 open for business then, we have a lot going on, of course. And it's going to have to be covered in a fairly compressed time frame. I'm hoping that we can have the meat of our COVID-19 discussion take place within 45 minutes. We also have an approximately estimated 45 minute executive session to deal with a personnel issue. And Deborah, if I'm not mistaken, unless things have changed in the meantime, you have a 7.30 hard stop. Is that correct? Yes, I actually probably need to leave at 7.20, but right around that time, absolutely. Yeah. OK, good. So first, what I'd like to do is to welcome both our board members and our guests to an environment that I expect will become increasingly familiar with over time. But at the start, it might seem a little bit halting, and my apologies for that. But what I would like to do is make sure that we observe to the extent possible the agenda. And after the welcoming of the guests, if there are agenda divisions. Excuse me, Scott. Please speak up. We have one guest online. Corinne is here on the phone. And that is the only person that is called in up to this point. OK. I just wanted to make you aware of that. Wonderful. No. Hold on. Can you hear me? Sorry. Yes, we can hear you. There are more people trying to call in and saying that the link is not working. We're getting emails right now. So if we could, Keith, if you could just maybe. The link is not working right now. Shutting into that. Do we still have Corinne? Are you still on the line? Corinne? Oh, thank you for letting us know. The number that's been posted, Marilyn, the number that's been posted online is the same one that I just used to dial into the conference. So people should be able to access it. It calls for you to dial one, then the area code, then the number, and then after that, it'll call for code. And the code is on the agenda. It's an access code with a hashtag. So Corinne was able to access it. And we were able to access it. So I think it works. OK, it's open for numbers of people. Many, many people could call. All right, then. I hope that everybody who is trying to get to this meeting will be able to. In the meantime, Deborah, are we, or Keith, is this meeting being recorded so that it can be shared with work out? Work is actually here as well, Scott. It's being recorded there. Correct. OK, wonderful. Thank you very much. Next 2.3 is public comments. I think at this point, we have Corinne. I wonder if, Corinne, you have anything that you'd like to contribute at this point? The only thing I want to make mention of is I certainly hope that everything possible will be done to Keith's website and social media updates. Thank you for that. Judging by Keith's very tiny facial expression that I see on my screen, he has every intention of doing that. We do, right, Keith? Yes, absolutely. Great. But you're right, Corinne, that's really important. Communication is absolutely vital at this time. All right, if there are no more public comments, let's continue on to, why don't I just introduce this from my own perspective, Deborah, and board members and guests. In my own mind, and I would look forward to being corrected or being educated on this, I have three broad priorities. The first being personal and public health, without which nothing else is possible. The second being continuity of our educational and social missions. They're trying to maintain or trying to adapt our organization to radically new and fast morphing situation. And third would be keeping the financial machinery running so that we can not only keep the organization working properly, but also cushion the blow to the local economy, which I think is going to be severe in the wake of this emergency. But that's just what I have in my head. And I'll hand off to you, Deborah, to continue. And board member says, are you willing to be interrupted along the way, Deborah, if their board members have something to say? Absolutely. And I notice that many of our administrators are also online. And I appreciate the board taking the time to jot some questions down. If we don't have time to address them and or they might require further research, we definitely will do so. And this document will continue to be available for you to check back and see the answers to the questions you might have raised as well. But let me just begin by letting everyone know, of course, that this is the first day that our schools in the actual this state as a whole have been closed. We utilize this time within our schools to have small groups of teachers meeting in Zoom. So there was not going to be a large congregation of staff to review much of the information we're going to be speaking about in a few moments. Our leadership team has met several times for at least the last week, closer to 10 days, to prepare for the eventuality of a school dismissal or closure. And the time was spent today in schools with principals working with teachers and support staff and reviewing our plans as we make this very large transition from instructing within our schools and supporting our students within our schools to providing remote learning and supports for our families and our staff and our students outside of the school, which, as you know, is scheduled for April 6th, that we'll actually be beginning school again on April 6th, unless a decision to the contrary is made. So I wanted to thank all of them very, very much. One of the first things we did was, in our leadership team, was to develop a response plan, which included a number of teams to address the various areas that we knew we would need to be working on. And if it's all right with you, I'd like to put that up on the screen right now. I don't know if you'll be able to see us for a period of time, but just to be sure that everyone online can be viewing it as I'm talking, would that be all right with you, Scott? Okay, thumbs up, all right, very good. Okay, that's the share time. Yeah, okay, so just a moment, we'll have that available to you. So meanwhile, the first area that we have incorporated is the meal provision. So as you know, the governor has asked us to provide meals to our students throughout the closure. We have been given permission to provide them to all of our students, whether or not they are eligible for free and reduced lunch. As you can see from the section that's marked board update, the third column, we're preparing at this time 700 meals. We may be expanding that next week, depending upon the need, but that covers the quantity of our staff who are, excuse me, our students who are currently receiving meals through our meal program. There are nine bus routes that have been prepared and completed, and beginning tomorrow, all of our students will be receiving meals, an infinite campus message went out to all families, some of you may have received it, and it included a letter with an attached letter as well as a verbal overview of our plan and a reference back to the website. We also sent it out via Twitter as well for our families. And that provides them with not only the letter but also information about how they can find out what their bus routes are. So if you live in Calis, for example, you can see the street that your child is normally picked up and a specific time in which we anticipate the meals would be dropped off. They're prepared in a sanitary manner in our U32 kitchen, and we begin to deliver them at 10 a.m., if the route's about 90 minutes, and each of the route areas has a specific time in which we anticipate that those meals will arrive. And of course, students or parents will need to be there to pick up the meals. We provide lunch for the current day and breakfast for the following day. Are there any questions about that work? Well, they could continue to put them on the right. Yeah. So they could, and even if they think of something tomorrow, we could respond to it later. Right, okay. The next area is specials. Sorry, Deborah, I have a question. Sure. The delivery routes will be following the normal bus routes. So if there are roads where families live that don't access the bus during the day or don't have a regular bus going by, we will have to essentially muster together at points along the route. We're using- Are there a plan? Sorry. We're using the same bus stops that we do when children are picked up and dropped off. So those are the locations where the food will be delivered. It's the normal pick up and drop off plane. Yeah? Yeah, I hear that. On my road, I can take at least three families who do not use the bus to get their kids to school. The bus does not go up Gould Hill and down Norton Road. And essentially we'd be waiting there with people to pick up the bus. And I understand we're doing this now. Is there any possibility to think about in the future expanding those