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Grantham School Board Meeting, Jan. 3, 2023

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okay we're going to go ahead and get started call the meeting to order at 6:31 and thank you for joining us everybody there's a lot of people and first thing to do tonight is the approval of the agenda have any changes or additions to the agenda tonight play Sweeney Todd motion to approve the agenda I see each other is approved our first item on the agenda is public participation just a quick reminder for public participation you can participate if you're here in the room or if you're joining us for twilley either way we just ask that you state your name and address at the beginning of for the record and not standard for our public transportation policy will open and this is a chance for the two Share info with the board if it's something that the board can prove an easy answer to we well otherwise it will just be us listening and and taking in the information and if we if you are providing public input through the virtual option you can type into the shop where you can raise your hand and we can bring you in so you can speak and that is fine as well so we'll open public participation and we'll see what we have would you have some folks here in the room with us and we will see just confirming the chat is on but it is about how time moves differently waiting quietly give it a few more seconds and we'll move on to our board agenda items the first of which is our student School Board liaison and we're really excited to welcome our two new school board School Board liaison tonight and Dorothy is in the it's really exciting and I don't know we had a student School Board liaison be able to be in the room with you and Allie everybody's here Ellen and Ali were joining us on Zoom so thank you all for being with us tonight we appreciate it and welcome to Ali and to Dorothy and if you haven't had a chance the two of you haven't had a chance to see where we usually have our students School Board liaison just give her a really brief report out on how things are going at school for you if you have heard anything in particular from classmates or teachers that you think would be good for the board to know and if there's anything in particular of note for you that you would like to to let us know about and then if the board has any questions about things that were discussing tonight that we'd like you put on will ask those and if there is something that we asked you about and you feel like you don't have a good answer for it please by all means feel free to say I don't have an opinion about that or I'm not sure about that or I'll let you know next month don't feel like you have to come up with something on the Fly for everything we know that you know we don't give you a lot of like had window of time to prepare so if we ask you a question that you're not sure about that's totally fine so I think what will do tonight Will Allen take us off since she is our our veteran experience to the school board liaison and will let her to give us a quick report out on how things are going and if there's anything that you would like to know excuse my voice I have a little cold right now I think there's something going around the school I could imagine it's probably the same in the elementary school I don't think there's too much talk about this month is kind of weird between season final stretch to midterms I think in terms of midterms this is like the first real one I've had my freshman year I didn't have midterm for like any class and then myself kind of weird be a senior and must be like my first real midterm we'll see how it goes and then activities we recently had a winter fest which was successful and talent show which I believe it last year and previous years it's been an online challenge posted stuff my stuff up to have an in-person talent show yeah and I just have noticed there's been a lot more funding for clubs I know I'm part of the interact club and we got more funding than we usually do I think that's G to the homecoming which we had it was a lot of money which is great yeah I think that's pretty much it in yours are applying to colleges just stressful I know that I think through the next four years a lot of colleges are still test optional which is good I mean I don't want to send my test scores but yeah that's it thank you any questions would you like to share any what is you're applying to which is sad but play songs from that I got in there and I think I'll do a couple more schools maybe like Trinity in America and then if I don't like any of free what are you thinking study really super Shore you going into it either like file witchy or biological anthropology or something like that but we'll see excellent thank you all right and good luck on your midterms that is a fun. So how to not to be in your senior year until all kind of looking virtually why do we have Ali why don't we have you report out to the board is just kind of give us an update on how things are going anything that you have noticed this year that you think the board should be aware of and any other thing topics that you'd like it bring up the like I think you're muted Ali you hear me now though it's getting better or maybe you can put your volume up more sorry about okay we're not all staring at you I just got it working I think you hear me now okay see you soon for me not a whole lot to report my first my first year in high school and I'm getting ready for midterms I feel like I'm in the same position this LMAO first I will be having my midterms so little bit stressed for that the teachers are all amazing and getting ready for that and then do the whole time so sadly report any questions the board might have excellent thank you alright and then we have Dorothy here with us in person and so feel free to say no give us a quick update on how things are going and topics that you'd like to bring to the board I mean bring my brother and we haven't all right it's not that I remember going into my first midterm and being really concerned and not understanding and having to deal with all these cars are because midterms are a big part of you braids and just not getting how to do that and I ended up doing okay but it was a lot of stress on me personally I was also just in your direction which was there was an unfortunate amount of name-calling and bullying backstage which I think would be good for you guys Winterfest went well as well I have one I have a couple questions just for any of the three of you if you have input on this I'd love to have it so if it comes back to you feel free to interrupt us so it doesn't disappear again one of the questions I have or you always at the last meeting the board looked at an updated dress code policy for the school and so we had our first reading of that policy which means tonight we do a second reading of it before it kind of official eat and the jumping if you if you don't stay that long or if you weren't part of that he can just kind of give you an overview of it really focused on there was a great committee that did this work for us and brought this policy forward to us and it really focused on removing a lot of like a gendered language or things that my only clothing that my only apply to one gender or another from the policy having a much more focused on making sure that clothing appropriate not distracting functional for things like playing and Jim and that kind of stuff things like making sure you have you no shoes that are good for running and clothing that's going to cover important parts of your body that can so it's much more of a general policy and so I was just curious as the three of you if any of you have had either experiences or he would have input on things and if there are things that we should consider as we look out finalizing new dress code policy for GPS yeah I'm not the devil super apply to the elementary school but I last year I was working with the the committee that worked with the administration at the middle school working on their new dress policy as well so we're doing the same thing just taking out any gendered language and it was very like it we there's a lot of strictness that was in the policy that got taken out it was just it was yeah so became very Broad and a lot of just other stuff I didn't need to be in there. Take him out like there was some old things that I was like I didn't apply anymore as well as did every once in awhile just to keep up with it's Styles but that to just like keep up with the times I guess it sounds like that was pretty similar that but you guys the work you did to what were looking at that's good Dorothy did you there's a lot and there's a bunch of but it's kind of hard to be on medicine and figuring out what you want to do and what a present for you so maybe it's best for them to do what they you and still achieve academic success island did you have thoughts on the dress code no problem if you did I was just going to say that I thought it was a really great idea I remembered in middle school and one instant where I was wearing my rowing Jersey for like rowing spirit cuz that's what you do when you're on a sports team and I was told to change because my colored bra strap was showing and I was like that's ridiculous there's other girls in here wearing sports bras with cuz I'm wearing a normal bra I should go and change and this is my role in Jersey so yeah I think it's a really good idea I don't think we've had any problems in the high school with a pretty relaxed dress code which I think allows people to explore their Styles and yeah I think it's great you just made but it was really