is ready to fund them, making it basically, the function of it is not to report on it being temperatures too low, but more of them being too high. OK, in certain areas. In certain areas, in ways that you would say too. But if the committee is ready to fund it and to provide these. So that's separate then from the thermostat itself, right? Right, now there exists a low temperature warning. Right, and that's hardwired. That's hardwired. So that's a set that we have. We've had, you know, sometimes reports of failures of temperature controls, and we get it very hot, like about 20 or so lot, or unnecessarily hot. And so I will. Or sometimes the thermostat is wrong, right? And right. So this is. It did save us last Christmas. It went off, and we got a phone call, and it saved us that it just went through how much fuel was left. Because we had that, it went from like 50 degrees to, that's what it is, and it caught it and saved up. This is the low temperature sensor. They call you. So these sensors you're talking about are to be placed on more locations around the high school. And you said somebody has to go in and physically download the information. OK. And I'll review Parker's recommendation. But the repurposing committee is willing to fund the purchase of these devices. I believe so. I've mentioned it before, but I'll read it later. OK. Now, does that increase the somebody's workload to go in there and download this information? Well, yeah, I mean, we figured that that's not unnecessarily low to put on Jesse. So we would fund while we periodically go in and download the data. It's just to give a general. How is the building doing? And I do know that the repurposing committee on in the past has volunteered to help with walkthroughs or anything to help take the load off of Jesse or anybody who needs to do monitoring in that. So I don't know how that could work or if that would work with you. Yeah, I mean, I think it's really at the point. So PLUS did come and is in the process of installing those extra like pumps or whatever that only one was working on a boiler. Circulators, thank you. So they should that should help as well as my understanding. Well, it gives us back up and we have another failure. So. But no, I mean, that's really all there is right now. It's to monitor that. I mean, I just feel in the tank. Right. Since the repurposing committee is helping fund oil, we're very interested in having the building operate efficiently. So that's possible. Right. I'm sure you could. So do you have a contact or need a contact to be able to, you know, if there is an opportunity for a volunteer help that you. I think it's about whenever they wanted to figuring out whatever schedule is best to, based on what these monitors I guess that's how it would work. But if you need other help, otherwise you can contact us. None comes to mind, but also just to get everything up and running out of the things on your mind right now, as they're dreaded. So I mean, there's like the volunteers to do clean up before. Right, they came in. I have to clean up first. Susan, yeah, but that sort of thing. Yeah. So they're definitely in the same group that there's a group that's there. So please utilize them. Just a couple notes since we're mentioning the repurposing, they will have a booth, or we will have a booth at the harvest there, which will be man all day. And also I should mention that we have officially retained a lawyer to the nonprofit. OK, great. Yeah, that's big news. Exciting. Just the day. And the harvest fair is this Saturday? It's great. Ready or signed? Yep, yep, thank you. Fortunately, I will not be there. My company has provided a company trip to the Great Escape. So my kid decides. Your kid makes the Great Escape. She was really, she was torn. She really, she's tradition. And the harvest fair is very traditional. Right. OK, is there any further questions or comments on the auditorium roof or the temperature monitoring? All right, well, then let's move on. Make sure to lay up there. OK, let's move on to the book study, chapter eight. I thought this chapter was very timely as we were planning the retreat. Yes. And there's some pretty great ideas in it. And as I was reviewing our goals and reading about this governance handbook, I really see that we could do something there. We could get this stuff together into a handbook. I was not the same. So you were talking about that. Yeah, get a lot of the, right. So this was a really great chapter. And I think part of that, too, we were talking about would be really nice to have a list of what our subcommittees are and what their responsibilities are when they should be meeting. Because I feel like we have some subcommittees that just haven't really done too much when doing the talking like that. Yeah, and at what point and what is needed to disband the subcommittee? I mean, if they are created for a specific purpose and that purpose is over, are they done? Sure. Or do they need to have some official way of dismantling? Or can they morph into another, you know? Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I think that's a really good point, though. It's getting it all together. Just all the information, everything that we're doing. Yeah, I'm kind of like, yes, she has kind of come together with this new board member handbook kind of thing. This is like the next level kind of, you know, this is. Targeted towards, partially. Ah, just for us, you know, this is our goal. I was putting one together right now with my company. OK, well, I hired a charge consultant. There's a lot of stuff to add. Yeah. I hear you. So years ago, one of the board members started a board calendar, which I really liked. Just kind of generally said, our annual meetings, you know, it's always this day and night. Come our December meeting should be talking about budget. You know, some things that just are always going to be in specific meetings in specific times of year. And I don't know if this governance handbook would be the place for it. But I was going to bring it. I will bring it up at the retreat for us to talk about. But I think that's valuable. Just to help keep you track. And you kind of know what's to come. And I mean, why reinvent the