Okay, I'm gonna do this weather It's on stream or off stream guys. I didn't buy turnips on Sunday. I slept in and I didn't get turnips, okay? So I'm either gonna time travel now and get turnips or I'm gonna do it later That's the only time that I time travel is if I miss turnip time The only other time that I time traveled was when all of my turnips spoiled and it was when here I'll show you exactly where it is. Hold on because I'm not a time traveling Sinner usually I upgraded this bridge This is the only other time that I've time traveled is this was just the wooden bridge before and I wanted to upgrade it I had to wait a day for them to Take it down which I did and then I needed to wait another day for them to build a new bridge And I was like oh my god I just want to like get on with it and so that's why I did that alright guys I'm going to commit a sin.  It's never really late Saturday night, and I just didn't wake up in time Okay, can I just have one single break?  Okay, maybe I'll visit maybe I'll visit you guys on your islands today Who are you red? Oh? Yeah, that's right. I haven't seen Red yet. I haven't seen red listen. I know all about you red. It'll be of your own flower painting alright for 4900 I'll do it even though it's probably a scam but hold on I need to make the hot dog king outfit my non-outfit outfit It's a scam. I just I just got scammed. Are they a couple are Henry and puddles a couple?  We need to see where the lovely may is She was over on that side of the island last time So there's a lot of stuff that I want to do today by the way guys because I need KK to come to my island and I need the thing so I can do cool stuff like put pads down and stuff like that Did you made what's up? How much are turnips right now? 109 times 4,000 436 That's a rough price. Yeah, that's really rough. That's bad, but I'll probably be able to sell them for more I'm gonna get I'm gonna get 80 Things of turnips. I'll give the painting. They're platters. Don't worry. I'm just gonna do this real quick Just get my turnips so I can get that good good and then we'll be all set. Yeah, I'll buy him He he come again. Everybody is saying terrible. I will I will sell these for more I will make a profit. It's fine I really need to devote a piece of land to my to my turnips, you know for now I'll just put them here. It'll be fine. The other day. I had turnips for 95 this was when I lost all my money. I bought 2.2 million dollars later that day my friend texted me it was like hey, I have my turnip prices are 576 right now and That made me so sad. Please organize your inventory. Okay, everyone is just Telling me what to do always saying Do this do that do this do that guys. What about what I want to do what I want to do right now is Buy some turnips and then we'll get to it.  Here's what I will show you hot dog And uh, ooh, I have a crown now. I do I'm not gonna wear it But I do have a crown then it was these and then these. Oh Yes, baby And I did have this little backpack on which I'll keep on cuz I think it's cute Okay, so now this will just be my bare bones outfit, but now I can make some other outfits Let's edit a wand out. Oh, yes. I want a little builder outfit.  There it is There it is. There it is. There it is. I kind of want just a an Normie outfit. Oh wait, do I have an explorer? Jungle cruise. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I want more cool clothes I am just gonna make a what I'll call a normie outfit. Okay. Do we want this one? This hoodie this hoodie or this hoodie? I think I like the lavender one the best yellow Nah, I'm gonna do the lavender. I like the lavender.  I want to Change this around a little bit. Okay. I need I want this I want this Uh-huh This we'll go here this We'll go here. Spencer's bed We'll go right there. All right. I think that's cute for now. Look at that. Turn the shower on in a shower. I Like my little spa like bathroom thing. Oh, it's nice I have a basement now, which we've never gone down in the basement before but I did this this morning It was completely empty this morning. I'm making this my game room Is this cool? It is cool.  I love it. How many bells do I still have like three million bells, right? Think so. Oh, I want to talk to Isabella by my island I want to see what I need to do what I really want is just to be able to Terraform and use the paths and stuff because placing down each individual path is such a pain. Oh street lamp I do want a street lamp. That would be kind of nice to have. Oh, I should check my turnip prices, too That's a good uh, that is a good call I'm gonna talk to Isabel first just cuz I'm in here and then I'm gonna check my turnip prices Let's talk about the island Curious about the current image of Cornhole you bet I am Ariel, thank you for the thousand bits We've built a solid reputation and come up during many a water cooler chitchat Let me to read an excerpt from the feedback that I gathered Cornhole man Hearing about how chill it is. I'd go if I had the chance Whoa, whoa, whoa, am I hallucinating or was that feedback signed by a KS? Yes, there it is very clear KS. The penmanship is quite striking if I do say so myself Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah guys we've done did it Justin you're here Pogs Pogs all around could it be could it be it must be That message is from the one and only KK slider dude live on stream. Oh My god. Wow, it's right dude. What the hell we finally a cheaper goal bringing our island to the attention of the KK Slider not only that but he said he's looking for an excuse to visit and what are we waiting for it? Yes, yes, let's offer him the chance to hold a concert on our shores Do I have the pleasure of speaking with a mr. KK slider? Yes. Yes. I'm with nook and gloated on Cornhole Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yes indeed. We did we greatly appreciate your valuable feedback That's actually why I'm calling if you're truly interested in visiting mr. Slider We would happy to be able to host it to be a dude. We would be happy to host you and your musical stylings Yes, quite I see oh My you mean Thank you so much Yes, I'll be sure to mail you all the details straight away entire island will be looking forward to it. Thank you again. Yes. Yes. Talk to you soon Dude dude, dude So what did he say to do the concert? That's right KK sliders coming here He could be here as soon as tomorrow, but he has to check his schedule. Of course tomorrow Eapers, can you believe it? We finally turned our goal into a reality We'll spread the news of a concert via our island broadcast system I hope you'll you'll be in attendance eepers. You simply must hear KK play. Yes. Yes, you must oh She was we've done it We've done it gamers now with KK Slider coming our turn of credit prices have got to be So high right right right right? What's our turn of prices looking like? Okay, wait with with that happening though, shouldn't I Have the terraforming tools unlocked shouldn't Tom be like yo We should make our island better for KK Slider because our island looks like goddamn trash right now after the concert ah Ah I see alright. Here's some things that I want to do. Muffy. What's up, dude? How is it going?  