Grantham School Board Meeting Dec. 6, 2022

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okay we're gonna go ahead and I'm gonna
call the meeting to order at 6 33 and of
course on a night that we like moved
ourselves forward in the room we have
more people here and that's the way of
that right when we shrink our space more
people come
um so we are going to go ahead and get
started tonight our first agenda item is
to approve the agenda
um I have one agenda item I'd like to
add so after our
um superintendent search discussion
before policies I'm going to add in a
conversation about the progress
monitoring committee and um sort of the
future of that committee and what how
the board sees using that group moving
forward so we'll add a progress
monitoring committee discussion
um as number eight and then we'll move
the other two down any other changes or
additions to the agenda tonight
okay so we need a motion to approve the
agenda as amended a second I have a
motion from Leslie and a second from
Denise so all those in favor please say
aye
aye and any opposed say nay all right so
the agenda is approved so our first
agenda item is public participation we
have some folks here with us in person
we also have um people joining us
virtually just a reminder for public
participation whether you're here in
person with us or if you're virtual just
start your remarks with your name and
address so that we can have that in the
record for our public participation
policy
um and just a reminder we do ask that
the comments be directed to the chair of
the board and that there not be any kind
of like personally identifying
information in the comments
um and if it is something that the board
is going to be taking up on the agenda
later on the board may just listen
during that time and then we'll have our
board conversation the public
participation is really just a chance
for us to hear from the community and
from the public
if there are simple questions or things
that are easy and quick for us to answer
we may answer those during this time but
this really is the community's time so
we'll go ahead and open public
participation and per our new way of
managing that we're just going to note
that it's starting at 6 35 and
feel free if anyone in the room would
like to speak go ahead or if there are
folks virtually you can go ahead and
type into the chat
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we should have been leveraging that this
whole time like each time we could have
had like sleigh bells Maracas
I was in preschool music the other day
playing with the bloomwhackers
basically fun it's like weapon music
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once everyone signed in
sign language
I'm going to leave our first opportunity
for public participation open for
another minute
I do have to say even without public
participation it's very nice to have
public here yes so thank you very much
for coming
okay so I'm going to go ahead and close
our first public participation
um and per our board policy we will
reopen public participation
um at the end of the meeting tonight
so our first agenda item is the student
School Board liaison so we have is Ellen
with us she has a swim meet tonight okay
she can't make it okay so we won't hear
from our students School Board liaison
tonight but we do have two folks who
have provided their applications that
the board received
um and because there was personal
identifying information and things like
transcripts involved in those the
applications are not being shared
publicly but the board is going to
discuss those applications publicly so
the board can feel free to use those
students names and our conversation just
not any of like we won't go into
specifics about things like their grades
or anything like that in our public
conversation so we have two applications
from Dorothy Sears and Oliver Hermanson
so
um just to open the conversation if the
board has specific thoughts on
um if we'd like to appoint you know one
more student School Board liaison if
we'd like to have you know two how we
see yes kind of moving forward with that
can be part of the conversation and then
discussion of those two students who
put themselves forward to join us
so is there anything that anyone would
like to share to kick that off that
conversation
I thought they were both really strong
candidates so I'm in favor of having
both of them I sort of feel like the
more the better to a certain point but
they're both really good candidates
yeah I agree I feel like I'm just so
pleased that we had two students really
interested in giving up time at the end
of a long school day to stay connected
and be AF liaison and contact yeah
yeah and we have had three previously
the board has had three student School
Board Liaisons like serving at once and
it actually was nice because it took a
little bit of the pressure off
especially during things like sports and
other activities
um that students might be doing if
they're not able to make it to a meeting
they know that there's two other folks I
would say we probably only had a couple
of meetings at all three could come to
and then the rest of the time it was
usually one or two that were able to be
there
and so that three definitely wasn't too
much in the past
any other discussion about our two
certainly excellent students
one of my first board meetings was the
meeting when Dorothy came and presented
to the board about
um advocating for a new playground so
and I think she was in fourth grade yeah
I think she was in fourth grade then so
um it's pretty amazing to see kind of
that progression and she has stayed
involved in that process
um with the playground committee and
helping to write grants for that project
sounds aggressive yeah she's a sophomore
this year correct yes
it does give you some perspective on how
long that project has
any other thoughts it sounds like folks
are in favor of maybe moving forward
with both having to
okay
so I would
make a motion then for us to or I would
need a motion for us to
um
appoint Dorothy Sears and Oliver
Hermanson as student School Board
Liaisons so moved okay so I have a
motion from Leslie and a second from
Nancy all those in favor please say aye
aye any opposed say nay all right
um just as a follow-up question because
I'll get in touch with them on behalf of
the board thank you when would you like
them to start I think if they are
available to come to the January meeting
absolutely yeah
yeah
excellent and thank you to both of both
of you for both to both of them for
applying we really appreciate it
okay our next agenda item are our budget
functions for tonight so the board has
these budget areas in our packet and
I think we are starting with instruction
s what is that
for anybody at home yeah
this is where we're getting into the
rotating when it takes a little while to
make everybody dizzy and then we have
behind the right direction a lot bigger
and we're not going to be able to see it
on here this is honestly for people at
home
um all of these documents are in the
board packet um line
um as well as all of the backup
information is on the back of each
function so
um as we go through these
when we look at regular instruction as
we start to go down as we usually do
line by line in terms of instructional
wages there is a 3.42 percent which is
really just contractual increases there
are no Staffing changes represented in
that line
uh regular Ed summer programming there's
a decrease because you're going to see
that show up in its own function but
we're going to need to have a discussion
about that separately when we get to
that function
uh para educator wages these are just
our regular education Paris so not our
special Ed Harris again that's just
um
the regular contractual increase right
there
mentors were able to take out of the
title to a grant
substitute teachers we did increase
based on usage we first of all increased
our sub rate and secondly we are in need
of more substitutes these days than
prior years so that's an increase of
three thousand six hundred fifty dollars
while we're saying it thank you to all
of our subs who accept our positions
state pay for staff this is Nature's
Classroom that's a decrease of 200 just
based on the number of people who will
be attending Nature's Classroom and the
stipend that was negotiated in the
collective bargaining agreement
the insurance buyout changes due to
census changes and election changes
the leadership pool wages we took that
out of the collective bargaining
agreement so that's a decrease of two
thousand dollars
um there's no health insurance is always
pulled out separately as you know the
insurance deductible is uh stable as
that 25 000.
dental insurance is pulled out life and
disability is a very slight increase of
87 dollars
Social Security is a slight increase
those are all obviously tied to salaries
so those are fixed percentages based on
the salary increases as is Medicare and
uh let's skip down retirement as we
mentioned in some of the other functions
is going down which is unheard of and
also nice
instructional unemployment is also going
down
workers comp there's a very slight
increase of 138 dollars
certifications is based on the district
paying for teacher recertifications and
that's just the number of teachers who
are up for their three-year cycle next
year times the state rate
Professional Services for instruction uh
for a while we eliminated ell services
from this line and then we do have a lot
of students moving in from other
countries which is a very exciting but
it also means that we need to plan for
additional ell services so we're putting
this back in our reading specialist is
ell certified and with a small number of
students she's able to cover those
students with the increases that we've
had I think it's four just since the
school year started that were
unanticipated we just need additional
Services there
achievement test scoring stays the same
enrichment activities is a slight
increase and the breakdown is in your
budget in terms of everything that goes
into those enrichment activities which
is Nature's Classroom field trips Etc
the tuition and you you also got the
tuition breakdown the tuition
spreadsheet so the tuition is estimated
at the middle school to be an increase
of one hundred ninety seven thousand
ninety three dollars and it's estimated
at the high school to be a decrease of
one hundred ninety eight thousand fifty
dollars I've never seen it be that close
of a wash with our students coming and
going but that's what our projections
are showing right now
instructional supplies is
um slightly down and thanks very much to
Mrs Reed for her careful
um
she does not I wouldn't call it a
careful scrutiny but she makes sure that
people are collaborating and sharing
among classrooms of what they need and
that everything that's purchased is
aligning to the curriculum that we're
using right now so thank you very much
to her for that uh workbooks is down
2283 for the same exact reason
textbooks there's a slight increase in
those for 164 dollars
same thing with periodicals 36 dollars
AV materials and software is a slight
increase of two thousand five hundred
and eighty one dollars narrative you're
gonna have to remind me of one thing
that we just added there for that
increase it was Renaissance right yeah
so we used to pay for our STAR testing
which is our progress monitoring
assessment platform out of the reap
Grant and the title one Grant combined
we just wanted to move it into the
regular budget because we're going into
our third or fourth year of using it and
those grants are starting to be
decreasing Statewide and they're being
sucked up with other things so we just
didn't want to lose the ability to
purchase that software
new furniture and fixtures is an
increase of
1969 and Mrs Reed and Mr compo went over
a careful furniture replacement cycle
again looking at furniture that is
consistent throughout the building to
make sure that we can raise and lower
chairs and tables and move them from
place to place when we need them
and nothing for new equipment so overall
1100 which is our main instructional
line is an increase of forty nine
thousand five hundred seventy three
dollars and six cents which is a 0.93
increase
um so today
somebody paid for the Scripps National
Spelling Bee and when they paid for it
we went oh we didn't put that in the
Bible so with enrichment there is 175
dollars that today we added to that line
so it is 175 dollars more but I just
wanted to be transparent with you guys
now the other thing that's in your
report packet is a proposal for the
shared curriculum instruction and
assessment director which is a shared
position with Plainfield and Cornish so
interestingly enough I had a board
meeting with Cornish last night I'm here
tonight and I have a board meeting with
Plainfield tomorrow night so literally
three nights in a row all three
districts will be looking at this
proposal so this is a shared position
and I gave you a draft job description
which obviously will need more tweaking
if this moves forward with all three
districts but uh to make a long story
short small districts especially small
elementary schools on their own usually
can't afford a director of curriculum
instruction and assessment
and sharing among these three elementary
schools which for all intents and
purposes are almost all exclusively
feeding into Lebanon into the same place
there are several students from Cornish
who go elsewhere and several students
from Plainfield who go to Kua but the
majority of students are winding up in
Lebanon together this is we've talked a
lot about sharing with these other
districts and this would be I think a
really great opportunity to have this
kind of a position
in these districts and to be able to
um
support the principles especially who
are doing so many other things in these
again single school districts on their
own to support staff to constantly look
at data of student achievement to help
make sure that curriculum Cycles are
moving forward as they should be that
they don't get put off because another
priority is taking place which happens
very often and also shared curriculum
professional development possible
sharing of resources collaboration in
the small schools we also have a lot of
Physicians that are really isolated and
the idea you know that you can actually
have a bigger group to work with and
maybe calibrate student assessment work
can make a really big difference
um I promised all the districts I would
give them feedback from the other
districts so Cornish currently has a
ranking list of the things that are on
the table for them and just to let you
know that the board would put this as
their number one priority
is this so this is not currently
accounted in the budget it is not okay
so this would be in addition to what was
what we just looked at yeah and if you
look at the breakdown
um brantham would be a 0.4 FTE all in
salary and benefits would be an increase
of fifty two thousand nine hundred and
forty it would be the same for clean
field and then Cornish would be a 0.2
which would be twenty six thousand four
hundred seventy
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questions and also Mrs McGee perhaps
because she was in a district that had
this position
we feel confident we can get assembly
for the 90 000 salary yes so it's it's a
little bit tricky because this is again
like threading the needle because that's
going to be at the top of your teacher
skills for these so you want to be as
high as your teacher skills but at the
same time your principals that are about
a hundred thousand you know so starting
out we feel confident that about 90 000
is about where somebody should begin
and the market bears that yes
currently there is no curriculum
specialist in either of these three no
none of the three districts have seven
principles pretty much have to do all of
this with an amazing staff yes
any discussion on who would
hire the evolution I would prefer to
Grantham owns the position and then gets
the revenue from Plainfield and Cornish
that would be my recommendation anytime
I'm Cornish decided about that last
night no
um my wreck and the reason I'm
recommending that is that Plainfield and
Cornish already share a lot of positions
and they already juggle a lot of who
owns what and who pays the other and it
makes their budgets
sometimes hard to decipher for the
community and I think if we're entering
into sharing it would be great if we
owned the position they could just have
a straight cost that we'd pick up as
Ravena
Kristen are there things that you have
on your
list of like if you had the time to that
having someone in this position that you
think are what would this enable you to
be able to do either more of or better
or to increase well I think honestly
that
like I do the best I can stretching
myself but I would love to see this
position because it would be someone
