Right. Right. Just to tell the viewer. Right. Yeah. Who knows? Nobody's checking for anything. Well, he did. He did. And Sean said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry. You don't do it that way. Yep. The only reason I asked is I was thinking back in Massachusetts and I'm like, it doesn't seem right because that's not what they, how they ran there. Yeah. Well, and I was just going by what I knew were happening all of the time. All right. Well, it looks like we're ready to go. It's 6.04. We do have a forum. All of our new people have been sworn in now. Yep. Yay. So tonight's meeting, we will be talking about the board reorganization and just sort of reorientation to our function and resources that we have. And then we're going to be doing some policy monitoring and reading and executive session for an update on negotiations or. Yes. Okay. So that will be happening. We are in process with the teachers union doing, trying to reach an agreement. So I am going to move on to public comment before we get started. I'm going to read through the preamble on public comment. So the board welcomes comments, but it is not able to take any action on them other than to direct the public to the appropriate staff member or to the complaint procedure. Comments are limited to three minutes per speaker. Time may not be seated to another speaker. Comments are to be addressed to me, the board chair or the board as a whole, not to any individual on the board on the staff or in the public. Please raise your hand and wait to speak until you are asked to by me. Please identify yourself with your first and last name in your town of residents. Please refrain from restating comments that have already been shared. You can express agreement with those comments. Order and decorum shall be observed by everyone. Shouting and profanity are prohibited. As the board chair, I will maintain the order and decorum of the meeting. So I'm going to open it up now for public comment. We have two members of the public online. Do either of you want to make a comment to the board? I will move on to the next item and there is one other thing I would like to add an agenda item. And that is to review the March 8th meeting for takeaways for the future in terms of learning. It didn't go quite as we had wanted it to. And secondly, to vote to ratify the March 8th meeting so that it is official due to the lack of decorum from the last one we met. So we are going to add that to the agenda. And we have a new person. I have to add that to the agenda. Seconded by Sarah, all those in favor? I. Because I recommended candidate for the RTCC position. Okay. Okay. The review of March 8th. Oh, I was going to do that after the reorg stuff. Thank you. That's where I was going to put it. So, okay. So we're going to move forward then to the report on the town meeting. I was going to ask Linda to just report out on that. I'm not sure what you want me to say, but all our board members that were up to reelection got reelected. I have the voting results in your packet. Okay. I think that covers it. The meeting was pretty cool. And you were up very late that night. So I had to get you some help for the future. We're rethinking the count next year because we couldn't use the tabulator until like 8.30. We were all here shortly after 7. But I found out bravery has won. And they do all four votes. So maybe we'll just use their tabulator. Of the tabulator. Do the justices of the piece or the election volunteers, do they help you at all? Yeah, actually, Brookfield, they have to send two people down. Well, it was the assistant town clerk that came the present one that night. And then one of her helpers came. And then two from Ranger came. One was a select board or select board chair. They had to deliver the ballots. They had to call me. And then we started counting. Did Randolph have some people? Yeah, a little bit, yeah. Actually, my Raindry crew stayed with me. I was very proud of them. They stayed till the bitter end. And one Randolph guy was actually my neighbor. They were disturbed. I think they were disturbed that there was not counting. Right, right. So we're going to review that for next year because I don't know what the process and procedures are. But if we can get a couple other people that I could respond to or whatever it is. Yeah, I mean, they have a different machine there and it's very slow. I mean, the reason it's slow, they said, is because it picks up more on the ballot. So... The Raindry doesn't use their tabulator on these computers. It's like Randolph's using a separate... Randolph's voting for other things. Right, they didn't. That's why I was glad to wait till they could get that. They don't have their tabulator. So if you use Raindry's tabulator... That's what I'm thinking. I didn't even know they had it until that night. We'll work it out. It doesn't seem like we should... It doesn't seem like we should be counting because there are... No, it should be... There are interests. Right, probably election decisions. I think she's right. Awesome. Well, thank you for spending all that time and getting that ball tabulated for us. So next up, we have the reorganization of the board. And that means we need to be voting the chair, the vice chair, the committees. And so we're going to go ahead and start that. Hopefully everyone... And I apologize. I didn't send that email out until a little bit later. There was some information that Lane got for us just in terms of if there are multiple people interested in the different positions, sort of how to go about doing that. So whoever's nominated first goes first. And if they don't get enough, then we go on to the second person nominated and so on and so forth. And Chelsea is here. And Chelsea is here. Yay, Chelsea! Where are you in North Carolina, Kentucky? Where are you? Oh, can she talk? Can you hear us? I just got in the door. I just did it. Awesome. All right. Thank you for doing that. Okay, so thank you, Lane, for doing all that research with our district council and make sure we know how to go about doing these things. So anyway, so first up, we have... We need to elect the chair. So do we have a nomination for chair? We have a second for that. Oh, we don't have to second that. I'm not sure if we need to second that or not. Do we have any other nominations? I am going to nominate Ken Arias. Okay. And we don't need to do a second. Okay. Do we have any other nominations? Okay. So we're going to start with the vote. To close nominations for the chair. Okay. I'll second that. I'm just remembering the town meeting. Second that. Okay. So all of those in favor of closing nominations? Okay. Okay. Okay. So first up would be the first nominee. So that would be Anne Kaplan for chair. All those in favor, please say aye. All those opposed, say nay. Okay. So next up would be Hannah Arias. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say nay. Okay. Okay. So I'll turn the meeting over to Hannah. Congratulations. Thank you. Okay. Time to elect, move on and elect a vice chair. Do I have open nominations? Do I have any nominations? Nominate Chelsea. Thank you. Don't need a second. Are there any other nominations? I nominate Megan. Thank you. Anyone else have a nomination for vice chair? Excellent. Could I get a motion to close nominations for vice chair? I move to close nominations. Can I get a second? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Okay. Who was nominated first? That was Chelsea. Okay. All those in favor of electing Chelsea as vice chair? Aye. Aye. All those opposed? So let me count here. Does she vote for herself? Yeah. Does she need to accept the nomination? We're all voting for her, but she didn't say anything. As long as she doesn't abstain. I accept the nomination for vice chair. Okay. So moving on with the vote, can you raise your hands again? She already has a majority. Yes. All right. Chelsea, congratulations. You are now vice chair. Which means you're no longer clerk. I have any nominations for clerk. I nominate Rachel. Nomination rejected. I nominate Megan. What's this entail again? I can't remember. Minutes during executive session. Or after the before and after. Or when Linda leaves. Okay. Can I say now? Nomination rejected again. Do I have any other nominations? Let me rephrase. I don't have any other. No. I reject her. I nominate Katcha. Nope. I can't vote for Sam. No. How's your hand right now? May I have a motion to close nominations, please? So moved. Second. Sam moved by Megan. Seconded. Okay. All those in favor of Sam as clerk. Thank you, Sam. Thank you, Sam. No. Moving on. Approving the schedule for regular meetings. It isn't closed in our packet. Second Wednesday of each month. Well, still at 6 o'clock. We've moved it. Anyone have any concerns there? I suggest anything different. I move to approve schedule for regular meetings. Second Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m. I second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstentions. Okay. Assigned member to sign official documents in absence of the chair right now, or it was most recently the vice chair. Yes, ma'am. I don't know who to sign or someone who can just say there's no election on that one, right? I'll move to assign Chelsea to sign official documents in absence of the chair. I second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Unanimous. The RTCC reps currently Megan and Sarah. I am definitely needing to pull back from that because if we meet too early and I can, you can take it. I would like to stand on that board. Excellent. If you'll have me. Are there other nominations we are required to have to or we just prefer to have to? I nominate Sam to join that board. I'm already at that meeting. Yeah. Thank you. All right. All those in favor of appointing Sarah and Sam RTCC reps? Aye. Who can I put to make the motion and second it? I'll move. Okay. I'll second. Megan. Megan, that was unanimous. The teacher contract negotiating committee currently Chelsea, Megan, and myself. Chelsea, Megan, do you have interest in continuing on? I would like to stay on it. Stay on it. Especially since we're mid. In negotiation? Yeah. Chelsea, are you interested in staying on that committee? Yes, I will stay on that committee. Okay. As I am interested in staying on it, I have a motion. So moved. Second. Contra and Sarah. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay. Support staff contract negotiation committee currently and Sarah and Katia are interested in continuing on that committee. A motion to keep the committee members. I move to keep the same committee for the support staff negotiations. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Excellent. Review of board expectations, rules, and orientation. Okay. So everyone has their binder, right? Just to see things going over. And it was just put together this year and I am very, very grateful for it. Sam, you have one as well, right? I have one. You completely. Somewhere. Yeah. Okay. I think it's just really important that all of us make a commitment in this first month to read through it, come up with any questions. I will say the biggest thing is being, you know, I printed something out that really spoke to me from the BSVA. So I'm going to say this. Unity of purpose, which really spoke to me. So disagreements are going to happen, but if I could just quote, unity of purpose is a common focus, superordinate goals and core values and beliefs governance team members share in common about children, the school, and education. Unity of purpose helps them transcend their differences to fulfill a greater purpose. It spoke to me in terms of acting as one voice, which I have learned, is one of the biggest things that we can do. We're all individuals, but we're acting as one for the betterment. I'd ask that we all review really carefully and with focus the ends. And if we want to revisit that, we've talked about it a lot in the past year, perhaps revisiting and expanding, further focusing for your narrowing down. So review as much as you can. Please go to vtbsba.org. They have really good toolkits. I found a training I'm interested in doing. Please go to your own. Or if it's worth it, tell the group and perhaps we can all get on together and do trainings. And like Ann did, I'll try to send out ones that look particularly good or that I've done that I'll pass upon. What they think is important on this first meeting of this new year about expectations, rules, or orientation. I would just say everybody should have, their book looks different than mine, but everyone should have one of these getting started with policy governance, especially for new. And then the other thing is we do have, as a board, we do have money set aside for education. So I just recommend that people get up to speed. The BSBA has great stuff, but until we change our policies, we're working under policy governance. And it is a system that sort of works as an entirety. And if you don't understand how it functions, it makes it hard to understand what your role is and what we need to do as a board member. I would strongly encourage you to take a look at that book. Thank you, anyone else? Before we move on. Excellent. Ownership linkage committee report slash plan. This is for Heather and more committee members. I'm going to hand it over to Heather. Great. Thank you so much. Yes, I'm excited to report to the board that on March 3rd and March 9th, we had two launch retreats. These were for our sessions from 8am to noon. They were gatherings of about 30 stakeholders, about half of them students, also parents, teachers, and administrators. We had board members present at the March 9th, which was wonderful. And these launch events are leading toward a data collection. So what we have, where we've gotten so far, is we have drafted a survey to send out to the community. We've drafted a plan to do a postcard campaign for people who like a QR code wouldn't be an accessible way to access a survey. A postcard would be better. And also are planning a community dinner for Tuesday, April 4th to invite the community in. And the goal of all this data collection is to get people to inform us what skills, attributes, experiences, abilities do you want a graduate to have. And we're getting started on launching that data collection. And this is a student-led data collection. So while we're facilitating and helping them, they are the leaders on this. So we're touching, this is through, the facilitation is through up for learning and they've been wonderful. Really wonderful. We are reconvening that group for a data analysis on April 18th. And so it will be a little bit more than a month of collecting information from the community. We have plans to go out to senior living facilities, the library, and other locations in the community to make it easy for people to share their thinking. So that's where we are. Anne was present. Do you have anything additional to share? No, that covers that part. We are also, I don't know if you want to talk about, there's also a plan to create a survey for folks who have left the district to help us gather feedback in terms of what, you know, the ends we're going toward that isn't, you know, to try and figure out what might be causing people to decide they don't want their children in our district. Right, so our director of technology was able to pull a list