They love meeting with students. Um, they're going to try to do as many in person as possible, but they also find success in doing some virtual ones as well. So, we'll have more of an update on that. um not at the June 4th meeting because we're not meeting till after that, but at the July meeting. Um and then we'll continue to make sure all of that information um is accessible to the public. So that's where we're at. The the our key contacts are Reena Beer and is it Roy Montasan? Montasano. Yeah. Okay. So those are names that you guys will be hearing as we as we go forward. Um those are the folks who are leading up our search and working with us. Great. Let's move then to uh subcommittee reports starting with facilities. Rob. All right.
Um the there was an adjustment made but it was 500,000 being taken away not added in. So if you take the money away from the budget 500,000 instead of adding the 500,000 you get about a million. Um and if you turn to page five you'll see tuition sped private is935,000. You know, of course, that is offset by the other tuitions in there, but um that number doesn't surprise me um given the given the um opposite swing and that is what's driving the 840,000 negative uh variance. Are there entries that would be made to this correctly or is there just a footnote that would explain? I think this would be a footnote. these are actual expenses that we're seeing for uh private placements and uh and private tuitions as well as public. So to the extent that that's been the frustration that we've had is our inability to to be able to explain variances because we didn't have the in-depth knowledge that you're finding out now.
Um you know that this this is the board member uh the school ethics commission said the board member stood the chance of benefiting for themselves because they had formed a team and they wanted to do things that that there you know the the video said talked about things that they could do if you elected these two people whatever whatever that might be. So again, you have to be mindful of what what it is that you do. You have to remember that as a board member, you have to or school official, you have to abide by the code of ethics at all times. And as an elected official, you are held to a higher standard. And and that's really um you know, you choose to be either elected or appointed or however that goes. And you have to acknowledge that that as an elected official, especially school board, you're hel official, you're held to a higher standard.
Resolution number nine. The board of education accepts with regret the retirement of Mary Bell Buono High School LDTC. To Mrs. Bello, thank you so much for your service to our students, our school district. We wish you a very, very happy new chapter in your life. That's it for me, sir. Anything, Mr. Tbakia? No. I'll give a quick finance report. Um uh we are going to be engaging we just engaged in our pre- audit which is prior to the auditors coming in in the fall. Um we find it very enlightening and it helps us considerably because we kind of engage our order and we try to head off any potential findings or issues proactively. So the order was here about 6 hours on May 14th. It went very well. We are in the process of engaging the end of year process. Uh we are in the process of opening up 2526 the new school year and we are in process of finalizing our summer capital projects uh specifically the multi-purpose room at number six school the unit ventilator project at number six school and the HVAC projects at school number three and school number four.
How scholarship is managed by the Decator County Community Foundation. So, our applicants have ranged and continue to range from students pursuing doctorates in vet veterinary medicine, bachelor's degrees in animal science, vocational students that are learning vet doctoring trainers, animal behaviorists, and yes, we also have adults who didn't have figured out until later and then decided they wanted to start a business in about that coming. We want to support all of these endeavors because the royal winners are her beloved animals. With that, it's our pleasure that we're able to present two scholarships this year for $1,000 each to students who embodies Colleen's love of animals by pursuing education and careers in animal welfare. And we're proud to award these scholarships to Emma Queen and Allison Kie. [Music] Good morning. My name is Spring. I'm here with my wife to present the Bonnie Spring Nursing Scholarship in memory of my mom.
Any discussion? Um the only point of clarity for this one for me is that you may be familiar with Miss Winland if you have any kids in the uh in the school system. Uh she is actually an employee through the uh NYSE co-op. So us hiring her for the summer school program is just because she is not officially uh part of our school system. She's through the co-op. But we do use her skills over the summer for our summer school. So, uh, with that, any other discussion? All right, we'll take it to a vote. Mr. Bilips, I. Mr. Polesk, I. And I vote I. Mr. President, I have no further business to come before the board except to remind everyone that our next monthly schoolboard meeting is will be held on Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 at Edison Junior Senior High School. And that meeting will start at 700 p.m.
um they support students participating in a variety of regional musical competitions and experiences and and so um a great that's a great program as well. I think I think all good things. Yeah, all good things. Yep. You had enough? I I think so. I think what would be good I think. Um Susan, do we post the list of awardes on the website or not? Yes, all of the backup is posted. So that will be part of the backup, but I will also reach out to each of the organizations and let them know what the process will be from here. Great. I know I should have picked a few. My apologies. I should picked a few to talk about. It's all good stuff. We we did want to talk about Yeah, there's three that we want to talk about that we wanted to to bring to the entire board before we vote.
