001got they'll be ready to start in 2 minutes and then after they're done we can just can we move this over once everyone's sitting we'll move the podium hi this this has electricity right e e e okay hi all can everybody please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all we are going to start our meeting tonight with a performance of songs by the high school students from The High School Musical Legally Blonde [Applause] uh good evening members of the Board of Education Dr Rogers and members of our community my name is Alan hang I'm a senior at soset high school and I had the pleasure
002of playing EMT forest in scet high school's production of Legally Blonde so producing Legally Blonde was our first opportunity in three years to bring a musical to our stage to full audiences and we're grateful for some record-breaking crowds almost, 1600 people or in attendance across the four shows and this undertaking is made possible so this undertaking is made possible due to the support of the PTSA the administration the faculty and staff the community and of course our families and friends we're so grateful to everyone for their commitment to bringing this show to life and I want to share the names of everyone performing and helping us put on this performance tonight so first my co-star Mara sparacino who's playing lwoods Sephora ellish as Margot Sally Jameson as Serena Courtney Benin as par Sarah gafar Sam
003kosha ABS Monroe Ruby Goldberg and Sona zakeri as Delta news Amanda Schwarz as Courtney Maria Dello as the sales manager and of course none of this would be possible without the people behind the scenes so uh Phoebe Alro is our stage manager and our crew is made up of Ethan Trinidad Alan Hong Katherine Johnson and Lizette s [Music] I'm going to go a little off script here um I just want to take this moment to personally thank uh Mr Connor Miss Howell Mr capudo and all of the teachers and staff who were able to bring this production to life um without this none of none of this would be possible and of course I also want to thank my amazing cast and crew um for making this such an amazing amazing experience um I enjoyed
004this experience so much and I hope through our performances we're able to convey how powerful and how uniting um that theater can be and when we're on stage we're not just reciting lines but we're creating stories and fostering genuine emotions that we're we hope are able to inspire everyone around us to stay true to themselves just as Elwoods has so without further ado we're going to relive some of the magic with all of you as my co-star Marin know as lwoods and the girls of Delta new perform oh my God you guys the opening number from our show thank you very much for allowing us this opportunity and please enjoy oh my God you guys [Applause] [Music] dear L he's a lucky guy I'm like going to cry I got tears coming out of my
005nose bad the can't cat you're a perfect match cuz you both got great of hyle top F off bring that ring back and show it to me four carrots that's time are you sfe or what I just wait a second oh my God oh my God you guys looks like's going to win the prize if there ever was a perfect couple this one qualifies oh my God you guys oh my God this is happening our own homecoming queen and king finally she be trying on a huge engagement ring for oh my God you guys oh my God oh my [Music] God cing smile don't forget smile you oh my God oh my God you [Music] guys there was a perfect coule this oh my God guys serious and were meant to be no ever has
006shut up they're just like that couple from Titanic only one oh my 2 3 4 Del soon to be fan now that a mans you your life begins today make him a happy home was not his hard W and so he does try not to look your age in your it [Music] be guys guys she's not here Bruiser Bruiser where is El she doesn't have an engagement outfit She is totally freaking out she's trapped in the old Valley Mill oh sorry the old Valley M oh my God oh my God you guys crisis to supervise no one should be love to look to dress and to accessor oh my gosh you guys oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God [Music] it's almost there but this dress to
007SM the deal make a grown man meal but it can't come right out and stay bride can't look like I'm desperate or like I'm waiting for it I got toide so pride is more in oh my God oh my God you guys all this week I've had butterflies every time he looks at me it's totally life oh my God you guys so help me dress for my fa something I got on is like forever this is no time to Eon oh my God you guys long make commission so easy excuse me have you seen this it just came in and it's perfect for a blonde right uh with a half poop stitch on China silk uh-huh except the thing is you can't use a half week stitch on TR of silk it'll pucker and um
008you didn't just get this in because I saw it in last maze Vogue oh my God oh my God you guys I am not about to buy last year's dress at this year's price right through that taes girl lies make me perfect for a f but I'm not that I may in but I'm not oh my God lwood sorry our mistake Courtney take your break just ignore her she hasn't been well try this latest from long go on try it on I care my [Music] best oh my God oh my God you never compromise oh my God go was aect couple thisif we love you guys I love you guys [Music] oh my God [Music] [Applause] my [Applause] open all right hi everyone tough act to follow um so good evening my name is Taylor
009Kyle and on behalf of myself Mr fasino Miss Garrison and the rest of the business department we thank you for being here tonight Virtual Enterprise is a live Global business simulation in which our students are tasked with creating and managing a business the program provides opportunities for students to develop valuable 21st century skills in entrepreneurship problem solving communication personal finance and Technology I think I'm loud enough oh okay um instead of entering a classroom each day our students enter the workplace and collaborate together in their departments to make sure their business is successful with the seven years that we have offered the ve program we have had multiple finalists including second and third place in the national business this competition this year in particular our Virtual Enterprise program has seen record-breaking success our firms have
010placed in the top 30% and qualified for the marketing QuickBooks human resources and finance competitions out of 110 competing firms on Long Island saset has secured three out of 10 finalist spots where they will compete in the National level this coming April [Applause] this is the first time in sasit history that all three firms have made it to this round um as a department we would like to thank Central Administration High School building admin the Board of Education and community members for your continued support for the success of our students I will now pass it over to Matt vasino [Applause] thank you Miss Kyle so now we're going to have our CEOs of our three firms for this year are going to come up and do an elevator pitch for you so roughly around one
011minute and tell you a little bit about their business and just so you know um in the elevator pitch competition that Virtual Enterprise does throughout uh in the beginning of the year each of our firms finished in the top 10% in Virtual Enterprise so out of over 500 firms we were in the top 10% all three of our firms so you're about to see some wonderful pitches no pressure guys all right so so our first CEO is Dylan Wexler from drip did you know that there are 5.25 trillion piece of plastic polluting our oceans each day hi my name is Dylan wexer and I'm the CEO of drip drip is a fully sustainable jewelry company that focuses on changing the world one bracelet at a time our fashion forward bracelets are made from 100% recycled
012materials which helps in the lack of sustainable jewelry sold in the global markets the beads in our bracelets come from plastic that was removed from the ocean and the string comes from recycled fishing nets or other string found as well additionally in these uncertain times the amount of people struggling with mental health is rising globally therefore all of our bracelets contain either a word or phrase of affirmation that helps instill confidence and positivity in all of our customers drip second product line consists for our univers univers Spirit Weare we notice that void in the global markets for a sustainable way that college students can support their school so we create our bracelets to do just that our College bracelets contain either the school's name or slogan so that customers can represent their school fashionably and
013sustainabil and sustainably finally drip created the day a drip program where our team will go into a school or business and do a full day of activities promoting sustainability and giving advice on how one can better their mental health if you're interested in finding more about and Company feel free to follow us on Instagram or Tik Tok at drip. vei to learn how you can ride the tide and take the greenside with drip thank you thank you Dylan and our next CEO is Max Korn from lunchbox hi my name is Max Kin I'm from lunchbox have you ever heard of someone being excited for school lunch I didn't think so did you know that 40% of students do not eat school lunch provided also 70% of students survey that they prefer the options provided at
014their school that they prefer options provide from home rather than their school well that's all about the change with lunchbox our mission is to provide a healthy alternative to school lunch that caters to all students and staff's dietary needs while educating them about nutrition at lunchbox we understand that it can be difficult to find options at schools that fit your dietary needs and also accommodate a busy on the-go schedule many students do not have a lunch period and others stay after school for sports and extracurricular activities but do not have any nutritious options to give them energy and keep them full that's why we created refrigerated vending machines that have breakfast lunch and snack options that are available for students and staff members both during and after school found something you love in the vending
015machine we knew you would head over to our website and order our meal delivery services lunchboxes that will be delivered fresh your doorstep at the start of each week at lunchbox we are transforming the vending machine with experience Ving machine experience with convenient nutritious and environmentally friendly options that are inclusive of all dietary restrictions please follow us on social media we're on Instagram Facebook and Tik Tok if you like to learn more and we would love to talk further with you at lunchbox it's an A+ lunch thank you Max and last but not least Kyle dpis from Thrive Healthy Living are you tired of making failed New Year's resolution to get healthier if this is your problem you're not alone 60% of consumers have the same struggle and the Mayo Clinic estimates that only about
0163% of Americans are truly healthy hi I'm Kyle dpis and I'm the CEO of Thrive healthy living here at Thrive we're combining the classic gummy bear with vital nutrients that you need to be healthy we're charitable health-driven and most importantly we make sure that each and every consumer has a fun way to get get healthy each portion of our proceeds from each pouch is donated to Charities addressing related health issues and our five pillars of Health are sleep calm Focus immunity and Muscle Recovery recently we're happy to announce that we've done over 2 million dollar in sales had recognition from multiple National competitions and are looking forward to competing in the spring we're on Instagram Tik Tok and Twitter and we're open to answering any questions you may have through our email and also on
017our website where we're able to sell you our pouches and remember with Thrive good health is only a gummy away thank [Applause] you thank you I definitely think I need some of those gummies shark tank is next for you guys all right so the board we can go up onto the stage thank you very much great job good good you I think were come the presentation is 17th of April but maybe weeks or nice get HR list no bring the screen back he's bringing it down he's going to bring it down [Music] [Applause] than e and part of the meeting please are you okay I'm deal with that thank you okay of course I can't see this okay good evening so tonight is our second um discussion of the 2324 budget our February meeting we
018went through the capital and admin draft sections and tonight we're going to take a look at Pro program benefits and then um a little bit of time on reserves um we went through our our budget goals at the last meeting but just want to reiterate that our primary G goal always is to preserve our existing programs and services we've made over the last couple of years Investments or increased our investments um um in Social and emotional well-being of our students and been very focused on that and we'll talk a little bit later about our uh plan to increase um those supports for our students over the last seven or eight years we've been working to um improve and enhance our facilities and also maintain our facilities and we started talking um when we presented the
019capital plan last um last month we talked about phasing projects and we're going to be continuing to do that um given the financial constraints um that we're facing this year I just want to go back um the last two lines on there you know we have been maintaining our fiscal stability and that has been so important over the last couple of years to ensure that we had an appropriate response to the pandemic and that we continue to grow and enhance our program and our fiscal stability is is is very important in continuing that as we go through this next challenge of a difficult fiscal climate and of course we're going to do all this while managing um record levels of inflation we talked about the budget drivers last um last month but I just thought
020it was important to know because we're going to be looking more closely at some of these items such as the health insurance premium going to talk a little bit about our tan borrowing costs which came up last um last month we're going to be going through our transportation line item and again we are dealing these are things we're forecasting for next year but we're dealing with this year we're dealing with overages in many of these inflationary codes from health insurance to Tans to our transportation and trying to manage those this year into next year so again we went through the property tax in detail last um last month so I'm not going to do that again other than to point out that the last two years we have been um within our or under our
021uh tax cap and yet inflation has been at 4.7 at 8% projected at 8% and that clearly has been you know having an impact on on the District Operations last month when I went through the tax cap we were at about a 3.08 I think it was and I had mentioned that we still were working through the capital exemption which has a a lot of different components to that that is complete and we're now at about at 3.16 which was the amount that was submitted to the controller on March 1st so at this point um in the in the budget we are now going through um all of the line items that we presented in the administrative and capital plan and we're kind of going at our next round um of the budget in terms
022of looking at what we can tighten on the expenditure side and also looking at the revenue side and where we might bring in some additional Revenue to for this uh period one of the areas um that we spoke about was was the tan borrowing cost and those increases as a result of interest rates going up and one of the um items that we talked about was can we structure our Tans differently and um can we do can we borrow different to reduce reduce those costs and I've had conversations with Bond counsil and our fiscal advisers um regarding having two Tans at the same time and then having different maturity dates on them which wouldn't which wouldn't give us higher borrowing or closing costs but would enable us to decrease um the amount that we're borrowing
023overall so our team is working working on a cash flow um for for that sort of scenario and that's just one example of the areas that we're looking at to try to reduce some expenditures um we routinely anal uh analyze vacated positions to see where we can tighten and we're looking at um we you know we're wrapping up a lot of our capital projects so we'll be looking at some positions in the operations area to see if there's some uh tightening we can do there now that project um have rolled off and there might be decreased needs in some areas another savings actions I mentioned we're looking at projects and we'll also be looking at equipment to see what we can phase what we might postpone a bit um over for a year or or
024two so I want to go through the the benefits this is just um this is just a tax cap calculation at 3.16 the chart on the left which you seen many times before shows that we have been under the cap um in in all years and while we will be under the cap again I think I mentioned last month and I would just reiterate that we will be bumping right up against that cap given all of the inflationary um pressures that we're under so benefits um presents an opportunity um for us to to talk about how we can use some of our restricted reserves and some of our Revenue to to assist us and benefits at this point in time are very preliminary because they're tied to Staffing and Staffing meetings are underway but we're
025not completed so these numbers will be adjusted as those numbers solidify but I do want to draw your attention to a couple of numbers on here and one of our more substantial increases is about 3/4 of the way down in health insurance not 9080 so overall benefits have increased about 7.6 million or 12% health insurance really leading that with a $5.1 million increase when we formulated the budget for this year we did it with a 10% escalation in premiums which we thought was fairly reasonable based on um based on historical rates um rates for 23 came in at 15% which have um caused clearly a negative in this year's budget and we for our 23 24 budget we're forecasting a three a 133% increase in the premium that's what's reflected at this time ERS TRS
