 Is that your session? Is it going to be on the air? No, no. Oh, I'll show you. Um, I would add another one. That's the Aurea day contract. 220? 220. All right, second devotion. Discussion? There are none of all those in favor seeing as what we're saying on it. All right. Opposed? Okay, we have another principle. Thank you. Thank you. First, a sign that you will be taking up a prize for making this. Two. Two-way. Oh, it's a three-way position. Can we talk about the other position in your ancestor and have a gap in applications? For the two-three combination? Yes. Well, let me show you what we're just putting on. We thought that the final decision has been made there. OK, gotcha. Yeah, I thought that it was easy to do. So this is what we are in front of you. We'll just change one name for that. This is the ad for the two-three combination that we'll put on the school's frame. We'll use this with LifeSix. We could, we could do that. A couple of things that I've asked for, I'm not sure what they typically have been asked for, but I feel very strongly about seeing transcripts. So in the supporting documents, I've asked for a resume, transcripts, three letters of reference. And there was one other thing that I can't recall. But I believe that we want to look at folks who have strong academic backgrounds who come into teaching. I think that's important. And that's an indication of their abilities to continue to learn. And certainly in education today, there's a strong need for new learning. So we're all done. Hopefully we'll get a lot of good candidates. And if folks are OK with this, I'll talk with Wendy about this. We certainly could use this with very little change that we'll take early for the, is it 5-6 here? Or is it 5-6? 5-6. But this is, except for early one, this is OK. Can we do anticipated, can we do anticipated? Can you make this? We need to get a couple of them. And then after this, try to ask your doctor, just as soon as possible. So is it OK to do that? Well, I think maybe I'll call a lot of them. So how are we, where are we in our agenda and how are we going forward? We, we did, we did. Discussing the tax and anticipation note. We had board communication because there was none. Can we, you want to do the tax and anticipation when you go down? That's not a great question. I just wanted to ask you a question. Oh, OK. One, I want to add board communication and two, I want to add on schedule for early treatment. Absolutely. 22nd, I'm seeing this package, can we get a package in a minute? First in the 22nd, this is what we need to approve. The first is 22nd and we have the 15th and the 17th as well. We're not on here to approve it. So I, thank you. I make a motion to approve the minutes that we made first in the May 22nd meeting. Oh, here's the, oh, I already have this. Oh, this is the May 15th. May 15th and 17th. But that is not on the agenda. We're not on the agenda. We're not on the agenda, the fact. So it's just not on the agenda. Motion for the first, that was the one second. Do I hear a second? Second. OK. Motion made in the second is to approve the minutes of the first for the 22nd as part of the packet. Seeing fine to me, does anyone have any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of approving the minutes that present, take a moment to say aye. Aye. Opposed? The minutes are approved. I would like the minutes also to note that the board wants to thank both for their work on using the official minutes. The official and the next, we have the policy committee on putting together. These are the 25 of the 26. There's one required policy that got skipped. These are all policies that for the most part are, well, first of all, they're all required by statute. And for the most part, their language is fairly inflexible. Most of the, for example, I'm saying there's policy B6 in the middle that just, for example, says that we agree that we will follow the federal health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996. We have a policy that affirms, because we're required by law to affirm that we are going to follow HIPAA rules. We're going to prohibit tobacco in our elementary schools through non-alcoholic drugs and so on and so forth. Just ask the question. Class size policy. Is that anything to do with student teacher ratio is the governor's policy? Well, yeah. And if the governor gets his way, that's going to change. But we were required to have one. What it says is very generalized, because it doesn't, I don't see the numbers. No, I know. Some of the districts like Randolph have numbers, but it was a committee's desire not to put them in. So for now, anyway, we may get forced to put them in at some point, but not at this point. Just point of order, just to try to mention. I'm not sure what you're reading. I wanted to ask you something not about this, but about this, the Act 46 policy, the last part of Act 46 that's going to be installed. We're talking exactly again. Section 10, yeah. The letter that came out, you mean, is about to put the actions of the, so it's what you're making this a mess of. Aren't birds. Is that what that's about? Yeah. It basically, instead of this, they're not going to make, at this point, they're not going to make Fitzfield join with Hancock and Brando. They, oh, they're not going to change Stratford as a standalone district. They're not going to change Fetford as a standalone district. They're not going to change Sharon as a standalone district. They are going to force Barnard to merge. So Barnard will be merged into the elementary school district that was modified in the beginning. So will the other alternative plans accept a call? No, 24 of the 34 weren't. Yeah, there's a lot of them that they're very good. 24 would be recommended in the State Board to merge. Would Stratford