of families who have students who have left the district over the past three years, or was it four? I think it was three years. So that we can ask them, you know, what was your reason, did you move, or whatever other reasons it may have been to inform our outreach, right? I think we kind of came about the idea of form some other reasons. Are there any themes that are coming up that maybe we need to address in our ends, or is it just, you know, reasons of families moving and relocating and things like that, and it's not actually an impact. So just taking an idea of just to see if we can inform any work that we do. Our next meeting is the 22nd. Next Wednesday, right? For the subcommittee. Yes, is that formed? The one? I think it's March 22nd. Yeah, perfect. But the reconvening meeting is when? Hold on. The one that was going to be last night. Yes, it should be. Okay, I thought we were just cancelling that one and the next one was April 19th. Would you like to add one? Oh, no, I would love to do that. Okay, April 19th will be the next one. Okay, perfect. That's fine with that. One in my calendar. And the next one. Excellent. So that's the next ownership linkage subcommittee meeting. Okay. And that's at 5 p.m. and RUHS media center or online. Awesome. I didn't put it in my calendar and I wanted to verify. Okay. Can you just give us the dates for any of the other public ones that are coming up? For the portrait of a graduate meetings that are for the team? The team. For board members to potentially attend? Yeah. Absolutely. The next one is April 18th and that will be held at the RUHS media center. That's from 8 a.m. to 12 30. And we'll be doing 8 p.m. to 12 30. And we'll be doing a data analysis looking at all the information we get from our community. And from there moving forward toward drafting some possible portrait of a graduate just to show to the community. And our final retreat will be on May 2nd. Again, from 8 a.m. to 12 30. I do not have a final location set for that one. And then you mentioned the community dinner. Do we have a date for that? Yes. The community dinner is going to be on Tuesday, April 4th. Starting at 5 30 at the RUHS cafeteria. I'll be sending out information on that to the community publicly through our principals newsletters. Front porch forum. And other efforts. We have a poster and a video. Lance Matze is working on making a nice video. So we're hopeful for a good turnout. What location and time is that? That's going to be at the union high school. RUHS. At what time? Starting at 5 30. But it will be ongoing, you know, until 7 30. And are you doing RSVP? I know you had talked about it, but are you going to try to just drop it? Yeah. Here's my thinking on that. I don't think we'll get a realistic number. I think I might ask for people to let us know if you're coming, but the door will be open. People will know that. So Sarah will probably overprepare. Okay. Oh, yes. I don't know. Do you want to not RSVP it at all? Do you think that that would work? I'm just joking about Sarah. Yeah, she does. She'll have a delicious spread. No, I just, you had mentioned this, so I didn't know. I think to put it out there to give maybe an idea. Yeah. Especially if it seems like it's really small, maybe more getting it out there if you know what to do. But to make it clear where we ask for RSVPs that they're not going to do it. That's what I'll do. To attempt. Perfect. In order to attempt. Thank you. Anything else for committee members? Okay. Moving on to monitoring. Wow. It's 634. That's exciting. We are on time. How about that? The district equity policy monitoring update. Great. I see Sierra Bond is online. I'd like to introduce Sierra. Sierra is RUHS 11th grade student. She's engaging in independent learning opportunity, which we call ILOs. To connect. It's going to be connecting to promoting equity and collecting student voice to guide equity work at RUHS. And she has a vision for informing the board's equity policy. Go ahead, Sierra. Introduce yourself and tell us your vision. And then just trying to maybe find some other rates to get students involved. And then maybe find some other rates to get students who are not normally involved in this type of work to kind of put their input because I really want to get as much student input as possible. Because I feel like personally I think students have the input, the policy that will directly affect them so much is really important so I want to be able to be the vessel for that student voice and then come up with a way to make sure that this equity policy that we now have in place is effective and continues to be effective. So that's sort of my idea that I'm working on. Thank you, Sierra. Yes, thank you. Thank you. So if you have any questions for me or anything about. So we had discussed that you might come up with a few different measures to put in front of the superintendent that could possibly be used in the equity report. Have you made any progress on identifying possible measures or collecting data? Not yet. Currently I'm working on organizing the ways to organizing student groups or student meetings so I can start getting some feedback. Because unfortunately I was out for a little while. So that's what I'm currently doing. With that I'll start compiling the list. Yes, okay. So just let us continue to touch base with me on how I can support you in your work. Any other questions for her? We have no further questions. We're excited about your voice and your help on bringing us more information about student voice. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you Sierra. Thank you Heather. Okay, moving on the quarterly facilities monitoring report. That's in the the board packet. They do have to correct the date on there. They do have the wrong date but it is needed before. Probably the biggest things of the note are the very top blockage and privacy stalls have been in place and used for a while. I think they finished the painting at this point in time. And that's for both blockages.  Instead of closing it down especially given we had a couple of trees down this year during the snow storms that block the main road out there and people needed to use that to get around those blockages. Then we were going to put in speed mumps. We can have them right now. They just have to get some. And at least that will slow people down that are coming around that far. They can stay in the whole time. They can stay in the whole time. That's a good question. I'll ask it. Yeah. That's not a true question. That's not a true question. That's not a true question. Heat system failure. We talked a little bit earlier. We're meeting with a couple of other pieces that go along with this. At the same time that the heat fails the pipes, the agent pipes and the salt encroachment and everything else that was going on with them that boiler also heats the domestic hot water. And so when they were down there those pipes run parallel to the heat supply pipes. They were in pretty bad conditions. So in figuring since we did all the work this is the time let's just get them in place and then we don't have to worry about a failure in the future at any point in time. So that work is happening. There will be a little bit of a cost to repave over the work that they've done until the time comes. There was a grant that was put in for some kitchen equipment. And you were going to see in the board packet a little bit later on. There are some requests for reserve funds. One of them has to do with that. There needs to be some electrical upgrades and the grant is not covered. So let me request for that. The big one that we're talking about to try to get it done this summer is