026Social Security those are all tied to salaries and so we'll be adjusting those the workers compensation line you see um there's an increase in there and that is based we're still looking at that information but that is based on recent settlements of casesa cases that are decided by the workers comp board as well as increased um costs for medical payments that are also part of workers compensation expenses so many of these or at least let's see uh the TR the first two lines we've been supporting by reserves we've been supporting workers comp expense as well and if we look over here this is a a preliminary plan for how we might use the reserves for 23 24 the left box is we Ed about 4.5 million this year um to support those line items in
027the budget and 23 24 looking at about 6 million and most of that a lot or a good portion of that comes from ERS there were pretty significant declines in rates and now they're going um not up as much as they came down but up again and so the amount that we're suggesting we're proposing is really the amount of ERS expense that we're projecting at this point for 23 24 we've increased the TRS really to cover the variance that we're seeing that we're projecting from this year to the next year so that's one of the one example how we're going to um we're proposing to use our reserves to assist us as we have done over the last um 10 years so the majority of our time will be spent on the program section of
028the budget so the program section is the largest component of the budget at over um 76% and it's comprised of all of the codes on the right so overall we can see that there's an increase of 6.71% on the entire program section of the budget the 9.8 million Staffing adjustments in the secondary schools in the current year and increased support for social emotional needs of our students are part of the overall increase in this code if you look to the bottom right there's a a a forecast or projection of a 1f F te increase however I would just remind you that we are just in the middle of our staffing meeting so this is all very preliminary but that that number I I'll talk about in the subsequent slides the largest code in the program
029section is 2110 it comprises I would say about onethird of the district's budget and that is the it's called teaching regular school 2110 or I college instruction and it provides for the district's basic educational program represents um at I said a third of the district's budget at 87 million and this is all of our classroom teachers our textbooks supplies contractual services are all in in this code and you can see there's a roughly 4.3 million or 5.2% increase and some of that is related to the additional instructional staff that we h hired um this current year uh really reflecting enrollments in specific classes and courses at the secondary level contractual salary adjustments Bose Services also contributed to this code um you can see there's about $112,000 increase in arts and education and exploratory enrichment and
030those are done in partnership with the PTA one of the advantages of using bosis for these servic is that we get about 60% um in in Aid in the subsequent year so so that's a good way of sort of providing pro programs enhanced programming to students um for reduced cost commencement costs if you look down to contractual there's a $22,000 decrease which reflects the cost savings associated with hosting the Middle School graduations in housee special education provides it 2250 provides for the district's um special education program so it also contains all of the um salaries for teachers speech teachers therapists to instructional support tutors teacher aids um for our special education students also contractual services and just as a reminder anything that starts with a four is a contractual Services meaning we contract out for
031that services and in the special ed world that could mean um for specific services or for art students to attend programs in other districts or in bosis so overall special education increased approximately 1.36 million or 4.4 that's a result of Staffing adjustments and shifts that we had in the current year all based on students IEPs so while the number of teachers uh overall remained fairly stable you saw you can see some shifting in some of the instructional support staff you can see a decrease in the amount we're spending this year for teaching assistance and then kind of a a in in teacher aids really makes up for that so it's just kind of a shifting of of where the support is coming from we also had a 6 FTE increase in a physical therapist um
032for the district um this year so changes to the contractual codes the current contractual codes really reflect um where the kids are now this year with um with some contingency and I've increased that contingency based on the higher level higher number of initial referrals that could um potentially um become placements so there's an increase in the contingency number um that we've had based on on what we're seeing at this time the next two codes are occupational education and summer school so occupational education the first code increased by about 155k or 35 36% it reflects higher student enrollment in the in occupational educational programs as well as anticipated rate increases from bosis and these programs are run at Barry Tech and the Long Island School for the Arts summer school provides remediation enrichment as well as
033the extended year program um that's required uh by csse the you may recall the summer program was expanded in the summer of 2021 and 22 and we're currently planning for um the summer of 20 three you'll see there's a decrease of approximately $29,000 or 5% and that's primarily due to shating uh Staffing shifts we have Consolidated some of the uh position for the csse and that the summer portion of that um will come will be reduced by that amount the 20 23,000 the library media program all instructional media for district students are in this code including Librarians library books periodicals audiovisual equipment and the people who work in the libraries AV Tex the increase in the library code of about 103k or 3.7 is due to contractual salary adjustments as well as increased overtime as
034our library media Specialists um assist with live streaming streaming and events that occur after the school day and then bosei Services reflects price increases as well as um expanded online databases that um our students use the code underneath that is computer assisted instruction and that reflects cost for computer hardware and software that's related to instruction that increased by about 858 or, or 22% the majority of if you look down on there is about $831,000 that's for Bose's services so this includes um a Chromebook replacement project all of our spending on instructional software 24-hour cyber monitoring and those types of expenses I would point out um or just remind you that um there's another code that's administrative technology that was presented last month and that had a $200,000 decrease which is a little bit of an
035offset and it also included in there was an eate project for 300 so that code would have been down by 500,000 were it not for the eate project the good news is we get that funding on the revenue side in in next year as well we um we are going through we expanded a lot of our technology tools over the last couple of years and we're now in the process of going through all of the software and that we use kind of standardizing what we use and determining what's the best fit for going forward and that work is ongoing and just a note about Bose projects um as you know we've done many um technology projects through Bose's and we also get about 50% of that back in the subsequent year in Bose's Aid so
036it's a good way for us to advance our technology over over the last uh several years okay these two codes attendance and guidance um attendance contains the expenses for our three attendance offices and uh you can see that the code decreased by about 133% and that's primarily due to the Shifting the reduction of about a half a FTE clerical um in which occurred in the current school year guidance increased by about 175,000 or 5.3% um primarily due to the addition of of a guidance counselor in the current year to provide greater access um to counseling services um and to help address kids learning and social needs the health services code includes uh our all of our nurses and contractual services for um for outsourced nurses um who provide coverage for our nurses when they're out
037and it also Al includes cost for physician related Services health services that we pay for other districts if their students are enrolled in private schools um that that are in scasd we expect next year for uh to have a decrease in our contracted nurses um we're seeing that already this year and so we're anticipating that Trend to continue the next two codes psychological and social work Services Psychological Services we see an 87,000 or 3.4% increase and that reflects some staffing shift including the planned uh consolidation of the cpsc chair position into an existing administrative position the social worker code shows an increase of approximately 2 29,000 or 68% and that's due to the current allocation that's in there for two additional social worker positions um to better meet the needs of our students um at
038the elementary level and this follows an additional 05 increase that we had in the current year and the district also has an additional three FTE social workers that are charged to our grant this is the co-curricular code and that contains all expenses for the district's clubs stiens for advisors travel um competitions entry fees all of those expenses and that increase of 322 or 18% 18.8% reflects contractual salary adjustments for Club advisors and uh chaperon pay and then we have our competition clubs uh science olympiads Deca robotics forensic and then the newer ones um that we had here tonight the Virtual Enterprise and they're very successful and they're making it on to Regional and maybe National um events and there's cost that uh travel costs that uh that come with that and that's what um those
039numbers reflect similar our um inter our Athletics all of the athletic program costs are here coaches chaperon uh entry fees referee fees supplies reconditioning of equipment are all captured in this code and the increase of approximately 325 or 11 12% reflects um contractual salary adjustments for coaches as well as supervision pay as well as cost for extended Seasons again as our teams are successful um and that is a good thing um equipment replacement we have an allocation in there uh for replacement of soccer lacrosse goals and that also contributes to the increase we have the allocation for flag football in 23 which is uh being partially offset with a grant in the current year Transportation Transportation contains two um function codes one for the in-house support of transportation and the other is for contracted Transportation
040clearly the more significant increase is in the bottom which is contracted Transportation so our transportation Contra all uh District Contra um sorry state New York State we use the um State contracted uh rate which is a we go out to bid and then when we extend we are subject to the state contract rule of May CPI and so may CPI was 6.3% so we experienced a 6.3% increase and we anticipate we have another 6.3 I'm not sure what may we took the most recent I think it was January CPI which was also 6.3 so the increase reflects both inflationary increases as well as additional routes that we have um had to create in this year for um for regular routes and special ed routes we've also assigned additional um monitors to our bus to help
041deal with some um behavior issues um supervision issues and so those factors have have led to the increase there you'll also see that gasoline we have an increase that really reflects where I think we're going to wind up this year in terms of being more at the 400,000 level rather than the 250 which we had in this budget that's another area um in gasoline and utilities that we're um we're uh struggling with this year so that's uh essentially the program section um when I do present the um I just want to point out when I do present the benefits again they will be broken up among the three categories because that's how the state requires us to present um the budget in three components but I'd like to present them all together just so you
042can get a feel for the trends that are happening so at the April meeting um we will um provide an update uh to the budget line items that we've been talking about over the last two meetings and we'll do a a final a revenue and Reserve uh review and then a budget adoption thank you Dr rufo I love your command of the detail of the budget and I want to thank you and your team um for taking all the time to put it together um I've I've always admired you over the years on on how well you present the budget um and putting together a budget is not easy we do it a year ago and you put it together with the best information as possible and I know you always take a very conservative
043balanced approach so I want to thank you um with that does anybody on the board have any questions for Dr rufo Brian I Echo everything that Mr Rolo just said but I have a couple of questions you mentioned in 2250 the $250,000 contingency and I I thought you referred to that as being something you decided based on or we decided based on what potential placements in referrals yes um the special the PPS Department is is seeing a um an uptick in in initial referrals so I am trying to preserve some spot in the budget should those referrals as they work their way through through the process result in placements um out of District placements I have a couple of others I think if I just do them all as a list it'll be even more
044confusing so you mentioned when talking about bosei Services um that there was what an 830,000 increase in the computer assisted instruction that's 2630 um you had mentioned that some of that was offset by what we learned last time in 1680 and then some of it was e works I'm just trying to understand how that works because obviously the 860 is not fully offset it's just a portion of it yes partially offset that's correct so you so so in 1680 um we had the decline and I look at these these codes um because often they will contain sometimes uh projects are split between the two sometimes they're more infrastructure so they go into 1680 so I I look at them collectively um so we had the rolloff of a project I think it was a wiring
045project in 1680 so that there was a decline there and then we had the opportunity to do an e- rate project this year I want to say I think it's 280 300,000 let's just say three just to use even numbers so it's it's a $500,000 offset of the 800 or or so um we also added this year or that's included in that 830 is the year one of a Chromebook um project as well so that that bumped it up a bit I just want to make a quick comment um thank you Dr ruer for presenting the budget and I've been sitting in this budg budget presentation for years and it's always very detailed and always reflects what we need in the district and it's very just very grateful to see that um with current situation
046you know with the inflations and everything else we are still able to um add to social workers because when we talk about social emotional learning is so important to our kids and then despite everything that's happening and with this tight budget we are able to put in two full-time social workers so I just want to thank you for for building that to see the needs of our students in the district thank you and I'll Echo everything Miss Chang said as well um one one other thing that that jumped out at me um and and this is as much a comment and a question for all of us is the transportation the numbers in the $13 million range and looking back 1920 I think it was 8 million um there's nothing you can do about it
047right now and I understand that I just want to make sure everyone up here hears that and the other item the summer school uh I know last year we switched over to summer school 2.0 um and the $500,000 number looks incredible to me considering my kids have have been there before and I think it's a wonderful program are we looking and Dr Rogers this may be for you are we looking is this summer school 3.0 or are we going to continue with uh the great program from last year uh no our goal is to continue with the great program from last year uh we uh challenged the staff to come up with um a refresh of some of the offerings at summer school particularly in the enrichment category uh they blew us away with the
048creativity of the ideas that they came up with uh obviously it was very attractive to families as well and we saw that uh enrollment increase in the summer program so uh we're hoping to keep that richness and uh what we're doing is uh looking at uh how we staff the program and um it'll be back in the high school so there's some efficiencies that we'll gain from that so um the the goal is to continue the great summer school program that we have go ahead it's not really a question is uh uh it's April 18th correct not April 11th sorry about that we'll make that change before we post it thank you for bringing that to our attention anybody else have questions okay all right thank you Dr ruo thank you okay may I have
049a motion please to approve the minutes from the February 6 2023 meeting um Lynn uh shaie any questions all in favor opposed any extensions I'll give Dr Ru for a minute to get back to her chair when you're ready Dr rufo can you do the treasurer's report and the appropriation adjustments please thank you okay thank you as indicated in the treasures report the cash on hand for month end January 2023 was 102 m911 16979 shows that bank balances for all cash accounts were reconciled to the book balances and were collateralized in accordance with the district's banking agreements and investment policy thank you I can I have a motion please to accept Dr rufo's Treasures report um Susan seconded by um Lisa does anybody have any questions all in favor opposed any extensions next we will
050move to Dr Roger superintendent report thank you so um I just want to spend a couple of seconds talking about the budget as well and uh I want to share what the board already knows but the communications conundrum that I face which is I want to um try to communicate clearly to the community that things are a little different uh because uh we are experiencing a lot of inflation I think we had some pretty robust shock absorbers in the budget but uh some of those shock absorbers weren't big enough to absorb the shock of uh as Dr rufo pointed out 4.7% inflation last year 8 8% inflation this year uh in the metrics that the comp troller uses to look at for setting the School District budget caps so we I think of uh and
