001All right. Thank you. >> The regular meeting of the South Colony Board of Education is now called to order. Roll call. Thomas Blakeley >> here. >> Brian Casey >> here. >> Stephanie Cohen here. Vincent Fenzo >> here. >> Rose Gigglyello >> here. >> Jennifer Hulahan >> here. >> Michael Keane just informed me as a personal matter he won't be able to make it. David Keel is also excused. Did he say he was missing this one? >> Yes, he did. >> He he did a long time ago. I had a note. Yeah. Then I started questioning if it was this one or the next one. >> All right. Thank you. Christopher Larave and Robert Music >> here. >> All right. Thank you. Let's stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United
002States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. All right. Agenda item number three. We'll be looking at the regular minutes of our last board meeting, which was August 12th, 2025. Are there any questions or comments? Hearing none, I'll take a motion to approve. Mr. Blakeley, second, Mr. Laravey. I feel there's a wide gulch between us. >> All right. On the motion made by Mr. Blake and seconded by Mr. Larby that the minutes of the regular meeting of August 12th, 2025 be approved. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries. 7 to zero. Agenda item number four, superintendent update. Dr. Perry, that is you. >> So, we've got a number of uh presentations related to safe schools and our
003policy updates and things of that. So, I'll I'll be brief. Uh just wanted to uh let everyone know we are looking forward to welcoming our students back uh on September 4th. Uh we still have construction going on. we will work through uh those challenges and things like that. But really the best thing about the the turn of the colder weather coming is when we start to see our kids again and those activities that are going on. So we've had a few uh athletic events going on. We got kids back on campus. Um starting to hear the uh the cheer of the crowd and things of that. So look really looking forward to welcoming our students and staff back. Our staff come back on Tuesday and our students come back on Thursday. So, uh, looking forward
004to a good year and, uh, we'll continue to, uh, um, work through those logistical bumps in the road, but, uh, we we do have a awful lot of good things going on. Um, we just, uh, earlier heard a little bit from Mr. Burl, the high school principal, about things that they're looking forward to. We got, uh, new pathways going on for students, uh, to take additional coursework uh, as they start to progress up the high school level. Uh, the middle school level. uh we continue are looking at uh interventions and and opportunities for kids to to get involved with clubs and and activities and at the elementary level uh we're coming off uh just some wonderful summer programs with uh reading and math and and just good experiences for for our students. So um thank
005you to our staff who put in that time throughout the summer to help our kids uh to make those gains and and look forward to having everybody back next week. >> Thank you very much. Agenda item number five, new business. Any board member, Mr. Blakeley? >> Um, we had the opportunity last week to tour uh Shaker Road and the high school and view some of the construction. Um, really exciting to see some of the updates at the high school. Uh, Shaker Road is in construction and it looks like it, but it's on its way. Um, the updates just look awesome. uh as a you know alumni it looked the same back in 2000 as it did in 2015 for example and now it actually looks like a new building and a new school and it's
006really fun to see. I'm excited for the kids to get in there and see it. Um we got to see Vincent giving tours which was great. So thank you Vincent. But uh yeah I'm excited for all the kids to get get in the their spaces and be able to experience what what we're building for you guys. So it's exciting. >> Thank you very much Miss Giggle. also want to call that because I got to go on the tour too and it is great. I just want everyone to remember because I've been hearing rumblings. >> It's construction. >> It's messy. In a couple of months, everyone will be so happy with the results. And keep that in mind and not the I can't believe buildings aren't ready. I can't believe this. I can't believe that. That's
007all. >> It's a lot. It's a lot of work. But >> come November, be incredible. >> Oh my good. Thank you very much, Mr. Laramie. Uh, I was able to head over to the freshman orientation. Um, talking with and I know Tom's on tour with this. Love to see this become a mandatory thing for all freshmen at some some way or another tie in with the seal of civic readiness, all stuff like that going forward. Um, but thank you to Christ. Um, and the whole staff that was at it uh and Vincent, great job uh with you and your team. Um, awesome job. I did see on another uh point I saw that Albany has turned back on their their speed traps around schools. So, this is my little speed >> that turned them on.
