TVCS Board Meeting 1/22/25

001Good evening everybody. Good evening everyone. I call this meeting of the board of education of the Tri Valley Central School District to order. The time is 7:01. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. After the pledge of allegiance, please remain standing for a moment of silence for Miss Lorraine Gam. Pledge allegiance. >> Thank you. You may be seated. Item 1 C is the me the memorial resolution. Whereas Miss Lorraine Gans served as a staff member of the Tri Valley Central School District. And whereas Miss Lorraine Gans exemplified extraordinary 20-year commitment to the students of the Tri Valley Central School District. And whereas Miss Lorraine Gans passed away on January 6, 2026. Be it resolved that the Tri Valley Central School District extends its thanks to Miss Lorine Gans for her service and the Tri Valley

002Central School District extends its sympathy to the family of Miss Loren Gans during this time of morning. Moving to item 1D, we are going to bring up the two candidates that we have for tonight. I'm going to invite up Mr. Ian Constable to present first. Good evening. My name is Ian Constable and I am a I I have a interest in the filling fulfilling open position on the board of education. I have two daughters attending Tri Valley Ed uh elementary school and my wife teacher the district. Additionally, as a narrative, a native of Sullivan County and a resident of Gransville for the past eight years, I have an active interest in the continued success and betterment of the community's educ educational system. As owner of both custodial services incorporated and Liberty Mutan Academy, a martial

003arts uh school in Liberty, New York, I believe I had business and community experience that would that could benefit the board and perhaps offer a better a different point of view. In addition, I currently sit on the Elville Hospital Foundation board and I'm the chairperson for the zoning board of appeals for the town of nevering. I'm the past master of a waring lodge sonic lodge of number 582 in Allenville. Through these many organizations, I have the experience, finance, funding, and event planning and school presentation, many of which have been focused on giving back to our community and especially our children. From the uh last meeting, I uh I could just wanted to say that through unity, I think that we can make good things happen for the community. any questions or anything like that or

004do I just have >> Sorry, I'm very nervous. I don't do public speaking. >> I have a question for you, Ian. >> Yeah. >> As a current uh member of the Neversync zoning board of appeals and chair for the last three years, can you please describe for us two or three personal goals related to your board service and what were the results? >> So, uh, one of them was making sure that we have, uh, good educational background. Um, sorry, I don't know if that went through, but background. Uh, one being that we weren't having all of our members go through the educational part, and I made a made a big point about having that. This year was the first year we actually had all of our members complete that certification. Um, it's honestly my first

005year. I was the co-chairman last year, so I didn't make a lot of the decisions. So, that was my first biggest step this year. Also on top of that, this year I am working on getting um more of the members to show up to more meetings. We've only done like two or three meetings a year, which not acceptable, especially when you can do education or something to better. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you, Ian. >> You're welcome. Next, I'm going to invite up Mr. Timothy Diamond. Good evening everyone. Uh before I start, I want to thank uh Mr. Conible for uh coming out and offering to serve. Uh just like I would thank you guys for the service you have given. Um, my name is Tim Diamond and I'm here tonight to

006express interest in rejoining the school board. I served on the school board for a three-year term that ended last year. I was a vice president for each of those years. While I know many of you well, and many of you know me, I think it's important that I explain why I feel I'm a good f to fill the spot. I am deeply rooted in this community. I was born and raised here by my late parents, Calvin and Mary Diamond. My dad was a social worker who was called to the school whenever there was a tragedy or crisis. My mother was a school nurse that everyone leaned on and my siblings and I all graduated from Tri Valley. Our family is woven into the fabric of this district. What do I bring to the board? I

007have extensive board experience not only as a former school board vice president here uh but as the elected vi or elected president of the New York State Police Investigator Association. This is a 1300 person union that stretches across the state of New York of which I led for approximately 5 years. I have managed seven figure budgets. I have built relationships with attorneys, accountants, politicians, lobbyists and members. Uh, I know what it takes to negotiate a contract. I learned quickly that on any board, you're only one vote, but that vote mean everything. So, you have to use it wisely. I am a communicator that respects the concept of good compensation for good work. Locally, I'm heavily involved in our district. I'm an assistant coach in both the varsity football and girls basketball programs and I spent

008years as a volunteer with Barakub and ASO. I've coached the children of some of the board members sitting here today. Uh and there's a board member here that coached me. When I first ran for the school board back in 22, I ran as a person who wanted to see Tri Valley uh return to the the glory that I remembered from my days here. Uh a place that was friendly and everyone felt welcome and safe. Those remain my top priorities. A safe district where our kids can thrive. I want every kid to have the experience that I had and that my family had and that my children are now having here in this district. There is no better place to raise your children. There is no better school in my eyes and Tri Valley. Thank you

009all for your time tonight and thank you for your service to our community. Any questions? Tim, if I may. Um, as a former BOE member for three years, please describe for us two or three of your personal goals related to your board service and what were the results of those um, goals? >> Goals of future service or past >> that you've accomplished as a board member. >> Um, so I remember when I we got on the board, there was a there's seven people that ran at that time. I'm sure most of you guys remember this. It was a circus. Um, it was postco. Uh the schools kind of were all over the place with what the state was doing and what we were doing locally and um one of the big concerns we had at

010the time was um just the coldness of the district, right? And and it was like getting into a a jailing facility and we wanted to open that up to to some warmth and we wanted people to feel welcome and I think we accomplished that. Um and some of that was just brought in we brought a new superintendent in uh some new administrators. I feel like the ship got writed very quickly and the district started to feel like it felt when I was a kid. Um, which was you come in the front door and it's like coming into a second home. We lost that for for a while. Um, whether it was different administrators or or not. It didn't feel like the Tri Valley that I grew up in. So, that was a a big goal

011of ours. Um, you know, hiring lo I lose you guys. Hello. Hiring locally. Um, in the past we moved away from bringing in teachers that graduate from Tri Valley. Um, and I know this was a big sticking point for for George. We found that we were hiring all these people that were traveling long ways to get here and we train them, they would be efficient and then they'd leave to be closer to home. Um, I think we started to make it a more of a a target or purpose to keep our local talent here. Um, so those just a couple of things that I think we did pretty well. >> Thank you. Any bills? >> Thank you, Tim. So item one E, we are going to do a ballot vote for the two We can

012just put a line through that for it and initial it. Okay. We have one vote for Mr. Tim Diamond from Travis Hartman. We have one vote for Ian Constable from Rosewood. We have one vote for Tim Diamond from Pat Kelly. We have one vote for cons, one vote for Ian Con. One vote for Tim Diamond from Carrie and Poy, one vote for Consul from Nicole B. And one vote for Tim Diamond from George So that would mean four votes each. So now in this case we can vote again. We can vote up to three times before it becomes vote again. We'll be here all night. So, Robert's rule says that Robert's rules of order says that we need to revote in public. Um our advice from our um both of our attorneys that we've been

013consulting is do it a few times and then we'll have to table the vote. So she recommended three. >> I'm just thinking of Congress. That's Okay. For the second pool, we have one vote for Tim Diamond from Pat Kelly, one vote for Ian Consul from Rosewood, one vote for Tim Diamond, one vote for Ian Consul from one vote for Tim Diamond One vote for Ian Consul from Jerry Stevens and one vote for Tim Diamond from George. Hi Third vote we have one vote for console from Rosewood. One vote for Tim Diamond from one vote for consul. One vote for Tim Diamond from Travis. One vote for console from one vote for Tim Diamond from one vote for console from Jerry and one vote for Tim Diamond from How it is. So the next step in

014the process is we now have 90 days you do as a board of education to make a decision and revote. And at that time, if the decision is still tied, it has to go to the district superintendent, who is Michael Nolles, who is the interim district superintendent for Sullivan County Boseies. >> The 90 days started from when December 31st. So before it goes, we Who would decide when >> we can vote again at the next meeting? We'll confirm that with NISSBA, but we can we can put the vote out again at the next meeting. >> Do we need all board members present vote? >> You need a majority of all members. So as long as you have a quorum. >> So we are going to election of board of education president. I nominate George Dean.

015And now we one vote for George Dean from Georgia. One vote for George Dean from one vote for Tammy Chabot from Rose. One vote for Tammy Chabot from Tammy. One vote for George Dean from Travis Hartman. One vote for Tammy Chot from the Gold Berky. One vote for George Dean from Ker Bolley. One vote for Tammy Chabot from We are tied again. We're going to vote up to three times, but we do have to pick somebody to sit at least as president. at just Can I ask a clarifying question on that? >> So, we're going to vote again and we're going to vote again. George is our acting vice president, but that but that was >> it doesn't need to be voted on. George is not the acting vice president right now. So, he would

016have to put his procedurally he would have to put his hat back in the ring. So he is not currently the vice president. He read his letter of resignation and he does not it does not have to be acted upon because we can't force service of a board member. >> Okay. So my second follow-up question that is if we don't select a president tonight, we select a vice president who will then lead our meetings until we find a president or do we table all future voting until we find a president? >> So we don't elect a vice president tonight. We go to a promp process where we elect a chairman to run tonight's The round two vote. One vote for George from George. One vote for George from one vote for Tammy from Rose. One

017vote for Tammy from one vote for George from Travis. One vote for Tammy Shabot from Berki. One vote for George from Terry and one vote for Tammy from Hi. Here I come again. round three. One vote for Tammy Shabot from Rosewood. One vote for George from Pat Kelly. One vote for Tammy Shabot from one vote for George One vote for Tammy Shot from the One vote for George from K and Pley. One vote for Tammy Shabot. One vote for George. >> I would like to open up the floor if anybody would like to or somebody else as tonight's person. checking it. All in favor of employee Hi everyone. So, we're going to scooch along on the agenda to items 2A, correspondence. There are no correspondence tonight. Uh public comment session for items that are on

