 Looks like we have a quorum, so 33. Is there any adjustments to the agenda? I see no adjustments. Move on to consent agenda. I'm looking to approve the minutes from Tuesday, March 7th, and from Monday, March 20th, the special regular meeting and special meeting. So moved. Zero second. Jessica seconds. All right. All in favor. Hi. Hi. All right. The minutes pass. You have any public comment? Okay. Moving on to board comment. Let's get to the good stuff then. The celebration of learning. All right. I'm going to turn it over to him and let him. Explain a little bit more. Great. You're muted, Sean. And we've got Cali. Good evening, everybody. Sorry for that delay. I'm Sean. And for those that don't know me and I have my daughter Cali here with me. I hope he sound okay. Yes. Okay. Yes. So one of the projects we did this year, I'll just give you some brief introduction. And if you have questions, you could ask Cali. One of the highlights of the year, I thought was when we took one of our science standards. For earth science and turn it into a STEM engineer project. So I've done this with older kids before. So it was really cool. To challenge these elementary kids to do it. And they really did a fantastic job. So I do have a tab I can present just to show off. Just so you can see what we did. And let me know if it's coming through on your end. I will. Sharing my tab. Yeah. Do you see anything? Coming up. Okay. Let me know when you can see that. Okay. So, oh, sorry. This is where we start. We started with our research on earthquakes using some real time data. This is the USGS website here. So we kind of start there. Build some of the curiosity into it and. Allow them to kind of play around with real, real data. I'm going to now share you the tab I have for. I'm going to share you the tab I have for. The actual buildings. So let's see if this works. Sorry for the delay. All right. It should show up now. Yep. Okay. So if it allows me to change that tab slightly. Okay. Do you see what we can see? Yeah. All right. Cool. So once I learn about earthquakes, we start talking about the engineering process. Humans have built cities in some pretty seismic areas. So we talk about how to retrofit and build them. And then we start the design process. So. We worked in teams. They kind of found compatible, compatible partners that had the same vision. And then we started with the design process. And then we started with the design process. And then we started with the design process. And then we started with the design process. So we have a lot of compatible, compatible partners that had the same vision. We start with spaghetti sticks and very limited supplies. They have a budget where they have to. Design a house with the least amount of supplies that can withstand certain Richter earthquakes. And so they start to come together. Kids had a lot of fun with this part. I wasn't sure how well the five, five people really did. And then this is what they come out with. We sort of turned it into a steam project. They really wanted to design them. Some kids put little like little doll pieces in them just to see how things would shake around in there. And then I don't know how well this will come through, but I do have a video and I'm going to try to share it. And we'll see if I can play part of it. Yeah, let's see if I can get this to work. Yeah, I'm just going to show you a quick clip of it. Sorry, give me like a couple of more seconds here to find this. I thought I had a cue, but it doesn't want to play. Oh, here we go. Do you guys see a video playing? It's starting. You're muted. Okay, hear me. The ones that did survive, we threw some tsunamis at. I have some really good videos, but they don't really want to load, sadly. But we did throw tsunamis at them outside and the kids had a lot of fun just destroying their creations. Yeah, so that's one of the fun highlights of it. I'll turn it over to Cali if you just want to ask her anything about the process. I tried to get a few other students to zoom in, but wasn't successful. And I'll stop presenting. I could go get Addy if you want. Yeah, Addy wants to share. Cali, I do have a question for you. Yeah, what is it? Did you, did this teach you anything about where the safest place is during an earthquake? Was it underground? Yeah, you know, as a Vermonters, I don't think we did to talk about what to do in an earthquake. I was thinking by watching the buildings, you know, whether because sometimes it's not safe being outside when the buildings are falling down. Because when looking at your table, it looked like being outside of an unsafe building near unsafe buildings. It didn't look like that was very safe. We watched a lot of old earthquake footage. I just, my heart's in the 1989 San Francisco one. So we talked a lot about that. That one happened on my birthday. I remember watching the World Series when that happened. Yep, yep. Cali, this is Mr. Canarney. Great job. I'm just curious if you had any aha moments throughout the design process. Was there a certain component of the design that seemed to upstate, like hold the earthquake more than another? I think you would, Shay. Oh, I was with Shay. Shay did a lot of the building part. I got material and designs, but she did most of the building. So, okay. What about when all the houses that survived and didn't survive? What made some of those houses survive? What did some of the people come up with? The way the sticks were, like, or, like the sticks, not the sticks, the noodles were placed in some great spots that would hold it up better. And the base of the structure, some had a, what was it called, base? It was an eye. Wait, wait. In the, wait. Isolators. An isolator, base isolator. Explain to them what a base isolator is. It's like on springs and it, instead of moving the house violently, it moves the springs, right? You can talk. You can talk. That's great. Yeah. Cali, did yours survive? Yes, it actually did. After hours, some got wrecked. Yes. Well, that sounds like an exciting project to really bring what you're learning to life in front of you. Yes, it really was. I love the tsunami part where people failed just to throw a bucket of water at it, so they threw it up against the wall instead. Yes, the houses were built so strong, the tsunami wouldn't take it down, so they just wound up throwing it against the wall. Unbreakable. It's through the bucket at it. Yeah. That's very exciting. Thank you so much for, for presenting that, and that sounds like a lot of, a lot of great learning happening. Absolutely. Yes, thank you. Yes, you can go now. Thank you, Cali. Addie was a great guy. Yes, that took a lot there. That took a lot there. Yes, it did. I couldn't get Addie to come. Serious girl talk right there, so. I owe her one. Excellent. Well, thank you very much. That's really exciting. Like I said, I think that bringing it to life right in front of their eyes really, I will stick with them for a long time. I mean, even, you may not have been there teaching them about tsunamis, but I guarantee they're all going to remember what a tsunami is. Excellent. Thank you. Thanks, Sean. Keep up the hard work. I know how hard you guys work. I much appreciate all of your, all of your time and energy into trying to make this all work. Thank you. Thanks. Much respect. Have a good night. Thank you too. Excellent. We will move on to Superintendent's report. So you have my report in hand. Sorry, guys. The legislative updates that I wanted to orally report on in case folks had a question on the same big three I've been talking about. Universal meals made crossover. And I had spoken about this at the full board. Right now, there's still not a funding mechanism outside of the Ed fund to fund. Universal meals. So what that means is it's a projected tax increase beginning next year, possibly of three cents on the tax rate. They do expect probably to have another Ed fund surplus. So they may decide to utilize some of the Ed fund surplus to offset that complete three cents. But moving forward, what we should expect is universal meals is going to result in a change in the yield that equates to an increase of three cents. And I expected to go up from there. So you folks may say, well, what do they do different? They could put a regressive tax on it like a sugar tax to help offset some of the expense of universal meals. They could also split the funding mechanism and also have to come out of the general fund. And so in regards to health and human services, anything about meals, supporting all families, doesn't seem to have traction there yet. So anyways, that may cross over. We'll wait and see what the funding mechanism is. I also think we're going to wait and see does it actually get signed on by the governor. He hasn't come out and said he's going to veto it, but he's definitely said that he thinks there needs to be a look at the funding mechanisms for it. So that's universal meals. Pre-K made it from crossover from the Senate to the House. That is essentially a study committee is what it is on Pre-K. For a recommendation for next year, there was some talk that the House Committee, now that they have the bill, may look at amending it to include the caveat of those schools who are for full day Pre-K for four year olds, five days a week, we get to count those students as a one point out, which would benefit our district. That's not in the current proposal from coming over the Senate. No. But the House Ed has heard from districts saying, we're only doing this. It'd be really great to have the Ed funding formula linked to the fact that we're doing it. So there seems to be, that would seem to be well received from the House Ed Committee. So the House Ed Chair literally said that it's something that they're going to look at. And that would happen before a bill. The modern study made that. Well, it could happen this year, for next year, or the year after. They're reconciling the bills. So the bills that got passed from the Senate are now in the House. And the House reviewing that and deciding if they want to amend them at all. And the same, the bills that passed the House are now in the Senate. And they're doing the same thing. So that's the other bill, which is, was originally S-66. Senate did not move S-66. The House moved their version, which is H-2, something, something, like S-2. 