 All right, it's 6.02, I'm going to go ahead and call this meeting to order. We do have a quorum. I know that we do have one more board member on her way, Rachel, to be here in person that is stuck. Before anything else, there is an agenda issued to deal with that we would like to, I think, propose a vote to add something to the agenda. Heather has a... I would like to add to the agenda information regarding next steps for a superintendent's service. Okay, and that would... Board education, board education. Board education, great, so... Perfect. Right after committee updates, even so moved, thank you. Katia has made that motion to add the item. Do I have a second? Megan has seconded. Further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Visually, audibly? Aye. Aye. Passes... Oh, hi, Sarah, yay! Passes unanimously. Great. A pen would be very helpful. Okay. Meeting purpose, financial planning, budgeting, board training, and a whole lot else. I'm gonna do my best to be better at that, which I fail at almost monthly, and keeping to time. So Chelsea, if you can help me do that, that would be much appreciated. So we'll go ahead and move to public comment. I'll read our preamble and then open up for comment from people here in person and online. The board welcomes comments, but is not able to take any action on them other than to direct the public to the appropriate staff member or to the complaint procedure. Comments are limited to three minutes per speaker. Time may not be ceded to another speaker. Comments are to be addressed to me, the board chair, or the board as a whole, not to any individual on the board, on the staff, or in the public. Please raise your hand and wait to speak until you are asked to. Please identify yourself with your first and last name and your town of residence. Please refrain from restating comments that have already been shared. You can certainly express your agreement, but then keep your comment short. Order and decorum shall be observed by everyone. Shouting and profanity are prohibited. As the board chair, I will maintain the order and decorum of the meeting. And with that, I'll open the floor for public comment. Yes. I'm just focused on names. Cecil Smith. I'm wondering how I think it will be listed in the picture and then there's all the other agenda for it. I'm sorry, I'm just wondering. I don't know what that's what I wanted to say, because it's not on the world. It's on the side of the phone. Link, is this no comment? It should be, yeah. It should be. Well, it should be. So, are we looking right? This isn't really a weekend comment thing. We'll look into it, certainly. Thank you, Matt. The intent certainly is for it to be up there. I'm gonna look into it. Thank you. I see one online, Emma. Hey, my name is Emma Janicki. I'm the fourth through sixth grade science and social studies teacher at Braintree. I also didn't see the agenda. So it seems like from what you've said, we will talk about budgeting for next year. I just wanted to share my surprise at receiving the survey about budgeting for a school resource officer when at Braintree we do not presently have a full-time nurse, a full-time social worker, a full-time counselor. We have one special educator and we are practically begging for behavior support. So I just wanted to express my surprise at this other possible position when we have a lot of needs at our school that are not being met and have the students engage more with law enforcement rather than meeting their needs. Doesn't, to me, seem to be the way to do that. So thank you for taking comments on that. Thank you very much. Anyone in the room, Robert Conron? Yes. John Healthan, parent of two OSS students. I'm here today about a book that my ninth grade student is reading. It's called The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. In his English class, and I would like to quote from the book. I think it's a rather inappropriate book. The title of the page on page 26 is Naked Woman plus Right Hand Equals Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy. Yep, that's right. I admit that I masturbated. I'm proud of it. I'm good at it. I'm ambidextrous. If there were professional masturbators league, I'd get drafted number one and make millions of dollars. And maybe you're thinking, well, you really shouldn't be talking about masturbation in public. Well, tough. I'm gonna talk about it because everybody does it and everybody likes it. And if God hadn't wanted us to masturbate, then God wouldn't have given us thumbs. So I thank God for my thumbs. I think we can find better books for our English classes. And there's more in here. That's just an example. And from what I understand, they're also reading a book later in the year which actually describes anal sex. My child actually was not permitted to read it two years ago. We told the teacher we wanted a different book. So I just want to say, I think we can find better books. I don't think that's appropriate for reading in the school. And that's it. Thank you. Online, any public comments? I don't see a hand. No, in the room, going once, going twice. Actually, can I finish my three minutes real quick? You may. About 20 seconds. It also throws God in there. And I'm a Christian, but I know the school is trying to stay away from teaching religion except in a historical sense. And this is really an anti-religion that's being taught because I get point all throughout the Bible where that is not what God intended to do with our thumbs. So you're actually teaching a religion that's anti-Christian, fairly offended at that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on. The discussion of adjustments of employees' retirement benefits. I think that's me. Yeah, it is. You're up. All right. So my first school board meeting in many years, so if I get something to run, let me know. Colin Andresi worked for the OSSB in one capacity or another for the past 25 years. This is year 25. And however, this is only year five where I've been in a retirement plan here. So I'm just gonna walk you through a little math if that's okay, and then I have a request for the board to consider. So for my first two years in the district, I was an employee of the Clara Martin Center. That's what brought me to Randolph. I was recruited here by the Clara Martin Center. I lived quite a distance away. After two years, I determined I could not drive 200 miles a day, 50 weeks a year. And that was my calendar at Clara Martin. When the high school and the district became aware of my plans to depart, they made an offer that I could work a school year calendar because they felt my work was, I guess, worth the offer. I set off. 38 weeks, give or take, certain things were palatable to my budget and my commitment to the district. And so I accepted. And so that leaves 23 years I've worked full-time in LSSD. I've worked, I took one year as a sabbatical because it was, it's a hard work. And though I did supervise the decision as it was built for one year for me and I came work every week. During that time, I repeatedly asked I had a good working relationship with Dr. Cameron. Long-term superintendent here and I would say, gosh, you know, I know I have a special contract with the district. It would be great if I could get a retirement plan. That would be nice. I'd like a retirement plan. And I would always be told that it's not possible. And I was younger then than I am now. Naive and just was like happy to have a job and