TVCS Board Meeting 6/12/25

001Good evening everyone. Uh we're going to call the meeting to order. Can you please join us in the pledge? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of Americans. We I'm not aware that we have anything. We have nothing for that tonight. Moving to item number four is public comment session for items that are on tonight's agenda. I have no one signed up. We move to number five. We have a presentation uh tonight. Uh Miss Katie Dao, uh would you please come to the podium? Hello everyone. My name is Katie Dao and I am a graduating senior of the class of 2025. I'm here today hopefully for you guys to listen to my presentation. uh it is about the honoring of somebody who is very influential in my life. Foundational qualities of a

002well-rounded individual in our society include the following: honesty, sensibility, responsibility, determination, dependability, and so many more. While not every person in the world has these qualities, those who have most shine brightly. Recently, it was brought to my attention that someone in my life gave up the chance to partake in a significant event event in their own life to serve others. Joining the United States Army at age 17 and serving as a part of Operation Desert Storm, Mr. Walter Satowski was unable to obtain a diploma from his home district. through those years through years of selfless selfless acts and volunteer in volunteer events with the Lock Sheldrick Fire Department. It is in my opinion that Mr. Satowski is a prime example of what we can strive to be as members of our community. Today, with the

003help of and support of the administration and board of education of the Tri Valley Central School District, Mr. Walter Satowski will be awarded a citation similar to a high school diploma. Please let this serve as a reminder to all that while not all strive for recognition, some will always see what you do. Thank you. Okay, moving along. We have a number of uh presentations tonight. Um so our first one is going to be scholar athlete athlete presentation. This is uh item 5B. The scholar athlete presentation from Mr. Kevin Credelli. you please come up to the podium. All right, good evening everybody. Um, so it is time for our spring scholar athletes. Um, so just like previous seasons, uh, we take the top or 75% of the rosters. If that average is 90 or above, you

004get the team award. And then any athlete um any athlete with a 90 or above average um is an individual scholar athlete. So for this uh for our spring season, our softball, boys track, girls track, boys golf, and girls golf teams all achieved um team scholar awards. So it's a great accomplishment. you know, this time of year, it just shows our our students are still determined to to work hard in the classroom and on the field. Um, so here tonight we have several of our individual scholar athletes. Um, when I call your name, if you'd come up, get your pin for Miss Ely, we have Aaron Edwards, Abby Roof, Addison Diamond, Alex Me, Allison Chevier, Alvaro Aka Hernandez, Amelia Morton Curry, Andrew Kelly, Anna Ferman, Avery Carrier, Bo Mueller, Brandon Hugler, Brenn Pley, Celia Woods,

005Christopher Palees, Dakota Evans L. Stanley, Emily Lusac, Emily Pley, Emma Richardson, Grace Stale, [Applause] Gwen Redmond, Hayden Sanders, Haley Prince, Jay Patel, Jenna Cardy, Gia Patel, Johanna Clark, John Bodzford, John Woods Jr., Jordan Diamond, Josh Fanslow, Juliana Adams, Kenzie Crier, Liam Wyant, Logan Norin, Logan, Wyant, Maria Delamino, Matthew Coogi, Misha Kodakovski, Molly Vanettton, Nick Bender, Payton Clauss, Rebecca Squires, Sage Fiorans, Santino Hefner, Savannah Chabot, Serenity Smers, Sophia Horton, Sophia Richardson, Spencer Scannana, Travis Capawana, Van Ferman, William Richardson, William Sword, Wyatt Chaboti, Wyatt Morton, and Yan Zelazowski. So once again, I just want to say congratulations to all of our scholar athletes. Um you might have noticed a lot of these names have popped up two to three times um this season. Um all of the team awards are in the showcase by the upper gym

006as well. Um so we are just very proud of them and good job everybody. Thank you. Moving to the next item is item 5C is a civics presentation from student Christopher Palees. Please come to the podium. Christopher, you might have to turn the microphone on. There should be a button. I can start now. Good evening everyone. My name is Christopher Pasalis and I'm in our school's civics class which involves creating a capstone project to help benefit the school. I'd like to share my proposal that addresses an issue not just in our school, but throughout our entire community. This issue is the lack of student volunteerism. I'm hoping to earn your support and approval for a new studentled volunteer club that will strengthen community involvement, leadership, and school pride. The topics we will be discussing in

007the slideshow are the benefits of volunteering, volunteering at Tri Valley, what's at stake for us, and finally my capstone project. The third section, what's at stake for us, has been cut for time purposes, but is still in the public meeting agenda. First, let's review the benefits of volunteering. Various studies have shown many benefits to student service. So, let's go over them together. Volunteering has shown to have numerous social benefits. One of these is enhancing social connections and gaining friendship and relationships. Another social benefit is increased community engagement. Volunteering helps students feel more connected to their communities. Many volunteering opportunities involves physical tasks like cleaning, building, and organizing events. This helps students stay active. You can't forget about how volunteering benefits the student. Service work gives students opportunities to take initiative, work in teams, and help

008solve real world problems. Service work also shows commitment, responsibility, and community involvement. Volunteering lets students try out different fields, helping them discover what they're passionate about. Finally, volunteering helps develop job skills through hands-on experience. Students learn practical skills like time management, communication, organization, and problem solving. Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in. This quote highlights how volunteering is more than just giving time. It's a daily active choice to shape the world around us. In this section, I'll be sharing data I collected through surveys, interviews, and forms conducted as part of my project. I surveyed 100 students in the high school. These responses are great ways to highlight real student perspectives

009on volunteering. How difficult is it to make time to volunteer in school? While some students are able to make time for volunteering, many struggle, especially during school hours. About 52% of students reported moderate to extreme difficulty in making time to volunteer. Motivation is another key factor in volunteering. About 55% of students report either moderate to extreme difficulty in getting motivated to volunteer. Of course, these statistics weren't very positive, but there are four key percentages that stood out to me the most. First, almost half of the high school students haven't volunteered at all this school year, which is a huge missed opportunity that I couldn't believe myself. Also, about 76% of the students aren't always informed about the volunteer opportunities we offer at Chai Valley. 64% of students aren't even aware of the benefits of volunteering

010can bring. Finally, 52% of the students at our school don't track their volunteer hours at all. Now that we've looked over the statistics, I'd like to go over how I'm solving all these problems in Mr. H's civics class. As a reminder, we skipped the third section for time purposes. The first action I took in creating a bulletin board was creating a bulletin board near the nurse's office with updated opportunities and QR codes. It solves a common problem. Students said they couldn't find places to volunteer. Now it's all in one spot. The next action I created to help this issue is the volunteer fair. This was a hugely successful event that inspired hundreds of students to volunteer. The Sullivan County Catskill Animal Rescue noted that they had over 50 students sign up to volunteer. This gave

011students insight on the neighboring volunteer opportunities we offer around our community. Students were encouraged to take flyers, sign up, and learn more about our local organizations. Overall, here are some other great pictures of the volunteer fair. We had the fro we had Frost Valley, Cascill Animal Rescue, Daniel Pierce Library, and the Federation for the Homeless Come. The next action I went with is starting a campaign on social media. I did this by launching an Instagram page that is quickly growing and inspiring. I have a QR code on the page that leads to a Google doc with a ton of opportunities for the students. I've been successful at reaching hundreds of students, parents, and other community members with the page, and I hope in the future to get this added to the Tri Valley homepage. Another

012action I focused on was educating students on how to track their volunteer hours. I went into numerous classes and educated almost every Tri Valley student on how to properly get credit for their service. This action showed students that getting credit for their service isn't as stressful as they thought it to be. My final and most ambitious action is creating a student volunteer association, a club where students can earn hours, explore leadership, and take meaningful action in the community. While launching a new club comes with challenges, I'm confident it will succeed with the right support and will be passed down after my graduation for years to come. That's why I'm asking the board today to consider supporting this event and formally approving the club so we could hit the ground running right as next school year

013starts. I hope for the club to be open for grades 9 through 12. The club will have many volunteer opportunities tailored to a student's schedule and availability. The club will be led by students but supported by the staff. I also hope to have awards for track volunteer hours and recognition at graduation or special events. We'll be active at school events and in the community or speaking with guest organizations. We'll often be found at the Daniel Pierce Library who has offered a meeting space for the club outside of school hours to host small parties after volunteering trips. I also have staff like Mr. Haynes agreeing to be a club adviser. This will help students build up their resumes and job applications. Finally, I hope to host yearly field trips to local organizations to help kids earn

