001March 5th Board of Education made th leg got it thank you um I'm sorry March 5th Board of Education meeting the I'll ask everybody to please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance M Cav would you lead us I'd be happy too Mr Pini 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 okay um please take note of the emergency exits there one of the back of the room and the the door that you entered in through in the in the event of an emergency please leave in an orderly fashion through these exits this is a smoke free and vaperee School District smoking or vaping is not permitted in the buildings or anywhere on
002school grounds this is a hatefree and a bully free school districts uh moving on to item C thank you president Pini uh the administration recommends the approval of board consent items reflected in schedule C1 through C3 C1 through three can I have a motion Mr second to by Miss Kavanaugh any discussion seeing none all those in favor motion carries unan thank you item D Communications and announcements all right I'll get started I know only a week has elapsed since our last board meeting but this should be really short I was just about to say a lot of things are still happening in our wonderful District so we going get right to it first and foremost I'm going to start off with our Black History Month observances there were observances in all of our school buildings
003that included lessons um learning experiences creations of bulletin boards um so I really want to give a shout out to olard school building to participate in this uh beautiful cultural celebration uh but I did have the privilege of attending the Black History Month celebration at bport High School that was directed by students under the advisement of Mr romelo Green um he basically charged students to put a program together that was um incredibly moving included dances songs spoken word poetry we also did a sort of tribute to John Conquest as a part of our local history and the impact he made in mending some racial tensions that occurred here in the past so it really was a wonderful event that literally brought people to tears um I was just so impressed by the fact that these
004students put this together and what was really nice above and beyond that was the fact that we had a an audience an entire audience of all of our students who were so supportive as well so it was just really a great source of um Clipper pride and in one of those photos she's very tiny Margaret bullet came back to speak a little bit about John conquest and also she sang and she had a beautiful and moving voice so what a great day um another great event was we just took a photo was the uh bport Middle School's read Across America day in which we got to read I'm an American a book that celebrates our diversity as our country I called it the American Mosaic um it just always great interacting with students so I
005want to thank Trustees for participating in this uh wonderful event I also want to thank Dr blazic for sort of organizing it and sort of uh picking a fantastic book just in my group alone and that's what I mean by my group or the students that I read to there were 11 countries represented and it was really nice at the end of the book reading to have them stand up and talk about um sort of their Heritage and stuff in such a a proud manner I remember when I first my first year teaching I taught in Brooklyn and I realized that my students were very diverse and I made the mistake of asking them where they were all from and no one wanted to answer me so um just because they didn't talk about it
006that loud as like seventh graders um so um just to see like the growth and the fact that the kids really embraced the book and sort of shared um and you know so many kids were just mixed Heritage and you couldn't guess what some kids were one kid kid was half Turkish half Puerto Rican and apparently our father spoke six languages so it really was a great event so thank you again Dr blasic and all the staff involved uh making this great day happen another great event just in one week was a k to 5 stem night that was hosted at Brook Haven Elementary School but featured all of our kada 5 staff members and administrators it was a night full of gadgets gizmos robots and more I mean there were so many Smiles uh
007that night among the people who participated and it was a really well attended event so so typically events at night tend to sometimes not get great attendance but this really was wonderful so I really want to thank Jack Burke our director of stem Kris alre our director of technology for organizing us and the numerous numerous teachers that participated and high school students that participated in each and the respective uh stations really was a great uh night of learning and again fun I also got to attend last night's uh Winter concert um which is always fantastic uh we saw our nth grade or Orchestra and I was really impressed by the sheer number of students that participate just as ninth graders in our Orchestra our symphonic orchestra symphonic band and our treble choir under the direction
008of Hannah calino Henry finigan Dan Rouse Cal Sherlock and Juliet valenci under the uh stewardship of course of Angelina Watson so really great night of music and again I say and I can't say it enough um just the amount of students that participate in our music programs is remarkable so really was a a great night to be out um some more South Country happenings I just came back from Albany we uh attended the nisus conference which is a conference for school uh State superintendents and participated with in various workshops I actually presented a workshop on Career Readiness Beyond AI unlocking Global potential in Civic Readiness where we talked about immersive and experential learning and how what basically makes us different than AI is our ability to connect as humans and how that we can kind
