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My cell phone says six o'clock,
all right. We're gonna run
already.
But welcome everyone to the
August 17, 2026 school board
meeting, uh, for a 87. Uh, we
would like to start with the
Pledge of Allegiance. Jesse,
can I get you Toledo's please?
The United States of America.
>> Melissa Gray: Executive and
hijacked so?
That's what a good night.
Uh, I do one adjustment, please,
you're gonna add under new
business if you would item.
Iib policy iib course approval.
All right, anybody else have any
other adjustments they need to
make?
Mr chairman and Melissa. Do you
want me to give a two minute
recap for the negotiation
meeting or no?
I think we could. Yeah, I think
that's fine, right? So, let's
put that on as well. You know,
it's a two minute.
Thanks! Alrighty date and time
of our next meeting. Right now.
It's scheduled for September
8th, 2026, at 6 p.m. That is
primary day. Um. Are we
thinking to possibly change this
date to something that might be
better?
But yeah, we're we're at the
board's will, which, whichever
date is better, we can't push
it off much. Schedules real
quick?
You're fine, I'm assuming, cuz
you made the suggestion. Steve,
yeah. I'll move things. Yeah,
right, right? Well, that's an
academic meaning, something I'm
assuming am assuming Melissa is
going to have. He thinks that
she wants to discuss.
There are plenty of things to
discuss, and we'll I'll message
that out to our. Will Liz be
back for that? She will okay?
Doesn't require motion or
anything, right? That's just an
adjustment with some challenge.
All right. Has everyone had a
chance to review and approve
review this meetings from our
last minute meeting on August
3rd, 2026, anyone? NIV.
Concerns questions?
It's kind of a motion to approve
the meetings. All in favor.
Aye, all right. Already moving
on. Public comments it does
appear. We have one gentleman
here from the public who would
like to speak. Uh, he will be
limited to three minutes if
another person from public comes
in, They will be able to take
the floor, and if you'd like,
she may continue afterwards.
There's an appear that there's
anyone online waiting either,
so. you, um. A little weird
sitting around this side of the
table, looking at all of you.
Um, and it'll be an image will
take a long time to get rid of.
Um. The reason why I'm here to
speak to you tonight is I want
to talk about, uh, I think
might be a pink elephant in the
room. And that has to do with.
The amount of time that I've
been absent. Uh, for board
meetings is particularly as the
chair of the board meetings.
You know, I was gone for a month
last mid-september, October, and
then April to to May. And gone
over the summer and then. And
I've been feeling badly about
that for some time.
Uh, but the the uh tip of the
iceberg for me was the
negotiation meeting. That was
scheduled for Tuesday, which I
was supposed to be at, and it
was unavoidable. My flight got
canceled on Monday. And they
couldn't schedule me until
Tuesday. So anyway, but that.
The board should not have to
suffer for that kind of stuff.
And so I've been wrestling with.
You know how to address it? I'm
going to be gone mid-september
to mid-october as well. Um. I
don't anticipate. I'm pre. I'm
pretty confident that I will not
be gone again until next summer
at the earliest. Um, after
this. But I felt like I needed
to bring it up. In my career.
Everything I've done.
Particularly when I've been in a
leadership role. I've always
taken my obligations very
seriously, and I take my
obligations here very seriously,
but at the same time, I feel
like I have not fulfilled that
obligation very well.
And I felt I owed it to you all
as board members and others who
are here. Um, for me to come
and speak to it. Um, and I
don't know if anybody here has
been thinking about it, or if
it's crossed their mind. Um,
but for me, it's been a pink
elephant in the room, so I
wanted to come and address it.
Um, so what I want to ask of all
of you? Um, and I'm speaking
specifically to the board
because I think this is a board
decision and one reason why I'm
talking to you in public is, I
think the public needs to hear
this. But also, we can't talk
about a board member, which in
this case is me. And
non-public. Okay, so another
reason for it being public? Um.
But I want to ask all of you on
the board, and I've spoken to
Ellen already because she
texted me and saying she was
going to be here tonight. And I
said, well, neither am I and.
