001Good evening everyone. We are going to resume the meeting at 7:00 and we're going to start with the pledge. Please join me. Please remain standing for a moment of silence for a resolution. And we're going to read algian flag. Thank you. Moving to item three is a memorial resolution for Mrs. Diane K. Nihoff. Whereas Mrs. Diane K. Nihoff served as a staff member of the Tri Valley Central School District for 20 years. And whereas Mrs. Diane K. Nyikoff exemplified extraordinary commitment to the students of the Tri Valley Central School District and whereas Mrs. Diane K. Nihoff passed away on September 19th, 2025. We resolved that the Tri Valley Central School District extends its thanks to Mrs. Diane K. Nihoff for her service and be it further resolved that the Tri Valley Central School District extends
002its sympathy to the family of Mrs. Diane K. Nihoff during this time of morning. Moving to item number four is correspondence. >> I'm sorry. We have one more. I'm not aware. Okay. 3B is okay. We have a board of education appreciation presentation. Go ahead. >> Yeah. So, since we will not be in session next week, it is um board school board recognition week next week. We will not. We wanted just to honor you this evening. So, all of you have cards that were handmade by our students at the elementary school. But before we show you the video, I do want to express my deepest appreciation to each of you for your serving and your unwavering commitment to our students and our staff and our community. We know that serving on a board is a privilege,
003but it is also a tremendous responsibility and you all approach it with dedication and integrity and heart and every decision that you make is in the interest of our kids always. And I appreciate that. It is an honor to work with you. It is a privilege to work with you and I'm I'm really really proud of the board that we are and the school that we have and the progress that we're making. And so, thank you so much for the opportunity to work with you each day. So, our students wanted to share their gratitude as well, and they've created a small token of appreciation um as a reminder of all the hard work that you do. So, if you can look at the screen, I think Dan can put it on for us. [Music] Thank
004you. Thank you. Think about it. So, thank you again for for all you do for us here. >> Very nice. Thank you. >> Okay. Now, moving to item number four is correspondence. Do we have any Okay, we don't have anything tonight. Moving to item number five is public comment session for items that are on tonight's agenda. Anyone? Okay, moving to item number six is guests and presentations and we have the administrative presentations. Welcome. Good evening everyone. I just want to thank you all for what you do. We were able to have just an ENL night. We had some pumpkin carving going on. All because of your support. We're able to do these fun things. We got parents, we have kids, we have administrators, we have teachers staying after. It's just been a great um experience
005so far. So, thank you all. So, we've are launching our steam program for the third year in a row. We had 195 students sign up. That's grades 1 through six, which is half of our student body population in the elementary school. They'll be starting next week. and we're able to offer all these programs because our teachers take the time after school to share some of their talents. So, we have some new programs this year. We have art journals, which is new, smiles, which is a leadership program. Hydroponics is coming on again before our second graders do it. We have robotics, and we have two 3D printing classes where they're using the 3D printing pens again. They're very popular. Of the 195 students, 128 are able to get in this first session. Anyone who didn't get
006in this session will be in our next session, which will be right around winter break. So, we're just really thankful to see our kids wanting to stay after school with our teachers just learning. So, they all sound very fun, but I'll just give an example of last year during robotics. They're trying to get So, we have some fifth graders trying to get a robot around a carpet. They have to code it in inches, but they don't know how long the carpet is. So that leads to a conversation of each one of these blocks is a foot. So now they're converting feet and counting blocks to inches to code to get their robot to go. Well, it needs to turn, how much does it turn? Well, it needs to turn 90°. What does that look like?
