001This this group will have it. You have to vote for six. You guys can just She's very nice. [Music] I wonder yeah waiting on car [Music] I didn't say it. Sorry. Oh, he's good. You do me a favor and vote for your um six. Thank you. I don't know. [Music] I will cherish this above [Music] your jury show. So faculty and you can submit signs. [Music] How's it going? Thank you. Okay. Is it okay? [Music] of the United States of America. and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all motion to approve the minutes of the March 17th, 2025 board meeting by second by Melissa. All in favor? I any opposed? Same carries. Motion to accept the CST CPSDM 504 report. Motion by Tara second by
002Sarah. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Same carries. Are there any agenda changes? the amount was added to the budget. So the only change is on item A the number the amount is written on the amount of budget on item A. Did you have a new agenda? Okay. So that was just added on there. I'll say it when we get to it. Um, we have financials. We have the general fund expenditure, the school lunch fund expenditure, the launch report and or extracurricular fund for February um that you received in your packets this month to review. Do you have any questions? Stephanie, you have anything to point out to us? Well, all the extracurricular that's been going on with fundraising and such uh for various things. Are you getting all of your paperwork in
003a timely way? I know the auditor brought that up. Okay. You're not fundraising month, you know. just what kind of entertaining did that something so that um I think there's been some new ideas that have been created um maybe some old ideas that have been revived certainly okay any um So now we have visitor [Applause] comments. So I have um Roxy. Um so I just want to touch base again on the sports merger. Um I am still not in favor at all of the sports merger. Um, I felt like in the past I could just tolerate the situation because it felt like all the kids were kind of going through the same thing. Um, now I do not feel that way. I feel that modified is going to suffer. Um, this was our first week
004at Brandon Field. Yesterday there were issues. Today there were issues. Uh, I went to Brandon Field yesterday. Just curious like what's the emergency building that the girls are going to be using in case there is an emergency while they're there. Um I know that it was stated that it's handicap accessible, which it is to the field. There is no handicap accessible bathroom there. Uh there is no place for the girls to change should they need to change. Um I just wonder if we've really looked at that field and how it compares to what the other three teams are getting. It doesn't seem equal. It doesn't seem fair. Um, and then I also have some questions for the upcoming fall season. Uh, I wanted to know if Manurva Field comfortably accommodates one soccer team at a
005time. How will you manage the practice schedule between the two modified teams? because I'm not sure if you've seen I know some of your parents and have seen that one team can be on the fields the other team usually is tucked kind of down in the woodline. If we are going to be using North Lawrence Fields for some of our varsity practices with the girls varsity team, would it be reasonable to think that the modified teams would then alternate here? Or would it make more sense for the boys varsity to practice there and the two modified teams practice here and alternate with the girls varsity? Like is it been looked at in that way? Um and then my other question is is there has there been in the past is there a plan to in
006the future do parent surveys on the sports merger and using parent square perhaps anonymous surveys put out to the parents of the students in K through 12 preK through 12 and is there a survey going out to the students the athletes that are participating at the end of each season to see how they felt that the season went? Uh, and is that feedback something that could be used in the future to uh help you decide on putting through the merger each year? If the students and the parents are all saying, "It's not working. We don't like it." Um, would that be something you'd be willing to do? And the safety concerns at Brandon Field and at Manurva Field for soccer and for baseball, softball, when can we expect those things to be done? the things
007to be addressed. Um, practice yesterday at Brandon Field, their field's not ready for the kids to be on it. There's some pretty significant like gopher holes in the grass that the kids were tripping in. Uh, is is not not what we have here. Um, certainly. So, I just kind of wanted to know what your guys's plans are, what your thoughts are. Um, and I I really, as a parent, I I need you to come up with an emergency plan for those kids, those 20 kids that are on that field with no bus, no building to go into, what happens to them in an emergency, you know. Thank you. Thank you, Mors. Good evening. Thank you. Uh thank you for letting me speak. Um so I made notes. So while we're on the sports merger, um
008you know, I've been part of that since its uh creation. Um I had high hopes for it in the beginning. I don't now. Um I think we're kind of kicking a dead horse here. Um something that has come up is the uh the North Warren um merger with sports. And um I think if we're going to head down that road, I think we should look into um maybe merging the whole district. I we put a lot of effort into merging with Manurva. Um you know, the whole districts together in sports, the whole nine yards. I think if we really want to benefit the students, I think in parents and taxpayers, I think merging with Northworn would be a pretty unique and interesting way to go. um as a graduate from there. Um you know, it
009offered a lot and I think we could offer more down that road. Um it's uh it's it's funny that uh we wound up um merging our varsity uh girls uh soccer with Manurva even after that one board meeting uh went south. Um, in my position, as you know, I'm leaving. Um, once again, um, I I do want to say thank you for the opportunity to work here again. Um, Mike, you know, I've said this to you and I've said this to everyone. You know, working with you, it's been good. You've been real good to me. You know, I you made great efforts to uh to make my uh my personal stay, you know, my tenure here is has been good with you. Um, but on the same token, you know, we we we definitely disagree
010on some things. But, um, I kind of wish everyone kind of felt that way. So, I think if they felt the way I do, um, I think we have a lot less chaos, uh, amongst us here. And there's a lot of chaos. And I don't I don't know if we're all all on the same page with our beliefs or not, but I see a lot of it from all the way around, you know, from the building to the transportation all the way around. There's a a lot of chaos. And in my letter, if you get to read it, I kind of briefly touched on it. And uh it is very hard uh to walk away. I want you to know it's not an easy decision. Um it's it's very difficult for me not to take