So, I called her to let her know
what I was going to be speaking
to you about.
Um, I would like to ask all of
you to take the next two weeks
to think among yourselves.
Talk with each other if you
want, but don't do it. You
know, in a public meeting, sense
of the word? Um. As to what
you think? You know, and the
options are for me to continue
as chair. For me to step down
this chair or even to step off
the board.
And quite frankly, I would feel
very comfortable going with
whatever decision the board
makes. Um. I've enjoyed my
time on the board. I want to
continue working with all of you
and with people in the district.
But I feel that this should be a
board decision and not just mine
alone and that bill is just
wrong to me. And so. In two
weeks, I'll be here. You know,
I'm I'm intentionally, not
flying anywhere. Hopefully, I
will be over my my virus. Um,
and so we can then have the
follow-up with a follow-up
discussion and what
you all think, and I really want
you to feel free. And I, I
sincerely mean this, this. I
really want you to feel free.
To express your opinion, I will
not feel offended if you feel
that I should step down. In
either way. Um, at all. And I
mean that sincerely. So?
That's what I wanted to come and
speak to you about tonight, and
I don't think I have anything
more to say about that, but You
know, my interest is what,
what's in the best interest of
the board, and I think the
board needs to weigh in on that
so. All right. Okay. Go home
and take care of yourself. Yeah,
I am going to go home. Yes,
thank you. And you all have a
good meeting. Plenty of
liquids, vitamin C, little
honey. Yes, well, I've been
doing all that Unfortunately,
I've got this respiratory virus
that in my family. History and
including my own personal
history. has frequently turned
into pneumonia. So I'm trying to
prevent that from happening so?
But uh, I will see you all in
two weeks, all right.
But there does not seem to be
anyone else from the public here
or online. Assuming we don't
get hacked again.
Oh, moving on, uh, board chair
remarks, uh, I do not have any
major remarks I just want to
send a reminder out to the
public to start looking at your
socials and online and websites
and things for the updates that
are coming through with the
beginning of the start of the
school year as it relates to bus
routes school supplies. Uh,
signing up Sports, signing up
for what it is that you need to
sign up for as we get ready and
geared up for the new year.
All right, so moving on reports
to the board Miss gray. I
believe you are first all
right. I just wanted to formally
invite. Those of you who are
here on the board to lunch at
new teacher orientation this
Wednesday. in. Um.
for, for orientation, and we
traditionally have a little
lunch for them, and folks are
welcome to stop it. Um. Uh, I
think we're doing pizza pizza.
Um, the the our school cafeteria
will will be. No. Noon at the
high school. Yep. Yep. Um.
Uh, teachers in Paris are will
be back next week. Um, we are
looking forward to welcoming
students back on the 27th. Um.
Boynton Middle School will be
starting their professional
development series with
capturing kids Hearts. The board
the board agreed to a rather.
Um, large contract with
capturing kids Hearts this year,
and this is really in
an effort to support school
culture and to to Really put
some systems and structures in
place to support.
a safe, welcoming, healthy, and
happy learning environment for
our students at at Point Middle
School. So, we're looking
forward to that.
Um, at the high school on the
24th at Highbridge on the 25th.
And at Boynton Middle School on
the 26th. Inboard. The board is
welcome to join us there as
well.
Times for those, uh, 7:30 will
be breakfast. In each of the
buildings.
Um, I met with the folks from
nhli, New Hampshire learning
initiative. Who spent the last
two years with us, developing
the vision of a learner and
working through competencies.
We spent a lot of time talking
about the next steps and what
we're what we're planning to do
next. As the board knows, we
agreed to you all agreed to the
new report card.
And that that effort is well
underway, ready to roll. Our
next step is collecting evidence
of learning, and when we talk
about competency, what we want
to, we, we don't only want kids
to be able to repeat what
they've heard. We want them to
be able to apply it and use it
in a real world, um. Context
so? Um, so we are, we are
looking for, and we will be
learning about new ways. Or
different ways to collect
evidence of learning for
students so that we can ensure
they're ready for the work force
and Beyond.
