001All right. Good evening, uh, Springs BOE. We're streaming to YouTube. Phone lines are open. The meeting's being recorded. You may begin. I cut out at the perfect time. You are good too. >> You're good to go. >> Thank you very much. Uh, welcome everybody. Thank you for your attendance tonight, both those viewing from home and present here this evening. Uh, Suzanne, will you do roll call for us, please? Eric Frederick, Patrick, and Bill. Kate Sans. >> Thank you very much. May we all stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation. >> Thank you. All right. So, we're gonna start things off tonight with our uh public comment number one. This is uh public comment
002number one is usually for agenda items only. That will follow suit tonight. And I do like to read uh my little piece uh before we do our public comments uh just to level set. Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to convene into the public comment period of our meeting. It's absolutely crucial for us to hear from our community members about their concerns and issues and appreciate all of your comments. While we may not be able to respond to your concerns and questions tonight, we do take them very seriously and want to have sufficient time to process and research issues if need be so we can respond thoughtfully at a future meeting or have the proper staff member get back to you at the appropriate time. I also want to point out that under state and
003federal privacy laws, we are unable to entertain any comments or questions about school personnel or any individual identities. on these matters, we would ask you to go through the appropriate administrative channels. And finally, we intend that our schoolboard meetings serve as an example to our students, that members of our school board and members of our community can deal with controversial issues in a civil manner and demonstrate mutual respect. In that spirit, we ask that all speakers and members of the audience maintain civility and respect for any divergent views that may be expressed. We ask that speakers please address their comments to the board directly rather than the audience. Thank you very much. And I do want to level set this year when we do uh our public comment uh certainly with respect to uh the
004people at home and and the board that all comments will be made from the podium uh because that is where the audio and the video is and that is our standard of practice. So with that I'll open up to public commentary number one. Is there any comments from the public for now on agenda items only and on LTV? >> Uh standby. >> Hey, good evening uh Springfield. This is uh Matthew Chiron. I'm actually calling from LTV but through the phone lines and just letting you guys know that the phone lines are open and working and you have no other callers on the line. >> Thank you very much. All right, so let's uh feel that one more time. Is there anyone present tonight that would like to come up for public comment number one? Going
005once, twice. All right. Uh so let's move on to uh our third section this evening. This is our principal report. I now invite our principal Eric Kelt to update us on school news. Thank you. Well, obviously we are back and excited to be here and doing what we we do best and that's serving our kids and and making sure their dreams come true. Summer is obviously great. We discussed last time about all the planning and preparation that took place to get to this moment, but um now that we're here, we had our superintendent conference day. I told the teachers this too that like it was quiet and when they were all back on day one at superintendent conference day it's like the heartbeat is back at Springs and it's it's just a wonderful thing. Now
006the kiddos are coming in and it's a buzz with with joy and learning and so that was just fantastic. Our teachers have started off wonderfully setting expectations, setting goals for the kids and with the students and it's it doesn't seem like it's only been 5 days, but it it's it's all we're off to a great start. There's a different feel, a different um atmosphere it seems like at the school. One of lots of positivity and really great things. I think everyone in the building knows like really really good things are going to happen this year. So, we're all excited about that. At superintendent's conference day, our teachers were trained on Atlas, those who weren't already trained over the summer. So, they got an opportunity to learn the program where they'll be able to map out
007and align standards to instruction. And then it it fosters collaboration because all teachers have access to the platform. It's an online platform and we could vertically align, make sure we're covering all the major standards and support each other through that. Our teachers also said that their yearly goals, which is fantastic. Some really great things were in place there. In terms of teaching and learning, we're still focusing on the New York State Literacy Initiative, which is aligned to the science of reading. A real push from the state is through the preK3 um best practices, instructional best practices. So, we're we're aligned to that. We've been planning consistently over the summer to make sure we're meeting all those standards. our fourth and fifth grade are somewhat departmentalized and and talking to the kids, they're they're really excited