really felt it was rewarding to fill a building and just was like, okay. And just would always ask every time, excuse me, my contract would be renewed. And I'd be like, ah, you know, it's not really about the health benefits for me and my wife has those. Great, but yeah, like a retirement plan, you know. Like I said, here people talk about it around me in the school building. And it was always told that's not possible. Right. And I was just like, okay, really like to work here. And I kept working here, continued to work here. Brent left, entering Lane Millington. And as my contract came up for discussion again he says anything we can do for you. And I said, ah, you know, I've asked a hundred times, but you know, it'd be great if I could have a retirement plan. And he said, oh, well, let me look into that. Right. And 24 hours later, Lane came to me and said, oh yeah. Yeah, you don't have an AOE license. I'm not like an English teacher. Right. I have a secretary of estate license and a licensed counselor. He goes, you qualify for your municipal retirement plan that we offer our employees. And I was like, no, it's another 20 years ago. And so he signed me up for it. So after 25 years of service, I'm now, I have four years under my belt in my fifth year. And I guess what I'm asking the board is I found out by any conversation again with Mr. Millington that there are ways to recover or recoup lost years for retirement. Educators have done it in the past and I believe it's possible if you need a municipal process as well. And so in conversation with Mr. Millington, he said that there's something in the whatever and that I would have to get on the board agenda, which I have done and make my pitch to the board to consider my request. And so in my mind, the math is there are 17 years, because if we're in year 25, five are accounted for, three wouldn't qualify. So in reality that if I had no, and I was on a retirement, that's about the question might have been what not. So, but there are 17 years I've served here full time where I was informed that was not eligible for retirement when in fact I probably was. So I guess I asked the board to consider that and to consider recovering my lost retirement from the municipal process. And I'm open to questions or whatever, but that's my request. That's why I asked to be on the agenda, right? Because as I get closer on 55 this school year, 10 to go, that's a little scary. So what does that entail? The recovery of 17 years. Is it a financial amount? So the way I understand it is that that there would have to be a buyback from the municipality of those years of service. I don't know the details. I spoke briefly with Mr. Millington about it and he said, yeah, because I think that the district has been through it before with the AOE, the state pension system that bought back teachers' retirement that they were eligible for but didn't get. And so I think that ultimately at the end of the day it is a financial thing, right? It is buying back the years of service that I repeatedly asked to be a part of and the evidence that I can present is the minute that Lane said, as his entrance and analysis, like, this is what I want, right? And I assumed I'd hear no, it's not possible, but persistence is an important thing in life. And I persisted and I asked Lane on my first full round of conversation and he goes, no, yes, special contract, municipal, you're not the only one, no problem. And I was just like, that's just a little frustrating with that for all those years before. And I had a great working relationship with Dr. K. But he was very proud of his 0% budget increases. You know, he's tenure as superintendent and unfortunately I hate to do the math and wonder if that was a piece of it. But my relationship with him was intact to a day but he always said it wasn't possible to find out with one question to a new superintendent that it was possible, it was frustrating. So what we would have, and municipal retirement is not big money, it's a retirement, it's not a lot. We would have Robin reach out to the retirement board, we'll talk to them about the situation. There might be a limit that the board puts on how many years that you could buy back. And so that would probably be kind of the first step. The only reason that it's coming in front of the board is there is a policy executive limitation that prevents me from causing unequivocal circumstances with retirement and making decisions about it. And given the fact that Colin may not be the only one, I don't, you know, we wanna make sure that we do this for everybody that should have it. Mm-hmm. And understand the financial implications. Yeah, yeah. There is, maybe we could spread it over several years since we didn't do it. So I think figuring out how many years, you know, maximally they would consider, there is also the operational reserve fund that I have built over time that would be suitable for this. But find a dollar amount in time if the board is wrong. I certainly think it's something we should have. Yeah, we should look into it. Look into it and look at the, all right. What are we, what is the process of it, do we need it? Do we need to authorize? Charge me with getting the information so that you can have the information you need to make an informed decision for. So in some of that information, will you find out how many other employees this might? Okay. There were a lot of special contracts. Some of them were on the teacher's side that my first year, we worked out in the end. And some of those folks did not get retirement either, which we tried and correct after the fact. That was a little bit easier because we knew everybody who it was and it just made sense under the rules. This one's a little bit different. Yeah, certainly. I make a motion for Lane to look into retirement funds for eligible employees in the circumstance. Just a second. Further discussion? All those in favor visually and honorably please. Aye. Aye. Great, thank you, Sarah. You unanimously passed this. Thank you, Collin. Thanks, y'all. Thank you. It's been requested that we take a five minute recess to determine whether we are in violation of open meeting laws. Yeah, I was gonna say, if there isn't an agenda, I don't know if I should have made a public comment because I don't know what to do. Right, right, so I suppose we need to vote on that. To take a recess, we're gonna take a five minute recess. All right, thank you for your patience, everyone. Unfortunately, I am going to call this meeting to a close at 6.28 without the agenda being posted 48 hours in advance. We are in violation of Vermont state open meeting laws. I understand it will be posted momentarily, which means that 48 hours from now, if we could have a meeting, we could legally have a meeting. So, I appreciate everyone's presence here today, and I don't want to say I apologize. These mistakes happened, it's no one's fault, and Collin, I'm glad we got to one agenda item so we could hear you speak, and... To an account? Well, probably at our next meeting, we'll actually have to vote. We'll vote again. We'll vote again. We'll vote again. We'll vote again. I don't think you'll have to come back, no. No, I'll torture you. We'll vote again. It's an hour and a half each way. Right, right, right, no, and we appreciate you being here tonight. And all of you, thank you, and as soon as we have the meeting, the December meeting rescheduled, we will let everyone know. Thank you.