Our biggest challenge right now
is continued vacancies. We have
some critical vacancies in
special education that we need
filled. We are likely going to
be looking at contracted
Services for some of these
because they're tied to. Um,
individual education plans IEPs
and special education process,
and those are services that we
can't do without, and you have
to be a certified professional
in order to provide those, and
so we can't do an emergency
authorization or look for an
alternative pathway to
certification. You must be a
special educator to deliver
those services so.
Um, as the the board may
remember when we do contracted
Services. They're about one and
a half plus times the rate. We
would pay our teacher because we
have to
pay the the third party agency,
so not our our most exciting
option. But it's an option that
would probably are going to have
to exercise. Um. Our
principles, though in directors,
are working as quickly as they
can to fill
vacancies as they come up.
Important dates 8, 26, we're
going to do they'll be a pop
into Boynton for fifth grade
students. They'll be able to
stop in, get a popsicle, check
out the building, Etc. 827 is
the first day of school for
grades one through 12.
831 is the first day for
kindergarten, Pre-K, and CTE 9,
15, is open house for of our
buildings. This is a little
different than we've done in the
past.
What we thought was originally
we would have three nights in a
row and then through.
Liz came in and we had a great
conversation about what is, how
does that impact families when?
When families have kids at each
level going out three
nights might be a lot to ask of
families, and so, um, so we have
made an
an adjustment and we've decided,
uh, 9, 15, 5, 30, hybrid, chill
for an hour.
Will overlap and start open
acetic Regional High School at 6
PM and then at 6 we'll open
Boynton Middle School. For open
house and families will be home
by 7, 30. Hopefully have
visited all of the places that
they need to go. It's
intentionally, not a parent
teacher conference, right? It's
an open house. It's a place to
come in. Check out the space.
Check out the classroom. Meet
the. Do those kinds of things?
And then conferences follow much
later on so. That, is it for my
report this evening, and I'm
happy to answer any questions.
Uh, just like to add on to that,
that on the 26 as well, there's
the orientation for. New
students at the high school.
Thank you in the morning, and
then later that
evening at 6:00. Is it 6:00
5:00? I'm sorry, uh, there's.
Informational meeting for
parents of. At the high school.
Thank you so much. Anybody else
I know I don't have anyone who's
going to be entering the high
school this year? Two quick
things, the the sped part of the
problem there is that's exempt
from the critical shortage
issue. We can't do any
alternative Pathways they.
Meaning, you know?
for a general education teacher,
there's more flexibility if I
have a bachelor's degree and I
can meet some general
competencies. Then, we there's
some flexibility in how we can
get you into the classroom
right, and we would be
responsible for a lot of that
training. We'd align a mentor,
Etc. For anything that's
federally funded. So, we're
talking about Title 1 we're
talking about special education
tied to the IDEA Grant. Those
teachers have to
be certified by the state for
which they're serving, and so it
is only teacher certification.
That that would qualify or an
in-process licensure, which you
have to have a bachelor's
degree. You have to have some
course work you have to or be in
an educator, approved program,
Etc, etc, etc, so the the bar is
a little higher for those.
Yeah, and it really Narrows the
pool. It really does. Yeah,
okay, the other thing is, uh, I
know. I beat this like a dead
meal, but part of that
competency. I would like to see
that coal concept of critical
thinking, not,
not education based on
memorization, but I'm hearing
that from the business
Community, saying, look, you
know, they come up against
something, and they just don't
know how to think around it or
think through it. Yeah,
absolutely. And that's really
the intent, right? As we were
talking about this a little bit,
a few weeks back, but you know,
we've been hearing education has
been hearing from the business
Community for for probably 20
years, right?
About this. Need for us to
develop Learners who can engage
in the workforce.
In a way that doesn't have their
managers holding hands or or
telling them
every single step to take or
standing over the shoulder for
an extended period of time.
