0016:30. All right, Amber, is everything ready? We're good to go. All right. All right. May I have everybody's attention? The regular meeting of the South County Board of Education will be called to order. Roll call. Thomas Blakeley here. Brian Casey here. Stephanie Kogan here. Rose Giggleello here. Jennifer Hulahan here. Michael Keane here. David Keel here. Christopher Larabe here. And Robert Mis here. Thank you very much. Please stand for the pledge to the flag. 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. All right. Agenda item number three, approval of the minutes. You have there the regular meeting of May 6th, 2025. Do I hear any comments, edits? Hearing none, I'll ask for a
002motion. That's Miss Giggleello and a seconded by Mr. Blakeley. On the motion made by Miss Giggleello, seconded by Mr. Blakeley, that the minutes of the regular meeting of May 6th, 2025 be approved. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 90. All right. This is most likely the board's favorite board meeting of the year because we get to do a lot of the awards and recognitions. Uh we do have a little change in the lineup today because line and Q students are going to go see a video of their performance. So we're putting them up first. Colony High School Central High School's production of Mary Poppins was chosen as best musical tier A at the High School Musical Theater Awards sponsored by Proctor's Collaborative School of the Arts. The award for best musical tier A
003for Colony High School was due to the hard work of the entire line and Q drama program crew, cast, and staff. Congratulations go to all of our participating students as well as our creative team of adults. Miss Vatilo and Miss Mig Miglo are here to say a few words if they care to about Lion and Q. [Applause] Thank you so much to our board of education for always supporting all of our ideas. This uh for the second year we brought in company and flew our actors and um and that's always just such a great experience that a lot of preschool students really don't get the opportunity to do. So we're so grateful for that. Um we did win um Outstanding Musical again this year for the second year. Um, but more importantly, we've been nominated
004the last four years. And what that means is that we get to perform uh one of our numbers on the stage at Proctor's Theater. Um, the kids get to go the week prior um to rehearsals. They're backstage. they're up in a dressing room at Proctor's Theater and um really get a taste for the expanse um of professional theater and get to work with students from all over the Capitol District, get to network and connect with people and it's just a wonderful opportunity for all of them. Um and it's really a testament to their perseverance and hard work. This was our biggest show. Um SE or excuse me, uh Shaker High and Ina had both done Mary Poppins. So we called them and asked them and they both said, "Don't do it. It's so hard." And
005we discovered that they were absolutely right. It was a beast of a show, but it all came together so nicely. And again, we thank you so much for all of your support. And we thank all of our talented students. And um a few of our staff are here. Um, uh, Tanner helped us with our flying and, uh, Michael Analik, you want to stand up, was our music director. And Missino couldn't be here tonight. Wonderful. So, thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Congratulations. If you'd like, you may go. Thank you so much. Ice cream and our show. You may find a few people joining you. Thank you everyone. We got this robotics team up. Yep. All right. Next, we are looking at the Colony High School 2024 2025 robotics team. I'm going to ha
006hand that off to Mr. Tom Casey. Thank you. I'm gonna hand off to Janelle and Tienne who are two of our graduating seniors this year uh to give you the summary of the season. Thank you. We are the dynamics. This is our 26th year competing in first robotics. Those who don't know is the sport of the mind. We compete like other sports teams, but each year we and all 3,400 teams worldwide receive a new challenge for our robots competed. We could be climbing bars, picking up awkward shaped objects, or throwing with precise or all three. We don't know until the season starts. Over half our team graduated last year, so this year we had a very young team of 18 members, 12 our freshman and sophomores. We give ourselves the best chance of success. So,
007we chose to focus on a few specific aspects of the game rather than trying to do everything with our students limited experience. I'm happy to report that our robot met each of our goals and successfully completed both competitions we attended, one in Rochester and one at the MP Arena. Each of our members was heavily involved and have elements in design, coded, and fabricated for a robot contributing to our success. We are unique in Our mentors are all volunteers and bring a variety of expertise to the team. Some are team alumni and others are parents of former team members, but all love to share their knowledge help us. This year we have three students graduating on the team or going pro as we jokingly say I'm going to for our third senior Kevin who is not
008here is going to RTI for computer science. Uh this year has been a a year of challenge for the team. Uh we would like to thank the district for working with us to um find a new home uh when we were displaced into the constructions in high school. Moving over to the home booies facility was a challenge but working together we have made a nice temporary home for the team with a fully functional shop computer lab and then uh meeting space and all of the other things needed for the team to offer. Specifically we would like to thank uh Mr. Cashor uh for his day-to-day coordination with the team Mr. Casey for serving as our advisor um and the facility IT and custodial staff for their assistance in their respective areas. Thanks especially to you
