001Good evening everyone. Aaron, are we okay? We're going to call the meeting to order. It is 6 o'clock. Uh we are going to go into a executive session. Can I have a motion to go into item 2 A is discussion concerning details of the medical financial credit or employment history of a particular person or corporation. I need a motion to move. >> Motion by George. >> Second by Rose. Please proceed. The vote should be on your computer. Hey. >> That is unanimous. Thank you. Be it resolved that the board of education voted to enter executive session at 6 p.m. for the purpose of discussing details of the medical, financial, credit, or employment history of a particular person or corporation. Okay, we're going to resume the meeting and we're going to start with the pledge. Please
002join us for the pledge. The flag is in the back. Pledge allegiance. Okay, we're going to move to item number three is correspondence. We have nothing for tonight. Moving to item four, public comment session for items that are on tonight's agenda. Have anybody done? Welcome. Uh, I'll learn it eventually. Good evening. Couple of things on the plus side. Uh, Chris over here. I've watched him at the government center. I sat there when he made his presentation on food insecurity and did a very good job. Wish him luck in doing that. He's a fine young man. I see him in the office for the aging as an intern. So, thank you for for enjoying that. I hope you enjoyed it and learning experience in more ways than one. Uh on your agenda, I find your agenda
003a lot more informative than like the county agenda because I can dig down and everything is right there. The only question I have and only you can answer that is because I my father was on the board in Fallsburg and he was also on the town board and so I don't know in your packet if you get additional information like news articles or something like that. It would be informative. If you do they should be on the packet at the same time because everybody should have the same information and it helps your job when everybody is more informed. There are a lot of people out there like to be informed and can be helpful. Okay. So, as far as today went, I started off with trying to find your web page as usual. I get
004that. Uh, and it's not everything. That's a screenshot, but I like this one. Join us for discussion about Tri Valley new cell phone policy. I know that's past tense and some of that was discussed in private, which when it comes to policy is not. We've discussed that before. So then I go to the next level. I go to the board and I come over to this page. This is the page you have all in front of you. The reason I printed it out for you is actually under voting. You should take that block and put freedom of information access to freedom of information. That should go to the page that your freedom of information access your officer has where you cover everything. It should not be buried. Everything you read on the open means law
005and foil is is supposed to be prominent in the beginning. Okay. So then I went and it's interesting. I got to this page and this is a two-parter because this is down this is down from it at the same time. So I'm looking for the meeting. This one came one time it came up without anything up here which they was which the link to the meeting and so I I hit uh meeting meetings and you get two different comeups. When I follow this link, this is what I get. Okay. When I follow the link for meetings, this is what I get, which is listing today's meeting. And by the way, it says 7:00. So, it was a conflict. It didn't match up with anything else. I went to went to that. So, I went and
006I looked at your agenda and you had some oil requests and they're cumbersome on on the applicant's part. All this stuff about five days and all that stuff is not important for me to write if I make a foil request. Your access officer is supposed to know those things and you don't have an access officer as far as I'm concerned directly. It's supposed to be a person and I'll get to that in a minute or a physician. So, this one is decent. And you're going to follow up on this. Then you got this one from uh uh what the heck's his name? Justin Winnick. And I read this whole thing. Um but sending so you track it into then you get then it was answered number one. This is this is not a good request.
