0016:45 [Music] um where the board has returned from executive session where matters leading to the employment of a particular person the employment history of particular person were discussed. Um, will we all please rise for the pledge of >> allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under Godis and justice for all. >> May I have a moment of silence? >> Thank you. May I have your attention for a brief announcement? Upon fire alarm activation, immediate evacuation to the closest emergency exit is required. The emergency exits are located the doors. Uh please exit away from the building as so as not to interfere interfere with fire department and proceed to the evacuation areas. Please follow the school officials directions. Once assembled outside the building, everyone
002must wait until the school gives an all clear before re-entering the building. Um, will the clerk please call the role? >> Robert Zachary here. >> Ronnie C. >> Jermaine El Smith >> present [Music] >> here. [Music] >> Does the clerk have any additions or deletions to the agenda? >> Yes. Personnel item 14.02A has been added to the agenda. >> Thank you. So, the board will hel will hold the work session meeting on Tuesday, September 16th, um at 6:30 in intermediate school music room. Um the junior high school full fall sports all start on this Thursday, September 4th. Um, the district-wide bus drill will be Tuesday, September 9th, and an open house at the high school will be held on Thursday, September 11th at 6 PM. Um, just want to thank everybody that today was the
003first day of school. How'd it go? Were we on time? >> Yeah. Noah, >> school went well and we were on time. >> All right. Awesome. So, thank you to all the teachers. I think we had a great morning. Um, some of us were able to join administration and um and greet the kids and everything. It was it was wonderful. So, also this Friday will be the back to school movie night at the elementary school for any kids that want to go. I don't know what movie they're seeing, but they do a blowup screen outside. Um it's a wonderful back to school event. Um so, looking forward to it. Looking forward to a great school year. So, um I think up first we have um program presentation here. We got Dr. Martha Tudhill. >> Okay.
004>> Wagan been around all day. Long day. >> Okay. All good. plenty to do. Okay. So, tonight I just wanted to give you um sort of a counseling update. Is this on? >> Good. >> Okay. Okay. So, I wanted to give you a counseling update uh and also just review our class of uh 2025. Um, so we're going to do a a class of 2025 snapshot. Um, we're going to talk about the district counseling advisory uh committee. Um, and I'll give you our report from that uh from our meetings this year. And I just want to talk about uh future counseling program initiatives. Okay. So um our class of 2025 was really impressive. We had 185 graduates. 34 of those graduates um received the Suma Kumlad um honor uh recognition and that's with a GPA
005of 95 and above. 25 um received the Magna Kumladi honor with and that's between uh their GPA was between a 92 and a 94.99. Um there was also 22 students that received the Kumadi um honor uh recognition and that's with a GPA of 89 to a 91.99. So overall um 44% of uh the class of 2025 received distinction uh you know an honor distinction for their GPI which is really really impressive. Um, yes. So, we're very proud of this. Um, 13 students received an ISSA diploma. Um, 39 students received seals of biiteracy with um, 24 in Spanish, 12 in French, and three in American Sign Language. So, that was also really impressive. And 82 uh, students in this class um, were enrolled in at least one AP course. And of course many were enrolled in
006multiple courses. So that's also um a really big deal. And then our vocational training education program, our Boseies programs, we had 31 of the class of 2025 uh students attend uh Bose's programs either you know at another location or and also including our two in district programs. So um we really um have seen a big increase in uh the students in our vocational programs and that's exciting for us too because they really are career ready when they come out of those programs. Um okay so postsecary plans sorry oh yeah there we go. Um we had 92 uh of that 185 um attending four-year college. So that's 49.7%. We had 51 students attending a two-year college, which is 27.6%. And I'd just like to point out that of many of those students attending the two-year college,
007you know, plan to attend a four-year college, but are maybe going to a two-year college, whether that be financial reasons, whether it be, you know, they want to stay home. But, um, you know, it that is, uh, you know, a good portion of our students have decided to go on and and study, um, for a college degree. We've had 10 um students that uh attended that decided to attend a technical or a vocational school. Um so not necessarily an associate or a bachelor program. Um 29 went to employment. Um so that was 15.6 uh% of the class. And I will say those students that went to employment, many of them were um mentored in a way, you know, through the the counselors in our work-based learning program or they um applied for the construction career
008um scholarship program where they then also um interviewed and some received the scholarship, but some students didn't receive the scholarship, but were then given contacts to call for um really, you know, meaningful employment. So, that was exciting, too. Even if they can't couldn't get the scholarship, um that organization was helping them get get a job. Uh and then we had three that were uh enlisted in the military. So, that was um also very impressive. Um okay, so I just wanted to talk to you a little bit about this district um counseling advisory committee. um this the I just want to talk about why we have it and um and what we do. So this committee was established um based on the NICD regulations that were established in 2017. In 2017 the commissioner's regulations for part