the field house basically. We had talked maybe a year and a half or so ago that there was water encroachment. The water is literally filtering upwards through concrete subfloor underneath the field house. It's causing some swelling in some of the boards to start to come free. We did have somebody come in and do some poor samples on it to give us the best idea of the work that needed to be done. It does need to be replaced. The other factor that came up when we did those poor samples is between that concrete floor and between the wood that's on top that there is padding material that was in place 50 years ago when it was originally built but is now fully degraded. So it is time to do that comparison. We're going to try to get that in place for this summer. There will be a reserve request for that once we have a final estimate on how this should be at about the $300,000 range. It might be slightly less than that because we've been having a discussion about whether or not we should replace the gym bleachers at the same time. Not in bad shape. They're actually aesthetically quite nice. The problem is is that when they're closed the kids have been sitting on them so I've been working with folks to make sure the kids aren't sitting on them when they're closed because it damages their structure and we've got an engineer coming in to take a look at it and see if we can just repair it. So it could be $100,000 less depending on what the decision comes back. The pre-K fencing pieces that are there that's required as part of the ranks so we're going to try to get that into place. And then you are going to see another reserve request tonight having to do with the OSSD central office. Some of it is to do the outside painting to get the outside up to speed so we don't have the wood rod around the nose and all the other nonsense that we've been dealing with. But when they did the main work in the building and the engineers came in and they started pulling some of the sheet rock and moving the ceilings to get to the electrical. The building was sagging on both the top floor and on the bottom floor enough that there was a concern there could be a structural failure. So we had to do some pretty significant work bringing some pretty hefty support things are actually kind of cool if you get a chance to go and see them. So that added significantly to the cost. But again the building is structurally sound at this point in time. By the time the work is done you will have a prime piece of property that if some day we're able to build a new complex for the high school tech center we can move central office over there and either sell it or we can rent it out for office space. So it's been upgraded. And again one of the things under the executive limitations report is maintaining and taking care of assets. So other I'm not sure if there are other questions about the on that those are the big is on the heating system and I appreciate the decision to proactively replace the mascot water pipes is there a mitigation plan or salt? They use stainless steel instead of steel this time which is going to help the materials that are packed around them have been upgraded to what they should be that was one of the failures and the previous they tried to solve that I mean this should be this should outlast all of us One of the things that I like about Bob and Les is you know they tend to be a little bit more expensive but they do the work but that's what we all say it's like we want it done so it's not a good question. The second review executive implementation reports include in the agenda EL 2.3 financial conditions and activities EL 2.6 asset I did correct the word the wrong person is true I had I changed it and I had to look at it six times because it was still swimming for my eyes Is there any questions discussion safer? Yeah 2.3 just in general that's the financial conditions and activities what it's designed to do is it's making sure that we're using the monies with the district for its intended purposes you know and you're seeing a little bit of some of that tonight with how we're doing the requests of the reserve funds when you get those reserve funds requests since I've been here you've also got the estimates and outlines from the contractors making sure that we're paying our bills on time and then we're collecting the monies that are owned in some type of fashion in terms of 2.6 making sure that not just the district finances the monies are protected but also the facilities and the equipment is protected with insurance and making sure that we're maintaining it so that we don't have bigger problems in the future I do have a comment on 2.6 for vision 5 the first page it states in the I tell section it'd be over $15,000 but then when you actually go to that provision 5 I don't know it was we updated it should be the board voted on that last year so that needs to get so where did you see the 15th so on this first page for the in the over to the board that's no it's a change at the state level also I've got to make sure that it's changed in your policy governance in in April 2 it's a good catch but no it is 40,000 I remember it's voting on last year yeah so so will we not be able to accept this one today then if that change needs to be or can we accept it with that you can accept it with provisionally any other comments or edits if not if I could get it so I moved to accept policy 2.3 as submitted and then policy 2.6 provisional edit second second by Sarah all those in favor aye those opposed abstentions great unanimous okay our own self monitoring we were asked to look at board governance policy 4.0 and then policy 2.6 provisional edit second second by Sarah all those in favor aye those opposed I'll just go ahead and read the policy warning this is policy number 4.0 global governance commitment the purpose of the board on behalf of Brainfrey Berkfield and Randolph is to see to it the Orange Southwest School District A achieves appropriate results for students at appropriate cost as specified as prohibited in board executive limitations policies did anyone use the ratings of always most of the time some of the time never? I said for the first part I said most of the time always okay because we're still waiting on a full ends report but that's because the state hasn't released the testing data yet I want you guys to give me a favor I've got to find a more gender neutral way to say let's set a date where if we have not heard from them I will update it using what committees are developing this year in different areas like the social studies department it may not perfect but at least it will be baseline data we may not have much to identify in future years and we do have data with our own internal systems some of which they are using they're going to be the ones stating you know they've created their own kind of interpretation of the ends they've identified the data that they want to use and monitor they've identified what the thresholds are that means success or growth and so I would say by our June meeting we do an end report and that's for last year it's the last last year's data and then you would get another one in October that would be about this year that way it doesn't go by it would be good to just get it voted in let's get it right on your annual agenda for this time just so that we know it's there so maybe for the agenda for next meeting I said most of the time because I was saying the board is checking is in the process of checking through the portrait of a graduate process that our ends are still in line with what our owners stakeholders feel are the appropriateness so that's why I said most of the time we're in process with