Okay, good. So then we have, we have a quorum and it's 630. So I'd like to call the meeting to order at 630. Is there any adjustments to the agenda? All right, no adjustments to the agenda. While we can assign times, I would look to Jamie made to be to help me with this. Yeah, the reports of the board, maybe 15. For each report or just for. I'm thinking all. Okay. Great celebration of learning. I think it's like 10 minutes. Maybe a little longer to video. And then was there just. Okay, so let's do 15. Then if there's any discussion afterwards. Okay, the policies. Okay. All right, the budget. 20. You think. Okay. The board goals, short term, long term. Do we have. I haven't seen those from Wednesday. Was there, was there anything to bring forth tonight for that? Yes, Amy. I was planning on reporting on our, our meeting just orally. We don't have anything to share as far as a doc, but. So how much time do you think you need for that? Five minutes. Unless there's any discussion around it, but probably five minutes. Okay. And the board guiding principles and protocols. What do you think? That's good. Okay. 15. Do we have any new hires or resignations? No, we do not know. Okay. And then we. Okay. Did somebody want to volunteer to kind of keep track of time? The timekeeper. I can, if you want, Amy. You usually do it. I know, I'd. Robert's got his phone out. So. All right. Great. I feel like, yeah, it should flow tonight. Yeah. I hope so. Okay. So we do not have the minutes of Tuesday, November 22nd to approve. So we're going to table that one. We do have. Tuesday, November 2nd. I do have a change to. The name, the spelling of. One of the people in attendance, which was Nancy Woolley. Not Nancy Willie. Thank you. If you could take note of that. Her last name is spelled W O O L L E Y. Okay. All right. I'll get that to Christie tomorrow. Can we go ahead and approve it with. That that change tonight or does it need to be changed? And then we do approve it. You can, you can move to do it with that. That amendment. Okay. All in favor. Hi. Great. And then we have the minutes of Thursday, September 16th. That we can approve. Motion to approve September 16th minutes. I move to approve September 16th minutes. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Okay. All right. I just wanted to bring up briefly the subject of. Getting copies of the. Of the plans of high school. Oh, to add in the agenda. Okay. It's only a couple of minutes. Do an underboard comment. Sure. Can we do. Okay. We're on to public comment. Do we have. Any public attending? I do not believe so. Okay. Moving on to board comment. I guess I just. I've been trying to. Get. Electronic copies of the. Plans to the high school. They were discovered. The. The paper plans. Discovered in the. High school. I suspect that the ones that were scanned were not the. High school. Plans. Okay. Moving on to board comment. I guess I just. I've been trying to. Get. Electronic copies of the. High school. Plans. That's the ones for this building. So. The ones that Tara has on a thumb drive that are electronic. Include all the plans of all three buildings. I don't know how. Detailed plans you're looking for right now. Okay. I'm trying to react to responses from. To requests from. Some people working on the feasibility study. And so. But in terms of like actual plans that are maybe more detailed than the Black River report. Right. Tara has a thumb drive, right? Tara. At the office still from that that has specific. Lyle has it. Lyle has it. Okay. So. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I have been in touch. So I guess I haven't done a response yet. But if there's any. I saw from Black River was that they were going to try and share the thumb drive through a web portal with Lyle. That could then be shared with you. Was my understanding. So I can follow up with Lyle again and find out where he is with that. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. I don't know if I can. I don't know if I can. Do I have permission to. Get them scanned. Thank you. The Black River one should be the most recent. Yeah, I have that. Came. Yeah. Part of the Black River study. We actually paid them extra to create detailed plans of all of our. Our facilities so that we had that. That's correct. That's correct. Yes. And I know that. Jenny was. I don't know if it's a specific program that you need to open the electronic plans. So. I think, I think the discussion between Black River and with Tara, like she was talking about is really the best way to go forward here. Okay. And Robert, the one plan set of plans that Polly emailed, is that not what you were looking for for the high school? The only plan I got was the PDF, which is the basic layout of the high school. Okay. So you want something more than that is what you're looking for. That's what I understand from the people who are doing the study. People who are asking you. All right. Okay. Is there any additional board comment? Okay. Okay. Moving on to reports to the board. Superintendent's report. So good evening. It's hard to believe it's already December. Things are flying by. I'll just report. It wasn't on here, but I'll add it. Negotiations. Whether our teaching staff started. Yesterday evening and was a really positive first meeting between the committee and the board. So that's good news. We also. Implemented test to stay at, at this point tomorrow, we'll have implemented our fourth school. Over the last five days, it's gone exceptionally well. We actually had two cohorts of students test out. They started last week sharing piloted for us. And it was so, so thus far as resulting in. We've had about 60 students who would have been quarantine, right? Over the last two weeks that it had been able to remain in school. So that's been really positive. And I would say now we've kind of got a pretty good workflow going. In regards to it. And so just a reminder, those are for unvaccinated students. That are asymptomatic. No symptoms. The other thing I wanted to give the board a heads up on Robert had reported us to a website issue from one of your old domains. We saw Ray's been working on getting that taken care of. And Robert, I sent you an email. Following up on that just this afternoon. And so we're in alignment. We're trying to work on the. The prior two owners that have hosted that website. No longer are able to help us with it. And so we're now in contact with the new current. owners to see if we can get it navigated and we're also in alignment for the next if this site gets put up for sale again or next in alignment to be able to purchase it back which doesn't cost much but it would allow us to to take care of the content so anyways there's an old site out there that we're trying to make certain is down speaking of that though I have seen the website that will be ready to launch or launching new sites across the SU and the ARSUD site I don't want to take Lindy's thunder away and we will it it'll go in your next board report and be released to families between now and your next board meeting it looks awesome and I'm really excited about it and so you'll be the first launch in the SU with a new rebranding site so that's my daughter actually today when I picked her up from school said you know the Rochester's website is really old it has a lot of old pictures of it just today she was telling me so so yeah and so there'll be a new Rochester Stockbridge Unified District site that will have access to information across both schools it looks really good it's current it also what I like about it is the template we're going with will allow us to give perspective hires and families all the information they would need plus current families like timely information around calendars events things of that nature get to know the teaching staff what their assignments are but it's the it's going to be the type of site where we'll be able to keep it current and won't go obsolete and so I'm feeling good about that and we leverage ESSER funds to bring on the coordinator of communications part time to work under Ray to assist us with these types of projects and I gotta say it's it's been one of them one of the better investments that we've done I don't know if you've noticed our hero coverage is up significantly we'll have all over Facebook pages now are coordinated and we have a new fresh content happening weekly on all of them and then by the end of the year we'll have rolled out new sites everywhere so including the SU which is current but when you navigate it it's very slow and it's clunky I think it's wonderful and timely because this is how everybody is investigating the schools the communities that this is how people are getting their information now so I think it's it's good good timing and the only other thing I'll add is I've talked to Kate her name is Kate McLean in Lindy about the concept we're going to try to do pretty significant push here in the upcoming months around recruitment and we've talked about both Fitzfield and Granville and cock and we've been doing quite a bit of work at that the middle school level at Rudd thus far this this fall and Wendy will be partnering with their principal Owen Bradley to support some efforts there so we're sharing in the knowledge we're gaining around recruitment and marketing and so her other piece to that is to assist us with marketing as well so know that that's underway too and you know in general I would say there's really good momentum to our work in mathematics I was over in Bethel this is my written report for an upcoming board but yours already went out but on Friday the 10th there was a we had a training for math interventionist and special educators and pure professionals across the ESU that was hosted by Bonnie Bourne and Fay Severe actually helped lead it which was great when we had teachers leaders doing the instruction I think it really built sustainability to the effort and I would just say that the it was a really great vibe there around our math energy and math work across the ESU which was exciting so I'll take any questions folks have other than those those updates the question is to comment very impressive it seems like you're running an all 12 cylinders whatever you want sports car analogy we've got here but we're talking about student achievement growth in the classroom we're also talking about how we communicate with the public so they know what's going on with a public school system and we just assume you know the public will support public education well they need to know the multiple things that are going on and what you're doing if our outreach and marketing as well as parents that have to decide gee shall we come to this SU next year we need to grow if we're going to have the resources to get things done so on both those fronts your front center your team is doing what we'll think so I want to come in you for that thanks Phil all right moving on to the principals report so you guys have my report we've seen kind of highlights is the finished parent teacher conferences which has been great to have folks like back in the building again that was very exciting I think for a lot of parents that was the first time in over there almost two years probably they've been back in the building so that was great we are in the process of launching winter wellness which will start in January months switching always something that folks are excited we're gonna partner with pico this year because their program is a little