014hours. I know this task can be difficult, but with all the support I get, I think I can make it happen. When I say the club will be led by students, but supported by staff, this is what I mean. Student leaders will meet regularly to plan and share opportunities, take on club roles, organize volunteer events, run campaigns and announcements, and encourage others to get involved. Staff will support the students by coordinating with school and community partners, handling logistics and approvals, offering guidance and consistent consistency and tracking and celebrating student involvement. I would like to thank all of you for your time, your support, and for considering this initiative that I believe can make a huge difference in our community. With your formal approval, we can make volunteering a way of life for every student who

015walks these halls. If anyone has any questions, concerns, or comments at this point, I would be happy to address them. I also have the QR code to the Instagram page and would love to include any opportunities that anyone may know of that I don't have down. This isn't just a project, it's a movement, one that starts with a bulletin board, but ends with a school full of students who lead, give back, and shape a stronger Tri Valley. With your help, we can make volunteering a way of life for every student who walks these halls. Thank you. Anybody have any questions, comments? Chris, I just want to say I I went to um the civics's presentation today, so I heard your whole your whole presentation and I'm so glad you took the initiative to move forward

016with having the volunteer hours tracked because it's a part of graduation requirements and kids, if you're not carrying around that piece of paper, keeping track of all your hours, it's really hard to keep track of it over the course of four years. So, well done, Christopher. Great presentation and it's a really good foundation moving forward. Definitely it was very challenging to coordinate with the guidance counselors as it's proven to be difficult to get a uh system that works for the students but it also works for the guidance counselors and is easy to copy it down for their records for graduating. So, it was a lot of shooting ideas to the guidance counselor and we eventually came up with Naviance hour tracking where they can just print out a a sheet and hand it in directly

017to the guidance counselors. Anybody else? Fantastic job. I just followed your Instagram page. Right. Thank you, Chris, for a great job. Okay, we have a number of other recognitions tonight. We're going to start with the recognition of tenurs tenurees. Um, and we have the first two are going to be from principal Kevin Elementary School. Uh, Kevin Carbone, the principal. Please come to the podium. Uh, Kevin. So, each one of these is an action. So, we'll do one and then we'll vote and then we'll do the second one. Okay, you got it. Thank you. All right. I would like to first begin uh by saying it is my pleasure to recommend Mrs. Megan Gray. Her tenure within our esteemed school community. Throughout her time here at Tri Valley Elementary School, Miss Gray has consistently demonstrated her

018exceptional skills, dedication, and commitment to fostering an inclusive learning environment. Mrs. Gray joined TVES as a library media specialist and continues to provide education to our preK through fourth grade students. Miss Gray is constantly providing opportunities for our students to foster a love of reading by offering them a wide variety of books to read and also some meet the author experiences that she's brought into our school. Working closely with our faculty members, Mrs. Gray supports various curricula by extending learning activities from home rooms into the library, such as working on research projects, presentation creations, or even essay writing. Her students say that she is fun and they love going to the library to read and learn new things. Miss Gray makes an ideal candidate for tenure at Tri Valley Elementary School due to her expertise

019in her area and her designing of learning opportunities for our students here. Thank you for considering my recommendation. Thank you. Okay, board. This is uh an action. Um can I have a a motion to accept the 10-year resolution for Megan Gray? All right. Who is it? Who is it? Motion by George, second by Rose. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. I That is unanimous. Thank you. Be it resolved that in compliance with the provisions of section 3013 of J of the education law and part 30 of the rules of the board of regents and upon the recommendation from Erin Long, superintendent of schools that Megan Gray, a probationary teacher, having been appointed by the board of education to a 4-year probationary appointment in the tenure area of social uh school media specialist parenthesis library effective

020September 1, 2021 and having been shown that Megan Gray holds a valid New York State certificate number 14667 in the Tri Valley Central School District. Now, by resolution of this board of education dated June 12th, 2025, this board of education does hereby appoint Megan Gray to tenure in the area of school media specialist parses library effective September 1, 2025. Congratulations. Next, I would like to support the recommendation for Miss Jessica Cely in candidacy of her tenure within the school community. Since joining Tri Valley Elementary School, Miss Cely has consistently demonstrating outstanding teaching ability, dedication, and a strong commitment to creating an inclusive and inspiring learning environment. Working as a third grade teacher, Miss Cely works as part of a team to provide instruction that reflects the work of the entire grade level. She contributes to

021our building leadership team and brings ideas and suggestions that help the overall school community. Miss Sely also leads an afterchool steam club providing space for students to have fun while learning after school. Her students say that she is kind and fun and that the best part of her is how helpful she is. I'm confident that Missile will continue to be an invaluable asset to our school community for many years to come and that her students will be supported in their learning. Missile is an ideal candidate for tenure at Drive Valley Elementary School. Thank you for considering my recommendation. Thank you. Okay. Can we have a motion to accept the tenure for um Jessica Cely? Motion. Motion by Nicole. Second. Second by Rose. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. Okay. That is unanimous. Thank you. Be

022it resolved that in compliance with the provisions of section 3013 of the education law and part 30 of the rules of the board of regents and upon the recommendation from Erin Wong, superintendent of schools that that Jessica Seely, a probationary teacher, having been appointed by the board of education to a 4-year probationary appointment in the tenure area of elementary education effective September 1, 2021 and Having having been shown that Jessica Cely holds a valid New York State certificate number 17308 in the Tri Valley Central School District now by resolution of this board of education dated June 12, 2025. This board of education does hereby appoint Jessica Cely to tenure in the area of elementary education effective September 1, 2025. Congratulations. Thank you, Mr. Carone. Uh, our next presentation will be by the secondary school principal,

023Miss Amanda Eberly. And Amanda, it will be the same. Yep. Thank you. Good evening everyone. I am so excited to be here this evening to recognize our moving up individuals. So I'm going to begin. It is my pleasure to recommend Miss Jessica Diamond for tenure within our school district. Miss Diamond has consistently demonstrated an exceptional level of commitment in her role as a library media specialist teacher. Throughout her probationary period within the district, Miss Diamond has served as a cornerstone of our library services, demonstrating outstanding professionalism and vision. Her ability to create a welcoming, intellectually stimulating environment has significantly enriched the academic and professional development of our students. Miss Diamond is a tireless advocate for literacy and learning, ensuring ensuring that the library remains a central vibrant part of the school community. In addition to

024her primary responsibilities, Miss Diamond has consistently gone above and beyond her expectations of her role. She serves as the eighth grade class adviser, junior future business leaders of America adviser and national honor society adviser, offering steadfast guidance and support to students as they grow into confident, capable leaders. Her commitment to character development and academic excellence in these roles is nothing short of exemplary. Moreover, Miss Diamond is a colleague known for her initiative. She has willingly stepped into coaching roles when they need has arisen. She has consistently approached all responsibilities with the best interests of our students in mind. Her dedication, flexibility, and selflessness reflect the core values of our educational mission. Miss Diamond is a true professional who contributes will be lasting and meaningful impact on the Tri Valley community. Please accept this and considering

025my recommendation. Thank you. Okay. Can I have a motion to accept the tenure for Jessica Diamond? Motion. Second. Motion by Tammy. Second. I I'll second that. It's an honor that uh I can do this. She's a Tri Valley graduate. I had her in basketball in in the uh earlier years. She was a class act then and she continues to be one today and we certainly are should be honored to have her. So uh thank you for picking Tri Valley Jessica. Thank you. Any discussion? Any other discuss? Okay, please proceed to vote. I that is unanimous. Thank you. Be it resolved that in compliance with the provisions of section 3013 of the education law and part 30 of the rules of the board of regents and upon the recommendation from Erin Long, superintendent of schools that

026Jessica Diamond, a probationary teacher, having been appointed by the board of education to a 4-year probationary appointment in the tenure area of school media specialist Princes Library. effective September 1, 2021, and having been shown that Jessica Diamond holds a valid New York State certificate number 1868740241 in the Tri Valley Central School District. Now, by resolution of this board of education dated June 12, 2025, this board of education does hereby appoint Jessica Diamond to the tenure to tenure in the area of school media specialist parentheses library effective September 1, 2025. Congratulations, Jessica. [Applause] Miss Julia Gonzalez for her tenure within our school district. As a family and consumer sciences teacher and FCCLA adviser, Miss Gonzalez has consistently demonstrated professionalism, dedication, and a deep commitment to the academic and personal development of her students. Miss Gonzalez has

