001Okay. All right. We are live. It's 5:45. Calling the meeting to order. Uh the first thing we're going to address is item two, which is a consultant appointment. Do I have a motion? I have a second. Motion by Jerry. Second by George. Any discussion before we start? Discussion first. If no discussion, we're going to go to a vote. All in favor, raise your right hand. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. We resolve upon the recommendation superintendent of schools board of education does hereby approve Michael Rulo interim district superintendent Svin Bose as the search consultant position of superintendent schools trial school district no addition fee for this service the charges to the district board of education during the search will be the cost of printing the door cost of advertising the position any costs associated with conducting
002the interview board President will be the BOE contact for the district superintendent during the search process. The district clerk will be the staff contact andor his assistant to resolve dayto-day issues. With that, do I have a uh motion to go to executive session on the discussion concerning details of the medical, financial, credit, or employment history of particular person or corporation. >> Second, >> Jerry. Second by Travis. All in favor, raise your right hand. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. We will go to exec session at 5:47. Thank you. Uh, thank you for your patience. We're open next session. We're going to go back to regular session at 7:11 p.m. We're start with the pledge of allegiance. There will be a brief moment of silence after the pledge for Miss Anne Bugleman. I pledge allegiance. >> Thank
003you. We have a memorial resolution. Um this is uh for Miss Anne Bulkman. Whereas Miss Anne Bulkman served as a staff member of the Tri Valley Central School District and whereas Miss Anjukman served as a math teacher in the 80s and 90s as well as a basketball coach and yearbook adviser to the students the Tri Valley Central School District and whereas Miss Ambukman passed away February 27th 2026. Be it resolved that the Tri Valley Central School District extends its thanks to Miss Ambukman for her service and be it further resolved that the Tri Valley Central School District extends it simply to the family of Miss Bman during this time of mourning. Thank you. Miss Bman was loved in our school. For those that were not here at that time, very special. All right. Next, we
004have new uh Nope. We did that. We're gonna correspondence. So, we have no correspondence tonight. We have uh five is going to be public comment session for items are are on tonight's agenda if we have any. But while we're on public comment, we have uh petitions available for community members that want to run for the school board. Um there are going to be some elections coming up very soon. Need to get signatures. uh great jobs, great service jobs, and I encourage uh competitiveness in this realm because it just makes the board better. If you want to spend your Thursday nights with us, we would love to have you. And the the folders up here, you can grab them uh after the meeting. All right, we're on to number six, presentations. First up, we have our
005winter scholar athletes uh and Kevin Cordelli. All right, good evening everybody. Um, so we're here to present our winter scholar athletes and our scholar athlete teams. So we had uh five teams that were scholar athlete teams. So, both boys and girls indoor track, both boys and girls basketball, and our girls alpine ski team. So, uh again, the 75% of all of those rosters uh needed to have a 90 or above average. All of those teams met those uh numbers. Individually, some of our scholar athletes here, we had a total of 45 uh scholar athletes uh this winter. So, we have the list up there. And then we're going to have our scholar athletes come up, say their name, what sport they participated in. Then I have their scholar athlete Vince here first. >> Oh, I'm
006Dana Clark and I did girls indoor track. I'm Payton Claus and I played girls varsity basketball. I'm Tyler Andino. I did boys indoor track. >> I'm Emily Pley. I did varsity alpine ski. I'm Dakota Wingski. I did varsity competition cheer and varsity basketball. I'm Chris Pales and I did boys under track. >> I'm Andrew Kelly. I did varsity basketball. I'm William Wine and I did indoor track. So again, I just wanted to give a huge congratulations to all of our scholar athletes. A lot of the names on this list are repeats from the fall and I believe we'll be repeating again in the spring. Um the winter season is one of those seasons that really showcases extra hard how how our athletes work both in the classroom and those late nights uh with all the
007different events that go on are going to continue to go on. So congratulations athletes. that uh for the athletes that are still here, just your accomplishment is is very impressive. It's not easy to keep your grades up when you're practicing every day. You're competing at night. Winter sports are a lot of late nights. So, thank you and congratulations to all of you. Next up, we're going to have an AI presentation by Mr. Snider and Miss Petite. Good evening everyone. We're just going to let Kim get kind of set up right here. So, we're going to go through kind of a presentation about AI. There are some questions about it and its, you know, impact on education, but also it impact on all other industries in the world. So we're going to go through kind of
008a broad band on history about history of change and really Daniel Conorman talks about um loss aversion which is we're twice as likely to ra be more against losing $100 emotionally than winning $150. So that loss or feeling that we may be losing out on something that we have really kind of bends our perspective on things until that new novelty becomes more of a norm. So, we're going to start with that kind of premise and go broad about some change and some change in school and kind of narrow it down to what AI looks like. We're going to go through a few different arcs. We're going to talk about history. We're going to talk about some pillars and guard rails and then kind of look at some real life scenarios and then Miss Petit is
009going to do the fancy part and go through some of the tools that we have and do some demonstrations. At any time, you can feel free to interrupt me. We're going to kind of go through some stories and and go from there. So again, our mission is really building that future ready student through meaningful learning, curiosity, resilience, and confidence. And AI is a tool that helps our teachers help our students. It really is a tool that allows us to do our job better. That is really what AI is. It is not a replacement. It is a tool that lets us really impact our kids. And we're going to take some examples and look through this as we go. So we've had this problem since the printing press. So as soon as we started printing and
010moving on to the internet age, every time something new came, there was always this aversion to what is it taking away. Artificial intelligence is simply a next step in the evolution of tools as humans and people that we have to help make ourselves better at our job, make us more efficient. Google just has put out some new things and some new research that really it takes people who are novice at their job using AI are almost the same as people who are more expertise. It is an amplifier to what we're able to do. So that new person gains experience while still giving the customer the same capability as someone else who may have been doing a job for 10 or 15 years. We can't make up time. We can increase our tools and awareness. So
011one of our broader more concrete examples is really we're going from concert halls where music could only be heard live to now we can hear it anywhere. So as most of you you probably listen to music on the way here. 150 years ago that would not have been possible. Big disruption came recorded music. People thought will this destroy music as we know. Will people be putting their baby to sleep with a machine? I have a little baby at home. My wife still sings to my daughter at night and stuff. So though she listens to quality music, she's also able to hear my wife sing to her. Will musicians lose jobs? Always a question. Will we lose jobs? Do we lose jobs or do we change jobs? So when we started recording the phongraph, we start
012going to eight track tapes, CDs, now virtual. It really expanded who can enjoy music globally. You can listen to anything you want in any country in the world. And what did that do? Did that inspire future musicians? I'm able to produce music, put my talents out there, see if someone else likes that. And AI has that opportunity to do that with our kids. Just like technology expanded, who has access to music? AI is able to expand potential and learning the same way that we were able to do. So it again is that tool that gets us to the point that we need to go. So now we're going to go down to when things came into the school. So a little more closer to home. So calculators initial fear students won't learn math. They won't
013know how to think. But really what it did is a calculator offsets especially as kids get older that cognitive load to understand the more complex math. Higher level math is really about critical thinking. Can you apply rules to new novel situations and go? But if you're stuck on that cognitive load where you're still trying to do that simpler math, you can never get to that next level of learning or understanding. So though the calculator may assist in certain areas, it allows them to move and apply in very different ways. The internet, one of our more recent ones, students just copy and paste. We have no more books. We have more books than ever. Some of you carry around an iPad that has an entire library in it. It has democratized information. It allows people to
