001two. All right, everyone. We are We are on We are live and the phone lines are up and operational. Thank you. >> Roll call. >> Patrick Brayban >> here. >> Emma Field >> here. >> Kate Sarah here. And before we begin, just let you know Eric Ferson and Dur are both away on family obligations and our um deput is our home on family emergency. So Suzan now pledge of 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. >> Now we're going to go to a public hearing first. We are holding a public hearing commen concerning the districtwide safety plan. District safety plan be on our website for review and comment by members of the public.
002No, if there are no objections from my fellow board members, I'd like Nancy to invite to speak a little bit on the proposed changes. >> Okay. So, um this year our districtwide safety plan is mostly the same as it has been over the last couple of years. is uh we meet on a regular basis with our emergency um res response team um and with our law enforcement and we go over our plan each year and we check it. Um the only changes current changes are mostly staff. Um we've had some changes in staff. We have Matt Shimus now is our assistant principal and he's taken over all of the responsibilities that the prior assistant principal did. We have some new clerical people that are also part of the emergency response plan. And then in addition
003going forward, the state has a new requirement for districts um that we all have um a CPR AED plan in place. Um fortunately for us in springs um we did have many of our staff trained uh in CPR and a AED last year. Um part of the plan what we have to do is list the people and we also have to create a map of where all our AEDs are. We currently have about eight AEDs in the building. We're going to look at upgrading some of those AEDs and possibly putting some more in as well. We have to pro provide a map to the state and to all of our staff um so that everyone is familiar with using them and knows where they are. This has to be done by October 1st. So, we
004will get that done within the next couple of weeks. And those are the change the upcoming changes. Um the current plan will be after this hearing will be posted on the district website. Anybody can look at it and send comments. um so that we can respond to those comments. >> Anybody the public have any questions on the safety plan? No. Any more scheduled adopt that on September 24th? If there's no other questions, I ask a motion to close the public hearing. All in favor? I the time is now 710. Now we're going to go back to the regular meeting and we'll start with public commentary. Any comments from the public on agenda items only? >> We have no callers on the phone line and I'm calling in right now and there and that they are
005up and operational. >> Thank you. >> So nobody on public from the phone lines. Okay. We ask for a motion to approve the items 4.1 to 4.2 4.14 on consent agenda. Do I have a motion? All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Now we're going to ask for a motion to approve the items in the business section 5.1 to 5.13 on the business and finance items in our agenda. Have a motion. >> Jonathan, can you please review some of these items for us, please? >> Sure. Thank you. Um 5.1 to 5.5 are our um July monthly reports. Um nothing has really changed on those since it's the first month of the year. Um we have after that we have more um intermunicipal agreements with the surrounding districts. Um the transportation um ones are we we're doing
006shared services. So instead of both of us sending a bus to the same location, we're going to meet at a location. All the kids are going to hop on one bus and that bus will take them to the final destination. >> That's for the private schools, the Russ School, the Hayground School. >> Yes. >> Yeah. So this um this is a savings for both districts like it's a shared service. We're combining the transportation. We have um special education service contract with Bridge Hampton. This is for private schools in that area. It's the um the local district is the one who provides those services and then they fill us for them. We have student meals from East Hampton. This is something we do every year. We get cold lunches from the high school um every day
007for students who do not have lunches in weekend. There is the SYA agreement for the annual lease and then we are receiving a child from East Stamping for special education services. We have our final Bose Dies bill came out in July. So, we have the final contract that needs board approval. We want to continue using the um school bus stop arm program that the county has that is very successful in collecting fines from people who don't stop for school buses. And that's pretty much everything under the business and finance. That's a um $6,000 grant from the county that we get that uh provides cameras on the buses so that cameras can identify anyone that passes the bus. >> 6,000 in fines collected fines go to the district. >> Yeah. Yes. Yes. So that's from the
008just springs district. season. Is that pretty much on budget what we expected? >> Yeah, there wasn't a lot of uh contract modifications throughout the year. That I think is a little under what we budgeted for in the budget for last year. Okay, no questions. Uh have a vote. All in favor? >> Motion carried. Okay. New business. That's a motion to approve items 6.1 and 6.12 on the new business item agenda. A motion, you please help us with that. >> Okay. Um, so as required um the first one is uh to approve the first reading of policy 7316. And currently as required by new state regulations, we need to adopt a policy for our seventh and eighth grade students on the use of internet enabled devices during the school day, which really means cell phones. I'm