027built an engaging and relevant curriculum that equips students with essential life skills while fostering responsibility, independence, and creativity. Her instructional practices reflect both content mastery and a thoughtful student- centered approach that meets the diverse needs of learners. Her classroom is a space of respect, inquiry, and high expectations, and the outcomes reflect this effectiveness. In her role as the adviser of FCCLA, Family Career and Community Leaders of America, Miss Gonzalez actively mentors students beyond the classroom. She provides leadership opportunities, encourages civic engagement, and supports students in exploring career pathways in family and consumer sciences. Under her guidance, our FCCLA chapter has flourished. Moreover, Miss Gonzalez is an educator who leads by example. She consistently volunteers for schoolwide events, supports district initiatives, and steps in whenever help is needed. Her willingness to give of her time and

028talents reflects a genuine investment in the Tri Valley community. Miss Gonzalez is a valued member of our faculty, and her contributions greatly enhance the culture and strength of our school. Thank you for considering my recommendation. Thank you. Can I have a motion to accept the tenure for Julia Gonzalez? Motion by Pat. Second. Second by Rose. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. That is unanimous. Thank you. Be it resolved that in compliance with the provisions of section 3013 of the education law and part 30 of the rules of the board of regents and upon the recommendation from Erin Long, superintendent of schools that Julia Gonzalez, a probationary teacher, having been appointed by the board of education to a 4-year probationary appointment in the tenure area of home economics/general effective September 1, 20, 2021 and having been

029shown that Julia Gonzalez holds a valid New York State certificate number 1528002211 in the Tri Valley Central School District. Now, by resolution of this board of education dated June 12, 2025, this board of education does hereby appoint Julia Gonzalez to tenure in the area of home economics- general effective September 1, 2025. Congratulations. [Applause] Next, I'd like to recommend Miss Dedra Halinan for tenure within our school community. Miss Halinan is a secondary social studies teacher who has taught a range of courses and contributed steadily to the department over her time here. Her classroom instruction is organized and consistent. She maintains clear expectations and works to keep students engaged in the course material across multiple grade levels. Miss Halan demonstrates a solid understanding of content and meets the instructional demands of the curriculum. Outside of academics, Miss

030Halan is active in extracurricular programs. She coaches varsity boys soccer and modified girls basketball where she effectively manages teams and maintains a positive rapport with her student athletes. Additionally, she regularly volunteers at school events and provides support when needed, which adds value to our school community. Miss Halan has been a reliable member of the staff, consistently demonstrating professional growth. I support her recommendation for tenure based on her performance in the classroom, her involvement with students beyond the school day, and her overall contributions to our building. Thank you for considering my recommendation. Thank you. Can I have a motion to accept a tenure for Deedra Helen? Motion motion by Tammy. Second. Second by Pat. Any discussion? Oh, Travis. Sorry. I'll take it. Thank you. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. I that is unanimous. Thank you.

031Be it resolved that in compliance with the provisions of section 3013 of the education law and part 30 of the rules of the board of regents and upon the recommendation from Erin Long, superintendent of schools, that Deedra Halinan, a pro probationary teacher, having been appointed by the board of education to a 4-year probationary appointment in the tenure area of social studies effective September 1, 2021 and haven't been shown that Dedra Halinan holds a valid New York State certificate number 1839149241 in the Tri Valley Central School District. Now by resolution of this board of education dated June 12, 2025, this board of education does hereby appoint Dadra Halinan to tenure in the area of social studies effective September 1, 2025. Congratulations. Tonight, I'm also recommending Miss Nicole Mace for tenure within our school district. Miss Mace

032serves as a science teacher and currently holds the role of the classroom class adviser, freshman class adviser. In the classroom, Miss Mace demonstrates a consistent and structured approach to teaching. She is wellprepared, communicates clearly with students, and maintains a focus on curriculum standards. Her lessons support student understanding of core scientific concepts, and she works to create a learning environment that encourages responsibility and participation. As a freshman class adviser, Miss Mace has shown organizational skills and a willingness to engage with students beyond her teaching duties. She supports student activities and helps foster a sense of connection for incoming high school students as they transition into the building. Miss Mace has proven to be a reliable member of the faculty who fulfills her responsibilities professionally. Based on her classroom performance and contributions to student life, I support

033her candidacy for tenure within our district. Thank you for accepting my recommendation. Thank you. Okay. Can I have a motion to accept the tenure of Nicole Mace? Motion by Pat. Second. Second by Rose. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. I unanimous. Thank you. Be it resolved that in compliance with the provisions of section 3013 of the education law and part 30 of the rules of the board of regents and upon the recommendation from Erin Long, superintendent of schools that Nicole Mace, a probationary teacher, having been appointed by the board of education to a 4-year probationary appointment in the tenure area of science effective September 1, 2021 and having been shown that Nicole Mace holds a valid New York State certificate number 1695541231 in the Tri Valley Central School District. Now, by resolution of this board

034of education dated June 12, 2025, this board of education does hereby appoint Nicole Mace to the tenure to tenure in the area of science effective September 1, 2025. Congratulations. Next, I'd like to recommend Mr. Nicholas Pacted for his tenure within our school district. Mr. Pacted has fulfilled his responsibilities as a mathematics teacher with consistency and professionalism. He demonstrates content knowledge and a structured approach to instruction that supports student learning. In additions to his classroom role, Mr. Pact serves as an adviser for both the robotics club and the GSA club. In these roles, he provides students with opportunities to engage beyond the academic curriculum in meaningful ways. His work with these clubs contributes positivity to student involvement in our school culture. Mr. Pact is also a regular volunteer supporting events and activities across the district. He

035is dependable and willing to assist wherever needed, which makes him a valuable member of the broader school community. Mr. Pact has met the expectations of his position and has shown a clear commitment to supporting students both in and out of the classroom. And he brings together all those within our school community with a willingness to strive for excellence. Thank you for considering my recommendation. Thank you. Can I have a motion to accept the tenure of Nicholas Pac? Motion. Motion by Carrie, second by Tammy. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. I unanimous. Thank you. I didn't vote. Oh, right again. Yes. Carry into Keith, if if if the uh ones that got tenure, if they're here, could they be physically recognized? Okay. Thank you. Now, it is unanimous. Thank you. Be it resolved that in compliance

036with the provisions of section 3013 of the education law and part 30 of the rules of the board of regents and upon the recommendation from Erin Long, superintendent of schools that Nicholas Pact, a probationary teacher, having been appointed by the board of education to a 4-year probationary appointment in the tenure area of math effective September 1, 2021. 1 and having been shown that Nicholas PAC holds a valid New York State certificate number 15992 in the Tri Valley Central School District. Now, by resolution of this board of education dated June 12, 2025, this board of education does hereby appoint Nicholas PAC to tenure in the area of math effective September 1, 2025. Congratulations. [Applause] Thank you everyone. When I call your name, will you just stand up so our board can see who you are? Uh,

037Megan Gray, Jessica Sheiley, Jessica Diamond, Vedra Halinan, Nicole Mace. Let me see what else. Nicholas Nicholas Pact. We got one more. And Julia Gonzalez. Congratulations everyone. Okay. Thank you. Congratulations everyone. Thank you. Okay. We're going to move to um we're going to pause the meeting for 10 minutes for everyone to have refreshments. Okay. And then we'll come back. 10 minutes. Retirees. No. Okay, we're ready, Aaron. Okay. Okay, welcome back. Uh, we're going to move to item number 6A is the superintendence report for Miss Aaron Long. Good evening, everyone, and thank you so much for a wonderful reception. As we close another remarkable school year, I want to begin by extending a heartfelt congratulations to all of our retirees and our newly tenured faculty. Your years of commitment and service and unwavering dedication have left a

