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Grantham School Board Meeting, Tuesday, December 5, 2023

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first item on the agenda for this evening is approval of the agenda anyone have any additions fractions if not then it's in a motion to approve the agenda next on our agenda is public participation I think we've got three one person online she's on the school board will leave it for another couple minutes just props just a reminder if you want to make a comment please give us your names and record all right it seems still when we are order up online and no one in the room I'm going to close public participation at this point there will be another opportunity later in the meeting the more public participation if needed next up School Board liaison report Crown Club 420 okay allergen counts of the winter so I don't start until 4 or 4:30 we're having a study hall in one of the teachers rooms if this goes well someone to do that my library. and we got $500 to the December I got to try it out and it works really well. end of the day and a Township yeah I forgot today is just the news it's actually today Robbie glass breaks for glasses like he was to use like it's the only way for this to get his keys to school and he's not allowed to bring a lot of bus today I'll bring the equipment to the practice for birthday and I'm also leaving before school they actually Adams school day ends at 2:35 and they actually ends up at like 2 and bus routes by 230 bus schedule bus well the equipment piece is part of the policy that we don't allow sports equipment on so there's no we can do about that and we do have that problem every winter I like getting and if you're letting skis on you letting hockey sticks on your letting you know bring your equipment Axel will guard Transportation director coordinator at the yard where I'm at right now do with instrument like he can't bring them to like me pay for her no hun Kendra that are sold every year Dorothy if you can unmute you can go ahead and give us your report thank you very much I'm sorry I could today I just didn't want to close you guys anything I got I was playing with my cousin over Thanksgiving break she's either what are all district choir festival at Plymouth we had some of musicians I don't have them listed on my nephew's but I know that we had a saxophonist and two other very talented musicians going to the Jazz one there is the classical I'll State coming up soon as well will host many of our very talented GPS musicians are National Honor Society members were also inducted the which included Arlo Hastings prices men and many others which we thought was a great honor to have so many of our kids get onto honor roll I was actually 82 kids in the Junior and senior cost combined are in the National Honor Society this year honor roll for quarter one was it now we had Allstate 7 kids made All-State band including at least one are the Hastings and grab them and we had seven kids make All-State soccer our band performed in the Veterans Day Parade in little wonderful job and rts88 bring would had 80% of the class of 2025 exceeding the national average we have a concert going on December 14th and beforehand we have a performance a reading of Christmas stories going on for the littles which I believe my choir teacher is open to accept and grab them if they want to come you have to reach out to her for that but this is me extending a if you're interested were there any Erickson one of our prior students who is going to Cornell and Alexander who's going to Colombia. Grantham and they are both there was a college freshman know Isabella Hastings at Salve Regina College division 3 cross country championship and I'm glad you're part thank you guys for take me time to come this evening we appreciate it always makes Coors beer with happening outside the little GPS bubble is Christine give the approximately 15 minutes presentation on reading it's really ramped up this year more than I've ever seen it a bunch of bills and legislative l l c a real focus on have you heard is that clear to you at all there's a podcast on Soul the story that made a lot of rounds over the summer about reading instruction and it's good for the board again form as well as there's a proposal in this year's budget for reading program so they did the ideas to give you some information on where hordes are now reading what the national debate about reading reading programs and then feeding specific name for Grandpa was a researcher looking into the whole language movement and how a generation of kids was basically not taught to read and in generated a lot of interest over the summer in a lot of people were like is my school doing this I'm good with my time start now give you a literacy literacy proposal in the upcoming budget for want to give you a educational background so can I talk a little bit about David I've enjoyed seeing the initial State assessment that Kristen put in her report and we're kind of the state of the at Wrentham Village School around our literacy instruction and then cuz I thought the timing of this when I was talking to Dean about this present accountability results just came out for all the schools great news for Grantham Village school they got the highest marks possible and accountability which is four across the board the other three targets that say nanm don't apply to us because we're at which means our kids are growing in and in most cases our peers are growing actually at a higher mean percentile then the rest of the day our kids are growing anywhere about 75 to 80%. That's a high rating in terms of growth for accountability the state targeted 64 wait for we're at 82% and in math is 51.1% and we're at 82% as well so Grantham data very very strong we should be commended for our excellent work in this area this is actually a little bit deeper dive and what Kristen gave you because this actually shows a five-year progression of our percent of students proficient in ela on the state of Sesame remember that to level 3 or 4 rating that the it's on the assessment you can look both horizontally to see the grades and how they've approved improved over the year and you can look diagonally to watch the Cold War in general and how they develop through the years so you can see that his current year we were 83% agreed 387-4384 at 5th grade and 6th grade was 70% so yeah we have some things to look after example to look at calor rubor 6th graders going backwards right we have 88% when they were in 5th grade and 6th percent when they look at the diagonals to in terms of broke their 3rd graders back in 2021 67% to 70% to 80% so we're seeing real growth diagonally and honestly I could come and grab them for that because typically what you seen a lot of call Dana is that we as we go higher in the grade level that percent proficient either starts to stabilize or Ashley decrease in a lot of situation of it has to do with the increase in the rigor we're doing up pretty decent job I hope to do another data presentation for you guys later I'll probably mid-year to take even a D4 die that were looking into I kind of spoke to it and Julie and ask me the question of the last board meeting around how do we use this data right we are diving into what standards can we be doing better at Mom and we're particularly looking at that at some time so I don't want to show you starting at so this is a local assessment we used on in addition to the state of something and you can see here that we use an early literacy assessment for grades K-2 to and then Williams was called the reading assessment third grade what happened to third grade. 