I don't like him. Oh a cowboy a Cowboy outfit dude need a fitting room. Yeah, I do I'd love to see what the cowboy outfit is all about please Oh Dotted raincoat. That's cool What's happening with a there's a bisexual butterfly in your house is that we just Pig it will be a pig boy It's funny to anybody else which which we like more these we could do these Those are kind of good. Wait if I take off the pants. Oh, yeah.  I'm not gonna wear it out, but I like that purchase message Ah Raccoon figurine What oh my god, all in these clay Yes, that's great news guys. That is great news talk to violet. She's thinking she might want to leave violet Who's violet? Oh violet's the the like she a gorilla, you know, I don't really know violet all that well Honestly, I don't know why she came to my island. She just showed up one day. I didn't invite her She just showed up. She'll be my first villager to leave which I'm just fine thinking about leaving, huh? I've got a lot of my mind right now out of curiosity. What would your reaction? Hashtag what? What would your reaction be if I was to tell you that I'm planning to move away Why don't you like it here on this perfect island? Violet shock nausea a dead faint nothing too dramatic. I hope for that's exactly what I'm pondering Has the time come for me to make a change or should I settle for staying here? What do you think? Oh my gosh It's not that I needed your approval or permission, but it's nice to have them nonetheless, sweetie So I shall be gone. I trust my memory will loom large in the minds of corn Well, you were very nice about it.  I don't want to give up the impression that I hated you I just was incredibly indifferent about you. You just kind of showed up one day Never mind. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to I'm sorry Violet. She's going to change after she's going to kill me Okay, so over here we have this right we have over here We have just like a little bit of open space and the orchard is up here, okay? And then there's not really anything down here and then over here. There's a small little resident place Which I really like that over there. I think that's kind of cute museums over here a little bit of space up here This is where my house is up here is pretty much nothing over here's the campsite There's a lot of water that's taking up a fair amount of room too and then over here There's some more resident things thinking about maybe moving the orchard from here to up here Then moving those houses down here, and then we could have like a whole little like Neighborhood down here. How does that sound? So I'll show you where where I'm talking about those the campsite over here I think that's a good place for the campsite. I think it's cute There's a couple little houses over here, so I could move the orchard up here I think that would be a good place for the orchard actually I feel like it would be it would feel a lot more natural too, and then we'll make this into Like a little neighborhood little neighborhood town kind of thing what we should do how many Villagers do we have we have two four six eight?  I love it when they think I guess what we'll do guys is We'll put the house down where we think the stuff will happen. I hate how long this takes it takes such a long time. I Wish it didn't take so long. It'll be so nice Once I can have Like terraforming and stuff. What do you mean boo? Why are you booing me? This is good. This will be great. This will be fun. Okay. It'll be good. Don't boo me How dare you how dare you I'm trying to do my best I'm trying to do my best with the things that I have and I'm getting booed by chat I don't want it to be there. I don't want it to be I wanted everywhere, but there No What do you mean? I wanted here. Oh my god There we go. Thank you finally. I might just do one path. I was gonna do two. I Want to make a little I think I want to make a little windy path down to the beach man I can't wait until this is easier. I hope that this doesn't look like garbage That would make me so sad if it does I spend this much time making this thing It's gonna look bad wouldn't put it past me though guys I wouldn't I wouldn't put it past me and it looks kind of bad I've got a stain on my favorite outfit.  Oh I like it. Oh a country fence Now that's what we need guys. We need that country fence. That would be so nice We just need a ton of hardwood. I guess twitch is down Put this in the video if you watch I did a twitch that is broken I'm still gonna play cuz the recording still working. So, you know, whatever. I'm selling all my flowers while twitch is down I'm selling all my flowers while twitch is down back back back There's like four people that can actually see the stream right now, and we just lost half of our viewers Hello everybody. I'm back again twitch died for a sec And I thought hey, I guess we're not streaming anymore today, but then twitch came back is my heart broken Do I still feel betrayed?  Okay, you just be patient Okay, just be patient for a second. I did something though while the stream was dead your island is nice No one's ever said that before thank you so much people have said that but I don't think that my island is very nice I'm working on on it though. It's getting better like in this stream It's gotten better and let me show something to you that will make it nice.   