007So it's just an integration of stuff they're learning in class into what they perceive as a fun activity. So that team building, getting them to work with each other, play. We've had some popup steam programs. So that's what you see in the pictures. So Miss Petite has run some different things our teachers are able to go down to. So they did a kind of a Lego building, but really was a force activity. So second graders are learning what force is. Mass times acceleration. They're building. And I asked the teachers, "So what do you get out of that? How did it go? It's like our first time trying it. Let's get feedback." And one of the teachers said, "Well, I had one group. They built a car, didn't go. They ran back to their box, built
008another car, it didn't go, and they went back for a third time as a group, really talking through and building again. So, these activities build that resilience. It builds some of that academic fortitude that we're looking for, especially in our early students. That way, when we get to secondary school and high school, we have built that thing like we say after school here at Tri Valley. So, this is just that precursor to getting them to sports, getting them to our after school clubs, and then getting them to graduation. Does anyone have any questions? >> Thank you again. >> Thank you. >> Good evening everyone. I just want to take a minute to say thank you for all your dedication and uh work that you do with the board. And um so tonight I just want
009to give a recap of what we've been going doing so far this past month in the PPS department. Um we've been holding transfer meetings for all of our new students. So uh whenever we have new students come into the district, we always hold a 30-day transfer meeting. Uh gives the student an opportunity to acclimate to Tri Valley. It also gives the teachers an opportunity to get to know the student. And then we come together with the parents and the team. um so that we can review the IEP and just make sure that everything that they need is in there or if we have to make any tweaks that's what we do at that time. Uh most of the parents love those meetings. They really enjoy the opportunity um that gives a little time for their
010student to get accumulated here, acclimated, sorry, and um them an opportunity to meet the teachers so that they can see how they're doing in class. And the second thing that we have going on this month is it'll be our second um department meeting. Uh this year the focus is going to be kind of on an internal IEP audit uh where I'll be working with the special ed team so that we can take a look at all of our IEPs um and do a little bit of interrator reliability just to see how we're writing them, how we're doing it across the board because a lot of times they don't get a chance to talk to each other. Um, so they look very different in the elementary than they do in the secondary. And we're just going
011to try to see where we can do some um consistency and develop some language in the IEP that is consistent for each of the teachers as they move on year to year so they know what to look for, where to look for in the IEP. Any questions? >> Okay, thank you. Have a great Columbus Day weekend, too. I've clicked one too many times. No, we're good. All right. Good evening, everyone. So, the MTSS building continues a room continues to grow. I have um really been able to welcome a lot of a lot more students into the office these days and it's been it's been an interesting experience. Needless to say, we've had the opportunity to have our Tri Valley Bear mascot. Go ahead over to our giant pumpkin party this past weekend. So, if you
012were able to attend that, you may have seen our bear there advertising for our homecoming event. Our homecoming football game is this Saturday. There were flyers that were be being given out there. It's really important to us this year that we continue to grow those community relationships. Last year, we foster some of those relationships. This year we're trying to grow them and certainly with the help of Miss Tanya Hugler, we've been able to establish lists of different community organizations that are currently active in our community in our county where we can help to direct some of our families if and when they need resources throughout the school year. What we were finding is we were directing parents to certain community organizations either to their websites or to links or be able to scan certain QR
013codes and finding that those organizations were no longer active. So, it was pretty defeating for some of our families who were already trying to get back on their feet or really reaching out for help to not have help given to them. So, we're continuing to grow that. our MTSS intervention team meetings. We had our first meeting day today. We had about five different students that we met on throughout the day. The that process is when teachers find as though for within the first five weeks of school that they have students that they're having a difficult time really either growing them academic, behaviorally, or social, emotionally, they come to the table and we have an open discussion about ways that we can support those students. This year is the first year that we're having these MTSS
014intervention team meetings for secondary school students and I'm very proud of our secondary school staff. Had the opportunity to present the idea of this system to them and we've already had may not sound like a lot to you but it's exciting for us. Two teachers refers students so far and I think the more and more that the word gets out and the support that we can give to some of the secondary school teachers regarding their children the more those numbers are going to grow. So, if you compare it to five teacher meetings for the elementary school that has had this system set up now for quite a few years, and we've already got two secondary school meetings that we're having, we're we're really having some successful um really good start to the school year for
015making sure that our students are getting the supports that they need. And finally, the Panorama survey did go out. We had a number of students participate this year in comparison to last year. Remember that information is an opportunity for us to see how our students are feeling about their school year, how they're feeling about the programs that we're offering for them, and also an opportunity to just see overall what other types of programs we can offer them to make sure that we are continuing to build their confidence and resilience and all of those other traits that we really need our students to have a strong handle on before they graduate and enter the real world. So that is the update from from the MTSS department. Any questions? >> Thank you. >> Good evening. I'm still
016defrosting from being outside, but we have a bunch of seniors outside carving pumpkins, watching a movie, and having a great night. So, it's really exciting to see that we're having such a great year already. Our attendance percentage is up this year. Um, compared to last year, we're up 2%. We've done a lot of parent meetings, a lot of connections that we've been building with them, trying to help figure out what the struggles are so we can get our students here. We've also, that's incorporation with work through MTSS. We've tightened up some attendance process and procedures, and really everybody is putting in the effort to make sure our students are getting here. We have a numerous college representatives and recruiters that will be coming throughout the school year. That announcement also went out on parent square.
