 stuff yet, so make sure you don't have to lose your clothes or something like that. Sounds good. Can you guys speak up? Sorry. This is a very echoey room. It's not your room. You don't have to kind of move to the table. Yeah. Yeah. Can we just zoom in a little more? Yeah. Okay. Somewhere, we should talk about letters of resignation so that you can approve them. They're not on the agenda per se, but I have them here. Everybody brings us up to date with that. We need to talk about food service, and we also have a letter for a non-public session, and the engineer is here to talk about support staff retirement and trying to resolve conflict between each of the associations or the bodies of staff in how it's going to deal with the situation. All right, so could we add that to the discussion item? So the retirement set up for things that Andrew added under the superintendent's report? Sure. Okay. That's to the agenda. Public comments? I overheard that there is the porn painted in the Bethel gym, and they had discussed just porting it up instead of painting over that. Is that something that they plan on doing? There was discussion that I don't know whether that's the plan right this moment, but I think they felt for the people that were talking about it to me or that it had some historical plan, but the idea was to cover it over and paint it so that it looked like the rest of the wall, but not to completely destroy it, and that's what I know at this point. Okay, can I ask that something like that happens in the Bethel building that Sappro can have a chance to restore something that we've got painted? Because we've got a lot of stuff in our building that students have painted that mean a lot to us too, so if Bethel's got something that they want, I mean, because we don't have a problem with it, but we've got some stuff too that we'd like to be able to restore something. All right. What's the specifics on that? There are a couple of students, and I know that some of the students saw the painting on the back of the building because that was one of the big things that we went and put into the entire school route. That took an entire day, and the entire school was active, so that kind of means a lot to us. And I know that the SR painted above the doorway over there. We hadn't meant something to a lot of people. I don't know who painted it, but... So would you agree that that should be covered up or not destroyed? Yeah. Or just like we're talking about it? I mean, I don't know what one specific... I think maybe some students should get together and decide that it should be a one-story decision. I just want to say that I think there's a lot of stuff in the history that are here on the stage. In Japan, it's some of the locals that are not. Congratulations. I think that some committee that was looking at historical artifacts thought that leaving the banners until there were new banners, that was the recommendation that I understood came to the steering committee. The right thing to do. I would suggest that there's a sense of urgency of deciding this because there's a painting crew that's about to start work here. And I don't know exactly what their pace is going to be, but if there are things that need to be identified, we ought to decide what they are now. Whether that be with students or this board or whoever it is, once they get going. And I don't think they've started yet, although I know that there's going to be a paint delivery tomorrow. And that's Jim Hewitt who's doing the work. Absolutely. And that will happen in probably the middle of July, what I understand. I know there was a rumor out there that's not true. They're going to be done in both places. Yes, John. I'm not sure. My question is the mascot. I'm on the Mr. Club and we need to inform the bank here. So it's here before soccer season? The mascot logo is. I know that we are trying to buy soccer uniforms now, so they'll have them any time before. And since Mr. Romeo has gone, I've asked Lindsey Stetson to kind of take over that. We're hoping that I would suggest that we get some of the kids seniors together to try to pick those uniforms, at least on the varsity level. I don't know how I'm going to get those kids together, but I think if they knew that that's what it was, they'd probably come in and help with that. I'm going to talk about the uniform. I'm actually talking about the gear that was on the cell to all of our communities. The key. So I thought the cap, I thought that the letter and the mascot was selected. Yeah. This was that marketing thing? Right. It's a marketing thing. We have two members that are on once on the funnel, but this one comes once on our silver. They both said that everything's kind of in a holding pattern until we get back, so that's why we got that. I think it was that Mrs. Hugo Wright, that was doing, you know, it was the other, the other art teacher, I think that was finalizing it or something. I think she was digital. Yeah. Is there summer work time approved? If there's summer work time approved for continued work on that or have it been wrapped up since the year ended last week, right? From summer work time over to me. You know of the person that was working on the mascot? Yeah. I don't know. I hope they're ready to get that. They're ready for that, so I'm sure I'll just check with her and see if she submitted a cat because that, all that paperwork came through, but I'll check with her. So there's no way that we can find out where she's meeting again on July 2nd. Have you all seen that? Yes. See, our understanding was that was going to be made, at least this was a communication between the parents, was that we was going to get made print ready. And I'll assume is where the gap is. I just don't have anything print ready and therefore you can't send it. And I'm more than happy. If Lindy does want some help, I think our booster cost would be more than we're even getting kids together. I think actually this is one of the frustrations is that they're having people on that meeting and there's just, it feels like there's a really big gap between you. So as soon as this and everyone else is sitting around, does that happen? It's just, I appreciate wanting the communications community to do things and have things print formalized, but in the absence of communication, you get silence, you get rumors. I think a bunch of us are on the Let's Talk Royalton Facebook page where someone said, they're not a, I heard that there aren't any 80 classes in South Royalton and I think like every one of us who knew when, and then I think it was my daughter who actually who went in first and was like, I'm going to take two if you can. And tried to phrase it as possible as you could. But rumors live in silence and I think I speak for quite a few people here when I say we get frustrated because the Wildcats newsletter is great, but it's one piece of information, once a week and it usually focuses on one topic and there's a lot of stuff going on. You know, I come here once a month and I learn things. And the kids, I don't think anything directly went to the kids before they broke for summer aside from, there's going to be a couple of Wildcats newsletters that are going to be mailed, which again, is great, but they're once a month and it's not, there's no back and forth incorporated in that. The notes from our last special meeting, there was links to all the different things