038lasting mark on our district. It is no coincidence that the same values that you have modeled, persistence, excellence, and care, are reflected in the accomplishments of our students, including the many athletes that we recognized here tonight. Your influence is farreaching, and we are deeply grateful. All of this success begins with our board of education. Thank you for your continued commitment to our students, our school, and our community. We have moved mountains over the last three years and I am incredibly grateful to be a part of this period of growth and transformation. I also would like to send publicly thank Assemblyman Brian Maher for his continued support of our schools. This week we were awarded $40,000 to allow us to fully repair our greenhouse which was damaged during a windstorm earlier this year. This space is

039so important to our agricultural environmental science programs and we are thrilled that we're going to be able to restore it. Thank you again, Assemblyman Maher. As we approach the end of the school year, I wanted to acknowledge the tremendous success we've seen across the district from our student achievements and academics in the arts and athletics. And to the professional growth and collaboration among our dedicated staff, the energy and momentum across our district is evident. And now we are turning that excitement towards a season of celebrations. Over the next few weeks, we will come together as a community to honor our graduates, recognize our accomplishments at every level, and send our students into the summer with pride and purpose. These moments are a testament to the strength of our shared commitment to educational excellence. Thank you

040to everyone who's contributed to making this year one of growth, resilience, and success. Thank you. Moving to item number seven is the anything the board would like pulled from tonight's consent agenda and I am going to pull off item number 12 C and 12D. We will vote on them after the consent agenda. I'd like I'd like Warrant 29. Yeah, warrant 29. All right. Okay. Anything else? Okay. So, moving to the consent agenda. Um, and I have a motion to accept the entire consent agenda, categories 8 through 13, with the exception of 12 C and 12 D and 10 A. Motion. Motion by Tammy. Second. Second by Rose. Please proceed to vote. I unanimous. Thank you. Um, be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve

041the entire consent agenda categories 8 through 13 with the exception of 12 C and 12 D and 10 A. So, if I can jump in, I would love to introduce our new teachers that are here with us tonight. Kayla, can you stand up? Kayla Maisy is joining us. Uh Kayla will be teaching first grade for us next year. Uh Sharon Kennedy, if you're still here, great. Sharon is a long-term sub for us this year in third grade and she's going to be moving to fourth grade next year. Julia Cologne. Julia will be joining us this year in teaching third grade. And Tony Caresie, I think, had to leave. Tony is a math teacher, so she'll be joining us in our high school. Welcome all the new teachers. Uh, I may have skipped over something, so

042let me back up a little. Oh, yes. You're not getting off the hook tonight. Thought you had me. All right, we're going to back up to 5N and we have uh the administrative presentations. What's five? Yeah, 5m and welcome. We were so close. [Laughter] Not a chance. Well, thank you everyone. It's really been a great year here. We heard a lot of great things tonight. Uh some of the teachers that we just tenured have been doing some tremendous things. I mean, Miss Gonzalez has been working with Miss Sheile's class. We have some third graders going all the way up to the home and career center. They're doing an entire project on writing where they design monsters and then they made pillows. So, this small little connection idea then led to some community members coming in.

043I believe Miss who worked here I got to meet. They're all sewing and it sounds like a fun project and it's tied around writing. So, they're writing stories. They're writing poems for their kids. It's just a fantastic connection. Sorry, it was moving. Of what we're able to do and when we let our people really work and kind of build our capacity, what can we do? what can we provide for our kids? So, my slide is just about some of the opportunities for training that we're able to do to build that capacity. So, we have a couple different prongs of what we do. We try to send people to conferences and then come back from those conferences and it's great to see when people actually implement them. So, Mr. Butler had a technology conference. He brought

044a couple people from the high school, a couple people from the elementary school. We then have a superintendence conference day. They share out some new things that they learned and then some of our teachers bring it in and two weeks later we have kids recording books and then two weeks later we have parents coming in with all displays. Just some wonderful connections to see where things are going. Then we have instructional partners. Those are partners that come in throughout the year. So we had an ELA specialist, we had a mass specialist and we had I Ready training which was a big initiative. They come in regularly to work with our staff and really build some skills and work with them and kind of pinpoint some areas that they need. Summer partners, same thing. Sullivan 180

045has been fantastic for us this year. We really trying to leverage some of the things that they can offer for our kids and our staff. Then we have instructional guests. So, some of those are things that I find, some of our grade level leaders find, and can we budget and use our grants to bring in people for new perspectives? And then probably our most important thing which we really do want to start leveraging is cultivating our excellence within. We have very talented teachers whole wide range of spectrums of skills and other things that they did and we need to use them and we need to share out and really build a collaborative culture. So I have Miss Batit here because she has been phenomenal this year. She has been working with me. She's really been

046helping us build this internal capacity. She knows the staff better than I do. She's been here a little longer. and we're using people to train. So, I'm going to let her talk about some of the trainings that she's did and some of the other things she's been working on with us. But, we've been very happy to be able to utilize her capacity and utilize her excellence and talents to help us grow as a as a district. So, I've been really fortunate this year. I've been able to work with our teachers and staff and our students. So, with um AI, we are buying into Magic School, which is a program for teachers to use. So really, you know, one of the most valuable things that te teachers say is their time is really valuable. So how

047can we help them save time and still be effective and have wonderful learning opportunities for our students. So I was able to hold um about six sessions throughout the year along with meeting with teachers on their time to sort of work with them and use this program kind of thinking about what can we do. So if you have this idea for a lesson, AI is wonderful. You can just say I'm thinking about doing something like this and it will spit out some ideas for you. there's a choice board that can be made. So, um, even with the sewing project with Mrs. Sheileley, she could put in, "What are some projects that my students could do to continue on with this?" And AI would spit out another nine options, um, for students. So, if they wanted

048to continue with writing or reading or even more sewing projects, it can just continue to tie everything in. Um, as you know to the hydroponics has been a wonderful fun project for me this year. I've enjoyed working with the teachers. We've been using technology. We've been working with the children, the students, cultivating the lettuce, and we're currently still growing the basil. So hopefully by the end of the month, uh you'll have some to try. Uh the students are doing writing, they're working on the computer, they're continuing to read. So really getting all of our subject matter into one while the kids are just having some fun. So uh thank you so much for giving me, you know, the opportunity to work with everyone in our building. Thank you. Good evening everyone. Um so I just

049wanted to let you know we're wrapping up all of our meetings this year really delivering um some individualized services and supports to the students uh whether they have uh they're under the committee for special education, preschool for special education or have a 504 plan. Um we really um I want to thank all the related service providers, the teachers all together and our clinical team because they've done a phenomenal job supporting the students in every capacity whether it's gross motor fine motor skills um articulation and language acquisition or supporting their emotional uh social emotional needs. uh they've done a fabulous job this year expanding and reaching out to more students in a in a plethora of different ways. Um for example, as you saw early in the year, we worked on um kind of brightening up

050and changing up some of our counseling spaces. We've also broadened uh the grade levels where they are holding lunch bunches and things like that all the way up through the middle and high school. So, a lot of the students um on all the grade levels have the opportunity to go in and see counselors and get some extra support if they need it. And looking ahead into next year, I really want to focus on some of more of our practices on data based tracking uh tracking um for students and their needs. um expanding some of the transition age students and how we can support them postsecary um a little bit more there and also preparing the 611 and 619 grant uh which is due July 1st. So that's kind of the PPS department in a wrap.

