001e e e good evening everyone uh we're going to start the meeting sorry for the delay uh could you please join us for the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag okay our uh moving to item number four is correspondence uh we don't have anything I don't believe moving to item five is public comments session for items that are on tonight's agenda we don't have anyone signed up item six is presentations and guests we have three items tonight and the first one is going to be the 3D printing present presentation by Mrs Melanie M and Mrs Moren winter welcome good evening everyone um tonight I'm excited to share a glimpse into our second grade 3D printing after school steam Club where Young Learners are having a blast with Hands-On creative projects um using three doodler
002pens these pens allow the students to bring their imaginations to life creating Unique Designs inspired by what they're learning in class a big part of our focus is on developing creativity and fine motor skills the three doodle or pens help them Trace shapes and structures building their dexterity and encouraging them to experiment with their ideas we also use stencils which help guide their tracing and understand how to shape their 3D Creations one of the standout projects is our butterfly sculptures students explore both Art and Science by sculpting butterflies which tie into their studies of the butterfly life cycle and metamorphosis this project introduces them to 3D art forms and gives them a deep ER understanding of how to create three dimensions a skill they'll continue to build on for future projects we also dive into
003some fun with tangrams a classic puzzle game that blends math and art by completing tangram sets the students strengthen their spatial reasoning problem solving and artistic skills this project not only builds our confidence in designing with 3D shapes but also how math and creativity come together and to cap it off our students even built a 3D steam city as you can see in the pictures here um where they discussed engineering virtual design and material choices before starting their builds they learned how these Concepts fit into the real world and how important it is to think through each stage of a project what makes 3D printing so special in our club is how it transforms learning students don't just learn by reading listening they get to touch create and experiment it helps them pay attention to
004the details Sparks their creativity and lets them see the tangible result results of their hard work this club has truly been an exciting journey of learning by doing and we can't wait to see how these young minds continue to explore and innovate through the world of 3D printing um just to let you know a little a little fact is that the last two sessions of this club we've had to run um two sessions um because there's been so much interest uh by students and parents um to participate um so both myself and miss winter both lead the club after school um two different days a week um I would now like to introduce miss winter and students um we have Eddie Bell Grace harb um we have Matthew berky Tessa winter aaln winter no oh
005there's avelyn um and they're going to lead you in a demonstration with the three dood or pen um thanks so much everyone so we have an amazing bunch of helpers tonight you guys are going to have a blast um you guys are also going to make some really fun things and our five helpers they're going to step in and they're going to do what our student helper our high school student helper does for them and they're going to help you along the way so the first thing they're going to do is they're going to pass out these folders what's in these folders are what you'll need to start creating the project um some of the resources that I've provided for students um in the second grade um I collaborated with one of the second grade
006teachers um so that it was um connected to the curriculum and you'll notice that each letter is highlighted so you'll if it's art and Engineering Art and Science art and math depending upon what we did just so you can see what was happening you also will get a little gift um made by Tri Valley students so that you'll just have a little gift to take with you um and these helpers are going to help you so can you pass out to please Mr bonell thank you you pass out to thank you thank you and can you do three can I talk to you thank you yep so the next thing you're going to get is a 3D pen um and our m Ro doesn't thank you folder oh we actually have one no we have
007we have one okay okay oh you do have one you're good okay great um no worries so uh what we're going to be making tonight is we're going to be making a spring flower because I don't know about you but all these kids are dying to get outside and see some spring flowers and so do us um so we're going to make this uh three-dimensional spring flower um it's a great little learning tool um so kids the first thing we always tell the kids and we'll tell you too is that not all 3D pens are created equal some will burn you okay these will not okay so so don't treat any 3D pen the way you'll treat these these will not burn you but a lot of them will okay so um the first thing
008you'll do is just get it ready you'll turn it on and it'll go from red to Green right kiddos yes um and then the next thing we're going to need to ask our um board members is to please make sure they have this out okay and we're going to do this flower right here because that's going to be the fastest one I'm going to allow you to show me how to do this now I need some kiddos to give out some can you please make sure everyone has a green and then let let's see can you give out a couple whites a couple whites okay can you give out a couple yellows and a couple yellows just a couple okay I think this is like just a couple two is fine it's okay you can
009always have more oh we have a green one too yeah you can okay we'll see you later okay thanks so much kiddos this is second grade and one first grader so they're all up past their bedtime and they are doing a fantastic job oh thank you so much how many all right so now the most important thing I'm going to come out to you I have here the first this little outline Start Center like a regular and you're going to fill in mine's blue that's okay your yellow you're going to fill in the center first and fill it in nice and and and if you made a mistake you started you got a little uh excited that's okay just pick it right off the plastic okay oh just pick right off the plastic sorry I'm
010a Hands-On moving teacher um so we are filling in the center see that oh uh my little kiddos you know what to do help them out help them out okay so we're filling in the circle first with yellow all you do is fill in the middle if it gets a little wild push it down uh the orange buttons the orange button starts and stops okayy yeah you have mommy doing a absolute good just use a second switch with all right and then after you do the center you're going to go around the outline of the flower the the petals yep with the yellow okay would you yours can be a little different you can have yellow flowers that's fine that's fine run with it that's fine so what col you use now not yet not
011yet ladies and gentlemen I will you guys are doing excellent call thatting Mr he's a professional a professional but you got do your own sir job I chase it out all right here let's let give Mr Dean one try oh he's all right all right professional okay so ladies and gentlemen um once you fill in your flowers once you fill in your flowers oh we got our kiddo helpers oh you do need some help okay out I'm going to be honest ladies and gentlemen I thought you were going to wait for me to give the directions you got so into it um I'm so excited that you jumped the gun um the top um the faster goes is that fter stuff comes out or go out one speed's that it go it's fine let him
012yeah it's fine but if you want to switch colors and add some white go for it but the green is your stem 100 so far is that a good idea well uh we were doing you just do whatever you want with the white we thought was going to be for the pedals can you change you cannot you got to yeah you got to burn through it took a stick it's Sim to this does he need a little switch was giving him trouble I don't know oh so it has to kind of catch and then remelt you know sh there you go it in grandson okay that's fine and boys boys and girls ladies and gentlemen sorry ladies and gentlemen Mia and let me grab the green and then I I'm Sam's that's right I heard
013that yeah so you would have to you would have to drain out the whole yellow which could be time consuming but like if you were to yeah yep you can fill it in however youd like if it gets wet but it has to dry First Once you have your flow uh it looks like Mr Kelly has finished his flour so then there's there when you're ready you're G to put a large amount of plastic on the back of the flower and then just stick the stem into it okay and kind of pinch it but you have to keep the pen on the paper got keep it right there you can't keep it this okay so Mr Kelly just keep oh it's just a little warm so you don't you don't push sugar down so when
014you're ready just put a big dollop of plastic and while it's still like and then pin you want me to it off you [Music] got but I do it but my Fe instead I'm trying to no I can't just take it out it's hard you have to finish it out right you have to empty it wait wait you have you can you know you can yeah St Mommy I thought you know what how to do this so you're GNA want focus on finishing the one and then putting a St on it Mr okay so pick which one want to do the stem yeah now you can put another stem before the other one's done it still go be yellow you got to run it out right you can't you can't put another one in until
015the other one runs out that looks almost the same as mine a good job he's teaching he's a good teacher you should be what is it's a tri valley magnet you didn't finish here yet you're not going to do half a job now you got to do full job thank you Mr de you do a good job I think he enjoys it these I do need for my program now the white starting to come out right so you f in the middle of the we that's a pretty flow and you have to Pat it down like that you don't have to that makes and Mommy doesn't know how to actually do it she told me you can't Pat it down well let me tell you you don't have to teach us men have to stick
