001Good morning. I'd like to welcome everyone to today's board meeting and call the meeting to order, noting that it is 9.01 a.m. We're going to begin this morning's meeting with the organizational portion of the meeting, followed by a hearing on the Code of Conduct, and finally move into our regular business meeting. The roll call and opening comments will be addressed a little bit later in the agenda once a board president has been selected. Okay, so we're going to move on to item 2.1. This is the election of temporary chairman for electing officers. I ask that a board member nominate me as the temporary chairman of this meeting. Can I have a board member make that motion? Leah, thank you. Leah moves that I be appointed temporary chairman. Can I have a second to that motion?
002Amber, thank you very much. I'm now going to call the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye. And the ayes have it. Having been appointed as temporary chairman of the Board of Education, the first order of business is to administer oaths to recently elected board members. I will note that Susie Hahn is joining us remotely, and she'll take her oath for her second term before the month is out. First, I'm going to ask Colleen Brown to join me at the podium. I'm going to ask you to raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the Office of Board Member of the Scarsdale Union Free
003School District. Congratulations Colleen. And next, I invite Laura Lou to the podium. Will you please raise your right hand and repeat after me? I do solemnly swear. I do solemnly swear. That I will support the Constitution of the United States. support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the state of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of board member of the Scarsdale Union Free School District congratulations Okay, next I invite our first of two student board members. Anish Mehta, please come up. Good morning. I'll ask you to raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear. I do solemnly swear. That I will support the Constitution of the United States. That I will support the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of
004the State of New York. The Constitution of the State of New York. And that I will faithfully discharge. That I will faithfully discharge. The duties of the office of student member of the board. The duties of the office of the student member of the board. the Scarsdale Union Free School District of the Scarsdale Union Free School Congratulations and next I invite Lucy Eisenberg to the podium Good morning, Lucy. Good morning. How are you? I'm good. Good. Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear. I do solemnly swear. That I will support the Constitution of the United States. That I will support the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the State of New York. The Constitution of the State of New York. And that I will faithfully discharge. And
005that I will faithfully discharge. The duties of the Office of Student Member of the Board. The duties of the Office of the Student Member of the Board. Of the Scarsdale Union Free School District. Of the Scarsdale Union Free School District. Congratulations. Congratulations again. Okay, we will move on to item 2.3, board discussion regarding election of officers. To start the conversation, do we have any nominations for president of the board for this year? I would like to call for nominations at this time. Colleen? Thank you, Drew. Jim Duggan has played an integral has been an integral member of the board for the past four years His ability to bring thoughtful and insightful perspective to every board discussion has been invaluable in helping us advance our district strategic plan In his role as vice president over the
006last year, Jim provided unwavering support as a board officer. He consistently went above and beyond, fielding countless board emails on our behalf and ensuring that communications remained clear and timely. There is no one better suited to lead our board than Jim Duggan. It is with great confidence and appreciation for his leadership that I formally nominate him for president of the Board of Education for the 2025-2026 school year. Thank you very much, Colleen. Do we have any other nominations for president? Okay. Well, we're going to close the discussion, and I'm going to call for a motion to nominate James Dugan as president of the Board of Education for the 2025-26 school year. Colleen was first. Second. Amber, thank you very much. All in favor, say aye. Any nays? The ayes have it, and Jim has been
007elected president of the Board of Education. Congratulations, Jim. Thank you so much. Jim, I'm going to ask you to join me at the podium to take the oath. Good morning, Jim. Good morning. Okay. I'm going to ask you to raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the Office of President of the Board of Education of the Scarsdale Union Free School District. to the Scarsdale Union Free School District. Congratulations. Thank you. Okay, and it's with pleasure that I turn the meeting now over to President Dugan, who will call for nominations for Vice President of the Board. Thank you so much, Drew. I will now,
008well, that's what you just said. Do we have any nominations for Vice President of the Board for the 2025-2026 school year? I would like to call for nominations at this time. Yes, Amber. Thank you, Jim. Colleen Brown uses her experience and training as an educator to advance the initiatives of the Scarsdale School District in support of our students I've had the privilege of working with Colleen in different capacities over the last 10 years and worked especially close with her when she demonstrated her leadership skills as the Quaker Ridge PTA president in the 2018-2019 school year colleen consistently focuses on the needs of our students and our district and board will be well served by her leadership i hope you will consider supporting my nomination of colleen brown for board vice president thank you so much
009amber so do we have any other nominations for vice president seeing none we will close the discussion and i now call for a motion to nominate colleen brown as vice president of the board of education for the 2025-26 school year I move that we nominate Colleen Brown for the Board of Education vice president for the 2025-2026 school year Thank you so much Amber do we have a second? Aliyah thank you all in favor say aye aye no one's opposed and the motion carries and Colleen Brown is elected vice president of the board from July 1st 2025 until the July 2026 organizational meeting of the board Thank you. I will now ask the new vice president to come forward to take the oath of office before the district clerk and assume the role. Please raise your
010right hand. Thank you. Just repeat after me. I, Colleen Brown, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of vice president of the board of education. The office of vice president of the board of education. The Scarsdale Union Free School District. So now I guess we continue on with the organizational meeting, which begins with a roll call, item 2.6. I see that all board members are here and present, except for Suzy Hahn, who is attending by Zoom. I also see that the superintendent is here with his cabinet, except for Edgar McIntosh, who is absent today. And I think the next item is board policies. Bob? I move that the Board of
011Education approves the adoption of the Board of Education Policy Manual as currently constituted. Is there a second? Amber? May we take a vote? Ayes? Any nays? Any discussion? The motion passes. Next, I believe, is also Bob. I move that the Board of Education hereby authorizes and appoints the following district leaders and personnel for the 2025 school year as listed. Is there a second? Amber? Anyone voting in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any nays? Any discussion? The ayes have it and the motion passes. Okay, so the next one is, again, I think Bob. I move that the Board of Education appoints the district consultants for the 2025-26 school year as presented Is there a second? Okay thank you Amber any discussion? No okay any all votes in favor please say aye any nays okay the motion
012passes I believe the next is Amber 2.10 I have that as Bob unless you want to know it's fine thank you I make a motion that the Board of Education hereby appoints the Board of Education as the Audit Committee for the district for the 2025-26 school year is there a second Leah okay any discussion all votes in favor please say aye aye any nays say them okay the motion passes now I believe the next one is amber Jim I move that the Board of Education accept the following resolved that the Board of Education hereby authorizes Andrew B Lennon assistant superintendent for business to certify all payroll registers is there a second Bob okay all in favor I'm sorry any discussion all in favor please say aye aye any nays THE MOTION PASSES. Amber, you're next.
013Thanks, Jim. I move that the Board of Education accept the following. Resolve that the Board of Education hereby designates the President and Vice President of the Board of Education to make appointments of impartial hearing officers when needed on behalf of the Board of Education, pursuant to the change in the Commissioner's regulation adopted by the Board of Regents on June 12, 2001. The aforementioned board officers are authorized to act individually. Is there a second? Any discussion? I'm sorry, yes, Leah. Any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any nays? The motion carries. Amber, you're next again. I am, but my computer is very slow right now, so you'll have to give me a minute. I'm trying to move to the next item, and it's refreshing. That is fine. We're up to 2.13 Thank you
014I move that the Board of Education accept the following resolve that the board adopts the resolution on the designation of depositories as presented Is there a second? Leah? Any discussion? All those in favor please say aye Any nays? The motion carries We are at 2 14 and that is still Amber Thank You Jim I move that the Board of Education accept the following resolve that the Board of Education hereby authorizes that employee dishonesty insurance coverage for all district employees and board members be provided at 1 million dollars per loss subject to a $2,500 deductible Is there a second? Laura? Okay any discussion? Okay all those in favor please say aye Any nays? The motion carries. We are now at item 215. I believe that's Leah. Thank you, Jim. I move that the board adopt the
015following resolution. Resolved that the journal news be designated as the official newspaper for the advertisement of legal notices by the Scarsdale Union Free School District for the school year 2025-2026. Is there a second? Amber, any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Any nays? The motion carries. We are at 2-16, still Leah. Thank you. I move that the board adopt the following resolution. Resolved that the Board of Education authorizes reimbursement for meal and lodging expenses incurred in the performance of district business as presented. Thank you. Any second? Okay, Bob. Any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Any nays? The motion carries. We are now at 2 17 still Leah Thank You Jim I move that the board adopt the following resolution resolved that the Board of Education hereby delegates the power to
016the superintendent to authorize travel by members of the Board of Education and employees of the district Thank you is there a second amber although a discussion okay all those in favor please say aye any nays the motion carries We are now at 2 17 still yeah, I mean 2 18 I think I move that the board adopt the following resolution Resolved that the Board of Education hereby approves the assistant superintendent for business and the director of technology and innovation To hold a district credit card as recommended by the superintendent. Thank you any seconds Amber any discussion all those in favor, please say aye any nays the motion carries We are now up to Laura. Item 219. Thank you, Jim. Proof that the Board of Education adopt the following resolution. Resolved that the purchasing agent, the
017deputy purchasing agent, or a district representative, i.e. architect, be authorized to open and publicly read bids received by the district. Is there a second? Bob, any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Any nays? The motion carries. Item 220, Laura. I move that the Board of Education adopt the following resolution. Resolved that the following petty cash funds be established in the district for the 2025-2026 school year. Is there a second? Okay, Leah, any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Any nays? The motion carries. Item 221, Laura. I move that the Board of Education adopt the following resolution. Resolved that the Board of Education adopts the following resolution for the defense and indemnification provisions contained in Section 18 of the Public Officers Law as presented. Thank you. Is there a second? Amber, any
018discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Any nays? The motion carries. And I believe that is the public hearing on the code of conduct. we are now moving into a public hearing on the code of conduct for the school district after which there will be an opportunity for public comment or as part of which there'll be an opportunity for public comment and I'd like to turn it over to Drew and Eric okay thank you Jim yep this is an annual public hearing on the code of conduct and I'm gonna turn it over to Eric to give us a little background about what changed Thank You Drew every year the There is a committee that is convened made up of parents educators administrators and students to review the code of conduct This year there are
019a few changes. The first is a change in 5300 55 which is where the use of reasonable force is described We are changing that to simply reference New York State regulations as they change often and it's it's more effective to do it that way the second is an adjustment in regulation four and it expanded disorderly in conduct to in include other additional behaviors and examples with cell phones and electronic devices most specifically the recording of other students and posting of that of those recordings again in regulation four we're adding the word recklessly to intentionally adding it to intentional for violent conduct and destruction of property for for the school again in regulation for we are combining 11 12 and 20 and adding an example under number 19 basically that is condensing all of the conduct
020around smoking e-cigarettes drug paraphernalia all into one into one number and then adding specific examples under the use of cell phones to record and post unauthorized recordings then finally at the end of regulation four was a big year for regulation four at the end we are just adding a clarification paragraph on how off-campus behavior especially electronic behavior creates a nexus with the school and when and when when the school has the ability to respond disciplinary with discipline versus when it doesn't so those are the extent of the changes for the code of conduct this year Well, thank you, Eric. And I guess I'd really like to know if any board members have any comments or questions regarding this. Leah. Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Eric, and the committee for all your work. So I just
021have a question related to graffiti. you know, from time to time we hear about hate graffiti, for example, like anti-Semitic graffiti, a swastika. How would that, I don't know if punishment is the right word, how would that discipline be different than, you know, something seemingly more innocent, even though it's still defacing the school? No, absolutely. So... what I'll call innocuous graffiti really falls under the destruction of property part of the code of conduct. If there's hate speech or the content of that graffiti is threatening, that really triggers a number of pieces of the code of conduct including affecting the learning environment, affecting the safety and security of students. So those would be really looked at under either threatening behavior or harassment behavior depending on what the content of. graffiti was so that would in that
022would incur a a much more involved consequence than someone drawing a smiley face on a locker and it could it could also potentially touch on other different policies right non-discrimination policies and stuff like that not just the code of conduct okay thank you any other comments questions from board members With that, I think we are, and by the way, thank you very much, Eric, for the presentation. With that, I think we're up to a public comment on the Code of Conduct. So if anyone in the audience has any comments they'd like to make regarding the Code of Conduct, now is the time to do so. Okay, thank you. And I guess that leaves our Zoom attendees. And isn't anyone on Zoom with their hand raised? If you're on Zoom, please at this point in time
023raise your hand if you wish to make any comments regarding the Code of Conduct. I'll give it another few seconds. So with that, I believe the hearing on the Code of Conduct is closed. We move on to the business meeting. Now comes a time where I have to try to find my comments. So forgive me while I try to find my... Oh, here they are. So good morning. I call this business meeting to order. A note that all board members are present with six board members here in person and Susie Hahn attending remotely. It is my pleasure to formally welcome Laura Liu as our newly elected board member and Colleen Brown and Susie Hahn as they begin their second term on the board with Colleen now stepping into the vice president role. A very special
024welcome to our student board members ex officio. Anish Mehta, who's class of 2026 at the high school, and Lucy Eisenberg, class of 2027. We are truly delighted to have you here with us this morning. We are also joined by Superintendent Dr. Drew Patrick and his cabinet, minus Edgar McIntosh, who could not be here this morning. Welcome to those in the audience and those watching the live stream of this first business meeting of this board for the 2025-26 school year. I would like to begin by thanking the board for the opportunity to serve as president this year. I look forward to working with all of you as we continue our work on behalf of the students, the community, and the broader Scarsdale community at large. It is a tradition for the board president at this meeting
025to record the names of our Scarsdale High School graduates and attached to today's agenda is the list of recent Scarsdale High School graduates as part of the program, which will serve as a record of the names of our graduates rather than reading each of them here, which could take a long time. I would like to thank Susie for representing the Board of Education at this year's graduation ceremony. And I would also like to extend my sincere congratulations to the Scarsdale High School Class of 2025. I attended the graduation ceremony on June 20th, having a graduating senior in our family, and it was such a special evening. Class of 2025, you really deserve all the accolades that came to you and that will come to you. You've worked so hard, grown so much as people and
026as lifelong learners from your time here at Scarsdale. And you are now well prepared to take the next step in your lives. and to succeed as you move forward towards your life goals, whatever they may be, even if you're still trying to figure that out. Whatever you do next, we wish you all the very best. And congratulations to all our fifth and eighth grade students who have moved up. We're proud of your accomplishments and can't wait to see what you do. And I should also say congratulations to all those who have graduated but not from the Scarsdale High Schools and yet live in this community. You're obviously also have accomplished great things and deserve our praise. And congratulations to parents of all our graduates. They could not have done it without your love and support.
027You should take pride in their accomplishments. And of course, be remiss not to give a huge thank you to all the teachers and staff who have supported our students along the way. Please know that you have made a lasting impact on your students and that you are very appreciated. In closing, the board looks forward to its important work this year collaborating with the administration, faculty, students, and community in fulfilling the newly crafted, or not so newly crafted, strategic plan and of ensuring excellent educational experiences and outcomes for our students in this modern and ever-changing world. Okay, thank you very much. I know it sounds funny to say sometimes but we turn the page on a new school year and sometimes we say Happy New Year So here we are starting the 2025-26 school year with
028our first board meeting and I also want to add my congratulations to the 2025 Scarsdale High School graduates and recognize the work and dedication of the high school faculty staff and administration for really providing an amazing graduation experience for our students. The ceremony was held outside on Butler Field on a really extraordinarily beautiful evening. And we're just so proud, as Jim said, of the accomplishments of our graduates, and we look forward to the contributions they'll make in the years to come. And I, too, want to also congratulate our students who moved up from fifth to sixth grade, and then from eighth grade who will be starting their high school careers just a few months from now. So congratulations to them, and we are excited for their next level of learning. I also want to welcome
029everyone who's here today or joining us remotely. Thank you for being here, including our folks in the audience who are new hires. Megan's going to say a welcome to you shortly, including an outgoing and incoming Agostino. So we appreciate that. I do want to again congratulate Jim and Colleen on your election as president and vice president respectively. I look forward to working with you this year in that capacity. We've already met and it's off to a good start. And just as a reminder, I also want to congratulate Colleen and Susie on commencing your second term as trustees. And as a reminder, Susie will be sworn in before the end of the month. She couldn't be here in person today. but we see her up there on the screen and i also like to congratulate and
030welcome laura as you begin your first term on the board and then of course our two ex-officio student board members anish and lucy thank you so much for for joining us look forward to a good year of work together Most importantly, the service that you all provide around this table to the school district is critically important, and I think you're gonna set the stage today for a really exciting year of work. I want to express my appreciation in advance for all of your work and note that it does truly have a lasting impact on the education of our students at Scarsdale. So thank you. Back to you. Thank you, Drew. I think next on the agenda is comments from, or rather I should say reports from board members. Does anyone have a report? Suzy has
031a report. Okay, Suzy. Hi, everyone. I hope you can hear me. On June 11th, I had the pleasure of attending the Gold and Silver Star Award Ceremony of the Scarsdale-Edgmont Girl Scouts. These awards represent the highest honors that can be awarded at the high school and middle school levels. The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award in Girl Scouting. It's a national award and it acknowledges the girls' time, effort, leadership, and creativity in designing and completing a sustainable service project that fulfills a need within the community, creates change, and continues forward. Dr. Patrick congratulated the young women who achieved this distinction and presented Samantha Levine, a Scarsdale High School senior, now graduate, with a certificate of recognition of her Gold Star achievement. Samantha's project, called Simply Cooking with Sam, created recipes in English and
032Spanish to support food pantry recipients who receive free food but do not know how to make simple, healthy, fast meals with the ingredients found in food pantries. She created a bilingual website with recipes using common ingredients, cooking videos, and articles promoting healthy eating. Other electeds at the ceremony included Village Trustee Wise, County Legislators Benjamin Boykin and David Imamura, as well as Board of Education Officers from the Edgemont School District. It was an inspirational evening for me to see these young leaders committed to serving their greater communities. Congratulations to Samantha and best wishes as she graduates from Scarsdale High School. Thank you for personifying and living our school motto of non-civi. Thank you, Susie. Any other board member reports? On June 11th, Suzy, Leah, Bob, and I attended the district-sponsored Reveal Math Coffee held in this
033room. This event was thoughtfully designed to address concerns raised by our community regarding the Reveal Math program, while also providing insight into the curriculum and collecting additional feedback to help move the program forward in a way that supports all of our students' mathematical learning needs. The session began with a hands-on learning stations led by our own teachers. These stations allowed us to engage directly with the curriculum experiencing firsthand what our students encounter in the classroom. It also provided the opportunity to hear from teachers across all five elementary schools about their experiences with Reveal Math. Following the stations, there was a brief presentation highlighting the specific concerns voiced by the community and outlining the district's plan to address them. This includes targeted summer work, fluency assessments, and supplemental material to strengthen the current curriculum. The event
