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member has masks, a face shield, gloves wipes, any other necessary PPE supplies, paid for out of the CARES Act. Families that want to shift from RLA to hybrid can make that request this month for now to the end of the year. More information will come out in the next few weeks from the Central Office. As new students enroll, they are asked at that time if they want hybrid or remote. If people who have been RLA want to switch to hybrid, we will need to look at space availability as part of the decision about where to place the students, both their classroom and their cohort. If anyone wants to switch to RLA at this point, they should do so with the expectation that it will be for the remainder of the school year. 4. Equity initiative at Hastings This is an initiative that has been supported for many years at Hastings. Last year we had a consultant (Pipier Smith-Mumford) come in to work with us about how to make this community shift to welcome so many new students and staff this year, and to help us do so thoughtfully, reflecting on our individual identities and that of our school as a whole. Ms. Smith-Mumford worked with our whole staff in January 2020, and was scheduled to work with them again in March 2020, which was cancelled due to the emergency closure. She worked with the Equity team over the summer of 2020, and we expect she will work with the full staff in 2021-2022. In the meantime, the Equity team has been designing learning for this year in working with the staff. Members of the Equity Team worked with the RIDES program this fall, which is informing much of our work this year. We are focused on adult learning and are seeing good progress already in our work together. Beth Bristol shared her gratitude for us continuing this work, even in an especially trying year. Louise also expressed her gratitude to Julie Hackett and Johnny Cole in their support of this work across the district and in our school specifically. We are also happy to report that we have been successful in hiring many new staff in all areas of the school community to better reflect the students and families we serve. 5. Update on the Building Project: solar panels The solar panels are no the roof and installation is on-going. The porous pavement in the parking lot is for the runoff of solar canopies. We do not have a clear timeline for when that will happen. Kim Ryan moved to adjourn the meeting at 8:31 am. Brenda Rich seconded, and the motion passed unanimously