017We have uh monthly calendars that are available in the guidance department that show who is here and where they are coming from. They're throughout the state. This is just a really great opportunity for our students to make those connections with those recruiters and representatives and an opportunity that if they weren't able to go to that college, they're able to speak to them and really get an idea of what is out there and what programs there are available. Our college credit Sunni program that was piloting this year, those letters went out. Every student that is registered has received that. They will get a $25 credit uh per credit for each course and if they keep that B or better. So our teachers are aware of that as well to help encourage our students and work them
018through those. Our clubs activities and after school programming have begun. We have all of our clubs that are available right now on Arbiter. Every student does need to register. We can help them through that process. Uh Miss Williams also is a really great help on that for some of our students who might need some assistance or guardian um assistance to get those programs up and going. Uh all the administration in the secondary school stepped out for the day to attend the tall cop training. This was hosted by the Sullivan County uh corrections department. It was a really great day. Um we learned a lot of information, some top trends that our students are facing and exposures that they're facing out in our communities uh right here in Sullivan County. So it was very eye openening.
019It has given us a lot of background information, things to look for in our students who might be struggling um with some addictions or anything along those lines. So, that was a really helpful training that all three of us were able to attend and gain some extra knowledge on our food menu. So, we have been doing a lot. I know our civics projects have been working a lot. Miss Long has been doing a lot with our cafeteria staff and uh Witston's our program. So, we started talking and reaching out to students. We started with our sports teams and coaches. So they had some meetings after school this week and they were able to give their input on the menus. So if they're getting breakfast, what are they getting? What do they want more of? What
020are they looking for in their diets? We also met about lunch, what items do you want, what rooms do you like, what do you want to see more of? And we're going to keep doing that and incorporating more and more students ideas and thoughts and parents as well. So we're we're taking that input. We're working with our team and we're really trying to make some adjustments on that menu. We have started professional learning communities with our staff in both secondary and elementary. They're going really well. Um it is a it is an adjustment for all of us, you know, taking that time for ourselves to work together as a team and really building ourselves and the capacities together so we can work together to move us forward and be successful. So they are going great
021and we are all working hard and diligently and having a great time while we do it. Any questions? Thank you. >> Thank you. Good evening everybody. I'd like to also thank you all for your service. Uh it's been a pleasure and a privilege to be here and thank you all for your support through that. Uh September was a fantastic month. It came in pretty fast and furious and it went out just the same way. Uh the kids spent a lot of time reconnecting with their friends, with uh old teachers, meeting new teachers, and it was a really all hands-on deck effort from the first day of school all the way through the month. We had teachers and counselors and everybody welcoming students in. Uh our aids did a great job helping the students into the
022school and then once they got in there, uh there was somebody there to to welcome them if they were struggling. So, everybody's pretty much acclimated at this point. All of our youngest kids take the longest to get acclimated and and sometimes their parents do, too. So, it's been really beneficial to have all of that support. Um, our attendance goal has exceeded uh for the month of September. We were up to 95% this past month. I spent some time at UPK orientation and at the uh K meet the teacher days right before school started to emphasize the importance of attendance and to make sure that the parents knew that they could reach out to us if there was any excuses or concerns or or things that were kind of keeping them holding their babies tight. So,
023um it's been really so far a very smooth transition for them and the attendance goal has uh has shown that we had open house right before our last board meeting the two nights. It was very well attended. Uh Miss Pringle and I spent a lot of time just talking with parents in the hallways in the cafeteria. So, it was um something that I feel like the parents really look forward to and the teachers had really great feedback. And lastly, our PLC's, our P uh professional learning communities are also rolling. Just like Miss Eberly said, it's it's been great work. We've been forging our teams. We've been really identifying the strengths that each of the members have and uh coming up with some great guidelines for how the meetings are going to be run for the
024future year. Any questions for me? All right, M. >> Excuse me. Do you feel the attendance is uh better than it has been in the past? Is it growing? >> As of right now, I believe so. When we get into the winter months and some of the colds come back and and some of our new kids get exposed to different germs, I think we'll see some things changing. Um, but for right now, I think we're in a really good spot. I've identified some kids. I've made some phone calls myself just to emphasize how important that attendance is and uh we've seen some improvements. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Good evening everyone. Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is our fire prevention day. We are really excited to have the Grahamsville and Never Sing
025Fire Department come to our school tomorrow to teach our students about fire safety. And also in the picture is um demonstrating what we are now doing a new initiative. We are recognizing for the past three weeks students who are displaying bear expectations during recess and lunch and we are giving them every Friday a certificate when they are announced as bear of the week. >> Thank you. >> All right. Good evening everybody. Um so the fall season is in full swing. Um the weather has been extremely cooperative. Um obviously we need a little more rain but uh but very minimal cancellations and it's been off to a great start. Um this week is our homecoming week. So we have um our pep rally tomorrow 9th period. Uh tomorrow night we have our bonfire across the street.
