some pretty good questions i did not prepare responses to all of them i don't think we'll take the time to go through them all so we can bring them up the questions focus on some details about the project specifically around that ten year what's up with the ten year think versus the twenty year and then some other questions around what else could we do besides something like this so some more some speculation around you know do we do we look at other options would if we our own farm that kind of thing and and makes out another question along the same lines of the other ten year questions so  i guess before before i get into starting explaining things that perhaps the board isn't interested in and knowing all open it up for general comments and questions unless most anybody else wants to speak on behalf of the project with would be where we would pay of a flat monthly payment based on what we anticipate happening that we are so that we can stabilize cash flow and then at the end of the year once a year to be true got to settle up for think i mean what was actually generated out of the out of the product and then guaranteeing us fifteen percent or guaranteeing us fifteen percent for the first ten years for the first ten years because after the first ten years the state statute expires that governs solar incentives and at that point the utility which as we know is also regulated by the state but at that point based on how the law expires they have the flexibility to change that solar incentive  and so i think i had the general impression that john and you know you guys were in support of the and i'm just wondering based on how you've looked at our energy usage in you know in the past tell me a little bit more about why you support this now and what you think you know is the best course of action and why i just a little there is no we're not putting any capital investment into the project and the window you know i wouldn't say there's this great urgency but there is some urgency because these tax incentives are going to be going away and that is the incentive for the credits and so that's how we're able to get a reduced rate so i'm supportive because why wouldn't we want to save you know forty or fifty thousand dollars a year and not have any investment in it and we don't have any investment we have a monthly payment for we have a payment to them we do but we're still paying less for i fifteen cents to the project and what the first cold water you know what the utility would be reimbursing us as a credit could fall below that and you know the public service board might be more encouraged to mandate you know some so the rate you know after ten years because we're all kind of in this together some you know but that to me when you read all the documentation  that's where the risk is is that it's open ended in the second half of the term so and so for example so instead of getting two cents savings on a kilowatt if it went the other way you know it would yeah the solar incentive is likely out or basis on the actual cost of the energy you're paying so that's what they're really if we thought electricity would be going  down you would think the risk would be higher i have no reservations on it but i like to guaranteed savings for ten years i believe that the state is committed to renewable energy and will find a way to make it profitable it's more like twenty five so there's two projects are just more that there's two projects being proposed one of them has estimated i think twenty five thousand the other one is about seventeen or eighteen thousand so these two projects are big because there are two different actual so you facilities and so you have those together i think it adds up to between four thousand a year in today's dollars yeah and it just same same line so they want all of our usage surely if if they you know if i think the idea would be if we were to put up our own build our own solar farm and not have any demand for any energy externally they wouldn't have we wouldn't be paying for what we use because we wouldn't be using any  school buildings and our facilities we will try to continue to as we need to do upgrades to the buildings do energy efficient upgrades and technology is changing so fast so the scenario i'd like to understand is if ten years twelve years out we have cut our electrical usage by fifty percent  just drawing numbers out of the sky i'd be interested in seeing a flow chart sort of to show if we use more power or if we use less power how does that affect this arrangement in terms of savings i realize that we're not putting any money up front so maybe that just makes more money for the investors because we're just getting reduced cost with without paying anything for it but that's that's something i sort of feel like i need to understand i don't want to have a disincentive to invest in more energy efficient programs as we go down the road so but if we don't use it at all that's another savings rate but we're not going to save anything on energy that we don't use so again because we're not investing in the original equipment we don't have the luxury of  foregoing an opportunity to get something more energy efficient down the road if the new technology well i want that to happen that is accurate and that is a downside to the twenty year reman because we are signing on for twenty years so mike we heard that something is going to be available within the next twenty years that the school would like to jump they're not in this you know solar technologies problem for a while and we're just getting it right now so the likelihood that it's going to be at the level where we could benefit from it is small but that is a risk right it's a real risk just kind of going to parley what i was thinking of this things like ok ellie the lighting you know there's a lot and a lot of computer usage i don't know to what extent we use electricity to heat our buildings but basically all the election tricity there when you use now ideally we'll be cutting that usage over the years so that ideally we would be cutting our cost if the cost remained the same per kilowatt hour and that's a moving target well and that's why would the contractors for eighty five percent of our electrical usage now so there is room for us to use less energy and still continue to get benefits from contract so if we use less than eighty five percent of what we use now we just you know i think it doesn't really affect it we just only get a better rate on the kilowatts right then than the project i guess looks at trying to find other