001We're intrigued by the all the fun messages. >> All right. >> Hello everyone. The regular meeting of the South Colony Board of Education is called to order. Roll call. TJ Blakeley is excused tonight. Casey >> here. >> Stephanie Kogan here. >> Vincent Fenzo >> here. >> Rose Giggleello >> here. Jennifer Hulan >> here. Michael Keane, >> I'm here. >> David Keel >> here. >> Christopher Larby is excused. Robert Mis >> here. >> Would everyone please stand for the pledge? >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you everyone for attending tonight. Agenda item number three, approval of the minutes. Would you please look at the meeting minutes of the September
00216th, 2025 meeting? Do you have any corrections or comments? I will take them now. Miss Hulahan. >> Um, I noted that our virtual public comments were not embedded in the minutes, just reference to what the topic was. And the folks who are in person, their comments are a matter of record because it's on YouTube, right? But the actual written ones, we didn't read them out loud here and they need to be added to the minutes, right? >> We can certainly do that. >> I did add the names in the topic. >> Yeah, I think it's about transparency with accessibility because anybody can watch a YouTube video and see the ones we had in person, but not the virtual ones that were submitted because we we didn't read them, right? We didn't >> we wouldn't put
003them in as a whole. Usually it's just their name and topic that's reflected in the minutes. >> I I guess that's something we could discuss in >> Could we create a link rather than attaching >> operations? Yeah. >> I just think public comments are supposed to be public, right? Like >> somebody should we the public should be able to access them >> in some way, shape or form. Format wise, I have no preference. just that they should be able to access them. >> All right, let's um let's move that then to a committee meeting to the board of operations and we can decide how we want to go about that. It's a very good point. Thank you very much. Any any other comments? Hearing none, I will take a motion to approve. Mr. Keane, second
004Mr. Misik. On the motion made by Mr. Keane, seconded by Mr. Misik that the minutes of September 16th, 2025 be approved. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Uh what are we at? 87 7 to zero. Agenda item number four, school board recognition. It's always my favorite school board meeting of the year. Schoolboard recognition week is October 13th through the 17th. Takes strong schools to build a strong community. and the men and the women serving on the board of education devote countless hours to make sure South Colony schools are helping every child learn at a higher level. They make tough decisions every month and spend many hours studying education issues and regulations in order to provide the kind of accountability our community expects. On behalf of the staff, faculty, and students of the South
005Colony Central School District, the superintendent recognizes the board, the members of the board of education for their dedication, commitment, and contributions to the students and community of the South Colony, and for the many hours of service they provide in supporting excellence in education. Dr. Perry, >> yes, >> your comments go right in. >> This working too hard because you're giving your own >> I am. you know, I'll give my own if I can. >> Uh on behalf of uh everyone in the district, myself included, I want to thank all of our board members. This kicks off our celebration of uh board appreciation and recognition week. Uh probably should be a month. Um but we're we're going to do it a little bit early. I I do want to recognize uh the service to our school
006community. Um Stephie Kogan, our board president, seven years of service. David Keel, our vice president. Uh 16 years of service to the the community and to the district. Brian Casey, 20 years of service. Rose Giggle, 13 years of service to the district. Michael Keane, six years of service to the district. Chris Larby, five years of service. Bob Music, five years of service to the district. Uh TJ Blakeley, three years of service. Jennifer Hulahan, two years of service. So thank you very much. And Vincent Welcome as our student board representative. We're gonna give you credit for a year of service. >> 11 years. >> Not on the board yet. But, um, seriously, uh, wonderful, uh, group of individuals. Uh, for those that may be new to the process, it's an all volunteer group. There's no compensation.
007Um, Mr. Ryan used to indicate to Mr. Casey, it was one or two meetings a month, maybe an hour or two. We know they go beyond that. Um we just had a meeting tonight audit finance. They were uh very early looking over our our financial documents and things like that. So our board members not only attend student functions uh community functions but go a long way in terms of making sure our processes run smoothly. So behalf of our district, thank you all. Really appreciate all you do. Um, we do have throughout the the room here, courtesy to our our students and faculty and staff. And thank you to uh, Amber Lyn again for helping to rally the the troops each year. Uh, some wonderful displays of appreciation uh, on behalf of our our students and
008staff to our board. So, thank you to our our teachers and faculty and students uh, for their efforts and in recognizing all that our board does. >> Thank you very much. Thank you. It's it's wonderful to work on the board. Um it's wonderful to work with such a great group. Uh and working with um our administration, with our staff, with our students is is a it's a great process and we're we're happy to be of help and we're happy to be of advice and uh we really appreciate the give and take that we have with everybody. It's it's really a a terrific process. anybody out there you think of board service, it is it is a very valuable experience and uh if you want to talk to anybody, talk to any one of us, we'd
009be glad to to talk to you about it. >> So, in addition to what you see in front of you, many of the the gifts and items of appreciation, uh we do have a video um that was uh developed by our staff and students. So, I'll let them take it away. [Music] [Applause] Co that's never slack David arts at heart kindness playing his party's been here 20 years strong scout mastery pen you can't go wrong keep the yellow grandma so sweet spreading kindness to everyone she meets Michael always Always laughing sports and policy smile wherever he goes and true at the high school always heavy metal beats on the field for all educator call in DRIVING the my part. >> That is terrific. >> Wonderful. We did not get the copyrights to that. So, we
010will share with the board. We just will not share it out publicly beyond tonight's recognition. We do the hardest protection of their privacy. But if you'd like the lyrics, let me know and I'll >> Oh, that's just terrific. >> So, who's the author? >> AI. That's not >> us information. >> Really? >> That's really fantastic. >> That's really neat. >> That's just terrific. It's great that we're recognized, but we also have to recognize Amber because without you organizing us and getting all the information to us and planning all these great things, it wouldn't it makes our job so much easier to have you here. >> Yep. Very good. Very good. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Agenda item number five. This is the president's spotlight. We are going to recognize Colony Central alum
011Jonathan Rudat for his heroic actions overseas. While riding a tram in Germany, Jonathan stepped in to protect two women being harassed, sustaining serious injuries in the process. His bravery and selflessness reflect the values of character and courage celebrated in the colony community. Jonathan, thank you so much. You make us so proud. You're here with your parents tonight, Amy and Chris. Thank you so much. I I don't even have words uh for your bravery. This young man is 20 years old and he was over in Europe. He was visiting his host family that you had stayed with in Germany and uh he saw a situation that wasn't right and he stepped in and it it went sideways >> pretty quickly. pretty quickly. >> Yeah. Thank you everybody. Thank you very much for having me tonight. Thank
012you very much for recognizing me. I really appreciate it. >> And if it were to happen again, you'd do the same thing. >> Oh, without a doubt. >> That is incredible. You are what South Colony is all about. >> Thank you, >> Jonathan. That is just so wonderful. We have a certificate to give to you. We'll take We'll go right up here if you would meet us. creepy. [Music] >> It's all rightafe. Thank you VERY [Applause] MUCH. All right. Agenda item number six, superintendent update. Dr. Perry. >> Uh, yes. Just uh a couple brief uh items to uh make note of. On October 18th, uh both events are happening on Saturday the 18th. We have a bus rodeo going on. recruiting event as well as a skills competition for some of our area community members.