8th grade we actually start them with early lit and then we switch to the reading assessment mid year and end of year for them and I gave you a little comparison between Charlotte and reading the star early lip will basically if it's for a beginning reader so they're not quite independent readers yet it will do a lot of automatic reading to them versus the star reading won't do that it is completely an independent reading time and I do measure different aspects star literacy is more of the early foundational literacy skills much of what we are talking about in science a reading these days and start reading is more about comprehension focus and the independent nature. are David Zehr work this way this was this fall 75.6% of rk23 students are proficient and not deemed a little bit differently and start at based on a percentile Rank and proficiency is seta any student is considered proficient in start with the 40th percentile or higher so that basically means that they are achieving great that's 40% higher than 40 another typical Pierce okay so just keep that in mind so that's that there and in sorry and yeah early let we were 75.6 and in Reading we were 81.6% last fall the same time birthday to there as well so we're showing strong data I want to ship now to the science of reading the science or reading is really about all this body of evidence that's been collected for well over five. Find some reading while the the phrase is relatively new to research behind it is and we've had a lot of study around how our brains learn the ability to read I'm in so this is a compilation of bringing all that in and what research really tells us about the effective instructional strategies here's what it's not it's not a program right body of research so it's not a fad it's not a trend against a little size in in various States terms of that some of you may heard about banning the three queuing system in Reading instruction so that I can get it is really about individualizing the need for our students I said it's not a program and it's not just one isolated components such as phonics in the development of reading and in fact to reading his work is really about the product notice is a multiplication symbol in good language comprehension and that will lead to our fluent readers are independent readers who are very strong in terms of making the shift from learning to read and using reading to learn guy on the symbol is there because the strong messages here you can't do one without the other if you were doing a good multiplication problem of 1 * 01 I have word recognition zero and all that binary system I don't have it you're going to get zero you know when reverse is true so you actually need one x 12 make it happen and so that's why the model uses more this is known as the Scarborough reading rope and this breaks down the word recognition components that other side talk about and the language comprehension and really if I love this graphic because it takes all of these in Play song together to show we need to focus on that and something that we have pointed out at Grantham Village School with excellent excellent teachers and excellent reading specialist in this field is that we do need we can do a month job especially an arcade at 3 setting around word recognition and being more explicit with our instruction in that area we have in our in our results are showing that we are actually fairly strong and comprehension what are kids able to do especially in our Upper Grade levels so if you want to go back and look at anything you got to take some key things in word recognition and points out this is what we should be doing based on the science of reading on the left and what we need to let go of that might be current practicing on the right you know I will Point them out to you so awesome now you 15 minutes Wednesday on the left is you know we do want to focus on for me make awareness are found Braden how we translate that into print right so can we do a better job on that yeah we've identified we can do better job on that right versus if you kind of parallel it over to the right you know we did a lot of study around the units of speech right rhyming was a big thing right and teaching kids about syllables clapping syllables that is still good but that should be our only formal instruction until there's a comparison there the second bullet is about explicit and systematic instruction and how to decode so one of the big ships here is about actually having what we called decodable readers so they'll have patterns in the reading that we really want kids to establish versus what we used to refer to a level readers and leveled readers were more about the comprehension first before we can get kids into level with learn that now through the research right maybe we were using level leaders to early with some of our kiddos right and so we were missing that and then the third one is about connecting text heading to build reading accuracy in fluency and comprehension and this is really the power of the model of we still have to give kids contact for the reading we have to work on that prior knowledge music build academic lyrics for them to fully engage in the reading process across the other side there was a lot of sense that if I can be a fast reader okay I'm good I know a lot of people that can read fast and then you say what did you just read and if you know and I can speak my own experience as who I was always a slow reader like I could never meet the mark of I'm back but I could comprehend and so if that meant I had to take more time hey it's it's really okay right so this d a cyst on how fast I can be so there's a person's there on word recognition and a language apprehension a good comparison I'm here again but see the difference here is about the complex pass right to build the knowledge of vocabulary when he represent that and we break those tasks text but versus we do the level text right and it's not significantly complex for the students and it's just a pattern reading to them that's not going to promote their comprehension and be able to engage in a variety of the second one here is about robust conversations develop students academic language in actually teaching on some of the language is a narrative these are informational tax this is why we distinguish in this is why we call these things what they are I mean I watch our literacy lessons in their teachers are using the word phony the phone in combination of best and it's now also not about what you hear about how does your mouth feel how do you form that physically in your mouth what do you see happening all the mirror up and let him see it so easy I'm physically I wish I'd had that I never really had that and I still struggle with some of the sound like I took a spelling test today in Cornish and 11 cuz I was like wait was that man I think I'd be a better speller today and isolated word you know sight word yes Good Sam have unique characteristics that just memorizing and just trying to pick things from Q's we know that's not effective for dark it up and then implicit instruction on grammatical structures they're not saying d a sizing or if you don't get rid of it altogether it's just a different have to build a scaffold appropriately right there are still many things were doing that we want to keep but I think one of the biggest takeaways I have in the same training as we have to think about the timing of when we and how we develop its aggression so with all that being said we're building the literacy house here at Wrentham Village School and one of the things I want to talk about is the letters program we have a lot of teachers and myself and Kristen are doing the admin training in the letters course and so we talked about this Frame were in this just talked about database decisional assessment to use the leadership the PD we provide teachers the community and family involvement we have and also the real meat of that which is he bought him two years kind of goldfish and orange I might think of the top the red is all about the universal litter construction we do let's Hear What I Hear one but also the literacy intervention can you do it to your too and not coming 13000 combination is parents teachers paraprofessionals that over 13,000 right now that are going through the letters program at different phases going to be starting the 5th I believe add an event to the calendar year so they were talking here about the leadership that we provide and the teacher leadership that we do in the team that we build in analyzing our current state of literacy which I got from SlideShare to kind of show you what we analyzed selecting are developing a plan and then beginning me analysis of the classroom instruction that happening throughout the building so that's kind of where our foundation is and then we move and keep building the layers of the House the full list here we have one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 and then again myself and Kristen are participating in it at the end of this year because they're all in different phases of how they're progressing with a co-worker will actually have nine teachers who have completed their first training is it's a big commitment from teachers and what are we pulling out of that because we do have the literacy committee spearheaded by Kathy Buckley our reading specialist we do have some meetings of the and here's what we're starting blowout someone already told you explicit instruction related to that word recognition category in particular in our K-12 and three levels and how we can do that well in our classrooms in our Cheer One instruction our local screening measures like yeah we have stayed the second day that yes we have starving those are broader bigger but how can you get more what we call curriculum-based measures more specific to the scales were teaching in trap that overtime and then consistency of resources and instructional approaches and that last bullet is is where Kristen and I tonight or going to talk about a proposal we have in the budget. I don't expect you to read this at all but Kathy Buckley great post on the New Hampshire letters Facebook page and it gave us a shout out so I just I'll share this you can read it but you do a nice job of saying how with out this opportunity from the state come together as a professional