There's there's always going to
be on the job training, and
there's to be some of that
supervisory role, but But the
ability to self-start the
ability to critically think the
ability to communicate
effectively to write effectively
in your communication on top of
just being able to to
communicate orally. There's a,
there's a lot of pieces of that
and our vision of the learner, a
vision of a learner, really
speaks to a
lot of the competencies and
those those vision of a learner.
Competencies are very. Heavy.
They're very thick because the
team had.
Boy, what we must have had 20 or
so categories that we were
looking at that we thought were
critically important. Soft skill
kinds of things. Durable skill,
kinds of things for kids to walk
away with, and we were able to
kind of create those. I think
they're four or five buckets
there. Thank you. You're
right, I mean, that has been a
constant refrain from the
business Community. Okay, thank
you. Anyone else? All right.
Moving on, Miss Anderson, I
believe you're up next. Good
evening, um? This week is fully
taken up by the fiscal year 26
audit on the auditor. Just in
today, and we're after a good
start. Um, but also, you know,
busy new new school year stuff.
Lots of hiring, you know, with
some resignations going on and
stuff like that, that that's
very time consuming. And then
I'm going to be starting on our
budget preparation very Um, but
the most exciting piece of news
that I think we should shout
from the rooftops. Is that our
last bond payment is due
September 1st? And that check
is being cut probably tomorrow,
and it's going to get mailed off
And then we're done, we're done.
We're done, um, that pain went's
about 1.5 dollars, including
the interest payment. And we
are free from that bond, so it's
been 15 years that the taxpayers
have have supported this so.
It's going to be relief, no
doubt. Um, Food Service
balances. The numbers speak for
itself. We're doing a little
better. We had a couple families
that made very large payments
over the summer after me,
hounding them. Um, slightly.
Um, so we're good shape again.
Consistency is going to be the
key on that one and then the
expansion's report. There's not
a whole lot to report. I mean,
it is only one month into the
fiscal year. We're definitely
not over budget anywhere at
this point. Uh, and revenues are
on Target. It's just your
standard standard monthly
Revenue, such as your town
Appropriations. Um, you know,
interesting? In big statement,
stuff like that. So, we are in
in good shape otherwise and not
happy to entertain any
questions. Anyone else any
questions? Not really a
question, but I think there
ought to be a celebratory
something for the community.
Like, post the check on
Facebook.
We're done, you know? Kind of
thing, no good report. Thank
you. All right, moving on, uh,
Mr Heath Vincent. Good evening.
So, I have, uh, been.
Working on a number of projects
with my team over the summer to?
modernize some of the equipment
that's used on the
infrastructure to support the
technology around the district.
I have a sort of. All, uh, long
list of things I'll give you the
highlights. And feel free to
ask any questions that you might
have the big portion of the
workflow this summer was taken
up with our server
infrastructure. We are moving
away from having.
Physical servers for each of the
servers, instead having. a one
large server in each location
that has virtual machines on it,
and it makes. Much easier for
us to recover from. Power
outages or?
issues with providing services.
We can reboot these machines
very quickly, whereas a physical
machine it might take five ten
minutes for thing to boot back
up so. Just makes this much
more versatile, and it also
helps with us with disaster
preparedness if we. Have a
school shut down. We can move
those servers over to another
school, so the infrastructure
continues to exist because it's
all virtualized. Um, there were
a number of complications that
arose throughout the course of,
Performing those actions across
the district, and we're not.
We're actually not
100 done. We have finished all
of the schools SAU office here.
Still has remaining work to do.
The new infrastructure is ready
to go. We just have not cut
over to it yet. And because? In
the back to school crunch right
now, we're going to postpone
that till later in September.
Um, so we have a number of other
things that we're working on.
This summer, you know?
Redesigning. Inside of the
Google admin Center, how our
school is organized to make it
much more easier to. Change,
make changes, and administrate,
administer the district. So,
similarly, with active directory
and Group Policy objects, there
was a lot a lot of. A lot of
items that have been there for
years since the servers were
first turned on, and so it was
just. Process of sort of
cleaning up and modernizing so
that we know what everything
does, especially with their last
year, having been 100 turnover
and the technology department.