that committees have been creating and one of them was a decisions list. So it was helpful. I haven't looked at it, so I was going to look at it now and just see if it had anything around logo and finalization. I didn't see anything like that. There was some discussion about painting things around the building. Of course, unfortunately with a decisions list you can read and go, okay, I think that means that but you can't really have the back and forth that we're having here. Feel free to contact me or any of us that could do with you. Oh, don't worry. I really do feel free to do that. You guys have been very good at responding. Further down being done now, so if you think of anything, we'll be here. Approval of minutes. She said, okay, all as one single consent agenda or do we want to name them by date? All in favor of approving those minutes, say aye. Aye. Aye. Approved. Okay, do we have any forward comments? Fusion about the name of the district, whether it's like a unified district or WRUD to the WRVSE. So Bruce, what does that entail? It'll have to be, it's a change in the article agreement I believe if there has been something since the murder happened it needs to be redone. And I would think that that is a state board legal type of action that's going to need to happen. I don't know that it needs to happen before you'll add one, but it will need to happen. So I think if we as a group believe that that's what you want to do, we will then have to put that forward. So we voted do. Yes. Well, I read the WRVSE agreement. I read that you can name a school, a high school, but you have no authority to change. As there's going to be a transfer of property as of July 1, you're going to have to do something. You can't transfer it to one and not be that one. Right, okay. Because the way I would get it, you can't be one. You're going to go to, well, I mean, we're all part of the same district. The two schools, the elementary schools are still part of the same district. I understand that. That's not what the articles are going to say, world and elementary and government. I believe they say something like that, but I think what the authority that you have is to change the name of the middle school and the high school. Right, but we didn't change the name of the elementary school. What we're talking about right now, that we give the property to them. What's that? We're giving the property. So we're giving the Bethel Elementary School to a white member of the Unified District to what they're talking about. We're in flux of the name change. That it might slow the legal process of transferring property because there's no entity to transfer the property to, which will be, even though I agree with you about the name of the district, but I think for practical reasons and reverse that stance, I think it's more than that. Our attorney will be with us tomorrow night. It's with the support staff and the classroom staff. We've got a lot of good phones here. So she will be here to explain. We've heard already, but I just want to put them on the agenda to accept. First is Renee Barrington, who is an elementary teacher who is second to self. I know you're all aware of this. He submitted this quite a while ago. He's a social studies teacher here in the middle school. And he is taking a job closer to home. Support staff member in the office who did submit a letter in, per se, when we sent out a letter in the tent, she marked that she would not accept the board's offer for the duty. So he's blew up a letter. This is basically saying they made an offer. She doesn't want to accept it. She's not returning. So those are the ones I can accept it. I want to do it one by one. I want to do it too. But I have discussions with the board about the possibility of using the food service director that's currently at Bethel to also direct the food service program here next year. Figure out how to organize that. I don't have a suggestion for you and I really haven't had a discussion with him about this. But I think it's more efficient. I think we could be doing buying on a grander scale. We can make sure that both buildings are working on the same things. For example, recycling and composting. Men's views are similar. Willie has a really good... That's just something I'd like to talk with you about at some point when we do it. Step in right direction to try to use Willie in both ways. Have you talked to Willie at all about conceptually about how that will work? No, I thought it was important that I had... Curious how feasible he feels that is? Made in that step because I really felt it was important that I had discussed it with you guys I would be open to having a conversation with Mr. Walker and talk about how it would work and his feasible. I think across the planet about how it would work would be... And are there people here who could be brought into the conversation so that conceptually they can start to flesh out what it might look like? People who are kitchen staff. We have kitchen staff that are now full-time there. We also of course have probably around the equivalent over in Royalton, so I don't know whether we have to beef up the staff with the leading because Willie, if you were to get this position, would have to oversee both which means he could be in two places at one time. We may need a little more support in each of the kitchens so that there is that support and he's not in there directly but I really think it would be a great step he's very talented. Bruce, at the full board level you're asking also to have some type of food service manager so if Royalton or Royalton level will have to pay for that position also Well, that was put on hold so I'm not That won't be coming tomorrow night? Well, I'd like to have the whole program overseen at some point but the board didn't want to consider it or wanted me to get more information before it came back to them so I haven't done anything with that. This was just about three or four weeks ago that we talked about it. We have throughout the SU we have kind of halves in places where it's very difficult but we're called very expensive and others that are doing fairly well these two communities do fairly well so I would like to have somebody oversee the whole thing but I don't have any plans to bring it back to the board just yet I didn't expect this from Linda but frankly it kind of shocked me because she didn't really let on to anybody that she was going to do this at least not to me so I'm kind of dealing with it as we go and I just think this would be a very nice step. I agree I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't this district this consolidated district wouldn't have a manager and then on top of that would be paying 40% of the manager for the whole SU So, I mean I told you where we are You'll have a conversation with Willie and I also probably had a structure how you foresee what you can do for us I mean the other alternatives to put it out and if you want me to do that I will but I think we have a good option for you. I think if he feels like it's too much or if he's not excited about it then that's our next best option but it feels like if he was willing to do it then that would make sense Would it be something or we would ask him to come to the next board meeting to have a discussion and I mean would that be would be a really good group meeting I think we don't want to talk about that it looks