Dug it out. Well done. Gets the ball over to Holly. Holly to Mac. Mac will turn and she has space. Hornick in front of her. She gets Addy Jordan and Mac Witworth. Mac only has one girl left. She right by her. Shoots just wide as Calibri is there to back it up. White. Good run. Let's go. Yeah, that was a very good run coming out of the back. Mack on the back side of the net. Matt goes up and oh, just misses again. Nobody backing it up for the Spartans and Long Meadow gets the ball. Got to be Den. Den runs the I think she's the one that always runs it up for them. Yeah. All day long. She looks like she's got the quite a bit of speed back there. Henson with the ball. kicks the ball all the way back. Comes over to Conway.
Great homework used to be designed in this way. Here's the student feedback on it. When we're applying things like homework design to this new schedule, what are some things we need to have in mind? So um through those processes, we give a lot of voice to both teachers and students on the things that were on their mind. And I don't want to give any illusions that we had invented one and solved those things. But I think one of the things that happened through that process was we drew out the things that we're going to need to pay attention to from both the adult end and the student end. So, um, we're in the final steps of just putting together the visual version of what that, um, mile adjustment to a proposed schedule, which is still based on the same structure, just has a little bit more predictable rotation to it, um, to bring that out to more publicly, but that's where we are schedule wise, and some of the processes we did just in the last few weeks to help move that along from where it wasn't.
And so um sometimes there's um costs that you know about and sometimes you don't really know until you experience something for a full year as to what the real hidden costs are. Um there's known and hidden and um you know those are things that usually in the next leg legislative session superintendent and and folks would go and advocate for or bring to light about the unintended consequences of some of the legislation that gets passed. Um, I would love to have a bucket or location that was called unfunded mandate so we could uh put everything in there that was not budgeted for the pre previous year. But we do try to keep track of things like that. Um whether or not it falls on, you know, deaf ears uh at the state department is a whole another, you know, whole another thing. But we do uh we'll have some more things heading into next year.
I. Jenny Hagstrom. Hi. Cara Casten. Hi. Ken Dawson. Hi. Mr. Espinosa. Hi. Charel Fuller. Hi. And Don Rener. I. Motion carries. Thank you. Item number eight, our action items. Um item A. Can I get a motion from the board of education to approve the Sunrise Southwest Transportation Contract extension as presented? So moved. Second. 10 seconds. Thank you. Terry Pavisich. I. Ken Dawson. Hi. Custoa. I. Cheryl Fuller. Hi. Jenny Hagstrom. I. Cara Casten. Hi. And Don Rener. I. Motion carries. Thank you. I I think item B. Can I get a motion? Uh in that last one, Jenny moved. Jenny was the first. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Sorry. Don't be sorry. Do we need to call that again or No, still got president accountable. Thank you. Uh item D. Can I get a motion from the board of education to adopt the resolution authorizing property tax payment for the Rexner 2024 tax year?
Um so the recommendation that uh do you want to go in for any further detail on that? Yeah. Yeah. Just so um from our process, kind of like I put in our memo, I mean we did a pretty thorough um investigative process on all the vendors. Um our team took the time to put together a spreadsheet of the key factors for all of the firms that originally submitted. Um we did reference checks and interviews. Got some feedback from Dana. So through our our process, we came up with the recommendation that's in front of you for two architectural firms, Larsson and Derby Group and STR partners. As we went through this process, um I know I talked originally a lot about a small architect and big architect and I think that vision kind of changed a little bit. um when we saw the presentation and in the some of the research we did on STR group, their facility master facility master planning was pretty spot-on, pretty exemplary.
Angeline Trullio. Almost was able to let her down. Oh, nice go. Nicely defended. Broken up at the last second. Reed gets in there. Good job. Kendra Reed gets knocked as she ends up with the ball. She kicks the ball over Marino. Marino over to Mckne. Mcknney has space. He gets the ball on the run. One left. Nice. Move by one. Goes by two. Smartly pulls it back. Hits wide open. Oh. Oh, nicely backed up. Good job by Nice shot by Trulio. Tuck it in. Oh, [Music] nice passing there. Get the ball to Watson. And now there's timeout Meadow. Timeout Law Meadow. 6-4 Lancers up with just under eight minutes to go in the fourth quarter. And we're back. Just under eight minutes to play in the third quarter with Long Meadow Lancers holding on to a twogoal lead. Pretty much holding on to a two-goal lead the whole game, Steve.