customers the investors customers to use the excess so green lantern i want us to stop using as much power as we do now right so i think that's four it's based on the eighty five percent so that from an investment perspective it's not one hundred percent of what we use today but we're not committed to you directly eighty five percent of what we use now provides there down to the twenty year agreement to receive net metering credits generated from two solar projects and to pay the solar project operator between fifteen cents and twenty five cents per kilowatt hour for these credits  with the exception of one clarifying point which is if huntington after november third was within phase one that time frame or phrase for that matter if they do not have to go through a whole study committee and prepare something that goes to the state board  the huntington school district merging with the mt mansfield modified union school district to form a unified school district and then the electorate from the triple whammy districts would need to prove  that an article looks a little differently that basically says we're proving huntington joining the triple m to form the unified school district so there are couple pieces that i am pretty confident about well one is that if and again i'm talking i think that a cold case is i'm not trying to put any pressure on anybody i'm just talking about my analysis of each three sixty one and my communication with unified system a preferred school district was operational by july one two thousand and seventeen reset button gets hit so what means is that means is that everybody in the triple m  huntington get those five years of accelerated tax incentives now that's that is the interpretation of the elite and it is the interpretation of our curse leopold operational then those five years of tax incentives would apply as well as the transitional rate it's a little less clear when you get into phase two as you can tell i i and i think that i think the language in the memo is pretty clear that there are some school districts can get a waiver but they need to be able to really prove to the state board of that and secretary of education that they're better off from their current structure and if it's the secretary of state board of ed don't see that as accurate then that school district can be assigned to the school system that meets the criteria him all the other provision i did want to mention which is in my memo to the board is that there is the excess spending and threshold nothing can really this is the way i interpret the law and i think they always and again chris agrees in the nothing could really happen to the triple m i mean it's not like the state board of that in there is some provision in the law that it could be assigned because it's not a preferred structure to another school district because it was a merged entity under one fifty six and then revised to one fifty three so those are the three phases that are in the law the appropriations bill also has a section that talks about the excess spending  caf that is in h three sixty one and how it does not apply to districts that have merged under a regional education district which is what we did november but i think one of the critical pieces i would share is that i think everybody agrees that if huntington was to birch with the triple whammy the clock starts over again and we get ten eight six four two cents and senate i don't think there's there's a common agreement around that so in some ways you know that is significant because ten cents is a tax incentive is substantial and the caps would be yet they would probably work for one year the threshold right now reference one fifty three so i don't think that applies to the exhilarated incentives in the preferred school districts that are in the first phase but that's something we need to check out d that i did check out as well but the people in town would still be voting you know that are per the district that's accurate and again like chris was really clear about this that  could be done if the district can be fully operational by july one two thousand and seventeen then it can be done by two articles one presented to huntington one presented to the  it but maybe there's something that i'm missing in there maybe there is a way to fuse the budget if the electorate did approve it you know they would need some guidance for the we but i think there is common agreement that that's accurate which really happens folks who now are all suddenly coming up with ideas and creative ways to merge and so i anticipate that there's going to be a big flurry of action which as michael pointed out may predispose t legislature trying to tweak something but our all signs are looking like people are coming up with all different kinds of ideas on how to arrange for you  a two year with the community thinks about unification on the tax incentives because that's what's in the bill but fundamentally i think that unification of the whole system is in the best interest students if it was just about the money i could not support it but i wanted to provide you folks with what the law my interpretation of the law and what it means as we go down the road but i think michael's absolutely right got to stay focused on students and i think we can make a very good case why we  need it so you know oh we'll wait and hear from eggs and i'm sure she will reach out to to this border the people there were on the merger committee as well and that she needs help and that i know she feels comfortable on to the system that we had rather than change having said that i fully recognize having read this much as i could the it things have changed and not just so huntington was not swayed by incentives before and in my talking to people who are just beginning to see that he something different has come down the plate because most people don't follow it like we all do  so when i mentioned to folks we're going to be having a form of like what why are you doing that i don't want to do that we already did that so and i as i said to john i'm coming at this with fresh eyes looking for what we have now but i'm also coming at it with a community view that trust me to look at it openly and to be straight with them and to hear what their feelings are there's i would say a strong feeling really liking the fact that huntington made the decision i made and i mentioned to john that i'm concerned that if we push a vote too soon that people will not understand that the situation is different so we talked about the scenarios various