bus routes to cover all the roads where families live so we don't have to leave our homes? That's a possibility. Jonas, would you be willing to put that question in the right-hand side? And I'll have the team, Jodi Emerson and Michelle in particular who manages our bus routes, Michelle Sepka, and investigate that and we can get back to you. Is that be all right? Yeah, so I'm trying to give a thumbs up to avoid that. Oh, sorry. Sorry, we are only looking at our screen the same that you're seeing right now. Okay, so let's talk for a moment about special services. This is an area, another required area that during dismissal we are required to provide for maintenance of skills and accessibility to general ed materials. And our special educators in collaboration with classroom teachers will work together to deliver the materials during this time period. There are guidelines for provision of the remote learning that have been shared today with all special educators, case managers, all of the staff members across the district and additional guidance on special services and school closure we received yesterday and incorporated today. We also have today we had a Zoom conference where Kelly was available remotely and she mentioned to me that she had 32 people participate in the conference call today and she's doing another on Monday. So that's been successful so far. What we've found, not only with special services but with meal provision, in fact, almost every one of these areas that while we're sharing the guidance that we know as of today, it's very possible that it will change dramatically. Nearly every day there's a new directive from the governor or an interpretation of that directive from the agency of education, sometimes a legal, some legal advice through our associations. And so we were continuously dynamically adjusting to all of those changes as they arise. And we will update our documentation for you when these things change as well. So there's a question, the board members part and I haven't had a chance to read it yet. Let's see if we can quickly incorporate it. This is from Mary Lynn. I will ask Kelly to reply to that question. So if we can't do it during this meeting, we'll definitely have it out for you within by tomorrow. All right. Yeah, it's no rush at all. It was just, I finally got a chance to look at this. There is nothing I need you guys to think about in the imminent week, okay? Okay, don't worry about that. All right, thank you. And the next area is the health and social emotional, I'm sorry, I missed one, one of the most important, which is instruction. So the leader of our team for this area is Janet Miller-Ursano, our curriculum director and the committee members are listed to the side. Our staff are working together to prepare remote learning opportunities for students. For seven, 12 students, the majority of the delivery will be electronic. However, at the elementary level, it will be primarily units or hard copy packets that the teachers prepare. As you can see, we had three goals. One was to plan for the instruction during the dismissal. The second was to create the plan to ensure teachers are prepared and supported to offer remote learning. And third to articulate the common expectations for the teachers. So our team, the committee that's noted here worked really for about 10 days in preparation for this week. And during their staff meetings today or remote meetings today was in the buildings, all the information relating to this topic was shared. There were also in the meetings information, there was also information shared about common expectations for teachers at each of the elementary and secondary levels, including things like checking in with families, checking in with principals and with one another. And we created a resource site on our website and that provides much information that the teachers can reference. And we are hoping that they'll be uploading information to share by grade grouping so that teachers can take advantage of the creativity that others have been preparing and putting together. So as you can see, Keith is on this group as well. And he has been working to support us in providing technical support and we'll continue to do so along with the tech team during the dismissal. And this includes, you'll see more about this in the technology team, but it includes things like remote learning tools and resources and eventually training. Questions on our instructional section at the moment? Look behind you. Yes, this is Chris in the morning. What are your teachers? What are the expectations for teachers? Yes, what are the common expectations? Well, they will not, first of all though, they're not required to, is an option for them to come to the building to work. They may work at home. And I can just one second, I'll pull up another document and I can give you some more examples unless you happen to have a hand, do you have it? Well, would it be all right if we put a summary of things in our answer section, Chris, because I don't have to have that document up and I can, that way everyone can have it for a future point, would that be all right? There we go, thank you. Sure, no problem. Okay. And then moving on to our health and social-emotional learning section. So part of a great concern to all of us is the effect that the closure and the anxiety around COVID-19 is having on all of our students, families and staff. So this team is really important. We have members of our administration, our guidance counselors and school nurses that have been working together to develop a systematic process for supporting folks. So it does include student check-ins, family support and staff support. And our nurses and counselors met today to finalize their plans and also prepare a slideshow for parents. And that has been shared back out with staff and families or we'll be sharing back out with families. We shared with staff today. So as you can see, it'll be something like a remote, as I spoke with Lisa, the plant about this the other day, folks can actually make an appointment and then have a conference call. It can be, whether it be student, family member or staff as needed. And we'll be basing the support on from the buildings specifically. I see you have a number of questions. Yeah. Can you elaborate on when you say staff support, what that, can you just elaborate on that please? Well, as you can see. In terms of like, what are they getting right now or do they have access to emotional support right now? Sure. Well, as you may know, we are, our school district is a member of the employee assistance program. So we always have the option of providing employees with the opportunity to reach out to a counselor in a confidential way. And they can either support them directly or refer them on to someone who can assist them that is separate from what we offer here. But we, the staff here will take calls. They will provide individualized help and reference on to others, to other support systems if needed. This is an area of concern for us. And I think it's, we wanna be sure that our staff know that we want to do everything we can to support them. I can't really say specifically, it's going to depend very much on what exactly we, the concern might be, or the, as you can see, Lisa is typing in there right now and asked her to one of the questions. So she might be able to elaborate on this. I think she's on the call as well. But it really is going to, we're going to try to refer people on if needed, but also provide them with the support that our counselors can at their level. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. So moving on to the next section is technology. And really this area underpins our work and let's just get that down a little. So it's all on one page. It really relates to everything that we are involved in delivering. We even have a software program that helped us set up our bus routes. So we use technology for every aspect of the service we provide during the closure. So as you can see Keith is leading this work and supported by Arlen, Michael, and Jill, although all of our team really are working together. So we've been supporting, our goal is during the closure to continue to support staff and students. Our students, if they're having an issue with the Chromebook at the secondary level, we'll ask them to inform their teachers. We'll then communicate that back to our technology staff. We'll use our daily bus runs to replace or trade equipment if there's a problem so that it can be addressed. And we'll also provide opportunities for our staff to meet and currently as I've mentioned, we have a meeting via Zoom and Google Hangouts and extending the social distancing as much as possible. We have been making available to our teachers, the, as you can see this list of distance learning technology included here. And we also have a component of our website for teachers that have technical resources included for all staff and we continually update that looking for ways that we can provide tech support and training when needed. So we're using Zoom quite a lot and as you know, it's been made available for free so that's, and we're using it for this meeting this evening so it's working out quite well. People are saying that the audio is a little bit choppy. Oh, is it? Coming from here, but I'm not sure that there's a lot I can actively do to fix that at the moment and it's hard to know if it's there or here. I'm gonna look and just see if there's anything I can do about it. Okay, all right. Just so you know. Thank you. I think we're finding some of the people who talk with us have choppy audio too. So I don't know. It's hard to know which side it's coming from. As you said. It is. Yeah. Does anyone have any comments about the tech team work or questions? The illusion. Looks big. When I, I think what we should try to do I'm getting an echo back. If everybody else mutes we're picking up. Hopefully, I won't be quite as bad here. Oh, that's bad. Thank you very much. Almost there. Anyway, this document is very useful. And is there any way that we can kind of keep it posted as a kind of asynchronous communication system so that whenever a board member has a question board member can go up and post it then get an answer when it's convenient or possible for an answer to get it. Sure, absolutely. This is a summary version of the document that we're maintaining for our school staff. But it's an absolute, it's very easy for us to update periodically and we'll be observing your questions. It's now, as you can see, some of our admin team are answering questions right now. So it's live for everyone at this point. Yeah, if we can keep it up and keep it live as an ongoing resource. Sure, absolutely. And just to flag for you, Deborah, before we move away from the COVID discussion I want to give every board member a chance to comment. Okay, sure. May I quickly go through the last few sections and then we'll do that or? Of course, yes. Great, so the facilities maintenance area will be doing deep cleaning during the school dismissals period starting with U32 and then working our way through each elementary school with teams of our custodial staff at including all from U32 and the elementary schools. Our childcare team had gotten quite a bit of new guidance since last week about this including just this afternoon. So in a nutshell, we are required as a school, as a district to provide childcare for healthcare workers as well as individuals who are considered first responders. And we're fortunate enough to have a structure of childcare already in our school system with the community connections program. So we have licenses for preschool and elementary aged students. And our initial plan is to provide childcare. If provided, we have sufficient numbers to our students in first in Berlin elementary and then in the Mountain School. He's not good. Yeah, he's not failure. I just want to thank you. If needed. So right now we have, we've sent out a survey to all families and so far 15 express an interest and we've given them until tomorrow afternoon to confirm that they might be interested in specifically in what their needs are, but there may be others. And we've also just today become aware that this childcare is to be being available to school staff as well because we are working and we may, and as you know, some of our local childcare centers have closed. So we're now serving all of our staff. So that may expand the numbers of people who are interested but our focus is going to remain on those medical personnel and the first responders because they want to be sure that they have the support they need during this time period. Deborah, there are, I think maybe a couple of questions. I'm just watching the chat. So I don't know if we want, if we have time or if we want to let people ask questions. Yes, what I have one more to go and then you will, okay? So the last one is finance and Lori is here. So Lori, I'm going to ask you if you would like to quickly walk the board through this section for us. Thank you. So I just want you to know that everything is fine and everyone is getting paid this week. The payroll has already been processed and we actually, if you look at this, we're switching to electronic paychecks, scubs and electronic paychecks for everyone that's working out really well. And so that way we don't have to worry about the mail or if there is some type of isolation needed, we are ready to go. We do have a computer set up for our senior payroll accountant offsite in the event of an office closure. And my laptop is also configured so our financial system can be accessed offsite by both of our workstations. There's been a lot of confusion about hourly staff but what I wanted to first share was what is a contractual employee? So at Washington Central we have between 350 to 375 contractual employees paid at any time. And what that means is that we have an agreement with our union and all of our staff that they get 126 of their contract every two weeks. And what that means is that they have the same exact check amount and this has been going on for years. It's not new. We have also people who work like temps and subs who get paid as they go. So if they don't work, they don't get paid. Those people may still be eligible for the unemployment benefit that we've heard about on TV last night. What else can I answer for questions? So what's different is that for hourly people they do need to complete timesheets. It's a record requirement. And so what I've told them to do is to fill in the hours that they're working and then put the rest of the time under what we call paid leave. And for tracking purposes we have another financial system called ASOP that people can access from their homes or anywhere they have the internet and they can load in there the time that they plan to not work. They can load it in ahead if they had scheduled time off. And what we would do at some point in the future is to review the laws, review what's new and probably around they we would need to come back to the board and say, are we going to need to do any adjustments or is there something else we recommend? But at this time that would be premature. So that's why we didn't put that on as a possible action because everyone is getting paid that has a contract. I'm happy to report and I have the wrong date in there that we do have payroll check dated Friday done until the payroll person is here tonight and the April 3rd check and I put April 1st, that's really the third. That one's getting printed tonight. So it's gonna be in the email queue and in the bank financial system all ready to go for April 3rd. So nobody has to worry. What we're also doing is in the next 48 hours we're gonna be processing the April 15th check and we would have historically been paid on Friday, May 1st. I've moved that back to April 30th, it's a Thursday. And the reason being is that's the third payroll the month so employees will get more money because they won't have deductions for health insurance. What else did I have up there? I think that covers the payroll. I know people are really worried and I just want you to be assured that we look like we're gonna be, you know scheduling these payments up to six weeks out which is, I hope, a comfort for all because that's the last thing people need to worry about right now. Lori, can I ask a question? Sure. About community connection. Right. So community connections is in a state of flux a little bit right now. We're trying to get signups tomorrow and the next day to find out. We do have five community connection staff that are on contract who would be treated just like everybody else and who would be getting their paychecks. We do have temps and subs that work at community connections and if they were scheduled to work just like anyone else they would get paid as we go. So I think that answers your question. Yes, thank you. Okay, so I wanted you to know another thing is that last, every year we ask the board for permission to run checks off-site, off-cycle, excuse me if you don't have a board meeting. So we're actually, it's sorry, don't move the screen please. So we have that authorization for accounts payable. We already started to execute accounts payable today and what that means is that you have a board order tonight and we're actually had all the schools deliver everything here in our office so that we can start running more checks in case someone gets ill and we're gonna give you the warrant after the fact like it says in the agreement that