some of that would people agree with and discussion people feel we're doing pretty well with this one yes still too new I don't even have any data from a year ago yeah I think based on our current situation policy decisions these are a few first readings so we won't be voting tonight we'll have a second reading for the selection of library materials this content comes directly from our school board association recommended policies as required by the state okay thank you I'm just going to stop the rate of writing was involved okay the only thing to be cognizant of with both of them is both of them spell out both staffing and material requirements that if it is voted in the policy we will have to make sure through the budget process that we fund and most of those pieces are already in place 99% of what is in here so I don't think it's not having and these are recommended policies not required so they could be edited did anything jump out or did anyone in their first reading requiring a library media specialist for every 300 students we are well in excess of that at this time we've been slowly building up the time through the budget process the librarians had only one day they'll be three days a week now I'm slowly over time supporting that proper planning time for the elementary teachers this is the best way librarians doing their digital literacy work and all the other pieces that we've been working on with the language in regards to those numbers to change isn't the library specialist we are currently well in excess of policy is asking for oh, sorry right yes we have so we have approximately in the district 500 elementary students total and we have three librarians employees okay we're doing great thank you 2.2 oh oh if you do the FTE thank you so we're in the shade and the only reason that I'm bringing up the monetary it's not an issue going forward but let's say that we you know the finances go horribly wrong we get a five year stretch under that and we have to make cuts when we do have policies that require a financial outlay we still have the money so just just I am as well so we have the specialist for our first students the policy in place and down to 1.5 1.4 and still be compliant not that I want that to happen just before the record the most important part of this policy is protecting our students first minute rights to access information that's what is the critical part the superintendent interpretation has a analysis of procedures for examining to see if most of it will tie in directly to you know it doesn't tie somehow directly or indirectly to the state very safe for students plus also make sure that it's tying into our equity policy and that the equity requirements in the state has got some development to do for those pieces now about the instructional materials very similar and when it comes to protecting access to materials one is for the media center and one is for instructional materials Lane does the instructional materials require staffing at any ratio I don't believe it does that one no that one does not but there are materials requirements right and access to the library on regular basis and technology resources and the next month thank you also considering the addition to heal policy 2.0 so 2.0 was it's an executive limitation it is the global constraints policies basically the only change that was recommended was just adding another qualifier in there you know the superintendent shall not cause activity decision organization circumstance it is a lawful save and prudent and then we out of the word inequitable or in violation of commonly accepted educational and professional practices technically the inequitable is covered under that last line there violation of commonly accepted educational and professional practices but I think it's important to tie into the equity policy that was loaded in into the equity group that was happening so we will revisit all three of those next month moving on lane legislative update you're keeping me busy yes I am so we actually we had a we had a good meeting the old members meeting the superintendents today and we usually hold it up a capital plaza that way the legislators can come over so outside of the key pieces of legislation that looks like the ones that they're going to focus on that I put in the superintendents report they had a couple of pretty interesting updates they talked about the the PCB testing and the fact that if you get a hit on the PCBs there's an immediate response that's required by the district it immediately has to be the PCBs out of there they recognize that it's an unfunded mandate because they have not supplied a lot of money to actually be able to do that remediation work so what they're suggesting at this point in time is putting a pause on that immediate fact and trying to find a way to combine any kind of remediation work that might have to happen with their plans to reenact construction examining all the school buildings around the state and see what shape they were in and try to decide if they should be putting funding aside to help districts rebuild and renovate and so it kind of makes sense you wouldn't want to have an immediate effect from PCBs where you got to spend two million dollars remediating stuff where you just can rip the school down in three years and replace it and so they're trying to find a way to combine those two they call it the swatting incident with the hoax that affected the 21 schools RUHS being one of them where folks called in anonymously and basically said you know there was an active school shooter in each of these buildings right now what's happening they had a refocus at the direction of the governor on getting in and being more specific regulations about what schools happen for safety processes and so they're doing a lot of work on that interestingly enough most of what they seem to be putting into that legislation are things that we've already been the biggest kind of concerns at least that the superintendent's association spoke about as well as the NEA folks that were there on the perforated talk of today as well is the idea that they had set up a variety within the law of building and they were very prescriptive about who had to be on them overly prescriptive because in a low level incident we don't need 50 people to come in and try to decide what's going on we might need five or six and so there's some discussion around those those were the two biggies independent schools the independent school piece that conversation continues so that was the Carson versus about using public funding to go to religious schools the biggest concern there that was discussed today and was brought to the legislature the very very nice gentleman that came in I wish you could remember his name is the idea that public schools have a variety of things that they have to do teachers have to be certified we have to store at certain points on state testing for federal purposes there are certain policies like anti discrimination policies that we have to have acted to be able to receive federal funding and sometimes funding from the state itself all those things fall into this category of protections these are we put these in place and we make people hop through these soups because we're trying to protect kids and make sure there's a quality education and so the biggest concern about the person being making decisions is just that idea that public schools don't have to do any of that so either these protections that you were laying on public schools if they truly are important the private schools should have to step up and live up to them as well because we're protecting kids and protecting taxpayers money by