009uh Dr. Perry for providing um support and guidance and helping to navigate our um the typical president. Very good. Congratulations guys. Thank you very much. Janelle, thank you very much. I know you you hosted us when we came down and uh to our our students how impressive uh you all are coming from 9th grade right up through seniors and things that we'd be remiss if we didn't recognize the mentors. I know many of them are are in the back there. If you could please raise your hand be recognized our mentors uh just a fantastic group of engine engineers and computer scientists in their own right. uh and uh former parents uh alumni and I really appreciate uh once I get to know a little bit more about the program and and everything. They've been so
010open to to everything. So, congratulations to the team once again. Deb and your your team as well. Uh congratulations. You you put out another great year. So, Thank you very much. Uh Mr. Casey, you're not going to go too far. We have esports. The Colony High School esports team has had an incredible year of competition and leadership. In the third full season, the team has built a competitive roster in multiple games, including Rocket League, Super Smash Bros., and Marvel Rivals. They proudly competed in regional and national matches through the High School Esports League and PlayBS. All right, Mr. Casey. Yeah. So, um, with that again, uh, Matt is the pres current president of the team, graduating this year, and Tess is a vice president, and she'll be back next year hopefully. Uh, so I'll just
011have them say a few words about what they experienced this year and, uh, the two seasons we played in the fall and the spring. So, first there was our fall season. Um, we competed in the PlayBS tournament system and we managed to finish off in the semi-finals of playoffs and then we also went to a couple of outside of school tournaments. Um, one at I believe was it Bethlehem Sunni Albany. We went to another one I think in the spring for um we have two separate form Smash Bros because that's our main game. You have two separate versions. There's a team version where team of three go up against other teams of three and there's a solo version where it's one-on-one. So both of them, both seasons we have made it to playoffs. Um like
012he said, our best placement was semi-finals last year, but playoff is top 15. So we're at least top 15 in the state. All of the tournaments we've done, we haven't gone below like we've at least gotten one player in the top eight and top five. a best player actually hasn't gone below top five in any of the tournaments he's gone to. So, good for him. He's sick right now, so he can make it. But I'm just happy that we have this space that we're able to split our interests. And we've made lots of friends actually in other schools. We talk to them outside of school and we play games and we go to other events together. And it's nice just to have a friend even like not in a school. It's nice to just broaden
013my horizons and my expansion to see other people in other school districts and even though they're also like enemies we fight against them. It's nice to also like have it in more of a friendly rival kind of thing. May the best person win. Right. Very good. Any questions? Thank you, Matthew. Thank you very much. Congratulations. [Applause] Next up, we have Kid Kid Wind and South Colony has had a impressive four teams qualify for Worlds this year. Dr. Perry is taking this. Yes. Uh uh Mr. Brown, who is uh always been involved with our program, is uh sick this evening. So, uh we thank him for all his efforts this year. Um as well as um Coach Colleen uh Lynn uh who's helped with the high school program this year. So, we have uh elementary, middle,
014and high school divisions. It started when the students were back in in middle school. We've expanded to middle school teams at both Viceill and S Creek. Um this year we had um a total of u of 11 students go on to to nationals. Uh uh three teams uh from Sand Creek and one from the high school qualified for the Worlds World Championships. Um and uh out of that uh we had uh the eighth grade team, the flying pickles. The flame pickles here. So Jameson, are you the representative? Do you want to talk a little bit? Well, and anybody from your team, do you want to talk a little bit about uh what the Flying Pickles achieved? I see your national championship trophy. Yeah, we were able to go to um the world kick win challenge
015in Phoenix, Arizona and compete against 135 other uh teams that qualified and we uh were the win champion for the middle school division and we're we were proud to represent the district and it was a good learning experience and we were able to try different gear ratios and play pictures with the uh turbine that we had built. Excellent. Outstanding. Outstanding. Very good. Congratulations. Additionally, um, Ubra and Abel, are you here? They may not be. Our two dominators are not only the national champions at the high school, but they're a repeat national champion. They've been here previously under Mr. Brown's toutelage uh, when they were in the middle schools. And most of the time our middle school and high school teams outscore the high school level teams. Uh so these kids as two dominators truly picked
016a great name because they've dominated the competition for multiple years and we're excited to continue to have them back. Um so want to really congratulate uh our students that are involved in in the middle schools. Uh we had a fifth grade team this year, the swimming hot dogs and uh you know congratulations to our swimming hot dogs. Are they here? All right, stand up. Swimming hockey. And the Wat Waddling Penguins was our uh other fifth grade team. The Waddling Penguins. Are anybody here from Waddling Penguins? All right. Well, congratulations to all of you. Uh really uh it's great to see how you've progressed from u one year to the next. And uh to our national champions, congratulations. just hope you can go back and uh and claim your uh repeat champions next year. Uh so,