280, what? Yeah, I think you're right, or 248. So that bill did make it out of the House. And so what does that bill do? What that bill does is leave school choice in place. That bill provides assurances that if a school is to receive a public dollar and a public funded student, that that receiving independent school is going to ensure access to special education, as an example. Ensure that there's going to be no discrimination within their system. Assure that the test scores are going to get reported to them, sending LEA and post it on their website like we do. Assure that they're not going to charge a family who's decided to send their kids to school a different rate than a public school pays. So right now a lot of independent schools will provide scholarship, is what they tend to call it, for a family paying into a school system. But in general, that's then being funded through the public school tuition dollar. And one of the things I've struggled with since being the superior is even receiving independent schools waving tuition for two years while student attends there under scholarship and then starting to charge tuition grades nine through 12. But meanwhile, the sending public school lost their average daily membership for two years, which is a penalty there. And in general, if you're given scholarship, that funding has to be made up somewhere. So I would argue it probably gets made up in the announced tuition for nine through 12. Is there a specific mechanism for that announced tuition? Is there a cap that independent schools have to abide by or at this point? No, independent schools. So the traditional four historical schools, St. Jerry, Byrne Burton, TA, and Lina Institute can announce like public schools as well as starting last year TSA. And so there, the campus is, AOE has that equation that you heard me talk about. It's a 6% range around what announced tuition is versus allowable tuition. Although the agency, Terri, do we even have last year's yet? Sorry, what was that? As the agency announced the allowable traditions versus announced for last year. Oh, no, no, not the finals. So he gets backlogged. Bear with it, the agency right now is the other thing that I talked about at the full board meeting. And I don't see it getting any better in the regards to Secretary French announced that he was moving on and that they've lost several of their leads throughout their division ranks in the last month. So and the big thing is, and something we'll continue to talk about, certainly, Terri and I talk about is Brad James has announced that he is retiring in December. And Brad, really, for a long time now has been the backbone financially for the state in regards to the end fund. Well, and he's leaving in December. Like all the calculations we get for equalized pupils and for the waiting study that's passed and is coming into place in the block grant for special ed, Brad's the guy that computes all those out and testifies on and says this is what they should be. So his moving on is going to be also something that I think is just we got to keep our eye on and is a worry for me. There's a lot of uncertainty, I guess is what I'm trying to say. The good news is, because I got to end the good news, is that I do feel like we were going to be in as good a place as anybody to implement the new standard eyes assessment system. Our testing coordinators at the buildings, our principals, Ray and on Adams had done a great job of rolling this out. I feel as prepared as we possibly could be. Just know that that has also not been seamless, like that agency has a real struggle has had a real struggle rolling this new assessment system out. Another positive thing, the question I guess is, it seems to me that we've got the talent pool for the secretary of education comes from our superintendents. That's our, you know, we've got a lot of talent there is the association at all because it's be something that could be fulfilling for the candidate and also make a huge difference in effective leadership for all schools and all districts and all supervisory unions. So I'm just, is there any work on the I think they're planning to possibly go with an interim for a while? I think one of the concerns is in the education breaks, of course, the secretary of education is appointed by the governor. And so it's become much more of a political position in the sense of if the governor's ship is to change, it a sense is it has been appointed in the ways typically what is resulted is the incoming governor, especially if the governorship changed party with the secretary position in jeopardy. So there's some worry, I think in the agency right now about whether or not, I think if Governor Scott was to come out and publicly say, yes, he's going to run again, that would help solicit some real strong candidates for the secretary position. I think without that coming out and saying that, it would be, it's a challenge about who would want to apply because it could be a real short probes. The good news is it was the Vermont Board Association announcement that they have found a successor to Phil Gore as director of development. And that's just a key position to to help spread how we can be effective boards and board members and carry out our role and maximize the opportunity to do the right job. And I just started to read resume and look into it, but a cursory look looked like we've got a very talented individual. And she's also been a teacher, I think in a school board member, but she goes way beyond that international and national responsibilities. And she's also created her own company. And so she's got an entrepreneurship sensibility. So I I'm questionably hopeful that we've got somebody that can help help us keep moving forward. Great. Thank you. Is there any more questions for the superintendent? Okay, we'll move on to the report. So you have my report right there. I think the big highlights are that we just sent home second trimester report cards the second time using our proficiency based or standards based report card. And we'll be working to send out a survey to gather parents and teacher feedback. We also have the second round of parent teacher conferences in the spring. Those just finished us last Thursday. But other than that, it's full speed ahead. There's where it goes really fast. We're starting to gear up for our next round of track my progress assessment as well as state testing. Any questions for the principal? Okay. Business manager, Tara. Tara. She had dropped off and just came back. So I don't know if she's having internet issues. Can you guys hear me? Now I can. Yes. Okay. Sorry. Yeah. My internet keeps booting me out today for some reason. So you all have my report that outlines what's happening in the business office during the month of April. In addition to that, we have two projects currently on our horizon. We are converting the supervisory union software from profund into infinite visions, which is the same software system that we've used for the district since 2018. So we'll only be operating out of one software, which will make everything easier. And we're also we we're working our onboarding process and how it goes through the different layers within the business office as well as with Christie with contracts and Ray with onboarding. So we're working on that as a team and we'll hopefully have that up and running by the end of this week. And then if there's any questions? Great. Just could you explain a little further on the last bullet reworking onboarding process or new hires? Are you talking about new teachers or new staff at the central administrative office? What does it mean be reworking? So our process before was cumbersome. So they would meet with Christie, then they would meet with Lisa, then they would have to come back and meet with Lisa. So we're working through trying to get it more efficient for staff as they