008>> I don't know. >> They weren't. >> No, they weren't off. >> Well, that's what the media there, but uh >> um you uh we we're just This is my uh little platform. >> Yes. >> To say slow down. >> Slow down. >> Teachers, parents, kids. Um, you're going to get there. You're going to get there one way or another. The first few weeks is going to be slow uh slow and going, but uh just slow down on the roads. And uh for all those that aren't in our district, slow down, too. >> That's right. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Larby. Mr. Mik, >> I had the opportunity to hit part one of the freshman orientation on Friday. >> Went down to the Albony housing coalition for veterans house. >> Nice. and also saw Vincent
009there doing a great job the eye care group and about 44 45 freshmen they were cleaning outside raking I had a tour inside and kids were clean up the stairs and the rooms and a bunch of group our group are cooking cookies in there so uh it was great and Tess McCarthy did a great job and she deserves a lot of uh credit and there's a lot of several uh chaperons there Mr. hat, Miss Durant, Miss Lewis, I know I'm going to forget people, Miss Mree, Mr. DLO, um I'm sure I forget a few more. Miss Rosen Swag, but it was a great event. Great. So, >> yeah. Thank you very much. I'm glad they had the opportunity to do that. Very good. Thank you. >> Anyone else? Miss Julian, >> I did not get
010to attend the freshman orientation. Um but my son did and he had a great time and I really and he is somebody he's a truth teller. Um, and so he let me know that he had a really nice day. He was excited to go. Um, and so kudos to the staff, especially Mrs. Misk, um, and all of the folks who organized, um, the experience. I think it's a wonderful way, um, to introduce our freshmen to the, um, culture of service that is really one of the, I think, proudest things about our district. >> Yes, that's true. Mr. Fenzo, >> um, I got to attend all week. Not only uh I got a tour around the kids and we they answered we answered questions and they were I every kid was so responsive and was so
011kind and actually acted like they wanted to be there or at least put on that face. And they all all week everyone was so great. And when the day of service happened the end of the week everyone was so helpful. every kid that was there put in their best effort and thank you for all the board members and cabinet members that came that day and spoke and everything and it was a great week and I I'm also looking forward for this program to continue and hopefully grow even more. >> Very good. All right. Thank you very much, Mr. Casey. >> I'm back from vacation. Internal battery is charged and ready to go. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Casey. We couldn't do it without you. The sun was great. >> And the sun was great.
012All right. Very good. Thank you. Um I do want to uh make mention of one issue as we heard yesterday. A 2023 alumni was in the news and um his act was so brave and such a sense of strong and strength and doing the right thing and things went sideways. Uh John, you are the bravest kid that I can even think of. Your community is so very proud of you. We're very um we send out a lot of our love to you and to your family. I knew Johnny when he was a little guy at Shaker Road. His mom Amy and I did school banking together. So, um a lot of a a lot of thoughtfulness to your family. Johnny, make a full recovery. We're very very proud of you. All right. Thank you. All
013right. Agenda item number six, communications. We do have one request to address the board and this is from Kimberly Feliz. And you do want to talk about special education services. We do have to keep it general in nature. We don't normally discuss have a discussion about a student or teachers or anything like that. >> Is that possible? >> I I can kind of >> Thank you. We can give you some leeway. Go right ahead, please. Okay. Um, so first of all, this is my daughter, Shila. Um, she's been in the South County School District since kindergarten. Um, so I'm a teacher at April Park and I'm just here to express my concerns um with the services here at South Colony um, and what's going to happen this year. She just went to an intensive therapy
014program in Buffalo and she spent six months out there. It's a residential treatment facility and um the services I'm concerned about the services in general with some of the comments and things that have happened with students um the transitioning um for a smooth transition. Um, and I hate to, you know, focus on her, but just general like I you I'm sure like the last board meeting because I watched it, you know, what had happened and I just like I said, I'm just concerned about the special ed services in general. Um, I'm concerned that, you know, it's it's not going to be a smooth transition from her leaving a facility where it's onetoone 24-hour care to where things are being pulled away out from under her. And that that scares me as a teacher. Um uh
