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Grantham School Board Meeting April 13, 2026

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sandwich not a role the baby is like half of what it was recording here we go all right there we go okay I'm I'm going to call this meeting to order at 6:36 p.m. um this meeting of the Grantham School Board on April 13th 2026 is being opened by superintendent Downing um because the board will need to elect his officers so before we do that though I'm going to ask the 4 board members who are here in person to um making nomination to accept giving Phil voting rights as being a remote participant in this meeting so do I have a motion to give Phil voting rights for this meeting so move oh oh so I'm going to go with Leslie is moved and seconded I'm going to say is Jillian okay and all those in favor of giving voting rights to fill please signify by saying I I I okay and nobody's a proposed did unanimous so now Phil you have voting rights um during this meeting okay so um um let's see approval of the agenda is there anything on the agenda that folks want to adjust change modify no nothing okay um the only thing I'm going to add is that you are going to do nominations the big list of nominations but I'm going to bring forward a separate nomination to you tonight for bcba as well okay that's not on your list because Leslie Brown um retired and we haven't felt okay so I will bring that right after that list for you so it's still part of nominations but it's not going to be on your master list it's going to be an individual so that's the only thing there okay so agenda is all set and all approved we're good to go uh you usually take a vote on your approval of your agenda first consecutive the agent who we didn't have yeah we didn't yet so that's what I'm looking for a motion to approve the agenda Jerry second Nancy yes okay all those in favor of approving the agenda I yep I oh Phil's got his hand raised Phil yes approved approved okay just making sure I didn't know I could hear me that's why I put my hand up okay so this is your organizational meeting as your board uh Dylan when you get a chance I do need you on your paper right there um but she's also 1 in um so now I'm looking for a motion or uh who you'd like to nominate to be your board chair any nominations for board chair I would like to nominate Leslie okay we have a nomination for Leslie do we have any other nominations for board chair a very short okay give me a second yep I need a second second okay Nancy in a second the nomination for Leslie sure there's nobody else okay I'm going to call for a vote uh so if you would like to have Leslie NBA as your board chair please signify by saying I I okay it's unanimous I know way you accept yeah I accept yeah I knew she was okay guess what it's all yours all right um I would entertain a an emotions to nominate uh Vice chair uh and if anyone with this anyone want to go I'd like to nominate Julian I second I accept any discussion all right I'll all in favor of Jillian Belmont as Vice Chair say I I I still said it great okay um do we also need to do secretary yes I know it's a James name tags um I would I would put forth a motion to nominate Nancy McKenzie as our secretary second second from Jillian questions or discussions she said she would all in favor of Nancy Mackenzie as our secretary say I I how can I Phil Phil Phil I think you might be on mute I can't hear you it might be a learn how to do this before you got it oh I got you there I'm not on you oh all right I'm just turning it up a little bit maybe I just blend into the background noise I don't know yeah we hear you okay okay we are pre-ordered okay next on the agenda is public participation don't have anybody that are doing nope I know they're all in the cafeteria oh my God parking I was like whoa and zoom user has been discovered so we're good yeah yeah okay all right well we're going to move quickly into our school board liaison who thank you for being here on all your very busy of course um even though it's been a hot  since I I've been at 1 of these meetings I don't have a whole lot to report on all things um we've been doing a lot of random things with high school so we hosted our International dinner probably 4 weeks ago now um I unfortunately had coid and the flu at the time so I was not able to but I did send in cookies so that was fun um but that you sneezed or coughed on let's do that um there was actually a big sale that day too so I was like all the cookies and Juliet made them all and I was like I'll happily slap my name on that's awesome um spell that and there was record turnout for number of people it gets bigger every year so lions always out the door um so there's a lot of student entertainment all that kind of stuff and all of the money went to um the local Organization for refugees um and their safety and upper value um in that same vein the opera house has been hosting um a bunch of different groups so we had media gongora visit the high school she's the spring artists and residents of the Opera House just going around to schools currently um just spreading her music uh she comes with a band of a bunch of different percussionists um tradition traditional African music which is really fun I also missed that day for a council meeting but um from what I heard it was amazing outside a lot of photos so I got to go see her performance later so that was fun uh another artist uh opera house is Lucia who is just just had her concert last weekend my friend in the state manager for it um and she also uh was doing artist residence um didn't come to London high school but came to a couple other schools in the area just to like um talk about her processing artist she went to she wanted to um music school in Mexico University of bar cruise at 13 years old um