034concluded with an interactive feedback session where parents met in small groups with district staff, Board of Education members, math department coordinators, and teachers. These small groups' discussions created space for honest, candid feedback that will be used to guide the district's summer work and ensure we are meeting the needs of all learners, helping them grow and thrive in the field of mathematics. I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Edgar and his math team for organizing this thoughtful event. I'd also like to thank the district cabinet members and all the teachers who took time out of their busy day to help deepen our understanding of this curriculum. It is clear that this coffee demonstrated the district's commitment to transparency and strong partnerships with our community. Together, we can continue to support our students as
035they learn, grow, and thrive. Okay, thank you, Colleen. And I will add my own report to this list. It's just I wanted to report briefly on the two-by-two meeting that occurred on June 17th between the village and the school district. Just for background, the two-by-two meetings are really an informal venue for leadership in the district and the village to get together and talk about priorities and issues of shared concern. The attendees were Mayor Justin Arrest, Deputy Mayor Dara Grinberg. village manager alex marshall drew patrick superintendent and myself susie and colleen and just at a high level the topics that we discussed included as a standing item safety security emergency management and that specifically had to do with the new security technology contract the village had entered into we discussed some aspects around use of that
036technology in In terms of how it could affect the district I think it was the basic conclusion was it wouldn't really the technology would not be deployed on the district or on district property unless there was some type of police emergency shortly after this meeting however, I think it became clear that the Adoption of this new technology would be put on hold for some indefinite period because the funding that was expected from the federal government did not come through So that's I guess that matter is now on hold for some indefinite period of time. There are other items that were discussed included parking concerns at the Girl Scout house as well as the use of the current a school building which is a village-owned building that at some point in time may revert to the
037village and there was you know further discussion around the timing and possible circumstances of when that could occur there were discussions regarding the use of tourist turfs and practice fields on Village property the electrification project at the bus compound which is Village property There was a discussion of dredging of the stream and how that would progress and the timing of that, which at this point I don't think there's a definitive timing of that. But at some point, hopefully in the next year, but it might not necessarily be the next year, but there will be work done there. There was discussion of the condition of tennis courts and the need to refinish and refurbish the tennis courts, as well as how that cost might be shared. and essentially those were the main items that came up
038at that meeting. And with that, I think there are no further board member reports and I'd actually like to turn it over to our ex officio student board members to see if they have anything that they would like to report at the meeting. Thank you. and i think anish has something to say yeah um we have no new student comments at this time but i would love to take this opportunity to introduce myself my name is anish metha i'm a rising senior at the high school and i'm really excited to be in this position and that this position exists i think it's very important that students have a new opportunity to collaborate with district-wide governance so i'm really excited to work with all these people and i suppose in turn as well with all of
039you the people that are so integral to this community thank you Thank you so much Anish. Lucy. Hi everyone. Yeah, additionally we don't really have many comments, but I just want to introduce myself. My name is Lucy. I just finished up my sophomore year and I'm a rising junior. I'm really excited to just work with everyone in the following year. I feel like this is a really great chance for the students to become more educated and feel that they really have a say in what goes on at these meetings and the decisions that the school board makes. And I'm just excited to be here with you all. Well, thank you very much. That concludes our reports, and we now move into cabinet updates. Okay, we're going to start with Megan. Thank you. Thank you, Drew.
040So we've been busy in the HR office and I'm excited to welcome some new faces who will be joining the Scarsdale community in September. There's a long list on the agenda and a few are here. Obviously others have travel plans or prior commitments. So we'll start with, and if you don't mind, if I call your name, if you don't mind, we'll fully welcome you by having you stand up so we can put a name to a face. So we'll start with welcoming Krista Agostino-Canfield. Krista will be teaching fourth grade at Greenacres Elementary School. She holds an MS in education and special education from Mercy College. And Krista has been a teacher at Milton Elementary School in Rye for the past 10 years. She's coming back to Scarsdale after starting her career at Quaker Ridge as
041a teacher aide. and throughout her interview process krista's warmth and high level of expertise were felt by all especially our green acre students during the last hot week of school and we are thrilled that krista has chosen to return home to scarsdale so full circle welcome krista So Tamara or Tammy Barber will be joining us as an elementary PE teacher at Heathcote School. Tammy holds an SBL and SDL in Educational Administration from the College of St. Rose, a Master's in Curriculum Development in PE from Queens College, and a BS in Health, Physical Education, and Coaching from Ithaca. She's currently teaching at Wampus Elementary School in Byram Hills. Prior to this recent role, Tammy was an athletic director, which gave her a strong understanding of how a school functions from top to bottom. She's a lifelong
042learner who is committed to a life of health and fitness and looks forward to passing that on to her students and colleagues. So welcome, Tammy. Lauren Smith will be joining Edgewood as a fourth grade classroom teacher. Miss Smith will be assigned to Edgewood Elementary. She holds an MA in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of St. Joseph, West Hartford, Connecticut, and a BS in Health and Sports Studies from Miami University. She's recently been a building sub at Edgewood School and has completed a number of leave replacements for the building. During her time in Scarsdale, Lauren has built strong relationships with colleagues, students, and Edgewood families. She's looking forward to taking on this more permanent role in Scarsdale, and I know she'll bring the same energy and care she has for the past two years. So
043welcome, Lauren. We also welcome Matt Suffren as a music teacher at the elementary level. Matt will primarily be an orchestra teacher, but will also provide instruction for our band students. Mr. Suffren will be assigned to Fox Meadow, Greenacres, and Heathcote elementary schools. This ability to navigate multiple buildings will align nicely with his high energy and passion. Matt holds an MM in music education from SUNY Potsdam and a BM in music education and performance from Ithaca College. that's currently teaching at Suffern Central School District already our students were drawn to his positivity his energy and his care and we look forward to seeing how he shapes our young musicians next year so welcome Deborah Zides will be joining Scarsdale Middle School as a school psychologist Dr. Zides holds a PhD in school clinical psychology and an
044MS in school psychology from Pace University and a BA in psychology from Marymount at Fordham University she's currently a psychologist with the Mayapack Central School District where she spent for over 20 years throughout her interview process the committee saw her strong commitment to students as a strength Combined with her many years of clinical experience, Debra will be a real asset to our school community. So welcome, Debra. I think I got everyone. I just want to turn things over to Andrew, who will introduce one other important appointment. Thank you, Megan. Good morning, everybody. This morning I'm delighted to share that longtime Scarsdale Facilities Department member, Nick Ferraro, has been selected as our Director of Facilities starting today. I should have said hold your applause, there's more. Over the course of his 24 year career in Scarsdale,
045Nick has served as groundsman, maintenance mechanic, head of maintenance, and most recently as assistant director in the facilities department. He brings a deep knowledge of our school buildings and has built strong relationships with staff across the district, as evidenced by the feedback from the facilities committee that was interviewing Nick last week. Nick's knowledge of our school buildings combined with his leadership skills and commitment to the values of what makes Scarsdale exceptional make him well suited to lead our facilities department in the years to come. Away from Scarsdale, Nick is a proud father and devoted husband, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, and the former chief of the Red Bank Fire Department. These experiences have shaped Nick's service-minded approach to leadership and have been consistently evident throughout his career here in Scarsdale. The board
046will be asked to approve Nick's appointment in the non-certified personnel resolution 10.3 in the consent agenda. Please join me in congratulating Nick in his new role. Thank you all for being here. Congratulations. Welcome to those of you new to Scarsdale or in new roles. The consent agenda is a little bit later in the meeting. You are welcome to stay, but there's no obligation to stay. It's July 1st. So thank you. We really appreciate it. And next up in cabinet updates will be Jeannie. Hi, everyone. Can you hear me? I'm Jeannie Crowley. I'm the school's director of technology. I'm also school's data protection officer. Per the recommendation of the auditors, I've come before the board to give you information about any unauthorized disclosures that occurred during the school year. You can think of unauthorized disclosures as
047falling into two broad buckets, one being breaches, and that's what we think of as like hacking or phishing or somebody from the outside getting access to school systems. For last year, we had zero reported breaches of our own systems or of any of the... that we use. If I had wood I would knock on it but thank you. The second fraud bucket is accidental release. That's when a member of the community, an employee of the community accidentally gives away data. We had one accidental release this year in which a envelope intended for one student's family was sent to the wrong address. Although the recipient contacted the school and said that they destroyed the envelope unopened, the combination of the student's name plus the return address to the special education department revealed the student's special education
048status. I notified the state within 10 days, which is required, and then notified the family within the required 60 days. And that is the report for this year. See if there's any questions. Thank you. Thank you, Jeannie. Actually, I have a question. Jeannie, do we have any idea how that envelope got sent with the wrong address? Yes, thank you. They used the wrong information system in order to send out the data, and thank you for that clarification. Training and additional procedures were given to the employee who did it to avoid that in the future. Great, thank you. Okay, thank you. I think that's it. Thanks, Jeannie. Okay, we're on to Eric. He's going to give a safety, security, emergency management update. So I just wanted to give everyone an update on our door ajar sensor
049work. We have quotes from our vendor at this point, which are in line with the budget. And we are going to commence this summer and into the fall with adding the server. the servers that need to be there in order to support door jar sensors along with we will be able to put in at least some of the priority doors in each of our schools across the district two of the schools are being added for for state aid to the work that's happening at Fox Meadow the capital projects that have that are happening at Fox Meadow in the high school that work will Commence on the door jar sensors a little bit later than the other five schools, which should start at some point this summer Yeah questions we have Leah Thank You Eric. So
050um, so when you say capital projects, you mean the bond work? No the field work that's happening at the high school and the work in the playground work at Fox Meadow Adding these opportunities to that work will allow for state aid to be gained on those projects is there any sense of when all the schools will have the sensors in i think we can hopefully say by the end of next school year everything should be in and completed there's no exact timeline yet for work thank you any other questions for eric okay thank you eric Okay, next will be Andrew with a couple of updates. So I'll start with the EV buses. The budget for the 25-26 school year, as you remember, had included in it three large electric school buses. The purchase for those