015and I I am very very nervous because I'm going to work every day and she's going off to the high school. Um and I I just I have great anxiety about her going up there cuz number one, she's a wanderer. I worry that she's going to wander in the high school if she gets out of anybody's sight. She wears a tracker because of that. Um, she was caught one time wandering around St. Creek Middle School, you know. I I and that's where my concerns come from with special ed in general. So, I just want to, you know, address the fact that I'm concerned with the services seem to be pulling back because of underst staffing and if you need to have the staff. I understand there's fiscal constraints. I'm a teacher. We have the same
016in our district. But you can't take away the services from the kids, you know, to meet the budget. Okay, the state gives them money. Okay, you got to make them well-rounded kids coming out of here. You know what is going to happen with them for the rest of their lives. You know what's you know you're meeting the needs of the top performers. You got to meet the needs of these guys too. You know what's going to happen to them? And it's just it's very very frustrating to see that, you know, things are being taken away from these kids. I I really struggle with that, you know, to to hear that, you know, kids are losing their services in general to because there's no staff, you know, whether there's no staff certified or those, you know,
017you just don't have the staff. >> If you don't have the staff, go recruit the staff. you know, make an active effort to recruit them, you know, because I know they're out there. It's just you can't just post a position on Olas and expect people to come. You know, she was an EI. There's early intervention providers you can go out and seek. That's my concern. I just have great anxiety because I feel like we're reaching these kids up here. these kids are in the short hall in general. >> So that's just my concern. I just have great anxiety to go away and, you know, to work and then >> to send her to school, >> of course. All right. Thank you, Miss Miss Feliz. I really do appreciate that. Yes. uh the our special education
018department is under a lot of scrutiny right now and uh we're going to we're standing by it because we're only making it better. I appreciate you coming in and not only sharing your concerns but some ideas as well. The two issues that were last meeting have been resolved and everybody's happy. Now, the news media is not going to pick up on that, but you know, um I gotta tell you, our team at the high school is terrific. Our special ed team at the high school is terrific. They have dealt with other kids just like Shila. And it's going to be okay. It's going to be okay. You have people to reach out to her teachers. That's your first line. And and they are very >> grateful. The teacher she's going to have, she already had
019twice. person. >> So, I'm grateful for that. But doesn't make me any less anxiety when I go 30 minutes away, right? >> You know, it's it does create anxiety. >> It does. It does. But I we're going to give this a try and Shiloh will step up and the teachers will step up and it will be good. I can I can tell you that. >> Cuz she loves school, you know. >> We love that. Yeah. That's what we're here for. All right. Very good. Well, thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Have a good night. >> Bye. Goodbye. >> Thank you. >> All right. And this is what the point where we usually have a large crowd. We say, "You're free to go. You're always free to go." But we continue
020on with the really important stuff, the really interesting stuff in board committee reports. Agenda item number seven. First up is the code of conduct. Did we have any further um input to the code? >> We have not. We've had some minor changes mostly related to uh the cell phone restrictions and things like that. Uh it's been reviewed at all levels uh by the principles and supervisors. Uh so we are presenting the final reading for the adjustments for the 2526 school year tonight. >> All right. Does anyone have any questions on this? Hearing none. I'll take a motion. Mr. Misek second. Oh, Mr. Blakeley. I'm sorry. >> On the motion made by Mr. Mis, seconded by Mr. likely that the above stated code of conduct policy 53000 and the code of conduct plain language summary policy
02153000.1 for the 2025 2026 school year be adopted all in favor. >> Any opposed? Motion carries seven to zero. >> 7B South Colony Districtwide School Safety Plan. Again, did we have any additional input to this? >> There there were some um required adjustments to the overall plan. Uh typically at this meeting each year, I kind of run through a little quick update schools. >> But in and to quickly answer that question, we are responsible for developing a cardiac emergency response plan that has to be added to the school district's safety plan. Um, so we have developed a draft version of that that we can include with our emergency response plan as a district. We can hone it, tweak it, and then it formally has to be in place by January 2026. But the groundwork is
