001Good evening everyone. I'm going to call the meeting to order. Uh can I just have a reminder for guests to please sign in? On your left by the windows on the table there's a sign-in sheet. Tonight we are going to um stand for a moment of silence after the pledge for three former employees who passed away in the in the recent weeks. One is for Mrs. Patricia Huffagel, Mr. Michael Brooks, and Miss Darlene Scanner. Please join us for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States to the republic for it stands nation under God indivisible justice for all. Thank you. I'm going to go through the first of the three resolutions for uh our former employees. The first one would be number 1B is the moment is the resolution for Mrs.
002Patricia Huffagel. Whereas Patricia A. Huffagel served as a staff member of the Tri Valley Central School District for 28 years. And whereas Patricia A Huffeneagel exemplified extraordinary commitment to the students of the Tri Valley Central School District. And whereas Patricia A. Huffenegel passed away on March 29th, 2025. Be it resolved that this Tri Valley Central School District extends its thanks to Patricia A. Huff Naggel for her service and be it further resolved that the Tri Valley Central School District extends its sympathy to the family of Patricia A. Huffagel during this time of morning. Moving to item 1 C is the resolution for Mr. Michael Brooks. Whereas Michael Brooks served as a board of education member of the Tri Valley Central School District for 12 years and four years of that was as board president. And
003whereas Mr. Michael Brooks exemplified extraordinary crim commitment to the students of the Tri Valley Central School District. And whereas Mr. Michael Brooks passed away on March 30th, 2025, be it resolved that the Tri Valley Central School District extends its thanks to Mr. Michael Brooks for his service. And be it further resolved that the Tri Valley Central School District extends its sympathy to the family of Michael Brooks during this time of morning. And then moving to item number 1D is the mo is the resolution for Darlene Scanner. Whereas Darlene Scanner served as a staff member of the Tri Valley Central School District for 22 years. And where as Darlene Scanner exemplified extraordinary commitment to the students of the Tri Valley Central School District and whereas Darlene Scanner passed away on March 25th, 2025. Be it resolved
004that the Tri Valley Central School District extends its thanks to Darlene Scanner for her service. And be it further resolved that the Tri Valley Central School District extends its sympathy to the family of Darlene Scanner during this time of morning. Thank you. Moving to item number two is correspondence. I'm not aware of anything. Do you have any? Okay, we'll move to item number three is public comment session for items that are on tonight's agenda. I don't have anyone signed up. Moving to item number four is presentations and guests. Uh we have four items tonight. We'll start with 4 A is the athletics presentation. Good evening everybody. Um, so we have a lot to celebrate in the winter season. Um, we have a lot to be proud of. Um, and a lot to be excited for
005in terms of the future for a lot of these teams and a lot of these athletes. Um, so tonight we hope to we're going to be recognizing section champions, uh, state champions, participants, and some national um, invites as well. So, our first one is Santino Hafner. So, Coach Carrie is somewhere where it's really warm, but she did write um a nice um thing, so I'm going to read that. So, today I have the honor of speaking about an athlete who has truly exemplified what it means to be dedicated, resilient, and passionate. Uh his season has been one of growth, challenges, and remarkable achievements. And it's been inspiring to watch Santino's journey unfold. It has been remarkable to watch Santino grow and compete as a skier during just his eighth grade year. When I asked him
006what his goal was at the beginning of the year, he told me he wanted to compete in the state championships. While this was a very big goal, it was amazing to watch him work towards compete uh completing this. He needed to complete races during sectionals and state qualifiers that were very challenging for him to achieve uh with his prior races. It was wonderful to watch him compete and succeed and achieve his goal that he set in the beginning of the year. What truly sets Santino apart is not just his skill on the slopes, but his unwavering mental toughness. Even when conditions weren't ideal or things didn't go according to plan, Santino remained determined and adaptable. Each obstacle became an opportunity to grow, and each race, regardless of the outcome, was a chance to learn and
007improve. At the sectional race, Santino finished in 11th in slalom and seventh in giant slalom. At the state qualifier race, he finished in eighth. And then finally at his big goal of the state championship race, he finished 46th in Giant Soomn and 47th in Somn. I'm excited for Santino's ski future here at Tri Valley. Um I was on the phone with Coach Carrie while she bragged about it being really warm and sunny and lovely. Um and one of the things that I really picked up on during her conversation was how well Santino represented Tri Valley. So, his interactions with other schools, with teammates, with the public on these different um ski hills, um that was just part of my conversation that really stood out. You know, the results are great. His races, you know, were
008fantastic, but he, you know, according to Coach K, really resembled that being good human being that that we love to try to produce here at Tri Valley. Um so, uh Santino's on the right there. Um and in the middle on the other picture, Um, great congratulations to Santino. I too am excited to see where he can finish hopefully in the state meet again next year. Um, yeah. Uh, so up next we have Coach Echoff um to talk about our boys indoor team. All right. Hello everyone. Um, I'm talking about our indoor track and field season here. Uh, and I see the picture up. We're going to talk about the boys first. The boys won the class B section title. Um, this is a outstanding mark. It's only been done three times in school history for
009Tri Valley. And, um, I'm going to mention some individual medalists and section champions here. Um, but to note in indoor track, uh, it is the hardest section championship to to acquire because there's only a class A and a class B. In other sports, there might be a double A, there might be ABC, B, C, D, like in cross country. Um, and so to acquire a section championship, you have to beat some schools that are significantly bigger than us like New Pulse, uh, and Port Jervis. And so, um, we just narrowly won and it was a team effort and went down to the every last point. So, uh, it's it's an outstanding victory for us. I'm going to acknowledge I see some of our individual medalists back here from our boys section championship. Um, we have
010our 4x8 relay of Nick Bender, Aaron Edwards, John Woods Jr., and Wyatt Morton. So, stand up uh if we have anyone in the crowd here. You think Aaron? We also had who um when I say meddled uh they got top three at the section championships. We have Logan Wyant in the pole vault. And then the other two gentlemen here, they were section champions. And so Kane Poji, uh he's actually at Hammer Club, New York Hammer Club practice right now. He would love to be here. But uh came Poji uh he finished first and was a section champion in the weight throw and also the shot put uh and so he he would scored big points for us there. Um guess he's not here but we clap I guess. Um and then uh Van Ferman, you
011get three events you can run uh jump or throw and Van Ferman had three and he finished first place and was section champion in all three and really was the backbone of the team here again this team title. Uh and so he scored a perfect 30 points. Van Ferman, uh, section champion in 1,600 and 3200 [Applause] meter. So, I guess I just clicked this, right? Yep. And so, I want to acknowledge our girls. Our girls finished fourth in the section, but we had some outstanding um individuals that meddled as well. Sophia Richardson is away on the FBLA trip right now, but she meddled in the 300, an event that she will go on to compete at the state championships shortly after that. And then also we have Anna Ferman here who meddled in three events,
012the Thousand, the 1500, and the 3000. So, um, Mr. Crudelli wanted me to highlight how they did at the state championship. And so we had six athletes advance to the state championships for indoor track. Uh which for indoor track it's a hard state championships to get to because again um in cross country there's four state champion teams because there's a ABC D. In indoor track you want to get to the state championship you got to beat everyone. You got to beat Monro Woodbury. You got to beat big big schools. And so we had six individuals that advanced to the state championships. Uh I see them in the crowd here. So I'm going to call them out. We have Anna Ferman, Sophia Richardson, Van Ferman, uh Kim Poji who's not here, Emma Richardson, Sophia Richardson, and
013Lily Shunmaker who's a seventh grader. So if they're here to stand up, we'll give them a round of applause. And I want to just kind of tell you about how they did at state championships. Uh so first off um on at our state championships for our boys Kim Poji who's not here he finished actually before I do that I want to acknowledge all of these athletes earned all state meaning they finished in the top six at the state championships all of them came home with a medal from the state championships and so that's quite the uh accomplishments for them and uh our individuals came Poi in the throws he finished fourth in the weight throw in New York state. He also finished ninth in the shot put and in doing so he set a new
014school record in the shot put uh outstanding and his weight throw mark that he set there at the New York State Championships uh ranks at the end of the season number two for all sophomores in the USA and so Koji had a phenomenal season there at and at a state championship meet. Now for our other individuals, Sophia Richardson competed in the 300 meter and she placed 24th. Anna Ferman set a new personal best in the 3000 and she finished 11th with a time that puts her 48th in the USA and um and she finished 18th in the 1500 cuz Anna advanced in three events. The other people they competed in our girls 4x8 relay. So that's Emma Richardson, Anna Ferman, Lily Shoemaker, and Sophia Richardson. And our girls 4x8 relay finished fourth overall. They also