come on. That's for all staff. It's teachers, support staff, anybody that we hire throughout the supervisory union substitute teachers and really just trying to make that process more smoothly. So they're not having to have so many touch points multiple times throughout onboarding. And Tara, are you the the captain of this team? I am the captain of the business office team. Yes. Well, thank you for doing that. It makes a lot of sense. Great. Is there any other questions for Tara? Okay, we'll move on to policy committee reading the second special education policy. Essentially the same one you had last month. The just a reminder, the last month you had this policy and the board member civility policy that has gone back in the committee with some pretty significant revisions. And so that was not ready to come out of committee yet. The committee wanted to take some time to read it, give feedback. And I expected a draft will come back out of committee when the full, when the policy committee meets on April 17. But this one, unless there's like all of a sudden any change, we are warning you for action at the full board starting on 17th and all of the subsequent meetings after that. Does anybody have any questions or concerns regarding the special education policy? It's pretty boilerplate. Yeah, great. Okay, we'll move on to the full board update. I can say a little bit, Jamie kind of has talked to but he at the FDU meeting he gave a similar updates to what was happening in the Senate and the House with the bills. There was some good updates from our MTSS Chief Executive Officer. I wrote down a little note that we're talking about a set of phonics tools that are available to teachers as other options for teachers to use and let's see, and showed critical proficiency and performance indicators for each group of kids, K2 and 35, et cetera. So some reporting out of some proficiencies and performances. The Director of Special Services gave a update. I'm going well as I wrote for notes. I think that was the sentiment that everything was going really well and there was nothing. The role changes are tough. Yeah. And I appreciate Annette giving a glimpse to the board each month on what some of those room changes are. But essentially what the legislature did to get at requirements schools to have a comprehensive system MTSS, which is in statute, their way of going about ensuring that it was going to be implemented was to then tie it to clarification around special education. So unless a school system implements a truly comprehensive response to intervention, a system where kids data is being monitored on a regular cycles that we're implementing targeted interventions with fidelity, a team can't qualify a student for special ed services. So it's really making certain that all levels of the system are working together collaboratively. It's no longer special ed and regular ed, right? It's we're all working on the same team here hand in hand. And if we're not, and the law really gets at the heart of it, if you're not doing that, it's really challenging than to qualify for a student for special education. Good. That's what we should be doing. It was always very supportive of that bill that went through. I felt like it was going to really hold schools accountable to early intervention. Yeah, I recall what I get impressed with over this team, you formed and lead in support is the positive nature is so easy for in these jobs, wherever you are to pay the game, ain't it just awful? And they can just ain't it just awful to death? Because there's new things and hurdles and dips and and things that get in the way and block where you'd like to go. And I don't get a sense of that from your team. And I think from from everything I've seen and nothing is perfect, but that's to me is an example of illustration of a strong team. They got problems. They're going to deal with them. But it isn't playing that card. And I appreciate them not doing that and being positive and confident. The directive technology and communications updated about the hard work they put in to the new student testing platform, because of the turnover in the state, there has not been a lot of support and training. So yeah, that was huge that, you know, that our tech team has really stepped up to really work hard at getting that moving forward for our students. And then the calendar was presented. And so we have the calendar for next year. And the big news is that we were able to align one, the spring vacations, one with the more southern tech schools and the other with the northern schools to help all students in our system to be at least have one vacation with the sibling that's in our district schools. That's what I got out of that. Okay. Okay, there's no other updates on that. We will, for questions or comments, negotiation council update. Yeah, I missed it. But the good news is that there was an agreement reached between the SU and our support personnel. Very, very, very pleased. This is talking about a three year contract. And I think possibly express this is for, to me, this is another recognition that we've got a team that is working together. I've seen places where labor have just gone off, whatever, and with a rational or irrationally. And these are tough negotiations tough in the sense that objectives and people are trying to strive to better themselves and their situation. But what I've seen here in my few years of tenure is that we have a way of coming together and the glue of that is, in my mind, trust. And there's another evidence, sir, to your team and the good people throughout the whole system working together. So I'm hopeful actually that we may be in a place, depending on timing, to possibly ratify at the next full board meeting and have breakouts. That's my goal. I worked over the weekend to finalize the document and I've had a few sets of eyes on it now. And so we're going to finish formatting here the next day or two, and I'm hopeful that we can try to get it ratified. Excellent. Thank you. Are there any questions in regards to the negotiations? Great. We'll move on to discussion items, annual meeting preparation and discussion regarding informational meeting time and date. I'm sorry, I wasn't at your last meeting. Wouldn't you discuss this a little bit when you approve the warning? So the mailer is about ready to go to copy. We'll share a proof with people just to give a quick look. Thank you to Lindy and Erica and all their hard work and Tara and the board had a nice letter of pulling that all together. So I think we're going to be ready for it to go to printer to get a proof like maybe tomorrow morning. Yeah, so that's exciting, but we'll share that out. Okay. So that's the mailer. And then the informational meeting, I created a little wrench in this because I'm trying to get away and truly get away for some time in April, during April break. I have not gotten away other than a couple of days around Christmas all year and I didn't feel it. So this, the informational meeting would be to essentially go over and have a dry run of our presentation that we will do under article, the article within the warning of reports to the board. Because remember we're going from the floor this year. And so what we've done in our other in-person meetings this year is gone over our entire presentation after that early under that early article and allowed for questions on the presentation and then taken every article after that. And people can ask questions again under each article, but it's really given them a whole preview of everything the budget is supported. It allows us to tell an narrative of what the budget's supporting, what the, you know, how the CLA has impacted tax rates, and then allow people to digest that and ask questions about it before actually moving on to, all right, now we're going to discuss the budget article. It's allowed that informational meeting to kind of happen early in the meeting. That has served us well in all of our four votes previously. You're saying the informational part of the meeting is the same night as the vote you're just doing it earlier. You're not doing it as separate. Well, it's early in the meeting agenda. Yeah. It's under the, I don't have your warning in front of you. It could be article two or article three is to hear reports of the board. Under that article we've asked the moderator to ask permission for the principal for Tara and to I to go, remember how we had previously, we'd go over that whole slide show under that article. And then, and the board had, it will go over some business, you know, slides to like you have in the past to beat it up. But we do that whole essentially 35 minute presentation early on in the actual annual meeting. So what I'm saying to you is is everyone that votes on the budget has to be there that night. So I the only difference would be if you decided to hold a whole nother informational meeting separate of the meeting in person would be, well, what we were planning, we have one district do that in Stratford. They held it a Friday, they voted on Tuesday. We had two people show up. We were