026Um we also have a girls varsity soccer game uh and their senior recognition. um right before the bonfire football game and dance on Saturday. So, a very very busy week with homecoming. Um our NISva uh fall scholar athlete. Um it opens 10:27. So that's the first day I can uh start putting in our fall scholar athletes. The IPRs are coming out. Um so before we know it, we'll have our scholar athletes here. Um and we get to celebrate them. Also hard to believe that winter sports registration is going to be opening on uh October 17th. So winter sports are right around the corner. Um on the wellness side of things, we still have recess going great and our wellness meetings are going to uh be starting. Um so I have the dates up there if
027if you'd like to attend. Um our first one will be uh 10:14. Uh the last thing we had uh several administrators and other staff um attend the Sullivan 180 healthier healthier generation celebration. Um we had an opportunity every school an opportunity to go up on stage and talk about the grants and the improvements to their school um using the money provided by Sullivan 180. So uh Miss Temple um was was there and went up and spoke about the the grants that we've used. Any questions? Yeah. Okay. Okay. There's been um a lot of talk of the pep rally being uh pretty long this this year. Do you think it might go into uh 8th period? A lot of the teachers were concerned about that. >> Um so this year's pep rally is just going to
028be ninth period. Um we are switching things up a bit. Um, so it's we have a game lined up um as well as our uh cheer/ staff uh dance. Um, so right now that it's just scheduled for 9th, but we are switching things up a little bit. >> Thank you. Others. >> Right. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay, moving to item number seven is the superintendence report. Miss Arin Long, >> thank you. Good evening again. I want to begin by congratulating both Carrie Smith and Heather Bennell. Carrie received the outstanding educator award the other night at our Sullivan County Boseies award banquet and Heather Bennell received outstanding employee award. It was a wonderful evening. We had 28 people from Tri Valley attend. I think we were the biggest tables there um and the loudest cheers
029and so it was just a really wonderful night to celebrate the hard work of both ladies. Um as Mrs. Ely talked about, we have been working hard on the cafeterias. We have rebranded them um with the help of Mr. Massie and Ellis Stanley and Shelby Carol and Lilia Merden. Over the summer they came in and they redesigned and renamed our cafeterias. So the elementary cafeteria is now known as the bear cub beastro and our secondary cafeteria is now known as the bear beastro. So outside both areas we've got the the designs of the bear with the chef's hat and the checkered uh tablecloth. And so they're out and we had uh last Friday we did a a revealing with um our broadcast. So I and Jordan Diamond were on there with the girls that had
030designed it and so we kind of did a reveal. Um along with that we've been working close with Witson to improve our food, improve the quality, improve the portions. We are um adding more scrambled eggs to our breakfast. We're adding breakfast burritos. I've asked them to start sampling breakfast pizzas as a choice for kids in the morning. Um I know the breakfast burritos have been pretty positive and as Mrs. As Ely was talking about, um the athletes have been meeting with the ladies in the cafeteria to talk about what they like, what they don't like. We just received a grant for um protein smoothies. So, we're going to be sampling some um pumpkin smoothies coming up. So, we'll continue to work close with Witson's. Uh it's really a charge of ours. We want to improve
031the food for our kids in the portions. The other part they have is now uh when they leave the cafeteria, they're able to take um a free fruit or vegetable with them or a couple of them so they can have them with them throughout the day. Recently, I just learned about a school district that had um the PTO by a refrigerator that they have housed in the c in the corner of the cafeteria. And when kids are done with lunch and they have a a leftover milk that's not opened or a piece of fruit or something, they're putting it in that fridge and then the athletes and extracurricular students after school can go to that fridge and grab a snack, too. So, something we're exploring might be a good opportunity for us to do that.