022done, and we'll get a chance to take a look at it and tweak it to meet our needs. But that was the the only major change to the plan that we will be uh voting on and and putting forward facing to the public. >> All right. Um, so I think first and foremost, our safety when it comes to the physical safety of a school starts with our relationships with our first responders. We have a tremendous relationship with all of our first responders. We spend a lot of time training and bringing our first responders into our building so that they're comfortable, safe, and they know how to get around. This is just a visual of that partnership. Um our objectives these are the same uh every year to look to reinforce how we do it may
023change every year but look to reinforce the safe both physically and emotionally secure and orderly school environment maximize communication between and among staff effectively communicate with parents and guardians. uh that's also took a step forward last year when the state required that whenever we do uh emergency drills that we notify families and students reduce anxiety so that students aren't put in a position where they feel like they're in the middle of something that is real uh when it's not. Even though we may say this is a drill. Uh not every student hears all the words all the time. So making sure that people knew in advance what was happening was a requirement that we we followed suit. So, communicating effectively, maintaining dialogue with in our schools and with our local responders, maximize the collection of
024information, communication of any suspicious activity. That's the constant if you see something, say something sort of approach, working with Henry, our community engagement, school safety coordinator, and just making sure our drills and anything that we do. I know Brian talked the other day about what um they did at the bus garage when when they were looking at what happens when someone comes onto your campus, who responds, how quickly does it take for someone to uh bring them forward or do they get on your bus and walk around? Those sort of things. >> Establish, maintain a comprehensive emergency response plan, which is what we're voting on and talking about today, uh to protect students and staff both emergency and crisis situations. So, we got to practice those things and we do that uh not only to
025meet the state requirements but just to make sure that our staff and students uh muscle memory is where it should be when these things happen. Our drills and safe school activities are designed to develop, you know, reinforce practices, procedures, and protocols that reduce uncertainty, reinforce stability, increase control, and increase anxiety. I'm going to go quickly because you guys have this attached >> to your stuff. These are the the stakeholders that make up our groups. We have worked hard to make sure that we do have uh parent representatives on our committees. Sometimes the challenge becomes the time of day that we meet, but we do invite parents and try to get parents that can can participate. They're important stakeholders and it's good that we get their insight and they know what's going on. >> Some accomplishments
026in 2425, uh we updated the plan, shared it as we're supposed to. The raptor visitor system is implemented in all of our buildings now. So if you go to any elementary, middle or high school, there should be a similar process. Yes, all our vestibules are a little bit different. So it may feel different, but there's a a continuous or a consistent process to get into our buildings for our families and our visitors. Continued staff training, uh the work with Henry and his continued efforts to enhance our school safety protocols. We have partnered gentleman's agreement, we'll call it that, with a neighboring community uh school to be a reunification site. So now that we have that piece in place, we can start to look at something more official with that relationship and then maybe drilling that
027down the road. We have tried for years unsuccessfully to find a partner. She was talked to many different locations that we thought would be a good fit. But for reasons that I understand, it's not an easy thing to accept. It it will bring a lot of traffic and in have severe implications for that organization, but we did find a partner and we'll probably reciprocate with with that organization as well uh to meet their needs. So that's certainly something that I'm excited about going into 2526. We had went through our first year of the workplace violence and prevention. That was a new program for 24-25. We made it through uh the committee met several times to discuss and give feedback on the procedures and the outcomes of that process. We'll continue to work with that group,