015set a new school record, and they broke the old school record by over 15 seconds. And so it's quite the accomplishment uh for them. And then I want to acknowledge we have a state champion amongst us and it is the first state champion for the boys in indoor track ever. And so Van Ferman, I want him just to stand up here and give him a round of [Applause] applause. And so Van Ferman competed in uh two events. He placed six in the 3200 meter and earned all state honors in that, but he also was on the intersectional relay and he closed the relay running the mile with the fastest mile uh split of any person in the relay. and he brought home a gold medal in Tri Valley's first ever boys indoor state championship. So,
016um then on the right side here we have our athletes that advanced to the national championships. And so the people who advanced the national championships we have Van Ferman, Anna Ferman, Kim Poji, Lily Shun Maker, Matt Ortiz Jimenez and um and so for these athletes that advanced, Matt Ortiz Jimenez ran in the freshman 60 m. And so he set a new Tri Valley school record in the 60 meters. Pretty good for a freshman. Lily Shunmaker competed in the middle school 800 uh meter dash. Uh we had Kane Poji went for the throws for the weight throw. He finished 15th in the nation in the weight throw. And um and so uh if you finish in the top six, you're a all-American. He was 15th and he's a sophomore. if you take out the nine seniors
017ahead of him, that that puts him in a good spot for next year. And so maybe we can get an all-American here soon in the future. Uh and then Anna Ferman ran the two-mile and uh set a new Tri Valley School record in the two-mile. Uh the previous holder of it was Heather Ayurro, who is known for her running accolades here. And uh Van Ferman competed in the two-mile as well at the New Balance National Championships. I think I mentioned them all. I'm probably going on and on and my wife is probably telling me get off the stage. So, um, can we just give him another round of applause? It was really a historic season for track and field. Okay. And up next, we have uh, Coach Clauss uh, to talk about the girls basketball
018uh, class B section champions. So, this year we had an exceptional year um with girls varsity basketball. Um on behalf of the team, I' I'd like to give some thank yous um to everyone that supported us this season. I'd like to thank uh Mr. Cardelli uh doing a great job with our schedule um and facil uh for facilitating all the postseason games. Um it's uh it's a nice place to be when all you have to think about is coaching your team. So thank you. Um thank you to Skyler Musa and Tim Diamond for all the help they gave throughout the year uh helping coaching the girls. like to thank Cass for the wonderful job they do for not only our basketball team but um everyone in our school community. Um John Rousen for for doing
019the book, Kenny Turbush for scoreboard and Tiffany Stapleton our AT for keeping our girls together. Um and last but not least, I'd like to thank administration, our community for an amazing sendoff for the girls in our final game. This year's team was a scrappy group that dealt with their share of adversity. Um, there were many games due to injuries and other factors when we only had seven girls suited to play. Um, and this team never complained. They never said, "Hey, this person's absent. They just showed up and uh and played to win." Uh, very proud of the season we had with these girls uh that we put together. Uh we were first team to win a class B section 9 title um in girls basketball. We ended our season 16 and five. We were a
020scholar athlete team and most importantly we uh we represented Tri Valley well. These girls brought energy and defensive intensity every game. Uh they were fun to coach and I'm sure they were fun to watch. Um I can remember a couple pivotal points in our season. One was when we were sitting at O'Neal. Um we were one and two. Uh we just got beat pretty good by a team that we should have uh been very competitive with. We sat down and we had a you know we had a discussion um you know and some of that discussion was just some minutes of silence kind of gather what just happened to us. And at that point when you have a team you they have a decision. Are they going to pick themselves up and, you know, play
021like they should be playing or are we going to kind of um sit in it and and not use it to get better? And these girls here and um you know, decided to do uh the first and we put on a run um for the next 12 13 games. We took it from being uh one and two, one and three at the end of that tournament and ended up um 16 and five. Um and that's to the the character and the drive of these girls. um in 20ome years I've only had one other team like it where they they they had that moment and um as coaches know there's a fine line between winning and losing and these girls recognize that and they took advantage of that. So, and that's what makes this uh when
022we beat O'Neal at home quite handedly and then when we were we got an injury in that game and in the section finals to then beat them for the sectional final uh was very rewarding. Uh every time that we had an opportunity to play a team that we lost to the first time, we defeated them second with O'Neal. We we defeated them just the last two again. Um, this team was extremely fun to coach. Um, and I just wanted to thank everybody for their support. Okay, so uh, Jenna Cardy, Jordan Diamond, they're both on the FBA trip. Um, and the other girls couldn't be with us tonight. We have Brennan Polley, Caitlyn Stungis, and Avery Carrier. Okay, Jenna. Uh so Jenna was has been with us for 5 years in the program, four years with
023me. Um so an exceptional exceptional girl, exceptional product, you know that as an athlete, as a as a a young woman. Um and uh,5 points total. So and the thing with with Jenna, I wish she was here. The thing with Jenna is she didn't never played like she was going towards a thousand. if anybody watched, she just kept playing the way she had played for five years. And truthfully, if she wanted a thousand, she could have had it a long time ago. Um, so um, but she did it the right way. She did it within the game. She did it with the respect of her teammates. And truthfully, like lots of times we had to tell her to shoot the ball, which is very rare with a thousand point score. She uh recently she was
024recognized as the um the class B uh B Kenny Allstar, right? Says top 50 players in the area. And um she then uh voted on by coaches she was the class B player of the year. Okay. So that's on an individual level. um as a team. Uh blessed to have you girls for the season. Um you know, it's one of those things. Last year was the same thing. When it's over, you're like, you know, you just need a long weekend and get back after it. This group was the same way. So, I'm proud of you ladies. Thank you coaches. Thank you everybody that helped support us for the the year. And uh yeah, thank you. [Applause] just wanted to say congratulations to everybody and um you know we look forward to uh what a lot
025of these teams bring in the future as well. Thank you. Thank you. Great job. Okay, moving to item number 4B is the administrative presentations. All right, good evening everyone. So, can we just get one more round of applause for the exceptionality that Tri Valley just demonstrated here in front of us? you know, so much hard work both in the classroom and outside. It It's just great to see we're able to bring these things week in and week out of just something new and exciting. So, I'm not going to talk about anything that's quite as exciting. But, um, so we're kind of getting to that end of the year. It doesn't feel like it, but we're getting to our point where we're talking about our last diagnostic testing with I Ready going to be in May
026school. Right now, we're finishing up schedules for the elementary and secondary school. We're way ahead where we would like to be. So, we're actually to the point where we might in the secondary start getting the counselors to finish up with the students selecting what kind of electives they want and then running our schedule through and so we can make our adjustments now in May instead of in August. So, we're very excited about that. The elementary school is going to be doing a few new things which we think are going to increase the effectiveness of some of our programming. Our professional development committee is now looking at all of the teaching standards New York State has put out and making recommendations our next couple meetings on what we can do next year to help support support
027our teachers. So just a kind of a little snapshot of what we're doing in my world in the next couple weeks or so. So thank you. Thank you. Uh good evening everyone. Um so it's the time of year that I usually um show the numbers that we have. Uh last year the projection that I have up there on the screen for the 23 24 school year was around January and these are the numbers uh for 2425 school year as of 42. So a little um increase in not very much but we have had quite a few students move into the district since uh January till April. So it's really just where we are a snapshot in uh CPSSE. So uh committee on preschool elementary CSE committee on special ed secondary school uh committee on special
028ed out of district numbers uh the totals and then the 504s uh broken down between the elementary and the secondary. That's all I have unless you have any questions. Thank you. Thank you. And our program is always exciting, Mr. Snyder. Um, and certainly the work that I get to do every day is exciting. As you can see, every time I try to put some pictures up some of some new students who are joining our MTSS room. It's amazing how they just uh wander themselves in and then they never leave. Uh but we're continuing to grow all of those connections and with the connections with the students, we want to be able to ensure that we're making the connections with our community partners to be sure that our students are being able to get the supports
029that they need. So we do have some additional county resources. We have I have some families that I'm working with to get them set up. Some examples of that include our single bite, which some of us have heard over the years. Uh, but they have upgraded their form as well as including a QR code, which makes it a lot easier for some of our parents to be able to sign up. That single bite is an opportunity for families who have a child within their household to be able to get a free meal delivered weekly to their home. So, that's an excellent resource and we have families that are signing up for that. As well as um our county continues to grow and support our schools. So through Svin County, besides the adult protective services, which