This might be nice No, no that won't be watch watch though See everybody is like Ethan. What are you doing putting that through there? Well watch and I'll show you I want to put a little swing right here and some flowers I think this looks kind of cute though. I think it'll look better once the swing and stuff is in there Well, I think this looks cute. Do you guys think this looks cute? I like that. Why did I make that noise? This?  Why are my hands so sweaty all the time? I hate it So this is going by the beach. Oh Maybe the redwood so it's light wood right now What do you guys think redwood? I think dark wood wouldn't look great Maybe either natural or red natural or red. What do you want? Edward? Okay? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? That's cute now. Do I have any flowers? I'm selling all my flowers while I'll put this down I'm selling all my don't I'll go get some flowers really quick and get some panties that I want. I Don't really know to be honest. We about to find out. Yeah Do a little watering. I like that you can now water Three slots that's gonna be cute. I might have some roses up here I do have what we see These these are all like placeholder flowers, too Like I just put those there because I I didn't really know what I wanted to do with them yet You got black roses yet. No What may they something that ought to be interesting? Why do you still have eggs do you not finish the egg crafts?  Okay Wait those This is the yellow one Pretty pretty pretty pretty a little beach thing Going on down to the beach.  I don't like the pads over here either. I don't have them yet. Do I all right? Well, I'll put them here as like placeholders. I don't like that at all I have straight lamps coming in the mail. So those will be fun. I Don't like it, but it's okay Okay, I guess Right we have a wind turbine which I think I know where I want to put We're gonna go all the way back here, baby Maybe here should I put it way up high? I'll put it way up high It's not really as big as I thought it was gonna be Thought it was gonna be like huge. I'm so glad that egg day is over. God. That was so annoying Trying to get anything whether it was fossils or fish. It's all eggs all the time All right, and then we'll bring all these boys to blathers. We're you know what? Let's just search my island really quick Especially these spots up here. I haven't been in them in a hot sec. I took up a fossil Yeah, sure plant a plant or something. Yeah, sure bamboo here. Oh, I thought you're gonna bury in the hole. Okay Well, the bamboo will just live here. I guess what if we bought prop egg eggs just for fun. Please don't Please don't animal crossing. I don't want it if they hid hot dogs around the island You know, it would be a joyous day. I've got four of them for you blavos. There you go Yeah, man, I don't have anything. How do you see how many you have left? You just have to look so let's see one two three One two three four in here probably quite a few in here because I haven't given them a Fossil in a while that I didn't already have so I need that Need the rest of this.  I'm a busy guy. All right. I got plants to plant I got burnips to sell, you know time is money, you know, all right.  We've got him. We've got him in the museum Pickle Rick Nothing really has changed in the bug section. There's ants now, but they're hard to see so That's that's pretty dude axels hanging out here. What's up, dude? There's some big fish in here now big head boys. I want to know so badly what goes in here I have not seen a single person with that look. There's crawfish in here now see him down there And there's a snapping turtle and stuff. I want to catch it. I want to catch it whatever it is I don't really want anybody to tell me what goes in there. I just I want to catch it Yeah, and there's big boys in here. There's a Marlin in here got the Sunfish. We got we got a great white We got a we got a whale shark Great stuff. I know DNA How do I find out what I'm missing because there's no critter pedia thing like there is for the fish and the Bugs you can see at the nook shopping kiosk. Oh, it's so crazy because I feel like I've gotten so many things But I haven't even scratched the surface even with fish like I feel like I've fished all the fish I have fished a majority of the fish. Let's see four five six seven 28 fish I have left and way more Bugs, but it also makes me think what's after the tarantula, you know, what's up here with the fish with the fish What's up? What's there? What's there? That's probably a hammerhead, but you know, what's that?  I forgot about that. Do those come in June that one those come I think so. Where do I go on my? On my nook phone to find the thing You know the thing, you know Oh, wait, do you have to download is it not in the nook phone? Is it in your actual phone phone? What are you talking about? I don't know People said that I could find out where Or how many how many fossils I have left in my museum by going on the nook phones Go to the nook stop at the residential services. No, it's a real phone app. No, it's on your nook phone Everybody's giving me a different answer. I'm gonna go here. Okay. Now what? Wait here, I I don't Wallpaper and flooring time But you can't buy I'm so confused guys. I really am so confused. I feel like I'm getting trolled by chat It's under the Fax machine. Why would it be here? Why am I getting trolled? Alright, I'm giving up Okay, I'm going back in why would it be in wallpaper and flooring though? That doesn't make any sense I don't understand why it would be in wallpaper and flooring, but but sure Okay. Yeah. All right. How many are there though? That's the thing is like I have no idea how many more I need I think I have 48 so I still have a long way to go. You gotta figure out where we want first house to be I think I want this to go up a bit.  