 And there it is, Ray is so nice. Yeah, it is really very helpful, Ray. Thank you so much for putting the agenda links into the email. So I don't have to fum for around as much as I might. All right, we've called the meeting to order. We need to discuss adjustments to the agenda. Carl, I was wondering if there was any update on the labor negotiations and didn't know if that necessarily needs to be a agenda item or fum. I was going to, it didn't come up in Jamie's super intense report. I was going to mention it in board comment. Thank you. Bonnie, Lindy, Jamie, any administrative changes that are needed? OK. Ethan, you've been our timekeeper in the past. You want to do that again? Yes, if I can find a piece of paper. I guess that's all I have to do. OK. Go for it. OK, we have a consent agenda that hopefully we can take care of in five minutes. I would allocate five minutes for the for the board comment. How long do the various reports think they're going to require? 10. So 6.1 Jamie goes 10. Yeah, I think we can do all of them in 10. You can do all of them in 10. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, so questions to the board. Your COVID updates. Give us another 10. OK, reviewing the document and report you sent out about the the thoughts on the building maintenance, the high school building. I would think that'd be 15, maybe. Yeah. SEL data, social, emotional data. 10 to 15. OK. I think the 7 to what's 7 to 7 to is the winter maintenance building. No, I just what was the time for it, please? Oh, we said 15. Thank you. And then I think it'll just be in public session. It'll just be a couple minutes on the interim board member and the November vote. I'm assuming that the new hires is just is just an approval of the thing. So probably five minutes, Jamie. The quick update, and that's just a note to you guys. There's some kind of work in your building, but they're not an actual R7 employee, they'll be a WRB SU employee. Oh, OK. So that's real easy. That's just a couple of minutes on that. And then in the executive session, we have the attorney client communications that you I think is probably also an email on, if not, we'll brief you in the meeting as well as we have the report from the the four board members that were in the special interim board member interview meeting earlier tonight. And so we will be on that in a second executive session. So I guess we have 11.1 and 11.2. Probably the attorney one is going to take five to 10. And the board discuss the interim the personnel discussion will probably take 15. And I think that's pretty much it. Good. OK. That said, the consent agenda. I'm going to turn this over to to Jenny to update us on which minutes we're looking at and which ones we're approving. I believe that there are all the ones that are listed because at the the last meeting, the July minutes weren't in the package. OK. All right. So do we want to discuss them as a slate or do we want to go through individually slate slate? I would entertain a motion to approve the slate of minutes as have been distributed. So moved. Second. Second. OK, we'll go through and we'll do a quick roll call. Amy. I. Ethan. I. Jenny. I. Megan. Is she there? Megan. I. Sorry. The slate of the consent agenda carries unanimously. Um, so let's go through the reports for the board and then have board comment after that. So in case there's anything we want to instruct or or or do based on what our administration tells us. So let's start with Jamie. So you guys have my report in hand. I'll just add that as far as negotiations go, I'm going to be pulling the negotiation committee together a week from Monday to do some work. And both we are moving to impasse both with our support staff and professional staff. And right now we're working on settling on an arbitrator. So. And are we do we have any guidance yet or information on whether we'll be able to use the the the no cost federal mediator option or if we're we're going to be I believe that that's that's the direction we're trying to head and just make sure they're available and be able to secure that. Other things I'll let you know is that we got the sad news that CBS won't be able to join us this week. They were going to film and do a story 60 and six on our approach to opening for in-person instruction with a focus on how we're training teachers up. To provide instruction outdoors to be able to focus on core content area instruction and outdoor setting and professional development that occurred in order for that to happen. They had another story come up that they had to cover. So they're hoping to maybe come back later in the fall and still do a story on the work that we've done across the WRBSU to open five days a week. They were really intrigued. That's exciting. And I hope that I'm hopeful that that still can occur. I've got to put a shout out there to all the staff administrators. I've been touring buildings throughout the in-service days and the it's been very positive. It's been upbeat. Folks, of course, are anxious about September 8th, but they really come together in regards to a we system. And I think many hands are making light work. And I also want to put a shout out there to Lindy, who's doing a terrific job with the WREVSU Virtual Academy. And so to that end, as I said, we were going to approach this virtually. We had a teacher at our said that's going to be teaching in the virtual academy and therefore the SU then has secured a long term sub whose license that we will use your money for to fill in in that teaching position. And that candidate is listed on your agenda. And Bonnie can give you some details about that. We were I'm very excited that we were able to bring Megan on board. She's a terrific hire as a long term sub. And she's going to do really good work at the Rochester campus. And I'll entertain any other questions folks have. I. I had a question on. A while ago, they were talking about at the state level about the homeschooling impact on the ADM. And I just didn't know if the state had on. Sorry, my dog's barking in the background. If the state had if you've heard anything from the state about around that ADM and the homeschoolers. Yes, I've been following that closely in the legislative reports. There has been lobbying occurring around the VSA the SBA and also the Secretary of Ed told the school term list that their equalized pupils will not drop below the 1920 equalized pupil number. And I think I do believe that that's going to gain traction and so that schools will be held harmless for families that chose to homeschool this year that the the equalized people wouldn't drop below what we're currently operating with. I'm also awaiting a legislation. There's been support to drop the student based on 170. In a while back, I asked the SU board permission to be flexible with those days and the union agreed. So the idea was that we would bank those five days in the event that we have to hit the pause button for in service needs because we just realized we're not getting something right based on feedback we receive from our families and our students. So that right now we're scheduled to go one hundred and seventy five. That would be the plan unless we need to hit the pause button. Just a quick technical note to anybody listening. If you could please mute just there is some feedback and sometimes it's hard to hear people talking. So if you can just mute. What's a star star six star six on the phone lines if you could just mute so that way we can really hear the person just coming in clearly. Thank you. There we go. Much better. Thank you. And then the other thing I'll add is that the SU board last night did provide permission. We're going to do some restructuring in the SU offices in our budget proposal for October or twenty one twenty two. And then we're also going to be posting for some additional support in the SU business office. And so we're going to be posting an associate business manager that we've been able to secure funds enough to cover most of the salary. But we've also found several savings in regards to special ed staffing that will help offset some of those costs. So I don't foresee it putting us in the red. But this person would be focused on overseeing food service but also assisting terror with day to day oversight of the business office and to be able to better split those duties up across two folks to ensure that we're able to provide you guys the data and information you need in real time to make informed decisions specifically as we changed our budgeting practices in timeline for the upcoming year. So we're excited about that too. So that job will get posted in the next day or two. Does anyone else have a superintendent. Thank you, sir. Our principal's report any. I don't think there's any additions, though. You may have heard Ethan and I talking earlier. Thankfully, we set our tents up early before students arrived to allow teachers to have time to work in those outdoor classroom settings as we go through in service. And we learned they have to be on level ground and high winds is not ideal. We've since solved that problem and are continuing to add some more supports to make it even more secure. There's been a lot of people. Ethan has definitely led the charge and we're very grateful with that. And teachers are really excited about that space. I have some pictures I can send as they've started to make it, you know, their classroom. So it's cool to see. We're seeing similar trend. We're about a day or a day and a half behind Stockbridge in terms of getting a solution in. I know Ethan's been trying to connect with me by phone and it's been two busy days. But our teachers are also very much excited about those outdoor spaces. They've been out there imagining the kinds of things that they're going to have ready when when youngsters start school on Tuesday. One other thing I will draw your attention to in the principal's report, I had mentioned that we were changing the preschool model at Rochester because we had 14 four year olds, which would have left virtually one space for a three year old would attend preschool. And we've talked ever since I've been here about the board's desire to not turn away any preschool youngsters. So we changed the model, split it into two groups. And I'm glad that we did that because in the last two days, two new three year olds have have surfaced. So we have room for them to attend the preschool program. So that will give us 17 youngsters in