came out with a degree in music performance and then that's around the world that's right music which is really cool um that's it for like that kind of thing um our Nordic team which is my uh my team in the winter uh we won Nordic Nordic champions for the men's division had to run up and the women's division so division 2 next year the um Nordic teams all teams in the state will be combined into 1 um category what's the word division um so there's no Division 1 division 2 anymore I'll be 1 so that'll be interesting um New Hampshire science science engineering and math Expo was 3 weeks ago I participated in that with my study of water quality Eastman Lake um so we sent 5 representatives to do that at nhti we all have to present our projects for the day along with a bunch of other students from across New Hampshire it's like St Paul's School is there um Bishop Brady there are a bunch of really cool schools and really cool um projects just sort of and all of the aspects of science so from environmental science to engineering to math to computer science everyone was there it was really cool we all set up at the gym and like had dinner with d had lunch at the dining hall it's really fun um we just hosted as a uh National Honor Society our blood drive our annual blood drive uh we also had a record number of donors this year um I was there during my off period helping with um helping the donors with their just like General Comfort um I'm not able to donate myself so I'm happy to help other people um there uh the model un just got back from uh New York over the weekend those 2 weekends ago they spend a weekend in New York at the um High School model un conference um 119 School represented Mexico this year um so I spent a lot of a lot of students including graphic students are involved in that we just hosted our annual job fair is there a bunch of businesses from the Upper Valley came into the um High School to show um that there are jobs for high school students in the community right now so um we had something like 17 booths set up with different businesses see uh I myself just wrapped up clue with a bunch of um students who had a cast of 15 students um at the opera house we ran for 2 days 3 shows um so that was a lot of fun took up most of my time in the past couple months this coming week we have the LMS gymnastics show on Tuesday and Thursday at 7 p-m I'm going on Thursday because I'm excited to go and then that's it for my report oh I do have uh 3 students a month reck or wreck well recognitions from Hartford Area Career and Technical facility So Adam Trussell a grant from Alum was recognized to the month as well as Mariner Zari so those are both um their student a month and then Mariani utell um was written as a daughter of the American Revolution good citizen so if she got that recognition went to a whole um dinner there so that was really cool to see as well well done Mr Hermanson guys are you all come and join us in May before yeah most likely I'll be here today okay okay I have a sneak out though I have yeah yeah busy boy thanks Ollie I saw Marianne Uh Sears the other day and she told me that Darcy has had a phenomenal first year at school she was excited that she was coming home but I think Dorothy would like to just be here no New Jersey awesome uh I was just on the school board Lisa I just wrote myself a note I would write a note to the community like looking for a school board that I was cuz I was like first should I email Ian Smith and put it in the highest but it's just for Grand thumb I was like LHS weekly like where should we I I really do enjoy them coming is there an age like do you take middle school students as well so you would want to have both you typically have 2 right yes so we um Mariana you tell was our um middle school and now she's in high school obviously but um we've had you know Ali and Dorothy for so long we do have a process so I can email you that process yeah and then let's I'm going to get ready to put a newsletter out with this would be the time to feature it yeah let's do that yeah discover if you have faces and see yeah let's see if we can get some and any 2 of us yeah I mean I will not ask period or if I know this is being recorded the cool is nhsba now does a like student yeah it's a really cool opportunity I'm laughing maybe I will have to have a Saturday event with other kids it's kind of cool I think it's a great a great thing to do especially if you're interested in like government in general and yeah and Ali had talked to another student that he knows that might be interested okay so all right let's get moving on there okay yeah okay next on the agenda is a bunch of discussion and action items first which is 2026 27 nominations so these are your certified staff we bring them first because they are linked to a specific RSA that talks about you know if you're not going to be nominated somebody you have to know ify them by at least April 15th so we use that in the other affirmative that we're going to nominate You by April 15th right um so you have the full list in your packet so you can just take a motion to nominate the list as has presented you don't have to go 1 by 1 um contracts are ready to go and they'll get issued uh by Wednesday to everybody that's on this list and then in may we will bring you the admin contracts and we will bring you all the educational support staff contracts as well and then everybody should be wrapped at that point what do you think okay you may not recognize a name on there but we can't really say anything because her family doesn't know that the name is changed yes yes but leave Willie but legally okay yes got it um oh look carefully whipped through my eyes but okay who's this I don't have to go job it's the um in your 1100 regular Ed list it's the fourth 1 from the bottom of that list how's that