009100 um point2 uh changed a lot for the school counseling um program. So a lot of um mandates came down where uh the uh nid had said that they want more um comprehensive K through2 counseling programs in all schools. They um put an emphasis on um putting counselors in the elementary schools. So um it's really great that we have that um here in Southampton. Um, and they also talked about um in this uh in the new update about having individual progress reviews for every student in grades 6 through 12. So what that means is a counselor actually sits down with the student and their parents and they have an annual meeting to talk about uh academic progress, where you are as a student right now, what what classes should we take for next year, what
010are some of your interests, what you know what do you want to be in life and um and especially uh you know we do that as as low as you know we do that in our uh intermediate school in grades five through eight and then we obviously do it again in high school and We really uh gear those conversations towards the student and their interests and their progress and then we try to map out a plan um you know based on that and and of course you know keeping in the family um input and uh their you know what they are want to do um you know what they're wishing for for their child. So um that was a big piece of this um NICE regulations. But another piece of it is they asked every
011uh school district um to establish a um developmental uh school counselor to school counseling advisory committee I'm calling it. Um and that was to include they they asked that you meet two times a year and they wanted you to include stakeholders um that could from the community from the school that can help advise um on the counseling programs. So we had a great group uh that met um the last few years and uh they also want to uh the counseling the advisory council is supposed to then submit it a report to the board of education. So that is what I'm doing today. Um so this year this committee or this past year I should say in 2425 the committee met in December of 2024 and then we met again in May. Um the committee our
012committee consisted of counselors from all three buildings community liaons the assistant superintendent um parents and then two high school students to give feedback. Um we a summary of the meetings included a review of all programs in all three buildings because they do look very different. Um and then we uh asked for input and ideas from all the stakeholders you know once they heard about all the programs and and they could give us their feedback um you know as they experienced it. Um so uh sorry um sorry about that not keeping up. Um some of the ideas from the committee that stood out um they asked for uh more studentto student mentoring programs. Um maybe more Q&A panels where students could go into classes and share their experiences. Um and if that isn't always possible, sometimes
013that's hard to do, you know, getting students out of one class to go to another class. but maybe videos um that we create for students you know to share um maybe the college application process or any other experience that um the students feel are valuable. Um we also talked about mentoring for our L students and those are also could be along the same lines where um L students can share their experiences with new in incomers or beginner LS and you know give them you know advice for what helped them and I think those are also really valuable um experiences and programs that we'd like to um start doing. We also talked about involving um former L students who are out in our business community now who can maybe also help mentor these students. So um
014anyway, so there was all kinds of ideas flowing and um we loved all of them and hope to incorporate some of those this year. Um we they also asked for some student input for um our days. So we certainly can put out surveys and ask um students what they're interested in. Um and then they also we also talked about more parent resources on our school website. Um including resources from Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and of course we have this new Stony Brook uh Southampton care program this year and uh they will be giving us a lot of information to put on our resource at least um links. So, I did put um on our website when you go to the counseling corner uh you have three options of the high school, the middle school, and
015uh the elementary. And I did put some of these resources that we talked about on those pages. So, um hopefully they're helpful just there. You know, our hospital and our community offers a lot and it would be great to share that with our our parents as well. Um so, that was um some of that that was basically our report. uh you know and and the summary of the the great ideas that came out of those meetings. Um so some of the counseling department uh future initiatives um we really talk a lot in our departments in all three buildings about um keeping in line with our district strategic plan and uh incorporating you know lots of programs that really help us in the counseling department but also align with um what New York State and our
016blue ribbon commission and graduation measures of the portrait of a graduate is talking about um and that's you know offering students a lot of options um toward graduation and and for post-secary planning. Um so uh and I also think some of these some of the ideas that I'm going to just read right out of the uh strategic plan are you know develop and implement a format um for student le conferences um develop and implement student college and career portfolios. So we do a portfolio essentially when we apply to college. But I think we should do more of that on a career um basis too. So that's something that will you know we could start this earlier and earlier in you know intermediate school and um and in high school um more in uh CTE informational
017sessions starting in grade six. So we could even even have Boseies presentations in in the intermediate school to let students know about these great programs that we have. Um and we we have great career days. We have a job fair in the high school. We have career day in we did a great career day in the intermediate school this year where they had posters and um with all different careers and the kids had to do a scavenger hunt and run around the you know and find information about all the careers which was great. Um and then we had a great one in the uh elementary school as well. But we really want to keep um those career days going and the career education information coming. We had a really good uh information session in the