So what's the implementation plan for staff, students, parents, families? Yeah. So I think our next step first is to communicate back out to the students and families kind of this mile update including sharing a little bit of the processes that we use. Um they're going to see that the departments are using what we've done so far to start planning what they need to do. So there are some courses where we used to have 90 sessions planned out. We need to redistribute that. So they're using PLC time, maybe a little bit of summer hours time depending on what budget probably PLC time now to be ready for the the fall implementation. And our one of our biggest we had to run into power school and we're pausing doing that for the moment um just until we're have a strong sense of what our staffing levels will be for next year.
Uh we just don't know what the full landscape is yet until you start to weigh in through through new legislation. Well, like last year, didn't we have to put in um feminine hygiene products and dispensers in bathrooms and that what was the total cost on that? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that might have been like 50 or 60,000 I think to install the dispensers, but then the actual products themselves I think were even more on a regular basis. So, no, I realize it probably fell in in in the other uh categories. But just an aside, having that total number is I think a good talking point, you know? I mean, that's a lot of money just for the dispensers. It is. It is. It is. and we're going to be going through something similar with the I sent an update about the uh the recycling program and the the waste I should say food disposal program um due to that's another legislative piece that we're not quite sure how much that's going to cost us to haul off our waste separately um you know so that's another thing coming and then the um the airvac system or the air quality controls we've got to pay for that now you know what does that cost you know People got to know this.
So moved. Sure. I get really tricky. Jenny moves. Can I get a second? Oh, I'll second. Second. Thank you. Jenny Hagstrom. I. Terry Pavisich. I. Cara Casten. I. Ken Dawson. Hi. Chris Espinosa. I. Cheryl Fuller. I. And Don Rener. I. Motion carries. Item number C. Item C. And a motion for the board of education to approve the 2024 tax rates as presented. So moved. Second. Car moves. J seconds. Thank you. Car caston I Jenny Hagstrom I Terry Pavisich I Ken Dawson I Chris Tespinosa I Sherrell Fuller I and Don Runner I motion carries. Thank you. Dr. Fieldy, do we have any old business? No. Any new business? No. Uh second reception of visitors. Do we have any slips? No, sir. I have a slip. Oh, take that back. We have a slip. We have a slip. It's coming. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Mrs. Otto, I'll remind you that props are not allowed during recept.
That was like a strong suit for that firm. I think you saw that in their presentation. So, our team looked at it a little bit differently. We thought this would be a great opportunity to bring in a new firm, a new group, contract them to put together our facility master plan while we're sticking with our current architect Larsson and Darby Group to work on projects and do things in the interim till we get that plan completed. That would probably be roughly a year. I know some of the firms said six to nine months. I think it it would be probably a good part of a year that would kind of go into our new superintendent. we kind of have that plan kind of setting up our future. So that was kind of how this process transitioned for our team and myself. That's why where we came up with the recommendation we did and oh sorry and the thought still is like you said there would be one that would do the smaller projects and or you're going away from that completely.
That's what it feels like. Yeah, it's been very, very tight. And like we said, the right before that Long Meadow timeout, East Meadow had a terrific run. This really could be a onegoal game. balls on the ground again quickly gets that lamel just throws the ball out of bounds. Now, as a coach, that has to drive you crazy coming out of a timeout. You're going to talk about things. You're going to try to settle things down, draw it up, and lose the ball right out of the timeout like that. GH Well, you know what, Steve? I think that was the old coaches. I think he drew up that play. Oh, yeah. Addy Jordan fires it in. Way to capitalize on a mistake by the Lancers. And Addy Jordan scores her second goal of the game. No, if long if the long metal plan with the timeout was to stop the bleeding.
Um but that's that's going to be the biggest thing now that we've had the structure. We have to align the actual student schedule. So that's that's coming up soon on the list, but we didn't do that yet until we're confident with the number of sections that we have. So correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't we go to those longer block scheduled because of co and I would think that it makes a lot of sense to back away from that at this point in time. But I'm wondering, do you know what other school districts did? Did other school districts go to these larger block types? There have been a lot of high schools that have moved in and out of the block schedule um and some variation of this. You you'll probably find I don't know if you find as many on the block anymore, but you would find plenty of high schools that have tried different versions of the schedule.
Yeah. So, these are all things, you know, like I said, we we keep track we try to keep track of them once the the the real numbers are known and as superintendent groups and as uh you know, different different legislative groups will advocate um to have laws changed or amended or to be funded. Can I suggest maybe a separate page of unfunded mandates? You know, just an like a PS. Yeah. It's the bait of our existence. Um So, I agree with you, Cara. Teresa makes a good a good point because as I'm listening to her, you know, we had that mandate to to move to 25 credits for the high school. So, that to me that that globalization to to move us into that is a huge a huge unfunded mandate. you know, it's a lot of that past been absorbed. But yes, you know, to Teresa's point, it's it's a number similar to what the mayor gave us for his inind services.
