001e e e [Music] okay everybody in ready okay Dan whenever you're ready we good oh okay I can't see Dan good okay good evening everyone we're going to resume the meeting and please join us for the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and Justice okay we our first item uh on is item number four is correspondence I have one rece one issue tonight we've received a uh letter from the Sullivan County School school districts um school boards Association uh and we have a thank you letter from our um dinner the other night and I will read that to everyone it's to um Miss Erin long superintendent Tri valy School Dear Miss Long on behalf
002of the Tri Valley School boards Association scsba I want to express my sincere gratitude to you and your staff for your outstanding support in hosting our educational dinner meeting on Monday March 24th 2025 your team's professionalism and attention to detail ensured the event was a tremendous success a special thank you to lesie Striker whose coordination of the dining room arrangements and collaboration with the food Serv service staff was exceptional her professionalism and positive attitude made the planning process seamless additionally we greatly appreciate the food service department for their excellent and delicious meal selections as well as their impeccable service I would like to extend my appreciation to Corey Turner from Information Technology for expertly coordinating the virtual component of our meeting ensuring a smooth and effective experience for all attendees your team's dedication and support
003were instrumental in making this event run smoothly allowing us to accomplish our goal of providing a valuable educational experience we are truly grateful for your partnership and look forward to Future collaborations with your district and staff once again thank you for your hospitality and commitment and Excellence I look forward to working together on future scsba events on behalf of the officers of the scsba please extend our thanks to everyone involved sincerely yours Lisa sitb executive director of the San County School boards Association was a was certainly a great event and I thank you all for participating moving to item number five is public comment s session for items that are on tonight's agenda I'm not aware of anyone signing up unless somebody came in in the last minute so we'll move to item number six
004is presentations and guests we have three items tonight and we're going to start with the H Hydroponics presentation welcome good evening everyone I'm so excited to be here because the last time I spoke to you I was able to show you the collaboration space and talked about the kickoff and today I'm here to kind of show you what we've done these past few months um so here's Mrs gillis's class and you know at the end of the lesson you know we asked the kids what did you learn and Grace who's here she goes when you do hard work it feels like you completed a masterpiece so I just really felt like we had to encapsulate that on the slide because the pride and how seeing the kids and how proud they were in themselves was
005just amazing with me I have Mrs Gillis from second grade and Mr tus and some of their students who are going to help us present tonight good evening hello my name is Lou Gillis and I have the privilege of teaching second grade along with me tonight I have two of my students Grace harb and Eddie benell and we're going to be talking about Hydroponics and our Flex Farm which there's one right behind you with all the green lettuce there um I am by no means the expert before we started this Hydroponics I had no idea what it was I do now but I'm going to turn it over to the real experts and that's my students but before I do that Mr tbus is going to introduce his experts too good evening um I'm the
006fifth and sixth grade science teacher in the elementary school I brought with me Alexander Horton and Amaya me uh they were two sixth graders that really excelled when we were in the program plus they had a lot of enthusiasm so they were two that I asked to come to present to you so they can kind of share how excited they were through this whole process so Grace is going to talk to us a little bit how we started this whole planting process it I want you to okay did we plant we planted plants and we put them in um it's kind of like soil but it's called rock wall and that's where we put and that's where we used to put the seed in so it can grow since we don't use since we don't
007use soil what do we have to add to the water you have to add um some chemicals we use um it's called nutrient a and nutrient B and we have to check the water's temperature if it's too seven is the best if it's too high like if it's 12 well add a chemical to the water to make it low if it's too low like if it was four we would add another chemical make it higher so talking about what plants need to grow we have a Mayo who's going to talk about some fun Hands-On activities that we did during our hydroponic farming Journey we learned about and tested pH levels we experimented by testing the levels of water and soap water and vinegar and plain water the water was a level seven on our pH
008guide meaning neutral the water and soap was a nine which is more to the alkaline side and the water and vinegar mixture was a three putting it almost all the way to the acidic side so every we we went down to the room once a week and every week when we came in the students would get out their journals and they would write down their observations after that we would start our lesson and then the activity um you know that you've got them hooked when there's all these wow moments and the biggest wow moments is the change in the lettuce as you can see up on the screen um you have to walk through past that room to get up the stairs and as we're walking past the room coming from gym or from lunch
