001e thank you welcome everybody the regular meeting of the South Colony Board of Education will be called to order roll call Thomas Blakeley here Brian Casey Stephanie kogan here Rose gigliello here Jennifer holahan here Michael King here David Keel here Christopher larabe here Robert Mich here all stand for the pledge I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy Justice for All agenda item number three approval of the minutes you had hyperlink the regular meeting of February 25th 2025 are there any comments or edits hearing none I will ask for a motion Mr Blakeley second Miss giggly ello all right on the motion uh made by Mr Blakeley seconded by Rose gigliello that the minutes of the regular meeting of
002February 25th 2025 be approved all in favor any opposed motion carries 90 agenda item number four superintendent update that is you Dr Perry good evening everyone thank you for coming out tonight uh few congratulations are in order uh to our girls basketball team for their section two championship on Monday night uh this is their second in a row back-to-back championships they will go on uh next Saturday at 1 o'clock at anoda Community College Mr RoR is at Liverpool playing Liverpool so best of luck to our our girls basketball team um Odyssey of mind uh competitors this past uh weekend we had three teams from the district participate NY the mine Two from verer and one from Forest Park we had teams finished uh in second and third place overall so great job to our Odyssey
003the Mind students um line and Q uh at the high school is presenting Mary Poppins this weekend starting on Thursday night is opening night uh Thursday night Friday and a uh double header on Saturday so looking forward to that production always has to be sports with you that's that's how I think you know um April 5th um paint recycling day so time to clean out your your your basements your closets whatever you got um in collaboration with Senator Jake ashp's office we are putting on a CommunityWide uh paint recycling event our uh High School Eco Club will also be volunteering and looking forward to uh helping this totally free event uh take place in our community so uh uh Mark that date April 5th uh 9 to 1 o' so a lot of good things
004going on I know we've had a number of uh other teams go on a sectional play and sectional runs um so I know some board members will talk about that tonight and on April 8th we plan to bring those teams up to recognize our winter sport athletes so congratulations all that are uh competed and all that are still competing for our winter sports all right thank you very much agenda item number five new business who I have Mr Blakeley um I just want to take a moment and congratulate um our Varsity Co cheer team for finishing fifth in the state um they won the section two title and they went to B this past weekend to compete and they ended up finishing fifth place so it's a great job um the kids on that team
005and I also want to say congrats during nor track team had a number of athletes who uh went on to qualify for Nationals um they did a fantastic job and you knowly a very good program so Contin thank you very much anyone else m uh Dr Perry mentioned it but the uh the girls went in the back to back I had a chance to go to the uh the semi-final game they be a good auy theme and then last night's championship game uh got close in the fourth quarter but beating our rival Shaker was a a great night so congratulations to the coach of staff and all the players and we have one player in the uh crowd so congratulations so all right any oh my yes oh that's terrific ter terrific anyone else I
006was fortunate enough to go over to Shaker roads um 101 Daves of school and with the 101 um theme it was the prek kids uh by their teacher and Miss burner our librarian um had a little scavenger hunt for kindness buttons they were just they were paper buttons not buttons but buttons and then they went to the cafeteria and handed them out to the first grader so they were spreading kindness 101 times it was terrific yeah very nice thank you all anybody else all right very good agenda item number six Communications any online no all right we have one in person AJ Mossy request for consideration of my Eagle project hello AJ good to see you again thank you all right thank you AJ before we begin tell us a little bit about yourself what
007year are you at Colony I am a 11th grader in Colony Central High School and how many years have you been involved in scouting well I've been in Scout as many times I've been in detention I'm not supposed to laugh at that I'm sorry know seven years okay wonderful terrific all right go right ahead please greetings ladies and gentlemen of the school board my name is Andrew B but as Miss cgan has stated I would like to be with AJ this evening I I already well that's okay I also attend bosies so there's that we finally have some I am a wife Scouts and and a former senior patrol leader for three years so I've have taught these boys a lot over the years and our troop number is 77 please invest our meeting we