016together huh now you show her how nice this is that's how you're supposed to do you're going to fill this one in with the right now why is there a number six on because she keeps track of how many your teacher keeps track of how many she have you supposed to that's the question I don't know why ask question you get ahead when you have a question you're not sure something you ask Sam's always asking question you went to the basketball game yesterday I know I you were there I saw you Tammy was there too mommy can you help me peel this off now why do you want to peel it off it takes fingernails to pull off see F I give you something to do it with but it's not allowed in school would
017not I might get turned in oh look at this put can I have that them to your I think he should give them to his mom you go along with a picture he was taking no no no that's what's nice about that if you make a mistake you can just take it and do something else with it right he does a pretty good job doesn't he looks pretty good pretty good flower isn't it she's barely defining because she did have how come Sam's not here tonight he didn't want to do it oh he wasn't in school now does that stuff get like concrete real hard well it's hard to take off almost like bubbl once it's not once it's not oh wow look at that and I did such a good now when when when
018the teacher comes smile and take a look at it a great job doing a great job did you did you already make one did you get a picture of us can I can you hold up your flower and I can get a picture of you two Tak credit for flower all right get in there beautiful all right can you help why we still have one more wait when we go home can we have ice cream pleas negotiate with you where did he learn that from I wonder sounds like Sammy hey bud thank you so much thank you thank you so much did a good job he did a very good job yeah it's de mommy my dead how do you charge them is there a battery in them no no do you plug them in
019do you plug the machine in that does it no you use a cord and mommy don't forget well this is mine too yeah I think it is isn't it am I supposed we supposed to keep these oh yeah see you're an Indian Giver what no I can't it does ladies and gentlemen thank you so much we really hope you had a good time and our um student helpers they just had a blast so we hope you enjoyed a little bit of our world um thanks again for having us and have a great night thank you for that okay our next item is going to be item 6B is the budget presentation the administrative component Mr Richard bben Roth good evening we're going to talk a little bit about the budget administrative component tonight um we
020still have a lot of unknowns there's even more unknowns the governor had proposed age budgets now the assembly and the state senate are looking at changing for the better hopefully but you never know how that's going to go it's all a negotiation um so we have higher Foundation Aid rates which we're hoping for also rates for the CTE there's also going to be possibly some more enl money it's really hard to predict what they're going to give us um so we're waiting on that um cell phone policy which will get talked a little bit but that could be a cost to the district that's not an administrative cost but that could be a significant cost there might a tied to that it's just a lot of unknowns and then clearly there's a lot of unknowns
021with Federal funding you know what's going to happen if there's going to be major changes or not just lot of that so when we look at the administrative pget component it's move move the five parts so it's the salary and benefits for all School administrators and their staff that directly supports them so sometimes the number looks a lot higher but it's all the building it's all the building administr rators it's everybody in the central office um so it includes them um public information which I'm going to go over a little bit more legal property insurance and Schoolboard expenses so these are what are the parts of your administrative budget um salaries and benefits looking at some right sizing just trying to look at what are our needs for there um we have some retirements and
022resignations in the um support departments there as a support staff looking at how we could possibly write size you know you don't want to cut things and then run yourself short and cause problems but you don't want to you know overspend so it's just trying to really figure out exactly what we need and maybe we might be able to do some Cuts there um of course though there are increases there's contractual increases in contracts and then increases in benefits is always going to increase that so we do expect overall even if we cut a position like or or rearrange that we will have some increases there um public information relatively flat with some minor contractual increases we're really looking at one of the things that the district that I'm trying to do is using bosies
023anything we do through the Mid Hudson Rick or any of the Ricks um or through bosis is aable so we're going to get money back the following year we're really looking at spending money that way so things like some of the information services that we can do if we you know doing printing through them helps us anything where we can get money back is where we're trying to really look at that um you know if you're paying the same price and you're getting money back the following year in Aid we should do that it's something we haven't maximized from what I can tell and we're really just looking to maximize that okay um legal fees annual retain remain the same we're budgeting a slight increase just we're trying to use our attorneys more for professional
024development for staff just if we know the right thing to do we're less likely to do the wrong thing so if we pay a little bit now to be trained it could save the district money in the long run we don't expect that to be a lot but there will be a slight increase there property insurance this is a big one um so it's property unli it's property and liability but it's really the property right now we use nicer um it's they're looking at Pro they're projecting we haven't gotten numbers a 20 to 24% increase um we've been working with bosis and some of our component school districts to do an RFP for insurance brokers there right now there's two real players in the game they're currently you have ncer and udica um through some
025networking actually heard of another District in the Hudson Valley that uses Liberty Mutual we're also going to reach out to their broker to find out you know are there any is there ways we could save money but the the endanger the important thing with insurance is you can pay less but you need the coverage so like you know we want to make sure whoever we go with is going to also be there for us nicer has been good but you know if we can save significant money and feel that we're in the best interest of protecting the district we're going to do that and we're working it's been really great to work with a number of districts and bosies to do this so we were kind of working as a team which gives us more
026insight because everybody at the table from RN brings a little bit of insight into something else um and it's great to actually start looking at working together more with our component districts not every District signed up for because some of them are happy they want to make changes they don't want to make changes but it's a bunch of us so we're going to look to try to save money there um and that you know should hopefully save money in the long run and we talked about doing more joint rfps in the future you know they strengthen numbers you know even though we're being built separately you know using our knowledge um as I said there's more questions than answers you know we're we're going to get the answers and make the best predictions the answers
027are not going to be finalized but you know the budget you know they're trying to have an on-time budget for April 1 that will help us a lot if we really have solid numbers from the state because then we can finalize our numbers um the one thing I do want to say is Schoolboard expenses we expect them to be flat thank you for not um making us spend a lot of money we don't expect to give you guys any contractual raises this year um but now we do appreciate that you know and it's a minimal expense but there is some expenses and we don't expect any changes there all right any questions why is why the property property rate going up so it's so much so the meeting that I went to for nyser one
028of the things is it cost double to rebuild something now than it did you know so if they've got to rebuild a building it cost them double um there's they've also had a lot of exposure from some flooding you know because they're they're looking at the state you know they have to pull us all in together obviously there's different factors but they had some damage from some storms in different parts of the state um some people are saying they may start not writing on some parts of the state we're not in danger of that um but that's really what they're telling us is the cost to rebuild is double you know to rebuild if you want to build something today then three years ago it's double you know whether that's an actual number but I
029don't know when I go to the you know when I go to close a Home Depot I see it in reference to the uh Health question insurance U be cautious there was a municipality that did change and either a year or two that insurance company was out of business so they had to go back for health you said for health yeah now Health we're not changing um we're very happy with it we so we're are the only District in Sullivan County that uses night ship and we took you know minimal to no raises and they're expecting some big number raises and then there's other districts that are self there's other component districts that are self-insure with a reinsurer they're expecting big raises we you know we didn't get any we got minimal to no raises
030and um I think we have you know premium health insurance for a fair price I think I know I know you you went over last time but I asked you about the fuel the price of fuel are you negotiating that now or yeah there's B it's going out now for fuel and that's getting F don't be in a hurry I think it's uh going to be very reasonable dropping down yeah I think we should be we we will be paying less than we paid last this year thank you you're welcome any other questions all right thank you thank you moving to item 6C is Administrative presentations good evening well I'm just glad I did not have to follow the children um but again we do want to say a special thank you to miss winter
