 So I'd like to call the meeting to order at 6.03 PM. And then our purpose for this evening is really just to look at the warning for the annual meeting and the budget and then act to adopt to that. And then we'll have an executive session related to negotiations and then we will proceed on to the full board meeting. So I know we received that information, the warning this afternoon. I don't know if we can project that while we discuss it. I had a question and this may be my understanding because I was reading it quickly when I got home from work. So this may be about my flawed understanding more than it's about the document itself. But I noticed that the warning for the informational meetings reads like the one for the annual meeting. And I didn't know if that was something different for this different year. But I just, I wondered about that. So, I wondered if any of you had any questions. Yeah, my, like I was just thinking that it's because there's just no items and you know, we can't have that on the Australian ballot board. Okay. But I thought that you think we could remove the public comment at the beginning because it seems like we don't get into the, like we got 15 minutes for kind of the budget discussion portion of things. And then we go five minutes for you to go to that. And it's like, if we did our presentation and then we had public comments and that took like the first half hour and then we went over the individual article that might be a better structure for us. Yeah, I'm just noticing that there's public comment built in after each section. And in the past, I think we've done a presentation and then we open the floor for comments and questions. And I'm just concerned that the flow of the evening is going to be really incredibly choppy. Right. So, I mean, in a normal meeting, like each of these articles will come up for a vote and there'd be discussion during the voting period. So, I think this is going to make the article come up you have to check and then there'd be a vote. In this case, the article, we have discussion on where we go the way for a while and then we vote. Yep. So, maybe that's kind of what we need to do this just so that we can have, should I need to vote? But it's just like, it seems like it could be a longer, like we should present the information and then have public comments and have that be a longer section after we do our presentation. Anyway. Andrew, when you're talking, it's really, really choppy. Is there any way to make your sound a little better? I don't know. Let me try putting this, I had it on my lap. Let me move over here. The same thing that I've been doing in all the other meetings. I think sometimes there's just something in the, in the air or the internet or whatever. Because mine's not usually a problem but tonight with the policy committee, I just couldn't hear people well and they were really choppy. So. You need me to repeat what I was saying or didn't really get that. Yeah, the last piece, if you could, that would be really helpful. Oh, just, I mean, I was, I think we do need to have discussion on each item individually, but I think the part of the beginning where we give our, like, if we can just have that, do our presentation kind of when people first show up and then have a larger public comment for that at the end as opposed to two. You know, if we have people comment before we've done anything and then go into the rest of it, it seems like that'll, I don't know. So you're, get rid of the public comment at 505 on the agenda, but we'll keep the public comment that would be at five, well, after our 515 presentation, right? So, I mean, I would just say called up, like, I don't know that we need five minutes for call the order, but, you know, if we have the presentation at 505 or whatever and then public comment after that until we start the other stuff. That makes sense to me. Yeah, me too. Should we schedule more time for the presentation? Like 15 minutes seems pretty quick for presentation and public comment, you know, probably at least a half hour. Should be 515 to 545. If we're just using the times that they're listed or. Sure. That makes sense to me. I don't think we've ever finished. I mean, I don't think our presentations have been lengthy. But usually the discussion on that. Right, I don't think we've ever gotten one done in 15 minutes though. So I think giving ourselves a little bit more time and then if we end a little bit earlier than that half an hour or whatever we allocate, then I don't think anybody's gonna be upset with us for moving on to public comment, but I'd hate to only give ourselves 15 minutes and feel like we were under some time pressure. Yeah, I wonder if there would be a way to combine the other articles, just say like review each article individually and then public comment at the end of that on each. So instead of have, well, I guess no, I guess it's better to kind of mimic the annual meeting format. I don't know. Right, it'll be fast. I think each one of them, it won't take the five minutes, I don't