001I'm going to call the special meeting back to order. Can I have a motion to come out of executive session? All in favor? Motion passes. Can I have a motion to adjourn the special meeting? All in favor? Okay, the special meeting is now adjourned. It is now 634. I'm going to call the regular meeting of the Board of Education to order. and we all stand when the color guard comes in and presents the colors. And then when they're in position, we will say the Pledge of Allegiance. 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, with liberty and justice for all. Ready. Fist. March. Call the roll please Here Here President Here we do have a Quorum like to
002just go out of order and call up the Albany Elementary School Choir. Mr. Sorrow. Where are you? Over here. And then you can say a couple words about your great class. You guys did awesome. You were so loud. 2 Chain, what's wrong? What? You want to go to sleep? Mrs. Saro, you had... Do you want to say? Okay. I was going to say before, but so we are excited to introduce to you all our kindergarten through second grade Albany Choir to you this evening. Our students have been working really hard since Thanksgiving each and every morning to learn our songs and be performance ready. Our choir is made up of 28 students, but we've got a few with the flu, as you can tell. We want to thank Mr. Dodge for supporting our idea. We
003went to him and begged for a K2 choir and he... Agreed. We want to thank our amazing parents who brought your students to us at 745 every morning. I'm sorry about that. And mostly our students for working really, really hard. And thank you members of the board for allowing us to start our mornings in the best way possible, full of smile, song, and most of all, laughter. So we hope you enjoyed it as much as we do. Thank you. And we will see you back in the spring if we are invited back. I was just wondering, do you have any upcoming tour dates or where can we catch you next? This will be in the agenda for next year. We're hoping to visit some local nursing homes. That's our plan for next year. I love
004that. And it is really refreshing when you're bringing your kids into school and you can hear them singing in the hall. It's very early. You parents are rock stars. My child is not in it. But thank you, and Merry Christmas, everybody. Great job. Thank you, parents. Thank you for having us. Thank you. Thank you very much. There's refreshments out in the hall in case you want to partake. Okay. And now, in terms of the agenda, we're going to recognize some donors that are in attendance. So first up. would be the women's fund Kelly Watson there was a donation of feminine hygiene supplies to Proctor High School is she okay give her the mic give her the mic I'm gonna give you Hi, I'm Kelly Watson with the Women's Fund. About three years ago, we were
005looking, we have a status of women committee where we are looking around the community to find where there are needs in the community to help women and girls. And what we discovered is that although there is a state law that menstrual products and feminine hygiene products are available in the schools, there are not. always budget items for those in the school budgets. And so what we did is we started asking for donations and we have had an incredible amount of support. I was just mentioning members of the community, local schools, and we actually got a huge donation this year, $10,000 donation from an individual who wants to support this. And what we do is we bring menstrual products to all of the schools in Oneida and Herkimer counties. We have been providing them for the
006past three years and with the donation that we have this year. We'll be doing it for many years to come. We've had great support and feedback. We deliver them to the school nurses so that the nurses can give those out when needed. And it's just been a great opportunity to be able to support and help the local girls in our community. Next up is our recognition of the Redeemer Church, Melissa Cervelo. They donated 200 complete Thanksgiving boxes. Thank you. Thank you for being with us tonight. Thank you. I just want to say thank you. It was our privilege to meet the need, and thank you for allowing us to partner with you and just, you know, to supply needs to these kids. And we just as Redeemer Church look forward to being able to serve
007you guys and serve the kids and the community however we can. So thank you for the opportunity, and we look forward to many more. Well, we really appreciate everything you do. Thank you so much. You guys are amazing, especially during the long breaks. time out of school and up next the United Way of Mohawk Valley Susan latera donation of 500 non-perishable boxes to be distributed during each long break throughout the 2025-2026 school year and a donation of hygiene products to stock Proctor and Donovan with their recent fall hygiene drive thank you absolutely the ethos of the United Way of the Mohawk Valley really is deeply embedded in collaboration and this is the best showcase of that between the city school district the food bank and United Way we're happy to do it and happy to
008continue the partnership so thank you Up next the baseball Hall of Fame. Dr. Jeff Arnett the halls welcomed all of our fifth grade classrooms the last three school years for an all-expense-paid educational experience like no other they provide coach bus transportation catered box lunches and a goodie bag for each student is highly appreciated Well, it's a privilege to be here this evening and a pleasure to partner with NBT Bank in making these field trips possible to thousands of students from the Utica City School District since 2023. And we always enjoy welcoming them to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, seeing them step off of the buses, treating them to lunch, and to a discovery experience at the museum. So thank you again. Is Ryan Hill here? Okay, we'll have him. Come on up, Ryan. We
009should have yeah, he should he should be with dr. Arnott Sorry We have Ryan Hill here from MBT Bank They funded the field trips for the students to attend the baseball Hall of Fame Thank you all for the collaboration. Thanks Jeff for the collaboration. It's really I've been in attendance at when the kids come off the bus and it's a really fun way to connect with them and hopefully they get out of a lot out of the out of the museum and Fun-filled day Up next the Oneida County Department of Emergency Services Jacqueline Coleman the donation of stop the bleed kits for the school district She here? Yep. Thank you. Hi. So on behalf of Oneida County and the Department of Emergency Services, thank you for this recognition. This is wonderful. We all want our
010kids to grow and learn in a safe environment and to know that their community cares about them. So it was a pleasure to do it, and hopefully we'll be able to donate more in the future. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you again. Thank you very much. Thank you. And the New York... Power Authority Kayla mainsaw and Peter Bailey for the donation of a vehicle and a charging station They're not here. Okay. We'll do that next month They got advanced All right next up Is a probably a surprise to him but The board wanted to acknowledge the efforts of retired superintendent Dave Langone during his period of time working with our district. And we got you a little plaque. Come on up, Mr. Langone. Come on. Come on up. You know you're
011going to miss us. We're going to take a picture with him. Work I'll read the plaque actually dr. Spence took the plaque so he can read the plaque but in the meantime We just want to say that Dave We've all been better for the experience of having you here and we appreciate everything that you've done and your patience with the board On behalf of the Utica City School District and Board of Education, with gratitude for your dedicated leadership and support, which have strengthened our schools and shaped a brighter future for every student, we present this plaque to you. Thank you. Thank you so much. I really would like to thank the Utica City School District. When Dr. Spence called me back in the summer, I thought it would be a great opportunity to go full