it kind of reminded me of I've been doing application for college and one things that I have kind of noticed and compared is around this area I think it's a lot of pick this or this and it's less and so maybe like combining things and kind of expanding interdisciplinary thought that's why I went ahead to that thank you any other questions are facing the board tonight excellent all right well thank you to the three of you and as always and further all in for Dora we always end I was on my saying you are welcome to stay for as much of the meeting as you can stand but if you would like to quietly exit the meeting now that is absolutely fine we know that you are very busy people and have a lot going on so don't feel like you need to stay for the whole thing but you are of course welcome to stay so thank you very very very much find write to our next the item is our our next agenda item is our budget item so tonight is our last budget for looking at specific budget areas and then as a board we will finalize but we would like to bring forward I'm seeing the February meeting so this meeting is when we finalize the full budget of what we would like prevented in February February is when we do the hearing and that's sort of like our dress rehearsal of the annual meeting and so we like to have the budget really down at that point we got final input from the community during the hearing and then after the budget hearing in February the board votes to move the budget to finalize budget for work so this is our last chance to really go into like the specific line Adams and then look back at that list of items to consider so I think first tonight special education special education so I was thinking about how is going to be best to go through all the items so I think we'll go through the special education is the way that we normally would do and then after that we'll go to the list that I sent everybody because you know there's obviously connections there and some decisions to be made so I'll go through the Lions and then I'm going to hand it off to mrs. McGee mrs. Person further deeper explanation I don't think so right away with line number one with wages for special education instruction you'll see an increase proposed $58,067 this relates directly to the proposal that we sent with the justification of trying to move towards having an additional case manager and eliminating to Educators so basically bring from 13.5 Heroes for special education to 11.5 Harris but with the addition of a case manager and I think you saw him and justification how that really moves us forward having teams Marco. and the most important thing would be more direct instruction from a certified teacher to students who are most in need so Nikki and Kristen add any the nation that they would like to ask you prepared yeah it aligns directly with the empty SS model in the udl Universal Design for Learning I think especially blue covid-19 seen some academic losses and so are we provide more targeted instruction and also more feedback for kids and so there's so many bad happens to him is that in provide that intensified instruction with in the classroom Panera's historically and I'm proud of myself on the bottom table that on the graph was I just added the enrollments in the percentages of students with IEPs at CVS really to show that I see a trend or a pattern and there wasn't so I think that just speaks to the nature of this is not necessarily the number of students it's the student needs individual ISO you know what pops out in these number with the number of one-on-one para would reflect a need for a lot of water but I kind of jumps out at you so if I was okay if I say something been around and heard what MPS is there anyone who isn't familiar with mtfs and I just wanted to point out that the blue on the chart with the three regular one of those is the kindergarten paraeducator that was decided in the board a few years ago and do all students basically. the title one pair as a cheer is about 50% funded through the brand and we're able to offset that through the title one Grant and about 15% is about and have it through the rain by Adele Aspera is something that we brought in during covid and when we were reading the mpsf structure so that works directly with with reading and math intervention should provide all those injured and services you know I'm very timely fashion so before we go to any other line on do you have questions about this proposal it does this the need for full-time special education teacher I'm just thinking we can't predict how our case was change from year to year but I losing to Perez might we be sure if we suddenly have an enrollment of might need more support yes and I think that can always happen it could happen whether the board wants to switch to this model or not you know what we could have five students next year one-on-one one-on-one there's about six play work with groups of kids in the classroom. 101 and so it wasn't can't work another been there would be a shared para that would likely feel that me if five kids second grade level not so if a one-on-one moved in there maybe one-on-one services in any model we would be and I'll just add that by having an extra special education teacher it would stabilize the caseload assignment so and I'm not sure how much I care about that in the paper but if there were if there was the same case manager or Lagos construction because you're working with age and praise band we know how much diversity there is in one grade but if you have a teacher working with K students and we're third grade students for right now we have what case was so we have to case manager schedule can I ask a question about program how do we identify instruction then how do we provide extra instruction above and beyond those mpsf blocks using data to inform decisions and aggressive soon as they are not making are making enough progress then you change the ID and you say okay we need to do something about the most challenging Style they might need to more time in the day with the teacher or an individual time in order to make that catch up slow and again the opposite of the best model is a wait spell model right behind until they become eligible for special ed and that Melody is generally and I'll say just very generally a year-and-a-half two years behind grade level academics and so if you think that a kid fell behind they're not even making one year's growth in one year and then we have to somehow keep the same student and learning profile make a year in one year two years in one year if we want him to catch up so this is one way to is the stability bar it wouldn't have case managers like this year is everybody we can teach making teach them all I'm reading this correctly then it doesn't 50000 8000 and wages are wages assuming their corresponding retirement go with that 60001 which would be we keep the Perez we don't hire enough is manager and then option two is we hire the additional case manager and reduced a few pair of the differential between those with all Associated benefits is $35,000 other questions on that okay it's going to come back up again because this is a this is a proposed model shift its philosophical and philosophy model ship that I very strongly agree with it is a better way to educate all of our students I think with the portal needs to do when you look at everything else is is this the year that you want to do it or is it another year so it's our case manager case loads are not too heavy so it's not a matter of having another case manager to manage he said it's really a matter of how we're delivering services to all of our students and how we're working towards Universal the last Design for Learning and PS all of these things all these other pieces is leading Us in this direction where we try to match my bag certified teachers as much as possible all right line to the next is an increased need for special education director which is actual we the board always discusses raises for administration which last year it was before last year the administrative wages have always followed an increase that sequel to the custodial staff and Food Service however there is due to the need to have a more competitive wage went up 5% so the board last year had decided to do an increase of 3% for administrators and that's what we have into this that it but of course that's up to you edsby the higher the specific higher if you're looking at the fact that it's more than three so when we budgeted last year we didn't know who we were hiring or what the actual calorie amount was the Apple hiring salary amount battery percentage we took away the special at Dan driver that was for substitute Bandai birthday and you know we can't find a substitute and driver so there's no use been keeping that money in the budget special education summer tutoring this is going to be for all of our efy program and this is something we just increased it by a thousand but this is also something where the board will need to talk tonight about whether you want to continue that summer programming which is in a separate function and if if the board chooses to not keep all of the regular education summer programming we will add about $8,000 to this line so just so that you know it's increase by 1000 but if if we don't do the other option then we would add a thousand for this to be able to have enough bandwidth to catch them of that wrist students are those special education paraprofessional is this is down 36,000 because it reflects the proposed model of the reduction of a has been a behavior interventionist to this is the usual increase special education preschool preschool teacher it was are all the