d one of the major i don't want to use the word priority but it was a major priority for us was to update our capital plans they had not been updated for a significant number of years they were in good shape because we hadn't rolled to the terminations to date but they needed to be updated and the projects that had been done or hadn't gotten done needed to be put into a new revised plan and this is just a snapshot of camels comps they have been updated proximately twenty years out bob presented these capital plans to the facilities committee what was it in february linda and so i just wanted to update you on this was one of the indicators that we have and follow a capital plan and there's a snapshot of camels  mark take over this these are some of the outcomes and works that were completed major building priorities and pieces that are in the capital plan hundred seventy two so they've they always nothing in terms of usage so you know we're doing a couple of a year you will get those sorted out one of the big things that we did hopefully over time you know that that will be a cost savings and it's a natural gas it's burns cleaner and it's much more efficient so called projected that was supposed to save about forty percent painting changing the carpet because nothing spectacular but it's moving along with the plan that we have placed so support the schools and take some of the building pieces off the principal that make sure that we're being good stewards of the building i'm just going to set this light up just really briefly this is another one of their indicators how are we using the building is it for community use and for some educational purposes time ago it kind of got a new life three years ago its service this year seventy young people you know we and it also provides lunch and breakfast for all the kids that are also in our summer school almost i i liken it to kind of a college seminar p c so you're here for you know half hours a day and you get to pick two or three electives activities that you'd like to to to do engage in marion or an art teacher is going to do out and open studio for an hour and a half a day for the kids so you know you have access to the art room and it's open studio we're going to run a video club going to be a photography there's going to be that environmental exploration but the kids can choose those are selected so i i'm looking forward to that i think that's a great use of the building in the summer you know that's the whole month of july big the other t shorts in the system we were getting a lot of false alarms at one o'clock in the morning and so this is the most of what was i believe the original system for the building and we basically it was completely rewired there was a new panel son and all the tour of the building and saw all the the condition of our doors those doors of the replaced man with our staff and students appreciate it a great deal you know used to be able to pry the doors open from underneath their i kid could easily magnetically and when they close out they don't live at the access to the building we have an intruder or some other reason that we need to secure the building so we are in a lot better shape for the security and the safety  by new saints we had a lot of trees removed too i don't know i don't see those on there but we had several of those white pines out in our area removed they tend to be every time there's a major wind storm we get a huge l painted actually a lot of our teachers did a lot of the painting this past summer which was great i think there's just a whole new energy with our new made structure in terms of the the ownership of the building and we're really excited about that and we want to keep going on that and just keep improving so so i was trying to do dark hair so you do know that they should have no mark because a lot of the stuff going on i basically asked our secretary to look at our calendar and just list everything and i actually took a lot of it out as well but that's just some of the stuff that happens and i just one of the like you know that the building is in constant use it's you know it's open from seven in the morning till ten in the evening and usually there's people in there until at least night for a variety of reasons from basketball the  winner you know we have some dance going on volleyball you know the harvest market on the weekend that's a big event for us there's just a lot of things going on the fire department is a higher safety so there's it's a variety of activities that are there that's the great thing know these are all the claro are going so you know just the these are more of the activities that are going on within our school our garden are sponsored directly by our school the other one was more of a community based events b community schools but the past fairs that live in our towns and we embrace that we want people to be using the building and enjoying it and being part of the school community m m u these are the some of the  major pieces of work that were done last year the gym floor if you haven't been in the air looks excellent that was replace the bleachers were replaced the metal roof that we had been debating with the contractor for probably five years was finally we settled on a cost for the repairs and reimbursement and that was repainted and repaired they moved several classrooms they did so the relocated the the mail room and the coffee room and they really opened up some space for kids to meet and talk and work when you walk through  really looks a lot different than it did even a year ago and you'll see students in round tables conversing or doing their work or listening to music or talking to teachers it's a it's a really i think th fear is excellent and they installed the new lockers which is pretty significant expense and part of the capital plan in the two hundred three hundred sum of building use you know this is just a a sample but there are people or people of all three million with the after dark program it has been great and it has grown and grown and grown over the last couple of years  there is anything from cooking to woodworking to the guitar lessons that are taking place at the school and folks from not just our community but really they can come from all over a very small fee and they're able to take these classes and