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[Erin Brady (Ranking Member)]: Okay,
[Peter Conlon (Chair)]: this is the conference committee on H955 on the morning of May 28. It's And just a clock or so last night, and we are now back. And I think some talk about it. Think you want to look at maps.
[Erin Brady (Ranking Member)]: Yeah. Thought maybe this morning we could go through some of the map discussion, which I realize it's not terribly political. It's more geographic. But maybe talk a little about some of the decisions you all made and how we got there and decisions we made and how we got there. Maybe tackling CISA's course, in which there was just one change that you made, which was sort of moving Grand Isle to be part of Franklin County area CISA. That matters. Versus that side, we have it as part of the valley. And reasons, and this will come up again in the groupings, the reasons we, and we had lengthy conversations about this, and fortunately we have a member who represents both Grand Isle and Milton. The reasons we made the decision we did is because Grand Isle is essentially flooded by water and there's only two bridges, one which is way up north at Albert and the other, which is what most people use to sort of flow into Chittenden County. We've looked at more of the Chittenden Counties because of that reality, because most of the kids who There's no high school on Grand Isle or in the islands. So the vast majority of kids go down into Chittenden County. The services that go to the schools that are up there flow up from Chittenden County. We group it that way in addition to the CTE kids who are generally there. And this is all, I would say, with the exception of way up top by Albert and maybe I belong to a certain extent. Kids mostly go to CTE and high school in Chittenden County, which is why we made that decision. And again, it comes up with the groupings as well. That's why we also grouped them more with the school districts that are lining them down. So that just think that out there and just to hear, your line of thinking about that as well. For us, it was,
[Peter Conlon (Chair)]: almost all just testimony, putting the maps out there and inviting testimony for a few months. And it ended up just mostly putting people where they asked to be put.
[Erin Brady (Ranking Member)]: So you had folks there from Grand Isle who said would like to be grouped Franklin County and Michigan County.
[Peter Conlon (Chair)]: I can't remember if it was fine, but we had the school board's association twice send out to the all the school board saying, do have any questions about the maps or anything about it? Talk about it. Any changes you want? We got a and we got a lot of response to that. We got lot sense of pain in road. So I actually can't remember if we got anybody from Grand Isle, but they all knew what it was. So that's all I can say. I don't know you can make a good add.
[Leland Morgan (Member)]: Yeah. From the Milton perspective, I was able to touch base. And I think the big concern that we had was in the sense of the seesaw, it was going north to the Franklin County area. But then in terms of the merger, it was going south back into the Chittenden County area. So it split them two different ways. And especially to the seesaw point is that Milton already gets all of our services from the Chittenden County area. So it'd make more sense, the Senate construct, to have it stay in the Chittenden County Central,
[Erin Brady (Ranking Member)]: is that what the grouping
[Leland Morgan (Member)]: is? So Melton I mean, seesaw. Yeah. Because they were split. The seesaw would go up to Franklin County, but then the merger committee part would actually be in the Chittenden County area.
[Erin Brady (Ranking Member)]: It's So I know we're gonna have to be doing a lot of sort of visual and word mapping here. We just
[Leland Morgan (Member)]: So, like, page five and six of the side by side that has your seesaws.
[Erin Brady (Ranking Member)]: Is the cistern app on the website? I have not provided easily. Somebody would have to look for it. Maybe Daphne could pull up the house, see some map as well. I think, again, think the only difference is in this area.
[Peter Conlon (Chair)]: So just make sure we're clearly identifying the issue. The issue is the placement of?
[Erin Brady (Ranking Member)]: It is. Brand tile to provide a review. Yeah. We have Grand Isle Supervisory Union together with Burlington, Colchester, Essex Weckberg, Grand Isle, with Ashley.
[Peter Conlon (Chair)]: For the CSAP? Yeah. Okay, we have a real crew. We have to go before.
[Erin Brady (Ranking Member)]: Okay. We'll Get maps. Is there a roll call? You're going before. Do you have a ballpark? I
[Peter Conlon (Chair)]: think it's good for roll call, so it should be.
[Erin Brady (Ranking Member)]: Okay. Yes.