011them bus runs, believe it or not. Believe it or not, uh it was a financial hit not to take them. Uh but on it's what I had to do for me. And to try to let you guys know, um this is going to lead into my next subject. Um we have three full-time bus drivers. We have Rick, Jerry, and Terry. That's their job to drive school bus. The rest of our bus runs are filled with full-time employees, whether whether it's me subbing, Freddy subbing, or Amanda subbing. Um, and then we have uh Tom, Brandon, and uh Sean, and our full-time employees here, which we task them with other job duties once their morning and afternoon run are done. Um, I don't think the way the bus drivers are being paid is fair to them. I
012don't think they should be paid anything less than two hours. No. Okay. I'm really tired of the phrase, "We own you." We're not slaves. We're not slaves. We're not owned. We might be under contract. That's different. So, two hours, think about it, sit down, crunch the numbers. Two hours at the high end is going to be $60 on the high end. Just kind of keep that in mind, please. Um, another things and even in my department, you know, Frank, what do we do about transportation? Well, in my department, two of those bus drivers that are being taken often to fill in for these roles throughout the day to do these bus rooms are actually my my team. They work for me. That means less stuff is being done for me here at the building, which
013sometimes means more for me or more for her or more for my lean to do. We still got a building to clean. We do the best we can. I think we do a darn good job. I couldn't be more proud of my team, but it definitely makes a strain on it. And again, I don't agree with the way they're being paid. I don't a lot of responsibility there. We have more people running red lights on our buses than I can ever remember. And it's nerves shattering. And we have struct structure issues with behavior. I almost wrecked a school bus last year and it really shook me. And I've spoke with Mike about this because of bad behavior on a bus. Now we want to combine and all these bus runs and stuff and it's really
014hard. It's really hard for me to accept that we have less kids with the same amount of miles and in some cases we're adding miles to bus runs. You know, we can't help the homeless situation. It is what it is. And I understand we have responsibilities to get them and we do get them and I understand that. But we add to a bus run. But we own you for two hours is what I hear. No, no, I disagree with that strongly. Moving on. Um, sharing my staff in general, like since I've started here, and I know it's the way it's always been, we share Marley and Jess alternate doing simple dishes. Simple dishes. Even when I am short staffed, like the other day, I had nobody here. Okay. Jess comes in at 10 o'clock. Marlene
015a paid day off. Tom a paid day off. I have just one person here besides me and I have other responsibilities here trying to keep those fields which everyone seems to be pretty impressed with now that they're completed. I know there was a lot of hubhub before this before me getting these completed before Sean and I and Paul Sears and everyone that put great effort into those fields. I know there was some hubbub but they're done and they look darn good. I need to be out there with my guy doing that and ensuring that. I don't need to be in here. Karen and I have came up with many ideas on how to solve that particular situation, but it would require a little spending in money and money seems to be awfully tight these days.
016But I do believe I do believe do believe we could find it and we can make it work. We make a lot of things work. If I've noticed anything about this school district, I do know that we make things work. So, we need to work. Um, and you know something this another thing this contract failed on, I voted no for the contract. I'm going to throw this right out there. Right out the window. This concept is very vague. It's very vague and it's not very good. Both sides. Swinging a miss. Both sides. CSA administration. Swinging a miss. Marlene Mo has been here for 12 years and she's just a couple steps ahead of minimum wage. We don't address that as people come in. And this isn't a problem just at our district. So I'm not
017kind of a dummy. I know it's but let's think outside the box. We have an employee who's been here 12 years and she does a darn good job and she's come such a long ways and she's very dependable and she does the best way she can and definitely goes out of way and does a good job but just a couple steps ahead of minimum wage and I've got to think some of our TAs might even be in the same boat or maybe some of our secretaries. I just think that's wrong. I think we should be looking and how let's make that work too. Let's let's make a little bit of an adjustment there for those people. Get a little head of minimum wage. Let's give them something to look forward to. Value them. Value them
018like you valued me in my position. I feel valued. You guys pay me very well. I'm not leaving because of my salary. I'm very happy with my salary. Thank you, Tom. I'm back because of you. But I have to leave for me and my sanity. Um, another thing I don't know how you look at we got three employees whose pay had been messed up. Stephanie, this isn't you, but prior Stephanie, it got messed up. Now the hard part with this is is for a few years we've been complaining about that and me as a supervisor have gone many times to whether it be Mary or whomever might be in that position and asked about it said this don't look right this don't seem right don't look right don't seem right well finally the last time
019I took Sean's paid stub and I went and talked with Kathy Spring great lady and she goes I see it don't look right well we're going to sit down with Mike and we're going to look at this well I say Thank you. I appreciate that. Then they dive into a um and and and it's all good. It's all legit. I mean, it's all out there on do. Believe me, I've done some research. It's it's uh it's a blended overtime rate. You know, that's how it's, you know, it's kind of how it's done out there. It's an answer to that whole two pay differential thing that exists in the world everywhere. And um the hard part to swallow is when they looked back. They look back and the district owed two of them pretty good chunk