018tonight's agenda. All right. So, presentations and guests. The first presentation is from the video. We're going to talk about some good stuff now. Lighten the mood. Good evening everybody. Um board members, administration, faculty, and community members. For those of you who may not know us personally, we're the Tri Valley Bears PTO. My name is Nicole Berkkey and I have the privilege of serving as a tribal bears PTO president. Joining me this evening are our vice president Karen Sheiley, our secretary Christy Rubik, our treasurer Eric Reikoff, and certainly but not like not yes, but last but not least, Dana McCarthy, our coat drive chair. We appreciate the opportunity to be here tonight to share not only what the PTO does, but why we do it. how deeply committed we are to supporting the students, teachers, staff,

019and families of the Tri Valley community. At this time, I'd like to turn things over to our vice president, Karen, to speak about the additional ways the PTO supports our students throughout the school year. Nicole, thank you for having us tonight. One of the things that we value most at the PTO is ensuring that every child feels recognized um and feels celebrated. One way that we do this is through our monthly birthday cupcake program where each child UPK through fourth grade is honored with a cupcake during their birthday month. It's a way it's very simple but it's meaningful. It's a way for every child to feel special to be seen. Another important initiative is our schoolwide spirit wear. A few years ago, we were able to provide every child with a long sleeve red shirt

020and we offered the opportunity to our staff, educators, administrators to purchase those shirts as well. And this year, we are especially proud that we were able to provide a t-shirt to every student upk through sixth grade, as well as providing shirts to all of our faculty and staff members who partner with our elementary school. Um, these shirts have been distributed and we're excited to see all of our students and all of our staff wear them at all of our events and throughout the school. It's a really great way to show a symbol of unity in school pride. Now, I'd like to turn over. Thank you, Karen. Um, over the past several years, PTO has created meaningful experiences that bring people together, celebrate our students, and provide direct support to our community. Two of our largest,

021most impactful events are the trunk or treat and the someone's special dance. Our trunk or treat is hosted right here on campus and has grown into a truly special community tradition. Each year we welcome more than 1500 attendees including trunk hosts and visiting families. In recent years we've intentionally held this event on the same evening as football games to create kind of a whole school spirit day and we encourage families to attend both events. It has become something that students and families genuinely look forward to. And as this year's second place winner myself, my family talks about this event for months on time planning and preparing and it's truly something we look forward to. Something else that we do as a PTO is our someone's special dance. We held it at the Neverync Firehouse which

022kind of creates more of a significant experience for students and their families. It gives them the opportunity to dress up and create lasting memories. memories that they really cherish for years to come. The PTO also supports the book fair in partnership with our own Heather Benell. Um she organizes it and the PTO provides volunteers to staff the event to make sure it runs smoothly and that all students really get an opportunity to participate. Um I'll now pass things along to our treasurer, Eric Reichoff, who will speak more about our stewardship and the broader impact Thank you, Christie. Good evening, everybody. I'm Eric. You're wondering why there's an older guy on a PTO board. I haven't figured it out either. As treasur, my role is to ensure that every dollar raised by the PTO is used

023responsibly, transparently, and with purpose. One of the most meaningful ways the PTO supports Tri Valley is through direct classroom funding. Each school year, every grade level, including the humanities, begins with a $600 PTO fund account. These funds provide teachers with flexibility to address the unique needs of your classroom. For example, a kindergarten teacher might purchase sleds for a winter activity day or instructional material that enhances learning. Teachers submit receipts for reimbursement with approval from the grade level leader allowing them to focus on teaching while the PTO helps remove financial barriers. In addition in addition to classroom funding, the PTO also offers teacher grants. One well-loved example is the fourth grade falcon falconry presentation. Each year, the fourth grade team submits a grant request to bring in a falconer for a live demonstration, and the PTO

024is proud to sponsor this engaging, hands-on learning experience that students remember long after it ends. Everything you've heard tonight, from large scale events to classroom reimbursements, carefully planned to ensure funds go directly back into supporting students and educators. Whether it's a cupcake, a classroom supply, or a schoolwide initiative, every expense is viewed as an investment in our students and the Tri Valley community. Now have Dana McCarthy who does a co drive. >> Hi, I'm Dana McCarthy. Beyond events and classroom support, the PTO is also committed to meeting the broader needs of the students and families. One initiative we are especially proud of this year is our PTO community coat drive held in November during the parent teacher conference week. I had the privilege of chairing this effort and together Nicole and I sent donation letters

025throughout Sullivan and Olter County. The response was incredible. Through the generosity of local businesses, families, and community members, many from right here in Tri Valley community, we raised $6,000. With those funds, Nicole and I personally purchased more than 200 brand new name brand winter coats which were distributed directly to the students in our district. We're proud to share that over 80% of these coats have already been distributed. Seeing students walk away warm, confident, and cared for was truly meaningful. In addition, we purchased 200 packs of socks, including highly requested Nike socks, along with a 100 sets of hats and gloves, ensuring students had everything they needed for the winter months. This initiative truly reflects the heart of our community and the mission of Tri Valley Bears PTO to step in where help is needed and

026ensure every child feels supported. Thank you. In closing, the Tri Valley Bears PTO is proud to partner with this district. Everything we do is rooted in collaboration with administration, teachers, staff, faculty, and the greater community. While we are a volunteer-based organization, our impact is driven by a shared belief that when we support our schools, we just support our children. Thank you for your time, your continued support, and for allowing us the opportunity to serve the Tri Valley community. Does anybody have any questions for us? >> Start off by saying the fun um Um, where does that come from? >> Direct fundraising. So, during the fall, um, or right around Thanksgiving, we put out our fundraiser. That's the catalog. It's the traditional candles, cookies, wrapping paper. Um, I believe that the income is around $7,000 from

027that. Um, we've been able to this year it really funded the t-shirts, but typically in years past the $600 would come from there. And most grade levels, we do have to encourage some specific grade levels to use them, but now they've most of them have gotten in a routine to use them for the same thing year after year. >> Anybody else? >> Do you have Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead, Carrie. >> I I'm just so impressed at what you do because, you know, years and years ago when my kids were in elementary school, such a small group, a lot of people sitting around here um constantly volunteered and to see how you guys this organization to the next level and raise money providing quotes for the kids in the community is really really >>

028taking it back with your presentation. >> We're tiny but mighty um and it's not possible without the people behind me and this is my fourth baby. >> Uh just the shirts website are they on or so we can get prices sizes long sleeve short sleeve. >> So we didn't think that far. >> Okay. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to call you back. >> No, that's okay. Um, it started as just the kids and then we, you know, we were like, well, we have educators and we have support staff and we have faculty. Um, I will get with Karen and we'll get something out to everybody. >> Perfect. We definitely make that happen. And how many jackets would you say you gave away? >> Wow. Purchased. Okay. Thank you. >> Wow. Awesome. >> Jerry Commons loved

029us that day. >> Good job. So, I'd like just like to thank everybody for your time and dedication to our children in the community. Um, it's just amazing what you do and what you offer to our elementary students. Do you have any plans possibly in the future to expand to 7th through 12th? Great question, and I knew this was coming because it's been asked before. So when you get into the higher level grades of seventh, eighth, so on and so forth, they have their own classroom funding, I do find that the fundraising market is saturated, right? There's only so many fundraisers a child can come home. Um, and really the way that we support them is through this fundraising. I'm not sure that I've we have found a way to bring ourselves into it without

030asking them to fund support. It's on our mind. Yes. Thank you everyone. Moving along. The administrative presentation. >> Well, Aaron sets us up. Just want to say thank you to the PTO again. Um, it looks like a plain shirt, but it has our slogan, any bear is one den. And when the whole school wears the same shirt, it really truly shows unity. It shows that everyone is tied together and willing to put in the hard work. I don't know if Heather told you, but the Yankees are calling tomorrow, so you may get a call from her next week. But again, thank you for the PTO and everything that they do. So, we're going to talk about our teacher college that we're developing here. So, we've recently partnered with a few different colleges. Um, one is

031mainly Sunni Newalts. And one of the ladies we work with really just said, "We're going back and forth with emails. Can you find a placement for this student? I need help with this student." All right around winter break, over winter break. And so, I said, "We'll try. We'll see. I'll ask the teachers." Miss Everly told them not to respond to emails over the break. They did not listen very well and emailed me back. But, um, Mr. Mr. Haynes, Miss Troty, Mr. Langway, Miss Van Veric, Miss Hamilton, Miss Shanley, Miss Constible, Miss Luzitski, Miss Hibbiton, and Miss Jillio will all be hosting a student teacher or student observer in this upcoming semester. I mean, just a fabulous outreach. It does so many things. One, it lets us highlight what we do here. It helps us show

032the next generation of teachers the good things Tri Valley does. What does good education look like? What does a good PLC look like? what does creativity look like in the classroom? And it gives us another set of hands to help our teachers. So now a single um classroom with one teacher now has two at the same time. The two in blue, Miss Shannon and Miss Kenny and then Miss Cely all had teachers last semester. So we just also wanted to make sure that they were there. So we will have a six Sunni new students this year, all in the secondary. One of them is actually one of the teachers that work here who's doing her grad work and she's going to go up um with Miss Luziski and Miss Ibison later on. We have one

033student from Grand Canyon who also just was an observer last semester who's now doing her student teaching there and we're kind of branching out to Sunni as we go. So, we just really wanted to highlight our teachers efforts to go out of their way to help the next generation. Really highlight what good teaching is and we're very proud of that and we're very proud that these colleges once they had one or two here, they keep calling us back cuz our those students have a very good experience. Yesterday, I went into Miss Troy's room. I was really kind of crashing a meeting that I thought they were having with just their social studies one cuz I need to ask a couple questions about curriculum. And all the teachers you saw here were around in a circle

034and talking about their student teachers. How can we get extra meetings for them? How can we support them? Not just in my room, but as a collective in our group. How are we going to get them talking? And it was a happy coincidence. I happened to walk in. It was not on any purpose. But those are what our teachers do. They go that extra step to really help enhance not only our kids, but these other students from colleges in the future. The picture on the bottom I put in there just to remind myself. I ready second um diagnostic is happening. I was in the hallway and Miss Smith and Miss Shamro came up and said, "Our kids did so well on reading. Can you come in and say something nice to them? Can you encourage