032Last week, uh, Mr. Dr. Snyder and I attended the New York State Council of School Superintendent Conference in Saratoga. And around visiting the vendors, we stopped at uh a New York Best table where they were allowing us to fill out a a form to be eligible for a scholarship for a graduating senior this year and we won. So, we were able to pick up a $1,000 scholarship to be awarded to one of our seniors this June will get it with the criteria in January. So, we are pretty excited about that. We also met with several architect firms at the conference. Our request for proposals will be in the newspapers early next week and then we will start um hosting architects on campus to visit. Once we've gotten through the process and received the proposals, I
033am um inviting anyone from the board that would like to sit on those interviews for our new architect that we'll get dates and times and would love to have you join us. Um just wanted to bring you up to speed a little bit on our school audit. We haven't seen it yet. Normally this time of year we receive it. Uh the federal government this year has issued um new guidance under the government accounting standards board. They call it Gadsby and these are new regulations. And a draft came out uh a while ago of how the reporting of schools needs to happen. It's about a 500page draft and the the actual document has not been completed yet. And because the federal government is shut down, things have slowed really down. So, um I talked with our
034auditor this morning and just wanted to reassure everyone that it's coming and they will be prepared to um finish it up as soon as that report comes out and we know exactly what it is we have to report to the state. So, everybody is in that that bowl right now. Again, this weekend is homecoming. We wish all of our athletes great luck and represent us with bare pride. And we have received the following foils on 926 from Ken Water requesting the itemized budget for the school year 2526. On 926 from Ken Water request for all the worksheets including the formulas for the different town tax rates in the district. on 926 from Jeff Lee from ofSmart Procure. Request for the purchase order number. Um purchase all purchase orders, purchase dates, line item details, line item
035qualities, line item prices, and vendor IDs and names. This is a very common one a lot of districts get. On September 29th, we received a foil from Cindy Mickelson for the final budget status report for 2425, 23, 24, and 223. and 22 20 21-22 showing the original appropriation for all expenditures for all budget codes to date. I would like any adjustments to the budget encumbrance outstanding and unencumbered balance for each fund and budget code as well. Please include include all funds including grant monies and the final revenue status report for all funds including capital fund and all grant monies for 2425 23 24 2223 and 2122. The report should include estimated revenues amounts received to date revenues estimated to be received during the balance of the fiscal year. All I have. >> Okay. Thank you.
036Moving to item number eight is uh items the board would like pulled from tonight's consent agenda. Anything? Okay, we'll move to item nine is the consent agenda. May I have a resolution to approve the entire consent agenda? Motion. >> Motion by Pat. >> Second by Jerry. Please proceed to vote. That is unanimous. Thank you. Be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the entire consent agenda categories 10 through 13. Moving to item number 14 is board committee reports. Carrie, anything? Sorry about that. Um, so the goose committee uh met yesterday at 5:00. Um, we are still kind of putting information together to come up with a plan to address the geese population more towards the spring, early spring when they're going to tend to block
037back to Tri Valley um in a very humane manner. We're just trying to control the population so that the fields including the elementary field, the field behind the school, and the track are usable. Um, so there's nothing really to report. We're just still putting pieces together um to make sure that again it's in a humane way that we can control our population and keep the kids here safe um from um ungodly um things that are going on over there. So um more information to come but more probably towards December as we're working through it. >> Okay. Thank you. Moving to item number 15 old business. You don't have anything tonight. Moving to item number 16 is public comment session for items that are not on tonight's agenda. Anybody Mr. Walters up? Welcome. It work. Okay.