interfere there on those nights you know the energy is palpable there are people all over the place doing all sorts of activities really enjoying the building and i think basketball community baseball software the national guard in the community have access to the track in our fields and middle schools and elementary schools also use the  building for wrestling as well there's fitness camps of the very driven by or walk by you can see fitness camps going on on the fields on the state police of all and fire departments use our buildings for training and the community uses the frisbee golf course regularly oh this was a survey that was given two years ago and one of the this was one of the question of the primaries was questions on the survey was willing gauge students and teachers in the best educational recreational use of the school building and there were about nine hundred students that took the survey seven through twelve and then  they felt that the good majority of them felt that the using the building for educational recreational use was very important so you know all the questions that we had a teacher in leadership and this were the most important if you look at the last two categories very important and most important and then when we looked at how we were doing you can see that  a large majority of students seventy eight percent feel like the schools are doing a good job with the facilities and making them open and accessible and using them in the right way for and educational use so this was one of the where if not the highest satisfaction we would rate we had in any of the questions so i think that's a good indicator for this particular priority and some objective data and that's a question didn't work as well on the other hand so they had to dig it up and retrench it get the water to drain out seems to be working from what i'm hearing from everybody and they're planning on being able to use this off  the grade was off so the water was coming in and when i talked to mike of about it what he said is a you know there's this is going to be some regular maintenance we're going to have to do on all these fields because they're you so much  that i don't know that so i mean all they can do every year is there's irrigation now on one field anyway and keep seeding it keep fertilising keep watering it just redo it they area that  a difference between high school juniors running around on a six year old soccer player out there playing for fun because they  feel solve those problems it would help with i left it would have helped a lot but we overlooked asking if there were any community members who would like to speak folks probably know what it is but it's a we have to take a loan now all school districts in the state of vermont all school systems do so they can meet their expenses when we don't have enough cash flow because we haven't received revenue from the state of vermont maumee still union school district has reached a point where we can no longer go out to banks and  see if we can borrow money reinvest it and then save some money or even sometimes make a little money depending on what the rates are according to our bow and counsel because we're we need to exceed borrowing five million dollars we can no longer do that and we need to get a line of credit so we did go out to bid on the weight of credit to people merchants and t d bank merchants has the lowest rate and bob and i are recommending that the distress district secure a line of credit and the amount of five million four hundred ninety five thousand eight hundred seven dollars from the merchants bank one point one five percent cliff and i were talking a little bit about this prior to meeting i i  have a strong suspicion that this is a statute that's been on the books for a long time and it has not changed as school budgets have risen as a place in his rigid prison cell one of the things i am going to do is contact the remark superintendents association of vermont school word association and say you know this is something that they can look into and potentially lobby for for for next year to have this yeah raise it and set it to some sort of pay get to some sort of a rate in the future so that because it does have a big impact through this mechanism approximately twenty thousand dollars that we just budget oh you know we try to manage the cash flow effectively and because we're able to do it out o what the banks do is they look at their cash flow analysis from and they look at what are the critical times that you're going to need the money and that's what they'll lend you and this is the number that they came to they came up with and then we do need a motion yes some motion to authorize the district to secure a line of credit and the men of five million four hundred ninety five thousand eight hundred seven dollars from the merchants bank at one point one five percent soon moved discussion i hope we slow peer creditors just good point allison well i just don't think it's too bad that we need to do this but if we do i like the idea of doing business with vermont thank comments or questions so i'm going to pass this around in the piece tabs are where you need to sign there's also you'll see that there's the treasurer on will need to sign that's tom the back  some of these are a little more clear cut than others but i want us to explain them in the clear manner so we can do these all in one motion or we can do them separately that's the the cheapest prices and they've been done very well as far as their service with us so we're recommending cost here trucking inc for our wafer move for all three of our schools snow removal we only had one bed for brands river and that was for all seasons were they currently do the snow removal for browns river sanding and potential loading they're about the same but we're recommending all seasons maintenance for f y fourteen based on the flexible pricing so you know it's based on the advance we've to those the companies that you see below and the they're the only ones that have the cash flow again the capacity to wait thirty days for pain so nobody could really beat their price we're recommending a fixed price at three twenty nine a gallon that is less than we have budgeted and so we know that we're the price per gallon is going to be less than what robert fate here