051Does anyone have any questions? Okay, thank you. Thank you and good evening everyone. So we are wrapping up in the MTSS department as well although um we've got a very popular office at this time as the students are also wrapping up their school year. So uh we've had some activities going on in our in the MTSS office. However, we at the same time are also concluding some of the elementary school work. So what you're seeing there is just um some overall numbers as far as the support for the elementary school and some of the students and staff down there. We held about and we held a ton of meetings this school year, but we we were able to review 23 students. So that number of 23 represents 23 students who were recommended throughout the school

052year to the MTSS office where teachers were looking for some support for their students. So after the teachers doing the work, getting to know their students at the beginning of the school year and finding some particular pockets of some difficulties that students may have been having, whether it was an academic concern or a behavioral concern, the teacher would refer them to my department. And from there, we would go ahead and monitor those students for the school year. So when you look at the number 23, that's approximately where we want that number to be for a building of a prek to sixth grade. And some of those students were given support. They were able to go right back to the classrooms and they were just continued to be monitored from there. Some of the students need

053to needed to be referred for some of those clinical supports or some of those other providers as far as OTP or speech. We were able to get student support there. And some of those 23 students needed some more special attention or more specific testing. And from there, those students would have be would have been referred to the special education department. But we had some great success there. I'm I'm really excited that some of the forms that we created using our Panorama system uh were very helpful for the teachers. They were able to fill that out and get their meeting scheduled right away so that we were able to give support to students and be able to put them on the right path for success this school year. I'm going to skip down to the attendance

054percentages. I know that uh our last meeting we had some conversations and some requests to have uh some attendance reports and presentations done that did not go unheard spoken this long. We certainly have a plan to be able to show uh what some of the attendance ratings look like for this school year. There's a plan to do that over this summer. But for now, just some preliminary numbers for you. The elementary school um at the time that the report was ran, which was just last week, it had an average of 92.69% 69% attendance rate. The secondary school was running at a 91.13 percentage rate and that is for the year. You see there the grade levels um that were scoring the lowest we expect as far as the elementary school is concerned are UPK and

055kindergarten students. For some of them just their health and then also really stressing to families the importance of students coming regularly. And that was where some of the PTO conversations that happened this school year and some of the future goals will be to really target those grade levels so we can start good habits. And then looking at our seniors, our seniors, especially at this time of year, they have a lot going on. And a lot of our seniors, we can certainly know and we and we experience them are they're working and they're trying to prepare for their futures. So, at this point, really the idea would be to target our current juniors, next year's seniors, to be able to be sure that we're emphasizing the importance of them coming to school and figuring out ways

056that we can support them to make sure that we can try to get that senior class have better attendance rates so that they don't impact negatively our overall attendance score for the school year. um looking at some other things that the MTSS office is doing in preparation for next school year as we're referring and supporting students in getting their school physicals now in order to be prepared to engage in athletics in the fall. For those of us that know, especially our junior varsity and varsity sports start during the summertime, it's hard to get kids back in and get them registered through our sports. We have to be sure that they have their school physicals on file so that they can begin their athletics in the summer for the fall. So, I do want to do

057a quick advertisement and commercial. We have a doctor, a medical doctor that we have a contract with. That medical doctor comes into school and that school physical is free. So, it's certainly a benefit to our f to our working families to not have to take an off from work to have a student miss a day of school in order to get them to their pediatrician to get their school physical in order to engage in athletics. So, I just wanted to give that quick commercial. Every time a student came in that showed interest and I would make them show interest in participating in sports or participating in extracurricular in the fall, I was sending their name right to either one of our school nurses, whether it's a middle level or the secondary school level, so that

058we could get the students signed up to get that free physical. It happens during the school day. They get pulled out of class for a few minutes and then back to class they go. Certainly an excellent perk for our working families. And finally, uh, as we're closing up the school year, continuing to support our students and finding, uh, really what will bring them into school, as we're looking at some future plans that New York State has, and we're waiting to hear more, but we know that they have them, is uh, really finding students pathways. And for pathways for me means the student passion. So, as you see in those pictures there, we were able to retire our administrators who were uh, substituting in our bear mascot suit. uh they do not they they no longer

059need to go in that hot thing. Uh we do have a student who um is one of frequent the MTSS office. We were trying to find his passion and trying to find something to direct his energy and uh we had an opportunity to have an advertisement for our book fair that the PTO sponsored uh two weeks ago and I I took a shot and he has taken the lead on it. He was outside during our dismissal with our families who were lined up waiting to pick up their students at the end of the day entertaining them. Uh from there the bear was able to come across the street and uh dis go join the elementary school students as they dismissed. And when I tell you in that first photo there that is the bear hiding

060behind the pole. Um I did have to calm the bear down from uh going into any vehicles cuz he was just taking the bull by the horns or the bear by the horns there. Um, but you know, that is really ultimately what this school year has been for has been like for for me in the MTSS office is really being able to work with students and find uh what will continue to increase our increase our attendance rates and um enjoy the smiles on the elementary school students faces in the same time. Thank you. Thank you. If I may, what do you contribute the UPK and the kindergarten? What was their percentages? So the UPK and kindergarten percentage, I don't have those exact numbers. That number that you're seeing right there is just the average for

061the school year for UPK to grade six. Now, as I mentioned briefly before with our UPK and our kindergarten, our youngest students when we put them in a building, um unfortunately they get exposed to a lot of other students within their classroom. And oftent times that's just sickness. That's just germs. That's just the students getting um their immune systems built up because prior to this they've just been home or in a nursery school of maybe 10 other students. Now they're in a school community where they're exposed to many of the many other things. However, it is a goal. You know, certainly in working with the PTO for next school year, we want to be able to get information out to our families of our youngest children saying yes, if they don't feel if they're running

062a fever, keep them home. However, at the same time, really communicating and fostering good habits so that the students get into the routine of every day I go to school. What's the academics for like a day for kindergarteners? What what what do you teach them? Okay. So, is reading involved in that? Oh, yes. I mean as as soon as as early as UPK. So if you do know the percentage of the kindergarten kids that were not here, that's going to impact your success rate of those in first grade next year reading and we are behind in reading nationally. So how do you propose to address that? That's a great question. So there's uh multiple flyers. There's actually an attendance works website that addresses all of these things. Um, and it actually has parentfriendly language on

063it that explains to parents that if your child is chronically absent in UPK, kindergarten, and first grade, it shows them all of the statistics of how their students will be behind uh their reading levels as they continue on throughout school. So, I think it's going to be important that we continue to reach out to our community partners and have the conversations with the families to encourage the families to be sure that their students are getting in. I will tell you that once our students get into these classrooms, we have fantastic curriculum that they are exposed to. Unfortunately, I think a lot of it has to do with families either just keeping them home because they have a little sniffle and the the adults are starting to try to get used to letting the little one

064go and letting them really building that trust with families to know that we have a school nurse here and if your student is really sick, we'll be sure to call you. Um, but I think that we just need to continue to show PA families what those statistics, what those numbers look like and have them understand, which is hard to do, but have them understand the impact of the students staying home. We also have some families that uh have scheduled family vacations which we try to balance that out with, you know, the exposure to that family time and being able to get students out and giving them exposure to experiences is important, but those experiences are being brought into the classroom as well. especially in our UPK program, they are doing things that are traveling across

065countries and they're having exposure to different ethnic cultural things that although the families can take them out to see it, they're still getting some of that within their classrooms as well. So, it's going to be important to get information out. Do you find that some of this percentages is is transient that they go away from Tri Valley for a while and then they come back? I can't wait to do the attendance presentation, George, because you're going to be able to see all of the trends that we've been able to notice in that Panorama success platform because those are some of the things we're looking at. We're looking at whether or not that we're talking about a population that is transient, where they're here and then they're in another district nearby, then they come back to

066us. But what you're also going to see is the connection between if you have a secondary school student who is chronically absent that it's likely proven from the numbers that I'll be able to show you that their elementary level sibling is also chronically absent. So when you're looking at some of the trends you're going to seeing you're going to see that it is a lot of families that need support. We're not just talking about one random student here or there. If there's a sibling that's involved with an older sibling or younger sibling that's chronically absent, it's usually something that is a household concern and that is where some of the support needs to continue to go into for next school year. I'd be interested to see that report when it comes. Can't wait. Thank you.