012circle. I actually started to student teach in my career at Kernan School and at UFA and actually worked for a year as a coach and a substitute for a couple of years in Utica before moving on to other places. But I thought this would be a great full circle experience. So thank you so much for offering me that opportunity. Thank you for saying that. Thank you. No, okay You need a motion to adopt a resolution For Paula M Dupre who was a former employee of the Utica City School District The Board of Education the Utica City School District records with sorrow the passing of former employee Paula M Dupre for 28 years Mrs. Dupree was employed in the food service with the Utica City School District. Mrs. Dupree was a hard-working employee making sure that
013every student was served with a smile at Donovan Middle School for almost three decades. Her impact will never be forgotten. Resolved that the Board of Education expresses its sincere sympathy to the family of Mrs. Dupree and that this resolution be saved upon the records of the district. Motion. Second all in favor opposed motion carries So I have a resolution for Thomas J. Potty the Board of Education the Utica City School District records with sorrow the passing of former employee Thomas J Potty For almost 15 years. Mr. Potty was employed as a teacher within the Utica City School District Mr. Potty served at both Conklin and Kernan Elementary prior to retirement He spent numerous years fostering creativity confidence and respect through instruction his dedication and belief in the public education system was unwavering Resolved that the
014Board of Education expresses its sincere sympathy to the family and friends of mr. Potty and that this resolution be saved upon the records of the district I need a motion second all in favor pass Up next, public comment. Up first, is there one there? Okay. Sorry. Up first, Stefan Rabitsky. I know that. Stefan. Stefan Rabitsky. How you doing, Stefan? Doing good, guys. Need to state your name and... Address for the record for us. Yep. Stefan Rubitsky, 2513 Sunset Ave, Utica, New York, 13502. Thank you. Go ahead. Now, this is more after-school extracurricular activity for athletics. In the future, or sometime, I believe the school district should add a boys and girls lacrosse team because I feel that That's a good exercise and lacrosse is becoming popular and it would be maybe appropriate for the school
015district to add a lacrosse team. We appreciate that suggestion and we will look into it. Thank you. Thank you. Up next, Dawn Laguerre. Dawn Laguerre. I live at 105 Barton Avenue. in South Utica 13502. I'll just be very succinct and to the point. I'm the youth director for the League of Women Voters, Utica Rome Metro Chapter. We have a wonderful opportunity for students in grades 10th through 12 to learn about civic education. and how to become a citizen lobbyist, learn media opportunities and advocacy. Students in grades 10 through 12, and I will be selecting two, will have the opportunity to get with 60 of their peers across New York State, and they will have an opportunity to shadow their local legislators and actually tour. Albany and see how activities are ran. I'm looking for two
016students and we've had the wonderful opportunity under Mr. Chavez. We've had previous winners. We had Delvin Moody who became the youngest council person. We had Trinh Truong who is in her second year. of law school. Two years ago we had Summer Wu, who was a Proctor student as well, who's at SUNY Poly working on the Senate program and we had other various folks that have won scholarships. Delaney Guerrero, we've had the opportunity even seven years ago to elicit students that worked at ROTC. So we're looking for any kind of dedicated students from grade 10 through 12 in a variety of disciplines. So I urge and ask that you please support this initiatives and send names my way I sent the information to the Utica City School District Superintendent and he assured me that he has
017submitted that information to other folks and thank you for the opportunity to discuss the program Appreciate it. Thank you for coming in Carolyn McAleese Carolyn McAleese, 1506 Roberta Lane, Utica, New York, East Utica, neighbor of Fracture High School. And I'm here just to speak up for myself because if I don't, you'll never know that you're not a good neighbor. So the last time I was here, you were starting construction of the CTE building. and I was prepared for my backyard to be part of the construction zone, and knowing that there would be an end to that. Well, you had the ribbon-cutting opening of the CTE building, but now there's three construction trailers. practically in my backyard, that are as big as mobile homes. And a guy was on top of one of them, cleaning off
018the roof or whatever. So I went in the backyard and I asked him, you know, were people living there because they're so big and the lights are on all the time? And he said, well, the construction isn't done and these are construction trailers. So what construction are you doing now? And the other thing, when I was here last, I talked about the new road that you built. And you all told me it's only for emergency vehicles. Only. Unfortunately, I guess that's not true because the buses use that road frequently. Not every day, frequently. They're not right behind my house. I feel bad for my neighbors that they're right behind so that, you know, they can idle while they're waiting. So, again, I'm only here. To let you know that your neighbors are not happy Thank
019you for listening Thank you for coming in and speaking to us up next is our student representative Heather Concepcion with her report. Hello. Thank you. So Proctor news and events On January 15th, 2026, 9 to 11 a.m., Middle School and High School Student Council Officers and Advisors Summit will be hosted in Principal Palladino's conference room. Light refreshments to be served. The discussion with student leaders will foster to develop leadership skills, share ideas, and learn strategies for improving their schools and communities. On January 28th, 2026, 5 to 7 p.m., Movie Night Fundraiser in Proctor's Auditorium will be hosted. Open to all students in behavioral, attendance, and academic standing. Well, good, standing. January 29, 2026 Proctor High School Auditorium Mayhem. They are, they will perform in multiple sections. So from 12 to 15 to 1245 is grade
02011, 1 to 130 is grade 12, and 145 to 215 grade 9. Grade 10 students were lucky enough to see this energetic group last school year. Having been dubbed an amazing ride by the New York Times, the mind-boggling performances of the mayhem poets have been described as the Simpsons meets Malcolm X at a notorious big concert. These theater-trained, comedically gifted, lyrical virtuoses seamlessly blend raw elements of hip-hop, theater, improv, and stand-up comedy. to tell gut-wrenching truths that leave audiences changed forever. Thank you to ICANN and Mrs. Padula for making this happen for Proctor. Karma Club Pantry grand opening is to be determined. Shelving is up and inventory is in progress. The goal is to open by mid-January. March 25, 2026, from 4 to 6 p.m., International Night in the Main Gym. Invite only for participating
021clubs. Only those who participate may attend. Performances throughout the night. Each year we hope to build on this event, bringing it back to its glory days. Speech and Debate Nationals. We have three students that are qualified and going to nationals in Washington, D.C. Juma B., who was here last board meeting, Rahal Nair, and Julia Nguyen. Quarter one award numbers. Principals list, 136. High honors, 335. Honors, 451. Perfect attendance, 48. Proctor Pride Good Citizen, 60. A celebration will be held on January 13th for those who made the principals list, earned perfect attendance, and earned Proctor Pride Citizen awards. All other students will receive their certificates by mail, as will the students who cannot attend the celebration. Last but not least on December 18th 2025 Proctor will enjoy the celebration of learning sponsored by the district with