Learning Community around this very important topic and here's where we're at current state of GB SD I'm going to owe you lunch or something so the k23 teachers are teaching fundations at our Core Curriculum that is across the board member Sonic's is really one of the big five areas we typically talk about reading or writing a number using tools that are either free a letter coming through their letters course that they're experiencing for example is it Florida State University I think has an awesome literacy particularly around dyslexia opening source pictures for resources on k21 are using the science of reading base instruction around literature thing so they're they're taking what they're learning and letters and they're trying to blend it into their being as well as a writing scope and sequence. Coco is on the development writers from a picture to a sentence level starting with the breakfast then how do I put that in into a word form and box and that's one Serious Program are looking at effective and currently they are using rooted in reading and from that group of teachers they said we are using app for comprehension vocabulary Grammar and Writing in response to the reading the reading rooted in Reading that's the program so they're reading that comes out of that program inconsistencies in terms of what 42 everybody has the primary grades really do feel like it consistent program would help a lot and then third graders using Storyworks in Harcourt class readers fourth grade is focus around their social studies and kind of beans in a Loosely use Lucy Calkins for writing and just wear this is what you really get to the morphology words is 400 ml spelling and vocabulary is is purchase for grade 4 as well and 5th graders using the writing Revolution which is actually coming out of the science of meeting in it is it's a program but it's not like doesn't come with all kinds of resources is actually one book and then teacher training behind it and they develop some of their own and book clubs, and also just words with purchase for their grade level as well which is better to support their reading they also try to link to science tell somebody to put their reading in a contest here's the deal are working really really really hard I'm going out and finding various resources as you can see we're all over the place and they are really really good about knowing standard but there is consistency among all our teachers that if we could get a consistent program we would one increase the approaches were all using in those people that haven't yet been able to do any letters with additional training that way and we think we could take the scores and even though even more through the roof with them in in here is a link that Kathy Buckley gave me because it starts your one instruction right so just to give flavor Kathy has done this excellent had what where now so when we start talking to your two and tr3 these are the resources you can see it that's why I want you guys to have this happen if you can go check it out but all the different games vention resources we're using core program by its very nature will give us cheer 1 resources but it is likely also give us some intervention resources that are consistent all of these are great they're really vetted by the letters program and the science of reading but again our teachers are working really really hard to find what's working and sorrow with that all being said in the budget proposal you are going to see a request for 25 dollars to purchase a core literacy program for Grantham Village school now I have two year request meaning that $25,000 depending on where we go could probably cover art you two would start there first or k23 depending on where we go in looking at most programs you can break this down by average cost to teacher buy online licenses they have to have the resources that program it also the PD that would come with a program Association of what we would pay cross all training when you start to take all those costs and break them down that's what you factor and when you start to take the 18 teachers we have to provide these two you're looking at a cost range of 32400 to about 45 depending on again the type of program major consideration by the board and what we're proposing is we believe that was about 25,000 we can probably get Kate at 3 covered next year we will go through the process to send that program to the other grades and we definitely a program that goes k2xx as we can find the song one time for 2/3 of a year lease counter Jillian is a lot of programs do what they call a six-year license deal online license for all your online a lot of programs are on my text that you're going to have to purchase there may be some and resources for our younger kids typically you'll have that annual fee to renew that license like 6 years later but yeah you're looking at the first up front cost is your most expensive right out of the gate is dependent on turnover so we trained up his 18 teachers and four of them leave in a couple years we bring in for teachers usually you're at your PD you can send in so you can say can I have TV halfway through this contract you can also go after both of your purchases which can save you money depending on what you decide in terms of a PD model and your licenses my licenses are are more. Teacher specific but just groups like you had a lot of 18 and we can use fortunate. A lot of times when I do these purchases out there I don't have that number of PD days in my calendar to get all this done can we negotiate that what I buy a front for PD I could use for the next two years or next three years and often accompanies who play with you you know that you have to get this done in a year would be all so that we can build some teacher-leader sharing when grantham's right for Teacher leaders that we could say okay when we get new people in New stop in if we have turnover week okay you got to go with us you know when you're going to go get your training on the program and make sure you're up to speed and you always want to build that in with any new cycle yes leader in literacy my question is have you are you haven't settled on a program we've looked at we're not definitive too deep into that Borden and see what the reaction is to the board and then see but but we would go through a whole vetting process and if you look at the they're really does the people that kind of phone science of reading the other ones that really got it out there on the market they have actually a nice screening tool that you can use and I know that Kathy Buckley actually work for the literacy committee at the end last year with that tool already looking at some programs we probably go a little deeper into the process of embedding when we think we want to go with do some highly appreciate a little more information on that I also wondered what happens what happens to the chance to see what the program is that we pack and if they offer obviously if they have some of the phonics and then we would probably let fundations kind of layout but if the program we decide on is not strong in Sonic's then we probably would keep them issues that's going to really depend on on where we lay our hat and what they can do for us to be utilized by the kiddos need if you implement next year so the second graders going into third graders how will that we're not looking at k-26 at this point what happens to that third grader going into fourth avoid or experience and a pilot in k23 right right this year's third graders would end up going into what we know is already happening in 4th 5th and 6th right I mean we can also practices are happening there and see what we kind of piecemeal in so maybe close some gaps there that 4th 5th and 6th already kind of telling us that might be missing I mean when you always stagnant in adoption of a program like this you know you inherently assume the rest that okay the grade-level that's going to miss this right what's their name next level of instruction going to look like right and we can do our best to keep that up open it and looking at the data and knowing the teachers that they're not going to let kids fall through the cracks no matter what we're doing you know and if we have to get some additional resources here and there and you know that ER budget to help that out sure we can figure that out I'm really hoping to I heard at the state level they may be maybe another round of the Leaning into literacy Grant I know that Grantham applied last and didn't get any fun but I'm hoping that could change I was able to get fun actually this summer for cornish Elementary School that were still remaining so I'm hoping if they open that we if we knew we were going with a k23 program we could maybe then put in for a cleaning and illiteracy money to support four five six. So I'm not sure about my phone hearing we're in a good position overall right now this is just take it one step further so it's not like we have difficult problems in 456 know that we're