we have. It's called the Blanket Authorization. I did not know here but cash on hand, we have also been very aggressive in getting all the cash that is manual from every school. Today we have the last pickup of all the hot lunch receipts and community connections receipts and everything in the building. We have one more check to come from a town for taxes and other than that all the money is in the bank. We have plenty of money to pay all our bills and nobody needs to worry about cash either. Other items real quick. The first is more of a statement that is we just learned today that we will be paying preschools for Act 166 who whether or not the students are attending the year the state has authorized us to pay them as if the students were in attendance at the Act 166 preschools. So that's a statement because someone had asked that question previously and at the time we said we need to comply with the law whatever it is and that's the new law. The thing that we have for a question is our bus company for a student. We have a contract with them which says that if we do not make up days they usually give us a discount on our contract. So some years we've not made up a snow day for instance and so they refunded us or we haven't paid for one student day of transportation. Both Harvard Union and ourselves received an inquiry requesting if the board can make a commitment to them so that they could follow the same protocol and pay their staff during the time of closure. They are helping us out with the meal distribution but instead of billing us extra for that and then having to reimburse us they're asking for guarantee so that they can let their employees get paid as well. So that would be a tentative action item later in the agenda and I believe that's all the financial information I needed to share at this time. I hope you feel comfortable because I'm very comfortable with the way things are going and I hope everyone else is feeling more confident that they know they're gonna get paid. Thank you. That was the last item, right? Yeah. That's all we have, no Scott. So if you would like for the board members to check in with each of them and ask them questions or we can review the check. I think first it would be nice to have some of the questions from those who have checked in perhaps a little bit later than the public comment section and then we'll have the board members go. So there are some questions in chat, I don't know. Do you want him to read them, Scott? Are you referring to the chat questions right now or? I do notice there are chat questions but Marilyn also mentioned that there are others who have joined perhaps on the conference or call line. Oh, okay, wait, turn in. Right, well, did you want to start with the board and then go back to the community or? I'd almost rather do the community first and then have the board go. Okay, other questions from the community on the teleconference call regarding the COVID-19 update? Karina, are you still there? It's midfield, whatever the proper word is, of students, how comfortable is everybody with that? They were. No, not financially. When I'm just, Gloria, it sounds like all that is being taken care of. I'm just wondering as far as staff are coming back in a couple of weeks. Right, well, we are, and instructionally, our intention is to continue unless otherwise directed and keep in mind that we are responding to changing recommendations from the CDC and the governor and the agency of education daily. But to the extent that this dismissal continues, we are intending to continue to provide the support for the students in their remote learning and the meal delivery and child care, unless otherwise directed. So that's our, that's what we're doing. I understand that, but again, my question is a little bit broader than that, as far as right now there is a plan, as far as meals and whatever being delivered by bus and teachers instruction and all, but I'm thinking that a lot of those people may become unavailable. And so I'm just wondering what kind of planning it's being done to have you don't have because they're ill. Right, well, of course. Can we bring it down a little bit? Of course, we don't intend to require the people to work if they're ill. We, not all the schools are using, within the bus company are using buses to deliver. So perhaps there might be some backup people available. We, you know, Korea and all I can say is that we are working to respond to every potential eventuality and adjust as we can. And whenever, you know, if we have to make adjustments to the services we offer or provide due to a scenario that you off, that you referred to, if that were to occur in the future, we would have to do that. If you wanna add anything, Lori. Yeah, the only thing I had to add, Corinne, was this is Lori, that I learned today from Michelle at like five o'clock that we're only currently using about half of our bus drivers. So that's the good news. So that, you know, we will have to take this in stride and I think we're gonna have to keep regrouping. This isn't over. It keeps evolving every day. I've never seen so many questions and emails come in my life. And we're really appreciative of your help. And I think we should consider that as a long term. You know, what are we gonna do? I think the leadership team will need to reconvene and we're gonna have to keep talking. Yeah, I think so. We just have to respond every day in a dynamic way as things change. But thank you. Yes, that's great. Now, there are also, I noticed a couple of questions in the chat that I think might be best answered directly either in the chat or perhaps separately after the meeting. I don't think they're necessarily crucial to this discussion right now unless someone... I see that there is a question here that... Can you hear me? Yes. Okay. Will school commons spaces be used each day or multiple times a day as staff are needing to work in the building and cannot do all their work remotely? Like I need some clarification about that question. But... Yes, Amy, right? If, honey, if you could provide some clarification of that because it's an important question about commons space that I think we do need to hear about and how we can kind of mitigate people coming in and out at the same time. Well, we have... Yeah, I'm happy to clarify that Mary Lynn and thank you for listening board and hope that you can hear me since this is all new and confusing. I'm just wondering... Honey, you just muted yourself again, so just unmute yourself. Excuse me. Thank you. Staff is going to be in and out of the building every day preparing that, a parent at Romney at least and are those commons spaces that we're sharing getting sanitized every single day if there's a crew working in other buildings? Yes, for any place where there is active employees there will be cleaning done daily. But in, we're going to start at U32 with a staged, a deep cleaning process that Amy Molina is along with David, our facilities director there are initiating because at the high school our teachers don't need to access their classrooms daily. They're actually going to be taking along all of the materials that they expect to need and will be essentially cleaning that building first and you know, in a thorough way and then closing out the rooms as that occurs. And we'll do the same thing through the elementaries in addition to the daily cleaning there'll be the deep cleaning that will occur. I don't have a copy of the schedule at this point in time but that is going, that is scheduled to occur throughout the district within the closure period. And I guess I just would like clarification that so as of right now, all staff will be able to be working remotely and being in and out of the building as needed for curriculum materials but otherwise there will be no congregation of any size groups as much as can be avoided, is that? We have, we stopped congregating early this week. We've not had in-person meetings of more than 10 people. We've only had Zoom meetings even today when we had our in-service, all of our principals organized small groups around the building so that people could take part in Zoom meetings rather than a large group meetings. So that's protocols been implemented already based upon the requirement that we avoid being together in groups and sharing as you were just saying. So yes, we are on that. As far as staff being in the building, well, you know we have several staff. We sent out an FAQ to all of our employees today which identified various roles and responsibilities. We also sent out a survey asking for those employees that are not directly involved in cleaning food service or preparing lessons for students that they ask them to volunteer for one of the three areas that we are providing direct service to families which one would be the food service or delivery, the support for the instructional materials meaning copies and preparation of packets and things like that and childcare which when it gets up and running right now we do not have that up and running. We are still selecting information about what our needs are. So we're using the staff that remain in ways in which they wish to be involved. And then of course we work with individuals who have any kind of medical concerns obviously just like we would on any other point in time. Deborah, I have a question. This is Deanna Murray from RUMD, can you hear me? Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that our staff were on the Zoom site. We hadn't shared that Zoom, we were looking for this to be a board discussion. We're happy to hear from you, but I just wanted to, I'm just kind of curious as to how that was shared. In any case, go right ahead and ask your question. I'd like to get back to the board if I may because we do have board members that if not yet had a chance to speak. The website was shared with all community members. The website was? The Zoom meeting, Corinne's on. No, she's on a phone conference, that's why. I was just curious, I thought this was, but maybe someone else shared it, I don't know. Regardless, I wanted to be sure in Maryland that everyone had an opportunity to speak who was from the board, that's all. So we can certainly take questions from staff at any time, we'll take them now. It's up to the board share to decide how to proceed. Yeah, it's fine. Okay, go ahead. Well, I'm wondering if you could, is Scott or Keith, whoever is on the screen, if you could scroll back up to the social or emotional and health well-being part of the document. And my question for that is while we were in our buildings today with all of the staff members that were there in very large groups together and are expected to go to the schools, to create curriculum and to deliver things, how are staff, how are we going to be able to curb the anxiety of currently possibly being exposed to this virus while we are required to do our contractual abilities? Yeah, I'm sorry if that was the case. We understood that principals were going to divide people up into smaller groups and have meetings that way using Zoom in each of the schools. I wasn't at your school today, so I can't speak to it specifically. But with the daily cleaning and the fact that you are only required to go to your school to get materials and you can work at home, we're doing our best to mitigate your exposure. And of course using social distancing is a part of that. Thank you. If you have further specific questions, I hope that you feel free to contact me or your principal and we can work with you personally if you have individual concerns. I just know that on a, not, you know, I can't speak for others, but this is just not an individual concern of mine. This was widely expressed by many, many people it is a concern of mine that I just wanted to make known. I think that you're concerned. Yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah, I think it's shared by others. That's fine. Yeah. Okay, thank you. All right, would you go with one address on your question? Yes, we've heard it and thank you very much. I'd like, Kari is concerned that we might not have time to just hear from each board member, but I think it's very important that we get the sense of the board as to your reactions about this. And I wonder if we could start with you, George, very short, whatever you have to say. I'm pleased with the way that things are going. And I'm glad that people have stepped right up and quickly pulled this together. I am slightly concerned about putting teachers at risk. And I was just wondering a little bit more about how we were going to divide them up, maybe even if there was an odds and evens by classroom number. And then even isolate that to maybe one hallway where a cleaning crew could come in and keep that area clean. That's all. Thanks, George. We don't have to answer those now. If you take note of each of these concerns and we can address them and get back to George with them, is that possible? Of course, thank you. Our administrative staff. Thumbs up. Thank you. Diane? Thank you for all this great work. It's really impressive. And I've just spent today, I work up in the Northeast Kingdom in a school system and so I've just spent today really diving in and talking with staff and having to reassure them and listen to what the concerns are and make sure we're addressing them as well as the distance learning plans and all the other things. So this as a board member is incredibly helpful. So I really appreciate the time that was put into it and the openness to questions. So thank you. Thanks very much, Diane. Coming and then Dorothy on deck. Yeah, excellent work and I hope you'll be forthcoming if you need anything from the board in terms of messaging or marshaling resources or anything else. Thank you. Thanks, Kari. Dorothy and Fleur up next after. Okay, I'm having to get used to this technology. I'm perfectly satisfied with everything. Can we get a printout of what this all was presented on the computers tonight? Is there a way to get that so I can read it? Some of it I was listening and reading at the same time. Yes. Dorothy, it was. It was this forgetting to mute myself on and on. I'm sorry. Dorothy, this was shared in an email you received today, but I'd be happy to mail you a hard copy if you would like. No, if it came in an email, that's okay. I probably did download it. I was trying to get connected to Zoom when I... Of course, Jeremy. Because I'm on time for that problem. We should be in an email for today. Great. Thank you very much, everyone. All right, Fleur, followed by Linda. I just want to say thank you. I really appreciate all the work and I am forever grateful. I do want to emphasize that we're a collaborative organization. Everyone's world of being is our priority. So I appreciate that everybody's been working together and we're here to support you all as a board. That's it. Thank you so much, Fleur. And after Linda and Stephen, please. I wasn't unmuting, but now I am. This is great work. And as a teacher in another district, I was spending the day in similar work. It's good to see that all the districts are pretty much on the same page. I was delivering lunches and treating people that way outside in the fresh air where you can keep your social distance. My understanding from some of the social emotional concern is there are no requirements that people be in the building in groups anymore. So that may quell some of that. Today was the last day of that and they were supposed to be small groups. So thanks for all the work. Thank you, Linda. Stephen and then Chris McVeigh afterwards, please. No concern, thanks for the work. Excellent, thanks Stephen. Chris, followed by Jill. Yeah, many thanks to all you folks. This is a very nice outline. I want to mention some, I suppose it was found in Pantone, this is stating about the buses going house to house. If that is possible because it sounds like they may be doing that to deliver materials for computers because I don't think that that would be delivered by group, maybe it wouldn't be. But given that there's only one bus group a day, having house to house deliveries, I think would be very, very beneficial for our students and their families. Also, is there someone who could be designated as a contact for the task? Middlesex has an emergency committee and having that person have a contact with the district would be great, particularly if there's time for sharing resources like the delivery system through the bus. But overall, thanks very much for your help. Great, Chris, thank you. Jill and then Marilyn. Oh, I get it. Okay, hi everybody. No, I just want to echo what others are saying. Thank you for your work and it really sounds like you guys are headed in the right direction in a really challenging time. So I feel a lot of confidence in what I've heard and how you're approaching a really challenging situation. I would. Thanks Jill. Marilyn. Hi, Echo, Jill and floor setting. You guys have done a great job. I really hope that you as a leadership team are taking some breaths and taking self-care because your staff and your families are really going to be supporting, looking to you for support right now. This is fluid and evolving every day and I know that you are seeing that as well. I'm happy to hear that we're stopping to congregate teachers and buildings at the same time. That is essential to protect our most vulnerable community members and that the social emotional and the food that you are providing right now is absolutely the number one thing. To speak to Corinne and what she had spoken