contractual increases and in this case there's also an attraction the insurance buyout is up 1009 63 and we actually you know the insurance payouts actually help us so increases there are usually a good thing special education insurance deductible is stable insurance is pulled out disability insurance is up 170 $7 short term disability $145 Social Security is at 3070 Medicare 706 retirement is down 16501 and Meredith but also are there any between the model New Hampshire retirement the other line 27 11512 professional development reimbursement is a table and that's contractual for our specialist unemployment compensation is down $168 workers comp is 119 contracted Services is an area where we did a pretty significant increase of $7,000 these are the things that are the kind of unique contractor services for special education that actually don't go under a an Audiology or a vision or something like that this could be something like where we might need to hire a reading Specialist or we might the higher end orientation Mobility Specialist or what are some of the other ones that would follow in here that's why I've been operating spin expenses are up about $2,000 there's some maintenance that we need on the van some door fixed thing and some general maintenance the band is getting a little bit older so it needs a little bit more loving care of these days nothing for preschool related to special education transition services this is for one of our students in transition we believe that we believe based on the students birthday and and exit date that a slight reduction would be appropriate here the van lease is estimated at an increase of 3929 that's for our van driver your first student that's what we pay for students are there for their driver Elementary tuition private second special education secondary tuition private I think every year we kind of go through the same conversation where we put in $65,000 here for the potential of an out-of-district placement and we usually have the conversation where we put one in because one could happen and then the gorgeous eyes do you want to cut that out you could because you could rely on the trust if you need to we do have I would say to potential for next year which is a little bit different than previous years. I don't know if you're interested in keeping one if you would still like to try and reduce that to reduce the budget and look at the trash so that's something that's on the table nothing in the house remedies could come out this year and we would need to access this year special education travel we reduced just based on what the some actual spending has been supplies there's a slight increase to 1600 for some materials testing material things like that that are needed gasoline we didn't increase just thinking about we don't know exactly where fuel costs are for the van right now special education software there's one program that we like a few hundred dollars equipment we left even at 1000 we usually leave at your marks because when we do need a piece of equipment it's usually pretty expensive and special education dues and fees that are there's an increase of under $75 and those are for membership organizations and that comes to a total increase of $123,348 which is a 10.99% increase numbers that I that are on the one that's in the board packet for some of those are a little bit different is ours or his is updated okay cuz our there was a few in there but our final number was only 6.75% so yours is a more the more accurate the band we are friend I apologize that what other ones were off but that one that one size up with Sydney asparagus so I don't know if you want to discuss some of these ones that are somewhat negotiable or do you want to wait until we get to that one the gospel list I would say if there's one set. Questions out right now while we're gone let's look at them and then we'll come back we need to come back again in the bedroom last we will other ones on this you that we just looked at it while we're looking at this bigger picture for this budget line questions about roughly at what what I would say that it's high surprise eggs that are really driving her numbers up cuz like if you look at this chart you know a few years ago we had three one-on-ones or for that one so what would we what we would be doing is we would be changing a model where we would have to humor Perez and what we would have is the case an address in the classroom for more of their time not all the time because they do still do direct instruction and case management but there would be more co-teaching where the case managers are actually pushing into the classroom it would there be a decrease in services on kids at Pacific Lee have a one-on-one two pairs what's on the kids menu GFS model if we increased by case manager so let's just look at that cater to ban there would be three empty at this time one of her grade level that we now have we doing all hands on deck the case manager would be there at all times to work with a group of students in by law it could be 50/50 so it could be 50% special education and 50% regular education so if the team members working with two special education students she could also want to reggaeton at acacian students in that room if they have similar deficits so but that it also allows time later in the day outside of those MPS time that's the case manager can be working in an intense week with the students that they normally would be the kids on the IEPs that have been there I be that they need to get that case manager the time to when do the intense inspection on the IP but then hit that cheer to intervention with the special ed kids but add regular education kids in there as well and right how does special education in general special education parents are more it's more spread out right they're not necessarily in like a targeted it was a struggle with the math little on that I mean if you look at it from App Store hours for sec to your decreasing the number of available hours you have could you getting rid of two pairs for one but I'm not I'm not disagreeing with out at all with you now just so I guess I'm trying to get into Bridge of how you're taking 11 hours in 27 and things are going to try more service which isn't one of the things that we would call it so you know you might at this stage that the student would get maybe some and mtss time or during that time one of the case manager would have to take that student someplace else or at another Thunder in the box with this model the student would always have the MPS as time with the case manager and then the case manager could if that student needs that take that person for an additional time later in the day or a another pair work later in the day so they could get like a double-decker a triple-decker of intensive Services throughout the day which we don't have the ability to always do that right now but that's what an additional Aid special as it goes services in class Aid Mike's order kid but this would be a stronger so I can get the copies they might be taking them alcohol on the Whiteboard sabacc the chips are learning how to take them some prioritize pieces how to take the note so they are actually getting instruction on taking notes instead of having to Pera in there to give the kids actually went unless they're all the IEP Pyrenees or child per grade and looked at next year what they would need in the bathroom and Kristin and I said okay so if it was an actual teacher and it was we'd end up with the same numbers even though we got there I'm going to say the same correctly so bear with me this model issues the needs are not weighted correctly by the grade levels where you were beside of the Spectre yeah there are some ways to dumb we do have that we do have Incredibles that have our needs right now every grade level is going to have him use and there are other ways where we can try to utilize this if we need to for example we have some very intensive case management kind of things so mean see if the case manager is in a grade level that has lighter co-teaching responsibilities that person could be able to be the case manager for one of the students who has like a whole lot more needs so there's ways to balance out all that part does that take away from the white and gray band so they're not terribly with some of her students with the most intensive mean they would be having a lot more related services in a lot more different different needs outside of the another way to look at knowing that we have a PK and a general Ed k I'm so happy to be one parent they will be lots fluctuation because again if it's not one-on-one Services is already apparent in that grave no more a position not a person you can't move in that are heavy duty one on one needs that one and I while we're talking. Just the next page of the budget that I have the new one that I sent out and I don't know if it's in the one that you hang a bird packet but is the summer school one because we talked a little bit more about that this morning so the summer school will come if you still want to run summer school the way we started to there in full bed with me 20674 but both Kristen and Nikki had socks on some of their preferences for where if you're making me step decision where they would prefer that you start to to focus money on so I was handed over to them so my program in the model that Mickey presented is by cutting out regular Ed summer program I think what it mean mathematically decide it would shave $10,000 off the would make up that 30 $35,000 difference with those but I think you're by cutting mat and saving some money I think the the extra case manager during the school year is a much