035them? We're doing math next week. Can you just tell them to work hard?" I said, "Sure." They don't really want to hear from me, but with Miss Williams, we have this ploy. We have someone really fun to come in with second graders. Um she got him right away. The next day, we went in. We had a great talk with them. The kids got to come up and high-five them. Kids were talking about their growth, 50 points, 100 points, and they knew it, and they were proud. You could see they were proud. Their teachers are smiling ear to ear. It's just showing the hard work, that unity, that community coming together is is starting to show some um merit. Um any questions? >> I have one. Um the student teachers that are coming in, are any

036of them Tri Valley graduates? >> I do not believe so. Thank you. >> Good evening everyone. Uh so I just want to give you a little update from the PBS department. Uh health screen screenings have started. Uh we have the health screenings every year for certain grade levels. That's all posted on the website and Facebook in case parents need to check in and see which grade levels are being uh screened this year. The screenings are really a vital uh to student success, ensuring that they are healthy and ready to learn. Uh we are fortunate to have Diana Gray come in and partner with us as a former nurse. she uh supports the nursing team so that they are able to focus on the day-to-day operations of the nursing office while she does the screenings for

037the students. So, it's very nice for her to come back and help us out in that way. And that's really all we have right now except for starting annual review season. Um so, it was a very busy time. Any questions? All right. Thank you. Have a good as Mr. Snder with the I Ready exam coming around. Uh we had the opportunity to utilize our mascot costume and as exciting as it is for the elementary school students to see that costume coming down the hallway. It is just as exciting to put the student in. And as you can also see in that picture, he does not come alone. He does have some of his friends that will come down with him. Of course, this is not an instructional period. We try to stay away from the

038instructional periods in order to have the students come and celebrate the elementary school and their success of that I Ready assessment. Uh you also will see some of the interactions that are taking place between our secondary school students and our elementary kids. It's really amazing to have some of the students interact with the younger children. In fact, we have one student who has now decided that she wants to go into early childhood after engaging with some of the elementary school students who are visiting. and while she's interacting with him. So, that's an exciting opportunity for our students who may still be undecided as to what their future would look like and we're helping to define that. Besides, of course, some of our students who may actually go into professional mascotting. All of that being said,

039uh we're looking at our community relations area of the MTSS department. We have our winter bear bash in full swing of operations. So, it keeps continuing to grow bigger. As of this afternoon, we had 140 RSVPs already. So, we are expecting quite a community uh joining on this evening. We do have the snow date of February 5th. And I did just want to make a quick commercial because we're going to be inside. Our Vera Bash indoors is going to look a little bit different than outdoors. So, our typical community partners that would we would see during our summer bear bash will not necessarily be part of our winter bear bash. Instead, because we were limited on space and we wanted to be sure that there's enough time for our families to be able to do

040all of the activities that are prepared, uh, we're going to really be focusing on having county representatives here. So, I just wanted to be sure that none of our other local partners feel as though they were left out. It was kind of deliberate and that we were utilizing this indoor space. We wanted to be very particular to offer something a little bit different as we would be inside. So we will be highlighting nine Solomon County partners and Solomon County partners that will be coming in that evening. We do have some important ones though that we continue to have which is our Lion C program. So the Lions will be here that evening to be able to do some of the vision screening on students. It is oftent times missed for the secondary students to have

041the opportunity to have their vision checked. So this will be another opportunity to get them in here. But I did just wanted to say just in case there's any rumbles within our community, we really wanted to be able to maximize the time we have with their families, be sure that the students have an opportunity to engage in fun activities and also open it up to some um bigger county community partners. We'll bring all of our local people back in when we have more space outside for our summer bear bash. Moving on to our social emotional learning, we have our upcoming Panorama survey that is in publishing right now through our Panorama student success platform. As soon as that survey is created, we will get notifications out so that we can be sure that we get

042maximum participation. Every time we put the survey out, we get a little bit better with our students completing it. And it really has been very important, as I've talked about with some of our PLC's as we continue to have our MTSS intervention team meetings on students to be able to compare and be able to read and get some insight into how they are actually operating, how they're feeling about themselves as as a student in their classrooms. And finally, our attendance comparisons this week. The expectation I have to increase our uh meeting time. Um I schedule elementary school for about 40 minutes, secondary school for 40 minutes, and we ended up in in that room digging through attendance for over two hours this week. Luckily, secondary school administration was able to stay with us most of

043that time. Uh but there are some comparisons there. um that is from those numbers were run from last September to January versus this September to January. You'll see we're still kind of in the same area. The positives to that is we're not dipping low. U but there's a lot of work in conversations going into it. So there are just some comparison numbers. You know, I really give a lot of credit to the elementary school. They're doing a lot of focus on attendance and we continue to try to see what we can do to encourage our secondary school students to be present. Uh as we sat as we sit in those meetings, we identified particular families, particular students. We're able to see some cross reference between elementary students and secondary siblings and we're certainly doing everything

044that we can to be sure that we're supporting the families so that we can continue to see those numbers grow. But we are charting them. We're paying very close attention to it and again those attendance meetings are bi-weekly. But I think as we continue to to look at some of that evidence, some of that data, get some support in for the families, I I'm pretty hopeful that those numbers will continue to go the right direction. Any questions? >> In reference to attendance, does it seem to be grade level or individuals? >> Both the elementary and high school. >> No. So, as I run those numbers, it's interesting. So, we look at the charting. So when we compare last year they'll if we identify a particular grade level for example last year our UPK may have

045had a higher percentage of absences those students this year are kindergarteners the pattern is not consistent. So as I continue to study this I'm looking to see okay is it this cohort of kids from UPK to K that continue to have a number of absences it's shifting on me. I was hoping it was that easy because then we could just dive in to a particular cohort of kids and support that particular class. It is not panning out that way. So that's why we're having to spend so much time actually digging into individual students and these these lists of students who are acrewing absences because there is no consistent pattern from year to year where we can say our fourth grade last year is our fifth grade this year and each year they are our biggest

046absentee rate. It is not working out that way but we'll continue to study it and see if we can't in fact find a pattern. Is UPK higher percentage wide than any place else? >> You know, generally as we look at those numbers, we expect our younger students if they come into school, you know, as they get exposed to all these germs, we expect them to higher have a higher absence rate. Again, from one year to the next, one year UPK will be will have a higher percentage, but then we look at it the next year, new coming UPK, they may not be so high. So then we're looking at okay well is one for example UPK class are they being exposed to more daycare opportunities or more socialization so then when they come into our

047UPK program they've already got some immune system built up but these are all really great questions and great things but unfortunately that takes a period of time of study to try to figure these things out. So right now our best approach and certainly the as I as I said the administration's been right there with me. Our best approach is to look at individual students, individual families and target them specifically until we can see more of the trends. And I don't know that if there was a particular answer, I'm sure some school out there if we can't find it out they will have. Uh but it's certainly a mission of ours to really try to identify what it is or what cohort it is. right now needs more studying. >> In reference to the high school,

048is it after school activities, kids that do the extra? Do you find that they're the ones that are absent more? The reason I ask that is because they're in night all hours of the night. So, is that taking in consideration or is that just a blanket policy that you're you're out you're out >> after 8 after 11:00? Correct. >> I think a bus just rolled in a few minutes ago while we were in this >> what I'm talking about. >> Yes. So, I can tell you uh George, to answer your question, Mr. Crudelli sits in on these attendance meetings. Um, and there was one student athlete that was on our list of students who were acrewing absences. So, out of all of our winter season athletes, there was only one student that in particular, Mr.

049Crudelli is identifying as a student to support because we need to make sure that he's in school to maintain his eligibility to be able to maintain his participation in his athletic competition. So, whatever that says to you, um, that that is the evidence for it. Sure. Anybody else? >> I have a question. Um, and I don't know if you're the right person to answer this or not, but um, when you brought up that uh, one student because of her engagement in the elementary school is now interested in childhood education, it got me curious. Do our secondary students take testing to help them decide what might be the best fit for them career-wise? >> Don't know. They have the right person to answer that question. Um but I you know I I would think so. I

050would hope so. I imagine Miss Eberly who's going to be coming up soon will probably tell you yes. Um but it's but what I will say to that is most of our students don't know what they want to do until they experience it. You know just like as we look at that m mascot and the students who are engaging inside of that they they were students who really did not have an area focus. You ask them what they wanted to do they would say I don't know. Well what do you like? I don't know. Well what do you do? I don't know. and that would just be the perpetual answer. So, you know, really for me, I think it's a matter of whatever Miss Everly's answer is and then getting that them that hands-on experience.