014search and find different tools. It allows them to in a meeting to help. It has really allowed us to expand who knows what and where and have real dialogues about that though you have to learn skills like is that an actual source? Can I be should it be something I put out there? Am I being a good digital citizenship? What else is a good resource look like? What are some of those key criteria that we have to do to really understand is that what I need? Does this information solve that new novel problem I am? Do I need three or four different pieces and now I can synthesize to apply to a new area? And that's really what the internet did. It was new not too long ago. It has changed a lot, but it's
015also expanded a lot of different opportunities that people around have. So really the internet did not showed us how to answer questions. AI is going to help us think through answers. It is really a great thought partner when you're working with it and you have questions. It's late at night. Your teacher is not always available at 10:30 at night when some people are doing their homework. If you have a question, it is an ondemand tutor. It allows you to go through different steps. Some people say we'll just give you your answer. It could do that. But if we teach kids how to use it properly so they can demonstrate understanding very easy to see when they come in the next day did they copy it or did they learn how to do it when they're
016doing just a simple do now in your classroom. So it is a ondemand tool. So we're going to go through some guard rails of arc number two and one of the biggest things is that the human stays in charge. It is an assistant to you. It is a ondemand help. It does not make decisions. It does not grade work. It does not replace teachers. Um, one of the new technical terms is human in the loop that they're using. We have humans stay in charge, but it's a way that we can review materials. We remain the teacher remains the instructional expert and they have to use their professional judgment. It's a tool just like if you get a calculator and if you ever typed it in wrong and it gives you that really long answer that
017makes no sense. You used your judgment to understand that that wasn't right. Let me go back and relook. Let me check those sources I've asked it to give me when it gave me information. Do they exist? Is that a real source? And you can learn to prompt it to give you exact sources and links so you can then dig deeper just like you do on the internet when you're doing internet research. You go into those links to see if they're real. Are they from a source that you would want? So guardrail one is we stay in charge. Humans are the way. And our thinking does not matter. We could tell it to just do something for us, but that's not being responsible. That is not going to be the workforce that we get into, and
018we'll talk about that a little later. Our job is to educate children. Our job is to teach them how to use tools responsibly. You wouldn't give a keys to your 12-year-old to go drive your car and just throw them to them and say, "Here you go." Really, it's us teaching them proper uses of our tools that we have. And we have some really powerful tools. And we'll get into looking at where do we go? It's very good at helping you brainstorm. So, I'm thinking of my idea. I have to write a paper. Can I problem solve some ideas just as if I was talking to another student or another teacher? It lets me look at it. It helps me revise. So, I'm doing a writing and I have a rubric and before I give it
019to my teacher, I can ask it, here's my rubric. Here's my first initial thoughts. What suggestions do you have? That gives you some suggestions. You go back and rewrite. So now when you give it to your teacher, you're giving them a better product and you got immediate feedback as opposed to the teacher giving you probably similar feedback, especially on the first draft, getting it back the next day, going back in. It just helps you stay in that flow of the process is being there as a guide. And equity and access, it is out there, people are using it. We need to ensure that we're using it responsibly, teaching our children how to use it responsibly. They're going to leave here and it's going to be in no matter any field that they do. We're going
020to look at how do we close the digital divide gap by using AI? How do we close experiences that some people get here in our school but maybe don't get anywhere else. Can AI supplement some of their learning with different aspects that we can do? Again, it supports different learning needs. We are providing consistent enforcement of how it's used and really it is a teaching tool. We need to teach our students how to use this tool. And then our three pillars. So really is getting our kids ready for the future. The future has arrived. It is here. Doctors are using to scan different scans. We're using it for yield crops. We're doing it for engineer prototypes. We're doing it for business analysis and data to better get resources allocated. And when when we go back
021to the doctor part, we're looking at scans. When you go get a scan or an MRI, someone reads it for you. It's kind of like going to a dentist. Sometimes you get someone who's better than another person. AI is a tool that we can train. It can detect even more nuance pieces because it's better than our some of our looking if we train it properly to pick up things earlier to get more support sooner to people so we do have less suffering. But what we need to learn, we need to learn how to ask good questions, how to evaluate results, how to use the tools ethically. Asking good questions is something sometimes we lose in schools. Um, Harvard has something called the qualitation formulation technique, QFT, which is really a process of just how to
022ask really good questions and what is an open question, closed question. How does that affect what you're learning? Good questions lead to good answers and leads to deeper understanding and learning. AI is really a literacy tool to make sure that our kids walk out of here, they are future ready. And we're just starting this work. We're really getting on our way to helping our teachers understand, our students understand, so they're ready no matter where they go. So meaningful learning in every student. One of the things that it really does remove is limited time, limited resources, and differentiation capacity. So we hear a lot of that term differentiation. I have 15, 20 kids in my room. I have four or five different reading levels. I have two different languages I have to translate to to have
023an English and a Russian and a Spanish. Those are languages we have here. That's an ex extremely amount of time. When you have a group of kids that it just didn't work and you have to retach the next day, that's two or three hours at home a teacher has to do without their family. But AI gives us the opportunity to help our struggling students get immediate feedback. It gives our advanced students that additional challenge that they may need. It gives our teacher more targeted small group time. And it gives that feedback. Learning is all about feedback, the give and take as we go forward. So, it helps us really meet our students where they are and advance their learning forward because that's the business that we're in. We are in the business of moving learners
024forward. Small incremental steps every day. And this is one of those tools that helps us do that. And really, it supports our teachers. It can't replace that relationship, that human connection, the encouragement, classroom culture, judgment, but it gives them more time back in their life in their classroom and at their home. Gives them more tools and more flexibility. We are growing number of needs in our classrooms. This is a tool that helps us meet that in real time. So, by supporting our teachers, we are supporting our Tri Valley students. So, Miss Petita is going to come up now and help do some of our next things. So, we're going to look at two different scenarios. Then, we're going to do a real life scenario. Miss Petit is actually the one who's in the VR expert
025at going through some of these lessons. So, we're going to look at the Bennett house. So, school day ends. She had her afternoon with her children. They're eating dinner. Her lesson at the end of the day flopped. Her kids when she was reviewing their formative assessment, it did not work. She can't go on tomorrow and do the lesson she already had planned. She needs to redo it tonight. So, what does that mean? That means making a core activity. She has some IEP and 504 students who need specific accommodations. She needs chunk directions. She needs a Spanish version and a Russian version and an English version. Some of them at two or three different levels. So, they're cleaning up. The kids are going to go play and all she says, "Give me a few minutes." She's
026going to try to get through, join her family. So, an hour goes by and the kids ask, "Mom, can you come play?" And she said, "Just give me a I'll be right there. I promise I will be right there cuz she's doing the work that she needs to do cuz those 20 kids back at school need her to be her best tomorrow. So her kids right now are missing out on time with their mother because she's doing the right thing. So 1 hour later she finishes all her work. She's ready to go. Getting dark out and dad has put to bed both children. They have to school tomorrow. She missed the whole evening because she's doing the right thing. And this happens often. and our teachers doing the right thing end up making sacrifices at