originally going to go through our whole presentation as like a dry run to just practice. But the board chose not do that based on only two people being there. And it it lasted about a half hour. And there was a back and forth question around actually they had a question about how food service worked. Right. And they provided some feedback on wanting more all wheel drive type vehicles running back roads from buses. Actually, we didn't talk much about the budget. Tara, we don't actually have that article in the warning. Well, that's not good. I just read through the warning again. So I did not realize that it was doing a presentation on the night of voting was a separately warned thing. We've always done a presentation. We can do a presentation. Okay, typically there's an article that says to hear reports of the board. That's where we can still do a presentation. Okay. But are not. So we suggesting that we don't our informational meeting is combined as part of our I don't know. I'm just asking. I mean, we're going to have the opportunity with everyone there that's voting to give them a presentation and they really dig into it. So I don't know based on that. I just don't know how many people will come to the pre informational meeting. If it's a really strapped. Yeah, right. And, you know, we're looking at dates that seemed the only appropriate date would was on the like, like two weeks before. Well, I talked to Wendy. I mean, you could choose to hold it down Monday. I told her, certainly I could handle it. We could give the Monday before. But I think that's a tough ask to have people come out two nights in a row. No, no, I'm talking about the whole week before the first Monday of April vacation. The 24th. Wendy's not here. But I am in terrors. Well, let's discuss this. What do you guys think about having a informational meeting a separate night earlier, a week or two earlier, or to just have one one informational meeting right before the, it was a discussion and our annual meeting with the vote just on that May 2nd. I thought it was a good idea. That's the place we have one, right? So I can compare it. We didn't hold one. Rod did hold a brief 30 minute one actually on the Thursday of their regular board meeting. So they took like what you would do out if it was the Monday before. They chunked out part of their normal board meeting and said, we're going to focus on that. And when we get right, I don't think I was at that one. Tara, do you remember? I think we had 12. No, no, no, no. But I could see on screen because I was virtual. No, all the board members. There was only one public. Yes, I think there was 12 in their room, total. Okay. So it's a close call, but in some ways the annual school report is the informational meeting. It has all the documentation from the warning to all the reports from our key players, starting with our chair and graphs and arrows and to explain what we're trying to do and the impact. So in a way we've done that, I don't think we should feel bad about if that's the case and giving the logistics this year to go from there to the annual school meeting on that Tuesday in May. I guess it's May 2nd. Yeah. I think we do have an obligation and I think it's very important when we get to outreach that we look at avenues, a big avenue, the Herald or somebody told me nobody reads the Herald anymore, Bill, but I think if you're over 55, we do. And the letters, the editor or longer piece there would be helpful to point out some of the major accomplishments that's happened under this administration this year. So I guess I'm favorably inclined to utilize a report as their informational meeting and move right directly to our school board meeting on May 2nd. Justine, do you have an opinion on it? I think I'm on the fence about it. I originally liked the idea of the meeting, you know, the separate meeting, but I'm not, I'm thinking about it. I'm not quite sure what I think. I agree with Bill now. I mean, because I was just like Justine, I thought it was a great idea but it's all right there and if somebody has any issues or questions. Yeah, and if it's well, people get to see what it is ahead of time, it's no different than having to. Well, I do think it's important to, this is a change for us. At Australian ballot meetings, so I think one of the things we got to really emphasize is this is the vote from before. Right. Which is what it was when we arrived. Which I do worry about if we hadn't information, like the word information is what they've seen in the past and I would worry like do they think they're doing an informational and then going to vote. Not realizing they're going to come again. Right. I just. And that's my concern is getting people out twice, you know. Or that the only good letter to come out of people that want to complain. We got to solve this stuff here, you know. Well, we usually see people to support it. Yeah. To inform and then motivate people to come to the meeting on May 2nd. But we also have an Australian ballot for candidates for the position. And that's the same day. And so in some ways it's somewhat easier to say it's all May 2nd. That's what I'm saying. You vote for your candidate if you don't like or you have come and vote it's at your town office 7 to 7 or whatever the cases are 9 to 7 I think it is. And then make sure that evening you come and again be able to ask your questions about the budget and everything else like that. But that's somewhat easier than having three kind of pieces of this puzzle that sort of was my worry that it could add a little. I think you're right. I just wanted to share there was some confusion already on behalf of your town clerks and I discussed with both of them because they were not familiar, particularly in Rochester of the split between what you're voting on from the floor and then what you're voting on by Australian ballot because apparently there's also another vote happening in Rochester that same day that they were going to be piggybacking on the school vote May 2nd. So I do know there already was some confusion and some of your town clerks had had some feedback from community members about both from the floor and the Australian ballot vote. Well I think I'm getting more and more convinced that it would be easier for our community to just have our annual meeting on the one night and not have these three moving pieces that they have to figure out which one am I supposed to go to. That's my biggest worry. I would like as she since I would like in both of our towns us to put up a poster that says make sure you know meeting tonight to vote the budget so when the people come in and they might be thinking that they're voting for the budget or or any confusion just totally eliminate to vote tonight come to the meeting tonight to vote on the budget. I think we'll just help clarify also I'm assuming there there's directions in your first thing just there it's in the same spot. Yeah because we had directions last year. It's changed to say that like articles whatever article that is voting for school board members is Australian ballot and then it at the top it so it divides it into two sections to vote for articles one through ten. Yes okay I think it's what it is. Yeah that's too it's bold to have it in our annual report. It is in the first page after the table which is exactly where it was in the last book which is read just right away. This is how your voting instructions. I don't think bold. And it's bold and then it also says that if you flip over to the back. Yeah you'll have it on the back here. It says it right up top too. Perfect. Yeah um that Jessica. I I agree with you all on doing you know the simplest thing and the meetings but I think one of the concerns we had when we were considering this was the tax impact on Stockbridge and doing the informational meeting in Stockbridge so those that may have these types of questions you know have some time to ask them in a week to think about them. I'm in favor of probably no informational meeting. I'm kind of like JC I'm a bit on the fence about it because I'm trying to be sensitive to the difference in the tax impact on each town. But I also you know it could be a good time to convey the confusion of where you have to be to place your vote too. You know we don't want that to be a backlash after the fact where I didn't know I had to vote. You know I didn't I didn't know this was something I couldn't go to the office or I don't know. I mean I'm going over the fence now that I know what I know now but just food for thought this was I think one of the reasons why we were considering it in the first place. So we just I think need to be sensitive to that that's all. How are we going to get organized between now it seems like the annual report is pretty well set and ready to go to press and be mailed everything. So how do we organize between now and May 2nd. We've got one of the challenges is as Jessica mentioned Justin about how do we do everything possible to get the word out. Also what can we do to make sure that we not only inform people how they can express their views whether it's a candidate or