and Shannon wait? They're going to be able to stand alone. There's no one for them to merge with. Because they're in Stratford. They also said there was strange originators. They also said something about pending further information or further information gathering. So it doesn't sound like it wasn't quite a fight. Well, it sounds like they'd love to go over it. Fitzfield's what, out on the lawn? Fitzfield is still in the New Interceptor, although they said they needed to find it. Well, they didn't buy some of the arguments that home values went up or down. They just don't get it. I sent this off to the New Interceptor. This is at 46 section 10 or something? Right. It was an email we got sent that was covered and had a little highlighted thing about it. It's all in the district and didn't voluntarily. Right. And they all got a quarter of it. And the majority of them, if there was a logical dance party, they got one. And the next action will happen by, I think, the 30th of November. So I'm sure that those people that don't want to be merged or are recommended to merge are going to squawk about how it shouldn't work. And that'll be what the state forward and the legislature take off. Do we get a course back with a channel or not? No, we won't. Did we vote on each one of it? Actually, what I'm looking at is a package. They need to be warned individually. They work for this meeting, as well as for the main SC meeting. I know they will put the pay for all the employees who were there about who was going to review them and when. Right. As long as that was on all tables for this meeting, as well as the SC meeting, I'm fine with us. But we're just receiving this now. Sure. Well, it would have been distributed to the VA email or to everyone. If we can certainly take it, we don't want to look at it. I'm really impressed with the committee. I mean, I think everyone will. In other words, you have a recommendation with the lawyer. Yeah. I think the lawyer is fabulous. Stina, I think, Steve Day, I don't know if he was hard to call. Yeah. I think he just accepted. They work hard on each one. And as I said, the majority of this language, of course, is not language we can alter. Right. The lawyer had to go for everything. And Dean is great. I love to have a Alaska policy. I love. I can really feel a lot of change. I know. I know. No, I don't. You get it? Yeah. We also can't, and yet, if we decide for whatever reason at a later date that we want to revisit these. We can change the meeting. We can change. We can change the power of, I mean, within statute, obviously. We can change the power of the light. But I certainly understand that if you feel comfortable approving the ruling amount, you're able to go over to our committee to do that. That was the only one that jumped up at later stuff. It was totally worth it. And I would just like to thank Lewis and Ward for its attention to policies. Policies make administrators' jobs so much easier in many areas. I need to have good, well-fought policies. Well, we're not done yet. There will be more. I know. I think this is a great start. But I really did, and I loved a lot just by being at the times that I wrote, you don't realize a lot of the stuff. And people went through it so very studiously, carefully, and they really did a good job. And they only go to a home. So, I mean, they were really at a date. And it's better to have no policy than a policy. Policy and not family get you a whole lot of trouble. So, Carl, so there's one that was skipped. Is that one that needs to be made up? Or would they not see it again? We do need it. They just didn't get the effort to put forward. There's a kindergarten policy that's coming along, too. And as far as the management, I didn't stay within a group that wasn't one with the same or anything else. But that'll be coming. I don't understand exactly. Just for that, to make a look at it. I need a motion that needs to be set. To speed and fire. The fire option is good. Yeah, it's good to look at, if you have to look at it. Yeah, so is the drug one. I think everyone went through those very, very carefully. Yeah, no, it's very interesting in all of these policies. I second. Yeah, but keep going. So, all right. Janice, second, then. Do you need any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor of accepting the packet of 25 mandatory policies, think of my question, and I? Opposed? OK. That's been dealt with. The use agreement's breached? Yeah, if you would take the packet that I gave you and its paperclip, and if you'd spread it out like this, three pages wide. Just a second. Oh, this is probably, yeah, the fucking question. Right, OK. Thank you. That's all right. I'm just going to scoot over a little bit. It's nice. No, it's OK. It's fine. You all have one? Yeah. So, this is the events that went out on the tax participation notes. We have, there are times during the year if you have a tax participation note, what's that? Just to explain. Basically, there are times during the year where the accounts don't come with the money because they haven't collected it yet, but we need to continue to run. So, what we do is we take the tax participation note out, and then as soon as we get the money from the accounts, we pay it back. So, that's kind of how it works, because even though it's flowing, a lot of times when things aren't flowing, so what? What David did is give you this sheet that basically talks about the months of the year where it's a little dry and try to make you understand about how that works. That's this one. Cash flow projection? Yeah, so he's trying to give you some idea about how that flow goes. So, what you see on this is you see four different banks, Mascoma, Union Bank, Community Bank, and Community National Bank, they're all bid on our work