like we'd have to have special meetings July 17th struck out seems appropriate for him to have dialogue then I just throw it out then we try to have that happen I think there's a lot happening I don't know if the road to board needs to do this but we have been doing for the last few years a full day retreat at one point in the summer just to make sure things are there and I feel like if we can make that happen we should because there's a lot happen so if you guys do you want to do this we can do it so I'll send a do-it-all to figure it out just to clarify a little bit on the group service this time you're saying that it wouldn't put out in this position like really wouldn't be able to do both of them we're basically taking well he's certainly not going to knowing Willie he's not going to just sit back give orders he's going to do stuff and he's going to do basically what his job currently is plus ordering and stuff so then you can still need to hire something to replace them perhaps I don't know that sitting here I don't know what the capacity is but right now so that will be a discussion I might take what you've received in this structure because I don't want to see what we can put in their management position the entire people those are the kind of questions we could ask Willie if you were seeing this whole thing what are the other people that he needs underneath him and what kind of responsibilities that we have an idea of what our investment is for pay and all that and I think if he agreed to do it it would be important to talk to the people who are also in the kitchen and who are doing the work every day because they might have insight that we can't possibly anticipate Willie has really creative marketing techniques and he has guest servers like senior students have it in a server rather than have hired some ones out first and just to be in the line serving right or as a kid then who's our new business manager she's also in her last year life served as the food service guru so she has been working with all the food service personnel like the OSU around this and has a tremendous amount of training she really doesn't know that I have to inter-talk to you about this retirement this sports staff retirement issue because there really is a Bethel-Royalton issue they're both a little different in how they address this I asked her to come to explain it to you because that's not something I'm well versed in so both of us will work currently on the mock US over things Bethel is a member of group A and Royalton is a member of group B and really the big difference is the percentages of the employee versus employer match which members does require that one next medium, one plan so one location is going to have a switch what are the differences between group A and group B group A has an employee percentage of 2.625 an employer match of 4.125 and then Royalton has an employee percentage of 5% B is Royalton employee percentage of 5% employer match of 5.625 so the more generous plan is plan B that Royalton is currently on a more conservative plan he or she doesn't allow one entity to be on two different plans and they won't let us submit first they won't let us submit any contributions on behalf of the support staff so it's not a huge volume for people to do the summer and anybody that's working in the office we've got something that's negotiating we didn't, I just passed day back we did not discuss it or negotiations and probably we should be brought into the discussion but it was not something that we talked about at all so this is the support staff retirement only so what's the bottom line how much money is it going to cost us to do this for an employee allowed to up 2.6 no it's a set percentage so if you call the Royalton plan better but they have to put in 5 and the employer 5.6 but in the employee puts in 2.7 and the employer puts in twice as much but they still have less money but they still have less money when they actually retire what's the jar of money as long as they put in more money well they have well they have to some people may I mean for some people 5% is a lot of money I wish we could have this conversation with the people who will be impacted because I feel like making this decision could be out of somebody's paycheck that they're expecting to get and potentially budgeting is there any way to hold those that would be impacted by this to find out what the majority choice would be one of the one of the things that is called union rep discussion about this being left out conversation don't have a lot of time because they're going to get there first we approve things this absolutely was an oversight I guess it wasn't until danger brought it to now for the second it will be previously negotiated item in their contractor that is never been so I guess from that standpoint it could be imposed but we don't want announcement or required announcement time so people can digest it the fund investments makes to the staff require minimum number of days to actually make the change knowing health care experience with the teachers this past year we're going to get into those days as beavers is going to have to abide by those so this may not be a rushed element you might have to adhere to those time rates I think we should get the union involved in this and do it by the numbers that won't throw any wrinkles into the current rest of the contract that we're trying to solve so the only basically it's a 1.5% difference from our first salary in metal I have just sent all of you the proposals tomorrow night so that you can look at both the support staff and the proposed teaching contract if you want to you should have gotten us today if you have a total number of support staff salary I think we're only talking about that which I was going to say I'm wondering just given the contentious nature of what's happened not going with future planning and now data path and how that comes up at the meetings that we've had with teachers I'm just feeling a little anxious about potentially missing that July 1 deadline and the perception that we didn't do our due diligence around this piece of things so I think that it is important to reach out to Bob Raskovitz but I think that if we're not getting answers in a timely manner then we need to have a plan to move that makes sense is there a chance that Bob might give back to you tomorrow before our meeting? perhaps I saw it today I think you literally killed months though right so I don't a large portion of my life made me do this same thing you talked about this in this contract without that each employee shall participate in one pre-emerge system each board participating employee shall participate in group A or group B not just with Bachelor of Stock we shall participate in group A share in group W, R, R, B, S, U shall participate in group A this is the team from the lead he didn't see that part coming either so it sounds like the decision is already in writing no, because it's not that specific part of that right right it only matters as it makes group A group B but they don't exist anymore it'll just be the well, all I'm saying is that this right right right now we have to pick the as the W, R, B, S, U it says either N or B no, it says W, R, B, S, U is in group B oh, it's in group B so it has the Bethelman Royalton as separate but as of July 30th there is no Bethelman Royalton there's only W, R, B, S, U so those