009they would be peeking in wow Mrs Gillis look look at our lettuce um they were hooked and it was a really great handon experience for all of them oh it's still me so then came the grand finale and that's the harvesting but before we did that we had to do a little leg work in the classroom so we pulled in some Ela I read to the students a book called The Gardener which is actually written in letter format and using using this we did some lessons on letter writing so each student wrote a letter to their parents about their experience and what hydroponic farming is and um along with that letter after we harvested the lettuce the letter was hooked to the pouch of lettuce and it went home with them and right now Eddie
010is going to read with you oh I do have it um his letter that he wrote hold on one second Edie my class grew lce and a hydroponic Farm it is not outside it is inside you can use can not use soil or air love G and Grandpa from Eddie love Grandpa great job so all the students wrote their letters harvested the lettuce and was able to bring it home and enjoy a nice salad with their families that night so obviously we've got some benefits about Hydroponics and Allie's going to touch on a few of those for us some benefits of hydroponic farming include saving space water and the ability to grow crops year round each small farming panel can hold up to 48 plants water is recycled throughout the system with the ability to
011produce crops indoors it's easier for plants to grow in the winter months overall hydroponic farming has many benefits it was such a great experience to create this collaboration space because the kids really got to get together form groups work together and problem solve to try and figure out what needed to happen next or how they could work together as a team to get the best results thanks so one of the things we focused on with the sixth graders I had the opportunity to bring all 59 of them down we would each period I'd take a different class and we'd go once a week um and we focused more on trying to integrate it into all the different subjects that we possibly could so even though I taught science we went down they read some non-fiction
012articles and some fiction articles and we worked on things like text dependent question questions making inferences that would carry over into their Ela class we also practiced writing some summary statements um on the Articles and what they had um what they observed we did a little bit of math work we'd measure the leaves and chart down um how much it grew from the last time we were in there and then we added in a little technology as well where they got to learn to use Google Sheets and we started tracking data in there and then our next step is to take that data and we're going to show them how to apply it and use graphs from there um they had a great experience also every time we walked in we got the wow moments
013too of how much it grew from the last previous week that we were in there um so it was a really great experience for them and I'm very happy we got to be a part of it thank you thank you it was great and so if you at the dinner on Monday the lettuce and the salad that you ate came from one of the hydroponic Gardens um but we would love to invite you up to harvest some lettuce um we have some personalized aprons for everybody here and if you'd like to take some lettuce home with you um we would love for you to harvest that I don't know if you want to do that now or yes can I just ask the older student students what their favorite part of this project was thank
014you yeah oh that's awesome Mr tambus may I ask your older students what their favorite part of the project was something got dropped under the chair were you okay go ahead our favorite part of the hydroponic farming experience was each time we went in the room seeing how much the lettuce grew each day um I would say my favorite part was getting um able to experience uh experiment with the pH strips we dipped them in water and got to see uh their pH levels I have a question is a son um so is this concluded for this school year or are you going to continue to grow throughout so we're going to continue to grow we're going to work with some more second grade classes um and maybe experiment with some different herbs that we
015can grow along with some lettuce it we can grow 20 pounds of lettuce in 28 days so we've also on one of the salads last week that was offered they use lettuce from our Hydroponics um and now some seed students are coming down and also working uh with us as well so I see this you know turning into a districtwide thing happening excellent how many of these uh Gardens Gardens do we uh we currently have two two yes are there plans to get more I would love [Laughter] to so Kim each one makes 20 pounds one of those Gardens yes can make 20 lbs of lettuce and I didn't really believe it at first but as we're harvesting it just it seems never ending and I was able to bring Mrs Brooks bags and bags
016of of lettuce to use for the salads yes here we go absolutely each panel in the farm holds can hold up to 48 different plants and we have six panels in just one um Garden great so before you leave tonight make sure you take some lettuce with you okay thank you thank you thank you great job thank you so moving to item 6B is the scholar athletes presentation welcome all right so good evening everyone um at the conclusion of our winter season uh it was time to submit our scholar athlete teams and individual Awards as well um as many of you know the winter season is a long season and I think what that really points out is um all of our SC scholar athletes that are here tonight you know they worked through Starting