051buses was using EPA grant funding, district budget resources, as well as the presumption that we would be eligible for some federal tax credits. Given the current market environment, The timeline in which we would anticipate receiving the buses, my office, Lisa, myself, and Sherry Louiso have concerns about whether we can rely on the federal tax rebates. In order to continue to move forward with the program of electrification of our fleet, we've released a purchase order for two of the three buses, which keep us within our budget threshold. And we are continuing to investigate whether or not the federal tax rebates will make its way through the big, beautiful bill that is on debate at the Capitol at the moment. If that bill does lead us to believe that we will be eligible for those credits, we
052will continue with the third purchase and make sure that we have that third bus in the current year budget. If it does not, we will have to update the board on our status of the four total buses that we have EPA funding for. So I will continue to update the board throughout the fall and hopefully have a resolution before the end of the calendar year. In order to charge those buses, also included in the budget was the eight-year lease approval for the EV bus charging infrastructure lease agreement. I am continuing to negotiate with Highland Electric Fleets regarding the terms and conditions of that, as well as fine-tune the presumed design information so that we understand both does this agreement continue to make business sense for us. and it provides us the flexibility we need to
053be responsive to either the changing landscape of EV buses or our district's ability to go it alone and continue to roll out the EV buses but not having to partner with an outside group. So it's been quite an in-depth learning curve for me in terms of what electrification requires, but I do feel that... the negotiations have been progressing positively. Highland Fleet has been very responsive to our concerns both in terms of cost as well as the finer terms and conditions of the contract. And though I can't talk in detail about those in public at the moment as it's an ongoing negotiation, I can share that I think that successful progress will continue over the summer and hopefully at the August Board of Education meeting we'll have an updated contract for you all to consider. So
054that's the electrical bus EV bus mandate. I'll pause there because that was a lot. Does anyone have any questions for me on that? Thank you. Are you able to answer questions about any of the terms of the contract at this point or is that something that is too preliminary to do? I can probably generally answer some questions. I had a general question about it, which is in recognition of the changing political environment that we're dealing with now, as you alluded to. Is there a cancellation? Will there be a cancellation provision? Will there be penalties if it needs to be invoked? Because of, let's say, the failure of funding to materialize or the inability of infrastructure to match what we're trying to do here. Yeah. Without going to specifics, right, there is a presumption that in
055order to move forward with this program, certain incentives will remain in place, right? And the good news, I would say, is that the provisions that we're using to offset costs related to charging are largely New York state-based, not federal. They're the NYSERDA provisions. So I... don't see that funding stream being a short-term kind of monkey wrench essentially. So I think there's success there. But should that change, there is a provision for us to... Stop and either renegotiate or just walk away from the provision before and then gets installed We also have the ability because there is infrastructure infrastructure being installed on the property right there is a presumption that there would be a discussion if this was to be terminated at any point over the eight-year period that a Discussion on the the purchase of
056that infrastructure would have to be negotiated There are no hard and fast numbers associated with that, but we just need to negotiate in good faith around that should we choose to terminate Okay, thank you. Yep. So next item is the auditorium project. Punch list items have been continually addressed and continue this week. Today and tomorrow we expect scaffolding to be installed on the stage for the veneer installation and the curtain work that we talked about. So that's progressing. nicely and we're also looking at addressing some some additional work scope through change orders and one of such change order is on item 10.26 of the consent agenda this is a change order related to our HVAC contract upon turning the system on it was determined that the ductwork below the auditorium seating in the crawlspace which
057we had long thought to be defunct and abandoned because of how deteriorated it was was actually in use. So it had deteriorated because that crawl space had been subjected to ongoing flooding through decades. Our facilities department, in consultation with the engineers, feel that it is most appropriate for us to repair that ductwork to ensure that airflow in the auditorium is properly balanced and that the ducts that go further down the line, essentially, are being fed appropriately and not just abandoned. place just because it's easy so that that change order is number ten point two six and the contractor is prepared to do that once we Thank you, Andrew. Oh, sorry. Thank you, Andrew. Just in terms of flooding and flood mitigation, can you just remind us again about we replaced pumps as part of this
058project to help that? Yeah, so part of this project included a change order early on to open a hatchway to install as part of the current, sorry, now the prior year budget, some larger sump pumps in the pits below the auditorium seating. The purpose of that was we're investing all this money. We want to make sure we put some protections in place. So we've put in new, larger pumps that have an alarming mechanism on to let us know if water's coming up and the pumps are not working. Those pumps, because they're bigger, they will help delay any... stormwater that's coming in from really damaging either this ductwork that we're talking about or the seating in worst case. So I think that in the extreme flood events we should be okay as long as those pumps
059remain working. remove the water from the crawl space. However, in an extreme event, there is a good chance because of where that ductwork is and because of where the high school sits in terms of the floodplain, that water could enter that space again. But we think it will be much less likely now because of those pumps that we installed as part of the 24-25 budget. You're welcome. Thank you, Andrew. You said the ducks, we thought they weren't working because they were submerged underwater for periods of time? No, they were just really deteriorated. So they were in the crawl space and visible, but they had been rotted out because of the moisture over years and years of flooding. I'm talking probably 30 or 40 years of flooding. So is there any concern about mold in the
060ducts? So part of the change order actually includes we're going to cut back the duct work to where we find solid metal, and then we're going to clean the ducts that are there, that are remaining, and then we will reconnect through some round duct work, the old pieces that are both towards the Brewster Lobby side and then towards the stage side. So we're not concerned about any air quality issues after the cleaning. All right, great. You're welcome. And then finally, the Capital Project Steering Committee is meeting again this afternoon, right? So we're going to continue our process for coming to consensus in terms of what scope of work we want to provide to the Board of Education as a recommendation sometime this fall. We are continuing to look at things such as space planning needs,
061our building condition survey, the field study, and the discussion that's been happening organically throughout the process. And I do believe that we're starting to see some key themes forming in that process. And that'll continue this afternoon. Thank you. And finally, I'm just pinch hitting for Edgar here. I just want to mention later in the meeting, we have both an information and an action item related to our McGraw-Hill contract for reveal math materials. Those are items 11.3 and 12.4 respectively. So I look forward to questions and discussions of that item, those items at that time. And that concludes our cabinet updates. Okay, thank you, Drew. And I believe we're now at item 8.1 of the agenda. I'm sorry, 6.1 of the agenda, which is public comment. And as is our tradition, I will read the public
062comment preamble. Members of the public are cordially invited to speak on district-related items. or other non-personnel related matters during two separate public comment periods. When it is your turn to speak, please state your name, address, and if you are speaking on behalf of an organization. For those commenting remotely, please mute the live stream voice, turn on your camera, and then unmute yourself. Speakers will be asked to conclude their remarks after four minutes and will be given a verbal cue at the three minute mark. If at this point a speaker has additional comments, they may send them in writing to the board via email at boardofed.scarsdaleschools.org. The public comment period is reserved for comments only. The board will not engage in dialogue. The board reserves the right to respond to comments and questions at its discretion,
063either during response to public comment or at a later time and place. Response to public comment will take place after the first and second public comment periods. And with that, throw it open to anyone in the audience who has any public comment. Seeing no one in the audience, we will look to Zoom to see if any attendees have their hand raised. There are no attendees on Zoom. Give it another few minutes, no, a few seconds. So with that, we will close the public comment period and move on to written communications, which is Colleen. Thank you, Jim. Please note that the Board of Education email is also viewed by the superintendent and district clerk. Open meetings law requires all board deliberations that may lead to action or policy changes to occur in public. Therefore, your written
064communications and emails will be reported at an upcoming public board meeting. A board member will respond at the earliest convenience. A formal response requires that you include your full name, address, and if you are writing on behalf of an organization in the communication. More detailed information regarding written communications received by the Board of Education may be found in today's meeting agenda located in Board Docs on the Scarseel Schools District website. Since our last meeting, we have received a total of 14 emails, seven emails on district matters and six emails on board matters. Okay, thank you, Colleen. And with that, we will proceed to item nine of the agenda, which is the consent agenda. and I will read the preamble to that. The board may conduct some of its business using a consent agenda in an
065effort to achieve greater efficiency at board meetings. A consent agenda condenses some of the routine business items of the board to a single motion. The consent agenda is prepared by the superintendent of schools in consultation with the board president or board officers. Items are selected for the consent agenda when the board president or board officers and the superintendent believe there is no controversy regarding them. The items on the consent agenda will have the same background materials as ordinary items on the board agenda. If any member of the board feels that any item on the consent agenda requires discussion prior to action, that board member may remove that item from the consent agenda by requesting the same at the meeting. The exempted item then moves to the regular agenda. All non-exempted items will be moved, seconded,
066and voted upon without discussion in order to achieve the efficiency outlined above. And with that, we move on to item 10, which is the items requiring action in the consent agenda. And I believe that is Bob. It's a nice long one today. Okay, starting. 10.1 minutes, business meeting, June 9, 2025. 10.2, personnel, certified. 10.3, personnel, non-certified. 10.4, extension of probationary period. 10.5, personnel appointment of employees pending approval. 10.6, code of conduct. 10.7, parent member list for CSE, CPSC. 10.8, impartial hearing officers for 2025-26. 10.9 CPSC, CSE recommendations, 10.10 appointment of surrogate parent to CSE, CPSC 2025-26. 10.11 adoption of building emergency response plans for 2025-26 school year, 10.12 contracts over 20,000 special education consultants. 10.13, contract over 20,000, special education, youth services project 2025-26. 10.14, standard work day. 10.15, facilities use fees. 10.16, contracts over