013Uh we'll be driving around St. Creek Middle School and kind of an obstacle course. Uh for those community members who may be interested, uh come out uh learn a little bit about our transportation department, potentially get behind the wheel if you're a licensed driver and uh see what it's like. So, that begins at 9:00 on Saturday. And then our community open house uh highlighting the capital project work done at the high school will also be going on on Saturday beginning at 10:00 a.m. uh till about noon. We'll have students uh taking um groups around from the turf field, the concession area into the new fitness center and the mug gymnasium going through the team rooms and locker rooms. uh coming up the the stairs to see the B-wing which is the 290s wing and then
014uh heading back towards our new uh newly renovated F-wing which is the English and social studies wing and finishing the tour at the library. So kind of a circular pattern recommend parking in the the mug parking lot and look forward to those two events. >> Very good. Thank you very much. Agenda item number seven, new business. Miss Giggly yellow. >> Um I was fortunate enough to go to the IARE assembly. >> Um the second one. It was really nice. Great cause. Kids did a great job putting on the show. Um thank you to Tess for leaving them and everything that was needed. And also I'm sure everybody's going to say this, but the athletic hall of fame inductions and then the press box dedication. Wonderful situation. I know the Ryan family is just so thrilled
015and happy. Of course, we'd rather have Tim here, but this is a great tribute. So, >> very good. Thank you very much, >> Vincent. >> So, I want to also say the athletic hall of fame inductions were it was my first year going and it was amazing and I'm so happy for all the inductees and especially the Ryan family. Um, Mr. Ryan was a amazing man and I'm so happy that his family got to see the press box be open. Also, the high school I care at the high school is holding Halloween High on October 29th from 5 to 7:30 for all community members. It's mostly for elementary and younger middle school students. Um, and we also are inviting the board of education to have a table. I know I've reached out to Miss Kogan
016and Miss Lanigan. Uh, in years past, Board of Education has been present and um, Ganding forward to seeing you all there again. >> We will all be there. I think everybody's going to be there. >> Fantastic. And then following up, the phone policy I think is going well at the high school still. Um, just trying to hold on to that. I think it's going better than anticipated like I've said before. And the LA most recent event was upcoming game and homecoming dance and both were phenomenal. A lot of people at both events and um that's about it for me. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Mik. Uh yeah, again everyone here with the Athletic Hall of Fame, I just want to do a special thank you to Bill Romer did a great job. >> Roger
017Milan, MCN it, and then our own athletic hall of fame committee doing a great job uh recognizing those athletes and team. So great job. >> Very good. Thank you very much, >> Mr. King. >> I can always find something to say. >> I was going to say >> I got to attend that >> uh athletic hall of fame. As everyone said, it was um some great heartfelt speeches. Um looking forward to our academic hall of fame coming up on November 6th. Um uh Mr. Catching was giving Mr. Keel an update. Sounds like we've got everyone pretty much lined up. So lined up and should be attending. >> Terrific. Thank you very much, Mr. >> Well, let's see. I I I would just like to uh follow up Mrs. Gigglyello's uh statements about the IARE assembly.
018I was very impressed with the student presentations. Well projected and heartfelt and uh I appreciate the uh the leadership of the the young people there. Um I I won't add anything more to the Hall of Fame. It was wonderful. Uh you mentioned Halloween High and Mrs. Kogan's going to tell us about the PTA. So, uh, that's that's all I have to say. >> Very good. Thank you very much. Yeah. Then the PTA, we're talking about the, um, South Colony PTA council, which is the the whole council that everybody reports to and we had the inperson here at district office and it was also virtual. So, it was a hybrid meeting. It was just terrific. Great turnout. Um, they will be doing that sort of thing. uh they'll be doing it at Sand Creek I believe
019next time they'll be offering a a virtual and in person. If you can make it in person, it's always great to do that too. Um and the other thing I wanted to just mention, I was just I happened to be out and about. I realized it was Shaker Road's open house and the last time we had been at Shaker Road was the board walked out and it was two weeks before school opened and Shaker Road was um a mess. >> It was construction was Yes. It was it was just Yes. So I said I'm going to go in. That was where we were all from the root as remember. and uh they got the the new classrooms and I was looking specifically for Ken Borman who had all my kids for for first grade. And
020uh I went in and I I was sad I her classroom was dark but I went down to Mrs. Silling's room and there was Mrs. Borman and Mrs. Sillings and I see the room and it is absolutely gorgeous. I mean just so beautiful and they're telling me and now mind you this these are the same three rooms. All the first grade classrooms are are the same, right? They they are basically the same. Mrs. Borman took me out of Mrs. Hilling's room and made me go into her room to see her room that was the exact same thing and and showed me everything there. And then we went back to Mrs. Silling's room and Mrs. D. Marino was there and then she made me go to see her room was exactly the same thing. So, they're
021so proud of their room and they they they they have to be careful at lunchtime when they're in the staff room. They they don't want to say too much about their rooms because they're so lovely and everything, but they're so thankful. And I and um and Mrs. Borman did say a few things that I asked her if I could share uh with the board and she said, "I meant to also tell you how wonderful all the workers have been. Jimmy from Bass Hatfield was moving furniture and adjusting tables the day before the kids game came. Our custodians Mike and Amanda were moving countless boxes. Bill Dollar spent a Sunday at Shaker Road so we could have more time unpacking. So many people pitched in to get those students in their rooms on day one. I
022know I'm not touching nearly all the names or the tasks accomplished, but wanted to share. Too often we hear the negative and it's important to hear the positive, too. So, all of that really meant a lot to the staff and the students of Shaker Road. I wanted to be sure that that was heard because I know that was that was a tough race to the finish. So, thank you very much. Thank you to all our workers and our staff who were there too to make the kids have someplace to go on opening day at Shaker Road. And that is it. Thank you very much. Agenda item number eight, communications. Are there any public comments? >> Nothing today. >> All right. Do you want to start? Yes. >> Yes, I will. Before we start agenda item
023number nine, the board committee reports, which I believe are the most interesting parts. If you don't, you don't need to stay. If anybody just came to hear the first part of this, you are certainly welcome to adjourn yourself. >> Thank you so much for coming. [Applause] >> All righty. Agenda item number nine, board committee reports. First up is graduation athletic hall of fame. Mr. Keane is the committee co-chair. >> I am. >> Yes, you are. If you have any comments to make. >> Um, I mean, everything is pretty much there in the minutes. We just had, you know, successful um, athletic hall of fame. We've got the academic coming. Just, you know, one note for folks is the nomination forms are out there. Um, you know, had some conversation with folks the other day. We,
024you know, the committee seems to lack female candidates for athletics and just that encouragement to find folks that have excelled. I can think of a handful off the top of my head, but I don't always have those relationships. Um, so that we can recognize everyone's achievements. >> Anything to add, Mr. I would just add that uh the athletic hall of fame nomination committee will be meeting I think it's in December where we kind of look at what happened and look forward look ahead it's not the new nomination time but if anybody has any suggestions for uh improvements anybody in the audience has any suggestions for improvements or changes we would be happy to hear about that we'll discuss in December. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Next committee report, academic achievement. That is you, Mr.