020of change and one of our employees owed the school a pretty good chunk of change. And I sit there and I'm like, golly, that is not a really good way, really good way to treat your employees. Now, I fully understand as a municipality, you can't just wave that off. I get that. I understand. It's a municipality. It's not your money. It's our money. Okay, I know you just can't be like, "Yeah, I got to ignore that. I get that." All right, I just want to get that clear. But then when they do the math the second time, so the math the first time was wrong. They did the math. Now that appeared to be wrong. So now the third time the math was done, it appears that two of those employees owe less, substantially less
021in one case. And one of those the third employee owes owes the district a little less. The other two are owed less as well. So now that's three different math figures to my calculation. How can we trust the third one? We're working on that. Just throwing that out there. That's being worked on. They're pretty messed up and it's hard to keep confidence when things are messed up. I mean, when you mess with someone's paycheck, right or wrong, whether it's for their benefit or not, boy, that's a tough one for any employee to get over. And as a supervisor, seeing it done to part of my team members, that's really hard for me to swallow and say, "That's the way it is, guys." It's really hard. Really hard. I don't know what we can do for
022him. I don't I don't know. But I think we should try, you know. I don't know what we can do. I think we should try. We should try. We should fight for these guys. It shouldn't always be CSEA fighting for our employees because it's kind of what it feels like. And I know that's what they're there for, but everything's a battle, you know, and there's hostilities on both sides. I'm not going to say one side's better than the other. I I live it. I see it. I work it. But I I agree. And I support this side from the merger all the way down through to transportation. It's something that I was really engraved. I made Mike, what' I say? $10,000 101,000 more in overtime last year driving school bus for you guys. And and
023if you look at it, it's most of that is definitely driving school bus. One thing I said when I came back, one of the conditions I had, and Tom, I I hope you remember this and Mike, I know we've spoke about this. I don't want to drive school bus all the time for you guys. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to sub and do my part and be helpful. And I did that and I did that well and above and beyond. But it always seemed like there was a bus run to do. And you can't say, "Oh, that's the bus driver's fault." Because it's not just the bus driver's faults. You've only got three. And you know what? And that's the way it was when I got here. Actually, no. I think there's
024a couple more when I got here. But nonetheless, we've got three. The rest are full-time employees who fall on overtime after 3:00. Overtime. So, we'll pay those bus drivers, those full-time employees, overtime to do a sports run, to do a late run or anything like that. During the day, we pay them a different rate. You know, it's a blended rate. It's kind of messy. Very, very messy. very messy. Um Tom, thank you. You you even after and I apologize for my behavior at the last time I spoke here. That was very unprofessional. It was it was very unprofessional and I apologize. But Tom heard me through my anger. He heard us through our anger. Tom came over and actually rode he got up in the morning. He came in and enroed one of the routes
025with us and I just couldn't appreciate that more. Like I know you guys don't have to. You guys can, you know, you know your job better than I know your job. That man came and did that. There's only one of you guys that did. Thank you. Thank you. Now you can see what we're talking about. If you want to know what we're talking about, six o'clock tomorrow morning, hop over. Um, again, I'll go back to it. There should be a bus run a minimum of two hours. It's not a lot of money, guys. We can make this work. I know we can make this work. I have faith in you. Minimum two hours for a bus run. Done. A lot. Our two of our three bus drivers are retirement age. Please don't take offense to
026that. But but sports runs get a little difficult in the winter time when it's dark out and it's cold. It gets difficult for them. I've seen them both do them and I know it's difficult on them just in general. But I also know these guys are reliable as sin for your late runs. Those late runs pay two hours. You can clockwork with these guys right here. These guys right here, right there. Two hours. You pay them. And I can tell you throughout the day if there was a bus run with a minimum of two hours, these guys are going to help out more with that. which is going to alleviate it's going to alleviate the pressure that I feel in my department that the new guy is going to feel in my department when we
027find the replacement whomever it might be for me but think about that for a minute this stuff has been building for years we got to look for bus drivers guys bus drivers not bus driver custodian not bus driver mechanic not bus driver groundskeeper we need bus drivers and we got to dangle a care in front of them. We got to make it worthwhile. I've noticed when we do workarounds, they tend to stay permanent. I think the custodial cleaning staff being in the kitchen has started out as a workaround and combining route five started as a workaround. Now, you guys took route five away. And what you did was you took that workound away. You took it away. You took a driver out of the picture, a potential driver. I know it's not easy to get
028them. Been through those meetings, too. You took it away. You took that workaround away. But, hey, instead of doing Route Five today, Mr. Mrs. Bus driver, could you please do a sports run or this 250 bus run over to Manurva? Could you please do that? We don't have that anymore. We took that away. We said, "No, thank you." We had four bus drivers. Now, we're not hiring another bus driver. That being said, we're not hiring another bus driver. Sounds like there's money left on the table. To me, it sounds like you could uh easily pay a minimum of two hours for a bus run. But, you know, I've only got a high school diploma. Um the pay gap between custodians uh daytime my day time custodian started off as cleaner took her test. Mr. McQuick
029made a good deal with her uh a temporary deal nonetheless but nonetheless she is a custodian. Uh the pay difference between her and a newly hired night custodian is it's a couple steps and I don't agree with that but we'll work on that. Um, I noticed the pride in the pride that the district in the small group of people that I hear often referred to. The the pride in our district is is kind of dying. I I hear I see it in the public. I get around. You know, the pride in Johnsburg Central School is is slowly going. It's slowly going from a merger that has truly failed. Guys, I've been here since the beginning. Right out of the gate, we were promised a lot of things from Manurva that we're not getting. That 250