027home because they want to help our kids. So, a solution we have and one of there's many of them, but right now our school has partnered with Magic AI and we're going to go through that same activity that she needed to do that took her two hours and hopefully Miss Petite will do it in a couple minutes. So, while she goes through it, Magic School really does all those pieces we said. let you put your standard in. You can go ahead. It lets you look through. So, we're just going to go over a reading. We need a couple different things. We need questions. We need a reading comprehension. We need a differentiated. And these are the standards for Miss Patit's lesson plan that she's going to highlight and copy and put into her lesson. So,
028Miss Petite, you can talk to us before you go. >> So, right now, I'm thinking that I'm going to have my students work on finding a theme or central idea for one of my lessons. Um, so I'm thinking since my students didn't do so well at the lesson today that I might need to take the myth that I was working on and put it at some different reading levels. So for that I'm going to use our text leveler here. And so currently I'm going to go with my students are at a sixth grade level, but we need to sort of bring it down to a fourth grade level for one of my groups. So I'm going to go back in here. I'm going to take one of my myths. We read the myth of Prometheus
029this morning. It didn't go over so well. As soon as my mouse moves, I'm going to take that myth. I'm going to paste it in here and I'm and now what I'm essentially doing is asking it to generate the same myth at a fourth grade level. So, right now, Magic School is thinking and what it's doing is spitting out the myth of Prometheus at more of a fourth grade level, which means it's keeping the same content, but it's changing some of the vocabulary words there for the students so that they have a better understanding of it. Now knowing that I have to do this again, I can also focus on the kids who are reading at a higher level. So now if I have another group, I can type in here, can you make this
030at e grade level? >> And one of the good things about AI, it works in regular language like you would talk to someone. You don't have to code. You don't have to be expert at certain things. It's very intuitive and they've really built it that way to help people. So right now what I've done is I've generated the myth of Prometheus at the fourth grade level. Again, I'm still that human in the loop. I'm going to reread it to make sure. But instead of me wanting to just have to sit there and think about what are some words I can use. How can I make this myth more meaningful and connected to our students, I'm going to reread this quickly that's already been generated at the fourth grade level again. And then at the eighth
031grade level, Magic School is really wonderful, too, because it links with our Google Drive. So, I can take this and I can export it right into my Google Drive. So, I can take this and I'll click export. You give it a moment. It'll put it right into my Google Drive, which then I can connect right into my Google Classroom with my students. So, what would have taken me an hour to do, you've seen me do it in about two minutes right here. >> Can you make a vocabulary list and a hook for this lesson, too? In the same thread, I can ask, can you create a vocabulary list for each level about 10. So, here we are. starts giving us for the fourth grade level even taking it five six seven eight again what would
032have taken me time to go through comb through I'm still a human in the loop I'm still making sure but this is really great too because I able to look at it hit the different grade levels and then even find connections in vocabulary so when I'm teaching whole group I'll know that every group has come up with a similar word like counsel or sacred and I know that's a word I can speak to the whole group. When I pull the small groups, that's when I can focus on the very content specific words. Another tool is the lesson hook. So, since I teach sixth grade, I'm going to keep it at a sixth grade level. This would be a whole group. Um, I'm going to put uh Prometheus And again, that simple. It's going to spit
033out a couple different hooks that I can use with my students. So again, I'm still the teacher in charge. I'm going to comb through these three options and sort of figure out what's best for my students because I know my students. I know what's going to hook them in. But you can see the time that it just spit out that this could have taken me an hour a couple years ago without AI. So AI is really like a thought partner is how I think of it. um you know late at night when I'm trying to do my lessons, you know, sometimes I call it call call her my best friend. I'm going to chat with my best friend and just bounce some ideas off of her. Um and when I don't like something, I can
034say, you know, I'm not really feeling that. What else other ideas can you give me? And this again will continue to sort of converse back and forth. So that is the teacher end. So now it took two hours, maybe takes a half hour by the time she generates some options, combs through, does this fit what I need? Is this what I'm looking for? Does this meet my standard? Am I going to have the assessment I want? So now a half hour later, she can play games with her child. We have saved time. It is a tool that is really a timesaver. Miss Fat told us it was a thought partner, but it is a timesaver for everyone. And it gives our kids, it gives the teacher what they need when they need it. It's really
035a great tool for helping those things really helping differentiate and move through and depending on your prompts and the tool you like, you can get different perspectives on really what you want. Um, Google just has a generative AI certificate that they opened up where it can help teachers go through a two-hour professional development and really they could take some of their current lesson plans, load it up and ask it for some of these thoughts or ideas. I have a class that really likes sports and I have a class that really likes music. I need two different lessons that meet my standard, but I need options for both. So, I have my different groups of kids do it to really get them engaged going through the material, but hooking on, you know, some of their interests
036to get that buy in. So, now we're going to look at some opportunities, especially with no book LM with a student. So, this does happen. Kids miss school for whatever reason. We have Ryan. He's an athlete. He plays football. He's after school. He's doing the right thing. He had a tragedy in his family. He had a family loss. He missed school for two or three days and he comes back to school. So, not only is he grieving, but he's missed multiple classes, multiple lessons, and he's trying to catch up. He just doesn't have a way. He only has one study hall a day. It doesn't line up with what his teachers are doing. And his teachers have 20 other kids to stay after school that much. He wants to get back on the team. We
037don't want him to have to stop doing what he loves, especially in time of griefing because he has to catch up on some of his work and trying to understand. So, we're going to look at how does Notebook LM help a student like this do it. So, Notebook LM is simply where you can take all your lessons for that week that you did, your PowerPoints, any of your worksheets, and you can load it into Notebook LM just like you would have had with this teacher. It can make you a short video, five to seven minutes to kind of give you that initial taste of what did I miss. You can listen to an audio podcast. You can ask the podcast questions. We're going to try to do that based on our presentation right now. It
038gives you an infographic. It can give you that summary of all that work on one or two page briefing document. Gives you flashcards. And one of the best parts to really know if you understand. Rereading your notes gives you that familiarity with the material, but it doesn't really help you do the retrieval practice, that science of learning, like, do I actually know when this resource is gone? Self- quizzing does that. That's why flash cards work. Quizzes. Can I retrieve the information accurately and get the answer right? Great at generating those practices. So, he's able to look at his week's worth of work. When he comes back to school the next day, he understands most of it. But now what he needs to do is can have a targeted conversation for those two or three minutes
039that the teacher can carve out for him in that 45 minute period, 40-minute period and get the direct support he needs to have that follow-up question. So he has a general understanding and he can get that targeted support because he had the opportunity to use this tool. So we're just going to take a quick look at it. If anyone's ever used it before, we do some videos from it. It's keeps evolving. This is one of those tools that keeps evolving through. So, we're just going to click on click on the top infographic first right there. So, just an idea. We only uploaded one source. You could upload many more. It really has summarized our entire presentation into an infographic. It's a quick reference of what we've done and what we've gone through. Okay. So, teacher