more geared to what we're looking for based on feedback and if folks aren't comfortable with that we're also doing stuff on campus with cross-country skiing ice skating and snowshoeing for both groups so to access some local things as well as downhill skiing and snowboarding some other highlights Jimmy totally stole my thunder about the new website but it is pretty exciting and Kate's been great to work with and it's exciting to have everything for both campuses and also as a whole entity all together instead of two separate places and it is very easy to keep up to date we also have launched a new Facebook that is a Rochester school Rochester Stock Bridge schools Facebook page and our school counselor Sam Demon has taken over a lot of that and works with Kate and so currently both the Stock Bridge and Rochester Facebook pages are still operational but she uses that Rochester Stock Bridge page I think that's the right term page to share on to the old pages to kind of attract families and we won't shut down the other ones without proper notice but the goal is to all be under one entity again as well and so folks in both communities can see what's going on in both and both campuses not just one versus the other I will say in terms of COVID we have hosted our first PCR drive-up clinic which means that kids that were quarantined were able to come and test out on day seven and that went really well and was actually exciting to kind of feel like there was a little control on the situation as well as we've held our first vaccination clinic which is exciting as well and then lastly we're in the process of planning a middle school high school like fair for families to come check out for grades four through six we're really going to advertise to come and look at the different opportunities out there for school choice and that'll probably be January February right now great just in yeah I just wanted to put a question out there about the our side Facebook page and whether we should get rid of that now that there's two school combined or like the community one that was started a while back is that the one you're talking about just yeah I guess it's the community one I'm the admin for it now that I'm on the school board you know that was there maybe a board Facebook page specific justine is that yeah yep so I guess I sort of kind of overlaps I think right but for the yeah maybe why don't we add that for a future agenda items because we should discuss that I think okay great for any other questions for Monday and then I would be remiss if I didn't invite everyone to come to our winter solstice celebration that Amy Braun is putting together and I'm going to get these specials if I don't look it up December 20th right after school in Stockbridge and December 21st in Rochester it's to celebrate the solstice and you'll also kind of get to experience be prepared to be outside in the woods and you'll get to experience the tea and the mindfulness that she was kind of talking about the last time she came to present I think it's right around 330 is what she's aiming for Bill but we've invited families wonderful if there's no further questions for Lindy is Bill got his hand raised I can't quite see yes I do he's off the screen Jamie at the last SU board meeting the SU board voted unanimously to adopt a multi-year student performance goal goals that basically spell out how we want our students in the key areas of math and and reading and writing to meet state goals and I think it's enormously significant so I was just going to ask Jamie to say a few words about that because we're part of that process every school needs to to lean forward and I have every confidence that we're going to do it and exceed those goals right here in Rochester at Stockbridge but I do think it's worthwhile to have Jamie speak to it in the habit of the meds yes so actually we're working on a release to the faculty prior to the holiday break on those adopted goals and what that means and make sure and then we're linking it to the work that they're already doing it's the work that's underway in math and literacy it's not another right and so we're looking to communicate that out it'll get also go as a release out to the community and we're working on an interface to around how to progress monitor those on the website bill so that when you click on it for example the achievement goal in literacy for the state we are using the state benchmark system both on our our star 360 and track my progress data as well as on the Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium and so we've got goals tied to both our local norm assessment and the statewide assessment in both math and literacy and the goal is to at the very least meet the scale scores at the state level and or exceed depending on whether it's literacy or math by 2025 which is very exciting and we've also set progress monitoring goals on an annual basis in both areas that we can meet in every grade level across the sq so it's not it's not based on percentages as much as it's based on scale scores and each grade level and so what we will do is is you'll be able to click on on the website what is the goal in reading grade four in literacy you really click on that it'll show you the chart of what the goal would be and then it'll show you whether or not we met it or exceed or exceeded it and where that scale score is so that the community we're accountable to the community there's a there's a progress monitoring piece that will be part of it we also what I was really excited about too is we set goals around the students who are needing who are at at a real critical level in regards to intensive intervention and trying to decrease the number of students who need intensive intervention in math and literacy to decrease that percentage and so we have goals in that regard as well and so it's I think it's fairly comprehensive I think it really measures whether or not our MTSS system is working you have that that goal around creating a multi-tiered system of supports which supports all kids to reach their greatest potential so I feel like these are indicators under that now we're looking in the in the SU board we hear after the first of the year we want to get some benchmark data around goal number three which talks about us reaching out to our community around community partners and student voice and we think the quantitative data that we'll use around that is attendance data so we're going to have some proposed indicators for the board around attendance data as well because we believe that that's a real indicator whether or not we're meeting student needs and really truly engaging them so stay tuned with that and then what we will be doing is looking at our achievement data annually at each local district level to see where are we on point based on what the SU overall goals have been for each district so I think it's it's really a big step forward in regards to high expectations and accountability but hopefully also letting folks know all the investment that's going into our school system what is working toward and so again do know that we've got the the core academic indicators now but we're also looking at identifying some other quantitative indicators as well and so stay tuned thanks bill wonderful all right the business managers report good evening you have my report which outlines the December due dates for both the business office and the school food authority and then we have later on on your agenda the FY 21 first draft of the full budget expenditures any questions on any of the due dates that are on here any other questions that's all I got okay thank you Tara thank you everyone for those reports all right we move on to the celebration of learning so you're about to watch the video good parker all this up and go so Amy Braun put this together prior to Thanksgiving it's got student artwork it's all students across campuses reciting a poem and this particular group is a group that was indigenous to our local area that she really focused on and went and found their address and greetings to the natural world and it's also about thanks and gratitude so she put this together to kind of share out right before Thanksgiving with folks but just a little follow-up for you guys to watch means many things to many different people in this country in the last two weeks kids at Stockbridge and Rochester schools have been discussing the Thanksgiving address to the natural world by the native people and now the hot and oh saunee Thanksgiving address greetings to the natural world today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue we have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things so now we bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks to each other as people we are all thankful to our mother the earth for she gives us all that we need for life she supports our feet as we walk about upon her it gives us joy that she continues to care for us as she has from the beginning of time to our mother we send greetings and thanks we give thanks to all the waters of the world for quenching our thirst and providing us with strength water is life we know it's power in many forms waterfalls and rain mists and streams rivers and oceans with one mind we send greetings and thanks to the spirit of the water we turn our minds to all the fish life in the water they were instructed to cleanse and purify the water they also give themselves to us as food we are grateful that we can still find pure water so now we turn to the fish and send our greetings and thanks now now we turn toward the vast fields of plant life as far as the eye can see the plants grow working many wonders they sustain many life forms with our minds gathered together we give thanks and look forward to seeing plant life for many generations to come with one mind we turn to honor and thank all the food plants we harvest from the garden since the beginning of time the grains vegetables beans and berries have helped the people survive many other living things draw strength from them to we gather all the plant foods together as one and send them a greeting of thanks now we turn to all the medicine herbs of the world from the beginning they were instructed to take away sickness they are always waiting and ready to heal us we are happy there are still among us those special few who remember how to use these plants for healing with one mind we send greetings and thanks to the medicines and to the keepers of the medicines we gather our minds together to send greetings and thanks to all the animal life in the world they have many things to teach us as people we are honored by them when they give up their lives so we may use their bodies for food for our people we see them near our homes and in the deep forests we are glad they are still here and we hope that it will always be so now we turn our thoughts to the trees the earth has many families of trees who have their own instructions and uses some provide us with shelter and shade others with fruit and beauty and other useful things many people of the world use a tree as a symbol of peace and strength with one mind we greet and thank the tree life we put our minds together as one and thank all the birds who move and fly about over our heads the creator gave them beautiful songs each day they remind us to enjoy and appreciate life the eagle was chosen to be their leader to all the birds from the smallest to the largest we send our joyful