that could really put the time and
energy into curriculum where it needs to
be
um you know I'm giving this little bit
of time to it and staff is amazing on
their you know literacy committee math
committee or whatever but they also have
everything else they're doing so it
could just be someone devoted to that
and I think it would really be
super beneficial in terms of helping to
make sure the curriculum
follows a path through Grantham Village
school and then aligns with what they're
going to be doing over in Lebanon and I
just think that would be fabulous some
of you at the time to really put the
effort into it
today do you have a sense of how similar
or different curriculums currently are
between the three schools like would
this would it be would be would we be
setting someone up to be
unnecessarily challenged or frustrated
by three different sets of moving parts
or are they right so when you think of
curriculum you never think of a program
right
um the only thing that I would have some
questions about would be math okay
because Grantham Village School is very
different in the sense that we do
everyday math and Plainfield in Corners
do Eureka Math and those are pretty
significantly different approaches so we
would have to figure something out there
but in anything else
um a curriculum is never the program
that you buy so the way that you want to
think of it is that everybody
the way I usually explain it is that
everybody has the same nutritional
standards they're all meeting the same
competencies but everybody uses
different recipes everybody has
different flavors different meals that
they like but as long as you're doing
the same standards it's okay that you
still get to the same place
and a good curriculum director will be
able to facilitate that and encourage
that
what would happen if not all three
districts
what do you uh foresee happening if like
just two districts voted in
yeah and that came up in Cornish last
night so um
you would have to decide if one of the
districts decided not to move it forward
in their budget if you wanted to do it
as a two-way split which would obviously
pretty dramatically change the cost and
then go from there or wait until another
year where maybe a an all three would go
in again
when do we have to make a final
determination on this
um February when you go to your public
hearing you really want this in place so
you still have a couple months to
uh think about it to Hash it out to get
more feedback I can let you know what
Plainfield discusses tomorrow night but
so far I can tell you that they're very
much in favor of it for all of the same
reasons
yeah I don't necessarily make it
I think it's a good idea
I'm a little nervous on
committing to it before we see the full
budget yeah because
I'm assuming there will have to be some
kind somewhere at some point in time
given just the inflations and everything
else that we're seeing yeah
does our timeline match up with their
timelines for preparing their budgets
like do any of them need to make a
decision on it before February no
actually of the three districts were the
first okay yeah
which is good in sense of alignment
because if we own it we're the ones who
have to decide if it actually goes in
right yeah
okay I think my feeling on it is let's
put it kind of at you know up there on
that list of things that we'll look at
once we have like I've said the whole
budget picture
um but I I think overall it sounds like
the conversation is
you know we're in favor of of uh
continuing to talk about it it's not
something that we're
opposed to yeah so yeah let's keep it at
the towards the top of that list of
things that we'll consider when we get
the full budget all right
any other thoughts on that on that
position
and also any other thoughts or questions
about the instruction
budget function
okay so we'll move on to I think
guidance is our next
I know I think we're going to summer
school yeah oh yep
so um this is a separate function
because the pre-pandemic
the Grantham
Village School only did summer school
for special education and students at
risk that was generally the summer
programming so it was largely IEP and
sort of intervention driven when the
pandemic hit the board funneled a lot
more money into summer programming
through grants and through some District
funds to be able to catch more kids and
we have seen some results of having more
kids in summer program not just limiting
it to identified students or students at
risk but now is basically the time for
the board to start deliberating if you
want to continue that practice so do you
want to
go back to esy programming the way it
was where it was pretty much special
education and at risk if you want to
include or continue to include other
students who are basically invited to
attend summer school the total cost
would be 18
575 dollars
so this is actually an entirely new
function
so while you're looking at I do have
papers to pass out it's just the data
from summer school this summer
um and we did we looked at testing in
the spring versus testing in the fall we
looked at general education special
education and then students who were
invited to attend but chose not to
attend just to see what the growth was
whether it was
whether the benefit that we think it is
um so I'll pass it out the yellow is the
kind of like the overall summary
if this is something we wanted to sort
of revert back if I were previously the
entire 18 000 would go away or yeah yeah
there
um there could be maybe a slight
increase in in some of the summer school
programming that you would see in 1200
at our next meeting in January because
we'd probably have to pull in some
at-risk kits but the majority of the 18
000 would go away yeah this computer
so Chris I'm assuming you want to focus
on the yellow box yeah that's I took all
the information kind of put it there to
help you to see it better
in not all the students had a before and
after so I didn't count them in the in
the percentages and then
um it's important to note that
the testing that we use the Renaissance
star very often well first we didn't do
it
before this year we didn't administer it
higher than third grade so some kids
aren't don't have a before and after for
the hired reads and then for some of the
testing the end of like for example the
end of first grade test is different
than the beginning of second grades it's
not comparing
the exact same test so it's you know
there's some discrepancy but it's it's
what we have yeah
any
further digging into
wine or special education half the
students that attended actually went
down
you're over here Nikki do you have any
thoughts on that
um
I don't I haven't looked at that closely
enough to look at which the evidence
they're differentiated that sure
um but
typically Special Education Service
students will require additional
Services right the purpose of their
summer program is to try to prevent
regression
um so if I what am I reading that
correctly that's 54 of them did regress
year over year is that am I okay based
on the star 10 real service so
well you know we look at other
uh assessments for their progress
because sometimes that STAR testing is
out
not as accurate because it's not a
leveled
assessment
do you know what I mean like you know
you might be giving them a test that's
about their grade level so they're not
accessing and able to demonstrate
progress okay
um I'm also thinking Kristen that
um
we focus so much on tests but it's the
skills the social skills that are not
measured in this
um and cutting off of the pandemic and
adjustment I you know I wish there was a
chart that would just show where
things were and that's one of the things
I think I talked to you about last
summer or the end of last summer is that
it was amazing the kids who
honestly when they're in the regular
school year they might not feel all the
successes and they might not feel like a
good student
but in the summer they're successful and
they want to be here and like we had one
kid who his sister wasn't invited but
she asked if she could please come
because he was having such a good time
and that's pretty amazing
and what was this the approximate
student enrollment for summer school
um
will we go for number three to number 40
so 37 very soon
would that if with the
um program that's in the requested
budget would the program stay about that
size or would this increase the size of
the decrease the size of it so we
actually invited about
um and we could have we could have
housed today okay
well I enjoyed watching the kids when I
was thinking outside watching all the
fun stuff going yeah
and sort of the last row there the
average number of days attended 76.72
was that the 10 to 70 76 of the
available days
and that's just the nature of Summer
yeah absolutely foreign
do you have any other questions or do
you want to revisit this next time yeah
yeah I think this will definitely be
yeah yeah okay yeah as a whole new
thing we'll review it when we see our
overall budget number okay all right so
next up is
school counselor so in the school
counselor function uh things are staying
relatively
fatality these are largely just the
usual employee increases and the
accompanying benefits the only
difference that we have is that we did
add in we have this in a different place
in the budget we had money in 1100 I
believe
where was that I'm trying to remember
where we have it we had fifteen thousand
dollars for mental health counselor when
we decided to eliminate the social
worker position so the correct place for
it is actually in the school counselor
line so you'll see fifteen thousand
dollars there for contracted service
that is something that I think if we had
not had this year I can't imagine where
we would be without that so that's not
the total cost there's about 20 000
that's additional that is at twenty one
thousand to be exact that's covered
through grants is that what's coming out
under contracted Services later on with
that same is it
it's getting uh what number is it uh yes
because it moved from contracted service
to employee okay yeah okay
so it's all still within the same
function still within the same function
yep and then we just have all of those
related costs for a very slight increase
of three thousand thirty two dollars
any questions
area
okay
all right
next up help okay Health Services is
very similar uh it's basically extremely
stable uh the usual employee salary in a
company benefit changes for a slight
increase of 1 734 dollars which is an
increase of 1.75 percent
any questions from the board
on this area
okay thank you
conference and course reimbursement
there is an increase in course
reimbursement which is due to the CVA of
the total is 20 000 but that's an
increase of 2 500. uh conference
reimbursement we're keeping stable as it
is Staff training there's a slight
increase of nine hundred dollars uh Mrs
Reed already has specific allocations
for that for Cafe I believe which is
going to support our literacy work
and the same thing for professional
books that's like increase by 320 so the
Total Line is an increase of three
thousand seven hundred twenty dollars
which for that one is 12.27 percent
for that function 12.27
.
any questions on that one
all right
next Library
and we have Mr Pollard here okay
um I'm going to go through some of the
boring lines and then we're going to let
Mr Polly do the fun stuff
all right do we have to read Andrew
push-ups okay so we're just coaching
so wages librarian that's a contractual
increase right there we have and um step
and track changes are included there we
have uh some basic insurance and other
Associated benefit costs as you're
skipping all the way down
a library online there is a slight
decrease and that again is similar to
when I complimented Mrs Reed before
about her really looking at our
resources and being able to Target what
people are using and what we really need
Mr Pollard did the same exact thing so
thank you very much for that
Library supplies is staying level
library of books is also staying level
or slightly down fifty dollars
periodicals we don't have anything in
there Library software I'll let you talk
about that one which is the destiny
manager yeah so our library management
software that controls all of our
collection of our books it's just been
slight normalization to be installed
value
and then we have Library furniture and
Renovations and if you just tell me when
you want me to change the slide I have
it here ready for you
so this is really the only line that
you'll see an increase in and it's
actually formal zero balanced for now so
I'm proposing a little bit of a
Furniture renovation plan that I
apologize for my entire deeper for
basketball practice today
so my proposal is a three-year proposal
but I believe you have a letter in your
board packet that thoughts copies would
be like a copy of kind of a team your
overall plan uh year one is the budget
for 20 or approximate 20
um chairs designed for Primary students
right now and as you'll see in the
chairs will be in the library currently
are not really geared for Primary
students uh year two would be the
additional chairs for intermediate
students and again 20 is an approximate
number and one enough for everybody to
have a seat and maybe a triple extra and
then year three would be table
replacement and look for flexible
ceiling and flexible tables to the
library so we can switch Sydney
so current setup you see and we have for
I should say this I love my space I love
my job
um I will work with whatever I have so
if this stayed the same for the next 20
years fantastic I will make it work
um and they work and they're functional
and I can't say that they're not but
that is their current setup we kind of I
have enough tables and chairs to house
the biggest class and then some but as
you can see the tables and chairs are
very bulky they're very big
um and if you go one more Sydney so
there's my friend anian kindergarten
um in the wooden chairs kindergarten
first and second grade they're super big
and they're not the safest thing for
them to sit in and most of the time
they're on their knees and I could go
one more they end up like that through
the back of the chair
um again not super safe and the
Intermediate kids they'll lean these
chairs are really easy to lean back in
and they're super heavy and not very
balanced so I'm not anime follower yet
but it is a concern and then if you
drift one more this is kind of what I'm
envisioning flexible seating not just
chairs with stools and other things that
are flexible and then tables that are
hopefully at least chairs that are
stackable number one because as you know
and as many of you know I'm a huge
advocate of movement and even if you're
in the library there still is moving so
if I can stack chairs rather than just
push the wooden chairs either way that
would be fantastic
um and then if you want more of the last
one again just maybe things on Wheels
things of different shapes things that
kind of need more collaborative so we
can work in groups uh so again that's my
vision
again I love where I am I love my space
so don't feel obligated but it's
something that I'm looking forward
and the cute little girl maybe
so and just on that line uh for year one
it's approximately a 2300 increase to
purchase of 20
share number I can totally research more
I just kind of went to Demco which is
the traditional Library company and
looked at kind of some seating that
would work but I'm not sold on anything
yet I want to do some more research if
this goes through so I'm just going on
any questions from Mr Pollard I
appreciate you asking for this because
you're seeing that little girl in that
big chairs we need appropriate seating
for the kids that we have
it looks like this Furniture's been well
loved for many years and I have kind of
asked I know obviously I I'm I hate to
get rid of things that are useful and
our table and chairs and they are I know
for a fact that the table will be used
elsewhere all of them those chairs I'm
not quite sure where they would go but I
know for a fact that the tables would be
repurpose some morality for sure if that
happens do you have a do you have a
ballpark price
for all three years uh yeah it's a
little better and I could
um I think it's about 8 400 total right
and again that's important chair the 40
chairs is honestly probably more than I
need
um but the tables are what really gets
expensive yeah yeah and again I'm not I
put a sample table in the letter and
then um but I'm not sold yet on what
label exactly and I'm assuming the
chairs would work but the tables are
currently have a new chair yeah
um honestly they're they're just more of
an again size difference for primary
kids stackable and not and faulty and
Dave yes really yeah
but yes they would totally work with our
current windview description
I love thinking about our library being
more collaborative and more full of
movement and action and creativity