017best of luck to you and uh thank you all for what you've done this year. Thank you. Round of applause. I I just got to say that those are probably the four greatest names in the history of any sports competition or any kind of competition. So, congratulations. And I've been seeing those trophies. uh those champions those that one pulled out that world champion won for a bunch of years now since I've been on the board and uh they're doing an amazing program and uh it's not easy it's a lot of fundraising too especially when you got to travel on a quick turnaround to the other side of the US but uh congratulations very good thank you all thank you all right up next Wolfpack Productions this year Wolfpack Productions has grown into a powerhouse of
018student voice and creativity with over 9,000 words written, more than 200 YouTube subscribers, over 30 videos posted, and weekly shows produced with care and consistency. This team has set a new standard for studentled media at Colony Central High School. With that, Mr. Stranahan. Hi, I'm Mr. Stranahan. I'm a health teacher at the high school. Uh I brought a group of students that help me with the Wolfpack productions here. I think the biggest thing was the consistency. Uh you can't put on a show every week unless you show up. Uh so that's important. Uh Chenique has done over 30 interviews. Uh that's why she's holding the mic right now. I'll turn it over in a second. Uh we've we have one of our writers here, Lizzie. She's again 9,000 words. That's I mean hundreds of you
019know it's like 50 plus pages of of words uh in terms of our scripts which is so eloquently spoken by Olivia uh our other host and Morgan back there. So I want to shout out to them. Uh there are less than I want to say less than five or six schools even in this area that have a video morning show. Uh there's a lot of people that just do it on announcements. So, I'm very proud to have highlighted esports uh and the the play and just different experiences that students have uh and I look forward to kind of doing that in the future. So, I'll just quickly turn over to them. They can just talk quickly about maybe their experiences of what they've done uh because this is the first year of it and uh
020hopefully it continues. So, thank you very much. Okay. So, we just wanted to give you guys a sample a little sample of what we kind of do as a So I'm the interviewer and she's and she's the face. So she's always on the show and I'm always like going around like asking questions. So she's just going to explain what broadcast is and I'm gonna ask her what that is. So you'll see how I interview and how she how's the cookies made, you know. Okay. So something to Friday and it's just a really good visual subscribers and almost having that accomplishment really hard and this is Well, I was very very shy as a young person. I would have never imagined It hasn't been easy. Let me tell you that it has not been easy. Okay,
021the thing is this is a high school and discriminate not discrimination that's not the right word but like the judgment I'd say judgement judgement the judgment we face like as high schoolers to do something like to be shown on a morning show every day and to have teachers show this on Fridays is kind of difficult to have the teacher show in the first place but I want to say like I'm grateful to all the teachers who have shown it and how far we have come as a group it's it's been something to be honest I just want to say like I've appreciated this group and it has impacted the school and us in many ways made us social Great job. [Applause] That was Thank you. That was really terrific. If you haven't seen it, be
022sure you catch the episodes on YouTube. You guys aren't subscribers yet. You can be a subscriber. 250 by the time we leave. Subscribe on Wolfpack. Go on to YouTube and what is it? Wolfpack production. Everybody Oh, that a girl. It is a lot of hard work and you'll find that things that are worthwhile are a lot of hard work, but it is worth it. Thank you very much for pioneering this for us. I'm curious how much do you videape and then how much of it is so your final production is like six eight minutes. Yeah. 10 minutes we spend countless hours here after that. Is this leading career path ideas for anyone? Fair. You know, it's about gaining experiences and recognizing what works for you and what doesn't. And then they'll be like social media
023stars. Well, it wasn't anything. It's like, no, that was the start of it. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Well, thank you very much. Continued success to all of you. Thank you very much, Bob. Appreciate it, students. Great job. really looked forward to it on Friday mornings when uh it was shared with us and uh you did outstanding job. So congratulations to you all. Congratulations. Very good. Agenda item number five, NISBA board excellence recognition awards. Dr. Perry. Yes. Uh as most of you know, our board members are volunteers. They they have families. they have their own jobs and things like that, but our board members uh spend countless hours not only working on behalf of South County, but also in training. So, it's my privilege and pleasure to recognize three of our board members tonight for