067$20,000, technology, advanced technology group. 10.17, contracts over $20,000, technology, custom computer specialists. 10.18, contracts over $20,000, technology, NRI. 10.19, food services contract extension, Compass Group USA, Inc. 10.20, contracts over $20,000, technology, SHI. 10.21, music equipment and supplies bid. 10.22, disposal of ballots. 10.23, preliminary tuition rates 2025-26. 10.24, lease agreement for instructional computer equipment. 10.25, extension of maintenance contracts, district-wide flooring. 10.26, high school auditorium project change orders. 10.27, appropriation of 2023 EPA Clean School Bus CSB rebate. 10.28, claims audit report June 2025. 10.29, stipulation of settlement. And finally, 10.30, I make a motion to accept the consent agenda. Thank you, Bob. Is there a second? Thank you, Amber. Any discussion? All those in favor please say aye. Any nays? The ayes have it. The motion carries. We now move on to section 11 which is our
068information items and discussion section. I believe the first item is 11.1 a district treasurer's report. Good morning. The reports you're presented today are for the month of May. The district brought in receipts of approximately $31 million and disbursements of $44 million, leaving a month-end cash balance of approximately $74.7 million. So, items to note, the first quarter sales tax from the county is represented here with a $507,000 payment. I spoke about this at the last meeting. For that first quarter, as compared to the first quarter of 2024, it is slightly lower based on county numbers. It was down about 0.24%. As of now, we have the projections, we have the actual numbers for April and May from the county, which at that point they're showing about a 17% increase over the prior year, but we don't
069have June numbers yet. So at this point, we're expecting it to remain relatively flat. Also, interest earnings for the month were $241,000, and at month end, about 73% of the funds were earning in excess of 4.15%. So the interest rates are still remaining relatively level. year-end is here we're busy closing out POS and and trying to get final vendor payments issued a large part of the process is moving the budgets making sure the budget money is allocated to the proper codes so the next item you'll see is there are six budget transfers these are hopefully the final year-end cleanup transfers I'll go through each of them just to give you a brief explanation The first one is for occupational therapy that's provided by a consultant, the listening partners. The service is provided based on need
070throughout the year and IEPs for individual students. It also, the provider is determined based on scheduling needs. So at this point, BOCES was utilized less, so we're moving money from BOCES to the consultant code. The second transfer is for health services. New York State public schools are required to provide health services for any private students that are attending, I'm sorry, for any students attending a private school within their boundaries. Those districts are then entitled to bill back the district of residence. So basically these are items that we are being billed for for Scarsdale resident students who are attending private schools in other New York State. The third transfer is for special education students that are placed in outside private or public educational facilities. Those needs again are not always easily determined at the beginning of
071the year. So this is for additional placements that happen throughout the year. The fourth transfer is for contractual payments for teachers. There was one line that was short. We do offer a retirement incentive for the contract, and there are also supplemental payments, so that's just a transfer between that code. The fifth transfer is for teacher aides. Teacher aides are hourly employees and they serve several functions, regular education, special education, and transportation. We are required to account for those functions separately and therefore a lot of times their duties fluctuate throughout the year. So we wait until year end to move the money to where the actual projected costs land. And the final transfer is for the employer portion of FICA payroll taxes. Any questions? Yeah, I actually have a question. So the first transfer, I think,
072could you repeat what that was? Because I don't know if it's reflected correctly on what I'm looking at on the screen. For the occupational therapy? It was occupational therapy provided by listening partners? Yes. Yes. So, again, that's determined. I don't know. Eric can probably speak to it. So Listening Partners is one of our main providers of related services consultant. So we used more BOCES services last year and more private services this year. So really in our estimation of what those costs were, the amount we're spending generally on related services is about flat just where it's coming from is changing. Okay. I think the issue is maybe there's an error. What I've got on my screen for that first transfer is a transfer from BOCES special ed to contracting heating and oil. No, that's OT and
073hearing. OT and hearing. Oh, sorry. I couldn't read it. I mean, it was really hard to read. So what is OT and hearing? Occupational therapy and hearing. Okay, all right. I just couldn't read what it was saying. It seemed very strange to me. What's going on here? I just have a quick question about the health services for students in private schools. So could you just elaborate a little more is that if they have a nurse traveling with them or it's just this is not all medical expenses this is just related to education? So these are these are just what's called district of location services so basically any so I'll use Scarsdale because we bill back for the same types of services we have IHM that is in our catchment zone of the district. We provide
074a nurse to IHM to provide health services to that school. We bill back to students from Yonkers and Mount Vernon and Eastchester who happen to attend IHM. Other districts do the same thing for Scarsdale students attending any private school in their catchment zone as well. It's really just for basic nurse services within the private school. Thanks Jim. Thank you Lisa. In the third transfer to no sorry fourth transfer to salaries for teachers you mentioned early retirement incentives what are what are the other sort of things that are covered under this or is that 32,000 all early retirement incentives? A portion of it is the retirement incentive there are other items such as i refer to them as lane changes if a teacher exceeds it earns additional credits and gets a salary increase throughout the year
075that's not always reflected in the original budget some other items are differentials for csc chairs there are quite a few contractual supplemental payments that teachers get that again are often transferred between lines So do we have I mean I would imagine that happens fairly frequently that the teachers take credits or get credits do we have a budget item for that and is this an excess of what we anticipated is that why we have this transfer? Yeah it's so we budget for it we kind of do our best to allocate it across all different codes and This late in the year trying to find a large enough single code to move money from we chose to use the digit wide textbook code but there is multiple codes that have different pieces of this and if Teacher
076a did not get a lane change but teacher B did and we didn't anticipate it that way We might have the money in the wrong code so this is partially of convenience of having one budget code to pull from that didn't need the money to put it here But yes, we do include that in our budget Thank you. That is it in total salaries are within budget Again, that was that was sort of where I was trying to understand if we were over over budget, but we're not we're just doing this Transfer showing 30 lines to pull from I selected a code that had a larger chunk great Thank you Any other questions? I would like just to note that Lisa said it early on, that we anticipate this to be the last budget transfer
077of the prior fiscal year now. There's a likelihood that there could be transfers in August, just as we clean up the final financial statements. And Lisa also presented the Treasurer's Report for May. It has been our practice, Lisa and mine, that we will not give you the June Treasurer's Report until after the audit is completed because we want to make sure that that final report matches the- Corrupted access to both the digital and the print materials, print materials, some of them being consumable, some of them being sort of replacement and more permanent. As we have previously indicated, RevealMath was chosen for its balanced approach to conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and problem solving, which supports the evolving needs of our students and aligns with the next-gen math standards. In choosing to use Reveal tools, we're part
078of a diverse network of international educators from Dover, Massachusetts, to the International Community School in Singapore, and many, many school districts, public and private. across the world. This recommendation is the result of careful evaluation of both Reveal Math's strengths and areas that they need to improve, as well as a commitment to using these insights to guide ongoing professional development, curriculum adjustments, and targeted supplements from non-Reveal materials. We're going to continue to use other select resources and publishers beyond Reveal, as we've discussed, including in the math coffee that Colleen spoke about, and to make Scarsdale-specific revisions as necessary. In fact, our elementary math coordinators and elementary teachers have already met once this summer to begin work toward the fact fluency benchmarking that we discussed both at the coffee and at our last meeting. So our goal
079is to ensure that our instructional materials remain effective and adaptable, helping all of our students develop math-fac-fluency skills, confidence, and joy in learning math. We really do value the feedback we've received over the course of this year from educators, families, administrators, students, board members, and through various assessments of student learning. We've also shared direct feedback with McGraw-Hill about concerns about some of their materials. Some of that feedback has led to immediate changes in their digital resources. Obviously, those move faster than the print in terms of making changes, while other suggestions are being considered for future print updates. By extending our partnership with RevealMath, we will continue to offer engaging, rigorous math experiences and emphasize essential content, foster deeper conceptual understanding, and promote real-world applications. We remain dedicated to being responsive. using evidence-based approaches and informed
080by research and input from our community. And we welcome ongoing feedback as we work to meet the needs of each of our learners. So as a practical matter, and I think you know this from previous conversations, publishers tend to steeply discount multi-year agreements over single-year agreements. So, in effect, in this case, the cost of three years is only twice the cost of one year and $36,000 more than the two-year cost. So the reason we're bringing a three-year agreement forward is that we think it's fiscally prudent as an investment in the curriculum. Can I invite any questions? Thank you, Drew, for filling in for Edgar. And I was going to thank Edgar. Obviously, he's not here, but I appreciated that he held the math coffee in June for parents. I know we'd heard a lot from
081parents' concerns about Reveal Math. I think that was probably a great opportunity for parents to learn more about the program. I was not able to attend do you do you have any updates from that I know Colleen mentioned and there were several board members there but was it well attended how was the feedback after that presentation I don't know if you have any of that information yeah I mean I think it was well attended this room was full and was buzzing I think an invaluable part of, well, there were three parts as Colleen described. I think each was valuable, but lots of people lingered at the end to share direct experiences that their kids were having and ask questions and so forth. And I think, by and large, that reinforced that we were on the
082changes that we identified needing to make, that we were broadly on the right track. We've identified the right things to change within the program. I think that's the sense we left with. We also left with the sense that there's more to do in terms of parent engagement, and so we're building plans for the fall to continue to invite parents in to talk about math learning. and seek their feedback. Great. I'm glad to hear that. I think that gives me, you know, it's nice to see how responsive we were to the parent feedback and that we are going to continue to engage the community for their, you know, input on this program. So thank you for sharing that. Leah. Thank you. I was at the coffee and I found it really fascinating and I actually enjoyed