preschool all together, which is a which is a very healthy number for us. I guess that's all I will say at this point. You guys mentioned in your second bullet on the HVAC systems that there was a a about a twelve thousand dollar need for a ventilation unit or a pair to the to the preschool. Yes, I mean, are we is this something we need to put out to bid is Tara putting the I mean, it's twelve thousand dollars, right? We have to we have to bid it. Let me just back up one step, Carl. That came about as a result of the engineer that that Jamie and Tara set up to have a check the ventilation system in the two schools. In our preschool, we have a need for additional fresh air as we do in the gym. The the twelve thousand dollar figure was the engineer's estimate for rectifying the issue in in the preschool. That we believe will be covered totally by the grant funds that the state of Vermont's making available to schools to improve ventilation. We will have a temporary that will not be able to be in before school starts. We'll have a temporary fix just using good old fans and open windows for the first week or so of school until we can get a handle on the timeline for that installation of that unit. But again, we believe that all the work that's been done in the two schools to date, plus this replacement of this or installation of this unit in preschool should be covered with grant funds. Right. But the board. So you do not need the board to make a motion to get the bid the bidding process or to authorize this the business managers to go get the understanding is no after talking to efficiencies from Carl, because they're trying to track these as much as possible. And Carl, the bid law is 15,000. See, I always thought it was 10. Maybe, you know, I'm just cheap. Um, we recommend that you in our policy, we recommend that multiple quotes are obtained, but you don't have to go out to public bid unless it's over 15,000. And emergency repairs are exempt from that also. Just an FYI. And, you know, the big piece here was I wanted to make sure that the administration had whatever board source of blessing the administration needed from us so that, you know, from a selfish point of view, I don't have to have a special meeting next week in the open evening. But also just to make sure that you guys can get it done as timely a way as possible. And you have to stop and say, oh, crap, we need a special meeting for the board to do X, Y or Z. I like the state's considering these emergency fixes for the taxes. Excellent. Does anyone else have questions for the principles based on the September report? Just letting you know we're a little over time now. OK, hearing none, let's move to the business manager's report, Tara. I will keep mine brief. Just give you an update. Jamie already shared that we will be posting for an associate business manager position. We're very excited about that. Currently, the business office is working on FY20 fiscal year closure and wrap up for our FY20 audit process. And the full board at two meetings ago, I believe it was approved the budget calendar for FY21-22. So you've all seen that. And we'll be working with you all to start establishing your budgets and pieces rather than all in one lump, one lump workbook like we have in the past, which will make the budgeting process a lot easier. The agency of education issued an extension on our annual stat book reporting. They have now moved it to September 15th. So we'll be working on that next week to get that finalized. We got notification today that the USDA has extended the option of using the summer food service program to provide meals to all of our kiddos. So we are working through that process right now and will most likely be moving to that option. So more information to come once we have the final details available for that. We'll be sending out notices to the administrators and the food service. And then if we move forward with it, Jamie would be issuing notification to families. I don't know, Jamie, if you want to add anything else to that comment. Yeah, thanks for bringing that up. So just so the board knows what that means is we can get reimbursed for any and all meals served for those 18 and under. Which should really support our food service program. As you know, we're hopeful that more students will then partake and eat. And I'm hopeful that that actually will support us to better ensure we're not running such deficits food service for the upcoming year. While we work to get our food service budgeting and things in order to ensure that we're not incurring deficits to food service as we move forward in 21 to 22. So that should help us a great deal. Great. It would be good to come on that. Tomorrow, our applications are due to the state for the coronavirus relief funds and the ESSER funds, which is a separate pot of money. And then we received guidance that FEMA is also going to be providing funds. So I will be working on getting all of that detail finalized today. Jamie, Cynthia and I met for the majority of the afternoon going over our plans, current expenditures and future needs. The coronary relief funds are only available through December. So we want to use those funds prior to using the other pots of money that the state has set aside for us, including the ESSER funds. And then I had one more thing. What was it? Oh, as far I received a lot of questions regarding reporting your approved budget to the agency of education. I have to wait 30 days from the date that your budget passed in order to allow time for reconsideration petitions to be filed. So I cannot file your budget report to the agency of education until September 11th. So once that report is filed with the agency of education, they do their stuff with it, they check it, process it. Then it goes to the tax department and the tax department will then notify your respective towns of what your tax rate is for your revised tax bills to go out. So I wanted to just make sure you all were aware of that because I've received received several inquiries as to your tax rates. Thank you, I appreciate you explaining that. You bet. Yeah. And then lastly, one more before I can't also enter your budgets until that timeline is up. So the administrators and administrative assistants are experiencing an infinite visions when they're requesting stuff that you have no budget for this because until your budget is officially approved after that 30 day window, we don't have an approved budget for say. So once that is that window is up, you will also then see your budget into infinite visions. Now, is the budget entered into infinite vision and it'll just be published or go live on that date? Or does that mean that on September 11th, when there hasn't been a reconsideration vote or September 12th, for example, that's when you'll sit down and just start, you know, a key stroking in the information or cutting and pasting in the information or uploading the information. However, that process works, I will be entering it after September 11th. So September or late September 11th, when the close of business happens because I heard the auditors, we cannot. Once you put your approved budget in, you can't adjust it. You then have to do budget adjustments and you want your approved budget to be the budget that's in your system so that all of your expenditures flow through to what that approved budget was by your towns. Right. And you don't have to you don't have to be looking at that. OK, no, I just was trying to get a handle on what that what that window meant. Another thing I'm sorry, go ahead. End of next week. Yeah, that's fine. The thing I wanted to add to what the food service cost conversation. I wanted to mention a thing that did come that was discussed in last night's SU meeting, which was that one of the things that Jamie is targeting and stealing his thunder on this, but one of the things he's targeting for that associate business manager to do is to spend a good portion of time working on managing food service and taking that load off terrace plate and also just trying to bring some order and some rigor to to that process so that hopefully, you know, we will be seeing you know, a much better handling of our budget going forward. Question for Taryn, this actually is for Jamie, too. That really good presentation you did at the full board meeting about savings that you'd found and also the deficits for the food service. Is that information that wasn't a public meeting? So I think it'd be very useful to get that out somehow, whether it's an article or something just I wanted to have it just to send it on to my fellow board, my other board members. But I just thought that was very, very useful information as far as the changes you're going to be making and boards and the SU structure and things like that, that we have that as backup. Thanks, Ethan. I actually reached out to the Valley News today and said I'd like to do an interview with them about the current WRVSU finances at the SU level and. Yeah, I see what's linked. I just, you know, again, I just that's the kind of information that we all went, wow, look at that. That's so clear. That kind of information getting out to our public is very, very useful, I think shows that we're thinking about the things that they've been talking to us about. Well, that would also be good to put into the Herald. I think that's something regionally that this area reads a little bit more than the Valley News. Thank you. Yeah, no, I agree, Megan. That was just, I started with them because I was in an interview with them. So I said, hey, by the way, there's another article I'd like you to do. Truthfully, I thought that both local papers do the fact that Orca was on that call when it reached out to me by now and they haven't. I think because they're very interested in covering COVID right now and schools reopening. But my plan is to get articles in both papers. It's also the mountain times. Thank you. Thank you. And Tara, just one clarification. What is infinite vision? It's an incredibly amazing phrase. It's our software program that we use, Ethan, to track all of our budgets and expenditures revenue. That's what we use for all the member districts. No wonder everything's going so well. I had a question for Tara. Is she there? Yeah. Okay. I noticed in, I think this was an presentation that was provided, it was a financial report provided to the SU at the 824 meeting. I noticed that in it you had state that you were going to be