067Thank you, George. Thank you. Good evening everyone. So, I wanted to give kind of a a quick summary of the major things that we've taken care of in the tech department so far this year. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but I think that one thing that every one of these bullet points has in common is pretty much every one of these represents months of research, planning, execution, and followup by our department. So uh we completed a network switch refresh of all of the switches with exception of our core that was done the previous year throughout the school. We did a major change in the way that our VPN which is remote access. So somebody a staff member is accessing our network from outside of the network. VPN is how that's accomplished. And

068we really changed a lot of the way that that architecture works and really secured that in a way that a lot that we were seeing literally thousands of attacks a day. We were having teachers who their accounts were getting locked out because somebody on the outside was trying to guess their password and we have the system set that after certain number of incorrect guesses it gets locked out. This change addressed both of those things. It took a major step towards securing our network and it stopped those malicious lockouts for staff accounts. We made significant advancements on our incident response and disaster recovery plans. There's still more work to do on that that will continue into the coming year, but we checked off some major check boxes this year in that realm. Uh, every single member

069of our IT staff went through what's called CISM or certified information security manager training. Um this is a very high level uh conceptual security information security training. Um it's a major certification. We didn't have everyone sit for the certification. I've held the certification in the past. So I knew the value of everyone in our department having that security mindset. So we did that through the first twothirds of this year. Um, we migrated, just finished actually migrating to a new help desk system which will allow us better inventory management and tracking of all of our assets. We made major security improvements to all of our student network accounts. Um, in particular, our high school students, we saw a number of accounts that had weak passwords and things like that. So, we went through did a lot

070of training and password resets with those students. And finally, we made a major change to the way our lo the local administrator accounts work on all of our PCs throughout the school. So that if one PC was to get compromised by malware and often it's a relatively elementary process for malware to then compromise the local administrator account on that. In many areas, this the administrator account on one PC, the password is the same across all of the PCs. That's not the case here. Every single PC has a different password and that password is cycled multiple times throughout the day or week. So, it's a moving target and it really gets rid of that vulnerability. Any questions? Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, wrapping up our school year. We are in full swing as Miss

071Long had mentioned on all of our celebrations and things going on. We had our third quarter honoral celebration. Our fourth quarter honor role will be released shortly after school ends. We had a National Guard assembly recently on resilience. We had that for grades 7 through 12. We're working on things for next year. We've added again adding to the capacity of our staff, their passions and what they wanted to see from our students and what our students are requesting. We've added eight new courses for the next school year for 2526. We are continuing to meet and discuss with Sunni Sullivan um adding courses and really tightening up that partnership our processes around that and our credits. So we are hoping and working with them to add four new college courses for the next school year as

072well. Our region schedule and grading is in full swing and commencing. We started uh this week with our geometry regions yesterday and we are continuing to move through with that. We are lucky to have the staff that we do who can grade a lot of our exams in house. The turnover is very quick with that. So we send out a couple of our tests to be graded within our local Sullivan County and we have some of our teachers go travel to Liberty and some to Monaceel. So we do partner grading with those schools on the exams that we can't grade inhouse and then we grade all of our other tests in here. So that is very helpful in getting those grades and turnaround very fast. Then just some spotlights on our class of 2025. We

073are almost to that finish line. We are pushing the staff has gone above and beyond. Our counselors have gone above and beyond really getting those students to the end. and we are working day in and day out making sure that they are still striving and still pushing and still here uh to get there. So last night if you could have joined us we had our senior celebration where we gave out over $220,000 in scholarships um all thanks to our local community colleges and our obvious students accomplishments. It was fantastic to see this senior class has performed over 10,000 volunteer hours. A lot of those being done just within this last year. 86% of this senior class will be continuing to higher education. Four students in this senior class will be enlisting in the military. Joseph

074Douglas, Ariana Small, Caitlyn Stunglas, and Nicholas Bender, who we honored last night as he's leaving for the Air Force Academy before our graduation ceremony. We also have provided multiple opportunities for this senior class. Uh we had a trip going out to Virginia Beach and then we also did a senior day trip this week where they were all able to come together one last time and have a celebration. So we are so excited for them. Our next one is on Monday. We have our senior walk if you're able to join us and then from there we will be in full graduation mode. I have a question for you. Yes. The new classes were those in place when the students created their schedules earlier this year? Yep. So they were being offered any of the Sunni Sullivan

075courses are offered to all of our students whether you want to take it as a college course or not. So they have the opportunity to take it. So we are offering the classes no matter what and then we are pushing um with Sunni Sullivan to make sure that they can be moved to college courses and they can receive the credits. So every student has the opportunity to enroll in those classes. Um, some do have different qualifications that this college needs, but if they are wanting to take the course, they can take it just through our school and just not receive the college credits. So, right now, we're just working on transferring those over to college credit so they have the opportunity if they would like to take them as that. You're welcome. Any other questions?

076I I have one. Where are we with um funding for our college courses? So, students Yep. So, we have worked and we have a plan in place. I believe we're covering $25 per credit. That's that's what we talked about. Yeah, I think it's $25 per credit. So, we're meeting with the college. Uh some of those course requirements are the same requirements that we would require for those students to maintain in order to receive that credit for per for our district. So, we are meeting with Sunni Sullivan. We're going to go there, go over our registration processes, clean that up, and then add that into the stipulations so that way everybody is aware what you need to get the credit from us. What about financially covering the cost of Yep. So, the district will pay $25

077per credit based on the requirements of what they need to complete for Sunni Sullivan. Understood. Thank you. So, we're covering a portion of that credit. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening again. This was a a very informative year for me and I very thankful that the students, the families, the teachers welcomed me to be part of the community here at Drive Valley. Um, I wanted to point out some of the work that our student council has done over the this past year. here. It got a late start. We were looking for an adviser in the fall. Mr. De Boyce was able to step up and become the adviser for the student council. Uh, one of their projects this year was cataloging our emergency drill buckets. So, when there are issues that take us out

078of the classroom for fire drills or evacuations, the teachers all have these buckets with materials in them with u food, water, other types of materials that can help them uh stay warm if it's cold outside or such like that. some of the things were expired and our student council took it upon themselves to inventory and catalog everything that was there, get rid of the expired um materials and then have a list of things that we can reorder to replenish those those buckets. They also, if you look around the school, they're still up um all these little posters thanking our staff for their service with the students. During our staff appreciation week, the student council got together, created posters for for fizzed, for art, for music, all the different grade levels, and were able to post

079these up in the hallways for the teachers to see. And it was a complete surprise to the teachers and the aids that were walking through when they saw them. In the cafeteria on the blue doors that separate the cafeteria from the gym, the student council created a Memorial Day remembrance wall with poppies and a thank you to the uh veterans that uh had fallen for Memorial Day. And with that was an American flag that they put together that all the students who ate in the cafeteria, our youngest ones up to fourth grade were able to see. So, it was a nice um homage to our country and uh it was wellreceived. Our sneaker nights, that was very informative for me. That was the first time I've experienced those types of events. Um we had an

080average attendance of about 90 students per event. That was for grades four through six. Next year, we've got some plans to extend it to outside if the weather is nice. There was a softball game on the last one, so we didn't get to go up and play kickball. But, uh, the students had a great time dance partying. And our student council, they run the show. They tell us what they need. They get the materials set up. Mr. Boyce runs over to the, uh, never to get the pizza. And we have great parents that help out and make sure that the event is safe and that the kids get home to the right people. So, um, overall, which was my my big thing, um, overall the sneaker nights were a great success. The fourth graders loved

081it because it was the first time they were able to kind of cut loose and um it was it was a good thing to see. So, we got some work to do with student council next year. Hopefully, it gets off the ground running as soon as school starts, but our kids are really looking forward to it and and leading and serving our school. Good evening everyone. As we wrap up our school year, we have our final upcoming events. We have our honorary Ruth Skully Awards ceremony tomorrow and we are honoring grade students in grades um K through six. We are very excited about um you know just giving them their flowers um because they did so well this school year. So we're looking forward to that. Our UPK graduation is on the 17th of this

082month. It will be in the theater at 5:00 p.m. And last but not least, we have our sixth grade moving up ceremony on the 25th. So, looking forward to those final events this school year. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Hello again everybody. Um, so as we are wrapping up our uh, sports year, um, I just wanted to take a moment and just thank all of the coaches and parents, cast, the a department for all of our senior uh, celebration help. Uh, obviously teachers who have been so willing to work with the early releases to get to different events. Um, buildings and grounds who's worked so hard this year um, with all of the rain and other weather events. I mean, our fields were in fantastic conditions. Um, and obviously all of you for for

083your continued support. Um, so for the total this year, we had 338 total JV and varsity athletes across the three seasons. Um, that was across 24 teams at those levels. We also had 164 modified athletes. Um, this year, uh, across 13 teams. Um, I'll be honest, at the modified level, the the growth that I got to see from the beginning of the season to the end was was incredible. Um, a lot of those seventh graders who really, you know, learned what it was to be on a team and and, you know, really contributed and um, the eighth graders really guiding the way on modified. Um, our success at the the varsity level. Um, as you can see, a ton of division championships, uh, section championships, and state championships, which according to the rankings, Friday and

084Saturday, we we could be adding a few more, um, to that list. So, our track team will be headed to Middletown on Friday and Saturday um, for the state championships. Um, really excited. Hopefully the weather cooperates. I know I've been saying that about every time I've been up here. Um but uh just overall a fantastic year and uh you know look forward to the future as well. Uh any questions? Quick question. When do registrations open for the fall sport? So August 19th was just voted on the the first. So in the past it's been football started on one day and the rest of the sports started the other. It's August 19th for all of them and we open up our registrations one month before. So July uh yeah July 19th others how many um scholar