Gets the ball over to Jenna Holly. Jenna Holly gets one way up to Caroline. Caroline up to Avery. Avery just has one girl. She gets by her. Nice pass to Mckne. It's a threeon two. Mcknne turns around. She'll get herself some shooting space. Sabina Mckneney on the eight meter. Keney runs it in. She goes low far post. Keney gets a goal. She's up on the board. Sabina Mckne's 12th goal of the season. The Spartans are up 17 to1. Spartan goal scored by Sabina these [Music] 17. Ken Marino up on the draw. flicks it up. Saw the space. He turns around, gets the ball over to Mckne. Mcknne Luke Kasich, nice feed to Avery Morgado. And Avery Morgado turns around, takes it, throws the ball, upper 90. And Avery Morgado with a nice goal. Nice pass by Caroline Lucas. Good passing all around. That's Avery Morgado's second goal on the season.
Good evening everyone. We met met last on May 7th. Um we called to order on 608. Uh we was myself uh Sarah Divine, Casey Diat, and Dan Cwell was there. We had one member for public comment. Uh uh excuse me, one member present for public comment, but no public comment uh was uh given. For old business, we discussed the school dude reports. We had a question about uh an area of refuge space that I remember Dan had answered satisfactory for us. Uh we didn't follow up on anything with that. Uh for an update on capital projects, the BH uh the high school AC project contract is going to be returning one for one remaining item for the existing control system. Uh this is expected to take place within the next two weeks. So that would be this week. Hopefully it's uh well this is the week so so around this week in around that time.
So with that knowledge, if we could footnote that again, it makes a statement, you know, a better document so that when somebody looks at that number, at least we can say, okay, we've identified a reason for that particular variance. I I don't think that's going to be the case in fiscal year 26. I I agree. I'm just saying current, you know, currently I I'm hoping that 26 we get back to a normal type of situation since it's yours, Dr. Kamera's budgets, you know what's in there, you know what's being applied, and you'll be able to explain variances because you're, you know, it's part of your product. Yeah. And and this year I I had the opportunity to sit down with Kelly several times and under understand the pro the special education program a lot better. um its needs and how the the money goes in and out, what what it's used for.
There there's um I talked about recusing if there's a um on that list of prohibited acts um that you can and can't do. Um really what a recusal signifies is that the board member has a legal conflict and they can't participate in the discussion or the vote. um an abstension does not reflect that. An absension you can abstain for numerous reasons, but if you have um a legal conflict, then you need to recuse yourself. And if you're not sure if your conflict is legal, reach out to your board attorney because they can help you. They can, you know, guide you in what that is. Um here's the list of prohibit acts. Um and really um again it talks says recuse yourself if there's a benefit of any of these if any of these apply to you or your immediate family for things like um if you any financial gain if they're financial involvement uh uh that may impair your objectivity.
Those are the major capital projects that will be going on in the um late spring and summer into the early fall of 2025. Dr. Hay, anything else on your end? I would like to thank everyone for coming out this evening. Congratulations. Congratulations to the teachers, teachers of the year. Congratulations to the students for your hard work. Um, that's all I have. You have anything from the public? Uh, no. Does anybody have anything for us before we adjourn for the evening? I'll make a motion to accept the uh agenda. Okay, that was Mr. Garcia. I second it. That was Mr. Kapano. Okay, I'll take a vote. Mr. Kapana, yes. Mr. Freda, yes. Mr. Garcia, yes. Mr. Drew, yes. But I'm also going to abstain on for number page 14. Thank you for that. Drew, Dr. Pompiano, yes. Mr. Rainort, yes. Mr. Russo, yes. Mr. Turbakia, yes.