018high school. Um I think it was the beginning of last year where we had architects come in and talk about their ar you know the architecture career um with students in the conference room in a small group setting which was great. The kids could ask questions and um decide if that's something they are interested in or not. So, I think we need to do more of that. Uh, and really and I'm going to work with uh our workbased learning program and um and the counselors to just kind of think of careers that students are telling us they're interested in and try to get more information um you know passed along. Um, what I'd really like to do also and and this this is the year is to establish a business advisory committee that can connect
019our school with the business community um for programs like this so that I have a committee to go to to say, you know, could could we maybe make a rotating schedule once a month for different um people to come in? And if I have this established committee, um, you know, the businesses have our we have a list of of a tremendous amount of businesses for our job fairs and um other programs that we've done here in the district. So, I'd really like to make this a more formal committee um with the board's blessing and and superintendent. So, um yeah, so that's just some of the things we're thinking about and um I just wanted to uh let you know um you know what the counseling department is working on. So, um, if there are any
020questions, um, that was all I had. >> Thank you. >> I really appreciate how the counseling department is thinking outside of the box and not just following kind of traditional path for students and especially with our, you know, changing community. It's I really appreciate the effort and it sounds like you're going to be busy this year. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Yeah, I will say the counselors are all of the counselors are really good about recognizing the different, you know, um the different students and all the different uh programs that we can offer them which is which is amazing. Um and the individual meetings every year are really really important and I will tell you not every school district does that. So um it is it is an important part of our program that uh
021I think goes along. money, right? >> Oh, yes. Thank you so much, Miss Cahill. I really, really love all of the work that you've been doing last year, the year before that, this year. Um, I really want to say that mentorship >> peer-to-peer or just a older student and the younger student is so important. And I really I ran into a student a L student that has graduated maybe three years ago I believe and um she was speaking to me about I told her I was a board member and she was like oh that's so cool and she was speaking to me about like how she wanted to get a job at the school and or just mentoring students to let them know of her experience how you can navigate it everything that you were
022saying because >> face to face with someone who you can resonate with and who looks like you maybe and just someone they don't have to look like you but someone that you can resonate with and that you feel comfortable with >> is an amazing way to help bring these children up and to help them to feel confident in themselves as they move along. >> Yeah, it is. It's powerful to hear, you know, somebody who's had that shared experience or um and who has succeeded or maybe hasn't, you know, has gone through different um you know, waves in their uh you know, their in their path. And I think it's helpful to hear that. Then I also wanted to just um reflect on your the business advisory committee >> and just expanding on reaching out to
023a lot of the local businesses because our children can be >> interning. >> Yeah. >> Seeing if they like that before they might go off to a two-year or a threeyear or whatever they're doing. That's a great opportunity for them to see what works for them, what they might like, what they may not like before spending their parents >> thousands of dollars. >> Exactly. >> For college, you know, they might go to the hospital and see, oh, I like X, Y, and Z. Maybe I don't need to go do all this. I can learn here. >> That's right. So, I really just wanted to say thank you. >> Yeah. I always share the story that my my mother made me be a candy striper in the hospital and I loved it and had a great
024time but I that told me clearly I did not want to be in the medical field. So that was saving money and not going to college for that when I knew I didn't want it. So um but yes, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um I think and send me those people. >> Yes. Yes. >> My number. >> Yes. I just want to say is from like a student perspective, I really appreciate you going the extra mile, especially like the meetings with the guidance houses. It's really helpful to hear their perspective on what they think you should do and how you're doing. It's really helpful. I just want to say thank you. >> Great. >> One more thing um for student for um adding um what you would like to do more of for student
025input for days as Dr. morale implemented that we have like three or four of them a year which is amazing and gets the kids to socialize and do teamwork and build um and think creatively. Um we did uh do like I think like a response and the superintendent's principal superintendent's cabinet um but I think like a schoolwide survey would be really nice. >> Okay, great. >> Hey, I just want to thank you. Um I think you guys you guys do a wonderful job in our department and um you know you 49 you know percent of the kids 50% of the kids going to fouryear college is wonderful but on top of that you know the embrace of the trade stuff that we've been doing here and I know you do the trade um stuff and
