perfect sense and it showed that there is a tremendous amount of success and enthusiasm for the program among students that wouldn't necessarily enjoyed the same enthusiasm in a more structured sa a quality education when i was in the occupation process people said how art is for americans to measure up to some of the other parts of the world that are very focused on education and i know  not necessarily the curriculum as the people who are teaching here are the people that are here and if you're passionate about something you can make connections with matter whether you have people in your class or in any of ok we would not do the show and in regards to operation of the scientists is there a plan to turn the sign off at a certain time at night and not back on till certain time in the steps that an easy and clear way to recognize the school is a good idea however seems like we could come up with a different decision that quite possibly would make us less of a goes against the rural residential nature of the area well according to that definition the school goes against the rural residential area no thanks nature of the area so i think we have to look at what we are and what we want to present to people and if i want somebody to find this cool g p s only works so well it's been known to drive people into the ocean so i think we need  and i think it's just that the whole information piece needs to come but i would ask that people kind of hold their their main judgments until we do have that development review board finding and go raise the point resumed the point is that people can find out what's going on at the school by looking on websites which are probably very few of us or do although i now have inside information over the dinner table as to what's going on historical context of the neighborhood school our schools were committed in the agricultural residential song because i they were needed there and and it's interesting that just as one of the points out it seems i i am not familiar with the jericho zoning rules but most towns and those only documents have a table were there it tells each song and then the various all the sort of things that you might do on multi their facilities committee came back and reported for the order to the board and the plan was that we were going to put it up yeah and i guess  is there a way to accomplish the needs of the sign and more somewhat more lighting and somewhat more of this ability without putting in i quite such a  to and the discussion for tonight because we aren't going to be able to make a decision there are all kinds of ramifications that are going to be have to be dealt with down the road so we can continue this  objects as another time and move on to approving the budget  education spending it expenditure do less your revenue is education spending what is that revenue you're taking out taken out of special education federal and state money principles in the air and it were ok with cutting those back it does mean that the principals become a little more responsible for some of those kids  would recommend as i pass this around people can take a look at it it's the official warning it has the informational meetings that we're going to have and february and then articles that we will be voting on at the annual meeting and then the australian ballot questions including the bond which we had talked about at one point three approximately million houses from the engineer and what we're presenting to the board tonight for the warning is a one point one million dollar approximately one million one hundred forty thousand dollars on units and that's what is was on this this morning so i thought i'd pass it around people take a look at it if they feel comfortable signing it great and we could consider moving it towards the end of the me it has the adopted budget at twenty seven million eight hundred five thousand dollars forty four so that they could apply state some important provisions are that if you request school choice and you're denied because of capacity limits you get preferential treatment and next year we were able to guideline from the state so this was for school our size there's a percentage what we're recommending for this year is that we set the transfer limit forty students that's really the max first student for school our size and that we set the capacity it's a mathematical algorithm this is one of the examples that the state so that leads us to open questions and it's not problematic to set our cumulative transfer limit it forty because we're not spending any money with the students right as many students as want right so it doesn't it's not  that they have there so and there is that you know they want to and you start share that and present that to to the board that i had of my rational goals this year is was to try to expand quality early education opportunities for students and eligible children in  and i just wanted to give folks a chance to ask me any questions and to give you a little bit of an update about what's going on in preschool across the supervisory union i do believe that it is one of the best investments that our communities that is reputable has said that early education is a great investment for communities one of the most well respected studies was the piri study it was out of chicago  really they just they followed a sample of individuals over there still following them and they looked at what their incarceration rates were they looked at what their income level was their eligibility for special education and their health and what they found was a really disproportionate  lower income level and they were not as healthy which i for was a shock to me i never really i don't know why that was one of the was when i was reading that particular study that the health of the individuals their actual health was better than those that did not have a quality early learning three to five educational experience so  it also has two private partnerships lots of the included in the budget i think two or three years ago and then the north end we have a triple e program which serves students that are eligible for special education services we have a couple of we call them peer mentors in that program because they balance class whether it's preschool or  that mark but i am going to foist four on her early education initiative grant the i grant that would give us up to thirty thousand dollars would make that available for us to get some partnerships well so we're making some positive movement jericho had a very long discussion about it during their budget process because of their budget increase they just couldn't they could have preschool slots during this year you may be familiar with h two seventy that was a bill that actually passed the house was didn't have enough time to go through the senate and that really i think would have been a game changer because it would have allowed full districts to use an estimate a preschool roma further average daily membership so they would be able in the first year to use those preschools students in their  that typically has a pretty positive influence on your tax rate in richmond it brought it down and in honey and it did as well and and it did as well in bolton when they first instituted their preschool program so the area that are really motivated and excited about building some partnerships with their school district i've met with i think all of them or most of them and we've had a good discussion about past city  and what a partnership might look like so in the needs assessment that's one of the some of the findings were that the community really supported high quality early educational experiences pre school for the community and that they saw