>> Uh what are we doing with the window replacement? Are we >> doing that again or >> so I want to understand what what happened there and you know what is the >> Right. Right. So so the reason why we we painted the plexiglass windows is because they were getting marked up scratched and they just looked terrible. So, my idea was to put a layer of paint on to kind of match what Toyon looked like um and actually make the school look good again since we had just painted it. Um with that said, that area, that window is typically blocked on the inside by either curtains or furniture. So, I didn't think it was, you know, too bad of an idea to to paint them black. The new structure, right, will have a higher panel like a a Hardy backer panel, >> but the window above will be clear.
However, we're not able to respond to any speaker. We have already We already have received two comments or two uh speakers who would wish to speak at this time. So, at this time I'm going to call forward a student Valeria Torres Godinez. >> [applause] >> Hi. Um my name is Valeria Torres. It's good to meet you guys. Um mhm My name is Valeria Torres. I am a student at Pleasant Valley High School. It hurts that I have to be back here again. Um I have seen parents coming up to speak and wanting to remove um parent secrecy policy. This is wrong and dangerous in so many ways. For those who don't know what this policy is, it means staff cannot disclose a student's transgender or gender non-conforming status to parents or others without the student's consent. The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a state law prohibiting schools from informing parents when students change their identity at their identity or name at school.
Elementary autism is completely full with five group size exceptions granted from the New Jersey Department of Education. Middle school LLDS hybrid is completely full. Middle school emotional regulation impairment program will have approximately six additional students for the 2026 2027 school year. Autism all grades will be completely full for the 2627 school year. Elementary emotional regulation impairment classes are near full capacity. Elementary LLD severe is currently full and will not have enough spots for the 2627 school year. Elementary resource rooms, several of which are full now and several will require Paris due to their group sizes. Other special education updates. Uh Karen Pon, the district supervisor of autism programs, will be presenting at a New Jersey Department of Education forum on April 23rd on our district's utilization and implementation in our autism programs of the Department of Education's quality indicators. The department has disseminated surveys to paraprofessionals, special education teachers and principles to gather input on the need for more paraprofessional training.
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Motion carries three to zero. Next item on the agenda is the approval of extra base items. Mr. President, members of the board, uh the following staff members are being recommended for approval to the corresponding extra base items and they have to be funded by the Title I budget source. High school AP teachers planning listed, high school athletic equipment advisor is listed, parent engagement coordinator is listed, child services coordinator is listed, dual enrollment coordinator is listed, wellness committee listed, uh foster care point of contact and community liaison is listed, uh Title II budget source PLC team leaders listed, um IDEA Basic Grant and Special Education Differential, uh staff members listed, funded by the federal source Title IV coordinator listed, approval of the extra base items to the corresponding staff members is recommended, sir. Okay. I will make that motion. I'll second it. If there's no further discussion >> I I motion carries 3 to 0.
Um, and certainly I want to be sensitive just like I shared with them, like I want to be sensitive to the fact that, you know, recycling is a good thing, you know, whatever, right? um and and it's a good service um to the community, but but that's not a service that you guys [snorts] have as a board funds to provide, right? You are supposed to provide a school. Um and so um so just kind of talking through that um and um thinking through all those pieces. So um you know, I'll follow up with them um probably here later in the month to just see what conversations they've had um and uh we'll we'll go from there. But certainly open to questions or comments on that if anybody has anything. Okay. Um the other thing uh under kind of financial matters is the Wildcat Creek Cooperative um lease uh which you guys have.
Going once, twice, I feel like an auctioneer. Three times. All right, thank you. With then the conclusion of the public hearing, we will go into the regular business of the school board. The first item on the agenda is our consent agenda. And items under the consent agenda are approval of the minutes, financial fiscal, extracurricular resignations, as well as extracurricular hirings. At this time, I would recommend to the board that they approve the items under the consent agenda as presented this evening. Hearing the recommendation, I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll second the motion to approve the consent agenda.
Um all right, then we'll go to the next uh item on the agenda. It's old and new business. Uh FY27 budget update including the operational override. And I believe Michael, that's why you're you're here with with us this evening right now for this. >> I am. I am. Um yes. So um at least with regards to the general fund uh we've certainly had a lot of discussion about that uh collectively or I should say you know as a team here and then also collectively with the school committee and the finance committee and I I would say as well as you know certainly uh with the community we've had forums and everything. So, um, I I put together a budget document that, uh, was distributed on April 3rd, um, that contains the information that we had talked about, um, and the numbers that we had talked about.