085athletes did you have this past year? I could get you excuse me I can get you that number. I think we averaged about 60 per season. So how many about 60 per season so about 180 for the year. And what grade what uh grade do they have to have to get there? 90 or above. You know, I've been watching these uh track meets, especially the track meets, and looking at it online and seeing what time they're leaving and how much time they put in during the week on these events. What do you contribute that being a scholar athlete? How do they get there? I mean, they're busy all the time. I mean, where do they have time to relax, to do their homework even? I mean, really. I mean, I if we knew the secret

086to that, maybe we'd have more success with everybody else in the school. Can we somehow cultivate that in some manner? Yeah. I Well, I I think that's the one thing that's great about sports. you know, we have you have an opportunity to do something that the kids love and and within that you have the teachers that support them, the coaches that are are making sure that they're getting their their work done on time, you know, giving tons of opportunity and and a lot of it again just comes from I think our kids are supported. Um, so I agree that I don't know how a lot of them do it. I can tell you I played a lot of sports in my day. I definitely did not have a 90. I know all about it. Um,

087trust me, mid80s, you know, we did all right. But, um, but no, it it just it's a testament to to how dedicated our students are. It's a tribute to them. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Thank you. Okay, we're going to move to back to the consent agenda for item 10 A. Um, can I have a motion to approve warrant number 29 and associate associated claims order? Motion. Motion by Pat, second by Tammy. Any discussion? Yeah. On on the uh agenda, I'm rather confused. Are we doing 29 or 25? We're doing warrant 29 10A. Okay. In mine, it says as well 25. So I just want to make sure if that's going to be a official copy. We need to address that. What he's saying is uh where it says be resolved, it says

088warrant number 25. Oh. But so in the resolution is a type. Yeah. But the subject is warrant 29. Well, the the numbers on the warrant. Let me see. It's 29. Okay. So, we are doing 29. That's okay. Um question. One of the questions I have in reference to two guest chairs. What is it? Is it actual chair that you purchased? I don't know what page. Mine don't have any pages on it. at uh 1300 almost $1,400. It's just a financial question. That's all. It's uh on the first page at the bottom. Last one at the bottom. The first page of the actual warrant. Guess uh page two. [Music] reserve for later if you can't find it right now. That's fine. Okay. And then uh H5. Now, I'm still getting used to this kind of stuff,

089so please bear with me. Um, under the last column, financial services, the second one down, it appears it's a payment for maybe Medicare, Medicaid, may something to do with retirement, Social Security, and it gives a initial and a last name. if it's I take it as a person that had passed. I was wondering if they're still getting if I may. So the page at the top is one. Look, if if it's a mistake, we do it with don't. No. So, that's to our fingerprinting company. So, I'm trying to check which one that was. I'm thinking that it was a substitute that we hired or a substitute cleaner that had to be fingerprinted. I'm just trying to pull it up, but that's our company we use for fingerprinting to make sure somebody is, you know, able

090to work with children. So, I'm just checking. Well, the initials I was just referencing, right? Yeah. It's a substitute that we hired in November and that's where it's just getting fine. Just as long as there's not a person that's that'sund 315 years old still getting social security. No, not at all. Okay. Thank you. I I'm looking for that person. I need those genetics. Thank you. Okay. Oh, good. Okay. Please proceed to vote. Be a hand vote. is unanimous. That is unanimous. Thank you. Be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education accepts warrant number 29 and the associated claims audit report and approves payment in the amount of 1,100,8996. Moving to item 12 C. is an appointment approval of an appointment. Um, it is an action and I have

091a motion to accept uh 12C approval appointment. Motion by Pat. Second. Second by Nicole. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote by I abstain. Okay, that is one abs one abstension and one, two, three, seven. Yes. And that is be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the appointment of Savannah Chaboti to the appointment to the position of student summer worker at the rate of $16.50 per hour. Moving to item number 12D is an approval appointment. Can I have a motion to accept 12D the approval appointment? Motion by Kerry, second by Travis. Any discussion, please proceed to vote by hand. I abstain. Seven. Be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the appointment of Wyatt Shaboti

092to the position of student summer worker at the rate of $16.50 per hour. Moving to item number. Item number is consent agenda. Item number 14 is board committee reports. We have nothing this month. Moving to item 15 is old business. We have nothing. And we go to item 16 is public comment session for items that are not on tonight's agenda. I have no one signed up. And that's we go to 16 17A is announcements, reminders, and upcoming events. Does anybody have anything? Okay, moving to item 18 is new business. We have two items, three items. We have a couple items here. All right. Uh, yeah. Okay. 18A, uh, approval of collective collective bargaining agreement. And I have a motion to accept 18A, the approval of the collective bargaining agreement. Motion by Pat, second by. Any

093discussion? Uh, Pat and Carrie. Please proceed to vote. Hi. As unanimous, be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the 2025 to 2029 collective bargain bargaining agreement between the Tri Valley Central School District and the Tri Valley Essential Support Staff Association. Congratulations. Moving to item number B 18B is approval of acceptance gift from the class of is an action. Can I have a motion for the acceptance of the gift from the class of 1975? So move. Motion by George, second by Pat. Any discussion? I hope it doesn't get lost. Say that. I hope it doesn't get lost. Anybody else? Thank you. Please proceed to vote. Hey, that is unanimous uh be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of

094education approves the acceptance of the gift of a bench donated and dedicated to the Tri Valley Central School District by the class of 1975. Moving to item number 18 C is the approval for the solid waste removal bid to 2025-012. Can I have a motion to accept the solid waste removal bid? Motion by Tammy. Second. Second by Nicole. Any discussion? How many bids did you receive on that? Just one. And that's done through DCMO Boseies. And other schools in the county have also only had one um whether they've done them directly or through Boseies. Same uh supplier. Yep. Correct. Interesting. Thank you. Anybody else? Please proceed to vote. I That is unanimous. Thank you. be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the award of

095the solid waste bid removal 2025-012 to Thompson sanitation for $47,181.72. Moving to item 18D is the uh approval of the memorandum of agreement. There's an action. Can I have a motion for the approval of 18D approval memorandum of agreement? Motion. Motion by Rose, second by Pat. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. I unanimous. Thank you. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the memorandum of agreement between the Tri Valley Central School District and Katie Gray as attached to the public portion of the agenda. Moving to item number 18E is the approval for preschool related services contract. It is an action. Can I have a motion for 18? Approval of the preschool related services contract. Motion. Motion by Travis, second. Second by Nicole. Any

096discussion? Erin, could you expand on that? What exactly is that? Because I see there was two of them. Yes. So, we we have a lot of these that we get at the end of the year to uh for the following year. So, this is with Sullivan County for any services they provide to our preschool children because they're not eligible for our special ed services in our district. So, if we have a three-year-old that is in our district that requires speech services or um occupational therapy or physical therapy, then a person from the county provides that and then once they're school age eligible, then they go under us. So, the county picks up the tab on that. They have funds for that through through the legislature. Yes. Well, that's a that's a good program. Thank you.

097You're welcome. Some of our students live in Olter County. Does Olster County flip the bill for that or does it all fall under solid? No. Olster does theirs. Mhm. Anyone else? Please proceed to vote. I that is unanimous. Thank you. be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education to hereby approve the 2025 to 2026 preschool related services contract between the Tri Valley Central School District and the county of Sullivan as attached to the public portion of the agenda. Moving to item number 19 is board comment session. George. Um, don't mean to belabor the meeting, but there's a number of things since it is the last meeting. The election machine, I had a lot of comments on that. You know, I know we talked about it, but are we

098going to make sure it is not going to happen next year? We already have made sure it's not going to happen next year. Thank you. We had to adjust that to make sure that if you that the voter was able to vote for one or however many board members there were. Yes. or or or none. Right. Yes. Um anytime and I'm a good I'm a big proponent on kids not getting hurt here no matter who they are. And I understand there were some kids hurt um from a game with too many kids involved with and and not a good quality game for so many kids. So, I would hope that that type of stuff is being addressed by the proper people. Um, I'm not trying to make a big deal out of it, but kids

099were hurt. It was addressed. What made matters worse, there was no ice. So, you know, it it's compounds the injuries. We do have a trainer here. We put a lot of money in the trainer for making sure our athletes don't get hurt. But when they get hurt in school from by something that really shouldn't happen, um you know, we just need to move on from it, that's all and learn from our mistakes. Thank you. Um geese, that seems to be a popular subject around this area. What are we doing with that down there? Because it is a public health issue. It is. We are looking at um purchasing some decoys to start with that. That'll probably be our cheapest way to try to distract them. You know, they're they migrate here. Uh we monitor it.