083speaking with the teachers who are presenting. And I'm wondering in terms of professional development, you do something where like the best practices at each school level or the teachers who really excel and reveal, you know, instruction, share their knowledge with, you know, to keep. to keep that going yeah I think versions of that have we have a number of different structures that foster that so as you know we have the two math coordinators who do sort of in the classroom with kids professional development alongside teachers who then come back out of the class and are observed by other teachers and they come back out and they've been debriefing the lesson the rationale for the moves that the teacher made evidence that the students produce through their work in the classroom and they talk about the
084student learning as a result of that so that's a structure that's actually been in place and will continue then there's also sort of an outside of the school day math committee structure where those practices are discussed and communicated mostly through the math coordinators but yeah for sure I wouldn't mind doing it annually. I think it was a very helpful. The coffee? The coffee at the end of the year. I think it was very helpful for parents. We're going to always have new parents coming in. it's very meaningful I think that's a theme actually Leah on a number of fronts where we sometimes forget we always have new families like we do the kindergarten thing right but families can come at any grade level and we've been actually the cabinet's been talking about various areas where
085what are our routines I know Eric and I just had a discussion about this across areas not just math curriculum but that we can remind folks what we do and why and get input And then I also just wanted to thank you for mentioning that you have given feedback to McGraw-Hill. I think that's very helpful. And also, I appreciate that you mentioned the three-year cost effectiveness, because that was something I was wondering about when I was looking through the agenda to understand why that period of time. Yes, Bob? Yeah, so I was fortunate enough to attend as well, and I have to agree. I thought it was really well organized and really informative. I don't know if this is feasible, but... I kept thinking, well, it's at the end of the year and wouldn't it
086be nice to have it at the beginning of the year? And the reason I say that is I think part of the challenge is managing expectations. That people start the year expecting their kids maybe because of their own personal learning experience or school experience. or from whatever perspective they're coming from, they're expecting certain things. And if they don't see that, they think there's a failure. But I think it's important to set them up for success and manage their expectations. So if we could somehow do it at the beginning of the year so that people understand, well, this is what we're hoping to achieve. so that we can then obviously monitor if we achieved it. But if the achievement levels vary between the district and the parent, there is that tension of that gap. So just
087an observation. Again, I thought it was just really, really helpful to really get into the weeds and chat with people. It was excellent. The teachers were fantastic in what they chose to present. It was very, you know. Laura. Thank you. So I really appreciate the district's work through the process of responding to community input. I was also at the community coffee. I was also at the May board meeting where I presented a four-point plan of improvements. So I'd love to hear a little more about... how differentiation, how that piece is kind of in this McGraw-Hill contract, because it is sort of mentioned in the material package. I understand it's a challenging thing to do, but it's sort of our value to meet the needs of all learners. Yeah, so there are differentiation resources, as you're
088pointing out, within the broad collection of materials that that reveal if I'm understanding your question right that the that Reveal provides, but those aren't the exclusive materials we use. Actually, some of the areas when I spoke earlier about supplementing really are for differentiation. There are kind of two things going on. One is as teachers become more familiar with the broad range of materials Reveal includes, they're dipping further and further into those options. and we're looking to other outside materials, including Math for Love resources and other, I think I said that right, and others to provide that differentiation. And Eric, we also use sort of in the special education differentiation, we use a couple of different program resources as well. Yeah, there are a couple of different programs that are. aligned with with Reveal including number
089world and the other one is escaping me as far as its name goes but we have those supplementary materials that really focus in on building numeracy building function functionality with algorithms to support Reveal math especially in the ICT in the LRC so those might happen in intervention situation or LRC intervention and in the ICT classroom where they're in usually in stations or small group teaching where they're using other supplementary materials to reinforce whatever the the concept of the day is just a follow-up on that I think one of the comments I heard in previous meetings is that now we've been using RevealMath for the past three or so years now and the sixth grade state test results is gonna be one of the measurement that we can use to gauge the effectiveness of this curriculum.
090So I just wanna say I... I guess we're expecting another round of results in the fall so maybe when that comes out yeah we always do in October we'll do the assessment report absolutely and I do know actually Edgar just met last week with Melissa Salvatore who's our middle school math chair to talk about connecting with the sixth grade teachers and looking at their perceptions and their own student data within sixth grade so I know that's part of the picture as well as those state assessments thanks I know this year at the high school there's the introduction of the multivariable class that's not continuing next year and when school government talked with some of the math teachers I think a few of the concerns was that it incentivized skipping that there was no natural way
091to actually get to that course and so I was wondering as per these next generation math standards and the efforts by the district to set the stage for what elementary and middle school math looks like through through reveal math Is there any intention of trying to build, I guess, a pathway to multivariable for a student's senior year? Or is there more of a focus on just refining the math curriculum that already exists? Yeah, so I think at this point there's not a plan to build that pathway, as you described, though the, I'd say the former and long time. Version of accessing multi variable sort of through independent study is still is still available. Hey Colleen Thank you. I know I spoke about my experience at the reveal math coffee It was a wonderfully attended event,
092packed. Laura, just to address what you brought up, one of the teachers shared with me that there are a lot of resources within the Revealed Math curriculum that allows them to differentiate, especially for students who maybe are looking for more challenging material. And one of the things they found helpful was sometimes they'll see... activity that they can then adjust to meet the needs of the student that they might not have thought of on their own but the fact that the resource is there allows them to kind of build up and and personalize it so I thought that was extremely helpful because of some of the feedback I heard was some students maybe aren't challenged as much and so I was talking to a fourth grade fifth grade Quaker Ridge teacher who said that he found
093those resources was really valuable. I think one of the other things that we heard about from the community was the preference for the previous curriculum and I just wanted to remind everyone that what Edgar shared with us. at that coffee was that the Singapore math curriculum actually doesn't exist as we used it prior and that during the pilots of all the different math curriculums for Rivial Math they trialed the new Singapore math curriculum and really felt it didn't meet the needs of our students anymore you know to trial five different curriculums and have teacher consensus around one, you know, really shows a thoughtful process and I appreciate that. And I think the reason I'm okay with this contract is because, you know, the district has made it very clear that the concerns that were raised
094by the community around fluency, differentiation, parent home to school communications are going to be addressed and that. I'm assuming that the parents will see tangible changes next year thanks to all the summer work that the teachers are putting in. So for me, I'm okay with this because we've made a commitment to address the concerns that were raised by the community and to continue with that open channel of feedback around those concerns to make sure that should things not be addressed, we still have a way to identify and move forward. Any other comments? Okay. I think we can move on to agenda item 11.4 So one of the new required policies that is connected to new relatively new state law is a policy related to extreme heat condition days just experienced a few of those before
095the end of the school year so this is policy number new policy number 8113 and it describes basically steps taken first when temperatures reach 82 degrees Fahrenheit in a classroom. This is consistent with the way the law is written. And then separately, or I guess progressively, when temperature reaches 88 degrees Fahrenheit. I would say broadly this is a practice that we've had for a number of years. Our building principals all have what we refer to as a cooling plan, which is a strategy, for lack of a better term, of moving students into cooler spaces within the building in one way, shape, or form when we experience these types of days. Examples might be if an, I'm just making this up, but if an art room isn't air conditioned, like is the case of Edgewood. that
096day the art teacher would push in to the classroom where it is air conditioned. Or a large space like a library that can accommodate a number of students, a number of classes might be space where a class is held or an activity is held in lieu of a classroom that might not be air conditioned. I would note we are also in conversation, as Andrew said, about our air conditioning viewpoints in terms of the capital capital projects we have made since the last bond 2018 bond we have made significant dent in providing cooling in our classroom spaces through mostly through window units so there's a lot more air-conditioned classroom space now than there was say seven years ago It's not 100%, and that is something that we're talking about. So obviously the best, the most ideal
097and convenient approach is to have a cool learning space that's climate controlled. But we do have plans consistent with this policy presently in those other instances. One more follow-up, probably our biggest challenge is that We don't have, and we heard at our last board meeting, from the athletics standpoint, our largest spaces, our gyms, are largely not cooled. So those are the largest, can accommodate the most people, and also are the most expensive to cool. So that's sort of background. This is a first read on this policy. Drew, I don't mean to interrupt you. We are noticing a problem with board docs. So several of the... public view of the agenda some of the attachments are not being seen by the public we're seeing it because we're logged in so if anyone has any questions about
098the attachments we certainly can share that after the meeting thank you I will say we have had some issues with board docs in the last couple of months apparently everyone's having a board meeting today or tomorrow yeah so we're happy to follow up So you touched on, thank you for presenting this policy, so you touched on sort of where my question was. So in the case of a gym that is over, I guess, 82 degrees, that's not really something, especially at the high school, you can't really go and push into a classroom. How will that work? Probably changing the activity there. Because I assume it would be hot outside, too. And I assume we have sort of rules about when we don't. students participate outside is that fair yeah so we do follow the really