timelines face one face to what do we gain what do we lose if we wait a while before we actually hold because the worst thing that could happen is if huntington were to have a vote really soon vote no again and really not i understand that that may not be the best thing for me and i recognize that but i want to be realistic so i'm happy to be able to say with this group as part of this group and to share with you that i am one hundred percent sincere in trying to come up with a good open dialogue we talked about the agenda for june twenty third meeting and i expect it'll have three parts one will be to explain a new one will be to hear what people want to say because people will have things to say we are ready had the be good listeners and pay attention if there's new information and they feel they're going to be heard so i expect it's going to be an interesting period of time but i'm glad to know that we are not going to be forced to do it by november because i don't feel that that might end up having the best result for the long term and i don't remember there was something else in my head but you know things go yeah diane do you have enough successful about our farms was well organized presentation that clearly explained everything before the conversation got going so i'm assuming if you need help with any of that that there are resources to present it sounds like john is going to be there on the twenty third and we talked about what kind of audiovisuals to have great and i gave him some ideas about what might or might not work and we actually have another form scheduled for september i don't have it in my head because at the last board meeting we talked about waiting until september but we were thinking that might be too soon before november and now you know this whole business is a losing moving target as we understand it so this is probably going to be one of many community conversations this is going to get get the conversation started and so good listeners oh i know what i wanted to do that people are going to be asking show me the benefits you know the m m m district has been formed show me the benefits so as we're moving down the months i have you can be thinking what would be an example of something i could say to somebody that would say well we did this and this was good you know we we were able to so that is what you know as far as how you could be helpful just if you can give me things specific that i can take back to the community and say well if they had heard that they couldn't have done that maybe that wouldn't help us but you know if we merge maybe this is something we could do that that's you know about talks that says something and i would think that particularly relevant might be  things that have happened in other elementary schools as a result of you know directly or indirectly as a result of unification for example well i you know under high d and other small school you know they were looking at los you know some of the smaller schools are in better shape oh absolutely and that absolutely might speak to you know some of the fears well i do think it has worked for the schools that are  g but i'm just saying as far as you helping me to speak to people right huntington i don't think that they would comfortably and that they would be happy to hear oh if some kids from the school went to that school at my house that would be a red flag for people as opposed to the other way around yes personally i don't feel like there's going to be much movement of children in huntington to a different place i hope not because geographically we're located in such a different place but so those are sort of the saw that i never would still border on rich oh yes oh yes did you have to reduce a teacher in your building yes but it had nothing to do with funding it had to do with classroom size we were looking at having some classes of twelve or whatever last meeting it's the policy of the mt mansfield modified unit union school district that to receive a diploma beginning with a class of twenty twenty students to meet or exceed proficiency basic requirements as outlined in the vermont state board of education education quality standards rule two thousand adopted april fifteenth two thousand and fourteen in addition students who meet the requirements of the school advisory program requirements will be developed and communicated to students families in the community so that is easy way to see that that was something to discuss for a later time that that you know through the website the advisory program if you clicked on that you could more easily see or be directed to w has to be in the requirement for graduation but we can pretty much assume you're making sure every child does meet that requirement it's in addition to what the state you say your state used t the administration cation came out of a couple of different things one of them is that we do get questions to the board directly they come in through e mail they come in through phone calls they come in through other ways and at this point we've been told to direct them all to you and you'll reply to them which is fine except that you have an awful lot on your plate right now with all of this and it feels like it doesn't feel like it's coming from necessarily the border there's a board decision necessarily about it and the other piece is that when information is coming from the administration it's a plan as to kind of how we're moving the district forward or the school board or the park whatever kind of a thing is but it's not necessarily something the tappan ng at our board meetings or that something that the board is to has decided upon i guess that kind of a thing so for example the separation for me when we're talking about the calendar we could have had a communication directly from the board that said the board has just has set this is the new calendar for the year this happens every year every year the board picks the dates for the counter here this is the different thing than this year and the administration will be presenting a plan in the near future to the you know to the community where it could have been two separate communications that may have been easier for the comm i don't know understand or absorb or whatever something like that so those are the two reasons that i don't know and i don't know other people have other things but those are the kinds of things that was making me think that we need to set up some kind of  updates on facebook i'm sure you know and people expect you know information coming out so i think that would be