017Games meets that went on you know for a very long time the travel um and were able to maintain um maintain being student athletes um so for our scholar athlete team Awards so this is um what we do is take a roster and we take the top 75% of the roster and if the team has a 90 or above average in that top 75% they are considered a scholar athlete team um so tonight I have a few of the coaches here for our teams that um earn this honor and then following this we have our individual uh scholar athletes as well so our scholar athlete team winners this year we had both boys and girls indoor track um so that was coach eov coach wolf um again a fantastic job um one of the you
018know large teams in terms of of roster size we also had our girls basketball team so coach Claus um um in addition to those teams we also had our boys of VAR City basketball team coach Irwin who is here tonight and then we also had uh both our boys and girls Alpine Ski teams uh coached by coach Janet [Applause] KY and so from nisv um each that wins the award gets the uh the certificate um again from nisv uh and now moving on to our individual scholar athletes so every student that earned a 90 or above is a scholar athlete um excuse me from Nisa they all receive a scholar athlete pin which Miss e will be handing out um so if you wouldn't mind when I call you up if if you could come
019up receive your PIN from Miss Eberly and then at the conclusion of this if we could meet by the lower gym to snap some photos I'd appreciate it so I we had 56 total scholar athletes for the season so that's fantastic um you know these these kids worked hard I can tell you you know being at the uh National Honor Society induction ceremony it was fantastic to see a lot of our student athletes there um being involved being inducted we know our kids work really hard in the classroom um and on you know the various teams that they're a part of and a lot of our kids are also involved I know several of our our athletes came down from play practice so I'm going to try to speed this up so they can get
020back up there back to practice um so up first is Aaron Edwards [Applause] Abigail rof Alex me Allison Chevalier Andrew Kelly Angelina Flores [Applause] Angelina hinley Anna [Applause] Ferman Ariana [Applause] small Avery carrier Bo meller Brady Knight Brandon hugler Bren poy kayn Babcock Caitlyn manell cian hovic [Applause] Christopher [Applause] pralis Chrissy wer Dakota [Applause] berlinski Dakota Evans L Stanley Emily [Applause] lusac Emily poy Emma [Applause] Richardson Grace [Applause] Dio Gwen Redmond Haley Prince Hyrum Roman Jay [Applause] Patel Jenna cared John [Applause] Botsford John Woods [Applause] Jr Jordan [Applause] Diamond Juliana Adams Kenzie CER Liliana Morton [Applause] Curry Logan noren Logan Wyant Lorenzo [Applause] Hafner Madison Kirk [Applause] Patrick Maria gelino Matthew [Applause] koogi Misha kovski [Applause] Molly van etton Nick Bender Rebecca Squires Santino [Applause] Hafner Savannah Chabot Sophia Richardson [Applause] Spencer scan van Ferman
021William Richardson William [Applause] sword Wyatt Morton and [Applause] yanowski so again the these student athletes have worked incredibly hard uh this season uh many of them are competing again uh this spring and many had competed in the fall we have many repeat scholar athletes um from the fall to the winter and we had a lot of really successful Seasons um so at the next meeting um I would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge um all of the accomplishments that our teams had so we had section Champions state qualifiers National invite uh participants and we had a 1,000 Career Point score so coming up next board meeting looking forward to celebrating all of those accomplishments and again congratulate uh congratulations to our scholar teams and individual scholar athletes thank you thank you moving to item
022number seven is the superintendent report from this oh oh yes we have a budget I'm sorry we have one more item 6C is the budget presentation program component presentation just going to give them a chance to clear out it's always the worst you have to follow students and Great accomplishments and then I have to bore you guys with numbers but let's get started okay so tonight we're going to present the administrative comp component and the administrative I'm sorry program budget component and those expenses are everything to do directly with student education so it's salaries and benefits for all the classroom teaching Personnel supplies material Services anything that a school needs for teaching um education for our campus students um inst gastic and extracurricular Transportation youth programs and employee benefits to the employees that are directly
023involved to teaching teach students everybody's involved but directly in classrooms are associated so before we begin I just want to look at our enrollment Trends um we are slowly going down um so we're at we're down 20 and this was taken on um what would be called bedday those numbers so just so it's a consistent time of the year because you have fluctuation throughout the year okay so salaries and benefits um you know we expect to have a little bit more tweaking with right sizing um we're possibly going to have somebody leave that we're not going to replace um possibly on there big one is annual annual contract increases new contracts there's always a cost to involve in a new contract and annual increases in benefits though that's not as bad as could be um
024looking at program student needs we're looking to expand some computer science and math and computer science offering um you guys looked at earlier in the year the neurom maker uh that was a program but we're looking at maybe bringing that up to the high school and doing more computer science there I don't want to steal Miss Everly Thunder um when she eventually presents that um we're looking at more effective use and more spreading of mtss into the seventh and eth grade um we're looking so we added some trial electives we're looking to Mal make those permanent so they're not they're no longer going to be trials we're also looking at expanded um electives in the elementary school adding at least one new elective and continuing all the ones that are currently running um after school