022a massive order of 3600 slices of pizzas from local businesses. Thank you to mr. Ferraro for ordering the ice cream the The Proctor High School Raider mascot has been named. The name will be announced during the celebration of learning on December 18th during eighth period. The mascot is being crafted by a local artist creating a unique representation of the school spirit. Thank you. Thank you very much. Great report as always. And you're welcome if you want. You can stay. If not, you can go home and do your thing. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. PTO, PTA, shared decision making, student councils, CSE chairs, Title I, UTA. I have to say that that's a great color blue you guys have. I like it. Oh, okay. I got it. Okay. Good evening. My name is Andrea Lewis, special
023education teacher and vice president of middle schools for the UTA. With the holiday season upon us, many of our buildings are participating in the 2025 Stuff the Bus CNY School Challenge. This fundraiser is helping thousands of local children. Final standings that we saw tonight are Conkling in first, General Herkimer in second, and Proctor in third. Our teachers have been busy with parent-teacher conferences, extended learning time, field trips, clubs, sports, a wide variety of holiday classroom projects, preparation for holiday concerts, serving on multiple committees such as PDP and CAE, attending IST and CSE meetings, and participating in training for restorative practices. We are still in need of an additional school counselor at Donovan Middle School. The two counselors are still currently covering for the third open position, sharing the workload of 733 students, putting them each
024well over the suggested 250 student maximum. We have also been receiving reports of a similar issue in regards to social workers at JFK, where there is only one social worker for the entire building. The TA shortages across the district's classrooms continues to be a critical issue that impacts the learning environment. We must also acknowledge the reality our employees face regarding workplace violence. Hopefully we will be rigorously reviewing our workplace violence reports to identify the areas of need. This is not just about physical safety. It's about the psychological trauma, fear, and burnout this stress creates, which directly impacts staff retention. We urge the district to implement exit surveys. as it could provide valuable feedback from an employee's perspective to improve internal procedures. As 2025 comes to an end, we wish the entire school community the happiest
025of holidays. The Utica Teachers Association wants to thank all of our members, as well as the teachers' assistants, monitors, custodians, security staff, secretaries, and principals, for their continued hard work in making this year successful. Thank you. Thank you UAA UTC Teamsters local 182 SCI you local 200 oh good hi sorry okay Hello, my name is Christina Sutter and I am the newly elected chair of the TA segment for the SEIU Union. I am a certified TA and I've been with the district for nine years. I want to send a sincere thank you to all of my fellow TAs, food service, transportation, and security, as well as our teachers for all of their hard work and perseverance every day. We all work hard to maintain our smiles and sense of humor while offering support to each
026other during our challenging days. And there's been quite a few. I look forward to working with admin on our ongoing issue of lack of staff, retaining our staff, and training our staff in the SPED. special education classrooms. So needless to say our labor management meeting being postponed on December 8th by admin was a disappointment because I'm very eager to get this work done. I will work collaboratively with our teachers, our special ed department and admin to come up with solutions to the concerns and will provide feedback as to the status every month. With that I just want to say happy holidays to everyone and may we all have a happy and productive new year. Thank you Thank you SCI you local 200 B that that's you were the representative of them right oh Okay, let
027me take that off there Mohawk Valley buildings and trades Okay up next Treasurer's report Ian oh, she's filling in for Ian, okay Yes, Ian couldn't be with us tonight, so he asked me to step in. In your packet, you should have received two pieces of reports from Ian. First of all, the tax collection, property tax collection for the period ending November 30th. We've received about 77% of our tax collection. We're still owed about $6.3 million that we expect to see somewhere in the early part of February be totally made whole. We're in the second year of our three-year agreement with the city. Controllers office the second item was the budget status report for the period ending September 30th and all the cash Bank accounts balance reports and budget status reports. I didn't know if you
028had any questions Anyone have any questions for Heather? No. Thank you Heather riveting report excellent I'm gonna go a little bit out of order and just get the reports of the special committees done now before we get into the presentations so I'll give the BOCES report we were supposed to have a meeting last week due to whether it was cancelled they rescheduled it for tonight I opted to come to this meeting because you guys are that important to me Braden anything on BOCES executive board there was a SBI general committee general membership meeting last Monday I was not able to attend because I was out of town But that was a presentation from dr. Tim's Audit and finance we did have a meeting to discuss the Budget calendar It actually was a very good meeting.
029I don't know if I can't I'm not sure how many people here were in attendance From the staff, but it was an outstanding meeting. I felt like we got a lot accomplished and We finished it in good amount of time I think we have a meeting scheduled I think in January I want to say the 13th but I might be wrong is that right okay so that's next for that any anything on capital projects buildings and grounds health and safety we have Almost completed all our walkthroughs. We did another round last week. We have three left, and then we will be scheduling, I believe in February, with the principals. So we're almost done. We have three more schools that we hope to do in January, and then February have our full report. CTE? CTE we
030met yesterday. Where's Michelle? That was yesterday. CTE we met yesterday just updated progress on all of the undertakings that CTE is happening just getting a look at the progress that it's making which is great we've got an open house happening April 15th that's going to happen to students and parents so that they can have a chance to come in and actually see it we held it originally in the fall when it opened but it was for Proctor's open house so in April everyone's going to get a chance to come in and look at it also we're on having elementary school field trips come in so students can come in at a younger age begin to look at the building and see what's there so we can gain that interest when they're young before they're getting
031into middle school but just great developments happening in CTE more instruction coming more portals opening so just great conversation good meeting thank you for that report Piac we met a couple weeks ago very good Meeting at Proctor met with a lot of coaches a lot of staff. We're working on some policy changes There's some things that are coming down the pipe new ad. Mr. Ambruso was there with some great information that he's sharing with the staff that we're gonna bring the policy at some point to make some changes super Policy I see that we're gonna be addressing some policies today anything that you want to report we had a meeting last Wednesday we reviewed several policies three of them are recommended for a met well I'm sorry one of them is new let me take