031Miss Mankey all the kids I mean they're really the reason we're here I'll get into I ready in a minute but the helper that they talked about that's someone in the seedos program which was Everly and Miss hugler have started so some of these programs that seem like an elementary school program or high school program are really starting to merge and kind of come together so it's just really nice to see the community growing and older kids working with younger kids different staff members getting a chance to to help our little ones out all right so miss long said that the last time she had this presentation it was three hours long in her previous District so I told her I will go for three and a half hours um no so we're going to
032just take an Overlook of what I already is it's our brand new program it's our diagnostic but also instead of just a diagnostic it allows our kids to kind of work on a customized path and we're going to see the growth and really this growth is a three-month window it's our second diagnostic we started kind of the end of September getting our first one and then we took it right after we got back from winter break so we'll see how we did in three months so one of our quotes is when we invest in education we invest in possibility so possibility for educators to learn and grow possibility for our kids to learn and grow and there's different programs and ways we can help give our children the best opportunity to be proficient and gain
033their goals that they want in life so I already just review it it's a personalized program we're using a k through eight right now it has a my path which is really from their diagnostic what the child needs but the teachers can also go in and match with their teaching so it gives some flexibility both in the classroom when the kids are working personally uh I read recommends 45 minutes a week in both Ela and maass so about 15 minutes a day to really start seeing some stretch growth and we'll talk about and look at a couple examples of what some of our kids are doing and how some of our interventions are combined so we're looking at overview so this is the entire School diagnostic one was again at the end of September and
034then when we've got back from break kind of that month of January they did it again so what you want to see is that the green bar is going up and the red bar is going down so our elementary school you know we saw almost a 10% gain in that up mid to above grade level which is fantastic classic that middle group really grew 11% you know really good Trends we're hoping to really see this continue math a little less of a gain but still significant we just didn't start at the same point what we really want to see is when we take our third one towards the end of May beginning of June and then compare that really to what the state exam is are they matching up really well our P screener did
035not really was not a good predictor of you know what they were going to get on the the exam am for the New York State 338 these we're hoping will give us some more timely information we can do more direct interventions really give kids what they need in the moment uh secondary school you know their Ela went up 9% we see the green jumping again 11 math I'm just going to caveat here our honor students do not take the diagnostic this is only goes through eighth grade curriculum so our honors kids who are taking algebra one are not represented in our math data so we're kind of go through grade levels so you'll see there's no the very end red is two or more grade levels below in first grade they're not really there they
036don't have two grade levels to go but we can see especially in math we had zero kids in our first diagnostic at you know above at or above grade level after 3 months of intense intervention with our teachers we grew 15% that's phenomenal in 3 months time for our kids again reading bumped up as well about 7% and then we'll just kind of go through the same thing second grade not as great of a jump in math but it had a bigger jump in ela so really what we're going to do with this in grade level time is really take a look at our curriculum and dive into what do we see and where do we need to go especially the rest of the year and next year third grade again we see some really
037good gains Ela jumped of 9% we have 7% in math to that really high tier level but Ela you could see we really shifted into that secondary green we have a lot of kids that are starting to get there again this is only three months worth of time fourth grade again we see some growth not as big of a jump but math again had a really big jump so really we have to see what are these groups doing and can we replicate it down and up for our kids fifth grade again about 10% in math and we have another 8% in ela just at that top proficiency so we are seeing kids move and move into those top top tiers and less and less in that far behind part of that's with our Intervention Program
038part of that's with our teachers being more intentional on what they're doing because they know exactly what children need sixth grade again we have some nice jumps math we have to really take a look at what is going on in that area to see if we can get them really to start moving from that yellow to our green area so we could can get proficiency for our children um at seventh grade again we have some of our data here we don't see as much movement part of that is the scheduling I believe we're going to take a look at and really start to give the seventh and eighth grade some more dedicated mtss time in their schedule to help focus on some of these they have shorter blocks with the kids than the elementary ones
039so naturally we have to kind of fill in there and fill in with some of our other grade levels of what we can do to help support both seventh and eighth grade as you can see we have some stagnant areas there lighter green moved up a little bit and now we're just going to take a look at some of our kids individually so a 99 percentile student what does this mean so our top tier kids are they growing are they able to exceed growth so this student we pulled from fifth grade you know the 200% is typical growth so what typical growth is is how much should a kid gain in a in a year so they start here and they get a full year worth a gain this student is almost had gained three
040times what they would expect from her stretch growth is where you start closing the Gap so if you're a student that's behind really stretch growth is a target instead of saying that year you gain a year and more so stretch growth is going to be targets as we discuss more and more with our teachers can we get there and this student as you can see has met their stretch growth in three months we're hoping to really see and help some of our high-end kids accelerate and now we're going to take a look at some of our lower end kids with our intervention and what are they doing so seventh grade we first real year of having intense AIS intervention this is one of her students I mean she had almost 500% growth and almost 200%
041of her stretch growth so she gain this student gained two grade levels in three months we're hoping to gain another two or three if you do that over a couple years that student is now on grade level it's really being intentional in what we're doing taking a look at what kids need targeting it supporting them giving them encouragement you know talking through how do you grow looking at the lessons I've actually seen this teacher teach and really go into small group what kids are working on IR ready switch but as they're going to IR ready they're really input into talking to the kids about the scores giving them targets coaching them up and we are starting to see some real changes in that um fifth grade AIS student receiving support in math got its typical
042growth already and they've almost met their stretch growth so that student who is far behind is closing that Gap to getting to grade level a student like this who's been in as for year after year it may take them two or three years to catch up with their group if they're hitting their stretch growth over and over again and that's what we want education unfortunately isn't like a light switch where we can just flip and get them on to grade level it's a slow but steady progress and this data and program shows us the progress that they're making and what are interventions are specifically for them so we have one more training session this is our fourth one it'll be after diagnostic 3 to kind of teach our teachers what it means where do we
043go from here and then next year when we do our diagnosis we're going to get a little deeper into what our teachers can do we're going to get into what else the program has it has a number of tools that give them specific interventions if you have a class and sometimes we have 99 percentile we have some of the kids who need support this will group group and give you exactly what that kid or those groups should be working on based on your curriculum that's kind of why some of our planning has to come in to give our teachers that time and give them the support um so we're really excited where this program will go in the next couple years any questions so are our older kids still struggling due to the loss of
044Education during covid do you think or is this something that we're catching now that we're going to be able to fix when they're in the younger grades it's probably a multiple multitude of things it could be some lost learning time what are the gaps um our last screener um probably did not give us the best information to use and then part of it is getting everyone to understand how to use this so multiple areas we're hoping to catch it we really would like everyone by the time they're done with third grade in a couple years to be almost right on grade level or at grade level really kind of a goal we have internally to kind of work on getting our kids early to where they need to be so then we can continue to
045push them forward to excel so it's a combination it's not one or the other but covid with this group probably definitely hit especially some of those foundational skills that build and build if they have holes it's hard to go back it's hard for an eighth grade teacher to realize that they're missing a phonics piece without having data CU that's not something typically they would teach um so this is giving us some more information some of our teachers are doing some phonics approach now that they see they need to go back to maybe a second grade skill that just was hard to tell without the right right kind of data so a lot of times it's the teachers picking up on What's Missing and then being able to have them go back and get more of