and if you came or went well at least
after this year I am able to change that
we had the book fair the Bookers and
there it existed fine I moved the table
and chair it got away so it's I can't
say the thought while coming to work but
it just would be more ideal to have a
little more flexibility
oh
Sydney do you have a sense of
the current climate of like grants for
this type of you know
creating more flexible spaces I know
when the first grade classroom had the
um we doing that trial run of of um more
flexible seating do you know if if
that's something that's kind of out
there right now for reap would be our
only
um Avenue right now that could be
something that we will likely get next
year it's never a guarantee
um so we could say that we would earmark
some reap money for this if you wanted
to take it out of the budget but other
than that it would have to be a
competitive Grant and those are pretty
competitive these days yeah yeah
has that furniture
I think it it seems like it would be
amazing it has have has that been a a
good change in the classrooms that have
had some of that more flexible seating
and different different types of tables
and that kind of stuff it has and I
think you might be able to speak more to
it when I had it I loved it but I hear
like some teachers really love it and
some prefer the traditional
um is that what you hear Too from people
um so but for the most part I think
people who love it love it
um
yeah
thank you
okay I mean other any other questions
for that
peace okay
okay thank you
moving on to technology so
um we do have one big thing to talk
about in the middle of the technology
budget
so for
um we had going through the usual no
Staffing changes but the usual increases
plus Associated benefits so the first
change that we would come down to would
be GVS technology Services uh that is
just basically we would be looking at
the change Randy do you want to go
through these lines sure and do you want
me to pull up the four options onto the
screen
um I was actually going to ask if we
could talk about that particular line
item last okay we'll just go through the
rest of it all first then you take them
through your lines and tell you when to
put the bids up so for GVS technology
Services
um I had an increase of about 668
dollars that represents about four not
quite five percent over that and what
that has to do with technology services
are things like the rental of our
firewall uh the backup for the server
um contingency if we ever had some sort
of a technology problem when we had to
use I.T security to have any help with
that it pays for things like our domain
names from the internet
uh you know gbshawks.com
sau75.org sorry I said com.org
um it also pays for things like uh the
service we use for monitoring the kids
Chromebooks while they're in class so
that the teacher can see what they're
doing
um and I'm contemplating switching that
tool from one tool to another we did
have an issue last year where
because of a Google update or something
that service went offline for about two
months and we took that time to evaluate
another tool at the exact same time so
we use the other tool to kind of cover
the Gap
um that was
um go Guardian was actual that's way
expensive so I started looking at some
other tools that were out there and so
I'm contemplating uh changing to this
tool flow securely which I think Sydney
said some other districts nearby have
had some very good success with so we're
currently evaluating that it represents
you know 600 bucks more than the other
tool
um
so I budgeted for that on the assumption
that we would probably lead to that so
that's what the difference is in the
budget
for this line
um
the next line item I had what did you
have next good news technology PD is
contractual so technology enrichment is
the tech team that's the same 400 so
then we're giving to GBS
telecommunications management right uh
can I skip that one we'll just go down
to
technology supplies yeah so that's like
the grand finale is the
Telecommunications
uh so technology supplies is just our
repair parts toner General supplies I
think I added like 500 bucks extra for
that
you know it says 14 but you know that's
500
um
next was technology software that line
is
up about ten dollars uh that's our
Microsoft licensing you know basically
you have to pay Microsoft in order for
our server to work in request to have
word in Excel or Meredith
uh and read that
um but that they have a set amount that
you just paid right and it is what it is
so that didn't change much for
technology software
um replacement technology it says
technology replace computers
um
I think this one actually has gone down
from uh last year pretty significantly
what that decrease is is the we aren't
buying the new microphones at all the
classrooms
um I am getting awesome feedback on
those new banks by the way I had
um Jen code I just said I love the new
mic literally yesterday without vomiting
so just didn't say anything so it's it's
working out great everybody loves it it
seems like it's good but the things that
replacement technology is going to buy
for us next year is the normal round of
Chromebooks we'll be buying 40
Chromebooks in about 275 each we're back
into the buy cycle for staff computer so
we're going to buy 10 of those and
that's on a four-year cycle five for
three one year rescheduled so last year
was the buy here
bye-bye
for that so that'll buy 10 new MacBooks
and that will also roll kind of a
downhill to the library where they'll
have a second life uh with the students
and first substitutes things like that
um
and it will also be replacing 10 iPads
with that so the bottom line for replace
computers was 22 000 which is down from
35 passing last year
uh and then I think I have
technology equipment that's fifteen
hundred dollars for printer Replacements
we have a couple of very important
printers still kicking around that
service this whole side of the building
um and they've been here as long as I've
been here probably a long time before
that too
so that's what that is
um
so to get to telecommunications
management or GBS
um
some of that is for our internet service
that we get through first light
um I think it's like 9 000 bucks for
that but we get half of that back from
grade uh through doing the paperwork
which I do
um and typically we've been paying on
the order in about
1500 1600 bucks a year just for the
phone lines main phone lines that come
into the building uh the telephone
system in this building is ancient it's
again it's been years since you know
before I was here we've actually had
this past year two of the extensions
stopped working uh I was able to kind of
move or plug from one thing to the other
to keep them working but it's a legacy
PBX telephone system it's also not
compliant with what the law wants us to
have which is something where we pick up
the phone and dial and it doesn't just
tell the address for 9-1-1
it tells you the floor and the room that
you're in the state passed the law that
said any new phone systems have to have
that and it's a homeland security thing
so we are overdue for that and um
so uh I we put out an rip for that we've
gotten four responses to the RFP uh from
First Flight which is our vendor for
that we've got one from it secure which
is our second level support uh group
all right we got one from ring central
that I solicited because I knew 70 uses
ring central uh and then we had another
one from the zoo but I also solicited it
came out through zoom and through and so
right there so
um
sitting I guess if you wanted to put
that out
but basically
the
the main thing that's happened since the
technology was implemented before is
that it's all now in the cloud
there's no longer a box that sits back
in a room like we have now it's all
up there and basically the telephones
themselves you plug in and they connect
to the internet to your PDX and it
allows you to
deal with situations where the power's
out or you have to move everywhere like
we had during covet you know those sorts
of things it allows you to have a
virtual thing when it comes with a bunch
of other benefits too when we virtualize
this stuff it does things like
transcribes all your voicemail and
emails uh it allows you to
um forward calls you know
wherever they have these things called
Soft bones where you use a school phone
number which you basically have an app
on your cell phone and zoom guys they're
letting me test it
other ones did too but it basically just
locks up on your phone and lets you dial
out
School telephone number
so there we go yeah see that's actually
Zoom
on my phone so
is all these extra Services potentially
what comes with it so of those four
um they all have a monthly lead that
comes with this and so the days of us
paying 1500 bucks for all the phone
service in this building are along with
the dog yes exactly
um the range for that basic service
um the zoom ones if you calculate that
it's like 283 bucks a month so they have
like an annual 3 400 bucks for just the
basic Service uh to compare that to
First Light if theirs was like 3 400
bucks 3 500 bucks
unless you're including the equipment
rental which was like 4 200 bucks
um
I.T security was like 6 500 bucks and
ring central was like 11 000 bucks
when you look at what the service is for
what they're providing
um on top of that is the new phone
equipment that you have to go in so
we have um
I think there's something like 35
standard telephones around the building
and I think we have four of the fancy
schmancy ones that have to be in the
front office for them to do their work
but you know based on the equipment
costs
um they're fairly standard in terms of
what you had died for the phone
equipment
the other question about the sir the new
phone system is where would we put the
phones because they can plug into any
internet connection we could
theoretically plug them into our
ethernet outlets around the room and
just abandon the old setup but then your
phones are by the door then it's so we
could use all the existing wiring in the
building basically we terminate all of
these where the handsets are but the
internet ones on put a switch in the
back row and that would become our
results so there's some expense
associated with doing that work
re-terminating wires installing all of
that
of the four bids that we got only one of
them actually included that world
including the setup too so when looking
at how these things compare you have to
understand that only one of them really
um been complete to do everything
currently like it was asked
um
I probably have the skill set to do it
for the other three it's just
reterminating wires but there's you know
45 phones around the building this is
the system when you depend upon for a
9-1-1 service you'll want to make sure
it's done professionally and correctly
not that I can't do that but it's
something to consider when looking at
what these bids are
I've just received the last bid from
zoom on Friday
I'm still kind of punching this in my
head about what it means
um
I did talk to some of the references one
of the schools that's using this is
Nottingham School District I talked to
their I.T director
um I they didn't give me his name I just
called them and he answered and we
talked about it he said the cost up
front was a little bit more than some of
the other ones but he said it's just the
phone system's been great he had it for
two years I think it's fantastic and
that was the zooming system that they
had basically what it is you're all
familiar with how Zoom Works
um it would basically add another thing
in your account that would be a
telephone
and it would transcribe your email and
you put your voicemail and all the
language
um
I am not prepared at this moment to make
a recommendation about which one to
choose I think I might narrow it down to
between uh the ITC notifications here
sorry um
first light and you know the zoom one
can you just uh take the board through
the four costs so they like for the
public record we have the four bids that
came in so uh the first one that I have
on the top
was the zoom line that I received
um their total bid TurnKey was 25 275.
for this year
to break that down about twelve thousand
dollars of that is the install work
and equipment and when your subscription
is about twelve thousand dollars so half
of it is equipment and one year service
the other half is the installed
this has the lowest long term annual
cost after that it's about 3 400 bucks a
year thereafter for the subscription so
you'd have the big cost up front but
every year after that you'd be paying 3
400 bucks for the Bell servicing
building
there is potentially some other things
to be gained from this however if we
went with the teamwork uh things like
the phones over at the SAU would simply
just be or more extensions on that
account
we also are paying Zoom for full Zoom
licenses for about 25 members of the
staff and we could either eliminate or
roll that into some of this fox
potentially
um the next one from first light
uh the the annual
cost well they they broke it out two
ways in terms of how the equipment went
we could either buy the equipment
outright or we could lease the
telephones and such from them so if we
bought the equipment outright from them
their uh their costs for the first year
is nine thousand dollars
uh annually after that it's about four
thousand dollars
this does not include installing any of
this
um if we lease the phones
um
they would simply be 5 800 bucks a year
for everyone
um
leasing the phone equipment talking with
the guy about the phone equipment how
long does it last we would really do
better to buy it or not
he said he knows some places that have
equipment that's 15 years old and it's
still working just fine
so it's a question of whether you want
to pay now or you want to do it later is
leasing I'm sorry great time for a
question sure because leasing include
maintenance if there's problems
for that that's part of you know each
one of these bids
um include a sort of warranty and
service element to all of the equipment
that comes with it
um
so
um again first light 9 000 if you buy it
outright annually otherwise it's about
50.
so the next bid was from it secure which
is our other contractor who does all of
our contract and services at the second
level maintains the server and all of
that
um their cost was 14 000 for all the
equipment in one year of service and
then 6 500 bucks thereafter he did say
that because they're already we're
already a client they probably would be
on site and assist with the install
although they didn't say that it would
be easier
um and the service that they use at it
security is called go to that's actually
the exact system they're using at the
SAU currently
is that's a thing that we've contract
through it security
uh the last one is ring central
um they were just expensive
11. 11 000 a year just under McDonald's
period phones and Equipment 13 or 17 000
again no installation probably safe to
say we can knock them off the list three
yeah I'd say yeah three
uh so
what to do about this from a budget
standpoint my recommendation would be to
put in the 25 000 into the budget right
now depending upon the decision that you
make uh
that could potentially be considerably
low
if you went with a different
vendor or who made the decision that I
was willing to install it or we tackled
with these guys a little bit about some
of the install because again I just got
their bid haven't had a chance to go
back to them saying what are we really
buying for this twelve thousand dollars
install service I think you could
probably come down a lot
and that's not that's not in here right
now right
at the very top yes that is reflected so
that 25 275 is legit TurnKey that would
come in and install it and but it's not
on our budget it's not on yours sorry I
apologize what I put into the budget
line here was the first bid that I had
when I did my budget this evening yeah
which was the it secure one which was
the third one down very much
so that one was thirteen thirteen two
yeah
something like that I think
so really if we ended up in the 25 we'd
be going with
roughly a 17 000 increase in the it
budget
compared to the five
the variety 600 but that would include
the full installation and your out years
are simply going to be 3 500 watts 3 400
bucks yeah thereafter
on the leased equipment how how quick
how often do they turn that step over
um
I think that it would probably be on a a
five to ten year cycle depending upon
what's going on with the equipment
um I think that's their payback for it
the advantage of the least set of
equipment is of course you're always
current if something breaks they just
give you another one
um I will say that the unit cost for
those things is not terribly High I
think
um
purchase option yes
35 or one of the
one of the phones within the 83 percent
you know
you know 80 percent means you know the
expensive phones are around 92.
