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003the county to use time in school, the school will be out there. Won't be students there. So November 4th it's at June 2nd. Yeah, that that's primary day and then November 4th Yep. They're on now. June 24th. Yeah, they're done by then. Yeah, the middle school. Middle. School is done. I thought they went to the 26th know they're They had like, what? So in the so in the past, it did fall on regular school days and they usually Auditorium entrance citizen seal. So when I thought, we, I thought a few years back, we passed a resolution that voting when there were students in the building, and that was when Mark was here and then they did another 1 to bring them back, let them back up. Because well then then I'm just saying, just so
004when you do have the election in in their school, in session, they seal off the authority to make them just the hallway in the auditorium, that's all they use. Well I got a vote against it because you can't let people just open the doors and let people in the building. I don't unless you're going to have armed guards watching. Okay. Any, uh, any other discussion? Call the question we want, but so, are they in session on the 24th? Yeah, yes that's good. So the last the last day is what 26, everybody goes to that Friday. well, they graduate from 4 but they're still 27. Okay, we need to vote. We need a roll. Call vote. All in favor. I post no motion carries. Okay. B45 need a motion. Oh, I'm sorry, b46. Okay, any discussion?
005So yeah, on this 1. So um I that 1 was a competitive bet. I thought there was multiple bids, is this the same vendor that we've been using? Or is this a new know? It's a new fans or they were a vendor. Um, probably about 8 years ago. Okay, so they they they have a rubbish bit. I want to say, um, I don't know. Maybe 200. 13 or 14, they had it, they had it once before that. And then um, CWS, I was here for a while and then like you said, with the bits come in, so they were they were a vendor at 1 time for the rubbish. I think they lost the bid once. Came back again and lost it again. So they our rubbish usually moves around sometimes. And this was a
006request through bit down to request their proposal request for a bit. All right, thank you. Their unit costs. Any other questions comments all in favor iOS? Motion passes. Um, need a motion on uh, b47 second any questions comments. Okay. Um, I see this 1, we only did get 1 bid, right? Yeah, because, so, that's a, it's a fresh fruits and vegetable grant. That is 100%. Uh, um, we get every, we get dollar for dollar for what we spend that the dollar amount is given to us by the state for what we need to spend. So we have to provide fresh fruits and vegetable outside of the, um, lunch program. And it has to be packaged a certain way for us to be able to deliver the the fruit and vegetable to the kids. So there's
007a so, um, It has to be packaged a certain way 1. It's got to be delivered. We don't have the storage for it. So it's got to be delivered certain times. There's a lot of criteria we have that it has to be done that way, because if it's not, we can't we can't deliver it. So Uh, there's only a probably, maybe 1 or 2 people in the reading that are probably even package or or that much fruit and vegetables per week. All right, and I forgot if it was this 1 or the pieces. Next, I think 1 of them had We sent an invitation to bid to 2 people. The other 1, I think was 4 or 5. Yep. Um we only got the 1 bid when we're sending out the invitation to bid. Is
008there any follow-up with the vendor to see if they are going to? So we just make sure that they got the bids and they receive them. We don't, you know, and if they have any questions, uh, when we do them, you know, Okay, we don't really ask them if they're going to bid or not. We just make sure that they understand the bid, if they had any questions, so we can answer them for them so they can make a wise decision on bidding, but that's really, as far as we, we, we go with them. Just getting back to the so the fruit vendor, I just wanted to ask are these the 1, the the fruit vendor that got us all the Exotic fruits, like the blood oranges and stuff like that. Yeah yep. They got
009some truck he still does that. Yeah, we got some on the menu so our kids get a chance to experience some. Yeah interesting proof that when they open 1 up they know what what it is. Yeah. Okay Any other question about the fruit, we looked at whether it is advisable or not to break up that bed to attract more. So the problem with that, that that Pizza shell bit is under the N. National school, lunch program. It has to be you know 51% whole grain. There's not anybody in the state other than this person that does it. They even Supply to all the, uh, um, prisons other schools, um, for us to get a shell pre-made that fits that criteria. No, no, no. There's no for the 1. What about fruit? 1 could that 1
010be broken up at all into multiple like, have 1 vendor. So, so I'll just be honest with you. We tried, we, you know, um, I just I don't want to use an example, there's local vendor that has the fruits but they can't, you know, Cut it package, it get it to us in time. We don't have the staff to cut that much fruit or storage to put it in. We reached out to like, um, Syracuse users like Wegman's We we called all these places to try to see if we can do smaller badges, or just do grapes or just do strawberries and it it it's been. It's been a challenge. So another reason why we got to get a Wegman's into the cup size that. But so, so the Syracuse Wegman's bid some of theirs