051Dr rufo and her team have admirably uh absorbed a lot of that and we've been able to maintain all of our programs and we're going to continue to maintain all of our programs so I'm very confident that we're going to be able to do uh this year everything that we have done uh but sometimes those things may occur in different ways than they have before and uh we are to Mr Greco's Point looking at Transportation closely and there are places where we have tried to economize by moving from a coach bus say to a yellow bus because it's about a third of the price so that doesn't always work and uh when those opportunities were explored but we were unsuccessful then the coach bus still happened and uh the needs that the students have will
052still happen uh one thing that we did was we uh gave the staff a twoe window and said if there's any other supplies that you need to order before the end of the year you have more weeks to do that but some things didn't sneak in under the deadline doesn't mean that they didn't get ordered it just means that the order that they were on is stopped but um they just have a negotiation a conversation rather with the business office and then the business office releases those parts of the order that need to go through in order to make sure that we have what we need for the end of the year for the coming year uh we'll be dealing with another year of inflation and uh we're trying to build in again bigger shock
053absorbers because uh it's known we're uh now four months before the beginning of the school year and we won't really know until we get halfway through that school year what uh inflation is going to do but we want to be in a position where we have the room to be able to continue the programs and services that we have for kids undiminished and um we're not done with that process of building the budget yet we're about five weeks ahead of where we normally are in building a budget so uh that's obvious obviously intentional because we want to be able to share with you while there's still time uh to make decisions if there are uh any decisions that would change the work that we're doing uh but those preliminary uh where we are right now
054I'm encouraged so uh you know we will continue to work hard we'll continue to report to you and uh as I said the communication challenge I have is to signal that um inflation's real and this year is a little different uh than other years and so the way we're operating is also a little different than other years my worry was if I didn't talk about it at all the fact that we did things slightly differently might Panic people uh but the fact that I'm talking at all uh may have made some people nervous as well so uh I think what will happen is when we get to the end of this budget process it'll become clear uh that the wonderful services that we uh all love and appreciate and saset will remain in place some
055things might operate a little bit differently uh but the opportunities for kids will still there their success and their ability to go on uh as our ve kids are doing to National competitions will be there as well so um I would just ask uh patience as we try to communicate honestly uh and don't read into the fact that we're communicating at all as a need to be uh unnecessarily nervous I I that's not the point the point is actually to try and communicate clearly so I will also just uh add a little bit more texture to what Dr rufo was sharing uh the line for substitutes uh was uh higher than we had anticipated it would be uh we had hoped that we would see covid receding more this year than it had and uh
056as the board knows uh this has been one of the worst flu Seasons the fall uh on record in fact in the first three months of the school year we had more flu cases just in those three months than we had in the two flu Seasons before it so it was just an extraordinary year we had lot of absences to deal with and the one challenge with Co is uh folks are required U by regulation to stay out for 5 days so uh unlike when someone gets a cold and might be back in a day or two uh with covid we're seeing that the absences are much longer and so the need to cover with substitutes was also greater um I'm asked from time to time uh why things might be different in another school
057district elsewhere in the county and uh the answer is because all school districts are different and experience ing different things Nassau County as a whole has been going through a period of steady enrollment decline uh but that's not been the case in saset so over the course of since 2015 uh my arrival was in 2014 the district has experienced about a 133% increase in enrollment over the same time period the county has gone down by 3% so um you know that's uh a difference in the circumstances we're facing uh the state has had a very generous Aid year this this year and uh that's certainly come as a a welcome thing for all superintendant uh but the uh challenge is there some of the school districts were getting increases in state aid in fact that
058the top 10 increases on Long Island were all over not just 11% of state aid but 11% of the entire budget meaning they could have grown their whole budget by 11% just on the money that the state gave them uh that's not the case for us the case for us was it was about 3 and a half% and um that's against backdrop of uh as Dr ruo showed an 8% increase in inflation so we've uh We've welcomed that state aid uh we're going to have to marry it to um the local property tax that we raise in order to deal with some of these inflationary costs and uh just lastly I would sorry so many notes um I would just say that the challenges in transportation are um the we are on uh the cusp
059of what may be a major change in uh how transportation services not saset but generally the state has required that schools no longer can purchase uh fossil fuel powered buses after 2027 and by the year 2035 must convert completely uh to electric buses so I think this is going to affect a lot of the companies that provide transportation certainly it's a a challenge for uh school districts that have their own Fleet infrastructures so there's going to be a point of retiring a lot of buses and hire uh buying new buses and transitioning fleets and trying to set up charging stations and all of that and I I do in anticipate that that's going to be a very challenging thing to get through uh but it wouldn't surprise me if the companies that are going to
060be responsible for doing this are already anticipating some of those costs so I just put that out there as something that we're going to continue to keep our eyes on um and uh if we find ways that we can do this more economically obviously we'll bring that to the board for its consideration so this has been a challenging year but it's not a discouraging year and uh we have a little bit more work to do but I'm looking forward to our next report to the board on uh other subjects that just to talk about uh in my report uh we have been having public meetings around the transitional bilingual education program that I shared with you uh the response has been extremely modest so uh we've tried multiple means of communicating with families and we
061understand the very purpose of this program is to communicate with families whose first language is not English so uh we are going to make some uh extra efforts to try and communicate with th those families but if the interest uh does not increase in the program we're going to uh come back to you with some recommendations and decisions uh just a reminder to the public we put out uh the follow-up to the conversation that we've been having that started before the pandemic about uh trying to increase the amount of sleep at all lesson get uh again this is a transportation question ultimately uh but we do want public feedback on the work that we've done with school start times it's not possible to change one uh start time at one level meaning by level I
062mean elementary middle second uh High School uh without it impacting the other levels so uh this is something that affects all families uh even if you don't have a student at the high school yet um your opinion on the subject is important to us and we look forward to Bringing uh the results of that survey to the board it was in my last Friday update it'll be again in a separate update so that it doesn't get buried in a lengthy Friday update and uh we'll try and draw as much attention to it as well thank you M changen for um spending a moment to uh appreciate the fact that we were able to uh provide some additional Mental Health Services for students with our social workers uh we all know coming out of the pandemic
063this is the biggest need that our students have and um it was important to us uh as we work through this budget to make sure that we continue to add capacity to meet the needs of our students so uh with all of that I will turn it back over to you Mr Rolo thank you Dr Rogers and I know as you've always done in the past you've done a great job of managing all our programs and keeping us under the tax cap but I guess now we also have a third um leg of the stool which is now manage inflation so um does anybody have any questions for Dr Rogers um Jack please sure uh sure you referenced the uh starttime uh survey could you how long is the survey going to be open and
064do we have a sense of how many folks have responded when I clicked through the survey it was only about I want to say 450 comments um in the first few days uh we're going to monitor the traffic what I've seen with this tool thought exchange is uh it there tends to be a flurry of activity after the link goes live and then um the email falls down in somebody's inbox and activity falls off uh at some point no new reminders generate much more activity so we'll be watching that and seeing it drop off I haven't dipped in looked at um I was much more focused on the budget presentation tonight than I was on that but we'll probably send out two or three more reminders before we end up closing the survey and then
065uh my goal is to bring to you at the next month's meeting the results of that survey so that's what I'm looking that's what we're targeting as a closure yeah I mean I just wanted to follow up and say I there this topic has been in circulation for a number of years and I commend you and the board for wanting to do the survey work to get to the uh most feedback from the most people we can to get the information to make our best decisions I really encourage every family to read comments to comment themselves to comment on other folks the thought exchange works best the more activity there is so anyone who hasn't already done it please it's completely worth doing that feedback is critical for making a good decision for all of
066us up here for me for me for all of us for Dr Rogers so that feedback is very important and then I'm hoping that when we get to the end of the feedback cycle we will make a decision on where we're going to be and then we will U move on from discussing this once we've made that decision um thanks Jack for um reminding the families and it's just not just the family members the students and staff too everyone's welcome to participate especially not just for high school but elementary middle school because they eventually move on to high school so this is very critical for you know uh kids uh families with younger kids as well just to add to Carol it's not only that it's it's not only that when they get to high
067school that it will affect them but it will affect them immediately because I think there were some of the options had changes to Elementary and Middle School uh timing including and 10 times and different things so everybody in any school should take part in it because it affects the entire Community as a whole and I I'm sorry I would just add if I may um I put this in my Friday update I'll try to hit it gently um this is very open-ended and it's possible for people to uh write open-ended comments that others can see and so I always the last time we did this there were some what I would call Salty comments and I would just ask that you be reminded that our students are invited to participate in this survey as full
068participants in the community and so um to the extent that we can reduce their sodium intake that would be great one other thing which is during the summary of the um budget information you referenced our increase in enrollment over the last I think you said eight years can you just give me a strategic level point about how that's washing through the budget both now and potentially in future and and so was an interesting comment I just want to sort of get some higher level commentary about why you called it out the reason I drew some attention to it was because um it it would be natural to uh ask comparison questions how are we relative to others and so I thought it was important to point out that you know we're um we're unique in
069a lot of ways we're unique in this way that we've been growing when others have been uh getting a little bit smaller how is it going to play out um two meetings ago we I think it was two meetings ago maybe three uh we did the presentation of the enrollment study that we had commissioned and uh we saw that we had two summers ago a very large uh cohort of students join the district and that cohort of students is going to move through uh right now it looks as though hbt's uh enrollment has peaked and uh will probably stay in the same range that it's at now the enrollment in Southwoods as this group ages will likely move into Southwoods as a middle school ultimately though this group will go through the high school so
070um what we have not seen uh last summer or during the course of this year is a a wave of new enrollments in the way that we saw that summer of 21 so um you'll recall from my conversations with the board uh in the fall of 21 my question was whether this was a one-time thing or if this was going to be a new trend that we had to deal with fortunately it appears to have been a one-time thing so uh if we don't see an additional search like that and we're just managing the enrollment that we have I think that we'll um I'm going to add another like to to Mr R's metaphorical stool um you know we're manage that managing that enrollment growth but with enrollment growth um if there's already room in
071a classroom uh then it doesn't necessarily require another teacher if there are you know 21 kids in the class and two more show up it's a 23 student class it's the same class same room same teacher same bus same insurance cost so it's really when we see these um sudden jumps in students like that summer of 21 where there's additional cost associated with it but we're certainly watching that closely and some of it literally depends on um what grade level they're in so uh when we graduate a large class and then enroll a smaller class in a school like say the high school they have a large senior class and a smaller incoming Freshman Class the overall enrollment will go down um and that kind of washes through the building usually it always evens out
072but uh every year we do Staffing like clean sheet Staffing I'm sure it was on things that we've seen before but is have we ever had this many students enrolled in the district or is this higher than it's ever been before the enrollments drop started in uh 2005 and the district went down for 10 years until 2015 2015 is when we hit bottom and we've been going up ever since we're off the top of my head I don't recall the 2005 enrollment um I was still in high school uh no um but I we're close to that if not a little bit over so um you know we're we're near our Peak if not over our Peak I was going to say I saw some old data from State Ed which depending on dates whatever
073I think we're about 5% over where we were but in 2005 from the but again that it's we have official data that's going to be different based on when that was collected and things like that's order of magnitude and 2005 was and 2005 was the highest that we that was the highest peak to date before this peak I yeah yeah I don't I don't think I went back Beyond 2000 and in some ways that you know the question is how many kids do we have and then the other question is how relevant is that for planning purposes the reason why I say that is the program now looks so different from the program in 2005 like in terms of how much space do you need for the program there's a lot more support services there's
074a lot more special education services social workers something the district really didn't have when I arrived so the the program looks very different so even if we were to say oh we had this many students then and the physical plant was adequate it was adequate for a program that was delivered in a different way fewer music and art opportunities for kids as well so um just it it's so dissimilar now that there's not much to be gained from looking back at a data that old thank you Dr Rogers ma presentation next so uh I'll ask Dr John janova who is our K12 coordinator of mathematics uh to do a presentation on uh John is responsible for the math and business departments uh so congratulations goova on the success of uh the ve students going on
075to Nationals all three teams U progressing that's the first time we've had that so that's a wonderful Accolade for your department and uh want to talk with the board a little bit about uh some developments in math and some work that we're doing to stay a breast of those developments good evening and thank you for the opportunity to talk about some of the fine work taking place in math and business K12 so about 10 years ago saset made the shift to Common Core and along with the rest of the nation we endured our share of growing pains we needed to progress our students from a plug-and-chug procedural style of math to balancing process with the why ideas work and interconnect go maath came on the scene at scasd and at first student workbooks were the