008about it. When I when I meet with them at lunch and because they get to switch different teachers to to some extent. So, fourth grade all teachers teach ELA and then um they departmentalize for the other three subjects and fifth grade since we have four sections, they kind of partner teach where they'll do math and ELA in their own classrooms and then they'll switch for science and social studies. But it's it's great because our students get to build relationships with multiple adults and they get to really um our teachers get to focus in and plan on less subjects and and kind of master them so they could go really deep with the with our students. There are some events I I do want to just mention. We have picture day coming up this week, Thursday
009and Friday. Our PTA back to school barbecue is going to be September 19th. Our back to school night is September 24th. And then just just finally, our our kids are here and as you could tell from the building and our personnel, we're just so excited and this is what we're all about. It's going to be a great year for us. >> Thank you very much. Does anybody have any questions? >> Yeah. >> Are you guys doing anything on Thursday for uh 911 remed? >> Yes. >> Can you share that with us? Yeah, we're having a moment of silence at 8:46. I believe it is when the first plane crashed in. A whole school moment of silence. >> Just the teachers of course are going to do their own things in the class to to whatever
010extent that they feel comfortable with based upon the age, but we're doing a whole school moment of silence. >> Thank you. Does anybody else have any questions? >> No, thank you. And I know we'll talk about later, but uh we just did a a tour of the school and everything looks wonderful. We're really appreciative to the the staff and and everyone who participated in in getting our school to the condition it is that this room is safe and beautiful and somehow against seemingly all odds everything was completed on time and so was no better than construction. uh you know that's not a foregone conclusion and and now that these rooms are filled with our students that's all the more special. So thank you. >> Um yeah anything else? >> No this was fantastic. >> Yeah
011where we here we're sitting right now as a case in point. >> Uh it was wonderful. So we'll move things along now to uh number four our PT report. I'd like to invite our PTA president Daniel Fine to the podium. Thank you so much. >> Thank you for having me >> Mr. counted cover half the update. >> It's fine. We can reiterate it. >> It'll be even short. Um, so I just wanted to give you a brief update of what we have coming up at least now through December. Um, as Mr. Kel said, picture day, Thursday for pre-K through fifth grade, Friday for 6th through 8th grades. The PTA barbecue, the back school barbecue will be Friday the 19th from 4:30 to 6:30. Setup will probably need to start around two with the bulk of
012it happening after Caroline is over, but some of the larger vendors will come in earlier. >> Are you doing okay with volunteers on that? Do you need to make a shout out for anything? >> We Yes, that's actually it. We because the picture day volunteer signup sheet went out this week, we're trying to not overwhelm people. So, next week that will go out for parent volunteers, but anyone has a burning desire to get in the dunk tank or um we have had the pleasure of having Emma make some other amazing games for us this year. There's also going to be a human slot machine >> and we might need to change the name, but right now we're calling it the granny pant catch where adults will stand in gigantic pants basically with like a hula
013hoop waist and kids can try to toss balls. So there's a couple of opportunities for faculty, staff, board members. We approved wets suits last year and encourage costumes this year. So, um, anything to sort of make the activity more fun for the kids, but there will be food served at no cost. Games, Mr. Softy, raffles, new merchandise, temporary tattoos, sort of all the same bells and whistles as last year in a slightly different manifestation. Um, so that's coming up next week. Then October 17th will be retakes for picture day. So, if your children are not going to be in school this week, they'll have another opportunity. They just won't end up being in the class photo. Um the week of October 7th is our fall book fair which Shelby will be reaching out to admin
014to try and coordinate a parent shopping night um and try to tag team with park with them so that we can maybe do another pajama reading night. It seems to work well for parents and students and teachers. Um Turkey Trot is scheduled as an for November 24th. The permit is getting submitted Friday to town board. So hopefully that we don't foresee any problem with that. But if for some reason there's something else they know about that we don't, we may have to adjust that as of now the 24th. And then the week of December 8th is Natalie's Elf Shop, which is our holiday shopping event for students. And then a new fundraiser that we have this year is we are hoping to launch a custom paving stone fundraiser that will create a path in the
015Rew Wild Garden. I have actually samples of the bricks that we can choose from maybe we could just take a peek at later. And we hope to have the website for that up and running by the time the back to school barbecue starts, but that will be a school year long thing. They said we can order in chunks. So when we have enough to print, we'll just continue to make several orders. So that's sort of what we have going on now through December. Obviously there's a ton more happening in the spring. Um and then I just wanted to touch really quickly on fundraising goals for the year. Last year we had quite a banner year for fundraising and we had pretty lofty aspirations there. So we thought we would get even more greedy this year.
