 Call the meeting to order at 7 0 7. Start out with a reception of guests. Hello everybody. Hello. How are you? Good. Kate is going to be joining, she is doing a university of Southern Hampshire for administration and so she shadowy needs some things. And then here as the central office administrative. All right. So move on to 1.2 agenda review and revisions. So 5.2 would be except do we need to put the name or just resignation? Which you mean the one that was in the WCSB market? Okay. Any others? No. Okay. Move on to the public comments and correspondence. Hearing none. We'll move along. Future meetings. April 9th will be Berlin School Board meeting at Berlin Elementary. At 5.30. Yes. Thank you very much. The next one will be May 14th at 5.30 at Berlin and June 6th will be the full school board carousel meeting. Do we know what time? 5.30. Okay. All at 5.30. All right. So move on to 2.0 consent agenda. I didn't have any changes for the next. That's good. Well, I was only wondering why under reception of guests that had none, but we had matters he not considered a guest for some reason. Oh, and he actually was up there. He even spoke as other. You're right. So 1.1 under reception of guests that should have, he was there from the beginning of the meeting, he should say Matthew DeGruyte. How do you pronounce his name? Yeah. I think it's right anyway. Do you have any change you had? So I'll make a motion to approve the minutes of March 16th with the one change noted. I'll second. Okay. Everybody that agrees, signal by saying aye. Aye. So move on to 3.0, the discussion agenda, which we will see. Response to the AOE regarding the Act 46 questions. Yeah, go ahead. Well, all I was going to say, and I don't think it really says it anywhere in here, but I assume you guys write it over too. But does it imply, and I don't think it does, but that the efficiency study that we would necessarily be doing all of them? Because to me, if you have a study done, it doesn't, you know, I mean how it was filled out was to say that it was either mostly done, partially done, not done, fully done. I think there's a lot of choices that were there. But I would hope it's not with the thought that everything is absolutely going to be done. Because it's really up to the boards to discuss and decide, right? I mean, that's how it did. I don't believe it was ever with the intention that every single recommendation was going to be enacted. I think it was advisory around practices to consider where efficiencies could be made. I mean, and it says, you know, opportunity. So I don't think anywhere in here it's saying that we will for sure be doing this. I think the other thing that's hard to is looking at the date when we did the efficiency study in 2014. For example, audit local board agendas. I think if any individual board did that work, it's hard to put it in this as a collaborative group response. There might have been one or two boards that did it, which I don't know. But I think to also say that some of these responses might say not, but individual boards may have done the work. But I also just wanted to, for your knowledge, Eric, that this is being sent back because the representatives that went to the Act 46 meeting didn't feel like when they walked away that they actually answered in a thorough way. So this response back to some of the questions that were brought up is a more thorough way. So that's why it's on our agenda to accept their responses. Even though they had the open meeting, it's still better presented on paper as well. They did not feel like they had the, you know, necessarily the authority to answer without four individual boards weighing in on that. Okay. On BPR? Have to see if that's available later. It probably will be. So I'm not sure what they said there. That's what I wondered when I heard that yesterday. So are you guys comfortable with moving ahead with us? I am comfortable. Are you? Sure. Do you have any questions about it? No. Do you want me to make a motion? I'll make a motion. Go ahead. There's the motion. Just the discussion. So you're going to skip to 5.1 right now and then we'll back up. That's up to you when you want to do it. Yeah, we can do that. That's fine. I will make a motion to approve the response to the AOE regarding Act 46 questions. You got it? Sure. Yeah. All those in favor? Say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. I always have it. Okay. So we'll move on to 4.1 reports to the board. The administration. They found out after the fact I had indicated that the junior iron chef, they are going to go down to, I believe, it's just that one group that we had two teams. I believe it's just going to be that one group that it's going to be going down one to one. So we'll get pictures and we'll put that in the next report and in the newsletter. That's great. All right. We're moved to 4.2 finance. I don't think there is any. We have to move