two parts go away that's how I think that we're going to be clarifying this just to be above again, those acronyms that we got straight now okay right I'll talk about it in the same group on that because it doesn't say first range on there are there so the contract is written based on the current schools not the take right now really okay is there a transportation update well I know that they have met beginning and ending times for next year I wasn't at those meetings Sandra was the chair of those meetings so because of Sandra's state she's not here I don't expect her to be here I don't know if they have reached Rodney you're on that yes I guess what I specifically wanted was like how are we getting from the rough thing to the finalize because we're really going to get those starting end times finalize I know Andrew's going to be out of condition for a little bit so we need to make sure somebody's yes what we're talking about doing is public schools at the same time the middle school and high school will start 30 minutes later so elementary school will start at 740 middle and high school will start at elementary and starting bus will arrive at 740 yes, elementary school bus home and then bus will come there's a lot of little kids going to get off again have you considered what kids whose family members maybe elementary school might go home with their high school brother or sister or even middle school brother or sister so their bus is taking them home and then going back and picking up their siblings I think that's going to be a problem for a lot of people Roy, I believe we sent a survey out asking people I received a survey I do think it's going to be a huge problem if you have my daughters I suppose they can it's going to be a problem I would think that that's really late and then if high school kids go to 320 and they have to like soccer games start at 4 sometimes an hour and a half they're getting out of school already at 130 so they're going to miss two hours of school I just think that there's a lot of different pieces that I'm not on the transportation committee as far as the as far as like the elementary school is going home with their siblings they couldn't maybe come to the one planet if they had someone here to monitor them a lot of times in the one planet program they have kids here but you have to pay for them so if they had someone that could sit with the kids can you just clarify what the survey sent out do you know anything that I received just a couple of days ago in regards to someone who would be home asking about what child they have on the bus right so is that the survey you're talking about this is to see what the travel you know where the bus is going to travel I just want to make sure that we talk about this next okay so yeah Tammy with that transportation will that mean that the kids that go to RT CC will go from Bethel to South Wilton and then from South Wilton to RT excuse me if the bus from Bethel is taking nice little kids to South Wilton will the kids have to ride to South Wilton and then get on the bus again to go to RT CC I would think the world would possibly take them on the way out and through and some of this was probably that's the work that I wanted to even vice versa the one that goes to Hartford to start Bethel because I didn't know if South Wilton would record the high schoolers attendance here before they let them go to RT CC so I didn't know if that was going to be a problem there are some people questioning me already I had no idea about going to South Wilton and then coming back by Bethel to go to RT CC they just thought that was a little ridiculous the attendance thing I wasn't sure how that would work out so you have to account for all your students we should all have chips what you would think with technology today that RT CC I know they must take attendance of kids that get there could let South Wilton know so it didn't come or so it is here I mean technology would be a better communication but are they so they don't need bodies to move somewhere to say that they have arrived and they go the opposite direction that would be a concern for the kids parents actually really but the sagging finish line basically the only way to do it not double the amount of buses they use Nancy my hometown so do we know who is taking over the transportation committee she'll be on maternity leave all summer and these are details I'm still here with the camera figuring out what to do with middle or high school kids when there's kind of dead time in the mornings most students have various types have had very tightly circumscribed paths it was like can we go into the gym or you're gonna be it seemed like it was a lot more of a big deal than it had to be but I'm just going to you guys but I think one thing that you guys do have these considerations is if the kids are going to be waiting around for 15-20 minutes between bus A and bus B depending on what goes on because there are bad days, there are snow days there's some who gets right on time to separate and then wait for the other kids to start or vice versa with middle school just you know what to do with those kids to make them feel like I'm in place and they're all thinking about not just moving little dots here and there but the fact that they are elementary school children middle school children, high school children they'll get frustrated if there's a snow storm but it's not bad enough to go to school but the number 8 bus gets stuck in a ditch and those kind of patterns and I think sometimes that gets forgotten for 250, that was pretty late as it was I think the committee's trying to be sensitive to all of that and balance everything about the discussions that are taking place and trying to be sensitive to all of those angles and reach some kind of healthy compromise for everyone so do we have a how do we know who's going to be in charge of transportation now who's in charge of assigning somebody to a place in Andrew? I guess I can find out who's going to be at the meeting tomorrow night too but it would be nice to have some resolution to know that there is a point person and that's being again like that whole decision list of who's the point person what's the timeline of getting it done it seems like this is another one we need to my understanding was they were pretty much in agreement about what needed to happen now from the last meeting had kind of resolved a lot of the questions and this still has been I had to I had to I had to schedule I had to schedule I had to schedule I had to schedule let's just say that tomorrow when we meet there's more individuals that are involved with this meeting we can make sure that even if it's already taken care of there should be someone that we should be able to talk to about clarification and action items I mean I think we have to be careful tomorrow is a full board meeting it's not about turning the valley we can make decisions for it we have to award it so we can't like I think that's something that it has to be I don't think it's necessarily a full board tomorrow but we do have a special meeting that we have to have next Tuesday we could attack on policy items that we needed to add additional things I don't think it's important to make your own I don't think this needs to be important I was just saying we're going to see you tomorrow we can like say hey what's up but I think we should be formalized that it's