I get Real things but you know ease boy ease now I can Nope not do that not what I wanted Silly pants Geez these guys in big sillies over here. Oh my god again Okay, for me from the God himself What did we get as an open I already have a mic stand I think No, not that kind that's cool new mic anybody home Maybe they'll teach me a recipe that I don't know. Oh Puddles always coming in clutch. What are you doing? Well, I'm making a cherry hat. Oh, I don't care about it. Let's shake him doing It was one of my first villagers from off off island What's he doing dude? Your floor is dirt Literally, it's kind of sad here with the music. I like the log stuff though. It's cool You know, you got a real theme going Like the bug Whoa, wait, how did you get this big bed dude? How'd you get this big bed? That log bed is so comfy. I keep sleeping it all day. No worries though. My tummy wakes me up You feel I want a big bed Teach me how to make a big bed like that. That's sick. Can I turn on different music? It's currently playing KK song. I don't like that one. Okay. I think this is where I will put the first house I'm gonna get rid of those trees. It probably will It will so I'm uh I'm gonna pick up those trees first guys. I'm so excited for the KK concert tomorrow.  I am making moves Good stuff. Good stuff. Good stuff everybody. Good you. Good work. Man. I cannot wait to get that path boy tomorrow. All right um Now what I will do I'm going to see if good old Tommy boy will let me relocate. Uh, I guess we'll do puddles Because I know that she's over there puddles or sky I don't know if he'll let me though because I've already sold land But we'll try uh layout changes Excellent. Which building did you want to move? Actually, let's do Jacob. 50 000 bells. Yeah, I'm good for it. Um, you know I am you know, I am Jacob. What you think? You want to move? Sure. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. It's got a new place doing new things. Maybe old things in a cool new spot Yay Sounds great. Sounds great. Leave the rest of me and our friend Eapers. Thanks Jacob Thanks for being a good pal not hitting on the game. But what are you doing this? Just chores and buy stuff Pretty much. I don't have any anymore Um, but you you get a lot of debt in the game because you need to buy new buildings and stuff like that I paid off my last loan Um, but yeah Pretty much Eight and that's in the middle In the middle So the the edge of the house needs to be in the last thing I guess I'll just let it get rid of those trees A little bit right where Let me imagine. Does that look good guys? Is that about do you think that'll be symmetrical? Yes Okay I know that the tree is still there, but I don't have enough room in my inventory. Oh, no I killed violet by putting the house down That is so sad. Wait, this is Perfect Oh baby Perfect now what I'm thinking actually I know that I just did this but what if I did this now that I know that it's exactly perfect Uh, I don't like it. It looks too cluttered. Why did I destroy the entire path? I should have just done a couple. Oh, let's try the the wrong. I don't know if I like that or not But I want I want there to be some sort of like Main road And then everybody gets it on the little path not a vibe, sir It's something what do you mean by every other one get rid of the ones that are like the rest of your path Oh, I see and then the and then this one would be one Oh my god Thank you Try wood Yeah, the wood might look nice. I honestly don't know how I feel I cannot tell if it's cute or not do all what all what's gonna look weird. Does that look weird? Or alternatively Guys we might be onto something here. Is that a cute path? It does look too busy. It does look too busy. Uh Okay, okay, okay. I'm not gonna do any more paths because I feel like I'm just gonna rip them all up tomorrow. Anyway. All right guys. I'm gonna visit some islands now. All right, Amy you wanted Me to come to your island I also have that wallpaper for you if you want to DM me a dodo code.  Wow, it's a museum pizza. Oh plaza Pizza and museum The art museum It's where the art is dude.  That's sick. Wow Look at all the art. That's not here Wow one art That's pico the art museum is gonna be sick So pretty Hey, it's a lady. It's a lady with a thing real cool real cool. It's gonna be sculptures and stuff Do you think they'll have sculptures with boobs on them, dude?   Wow, there's this is you when you see a bug Show me around what you got cool stuff cool stuff. Ooh The outside of your house is cool. Your island's nice Ooh, I like the little drawbridge thing Well, this is cool. That's a little picnic spot. That's cute Wow Hey, it's fish man. I should have brought my fish man. This is a cute island. Sorry. I'm just running around. I'm just looking at Looking at your amenities and such. I like it I like it. Who's your who's your favorite villager? ooh A little orchard in here. Rockle is your favorite It's you. She's giving me something Lit, I see any stars in the night sky. Well, these won't show up on my island though, will they? Those are just up here Why should I just mine stars for you, dude? You know because I watch your fans Do you still watch Amy? That's fun. That's fun. That makes me feel nice Wow, wow people still like my content. That makes me that makes me so happy Thank you for continuing to watch my videos after all this time. Well, Amy, I'm gonna head out Thank you for having me on your island. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Uh, this is not me sneezing at you This is me bowing at you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Well pals on to the next island, huh? Oh, do you have a five star island? I think this person might have a five star island Hello three star. Ah, okay. Do I have my tambourine or anything? No, I don't have my instruments on me I'm sorry. I don't have my instruments on show me your island Ooh nice Nice. I like your hat by the way Nice hot dog hat. Oh, it's like a cool maze This is really So pretty so pretty so pretty looks like looks like chocolate. I think it's supposed to be actually that's cool I like that downstairs. What's downstairs?  This is so cool You play street fighter That's a cool room. That's a really cool room. Ah Ah egg room I've seen all I need to see Ooh, nice little office This is shrine to tom nook on the room. I like it. I like it. Oh Our marimba This is nice.  Oh, this is awesome Uh, I may leave your island and go visit one last one last island But thank you so much for having me. I appreciate you.  