051You know, a lot of the SEOs opportunities that are offered through Miss Hugler's program is essential to our kids to be able to really make an informed decision. How many students go to college for one major and switch right after and then the parents are stuck trying to now compensate for that one year of lost tuition because now they're trying to re to select a different major. So I would just encourage us to continue to whatever the students say that they like try to expose them to that so they can make an informed decision if that is an area for them for their future. Okay. All right. Thank you. Commissioners, >> good evening everyone. So, a quick update on the technology department. We made it through another holiday season, which is no small achievement for

052our department. Um, as I've mentioned before, cyber criminals will specifically target school districts during holiday seasons because they know that IT staff are either at home or off traveling with families. So, our ability to respond to attacks is that much less. So, it really becomes a prime target period for them. And we always see a spike on attacks in schools during those periods. As a result, uh, several years ago, we really started focusing in in the month prior to any significant break, making sure that every single system that we run was fully patched, every single security patch that was available for it was on there. And then also this year, we started going through and making sure um kind of served two purposes. Making sure any system that didn't need to be running during break

053was shut down. And in addition to that making us more secure because it makes our attack surface smaller, it also of course is better stewardship of resources, making sure we're not wasting electricity running equipment that doesn't need to run during the break. Uh we are beginning work on internal development of some apps and you will definitely hear more about this in the uh months and probably years to come. Um we are in conjunction with our digital arts uh teacher. We are working on a staff resources app that will make the various resources that we offer throughout the school that much easier for our staff members, for our teachers to access. And we are also working on, and this is kind of a huge uh undertaking, but uh we're really excited about it, an electronic call

054pass solution. So, we've looked at electronic call pass solutions for the secondary uh a few times over the past couple of years and without exception they are pretty expensive. Um this will basically allow us to not only accomplish exactly what those solutions offer but have it specifically tailored to Tri Valley. It will do everything that we want it to do, not what some other company that built it wanted it to do. and it will be completely free with the exception of the time that we spend on it. So that's a significant cost savings for the school district. Uh we've also are I'm hoping by the end of next week to be complete with uh an imple implementation of new software that will allow our staff to change their own passwords but in a way that

055runs it through filtering to make sure that passwords they choose match all of the rules that we have in place for those passwords. Um, and another big kind of win with that software is it will run through on a daily basis and check every single password that we have to make sure that that password isn't showing up in lists of hacked passwords online. So, if that ever occurs, whether it's because someone violated internal policy and they are using the same password here that they were using at Target and Target got hacked, um, or whether that's just because they chose a password that somebody else out in the world was using and that person got hacked. Either case, our staff member will be immediately alerted the next time they log in and forced to change their

056password. So, it really just improves our security that much further. Um, speaking of security, one thing that's not bullet pointed up here, but Mr. Snider reminded me of with his slide with all of our inbound student teachers. We are also next week the day that they come in before they receive their accounts, they receive the same information security training that every single one of our staff received at the beginning of the school year. And that's something really unique to Tri Valley. And it really kind of underscores how much how seriously we take the security of our students data and the protection of the all of the data we have, student data, staff data and everything. Other school districts will have beginning of the year trainings and then if they have staff or student teachers or

057uh long-term leave replacements that come in in the middle of the year, they'll never receive that information security training unless they're there at the beginning of the next school year, which is really a significant hole because you don't want somebody who doesn't know the right procedures to follow to be safe using your network. Any questions? Thank you very much. Good evening everyone. So before I answer your question because I can loop that in along here, I'll just start with our January regions and midterms. I just want to give a huge shout out. uh the community might not realize all the effort and work that goes into what our January regions look like and some decisions that were made this year as we shifted from a 9 through2 model of just reporting for exams. So just

058some background in January of last year we realized we had a lot of accommodations and some room changes and some major events that we were kind of all hands- on deck. administrators were proctoring in their offices and we were moving a lot of pieces and it was very hard to give the students the best practice for taking an exam. So this year we shifted to that model and it worked really well. Just so you know our numbers in January, a lot of people think those numbers are down, but our student population taking that was about half for at least two of those days in the 9 through 12 population. So we do have a lot of students that report for those exams and to give them the best testing practices. It really was super helpful

059this year. Over half of our staff also participate in proctoring these exams. So on a given day those 9 through 12 teachers there was 28 of them proctoring during an exam and that would have been a substitute nightmare and really not giving our students again those best practices. So shutting down and really letting those students have that testing time and all the accommodations that they need and making sure they have the best testing environment with the best proctors is what's best for them to have success. So that movement really we saw success in. We were able to host some midterms and have those happening and occurring and teachers were able to kind of really give it their all, make sure every student had their needed accessories and needed items and we were able to really

060run a kind of flawless time frame for that. So that really did take a lot of work and a lot of behind the scenes that I don't think people realize and it was super successful. So we are wrapping that up with tomorrow with our morning exams and then we will wrap up our grading and get those exams out and those scores. And that's another thing I should give a huge shout out to our staff and our teachers. We grade a lot of our regents in house and that is huge. And we share grading also with Liberty Central and Monaceel which allows us to save a lot of money as a district. Instead of sending our exams out through uh companies and private agencies, we grade inhouse. So our staff sit there for hours on end

061and they grade these exams. And there's a lot of work in that and a lot of collaboration. So being able to shut down and giving the teachers the time to do that so we can get scores back in timely manner is also a huge component of that. Ourat diagnostic we're not as fun I guess in the middle school. I learned a lot about pory. I think our schools are our students are like who is this alien and what are they doing? Uh so we don't have pory up in our building but we do do the I ready diagnostic in grades seven and eight and that really is helpful information that we analyze throughout the year. We look at our trends. we look at those missing pieces that we need to really exhaust and kind of

062all hands on deck and it's a helpful tool for our teachers that our secondary staff are now really starting to tap into and notice it helping and and working. So that has just finished up as well this week and our our middle school grades were able to do that during this regent week which was a little bit quieter in the building and again giving those those best practices. our graduate panel. So, we hosted a graduate panel, and this is where I'll kind of tie in some of those questions about what students are doing, where they're going. We're seeing more and more students not knowing what they want to do. Where are they going? They're kind of like, I don't have to worry about it. I'm I'm still here. I'm still living at home. I I

063don't have any plans. So, we are really focusing and shifting. And one of the events that we hosted this year was a graduate panel. So, we had seven past graduates come in and it was an awesome experience. We had our 11th and 12th graders kind of sit around. They did a Q&A. We kind of had a panel going. We asked some questions and it was really interesting to hear some of those answers. We also had a student who was here that went straight into the workforce and that was cool for students to hear that that is also an option and it's a viable option and it's something that you can absolutely do. and she really highlighted the experiences that gave her the leg up in the workforce. So, taking courses that were aligned with her

064interest like she took a lot of fax classes. She's now a chef at Bethl Woods. So, what she did was she took our classes with Miss Gonzalez and she really experienced all of that. She went to Career Tech. She experienced that through the food and nutrition program there and that led her into the career and workforce. So that she was a really great speaker and letting our students know that's okay too and that's an awesome experience and this is what she did to be the leg up in the workforce. We had students who also highlighted this was interesting different schools have different rules on parking which is a huge thing as freshmen apparently and um a lot of them said if you take college courses and you have college credits you move up in the

065ranks of parking and dorms. So that was something that all the students were like, "What are you talking about?" So basically, because they go in with so many college credits, they're they're moved up the ranks and they get to pick better dorms and they get to have parking that first year. So a lot of our students kind of perked up in that. And there was a lot of shout outs to our staff. They were telling them, "Take these classes, do what you can, experience them, because it has helped them immensely in college." So that was an awesome thing to hear. again bringing that real life connection. A lot of them still communicate with some of our students and them being able to hear firsthand like after graduation this is what I went through. This is

066what was helpful. This is what was scary. And that was really cool. So that was an awesome event that helped lead our students a little bit further. And I'm going to skip and go to the elective fair because this is another initiative that we're doing this year. So we're doing an elective fair for our 9, 10, and 11th graders on Monday maybe or the next day. I don't know. Um, so we are doing this elective fair with over 50 electives in this school which is again a huge testament. It's a small school and we offer so much here and those are all aligned with interests and things that can happen after high school. Students are getting that firsthand experience. They're going to get to travel to classrooms. They're going to get to hear from the

067teachers that teach those courses what they are about. We did a lot of work last year on updating our course catalog, getting that more public facing. It's now on our website so everyone can view those. And we're doing this elective fair. So now they can have that firsthand experience on seeing, hey, maybe I want to take this class. Maybe I'm interested in cooking and going further with that career. This I'm going to do and see if I want to maybe make a decision as I work on my pathway to graduation and where I want to go from here. So that elective fair is another initiative we're doing to get kids kind of seeing what they might want to do, what their interests are, and they'll have a little survey sheet that they'll get to go

068through. And what happens is when kids come to that course selection towards the mid end of year, they'll have that firsthand experience instead of just reading that paragraph on the paper or the guidance counselor saying, "Hey, this is a good course for you." Now they're seeing it because what happens is they go into guidance and that's where they discuss. They do surveys. They discuss, hey, I think I want to do this or I have no idea what I want to do. This college might be of interest. I want to just get away from here or I want to stay close to home. And the college and the counselors really guide that. So, that's something now we're adding an additional layer to to really give them what we have on a hands-on experience. The other pieces

069that we're doing is we've upped our college visits, we've upped our recruiters, and we've upped college visits out of out of our school. So, we're doing a lot more field trips. We're doing a lot more presentations and we have a lot of colleges that come here that have never done that before. So, that is another big piece that is helping guide our students and show them what is outside of Sullivan County. I don't know if um you've heard Mr. Snyder talk before, but we do those virtual reality tours as well. We've hooked that up with our students and given them those virtual reality tours of college campuses and campuses they would have never had the experience to see or travel to. So, we're doing a lot of that work and giving them more experiences and

070really kind of highlighting and helping them understand these are some options for you and this is what we have here to help guide you to that pathway. So, you can make that decision before you sat in college for four years and totally changed your career. So, that is an exciting thing that we are doing. Some things that we're adding and really giving to our students. We also had our MLK youth summit that occurred and you can see that picture up there. Sullivan County Schools participate in this through Sullivan 180. We sent 10 students. They work on public presentations. They were able to meet and greet with a bunch of students. They had a keynote speaker on leadership and it's a really great experience that we have started doing last year and getting more involved with

071the Sullivan County Schools and really putting our school out there and our students because they're fantastic. I'm a little biased, but they go out there and they put themselves out there against bigger schools and they're amazing. It's really great to see them participating in these events. Sullivan Bose CTE visitation. So we send our 10th graders to CTE to visit the programs that are there. We offer this to all of our 10th graders. So all of our 10th graders have the opportunity to go hands-on, see the programs that are offered at CTE at Boseies. We bust them there during the day. They get to visit all the programs. They get to fill out a questionnaire. If they like those programs, they can go back a second time. We'll bus them there again. they'll get those experiences

072because that's an opportunity they have when they hit 11th grade. So, that's another thing that we do and allow them to go see so they can get ideas of what might be interesting. Sometimes it's different when you get to see a car up on a lift and understand what you're going to get to do if you go there. It's a whole another realm. So, we get to send our students there, our 10th graders, anyone that's interested, and they're going to be going on the 12th, depending whe PLC's are continuing our professional learning communities. We're continuing our mapping. We've started some vertical alignment with grades 5 through 8. I believe Mr. Carbone will touch on this as well. And that just started. We had a few delays with the weather, but our 5 through 8 are