business manager shared with the finance committee that we are looking at a nest sir plus after looking at revenues in expenses of one hundred thirty nine thousand one hundred twenty seven dollars claims committee looked at the some of the detail and then we also heard discussion about transferring seventy thousand dollars of the anticipated go student representatives here too they're very busy if not both of them will be not be joining us next year hailey's retiring and connors going off to italy in a program scholarship that he was awarded united world college yeah yeah very exciting they've been they were i thought they were a tremendous asset on the board and just really wonderful young people that we can be proud of to have in our school system and i hope that their families are as well i'm sure that they are we will miss them and we thank them could i ask a question about that the most appropriate choices what we try to do is have a junior senior so there's some continuity it's a two year year to commitment if you well  opportunity sounds better than that but so that's basically how it's done because there's so much going on at this time we're especially today tomorrow and saturday night fell eventually that it would be better to postpone the interviews i think mike levy said they had twelve students who were interested which is a remarkably high number more than we've ever had before and i think perhaps that's somewhat a tribut that the next the next group will have to live up to if you will anyway so the interviews will take place in august at the end of august sometime and probably will well obviously when school students are back in school so if someone is interested in doing their linden i have done it and see the data for a number of years it's interesting it's very interesting now or nearly it's three board members that are involved with it it's in the afternoon three three thirty or so and i'd be willing to do that to it ok and i didn't know how many need students three three boys that come to murdering at any rate any one of them would have been in excellent student representative each of them was interested in a different thing ryan was it very interested in the economics of school and how it worked and so what we decided was for mike to approach each of the three is say one to one of the students were interested in curriculum and i think did attend so with the curriculum meetings and anyway it allowed like to ryan to that if you're really interested in this we'd love to have you on the finance committee and he was very he was a very committed member of the finance committee so that sort of broadens the exposure and the opportunity kids to participate on a board level you know i was going to comment i thought that was that was really a what i suspicioned right made a lot of great contributions committee and if if you have an excess of students who you think would really make contributions i think that's a great thing to do if they're willing to do it it's hard work it's hard work it is a commitment when you know the students have so many other things going weeks ago and it gives some information about the two point zero calendars we're calling it and also some resources for the community members of staff students can access to take a look at some of the rationale behind the calendar and some frequently asked questions and a comparison of this scale of the current calendar we are is the actual draft of the calendar and people can comment i haven't received a lot of comments i've received more e mail comments then been posted on the blo a lot of people don't really feel comfortable sharing on the open blog or a public blog so they've just emailed me directly and that's really worked well i probably had twelve dozen emails and a couple of phone calls from community members and we've had great great discussions about the reasons some of the reasons why this calendar might work for students and families and communities and some of the challenges that we may face as well started out with a message is trying to share with community members students and staff what the vision for in a nice was as a system and a little bit about me as a person this particular try to get it out we tried to get it out through the parent newsletters that's been the most successful so i think it's going to take time we've also tried to do some about it as well so we're get we're getting a lot more traffic than we did in the beginning you know bill it just keep generating more and more use but i'd say it's not as widely known as i w i think that's the next step i agree with you or just push stuff out there and take the few shots if you have to jimmy find yourself in the middle of a very public discourse that you can't really get out of but there i would say this that most of the people that have contacted me in the discussions i've had around yes you have been and you know there's been a whole lot of things from parents i would say there is a there are quite a number i would say of board members that are supportive at least that's what they've shared with me i was out of jericho last night and  the lot of those board members who were were were supportive of the calendar once they once had a chance to tell them what are and were some of the evangel potential of being just of it and another thing that's been really helpful is i've been said i want to hear what people think and feel and what their positions are i have not i see the advantages in it but i haven't made up my mind whether i can support this with my own life one vote the county regional superintendent screwed up so i want to hear what people have to say because they're going to bring up issues that i haven't thought of or that the group hasn't thought of and i think that's really important also the discussions that i've had with people have been fascinating and we've what is happened is we really got into talking about what they think is most important for their either children or for education in their community and if that's the result you know that's it that's a great great thing right they are so regardless of what happens we're talking about what we think is important for students and education in our communities and you know something good is going to happen from this is with the black her the intercessions