001Good evening, everyone. I'm calling the meeting to order. It is 8:36. We're going to start with the Pledge of Allegiance. >> I pledge pledge 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. >> Thank you. Uh I would like to uh see if we have a motion to go to executive session, a brief executive session to discuss a personnel issue. I have a motion. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Motion by Jerry, second by Travis. All in favor, please raise your right hand. Okay, that is unanimous. We're going to go to a very brief >> All right, welcome everyone back. Uh it is 8:53. We're going back to our open meeting. Uh we're going to move right
002to item two, board acceptance of preliminary results of the school >> budget vote 2026. >> Okay. We have a motion by George. >> Second by Travis. All in favor? Use your right hand. Okay, that carries unanimously. Be it resolved that the Board of Education accepts the following results for the school budget vote 2026, pending final reconciliation. Proposition one, be it resolved that the Board of Education of the Tri-Valley Central School District at Grahamsville, New York be authorized to expend the sum of $39,607,948 during the fiscal year 2026-2027 and to lever levy the necessary tax therefore. There were 250 machine ballots and there were 27 absentee ballots. Of the uh of those ballots, we had 184 yeses, of which 176 were machine ballots, eight were absentee ballots. We had 93 noes, of which 74 were machine
003ballots, 19 were absentee ballots. We had no early mail voter ballots and we had no military ballots. So, we have a passed budget. We're going to move forward to item three, board acceptance of preliminary results of board member election. This is an action. Do I have a motion? >> Motion by Jerry. >> Second by Carrie. Please proceed to vote. Raise your right hand. >> Raise your hands up. >> I will Oh, yeah. The vote is uh unanimous. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation from the Superintendent of Schools, the Board of Education accepts the following preliminary results of the school board members election 2026. Timothy Diamond, 207. Ian Constable, 171. Caleb Bertholf, 200. All right, moving forward to number four, which is correspondence. I don't believe we have any. >> Mhm. >> Number five, we
004have a public comment session for items that are on tonight's agenda. We have nobody that wants to make a public comment. Number six is the superintendent's report. >> Mine is very brief. I just want to say on behalf of the Tri-Valley School Board of Education, our administration, our faculty and staff, I would like to sincerely thank our community for your continued support in passing our 2026-2027 school budget. Your support reflects the trust and partnership that makes Tri-Valley such a special place for our students and our families. We remain deeply committed to providing rigorous instructional programming that challenges and supports all learners by continuing to offer a wide range of extracurricular and co-curricular opportunities that keeps our students engaged, connected and thriving both inside and outside of the classroom. The success of our school district is
005built upon the strength of our community working together with a shared focus on student growth, opportunity and achievement. Thank you for believing in our students, our staff and our vision for the future of Tri-Valley. >> Thank you, Erin Long. Okay. All right. We're going to move forward to item seven, items the board wants pulled from tonight's agenda. Have any items? Okay. We're going to move to number eight, consent agenda, resolution to approve to approve the entire consent agenda. This is an action. Do I have a motion? >> Motion by Carey. >> Second by Travis. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. Right hand if you are a yay. All right. Motion carries unanimously. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, the Board of Education does hereby approve the entire consent agenda,
006categories nine through 12. >> It's 9 through 13. >> It went 9 through 13, so. >> Just a a brief correction, that's going to be items 9 through 13 for the consent agenda. All right, that brings us to number 14, which is board committee reports. Do we have any board committee reports? >> When's our next policy meeting? >> Uh we have not set the date for that, but you and I can definitely take a look at that. >> And uh we have a meeting with DEP. >> The DEP on at 10:00 on June 5th, Friday, June 5th. >> And uh is there anybody on the board that reported back to you? >> No, but it's open to anybody that can join us on that day. >> Yeah, you put me down. >> Okay, mhm. >>
007I'm I'm coming, too. >> Okay. It's 10:00 a.m. Friday, June Friday, June 5th at 10:00 a.m. >> Where's that going to be held? >> It's going to be We're going to start at the district office and then go over to the pond. >> Anybody else for a board committee report? >> It would be in our best interest to have a number of people there if you want something done. All of them should come. >> Mhm. >> Should I wear my DEP jacket? >> You might You might send a message. >> We could make you like half DEP, half of bear. >> All righty, anybody else? Okay, well, let's go to 15, old business. Anything for old business? All right. 16, public comment session for items that are not on tonight's agenda. Okay. Have any of
008those? Uh 17 is new business. Any new business? >> No. >> Some questions and stuff that I haven't seen before in the packet. Number is time card report. I have no idea why that was in there. And also um activity report of busing or What's the story? Uh especially when this is uh softball and it's in the middle of March. Well, I I didn't I didn't get the why it was even in there. It appears to be a expenditure. So, I understand boys varsity but I don't understand softball in the middle of March. I just don't know what it was about. >> Okay. >> We'll have to We'll have to get you some answers. >> Yeah, because it got approved in consent. You already approved it. He didn't pull it. >> Okay. There was no
009um no ID on it, so I didn't know how to present it. You know, as far as a warrant or whatever. >> All right. Do you want to show me that after and then I can get you the answers for that? >> Whenever you'd like to. >> Certainly. >> Okay. But I think might be somebody else might be interested in that, you know, if they want to hang around. >> It is what it No, it's not in there. >> Is that executive session stuff? >> No. I think it might be just bus billing, right? >> That's part of it. >> Part of the BOCES bill. Part of the contract invoice with BOCES. >> This says invoice uh attachment itemized listing. That's all it says. >> So, on the when Bos he sends her Bos he's