025programs will continue and um academic supports will continue um special education one high course student is graduating this is a student who's in a residential placement it's a high cost to the district um and we are going to continue with the same self-contained special education grade bands that we currently have um and there's possibly one more High course student that might be helping us but we're not that's not a definite okay um just some of the other things technology we were able to fund some technology projects earlier using Esser funds which helped the budget for this year things that we were looking at as a multi-year plan the replacing of those switches was a three-year plan we're able to do that in this year so that saves money from the budget um we also um
026yep and then we also have the devices to go one to one if we ever have to have a remote learning day if there's ever you know if there's ever an we run out of emergency closing days we have everything we need to go one to one a lot of that was also through there we're also looking at really not just in technology but everywhere really sending thing through bosies where it's aided and we're going to get money back it's a real Focus for we were doing a little more this year and it's really going to be a focus next year anything we can buy from them you know we're getting back 27 point wa 27% I think it is for next year we'll be getting back so anything we could buy through them 27%
027back the following year will help us um we also have a library enl program which at some point will be presented to you more about that not for me because that's not my thing but it's you know we're funding that and we're doing more with that okay um I don't know what I just hit what did I hit I got it nope it's just it's just it's not in it's not in display mode but um all of our all of our athletic teams are you know we're contining all our athletic teams based on enrollment and that really shouldn't be enrollment but it's interest in students um you know just look at all our scholar athletes you know that's a great commitment it just shows how important sports are but how also it helps Drive education
028so we're continuing everything there and all the extracurricular clubs um the un club which was kind of added on a trial is Basis is now will be permanent um and you know if there's any extra curricular clubs that we might be able to fund in that work we would do those okay Transportation their CPI increases they haven't announced that yet but you know just kind of looking at this current number um we can get a judge of where where it could be but they go off with the May CPI number and that's not released yet um we are looking to purchase a school vehicle for smaller group trips most likely a new minivan we need a new minivan for our Courier and what that'll allow is we'll keep the the one for all the trips
029around campus Because that's a lot of wear and tear the thing barely warms up it's idling just moving around campus and the new minivan if we go that way will be for if our Courier needs to go to Liberty or needs to go somewhere but where real savings is is if we have a smaller group trip we have three athletes going somewhere versus renting a bus that can cost ,000 to $1,500 to bring three or four kids somewhere um if we have to do a home visit if there's conferences at admin are going to if we have to move if a student has to be moved for some reason a Bosey student is getting off for 12 because there for a certain reason and we're running a bus out there every day at cost of
030$300 to $500 every day we'll save and we think we'll pay for that van in two years um which I think will be a great benefit um to that why do I keep hitting this button for y you're good okay um employee benefits there's a very slight increase in health insurance premium but shifts of the plans and employees costs so um the employees are going to be contributing a little bit more and we are some of the people are now going with single that were family overall we should we'll have a decrease in health insurance costs which is a nice thing and that's something you get to say that often there are slight increases to dental life and disability insurance those numbers are nowhere near the health insurance numbers all right here's a part that
031everybody actually needs to see our budget proposal um we're looking at going 2.09% increase um and that's kind of across you know that is across different you know that's across the three segments okay and that is hard to read I apologize our proposed our proposed Revenue um so we've had a decrease in state aid you know it's not a lot we've had a decrease but we are have a lot of increase in interest earnings and we're projecting to have to be able to use that increase interest earnings um our Bose aid refund so we purchase slots earlier in the year and then we get money back for those if we don't use them um we expect that to increase year toe um um and then the applied fund balance you know we're trying to roll
032that money over to lower the tax levy on our taxpayers cuz ultimately we need to be able to teach our students so to give everything we need for the students but we also want to put as little possible burden on our you know on our taxpayers um what we're looking to do is go out at a 1.99 tax levy we can go as we could have got as high as 3.37 but obviously we're trying to you know we're looking at where we can save money and lower cost to the tax payers um and remember that a tax levy does not mean that's going to be your tax amount there's Equalization rates you know we have multiple towns across multiple counties and how they're assessed so that's 1.99 does not mean what your tax is going