wheel? Yeah. You know? Oh, and plus, if we have the handbook, then you're just only drawing upon that. It's not. You said you're not reinventing anything. Just continually growing. Building. When you have turnover of the board. Yeah, exactly. You have continuity. Excellent. So in this essence, is the handbook separate from our goals or the goals would go into the handbook? I think the goals would go in. I think everything that we're working on would merge into the handbook. We could have one of our goals could be a suit developed and a handbook for this year. And our goals and our protocols and our governance principles are all going to this handbook. Absolutely. And that's where it's kind of tailing the board more than part of it. It might be different than more generic of the SU. So it's really a good idea. And it gets us back on that. And I can't do it again. Well, I don't know about you, but that helps. That's a real helpful thing. Oh, yeah. I got to be ready. Or let's make sure we get it on the agenda. That's a lot of them. We have packages, so yeah, I think that idea is fantastic. Yeah. Other ideas and comments about chapter eight? Robert? Well, go ahead. I like this actually about the discussion meetings. I was thinking, oh, that'd be kind of nice to have that, like a more informal bit of meetings where we're not, like, you know, necessarily on our best behavior. Just to be able to think about it. Maybe I was thinking, like, maybe we could do it, you know, three times a year or a little more or see how it goes. So we can kind of like not always have to do all this hard work and have as much pressure every time we meet but have a chance to talk things through. I liked, you know, that gave me a good idea. So I don't know if anybody else is interested in maybe doing that. I underlined, boards are expected to meet in highly structured, agenda-driven meetings. Most difficult environment for open and candid discussion. Yeah. So I'm right there with you. I definitely think, yeah, I think that's going to be brought up at our retreat as well. Yeah, that's great. Yes, Robert. Something I think we left off on our board retreat is academic goals, reviewing our academic goals. So, yeah, we set some and we were expecting that each year we would get in the basis in achieving, you know, a parody with the, and excelling the state standards. And so, I guess we just need to gather some documentation of where... Well, we need the state testing not to be embargoed anymore so I can share it with you. That was the difference. Yeah, we absolutely can. And we can do it in the CRs. We can see in the comparison. Yeah. And every school is different. We have different channels and everything else like that. But I think it really makes sense to check in on how we do it. And I think that is actually the number, our number one goal is academic achievement. So it fits right in there to the goals. Absolutely. So far as I can tell, it's anecdotally is that we're doing really well but we need to look towards the future. Absolutely. And along with that is looking towards the future is saying what resources to achieve that. And that's something. Yeah, and that's addressed at Jamie and to... The answer to that kind of helps shape where our budget's going. Budget is supposed to follow what our needs are. And fundamental are our kids learning. And if there's some gap that a budget position or program or other cases. So I think it's very timely to ask that question. Absolutely. Well, I think we're gonna have a lot of great things to talk about at our retreat. So I'm excited about that. Just if us starting to talk here now, I already feel some good energy. Is there any other comments on chapter eight of our book study? Okay. No action items. Is there any new hires or resignations? New hires, we have two pair educators that will be starting on Monday. Joanne McDonald is one. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, great. She's going to be in the first grade classroom. And Emily Denny is the other pair that's gonna be supporting the student going on one. And then one shift, I guess that happened. It's not a new hire, but Heather Hendershaw is both in Stockbridge and Rochester now. She's the 456 literacy teacher because Donna Gallant is still here as interventionist and librarian. But it's depth factor part-time. So something new is happening. But Heather has been trained when she was a para at the library and now she will be here and in Rochester. So that's a shift from August. necessarily a new hire. Right, the prior, she was just in Stockbridge. She was just in Rochester. Just in Rochester. And that's a literacy. 456 literacy and humanities teacher. Great. Great, well, that's exciting. I'm glad that all of this role is being filled. Is there any public comment? Just how do you feel, Lindy, about the new hire so far today? It seems like it's going really well. They seem to fit right in. Folks, I think what's unique about Rochester and Stockbridge is even though we partner everybody with a mentor, everybody's willing to support new folks to make sure that, yeah, it's great to see they kind of jump in without being asked, which I think is super helpful. So it seems, I don't want to jinx myself, but it just feels good and it seems really calm and so, sorry, only about a weekend. But it seems like it is. Yeah, good, is there any other comments or questions on the new hires? Okay, public comment. Okay, no public comment. So our next regular schedule meeting is Monday October 2nd at 5.30 at the Rochester campus and via Google Meads. And of course, we will be meeting in Stockbridge on September 30th from 9 to 12.30 for our retreat. Is there any future agenda items that you would like me to put on at this point for our total meeting? You might want to have just a brief thing of how to honor our retreat though. That's the best. I'm just looking at it for 48 hours or something. I'm not just to share, maybe that, useful. Okay, well, if anybody comes up with any future agenda items, you know mine or Jamie's email. If there's no further business, then I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. All in favor? All right. All right, thank you, everyone. All right, thanks.