a budget but why it's important to support this budget and this program and these candidates. So it seems to be it's a it's we need some teamwork and organization between our side and is it Tara's going to be your lead on or who it is at the central administration. So we just kind of keeping the same. Are you talking about like our presentation just like letters to the hero or I'm talking about both the presentation that's to Tara the presentation together. Typically she shares that with the board and with the principal and with me and then we work on that together and we assign slides and you know you do meet me first. I think it's an opportunity even at that meeting to just fine-tuning your presentation presentation piece as far as the coordination of getting information out to voters and things. We certainly leaned on our our coordinator of communications came to claim and we certainly can leverage her to get things in the herald. We even did a special little one page mailer for example in first branch because it was a article specific on pre-k which was supported. So we can certainly work with her to navigate some special letters and things in the in the herald. The board being agreeing to write a letter I think you did that last year I thought that was powerful. Yeah I think because my thinking is that we should have almost starting next week series of letters about what's happening and why why it's important and why we're asking voters to support and how they can support by voting directors and voting for the actual budget. That's one thing as a candidate I think and candidates need some letters of support. We cannot take that for granted and I don't know what the situation is in Rochester but as in my career it's one thing I learned in the political arena is it not take it for granted so I think people need to be understand that who's running and why and I take responsibility because I'm a candidate and I'm going to be asking and working with some of you too and others to help with that. What I'm not good at is the whole social media and whether what we should do there like you talked about this Patrick about how the pros and cons of Facebook but that's where the communication coordinator in some of you that I'm in the dark ages there about are there vehicles there how to tap. What we've leveraged is again all we can do is communicate facts like when the vote is reminding folks that you vote on you know your elected officials via Australian ballot we can push all that out through social media and also through at least school families through Blackboard Connect and so that's what we did in my other districts is text messages reminding folks of the meeting and again I'm only getting school families with that because that's what it means I have but that we definitely leverage we cannot ever come out and say vote yes we can we cannot as a district we cannot use district funds to say vote in the affirmative no but individuals are born yes we're not I'm just reminding everyone we're never going to see a social media post from us got it I'm wondering whether we could work you can kind of help coordinate I generally will give you my thoughts on that of how we spread the word and to me it's what when and who's going to do it and I think we can lay that out pretty quickly you know especially with the Herald we've got X number of Herald's they published in Thursdays we got to get it in on Monday by noon who's doing what and why and my plan was to try to at least from my standpoint see if the Herald was going to just do an interview on the R setup coming election for me to try to get some headline around the upcoming vote that'd be great I think it's like a story yeah yeah now everybody will be getting this about a week before the meeting it has to be 10 days so that you know um that'll be good that gets it right out there on their plate right in front of their eyes absolutely um okay um the voter verification for both towns the the town clerk should be present at our and they're aware I need the board of civil authorities there okay and you're coordinated all that okay and um the moderator is that something that we as a board ask for moderators that yeah I mean I it's work yes we've tried to recruit someone to moderate um in Rochester we've used um Dan McKinley um we've used Ethan Bowen um I would recommend just asking one of them Dan McKinley can you reach out to him yep just be good to know yep um that they're there yes and yeah the board chair is either recruited someone or I have if I've known someone that I don't know I can do that um thank you so we've circled back to whether we should have an informational meeting or not I you know does anybody have any strong feelings either way is the problem as the thing um I hear every what everybody's saying and I have gone back and forth with it that is well um I guess I would say if we do it we should have our presentation ready and deliver our presentation I don't think you should open it up just to this it should just be the presentation exactly I just think that gives the whole narrative that's that's what we're doing is representing and then the questions that can be asked and my recollection in Stockbridge going back to 2006 was I don't recall an informational meeting but I do recall an extensive presentation before the vote right which we will do in terms of everybody to explain what and why and how and how come and um and in fact that generated some questions and I think so I think that's we're not being inconsistent with past practices that I'm familiar with also um the point to that um to vote on this budget people have to be present so if somebody has a question or an issue then they to for them just to vote on it they have to be there and listen to the comments of the presentation um you know rather than coming to the presentation getting the questions answered then maybe not coming back and voting and then we're going to do a dry run the night before right no no I mean I said you could you could choose to at least look at your slides that Monday night and assign to me that's why the people want to chime in virtually or but would we be answering questions off I would suggest not right that's I would not just to the presentation right do that I think it's important to make sure that our parents are aware of when and how important it is um there are the ones that have the most direct stake in what we're all about and hopefully to be able to have them come and and support their schools and how we do that I'm not an expert but seems like the PTO and O's and what else um gonna play a role here that's that's really important nobody has a higher stake okay so I could chime in it's sort of can I just piggyback off of what Bill just said you know if we don't do the informational meeting we really should make a plan to follow up on some of these other items that we discussed like social media announcements a letter to the paper and Jamie mentioned the blackboard yeah that's that's fantastic maybe you know the day before you know a blackboard message that you have to be at the meeting to vote you know that will reach every parent maybe it's too late for those that might have questions but as far as getting the word out if we don't do the informational meeting we really should follow up on on all of those items I think the point is though our our annual meeting will be a time for questions it we it will be a time to come and ask questions and the plus of it being asked there is everyone that's going to vote because here's the question and receives the answer right that's what I think so powerful right like the power of having an in-person vote is an opportunity to inform the people that are going to vote that night that's true so every question that is asked and people have questions and ask them everyone sitting in that room that's going to vote gets to hear the conversation yeah I totally agree and I would say in first branch where I was I didn't know if pre-k was going to get voted in I do think that taking the time when we had a 30 to 40 minute conversation and went to paper ballot because they could tell by cards and then eventually passed by a pretty decent margin I think it got support because people fully ready to understand and grasp all the responses of public pre-k there that night and then use that to inform their vote where if I think if we had just had information some of those questions would have been asked and not asked the night of the vote and then some people who heard those answers wouldn't have the opportunity to hear the answer and say oh it really is being funded a whole ft buy-head stuff right like hearing that talk through I think helped absolutely that's the positive power of town meetings historically is that you can walk in the door thinking one thing but unless they're just locked in everybody learns and they kind of grow and oh I didn't know the power of being able to have a presentation so they have some data and information to work with is invaluable um so I think we're doing the right thing yeah I think we should um that would be my