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003here Mr. Breeden man. Yeah this is Danielle Pula here. Breeden man. Yeah this is Danielle Pula here Mr. James Paul here. Okay, we have a Okay, we have a quorum um, Um, is there anyone here for public comment? Okay. Okay, there's no public. Comment today. Um, I'm sure we'll have some public comment. Is it tomorrow? What time is that? Uh, what time is that? 6, p-m tomorrow. 6 p-m tomorrow, where Proctor artorium. Well, I just wanted to hear the announcement of where it's going to be. Okay. Absolutely. I I wouldn't miss it for the world. um, okay. so, We have announcements reports, but I'm going to move that. Um, Because that's supposed to be down below a little bit. So the first thing that we're going to do is here from in Conley our Conley,
004our treasurer Good evening, everyone. Hope everyone's having a good a good summer. It's been a while since I've been here. um, so for this meeting I uh, provided the uh general fund budget status fund budget status reports cafeteria fund budget status reports, reports and cash, balance reports for all district bank accounts for the month ending May 31st 2025 accounts for the month, ending May 31st 2025, um, also wanted to Throw out a reminder, uh, for all our employees. Throw out a reminder uh for all our employees, since we'll be returning back to work uh next week. returning back to work. Uh next week um at the end of the school year, we launched the school year, we launched. Um, our electronic offering of pay stubs and W-2s to all employees online is a added customer
005service uh, from the customer service, uh, from the payroll business office. Um, so when you return to work, uh, you won't be receiving a physical pay stub, it will be available online. Um, however, um, for individuals that do not have access to go online, you can request a, we still receive. online, you can request a. We still receive a paper, pay stub, uh, and just reach out to the stub uh and just reach out to the payroll department uh and they can set that up for you. So does anyone have any questions or um, I have a couple. Yeah ago. So Where do we stand with our? Our uh, Investments. Well, our investments. Um, so we had majority of our investments that we made last year matured. Um at the end of June, however, we've
006reinvested all that money. Um, that was invested in early July. So, uh, we currently have that invested and we have short-term, uh, Investments that we've been doing like a month or 3 months, uh, we have a couple Investments there, a lot more long term, 6 months. So we're doing pretty good on that. When you you mean in terms of making sure that things are. invested. Yes, very good. Yes. invested. Yes. Very good. Yes. And, uh, Do you have an, you have an idea as to what we might have generated. In. In interest from that last year. Yeah. Um, so at the, At the end of the year, we generated just over 4 million dollars in interest. Fantastic. And that was spread out between uh, general fund money and as well as Reserve money. So it
007was spread out between where where does that money go? Um, well the majority of that was generated by. um, well, the majority of that was generated by investing our Reserve money so that it's brought back into the reserve accounts, uh, such as like reserve accounts uh, such as like our ERS, TRS reserves. Um, then there was a portion of that that was general fund money through that just got, um, put back into the general fund. Um, fund, um, as revenue is that and used for revenue and fund, um, as revenue is that and used for Revenue in 202526, or 202425, uh, 2425. and, Was that? Was that money? That was generated. um, Identified for a particular use, or is it? available for um, Use. use on things in the 2526 year. Um, if you know,
008they don't know. That's okay. As you want to answer that. Hi, there on the phone. I'm just talking about it. Yeah, that's a fun encumbered Heaven that we brought in from the revenue from the you're not encumbered per se, you had a budget of 500 I believe 500,000 budgeted for 500. I believe 500,000 budgeted for revenue for interest income. Um, but You have a budget that you've approved. That the the You have a budget that you've approved that the the the the district has approved. And so um district has approved and so um, it that money wasn't appropriated anywhere else. So for when you say is it encumbered, or is it appropriate? It just ends up going to our fund balance. so we want it to spend it on something. Could we do it? You
009could do it within your budget. can you explain that to me, because Can you explain that to me? Because let me just say this. I just want to understand the concept. Sure. Sure, my man. We can't go over the voters of the voters. Approved the budget. We cannot exceed the budget to which the voters approved, but Heather, could you provide some more context on the cranial? Yeah, because I'm trying to understand when, when there's extra money, When I say extra money. How do we get to use that? You get to use it in the budget year, if you so, Budget year if you so, so in the 2627, if you. But if you've appropriated for a particular purpose, so in the 2526 budget, the the board approved. And budget, the the board approved and districts