providing monthly expenditure reports. And I just was wondering, was that in specific to the SU budget or was that also at the district level that you would be providing those as well? It will be at the district level as well, Amy. Similar to what I provided you last year, the PDF document and the Excel workbook. We will continue to provide them, but they're going to be encompassed in my monthly business managers report. And since I was on vacation prior to your meeting, you didn't get an actual written report from me for this meeting. So I will send that out to you all in your principles separately for the month of September. But then moving forward from October on, that will be included in my monthly business managers report for your board meetings. And you can't really generate that report right now because you don't have a budget in your infinite vision that we can match expenses up against, right? I can generate the report, Carl. It will just show that everything is overspent at this point because there is no budget in there. Sorry, my computer dropped me. Thank you, Tara. I am concerned though, just that our board for the majority of the next year meets on the first of the month. Are we still going to be able to have these reports even though we are meeting so early in the month? Yes. Okay. It'll just be up to the date that I generate the report. Right, because like our December meeting is again on December 1st. Yeah, so it would be through the AP run, the last AP run prior to me generating the report in November. Got it, thank you very much. Any other questions for Tara? Okay, I think, let's see, which tab is it? Not that one, like close the principles report now. Policy committee, I think what we need to talk about there is there are three policies that the policy committee would like our input on, which are around board superintendent relationships, it's policy A24, public complaints about personnel B22 and budgeting F30. I am not sure if I'm the only person that has those because I'm on the policy committee or if you guys all have those. But the idea is what Mary Ellen is asking for is some feedback from us as to what we think of those policies to try to kind of shorten that policy comment revision cycle and to try to get all the input from all the different district boards taken into account in the SU level policy so that we don't have a RSU policy and a FFUD policy and everyone else is covered by the WRVSU policy. We're trying to do as much as possible, get our input taken into account into the policies when they're adopted at the SU level rather than us making our own policy after the fact. Are we going to turn those to us then so we can review them? Yeah, I can forward that forward or Ray right there links in the chat. So you can be able to open them from there or if you close them and you need them again, reach out to me and I'll forward them on. It's A-24, B-22 and F-30. Correct. Okay, thank you. You are welcome. You're admitted in that agenda, just so you know. Okay, correct. Oh, cool. So we're moving into item number seven, discussion items. We have a quick COVID-19 update. Yeah, so I'm going to turn it over to the principals. They've been working really hard on logistics at the building level. And then Lindy could give a quick update on where we're at with the virtual learning. Lindy, why don't you go ahead, I'll follow you. Okay, so we've spent at least a portion of every in-service day since last Thursday, just discussing logistics around keeping our kids and our staff safe as we return to in-person learning. As you can imagine, it's a big topic on everybody's mind, which means great questions come up as we start to figure things out. Today, we've probably looked like a large herd of pick your favorite animal moving from spot to spot as we were walking through our morning routine and what that's gonna look like at Stockbridge when people arrive in the morning and where we need to have adult eyes to really support what we're trying to teach kids with the check-in process in terms of hand washing and dropping their stuff off and temperature checks. And we did the same thing for what it would look like when we come off the bus as well as end of the day pickup and transitioning to one planet at 130. So we literally walked through as a pack of adults and said, if I'm a kindergartner, what does this look like for me? If I'm a fifth grader, what does this look like for me? To try and anticipate anything that we're not thinking of. And a lot of that just has to do with eyes on kids to make sure that they don't lollygag down the hallway so to speak or get lost in transition. Not that it's a very long hallway, but you never know. And also we just talked about expectations and routines. We're teaching kids when we're transitioning from inside to outdoor learning and vice versa as well as recess and all those fun areas. We are doing on Friday, Ms. Janet and I will be at school. We've asked parents to sign up for times to come and get their like welcome packet which has the health screening form and things like that. When we started to put it all together, it was a lot to mail. So we've shared a lot of information out with families. And in Stockbridge, we had a community meeting last week. It was fairly well attended with some great ideas from parents to problem solve some things as well. And all parents have had access to that video at this point as well. I think that's the summary of it. Everybody's six feet apart indoors with masks. That's the other thing. We are able to make that work. So I would say that we were doing almost exactly the same things with a different twist. We spent part of every day, as Lindy said, going over some aspect or another of our reopening plan. The other thing that Wendy and I built into the in-service schedule for folks is just time to get comfortable. Time to come back into the building and realize that you're gonna be okay. That there's a number of things in place that are different but those things all point towards just keeping our staff, ourselves, our youngsters safe. We spent a lot of time outside on the soccer field. Had some circle meetings out there. One of the things that came up is we wondered why we hadn't done this pre-pandemic. Why do we always meet in the gym when we've got this great place outside that we could meet in? So we made that realization. There was also a good deal of work done around literacy, mathematics and the fact that though children feeling safe and comfortable is our number one priority, we still have to continue to teach. We can't go on coast in terms of youngsters, academic development. So teachers were having some spirited discussions around how to bring all the academic pieces to the outdoors. Amy Braun did a nice piece for us on walking through the forest. We call it our forest. It's a little growth area out in back of Rochester and she did some activities out there. Bundling sticks and writing in the sand and just all kinds of great ways to take our proficiencies and our academic focal points right outside into nature. I'd like to add to something that Lindy said and give a heartfelt thanks to Ethan. He really did spearhead our tent outdoor environment. There's other folks that helped. I understand that I'm very grateful to them too but Ethan's sort of the one that's been keeping the train chugging forward and I very much appreciate that. Rochester's community meeting will be tomorrow night. So I'll be holding that online and hope to have a fair number of parents. We've communicated to parents in several different ways over the last couple of weeks. They know that someone's there. They know that their calls will be answered. I know that Wendy and I answer, respond to a lot of calls. Sometimes it's parents that just wanna talk to us. They just wanna be reassured that we've got this worked out and we have that worked out. So that's been very, it's been enjoyable to do, to be able to say to parents, look, we're taking care of this and we promise you that it will go well. Rochester has as of today and some parents are still going back and forth. They haven't quite made their final decision but as of today, we have 14 youngsters joining Lindy in the virtual academy and we have three youngsters who are going to be homeschooled through the actual Vermont homeschool network. I'm anticipating that we'll change another time or two before we actually start. I think that pretty well does it. I can segue right into our new hire. How's that? Because I wanted to mention her. As Jamie said, we were very fortunate. Our new teacher's name is Megan Donahue and she comes from the Boston Public School System. Thus, she's in the middle of finishing her quarantine so we're not quite sure she's gonna make it with us the first day of school, but our fingers are crossed. We have a plan if she does not. Megan is very, very, very well qualified. She's done a lot of work in inclusion. She's been an elementary science teacher. She's also an ESL certified teacher. She has a degree in special ed and she has her master's in elementary ed. So she brings a depth of understanding about youngsters and education to our campuses that I think we're gonna very much appreciate. So the Rochester teachers are in contact with her. We spent some time today starting to get her room set up for her. I'm very grateful to the collaborative nature of folks in our two schools because all you need to do is ask for something and it happens. So we're gonna be together tomorrow down at the Stockbridge campus for some literacy and service and then we'll break up to our two individual campuses and do a little more work fine tuning our opening plans before people head out for a four-day weekend. Lindy and I are talking about, where we're talking about actually banning people from school on Friday. Not allowing anybody to come to school on Friday but saying it's a requirement that you have a four-day weekend. So we'll see how that goes. Thank you. Do you know about how many youngsters will be in the Virtual Academy at Stockbridge? Right now there's eight that are enrolled at Stockbridge for the Virtual Academy. Sorry, way more in person. And there's three homeschool students that are on the latest list as of right now. Is there anything you guys need from the board to make anything happen besides duct tape and some grommeting? I think just support and knowledge that we're really being clear with families on both campuses that only staff and