not addressing it just before the peace knowing taking a step up for each right now we'll talk about we get in the budget individual teachers are out came the tickets $900 304 bucks and 600 L / t shirt and what you're trying to do is say Okay instead of each individual teacher go out and by the resources and like individually let's go with the program so when you do the budget proposal they're going to talk about must be bringing back some of that money to make me more directed our gear is a Common Language everyone in school the common wage in the talking about common assessments and so 4 quarts I mean it's really well right now but this will help you stay it will also you stabbed you're asking a lot of you teachers right now in the sense of their own professional development being professors making professional decision that's great teachers that stick around for a long time and you Isabel overtime in your able to have a staff that that as long as you have time this will help them get better but it really help as you start staff turnover you start having some people coming in and I need a little bit more who will be in the bunch of btd5 right now he has a $300 allotment for 300 West all of that for me individual teachers but I think because you haven't had a son early directed program like this you just said we'll each teacher gets that money to buy what they need for their classroom this would be a more centrally directed application some of the programs that we're currently buying like in each classroom or whatever what will be the Delta like with the 25,000 versus all the other singer continuing to purchase calculator it out to about 17,000 I think it right now so it'll versus the 25,000 but keep in mind getting real pee smell like a lot of times they're getting single license students having individual accounts in India also you're right on the same line of thinking as I am reading up about letters the program is read to me as much more of a pedagogical foundational approach meaning how people how are teachers how they think about teaching reading how a month all the great rope like how they're thinking about all those elements so it's not about what books were getting anymore it's about how the school over. Time for a new approach the science of reading they have it be a scientific approach and change the diagnostic tool so that when we're looking at walk and we're looking up hospital around United sense of what why things work and don't work either in terms of a program that we buy or even like how to better understand especially early teachers I understand. Rope because most of us weren't so this is the thing I really wanted to say we know that the letters kind of approach to science of reading raises all boats. That's why I think it's worth really thinking about because what that means is like yes sir you know 65 to 85 achieving permission but if you take it has 65% of the students proficient that mean 35% of them are probably a much better way to understand the 35% struggling eventually impact special I caught in a whole bunch of other things it makes thought about learning so is if I can just I feel like it we are committed then bring this up again in conversation so you asked about the financial balance in honestly that's $600 like at Edwards in buying some of its use for reading the prices on the on the $300 goes to books most teachers are buying decodables now because they're trying to align what they're doing with the science of reading our teachers are putting an immense amount of time into revamping and trying to really keep up with the science of sing in what's going on with reading research right now I'll just letters up there doing the 18 months in the first that's all on their time that's not on but we're not providing that time to them and then another really important pieces the man they're coming from the state so right now they've already the thing is already put in mandates on dyslexia screening and interventions that we have to follow but then there's also a 4:37 which is only in draft form right now in draft form it's saying that every school system in New Hampshire will have to have a program aligned with the science of reading hasn't passed yet but it kind of advised that is coming down the pike the health score on January 3rd cuz it came out of committee on a split vote 1010 what time is the Cubs on amended on the floor it's likely it's going to come out if it's likely probably going to be past which is going to Jeep in the expectations of what we need to do  keep in mind without actually diagnosing it we are not by law. directions to happy to talk more about that $25,000 during the budget thank you very much except the superintendent, sexually like there's something I really need did you as far as an administrative specialist education administrator complaint you will need to talk about what the implications of that is going forward we have had a request at library media and Technology worst of the bunch of presentation so that they could leave for the quickly and she goes over her or she's going to go over some of the budget things that we're done monkey Toby actually came tonight so he can specifically to answer any questions yet from last from last month we are going to I'm going to ask I've been told I have to strongly suggest reading board that we should probably schedule a second board meeting in January and we're suggesting the 11th or the 18th this is the reason you won't get your final budget like a little bit about what we forecast we're not going to get this really special at budget until the January meeting your next regularly scheduled meeting is February to buzz budget presentation so we looked at the superintendent's her to me on January 11th or 18th with a lot of stems basically a single agenda school board meeting talking about budget with two purposes finalizing the budget and preparing your presentation for the budget hearing I think in the past Sydney really did a lot of work and helping to prepare that presentation I will do the best I can Meredith and I were talking about it today but we're really going to need to warn the word helping him put some weasel DJ will be good you want to try to schedule that or look at our calendars and say we'll see whether whether we can do that and get it on the books yeah I mean 84 Culebra Road and 11th I also put in front of you the superintendent search timeline so those dates need to be looked at as well prepare a new PowerPoint for words ready and out because we have to set it up or following week for your Boardman don't we go to the 18th 18 works for me what time 30 I think that's a little help a lot and thank you very much and I think that's just mean on public and make sure you give me tonight and when you get that warned them is it the hard things are going to be peeled okay so I want to say my focus has been on I think it's great that they're together but we're still back is someone sent me for about 20 years except in the back is good job you were involved in a lawsuit there it's out there a building Supreme Court as it's always been the legislature has to do something for sitting in the table Christine work on the TV 30 Sixers is just so cute because that's the underpinning of that adequacy calculation and she's not going to let them go at it and so you know that that would that would have been You Got Served better off winning . of time and then we eroded it highlight on a couple of things from my report our bottom-line currently is just over 60,000 for remainder of the year definitely alarming but we're continuing to look at everything and he requests on a case-by-case basis and what's it's in your income from your salary benefits of having Medicaid and contractual stuff that you know payroll we have some stuff that you don't work kind of holding him he'll trust and build their like we're hoping we don't have to you know I really that money for other purposes but right now cover over socialite over yes it doesn't take into account anything and we are hoping to get to the street like that in the truck and there are some decisions that could be made in those encumbering she was very good to bury as far as you know putting things in there but if we get into the first of the year in January or maybe some hard to see we have to make like it. Things are were encumbered but are not Ashley miss her to spend on may have to say other things came up right now the biggest things any new expense has to be brought by both married some things you just can't say no to some breaks down and there's nothing portable planned or are those are still sitting in the encumbered we anything that will has been approved instructions 1100 I just had a question. Increase your items that were previously granted hunted and I assume this evening is there a educator Coco further down utilize those 14 but because their contractual we in there in our CBA we should actually have them in our general fund and get them to the whole Grant