009of eliminate that from our education systems as fantastic as AI is and I also attended workshops on harvesting the power of generative AI k um 12 education left 12 I just noticed um it's remarkable what AI can do and it's something that we really have to embrace as um you know it just the technology continues to evolve um so it's really just figuring out applications for us as administrators in terms to be more effective at our jobs and also applications and how AI can help students learn also participated in a workshop on building a phone free culture in our schools um as you know that's part of the governor's mandate to come up with a cell phone policy by August 31st and it's also going to be a part of our action plan our strategic
010plan so that was pretty insightful to hear from different school districts that have already engaged in this practice and um again the last one there were more workshops leveraging tier one to build positive School culture and teacher morale and for those who you don't know tier one is basically interventions that happened in our class classrooms that affect the majority of students um so reality it's how do you sort of cultivate um a sort of a a positive climate for our Learners we also had a College Planning night uh which was organized by Mr gor St our high school guidance counselors navigating the college uh application process could be quite uh demanding and confusing at times I was really appreciative for the fact that I got stopped by just for a moment I didn't say for
011the whole thing uh but to see them get started and there's a good group of parents there uh listening to the presentation and this by happen uh when I visited the high school for our um Black History Month celebration I got to meet with our top 10 students U we'll make a more formal announcements our later uh board meeting but they're all fantastic students um you know from uh our valid dictorian shabi sha our salutatory Maya Dixit as Lily Cy followed by Anthony castanza Nicole Alvarado Diaz Ryan subbert Jette mahib Caitlyn Jer Lauren lrea who could not be here today because she is at church for uh Ash Wednesday and uh Aaron theay so great students great talking to them I pretty much think they all have their colge plans all set um and for
012those of you who observe as uh Wednesday I just want to sort of uh wish you um a happy holy upcoming L season the highlights will start with our top 10 this has also been a great uh season for our student athletes um which I think Merit a recognition in a more formal fashion first and foremost I want to give a shout out to our boys basketball team who had a playoff worth Unfortunately they had a a tough LW in their last game big shout out to coach grai and Coach Brown uh for a great season um remarkable history made our girls wrestling uh Varsity wrestling are the first ever team state champions We had um qualifiers as well uh Aaliyah Morrow was a state finalist runner up and Caitlyn marolo was placed fourth in
013New York State uh again team was made up of seven school districts um kind of joined forces but the level of competition was amazing and we were super excited to be the first ever uh state champions uh for girls wrestling so again I am going to follow up with a more sort of a formal recognition for this historic was super excited great source of uh clip of Pride our boys varsity wrestling did really well that had a 18-1 season which was capped by a state champion uh Cameron Howard he is only a ninth grade student um but he is uh our second individual state champion in uh South Country history um so he has a bright future in wrestling um and sure enough after this match on Saturday he was back in school Tuesday performing
014in our orchestra band so it's um but really happy for him happy for all the coaching staff um and all of our uh student athletes who participated it just a great uh sort of uh week of uh High School athletics and I just wanted to give them a nice shout out um I feel badly because a lot more things happen in our school buildings uh read Across America is being observed in several school buildings I'll be reading at Kramer and frankly long on Friday um so please follow our social media handles each of the schools have social media handles which you can follow um and so I encourage people to log on and see all the great things that are happening and again ways to keep in touch in our school district is our community
015portal which you subscribe to uh our social media links are all located on the first page of our website as long as along with the superintendent's Corner my contact information my social media handles and my weekly update and that concludes my superintendent report lot to be proud of thank you great on around the room on trustee and advisory commun reports on my left Miss um I just want to kind of piggyback on Mr Santana's uh read Across America the great uh read aloud fantastic I love the middle school kids um I love their interaction and the fact that they were willing to say exactly where they're from uh one of the groups that I read to we got up to 18 different backgrounds so it was fabulous um also the K through 5 stem night