030I told you last time is not scary. It's actually a great resource for our students and our families, we also have a here's family line, which is a resource that I'm supplying to families who just need some support or some advice as to what departments within the county can best support their families. So we're continuing to advertise and be able to get some of that information out to our community. And finally, our MTSS advisory team update. So, the last time we were talking, we were really uh Mr. Fantini and I were having a hard time uh trying to get enough of us spread out in order to offer enough support to our students. With that came this advisory team where we had a lot of interest. Uh we divided that team up into two and
031we've been meeting with our first section of our community members, excuse me, of our faculty members, faculty and staff. So, we had our introductory meeting and then we had a follow-up our second meeting. And I've got to tell you, as I had suggested, the energy in the room has been ecstatic. And we have a great plan moving forward. The next time that we get together with our advisory team, we're going to be doing a deep dive into some of our attendance rates and taking a look at that with our faculty and staff within the room of that advisory team to start to dissect what's happening, what are the trends or what are some things that we can be able to put in place for next school year to start to turn around some of the
032chronic absenteeism that we see see developing at this point in the school year. So really exciting things happening and I just wanted to just quickly point out uh Mr. Fantini and I are certainly able to continue supporting a lot of the initiatives that were started at the beginning of the year. Sometimes we start off strong and we forget some of the things, some of those great ideas and some of those motivators that were getting students in and getting them to do the right thing while they're here at school. So, we've been able to bring back and continue to remind students of the opportunity to earn a bear den pass, which is the opportunity for students to be able to have an alternate place besides sitting within a classroom during their free periods. So, we're able
033to give out one of those. Um, I would I'd be remiss if I did not thank our school community for offering some donations of baseball cleat. We have some students who uh I don't know where he got the idea, one in particular, but he's never played baseball before. he decided this was his first year that he wanted to try it. Um, so we had to review what all the bases were and just kind of how the game worked. Um, but with that, we also needed all of the materials that went along with playing baseball. So that is a thank you card that our student wrote to our school counselor, Mr. Williams, who was able to donate some cleats. We also had some other TVTA members come through and and be able to uh supply some
034other cleats for some of our other students who wanted to join baseball this year. So, we're growing the program. Not all of them may be ready to play just yet, but they're watching and they're loving every part of it. I check in with them. They have their first game and he was excited to be able to just be part of a team. And then finally, as I said, we have some students who just continue to find their way in. And with that comes academic support and some of the emotional stuff along with it. And the whole staff has been really welcoming and actually recommending students to come down just to do kind of a check-in. So, we're doing some great work and it continues to be exciting each day. Any questions, please? I can bring
035you mine. No, no, it's good. Just uh with a single bite, how often did you say that they come? Yeah. So, I actually brought the flyer in case there were any questions. I can certainly make sure I provide you with a copy of the flyer, but it says that they are doing that weekly. Are they always looking for volunteers to help deliver? They have volunteers that do deliver, but I'm sure I mean they've served it says here over 185,000 foods over since 2020 since the beginning of this. So to have volunteers I'm sure that they were looking for they're looking for volunteers to be able to help that. All right. Thank you very much. I'll get in touch with you about that. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Williams. Yes. Um just to back up a
036little bit to the uh athletics. Um, do do you know do all the students playing any sport? Um, is anybody missing any equipment that they may need at this point? At this point, I think we are all set. As I said, um, the school community, all of the teachers, the TVTA, as well as working with Mr. Credelli, there's some scholarships that are out there. there are some opportunities of um some organizations that often that have been donating some of those cleats where we're able to just kind of get an inventory of them. Um so at this point I think we're all set for this season. Uh but we're always looking to be able to be sure that we're ahead of any fall or winter seasons for next school year. Okay. I just wanted to make
037sure all students had what they needed. They're doing great. Good. Thank you. And Mrs. Shabot, I I will dovetail on that. We had a student last year do a civics project around that and so she also gathered a lot of um athletic gear for kids. So we have a a good supply of of good stuff if kids need anything. So thank you for checking in on that. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. So, I've got just a quick update on the tech department. We're in the final stages of increasing security on our student accounts. One of the recent trends that we've seen, um, in fact, one of the Mid Hudson schools fell victim to this attack is cyber criminals actually going after student accounts because they don't have two-factor authentication, generally have weaker
038passwords, that type of thing. And once they've taken control of a student's account, then using that to send an email to a teacher, a staff member, of course, the teacher or staff member is going to then open that and that email carries a payload, uh, virus, that type of thing, and they use that to actually get into the schools. So once we saw that shift in attacks, we set about really making sure all of our student accounts were secure. We have I think I've got two students left to meet with to go through that process and then we'll be complete with that. We've begun some internal training on network analysis tools that will give us a much deeper visibility into what's going on on our network at any point in time. that will help our
039staff to really improve times whenever there's any kind of issue on the network for us to really zero in on what the source of the issue is and come to resolution on things that much faster. And finally, we are just in the beginning stages of a project to upgrade our virtual server infrastructure. I realize that saying virtual server infrastructure to people who aren't in IT is generally kind of meaningless. So, I'm going to give you a really quick uh hopefully 30 second uh primer on what I mean when I say that. So, back when I came into it, closing in on 30 years ago, every server that you had was a piece of hardware, just like a a computer on your desk. Had its own hard drive, its own processor, its own memory, everything. And
040the same thing applied for servers. Had to duplicate for every single server you had in the organization. With server virtualization, you have bigger servers that have more RAM, more processor, more network capability, and you're able to parse that up. And on top of what's called a hypervisor, so it's a operating system that installs on those big servers. Just like on your Windows desktop, you can install Microsoft Office or Adobe or any other programs. This software installs onto the hardware and then you install copies of Windows on top of that. So you run all of your Windows servers on one piece of hardware. Allows you to be much more efficient with your dollars that you're spending as well as give you much more flexibility. That said, it is a much more sizable project when you're upgrading
041all of those pieces of things and we want to make sure that we're able to do it well and without any issues. Um, we're taking that project on in-house as a way of saving a significant amount of money compared to if we were having a vendor partner do that and we're just beginning that project now. That's all I have. Any questions? Security it. You can that's one of the things we're looking at with this project is you can actually consolidate some of the security functions. You can install kind of if you think of antiirus where you install antivirus on every given machine with virtualization, you have the ability to install antiirus at the hypervisor level which we're looking at that especially because some servers like our phone servers and things like that are specialized. They
042think of them as appliances, but they really are, you know, often Linux-based operating systems, and they don't support having antiirus on those, which is one of those kind of keeps me up a little bit at night things. So, we're looking at implementing that with this upgrade so that it just gives that extra layer of protection for those things that you can't really install that protection on themselves. Thank you. Thank you. All right, good evening. As Mr. Snder had said, it feels like it's forever away, but we are rounding out to the end of our school year. After spring break, we are going to hit the ground running. Uh, so far, we've had a lot of testing going on. We had our SAT on 41. We had 28 students participate in that. We had our PSAT
043on 42, and we had 23 students participating in that. Looking forward, we have our New York State English as a second language achievement test that will be taking place with our speaking portion and our listening, reading, and writing portions. We also have our New York State 7th and eighth grade testing that started today. Um, we tried to start today, but there was a statewide issue. The state website crashed. So, our students and our staff were very flexible. We weren't able to log in. Neither was half of our county. So, that is pushed to now. Our first session will take place tomorrow and our second session will take place on Thursday for the ELA portion. Then after that, after spring break, when we come back, we'll have our math portion and our science for grade 8.