009sure you've all been reading um in the newspaper that this is a new requirement from the state. It is for students in 7th through 12th grades. Um fortunately here in Springs, we really don't have an issue with cell phone uh abuse in the school. But what we are going to be doing is all students have to have their cell phones in their lockers from the beginning of the school day till the end of the school day unless it's for um health reasons and there you know obviously from the nurse or parents that there's a health reason that a child would have to have the cell phone. Um and we're going to be you know if a child has an offense it's going to be handled in a very respectful way as far as the teacher
010would take the cell phone um return it at the end of the day. if it happens again, then the parent would be called that kind of um thing going forward. Um but as I said, here in Springs, we really haven't had an issue with cell phones, so we don't want to make a big deal about this. Just um kid has a cell phone and they're not supposed to, you ask the child to put the cell phone back in the locker and don't let it happen again. So, um we're pretty confident that we're not going to have any issues with that. Um we will have our second and final reading for the policy and then it'll be adopted uh at the September 9th meeting. And then um the next uh new item of new business is
011to approve uh the attendance for me to go to the NISCUS concert uh conference in Saratoga September 28th through 30th through the 30th. I used to attend these every year. I didn't go last year because I think I've attended enough of them. But um this year we've been um Adam Fine the superintendent of East Hampton. Um Brian the uh Doler the superintendent in Shelter Island. Myself and Sam have been been invited to do a presentation um at the NISCOS conference. Um we're doing a presentation um about shared services. As you know, regionalization has been a big topic and we've been very, very successful this past year with creating shared services with our districts that are saving both districts money and are really beneficial to us and to the school district. And we've been asked to
012do a presentation um upstate. So, we're excited to do that and I'm hoping that you'll approve us me going there. Looking forward to it. Um make the motion like to change the agenda. It says 6.12. We change that to 6.2. >> Yes, absolutely. >> I make a motion. >> Motion. All >> in favor? I next one is superintendent recommendations. I ask for a motion to approve items 7.1 7.6 I believe. Right. Upgrade to 7.6. The agenda it says 7.5. >> Oh, we have it's right. I'm sorry. That was >> Yeah, we added I added >> We had a donation that I added. Um, which >> motion? >> Perfect. >> All right. >> Okay. So, one of the favorite things I get to do is welcome new staff. Um, and this year we're very, very excited.
013Um as you all know uh getting talented staff um on the east end is very challenging. Uh the commute is getting more and more difficult for for people from up island and we are very fortunate that we were able to find local people to fill needed positions in the district. So I um very very excited to uh welcome some new staff members to our district. First we have and I asked you to stand uh Lee Stumi. Is that how you pronounce it? Um she'll be a special education teacher. Uh she'll be working in our kindergarten class with Mrs. Herb in an ICT class. And she comes to us um from a position in Shelter Island. And uh we're very very excited to have her here. So I'd like us all to give her a letter
014and uh we look forward to working with you throughout the year. Thank you. Thank you for being here and for applying to Springs. It's a it's a really terrific place to work. And um the next we actually have a springs graduate and East Hampton graduate. Uh very excited to welcome Sophia Swanson also as a special ed teacher and she will be working with Miss Monique Sullivan and she'll be working in a second grade class and so proud to have an alumni uh coming back to spring. She comes very highly recommended and u I actually had a fight for her with East Hampton. Um but I I I'm very competitive and I won. So anyway, we're very very pleased and happy to invite uh to welcome Sophia and once again a local person, a Spring School
015Eastampton alumni. So welcome Sophia. And also local we have um Kelsey Burns and she's going to be a permanent sub for us who has a master's in library science who will be working in our library and she will soon have her degree in library science. She's another local person uh lives right here in East Hampton. Her uh she is was currently working in the Montalk library um for a number of years. comes really highly recommended as well and very excited again to get another local person. Uh we welcome Kelsey and looking forward to working with her. Then we also have a teaching assistant uh Leah Molernno and we welcome her. She's going to be working uh with us as well. Another local person. So we feel uh very very happy and pleased when we get
016local people. Uh, one of the things, and we were talking about this, I met with superintendent this morning, was um, and a couple of districts have just recently lost people at the last minute who got jobs up island, who live up island. Understandably, a lot of them have young children and have gotten positions up island. So, we really appreciate when we get local people. And then, um, also, uh, the thing that we added tonight that we're very pleased about, um, well, let's just clap for all of you. Then uh we're very pleased that the Jewish Center of the Hamptons has donated over 150 uh backpacks with school supplies. Uh we put a notice out on parent squares. Families can start coming to pick them up on Friday. Uh we'll have that set up, Mr. Kelt,