016at Brook Haven um got to go there um what I really thought was impressive is it started at 5:30 there were people there at quarter after 5 waiting to get in and people were trickling in until about 6:30 so it wasn't like there was initial r rush and then it just fell off and the kids were interacting going to the different stations um just having fun with science and math I thought that was terrific um I was one of the parents at the junior planning the Junior College Planning meeting um I just want to stress um to anybody who's watching if you have a junior in high school really you utilize the time to reach out to your guidance counselors um there's a lot of information out there this is my second time going through
017it and I learned something new already this second time in two years and I learned something new so really take advantage of the opportunities that our guidance department is offering kids for college um my last thing I really want to highlight is today um I went to a seminar a disconnected seminar about self phone bands um attended with Mr Huntsman um Mr Brady Dr Coulson Mr Galina and Miss Meyer did I get everybody um it was really interesting to hear the different perspectives on the cell phone band what was working what was not working what I particularly liked about this seminar is that students spoke it was not just board members or uh principls teachers the kids actually had some real insights on how the policy has helped them and the bumps that it took
018to get there but something I know that's going to be coming up it was nice to to kind of hear some information on it thank you that's it no thank you m I enjoyed the uh read Around America program also at the middle school and and um all the children had made name signs for each of us so if everybody can hold them up you can show what all the kids did um where's your your sign but okay there's one for Miss Cavanaugh as well and um I was a appreciative of how a 10 of the children were I was the last class right before they got to go home and every single student there was paying attention to the story and um it was it was very rewarding it was a very special event
019for me thank you Miss Dr blazic for inviting us to do that and I enjoyed the concert last night at the high school and I'm looking forward to to the one tomorrow night Lisa yeah thank you um yes also enjoyed the read Across America Echo um what has already been said the um you know the warmth from the students is always always well received um I had 16 uh um different uh uh ethnics um backgrounds that were mentioned in my in my class and um I got to share you know a story about my grandmother and her she came over and came through Island and I initially asked the class if any of their grandparents came over and I realized I had to go two more Generations that it would be their great great grandparents
020forgetting how old I am so um so we had some interesting laughs about that but the students were wonderful um and thank you again Dr blaz it's it's always it's always nice to come into the into the middle school and uh and the kids really do enjoy it they you know they really they really did and you think because it's middle school they're going they're not going to but they really did so uh job well done um also yes the concert again uh I was really really I mean I'm I'm partial to the to the brass and the symphonic band they they just blow me away every time but uh I was amazed that the Freshman Orchestra were only freshman they were that good but then when you think they started you know Frank pong
021and they have all the training in the middle school then you wonder why they're so Good by the time they get to freshman um because they have all that training behind them so our music program is second to none and when I first came on the board I had a lot of parents lecture me uh you know with their finger in my face don't ever get rid of our music program uh and they are absolutely right and we never will because they are just that good so uh yes looking forward to tomorrow night's program as well um so looking forward to that and also I'm very proud to say that I'm a member of the patch hog Li is Lions Club and our primary mission is to prevent bright blindness and uh and work with
022the unsighted so we offer a free eye screening program which we uh concentrate mostly on the patrio Medford School District and the South Country School District and this week my club is participating in a free uh pre-screening I screening program here at South Country uh we usually do just uh prek through third grade but now we've Advanced to fifth grade so we're in every single school from prek to fifth grade this week in South Country and we will by the end of the by the end of the week probably screen um at least 200 200 students a day and uh hopefully you know get those those children that have eye problems into treatment and we help with their uh with cost of the of that treatment and eyeglass if those students need them and can't
023afford them so very thankful to my club for being here this week and helping our district and helping our families and that's my report thank you uh I had heard secondhand about the uh black history uh program so that's almost High Praise uh from my uh to hear from my family about anything but alone something that was done so well uh and uh very impressive apparently the singers uh were as part of that uh as well um again I missed the uh the reading uh program but I'm going to get the opportunity I hope to uh get back in the uh classroom as well uh and uh of course I had a few people who came up to me uh and uh saw it on there about the um the top 10 uh because there