about, this is a long-term plan, Corinne, for sure that we have to be looking at but I think that looking at this at a weekly basis is going to help to sustain everyone and keep everyone's energy where it needs to be focused to at that moment. Thank you, Marilyn. Jonas and then Jaya. So I'll echo what everyone else said, intense gratitude for all the work that's being done. We're asking Debra and the central office and everyone in all the buildings to undertake an educational Manhattan project. And I had to all say, in terms of self-care, in terms of self-care, I had a very challenging day myself, keeping it together with all of the things that I had to do here at home with my family. And I just want everyone who's doing, I can't imagine the strain that you guys are under and the pressure and the anxiety. So it's okay to have a bad day and it's okay to be freaked out and anxious about this because I am too. Thanks Jonas, Jaya. Yeah, this is really impressive and thank you for all your hard work. I mean, everything you already have to do and then to do this, it's on top of that. It's amazing and it's very clear and it's a good plan and I feel confident that it's gonna work. And I'm relieved that teachers will be able to work from home. That is reassuring to me and yes, thank you for all your hard work. Great, Jaya, thank you so much. All right, I think what we should do is if there's no objection, jump ahead to executive session where we would have Deborah and Aaron and I think we're gonna need Keith for technical reasons, but that would be it in terms of other participants in the video conference. Is that, are there any objections to this? I believe that we have a couple of things to do, a point before we move into the second session. What I'd like to do is do the executive session before Deborah has to excuse herself if she was not sure that it's possible and then we can come back and do the rest of the open session. That would be my suggestion. So Chris, did I take it that you move for us to enter executive session for a personnel issue? Yes, please. Second? I'll second. Thank you Marilyn. All right, I think what you can do all in favor of this, please raise your hand. Can you see the raised hand? Oh okay, raise your hand in reality, that's even better. Good, and Dorothy I can't see you. Do you have? I'm raising my hand. Okay, very good. All right, so we're now in executive session I'm inviting Erin and Deborah and Keith to stay. Let's just pause for a moment. We have to ask everybody else. Excuse us, I'm sorry. Yes, Deborah? We have to leave about past hour. Orca has to leave as well as David and Lisa. Can you give us a moment to clear the room? Okay. Yes. Okay, we are on the record as far as Orca is concerned. Floor would you like to repeat your motion, please? Sure, do not renew the employee effective June 30th, 2020. And Dorothy seconded that motion. Is there any further discussion of that motion? Effective June? June 1st. All in favor. Okay, we're gonna have to do this. Is that my turn, Erin? We're gonna have to do this by roll call, I think. George? All in favor. George abstains. Diane? Aye. Thank you very much. Karey? Aye. Thank you very much. Dorothy? Thank you, Dorothy. Floor? Lindy? Stephen? Chris? There's any? Jill? abstain. Marilyn? Aye. Jonas? Aye. Jiala? And I'm an aye as well. Okay, the motion carries and we can continue on with our agenda. So having, it will take me a moment to find our agenda, but I believe that one of the items we have is to appoint a new board member from Berlin. Is that correct, Laura? I have a question. I have a question. We didn't finalize 3.1. Actions require response. Did Deborah give you more feedback after our staring committee meeting about appointing a Lori mentioned that they needed something similar to in the summer, appoint you to be able and a backup to sign on behalf of the board. So that should be first. Thank you, Laura. No, no, no, no, no, no need to apologize. You're absolutely right. Let's do that. We just need to formulate the motion properly. Do you have it off the top of your head floor? No, but I'm working on it one second. Okay. I'm still, sorry, after... Could you explain what it is you're talking about? Right, this is in order to, you know how in the summertime when board members are scattered to the winds, we authorize the board chair or device chair to be able to sign in order for payments to take place until the board can come back and after the fact approve the board warrants. This is the sort of thing that we're talking about. Does that... Well, I'm curious if that means we're not planning board meetings virtual like this or I have, I'm just wondering what... This is an additional backup. We're just building in as much redundancy as we can in case, God forbid, we can't muster a quorum even online that we have. The idea was to have either Floor or me be authorized to give the interim approval to the board orders for the issuance of payments and then have, sorry, I put that badly. Floor or I would be able to authorize the issuance of payments subject to the board's later approval of the board orders that are being paid against. And we would probably also include Jonas in this, again, out of an overabundance of caution. Does that make sense to you or do you think there's a problem with that? No, I just wanted clarification on what we were signing over and why since I don't think any of us are going anywhere, but I understand that we all guide from Gronar hoping there won't be a quorum. But otherwise, I hope it would be on track. Yeah, the quorum is probably the least of our problems in that case, but yeah. But so whenever you have a motion ready for, feel free to pitch it. Okay, but should I be the one making the motion, just to authorize, the board moves to authorize is Scott Thompson, the vice chair or the clerk to sign on behalf of the board warrant as needed. Does that make sense? And I also wanted to explain to the board that part of the reason this came up is that there was a question of being able to pay for employees, it's things changed. And dramatically, nobody could be at school. Lori wanted to make sure that somebody could sign and Scott and Jonas and I had a meeting, several state committee meetings, thinking that in this case, Scott is quarantined right now because he just came back and to be able to have options in behalf of the board. Oh, I agree, and again, Floor, because I think that's, I'm wondering if there was enough detail in terms of what would warrant the need for that backup. And I would propose that we put in succession language. Okay, if the chair is not available, then the vice chair and vice chair is not available, then the clerk, just so it's not authorizing three at the same time, because four would mean anyone of the three could do it. If that's what we want. That makes sense to me. Are you okay with that Floor? I am totally fine with that. I'll read it again. Diane had a question. I guess I just said that I would look, I don't know, Steven, if you have a comment on this, authorize the chair, the vice chair or clerk in behalf of the board to sign a warrant as needed. This is Steve, I am muted. Is Lori still there? Yes, I just texted her and she said to have a rise payment to fair student without a reduction due to school closure. Well, that's different. So, because I think what you're asking for is you're asking for the ability to, that should a quorum not be possible due to COVID-19? Because that's my understanding that that's where this is coming from. And so if we just need to add that, to me, we need to add that line in there that if a quorum is not, a board quorum is not available due to COVID-19, then we authorized first, for Scott Thompson to be authorized to sign that. If Scott Thompson is not available, then Floor, if Floor is not available, then Jonas. This is Steve again, Scott and Floor, I guess. Without a clear proposal, language from the administration on exactly what they would like us to consider and vote on, I just said, I know they want action, but I suggest we gave it. So I just got a text from Lori, a text there to see, and what I read is what she would like in the auction is to authorize payment to fair student without a reduction due to school closure, which I know is completely different to what I said before. I just texted her again, but that's what she's telling, that's the immediate need. So I think that is an action item that's needed. But to me, that's different than having them back up because I was noticing on the form that first student was doing that. So I think when we were going through that grid, that was just an oversight that she didn't present that they were requesting that payment. And so I think that's a separate item that we have a quorum