011sometimes. So it's it's it's it's a lot. Thank you. Okay, any other questions? Regarding B, 47, all in favor, iOS motion carries in a motion for B 48. Second, any questions I think you that was a piece. I think you're talking about the while you're talking about because I know that's a tough 1. We uh we've tried. Um To find other places. There's just nobody, that makes that shell and the volume that we need per week to to supply and deliver got you. So, I think that's the reason for some of the bids with the 1 bids on some of these big volumes. Just there's no you can't make the special case you just can't do it. We go through with the milk and other things too. It's just it's just too much and we
012don't have the warehouse to, to store, you know, a week's worth gotcha. Thank you. Yeah. Don't blame me. Okay. All in favor, I oppose motion carries. Okay. Page. 16 B. 53. Move it second. Question. Comments. All in favor, I I motion carries. Page 28. Motion. Move it. Oh p27 all in favor, iOS. Um, motion for page. I think we did pass 26 didn't we the 1? Yeah we did that. Any did I miss anything on the in the superintendent's report, okay. Now let me uh would read a resolution because I'm going to need a motion for this. whereas the udica Teachers Association and the udica city school district are parties to a collective bargaining agreement for the period July 1 2021 through June 3020 and whereas the parties have met and determined that is in
013their best Collective. Best interest to roll over the contract for 1 year for the 2025 26 school year in accordance with the terms and conditions of the proposed memorandum of agreement ratified by the Teachers Association, on May 15th 2025. And now therefore it is resolved 1 upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board approves, the memorandum of agreement to roll over the teacher's contract for the 2025 26 school year and to authorize the superintendent to execute the same, this resolution shall take effect immediately. Can I have a motion? Okay, is there any discussion? I just wanted to say I'm very pleased that the that the uh, UTA and our superintendent were able to get together. And Reach an agreement on this, um, and I think it bodes well for our students teachers and
014our staff. So thank you all in favor, opposed motion carries. Do we need to? I'm going to need a. I'm going to need a motion. To authorize, uh, a public hearing on June 24th. For the C for E program. I don't know where my, uh, Was it the I'm sorry? Yes, this is the 1. I'm talking. I'm sorry, this is the contract for excellence. So I need a motion to, I will, I need a motion to for a public notice for public. Hearing contract for excellence. Notice is here by giving that the following meeting of the Board of Education. The Utica City School District will be held at the Utica. City School District's administrative office at 929 York, Street Huka New York. 13502 in June as follows Tuesday June 24th 2025 at 5:00 p.m. C
015for E public hearing contract for excellence code of conduct. School patrol officers in naida County Sheriff's and sro's you to City Police Department. Safety plan, the 202526 contract for excellence plan is available for review and comments on our website. Uh Utica schools.org back slash contract dashboard Dash excellence. Can I have a motion to that effect? All in favor. I I any any opposition. Motion carries. That is the night of the next board meeting. Okay. Now I believe that is all the resolutions that I have to read. No. Yes. Okay. Financial. Reports. Budget status. Ian e a i n. Can you give us that smile? There you go. You can tell he walks his his, his shoes squeak because he's got all the money. Wow that's from that's a if you grew up in the 1960s
016and 70s, maybe the 80s, you would know about that. But if if you're younger BC, Sorry, Ian. Sorry. Uh so for this meeting, I haven't closed uh, for your viewing consideration. The general fund budget status report the cafeteria fund budget status report and the cash balance reports for all, district bank accounts for the month ending March 31st 2025 Um, any questions on that? Yes. Yeah, give us the highlights. Hi, and any low lights. If there are any I want to, I want to be, you know, I want to ask about both in case there's an issue. Yeah. So March, um, March is a very heavy, uh, Revenue month for us Revenue, uh, far exceeds, uh, our expenses for the month of March, that's because a good chunk of our state aid. Uh, comes in the
017month of March, so we had a very high Revenue, so a lot of cash was coming in, uh, so the cash flow is good. Um with that reviewing our cash flow statement, we did make uh some Investments um some of that money. Um, So, yeah, some Arch was good. Um, Looking forward. You know, we're heading into June, it's going to be the end of our uh fiscal year. So the business team Heather and I are beginning preparation work for year, end tasks, close out our books and yeah it's going to be a busy uh summer for us. So okay. Anyone else have any questions for any? Knocked it out of the park again. This kid is good. Um, thank you. Any, any other questions or any other issues that we should know about from the
018financial, uh, side of the house? No. Okay. Can I have a motion to approve the minutes for the April 29th? 2025? Move it any second, any corrections deletions or additions? Hearing none, all in favor. Motion carries. Continuing business, any continuing business. Um, any updates on General Herkimer the fence? We talked about putting up a temporary fence at General Herkimer, if it ever stops raining. So that soldiers were waiting for a couple quotes from a couple vendors on that. Will it happen? So that we can get. Outside. Um, hopefully server stops raining. Can can I just ask this about a fence and I'm just asking, is there any way we can sort of problem solve it by putting up something? That would be temporary that we're looking at. Do temporary, it's a tech. We're trying to