as far as the presentation committee goes I would plan on 8 o'clock for elementary and we will have in the late start through middle and high school as far as the end times go I think that that is less a transportation committee issue and more a traction issue looking at the former OWSU contract on page 20 and looks like this student day would have to be would have to end latest at 3pm at elementary looking at the former winter OWSU contract the day would need to end at the latest 2.50pm I can see and I can see all change in the new contract is on the horizon I have no idea what the language states about the length of the teacher's work we got the new supposed agreement sent it out to board members this morning I think so that they can read getting ready for tomorrow night's week everybody has a copy of the proposed teacher agreement it supports that agreement so we can look at the length of the day but that came from Andrew there's nothing else to do I don't have to leave so we're looking at an 8 o'clock start next year for the elementary and what did I say the late start for middle and high school I know it doesn't specify the time of that sounds like there are still questions about that time and I'm concerned that community members are going to feel somewhat blindsided in terms of child care etc if we don't communicate very publicly about things that will feel like a big change so is the transportation committee you may have just said this but I was taking notes meeting again soon um we don't provide any statement okay yeah that's next on our agenda actually I think there was still oh the hiring update hiring update I can give you what I mean it was for the co-curatorate tomorrow we have between 11 and 14 candidates you know I think we're looking at trying to get the original committee back together again for both students and for staff parents and community members um I had a conversation we read today about that and my suggestion to him was to keep the process that we were using in place for the rest of it because the people that have met the other needs have some continuity around you know the considerations that they have the science position there's some people that have we've had a hard time with the tracking the robotics something else for the science position that's important no that's been filled there's one science position that's been filled and she been in toward the building, been in the classroom looked around so we're very pleased with that the other the other science position has a robotics class and has something else computer science uh and where the reason question to me was whether we could split that out and try to have two halves basically instead of combining that all into one um and perhaps we're going to try advertising it that way because it doesn't seem to be that the people that are applying can do all of those things well and so uh um question was social studies and I know that that is progressing that position I know in the elementary school we'll be getting back together to try to find our music teacher we had a music teacher that we offered the position to which you refused it in the hunt for a music teacher and that's an elementary position for here for next year you might have questions about me we have we have a lead on a person there's not a lot of them around and uh read updated me on a plan that he's working out with a particular person that he's been checking references on and I think we'll have a little more information about that tomorrow or the next day that's going to be a quick turnaround I don't if we find somebody that we really like there are a couple of people that are out there that we think we might find someone a little better than what we're seeing so we haven't pulled a trigger on that one or made a move we think that we will see where this person that he's talking to be about is but there are a couple of candidates out there but it's getting late so there's a need to move positions like that especially well there's a there's a an elementary position or two filled with a preschool position as of today and uh that's been done and I think I spent some time with the owner today and we had a pretty good handle on that position with that the hiring for that coming up with it being getting late and sovereigns I know at the grocery level we're supposed to be doing preseason that's usually a week a week and a half long in August and putting in co-creas or hiring so late are we going to have time to make sure that we have coaches by that time so that we have the preseason the field preseason is important with this whole consolidation and new players coming and not knowing each other very well I think should actually be extended we've got the ads out for all the coaches they're out and uh it's one of the things I asked uh Mr. Romeo to do before you left was to get a schedule together for the games you're going to be playing scrimmages you might be playing and also coaching ads out there so I know they're out there I know there's a couple applications for them and we really like to have that co-curricular person be involved in picking them that's really important so I I guess that's the best I can tell you so those ads for coaches are out there we're going to try to make the turn around for Lindsay and Lindy to try to get us some choices for uniforms and then ask the kids to come in and look at some of those choices uh for both of them I guess I would say probably seniors uh they certainly have the most investment in this so just a thought anyway when do you get that hiring to wrap up um pretty quickly if we can get it closes tomorrow there haven't been a whole lot of new applications there were four new applications over the weekend actually we're going to try to do is narrow probably tomorrow and then get the maze together to go through the process I mean there's some people that I recognize on the applications that are not people that I would always as a case but I recognize a couple of them so so the committee the first time around was involved in like the final interview process in a sense so are you guys going to kind of do the first vetting and then narrow it down to two candidates for the candidates there's people with no experience people who I know where they've been last and know a little bit about them we would try to narrow it down so the committee doesn't have to look at 14 people that they might be able to five, three or something like that um that's what I mean by narrowing and that's what happened last time last time we went in-house last time it wasn't that way that's what we were complaining on so I'm on that committee and I just was wondering are you thinking that you're going to try and get us together like next week? soon yes because all the things that have just been said are on my mind so it'd be great to send an email out just say we'll be you know that it's happening soon so we can all be kind of preparing for that that'll be reasonable to do that and probably it'll do that after tomorrow so ideally we'll know who that person is by the 29th to catch 29th of June correct yes at the last hearing of the committee they were talking about having some of the fall decisions made by the current meetings that's correct the schedule has been put together by Frank and Liddy but it starts like second coaches well we can't hire those coaches until they apply they add it