oh my God I didn't say it right that was good okay yeah are the um pending matching what's listed is what the number would be if the track changed but as of now it hasn't corrected they have until October 31st to turn um next to um turn in their transcripts and the required documentation for the track change for the CBA got it so it it they could still be working to achieve it at this point yeah so we plan for it yes um so part of the CBA as well um I send out a letter asking the staff to notify me by December 1st again that's a date set by the CBA if they anticipate having a draft change so yes we did plan and budget accordingly for those yeah awesome great I would entertain a motion to approve the list of nominations as presented in our packet so first from Jerry second second from Nancy all in favor say I I alright thanks Bill thanks Phil so I have another nomination for you and that is tonight I would like to nominate Miss Lindsay Camp who has been a paraprofessional and an RBT with us um and she is in the Simmons College bcba program um for her Masters of Science and behavioral analysis which she should complete that program by December of 2027 um which is awesome and we're excited about that and uh she would be coming coming in on a bachelor's right now Step 1 um at 50,655 um and this is a big switch for her from an educational support staff contract into the professional certification staff um and part of the requirement is I am working on that alternate plan where she will have a certified bcba to supervisor until she completes her program um it's basically like um alternative certification program we do people under all certification cuz we're looking at 18 months until she's done right yep um and so I would like to nominate her tonight into our bcba position for the 2627 school year I'm gladly would emotion to accept nomination second million all favor say I I I okay on to resignation yes um and we knew we knew resignations were coming because we had some excellent errors who are certified teachers right and so they're going to want to take that Next Step so uh we have received a resignation from Emily Conrad Emily joined us in the second grade classroom this year um and both as a student teacher and finished her program but as a pair of professionals she picked up some by that as well um and we're we wish her the best of luck um we know that she's going to be moving into a teaching position um and you want to take Emily's First should we do them each resignation something okay sure yeah I would entertain a motion to Emily's resignation with gratitude first from Jillian second second from Nancy all in favor say I I I and next we have Jessica Cota and Jessica has been working on her teacher certification program and completed it as um Jessa Jessica has served as both a paraprofessional and moved into RBT qualification and certification so it is with the Deep regret with both but she does have that RBT experience that we relied on heavily so um we wish Jessica all the best we know she is also going to land in a teaching position so those are our 2 resignations entertain a motion to accept Jessica's resignation with gratitude so moved for Nancy second second from Jerry all in favor say I I I does that mean we're now down to rbts um yes and no we got some more plans in the work we already have some folks um started now R programming yeah yeah so we're working on it we're working on it okay end of year events what yep I'm turning it over to Kirsten and Brenda it's all theirs it's okay you have on you um a letter from Kristen actually um so every year we do an end of year celebration um staff appreciation breakfast that the board sponsors is on May 4th so we're going to do a May May the fourth be with you theme um so that's on that Monday and that um last is broken down here for you that is actually about $200 less than it was in the fall so we're using a different vendor and then the year end celebration and that's where we do all the recognition of people retiring people you know as in the 2 pairs that are now teachers celebrating them and moving forward I have 3 options that pick 1 needs your approval the current budget that we have in that line is 3,173.6 4 cents you take out that $400 budget uh for the breakfast and that leaves us a little short of 526 we have savings and I've checked with our ba we have savings in that function so it doesn't have to you know come out of anything else um there's some ins and outs and other lines that can cover that so if we went with the breakfast is what is um but your choices of options are below um help me understand the fall 1 too is that budgeted so the fall 1 goes on to that came out of this year's um but the fall 1 will go on July 1st budget okay yeah so do we have 1 but I guess my question is do we have 1 budget item for staff celebration and appreciation and as it all inclusive like year-over-year so I'm just trying to like changing it with the letter it changes year over year depending on what we have going on depending on a budget freeze or not depending on how much money we have left in that line um we do have a couple of uh like we do year-end gifts which engraved pencils cases that we do they're really nice wooden guns um so we do those that comes out of that line are out of that function I mean it depends on the year in the past we last year we did the boat Option 1 the previous 2 years we did option 2 the price on option 2 has gone up as well so so I'm trying to remember I feel like prior to Coe we did things here just in the cafeteria which is option 3 which yeah and then um Co happened and we we were like let's have a bigger celebration we made made it through this um and then we just keep finding reasons to have a big salad I think all of them are great options I think Brenda and I were talking 1 of the