024uh New York State School Boards Association uh boards of excellence recognition. Our first board member uh Thomas TJ Blakeley. Um TJ has reached level one for board of education training. uh this means that he has uh had over uh 75 hours of board training achieving 75 points accepting new leadership roles. So congratulations uh TJ. Our next uh our board president Stephanie Kogan has achieved level three board excellence. This is over 250 hours of additional training. So, not just time spent working on behalf of our district, but in additional training, going to conferences, going to workshops and things like that. Uh, so congratulations to board president Stephanie Kogan. And not to be outdone, our newly uh reelected board member, uh, Mr. Brian Casey uh is recognized uh by the New York State School Board Association for
025a lifetime achievement award having over 500 hours of uh credit and training. Congratulations. In addition to plaque from New York State School Boards Association, Mr. Casey also has a scholarship to the next uh BISBA convention which is additional training. [Laughter] in Disney World. I wish it was Disney World. Congratulations. Very good. All right, two more quick sessions. Agenda item number six, superintendent update. Yes. Um, thank you, Miss Kogan. Yes. Uh, I want to uh thank our community for supporting our our budget process throughout the um uh meetings and throughout our presentation, our vote on uh on uh last Tuesday. Um we really appreciate the support, the ongoing uh dedication to improving our academic programs as well as our our community facilities. So, thank you uh to our community for coming out and voting. Um congratulations
026to Mr. Casey for securing yet another 5-year term on the board of education. Um, congratulations to Vincent Fenzo who will be our newly elected uh student uh board representative. Uh, Vincent will be uh representing the student body at County Central High School uh throughout next year, a liazison to the board of education, be the first one representing uh uh board uh student board member at County Central High School. Um, I'm not sure if Vincent is here tonight, but I know uh in attendance is uh Brody. Uh Brody is our first alternate. So Brody, congratulations, Brody. Thank you, Brody. So, we look forward to working with Vincent and and Brody uh in that capacity. Um some really outstanding uh individuals. Uh Vincent was elected through our student election process. Uh the same day we had our
027budget vote, the student uh government held elections for that seat. And uh so we'll have that on an annual basis. Uh congratulations to our music department for being recognized uh as the best communities for music education by the National Association of Music Merchants. Uh Mr. Kistrachi shared this with me. I believe this is uh at least 10 uh years. It may be more than that. I may be short changing by a few. outstanding uh presentation. You see from our musical, the students that are involved with the musical um part of our performing groups um working out from the uh elementary students in general music all the way up through our middle school where we learn the beginnings of their instruments to the finished product as we get into uh our high school ensemble. So fantastic
028work and congratulations to them. We did recognize the line and Q earlier for uh best musical uh in tier eight. Congratulations once again to line and Q. And last uh just off the presses, our varsity softball team beat Saratoga this evening 3 to1 and they're on to the um sectional championship and the boys team won uh 4 to3 yesterday over Gildlin. They're also in the section 2 finals uh next weekend versus Saratoga. So congratulations to our athletes that are still competing. Terrific. Yeah, thank you very much. Agenda item number seven, new business. This is where the board gives us updates about where they have been around our community. Anyone, Mr. Blakeley? Um, I had a chance to attend the opening ceremony for pack test and I want to give kudos to our IARE kids for
029all the hard work and volunteer work you do in the community. Um, especially helping ship who's a great program. So, kudos to those guys. Um, I also want to just say how great it is to see all these different clubs and activities that we have for all you guys um to to partake in because it starts your people, right? And the people who help support you through your years of high school will sometimes become. So, it's really cool to see all that. So, keep keep it up if you like it and your hobby continue it. If you don't like it, that's okay. But at least you try it. Very good. And very true. Next up, Mr. Keen. So, I also had the opportunity to attend pack fest. Um, congratulations to athlete known as coach Tuck
030around these parts for being uh kind human of the year. Um, certainly deserving I know uh resource for for many of our our students. Um, it was certainly a a full day. Um, and then um was going to offer congratulations to our baseball and softball teams. Stole my thunder. Sorry about that. Um but also got to attend awards night. Um great to see so many kids get an opportunity to to be recognized for their efforts, their achievements in not just academic but being good human beings. So congratulations to all of them. Very good. Thank you Miss Giggly. Hello. Um, I was able to show a little bit. Thank you again. Great job. That was great. Great job. So thankful and then the memorial service. Very good. Thank you very much, Mr. Masik. Yeah, I just
031want to piggy back Dr. Perry about the the budget. Thank you for everybody come out and vote in last week. I just wanted to officially thank Miss Mallister and her team. That's a lot of work. It takes a long process. Dr. preparing I know you're very involved in that too. Expense has been up I think $11 million year over year. So it's a lot of work. So thank you to your team counselor. Very good. Thank you Mr. Ke. Yes. Uh along with Miss Gigleello I would just like to commend the Lisha group for the veterans the memorial day celebration. Uh the music was wonderful. Mr. Hearn, Mr. Miller. I think there were four different bands that performed and they were super and I think that uh I would I'm not sure he's listening now but