greetings and thanks we are all thankful to the powers we know as the four winds we hear their voices in the moving air as they refresh us and purify the air we breathe they help us to bring the change of seasons from the four directions they come bringing us messages and giving us strength with one mind we send our greetings and thanks to the four winds now we turn to the west where our grandfathers the thunder beings live with lightning and thundering voices they bring with them the water that renews life we are thankful that they keep evil things underground we bring our minds together as one to send greetings and thanks to our grandfathers the thunderers we now send greetings and thanks to our eldest brother the sun each day without fail he travels the sky from the east to west bringing the light of a new day he is the source of all the fires of life with one mind we send greetings and thanks to our brother the son now our minds are one we put our minds together to give thanks to our oldest grandmother the moon who lights the night time sky she is the leader of women all over the world and she governs the movement of the ocean tides by her changing face we measure time and so it is the moon who watches over the arrival of children here on earth with one mind we send greetings and thanks to our grandmother the moon we give thanks to the stars who are spread across the sky like jewelry we see them in the night helping the moon to light the darkness and bring due to the gardens and growing things when we travel at night they guide us home with our minds gathered together as one we send greetings and thanks to the stars we gather our minds to greet and thank the enlightened teachers who have come to help throughout the ages when we forget how to live in harmony they remind us of the way we were instructed to live as people with one mind we send greetings and thanks to these caring teachers now now we turn our thoughts to the creator or great spirit and send greetings and thanks for all gifts of creation everything we need to live a good life is here on this mother earth for all the love that is still around us we gather our minds together as one and send our choices words of greetings and thanks to the creator we have now arrived at the place where we end our words of all the things we have named it was not our intention to leave anything out if something was forgotten we leave it to each individual to send such greetings and thanks in their own way thank you does anybody have any comments or we move on I had already seen it on Facebook so I'd already kind of thought it through and reacted then but I really appreciate it being brought to the school board meeting I think it's important and just like as any other presentation we've seen so far the more more we get to see I think I feel better about what we're doing so thank you for bringing it agreed great okay well we are going to move on to the anti-racism policy I don't know if Jamie wants on this or who's on the policy committee it's even so I can I can jump on and so both of these policies have been adopted at the full board we're actually down to your board and sharing and F blood left to review and or approve or disapprove of that the two policies before you tonight we spend working on the anti-racism policy since last October it's been through really essentially six different drafts the last one we called the fifth amended and the bid quotations and procurement policy that is to be in alignment with the changes that happened out of the legislature when there was the influx of federal funds to allow us to move more swiftly to utilize those funds for different types of purchases and so that's what changed there I expect that that that legislation will remain in effect though so I don't I don't think we're gonna have to amend that policy again and that was what we were advised by to do is align that with the legislation they came out by basketball so really you guys what we're looking to is to hopefully move these two policies and adopt them and then what I have said is that at the full board I'll give an update in January and we're at regards to implementation to policy C 30 all right I would entertain a motion for C 30 the anti-racism policy any discussion I just want to say I think I said before I'm trying to repeat myself that I come in our issue our policy committee and the leadership they've shown and the diligence just stuck over my understanding over two years as Jamie says six drafts they've had a number of public public meetings it took a heck of a lot of input and changes to make this thing something that's that's really gonna help all of us no matter what our needs is and where we live so I want to commend and whole heartedly support this policy great so there's a motion and a second we had discussion all in favor of adopting the anti-racism policy C 30 they I excellent and I entertain a motion for the F 27 bids quotations and curate procurement policy I'd like to move that the F 27 policy be adopted a second any discussion no discussion all in favor say aye also say aye yes I on both on both I sorry okay so we've adopted both of those great moving on to discussion items draft three of the budget do you guys have draft number three and this is the first time you've kind of seen our expenditures in its entirety you'll notice that what we're proposing so far is got a 1.66% increase for 71 $130.45 an increase and what this kind of includes is everything you've seen in parts and pieces in terms of staffing up to this point as well as kind of support of stipends for mentor teachers for new teachers we do provide those mentors for two years of a stipend some other highlights that may seem a little off outdoor education and pathways is budgeted into the regular add or general elementary there's no no coding right Tara at the state level for that particular entity and you'll also see so that's under 1100 in regular ed instruction another thing that you'll see in 1100 and regular ed instruction is the person who is our librarian in Stockbridge she also teach some general elementary instruction in literacy as well as does some intervention so her salary has actually been moved from the librarian piece to the general elementary piece which would point out let me get to the right section here I think I would know this right now of under library services it's why you see quite the quite the drop in salary in that function code 2220 it's why you see quite the drop it's not because we're eliminating library what was that function code again for the library 2220 2220 and the person who is the librarian so it's a personnel situation she wears multiple hats for us so most of her salary or all of her salary is now budgeted under 1100 okay so all the other hats it's not that we're getting rid of library okay so this this 2220 101 teacher salary that supports a point librarian position in Rochester that's a point to FTE correct thank you yeah and then some other noticeable differences that I'll draw your attention to is under tech services so that is section technology support 2490 you'll see that that has changed from 45 thousand 2490 okay sorry last page yep there's one again to the page while you're talking go see that there's quite a difference in some of that is truly a couple of things we shifted stuff to our tech assessment from the SU as well as we really over the past two years put quite a bit into making sure that our devices and technology pieces are up to date so we don't foresee not on what any needs for major purchases in terms of devices which is where most of that money had come from so that's why you see quite the drop right there we drop where the equipment is dropped from 11,300 dollars that's actually moved up to supplies because the new universal chart of accounts from the agency of education required us to actually code them as supplies moving forward so that's making that adjustment as well okay and then the other big section that you probably see some change to do under office of the principal and 2410 item of it code for excuse me 531 telephone services that supports our actual expenditure and that's why there's an increase and why is there such an increase well it's because we're now E911 compliant in both buildings and that comes with our lines and ports and things of that nature so that is why there's been quite a jump there as well as in same in 2410 office of the principal under 105 supervisor salary that's a leadership statement for someone who helps when I'm in the opposite building as well as she will also be the person who's helping keep all the social media and website items up to date so it includes your statement those are the big changes but folks have other questions or Tara if I missed anything but that's what I have a few things I'd like to point out so the all the object codes 593 which are your SU assessment codes those are all subject to change once the supervisor union central office and the supervisor union special education budgets are approved so there will be adjustments to the 593 object codes but you're scattered throughout the budget under their primary function code okay I have some specific clarifying questions but maybe I don't know if I should open up to everybody else first anybody have any specific questions for Tara Robert I know this is a difficult question to answer but we're seeing very large projected increases in the cost of living how are we have you been able to make some estimates in the future I mean we're looking at the federal projections so we as far as the salary and benefits go yes you're seeing our projections in there and I believe Tara is using as far as fuel oil and things what we're actually currently being billed at so right now and projecting on top of it and the same with tuitions we budget in and increase there as well and the other thing we're budgeting intuitions which does impact you is that the Sharon Academy is trying to get it so in legislation in or through the agency of education to demonstrate school quality standards and if so that would allow them to announce their tuition the proposed announced tuition would be 18,500 which is a pretty significant jump it's almost $100 or a little over $1900 and so we are budgeting at that 18-5 amount in the event that that occurs and then we budget 2% on top of prior years tuition everywhere else based on trends Tara did I get that all right you did I think that's I think that's smart to put that projected tuition in there for Sharon because in the benefit with your budget and the fact that we go later in the year announced tuition rates are due January 15th so we'll actually be able to revise your budget based on the actual announced tuition rates for FY 23 excellent well speaking of tuition could you go through the object codes 561 562 563 and just kind of explain why there's what they are absolutely for all tuition but object code 561 is for public schools for 7 through 12 students right Tara nope it's for all public schools so you also have in there built in case you have a student who would go to a private or sorry a public pre-k outside of yours there's also one line code for that but otherwise yes that's all public schools they get coded as an object code 561 object code 562 is any non-vermatt school and 563 are private schools 568 is the vocational tech center tuition that the agency of education pays on your behalf so as you recall in your prior budgets that shows up as both