100I know our maintenance guys are outside working on our grounds and chasing them away from the campus as much as possible. They're power washing areas. Um, but we think we're going to try decoys and see if that's a solution that helps deter them a little bit before we look into the the more expensive options. Has the DEEC been contacted? They have not this year. No, they there is a program for that. There is. Last year we looked into it. Uh, it's quite extensive. There's a a lot of permits required and it's it's takes a lot of time to get that approved to bring that to light. I mean, what kind of permits? I mean, would they do the the work of getting rid of them? Is that Or is it up to us to get

101rid of them? I I I think they are the ones that come in and get rid of them or help us get rid of them. From from what I from what I know, the D has a program where they do what they call addling the eggs where they coat the eggs that are on the reservoir, keep the population down because the eggs will never hatch and the birds sit on the eggs long enough that they won't lay another clutch of eggs. That's one thing the D does on the reservoir. We do bird harassment at times, which forces the birds off the reservoir, which could come here. Geese have a time geese have a time during the summer where they can't fly and that's the time if you're going to get a permit that you're gonna

102if they're here and they can't fly that's when you're going to round them up. You're going to look to get rid of them when they can fly. They're just going to keep taking off. You're not going to you're not going to use you're not going to shoot them on the school grounds. You're going to round them up like you would like chickens in a yard and just get them to their fate. So that's kind of how it works. But it's not an easy problem. No, I I I realize that and a lot of communities are having that problem. But to to to just ignore it is not helping our situation here at all. And the DEC should be ashamed of themselves if they're not going to respond to such such things as a school. My

103goodness. I agree. The DEC should the D. We're good. No, no, no. That's who I represent. I'm clear. DEEC. Yeah. Okay, I want to be clear. Honor roll. I was reading the paper which I try to do a lot and I see I believe for the first time this last uh semester we had kids in there that uh I believe it was uh 7 through 12. How did that come about? So, um, because we have a communication person full-time with us this year, she's been really proactive about getting those names in the paper all quarter. So, they're going into the Townsman and then she tries to get them into the Democrat as well. That's the first time I saw in the Democrat, though. I think it's been in at least one other time. Okay. Yeah.

104Did it cost anything? Uh, no. Nope. Okay. Thank you. Mhm. Yearbook. What's the status of your book? I haven't gotten one yet. I mean, I'll pay for it, but uh you know, this year yearbook, the one we had our pictures taken for. I will make sure you have one. I mean, I haven't seen it yet either. For the board, right? I mean, as well, everybody, right? Everybody wants one. You have We have to order one. If you would like us to order one for the board, for each board member, we can do that as well. Well, order one for me. I don't know about anybody else. If they don't want it, God bless them. Okay, we will get you one. How many graduates this year? And uh are we working on any that uh not

105going to make it or are they going to make it or what are we 67 67 66 and a half right now? Uh we're we're close. We're going to we're going to drag them. told you they're going to be there. And what's the what's the the amount of population we have as seniors? 67. 67. So, we're going to get all of them. Right now, we're at 66 and A2. Okay. Mhm. Last but not least, unfortunately, I have to bring this up. I've been hammered called. I never get calls at home and I've approached a lot in the public and people are very upset and I understand why they're upset because lately you know the Tri Valley motto which was developed years ago and that was a lot of passion put into that name and kids

106today still come to Tri Valley like you just had a reunion here. They come here to visit Tri Valley and to use that name that specifically meant for Tri Valley is important to everybody and to take it out of context or to use it in a different manner maybe for some people they feel it's wrong. Um we need to be cautious about that. We need to have Tri Valley really Tri Valley and if any events go on we should really be promoting Tri Valley in Sullivan County. I know the the school board Sullivan County school boards is is a mission trying to get more um appearances bef before our legislators which we're working on which we feel is very important. Get everybody involved. We're trying to work on education, building that bond between our legislators

107and our educators. Maybe we can get more funds here. Maybe the we can get more done for upstate schools. But, uh, really people really are upset. So, we need to be cautious. Um, all right. Let's move on. We have to go. That's all I was going to say. Let's wrap up. Okay. Nicole, couple of things. the um four through seventh grade band concert and chorus concert. They were wonderful. Um seeing that the fourth graders didn't perform at the beginning of the year and now they did. They did a wonderful job. Miss Ti um her selection was phenomenal. Kudos to the music department. Um with that, uh Regina Hartman also did a assembly where the second through fourth graders presented during the day. you can just see the passion that she has and how that transfers

108into our students. It was so cute. Um, so incredible. You could see all their hard work. So, kudos to them. And then also kudos to the second graders that went to Bethl Woods today. They were reminded that they're representing our district and they represented us wonderfully today. So, kudos to that little group of children. They were awesome. Thank you, Tammy. I'd just like to say congratulations to all the newly ten tenure teachers tonight. Um, congratulations to our retirees uh who are finishing out their service to our district. Um, may you collect your retirement check longer than you worked. Um, welcome to our new teachers um, who are joining us and uh, we look forward to a long relationship and um, I'd also like to just take a moment and thank the entire uh, Tri Valley

109staff um, everybody for just a wonderful school year. Um it's it's been amazing the growth that our students have um received and and en enjoyed. They couldn't have done it without you. Uh as a parent of two students, I couldn't have done it without your support. Um I I you know I really feel that my children's success is a testament to the staff here at Tri Valley. Um, I hope everybody has a wonderful summer and uh I look forward to seeing everybody back in September. That's it. Thank you, Carrie. Trying to make this really fast. Um, civic's presentations today, Matt, they were phenomenal. They were probably the best presenters I've seen in a long time. They were really wellprepared and very passionate about each and every one of their projects. um and also planning out

110how their projects are going to move forward with somebody else backing those projects up to make sure that they continue. So, um always my favorite part of the school year is watching those civics presentations. Um I'm not going to talk about the geese. We already addressed that. Um Into the Woods Jr. was absolutely adorable. So, so incredibly well done. And it's really nice to see our middle school students getting up on the stage. I could never do it. So, kudos to them. It was really well done. um senior celebration yesterday was probably the best attended I've seen with a senior class um actually participating in years. So well done um to the senior adviserss and to the administration. Um just watching them celebrate each other was really moving and Amanda we're not going to look

111at each other at graduation at all. Um but there were many um uh community members that were alumni that were actually um giving the awards which was really very special because they they actually proudly stated what their um history was in the community, what years they graduated. Um so that it was it was done really well. Um thank you to the class of 1975 for the beautiful bench. Um it's out in the hall. I saw that on Saturday when we were leaving the concert. Um and that's that's pretty much it. Congratulations to the class of 25 and good luck this weekend to our athletes who are competing in states. Thank you, Travis. Yeah, just very very brief congratulations on tenure. Welcome Tri Valley and also on the new hires retirement. Enjoy every second of it.

112Uh also, yes, just a uh happy grads to the 2025 graduates of Tri Valley. Great job. Thank you, Pat. Uh just to reiterate what's already been said, congrats to everybody we recognize. Uh welcome aboard to the new people. Um also what Tammy had said, you know, this has been a great year for a lot of kids and it took a lot of effort from a lot of people. So I truly appreciate the effort put forth by staff to uh make this special place for our kids. Thank you. Thank you, Rose. We're in the home stretch and I know teachers are exhausted, parents are exhausted, but seeing, you know, all of our efforts come to fruition is what it's all about. And attending all of these um ceremonies and concerts and shows, you know, it it's

113just it's just really wonderful to see how far the students have come this year. and I wish all of the graduating seniors the best of luck in their future. Thank you. Motion to adjourn. Um Nicole, motion. Second. Travis, please proceed to vote. Well, you're going to be passing the torch to Jerry. That is unanimous. Thank you. The It is 9:22. Thank you.