001The regular meeting of the South County Board of Education will be called to order. Roll call. Mr. Blakeley here. Mr. Casey is excused. Mrs. Co here. Mrs. Giggleello here. Mrs. Hulahan is excused. Mr. Keane is excused. Mr. Keel is here. Christopher Larabe I know is going to be a bit late and Robert here. Thank you. 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. All right. Thank you. Agenda item number three. These are the approval of the minutes from the regular meeting of the April 8th, 2025 board meeting. Unless there's any edits or comments, I will take a motion. Mr. Blakeley and then Mr. Misik. On the motion
002made by Mr. Blakeley, seconded by Mr. MC that the minutes of the regular meeting of April 8th, 2025 be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. 5. Number four, the president's spotlight. That's me. Our big item today, and I'm just so thrilled with this program because I this is near and dear to my heart. Um, and it's uh we're we're honoring our partnership, our partnership, the Colony Community Connection, which is based in the Colony Center Mall. We are honoring our partnership with Bos Bos Cobs our some of our students work there and it's just a great experience that we really love. Um, would any of my fellow board members know that why why does Bos Cobs hold a near and dear place in my heart besides I shop there all the time? Anything else?
003Anybody? Petite department. H great petite department. Yeah, it's great petite department. That's true. Anyone here? No. Do you used to work there? No, I didn't. But it is it it was founded in Pennsylvania. My my home state. Okay. Now, can we just remember that now from now on? Say they sold bubbler gear. They sold bubblers gear. That's right. Um and tonight we're going to be recognizing Bishi Faso. Hello. and also um Colleen Alo Alosi Alozi. Thank you very much. Mr. Borman is going to take care of the rest. Yeah. So again um thank you board. Uh as we've been talking about for years in regards to the support for the Colony Community Connection without folks like Vichy and Colleen, there would be no community connection. And uh what I can say is count uh Bichi
004was one of the first ones that we reached out to and did not bat an eye uh when we asked about trying to partner with it. And it's folks like uh Beichy and Boss that was uh able to help us to get to where we are today uh with the obviously support of of Deerra and her staff. Uh it's been it's been amazing. It's been awesome. I know you guys saw the video in regards to what they've posted last month. So phenomenal. Uh on that note, I'd also just like to recognize Anthony Marsh and Ca and Cassie Sh who are two of our students with us and uh came with us and and their parents and their support. So again, we we couldn't be more grateful to uh obviously the students, Deerra, Lisa Galachi is
005with us as well, one of Deerra's um uh support staff, and obviously Bey and Colin. So very good. Very good. Thank you. We do have some statements of recognition. So Colleen and Beichi, if you could meet me right up here. And here we are. It's the president spotlight for both of you. Thank you. And we we very much appreciate it. We can get a picture and then we can uh we'll step back here and then we can get some of our students in too if that's all right with you. Anthony and Cassie want to join us. Hi guys. Come on. We'll get pictures. Come on up. Lisa, are you camera shy? Come on. There we go. Thank you very much. Thank you. Oh, I love that tree. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.