025Ke. You have anything to say? >> Mrs. Judge is here. If you want to ask anything of of Mrs. Judge, she's going to be presenting here tonight. I know, but anything else you want to ask about the said presentation uh to the academic achievement committee? I think not. So, thank you. All right, that's all. >> Very good. Thank you very much. Agenda item 9C is policy and Mr. Laravey is not here tonight, so I can take that. We have lots of policies we went over in our meeting of September 29th. We have the first reading of four policies at the very top and then we have a single reading and approval of a bunch of policies and that is all. You'll see that on page four and then at the top of page five. I
026will spare you reading everything out loud, but does anybody have any questions before we proceed? All right. Then on behalf of the policy, upon the motion made by committee member Stephanie Kogan, recommendation that the revisions made to the above stated policies be approved as presented. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries seven to zero. Thank you very much. Agenda item number 10, reports for information and action. 10A is the external auditor report and that is John Chrisone of the CUSAC and company. Um Jacqueline, would you like to do any introductory comments to this before John takes the stage? >> Uh I think you got it all. >> All right. >> John, take it away. >> Thank you again. Uh so we present we're presenting the audit report for um the year end June 30,
0272025. Uh about an hour ago, we went over with the audit committee uh the audit results and I'll just kind of reiterate that an and her team uh did a great job in getting us all the information that we need. There's a lot that goes into the audit. um not only from phase one where we you know dive into your internal controls and we sample test uh over 100 you know transactions including your extra classroom funds. Um but also after the year end is complete we actually get in there probably not even a month after uh the year end closes and we start testing your balances. So, uh, it just shows, uh, the level of effort and the timeliness, uh, of when we can actually get in, uh, to do the audit. And not that
028Ang wants to get us in and out as fast as possible, uh, but it's, uh, is it is very helpful when we're on site, whenever we're asking for information, and it's a lot of information that we ask for, as long as Jacqueline as well, she knows. um it's uh it's it's there you know within probably 15 or 20 minutes which is uh kind of unheard of in a lot of other you know districts that that we audit. So uh so that's something that's uh that's nice to see the fact that uh when we present results like we are today uh where there's absolutely no findings no recommendations for internal control uh processes. Uh we think that you have great segregation of duties and approval processes internal out of function. Um so and also another thing
029that you want to hear from your auditors is uh things like no material weaknesses, no significant deficiencies. Uh and you know I don't think we had we never have any adjusting journal entries. I know the the materiality factor for us to propose any entries is is quite high for the district. However, um you know, it just shows that the the accuracy of the books of records as of June 30, 2025 that Ang and her team is presenting before we actually come in and do the audit. So, uh that that helps a lot with the um the time limits and efficiencies of of the audit process as well. Uh allows us to focus on main parts of the audit, which is what we're supposed to do. And it focuses on the 83 page report that we're
030presenting here today. So um but yeah again kudos to to you and your team. Um another clean opinion from us both on the regular audit extra classroom funds and the single audit which is the the federal awards uh programs. So all good good news to report. Um, and if anybody has any, I know we went into a little bit more detail with the audit committee, but if anyone on the board has uh any other questions here, >> do we hear any questions? >> I would just say it's a uh because of our our staff here that uh do such a wonderful job that uh we don't have any worries in that area. So, we we really appreciate it and thank you very much. >> Yes, I would I would echo that comment. Angie, thank you.
031I know you put a lot of time into this, a lot of effort. Really appreciate. Jacqueline, thank you to you and to your staff, too. It's it's a lot of hard work, and to hear this is very satisfying to to me and to the board and to everybody in this room. I know. All right. And I I just happen to think that in the past, uh, Mrs. Martinez, you have talked about that state ed coming in and they wanted to do it. They they've done audits in the past that uh take the whole summer and take the whole building and everything. Is is that something that's uh coming or is it gone or >> They're supposed to do it every five years. It's rotated bases, but it's been a little over five and we haven't
032seen them. Okay, >> speaking our doorstep one of these days a little behind schedule, >> but clearly the >> time group doesn't occupy the time that uh that they do. That's wonderful. >> I think we're pretty close to the capital, so they like to hang out. >> They like to hang out here. >> Yeah, it's been a little while >> get on quite a bit. >> Yeah. programs and >> but Angelique does a great job in the summer and most people say you know um oh you you work for school summer you're off and it's our busiest time >> it's a little stressful we wipe the sweat off probably September 15th is when it kind of dies down as everybody else is ramping up we kind of get to die down a little bit so
033um thanking Angelie and all of her hard work over the summer to get our books closed and open >> but in >> we do it together >> in the auditing world wouldn't when you're doing your job right, you don't have anything to worry about. >> All right. Very good. >> So, on behalf of the audit finance committee, upon the motion made by the board of education president, recommendation that the external audit report prepared by John Krisco of the Cusack Company CPA's LLC for the 2425 fiscal year be approved as presented. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries seven to zero. Thank you very much, >> John Angelique. Thank you. >> Thank you. Have a good evening. >> Thank you. >> Agenda item number, agenda item 10, letter B, 2025, summer school reports. That's Stephanie
034and Loose on summer school program for grade 9 through 12. then Melissa Judge for ESY, summer school program for special education and then Jennifer Wells will report on the summer academy. Ladies, take it away. >> Good evening. Uh first and foremost, I want to thank the board uh for all your dedication to the community as well as the summer program um as well as the district cabinet. Um it wouldn't be a successful program without the support that you all provide. Um so this year summer school a little shift with construction going on shifted to San Creek. Um which was interesting to say the least. Um the the 7 through 12 program ran July 7th through the 14th. Um we stayed with a 25day program. Um same times for three sessions. Uh session one and two
035are always jam-packed and then session three is a scheduling. Um, if some of those kids needed two classes, three classes, we were able to finangle the schedule so that they could max out at at three courses and earn as many possible credits as they could. Um, grades five, six is a 20-day program. They come from 8 to 11 focusing strictly on math and ELA. And then, of course, our ENL summer boot camp, which is always a nice experience for our students, um, went on as well. And that's a 12-day program. And shout out to Apami. She does an excellent job with that program. Um grade levels enrolled 56 we had 49 students. 78 there were approximately 84 students and 9 through 12 we had 151 students. These are just the students in core courses. Um
036so total of about 284 kids this summer. Um, and then we had about 249 students enrolled in our virtual regions test preps. Um, and 104 students passed a regent exam this summer. Um, as usual, uh, any student that gets through the summer and passes a regent exam or gets a course credit is a win in our eyes. So, um, that's an amazing accomplishment for those students that are attending in the summer. Um 89% of students who completed the program earned course credit. Um and there was an 89% daily attendance rate. Um and that's for 9 through 12 only those credit varying classes. Um the courses offered English uh and math for five six which I touched on. Grades 78 was ELA math social studies and science. Um and then our 9 through 12, um we
037offered all the courses we typically offer besides earth science. Um we were unable to find an earth science teacher to um to deliver the coursework, but we did still offer a test prep for those students um with some admentum support. So we tried to get creative um given the circumstances. The courses with the asterisks are accelerated courses, health, economics, and CIP. >> Describe what you mean by accelerated. >> Uh, these are students who want to get ahead. Um, so they're taking these courses so that they can free up their schedule during the school year to take additional courses at the high school, whether they're college level courses, an internship experience. Um, so they all benefit from having these three courses in the summer as a senior especially so that they can take advantage of some