All right. Let's go. Let's go. Hello Hello friend. Hello. Hi friend. Hello friend. Hi. This is such a pretty island It's a beautiful island It's a surfboard. That's so cool. You have so much cool stuff. This is so nice This is like one of the best islands I've seen We got a little outdoor music thing Can I play the drums? Okay, show me the rest of your island. I like how you keep the recycling stuff by this thing. That's really cute Wait, did you do these in the animal? How that's so cool Well, there's your instagram That's so cool. Uh, hold on. I just want to look at your map This is amazing. God. This is amazing. This is like the coolest animal crossing island I've ever seen like what do you even do at this point in the game Like your island seems perfect. Like I wouldn't change anything about it. What do you even do? So much work Just gone into this island So much Whoa, that's a cool villager. Well, thank you so much for showing us around your island. This is amazing This is the coolest island I've ever seen. Thank you for having me on your island So cute so cute. I'ma head out But thank you so much. I just want to say really quick Thank you guys so much for for all the support all the time, but especially recently and thank you for people who Uh, who have been a part of this community for a really long time for continuing to watch and everything It's really nice. Um, I'm really glad that people continue to to watch stuff I think it's something that every youtuber gets afraid of is like Oh, like people aren't gonna like my stuff anymore or like people that used to watch don't watch anymore Which is totally fine. It's just it's it's a natural thing that happens with youtube and it just kind of sucks Uh, never feel bad for stopping watching someone's content by the way for whatever reason Even if the person is still making like good content and stuff and there wasn't anything In particular that like that happened or anything like that Like don't ever feel bad for stopping watching somebody's stuff because people just like naturally their tastes changed and stuff like that So, um, but it is something that like every youtuber gets afraid of is like Oh, man someday people aren't gonna watch my stuff anymore But I really appreciate that there's a lot of you guys here that's still that's still watch after all this time I really appreciate that. Thank you guys so much for all the support recently I've been f***ing crazy. We are already almost to 3400 subs, which is just ridiculous. I'll see you later Uh Yeah


vetted and presented to us in draft number three rather than you know sort of make a statement on it now so that everybody in the system has a chance to you know do what they do in order to make sure that we have a coherent budget thank you Scott Jonas um so i'm with mchalen uh i was also raised by a teacher um i support spending on teachers and educators i would have supported a um a higher uh number than three percent to give to the finance committee to build this budget um and i want to note that last year our spending went down in anticipation of possible tough times ahead those tough times continue but our financial outlook and the financial outlook of the you know the ed fund uh doesn't look as bad uh as it possibly uh did last year um so i have a couple of of questions for susan and Jen um this year you know when it looks this year when it looks like the tax rates will be relatively favorable to us does it make sense to spend more in this the fat year rather than in future years is there a benefit to us spending you know spending you know on the other stuff that was that's not in the budget that Jen outlined um you know is would it make sense to do that this year compared to other years um and i guess the other two questions are related what's the delta between budget 2a and the budget level that would cause us to go over the penalty threshold understanding that's not in effect and what is the delta between 2a uh net education spending and where it would need to be for taxes to remain level thank you hey Jonas Jen yeah so i um is there a benefit to spending more i can't answer that question for you right this second i would need to think that through and think through all the implications i'm not savvy enough to answer that question off the top of my head but i promise we can all talk through and get smarter about that um and then the delta those are calculations that i think we can get for you although i don't think that we can get them right in the minute right the second unless susanne thinks she can pull that off that the part about tax rate was to i think to scott's question that really when we talk about money we're talking about the tax rate correct susanne how might you answer that what would you say i was hoping jonas couldn't articulate it one more time because it it i want to make sure it's not exactly right yeah what's the delta between you know the the net education spending in budget 2a and what that number would look like uh if the tax rates were flat right so as of now the tax rates look like they're going down what like a penny and a half um what would what would the spend look like if those numbers were essentially flat lined okay i i would like to calculate that offline if that's all right with you yeah yeah of course yeah and i'm not asking for like an exact number you know a ballpark would be would no you can't give an exact number i understand that but i think that that would be interesting to know yeah okay thank you so i i think we're giving you a lot of information to think about jan i don't think that we're being completely clear it quite quite yet so i i think we need to get a sense of the of the board when when we gave you the parameters to me it was it was just that it was that parameter we we don't really completely understand the student needs in a way that you guys understand the student needs so this presentation has been super helpful and if i'm listening well to what the board what the board is saying right now in i'm sorry steven that i'm gonna sort of disagree with you in this one there is an inclination to go to 2a which seems to be what represents better the student needs but they're with a caveat that you know that the additional staff for berlin and callas for art is is is is needed so how do we what how do we fund that position and then i am still not clear about that additional special educator position sounds like we needed one of our pillars is really the social and emotional it too i don't know how that is integrated into that too but it that that is not clear we need more information on that so i i would suggest for for the next day we're going to need draft three that that we