044Then we have our regent exams coming up. The region schedule is a little bit all over the place, but we are really focusing in and making sure that all of our students will be successful and set up for that. Our staff are all hosting regent review sessions for each regions exam. They will be after school and held on arbiter for registration so students can start registering for those as they become available. We are hoping to have about 10 sessions per test. Then our student numbers that are all enrolled approximately for the exams are all listed there as well. Any questions? I have one. Um the SATs uh my understanding was there was a charge to the family. Yes, for the SAT exam there is a charge. Okay. Do we know when the families will be
045told how much that is? So, it has to after the exam takes place, they give us the rate and they discount it at a certain rate as well. So, then they'll give us that rate and then we can bill out the families. Do you happen to know when the Spanish region is not on the So, the checkpoint A exam, it's no longer a regions exam. It's a locally given exam that is taking place within the school year. So that is set up by our Spanish teachers and they they work that scheduling out for best practices for them. So that'll be taking place within the school year. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Great. Awesome. Uh so as Miss Everly had just said, our state testing window is set up. Now, there may have been a
046loud expression of joy when we said we were going to postpone the assessment till tomorrow. Uh, but there were some students who just kind of wanted to get it over with. Uh, they've been preparing really hard in their classrooms. The teachers have been doing a great job uh getting the kids focused and ready to go. So, tomorrow we'll hit the ground running again and we'll have the ELA wrapped up by the end of the week. We get back, we have our math two weeks after we come back and then our fifth graders get to take their science assessment, which is no longer performance-based. It's now just a written test that will be given uh in the middle of the week, the first week of May. And then I passed out to you our last newspaper.
047Our steam program in the elementary school is wrapping up this week. Every student in the elementary school who wanted to participate in a program was able to participate in one of our three sessions that we were able to provide for them this year. So we had over a hundred students in our afterchool steam program in grades one through six. So, I hope you enjoy the last um newspaper of this year, but hopefully much more to come. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. When when they do the test, how long does it take to get results from it or Well, um they tell us we're going to have it before the end of the school year because that helps us with our planning for the the next school year. We usually don't see them until the
048following fall. Really? Mhm. If that Okay. Hello again. Um so I'm going to start with the wellness side of things. Um so our seventh grade class uh we partnered with Single Bite. Um and there were two classroom visits and one field trip. Uh we combined the it's normally two field trips. We combined it into one. Um so the first classroom sess uh session uh Liz from Single Bite came in. She brought a chef. They prepared a single bite. Discussed um real foods verse processed foods. Talked a lot about Takis. Big hit with seventh graders. Discussed how maybe that's not the best choice even though they're delicious. But her key thing was every once in a while. Um and then they we went to a trip to the Flowering Sun Ecology Center in Ellenville. um showed
049the process of they have obviously they're growing outside but also in uh green houses and it was pretty cool. You could see kind of several steps. Um and then we went to hemlock never where the meal actually had mushrooms and potatoes from the farm they had just visited. Um so students were kind of able to see that whole process and then we wrapped up with a second classroom visit. Um, again talking about one the trip, but also more about that real food opportunity. Um, so we've been doing this trip for a number of years. We really love the partnership and we love to continue it uh going forward. Um, on the athletic side of things, so six JV and varsity teams with 121 total athletes. Um, and we have three modified spring teams with 53
050total athletes there. Um, if you haven't noticed, it was snowing today. So, if we could all get together and and wish for no uh precipitation, maybe even some warmth warmth, that'd be cool, too. Um, but everybody is scrambling to uh to move games, make things work. Um, so that we're all ready to go come sectional time. Um, and the last thing I want to mention is with all of the rain and cold, a huge shout out to our grounds crew. Um the fields, the baseball field the other day, I've never seen it look that good that early in the year. Um you know, the grass is starting to get green. They've been really really doing a great job with um with all of the fields. Um and they they come to me and um with
051suggestions and and they're really really great to work with. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. So, I'll do the facilities update right here in the chair. Um, so what's happening really with our um outdoor crew, as Kevin said, they're doing a lot of prep of the parks. They've been at the 42 park um helping get that ready. And again, we've worked really hard um throughout the year with our um community and Chris Matthews to to set up a good partnership with the park with Larry Whipple and everything. And so we feel like we're we we're in a good spot if we need to use that park at all this year. Uh you can tell that they're doing a ton of cleanup. They're out picking up leaves and prepping to mow the lawns and get things
052going. Um we just had a demonstration a few weeks ago with a robotic um field liner. So it paints the fields and it's a robot and you program it. That was pretty cool. It was pretty impressive. So something we're we're looking at to assist us a little bit. uh that last week they came and moved all of our cars in the district parking lot because they will roll that often and and rake it and it was one of those days where there had to be 20 cars in and out all day. So all their their work was kind of um messed up by by us parking on it, but I'm sure they'll have to do it again. Inside they're prepping for spring cleaning that they'll do during spring break. They'll get rooms taken apart, floors
053shined. Um, and the other thing we're doing right now is we have our fans that we bought through our ESSER grant to help us with that new heat regulation, and those are all being installed in classrooms. So, when we get back and it does start to get warm, um, at least we've we're prepared to address any of the heat issues that we have. Thank you. Okay, we're going to move to item number 4 C is the 25 to 26 budget presentation by Mr. Richard B. Good evening. Want to talk to you a little bit about the 2526 budget presentation proposal. Um we have some opportunities this year. um regionalization discussions. Reminder, re regionalization is not merger. We're not looking, but there are ways where we can save some money with some some training, some professional
054development, and just using working as teams with some other local districts. Um we're working to le leverage a little more countywide resources. As Miss Williams said, there's some things as far as mental health that will help with that. And we're really trying to work with both Sullivan and Olter and seeing what's available and how we can work better with the county to leverage money and save, you know, leverage save money. Um, we're still working on really maximizing our returns on our money, looking at ways to get as much possible interest as possible. You know, interest is always an unknown. you know, those rates drop and they go up, but we can project and we're just really looking to how to really maximize every penny. Um, we're looking at significantly lower fuel costs. Um, savings on
055fuel is about 9.5%, diesel 20%, propane 22%. Um, if it ever gets warm, we might save more money, but we're still, you know, paying to heat stuff. And we're looking at a new minivan which will lower transportation costs. I am going to go more detail on the minivan. There are a couple of challenges. Federal funding, you know, how stable is it? What's going to happen? Will there be cuts? Um, New York State unfunded mandates, possibly cell phone ban, the heating, you know, anything else. The heat regulations, anything else that may come from the state that we're not going to get money. Maybe we will. They're just these are challenges. Cost of goods and services, supply chains, really hard to know what's going to happen. There's a lot going on in the world as we all
056know and what's stuff going to cost us. Um the merger of two of our districts, Livingston Manor and Rosco have merged to become Rockland Central School District. That affects our Boseies rate. Those rates are done by base costs. So now you're dividing base cost instead of eight into seven. And there's also something called our water which is an attendance um attendance and enrollment ratio. So we've, you know, the business officials have had to structure it so everybody gets hurt equally because the bigger districts would get hurt if you just did it by pupil. The smaller districts would get hurt if you just did it by base. But there are going to be increases because you're dividing a pie of eight into seven. And electrical costs um as a lot of people probably have noticed that
057we don't know where that's going to be and you know those are hard to predict if they're going to be skyrocketing or not. So, those are just some of our opportunities and challenges. Um, when we look at our budget, um, we do have, you know, we're looking at a 2.14% increase. Um, our capital budget is down and some of that has to do with just purchasing, some of the big purchasing that we've done. Our admin is up slightly and that has to do with shifting costs and also just contractual raises. We're going to go into this more. Um, and our programs as well are is slightly up. Okay. Um, as a reminder, the capital component is everything that happens on our school grounds. It's keeping this place open and everything to do with that as
058well as debt services and capital expenditures. Um, here's a breakdown of our changes in the capital in the main categories. Um, there are some explanations there and we can go through if we have any questions with those. The administrative component, that's the salary and benefits of all the support staff, all the clerical as well as the administrator and all district office operations. So, it's not just the administrators, it's everybody that allows the administrators and everything that allows administrators to do their jobs and run the school. I mean, if it wasn't for administrative staff, there was no the clerical staff, people that are meeting you inside the schools, we couldn't run our schools. Um and board of education expenses. Um same here. These are all broken down. Program component. That's everything that happens within the classrooms.