033to change as as a community member all right are there any questions is a many aable I could it be purchased that way in some manner that we designated a certain name so possibly I think we can but it's a I don't want to commit to that but I believe we can and that would be something that we would definitely do you know getting back that rebate yeah that's something that we would look at so if you're buying it through the bid list you know we should be able to and it's something that we would try to obviously get aided yes would you put up that last picture in reference to uh interest earnings y why the disparity between 24 and 25 and 25 and 26 those were the projected interest earnings for last year
034they we ended up with higher numbers than that that was that was Mr Whitaker's ped budget proposal enough said yeah thank you yeah and and honestly I mean no one knows what the interest is but that number may even be able to come in higher that's our goal we're really looking to maximize money now next year really maximize interest um so that number may you know but no one knows what the interest rate is so we you know we're always going to I always want to go conservative on that and it's a surprise if we do better than the other way around any other questions I have a question so at the beginning of the school year and I'm GNA I'm going to beat this horse I'm telling you college credits so our kids when
035they graduate here should have the best of education and for the local community to keep having to pay for these college level courses it's it's astronomical for a family especially more than one child that are that are on the accelerated track or more than one child taking college level courses is that figured into this budget at all as far as higher level educational courses for our students because last time it brought it up it was like oh we need to readdress this at budget season so it's now budget season so I want to make sure it doesn't fall fall to the Wayside again so I will share I was at the government's uh meeting last week in the county and uh the president of souan County Community College spoke um about the partnership that he
036is building with our local school districts and he's actually been to all of our schools and toured and he knows this is a push coming from the schools as well there are two schools in the county that are subsidizing the college credits for the kids that is something that uh rich and I can go back to the drawing board at and look at the commissioner given permission for school districts to cover that so it wouldn't be any type of gift of taxpayer funds or anything um but I know he's working on several proposals along with County resources and partners to help assist with that funding I mean the the savings for families when these kids actually go to their post-secondary education is substantial because they're transferring in 2030 credits and if you went to the
037National Honor Society induction this week and you see the number of courses and the credits that our kids are actually have the benefit of taking here at Tri Valley it's astronomical I think one child is graduating with 43 college credits that's that's like a year and a half of school so it's it's it's substantial savings for the children because it's their you know their secondary education when they leave here to not have that burden financially that you know they can take um that we could try to assist them with here in their home school and then the other thing I want to bring up is you had mentioned Athletics and interests like the the budget's based upon interest and and the number of kids in particip ipating in specific Sports um even if there's two
038kids that are interested in a sport and we can partner with a neighboring School District the the benefit outweighs you know a couple hundred dollar in a budget you know what I mean so I I I would hate to have a kid miss out in the opportunity or two or three children if if we can partner with other schools then see a a sport eliminated completely from I agree we budgeted to be 100% every every sport I'm just saying that if you know if we don't have have the numbers or they can't do the merger but it's budgeted for every sport okay yeah that's just I was just saying that in case that doesn't happen but every sport is budgeted I'm just I'm just putting my opinion on the record so no problem yes no
039they're all budgeted questions will we be getting a copy of this excuse me will we be getting a copy of this to to review yes the the total budget as it's being presented yes thank you thank you for that okay moving to item number seven is the superintendent report from Miss Ern long thank you very much um I do want to thank our hydroponic lettuce project presenters that was incredible and um certainly as they said we enjoyed their lettuce Monday night at our dinner and it's just so amazing to see this authentic learning learning happening for our students and having them engaged in such sustainable projects also I want to really shout out to our scholar athletes not only are they excelling in their academics but also in their Sport and and you're looking at
040like 10 to 14 hours a day you know 5 days a week six days a week for these kids to participate and not not only in high school is it a wonderful thing but talk about the balance of life it gives to kids and so so impressive Monday night we held uh the Sullivan County school board's dinner here it was an absolute Shining Light on our entire district and it was the work of many hands to pull it off but it was just filled with be Pride I was so proud Jackie schildkraut was our guest speaker she is the executive director of the regional gun violence research consortion with the rockerfeller Institute of government and she provided us with some pretty insightful information and more practices with um trainings I attended the second regionalization meeting