006[Music] Bill, I heard you share with them the Where's everybody going? Thank you all. Appreciate it. Oh, ice cream. Why didn't I think of that? Thank you very much. We just came back. They're all tied up at seven died at 8 back. Oh, that's wonderful. All right, back to business. Agenda item number five, superintendent update. That is you, Dr. Perry. Yes, thank you. Um, just wanted to remind uh everyone we recently put out a notification about our end of the year calendar dates. Um, due to uh not using all of our snow days, we will be uh taking Friday, May March, yeah, excuse me, Friday, May 23rd or past March, May 23rd off as contingency day. That's the Friday before Memorial Day. Uh hopefully we'll have some nice weather and families can have that long
007weekend. U also end of the year um items of note. Um we've got u the last day of regular classes at the high school is Friday, June 13th. Uh then we start getting into local exams and regions exams. The high school graduation um is on Wednesday, June 25th this year. Uh noon time at the uh MEP Arena. Our moving up ceremonies for the middle schools will be the next day on the 26th and um those will take place uh at our high school mug gymnasium as we've done in the past. Uh believe creek is in the morning and skills um at the m middle of the day there. 9 and 11 o'clock I think are the correct times. Um spring sports are are underway. Uh we're starting to get some decent weather. So, um, thank
008you to those students and athletes and and families for, um, managing it through those cold spells that we had in, uh, in April. Uh, but some really good, uh, athletes that are out there and some, uh, quality competition going on. We've had some exciting games. We're utilizing our our turf field. The other night, we had uh, JB and varsity lacrosse on on the turf field. Uh we've had home contests and and uh boys and girls uh sports and a wide variety and we're coming up on um the uh Colleen Relays in in early May. So a lot of good things going on there. Um our lightning queue was just notified that they have been nominated for most outstanding musical. Oh, that's um they are preparing for their postseason and looking forward to uh showcasing their
009talents at Proctors on May 10th. Um it is also the night of the junior prom. So just uh keep those dates in mind. But really good things and best of luck to uh Missino, Miss Felaro and and uh and their cast and crew for those welldeserved honors and hopefully bring home this outstanding musical. That's all I have. Very good. Thank you very much. New business board members, Mr. Blakeley. Uh just want to say good luck to all of our um students who participate in baseball and softball as little league and the girls program down at West kickoff this weekend. So if anybody's looking for anything fun to do, they do have some fun opening day activities. Always fun to go and support those programs. They do a really good job. I know Dr. Perry will
010be a bull. So we appreciate that. Um have fun and good luck to all our spring teams. Absolutely. All right. Thank you very much. I just want to remind everybody about packfest on the 17th closer and closer. So, it's gonna be a great day. A lot of fun things this year. Oh, you bet. Gentlemen, Mr. Mason, uh just attended the girls varsity lacrosse game last night after uh watching several games last few years on going to road teams and seeing turf, not having a home game and seeing the girls on turf. It's uh it's nice to see and it's it's great. So, that's it. Very good. Thank you, Mr. Ke. Yes. just tell the board members that we did tour the high school last week and it's work in progress of course but it's exciting
011to see how things are going. Anybody want to add anything to that and they're going quite well. It is amazing how much work has been done. So we're very excited for that. Very good. And just just one other thing that you you'll be able to talk about it as well but uh we also had several student Mr. catch you during I forgot the number. How many kids got the seal of bi literacy spot? Yeah, I think we it was a big number. It was two days of students speaking in perhaps their native language or um a learned language by literacy and some was triiteracy. There isn't a name for that especially, but that some of these kids can speak three languages fluently. Yeah. and they they uh get up and uh give a report in
012their uh world language and then are asked by the panel of teachers some questions and they they respond in their language and then then they do it in in English as well. So, uh it's quite a quite interesting to see. There's lots of kids that get that honor. Two days. I didn't see them all, but uh very talented. Lots of lots of kids, Chinese and uh Spanish and French. Um but I I was there when there was lots of Chinese, Arabic, Ardu. We had quite talented. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's nice to know that there's still that uh aspect of education that's going on. Yeah. Thank you. That's I also attended that. Very impressive. And I believe the next day was Mrs. Lupy's um advanced lit uh it was actually like a science fair acceptance with
013literature and that was terrific. and you go and the and the people the kids talk to you about what they learned and the life lessons that was you were there too Mr. Ke. Yes. Um also wanted to mention uh I don't know I just learned of this yesterday. Michelle McGinn who was a longtime teacher uh at Roselville and she came over to Shaker Road. She just passed away a few days ago. A lovely woman um and helped lots and lots of kids including my own. She was just great. So, my condolences to the family. Um, next this Saturday from 9 to 3 will be the spring craft fair for the PTSA at the high school in the mug. Um, they have 50 60 uh vendors there plus all sorts of um oh, clubs for the