038of the courses, especially those singleton courses that are only offered one period of day. Um, so it's definitely helpful for more accelerated students. Uh, CIP awesome experience in the summer. Um there were 15 students that uh participated in CIP this summer. Um some of the placements were uh the New York State Department of Transportation, Samaritan Hospital, Capitol Imaging, San Creek Animal Hospital, and then um in our very own backyard of the high school. We had some students working in the greenhouse and they learned all of the elements of running a green greenhouse and then even um provided some food like services with food options that they harvested. >> Are they doing the same volume of hours they would do during a typical school year? >> Yeah. Um it's just a virtual component. So um they're
039virtual with Mrs. over the summer and then they still have to do those internship hours. >> Whereas in the school year they're in person for the instruction. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Uh August regent exam, like I said, um you know, any student that gets through an August exam is a win. Um these are some of our students that struggle to pass and have taken these exams multiple times throughout the school year either January or June. Um so anyone that passes in August is a win and it also it just boosts our June regions exam scores. So I have included the August data here. Um and I can I can send this data out to all of you um tomorrow morning. So, if you'd like to dive a little deeper, um, and then you can see
040the combined June and August passing rates, um, as well. Um, ENL boost camp, uh, this year was a really cool experience for our students. They took a field trip to the Radics Center in Albany. Um, so they always have a theme every year and this year it was aquaponics. Um at the end they always present um a capstone project where teachers and students kind of come in and they provide verbal presentations and their projects at the end of the summer. Um so it was a really nice experience uh for those students and and they thoroughly enjoyed going to the Radic Center um especially the chickens that are there from what I hear. Um, huge shout out to, you know, the transportation department. They always do a very nice job getting our students to and from,
041uh, summer school for all three sessions. Communications, thank you for assisting with the website andformational brochures. Our counseling department for assisting with student registration. Food service went above and beyond this year with offering the grab and go in the morning, but also accommodating our students for lunch, um, which was awesome to have on site. A lot of our kids would finish their day, grab lunch, and then go home, or they were just coming in for a course, would grab lunch and um, head to another course. Um, so it was nice to have them on site. Uh some changes from last year that went well um that I mentioned in the updates last year um was we did host registration on the same date for 7A as the high school which eliminated a lot of confusion
042as to who was going to show up. So students from 7A came and the middle school counselors were also at the high school west wing registering their students. So we had a clear picture of who was going to attend. I thought that went very well. Um, we had 15 onetoone students enrolled this summer who benefited from uh, special ed instruction and it was pretty individualized as to what the credits they needed um, as far as like general English um, general algebra A and B courses that uh, wouldn't typically be offered over the summer. We were able to offer to some kids. Um, and now exciting news. Obviously, you've probably heard, but we have two certified drivers education teachers that, um, I'm hoping next summer we'll be able to get a number of students in the
043program and run it at a higher scale. Uh, some recommendations for next year, I would recommend returning. I know Likill was under construction, but returning to a smaller location. As far as Sand Creek, it is a little challenging to contain high schoolers to one wing of a building um when it's an entire loop. So, um Lys was definitely a lot more feasible with just containing the kids to one area. Um and it worked well. Uh adding an ENL teacher for summer school. A number of our enrollment um and I can send out some data after the fact, but a large number of our students in the summer are ELELLL students. um and being able to provide that support for them in the summer and get them through some of the courses and tests they need
044would be instrumental I think um I would say two administrators much feasible um at least for registration regent exams um even day-to-day tasks having two on-site is definitely a benefit um and offering driver's ed over the summer >> can you clarify Y 200 some odd students, you were the only administrator. >> Yes, it's manageable. It's just definitely helpful to have >> another person. Obviously, Jana um used to assist me and it worked very well, but um I would say it's definitely goes smoother when you have two people. Luckily, I had some support staff that were willing to help it out and my clerical Rihanna is amazing and does a very nice job. But >> excellent. Uh, any questions? Yes. >> Um, with the regions results, do you have it broken down how many of the
045students that didn't pass were L's? >> I can get that for you. I have it from uh last year and I can work on this year's as well. >> Yeah. >> Yep. >> I just wanted some clarity around the edmentum for earth science. Is it was it the like computer-based the kids are working independently part of Edenum or like the ed options where they have virtual tutoring and virtual instruction? >> It was completely independent. >> What what other option because clearly that like based on the data that didn't work right like only two kids passed. So what other options like can be explored when we have staffing? I mean, we can't make people work in the summer, right? It is what it is, right? Like, and so what are the options? Like, what are your
046suggestions for next summer if we were to run into that for any of the subjects, right? >> Yeah. Um, and again, like that I probably should have put in my recommendations. Um, the hiring was a little challenging this year. Um, and you're right, we can't make people work in the summer. um you know some of the positions we hired outside and and >> between you and I it wasn't you know we like to have our own um >> and we want to make sure that our kids you know they know our kids they know you know how things roll here and and getting kids through and getting their credits. So yeah so especially like uh the sciences they're they're hard to hire for >> and that's even in the school year. So um definitely something
047that we'll need to look into and get creative with. I'm just wondering about I know the cost associated with Adventum and I'm wondering what costs it would be to perhaps like partner with neighboring districts where they're able to accept our kids into their programming where they might have other members. Like that's just my wondering and suggestion, I guess. Um and I'd love to look at the data on like a three-year trend be awesome. Thank you. >> Yeah, >> I appreciate everything. >> Of course. >> All right, I'm going to turn it over to Melissa. appreciate yourself. >> Mr. system this summer they were taking their administrative course work at MCLA. >> Okay. >> So a lot of them weren't available in Jana Blair moved over to the science supervisor. So one of those who could
048do it brand new hire. >> Hi everybody. I'm Melissa judge and I oversaw ESY this summer. Um I will just echo Stephanie. I'm really grateful that I am able to oversee extended school year. It's a phenomenal program. I enjoy every second of it and thank you to the district cabinet and the board of ed for all your support. Okay, so program overview. I gave you a handout and I'm really not going to read from it. I'm just using it as a little guide. We've had um 104 students who said yes to ESY this summer and I would say about 98 of them attended consistently. Um summer program is six weeks for ESY. It's K12. Um goes to age 21. It's from like right after July 4th till mid August and we go from 8 to
04912 and we are housed at Forest Park. This year we had 17 sections that ran and on your um handout you will see the breakdown of the sections. We have 612 um for elementary and middle. We have 913 for elementary, middle, and high school. And we have um 1212 for elementary, middle, and high school. Okay. Faculty and staff. I also list all of our faculty and staff. Um we have a lot of faculty and staff at BSY and they are super supportive, super collaborative. Um many new staff this summer. We had um an art teacher that came. For me, it was my first time with art, but as Dr. Perry said, like we've had art in the past, but we were able to offer art this summer. So, Miss Dudak joined us from Lisha Hill.