041with the suin Bose's team last week and we are currently reviewing the final draft of the regionalization plan which is due to the state next week we are waiting for the final budget from the state both the Senate and the assembly have given their proposals to the governor which really does work in the favor of schools um and it does take a lot of considerations from that Rockefeller Institute study so we're hopeful for a slight increase in our foundation Aid recently our Security Supervisor uh sent a survey to our staff to talk around safety in our buildings and our safety team has a meeting next week to break down that data and then to organize the remainder of our drills for the school year uh Mrs Everly Mr keski and I met with Mike KY
042from the grahamsville fire department last week the fire department will be putting on a demonstration a Mach DWI event for our students the week of the prom we are also planning to hold an impact discussion with our district attorney conedy these are the foils that we have received uh foil number 33 we received on March 9th from Janet diamond for purchase request reports and detailed activity reports for the 2324 and 2425 school year for all federal fund budget codes in eser 2 and eser 3 and all warrants for the funds for the 23 24 and 2425 school years on foil number 34 on March 10th we received a foil from Cindy Mickelson for student enrollment in grade 7- 12 the number of teachers in grades 7- 12 the name of of each teacher and certification
043area the number of classes being taught by each teacher and the enrollment in each class oil 35 we received on March 16th from Janet diamond for the closing trial balance for the 2324 cycle 99 trial balances for each month of the 2425 school year monthly bank reconciliations for each amount and the sub fund for the 2425 school year along with all budget transfers adjust and adjustments made in the the 2425 school year we received foil number 36 from Cindy mikkelson on March 17th for the salary and job description of the assistant superintendent of business the salary and job description for the treasurer the amount of monies paid to Robert Whitaker in list of tasks perform in the 2425 school year the amount of monies paid to Martha turbush in the list of tasks perform in
044the 2425 school year and the amount of monies paid to Sullivan County bosies for services of Lorraine Poston and a list of services provided to Tri Val during the 2425 school year thank you thank you okay moving to item number eight is items the board would like pull from tonight's content agenda warrant 23 and 24 two questions that's all warrant 23 and 24 correct thank you okay we will move to the uh consent agenda and then we'll we'll address the two separately are they for different issues or no the same one do you want to know the numbers of the no not inv do that once we get okay thank you okay okay we're going to move to um item number 10 is the consent agenda I'm sorry nine is the consent agenda uh can
045I have a resolution to approve the entire consent agenda with the exception of 11 11 11 B and C we'll do them separately motion second motion by Rose second by George please proceed the vote we want to do this by hand this one or we can do this online okay it'll be online hi I'm not oh there it is that's unanimous that is unanimous thank you be resolved upon the the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education approves the consent entire consent consent agenda categor categories 9 through 12 with the exception of 11 B and 11 C what's that so we took so okay so it's 12 13 not it's 14 categories 9 through 13 categories it's categories 9 through 14 with the exception of 11 B and C I'll say it
046that way right does that cover okay okay we'll go we'll start with a B can I have a motion to accept the warrant number 23 March 13 2025 and Associated claims order a report I need a motion motion motion by Rose second by Pat any discussion George yeah I might have misspoke it was warrant number 22 and number uh 23 23 M um the purchase of uh well wait a what what we're doing 23 at the moment we're doing 23 one has something to do with the other unfortunately they're tied together but are we doing 22 and 23 or 23 and 24 because just 22 and 23 all right so it's not 24 it's 23 2 2 and 23 you say and evidently not okay thank you all right you got that all right so
047at this moment we have warrant 23 open so we're going to discuss that one and we'll go to 22 separately so go ahead specifically has to do with the uh $ 28,37 is worth of fans I understand that the the state came down with a edit that we have to meet a certain criteria and temperature and um can I I don't me to interrupt you is that item is that warrant 22 or 23 you're looking at because I think that's looking they're both the same that's why I said i' like to do them together this is it says number 23 the one I'm talking about now and the other one is number 22 okay so it's 23 has this that's okay okay so which one you want to talk about 23 is the one is
048open for discussion at the moment and only 23 yeah I just like to talk about why we have to buy them and it comes down from the state as a requirement to meet a certain temperature and that comes without any funding from the state and each school has to come up with that money and it is substantial MH and um I understand that the school went ahead and bought them through some funds that we had in another source which is a good idea and uh it it's it's it's good that we did that because we don't know if that Source from the federal government is going to be coming down the pike again and also through the state so yes that was a good forward thinking that we did that but it's sad that we