These are textbooks. They're they're not allowed during reception of visitors. Thank you. Textbooks. They're not allowed during reception of visitors. Okay. So, um AP students receive textbooks. My students received no textbooks. This is a vocabulary book. Students can learn to read more words if they have a vocabulary book. Why don't students get any vocabulary books? AP students get books. This is an AP literature book. If you're going to tell me that students have a laptop and they can learn the same that they can from a textbooks, I humbly disagree with you. Since the time of Aristotle, Virgil, we have been learning from textbooks. That's why the students scores and ability to learn has dropped 10% year-over-year. Again, different visual cues. You cannot get this from a computer. Sometimes teachers for my students are nice and print them out black and white prints. That is not a textbook.
I mean not saying that we won't do that. We can still do that, but not from the get-go in my mind because I think I think it's going to take a new architect time to to get to know our district, to kind of see what's going on with us, get to know our buildings and all that. So, I think that would be a great opportunity for STR doing that facility master plan. It's going to get them to know the buildings, know the community, know the district, the staff, and everything and be able to do that. I think then we can make that determination on how we want to move forward. moving forward down the road you can choose any you can choose architects to do your actual if you if when you get to the point there's going to need to be something done um facilities wise right I mean that we keep growing we've done some things to to do some preemptive types of things potentially but there will need to be some some possibly significant work that happens um there are benefits to having an architect who knows the building and knows what's happening and going on in here a lot of that work that is done will have to be redone, right?
That certainly did not did not meet the Yeah, you don't. That's not one thing you want that to happen. No. Well, lucky for the Spartans it did. And Spartans only down one. Like you said, terrific job capitalizing on that. Jordan put it away, which was great. But what 15 seconds off the lom has the ball and within 15 seconds the Spartans put one in the back of the net. So tides can change very quickly in lacrosse. Jordan up on the draw with Goodrich. Let's see who comes away with this one. Referee backs out. Balls up in the air. Addy Jordan comes flying in or Ken Marino comes flying in and gets it. Just keep going with it. No more taking to the hoop hole. That looked like a bad check from behind and Kenna Marino looks like she'll be getting an eight meter. Nice to see Nice to see Kenna Marino nice backhanded bare hand too and with the ball he threw it to it.
So I think again one of the things that I hopeful that this does is strike the balance between um between something that might be seven or eight period day straight through at 40 something minutes and 90minute classes or going on 90minute classes that don't meet every day. So that's the intent and finding that balance is not often a bad kind of uh No, it just I feel like we did have this schedule at one time along the way. Did we or it's very close? Very close. No, very close. Yeah. Prior to co for about 20 years, we had something very close. Okay. The periods were 56 minutes. So this actually helps again more time and consistencies. No, because these arguments sound like the same arguments that I remember having maybe when I was PTAing at the high school. These, you know, kids need to be touching with the with the subjects, especially the core subjects every day, not just every third day.
Um, it it's a number that is is is out there that what we have to absorb and it could be an interesting and should be an interesting talking point at some point. Put our heads together to to say how much we've spent unfunded mandates. So over last five years, I would say. Absolutely. Yeah. And it's not just one time. It's it's it's having to sustain it moving forward. Yeah. Exactly. Easily forgotten. Yep. Yeah. Because we've already met that threshold, so you forget it. And so it's a valid point, Teresa. It's just that, as I keep saying, there's so much to be done, you know, that there's a priority list as to what has to get done first. Time moves by so fast. Um but uh it's a good point and hopefully we can you know get to it so make the presentation a little bit more informative.
In chemistry, if they have a textbook, they're able to learn. I mean, when you have something like this, raise your hand if you received a textbook in high school. Anybody here receive a textbook? You you guys all did you all receive? Yes. Uh Mr. Rener, I know your your daughter, you said one time I was in a meeting, she got a really good textbook. My sons received none. And I would really like the camera to zoom in. These are the kind of books that my students received. They received props are not allowed during they received books that had highly inappropriate articles that I am uncomfortable looking at. This was given to my 14 and 17year-old son. Arwin, do you know what movie Ryan watched today in social studies? An R-rated movie. I came home today and I said, "How was your day?" He's a freshman.
And they're not done redone free. And I think that's the thing to to just consider as we're we're moving forward. Um some places may charge less than others. And obviously there's some work in there, but um there there are there are things that have been completed already within the works that the board just needs to take into consideration moving forward of what that looks like. And obviously this board will make certain decisions. obviously the board that will be seated in whatever time this meeting is over in uh 15 to 20 minutes will have to make some other decisions too moving forward. So um I think that's the the recommendation that Dan has based on his work and the team that they were putting together. And how long do you think it's going to take that new architect to like if we got two different new architects in that it would take them to get to know the district the way that you would want them to know it?