more bang for your proposal and if you wanted to cut money to help get to that that point the regular summer school would be a logical place to do that I mean we want both but we did talk about this morning because we know that there's a big percentage increase and we know that if there's going to be places where you have to make a decision so that was something that I think both men making you would probably agree with that right now. And not at work call Babe have we ever spent any money on the private tuition this year and which one are you talking about the one in the 40s but we didn't have anything budgeted and we that's the one where we could potentially have to spend some money from that line but it's still open how many students at Lowe's 65000 adequate if we believe that it wouldn't be residential and we believe that if something happens as we believed it would be at a day program reason why that isn't translate level we're required to 100% residential well our last residential placement in the grandson was 500,000 are and we have 400000 and Trust rings yeah so if we have one residential pop-up but trust anymore would be gone but on the other hand we talked about using the best at all and we have it and there's also this interesting idea that Pittsburgh Richie is the trash because at any time we could have one student who needed residential you know where we're always trying to let you know that right now you know there are two game placements continue until if they happen this year and they mean things like I know this is impossible to stay because like you said I really liked what you said about how it's it's who this Nunez doctor near nothing just the numbers on the page but knowing who we have her students who are in this who would be benefiting from the change to another case manager position do you think that there is the potential for that kind of position and that MPS approach to mitigate some of those potential situations where there could be a Place Mall Lakewood are those are the need for that placement sort of outside of the realm of that okay it's nice to have you here this is just so calm play complex is Cara impacts so much the older they react with other factors that are now walking with his success than the original disability but I think a lot of these we salt other discussion on this area knowing that we're going to come back questions for special education okay alright next one is services Apple Services is a slight increase of $5,640 and that's based on the number of the valuations basically that we believe we're going to need Nantucket Island speech is next to the speeches all a contract of service and based on the increases proposed that $34,660 this is based directly on I-80 near and it also includes summer speech instruction so it includes both during the school year it's been all year around set it I'm assuming around the corner cupboard in summer it doesn't sound heartless it's just if it's in the IP for the students to receive speech summer Services then we do it you don't win by the wall plans and five kids in a speech or language as a person yes a few years ago we could not hire a speech language pathologist we advertise for a very long time couldn't find anybody 0 applications are very hard to find and so we went to Contracting with boothby and then it actually worked out really well the contractor Services contract we can hire her are we have to pay for. OT PT and Cota would be next so there's a year 8427 dollars and we believe that that's largely due to what we believe we can cut and $10,000 from Contracting Services in there's any questions there Audiology contracted service we have an increase of 36000 the requested budget is 61,000 and I know some of these numbers are really kind of shocking at times but this is what else are these days for these specialized instruction and related services increase in cost with a little bit of next year I believe we are going to have is it four or five Jackson increase in students definitely from what we had before but the costs are also increasing in some of the needs and the IUD increase because they have different requirements as they go to the different develop Vision contracted service by is an increase of 46400 or a total of 62000 but the same although I don't know exactly if there's a correct student increase there definitely is with deaf and hard-of-hearing students but I'm not sure if the same students receiving goods and services the numbers have not increased but I think you both to years back in the budget this was under contract and services and then so you'll see number under contract and services and then when it went down because I moved here and then going to come closer at that this year and probably when we're trying to put some of that into the idea Grant wherever we can definitely this year one and I believe that is being last one for the latest Services unless I'm missing our these are big numbers right in big increases I can tell you that with the exception of the case manager proposal leaves RIT driven this is the appropriate time to ask with this questions always in my mind do we have an english-as-a-second-language teacher and it's not because you don't want to start there are some students like we do have a student where the student needs e l l and special education services but most often their separate because the idea is that you don't want yellow to be seen as a disability great that are reading specialist Happy Valley is certified as an e l l teacher a great has are additional certification we are seeing increased needs their so in the 1100 that we added some contact Services because we will need more than what mrs. Buckley can provide considering all of her other reading specialist okay so that takes us through all of our budget function areas so now we look at the overall picture of the budget so thank you for everybody who has presented to us to have done all of the work of realistic I'm really appreciate this really detailed and thorough look at it and so now we will look at the overall picture so what is our overall picture kinds of weather for Budget come out with all of us I'll let Meredith give you the very final percentage increase is although one thing I want everybody to remember is we with the if the director of cricket on his trap a assessment moved forward we got to so when we're looking at the final amount that percentage will be off that a little bit by the playing field and cornice Revenant there's an increase of better than $3,850 which is 5.3 + 5 so I'll pull up I'm I'm going to share my screen and pull up the final decision list as we start going through and and various things that could potentially stay or go so curriculum instruction and assessment director which is in the 1100 function the total amount in the budget is 132350 we would get $79,410 of revenue from Plainfield and corn and the total Grantham decrease is 50 2009 $40 and I just listed some basic pros and cons that I probably don't need to reach you again after that 4.50 for and the other two districts are interested yes I can tell you that Cornish is the top of their list it's the one thing that they want to keep more than their other purpose we'll save that stem I was like this I'm in Plainfield is it is towards the top of their list so they're extremely interested therein neither one of them has finalized their budget either they're all were all in the same state right now the next thing that we on the list was the library Furniture which is function 2220 which is a total of $2,320 I think mr. colored went through with it a good prose and them the crimes you want that cost or do you want us to look into other funding sources for that me personally I know it wasn't but it was a employ to have our merger our last minute meeting in there so we can see the size of it I did just so the board knows I did it was her father's brain after the after the concert about if my question about doing 10 of the phased approach to the furniture was would we be setting him up her frustration with new chairs an old tables wood size of the new more flexible seating kid-sized chairs be frustrating at those big block people's and he said he can make it work for Ball moving forward with this life space do it in a couple of chairs in there this time get new tables in next year because this would just be for part of the furniture correct the 2,000 so you didn't have concerns over taking a phased approach to the track and I struggled with that because last meeting I don't see how those chairs could work with those el director you agree to share any information that's important because I feel like I'm bugging I test right now plus you printed appreciate what I had but I think this is about as big I can read this the next thing that we is nation that we just talked about so the total cost is $20,674 would be if you're deciding between this and the case manager proposal than 8,000 the best way to move to the summer school program in that wood reductionist 12000 next is the phone system where Randy has two final option for you that we're in your board packet and tonight is right where we need to kind of make a final decision on which way to move forward so I'm going to hand it over to you okay thank you for having me I'll ask him where I just received the most open in the original budget of where it would be on 511 piece on the very first visit we just got there and I talked to you last I'm in so much larger ones what I 1 a.m. which is basically Jim voices as if you have a new account but it has voicemail all kinds of other things you can do things like a phone call from a regular one forward into a new meeting