grad and we have and i just induction which is the national honor society so i think actually this is that's this week so we're going to be like welcoming all the new people that are going to be on it  because there was a lot of issues with the senior parking lot in part because of a lot of back up and we're hosting this spring fling next friday the twenty eighth or twenty ninth and that's pretty cool because we've been we've been working on that and now we have a small group of students that have been figuring out with this arrest in this room so that's exciting sports are going into the playoffs next week not really sure how our teams are regular english not come with the english because they hosted the schools musical which was presented to the classes the day before they had the parents come and budget is included in the amount means you have modified budget so it does make some financial sense that have a similar church for both children east and for the male mansfield union school district  had a little bit of time to maybe contemplate then we might have proposed this initial leave because it makes all the sense in folkestone wrong voluntary merger committee think would corroborate that this was really the intent was to have a unified system and having different people finance committees from different entities really doesn't make a lot of sense so i think by changing a very few words in this  we could have this the real joining church or for c s u and for m and you and also i think would help as we try to do communicate what's going on with the public and for our own community members who take a look at our gender and are trying to figure out you know what body is what and who you know where do i if i had a question where would i go to i wanted to go to needing a meeting what would they be addressing i think this would streamline it a great deal or they just advisers for the last couple of weeks that we may want to consider revealing thing and taking a different approach on how we prepare the agendas again i think as much as anything for clarity to the community and again the model that we had talked about in the voluntary merger committee was that it was a unified system and unified board and so of agenda where you have one community comment section for both now don't get caught up this is a raft of other maybe things that are not completely related but this is to things about most of the items even if you look at an extended gender would be c s u triple and so it's just another way i think that helps the public get a better understanding of where to go in to talk to we talked about that we were looking into doing that so i don't think so we can we can just let her know that ok all right any other comments hearing on all those favoring the motion signify by saying i oppose the motion carries right our next item on the agenda discussed legislative bill h three six one and action  and that i thought maybe we didn't see anybody out here was give us an update on three sixty one i'm awfully particularly around some of the changes to the tax rate bob and i are going to work on putting together some models so you can see what some of the new provisions are around excess spending the way that the school funding formula is going to work so it can be specific to us but i'm going to need a little bit more time to to look at that the other piece i wanted to is there is a large appropriations bill that was passed that there are some education pieces to that and i want to take a look at those so and i have not even been able to find the report that came out of that conference committee so i want some time to look at those as well so i'll be much more prepared i hope in june to say look this is what it means for chinon east and mt means field but tonight i wouldn't be able to do that but what i thought might be helpful is you know i have studied this a bit and see if people have questions or anything parts of it that they want to talk about as a board a then just to give you a brief overview that there is a governance bill in there and it has some provisions to it and some of those very few a fact but some do and and then there are some other sections that are you know are going to have some influence on us as well and those are the ones that i have tagged particularly the governance bill some of the requirements of that and the the n the tax rate section as well so there's there's a bunch of pieces to the governance section of this that is going to take place from now until two thousand  so that the but the provisions in here are real and have then gone through a conference committee and there's been given take in some negotiations around what it will look like the section i would ask you to probably pay particular focus to would be on the some of the summary legislative summary that i say you page ten calendar there's some there's some language around if you're not meeting the ed quality standards what the consequences are so i think that's important for you to just know and understand as well but any pieces that have preliminary impressions and the preliminary impression is that is that it is preferred that a school district be organized as a supervisory district as opposed to a supervis  union there are tax incentives described in the summary that are available supervisory districts question in my mind is whether those incentives would be made available to us if we if we did form that district but it's certainly worth looking at because it's five years of tax incentive starting at a ten cent reduction going down to it two cent reduction in your final fifth year as opposed to right now we have eight cents going down to two sets in  full well we're about to start our first year at eight cents so and i'm not i can't be sure that they're available or not until i read the draft the also in the in the bill cost containment measures which i still have to wrap my head around but on a long term basis we're going to have to figure out and they they only last for two years and then they sunset by their terms but they say they reflect a modified version of of a cap and we have to analyze that and also the appropriations bill that john referred to to see to what extent they apply to us but regardless of whether these specific terms apply to us i think we have to understand that there's been a major change in my pillar in terms of wanting to impose specific restraints by law on local school districts spending and that is a major change for us there's also within the bill of and within the debate the proceeded a major commitment to the concept of moving as many school districts as possible through an incentive based process but one that ultimately may result in state orders  to be supervisory districts to be entities where on a unified basis you are governing pre k through great great twelve and that's something that that we as a board have to come to grips with and understand and also air all the residents of all of our communities have to understand right now if the community of huntington were to decide to join the mt mansfield modified union school district all it takes is a vote of their electorate by the election day deadline that is set forth in the article if that's the only action that has after that day there is a very complicated merger process that's set forth in law that requires various studies and votes by by both entities and that we also have to comply with this new statute so i'm not sure how different the discussion will be based on the statute i would hold that apart yet but it's clearly going to be a very different discussion if it occurs after november so i start a lot of studying to do but the tells you what i'm thinking at least at this point the law say and what people think at least initially to gather some information from the community and they said that at their meeting last week they're going to be talking about this with their community all good there are there are there is a section of the law that says what they need to do but not exactly what we would do or what our so more to come thank you john so all right so we've tabled the golden apple award process discussion  again i will give you an updated report on the mediation status check with the lawyers to see a legal have to run to see whether indeed a pinch hitter just in case kevin he's is a music teacher and helped us with our flyer and he's also a really smart gentleman that incredibly savvy and as great idea as also an