So, that will most likely go down as an infield hit for Cosgrove. Second hit. Should they going to call that an error? Third error of the game for the Clockers now. Cosgrove's on his way to second. The throw from Passalaqua is high. And Cosgrove has stolen second. Some thick raindrops fall. That was ball one to Ethan Kramer. He's 0 for 1. Third straight inning with a runner reaching scoring position here for the Panthers. 1-0. That's a strike. The Clockers have committed one error in each inning. Like I said, the trend continues. They could be in danger of giving up some runs. Comes the 1-1. It's a foul ball back. On to the turf. Nothing in two to Kramer. Is this hail? That's strike three. He got him looking. Third strikeout for Jared Grumbum and he freezes Kramer on three pitches. Here comes Henry Leake. He's gone two scoreless on the mound, over one at the plate.
Our 4x800 relay team of Ethan Lois, Derek Rulon, Elijah Anderson, and Isaiah Larsel ran the third fastest time in school history of 8 minutes 10 seconds and 1 millisecond at the Oregon Relays. We congratulate them and wish the best of the team luck as they continue their season. Our FFA team is currently on their way to Fresno to compete in state speaking finals. We have five kids competing. This is a huge accomplishment and means that each of these kids are in the top 24 students across California in their respective competitions. They compete tomorrow and we are very proud of them and wish them our luck. Our FFA team is also hosting the spring sale next week and are ready to sell lots of plants, flowers, and vegetables. Leadership has been planning various activities for this for the rest of the school year. The week before lunch, we had the first three days of our talent show and the [snorts] finals will be performing and the finalists will be performing this Friday during lunch.
>> I got >> So that will let a lot of the the natural light in. >> So you have a transom kind of a thing on the top or is it like a single unit or or is it like a window and the transom on the top? So, so the it's just a it's a a hardy backer panel to match the the remainder of the school and the window is smaller, but it's clear. >> So, it's above the door >> or above above the panel and it goes to the basically the bottom of the the ceiling. >> Oh, okay. I see. >> Yeah. Right. Okay. >> Yeah. And then I think the other piece to that um is also safety purposes, >> right? Unfortunately, that's another um another analysis piece for all schools now with window replacements. Um making sure that there cannot be direct view of who's inside the room.
At age 12, kids can consent to mental health treatment. Minors can also consent to care such as birth control and abortion without parent consent. So, please keep that in mind. If you guys approve this change, it will end badly. If this gets approved, trans kids won't feel safe at home anymore. Trans kids will be at risk of suicide, abuse, mistreated, not supported at home. As someone who tried taking their own life last school year, I don't want to see kids struggle with mental health because of this. And I don't want them to end up in the path that I thought was okay. It's not. They will have fear going home and getting treated horribly for who they are. We don't want to lose more children to suicide. A lot of my friends who are transgender have expressed their worries of what will happen if this get approved.
The survey data will be analyzed and used to develop a paraprofessional training program for special education Paris. The special education parent advisory group met in March for its third meeting of the school year. A presentation entitled Sleep and Nighttime Routines was presented by one of our district behaviorists. The next meeting is scheduled for May 19th at 6 PM. The department is busy preparing our data for the state's extraordinary aid application that will be submitted in late spring. Uh some updates from Miss Kuselvich concerning u multil- language learners. Some numbers have gone down. Currently, we have 1,447 multil- language learning students with two students in the queue for being tested. This is a reduction in new students being tested weekly and a slight reduction in overall multi- uh language learner numbers. Numbers will drop when we get access scores back in June, anticipating uh at 10% or more students exiting our multil- language programs.
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Mr. President, members of the board, the administration is requesting a planning approval for staff for the summer school district summer school. We need to do that to June 15th, 18th. We are following the reading program for the 1st and 2nd and 3rd and 4th grade. Four days a week, 6 hours a day. They have the time to staff the students, instructional leaders, summer school teachers, dual language reading teacher, reading instructional support, security personnel, paraprofessionals are listed. Approval of additional hours to be reimbursed by the classified staff for June 20th to 26th summer school elementary reading instruction. I second it. I will vote in favor. I I motion carries 3 to 0. Mr. President, members of the board, the Aztec student council officers are requesting approval for an overnight field trip to Sedona, Arizona on May 1st and 2nd. For statutes, student trips that are out of state for overnight must be voted approved.