there's all kinds of things like emailing a transcript of the voicemail a lot of really neat features that the gym one has a higher upfront because who would help do the installation and setup here so really the main difference between the two is that there is the installation cost lower longer-term Costco so the annual after the first insulation year is basically a half of what it would be if we went first like so for your return on whatever you put and it is possible to do whatever this bid is ends up coming in less than a relation work is I think the guy is waiting for his installation cost until it's done it's really hard to say for sure the primary pros and cons one versus the other Newman's not a lot of features to it has the advantage of being very robust on the back because they're the ones that are providing our fiber into the building you're also providing the infrastructure or things like the actual switch in our room they actually exposed phone service and it's within their fiber Network so it doesn't go out onto the big internet the way that the wonder they would be able to manage in Denver mostly from one of their location for whatever reason it's a lot more that sounded on the inside being that it's called and so even if it all went down here we all still would have talked with which one Randy thank you now First Sight doesn't have the capability to do that stop phone stuff to although they tend to provide that to their Superuser so that would be one of your Administration opposed to every single person we will realize the benefit from choosing either one of these this until we won't be paying first line anymore eventually could extend the zoom one of you also and basically eliminate that phone cost on a Weber grill 3200 by doing what you do and what the actual cost would be the first year where the zoom one is $19,000 42 which is 4000 more than I have put in for my initial line item on the first light one 11042 which is $3,000 less than what I originally when you factor that out over here is however it ends up being a pretty quickly so my recommendation is either one of these systems I be happy with I think that the zoom one has a lot more functionality something that and so I'm happy they answering questions you back out we did talk about you know she is this the year to do it again like it's tough budget year. another year and Randy told me that two lines that already just completely Frozen twerking basically second line so there is a couple of bones in here that just work anymore because we don't have phone plugged in but you know it makes me nervous about whether that system at any time for the stove our recommendation would be choosing between these two and that this would be something that we don't call. Both of these systems would fulfill the requirement of the e-911 tell me what room you're in you know what what floor you are on a call back 911 baby I think you answered this currently paying for Zoom account that is true would we have to still paper but that paper Zoom account if we did that power users we could probably wash some of that cost out of it or basically everybody in the school they would get a new account they would have the ability to get an extension phone call to them they were being distracted and it'll call the building but not outside the building. do you have any everything about this in terms of safety do you have any preference between the two of them in turn like reliability and stability about the one being on the bed like you said like the bigger and internet versus the more localized like the first light it up this literally 2 days before internet stopped working and it was because that is probably the way that it would work physically operating the telephone rings you could still pick up on the mother internet services provided in the building is the same back home that you was getting from her fly real differences really wacky going on in your net or something in addition to the SAU cost-saving what would be the advantage of having the essay you connected to our extension articles so they were just dial extension beginning one of us right now they go out to the camp transfer call right now you're over here so we have that ability and also could do some sort of thing over there it totally sounds silly but when I call BS are you I haven't got a 1603 E63 you better do it again and we did the same thing Mickey song and I'm over here at work here waited a few minutes ago about how do a 4 pretty fast it will not forget my phone do we have to decide tonight The Upfront casting running saturated solution in case for itself in 2 years. I mean I'm going towards you in person run to the budget my feelings from what I know about it I can do that the later action on the phone a little bit later on but that's good for our budget conversation thank you Randy going back to sharing Or List after phone system we're going to be in Irving I just want to make sure I didn't miss the timer when I say you contracted services we had put in $15,000 contracted Services being available to the new superintendent that's something where we traditionally have five but I think do we have it at Leo in there now yes yes so you could reduce that if you don't want to put as much a Comcast services facilities restriping and sealing the parking lot is in there for 19200 mr. Campo believes pretty strongly we can laugh I'm at so I think that would be an easy one to say we can remove that going to budget if you're okay with that there's also another one that is in the it's not on this list but we were looking today and there's $20,000 in there for roof repair that's outside the cafeteria Doors Mr, told you how there was no water in the camera and water going in there he believes that that could wait if you want it to wait and so we were just trying to brainstorm that you might want to hold off then he has also called every Roofing person contractor that he can find and he haven't gotten a single call back so she's got a real close estimate on that unfortunately somebody he said that the main problem with that is that it's the kind of job that you need a big company to do but it's a really small job right and big companies right now aren't interested in salt. And that would be about 20 you said it would be 20 and for maintenance and repair trust we have 84 so if it did if there was a situation where like we just have to realize that it was damaging some other we could have been to that the court project and parking lot fees would be separate individual warrant articles these were they at that went out to bed before it was estimated at $110,749 parking lot repair was estimated at 117862 and I'm not sure if you're interested in having these other warrant articles forward if this is the year or not there and that's just warrant that's not in the budget the transportation contract I've been negotiating over the last several weeks the negotiated place where we are right now is a two-year contract for the 10% increase each year intense negotiations but I really didn't feel comfortable going for a five-year contract because I just think that things are way too unstable right now with all Transportation costs so basically what we would be doing is it's not going out to said we would be extending for 2 years 10% increase each time we talked about maybe purchasing our own people but I'm not really sure if that's going to get us anywhere they haven't given me any exact percentage on what the percentage would be if we took over the fuel card so right now in our contract we don't have any surplus fuel cost we haven't been paying any what the new contract would be is that if anywhere between $3 and $4 10 cents a gallon per student covers and then if it's below that are about that we make adjustments so that seems to be a pretty good window and and with you across the way there right now but right now I would recommend year that we do with a 2-year with the 10% each year and have her students keep the fuel going themselves and I just I was trying to think of difficulty of us trying to handle the fuel costs and where we're going and having our buses you know like there's there would be a lot more involved and I don't think we would actually save that much money the case manager in Peril that we discussed a lot tonight so the difference between the proposed model and the status quo is 35829. and that is the main list unless you want to you know think of other areas that we presented their you think you'd like to add or subtract what we're looking at. So they can you just give us a sense of what you know of other districts of what their budgets are looking like in terms of their increases most are higher than us there are two that are coming in pretty low around us so I think he is lower than we are and then I think what I heard from us, is that they're going to be low but that's because they have a teachers contract weren't coming much so their operating budget is low but they're going to have a big expense in their in their negotiation yeah I'm glad we're in a stable contract I think I'd say no I just want to say that I recognized believe this is not an easy budget it hasn't been an easy operating budget year it's also not an easy proposed budget year we've tried to give you as much information as we can and we also recognize that this is something that you know is going to be you know even with even with taking away things this is going to be something that will you know have to be carefully explain to the community the additional problem and we can thank the state of New Hampshire is that the sweat decrease that were experiencing in this year's tax bill and it's all coming back