008got the serious now that we got the jokes Stu way our meetings are held every tues day night I I should kill middle school with with a permission I would like to request your help with my Eagle project and my troop will provide the materials and Workforce to perform this project what my request from the school board is to allow us to place collection boxes in a few schools throughout the month of April or May depending on when the paperwork is processed through the council this project will be called cloth for pause object where collection boxes will be decorated and placed inside the main hall entrances of col Central High School w m school and San Creek Middle School I already have verbal confirmation to place question boxes at the Village Hall and bosis I've
009been working out this plan for a while and with your support we will be able to help animal shelters like Mohawk Huds and Humane Society in their time of need Springtime is brings new kittens and puppies and the overwhelmed shelters need our help need our help my prodject is to that we collect use Queen use Queen towels and bedding as well as dog cat puppy kitten and food dry if it's wet don't don't make it we will be closely working with the local shelter to donate the collected Linens and Pet Food my project is designed to get the community involved and to bring attention to the need that is far far too often overlooked with your permission I'd like to give a voice to the voices I appreciate your considerations are there any questions any
010questions so this would be a limited duration either for a couple weeks either in April or May correct depending upon that correct all right and how would you be monitoring uh these boxes when they need to be emptied well so these students I mean some of these kids actually go to schools that are mentioned well meet I go to the high school while a good hand of these go to we'll get so we may need some adults help with that all right that's okay so your troop members are actually going to help along with this project because that's what we do for Eagle Scout projects yes and for affirmation one of the staff and Kim Kim from will heavily encourage the donations well that's terrific that's terrific I think that's a great cause what you
011may not know are there's some Super Fan scouting fans here I myself am a mom of two Eagle Scouts so thank you guys you guys know what it's all about the public speaking is terrific thank you AJ for doing this and thank you for leading your truth that is just terrific and Mr Casey as we all know forever forever just two hours a month the same number of times been it's that's the board like the school board right just like the school board he's actually been to a j with me so oh we have our own personal moments that's wonderful yes we all right oh yes Mr ke AJ have you talked to the principles in your schools to uh get them to promote it some too well not yet but and now that you
012mention it I think it is worth talking to them about I mean they're right there good Tim very good a if you put together a list of items you're looking for we can help get that word out as well and uh promote once your paperwork is through and things like that so yes I mean we have actually got a good majority of the items which is from my dad he has talked to someone privately through text that we can borrow these boxes correct yeah um Tom Ido who works at Marcel's appliances be able to get some old washing machine boxes that we can paint up and decorate terrific stuff like that we also have as part of the project as a whole the H Humane Society has actually asked us to decorate a couple boxes
013that they purchased for permanent drop boxes so incor when we have a box decorated day we're incorporate that into the project as well to kind of kick it off but yeah the first step of the eagle process in this instance would be to get the board's approval and then everything just kind of Cascades a dominance from there this is this is the first St and thanks to both I've learned a lot more about time manag business so what what are you studying at Bose video game design and implementation wonderful wonderful all right then we are going to take this under consideration and we will have Dr Perry get in touch with you you have your your email and your phone number and thank you very much for your [Applause] presentation agenda item number seven board
014committee reports today we have communications and policy Communications that's Mr Kean any comments Mr Kean um one highlight in there is the video project by the communications team regarding the county community connections program um fantastic work highlights the great work that the team is doing there that work that project all right anybody have any questions on Communications committee for Mr Keen thank you very much Item B is policy Mr laraby uh yep we have a final reading approval for two uh policies um 8130 extreme risk protection ORD and 8131 something that we hope we never have to use again pandemic planning does anybody have any questions on any of that okay on behalf of the policy committee upon the motion made by committee chair member Christopher larby recommendations that the revisions made to the above
015stated policies be approved as present all in favor any opposed motion carries 9 to Zer thank you very much agenda item number eight reports for information this is the 2025 2026 budget discussion Ms mallister it is all yours sorry uh tonight I have uh Mr kachadorian joining me for the instructional components and first draft of the budget um I don't get cheers like that um all right so tonight our budget priorities are uh we've gone through these many times but um throughout the budget development process but budget priorities are academic equity and opportunities for all students um suain sustainability and structure of our programming keeping that um strong uh strengthening the high school ws and enhancing our facilities the Next Generation Colony project um oh good now I'll pass it over to Mr look at