We weren't really sure. Is this
still needed? Uh, you can't
just flip those switches. You
need to do testing and
validation to make sure that
there's not going to be a
negative impact, um. Another
big win was decommissioning a
physical file server so that we
have everything in the Google
Cloud. Again, that's for the
schools. There's still a little
bit here. That's physical, but
um, that's that'll be handled to
cut over at SAU. Uh,
essentially ensuring that. Uh,
we have a much more robust
backup strategy for how we
handle data retention in case
of a recovery event. Um, we
have. Student Chromebooks being
refreshed. Relabeled, cleaned,
evaluated for damage. We have a
number of these things that are
sort of. We're in the crunch
time, but I do expect us to be
able to complete everything that
says it's in progress on the
list. There's a handful of
things that. Are not going to
be completed. Unfortunately, one
of them is the parent Guardian
contact management updates. Um,
I expect that to be done by
November. And I'm happy to
entertain any questions from the
board.
When do you expect Powerschool
to be completely updated with
all the schedules and
everything for all the students
everything come on together? I
know some of of the schools are
done. Some don't appear to be
done, but just trying to so
they can get yes, um, I believe
there's, um.
That's handled by the guidance
staff at the schools themselves,
so I know that there's.
Tear it in time when the
schedules are built but not yet
visible because they they're
not a hundred percent done, but
they're basically in a holding
pattern and so I know at least
at the high school and very
familiar. They've been working
a lot with them. I'm various
things with power school and
summer, and uh, I know they
were in that state for a period
of time. They may still be, um.
Yeah, somebody else. Oh just,
just a comment. We just need to
schedule a meeting and really
just just focus on the top five
priorities for coming here. I
will, uh. Thank you.
Alrighty, moving on, Mr
Reynolds, your turn good
evening. Um, it's been a slow
start to the summer.
We had so many projects and it
seemed like they nothing really
got off and moving until the
beginning of August the last few
weeks. We've been buried with,
projects. Um. A lot of things
completed concrete stuff. Um.
Still have some outstanding ones
going on. Um, some door
Replacements, some re-keying.
Uh, Fire alarm system at the
science and Tech building. So, a
lot of the stuff will be
wrapped up before school, but
some it's it's going to drag its
feet a little bit longer for
us. Uh, the the regular stuff
schools are are cleaned and
looking good, um?
Biggest, probably struggle for
us, is it has been hybrids.
Been shorthanded there along
with it being summer, where most
of my guys take their time off.
So, uh, we're we're playing a
little bit of catch up there.
But, but we'll be good by the
time students are back in the
building. Um. Fields are
looking great. Sports started
today, so um. Yeah, we're ready
for school to start. Right.
Anybody have any questions
concerns? We can talk at some
point. Yeah, absolutely.
Already moving on, then to
unfinished business, uh, healthy
kids Miss Gray back to you.
Yes, I just wanted to do an up,
provide an update about healthy
kids before and after care
program. Uh, we get a number of
calls from families around
this, so I just wanted to make
sure we put it out there and
help it just looking for some
support and spreading the word
we put it out today in our in
our newsletter, but it's worth
mentioning again that healthy
kids is taking
over our before and after care
for hybridge Health, um, they
right now, or as a
Friday had their Aftercare
program registration open.
um, with a discount code new
2026, which takes the 100
registration feed down to ten
dollars for families. So, a
really nice? Benefit and
discount there before care is
going to happen. For hybrid
Hill, the company is building
out the website and building all
of the the features for our
particular site has to get
licensing, Etc, to make sure
that that's underway, But at
any point here any day, now
we're waiting for that before
care registration to launch on
their website. The links are
included in the flyer that was
sent out today for families, but
if anyone's looking for before
and after care it is happening,
and we can share more
information or direct you to
the website. For additional fees
and all of those kinds of
things. Already, uh, moving on
again now to new business? Uh.