040generates all the resources on the side. You're able to go through on the right hand side gives them all the different options that they would like. It sometimes to do video it takes a couple minutes, but we pre-generated everything. So, we're just going to go down to where we can ask it a question. Anyone have a question they want to ask the AI? I can ask one if you want. Can you explain guardrail number one a little deeper for me? >> Can you explain using guardrail number one for me? Little sassy sometimes. That's it. So as a student you can ask it. Now it is limited by what you uploaded. So if you asked it some random question about how it affected say farming or how did we talk about the change of cars that
041wasn't in our presentation. would not be able to answer you that um Notebook LM stays within your resources unless you allow it to go out to the website. We've only been using as using the resources that we have. So, we're going to talk about a real life um AI kind of talk that I had with my brother. So, again, it's really removing time. It's removing barriers. So, my brother is a chief medical physicist at Yale. So, we're at a niece and nephew's four-year-old birthday party last month. They're laughing at me behind. Um, so four-year-old, have you ever been at a four-year-old birthday party? It's a little hectic and chaotic with little ones running around, but we're talking about how is he using AI? How am I using AI in our work? So, what he's doing,
042they're looking at algorithms for treatment plans. So radiation treatment, if you don't know about it, usually you have to sit on the table, they scan you because your organs move, and then they have to do what's called contour mapping. So essentially, they have to see where your organs are so they can direct the dose correctly to get the most effectiveness per dose. This can be extremely painful for patients that are suffering especially from cancer or pancreatic cancer or different types. We're holding that position for 15, 20, 30 minutes is excruciating. They're working on an AI to look at the mapping to give the report to the physicist who can then take that 15 minutes that that patient just had to sit there while we looked at the imaging down to 3 minutes. That saves someone
04312 minutes per session. That is someone in a span of a week who's saving an hour less of agony having to just sit there and have their pictures looked at. So my our own family as we're going to I brought in here a lot. My mother had to go through this is Sloan. And when I picked her up at Sloan when we asked you know how you doing tell me about treatment her response was the most painful thing was holding that position while I got to treatment. Other than that it was okay. If AI gives us opportunity to help people to help relieve suffering our children deserve to have a voice in that conversation. We need to be teaching our children really what is there in the future. What are they going to be able
044to do? How is this a tool that assists them do better at their job? We can't just pretend like it's not here. It is here. And as educators and people who help kids learn, it's our responsibility to prepare them for the world. And we're looking at doing that. We're building capacity with our teachers. We're building it in. And we will get there. And we will be better. And our kids will be better. it will make a bigger impact on everyone else. Do we have any questions? >> You mentioned the magic ad platform. Um what are the cost? >> The cost for magic school AI which goes through law 2D is about 5600 I believe. We buy it through Boseis. So we get about 26% aid back on it. It has built-in training. I believe it
045has up to six or seven modules for it. Really intuitive. Google Gemini is really kind of starting to catch up to it. Um Kim is very good at building what's called gems. So as you saw her click on those different boxes. Um you can build your own gem to kind of do similar things. It's not quite there yet, but they're on like an arms race of who's going to catch up with who and who's better. So it's it's quite an interesting time really to be in. >> Is everyone in the school using this now? >> We're slowly working on it. So, we have two notebook LM trainings uh tomorrow and we've had Magic School trainings before and Miss Petit is here to help anyone who needs assistance with it. We get we look at some
046of the usage and there's some apps that are used. Um people use Gemini, Brisk, um sometimes chat, but really Gemini and Magic School at the top two of people reported using. >> Thank you. >> What is the youngest age students we have utilizing? Uh currently we're not re we're really using just for teachers right now. We have not the only thing we've rolled out is magic school has a student platform. A couple teachers in the high school are working with Miss Petite to pilot um really the feedback in their writing. So I believe you have three classrooms current four classrooms right now who are just piloting the teacher version. So we've not unleashed it to everyone yet. we are being slow and precise about how we do it and kind of seeing what it is
047because again it's a we have to have regardless and we have to teach our kids how to use it but we also need to learn how to use it effectively first. >> You mentioned teaching our students to use it responsibly. So what are we doing to keep them from just taking a picture of a question, plugging it into AI and then answering the question? So at at home we have no control over that. But if you're teacher I can get the right answer. I come in with a do now very similar question put it up as they're walking around you can see who knows how to do the work or not. One of the benefits of AIS instead of taking a picture and say solve for me help me work through it. Give me step
048by step and then eventually getting give me another practice problem so they actually learn how to do it. That's the only real way. And one of the benefits of doing it that way is I didn't learn how to do it wrong. So when we talk about memory and science of learning, if I did it wrong 20 times, our brain doesn't care on a test or quiz later on that that was wrong. You learned it that way. It's very hard to unlearn and rewire to do it the right way. It's just one of those learning processes where the more I do it one way is the more the deeper my retrieval comes in and my encoding does. So, it has a tool to help make a homework more effective if we're putting it out that way.
049We have not done anything formal with students or curriculum um yet at this point. We're really working on with teachers to use it effectively in the room. So, AI is uh it's almost uh scary how how efficient it is. Um, I know in the professional world if I get an email from someone that's written an AI, it almost like makes me upset. I'm like, it's like you you didn't put any effort into your or your your points aren't here um in your words. Are you finding that uh this is affecting how our kids write um or or like are they leaning on it too much? And and I know I am full a full believer in AI and I know this is where the world's going. I just want to make sure our kids still
050know how to to write without relying on >> it's a great tool as a problem to help you get that blank page going. It's a thought partner. We are starting to implement what's called the writing revolution. It's very it's a handwritten one. It's very systematic. It starts with sentence structure down the elementary school. We had training this year. We've kind of slowly bumped it up into the secondary school. We did a some little bit of training this year with the seventh and eighth grade teachers. We're going to kind of push that a little more next year with what we're able to do. Teaching them to write good sentences or getting feedback on how to write good sentences is really the key. Instead of saying, "I need a this written. I need an email for Frank
051about this." And just letting it write it. You're always in charge. So, you can write your draft, ask for feedback to make it sound more professional. And they're doing that in colleges, too. Um, some people are having kids write using AI and then they're trading with another partner to want to evaluate the writing and then check the sources. So, they're learning how to use it as an effective tool. It is going to be part of writing. Um, TWWR is a great systematic writing to really see in all subjects. Can kids write good sentences? is I know Miss Batista worked with some of the seventh and eighth grade to do some of the writing and social studies and math where it's systematic, it's a reading, it's learning to write good sentences, it's writing kind of those
052gists or summary sentences where you can see if you just AI everything teachers are very um aware of students writing. >> Okay. So yeah, so they're not slipping that stuff past you guys. Nobody's >> I don't think so. Are they not too much? I got so I mean you can tell right the simple thing is you give them a piece of paper you can go on Google and say here write it and then you go on Google history and you can really see using an AI to catch an AI is kind of hard and they're finding especially in college that's what it is colleges that it gets it wrong 10 to 15 20% of the time especially if you're a more talented writer and then you get some problems that you said you cheated but
053I really wrote it myself let's go through my history and go and then it's a lot of rigomear roll and you don't want discourage a child by saying you cheated because it's just too good. You you are not capable of that. We want kids to be assisted with AI so they are capable that they can get there. And that's what every field is doing. It's taking kids who maybe not have the greatest skills or they're new or novice at a job and really making them more towards that expert level, that 5, 10, 15 years of experience to help whoever they're working with. >> I think you I think it's a good thing that we're you guys are on it and you're you're staying up with it. I can tell you that um I just saw