out for them to apply so that's been done the uniform question as I said is another thing that we want so if the process drags on past the 29th or something like that well Liddy's the only one still Liddy I told Liddy I'll pay her to come back here for what she needs to do I mean it's important that we have some continuity and she's perfectly willing that she knows she's going to be a principal for us next year in the Rochester Rochester Stockbridge combined so she's here and she's vested can I just make one statement sorry I think that was the timing that it's important when you hire coaches and co-curricular that you look at like of course you know some worlds of people like coaching like you look at as being a new entity I personally would love to see some women coaches we never have women coaching women yeah I hope when you look at that you look at maybe nobody knows anybody that's great because no one's going to know if you're Bethel or your Royalton I think that's important because I think that really bothers a lot of kids they're worried about it about hiring updates which is one last thing I think we need to like I know the science teacher position our resume should be it's on school spring she's got a quite expensive background worked in a mining industry actually she has a background in a lot of geology work we've seen this but we can certainly get some of that sent out to you and to the community her name and some of that thank you so that brings us to the review of property transcript documents which I think we were all emailed I've sent it out to everybody when I got the interview it was a pleasure so you've probably seen it he has been researching the status of property documents for both of us yeah let's take a look at it I mean it looks good to me I read it on the property transfers are there any questions about stick with White River I think we probably should just for the sake of the process okay make a motion that we change our new plan second all in favor of changing the name of the district back to White River unified district say aye opposed questions about the language in this property transfer document but it looks good to me what we're looking for is the approval of the board to allow Lisa to sign this report here okay we don't have to be notarized make a motion that we have this employee sign it on behalf of the board as board chair alright any discussion board chair's name is on there what happened I'm sorry okay so we need to authorize Dave Eddy to sign the one from Bethel and Christine Hudson I've got some concerns about it we can talk about it here we can talk about it at that so we need to withdraw the motion and I think it might be wise for us to talk about it here because right so this gets into the alumni field it gets into I feel and it says forever in the articles of agreement it says that if the school doesn't want it then it would at least the select board look at it that's how I feel this is all stuff that's currently owned by the school district so did you get our email about what okay so I can just read you what the lawyer wrote the school doesn't own the alumni or the whole field the town does so you would have to come to some agreement with the town so I just feel then we have we had a legal issue a few years back about where the fence line is out here there's access into that field for a couple of houses that can go out there we have to leave the lane open I mean I just kind of feel like it's a lot for me to sign I think the idea that though is that you're taking any coverances that are currently on our district to our new district so that's what you're signing the current district is giving up those claims and now we have all those so all the issues that you raised should still be transferred you're the chair and you need to be comfortable I did run it by the town clerk the select board lady and she basically said that you guys will have to go in front of the select board and use a field and stuff like that that part makes sense right, because the school district can't pass that on like liability, like if someone hurt the alumni field I don't know how it honestly works we've been doing this forever Jen, you might know someone yeah we brought it up in November when we were fighting about this that it's not home by the royalty school district neither is the home property or the carpenter field all of which are readily available to be used and the attorney said he would take care of it and it would just be an agreement and what has been passed on is no agreement I guess what I want to say is that can't be lost the big baseball scoreboard was a gift from the Lions someone who lived in Royalton the wives already called me you guys being that? I don't know I don't know that's on the alumni field that's just one thing that it's like a memorial for the baseball coach that coached here by the Adams yeah yeah I just think that I'm a little nervous because I think it's going to be a conversation that someone's going to have to have a report also and I don't know if this is saying that I'm saying it's okay to do anything but it's not up to me it's not our problem why it's in us where are the rules okay it was just maybe that was just he wrote he wrote in the email maybe the other the other question I had was which I thought was unusual for the league board was his use of forever where it should be sort of referred back to the articles of agreement because some sort of state thing yeah because what if the district went away wait if eventually they close these schools too that the town gets to buy a pack for a dollar plus any so I guess I thought the forever thing was a little far too coming from the affirmative with the refer back to whether it's the state law or whether it was just in the articles of agreement I think we talked about this not just in that way also but I don't think I talked about the same attorney but a different attorney right because the right of first so if it's just two or three questions we have he can clarify those at least it's still designed in time nobody's not going to sign it can you give me those questions that you have so that I can go back okay I'll forward well they said they were two blocks away right it looks like it's a pretty strange strange thing does it say anything about if the school was not used it would tell it back to you it doesn't have to be so it should refer back to that somehow I'm just saying it's just a question the school district is going to disappear so the town will get that option to buy it back it will be decided right but shouldn't it be some reference back to the articles of agreement or to the state law I don't think that's necessary because the legal entity of the royal town school district is going to go away no I understand that right but as far as like they're releasing so the school district of that legal entity is releasing forever and then that is like a separate agreement with the town but whatever happens would like to ask him that he would ask the questions that should be directing the reader to the article because it has to be done prior to July 1 right and we don't have to vote on the right groups just need to speak out you need to vote it loud well we can vote on that in our meeting if our questions are answered no we don't have to go back I'm just going to show you what's going on actually I don't think that I'm just showing you