046the work they need yeah and it's and it's tough I mean you don't have right tool and you're trying to do grade level curriculum and they give you certain standards and you're doing that and K may be struggling outside to kind of get through if we don't know the fundamental skill that they need it's really hard to give them sometimes it's a couple months three months of intervention gr it's really a tool like this letting us know where a kid is and what they I have a question are there any additional tools that we can provide to our faculty to assist them in finding any shortcomings that that we can provide them to get these students up program assessment called ear that gives us a lot of good data we had a lot of conversations
047last year especially with the elementary group of so we have this core program there something else you need so this year we bought them fly the reading program bonic program for2 we use an intervention 34 where they can go through and it gives them a little more explicit diagnostic with that Mr Carbone and I will be meeting with the great L teams to really talk about it set different such as Pence kind of go through and dig a Little Deeper to really see what what do our kids need so then we give them the targ support we have brilliant kids we just have to give them the right tools at the right time and what about our older students that are suffering because of uh covid where they fell behind is there something that a
048tool that we can provide as a district to them to those in uh instructors teachers there there are other tools I we have to talk about really one of our big things is math getting bu program doing schedu to try to make sure that need that extra help can get it um building it atss time so reading say reading in science is a hard thing so there's different things we could do like maze read telling to ma is where they do a passage words are moved out with vocabulary inside that's specific for sence there's vocabulary strats buil in there are some things that are not arice particular really working practices that's kind of like a spiral today we tomorrow then a week or two from now really bring some practices into our play that really
049help us get into the science of learning a little more and get our kids really so we're moving in those directions just can't jump all at supported system with adding new support okay I just want to make sure that our teachers have the tools that they need to feel comfortable in advance we're trying to voice input so we also very transferable finger especially for elementary school to lose some of those so we are listening to them trying to bring in what they say and then provide for train very good thank you uh class size generally what's the size of the classes that we're talking about student wise it it's been turned off for a while oh I apologize I did not realize so about six uh about 17 roughly we were looking at projections just
050this morning I know at one time there was a sened to the district financially if they kept it 17 and under is that still the same coming from the state they they did away with that oh um phonics started again uh this year um how are you finding that going as opposed to U whole language the youly is a so Aras phonics in it our teachers felt it wasn't explicit enough or they didn't like the pattern youly we bought for them it was a kind of a soft launch we gave them the tools we've had a trainer come in she's been here about 20 days by the end of the year so they like it they've taken off I Mr her carbon's had a lot of laminating things go on cuz they're using the tools
051but they're reusable so phonic is a big piece K2 um you fly the kindergarten teachers really asked for us to get for them so we got that K2 provided training so phonics is in full full swing uh if you could put a number on that what do you feel our kids are at in percentage wise with the with the English um for the elementary school I'm just looking at my numbers it's about in like the on grade level above is about 50% uh our Middle School is a little lower about 30% I mean just by the I and I'm using just the I ready data that it shows me thank you I have a quick question so you're finding that the data is more drilled down using this program then compared to the maps is
052it the maps program that we used in the past yes so Maps um response Theory right a TR you may get a score but you may never have had a question in that domain and then that had to link outside to iel so there was not always a great overlap um Maps is very hard for to dig deep down into and make your groups it's really teacher-driven it's very time consuming very arduous for a teacher to find out what your groups is if we were pulled up an example here you could see it will give me all my kids in the level what I can do next if I'm teaching a certain skill I click that skill it will group my children it will give me examples to differentiate my instruction for small group so
053I teach to my standard then I do my small group and it makes it for me it gives me examples I can then make other examples and really take a look at what they do how are they progressing through formative assessment so it's much more teacher friendly as we go through and we're we're still learning as a district all the nuances it has it is such a robust program but it is much easier than maps maps was not used regularly other than to get a percentile score is very hard to go down and and dig into it to a kidne so say we're looking at Frank it's harder to navigate as opposed to now I can click and see everything about me everywhere I want to go and what I need and it kind of
054gives me how I should do it based on skills is they I'm in fourth grade and they think I need a second grade skill it will show that kind of first so I can go back and get a little remediation hopefully it takes a week or two to kind of learn that skill so I can get back on to kind of grade level and the plan is to still do it three times a year so you have like that Baseline in the fall and then you do it again later more towards winter and then you'll do it again in the spring correct and then you'll just wait until the following school year and then do the same Baseline like similar processes okay anybody else thank you okay well I get to say and do the
055other admin presentation so okay um Welcome to our regular admin presentation um so though our snow day um so superintendent conference day we are trying to um there's a choice board we're trying to give our teachers options with the PD committee and look at what can we do to give them some skills that they they think they need or what they see is the best fit working with Sullivan 180 to bring in some of their training so on February 10th we had Catch My Breath we had an Aran training we had a QPR which is a mental health training I already came back that was right after the end of our second diagnostic to kind of go through with our teachers what does it mean what does it say what are your next steps we
056had a Dasa uh refresher and then I think for the first time we had a number of teachers volunteer to do PDS we've had people go to different trainings and come back so we have Christine Cox Christine Grim we had Sissa jilo C and John both did an enl night um Melanie Mankey did a parent Square Kristen vanic works on our new state standards for our living environment and Earth Science because that is going to be a big shift in what that region looks like next year um Danny Cornish did the daa training Kevin Celli opened up and got people certified to use our weight room and cardio room and Kim did some AI training with us um so just a wide variety really utilizing some of our talent so we're hopefully can maintain this
057kind of choice for people because I think you know it gives them an opportunity to really focus on some needs and we can help select some options that we think are important um for our district so one of the cool thing I was going to say Sissa jilio did a thing about Book Creator uh one of our third grad teachers did it just wanted to do a single page and kind of make a book and her kids fell in love with it so then they wrote a whole book and now they're having a big family event so this one little training is really kind of turned over and it's now become a whole family event in and the kids are writing they're using the writing Revolution that we gave them to help do the outline
058to then write the book um they're talking about literary elements when you get invited in I mean it's fantastic to see and I love to see that some of our trainings are being used right away and kids are successful with it okay thank thank you everyone thank you there we go all right good evening everyone sorry I got to move this down a little um so I just wanted to give you an update where we are with the PPS office um we've started in with our annual review meetings they're going very well um we are bringing student centered discussions to the table to make well-rounded IEPs and 504s for the upcoming school year um it's a great time for us to collaborate with the families and the uh staff to support the student needs and
059um what we offer here at Tri Valley um we've identified students that are going to be Declassified in transition to 504 plans um we really look at this a lot at the uh junior senior level because iep's Sunset when a student exits their um high school years here at Tri valy and if they're going on to college they would need their modifications and accomodations through a 504 plan um and then the last thing is we've been getting a lot of really good constructive feedback from parents as we sit in the meeting so uh that's really helpful for us to make changes and look at things um as we move forward to gives us some food for thought so very productive meetings this year that are definitely um students centered with a lot of students coming
060to their own meetings and that's all I have any questions good evening everyone and so just a really quick update as far as our mtss is going we're continuing to build Partnerships uh with a lot of our community bases so uh most recently we had a we had some representatives from the county come into to our administrative U meeting and from there um I think I was hand selected to be the liaison to test out one of their new divisions within the county a resource that uh they seem very proud of they were very ex excited about to share with us I was very skeptical about if it was going to work but I'm I'm happy to report that I did test one of their new departments that is within the county for adults productive