016Um, our goal for this year, we're hoping to raise roughly $170,000, if not more, which is by far the largest school we've ever had. The majority of our fundraising comes from a few key events, which are this fall and spring book fairs, the turkey trot, Natalie's Elf Shelf, Springs Break Smarts, and this new Paving Stone fundraiser. So, um, I guess get your thinking caps on if there's any local businesses that you think might want to participate in any of our events. We're going to be going out far and wide to try to hopefully beat this number so we can do even more programming next year. >> Yeah, that's wonderful. How um it's a great question. How can we uh either lower the barrier or make it easy for donations to come in? Like are there
017ways uh you've come up with to help communicate that to like say something you know like we would do with the budget like they send out a you know like a mailer. I don't think that would be appropriate for this, but something like that where it's like this consumable kind of here's our events, this is the donation, this is what happens. >> So, there's a few things that we talked about last about adding to our outreach this year. Um, one of which was looking to parents who may work at an organization that has a matching program where if the family donates to the PTA, the company will do a nonprofit matching, which we were successful in a few parents last year, but we're hoping to maybe get the word out that we are eligible for
018that. So, that's one way we could sort of increase our overall fundraising. And my personal opinion, and I'm not going to speak on behalf of the whole PTA, but I think that we could rely a little more heavily on local businesses. Springs is one of the only hamlets out here that doesn't have an intensely strong business district. Um, so I think other PTAs sort of have a leg up on us in that way, but we have so many families that work at and own local businesses and their children use the resources in this school. So if we can maybe tap into the corporate side of things a little more fundraisers like the PA fundraiser, people can put logos on things. You don't just have to blankly write a check and not get recognition for it.
019So we are exploring ways to give people more exposure when they do donate and hope that that might spark some incremental interest. >> Wonderful. >> Um but I'd love to speak with the board if you guys have other logistical ideas based on what you've worked on, things that you might know that we don't. and we're just bunch of moms hoping to do our best and we might not have as much appropriate fundraising experience as others. So, we love suggestions. >> Right. The only other question I had about that just as we continue brainstorming and and make the most of these efforts is uh do you have a central payment mechanism where businesses can make online payments or or is it just checks for? >> No, no, no. We have um a digital platform called Givebacks.