030Manurva bus run became ours when they couldn't alternate it. They just became ours and then we just gave them another one instead. We fixed it sort of. Manurva has a bus driver, one bus driver, and if he's not available, then it really causes chaos. That bus driver happens to be a sub for us, too. A great guy. He does well. whenever don't seem to put the efforts in their fields nor their transportation and since I am on the inside I see the miscommunication and it affects me and my department greatly between this athletic department. Oh my word. I would think after all this time and we were just talking about this today and even yesterday. You would think things would be a little smoother than it is. I look for perfection cuz God there's no
031such thing. But it is not smooth, guys. It is not smooth. Not smooth at all. I don't know what happened to Larry Ringer. He left. We all know it's suspicious. We know something happened there. And I certainly hope that I know a little off topic. It's fine. It's fine. But I'm going to circle back to Brandon. Those those three people who are owed in real owe money. I don't know this. I don't know if that's Larry's fault or what, but that's quite suspicious. So, we're going to throw that out there. I know we have regular audits. I know that. I know state comes in and they look at things. Um, and I assume we pass and if we don't, I assume there's corrective actions taken. But what I don't understand is with all these audits
032and everything, I don't understand how this this could come about this this mispayment if you will to these people. I don't understand how that how that could happen with these audits. It's again, you go on DL you talk about uh you know um you asking us the internet about blended pay rates. It's it's a thing. It's a problem across the world. I don't know how we missed it. I don't know how CSA missed. I don't know how administration missed. I don't know how the business office missed it, but it got missed and it's it's financially hurting the district as well as an employee, you know. Um it's it's a little embarrassing. Um I I'm uh I'm almost out, but I just want to swing back. I'm very proud of my department. I'm very proud of
033my team, and um it's been an honor working with them, having them work with me. Um, I hope I hope they uh I hope they can hang on and I hope they can stick in there and I hope some changes can be made after I leave or even while I'm here. I hope you guys can get along and we can fix the issues over at the bus garagees. They're pretty straightforward. I also know that we need a little stronger leadership over there at the bus garage. I understand that. We'll leave it at that. That's needed. I don't know what we can do about that, but we do need to fix that. I just want to swing real quick to the late run last night, the debacle with Manurva and the bus coming back from Manurva.
034I happen to be here for that. It's one of the rare times I pick up my daughters from a practice. Now, something didn't sit with me well earlier today. Um, for years, it's been practice. A late bus leaves here at 4:45. And you say, "Well, you know, there's a bus coming. Why would you not sit there and wait for that bus? What if that bus broke down? What if that bus hit a deer? What if what if any of the above?" Well, we talked. We know we can't communicate with North Warren or excuse me, Manurva school buses. We still can't communicate with them. So, we can't receive a a call from their buses. And it's something we've asked Manurva. Mr. Mark has certainly asked Manurva to address, been there with him, seen him, pipe emails,
035whatever. He's asked them to address that. It's been asked to be addressed. it's not been addressed, hasn't. So, that bus was enabled to radio and let us know that they're late and here's why. Also, the timing of that whole thing, come to find out, was approved by our head of transportation. Um, what timing don't work? Obviously, it didn't work, right? That timing didn't work. So my question is is we're always told that bus leaves at 4:45 and we've made arrangements with cross country and other events that them buses leave at 4:45 much like the 250 bus leaves at 2:50. You leave, you get on that bus, it's 4:45, you go. Sometimes we hang out and wait a little bit. Sometimes we don't. Had there been ASP students or anyone here, the buses would have left
036at 4:45. It was almost 5:00. That Manurva bus wasn't here yet. Those guys had left just a couple minutes before that, but they didn't leave. They just went over there. They came back and they took those kids home. So my question is, how long do we wait? If we're taught you leave at this time, and furthermore, what are those three buses going to do if that bus hits a deer? If that bus gets a flat tire or any of the above, if they're simply running late, that's one thing. But if there is an emergency, what are those three buses going to do? They still got a job to do. Get their kids home. They're not going to go pick those kids up if there's an emergency. There's a whole pro protocol for that. Bus is
037running late. We need better communication. Like better communication between buses, better communication between athletic directors. We need better communication. We don't have it. And all these years of doing this, it has not gotten better. And at times, I think it's worse. I've lived it. I've lived it. I've here ground zero. This merger is not working. And the fields, go look at those fields out there. They're not perfect, but they're darn good fields. He sees to it that I get the money. He's done it before my time. Make sure that we get them seated and fertilized, whole nine yards. He makes sure that I've got money for clay out there. He sticks up for me when there's coaches out there beating their war drums because them fields aren't ready before April break. Well, I need that
038time. I need April break to make them and maintain them and make them better every year. But we let a coach go on the war path. Run me down, run him down, run this district down. But we accept them as a coach. I find that unacceptable. And I've always found it unacceptable that we don't hold Manurva to a higher standard than they are. And if they can't achieve that standard, then let's go North Warren. Let's go North Warren. Maybe maybe then we can get the communication that we need. We can get the better fields that our children deserve. I thought it might be a good idea for the modified to practice over there all the time. I was on board with that in the beginning. I I can't lie to you. It's not in me.