a revenue and an expense so it's cost neutral on your budget and that's their contribution that they make by statute to the vocational schools on your behalf object code 569 is any other tuition and right now that's primarily the actual vocational transfer the vocational tuition that you pay based on your six semester average to each of the vocational schools that your students attend or have attended in the past six semesters great on is the decrease in tuition because of we're graduating a that many students and we're not replacing them coming coming up through the seventh grade is is that what the large change is. Yes this is based on current enrollment that you have and then if we need to make any additional adjustments once lindy's had an opportunity and her staff has had an opportunity to work with your students to find out where they're anticipating going for seventh through twelfth grade. Okay thank you. There's currently 76 students accounted for in this tuition. It looks like too we've got more students choosing to go to potentially private. Yes. So when you have students going to a private school remember we don't pay more than the state average tuition. Okay. Great. I have a question about line 593 it indicates SU assessment for special ed instruction is does that number primarily include just the salary for instruction or are there other components that is the entire special education budget. Okay. That is all staff tuition transportation contracted services entire special education budget and then you pay an assessment of that budget based on your average membership. Okay. Thank you. The line she was asking about is that the 593 under the one one zero zero. Function code under one two one two oh. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Special education. Yeah. Okay. Well the individual function codes have a 234 and others don't and I was just wondering why that's the retire meet retirement beavers. Because beavers is only for your municipal employees that are under the municipal entire retirement system which are non professional teaching non professional staff. Yeah. Okay. Doesn't apply to everybody. Right. So is is so potentially P.E. and music are non professional staff. But no P.E. and music are teachers. They're on a teacher contract. They're part of the Vermont State teachers retirement system. So for the P.E. we're not funding it though. You wouldn't fund it. Your P.E. teacher is not part of beavers. Oh. Okay. So it's specific to right. The Vermont municipal employees retirement system and the vistas is the Vermont State teachers retirement system. The vistas OPEB which is object code 232. That is the health assessment that we pay in for new licensed teachers and you pay that from the time they enter the system until they leave your district. So that's why you'll see under some of those codes. There's that vistas OPEB. Yeah. Okay. I understand. Thank you. You're welcome. For 1400 the athletics and co coordinate. What is it's what is that for? It's per the master agreement. You have to have money in there available for co curricular offerings. It could be a robotics club. It could be anything and it's okay. Money for the for clubs. Okay. Thank you. To 2190 other special services. Again, I'm just wondering what that was. That's for your 504 students. Okay. Great. And they often require specific transportation that's personalized. That's what that transportation is. The 519. That's as much as I can answer that without it becoming identified. Okay. Okay. And in the I just we touched on the technology the 2490 on and I do understand the equipment was moved into 650 supplies and technology. It is still $42,000. I just didn't know if there was any what the specific plan purchases for that were or if it was if there was any so that includes all of your software subscriptions. Okay. There's also part of that. It's for supplies and then any equipment purchases that were anticipated. Lindy where there's specifics that what I have from Ray doesn't give me specific equipment purchases. No, it's just yeah, just replacement of parts. So the it's a majority of it is truly subscription. Yeah, there's our software subscriptions are substantial. The the other thing is we are in a five year cycle now. And so we plan to replace devices every five years. And so rate budgets accordingly now in every district across the SU to ensure we can do that. Wonderful. So that's that's part of his his budget as well. Technology is definitely moving fast ahead. So we definitely want to keep up with that to be able to provide. Great. Well, thank you that that definitely answers all my questions that I had. And I, you know, as we look at this budget and we are here, all the wonderful things that our district is doing and is able to do and is moving forward with with our kids, I think it's if this is the this is what the administration feels that they need to be able to do what we have been doing. I definitely support that because I'm very impressed with the direction that we are going. So does anybody else have any more questions or comments on the budget? Okay. Bill's got his hand up. Oh, okay. He's partially off camera to me. So okay. Same question I had before, but I think it's important to reinforce it. The answer and that is under 1112 music, which first looks like we're cutting it to half and we're not. So could you tell me the answer again? And I think it's important because those of us who believe in the arts, it starts with music in the arts. And so this looks like we're cutting it to the bone. And I recall that you had an explanation which were you're reorganizing it so that the actual music arts element of this was not being cut. So would you clarify that for me? Absolutely. Based on your new hire. Right, it was based on a new hire. We also had shifted the structure of that position. So it last year, at the time that this budget was approved, that position not only included music instruction, but it also included a person who was endorsed to teach outdoor education as well. So the person was going to do outdoor education and music. We now are structured differently. So some of our outdoor ads, so some of this music position money has been moved into that general elementary 1100. And this really supports what we have, which is one full day of music instruction for all classes in each building, as well as instrumental lessons. And course, that's shared a third day a week. And that supports based on the needs and interests of our student population. In the right of the budget, please make that. Yeah, something. Another one at the end of it again, on debt service, that's 5020 last page. We've got another principal payment of 65,000. Tara, could you tell us how close we are of completing that long term debt service and what's it for? Sorry, I lost my screen there. That is for your bonds. Oh, and the last payment, I actually have it written in here. So I know when it is, it's got to get to September and December of 2022. So it's just the last year of that. The last payment will be June of 2023. Okay, so we're we're getting very close to the end of that. Okay, I think high school. Last budget cycle for the end. Yeah, thank you. And my last questions address both to Jamie and Lindy. Is the budget that you're proposing here adequate and sufficient to reach the goals, the academic goals, the the need to keep talented staff here and attract talented staff to take care of our physical plan to take care of the supplies and materials to keep things moving. Is this something that you're comfortable with relative to our goals and obligations as a public school system? Yeah, I am very comfortable with it. I feel like it really supports our goals. Quite, quite a few goals, right? Not just mathematics and literacy. I think the outdoor education piece is in here, which is important. We've added world languages. And I know that that's something everyone has loved and it's been really enjoyable to see in our schools. So I think it's there supports it. I have asked just for some staff feedback on this to make sure there's not something I'm missing. There's not something that they're saying that they need that we haven't budgeted for. And I haven't heard anything overwhelming yet, but they haven't till Friday. So just because sometimes they see something I don't or they need something that's come up as we've started to implement, you know, new materials and things like that within our program. Yeah, I can then you ask staff for that feedback. And that's that's like, Jamie, what's what I mean, we're, we're awaiting the EI audits, right? And so I think one of the things the board has to keep in mind here in the near term and long term is that I do believe we have some significant upgrades to do in both our buildings. And so I think as we're budgeting for the now instructionally, yes, I feel good about the staff that when he has, I would say that I do think we need to as we're talking about paying off the spawn payment and things know that we're going to have some investments in our two schools again here. And so I do believe that we'll find some efficiencies, which will help pay for some of that work. But I do need to I do think that we need to prepare that we're going to need to be budgeting for that in the future as well. So I'm keeping that in mind too. I'm a big believer. Have you done any reading pinks work in regards to the brain, the books called the brain by pink. It talks a lot about the aesthetics of the place of work, including schools. And, you know, I think that there is a lot of delay maintenance in our buildings here in our sub but across the SU really. And so I'm really looking for us to ensure that when our teachers are coming to work, we're setting really high expectations professionally in regards to the workplace they're coming to. And the same goes for our students and our communities. And so that is an area that I'm going to be talking to the boards more about here as we look to future budgets that we really got to look to do some pretty significant investment in that area. Thank you. And that's important to know because we're not our horizon is not just six months, 12 months. It's multiple years and strong vibrant organization. So those that can plan ahead and prepare for the future. My last question has to do with the state per student cap. How does this budget fit within the proposed budget fit within your understanding of where that cap may be for the next fiscal year? We have not worked on the revenue side of the budgets at this point in time. So I won't know that until we do the revenue side. But I can tell you that the cap or the ex the threshold for FY 23 is nineteen thousand nine hundred and seventy seven dollars. Give that again. Nineteen thousand nine hundred and seventy seven dollars. And so Bill, we're still waiting on our equalized pupils too. Yeah. And that might be better with a huge indicator with this. So the the excess spending threshold did jump up pretty significantly. So I think we're going to be well under it based on the expenditure side as we look. And I don't know exact numbers, but we do have more students from tuition sending towns in our buildings this year than we have than we did last year.  