024was confusion from some of our community members who thought that didn't exist anymore and uh it exists for three more years two more years after this uh as well uh but uh congratulations uh to those students I think that that's uh fantastic uh that they're having such great success great thank you uh yeah I two guys to go to read read Across America it's a wonderful day I like the book about food no no you know no surprise there so can't wait to read that one next year um no but the book was wonderful the kids are always great anybody who says um being a board trustee is a thankless job never got the opportunity to read the students so um thank you for the invite it is wonderful I wish I had time to
025do more of it um I am sorry I was scheduled to be the Black History Month celebration but my car ended up in the shop and I was stranded so um I'm sorry to have missed that um that's it moving on to no public commentary okay um you're up budget [Applause] presentation IEP a go I saw when I knew the big far everybody's okay now it sounds like yeah I'm get started um today we're doing our fourth budget presentation which is uh uh expenditure review on curriculum instruction so I'm GNA get right to it again looking at the schedule to the um today is March 5th I just had a minute where I was like I can't believe it's March 5th I thought that was a mistake but today is March 5th and we're going
026over the 2000 Cod uh curriculum and instruction again April 2nd is really when we'll have a final or semi final sort of a budget presentation where we land in terms of expenses and revenue with a consequent uh budget adaptation after that and again our budget hearing will be May 7th um and then our budget uh election will be on the 20th um we're currently in March we're really going to be scrutinizing our staffing um just make sure that we can cover our programs and make any sort of decisions that need to be made with regards to to Staffing across the district right now I'll talk about our tax life limit you know ultimately I know we had a lot of passionate conversations about it um but given the current Financial climate we decided in the
027end to go with our scenario a um which is going to be a 3.48 um tax Le limit for the community not giving up on the need to do Capital Improvements but we're going to be proposing on March 19th at our next Capital our next uh board meeting is a proposition for a capital reserve Bild to continue that important Capital work because first and foremost as articulated by the board it's much needed and also generates uh building Aid uh for the future uh but again considering our current sort of uh situation with uh taxes and expenses and the way the economy is going we were sort of reluctant as an Administration to recommend a tax levy that would have been higher um that only allowed us to do Capital work and not address some of
028the needs in our prr in our school districts programs and again the tax levy limit does not represent the district's proposed tax levy that will be shared with the board when we have our budget adaptation uh in April moving on the essential questions what do we mean by uh C curriculum and instruction and how do we organize it for budgetary purposes and Al and again finally what expenditures are included in the 2,000 code curriculum instruction so I'm going to go over each of the codes and clusters so first I want to Define curriculum instruction again uh for our newest board member but uh curriculum is what is taught in the schools instruction how is how the curriculum is being uh delivered um how does the school district organize a 2000 code for budgetary processes one
029large cluster of budgetary codes are General general education classrooms districtwide special programs not special ed programs from special programs student support outside of special education and all the contct uh contracts materials and supplies associated with providing instruction then we cluster it into special education programs districtwide including instruction Support Services tuition contracts materials and supplies as required by law again special education is mandated by student IEPs and what we mean by tuition is for students who attend special polies programs and finally the next big categories all of our extracurricular activities including districtwide including in Scholastic Athletics intramurals and clubs see the photo of our entire girls wrestling team up there on the right again very proud of their uh accomplishment so what are the expenditures that we're looking at first we're going to look at our
030um the 20 2000 or code 20 the functional code 20 which is curriculum supervision and administration which covers the development oversight and management of instructional programs um there's an overall net decrease in this category of codes which is a reflection one we're able to drop our uh textbook code because of our Reliance on digital resources that has limited our sort of U need to do old traditional textbooks at least for the next coming school year in addition to some budgetary corrections meaning the reassignment of funds to other more appropriate budget Lin um not so remarkable in this case uh but we did show a little slight increase just in this category moving on to 2100 the C 21 refers to instruction um the term regular school is not our turn and I wanted to point