076consistent feature of our math lessons the contrast to current day is that visits to element El math classrooms now show our teachers and students working with math as a literacy both in and out of the workbook and it's not happening in isolation anymore because we know that math literacy permeates everything the eight math practices illustrate the habits of mind that students are expected to perfect during the course of their learning of math while math content shifts and grows in complexity with our students yearly the practices are a set of behaviors that we consistently emphasize when I think about the evolution of scas at math what's most striking is how we've moved from problem solving that's procedural to students developing their own insights insights come from conceptual math there can be no insights at all from
077procedural plug-and-chug math constructing an argument that's viable and being able to interact with a partner's reasoning requires the highest level of understanding that there can be starting with our youngest learners I'd like to zoom in on what these shifts mean and how they appear in our classrooms so with the go maath transition far in the rearview mirror now about six years ago we began working together to differentiate our approach to mathematics we wanted students to extend and apply their mathematics more outside of the workbook knowing that true learning would be evidenced by transfer our students learn to read and write in a workshop model where the lesson is just the right length to maximize the time and opportunities students have to apply Concepts the math practices that open the presentation for example are valuable thinking
078aims that we are leveraging in math and Beyond soset students use Math workbooks to practice and they're also learning with a variety of small group tasks on the left you see first graders in a many lesson using a multitude of strategies to subtract numbers students were using erasable whiteboards to apply any of the strategies they'd learned and in this classroom I was treated to hear students explain their thinking to one another you wouldn't believe how varied the respones be when we put kids in positions like this to construct arguments and react to one another learning math and learning period is Rich and fun on the right third graders are using models to create equivalent fractions the pairs of students are forming models to represent quantities and using reasoning to justify the equivalence to one another
079after starting with us the first major transition students make is to one of our middle schools and we've made some substantial shifts in how we support the arrival the growth and the eventual departure of the middle Learner in math and business a very fortunate problem that we uncovered years ago was the need to increase the rigor of our sixth grade math course in Middle School to put it simply our students and teachers had grown so much in the time we' implemented the core that we need to recalibrate our curriculum and update the resources we were using to push the goalpost further out and our students have responded in kind we also heard feedback that the ramp from middle to high school needed smoothing and as a team we refine and develop the new processes to
080engage students parents and teachers differently in the placement process and support them where needed our Algebra 1 program at the middle school has been one of the largest levers for innovation in our K12 math C Continuum teachers including Mr Falco on the left have integrated technology to both lift struggling Learners and differentiate for students who can grow faster than the norm in the center you see an image from one of our business classrooms where students were using sand to collaboratively model how different Market changes would affect their credit scores on the right you can see an incredible team of youngsters who for the first time went to Saratoga to compete in the math counts competition after having won first place in a Long Island chapter competition lifting students at all levels in the classro by
081challenging them to exercise their conceptual understanding with one another produces all kinds of growth I'm excited to share with you how math and business thinking is showing itself these days in our high schoolers too at the high school students have a broad array of change choices to make in their course schedules and we want to support students making the best choices in math and business as quickly as possible changing schedules can create unintended consequences and be disruptive so we knew we needed to take steps to minimize friction in the nth grade and as a theme of our K12 math and business program we want to continue to make Concepts work over time you'll see some evidence of what our students can do when learning this way there was a time when students in Geometry honors
082left the course midyear after attempting it at incredibly High rates and we're proud that many of the steps we've taken to improve our advisement our communication and our support have this rate of drop at the lowest it's ever been we've been sensitive to the perception that geometry honors is a gatekeeper course and they' made shifts to incrementally improve our retention through the pandemic one way to improve G retention in Geometry honors would been to greatly reduce access to the course however I'd be remiss if I did not point out that the last couple of years we've had enrollment numbers about equal to our largest in recent history there's an upward W wave of momentum that's worth appreciating here uh our K12 approach of developing thinking in the elementary schools the middle and the examples you
083heard of innovation in the middle level um is paying huge dividends when our Learners reach high school we're seeing High access High support and high retention all occurring simultaneously and I'm very proud of what this will mean for our kids in the years to come to share with you some awesome current examples of constructing viable arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others has no better example than this debate held in our math Theory course students worked in teams to research and argue which was the more influential transcendental number e or Pi on this Slide the team was presenting a math and business application of how e is used to calculate compound interests our students also very recently represented scasa in record numbers at the DECA state competition in Rochester this tremendously successful trip saasa crowned
084Molly Falco of a state Deca president pictured on the left with our campaign adviser Natalie obedian and adviser M Garrison 100 yeah we could applaud that 124 of the 165 attending students won medals and 68 qualified to advance to the international competition in Orlando this April there's probably no finer example of the heights our students can reach in combining Concepts constructing arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others than in research you're about to hear a synopsis of how 10th grader anaka sha has emerged math business and computer science in a unique way hi my name is an I am sophomore and I'm in math research program so my project is about fting the most accurate method pression options and I use the black CH model approximation of the black CH partial differential equation and a
085method using 7 pols and I came up this project when I needed to find a topic and I saw a paper that used orthal pols to price options and Serv of pols already type of orthal polinomial and this excited me as a potential research topic because it Incorporated both math and finance both are topics that I love so I decided to go through with it in order to complete my project I have to find Project calculus Finance as well as computer science here is the black Souls U model this is the approximation of the black Souls partial differential equation and this is sh method that I used this is a calculator that I used to uh find the projected option prices using a black Souls model and this is a code that I use to
086find the projected option prices for the black Souls part differential equation approximation and this is done in python as you can see on the right uh this is the data that I some of the data that I collected it is the predicted option prices for the black Souls approximation of black Souls model as well as the shev method and I found that the black Souls model was the most accurate and the Chevy method was least accurate however to further confirm this conclusion I would like to test out uh more commodity options and I would like to test uh currency options in addition to commodity options thank you so much for listening so I want to thank anuka for sharing her work and I want to remind you that that was a 10th grader that we
087just heard from and it's just incredible to think think of of where she might go in another two years of working with us I could get you in touch with her hi my name is so we know that we haven't come this far only to get this far um on the elementary level we're realizing that we've taken go maath about as far as it can take us and we've begun to think about what's going to help us Advance students Beyond in Middle School we're looking ahead to year one of a Next Generation learning standards aligned regions exams something we've been preparing for for the past few years and that the high school will provide AP pre-calculus next year in its first year of offering and we know that just like when we opted to take
088the transition to Common Core early While most While most waited um that we will rise to the occasion and our student students will benefit so I want to thank uh Dr Rogers and the members of the board of education for this opportunity uh for your support and uh appreciate your time tonight thank you thank you Mr janova excellent presentation does the board have any questions Mr janova hi Carol yes okay thank you Dr Jova for the uh presentation and it's definitely gone a long way since we implemented uh go maath years ago and I remember that um lowering the uh geometry drop rate has been the go uh boe's bo uh goal since 20178 and it's definitely great to see the uh the drop rate uh to this level and then seeing that the uh
089the retention rate is also very high in the performance too um just out of curiosity have we tracked the algebra 2 performance as a result of that just to see that the level of support we we provided to the students and then and then um and then the uh the the success uh in a geometry honors and then does that mean you know these students are still performing well in Algebra 2 or maybe the algebra 2 dway is slightly different from before um how does that compare to that we do we do track enrollment on a yearly basis and geometry has been an interesting uh geometry certainly had the most marked retention issue of all of the math courses um we we never noticed a similar issue in Algebra 2 because what we tend to
090see is strong performance in Algebra 1 is is usually recalled when students place an Algebra 2 honors so we have a you know one of the fortunate things we have in scasa is we have a lot of competence and we have a lot of eagerness and students generally uh even even if geometry was a difficult year they'll return and say well I was a strong algebra student and they'll return and study Algebra 2 at the honors level so we've we've seen a lot more steadiness in algebra too in terms of number of students and enrollment and sections that we'd run there and um just just one more question um you mentioned about the math counts that the students went to uh do the competition in Saratoga is that for what great is that for is
091it just for middle school or for high school as yes that was a middle school competition that team that you saw was a blend of sixth and seventh graders and I think there may have been one eighth grader in there too and do we provide that in high school too or um we do not have a high school team we have the high school the high school competitions um the mathletes competitions tend to dominate that the high school scene more got it thank you welcome thank you for the presentation it was amazing um so all this advancement and changing in the te um way of teaching has going away from just plugging in the numbers and memorization has allowed children students to sell even more opening new doors new areas of math that they didn't
092experience before so the amazing children are getting even more amazing greater expect things they're achieving things that we I mean the presentation by the 10th grader I don't understand anything that she's just said and I pride myself in doing well in math how about children who are not so since we are going away from memorization and plug in the numbers and going towards a conceptual knowledge teaching conceptual knowledge those children are doing well because they have I guess on their own doing the repetition of memorizing multiplication tables and uh doing problems again and again so they have that foundation and you are adding the conceptual knowledge on top of that how about children who are not so basically the the part that we are not doing anymore if children some of the children are not
093doing it as much as they did before how about the children who are not in that ex you know amazing level are they doing as well um so the top is going further than we have ever seen how about the children who are not at the top well I think the the spirit of of this work I think is is to have math be something that's low floor and high ceiling so this in other words tasks that are accessible to all kids um that can just get get every kid thinking about mathematics in whatever way that they're ready to um and I think an example of that you that you saw was the eighth grade work the algebra 1 work um that curriculum project has embodied a lot of differentiation and a lot of different
094um teacher strategies um that that try to lift all Learners that are having a cascading effect up and are allowing students um to reach the that you see um because we're getting more full participation from math classrooms we're seeing all kids um participate in math thinking at high levels so I I would say yes to answer your question and I would just um add a little more texture to Dr janov's response I had an Insight probably six years ago in a fifth grade classroom where the teacher had done something I thought was smart I don't remember what the uh the math task they were working on was but she had organized the room into five stations and each of those stations was a different way of solving the same problem but it a different sort
095of conceptual approach and the students rotated through all five stations in the room and so they got to learn and practice five different ways of solving the same problem and the insight for me came when at the end of the lesson she asked the kids to vote for which method of solving the problem they like the best and I thought they were all going to vote for my favorite the one that was most familiar to me but they actually they voted they were scattered uh different kids liked different methods and the Insight that I had was um they'll all there will all they will all find a conceptual approach that resonates for them they just may not all have the same conceptual approach so the more we give them multiple different conceptual opportunities the more
096likely we are to find the one that works for the way they have the insight into the problem in their own minds feel like I have to say this because I feel like Mr Rolo and Dr Park were being a little modest about black schols but I I have to say that as a fiveyear full-time options Trader that is one of the most difficult things to understand and not just the math literally what goes into understanding how to price options is incredible and the fact that you said that was a 10th grader that's unbelievable yes um uh Dr Jova I what would you say was the key element of getting the geometry honors drop rate down was it a change in teaching method was it incorporation of additional supports was it how would you sort
097of put together the most important elements in terms of what changed I I think it was comprehensiveness I think we had to look at um both the course itself and what was happening and also uh take steps uh at the elementary level at the middle level the course directly preceding it um and really address all of those things uh I think it was it was hard to limit all of those but we it's it's taken time um and and I think you can see you know I'm proud of the results now that that we can point to and say that you know o over time we were able to really affect affect a positive change for kids and the only last question I had is I know that the math 3.0 standards are coming uh
098this is probably not the right form to do that but I've seen you do record presentations for PTSA on things like that right that kind of thing might be helpful I love watching a present sorry I'm a total Math ner and by the way I happen to love the black schs model so um the uh the uh if you recorded a a sort of presentation about sort of the the incremental changes for math 3.0 I'd be interested in seeing that I I assume these guys would too thank you thank you my pleasure okay Michelle yen is our spokesman for citizens advisory committee for our finance and she's going to give us a report on our last meeting good evening our last meeting was February 7th and we talked about the amation of the short-term financing
099cost the administration is going to look into the possibility of issuing uh Rands related to the federal reimbursement for State education programs and Dr rufo talked today about uh splitting the tank the tan which is a tax anticipation note into two separate issues and uh that might possibly reduce some of our cost there we have a 4% cap Allowed by um the law that is set for our unreserved fund balance and the district stays within that cap as permitted the district has a Five-Year Plan identifying the use and replenishment of our reserves over the time and uh interest is earned on those um reserves is being allocated to them and we discussed various reserves that are being used by the district and what is allowed by state law we discussed uh the various collateralization options
100that we have and we were looking into pulled investment funds there were two uh different options that uh were available that we had received presentations prior and our next meeting is going to be March 14th tomorrow uh right here at the Southwoods thank you Michelle at 6:30 right yep okay thank you okay um next we're going to move on to the board update um uh shy and Brian do you want to give um the Bose's budget and tour update and thank you by the way for going to all the meetings to get up to speed so I along with shaan and Jack represented us on the NASA Bose's budget Review Committee um there were two meetings they were both in January I think it was the 12th and the 31st uh and they were both