038Good evening everyone. Uh first experience coming in the building. I couldn't. What's that? First experience coming into the building. I couldn't. The building was not open. It was not open to the public. I pressed the door, nothing happened. Same stories early in the summer. This is an open meeting. Need to address that problem. We shouldn't have that happen again. Signin sheet shouldn't be on the table. People can speak anonymously. Okay? That's what the means law says. Um, just a comment on food because I have some uh grandparents who are in my senior club and they watch what kids throw away. Great way to figure out what doesn't work. Um, your web page is your introduction to the world, folks. It's hard to get around. It's a secret world. You have to stumble across things. It's
039not intuitive. All right. And long as you have that web page either at the top or off to the side, the first page, it should say freedom of information law or freedom of information period. By law or by by open means law, it's supposed to be prominent on your web page and it's not prominent. The only way you can find it is if you search for it, put foil in there and it will take you to your foil. Now I had two experiences. I called once because the wrong time or date was on the was on the front page for the meeting. It was not correct. Then I finally found foil and I pressed had the word foil there. I pressed foil. It took me to four or four choices of uh Google or what
040MSN or whatever those other ones, Outlook and so forth to go there. And when you pressed on them, you went no place. No place. So what are you telling the people? Don't bother us. You actually should have it on the web page that you could fill in the form that's automatically done. You don't have to go or you can copy like most of us would do in this case. Copy the address and and paste it into your own email. But it's a cumbersome and does not work. It takes you nowhere. But I tried it three times. All right. Now, what I want to say about that pre free measure. So, that should be correct. And this is this this will be a thing I will keep coming back to you on. Transparency is your key
041to success. And when I look at the web pages, I just wonder if that web page is how difficult, how more difficult you make it for everybody else throughout your school system. Just a window, fix it. And I think I've covered all that I wanted to cover. Thank you. Thank you. Moving to item 17 is new business and we have three items plus a an add-on. So we'll start with 17A is accept acceptance of donations is an action and I have a motion to for the acceptance of donations >> to move >> second >> motion by George. Who's the second? Jerry's a second. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. >> I unanimous. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby accept the following donations. 56
042youth Tri Valley jerseys approximately 10 years old with an at purchase value of $60 from the Tri Valley Little League in coordination with the Tri Valley Youth Football Program. 72 youth Tri Valley football jerseys approximately 15 years old with an at purchase value of4 $40 in coordination with the Tri Valley Youth Football Program in coordination with the Tri Valley football program. And we have one 1.88 88B sirloin steak at $15 per pound for a total donation of $28.35 for the animal science beef lab from the Thunderhill Thunder View Farms. And we have four large boxes of various size mason jars, lids, screw tops, and other glass containers to the A program from the Gravesville United Methodist Church. And we have 70 pumpkins to the senior class from an anonymous donor. Moving to item number 17B
043is the health and welfare services contract. It is an action. Can I have a motion for 17B health and welfare services contract? >> Motion by Tammy. >> Second by Travis. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. That is unanimous. Thank you. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education is hereby approved the health and welfare services contract for 2024 to 2025 between the Tri Valley Central School District and the Falls Central School District in the amount of $2,27948 as attached to the executive content section of the agenda. Moving to item number 17 C is the transportation agreement. It is an action and I have a motion for 17C transportation agreement. Motion by Carrie, second by Tammy. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. That is unanimous. Be it resolved
044that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the transportation agreement as attached to the executive content section of the agenda effective July 1, 2025. Now 17D is a write in and it is the um it's going to be a vote for a Sullivan County School Board alternate number two. Um we have Jerry is has is interested in doing it. So uh we would like to take a vote to appoint him to that for the rest of the uh school year. So, can I have a motion to for the second uh Svin County School Board Association's alternate for Tri Valley number two? Motion by Pat, second by Tammy. Any discussion? >> Did Did someone step down from number two? >> No, they added a sec. Each school gets
045two votes >> at any meeting. So, if we only have uh the primary delegate and then there's an alternate, we don't want to lose the second vote. So, if let's say I couldn't make it, we have two people to go to the meeting to fill in. So, we still keep our two votes. >> Gary, you get to go to those meetings every month. Maybe just mention who if you could just mention who's the alternate and who's the >> George Dean is the alternate is the alternate number one and Jerry on vote will be alternate number two. >> Is this something new that they've just >> Yes, I just this has just changed in the last month or so. Okay. So, all in favor please raise your hand for a vote. There's unan. Okay, that is