010District voters approved, some appropriation of fund balance. Okay? So that that that was taking to account the 2324 year. So you've already got some of that money that you've appropriated for 2526. 2627 here. We had. Call it. Call it unanticipated Revenue. Call it unanticipated, Revenue. We could then use that for something. We appropriate those funds if we appropriate those funds, correct? And those are not the ones that go into the reserves that's additional. Yeah. And then, and then for clarity when we say we're appropriate and funds, you have to look at it like a savings account. If you have money in your savings account, $5 here. your savings account $5 here and you appropriate. The money is gone. So when we're talking about usage we're not talking about Legacy costs. We're talking about 1 Shot,
011Ya 1 shot. Yeah yeah people got it. Anybody else have any questions? Sorry, I have 1 question. It might not be directly for Ian. Yeah, the 2. 2 meetings ago. I know we had budget transfers that 2 meetings ago, I know we had budget transfers that were proposed in the superintendent report. Those are pulled. What's going on, with those budget transfers and then What's going on with those budget transfers and then the few other budget transfers that were being talked about, they're going to be presented at the September meeting, um, as we've gone through gone, through the audit procedures over the past 2 or 3 months, we've identified things that not need to be fixed, but need to be adjusted. Um, and so I prepared those Dr. Spence has reviewed them. Um, but as we're
012working through the audit, if there was anything else else, identified, we didn't want to come to you 2 or 3 times. We wanted to come to you once the the majority of them deal with the things. We them deal with the things we've talked about all year long, the majority of them deal with payroll and the coding issues um that we think we've from what I understand. You know, we cured um and know we cured um and then number 2 some of the bosies going back and forth so you're not going to see huge contractual changes, you're not going to see electric bills or anything like that. We do those through or anything like that. We do those throughout the year, okay. Anyone else have any questions? Thanks. Thanks guys. Have a good night. Oh,
013it's nice to see your smiling face sigh of relief. Good to go. Okay. Um, I guess. I guess we should get a presentation from Michelle Hall. and, and the CTE. Welcome back. No. No, the red light's got to be on. There you go. There we go. Okay. Thank you for having me. Um, very excited to provide a CTE update. I was in the building earlier today. It's coming along nicely. It's along nicely, it's ready. September 2nd, um, along nicely. It's ready. September 2nd. Um, really exciting to see what's going on there. The space that students will have the opportunity to learn in very, very exciting. Um, as you know, our work exciting. Um, as you know our work in CTE, it focuses on really, bridging education to the really, bridging education, to the world of
014work, and it aligns with the mission. Um, and vision of our district, which is to really provide an education for all and to make sure as they move on to post-secondary, they've had exposure and they can make an informed decision on their own. Um, it also aligns with our priorities and smart goals, um, to increase attendance, and we do that by student engagement and the hope is that, if students are placed in these programs, um, they become engaged. engaged and Find meaning in school and their place. And so they um, we hope to increase attendance. they um we hope to increase attendance that way teacher retention. We want to build a beautiful onboarding program and when you do that, you have teachers who are confident, um, and um, and are comfortable in their space and
015hopefully will remain here in the district. And then as far as curriculum and feedback and instructional best practices, um, we have career ready, practices, project-based learning, we have, um, research research-based strategies that we're implementing in all of the curriculum as well. so, if you So if you look at the portrait of a graduate, um we are perfect. perfectly aligning with what's happening there. Um, this is just a reminder of the systematic approach that we use. So we have K through 6. We have the Middle School modules which we've all heard about. We have the ninth grade explor. exploratory, and then um, the 10th through 12th, CTE Pathways, they perfectly align with what's going on with the blue ribbon commission. Um, as far as critical thinking, communicating becoming a global Citizen and so on, um, I'm