059Um this is all the salary and benefits for all the teachers, supplies and materials, education for off-campus students, um athletics, extracurricular, transportation, employee benefits of that department. And we do have some breakdowns here. You know, some of these numbers, if you look, they shift a lot. And that's just because of recoding things. We, you know, looked at just making sure that things are aligned where they should be budget-wise and coding wise. Um, so, you know, you may see a a shift of $40,000 here, but then you have another shift of 40,000 here, and it's just moving around and just trying to get things right. Okay. Um something new this year we're going to try a one-year pilot. Um you know we recognize that there's a lot of cost to our families that are getting college
060credits while they're in school. Um currently Sunni Sullivan is $79 per credit hour. You know we're they're still working with possibly trying to make lowering that cost or finding grants or fixing or no cost. That's something that's still being worked on. But what we've done is we've done just on a one-year pilot where we can reimburse $25 per credit hour after the course is over. Um student has to get a beer higher and you know obviously a transcript that just shows that they've gotten that. So we're going to try this on a one-year pilot and you know see where the costs are and we're hoping that we can eventually get that down to zero and that's more through Sunni Sullivan funding or other sources possibly. Okay. minivan. We're looking at purchasing what would be classified
061as a multi-purpose vehicle. Um, this would be able with with proper licensing. You know, not everybody can do this, but you have to have proper licensing. Um, should be aidable. Um it'll have eight passenger seating and we'll be able to use this for our seed dust um studies, our smaller sports teams, extracurricular clubs, transportation to and from student celebrations, Boseies runs that are not our normal Boseies runs, home visits. Um there's a lot of opportunities here looking at in January we had, you know, something that came up in the past, but going to wrestling practices, assuming that we have somebody who was able to drive it, we spent $1,800 on busing to wrestling practices. In the month of January, we spent almost $3,900 bringing a student who had to work had different hours than than
062what would be a normal Boseies run that had to be brought back and forth to Boseies, you know. So, we spent $3,800 there. Um, you know, every time we have a small team, if you run a team, if you have to run a team to New York City, that's a three person, you know, team for something that's could be at $800 to $1,000. So, we're hoping that this should reimburse itself, you know, recoup the cost of this van very quickly. Um, the issue is going to be just availability. There's a process that we have to go through to make sure the aid is there and to be able to do this. And then making sure that we can get the van. You know, that is a problem, but it's not a problem, but it could
063be a problem. You know, we're going to monitor that. Um, so looking at our revenue projections, what we're looking is an increase of 1.99% on the tax levy and the increase of the entire budget of 2.14%. And breakdown of the tax levy um you know co money is gone. um that you know played a big role and you know we have you know there's increase of costs there's contractual cost that goes up so you know there are increases but we're hoping you know to limit as much as we can we're really looking at right sizing more and more and just spending wiser like re shopping everything making sure that everything is being competitively checked even the small things that you know just really making sure we can do our best to save money there. All
064right. Any questions on this part? If I may. Yes, if I may. Um, how did you come to the conclusion with Toyota? They were on the bid and there's not a lot of minivans, but they were the one that was on the bid. Have you looked at the size of them? Because uh transporting eight students as I noticed tonight, some of them have quite long legs. Yeah, I'm not sure if we'll actually have eight. if it will fit. It's just that is what the capacity is. I mean realistically I think you can transport five students probably five students and you know and the driver comfortably you know right you know and it depends on what it is exactly I mean there's a lot of factors there um thing is if we go start going bigger
065than that you know then you start looking at busing and then there's all different licenses. Well, you mean there there is a license for that anyway other than uh you know your normal license you have to if if a if a employee is running it correct? Yeah. Yes. What would be the difference with a different vehicle or different size vehicle? I am long she's done more research on we can we can become occasional drivers and that allows us to transport students in a a minivan. when you get into a type A, which is like our white bus, then you have to have the 19A or the the um CDL. So, and and we've been really mindful of that and that's been difficult. It's been a challenge for some of our folks that are normally used
066to taking that and I I appreciate their patience as we work this out. But if we get everyone trained to be an occasional driver, which is a like a mini driver task, you have to be able to pull some weight, you have to be able to get out of your vehicle safely, take people out of your vehicle safely, but you still have to do, you know, the same, not as much of a check, but you have to record your mileage. You have to make sure your lights are working, your blinkers are working, all of that. So, an occasional driver lets us transport kids. It lets us run to a house to pick somebody up if they're if they miss the bus. that lets us, you know, bring families in for meetings if needed. And I
067think it'll be a tremendous savings. And I think it'll be great to get our people certified as occasional drivers. Then then we'll be on the up and up with with our transportation. Is there a benefit with um with u buying through the contract? Have you been comparing any other uh models or anything? Yes, I think the, you know, the Toyota right now is the one that's on state bid. So, if you notice districts buying school vehicles, you'll see a lot of those. Um, you know, I'm I'm also interested as we move forward if this is successful in more of um a suburban, a bigger vehicle. You know, our our terrain allows for who knows what sometimes. So, I think, you know, something we can look at in the future, but right now with our budget
068this year, um, and really wanting to be able to get one here on the road, um, I think the the minivan is it makes sense for us. You know, don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with Toyota. I'm just asking to comparison and if you looked at the size of it, if it fits our needs, that's all I'm asking. They're they're pretty roomy. They're they're great. Okay. They're great. Yeah. And um since it's budget time, uh I just ask a question in reference to busing. Um have we looked at busing to save some money? Cuz now it's 3.7 million and 850 kids. I was wondering if possibly it might be something because it's, you know, finance, it's money that maybe we could look at it and or somebody look at it and see
069if we could save something there somehow. Um, and that's 37. Does that include the fuel? Because the district does buy the fuel in the contract. Correct. Correct. And do we have an option of not buying the fuel in a contract and let and let them take care of it or do you find it's it's it's better financially for us to buy the fuel? Do you traditionally most of the contracts do do they do have the districts paying for fuel? Um the advantages of that is there's no markup. You know, if somebody else is buying it, they're going to mark it up. No matter what it is, they're going to somewhere somehow but mark it up. So that's really the one advantage of us buying the fuel is that we're not marking it up. And then