include the berlin and callas additional point 20 art position and that we include the what is the special educator position would look and what would that do to the budget and then i have a question for for the board if we could think about using some fund balance again for the equity scholar if it is or i would also still need a sense of breakdown of what it looks like in each of the buildings for the grade levels and for what that increase and where those numbers are looking absolutely yeah the notes that they they they took and then you know obviously our resources are for not you know finnet or however that's set properly we don't have money to to throw away we did decrease that last year at our finance committee we talked about you know maybe we could call this the average of two years there's danger in doing that but we didn't really increase the budget last year you know let you know could we you know could we cut everybody a break because this is what it is we do worry and just so that the public is aware we do worry about what x73 or what the potential waiting study is going to do with our tuition but you know we can we have to respond right now to what the student needs are so i don't know that makes it a little more clear so taking into consideration all the questions that i see sustain writing like a new gen is as crazy i think we need to see draft three we don't have a lot of time right because in january we are going to need to really be uh adopting a budget but i don't see any it's Jonas yeah i'd like you know i i respect what steven said i'd like to see what some cuts would be give us give us the opportunity to see what cuts look like christ i would also like to see as much directing direct funding as opposed to fund balance funding of positions that we think are important because doing it through the fund balance just creates a scenario for disappointment down the road when we don't have much fund balance and you know but we still have these positions that we think are very important so i think we should do direct funding for as much as we possibly can just so we have a realistic budget that we're presenting to our community and and you know why don't we just dedicate our next meeting in january entirely to the budget so we can have a debate and discussion about what we might see or not see because we have to adopt the budget at that point i think so if we spend do this front and center uh and and put off anything that's not urgent i think that would be beneficial because we don't have robust discussion amongst all of us very much i think we just kind of throw out ideas and and i think just having that dialogue amongst us would be helpful in coming to a um a final budget with our with our administrators thank you thank you chris yeah any other comments so do you have enough to go from a jen and yeah i just wanted to ask the rest of the leadership team because we've been working on this together leadership team while we have the board here do you have any other questions or concerns as we sort of take the speed back and go back and do draft raid i just want to make sure that i'm not missing out anything that we might need and susanne yeah uh i feel like we need some clarity on the direction for the equity scholar and residence that wasn't clear for me yeah so i think chris just said to put it in the regular budget my inclination to put it to be the only thing on the fund balance is because we are building our capacity right now you know we have this committee we're gonna hopefully build within our buildings the capacity so the equity scholar is not something that we're going to need forever right so but this was the first year that she was involved in the entire district with all our schools so so that was the only reason but yeah and i i think i mean i'll have that conversation with uh with ili and with shelly um in between that right in the next few days so i'll be able to have more information to present to you in terms of a rationale for your consideration about a funding source okay yeah and then we have a we have three hands say up caroline and then alisha and then cat um so for me a couple things one i think it would be really helpful to summarize the consensus of what the board is asking us to come back with um because there were different opinions and it's hard to then go back and do the work when um you know some people were wanting it within the parameters and under the three percent and wanting to see what that would look like others were wanting um something a little bit different and um i just want to share my perspective having um been on the board doing budget last year and being part of the leadership team this year that this draft um everybody works together uh the teamwork was great and we worked really hard to stay within um those parameters we made really tough decisions um and i think this is as close as you are going to be able to get to that percentage i'm one voice right now um but i just want to share uh because i know there were a lot of questions in the past about um you know who supported what um so this is a budget that i feel strongly that the whole leadership team does support um i think if you are going to ask us to come back with like what would it look like to stay under the three percent there's going to be even more um you know hurt feelings and things put out there that are not actually what we recommend and um i think that would be an unnecessary stressor at a time that's already pretty stressful so that's my opinion but thank you thank you caroline for your insight alisha yeah i would echo everything caroline said she said it beautifully and it was also what i was going to say i would just add uh the question i have is i heard two different things one from jonas and steven saying i'd like to see what the cuts were and bring it under three percent so are you asking for two different versions one being that and the other being also looking at adding those positions in that were in the other list so if someone could just clarify that okay i'm i'm going to let cat answer a question and then we'll get back to you know serve because they think they're going to be all aligned and then i'll have the board members speak thank you alisha cat i want to take too much time i did just want to put out a voice of