basis for these tax participation notes. And some are up, some are down, some are good in some places and not so good in other places. So, he had to analyze all these to try to figure out exactly what the best deal was for us. And what he's recommending to you is the middle one, and Mascoma, which he believes is the best deal. Mascoma? Mascoma Bank, which is, yeah, if you look up at the top, you'll see Mascoma, fiscal year 19, Mascoma Statement Bank. He believes that there are some areas that they're, overall, they're the best that we can do. And he's recommending that you, you don't even get signed anything, but it'd be nice if you could make a motion if you agree that you would say. I believe in Mascoma Bank's view of projects that have been using it. Right, that's just the bank you've been using, and as they came across with some good numbers. Well, good, it's nice that we went out and took a look at it again. Yeah. But it's nice that our local. Well, they have to do this every year, they have to put it out. Well, because Mascoma is a local bank, right? Yeah, some of them don't bid, you know, some of the other local banks don't bid, so. I agree, I would follow up to David's expertise if he feels that it's the right way I would entertain a motion to accept the tax-anticipation note bid as presented by the business manager. I assume. We'll hear a second. Second. Seconded that we approve the business manager's recommendation that we use, Mascoma Bank for our tax-anticipation note for the 2019 year discussion. Hearing none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Okay, all opposed? All right. Can I add one thing under new business that'll take like two minutes or one minute for sure, I just want to tell you about it. Now, just want you to know that the state has approved the $25,000 grant for school safety for the schools and we're gonna need to figure out how that's going to be spent. We have a pretty tight timeline. I'm up with the idea, some of the other schools have used it for cameras, others have used it for locks. Different kind of statement, it's got these for student safety. What if it has to be on hardware? It doesn't have to be on hardware. It could be training. It could be training. I guess it could be training and some other things. So, I would encourage these to do hardware training. Well, they're gonna encourage us to do equipment issues first. So, we're gonna start with $32,000. It's going back to $32,000. It's going back to $32,000. I believe it's every year, it's going back to $25,000. But I have to check on that. Yeah, I'd love you to clarify and see a recommendation in the creative. Well, I know that Royalton's done, he's gonna do some camera upgrades and some locks. I know that he's talking about something like that and he's strapped to talk to that. And those are actually the first two things that they're gonna recommend. I spoke with a guy in my career about our Rochester campus and he said that the first two things are like secure the classroom. So, that's why they're working on locks. It can be locked on the inside. Many schools have doors that can only be locked on the outside of the gate. So, they're changing all those things. Then, shading on the windows. No, I shouldn't be locked on the inside. I would not regret the things. Shading on the windows and stuff like that. So, just to know that that's how it is. No, it's 25,000 dollars for each school. For every school, yeah. Or each district. No, it's not each district. It's buildings. The state police or sheriff's department had to come around a few months ago with an assessment of the buildings. That's something that the governor asked to be done. So, we do have some work that's been done to look at our buildings. I don't know if they're here. Yeah, I know they got trouble. We have a state trooper. Yeah, a state trooper came. I know the sheriff's department did it in New Yorktown. Great. Just know about that. Not really, he's actually already sent me an email and wanted to know if we could talk tomorrow with the principal's wing a little bit. And I'm going to suggest that we connect with David. Because I think that first level of walking around, you can do pretty easily to figure out what you have and what you don't have. What kind of communication is there for the two buildings in our district? Yeah, there is communication. Our biggest need right now is we don't have speakers that can be heard on the field. Not only the kids playing soccer or other recess. That's our biggest outside need. We can talk between the two buildings. Know whether that system needs to be upgraded or not, this doesn't work. What do you want me to do now? Can anybody talk about this school monitoring a high-use school? This seems to me to be the most voluble area of this school back in the day. The other thing I was going to mention to David, several years ago, and I don't know why, because you're going to be a very good reason for it, but several years ago, safety bulletin came out that said you shouldn't park your school buses right close to your building because of the ease in which things can be attached to them. So they encourage school buses to be parked further away. So I don't know the reason as far as right out from your bus. Those are the kinds of things they look at. That's sad, but it is sad that we have to do that. And just an update on the dental trailer. It was a success since it's been there. I didn't hear that it didn't happen, so I believe that a couple youngsters came up from Stockbridge that was in the original plans and one of these went to school up there. Our hope is that we can get hooked in, get our Stockbridge crampons hooked in so that the trailer can come also from that year. It's stacked by wonderful people. You barely knew they were in