I'm out of the book sometimes we'll have to accept I don't think so right the question should be routed to a lawyer is that support being done by first step just to FY19 arbitrage yeah this is every year I think I handed these out every year because there's some delay sometimes in the town we'll be able to get us money to win this tax we borrow money waiting for the towns to pay and we have to decide on a bank to get us a loan participation note so this is pretty standard every year so David Larkham is recommending that we offer community national bank this business for a tax participation note $681,199 paying an interest of 2.8% what happens is we borrow the money and then when we get the tax money back we pay back the loan right away so that's the way it works he has researched all the other people that have put bids on this I know Mascoma was one of them and there are several others some didn't bid but he's recommending community national bank as being the best deal for this so if you are willing to have a discussion about it but he has done an awful lot of analysis of all the proposals and Ginger supports this recommendation yep take that money so we're going to make money basically is what it's saying we're going to borrow at 2.8 we're going to make $2.6 it works believe me but I'm going to do it it's a municipal the point is that we're not using the money all at once we only draw on it if we need to and we pay back quickly every single year we've done it it may be that the bank is different the bank's recommendation is different but we've done this over the years it's a standard procedure for each of the districts so it's usually you make one it's a tie there are usually companies that talk about putting money back in you did get it right away and then you put it back in and then you put it on the second line that's what we have a few years ago that was before I think it was before Bruce's time also yeah it would entertain a motion to accept this recommendation okay second all in favor of accepting this recommendation from David Larko on the tax anticipation note in the amount of $1,681,000 $100,000 please say aye anyone opposed June 20th meeting is next on the agenda so I just said each of the board members there's going to be a couple things on the agenda most of the board has to do with the agreements that we're going to talk about together and then each of the boards are going to go into several meetings we're going to suspend the bigger meeting they're going to go into their own meetings they're basically going to think it's the current board that has to vote on this but the rest of you need to know what's happening so you need to be here to hear exactly what these proposals because the one for supports that is for the current year and next year and the one for the teachers is for the current year and the next two years so you're going to be living with whatever is decided tomorrow night and it's important that you understand all the information about it I believe each of you got a copy today this teachers the teachers agreement was sent twice the second copy is the one you need to use because there were some typos that Bob Rassovich fixed and then sent me another copy and I've sent them along to use the one you got later today for the teacher agreement agreements was only sent to you once and that's more easy I will have hard copies tomorrow night not a lot of them not for everybody but if you get a chance you ought to read it the other thing that we're going to talk about tomorrow night is the whole SU structure shares in the district which has been a fairly heated topic about about that and there was a proposal that I just sent to all of you from Steve Dale to talk about reconfiguring the district basically right now the districts have if all the districts have that have schools have three votes except Hancock and Grandville have one however when you combine it's Bethel and Royalton they still have three votes if it goes the way it is not six and therefore the issue at hand has been how does this set Stratford and Sharon who aren't changing they're not combining they have three votes now they will have three votes going forward yet each have three votes and there's been a concern about the diminishing of the power of voting from Bethel and Royalton especially and the status quo for those two districts and so the same thing applies to Stockbridge and Rochester and Chelsea and Tundridge in this whole configuration going forward Stratford and Sharon have emerged they keep their three votes in the way things are who actually gets to vote tomorrow if we currently have three people at the executive level or the people that get to vote are the current boards the full board the current boards not the unified the reason that this needs to come to fruition now or while some of them wanted to come to fruition now is because on July 1st that change happens if you don't take any action it goes to three for Bethel and Royalton three for Sharon three for Stratford three for Rochester and it's basically the power structure changes unless you interrupt it now it's not a power thing it's not the kids and the money but when you think about it and believe me I think we're putting separately or combined we're putting in most of the money into the SU so we should have an extra vote at least but now with the same thing in the works for Sharon and Stratford that they might be picked up and moved out that maybe they shouldn't be voting on this issue you don't need to convince me or anything I'm just saying it's too bad that we've got this far that that wasn't until it happens I think they've got to vote because it's still a maybe I get it I get it so we need everybody to be there everybody to vote everybody who's on the existing boards and we also need towns people to come tomorrow if anybody can come good day to come so they hear it because they will say we had no saying they had no saying I think they should be Swiss during this process a lot of our towns people asked about this and we've said that there was a way to vote on the state because this had come up during the process of consolidation and you said don't worry the states have been petitioned we can change this so I know you have a lot to do with the state I told the right to vote on tomorrow though well if the other towns agree to vote on they don't have to agree to vote on well that's right if they voted down then we can't petition the state I think you can I think our town can voting on tomorrow is to petition the state so if we vote to change the represented structure then we have to petition the state board to allow them to exempt us from the state law and have us have a different structure I haven't asked the question yet the next question I ask if we don't if we're not successful tomorrow night the next thing that I will personally do once I'm no longer member is to figure out what our legal ramifications are to take it to that level because this is just wrong I'm not going to bring that up I'm not going to threaten that tomorrow night I'm not going to talk about that so just if they all vote tomorrow night just leave it as it is because I know I talked to Donna Russo-Sabin and she said they're meeting like next week so this state board would have to we know no matter what happens we're going to go down even if tomorrow night we both to change the number of representatives