070as far as looking at it, you know, we do want to look at, you know, what is the possibility of having just all of our runs audited again. You know, where, you know, they look at it very closely, but it's always good to maybe have another set of eyes look at it. And so it's something that we're going to look at possibly doing to just make sure that they're maximizing how they're running their routes to save us the most money. That's something that we will look at. One thing we want to keep in mind when we're picking up our students, we don't have a lot of bus stops and so our buses route so that um it is curbside pickup. They're pulling right up to the driveway. They're rarely are they crossing kids. They try
071to be really mindful of that. And so sometimes in their routing, they might have to go a little bit of a different distance so that they're not stopped in the middle of the road, especially on 55 or some of our tougher roads with lots of hills and blinds, that kids are being picked up right where the bus door is right next to their driveway. They're not crossing across the road. But Rich and I have been talking a lot about um checking in with some of the districts that contract with a different bus company, you know, and looking at their prices um and and just see what's out there. You know, it might be time for us to take a look at that. No, I mean, it it is a large sum of money and to
072get our kids here and that doesn't even include any education they have to get here first. Uh don't get me wrong, I have a I don't have a problem with the with the with the business. It's just the idea. It's It's a lot of money and it's one if we could possibly take a look at it, you know. Yes, we will. Thank you. Any other questions? Um just two clarifying questions. What falls under civic activities? Is that the town of Neverync um program primarily? Yeah. Primarily. Yeah. Um and the other is there's a significant decrease in the co-curricular activities line. Why is that? So that's those are actually events that are happening in the auditorium, you know, so it's like the play and stuff and they were just budgeted way higher than projected costs. You
073know, when you look at the percentage, it's a lot, but the amount is not, you know, as significant. So where we spend on that versus where it's been budgeted is just, you know, the numbers just weren't they didn't, you know, we didn't spend enough to justify what was budgeted in the past and we haven't. We won't have to. Right. I just want to make sure we're not taking programs away or plan programs away from any of the kids that go to school here. Absolutely not. Now, thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Just Yeah. Just moving that money to really where it should be and that it was overbudgeted, but then that puts money into other places. Yeah. All right. You know, on those lines, I noticed that recently there's been some in someone's inquiring about uh codes
074of expenditures, and I have a question. I I suppose you you you say you have $100 in this code for uh handicapped students. So, you have $100 for the whole year. Now, you have 10 kids at the beginning of the year. That's what you you you you did your budgeting for. Now in the middle of the year, you have 10 more kids that came to the district. So now you don't have any money left in there. Are you going to say, "Well, we don't want you kids." Tell me about the flexibility and how that codes work for, you know, we can take care of that question that's somebody's been asking. Abs. No, absolutely not. We'll never turn away kids or not put them in the right program. You know, when you're budgeting, you know, there's
075a science and an art to it. You know, there's the science of the hard numbers in the past and then there's the art and crystal ball of the future. We don't know if a family moves in that has, you know, a lot of special needs students that are high cost, you know. So what you're doing is you're budgeting with a little bit of flexibility, but there's also, you know, opportunities to move money from one budget to another and look where, you know, maybe you have to cut something that's, you know, not as critical, you know, um, at that time, but you just want to shift with money. So it's all just a guess of, you know, looking at what's there, looking at what's could possibly come, but there are no answers. You know, we also
076could have families leave the district with highcost students using that same thing where now there's extra money. Now we can look at whether we want to try to roll that money or if there's something else that we need. So it's it's all just a constant shuffle. Does that answer that? So the similarities is like uh our budget needs to school budgets have to be put in place and voted on by say uh the 11th of April, but the state budget isn't even in place yet. So, how do they expect us to put a budget in place? That's that's a challenge. We're predicting our best predictions of what the state's going to give us. And, you know, they may come in higher, which would be great. It may come in lower, which would be not as
077so great. And they're still talking about all these rules and regulations that may come down. It must be a nightmare for their business officer, you know. God bless you. God. All right. Any other questions on that before we just go into the contingency budget? So, the contingency budget is pretty straightforward. If our budget was shot, if our budget was voted down, we can either amend, go back out, or we can go back out with the same budget. If it was voted down again, we have to then run a contingency budget. This basically gets rid of anything that's not considered an ordinary expense. So there's no purchasing allowed that's not students. So you know if we needed a new piece of a tractor equipment because something broke, we can't buy it. Um if we you know
078anything that's budgeted that's that's a need that's not direct student is gone. Also any money that you're going to be funding capital funds with, you know, future money, you can't spend. So the contingency buzz is just that emergency um if that didn't happen gener you know you know we have great taxpayers and you know we're going to hope that we would never have to go there but you know we do have to put one together there and that's what this is for. All right. Any that would affect our non-man non-mandated curriculum. Correct. Yeah, that could Yeah, that and that could be which was years ago was music. A lot of schools did away with music and because it was non-mandated and they had to find it somewhere. Yeah, we never had to do that. Yeah,
079we've never had to do that and you know hopefully we never will and but you know we do have to have a contingency budget. It is a state requirement. Thank you. Any additional questions? All right. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, moving to item number five is the superintendence report from Mr. Long. Uh, thank you. I too want to commend our athletes and our um coaches for a fantastic winter season. And I also have to give a shout out to the wonderful production of Shrek. All of the work from the cast of the crew that went in last weekend and what amazing talent. It was just really a beautiful show. Uh, as Amanda mentioned earlier, we were scheduled to start our New York State ELA exams today and uh, people to plan for these exams, we
080have kids all over the place. We have proctors all over the place. The the teachers have to be trained to give the exam. There's specific directions that have to be read. You can't have stuff hanging up in your classrooms that might give an answer. I mean, there's so much that has to prep to go into it. Schedules are changed. It It really requires everyone to be on deck. And um one classroom had a glitch and another classroom had a glitch and then the elementary had a glitch and then all of a sudden a text comes in from one of our local schools. You having trouble? We're having trouble. And then the Rick gets a hold of us and says, "Are you having trouble?" And now the superintendent are sending nasty grams to the state. And
081Questar had uh some type of a malfunction when they released the test and it didn't work. and it ended up not being as significant across the whole state, but significant enough just to mess everybody up. So, some kids started, some kids didn't start, some kids finished quicker than they probably should have. And so, now we'll just wait and see if there's going to be guidance if we get anything back from that on today. And, uh, you know, like like Kevin said and Amanda said, you know, you get all hyped up, you do a ton of practice, you want to get this over with. And, you know, everybody was wonderfully flexible today. I know it was it was kind of a pain. Um, we are still waiting for the New York State budget. I did read