031that out because it's seems kind of funny U but that's just in line with the New York State Ed education Department's st3 financial reporting framework so we' like to be consider uh consistent with that um so this includes direct uh instruction teaching regular at school um and it's again the official description uh budget codes 2130 2138 and 2140 are internal designations used by the district for specific purposes and are not standard I said F3 codes but that's how we differentiate how we like our programs cost us whether it's art music and Driver which is a minimal expense um changes in salaries here that are reflected here that not represent an increases in Staffing necessarily um and these projections will change as we finalize our staffing projections for our next board meeting uh but typically it's
032contractual obligations uh and raises that are included in this category so there's a slight increase there as well uh I move on to 20250 code program studies with st sorry programs for students with disabilities and disabilities is not misspelled again that's as consistent with the std3 uh financial report that we use to commit to the New York State Department education department occup occupational education so trusty patini had asked this question so our average did go up um our cost for these programs are based on a three-year average so we're at the end of those three years our average went up from 85 to 96 students uh for both these programs so that increase in that cost reflects that as well as an anticipated 3% increase in just the overall cost of uh both these programs
033I'm sorry so you're saying the number of students going is increasing and that's why it's there or that you're saying no our average per student has gone up they use a threeyear average y so our average has been adjusted up correct to 96 I think we have over 96 kids in there currently this year but that's the average yeah okay but no the per student price goes up not well no so we we pay like a it's based on like a three right I'm sorry it's based on the average number of students not the specific number of students in the program correct so we're at so not only the number of students go up from 85 to 96 we're at anticipating uh increase per student of 3% got it so that's what drives that and
034that is our but so our per student amount that it went up to is locked in for three years correct so if we send 120 kids next year we're paying for 96 on this year's rate yes got I just want to make sure that's the way I understood I just want to make sure it's clear because so some years you went out some years you don't and I think we've won out the last couple we've been pretty lucky yeah okay this is and I'm sorry the reason I brought up any is this is some districts are starting to push back on the average some districts patm our neighbor and I'm on the budget committee for East and suffer poosy so that's where this came from patet is a district where it is completely the other
035other way around they're it's almost like they're paying for 150 while sending a 100 like it's that lopsided and it's it it's not great when you're that District even though we're going up here on a bigger District like that it's it's a problem so it' be interesting to see if that ever changes increases in 2250 which is programs for students with disabilities is just a reflection of the growing need of our special ed population and the increased cost Associated of with providing services for them um and finally teaching special schools covers instructional programs outside the regular school year including summer school such as our summer enrichment programs alternative education programs operated by bosis and that we're also again projecting that 3% increase across the board for all bothies programs for the upcoming school year moving
036on to 26 these are categorized under instructional media which encompasses the services that support the use of instructional materials and technology in the educational process uh the overall decrease in 26 is largely a reduction of the uh computer assisted instruction so this is basically a change of reallocating the ca of student uh monitoring software boses code 16 8490 which is aligns with the expense the fact that we receive Aid when we contracted boses so that's more of a a budgetary uh sort of Correction um and while 2620 is designated for educational television we don't have any educational television in the district um that's again a nice st3 framework we use it for um language interpretation Services it's called proprio that bis provides our school district for our uh bying parents and they provide the service
037for m languages when our inbedded staff is not there to assist moving on to uh code 28 covers a non-instructional services that directly support students such as attendance counseling uh Health extracurricular activities and Athletics um the overall net decrease is largely due to reallocation of funds to digitized paper transcripts um that's in 201810 uh we see the guidance we had a little um decrease in that cost so the budget has been ad adjusted and shifted the budget Poes records management code 1460 490 um and then the net overall decrease in the Sal reduction social workers is not representing a drop in social workers but we're anticipating grant funding for some of our social workers so we're taking that into account um and finally the overall net increase in District's commitment to supporting growing Athletics programs