101in person so we got to meet a lot of the uh the Bose admin and board a lot of uh Dr rogers's former colleagues and uh the purpose of these meetings were really for them to present the budgets to us so we could bring them back to you um a little background nashille bosis has something like 27 budgets as I looked at Dr Rogers to see if I'm right and each one is separate but for our purposes and for our vote there's only one budget it's the administrative op option operations budget that we will be voting on so we'll conduct that vote at our April 18th meeting uh so this discussion is basically going to be me telling you about that budget and some other things that I found interesting so we're uh prepared to
102vote on it next month um I'll start with what I said last year these budgets and these committee meetings are incredibly informative and detailed and because of the number of them they can be very confusing at times um the Bose's Administration does a great job of explaining them and they they really elaborate where there's significant changes over time and answer all of our questions um no different than Dr rufo does for us they allow committee members to ask those questions um and you know I asked a lot of them so Dr ruer You're Not Alone um but if you if you look at their budgets and you look at just this one administrative budget half of it it's about a $25 billion budget half of it is it was 6% which is driven primarily by
103those retiree benefits but also employee fringe benefits so when they they present these budgets to us they show half of the budget is retire benefits and that's about 81% of the increase to the entire budget so a better way to think about it is they have a 3.3% increase in the operations portion of the budget I got check my notes and a 5.7 increase in the employee fringe benefits but a 9% increase in the retire Health portion so that 6% increase is somewhat misleading since almost N I think it was 88.9% is the to it a little deeper and and we talked about I mean they have a something like a $300,000 annual legal fee so of course I ask questions about that and and get the same answer I always get is large organizations
104need a lot of lawyers and I should ask for a race but so on the revenue side there don't so the the the revenue at Bose's really comes from the districts so there's not a lot of detail going into that budg or income Revenue coming into that budget from anything other than the component districts but they have a large interest uh Revenue line this year and then they have some miscellaneous Revenue um which I won't go into detail so I mean all in all they've done what I consider a tremendous job of uh being you know conscious of you know costs and we spent 20% of the meeting talking about inflation 20% of the meeting talking about probably this country you're dealing with um you know and at one point in the meeting uh it's
105actually funny because you asked me to talk about the tour uh I wrote a little note when they were talking about the Long Island uh School for the Arts which is here in SAS and I think I wrote a note to shaie being like we should ask for a tour literally right after the meeting we were chatting with them mentioned he it would be nice to see the place the next morning they set the tour up for us uh and it was great five of us were able to uh tour the long School for the Arts which has been in our town all these years um the only other thing I'll mention is in one of the budgets they have and this was June 12 uh January 12th right after Demar Hamlin got injured they
106have in their inter Scholastic budget training for referees and coaches in I wrote it down somewhere in service training in first aid in cardiopulmonary itation for all coaching and support Personnel I thought that was fantastic so shie I think you wanted to talk about more of the Glamorous parts and not just the numbers so uh it was really informative I was able to learn about what boses did and uh if anybody's interested I have summarized clips of the services that they provide and summary of what they do so if you want I can make copy and give it to you um just to have big picture of what bosses was uh 37 bosses throughout New York State and the their statement is they educate students of all ages and abilities uh in naso County there
107are 566 school districts that naso bosis serve and siasa utilizes 26 of the 37 services that they provide and thankfully Dr Rogers knows everything about it because he was the superintendent of theosis before he came here um think some of the services that intrigued me and got my attention uh NASA boses provide direct service direct student services such as special ad programs with six six different levels um of special ed programs depending on the children's need and there CTE that we love bar Tech and in Westberry and C GC Tech in ltown and Long Island high school for Arts in saset like um Brian talked about before and they also provide alternative schools like Twilight schools things like that uh both is provide other educational programs like arts and ad uh our PTA loves outdoor
108education distant learn distance learning summer school language programs and other Assessment Services and boses also provide support for administrations as well and one of the programs is the curriculum and instruction program which uh through which the um equity inclusivity and belonging Serv support service and they will provide diversity equity and inclusion Dei and culturally responsive sustaining education resources to part participating districts they also have Community School resources which provides districts with array of mental health uh support services and they also have um the technology service professional development and model school health and safety and Inter inter Scholastic Athletics and I wrote that too that they provide inservice training for first aid and CPR for all the coaching and support Personnel in participating participating schools so that was pretty impressive so we were very very impressed
109by the services they provide and I was very happy to have description of the services they provide so I think that was very uh good to know thank you does anybody have any questions thank you guys so much for going and Jack you have a question I was just to ask Dr Rogers you I mean you got a ton of familiarity but obviously the programs have changed are there any of the services the laundry list of really impressive sounding things that shaie and Brian were just talking about that we should potentially be looking at or that we haven't really taken advantage of or that you know maybe want to bring in front of us to to consider I wasn't going to ask the question but one of the things I noticed when going through the
110budgets was their it and their cyber security and a lot of those offerings so I don't know if this is going to answer Mr ost's question but that's where my head was when thinking about what we use them for we actually work very closely with bosis on their IT services I know that team well um from working at Bose's and now working with them uh afterwards and they are incredibly strong and um I think part of um the incredible resiliency of the network that we have now built in casset is due in large part to the consulting services that they've provided to us uh when I arrived in saset um we claimed to have Wi-Fi but we really didn't um there were transmitters but once there were more than one or two devices on the
111transmitter it would fail and there were lots of problems with it so obviously we've come an awfully long way since then um but uh their IT services the cyber security work that they do uh the uh penetration testing that we have done by an outside firm all of that goes through uh nasau bosis and um the Bose's also in the it area allows us to do these multi-year purchases through uh lease purchase agreements that allows us to keep uh costs from hitting any one single budget uh so that we can spread the costs out over the life of the do uh the device that's how we bought the first round of Chromebooks and uh because we were one of the first districts to have full onetoone Chromebook accessibility when the pandemic happened uh we were
112able to give every child a device literally within uh three or four days so uh that wouldn't have been possible if we had not had that had access to that uh prior so uh to Jack's question in terms of the services it a part part of our budget process um at this time of year is uh Dr rufo Dr Curry will go through um the bosis bill everything that's on there from the current year to see if there are Services we no longer need or that we feel we may have underutilized and we may uh remove that service for the coming year so that we don't uh pay for something that's not being fully utilized and then there's always the question of uh what can we do more efficiently through bosis so ultimately the the
113job of bosis is to find economies of scale that the school districts can take advantage of where 7,000 kids uh roughly they um aggregate you know roughly 200,000 kids worth of potential demand so uh sometimes we'll ask them to do um shared bids for things that we're interested in buying and if they can find three or four other school districts uh that will work with us so that they can aggregate demand uh they'll do that as well obviously they have some long-standing student programs they can serve um economically some very specialized student populations that it would just not be possible for a a a school district that's not 40 or 50,000 kids to be able to produce a program like that on their own so um uh we do go through uh that every year
114uh if there was something that I thought would make us more efficient or more economical we would certainly do it and uh with both these programs the state AIDS the cost that we give so the the reimbursement uh is some things can be reimbursed up to 50% so if you buy it through Bose's and then you get the reimbursement the next year it's really half the the sticker price as far as the school district is concerned um special education programs are not aided through b these Aid they're AED through special education Aid just as they would be if we were getting it at another provider so that in order to keep something of a Level Playing Field that the state keeps those two things separate but uh we work closely with with them because we
115want to take advantage of anything that they can do that makes us more efficient okay thank you again um next is um Susan and Lynn do you want to give an update on our Tower Foundation meeting so I'll start and then Susan will take over um Tower it was nice enough to come here and meet with us and talk about their alumni Foundation their purpose is to raise money to help enhance the educational experience for its School District um they have an executive board as well as a volunteer board um it varies in size but it's usually about 25 members they have donated over 2.4 million to the district since since its Inception um their projects are primarily Beyond State funding such as Tech and Engineering equipment for Innovation labs and purchase of musical instruments
116and sports and broadcasting systems um the process for the tower Foundation to fund these projects begins um with the school district um making a wish list and it's a collaboration of ideas between the teachers and the staff and then that wish list is then taken um to the board of Tower and then they decide what project they want to fund um sometimes they fund a portion of the wish list or sometimes they fund multiple items sometimes it's the whole thing just kind of depends funds are independently raised in the community throughout the year um they do that through different they do that through direct methods but they also have different kind of events they have shopping events in gas um their goal is to donate approximately $100,000 a year um and it's generally to tangible
117resources um they were super helpful so if anybody's interested in finding out more about the starting this kind of thing they're a great resource to reach out to I don't know if anybody has any else they want to add thank you Lynn and Susan um I thought that they had a a really good Professional Organization that they had built they had a lot of um community and alumni input um and um one of the things I found interesting was they actually were funding a broadcast journalism program because I guess they had a lot of interest at the school they also worked closely with the PTA um to raise funds for for again they would raise the funds and then the school would tell them this is what we'd like to do I asked them how
118they started it and they said that basically alumni of the school and the community got together and um started the foundation and it was completely separate from Manhasset the school and the board so um this might be something for the finance committee to to look at so you know um might be an opportunity there but it's definitely alumni and Community kind of driven so anyone else thank you very much okay next is um we don't have any legislative items and we have audience to the public thisa Board of Education any Administration welcome your attendance at the Board of Education meeting audience to the public AFF fors residents of the district the opportunity to address the Board of Education residents must enter their full name and address into the register located at the microphone before they
119speak each resident will have four minutes to address the Board of Education the Board of Education will not permit polling of board members by speakers after every resident wishing to speak has had the opportunity to do so the Board of Education Andor the administration will do their best to provide responses to the resident questions Andor comments after every resident has had a chance to speak the chair May recognize residents who wish to address the Board of Education a second time after their initial 4minute turn no speaker is permitted to address issues concerning any individual student staff member teacher all in the audience I'm sorry um all in attendance at the Board of Education public leading must conduct themselves elves in a respectful manner anybody like to come up hi good evening board um my name
120is Trish sergy of 20 Calvin Avenue uh also the co-president of North saset uh civic association and about a month and a half ago I sent a letter to the board uh uh talking about the um late start time my objections to that I didn't I don't know if you received it or not but I think it's probably better that I share it on the podium um looking at I have a problem with the thought exchange that went out it doesn't clearly Define the cost of what these three scenarios would uh impact the sosit citizens and that's a problem because that might um change the way people vote on that so I think that needs to be clearly delineated to the community that's number one number two because it impacts the high school students so
121much I think think it really needs to be clear to them that they should fill this out and how it impacts them in terms of sports if they're in multiports is there practice in the morning now does that mean that their day is just as long as it is now would they have to be there at the same time early and uh most importantly Barry Tech students I I shared that with you in the past how will Barry Tech kids get the impact of a 2-year program because it's only impactful for the two years for most of the CTE programs I know that you just visited you saw for yourself what a great program that is my own daughter benefited greatly from it um and I'm really worried that if we go to a 9:30
122start time that those kids will not receive the benefit of such a program not all of our kids are are college ready some of them do go into the skilled trades and I do think about them and that's it thank you thank you hi hey good evening uh my name is Jason gu I'm the 12year resident of s school district um uh I tonight I would like to Echo uh the topics that uh uh Dr Ro and also uh Jack and and Susan talk about the school enrollment uh one big factor is the recent um Dynamics regarding fraud fraudulent activities during the school registration process and uh uh I know the up and downs but one main factor affecting sayas School enrollment is because the uh the fraudulent activities and our neighboring dist District tighten
123up the inspection um so use a example um many kids that registered are not actually resident the it's simply by their parents to borrow their friends address and uh uh registered as say residents came to the school so this is a a fraud activity needs to be inspected uh of U carefully to prevent the further damage uh so the severity might have been much more than you would have imagined because you are um as the fact that they don't ask me how I know it because unfortunately it's embarrassing fact that I'm living in a circle that's closer to those fraudulent activities than most of you are um one reason that uh the school enrollment recent years going up and down especially going up in the most recent two years is because this activity in are
124being fully investigated and the loopholes are being uh closed in other school district namely in Jericho and green neck so this activity is not simply to alone to sayet it it is to all top Long Island top school district but why this two years Sal getting hammered so bad that's because in in Jericho district and in G neck District they tighten up the registration process they have a more diligent uh uh inspection verification process to close the loophole so because of that reason the Flow came to sayas because say is as good as those two top school district but loser much loser inspection process during the school registration process uh that is the major contributor to my opinion for the recent two years of say enrollment uh uh uh grow up um in terms of
125the um I know we have a dedicated employee staff in the school district that uh taking care of this school registration process and I myself offer myself and and a lot of other parents that familiar with the case are eagerly to volunteer and help I would be U um offer uh to to do anything such as uh spread a word around or reporting any suspicious suspicions uh without incur too much extra of investment from this from the school uh uh budget point of view thank you that's that's my uh that's my comment I'm willing to hear from the uh School especially those who in charge of the school registration thank you very much thank thank you it's welome good evening my name is Rachel Jacobson I live in Woodberry last December I came to the