019make a temporary space with the fence so they can use it now. Because it's all going to get you know, ripped out when we do the playground. So we're trying to be mindful of the dollars. We spend our Learning Center Outdoor Learning Center, the playgrounds are now, we're taking that out and putting in an Outdoor Learning Center. Just if we can have something just because I know that we have a. Yep. So we, like, we can't. Right? So we can't, like, we could just go put like a snow fence up, but that's not going to work. So we don't want anybody to get hurt. It's got to be safe. It's got to be, you know, within code. So we're looking To to rent, like we do for construction, the temporary fencing. It's not too expensive,
020but we just got to make sure we get the right fencing and it's able to be secured to the ground where it is. So we're looking into that already. We called multiple vendors, just trying to get some numbers back from them. Any other have anyone else have any continuing? Yes 1 other question. Um sorry not for you maybe for you. Power school who goes in and looks at these applications that are teachers or coaches. Everyone else is filling out is, is who goes in and reviews to see what we're actually sending out for them to fill out before they're out there. The functional. so, the There's a few different parts on the back. End of power school, there's a job template, there's a form type and then there's an application type The job templates. Some
021of them were pre-built, the applications and forms were pre-built as we have launched. We launched this October 4th since then, um, Originally, it was mostly external applicants and we were gathering a lot of different data. This time of the year, we have a lot of internal applications. The past month. We've received you know a combination of internal. External about 336 applications have been reviewed. I think we're not to guess but I think I'm kind of picking up what you're putting down with. It's it's time consuming. There's a lot of different information. So we have talked about that a little bit. Um, do they need resumes for coaches? For example, that's a question that was asked. The current. Decision was that we'd like to see the coaching resumes because we have a, um, this is Dr.
022Spence's first round with spring Sports. And also our new athletic director. So they want to they don't know the full history and they're going to be making a recommendations along with interview committees for those appointments. So that's why there are. But we have been trying to Tweak things to make it not. So cumbersome for our applicants. Um, for example, like our targeted assistance, teachers are, you know, That we already have all the resumes on file. Um and all the references on file and their certifications on file. So I was kind of able to go in there and manipulate and disable some of the things but I I I've heard a lot of feedback. Yeah. Yeah. Because I know there's even questions on there when we're because you you nailed it on the head like when
023we're looking at internal that are applying and there's questions on there, I'm like why did you leave this last position and there's no option. To say, didn't I'm still in it and it talks about when did this position end and it and it doesn't allow you to put current in there or anything else. So there was a lot of I know that there was a lot of there's a few different like, for not to cut you out, like, form an application types. And I think it's just as we're hearing the feedback, we're going through and trying to like make adjustments that are reasonable and not changing the whole application. The what debt for the people who have already submitted? Um, and is it stored now. So I know they had to go and gather a
024lot of information that they haven't had to do in the past right now. They have to pull it in because we've had it. So does it stay on power schools so that they don't once they kind of fill it out, they don't ever have to come back and add those things or no. Do they have to do it every time? So, I've heard it both ways, so I'm wondering if there's something within the setting, when the power school account is created, um, we did send out instructions on how to create internal accounts or um, not create internal, create an account but to flag yourself as an internal person and not an external candidate I have heard that people have already created accounts and that round 2 was smoother. Um, I've also heard it the other
025way so we have to kind of gather all the feedback from who it's working well for and why and who it isn't working well for and why and see what we can do. It's a nice system. It's not a perfect system, um, But we're going to. We we're still learning it a little bit too. Yeah, cuz it's, it's it's very new. It's very new for this internal posting Time of the Year too. it it's been, I think it's been Tedious for our employees. It's been tedious for myself and it's something we definitely want to take a look at. I'm, I'm hearing that. It's tedious. For people applying for positions. Yeah. So I think it needs to get unted because we need to get people in positions. I don't want anyone quitting getting in there and
026getting frustrated and just saying, well as a matter of fact, we ran into somebody the other day. Um, who wanted to be? A substitute. and, you know, I He was discussing it with, you know, with us just kind of talking about it and Relatively you know, bright young man, but he said that, you know, there it was requiring him to respond. Um and I was concerned the way he was talking about it. Like he was just going to give up and I I don't I think it's important to keep our kids attached to uh what we'll do is we'll we'll audit the system, but our system for applying is nowhere near as cumbersome as other systems. I'll point to the New York City doe for example, there's 72 hours of unpaid training that you have