of the this draft calendars students would start on the twentieth and they would end on the think  it's the nineteenth of june it's spaced approximately you know between seven and eight weeks with intercession in it and the whole month of july is there is no school and a good chunk of august and a chunk of you so that's the lay out this is on the blog as well and i can email this to the board too but i just wanted you to get a sense of this is the way it's still one hundred seventy five days it's we have a hundred seventy eight student days but the law says legislation says you have to have a minimum of one hundred seventy five  just i'm looking at it going we're still going until june nineteenth which is about the same time so how i think getting those bigger blocks of time off see that has a significant advantage to this calendar because what we do now is we take those snow days and we tack him on to the end of the year which is in my opinion probably the worst possible time to be adding educational time with this calendar we could add in those snow days into some of these intercessions and have four days of just using this year as an example or a good quality educational program for students the flow of the educational system and the schedule instead of you know again just tacking them on to the end of the year it's not a good way to to add or  tack on time for school this because otherwise we're short interest no we wouldn't we have to go out of the norm coming days is what they call it and we do it now there are some school districts have one seventy five we have three additional days i there are a number of parents who would just leave school they they take the kids out say well we're going to go to florida anyway and so the kids miss school i was wondering if that kind of thing was a motivation in trying to make some of these intersections thing over and over and expecting a different result and so what our superintendent's group has done is as really tried to look at what are some of the structural educational changes or are transformation that we can try to enact that will have a positive effect on students and communities and it really started with the roots of success and high school transformational document and then  context behind the counter and we were looking at that vision that mission and some of those agenda items and talking about what are what do we need to do to make these a possibility so this is this is a slow that i showed you earlier the year around the vision for a world class education and where we feel optimal learning happens is when the environment and the design and what we expect kids to know and be able to do and the measures are all working in conjunction and looking at i don't read all this to you says a review by one general i wanted to let you know what some of the guiding principles were behind the calendar and what some of the thinking was and it was moving from the really nineteenth twentieth century educational model to a twenty first century education that we're looking at construction and learning deliver anytime anywhere and potentially moving away from a traditional agrarian calendar and schedule to something that's more flexible  the and looking at again the growth indicators and the structures that's the highlight that i have on this which is the bottom ball left and square that we're looking at one of the analyzing the structures not just the people in the pedagogy but what are some of the structures that impact and influence learning in schools and certainly i think schedules and calendars i don't think anybody would disagree that those impact learning let me say a couple things right off of that because i think this question is going to come up there is no solid research that says model flying a calendar  has a really negative or positive impact on the what there are some studies that have strong indications that when you're able to extend you know or experience learning for states as an achievement we know that that's the reality and so we're trying to look for ways that we can close that gap and we think that this this calendar has the potential to do that also just so you know i was on this committee so he can people that have the calendar you can blame me of the success of every student in supporting a new vision for learning and teaching  other focus and focus personalized learning plans that is common there was legislation that students in grades seven through twelve are going to have to have personalized learning plans and there's no really time built into the schedule there's no framework for us to follow so that's going to work that's going to need to be done and it's important work i support the person it's already playing partnerships with higher principles that the committee followed sopore students wearing inch and achievement providing opportunities to first more student intervention during the school year what we do now is that we have summer school and so you have students that may not have understood multiple multi digit multiplication and there are mediation that's done during the school year but a lot of times we we try to wait till the end to solve these problems instead of doing it in real time when they can be most effective another problem was when summer school is that it's the different teachers  and it's a different program and so this is i believe this calendar provides up to more opportunities for students to come back during the intercessions and get real time remediation right after unit has been completed provides more time for better professional development we squeeze in our in service time now on and i think we do i know we have more flexibility with this calendar to do that regression over the summer for students that are economically say extended learning time for are at risk population has really solid results so those are some of the going principals some possibilities for the intercessions potentially work virtually on course work during that time and her in credit or have some intensive instruction during the winter sessions and her credit and even supports more students in graduating from from collaborative opportunities with experts in the field apprenticeships and a more evenly distribution of educational time when you need to add more days to their calendar to make