007This could be denied on lacking a spec specific. What the foil act officer should have done was gotten either emailed preferably and asked for what do you really look for? That's the responsibility of the foil person to clarify what you're looking for if it's vague. This is vague. On the surface, this can be legally denied because it's too vague. It's not specific. All asking for a lot of stuff and that's the way it should have been handled. Also, when you do foil requests and they come in and they get denied and they're going to have to be appealed, you have to put down who the appeal officer is and how to contact them. Keep it consistent. use the same email string because at the end when you go to the appeal process and that gets
008satisfied one way or the other, you have to send that into the open means group that has to go to orbit and they want it all in order so they can look at the process. Now I forgot to say in the beginning is my pastime is being an advocate for transparency in government. I've been over 20 years dealing with oil and maintains law. So when I talk about this stuff, I got a pretty good working knowledge and I think you know what is right for you to do is fine and I'll you know I'll back you on that one. But when you start to do things that not you you know but when any anytime a government agency starts to stonewall then I have a problem. This is from their website. They have two two
009lessons that they do. They got one on foil and they got one on means law. This is from the foil one. Committee on open government must you must agencies must accept requests by email today. A a agency cannot require requesters to use this form at all and you can but can require requests be made in writing unless there's personal privacy concern. An applicant can request records anony anonymously just like people speaking can speak anonymously. This is the law on a records access officer. The governing body of a public corporation and a head of an executive agency or governing body of other agencies shall be responsible for ensuring compliance with the regulations herein in bold. And shall designate one or more persons as record access officer by name or specific title and business address. And when
010requests are accepted via email and email address who shall have the duty of coordinating agency response to public requests for access records. I say I believe an access uh records officer should be lower down on the food chain and if there's going to be a appeals officer that should be higher on the food chain. Okay. On the orchard, then I ran into this situation where you are they resolved uh uh personnel appointments. So salary, put the salary in, please. We're entitled to know that. Everybody's entitled to know that. What are you keeping a secret for? All right. Um, and there's other places where salaries per approved substitute rate. Now, I know it varies. It varies upon the background, you know, what kind of what educational level they have, but people should know what substitutes are
011getting. Usually underpaid. I used to sub here. Okay. So, I know I know we're underpaid. Uh, but that's another story. Um and then you got situation here. Okay. Uh two positions for uh extracurricular modified football coach. Uh $3,600 and change a year. Uh is that one position or so? Not clarifi, you know, clarify it. Just say each if it's if it's each one separate. So that way anybody reads it understands. You got you got to think not only of yourselves but the people who may read it on the outside. You do your best to keep everybody informed and on the same page. It makes life easier for all of us. All right. It keeps people from coming for meetings maybe. Um and let's see there's one other thing I saw here. um uh the position
012I don't have it with me here but under the under foil one of the responsibilities you have is to maintain a list of all personnel and their salaries which is foilable okay and that's in one of those one of those uh powerpoints that's also the committee and open government does but I'll have that for the next meeting to back that up. I don't like to give out too much information at one time because we only handle so much. Thank you. >> Thank you, K. >> Moving to item number five is oath of office. Mr. Christopher Palees will take the 2025 to 2026 oath of office in the district's student board of education member. Just make sure Christopher >> Christopher >> do solemnly pledge >> domly >> declare >> I will support the constitution the states
013>> that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America >> and Constitution State of New York. the Constitution of the State of New York >> and that I will faithfully discharge >> duties office >> the duties of the office >> of student board of education >> according to the best of my You are officially a student board member. Okay, moving to item number six is the superintendence report from Miss Erin Long. >> Thank you. Good evening everyone. Um I I know our our school is excited to welcome our students and our staff back next week. I'm not getting that vibe from our kids when we keep asking questions. But it's been really fun uh watching the athletes come into the building and kind of ooing and on the hallway with a change
014in color. And so it's it's beautiful and again I cannot thank everybody enough for such an exceptional summer of work. Last night we hosted a cell phone meeting for our families. We had about 22 people attend. Um I went kind of went through the background of the legislation. uh looked at the results of the surveys we did with our staff and students last spring and kind of rolled out to our families what the imple implementation's going to look uh like. We had some great feedback from our parents. There's some genuine concerns out there and I hope we continue to reassure everyone that we are going to rule this out together. We're all going to make a conscious effort to put our cell phones away and remember our purpose which is here to teach our kids.