students are allowed in the building. And I think that for some parents that's going to be tough but it's a safety thing and really trying to keep our bubble at school. I know that'll be a hard adjustment for some families to not be able to walk in. I would agree with Lindy. I think that's going to be the hardest part for folks to accept. I heard a rumor that outdoor time for classes might be a possibility to join. Is that true or not? That is not true. We haven't had that conversation, Ethan. It's not something I think we want to do because it still introduces different people into the pods that we're trying to keep together. Okay, it's going around the community that that's a possibility. So just so you know that. Thanks for the heads up. I did promise my staff today at Stockbridge that people can come look from afar but I really am considering the tense and extension of our building at this point in time. And we need to keep people safe. That's a promise we need to make to people and we do that by trying to control who comes in and out of the building. It's the same thing as security but I would get that word out. No, thank you. That's a good heads up. Thanks, Ethan. I can mention that tomorrow night in the community meeting. Is it primarily in Rochester? Yeah, that's where I heard it from two sources. I can address that tomorrow night. It was just, they thought it was possible. They didn't know that it was for sure. So just to make it clear. If I may piggyback on just a couple of Carreras in Middlebury was really amazing to donate. We basically got, well, we got a donation from Home Depot from Lori Novotny, is that her name? Yeah. Yes, it was a wonderful donation. She arranged from Home Depot of all the buckets we needed and then Carreras filled them up with cement. And Donna at Hancock Building was very loaned us the rebar bender so we could make the hooks. And then Cricket McCusker and our crew, Cricket McCusker, Mike McDonald, Stacey Harvey, and then Donna at Stockbridge. It was actually kind of a wonderful community gathering of teachers, staff and community members to put the tents up. I have to say it felt really great to be doing something physical for this process. I guess that's why I really felt no problem about helping it. I just to put my hands on something and all these other people clearly at the same way. They just, we felt good about doing this. Plus I have to say, you know, this was part of our merger documents, getting outside. And I hate to say the reason for it is COVID, but the fact is I really hope that we get some lasting, I don't know what you wanna say, but I hope this sticks as far as getting kids outside on a regular basis at both campuses because that is something we really set as our goal for these two campuses. I think there's a number of things, Ethan, that will come out of this time that we are working our way through together that will recognize our good and should be continued. I know at the Rochester campus, faculty has started to talk about, hey, why, you know, as I said, why haven't we done this before? Why couldn't we keep doing this? Why can't we extend on this? So I think those things will happen. I just wanted to give a quick shout out to Lindy and Bonnie from a parent perspective, kind of totally separate from school board. You guys have done a really great job in getting information out to the parents. I'm also our older school, our older daughter goes to a different school district. And I have to say that the information from you guys has been really clear and you've definitely been right on top of everything. And it's been really easy to transition. Thank you, Jenny. It means a lot. Thank you, Jenny, it does. And I just want to add one thing too, Carl, in terms of your question, asking what we need, just a quick, funny quip. We helped with our physical components to connect to community foundation grants for $9,000. We got a $4,000 one for Rochester and $5,000 one for Stockbridge. And the thing that Lindy and I talked about when the first round came up, Lindy had time to write him. So she wrote for both schools. And she got one for Rochester and Stockbridge came up empty-handed. So the next round came around and I had time. So I said, you know what? I'm gonna throw one in for Stockbridge and see what happens. And so we got a $5,000 one for Stockbridge. We're laughing that she got one for the campus that I'm on primarily and I got one for the campus that she's on primarily. That's mixing. They only knew. We won't tell our secrets. No, we won't. Well, it's good, you guys, you guys know each other better than you know yourselves. Sometimes it feels like that. Some days we spend more time with each other than we do our spouses. I'm quite sure. Which one? Which one? I'm sorry? What was that? Grants again? It was, it's through the Vermont Principles Association. It's a community foundations grant. And then terms of virtual learning, just a quick update. We've finished staffing that there's well over 125 students K through eight that have registered to SUY for Virtual Academy. And I would say it changes every day. It's slowing down a little bit but I think people have made plans. Ray has helped with getting devices out to those families on Friday at their home schools and it's going well. Teachers, it's great to work with a different set of teachers and make some new relationships and see some new faces. And I think we're in a good spot. And as I told those families, it's gonna take us a week to be able to, just like in person, to make any adjustments that may be needed but feel pretty strongly about our plan for delivering instruction. It'll just be about adjusting some accommodations that kids may need or families may need in support. Okay, does anyone else have any COVID-19 questions for our administrators? Okay, then we'll move into reviewing the high school building winter maintenance status. So I forwarded you a report that we received Bonnie and I toured with your lead custodian, Jesse, right? I got it right. Please tell me. Yes. Yeah, Jesse, back in August on the third and Lyle put together a report for us. Lyle worked at Visbit for several years as a consultant and now is the maintenance director up in the Champlain Valley Supervisory Union. And so, and Williston. And so he put this together for us. It's a great report. It goes over each area that he recommends that we look to address prior to winter. It talks about, we do have a leak in the roof. We are aware of that. That's something that where we, Bonnie's reached out before in Jesse about how we can resolve that issue. We're hoping to get that patch prior to winter. There's talk about the underground tank of which I'll talk to you guys about later. I've got some estimates about what that would cost to actually get removed if we needed to. He was just noting that that should be taken care of at some point. He talks about needing to insulate the boiler. We definitely need to have gay lords come out and review the boiler prior to the winter, which is typically something that we do anyways. As you know, nomadic controls are difficult. Gay lords, someone that we're gonna try to use across the SU. I've been told by Lyle, they're the best of the best. And we have other buildings that still run off in nomatics across the SU. So we're gonna be looking to use gay lords for that across the SU. And in general, it was good to have a review of the building to give us feedback on what we need to do. We know that we also need to get some heat sensors as I mentioned previously around the building to ensure that the building's being monitored just because it is a building and the fact that we're turning the heat down to 55 if something that wasn't supposed to go wrong, we want those sensors to go off so we can get it fixed immediately but the building doesn't freeze up. That's the idea of the heat sensors. And we plan on having someone go through the building daily just to check and ensure everything's operating well and ensure that there's no freeze ups or anything of that nature that would damage the building. We've got a plan in place to address that too. That was a recommendation from Weil. Anything else, Bonnie, that I missed? No, I think those are all the high points. With these sensors you're talking about, I know that maybe for a building in this case you would wanna look someplace else. We've used these things, they're called home sitters and it's connected directly to a phone line and it has a temperature and water sensor and you would set that temperature high and low and also water and it's hooked into a phone line and it calls a designated number if it is tripped in one way or the other. It's a home setter kind of thing but maybe it would be useful in this type of application have multiple around the building since we do have phone lines in there too. Something we're looking to. We definitely plan on having some type of sensor. Yeah, could warn us in the event that it wasn't, that the heat went down or the parts of the building were getting cold. Also it was talked about in there about it's believed that we're due for another three year inspection as far as the best discos and so my plan is for Jesse to contact Andrew and make sure we get that taken care of through this fall. Jamie, I didn't think about this just now but we might wanna have a conversation at some point as we're starting to get these inspections done about how to get the two campuses lined up so that every year we're doing the same thing on the two campuses. It just seems like it would be easier and more efficient that way to keep track of it all. Yep, that makes complete sense. And maybe we should double check because with that engineering study Andrew did come in and do a bunch of asbestos type things. I don't really know what that was titled under if it counts as an inspection or not. I really appreciate Lyle reached out to her for me. Okay, perfect, I was just saying. He really did his homework on this and he also reached out to the Royal Group about the sensors it recommended. We called them about the sensors. And I just wanna remind everyone in the community Lyle Smith did this free of charge and he's more than more into consult with us across PSU. He's a pretty great man and I just wanna acknowledge him with that. And I have sent my card from the SU thanking him for his time. One thing I noticed in the report there was a comment about the server room and the air conditioning being kind of