049have to do it and it's just one thing more that the state mandates schools to do and don't come down with funding and it takes us away from the budgets that we're proposing and it takes away from the academics of kids learning so I app you for thinking ahead part you for thinking and and using the funds that come from the federal government that we had and um I thank you for that any other comments okay so we're going to take a hand vote all those in favor yay that is unanimous okay that is unanimous be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education accepts as improve and approves one number 23 dated March 13 2025 and the associated claims ordered a report in the amount of 29,7 18338
050so we're going to backtrack and we're going to go to item number 11 it's actually 11a uh which is warrant number 22 can I have a motion for the approval of Warrant number 22 February 22nd 2025 an Associated claims order to report motion but motion didn't we pull 24 though so that still has to be he corrected it he he wants it to be 22 I we voted first oh so I think technically 24 was already pulled when we voted right 22 was already voted on yeah that is true yeah yeah we have to vote on 23 24 24 and that's it do you have something to say about 244 no okay so the one that's on the table would be the next one would be warrant 24 22 is already done so you're not
051going to be able to go back so I'll bring it up in and warrant the one we just did then it's already done it's been voted on and it's done there's no point in bringing it up I just want the public to know that we spent another $45,000 for another 47 fans for the same issue I just want the public to know that okay and it came out of federal funds okay for forward thinking that was great thank you sorry for the confusion I'm going to change your name to chaos all right we're we're going to go to 11 C and for I warrant number 24 okay I'm going to need a motion for the approval of Warrant 24 February 2025 payroll and warrant an Associated claims order report motion motion motion by Rose second
052by Tammy I mean uh Carrie is was that you oh Tammy he was you okay it wasn't Travis Tammy Rosen Tammy uh any discussion please proceed to vote by hand all those in favor those okay be resolved that upon a recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education accepts and approves warrant number 24 February 25 2025 payroll warrant and the associated claims auditor report in the amount of $ 433,92 a63 okay moving to item number 16 is old business my agenda has 16 let's see oh on I thought that was uh oh yeah board committee oh I got you all right I got my marker in the wrong spot all right so it's my apologies board committee reports is item number 15 and we have nothing to report this month right what it's
053going to be do we have policies coming to us soon the we do we only have a couple but they're not ready yet so probably for the next yes uh round thank you meeting uh and that would be for this item 15 right so uh we'll move to item 16 is the amendment of The 2025 to 2026 academic calendar is in action uh can I have a motion to approve the 2025 to 26 academic calendar I move move motion by George second second by Travis any discussion what was the amendment uh the amendment was we only had 181 days in the calendar we needed 182 and so we took that May 22nd which is uh leading into Memorial day and then um it'll probably end up being a snow day give back or an emergency
054day get back okay thank you anybody else anything okay please proceed to vote I that is unanimous that is unanimous thank you be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education approves the amendment to the 2025 to 2026 academic calendar as attached to the public portion of the agenda moving to item number 17 is public comment session for items that are not on tonight's agenda I'm don't have anyone signed up moving to item number 18 is announcements reminders and upcoming events does anyone have anything to discuss okay we move to item number 19 which is new business we have two items uh A and B and we're going to do a is the approval memorandum of support it is an action can I have a motion to accept
055the approval of the memorandum of support motion motion by carry second by Pat any discussion one quick question is it more powerful powerful for all of us to individually sign this letter when you send us to the legislator we um all of the superintendents have written the same letter and then we shared it with the government meeting last week so all of the legislators are also including on that and we've got um probably 15 um legislator well people at the state it's going to tomorrow um if you would like to individually sign we we could make that happen um I think the the power is in the numbers and we have many many many schools in our in our state that are going to advocate for this would it be would it be appropriate you
056read that in public for public hearing it since the board's going to sign it we could it's a it's a posted it'll be posted in our minutes would would you like me to read it I think it's a great you know sure um it is going to several folks in the state and um it just says as superintendent of the tri valy Central School I'm writing to express my support for the proposed legislation that would make V ENT threats against School District school staff or students a bail eligible offense as a school district ins solving County I have seen firsthand the disruption and fear that school threats create in my school Community an incident at the svin West Central School several months ago where an individual responsible for making threats was released and able to
057return to school property the same day under scores the urgent need for stronger protections schools should be safe havens for learning not places where students and staff live in fear of violence threats of violence cause school districts to divert valuable resources towards heightened security school closures and increased social emotional support these threats place an undue burden on the students families and staff my school district in September and in October of 2024 had three threats of violence made against the school as a result the entire School Community was disrupted for several weeks as we along with other school law enforcement Partners held forums for students and their families to discuss how we are keeping our schools safe as possible this legislation is necessary is a necessary step towards ensuring that threats of violence against our schools