the value and more flexible options school based program doesn't always work for families because of the scheduling so but if x six to two will support and you can count them as a point for six of the equalized people i know it's not five twelve necessarily topic but it is a really important i think sampled what is the income level of those people i mean i'm i'm wondering if maybe the benefits that they gather not only from preschool but perhaps from being in more affluent families you know they use these kids these were at risk students to a time when we don't need to do that because i think really it's inherently unfair you know that's where we're at right now you're welcome  know we'd be able to give approximately twenty five to twenty seven hundred dollars to families to help with the tuition for these private providers ye because you know it could make it possible for them to expand some of their services they have some partnerships right now with some other school districts so this would make it possible for people in our community to you money the individual get there we have a contract with each one of them really school district sets the their rate and there are some guidance that we get from the agency of education as well typically it's been child care credit that they might receive because of their income level they can have almost a full day experience which is just huge you know places like poker hill if you don't have some t there's an imbalance there as well so it's training equal playing field on me and give all students an equitable opportunity especially in those formative years and in the piece that i send folks a say did some research where their brain development is just it's you know at a rate of almost two hundred fifty percent more than ours and even students as they're getting into high school so it's a it's a really time to capture students when they're so one more question so these partnerships already exist starting to just post a lot of it is being done now but you must there must be some additional oversight that the schools if they have about your system they must have to meet determine whether or not they meet the requirements so would it be fair to say that if you sent someone to fisk or a partner that in some cases you could increase the quality of the education of a school yeah right and that was really what i think great futures which is an organization that is built really been supporting early childhood education that's what they've been saying and the governor has actually as well been saying you know this is a way to really improve quality and increase income for these people that are working in these organizations and make it more viable facilities permit program will be designed to offer for the greatest number of students worthwhile leisure play in the whole summer free ational a social activity and opportunities to develop skills in democratic or operative management for criteria for that and it also includes an interest the last six or guideline for existing sports activities so look forward to seeing those guidelines they'll be on the website  so that's june cause of activities and questions about yes this is the policy directly address implementation of clubs and policies and each individual school whether each individual schools are allowed but in terms of limiting what any individual student would do i don't think there's anything in here that limits so decision of the committee that i have that it would be appropriate for schools to be able to limit what children and parents decide they should be allowed to do has never come up that discussion and i'm not sure where you're can you elaborate further as to what you're you're thinking about and so there are kids who probably like to do both things and even more so than high school i would imagine at the middle schools there are students who might like to be in our club i don't know if it exists field hockey know any limitations would be part of the parents saying you're doing too much you're sure yeah from all the policies that are here i've never seen anything that limited by number what a student could or couldn't do sometimes kids are limited by what they can fit into their schedule like you know if you're doing the band orchestra music sometimes that conflicts usually it's within that a you get into that issue but many of our kids are doing both music and sports and plays and well you know they're doing multiple things and there's nothing that's limited anybody that involved in the salvation of guidelines and the guidelines that we have all of us have to do with the consideration of the new program in other words the types of activities that can come up considering supervision considering the equipment considering that we have a very silly guidelines for the formation of a new club or co curricular activities the steps you meet with the direct transfer student activities review the consideration process receive approval those kinds of things so it's kind of a step by step for a new club or co curricular activities like we did with frisbee cetera so there's nothing in talks about the part about students doing that you know in terms of numbers there's nothing in the guidelines that are in front of me and there's nothing in what i just read to you which should be available on the website  stomach the next one is my favorite use of alcohol on school property so this one was up for renewal and the now approved policy after  is a board and there's no waving there's nothing and it ends it right there question i guess in theory might have a parent's car breaks down they want to keep their groceries in the building while they get picked up so if they've had a package of alcohol maybe i'll put it in my office that is not visible while while they're wa the history for people who haven't been on the board this really stems more from groups who came to facilities and that's just to wave this on for a long night groups that were using one of our facilities it's not so the legislature is ramping up their education and deal multiple bills and we have been told that certainly the house is going to be looking closely at bills related to education governance so that kind of died down last year we didn't get any new things on that but that may come up again along with that and taking advantage of two opportunities hopefully i'll do ya proud and i'm going to attend the v m legislative summit on education policy the morning session next monday with tony wagner creating innovators making of young people who will change the world so i'm going to go do that and a lot of legislators will be there but after that sessions are closed to them and then i'm going to take a stab i'm going to go to either mark education finance symposium on at st michael's also an of that which will include some brainstorming about how to more creatively better find education of report back to you on what i again hopefully i we're still working on the agenda but i can tell you the primary focus of the of the agenda will be to consider what are the national impacts on students and of a unified government system as opposed to the governance system that we now we're going to look at whatever data is out there and then we're also going to do the present best to let you know these poor consideration and debate committee and then we forced to consolidate in the decision was made by the state at the end of this school year this coming school year and that was i hadn't heard that before and i wondered about its accuracy i don't know i relative really to the discussion of the rochester high school closing their school so it was an extension of that conversation but i hadn't heard anything quite as specific as