032a back step and I apologize they're not getting a memo out this week I've been all over the place but studying yes policy 6106 is a new brand new policy long-term sub policy That was drafted by the administration and will is being recommended by the policy committee to be adopted by the board policy 7004 and regulation 7004 point one our amendments they are Pretty standard language amendments from the BOCES policy service except for one We move some language from the policy into the regulation. There's two policy. There's a policy in a regulation that are not being offered today not because they're not ready to go because they just haven't been typed up and completely finalized yet those are on attendance and I would like to thank Mr. Langone mr. Fauci and the attendance committee for
033their work that they did on that really revamping the attendance policy and regulation So thank you to all of everyone who's involved working on that That should be good to go in January and there's a couple of your things coming down the pipe for policy But that's all for now unless do you want to move your the adoption of your policy and regulation 10? Jason do you have anything to add? Okay, so we have a motion to adopt the the updated policy 7,000 for and the regulation 7,000 4.1 as well as policy 6106 Move it any discussion all in favor aye opposed motion passes Okay code of conduct Code of conduct we haven't met yet tentative date is either January 17th or 18th. Just trying to finalize the time Communities, I'm sorry communication equity and
034outreach We met last week just trying to end the year wrapping up everything that we've been doing and looking into the future to for to streamline our communication see kind of what's missing where the holes are what's really working we also had our system of care partners there to take a look at all of our food pantries and our closets to just assess who kind of needs space and what school's lacking, what school's thriving, and to build off of that. So we'll reconvene again in January and begin to head into the second half of the school year. Okay. We are moving along swimmingly. I'm going to take things out of order again, and I'm going to ask for the human resource presentation from Sarah Klimek, our Chief Human Resources Officer. welcome Sarah well first I'd
035like to thank everyone for having me come in and share just some updates on what's happening the 25-26 school year with the Department of Human Resources as it relates to recruitment and retention do I change this or just joke how do I do this this button okay We always start our presentations off with the mission and vision statement. It's not here for us to read out loud to you, but it's to serve as a lens through which our decisions are made and developed through. To move our district vision from aspiration to impact, we align our workforce strategies accordingly. These departmental priorities that you see here are intentionally designed to support and advance the district's mission. Embedded in the departmental priorities, particularly if you take a look on the bottom, the second bullet, it's a specific
036focus on the significance that each role within the organization plays on impacting student achievement. Our cabinet has spent a lot of time this school year talking about how each department relates and builds off one another, basically like a butterfly effect of each part of the organization. Recruitment and retention is, it's really, you know, it's obviously coming out of the Department of Human Resources. It's critical, the department's critical on student achievement from a behind-the-scenes kind of way. So if you take a look at our published district priorities, tenants and SMART goals, they focus on pushing the meter and the bar on student achievement, but the Department of Human Resources does play a critical role behind all of that. It's foundational to advancing instructional priorities and also supports, you know, recruitment and retention supports coherence and also
037continuity within our educational system. Okay, I'm going to get into the nuts and bolts of what's happening. Recruitment efforts. Recruitment is a science and it's an art and it requires persistence, empathy, and resilience. Up here on the screen you're going to see some items that reflect what are some of our newer initiatives are for this particular school year. We have to think outside the box. Gone are the days where you have one, for example, I don't know, guidance counselor or social studies vacancy, and you have 100 credentialed applicants, and you're weeding through applications by who has a typo in their cover letter. That's how it used to go, you know, 20 years ago. That's not there. So what we have here is some outside-of-the-box thinking. because at the end of the day we still need
038the right people to help us move the bar forward for our students. So I'm just going to talk a little bit about our mobile recruitment team. This was Dr. Spence's idea to basically deploy a team of current UCSD employees, and we selected our parent liaisons. Our parent liaisons, if you've met any of them, you'll understand why we selected them. They have strong ties with our community, our public community, our school community, our parents, and that's why they have those positions to begin with. So our mobile recruitment team members have been trained and they attend different community and district-wide events. They have a table set up and they try to attract or encourage, educate people who are maybe interested or curious about working for the district. The mobile recruitment team was present at Harvest on the
039Hill this school year. They have also been present at our varsity home games. So if you attend varsity home games, you will see some of our mobile recruitment team members. If they're not able to make it, it's usually me there. And it's a fun evening out. Sometimes it's Saturdays. But it's a great way to connect with the community. from a recruitment standpoint, but in a different way. The next two bullets, SUNY Poly and then also the teacher prep exploration with Utica University and MVCC are ideas. So part of my job as Chief Human Resources Officer is, you know, I can't just say, well, there aren't any applicants. Oh, well, there's still a problem. We have to come up with a solution. And that's what I'm here to do. The SUNY Poly is up there because
040it's focused on nurses. Finding registered nurses is very difficult in general. So the nursing industry is very much dominated by travel agencies. Even a lot of our nurses who might work in our local hospital are employed through an agency. Agencies, you know, they pay significant, but there's pros and cons for each one. SUNY Poly students who are registered nurses but are seeking a four-year bachelor's degree from SUNY Poly are working in our schools now. They're doing observation hours. So I'm working with SUNY Poly to see if we can somehow figure out a way to have, and it won't be every student of theirs, but which of their students fit the mold where maybe we can hire them and create an earn-while-you-learn opportunity for those students to keep more bodies in the building and give our
041buildings more medical coverage that's needed. Our nurses go above and beyond. The school nurse job is not what it used to be. They're dealing with high needs, medically frail learners. It is not, you know, someone fell off the monkey bars and we're handing out Band-Aids. Although that might be a thought in someone's mind, it's very far from that and they are very well trained, but we need to clone them. So this is one idea to bring more into the organization. Utica University MVCC I've had conversations this is very much an initial stage and we're going to reconvene after the holidays what we're trying to do here is you know you may have heard that there were looking for teaching assistants right so It's not easy to just come across a certified teaching assistant. Unfortunately, our