016that look at that good evening everyone so I don't know if you remember the old version of this and I'm sorry to tell you I'm not going to be doing a 30 slide dictation of uh every item line that we have just got a few slides briefly to go through some of the highlights uh obviously that we're going to be looking to to have as far as a direct impact on the on the budget class sizes projections so things that we're proud of obviously we're really happy that we're able to keep our class sizes very small and very respectable um across our K4 programming in all five schools now I want to make sure that everyone understands this is rollover as far as what we have right now projections can lead us to higher numbers
017and we certainly have a buffer in place for us to be able to absorb those higher numbers if we do get an increase in enrollment but as stand right now and projected for next year if we are exactly standstill um that's the numbers that we're looking at across the board with minimal Interruption we hope with an increase in enrollment there are years historically where we've gone up uh between this period of time and then throughout the summer up to a maximum of about 60 students that's possible and that's the high water Mark um but we still can conceivably absorb what that is within the metrics that we have placed up here Sand Creek as you can see as well as lishakill we continue to look at trying to keep those sections at 10 for Sand
018Creek lak Hill we're creeping up to 8 um within 56 I'm going to talk about briefly a bubble that we're tracing through lak Hill and grade five that's going to be then hitting up to uh grade six but as we stand right now I think we can all be proud as far as the numbers that we're putting forward conceptually with what our class sizes will be I got thank you um so that was obviously K through 8 we do have a wind storm that's going on over to the east East feel free to move to the West if you'd like to high school Pathways this is something that's a point of Pride and something that we continue to focus our energy and effort on the development of them happened around four years ago and we
019want to keep pushing forward in the direction of what is relevant for our student population to be able to take within their four-year Journey with us and within that relevancy it's important that we receive feedback it's important that we survey it's important that we hear from the students around seventh grade we hear from them again in nth grade we hear from again as Juniors and seniors we hear from again as they move on and graduate and we've talked before about how hard it is to gather that data and accumulate it so that we can make good decisions and that's something that Christa M has worked hard and our ccpc to be able to keep connection with our students that have graduated to understand where they think they're going once they leave the high school and
020where they actually land four to five years out away from us um there's no secret that our students and I've said this before stop me if you want to but our students like to get into the service industry um and among our top uh positions as far as careers that our folks like to go into it's the Health Sciences specifically nursing it is teaching um as an art form and and as something that we need to find uh restitution in and make sure that people want to get back into the teaching profession so we've been thoughtful about building that programming and been very successful at it it's entrepreneurship specifically taking over family businesses uh it is law enforcement and in particular serving locally and then it moves on into engineering and in particular if we
021look at the source of engineering civil engineering ranks among the top of the professions that our students get into so knowing this information and then knowing what kind of programming that we had in place locally and where we needed to go specifically with taking things that are local and very robust in transforming them into college accredited offerings I believe we now tout around 53 classes that offer college accreditation that is something that we should again be very proud of and something we continue to look at and growing um with our business pathway itself we look to continue to Branch off of it we do have growth continued interest and we want to make sure that with our budgetary needs we account for that so you can see within the high school Pathways and the second
022bullet down that we have 05 or half a business offering would we go all the way up to 1.0 certainly if the demand is there um as far as our business classes for next year that we're projecting there's a new offering with business management and organiz ation and also a new counterpart to intro to business we have intro to business one now and intro to business 2 so we have semester counterparts to continue that Journey for our student population that enjoys that very first semester of experience with Miss Stone so adding in another individual there can only hope to continue to grow give Miss Stone a counterpart uh and allow for us to look at Future programming of where we want to go with that pathway itself elementary teachers we had talked about and addressed