This scholarship was started in honor of all the wonderful nurses that took care of Bonnie when she was sick. The award this year is for $1,500 and it goes to Tiffany Graham.
Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Does anyone have any parting comments? Mr. Phillips, thank you to Miss Hayes and her staff for uh hosting us uh this meeting. And uh to all the students who got awards tonight, great job. Keep up the great work. And uh for everybody coming out, thanks for joining us. People watching at home, thank you for joining us. And that's it for me. Mr. Plesca, just like to say thank you to Mrs. Hayes. Thank uh congratulations to all you students. Keep up the great work. Thank everybody for attending and thank you for tuning in and watching us online. Thank you. Yeah, I would like to say thank you everyone that came out. This is probably one of the probably the biggest meeting since I've been on the school board to see all this attendance. So, I really appreciate you all coming out.
Um, so if you look through the list, there were three that we hadn't um because when Claudia and I met, we felt like we needed more information from the organizations before we could award um grant funds to and there's three. There was the neurodeiversity support for children where the funding will be used for services or support not covered by health insurance. Um there's the veterinary chapency services which covers expenses of offering free weekly support groups to grieving people who have lost pets. Um they do support groups for people and a support line for those dealing with a a difficult diagnosis or loss of a pet. Um and then the third one is sportified um where the funds are going to be used to offset the cost of a track tournament which is held in July. Um so we had reached out to these organizations asking or Susan reached out to the organizations asking for more information because what we were looking for was um we wanted to see how these funds were going to be used and how they were going to benefit the Ashlin community.
[Applause] That's good. Good passing. Good start right from the beginning from Kenner Marino. Three quick passes to Morgato and Morgato goes over the goalie of Agawam's shoulder to get herself a goal. That's what we like to see when a bunch of players touch the ball in one possession. Call on Awam will get the ball in starts offense. Kyla Marino will start it. Marino with the ball. She'll go by everybody. Get the ball over the restraining line. Reno keeps going in. Nice pass to Lucas. Blue Kasich turns around, gets herself some shooting space, and Caroline will be up on the uh 8 meter, looking to get her third goal of the game after Caroline scored two quick goals into the first quarter. She's now had a bunch of assists. She's looking to get herself an eight meter. She runs it in. She goes over the goalie's head.
Uh the Sallyport permit application from the building department is waiting for review from the town departments. um the middle school gym roof. The Barrett estimates that the roof estimates that the roof replacement can be done in one to two days with a large crew. Um the WMS athletic storage and the contractor uh Renos received the PDF plan for the permit. Um once the permit is obtained, work will be scheduled. Uh we didn't have any miscellaneous discussion and we adjourned at 6:30. It was great. Um definitely was too much. So Rosa finance committee. Okay. Uh we last met on May 8th uh where we went over the April financial report. Um if you remember, you know, we've been running in um a budget shortage all year, sometimes upwards of, you know, a half a million dollars, I think. Um but uh there were some positive month-to-month changes in our April report.
So, I think um the budget that for 2026 in regard to special education is far more accurate than it was. Um it's concerning we're down to 1.4 million and we have May two left. Do you expect um anything at home that's not public? Um so the these are again are as of uh 4:30 the statements and stuff has happened since 4:30 being that we're 3/4 of the way through May. Um, one one of them that you'll see in the statements um, next month, uh, hopefully next month if it hits the bank is again, um, another credit from the health insurance company. Um, we have a policy, a stop-loss policy in place so that we only pay up to a certain amount for an individual. Once they hit that amount, the insurance policy kicks in. Um, of course, we pay a premium for that which is built in there.
An example might be if you work for an insurance broker that works with school districts. Um, and and it may not be your district, but you have inside knowledge. Um, you should probably recuse yourself or at least have that conversation with your um with your schoolboard attorney. the you know in in the list of other considerations H is talks about it's it's it's not a conflict if what you're voting on or talking about um is um is not only you don't it's not only again to you or your child. And and an example of that would be if you're approving field trips and your child's going on that field trip. Well, the whole class is going on that field trip. So your child's not getting anything extra that anybody else isn't getting. So you know, so you can feel com, you know, comfortable that on field trips or school dances, whatever it is that you vote on that you can because your child is not getting anything um extra special.