126Board of Education meeting with my friends and neighbor Melissa foran and we came before the board requesting your plan of action for the district's now legally required obligation to retire our Antiquated and offensive team name and imagery we reiterated then as we reiterated then the State education department has stated in no uncertain terms that districts like ours must vote to retire the mascot by June and fully retire it in two years every meeting since has appeared to be nothing but an effort to loophole around this requirement the discussions have ranged from could we find a tribe to support our name is the term Braves really wrong despite the fact that our district has historic ly Associated it with Native American imagery as have unaffiliated Community clubs and associations throughout our neighborhoods and tonight this important
127issue is not even on your agenda letting another month go by without us addressing this issue when I came before the board in December I reiterated that this was an opportunity for us to lead all the other districts that need to make this change and instead nothing has been done We are continuing to move closer to this deadline and risk losing State funding which I think we can all agree is not anything this district is in a position to do at this point in addition we know the change is going to cost money and we're in the process of planning for budgeting and none of this is being addressed particularly given all the monetary issues we know that are happening and that you have all addressed tonight so I again appeal to you to get
128this on your agenda and vote and start to make a change it's far too long thank you thank you so much hi everyone I'm Melissa foran um I'm GNA reiterate that I am president at Walt women Elementary School I am speaking on my own behalf my views do not necessarily represent our membership I'm going to piggyback on what Rachel just so eloquently stated the directive clearly states that I quote those school districts that continue to utilize Native American team names logos and or imagery without current approval from a recognized tribe must immediately come into compliance any argument that our team name refers to the act of being brave is ignorant the term Braves when referencing Native Americans is a euroamerican stereotype for Native American warriors this assertion is supported by the old Native American logo
129that accompanied our Braves name the argument is to the contrary is both an embarrassment to our community and a disservice to our students the directive goes further to State I quote the dignity for all students act prohibits the creation of a hostile en environment that reasonably causes or would reasonably be expected to cause emotional harm to a student a condition that can be created through the use of Native American mascots this meeting focused on the proposed budget and this issue should play a large role any argument that this is a waste of tax dollars is at best ignorant and quite honestly shows an intolerance to diversity and change we have certainly spent more money for less less important issues a potential lack of State funding hardly supports the failure to act for F Financial considerations
130no one disputes that being a member of the board of education is a difficult and often thankless job as PTA president I can totally relate but as our elected as our elected officials it is time to take action to make difficult choices and bring our district into the 21st century by recognizing our past mistakes and choosing to move forward to both set an example for our children as well as ensure our community is a welcoming tolerant and open one saset school district has always set itself apart for academic Excellence it is time to acknowledge our failures as well and work together to make positive change and now I'm going to turn over to my amazing daughter hi my name is Hazel Forman I'm in seventh grade and I go to hbt and I've learned a
131lot about this issue and I think that it's time that it's like um what's um I think that's time that's retired thank you Hazel anyone else I'm Brian Foreman I'm also in Woodbury uh size school district and I'm here supporting my two roommates over there that just spoke um I listened to the meeting in December listened to everybody speak very eloquently tonight I'm also having a bit of trouble understanding why it's taking so long although I heard a lot of other people come up and speak in favor of keeping the the name and a lot of resistance to the change um personally about 10 maybe a little little bit longer years ago I had an argument with a friend of mine at a bar watching watching a game during which I actually took the position
132that the name Redskins was not offensive and had trouble understanding why everybody was so bent out of shape over this and after we went back and forth a few times about it my friend said to me you know what I'm done talking to you about this why don't you go do your own research see how you feel about it after you read about it so I did and I learned a lot I learned a lot of about scientific data driven studies that have been done that actually demonstrate how and why the name is offensive to people I did a lot of reading from different Native American websites officials from different tribes that are offended by the name and obviously in the last decade we have seen substantial change in both professional and college sports where
133the name has been retired for that reason um the the the data and the evidence is incont controversial able and while we live in a society right now where politics unfortunately drives a lot of conversation and distrust among people um and we tend to live in some Echo Chambers where we like to listen to the people who we agree with speak I would urge people in the community who are listening to me right now to do a little bit of your own research outside of your own Echo Chambers read some of the datadriven studies about the harmful impacts that the imagery and the name has not just on the people who are Native Americans who might be offended on it by it but the actual children and grown-ups who see the imagery and Associate that
134imagery with a preconceived notion about what Native Americans are that's the problem it's unconscious it's not something people are affirmatively aware of they don't say hey uh I look at this I look at this image and now I think that Native Americans are violent Savage people that's that's not what happens but the data studies when they ask questions to people after showing them the imagery they answer the questions in a way that's different than people who haven't seen the imagery would answer the questions so we are constantly creating subconscious bias in our youth and grown-ups in society without even realizing it um and that obviously leads to situations in the professional world where people might have biases against Native Americans as well that's why they're offended by it so it it's been said several times
135tonight there are not many districts that still have this imagery anymore even if we don't use the actual traditional headdress logo anymore we still have unaffiliated group groups using it on tents on jerseys it's really time to put a stop to it we have to put a stop to it or we're going to lose money so like my uh beautiful wife and daughter said I just don't get what we're waiting for anymore thank you thank you so much entire Foreman family we have a son too ah should have brought him hi my name is Teresa morali I'm a sasset resident and um I wanted to just also talk about the budget um and the fact that right now more than ever um is a time for fiscal Prudence for sure uh in May of 2022
136when members of of the board and um others visited for example our PTA meeting to to you know explain that they stayed under the budget cap and this is great even though the budget grew by $10 million it was still great they didn't mention the actual dollar amount um I questioned it and I felt a little vilified at the time for questioning it and considering voting no and the reason was because it just didn't seem fiscally prudent at a time when we all saw we didn't have the n maybe the numbers weren't in yet as far as inflation um and the rising costs but we were told healthc care costs were going up for for teachers and enrollment was was up so therefore we needed you know I think it was an extra $5 million
137to cover that um so here we are and it seems like we're in sort of a budget crisis the way you explained even this year with our working budget um and I just can't believe that we're actually even going to consider the late start time and not be as transparent as possible with the community in terms of the cost that's been determined um we spent money using a consultant to do a study and find out how much it would cost different scenarios um I think we should cut our losses there and I don't I believe I'm not the only one um Dr I'm sorry I'm not supposed to mention anybody but um it's been mentioned that our enrollment is up 133% since 2015 and Statewide there's a 3% drop and I think if there was
138a a one if if our enrollment was up or down 2% that's still 100% larger than the state average so what is that like an 1,00% larger enrollment since 2015 than um the rest of the state and so just to um I I want to um you know really applaud Jason for bringing up something that's not probably not easy um we live in a in a district where we we all try to see everything through that lens of diversity equity and inclusion and that's you know not only is it trendy right now but it's also it's a it's a good way to live to be inclusive and and to not and see the good in people but I think if we are at risk now of being mandated more by the state we're it seems
139that we're actually at risk now for being mandated once again by the New York State education department to implement a program TBE um this is we're at a we're at a turning point here we really need to maybe shift if we're going to use consultant funding put it towards maybe investigation and find out is what is what's going on here is there another reason why our enrollment is up 133% is there something since 2021 even with the you know the way people fled New York City and came to the suburbs this these Trends can't be ignored and if there is fraud we're not in a position to just ignore it or shut our eyes um the other thing with going back to the late start time if we are to see everything through a lens
140of diversity equity and inclusion and we want to be a place where everybody has a sense of belonging and empowerment we can't forget those athletes we can't forget those students who are thriving or want the chance to thrive at the at the Bose's programs um that we were mention thank you so much Mrs mares that's your one more thing I just want to um ask if if anyone anyone on the board is aware that there was another over your four minutes video that you got to give everybody else a chance from Project Veritas and it mentions you got you got to give everybody a chance can you you and it mentions not being transparent with parents so the transparency with par going over your time is very important can you just please sit down so
141if we're not going to be transparent with parents it's going to be an issue thank you you can come back after thank you sit thank you anyone else want to speak please okay do you want to come back up Teresa sorry I had one more go ahead thing to say and I didn't think was a big deal um but yeah I just was wondering if 's a plan to address the fact that there's some bad publicity out there now for our school district because teachers from our district or at least one is you know on tape saying parents are a problem so I think just in the current environment I think it's very important to put transparency first whether it's the budget whether it's what's being taught in the curriculum whatever it is I think
142not shutting parents out because we were shut out physically for a long time during the pandemic and we felt it um perhaps there was a reason there was a public safety reason a public health reason but now is the time more than ever to make parents feel included if we're going to practice inclusivity let's include the parents let's be Equitable towards parents and community members who are the taxpayers we're the ones paying for everything in in the budget um so include the parents in what's going on otherwise we start to feel very excluded um especially when we hear teachers saying you know we're keeping this from the we're trying to keep this from the parents um or ex brainstorming ways to keep things covert for example you know ways of not getting certain information out
143to the parents um maybe it's coming down from the New York State education department but there are things that are making parents very uncomfortable and it has all to do with transparency and it has all to do with curriculum and it it may just be coming from the New York State Department of Education and their gu guidance but coming out of the pandemic I think we should just all be putting the relationships between the schools and the parents back at the Forefront and getting parents more in the no as opposed to Less in the no thank you thank you so much anyone else okay that's going to close audience to the public uh thank you for all those comments U Mr Rolo and I just uh talk briefly about how we'll sort of uh share
144the load of responding uh so uh first of all thank you to everyone for your comments on the late start time uh one of the things that we didn't do was get really granular with the budget estimates of what uh some of the programs would cost uh because we didn't want to spend the money to have the consultant uh run a couple of different scenarios um what we're talking about doing is so extensive that we wouldn't be able to just use the exist existing bus routing we would have to reroute all the the routes from scratch and it felt like that would be a large expenditure of money to just price out uh what an option would cost so what we gave them as a constraint was um to you know sort of use a
145rough Judgment of what they could do within the current uh Transportation allocation and we said you know maybe plus or minus five additional buses so maybe a 10 bus range um so there obviously there were lots of other options uh if we had not constrained them so much that they could have offered to us but we recognized that there was no way the district was going to uh move forward with something that had a a tremendous additional cost so it is possible that there would be some cost to some of these starttime changes and obviously as we look at uh what what the Public's uh appetite for change in the start time is if there seems to be some convergence on something we would want to do a little bit more work to understand those
146costs a little bit better and uh with respect to uh registration you know I'm certainly aware of uh the allegations that there are people who are misusing uh residence residencies residen as in saset to establish resident C and uh we do have I think an elaborate process we trying to verify registration when we learn of a situation that appears uh to be suspicious uh we will do an investigation we hire private investigators through our law firm uh those private investigators will do an investigation and if our concerns are founded then uh there's a process by which uh someone who's not a resident uh no longer attends school here uh one of the things we have asked our school attorneys to do uh our firm represents uh 55 I believe school districts and we have asked
147them uh to examine all of their districts best practices to see if there's anything uh that someone else is doing that we can incorporate into our practices the one constraint of course is that um we cannot violate uh several civil rights laws so the reason why we do this work through the attorneys is to make sure that uh we don't run a foul of those civil rights laws uh but certainly it's in the community's interest and it's in our interest as uh the administrators of your school district to make sure that uh we are uh following the laws and and following the laws that means we give uh wonderful education to people who actually live in sasic so uh we are I think going to identify one or two process refinements uh that we can
148Implement uh and we are implementing those process refinements during the current year because uh we go through a process of requiring re-registration for all students as they transition from fifth grade to sixth grade and then move into the middle school and again from 8th grade into ninth grade as they move into the high school um Mr Rolo has volunteered to talk about the uh mascot questions um I back to budget uh you know the the challenge that we are facing is trying to preserve the program that people move to scos for while being conscious of uh the challenges of living in an expensive Community where a lot of that cost is due to uh the cost of running uh such a remarkable School District so uh I will say that I'm certainly proud of what
149we've achieved here over the course of the last um before my arrival and certainly since uh being able to remain under the tax cap so I believe over the course of um the last 10 or 12 years in aggregate we have uh not taxed $10 million worth of uh what we could have taxed if we had fully exhausted uh the flexibility that the district had under the tax cap under the state tax cap and I I'm proud of that because I feel like um it is evidence of fiscal Prudence so um The Challenge in this particular year is uh because inflation is so much higher than what the tax cap would permit uh living within that cap is going to be uh a much bigger challenge uh while preserving program and certainly I've heard from
150parents and staff alike who are nervous about uh seeing that program erode and uh no one wants that because the staff are proud to work here and uh certainly families uh want the best for their children who haven't had the full 12 years uh in saset yet uh to the point about transitional bilingual education you know if that becomes something that is uh that doesn't run because we don't have enough interest uh to uh justify it then uh obviously that makes uh some of these challenges a little bit easier um I'm not familiar with uh responding to the question about the video I'm not familiar with uh Scot teacher saying the kinds of remarks that you've said but if that's the case you know we would certainly uh explore what that was um it is