054uh a program the other day that does facial wreck uh for partial faces that runs through all social media databases and it it was plucking half faces from pictures in the background from other countries where someone was on vacation and they're caught in someone else's picture and that's coming up the queue. So, it's it's wild what this is doing. >> It's a it's truly a new frontier. Anybody else? >> I appreciate the uh what you're doing. Um I've been a skeptic. I've uh don't understand it that much, but uh in the last two weeks, I certainly found out about it. And uh you're right, medicine is going to come a long ways especially. Thank you. >> Welcome. We're in the infasy of medicine really looking at proteins and talking about little um folds and what
055that means with cancer early detection. It's we are in the infasy of the change. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you. >> Good job. >> All right. Next we have uh Sarin Long doing the budget overview budget revenues tax cap contingency budget. All right. While they're getting that fired up, we're just going to do a recap of the three components that we've been uh talking about for the last uh three board meetings. I'm going to get into the overall budget. I'm going to look at our revenues for 2627. Talk about our tax cap, our tax levy, and then our contingency budget. So again, as you can tell, and we've been really emphasizing this with all we've done this year, we are so rooted in our kids and everything that we do is for them. So
056it is about our purpose and our direction and it's about making our kids forward thinking, really successful, all of our kids. We went through the three components. So just a quick recap, the capital component is um going to be projected at about a negative where we're going to go decrease of 8%. This is our equipment. This is our custodial and maintenance departments, all the things that they need to purchase to keep the buildings clean and running. Our administrative component is our board, all of our uh administrators, and that looks like it's about an 11.8% increase right now. And really that is because of some proper budget coding that we did. We've done a ton of work to get our our codes proper moving the way they should be. This is the program component. This is
057our largest component of our budget and we're projecting a about a 4.7% increase with that. So taking a look overall, this is what it looks like. Um overall we are looking at about a 4% increase in our budget for 2627. So, moving to about a $39.6 million budget. One of the blessings of this and one of the great things that we've been working on is just some real fiscal responsibility and within this within putting this budget together, we have not had to sacrifice any programming at all. There's been no gaps in extracurricular activities. There has been no cutting of staff. And on top of that, within the last 18 months, we have settled and negotiated three all three of our bargaining unit contracts. Our TVA is in its final stages, and we hope to bring
058that to you for approval at the next meeting. So, all of those changes, all of those increases without losing program or staff only going out at a 4% increase. And it's something I think we should all be very proud of. Here's a look at our revenues. And here's a couple other really proud points. So, we're looking at about $22.8 million in taxes that we will be collecting. Our pilots, we have two pilots right now. We have a pilot with um the hemlock, which is for, let me tell you, it's for the FH Lodge, which is the hemlock place. That's a pilot for about $22,000. We also have a pilot with the West Delaware Hydro Associates, and that's a hydro electric generating facility. That's a $97,000 pilot. We are predicting there's going to be another pilot
059for the 2728 school year out of Falsburg. It's going to bring in about $15,000 for us. This is a really great one and another compliment to our community. This is interest and penalties. We only collect about $12,000 a year in our interest and penalties. And these are for people that don't pay their taxes on time. And when we bring that information to you in in the fall, we usually can say we're at 95% or more of our folks paying their taxes on time. So where some districts are collecting 50 $75,000 in interest in penalties because people aren't paying their taxes, we don't have that here at Tri Valley. If you go down to interest in earnings, um we're going estimating really low on that one. We currently have all of our reserves in um a
060CD in several CDs with Wayne Bank. We've been working very closely with them. We locked into a six-month CD at 3.8% interest and so we're going to start to see some better interest coming out of those reserves. We also have our other more fluid money um invested in NClass and so that is getting a daily interest rate. It's floating between 3.5 and 3.7, but it's a daily rate and it's compounding. So again, we've been really diligent about investing our money. So we're hoping that that interest in earning projections come out to be higher next year. Uh the Boseies refund a few lines down that one is usually it's it's right around um the number that we have. It really depends on how many kids actually go into the Boseies programs. In January, we have to
061do an initial service request with Boseies and basically rent our seats, buy our seats for the next year. So, we estimate 50 kids to go to our career and tech program. We might have seven or eight that go into an alled ed and then we've got our elementary kids that to go to Boseies. Um, so again, that alternates. It just really depends on how many kids are in the program. Uh so this year we're able to take our applied fund balance and we're looking at rolling over 2.9 million which is a $600,000 increase from last year. Again starting to be really cognizant of our spending making sure we get to at least that 4% when we have our auditors in to um look at our our books over the summer. So what does that mean
062for all of us? Um so our tax cap that was calculated came out at 3.83%. 83%. We are asking the board to consider going out at 2.99 this year. The reason we're doing that is on top of us being really cognizant and fiscally responsible, we also are planning for probably a 26% decrease in our federal dollars. And those are some of our big ticket grants. So those are the ones that are doing our academic interventions. those are the ones that are offering opportunities for our students to engage in steam activities or musicals and plays and so we don't want to lose that program and we are anticipating seeing some cuts at the federal level. So I broke it down into some full market value for our taxpayers and for you to understand a little bit
063better. If we I did three samples of homes, if a home was valued at $100,000, $300,000, or $500,000, if we went out at a point 299% increase, um overall, the difference between last year's taxes and this year's taxes for a house of worth $100,000 would be $32. If it was a $300,000 home, it would be a $96 increase. And if it was a $500,000 home, it would be a $161 increase. And we just want to put that in perspective because, you know, this is a scary time of year. And we do know that our taxpayers, the only thing they can vote on is the school budget. So, we want to show our fiscal responsibility, but we also want to be really cognizant of um what what our folks do for us in the community. So,
064uh contingency budget. This kind of moves us forward. If um we go to a vote and we have we have uh two times that the budget goes down, we need to go right to a contingency budget. And so what that does is it puts some pretty serious restrictions restrictions on things. I just want to review those. So if we have to go to a contingency budget, we automatically cannot increase anything. We are at a 0% increase from the previous year's levy. We are very prohibited on our our purchases. We cannot buy any new equipment except for health and safety. We cannot buy any non-essential furniture. We could not buy any new vehicles, new trucks, a sidebyside, a lawnmower, anything like that. It would also be really impactful on our community. So, we offer adult ed
065throughout the whole year. We would have to charge folks in our community to come in and use our buildings. We would not be able to house any of our community partners. Bearcup basketball would have to pay. little league would not be able to use our building for their signups. They would have to pay um any private groups or you know that ask to use our facilities that we offer. We wouldn't be able to do that without charging a fee. We would have to restrict all administrative spending. So we would not be able to and I kind of have it up there under 2526 in the first column at the bottom. our administrative spending which is a formula when you take the admin component and the program component you divide it by the admin component you
066get this percentage last year it was 12.39% we could not go over that so in our contingent budget we have built it in for 12.3%. We still would have to do all of our required instructional programs. All of our special ed services would have to happen. Transportation is required by law and you know there are some districts that have gone to this level where they've had to have students walk to school because within you can walk within 2 miles. We don't have sidewalks. We don't have you know safe places for kids to walk to school and that would be something we wouldn't want to do. we would still have to be required to follow all contract obligations and then all health and safety requirements. So, as a reminder, our voter registration is May 13th and