028make tweaks, try to make it make it better. And we began to develop an emergency action plan for after hours. We'll continue to work on that. We we are aware of what happened about maybe 11 months ago with Bethlehem and the situation that they experienced after school. So districts like ours are all kind of talking about the same thing. What does it look like without being over overly prescriptive at the end of a school day, but having a procedure in place and a mechanism to communicate with our families, our students, and guests if something were to occur after hours. I mentioned the cardiac emergency response plans that been developed. We'll talk about it. must be implemented by January 26th. Also, uh Jacqueline and I applied and received a grant through Perma, so we have another
029$10,000 that we can spend on stealthware to help support our staff in classrooms and on buses to try to reduce injuries in the workplace. Moving forward, continue to revise the ERP set up and provide annual training that that was done through vector. The state continues to add more training requirements. I mentioned earlier today to the leadership group when I started in this position, which was only six years ago, we had just around two hours of mandatory training. I think we're probably pushing three and a half to four hours of required online training or inerson training, however you choose to do it. It's a lot. It's a lot of time, but um I try to get them up early so if people want to knock them off on rainy days, not that we have that many,
030but work through them over the summer is always an option for our staff. We have uh built out our FOB key access um doors in many of our schools and also starting to make those into the interiors of our buildings with the construction project as they go on new classrooms. We'll work on a reunification drill planning. So if we'll get to a full implementation this year, but now that we have the partnership, we can look at a plan for a drill. And we're also looking at a new lock and key system districtwide. We started to have this conversation about two, three weeks ago. And we're looking at a tier approach that will improve management and safety protocols with keys. Keys are going to become our backup system when the swipers aren't working. But there's a
031tremendous number of keys and a tremendous number of people who have them. >> So, we're looking to restart and take a little bit of ownership over our buildings and who can get in and how and when. >> Um, formal and informal safety assessments with Henry. We're also looking to pos Dr. Perry mentioned this I think in our last meeting, maybe look to enhance our services with the community engagement and school safety team. We'll also continue uh continue emphasis will continue to be on how to maintain safety standards while construction occurs. One building gets used to it if we add two more buildings over the summer that aren't used to it. So working with the staff, making sure they understand the pro policies and procedures that the workers go through to to be vetted to be
032in those buildings and also working with our partners with the construction companies to make sure people are following the the requirements with with badges and things like that. We just want to make people aware that we understand that there may have some concerns. We have them too and there's a process to that. Mental health, cardiac awareness, physical safety have been placed in schools. Continue to discuss these plans. Seems like every year there's another piece that gets added to the emergency response plans for the district. I'll continue to manage those and and make sure that we're in compliance. This is where the public plan will be available. And if you have any questions, I be happy to answer it. Yes. >> Can you tell me a little bit more about the phased approach with the lock
033and keys? Is that we're like trying to collect keys or are we just changing cores or what? >> There will be significant change. Well, all of it. Well, I don't know about collecting pretty much the ones will become obsolete when we go to the new system. So, any old key would just >> be able to collect them and recycle them. But we we will not necessarily need to do a collection. But when we establish the new system, you'll have, for lack of better terms, a grand master key that will get you in everywhere. We'll have rooms that are key like the next level down master then the next level classroom. Like so everyone will have the appropriate access that they need in the building, but there'll be one key that gets you. We're also adding
034the key fobs to the classrooms we're renovating. So, >> yeah, >> at the high school alone, there's 40 classrooms now that have keyed list access. So, Oh, great. >> That's a a great addition where you don't have to physically have your key. You've got the the ID badge that gets you in there. We can control who who comes goes and track that as well. So, strategically, we've added more to the entrances and exit areas in all the buildings. Um, but interior of those classroom spaces, we we've done that. As Chris mentioned, the goal is to not have six different keys for the high school. We're trying to get down to three physical keys, a grandmaster, a master, and then a a generalized room key. Um, as you can see, you know, Mr. Burl uh has