050She was wonderful. She worked half the day, so part-time art. So we rotated specials for our ESY students. Uh we had new PT this summer. Um Samantha Lanigan, wonderful addition house right at first park and she did an amazing job. We also have just new teachers, new monitors, new TAs. And I will say like ESY just a little bit of a learning curve and the returning staff and the veteran staff definitely help collaborate and support so we have a successful program. student services. We did offer this summer um speech, social work, um occupational therapy, and physical therapy like we do every summer. You will see based on my notes that speech is like the highest need and then secondary to um OT. So that just like um informs our staffing, but our students are receiving
051that um based on their IEP recommendations. And I will say that that is really fun. We do remember it is summer. So our um service providers make sure that they have fun with the supports like we have cooking, we have games. They do a lot of different things to engage students to make sure that they're meeting their IEP goals over the summer. Okay. Attendance, safety, and wellness. We have particularly um I would say good numbers for summer. And we did talk about this last summer. And Den, I know you asked about this. I would say like I tried to break it down a little bit more just so you could see like the attendance data for each class. Overall it's like 87% attendance and I do think that's pretty good for over the summer. And
052I looked specifically at like why students were out. A lot of it is families just go on vacation. Like one of our students went to Africa for like two weeks. Another student like they went on multiple trips. Sometimes they do day trips. Sometimes students get sick over the summer. So there are things that come up. Um, I did put in there, just to be totally honest, like one parent thought ESY ended early, so we're like, "Where's this student?" So, we called it, "Oh, we'll bring them back." Sometimes parents have little kids at home. They can't always do busing, so they'll bring them in or sometimes they can't. So, those things pop up. And then additionally, like we don't really send kids home from ES5. And unfortunately, this summer we didn't have any kids sent home.
053It was fine. We worked through it. Lots of good discussion and documentation working with his team for the upcoming school year. And I did check in on him and he's doing great. So those discussions were actually really positive and brought to light some things that we can work with PBS and his um related service providers on. So I would say very good attendance. We always do two fire drills just to make sure that we're practicing and we're getting out and they went extremely well. We have TCIS teams that I assigned at the beginning of the summer. This year we also did like TCIS group texts. I know it's like grounding for me. Really helped a lot. I don't know why we didn't do it last summer, but we brought it back this summer. And we
054did order some radios, which were amazing because when you need people, it's just really nice to like someone know like somebody's on their way. Um, we want to make sure that we're responding to crisis. It's timely and that trained staff are there quickly. Um, we also have selfware from Permo, which people in the 612 classrooms typically use, but some of our 913 teachers use it as well. um selfware just as like arm um covering, hand covering, jackets u just to make sure like if students are in crisis and they're scratching or biting or kicking that our teachers are safe and our um monitors and TAs are safe and protected. Um this summer also we had um breakfast again. We've always typically had breakfast I believe and about 65 students on average took advantage of breakfast
055the other morning and then we had lunch new this summer and I will echo Stephanie and just saying that we're really grateful to food ser service and that and her team um just provide a variety students loved it like a lot of kids like look forward to lunch and talk about lunch and had favorites and we had 85 kids um were able to get lunch and have lunch before they got on the bus and left for the day and we felt really good about that. So really grateful to food service and to Annette for all her hard work. Um we also had um some really exciting things happening in terms of just experiences for students. SEPTA is amazing and they support ESY. They pay for our bring on the Spectrum field trip which we do
056um historically since I started working with Jill for ESY every year. It's a great trip. I got to go over there this summer and be part of it. It is so much fun and the kids love it. I would say like I didn't really like people talked about getting rid of that trip or not, but this year we had no issues. The hardest issue is just number one preparing kids that they have to leave Forest Park, get on the bus in the middle of the day and go over there. So, we just do a lot of work with transitions, but once we get to bring on the spectrum, it's really fun. It's so um sensory and it's hands-on and they're moving the whole time and then when they come back, we're just transitioning them. So,
057we try to do it close to like when they get to leave and go home for the day. That works out really nicely. But it was a successful trip and that's really for more of our like elementary and sometimes ear like young middle school kids. But we did have about um 50 students participate out of 98. Um our high school classes do try to do different things like they'll have their own trips. They go to local businesses to volunteer and support and I just listed some of those for you. This year Amy Bane did a new thing where she brought her class to CrossFit and they loved it and looked forward to it and it was a really great experience for them. Um this year we also did something different where we added a music
058experience. U Mr. Hartell agreed to come once in July and once in August and we worked with district office and um they just had like each class had about a 30 minute music experience in July and August. It was very hands-on again a lot of movement. The kids had a blast. The faculty and staff just love seeing the kids like really like moving and enjoying. It was so much fun. I highly recommend doing it again if possible. It was a great experience. We also try to remember it's summer. Stewarts is always great. They donate ice cream to us. We did our um last day ice cream social. We also were fortunate enough to work with SEPTA to bring Kona one day. We did that the second to last day. The kids love it. And again,
059you can incorporate learning with that. There's a lot with counting and a lot with colors and it was really we could make it an academic experience as well. Um additionally, I will just say thanks to Denine and her team like there's a lot that goes into ESY. We want supplies. We want kids to be able to be hands-on. And we also want to make sure we have what they need in terms of wipes and pull-ups. And she provides drinks, snacks, and gloves. And that's housed in our nurse's office. We also got to do a little bit of water play this summer. Very safe. Very safe. Slip and slide monitored extensively. No accidents. It was great. It was so much fun. And we did have some dance parties. So, I think that was also a win.