026and you know you were big on on getting that in here. So thank you. I think you guys do a wonderful job. I was actually on your interview committee. What was that, four or five years ago as a parent and um you've exceeded all expectations. I'm very happy you're here and everything that you've done over the last year. So, thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> I I concur with uh the board president. Um I just want to say um Dr. Till, it's just been so amazing working with you for this first year. It's been just you just so powerful in what you do for our children. um everything. I got to see the real work when you took me out to that construction site called East Hampton. Um and so I concurred with
027the president. The CTE work, all the work you're doing, but that CTE work that you're doing that offers so many other opportunities for children who want to do something other than um go to college. And of course, we're encouraging all of our children, you know, to make best choices. And college is good, but there are those that don't want to do that. And I just like the fact that you have a mechanism there and an infrastructure to direct them to other work and I that was an amazing experience for me but the guidance counselors themselves and just all the work under your leadership is to be commended for a job well done. Thank you. Thank you. Easy when you have all good people. >> Thank you very much. >> Thanks and we know you got
028to catch two par. >> Have a good night. See you tomorrow. I know it's a long first day. Thank you for hanging around for this. >> Um, all right. Awesome. So, we're going to move on to public comment session. Um, the first one here is on agenda items only at this time. The board of education encourages public participation in school related matters at board meetings. Any group or organization wishing to address the board must first identify a single spokesperson. The presentation should be as brief as possible. Speakers will be permitted to speak for up to three minutes. The board will not allow public session discussion involving individual district district personnel or students. All speakers are to conduct themselves civily. Obscene language, leis statements, threats of violence, statements of advocating racial, religious, or other forms of
029prejudice will not be tolerated. Persons making presentation to the board will address remarks to the president. They may direct questions or comments to the board members or other district officials only upon approval of the president. So we have nothing on the agenda. We are going to move on to the superintendent report at this time. So Dr. Morell. >> Yes. Thank you very much, Mr. President. And I would uh first just like to say uh thank you um for a great convocation. Uh convocation was beautiful. Um, I just want to thank the uh, president and vice president White Dunn um, and the board members Proctor Smith and Sherwood Helley for attending the convocation. And our president gave such an amazing welcome to all the teachers and staff and giving a little bit about his background that
030was uh, humorous yet uh, very uh, inviting. Um and um we had a great um guest speaker with assistant commissioner of family and community engagement Dr. Annel Austin who was very wellreceived and brought a lot of joy to the occasion of opening our schools. Our student board members delivered riveting welcomes. >> Sorry. No, you're good. >> Okay. I got to remember that. Let me have sport president turn it on for me. >> All right. So, our student board members delivered such amazing welcomes and talked about their experiences with giving up the summer and everything and what they hope for for the new year. So, it was great to hear them. Um, and it was just such a great show of student leadership. I was thoroughly impressed uh as usual with Mattea and Noah. Um, also
031the student participants in the strings orchestra, the pledge, the land acknowledgement, and the national anthem also did a really, really good job. And I just want to again I just want to thank those students publicly Na Bell Tristan Sammy Thomas Sandbol Marili Isadal Isadal Gonzalez um under the leadership of Nancy Kaine our pledge of allegiance um under the leadership of Natasha Jeff we also had the bell and we had Mario Portill Linares um and the national anthem was sung so beautifully by Katherine Porter under um Mr. to Talagulia. Also, our land acknowledgement by Leila Clayborn, Mario Parted by um Natasha Jeff was just amazing. Um so, convocation was really nice. Um, and we had a nice lunch that was provided by our Southampton Teachers Association and it was a great time that was had by
032all and a great way to uh a precursor for opening day. And today we had our opening day. Um, and I just want to say our building administrators did an amazing job, our principles and assistant principles in opening our schools. And I just want to give them a big shout out. allowed them to be home this evening because we know how tired that they would be um you know after such a big day for them. But it was a very smooth opening. Um it it we we walked in um our board members and myself we opened our schools to bright shiny faces and beautiful smiles of students and parents. We're happy smiling also at all three schools. Um just again thank you board president Epley and board members Proctor Sherwood Dudley and Sherwood Dudley for
033being able to participate and thank you to the executive team Dr. Zan and Ging and all the other uh staff members that were able to participate in the walkthrough. Um it was amazing. Um, it was a joyous occasion in the schools welcoming our beautiful students. And I do want to thank the facilities department and our custodial staff under the leadership of Marcus Dilva for the immaculate buildings today. The transportation department under Sam Saw for ontime arrivals and dismissals. Our nutrition department under Rean Kimbach uh for great meals today. Thank you. and school security for ensuring safety at all of our schools. Right. And early in the morning, I saw them in the parking lots. I said, "Woo! They're here early." And our amazing teachers and teacher assistants for their welcoming smiles and beautifully prepared classrooms.
