001just start, you know, looking for the gold ring. >> Hey, >> I'm going to push you toward Rachel because the owl's not working at the moment. And then you'll see her and then I'll put you up on the screen. We did have an executive session seems to be our new uh that runs late and we do apologize for that and appreciate and we've got to item 1.2 pledge allegiance. There's a flag to the flag of the United States of America for it stands nationy and justice for all. Our roll call is for today uh different because we have two we have a satellite um set up in Oklahoma right now where RG is joining us from and next to RG we have two new um school and who are here with us. Glad to have
002you guys. >> They're here all year, folks. Servers. So, that's our roll call. And then we have a very funfilled go to the order and we can discuss the NISBA NISBA meeting, the NISBA business meeting where we discuss lots of resolutions and hours and hours of time to work on resolutions or vote on resolutions. We were discussing whether or not that would be called fun or excitement and we decided with just calling it time. All right. So, does anyone want to um have that time with the experience? I I I am I am more than happy to take that up if no one else is interested. Um that don't want to monopolize it. But if someone else is interested um it can be some very interesting discussion uh that that happens um you know some
003of which I I think maybe you might as the year plays out might actually, you know, come to fruition and become become law. And so that's kind of interesting in that aspect uh for this for your for your uh information, but to schoolboard members. So basically what this is, we're we're part of uh we're members of the New York State School Board Association. So it's a statewide organization that represents the interests of school boards across New York State. And things that they do is that they lobby the legislature in terms of laws that would benefit education school in general. And so these resolutions we're talking about are all ideas uh that that component school districts might want uh the school boards association to lobby on on their behalf to to have certain ideas. That said,
004I'm I'm so next month we'll have a resolution on the agenda. Um and if anyone comes forward then um and also the board will discuss the specific agendas uh the specific resolutions that are on the agenda to determine if seuss Thank you. There was another item that brought forward. >> Yeah, sure. Thanks, Rachel. Um, I wanted to mention something that a friend of mine who was attending the New York State Fair was museum tolerance that was exhibited at the fair and brought it to my attention as potentially a school museum of it's pretty neat. It's like a looks like a local home. Um and they have a bunch of different locations for their website. different focus tolerance focused literacy which is a topic that we talked a little bit about requirements for that as a
005state but it look pretty neat and to see if that's something you're interested asking to explore on the district. >> Can I can I get it? >> Uh I mean I I looked into it. U my understanding is they have some kind of partnership with New York State Division of Human Rights. Um according to our website, there's no cost. This is something that they do free of charge. Um, I too kind of picked up on the workshops, particularly the one focusing on combating hate, digital media literacy workshops. Um, I think it's timely and it's it's extraordinarily important. Um, but certainly I would I think asking superintendent to take a look at that and where we might be able to put that in. I looked at it too and I thought you know I thought it
006might be fifth grade and middle school high school. How long does um do we know like how long does it stay? What is it duration? >> It says that it can accommodate six workshops of 32 people per day. If it's something you want me to look into, it's easy enough to look into it. I can team and then, you know, we can also do a followup in a curriculum committee. So, we have a September 30th curriculum committee. So I'll do a followup then >> yeah because 16th was facilities so September 30 so I can do a followup then you can look I can speak to cabinet about it you mind if I ask you guys are hearing this for the first time what are your initial thoughts >> I has seriously older. Even though we
007all know >> Well, that's I'll speak to the cabinet committee, you know, the admin team probably already bring it in. Maybe social studies already have a place for do it or something else already. So there might be a place for this to fit depending on what it looks like. So a lot of options to look at or we could do it off as a one-off like here's a lot of different ways to explore it. So after we get a better understanding of it, I can do a report where it would fit. Would it be like a assembly? Would it be for the day like how would they fit into the curriculum. So lots to look into um so we can look at it see what the impact would be on the students and staff and
008then go from there >> and as we start the meeting also want to take a moment to just thank everyone for everything they did to get this this school year started. elementary school was fighting against a construction project that was um I guess the teachers were able to do all that they did make it work this time and I put them in kitchens during health construction. But thanks to everyone who got the school district opportunity for the pope to be heard. Anyone here would like to come address you guys there? >> Yeah. So, the biggest thing about this program, it's honestly been going pretty well. I'm surprised how it hasn't been too many issues as far as I've seen either way. Yeah, I haven't seen any like phones being taken away or anything to that