wonky. We are, you know, rather than, I mean, the recommendation would be to replace that unit. I would think we should use that as a reason to accelerate moving the servers out of that building into a space in either the elementary school or in the Stockbridge building or wherever. You know, I'll defer to raise logic and timeline for that. But I just, you know, I agree that the dripping in the bucket system that Lyle's photo, so wonderfully captured is not the way to go. But I think that, you know, trying to, you know, move on from that server room is a better solution than putting in a mini-split. So I'm not really clear on server rooms. Do they have to be at a certain temperature, a cool temperature? The key is to make certain they stay cool. I mean, Ray can speak more. He can jump on. He's on the call, but definitely can get hot. If we're turning the heat down in that building, is it not sufficient enough just to have the doors to that room open so that... I'm not worried about it for the winter, Amy. Okay. I'm just gonna move forward. Okay. So this is Ray. I didn't hear much of the lead up here, my apologies, because I was on the other call. In Stockbridge, it was a power issue. And so the AC was down in the server room in Stockbridge from, I'm gonna say, tax day what would have been tax day until fairly late in the year. And we survived that by keeping the door open. Given how the season is transitioning here, I think this will be fine. I assume you're talking about the dead AC in the mezzanine at the high school building. Sorry, am I caught up now? Jesse had said that there were other wall mount ACs that could go in place there. I don't believe we've tried that yet though. We have been monitoring the temperature. So yes, something over the time would be necessary, but not necessarily right now. Right, right. No, I was just, the report recommended putting in, replacing and putting a mini-split into that server room and our comment, the board's comment was, gee, maybe we would not want to have a server room in that building in the first place. So that is... Some of the other things... No, sorry. Some of the other things seemed like they were more like ongoing potential things, fixes that needed to happen, such as the panel board or that picture of the federal post-scientific electrical switch. And I was kind of wondering, like things like that, should we be discussing or informing, giving this information to like the select board or any other vested group that has an interest in this asset as to, if we're talking about trying to fix this, you know, these larger... I didn't bring those up as fixes because I didn't feel like it had anything to do with the shuttering of the building. Okay. And certainly I'm more than willing to go into, you know, what may or may not be in regards to a purchase in the sale and executive session. I have some other information to share to an executive session around the building. So this report, the highlights that you gave us were really what you felt for this winterization project that... Yeah, I tried to highlight the areas that he said to me, you need to do from winter. He gave us other things that, you know, if we get through the winter and the board still owns the building, that we're gonna need to look to do. Okay, thank you for clarifying that. Does anyone else have any other questions for the administration around the Lyle report or the winterization efforts? Okay, then let's move on to the social-emotional data presentation. So I think you received two separate documents from Bonnie and myself. One, my attachment was two documents. You'll notice a slight difference because we use in Stockbridge what's called SWIS, which helps us track just different discipline issues as well as help target some of our social-emotional needs for our kiddos. And it's what you're seeing in that attachment is different breakdowns for our entire school. Keep in mind, it looks really low and that's exciting because we did a lot of work around some social-emotional supports and re-teaching of expectations, but there also were no office discipline referrals from March 14th on. So it still gives us plenty to work with. What we do is we take this data in our PBIS group, which is a positive behavior intervention systems, and we use this to make goals for ourselves as a faculty. Sometimes around, for example, targeted ideas of re-teaching expectations, the idea that when kids come back from vacation, they've kind of forgotten what the rules are. So you have to review those things and that'll speak to page. If you look at the referrals by month, at the end, you will see that January and December are high months of just behavior, behavioral issues. I wouldn't say they were all like, most of them, if you look back to the first page, really focus on disrespect and learning how to teach that in a better way and support kids with that. What we have done at Stockbridge is made one of our targeted goals to really improve and maintain our social and emotional well-being for our tier two and tier three populations, which means kids who may need some more social, emotional supports than what every single student gets through targeted processes and practices. And we're using our data to be able to identify students of need that need those targeted supports. And we have quite a array of supports that we can provide from something that's called a check-in and check-out sheet to something like it could be goal-setting. It can also be some observation things. It could be some push-and-support. It's a wide variety of things. With that comes training for staff and working with students as well. So that is kind of a rundown of most of our... Wonderful. Can you explain the Sunday referral? Yeah, I think that's a typo. So here's our system at Stockbridge. I review all of them, but Mary Dolan, who was our school counselor, is, she is the Swiss guru who I actually had to call to ask for some help to walk me through how to print these reports. So I just think that was a typo, meaning she probably put like the date in and it populated us Sunday. No one was at school on Sunday. I'll promise you that. I just couldn't figure out where it was to go fix it and try and problem solve it. Just one thing in the problem behavior, it says the middle is disrespect and then there's am-disrespect. Am I reading that right? You are. What is am-disrespect? We break our problem behaviors down by minors and majors. Am-disrespect. Right. So the big M is the major, which means in most of these situations that it happened multiple times over with the same students. So after you get X number of minors towards that same area, it translates, I believe it's four for us, translates into a major to really, those are times when we start to provide some push and support. For example, we did, Mary and myself did some observation to see like what the student did, what the adult did to be able to really break down those situations a little bit better. Is one way we targeted that area. Okay, so any more questions for Lindy? Okay, Rochester had not previously used a school-wide information system, which is Swiss as Lindy referred to it. But we were able this year to secure funding through a grant, the Swiss program has been purchased and it is gonna be implemented on the Rochester campus in this school year. So as Lindy talked about, it would be an important tool for us as we move forward, basically trying to increase student achievement. It will enable us to sort of collect, summarize, analyze behavior, make decisions. Stockbridge has been able to do that for at least the last couple of years, being a PBIS school who uses the Swiss system. We have been tracking our behaviors. We also break them into majors and minors. We've been tracking primarily the major behaviors because I could do that without a lot of difficulty without having an automated system. And you will see from August 28th, which was the first day of school last year through March 13th when we all headed home, we had 16 major incidents. 15 of those involve physical aggression and one involve physical contact. 15 of the incidents involved the male and one of the incidents involved the female. And then there's other data that I put down there. In 13 of the incidents were in our K-3 population and three of our incidents were in our four, six population. And then there's data there on where the instances took place. I wanna be a little cautious here because without the system that we're following very tightly, I have faith in this data but I'm not sure it's 100% accurate. I'm guessing there's some things that I didn't enter. There's things maybe a couple of things I didn't follow up on. So I'm anticipating that with this system this year we'll be able to really make decisions based on accurate data. Previous to this, it's been more perception data and perception data can tell you one story but it's not really a good story to plan interventions and how you're gonna intervene. The other thing I particularly like about the SWIS system is it allows us to look at behavior through the lens of school-wide structures, school-wide interventions. And that is an extremely valuable lens to look through when you're trying to bring about change in a school on a large scale. We didn't have any particular meaningful data for any of our minor instances. I think without a system, without a data system where we're very specifically saying we are going to enter all instances of A, B, and C, teachers sometimes deal with the minor incidents themselves and then don't bother to report it, don't bother to get it into a system. So I think that will change and we'll have a better handle on our minor instances. The whole goal being to improve the culture both academically, socially, in our schools. Tony, you mentioned Stockbridge is a PBIS school. Is Rochester? We are now, Jenny. We were not last year. There's certain things you need to do to get in place before you can apply to be a PBIS school. At one point, Rochester- What is PBIS? Positive Behavioral Intervention System. Thank you. At one point where Rochester was a PBIS school some six or seven years ago, but then they let it lapse. It's really an integrated action-oriented sort of system. You have to stay up to date with doing certain things with your school, with your staff, with your youngsters, with your community if you wanna remain a PBIS school. My question is, is there some reason why you're reporting to us