recommendation is that we just have our annual meeting on May 2nd and we do the information presentation please have a good discussion and then vote that night that'd be my recommendation I don't have to I mean you can make a motion to hold one but you could get a poll straw poll okay let's do a little straw poll of um um having the the only meeting that we're having uh is the annual meeting that is on May 2nd and we'll provide there'll be information and presentation and discussion and then a vote I think as long as we follow up with our informing procedures I I'm okay I can great thank you yeah I'm happy with the fact that they can they will get information ask questions and vote right all in one place and then I don't have to do any of it right I have to be of course but I've got all these town meetings and um on the general municipal budgets which are smaller than ours but uh in Stockbridge we have a sizable percentage increase it's much larger than what we have here there's no presentation information at all so I don't have to be people asking questions from the floor and it ended up being voted unanimously but I think we're doing the responsible thing plastering things around about what where and why and then there's going to be information and access to decision makers about why are you doing this how why why is it so high or low whatever so um I don't think we should be shy about saying that we're doing the responsible thing because I think we are great are you gonna jump in on my other me as a stern all right okay well then let's move on to the um Stockbridge Central School solar project yep um so I did get some information as far as cost associated with the master electrician it's probably about a day's worth of work for them so you're looking at oh anywhere you know probably a thousand dollars um or less so with that and then the structural part with the roof Rickette did say she um she had said um she did a walkthrough um there was a facilities assessment done um created by black river design um the structural engineer that was contracted as part of the facility study uh engineering ventures they're out of Lebanon also did a walkthrough and brief assessment of the roof um so they're finding to be in the facilities assessment report which I don't know yeah I do the black river yeah and uh she only had a hard copy of black river report um she didn't have it with her when she wrote this uh but she did say looks like the pre-manufactured trusses a lot of times um when it's all the they'll omit the two by fours which sounds like they were cross numbers that just go across the trusses essentially so they might have to be added which isn't really a huge ordeal um you're talking probably a couple guys for a few hours you know um and then so she so basically long story short she said if we allocated about a thousand dollars for her services we would be um we would be good with oh and then the other question was the um inverter yes the inverter and it sounds like it's both so four four years of approximately four years of life left in the inverter four years of warranty left um and from you know my experience you're looking at a few thousand dollars to replace an inverter but I wouldn't say that it's just going to turn off you know okay so um we're looking the the estimated cost was about six thousand dollars for the system um and then another two thousand four one for the master electrician one for engineering fees so about eight thousand dollars is probably what we're talking about for this for this project great what is everybody's thoughts on this is that from our from our capital fund or or where's it or we have a competitive budget we have an allocated yeah it's not currently embedded in that but we do have a capital fund and we're in our budget is a trip application of sixty five thousand dollars of a expected surplus that's going to go into capital and one reason we have the capital reserve fund is for things like that so we have that option if we want to utilize it seems to me and I think it's it's just I think it's neat great any other comments just in all right um well we are looking for possible action on this project everybody want to make a motion to go forward with this the solar project is presented I make a motion to move forward with the installation of a donated donated solar system from Debra Aldrich to be installed on the roof of the Stockbridge elementary school my second I saw is there any um discussion no discussion all in favor I would say an aye aye aye opposed great not very thank you for yeah uh coordinating this Debra will be very pleased good okay we'll have a little ribbon cutting or something at the time that we can celebrate some way they need it but I think just kind of also thank you I did but what solar and what solar power boy we can do um earthquake proof buildings um we can understand what's what's going to be built on the roof I think that's just neat excellent um okay moving on to the mentor mentee program for new board members I'm not sure is that something you're involved in or is that something for Jamie to I gave them some suggestions but the whole idea is that effective boards make a difference yeah ineffective boards make a difference the difference is one's positive and one's negative and one of the things that we learned from a presentation by Bill Gore through a Vermont School Board Association was the idea of having a more formal entry educational mentoring program for new board members and part of that is to have a document that they can read absorb and have with them as their job goes on we've all felt that she was if we knew more we could possibly contribute more as board members and this is to help close that gap between gee I where am I what am I doing all that a lot of that is right here in this handbook and I think this handbook is something that can grow over time um I'm a notebook person so I'd love to have this put in a notebook where they could uh members could either add any policy statements or whatever they want a little budget um but this is this is core stuff and I think it's um um yeah I think it's great it's taken it has taken a long time um to just figure out like what am I supposed to be doing here what but I just want to caution that there's so much information to make sure to keep it um as it's in a simplified format so that it's not too cumbersome for for somebody to want to dive into it yeah that's one thing that I think the committee did good that I appreciate the other thing is that this is information but we're also giving a helping hand through a mentoring program where mentors not from the same board will be mentoring new board members throughout the SU and so the person's saying what you know help me here I don't even know where first base is so you um so that's the the power of that having a relationship in a contact person to help them get through the start of their journey that's great that's good work great is there any other questions discussions comments all right seeing none we'll move on to um the uh our sub facebook um board's prior use of facebook communication for communication Jamie was going to dig up yep so we talked about it okay um so the last time we talked about it as a board um was in our December of 2021 meeting it got brought up when we merged our school facebook pages to be one facebook page did we still need to keep the Rochester Stockbridge Unified School District community way I'm not saying that full page right um but did we still need to keep that and then it's got moved to future agenda items and it never was a future agenda item so here we are it's a future agenda item just a couple years later and so there's we did we came through but so there was no actual action taken on that question I believe justine I posed the question originally and then here we are um start going back to it but so what was the what it's the Rochester Stockbridge Unified District community facebook page that has this at the top that one okay we were we were called out online essentially saying that we weren't using it and well I was scrolling through it and yeah we're not using it like everybody else says every day to take pictures of their food but um yeah but I scrolling through it I actually found that um it was like a community bulletin board it's not really an interactive kind of thing which facebook maybe sometimes is it but you know it gave links to people to go places to get stuff it talked about um preschool or kindergarten administration so the only thing I'll say is no one active on the board is an administrator of it no one associated with like I'm not an administrator who's an administrator um I believe it's like a campaign still yeah when I dug into it and then also the concept I am one I think I can yeah I struggle to figure that out definitely tested my social media skills oh so I don't know how to figure this out right so our question kind of before us now is what what use do we want to have of this facebook page um is that kind of what the discussion is well you've never really identified any social media as a form