020>> Okay. And then depending on the size of the donation, we also have the ability to give forms that they can submit for taxes. So it becomes taxree. Um >> it's a slightly antiquated program, but it does seem to be what all the PTAs in New York State use. We kind of just follow the guidelines that were given and the technology changes every couple of years as new vendors pitch the state and they find something a little more efficient. I personally think it's a little complicated sometimes. It's a slower process. It's not as easy as let's say scanning a Venmo QR code where people can sort of make payments really quickly. >> But is this something you can connect to say parent square? So if there's a family that does like you say have a
021local business where we can just go on there go through parent square there's an announcement made for your that event that sponsorship event that's going on at that time. So say it's the you know the bricks outside or something where I as a parent can see that it's on parent square. I get the emails, the text messages of the thing and then it's connected and then I can go give backs and donate >> depending on the fundraiser. Yes, I know with turkey trot last year there was like a link that came up on the turkey trout announcement seems break things like that. But I'm wondering like uniformly because that's a nice conditioned way to receive money where we I always know to look for that like not me personally but I think as we see
022these things come out that you know say I don't know if this is the thing or anything but it's always parent square it's always this link and whichever one you choose to do it's it's easy you know for the person to say oh okay this is the next event up I could just click the link and make my donation through you know various mechanisms. believe we can link our give back account to parents square posts which is what we use to inform people of everything. Yeah, just like it's con, you know, whatever we have to make it convenient >> over and sometimes I feel like perhaps >> no one wants to be bombarded by that many updates. So maybe strategically timing, >> right? Yeah. If it's quarterly or something, but at least it's a it's
023something that's living there that we've also appeal. Um, it's never something we've been able to get off the ground in the past, but has come up in conversations the last few years that we know other districts, not around here, but other districts that have put out like communitywide letters to all the businesses that literally just state what the school's about, what the PTA is doing, what we need money for, and with a link or a QR code to please donate. And it's worked in the past. So, it's something we could explore again. >> Wonderful. >> Have a question. >> Uh, do we have this the link to the fundraiser on our website at all? Is that something I was thinking of that >> include? And also we have a communications email that goes out >>
024to a group of community members. Maybe we could add it there. It also might be interesting to have the journalism club >> write an article about it as well and put it in the star or just in our email. But you know, hearing from the kids perspective too, I think >> is sometimes more interesting. Not that you guys aren't interesting. >> No, unless you're in that >> in our communication uh committee. we we established like a conduit to the community who doesn't necessarily get the school updates certainly as much as the parents do like we were talking about. Yes. >> Um so where it's relevant emails now uh go out through the school and that's another opportunity as well. And if all of these things either have a QR code or a link or there's
025even a living uh link on our website that whenever you're ready to donate that we remove a barrier and it's easy to give money at that time. Would we be welcome to sit in on the communications meeting? >> Yeah, we'll um I actually wonder agenda. >> I think it's on tonight's agenda. So um what we'll talk about a little later is the committees that we'll have. We'll decide on the committees and um basically the you know it's open now for uh you know signing up for whatever committees that that the public is able to sign up for. >> Amazing. We love to participate. >> Thank you so much. Yeah. >> Thank you. Any other questions? >> Thank you. >> Oh wonderful. And thank you to you and all the PTA. Uh it's whether it's for
026our students or our teachers at Superintendent Day, uh the money that you guys do and the volunteerism that you have is very much appreciated and and really helps the school out in in more ways than we could ever thank, but I never wanted to go without saying. Uh so with that said, um we're going to move to our consent agenda items. Uh, I ask for a motion to approve items uh 5.1 to 5.12 on our consent agenda. Do I have a motion? >> I'd like to move uh to agenda number 5.5. >> 5.5. Sure. Um, so let's remove 5.5. I ask for mo motion to approve all items. >> Motion to remove 5.5. >> Ask for a motion to remove 5.5 from the agenda. Motion. Do I have a second? >> Second. All right. So