helpful both before meeting after meeting or any other issues coming up that the board could more freely communicate i think the community would but we could you know rapidly react to it if we had a segment of the of the border if we had that in our list of priorities to focus on so that we didn't have to respond at the pace of the company ministration i would have thought as we community member if i heard this first thing is i'm going to make a phone call to my representative from my family find out what's going on i did think i would remind the community of this if you want to one of the answer to your question put directly to say is i didn't get it in richmond and you have to log from a and that and i just haven't you know i wasn't sure whether i needed to respond to it or not i would assume that someone would have i wasn't on this forum i had a question i would go you know i think i like to think i would be inclined to go to the store a sketch but that's not what most people do and so it was out there and then what happened is in two days i think it was underhill oh gosh i can't believe and there are you know there are people who frankly should know better there is no some community so what happens when we don't respond in a way that all the people that saw the initial information this information will see it is that it spirals out of control and we saw to happen with the calendar issue so suzanne and i understand that so here i am saying if i got one message from andrew that happened ok and i'm not on and i don't refund for it for him all day so now right here tonight just prior to this meeting i think you said to me again if there were a few more i was down at that point i agree with you that maybe we need to get a message response out there i also want to say i'm just holding back a bit on what is this towards responsibility and what is the responsibility of the community and that and in this one particular instance because i could spend a lot of time responding response first and out there if you're not happy when you call the superintendent or whatever i believe the front page form is if you're still not that you want to have a discussion about it or whatever you know once you get all your facts together then maybe  to pressure thoughts but i guess i am a little bothered that that's where people start and we create this this situation that could have been squashed or responded to in the more you we have but we have a two or three step process where we say is this worth responding to and if it is if we would get a forum that is as pervasive as possible to expect a community member to take that responsibility on is assuming a lot of this point is we're still in the process of engaging them as as a community is prior to community forums although you had  if you will we could manage that or we can react to that and so i think that's where if this would only be for work one off type of issues for for policies in general we would have a different approach but do we have a point person for people to say i think we should do something what do we expect do we expect the ministries to do it respecting the superintendent or as a a member of that town is that this that response and we're the first but by the way if you have any questions feel free to contact me here's my phone number or here's my e mail and in that's a going to a way to engender that trust which i think what you're asking is after a meeting or somehow we can get information out to them to if there's any topic or wherever they have to and we can certainly certainly can do that as well as you know th it's the three meetings let's get the information out i think front porch for his standard community contact at this moment we have to be flexible enough to know that that may change and there will be other opportunities and so i feel like that's part of it it's really it's after the meeting what were the decisions what's the outcome and it's being able to respond as things come and it needs to be nimble i don't think we i don't think it benefits us to  i don't think it benefits us to take lots of time to process it i think it benefits us to have a committee that's focused on that or have a couple people that are focused on getting a quick response out because i feel like when we don't do that things spiral and that's just the way we live now the way we live now people don't just talk to their neighbor people post on facebook people post from port form and that is talking to their neighbor but it's not one person it's one hundred people or we have to be careful when we talk about here in the perspective and i want to say to be careful about being defensive you know it's like kids talk in the playground to each other but we don't hear everything they when people talk to each other you know every community has its people very carefully go to the person and other people just want to say hey what's happening out there does anybody else has anybody else heard this and you have people going yeah i hear that don't worry about it it doesn't reflect badly on us or any decision we made we need to be secure enough in our process that we can let that kind of conversation go on without feeling like oh my god those people are talking about us it's ok let's talk and then have a process where we say hey something to be a factor thanks for bringing this up it sounds like some people have some quest or have some misunderstandings and you know don't chime people from being curious or being upset because they misunderstand so don't assume that everybody's go go to their head to their representative because frankly one reason they put it out of proportion for me is because they want to have a community conversation and if i have a question and i just ask my representative then i'm the only one who knows them so even if they do it in a way that is mean spirited or silly or salting they're still doing us a service by bringing up how some people are concerned or confuse for angry and it gives us an opportunity to react without anger and without hoover's or whatever you know it gives us an opportunity to just say hey  whatever cell phone or whatever it is to get to go yeah to get in touch to be able to respond to something but it is it is also the hey we have a meeting coming up in three days here's our agenda come chat with us or we just had a meeting this these are the salient you know this is the outcome from the meeting so it's the easy things and then the more i guess complicated things but that would be my pro thought about it i'm just putting out some