073now meeting and starting to really look at the collaboration pieces and building our programs. So that way we are in line with each other and really talking and being able to look at our curriculum pieces, looking at those gaps, looking at what's going well and sharing those across our buildings. We are lucky here to be connected and be able to have that opportunity. So really pulling that back together and letting those teachers connect on what's happening is going to be a successful tool to keep building those students and keep pushing them further. So those have just begun and we're super excited about that and moving forward. Any questions? >> You mentioned the testing in regards to uh sending it out. Where did we used to send it to? Who used to do the corre the

074uh testing the correction? >> Our teachers here have done that in um past. So, we've always had to share with Liberty and Monaceel for our science programs because the teachers that teach those classes can't grade their students obviously. So, because we're smaller, we don't have those staff and neither do those other districts. So, we partner for like chemistry, physics, those really singular classes. Um, they have sent out, we use Boseies, we use our Rick, but we use Premiere scoring. So, premier scoring is something that all of the school districts will partner out. So, our multi- language tests get sent out through Premiere and other districts have to partner with Premiere because they don't grade in-house and we do. So, other districts are sending out hundreds of exams where we're sending out a minimal amount which

075makes our turnover quicker and it's much cheaper >> when you used to send them out. What was the turnaround time? >> It takes we send we do send some out and it takes a couple of weeks. So it takes approximately two weeks because by the time you ship them which thankful for the minivan because today I delivered some exams to go out. Um so once you get them to Boseies then Boseies sends all of the districts at once. So hopefully all the districts have brought their exams at the time they requested. Then they send them up to Premiere which is in Albany. We have to give them the account that we're sending in. Then they score them. Then they send them all back to us. Then we scan them. So it takes about two and

076a half week turnaround. We're in-house. I mean, I can tell you right now our English are already graded and done, so they'll scan them in and those grades will process through. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Miss Everly, adding to the information that you gave with the college visits and the college fairs that have been happening at Tri Valley. I've attended a few of them. For example, the Maris one. It really does help. And I've noticed with the students, I even asked them, I've noticed it helps just walking around the colleges and seeing the different types of majors has helped them figure out more of what majors they want to do. And also any student at any time could always walk into the guidance office where they give the student like tests and

077quizzes to help them figure out what major they want to do and they give really good guidance. I've went there a couple of times as well and they've helped me dwindle down the uh types of majors that I'd take or the types of colleges I go to. And also the MLK day was great um in the top left corner. It was very fun. >> Huge shout out. I see you there. >> Good. Glad to hear. And something I mean those college visits have also hindered some students uh decision making. I do know that because they're like, "Oh, no. I've got my decision." Then they go on a college visit and they're like, "Oh, maybe I want to go here." So, I know that also adds to it, but we're constantly supporting. We're constantly asking. It's

078Mr. Snider's favorite question. Uh, when he pops into my office and I have a group of students, where are you going to college? And they're like, I haven't decided yet. And he gives them a timeline. So, it's really great. But we are we're doing so much more. We're sending kids out because really without that experience, you might not be traveling. But it's also cool to stay here. So, we've done a lot with Sunni Sullivan. We send our kids to Sunni Sullivan to visit and we do an actual college fair at Sunni Sullivan. That was something they did this year and they brought in different colleges to that campus which is right in our backyard and we were able to send a ton of students there to kind of visit, walk around and see those other

079colleges. >> Thank you. Good evening everybody. Uh thank you to the PTO. Our elementary school um runs with the spirit that they give us. It it is really a great partnership and I'm very happy to be able to work with them and we we love we love. Sorry the high school doesn't really quite get it but um it's it's like a rock star. Uh it Beatles showing up to America, you two showing up. I mean it when they're in the hallway with the bear, the kids can't stop. It's it's fantastic. But they're very appropriate about it. They don't give hugs unless their ass are full. They give high fives and it's really cool. Um our I Ready window did open up last week. We close on Friday. I know we we touched on that a

080little bit. Our teachers have done a great job prescribing the the test to the students and giving them 30 minutes at a time, 15 minutes at a time, depending on how old they are. And really, if you start looking at it and we've pieced a little bit together because not everybody's finished yet, the growth is is just encouraging to see. We're we're looking at some good numbers and when everything finalizes I believe next week there's some PD for some teachers to analyze some of the uh the scores and see what the next steps would be in their instruction. We are working on our heart awareness for the month of January leading right up into Valentine's Day. Sullivan 180 sponsors the healthy heart challenge is a little little competition between all the school districts in Sullivan

081County. So we're we're entered. Mr. Credelli was very nice to put us into the hat and I jumped on creating a calendar so all the teachers have little activities throughout every single day to just bring heart awareness to our children and we've encouraged them if there's anything else they do like little brain breaks or movement breaks throughout the day to uh put me and Mr. Cordelli on that email so that we can add that to our point tally. the school and I believe the district with the most points in the elementary category and high school category will win a prize. So, I've got my eyes set on a few things. Hopefully, we we get there. Um, and uh Fridays will be wear red in that uh spirit of heart awareness. So, it's cool to get

082our kids to understand what's pumping inside their body and and how it all works. And as Miss Everly brought up, we are working on our vertical PLC's. Um I'm lucky to be leading and facilitating with the uh science and the social studies department between fifth through 8th grade. We just uh had our initial meetings and we'll start jumping into our curriculum, our our scope and sequence and really making sure that those gaps are filled and those overlaps are minimized. We want to make sure that the elementary school is supporting what's happening in the seventh and eighth grade middle school component and we're really partnering with the teachers and the rest of the schools working on the priority standards. I was in a grade level today with some really great discussion. It's it's awesome when the

083administrator can kind of lay back and kind of hide back into the weeds while the teachers are really engrossing themselves in the conversation and really looking at what the state test data is showing them for what standards are being assessed. It's really making them think about how much effort they're putting into that specific standard or that specific unit, especially if the test is only asking one question as opposed to five or six. And it's uh it's good work to hear. It's encouraging again to to just be part of and we're looking forward to seeing how those priority standards scope out to see how far the teachers can be pushing the limits of what they're any questions. >> Sure. >> So, correct me if I'm wrong. I ready testing replace the math. >> Correct. >> Have

084we gotten any feedback from our teachers on if they like this better, if it's working for them or the children taking to it? Are the tests longer? >> So, so it's it's an apple and an orange. >> Okay. >> NWA MAP testing had a very prescriptive way of administration and the teachers we started last year trying to administer it that way. N Ready doesn't want everybody to test all at one time in one big jump. They want the kids to take breaks. Kindergarten, first grade, they're about 5 to 15 minutes. They hit a certain benchmark where it pauses the kids to give them a break. Everything should shut down and they should go back to it later or the next day where maps they sat there and finished taking the test. Um the analytical component

085of it, it it breaks it down similarly. Um some teachers are used to the NWA, so they they liked how that breakdown was. And with the training and the encouragement that we're giving them from our administrative side, they're seeing how their lessons can now be catered to what the students are showing on that I Ready test. So it if you pull the it's it's split. Some teachers really love it, other teachers like it, but say, "Well, back when we did maps, so it's really kind of getting that shift going." But with the professional development, the my path that the kids are learning in the 15 minutes that they do it a day in their win period or in their instructional time, they're starting to see the con. >> Got it. One other thing, um I

086heard a little group of fifth grade girls once a couple weeks ago talking about their independent reading project and how well they don't like it, but they have to get used to it because it's an expectation when they get into high school. So whatever that the PLC um group work is um setting the stage throughout the fifth through eighth grade, it's working. Yes, they know the expectation. So kudos. >> Yeah. Putting the right people in the right seats on the bus is is important to us. So um getting that continuity through is is huge. when I met with um our seventh grade, eighth grade science our social studies teacher and our fifth and sixth grade social studies teacher today and before I could even start the PLC, they were already starting to look at what's

087being taught when and how it's going to make an impact when they get to seventh grade. So, it's it's good work that the teachers are seemingly excited to do. >> Okay. >> In reference to the testing, the faculty, some of them like one and some like the other. Mhm. >> Which is the most successful for the students? >> In my opinion, from my history, I've been doing I Ready for just about 10 years since I've been in administration. >> That gives them the break. >> I like I Ready. >> I can see that because they're very antsy at that age. >> Yeah. >> And the kids respond to it. They're checking their growth. They're they're seeing, as Mr. Snyder said, they're paying attention. They're having data talks with their teachers that are showing them, "Hey,

088you were here. Now you were here." And they're amazing. We we have a special ed teacher in in fifth and sixth grade whose students performed very well and the work that she put in to show them they felt the pride in it where the NWA from what I experienced when I taught and what I heard from certain from a few people here it was more um programmatic and they just did it to do it and they moved on where I is more of a culture building type of system. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. Any other questions? All right. Hello everybody. I'm going to go a little out of order so I can piggy back off of Mr. Carbone. Um, so Sullivan 180 has the heartathon and healthy heart challenge. Um, like he said, we

089have um a schedule of events down to ES. I gotta be honest, sports guy, there's nothing little about this competition. We want to win. Um so ES is competing E against other ES's in the uh county. Same with secondary. Um so we have the the heartathon which hearts are supplied by Sullivan 180. Um they can they all goes to a donation for the prevention education um for heart disease in Sullivan County. Uh I got to give a shout out to Miss Lee. I think she came to me at like probably 1:00 today and was like, I really want to like do a billboard that relates to it. I'm like, absolutely. That gets us points. It felt like 5 minutes later I walk down the main hall upstairs and there are hearts everywhere. It It's incredible.