Mou for the newest fish police
department, so you again Miss
Gray? Yep, this is just a each
year we sign a member memorandum
of understanding with the new
web search police department
around their services for our
schools in in their
jurisdictions. So, we're just
I'm just looking for permission
from the board to sign the mou.
Right, there were no
significantly. We can change it.
No significant changes and this
is just new web switch, just new
episodes. I'll make that no
explosion, right? 12 second, all
in favor. Aye, all right That
something I need to sign tonight
or?
I think I sign, I think it just.
It's just the superintendent who
needs to sign, pretend it okay.
Moving on to be, uh, acceptance
of donation for Food Services
balance that
would be it's Anderson. So, the
Messina class of 2025 has made a
donation to Our existing
students who have food balances.
They've presented a check for
three thousand seventy two
dollars and seventy to accept
these monies.
Remember motion to accept the
3072.70 a motion to accept with
thanks folks. thanks. Thanks.
We have a second all in favor.
Aye, all right passes
unanimously.
Really sticking with you, Mrs
Anderson, for a financial
review. Right. So I had
promised you guys an update on
our fiscal year 26 closeout
again. These are still unaudited
numbers, so don't you know nail
anything down quite yet? But
I'm expecting a fun balance of
1.8 million dollars. Um, which
you take that figure. Then you
deduct the school board
approved, retain fund balance,
which you voted on at a prior
meeting of 345 000. And then
you also deduct the capital of
Reserve funding that the voters
have approved, which was 210,
000. Um, and then we had the
um. End of your projects that
got approved as well to use end
of your funds and that was 195.
Um, so that leaves roughly 1.1
million dollars that will be
returned to the taxpayers, uh,
to offset tax rate setting this
fall, which is really good news
for perspective. Last year, we
were only able to return 667
thousand dollars and that was
mostly due to that school care
assessment that we got slapped
with slapped with in October.
Um, so overall, our fund balance
equates to just over five
percent of our total
operating budget, which is at
the very, very low end of what
our auditors and, um. The
Professional associations
recommend that we have. Um, we.
So, I mean, we're still in good
shape, but it just means that we
have a very, very lean budget.
Um, and also looked at the
expenditure accounts to see what
made up that 1.8
million dollars. There was
nothing that stood out as
alarming or unusual. There was
over 100 lines that made up that
that 1.8 million dollar, so it
was spread out.
Across a few, but a big chunk of
it was for special ed at a
district tuition. Last year, we
did bring a couple kiddos back
into district, and we had a
kiddo I believe, that moved
out. So, it, it shifted some of
those costs a little
differently last year, and that
resulted in some overall
savings. Rather than that. I
think we are in good sheep. I
don't plan on changing how we
approach budgeting necessarily.
Um. Yeah, so entertain any
questions? Are you comfortable
with being that close to the
threshold? Honestly, no. But
I, I do realize. The community
and the environment and and
those types of things. Um, is
to be sensitive to the taxpayer.
Um, we can squeak by, but if we
have an, you know, something
unexpected pop-up, We could be
in trouble. Yeah, that's
concern. Thank you, Rachel.
Thank you, no action necessary
there.
So, moving on to budget
timelines, Mr and Mrs Anderson
can fill in any anything, uh,
anything, um, that she sees
about the budget timeline that
I'm not aware of, um?
Dr progresselski sent along a
memo for this budget timeline,
and I'm just going to get there
in just a moment.
Oh, so there are a couple of
objectives here in the budget
timeline. Last year due to the
budget getting approved in late
December, there was a
considerable amount of pressure
put on the SAU staff in an
effort to avoid the situation.
with the upcoming cycle, they
want to make some adjustments.
She would like to make some
adjustments to the timeline. We
would like to move up the
timeline a little bit. Um.
Um, it regarding, uh,
specifically feedback from the
ABC.
I think one of the pieces that
we know is that that it's hard
to be responsive to the
feedback if we're getting it
after the fact. And so, we're
looking for. We're looking for
a little bit of an adjustment to
receive the feedback sooner.