027to do just because before you get into the principal applicant portal before you can even apply, this is nowhere near that level. There are some kinks in regards to the internal candidates. I understand that but we've got to really audit it from the user. Um users experience to see what's necessary information. We need to collect versus what's the Performing things that we can do away with right? Yeah. Any other questions, any any other issues on continuing business? Sure. I'll add 1 more for continuing businesses. We're on the subject of coaches that are applying just moving. Um, forward. It was once a discussion and it was the Hope of the board and the intention that we get higher coaches. Almost the original goal was to hire them a year out, right? So that we knew for
028the full year going in, who was in what? I understand sometimes that's not ideal right? But at least right now, if we could make it a goal that by this time next year, we've already hired, you know, our fall and possibly winter coaches. This way. We already know who those coaches are. Those coaches can begin, recruiting, their students? Looking at gyms and do I think if we give them a head start, it would be much better than waiting closer to the end. I agree. Good point, I agree. Well, I know, but I unfortunately have to comment about that. We Had a discussion about this. Don't want to say last year, it actually was the year before, and then we had a discussion about it last year. so from our perspective, at least from my perspective
029and I don't know about anybody else's, but You know, there's some really basketball. There's football stuff that has to be done. There's different track. Flag football. Um, you know, that needs to be that needs to be addressed. and as a priority and, you know, this has been Frankly, an ongoing discussion, um, to we need to get it done because, you know, I mean, our kids deserve it. So, Anyway. we got to follow our protocol and procedure, but we do have to try to Accomplish this if it's possible. Okay. Any other continuing business? How about some new business? Need to schedule a special meeting for June 3rd. June 3rd. 6:30. That's what? Isn't it 6:30 7? No. It was 6:30 in the evening, was it 6:30? It was 6:30 in the email but if we, we
030can do I don't know who want to do that. Oh, I think I put 6, too. I think I do that for myself. You want to do 6:00? Yeah. Okay, good afternoon there. Special meeting on Tuesday, June 30th. Okay, that's not a technical notice. No, but I'm just saying that was okay. So can we have a motion to schedule the June 3rd Special meeting for um, At 6:00 p.m. Yes. Second okay. And the purpose of that meeting will be for Hiring and discussions right regarding legal issues. And the employment. Um, of particular people. Right? Yeah, you don't need to get, actually, we don't need to get that granular. So, okay, good. Any other, uh, new business. We do need to have a vote on it, though. Oh sorry, sorry I'm running out of gas. Uh
031all in favor, I posed, motion passes. Danielle, you have any you were to Neil have any communication? That you'd like to take. No, I'll save it for Jim. Are you sure? I'm trying not to save it. All I am gonna say is, I would like us to take a hard look at our communication Department. I think we've done a great job. We do a great job of, um, Going to Great Lengths for communication for parents. So it's not on that round. I think everything on that is good. I'm going to start saying, we do a great job at highlighting all of the good, and it's time to push back on the bad. So I want our communication team to become a little bit more aggressive. um, I don't want to see too many more fluffy
032responses. I'd like us. to be hard, I think if news or Outlets are going to try to paint us in a certain light and continue to come after our school because we're really easy Target and To bring up the topics with no substance. We should push push back and our communication needs to be higher and I think our students deserve it, our parents deserve it, our community, we do way too much good and there's way too much happening in this district and people get a false Narrative of that and it it's time for us to push back now, and instead of trying to always push the good, which we should still do, is time to push back on the negative and let them know that we're not just going to stand here while they can
033continue to fame and and say what they want about the district. So I'm going to start advocating for stronger communication and tougher. Anybody else have any thoughts on that subject? I mean, I'll second that. Notion and also second Daniel's point from earlier uh that the art show was fantastic. Um it's 1 of the highlights. It's 1 of the highlights of the the year as we're going we're going into a really good time of the year with Awards, ceremonies and graduations, and moving up ceremonies. So I look forward to all the events that are coming up in the coming month or so, uh, to look forward to see the accomplishments of our students and uh, wish them. Well as they take them, their next steps in life. Joe Dr. Spence is saying we could make it
034from a director from the board tonight. That's starting tomorrow. Communication becomes in regards, to when we're responding suppress to come forward and to be harder and more aggressive. Oh yeah, I'm looking for certain, is that a directive from the full board? Or is that or is there I think that there needs to be further discussion on that? I mean as much as I like to mix it up like the next guy. Um, I think that we have to talk about what that actually looks like. I'll map it all out for you, which is fine, which is fine. I, I don't have a problem with that. I mean, you know, Okay. Wait for my strategic plan. Strategic plan. I have a whole Google doc ready, okay? Uh, anybody else have any communication? Okay, I I don't
035think we need to go into executive session again. So can I have a motion to adjourn? All in favor, we are adjourned.