things I love about the boat and sounds awful but once they're on the boat they're stuck yeah and I like that it's kind of magic and I also have to tell you that when we haven't been on the boat uh about 20 less people show up when you have it on the boat right there's a draw there yeah yeah and I mean I know it's an expense so it's just something that we have to what's yeah and that was to decide okay yeah made a point that we talked about also that um this is bandy's retirement year and he's our captain so it would be very fitting to we're going to make him drive the road on his own retirement party he would have it no other way are you kidding where Jillian's getting access next go around we might want to look at that line if there is an increase that you guys think you want to do great yeah I can really break down the expenses for you guys too on the individual things I just want to make sure that we're thinking over time yeah yeah I mean we did have some extra expense this here with elections because we were forced to you know do some extra things that cost extra money so I mean if we had the dollars available it appears that blue stuff like the bow really nice gesture so I would be in favor of that I mean so that's this is the last day of school right so it's beyond the it's the during the staff days I think there are 2 staff days at the end this year and it's the first of the 2 okay so it's that Monday and the boat sales at 3:00 so that is you know you have to but this will be actually better this year because we won't have kids half day and then people scrambling so yeah and then they still have another day that they have to come back so they might as well go have fun right I'm all for it I think it's the negligible difference in price Rite having gone last year people had a blast we also invite our bus drivers right yeah 100% all right we don't pay we do in but there are there are yeah I think it's a great idea I'm all for it I'm shocked that this option too is so expensive it is room rental but then also you can just options is so expensive right unless planning on our end all right so I'm hearing Option 1 plus the breakfast yeah that I think we're all supportive uh so we should I would entertain a motion to approve um option 1 on the 15th and the breakfast so the first 1 Julian second second from Jerry all in favor say I I thank you thank you thank you thank you cool uh facilities and policy yeah so with your reorganization tonight I thought this would be a good time to talk about about the subcommittees of the board um you know boards have various subcommittees that they operate under bigger districts have more committees I see the 2 primary responsibilities for you guys as policy and Facilities um we already have facilities it's you know met a couple of times now we're going to meet again at the end of this month after April break pills on it fills the board wrap so that 1's kind of up and running and it's good to know um but right now policies has kind of been Brenda and I and we definitely could use some support and some other perspectives um and in my board report you can see what we kind of outlined would be the primary responsibilities of this committee I'm not going to necessarily go through the total details but really what I was looking for tonight is to see if the board board wants to nominate a board member to be standing member of that committee I'm thinking we would probably meet maybe kick off our first meeting sometime after school gets out in June you know maybe towards the later end of June and then you know we'll probably be on a similar meeting schedule as facilities which is really once a quarter maybe to start with um you know so I don't necessarily feel we need to meet every month but we could start to really organize and get a deliberate pattern I'm going on a policies that we want to update and bring forward to the board yeah who else would be on the committee um for composition Kristen definitely I'm thinking about talking to Casey and getting a CB a you know a ga rep on it as well um again some of the same composition as facilities a Community member maybe a town if they remember if they want I think with policy we we can our composition can be a little bit more loose because it would kind of depend on what policies we're looking at who we might want to invite into the conversation at that point um you know typically when I've been on policy committees before for other districts it's usually principal superintendent board member our SAU person Union person and then you float people in and out as you kind of go on different topics that makes sense helped me understand because with the unions I deal with union members aren't on policy um groups because nothing is applicable to them because their government strictly by the CBA is that yeah um I understand we're like looking at policies for students and other things that are impact their work may be different but I'm trying to process that yeah 1 of the reasons I've in the past seen union members educational union members on it is 1 they can be helped um advocates in terms of union membership when we've got to make changes cuz they're on the ground hearing the conversation about legally why do some of these changes have to be um it's just strengthens the partnership between the board Administration and the union about their sometimes our are tied and and also if they have any potential like if we're going to put something in place and they see a potential conflict because of something in the agreement that might be on asking staff outside of their work working conditions we can troubleshoot that in advance like we can see if there's any perspective I mean I'm I'm not letting Julian I don't care either I just is for me it's weird because we we usually don't have any members sit at