090It it completely transformed the hallway. So, we have our staff on board. Um, every little thing gets us a point. So, whether it's an activity in a classroom like wear red day, selling the hearts, um, we're buying in. We want to win. Um, the other thing is going on, we have the community cardio weight room is open. Um, it's a little I'm going to call it an upgrade, a little change this year. We have electronic signin, which really helps me. Um, so it's letting us know who's signed in, when um really telling us when it's being used, uh, and and you know, when like the busy times are versus the not so busy times. If it keeps feeling like negative 20 out, we're feeling it's going to be used a lot. Um we also have

091our salad bar was delivered uh will be set up uh shortly in the cafeteria along with uh the refrigerator. And finally we have uh three Sullivan 180 grants in um for review. They involve social emotional learning uh outdoor classrooms leader and me. Um so there's one in the ES one in the secondary and one districtwide. Uh so uh Miss Temple, uh Miss Hugler, myself, Mr. Schneider have been working on all of those. We're getting feedback from Solomon 180 making edits. Um it's it's it's quite the process, but um we're getting close to the the review time and should be hearing back shortly. So now to the athletics side uh side of things. We have our senior wreck dates coming up. Don't feel like you have to jot those dates down right now because A, it

092won't stop snowing. And B, there is an a graphic on all of the athletic social media and the athletics tab of the website that has it all listed out. One thing I did not add to the graphic that I probably should have was pending weather. Um, but it has the link to the live stream, uh, the link to our schedules and the individual senior rec dates. Um, also we have a obviously ton of important sectional dates coming up. Uh, the basketball one, that's when it could start. Um, it depends on how many teams get in. That's both for boys and girls basketball. So, it could start on 228. Um, obviously it we got to wait for a ton of results to determine when we would start that, but we have uh really every sport coming

093up starting with indoor track on 130. the other really, really important dates. There'll be a parent square going out as we get closer to it. Um, it's almost time to sign up for spring sports, just in time for a foot of snow. So 29, our JV varsity sports registration will open on Arbiter and on 216 um, we'll be opening for our modified sports. Any questions? I see the salad bars med you >> uh still it's getting set up uh very shortly. So it was delivered last week. >> Pretty soon we'll be using Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. >> Another thing is um is she in the menu? Milk 1%. I thought that uh we could do whole milk 2% now. Um this is 1% milk. >> So we can't under the USDA guidelines.

094We can't do that. We have to offer at least two choices of milk. And when I'll highlight the menus a little bit tonight, too, because we were not offering two choices of milk at meals and now we are. But they have to be either fat-free or 1%. >> Always under your pressure. Not completely yet. I'm with you on that. >> I agree with you. >> Still alive. Anybody else? >> I have one quick question. How are um athletic teams looking for sectionals? >> So, >> strong or I hope >> believe it or not, every team is still mathematically eligible to make sectionals. >> Awesome. So, um, you know, part of that is due to the weather, like you your league your league games get moved, you got to bump non-league buildos, but right now, um,

095we we look pretty strong. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you very much, uh, administration. We always enjoy having your updates and hearing what's going on along our district. Next up is our capital uh budget component presentation by All right, that was a hard show to follow. That was excellent. Everyone, thank you for all your updates. So, I am here tonight to present the capital component of our 2627 school budget. I want to start tonight with our purpose and our direction. And as you know, over the last couple years, we have been working on uh improving our mission and our vision here at Tri Valley. And throughout the next couple months in our presentations, I want to be really clear that our decision- making is always rooted in our kids and what's best for

096our kids in our school community. So, just quickly, our mission is that Tri Valley ensures all learners are prepared for the future through meaningful learning that builds curiosity, resilience, and confidence. And our vision is where Tri Valley aspires to be a forward-thinking school community that ensures excellence and empowers all learners to thrive. So, here's a quick breakdown of what's going to happen over the next couple of months. Tonight, we're going to talk about the capital component. Uh, we're going to go into the administrative component of the budget on February 12th, the program component on February 26th, and then on March 12th, we'll do a full overview of the board of our budget. We'll review the contingency budget, our revenues, and our tax cap. So into the capital component, these are what we're going to be

097going over tonight and the drivers for our capitals component section. It is all about facilities and operation and our debt service. So we'll be digging in a little bit into our custodial and maintenance salaries and benefits, our security systems, our fuel, oil and electricity, and then taking a quick snapshot at our maintenance supplies, equipment, and our service contracts. Feel free to ask any questions along the way. So for tonight, the first one is our proposed salaries and um we are predict predicting a 2.54% increase in our salaries. And this is um really great because it means that we settled and implemented a 4-year contract with our Tessa unit. And so we are able to um truly um figure out what our budget's going to look like for the next four years in our Tessa area.

098So we're doing a 2.54% overall increase that is because of contractual salaries. One of the things we did very well was and you'll see that through this entire presentation is just looking at our efficiencies. So this year we had one of our monitors who retired from the district. We came together. We looked at the duties of the monitor and we tried to figure out if it was feasible for us to replace the duties of that monitor using our current staff and we found that it was. One thing about the monitors, you know, they've been around the red shirts for a long time, very historical. The monitors are truly very restricted in what they can do based on their civil service job description. So where we might want to put the monitor in the bear den

099to um watch our kids when they're in there, they really can't supervise kids at that level. And so we were able to kind of put together with our own staff and made the decision not to replace the monitor position, but still maintaining the same level of coverage. We also are in the process of some leadership transition with our director of facilities retiring, Jesse. Um definitely some hard shoes to fill. Um we have the application is out for folks. We're looking for people that are interested in joining us and we'll begin that process of interviewing very soon. Our goal is between January and June to bring in someone as director of facilities to work side by side with Jesse, but also to be a working part of the maintenance crew so they can learn the ropes.

100And then in June and July when Jesse steps away from the district, our plan is to hire um an additional maintenance worker. The maintenance crews and the custodial staff are what keep this place running. Our our campus is pristine inside and out and we don't want to compromise any of that. Our benefits, so our benefits are overall increasing about 5.48%. Um the New York State retirement system is um increasing their contribution at 17.6% and that comes directly from the state. That's one of those ones that is out of our hands. We are going to budget 14% for a health insurance across the board. Um last year we put out a 10% health insurance budget and uh when the rates came out in early December they came out at 8.9. That's cutting it a little close.

101So we decided to go out at 14% and for us in Monaceel we share the same health insurance carrier. The rest of our component schools um do their insurance through DCM OBO's through DHICK and even talking to some of our colleagues in the area some insuranceances went up 16 18% some you know 8 9% and so we felt 14 was a very safe number for us. We don't want to get hit with um an unknown on the health insurance increase because that's a major part of our budget for both our retirees and our employees. So our workman's comp um also went up a little bit and this is really because we took a deep heart analysis into our workman's comp program. We are a part of a Sullivan County consortium which is over probably 3540

102years old and it was developed many years ago because to get the state workman's comp rate which would be very very expensive. So the Sullivan County schools created their own consortium so that they can monitor have the money in there and then cover the workman's comp. So for us when we did the analysis like I said we realized that really the lion share of the work and the workman's comp as far as risk is our custodial and maintenance staff. I'm less at risk sitting at my desk than I am on a lawnmower. And so we did some reallocating of those budgets and we did put some more money in our workman's comp under our capital component. So our district safety and security operations is a super proud point for all of us. We are projecting

103a decrease of over 6.49% next year without compromising any of the safety that's happening here around our campus. Part of this is because um our security supervisor left for another opportunity and again brought the team together and said what can we do and we fill these responsibilities without replacing this and the answer was yes. I have to give a shout out to Nick Field who is one of our Atlas guys. He was a rookie when he started with us. He was well broken in by some of our administrators back in the day and he is our lead guard. So he is the liaison between Triali and Atlas. So he worked with us early in the summer and said, "Can I redo the schedule?" And we said yes. And so he has created a daytime and

104a nighttime schedule that keeps the same amount of security guards moving around the building outside the c off the c around the outside of the campus all day long. And the same thing happens in the evening. You can see Ed right now patrolling as we're in our meeting this evening. What's been excellent about this also he handles all the the payroll and he has found some serious deductions are located through his scheduling in overtime. So last year for the 2425 school year we paid Atlas 320.25 hours in overtime. So if you look at prevailing wage plus time and a half that's pretty expensive. So far this year we have logged 40 6 hours 0.25 in overtime. So we are on projection to decrease our overtime cost by 86%. And that is really taking a deep

105analysis into what security is doing and making sure that we are not going into overtime um without it being necessary. There are just some times when we might not have enough guards and we need somebody for an event. Certainly the guard pool at Atlas is is increased. You know, they're pretty busy in our area right now. But I I have to give it to Nick and his diligence with his scheduling and the way he's done this. This has already saved the district about $32,000 since the beginning of this school year. So, we're very pleased with that. This also includes includes the scope of services with our event staff. And I again I have to give a shout out to Kevin Crudelli and our coaches and our event staff because they all go through a training

106now. They are all CPR and first aid certified. They um you're very visible at our events. They've got the red shirts that say event host, but they are there um to help us out and the whole the whole safety team has been exceptional and very proud of that. So, if we dig into fuel a little bit, we are projecting a 1.85% 85% decrease in our spending. And that is really because we overbudgeted a lot last year for our fuel oil and didn't use as much. And so we were able to cut it back just a little, not enough to cause us any damage if the fuel oil goes up because, you know, things are so unknown. But we felt confident we could go down a little bit in that area. Um, as we know, we're

107waiting for the bid from DCMO. It should be out February 10th, which will give us our fuel oil. We prefer competitive pricing at Tri Valley. We don't want to get into the state contract rates, although they fluctuate. No, the state contract rates are steady. The compare the competitive pricing is it fluctuates, but you know, sometimes we're going to be below it, sometimes we're going to be above it. And last year, I went through and looked across the entire state of New York to see who was using state pricing and who was using competitive pricing. and just even resourcing some colleagues and what they chose. Um really the competitive pricing is the smartest for us to do. Um good electricity again this is one of those unknowns. We really don't have a lot of control over