060Again, it's summer. We want kids to learn and enjoy. And you always can always incorporate learning into those activities. Okay. Academics. So, going back to like business, we had some really great strides over the summer in terms of kids meeting their academic goals. I will say our teachers are so attentive to progress monitoring. Right at the beginning of the summer, they get on, they make sure they have their summer goal posted in frontline and then they're progress monitoring every two weeks and then at the end of summer they send families their progress report just letting families know how students did with the summer goal and what they're going to focus on for the next year. And I do want to thank PBS. I work really closely with them just to make sure that teachers have
061access to frontline so they're reading IEPs ahead of time, making sure summer goals are established and making sure that they're able to progress monitor. Okay, strengths. I would say that we had two consistent nurses this summer, which is great. I like again worked with Jill and sometimes we're not always able to have a consistent nurse. Last summer we had one, this summer we had two, but they did a really nice job communicating. It was crucial because we do have some kids who need attention in terms of like if they have diabetes, if they have medication, if they just need someone who knows them. So, Julia June and Ashley Williams were able to split it and they both did a phenomenal job. Also, as Steph said, the transportation department, I can't I just I don't know
062when I'm going to get over it. I don't know if it's going to happen in my lifetime, but they are amazing. um talking just getting the kids on the bus, checking with me, making sure all kids are there, providing booster seats, harnesses, safety. I had to ride the bus home one day with a kid and the way these bus drivers are so attentive to the students, making sure the parents there, I just I never knew as a high school person what goes on with this, but I am so impressed. They are a big part in our safety and I can't thank Brian Sim and Kyle Barla enough with their team for all that they do. Um, additionally, custodians for Bradley at Forest Park. He might murder me one day, but that's okay. I probably deserve
063it. I harassed Bradley 24/7, texting, calling, and he's trying to like get the school cleaned and organized and then open it again. And I'm like, Bradley, Bradley, nope. Can't do it, kid. Like, listen, we got to work it out. So, we ended up working through some things. But Bradley is so neat, clean, tidy, and responsive. And I'm grateful to him and every other custodian that helped me. And maintenance. I mean I was calling them a lot too. They came down James Love it and his IT team just making sure people are set up with technology for the summer like um Ann said and Jacqueline said like like it's dead in the summer for most people but for ESY it's not and people are like on summer break but I would be calling them asking them
064to come and help and they did because we want the program to run smoothly and effectively. So, I thank all those departments. Already did my shout out to food service. PPS seriously so helpful in terms of guidance and direction and making sure that we're meeting kids where they are, providing their services, and just giving me some like PBS expertise that I might need to know. Um, talked about selfware. Coffee cart came back. I think I need to skip a slide. Coffee cart came back. So much fun. Kids love it and adults love it and they're learning so much from that program. Shout out to Sarah Norton's team for that. Um, Jen Satin and Marin Alexander did breeding cards this summer and recycling and we had three therapy dogs that were there to join us. So,
065those are some of our programs strengths. You'll see one of the new therapy dogs, Stanley, right there. He was a gentle gem. So sweet. >> Um, program recommendations. There's just three. Number one, I just will say that I would recommend that all staff who do ESY are trained in TCIS. I do think it's crucial that they're either um you know deescalation trained or restraint trained. If they're going to be in 612, I think they need to be restraint trained. I just think it will help um and make them feel more confident in those situations. There's also talk about sensory training or different types of training that we could provide to staff and I'm open to exploring that with PPIs or excuse me PPS as well. Um I would say just I field trips are so
066great and we do have bots and I know we talked Dr. and I about trips like Joe used to do a lot and then we got away from them. But if we can bring people in like we brought James in this summer that was fun. We had Kona come if the kids think it's like a huge deal having someone come and there's like an admiration from their regular schedule. So I'll work and try to find like good deals. I know I have to remember like money is a thing and we have to be thoughtful about that. So anyh who um I just think that's really good for the kids and it gives a lot of um engaging activities where we can apply academics. And then just lastly art came back. So, we had library PE
067art and I I would like to see if we could have music. I do think it's really great for the kids to have specials and I'm open to like doing it less like right now we have library point6. I think that'd be great if we had library like point4 and PE.4. Jonathan Point does amazing job with PE and then maybe had music and art like less maybe less but more special. I think it's just great for kids to have those different areas where they're really getting out and using their academics and applying it in different ways. But overall, loved ESY. It was a great summer. And that's it for me. Thank you. [Applause] >> Melissa, can you talk about the training aspect? >> Sure. >> What goes in and especially because I see you've got
068here the the stealth wear and if it's >> Yeah. I I have something similar called Ukaro which is you know equipment and such are trained staff using the the equipment >> so that's they they have to be certified in that before they can use the >> but what happens is like it's train the trainer model so a lot of our so I go through and I see who is PCIS certified I get a full list I do a deescalation list and then a restrain a strength like um full restraint list and then I'll call TC DCIS teams, you don't really suit up and go to a room if you're not certified, but it just like it's it's usually the same people, right? So, and then there's usually people who come out as more confident who
069will end up leading the charge and then they'll go and they'll go, but I try to switch it up. So, I'll have like this summer I think I have five teams of four, which isn't bad. It's probably pretty good. But it would be helpful if everybody who's in that room was TCIS trained because then they're not waiting for something specifically like it happens and then they're doing their best and they're doing a great job and I'll go immediately. But I'm not TCIS restraint trained. So I'll just be there watching and helping and doing what I can until the TCIS team reports. It's not too long, but like the sooner the better. >> Thank you. question. Hold on. >> Go ahead. Sorry. >> I just want to shout you out for your tremendous energy and all
070of the like amazing experiences you provided for some of our most vulnerable students. Um so thank you for that. I do have a question about um the 104 students that said yes to ESY. I'm wondering out of how many who were eligible? And I you don't have to give me that data now, but that is just some followup data. >> I can absolutely look and see curious about um and I know we talked last year about potentially delineating between the programs around the hours because we recognized that certainly the sixes, right? Like sometimes families don't take advantage of those programs because they are only from 8 to 12. Um, and we previously had offered a longer day and I I distinctly remember us discussing that year this year last year that possibly we could at
071least consider extending the day for some of our families that don't have alternative options for the children to go at noon because it's either a full-time program out or a full-time program in the district and we have working families. So, it's just in terms of recommendations something I'd really like to see us more strongly consider next summer supporting um and um I love the idea of getting creative with in-house field trips um because that's still a special experience for kids even if they're not physically going somewhere and sometimes more manageable. Yes. Um so, shout out for that. Um and um the partners with you know the folks who are sponsoring different opportunities for the kids. Um, and if you need any support with this, I'm happy to help point you in some directions. >> Be
072careful because I'll be going. Um, two things I just want to say to that is we do have some staff I know like extending it is like we've been talking about it, but we do have staff at ESY who actually sign up to do restit. So when kids leave at noon, like there is some ESY staff that will actually go with the kids. I think it's like more this year than I saw last year. So that's a nice thing, too. >> Yeah. And I'll get you the data on like who said no to ESY. >> Yeah. Okay. I think it would just be good to collect not only what the no, but why they said no. Right. Absolutely. Yeah. >> You're amazing. >> Do you have your team ready to go for next summer or
073do you >> We're ready. >> The earlier you recruit them, the better, right? >> That's why I'm here. Yeah, we'll be ready. Absolutely. Um they're a great group and they're supportive and a lot of them have been doing it for a while. We try to make it as enjoyable as possible for possible for them so they come back and I think we do a great job. Our district really takes care of its employees. So, we'll be communicating in spring and they're waiting for it. They're always asking when's the posting coming soon. Okay. But yes, Mr. We'll be ready. >> Okay. >> Yes. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> All right. I'll follow Melissa [Music] for UPK for summer academy. So, something that we didn't put in here um is that it was my 10th year
074doing this program. So, um, we have 11 in the district, but co we didn't have that one here. So, it was our 10th anniversary. Um, we've evolved a little bit and before I start, Mr. Thompson could not be here. So, he sends his regrets. He has two, um, aging in-laws and one's not supposed to drive at night and the other one needs PT and he was going to drive the one to PT and Mr. Thompson's like, "No, you're not." And I said, "Thank God you live next door." Because he saw him trying to get in the car. So he sent his regrets but um he worked with me and I'll talk a little bit about that as we go. So um when we started as many of you know we had only K2 um literacy
075academy back in the day when I started and it was an hour and a half um at 8:30 to 10 and 10:15 to 11:45 and after about two years I said our second session was that basically there were times when no kids would come. So, we petitioned to the board and we thank you so much because we asked for a three-hour program and it's been huge because we averaged about 87 kids back then and this year our numbers are down 297 down 71 and it was due to the late budget approval and that wasn't because of anyone's fault. We just had to look at funding since COVID funds went out. We had to kind of revamp some things. Once we got the approval, parents unfortunately had already made commitments because like Melissa said, UPK4 especially,
076summer camp information, if you haven't had a little one in a while, I still have a sixth grader. So, I know you book those in January. So, when we don't put out invitations till March, April, parents are already committed. Um, they do ask, they reach out and we're like, "Yep, you're invited." But without that final like, "Are you sure we're in type of thing?" Um, that was a challenge. So next year we already know thanks to Jacqueline and Dr. Perry, we know our budget. So we're prepared to invite them sooner and we'll be able to get those numbers back up again, I think, because we um have been averaging about 350 students since co. Um so um this is at the New York State Museum and I'll talk about that in a little bit, but
077we had two locations this year. Thank you to Saddlewood. Peter was under construction as Mr. Varda can attest to. He did have an office and so I don't know. Do you have one yet? Okay, he does. Um, that's great. I'm in his old one, so I don't know. Um, so, um, Saddlewood was great. Stacy Rannish and her staff were amazing. She had not done it, and that was news to me because Stacy and I have worked together for almost 20 years now with my time with her at Boseies, and she had never had summer academy at her building as a principal because she'd only had the playground drop off program. So, she had CYC and summer academy for the first time this year. So, kudos to her. We made it all work. Everyone was wonderful.