I can't speak hard numbers, but just knowing who's in the building. You know, we have more students from Granville and Gawk and and sending towns in our preschool as well. So that all helps us. The yield is good, even conservatively. The conservative outlook of the yield, the F bond had a ninety million dollar surplus. The by all indications, both Vermont school, the Business Managers Association, the AOE and Vermont Supes, they gave us two proposed yields. We'll use the conservative number for our yield, although by your budget, often we know, which is a plus again, we know what the legislature actually set. But for other budgets, we use the conservative one. My sense is there's already proposals on the table to use some of that surplus actually to hope we put some dollars into our buildings, which would be huge. I'm a huge advocate of that. They talked about tech centers. I hope it's for all public schools. And I'm a big proponent of making certain we're investing in our rural elementary schools. So I'll certainly be on the front line speaking to that and advocating for that. The CLA is something we got to watch really closely to them because real estate did go up. And so even though the yields looking really good for us, the excess spending, I'm curious to see what the CLA is going to come in at. And of course, we know that has a place of big factor in taxes as well. So thank you. Well, the CLA, isn't there a dilemma? There is. As someone whose sister works for that department, there's a delay. She just started, but she shared that with me the other day. She was over here trying to help these two communities. So we're we're certainly not it's certainly not going to affect this cycle. But yeah, the next thing right. Yeah, it's just all those things that we got to keep in mind. And then the one other thing also that will impact your tax rate is the last you now lose that merger incentive. That's over. That was two cents in the current fiscal year. It'll be zero for 23. Did you, Jamie, did you say that the Vermont Education Fund actually has surplus at 90 million? So they were forever. They were saying that where there was a hole in the ed fund and that they were in a major deficit. How it can swing to a surplus of 90 million is. Wow. Well, there's such a huge influx of federal dollars, which probably they use that. And so that that's what we're seeing. Now, we're also seeing inflation, as Robert said.  Well, good work, guys. Thank you. Is there any other comments or questions about the budget? OK, great. Thank you very much. All right, moving on. Justine, the bowl for goals, short term, long term, you want to report out to us son? Yes, thank you. So we met last week and we quickly came to the conclusion that we in order to determine what goals we were going to establish, we had to understand the difference between these words we were throwing around vision, mission and goals. And through our discussion, we determine that the vision is basically what we feel is the overarching theme. And underneath vision is the word mission, which can be divided up into several different subtopics. And within those subtopics, we then can establish our goals. We haven't completed this journey yet, but in using the topics we talked about at our retreat, we work to synthesize some of those into these pockets of vision, mission and goals. So the overarching theme that we were able to put together from our our topics at the retreat, we decided at the end of our meeting to share rigorous creative education as our vision, kind of overarching our mission, which consisted of the themes that kept coming up at our retreat, which involved integrating the arts more, more often into the into the school experience, the outdoor learning piece, how we can integrate that into the the curriculum. So integration was our first under mission. And our second was the culture of learning. This is the topic we went over at the retreat and kind of left there a little bit. But the the premise was to cultivate an environment where the words I don't know are okay to foster a comfortable space for uncomfortable learning, to create a culture of learning that that allows kids to feel they can ask questions. That was number two under mission. And number three under mission came up in our retreat and beyond transparency that keeps coming up in lots of conversations. But we added to that communication and connecting with the community and with parents. So our discussion was boiled down to these topics. And from that, we really only came up with a potential goal of attempting to charge the the school to provide a way to communicate curriculum to the parents, whether it be a display, a binder, some sort of is an example of a goal, what a goal would be is to that every classroom would have a way to communicate the ongoing curriculum of the year to parents on a daily basis. There are a few different topics that we didn't touch on. Academic achievement was a topic that we talked about for goals at the retreat, funding and budget and also buildings and maintenance. So those still need to be kind of formulated under this mission tier. And I wanted to report to you and and see if the board had any comment and if they would give us our blessing to move forward, their blessing to move forward with this process as we have begun. Does anybody have a comment for Justine? Sounds like you have a working process. And it's going to take work. And so we don't expect instant, instant results. That's perhaps a good sign. Yeah, the thing that we wanted to be careful about was to kind of go through all of this process discussion, synthesis, philosophizing, and then show up with this what we would consider finished product to a board and have it be completely overwhelming and potentially not at all what the rest of the board would want. So this is kind of like the bare bones version of where we're going with this. I think it sounds good and keep up the good work. Great. Thank you. Okay. Board guiding principles and protocols. I think we all have a copy of that either in our packet or it was emailed to us. Is there any discussion on this? I thought it looked very good. I think that there's been a lot of thought put into it. I open it up for any other comments or questions or discussion. If I get this out, I love this document. I really think it's good. I think it's it's really speaks to the way that you're trying to conduct yourselves. I can feel that way as a superintendent and appreciate it. And I'm really excited about you folks considering sharing this concept with the full board. And see if there's interest there and pursuing a document like this and much like we do policy than possibly rolling that out to the other district boards. When we talk about interdependence, I think that that could be really powerful. And so I would just say that I really think you hit the mark on a lot of this. So. Great. I think tonight we're hoping to adopt this as a as a board principles and protocol on. So I open it up for a motion to to adopt this or to accept this. I'd like to move that the board adopt the board governance principles and operating protocols. There's a numerator in this document. Data draft for December 7 twenty twenty one. Wonderful. Any further discussion? All right. I have no discussion. All in favor. Aye. Aye. All right. So moved. Thank you. Great work. There being no new hires or resonations, we move on to public comment. Then I'm looking at my list and I don't believe I see that there is any public. OK. Future agenda items. Somebody. So I had down the board kind of run Facebook page. Yeah. Yeah. Certainly the budget. I think the board goals short term and long term will continue. Yeah. To be a discussion as we move forward, of course, all your reports, there'll be a celebration of learning. Anything else? I have a question. Something that came to mind when we were voting on the the guiding principles is is there could we have a discussion on how we would work to implement them and maybe make sure we're doing them? I feel like it's easy to get this chunk, you know, chunk of language. That we have, but I don't know if we can it can be kind of more active adoption process in any way. Does that make sense? I think that that would seem you're basically set out what the goals and the visions are, but then we have to see how what the next steps are. And that's that's appropriate. I'm talking about the the rules. Like the guiding principles that we just voted in. Could we have a follow up where we could maybe kind of bring back and discuss implementing some of that or discuss any ways to go forward in because I think that it's easy to have this, but it's not easy to know whether we're doing it. Yeah, I think, Justine, it's like when you as a different team set norms, you should be revisiting those. Yes, like this is kind of your guiding norms and work as a board. So I'm happy to build in a discussion around like reflection of those or something. Yeah, yeah, that sounds like what I'm getting at. I totally agree with that. We haven't really gone down one by one and kind of to be all agree understanding what the words really mean. And what if this? What is that? And I think, Justine, you're right on the goal. This is kind of we're working as a team together. And part of that is understanding our ground rules and expectations. And we haven't really gone into a heavy discussion with that, but I think it's very, very, very worthwhile. And so I I think that's worthwhile. Whether we do that monthly, little bits at a time where we have a retreat or something, I totally think you're right on on that. And then I think at the end of the year. And this is a totally original idea that the board, one of the things we do is exposing out of the school year or whatever it is or the summer, we kind of do a self assessment. Individual board members, how did we do with our governments, principles and our protocols? Then we follow these things. One of the things in here is no surprises that if we have an idea or something that's bothering us, we work through the chair and we don't just throw a tomato or a bomb at a public session. Well, how did we practice that? That sometimes takes some discipline. So I think a way that Justin, we can kind of self assess ourselves at the end of the year is how do we do? Yeah, I like that idea, Bill, a lot. And what kind of struck me when Jamie was saying maybe offering this to the the rest of the boards that I think if we really understood it and hash it out in a in a manner like this, it might be really helpful for others as we're kind of piloting this on. Absolutely. Great. Any other future agenda items? I think it sounds good. Sounds like a manageable meeting for next next month. OK. So our next meeting day is Tuesday, January 4th, twenty twenty two. Yeah, amazing. Six thirty at the Stockbridge campus and also on Google Meets. All right, I will entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. OK. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye.