making sure they're getting quality education or you need to say that these protections really aren't doing anything so that we should have to go through the soups so obviously their intent is they've got pathways that they're pursuing one of them is the idea that okay we're just not going to give money to private schools in a proper song or the other pathway is okay we'll continue to give money to private schools and here are the 50 things that public schools are doing and conditions that they have to meet to receive public funding the private schools who want public funding are going to have to clear where it's going to land by impression it was based on discussion as they're looking on putting the same requirements on public schools to receive that money I think it goes with the big ones yeah the only other topic that was covered was workforce development and that is in a growth stage they don't even have the full plan flushed out yet but we need to create more diversity and more of a pool of applicants for us that's been kind of toned down a little bit I got to admit at that point in time but one of the biggest issues is that during COVID and the exodus from the teaching ranks we have good people that are coming in and applying lots of districts around the state but the problem is they're not certified so they don't meet that quality requirement so they've been making lots of guidelines of the shortage but again you know how to get that workforce quality back up if you really believe how to get that full certification is important how do we manage this issue that we're in while raising that quality if it's sent an agenda it's rather large it makes sense to me to split it up if we're allowed to but there's funds requests to approve kids here I think to introduce herself could just as an aside the ratification of the large name where was that thank you sorry I don't know what it says first yes you said after the consent well no we're not going to do it oh but wait sorry wait I understand I mean it will be part of the consent right as it is do you have an agenda item do you need a motion ratify the March 8 over to say oh yes wait but you can oh okay and neither we die okay so we can so I have the script here they were ready to but they were not okay this is this is yep this is the script it goes on okay thank you it's large thank you I call for a motion to ratify the March 8th meeting where no action could be taken because of a technical issue the board had a full forum of the elected members present but not all were sworn in at the March 8th meeting we arranged to hear the complaint of the NAACP of Rutland and the Gerequina yep organization when no delegate from either organization appeared to present their complaint as is required by policy we closed and adjourned the meeting the board members then remained to hear the comments of the public that were present is there a motion to ratify the March 8th meeting I moved to ratify the March 8th meeting I second all those in favor of ratification I yep opposed abstentions Sarah and Meg and they can send agenda does that make sense are people okay with that splitting in five minutes funds requests sure um yes except that same what the three can't approve those minutes did that one no we just moved to ratify the no we could I would move to approve minutes I would move to approve minutes from the regular meeting on 2 8 the oh you know what I was not so just kidding I'm not going to move anything sorry sorry I was trying to make it easy to approve minutes from regular meeting budget informational meeting and a special meeting thank you do I have a second all second all those in favor those abstentions thank you um the RTCC carryover funds from purchase of vehicle we should have read through these of course are there questions are there specifics Lane that they are um seeking to replace they had a they had a a pickup truck as well as a trailer um that were kind of aging out so they are trading them in separate pieces um for I don't even know what you call it a larger truck that has a dump body that does the dump that will do both things um and so this this is an uh an appropriate purchase the the equipment that they're trading for is in pretty portion and that's the support supported the tech program and Felicia also had a grant to fund part of it yeah the next is a uh a request and there I believe this for the electric board yes central office renovations you touched on that no emergency construction and application okay they have reprobate reports yeah what is um I don't see anything I don't see anything in their green folder oh the scholarship that after the donors had passed away in the probate board monitors and so us signing it is just saying yep we're okay with that monitor gotcha the administrators contract great yeah if Nika is still present I'd like to introduce Nika Oaks recommended for director at RTC she has 15 years she's been a CTE school counselor and a work-based learning coordinator and she's coming to us from the Claremont school district where she is currently an assistant principal and also director of adult ed at their technical center and she's here could you say hello and introduce yourself Nika hi yes thank you that was perfect yes and so I did be part of the team it's been absolutely amazing journey so far so thanks for going to join you guys full time thank you it's great to meet you thank you for being here yeah thanks for coming thank you alright can I have a motion to approve let's see the funds request fake boundary to the administrators contract thank you could I get a second second second hit by Megan rest of A who was the first caught camera Megan seconded all those in favor I I proposed extensions great unanimous thank you congratulations thanks Nika welcome we'll we'll be in touch really really shortly and thank you very much for being here thank you thank you thanks Nika I know superintendent's report anything you want to add Lane if there's questions we kind of updated the legislative portion I've been just in a while ago do you have questions no how about on the other reports were financials financials there was a note that I put down so we would you would expect as you're looking through this at this point in the year that we would have 33% of our budget left in most cases we were well in excess of that there are one or two lines that are a little bit less than that but in most cases it's because we're waiting for reimbursement for grants the one piece that I'll point out because I don't know why this was always the topic of discussion in the early board meetings way back when I started but that's on the revenue page part of the part of the way down the third table there starts off with transfer of funds Title I if you get down to food service you'll see the balance of $72,942 because this is a revenue that means that we are still awaiting that money coming in it's actually a deficit that deficit is about what it normally is this time of the year it's typically in deficit by about $30,000 at the end of the year that's the normal place because we're just waiting for the last month's receipts to come in I have a feeling that we will be in the black this year by the end of the year so Sarah's been doing a really good job again this year if anyone wants to do with me it's pretty simple I guess just figuring out if we want to do we get the gift cards last year when they're right so last year we did gift cards to a variety of businesses and which one they wanted or did they just got one did we do could employees pick which gift card they received or did they just like I doled them out I just like okay perfect if they needed 