078Her new custodian because Pat retired. He was very helpful. Um, and it went amazingly well. And then we were also at Rosalo like we always are and they're always fantastic over there. And their CYC staff is veteran staff. We choose the buildings with CYC for ease of families so that they can bring them before come to us for summer school. Um, and then go back to CYC and that's why we do it and it works beautifully. It doesn't interfere with their field trips although they don't go on any anymore. I don't know if you know that. They only go on like two. They don't go swimming anymore. So that was sad news for all of them. I didn't know any of that until this summer. So, but they did go to the movies and how
079Caverns and our students got to go because it doesn't interfere. We make sure they're available. So, um those are the locations. Ours is the 16-day program usually and this year it was sometimes it's 15 days because if the Fourth of July runs in there, then we just we always end on Thursday. We talked about ending on a Monday once and we thought that would not go well. So, this year was a full 16 days, four straight weeks. uh 41 teachers, 24 TAS in UPK4. We had co-e in every um grade level except UPK in both buildings. So we had a K co-e one, two, three, four in both um Saddlewood and Rosela. And just I should have said this, I apologize. We divide the kids up now with Forest Park goes to Saddlewood and or
080Beer Side. Um and then at Roselo and Shaker Road at the other side just because of the building size and it's easier um to get them over there. So then we have the three schools in one. We're up to 33% ELLs and if you remember last year um we had 25%. So as um Steph was saying too our percentage is rising and that does not include the Sally Ward as I call ENL program. That's just who is in our summer academy program. So, she has the separate, you know, program that's housed with us, but we're up to 33%. Um, so we're rising in that regard and that's showing in our need. Um, so we thank you for allowing us to have an ENL teacher this year that helped support us. Um, she pushed in to
081the rooms and so that was great. Um, we were able to do it again, second year in a row of 100% maintenance on at the pay reading level. We do that in the beginning at the end of June. They all take it in school and then at the end of our program they do it again to make sure they've maintained some increase. But I'm just looking for maintenance. It's a four-week um program. Now, I'm not going to lie to you. They revert back because unfortunately they go back home for five more weeks. Yeah. >> Before they start with us again in September. We encourage them to read, but we do see some slide as Melissa will now tell you um over August. And so we're looking at ways that we can help support that. We
082encourage them to do reading at home summer library I Ready things like that but time gets away fast. Attendance we had 95% again second year in a row. Um I will tell you that I might be cheating that just a little bit and I um Rich and I made the decision that we our attendance dipped week two because they go to camp convention but because they go to Camp Invention in our district and I verify that they're really over there. I say that they I don't mark them like out. I just take them off that week. So Ang and I calculated that they really only attended three weeks out of three weeks because they're over there. Um so if we take that out then that number would be lower, but since we've had camp invention
083in our district that's what um because we don't want to tell them not to go. So they're in something that we're offering. So um and they're getting a great experience at that place. So we don't want the families to feel they have to choose. So um but the kids love coming. They keep asking us if we can have it longer. Can we have it on Fridays? Can we go in August? Can't get my staff to agree to that. I've been trying, but they they're like, "Four weeks is good, Jen. I'm good. Thank you." Um, but the kids truly love it. Like Melissa said, they really love it. So, um, highlights again, we had remediable reading and math. Um, for both buildings, and that was great. So, we pulled our tier two and tier three kids,
084and we had speech for tier two and tier three kids. And when I say speech, I don't mean like IEP speech. I mean that we had it for our tier two and tier three kids that get it during the school year. So they were able to work um with one we have one travel between the two buildings. Um same thing second year with UPK students and that is going really well. I talked to Bill Warden this morning and he said that the teachers are seeing that carryover into kindergarten. So our kindergarteners who were UPK students here in our district who also attended summer academy are holding that and um it's really helping. And so they're adorable. you really need to come see him in um the summer. It's cute. All of them were five this
085year, so they all got to ride the bus. We didn't have to check into that. We cross reference list. So, that was good. And then we went on a field trip again. So, thanks to transportation because they do that for us. Um this year we went to the New York State Museum and we arranged that Mr. Thompson called around a few places. We wanted to do one that if it rained it was okay because last year we got rained on at um Five Rivers. The kids were fine, but the teachers were not so fine. Um, and there were a lot of bees. So, and this year it probably would have been worse. Excuse me. So, the museum was a highlight. They opened the carousel early for us. So, that was a big hit. We thanked
086them for that. But the highlight of it for myself and Mr. Thompson was that the kids were enthralled the 911 memorial and they're young, you know? So, if you think about that, like that's 20 years ago, right? And they were enthralled in the all age levels, kindergarten all the way up. And so that was really interesting to us. So um there's some pictures of them there and um they made s'mores as well, not at the museum. So there's some things that we did and Stewarts again did our annual ice cream party that we did in the rain. Um but at Saddlewood, we were lucky because we just did it under the overhead that they had there and the kids were great because it was warm. Um Roselo, Mr. Thompson did it inside and they did
087it right in the front hallway so that all the mess was contained the the floor and so um but it went very well and we thanks again for that. They do it every year for us. Um food services again we can't thank them enough. Same thing. I didn't know about lunch though. So now I'm gonna ask about lunch next year because it appears that I didn't. I'm just kidding. We had snack and it was great. And thanks to Joe Willie who brought it over and set it up for us every single day. A funny story that Joey said I could share is that um the first day he put the water in the freezer because he didn't realize the freezer was the freezer in the one kitchen and so all the water was frozen. Kids
088thought that was a riot so they just had them outside and kind of measured how long it would take them to thaw. So that was fun. Um but otherwise it was great considerations just continuing. It's nothing that we're asking for new we would like to support early intervention. right now you are affording us to be able to have a TA in every K2 classroom. Um and then we share out at 3:4 if we need to. Um and that helped a lot. Um we can really get small group instruction done then because we have kids in groups of um four to one if we can or six to one depending u and that's in our special ed rooms um as well. And then just our field trip um we continue to look for free ones and
089then we just ask for transportation help us with that and they've been great about doing that. So, we really appreciate it because they do four of them. So, because of our size, they take us four groups at a time. That's what they've recommended and they do it and they love it and they never complain and they're fantastic. So, we appreciate that. We appreciate all of you giving us that opportunity and on to year 11 next year. So, in both places. >> Any questions? >> Yeah. Is there any way or would it make sense to move the program back a little in the summer so maybe there's not as much regression and maybe camp convention wouldn't be interfering with >> so we talked about that but then it would start in week three of July and