015Um, we're very excited to welcome our staff back on next Tuesday and Wednesday and then our students on Thursday and Friday. We've received two foils. One on August 7th from Janet Diamond, all collective bargaining contracts for all bargaining units and current employment contracts for all administrators and non-UN employees. And all documents pertaining to the third annual bear bash, including purchase orders, invoices, expenditure reports, and sources of funding. We also received a foil on August 18th from Justin Wenig from Starbridge Technology, a report um looking for all purchase orders reflecting all transactions from January of 2022 to present date. I think that's all that there is for that one. Um I'm inviting our board of education to our opening day next Tuesday morning. We'll begin our um opening ceremonies about 8:30 with a welcome back to
016our staff. I've included in your packet tonight a copy of our agenda for our work for the few days. We've planned some exciting um get to know you kind of things, some mandated refreshers, opportunities for our teachers and our staff to reconnect and collaborate with each other and some built-in time in our classroom. So, Wednesday morning when those buses come in, we are ready to go. Thank you. >> Thank you. Moving to item number seven is items the board would like pulled from tonight's agenda. Anything? Okay, moving to item number eight is the consent agenda. Can I have a motion uh to approve the entire consent agenda? So >> move second. >> Motion by George, second by Rose. Please proceed to vote. Hi. >> That is unanimous. Thank you. Be it resolved that upon the
017recommendation of the superintendent of schools, Board of Education does hereby approve the entire consent agenda car categories 8 through 13. Moving to item number 14 is board committee reports. I don't think we have or do we want to have something you policy >> policy committee met two hours. We're not quite uh ready to move it forward. So we'll be getting back to you. There's just some things we need to address. So uh we'll keep you a breast. We had a good meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Move to item 15 is old business. Uh don't think we have anything. Okay. Moving to item 16 is public comment session for items that are not on tonight's agenda. Anybody? Go ahead, Ken. Two things. Three things. Um try to put all your contracts online. And you won't have
018to do that. You won't have to do foil requests and everybody have access to them. The committee does it and you should do it too. Uh committee committees that you have are open to the public and they should be advertised and be on the agendas and so if somebody wants to attend them they can. And the other thing is your budgets. It started as 2017, no 201819, I think, uh, on your web pages and I've asked more than once and I handed out a sheet that you're supposed to make sure they're there. Where is the line item budget? You've never had line item budgets in a long time available to the public and they should be because that would answer a lot of people's questions without doing any foil. Thank you. >> Thank you. Moving
019to item number 17 is new business. We have uh quite a few things to go through here. So we'll start with 17A is the 2025 to 2026 district handbooks. Parentheses the elementary secondary handbook and athletic handbook, substitute handbook, and staff handbook is an action. And I have a motion to approve the district 25 to 26 district handbooks. >> So move. >> Motion by George. >> Second by Jerry. Any discussion? >> I read that and that's very very well done. So the this the parents and the students should be well aware of what's going on. Any questions can be answered right there. Thank you. >> Anybody else? Okay, please proceed to vote. >> I >> That is unanimous. Be it resolved that the upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does
020hereby approve the 2025 to 2026 district handbooks including the elementary handbook, secondary handbook, athletic handbook, substitute handbook, and the staff handbook as attached to the public portion of the agenda. Moving to item number 17B is memorandum of agreement amendment. It is an action. Can I have a motion for the memorandum of agreement amendment? >> Motion by Nicole. >> Second by Rose. Any discussion? >> I did have a question. Um the um the file in here didn't uh say what was being amended. So the we needed to clean up the language around her vacation time. The the language in the first contract didn't reflect the agreement that we made. So it it we had to make sure that it was much clearer. We had to do that with a few of them. It was just the
021language. >> Anyone else? >> Okay. Please proceed to vote. >> Hi. That is unanimous. >> That is unanimous. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the amendment to the memorandum of agreement between the Tri Valley Central School District and Mrs. Melanie Mankey as attached to the public portion of the agenda. Moving to item number 17 C is mission and vision statements. It is an action. Can I have a motion to accept the uh resolution for the mission and vision statements? motion. >> Okay. Who's who's makes the motion? Pat George. Oh, Rose. All right. Let's talk. >> Second. >> And who's second? >> Jerry. Motion by Rose. Second by Jerry. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. I That is unanimous. Be it resolved that
022upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby adopt the following as attached to the public portion of the agenda. Mission statement. Try Valley ensures all learners are prepared for the future through meaningful learning that builds curiosity, resilience, and confidence. Vision statement. Tri Valley aspires to be a forward-thinking school community that ensures excellence and empowers all learners to thrive. Moving to item number 17D is the parent transportation agreement. It is an action and I have a motion to approve 17D parent transportation agreement. >> So move. >> Motion by George. >> Second. Second by Pat. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. All right. >> Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the parent transportation agreement between the Tri Valley