next year so it's going to feel like another tax roller coaster I would say for myself thinking about just got to spend some easy things that jump out to me as we look at these I think we're the with a budget where it is with this roller coaster that we kind of been on I I'm not leaning towards wanting to do any additional Warren articles this year so I think those projects that are under Warren Arkansas why would I think we need to delay that I think that would be a really big  that we don't necessarily need to do right now for me. That's one that is cut off the list nnn as we think about our responsibility of what we're balancing two terms of I think we have some legitimate Life Safety needs we need to look at with the phones and then things like that and we have some opportunities provide better services to kids within the school in terms of The Proposal of the new positions I think the thing that I would totally read Library furniture easy one for me I think I would lean towards if Toby feels like we can hold off on the parking lot the roof repair the things I think I'll hold off on those I would say the place I'm struggling the most is I think you all have done an incredible job and really put forward really thoughtful proposals for those two possessions I'm struggling with one both which that hole that's where where I am I can see huge benefits I can also see that being a lot of questions from the community about do we need to kind of bigger budget application position changes in the same here and I think we can make a case that they would do great things for the school and for the district so I think we need to think about how we would make that if we're going to bring both of those positions for we will need to think about how are we clarify I also think for school for an a $12,000 in as like that that's one of those things where we can do some of that intervention work of that could pay off and down the road I I am comfortable with summer school staying in there I think the one that I am the most kind of conflicted honor those two positions one both neither I don't know I'm sorry replay mag my mind I told out okay for the summer added 4K for the phone drop the SAU contractor services. 19000 that drops of 67k from the from the plan I do I would agree that I think it's a little I will talk to follow with the director of curriculum the way we had a presented here because it is showing the cost though 100 + 1000 random I don't know if there's a way down I just that it'll be when we present the community with the revenues and the attacks and that's where it'll be reflected the same meeting that and we don't know what that is yet we haven't done all that we will have a better idea of our revenues and your all of your decision you know where everything is and then we'll be able to see what the tax time that will be yeah I mean I think if we keep the better and the other thing is to me just by removing what's interesting is if you just by removing apportion the director or thing that we're not paint you and we will get it remedies for increase dropped from 5.33 to 4.5 which looks a lot more impressive than it actually is is that 4.5 with all the other things that you do that was just adding in the revenue so to be that would be what is careful to matter what we end up doing because we don't want to say it's a 5.3 in fact you know you drop another 67k off of that you know could be the live where we're going to be right around 9 or 9 or maybe a touch wish not understanding given everything up when dealing with we can keep the increase around right now and I think I'm going into the first year of a new superintendent makes me want then additional said CIA director if I was selling it may be less need for contracted services with Google says it was with the director I know there was some discussion a good way to start sharing with this position is this person will get to know all three of the district's really well you know and everything that they're focusing on with specific still learning and professional development and Grant allocation of ways that you can start sharing I think this is a really good way to start sharing in the first year that that position is not working well what are the options of the three school districts working with it can one day I'm sorry we're just not interested anymore and then where the rest of the costs go if it ain't I'm a district decides not to budget we're at the other District 41 District would have to decide if they're going to it and she knew something that and it would probably be something to it that each district would be revisiting definitely okay so please look at the last thank you brother Davis Kristen nurse CIA director I think I really liked what you said at him I like that kind of framing of how we talk about that those percentages looking at if we have a position versus if we do if we have the revenue from it I think it's one of the reasons we've tried this in front of an audience I think I would say I would be in favor of leaving the CIA director position and the specialist position in there and then we can have that conversation after a public hearing that if we hear from people during that February meeting in lots of questions about those are really questioning those positions then we have that board meeting after that to take another hard look at it and decide if you want to move us forward to March it's all so CIA director summer school program thoughts on that one right now I feel like I don't want to mess with them washer was the Mercury people GPS for 20 plus years I would be that's what I wouldn't buy some data points population call grandson I also love the eye yeah I'm at Farm regular and if I had to cut something it's nice to have I don't know how like if we're adding the times yet. give me a little like gravy I know that everybody wants to do everything we can for kids but at the same time if this part is cut we're still serving the most that needs summer program let's not be expanded and we still will be calling in the most at risk yesterday sure so you're not you know yet just throwing everything away and if we can explore this year but also the CIA director what are other ways to keep Sweden's doing things I don't have it yeah I think that's that makes sense but movie 8 hours the phone system it looks like we'll keep the cooking something in there but the 19 something in there for zoom and then the SAU contracted Services reduced to just and Leo + 5000 remind me again what did Leo is there any website which is alive and well this week started on 24 + 20000 where the roof do you want to do both restriping in the room one or the other the roof is another one that Mr combo brought forward that could be a perfect 10 3 + 19028 + 20 warrant articles know I'm assuming instead of what is that in the budget better looking at the back of a 10.6 includes the increase the 10% last year to see about the for the bus and I think a lot of people responded to the survey that yes there's going to they're going to ride but people just aren't they're not accessing the buses as much as the survey thought that everybody would and then in a little bit there's going to be a recommended routine which will balance out the writer on the buses and there were a lot of differences to with cka now being here instead of transporting Kids 2 c k a so I think there are enough differences where we can get by with three glasses we can always we're one in the future but I honestly don't see any need right now neither does Donna you know Donna doesn't say we need one and the case manager parrot sounds like that then. now the other one that's not on this list that we started to talk about was just $65,000 potential replacement real rough numbers are what does 67008 * 3.88% increase during the year with the 65,000 I honestly believe that that probably just don't know what that we might need could potentially be too leaving one feels responsible are those funds that we have the ability to transfer to other lines at some point during the year if we get for the end and realize we're not going to use it yeah so it would be like what we did with the tuition in the tractor he has said there would be like a recommended function transfer in the board would vote on it I'm not sure we've got a team that's a very very careful thank you all okay so for tonight we leave you're going to appreciate position especially the CIA makes it sound like you're going to go ride Okay so our next agenda item is discussion of possible war and articles but I think we've you are meeting what will happen is Sydney will turn all of what we talked about Sydney and Meredith will turn what we talked about in the budget that will be presented and a presentation and that will go out or 10 who's going to talk about what part of the budget during the hearing and so that will come ahead of the February meeting and then for February we have the hearing and then right after the hearing we have a meeting where we finalized all right so our next agenda item is the bus route change proposal so this is what we're just talking about is that we either have unbalanced buses right now so to try and stick with it free still stay within are trying to frame the cka changes and especially because she's six and he's been is PAX this will switch is it G5 that will be going to Draper road now spending would now we'll go to Jay Perez 06 will go to the Centre of the road and then it will that picks up a whole group of students which alleviates the population on G6 and it balances out our times better G6 will do that in the morning. 