this happen ok because when you talk about intervention and having the teachers there it's a block of time when everybody's looking at it and going oh they're going to be gone add some flexibility we're just following up on that i guess i'm a little confused because it sounds like right now we have with the chunk of time teacher vacation the some certain amount of time in the sounders if you're moving to a model where that would be much more flexible intersession that more staff will be needed to call the net or called in as needed to address issues here right now i think we have to have a finite number of teachers we'd have to designate with those days are going to be ok and it wouldn't be all teachers but it be some teachers and right now on where you can read spend of quite a bit of money on summer school and there's not a lot of research that shows summer school is in fact effective  it does help with progression but not really closing keep make gap so this would provide it with that would probably be gone summer school and that we would build that time into is what i talked about some of the work that we need to do the customizing the learning players as a person wearing plans for students focusing on implementing the common core standards the next generation science standards preparing students for the fact that there's a little there is more flexibility in the calendar to create some of those partnerships with other districts and do some of that work  and the challenges are going to be i think around child care i think that's going to be the probably one of the most significant hurdles also one of the common theme i've heard people love  summer's and they really don't want to give up any time during the summer with their family and you know that's a i respect that but that's a that's been a common thing that i've heard but more than anything it's really the child care  we're going to really have to and he the folks that are providing after school care now and they the wall i at least is i think very willing and wants to look at  child care during those intercessions and but it's going to be a hurdle talked about the tutoring in remediation minimizing summer boredom and i hear that from students and i certainly did as a teacher and as a principal and principal say that now and from family families when it gets you know around the end of august in broadening the opportunities for family time i know that not all families have the same resources and the same capacity to travel home and do enriching activities that we do have a lot of families in are that's you that do you want to do that  and you know the potential for balancing school and family life little bit next steps show will warm in there we're in the communication stage local teacher groups i'm going to reach out probably during her convocation in august and talk about the calendar and take questions and comments we have talked to the agency of education  i believe there's some support for this there are many people i think in the agency the feel that we do need to make some adjustments structurally for really serious about one closing the achievement gap  and a world class education in transforming what we're doing now stuart we need to bring this in front of the state board communicate with legislators afterschool providers businesses students and families so the purpose very strongly about it and what i think has worked well in the beginning is so far with people i've talked to is that they understand that i want to hear what they have to say i have a i see the advantages but it has to work for the community for parents and families for it to be for it to work and then you know looking at a communication  to be presenting him talking to groups as a jointly ruling that way and we're also connecting with some of the nonprofits in an organized way we've been meeting monthly and talking about what the blog should look there's it's mixed it's really been really just you know for some folks they really don't want to change their variety of reasons and then other individuals can see that there might be some opportunities to for some tear contracting you know some peer contracts so if you work more days you get paid more money and then there's some there's a practicality to that as well that some community members of like if people are living under a hill i have some concerns about this and i'm not going to go through five pages with johnny for my concerns  there are a lot of unintended consequences here our kids can go to your v m take courses there come back because if you b m summer calendar you will wipe out a number of classes that you have a whole flock of them in fact too fast to  able to take in i mean i don't know if that was considered and the same goes for summer programs for high school students at other institutions but that's just one of a whole list of things and what concerns me now is  the timing of this up finalized by next january we learned about it at our last board meeting summers now here we meet again in august i don't think there been any public forums on this i get the feeling the train has left the station and i better get off the track or i'm going to get smushed i agree with you i just really with a lot of things agree with some of the things i certainly agree to for working families and a lot of a lot of the comments i receive go to that for working families this could be extraordinarily attractive but but the timing of this bothers me we're implementing the common september is to say that this needs more thought more input and work consideration not of necessarily the thirty thousand foot level that you've got here but getting down to the nitty gritty as to what the effects of these intercessions really are on everything from child care to who's actually going to provide to reach them and where and at what cost i know there's o i think we need more time on this for twenty years finalised what six months from now or less is much too fast in my humble opinion yes but overall comment the same skipping the specifics can you have some questions about the intercession because i'm not sure i understood right that's you know oh yes you talked about the use of the intercession stand some of the advantages there then what i thought i heard you say was that also in those days would