We can prep for it. We can
respond to it and then better
prep the budget.
We have already started looking
at licensing. Our budget budget
directors will be. Getting a
budget sheet from Mrs Anderson
shortly? And they will be able
to review and refine the budget
for presentation to their
budget buddies. Um. Anything
else Mrs Anderson that? That we
want to talk about here. No, I
think the key point is really to
get that feedback. Earlier, so
it's more meaningful. I mean,
the last thing we want to do is,
ask, you know, the community to
serve on the ABC and then not
feel like? Their voices are
being heard, or you know, or
they're being rushed. I mean,
we're trying to tweak it. So, it
works for everybody better, and
this is just this year. We're
just trying something a little
different.
And so we're seeking the board's
approval on the new and approved
improved budget timeline. As
you can see in your document?
All right, just looking at the
timeline here. Your board
appoints Abc members ABC
members is for today.
Is that we have two, uh, two
folks who are interested. We're
still Gathering.
Still Gathering candidates, so
we'll we'll have to adjust to
the next meeting. All, right?
Well, how will that affect the?
Committee or budget committee
orientation, if if we can get
folks aligned, we can certainly
bring them to the the meeting on
the 9th. And then we'll go from
there, but we'll just reschedule
the orientation okay, for you
know whenever it works for the
BBC, okay? Right. Do I have a
motion to accept the? Or any
questions. Any concerns about
the budget timeline? My concern
was the same as yours, you
know? We're we're 17th of
August, and we still need to
fill out the ABC, but I, I
think you're absolutely right.
We've got to get them on board
in the beginning, so we don't
make decisions and then have to.
Um, so I'm with no caveats
because I know we'll go have to
change his schedule we don't
have a that fleshed out, but
I'll make that okay. All in
favor. And passes unanimously.
And just add. Along with that,
just another call out to anybody
in the community who is looking
to join the ABC or wants to be
on the ABC. Uh, reach out to
Melissa Rachel, any of the board
members, and we can director
you need to go to make sure that
that happens.
Ready, moving on now. Item e
policy iib.
Uh, of course approval, of
course approval. Uh, the board
may recall policy IIB B is the
policy for, uh, enrollment
numbers, and the board has a
recommendation that any courses
that are below nine students
enrolls require special
permission from the board to
run. And so, each year, the high
school in particular has
some courses that, um, that have
lower enrollment. So, I've got a
list of those for your
approval. A couple of things to
know. Mr Pickering identified
these courses as preserving
rigor.
Access to advanced and career
connected Pathways and offering
a breadth of programming.
For the comprehensive high
school program, there's a
pre-algibra section here,
that's especially important.
There are two sections running
with small class numbers, which
allows the teacher to
differentiate the instruction
better to help students move to
that algebra pathway. Um, this
these sections. Uh, can change
a bit, and enrollment can
fluctuate over the next couple
of weeks. As students come in,
they will have an ad drop
period, and with a small
high school. Your flexibility
with a schedule is, is very
narrow already, and
so holding these courses as
presented will allow some
flexibility and allow students
to maybe pick up something that
they didn't anticipate to engage
in that ad drop process, so
we're looking for approval to
run 3D art. There are eight
students currently for
semesters, one and two.
Accounting one. There are six
students, um, who are running
start and CTE
Ap calculus, six students,
guitar introduction, seven
students for the first
semester, Music Theory, six
students for the second
semester, physics eight
semester, and as I mentioned the
pre-algiver sections
two full, um, two full year
sections with nine in eight
students, respectively. Yeah, I
said to fall as below a certain
amount. Is it done, like you
said people can come and go.
So, too many go with the Good
Sam below. A certain is. Cross
canceled at all.
It could be it could be in. You
could, you could make that
recommendation that a number
that is too low to run. I could
bring that back and say, Mr
Pickering if we fall below this
level. You have to cut this
course.