042organization is not the only organization in the area who is also suffering from a shortage of teaching assistants. It seems to be... You know, it's almost like a pandemic. It's crossed the board. So what can we do to fix that? Because you're dealt the cards that you're dealt and you got to make the best move that you can. So I've been having conversations with Utica University and MVCC has a, they have a four-year program for teacher education courses through SUNY Oneonta. The students can learn right at the Utica campus. So I've been talking with leaders of those programs about Can we somehow maybe change part of the education program where your students are becoming certified TAs through the program, working in the district, and then they also have an earn while you learn type of
043scenario. That also helps because it helps to kind of grow your own. If you have people working At the teaching assistant level, you also have the opportunity to intervene and help them grow into teachers and hopefully retain them because they're feeling comfortable and familiar with our buildings, our kids. And, you know, MVCC told me that a lot of students that they have went to high school in rural districts around the area. And when they... Think about, you know, maybe doing work at Columbus, for example. They're a little overwhelmed and nervous because of the size of Columbus is possibly larger than the entire district that they came from. But once they're there, they fall in love with it. So we want to expand upon that and start to retain those people at different stages of their
044educational career. Okay. We've increased advertisement. We have billboards up. You may have seen electronic billboards in three different locations throughout the city. We have... Radio advertisements. We have also expanded our online presence with the assistance of BOCES. We have presence there going out on social media. Additionally, for administrative positions, too, we advertise on other sites like Nisga Sane's, for example. Expansion of career fairs. There's you know like two or three main career fairs through SUNY systems that take place in the spring that the colleges or universities host. We have Joe, I don't know if you can hit the spacebar because I don't want to go to the next slide too late. Thank you. It's kind of hard to read. On the bottom in March, those are a whole bunch of different types of career fairs
045that it's targeted specifically to colleges and universities that have not only education programs, but they also have administrative programs. They have nursing programs, things of that sort, accounting programs. So Utica is very unique because we employ a whole host of different types of positions. So those that targeted March. Recruitment that brings us across the state will help with that as well in addition to that We also you know, there's some different events up there that we have Either mr. Salami or I are pretty frequently at MVCC Utica University and some other events and then also Certification assistance. Okay, our office does provide that it is a form of recruitment in my opinion Andrew Carnegie said, you cannot push anyone up the ladder who isn't willing to climb. But my thought is, what if they're willing
046to climb, but they don't have a ladder? So what do we do? We offer them supports and assistance to get certified. If you have children in the district right now, there's a very good chance if they have a newer teacher that I worked specifically with that teacher over the summer to help with certification issues, talking to the state, talking to BOCES, talking to their college institution to gain internship certification, initial certification, et cetera. So you have to, it's a different time and you have to offer the support. You have to be willing to assist people. And we're here to do that. We want to bring people on if they're interested, but they're not sure how to get there. That's what we're here to do. Help them with that. And I do just want to add
047to that these recruitment efforts. You know, where are we with them? Like what is the result from here and thus far from you know talking? Jane July August time moving forward with these things in place We're averaging, you know, we receive approximately 26 more applications per month than we did last school year So we're heading in the right direction Okay retention efforts I'd just like to note that the retention efforts that are listed up here, the first three are really reflected around building a sense of community within the schools and support so that new employees, new teachers feel that they have a network and that they're linked arm in arm with a colleague so that they don't fall. A lot of our recruitment and retention efforts that I'm going to talk about or have talked
048about, They do come from various forms of exit interviews and meetings, conversations with employees. We take employee feedback into consideration and build off from there. So mentoring and onboarding. Onboarding is a very crucial part of any organization because right off the bat, you want someone to feel... welcomed and supported. Our mentoring teacher mentor coordinator is Ricky Nicholas Hahn. We work quite closely together to pair mentors with an appropriate or I should say new teachers with an appropriate mentor in the district. The mentoring program is part of New York State regulations for new teachers. Our district offers mentoring to teachers who are not only new to teaching but new to the district as well to really help support during that first year. One thing that Ricky and I have been trying to do is make the
049pairings sooner so that someone's not there for a month and we're waiting for the next board meeting until they have their mentor. The Utica Teacher Center is also very much interested in collaborating with retention efforts. There's conversation of forming a subcommittee that is focusing on retention efforts. We had one meeting, maybe A week or two ago. I don't know all the days are kind of mixed together in my head, but right around there and Hope to reconvene soon The new teacher mixer is something that used to be in play many years ago. I don't think it has taken place, to the best of my knowledge, since the COVID pandemic. But the new teacher mixer was something that we hosted this year at Proctor High School in their library. We gave all of our new teachers
050from across all 13 of our buildings an opportunity to come together, meet one another, build a network of people so that they feel a sense of community and support. We also provided them with, you know, a book that they're willing to use to help guide their first year with the district. And it's going to be, you know, it's the first one of our gatherings to kind of bring everybody together and develop a sense of community. Teaching assistants, it's, you know, an employee recommendation was given. What about a shadowing program for teaching assistants so that they feel more prepared for entering special education classrooms? So that is in process, actually. What we're doing is... collecting names of teaching assistants from principals who are dynamic and have exemplary performance and work well with students. And we're going
051to try to pair off new employees there for maybe the first week or so. It might not work with every single new employee because sometimes our teaching assistants Are maybe like walkers for example, so if we don't have like a shadow classroom set up in January or February I'm not gonna have someone, you know, try to walk across the city, but we're gonna do what we can to Make this work so that our teaching assistants feel supported any questions So you did a good job at contextualizing our labor shortage issues in particular areas. The school system is not disconnected from the larger societal framework. We are experiencing what we would call a tight labor market. That's what economists would call that, meaning that there are more jobs. The number of jobs exceed the available workforce.