on to the action agenda. We've already taken care of 5.1. We'll move on to 5.2 accepting resignation. Did you vote two of them? Okay. We can hear from there. Yes. There's the one that just got passed down to you, but then there was one in the board packet. There's this one on page 19. Oh, thank you. So we have two resignations. One would be Caroline Clifton. She had a half-time in the front office and a half-time care educator and she resigned from both positions. The other position is in the letter. I don't know if you want to read it or just to acknowledge that it's a full-time position because of the location, Travis Popcat is resigning. I'm sorry. I didn't have that. Can you tell me the last thing again, Caroline Clifton? Do I have to read that in a lot? You don't have to know. Okay. And then Travis Popcat, P8, Q3. I don't know if I could read it or I don't know if it needs to be read out loud or not. So we all had the opportunity to read hers in the packet. So it would just be good to read it before we... Sorry about that. My meeting running skills aren't up to par yet. No, no, no. We'll get there. So I'll make a motion that we accept Caroline Clifton's resignation with regret and gratitude for many years at service. All those in favor? Not really in favor, but all those accept the resignation of Caroline Clifton? Say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. So I'll make the motion to accept the resignation from Travis Popcat regrettably. I'll second and just want to say thank you to him for his years of service at Berlin. All right. Everybody that accepts the resignation, please say so by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. Moving along. Approve 6.0. Approve board orders. Am I really thinking that Lori had sent out some favor so far? No. The ones that she sent out were for that last Friday meeting. Not this past Friday. Okay, go. And I asked to add to the future agenda items that in the resignation letter of Cindy Gauthier, she asked that she could address the board at a meeting. So if you could put it in an agenda and then someone knows a prior notice of the day, or if you decide now that you would like, but I would think it would be when Chris or Eric make the agenda with Bill Kimball, but she would like to do it before the end of this week. Sure. Yeah. Absolutely. Any other future agenda items that the board has? And 7.7 for any reason? Shouldn't check yet. We added 7.7. And I would then say Farm to School would probably be re-addued as the future agenda item. I just want to, with the Farm to School, if they could possibly do May instead of April, because we really wanted to focus our April meeting on board goal work, would probably be better if they weren't made. So let's make it in Sydney. Not in Sydney. I don't, in Sydney, I'm not sure she probably would be. I think she means for Farm to School. Well, Cindy is part of Farm to School, so I don't know if she would come for that presentation and stay for a discussion. Oh, and stay for both. I see what you're saying. So she wouldn't have to be tonight, but I'm not sure. It would be your, you know, it's up to you, it's your agenda, it's what's created. Yeah, I think that would be okay if she came one night. So I'll let her know that in May. The 14th? 14th. I will let Cindy know, and I will let Mae know. I believe it's also Alice in the Bin is going to be doing it as well. Any other future agenda items? So, um, policy, I don't know if it would work to have a brief conversation in April or not, but kind of an ongoing question, I hope, just as far as getting a complete set, and it sounded like it needed to be another board conversation, so. So we're going to add that? Yep. Some board not? Okay. Do you think we, and maybe I've missed it, a school safety conversation? We had one, um, what was it, about? Kind of think. February meeting? When did, the month after you started? That was, I started in September. So, then it was a couple of months. So you brought it up? Yeah, that was, when I, when I brought it up, that was certainly before, and the world was going crazy. Yeah, I know, except just, um, I tend to say that there are, the police are going around to every school and doing a full safety check, and I sat down with, um, Officer Dan, with Rowe yesterday, no, the day before, and, uh, we went through the full check. There are a couple of things that we need to add to our student handles, but other than that, he feels really comfortable, and we are talking at the admin team to do district-wide update of, um, our procedures as far as, um, what, what terminology you use when you go into a different phase of need. For example, we do a security building here, they do something else, and we want everything, um, S-U-Y. So we're going to adopt what they're doing here at, um, U-32. Amy Millett. Or Amy Molina. Thank you, thank you. I have, I know another Amy Molina. Amy Molina is, uh, going