suggestions in response to too and i'm trying to move the conversation along with i'm really here's what i am and i understand what you're saying here is what i have to be careful having three people make a decision that the other twelve members of the board might not agree with what cuts have that i have and that we have to make sure the that everybody's comfortable with the response and all this is which is why i said you can you know come back to me the gentleman where we see responses to what what it was now that i know that you have it and then i'm more than willing to address it and that's what i i i i said before i want to careful and doing doing stuff on the front page having discussed dialogues with community members on the front page for i prefer to do them over a phone call where i'm having a direct conversation with with the  individual that's where i prefer to start with them and that i believe that's the most efficient and effective way to communicate with the community so that's my my belief just and i hear what you're saying is one of the great things you can do is you can have someone who gives the canned not canned but a a response that invites the person to call to check our facebook page to check this other thing and not engage in the conversation but say thanks so much for bringing this up and i'm sure other people want to know the answer as well here are the places you can go to it and hear the people you can call for a personal conversation for that that way you've invited them to take it further where needs to go with out engaging in the conversation i don't think any of us wants to get into a front porch for a war dialogue at all but how did you and gage ok so this is what we're talking about is engagement and you have to be out there and you have to be inviting if you're standoffish if you're defensive and if you don't answer then you're not engaging either so i think there's a way we could do this that would meet your needs and meet other needs as well wondering if thinking looks like an f a q frequently asked questions because of the opportunity for education as this is all new not only is it new to us we're still trying to figure out what are our governance structures and government at the same we going to have to educate the public in order for them to say oh this is just the same old thing and turn off what we're getting is probably people who haven't engaged the school board for whatever reason and they're hearing something and they have a way to connect so acknowledging that and saying ok here's frequently asked questions if you don't find what you're looking for here's next steps that's also a way of transferring a little bit of the out of the responsibility to the community member because you're saying this is great we're engaging you here's the first line of a lot of the fence here here there's the information if you did that doesn't work contact one of your contact your town representative contact the chair contact soup or whatever the process that we want people to follow that makes sense we set that up and then if it requires board action that's somewhere down the road but the initial thing is dissemination of information we're not doing policy we're not saying well this is this is coming down from on high we're just saying somebody mistook this for something that wasn't here's a clarification that's all instead of blowing it up posted everybody grabbed it so now it's not one person now it's everybody else involved as well and peter and i receive an email from somebody in our constituency wan train i think that it's because this board is new and people don't really understand what we're doing here they're going to always wonder what's going on at these meetings and then why are all these decisions being made and we just chance to filter it all back to you so i think on something like this everybody sees it so we do need to address it but always and i almost every time we put something in front porch for a week reiterate i mean answering this but the best way you know for you to proceed is attack this person or you know in your town or contact the office or in it every time i leave them to you were talking about whether to respond to that the question my mind whose responsibility is it to respond now as an elementary school board member i've been taught that my responsibility want to community members constantly is to pass that question on to the principal and if the principal can't respond to that community question then it gets passed on to the superintendent so there's a there's a chain of command for better or for lack of better words as to how we as board members hear questions and supply responses we become a person that people can talk to but then we don't give the answer we pass along to the administration and because that's what the administration is there to do they run the system and they respond to people so in this situation now we've got  one board that you know a lot of people may not even know who their board member is because we have it's more distant before every elementary school has two or three people and probably one of them you would know the cause so with that in mind i i like he's suggestion that we come up with a way that is more nimble for responses that don't just get funneled through our board chair but get funneled through the board in a way that meets the question and answer the question who is responsible we as a board need to decide that  and also perhaps because we already have a communications subcommittee perhaps we could brainstorm a way to take that communication subcommittee and assign gets parameters as far as perhaps having quick responses where two or three people are on a call list and they talk to john or john and agree what a response might be without calling the whole for it and then if the next meeting report well we had two or three incidences and this is how we dealt with something like that that there's something in place but there is feedback to the board i'm just brainstorming now but i'm saying you know people in the past perhaps i knew would call and now they  d i mean there are links easy links that we could do so i do agree that we need to get this going we have some other answers for people who just wanted to say that one thing to keep in mind too is that we do that there's a couple things that we're talking about and i i think when he started talking about us our general communication as a board and routine matters and i do that we need to speak with non administrative b s no it's intended but in plain