052So what does that mean for us in the Utica context? It means that we have to be very innovative in regards to the ways in which we go after and attracting employees. And not just any employees, colleagues. We want to make sure that we have highly qualified faculty and staff to join our highly qualified ranks here at the Utica City School District. So the billboards, the radio, the career fair going to the source is all reflected in that work. really does is it reflects the system's responsiveness to a labor shortage that is being experienced across the state. So, you know, we understand that this is going to be evolving. This is our method today. As these things evolve and we get more information in regards to the labor pool and how it's responding to these
053different treatments, we will also evolve the ways in which we go after employees. And we're hoping that people start to come in and we see a greater yield in applications, which I believe we're seeing based on those efforts. Can I ask you just to? Okay, so. and I've raised this issue multiple times at different in different capacities has there been any discussion at the state level and you go to a lot of those meetings where they're finally going to say we're going to do something to wave in some of the out-of-state teachers that would probably love to come to New York and teach Is there is there ever any discussion about that or is that being shut off by? the labor supply side of the Of the equation or is that you know not being
054looked at from the you know the Department side The full transparency at our last big five meeting right before I could ask that question the Commissioner had to go but when we meet in February that's one of the things that I'm bringing to the big fives attention in regards to how are they helping with the sort of the certification process to cast a wider net so it's something that was discussed it's something that's been experienced by systems across the state but I didn't get to get a definitive answer on that it's something that we'll be advocating for an upcoming February through the big five Okay, and then my second question is and I don't know if this is appropriate or not for us to do but if we have TAS that are walkers or Candidates
055that are walkers and it would be a daunting task to be able to go across the city and we have School buses that are traveling from the neighborhoods that they live in Couldn't we do something to allow them to ride? the buses to school? We'll research that. Or is that not? We'll research that and whether there's any implications for that. Okay. That said, again, there are consequences for having a labor shortage in regards to continuity of educational services for students, workload, etc. The appropriate format that we typically discuss these things is through the labor relations format. That's a dedicated channel for us to work with our collective bargaining units to discuss the scope of that work, and we'll continue to do that with our collective bargaining units. we'll continue to be creative in regards to
056our solution-oriented thinking as to how do we attract candidates and get them in the system. Anyone else have any questions? Just a couple of things. Joe, you were talking about reciprocity with other state certifications. Two years ago, I believe it was, I spoke with a, I think it was Virginia State University. I was on campus. They have an education program. They were saying that they are working with Ithaca. on that reciprocity piece so that certification so I don't know what that looks like maybe we can reach out to the district there and see if we can or superintendent to superintendent see what you can find out on on that front um also are we seeing that the students that teach in our district student teach in our district so from local colleges are we hiring
057them do we know I do know, yes. We are, actually. There's, you know, off the cuff, the first without saying names scenario that comes to mind. We actually had a teacher, we have a teacher residency program with Utica University. And actually, we hired one of our teacher residents, and he is at Proctor High School now. But we do. We do look to hire our student teachers. We have some, what I hear, some very dynamic student teachers right now. Their placements happen to be actually at Donovan Middle School. So we've met with one of them already to talk about coming on board. Thank you. You're welcome. Another question. I saw your college fairs. Yes. That's just a few of them. I know there's quite a few more schools out there that have education programs. What are
058those conversations like with those schools to kind of help, even though it's not a college fair? Are there conversations being had with those other schools or universities to kind of get those students over here as well? Yeah, we do reach out. It's a little bit, usually what starts the conversation are the affiliation agreements and partnerships with different universities that they have with their students because then we're able to meet and interact with not only professors from afar of the conversation, but then their students are in here too as well. Do we reach out and say, hey, I need a science teacher, I know you have this program, do you have anybody? We do do that. And one more question. Yeah. 2 plus 2 program with MVCC and SUNY Oneonta. Is that fruitful for us? Is
059that what? Fruitful. Are we seeing any students or teachers being hired through that program? So there are going to be local MVCC students that will get that second or third or fourth year with SUNY Oneonta. You know, off the cuff, I don't have the data to answer that question, but I'm happy to look into it. Thank you. No problem. Any other questions I have just one um when I know And speaking with you, but also the presentation we've kind of thought outside that box right advertisement billboards radio the mobile team When we're getting these new applicants now that we've kind of enacted that are we tracking to see what may have what? Modality may have prompted them to say okay. Now I'm going to apply so that we can or the the administration can say,
060okay, this was fruitful. This might not have been what we thought. Maybe we should allocate more resource or something like that. Yeah, actually, it's funny. One of my colleagues asked me the same question earlier today. But when you complete an application on PowerSchool, well, it's called SchoolSpring, but it's powered by PowerSchool. One of the first questions is, how did you hear about this opportunity? And there's a drop-down list where they can detect. Social media, you know, whatever the different forms our district website, etc. Yes You're welcome. I have a question. Yes in talking about the forms a lot of times when you are that that form seems very detailed to if you've ever worked with the person like when you're giving a reference and a lot of times they are like personal references or if
061you're a friend or a colleague and the questions are not relevant is there any plan and ever changing some of those like drop downs or yeah there is so particularly like for I understand your example. And I was thinking too about like the coaching references too that maybe aren't specific for that. So they could use maybe like a revamp. I did have a meeting not that long ago with PowerSchool. Some of the settings in there are a little, you know, it's a little tricky to kind of figure out. So on our like agenda or to-do list, that was an item on there on revising those. reference forms. Just another thing that you'll hear is when a teacher retires and comes back or applies for something it seems to be a lot of... Is there a
062way to stream like that to almost make it quicker or for coaches who have coached before do you think that they have the option for shorter applications? Does that program I guess? So there's always options to tweak something and I can review, you know that up, you know that possibility with our superintendent and take it from there. Awesome. Thank you. You're welcome Not a question. Go ahead. No, I was asking if there were any other questions. Oh, okay. Not a question, a comment, but I think it's really important to bring attention to this, which I think is a change in mentality statewide. And I'm going to apologize in advance of the tortured analogy. I'm a history major, so I'm going to go on. You mentioned it being a pandemic instead of, you know, we normally
063talk about a statewide shortage or a nationwide shortage. A nationwide or statewide shortage, I think, is a very... fatalistic although maybe true but fatalistic way of looking at the idea that it's something that's outside of completely outside the district's control whereas pandemic actually shifts the narrative to something that's both within our control and out of our control the lesson that was learned largely from the pandemic you couldn't fix the pandemic on the local level it was only the state the nation the world level but you could get better results on the local level than other places depending on what you did what you inputted into the system we saw the counties the cities localities that really stepped up put in the work got innovative with dealing with covid had the lower virality and lower mortality
064rates and i think that's the way to approach these kind of shortage problems too is instead of looking at it and i think that's what you're saying here instead of looking at it this kind of more fatalistic we can't do anything until the state does something to fix the problem we have to get creative to help the problem be better than other districts in the the area but we also need the state and other entities to step up to help us solve the problem or their own yes and i think that's worth drawing attention to because i do think it's a mentality shift in a welcome one Thank you. It's definitely a mentality shift. Urban education is very specific, and it takes the right fit for that. But regardless of the number of applications coming