016not sure if everybody understands that once a student is in high school and and working towards a CTE pathway, they can either get They have it to get a technical endorsement on their diploma. They can have a regular regions dip. diploma. They can have a regular Regents diploma, they can get an advanced regions, diploma, they can, get an advanced regions, diploma they can follow the 4 plus 1 pathway. Um, so when plus 1 pathway. Um, so when a student wants to receive technical endorsement on their certificate, they have to have 22 credits. Um, pass at least 4, Regents exams. get 3.5 credits of CTE hours, pass 3-part technical assessment and have 54 hours of work-based learning. So when we say CTE pathway, we mean all of those things, and that's the criteria for a student
017to receive that on their diploma. Okay. Um, we are very proud to say that all of our teachers have been hired, um, have been hired. Um, that's amazing because I know administrators and CTE buildings that have been looking for teachers for quite some time. So we're really proud to say they're hired. We're proud of the experience and expertise that they can bring to this building. Um, they're very enthusiastic, very excited about their space, their team Utica for sure. And, um, Utica for sure. And um, we're really excited to get that started. So our phase in as we prepare to get the building up. So our phase in, as we prepare to get the building up and running. Um, we are working to running, um, we are working to have that building fall and this is
018our role. this is our roll out. So for the 2526 Year, we will have the ninth grade exploratory classes in that part of the building, we have 3 teachers that will be teaching those courses. Um and right now we have 569 students registered for those CTE exploratory courses. Um, these are the 3 categories that will expose them to 4 Pathways within each of those. of those categories. And the roll out here is on the right as well. At the end of 9th grade. Students have the opportunity to apply for a CTE pathway. Um, Um, the application process isn't fully complete yet but there will be an interview involved, um, and we will use Lotto software to make sure that we're addressing all demographics and including all students, um, in my opinion. demographics and including all
019students. Um, in my opinion when you're talking about placing students and this roll out knowledge, out, knowledge is power. We want guidance counselors, we want teachers, we want parents, we want everybody involved to truly understand what's happening in the district and then those are the people that tap students, right? They are the, the people who know who may benefit from these programs, programs, who are appropriate from these for these programs and and so on. Um, so this is our roll out, we're looking very and so on. Um, so this is our roll out. We're looking very forward to having the ninth graders in this year. Um, in that space, we're Working using everything there. So looking forward to that. To date. Um, this is the data that we've built over the last 2 years. Um,
020I don't know. This isn't really presenting like, do I not have this open all the way? Is it not open, right? Oh, Joe's, doing it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay, sorry about that. Um, this is our dad, I'll just Okay. Sorry about that. Um this is our dad. I'll just read it off to you. We have 210 business partners over the last 2 years. We have 154 students who have gone through pre-apprenticeship programs here in the district. We have. we have CTE teachers, we have trained 287 teachers in the district, on our district on our CTE programs. And we have work-based learning hours have been offered to. 1 1,582, work-based. 1 1,582. Work-based learning hours have been offered. So if you look at that um we do that because that's what's good for students, right? And
021we want them to have the best experiences. We also do that because it's part of the approval process in New York state. So in order to have these CTE Pathways in the high school, there's a New York state approval process and throughout that process. Um, these programs you have to have an initial process, um, initial approval, and then every 5 years, you're up for revolut. Doing that. Part of that is a high quality curriculum. Certified faculty the technical assessment, a post-secondary, articulation agreement, and the work-based learning. learning, um, a self-evaluation is included in that. external review and then your consideration from the New York State education department. So all of the data we provide you and all this information, it's all part of that review process. Um, what I'm going to do is stagger that
022because we don't want all 12 Pathways up for approval at this same time because it's, it's a very lengthy process. So we're starting with 4. Um, we're starting with the business Pathways and then we'll introduce the other others as we go on. So, how are we creating? Um, how are we raising the bar? So how are we creating? Um, how are we raising the bar? For students? We're really providing a thorough on. students, we're really providing a thorough onboarding for the CTE teachers. Um, these teachers will be shadowing, they will be teaching, they will be pushing into the ninth grade exploratory. They will be onboarded and trained throughout the year. Um, there are research