that we have as of July 1st we're going to go down to just 3 but that's my hope is this is the temporary stage until we can petition the board to then go back to where we should be as far as the agenda on the state board this has to go before the state board but I've been told even though they wanted a proposal yesterday and of course we're not meeting until tomorrow night but that they're not going the state board is not going to argue with whatever we come up with as what the structure needs to be that they are not going to get into it if they really want it settled among us they don't want it they don't want to have to have something that's contentious on the state level and Steve will be able to talk about that Steve will not be here but I've sent you his his information just a little while ago Eunice I would beg to differ a little bit I do think it is about power well I was trying not to I was I was calling a power play like certain boards they can do a power play here well actually it's everybody's fault that we let it get this far we should have continued fighting a year ago at 11 o'clock at night about how this was going to shake out and everybody was tired and frifty and whatever so we'll solve it later well later is here and it really has potential to impact how how hard we're going to have to fight for school budgets going forward and that's going to be their platform tomorrow night because they'll say we'll solve it later and I think that's exactly what they'll say we'll just solve it later later we'll go down to three votes tomorrow night we'll have six votes later we'll have three and the last time it came up when we were in Stockbridge you could look around the room and see we didn't have the number of votes it was closer than it felt like the other night when we were talking about it Chelsea and Tombridge were in favor of consideration and that was the thing that really surprised me because they had it in Stockbridge no no because they're going from six to three as well they're going from six to three as well they had six right it was me and I feel like we articulately outlined as much as we could what was sort of at the stake and I think that what I was hearing from people from Chelsea and Tombridge was that we would assume best intentions on everyone's part that was okay so without them sort of supporting this we had six votes that we couldn't capture that particular meeting but some of the board has changed I think right but those aren't the people who get to vote and I want to point out and the people who were at the table that I their current boards get to vote and some of them are new okay they were voting into March so they weren't doing the whole process what's that yeah and Chelsea did they and Tombridge didn't have the same feeling that we have what alarms me is that I brought this up along and Gio pushed it down the road he said don't worry about it we'll take care of it later and later is here and now I'm against I'm not relaxing on this I refuse to I basically wouldn't shut up until we got the meeting on the 20th at the last last time we met in Stratford so one thing I'm going to need is are we still cause one thing they brought they brought up several times we don't know what the new white board thinks about this if you can reiterate your feelings about this so we can speak for you I'm assuming you guys are all in favor of this I think yes and that evening at the meeting in Stockbridge of the full board I think I tried my best to convey really articulately what we needed it's difficult at times when I go to full board or executive board meetings because I feel like my ability to speak even is has to be granted by that board and at times it just felt like the the people leading that were somewhat hostile to the message that I was bringing but they still used you I mean the new board has an excuse not to let oh no can I just tell you that is not you Lisa that anyone is not on that executive board I don't do the executive board meeting I can speak either right I understand that but it's very challenging to communicate but I will be there tomorrow night so that should I be called upon to communicate the board if the rest of the board supports it would send the message that we are in favor of fair representation meaning that we would maintain five or six seats on that board let's just six seats on the board don't give uncertainty there the number of members is fair and proportional if the number is six under one scheme we should have eight but we don't have six board members so we can only have six board members so we're still underrepresented but that is we need to speak to him yes in Carl does anybody have anything Carl did it's it's part of isn't it part of what Steve put together did he use Carl's numbers I don't actually have I didn't read it right this is the last time when we were in Stockfords we had the recognition for Carl and that was it's not thank you you just put numbers together say he was in favor against anything I think the answer is right but I think if we can somehow drag people off the street and have them come to the meeting that's going to have a big impact on the others so what's the time of the location about four to six o'clock the other line that we've heard a lot from them is if it isn't broke don't fix it and my report back is the people of Bethlehem Royalton think it's broken it's broken regardless of what you're saying we think it's broken if you know a phone use it please because I've been to the meetings and it's really important I think nobody cares when the town is just us little people opening our mouths it would be really nice if people showed up even high school kids so if you know somebody grab them ask them to bring somebody else stay away from them as kids I don't think we should take kids into it it's their thing too they were saying they didn't get to hear anything I disagree I'm a virgin kind of certainly you're right and that's how they want it what is your couple months but I feel that the students have a right to comment it's that attitude that people don't want well I think I think we can say they should come right it's done with courage that's not okay that's what people are getting upset about I'm not so thank you so we've got that so we can move forward to our next public comment and attempt to then have the WRED board go into our non-public session and have the other boards go into their meetings is there any if the representation doesn't change right can we add that to the agenda for next Tuesday okay so add 26 we have to elect those people right no representation if we get 6 we know who the representatives are alright good catch any other public comments no further public comment and we're going to send out a doodle poll to pick a day in July that we meet okay our next meeting beyond that is August 21st 2018 here in Loyalton Lisa what are you going to vote for the RTCC and the executive board and all that next week we have a meeting for policies and then at that point we'll also choose RTCC board executive board and full board representative so are we meeting next week in Benfish yes 6pm Tuesday evening in Vessel primarily for the sake of adopting policies that need to be in place by July 1 entertain a motion to adjourn oh we need to do executive session I'm sorry to enter that was close we almost got out of here okay Desmond I think we're set thank you