001East Hampton School, sorry, Spring School Board, we are live. I just got done with the I just got done with an or another organizational meeting. That was my fault. Springs School Board, we are live. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody, those uh from home and here tonight. Uh Vicki, can you do roll call, please? Sure. Um and attendance tonight, we're out of order. Eric Frederickson, Patrick Bray, Emma Field, Kate Saras, and Derma Quinn. All right. May we stand for the 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. I ask for a motion to elect Vicky Lawrence as temporary chairperson. Do I have a motion? Do I have a second? Second. All those
002in favor. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thanksg. Okay. So now I have to So then you're going to reelect board members. Okay. So he didn't write on here re-election to so we have to I have to I have to not uh swear and Emma and Eric, right? So, just mention that we're reelecting. We're re uh um we'll administer the board members Eric and Emma and we're administer the oath and we'll reelect board members Eric Frederickson and Emma Field. So, Emma, do you want to go first? So, we're going to go and we're going to read the Jessica was just saying I am a field. Oh, I am a field. Do do solemnly swear. Oh, do you reading it? I was confused. Okay. I I am a field do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution
003of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of board trustee according to the best of my ability. [Applause] [Laughter] Okay, we'll swear there. Is it all right to do it here or should I give us the podium? It's okay. It's okay. We're here. I Eric I Eric Frederickson do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will fa faithfully discharge the duties of board trustee according to the best of my ability. Okay. [Applause] It's not official. [Music] No. Okay. Okay. So, now I ask I'm going to ask for a motion to nominate a uh candidate for president of the board of education. So, do we have
004a nomination? Nominate Eric Wilson. Second. Seconded. Okay. Um and then all in favor I Okay. So then um then we'll do the same. Well, I'll make a motion to nominate a candidate for vice president for the board of education. I nominate Pat Ban. Second. Okay. So we have to say there be no other names. And there being no other names for board president and no other names for vice presidents. Um so um and then I guess so the motion carries for both. Do I have motion? Do I have a They did say I have Okay. Okay. So then that's it. So now those are those two and we have to swear them then swear. Okay. So now we have to swear it by [Music] as president. Eric as president. Can we stand in front of
005the podium? Oh, we'll do in front of the podium. Yeah, that'd be nice. Thank you. right here. Just read this in. I, Eric Frederickson, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of board president according to the best of my ability. [Applause] I Patrick Vbrand do so strongly swear to will support the Con of United States, Council of State of New York and will faithfully discharge the duties of vice president according to That's my [Applause] All right. So, yes, back to you. Thank you, Vicki. Uh, instead, uh, I now ask for a motion to appoint Vicky Lawrence as district clerk for the 2025 2026 school year. Do I have a motion? Do I
006have a second? Second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Uh, I ask for a motion to appoint Jonathan Leage as district treasurer for the 2025 2026 school year. Do I have a motion? I have a second. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. All right. Thank you both for serving. Thank you for the opportunity. All right. So, moving on to our guess we're in section four here. Designations and appointments, committees. We have 11 items. Uh, I ask for a motion to approve items 4.1 through 4.11 under designations, appointments, and committees. Do I have a motion? Motion. Have a second. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. All right. So, this is where we're going to move into our public comment number one. There are two opportunities for public commentary this
007evening on the board agenda. One opportunity is for agenda items only, and the second opportunity is at the end of the board meeting. With this in mind, if an individual would like to give public comment that does not pertain to agenda items, please do not call into LTV until towards the end of the board meeting after business has been conducted. All calls would be taken in the order that they received. Thank you very much. Uh so for our first public commentary, are there any comments from the public on agenda items only? LTB, do we have anyone on the line? We have no one on the line. Okay, so we're going to move to our consent agenda now. Uh we have 23 on this one. Everyone's slow through. I ask for a motion to approve 6.1
008to 6.23 on our consent agenda. Do I have a motion? Motion. Do I have a second? Second. All those in favor? I I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay. Moving to our business items section. We have uh six items here tonight. Let's discuss them. Uh I ask for a motion to approve items 7.1 to 7.6 under business items on our agenda. Do I have a motion? Do I have a second? All right. Jonathan was your review items for us if there's anything uh um just outside you know basic outside the line the regular um I just want to talk about the uh the tan real quick excuse me I'm sorry before we move on my my apologies I have to just uh note something to the board um there was a a clerical error on the
009screen for a moment about what line to call in the correct call-in line is up right now my apologies on that was due to an update on uh our conference calling system. My sincere apologies on that one. That's 100% my fault, but I double checked everything right now and I have a call in line ready to go. Again, my apologies. Okay, so we thank you for correcting that. And are you saying we have a caller? We don't we don't have any callers right now. If anyone does call in, I will let you know as soon as possible. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you. And at this point, we could we could we'll we'll have another uh opportunity for that towards the end of the meeting. For now, absolutely. and my apologies. Thank you.