034Thank you. Thank you students and thank you parents. Um and then finally for my report, I will go into our enrollment report. And so at this time we have an enrollment of um 1,164 students. Um I would like to share that that seems like a significant drop but actually we had 185 students graduate and of that 185 graduates um 85 of them were not replaced. Right? So they went on and um um and we didn't have a replacement of that number, but we did have quite a few incoming students. We had uh 21 students coming in to our schools for the start of the school year and that does not include our 48 prek students and our 33 ninth graders. So, we had a 101 students coming while we had 209 leaving, but we know
035that that the majority of those were our graduating students. So, our enrollment is at a nice healthy 1,164 and um we're going to continue to ensure it stays healthy. Thank you. Thank you, John, for my report. That >> Thank you, Dr. Um yeah, that was an expected um enrollment drop that we were going to see because that was the uh biggest class we've ever graduated from Southampton. So we know new classes coming in um are are different. So hopefully that's going to level out and we'll maintain. So um we're going to move on to administrator's report here. Um assistant superintendent for business. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Um the audit and finance committee met uh last week on the 27th to u read some of the reports that you see on the board agenda uh
036for approval tonight. Um I won't go into the details of the reports but I would be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Um the only reports in particular I want to draw attention to are just the uh cash flow reports which we don't normally have um on a monthly basis. Um you have in front of you tonight the actual final class cash flow for the 2425 school year and the projected cash flow for the 2526 school year. Um the other items you have a a report from the claims auditor uh for the month of uh July 2025. If you have any specific questions about the other items >> awesome. Um no questions on any stuff. Um, we'll move on to Dr. Zan here. >> Thank you, Mr. President. So, uh, again, just
037really happy to, uh, open up schools day with Dr. Morurell and the rest of the team. It was just an awesome seeing all the schools hustling and bustling with students and seeing the students all all back. Even having our students across here talking about how great of a day they had on the first day without cell phones. Amazing. Make sure we all your friends know how great of a day you had. Yes. Um, but I just I just really quickly wanted to update the board on uh actually going back to the CTE discussion and we heard Dr. Tuttle talking about all the case programs. Well, I just wanted to talk about our two in district programs and really quickly just tell the board that I'm pleased to announce we've seen an increase in the number
038of students that are tuitioning into the the program um here. So, and again that does help us offset some of the costs with our in district programming. So, in our part our our carpentry program, we do have two students from East Hampton and one student from Pearson High School that have joined that program that are coming to us every single day. Um, in our clinical medical assisting program, we do have five Eastampton students um that have joined our program this year and one uh St. Harour Pearson student as well. So uh again that's a total of let's see six seven eight nine students that we are bringing into our in district programs this year. So really really happy about that. >> Awesome. That's exciting. >> Question just to clarify for our students. What is CTE?
039>> Okay. It's career and technical education. Thank you so much Mr. Proctor. Yeah. But CT really talks about um the the career side of education when we're preparing our students to go whether it's directly into the workforce or into those vocational um job job forces just as we see out um out in the fields and out here in the Hampton. So much money to be made carpentry, plumbing, construction, electrical trades. um everything from the health care professions and all those very much hands-on on uh jobs and careers. >> Jeff, your question. Yeah, just a quick question. Uh Brian had brought up the cell phones and I'm just wondering how that roll out was. Did everything go well? How' you feel? What do you think? Yeah. So, um hearing really from our principles, they felt um
040reporting very similar things that the students were actually Dr. Mitchell and Mr. Robinson were saying that the students at the high school really did well. Um they came in, they all followed um the procedure there. There were no surprises and students actually were were responding very very well to it. Minimal issues just you know students have to get used to the routines. Here in the intermediate school, same thing. Um, students came in. We actually got to watch a little bit of that, them coming in this morning. Um, heard from Mr. Benson and Mr. Epley. Again, pretty smooth sailing in terms of students coming in, putting their devices right in the pouches. Um, leaving the building was pretty seamless, too. Of course, a little delays just as we would always expect for the first couple of
041days, but nothing that was um caught anyone by surprise. Nothing that we had to um triage. So, it was pretty smooth compared to the from the pre-work that was done, the communications that were sent out. And again, we just have the most amazing students out here in Southampton. They we really really do. Um because I was hearing some some chatter across the high schools about the first day and happy to report that we did not experience um some of the issues that that were out there across the island today. We're really happy. really good picture of kids happily holding their pouches. >> I'll send I'll send you that picture. >> Yeah, perfect. >> I'll put I'll put it in I'll send it to you. >> Um well, that's awesome. What do you guys think? Um