009and just adjusting and finding alternatives to get around that. I mean, I know like I bought a watch to use cuz like that's a big common thing like people just don't know what time it is. I mean, of course, there's like a clock, but you know, people like having their Apple Watchum is also we had a good beginning for all sports pretty much across the board all winning. >> Yeah, we have our training coming up two parts. One on like the larger level for everyone across the state also have one and be a little more personal better chance for us to kind of ask questions about our area. I think it's going to be cool. I'm excited for it. And then The last thing to note is uh I I will be sending out kind
010of like Google forms that I have the idea for so that all students can like share certain like concerns or questions that they want to be shared. Um so I'll be sending those out pretty soon. And also if the board has anything that they want to pass down >> the first couple days a little bit awkward but it's getting better. There also was a school email sent out from a couple students. There's probably not a way to solve that, but if we could find a way, that' be great. >> So, those links are on class and a couple started I'll make sure. >> Yeah, >> thank you. >> That's not one that I know of. So, I'm going to make sure the principal knows. Maybe we'll address that. >> I don't know. That's a good
011one to follow. What are you? >> Um I want to talk about cell phones really quick. Um you know, I think everybody's been doing a really good job with it. I will state that the principles have told me that the kids are talking at lunch. like this is great people are interacting so we are seeing that um I myself have not seen cell phones in the hallway um you know I've I'm trying to model best behaviors it's very difficult like I can't imagine you know as an adult you know and especially during co we pushed ourselves to use technology technology was where we were living and now we're going back on that and trying to retrain myself not to pull out a cell phone in the middle of the hallway is very difficult like so
012I can imagine what our seniors who have been doing this they were sixth graders during that's their lifeline. So, it is difficult for them and I give them credit because I think they're doing a great job. From what I've seen so far in the hallway, it's been great. Um, before I get the cell phones, I do want to before anything else, I want to introduce Colleen DiCaprio. Colleen is here tonight. Colleen is our new director of finance and operations. So, I welcome Colleen. This is her first board meeting with us. Well, first official as today is our first official day. >> So, let's talk about opening real quick. Um, I want to second what Rachel said. I've said this multiple times. Our staff have been phenomenal this year. Um, our elementary school was not in
013ideal conditions of what we wanted to be when we came in. Um, everybody really chipped together. It came out great. um from what it was Thursday night to what it was Friday morning was absolutely amazing and it really is credit to every single person in that building. Um all the volunteers, all the staff, all the administrators, all the custodians, all the people who came down from the high school down there. I mean, it really was a team effort. Um even some of the construction people I will give credit to. They really did step up their game near the end to make sure they helped support it. Um and being one of the me on some issues. So, I really do appreciate all of them. And we are it's open, you know, it is there. It
014was it wasn't where we wanted to be. Um but we got there. So credit to everybody who was involved in that situation. It was less than ideal and people really came together on that. So moving forward with construction as we are. Our transportation facility is operational. We still got a couple little punch list items that the electricians are dealing with. It should be up by tomorrow. Um but we do have certificate of occupancy and we are functioning out of the transportation facility. huge. Um, so that's a giant win for us. Annie has gotten back to me. We want to do an open house for the community on October 6th. They're not ready at this moment in time to open up that building any other time. So, we're thinking right before the board meeting. We'll open
015it up for a couple hours and we'll be able to have people and community members come through the building, really see the transportation facility as a whole. October 6 is going to be our tentative deadline for a grand open. We'll we'll we'll invite you know some assembly members and people who can be able to see it and open it absorbs our whole school community October 6. Elementary school is where we're currently working. They have the back area where we're doing a lot of the drainage and cement sidewalks. Those are in which is fantastic and they've done a lot of that work. We are waiting on the asphalt. We need to get clearance from National Grid to be able to finish the work that is down there. As soon as we get that clearance, we're hoping