027approve. We've now removed 5.5 from consent agenda. We'll I'm now going to ask for a motion to approve all items from 5.1 to 5.2 with the exception of 5.5 in our consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve those items? Make a motion. Do I have a second motion? >> All right. All those in favor of approving those specific items. >> I. Any opposed? No. Okay. Uh so now we've extracted 5.5. I'd now like to ask for a motion to approve uh item 5.5. Do I have a motion to approve 5.5? >> Do I have a sec? Oh, all right. So, I heard a second come in way. So, we have a second motion for that. All those in favor of approving item 5.5 on the agenda. >> Any opposed? Any abstain? >> One
028abstain. Five. Four eyes for item 5.5. All right. Do we have that logged? then we're good to go. >> All right. Wonderful. All right. So, let's move on now to the business and finance items section of our agenda. I asked for a motion to uh discuss and approve items 6.1 and 6.7 under business and finance on our agenda. Do I have a motion? >> Motion. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All right. Wonderful. Jonathan, can you review those items for us? >> Not at all. >> We have our regular monthly financial items in 6.1 to 6.5. 6.6 relates to a agreement with East Hampton to perform training for our new bus driver hires. We have some potential um potential candidates and it's nice to know that we don't have to send them
029all the way up island to get trained. After that, we have 6.7 that is for student evaluations done by the family service league in East Hampton and that is part of the Southport initiative that they run. um to provide an update for you guys on the year end close. Um the audit fieldwork was finished in August and now we're with we're working with the auditors and the accountants to develop um funding of the reserves and any year end budget transfers we may have. We expect to have those in the next upcoming meeting. >> All right. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Uh does the board have any questions for Jonathan on these items? >> It's pretty standard especially for this time of year. Well, thank you Jonathan. Uh if there are no other questions, uh all
030those in favor of approving items uh 6.1 to 6.7 under business and finance be nice if the public understand me too that the east school district is now going to be helping providing bus driver training. >> Yes. >> So we have we actually have our first candidate you know we put the signs up outside. Um right now we we have exactly enough drivers for our routes. So, we really do need substitute drivers. Um, we it's very difficult if one person is out. It creates, you know, a little bit of a challenge for us. So, we're happy we already got a candidate. Um, she's going through the training. Uh, so they will train her and once she's trained, we'll be able to use the bus drivers. >> This in the past, they have to travel up
031west to take the to the training, correct? >> Yes. We had another arrangement with Riverhead, I believe, in the past. So hopefully this will open up the doors to more local people and be busted and not traveling the riverhead. >> That's wonderful. Is there uh >> great >> is there like the curriculum for instance is it anytime we have an applicant can enter it or there only certain times of year that that's available that kind of training. We can train at any time or train at only certain times do we think >> it's one-on-one instruction? >> That's amazing. Yeah. person whenever they're ready to go, they have to take the written test to get their learner's permit and then they'll start working with an experienced driver at East Hampton to get road training and all
032the other sorts of classroom instruction on a one-on-one basis that's needed. >> That's fantastic. One-on-one training anytime in East Hampton. >> This is great. I mean, all this new u chance service we're doing with East Hampton High School, any other school districts really makes it easy for all the districts out here. >> That's just one more thing I like to say. It's good. Yeah, that's wonderful. Are there any other questions on these items? No, I just think it's a wonderful thing that we continue to expand that, pull our resources, and it it's just a complete win-win across the board. >> Uh, all right. So, all those in favor of approving items 6.1 to 6.7. >> I >> Any opposed? All right. Motion carries. Um, so, all right, we have uh new business. Uh, I ask
033for a motion to approve items uh 7.1 under new business items on our agenda. Um, do I have a motion? Do I have a second? >> So, this is about um board member committee appointments. Uh, you know, a little a little discussion here. Last year we we did do some committee adjusting and uh made some decisions. I suppose the first question is is are there any changes that we want to make to the committees that we had last year? Do we feel comfortable with the committees that we have like the communication committee, the wellness committee? Certain committees are mandated like policy and audit. So um not much discussion there but is there any committee input that we'd like to have at this point? >> I'm happy to stay on the policy committee and the communications