108it. We are projecting a 2.38% increase. It is um a little less than we first anticipated. It's all going to be based on market conditions. So that one we will watch very closely. maintenance, supplies, and service agreements. So, we're looking at a 9.93% increase here. Part of it is just again the cost of doing business and um higher cost for our HVAC, control panels, any required inspections, mandated equipment testing. Um but then also goods and materials and supplies is increased. This also includes um a really smart decision that we made this past year when we moved over to day automation during the capital project um that they do our swipes, they do our our security system, they do our heat control. Um we were we did not enter into a service agreement with them. So

109every time they came to our campus to help us out with something, it was time and materials. And so we were averaging $1,500 to $2,000 a call for them to come. So that was quite expensive and it added up last year. Um just through some great conversations with the new representative at Day Automation. He comes to us twice a month, twice, well once every two months from Newberg. Um he really sat down and showed us what a service agreement would do for us. It's about $14,000 for the entire year, but then we can call them for anything. And so we we know that that's going to be a huge savings when we tally that up at the end of year compared to last year. We also took a look at our trash expenses and what

110we found was um some of the funds could be reallocated into our cafeteria fund, our C fund because um that's where a lot of our trash comes from is the cafeteria each day. So that that helped us keep that fairly low. Our our proposed tax rate will remain the same. It's at zero. We have no changes in this category. We don't have any active right now. We had a few last year which we were able to settle. Our capital debt service is pretty incredible if you look at those percentage rates. Um we originally went out to a bond for 4.5 million in 2021. We have create paid 1.5 million through last June. Uh we owe 3 million but our interest is projected to be 53,250 for 2627. And then on the right side, you can

111see the percentage that we'll be paying back until our bond matures in 2036. So that's been um just really a a great fiscal smart thing and our interest rates are fantastic. So overall uh here's a look at what we've got. So I included 2425 into there. Um but the comparable on the right hand side really is 25 and 26. And as you can see um you know those those percentages kind of balance out and so we are looking at a 1.41% in our capital component which I have to tell you is super fiscally fantastic. It is without compromising any program. It is without compromising safety. It is without compromising anything that our our buildings and our grounds need to to run efficiently and effectively. Just as a reminder, and I'll show this for the next

112couple of presentations, if you are not a registered voter, please do. It is your civic duty and your civic right. Voter registration will be held May 12th and May 14th in the district office between 4 and 8:00 p.m. And then our annual school budget vote and election will be May 19th, 2026 from 1 to 8:00 p.m. in the lower level gym. What questions can I answer? Security-wise, one of the questions I see you reduced the services. How much did that impact us? >> We did not >> as far as coverage. >> We did not reduce any services. We have the same amount of guards. What we did was better schedule. So, we have no no change in the guards or the amount of guards. Um, you know, we'll use some overtime because some of our

113bigger events, our concerts, you know, things when we have an evening, um, our plays and musicals, so we always have extra on hand for that, especially for doing some parking arrangements out things out there outside, but we there was no change in our guards, same amount. >> Busing has been a big one for me. uh we negotiating with them at all or >> so we'll get into that and our other our other components of the budget. We'll talk a little bit more about our busing. >> What's your anticipation on the interest rate? >> I I can't give you one right now. >> If I could, I'd like a hard copy of this. I did not get any. >> Absolutely. Mhm. You mentioned pre value wage um with security guards. What other um contracts have covered

114by preval? All of them. >> So any of the subcontractors that would we would bring in to do work would be prevailing wage. >> Yes. Any other questions? >> Erin, I have a question. >> Yes. Um, so again, circling back to security, do we still utilize the Svin County Sheriff's Office to come in to to subsidize or to assist with the armed security? >> Yes. So, we have a full-time SRO on campus. Um, it's Michael Barrett that's with us for the remainder of the school year. So, he's here every day with us as well. So, we have uh three guards on and Michael every day. >> And the decrease in includes the Sullivan County Sheriff's um anticipated cost for the coming year as well. >> Yes. So, any other questions? Right. Moving along. Superintendent Long

115is still going to present. Um, >> I'm just going to do my report. >> Yeah. Great. So, uh, at your tables tonight are the menus. I wanted everybody to take a quick look look at. You know, we've been working really hard with Witson's and then also Jim Biggley and his daughter Heather who are our food service consultants. They've been on campus a few times. They're really keeping a close eye on things. And after, you know, we brought the attention to of the Witson's the concerns we were having. You can see the new and improved menus coming out. There needs to be multiple types of pizza served. There needs to be more than one milk served. Um, and you can see really great pizza choices coming up. There's going to be a lot of snack trials

116for the kids. We are allowing them to purchase some more smoothie machines because they smoothies are very popular and they need a little bit more. We are getting panini machines to make sure that they can get a hot sandwich. You'll also see some tzones and strombolies added to the menu. Um, the other great thing that's going on is you'll notice in breakfast, lot of hot breakfast options, lots of reduced sugar cereal options and that is that is on there now. So, we are very happy with the improvements they're making. There are now free cups near each point of service station where the point of sale station where the kids check out there. They can access water whenever they need to. We are looking into some water coolers to have there that's easier for kids to

117access. And we know that just because of the treatments in the water, there's nothing harmful, but it does give a little bit of a taste. So, we're going to be purchasing some water coolers. We're going to have one in here. We're going to have a few in the cafeteria. So, kids can fill up with water as much as they want. They can fill their water bottles, but they also have access to a at least it's a probably a 10 oz 12 oz cup to get their water every day. The other great thing um is the salad bar that Mr. Credelli was talking about. So, it's here. It has the bins are in. Um the food service is going to do a soft opening most likely next week and get that off the ground. But I

118did talk to our student media group and we're going to do a a formal ribbon cutting. We're going to do some fun media stuff. We're going to really spotlight the salad bar and um encourage that to keep being very successful. Also, um we've gotten both the USD grants through um New York State Child Nutrition. And so that will provide us free afterchool snacks now for our students every day. All of our students are eligible for those snacks. Um which will be a major cost savings to the district because we purchase snacks weekly through ShopRite or Sam's Club and we won't need to do that. We have been back and forth with them on the menu choices. Um, the first menu that came through, I wouldn't approve. It was a lot of Doritos and cookies and

119chips. So, the new menu has yogurts and it has stringed cheese. It has fresh fruit, has lots of oranges and bananas and anything that's decent and, you know, tasty in season. So, uh, again, very pleased with our progress we're making with Witson's. And we hope to get that snack program. Daisy's got a big big agenda. She thinks we're going to start Monday. Um, but we most likely will start the following week. So, we're very happy with that. And we've been contacting Steve Walsh and talking a lot about the veterans tax exemption and he is planning to come here on February 12th to meet with us. I've asked him for the numbers so that we can crunch numbers and give an accurate report to the board and possibly even be able to make that decision that

120night. So, um, Leslie and I have been working with him and he will get that information to us. As you know, the governor presented her state of the state address last week. Um, everybody's analyzing it, analyzing it, analyzing it. I'm going to a Mid Hudson council meeting. Next week that'll we'll have our representatives from our New York State Council on School Superintendent to give us the breakdown and what it looks like. Our initial aid runs are out. Uh, last year we received 2.0% in foundation aid. Right now, it's looking like we'll have 2.28% in foundation aid. So, a slight increase. So, that's encouraging. Some exciting stuff. Um, I was mentioning it earlier. This year marks the 40th anniversary of our varsity girls softball state championship. And, uh, Larry Whipple and Mr. Credelli are working together

121to try to do some type of fun commemorative celebration at opening day for Little League this year. So, hopefully that comes together nicely. And then finally, we have two foils. Uh, one from January 5th from Janet Diamond. All expenses associated with the administrative retreat held in Johnson City, New York at the tra traditions at the Blend Hotel and Spa included but not limited to cost, meals, spa services, golf fees, etc. And then one from Janet Diamond on January 5th, the budget status report for 2526 showing the original appropriation and all expenditures and encumbrances for a budget codes to date. The budget status report is required to include any adjustments to the budget and any any unencumbered balance for each fund and budget code includes all funds revenue status reports all for all funds including capital

122funds and all grant monies. This report should include estimated revenues amounts received to date and revenues estimated to be received during the balance of the fiscal year. >> Any questions? >> Have a question. >> Okay. Um, spas and golfing were mentioned in it. Did any of that actually take place? >> No. No. So, traditions >> glorious, but >> Yeah. No. So, traditions um was a central location for us. We had two people we worked with for our two-day retreat. Um, one is a coach that's teaching us the PLC process. So, she came from Rochester and worked with us all day. And the second day was really digging into jumping into the PLC process. um and he was the superintendent from Aiggo Appalakin. And so to kind of combine with his family's um summer schedule and

123a trip they had, we went to Johnson City. Whoop whoop. We had a lot of fun at Wegman's. Um but there was no spa. There was no golf. It was about 104 degrees actually outside. Um but that's just the name of the hotel. >> Thank you, >> Erin. I have a quick question also. Um, in the past we've asked how many hours um has been invested in our staff taking time to do these foils and the amount of money the district is spending on these foils. Could you get that information? >> Yes. Yeah, I'll do a um a total and then you know a a December to or September to December kind of update for you to January to let you know. Okay. >> Yes. Thank you. Okay, moving along. Um, are there any items

124the board wishes pulled from tonight's uh agenda? Right, moving along. So, I will need a uh motion to approve the consent agenda. >> motion by Jerry, second by Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. Great. That is unanimous. Uh moving along, new business. Uh the 2026 27 academic calendar. Um I need a motion in a second. >> Motion motion rose. >> Second. Travis. Any discussion? >> Please proceed. That is also unanimous. Oh. Oh, it's open to vote. I'm sorry. I'm a little rusty. I apologize. Okay. Just that is unus. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education accepts and approves the academic calendar for the 267 school year. >> Next, uh teacher aid appointment. Need a motion in a second. >> Jerry second. Travis >> second. Any discussion?