151our goal as Administration to be transparent and I think I spoke at the beginning of the meeting about the challeng Alles I face in uh trying to calibrate that so that I can communicate when things are new without having something new uh come across as alarming and um you know we I think are proud of uh the fact that as we've come out of the pandemic we've restored a lot of the opportunities that parents had uh to come back into the buildings uh to be part of the curriculum celebrations that go on in the elementary schools uh certainly the Multicultural celebrations in all of our schools have had tremendous uh support from our parents and frankly of work on the part of our parents so thank you for that and uh we look forward to
152continuing that partnership Mr Rola thank you Dr Rogers um so I want to Echo what Dr Rogers said and just um just add a couple more things onto that um our district one of our values that we try to live is the diversity and that's up there with education here we want it to be a welcoming uh safe environment for everybody um as far as the mascot um I think the board feels uh strongly about this because actually this is one of our key values um I think the only stumbling part we've had has been a little bit of like miscommunication from the state um we were just waiting for this last committee um and we still don't have an answer correct from them um I mean I don't know how the board feels but
153I would like to put it on for the next month um to vote on it for the mascot how does everybody feel about that any anybody opposed to that is it the state has um created a and I'm I'm not going to get the name precisely right but it's a Native American advisory Council or maybe an indigenous persons advisory Council and that Council has had one meeting they are uh to establish a subcommittee to uh review mascots and uh that subcommittee to my knowledge is not met although the advisory Council as a whole has met um my understanding is that the department is planning on releasing additional guidance uh at their April board meeting when the Board of Regents does final action on the regulations that have been out for comment for the last 60
154days so I anticipate the timing will be that at the time of the Regent meeting we'll have the final piece of documentation and your next question is going to be off the top of my head do I know when the next Regent meeting is and my guess is that uh they they're similar to us they generally are on the middle Monday and Tuesday of the month so the middle Monday and Tuesday of April would presumably be the 17th and 18th but um but I don't know that for sure that's just sort of their General pattern so uh if they were to do it they would do it at What's called the emsc meeting that that usually is on Monday um so they would probably adopt the reg on Monday and then we have our meeting
155on Tuesday uh in April just to also ask about we had um we actually I think we had spoke at either I don't remember there one of the other meetings after December it was like maybe February where we said we would start to investigate the cost of changes and what it would do and then like put together some sort of action plan of what we would do so that we were prepared to move um can we can we start that I the we said that we would vote at a certain time we were waiting for guidance on the state which is my understanding that we were waiting on guidance for the state to have the final vote we were waiting for a less piece of information but at the same time we were going to
156investigate and put together a process on costs and and how we would execute changes so that we we were prepared for to move once we had the final piece of the state um guidance and made final decisions so that we weren't waiting yeah so we have done that uh homework internally I have a couple of examples of other school districts that have uh recently retired their mascots and the processes that they used uh which you can reflect on uh at your leisure and um we've also plan would be too strong a term but we have a laundry list of the kinds of things that would need to be changed around here and what the costs are the biggest cost item and I believe we mentioned this at an earlier meeting would be the end zones
157at about $70,000 everything else is going to be in the you know the scoreboards I don't think are going to be that expensive because now they have like magnetic uh fronts that they can put on top the scoreboards that are not that expensive um uniforms we turn over anyway because they they get worn and uh so we would retire those out over the course of the next two years hopefully most of them would be retired out in a regular cycle so it wouldn't be an unanticipated cost it would just be uh the new uniforms that we buy and even this year's round of uniform purchases uh have avoided putting any sort of branding or logo on the uniforms uh to in order to preserve our flexibility and not necessarily uh buy something brand new that
158might become obsolete right away so the other part of the class I guess is the if we if we if the state okay if we need to make a committee how are we I guess that's the process of making that committee if we wanted to make a plan for that and who we wanted like how vast and how we would execute something to change and the other thing is there are obviously there are saset leagues that are associated with they're not District leagues but they're part of our town that use the uh mascot does this affect them or do they or how does that work so um we have no Authority or jurisdiction over um what goes on in the town we only have authority and jurisdiction over this the school district teams uh one
159of the features of the regulation says that students would not be able to wear um indigenous themed mascot Apparel in schools because that would be a violation of the dignity for all students act so what I interpret that to mean is you wouldn't be able to come to school wearing an Atlanta Braves Jersey for example um even though the it it's not the school District so my understanding is that the association of school attorneys of the state of New York has written a letter to the State education department uh questioning whether they're exceeding their Authority on that particular part of the regulation for free speech reasons so and again I um it's tangential to your consideration of the mascot itself but it is a feature of the regulation that I'm wondering how they will address
160it when they do final Passage message so to come back full circle to your question sorry um I led myself astray the I suppose that if that feature of the regulation stays in place a student who plays for a little league team that might use the Braves and came to school wearing their little league Braves uh would run a foul of the school by wearing it in school but we have no jurisdiction off school grounds okay anyone else we good okay you want to want to give that up there okay um the next section of the meeting is our discussion items uh the first discussion item is the nominations for Nassau Bose trustee uh for the Board of Education Election there are three incumbents who are running for reelection this spring as Nassau Bose's Board
161of Education trusties they are Deborah cootus I hope I'm coats thank you coats um I apologize Larry Greenstein and Eric Schultz uh they've asked us as a board for our support as we've done in their past elections uh Deborah Larry and Eric have sent us their extensive resumees highlighting their years of service and dedication not only to the nasau bosis but to their District's ptas and school boards as well so um does anybody have any objections to us nominating these three candidates for the uh as both these trustees sorry it's not an objetive question yeah go ahead did we always do we always nominate right because this is in voting for them that will be next month this is whether we want to nominate someone uh and I feel like last year we had a
162relationship uh with one of the incumbents and we nominated maybe only one I'm just I'm just trying to understand what we're doing that I'm not against nominating anybody yeah so uh the process as as you've pointed out uh like us they vote on their budget and their board at the same time so that will be on April 18th the reason why we're having a Tuesday meeting in April is because all the districts in nesso County by law must vote simultaneously so the date is fixed and we all have our board meeting on the same date uh so at that meeting you will vote for them you certainly can vote for them without nominating them that's not necessary uh both these board members appreciate being nominated by more than one school district before they go into
163the election because um they use it to illustrate uh support and they use also see it as a reflection on the work that they do so they appreciate apprciate those nominations but it's not necessary in my 9 years here uh there have been several years when the board didn't nominate anyone and there have been some years when the board has nominated the whole slate and there have been some years when the board has nominated uh one or more persons from the Slate because of a personal relationship or something like that so you're under no obligation to do so it doesn't um you can nominate them and still not vote for them next month if you choose um it doesn't constrain you in any way uh and it's uh the nomination is generally seen as I
164said as a vote of a vote of confidence before the vote to impanel someone just as a little bit tidbit of information um Deborah coats and Eric Schultz have been on the as both these trustees uh Deborah since I believe 2008 I have down and Eric from 2001 Larry is a little bit of a newer person he's been on since 2020 this would be I guess his second term uh being elected So based on personally based on what I read on their resumes and whatnot it they've been very very active for some here over two decades of work so it seems um kind of easy to nominate them and from that from that perspective we go ahead um and we've also on you know we had I've also done the Bose tour we did together
165um and we've also met them at various event so you know we know these people pretty well um go ahead I think the easiest thing for you to say is the three of them had a deal with me twice in January and I would have I've actually spent I spent a lot of time with them and and and Dr Park did as well uh and I know uh Mr is it Greenstein or Greenstein I think it's Greenstein he he's the newer one some of his questions at the meetings were fantastic so I I'm all for nominating them I just wanted to make sure I understood the process thank you B so is everyone good with nominating these three you should have a motion in a second and a vote okay sure sure uh can I
166have a motion to nominate um the three Bose's uh trustees Brian seconded by Sha anybody any questions all in favor opposed extensions okay uh next discussion item is board workshops Jack you want to speak about that so I've I've got I've got a ton to say about I don't want to suck all the air out of the room so maybe do you want you want me to start or okay I mean so just start two or three things right yeah I know but I'm trying to avoid I'm trying to avoid that I'm trying to reform okay so um so two or three things to start and then maybe I'll Circle back once other folks have some thoughts one I I I'd like to start thinking about these as working meetings less so about workshops not
167it's not a Wordsmith thing necessarily but the idea that these are meetings where the board is working towards reviewing information that's supporting their strategic goals that I'm hoping we're going to be adopting at these meetings this year next year in the future um and so when I think about these meetings and when I Envision about what I hope will happen in the future is number one I think our working meeting should probably exceed our regular meetings in other words we'll be receiving presentations hopefully that support our goals that provide information that we can evaluate where we are on the road to the goals each year they should be data driven I hope the presentations and directly in support of what we're trying to accomplish whether we've adopted goals on HR facilities or whatever it is
168we adopt goals related to um you know I've seen a bunch of other districts where actually the number of these working meetings exceed the number of their voting and presentation meetings um when I say presentations I mean um uh the activities that we enjoy so much at the beginning of board meetings as opposed to the grueling part which is the data driven work for reviewing strategic stuff the other thing that I think is really important about these meetings is is because there's no motions and because there's no votes there are no minutes and because there are no minutes if we have summaries a ton of the really important granularity gets lost if they aren't recorded So if we have board members who can't happen to attend those meetings and in future want to review the
169detailed information or folks in the public want to re uh review that detailed information it's not available it disappears Into The Ether and no summary will ever do justice to the interactions and the detail and the color that will be given by the nine of us plus having those discussions in public and having it be able to be uh refresh my memory for the next time when we are going to be continuing down the role of evaluating our goals I have a bunch of other thoughts but I I don't want to um monopolize the mic thank you Jack does anybody else have comments Brian I mean I guess I'll limit them to to what Mr ostri said um I do like the idea of working meetings uh I feel like last year when we talked
170about adding an additional meeting per month um that is a discussion item we talked about having a meeting where we really just get to discuss whether it's issues or items but really our goals right which is where we're going with our last extra meeting that month so if we're going to continue to have extra meetings at any point in time I do think they should be working meetings and maybe pull from the formal meeting where we may have presentations uh obviously all the great kid presentations but also the teacher presentations and as presentations and then the voting could be part of our formal meeting and having a working meeting at a separate time as to whether our meetings should be um recorded I I someone think that's a no-brainer um I feel like one of
171our board members missed the last meeting that we had and it's a shame that you know that board member can't be brought up to speed because it's hard to do when you have that kind of working Mee meeting all right thanks Brian um I'll just give my two cents too um as you guys know we decided to since we've added the extra meetings in an effort to do more work um as as Jack is saying you know making a moring meetings was kind of this was experimental and we said let's see how this is going to work um the most important thing to me about the meetings is that they're substantive they're productive um and that obviously with nine people it's difficult to get um everybody's schedule in line um but then it's also um
172hard to get consensus and get everybody there I like the format that we had where we had um breakout groups um kind of wrote things on the um you know um Post-its and on the Whiteboard so I feel like it was very productive and I feel it was collaborative um whatever the board feels that is going to make us more productive and get our goals done um that's you know that's what I think we should do so do you have any anybody else have any you want to add anything okay sure of course you can um last year when we spoke about adding some extra meetings on the calendar if needed I don't know if we necessarily thought that it they would definitely be working meetings I think it was put on an option because
173very frequently things come out and it's very difficult to get either they're time sensitive where they can't wait a month the to the next month for us to meet and discuss or it's also as Tom was saying very difficult to get nine people schedules together so to have that break of time there that's kind of scheduled into your calendar makes it easier because we know that we're all going to be there for whatever reason this this uh Workshop or working meeting that we had I thought was very productive we happen to focus on goals for that meeting I don't know if that would be the format for for everyone so that's the only thing that I would say is that um this last month might have been on goals but now we may have another
174one and then something that requires an executive session or something that requires a a public Vote or whatever the case may be may come up as well so it's just something that we have to keep in the back of our mind that we we're not to be limited with those extra meetings on one specific um topic so to speak right so actually that great because that sort of that that really clarifies a few things or at least in my mind right there maybe there are a few things that I that might be helpful if I clarified so we're coming up on 11 o'cl and we haven't done our resolutions yet so one of the things that working meetings do is it takes the working part out of the middle of the meeting where we're taking
175deliberative discussion and we're having presentations that support whatever the goals that we eventually adopt and we get those presentations as datadriven information to help us make good strategic decisions as a board so those meetings in my mind are actually the primary function of the board those are the things we should be doing every month meetings where we're adopting resolutions and motions can actually be special meetings where we get together for 15 minutes to adopt an emergency last minute oh gosh we need to be able to pass a resolution to allow for funding for potentially you know a basketball team needs funding for a gym those special meetings or voting meetings actually probably don't need to be done as often Dr you'll I may be wrong about this and that's totally fine and we should talk