039But then the more I thought about it, the more I remembered Brandon Field. I lived up there for a while. I know Brandon Field well. And you're right. There is a church. Great. Cool. Let's unlock that door. We have a satellite phone that sticks to a student, not a team. So if that student's not there, does the satellite phone go with the team to Brandon Field? If not, let's get another one. Bathrooms. That's softball field for ladies. Portaotties aren't great. Let's unlock that church that's got a bathroom. Furthermore, let's just end the merger and just do everything here because we did it before and we did a darn good job. When I first started here, we did it all here. It was tight. It was tough, but we did it. And there was more pride.
040There was more pride in these students that I saw and more pride in my team and myself when we just did it here. Our fields aren't perfect. It's still a bear to get up on top for the softball field, but I ain't against letting some old folk drive up on that hill to let their grandma out to watch a softball game. I certainly don't mind it at all. I just think we never should be held to a higher standard. They're not. They failed miserably. Let's get out of it. Find a bigger, better school if that's what we need. I know I'm probably well past my three minutes and I thank you for not counting down. I was really worried you would and I'm really proud you did not. And thank you for your time. I'm
041sure I missed some stuff, but um thank you again. Have a good evening. Moving on to 2026 district school budget of 13,219,89 by Sarah. Any discussion? I just want to say this was the presentation that we did at the last board meeting. May 12th 16 the public presentation the vote okay does the presentation twice 13,2989 and [Music] And all in favor? Any opposed? Stain carries. Motion to accept the 2025 2026 property tax report card by second by Sarah. Any discussion? Again, this just outlines the budget, the text before and you did have it in your packet. All these things we have in our packets. Um, all in favor carries. Motion to accept the 2023 2024 audit corrective action plan. Okay. Motion by Chris, second by Tara. Any discussion on this one and the next one,
042Stephanie sat with the auditor and looked at the um different issues that were brought up in the audit that you presented. Was it two meetings ago or maybe it was last meeting also? Um and then she did the corrective action plan to turn it into. All in favor? I same carriage. Motion to accept the 2023 2024 extracurricular audit corrective action plan. Motion by Tara. Second by Irwin. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor? I. Any opposed? See carries. Motion to approve the 2025 2026 doies election ballot. And I have um Steve Brandon, Lynn King, Naomi Marsh, John Reager, Thomas Ro, and Peter Thomas. A motion by Tara, second by Melissa. Any discussion? Just so everyone understands what this is is both has I think it's 15 board members and they have six seats open this year.
043They're three-year terms. And um this is a slate of candidates. So they have seven people running for six seats. All districts um hold a meeting tonight um for the purpose of this and the budget vote for the administrative part of their budget. Sydney, do you make um all in favor? I any opposed carries motion to approve the 2025 2026 Bose administrative budget vote. Motion by Tara, second by any discussion. Again, Karina or Dr. Harper came and presented this at the last board meeting along with what they call division 27. which is the new Boseis um complex that is going together. Um but the administrative budget went up 1.2%. Okay. Um all in favor? Any opposed? Staying carries. Motion to appoint Kathy Kennedy as principal effective July 1st, 2025 as per her individual contracts. Motion. Motion
044by Tom. Second by Tara. Any discussion? Welcome. Kathy. All in favor? Any opposed? Staying carries. Motion to appoint Thomas Baker as nighttime cleaner effective March 14th, 2025 at step 3560 per hour as per the CSEA contract. Motion. Motion by Tom. Second. Second by Chris. Uh any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? I I will make one comment. You I do want to point out that this is backdated to March 14th. So, um Mr. Baker has been working with us now for a couple weeks and he's doing a nice job. So that carries motion to appoint Cindy Homer, Mary Cooper, Cassie Norman as budget vote workers on May 20th, 2025 from 11:30 to 8:30 as a present hourly wage for the budget vote. Motion 12 to 8:00 p.m. Motion by Tom, second by Tara. Any discussion?