061Services which in fact impacts some of our high school students who are of adult Age and what this does it's not in fact um a a naughty side of it such as what some of the um ideas are for child protective services but this is actually a support So within this division of the county they actually reach out to some of our young adults they help to support them with finding occupations establishing themselves with a driver's license identification as well as starting them on the path of Independence to be able to actually get their own resident apartment Etc This was um something that was proven to work very well and successfully for some students from montelo uh but again we were able to test it out for some of our seniors who are here who
062are very eager to go to college they're finishing up their senior year with honors but they're just having a hard go at it and we had these representatives in last week and actually they will be in again tomorrow to meet with one of the students to be sure that we're setting them up for after they finish in with their Tri Val education that they have worked very hard to earn that high school diploma that they will be able to move forward successfully thereafter so we're continuing to build those pack Partnerships we had the opportunity to me with our PTO last month Mr Carbone and I sat down and had a had a really intimate conversation with them about some of the things that we're seeing including how the PTO could help to support our students
063um who are starting to Trend downwards with some of their attendance habits so that was certainly a productive conversation and our Armed Forces as of recently we've had some great recruits coming in uh luckily for me my location in my office is right near the cafeteria along where some of those recruiters are stationed during the day and some of our students have been really asking some great questions and they've been giving them some really good feedback and support and certainly supporting them with the different options that they could have after graduation I would just like to do one quick advertisement we did do um an an interest survey with our staff because as Mr fantini and I have been really digging in through this mtss process and really trying to figure out ways to address
064all of the needs of our students we've realized yes we've exhausted all of our energy and we we did put out an interest survey to see which staff would be interested in joining us everybody's schedules are packed and we understand that we also understand that it's March and where everybody's kind of running out of steam until those spring flowers start to come up but we did have approximately 30 staff members who responded positively and were interested in participating and joining this mission that we have uh it was overwhelmingly exciting for us to be able to see that level of interest for this time of year and we were very cautious about wanting to make sure that everyone's voice was going to be able to be heard you know it's one thing to have a lot
065of people get in a room but it's a whole other thing to be able to have all of those all of those opinions be heard and valued so at this time tomorrow we're going to be kicking it off with our first group we have divided all those people that were interested in joining us into two separate sessions so that we can be sure that all of the stakeholders and everybody's opinions and view are heard so we're going to be starting that tomorrow the energy in that room is going to be ecstatic because what we're doing and what we're going to come out of there is all going to be what we're all here for which is support is to support our students in every way thank you thank you good evening just a quick update
066on the tech department so the switch replacement project that I had presented on probably four or five months ago is almost complete we have one closet remaining and that's going to be completed during spring break we've had a number of cyber security enhancements um not all ones that we were planning on in advance unfortunately um we took some steps some serious steps to improve our VPN security due to a attack that was going on over the course of a couple of months and it kind of was building More and More Steam and impacting our teachers abilities to work we were able to find a solution to that and Ratchet that down to make that no longer an attack surface for anyone uh we also took steps to improve protection for our staff and students against
067malicious ads on websites and YouTube and we finished actually that last bullet point I should have updated we actually finished the the evaluation of a product with which does data inventory and reports back on the uh its exposure to the outside and I just want on that point I just want to do a little bit of bragging on behalf of our school uh when we did that it reports back on all the different types of pii and different kinds of data that we're legally charged with protecting and shows any areas where that data may be Overexposed where it's where too many people within the organization have access access to it or where where it may have been shared on the Google side out with the world and one of the big metrics that's right on
068the dashboard of that is number of Overexposed sensitive files and when we did the the analysis after fact and I sat down with them and did the meeting that number was zero and the rep from the company was kind of Blown Away by that and I asked him I said how many other districts have you seen that number with and he said that haven't been using our product for several years none so that goes to the security measures that we take in it and making sure that the permissions are set correctly on everything but it also in large part especially on the Google side where it's so easy to share data it speaks volumes about the responsibility that our teachers that our staff take the seriousness that they treat the sensitivity of our student data
069and they're recognizing how important that is to make sure that that's protected so I am so very proud of both my department and the school as a whole for that uh moving on our upgrade of active directory is completed active directory is kind of the accounts database that all of your logins your accounts for computers and everything like that sits on it's what most of a modern network uh really runs off of and we finished a significant upgrade that we did inhouse on this um probably we saved ourselves about $60,000 of uh money by doing it in-house ourselves with our expertise as opposed to Contracting with an outside company to do that for us and we are also continuing just kind of an ongoing thing a large part of what we do is just constantly
070being aware of what new threats are out there on really a daily basis I start out my day with digging into the cyber security news and what new attacks are out there and one of the things this week actually just a couple days ago there's a new strain of ransomware out there from the Akira ransomware group that they've they were unable to encrypt the organization's data because of the antivirus products that were on the computers there's this strain of ransomware hopped over to the security cameras because they run another operating system that it could use and it used the security cameras to encrypt the entire organization's data so whereas most organizations they install things like security cameras and and those types of devices and never update them over the entire lifetime we update those every
071single year during the summer it's a major project it's not something that we normally do during the school year but because of this particular attack out in the wild right now it's something now my Department's going to be over the next several weeks going through and updating making sure all of the firmware and the protections against this are in place on every single security camera through the organization so these are kind of the unplanned things that we never know from dayto day what you know that we're going to be doing and suddenly we find ourselves with a brand new project that uh has some urgency to it so thank you very much thank you good evening I almost said good morning um I just want to give a huge shout out to the secondary school
072we've had so many exciting things going on in our building outside of our buildings and we've all been on this marathon and all together so I I'm so thankful for our staff and our students this morning it was so great to see we had our basketball team last night and they were all in the halls and they were all smiling and happy so it's just awesome to see their stamina and how they're moving and functioning and it's keeping us all going so I just wanted to shout that out some other exciting things that are going on we had our honor roll quarter 2 we had 233 students hit our honor roll marks we had 50 students on our principal role 115 on our high honor role and 68 students on our honor role and this
073is all while Athletics are going on and plays are going on and our musical performances are going on so this is a huge Testament to our staff to our students and just everything that we're doing in our school as we're looking at this we're moving on to next year already and looking into 25 26 School we are taking apart our course catalog our curriculum coordinators we've been meeting individually we've been meeting as groups they've been meeting with their teams and really going through what courses our students are interested in what they're excited to teach and giving them options to really uh Source their creativity and we've offered some new courses this year we're offering even more new courses next year and in a small school like ours it's really fantastic to see that we're able
074to do that along with that we've also been partnering more wasni Sullivan we had the president of the college come and visit us with a couple of reps U miss long and myself walked around the school they saw our school we talked about some of the challenges that we're seeing and some of the exciting things that we're seeing and we're able to really Bridge some gaps and some questions that we had around tuition and how we can really bridge that so with that we also have been talking with our staff who are in sanely just always out there and wanting to just do the best for our students and offering more courses so they are proposing for next year alone just adding two more college courses and we're really on this path of just offering