176about it but if we spread out our voting meetings and we just did more voting in advance or fewer times and we had to backfill about voting I actually think those can be the short meetings and the meetings where we're doing the actual strategic evaluation of data for presentations that support our goals that I'm hoping we adopt become the primary focus of our meetings now I'm not saying every meeting is a goals creating meeting our meetings this year I hope are going to be used to create goals but starting in the beginning of next year we should probably be starting with goals at the beginning of the year and then take the working meetings along the way to evaluate the data to see our progress in meeting our goals each month along the course of
177the year to see how have we progressed over the course of the year so that we have something to evaluate ourselves our superintendent Etc about and with when we get to the end of the year so to me in some ways it solves multiple problems particularly the 11:00 3-hour board meeting where we haven't gotten to resolution Parts yet and then everyone is fresher for their decision making in an hour and a half or two hours during that working part when we really need our most attentive Focus to do the work of the board so that's really the most important things as far as I can tell yes so to uh I believe Lisa brought it up um I I too have concerns about um speaking of monthly to double up monthly I have great concerns
178about scheduling it's hard enough as we all know for nine of us plus um to really you know schedule is an issue I mean it's very difficult with everyone's you know um busy lives and and work and I just find that you know quantity is not always quality so um I would first seek efficiencies with the meetings that we do have on calendar and um that was the purpose behind putting the additional meetings that we have so far um and again you know we only had one and definitely you know improving it further um the format of the meeting and you know how we work together when the how where the discussion goes and how it's managed and how it's directed and guided um we could work on that on that but also um when
179you say I just want to clarify um goals you don't mean the goals that we set in the Retreats this is something different correct that you mean when you say Goals correct I just want to make sure that I'm understanding you know that's whyat to set up about sorry um those goals right an the mission statement etc etc so you know when you're refer to goals you mean goal so I'll speak about my idea and then the board can weigh in on their views about what I'm trying how what I'm saying and if it's if it if it makes sense in terms of the way I'm describing it and whether or not it's something that the board sort of supports so there there's a number of things in what you said and I I I
180want to take them AP part a piece at a time so number one in terms of when I think about goals goals what I'd like for us to be able to do is to create a series of goals each year that allows us to see whether or not we are can quantitatively and measurably analyze some significant targets that we're trying to reach so when I think about the superintendent and evaluating the superintendent normally the evaluation of the superintendent is based on the goals of the district being met right there's goals and objectives they are categorized broadly among HR facilities budget all different sort of the large functioning categories of the district and I think what we're trying to accomplish at these working meetings is to produce new sets of goals that we are going to
181try and meet normally they're strategic and last over a couple of years and they're measured along the way by objectives that are usually quantitatively in data driven fashion evaluation based My Hope hope is is that at the end of our working meetings this year we will have generated some few categories of goals that we can then take into the beginning of next year as we refine the process and at our beginning of the year create new goals for that year and for the next three years that we can objectively measure over the course of the year with datadriven presentations so that we can evaluate it as far as the number of meetings being twice a month and whether or not the scheduling for all of us is possible that is one of the beauties of
182having expertise dividing and conquering among members of the board so if there are goal meetings or working meetings dedicated to facilities and there were some of the nine of us that are really interested in facilities or have some expertise there then that group can work on facilities based goals and evaluating data about whether or not we're a facilities based goals at those meetings and then other folks could come to a curriculum based one or a budget based one or something like that where we can split the work up but every month the specific work that we're trying to accomplish around goals and evaluating how we're doing can be done in that fashion that's the way I Envision how these working meetings would work they would replace the discussion parts obviously if the superintendent makes presentations
183we have questions but in terms of the Strategic evaluation and the presentations that we're using to make our recommendations about how to guide the district these would take the place and be the primary engine for doing that work um so I definitely think that there are ways to divide and conquer and that board member different board members can go to different things you know like some of us went went to bosies and some of us went to Tower and and those kind of things but I I can't imagine us having a working meeting where we are deciding any type of goal that all of us or the majority of us aren't there because we all have different opinions it's okay um we all have different opinions and all of our opinions are so important to
184get uh you know a a really good range of how the community feels and how different people feels and different opinions and and if there's any kind of you know goal setting on let say facilities I can't imagine not having all nine of us there or having a a goal setting on curriculum or any of those things there're definitely meetings that we don't all have to be at and that we could divide and conquer but for the those kind of working meetings I I think the expectation is that we would all do our best to get there and and I also think that there's a community burden if there's so many meetings for the community to keep up with that it it makes it harder for the community to stay on top of everything as
185well especially for people who want to be involved so maybe instead of having as a compromise maybe instead of having a meeting every an extra meeting every single month maybe we add a few of them but to to so so that way we have extra an overflow and that we can we can accomplish it that way and then we can go from there and see how that works but to Lisa's point we have extra meetings scheduled in and other things sometimes come up so they can't always be the working meeting that perhaps you're thinking of but there're are working meeting on things that you know we have to do that still has to be if we have you know it's it's we have to be respectful I think of everyone's time the community's time and
186and everyone else's time and and find and I think to anest point finding ways to maybe be more efficient in our meetings and make them more productive or streamlined is also another way we could try to get more accomplished in a shorter period of time just my two SS um I think I agree I think I agree with Susan um I don't love the idea of not being included on the different goal um meetings or workshops for different areas um I think that we're nine different people who always bring nine different things to the table and whether or not it's our expertise or our interest there's questions we ask that I would never think of or information that somebody knows that I would never think of or everyone everyone just brings something different and I
187think that's why we are an effective and good board um I don't I think if you wanted to add things maybe they're specific maybe if you want to set a facility's goal you can set a workshop for that facility's goal where that's the primary um objective and you can say things like that and we can schedule that in advance but I wouldn't say that two meetings a month without looking how to be more efficient in the moment is necessarily the answer but I think that when there are specific goals and we don't have time to get to them all the time that it makes sense to work together to schedule something at a different time in some sort of Workshop form um but I I do think that we do need to be more efficient
188in the meetings we do have hey Tom I'm sorry I just want to make sure that I clarify what I was saying because we're going down a culde act that's not what I said so what I'm saying to everybody is that our goals meetings would be at the beginning of the year where we would all be there to set the goals it shouldn't take more than one or two meetings for us to F to identify the areas that we want to focus on for the year and set those goals in the the first two meetings of the Year these meetings for workshops and of course every board member should definitely be at goals meetings so I'm not advocating that we separate for goals meetings what I'm advocating for is this year we should try and
189use our work our working meetings to set goals and then at the beginning of the year to set new goals at the beginning of the year at our first two meetings over the course of the Year these working meetings would be the most important monthly meeting the voting meeting meetings on on uh on our um on all these disc on all the uh items the ABC items would be not every month I don't think we need those every month I think we could have them less frequently and if need be then we could have shorter meetings just to consent agenda big sads of those uh items and get through them very quickly so I don't think the voting part of our meetings needs to be long and in fact it doesn't even have to happen
190all the time I think it could move quickly but the work of the board evaluating data and presentations given to us and to see how we're doing towards meeting the goals that we meet earlier in the year that's the bulk of the work for the board it's it's getting late so I'm going to do my best to digest everything and offer my opinion I agree a goals meeting has to be all board members and I'm hearing um and I agree we all have very busy schedules so so just adding another 12 meetings a year could be very difficult um I I don't know if this is where Jack was going but the idea would be and I thought we talked about this last year when we refer to these as overflow meetings is that let's
191see what we use them for this is our first overflow meeting year I think we thought about five of them or four of them and one of them has already been used for goals and yes I know no I'm saying this year but it was this school year that's all I'm saying so this school year was the first year we've had overflow meetings and this is our test run right how does it work we used one for something else and we use now one for a goal meeting and we are hopefully going to be doing something at the next one of these and then I believe there's another after that so what I'm trying to say is goals fit within that scheduled all nine board members meeting some of the other items where I think
192Jack was going with divide and conquer is the idea that you do a like we have a finance committee we all do not need to go to the finance committee meeting it's great if we do because we can participate but we don't need to be there and the purpose of that committee is to then report back to the board what was discussed but nothing gets decided at those meetings so there could be other things not goals and not really any kind of discussion item that can be done in committee and then I hope where Jack was going with having the discussion items sort of being separate and apart from these long meetings is because that really is the most important part of the job so not that learning and listening and voting is not important
193but our discussion items and anything else that may take place at a working meeting is important but we have to balance this and my understanding of these overflow meetings was we were going to try it out and I would think that and and Tom this is sort of your call maybe June maybe may we put on the discussion item with all of this and we say how did it work you know is this March meeting going to be good is this may meeting going to be good and then we decide for next year how to budget our time and if we decide we want a finance committee where no one needs to well we already have a finance committee but if we decide we want a facilities committee we form that committee and everyone understands
194that the people that go participate and then someone on that committee reports back to the rest of the board and that will be sensitive to our schedules okay all right so I'm going to move on to new business um we're going to go to the a items so A1 is the approval of staff changes A2 is the approval of the 2023 stien an hourly rate and A3 is the approval of coaching recommendations I'm going to take all those three together unless anybody has an objection good okay um do I have a motion please for the a items Brian seconded by Lynn any questions uh yes oh you have a question sorry oh okay any questions Jack anyone um all in favor opposed any extensions okay we're going to move to the B items um B1
195is the approval of committees on you did A1 A1 two and three so you did the multip yeah yeah um is that okay okay I make sure I just didn't hear you say I'm sorry Dr or I've never been accused of not being heard allow me to be the yeah um okay B1 is the approval of committees on special education recommendations B2 is the approval on Committees of preschool special education recommendations let's just take those two together um can I have a motion please uh Jack seconded by by Lisa all in favor opposed any object any exensions okay um B3 resolution of the Board of Education of the Sasa Central School District in the town of oyer Bay County of Nassau state of New York scheduling public hearings budget vote and elections may I have
196a motion please uh Susan seconded by Anna does anybody have any questions no okay no all in favor opposed any extensions okay so we'll take B4 which is the approval of student Club Charters 2022 in 2023 all in favor I'm sorry all in favor can I have a motion please um Lynn seconded by um Brian uh any questions all in favor opposed any extensions I miss you up here no okay okay um the ones that I can I put together but the other ones it's better than H supp B5 is the is the first reading of the policy for facilities Planning Development land use and closing of facilities may I have a motion please uh Anna seconded by Lisa does anybody have any questions this is just our review of the policies that we first
197reading of them okay e for Health and Welfare Services I'm sorry C3 C3 is the extension of of agreements can I have a motion please Susan seconded by Lisa any questions all in favor any extensions opposed I'm sorry C4 the authorization for Health and Welfare Services can I have a motion please Brian seconded by Lynn does anybody have any questions all in favor oppos any exensions C5 designation of depository bank and authorization for MIP municip Municipal Cooperative Agreement N class can I have a motion please Lisa seconded by Anna does anybody have any questions I have a quick question Jack yes we're we're going to go slow right can you say that again yes of course we're going to go slow we will have you involved of course uh yes obviously we uh saw over
198the weekend that the banking um sector has been in a little bit of turmoil and so um you know certainly recognizing that uh long-term T bills were uh somewhat implicated in that we're going to be uh very ginger in how we use this new tool uh but we do have access to excellent fiscal advisers and uh we'll be talking with them uh about this but it is an opportunity for us to earn uh a little bit better interest than we're able to earn in a bank and so obviously we want to be um earning as much with the Public's money as we can to defray other costs but we also don't want to uh and I don't believe that this will uh expose us to any risk but uh certainly it would be optimal to
199wait for uh some of the unsettled Waters uh to quiet a little bit uh in the banking industry before we do anything significant here so to be clear I mean Jack said to take slow so we could take nothing we could do nothing here we're just signing the contract and before we go on I have a question too Dr R Dr ruo um in light of what just happened um I'm sure you've reviewed our banking accounts and making sure that we're not um um Consolidated in any particular Bank um can you give us a little quick update on that yes certainly um we um we reached out to all of our banks just to have the conversation with them um to ensure that there was um no implications for them which they uh which they
200certainly reassured us of that um um but more importantly um we have collateralization agreements with these Banks or third parties um through the banks um so our deposits are insured at 105% with um with Securities that are permissible um per General Municipal law I I was uh just for folks watching at home that what that means is there are securities that are purchased in an amount that is greater than the amount that we have on deposit so if the bank that we're on deposit with fails we then go after the Securities that are held somewhere else to replace that so that we don't lose any of the principle can I have a motion please uh sh seconded by Lynn um does anybody have any questions all in favor opposed any extensions C8 through C12 can
201be taken together there are the authorization to participate in a Cooperative can I have a motion please uh Susan seconded by Anna anybody have any questions no all in favor oppose any extensions Okay C 13 is the absence of the intermunicipal Cooperative agreement can I have a motion please uh then seconded by seconded by Brian anybody have any questions all in favor oppos any extensions Okay C good c14 and C15 can be taken together they are donation from the nasro County Public High School Athletic Association Inc and appropriation of funds and donations of a guitar amplifier and I guess I could put c16 in there to is the authorization of disposal of broken Surplus Andor lead equipment can I have a motion please uh Lyn second by does anybody have any questions all in favor
202oppos any OB motion to adjust