045All in favor? Any oppose? Same carries. Motion to appoint Shannon Ordway as volunteer assistant coach for modified softball 2024 2025 school year. Motion motion by Tom, second by Tara. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Staying carries. Motion to appoint Chris Warren as a volunteer assistant for the tennis team for the 2024 2025 school year. Motion. Motion by Tom. Second. Second by Erlin. Um any discussion? I do have a question. Why are we appointing um Chris? I I think he wanted to help out with second company and what happened was he was going to try he wanted to help before but the length between the board meetings and the ten season being so short and we had made the decision that no one could be in dugout and then it's not dug out without approval.
046So he would have been helping sooner. Understand that I did have a conversation with him prior to the last board meeting and he already wanted that volunteer position. Oh, I did not. I had not heard about it. That's the first time it came to me from the athletic director. Okay. I can certainly ask about that. Just curious. Yeah. Thank you. Um, all in favor stay carries. Okay. Motion to accept Katherine Ash's letter of resignation effective Monday, May 10th, 2025. Motion. Motion by Tara. second by Chris. Any discussion on that? Um I guess I want to say as from the board, thank you for Katie's contribution to our music department for the last several years. Um we've enjoyed many of her oper productions from choruses and pop singers and talent show. Um John's brother will miss
047her and we wish her good luck in her endeavor. Any other discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Same. Carries. Motion to accept Abel Millington's letter of resignation effective March 21st, 2025. Motion. Motion by Sarah, second by Tara. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Same carries. Um motion to accept Brand Moore House's letter of resignation effective June 30th, 2025. Motion that with thanks for all the work we did here. Um Tom Tara. All in favor? Any opposed? Can I ask a question? Sure. Sorry. No, no, that's okay. Um, it just kind of hits you that there's well four including Tom which so there' be three employee resignations in one meeting. What do you attribute that to? Well, the um first one, no the second one, April, we placed her in Manurva from the beginning
048in a teaching position, a teaching assistant position opened up there and I think she enjoys the atmosphere in Manurva. That's where she's been from day one. Um I think Frank spoke on his behalf tonight and then I I really don't know the other one. Um all in favor? [Music] Any opposed? Seeing carries. Um so acknowledgement to Tom Warway for his 34 years of service as a board member at Tomsburg Central School. Tom, we really don't miss you. You've been here for 34 years. Thank you. you've been here for a good portion, but um we recognize your volunteer service for us and um you've been a huge asset to our board. Your longevity has given us insight on past presidents and on procedures and how to kind of move forward with things and your thing that
049most stands out is your unwavering commitment to students and their best interests and we really thank you from that. I personally have learned a lot from you. Um, thank you and you will you will be missed. I would like to also that you know um you've been here for the 21 years that I've sat here and I appreciate your guidance and thoughts. Thanks. Thank you. Okay. So, next we have discussion of our Excusio student board member. So explain to us what that is. So starting in July of this year, board school boards are required to have a student um board or member. Um there are certain rules around that what they can and can't do um as far as participation. Um I think I gave you the handout of that information. But one of the
050things that the board has to do is they have to decide on the method of how that student is chosen. Um I gave you the list of the different things. So I didn't know if people wanted to have a discussion tonight. So at the next board meeting we would be prepared to make that decision. I have a great question. Yeah. the section underneath where you highlighted it said that um students had they were required to be a Boseies student I think you were reading the Boseies students also are required to have member would you be able to review some of the choices that we need to make for next week next month so I think if I remember correctly we have to decide how we're going to choose used or how they will be chosen
051whether it's through I'm going to see if that handout was is it not in this packet another do summarize our well we need to think be thinking about the following ways are ways that we can choose one way um duly elected as student president of the high school is one way we can go um duly elected by the student body selected by the high school student government, which would be our student government, student council, selected by the high school principles, selected by the superintendent, selected by majority goal of the school board. So we by next week we or next month, I'm sorry, we need to kind of make a decision on how we want to set that up. I personally think it would be good to be voted on by this the students, whether it
052be the full student body or the student council. I think that that would be the best besides some one of us appointing them. My thoughts. I I I I agree that not only you know the school board I don't think administration should be making that choice. I think I think there's some value in the whole body having an election too. Um I don't I think those are some things we need to think about. And I think one of the things that that we do have to as we go through that process let students know the commitment um because it is as you guys know it's a commitment you sit on board I think I think it's important to have both at the same time you know two four five and option really someone with their
053vote for it. It's not a popularity contest. It should be somebody that you know it balances having a vote. But so I just think you're talking like a government individual and vote who's going to represent them on board the quest. Yeah. I guess my I I agree that it should not be a populated contest and you do run in that when the whole student body votes on it. I think it would be a very valuable lesson to emphasize the um responsibility and the characteristics that someone needs and maybe use that as a teaching moment, a teaching element um on they're going to be electing kids people throughout their lifetimes. Um so those are just thoughts. I haven't I don't know which one I prefer. I just think we need to be have a discussion, be