97 will do it in the afternoon cuz G 7 in the afternoon is very light now that CK is here so he has time to go to Draper NECA which is a big stock what happens when Miller Clan closes growing blackheads the goal is to have more spread out roots on the buses buses not driving around you know empty and also to get more like 37 is driving back in school later in the afternoon clearing later so we want to try to get that back to 4 daddy said that we don't have the office staying asleep but we're also hoping there's going to be a really nice side effect of improved Behavior Behavior at the latest are leaving out the kids video video video what does best so is the AI route stay in the same month that the afternoon to do the morning we do and we see a lot more students taking advantage of South Cove activity so a lot of kids are on that bus rapid must have Bluetooth is little stick people getting into it and we've done it for so long that we you know thank you for doing that you may have said this is this for next year or is this like that shouldn't you know that's what I was wondering does this change any times significantly for anyone like anyone that's affected by these changes is there a meeting their kid at 3:50 and all the sudden they're going to need be there at 3:05 like is there other business had significant of us want to make sure that we're not setting up a situation where somebody's the bus is going 10 minutes earlier in any of these I know there's a lot of movement sometimes going around depending on what you know we asked the parents be at the stops 5 to 10 minutes anyway because if you know I mean one student doesn't ride in the morning then they don't stop there you know what does shorter trip so you just keep going you add up 45 of those and now you've got 5 or 6 minutes on your hand so I think there's five to ten minutes leeway in here anyway there's nothing that's it but there's nothing that's like a 20-minute half hour he used to get dropped off at 3 and now you get dropped off at 3 and maybe we'll is our. Time when I'm sure it'll be a very small number of people that like or we could be flexible about nothing about like South Cove Draper breakage meaning people who it sounds like there's a lot of game I'm just worried there might be a few families so we will give them enough time to make that adjustment we also have you know it's a specific group of kids that will focus on and let them know I mean all the stuff will change a little bit in times but these kids will move from one bus to the next no you're saying like sometimes somebody's doing a southcote activity might be a different bus those kind of things you are so we always allow those changes if they're regular changes what you know so if we know that that's the regular offer if there's an activity I don't allow her if you know somebody's going here today and there's Merle and you know those kind of bouncing around thing so when you can watch motion to approve the bus route change proposal all those in favor say aye all right how is our time to take action on the phone bed so from the conversation that sounds like we are in leaning towards Zoom is there any further conversation questions for Randy that folks have on that hey so we would need a motion to approve to  except Leslie as from add all those in favor please say I any post a day all right Transportation contract we already went over that so you don't I think that as long as you're okay with this moving forward you would just make a motion sensor board with a 2-year attention on our current contract extension on our contract with first student as Leslie all those in favor please say I any post a night right next up is superintendent search at our big move tonight for superintendent search is to put together our search so I gave every hey a copy of this is who we have received as volunteers to serve on the search committee and then their statements are on this document as well so we had for community members all of whom are parents their statements we had to go to would I would say fall into the admin category staff and then two more members to the board members statements aren't in there cuz make some hard calls on that one so we one thing I was really just as you're looking at statements Brett Nichols and Casey So Vain statements came in before we had put the call out for statements so if I like for Casey she just emailed me and said I would be willing to do just a night that I'm going to use this as your statement don't feel like you have to Leatherface without virus is like super short and sweet and Brett Nichols reached out after our last board meeting we had to call out yet and so that was the first one that came in the statements are in order of when I when they came into me and I would stay with the numbers that we have I I think we would have a good balance of having an eighth or nine people total I think you know if we have two board members to staff to admin folks and two to three community members depending on what we decide there that would put us in a good position in terms of balance on the committee the other thing that I was really excited about was to see some new names to me some some parents who have some younger kids in GPS Saint Paul Junior wanting to to be involved this way any thoughts on that are questions that folks have Night Ranger experience a lot of names out of a hat yeah I would say bye only concern yeah they're not traditional an hour plus overview and a slight concern neighbor scheduling already train schedule 8th April aspects but yeah I know I mean Alexander Cemetery I mean I think does every kind of Whittle down the low-hanging fruit I think we will we will be appointing Kristen Mickey Casey Frey that Britney an ad so we can text and say yes cuz that's why I think a good plan. to Levi in those categories for community members I will say I think I mean I I was a little like I want that wasn't super surprised I'm a you don't have to lie that's not a parent to any member that's just a Community member Community member but you know it is what it is and it's exciting to see your parents get involved I think if we were looking for ways to go to Panera are the Community member list down Isabel has been super involved and has your been on some other committees and then some other things for us and so has a pretty like clear kind of connection already in invoice with like towards word I know is those great about attending board meetings in person or virtually Ivan her job is literally I'm thinking more like in terms of I I could anticipate that Isabel will be somebody who will like wholeheartedly be involved in like in community input sessions and surveys we might send out and some of those things, whereas I think it would be great to pull in some other community members who had a chance to be on a school committee at 2 do you do to volunteer for school board things I could be a nice way to engage some new community members and Gibson in different voices I like that Brad has you know his experience in all he does for a living is like pretty unrelated he has a young daughter you're a parent that's kind of exciting I mean it that early stage of their experiences and be a part of helping certainly all have something to offer it's just like you said it is depending on who's got the most flexibility in scheduling because we're meeting there. Then we appoint like what say we appoint to community members try to we reach out to the other two and stay and ask them to kind of be like you could we do like an alternate just in case after that first meeting where we set meeting dates if one of them is like 30% of these meetings are not to be able to make if we know we have two people that could that we could potentially go to as alternates what would folks think of doing I like that I mean the only thing I wish I had great experiences unchanged even numbers and a lot of time for my 48 Oregon to buy to do and then we waited they didn't give me a reason for both gave me as their preferences and say why but they gave this the numbers they started working for good committee sizes were all even numbers so they said like oh and I don't know is that I don't I don't know if that's just retire early or is that something about their process that makes an even number workable I don't know that there was no they didn't mention try to have an odd number on your committee and they also said you know what they were like eight times people are so that's my only that's the only reason I would feel okay with having with putting forward eight people is other than easier for me and 3 in an alternate route yep. you could always appoint the two minutes and then specifically seek out a Community member who doesn't have kids in school you know if you feel like that's a boy that would give you the the odd number to call out would have been nice I think I yeah I hear what you're saying about an odd number I think what I would put forward is going to bed at 6 that we talked about and then Brett Jillian and Brad just for the like those different voices kind of willingness and involvement level I'm sure Isabel would be willing to to be there if we needed to call somebody else and and I think we could also say if one of them is one of the community members for some reason isn't able to do yeah that time tonight but once we get the schedule and place we could seek out a non-parent Community member yeah I had to go pick up Julian and Isabel and have Jillian be there she believes you can do it and I do I think I was set with Brett Brad and Isabelle and I'm doing this deal for that up I guess I read that last sentence as more like I work flowers so I can be flexible I do work full-time not to get flowers yes. So I am flexible Woods I said