058are taken seriously and that individuals responsible face appropriate legal consequences I urge you and your colleagues to advance this critical legislation to safeguard our schools and provide the peace of mind to students parents and Educators thank you for your leadership and prioritizing the safety of our schools please do not hesitate to reach out if I can provide further support on this important matter thank you State's quick enough to come down with our mandates I think they need to hear about what's happening in our schools and uh we we do need to send that message thank you anybody else anything okay please proceed to vote I that that is unanimous thank you be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the board of education does hereby approve the letter to the assembly as
059attached to the public section of the agenda and dated March 27 2025 in support of proposed legislation uh 6597 authorizing the imposition of bail for certain offenses involving violent threats against a school district school school staff or a student thank you moving to it item number 19B is the approval of the collective bargaining agreement can I have a motion to approve the collective bargaining agreement shall Move Motion by Pat second SEC second by George any discussion please proceed to vote I that is unan 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 2025 to 2030 collective bargaining agreement between the Tri Valley Central school district and the tri valley Teachers Association congratulations moving to item number 20 is the
060board comment session go around the room and wants to start oh it's one side wait for George to go last right I just want to say um you know week after week these young children get up here and present to us uh what they're doing and it takes great courage to be able to do that even myself as a grown adult sometimes have trouble speaking publicly so I just want to you know give a hand to them for being able to get up here and talk to us um they all do a great job with that um the only other thing I wanted to say is a congratulations uh William Seward uh valedictorian I saw and Jenna cared for salutatorian um they are both athletes and musicians and they're just involved in everything around here
061and to be able to be top tier in our school as well uh big congratulations to them thank you P um congratulations to our teachers on their uh contract I think uh well deserved um congratulations to Mrs long and everybody else who made the dinner we hosted the other night an amazing success everything was wonderful you certainly uh made sure we we shown and uh we did um Mr D Roth how much are those units my wife was in attendance earlier and I was tasked with finding that out you not know were Mr SN you know they rough okay she'll get two there you go all right that's a lot thank you very Carrie uh congratulations to the scholar athletes thank you for the presentation tonight and our gifts very much appreciate that um everyone
062here is exhausted I know because the last two weeks I feel like I've been non-stop with wonderful things going on um and your your attendance is noted um and I hope you get a restful spring break and take time to have some downtime um we appreciate you thank you Tammy congratulations to all the scholar athletes to William and Jenna very well deserved um and to the uh tvta on your contract um and those who worked hard on it we thank you um I think that's it okay Travis thank you hey Trav Ali just real quick Aon could you let me know when the date is when you hear from the fire department when that is going to be just so we can make sure that the the bunch of us there also uh great job
063with the presentation sorry I had to leave from the retreat a little early but dinner was great uh the guest speaker was did a fabulous job I really do appreciate that it's a good it's very informational for all staff and everybody that was paying attention that night thank you TR Valley Nicole so it's easy to be so proud of the kids when they come up and they stand in front of a a room full of adults but um Kim John Lou you guys carried yourself with such excellence and it really Mo like moved over into the kids so job well done to you three it was excellent and they looked so happy thank you George uh sort of took up all my well wishes but I will go on the financial note we haven't had
064a uh report from the maintenance or the building department here since uh 2 and A2 years and uh that's a big part of our budget here and uh we really don't need to have surprises sprung up on us if there's something that that needs to be done we need to plan for it in our facility so uh I'd like to hear from them or whatever the superintendent wishes for the next meeting cuz uh it does go in part of the budget and if we do have something in in mind that we need to have done we need to plan for that thank you thank you and um I just want to thank the board for showing up at the meeting the other night it was uh a good turnout uh you looked around there were
065only a handful of other board members there but uh it was good that we had a nice full board almost and uh it was good thank you okay so uh last item is uh a motion to adjourn second motion by Pat second by Rose please proceed to vote hi thank you oh it's on the screen second oh oh you didn't oh unanimous that is unanimous thank you it is 88:13 ke so you'll see tomorrow afternoon at some point once we get through the morning a lot like I did with the last board meeting I'll have to go in and edit it move things around and then I'll send you the final okay that's fine thank you I'm I'm sorry I don't try to get e e for