054thinking about it in the next um month or so and be ready to come with some opinions. Who is the current advisor for student government? Shannon. So maybe would we be able to reach out to her to explain what this is and get her on board with explaining to student body government um you know what the expectations are and you know have her kind of feel out of interest. So, one of the things that will happen is Bose is Boseis is going to run a um training for these student board members. So, the one that's elected prior but the kids need to know what they're getting into if they're not. So, I'm wondering if that might be kids who are interested, maybe they're invited to sit down with myself and the board president and kind
055of that they would be able to run through some of the Okay. And maybe the um our miss the advisor. Yes. Yeah. Maybe that would be a good thought to we thinking to do. Um any other discussion on that? Okay. Um we have committee reports and grounds. We did not meet. Okay. Um there was one meeting that um we met with the teachers and the architect and um went over um the class the future classrooms and had some conversations on what they say wants, needs, um what those classrooms may look like. It's very beginning stages. Okay. The science. Yes. and and Frank um policy. I know we met and I think we're at the point where we're entering the data that we got into the system so they can create the policy um manual for
056us. Yes, Stephanie's actually um made the changes and has sent it back to area one. Okay. Um so we're waiting on their return. Okay. Um, again, my hope is that we have things to second draft by summer. So then it can be reviewed for second draft and then at some point next year we would have it up and running and we would put it online. Okay. um school clients. Um we met and talked about the um transition of the current website to the new website called smart sites which will be happening by the end of the school year. I know that Cindy and Kathy and Mike have been working with the new people to um change that platform over. Uh we also talked about the transition of our current Facebook page for that which I
057manage um being turned over by the end of school year to Kathy as the new principal and what that's going to look like. And we talked about um working with the community um particularly people with the tit that's coming up again in May. Um we're going to do it much like we did last year. It'll be a 456 day where they'll go out in the afternoon and have certain designated areas that they'll work on. And the following day will be a 712 day which is a full day event and they'll have eight different stations around town that they'll be working on. This will be our fourth year, third or fourth year. I think third and it's been it's been very successful and and growing each year. Um so hopefully that'll be annually. I just want
058to also add in that conversation with the Facebook um there was quite a bit of conversation about the sports and how the sports information was run onto Facebook. Um, and we believe that changing from the current website we have to the smart site. Smart site. Smart. Yeah. Um, that's like the parent company of parent square. And so we're being told that when changes are made in parent square which is pro not probably which is right now our most updated sports information throughout the day that that will also carry over to the website um which would alleviate Facebook having to run that. I think it's really important that we start to lower the number of information um areas that that information goes out because what happens is you have four different people. They get it at
059four different times and unfortunately we have parents that look at this one and that hasn't been changed yet and then they look at this one and that has been changed. So, I think we need to kind of cross some of that information. That would be up by um curriculum. Would you do an update on that? Yes. Let's see. Talked about electives and what they look like going into our master schedule here. And we do have some new additions which is always nice to see and many of the same ones that have been successful. Um talking about um expanding our social studies department and starting to transition with having um I'm going to say two and a half people rather than three people with in that department. Um and let me see what else the um
060continue with our college level courses that we already have and maybe not next year but the year the year after expanding in that area science yeah and looking ahead next year because next year's master is already done [Applause] finance. We met tonight and we're starting to look at together on negotiations. Okay. Any [Music] updates? It was great success. So I just once again I want to thank Jerry and Buckley for these kind of Matt Garrettes and everyone else who's had a hand in making that production success really went off well. Um New York State testing great is is up and going. Um we started out with a with a couple bumps two days in a row as a matter of fact. Um but we got through that. Um those were were statewide so it was
061not it was our district thankfully um but um it was a little rough going there. Um but then we pulled off two days and then um today went well. So we're just going to keep chugging along with that. We'll get through it. Um we'll roll right into the um testing season. Can I ask one question? Yeah. See testing you know day one, day two were late, correct? How do you think it will affect pushing back to day three, day four, and then day five? Do you think they'll it'll invalidate results at all or do you think the validity of the results? Um yeah, I already been in effect that was that was the 326 ELA that was affected by those two days of didn't go well. Um we basically couldn't test I mean we tried
062and just nothing was going our way. So um we end up with more optouts than we would like as a result of that. I I think pretty much everywhere end up with that. We definitely did. So, um, yeah, I believe that affected those scores. Just so you know, the superintendent um, on day two when that happened. Um, wrote a letter together to the state indicating our concerns of the validity and also indicating the issue with additional dropouts. Um, you know, we got a response. It wasn't much of a response, but we did get a response. Okay. But all 31 in this room, but obviously nobody here, but I just want to ask question. So it doesn't a lot of different things. I gave you a copy of a copy that the superintendent. Thank you. Any