014kids and stuff like that that you can go and support. Just stop by. There's no admission fee. Just stop by and and if you see something you like, buy it. I believe that's it. Anyone else? Oh, Mr. Laravey. Hello. Welcome. What? How was the baseball game? We lost seven to five, but it was a good game. Seven to five. Thank you very much. Do you have anything? We're just going over our new business. Uh, no. All right. Terrific. Thank you very much. Agenda item number seven, communications. Are there any Nothing online? Nothing online. Nothing handed in. All right. Thank you very much. Agenda item number eight, board committee reports. The one that we have to discuss tonight is the graduation/athletics hall of fame. Mr. Keel and Mr. Keane are the committee co-chairs. Mr. Keel, do
015you have anything you'd like to uh specify on the report? Well, I would just uh say you can read the report about graduation. Nothing really has changed, but the the logistics are presented to you there so that you can study those. And of course the students will be excited about getting all that information soon too. Um the as to the uh halls of fame both the athletic and the academic have candidates uh they have been notified. We're not going to disclose their names yet because they're we're uh still getting the the information to them and about them etc. So, we're we're uh very happy that we have those. The academic there are three academic hall of fame recipients who will be honored at graduation. And then we are uh probably going to be going to
016a new system in the fall where we will have the ceremony for the academic hall of fame along with the uh national honor society induction. Um, and so I'm saying to anybody who's listening to this that there's a time now once again to nominate the the window is always open. You can nominate anytime you want, both for the academic and for the athletic, but right now we're we're gearing up to have more and more um academic hall of fame inductees for the fall, probably in in late fall. So, um, please, uh, if you, if you're listening to this, think about your the graduates, what they've done while they were in school or what they've done outside of school beyond the, uh, time here at the colony. And there's there's many, many people we would love
017to induct. We know there's plenty of people who are doing wonderful things, and we would like to honor them. So if you can well again it's go on the website forms are open as we speak. So and there's a spot on the website where you can click on uh acu uh academic hall of fame and you can nominate there and we will anticipate that uh we'll get lots of people. So thank you very good. Thank you very much Mr. Keel. Agenda item number nine reports for information. This is the 202526 budget discussion. Miss Mall, Miss Mallister, take it away. Uh, tonight I'm presenting a very boring presentation because nothing's changed since our second draft. So, I'll just do a quick recap for everybody and we are planning to adopt um later this evening in this
018agenda, but um the budget we've stayed consistent. We haven't had any um any adjustments since our last um proposal. So um as you know we have our priorities and um the tax and cap the tax cap our levy increase is looking at 3.49% and 0.95% of that is our new capital project debt for all the wonderful work that we are doing at the high school and throughout the district. Um this is a summary of our expenditures uh additions changes that we um highlights that we're looking at for programmatic changes um additions enhancing some uh our pathways at the high school making some class size reductions um looking at some some repurposing of funds to maximize our services to students. So these we have gone through I believe at Nauseium. Um our expenditure budget uh similar
019to last time 8.36% uh 10 million increase and as you can see half of that is our um new debt coming on. So we want to make sure that we are um being able to pay for that and we have aid that um goes along with that as well. So finishing those projects is important um this summer so we can get aid on them for next year. Um as you see the debt service as I mentioned is almost 50%. It's 43% of our um increase for this year. Um revenues we are looking at aid increases. Um the estate aid is a a big jump but most of that is um a significant portion is foundation aid but also our our building aid projections for the projects that we're going to be completing at the end
020of this summer um will be able to be aided fully next year. And so we'll make sure that we get um all of those completed. Um same balanced budget revenues and expenditures 139 million550. And on our propositions for May 20th, we have our operating budget, our bus purchase, and um our board of education candidate for Mr. Casey. He is running unopposed for his seat. Um what's next? Today we have our um board of education meeting. Next next meeting on May 6, we have our public hearing um to we'll go through in detail for the public all the information that we've discussed all along for our budget development process. And then our main vote May 20th is our vote at K and St. Creek. And that's all I have for tonight. Thank you very much. Any