think. So I think because of when these need to be warned and when they would need to be made public, when we get it to a point that we think it's ready to go, we'll need to make a motion to approve it as amended, right? Right. Right. Any other things that people need to see changed or questions you have about this warning? So just for clarification for the notes, we call the order at five, at five oh five, we start the reports of the school district board. And then it's at, we wanna go to five 45. Five to five 30. Okay. That's probably fine. And then if we need to, we can always, like we have public comment at the end, so we can say we're gonna take a break in this discussion to go over the warnings individually as scheduled. And then once we're done with that, we go back to the general discussion. All right, so then everything else will be, we might, if we're gonna allow for public comment, are you thinking that we're gonna go to article four at five 30 or do we wanna have that a little bit later then? I mean, our meeting goes till, our regular board meeting wouldn't start till six o'clock. So we have a little wiggle room here, but possibly the five 45 topic with budget might have some discussion. So that might, one might need those 15 minutes there. Yeah. I think leaving that time there makes sense to me, 15 minutes goes by so fast when people are asking budget questions, et cetera. Okay. Then it'll just, the reports of the school district board starts at five five and everything else will be on the same schedule. Five 30 is article four, 34. Five 35 is article five and et cetera. Five 40 is article six and then five 45 as written. I think for the, yeah, that seems good. Do we have that discussion of other nine binding business stuff in the first one? I can't quite see what's that, pulling it up on my computer. Yeah, I think we can get rid of the discussion of non-binding business because they have a school board meeting immediately after which we can discuss other business at. And then put six o'clock for entertain motion to adjourn. But we really need to have that in the warning. I don't, I personally don't feel like it harms anything and I know that they're under a time crunch. So I wouldn't, unless it helps us to revise it, I guess I'm thinking, I don't know if it's worth it, I guess is what I'm trying to consider. Right, well, I would definitely get rid of the discussion of non-binding business just. Yeah. Since we have the other meeting and then put six o'clock for the time to adjourn for the first one and seven o'clock for the second. And I don't know if we want to have a discussion of other non-binding business in the second meeting or we don't have another meeting immediately after. Lisa? Yes, Owen. I was bumped out and I'm the one presenting. Do you want me to present something? I have. I think we all have it. Did we, was it useful to people who have OM presenting the warning for those meetings? What's your preference? I think we might be all set with that. I think we've kind of figured out the discussion. Yeah. If we want to be consistent between the two meetings, I mean, you could just leave the discussion of non-binding stuff in both of them, because then in parentheses afterwards, it says, if applicable. And, you know, if we don't have a discussion of non-binding business in the second meeting, it's not applicable. And, you know, if we don't have anything else to discuss, we can just say it's not applicable and then move on to closing the meeting. I think it would be a little, some people might question it if we have one, if the agendas look slightly different between the two meetings. Yeah, I think they should be identical. I was going to suggest, even though it sounds like we're micromanaging, but the notes reflect that the edits that we are saying we need for the February 16th meeting also need to apply to the March 1st. Okay. Why don't we do that at 5.50 and keep all the articles five minutes of review and discussion. And then at 5.50 we'll have the other non-binding discussion and at 6.00 the motion to adjourn. Or 5.55 other non-binding. We're going to want 10 minutes to talk about Article 7. Yeah, I mean, it seems like we're just kind of putting in as a placeholder anyway, so you might as well just have all the articles be five minutes and then it's just discussion after that. Okay. But I don't really care. So in looking at our agenda, it seems like we need to maybe transition to a discussion of the annual meeting morning, which everyone should have emailed this afternoon as well. It has the same articles as what we just discussed because the informational meeting notice obviously is pulled directly from this. I'm just going to double check the dates just to make sure we have the right date. Yep. Okay. So March 2nd, 2021. All right. Jamie said there's a typo in here and I don't know where it is, but if there is something, he'll send us an updated version. But as soon as he emailed this to all of us, it said that there was a typo and he would send it now. Tara said one hour