034committee. >> Okay. I suppose we can do this uh deductively. Is there anybody that wants to jump a committee or add a committee or any changes? Do we feel good running the program from last year? >> Okay. >> Yeah. And you know, obviously the public uh the the real new thing is that we're going to create a invite to the public to have uh community members for relevant committees. Those will be accessible on our website. Suzanne, you've been wonderful in terms of uh you know taking people on and and getting the committees. We sit on the hopefully you still on the communication committee with us and that kind of stuff. Um so that will be a rolling thing. But in terms of the board and the committees that we're offering and our roles in those
035committees, we are choosing to uh keep it as is. >> We have a lot more work to see with policy. >> We'll have a lot of >> You finally got the book from Yes, >> we got last year. Although it might have made it easy because they rewarded it so you can understand it. Last year we had an easy way for things to get developed. >> Yes. >> Which is good. You know, >> um Jonathan, with regard to the policy committee that it seems like that turned around a bit quicker than we thought, >> we still have to go through and review. >> Yes. >> All that no, the whole work is yet to be done. But just in terms of getting that brick, I thought that might have taken longer when we discussed and
036now that's available for review. It just seems to be like that was >> turned around quicker. Now it's on us basically, right? You know, that's >> Yeah. And the policy committee will take the first uh review of it before we present to >> Oh, good on you guys. Uh all right. So, uh all those in favors of uh running that program the same. I >> I any opposed? Motion carries. Okay. All right. So, we're going to move on to uh section 8 superintendence report and recommendation. I ask for a motion to approve items 8.1 8.2 under superintendent report. Do I have a motion? >> Second. >> All right. Thank you. Nancy, any review? >> We're excited to appoint a new security guard. Uh one of our existing security guards is uh going to be uh
037taking social security soon and needs to work fewer hours. And he actually recommended somebody uh that he used to work with. He was her sergeant when he worked with her. She currently works in the parks department. She's also um she's she also speaks Spanish fluently, so she's going to be a great addition. I met her. She seems like going to be a great great fit for Springs and they'll share ours. So, um it'll be it'll be great to have her as part of our security team. So, very excited to uh bring her aboard. And then I just want to uh you know just update you a little as we took a a very quick tour um around the building. I think we did it in three minutes flat. It was my personal I don't want
038to speak for everyone else, but it was the record for me in terms of a school tour in hopes to be as close to on time for this meeting as possible. So, just know that we did make the effort and it was almost a jog around the building. >> Nancy, and as Mr. Kel said, we did have a really terrific opening and once again, I want to thank our custodial and maintenance staff for all the hard work. Um they completed numerous projects over the summer in addition to all the cleaning. Um and it was just really a testament to uh the great people that we have on on our custodial and maintenance staff as well as the people from East Hampton who also oversaw many many projects and actually chipped in when we had to
039put the shelving back together in the library. Uh we also had over the summer new lockers installed in the middle school wing and I think they look terrific. You saw as we went around, we now have uniform lockers throughout the building and it's really made a difference in the appearance of the hallways. We also have teachers doing um hall duties now and lunch duties, which is something that's really added to a a good sense of family around the building. Uh we have people so they're in the hallways all the time. It's really helping to uh keep things moving quickly. Everyone knows to make sure the lockers are closed, things are uh stuffed in them nicely, and uh it's working very well. As you saw, we had the gym floor repaired and refinished. Um, we had
040asbestos abatement done in uh nine classrooms with classrooms painted as well. We had closets and woodwork finished, sanded, and repainted in numerous rooms. Uh, one of the things that we had to do as well was put air conditioning in the band room. Mr. Jones was uh mentioning to us that a lot of the instruments were warping because of the humidity. So, we were able to put air conditioning in uh to the band room. He's very thankful for that. We also put the new speed humps going out of the exit. As you know, they had been damaged and very happy to get those back up. Really helping to slow traffic down from the car line and and different dismissals as they're exiting uh the campus. So, very happy we got that done. And as you're all
041aware, we had kind of a glitch over the summer with something we didn't expected as we were renovating the library. you know, we were doing the ceiling uh because it needed to be structurally uh re repurposed and so that it would be safe here. We discovered asbestos in the flooring and it was only a couple weeks before school. Uh we were very very thankful both Jonathan and Greg uh got uh the library floor abaded, taken out within days and uh was really a wonderful effort. And then we had so many staff members volunteer to come in and help put the library back together. Uh the day before we had our opening, we had so many teachers and support staff here in the library after school hours making sure it was all ready for the first