language to the public to some degree of how the broad strokes and what we're doing and i think that that's something that we've been missing and so the idea of you know before meeting we're going to talk about the stuff and after you know i think that's a great piece the the other piece is of course the hot topic today and i can guarantee that somebody is going to post some misinformation from work for that's going to happen and the i think it's important for the board to be able to react with him the cycle which is by the next time it comes out not necessarily to have the answers but to say wait a minute you know somebody needs to say this is not right and maybe you know the answer maybe you can say no we're not changing the name of  school or maybe it's the calendar issue and you have to say listen there's a plan we'll get the details out later but if we can't respond in the next front porch forum cycle then it's going to continue to grow so we have one comment yesterday and two today i'm afraid if we don't get something out tomorrow there might be four and it doesn't have to take a tremendous amount of time it merely takes one or a few board members who are willing to say listen this isn't a big issue and we will get i think that it's really important that we recognize that a small group of people perhaps needs to take the responsibility for recognizing when there are posts that need to be addressed right away to a least keep t for the board i'm going to take the guidance from this board and try to project it locally on that particular front porch forum and there might be some guidance coming like a chair a good say a community leads  to get this topic highlighted in the next meeting so we draw public to a meeting to talk about that one particular issue or we can handle that role could rotate i don't know how how formal it is to get another option not to be community meets i would like it to be one committee just become one group just because any of us can post on all of the community front porch forum to see it would be one it's the same thing the same information going out whatever it is it can i don't want to have all of our emails on there whatever however you want to do that that's not really i guess it's a trust thing it's a trust thing within our board and from the community we're new we have a zero trust bank right now with the community and we need to build that so that's one thing we also are new a lot of us to each other and we need to be able to trust each other here as well to represent each other well i mean i'm i'm doing this community response for a local company right now making international responses they are trusting me to do not the c e o but me that slowly you know to do these kinds of responses because they've trained me in what's appropriate to say so i feel like we can do that as a ford in our community as well and i would like us to be able to do that and again this is not the administration on how things are being run but just what our decisions are just what's happening just inviting the community to join us in improv because this decision happening at this board and i was moving forward things were we're doing it just may lead us you know that was and i mean changing the name of the week isn't a thing that was happening here so anybody could we we have proved our website a lot we've done a lot of our police we've got a new facebook page we're doing a lot of a lot of stuff out there and i know the administration and the all the schools and i was trying to get this out to the to my people as well and we're going to we're trying to get this out to the community and as well i want the community to be reassured that the hear from ation is out there and stuff and all i'm trying to say that sometimes the best way to find out that information out there is to call someone to begin with about how we live anymore and it's not what we are what i have and i understand that that's not how we live i'm just trying to say in order for me as a representative of the community to do my job it's to the best of my ability it's much easier if you pick up the phone and call me it makes it more challenging for me we need to adapt we can expect people to adapt to what easiest for us we need to adapt to what the agreeing with even saying i think we need two decisions we need a decision as to how to deal with a certain situation right now we're a general sense that we all will deal with it and then i would like to go we do our work kind of thing and then to give us a chance for building off a specific proposal to actually get a sense of what works for us and so i'd like to suggest that we move to the border to the to the retreat and th summer we're not going to have a plan and that's why this keeps coming up because we don't have a plan for so perhaps in the interim andrew who had done it so well in the past when he was the chair and i'm sorry we haven't talked about this but to when he was to indulge me he was always ahead of the game with the front porch for him and bolten telling everyone perhaps he'd be willing to do that for the group or get some help and then we can talk about a longer term plan and be the one to kind of point and just put it out there because just because it's only on the underhill front court form now means also that jericho residents are saying it means it's going to continue to spread so maybe he's willing to just i don't know maybe to do this until we have a group discussion but i think we need to have a plan for something like dan was saying what or what what's going to walk at what's going to happen when we walk out here today so  member can we just say hey i'm a school board member a saw your post i'm inviting you to give me a call and hear the other names of other school board members and don't forget to check our website i mean that's a very generic point i mean i believe i just want to make sure that's ok because i would be fine with just doing that when i see stuff because i'm on a lot too and i have a request if i'm in a town that hasn't seen happen and this is going on and i'm a board member i don't know why is there or is there some way that person from huntington or brac or whoever in other words i want to make sure i knew it before i responded i want to make sure that i knew what was going on so i guess it would depend on what the issue was if it's something appeared in coming to another changing the name about me as for high school i would was you know it's ok i guess i'm just wondering if it's worth trying to get people in on a summer weekend mornings