065in or qualified candidates at your doorstep wanting to work for this district or any other district, the reality is that we're still obligated. to educate our students and so that thinking outside of the box comes into play utica is it's very unique to our area our district is very unique to the area we have a lot of students we don't have the you know it's not like a bosey setting where if you are short staffed you just aren't taking maybe you're just not taking extra students at this time until you're more fully staffed we don't have We don't have that luxury. We are taking students regardless because that is our obligation So there's a difference between Perhaps being competent and also being qualified, right? Yes. Okay, so there's probably a supply of competent teachers, but
066they aren't necessarily qualified because of the Historic limitations that have been put in place I think that maybe You know, we've been talking about a teacher shortage For as long as I've been on this board and it's been eight years at no time did everyone say man We got more teachers than we know what to do with and You know that the issue is that if you're educated out of state and you could go to the finest schools your Not gonna be you can be as competent as you know you need to be but there's no road that I've seen that allows a competent teacher to become qualified to render services thereby choking the educational system and at some point There has to be something done now You know choking off the supply creates an
067issue for the end user and drives up the cost for the existing supply, right? Yes. Okay. So, you know, at some point, I'm hoping that the state finds out that we have a teacher shortage in the various communities and that at some point there is an actual effort made to do something. to address the issue because from my perspective We've been talking about this and you can think outside the box and do all these different things until they address the competent individuals that have degrees from schools outside of the state and open up the opportunities so that districts like ours can fill all of the positions that we've been waiting for a long time to fill because there is no supply. So I I mean I just wanted to address that issue we could sit
068here and think outside the box all we want but the fact of the matter is we don't have the ability to make the adjustment if you can't get the certification because they don't want us to use Uncertified teachers, right? I mean in the Commissioner her lieutenants the board of regents has presented to nizba on a couple of different occasions and the board of regents has changed some of the requirements they are moving in the direction of well you have to get both sides of the equation right supply side yeah and oversight i think that the point though again is a move towards and i think that's what we're hearing less of the fatalistic view that it's outside of our control and more of a managing the issue of view and i think it's a welcome
069change in mentality Well, I would just like to say thank you for recognizing administration's diligent efforts to recruit highly qualified faculty and staff We are not sitting idle as you've just mentioned and acknowledged we are working diligently within the confines of the market to be Competitive and attractive and it can go after that. So I appreciate that Thank you, Sarah, for your presentation. Thanks. I just also just want to add one other thing I forgot to mention earlier is part of my role, right, is to not only handle on the labor market in the country, in the state, but also within the county, too. So I have been keeping an eye on organizations coming to the area, leaving the area, and having talks with local leaders about what affects. or impacts new companies coming to
070the area may potentially have on our district. So I have some good ideas and plans in mind. I don't want to share them publicly here because I don't want another organization to steal them from me. But there is, you know, that is also being reviewed. I don't want anyone to think that, you know, Chobani entering, it's not, it doesn't affect us. It does. Everything affects us. Thanks. You're welcome. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. We'll take a five-minute recess. I'm really hoping that we're going to finish under the five-hour mark tonight. Okay, we're going to come back from our brief recess now that everyone is refreshed, and we are now going to have a budget presentation brought to us by our superintendent. Is that right, Dr. Spence? The superintendent and crew. And co. And company. All
071right. Okay. So, again, in accordance with the budget timeline, we are going to present the administrative plant and transportation section of the budget. And I'll talk about what are the major drivers within this particular cost center. as with everything that we've done and what you've seen in the presentations this year we align all of our work with our mission and vision because that centers uh what we do on a regular basis again we're committed to continuous improvement and we need a budget that is going to reflect those district priorities to help move the needle forward the same is true for our vision And of course, our district priorities. All of the work, all of the functions, all of the human capital is centered around making sure that we can improve student outcomes across the district.
072These district priorities are the priorities that we believe are going to get us to the next level and continue moving the work forward. Align to our key performance indicators. Again, for this budget, we're looking for this particular call center, we're looking at a 6.3% increase, most of which can be explained by the increase in transportation. I still can't see even though that's up there. so the way we've decided to approach this budget is by looking at the 25 26 adopted budget and comparing it to the proposed budget and really reflecting the increases and decreases within the respective areas Most of which you will see is contractual obligations again within this section of the budget that we're talking about tonight the greatest Increases in transportation and we'll talk about why that is Again looking at this
073section of the budget. You don't really see any Major increases with the exception of the human resources line and that really it can be explained by the ways in which we've coded some of the individuals the assistant superintendent for business and a finance salary is men including that line was also increased that line to reflect the administrative position that we have the human resource administrator position as well as the An extension of a consulting service. So you see that increase there within that line item Again, when you look at custodial operations, much of- Dr. Spence, at the risk of asking a stupid question, but the human resource administrator position, what does that person- That's a new position, right? That's a position that's already been board approved. So previously, there was the recruiter position. Correct. We
074repackaged that position as the human resources administrator position. And that person would be intended to do what? They'll be helping with the functions of human resources in areas of recruiting, investigative, and things like that. But there'll be an extension of that office to really help drive the work. regards to the recruitment so it's a little bit of what Isaiah was doing previously I believe in the 23-24 budget and then also added responsibilities to help support that office is that that's not like the benefits and all that stuff right no that is on that state a plan as Dave yeah I'm just I'm just asking yeah okay so it's not a duplication of service no it is not a do thank you yeah it's not a duplicate services thank you thank thank you for that uh
075Okay, when we look at custodial maintenance, you'll see that the custodial operations is down. That's explained by the fact that we have some new machinery, that we are not spending an exhaustive amount to maintenance things such as the vehicles. But everything else you see is really just contractual obligations. There's nothing, no real market changes there. Again, the same here. We really don't have any real major increases with, again, most of the increase coming through transportation. Feel free to stop me if you have a question. But I want to get to the big increase. So here. You're looking at transportation and you'll notice that there is a nine point seven percent increase in transportation and That can be explained by some of the things that we had discussed already previously and you'll see that on the
076next slide So there's one we've expanded the routes to meet the demands of the needs of the organization in regards to our students and to ensure that we're getting our students to school on time. We haven't really had, I'd like to say we've had a precipitous decline in transportation issues. Mr. Ferraro, correct me if I'm wrong. But things have been working seamlessly. So we've invested in transportation, and the outcome has been a decline in issues in the transportation department. So even though we're shooting for perfect, right, we've had a significant reduction. Is that correct? Yes. And what is the reason for that? Mike, would you like to explain that? So one was rolling out both transportation companies to expand routes to get kids to school. on time. Do we have more routes? Yes, we have
077more routes. We've increased the routes this year, I want to say, give or take about 10 or 11 routes. We're still changing routes every day. We evaluate, we fluctuate on between 10 and 11, 8 and 11 routes. We do move them periodically to try to ease the burden on the taxpayer for that stuff. And what's the net effect of that generally, you know, in terms of the impact on our students and the families that are responsible for them? So it's efficiency, it's reliability, it's the education side, getting the kids to school on time for breakfast, for learning. It's really a vital part of the operation in a whole. Okay. How many students were we busing, let's say, a couple years ago? So the numbers from, I would say, if you go post-COVID, it would fluctuate.