the school. It's darkness... Hold on to this, Jen. Darkness dental... I think. I'm going to tell you something about that. Yeah, that's what it is. And the interesting thing about it is that it's not normal that it's within our district. Yeah, that's what it is. They've got a lot of different friends, but it's been a whole new world for them. Well, anyways, it's a wonderful program. And after the school hours, adult members of the community can use it. And several adults came in the afternoon. One of the other things you're finding about when you come on is that as we get older, some of our older citizens have lost their ability to drive or travel far and their dental care is starting to slide. So that's why they opened it up and after school hours, to adults. And for the two school-acted adults, we had adults. Was there a post about that? I think that it was expanded. I don't know about that. I didn't know that I would be certain. It was sent home. It was in the original paperwork that was sent home. But they didn't have a child that didn't know. This is the first one. They've been there, I think, at each time they got there. They actually did. It was very easy to get. They didn't have children. I think it was up in the community, and Jane got the word about it was on our Facebook page or places like that. Yeah, so it was definitely... Like those little ties and blood in the wound. I promise to bring that in the heart. So it'll be back in the fall and some of that will hopefully be in the weekend. That's a good try, that's our next one. That's on the list of women for women in genuine color. That's great. That's great. Okay. Unemployment compensation and go ahead on with other businesses if you want. Before we move on to the discussion items. Okay, so actually quite a while back in March, Dave Jason Dingold, I'm not sure. He's on the RTC team board and he was hoping that in the future of some members or any member from our board would come to attend their board meetings. They have four a year. He anticipated that RTC would still be appealing to students as a technical center. Now, I don't know and you've said that having great communication could serve us all well. I was contacted by about that. Now I know more and forward things are a little different than they were in the past so I just wanted us all to be aware that they're inviting someone to come. The RTC teams? Yeah. So it's a little different speed because I'm not a school kid anymore but it's not to do without much. It's still possible for our kids. It's still a lot of support for programming that's going on there for our kids. They're going to have some money too. I just have a program to bring some technical stuff over. And I don't know how their structure is set up but the board I'm on the Art of Valley board actually has a slot on its board so every year we appoint someone to sit on the board. It's amazing the information they bring about about how our kids are doing. Are you the Bethel Hatson and Roger Street Hatson? Right. I mean we just had a presentation in our last building. We have like eight kids there. I don't understand tech centers. I've never been responsible for one but there's some national competition that competed and of the eight youngsters the largest level in this competition. This national competition. So it gives you a sense of how your youngsters will have chosen that room for their next stop. In the past, at varying levels of success we've had and I know we had one in January in Rochester for the panel but again the idea that we have something to come up with lets parents see what the choices are for their kids. I think that it needs to be more than just Bethel Royalton and Sharon Academy and Woodstock and it's important to talk about it. We'll need to start that for our sixth graders because it will now be our sixth graders in both campuses that will be making that decision. We went to the one in Rochester it was from middle school and it was helpful. There were a lot of different it wasn't just the three or four I think Randolph was there. It was quite nice. I just wanted to bring that to everybody's attention that they're really welcoming and I wasn't sure if... It says volunteer to attend our board meetings and there's only four a year. It uses the word of ten and not sit on the board so we would need clarification if they're actually looking for somebody to sit on the board or not. Maybe what they would want would come to the board. Hi. Hi. And then the only thing... Right, we're... That's... Move up there is one thing sitting on the board meeting is something very different because that's the type of thing. I'm just curious what they think that would be for us here. Daily other things as I was making through the minutes at the last meeting there was a question about our 4th Friday site if it was going to be disturbed by the town during the set to prepare and it is not going to be disturbed. The children will not be... We can. The children will not be allowed around that area where the work is being done on the classroom. Excellent. Bruce has handed the three documents we need to individually approve. Number one they're all V-I which is the Vermont Educational Health Initiative Health Initiative it's the nonprofit that runs basically all the teacher benefit programs in the state. So we need to approve participation in the dental benefits program for next year. We're going to pay a motion that we participate in offering our teachers dental benefits. Second. Motion to be made seconded that we participate discussion. Hearing none, although V-I dental benefits program is being published A.I. Carl, I think you have to slide it. Yes, I'll do that in a minute. The V-I the Vermont Education Health Initiative V-E-H-I dental benefits program. We