the table for policies because actually negligible like it's not applicable right um but right if you feel it's valuable and I'm hoping to I mean I make the offer I don't know if anybody would even come forward so policies you're talking or something like care right like we might invite when we tackle like the G section which is all about staff right bring the Union in on that yeah that's why I said to me the policy group doesn't have to be fixated is maybe the facilities is right now in terms of its composition and it can be we can start small and then make decisions about oh we should bring this group in with our conversation or that group right and the parents I mean I'd like to put a thing in my newsletter just like I do with facilities we didn't really get any interest in my family but Jerry kind of doubles I mean Phil kind of doubles up and Jerry comes sometimes so but I don't have anyone is interested I don't know if I should as chair I'm reading it I'm like it's okay I don't know if I should I feel like my role in the in the meeting but you're very interested in policy our help if nobody else wants to do it but I literally do policies I know you do happy to engage all the more reason why are you interested or I'm in the same boat as you okay to do also all day so I'm happy to help but I'm also happy to share the love that's not pressure for you is there a way to share the love absolutely I wonder if like as as the as it builds some momentum you could like share out opportunities to join yeah or you could even have like a standing board member on that committee and you can double you can alternate and sign up for them just to bring perspective and help so why don't we just say that right now and that's what we're going to do you guys will be a 1 of the 2 of you will be a board member rep to the policy plus Nancy 3 of us okay I think you just got B we're in this together yeah that sounds good okay there's plenty of policies to divide and conquer ah yeah oh yeah yeah and we're going to hit a lot of eye policies starting in The Fall Guys and what are those instruction policies dealing with students oh so those are the good Nancy ones well and maybe that's what you all think is looking at the different sections of how the policies are broken out and say oh when you get to this section I'd be really interested in this Christine and Jillian yes yours is the bee which is the board policy I'm an auntie policy person I know I oh believe me I wish I could but I understand the reason for it really interested in policy don't belong in the same I'm more of like a guideline protocol person the policy on oh policies are 1 of your 3 big that you control um yep yeah but you may want to take a you know look at the website under the policies and look at the sections and say oh you know maybe I'll be the board member rep for section g policies or section e policies or D is fiscal management right so maybe you're keen on that District so think about that good segue into next on the agenda as yep um so you only have your 2 that are carryovers from the last meeting these are your second reading and adoption Wednesday and we did remove Nancy the the um comment around um teachers being required to work during school closings that's why that's out cuz I know you brought oh yeah that shouldn't have been in there that was carry over from a template okay any questions there for the 2 you want me to do them in that was the only thing that was the only thing that was the only and then you had some formatting but Brenda cleaned up the formatting yep okay I would entertain a motion to approve policy e v v Dash r for second reading and adoption sorry first from Jillian second from Gary all in favor say I I I thanks B uh next any I didn't hear any discussion or questions I would entertain a motion to approve policy BBC d uh on still move first from Nancy second from Jerry all in favor say I I I okay uh next is the principal's report principal principal so I do want to share that um The Dizzy iguanas d i team came in first place at the affiliate meet this weekend in qualified for Global finals so that would be this certificate they also to let the highest score in both their Team Challenge and instant Challenge on every single element they also won the very rarely given Renaissance award for extreme creativity and they this 1 too I don't know what this 1 goes to it doesn't have any of those words on it we'll just go with it yeah great um so DB will be talking to parents about what they want to do whether they want to move forward um she did learn that in the like di scuttlebug Grantham Village School has a pretty impressive reputation in the New Hampshire di world um and she also wanted to let you know that the fourth grade team the exploding blah blah kittens in third these are incredible so that's that and then the other thing that came in today I think you got it too and I can pass it around is the honor roll for our high school and they don't do any honorable for middle school that's like not a thing yeah I don't know I don't think so it is that they don't like I'm just asking myself or like Junior National Honor Society that's they don't do that they do do an honorable hour but they don't they only like a word at the end of year award ceremony yeah that's what they don't publish it during I'm still learning the things is that sounds great yeah isn't it that's all I got so it's very cool to get these are all Grandpa yeah yeah have you guys ever done did your kids do Di they're good with di I just I attempted to 1 of the meetings and I ADHD you was like I'm out of here I did it once and the expected I was really like what is this and then when we went it was really we had them here to talk about their experience when they trip yeah it's I mean it's intense like for them to have place like