of public of publishing board information okay that makes sense yeah so we don't typically put our board agendas we can put the warning up there to start to get information but um even when we looked at our reorg meeting in June you guys did not pick social media as a posting place okay so it's kind of all those things in one right and the thought is the school business should go through our school facebook does the school have a facebook right rochester sectors oh facebook page no you're saying website or we have a website and a facebook page oh so like that's kind of right justine am I am I I think you were one of the ones who originally posed questions yes you're right got stuck with central school um yeah I just I I just wanted to figure out what we all thought because I don't I keep you know I don't think that it's gonna I'm gonna stop getting tagged in things so I uh I just want to use facebook the way we want to use it right I mean here we are coming up to our annual meeting and um and so um we're talking about what our avenue is to getting out there um but you're also saying we have a school page but it would be appropriate for us to to put an announcement on the school page about the um the meeting coming up and I mean yes we sorry I'm not uh I'm listening to another meeting and I wasn't you know and on all this discussion but we post stuff to the our sub page every week right pictures announcements uh and my understanding and or concern about uh the community page if I can call it that is that um board members can't interact outside of a meeting and so uh the the communication coming from the district should flow through the school onto the official page so if we use it as an announcement page we could do that just shut the comments off that's a good idea I think shutting the comments off is a good idea I think that's the I mean if we're going it's all about how someone who's tried to figure out how to shut off comments on Facebook before it's not as easy as one with faith you have to there's a difference between a page then uh there's a difference between following and liking it um so I'm not sure if this community page has that capability it's honestly I would have to dig into the community page a little bit more and it's formatting or just see maybe you can I'm not sure I can see it because I hear exactly what you're saying thank you that um the board cannot have interactions with with people commenting on the Facebook page we I think our um initial thought was just to be able to like a bulletin board just put out there but not we were not able to receive or answer any comments um so maybe that is not the right place for us to to post stuff out there but now that we have a website and we do have another avenue of Facebook that um because I know a lot of people are on Facebook restaurants have their menus on Facebook it drives me put it on a website so I think that as long as there is a Facebook option that we can still post on that'd be my thought but I'm not on Facebook very much so forever you can set it up so everything has to be approved before it gets posted in which case you just like not approve anything you know comment wise is that what you mean by that comment wise yeah yeah anything or any post anybody else wants to post if they want to post some sort of yeah like spammers or something you can have like third party really it could just be we can post it I approve it and then anybody comments I just don't ever approve any of it because it's not allowed as we've decided that as a board right this seems like a lot of it's we have 353 followers yeah it doesn't seem like a lot because you just ignore the every all the requests sixty three excuse me I mean I think that seems easy if we set the setting that way require you know approval I said that this page is specific for posting announcement from the board and we are not taking any comments come to a meeting I mean I just directly go to the website the website is great like people should be going to the website and not through the Facebook that's much yeah but you can drive them to the website sorry go ahead and see people are on Facebook all day long every day all night long every day and the things will come up so they see them more often than actively choosing to go to the website I don't go and hit websites most of the time right almost never I will never I go to life I just go there all the time on a website I will look at their Facebook page and I'll look at the time you I don't know your websites it's just in my face I'm like oh look at their menus right here cool you know I think we'll reach more people with Facebook but if we can control the discourse I think that it's about driving the website through Facebook yeah yeah and then people go to the website go to the website and just keep driving links to the website or they just yeah they click on Facebook and they end up at the website that's a different thing and that's what I did it wasn't a month ago and you kind of got called out Justine yeah I was like well go to the website go to the website yeah I I feel comfortable with that that we keep we keep this stock the Rochester Stockbridge Unified District community Facebook page we use it to post announcements we we've provide the link to to our regular page where they can find more information a regular web page where they can find more information and it is not a platform for commenting we will not comment out and we're not receiving any comments come to a meeting reach out to us personally so help me is what we're you were just talking about this community Facebook page our side is that different from the current Facebook presence we have with that uh it goes through our schools there is a stock bridge one there's a Rochester Stockbridge School Facebook page that's what you go see you I'm just wondering the power of Facebook is when people have questions or concerns they voice them and they can get answers the way we're set up is that individual board members can't really facilitate that what the forum is our board meetings where people can come in and ask and and suggest or or oppose and then we as a group can take action you know that night or agree to do it or I think so in some ways it's misleading to have a separate board Facebook page if we can't do what it Facebook is really designed to do which is having two-way conversations our two-way conversation as a board is through these meetings so I'm wondering whether everything gets shuttled to our our side Facebook page everything just goes there immediately and they get their information from that and and we can continue to say if you get questions concerns here's the board schedule and and please come in and articulate whatever the case is but I just find it somehow weird that we have a Facebook page but we can't do what people might want us to do which is to either whatever so that's I'm so I mean why don't we even need one if we're not going to be able to or more followers than the right well I see the value of using it now so I mean say we have our meeting and then we need to post the minutes can't we just what can't we do that through the through what our our side the school the school the school then what we do is yeah I guess yeah it is confusing it's confusing I think we don't need this our side one and we can just post stuff on the school's one I've always been confused about that why there's two and why the advantage of using the school one is it also drives home what we're doing at school not this information if you get it there's a lot of pictures that go up there there's videos yeah I mean it kind of keeps it a little more kid focused yeah it's a way of having a celebration of learning every time they connect yeah um they go oh yeah I know Mary Lou and then well what's great about it too is like with any Facebook page when when you see one pop up on your news feed you will then click on it but then you'll look at their past once so you'll see the things that when these somebody might go there because we're announcing a meeting but they're gonna see what the kids are doing that you know yeah I think that's great sorry they're saying my name uh I think the the community page had a really important role in the the genesis of the merger but none of the other boards have pages these days none of the other district boards within the SU I would personally in my role professionally support yeah and I agree out of what we were just talking about that um you know maybe it did have an important role where we were bringing governance together people together but now we're together we're about kids we're not about well put yeah so yeah all right so I don't know how you shut down or move everybody from from that Facebook page over but Justina are you an administrator yeah I think so so I think it you know we would do have to take action on that if so the action would just be you know like you're accepting the motion that we will post all the board meeting all board any board information exactly on our Rochester Stockbrook School so could Justine just make like a final posting