06714th. It's in the district office from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. And then our school v vote is May 19th. It'll be in the secondary school lower level gym from 1 to 8:00 p.m. What questions can I answer? percentage do you expect on state aid? What are they talking about and what do you think you uh so so for what we've seen for our number from the aid? It's about a 2.2 increase in foundation aid. It's coming in at 12,735,000. It's a little bit of an increase. Um, last year we had a 2% in our foundation aid with the new Rockefeller study that came out. Well, we moved up to 2.2% for this year. >> With the increase you have for the fund balance, where does that put us? >> What percent? >> So, I won't
068have that number yet until we actually close out our books and then we see what all of our bills are paid and that'll become, you know, in July. We're having our auditors come in much earlier this year so that we'll have that number right away. Um, we're hoping to be at at five or 6%. Mhm. All right, I'll jump right into my superintendent report. All right, very good. So, uh, tomorrow morning I am meeting with Senator Oberacer and Assemblywoman Kay to continue this kind of advocacy. our superintendents are meeting with them um again about full restoration of those federal grants. It's really critical. We want to keep working with the state but also with the federal government to ensure that our kids are getting the what they deserve. Um yep and we're just kind of
069watching closely where New York State's going to line up with those federal grants because as I was talking about in the previous presentation about that inner fund transfer. So if the federal government gives us this much and it doesn't come up, we come up short, the state only gives us 80% of that. We're responsible for making that up. So we're advocating too for the state to really be cognizant of that. Another thing happening in our county, as you know, Bob Deor retired and so a consultant firm has been hired by Sullivan County Boseies to do a feasibility study. And so I'm going to be going to an interview on Monday afternoon at Boseies with this consulting team. um we had to do some preliminary feedback when when this was happening and I was very honest
070I I feel it's very healthy for us to take a look at opportunities that we could have if we merged with other Boseies and uh we've been breaking down as superintendent the cost for administrative services at Boseies versus if we combined with like an orange olster Boseies what that would do for the districts and there is some significant cost savings on top of programming coming. Um, so it's just the beginning talks, but I I do want you to know that I will be participating in that. Uh, as Frank mentioned, tomorrow is a professional development day for our staff, and I have to thank Frank for what he has done. We have something for everyone. Tomorrow morning, we have, I would say, 70 people going to Falsburg for trainings all day. We've got every all of
071our aids are going. Um, we've got our our culinary team is going. We're hosting about a hundred people from Falls Ambosis for trainings. We've got a PE training happening. Uh and then we've got all of our in-house trainings and and Frank has done a great job. He's created about 40 different learning options just in house for our staff. And so we've got buses coming to pick up our staff tomorrow morning to take them to falls. We've got lunches here. We got lunches there. And it'll be a really great day of learning for people to take advantage of. And then finally in front of you tonight you have um a little packet with our geese our our geese update. So we have ordered um these beacons and the beacons flash a light at the eye level
072of a goose. They're solar powered, so they go into the ground and then um they flash and they're meant to keep the geese off during the day and especially at night because I don't think the geese close their eyes all the way and it's just supposed to be annoying. Comes with a money back guarantee. Um this is a company out of Ohio that I've been talking with a lot. So, we have ordered six of them. Um they they span 100 yards. One is going to go at each goal post and then it'll cover the track. One is going up by the shed at the baseball field. So it should cover the baseball field. One is going to the softball field and maybe we got four. And then the on the next page we have uh
073one that floats in the water. So that one is going into Lake George. So got those are on the way. And there's a little bit of a um flyer just about information with that. We have ordered uh containers of goose goose granular repellent that covers 7,500 square f feet. We've got four coming. Um it's a it's a 20dayish spread. So we're going to get those out on the fields and on the grass and see what happens with those. It's the same thing that that Pat had presented to us. They're all natural ingredients, pepper and um those kind of things. And then on the last page, we have ordered some flags. And so they are navy blue and red and they're if we were going to get those things that blow up, you have to buy
074a motor with them and you have to be able to get electricity to the motor. So these we've ordered about 15 of these, maybe 18 of these. And so we're going to cover the sidewalks with them. They stick into the ground and they just go in the wind um just as a deterrent. So we're going to be really strategic where we put them and we're going to give this a try. So I wanted you to be aware. I also had shared with you that letter to be uploaded to the D and I will work on that tomorrow. Get all the addresses filled out and if you're good with that letter I will get that in. >> Any questions? >> What's the expenditure thus far? >> So, uh, we spent a little under 5,000 on this
075putting this together. I I kind of was looking at about 12 to 15,000. So, the prices came in good. Mrs. Striker did some badgering today when she was ordering the flags and she got a little bit of a discount on some of them. So, she was she's a good shopper for us. >> In reference to the budget, a while back, Cuomo put a maximum on the amount that it it can go up. Does that apply to school district? Because people have asked me that because I know municipalities had a deadline that they had to uh re u referendum. So, uh, does that apply to school districts? >> I'm not I'm not sure I understand. >> I'm sorry. >> I'm not sure I understand you what you're asking. >> Yeah, I think it was only two
076or 2% that budgets could go up. >> So, that is that is the tax cap. So, it's you you can go 2% above the tax cap, but that requires a majority. You have to have 60% of your voters to approve that. We're not anywhere near the tax cap. We're staying below it. >> That's what I wanted to know. >> Yes. That that's still in play. Thank you, >> Erin. I just want to thank you for moving forward with our goose initiative. Yes. And then hopefully they just >> relocates to other places. >> Let's try it. I've got I've got a sample coyote over here and and they'll be out on the lawn tomorrow and Jesse was going to wait for it just to dry out a little bit more and I will email the staff
077right away first thing in the morning so we don't have any calls to the D or anybody that we've got raid coyotes on our front lawn. We really Yeah, should be fun. >> You're sending the letter to Mr. Rush. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you. Thank you for taking uh Horn's operation way with peace. Uh it's very important and you know we've and Carrie and I we spoke about this most times bunch of them go forward. It it sounds like such a trivial thing until your kids are like rolling around in it during football season. It's on their face. >> Oh yeah. >> It's just I mean the track becomes almost unusable. >> So >> $5,000 to get rid of that. I'm all about. >> Thank you. >> Letter was well written. Thank you. >>
078Thank you. >> All right. Number eight, items the board wants pulled from tonight's agenda. We have an item. Okay. Number nine, the consent agenda. Resolution to approve the entire consent agenda. Do I have a motion? Motion by Jerry. I have a second. Second by Nicole. We will any discussion prior to we will vote electronically. See? I'm not getting anything. >> Do my hand. All in favor, raise your right hand. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, Board of Education does hereby approve the entire consent agenda, categories 8 through 13. For the record, that is all right. Uh item 15, old business. Item 16, public comment session for items that are not on agenda if we have those item 17 new business. First we have the
079tenure appointment of Michelle Einoff. This is an action motion >> to move. >> We have a motion by George, second by Pat. We have some uh discussion prior to >> Yes. Good evening. And Michelle is here this evening has held out through all of this. So I just wanted to read um my letter of appointment and recommendation for Michelle Einoff. So I am writing to strongly recommend Miss Michelle Einloth for tenure in the English department. Throughout her time at our school, Miss Einloth has consistently demonstrated the professionalism, dedication, and instructional skill that exemplify an outstanding educator. One of Miss Einlaw's greatest strengths is the nurturing and accepting classroom environment that she cultivates for her students. From the moment students enter her classroom, it is clear they are entering a space where they are valued, respected,