also have an agreement to participate in the V-I dental benefits program to recognize the district to participate in health care for our teachers. I have a motion to do so. Second. Second. All those in favor of offering or participating in the V-I Education Health Initiative dental benefits program is certified by saying I. I. Opposed. Lastly this is a different group. The Vermont School Board's Insurance Trust and they are a state group that manages unemployment compensation for our staff, our faculty and staff and they would like us to vote in to participate in the V-I compensation program. If we do not, we are deemed self-insured and we will have to pay any unemployment claims in our district ourselves. There's insurance for a reason. I'd like to take a moment of a motion that we agree to participate in the V-I unemployment compensation program. Let's go over. Second. The motion has been made in the second that we participate in the V-I unemployment compensation program in a discussion. Hearing none, all those in favor speak to the public saying I. Opposed. Okay, there you go Bruce. We have insurance and all that. It doesn't matter at all. I think it wants you to sign it, right? Yeah, we'll fill them in. We'll fill them in. I'm just a messenger. This is a business office, trying to get for each of you to do it. But ginger has been approved. Is there any other vision, Bruce? Just to tell you the teacher has appointed our new business manager. Take care of her predation. It's taken over for David, July 1, and we are interviewing the replacement and someone else who's in the budget for next year. We're going to get somebody who's really good with accounting and somebody who's really good with accounting. And we have a finalist for those positions David is on today. Especially for such a... Yeah, and you've got to know what that is. The person that we've talked to is a former associate business manager from another local district. And that's what she worked on. Thank you. Okay, is there any other questions? So it's very important that we all note that Wednesday, June 20, there is a the labor contracts. We anticipate that the associations, I believe the sports staff have already voted They've ratified it. The clarifications that need to be done with health insurance. The proposal has been ratified by the support staff and the professional staff should be ratifying their contract on the 11th. Once that happens we all need to ratify them. This is a meeting that's kind of like the current board. The current board isn't as well as the new SU board have to participate. So it's June 20, June 6, there will be food. Sure. So why is it because it's the ratification of the contract? Is that it? So what happens is there will be a big presentation to all the boards. The SU board convenes an SU meeting. There will be a big presentation to all the boards. Then it gets tabled at the SU level for a couple hours or for an hour. While the individual boards go off and convene individually to approve. There are all different bargaining units. There's the Rochester Stockings' bargaining unit for the elementary teachers. There's the Roylton-Bethel bargaining unit. But it's one contract. It becomes very tricky if not everyone wants to approve. But everyone has a right to not approve. So what happens is well first of all a fair lay of bargaining requires bargaining to be made. There's a group of people from the board that have already had good faith with the union. We all will tell you why we think it's a good arrangement. Because we bargained it, we have to, those who have bargained it have to support it. The presentation did to the full board. Should the board choose to reject it, that's their right. But what we want to do where it gets tricky is if a body approves it and a body does approve it. We have this general discussion through all the same page and everyone is pretty confident that they're going to approve it. Just like what I mean in the executive session can't take any action. But if you can discuss it and sort of suss out what's going to happen. By the same token we're going to have the conversations. We're hopefully all going to be on the same page. We're going to go separate and separate into individual district boards in this case because this contract is for the year that we are finishing. It has to be ratified by the original watch that your aunt stopped it for. Once we do that, we come all back together and approve it as an SU and hopefully it gets approved by all districts. We don't have contracts that are supposed to be for an SU that aren't voted down by districts. And then do we need to do that? So if one district doesn't approve what does that mean? If there's a district that's not going to approve we figure that out in a discussion and then we table the vote so that we can go back and negotiate and continue negotiations as a unified body. We don't have contracts that are approved by Rochester Stockards and Bethlehem World and everyone with strafford basically. And strafford has to negotiate whatever their pieces are that are separate. The unified contracts will work best when all districts approve it. And I think that it's a fair deal and can be discussed in public in a huge step. But it does say it rectifies currently there's a different number of student contact days in the old Orange Windsor Districts and Windsor Northwest Districts and it becomes a problem mostly for Bethlehem and Wellington because the Wellington kids have one group of days and the Bethlehem kids have another group of days and they would have to either not let the rules into a special field trip for Bethlehem kids to do something because it's not possible to give us some sort of preeminent of your take on it what are the issues or what are the top points or