And I'm interject here. The
trick with that is you still
have a teacher that's under
contract regardless. Um, so we
can't just cancel our contract
or scale it back. So, we're
still paying someone to to be
there. We would assign them a
different Judy, right? And
that was that. That's actually
the the first part of the second
part is It's also calendar
dependent of the students, you
know? X number some months into
the course for weeks into the
To just stop it. Oh yes, we
once, once we begin right. Once
we get past that ad drop
period, we're certainly not
going to turn the course off.
Yes.
is in the budget. Yeah, nothing
new, um, teachers already have
these in their schedule, and we
have the capacity to offer them.
What would the teachers be doing
if these were approved? Uh, we
would find in a number of of
other opportunities we may, um.
We would assign them some other
duties. I can't necessarily
determine what those might be.
But certainly, I think. A
better use of their time is
direct instruction to students,
right? Not disagreement. Just
just more of a if, yeah,
something falls off, or we
decide to go the other way.
Yeah, a number of things one.
Are they going to be doing with
their time? Yeah, I mean duties.
Judy's, they could be doing a
number of duties. They could be
supporting intervention in
different structures. It would
be unique to the circumstances
and needs of the student body.
These, you know, While each of
these is just a few students,
the combination of these
students they need something.
Monitoring vlax courses, for
example, might be a duty, Etc.
It's not really a high powered
use of the tax dollar to be
doing these other duties, but
Certainly an option if we need
to.
Well, do I have a motion to
approve these additional courses
as presented? Okay, make that
motion. I think the majority of
stealth. And we just. We can't
do it on. Yeah.
All in favor. Aye, aye. Motion
passes unanimously. Thank you.
Right on to? Uh, Steve, you
would have to provide an update
for the negotiations quick ten
minutes. We had a first meeting,
um. With Kathleen Peale on the
Mesa negotiations. Basically,
we spent the. I'm looking at
the language part of the
contract. Uh, they were
virtually no changes. A couple
of housekeeping changes, uh, in
the language that was presented
in the last contract. We did
not add anything significant to
it. We did clarify a couple of
things and that's been sent off
to Rachel Hawkinson. Um, the
outcome, though, is that Rachel
Hawkinson will be gone for a
week and then. Kathleen P will
be gone for two weeks, so the
next meeting, the earliest it
can happen, is around the 25th
of September.
But it was a good meeting, and
everybody came to the conclusion
that we really wanted to
promote the idea that we wanted
the budget. For that to pass so
that they would have a contract
and that we would communicate
that very strongly the Rage
Hawkinson. Thank you for the
updates. Anything else moving
on then to policy? Do we have
any policies I didn't say
anything in the folder for
policies? No policies this
evening, all right. Moving on
to Personnel?
Uh, we have a we have six
nominations this evening.
The last minute resignation with
regret and a transfer of
position in the same building.
So, we want a chance to look at
this late. I have a motion to
accept this late is presented
until moved. Thank you all in
favor. Function passes
All right, moving right along
here, huh? All right, final
public comments, that's seeing
anyone here from public that's
seeing anyone online. So, if
someone does happen to show up
in the next couple of minutes,
they will have the opportunity.
Agenda, building anything for
the next agenda that we would
like to get on on there? Uh, I
did hear that we. Wanted to
have?
So I've got. I've got that on
the agenda building for next
time. It will be an academic
meeting or our administrators
will be here. to give a rundown
of the opening days so. Well,
I'm sure the board will be happy
to hear how, how it starts. So,
we'll and I'll be able to
provide an update on. The
Professional development that's
taken that would have taken
place up to that point.
I am not seeing anything for
non-public either. I would like
to give the board update on one
thing in non-public if we could.
It's a matter of reputation.
Right. Does anyone else have
anything before we go into
non-public?
Alrighty, then do I have a?
Pushing to go into non-public
under reputation. 91-A. I have
a second.
Yes, yes, yes, all right. It is
6:46. We will be going into
non-public. Uh, Tech body. Five
minute breaking will come back
and discuss. Thank you all all
for your reports in coming
tonight. Let me.