080and encouraged to share their ideas. Miss Einoff intentionally creates an atmosphere where all students feel comfortable participating, asking questions, and engaging in meaningful discussion. This inclusive environment al allows students of all backgrounds and abilities to feel confident and supported in their learning. Students respond to this environment with a high level of respect and engagement. It is evident that they enjoy being in Miss Ana's classroom where mutual respect and a strong sense of community are priorities. She builds positive relationships with her students while maintaining clear expectations resulting in a classroom culture where students are both supported and accountable. Instructionally, Miss Einoff demonstrates a strong command of the English curriculum, and uses thoughtful strategies to engage students in reading, writing, and critical thinking. Her lessons encourage students to analyze text deeply, participate in discussions, and develop confidence
081in expressing their ideas and perspectives. In addition to her work in the classroom, Miss Einoff is a valued member of our faculty who collaborates effectively with colleagues and contributes positively to our school community. Her commitment to supporting students academically and socially reflects the qualities we seek in educators who make a lasting impact on students and the school as a whole. Based on Miss Einlaw's dedication to her students, her ability to create a respectful and inclusive learning environment, and her commitment to high quality instruction, I recommend her without reservation for tenure. >> That's an outstanding uh support. All right, we're going to do a a hand vote on this one. Uh all in favor raise your right hand. Any oppose? Motion carries unanimously. Uh be it resolved that in compliance with the provisions of section 3013
082of the education law and part 30 of the rules of the board of regents and upon the recommendation of Aaron Long, superintendent Michelle Einlaw, probationary teacher having been appointed to the by the board of education to three fouryear probationary appointment in the tenure area of English language arts 7 through 12 effective April 12th of 2021 and having been shown that Michelle holds a valid New York State certificate number 1832695241 in the Tri Valley Central School District now by resolution of this board of education dated March 12th 6. This board of education does hereby appoint Sha Einloth to tenure in the area of English language arts 7 through 12 effective March 16th 2026. So Michelle, congratulations and for your hard work. We've got these delicious homemade cookies if you'd like to grab one. and then we'll
083get done with the meeting and then everybody else can grab on and we can sing happy birthday to Mrs. Pulley. But thank you and congratulations Michelle. Thank you for all you do. >> Awesome. All right, next we have a donation to New Hope. I'm sorry, donation from New Hope. Um this is an action. Do I have a motion? Motion by Jerry. Do I have a second? Second by Pat. Any discussion? All right, we'll do it by hand. Raise your right hand if you are in favor. All right, that's a unanimous vote. In favor, be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the donation of 30 books, Nia and Brain Bunch for use in the elementary school by New Hope. Moving on to uh subject
084C is donation tractor supply. This is an action. Do I have a motion? Motion >> motion by Travis. Do I have a second? Second by Pat. We'll raise your right hand if you are in favor. Any oppose? Motion carries unanimously. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the donation of six commercial quality heat with safety cages for incoming chicks by Tractor Supply Liberty. All right. Next we have subject the donation Tessa. Do I have a motion? Motion by Carrie. Do I have a second? >> Second by Travis. Uh we'll do a a hand vote. Right hand if you're in favor. All right. Motion carries unanimously. Be resolved that upon the recommendation of superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the
085donation of $650 in support of a senior to attend the senior trip by Tessa. That is outstanding. All right. Then we have uh E donation final law enforcement motorcycle club. We have a motion. Motion by Jerry. Do I have a second? Second by Carrie. Raise your right hand if you are in favor. All right. We are unanimously in favor of this. We have resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the donation of $950 in support of a senior to attend the senior trip by final call law enforcement motorcycle. Outstanding. All right. Next, we have the 2025 2026 uh agreement in Tri Valley Central School District and Debra agreement. This is a motion. I'm sorry, this is an action motion. Motion by Carrie, second by Rose.
086Uh if you are in favor, raise your right hand. Carries unanimously. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the 2025 2026 agreement between the Tri Valley Central School District and the DevOp Foundation as attached the executive session to the agenda. All right. Then we have uh subject G resolution DCMO resolution for cooperative purchasing school year 25-26. This is an action. Do I have a motion? Motion by Jerry. Do I have a second? A call. Uh any discussion? All those in favor raise your right hand. That motion also carries unanimously. Whereas the cooperative purchasing service is a plan of a number of public school districts in the Delaware, Shenango, Madison, Sego, Ois area, New York to bid jointly equipment supplies contract and whereas the
087central school name below is desirous of participating with other districts in the Delorango Madison in the joint bidding of the items mentioned above as authorized by general municipal law section 119- O and whereas as the central school name below wishes to appoint Delaware, Schnango, Madison, Stabosce the responsibility for drafting of specification, adver advertising for bids, accepting and opening bids, tabulating bids, and awards bids on their behalf. Therefore be it resolved that the board of education of the central school listed below authorizes the Delaware Shenango Madison Stegois represented in all matters leading up to the entrying into a contract for the per purchase of the above mentioned commodities and be it further resolved that the board of education of the central school listed below agrees to one assume its equitable share of the costs of the
088cooperative bidding two abide by majority decisions of the participating members three that it will award contracts based on information provided from the bid. Four, abide by the award of the Boseies. Five, and that after the award of the bid, it will conduct all negotiations directly to successful bidder. All right. H resolution uh DCMO resolution for food cafeteria supplies school year 26 27. This is action. Do we Motion, >> second by Travis. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Any discussion? >> Have a question. I see it says 2627. >> That takes in all next year. Then the 27th. So when is it in? December. >> The bid is for the the 26 27 school year. So the new bids will come out around May 15th. But then you do your bidding for your supplies and equipment for
089the 26 27 school year. >> How do you budget for that? >> So we have a guesstimate of of what we spend on supplies. We don't necessarily use the food, but we want to keep that option open, but we do buy a lot of our paper supplies through DCMO. We buy a lot of uh our our pencils, our pens, our notebooks, our glue sticks, you know, those kind of things. And so what we've been able to do this year is right now all of our supply requisitions are in and they're being processed because May I think we saw May 1st May 15th the new DCMO Bosey's bid comes out and it's going to be an increase. So, we're able to purchase right now all of our supplies and materials for our teachers this year with
090this budget so that we can stay under that cost of the increase that we're going to see when they put out their new bid. Um, it also helps a ton with our ordering and getting things ordered early instead of later. So, that lets our accounts receivable person, Melody, proc them process them in her own pace so supplies can come in. you can make sure everything's we've got what we need and we're way ahead of the game and our goal is to do that forward moving on. So next year we will order supplies for the following year on next year's budget. Does >> that make sense what I'm saying? >> It it does, but um it says for food and cafeteria supplies, how is pencils and teacher supplies? >> So the other one that we just
091did was their DCMO. The other one we just approved. So we do a lot with DCMO. They have the best pricing. We get our fuels from them. We do our our supplies. >> That's not this one though. >> No, this one is cafeteria food and supplies. While we're not buying food from them yet, we we do want to keep that option open. So, we want to approve that. But we do go into DCMO for um napkins and paper products and cups and things. They have they have the best pricing. Thank you. >> It's just stretched out some more. That was a question. >> Yes. >> Any more discussion on this item? >> All right, we'll do a vote by hand. Raise your right hand if you're in favor. Right, we have another unanimous vote. Whereas
092it is a plan of a number of public school districts in the Delaware, Shenango, Massen, SGO, Boseis area in New York. bid jointly cafeteria supplies including but not limited to food paper items and whereas the central school name below is desirous participating with other district's area in the joint bidding of the items mentioned above is authorized by general municipal law section 19- and whereas the central school name below wishes to appoint a committee made up of participating schools to assume the responsibility for drafting of specifications advertising for bids accepting and opening bids tabulating bids providing the information to their board of education will make the awards. Therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the central school listed below hereby appoints the Delaware Shinango Madisono Boseies representing all matters relating above and designating