so
you know buying them out right is not
not a bad option
um and in fact that's what all the other
bids were you know the first one from
Zoom that's buying the equipment out
there
has all the support that goes with it
but you know those are probably used to
become polycom federal health so one of
those is 83 bucks the other one's 289
for the fancy ones
so
um I've learned a lot about homecoming
Services yes
it's been a lot of research I did talk
to the guys at wavecom up in West lab
who are more traditional telephone PDX
type guys
um about that he was thinking he might
want a bit on it he even got on the
phone and talked to the to the
um first life guys about the service
side and do the wiring piece and in the
end he decided that he was worried that
he would not be able to comply with the
9-1-1 Style
and he had never done it before and he
said
I
we all look at you know our national
news and safety of our children and if
we have a system that is not
compliant with
Communications for keeping our kids as
safe as possible I think that's
it's inexcusable not to have protection
saying
yeah I would be clear that the current
system right now if you down 9-1-1 it
will tell you 75 million drive and they
are here when when that happens this is
an extension of that and so that they
would know exactly what would have
picked it up it would also give 9-1-1
the ability to call back into that room
which is really what it's about you know
is if somebody dials 911 there's a hang
up they can dial back to that location
and be able to read today the
communications
any other questions
just logistically how are we gonna
I mean we've got we essentially at this
point have about half of that system
in this budget right now
the board's gonna have to the the board
will have to deliberate this and you you
went out to bed for this so you have
four bids that came in and at some point
you're going to have to accept one of
those four beds that'll determine what
direction that you're going and what
goes in the budget
I'm just yeah I'm just thinking more
from uh
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half of what
instead of 25 000 already baked in
do we just throw another additional 12
000 online
to talk about
list or
that's that's the way then well hung up
on us how do we
how do we sort of earmark this so it
doesn't get lost
well January when we do this at every
time we go through one of these budget
things I keep a running list of the
things that you're going to talk about
before you finalize the budget so this
is automatically on the list okay I
would be glad to come back once we've
sorted this out and gotten some more
feedback and we'll talk to you again
thank you
um about that and yeah I mean if I'd be
completely honest I would
if it's possible I would love your
recommendation for mental restrictions
if you'd like to go and be better soon
we've talked so much about that these
are so many different complicated
options I have to say it would be really
cool to do the zoom thing and I think
the price is right for that the thing
that's killing me is the install if we
decided that we actually didn't care
about the phones being at the front of
the road I could just plug them all into
the wall and they would work just as
well
um is that the right choice
I I don't know if I'm ready to make that
recommendation one way or the other at
this point
um
how do I feel about doing the
installation if I was there and it was
going to do it I'd be very busy during
the summer but I'm confident I would do
it correctly uh am I a professional
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um
professional wire installer so but I
have re-terminated at least one of those
phone extensions because I was
troubleshooting the other system it's
not rocket science
you know in that in the line that it's
in what is so if we added the 13 20 or
the 13
000 on top of the six that was the
from previous what is that six what else
lives in that line that we need to fund
so the other things that live in
are just the internet within the
building okay so it's it's basically
five thousand dollars for internet okay
so we need the five plus the 25
potentially for that okay all right so
there's there's some stuff in that line
that we need in addition to this project
okay
so what
I think I would recommend we throw the
25 000
Edition well the additional 12 000 I
guess
into the budget to make that line out of
you know roughly 31 000. and then look
at see what that looks like to the list
and then we'll we'll talk about it sort
of at the end when all the numbers shake
out
perfect
okay excellent thank you sure any other
budget questions
that is our last budget function for
tonight any questions or thoughts
for Budget function
messed up
okay
our next agenda item is the website
preview and I assume you are
flowing right into Mr Brighton again
absolutely
um
I know I have it in my email but I
haven't had it
uh it's just GPS hop
by Ed Leo school.com
and I would invite all the board to
write that down because you're welcome
to look at it let's get that one more
time
Ed Leo School
e-d-l-i-o
school.com and quite literally look at
that work with art
so this is uh the draft of the new
website um the migrated all of our
content over
um we're currently validating that all
the pages are what we hope them to be
um we are working on
delegating authority to edit the pages
to the appropriate people
training them on how to do that so that
we're ready for our launch of the new
web page in New Year early in the year
like as soon as we get back from break
and this this holiday break is building
one time
so
um this is the result of a lot of work
on the part of the committee
um to liberated what we wanted it to
look like and what content we wanted to
have in it how to navigate through it uh
some of the key features that are there
Sydney if you want to go up to the top
and just go along the top you can see
that there are submenus for each of the
main menus at the top the things that
the top have to do with GPS itself
things like our family handbook school
nurse so it's broken down for fam
resources for families for students uh
for the staff
uh and what we're calling beyond the
classroom which is things like dusting
ancient imagination the after school
program clubs warning program Athletics
we connect to the Grantham athletic
department so that they can see all the
sports stuff through
um
below the top menu we have our Hub which
goes out to The Community uh has links
also to grant them direct how to
Grantham Dunbar Creek Library the school
board
um and Eastman that's great uh we have
links here that go off to the high
school it also has a special section for
the buses for grant them for the 7
through 12 student services for people
who are at the middle of high school as
well as links to all of the key other
sites that are are older Ransom
residents who go to those schools are
interested in
and the last part of the Hub is of
course the district itself SAU is the
standard SAU links that we've had we
have a button there for something called
why Grantham that we are still in the
process of developing that
um
sure um when we were looking at uh
websites we saw a lot of schools had you
know why Newport you know why bow those
kind of things so we're doing why grant
them and it's basically a a one-page if
you never heard of Grantham any you know
before you'd be able to look at this
really nice one-page graphic of
everything that we love about Grantham
Grantham Village School and our
secondary opportunities for students in
our community
and some of our like a quick stats page
and I will say that um Lauren loose our
para is also a graphic designer by trade
and she's doing that for us
so the Top Line
um menu is all about navigating to
specific areas and getting it contact
all the various places Evergreen that
people want but as you know parents want
stuff now and stuff they want is the
lunch menu calendar bus routes pity
School pickup Patrol Alma and a store
where they can go buy their Grantham
gear so all of those are key buttons
right on the main page when you bring
this up on an iPhone the buttons are
right there you just go link and you get
directly to the main sites that that
people who are in a hurry want to get to
uh the the pictures that are scrolling
through here this is sort of our hero
photos uh that we can change and update
as as we find but those are things that
are intended to be longer term uh images
for the school and as we scroll down
by the way isn't that accident yeah out
there starts here this is our philosophy
for the school and a nice little line
drawing there we want to update that in
the future that's easy to do
uh and then this links directly to our
Google Calendars you can see the school
board meeting is right up there
um without me having to do anything it
just is part of our process which is
really the idea behind this site in the
first place is that as people do their
jobs information will flow to places
where people can go get it pretty easily
so this shows you the top three upcoming
events if you want to see the whole
calendar you can click show all events
and it will do a very nice custom page
that has all of our calendar stuff
next
recent news it has sort of the three top
stories that we posted recently uh on
the website up here and it shows all
news
um one thing that's really nice about
this site
and you know I know you've got a lot of
things to get through uh so I won't show
it tonight but there's a really nice
interface for staff and Kristen and
others to just take a news story take
attach a photo to it and hit submit and
it goes right to the website and post it
to our Facebook page and it goes to
Twitter and goes to all of our other
Social Media stuff
and it stores those all up we can have
it post when we want come down when we
want uh Kristen can pull those into the
news there and use the tool to build the
newsletter
it's pretty cool
so that's a peek at the new website
awesome just to give you some of the
um
well this was part of our strategic plan
where the board really wanted a
communication Hub you know going out to
all those places and I think this has
accomplished all of that but on some of
the more uh legal side of things uh this
company is 100 ADA Compliant
um and everything can be translated into
multiple languages since we're talking
about our ELO Community coming in so
it's really taking care of a lot of the
concerns that we have with our prior
website it's a great move forward
okay
um it'll do things like for school board
meetings I think they actually have one
together
um oh yeah oh yeah I don't know if you
go up to the school board one on you
know in the classroom
right is it
previously videos
over the top right where it says videos
this was kind of funny actually
um the bottom one of the three
they're gonna make us wash ourselves are
you well what it does is it
automatically does it's transcribes
transcribes oh yes
okay
[Music]
obviously perfect so I think we're gonna
have to build a bloopers list or else
yeah so um
let's watch ourselves and
so it's pretty cool I did nothing to
make that happen other than upload the
thing that's great yeah it's really nice
having that ADA stuff in it that we know
that we're all compliant and you know
it's fabulous
excellent this is awesome thank you
thank you and thank you to the committee
that worked on this I really appreciate
it
any questions or thoughts on that yeah
does this give you a lot more work yeah
actually I'm a parent of this tool and
part of the reason that we picked it was
to not do that was to make it so that it
just becomes part of our regular
workflow okay
um so that I don't end up having to do
everything Ian doesn't have to do
everything Kristen doesn't have to do
everything uh people just do their job
and it just kind of happens
some real work to get there but you know
once it's in place that's the idea oh
thank you
Sydney can you check and see if John and
Susan have joined us on zoom and if they
have I would like to ask the board if we
would be okay with moving the
superintendent search agenda item up
our search Consultants are joining us
tonight
uh John and Susan are here excellent
okay so if the board is comfortable with
that I think we'll move the
superintendent search agenda item up
um so because we have John and Susan
joining us we will
um be mindful of their time if they
don't want to join us for our whole
meeting tonight
um and so that would be great yeah so
John and Susan we're going to move you
in as panelists into our meeting
and so you will
show up on our screen in just a moment
and we'll give John and Susan a chance
to
join us here
so we're gonna talk tonight just briefly
and check in on the superintendent
search
um and so John and Susan are our search
Consultants who are going to work with
us and so they're gonna join us tonight
just to do an overview of how we're
kicking off the search and an overview
of their process and then some other
information and just a chance to for us
for the board to meet them and
Susan
Susan Bradley thank you yes sorry about
that if I hear that name okay so many
Susans
um so John if you are there you are
welcome to you are up on video for the
board to see
and we'll see if
that are available for us to
to join us
John can you hear us
Susan has a hand released
all right Susan you should be able to
talk now
but you're muted okay
should should I have should I have
clicked on drawing panel
but you did so you're here okay
and John's here okay
hi John well hello hello to uh to you
Sydney it's uh good to see you and uh
see you in this venue uh not the usual
uh not the usual for a colleague and
good evening to Brittany and members of
the school board and members of the
public
um as was mentioned my name is John
Freeman and I'm here with a colleague
Susan Bradley to uh to do uh three
things tonight one is to provide you
with an introduction to ourselves and
our organization to provide a brief
overview of the superintendent search
process and to answer any questions that
you may have at this time
so by way of introduction Susan can I
ask you uh to introduce yourself and
provide the board and members of the
public with a little bit of your
background
right uh good evening my name is Susan
Bradley and thank you for having us here
tonight I'm a senior consultant for the
Brian group and I've been I've
participated in several uh searches for
superintendent over the last couple of
years my background is in special
education and for the last 30 years I've
been a resident of New Hampshire I've
been a special education teacher in the
Pittsfield school district and a
co-project manager of the Nelly May
Grant
with the focus of transforming the
Middle High School to a student-centered
learning environment currently I'm an
added district coordinator for the
Pittsfield school district and also an
instructor the greatest day College in
the advanced endorse endorsement area
for learning disabilities as well as a
co-lead faculty
they're good and I'm very excited to get
started on the search and Grant them
thank you Susan and again my name is
John Freeman I'm a retired
superintendent of schools uh much of my
service has been in New Hampshire and
I've been a a school principal and a
superintendent in New Hampshire since uh
well before the 90s if any of you can
remember that
um you may be able to tell by my accent
that I'm not a native New Hampshire and
I'm originally and did most of my
teaching in New Jersey our organization
the Brian group has been founded and has
presided over by Bill Bryan bill has uh
bill has done more than 40 Years of
research on competencies organization
development and Leadership and over the
course of his career he has consulted
with uh with a number of
organizations in the private sector
including Fortune 500 companies such as
Anheuser-Busch Hewlett Packard and other
organizations such as the United States
Navy and uh the New York Stock Exchange
he has for uh the past 12 to 15 years
been working in the school and public
sector
um and he is the designer of the system
that I'm about to uh to provide you
information on
um there are five major elements to our
search process and the search process uh
takes uh about four months about uh 16
weeks or so uh to complete can be
hurried up and can be dragged on but
that's our um dragged on long I don't
mean that a negative way can take longer
um but that's our general approaches to
go through this process in about 16
weeks as I said there are five elements
the first element phase one is creating
a strong search committee foundation and
we spoke just yesterday with Brittany
about uh the composition of a search
committee and the size of the search
committee and I know that you'll be
moving ahead with school board and
Community member and the superintendent