intern resident and michael berry who is the principal at richmond  elementary school well you know putting this together and over the last month or so maybe a little bit more we've really been talking about what are the goals and this is really what's been guiding my work well what are the goals around communication what are her what are we want to achieve what are some of the underlying principles and then what is what some of the action that we're going to take  steered in my e mail over the weekend that i'm really focused on tonight was just going to focus on the first eight pages but i wanted to follow up with the board on you know this is what i'm working on and then i want to show you the daily communication community members so this is the document that has been guiding a lot of our work over the last several weeks started so i won't read it to you but  it starts out with some interim director e pieces and some definitions of what some of the terms are evil content to make you sick and then an introduction innovation and strives to talk to all constituencies to see what are some good ideas out there that might resonate with the with the entire system inmates who are students and being as successful as they  will see it a lot in the first few pages a reference to flattening which really that really describes an opportunity to go out and find innovation and find information and ideas from  woman through this that there is no substitute for personal communication but good communication what you're able to do it is if you have all these modes of communication if you're able to identify who you need to talk to and who has a question in an effective manner and then it's incumbent upon whoever the individual is it's response of all or interested to reach out to that person and that's what we've said really throughout the document that we're committed to doing so it's not just sharing the story but it's agenda finding what the questions are and trying to support people and finding the answers so this is really in the plans or in this communication again this is where we're operating and so i wanted to be able to show you the draft again this is draft with this is what we're working off right now i wanted to show you just our blog and some of the ways that we're trying to reach out to the community we've had some of our podcasts and some of our video clips we've  to make sure that i came back relatively soon and share with you you know this that was not just lip service but you know this is a full court press and i was trying to do something a little bit differently and this is the really the  together and that's what that's a lot about what we've been talking about but in the near term really the the jobs and the phone call positions on there are christian myself and  and michael i just can't tell you that he's just an excellent job of helping us he's over the last several years really don't have any and studied what works and what doesn't he's communicated with school systems that are being really successful around communication all over the country and internationally and particularly al in vancouver and parts of ontario there's just it's really neat things in the big school systems and having a really good result so we're trying to learn from what some other folks are doing they're being successful and you know a lot of what you see and hear we've taken from folks across the country say you know how can we do things a little bit differently but that's a great success and thank you other questions comments so we bring in periodic updates and we're really trying to interest connect this where in the initial stages of if you are signed up on any of our accounts from twitter to facebook to the blog that you're going to receive what's going  middle schools then we can share that with everybody so let me show you a draft of our blog i'm really i'm very excited about this and i also again i can't tell you how much i appreciate  so this is just the draft of what it's going to what are landing page would look like we looked at a lot of different websites and we focused on trying to programming is and what some of the specials are so the other thing i want to share with you is this is a video from richmond elementary some of the content that we're trying to present they can move out there a committee and i did ask kevin if he would be interested in being a part of the to really look at our our interface as far as our web sites and take a look at the functionality of it right now we're going to look embedding what i showed you in the blog and using the same framework that we have in the same company the same function but you know look different but we're really looking at what do we need to do in the future and what should that look like and so we have a committee that will start work probably the beginning at end of this year beginning of next year to really take a look at what we're doing and see  might optimize our resources conversations but we were trying to set up the system so we can't alemany the opportunity for somebody to write something that they shouldn't but we're trying to build in safeguards so that we can deal with it immediately and get rid of it and so the programs that we're using we've been really conscious to make sure that we have the ability to to get rid of things that are not appropriate so far we've set up the system like that but you're right we're it's inevitable that somebody is going to write something that you know is either you know appropriate or we're going to we need to set up a system so that we're able to deal with that pretty efficiently to a good point yes we're hoping that it's going to grow you know that's part of that section internal in the framework but what we have set up the system to be able to do is  use what's going on in each school and those blogs to integrate those into the system and so hopefully the end result is that that will become commonplace and so we're talking about some of the training that we need to do it revolves around communication and how we can use the resources that are out there to do the best job that we can you build it and they will come you know and we have a lot of it going on right now we have we have some people that are really using technology and i don't want to sound like i think that's the only way to communicate because i honestly fundamentally don't believe that i really think that it's a way for you to know if people have questions and where to go to help them in answering those i think that's one of the critical parts  so we have a lot of professional development going on right now pre k to twelve around how are we going to communicate more effectively how can we use the systems we have to do that how can we also use them to support students learning because you know a lot of this is definitely a political to the classroom i think when people see what the benefits are then they're they're more apt to to begin to follow a similar platform yeah absolutely and that was one we talked about what are some of the objectives that was one of them how do we inform people that might want to be proving into the community to show them you know here's what we can offer and we want you here and you're right the first place people go to is the website and if it's pleasing and solid content people are able to maneuver around it and get what they need it means a and that's not to be critical but we're all in different places but i think we're moving into a whole different area i think will support the schools much better ok you know and john has been incredibly supportive this would we as we first started talking about what we wanted the communication plan to look like and things that are important you know john gave us a lot of good feedback around you know he knows a lot of community members he's connected to many many folks in the richmond community so he was and you can credibly helpful in informing us of what we what might be important for folks good thing i brought it up because that was my plan that i would invite that somebody on there were a board would be part of the committee but i don't know people folks thoughts on that that was always my inten the other business yes we have so burlington we have the superintendent board chair coming i told him we put them first thing on the agenda that we should look out here i came in after that would be the fifth correct so it's like shit on my goals put that as my superintendent report so