017correctly? Um >> okay. So, uh we're very appreciative of that donation. Uh something that's really appreciated by our families as well. And then um just I have uh some updates to inform you. As you can see for people who've walked in here, it's been an extremely busy summer. Um we have a lot of projects going on. Um also this summer, uh we had our extended school year program going on for our special needs students. And I just want to start by saying it was a really successful six-week program this year. And I want to thank all the staff who participated. They made it uh the kids were every morning just so happy to be here. And it's a really uh just warms your heart uh seeing the kids. They went on a lot of field
018trips. They cooked a lot of really good food. Um and they just had a I think a fun and meaningful summer. So I thank all the staff for their participation. And as I said, it was not easy because during while they were here, we had so much construction going on. Um, as you know, the li while we're having our meeting in here, the library ceiling, which was structurally uh compromised, was replaced. It looks terrific. Um, but as things go with renovation. When they were started the construction, they discovered that there was asbestos in the flooring and that abatement is going on as we speak. So, um, other than the fact that I can't sleep at night because we only have a few a little time left before school starts, I have to really thank, uh,
019Jonathan and Greg from East Hampton and our custodial staff. They really pulled together and the abatement's being done now. The carpet is being laid on Friday. We have staff coming in next week to put the books all back. So, the library will be up and running uh, at the start of school. So really appreciate how everyone came together to deal with what could have been very challenging. Um we've also had a lot of planned construction going on and a lot of you will have noticed in your classrooms we did a bait um eight classrooms or nine Jonathan >> nine classrooms. Uh we have that's the last of asbestos in the district all new tile is put down. Classrooms were repainted um which was just it was a lot of work and the the classrooms look
020terrific. You know, we have all new shades up in the classroom in the classrooms. Now we have new lockers. The last of the old lockers are gone. The entire district now has uh the correct lockers all around the district. Really makes a difference in the look of the building. Um if you have a chance, I know it says don't enter, but peek inside the gym doors and you can see the floors were sanded. Uh they were refurbished and redone and repainted and the gym floors look absolutely beautiful. So, we're very happy about all the work that's been done and we're really um looking forward to uh welcoming everybody back and to having a terrific school year. We also had over 20 teachers come in this summer doing curriculum work. Uh we have a new mapping
021program uh that we're going to be doing as required by the state. We're also implementing. We started with the science of reading last year, continuing and implementing with the three through five this year. Uh we have two programs we're working with and we also had teachers in all grade levels start to map our curriculum and really looking at what we teach, what standards we're teaching to, when we're teaching them. And it's all going to be online. So teachers can really look and see exactly when things have been taught, what standards have been met, and we can look at our data and say, "Oh, if students aren't doing well here, let's see when it was taught. Let's see what areas we need to strengthen." It's going to be a great tool for teachers and I so
022appreciate we had over 20 teachers come in the summer and we're going to continue the work uh going throughout the school year. So, we're excited. We have a lot going on, a lot of good things going on and um really look forward to a new and exciting school year. >> I just want to welcome everybody aboard to the school family. That's very passionate. I see something here. Really good. They did a nice job, Nancy. with the candidates. It's great, you know. >> Yeah. >> We walked around the school before, you know, and I'm always amazed how teachers come during the summer and set up the classroom. >> You know, Monique was in there trying to kids the other day, she said. >> But Jessica, you know, it's really nice to see that, you know, we
023don't get to see much of it on board outside just walking around school making a classroom. They let the colors of the room, too. >> Yes. Well, yeah. Joan picked the colors. Yeah. Joan Branch Branch picked that beautiful soft green. Very nice. Yes. And Melissa's room was set up how many weeks ago, Melissa was my face. >> And we we do have new cabinets in Shawn Knight's uh science room. Uh the board saw them. Those that was done this summer as well, and I think they look terrific. Much needed. That for sure. So now you have to get to work, Mr. Knight. >> You want to make a motion to hire these people? Second. >> All in favor? I >> congratulations. [Applause] >> Public comment number two. Any comments or questions from the audience of
024LTV? >> We have no public comment. >> Fantastic. German. We can make a motion to adjourn. I'll say