042I want to hear what the buzz was around the hallways. >> Yeah, I was just um I don't know. It was It was actually good. It was kind of a relief, I will say. Not even anything. It actually was kind of nice. You weren't It was weird. I will say like you were like missing something a little bit but I think it's good. I was listening more than I think I was >> I seriously I think it's good. >> Wow. >> I felt like everything today was like I could just remember a lot more now that my mom says, "Oh, what did you do in school today?" Now I can actually tell her. I used to be like, "Oh, I don't really know, Mom. Nothing." Um, but now I'm fully fully like on the I'm
043paying attention 100%. Uh, and just like I'm just locked in for this year. And um, the the hot topic today was the phones and uh, the the kids were just having a good time. I've never had more conversations in my life with all the students cuz they had no choice but to talk. So yeah, that's great. Awesome. Um, we are going to move on to the committees now. We had audit and finance was on 8:27. I know you you both. Is there anything you want to report or talk about from that? >> No. Good. >> Pretty much. >> Okay. Awesome. Um, personnel committee was on 826. Anything we want to talk about? I know we got some appointments later. >> All of the list. >> Okay. Awesome. Um merger not met. Facilities not met. Wellness,
044nothing. Um policy information. We have um no new policies that are up for readings or anything. So that will bring us to consent agenda items. Um are there any consent agenda items from 12.01 through 12.07 07 that any member wishes to discuss or has questions about? Um, are there any consent agenda items in 12.01 through 12.07 that any member wishes to hold out for separate action? No. Um, may I have a motion to approve consent agenda items 12.01 through 12.07 as presented in the agenda? >> Motion approved. Second. >> Second. Sure. Um, any discussion of will the clerk please call the role for a vote? >> Robert Zachary, >> yes. >> Robbie C. Pearson, >> yes. >> Proctor, >> yes. >> Sure. >> Yes. >> Jermaine Smith, >> yes. >> Lauren White, >> yes. >>
045And yes. >> Awesome. Um, are there So, we're going to financial items. Are there any financial items on 13.01 through 13.09 that any member wishes to discuss or ask questions about? Um, are there any financial items from 13.01 through 13.09? If any member wishes to hold out for separate action, um, may I have a motion to approve financial items 13.01 through 13.09 as presented in the agenda. >> Second, Ruth. Um, will the clerk please call the role for the vote? >> Robert Zachley, >> yes. >> Rodney C. Person, >> yes. >> William Proctor, >> yes. >> Sunni Sherley, >> yes. Yes. J Smith, >> yes. >> Laura White, yes. And Brucey White, >> yes. >> Great. Um, we're going to move on to personnel items now. Um, may I, um, are there any personnel items
046from 14.01 1- 7 that any member wishes to discuss or has questions about? Are there any personal items on 1 through 7 that any member wishes to hold up for separate action? Um, may I have a motion to approve personnel items 1401 1-7 as presented in the agenda? >> Let me motion. >> Second. Ruth. Um, will the clerk please call the role for a vote? >> Robert, >> yes. >> Pearson. >> Yes. >> Sherwood Dunley. >> Yes. >> Jermaine Smith. >> Yes. Laura White. >> Yes. And White. >> Yes. Um, we're going to move on to appointments here. Are there any personal items from 14? No. 14.02 8 through 28 or A that any member wishes um to have any discussion about I'd like to discuss 14.02. Okay. Um there's a few in there. Number
0479, 13, 18, 21, 22, and 27. They all have to do with permanent subs. >> Yep. Yes. So, you had a discussion with permanent. We talked about um before we move forward, the permanent What are the You had some questions about permanent subs. >> Yeah. So, so um my main question is how many do we have total? >> Nine >> per building. And has that increased from last year to this year? >> Do you want me to answer? Yeah. >> Okay. There are nine and there are three at each building and it increased by two from last year to this year. >> Okay. So we had seven last year today or this year. >> Yes. And what is their role if people are not out uh of the building? And basically we we are paying
048them from the first day of school to the last day of school this year which I think changed from last year. They had kind of a temporary employment or not temporary but yes more of a part-time employment. So my my question would be what are they doing on the first day of school when we know everybody's there um and they're getting paid from that point A to you know the first day to the last day and so what's their role if they don't have something to cover and being that we increase those numbers from the first day of school to the last day of school. do they qualify for benefits at the end of the year or you know as a full-time person? >> So um we actually did have absences today. So um there
049uh we don't experience days unfortunately in our district very rarely um where there is absolutely no one. However, we do aim, we strive for that. Um, what they are doing and in cases where they're not covering teacher classrooms or we have a myriad things that we assign them to. Um, a lot related to our library services because our library our libraries are staff lunch duty, hall duty, bathroom duty, um, a myriad of do student escort services, um, all kinds of things like that. So um no one um is you know all hands are on deck uh with our substitute uh teachers as well and we felt that it was just more fruitful to bring them in earlier because it's harder to get subs out here on the east end later. So it was just uh
050a matter of making sure we could secure um those positions. In terms of your second question um which was the benefits. Yeah. >> Um so we we do not have a um a protocol right now where we are providing health care is that what you're referring to. >> Yeah. >> Benefits. >> Yeah. Basically that we we don't but uh with that increase and that increase of hours increase of time will that become a problem? Have we thought of that? That's all. >> Yeah. We have thought about it. >> Okay. >> Um but we don't see that as uh being problematic. Um we have not offered to our long-term substitutes those benefits in the past and we don't we don't plan to at this time leave replacements. Yes. Dr. Z. >> Yeah. No. Um the other