075so much for our students so that partnership is going to continue to grow our 10th graders were able to go and tour our CTE program as uh bosies they have been interested in all these different programs so they were able to go out there and bus out there we've also started some shadowing so some individual programs that they were interested in when they went and toured now they're shadowing and getting to experience a day of that program which is huge so that's been really exciting to see the kids are getting excited and they're able to decide kind of what their pathway might be for next year and the years coming forward and where their career might go so awesome things going on so many to shout out but I just want to thank everybody for
076sticking with us and our students are just they're pushing through so thank you everyone thank you good evening uh February we we got through February uh a lot of snow ice wind um it was a wonderful month to celebrate a lot of different things we got through our 100th day of school I hope you saw some of the pictures of our little ones dressed up like well I guess other little ones um we had our Valentine's Day Elementary School Valentine's days are also full of love and giving and it's a really special time couple of weeks ago right after Valentine's Day we were able to celebrate our honor rooll and high honor rooll and principal award uh students we had 42 honor rooll students 22 high honor rooll students and 14 principles honor rooll students
077that was 46% of our fourth fifth and sixth grade students so it was a fantastic job from them again dedicating themselves to their academic progress and uh we're hoping to see those numbers stay the same maybe even grow a little bit in the third quarter which sometimes tends to be the most challenging quarter of the school year another highlight in February was the prek fashion show prek finished their um fashion unit and so for the end they got together in the gym they got to strut their stuff on the red carpet so every student got to walk to the end parents were invited to come in and then they had just had a wonderful dance party it was on Valentine's Day so the kids were dressed to the nines and they just had a wonderful
078morning with their parents and lastly uh February is National heart month we had a representative from the American Heart Association uh teleconference into one of our faculty meetings and was able to share with the entire uh Elementary faculty the importance of heart awareness and what the program was going to do for uh the fiz Ed classes coach Connelly Coach Wright and Miss gray were able to adopt the lessons that the American Heart Association gave us and even designed their owns to have students really understand the importance of physical fitness diet and nutrition I was in the fizzed room the gymnasium and uh I was watching first grade run to pick up different types of food and bring them back to their plates and then talk to their teachers about why they made the choices that
079they made when their diet and nutrition reset the plates and do it all over again so it was it's been a really fun month was a really fun month um kids got a lot out of it and they were able to work on their heart challenges as well any questions thank you thank you okay moving to item number seven is the superintendent report from every long uh good evening everyone I want to give a thank you to the 3D club and Miss Winters and Miss Mankey for coming tonight that was really fun for us and we're excited the kids are in such engaging um programs and exploring all the design that's out there for our students also a shout out to the winter athletes it has been one heck of a season our kids have
080been performing at their top level um as Spectators I think we've been very excited to be these games and um track meets and cheerleading events and uh getting our kids ready to go we wish the best to our indoor track students as they head to their National competitions this weekend uh Tuesday night was our music and our schools concert it was a beautiful performance by all of our students and our music department really put together a fantastic show uh Monday night I was a part of the regionalization meeting with our component districts from Sullivan bosies um we are in the process of working on um the plan that has to be submitted to the state by April 1st bosis will be submitting that we had some really good conversations about opportunities to uh combine some
081of our programs we talked about uh virtual learning um and you know now we've learned so much from covid is there a possibility that we can offer some opportunities to each other and our other schools around so we meet again next week and then um probably one more convening and then we'll be put putting the plan together uh Rich Frank and I went to an olster County Ida meeting uh last week we were invited after Rich um had spoken to the lady from the Ida it was really geared around the pilots that are happening in oler County but we also felt it was important that because Tri valy does have taxpayers in ster County and students that live in ster County it's time for us to tap into the resources they offer so one of
082the things we learned was a lot about the job and Workforce that is going on in ster County and we can bring that back to Tanya and to Amanda for our seedos program and our work-based learning so our students may be able to Branch out more to aler County it was a really productive meeting we learned a lot um recently I've been working with a consultant from Yonder Yonder is one of those companies that are selling the cell phone bags uh he will be joining our administrative meeting next week to share with everyone uh some of the things they do it's not just a bag that locks phones have an entire implementation program from um getting the initiative off the ground with communication with students and families it also offers um professional development for our
083teachers and it really approaches this cell phone ban or this you know this non-personal use initiative with an mtss lens that um this is going to be a tier one approach we're going to be training all of us to take a step away from our phones and our students stents to step away from their phones during the day um but it's a really comprehensive plan and uh it offers um a behavior Matrix for us to look at we can add it to our code of conduct but it really approaches it as not punitive to start it really helps kids understand the purpose behind the cell phones going away so we are pretty excited uh we know the governor is proposing about $13 million to help with the cost of these purchase of the bags and
084so we're anxious to see her next steps will be as well um we've re received a few foils in the last few days but the foil I'll report on tonight we received on February 12th from Janet diamond for all documents pertaining to conferences or other professional development attended by any employee in the district including registration fees hotel costs mileage and meal reimbursements for the 2425 school year to date since July 1 we've received a total of 34 foils and seven appeals for a total of 44 the attorney fees to help us process these is approximately $ 7,477 the estimated time it is taken the business office and the district office to search prepare and process these foils is about 390 office hours which translates to 48 almost 49 days which is about 7 weeks of
085our work that we have dedicated to to addressing these foils thank you thank you moving to item number eight is items the board would like pulled from tonight's consent agenda anybody I don't really have a to wanted to pull one but I have some questions on it that's in general you have to pull it off number 11 c d and e it's just simple question number number 11 and number 11 the contract which which 11 e and e the amended reports yeah the amended Treasures reports oh and the one with bosis so that would be probably B so or or a a yeah that's it I mean a b d e okay all right we will do the consent agenda and then we'll address those four okay keth um Personnel um I don't know if
086there's a spelling error that's making me think it's a different name can I guess we'll have to pull it for me to ask number 13 let's see is that a one it's just 13 yeah 13A okay anything else okay so we'll move to item nine consent agenda and can I have a a a motion to accept uh resolution to approve the entire consent agenda with the exception of 11 a b d and e and 13A I will need what's that okay so we'll do that by hand this this vote will be done by hand vote okay so can I have a motion motion by Carrie second by Tim please proceed the vote by hand all those in favor that okay so we'll do um number eight okay so you want to is this is the
087question the same for each one of them or no no it's a different question for each there's one simple yes so the question applies to all four of them there's a question on it's easier to explain it and do it instead of telling you what I want what I'm trying to say is do I need to do four different votes or does your question you can do what you want it's simple it's just a question on do whatever you a question different for each one absolutely so we got to do them separately all right we'll we'll take 11a okay that's a reference to the uh Bose contract hold on hold on we'll we got to do a motion and a second to open up a conversation okay so we're going to start with 11a and
088I have a motion to approve 20 January 2025 Sol Bo's contract invoice motion motion by Pat second by by Tim you're on number 51249 what exactly is that uh you want me to read it so that um you're talking about the diversity Equity inclusion right XC correct yes so um this fall at our conference day we had a person come from Fon County Bose's to do an administrative training around d so they met with us while our teachers were engaged in other professional development she was here for the day it was the day we brought folks in from other school districts that did the daa training to its it's mandatory it was build under Dei so rich called right away and said we didn't do Dei but that's the way it's build through bosies so