082an article from Niscus today that uh it's not education that's holding it up, which is good. I know they're still advocating for an increase in foundation aid and an increase in some of the money we're going to get to help us with this personal cell ban uh initiative that's coming down from the state. Um, so we're hoping something that's done in the next couple of weeks. Um, what I read in the Niscus article was the governor was not in any hurry until she felt comfortable with what she was doing. So, we'll have to see, but they assure us that we'll have it before our budget vote on May 20th. Um, I am requesting that we have a board meeting on May 20th. It's after the budget vote. It would be um just brief for us
083to approve the preliminary results and then we will have a little bit of board business that we're going to need to do. So that would be on May 20th. I'm guessing around 8:45. I'll get some details out to everyone so you can mark your calendars. We received one foil. It's foil number 37 from Cindy Mickelson on March 24th. It's for the budget status report for the 2425 school year showing the original appropriation and all expenditures for all budget codes to date. any adjustments to the budget, encumbrance outstanding and unencumbered balance for each fund and budget code as well. All funds including grant monies, revenue status reports for all funds including capital fund and all grant monies. The report should include estimated revenues, amounts received to date and revenues estimated to be received during the balance
084of the fiscal school year. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, moving to item number six is items the board would like pulled from tonight's agenda. Anybody? Okay, we'll move to item number seven is the consent agenda. Can I have a motion to approve the entire consent agenda? Motion by Pat. Second. Second by Carrie. Please proceed to vote. Hi. That is unanimous. Thank you. be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the entire consent agenda categories 8 through 11. That brings us to item number 12 is board committee reports. We have three items on the on the section and we'll start with um policy is 12A is policy 1120-R. It is the school district records regulation first read. It's for public information. Moving to item number 12B
085is policy 2245 exeicio student member of the board first read for public information and discussion and then there's item number 12 C is policy 8113 extreme heat condition days first read it is for information and discussion any questions I just have one question. So the exeicio student member, you select that Aaron person, correct? And they would be selected before the end of this school year to participate as of September. They wouldn't have to have any summer participation, right? Yes. We're we have surveys um completed that we'll send out to the kids after spring break to get an interest and then we'll do a little mock interview with those that are interested, but they will start in September. They won't be required to come to the summer board meetings. Okay. So from here we'll move to
086item number 13 is old business. We don't have anything right. Okay. Moving to item 14 is public comment session for items that are not on tonight's agenda. I have no one signed up. Moving to item 15 is announcements, reminders, and upcoming events. Any anything? Any anybody? Okay, we move to item number 16 and we have a few things to take care of here. So, uh the first one is going to be the adoption of budget for 2025 to 2026 school year. Can I have a motion to for the adoption of the budget 2025 to 2026 school year? Motion by Pat. Second. Second by Rose. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. Ian, that is unanimous. Thank you. Be it resolved that the board of education does hereby adopt the proposed budget of million7,773 for the 2025
087to 2026 school year. Moving to item number 16B is the resolution for the Daniel Pierce Library legal notice. It is an action and I have a motion for the Daniel Pierce Library legal notice. So move. All right. So I I need a motion to move. George motion. I second it. No worries. Okay. George motion by George. Second by second. Second by Carrie. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. I Okay, that is unanimous. Thank you. Um, I'm going to read this this legal notice at the regular meeting. So, it was it was George and Carrie, right? At the regular meeting of the Tri Valley Central School District, the district board of education on April 8th, 2025, upon a motion made by George Dean and seconded by Carrie Polley, the following resolution is adopted. Whereas the board
088of trustees of the Daniel Pierce Library, parentheses, the library has approved and an annual appropriation of $533,438 parenthesis which sum consists of $458,438 previously authorized plus an additional 75,000 over the 2024 to 2025 appropriation close parenthesis the annual appropriation and whereas that upon the request of the board of trustees of the library board of education the district will hold a special meeting of the school district on Tuesday, June 17th, 2025 at the library, 3:28 Main Street in Grahamsville, Svin County, Graemeville, New York 12740, between the hours of 1 and 8:00 p.m. Daylight savings time for the purpose of voting upon the annual appropriation from the district to the library, a special meeting. And now therefore, it is hereby resolved that in accordance with section 2007 parentheses 1 of the New York Education Law, the Board
089of Education of the Tri Valley Central School District, Sullivan County, New York, hereby authorizes and directs the district clerk to give notice to the qualified voters of the district of the special meeting and charge the library for the costs associated ated withholding the special meeting and it is further resolved that the district clerk is hereby authorized to amend the notice of the special meeting from time to time as in her discretion such an amendment may be required and it is further resolved that this resolution shall take effect immediately. Moving to item number 16. 16C is the resolution for the DCMO resolution for cooperative purchasing school year 2025 to 26. It is an action. And can I have a motion to accept the DCMO resolution for cooperative purchasing school year 2025 to 26? Motion. Motion by
090Travis. Second by Tammy. Any discussion? Is there a cost that comes with that for joining it? Thank you. Okay. Anybody else? Please proceed to vote. I that is unanimous. Thank you. Whereas the cooperative purchasing service is a plan of a number of public school districts in the Delaware, Shenango, Madison, Osteigo, Boseis area in New York and to bid jointly equipment supplies and contract items and whereas the central school district named below is the serious of participating with other districts in the Delaware, Shaneango, Madison, Esteigo Boseies in the joint bid. ing of the items mentioned above is authorized by general municipal law section 119-0 and whereas the central school named below wishes to appoint the Delaware Shenango Madison estiggo boseis the responsibility for drafting of specifications advertising for bids accepting and opening bids and tabulating bids
091and award bids on their behalf therefore be a Resolved that the board of education of the central school listed below authorizes the Delaware Shinango Madison Eststeo Boseis to represented in all matters leading up to the entering into a contract for the purchase of the above mentioned commodities. And be it further resolved that the board of education of the central school listed below agrees to one assume its equitable share of the costs of the cooperative bidding. Two abide by majority decisions of the participating members. Three that it will award contracts based on information provided from the bid. Four abide by the award of the Bosey's board. Five. And after that and that after the award of the bid, it will conduct all negotiations directly with the successful biders or bidder. Okay. Moving to item number 16D.