023Central School District, Mr. Todd Brown effective January 1, 2025. Moving to item 17E is parent transportation agreement. It is an action and I have a motion to accept 17E parent transportation agreement. >> Motion by Pat. >> Second by Rose. Any discussion? >> Please proceed to vote. I That is >> be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the parent transportation agreement between the Tri Valley Central School District and Miss Melissa Brown effective January 1, 2025. Moving to item number 17F, tax warrant 2025 to 2026 resolution. This is an action and I have a motion for 17F tax warrant 2025 2026 resolution. >> motion by Nicole, second by Rose. Any discussion? >> Please proceed to vote. All right. >> Be it resolved that upon the
024recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve following resolution for the 2025 to 2026 tax form. Whereas the board of education of the Tri Valley Central School District has been authorized by the voters at the annual meeting/budget vote held on May 20th, 2025 to levy the necessary tax required to fund the 2025 to 2026 school budget. And therefore, be it resolved that the board of education directs the Tri Valley Central School District tax collector to collect taxes in the same manner that colle that collectors are authorized to collect town and county taxes with the tax warrant dated se from September 1, 2025 through November 5, 2025. The tax warrant is 22,739,24957 minus $577,72166 for star exemptions totaling 22,161,527.91 of which 216 $628,93 is to be allocated to the Tri Valley
025Central School District and $533,434.91 is to be allocated to the Daniel Pierce Library. Moving to I Okay, we have I'm sorry, we have one new business item we have to add in. Um, and I have I'm going to label this something. Okay. Um, it's I need a it's a resolution to um make a a transfer in the um of money. So, the resolution is uh to move $399,839 from the workman's comp fund to the budget appropriations in the general fund for the 2025 to 2026 school year. And I have a motion. >> Motion. Motion by Pat, second by Nicole. Any discussion? Okay, please proceed to vote. >> I Oh, it's a hand vote. I'm sorry. All in favor? Anybody not in favor? Unanimous. Be it resolved that consistent with subsection five of section 6J of
026the general municipal law, the board hereby authorizes the district to apply excess funds in the amount of $399,839 from the workers comp fund to budget appropriations in the general fund for the 2025 to 2026 school year. And it is further resolved that this resolution shall take play take effect immediately. Okay, moving to item number 18 is the board comment section. I'll go around. Um Pat, anything Um, just a question for Erin. In uh, in one of your June updates in the first part of June, you had talked about your excitement about the I Ready results and we were going to get them over the summer. I missed it the last meeting when I wasn't here. I don't think it was. >> We haven't finished compiling everything. >> Just we'll probably put it added to the
027presentation when our scores are released officially. So, we're just seeing our three through eights and our regions. So, yes. >> Thank you. That's all. Rose, anything? >> Only thing I have is good luck next week. I hope everything goes smoothly. >> George, want to welcome everybody back for the school year. Should be very exciting when >> Gary, good luck in a new year. Eric, >> I'd like to talk geese because >> I'm going to bring it up and then we can All right. Okay. Other than that, looking forward to >> Okay, Nicole, >> just good luck to all of our students. >> Christo, >> good answer, Chris. >> Okay, I have a couple uh just a couple of things here. I just want to do a convention reminder. Anyone? There's still maybe some time to
028get in on that. Tech department sent you an email. No before training. Please take a look at it. It's about a half an hour thing. It came a couple days ago. I did it today. It took almost a half an hour. Was very informative. And uh probably if you if you just do it, it'll it'll uh lessen the chances that you're going to invite somebody into your computer that you don't want. Um we talked about the geese issue last week. Uh, I s I suggested maybe we create a special committee to take a look at that and it would perhaps I did print up a sheet. Um, if you want to do a resolution, I'm not know if you're interested or not, but it would basically be uh I'll just read this real quick. A
029special school board committee established for 90 days to research humane and long-term strategies for geese issues drawing on a range of established management techniques. The ultimate decision on any plan would rest with the full school board which would vote on whether to adopt the committee's recommendations. The purpose and scope for the committee. The committee's purpose would be to investigate and identify humane, effective, and sustainable solutions for managing the resident Canada geese population on school grounds. Its scope could include gathering information on specific issues caused by geese, such as droppings and aggressive behavior, as well as the areas and times of year most affected. evaluating a range of non-lethal management options with an emphasis on integrated long-term solutions rather than temporary fixes. engaging with community stakeholders, including administrators, staff, parents, and animal welfare groups to gather
030input and build consensus, reviewing all applicable federal, state, and local regulations concerning Canada geese, which are protected by law, and presenting findings and a recommended action plan to the full school board within the 90day time frame. Thank God for AI. My job simple. So, is there an interest? You want to do a resolution and form this committee? You want to think about it? >> I don't think we need to wait any longer to address this situation. It's really it's a nuisance. It's a health and safety issue. Um, we've waited long enough. We've waited too long because we should have been chasing these um birds away for a long time. Um, how quickly are we addressing the immediate though? So we'll we'll create this committee. We have 90 days. That's 90 more days before we can