099the New York State Public High School Athletic Association guidelines and have for long time on real feel temperature so this is this is a degrees Fahrenheit temperature but then there's also the real feel when you have humidity and we do follow those guidelines I don't have them in front of me but that really limit the types of physical activity you can do at certain thresholds and we observe those Ray had just on those heat days sent out a notification to all the PE teachers keep in mind I was going to ask if we experienced that this last week we did When it's above 96 degrees it feels like we recommend no outside activities and there's thresholds below that for incremental Heat conditions. Okay, so we could we could I mean, hopefully we're not in a
100situation But we could have a situation where there can't really be outdoor activities or indoor right? Might be supervised in the classroom if that were necessary. Okay, and Could maybe Andrew knows how many of our gyms are air-conditioned? That's the only one on the top of my head. Is Green Acres air conditioned? No. So there's been conversations about the Green Acres gym space. As you know, the addition that was put on Green Acres was adjacent to that. During that project, the HVA system was determined to be not functioning properly, and they did repair it. We've continually reviewed that. It is providing fresh air, but when it's 96 degrees, it feels like outside temperature. the fresh air is 96 degrees coming into the building so it is circulating air but it is not air conditioned space
101so it's only heathcote that has an air conditioned gym wow okay all right thank you any other comments or questions okay leah uh thank you so in terms of finals like at the high school for example do you does the high school administration make sure that all final tests are held in air conditioned spaces for the students wondering what your experience has been i think for the most part um I think one time last year they had to move some of us to another room for AP exam in the iLab. So yes, those precautionary measures are taken. But I think at least for gym A, the room that they make us take them in, oftentimes it is on the cooler side even though it's not air conditioned. So there hasn't been a major problem for
102that until that last AP exam last year. Since you spoke about outdoors, I'm wondering in terms of turf temperature, you know, it's hotter than grass. Is that ever something that's considered during the school year? Yes. Okay. Absolutely. Within the same guidelines, we know like off here over the courtyard, maybe it's one temperature, but on the actual Butler Field turf, it's a higher temperature. That is taken into it. Thank you. And do you take the temperature in classrooms? Like how do you gauge? How do you gauge what's what? There's a specific metric here that's introduced in the law about where in the classroom and how far above the floor. I don't think previous to this we've been that precise, but now that is the precision that we would be expected to use. Thank you. I think
103in the case of when the temperature isn't exceeding 82, but clearly it's too hot for learning, the teacher does have the ability to... leave their classroom and go to another designated place, right? The library or, yep, absolutely, another space that is cool. Sometimes classes actually come down here to this space, which can be two different rooms. Any other comments? No, thank you. Now on to item 11.5. Okay. Me again. This is a... This Board of Education has had the practice in the past of, like policies, reviewing and having public readings of regulations as well. Though that's not required under education law, it has been a practice. So what's before you today is a first reading of a regulation and an accompanying exhibit. which is just a form related to complaints about instructional materials and this
104was discovered in the second part of the the school year you may remember many years ago the Board of Ed decided to embark on a section by section total review of board policies in concert with the New York State School Boards Association and reviewed dozens and dozens of policies in I think the word we were using was tranches Amber you remember this and one of the policies that was rescinded as redundant to another policy was policy 1420 and in the In the board's action, there was a note made that recommended moving the regulation from 1420 to 1400 because the policy that they thought 1420 covered. the policy they thought was covering 1420 was 1400 which is a general policy related to complaints and how the public can address complaints and how the school district should
105handle those complaints so what's before you is a draft regulation that would now accompany policy 1400 we're correcting a gap that existed So you have the regulation about complaints about instructional materials and then the exhibit is a form that a community member or employee might complete to register a complaint about instructional material. And the regulation describes the process. Okay, thank you Drew. Any comments or questions from the board? I don't see any. okay so i think we can then move on to item 11.6 board goals preliminary discussion i think that's me so just a few words around this each year the board of education establishes goals and objectives for the school year we would like to begin this process by referring to our 24 25 adopted goals and objectives as a starting point our intent
106is to revise this document to reflect what we determine should be our goals and objectives for the coming 25 26 school year which we can then review at our next meeting in August. So I think this is really just, sorry, that all these things are valuable and we want to keep them. But there might be things we want to add and there I'm sure will be things we want to change. So I just throw that out for discussion if anyone wants to comment on that. Leah. Thank you, Jim. So I don't know that it's necessary to add, but in terms of goals in general, I think it's important and I think what we did last year was nice with the coffees to have kind of informal ways to hear from the community. And, you know,
107it would be nice to just always think about ways to make the people who speak and write feel heard. And, you know, so that's just my comment on that. I don't know that there's something to change per se, but just kind of in the spirit of that. Okay. Thank you. Bob, you want to say something? Yeah. I don't know. I'm thinking out loud here, but it seems to me we have a lot of objectives listed. And I don't think necessarily I'm suggesting it for right now, but I think. moving forward it might be good to try and set some priorities because it's a lot it's a it's a big list And I'm like sitting here thinking, well, I have a sense of what I think might be, if you were to say, areas that we
108should put our energy in. But it seems, honestly, almost slightly overwhelming to approach them all, whether we could go through a process of trying to maybe create some sort of a range or some sort of a pecking order so that we can focus our energies as required. It's just a thought. It just seems. ambitious I guess is the way I have no problem with all of it I think they are all valid goals and objectives but it does it's a lot just a thought okay thank you any other comments I think just to your comment Bob I understand what you're saying I think it it is it's just a lot that is that is our role it is a lot and I think one thing that makes us a stronger board is that some of
109us might have more of an interest in the bond work and some might have more of an interest in the teaching and learning and some might have more in the budgeting and bond work so i mean you know the the financial aspect so i think that it's important i i understand what you're saying but i think we might all have if we had that conversation we might find that we all have different priorities or that different things something's going to rise the occasion this year but none of us expected either so you know I think it's I think it's a thoughtful list it's something that the board has discussed year over year I can't think of anything to add to this but I do like Leah's comment also about you know reinforcing ways through the
110community engagement plan to engage with the community when we can actually I did have one thought before which is we do have now two student members and I don't know if there's a goal or some way in our in our board goals to kind of get their opinions their thoughts the student voice I know it's something we always talk about at the table but I don't know if there's a specific goal or something that we could include in our objectives I don't know just just an idea looks like they've got some ideas okay yeah Lucy So I mean I haven't I guess this falls into like the communication and community engagement. part and I haven't had the chance to read the community engagement plan but I'll do that somewhat soon but yeah I think definitely
111just like focusing more on getting that sort of perspective I know that honest and I had ideas that we kind of brought up with mr. Patrick or during our like interviews for this role about ways in which when there's certain like initiatives that we feel like are important for the students to have a say and we bring it up to them so there's no clear set way right now but that's definitely one of my priorities Thank you. Yeah, something like integration of student board viewpoints or something like that as a goal, just to make sure that we pause and do make efforts specifically to integrate into our meetings the viewpoints and kind of input from the students that we have here. So I think that's something to consider as a goal. We could just add
112to you know after community engagement slash student voice to kind of just highlight it and under our goals itself Well, you know, one thing is we do that self-evaluation at the end of the year, too, and we do, I think it would be helpful to call it out maybe specifically because it is something that we're going to measure. How well did we engage with our student members? How did they, you know, engage with their community? And not to jump ahead to board summer work, but maybe a revisiting of the community engagement plan to find ways. for our student members to engage with their community. So anyway, just a thought. Thank you, Amber. It is valuable to remember that this is going to be feeding into the evaluation, and so each of the separate categories kind
113of becomes a touch point on the evaluation that we do of ourselves at the end of the year. Any other comments? To Ms. Yuse's point, I think we were mentioning before how it would be great for the adult board members to meet with parents for the math coffee event. And so I think, on to your point, I think it would be really interesting if we have some sort of event like that for students. Like maybe the entire board could meet with students in some designated event like that, or just the student member, like Lucy and I. And so I think that would be something very interesting to look at that we could possibly include in the board community engagement plan. Okay, thank you any other comments? All right, so we have some things I think
114to consider adding which we will do and circulate a revised draft goals and objectives to discuss at our next meeting and potentially act on or at least consider So that brings us to 11.7 which is a superintendent evaluation template, which is again me. And on this one, just some comments every year, each year. One of the primary responsibilities of the Board of Education is the evaluation of the superintendent of schools. As part of the evaluation, the board adopts an evaluation template that will guide the evaluation. The template is required to be completed in early fall of each year and kept on file in the office of the district clerk. last year and the year before that we utilized New York State Council of School Superintendents template which is attached to our agenda I believe and
115this morning's information item is just to kick off the process for this school year at our board meeting in August we will have this as a discussion item and will approve a template at our September meeting in accordance with the timeline that is required So I guess that's really a call for us, similarly as we have done with the board goals, that discussion, to consider the template, which I don't know if I'm actually able to pull it up. But we want to consider that template. Oh, here it is, yes. Maybe. And consider if we need to revise it. Is it there? Yes, it is. All right, so there it is. There is a template. So anyway, the point here is just to consider whether there's anything we want to change, I think, about that and
116to then consider that. Anyone want to comment? I assume the plan is to use super eval again? That is the plan, yes. Drew I know that we typically probably officers have asked you this already but you like the NISQIS template better than the NISBET template yeah I think it's it's just more natural and more closely aligned to the job and I think that's why we originally made this switch so yes it makes sense to me I'll just say last year was my first year on the board and I found it very user-friendly and comfortable to use and I think it helped us give feedback to Drew. Any other comments on that? Okay. So I believe we can then move on to our next item in the agenda, which is 11.8, the gift proposal to Edgewood.