appreciation for all of you to have such a thoughtful conversation and open dialogue with all of us the leadership team as you heard from caroline and alisha were really aligned and feeling um supportive of each other and this conversation this dialogue tonight it felt like discourse rather than disagreement and even if we're not all on the same page and that's kind of a beautiful thing i'm a process person and this one is feeling like it has some integrity i just want to a shout out to the leadership team and the board for this opportunity big props to susanne for pulling us all together and for gen for leading us home so thank you thank you cat you jonas yeah i certainly don't want to see two versions of the budget next um but i think it would be interesting to you know and i don't think that that's where the board is either um but i think it would be interesting to know what kinds of things we would be losing if we took two a and got it under three percent just a ballpark so i in listening to directionally yeah in listening to the administrators i think in one of the slides susanne i don't have it right in front of me and i have too many papers going in front of me you had to get it under three percent it was like 384,000 something so i i think you guys have already done that exercise i don't think that we necessarily need to go back to getting you guys go through that but we would have to cut 384,000 it's then more or less is what i wrote in my notes but i don't have that slide in front of me so so so we kind of have the answer to that what we do need is more detail the dian was asking and that's more within the narrative of what the the number two a is spying us and and board members please correct me if i'm wrong i i don't i don't think we can stay into three percent it's you guys made your case you know you made your case today i see other board members chicken heard the finance committee met too and we were all ready to support 2a to after you know fine coming what would we sell this was even more informative so i by all means do not want you to go and reinvent the wheel i think we can it was clear today from the meeting that we also have the interest in this other positions what does that do to the number that we are right now you know we have to respect that conversation that was not included it was it was different so let's let's add that to that if the number the 384,000 need to increase to show us what it would be to be under three percent but i don't think i think you guys already know what what that means so please don't go like back again to trying to you know get it from peter to paul or whatever to each other i think you guys have made that that exercise we need to continue to move to move forward with the input that you received today does that make it clear so not going to a three percent carry yeah i wonder if it would be proper to formally remove the parameter about three percent in that way it's it's removed from future presentations and the staff is getting the direction that we're not we're not expecting that i think that makes total sense if you wanted to make a motion and it's not just because for steven just headed to a class so he had to leave us at nine o'clock so i feel bad for steven but i know that he will understand so so i'll i'll make the motion to remove the parameter of three percent but but not remove the parameter about preparing some contingencies second lisa was that clear to you i mean is it clear to the leadership team yeah hold on when i know that's also once it needs to be clear to yeah because that's who we're expecting to come back thank you okay so kairi moved at chris second net so is it clear to the leadership team i think that was i figured everyone yeah yeah okay and lisa you got it in the minutes we're removing the parameter okay we got we need to vote yeah one did we all those in favor they say i i'm coming hi hi hi hi okay hi any oppose hearing none the motion carries okay thank you for that conversation sorry it took too long i'm out doing myself and i'm a little worried that some of you are not home and need to get home so let's move right along into if i can find we don't we're not making any decisions on that so unless there's questions please i mean just going to move us right along to the policy committee okay the only policy that we have up for um second reading is a well then no i'm sorry hold on d7 a special education yep once is that 166 168 168 d7 special ed education um you know fairly straightforward the one thing i don't think that we when we discuss this we talked about the Vermont special education procedures and practices manual and i think lindy reached out to a friend of hers and the friend said that manual had not been developed yet at the time that we met um so what it was with the attorneys it hadn't been approved okay so it it may not necessarily be on the website at this time if we approve this policy but that will be in the office as i understood it correct thank you lindy um so any questions on is there a motion scott i'll move i'll move that the board approve policy d7 thank you scott hey could we have a second we're sorry everybody was at the same time i gave it to Ursula so everybody's ready to get home oh yeah any discussion okay all those in favor of approving d7 please say aye any oppose hearing none the motion carries thank you chris can we can we say the the motion bradley's sorry what did you say the motion bradley's for cary bradley oh oh say the motion for cary no he's uh he's punning he's punning okay got it i i'm like like my brain is starting it's been a long day so approve the minutes could i have too late for punning yeah approve the minutes thank you i move to approve the minutes yeah thank you jonas i second i'm sorry i missed it my second no lindy lindy second any discussion scott scott go ahead just two things thanks um on page 170 under 3.2 public comment um seconds about five lines down uh dexter the favor i believe spells his name lef av or you are if i'm not mistaken is that is that good and and on december 1st um although i was evidently there and mentioned as speaking on a couple of occasions i didn't make the roster of those present so um maybe that was referring to my the nature of my mind at the time but thanks thank you scott so all those in