063other updates? Yes, of course. All right. stand up. I just want to thank everybody here, all the parents, um, and everybody giving me the opportunity to, uh, represent you guys for 34 years. I know Rick's got more years than I do, but, uh, uh, we were talking about sports marker. Now, this is coming from a non board member. Now, um, you know, I am kids. Kids are number one. But think about a second. Manurva has one or two kids. That's it. But they're still a kid. So they deserve an opportunity to play just like our kids because a kid's a kid. So what's got to happen there is the adults got to be adults and make things better. So some of the ideas I had was the girls varsity or the boys varsity playing the
064weight game at least these fields. So I think if you really schedule it right, you guys over here. It's just an idea. I've been a lot bigger than I could be but might be. Uh, you know, I want to thank thank Mike. Uh, we've been together for 21 years and uh, it's been a good 21 years. There's been some challenges and everything. I want to thank Rachel. I think she's done a phenomenal job as a board president and it's not easy. Believe me, when you got seven of us and uh three of us say yes this time and seven of us say no next time, it's kind of hard to keep keep it above water. Uh I want to thank the whole board. Uh I've been with you guys a long time. You're a great
065board and I look forward to seeing you very soon. Uh as far as some new board members coming in, hopefully you got some good ones. And my biggest thing about a new board member is come in for the kids first. Come in for the kids. Second, come in for your boys. And the next thing is don't come in if you have a grown, you know, if you're if you're coming in for that. If you're coming in with an agenda to do something, you know, because you're mad, that's the wrong thing to come in for. Do it for the kids. You know, that that's the big thing. No reason 34 years was the kids. It really is. And uh uh so I'm going to do my thank yous now. This will be my last chance. Uh
066thank you to uh the cafeteria staff. They've uh provided meals forever. And even with the new standards, kids are still eating meals. And it's kind of tough to make meet standards for what you got to eat and what you can't eat them. Might as well give them a box of old meal for breakfast and lunch, you know. So I thank them, the greeting staff. I've been at a lot of schools. I haven't seen any cleaning in this one. Beginning of the year, their forests look gorgeous. And coming in after night, I just walked down the hall and I dropped something. I went down to pick it up cuz the forest was so nice that you know, you know, you know, our bus drivers, you're dedicated guys. I mean, you guys drive in winter and everything
067else. And I'll tell you, my kids are well grown and everything, but I never worried about my kids when you guys were driving. And and that's a big thing on each other because uh I know Rick was up way up north one of those one night and it snowed about 8 in before we left and we got our kids home safe and that's that's part of I know Jerry drove a long time before he got here and you know that means a lot to me. Uh the teachers, we got a phenomenal teacher staff. Uh we just got to keep it that way and you know look to the future. If we have to replace, we replace and where we don't have to replace, they don't have to replace. Kathy, you're foolish. Thank you coming in
068for principal and and further on. Uh it's appreciated very much. Uh and then there's who was a miss uh the office personnel. Um, you guys do a great job. You got you had a lot of headaches. I know. Uh, figuring numbers tell you when I was on finance. I can't had two plus two. So, I got to figure out what you know the millions got into. So, that that's appreciated. And I just want to thank you everybody. Thank you for giving me the time. Thank you. So Tom, I know that you did not want you specifically said you did not want a gift and we were respecting that, but we do have a little reception for you after the board meeting down in the um for the board members after. Oh, thank you. Thank you.
069All the things you always Okay, upcoming dates. April 24th is a job fair here. May vote a May 1st through 4th is capital. May 10th is prom. May 12th is our budget presentation at 5 to the community and our next board of education meeting and then May 20th is our budget vote. Is there a conference? So, okay. So, concert Okay. Okay. So, it's after the next um All right. Motion to adjourn. Motion. None of you guys are hold. Any opposed? Seeing carries. How often do just once a month? All right. So, the stuff that was said here is not addressed. So, does that mean it just goes by? Nobody pays attention to it. Nobody anything that was spoken about that is once a month this meeting but we need like finance we four times as
070much or five times as much plus and so all these committees need I know I know so they're going to anywhere from four three to four five times and I asked the question sort of got lame blame uh about why people are leaving. If you listen to the people that work here, why they're leaving is because it's there's so much bitterness in the people that work here. Maybe certain spots don't see it, but everybody you talk to, they can't come to administration and talk to them. They come to talk to them, they get shut down and the pay, they find it paid better somewhere else. I'm just saying, you know, to do it. Anybody that's ever had employees, you've had employees, anybody else has had employees, you got to take care of your employees. If
071your employees aren't happy, I mean, you can't treat them like kings, but you can make them know that they're I mean, today was bus drivers appreciation day. If we hear anything from anybody here, they appreciate. That's not it. We didn't hear We don't hear nothing. Karen brought us over, but we didn't get nothing from nobody here. I'm just saying you got to treat your health better. If you want your health to work for you, you got to you got to work with them, too. And I mean, people are everywhere you talk, as soon as they can find something, they're out of here because they are so disappointed with the way things are being run. And I just that's you need that answer. You didn't get that answer. Thank you very much.