032Mr. Crummy with his uh remarks to the students was very inspirational. I hope they paid close attention to it and I'm sure they did because they were very well behaved and did a great job there too. So thank you to all involved with that. Thank you. Anyone else? Miss Hulahan. I attended many things, but everyone else has. I've got the awards night, which was lovely. Um, I attended Packfest. Um, I really want to, um, credit judge and her team for an amazing opening ceremony. Um, I was really elevated this year um, in a way that made it really extra special. And I want to highlight that, um, it's a long day and judge is still there at the end. um you know, helping the kids clean up and um and that did not go unnoticed
033that you were there all day representing um the school well and staying with the kids who did a tremendous job. Um and thank you to the team, Dr. Kerry um and Miss Mcgallister around the budget vote. Um and I I've learned so much this year from both of you in that regard and I appreciate that. Um so thank you for everyone who voted um and supported our opportunity to keep program at the level that it is. Very good. Anyone else? Mr. Casey, wait the last because I uh agree with everything that's been said here. My fellow board members, the Lion Q production, but we didn't get a chance to see it. I saw it the first night and had to come back and see it again. That's how wonderful it was. for those folks. Um,
034I can only imagine what effort and time and practice went into it. Packfest been said a wonderful experience. Mr. Judge, I know what you went through. You and I had many conversations on the phone. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to go out to the hill of heroes across from the main entrance. A number of years ago was an art piece on TV. I think it was CBS Dave Steve Hartman does a thing across the country. If you haven't had a chance to see it, you should try to find it. There's a group that every Memorial Day at 300 p.m. they play. Well, I happened to hear about this a couple days before yesterday and attended. There had to be 15 20 people out there on the hill at Heroes and there were two gentlemen whom
035I went to school with back and they played taps and it was very moving just to see these these two guys come back from the class of 667 and do this. So, I would encourage you if you can find it on the social media, take a look at it. We're very have this hill of heroes designed and built by the students here at this high school a number of years ago. It's phen phenomenal. I'm often asked why do I want to be on a committee or on a group that you don't get paid for? You're there twice a month like my good friend Mr. Ryan used to tell me the other just two meetings a month. There's some stickers in the back and they know what I'm talking about. This plaque that I received, I
036will accept it graciously, but I have to tell you that my wife and family have put up with an awful lot missing certain days, parties, graduations, etc. And why do I do it? Look at the people that sit in this audience. Look at the different teams. Look at the different enthusiasm. Wolfpack Productions. That's not easy. Line and Q robotics the winter term win group. Phenomenal. That's why I do it. Um I would encourage you if you have any inkling of running for board, come on down. You'll enjoy it. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of fun. Especially when you hear these young people here that go to this high school get these awards, get these So, I thank you for doing what you do to make us look good. So, thank you. I
037appreciate Thank you. Thank you. Very good. I guess I don't want to be the only one. I'm sorry that you didn't get to go last. You raised your hand quicker than I did. But, um, I I did want to say just with how awful the weather has been lately, how great our maintenance staff to to get these athletic fields, and it's not even only that, just to all of our schools in the community to mow the lawns and, you know, just to just to do all that. They're they're going above and beyond, and it and it's been a a really challenge lately, but thank you to them. And I did print this up. Dr. Perry, you're off by two years. For the 12th time, the South County Central School District has been honored. Um, but
038and congratulations to that again. So, very good. Thank you very much. All right. And finishing it up, two items that I wanted to just say. Um, every May we have an art show that features a lot of our students. And at the Colony Library, they're wonderful for posting all these pieces of art. Um, and it was a terrific day. uh always enjoy seeing all of that. And also just was formed tonight. You all know about IARE. That is the uh the high school's group that does so much fundraising and so many good pieces of work. This year they were raising money for the sheriff's homeless improvement program. And this year I Care was able to raise $7,500. Congratulations I Care. [Applause] Congratulations. Very good. And lastly, I I do too. We were all together on
039the night of the budget vote, as we often are. Um I was very pleased to see uh such a high majority had confidence in our budget. We work very very hard and uh Miss Mallister is certainly the professional here. she and her team and she makes it so just layman like the rest of us are able to understand what's going on. We always want to do the best we can for our students and that's what we always strive for. So when you can vote when you're 18 years old be sure you vote you before be sure you sign up to vote and make sure you vote and civic duty is something that you can do your whole life and it is a wonderful thing. So, thank you all to my fellow board members who serve.