Um so this is a um in Wildcat are the four county schools. um that's our CT cooperative. Um and so um this year we've been having um those programs and office space and things like that in the old I think it's known by a lot of things the old Casper building the old IvyTech building the the I think it says something else on it too downtown Frankfurt um kind of caddy corner from the courthouse. Um so that building had been previously leased by the city county um it was joint owned to IvyTech. Um, IvyTech left that building. Um, they they let us be in there basically as a a sub ley lei. I don't know what the term is there. Um, and but IvyTech still had the lease and so they were still paying everything. Um, so we've looked forward. We've applied for a ready grant um with SE um which is the Clinton County um economic advancement foundation.
And a motion and a second, do I have any discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Paleski. I. Mr. Music. I. Mr. Tenario. I. And I vote I. Moving on to items under personnel, I would recommend to the board this evening that they approve to hire Arselly Serna as our district nurse effective March 30th, 2026. Hearing the recommendation, So moved. Second.
And, um, you know, just wanted to see if you had any questions regarding that. Um, you know, the document has a lot of detail in it. Um, and, uh, So, I think if people were looking for information um not just necessarily related to numbers and and figures and things like that, but uh explanations of some of the budget changes um as well as some of the activities that each of the department does. Um and I really want to thank um everybody that's been involved with this um the boards especially um and also our staff, our finance team.
Cosgrove leads off second, that one's outside. So one ball, no strikes to Leake. Schreiber holds on Cosgrove. Comes the 1-0. That's a strike. A bit high there. One ball, one strike. One ball and one strike. That's in the dirt, a good stop from Passalacqua. He's been very good behind the plate this season. As the sun begins to shine over the trees here. There's some rain. It's two balls and one strike. Here comes. It's a good pitch there. Called strike two. Two balls and two strikes here to Leake. It's Grumbum. He's thrown 40 pitches so far. Two and two-thirds. 41 pitches. Two balls, two strikes to Leake. Ground ball back to the mound, snow cone by Grumbum, a toss to first in time. Three scoreless innings for Jared Grumbum. And we're through two and a half here at the middle school. No score. Henry Leake will come on for his third inning of work.
We are also planning our next blood drive and appreciate all those who are donating. We are getting ready for next year's ASB team which we will hold elections for on May 20th. We are also purchasing things and getting ready for day on the green which will be held on May 29th. Our prom committee is also preparing for our prom which will be next Saturday. We are very excited for these activities. Thank you for letting me speak on West Valley's behalf.
>> Yeah. Um so for for next board meeting, I will present a picture of a rendering of what Vincy will look like. >> Yeah, that that'll be that'll be great. And we're doing the same thing. The exterior window replacement on Northwood will be the same format. >> Yes, but the the the light the windows will be a little bit little bit larger. So, the panel will go up to about six feet >> and then the the window will go to the like I said the uh the bottom of the ceiling. >> Okay. >> Yeah, >> that's that's good. No, I think that's good. Thank you for clarifying and answering those questions. We appreciate it. >> Sure. >> I also had another question too. Thank you so much for your wonderful presentation as always. Always enjoyed looking at the photos. Um I was visiting Morell Middle recently and I know that we replaced the HVAC and everything, but folks let me know that they have um issues with ventilation and I was just curious about like if there's anything in the future that we're considering to help with like air purification.
Things like getting disowned, abuse, or treated horribly. At school, they feel safe because they're called by their preferred names, pronouns, and gender. I don't care what those parents think. We want our kids to be safe at school, comfortable, and not scared to go to school. Kids go to school to escape home. Not every kid's home is a safe place. It's crazy to hear the argument that the fact some parents might be abusive is not a good enough reason. Not only is that rude, it's disrespectful towards domestic violence and abuse victims. We already see the hate crimes that gay and transgender people face face on and off campus. You guys say that your job is to protect your students. I want to see you guys by doing that by not approving this policy. I'm using my voice to speak up for the kids that cannot speak up.