you're in a season making out right now it might be one of their Auditors we can they're going to some numbers I will just as soon as I'd walked out I am also think I wouldn't be in for like 23 weeks I want to see for her but I know what her schedule is like holding it against her I think that Isabelle like mine is actually a plus in this particular realm but it don't matter who's been smiling either way they would support any one of them as an alternate does anybody have strong feelings about 2 vs 3 community members to alternate one alternate I'm leaning towards the three 23 is there a reason why they said 8 as opposed to 90 I know I don't know those are just number size of a committee there wasn't anything of how to be an even number have to be an odd number it wasn't any in the past it was even numbers to if it was even before Spell committee. It isn't like those committee isn't making the final vote they're just bringing a recommendation forward it doesn't have to be it doesn't have to be you know a majority or you know it's more of us exactly yeah the votes will be this group I think your input is very important because you are on the board and the representative yeah I mean like kind of a lighter clean your 2222 group of that and then having to people that we could go to if schedules you don't work out Hotel any other that's on that maybe Justin's where it seems like the four of us that's the way I don't like previous searches you would think of rain were around these were parents and their backgrounds and maybe just give a little insight into what you think is valuable experience I think having two alternates is better than having one alternate just because you know even though we're six staff members you know maybe one of us other person maybe two people can attend you know this is a long process and it one and a half to three hours per meeting I kind of feel like New Alternatives would be a good thing I will say that I don't think it's appropriate for me to this is where I stand for in the work no matter what it doesn't make it the schedule and it would allow for people who put an application in to be participants just not on the same way who said that Staffing just that one entered like you want somebody to say or I can't commit to all of them there for the sultan is going to come in and do all of them yeah yeah. Like our first meet the second meeting and we decide here is going to be the meeting schedule if one of the community members is like this is not good actually going to be feasible for me that we can stay no problem we have somebody else is a consistent group so I would I would put forward we do Brett Nichols and Brad slicer appointed community members with Jillian and Isabelle as an alternative do you need a motion to appoint Brett Nichols Bradley sir didn't read Mickey McGee Casey sylvain Brenda Malloy Brittany pie and Edison to the superintendent search committee I've been any of those say night and then to have Julian Belmont and Isabel Barber as alternates for Community member on participation on the superintendent search committee I have a motion for Leslie and a second for all those in favor please that we have that in our board packet have to go and see the function transfer it now so this is a and thank you to Meredith for putting all this together in the memo but whenever by board policy whenever we are spending more than $5,000 in a different function requires a specific function transfer so this is the amount of 34942 transferring from instruction to 2600 buildings and grounds in questions. we need a motion to transfer 3400 942 dollars from the instruction function area to the buildings and grounds 34,000 when an emotion from Leslie and a second I'm too nice all those in favor say aye is the second reading of the dress code policy that was actually very interesting. I didn't know that the middle school had just done a similar process and it sounds like it was really good it is good really want to know what the no parachute pants dazzling any questions or changes to the dress code before we move forward with the second reading we cried so we need a motion for the second reading and Adoption of policy jica all those in favor please say I I am in your posting a excellent next on our agenda is the principals report anything that you would like to add a highlight from your principles before we haven't been in school. just that we had a really great re-entry everyone seems really happy and a lot of Tire the kids coming off of vacation but first two days are great so I loved you what was the attendance like on Monday to start curiosity we are Spider-Man stick people but in terms of people choosing well I don't know maybe they said they were any other comments or questions for Kristen a report I will say the other really cool thing about the grilled cheese was that it was for teachers but it was during the day while the kids were here so the kids got to see the teachers having something really special like just for them and there was a kid who I know personally teacher has a special thing today and I think it was real cool for the kids to be able to see the teachers having something that was just for them and like a way to still like honor the teachers to like Beyond just the jealousy that the teachers were getting delicious-looking grilled cheese. Like I think it was really like noticeable for the to be like oh there's something happening but it isn't directed at us like I think that's a cool thing for them to be able to see which is actually great I found an organization that so we have trouble finding food trucks to come to our end of year celebration which was packed and a food truck line for very long so now if we go through this same Hub we might be a lot more food trucks for that night cuz I assume good idea it was fun and yeah they came in they set up a corn hole thing to play while you're waiting and all right so I'm next agenda item is a superintendent report and that was in Sydney's email things at Sydney sent us anything that you want to highlight or a ski report yeah I'm just going to briefly add that the safe Grant is underway we were able to have mr. combo with able to have somebody come in and start getting estimates so that might happen sooner than we thought that would be great and then I just wanted to highlight the wonderful news about our middle and high school students and how incredibly I meant to say on our way to take action on this but before the holidays the teachers of Grantham each received a $200 donation all of them from a family in Grantham anonymously totaling $4,000 and the teachers can buy whatever they want or they can pull their funds to buy something more substantial and it was just a thank you for everything that you've done and how strong we stayed during the pandemic incredibly gracious and it was such a beautiful mess I would have cried the message would have been enough Beauty group that we have that just out of the blue something like that comes this as just a message to how much people appreciate GPS any questions or a Sydney on her work the day before he said he would not have been able to do remotely are any everything that needed to be done after that storm we would have been Desperately Seeking a lot of expensive outside help you just be able to hear after that everybody know is that good I write our next agenda item is a consent agenda anything in any don't want to pull our update something Bonita I meant before we all right we need a motion to approve the consent you are going to have to remove remove the trustees of the December 22 so we need a motion to approve the in the consent agenda as amended all right and we have our second public participation so we will open public participation anyone who's here the room or joining us virtually can participate just a reminder to please are your name and address at the beginning of your comments on so they have those for the record and if you're joining us for chili and you'd like to participate you can or you can raise her hand and Will are you in I'm still open an arcsecond public participation we have two people on in the chat is back open we can switch back to wake up see what he has but I'm glad somebody mentioned that cuz of the first one I'm thinking at least we hold me back I need elementary school around the average a week before break or the week before that 50% and so she had a report she had to fill out every day and send to the state and I got I just got Higher and Higher and Higher and every day she would have submitted and say okay what do I do and see what's the problem like you're not going to shut us down your yeah they got over 50% hillsboro-deering closed down because of flu and they just had so many kids and stuff out but how do we what do we use new material all right I don't see anything coming in so we will go ahead and close public participation mission for tonight we do have a non-public session cracks we do and what are are they for that one there is a 91 883 to our next meeting is February 7th which is the budget hearing that will be in the cafeteria correct are we doing it this year so February 7th thank you to everyone who joined us tonight thank you for all the work to folks and to the people who volunteered for this but even really appreciate it we are not we're not going to reopen a zoom meeting which means go into non-public will shut this to meet him down and then when we come out of our non-public the only thing that we're doing is just returning the meeting so thank you and we need a coach to emotion emotion to enter public under RS a 91832 e a i Nancy Moseley Brittany I

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