regulations we really do we really need to bring reduced application there are things we had previously planned on using those funds for and then this year with a lot lower and we really should follow the rules call Gramps we just have to always ask yourself the question if the grand goes away is that a general ed Service that we need to continue if it is then it should be in our general fund grants are truly meant to be supplemented whatever we provide if you're down you skip town 1 2324 budget we're at currently anything that you the adder change I'm more than happy to include whatever I can the we're going to kind of go through budget pieces in a little bit but I wasn't sure if you guys wanted to any questions about what was presented last specifically there was some projects that were spending maybe discussion on or if you want to actually on the second page essay you to stop at the cylinders for a minute Priscilla t'sup 54 586 30k that is on the bottom she's got pending budget items in a building that's the part where we brought to be in today and said that doesn't include 54000 in and Toby we were talking today perhaps the board wants to consider a separate warn article you do have a pretty uncomplicated warrant this year spell the budget no teacher contract meant no nothing else it may be time to consider and your budgets going to be awful. Beathard a minute but it definitely maybe time to consider a separate Warner you just speak to the spending budget items that that are on that report there yeah so basically I'm in the projects against Aids on no fires yet but we're getting to the point we got to start looking at some of these items the first one is I think the most important one is that Southeast wall with the bricks we are getting some concerning areas with a down and it should be addressed I did have somebody else to me that basically from the principal down to the east wing here again that's that's that whole wall that whole wall is in bad shape in certain areas if we had the this is rhe 20th so if we had a patchwork of different areas we can obviously change that pricing and such but I want the price of say if we did you know what we did the building in waves are so that be the first wave I would do that that is the first lady said the private highest Priority One right now 38c we've obviously know that has been an issue we're able to run it but it's manually is Daniel Lee running a system is supposed to be running automatically years old that's the lifeline of a lot of some of this equipment starting to give away and it's like okay I can't bandaid some of that stuff and it's going to be big dollar items especially those refrigeration and the boilers are another take a note we're running on but living is one of us living so cause problems and not have much obsessed with the repairs to start off I guess the best way to put this is to get the ball rolling on this subject you have the building management system which that's your computerized telling everything what to do when that software is no longer supported and I don't get worms that I can't adjust controls way it want is misreading a lot. In order to things that software you get a change on the symptoms and pretty much rebuild it to a new software to the system and that's what that's a big dollar investment that's what PTI I had that person happened to come back out there was a woman 160,000 and that's without doing any repairs since it's stalling all the controls software and such is that the HVAC controls and commissioning are balancing to send the 160 didn't we would need in their house is the thing a handed out last month this is not on the pending budget items left it is but I think it's the full amount or bound okay well. yeah but you found out the 272 there's also HVAC AC and that's the ones where I got two of those digging out that I have a feeling this summer might be a problem for those workouts a little less than forty thousand piece if you were here last month where that the refrigeration of change so I can't disrepair those now I got to replace the entire system that's why that's so expensive that did that correctly doing a to time because even though we changed roles and the probably so you can probably the software another big issue that we saw when we went through this whole system the contractors was just trying to keep certain ends of the building is there there's no air balancing it's just not right one unit what time run the office inside it's raining outside here to Justin temperatures inside is such a Negative chamber that it's not even seeing the return and her come to the back and collapsing the ductwork upstairs stuck in that hiring and so it's just a lot of ask Debbie repair that's big item but it's been able to be run and it can be run manually if it's something that we've got to start probably especially with the equipment side felony send so what direction we want to go because it's a big dollar items and we 223 indoor Window Wise is like the air handler song that's why things like the area where is obviously everything we got the equipment they have the base AR but if you do you change it out there at the condensing units how much does that cost do we want to look at different sectors or another thing they're saying is looking to looking into while we had to see to your doing are there I was asking for the New Hampshire co-op in the New Hampshire Electric is there a programs or something out there that we could latch onto Grant so you might want to say something like that then the other was chose I'm at South End of the building was starting to see some windows in need of replacement last year and I had Portland Glass South High just to see what it would come out do I think it was like 147,000 do all obviously don't need to be done but I'm thinking you know if we can think about five a year or something like we believe our field some are rotted bases and they're getting getting aged out I think I figured it out at 5 some part of the house or 4:12 or 4:15 or whatever that number it's not 12000 a window to know I thought I came up a little less than 5000 so those are the three Big East the cafeteria roof I looked in the valley that one here again we could buy some time with so I want to ask her what about the sewage line under the stern said you got to Wooten and it's like so I can we're going to have trouble with that every year and that's when I started thinking we had to replace it but I haven't had any trouble since but yeah that would be a matter of ripping up concrete walls and so I cut that off to the extreme do we want to talk about really being cracking about Warren the longer I mean we are getting a little bit of The Abridged version from us and Toby but it we can't really afford it and it's actually actually costing us money now like a whole bunch of ways so it's not just like let's be proactive you've got more urgency in terms of taking care of the control like that will I need help with that if you look at it HVAC in the boilers central heating system Fantasia in Uganda other companies right now I don't want to get a Baseline. the seed to let you know the different scenarios I was going to say 2 years ago I got a price on just a control but it was a company that was supporting not supported now Mason 50,000 to 2 commission which basically is take what we have for software which is no longer supported and make it work right so that was this year as new software new new programs and is going to it until night time use this software at the Bradley County Correctional Facility World beyond what we have here is I can actually run if you can control everything we're here since like okay. See what happens none of what you discovered in pending by James is in your budget right now is up happening. now you know the 133 and benefits and health benefits was just going to be there what you're tearing tonight for Buzz's bunch of presentations 11:00 there's two $60 bills through the the Budget Rental station tonight realize you got to 68 up you got to be to be looking at that you're not really going to be able to impact 1:33 but you're up after midnight we were working very hard this morning on special education Where We Are do not have a final budget to prevent you it could add another half of the one on your way we were we wanted to get to the board and you mind your budget could be up a million dollars when we finish this in jail that's a big number that's a big 10% increase data things that we're going on we have another budget meeting next Monday that will be remaining when you could be looking at the requested budget up a building and so we wanted to give you that context as you're looking at your budget if you have any directions wearing like the feeling I'm not sure how realistic percent the top color swallow I also have just a couple I would like more information on this on the allegations it seems like if you can't answer something with grant money how was it that it came in and now it gets moved