are so precious and i'm wondering if the stuff that we're talking about could just be dealt with and so right when i don't want us to do is get into a situation where it is just one focus of the of an already packed meeting that's got all of these other reports in it when we do ask for a thing again would have all that other stuff and if you had a meeting you would  think the communication piece could be a record perhaps a big but could be a piece of a regular meeting but to have the power one of the other times that we've talked about having a meeting to just be a policy governance discussion  because if we were going to do communication and policy governance those two big issues you know that to me would be important to know what she can do you know throw some of the da  and then under after the reference to the elementary school teacher m m u teachers used to be a separate district but now it seems i could just say the high school  middle school teachers or something like that and then the other question i had was on sixteen point two i was a little confused about the reference to twenty sixteen seventeen contract twenty fifteen slash seventeen contract but i haven't put it up here on my page but it seemed like there was one place where  yeah let's see it refers to the twenty fifteen seventeen contract as a correction because it had said twenty sixteen seventeen but then further on it refers to this twenty sixteen seventeen agreement wasn't but for this i believe we got what satisfactorily met the board's need in addition to meet their needs in the here and then and being able to conserving what else we could we were able to poet and that just wanted to share with you also that today john and i are turning chris leopold were able to reach a tentative agreement with the will need one another meeting you pretty shortly to ratify that i'd like to do prior to july one because we've got a real issue you know three hundred contract so that would just like michael would it be progress on those indicators one of the goal number one was to provide support and guidance of planing required to successfully and effectively transition to a unified school district or refine that document and look for ways to engage the community as effectively as we possibly can trying to be proactive in the much less reactive if you noticed the blog and on the series the information that we've been sending out a lot of that is it's not react it all it's here is what's going on in our school system here's what's important to us and here's the activities that we were doing anymore transfer of assets and liabilities under way we've also been dealing with some other financial issues effectively to transition to full operation on july horn and that to people that are really focused on the fine jobs in different responsibilities think that's going to make us much more efficient and more active you know less mistakes and  more accountable to you folks and to the community but your process this year was probably as in depth as any i have seen there were a lot of moving parts in a lot of pieces and then merging of first now i'd say that that has been very successful we were able to with the subcommittee come to terms on layoff recall seniority transfer and voluntary  our master remit then my other project role was around really effective to support him to some extent facilitation of teacher and support staff negotiations and we had a relationship where he got the information that he needed and he was able to get guidance from me and from the go shisha this committee around what our proposals and structure should look like i think the results of that my my reflections but the negotiations committee deserves a are deep appreciation and certainly your gratitude because they spent countless hours analyzing discussing processing this is a project goal that was able to approach the key areas for me really to continue i think i feel to focus on moving forward with the unified system is continues to be communication and having more time spent focusing on that and continuing to lead and to have oversight over the tree and zisha in our business services  and human resource had i think this year maybe i think you were force this year to do everything going on to really leverage your staff more in terms of delegating and giving you know guidance i saw that time and time again where you know it was other than john working with the boards and other committees and i think that's great to continue so from my perspective you know there are certainly areas to improve i think it is pretty good  not only to us but to all the administrators community which is why i still believe we have one of the most desirable educational systems in the state who want to id acceptance and ever in the history of the high school this year kids are getting into ivy league schools which we keep getting better and better and that but it begins with john's leadership that would be good because a lot of the stuff in there also had to do with what you wanted to do once you got on the board and so you may want to cut some of that ok i believe i may have it think that we can send it back out but you can and we can talk about that later i'd be happy to answer easy was it just interesting how hard it is to undo that creation from the legislature did you have you know my only question was about i'm sometimes meeting dates i know that the first membership in that and then i want to say the same thing about joan sandy and carol from the support staff same thing they do a very nice job representing the support staff that again with great harmony and great then just one final note i'm sure i speak on behalf of all the board members here as we extend our congratulations to the me a few doing in high school class of twenty fifteen to fund their completion of their  k tional experience here in the graduating on saturday i think it went very well michael westen and the leadership at the high school do a tremendous job of putting together that program and that this shows you how you know great things are going on and that and the impact that kids have ok so we i think we believe we've talked  about when we're meeting next and we have a little gap with the what the agenda will look like so i believe john and i have an idea of what that's going to be but it's out there in august  let's anybody has anything they want to bring up i believe you know what we're going to be facing at that point so with that said i'll entertain a motion to go into executive session for the purpose of personnel