back here hiding from JB and I'm trying to be quiet my husband is up there but hi hiding from your kids episode 46 y'all yeah my mood is a little off I need to I don't know why I'm just I'm tired I'm not tired I'm just tired of people that makes sense but y'all let's get into this get girl if I don't look like my credit scores in the 700s let's get into this skin let's do a slow pen of my skin we're still working on the forehead but overall I'm looking very blessed you know let me put on some music don't get me the family I'm a part of my reason for my mood is because I'm just over Amazon I'm over Amazon we gonna get into that in a minute so y'all know how we do this oh let me tell you what I'm doing clue I got this big-ass bonnet on I'm over my packages not coming on on time coming on time and I get this cuz everybody's at home ordering stuff and so everyone's quarantined shopping like me so my goal was to do a fashion show this weekend for y'all and for my husband girl cuz I had all these spring dresses coming in that was delayed from Friday delayed Saturday now they're saying Monday so long story short we're gonna be doing my makeups cuz I'm gonna be taking down my hair because I'm in the middle of reviewing a hair product for you guys it's a mango lime by I'm in the middle of reviewing the Jamaica mango Jamaican Jamaica Jamaica mango and lime lock and gel turns down so I'm gonna be doing my makeup doing a little bit of cute spring glam I'm very moisturized so I don't need to do that you guys I have been using the good molecules products that was sent to me by T a fellow subscriber thank you so much girl I've been using these if not twice a day every day some of the serums you really are supposed to use every day but I've been using minimum five to six products along with some of my other stuff every day I will be doing a former review on everything in about 30 days I think it takes that long to see an actual I see a difference now honestly after a few days but let's give it 30 days it's gonna get black one hand walk y'all speaking of music have y'all been checking out these compare I don't know what do you call them competition battles between producers I saw the one between well I didn't see the one between Teddy Riley and was it versus baby face ol corny ass I didn't see that when I like baby face so I didn't really sketch that one but I did see the one between little John little John a teapane every thought feeling that I had I can't understand me every thought feeling an urge that I ever had came out with little John I was going in between wanting to twerk and punch somebody wanted to slap a hole that that's what little John I grew up on that stuff meaning college years and stuff like that early 20s who else did I catch I also caught a battle between Neo and another low-key no we really don't know who he who he was but you recognize his music it was not Neo versus John Tyre John Tay when I was like who is John Tay and where have you been all the songs y'all so yeah I've been watching some of those battles I really haven't been watching YouTube if I'm watching YouTube it's for quote-unquote educational I'm looking at a review just go ahead and do my makeup I'm putting on my matte primer now I used to pour professional yeah I really can't see this this this bright is on so I'm not gonna go into everything y'all I'm not no makeup person meaning I'll make up youtuber so we ain't gonna be doing that so yeah I think one on YouTube looking at stuff for knowledge if I need to know something I'm not really watching people I am watching Donna's journey she's a mukbanger originally from Shreveport but she lives in I think she lives in Tennessee um oh since my skin is clear this is really working wow this match you out do you see that do you see that what have y'all been buying when I tell you I have been buying everything on Amazon from from draws panties to homeschool stuff but then I was talking to my sister and anyone who knows me no you know you know me about my nails you know me for my nails I love to get my nails done I love to keep my nails up and pretty you guys saw my other videos but y'all we ain't going to know um everything's closed one and honestly I had already decided first of all I understand that Georgia and Texas are doing like a soft reopening they're opening back up if it comes to that here in Phoenix I'm not gonna go get my nails done absolutely not and that's a lot for me because I've been getting my nails done since I was 13 you guys but then we gonna get back to Amazon orders in a minute but y'all know how I am the hell is that oh it's a car I'm not I'm not going to the nail salon I'm not um sorry y'all I'm looking for transitional colors and I don't see it in the pallets I'm using um so yeah I will so and speaking to my sister I was telling her you know what I was looking at press on nails girl and I get that they've come a long way and actually one of my neighbors she was press on nails but look we were literally in the middle of a discussion once and one of her nails popped off she won't fight nobody she wasn't trying to peel an orange I know just popped off I'm not okay no we ain't gonna be able to roll I'm not gonna be able to do this so I'm okay Vivian can you do your nails could you do acrylic nails so I talked to my sister the other night and I'm like look I am not stepping into another nail salon again I need to know what all do I need to buy let me back up my sister is a cosmetologist and a nail technician so she's a girl you're gonna have to just you could buy everything do dip what does she say dip powder I've only had dip powder once and it's when she did it I'm like words so I'm looking a couple of videos this looks easy as hell all you do is stick a nail on dip your nail in acrylic powder you add the bonding stuff first on the nail dip your nail a few times in acrylic powder it can be colored acrylic powder tap it off dip brush it off tap it off dip brush it off tell whatever you know what I mean and then you add like the ceilings and topcoats and you done I was like girl she's like yeah so she sent me a screenshot of everything that she uses cuz she does her own nails at home and I sent her everything that I was going to purchase in my Sally's car and um that's it I spent the good 200 dollar I got everything I got everything from a little mini gel lamp because I will be doing like a gel topcoat on top of the dip powder and so they have mini lamps very affordable on Amazon so I just got a little little cheap one like 15-20 dollars and she even told me she said you can even make your own dip powders because the dip powders are expensive oh yes they run between 9 to 15-20 dollars I'm not spending all that so she said look what you do you get you a clear acrylic powder and then you add loose eyeshadow I said done I found a good six or seven loose eyeshadow she said you can mix it up and there you go you have your own color so yes that's coming in when all that comes in I will show you guys what it looks like now I don't know if I cuz I don't have my system filming set up so I don't know if I'm gonna show you you know how I do my nails because that's a totally totally different type of setup you literally have to have a tripod that your camera basically has to be aimed down I will have to purchase all new you know additional equipment I'm not purchasing nothing right now purchasing more stuff doing the quarantine even though I'm gonna tell you about the stuff I purchased on Amazon look yeah don't be sending me no messages about sales that are going on I don't need to hear about that about any of these sales so while I was on Sally's getting the nail stuff I went ahead and picked up two products by textured ID I picked up the calls it's called the coils twisting butter and then I also picked up the daily moisturizer okay and so I will be doing a review on both of those products not a problem I knew they had a new collection coming out I wasn't sure if I wanted to purchase them because I'm on the fence with textured ID I really am I think they work better I don't know I think they could work for our hair hair type but I'm not 100% in love with the collection I mean with their products oh shit girl almost dropped this y'all let me get myself together that's pretty that's really pretty excuse me y'all y'all who took my liner one of y'all took my liner look I gotta blame somebody my girl ain't gonna make up with you that's true that's factual um so yes Amazon shopping is out of control but look I was fit to be tied child because last night I get all you the notification when your Amazon order comes I'm already stalking it but you get a notification this says your you know so-and-so and so-and-so was just delivered nothing I go down across the behind the house to where our go our trash cans are situated I don't see nothing I take my fluffy as all the way down to check our mailbox open it up flashlight you know because this is nine o'clock at night I don't see anything so I'm living cuz I need my stuff I need my packages okay so I gotta get online on check cuz now they have Amazon check I don't even see an area to email them I will prefer email cuz I need I need to see a paper trail okay I don't even see that option anymore fine so I send them an email I'm like um I'm in a chat I'm like I just had some items delivered let me back up I went on UPS in the Metro said delivered to docking station I'm like docking station no docking station near here at my house no so I get on chat and I know that they are hiring people in other countries so a lot of the times they don't understand the verbiage so the one guy was like I see that it was delivered I said it wasn't delivered here it say that they was delivered to a docking station or you know a docking area he's like what did you check the docking area I said we don't have a docking area I don't live on no damn boat this ain't no warehouse I live in a house this is why I contact to you cuz we don't have no doc hey it's like well I'm so sorry for the inconvenience would you like a refund yes give me my money so I can go it get the stuff somewhere else so I already went to thriftedbooks.com cuz this is all for the stuff that was you know not delivered this was JB stuff right oh y'all gonna find my concealer stuff see y'all throwing me all off cuz I'm heated so anyway they give me you know they put it in order to refund my my stuff cuz now it's for two packages that said would were delivered I never got them right why this morning I checked the front door and my packages are there and one of them is ripped open so that means that someone either it was delivered to someone else's mailbox and they open them or someone stole them off our front yesterday and they noticed that they were children's books so they just brought them back you raggedy tramp you whoever or maybe you didn't thank you I shouldn't say that thank you for for giving me back my packages but why let you open my stuff up ain't that some mess so I'm a little I have to be very careful now because when I tell you I have several I have at least 16 this is sad I have at least 16 more packages coming from Amazon alone yeah so our blinds are open most of the day for the front area so you and for you to literally come all the way up into cuz we it's not like a front porch you have to walk all the way up into the entries way entry way to our doorway to get something either that or you know they delivered it into the wrong mailbox and the person decided to give it back to us but so yeah got my packages coming in got my packages from um what is it they haven't even shipped out from Sally's I ordered some N95 mask need I need to blend this out and I need to get something more lighter cuz I look dark you see how I'm looking yeah I need to blend this out more alright girl so let's talk about what we watching oh real quick real quick about these states reopening yeah better be careful now to protect my husband and his job I'm not gonna give everything that he said but I'll just say it okay please you need to really consider when a government has basically made the decision to say we're gonna reopen and they