093the evening sun newspaper as the legal publication for all cooperative purchasing bid notation. And be it further resolved that the board of education central school listed below authorizes the above committee to represent all matters leading up to entering into a contract for purchase of the above mentioned items. And be it further resolved that the board of education the central school listed below agrees to one abide by the majority of the decisions of the participating districts quality standards. Two that it will award contracts based on information provided from the bid. three and that after the award of the bid it will conduct all negotiations directly with the successful bidder. All right. Oh boy. I 18. Uh we'll go to the board comment session. Want to start with uh Chris? anything. Okay, so nothing new with the
094students. I've been asking around. They have no new comments or anything. Nothing major. I just would like to say that the color wars and competition night coming up. Uh school spirit is up a lot right now. Everyone's super happy for them. Uh spring sports started as well. That's great. I'm seeing a lot more people um just on track and field, a lot of new faces. I think uh sports has been up and I also like the SAT prep that they're doing for the juniors. I think that's a great program and I've been to one of them and it was really good. And I also want to say happy birthday to Mrs. Polley. >> Chris, can I ask you a quick question? >> Yeah. Uh, the word on the street was that the food was busing
095the other day and I did watch the videos. So, I learned some new slang slang this morning. But, uh, >> how's the food? >> The food is I would say the food is busting. Um, I did I did try the pizza. Uh, you did recommend. As I said, I was more of a sandwich guy, but I tried the pizza. >> Hey, how was Pizza was amazing. The hot lunch is great. The sandwich line is great. I see there's a lot more options >> for the salad bar >> and the sandwich line. They have like different cheeses. It's great. >> Wonderful. Thanks, Chris. Keep me posted on that. Check with your friends. Okay, >> Rose. >> You know, I keep telling my daughter to check out the salad bar. She has yet to venture into the
096cafeteria to check things out. So hopefully I can work on her with that. Um I wanted to say I had the privilege of attending the poetry slam um last night and I was just blown away at um the bravery that some of those students had just to get up on stage you know takes a lot and to see those kids even the ones who struggled push through and complete their poems. I think that's fantastic that so many students participated. I laughed. I cried. It It was a really good time. That's it. A couple things. One is congratulations. Good for her. Get home safe. But congratulations. Um I wanted to wish good luck to Kane and Anna as they compete at the Nike New Balance Nationals. Make your Tri Valley proud as always. Um, happy 29th
097birthday to Carrie. And that's all >> shout out to the maintenance. I think it was a trying year this year and we certainly did a good job. I haven't heard any complaints and every time you come down everything's cleaned up. Um, I think it Thank you to for the donation should be sent out. And um I've noticed that uh we've had some uh pretty great athletes uh here at Tri Valley and uh they're moving on now and uh moving up in more competition and u little Tri Valley. We should be really really proud of those kids. Well, all >> the public and kind of bringing us up to speed about and teaching the people out there that are not familiar with it at all. We really do appreciate that. Oh, one last thing. If you
098are putting out the coyotes all over the place, maybe we could put a Tri Valley bear around the neck or something or >> Oh, yeah. We'll put some swag on it. >> Yeah, a little bit of swag would be great. >> That might help people when they drive by calling and there's a coyote on the loose. So, thank you. >> Good thinking. >> All right. >> Couple Sundays ago, uh, my family and I watched the play that was put on. The children did such an amazing job. Kudos to all the staff that helped put it together. It was awesome. My children went home and watched Newsies and actually said, "I think the kids at school did it better." So kudos to them. Uh follow up on the play. So I came also on the Sunday
099matinea. What the microphones were a little bit of a struggle for them, but you know the the show goes on and they didn't defeat. Um, is that something we rent or do we own that equipment here at the school? >> So, we own that equipment. Um, and that's been a problem. I was talking to Mr. Bodzford before the meeting. He would like to do some type of a donation and a different type of microphone that comes from the ear to here because what's happening is the the kids, they're they're fragile and they're they're not kids don't always treat them, you know, like they should. But when they try to put it in the other ear, they're actually bending the wire to get it across your mouth and that's causing them to to break. So, we
100do know that that is an issue. I know last time we talked with um Regina, Mr. Snder and I were talking about like a replacement plan and buying some higher quality ones and then try to replace them, but making sure they're well preserved after the play for the next play. But Mr. Botsford was asking me tonight about um either a fundraiser or some type of donation that could be done just solely to purchase purchase those. >> Yeah, it was something that was brought to my attention during the show, before the show, after the show. So, I just wanted to make sure it was on our radar. Um because they do put so much time and effort and so many late nights here. Um but again, they didn't miss a beat. They just kept on doing
101their um their performing and it it was phenomenal. really well done. Um I know a lot of us were guest readers also um in the elementary school. It was phenomenal. Thank you for the invite. I surprised my nieces and they were genu they were genuinely surprised. So it was made me feel really good and it was so nice to interact with the little ones down there. Um and visit >> I'd also like to say thank you for being a guest reader and happy birthday Carrie. I do want to say really quick that the donation of the motorcycle club came from Ed who is our evening atlas worker and uh you know he's been in and learning the ropes and getting to know our district but really wanted to do something um for Tri Valley and
102I'm sure there'll be much more coming from his club. So Ed was the one that spearheaded that. >> Awesome. Definitely say something. >> Um >> I also have one more thing. I also had the privilege of on Saturday attending all county at Liberty. Our children are so well behaved. Um I stayed for the youngest group, but man, they did such a good job and they were prepared. They all stood up there with such grace. Great job again. >> We No, don't say sorry. We have impressive kids here. George, you have something to add. You want to give something? >> Uh yeah. Um maybe an update on Ball Mayor Cub. >> So I am um speaking with our attorney tomorrow and she's got all of the information that we've been working on and then I'm going
103to look for some guidance from her and then we'll update the board on on our next steps. >> All right. Um Newsies was awesome. Uh we caught a show. We had some laughs. The kids are great. Again, the sound system. I had someone from a neighboring district that does sound stuff, come up to me and say that we have some decent equipment. They'd be willing to call over and kind of help make things smoother if that's whatever it takes. Um, but that seems to be something while um poetry slam. Um, uh, Dev and Mr. Haynes, you guys did a great job. Those kids like it was just like, all right, not every kid's going to be a poet, right? Not everybody's going to get up there and kill it. But these kids went up there
104and the ones that struggled like their peers were so enthusiastic behind them. I was blown away. I was like, I can't believe these kids like you know sometimes kids are so competitive with each other and these kids were just like ripping and cheering like the more you like struggle the more they were supporting and it was pretty awesome. Um great job. And then uh Color Wars I heard was was was dope. I heard it was great. Um winter sports banquet uh which Kevin ran I thought that was really good. We've got the time now under an hour and a half. Um parents are no longer like playing survivor fall, you know, falling out in the back. Um it was it was good. It was really really good. Um and then last thing for the the
105administrators, uh school attacks, right? We're in a a pretty wild time as a as a world right now. Uh just today we had Old Dominion College had a school shooter um in Michigan had a car bomb driven into a temple which had a bunch of uh guess preschoolers in there. Um I I think that was stopped before it got really bad. But the the threats are all around us. We uh are in a county that certainly will be targeted if if there if someone's looking for targets. So um just be alert and make sure that we keep doing a great job. You guys are killing it. I know. I'm very happy as parents. That's all I have. We have a motion to Jerry second. Nicole in favor. All right. Motion carries. Happy birthday, Carrie.