090so then it would go into week three of August and teachers and parents did not like that when I surveyed but we could certainly explore it. The challenge is is like um Steph and Melissa were saying, we have a third of our a third of our um staff is not district right now. So, we're at a different stage since I started 11 years ago. Um we have the people that were all doing it are now either retired or they're having their own babies. And I'm like, "No, you got married again. I know what that means." Um so they um you know, they're in different places. like they've all like this year I had seven that were out because they were having their own families. Um and now they're like, "Yeah, we'll come back when they're
091back in school." And I'm like, "That's five years." So that's where we're at. So thank goodness for the staff outside and thanks to uh Chris Robotti for helping me post that. Um because we do have a third of our staff is from out of district. And oh, I forgot one important thank you Christine and the high school um TA program is phenomenal because without them we wouldn't have enough TAs. So, we had uh nine again this year that did a phenomenal job. Um they, you know, loved it. They, you know, came and worked hard. They come back. We had two returning um from, you know, last summer. Even though they're in college and working now and stuff, they wanted to work with us and so they worked it out with their summer work schedule so
092they could do both. So, they loved it so much. So, that was great. But yeah, I think that would be the only thing we could certainly ask for those. I think that's the challenge is that our teachers want to be able to go on vacation and start to get back and then there's courses and TCIS training in district. So we could certainly look into it and ask campus >> well that that's where I was going to go >> just you know how much regression would it help >> yeah the regression piece different attendance. Yeah. >> So um you know and we know there's going to be regression anyway. So if we could it'll be interesting to see how much regression there was this year. So as well um so we can look at that and
093share that. >> Anything else? >> Thank you once again. >> Thanks to all of you. [Applause] >> Agenda item number 11, reports and recommendations for action. This starts letter A and it goes to letter L on page eight. Are there any items of note, Dr. Perry? >> Uh just the uh wording of the internal auditing we talked about in the audit finance committee earlier today. Uh adjustment copy on letter H there. >> All right. Very good. and letter K donations. Donations from Charles Charton. Uh, one 2017 coffin Michelle valued at $4,000. Thank you very much, Mr. Charton. Are there any questions, comments? >> I would just say that letter C just uh reiterates how much we do for every student. We uh have one student, I believe, M Dr. Perry, that was transported to Pittsfield.
094I mean that's uh quite a quite a ways to go and we do that >> 49 miles >> to keep it under 50. Is that what you're saying? >> So that's transport every day not >> Correct. That's a date different. >> Yeah. Um yeah during the school year we have two students so they're combining Any other questions, comments? Hearing none, we'll take a motion. Mr. Keane, second, Mr. Misk. On the motion made by Mr. Keane, seconded by Mr. Music, that the above stated reports and recommendations be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Carried. Seven to zero. Excuse me. Agenda item number 12, personnel instructions. These can be found on pages 11 through 18. Mr. Robotti, take it away. >> Yeah, I would say both 12 and 13 are just straightforward business. >> Okay. >> Business
095activities, lots of >> lots. Any questions on any of those for number 12? hearing. None. I'll take a motion. Miss Giggle, Mr. Casey. On the motion made by Miss Giggleello, seconded by Mr. Casey, that the instruction and personnel changes listed on the attached sheets dated October 7th, 2025 be approved. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries seven to zero. Agenda item number 13, personnel support 19- 21. Any questions? Hearing none, I'll take a motion. Miss Giggleello. Second. Mr. Keane on the motion made by Miss Giggleello, seconded by Mr. Keane, that the support personnel changes listed on the attached sheet stated October 7th, 2025 be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 7 to zero. Agenda item number 14, resolutions. There are one, two, three, four, five of them. Mr. Cashadorian, would you care
096to comment on? >> Sure. I shared the link. >> Once again, I've tried to highlight the highlights with highlighter so you can see in there some of the the fun and interesting things going on in our schools. Certainly, there's five really fun resolutions, too. Obviously you all being one that we can uh celebrate but looking at all the different ways that schools are approaching um how to incorporate this into their curriculum which Mhana made sure I made reference back to our building principles to make sure that we are giving more specifics as to how we are implementing this and uh better results as far as what is specifically going on within the building so you guys a better idea of what's happening and I just want to shout out obviously our transportation department and our
097food services and they're doing some special things this week and making sure that the areas of their focus are emphasized in each one of our school buildings the best they can. >> They were very interested. >> Shout out transportation and food service as well. >> Yes. >> Amazing work. >> They do amazing. >> We can get a little bit more from the high school instead of a copy and paste into the categories. >> Yes. Oh. >> Thank you. Yes. Underwhelmed. They couldn't use their cell phone, so they had to >> do the best they could. >> They might have written a letter, put it in the mail. >> Perfect. Excellent. Yes. I'm underwhelmed. >> All right. Anything else? Hearing nothing. I'll take a motion. Mr. Keane. Second. Mr. Casey. On the motion made by Mr.
098Keane, seconded by Mr. Casey, that the above stated resolution be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Seven to zero. Future meetings. >> Please take a look. Any questions? >> Thursday is canled. >> Correct. Just a little bit later. >> Thursday's facility is cancelled. >> Thank you. All right. Do we have any subjects for executive session? hearing none. Anything any other business that needs to go before the board before we adjourn the meeting? >> Just thank you again to everyone for all of these >> the you know some of the books that that have gone around um just have some amazing pictures. >> Yes. >> You know, it's a raise for for our our daily pay. Thank you very much for taking the time and thinking about us and and talking to the students
099about the board of education. That's that's really terrific. >> And I just want to thank Amber again for whatever AI whatever because I really feel like it it spoke to like you know us like right like AI >> couldn't tell all of those individual unique characteristics about each of us and so >> I got to take that slide and show my mom. >> It was fun. I I will send you all the slideshow. We just ask that you don't post on social media. >> We will not post on social media. >> Yeah, you had a lot of help from from Dana and Cara. >> We had a lot of fun with it and I know I'm getting involved and >> it really was fun. >> And thank you for using your discretion too and not
100telling everything. >> It could be worse. >> That's the outakes. >> I feel so thank you very much. >> That's right. >> All right. Uh may I have the motion to adjourn the meeting? Miss Hulahan second Mr. Keane on the motion made by Miss Hulahan seconded by Mr. that the regular meeting be adjourned. Time 7:50. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 7 to zero. Thank you very much. Do we have a participation in yellow students?