035just the high school set of keys there. And that's quite a bit. So, you can imagine uh Daniel or Gordon who are doing the entire facilities, they've got a a pocket full. So, that that's part of the the transition. There's a cost with the changing the cores and things of that but through the capital work we're continuing to make >> I think there's two types of access that we're dealing with external access to get into the building which when managed with fob with swipe cards there's time stamps there's entrance you can get that data when people are coming in different doors with keys you don't really know who's in the building all the time unless you're following cameras that's one side of access the other side and this is something that goes back to when
036I was the principal of high school and Tom and now I also want everybody in that building to have access to get into a safe place if something were to happen. And that was not always the case that if you were a teacher of a particular department, you had access to that wing. And if you were visiting a neighbor the other side of the school and something happened, your key didn't do anything for you. Okay? >> So, we want the right we want full and appropriate access for our staff inside and make it very difficult for people to get inside without the right permissions. I think we're working on a contract with the company um have that on a future agenda for to set those cores we have to have a contract with medical so
037um that'll come in the future agenda uh that that contract for to >> Chris I had the opportunity to to read the entire report that was sent out I think today through Amber or yesterday and kudos everybody that worked on that. I I'm sure there's a list of people, but it was uh comprehensive. Uh it's extensive. Um I'm sure there's a few tweaks that you're going to make as you move along, but um it's very thorough. So, nice job. I appreciate that. I would say when we when I first had it and Dave passed it on to me, it was probably 14 pages. >> Yeah, it's great. >> And now it's 20ome with the new things that they've added with pandemic response. pandemic response plans, uh, remote learning plans, cardiac emergency plans, workplace violence. Nice
038job. >> We've been fortunate. The board has been, I would say, ahead of the curve in supporting uh, safe schools in South County and that partnership with county police, EMS, emergency response services, fire, and uh, going back to the beginning of my career, we had a safe schools committee that was active and and has only continued to get better each year. So, urge the board members to sit and take a few minutes and read it. It's extensive, but it's >> you think, "Oh, I didn't think of that. I didn't think of that." It's very nice job. >> The position that Chris has and and Henry Rosenwig and and our resource officers and our staff really goes a long way to making the plan a living document that we actually train on, >> which is important.
039And I think that's where uh we we've made great strides as we're continuing to train on these protocols as opposed to just having them in a in a binder somewhere. So they becoming more active. We're again every year trying to look at ways to improve what's going on. And I think that's uh kudos to the folks. >> It's interesting reading. >> Well, some of this stuff. Uh no thanks. >> That's the public facing plan. The real plan is about 80 pages which I'll send to you tomorrow. [Laughter] >> We're gonna let Tom write that. It'll be 120 next year. >> I got bullet points. My bullet points. All right. Terrific. Any other questions? Hearing none. I'll take a motion. Miss Giggle. Second. Miss Hulahan. On the motion made by Miss Gigleello, second by Miss Hulahan.
040that the above stated South Colony districtwide school safety plan for the 2025 2026 school year be adopted. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries 720 to Z. All right. Agenda item number 7C that is policy. Mr. Larabby, take it away. >> Okay. Uh so this is uh obviously everybody knows this is a very hot topic uh state mandate coming down that uh mobile devices in all of schools uh upk through 12 are going to be u from bell to bell be locked um in lockers. Um, so, um, quickly I I I did just want to to bring up that, uh, you know, I asked my son on the way here if he did his, uh, recommended summer reading, which, uh, he hasn't yet, but I did let him know that, uh, uh, while I'm
041gone tonight, he will be reading policy 5310, and we're going to be having a quiz on it. Uh, you two also, uh, Vincent, but um, it has been sent out multiple times to parents. Please take a look at it so they're aware. Students also uh has been sent out through parent square and everything like that. Um does anybody have any other questions on policy 5310? >> Okay. All right. On behalf of the policy committee upon the motion made by committee chair member Christopher Larabe recommendations 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. All right. Agenda item number eight, reports and recommendations for action. This is letters A through H. Although C, the agreements have