042day. So very thankful and grateful uh to our staff. We think uh it was just really once again a testament to the teamwork that we have here at Springs. We had a great extended school year over the summer. Uh we also had over 20 teachers as Mr. mentioned participate in curriculum writing over the summer. Very excited to continue that this year as we get our curriculum aligned with the standards and all in one place online. And then I do tr truly want to thank our PTA uh for their continued support. Um they helped our prek teachers Danielle Fine every time I went up there as they were getting ready was on her hands and knees helping uh to organize and get those rooms ready. They also provided breakfast for our staff on the first day
043of school. Um, and as I mentioned uh earlier, they provided welcome back Osprey signs for both the car loop and the bus loop. And uh we just really appreciate all they do for us and for the school. Uh we're really looking forward to a great year. And um do just want to mention too at our open house uh we had teacher Kim Royal who I think is here this evening who made a really great recommendation. um she has noticed something that they had at their open houses at East Hampton and it's headphones so that some parents who um would rather hear the opening in Spanish can actually put the headphones on and we have someone interpret. So we're going to pilot it um and East Hampton has generously uh offered to lend us their headphones
044for our open house. So we're going to pilot it and see how it works and maybe it's something that we could uh fund in the future. So, we thank them for that and um just wanted to uh say we're really looking forward to a terrific year and thank you very much. >> Wonderful. Thank you uh so much for that. Actually, that's a great idea. We've talked a little bit about how we can make things more accessible. That's a such an important night and I think uh I think you know that that eases a lot of minds when people can comprehend and understand what the expectations are and that's a wonderful gesture from East Hampton as well to to loan us so we could have a proof of concept and see if it's something we can
045keep doing. Uh thank you to everybody for all the hard work. U just to reiterate that. Are there any questions from the board on the uh enrollment or uh >> anything else? >> Yeah, enrollment. Did you open it up? Sorry. >> Almost forgot the enrollment. So, um our enrollment is down slightly. We're down 13 students uh prek through 8 this year. Uh and we're still getting new registrants every day. We actually had a couple today that are not on there. So, we're at we're pretty steady. High school is down this year a bit, but once again next year we have 80 student 84 students I believe in eighth grade 81 students that will be going to the high school. So it's going to even out. We only had 60s something going up this year but
046next year we'll have over 80. So um it's basically staying the same um except going down slightly uh way we see it projecting in the future. Um, our prek, if you notice, our kindergarten and prek classes are small. They're the two smallest classes that we have. So, that will definitely be affecting us as we go forward. Um, and we'll see what happens, you know, as far as trends goes. We know, um, enrollment is decreasing in many schools across the island, and chances are that's going to be happening here as well. But we had a a a meeting um at a at town hall yesterday and Springs is still probably the most steady population that we have here on the east end. So we we do still uh we're still excited to have all our kids
047here. >> Wonderful. Do we have any count on um homeschooling? Has that changed? Home school since co has >> I can get you the numbers. Um I'll put it in the update this. >> Yeah. No, we probably probably have about 15 kids in the exact expected district that too, right? And then also, what about the charter schools and the private schools? >> Um, we have I can get you all those numbers as well. We have um same probably about 15 kids. So, we have uh three private schools within our district, Ros School, Hound School, and Our Lady of the Hamptons. I think we have about five in our Lady of the Hamptons and then 10 and five in the others. So about 20 kids probably, but I'll get you the exact numbers. >> Can you
048maybe next month give us the responsibility we have for charter schools, homeschooling, what our responsibility district is to to the charter students and homeschool parents. >> Okay. Well, transportation is um definitely one of our responsibilities. We do have to offer them some of our federal funding um but they decline it each year. They have declined it uh since I've been here and I know prior to that. So uh we do have to provide transportation. We have to provide textbooks if it's something that they require. Most of them have their own curriculums. So they don't require textbooks. But transportation is the thing we have to require mostly for homesooled kids. They have very specific criteria that we have to meet certain times a year and they have to provide uh the curriculum that they're teaching and