what points are due to that I just not having known anything about it we can talk about it I mean we can go to the executive session you can talk about it if you want to do that again I just don't know if that's necessary how much should we go about this well one of the things that will happen to me was there will be some of that information will be a lot of opportunity the reading will probably be designed to read more it shouldn't be far but this is such a big step and we will lay them so hard both sides to try to get to where we are are the teachers happy? not like they seem to they don't see it on the left that's when they run up but some of the insiders have seen it they've been talking to each other certain things they want certain things they can give up just like us try to get two SU contracts together and it's just a mistake I know that with the support staff we probably had 20 meetings 20 meetings over the winter and then with the professional staff maybe a few less than that maybe 17 but it was long and the final kind of part of this was just about six of us sitting down and I would lay that out and that worked pretty well because there was an awful lot of language changes different things different contracts we needed to throw some things out put some things in merge the language and merge the whole salary you know see you Justin it has to be a credit to 14 because a number of districts finalized a contract whose last year is next year so they have to sit down to start all over again in September but you folks got an extra year well yeah it's just funny the way that the support staff is sure but they have blended the language too at least your proposal is the teacher language is a little longer blended on it's not related to the contract but school calendars for next year do we do we already have to save the calendars for Rochester or the digital there is only one exception and I didn't like it but I have to learn a little bit the tonnage fair the tonnage fair the tonnage fair the tonnage fair the tonnage fair the tonnage walls the tonnage fair the tonnage fair and they are going to return from January vacation one day early to make up the day that they are going to meet the tonnage fair you it's taken four years to get all the schools to do the same calendar together and it's just been I mean everybody's used to having their own calendar it's a nightmare it's the first year that all of them will be the same well we have to first go by the tech center they have to be the ones to drive it we were not as deviated from what they do I mean they can't a little bit not much so I mean in the future now that we've merged and now that we have a unified calendar a unified budget a unified language and our contracts I mean things are just going to be so much easier so in case you're wondering why tech center drive it in case you're sitting there thinking why do tech center drive it it's because it used to be so out of whack and every day where I whack the day that we're closed they don't go the day that the tech center is closed they don't go watch that in particular there's a lot of freedom not having middle school high school and the tech center we're going to have a lot of freedom imagining what our day looks like in our calendar it's going to be the district calendar exactly it is because this year the whole school the whole crazy thing 20 minutes before the end of school 20 minutes 10 minutes what we just did is ask each one of the schools to give us the time that they're spending the language arts and the time in math and we have a model which is 90 minutes of literacy a day and 60 minutes of minimum and 60 minutes in math a day and we wanted to compare what that standard is to what each of our schools are doing and so we put it all on the board at the last meeting and we're trying to get people standardized because we do and we're trying to get everybody around that minimum you don't want to go any more than that because it's easy to see why our scores are low if we cheat people on that but you spent your time so since then have you been able to talk about that for two minutes I want to talk about anymore what exactly what you're making problems what we're now talking about you're giving us there's going to be some good discussion for us to have because Bruce gave us a statement for recommending 120 minutes a day in literacy and DTN National Council of Teachers and Mathematics recommends 75 minutes a day in math mathematics so that's going to be some for 120 for literacy the last meeting we had I said look we're not going to give back to that strategic plan and make sure we do the things in that plan everyone read in a grade level by the end of third grade and math by the end of third grade and so at the next meeting which is tomorrow I think they're going to start dissecting the steps we have to do I love I know this is a important matter I would love to talk about homework and it's homework and it's use and purpose because I've heard a couple different things and this doesn't make the time for but I would love to put on the agenda sometime just to have an understanding of what we've achieved and if it's actually what's our homework philosophy exactly, what's our philosophy because I have a lot of questions about it and some personal experience both from my son and the people who talk about it but not today but that's a discussion that for example that we're doing data we look at the research on what I would love to say whatever I don't have any clue what the philosophy or the teacher philosophy is but it makes so important I'm going to help how much does a six year old homework, how much does a ten year old go for homework how much does a five year old go for homework last year and it just ruins the point and it's