04215, count them, 15 entries here. >> These are all very similar. They're IDA flow through monies. We are the local educational agency that handles the federal money that come through and we're the goeteen between each of these partners for those IDs. Do we have any questions? Hearing none, I will take a motion. Mr. Blakeley, Mr. Misik. On the motion made by Mr. Blakeley, seconded by Mr. Mix that the above stated reports and recommendations be approved. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries 7 to zero. Agenda item number nine, personnel instructions. This can be found on pages 13 to 15. All right, Mr. Robotti, anything that you would like to say? >> Yeah, you know, a few holes that popped up a little late that we're trying to fill here. Um, so we welcome Robert
043and Emily. They're going to start as soon as they can uh with us here in South Colony. Um, but more importantly, I think I I just want to acknowledge Allison's retirement and just, you know, congratulate her on her retirement, but also she's she's a great teacher and she's a great person and she was waiting for some news that allowed this to happen. So, we wish her the best. >> Thank you very much. And thank you, Miss Means. Are there any questions, comments? >> I'd just like to say great job to Chris and the team for getting everybody uh up and running and all of our new staff in South Colony uh at the point where we're ready to go. So, thanks. >> It's always an interesting journey, isn't it? >> All right, any questions? Hearing
044none, I will take a motion. Mr. Casey, second, Miss Giggle. On the motion made by Mr. Casey, seconded by M. Miss. Giggle, that the instruction personnel changes listed on the attached sheets dated August 26th, 2025 be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 7 to zero. Agenda item number 10, personnel support 16 through 18. Again, Mr. Ralotti, >> I like to congratulate Mark Fischer on his second retirement last few years. So, congratulations to him. >> And I understand people get close. You think maybe by the end of the summer you're ready to go and sometimes >> life just tells you it's time. So, we wish them the best. This is a good um from my perspective, my lens, a good support agenda. We have a lot more appointments than we have resignations, people leaving,
045breakin drivers, things that were really in need us. So, good agenda and we welcome all of the support staff that are coming on to help us get our classrooms and transportation moving. So, thank you. >> All right. Yes. Thank you very much, Adam. Definitely a shout out to to Mr. Fischer. He has certainly made a a difference in our desk district. Thank you very much. Any questions, comments? Hearing none, I'll take a motion. Mr. Blakeley, second, Mr. Casey. On the motion made by Mr. Blakeley, seconded by Mr. Casey, that the support personnel changes listed on the attached sheets dated August 26th, 2025 be approved. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries. 7 to zero. Agenda item number 11, professional development development plan. Mr. Katchurian. >> Yes. Thank you very much. So, we have a
046responsibility to put forward a professional development plan. Uh we as a committee were able to meet last week uh committee designated of 19 people I believe 15 of us were able to gather and look at what existed as a professional development plan and actually I had mentioned it to Mr. Bakis uh as we had met last week as well that thing that Mr. Deoy made which means this is a document that preceded Mr. Bakus. Um, so looking at it, there were some certain edits and a lot of information that I wanted to try and just sift through and understand my first time through looking at this document with brand new brand new eyes. So I kind of put a three-pronged approach to this. Um, I looked at it from a stance of what are our
047neighbors do? Um, so looked at what others in the Capitol region, other school districts had to put forward something similar to this and I did a cross reference with that as a whole. Then I look specifically at the New York State guidance and uh what are we responsible to do and how can we you know make sure that we put it in writing but also put it through execution and make it available um so that is an attainable goal and document that we can work with with our our professional population and then what does AI say? Um so I put it through three different versions of AI to see with all the cross comparisons where we were and we weren't too far. It wasn't too bad. It wasn't too bad. But I will have you
048know after I put my hands on this document, it is now shorter. So that might be the first time ever that that has happened in my time of handling any documentation. >> But as you saw from the Friday bulletin that Dr. Perry shared out, um it's the document itself and the revision. So as we sat down as committee, we went through all those different versions and iterations and then it was the committee's eyes. So what are their experiences? what are the special perspectives that we invited them as being stakeholders that they can lend to conversationally what do we need to make as far as changes and then how do we continue to use this document to grow and improve our plans. Um so this document was looked at and then it was kind of put