named specific names that people of color or even minorities are known to frequent or flock you know in Georgia what did they say what did they say in Georgia barber shops hair salons nail shops bowling alleys oh yes who goes there what type of people be frequent frequent the nail salons and the barber shops huh think about it so we have never seen that how this disease works and this is in my opinion my opinion this is gonna be a test and expect a wave to it may not be as bad but expect expected with with you know states reopening um I'm staying in and staying put I'm not doing anything for a while if that if that means well into the end of the year so so be it you know what I mean I'll stay in and see and watch y'all and see how it affects y'all before I do anything but I can't even you know I can't even play like that because my immune system is is you know not that great alright y'all I think I want to do a pink lip like hot pink lip let me see how I look now that's red no I'm gonna do a purple pink lip get it together Vivian see that oh yes um that's so pretty that is so pretty this is called Matt glam about Milani but I need a deep in deep in her up some so we're gonna mix Milani Sangria see what that looks like I know she needs to be deep in that it's going like a blue purple look at that see what that did to it baby I know my colors I've been at this for a while so then we're gonna go in the middle with this Matt Leia Gordon used to sell these in her shop it's like a matte lip color she doesn't sell this stuff anymore just at the bottom here like this hold on see what I did there then I'm gonna see what it does very pretty I'm bread is basically see I'm break on break so then I take my concealer I don't want to make sure that my lips are perfect then I go back in and we're good alright blush yeah let's talk about these shows for day care I get together so y'all I forgot to come to correct but my skin has been so good I really didn't need any correction so it's okay yeah first of all let's get into a little fires every everywhere again this is a show with Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington on Hulu it is based off of a book from when I understand but can we talk about how Kerry Washington was holding her mouth she literally was every facial expression when something happened she was like I'm not in this she was like I was like are you constipated what the hell her face was like I mean she would she would make her front teeth buck out and she's just like I'm gonna close your mouth Kerry your mouth is open club child that was really irking me like seriously those awkward ass facial expressions um the season finale was beautiful it was absolutely I mean it was a great great story if you haven't checked it out please do again it's called little fires everywhere and it's on Hulu that's probably a little too much girl I look like a damn doll Vivian hey bump that out you see that like someone punch me in the face with there we go so um good girls I'm done done I'm done good girls with Christina Hendrix the very good-looking Latin guy Rio I'm done I'm not even gonna bother now I can tell the chemistry was a little bit heavier but I told y'all what I wanted you know I want to see them pressed up on a on a bathroom stall or something that's what everyone wants that's what we were watching it for because of the chemistry between the two but they're not biting I don't know what's going on want to know if the writers were like this is too much or what but it's not too much because that's what we want to see so I'm done I'm not gonna watch it anymore Westworld I'm not gonna give me spoilers sis I'm not gonna say much I will say this you know Dolores is a badass on the show Dolores is one of the robots who you should be caught up by now you should be caught up so spoiler Dolores is one of the robots who came back and she cloned herself but I have a feeling that all of the clones are not on her side because they almost one of them the person that she was cloned to be the black lady in a bad white suit the black chick I feel like the person that she was cloned to be is kind of peeking through do you feel that I feel that way so Dolores has a hidden agenda I believe that her clones are not aware of now I didn't say this you guys cuz I didn't want y'all feeling a certain type of way but by me when Ed Harris character came out you know he placed the man in black child when he came out a couple of cuz he's having some problems cuz he accidentally killed I felt bad last season he accidentally killed his daughter because she thought he thought she was one of the machines playing the game she that they put in the theme park for him so he accidentally shot and killed his own daughter right well that did something to him so he went a little crazy had a you know a little moment but they showed up to pick his butt up like you need to clean up child when he came out and all that black I'm like is that Versace what is it he came out and all the y'all know how like me a older man yes give me you you got dementia I'm on it okay no but you know he came the thing about me like an older man I did not have daddy issues there is just something about a silver fox a man who was well together groomed you know that's very attractive to me I'm absolutely I like me and my my own age but I I'm really attracted to older man I was speaking of I was stalking Jeff Goldblum again the other day girl but anyway Ed Harris came out and all black looking very nice and even the woman turned around she's like you clean up really nice I'm like hell yes he did yes he cleaned up really nice yeah I'm adding highlighter this highlighter is the vote you see that very very pretty um yes I'm really I'm like in Westworld I'm a little confused about the last episode I'm not gonna like I said I'm not gonna give me any spoilers but I'm a little confused I'm very now I was worried about Dolores I'm not worried about Dolores anymore I'm worried about Jesse I know that's not his name that's him on breaking bad yeah so all right you guys what else am I watching I've been watching a lot of stuff that I don't be telling y'all about um yeah good girls is gone debt to me is coming back again this coming season two is starting this coming Friday I am here for it I absolutely love season one was very interesting I was not expecting that okay whatever I don't watch that I'm a show that I just binge watch and when I tell you it was really good like it's up there for me sharp objects it stars the redhead girl that played in Confessions of a Shopaholic y'all know I'm talking about she has long curly red hair and she also played in their arrival okay I don't know her name she looks really good to be in her 40s I always age her younger I think it's because she has that long curly hair she could pass for early 30s and I think she's like 42 43 but sharp objects is on HBO and it is what you call Southern Gothic which is one of my favorite genres Southern Gothic is AHS Coven East Bayou classic Southern Gothic you see where I'm going so sharp objects is basically about a reporter who goes back to the hometown that she's from to investigate these or to report on the depths of two girls she has all of these issues she had with her mother she had a sister who passed away from an unknown illness she has a half sister that lives there and it's a small town so they have all their secrets and there's a lot of stuff that won't so trigger the main character also suffers from what she self harms self mutilates herself I don't think that's a spoiler because it comes up in like the first episode and so it's really interesting it every episode it kind of started off slow then episodes five through on it's like eight episodes episodes five through eight done that's why I finished it in two days because I was like this is good I normally don't do that I you know but yeah I've been to watch everything really good again it's called sharp objects on HBO very very good you guys it got some twists and turns and things you don't know I was a little the reason why I put it in the category I think it is a Southern Gothic because there's a ghost that comes up the ghost of her dead sister appears and sometimes she sees her sometimes she doesn't I kind of like that I kind of like when they're scary parts of a movie to wear only the audience sees it and no one really knows about it so I was freaked out that she started appearing a lot towards the end of the series because she's trying to help her sister I'm not gonna go any more detail but check it out if you haven't girl there's really not much else I've been watching y'all guess what I watched again a movie why did I rewatch the players club Lisa Ray and those fashion over fashions you know what looking at the players club and dang on there you know 40 years old it's totally different when I watched it when I was in my 20s a lot of the stuff I thought was funny and just you know just I guess my perspective on a lot of things totally change everything from the fact that you know Ronnie basically raped Lisa Lisa Ray's character diamond you know what I mean we'd really I really didn't think any of it then I just thought that okay she was drunk and she got taken advantage of it I didn't look at it as rape but it's it's rape you know what I mean so um so yeah yeah I didn't even hold on child these damn kids child on his little mini motorcycles so yeah yeah I didn't even finish watching I like for watch like the first hour so I didn't even get to the part to where the young woman was raped by junior a juniors bachelor party I didn't get to that I don't think I can handle that all y'all this is what my makeup is looking like now I got finishes of the eyebrow I'll do that I've come lips yes all right y'all I had to end it like this so slumber but that is it you guys take care