right now? Is this an annual report? Is it something, I'm just curious. So Ethan, it was included in Mary Ellen's SU report. There was a data calendar that the SU board approved. So all schools are reporting on social-emotional data, baseline data in September. Okay. And then you're gonna get your star literacy and math data in October. Excellent. And so, and that will again happen across the entire rest to you. The idea would be that you can start a progress monitor growth of your buildings as the year goes. So sorry, I obviously, I don't remember. I mean, I looked at that schedule, but I don't remember it. Is this something that will just happen now or is it going to happen every three months, six months that we'll get a report? Social-emotional data I think is reported out of two or three times throughout the year. Okay. Good. Thank you. The other thing I was gonna say, I don't know that he would say it himself, but we're lucky that we're moving into the PBIS and working with Swiss, because Jamie's quite knowledgeable about that. He does a lot of work across the state in those systems. And I think we're fortunate to have him with us as we take this next step forward. Thanks, Bonnie. Believe it or not, that's what fills my bucket. Not COVID-19, I can imagine what you guys hear me talk about lately. I can imagine. Just another question. You said of saying interventions and things like that. Is getting outside ever considered an intervention like going for a walk outside? The list is pages long, Ethan. Okay. But I just hope that that being outside and outside time might be included in that. It's what we call a break. Some are scheduled. Some are student-directed with a signal predetermined by the teacher. It depends on age, usually at least in Stockbridge. And it can be a wide array of things. And the great thing about this is you start to work through that. What are successful breaks or interventions for students because you can see the difference. It's really a noticeable difference when it works well. Just a quick example, when you're looking at our data in those 16 instances at the K3 cluster, close to half of those were from one little guy almost always around the beginning or the end of recess. And it was as simple as altering the recess time to extinguish those behaviors. But without the data, we wouldn't be looking at that. The other thing that the forum gives us when we're actually entering into the Swiss system is the day of the week and the time of the day. And it's amazing how many behavioral disruptions can be happening around a particular time of day or a particular day of the week. It's actually quite easy for the school to modify. Jamie, is this... I just remember you talking in your interview process about changing the need for special ed with... Is this sort of related to that? Finding some ways that you can take care of problems in the house, so to speak. So then it's... I mean, so it's really the ideas that we're gonna start to become a culture that uses data to make informed decisions and that we're gonna create a comprehensive menu of supports that we're utilizing and that we're implementing prior to reacting when we get to a crisis level and then we're reacting. And often the only tool that we are using is scenes based on working with Don to analyze our current support system, which would be a special ed referral. And what I worry about is that a lot of times gone on prior to that. And by the time we get to that point, often it's really hard then to close the achievement gap because even if the students struggling socially, emotionally, they've probably missed a ton of instruction and foundational skills that then we're trying to catch up through intervention later in the later elementary grades. And often that we find that the student then starts to have this perception that they're not a learner. So we're also having to try to work on that. So the hope would be that if we can get all these early interventions and supports in place and change our approach to universal instruction, classroom instruction, like Bonnie and Lindy both said, sometimes it's not even about an intervention plan. It's acknowledging like, oh, my whole class is struggling at 10 a.m. What am I gonna do as a classroom teacher to respond to that? And so that's the type of culture we're trying to build around data. It's not about I got you or you're not doing something right. It's like, let's use this to inform best practice. I think that sort of an aside to a really, really good implementation of Swiss is that it gives teachers and administrators in the school, it gives them great hope because without this kind of a system, sometimes schools sit and talk about, well, you know, it's a family who struggles with substance. There's been separations. We can't do anything about much of that, but what we can do a whole lot about is what time is recess gonna be? How long is the math class gonna be? What kind of queuing does this child need? All of those things are things that give us hope because we can do something about them as opposed to sitting back and saying, well, this child's pretty lost because we can't do anything about much of what we think is impacting them. This is awesome. This is really great. Really, really good stuff. Just thumbs up. This is great. Yeah. Yeah, it just sounds wonderful. I was a special intervention poster child in my old days. And some of it was good and some of it was terrible. So I just really appreciate the care and like I know food can make a big difference. When they get food, how much food, what kind of food, can make a huge difference in a kid's life and I don't know if relative to lunch, relative to snack time, all those kind of things. So good. Thank you. You're welcome. Does anyone else have any questions or thoughts for our administration around PBIS, multi-tiered systems of support and social emotional learning? Okay, 7.4 very quickly. We held a special meeting earlier before this meeting where we conducted three interviews for the interim board member position. The results of those conversation will be discussing in executive session. The big thing we wanna make sure that Jamie we're squared away on and we've gotten the input from Dean on and I know that we're kind of dependent on the towns setting their polling places and their polling times, but we recall at our last meeting, we agreed that we wanted to hold the election in conjunction with the November election to get the replacement that'll take us through to May. So we just need to get the information from you and from Dina as to what the warning would look like. And I've got time to get the warning together for your October meeting. My understanding is we'll be still good. The key is gonna be for the folks to get their petitions done between now and October. That's why I got this on the agenda. And I think it'd be helpful if we utilize from porch forum to get this word out that we need folks to complete their petition so they can get on the ballot and then I can in October bring you guys the ballot and the warning and everything from that special election. Right, the biggest piece I was curious about or we were curious about was can people start collecting those petition signatures when there hasn't been an official ballot warned? Or can they just get a form from the State Department website or if get a form from their town clerk and start doing that now so they have the paperwork in hand when we warn the meeting in October? It's just that- I did double check my understanding is based on our conversation previously around this that yes, they can. And it would make, if the board wants to take a formal action tonight to say that indeed, yes, there's going to be a special election then we could utilize that language to get it out on front porch forum. Yeah, I mean, we agreed to hold the election. I just didn't know if town courts could give out petitions when it's not been a formally warned, there's a formally warned position. And that's all we were concerned about because yeah, I would like us not to have to have a special meeting. I would like us to be able to do exactly that plan you just described where you come to us and say, here's our ballot, here's your warning, the petition window is this, this and that. And we put the information about getting the petitions up on front porch forum and on our part of the SU webpage and so on and so forth. But yeah, I would like us to, I would like us to get our ducks in a row so that we can warn everything and be prepared to hold that without having to have a special. I'd suggest just to dye your eyes and cross your teeth if you just make a motion tonight that you intend to hold a special election for the vacant storage position on the November 11th. Is it the 11th? Is it the fourth? November 4th? Third? When's election day, Lindy? Yeah. It is November. You can tell we don't have a TV anymore. It's not Tuesday, November 3rd, right? Yeah. It's important we advertise that correctly for a lot of different reasons. So I think if you take a motion like that, then we could get that out to the town parks and we could get that on front porch forum and then as soon as those folks do the petition then we can get on the ballot. Great. I would entertain a motion that the board formally acknowledges that they're going to have, we're going to have the election for the board member replacement on the November 3rd election. So moved. Do I hear a second? Second. Okay. All those in favor, let me get my little list up and go in order. Amy. Hi. Ethan. Hi. Jenny. Hi. Megan. Hi. I also say I unanimously approve a motion to hold our election in conjunction with the November elections. And we'll notify the town clerks of that and then I'll work with Dina. Once we get those names we'll have a ballot and the warning I'll set for you for your next meeting. So for the public's knowledge, their petitions are due in to the town clerks by when? Really it could be any day up to that next meeting. So really we can put the finish of that warning. So Monday October 5th would be the day so that it could be ready for our meeting Tuesday, October 6th. We should check the town office's hours for Stockbridge on Monday. I can't remember what her hours are. I know they're not normal. They're not normal. I just need the names from the town clerks on Tuesday to 6th because we can edit it right up until your guys get the ballot and the warning. Okay, that's good to know. Can