to the general fund and just wanted I don't think you could give that to me down but I was wondering what position was that from covid grant money that we no longer have so hard and so basically you know that's something you guys can look at that position you know and you have you want you don't have anymore as far as clarifying that mental health counselor do we can put the whole thing in the general funds yet we're still going to pay ten thousand of that title for so what was happening as it was a $10,000 title for it was 15 I think of it out a general pain in the 11 was out of answer so we can split three pots of money Jordan Peterson when he was talking about is there do you have the ability to provide us with this is everything pundit were proposing to move into General thanks but really wouldn't work we're trying to say is that those items probably shouldn't be in the grant. you know what you need to provide are the Clippers playing are we in danger of like a quality because of some of these lyrics filtered everything is really camper and the efficiency of like you're mixing you can use recirculated air or you take outside are you had a running nose and adjusting to temperatures and such right now they don't the boilers should run off outside are they don't so we're just running his manual so this is just not the way that's not the reason you have a building that has really actually wasn't electricity cost braniff you had a hot first couple weeks I was up there trying to shut off outside air cuz we're trying to cool recirculation are at 78 so that's where I mean electricity off in September and you said last month there's no phasing that you can see any kind of things the one base to Washington because that you're all or nothing you're putting software in and you got to you got to go to EJ air handler and get that software to work with it that's where that 160 is they are handling you could do after but you can you're not doing yourself any favors if you have heat in the building she even here gaining some of the benefit of the new Best in Class thing if we don't also attach it to like the word component part of the problem and work efficiently are too hard connecting to the right on time but look at Benson units which is your age you can do separately but the actual controls him to get the system to work till someone efficient that's you big chunk right off the bat and the boilers oil or natural their condensing unit boilers and I guess they were state-of-the-art at the time but everybody ever had come to look at it just has a the company's just don't feel the same way up since I'll be at school today they have a cast-iron condensing unit which is not even used I guess so those are problem sounds like coming down the line that that's where I get a little nervous but 13 years into that and I just but last year 13000 trying to get one of them run it doesn't run any better until like May 2nd company pad in there to do that everything just crashes where's that money come from when you got seven areas in the building so one thing you got a boilers yes cars that we drove in our College what do we do now it's a computer that an old computer system you need to update something can I give you a preview of what's coming in January because I think you know you're going to have to just going to be some party is there anything else you want and I will get that information for you but is there anything else that would help us we're going to the budgeting process, said a breakdown of what we're moving out of when is General Prime and then what we could Lutheran General on Instagram. I knowing what a Christian presentations tonight it actually talks about under the PD line however switching plans like that rooting the gentleman and what in The Giver by can we move the grass that are more appropriate just to see the the nurse line they're almost 15% increase their contractual yeah do you want to go through the presentation like are you going to start individual subletter anyway so so I'm just a long board meeting but just take a look at those pictures Community I can get in the first board meeting awesome kids been playing on the playground it is amazing the kids loved it so thank you right now doesn't bother me Metro phone you can get in the mud and snow my daughter, but it broke going to be up and running just arrived last week do we know when they're come meet the contractors here Friday morning I said I'll go get the power to bring my to you just waiting for help when I left and came back he left well they were and clean up the parking lot so I can play YouTube video right now they're enjoying movie enhancing your report crissinger so I'm going to just start off library media function Earth Uline actual between you know wages Play Talk by it so if I start there I'm trying to be louder but if I can get by it. well you're looking to get out of my rationale document counselor services 38 by 38 I'm getting there yeah like I said the first the first you have two lines there are based on race and then I will head over to Ian online and listening to what I hear tonight I will or go all of this and bring it by the library Will Survive and be just as good with none of this will I be very clear take the $45,000 and I better use the other places than I really in the last 3 years and looking at this I'm in the whole school versus I think when I started it was like seven or eight different things in this document one of which 7402 is the top number one and 8113. Number two I'm I budgeted 8113 that that's the option that I am in favor of and then I think is best for the community we just recently piloted two of the programs on that list you'll notice an option to three other programs are funded the credit card to use for STAAR testing which is are a verb please please support back and will support our online since the bachelorette the good thing is that all those three online components are directly connected the star who exactly Drive instructions connect directly beside the video the next line 56 400 Lottery down 15% we are decreasing little bit of the online library budget this could I see the kids in person now fully and it got us again that number was real I would not have been able Library next one word 56 or 10:00 want to increase only because just a simple equation increase for the library soccer they're gone so I guess we'll go grab if it's 57 3305 new furniture. This is a Mont more than any but it will save recently this past year I didn't end up getting 16 Grand a the library at all any of you with it in there I don't have quite enough for a full class I'm looking to buy a Kenmore that in the last three don't have to 57 90 + 5160 the overall down 29% of $7,400 Valerie benefits and all of that I appreciate it if there is a $12 I will keep it obviously on the table and be Irish for the whole thing together but I think this is one I love my dog. Thank you get out of there thank you against the weather forecast it's all contractual near and we were jumped you technology services there's no major huge project this year in Estero LOL there are some big things happening but they're not disturb this is inclusive of our secondary  for covid-19 about $9,000 work that keeps things running late Premier Inn FAU all of those things for the Windows machine to 75 GB and we still have the K-12 nhusd already but that's like a hundred bucks two of our software management tools here with his muzzle star of mobile device management that manages all the iPads and Macs and make sure you can. We're out here properly that allows us to monitor what's going on Starbucks so the total number for services is working 2018 and that's it for tech services we get down to telecommunications the other and listen to the thing I was referring to before making an assumption here we will in fact be switched over to the new internet service by July 1966 and what that will do is a lot of our expense for internet down to zero we won't have to do he rapes because we're not angry anymore and so really the only real line I am on the phone and the meeting you after the initial contract between dropped about $3,500 annually for the phone movie award this dollar amount also been about 25 or we may or may not decide to get the beans I think part of the issue is a lot of you don't like me so much hotels in order to use meat so for some purposes I think it will be fine but I think there's probably it's also included are go down to the next one 55 320 for you one thing that I'm proposing is that we used them phone for you also internet over there which I'm expecting you will allow us to do the Zoom Tan for about seven hundred bucks versus 1800 which is what we're paying for the video. we have to get some new pants sets with a bit of a wash the first year but after that in the out here it will rain I got $400 in there for technology in Richmond to buy chapter one that includes just send my general repair parts printer toner General supplies 3500 box and generally