125Please proceed to vote. is also unanimous. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools and the board of education at its January 22nd, 2026 meeting approves the appointment of Jenna Knox to a teacher aid position pending fingerprint clearance commencing on February 2, 2026. This appointment is at step 10 per the current TESA contract for 2526 school year pro. May I just interject real quick? I think we missed 12A and 13A old business might scroll down too quickly. My apologies. So 12 A. Oh, old business to December 18th board meeting. Need a motion and a second. So motion Tammy second. Jerry, any discussion? >> What we did with those tabled them because of a concern I had and some other ones had in reference to what was allowed in the minutes. So

126u that's been addressed. So yeah, everything's fine. Any other discussion? Please continue to vote. That is also unanimous. Um, be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent schools, the board of education does hereby approve the draft minute stated December 18th, 2025. And I apologize. I'm going to go backwards. I think I need to also cover 11, right? Consent agenda personnel or that also. That's all right. All right. So, we're gonna we're gonna move on along. All right. >> Just uh 13A now. >> 13A. Thank you. All right. public comment session for items that are not on today's agenda. Anybody signed in to speak? No, we will move along. All right. Uh 14C is where we're at. All right. Uh 2026 agreement, Tri Valley Central School District and the Center for Discovery. Made a

127motion and a second. Motion motion. Rose, second, Tammy. Any discussion? Yeah, I have a question in reference to u legality since we do not have a president is that supposed to be taken with the signature of the president. So how and also we had some signatures some signings from the January 8th meeting that really null and void. >> So we're going to pull those to be resigned. This only requires my signature and the center for discovery signature, but we want the board to approve it and then we'll pass it on to the Center for Discovery. >> My question now that we're at least on this subject of a signature, is there any way the board can help in some way with having the authority being done by someone else because we have no signature person.

128So, can the board approve a person to do the signature or maybe the superintendent or I've never never ever in my 20 years experience what we're going through now and it's very sad to me and it does affect her kids. will appear on agenda for approval. Yes. >> For the acting hopefully the president seated president. >> Yes. >> We need to vote on this. Please proceed. That is also unanimous. Be it resolved that the upon the recommendation of the superintendent schools, the board of education does hereby approve the 2025 206 agreement between Tri Valley Central School District and the Center for Discovery is attached to the executive section of the agenda. So the next item of new business is the delegate nomination for the Sullivan County School Board Association. Is this something we can move

129forward with or does >> um so it really is we we have three now. Um Sullivan Boseies has asked for three. So we when Keith stepped away that left us with two. So we do need to see if we can appoint someone else. And then I think you can talk among yourselves to see who wants to be the the first delegate and then the second delegate and then the backup delegate. But right now, nobody's seated. >> Nobody. >> That's not true. >> If I may, >> I was a delegate. >> The president of the board, Tri Valley board at the time was our representative. I was a delegate and I believe Jerry was a second delegate. Right now, we need a third one. >> So, we need a representative. >> We need two. >> And

130then if if you want to become the representative, you can declare that. That's up up to the board. >> And then Jerry can stay on and then we need a third person. >> Third. That's correct. >> The three. >> We're not revoting on the two that are already sitting. We're just replacing >> the one. >> So the third person would be if one of the other two could not make it. >> Yes. >> Okay. Well, there is something that they did different this year that there's please maybe call and see if this is correct that each school used to have one vote now they have two. So, it's very important that not only the delegate is there but he alternate as well. Um, and it bolds well for Tri Valley to have that attendance because,

131you know, we we need to be out there and know that Tri Valley exists >> in Sullivan County school boards and um are trying to just get more members involved. We're really trying to beef up our our attendance at our events that we're going to, our dinners, and um just get better voices from the districts. And so that's why they opened it up for an additional vote from each school. >> And they raised the uh the dues this year too to for us was what? 1250. >> It's a per student cost. >> Yes. Under if you're under 1500 students, it's a per student cost. >> And I think ours was 1250. Mhm. Didn't mean to cause a disruption here in any way. >> I needed clarity personally. Is there anybody interested in being the third

132delegate on behalf of TR? >> Well, really you should delegate number one, number two, and number three. So, right now there's just two and three. Oh, you need if you want number two to move up, that's up to the board. >> I don't I don't think so. I think it's a volunteer. I don't think it needs to be voted on. I think we just need volunteers. >> Whatever you >> Is there an upcoming meeting or a reason we need to move forward with this tonight instead of waiting until our member? >> Uh there will be one. Um, I think it's in two weeks. Let me just double check. >> February. >> Yeah. >> Any opinions or conversation about tableling this until the next meeting where we have hopefully a full board present and then making

133a decision um as to who would would fill in that class. Next Monday night is the next Sullivan County Board School Board meeting at Liberty. Imagine we're probably going to postpone that. But if if George and Jerry are willing to go, then we're we're well represented and if somebody wants to try it out, you could come with us and then maybe would help you make your decision. >> But all three delegates do not have to one, correct? >> We really want two. Two. So, >> okay. >> Any thoughts on tableabling it? Are we moving forward with selecting somebody? Is anybody interested? >> I would be interested. So, Rose is interested. Thank you, Rose. Anybody else interested? Rose. Okay. I need a motion and a second for Rose. >> What is the order of >> But

134it doesn't matter. Someone has to be the first district representative. Yes. George, would you like that? >> I would like George to take that. >> Okay. So, G, are you interested, T or? No. >> What I was going to say is, can we vote on Rose and then make that decision? >> Agree. Agree. >> So, and this would have to be a hand vote, correct? to pick. Well, first we're going to Rose's. Yes. Okay. So, all those in favor of Rose um being selected as the delegate for Southern County School Boards, please raise your hand. Okay. That is unanimous. All right. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of Superintendent of Schools, Board of Education, does hereby approve Rosewoods as the delegate for the Svin County School Board Association. So now, next, what we're going

135to do is select the order. So we have order one, two, three. Um George is currently um acting in this capacity as a representative as well as Jerry. So we just need to select the order. And now we have Rose also participating as one of our delegates. So is there any discussion about who we would like to put in an order? So go ahead. >> I'd like to make a motion that uh George take number one, Jerry take number two, and Rose take number three. >> I'll second that. Second. >> Everyone has seconded that motion. So okay. So we're going to go Tammy and I think second on that. All right. All right. So we need to do this by hand. Correct. Yes. Okay. All those in favor as having George, then Jerry, and then

136Rose in that particular order as representatives of delegates for our school district. All right. That looks unanimous. Thank you very much. You're you're you're on board. >> Can you just repeat when that meeting is? >> It's scheduled for Monday evening from 5 to 7 at Liberty. Um, and I'll I'll have Leslie update those calendars to make sure that you're getting those calendar invites as well. So, they have the calendar laid out for the year. Yes. Yes. We'll make sure she's on the list. Yeah, we'll make sure you're added to the list. I anticipate we won't be at the dinner. Okay. So, now we're going to go back one more time. Um, and we're going to vote all those in favor of having Rose as the delegate. I thought we did this, but okay. So, Rose

137is the delegate. I think we did this. This was unanimous. Yes. Moving on. Word comment session. Hey Travis, do you have any comments this evening? >> Yes, just very brief. Uh, thank you PTO. Please get us out the uh prices for the shirts and how to get them and where to get them. That would be great. Uh, administration uh administrative presentations. Thank you very much for letting us know what's going on with the school. Appreciate it. Thank you, >> Chris. >> There's no new problems with the students. everyone very right now. Uh there was applause about the cross country awards being hung up in the hallway. Uh there were some kids waiting on that and it just got hung up. That's really about it. Thank you, Jerry. Uh Tammy, >> I'm good. Thank you, Rose.

138Um, I just wanted to thank the PTO for all that they do and um, I was really impressed by their presentation. They must have really practiced because they did a great job. Um, I did just have one question. I was wondering if we've received any feedback on the Beacon Connect app from parents. >> Uh, interesting. I was talking with them yesterday because Jen, I haven't told you this, but they would like to come to the Bear Bash. Um because there's not a lot of parents that are using it. So the parents that they are talking to that are calling for questions. They're encouraging them to use the app. We backpacked home all the directions and then we put things on our website for people to see. So they're going to set up at the bear

139bash so they can further support the families. The feedback has been good for the ones using it, but there's not a lot of families that are taking advantage of it yet. George. >> Um, I understand that our main man in our department of maintenance is going to be retiring and um, I feel that that's a very important position and he's he's done a lot for this district and saving us money. So, I would since I've asked many times to have him come in and let us know what's going on, I'd like to see him either being followed and tracked on tape, the things that in this district that has been addressed and that needs to be addressed or how you fix certain things or the maintenance timing of them because I think that position is

140critical. because this district was shut down if it's not for the maintenance >> and we can't afford that. >> So, it's something to think about and I think it'd be worthwhile investing into that. And I I think he'd love to be on tape, you know, really. Um, >> as long as he doesn't know it, he's well, >> he's a very important person. >> Very much so. He knows every nut and bolt in this whole entire campus. Back years ago when I was on the board, we used to have them come in once a once a month, come in and give an update on what's going on with the board, right on down to what they're using to seal the gym floor, what type of stuff they're using. But we always had somebody in the wings

141that was going to take over that knew everything about that. That's the time when we had really a continuity here and it did go a long ways. So, uh, you know, whatever we can do, I think it'd be worthwhile saving a lot of money if something goes down. >> Yeah, I agree. That's why we're trying to formulate that plan to bring them on soon so they can spend the remainder of the year with him. Um, and you just, you know, put some ideas in my head about maybe we can, we've got ways we can just, um, record conversations that turn into notes, you know, and that might be an option when Jesse sitting down or looking at the well or, you know, some of our systems and says da da da goes into a a

142digital notebook and then that person has access to it. >> I'm not uh suggesting it's a detriment to them. It's a compliment to them. For sure. Please share that with them. >> I will. >> Thank you. I want to thank Tim and for coming out tonight um for being here meeting. I do want to remind the board that our next meeting is February 12th. Uh we really should think some things over between now and next meeting about leadership and our presidency and our vice president and the person that we want to join um us at this table um so that we're not running into this problem again next month. So really or the next couple weeks. really take some time to think about leadership here.