that and qualified pretty intense that's really cool supportive that it hits yeah thank you oh and then if you're interested you're looking for something to do Wednesday night the Drone Club will be competing here at Grantham Village 4:30 to 6:30 come on bring it bring all the kids bring you Minnie should be coming is it just practice this this is our last official practice for the year and we've turned it into a mini competition so I do have special things for the students all right so I'm not going to give anything more away uh next is the superintendent's report speaking of I'm going to toss it over to our business administrator over here because she's got some of my new habits superintendent NBA report I got some highlights and I'm going to let her take it from there so I kind of went through overviewing the budget versus Revenue um I do want to just highlight a couple items um under the special ID the additional 45 it's because we budgeted based on 77% we actually got 80% um and then we do have um additional Revenue from the about 20,000 dollars for the reimbursement for the condo legal fees that we had paid so that's was unanticipated and then just looking on the expenditure side I did we've had yeah so it's not that we actually expended them yet if I encumbered more money just to make sure we were covered through the end of the year so continue review that um each month and then we also had some additional coverage um in the office so um that's why that line is over so I kind of did a little breakdown um towards the bottom where if we had in our remaining tax assessment um you know there's still some money I haven't covered um the third bus for those first couple of months just as case something comes up um and we still have a vacant position so in case we were to fill that um those funds are encumbered um and then if you back you know the 350 we projected for fund balance um putting in the 50,000 to the building maintenance Expendable trust fund the 25 for the specialized trust fund um and some sickly buyouts we're looking at 83000 just over 83,000 more than what we anticipated at this point so that's pretty cool and it's still it's I mean with April a walk could still happen um kind of you know up in here right now so we'll kind of see as the next month yeah and then um everything else is as submitted unless you guys have any questions I only wanted to ask at for your last couple bullet points I've been thinking about this knowing how busy everybody is um do you have any sense like are other vas looking at ways to automate or capture efficiencies anything that you like you're hearing about to I'm thinking of some of the I'm seeing from my own administrative existence that there are like things coming online that do help automate certain tasks I don't want to use AI because I need people to throw that around it's not really what I mean but there are like ways out there to be capture efficiencies I'm just curious if you're hearing anything from other vas I'm anxious for you to have more of that but I don't know yeah it's it's hard cuz I mean 1 of those first bullet points um most districts have a separate yeah HR and yes so um it's just unique for us and and we go through you know high and lows happened to be going through a very high high spell right now um I feel like that's part of my title right now um but we're getting through it um I do have some good resources um like there's a to sign in human resource management that I just actually remember that does give great templates and tools and so I'm hoping that'll you know help um primex has actually been a great resource they have HR Consultants um great see just some more riding through it I follow you patch particularly yeah and you know I I do have a counterpart that does help with some stuff as well okay good on the third bullet I was going to offer that's what I have done for the past 15 years of my career so if there's something I could do to help with some of those efficiencies and building documents and procedures and processes like literally that's been my job okay know that I haven't done HR would have yeah yeah no I mean it's just 1 of those things of you know just kind of it takes time to do that it it does and it's 1 of those things where it comes so natural to me at times where it's like you know it's it's just a matter of finding time and a good way but it's nice to to know and you know if I need help I'll reach out for sure okay yeah it's just like a half hour to like draw a picture of a process like okay where can we what can we do yeah no that would be great thank you okay superintendent NBA um my record is as submitted um my legislative update are actually out of date at this point since when I wrote them uh which interesting um I think the 1 thing I would draw your attention on uh when it comes to legislation and I was trying to just look the house fill up right now because I can't find the number off the top of my head but there is a house bill right now that is looking to redefine special education Aid um and what that looks like and the scary part that is in the bill is that it would potentially cap out at District costs at $60,000 period and it would also saying that you can't act can't access any excess aid until you show or demonstrate that you have tried to pursue any private insurance funding that's available for a student meaning I don't know how I would force parents to do that so this this is a very concerning Bill and it sat quiet throughout this whole legislative session and now all of the sudden it's gaining traction but that's kind of the trend of the legislative sessions over over the past few years is these late bills that come in how much time do we have left in the session um well they get all the way to June 30th and last year they took it all the way to June 30th