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All right, finally here we go today the most highly requested video. What's up guys? I'm Brian Sakawa. You're watching he spoke style And this is my watch collection So people always ask me, you know, when did I first get into watches and I don't really have a good answer to that I do remember always being intrigued with watches. I can't really pinpoint what the fascination was Some of the earliest watches I remember having in my childhood were the Timex Iron Man triathlon Which had the start stop and the lap reset buttons and I can remember having competitions with my friends to see who could push the start stop twice the fastest I Also remember that the first watch that I sort of lusted after was this kind of neon yellow and teal swatch And if I recall it did have a rotating bezel and then of course my first Luxury watch as a child was the Gucci with the red and green dial that I bought on Canal Street But needless to say over the years I've always maintained a sort of passive interest in wristwatches But it wasn't until the last five years or so that I really got started going down the very very deep rabbit hole of wristwatch fanaticism And I know there are some of you out there that can sympathize with that So that brings us to my personal watch collection, which right now is about 10 watches I'm not going to go through them in any particular order of acquisition or anything like that So let's just get right to it Now the first watch here might be a little surprising to some of you It is the Seiko 5 SNK 809 $82 and 38 cents on Amazon the Seiko 5 is universally regarded even by serious watch nerds as the best value in watches you get a Fantastic automatic movement for under $100, which is like what you know This is a easy everyday watch to wear. I love the size at 37 millimeters Black dial makes it very versatile The canvas strap kind of puts it more on the casual side, but as an everyday watch you really can't beat it Next up is The watch that was my very first new luxury watch This is my Rolex Datejust reference 116234 If you've seen my guide to buying your first Rolex video You have seen this watch before and heard me talk about why I decided to buy a new watch versus a pre-owned one I definitely recommend checking out that video if you haven't already it took me a long time to figure out What exact Datejust I wanted obviously? I went with something that is extremely classic and that I feel matches my personal style very well This is the 36 millimeter version in steel and white gold silver dial Jubilee bracelet stick pin hour markers and Fluted bezel this watch is very very special to me I got it to celebrate a milestone with he spoke style and it will always be in my collection So not long after I got my Datejust I became obsessed with the Rolex GMT master first I love the look of it with the blue and red bezel especially the ones that had faded a little bit over time and then finding out more about the history of the watch Which was introduced in 1954 for Pan Am pilots and that it really was and is a tool watch Which allows you to tell the time in two different time zones at once So I became obsessed with this watch and then I actually became Obsessed with finding one from my birth year, which is 1977 So the watch I eventually found with the help of my friend James Lambden from analog shift is this one my reference 1675 5.2 million serial number which dates it to 1977. I love this watch It's such a classic sports watch I always take this with me when I travel and I use the bezel to keep track of the time back home I like it on the bracelet a lot though. This is not actually a period correct bracelet I also do like to swap out the bracelet for a leather or suede strap sometimes and a NATO strap in the summer This next watch is the Cartier drive. This is the original example from 2016 Which was the first year they introduced the drive. This was a very different kind of watch for Cartier Which is one of the reasons that I liked it With this watch they were trying to introduce something that was more specifically aimed at the male consumer And this watch is said to have a bit of an automotive inspiration There's a lot of subtlety in the dial this watch that I like the black dial version that I have especially There's the guilloché on the inner part of the dial and the running sub second style The hands almost blend in but not you kind of have to turn it a certain way To catch the light which just reveals more of the intricacy of the dial And I know date windows can sort of like divide people But I think this is a really well positioned and unobtrusive date window here. Very cool watch All right moving from a more contemporary Cartier designed to a more classic one. This is my Cartier tank American This is the 100th anniversary version medium size steel case silver dial blue leather strap and Deployant buckle. This is a very special watch to me This is the watch that my wife gave me on our wedding day and on the case back you can see inscribed our Wedding date. I love the tank American because I think it's one of those kind of under the radar watches in the Cartier tank lineup It's obviously extremely classic super elegant and just different You know you see tank solos all the time But the tank American is one that you don't see that often which to me makes it even more intriguing Next up is a heavy hitter in my collection This is of course the Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711 a watch that really needs no introduction If you're into watches at all, you know what this watch is all about and you know how difficult it can be to come by So I've heard that they're like waiting lists of like five to ten years long for this watch And as a result it commands an absolutely absurd premium on the secondary market So you're probably wondering how I got this and it's actually pretty good story So when my wife and I bought our house a little over a year ago Just about across the street is the Patek ad so I immediately went in there inquired about the 5711 Of course, I was laughed at told the list was 60 people long people all over the world and this and that and I said All right, whatever, you know just put my name on the list. By the way, I live across the street from you I'm local not just some random guy who's gonna take this watch from you and flip it So I left it there then Over the next couple months. I periodically check in and stop into the shop Just so he knew that I was serious and I remember the last time I called him Was on a Friday and then the very next Monday. He called me and said Brian. I'm gonna do your favor I have a 5711 here a blue dial if you want it.  I talked to a couple Collector friends of mine and they say if you don't take this you're an idiot So I had to put my money where my mouth was and I got the watch I would consider all of the watches in my collection to be favorites each in their own way But there's really something very very special about the 5711 The the design is classic one of Jenta's most famous designs next to the Royal Oak the movement is Finished exquisitely on the wrist. It's just amazing the slim low profile is so elegant I have never felt a bracelet this comfortable before the watch itself is kind of unassuming which I like And it's also very versatile. So this is one of my everyday watches and one of my favorites of my collection All right moving on to what could probably be called the centerpiece of my collection and that is this watch right here The a longa and zona datagraph. This is the original version reference 403.035 in platinum Every time I look at this watch or have it on my wrist. I am just in awe So it's no secret, you know that I am a big fan of a longa and zona one of my favorite brands There's just something about longa watches that that speak to me Whether it's from a design perspective like the outsize date windows The way that dials are laid out the amazing finish on every facet of the watch And of course the beautiful beautiful movements, which the datagraph is definitely known for Of all of the versions of the datagraph out there for me the original One is one of the best and mostly due to the case size because it's 39 millimeters The up-down version with the power reserve indicator is 41 millimeters, which for me is really kind of pushing the envelope size-wise Especially considering the thickness of the watch the chronograph mechanism is One of the most buttery smooth that I have ever felt before the datagraph has been called the most important modern chronograph and I feel Extremely fortunate to have one of my collection Actually wear this watch all the time and of course if you're a watch guy, you know what this watch is But like the 5711 this one kind of flies under the radar for a lot of people and I like that I like the fact that you know the case back notwithstanding that there is a sort of subtle Not totally in your face quality to the datagraph next watch I have here on my wrist actually is my IWC Angenor automatic another simple classic timeless very versatile watch Speaking of versatile I did do a styling video for this watch wearing it with three different outfits So definitely check that out if you haven't already There are a couple things that I really love about the Angenor one Again, it is sort of that under the radar watch for IWC, you know, it's not the big pilot. It's not the Portuguese line Another thing is that it has in its design history a version that was created by Gerald Jenta That one was the Angenor SL reference 1832 from 1976 And although the new version which I have more closely resembles the original from 1955 I do like that there is a little bit of Jenta in this watch's DNA Next up is the Tog Heuer Carrera blue dreamer Which was the first watch collaboration that Wayco did with the rake and revolution This was a limited edition of 100 pieces I wanted this watch as much to support my friend as I did just because I think it's a really beautiful Beautiful piece and extremely unique this watch was meant to evoke this sort of luxury leisurely sportiness of the French Riviera with all the different blues on the dial And I know that Way is also a very big fan of kind of blue by Miles Davis So there's that sort of inspiration in there as well. This is my summer watch. This is the one I always have on when we go to the pool. Now one neat thing about this is I actually have number four of 100 Which I requested so on the case back it says zero zero four slash one hundred now if you take Off the first and the last zero you have my birthday October 4th So there is also like that little bit of personal meaning in this watch to me as well Final watch here is another collaboration. This one was between hodinky and swatch. This is the swatch System 51 hodinky vintage 84 So I got this watch mostly out of personal nostalgia for this watch that I had when I was in seventh or eighth grade This one is a lot more understated than the neon yellow and blue version that I had way back when but The coolest thing about this watch is actually the case back. It's an automatic movement and it just looks so cool So that is my current watch collection I think looking at it as a whole that overall it really reflects my personal style and that all the watches are simple Classic and timeless in one way or another even though the majority of watches in my collection are modern watches Now as everyone who has been bitten by the watch bug or Infected with the watch disease knows there is always that next watch that you want to acquire So I'm no different and I thought I would share quickly Some of the watches that I would love to have in my collection someday First which is the absolute highest on my priority list is a longa one One of the most beautiful and perfect modern watches in my opinion There is no other dial like this just so unique and interesting and personally I'd like to have one in rose gold with a silver dial So next I really think I need more gold in my collection And it doesn't get any more gold than this the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 15202 BA with the gold dial also Probably not going to be happening anytime soon unless I decide to sell my 5711 which isn't happening So anyway, a guy's got a dream Next is the Rolex Explorer 1016 as far as vintage Rolex goes or Attainable vintage Rolex. I should say it really doesn't get much better than the 1016 Back to the gold side of things another classic the Vacheron Constantin traditionelle But the boutique edition with the really interesting pattern on the dial There is an interesting car TA that I would like to add to my collection and that is the monopush or chronograph You don't see those that often and I just think it's a really really cool piece Finally another very practical watch for me as a frequent traveler and that is the Patek Philippe Aquanaut travel time 5164 So thanks for watching guys leave your comments below thumbs up if you liked this video Don't forget to subscribe to the channel and until next time. Thanks for watching and stay tailored