040Thank you for all the folks here who have done such great things. I wish you a great rest of the year and a wonderful future. We hope to see you soon enough. Thank you very much. Thank you. Yep. And now with that, this is the most exciting meeting that you'll ever be witnessed to. But if you were here for this awards recognition and have other things to do, please feel free to depart. Go ahead. You don't have to be shy. Participation in government kids, you can stay. Yes. If you are participation in government kids, you do have to stay. Have some riveting information to add for the next will take. Yeah. All of our students who are here for government will sign off once we're all completed with the meeting for you. Oh, we haven't
041even gotten to the good part. This is the really part now. Thank you very much. All right, returning to business. Agenda item number eight, communications. Are there any public meeting comments? No. Anything online? Nothing. Agenda item number nine, reports for information and study. A is summer school plans. Mr. Catadorian, would you pl kindly make your report? Yes, I will. Thank you very much. Um, if you would like to certainly I've hyperl some information in our board agenda so you're able to go through all of the different components of summer programming. I did specialize for summer school, but I didn't just hold off there. I took a look specifically at our ENL boost camp. Gave you the parameters and details for what that is, as well as our summer literacy academy and the co-joining details there.
042And our special education summer experience, our ESY if you will. um that program is embedded in there and I also put at the very bottom of that another another hyperlink for us to look at the library summer hours if you're wondering what those might be. um for summer school just to focus on that as a snapshot right now. We have principal Stephanie Loose somewhere. She's still around here maybe. Uh we have registration dates that are coming up July 1 and July 2 and that's going to be in the high school West Wing cafeteria. Attendance dates for summer school are July 7 all the way to August 14. Exam dates meaning our regent exam dates are going to be August 18 and 20. location for this year because of construction is going to be over at
043Sand Creek Middle School. Um we do house for our 7123 sessions beginning at 7 7:30 going to 9:10 then 9:15 to 10:55 then 11:00 to 12:40 and we do have sessions for our five six kiddos and that's going to be session 1 8 to 9:30 session 2 9:30 to 11. Um, there is an embedded again summer school flyer if you're interested in the publication that we're going to be putting out. It's not it's in in its final draft just yet. Uh, but it is pretty close to securing all the different components that go on with summer school. And, uh, that's the short of it. I can go longer if you'd like to, Mr. Kogan. Well, how about we just go to agenda item 9B year end calendar. So, just excuse me. Just one thing. Yes,
044sir. Mr. One of the things I bring up all the time and I asked about it at the agenda review. So if if you wouldn't mind, Mr. Catcher, tell us again about driver ed. Oh, for sure. So driver ed, we are looking at actually bringing it back, reviving driver ed since it kind of took a little bit of a hiatus since we had a version of driver ed after co then we didn't really have any any instructors um available to deliver um the instruction necessary for the students to be certified. So, we now have two instructors currently, Caitlyn Kerry and Tom Gettys. They are going to be working with um Stephanie Loose, and they're going to be working toward their certification over this summer. It's going to be partially virtual instruction that they have to
045go through and then part partly uh on site around campus for them. And they'll go through that training. They'll be able to turn key and be certified to deliver a fall and a spring semester of driver instruction. So, working with Mr. Burl and they'll come up with how that is going to look and which students are going to be available to it. And then they have to finish up their training that following summer. We'll also be able to put forward hours for drivers ed that following summer summer with those same two uh instructors and we're looking to recruit two more instructors on top of that so we can continue to build. Thank thank you to those two teachers because that is I think from hearing from every district and our own the biggest challenge to
046try to find people to go to the training in the first place because it's not something that they just say hey you're we need you. So thank you to those two teachers. Absolutely. Very good. Thanks. Anything else? Agendum item number 9 C, summer building use report. Dr. Perry, do you want me to finish 9B? I have I'm sorry. We thought you were done. Not a problem. We thought you were done. But I can keep going. All right. Going back. Agenda item 9B, year end calendar to be continued. Mr. Catch Durian. So, just a quick snapshot. The year- end calendar. The first hyperlink that you see there. That is what has gone out in publication through parent square. It's the at a glance what we just covered in academic achievement as well. It just looks at
047what are the the hot topic dates for high school, for middle school, and for our elementary schools. And then if you want to go to the second hyperlink, the calendar um brings you to the detailed messages of what's happening in each one of our schools from all five elementaryaries to our both of our middle schools to our high school. And it lets you know what specifically is happening essentially from um the end of today all the way through graduation or moving up or the final day of school. And it'll give you kind of the detailed parameters if you take a look at that as far as which school is doing what and when. And if there are any questions, certainly reach out to me and I can follow up with answers for you. Questions? Hearing
048none, now we'll go to agenda item 9 C, summer building use report. Dr. Perry, Tom was able to cover most of the summer building use by going through the summer school program. So, uh, just as a quick recap, uh, summer academy is at Roselleville and Saddlewood. uh extended school year for special education is at Forest Park and our summer school 512 program is at S Creek Ver the high school and Lysa Hill will be offline this summer due to our capital construction. So if you're driving around this summer please uh be careful of those sites. Uh the buildings will still be accessible for staff but it'll be limited access to the public uh at VER the high school in my skill. Thank you. Very good. Agenda item number 10, board committee reports. We have two.