hb2 was approved on June 29th um yeah so we actually on the revenue side for next year budgeted 270,000 for special at 8 so that would be 110,000 deficit off sounds like a go it's it's HB 1563 and it's this relative to the special ed aide formula and the and the administration and monitoring of special State special ed a it's going to put a lot of burden on frankly business administration administrators um directors of student services to really justify additional expenses before you would get the aid I can send this to you I'll email you guys yeah you've yeah and it's getting it's moving fast is all over the place right now you guys the latest Amendment some of which didn't make sense to me a couple points I was looking at before the meeting um but I didn't make a note of it I should have um it did I wondered if are we able to maintain our stat our current status quo or the way things are now this stands for taking with this still hold up now that's what I did why is this goes into effect everybody's votes then then not and there's data out I can send you the reaching higher report it's up to 98 communities voted on there are an open enrollment and something like don't quote me on this but 75% of those voted 0% sending call of that would be wiped out so all the local voting that took place would be wiped by this because it's just going to make any decision made at the local level Mullen boy she said 70% to 0% 75% did of that 90 something yeah and then when you looked at the ones that didn't it was like they only let 1 student go or 1 person it was like nobody did a massive hey we're going to let everybody choose yeah yeah reaching higher got the analysis on it yeah I imagine though there would be all sorts of lawsuits if that happened well I don't know because now we're writing legislation that says judicial has no say in Educational Funding and educational pathways so they can just ignore any Court decisions so then it's why do you go to court waste money right becoming very interesting what's going on yeah I felt like I left I unplugged for the week right and then I was away and I came back and I was like oh my God I'm totally out of the loop of legislation I'm only got 1 week it's okay it's probably healthy it was healthy yes Jerry it was very healthy um but so I just want to put that on your radar because as she's pointed out that bill passes even what we and we went low right with the percentage but we're not even going to be going off we'd be 110,000 right sure based on and that's for us in a well-managed well financed us yeah yeah what what can we do Governor right now people have to put pressure on the governor and binder she's up for another term come November mhm it's an election year cuz she's got the veto power right now anything coming to her desk and so she's going to have to balance her party versus does she want another term and that that serious way of the power is going to go people having contact with the governor okay cuz legislators are just doing whatever they want they'll sit for hours and listen but they've already predetermined to vote and then they take less than 2 minutes to take a vote and it's done as we've witnessed directly and okay next on the agenda is the consent agenda any comments questions I think you guys want a correction to 1 set of your minutes because I I review them for you guys yeah um and it would be the February 3rd budget hearing minute um and it's a slight change um it's on the meaning of the Articles so this was at your budget hearing and Article 5 was open enrollment but your minutes say article 6 was open enrollment no article 6 is just about transact any further business so I think you want that changed you didn't have 2 articles on open enrollment didn't we have another thing that we consider though there was another article that we ended up not moving I think right that and that was screwy that was the the um the tuition trust that's right yeah we didn't bring that to the public hearing we voted here as a board not even moving it was before that yeah it was before that wasn't at the public hearing so I I'm looking at this 1 front of the the February 3rd budget hearing ones I think Amy would have taken these right yeah and it says articles it's got Article 5 open enrollment article 6 open enrollment there weren't too articles on open enrollment I have article 6 any other business oh well the ones that I looked in are things that open enrollment there maybe you got changed no you say I do think she may have submitted a revision yeah when she signed up oh maybe that was it that if I'm cuz I was pulling it off of our what's on the public website no mine says open enrollment and the 1 to upload it in the pocket for today I see 2 Double enrollments so maybe she submitted 1 and we just don't have the right 1 yeah yeah um I'll change that yeah so these are the officials that she said I have so because you have to send them to VR right yeah so we don't need to amend the consent agenda because the your official copies are correct it's just came in our packet yes okay okay so I entered in a motion to approve the consent agenda on the first from Jillian second second from Nancy all of you are saying I I good catch Christie I do look at all your stuff very closely there's a lot of stuff there's a lot of certain agenda there is a lot of stuff and that's a pretty important packet because that's all the annual meeting stuff so yeah okay next on the agenda is public participation and we have no public nope not online uh I don't think we have a need for non-public tonight amazing I would entertain a motion to adjourn at 7:20 so moved first million second second for Nancy all in favor say I I go this is always the best 1 I just there you go I mean stop the recording yep nice

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