010Our business items. Thanks, John. Thank you. Um, so we have our regular items. Um, the board minutes from last meeting, the treasures reports, uh, this appropriation and revenue status reports, the warrants, and May's claims audit report. What I want to look at is the TAN. Um, we are doing better this year with our cash flows and we were able to better utilize our high interest yield accounts. So revenues came in higher than last year. So I don't expect us to need the tan for as much as we do this year, which obviously will then save the district and the interest we pay on that. Um so that's why the tan amount is slightly lower than last year. Um this is just to be authorization for it, but the Yes. Um so I think um we
011should be good there. Okay. And then that's it. Are there any questions from the board or nominee of the business items? No. All right. So, we discussed them, but we need to approve them. Um, all those in uh favor of uh approving business items 7176. I I I Okay. Any opposed? Our motion carries. All right. So, we have our superintendence report uh and recommendations. I ask for motion to approve item 8.1. We've pushed one item tonight for superintendent report and recommendation. I said fortunately uh we we're we're in good shape with our staff. Do I have a motion to uh Well, is there anything to to discuss outside? You need No, you need a motion. So, we're going to Do I have a motion uh to discuss on May 8.1? Motion. Uh second. Second. All
012right, Nancy, can you please Yeah. So, I'm very I'm very pleased. Um, as you're all aware, we had a retirement um a beloved uh speech pathologist, Patty Filibar, retired in May, and we were very fortunate to find a speech pathologist that is local. Uh she lives in Ma and we're excited to have her come on board. So, uh I'm hoping that you'll approve her appointment and as I said, we're very excited. She's excited to be in Springs as well. And uh we're we really we really do appreciate when we get local people that are applying our school district. So we're very pleased and hoping you'll approve her appointment. Thank you. I guess we're about to do that right now. So um well are there any questions regarding that? I mean I know we're very uh
013thankful to work. We've had to find people. We've had wonderful people here retire and um you know people always seem irreplaceable at one point but eventually we do have to find new ones and we know it's not always easy to do that particularly with our location and you've done a wonderful job both sourcing and and finding the best candidates for our school. So we are excited to do that. Uh and with that being said all those in favor of approving our item 8.1 I Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay. Thanks. And then just for a little bit of an update of what's going on, um, as you can see, because we're here in the art room, we have construction uh going on throughout the building and we have a lot of work happening. Uh, the library
014ceiling is uh being refurbished as we needed to have done. Uh, all the uh the nine classrooms that the last nine classrooms in the building have been remediated. Um, and the tile is being laid. We're very excited. And in August, the last of the old lockers will be replaced. So, we're very excited about that as well. Um, our custodial staff, I just need to give a real congratulations to they have been working their tails off. Uh, they had to empty every room obviously that had to be remediated as well. We're having the classrooms off the commons room. Uh that old wood on on the closet is all being on the closets is being sanded down and repainted and Renew is working on that now. And uh the custodial staff has had to empty just about
015every single classroom. Um and it's been an incredible amount of work. Uh lot you know just kudos to them for for all the work they're doing. Uh Project Most is up and running. uh their classrooms are all in the middle school area so that they're away from any of the construction that is going on here. It seems to be going very well. Our summer school is in the front hallway here that started on Monday. Um there's only about 12 students. Uh but it's going very very well and we're thankful for the staff. It's hard to get people to work in the summer. We're very thankful for our staff that is working with our extended school year program uh with our special needs students. So things are going well. We have a lot of work to