078Yeah, they're up there. So they would fluctuate from 5,000 to 6,000. Last year it was 60. It's on this board here. It was 60, 400. The number that I heard was 72, I think. For last year yeah, it fluctuated the the overall percentage was about 60 Just trying to read up there where it is. You know I'm just asking and how many do we have this year? 7400 or about 980 kids 980 kids more in addition in addition and you got it you got to understand. It's it's We transport transport a lot of students in a lot of different areas So when we talk about transportation in the uptick and transportation, it's not just our District transportation we provide transportation for the parochial schools. We provide transportation for the charter schools. We Provide transportation for
079many McKinney-Vento students that school the deaf There's DDS cops pro there's they're all over the place so When you say when you look at those increasing numbers it there's a lot of factors involved in there Okay Thank you And then, of course, because we have two vendors that we work with, there is an increase in the cost of their services. We are also looking at, again, we, and I don't know if this is correlated, but the cell phone policy, I think shortly after that we noticed an uptick in students utilizing the buses. I don't know if that's correlated for any reason, but we've noticed that we have more students that are utilizing busing to attend school. And then you'll also see that... We looked at the 24-25 school year in regards to athletics and field
080trips, and we wanted to make sure that we adequately reflected that usage in the budget. So we've increased the budget there so that we can have monies for athletics and field trips. And again, when you look at the McKinney-Vento Act and our duty to be compliant with that law, we are— People don't even know what that is, so maybe you want to explain it. So it's homeless students. So those are students experiencing homelessness. We have a duty and obligation to transport them. So we want to make sure— that the transportation reflects our reality insofar as much as possible. And those are the key drivers for the budget there. Now, in the next slide, we talk about the ratio, the aid ratios, and we disaggregate that. So 90% of it is aidable. And actually, that's the
081next slide. But here, we'll just talk about the... the overall pie chart and what is attributed to it. So you can look at summer school, contractual obligations, our district lease budgets and salaries, and then the administration. And then you can compare what we did for the 25, 26, as well as the 26 and 27, and you can look at the pie chart there. We put that there as a comparison. On the next slide is when we talk about the aidability of this expense. Can I just ask this question? So let's say I wanted to return our transportation. costs back to let's say two or three years ago in the 15 million dollar range just to save some money. What would the impact be? Probably an increase in chronic absenteeism. There would be a disruption to
082the educational learning environment. Probably more issues in regards to our ability to get students to and from school. I mean that has to be scary for you. Yeah, we don't want to go back there Well, I mean, you know there's been some suggestion that we're overspending on the transportation to get our kids to school now Is there any correlation with actually attending school and actually being able to learn or is that something that? There's no correlation. Highly correlated. It's difficult to learn when the kids aren't in the building. So, yes. And I think it's important to know when we look at these call centers and the drivers, the administration, the school district, faculty, and staff have already shown proof of concept. We have diminished issues with transportation. We've done a phenomenal job at providing an
083extended day learning service, which also impacts transportation. We're going to do a very good job at that. And then you see the market student growth in our three through eight core content areas. So that investment that we're making, we're seeing gains. Now, right now, we're also tracking our key performance indicators to chronic absenteeism, meaning our students coming to school, et cetera. And we're looking at that, and it seems to be promises. from what we're looking at, promising from what we're looking at now. So we're working on providing a better update for the whole organization as we're looking at these things. But I think this is money well spent. And our ability to transport our kids on field trips and things like that, which is also very important. Thank you. Okay. All right, so which is
084important for you all, we just want to be transparent about this. So the total transportation budget for 26-27, $27,167,585, and the total unalienable expenditures, which is $909,639. That is composed of field trips and athletics and athletic runs. That's the portion that's unaidable. And you see the number of the total aidable expenditures with it being highly 90% aidable in our district. So really, the local share cost about $3.5 million to the local taxpayers. We do a good job at converting this expense into an expense-driven aid insofar as much as possible. And we've... you know, we're recommending a budget that reflects the activity of the district. So that unaided portion really goes to the benefit of our kids and to all the extracurricular activities and field trips and things like that, right? Yeah, I'd say this is
085the most student-centered core center because we need to help them with their mobility to and from events. Well, I just have to say on behalf of the board, I want to thank you for putting in a great deal of work on this particular presentation today. And I think it's clear that... from this presentation that we do think about the students that you are sitting there correlating the transportation money and other issues to the performance of the students so thank you for that thank you very much and we are uh We're pleased to be able to say that the organization and the investments that the board has made has allowed us to do this work. If the board didn't make the investment, we wouldn't be able to have a Raiders Extended Day Learning Program to help
086our neediest families. So these investments are becoming fruitful, so we thank you for that. Then the last slide again. We just give you a summary of the upcoming budget steps Which is consistent with the budget timeline and just again you'll see a six point three percent increase for recommending for transportation And that concludes this portion of the budget does anyone have any questions? Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Good job Okay We are now through the presentation portion We are now up to the superintendent's report. It's my understanding and I can be corrected If I am wrong we are We're you're offering the report you're pulling s 126 on page 7 withdrawing Withdrawing that's what I mean. So you not offering so you're not offering s 131 on page 8 Correct. I'm assuming that 137 138
087and 139 on pages 10 through 14 will be pulled for discussion 137 I'm withdrawing and will Recommend you're not offering. You're not offering 137. No Yes, that's what you just told me on page 10. Yeah Okay, and then 38 and 39 are gonna be pulled for discussion and 40 and 40 and 140. Yes, okay So those will be pulled for discussion and then we are adding page 38 items p27 which would be the coaching appointment of boys modified basketball and The coaching appointment for volunteer volunteer girls wrestling coach So those will be added so with those amendments to the Report are there any other pages or items that people want pulled? So based upon the not offering of s 126 131 and 137 and the addition of items P 27s on page 38 with items
088138 139 and 140 Pulled for discussion. Can I have a motion? Are you recommending the report at that time? I am may have a motion to adopt the report move it any discussion on the that portion of the port that's being Adopted hearing none all in favor. Aye opposed Okay. Now I need a motion Do you want to do S137, I'm sorry, S138, 139, and 140 together? Or do you want to do them individually? Okay. I need a motion to adopt 138, 139, and 140. Can I have a motion? Okay. Any discussion? Yeah. I got this. So are we... Guess is it something that you would what are we to be an executive session discussion or is it something we can discuss on the floor? I would offer tabling it until the end of the
089meeting After the next executive session to ask their legal advice on whether or not it's an executive session topic or floor topic Okay, so that would lead me to the next thing which is the motion for Executive session. Oh wait. I'm sorry. I'm sorry There's a motion on the floor to table it pending the results of our next executive session. Can I get a second? All in favor? Aye. Okay. Now, can I have a motion to go into executive session to talk about the employment of particular people? And legal matters. And legal matters. Okay. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay. We're going into executive session.