038you know with more students participating in sports and anytime we reach the postseason it represents additional Transportation cost and additional cost for the district we sort of anticipated an increase in this category as uh we uh expand our athletic programs which this year included the girls uh wrestling Varsity wrestling is that budget line pro-rated obviously because of the like for for girls wrestling right yeah that's included so it's but the busing contract is prated for each district that participates so do we foot the whole bill for the team it was pro rated we shareed expense we share it with other districts um so that's basically sums up the 2000s um if you look at it we decided to put in percentages so um to kind of demonstrate how much the our anticipated expenses are increasing
039um last time around we spoke about the 1,000 codes the 5,000 codes the 9,000 codes that's really where the biggest impact is um hitting us you know our cost as I mentioned the last time around in transportation was something that we did not anticipate for the upcoming school year as well as our health insurance cost uh going up by 15% so that's a challenge that we're going to have to face but there's still about 6 weeks left to the budget process and so we're going to continue to CHP away to make sure that we propose a budget that can maintain our programs but also we're looking to really to reduce uh some of these expenses wherever we can in order to propose a budget that's going to be fiscally responsible and doable um and again
040um all the expenditures are uh will change um each step of the way as we propose uh the budget presentations um so that concludes my presentation I'll open it up for questions trustees any question I just for my own curiosity when you mentioned there's a decrease in our expense for the purchase of uh textbooks is there some coordinating increase in costs of computer-based learning programs and if so where is that in the textbooks are incredibly expensive I never appreciate it and I don't want to get figures off the top of my head but the fact that we're relying Less on hard copy textbooks really is the money savings because basically when you deal with a digital media it's a contract and so you're not paying for like you know right okay thank you um the
041the inter Scholastic Athletics budget line I don't know why this number jumps out at me and I really paid that what else is in in that number is that busing is the is the Lion Share of that no bus is including in transportation so it's not in this so what what drives that number so it's salaries uh it's done the the new programs like girls wrestling um you know supervision costs everything that goes into Athletics and we're anticipating um we've had some success with our each of our Seasons so each time our students sort of extend the season costs go up but the cost that goes up when the extended season is is is ref fees correct for the most part ref fees The Faculty supervision um transportation and but the transportation is not in
042here that's that's why I'm trying to figure out why that number is cuz that looks like a whole lot of coaches on top but like is the insurance cost associated with teams in that number what about like equipment and not yeah that's that's what I'm trying to get at is about a $100,000 increase M um when you put all these different variables together I'm just I'm just checking the detail and I and I'll be honest over all the years being I don't know why I never asked these questions on this specific budget line but I don't know why I'm unfamiliar with why that number is is so big it's my understanding that a season and and maybe I'm just bad at math you know really with coaches and referees fees isn't really more than $15,000
043$20,000 per team again I don't know off the top of my head share the breakdown like yeah I'm just I'm curious to know what's in that and what drives that and that goes to just um a little side thing I'm looking into I'm just curious about athletic bees that's all nothing to hold up nothing that's urgent it's really you're satisfying a curiosity here because it's not equipment it's not the print out of my detail that's the one called I'm Miss I get up to 2850 2855 I don't have a [Applause] breakdown I'm sorry my apologies apparently you read bottom up and so that includes I'll go through it but uh salaries for the various coaches um the salary of course of our athletic uh um athletic directors in there okay that makes sense in there
044coaching salaries um everything that goes into like filming Sports all the uh you know you know how we live stream the uh all that stuff but that's not a big number right uh that is on I'm getting to R it's about $70,000 stream the events on nfhs all the above it's sports card film um there's various different uh okay so that's also the same service that provides video Imaging for our coaches to review yeah there various different it's not just that one no no I get um it includes our athletic trainer salary coach salaries the clerical salary for the athletic department y equipment okay equipment is in there okay a remarkable number that say it's pretty static but official fees are about $115,000 a year uh Contract Services for the Middle School Contract Services for