016do. Summer is a very busy time and um just happy to be going forward and really we're all looking forward to the year ahead. And the bus garage, last thing I do want to say, we do have a new uh person in charge of the bus garage. If you choose to take a walk over there, you'll see that it's been completely cleaned out almost uh and things are going very well already with uh you know getting uh the busing for summer school for ITRY and planning for the roots uh come September as well as making sure all of our drivers have their proper certifications. So all is going well with that. Wonderful. Um, you know, we think about school being out and, you know, all of a sudden things getting quiet. That's not at all
017the case. The school is, you know, as Nancy mentioned, that's why we're here tonight. The rooms are filled with stuff and work is being done in the library, in the classroom. or not. On behalf of the board, I I want to thank the administration and all of the staff who's participating in uh making some wonderful needed changes in the school over the summer so that when our students come back, the building will be fresh and and new. It will be. And um there I said I I'm very thankful to the custodial staff for how hard they're working. And uh just I did forget to mention we have over 20 teachers participating in curriculum mapping um with new software where all of our curriculum will be online within the year. That's our goal so that teachers
018are really going to be able to see what's being taught. Parents will be able to see what's being taught when what's aligned with the standards and we're beginning that on the 14th. Now is that you know as a board but as a parent too I I think of like we you know many schools we we're accustomed to using Google and and Google classroom things like that is this something that is replacing that or No we're not we're not integrated we're not replacing that what it is is a platform that is online that is going to have every uh piece of curriculum K through 8 and in all the special areas as well there so that teachers can look and say a librarian can look and say, "Oh, the third grade classroom is working on, you
019know, uh countries in in certain areas and they can say, "Oh, I can get look for books that go with that." Uh teachers that are a grade above or a grade below can actually see what's being taught in that grade. Every single item can be aligned to all the standards already in the software program. So you can look and say, "Oh, if our kids aren't doing well in a certain areas on the state test, when are those standards being taught?" And you can actually pull up the standards, see when they're being taught, and then say, "Oh gosh, we need to enhance what we're doing in second grade on addition, you know, two-digit edition or something like that." And you can really look at uh do a lot of analysis on curriculum, what's being taught and
020see teachers. The benefit for teachers is that they can really like an ENL teacher can look and see what every teacher is teaching at a grade level so that they can support that with their ENL um lessons that they're doing which is very beneficial and everything will be in one place in one platform accessible to all teachers and the administration and to parents. So uh we're very excited uh for this initiative. It's going to it's not going to happen overnight. Um the goal is in the first week to maybe get a month worth of curriculum and then it's just going to be ongoing for all our professional development and times that teachers have and very excited that we had teachers in every grade level um sign up. So, uh, we're, you know, we're excited that,
021uh, we're going to be moving forward with this and we'll be putting a lot of attention to this next year throughout the year for all our times when we have professional development. Now, when it's ready and you're through your process, is this something that will be accessible on the website or we link it both on the parent and the teacher side? Sorry. Um, this is something that will be available today. Thanks. Does anyone have any other questions about anything? I have one question. Enrollment. I know we have a prek enrollment's been complet Sorry, I don't know. I just um enrollment has been completely steady. Um, we're exactly where we were at the last meeting. Um, there's been no changes. Question. All right. Wonderful. So, uh, LTB, we are ready for our next public comment this
022evening. If there's anyone out there who would like to call in, we can receive calls for, uh, items that were on the agenda, but of course, ones that are no not on the agenda. We have no callers on the line. Um well, thank you everyone. Everyone feel good because I'm about to make a motion to adjurnn. Motion second. Oh, we already got the second one. Hello. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Have a good night, everyone. the summer.