089good question that's that that's why I asked thank you you want to vote on that one okay okay so anybody else okay so we'll take a hand vote on this this item all those in favor it is unanimous okay we'll move to 11b we need a motion to accept the approval of the dcmo Bose's final Services commitment form FY 2025 motion Tammy second by Travis you're on no the next one is the one I was inter this is B I'm looking at at uh C I don't care about B oh not B okay what did I say the first B yeah I had Okay so so we'll we'll have to switch that to from B to C A so b b is is approved we we'll really look at it C my error okay so
090um 11c approval July 2024 amended Treasures report motion motion by Tammy second by Travis go ahead there's a number of these why are we getting amended what was the purpose for that cuz we did approve these so I didn't see any disparities you know I really didn't have the last ones to look at so what are we looking at here what what what happened why do we have to go over it again so on trying to work on fixing some treasur report on working on reconciling treasure reports there was a discrepancy basically of checks without getting too into it checks that wer in cash like we wrote checks to people out that were in cash that weren't recorded properly and by doing that it made the July treasury report incorrect which we caught but when
091you fix that it steamrolls if you fix July then it it changes August changes September so that's where we found a mistake so it was we had checks that were written to different things that were never that were never cashed which is a pretty common issue but they weren't recorded properly so in other words the financially was all the same as said I mean there's going to be that tweak in their number there but the financials aren't really changing you know this was money that was already you know this was money that was already debited but we never it was never cash so we had to reach out to some people and say hey cash you know we have to cut you new checks clerical yeah okay that well I don't know if I'm getting
092speaking out of turn because that rolls to everything specifically 8130 8 um just a simple question your elementary teachers Aid K through3 the appropriation was 447,000 for SS teachers a and 7 through2 was only 144,000 why such a disparity between you know k23 is a lot less than 7 through 12 and you know it goes on to the similar there's K2 on sub teers Aid and sub teers Aid on K through3 and 7 through2 so one of you're running in the red but I just wondered why you know do we need more AIDS in the elementary just for k through3 or what what's the so there's a number of factors so a lot of times so AIDS have different purposes we have more AIDS in the lunchroom than teachers um because of scheduling also in
093our K in one classrooms there's AIDS the prek are required to have AIDS so there's full-time AIDS in those positions um and then also on the students with special needs on the special head side it's more often it's not always but it's more often that there's going to be AIDS in there in the secondary school the majority of the AIDS are more working with a special ed population we have AIDS working across all the populations in the elementary I understand that but my question is in 8 3124 8 3124 we're already minus and it's beginning of the new school year I just I just raise it for financial reasons that's I so this is something that we are working on there are a lot and it's something that's we'll you'll see fixed as we there
094were a lot of AIDs that were placed in categories their salar so every person is coded that were coded incorrectly or not checked of where they should be and that's something that was I don't want to pass the buck it was something before that I was there but it's something that we are working on fixing so the amount of Total Money ends up not being you know significantly different but there are people who are coded incorrectly um so the problem exists from the 23 24 year correct and we're trying to fix in 2425 correct okay thank you you're welcome anybody else thank you okay so we'll do a hand vote on 11c all in favor okay moving to 11d approval August 2024 amended Treasures report motion motion by carry second by Rose got it question
095it was a carry over that question from the other ones why got to do it but I you got to do it you didn't say it was just a reason why are they why are we doing them now that was the question each one independent that's fine okay all in favor it's unanimous moving to item number 11e approval September 2024 amended Treasures report can I have a motion Tammy second second by Travis any discussion same reason why why we did it that way that's all hand vote please as unanimous thank you okay so simple all right moving to item number 14 is board committee reports we don't have anything for this oh oh oh I'm sorry you're right Personnel 13A motion to um accept the consent to agenda Personnel 13A motion by Tammy do that
096combine Ni Call go ahead Rose uh under miscellaneous appointments it says Taylor Irwin is is should be Tyler if okay just wanted to confirm that thank you okay um all in favor vote do unanimous okay now move to board uh item 14 is board committee reports we don't have anything for this meeting um then we move to item 15 is business and we have an information discussion and an action um the academic calendar it's proposed academic calendar has been amended what do we do at a snow day is that we um we had a conference day built on Friday February 13th and we took that away um and we uh added and kept an extended weekend for Memorial Day so that was the additional day what we need that we needed okay we have a
097motion to accept that motion by Tim second second by Nicole any discussion for anyone if I may these days are guaranteed which ones all of them you know we might have to look at this one more time George I've only counted these numbers probably 30 times one more time good luck always subject to change yes always please proceed to vote I could be online George that is unanimous be resolved that upon a recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education approves the amendment to the 2025 2026 academic calendar as attached to the public portion of the agenda moving to item number 16 is public comment s session for items that are not on tonight's agenda and we have one person signed up Mr Mike mingal welcome might have to turn that microphone on
098hi I'm going to try to make this quick is it working it's working I got to get nice and close I'll make this quick asz you guys look like you're having fun tonight um so I'm I'm here because of a sport wrestling and and transportation with that sport my son John participates in it and first thing I want to say is thank you for hiring a great coach for that for that sport I know that's a tough one and it's a hard sport to watch um but it started late and with that that they have to have so many matches in and it actually is weigh-ins um and obviously with the snow and stuff cancellations whatever rescheduling um one of the places they were supposed to go was a tournament in Guilderland last year my
099son came in third second year of doing it as a freshman which is pretty impressive we were looking forward for him to do that and he got up nice and early in the morning went to the school there was no bus nothing coach was very upset set apologized came back at 6:00 in the morning um and they're not making it up there cuz they would never make the weigh-ins uh as the year went as the season finally finished up um they had five weigh-ins they needed six to go to sectionals so they didn't go to sectionals by one weigh in that's a shame that means he's missed two opportunities to do something that's pretty impressive um I personally think it's the busing you got to look at I know I ran wall County last weekend
100and I know this not anything with tri valy or it's another district with another District uh we were helping out another District cuz they didn't have busing to get them there and it's the same bus company and we had to house them 2 hours early before uh the county Festival started that's not really fair to the kids they're going to be there for a long weekend and then they had to be there two extra hours early doing nothing so I hope you guys look into that um I know last year we had the same issues there was no no buses to get him to practice um I made some phone calls we got that solved but there was no bus taking them home so it was between my wife and I trying to figure out
101who's going to get them on the way back and sometimes that's very difficult cuz um if you don't know me I'm a teacher too and I have night commitments and whatever else that I'm running around trying to get to so um we really definitely need to look into that and the same thing with the Springs Golf he had golf last year was the same issue running back and forth trying to get him there or he doesn't go to practice and there's no bus for him so I appreciate your time I'll keep it short thank you and hopefully we'll look into that problem have a good night thank you thank you Mike you know if I may I understand that someone else also raised a concern with that you know these athletes work hard who is
102responsible for that to take care of them to make sure that they get to the places they're supposed to get on time safety is number one of course but you know when we merge with another district there must be certain rules that has to be followed now look we're talking about our students here our athletes not a company these kids really could have went farther than what they did and we're a fault we are at fault well we must get a hold of this if it's happening more often than not then we really need to look at it but we provide financing for them how much did the district that District cost us and they didn't even get to where they had needed to go that program but the the thing of it is it's
103sad because it happened to these kids that really worked hard all year you know we had something like this years ago with a student that was supposedly homeschooled but he wasn't and the and the team lost the trophy but it wasn't the kids that did it it was adults so I know this time it is not on us but somebody needs to be held accountable and when when we sign a contract with this whoever is supposed to be taking our kids places there should be some liability and some responsibility so please look into it because it's EAS are our kids and somebody don't stand up for him who will and I will stand up for him but thank you for listening to me okay moving to item number 17 is announcements reminders and upcoming events