be where you dad the three days back in to get one hundred seventy eight where you did eight days in for in service and we possibly had four days in for snow that uses up a lot of the days well when they're in service time we have more flexibility you know can start we could you know you can go into august and you can go into june as well but you would be have the a more reasonable chumped way to have a service you know you know just mine obviously is the worst case scenario if you had to use all those days for all those things it just seems to me plus some of those days in the comb is to actually if you could even start the intercession a week later in june that week of august you're pretty much all of july and august and that would i think give you actually the that there are a lot of places that in particular charter schools are doing some variation of this now typically with more school days but stood still it's more of a there there chunking the school year differently we didn't see anything like that with that doesn't mean that that's not a phenomenon that we may have missed i don't like the idea of the bigger chunks but i realize it kind of along ken's line that there are days being put back yet but at the same time if they're put in as intervention time for students who are struggling and a parent has already made reservations plane reservations and trip reservations they're going to be gone within their kid needs that intervention or not and even if it's put back in and they s it just seems like there's more opportunity for that to happen as it is now the february break more and more people if they're going to be gone the one week they take two weeks off because it's only three days of school there  o i hear there's and that happens in summer school now you know that that's something that we're challenges with now as people go away and they miss half of it hopefully that might be mitigated by saying you know these are the days we're going to have intercession in the schools are really communicating with students that are at risk way ahead of time and letting them know you know this is this is there's a high potential that maybe jimmy or johnny or janie sue is going to be this time and then there would be some time in the summer where they might be able to do more things as a family because we wouldn't necessarily have summer school but that that is our that's somewhere far as a rich make goals you know that that's that and but we have to be working to provide something for them as well a best high school students i employ a lot of high school students at my swimming pool for example and where it's you know i'm i feel sad when i hear this concept of summer boredom because many of us are as busy or busy or in the summer i doing all sorts of things you know gardening swimming etc all these things that we do on and it's been my experience that that summer is not only precious from the weather point of view but it's also a time of renewal and i've seen students mature a great deal over a summer by working over a summer or having a vacation or participating in something that's totally different from regular school day i can remember you know as many years as a teacher there i come back and the kids that were that i seen that year before they come back in the next grade they've they've grown they've changed they're not the same i and it's that significant length of time that that does allow for that and aside from the fact that you know we have this joke that in vermont we have four seasons fall winter spring and summer and last year summer was on a wednesday i agree that the summer is a precious time it certainly is to me but i don't want to i mean i have a special summer  business so i i don't want to just make you know it about me and what i like but i'm interested to hear other people say that the summers are precious to them to time and i see a lot of growth in students over summer so i really do it doesn't just happen in school those are those it also might open up some working opportunities through the intercession for some students as well who we are talking about literally our last child what kind of process to the superintendents have a place to do the following collect and try to systematically  with the community members and bring them back and take a look at where their concerns are trying to categorize with those are and see if there's a way to either mitigate or another seventeen points to think about let's let's reflect on those and see and sort them out we were meeting one please and we've been tough looking at the regional talking about communication really trying to look at themes you know that like a set of may there may be more then most of the comments have been i would say from individuals that have concerns but it has been somewhat mixed where people have said that this is this makes a lot of sense  again jericho last night we talked about this for a long time yes a lot of questions all the same questions that you did and they had the end of them a meeting i think the majority were were saying you know this is something that we least need to roll out to the community and investigate and listen to what people think and regardless of whether the calendar is pastor no i think we're going to be able to glean some important priorities from the community that we can use in the go she should say and in planning our own calendar and implementing our own professional development  so like i said i can't support this if boards in the community don't and i've been clear to the superintendent's association that you know that's the way i'm going to cast my vote and my debts will be my physician but i do want to advocate for some four for all students but we have we have an achievement gap  in inch in any state in vermont that we have to close and we've got to look at different ways to do that i see value in closing the achievement gap with this calendar that that is really why i support it is because i think that we could organize the calendar and structure it so that we could provide some high quality extended learning telling for students that really need it january twenty fourth team how do we go about slowing the stones and there can be more here to this what's the mechanism for me you know i'm the mechanism but that doesn't mean that  the