051piece >> the other piece that we also have um if there is a time just as Dr. said, "Very very rarely is there a time, but we have a lot of testing um that takes place at the high school when students have to take SATs and ACTs. Sometimes those students get um special accommodation services. We have to deliver them during the day. We actually um had some exams that took place already. Um one that we had one of our um subs um complete and we also had a teacher complete one on a conference day on Thursday. That's how early some of these tests come." So, we we SAT and ACT generally um has those sessions and we'll always have students with accommodations. So, we always tag um one of our perm subs if we find
052um a day where there's not no coverage, they're doing that. So, that's another piece. Um >> are you done? I'm sorry. >> No. And then the the other piece that I was just going to say is in terms of um one of the deciding factors why as a building principal we were pushing for for three perm subs is because it greatly reduces the number of teacher coverages. Um we've tried everything doing um from having a specific duty as a subduty. We try to have a teacher every single period with that assignment. um between that um and also just the number of coverages and that's sometimes because it's not only the absences but it's because of the professional development trainings um and sometimes that's just when we have trainers that are coming in whether it's from
053Boseies and other places you have to deliver during the day so um so some of those absences are are based on that but just as Dr. Morel said we can always use help around the building at no time is there anyone ever sitting around and it's very rare that we would have even those little off times call our person Dr. I just have one. Sure. >> Those teacher coverages, those were a lot of pink sheeted. >> Those are the pink sheet coverages that cost us about $60 per class when you have a perm sub where you can have what is it right? 180 I think $180. So think about that. That's three periods out of a nine period day. I already hit that cost for teacher coverages. I can get all that for $180 a
054day with the firm. It's just much more, we believe, will be much more cost effective >> and also less disruptive to the learning environment because when you pull those teachers off task to perform those coverages, it just it it creates disruption. Jean, can you speak a little bit to the benefits that I think um Mr. Pearson is addressing just the long-term subs, they're not getting help? No, I I think uh you covered it in in your statement that we don't currently it's not a practice to offer them health insurance at this point. >> Do they ever go between buildings the permanent subs or they stay? >> We um in extreme cases we will always help one another out. There were times over last year before like if the building's in extreme need and we can
055help out, we're sending a perm soap over. It's not typical, but if there's a need, of course, we're going to help um our our neighboring buildings. >> That's why that's why it was important to add two additionals to provide equity across buildings as well because you have three in one building, two and two. So, it was important to provide equity across buildings. Not all buildings have the same numbers for that. Um I would just in my business I do know that you take a part-time person and you don't have to give them certain benefits but when you turn that into a full-time person there is some expectations there. So I would look into that a little further and maybe get some definite answers for us if you can. >> Well I don't think they're going
056from part-time because they're growing from we used to hire them from October to May. So we're just adding two months. >> Okay. That's the only difference. >> Okay. >> Any other questions? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Um add that um since I since I know this and I'm on board now. Um I've had it subs uh read because I have an accommodation which I need uh tests to be read and so do a lot of other students. So I can assure Dr. is on speaking of ACTs and SATs and all those other tests that they also do your New York state testing and they also if they're not doing anything they go to the testing room and they'll read tests to to students so they're always doing something and no one I've never seen a teacher
057just sit around so they're always busy >> I agree with I have a question just because I'm curious do permanent substitutes have teaching degrees in specific >> things like most subjects just because I know I had a permanent sub for one of my classes last year and I don't know if that like applies to one of the class I assigned to some sometimes they're really close they'll have a bachelor's uh degree um or an education degree but they may not have the certification or they may have the certification but the area that they are looking for is not available to them yet. So, they'll do some subbing until that becomes available, but most of them are highly educated. >> Yes, I know like I've had friends do it and they're trying to break into the
058district and get a teaching job. So, they might want to be a history teacher. There's no job available, but they can take permanent sub and get to know the people and try to get a job. >> That's a good question. >> Good question. >> All right. Awesome. Um, is there any personal items on 12.028 through 28 or A that any member wants to hold out for separate action? >> Oh, oh, 14.028. Sorry. Um, so may I have a motion to approve personnel items um 14.028 through 28 and A as presented in the agenda. Do you have a second? >> Second. Germaine. Um, will the clerk please call the role for a vote? >> Yes. >> Proctor. >> Yes. >> Smith. >> Yes. And >> yes. >> Thank you. So if you guys notice there was
059an A that was added on the add of on the end of those numbers. their number and that was because we um have our new director of ENL um Julie Williams who was the that was added on tonight. So congratulations. Dr. Merrell, do you want to tell us about we're very excited about you being here and got sitting out here on a school night. Um so thank you guys for joining and >> well we're um so um grateful to have you here in our district. Um, we know you are the um, best candidate and we are lucky. We are blessed to have you here in Southampton. We welcome you. We welcome your family. Let's give our family a nice round of applause because we know that it's always a support system behind every great leader.