of schools to develop a search committee
we do recommend a diverse community so
that major voices in the community are
all at the table and a committee size of
about eight to twelve as we begin to
work with the committee and we're we're
assuming we're going to be getting to
work with the committee on in
mid-January we will work to develop a
high performing team with clear goals
expectations roles and operating norms
and so on we'll also identify Community
engagement needs methods of involving
the community in this important decision
and also be identifying and initiating a
project communication plan who and how
should we communicate about this process
as we move forward
the second uh phase is is called
identifying superintendent performance
criteria during this phase we will be
conducting with the committee data
collection activities with the community
often those are surveys or focus groups
or individual interviews and we'll
provide a guidance to the committee
relative to data collection we will also
establish and this is a very important
uh part of the early work detailed and
measurable superintendent's performance
criteria to include the roles the
competencies and the leadership style
that the school district needs in the
short and Midterm so we'll be looking in
the immediate future with our search
committee the first year and we'll also
be looking a little bit longer the three
to five year range what are the needs
that we anticipate for the community
right now and moving forward
our third phrase is sourcing qualified
candidates we'll work with committee and
develop a job uh posting that includes a
description of the community as well as
standards that are expected by the
committee as the committee develops the
criteria for candidates we then move
into phase four uh the screening of
candidates and we'll work with uh School
excuse me search committee members to uh
to learn how to screen applicants to
look for evidence of competencies
roles and leadership style that um that
the committee has identified as critical
for the next superintendent of Grantham
we'll then conduct uh once we have
narrowed the field then of candidates
we'll conduct what we call a short
interview these are Zoom interviews with
a limited number of candidates perhaps
as many as a half a dozen or so in which
we'll use uh a a a a process called the
guided storytelling interview a process
that was refined by Bill Bryan but
actually came from a critical incident
interviews developed by the Armed Forces
um in World War II it allows us to get
at information and competencies and
experiences much beyond what a typical
interview would would provide and we'll
we'll provide the committee with a
comparison of the interview types and uh
particularly detailed and perform uh
detailed information and perform a a
mock interview with our guided
storytelling technique those short
interviews are typically about an hour
in length and our goal would be to
identify a small number of what we would
call a semi-finalist perhaps uh you know
three or four or five semi-finalists
will that invite a limited number of
folks in for what we call a long
interview again relying on guided
storytelling to continue to learn more
about each of the individuals we'll uh
provide the search committee with
scheduling guidance in terms of any
visits that may want to take in either
direction either visiting a current
superintendent school district or and or
having the superintendent visit Grantham
and we'll also provide training on
conducting
reference checks for the committee
members out of that we will anticipate
one to three finalists that we be
presented from to the school board and
that would entail phase five preparing
candidate recommendations in which we'll
uh review the guidance for integration
and Analysis of the data collection
the the school the search committee then
would be expected to attend a
presentation of the candidate
recommendations and the board with
guidance on uh conducting uh business uh
beyond that we find as Susan and I have
been conducting uh interviews and uh
um superintendent searches utilizing
this process for a number of years we're
both experienced we just finished the uh
one uh search on uh Sunday night so um
that might tell you that our schedules
are pretty flexible in terms of what the
committee is able to do and we look
forward to Susan said to working with
your community and your committee Susan
uh fill in any gaps for us please that I
might have missed in that brief overview
uh John uh you didn't miss anything I'll
just uh add to what you said is that
even though the commit search committee
is made up of 12 people diverse group
um we want to make sure that the school
Community knows that the that those
meetings up until when we do the
interviews are public meetings and
people are welcome to come also we'll
have
um this search committee will decide on
community forums where communities will
have the opportunity to come and ask
questions
um as well as there'll be surveys uh one
of uh one of the questions I think every
district and school Community want to
know is where will the postings go out
to uh we partner with the New Hampshire
School Board Association so the job
posting will be on that website it will
be sent to all the school districts in
New Hampshire
NH SBA
utilizes a school spring so the job
posting will go automatically to all the
school districts in besides New
Hampshire in Massachusetts Maine and
Connecticut
for an additional cost
um the committee and District may want
to utilize the American Association
School administrators as well as Ed week
and those and there and through those
sites the posting would be National
Grantham has the opportunity to post on
their Facebook
on indeed in their website and if
there's a Ed week and
um uh and Ed jobs and if they have and
if you have a neighborhood or Grantham
uh newspaper uh certainly through there
uh also just to
um uh uh in addition to what John was
saying the interview process is very
different from what uh is the usual
interview process We Do not sit have
have uh people sit around the table and
ask pet questions uh
we really dig into those roles and
competencies and uh and and the
candidate has the opportunity to provide
evidence that they do have those roles
and competencies that uh a grant and
superintendent would need to have in
order to function at a high level
thank you Susan
um I wonder if the board members have
questions or uh Sydney or members of the
public have questions we'd be happy to
entertain them
um
that was very thorough I don't know if I
have any questions
we have a variety of people here we have
some admin team members here teachers
and a parent I don't know if anybody
would like to ask any questions since
it's open
so I don't know if this is a question
for them or for you Brittany when are we
going to develop the 10 to 12 person
community so we'll start between now and
our January meeting we'll start we'll
put a call out for people and start
soliciting interest in it and then my
thought is that at the January meeting
the board would have that group to look
at to select the committee and then
early to mid-January would be the first
meeting of that committee
thank you
I will add that um the superintendent
search committee will uh require a
significant commit uh commitment some of
our uh meetings especially when we're
developing rules and competencies will
be about three hours in length as I
mentioned our short interviews about an
hour in length and um at least a half
hour to process for most candidates and
then our long interviews our finalist
candidates our semi-finalist candidates
will be a couple of hours each and again
time to to process and rate we have a
formal rating system so that this uh
this process is designed to be as
objective as possible and take out of
the equation
um you know sort of oh I I liked how he
sounded or I liked how she presented
this
um we we really look and to make this a
process uh as objective as we possibly
can
would these meetings be
um via Zoom or in person
well we've done both uh Susan and I are
planning to be uh in person in your
community to do these uh my preference
um is to do that do as much in person as
we can although they're we're open to
doing uh Zoom meetings as well
and uh one search I was uh involved in
um there was a combination a couple of
searches actually there was a
combination and it seems as so it may be
similar to your board meetings in which
people uh are invited to come and
participate in person face to face but
the zoom option or a remote option is
offered
foreign
these great folks yesterday about that
the board had talked about at our last
meeting was looking at the job
description and John mentioned it
briefly but their recommendation is for
us to hold off on finalizing any kind of
job description until that search
committee is formed and they're able to
go through that process that initial
process of the performance criteria and
some of those things because that will
influence you know the job description
moving forward
um which I thought was a great
recommendation and you know gives us
some time to still go through that older
job description that we have and start
to update some things that we would like
to update on it and then have that also
have that search committee able to join
that conversation
and
John when you talked about trying to be
as objective as possible and
not letting how the person presented or
how they spoke or that influence you
I guess I'm getting tripped up a little
on that because I I view that as an
important
piece of the overall job is their
communication style how they present
things those type of things I'm assuming
there there's some kind of criteria for
that we're just not going to completely
skip over that please
well we're going to find out what's
important to your community so for
example I don't disagree almost every
community in fact in my experience every
Community says communication is an
essential skill for the superintendent
and so what we will do is take someone
through a process through uh their
telling of their stories and us uh
probing to understand uh their stories
uh it will give us information about how
effective or ineffective they may be as
communicators when we select when the
committee selects the competencies such
as communication
or courage or politically Savvy or any
of those sorts of skills and
competencies we also include behavioral
descriptors so we're able to to get an
idea I didn't mean to uh to mislead you
by saying that you know the person uh it
can be a fumbling a
washed up uh old superintendent of
schools and not that I know any of those
um but uh but rather the committee will
identify the critical areas what's most
important for you and I would be
surprised if communication didn't come
up as one in addition when we look at
roles of the superintendent it seems as
though one of them the roles again
that's typically uh often if not every
time selected is the role of a
communicator and so we'll probe uh the
individual's background to find out what
sort of communication style or methods
or strategies he or she might have used
in the past
what we know uh from human beings is
that the best predictor of future
behavior is past Behavior we know that
competencies travel and so if somebody
might be telling a story of their
undergraduate college experience in
which they've exerted leadership we're
interested in probing that as much as
what they've done recently and so we
will get at those sorts of issues that I
think you're speaking about Sir and um
and clearly communicator and
communication is uh always if not almost
always at the top of the list for school
districts
okay thank you
you're welcome and I would just like to
add that in both the short interviews
and long interviews the search committee
will have an opportunity uh to ask the
candidate specific questions as well
so the process is that Susan or I will
conduct the interviews
um the primary uh interview is a guided
storytelling uh segments and then
members of the committee or members of
the community will have a chance to ask
questions at various points in the
process as well
um
from a parent perspective just two
thoughts would be really helpful to have
more concrete information on the time
expectations so I heard very significant
time and then I heard some three hour
meetings some two-hour interviews it
would be great to maybe lay that out on
like a high level monthly schedule so as
parents are thinking or others are
thinking about participating you know is
it going to bump up into May and then I
have baseball and oh now I really can't
do this anymore so really planning out
what that's going to look like the other
piece is from a meeting administrative
perspective research shows that
collaborative meetings held in a hybrid
environment meaning zoom and in person
are the least effective
so the group might want to determine
meetings that are preferred to be in
person or meetings that are meant to be
or are better in a zoom environment but
um
I do a lot of virtual meetings through
work and there's some very clear
research that shows that you just don't
get collaboration in a hybrid meeting
the people who are virtual just don't
participate
so something to consider as you're doing
your meeting planning I think you risk
alienating the people who are trying to
be an active participant without
realizing that joining body's home is
not going to afford them the same voice
in the conversation
thank you we did provide Brittany with a
a timeline and we anticipate uh getting
started as Brittany mentioned
um early to mid-January and we expect to
be concluding with the appointment by
the school board
um in early April uh relative to your
second Point um I couldn't agree more
with your findings it has been a
challenge uh in in the past in my
experience to work with the zoom
participant because much of the meetings
are conducted as small groups some of
the some of the meetings are conducted
as large groups so we've stretched out
we've stretched out the calendar that
that Brittany will be able to share with
you
um it's it's impossible it's impossible
to to tie down the exact number of hours
as we get into the interviews because we
don't know how many people we will be
interviewing in each of those phases but
we're fairly solid in the early phase
diseases of our work and we do have a
few three-hour meetings we've scheduled
meetings uh tentatively once a week but
sometimes the committee decides that
they don't need to meet for example
um in in a search I've conducted uh it
was not necessary to to meet that
frequently while application materials
are coming in for example and and uh and
while for example the community
community surveys might be coming in so
there's some flexibility at that
typically the meetings are no more than
than three hours and many of the
meetings will be uh less than three
hours but we can go through that level
of detail
if you'd like
and again we could do that on a
non-budget discussion night
did you enjoy our budget discussion then
oh my goodness enjoy uh you know that's
not what word that comes to mind
it perhaps is a flashback to some of my
own experiences Sydney
any other questions folks have tonight
feels really real now yep
okay
thank you both so much for joining us
tonight we really appreciate your time
and your willingness to to join us here
and um I think we're all excited to get
this
kicked off and moving forward and so
we'll definitely
um I will be in touch as we move forward
great
thank you so much it was nice seeing you
it was
um nice to get to know at the school
board and uh your topics then uh uh so
thank you for having us
thank you very much
all right we will not make you stay on
our screen so we appreciate your
kindness we have we have a policy that
when people are in the room if they have
to sneak out we don't judge them because
we know that we're the only ones that
have to be here so we'll let you go off
our screen so that when you sneak out we
won't even know okay thank you very much
Brittany good night everyone
okay so before we move off of the
superintendent search just
um we should the you know the next step
for us is to put that call out for
um committee members
um initially if we're thinking you know
in my conversation
um with John and Susan yesterday you
know thinking about that like eight to
twelve people number
um looking at having community members
staff Administration School Board
um their recommendation is that we have
someone who is able to bring uh the
perspective either as a union rep or you
know someone from the collective
bargaining agreement that would be one
of the members and then they also
mentioned a lot of they are open to and
encourage
um having older student if there's an
older student that would be interested