023that bubble and we're making sure that we we keep consistent at that and and help Miss pen keep her numbers down as well um and then we look over at our Middle School interventionists we're switching a little bit of philosophy and we're switching into some modeling where we really want to calculatedly address what we can with writing deficiencies especially as we move on into the Middle School uh So the plan and the look at literacy specialist is going to have a two-fold effect as far as what their skill sets are going to be expected uh to to have and retain and what they're looking at uh as far as what they're going to do specifically with student interventions and that is that writing piece that has been missing over the course of a few years
024and we want to get back on track with our student performances and make sure that Communications are proficient because as we see we move into the high school Pathways it's super important for our student population to have that skill set uh K12 curriculum itself when we look at conceptually where we need to go we do have Mr Pace that is going to be moving on unfortunately and in his retirement we need to find something that's going to breathe life into the position that is now 712 what we're looking at for a science supervisor and future growth is kind of implied in there because we want to see what we're able to do there's a lot of curricular changes that are coming around uh living environment is changing with their curricular obligations and eventually what their
025exam is going to be in regions same thing with Earth Science physics and chemistry aren't far behind we need good leadership strong leadership to make sure that we're heading heading our students especially for those Health Science Pathways in the right direction and last our next Generation facilities and we're looking at a furniture replacement cycle I could tell you anything that you might want to hear about it and have no idea what I'm talking about so I'll just tell you we're going to replace Furniture great thank you AJ I'll take it from here um on the furniture cycle we're doing a lot of renovations right now and we're seeing that the new furniture can bring life to a a classroom so um the goal is to on top of the uh classrooms that we're renovating and
026getting new furniture in those classrooms to add some classrooms in all the schools um over the next year and then continue that so that's a little bit of funds for that specifically um but from there the budget factors why everybody's here right yes um Financial Trends we have our state aid we have our federal aid we have our tax cap um this year our tax cap will include our first phase in from the Next Generation Capital project um it will be an additional Levy of 1% um on top of the the general rollover that we would need to sustain our uh funding um we have our financial Trends on the expenditure side our inflation um health insurance increases our pension increases and our salary Trends uh we are planning to replace all of our teacher
027retirements in this budget um and all of our contracts are current or recently voted on so we can project those salaries um accurately um as I mentioned the tax cap we have three things that go into the tax cap it's our allowable Levy growth factor Factor our tax based growth factor and the capital exclusion the capital exclusion is where you hit um our 1% so as our expenses go up for Capital debt and our Aid goes up the difference allows us to Levy more to cover that um I know that's very convoluted but um it gives us that extra 1% on top of everything um the other pieces are our tax based growth factor we're very average in the state 1.0 is average in the state we're at 1.59 um and the 2% is our
028cap that you think as a 2% cap tax cap so this year we're looking at um a tax cap of 3.49 n% and yes I have to go to four decimals for the Office of the State Controller um but we are going to be leving hope in this budget the first draft that I have um asking for 3.49% so without um that extra debt that we have for the capital project where about 2.5% um so that's where the additional 1% comes in and that was voted on by the public in October 2022 and we're seeing great progress so we hope to be able to show everybody some completed spaces very soon um our first draft here are the numbers our first draft assumptions as of today Aid projections are from the executive proposal um and
029estimates from our um fiscal financial advisers on the aid that we are getting for the capital project um 3.49% tax levy increase no changing the appropriated fund balance on our expenditure side we're looking at replacing all retirements adding the new positions that Mr katchadorian mentioned um our Capital expenditures and debt projections are increasing you'll see that on the next slide and updates for Bose expenses um and liability insurances are still to come as I'm getting estimates in we have one more draft too um on the expenditure side these are the things that we're we've talked about over our uh presentations our transportation and operations of Maintenance um just roll over uh equipment budgets neutral increasing supplies and materials for inflation and um utilities uh special ed and pil Services we're adding an we looking in