046unanimous. Be be it resolved that Jerry Stevens is appointed as alternate number two for the Tri Valley school year to June 30th, 2025. And we move to item number 18 is board comment session. So I'll go around the room. Travis, >> thank you. I'll be very short. Just wanted to say thank you TVTA for dinner tonight. It was great. I know I was a little late, a little left for me. Appreciate that. And I really appreciate the card. Third grade, great job. Thank you, >> Christopher. >> I'll try to be very short as well, but there are uh >> the microphone. >> Oh, sorry. There are a few things that I wanted to go over. First is a pro a problem that a few students have noticed and a few teachers. I don't know the
047exact reason why it's blocked, but everyone has noticed that YouTube's blocked on all the Chromebooks. There are a few courses uh in the school that have YouTube videos linked that I've had to completely change and I've talked with a few teachers about this. Maybe we could do like some like zones where you could use YouTube. Maybe the guidance office. I know there's just a lot a lot of like videos that you need especially without the phones or uh I ju I just would like to know the reason that it's blocked. But other uh things that have come up is a youth volunteer club. I spoke with Mr. Carbone very shortly about it and I do have a teacher who would be interested in being an adviser for said club. It would probably be for the
048fifth and sixth graders. Uh, Miss Judy Norren said she would uh love to be an adviser for it. Uh, a lot of students have been talking about it. I've heard uh many great ideas for it. Just really expanding that volunteer club. Uh, I am having my first volunteer field trip just to update everyone. Uh if anyone knows of any students who might be interested on going on the trip, we're going to the homeless shelter to finish up like uh my blessing bags project that I started over the summer. We're going to be donating. And finally, I want to start uh if anyone has any comments or suggestions on this idea, maybe starting like an annual student volunteer thing in the school where once a year we would find the student who had the most volunteer
049hours and this would encourage more volunteerism in the school. We could give awards like maybe uh certificate, but that's all I have. Thank you. >> So, uh Chris, to answer your question, Dan and Amanda, you might be able to help us. What was the training that we did um back to school? Yeah. So that teachers can access YouTube. Yeah, Frank, that'd be great. So, Chris, here's your answer. New York state sent down a mandate that YouTube can no longer be accessed by students. Doesn't comply with that 2D law. So if your teachers wanted to still use YouTube, they just have to go through EdPuzzle, which we purchased. We had a training back to school and if any teachers need help, we have a TOSA who could help them walk through how to do that so
050they could still use the access in their school classroom. >> Yeah. >> Thank you, Kisha, if I may. have uh did any of the people that uh inquired with you about certain things, the staff, did they go through the administration to see what their thoughts was for you had an answer and also through the superintendent? >> They did not. They just wanted to see if I could get a quick answer because a lot of the students just and the teachers didn't uh know about Edpuzzle at all like that we could use the Edpuzzle and I'm I asked around a lot of students they didn't understand the reason why YouTube was blocked. So >> yeah, >> so it was blocked at the state level. Um, but all teachers went through the Edpuzzle training in our opening
051conference days with the direction that if you wanted to utilize YouTube, you had to use Edpuzzle. So, the teachers should know that. But like Mr. Snider said, we can offer um Miss Petite to go around and and help everybody get back on track with that. Chris, will you tell us what's in your blessing bags that you're working on? >> Yes. So, I've collected many, many items on like toiletries, health supplies, non-p perishable food. Honestly, this project has gotten so much bigger than I thought. Uh, I'm talking like hundreds of uh products worth like thousands of dollars of donated items that are the my the volunteer club will be helping give to the Federation for the Homeless uh and volunteering directly after. It's really a great uh initiative that has been started uh that I started
052working on over the summer. And I've also been contacted by uh Wolf Wolf Lake Neighbors for the the Cook School, I think. C O K E School. Uh they were seeking if I could give some of the donations to them for 16 students who are living in motel. They are an elementary school and I was uh very happy to give a a portion of the donated items because we had such an abundance of donated food items from everyone who was very generous in the county. >> That's excellent. Thank you so much. >> Good evening. Um, I'd just like to thank the uh elementary staff and students for the beautiful cards um that they presented to the board this evening. Um, that was very thoughtful. We greatly appreciate it. Um, happy principles recognition month to Mrs.