104um the I just wanted to to bring up that we're going to have the the uh the dinner meeting here for the svin county school boards Association on March 24th 5:30 p.m. I hope everybody decides that they can try to make it um there should be a flyer at everybody's spot and uh and reach out to the clerk if you haven't already okay anybody else have anything okay we'll move to item number 18 is new business uh we have one item it's the establish of an extracurricular account for the chess club it is an action can I have a motion to accept the establishment of an extracurricular account for the chess club motion motion by Rose second by Tim any discussion please proceed to vote okay unan as unanimous thank you be it resolved that
105upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the board of education at its March 13 2025 meeting approves the establishment of an additional extracurricular classroom account for the chess club for fundraising purposes moving to item number 19 is uh board comment session so we'll go around the room Geor BR I just want to say that I am um really proud right now to be part of our community and seeing how um how amazing everyone has been at showing up for our kids at um athletic events and theater shows and um I just found out we have a play coming up soon what's the date on that April 4th 4th and 5th yeah all right so hopefully we see the theater packed again for that um it's it's really amazing to see everyone coming out and
106traveling to go to games and really just support our students who I know appreciate seeing everyone there um the only thing I did want to ask I know we've made a few changes with board meeting dates I just want to make sure is our website up to date on those just for my own scheduling purposes they should be but I will triple that okay thank you uh special thanks to the 3D club for uh letting us play a little bit today that was a lot of fun um also wanted to recognize Jenna carmed for uh scoring um her thousandth basket last night I wish I could have been there didn't uh didn't happen though but uh she's a great kid and he deserves all the recognition for that uh that is all I have thank
107you uh Mr Mingo has a legitimate concern I mean if a kid's wrestling and we can't get a bus or a a van or something to get them to compete that's on us as a district that's pretty embarrassing uh I know I can tell you as a board member I I feel pretty embarrassed about that um on a more positive note um the sendoff that was given to the uh varsity girls the other day that was something I I haven't seen it our school um there was I mean literally hundreds of kids outside like jumping them down waving signs uh really top-notch Class Act um and then a quick shout out to uh Mr Claus who heads that the girls varsity team he is a throwback coach uh he's a gem uh a classic he
108gets the best out of those kids um he he took them to a different level um so thank you to him and lastly uh I helped referee a ball tournament today uh which was a fundraiser held by a student for Honor Society uh fantastic raised a bunch of money to buy sports equipment for um the sports closet uh cageball for those that don't know is volleyball but without Athletics um so uh and we've created this sport here in Tri Valley so the kids had a great time uh and staff we're coaching them up all volunteering your time so thank you thank you uh I'm not going to reiterate everything that you've already said um but I do I want to say thank you to tvta for the meal today um I also want to thank
109you for that inspirational video that went out at the beginning of February um I don't think we mentioned it at the last board meeting but Aaron had circulated it to us on a Friday and she's like get your tissues ready and I'm like what kind of tissues unbelievable I was completely moved and everyone that I shared that with was equally as moved as I was and they not even Tri Valley residents or our community so well done um the reaction of the students I think is what just kind of blew me away um because they were genuinely surprised and when you thank them from for coming to school and just being who they are what you know that's why you do what you do and I appreciate you all um again thank you for showing
110up this has been a crazy busy week this week between all County our music uh Festival we had also the girls uh Varsity sendoff um and our Administration showed up and you showed up very proud and very loud once you get those pom poms um circulating throughout the community so thank you for that um Dr Seuss readathon highlight on my Monday to see the those upk students how excited they are to see a stranger come read to them um it was really really wonderful um also to see that J the theater fied this past week and to have like parking issues like we generally never have was pretty phenomenal I have not seen that theater that fied in in years for a music in our schools month um in the winter was not really well
111attended I was a little disappointed with our community um but our community did show up and our music department really did a phenomenal job um the the finale with fourth through 12th grade was really fantastic and just the I think um those kids working together um was pretty remarkable and then the last thing I have to say is you know watching these varsity girls and and I'm a I'm a parent of of a senior um the the season was pretty phenomenal they had to move up in a a class that nobody gave them kind of I think any kind of um idea that they were going to be um Champions and then to pull it out was it's pretty remarkable for a small group of of students uh student athletes our bench is not deep
112um you know Mr Claus and and Tim and and Skyler they're they have like nine 10 kids that are sitting on that bench all these other schools they have a very large number of athletes that participate so that speaks volumes and for Jenna car what an outstanding way to end her senior year last night hitting that thousandth point would have been great if it would have been here but you know to end your season um with 1 th000 points is pretty remarkable which just means that we really need to pay attention into our feeder programs our our bearub basketball program our youth soccer program our football programs as a community we really need to be involved because if we're not having these feeder programs we are not going to have students competing on the level
113that they are right now so Co kind of did number on us and I I hate using covid as an excuse for everything but we really need as a community and as parents get our kids involved in these Sports and these extracurricular activities the kids will want to come to school which will help attendance and um that's all I have to say but um you know to see our school enthusiastic and have these little guys at these games was pretty remarkable and and as an alumni it brought back some really great memories of our student section um and the way that they supported us down in Mount St Mary's so thank you thank you I know you're all exhausted so I appreciate you thank you I'm not going to um repeat all the accolades that
114are going around tonight but I do Echo them um I actually would like to um just touch on the uh Model United Nations club tonight um they had a very long day they competed in New York City um against 5,000 and other high school teams uh across the United States um they also listen to uh former President Biden's speak today um and I I think it was just such an amazing experience for our students um and I'd like to ask Aaron to see if you could have the advisor come to to one of our meetings and I I'd like to have the whole un team they're going to be um competing in Yale at Yale in a few weeks and after that Lisa said she would bring the team in to talk about what they've
115learned and what they do thank you I uh I just think it's amazing that they were able to listen to a uh president give a speech it's like a big deal all right I'm almost there hey Tri Valley how are you uh I'll be very very short great uh 3D presentation I can't wait to get it home put it in the sun uh also just uh a special uh shout out to the law enforcement fire and EMS to took time throughout your day to give a perfect I wish I could have been there but it was a perfect sendoff I did see some video clips of it good job Tri valy really appreciate it and last uh food was great thank you so much for that so we talk about our students um right their
116education we talk about them being great athletes but what I realized this week is they're not just great students they're not just great athletes they're great role models I watched my fourth grade daughter I'll get closer I watched my fourth grade daughter stand in front of all the older children and sing at this chorus concert and she had what 200 kids standing behind her that were just great role models then last night we had the privilege of attending the girls game where my daughter also got to witness all of these girls on the court being great role models it was an aggressive game right there was a lot of physical contact I witnessed so many of them help each other up off the floor I watched one of them I don't remember who it was
117catch their teammate so she didn't by the back of the head so she didn't hit her head I just have to commend them on being such great role models for the Next Generation that's coming through I'm over the moon impressed by them and this Bears breaking news is my favorite thing that our district does I read it I love it it's incredible can't say enough about what the great things that's really happened here at Tri Valley and in the last number of years that I'm been here uh and if I start I'd probably leave something out but uh we should be proud very proud of everything that's happening here right from the athletes right on down to every club and academics as well so we really need to be proud of Tri Valley and and
118where're in the direction it's going and I I I thank you for allowing me to be part of this board thank you thank you uh tbta great job the dinner much appreciated uh school board members who are up for reelection you must have to pick up your school board petitions uh they started to they could be picked up from uh March 10th through 421 they're due back and the ballots are drawn on 422 that's all I have moving to item 20 is adjournment it's an action motion by Tammy second by Carrie please proceed to vote I is unanimous thank you it is 9:48 p.m. Tim that was not our mistake