030this budget to add an enl teacher a school psychologist and replace all of our retirements um in the instruction side as um Mr hedan talked about all the things um but two teachers at Lea hill5 business two interventionists um 72 supervisor um when we look at it we're looking at all the replacement plans that we have for our Chromebooks and then as well as some server upgrades that we have to do um so that is a little bit of an increase but um replacing all retirements as well um as you look at the summary General support is everything that we do to in the background um it includes it o andm um Administration uh so that increase is a 6.31% um instructions 3.32% Transportation 3.65% Community Services that's are um continuing ation uh 2% employee
031benefits is increasing that slide that I showed before the um Insurance costs are increasing and the pension contributions are increasing um Debt Service that's our big one uh we are spending a lot of money on our Capital project so we need to pay for it um that's where we're increasing the budget so significantly and then our in fund transfers are to cover um our special Aid fund and um $100,000 to a capital outlay project 7.99% um so $139 million proposed expenditure um with a $10 million increase with the majority of that being our Capital project expenses um today on uh March 11th with all things that we have put into the budget we do have a budget gap of $164,000 um with that we have some Gap closing measures we're already at the cap so
032we can't really go a little bit farther than that but um strategically selecting additions um assigning additional fund balance is an option for the board and then doing a combination of these things and as I get better estimates in on our Bose's expenses and um Insurance expenses we can see where we land with those but um that's as of today on um vote for May 20th we have our annual operating budget and our bus purchase we are looking to um add an electric school bus to our Fleet um we need to do this for um the new facility that we have in order to um get approved for some national grow grants for the Make Ready of our new Transportation facility we have to get uh approval for a grant and purchase a bus to
033be eligible it's part of the the process so we have gotten approval for two um buses this year we're looking to just add one at the um 24 passenger type a bus which we can actually use the Chargers that we have at our buildings to charge this bus and we don't need to add any infrastructure at our current bus facility um the bus replacement plan includes uh 11 if I can count 10 10 diesel buses or gasoline buses and uh one electric School Bus the good thing about the electric school bus is we do have a grant and we get a voucher so the the the net cost to the um that we're going to be funding is the 1645 but the total cost of the bus is 326,000 so the cost of these buses
034are significantly more but with the voucher from the New York State um bus incentive program we're getting 161 covered by that and what's next tonight we have our budget Workshop or our budget meeting our instruction first draft um we have our second draft on April 8th at our next board meeting um at Shaker Road and we have the on April 23rd we'll adopt the budget and um approve the property tax report card on May 6 we'll have we'll be back here for our public hearing and uh the vote is on May 20th and then we certify hopefully all is good do I have any questions did you count how many Wolfies I included any questions I have a quick question can you go back to that one where it had the picture of Wolfie sent
035please sure and with so many teachers admin and and younger students in here can you can you just go over what that is because there's a lot of people that probably don't even know what it is and especially with the great it's great great point so Wolfie's Den is a collaboration between our Graphics club and our business Club at the high school um Mrs Stone group of the business entrepreneurship club and the um Mr defazio's class of the um Graphics Club was able to the graphics Club produces the items and works with uh the they they created this um old Chromebook cart I believe it was um this popup shop and it's really awesome the way that I'm sure that one of the people in this room can describe it better than me but um
036it's been a great collaboration and we're really excited to be able to support that for them really did anybody count how many WF mascots I have I've counted five so far I think that's about right that's all I have oh included possibility a upk interventionist a speech assist Tech and music therapy and I'm just wondering if they're still on the table decided to remove them from consideration the um that was an error on my part the upk interventionist is in this list um from this I had removed it from the PPS and wanted to put it over instruction but I missed it so that is included in this budget or draft um the music therapy is a wash so it is coming from um a contractual expense so it's not a budgetary impact so I