053Eberly, Mr. Fantini, Mr. Carbone, and Miss Pringle. Thank you for everything that you do for us and our students. Um, my condolences to the family and friends of Miss Nihoff. Thank you to the TVTA for an amazing dinner tonight. It was greatly appreciated. And um, I'd just like to touch that we have a potential nor easter coming Sunday and Monday with heavy rains. And uh, I would just request that everybody use caution if traveling on those days. Eric >> working now. I think um Chris, congrats because that you had an idea and you took control of an idea and you made it come to fruition and you have community reaching out to you for assistance. So the blessing bag I I think this blessing um endeavor is just going to continue to grow. So be
054proud of yourself because that's a major accomplishment especially for a young gentleman your age. Um, thank you for the meal this evening. And also I wanted to um thank the Tri Valley students who stepped up and assisted the Daniel Pierce Library. Um, the Daniel Pierce Library was really struggling to set up and and they were kind of worried about the event last Saturday and I heard from so many people that the Tri Valley students knocked it out of the park and they were just coming for through throughout the week to help and the day before. um and it was noted and um the community did truly appreciate um the outreach there. Um so it's nice to see us helping um local community. Um Mrs. Nihoff, condolences to her family. Um she was my fifth grade
055teacher. Um she was a wonderful wonderful woman who truly truly cared about her students. Um she was a blessing um as a student here. So deepest condolences to her family. Um and happy homecoming everybody. be safe, enjoy, and those pumpkins are going to look fabulous over at the track tomorrow. Um, so have a have a lovely week, >> Jerry. >> Uh, thank you for the appreciation video and thank you for everybody voting for me to be the second alternate. Well, I am known to be a So, the video is super sweet. Super sweet. Um, it's wonderful seeing the kids and I love how we blended technology and the handwritten card. Um, that's really awesome. I want to shine a spotlight a little bit on the elementary staff. Um, the communication this year has been awesome.
056Um, very thorough in Parent Square. It sends us a copy an email. Um, we've heard from Mr. Carbone and Miss Pringle. The teachers have been awesome. Like they're they're killing it topnotch. Um I love the survey to the um athletes about lunches, but maybe can we incorporate that to the elementary school? These are our littlest eaters. Um and most of the time they're not going to say anything. They're just going to throw it away and come home starving. Um so I'd like to see that carry through. Thanks TVTA for the dinner. Um, it's feels wonderful to be appreciated. So, great job. >> Thank you, Rose. >> Like Nicole, I'm also a SAP, so that video did me in. Um, so, thank you very much for that and the cards and the dinner was delicious. We
057all enjoyed some chili and some nice desserts. Um, so thank you for that. I also I just want to say how much I appreciate every time we have a board meeting um administration coming up and giving these presentations because it's gives us information into some of the things that are happening in the school that we weren't necessarily hearing about before these um presentations started. So I just wanted to say I really appreciate that we're getting these now. >> Thank you Pat. >> Uh thank you to the TVTA for dinner. They're greatly appreciated. I also appreciate all the recognition for our school board school board service. Um like ladies have said it's nice to be noticed. Um it George the um monthly updates that we get from the administration is very important and I get a
058lot out of it. But more importantly, I think we talk about communicating to the public a lot and and we're trying to build on that and since this is live stream, I think it's very important that they do that and uh I think the public gets a lot out of it. So, uh continue that because I certainly get a lot out of it. Um, I'd like to say the maintenance staff uh send out a recognition to them because uh I think they do a great job here. Jesse Bell under his guidance of uh with the administr with the administration and the uh his staff has uh I believe has saved the district some money because they've taken on a lot of uh a lot of projects that um more than likely would have uh went
059out to bid or went out to the public to have them do it and it saved some money. So, uh, they've gone well beyond what we've really asked them for. And, uh, I certainly appreciate that for saving the district money. And, um, another thing I'd like to say is, um, budget time is coming, uh, coming soon and I'd like to get started a little earlier this year than we normally do and, uh, because there's a lot to talk about and, uh, a lot of thoughts being passed around. So, uh, thank you for that, too. Have a good evening. >> Again, I just want to extend my thanks for the TVTA for the dinner as usual. Always great. And uh elementary school with the cards is really nice. We thank you. Uh Christopher, I just have
060to compliment you. You are becoming a really impressive role model for this for the uh student body. Um, I love it. I'm supporting it and uh, keep up the good work. Okay, moving to item number 18 19, adjournment. And I have a motion to adjurnn. Motion by Carrie, second by Travis. Please proceed to vote. That is unanimous. The board of education adjourns at 7:55 p.m. Thank you.