049A is transportations facilities. Mr. Casey, the hyperlink there, but if you'd like to give a summary, please go right ahead. Thank you. Are there any questions for the board? Sorry, I have a couple of things that I'd like to highlight here. Um, currently for anyone that's watching or anyone that's in the room here this evening, if you're looking something to do on your off time. Uh we do have nine open driver positions available for driving school buses. So if that's something that you might be interested in, get a hold of Mr. Sim at the bus garage and he will certainly uh lead you in the right direction. The other thing that is a little disturbing is um Mr. Sim gave us a report on the bus patrol and it seems that a lot of folks
050are still having a hard time stopping for the stop school buses, especially on Central Avenue in both directions. So, I would caution you again, that's not an easy ticket to uh receive from the police by passing the stop tour bus. So, please stop for the buses. Uh you certainly don't need a ticket and points against your license. And those are the two things that I wanted to highlight. Thank you very much. Any questions for Mr. Casey? How much is that ticket up to Mr. Casey? $50 or second or third one keeps going higher and higher. It's 250. 250 on the first time. 250 bucks. The cameras are 50 for the for the speed. Yeah. And remember that's on both sides. So bus is on one side. It's both sides of the road. the uh speed
051that the cameras in the city of my wife knows exactly. She couldn't understand why she got Oh, there you go. I know. All right, Madam President. Thank you. Policy, Mr. Larabe. Yep. Um available to answer any questions on the policy meeting that I was unfortunately able to attend. Um but um I uh did want to thank Mr. Love it who uh who uh you know was able to to talk on a lot of stuff and thank you to everybody else that was able to pick stuff up. Anybody have any questions? Hearing none. Thank you very much. Agenda item number 11, reports and recommendations for action. This goes from A to L. Dr. Perry, is there anything you'd like to point out? Uh, this is pretty standard at this point in time. Uh, some renewals, uh,
052some grant donations. We do want to recognize uh the, uh, PTSA for their ongoing support of our, uh, art department for helping with, uh, Wolfpack Designs, uh, donation for the football booster, uh, to help with that uh, weight room turf project, and to Mrs. O'Brien for donating school supplies. Um, once again, thank you to those individuals involved. If there's any questions, I'll be happy to answer. Any other questions, comments? Hearing none, I will take a motion to approve Mr. Blakeley. Mr. Larabby. Thank you. On the motion made by Mr. Blakeley, seconded by Mr. Larby that the above stated reports and recommendations be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 90. Agenda item number 12, personnel instructions. These are going to be found on pages 13 through 21. Mr. Robotti, that's yours. Thank you, Mrs.