060Um, and we welcome you um, Mrs. Williams wholeheartedly and um our our students deserve the best and you are the best and we can't wait to get to work with you in October. Thank you. >> Thank you. Yeah, we we maybe after we'll we'll have you back here when you're, you know, settled in and introduced and talk about the program. So, thank you so much for staying around. I know you you met with us early and it's a long night. So, please uh you know, you guys, you guys can get the whole Thank you for hanging around. [Applause] All right. Um, so we move on to action items here. Um, do I have a motion to approve the minutes from the 8/19 25 public hearings for the district-wide safety plan and the 8/19 25 regular
061meeting as presented in the agenda? >> Second, Ruth. Um, will the clerk please call the role for a vote? Yes. >> Pearson. >> Yes. >> Tony. >> Yes. >> Shley. >> Yes. >> Jermaine Smith. >> Yes. >> Laura White. >> Yes. >> And yes. >> Great. So very good. Um so we're going to move on to public comment section. Um now so public public comments will be heard at this time. The board of education encourages public participation in school related matters at board meetings. Any group or organization wishing to address the board must first identify a single spokesperson. The presentation should be brief as possible. Speakers will be permitted to speak for up to three minutes. The board will not allow public session discussions involving individual district personnel or students. All speakers are to conduct
062themselves civily language, letter statements, threats of violence um and statements advocating racial, religious, and other forms of prejudice will not be tolerated. Persons making presentations at the board meeting will address remarks to the president. They may direct questions or comments to the board members or other district officials only upon approval of the president. I just want to say thank you uh for everything and I especially want to say thank you for hiring a floating nurse because I feel a little safer for our kids to be here. And that's it. >> Thank you. Sorry. Um, so now we're going to move on to new business items on the agenda. I don't have anything I know speak. So I um I'm good here. Chip, do you have anything you want to add on? >> Nothing today. Okay,
063great. Monique, you got anything? >> Yes, I do. >> All right. >> I just have a a couple of things relating to our students. >> Yes. Um, we have a MISPA retreat coming up. New York State >> School Board Association. >> Yeah, New York State School Association um convention coming up. It's October 23rd to the 25th. And I do know that there have been other students there. And um I was talking to our students asking them were they aware of anything. And we I I myself feel like I need to get some sort of uh hold on everything understanding for myself and I also want to make sure that the students are get receiving the information and all the offerings that are available to them. >> So >> that sounds good. I know because you're
064familiar with some some convention stuff where the student board members go and some don't. Um this is somebody that they go to. I think it would be a good opportunity and what I'll do is I'll talk to Amy about getting that out and we'll get information take a look and um since you're under 18 your parents will have to approve um and we'll we'll look at that but that'd be great if if you're going to go and >> yes >> okay >> oh it's going to be in our retreat in our board retreat >> no I think it's just going to be board members and the superintendent right >> yeah just >> Okay. No, it's it's part of the packet. I was I read I read the packet >> um >> and it was just
065stating basically maybe having a retreat where the students can learn each of us and what are our strengths, finances, whatever. I think there needs to be something right um separate outside of that retreat, but something else that formally welcomes them on and all that. So, I think that maybe myself and Mr. President can talk and then talk. We'll get something schedu to know you guys and you guys will have questions too for us on >> Cool. Yeah, that's good. I'm happy that they're interested in going to the conferences. So, I got a little we have to umpire in this. So, um All right. Awesome. So, S, you have anything you want to? >> Um, I just wanted to say welcome back to everyone to everyone. It was it was really nice to see everybody's faces
066this morning with the high school and the intermediate school. Um, all the welcoming faces and, you know, to our students and our students coming to school. And I wanted to echo what Dr. Moral said about the buildings. They looked spectacular. They were very clean. So, very proud of our staff. They did a great job. >> Thank you. Awesome. Jermaine, you got anything? >> I do not. >> You had you had a fun weekend this weekend. >> Yeah, we had the power this weekend. >> I'm exhausted. >> That's exact. >> It was a great beautiful weekend. And welcome back to everyone. >> Awesome. >> Laura, >> hi everybody. I'm sorry Miss Williams had to leave. I wanted to congratulate her again and welcome her to our family. We met her briefly earlier this evening and I'm
067so thrilled. I'm so excited and I know that she's gonna be an asset to our district. So, just wanted to give her >> All right. Cool. Bella, you got her. >> I just wanted to Miss White because soon as I looked over at her, she her smile just said it all. So, I I wish her luck. >> You had something? All right, cool. >> So, it's all got We're actually gonna be returning to executive session for no more than 5 minutes. We'll be out of here, walking out of this building before 8:00. I'll tell you that right now. Um, so I'm going to ask motion to return to executive session at 7:45. motion. >> Um motion second. Um all in favor >> I and um All right. Thank you.