33 they got 11 of each perfect great so I don't know what they did at the school so basically we had a choice okay but it was sort of first come first served so yeah get there quick get there while it's hot you know so I mean I think if we're open last year we basically did um local businesses and we can do that again I guess we can also decide if we want to do something in case somebody lives out of town and we're preferred is to have like an Amazon gift card we can do that too in addition but I think the local gift cards were really great because it supports our community as well and it seemed like those have been really well received so typically um I'll just make some phone calls and see just basically say we're gonna buy this amount of gift cards from you and so I guess from Linda I'll just need to know we'll figure out how many businesses and then how many cards each will get so okay can anyone wants to volunteer to help you we got it I'll volunteer to help you if you want to thank you what's the budget for it's what would we do to what's the budget gift card how many how many how many this is about 270 I mean that's what we had last year okay great perfect may not be able to do the graphics this year and maybe that's something that the students could do oh yeah we did yeah last year we did like different graphics for the different um organizations thank you send it to me I know there are some new businesses that we should probably see okay when do we need so that's happening the week of May 8th um when's my deadline I need a deadline or else April 30th April 30th she gave me a deadline sure Rachel gave me one I'll stick to it the appreciation we feel is what they're calling May 8th first week of May well I got the 8th yeah there's stuff I think the whole first week of May if I'm not mistaken Hero day and school bus driver day and so we just do the same for everybody right great you're right May 8th it says on our well so thanks perfect aren't I touched thank you Kati and Sam and Linda okay action items recap well what I definitely want to mention are attendance recaps on April 4th community dinner at 5.30 in the RUHS cafeteria uh on April 18th is that a group meeting in the media center in the high school 8 a.m. at 12.30 and I think Chelsea signed up for that already so we're covered um so yeah and then the final I don't think you did I did well here's I'm sorry that what happened is I sent it out and Linda sent it out oh okay there were two different um I remember we're usually more seeing one of them than that I think we can capture her and then I'll see Sarah and Ian alright and May 2nd uh Chelsea is signed up for May 2nd thank you Chelsea Chelsea's got a hand up yes Chelsea sorry I don't really have my hand up I don't know how to use my computer but I am signed up for those sessions on my calendar and that all set with me that's why we're really out so we are all set for those the POG retreats great and uh action slash homework just to um you know read up on the fundamentals of what what we're doing here and what we're trying to achieve and what being prepared for meeting is and uh we do session on the agenda so I can get a motion to move I move to enter executive session to discuss labor negotiations my content do I have a second second seconded by Sam do you want Lane and I to be uh yes we should probably we should probably give the heads up about what it's about so people are prepared to ask questions in the future so I amend my motion to still seconded by Sam yes great so we are leaving public session at 7 22 Sam clerk uh yeah thanks


Welcome to One Take, I'm Gil and today we'll be discussing the new horror film, Scary Stories to Tell Him the Dark. I'll start off with my high level thoughts on the movie and then give you a warning before I dive into spoilers in case you haven't seen the movie yet. This movie was produced by Guillermo del Toro and it's based off the horror anthology book series that was geared towards children. Now I never read that book series so I didn't have any attachment to this material going into the movie and honestly I went in with fairly low expectations just expecting a fun horror movie. Now the first 20 minutes or so I started to think the movie might actually be pretty great because I'm a fan of horror anthology films but I'm especially a fan if they find a clever way to have good interconnectivity between the different stories that are going on and we saw flashes of that throughout this movie. I also thought that all of the actors were doing a solid job. The kids in the movie some of them felt a little cliched but they were good enough that I was looking forward to getting to know those characters. I especially want to shout out the actor Austin Zajur who I thought was hilarious in this movie and did a great job. I mentioned that I was looking forward to getting to know these characters but unfortunately I don't feel like we ever really got to do that. The movie basically turned into a series of short horror films. Now each of those horror films were a different flavor. They were all really well done. Each of them was super creepy and did a great job of making you feel tense throughout. Unfortunately the story in between those short horror films became pretty sloppy, pre-run of the mill and overall pretty boring. It felt like playing a great video game that's interrupted every once in a while by long boring cutscenes. This was especially frustrating because of how well done the horror elements were and those flashes of greatness I felt like I saw early on in the movie. I'd also add that the movie takes place in the 60s and that's something I didn't know going in and I was intrigued by it when the movie at the beginning flashes that date and you find out that we're in the late 60s. But ultimately the fact that this movie took place in the past and that it was a period piece felt shoehorned in. It felt to me like the writers were putting this movie together and realized that modern technology kept getting in the way. For example, when the kids go to investigate what's going on the writers wanted those kids to have to go to the library and go to different places to research this, whereas if it took place today they would just go to Google and that would probably be a much more boring scene. So they decided to make it take place in the 60s but then realized that the script really wasn't conveying that this took place back then. So every 10 to 15 minutes they have a character mentioned Richard Nixon. In the background of this movie we see TVs, we hear the radio that this is all sort of taking place during Nixon's election and it kind of felt like they were trying to turn this into some sort of political commentary. But ultimately whatever that commentary was felt pretty weak and like I said before the political commentary felt shoehorned in and the 60s setting felt ultimately pretty pointless. So overall I'd say I went in with low expectations, I started to see greatness in this movie early on that unfortunately devolved into being just good, not great and ultimately especially as I thought back on the movie and how sloppy some of the storytelling was. I'd say the movie was pretty mediocre even though I did enjoy it. It was a fun horror movie and like I said the horror elements if you take them as basically short horror films were very well done. With that I think we're ready to jump into spoilers so here's your spoiler warning if you haven't seen the movie yet. Five, four, three, two, one. Like I said before the movie was pretty sloppy especially as I started to think back on it. The first example of that was the bully character Tommy. He seemed totally sober and lucid and then when he showed up at Sarah Bellow's house to lock the kids in the basement all of a sudden he was acting very bizarre. At first I wondered if he was maybe supernaturally possessed but then I realized he was drunk and that was confirmed a little later on when his mom asked him if he's drunk again. But I found myself wondering when did he get drunk? I don't think they showed him drinking at all. It felt like he was really pissed off, he wanted to go after those kids and I guess somewhere in that rage he stopped off at a liquor store, got really drunk and then showed up at the house. It just felt very weird and would have felt a lot more natural if we saw him drinking at any point during the movie. Then there was Chuck's older sister Ruth. She was the one who had the thousands of spiders explode out of her face.   