we get that out in the front porch form or the Herald or wherever all places that we're putting this information out? Thank you. Yep. Jenny, you wanna work on me with that? You're here for my helper. Sure. Hang on, is that you Keith? We're about to have public comment. No, no, no, it's not public comment. I just have a question. It shouldn't really be town clerks. It should just be the Stockbridge town, correct? Right, I'm sorry, Keith, you're correct. Okay, that's all I want to clarify. I'm just so used to saying clerks because of these merged districts. I understand. Thank you. Thank you Keith. Okay, is there any other conversation around that? I think we've been fairly clear about what we need to get done and it seems like Jamie's on it. Before we go into our executive session, let's have our public comment. We again, we can entertain public comment on the things that are agenda items on the agenda. You need to be a resident of Stockbridge or Rochester to make a public comment and I'm going to go down a list and give everyone an opportunity to have at least one comment and by our bylaws, comments are supposed to be out five minutes, so let's try to stay as close to that as we can. Hey Carl, really quickly it's Megan. When we go through each phone number, can we make sure that we're getting a list of all the attendees? I think we said in the last meeting that we were going to try to get a public record of all public comments and public attendees that are coming to the meeting. Okay, that is true. I probably should have said something at the very beginning of the meeting and gotten all the numbers to identify themselves. Sorry about that. So I'm going to go through what I see for everyone who's on the phone is I see your phone number, the activities of your phone number in your area code. So I'll call you out and if you have a comment you'd like to make on the things we've discussed tonight, comment away. Well, they should unmute, state their name and either say comment or no comment, so we have that record. Oh, good point. And whether you're a Rochester or a Stockbridge person. Yeah. Well, if you have a comment, if you, yeah. So the first person on my list is 802, your number ends in 18. If the person who's at 802-star-star-18 could identify themselves and... Okay, thank you, Ethan. All right, 802-star-star-38, I think that was Keith, wasn't it? Hey Carl, it's us, yeah. I guess a couple of questions. So we went through the interview process today, but that sounds as though that's null and void at this point. No, no, no, the interview process, you'll be filling a board seat until the November election and you would be welcome to run for that board seat. So you would be completing it at the meetings for the next couple of months. The feeling that we got from the towns was that we should hold the election and not just a point. We should hold election as soon as possible and because we can do that without incurring a cost really beyond Xeroxing and stuff to have an injunction with the November. Fair enough. And then the other question is, as I listened to everything about the high school in Rochester, I heard very little difference as to what's going on in terms of addressing the boiler and addressing the roof and addressing the USTs. I'm sorry, am I missing something? Please explain. I don't mean to be rude. I just don't see a change. The budget's now been passed. You guys have certainly have a victory, but the people in Stockbridge are not happy. So what am I missing? Please explain. Oh, there, let me unmute. Well, for one, there is no space that's being heated beyond the recommended 55. We're not using any part of that building for preschool activities or art rooms or anything like that. So that's where we captured the projected 20K that we took off the budget, because we said, okay, we know that we can estimate that we know for sure we're not heating any of that building for occupation. The report went through and pointed out where there's a leak, we haven't contracted with, this was just a pro bono report that was done by a person with a lot of experience and who runs, what did you say, Winooski or somewhere in Chittenden? CVU, Champlain Valley. Okay, so we brought someone in to look and identify some things that need to be addressed as part of trying to shut that building down, but that's, I would say the biggest piece we're doing is we're not, when it comes time to turn the boilers on, we're not turning any of it on to 70 degrees or 68 degrees. Is there anything else, Jamie or Bonnie, that I'm missing about the winterization plans and the differences from this year, from last year? I mean, no, I mean, we just, we're gonna do what we have to do at a minimum to ensure that the building is not gonna be damaged. I mean, so that's the idea about all the recommendations we receive. Well, let me ask you a question. Is there any way that a person of the public, like myself, can be privy to those meetings so I can maybe ask some questions that could be pertinent to what you guys are contemplating? I do have some experience in dealing with this type of a situation, and I have additional questions and I don't wanna circle them through the board. Yeah, no, Keith, I'm always open to questions. I have community members, some who call me almost every other day and others who call me a couple of times a month. So, Keith, as I've said to you before, I'm more than, you haven't reached out yet, but please give me a call via phone and my admin assistant will schedule time for us to meet and certainly any questions that you have about the building I'm more than happy to discuss. Yeah, I'm willing and able at any time to me with you and your advisors, you tell me when and I will be there. Jamie, for background, Keith is a commercial property manager. He manages, he did 350 million. Is that the number you, yeah. That's the number I recall from my notes of worth of commercial property in the Long Island area. And, you know, he does that from what looked like a pretty cool house in Vermont. So, he does have background, he does have experience and he just volunteered. So, yeah, please reach out. Keith, I'll have Chrissy get in touch with you and we'll see if we can get something scheduled either this week or the first and next. That would be wonderful. I'd love to participate in this and take a look. Thank you. All right, let's move on to 802-STAR-STAR-45. Okay. The last phone caller is 802-STAR-STAR-91. Hi, this is Caitlin McKinstry, a couple questions. So Jamie, you had mentioned that if the Rochester Board wants the building, so is there concern that they aren't going to take it at this point because last it was talked about, they very much wanted the building. Well, I don't know what the board wants to say. I'll just say that I can't speak for the select board. So, I was just trying to be as neutral and impartial as possible. I was choosing my words very carefully. Okay. And my second question is, so according to any several meetings back, they were, the board was told that the high school building, the roof needs to be replaced. It would not go through another winner. So has the board made any provisions for this? Because obviously the roof is now still leaking and it is coming into fall. We're gonna have another winner. We're concerned about the building being damaged. Has the board had any provisions for this? And it's been brought up months, months, months ago and as a concern and we're told by somebody that it wasn't gonna last another winner. So based on this last review, Mr. Smith felt like that that roof could just be repaired via patching and that it would be fine for them. So I can't speak to maybe what was stated before I came on board, but that's not the information I've been operating off of. Okay. Caitlin, I'd be interested to know what meeting you're talking about because I do not recall that. So I'd be very interested if it's something you feel I've said I would, I'd love to review that meeting to see what my wording was. Okay. Yeah, when I have some spare time, I'll go dig through the videos again, get your timestamp. What helps when I unmute. Okay, thank you, Caitlin. Let's see, Ethan has no comment. That has made it through our list of public on the line. Yes, you skipped me. Oh, I'd said star four or five before. I'm sorry, I must have gone too quickly. But go ahead. You probably did, actually. I'm a little slow. As usual, I forget what phone I'm on. This is Julian. This is Julian, correct? This is Julian, yeah. I'm just curious, are we not even gonna like bother with the building committee report? How much money did we spend on that? Was that, see, well, they're 30 something when we took out the efficiency, the efficiency of Vermont. That was like 44,000 or something like that. Right, and there was like eight of it. I wanna say there was eight of it or 11 of it that efficiency of Vermont kicked in. Okay, well, there was some offset from them. So I wanna say it. So I'll say it's 33,000 or whatever it is. So we're just- We had valuable information. What? It has provided us with valuable information in our administrators. It sounds like we dropped it. And now we're just gonna bring in other people in to get different, which is fine. I just, I might carry out, I just curious, are we just not gonna use that for anything, any information from now on or we're gonna have other outside people? Just so the public knows that report was shared with the person I brought in in regards to utilizing it. And so when Lyle, he looked at that report, he also worked with three other maintenance directors from across the state that are affiliated with Bisbit. And so all of them provided feedback in the information that I shared tonight with the board. Did they feel confident that that was in good information or did they feel like that was not a good report? No, they feel like it's a good report. No, they said that they do good work. Yeah. Joanne, I can add one piece too. We gave it to the engineers who came and looked at the HVAC system to try at the Rochester campus to get the HVAC system back up and running. And we're also using it. Lindy, correct me if I'm wrong, I think we're using it at Stockbridge too to prepare, to help the engineers prepare projects for it to be paid for with the state HVAC grant that's coming out hopefully next week. That's good. It seems to be a good point of reference, Joanne, for those people that are coming in to have a good starting place of where