favor of the minutes with the amendments proposed by question dexter tonight is concerned about that the minutes did not reflect his comments i wasn't at that meeting so i don't know what he may have been referring to i don't think he specified does anybody else have a sense as to whether or not the minutes on 170 reflect accurately reflect dexter's comments i i think they reflected at a level of generality that's appropriate for the minutes i i agree with that okay i just i raised it because he raised it really yeah yeah yeah it's it's right it's it's right there so it is it covers all those in favor of proving the minutes as amended please say aye hi hi hi any oppose hearing none the motion carries and now we're going to prove board orders lindy i can't do it tonight my computer died my ipad and i can't open both okay i volunteer kari diane you're muted diane okay so oh but now i don't know quite the word so i move that the board approve uh the board orders for the uh in the amount of and i don't have it totaled in the amount of one million three hundred and eighty six thousand three hundred and fifty one dollars and forty five cents and eight thousand three hundred and eighty nine dollars and ninety three cents oh it's totaled at the bottom i didn't scroll down would you like me to read the total sure for yeah it's one million three hundred and ninety four thousand seven hundred and forty one dollars and thirty eight cents thank you a second please second thank you or so any discussion just remember to sign the warrant when it comes yeah yeah sign just remember respond to the email and you'll get an email in a few minutes and sign it remotely if all those in favor please say aye hi hi any oppose hearing none the motion carries and now let's move into approve the the new teachers and we actually we had an extension of leave first jonas yeah i moved to approve an extended leave of absence request for christiana martin for the period of january through june 2022 thank you jonas could i have a second for that second thank you diane all those in favor please say aye hi and you oppose hearing none the motion carries and now the long-term subs jonas please i moved to approve uh long-term substitutes for the 2021-22 school year uh uh kiran owen as a long-term math substitute at u32 and kathya brocklman's tweak a long-term elementary math substitute in berlin second second thank you mckin mckin all those in favor of approving the subs please say aye hi hi hi any oppose hearing none the motion carries and that brings us to an end of our meeting if well update on vacancies okay update on vacancies so some of these are unchanged quickly we have still have a lead maintenance position at berlin open we have drivers education at u32 open we partially filled the lit interventionist position at callas we'd like to fill it even more we have a partial administrative assistant at doady open still we have a student behavior support position at rumney that is still vacant we are still looking for a site coordinator for community connections at rumney and doady we have some para mbi needs across the district we're filling some but we still have a few and we will have a vacancy in the beginning of january for a driver who helps us with some driving support those are our current vacancies thank you so much gen board we have the the entire future agenda items i'm i'm gonna take the liberty to table that today and leave it to the steering committee to to to look at that any board reflections jonas i want to thank maggie and maria and gen for helping to turn around some of the misinformation that people listening to the board meeting were exposed to i think it's very important that we that we push back against that when it comes in front of us thank you jonas jonas i think you meant mcaylin but i just both both both of them kari for the meeting recap i thought we'd focus mainly on the budget including inviting people to the next forum on the 12th but then also talk a little bit about the appointing of members to our superintendent search and screening committee and also the superintendent's report regarding covid safety measures and the vaccination rates at our schools that sounds great i will add a our decision to stay remote okay kari i would also suggest a highlight of the audit just because of the fact that we went through a transition and a tough time so something celebrating that excellent audit good anything else i would add uh you know a staff appreciation to just because we're headed towards the holidays that would be probably the last update from the board so just to thank you for what we've been doing to all of them for what they do every day for us in our community okay i'd like to add the ongoing efforts to manage the covid crisis in in the school environment and also continuing to provide testing which as our u32 students spoke to really gives peace of mind not just to students but to families because testing in the community can also often be challenging to obtain in central vermont after school hours great okay and now let's move into public comments unless there's anything else from the board i don't see anything and i actually don't see any hints up so i have a request that um that we it's some future meeting discussed the recent arbitration arbitration decision regarding the health care and whether or not to um to send some resolution to the negotiating board it seems like the negotiating is not doing very good job in my view um on at least in some of the tax it just sounds like they were taking the task a little bit um on our on the board's behalf um and it's the second arbitration that we've lost in a row um so i think we'd like to have a discussion if we can try direct them to take a different tactic when it comes up next um just it seems like vinegar is not working honey might thanks thank you chris okay there's no public comments so a motion to adjourn and thank you everybody right right see have a happy out everybody okay so chris moves a who's second second me chris and jonas i'm sorry to move us so quickly through this piece and happy holidays everybody and have a good time with your families hi hi hi hi all those in favor please say aye and leave again safe travels good night thank you hi good night


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