that we could vote on. But then the other part that you're talking about, that I would agree with Stephen, is that we want some clarity around if a quorum is not available due to COVID-19. So tabling that until our next meeting so that we know specifically what's needed. But that doesn't mean tabling the payment authorization for first student. Right. I'm okay with the tabling. Is there any objection to tabling it? Tabling the initial idea of the three backups till next time, which is still be okay? I hope so. Yes, yes, sorry. Laurie just texted again. I'm trying to get her on speaker questions. She said, yes, for a student only at this time. Sorry, she's calling us now. You're in speaker, Laurie. I thought, I'm sorry, just speaking with the entire floor. Oh my God. The reason why is because we've had no other issues that would require court action, that's not gonna impact any. Okay, that sounds good. Don't worry. Yeah, I just read it. I just, the board had questions. Okay, I'm sorry. So what's the question? What's the goal of the motion? So Chris McGay is asking, what is the goal of the motion? Okay, is that, will the bus, will the bus company be flexible in terms of the services that they provide? Yeah, I will trans, he was wondering if the bus company is willing to be flexible with the bus routes. And if the district needs to be. So what's happening is that if we agree to just pay them? Okay, is that clear with everybody? And is this, again, I want a little bit more clarity. Is this something that we then lose control of? I mean, we both could do this now that we can't revisit it in the future. If the first student is not being as cooperative as we might want them to be. I believe, I don't know if Lori was able to hear, but I believe all you're doing is authorizing one of us to be able to sign that. So I don't see why it couldn't be on the other side. I don't need for the days since they're not driving right now. So they're going to have to have the fleet to do the food distribution, I am standing. For how long is Chris's question? Yes. And I believe that it was only for two weeks. For two weeks. I mean, I just want you to keep voting on this. Yes, thank you. Any other questions from four members? I have one more question. Do we want to put in the condition that it is actually going to be paid to the drivers? Because that's the purpose of it. Chris's questions that do we want to put in that it's a condition that bus drivers will be paid because that's the condition? Yes, I would do that, thank you. Okay. Did you hear that Chris? I did. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Lori. Yeah, thank you very much. Come here, you should put that up here. Thank you. Thank you, Lori. I'm going to use your motion, please. All right, I appreciate it. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah. Okay, let's get a motion out there then. So I'll move to authorize payment to first student with that very reduction due to school closure. And Chris, can you add the language you were looking for? Yes. Provided that condition upon first student's insurance payments that the bus drivers are still going to be paid whether or not they're driving buses. Thanks very much. Lisa, did you get all that? No, can you repeat, can someone repeat the whole thing? Did Lisa get that? I can't really tell. Hold on, hold on a minute. Sorry, I have part of it. That slower move to authorize payment to first student without a reduction due to school closure. Did I get that right? Yes. Without a reduction due to school closure. And then providing conditions. I didn't get the rest, Chris, sorry. Okay, just a minute. Conditions on assurance drivers will be paid whether or not they're driving buses. Assurance to first student that their bus drivers will be paid whether or not they are driving. Okay, you want me to read it again? Sure, please do. So floor move to authorize payment to first student without a reduction due to school closure. Providing conditions on assurance to first student that their bus drivers will be paid whether or not they are driving buses. Condition? Yeah, on the condition that first student continue to pay its drivers. Okay. You give it one more shot, perhaps? Yes, so floor move to authorize payment to first student without a reduction due to school closure. Conditioned on assurance to first student or from first student? Anyway. Assurance drivers will be paid. Okay, that their bus drivers will be paid whether or not they are driving buses. That sounds okay. What do you think, Chris? I think so too. Okay, so we have Dennis. That's basically a florist motion. Do we have a second? No second, yeah. Chris seconds, good. Any further discussion? This is Steve. So while we're voting on it, we're gonna pay the bus company. We missed most of that, Stephen, can you say it again? So we're voting on if school closes, we're gonna pay the bus company. Yeah. Correct, because the buses half the fleet will still be in use. And we don't want, I gather that we don't want the drivers laid off and thrown under the bus. Well, it's a round language for me. School hasn't closed. So Stephen, it sounds like you're saying that if school is discontinued so that there's no remote learning going on. No, I think what Stephen is saying is that we should have accepted friendly amendment to say in the event of closure or dismissal. Well, that event has already happened. So during this crisis. Yes. This COVID-19 crisis. But we're not technically closed yet. But we are dismissed. You could also just say during the governor's declared emergency, which he's done. And then that covers a lot without describing exactly the situation of the school. We could just stay through the remainder of the current school year. Right, we could just say we're going to honor the first student contract through the remainder of this existing contract or through the remainder of the existing school year and add Chris's language contingent on the drivers continuing to be paid. The last step is like a friendly amendment to me. Do you accept it, Flora? Yes, yes, sir. I do wonder though, because again, if we look on our grant that was created under the finance section, it's not specifically about first student is requesting a commitment to pay their contract during the closure period. So I'm not sure by saying that we're planning to honor the contract without making a statement of either closure or dismissal, if that's going to match what we're needing to think to come. I think this language is appropriate because we really don't know what's going to happen for the rest of the year. It may be that we enter a legal status that is neither open nor closed nor dismissed. We have no idea what's going to happen. So I think saying that we are committing to pay their drivers, make sure that they're not unemployed and that they have some income that is circulating within the community for the rest of a school year. And then anything after that is a question. Okay, we're sort of in between things here. We have a friendly amendment to the motion that... I would feel more comfortable if we had a second to that friendly amendment. How second is friendly amendment? Okay, thank you. So Lisa, are you able to catch all this? Yeah. So I have Floor move to honor the first student contract through the remainder of this existing school year conditioned on assurance from first student that their bus drivers will be paid whether or not they are driving buses. That sounds right to me. And Chris seconds. Okay. But any more discretion of this? So I just have, do you, does that language cover first student still providing service that we currently want? It should, I mean. I think it should do, but I'm not cautious. This is Steve, I'd say the motion we've made exceeds what they had requested. We're giving them our good faith assurance. If they've only got half the buses running but they're getting paid to still contract, then Chris, I think the concern about asking them to increase the routes will probably be no problem. This is good faith. Yeah. Yeah, I think so too. I think if we just get it on the books, I mean, we can always adjust it in two weeks if they needed something further. But I think this is making women pay them. That's what they need. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, John. Kari, do you have any thoughts? I'd like to move forward. Okay. I think that seems to be a common sentiment. Ready for a vote then. All in favor, please show your hands or thumbs. All right. I'm seeing, thumbs up. Dorothy, Steven. He says from the top. All right. All right, very good. Okay, the ayes have it. And I'm not gonna, I look like it was unanimous to me. Very good. So now, 4.0, board operations, appointment of new board members. Florian, you were at Berlin on Monday? Yes, I was at Berlin and this little board in Berlin has no problem with us appointing Jonathan Goddard to our board. So do you want me to make a motion again? Please. Please do. So make a motion to appoint Jonathan Goddard to the Washington Union five, Union School District Board for a year. Right, from Berlin. From Berlin. Exactly. The balance of the year. Yeah. Yeah. I'll second that, Karri. Thank you. Great. So floor moves, ayes seconds. Any further discussion? If not, all in favor, show of thumbs or hands. Once again. Parmarthi. Thank you, Dorothy. And skiddle. Great. All right. It's unanimous. Um, welcome, Jonathan. Um, all right. Yeah, and thank you, Jonathan. Amen to that. So, um, we have consent agenda. Sorry, Scott, if I may, just really quickly. 10 seconds. We still don't have any from Worcester. The select board nominated Will Baker. He declined. We still need someone from Worcester. Jaya and I have beat the bushes. The select board is working, uh, it's hard time to ask people to join the school board, but we need a full compliment. So if anyone has any leads, please let us know. Thanks, Jonas. Absolutely right. Okay. So do I have a motion to approve the minutes of March 4 and March 11? Don't move. Chris moves. Was that Linda? That, yes. Thank you. Chris moves, Linda seconds. Any discussion of those minutes? There's a lot in there, but you will have had a chance to lift them over. All right. If there are no changes on favor, please say aye. Or no, thumbs, hands, thank you Dorothy. Thank you, Stephen. All right, very good. The minutes carry. We have one personnel action, I believe, which is hiring a new nurse, you got it. Which is a timely action. I don't, I don't have that right in front of me. Does anybody want me to make a motion? Please do. I make a motion to approve Jennifer, B-R-I-T-E-L as school nurse at U32. Thank you, Linda. Second. Seconds. Jial, seconds, thanks. Any discussion? It seems like a timely hire. Okay, in that case, Laura's already indicating her sentiments. All in favor, please say aye. All right, thumbs and thanks, sorry. Excellent. Once again, we have a new nurse for U32. Thanks. Now, seven is future agenda items. One thing I wanted to just check in with you all on, do you want to try to meet more frequently and try to keep it short, as this was less short than I hoped, but frequent check-ins, but shorter, and also Zoom allows breakout sessions. So what we could do is potentially breakout committees during one of these online meetings where committee members could meet together in the context of a broader Zoom video conference. Do you want to think about this? We don't have to make a decision on it. We can work our way into it. There's so much going on. Very difficult to plan anything. I think, Scott, I'd like to request that the principals, if they're able, have an invitation to Zoom in when we do meet. That would be helpful just to see how they're all holding up from their perspective. Keep, I apologize that I sent that Zoom out, but no one could call in or it was hard. So if you could just have someone call in and check it to make sure that the link that's out there, so people are doing it in an appropriate manner that they should have done it, I'm sorry, but that would be helpful. Okay, yeah, I hear you. No problem, I figured that we're just getting off the ground. So we'll look at our, we'll get into our groove. We'll work this out. Anyway, to just add to Mary Lynn, I saw nothing that said don't share this link and you do have a public meeting show. If we're going down one way for public and one way for the board, we'll be clear. Understood, thanks, Linda. And our staff is always welcome to come to our meetings. Yeah, yeah, everybody is, it's a public meeting and especially now, I think people are more concerned than ever about what's going on. Any other observations or suggestions or? To your point, I think more frequent check-ins around now just to take the temperature and see how people are doing would be helpful, even if they're just for that purpose alone. Yeah, well, I agree with you, Chris. And I also think there's a lot of work that we were planning to do that we probably can't do at this point because we're not going to be able to ask staff to do anything other than react to this crisis for quite a while. So I think maybe that's the, you know, kind of reframing our media plans for the next couple of months is something we're going to need to do at the next meeting. But if we do meet more frequently then we really have to set a time limit and be done by that time, either table or not. Yeah. I mean, I don't have a problem with meeting more often, but if they're going to still go on, then that would be very frustrating. I agree. I completely share your point of view. And I think if, pretty much everybody else does, too. I honestly disagree, this is the least anxious life of all days being in here with you guys. Thank you, Sharon. Okay. What's your clarity about when you're saying meet more often? Are you saying just save six o'clock on Wednesdays? Yeah. That's what I was, that's kind of what I had in mind. Can we make it later so that George could attend and you have small kids that gives us a little bit more time to get them dealt with? Seven o'clock would be great, honestly. In Zoom, give us the flexibility for that. And then we'll travel. That's true. What's the sense of the members of the board? It was seven o'clock by Zoom. Kai. I want to offer a different perspective, which is that I don't have a strong opinion about how often and how long we meet, except that I think we should be very cognizant of the demands that that puts on the staff. Yeah. I think that should really be a guiding principle right now. You can't even imagine the stress that they're under, the stress that they're going to be under in the coming weeks. We should be very careful about burnout and not burden them with a bunch of additional evening meetings. Yeah. So just not perfect. So let me make a suggestion. Why don't we all reserve Wednesdays and the 6th in the event that there's a reason for us to convene because there's something happening but otherwise not change our schedule unless the staff asks us to do so because they have needs of us. Does that, can we do that? How much morning do we have to give before we meet? Oh, wait. Well, but how do we, Scott? Yeah. That was my question. It's just a few days. Yeah. So I would say that we hold the time but leave our regular schedule in place and seek guidance from the staff about whether there are issues where they need quicker, our attention more quickly. Right. Okay. Just one more thing. I will just keep our meeting, our next meeting and think about this procedurally. I'm a theory. This creates, so now the administrators have to warn. We create an expectation in the community and then at the last minute it's not going to happen. So then they need to communicate that the meeting's not going to happen. This is way more. That wasn't what I was suggesting. I was suggesting that we as board members try to be available knowing that there might need to be a meeting called at short notice not that we should warn them meeting. Okay. On your schedule. Yeah. Yeah. Well, otherwise just stick with our normal schedule. Oh, otherwise stick with our normal schedule. Yeah. Yeah. And the only problem I have with that is I have a regular meeting on the fourth Wednesday but I would just be absent that time. That's all. Yeah. Thanks. We'll keep that. Great. All right. Well, I can't wait till we can get back to fighting about proficiency grading. It sounds so luxurious at this moment. I know it was a long time ago and far, far away. So if there is no objection, shall we adjourn by consensus in 28? Scott, can I thank you everyone. Keep things from making this happen. And I think it really worked well. Scott. I have a question. Yeah. A quick question, everybody. Did you have one? Good night. Scott, we have one question. Scott, stop the question here. No. I'm just wondering, did you have board orders that you needed to approve? We already, yeah, we did it by, yeah. Oh, that's right. Thank you. And then the other thing was that there was a policy on the agenda. Was that, you're just gonna do that next time? Obviously. Yeah, we're punting on a central. Okay, thanks. Okay, thanks. I might wanna make sure Lisa has the newest agenda. So I think the policy stuff was taken off. That's true. Oh, okay. There wasn't that taking one. Okay. Yeah. Sorry, thanks. Yeah, I think it was sent to you, Lisa, on yesterday at 3.33 PM. That was revision two at this time. Mm-hmm. Thank you, Lady. All right. Okay, thanks. Okay, good night, all right. Good night, everybody, and many, many thanks to all. Good night. Take good care. Bye. Ready?