037did not include that on here um then what was the last one assistant yeah that's still on the the the consideration list and things like that um what's the Gap that we it would be adding to that Gap or starting to prioritize other things but yes it did come up at the uh PPS conversation thank youn appreciate it can't tune a fish what you tune a piano shout out to Mr bakus the birthday was yday all right thank you very much agenda item number nine these are reports and recommendations for Action these are letters a through e is there anything you'd like to note Dr Perry uh just the change order item C there that was our request for some additional parking stalls at Shaker Road elementary school so that's work that um James H
038Malloy who did the initial work um would contract for very good and thank you to the Conley family for the donation of the acoustic guitar and for the other two donations on behalf of Emily McDonald and a grant Saddlewood PTA does anybody have any other questions on that hearing none I'll take a motion I'm sorry mik Mr ke and Mr mik on the motion of Mr Keen seconded by Mr mik that the above stated reports and recommendations be approved all in favor any against motion carries 90 agenda item number 10 Personnel instruction these are on pages nine and 10 Mr robilotti yes thank you um I think we talked about this last meeting so we got on there the unified coaches for the basketball season uh the rest of the spring coaches that we were
039waiting on you welcome back Bobby Lem an employee many years ago started out with us and is coming back which is nice and u i' like to wish Deb schwank all the best in retirement we will absolutely miss her 31 years of experience and be best that I all right thank you very much any questions hearing none I'll take a motion Mr Casey seconded Mr Kean on the motion made by Mr Casey seconded by Mr Kean that the instr instuction Personnel changes listed on the attached sheets dated March 11th 2025 be approved all in favor any opposed motion carries 90 agenda item number 11 personnel support this is Pages 11 through 13 Mr Rob aot happy to report again that the list of appointments is longer than the list of changes or resignations two of
040the four resignations were just taking positions different positions within the district so overall a positive uh Personnel support agenda tonight so very good thank you any questions hearing none I will take a motion Mr Blakeley Mr mic on the excuse me motion made by Mr Blakeley seconded by Mr mik that the support Personnel changes listed on the attached sheets dated March 11th 2025 be approved all in favor any opposed motion carries 9 agenda item number 12 resolutions Mr katchadorian yes thank you so we have two resolutions we have National Autism Awareness Month and National School library month uh you should have received and at some point we'll open up a hyperlink as I like to do we are fortunate to have an awful lot of information shared with us across all of the buildings to
041see how we are celebrating and recognizing um both of those uh resolutions across the entire month I think some of the details are are fantastic for you guys to take a look at and if any way uh you might want to reach out to particularly our Librarians to support because it seems like they have an awful lot of fun things that they have planned going on throughout that duration of the month uh feel free and do so and if there are things as I know that are coming up that they'd like to invite you to we'll make sure that we reach out through Miss Lanigan to to get you an invite very and Mr ke I did get you information as far as the question that you had asked last time we had met we
042have 176 students um you know in regard to how many kids with autism diagnosis and are receiving special education programming you you're wel any questions comments hearing none I will take a motion Mr laraby second Mr Casey on the motion made by Mr larab seconded by Mr Casey that the above stated resolution be approved all in favor any opposed motion carries 90 agenda item number 13 Soul Source resolution Dr Perry yes this is a soul Source uh for curriculum purchase for prek we've been working with the office of early learning uh through Mr borman's uh leadership our uh upk teachers have been looking at a a variety of instructional materials and assessment materials this prek on my way is part of that curriculum package that is approved by New York State and uh because this
043company is the Sole Provider of that uh it's a sole source so we're recommending the uh approval of that soulle Source right thank you any questions Miss hulahan could you clarify for me why it's whole Source instead of single Source good question Mr um not sure if there's I'd have to look to see what the difference is uh soul is is the only in existence and single has um guidance for like there's a rationale for why as opposed to other prek curriculums for example in this context um I I don't know why we've done that we've typically only done sole source for single but I can try to get a little better answer for you than I have for tonight so stop me on that that's a that's a good question though all right thank
044you anybody else hearing none I will take a motion miss gigliello Mr Blakeley on the motion made by Miss gigello seconded by Mr Blakeley that the above stated resolution authorizing the I'm sorry could I make a motion to table this to the next meeting until we have clarification on Soul versus single source going give you enough time yeah all right oh I got you so the request was to uh purchase it in order to get it for superintendent conference day um the question of single or sole source we could strike the language if that's a concern but is it I guess I just want to better understand the process of section indicates to me there aren't other options I don't believe we've used it as as that term in my uh experience we've only used