which is a little different here because
it's you know would be a potentially a
former GBS student but that's also an
option so
um if I don't know if you know folks
have thoughts on those I think you know
definitely community staff administrator
School Board those are for sure I would
say we'll have you know one to three
people of each of those
um thoughts on the older student having
a
opening it up to a either a middle or
high school student
do folks have any thoughts on that
I think we have to be conscious of the
meeting schedule the time commitment yep
Sports school homework sleep yep
um one of the things that they mentioned
that I thought was a really good
suggestion was to make sure that a call
for involvement in the search committee
also mentions that there'll be
opportunities for involvement if folks
are not able to make that sort of time
commitment just you know to say that
they'll be surveys forums other ways
that feedback will be solicited to make
sure that that's that folks don't feel
like being on the committee is the only
way to be involved
that's for the community itself
uh I do not know exactly how to say this
but you're going to need somebody who's
very available for the bulk of these
meetings if somebody can make one or two
meetings that isn't going into
be adequate to the community so I guess
in appealing to potential members you
might want to be specific about time
commitments across yours yeah yeah okay
and we have the timeline that they sent
um to me as you know something that we
can share with the with people who are
interested
yeah
any other thoughts on that
are folks in favor of it being just sort
of an open call that we put out through
you know email newsletters to say you
know please
and and what what would we like as the
um to get in return you know to get back
from folks to help us make that decision
you know if we if we have a fair number
of people that are
able to give that time commitment is
there uh do we just want like uh just a
I'm interested in joining the search
committee are we looking for like write
us a paragraph about your interest in
your availability are there things that
would you know that we wanna
use to help if we did need to narrow
down if we had more interests then we
were able to put onto the committee I
think that would be important if there
were a lot of people
um interested could go either way they
could yeah but I'm not sure we have the
time to see if a lot of people are
interested if they're talking Monday
January at this point I think
you know reacts inside now is it going
to go out with the criteria that gets
filled out or open because by the time
we have to make that decision
will be in the January yeah between now
and then is when we're gonna you know
put a put the you know requests out and
say you know but do we want it to just
be a reply and say you're interested or
would we like you know uh
three sentences about why you're
interested in your and your general
availability something like that
what do folks think about that yeah
and I think that's just asking for
honesty why would you like to serve on
the community what is important to you
yeah maybe up to a paragraph written
statement yeah it doesn't need to be
long statement of Interest
okay
and you did say you would kind of
outline the time commitment yeah my
father the the document that they shared
is just a very uh brief
um let me see I can show you on here
it's just uh um
it's kind of just a grid
um that walks through you know what the
topics would be of each of those
meetings and sort of the overlap of like
because as you know Susan mentioned I
think there there's there is some
overlap of
you know some of the topics will be more
than one of these things will be
happening at the same time yeah so it's
just sort of like a grid of time you
know the time commitment so the you know
it'll mean for a maximum of 12 meetings
most running 90 to 180 minutes long
December to April and then it's just how
is that breaking down over those each of
those
you know and seeing you know you can
kind of see where there's going to be
more so you know end of January early
February there's going to be a couple
meetings in a row where there's three or
four things to get done so that's going
to be you know a couple of busy weeks
um you know sort of in mid-march there's
going to be another couple you know more
that's the timeline that would be around
the like long interviews so there's
going to be another kind of bigger chunk
of time there so folks and that's
something we can share out
yeah yeah okay
I don't think we need to decide
specifically I would say we don't need
to like say we're going to do two of
this category one and like let's see
what comes in yeah and we can sort it
through it in January and then that'll
give us enough time to make that
decision at the January board meeting
have that committee formed and then the
uh anticipating the first meeting would
be either that first or second week of
January
does that make sense to everybody okay
forgive me advice um refresh is it 80
Equity is it what are we putting out
reciprocision is it currently yes okay
yeah
all right any other thoughts on that
okay all right we'll start soliciting
Community involvement and letting people
know kind of what our next steps are
where we're heading next in the process
okay thank you
all right so we'll head back to uh we
are on playground RFP bed yes do we want
to yeah move around any of these based
on the people that are here
I'm just thinking I mean we've gone
through four items in almost two hours
you know some of these I'm assuming
Chrissy's here for the policies we got
another four things to get through when
it's 8 30 already I'm just wondering if
we can't
shoot something around a little bit but
I didn't pay him off
I was going to say the only the only
people that I knew in advance were here
for certain things were Randy and John
and Susan so if they're I'm I'm happy to
move things around if okay don't worry
about me as need be I know Christy was
just involved in the dress code thing so
I yeah
she was here for that so you are correct
yeah yeah I think if if um would folks
be comfortable moving our policy I know
you usually do policies at the end let's
move
we're just gonna make it all new tonight
okay I have to backtrack on something
yes do that first okay
dress code
um yes so let's do let's start uh our
policy
um
so we're the first policy that we're
looking at tonight is j-i-c-a which is
dress code this is a new policy and this
is the only policy that we have for
first reading and so this is one that we
have not looked at yet as a board
everything and all of our other policies
tonight were second reading so this is a
first reading and the board has it in
our packet
um and
two
and Sydney or Kristen did you want to
give us Kristen
um and other committee members are here
so I will let them take it perfect
if I can just start by saying that
um I think this whole ball got stopped
started with uh um current sixth grader
last year fifth grader wrote a
persuasive essay as to why Grantham
Village School needed to look at our
dress code and I totally admire that and
I think that's what was the Catalyst to
get us together and start meeting and
she as well as two other students were
on the committee so I'll let you guys
thank you
um so I led the committee
um
with a parent and other staff members
students three sixth grade students were
invited
um also to join us in meetings
physically we only had one student come
to one meeting but um you know I talked
to them in in the building throughout
you know the time that we were kind of
working heavily on this to get just
input
um so
um
you know we had a purpose that our first
priority for safety and social and
emotional path of our staff and students
and
um the
uh dress code is intended to provide
guidelines for dress that promote safe
and respectful environment for all
um so our first steps we we had an over
the five meeting so it went fairly
smoothly actually I think it was a great
committee we worked very well together
our first steps were to look at other
dress code policies from other
elementary schools around England and
then our next step really was to look at
our own policy our current policy to
decide
um what we wanted to keep what we wanted
to take out what we wanted to revise and
ended up really doing almost a complete
overhaul
and you know we just we were very
mindful of our language we
um went back to the drawing board many
many times and
um I think we did finally land on
something that we thought was
um
thoughtful and
um inclusive and
um
worked for the purpose you know we we
took out a lot from the old policy that
we thought was more Antiquated and and
um you know our language does allow for
um
teachers to have some sort of
um say in their own classrooms but uh
for the most part we wanted to give
students the opportunity to express
themselves that was a big Topic in the
sixth grade students persuasive essay
and but also be respectful and
of everybody in the building
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some of the challenges we're identifying
a policy and components of a policy that
would fit for our pre-k through our
sixth graders there's you know there's a
lot of a lot happening between those
grades and
um you know so for example you'll see in
some other organization's policies that
the length of the bottoms need to be
three to four inches three to four
inches on the sixth grader is very
different than three to four inches on a
Pre-K and students
um and so we try to really focus on
functionality what works on the
playground what works in PE what is um
what works for the typical activities of
your Elementary School population and
not get caught up on
you know something needs to be three
inches long or three fingers in width or
you know we had two adults stand side by
side with how long something is from
your fingertips and one person could
have won a pair of shorts that was two
inches from the start of a thigh and
another person it would have been like
seven inches from the start of the thigh
it's just like there's so much Variety
in body shape and size that we try to
really not have absolutes like that but
really focus on what would work for the
entire student population
we also took out anything that was
gender specific nothing about skirts
there's nothing about well you know we
talked about undergarments and things
like that so we tried to be thoughtful
about being gender neutral
anything else I miss on what we focus on
I think the hardest part was the
language and everything working with
that so that was our biggest sort of
non-grown throughout the whole thing
it all worked very well together and we
all had a lot of the same ideas about
what really was important
and as I was trying oh sorry I was gonna
say as we were trying to figure out the
language but like the language shorts I
did warn Randy that he
did not want to check my search engine
because I was trying to figure
[Laughter]
out
I think this is great yeah yeah so yeah
I I was very impressed with um
this this is for all children it's not
just for these children you know for
these children and
um
I also looked at I'm sure it took
forever to get to this point but I look
at it and thinking as a parent this is
not cumbersome reading yes
um it's very uh you know friendly to uh
to process and I think it gives you
um an ability to say if something
doesn't look right you know let's speak
to the child individually with whoever's
concerned about the choice of clothing
but
um I think of the you know the kids who
want to choose to express who they are
and we're not
um judging we're talking about coverage
and appropriate clothing without the
gender label in life I'm very
appreciative so thank you yeah and and
I'll admit that what was in place was
Antiquated and it's a really big
challenge to take on an old policy and
rewrite itself I'm very grateful
yeah I agree I think something that was
difficult and then the committee could
have wound up being like six pages long
and I really appreciate that it was like
it's very digestible and it's not full
of like
uh there's no like flow chart of if
bends that you have to follow which I
think wind up in a lot of like yeah if
your legs are this long then you
um and I just appreciate the like
Simplicity of it and
um and I think it really
it like focuses on the that like school
is learning but we also acknowledge that
people are going to express themselves
through their clothing yeah
awesome yeah thank you very very much
can you take all the rest of the
policies
any
um any questions about it or any other
okay excellent so we need a motion for
the first reading for policy
j-i-c-a
got it I have a motion from Leslie in a
second from Ed so all those in favor
please say aye
aye any opposed say nay
all right excellent yes anyone who is
here for the primary purpose of dress
code please feel free to sneak out
of your extreme payment all right so we
are um looking sticking with policies
we're on our second reading for let's do
um
okay so we're doing
um
j-i-c-l-jjj r j l f j l d b a and jlc
app so it's the school district internet
access for students through wellness and
this is a second reading on these does
anyone have any
I do just yeah just as a noted update
because we talk a lot about
um the uh homeschool changes and so I
did meet with the School Board
Association last time and I had to take
out my 25 student limit because they
said even that wouldn't fly so basically
um the only exception for this rule
would be is if a student is homeschooled
but getting an EFA voucher that's the
only way that we can limit anything if
somebody is being homeschooled they can
come here pretty much full time and do
whatever they want and
not have to follow any of our regular
yeah okay
so I was like well I just put that in
because our classes are going to get too
big and of course they came back with
the logical answer which is if you had
families move in right and you went to
27 students would you tell them they
couldn't go in well no of course we
couldn't so you can't do that
I tried
it's very interesting along
yep good word
and the
um
the wellness committee that peace was
able to right so basically the board
instructs the superintendent of
principal and principal to have that
committee yep if it's a board committee
then you're you know in the position of
having
a lot of other requirements so basically
the board wants to direct the super
Implement in principle to run the
wellness committee perfect yeah that was
much
any other questions or
okay
thoughts on this batch of policies
we need a motion to approve the second
reading of policies jicl jjjj
r j l f j l d v a and jlcf
someone second I have a motion from
Leslie in a second from Ed all those in
favor please say aye
aye any opposed say nay
all right let's go to our group four
that we're rescinding so that's three
it's j b a a j b a a dash r j i c c j i
c c Dash r and j h b any
concerns or thoughts that have come up
they were all policies that are
covered in other areas or have been
rolled into other
or moved to other policies
okay so we need a motion to rescind
jbaa jbaa r j i c c j i c c Dash r and j
h b
I have a motion from Leslie in a second
from Ed all those in favor please say I
I and any opposed say nay all right so
we'll go to our next agenda item because
it kind of Flows In it's in this pack of
um
policies and that's the looking at
transgender policy or procedure a
discussion around that
my recommendation is going to be what it
was last time is that I'm going to
recommend that you don't have a policy
that you have a good party procedure and
that you kind of watch how these cases
go and that if you ever do need a policy
maybe something goes in place in its
place but you have a very good strong
non-discrimination policy and everything
should be covered under there and I
think we would probably all hope for the
day where we don't even need a procedure
but right now I do think we need at
least that yeah I agree I agree with
that too
any other thoughts or discussion on that
thank you thank you okay so we'll move
forward work on one policy thank you and
take it off of
yeah or take it we'll move forward with
procedure and take it off of our policy
list okay so now we're gonna go back in
time to playground RFP bed okay let's
get back to you yeah absolutely
it is anybody's game tonight Meredith
emailed me that I have an older version
of the budget and that the budget you're
looking at does have the CIA director
costs in it oh okay that was my I'm
looking at one where it wasn't in it but
she put it in the one that you have
but that it is in there so the the
position's in there so that might make
you feel a little bit better
um and then you also want to remember
that you would be getting about uh 80