045the high school what is Contract Services what is that exactly is that this Vis physician or no um well the trainer in there too cont okay we don't have to spend too much time here I'm just curious at more detail on that if we can get that in an update detail that we provide ear yeah I I just there's a couple of things in there that I'm just curious about that's all all right yeah so but again our athletic programs are growing that's kind of like the bottom line right above it is co-curricular activities are those clubs those clubs even that number seems high for the number of clubs we have knowing what the stiens are so that that those are some of the things that I'm just curious about as I go through this
046I don't and I just want to know I don't think anything's wrong I'm just I want to understand it a little bit better all right put that in the update as well thank you any more questions so next time around we're doing our staffing analysis um and again culminating in our budget uh vote and election on May 20th uh we did questions so I thank you for your time thank you thank you Mr I don't okay sorry all right so we're done okay thank you with questions nobody had any questions sorry I was like having this conversation I'm like I guess everybody we okay thank you um moving on to section GH have GH is any want to take them together sure stormy night have any have objection right all right so we'll do an
047Omnibus for um G1 go ahead I'll make my recommendation the administration recommends approval of curriculum items uh reflected in G1 through G2 Personnel changes reflected in H1 through h8 and business items reflected in i1 through I3 can I have a motion Just a Little seconded by Mr Barry any discussion seeing none all those in favor motion carries unanimous I want to mention a couple things um within that vote was the approval of the BTA contract so I'm glad that process is officially over um looking forward to our continued collaboration um I want to thank the BTA and its executive negotiating team and members for uh a nice and uh smooth uh negotiations although it took a little bit longer than anybody anticipated um and also we appointed Miss Jackie o'hagen as our new assistant uh
048superintendent for curriculum instruction and accountability we're excited about her sort of continuing the momentum that Miss Doyle uh sort of helped create in our tenure with us here in South Country we're all up in um misus conference together and we're able to talk about a lot of the sort of hopes and aspirations we have um and the way I see it is about Miss h ohagen s of taking that baton Miss doyo took the district from point A to point B and now miss haen will take the district from point B to point C so we're looking forward to continued growth she's super excited the only reason she's not here is because she's accepting her social studies administrator of the Year award still in Albany um so I just want to congratulate her and I
049look forward to her sitting at the table with Mr Huntsman missig uh at our next board meeting we did interview her at the board uh via Zoom tonight so everybody's wondering so it is a little um odd for not to be here but obviously this is the way things go and we're happy to have her so congratulations to missen okay um with that I'll go around the room any closing remarks do you have the announcement about the Legacy do you mind if I mention it or do the what the Legacy do you have it to announce it I don't have anything on that what is that I don't know what you're talking about and Girls Club oh I don't I don't have it ready in front of me so you're welcome to make a comment
050okay all right just in closing just want to say that U the Boys and Girls Club each year has a Legacy Event where they honor um uh members of the district um and and the local area who have made significant contributions to our community and this year um appropriately so and cumly uh Anita Webb is going to be honored this year and also our superintendent um Antonio Santana uh that'll be on March 29th um tickets are available and um you know we hope the community support but we're very proud that our superintendent is being recognized for the contribution that he's made not only to our community so we'd like to congratulate him thank you uh trusty Feliz uh I feel very humbled by it I feel very undeserving considering I've been here just three years
051but um I think the board knows how I feel about this community and I want to continue pressing along to start continuing to promote its growth it's um this is a really special place and I feel like I landed in the right place so um I'm really appreciative of the uh acknowledgement from the boys and girls club we work collaboratively a lot together they do wonderful things for the community so I'm just hoping to continue being a part of that bar I do feel uh so I did skip over one of the things in my notes in the previous section dra I did want to bring it up the concert last night was beautiful um and um uh I wanted to Echo the uh the band was uh quite thrilling and I like the backtack
052uh same song being played twice I've never seen that in the history of concerts uh and uh it was just interesting to hear something um the only piece I say I I do want to thank uh Mr Brady I know he's not here and his negotiation team and the executive team of the PTA for getting this contract done um I'm I'm happy we're able to finally get it done and uh and move on so uh thank you to to all of them and Mr Santana and the negotiating team on our side for uh coming together to get it done okay uh I'll open the floor for motion to adjourn Mr L seconded by Mr Barry all those in favor motion carries we're adjourned