that it's going to get shut down and and for any followers to we you know we strongly yeah to move on and put a link yeah yeah links to the school pages not already following yeah once you make the website yeah and the website I do want the website I agree well I think the website's what Lindy said okay what's that I move what Lindy said is there a second second okay great um any discussion all right all in favor six months I'll be saying aye hi all right take in I want to thank Jeff Patrick for bringing this up and Justine for being our administrator I didn't do that all the time like justine don't take it personally that we're taking this power away well I don't want it I was like I feel really different when I was when it was more active and it was merger related you know it was different no I think that's I think this is a wise way to go great okay um so we move on to board development study book I did not bring my book I had a busy busy day I don't feel like we did you know with new numbers it was it was interesting to read because I feel like this is one thing that we could get better at yep yep I feel like I read this and then I kind of used it at the the meetings for the the member handbook yeah I think it's kind of a line a line that basically that entire handbook cool yeah it's interesting one of the lines in this coherence chapter governing with coherence is the fact that we what unifies us is this this vision omission this overwhelming concern and commitment to learning and for students under our care and supervision and that's ongoing but the other part of it is this duality talk about because but we have to be open for change so it isn't like we've okay we've got the formula we've got this and we're not going to do anything else what the authors were saying you good really strong effective board just comes from Jim Collins from a great book called good to great phenomenal book no matter whether you're in private sector non-profit or public and and but we can't be afraid of change and we have to be open and proactive kind of to continue to to move to be effective so even though we kind of kind of have a comfort level and what we believe in that relationship we've still got to be moving and change can be at times uncomfortable and another point here is the question is well what do I do when I advocate something and the board votes the opposite direction and the answer is that we're a team and so we move forward and we do it civilly and and and with a positive thing so it's it's interesting stuff I like the expression our rubber stamp conundrum yes yes and the other thing that was really interesting because they say gee I just seem to be rubber stamping everything and the authors were saying if you our job is to make sure we've got a talented superintendent and the superintendent builds a talented team and we reinforce the support that team well if all that's happening then it's natural for what they're proposing is something that we support yeah so it kind of flips this thing around no we're not rubber stamping yeah we have a role that we have to have accountability and I think I said earlier from from this was the whole idea of trust being just the the glue trust ourselves and trust in the team that we're overseeing I get a lot of comfort we don't walk on water by any means but I get some comfort reading these of these chapters that were it isn't like a foreign language is it something like we're right right we're like we're kind of doing this jessica yeah I when I was reading the part about the trust issues it kind of brought back traumatic moments of being on the act 46 merger study committee because there were people from boards all over the districts and everybody was untrusting of each other on who you know what what the end game really was I mean we all had a goal in mind to figure out how to merge but everybody had different pathways on how to get there and nobody was comfortable with each other because they thought oh this person just wants these kids to go here and this one wants them to go there and it was really really difficult um you know the experience being on this board I can see everybody's you know got more comfortable with each other more trusting with each other that you know as far as I can tell I mean you know like there's nothing about hidden agendas you know um you know with some of the delicate issues that we still have to deal with um but yeah trust is a big deal I mean the example they brought up in the book I think was about like candidates running against each other and then being on the board together so they spend all this time going against each other and now they have to work together so they have to sort of rebuild the trust but there's other instances where trust may not be you know like the multi board like the the full board that you know the su wide full board um you know people coming from different boards on that one I can see where that can be tricky that that can be really tricky and it's something to keep in mind so it's really really important reading here nice uh no just one thing I thought I was important was when you know a new member comes on um is giving them a chance to to you know speak values and I think as a whole board like it says here to you know go over the values of the board the moral imperative the strategic goals so I noticed the importance of like our retreat it almost seems like a retreat needs to be in line with a new member as well because I feel like as a new member to just get thrown into these meetings you're almost a little too reserved in having a voice because you feel like you're under the spotlight or is it a retreat we're all getting to know each other it's more open uh dialogue we can discuss our goals and I think I think when we have a new member to come in I think that that's important to to take a chance to do that yeah so yeah yeah the nice thing is you guys re-organize time over here where it's really easy to jump into a retreat yeah you have to mean you're really going to be re-organizing June yeah so it works out well nice just the way it the main meeting draws yeah yeah excellent all right so anybody have anything else for the uh our book club uh and the next chapter is chapter six governance culture okay culture culture culture is it okay I have that we go away this is this is over on there I was wondering if I read the wrong chapter that's so good that was the right one but you still got a very good point Patrick grew up on culture mountains oh man excellent uh do we have any new ires or uh resignations okay okay great do we have any public comment okay um so our next regular meeting is um Monday May 1st and we're going to have that as a regular meeting with a regular agenda yep and then we will Tuesday at seven o'clock we will have our annual meeting yes great and do you want us to be there early kind of get our marching orders or anything I'll go with your advice here we'll probably be talking throughout the month as we get a little closer that night you mean the annual meeting I don't get the boards there at least a half hour early that would be great um we'll certainly be there you guys bring me cake I'll be there at six uh excellent I'll be there at least now oh man I think I think we I think it fell on my birthday last year too what a way to spend it yeah well hopefully we can give you a good birthday gift then one of the things that we did in another gesture again I'm putting linear in the spot which is like my little not to do is we did hold a community dinner um for families and folks that were interested um prior it's a little trickier because we vote from the gym anyways and then we provided childcare there might be something that we're looking to doing and publicizing out that was amongst yourselves that was effective um to have something from prior to meeting yeah even even a little potluck type thing you know yeah so anyways I'm chewing on that that might be something that we offer we did it like again they voted at seven generous from like five forty five into like six thirty um and then we transitioned to the meeting okay or just have some you don't want to be angry people that's helpful yeah yeah and I I think when we think about um families like that trying to navigate dinner for families and then get to a seven o'clock meeting can be really challenging so we were really focusing in on how could we try to support our families in attending to have kids school-age kids I like yeah we'll have that at the hearing anyway right at the public meeting child care yeah that's but I'm wondering about yeah trying to navigate some food prior to right uh future agenda items for Monday you will give feedback on those slides you're gonna get a social I think it's social emotional data report it's academic data report okay okay on track my progress yeah okay great well if anybody comes up to 19 months uh let me know you need me else to oh there you go or something that's interesting be a good way to get get that uh out there too yeah that's true all right I'll entertain a motion to adjourn all right all in favor bye