000 in revenue for that too and soon
from other districts so you've got the
full cost full cost is in because we
would open the position
that what's in there does not reflect
the revenue right right so it's the full
cost of the position but
we'd get 80 000. interesting okay so we
can't put it in that function so what we
would have to do is present it to the
public with that knowledge but it would
have to go into a different budget line
that was one thing I wanted to jump back
to the other thing that I just wanted to
jump back to to clarify is that you had
just said that the superintendent
position is 80 but at the last meeting
you voted in 60 percent okay yep so I
just want to clarify that before Brenda
does minutes and something goes out yes
thank you is it 60 still yeah okay yes
yeah yes thank you
okay
[Laughter]
sorry I but just before we moved too far
forward I wanted to do those things
thank you thank you for clarifying that
I have been going
I've been on eyeball deep in the job
description yeah it's fine so in my mind
it's like 420 because there's a lot of
words yep okay all right so now I think
we're going back let's go to something
exciting okay we're going back to
playground RFP bid okay
uh excuse me
good for you Brenda
foreign
yeah we're going back in time it is
playground RFP bit is right what was
right after our uh budget stuff before
the safety plan okay so
um there's 23. good and bad right
so if we want to just cut to the cheese
we did only receive one bid we had four
site visits and only one actually came
to a bit that's always not great when
you only have one bid come in on the
other hand it is a good bid in the sense
that it is a good viable bid it's a
local company they don't subcontract out
their work and they have excellent
references from
the town of Grantham from Eastman um
from a lot of local people so
um I would feel comfortable with the
board moving forward in this direction
however I need to give you an overall
update
you've probably read in the newspaper
with Leb and with other places that the
class of projects are increasing
everywhere the same thing has happened
to us but I believe we have figured out
a solution
so
here's our quick update before you
decide on the bid is that we've got our
bid and we've got our original budget
for this project given the bid the
project will come in over budget and
we've been going over the variables that
can be changed one we can request and or
fundraise more money
um there is not a lot of favor for that
from any of the discussions that we've
had
uh the playground committee we we have
sort of an emergency playground
committee meeting last week the feeling
for most people is that we want to
respect the community's contribution to
this project and there's a budget and we
were going to find a way to stick to it
we don't want to go out for more money
uh another option is waiting until
summer 24 and you can try again there's
could cost be lower I don't know could
more people be available we don't know
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um
that is a possibility though so I want
to present you with all the options
we could also phase out the project
which we've gone round and roundabout
the one thing that I'm really not in
favor of in terms of phasing out the
project is that the the main reason for
doing this product is drainage drainage
is something you really want to try and
do all at once if you can because you
really want to get it right so we could
try to take different pieces of the
project out but that's not the best
option and the fourth option is that we
change out some of the play equipment
so we did discuss with the playground
committee and the admin team the
recommendation is to swap out the
expensive Timber Tower which was sort of
our showpiece
um kind of a gourmet piece of a
playground equipment for a less
expensive but comparable piece of
equipment
so on the left is what we had budgeted
which is the timber Tower and the
essential
function of the Timber shower was the
climbing so we need you know we looked
at all the elements of the playground
certain things have climbing you know
certain things had
stability balance you know all of those
other kind of things the main purpose of
the Timber Tower was climbing and for
that older age group
um the timber tower all in with the
equipment and installation was going to
almost hit the two hundred thousand
dollar mark so it would pretty much that
in itself with the 545 000 bid is going
to put us over if you look on the right
um Kristen and I met with the compound
playground company this is a very
similar piece of climbing equipment it's
called the jungle climber it serves all
of the same kind of Mobility
requirements in terms of climbing it's
also age five to twelve so it hits the
same age group and we can have this
piece of equipment in that same exact
spot for the playground for a hundred
thousand dollars less if we swap it to
this piece of equipment we can be within
budget and accept this bid and do the
project this summer
in addition here are the advantages is
that we feel we would be honoring the
community contribution by staying within
the budget
the new piece still meets all of the
original goals of the playground so we
set some original goals with this
project we're not changing any of these
any of those goals by going with this
piece of equipment it allows the project
to continue this summer which you will
hear from some of the kids is very
important and it also allows us to
purchase some of the other pieces of
equipment we had put on hold for a later
date so we pulled four or five pieces
smaller pieces of equipment when we were
cutting the budget down to get it to
pass last year if we swap this out those
are pieces of equipment we can actually
add back in all right
the playground committee is in favor of
this admin team is in favor of this so
our recommendation would be that we
swapped to the Jungle climber and accept
this bid and be able to move forward
with this project this summer yes please
yep let's go
how much are we over with the tower is
that a hundred thousand dollars
I mean it's still going to be tight
um
how does that allow us to buy the other
equipment because they're smaller pieces
because
um when we swap to the Jungle climber I
can negotiate with compound to give us a
15 to 25 percent discount by buying all
of our equipment from that
I just feel like if postponing this
everything is going to keep getting more
expensive
aren't coming in
I don't know if anybody's going to be
available we know about the the
availability of this group of age ready
to go they have committed in good faith
that they will be ready to go June 15th
through September 1st and we've told
them you know September 30th is our
wiggle room yeah that it could
potentially go but they're they're ready
to rock and roll I spoke to them um on
the phone just to go over some like a
fact that we might already have a change
how do they want to handle change orders
those kind of things and I think Toby
and I both have talked to them because
they came for the site visit we both
think they'll be really good to work
with awesome
yeah and we have built-in contingencies
in
yeah we've eaten most of those up
already just to let you know
it's going to be close yeah
so I assume we're purchasing uh
additional equipment last yeah we are
getting a good deal on equipment
um what we're trying to do is we're
trying to see how much we can stay and
not have SE group do as much as we
thought they would have to do during the
construction phase
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pull that back a little
and this is the what you're talking
about is just that like lump sum base
bit not including the yeah the parking
lot or the so we need to do that and
then the we need to talk about the main
bid first and then the next page on the
slide other two adults perfect
Randy said he uh ran the jungle primer
past his children yeah I held a picture
of it up to Olivia to him yeah wow
that's not fair you know I think it
looks like a nest that's why I like the
Box Nest yeah older kids are not
um other thoughts on that base the base
bed and note the recommendation
okay so we would need a motion to
um
accept the
the uh playground RFP bid
and RJ Stevens from RJ Stevens
sorry do we need to change the
wait let me start over
in our motion do we do we need to
formally change
to that from the timber Tower to the we
can just know that that's yeah okay so
all we need to do so we need a motion to
um accept the playground bid from k.a
Stevens
so I moved second so remote from Leslie
in a second from Denise all those in
favor please say aye
aye any opposed say nay okay so that
moves forward and then um Ed I also
wanted to tell you one place else where
we might try and build and build up some
contingency buffer yeah Toby and I were
talking today their concrete classes
five times the asphalt so we might try
and change some of the walkways or maybe
all the walkways to Asphalt instead of
concrete and that could give us our
contingency too okay
and that doesn't change anything with
compliance
okay so looking at the court and parking
lot yeah so these are the two adults
that came in which not surprisingly came
in were much more expensive than we
thought
um so unfortunately I did find out on
December 1st that we didn't receive the
sizable grant for the court that we put
in for so the full proposal for this
adult is 110
749 and then the proposal for the
parking lot repair those two kind of
things kind of go together as you
remember they don't absolutely have to
go together but it's better to do them
together is 117
862 the only other funding source for
the parking lot repair at this point is
I just wanted to let you know you have
eighty four thousand dollars in the
maintenance and repair trust but that
depletes that trust if you have an
emergency so you really don't want to
deplete that you might want to think
about using something if you decide to
move forward that with that
um if the board wants to move forward
with either of the these you'd have to
be you'd have to add it in the budget or
do separate warrant articles or simply
wait for another year to do these two
sections and make it kind of phase three
because I'm a soccer record here but do
we have to make this decision tonight
you do not have to make those decisions
tonight the the only uh this is another
February one and you would only have to
decide on these in February if you
wanted it in the budget or on the
warranty right okay yeah so um
the only thing that I
it's amazing the the things that become
concerns if we don't do the court and
the rest of the playground project moves
forward we have to find a place where
the guy got that
because we cannot not have a place where
to grab that they haven't gone
and stuff
they want it
yeah yeah
um so those are the those are the
considerations to a PR campaign for no
more government
is it too brutal
special
but they also have to learn how to
navigate that so it's an important it's
a learning tool it's just learning
okay
okay and I am going to jot down every
time we say do we have to decide that
tonight so that we remember why our
meeting in February
and say um why it's five hours long yeah
that's why we've all just moved in in
February that's how the February meeting
always goes that's it is what it is
um okay so we will hold these as
considerations for budget
looking
um and I think we should also as we head
into making making those February
decisions think about that this would
either be budget or warrant and what
does that look like what do we look like
in terms of like you know and what's the
um you know looking ahead next year the
year after are there other other things
that are on the horizon that we would
either be you know bumping up against or
putting together
um potentially so just keep that in mind
as we look you know next month at the
next budget items and then in February
when we make these decisions and could
we do the parking lot without doing the
play Port because I thought the play
board is sending stuff Toby to speak to
that because he and I kind of like the
idea was to move the court over a few
feet you know so that so that we might
be able to but if you could explain that
better yeah because the parking lot
it's kind of
inclined to have a it almost has a bed
in it so that pitch is a problem but
then you have to run off from the core
that's the other problem so you kind of
got two problems
so
yeah it would sound to me like we the
court would be the if we had to choose
between one of the two
the court would be the one to do because
it's essentially causing issues yeah
that's that's probably our biggest
problem is that run off because that's
that's where the ice is every morning
after every day okay so the standing
water
that we can handle a little better
because we can see in that would be good
that that run that runoff
that's an hourly thing where we're you
know
that's the best way to look at that
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okay this is exciting it is like this is
gonna happen it's also really exciting
to watch The Pavilion
happen it is be there and get a roof
it's almost there tonight just to see
something interesting
okay any other playground things before
we
if you are in communication with the
playground committee thank you from the
board for emergency looking at this and
making some hard calls there so we've
got a few of them here yeah
yeah
all right so our next agenda item is the
um Grantham School District safety plan
I'm actually going to ask Brenda and
Kristen to go through this because they
took the boat they took on the bulk of
this work and I'm very thankful thank
you very much Brenda's not feeling very
safe
so this is what we did we
um and Toby had a piece of this too in
reviewing it all because a big piece of
this is
um hazardous waste all those things what
to do you know when an event happens I
think what protocols do we have what
policies do we have
so what we did is we looked at what the
state had for guidelines of what we
should and our unfortunately our safety
poly policy had not been planned had not
been updated since 2017. so it was time
and Sydney charged us with that task so
we did it
I also looked at other school districts
to make sure that you know we were in
line with what is going on with the rest
of the world in New Hampshire
um also the Department of Labor taking
all their guidelines and putting it all
together
uh unfortunately it caused some work for
Toby
and future work yes yeah so but it's
pretty comprehensive security yeah there
you go
um you know Kristin and Toby were very
helpful in reviewing it all and a person
and I met a few times to go over
everything and this is what you have so
I just want to give a clue to Mr Brenda
because we did meet a few times all of
us but Brenda really took off with it
thank you you're welcome thank you
indeed
so this is our plan
any
questions or just kudas yes yeah huge
it's a huge undertaking yeah I'm sorry I
need to occur yes we're going to yeah
we're good now Brenda
yeah she's like yeah yeah you're welcome
you see what my days are like it's not
checked off the list until it's done
a great dog basically does anyone have
any questions no okay no Brenda we need
a motion to approve the Grantham School
District safety plan so I moved second
we have a motion from Leslie in a second
from Denise all those in favor please
say aye
aye any opposed say nay your safety plan
is approved okay thank you you're
welcome
[Laughter]
all right now we get to talk about the
safe Grant which is different
so you lose Sun but you do win some so
you didn't get the court Grant but I'm
very happy to say that we didn't get the
safe Grant that's huge or Twenty
Thousand eight hundred dollars to
reconfigure our lobby to have um safer
access control for our visitors coming
into the school it's something that
we've been cited twice by Homeland
Security for so now we can take care of
it by some miracle Toby has a managed to
get Granite State Glass in here to look
at it on December 19th I mean the state
just granted 10 million dollars that all
had to do with access control so then
the fact that we have somebody coming in
I just really think is a miracle so
thank you for that
um so what I need you to do unless you
do have questions is to formally accept
the safe Grant of twenty thousand eight
hundred dollars
so all right so we need a motion to
accept the safe Grant of twenty thousand
eight hundred dollars
all right Denise we have a motion from
Nancy and I'm tired second from Denise
all those in favor please say aye
aye
aye any opposed to say nay
all right excellent yeah okay so I think
if I've been keeping track we have
gotten through oh no we have progress
monitoring
um so progress monitoring committee