to start. And that makes me feel good. Yeah, I'm glad that we didn't waste that money. And I guess my question is there's an emergency, you were talking earlier about an emergency with the air flow, maybe in the pre-K room or something or preschool room. And so it has to be done quick and it may not be done till next week. Well, didn't we know this in the report that it was bad from a year and a half, two years ago? And why would it be an emergency now? Well, the way I'd answer that, Joanne, is it's more of an issue at this point just because we need to have as much adequate fresh air in our rooms as we can, given the whole situation with the virus. So if it was an emergency, I'm calling an emergency with a small E in that there's a very strong desire to get more fresh air into that room before we bring youngsters in next week. And... Okay, that makes sense. One thing I would say, Joanne, is that it's also important to understand we made reference to it kind of sideways earlier, but like there's... So officially, there's state money to redo and to upgrade and fix HVAC systems because with COVID, there's a real interest in having... Right. Which feels great. That makes sense. So... That makes sense. So it was actually our finding was good that we waited. Right, right. So that was, yeah. It's not so much that we're putting aside that report and saying, okay, we're done with that. Well, we're trying to look at and why Jamie's report and brought the maintenance guy in was because we have to get these things booked and organized and spend that COVID money because that COVID money goes away at the end of the year. And so we do the most we can to address and use that report to help us target things that we can fix with CARES money and with COVID money while the fixing... Fixing is good, so to speak. So I don't think... Right, so our other schools using the COVID... We're not like saying, okay, well, we're done with that conversation. Fiddle-D-D, we're trying to say that we need to pivot and fix this stuff while we can get some Fed money to do it. That's what that's for. Right, and our other schools using their CARES money and their COVID money for building repairs or are they using it for... For HVAC systems. Yeah. Yeah, there's... The efficiency of remote money was totally targeting to HVAC systems. Okay, good. All right, that's good. And my last... When will you announce who the interim's going to be? We're going to have that conversation in an executive session. Right after the meeting, we wanted to have public... We decided that we would have the public comment now just so you wouldn't have to sit here and stare at a blank screen for the half hour or whatever we have that conversation. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. And will you announce it tonight or when will we know? If we made a decision, we can't make a decision in an executive session. So we would come out of executive session and formally make an announcement or formally say whatever it is that we ended up deciding. I can't say what that would be until we go through the meeting, but I would imagine we'll make an announcement. And we would do that and we'll probably make sure it gets put up on the SU webpage as well. Okay, could you put it on the Rochester Stockridge page? The Rochester Stockridge RSUD page or whatever on Facebook, that would be really helpful. Okay. Thank you. All right, have a nice evening. Yep, bye. Thank you, Joanne. You have a nice evening as well. All right. So we have been through a round of public comment. We're going to go into executive session. Do we have? Yes. Can I ask one more question? Oh, sure, Keith. I'm sorry. So I understand it's going to be some state funds available. Now, none of the state funds are going to be utilized to do any repairs on the Rochester High School, correct? That's correct. Correct. Okay. So I just want to make sure that that's clear that when there's no funds being requested for the HVAC units as it pertains to the Rochester School District High School. The focus is on the elementary school and that that's safe for students and staff. That's fine. That's good. That's all good. I just want to make sure. Okay. So thank you, Keith. We are going to move into executive session to discuss confidential attorney client communications. So I would entertain a motion to enter executive session for confidential attorney client communications, including our attorney, David Ruff. I'm sorry, I probably pronounced your name wrong, as well as our administration. So moved. I think we skipped over board comment. I don't know if anybody has any comments, but I think we skipped over it. We did it earlier. Well, we did. Oh, thank you, Mr. Mr. Quickly. Carl. Your comment you'd like to make? I guess the only thing is that we still have the survey that's out there. So far we've gotten 24 responses. So it's going to put out another plug for people to fill out the survey. Yeah, let's do that. And let's make sure we talk about that at our October meeting because we've been so busy trying to get the schools open. I think we've, all your work, we've kind of dropped. We thought we'd get that squared away before, you know, summer ended and we- I'll make a note now for the October meeting. It's still out there. So I don't think there's anything we need to discuss right now in the ways I just wanted to mention that it would be. I just want to make sure that we think about it in advance of the October meeting. We don't kick that can down the road another month because we forget about stuff. Yeah. Carl, this executive session is one of those that requires two motions. Yeah, it's one where you need to make a, finding that premature general public knowledge will place the board at a substantial disadvantage first and then you go into executive session to discuss attorney client communications made for the purposes of rendering professional legal services to the board. Okay. This is why he's the attorney and I'm the guy in the T-shirt. Yeah, I'm sorry. Last time you almost, you did it right but for the wrong reasons. So. Did you get that language, Jenny? I have it right here. If someone wants to say so moved, I would suggest that the board make a motion that just closure of confidential attorney client communications made for the purposes of providing professional legal services to the body would place the board at a substantial disadvantage if premature, if the public learned about it prematurely. So moved. Do I hear a second? Okay, a motion has been made and seconded to consider material that, what Mr. Wolf said. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. I can't vote, I have no idea where you're, I was off saying goodnight to my son. We're into executive session. We're making a motion that we're about to hear information that if it was prematurely discussed to the public would put the board's interest at risk. We need to move that motion and then enter executive session. So we were having a voice vote to approve that motion. Thank you. Okay, so the motion has been passed to do that. So now I would entertain a motion to enter executive session to hear a confidential attorney client communications made for purposes of providing legal services to us. So moved. Seconded. Okay, a motion has been made and seconded. All those in favor of going into executive session signify by saying aye. Aye. Okay, so at 934, the board has come out of executive session. We're going to entertain a motion. David, if you could give us our language. Sure, I recommend that the board consider and make the following motion. Motion to commence the planning and engineering work with Bannon engineering and Du Bois and King for subdivision of the Rochester high school with initial costs, not to exceed $5,000. So moved. Do I hear a second? Second. A motion has been made and seconded to commence planning on the subdivision of the high school from the elementary school with Bannon consulting and Du Bois and King. I think I got those names right. All those in favor, I'm going to go through the role. Amy. Aye. Ethan. Aye. Jenny. I refrain from voting only because I work for Du Bois and King. Your abstention is noted. Megan. Aye. Carl also votes aye. The ayes have it five to zero to one extension, one abstention because of a conflict of interest. Thank you, everybody. I would now entertain David. Thank you so much for your- Thank you, everyone. Have a good night. Yeah, thank you, David. You can go to the well-deserved beverage of your choice because you've been very helpful. Thank you, sir. Thank you all. Have a good night. We'll talk to you soon. Thank you. Okay, I would now entertain a motion to enter executive session to discuss a personnel matter and to discuss personnel interviews. So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Okay, Ray, if you come out of executive session at 9.57, I want to first of all commend all our board members for their endurance. For those of us that were doing interviews, we're going into hour five. So thank you, everybody. Your yeoman work is very appreciated. The board has come out of executive session with a recommendation. I would entertain a motion that the board appoint Keith. I'm going to probably mess up the name again, but it's Spulzeki. And I hope that's close, Keith. I'm sorry if I butchered your name in public. Remember, I got called Carl Grope a lot. So because of my last name being mispronounced, not because of something else. And this aside, suddenly became a terrible, stupid story. I apologize for rambling on like that. In any case, I would entertain a motion that the board appoint Keith to fill out the term until the results of the November 3rd election are known. So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Second. A motion has been moved, has been made and seconded that we appoint Keith to be our interim board member. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. The ayes, it is carried by voice vote unanimously. The ayes, I will reach out to Keith in the morning. And if Ray or someone can make those changes on the WRVSU page so that it shows his appointment, that would be good. I don't believe we have any other business other than I really need to have a bio break. I think we're all done. Can I entertain a motion for adjournment? So moved. Second. Seconded. A motion has been made and second, all those in favor of adjourning to the public saying aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you everybody.