049how their students are doing that. >> Thank you. That's a nice question too. Are there any other uh questions for this section? >> Wonderful. Uh all those in favor of approving 81 and 82 I. >> Any opposed? >> No. Okay. Motion carries. Uh we're going to move forward to our uh last part of the meeting. This is their public comment number two. Uh this is uh really about items that are on the agenda or off the agenda. So, at this point, are there any comments from people present this evening or LTV uh that we can take at this time? >> We have no callers on the line. >> All right, I'll do a going once and twice. I have a few smiles from the crowd. Everyone looks content. Uh at this point, I'm going to
050make a motion to adjurnn. Do I have Oh, Pat, you have >> Yeah, I do. Before we adjourn this, we only meeting once a month as a board, >> right? Uh we uh we haven't done board retreat this year. We are scheduled. We plan on doing a board retreat again like we've done in the past. >> Yeah, we uh that's worth discussing. I mean I'm open to it. What do you guys want to do? It's funny. This is the first year that since I've been on the board, it's been the same board. So some of these things are are easy to uh to overlook, but it's something that we've always done. Do you guys want to do it? I always think a board retreat is good to see some of the items we're not familiar
051with. We have questions on we can talk in an open, you know, in a public forum with someone who's more educated than we are. Even though you're a nice >> No, no. >> But >> no, I think it's No, it's always, >> you know, I kind of like it too >> current things. It's a nice tradition. >> They get it's not a tradition. I think it might it's also good, but it's also get to know each other a little better, understand our values. Yeah. Actually outside of a board meeting. I think last year we you put together a list of possible topics. I'll send that out again. >> Yeah, you can do that. >> And just I did forget to mention we do have a board meeting. Uh we'd like to have it September 25th
052that works with the board. We have to adopt the district safety plan. We have to wait for the 30 days public comment and we would like to plan a meeting for the 25th. You mentioned also we don't have to meet at 7 week earlier. >> We could meet at any time here agenda item. >> That's basically a short meeting we have to approve districtwide safety plan. Yes. So >> I can write I can put it in the update and even if it's possible >> well you want to do it between the evening. It's usually about three hours usually. >> Yeah. I mean, personally, I don't want to I'm good for the the partial retreat, which is three hours, which is what we've done for the last three years or so. >> Y >> um so,
053but is that that's obviously contingent on the NISPA personnel being able and available to come that time, but um but for now, we do have to >> we have to do that approval. >> We have to decide that. Is there a time that you guys have in mind? You were mentioning Pat to go a little early. >> I was going to do one more early do 6 o'clock or 5:30 4:30 or 7 o'clock. I'll open I >> So this is for a meeting that is Thursday. Uh September 25th the district safety plan. I have to submit it by October 1st. >> So September 25th. It's a Thursday, I think. >> Yeah. >> Um >> we have our open house the 24th. So >> Okay. Okay. And I'm flying out the very next morning. Uh so
054let's uh yeah actually so I don't know five or six let's be >> what do you guys want >> five five five o'clock sold >> 25th uh if we could uh attach something to that that's fine I don't think there's an urgency for the board retreat we will u talk about doing one if we agree to do one they you know this is they could do them any time of year we could do it in October um and uh I'll send out uh I'll send out the uh the options and simultaneously reach out to see when availability is and we could always figure out what day we'd like first and the further out we do it the more likely we could get the time that we want unless the board decides that there's some kind
055of urgency that we need information sooner than later we can basically get the time we want and the information later. Uh any other questions? I do think actually since we're talking about this kind of stuff uh maybe in October I think it's important uh that we discuss our board goals >> uh so you know the earlier that we can get on that we keep our promise to the community that we reviewed them at the end of last academic year and we made a commitment to uh refining or removing and even realizing some of our goals and now we have to to just finish that up. I think we have a meeting the 14th and um we should have a statement report card by then ready to share and we could use that to u you
056know really look at using that data for some of the goals that >> yeah anytime we could make an informed decision like that and you know whether we're building on the old goals or even setting new ones that'd be great. So any other uh ideas or comments right now? >> So all right motion to adjurnn motion >> second. All those in favor? I. >> Motion carries. [Music]