um wanted to just touch base on sort of
that committee moving forward the reason
I'm bringing this to the board now is
the progress monitoring committee has
been operating under a um we send a
Cindy sends a quick survey out once a
month and if to see if folks feel that
we need to meet or not we've had a
couple that we did not need to meet this
last month the committee had enough
people that said yes please let's have a
meeting that we did meet the majority of
what was wanting to be discussed was not
covet related so the things that people
wanted to talk about were things like
the increase in illness how are absence
is looking what is this RSV that is
wreaking havoc on our lives how many you
know that kind of stuff which was a very
positive discussion but was out sort of
started to be outside of the charge of
what that committee was initially set up
for so initially it was to look at how
are things progressing with covid yeah
the majority of the conversation at this
meeting was not about covid there was
some feeling from the committee that it
was really a benefit and a positive
experience for folks on the committee to
have that group to sort of touch base
with and to talk about some like
concerns and get you know solicit input
from
um
you know from
other like constituent groups and you
know having representatives of parents
of Paras of Staff
um medical professionals that are here
in our community and was really nice
um my feeling on it is if the board sees
this as still a committee that we would
look to for guidance or input around
issues of covid then we should leave
things as they are so if we are thinking
that there is a you know potential that
we will revisit and ask this has been a
committee that we have looked to to say
what what is the feedback from the
committee on that what are we hearing
from people if we think that that's an
important thing to still have in place
then I think we leave things as is if we
feel that
um that's no longer a need that the
board has I think everyone on the
committee would be really comfortable
getting that time and they're very very
busy schedules back
um and would be grateful to have been a
part of it
um and the board would be grateful for
for their work on that committee if
that's something that we feel and I
think the third sort of leg of that is
if the board feels that it's important
to have a group who is able to come
together and talk about some of these
issues you know whether it's health
related things things like that then
that would be a a separate committee for
the board to decide that we would need
and to seek people to join and to us you
know establish that group
um what I would like to I will tell you
the two things that I would like to
avoid one I would like to not have a
committee that was initially charged
with covid having meetings where we're
not talking about that I don't think
that that's that was the initial
goal of that group
um I would also like us to make sure
that the a group that we do have has a
targeted Focus to talk about
um and that it isn't just you know
because we do have methods and ways for
folks to communicate with the board
um and we had this very specific need at
the time that I think that this
committee has been really great about
about providing us input into but I did
let the committee know that I was going
to bring this forward to the board since
this last meeting kind of brought that
into light
any thoughts on that
so that that is helpful information hope
it is not being discussed
during the payment meetings it would
seem that
there are other ways to communicate
concerns rather than to work take up
this committee that is no longer serving
its purpose I regret I don't think we
want
a community that we originally had
specifically to sort of spawn on
something else that yeah yeah
not saying it doesn't have a direct
charge or anything but it it sort of
favorite
yeah the standard of the committee and
if we have a future need you know
reorganizing any committee okay
that's one of those things that I feel
like I have to tiptoe up to saying
there was something not on our agenda
this month you know we didn't there's a
topic that's been on our agendas for
years at this point that is not there
anymore and I think that that's
reflected in exactly what the committee
experienced was that there was a really
good conversation but it was not about
coven
um and it's it's what the school has
seen in terms of illness and stuff like
that the predominant the illnesses that
are taking people that are causing
absences or making you know staff
absences things like that the it's the
majority of that is not it's other
things now
so
okay it sounds like the board is
comfortable with
disbanding the okay so we need a motion
to
disband is that our correct word to use
yeah can you um to to disband with our
really sincere gratitude and thanks
um to the progress monitoring committee
to discontinue the progress monitoring
committee
um and truly thank you thank you thank
you to that committee for there were
some really hard
conversations
um so we would need a motion to
discontinue the progress monitoring
committee sure second so motion from Ed
and a second from Leslie all those in
favor please say aye aye aye any opposed
say nay okay and yeah again I will say
thank you so much to the members of that
committee we will express our thanks to
them
um and and just say we know it was not
an easy group to be a part of it just in
terms of the um
the depth and the uh type of issues that
we had to discuss in that group but we
really appreciate uh their work
all right so our next agenda item is the
principal's report
so I know everyone's tired but I have to
talk about it yeah yeah you're good so I
mentioned that I've been going with a
team to a conference and we left
Thursday afternoon and came back around
we got home around midnight or I was in
bed at midnight
um on Sunday Saturday I don't know what
you call that
um but it was hands down the best
conference I've gone to in my life at 11
45 at night arriving home we're still
all up and like talking about it so I
asked a couple of the people who went to
what would they tell you and this is
what they said
so one person said I am so appreciative
of the opportunity opportunity to travel
with awesome colleagues to an amazing
City to hear a lineup of inspirational
and knowledgeable speakers I look
forward to collaborating with my travel
buddies on how to best share at what we
learned this was the best conference I
have ever attended another one said this
was an awesome conference with so much
good information having us all coming in
with different perspectives based on our
different roles admin counselor teacher
para behavior interventionist added to
the experience in Insight plus the added
benefit of getting to spend time with my
colleagues with awesome and then the
third response as a new teacher with a
year and a half under my belt my
experience at this conference was
incredibly inspiring I felt feeling
refreshed and excited to share what I
learned with my colleagues and my
students the people I attended with are
amazing and I am glad I got the
opportunity to get them to get to know
them all better
so
Sunday night on the way home it was also
decided that we're going to give each
other the week because everyone was
wicked tired at that point
um but next week we'll get together and
talk about how we can roll out some of
what we learned with the staff because
it truly was inspirational incredible so
it's a great opportunity thank you
oh
questions or comments from Kristen's um
report from her written report
okay thank you thank you lots of good
updates in there our next
um agenda item is the superintendent's
report
I'm gonna submit my report as written
although I'd like to have one discussion
with you about the tractor
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you know we talked about the tractor in
the budget last time and then you know
it seemed pretty apparent that the
boards would saw the purpose and their
reason of how much it would help so
given the fact that we did have that
tuition savings is it something that you
would want to entertain with this year's
costs which is what I put in my board
report I do want Toby to speak a little
before you deliberate about what he's
seeing on the market because it you know
he's looked at new and used if you could
just kind of take take them through what
you're seeing and what the costs are
yeah
um
or
what I feel the size we need the average
price for use
is going for about 30 000 to have all
those implements
um you can go with less and build it
as needed say you don't get a bucket
loader in the snow blower than put a
back of attachment on it at some point
or pallet Forks or whatever
but uh I did inquire on a couple of them
just to see
the availabilities and these things are
turning if they become available they're
turning in about deep it's like pick up
since they're just going fast so
um so the few I inquired are already
gone
um
yeah there's I mean I think you can get
something fairly decent
for that price we just about all the
implements
um
that's within two years old low growth
hours and such so and if we went new
with all the attachments well with just
for the same amount we talked about if
you did the same amount but knew but we
had the plow right yeah we took off the
back the back was about nine thousand
dollars so
um that would get us into the 31 range
area so and here again you can take off
the pallet forks and cut those because
those are
like 1200 so you can do those you know
maybe down the road with me to each year
put an attachment on or something but
um I mean the big major use for the
track would be the winter so you
definitely want the bucket loader and
then the snow blower
um but
yeah the the the
back hole portion would have a huge use
in the summer for projects
um
so the ten the nine to ten thousand that
takes to put one of those on I just get
concerns
it's like take those off a new one to
get within the budget
is one thing but would you get that 10
000 down road to be able to put that on
or go used or something that's a couple
years old that's still reliable
I I feel comfortable going that road too
because with low hours and such
so the question would be would you be
interested in entertaining it this year
and I did put in my budget memo it is a
tight budget year right so
um you're looking right now of somewhere
between 250 and 300 000 from what we've
projected you do have the tuition
savings
um but we do also have some special
education concerns that could come up so
if you wanted to do this you would
probably have to accept that if
something changed we don't know if it
will but if something changed you might
have a need to go into the special
interest at some point but since the
snow is about to fly and since we just
had this discussion maybe it'll snow one
of these days
and then we also talked about saving the
life of the truck and also our thin
staff we just thought it would
be good to bring to you for deliberation
Toby was that um lease options still
available was that something
something yeah we I mean we could still
go
for that room
contact them again and get updated
information that was also new yes yes
so
stepping aside the concern of
that ten thousand not being there in 24
or whatever right
um
what would be your preferred Avenue uh
let's just assume the 10 000 would be
there down the road somewhere over this
um would it be
a couple of year old tractor from the 30
000 or would you or would you prefer to
go now
um I'm comfortable with the
like right now the ones I've actually
been pricing have been John Deere's with
that are two years old with um some less
than 200 hours 100 hours okay I'm
comfortable with those I mean like I
said we're not going to beat it to death
type thing here and so I I think the
longevity
yeah I I would have no qualms for news
picking it out from a dealership getting
those come with a warranty still
um
yeah I'd be finicky with them but I
think I think it's definitely doable and
the startup that I believe it all I
don't think okay
we have about 400
000 in special education trust is that
one yeah a little over that I think so
we just got an update that I brought
yeah if we did have
some special education things that come
up this year we have
the trust that we can you can go into it
okay
as always we try not to have those
expenses but we do have a couple of
special situations that could cost us
something this year
I sort of think we should strike while
irons hot on this I feel like we're
kicking a lot of cans on the road yeah
this physical plant and this seems like
a kind of a no-brainer especially the
way I Supply and chains are going I'm
just like if we can get it and we can
basically make it work on the budget
front like I'd rather do it I also think
we have some big other items we're going
to be looking at in February yeah yeah
yeah
take this take this off the February yes
correct
you tell us but you know I think I would
be looking to allocate up to say like 35
000 give you a little bit of wiggle room
but what I'd hate to have is allocate 30
000 and the thing come in at 32 000.
yeah yeah
it's like I gotta get my Dicker and
abilities if we didn't lose on that 30
and yeah so yeah I I think I would feel
comfortable you know giving you a little
bit of wiggle room to you know up to 35
and then yeah
it gives yeah again these things are
moving so quickly you don't want to miss
out on something because of 1500 bucks
yeah there it is when you gave me the
last budget and revenue expense and we
were looking at I hope so like where we
were right now did that include the
tuition break or not include the tuition
break I think
you hadn't taken the students out yet
right correct okay so yeah okay
I was gonna say we need a motion if you
want if you want to do it this year yeah
as opposed to next year's budget then
yes yeah
and how does the board feel about what
Ed was proposing in terms of
accompanying that to have that little
bit of a buffer yeah okay so we need a
motion to allocate
um up to 35 000 from the current budget
for the purchase of a tractor
the motion for Leslie in a second from
Denise all those in favor please say aye
aye any opposed say nay
excellent now you can add it to the ad
so you need to hire people we talked
about that last month
we have a tractor right do you think
he's gonna let anyone else use it
doesn't have to say you have to drive it
that's a John Deere
however you look too close it actually
says Toby
in the font yes what else from your
report Sydney anything else that you
wanted to highlight or have you heard
anything from First Student
uh yes we're in negotiations okay thank
you come back to you in January thank
you yeah
um I did want to just say something on a
like a personal slash professional note
is that um I was appointed uh chair of
the New Hampshire State Equity committee
for school administrators
another day awesome yeah I'm excited
about doing that we're looking around
the entire State and seeing what's going
on
we're going to be carefully watching
legislation for Equity concerns good
thank you
any other questions for Sydney from her
report
okay all right so our next agenda item
is the consent agenda
uh any changes or things we folks want
to pull out of the consent agenda
oh
okay so we need a motion to approve the
consent agenda
I have a motion from Leslie in a second
from Ed all those in favor please say
aye aye aye any opposed say nay
okay we have our second public
participation session to open
um so our public has diminished in
person I don't know if we still have
folks that are joining us virtually
Sydney
um but we'll open our second public
participation
um and we have one public on Mrs
Islander is with us
um so we can ask her what she's having
for dinner if and hopefully she's eating
it by now geez if anyone would like to
participate in public participation just
a reminder to please state your name and
address at the beginning of the comments
and we'll leave the public participation
open for a couple of minutes here
um and then we'll see what we get
and
while we're doing that do you have
non-published tonight I have nothing I
don't have anything
Leslie already put a job
ready tomorrow
yeah
yeah right
how is the puppet wonderful I'll share
the pictures
foreign
comment coming in online and I don't
have we don't have
um anyone that was looking to comment
here in the room so we will go ahead and
adjourn our public comment for tonight
any other business or anything else that
the Board needs to have come up tonight
our next meeting is January 3rd
all right so
I need a motion to adjourn so I'm gonna
sorry I have a motion from Leslie in a
second from Ed all those in favor please
say aye
aye any opposed say nay we are adjourned
at 9 23. thank you everybody that's