117Who is that? Thank you. I will take these because they're information at this point. So you'll remember our gift policy, the procedures that were developed. sort of established that a gift over $1,000 the board is asked to have discussed at one meeting before action at a subsequent meeting so the total of there are a total of seven gifts in a row and each of these exceeds $1,000 which is why they're in this section of the agenda several of these are gifts anticipating visiting authors at our elementary schools and middle school credit to Andrew and William Yang for working together to help our PTAs who so generously support these visits but to establish a more coherent process consistent across our buildings And one of the asks was if they could anticipate what they would budget for
118this in advance, we'd be able to secure that money and help them develop the contracts with the individual authors that come and have a consistent contract and make basically the record keeping, I think, more seamless for them. So this first gift to Edgewood Elementary School is anticipating their visiting author program for the school year, totaling $12,000. any questions on that one 11.9 is a gift to Green Acres Elementary School funding teacher grants including supporting that should say Gator News not Gator New but three different grants there any questions on those yeah I just have a general question about the elementary's do they all have a news program they do not and the ones that do they're a little bit different depending on summer school wide Green Acres is focused really on a single grade level
11911.10 is the aforementioned author visits but this time for Green Acres totaling $10,000 11.11 is similar for Heathcote Elementary $10,000 11.12 is teacher related gifts for totaling $5,000 for programs and materials at Quaker Ridge 11.13 is the visiting authors for Quaker Ridge totaling $9,000 and also yeah I just had a quick question about the authors so because I'm seeing they're all different amounts so your department is now negotiating with these authors to No. So what we're working with them on is the building librarian, the principal, and the PTA representative, whether it's the president or their library chair, will identify the authors, vet them, and determine the cost for each visit and what actually will happen for that visit. And then we'll work with them at the central office level to make sure that the standardized
120contract that we're using covers all the kind of terms and conditions we need it to have. This early donation of the funding helps us eliminate a bottleneck, which is the turnaround time on the gift approval, appropriation, and then purchase order process. So we'll already have the money in place. So once the contract is negotiated, we'll be able to cut the purchase order more quickly and allow that author visit to happen sooner rather than waiting for those two board meetings and then the purchase order to come afterwards. So you're now paying the authors and then the PTA. Yeah, there was an inconsistency around it. Sometimes it was the librarian signing a contract. Other times it was the PTA members. We thought it would be prudent to help make sure that all the terms and conditions for
121all the schools are consistent and follow one kind of cohesive process, and the PTA has been supportive. And we committed to the PTA to review this throughout this year, and if it turns out that it's not as helpful as we thought, we'll reevaluate. and 11.14 is similar the author visits for the middle school $9,000 so this is fabulous I really appreciate Andrew your office taking this over I couldn't help but notice that Fox Meadow is not on this list we're gonna follow with them but we haven't had a discussion specifically at them I suspect it's just a timing issue okay We said the July meeting would be ideal. The August meeting would be fine as well. All right. Great. So we can probably anticipate. Thank you. Any other comments? Okay, great. So we can move
122on to Section 11.15 of the agenda, which is Board Summer Work, which is me again. So just a few comments here. Summertime. can be a great time to consider new projects or update ongoing ones. This year's potential summer work could include conducting a review, for example, and I did solicit feedback and I did get some, including a review of existing procedures and policies that we have, in particular the gift procedures that were adopted last year, which we were just discussing, and the selection process for ex-officio board members, which guided us in the selection that we did this year. So the idea really I think would be to review these existing procedures and policies and to assess how they have gone and if there are changes that should be made to them considering how it's worked
123this year. If any board members would be interested in engaging in this work, please let Colleen and me know offline or sometime after this meeting. So this is really just an FYI on what's been discussed. Now if anyone has anything they want to suggest as possible summer work now, we can certainly entertain that comment. But with respect to the two things I mentioned, I do think it might be valuable to have, if people are interested, to have that review take place. Jim, I noticed that the background information has the community engagement plan. listed was that intentional as something you wanted to propose no I don't I'm not sure why that is I think it's a carryover okay yeah my own meeting notes have the ex officio policy oh yeah no I at least what I
124see right now is yeah it was just an example of what was discussed last year just to give color But perhaps it is, given some of our discussions here earlier, maybe it's not necessarily summer work, but maybe it's something we should look at as well. Yeah, well, like again, this is sort of dependent on the willingness of our board members to want to spend some time this summer looking at these things because I know they have lots of free time during the summer. So that's really what this is about. So, like, you know, again, as I said, please reach out to Colleen and me to let us know if you want to spend some time while you're at the beach considering these things. So thank you. Well, thank you for soliciting our input on this
125one, Jim. Appreciate it. You're sending that email. Oh, thank you. And with that, I believe we're now on to action items, section 12 of the agenda, beginning with 12.1. That's me. I move that the board adopt the following resolve, that the Board of Education adopts policy 5695, students and personal electronic devices as presented. Is there a second? Okay Bob any discussion all those in favor please say aye aye any nays in the motion carries We are on now to section 12.2 adoption of the 2526 tax levy I believe that's Leah Thank You Jim I move that the board adopt the following resolution resolved that the Board of Education adopt the 2025-26 tax levy in the amount of $170,035,914 and the resolution presented okay is there a second? any discussion all those in favor please say
126aye aye any nays okay that motion carries moving on to 12.3 budget transfers I believe that's Bob yes I'd like to make a motion resolve that the Board of Education approves the attached budget transfers in excess of $25,000 as presented thank you are there any seconds okay amber any discussion all those in favor please say aye any nays okay the motion carries Moving on to 12.4, contract over 20,000, which is the Reveal Math contract. We're going to see who that is. That is Amber. Thanks, Jim. I move that the board adopt the following. Resolve that the Board of Education approves the attached agreement with McGraw-Hill for the Reveal Math program for the period starting July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028. Is there a second? Okay, Bob. And any discussion? All those in favor, please
127say aye. Aye. And any nays? Motion carries. Next one is proposed textbooks, 12.5. I believe that's Laura. I move that the Board of Education accept the following resolution. Resolved that the Board of Education accepts the attached proposed new textbooks as presented. Thank you. Is there a second? Okay, Amber. Any discussion? all right all those in favor please say aye aye any nays the motion carries Jim I just want to go back to item 12.2 the resolution in the actual item is correct but the recommended action there is a typo so I just want to say the correct amount so again the resolution was adopted but the correct amount of tax levy is $175,813,222. Okay. We must have forgotten to update that in the recommended action up top. Okay. But the resolution is correct. It's written
128correctly. So we need to revote. Okay. Thank you. All right. So now with that. Sorry about that. That's okay. With that, we move on to Section 13 of the agenda, the 13.1 gift proposal to Scarsdale High School, and that's Amber. Thanks Jim I move that the board adopt the following resolve that the Board of Education accepts with thanks the gift award of $2,000 to the Scarsdale High School as presented in the attached letters Is there a second Bob any discussion okay all eyes all in favor please say aye any nays no that motion carries the next one is the amendment get proposal to Fox Meadows School which is Leah Thank you. I move that the board adopt the following resolution resolved that the Board of Education accepts with thanks the revised gift amount of $2,577
129to support a dance program for Fox Meadow third graders as presented. Okay, is there a second? Amber, any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any nays? Okay, the motion carries with thanks. we are now on to section 14 of our agenda which is again public comment previously having read the preamble to public comment I will not read again the preamble to public comment I hope that's not scandalous just assume it still in place from before and let's see if anyone in the audience wants to speak Joe's does not want to speak okay Let's let's check on zoom if anyone on zoom has their hand raised There are no attendees on zoom. Okay, we'll give that a few more seconds Still, okay. So we're gonna close that public comment period There are no
130matters to address as a result of that and so we go into wrap-up items Some board summer work We will have some board summer work once we get some volunteers. I'm sure there will be some volunteers. So now we go to item 17, meeting dates for the coming month. That's Colleen. Thank you, Jim. Our next meeting is Monday, August 25th. It's a business meeting at 6 p.m. in the high school room 171-172. Then we have a meeting on Monday, September 8th, special meeting or executive session if needed at 6 p.m. in the high school room, 170-172, followed by a meeting on Monday, September 15th. special meeting with a designated group of 5 p.m in the high school room 170 172 the special meeting and executive session if needed at 6 p.m in the high school
131room 170 172 followed by a business meeting at 6 30 p.m in the high school room 170 172. okay uh with that there being no further business at this meeting it is time to adjourn into executive session where we will discuss collective bargaining and contract negotiations thank you all Oh, sorry, motion. Can we have a motion to adjourn into executive? Yes, Amber, yes. Yeah, okay. So any discussion? All right, with that, everyone in favor? Saying aye. Okay, aye. Any nays? No. With that, we'll move into executive session and adjourn this business meeting. Thank you.