045the term Soul Source uh there are other companies and there were other companies considered this was on the approved list by New York State as a recommended um curriculum um so the Scholastic educational Solutions is the sole Force provider of this curriculum so that's why we're adopting it as a soulle source all of our curriculum is to adopted as a soul Source but when we um the language specifies that we we use all of the the the US the New York state standards in in selection process that's we have that written in the first line thank you for the clarification app all right motion made by Miss gigliello seconded by Mr Blakeley that the above stated resolution authorizing the purchase of prek on my way as a sole source be approved all in favor any
046opposed motion carries 90 thank you agenda item number 14 resolution emergency pesticide use Dr Perry This was uh discussed at the recent facilities uh committee meeting uh we had uh uh some emergency uh updates of our field about three years ago um Cedar Street proper under Direction uh Mr zuller has uh worked with our staff on soil testing and uh remediation of our Fields we've seen growth but we've also seen uh some return of uh weeds and crab grass which uh create U hardening the field and and can create unsafe situations so Mr Zer uh had sent a letter recommending a treatment plan that included the temporary use of of pesticides uh through New York State uh Law requires us to um bring that forward to the board for what they deem emergency usage temporary
047use uh in order to treat the crab grass and and weeds before they become uh evasive um that's what this is presenting all right any questions Mr Casey with the amount of allergies and things that young people have to worry about I'm sure we've looked into this what are the parents being advised on pesticides that we're using with the MSDS sheets so they know what's being applied in case their child or children act one so is this only at the high school uh this will only be used at the high school we will also um notify the community uh with information on the types of pesticides and provide that uh the other thing is that uh these pesticides will be uh presented when uh no one will be accessing the fields and uh it is
048safe to play within 24 hours of application So the plan is to apply it on a a Saturday uh have people off the fields on Sunday and we'll be able to get back onto the fields uh with with no interruption as of perceivably Monday Dr our crab grass and such considered pest is that we call it a pesticide there well um it's an invasive weed um the pesticide is just the I pesticide is you know ants or termites or whatever is obviously it's not that it's not a it's not a no it's not not trying to get rid of an animal or something that's strictly the the crab grass and weeds um they create uh a variety of issues that suck up the the uh moisture it's included the fertilizer it's included in the yeah
049um but it basically hardens the field and and creates a bu much harder area um so we we try to limit the um use we limit the authorization uh to um strict location of certain Fields so it won't be all of our Fields the high school but it'll be a prescribed pattern we've come a long way um with uh some of the uh applications that are non- pesticides uh um line applications and different things to help balance the uh acidity of our our fields and uh allow us to grow grass so the front fields at uh the high school towards the St Creek roadside um we've been able to balance that pH balance a little bit better to where we're getting grass to actually grow back uh you may have seen it um over the
050summer going into the fall was kind of green and and um and looking better but waterers first and foremost and then obviously as the crab grass develops it's it's knocking that out seed alone uh and fertilizer will not take care of this cor Mr Z all right anything else hearing none I'll ask for a motion Mr Casey Mr larab on the motion made by Mr Casey seconded by Mr Larry the the above stated resolution emergency pesticide use be approved all in favor I any opposed motion carries 90 agenda item number 15 future meetings yes I will April April 8th so noted anything else um we will be as policy chair we won't be having the March 17 meeting ping April next date we're not having our our St Patrick's St policy and move it to
051the okay April all right yeah I'll give you the next meeting dat any further questions the school um we haven't come up with an altered dat at this point in time so the May one I think is the next I'm sorry we have not added an additional one uh uh as of this date anything else all right at this time are there any items for an executive session for admin hearing none I will take a motion to adjourn the meeting Mr keen and Mr Blakeley on the motion made by Mr Kean seconded by Mr Lely that the regular meeting be adjourned all in favor any opposed motion carries 90 time is 7:17 thank you all for coming any students in the participation of government please come up get your Forum signed