It doesn't really feel like the characters are acting like she's dead. But then later on the cop character says to Chuck something along the lines of your sister's going to be in a psych war the rest of her life.  And this whole time it sort of felt to me like the writers wanted her character to be killed but because this is somewhat aimed towards children they kind of pulled their punches a little bit.  But then at the end of the movie we see she's fine now.  My immediate thought would have been okay the defeated cerebello so everything's back to normal now. But Chuck, Augie and Tommy are still missing so I guess just luckily Ruth is fine now no really no explanation for it. Then there's Ramon part way through the movie we find out that he's a draft dodger and at the end of the movie he's accepted his fate and he's joined the army. That could have been an interesting character arc but it's unclear to me why Ramon is now okay joining the army. I guess it's because he defeated the jangly man and maybe he's no longer afraid but that's me kind of filling in the blanks that the movie didn't. We also have kids disappearing and dying left and right but it sort of feels like the surrounding characters aren't reacting to that in an emotionally realistic way or in a logistically realistic way because no one seems to be investigating or asking too many questions. For example, why was the scarecrow wearing Tommy's clothes the kid who just disappeared? What were the doctor's reactions to Ruth's face having exploded and I'm assuming there's gotta be some physical evidence of the fact that thousands of spiders crawled out of her face. The movie also goes out of its way multiple times to remind us that Augie's parents are out of town so I guess that explains why we're not seeing Vam or anyone else really react to the fact that he disappeared but the movie doesn't go out of its way to explain where Chuck's parents are. In fact at the end of the movie when Ruth, Chuck's older sister, is back we see her in the car with Stella and Stella's dad. So my immediate reaction to that was oh yeah her parents are gone so I guess she's going to live with Stella now but then it occurred to me wait why are her parents gone? We never saw anything happen to Chuck's parents he just disappeared and there was really no reaction from anybody and then Ruth decides to go live with Stella and her dad I guess. It was very unclear what happened to Chuck's parents if anything. Anyway I feel like I'm saying a lot of bad things about this movie but like I said up front there are some things I genuinely enjoyed especially the horror elements. A couple that I'd shout out first the pale lady although she felt a little repetitive just in the character no matter which direction they run they see her standing there felt a lot like Tommy running through the cornfield and no matter which direction he goes he sees Harold the Scarecrow but the character design for the pale lady was something very unusual not something I felt like I'd seen before in a horror movie. It was also really interesting the way that she had that big smile and the way she defeated Chuck was by giving him a big hug almost as if she thought she was doing something good for him and hey we don't see where Chuck ends up maybe living inside the pale ladies belly is awesome who knows. I also thought the jangly man was great not just the mechanic of his body parts falling down the chimney and then coming together. It was also really the only time we saw one of the characters fight back against one of these creatures and really interact with them especially where Ramon crashes the car and pins the jangly man between the car and the truck all that stuff was great. Personally when the jangly man first showed up before he put himself back together I would have loved to have seen what happened if the cop just grabbed the torso and ran away before the jangly man could reconstruct himself but the cops in this movie were kind of useless so I guess there was really no chance of that happening. I also like the sort of time travel elements for example when they're listening to the recording of Sarah Bellow being electrocuted and then at the end of it she starts talking to them about what was happening to Chuck in that moment that was really cool. When Stell's glasses fell off in that kind of past sequence and showed up in the present where Ramon finds them all dusty all that stuff was pretty interesting even though they didn't ultimately do a lot with it. There were also parts of this movie where I felt Guillermo del Toro's presence. Now I don't know how creatively involved he actually was in this movie but I thought I saw flashes of him in the character design and in the emotional arc for Sarah Bellow. The fact that ultimately she wasn't just some horrific creature but was a victim and the way to defeat her was by sympathizing with her and ultimately telling her story. Elements of that story were pretty effective. I mentioned the recording earlier where you hear her as a child being electrocuted and tortured by her family. I really felt for her in that scene and it was really effective. Unfortunately the climax of her story where Stella is interacting with her and you see Sarah start to cry and let go of her rage unfortunately that didn't work as well for me. I wanted to feel something but it felt like the culmination of an arc that wasn't really there. It felt like the ending to a Guillermo del Toro movie that we didn't see. If the movie were a little less sloppy and the movie did a better job of making us care about the characters especially if it made us care about the Sarah Bellow character then that ending could have been a lot more effective and a lot more impactful. So like I said overall I went into this movie with pretty low expectations just looking for a fun horror movie and I was pleasantly surprised at the beginning. I thought this was going to be a great above average horror film but unfortunately the characters ended up being pretty underdeveloped and the biggest flaw of this movie was how sloppy the storytelling got in between the great horror moments. So I really wouldn't recommend this movie unless you're just in the mood for something scary maybe it's Halloween and you've already watched all the classics over and over and you need something new. This will give you your horror fix but otherwise I thought it was pretty mediocre and not a strong recommend from me. Anyway leave a comment on this video and tell us what you thought of scary stories to tell in the dark. Am I asking too many questions? Am I being too nitpicky? Let me know in the comments and if you enjoyed this video make sure to like it and subscribe to our channel plus hit that little bell icon so you get notifications whenever we make more videos like this one. Thanks for watching.