031do something. See, this the fall season is over at that point. So there still is an immediate issue that needs to be addressed. Are we doing anything at the present time though to try to get these birds to to get out get out? So uh right now we what's happening is the athletes are back and that is a deterrent because there's action on the field. We are running golf carts. We are trying to shoe them away the best we can. Um, we've been brainstorming every solution we can think of, but we've made a better effort of just being present around the campus to try to keep getting them to to fly away, but they fly from the track over to the upper field and so they have to go up to the upper field and
032chase them. So, we're trying to out nuisance them right now. That's about the only solution we've been able to come up with in the last week or so. Is the situation any better over there as far as field conditions? >> It's getting better because there's um there's movement on the field. So, the kids are out there, so they're they're not around there as much. Um I haven't seen them on the pond in a few days. You know, they'll start to go away for the season. And then, but to be proactive and stay ahead of it for the springtime is really where we we need to focus. We need to form the committee um to be proactive for the spring. Um but I think we need to really be aggressive cons consistently be aggressive um with
033trying to get them to relocate. I mean if they're in the back fields that's still better than than being on our playing fields where our athletes and our guests are coming um for for athletic competitions. Um are we doing anything to clean up around the track as well? >> Yeah, they've been doing a lot of mowing because they're getting ready to line the fields. I know they were hosing off some of the areas. Um the rain helped a little bit, you know. Yeah, our sidewalks, they they did a really nice job getting those cleaned up for for next week. They were a mess. >> I would be more than willing to leave the committee if there's any other interest on uh the board, but we need to really get on this and on it pretty
034quickly. >> So, I think we would need a three, maybe four people on it. Um and then we can't go up to a quorum. Uh if you're interested, you want to do resolution, do we have three people, four people interested? >> I had said I would join. >> Okay. Do >> I think it was very clear u at the last meeting and what I felt about it. >> Yes, I would say. >> Is there anyone else who wants to Thank you. Okay, good. So, I'll be on the committee. So, who do we have? >> We have Carrie, Pat, myself, and our student. >> Um, we could use more, >> but does the student board member is not voting member, right? Am I correct? So, it is a major concern. So, I would think there'd be
035more board members concerned about this. So, uh >> I will join the committee. Thank you, Nicole. You're welcome. >> Thank you, Nicole. >> The sidewalks were absolutely disgusting. I did drop something off last week and I said, how are if I have to put effort into dodge all of this, how are the how are the little children going to manage doing this? So, it is a big problem. >> Okay. Thank you, Nicole. >> So, um I'll do a resolution. We can vote on it and you guys can get it underway. Figure out your pecking order and we'll go from there. Uh that's me talking. Well, I'm not going to fight over who's managing whatever, but I'll show up. referee, but um okay. So, can I have a re resolution to approve res? We're going to
036need a vote to approve the resolution to create a special schoolboard committee for 90 days to research the human humane and long-term strategies for geese issues on the Tri Valley campus. Motion by Rose, second by Nicole. Any more discussion? Okay. Please proceed to vote by hand. All in favor? >> I think George has it. Yeah. >> What's that? Oh, okay. So, okay. And the committee would be Pat Kelly, George Dean, Paul Berkkey, and Carrie Poland. >> And I think Carrie wants to be the chairperson. Thank you, George. >> I I think I think we need to just get going on this like really quickly because if we do have to um you know, financial constraints and stuff and Carrie will be the chairperson. >> Okay. Can I have a motion for that? >> No, I'm
037in the committee so I'd rather >> Motion by Jerry. Second. >> Second. We already we had already done it once. I think that's the pause. >> Okay. So, we Well, I added to the >> Okay. Yep. I'll be your second. >> Okay. That's the second. Uh all in favor, raise your hands. Is unanimous. Be resolved. A special schoolboard committee established for 90 days to research humane and long-term strategies for geese geese issues drawing on a range of esta established management techniques. And this is for to take place for the uh geese that are on the dry valley school campus in the short-term parent. We put a hand sanitizing station on all the athletic fields. The the the infection risk whether it's bacterial or acidic. It's there. Kids don't want to use hand sanitizer, but at
038least they have as an option. If you're down and dirty and you come up and you got stuff all over your hands in the in the moment, maybe they will. So, it's at least something a little bit of due diligence. >> Absolutely. Well, that's a great idea. I I if I may, I'd like to add a foot bath when they come into the schools because it's all over their feet. Now you're contaminating the schools that the maintenance do a good job trying to keep it clean, sanitized. So, it's a thought. I mean, you know, it's a thought. >> Uh at my job, because I work on a farm, we have stations. Um they're like little brushes and you just run your shoe through it. So, something like that. It's also got disinfectant in it. >>
039Okay. Uh, moving to item 19, adjournment. And I have a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion by Carrie. Second. >> Second by Nicole. Please proceed to vote. I area and set the date up quick as you can. >> Is that unanimous? That is unanimous. The board adjourns at 8:03 p.m. Thank you all for coming.