053Kogan. Kind of a full circle conversation. Uh earlier today, we honored some of our retirees who have completed their service to the district. And then you'll notice on the instructional agenda, you'll see a lot of new names and the human resources department along with our administrators and and teachers and other members of committees have been busy hiring new staff to replace some of those retirements and other positions that the board has approved. So, uh we welcome a lot of the new uh members to our school district. They're all excited. um some of them their first jobs, some of them wanting to come back, some of them alum, things that we see seasonally when we we do these hires. So, congratulations to our new hires and um I think Mrs. Judge is here. She's also on
054the agenda. So, congratulations to Mrs. Judge for her new title in the district. And we have um some long-term replacements. So, even thinking forward for some of the openings we have next year. Mhm. I would anticipate the next few agendas on the instructional side would be full of new hires. Oh yes. All right. Thank you. Any questions? Hearing none, I will take a motion. Mr. Casey and Miss Giggly. On the motion made by Mr. Casey, seconded by Miss Gigglyello that the instruction personnel changes listed on the attached sheets dated May 27th, 2025 be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 90. Agenda item number 13, personnel support. These are found on pages 22 to 23. Mr. Robalotti. Thank you again. While it's not a clean sheet like the last two agendas we had, we
055do have some people who unfortunately will not be able to stay with us for some personal reasons. And we do have a couple taking other positions in the district which are also welcome resignations when you're moving out of an organization. Um, so you'll notice uh some of those changes on here and also u what I'd like to point out when we talk about the bus garage and the needs, we do have an appointment for an auto automotive mechanic which is u very welcomed as we will have another retirement coming up. So trying to keep that fleet of uh crew members full. It's an important hire for our buses and all the work they do to continue to keep our buses safe and our children safe. So congratulations to our new hires on the support side.
056All right. Thank you. Any questions, comments? Is that mechanic title under the helps or is that more different? Got to be a certified auto mechanic. Oh, certified auto. All right. Anything else? Hearing none. I will take a motion. Mr. Keane, seconded by Mr. Casey. Based on the motion made by Mr. Keane, seconded by Mr. Casey, that the support personnel changes listed on the attached sheets May 27th, 2025 be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 90. Agenda item number 14, certification of vote results. Do you want to take this one, Dr. Perry? Yes. Uh on May 20th, we had our propositions for the annual operating budget as well as our school bus purchase and our uh board vacancies. Um we've already announced the results. This is just the board certifying those results as official.
057Uh so proposition one was the operating budget that passed. Uh, Proposition two, the school bus purchase also passed and Brian Casey was reelected to a five-year term. Very good, Mr. Oh, we're taking any questions? No, you want to vote. Okay, Mr. Yes. I just want to say thank you to Mrs. Lanigan and everybody who did super job getting that uh vote taken care of. seemed seemed to be uh very wellrun and uh everything uh came off just perfectly. So, and there's a lot of work behind it as we all know. Thank goodness we have machines at work, right? Thanks. Anything else? All right. Hearing none, I'll take a motion. Mr. Mik second, Miss Giggley. On the motion made by Mr. May 6 seconded by Miss Giggleello that the above stated results of the annual budget
058vote and school board election held on May 20th, 2025 be certified. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 90. Agenda item number 15, Collective Bargaining Agreement. This is the Teamsters Local 294 International Brotherhood of Teamsters, AFLCIO, School Monitors Unit. Dr. Perry. Yes. Previously, we had approved the memorandum of agreement with the teamsters as part of the contract negotiations. This is the formal written contract. Uh we always bring it back to the board for final approval, but these terms were already agreed to previously. Very good. Any questions? Looking for a motion. Miss Giggley, seconded by Mr. [Music] Blakeley. On the motion made by Miss Giggleello, seconded by Mr. Blakeley, that the above stated a resolution to approve the collective bargaining agreement for the Teamsters Local 294 International Brotherhood of Teamsters, AFL CIO, School Monitors Unit be
059approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 90. Agenda item number 16. These are our future meetings. Both committee and board of education. I'd recommend strategic planning committee cancel that meeting. There's not much on the agenda. All right. And you have an executive session that day. So you could adjust the time if you choose to. So what Dr. Perry is is recommending that we don't have a lot of items for the strategic planning committee that we strike that and we move up our executive session for the board education meeting to 5:30. Everybody's all right with that. Should work? Should work? Well, we do. Difference. Make it if you want to. Was 5:30 okay with most everybody? Yeah. All right. Very good. It is anticipated that the board may enter executive session at this time. I
060will need a motion. Miss Giggley, Mr. Misk. Motion by Miss Giggleello, seconded by Mr. Mis to enter executive session to discuss fiscal and employee matter employment matters relating to particular persons. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 90 time 7:26. This ends the regular portion of our Okay. We're back. All right. Agenda item number 17. We're going to adjourn the meeting. I will unless there's anything else. Anything else? All good. We'll take a motion. Miss Hulahan, seconded by Mr. Casey. On the motion made by Miss Hulahan, seconded by Mr. Casey, that the regular meeting be adjourned. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 9 0