021questions? Go ahead. you know, the wonderful work you do for the budget. It's I know it's tough. You do really good work. So, thank you for all your absolutely. All right. Thank you very much. Agenda item number 10. These are reports and recommendations for action. These are letters A through E. Dr. Perry, is there anything you'd like to highlight? Well, these are pretty standard. Uh the agenda in item B is just an increase to the existing contract uh for additional services. Deon Garvey's been a long time contract employee working with our staff for many years. The other ones are a pretty standard helper for contract. I do want to uh thank uh those that donated. I know this was always Mr. Ryan's uh area. That's right. Um but donation to Jill Craw for the Yamaha
022trombone and for the cello. Um thank you very much for that donation. Absolutely. Very valuable. Thank you. And then the clerks and treasurers reports. Any questions? All right. Hearing none. I will take a motion. Miss Giggleello, Mr. Larabby. Motion made by Miss Giggleello, seconded by Mr. Larby that the above stated reports and recommendations be approved. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries 6. Number 11, personnel instructions. You can find those on pages 13 and 14. Mr. Robotti. Yeah. Two two things that I want to highlight. One, a retirement certification that's on here for all her work years of service to our students at St. C. We thank her for her her time and her empathy that she brings to the job and the students. So, thank you, Donna, and welld deserved and we wish
023her the best in retirement after June 30th. So, after June 30th, a few more weeks. Um, and another item on there, I'd like to point out that Mr. Barbara is here. This would be the official appointment and moving him to the position of building principal at Peter Elementary. So we congratulate you. Now as as always I say hold your applause until we you we do the vote. All right. Very good. Any questions folks? Hearing none. I'll take a motion. Mr. Blakeley and Mr. Misik. On the motion made by Mr. Blakeley, seconded by Mr. music that the instruction personnel changes listed on the attached sheets dated April 23rd, 2025 be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 6. Applause. [Applause] Applause. Thank you very much. Agenda item number 12, personnel support. These are on pages
024151 16 against Miss Mr. Robalotti. This might be as good as it gets. Okay. All appointments changes but no one is exiting the organization on this an immaculate any nine pitches. Um and there is a bus driver in there which is even an added bonus. So we welcome our new employees and congratulate the change of appointments. Terrific. So, um, yeah, proud of this, uh, agenda I put together here for there. Good job. Yeah, good job. Good job. Good job. Again, hold your applause till we make that. Uh, any questions? Hearing none, I'll take a motion. Miss Giggleello. Second, Mr. Larabe. On the motion made by Miss Giggleello, approved by Mr. Lar or seconded by Mr. Larby that the support personnel changes listed on the attached sheets dated April 23, 2025 be approved. All in favor?
025I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 6. Good job, Mr. Robotti. And I I would like to say I should have said agenda item number 11. Miss Davidson. Uh terrific terrific influences influence for many years. The germinators club. Always love that. I like to get my uh spring flowers there. Um just terrific. Thank you very much, Donna. You're very much appreciated. Agenda item number 13. This is the notice of the annual meeting. Like Miss Mallister said, we're going to be meeting or excuse me, the votes going we're going to be meeting on Tuesday, May 6th at 6:30 at Saddlewood Elementary to go over everything. And then further um the voting is going to be on Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Those are going to be at Lisha Hill and Sand Creek. Proposition
026number one, the annual budget. Proposition two, the school bus purchase. And I believe the board seat. The board seat. Um, member for the 5-year term expiring May June 30th, 2030, believe it or not, to succeed Brian KCC. Any questions? Hearing none. I will take a motion. Mr. Blakeley and Mr. Larabe. On the motion made by Mr. Blakeley, seconded by Mr. Larby, that the above stated resolution be adopted. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 6. All right. The next is going to be agenda item number 14. Adoption of annual annual budget 2025 2026. This is going to be a roll call vote. Miss Lanigan. All right, Miss Blakeley. Yes. Oh, I'm sorry. I beg your pardon. We can do it before or after. Before or after? Okay. Doesn't matter. Go. You were on a roll,
027please. Rose, yes. David Ke. Yes. Yes. Robert. Yes. All right. Thank you very much. Yes, you're you're absolutely right. Um, may I have a motion? Miss Giggleello and Mr. Mr. Mis. I love this. All right. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 6. Agenda item number 15, the real property tax report card 202526. Any questions? Hearing none. I'll have the motion. Miss Giggleello. Mr. Mik. All right. Motion made by Miss Giggleello, seconded by Mr. Misik that the attached 2026 real property tax report card be approved. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 6 0. Excuse me. Next agenda item number 16, the resolution for appointment of election personnel. Does anybody have any questions? Hearing none, I will take a motion. Mr. Larabby and Miss Giggle. Thank you. Motion made by Mr. Larby, seconded by