049away and then it was looked at again. I want to look at it a little bit more and hopefully it can be used to inform how we use some of our title two funding moving forward and how we use maybe some CRV funding moving forward and how we look at the whole scale experience of what we want to do with district initiatives and how we're providing that through this document and through the voices of those many perspectives that were able to to congregate and kind of put forward their thoughts and vision um of where we need to go. So there's a crosswalk that was connected in there that shows you the changes. So you can look at that. That's the abbreviated version, the cliffnotes version of everything that we kind of we changed. And one
050of the big things, it's not a professional development plan anymore. It's a professional learning plan. Um, so just minor things like that that are still important as well as big picture big vision things that we're able to put in place and dialogue on. So us as a committee, I we're looking to get back together again two more times. One is going to be in October once we get, you know, the school year started and what are the things that we need and we should be talking about and they're collaborating with their colleagues and other stakeholder voices. And then the other is going to be at the end of the year in May and what are the things that we think we're going to be needing and we're we're turning that corner. We're rounding into preparing
051our thoughts for next year kind of on the end of preparing our thoughts for next year and what are we going to try and actualize with the next iteration of what that that document looks like for 26 27. So, the version is out there. Um, any questions, obviously, I'm I'm here to to answer them, but it's pretty good. There's not major changes, but we try to sip through and make it more reader friendly, user friendly, and we're going to continue to look to make improvements with that document. >> Very good. Any questions, comments? Hearing none, I'll take a motion. Miss Hulahan. Second, >> Mr. Mik. On the motion made by Miss Hulahan, seconded by Mr. Misik, that the above stated professional develop plan be adopted. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries 7 to
052zero. Mr. Katadorian, thank you for all your work on this and your teams. Appreciate it. Agenda item number 12 resolution authorization for sole source procurement of news to you and unique learning systems from every Everway. >> Dr. Perry, anything? >> So, we've been using uh these licenses in our special education self-contained classes for a number of years. We're we're expanding the use. News to you is a uh live feed uh program that uh allows for uh modern topics but at a reading level that is supportive of our our students in those programs. Um we're expanding that throughout all of our our classrooms. So we've additional licenses. Uh the cost is exceeded our um amount. So we've brought it to the board and it is also these two programs are unique to uh this particular learning
053uh system. So it is a sole source provider of of this unique license. So increasing the licenses uh to be able to provide that across the uh the continuum of our services. >> Very good. Any comments, questions? Hearing none, I'll take a motion. Miss Gigglyello second. Mr. Larby. On the motion made by Miss Giggleello, seconded by Mr. Larby, that the above stated resolution authorizing the purchase of Muse TU and Unique Learning Systems License as a sole source procurement be adopted. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries 7 to zero. Agenda item number 13, future meetings. Here we go, guys. as we kick it off into high gear. Now, any questions on that? Is there any other business that needs to come before the board? >> Can I say one thing, please? Um, I forgot
054to mention that um thank you to to Mr. Burl and uh the other principles about um the uh parent square welcome back email. I thought it was very well organized and and like anything and I'm trying to say this to everybody is that emails are only as good as if you read them. >> Uh we all know we get a lot but has a lot of great information. I know all the other principles at the schools will send something similar out to their um to their levels both elementary and middle school. But uh thanks a lot to you and your uh your team. Um a lot of good information. I looked through it and uh caught my eye on a few things. So thanks. >> Very good. Okay. >> Thank you. Anyone else? >> Good.
055Are any executive session at this time? >> All right, everybody. Uh, agenda item number 14, adjourn the meeting. Who wants to do that? Mr. Casey. Second, please. Mr. Blakeley. On the motion made by Mr. Casey, seconded by Mr. Blakeley that the regular meeting be adjourned. Time is 6:47. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries seven to zero. Thank you very much all.