other superintendents are going to necessarily listen to to me but it you know it's really community input and feedback is going to we're going t you know we try them in other ways and we just you know it's really difficult and people actually really get quite frustrated and angry because they say why are you doing this in the summer when you know nobody's going to show up and you know this is what this in the flexibility that's in here but if the if the regional superintendents to not approve if you don't go forward with it how much latitude would we as a district have to make really any flexibility other than a few non common days during the school year the calendar we have now or you know august or you know  worst of the calendar was state white because i think then things would be a little more streamlined in their stead when they tried that remember the train down on purpose yeah i'd let the community dictate whether it goes or doesn't go and i think the community forums would give them the information they need all of the principals in all of the schools involved as opposed to us just saying we want you to slow down i think it's more of a you'll get a sense from the whole communities and give that feedback they may feel like wait a minute this hasn't been thought through enough in it if they all hear it from every community it's going to get slowed down so i think they kind of put in a mechanism although i don't know that they saw it as such when they did it  yeah i mean i think here we want to know what i know i want to know what people think or know what their opinions are in here and i want to know what they think is most important to them but like i said the community forms are going to give you more of that input than anything i agree and he says shit and the superintendents would not actually vote on this calendar until way today january of next year  we vote on a calendar every year and i would guess that it your intention to put this back on our agenda at some point next fall for a major discussion his state we did or we do want to have more time for for this to percolate in the community before we actually develop the meeting to it i don't know the answer that but it's the question that comes to mind and he might even g say is that you know sometimes people that are in leadership positions have to take risks and put themselves out there and i knew this was going to be a controversial topic but i think it has value and i want to know what people think know i'd love to hear more and love to hear comments and direct people to me as well you know i want to hear what people think do we have any committee facilities did meet on may thirtieth we have a community member very interested in the security audit that was going to be taking place here at camel's hump as well as richmond and she was and she was at the meeting and was informed that the audit hadn't the report to not come back to us at this point we also had another resident who came that he had followed all the steps that the town had given them with regards to installation of the signs so motion was made to the authorize the installation of an l e d signed as long as the zoning requirements had been met the motion was passed so that was the summer there should be a new sign installed where the current one is that's very similar to the cole chester high school sign which is two bricks pillars with the sign in the middle and the l m t lights it is a sign it will not be eliminated from the bottom or the top but the lights themselves will create the sign easier to build next years than it was this years and probably even more difficult since this year we knew what our personnel costs were going to be as the budget was bil we will not have that luxury this time so the direction we gave john one is to think about bringing in a budget that being tain what we have if anything wanted to be added could it be added what could be taken away to add something new so that overall the budget would increase really have a question i think clint this is probably directed to you about the health insurance you noted that there's a potential risks and potential exceptions well for employers that have less than fifty and that would that would refer to some of the smaller schools in our district that they would have to be provide insurance under the exchange if it was it was their grandfather plans and i think most of ours are actually but my question is that's really well in the next room probably will be easier in my understanding in a conversation the not the board level but was that is loan that decision was colored by the fact that they all operate under a single would no of necessity push them into the exchange become really complicated and back and working for a living i had a number of checks from real id people it's also those of the employers are the the district's not the supervisory union the union contract me said terms of employment and benefits and some things could filter this even raises constitutional issues i think it's a fine idea to talk about ways we could be more efficient but the legislature needs to give us an appropriate structure and i wrote this now for you that could be help six million one hundred eighty thousand nine hundred twenty six dollars fifty eight cents the districts pick up the cost of the of the reduced produce and there was a minimum yeah i figured it was but i just actually had somebody so i get the other comment was in reading the free press the last couple of weeks they talked about their yes program at burlington high school and that just sounded really like a novel way to deal with the end of the school year when the teachers are doing maybe dealing with all the personalities in the classroom and the students are feeling the same thing but how they had done two weeks of all different kinds of classes and they didn't it wasn't just for one grade so one through twelfth grade could sign up for a cooking class or a different language class or something i just wanted to say it sounded interesting and that would be something it would might be interesting to see what you like if there was following notice on our border just this please please email share superintended if you will not be able to attend if a last minute event prevents you from attending please call the following