092It is the D resolution for the DCMO resolution for food and cafeteria supply school year 2025 to 26. It is an action and I have a motion for the DCMO for the food and cafeteria supply school year 25 to 26. Motion by Tim. Second. Second by Rose. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. That is unanimous. Thank you. Whereas it is a plan of a number of public school districts in the Delaware, Shenango, Madison, Osteigo, Boseies area in New York to bid jointly cafeteria supplies including but not limited to food and paper items. And whereas the skel school named below is the serious of participating with other districts in the Delaware Shenango Madison Osteigo Boseis area in the joint bidding of the items mentioned above as authorized by general municipal law section 119-0 and whereas the
093central school name below wishes to appoint a committee made up of participating schools to assume the responsibility ility for drafting of specifications, advertising for bids, accepting and opening bids, tabulating bids, and providing the information to their board of education who will make awards. Therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the central school listed below hereby appoints the Delaware Shannango Madison Osteigo Boseies to represent it in all matters relating above. designates the Evening Sun newspaper as the legal publication for all cooperative purchasing bid notifications. And be it further resolved that the board of education of the central school listed below authorizes the above committee to represent it in all matters leading up to the entering into a contract for the purchase of the above mentioned items. And be it further resolved that the
094board of education of the central school listed below agrees to one abide by the majority decisions of the participating districts on quality standards. Two that will award contracts based on information provided from the bid. Three and that after the award of the bid it will conduct all negotiations directly with the successful bidder or biders. Okay. Moving to item number last one 16E. The approval creation of extracurricular classroom account. There's an action. I have a motion to approve the creation of extracurricular classroom account. Motion second. Who's that? Tammy. Motion by Tammy. Second by Rose. Any discussion? Please proceed to vote. Hi. That is unanimous. Thank you. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education does hereby approve the establishment of an extracurricular classroom account for the model United
095Nations Club. Okay. Moving to item number 17 is board comment session. Rose. Um first I wanted to thank Erin for um the update on the salad bar. I know I had previously asked about that so thank you for including that in our recent update. Um I also wanted to say I'm extremely happy about the upcoming installation of the fans last year. Um the temperatures in the classrooms were a big problem and I'm very glad we're taking care of that. Um I had a couple of questions. The first one um going back to we were talking about school buses a little earlier. I recently was chatting with a family who goes to a different school district and they were telling me that their school bus has uh GPS trackers. Um, this way students can know if
096their bus is running late or if a bus is broken down and um, you can actually set notifications on it so that the you know if the bus is however many minutes away so students can be prepared for that. Um, is that something Rolling V offers or will be offering to us in the future? Great question. So, they are putting into their buses something called Beacon Connect, which is that app. And then you'll be able to log in and see where the bus is approximately um morning and afternoon or if the kids are coming back from a field trip or a sporting event, you'll be able to do that. And did they give you a timeline on that? Uh it's supposed to be installed on the buses this summer. Their their goal is it's going
097to be up and running for September. Okay, wonderful. And um the other thing is I was searching high and low on the website for any sort of information about our prom. Um nothing on the cost, the location, the date. I'm hoping that can be put on the website for parents who want to know this information. We will take care of that. All right. And finally, congratulations to all of our talented athletes and performers. Uh job well done. Thank you, Pat. Um, just wanted to touch upon something I meant to mention at the last meeting, which was competition night. Um, a tremendous amount of effort went into that by a number of people. Um, competition night's a huge tradition here. I thought it was a great night, so kudos to everybody who was involved. Um, parents,
098come out, see your kids, have fun with their friends. There was parent participation was a light. I thought the kids were pretty good, but uh, parents come out and support your kids. I did want to touch upon the passing of Mike Brooks. Um, I came on the school board. Mike was board president, total gentleman. Um, you know, outstanding community member, great mentor to me on the school board. So, I just did want to, uh, acknowledge his passing. It is a loss. Um, that really hit me hard. Um, the other thing I did want to acknowledge, uh, I acknowledge the recognition that our athletes received today. A lot of, uh, extremely talented kids, so we should all be, uh, very proud. I thought it was done nicely. That's all. Thank you, Tim. That's right. I got
099it. Um I'll be brief, but uh obviously a lot of outstanding student athletes in in the school. Um and that's a credit to uh our administrators, our teachers. Um, I've been a part of a bunch of discussions recently on uh what people we can target for law enforcement futures um and where we find them. And I'm a firm believer that you find them uh at high school level, uh the kids that can handle a full course load in a sport or commitment to a play or chorus. Um those are usually the kids that translate to a success in in whatever career. But some of these uh law enforcement fields are very demanding. Um so uh we have a bunch of those kids and the the sacrifice they put in. Uh I don't need to explain
100to you. You guys see it every day. But um that's first thing. Second thing uh we need to continue to try to get young teachers hire people that want to assist uh be assistant coaches help out so we're not like twisted arms to get people to coach. So I think that's important as we look to hire. Thanks. Thank you Carrie. Is it on now? Okay. Um, just I I wanted to piggyback off of what everybody else said. Um, condolences to the Scana and the Huff Nagel and the Brooks families. Um, I'm very excited about the the Sunni pilot program. I think it's a a step in the right direction. Um, and it will hopefully encourage more kids to take some of these college um, level courses. And um, that's all I have. Thank you, Tammy.
101I'd just like to extend my condolences to the Scana Brooks and Huff Nagel families and friends on their losses. Um, very tragic to the community. Um, they're all wonderful people and uh they will greatly be missed. Um, congratulations to all of our winter athletes on a amazing season in all of our sports. Um, the students are just phenomenal to watch and um, their energy is just amazing. Um the play um over the weekend was great. Um it was definitely well attended and uh a good time was had by all. Um, I'd like to uh also just wish everybody a happy and safe spring break and uh be safe wherever you may travel to or whether you stay home. Just enjoy your time with uh your family and friends. Thank you, Travis. Just quick uh thank
102you to all the administrators with your presentations and kind of just keeping us in the loop of what's going on in the school. We really do appreciate what you're doing. Uh great job coaches with all the athletes. Thank you for what you do. Uh Jennifer, I'm going to come to you for the single bite. I'd like to help out with that however I can and and push that along and get as many volunteers as we can to help out uh with bringing food to families. I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you, George. Agreement with the town. Has that been worked out? And that is there a cost there financially? That's the ball field downtown. So, we have a a $10,000 commitment to the fields every year. Um, and that's our contribution that we committed to
103a while ago. Um, and so we also purchase the dirt, a lot of the um top soil that has to go over and then our guys go over and help out whenever they can because that is volunteer to get it all mowed and lined and things. So, um, we're in great shape with the town. We're in great shape with little league. We've had some really productive conversations through the kind of the winter months to make sure we were all set. So, does the 10 go to the town or does it go to the little lewig? It goes to the town. And do we have a number of what how many hours we spent there financially? Um, I probably could get that for you. I think it's really weather dependent. I know uh they were trying
104to get the fields ready to go last week so they could host a scrimmage over there cuz our fields weren't ready but our field was ready the other day and um it really depends on the weather and what we can if we can't get it ready here then we we ask to use that park. Yeah, I'd like to I think the board would like to know too. Another thing is uh are we uh are we up to date on our honoring of all of our athletes in reference to uh banners all extracurricular cuz I notice you know I look in some of the walls and some of them they got blank for a number of years and then they pick up again and you know I I think it's doing a dishonor to these the
105to these uh individuals here and um you know looking back in my years you know when I come in here I that you know I like what I see and it brings back memories and I think the kids would really today would really enjoy seeing that and when I travel around the other schools I see a vast amount of banners all over the place uh honoring their students and their extra extracurricular and uh it's not just our athletes it's FFA it's our band and course it's anything that any student gets honored here should be not noticed in some way on the walls or as a picture or someplace and I think we could do a better job. Okay. Another thing is when is our next meeting or official meeting? April. So that would be on
106the 25 of May. April or 20 of May. April 22nd is our next board meeting. It's a Tuesday night. And when is the uh petition supposed to be in? Petitions are due to the district office by 5:00 on Monday, April 21st. Okay. Generally, if you could put that on the agenda or just a reminder, a friendly reminder. Usually a candidate needs to know the length of time they have to speak because I never want to get into that again. So in the years past, in the last couple years anyway, it's been 10 minutes. So it's it's, you know, it's up to you to decide what you want to do. But I think the candidates need to know what length of time they have and uh because it's very embarrassing that uh you get up there
107and you have a a six or seven or eight minute speech and you got three minutes. So um you know I hope we're respectful. Not because I'm running though. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Moving to item number 18 is a German. Can I have a motion to adjurnn? Motion. Motion by Pat. Second by Travis. Yes. Please proceed to vote. Hey, Keith. Just a sidebar, maybe you want to mention that meeting that the U state is putting on the chairman of the I don't know Senate or assembly and it's going to be talking about things that are going to they're they're going to either approve or it's talking about in a state budget because it has to do with education, foundation aid, cell phones, the heat, um things like that is what you're and there is
108a meeting for that. It's rather interesting is when it is because after the timeline for us to approve a budget, but uh is that open to everyone? Was that uh administrators board? I don't think it's open. I'll put something out to the board. I'm not sure that was open to everybody, but I'll put it out. Oh, I I thought it was. I I have to check. Yeah, Sam sent it out to them. Is it open to everyone? Oh, okay. I don't think it's open to the public. No, I mean for for board members. Yes. So Samody wants you got it. Okay. Okay. Thank uh be resolved. The board adjourns at 8:35. Thank you. Have a great night. Enjoy.