to be heading that up because she's the, she's kind of the, um, one, uh, guru in the district who is going to all the AOE meetings and keeping up with all of that. You, talking with Dan with Rowe, is that in addition to or instead of the Vermont State Police that are going around, I know CAF just had a segment sometime in the last day or two where they highlighted, um, visiting Brown's Mill with, um, Circuit Lucas. And just kind of going through what those steps are. They have, yeah, he had a checklist here after everything. So I think he's doing a, in conjunction, I couldn't tell you. Definitely. So I don't want to go on the record to say that's what they're doing, but he had a very specific chest with a checklist, which was from the state of Vermont. Okay. Sounds like, um, adding 7.10 school safety after the leadership team has done that work together. We could bring it back. So it might be May or June. And May looks like it's getting full. So you all will have to make that decision. But, um, definitely to put it down for the future. It's, it's relevant and, it's very important. Has the leadership team, um, I'm not sure what their meeting schedule is like, but has that conversation started again or still? No, we started this conversation before that happened in Florida. Right. I understand that part of it. I'm saying like, in addition to the previous conversations that were happening for the school safety, but the other pieces that go with it now. The idea of coordinating more and learning from each other and sort of auditing practices, that's been on the table. And there's quite frankly been a bit of a, you know, we can't send the entire team from the 32 to our meetings because we have to keep people at you 32, right? So, um, so we, it's just been a bit of a scheduling issue too. But it's definitely, I mean it's something that we have discussed. We, we discuss it somewhat routinely, but at this point in time, bringing it back up in looking at, um, more from a systems perspective, as we have, um, just greater of knowledge and capacity is what makes sense. I think, is that an answer to your question here? Yes, mostly. Do you know if there's any student input or students that are looking to give back information to the leadership team? Do you know if that's happened? Around school safety issues. Yeah. Um, I, we could find that out. I'm not sure, um, since the, um, social justice work that was done here recently, I'm not sure what the communication is, but I mean it's certainly something we could find out and bring to you. Is there going to be a table talk exercise or not? I don't know the answer to your question. It's not a thing. It's something we're not always on the throat of emergency management team. It's very helpful to go to a table talk exercise. So I mean, you know, it's all people just gathered in a room like this. You're not really doing anything, but you have a scenario in front of you and it's figuring out what do you do as you read through who is going to be doing that. Yeah, yeah. Quite helpful. There are the, um, agency of education and the safety committee with the agency of education put out the, the scenario and they put it out in their, um, weekly memo. And we do have those safety committee members and so forth with that when it says so. What if, um, an intruder or it was reported to by a parent that there's somebody out in the parking lot who is being very irate and da, da, da, da, what do you do? What is your next step? What is your next step? We make sure that we have all of those in place and all, all of those, um, ideas and it doesn't give you any specific answer. It just is what would you do in your school? And through going through those, there have been some questions that have come up that we've had to, um, get the answers to. So they do have those kinds of things and that might be a good place if we wanted to do a district wide to start. Well, the, the difference between what you're describing and a tablecloth exercise is usually a tablecloth exercise. You actually have the least one evaluator there where there isn't necessarily a right answer, but it's somebody taking notes and kind of keeping track and giving feedback. And so it's not like anybody's being judged on whether they were right or wrong. It's just for that to be followed through. All right. And I think when, when it becomes an agenda item, I think talking about how you want to engage the community around that, bringing that together would be a at that point in time of conversation. So yeah, I think putting it on May or June, like you said, after your leadership team. My turn. Yep. Your turn. 8.0. Board communication. Just went over that. Pretty well. I'm guessing. Yep. All right. So they want to make a motion to it. I'll make a motion to adjourn at 7.33. That, Eric, is the fastest one you've ever done. You're welcome. Congrats. Congrats. You are welcome. Good job.