010billing Monto sends us her invoice, but then they'll have a bunch of these little spreadsheets they send with it. So, the entire thing was attached. >> I had no way of telling cuz every sheet was separate. So, I didn't know where it belonged. So, I apologize if I'm out of line. >> No, not at all. >> Not out of line, George. Glad you're here. >> Anything else, George? Or for new business? We're going to board comment next. >> I'm good. >> Good for now? >> I'm good. >> Anybody else new business? All right. Uh board comment session. You want to start on the end there with Travis? >> Sure. I just wanted to say congratulations on with the preliminary results of the new board member elections to Tim, Ian, and Kaylin. Congrats. And that's it
011for me tonight. >> It's a little premature on this, but thanks Pat and Tammy for your service to the board. It's a lot of work. And you guys have done a great job. So, thank you. >> I agree with they said. It's going to be a huge huge loss. >> Yeah. >> I'm good. >> Good here. >> I'm fine. >> FFA Wow. I mean, I read the uh No, I didn't read the report, but I know about it. Um really really amazing what they've done. How many kids are in that total in this in that program? 3 400? >> Uh of our kids? Yes. Yes, across the state almost three 3,000. >> Yeah. And maybe you can tell the public how they did. >> Uh so, I was there Friday and it was um something
012I've never experienced before. I it absolutely phenomenally done. Our kids are >> Yeah. absolute leaders among all of these leaders. The performances are exceptional. The the quality and the level of uh professionalism that our high school kids demonstrated off the charts. And it came to light when um one of the the kids spoke. He did like a little keynote at the end. And I'm not sure what district he's from. He's one of the state he sits on the top um group. And he had a very emotional speech about his life and about who he is and and where he's at. And and he said in one of the best parts about what I do um and the people I've met is the Tri-Valley FFA. It's because they I've cried with them. I've laughed with them.
013And the whole place was in tears. I mean, it was it was just I was goosebumps head to toe. It was so well done. But um Grace Deal had warned me they're the loudest cheers cuz I got this beautiful award. And they are. And it was just a spectacular showing of our school. Spectacular. I mean, I went through and went to as much as I could take in on Friday. And then uh getting updates all day long from Tara on Saturday. We won this. We won this. We won this. And gobs of pictures and just beaming with pride. Just in I I would love to have the kids come present to you. Just amazing. >> Can you expand on the honors that they did? First, second, third, fourth, fifth, 10th place? >> Those No, I
014don't have it in front of me. But yes, they won the top chapter in the state of of all of the chapters that there are. And um just thousands of kids in blue corduroy jackets walking around. It was really incredible. Really incredible. >> I believe we're one of the largest chapters in New York. >> I would imagine. Well, so when what happens is because of the ag classes that we offer, our kids automatically qualify for it and Tara's really great about enrolling all of our kids, so we do end up with a large chapter, but just the leadership um that we see day-to-day with the kids, but that we really saw there um just nothing like it. Talk about setting them up for great things in life. Just really beautiful. >> And how many advisors
015do we have at Tri-Valley that does that? >> We have two. >> Two. >> We had 22 kids at the conference on Friday. >> Tri-Valley accomplished. >> Mhm. >> And is everyone aware we're supposed to be having an honor at the fairgrounds on the 6th of June? Maybe you can expand on that. >> So, June 6th at 2:00 p.m. is going to be their annual dinner. Right there, instead of doing it at night, they're doing it on Saturday, June 6th. So, it will be they'll do all their awards and then have a big celebration. It's the 75th year of the Tri-Valley FFA, so. >> And they're going to try to honor or bring in all their previous advisors if they're still here alive. >> That's pretty cool. >> Yeah. >> There's banners outside the school.
016I don't know if they're they're still up, but they're naming all of the American recipients, the Empire recipients, and I think Mr. Strangeway. >> He was our first one. >> He's the first one. I I think they're hoping to honor him that day as well. >> Yeah, yeah. But his son is coming. His son was here for a while as an advisor as well. >> So, yeah. Beautiful. >> You want to listen? Probably, but I won't take up your time. >> All right. Um congratulations, Kaylyn. Um and Ian, welcome. Uh we spend a lot of Thursday nights together um trying to make this place better. Um Pat and Tammy, uh we're going to do something more formal, but thank you both. These are our service positions. Um I don't know how much the public is
017going to watch this recording, but everybody up here is volunteering their time and having time away from their family to make the school better and and do things that a lot of people aren't willing to do. So, um thank you guys all for participation. Uh voter turnout was low. Um I appreciate the heck out of everyone that came out um after their work day, in the middle of their work day, juggling kids, making a vote. It matters. The ones that mailed in, same thing. It matters. Um we got to get that number up. Uh obviously the more engaged the community is uh the better things get here. Um maybe we bring back the uh FFA chicken barbecue we talked about, the plant sales, figure out something that we can for next year. Um collectively a
018lot of us will still be here. So, we'll try to figure out a way to to you know, draw some more parents out. Uh and then um whoever set up the art show, I don't know who you are, it was outstanding. I'm blown away by the talent that our kids have in so many ways. It's just next level. Uh I spent a little time down there. Really moving stuff. Um and that's it. Uh congratulations on a passed budget uh to the board and the community. And um I'm looking forward to another great year here on the board. I have a motion. Motion. Okay. Gary motion to adjourn. Seconded by Nicole. All in favor. And that's unanimous. Thank you very much, guys. 9:08. That's it.