I don't spend that much but I need to make sure that I've got that in case something comes up that buys everything from do you know hard drives for the server and racquetball software line we have to spend 17 hundred bucks for Microsoft because that's what Microsoft doesn't everybody it is indeed such as our new computers that we're getting if you know every year we even broke up for ever many kids are coming in the third grade books and stay with them we are in for your cycle replacing the back of ears that will buy 10 of those that should fill out the last of the classroom teachers with the new Macbook what are the basic features of the new ones is they have a fingerprint reader right on there which is really important for things like security and what they're calling you actually better than though did you go past the fingerprint phone here in your account. So I will talk with the smaller younger glasses we budgeted $3,500 for new Windows machine for the new folk Merida and Toby. Also so a new Windows machine and then new replacing a couple of printers I'm also asking for $7,000 for us to buy two replacement I guess you would call them smart boards that they're not really smart the number of different company from Louisiana's one that you may have heard of but we actually had two smart boards that were installed the year that I seen your two years ago one of them Wild. and it is on the Virgin is not working anymore she's got her so she's actually using iPad as an apple and now to try and do some of the smart stuff on this board and it doesn't have a marker board on it Japan has to do with that way but pricing out different options for those things most of them come in at about thirty-five hundred bucks in the pilot to see which one works well you can expect it to your after we're going to start thinking about some of these short-throw projectors favor of something a little bit we know what that technology is going to be here you got to waiting to see how it's supposed to go find a couple try to do a big thing to do everything all at once Back to Black Album overall 59 CR85 which is a decrease of water. but overall I don't think back we're going to be sitting a lot especially if you're trying to figure out the best solution there may be something out there that make you bought some of the fun things to do at Home Depot on Black Friday one or two are playing write this down side of that is to the right and they like to write on your whiteboard like to attend well but they could use they can do the iPad thing you know there's a lot of ways there's a lot of ways to practice and we got, but the basic price point for the pilot matter what. you got time to look at this make a note to kind of revisit. 20 centigrams 11:00 thank you Andy instruction instructions for Sylvania it's it was at the beginning of the budget I got it thank you stop alarm additional do you have and that is stored me before this year we've only put the nature possum corner of coordinators in the budget are the collective bargaining agreement we also pay safe into Destination Imagination coordinator in the math and science coordinator so that had to go in this as well we move Mentor contract from title to to this because they are a part of it done or CVS which increased from 3600 to 1600 but it's all following the collective bargaining agreement but I have to be there and then probably two-thirds of the way down is a cheetah that's boring just sitting with nwea we are contemplating whether we want whether we're going to do is many grade level testing and that next year another we use the star but we haven't determined that you have to wear just getting a hold of him Professional Services services for instruction I'm going to ask that you read what I wrote on that side because it is contractual stuff that I don't want to share but that would be up to $15,000 the in Richmond is up really it's just the cost of field trips than and what not have gone up the next inspection supplies that would have been gone a little while ago for Budget reasons pick up by your PTO or otherwise so I mean I understand what it's been but but to me that was surprised to see that I have the number to that I woke up baby supplies as well we talked a lot about that $25,000 for their reading program which is in there with you why is your bleeding so sensual you were nodding out savings we're taking some other things later in a couple pages I talk about things that like right now what I'm sharing is the this is our wants and in a couple pages I did highlights one thing I wanted to mention that I was thinking as we were talking is Jillian you had mentioned them balance and money one thing I forgot the but I met you was on reading things they find a lot on Teachers Pay Teachers and things like that workbooks went down a little bit! Down a little bit just went up this guy stairs I agree that just increases in the cost of the periodical we are not asking for any new furniture and fixture so that's totally down so I don't have the bottom bottom line you do and I tipped over a couple that I do just want to touch base on for I do want to if you could either way to prepare educator 30000 that we had two pair in the general time that were in the regular Ed we put the title 1 para instructional budget line now so that's one of those will highlight for you again but I just wanted to bring that to your attention and then I do just want to highlight the plate on question the weave it's based on actual there is one additional student budgeted under each middle and high school we can decide not to do that but given the trend that we are getting we've had a lot of I'm going to the school year so you just going to put the back up in the budget is outside 8099 about these things that I wouldn't option one big one which is M class in the near and dear to everyone Park what is $30,000 / 27 do it at the place we can save money and do Nature's Classroom on Wheels which cost about $8,000 people going to hate me at home as I paid it but and then within the budget some grade levels request more than one field trip a year and if we brought that down to one peeled trip per year looking at kind of got rid of the lower price you'll trip would save. $500 we talked about how we do the $300 for books for each teacher if we did the reading program fire the books that would be $5,100 I think driving pretty much it for that one repeat me say there are too personal what's that is you do you have an estimate of how much is straight contractual we really is up and we need to pay her you don't have to wages up 5% I comment down below it's not Kevin Adeline any other questions on the destruction or lines we are good but he's good to me guidance counselor so first find contractual second line down mental health counselor this is where you know the requested by did it 26,000 we had 15 in there 7000 is coming that's what employee and then another pain is coming that's coming out a title for still but again that maybe something Lackawanna look into everything below that is contractual and then I mean their budget having to put the fortune that came out do we have a mental health counselor before I actually do have right weed then you put to the board and I'm in August of 2020 to just the request to implement this at that time 2130 West its contractual on the answer question from earlier staff member lower however you want to view it I'm Different salary that's really is a different set Wisconsin contractual and then in terms of what I depart that idea L overall it is an increase of $14,908 do you have any questions I did pull together are gmr 133,000 49rd and Martina at 20% there were seven what land people were on for that work to our benefit a little bit so I'm looking at that it's less than 20% but it's it's a really large number contractual I told in grant funding also we just for staff training I did we did add $3,000 in there that the new budget line that wasn't in there before so I Crescent Village pool we do safety care in Hazard vs police protocol rbcd a Leslie is our one person who can certify people trained and certified she knew 10 people at a time so we have to do it in court so the $3,000 in or a summer cohort so we can pay people to come into school and get trained on safety care about potentially putting that in the title to Grant the problem is the timing with this year we typically don't see our title to Grants released to us and some Phil sometime it can be as early as mid-august but it's been as late as after Labor Day and if they need to do this training in the summer we were I have that back up if you get it earlier. Could be a potential so we're holding that right now just because you don't get the funds until September doesn't go backwards any activity that occurs before the release you can't pay for a couple days but honestly and then the staff training is one of those areas that there's a change with Gramps so historically we've had our staff professional development in there