actually useful and I think that's more of just information for us to know and that's not really an important decision and it's just understanding the whole education that's more of a position you give us a presentation we ask you questions and challenges and points and not from because we're telling you it's just for the understanding then you have a good handle on it and it makes sense to us I think probably the first big presentation we're going to do is search at least for your Rochester campus because we've been so governed by the middle school and high school schedule is how we're changing the schedule for the day I'm really excited for this one so we have to find another option for any of these actually I have a question about the board and the tree I do, I actually have two more things on the agenda but we're skipping right over let's get something done for the day there's nobody else to call let me know what you might find if I come back if I come back I'll just read it I emailed Don he said he was still attacked by the computer he put the label okay so we had talked about how it would be very beneficial for us to get together and do a retreat and just to chat about can I ask you what are the objectives not that I'm making the provided law it's really the objectives that we can achieve and what are the conditions how is it different than me I think it's got some goals it's a lot of fun I mean it's the board the administration we've lived a longer format meeting and it's just chat talk at the locker and you meet at lunch and talk talk? we try to have a voice and then we meet well I know that we had talked about it so we could talk about the schedule is always what are the goals here what I would suggest to you there is take your strategic plan and go through it and maybe by the time you have it when you align if you have a better understanding of what are we thinking I know that the reason is that whatever you match the board with you you probably closer to fall maybe in early August so we have board meetings for August 7 let's see what's the base on where we're at then we have a two-day retreat with the administrators on the 20th and 21st of August that's just following up on your point the goals like you said the board goals should be aligned with the administrative goals and then that takes us right into the budget because the budget is just the actualization of your intent right we are in control we have one schedule for the 12th we approve we approve to stop though because that may be so that it's not right I think we should wait until we get ourselves more together hear what Bonnie and Mary have come up with will Linda be the next board meeting I'm guessing unless she has a commitment when's our next board meeting on the 2nd August oh yeah yeah I was thinking we had one before I think we should keep ourselves open with the possibility for you to meet we have a new block going on but we don't have a plan I think we'll see what goes on on the 20th yeah it's just I guess it sounds like we're out of way until more towards the beginning of school again let's see we're out at August 7th Lindsay's been on board for a month and she and Bonnie have had some conversation because we have a schedule for the beginning of August we haven't done much for anything but here's what I guess the retreat was more of a really format to just talk about I don't want to go too much past the beginning of the school year because then you're like well we've already got these initiatives in place and we've got these things going on August 7th is a little late to meet except for Lindsay's but do we have to like Bonnie said we should take a strategic plan which we already have well then we might come to conflict I just want to say I just think we need to have the administration around we'll listen to the administration first or we'll do anything at all you're a new woman I don't know if you think I'm a new woman so the idea for a board of retreat is table, is that what we're saying let's get some feedback from Lindy on what her availability is and what's for August well what do you guys think we should get a date soon I mean you're talking August they've all got Chelsea will be doing the one for you soon what's the first day of school 49th of August so can we do something in July I would say July is a better time for me if you're talking weekend can you talk about weekend what do you want to do I mean what kind of you want to go somewhere you want to have it at school I want to cater the fare with massages and possibly water can that be two words I made hair from the massage how does that work how does that work in your negotiation from teachers I think if you get a date then we can figure out where and what and all that how about your life my daughter that's a Sunday 21st my daughter has surgery in July 23rd so that means I'm going to be gone for sure and I don't know about the next 14th so the 20th what about the 20th 20th is a Friday Friday the 20th Friday the 20th looks good to me looks good to me what have we started I'm just going to say it would be nice to do a drink but preferably for me to do it more during the day I think it should I know what people work do it should work right now we're working at day but should we best let it known to 6th July 20th July 28th and then to 6th known to 6th and we'll find a fun spot that's let's see where we can go oh don't play that's not what they have that the people we've done it up but Jeff had a camp up there so I was going to sit in my leg alright you wouldn't be in a place where you actually get some work done that's the idea we've done it what's going to happen with you we'll pull over I understand the motion to the chair alright second all those in favor say goodbye the meeting is adjourned