later that I think was updated. What's that? Oh, this is an updated one that Tara's. I think the one I'm looking at is the updated one. I mean, I read it quickly, but normally, yeah. Okay. Yeah. That warning looked fine to me. The one Tara said. All right. So anybody else have questions or anything they want to discuss about the, about the warning? Nothing. Does anyone want to make a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the warning for the annual meeting. I guess we can do that one and then the other one has amended. Okay. So that would be for the, I just, just to be really specific, the White River Valley Unified District 2021 annual meeting warning. Yes. Okay. Is there a second to that motion? Also I got it. Okay. All in favor of approving the White River Valley Unified District 2021 annual meeting warning. Please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Okay, so that notice passes as well. Thank you. So it seems like we're supposed to have an executive session related to negotiations. Except for there's Jamie Konarny is not here. I don't know who's supposed to be doing that update for us. Okay. I'm going to send... Hello? Hi. Hi, this is Chola Vassar. I'm really unsure if I'm doing all this correctly, so I apologize if I'm out of turn, but... It's okay. I'm wondering about some questions I have about the budget. Are these some of the things that will be discussed in these informational meetings? I'm looking at the pages 15th scene of the budget that was online and the tax rate increase and such. Okay. And I'm not sure if I can speak to somebody outside of this meeting about some of these questions or if you need to have me ask them now. Yeah, I mean, you can definitely call the business office and talk to Tara or Jamie or any of us outside of this meeting. I don't have the budget opened up right in front of me. I can get there. If you want to give me a call after like tonight, you know, we have the supervisor meeting after this, but... Is this Andrew? Yeah, this is Andrew. If you want to talk to me tomorrow, I can talk to you about budget stuff. Okay. Can you give me your number? Sure. 802-299-9359. 9359? That's right. What time? How about 930 or 10? 930 or 10. That's good. Okay. Okay. Very good. And the other question is, because I'm trying to get ahead on writing these things for the paper, I thought that two people, one from each town, were not going to run for re-election on the school board. And I wondered if there's anybody been coming forward to run and perhaps you could tell me which seats those were. Yeah. So Rodney Rainville from Bethel has elected not to run this term. And Robert Gray from Royalton has elected not to run. I haven't heard of anyone who's chosen to run. I believe today was the deadline, right, for the paperwork to be into the town clerk. So my these are both three year seats now that all has all come through the system of transition, right? That that is correct. Okay. Good. All right. Well, I won't trouble you anymore right now, because I can speak to Andrew tomorrow and whatnot. Thank you. All right. Thank you. So I texted Jamie, my suspicion is he's busy with other boards, but have you taken a look at the edits for the letter that I sent in? Yeah, I liked those. I appreciate that. If other people haven't taken a look at that yet, Jamie needs it by Wednesday. So we'll put like a greeting and a closure, all of those things on it. But we made a draft and shared it. So please take a look at that in your Google docs. Yeah, the one thing that we still need isn't that like I put in like 10% for the health insurance increase. I know it's a lot, but I don't know what the actual number was. So yeah, I shared it with Tara as well. So hopefully, maybe we can tag her in a comment. Yeah. And she can put that specific information in. All right. All righty. Well, I don't think that Jamie's going to be able to update us in five minutes. Maybe we'll have to stay on after the full board meeting. Oh, here he is. Great. I was just about to give up. Always makes me nervous when I jump in a meeting and they say here he is. Okay. Yeah, we're ready for executive sessions. So we'll need to stop recording. And who would you like to have in for this executive session? I think I could probably take it from here with the board. Okay. So with just the board. All right. Thank you. So you want us to leave publicly? Yes. So administrators and public will need to leave at this point in time. Master agreement between the supervised union and our district and the support staff for 2021. Is there a second of that motion? I'll second it. Okay. Any discussion? All right. All in favor of accepting the contract between the white WRVSU and the support staff, please say aye for 2021. Okay. Any opposed? No abstentions. I saw everyone say aye and raise your hand. Thank you. All right. Thank you all. We have a motion to adjourn to go to the next meeting. I'll just double check. Yep. It sounds like we're ready to go. So I'll make a motion to adjourn. All right. We'll adjourn at 6.30.