that to tell to in a vector what was coming from Vector has our online PD that was entitled to remove that into the budget so that line went down and I'm honestly I'm I said I'm not a grant group I was thinking Christine recommendation professional book we took totally out of the budget and we're going to go all through I don't so that's taking $3,300 out of budget from last year for CVS at $20,000 conference reimbursement this one I just want to make sure I highlight that is at 7 $1,000 I did bump in a little bit from last year but I did this is something that made me nervous since I've been in it is that we get 500 we offer $500 for professional development workshops to all staff members of all staff members were to take that $500 out of the $20,000 it hasn't happened so just something to keep in the back of your mind is that something you can tuck under Turtle tooth he is making us make sure we only Budget Car grants by the end of the current calendar year there's talk about I don't know we believe they could do this or not that they're claiming it for unbudgeted like we have a budget AR max amount that they actually take that money back away stuff I don't think they can do that but we're just budgeting everything out right now so that we have it I'm so over all the function of down by $821 we had to do the new lines but it's a friend just because there had to be Valeri limes and I kind of that was definitely our goal is to get it to the January budget your meeting is January set off the break and it's like yep we're going to try to get that as much as you can will you bring me down I need numbers Play-Doh superheroes search discuss the committee was charged with finding and bringing please send a letter that you will discuss that last month we're meeting asking for the word reconsider the charge of finding a 16 pendant Bowman to qualify camp receiving help by the 11th interview with extra sauce you all two or three candidates would you like me to do that interviewed your finalists have us. All of our interviewing the staff interviews and everything before your February meeting so we have a busy January either want to try mine on this search for the interviews committee observations at school visit Premiere a recommendation to the school board no later than January 31st I think we're going to I would think the board would want that detail or we interview so we talked about do our interviewing list of finalists and then the committee felt like they wanted to give you a recommendation of a person that we oh absolutely and putting forth the names but after the community night we want to be able to provide a recommendation of who we do or like prioritizing. So that was the January 31st date to sometime like you know within 45 days after the communion we're potentially going to be the 17th after this one is a Day January 1st question getting stuff ready for a free t-shirt, and I think there's some debate about that being and you all didn't get to witness that will rope no will want to recommend the calendar we could schedule yes I am committed to us through the 22nd we could go ahead and schedule schedule schedule for we interview video of a person or are two finalists I think Brenda is a few things I haven't told everybody else but I can't imagine minutes out there for a while just so if I was applying my application probably come in about 11:50 on GPS to work meeting with faculty and staff Community forum no not if we don't want to do the switching right so that there with you and then there's newborn is that going to be enough time if there's two or three people feel but it's going through it last year I wouldn't be in favor of doing the board interviews to know that it gets too rushed and it just a second we would be looking to schedule them as a separate event outside. we can't snow on the 13th 2017 any other questions thank you for the update my weight unbelievable job description believe in our packet we've got the old man on the memo that was in Preston Pointe 62.8 wish we table this last week I think we Evil Dead I have reservations and it's not so much around going to the point 8 is do you reservation I have on you I don't think he gets us it doesn't matter what we do either. I'm or not retiring they are Bill 90% the other benefits helping Dental all that stuff that's how we negotiate I don't know if it wasn't that much more in an advantageous position we can do 41 and get there and I said last month and also in my mind so there's no money on my mind having to sit and say she was very clearly that she's how appropriate mining the money factor and the person who done the job for a while even though I understand the recruiting all of it very well I just felt like we really need and given like the larger budget contains I just felt like we really needed and see if we can I believe the number to get 2.6.8 was only $30,000 which is a big enough number that even what we're dealing with it I think I'm with Leslie on that it did if we're really going to be a really looking at a 10% increase possible 10% increase to see if we're looking for anything over 5% 2 spend 30 exit 30000 + 2.8 rolling dice can I mean the odd one out as part-time it didn't really specify its 2.6.8 you still have applicants to a qualified yes sir qualified candidates who I am. Which is why I'm sorry I just heard the last year I think we had specs three or four of them just got thrown out because they depart qualify yeah so take that for what it is but I don't have any to call call you better than set the bar pretty high I would say reset a tire than we did last year in other communities how to make the final decision why do we need to make a decision we need to have a motion to approve tabled it you don't have to take it off the table oh no I mean right now with the point six position so what do we have to say I was aboard feeling run what up in my mind what I'm hearing is that open wound to the process hopefully we'll have a qualified candidate that we like and we're going to negotiate and we're going to so can we can we can do I need the committee hasn't told us that they have every day in and a possible candidate that could also added benefit money in another area if you end up committing can tell us that then maybe that's the only way I would consider it a bility rain what were boating on or designing last night is that whether we like we wanted to wait and see if we had to I don't really hear that weak spots so that's what I'm saying is like we don't need we're going to tell them until the proposal tell him where we're going 2.6 and then if we need to have the conversation later down the road we can always revisit so how about I would entertain a motion to keep the superintendent position for next year 8.6 ft superintendent is this something we absolutely necessary have to do today or can we table it for I guess how much more work has to happen or not I mean we talked about last week and thank you for not providing the new job description is more in line with everybody else's job description drug at the U another option I think you might have said enough the other job description find Tucson pain is like I like even though it is long it's not surprising cuz he wants me to superintendent that long. Description is in line with the sequence 3000 Grand Island Nebraska the address wasn't sure where we so I guess I would entertain a motion to accept the superintendent of schools job description revised stuber 2022 all those in favor yes we do Exchange the premise behind the line behind change was that we may still be and I sat down and looked at the old one in but we noticed was that when there was just grabbing feed and not all groups we felt were the workout do an important stakeholder group was staff members who want to provide opportunities for students after school yes they charge the students and for example yes and no using our facility is benefiting our students on a date or using a custodian anyway so we added that category so that they weren't charged for the student with that the same situation on a weekend would have a custodial charge because we have another customer even coming to the building has been the same but we wanted to make sure we have that thank you second reading in adoption services motion to accept all ckf Dash our second Bassett Street bored I am not having anything with my finger agenda as president are now online Gary it's here if he has nothing to say we will we will close public participation turn on public tonight correct what are we going in under need the number consideration window station Penn Station free, to eat it may touch on we may touch on because it'll be related to what we're talking about special promotion compensation or the discipline of such a warrior the 2-3 to say I will entertain a motion to enter non-public under RS 91-83 Touhy and rs 91-83 to Summerland 2nd and Julian this will be a roll call vote message I join Edward I

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