028Mr. Gigglyello that the above stated resolution be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 6. Agenda item number 17. This is the capital region Boseis. It is by law that we must vote on this uh both with the budget and then the next uh agenda item is the election ballot for board members. Do we have any questions? Hearing none I will take a motion Mr. Blakeley and Miss Giggleello on the motion made by Mr. Blakeley seconded by Gigle Gigleello that the board of election vote yes or no. Yes. Oh yes or no. Gotcha. Um those who vote yes. Those who vote no. It is six yes and zero no. Correct. All right. Agenda item number 18. Capital Region Bosey's election ballot for board members. There are four and if you that oh that's is
029one thing we forgot to say. We did attend the Bosey's uh annual lunch dinner the other night, right? And we did get to meet these people. So any questions? They're all good folk. Any questions? May I have a motion? Miss Giggleello, Mr. Misik. On the motion made by Miss Giggleello, seconded by Mr. Misik, that the board of education cast one election ballot vote for up to four of the above stated candidates. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries six to zero. Agenda item number 19, memorandum of understanding. Uh Dr. Perry, would you like to comment on this? Yes, this is aou between uh the district and the teachers association for one particular employee. This employee has worked with us for 18 years. Uh the first three years they were a contract employee. Um the last
030uh 14 and a half years they've been uh as a district employee. Uh this allows that employee to reach the 15-year milestone for um retirement purposes. Um we felt it was appropriate given the time that they've served in the district. having been here more than 15 years. It was really just uh the way that uh we had done the contract years ago. Very good. Any questions? Hearing none. I'll take a motion. Mr. Larabby and Miss Blakeley. We are busy tonight folks. On the motion made by Mr. Larby, seconded by Mr. Blakeley, that the above stated memorandum of understanding be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries six to zero. We're now on agenda item number 20, resolution. This is going to be Mr. Catadorian. And I did read all about all. Thank you. I
031feel purposeful. So hopefully you were able to, you all were able to click on the hyperlink and uh take a look at the resolutions that we're looking to pass tonight. We're looking at Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which is the month of May. So, that's going to be coming up. National Physical Education and Sport Week, May 1st through 7th, National Teacher Appreciation Week, which I we know and we'll see from all the different um pieces of information that were shared by all the buildings that it's going to be very well celebrated as it always is, May 6th through 10th and Serving. And then National School Nurse Day on May 8th. I took the liberty to just highlight one in each to kind of draw your attention to some of the outstanding work that's going on.
032And uh it's wonderful that we're able to kind of pay attention and give our thanks in a variety of ways throughout the buildings and throughout the district. Make sure that appreciation is duly noted for all of our individuals who we're celebrating and students just love doing this too. They love celebrating our folks. Very good. Any questions? Hearing none, I will take a motion. Miss Giggley seconded Mr. Misik. On the motion made by Miss Giggleello, seconded by Mr. Nich that the above stated resolutions be approved. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries six to zero. Agenda item number 21, future meetings. Please take a look. Will the architects be at the May first meeting? Um, we will certainly request them to to come. I I have to look at what the agenda is. We haven't put
033it all together yet. Yeah. Um I'll try to get that answer to you by Friday. We were looking at the trans uh portion of the meeting today to talk about the bus replacement plan and make sure we're on project for that. But we'll look at the facility side. Yeah, that's what I was thinking is that uh the bid openings are this coming Tuesday. So talk about any changes to that, but I might be out of town on the first. Anything else? I'd just like to ask about May 20th. I think last year we might have been at Lisha Hill for the summary. Last year we were going to be back at this year. We're back at life. We'll send all that out ahead of time. You have to vote at your own. Yes, we did.
034I thought you were going to say we'll we'll send a shuttle for all the the East End folks to come. Now there's a thing called an early mail voter application. So it's like getting an absentee ballot application. Anybody can vote early now. Anybody. Just like we did for presidential. Correct. So that's an option. If you don't want to do it at the poll, you can do it ahead of time. And we're going to send something else out about that, too. Very good. Very good. Any questions? Good. Before I ask about adjourning this meeting, I do want to note that it is Miss Lanigan's birthday. Thank you very much for being here. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. She still has to do a little bit of work for the Boseies vote. So that is terrific. Thank you.
035We really do appreciate you being here. All right. And on that it is anticipated that the board may enter executive session at this time. If I have May I have a motion? Miss Giggleello. Mr. Larabe. Motion made by Miss Giggleello. Seconded by Mr. Larry to enter executive session to discuss fiscal and employment matters relating to particular persons. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 60. Time is 703. All right. Thank you very much. We don't have any uh students. I'll be there.