016by the end of the week, we're going to try working out a schedule. That's going to be the most difficult component is trying to figure out when we can do the work done. Um, I have a meeting tomorrow. We're going to try to figure this out when we can do the work that's safely being done without really kind of making any impact on the elementary school. That's going to be difficult. So, we're really going to have to put our heads together on the best way to finish that work. Um, our satellite cafeteria is now in the small gym because that bottom from where the small gym area was. Large large large gym you to where the old transportation facility was is closed off. Our cafeteria is now our small gym. And we have a satellite
017cafeteria here where they're bringing food back and forth. It's basically like a catering. Um couple bugs have been worked out, but overall it's been working out really well. Department of Health has given us the go-ahad. Um they came back and reertified us started again. So we're going through all those processes. It is a little bit bigger than our old cafeteria, which is kind of nice, but it definitely is a small cafeteria, small gym that we do not want to be a cafeteria that long. So, as soon as we can, we'd like to move over. They are working on the areas that are closed off. That's the music rooms, the vestibial area, the new cafeteria. All that work is still occurring during the school day. There may end up being conflict where we'll have some loud
018noises. We will tell the construction to stop. So, if anything does come up where it's loud or issues. We They already know that we're going to make sure that they know that we can't do that. Um, you know, there are things on the inside that are done, such as flooring. We have a It looks like concrete, but it's not concrete that's down. The flooring is 16 weeks out. So, we have to wait for the flooring to come in and then we'll have that done in phases to be able to get the floor into the building. Uh, our air conditioning units are on. We're hopefully getting them in January. So, let's hope for nice nice solid cool weather for the next few months. Um, but then in January, we'll have those AC units. All of the
019work has already been done to be able to have it put in. They just have to put the units in. >> Is there any kind of nighttime schedule or >> Yeah. So, we're it's all going to be Yeah. So, we have after hours work is going to be doing the issue with um site work at night. We have a whole bunch of different issues with that. So, that might not be able to happen. we have to look through that other different codes and regulations like site work in comparison. So that's like the outside work. So that's where we have to consider what we can do. But all the other stuff is going to be um weekends nights. We're going to try to do our best questions. The HVAC system in the pool, which was a
020large part of the energy performance contract, was finally released on Friday. So that is fully functional now and should last us another good 25 years. It was falling and failing on us pretty miserably. So that is a huge thing that we were able to get done as part of that. And after that that's about it. And tonight construction wise you'll see a big award for $100,000 project. That's the capital project that we do yearly off and on. Next year we're going to push down to the elementary school. do more of the facade at the front because that is a little bit more intense than they thought it was going to be. What I mean by that is where the foundation is, it's no sound foundation. But as they did the sounding, the um the sounding
021ability to use a hammer, a paint hammer, it actually, if you look at someone building the concrete kind of exploded and kind of fell apart. That's going to cost a lot more than anticipated. So we're using the $100,000 project from last year, next year to be able to supplement some of that. So just another additional water issue. >> It's a water issue because of the coffin that's all the way around it has seeped down over the years. That's an old building 1929. We're almost at the 100redy year mark. So, we're going to find things like that that are going to occur that we're just going to have to address as we move forward. I would like to personally thank the kitchen and real positive attitude and quite frankly and I was amazed at there but
022everybody tells bigger than the old cafeteria but this is quite a move to take on seem to Anything else on construction? I do want to update on two grants. Um, we did receive two more grants over the summer. Holiday County uh as an improvement grant for anti-bullying and violence prevention. We did receive that grant. I believe it's $12,000. Um, and we also received a $72,000 grant from the state for um digit dig digitization. >> Yeah. Yeah. Copying things digitally. Thank you. Um, and making sure that we can get some of our our record that we have to keep for files forever and getting them into computer files and storage. So, that was a huge grant that we received. We're really excited for for that. It's a big project that is, you know, we're going to
023be none this year, but we are excited to have that happen and thank you for the advance that we received. That is all we have. >> With that, we'll move into uh item 4.1 minutes for regular meeting from August. Would anyone like to discuss or something? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Um how about we take the consent agenda items 5.1 and 5.2 If there's any conversation, discussion, question forward, otherwise like second. All in favor items. We have quite a number of personal items. any good. Um, anyone Um, anyone like to move it? >> Second. I'll second it. All in favor? >> Okay. Uh, consent agenda 5.4 and 5.5 CS recommendations and two of >> all in favor at any point there can be conversation until we Okay. Uh lunch prices needed adjustment and
024so um basically for the second lunch because >> um and also for adult. [Music] So would anyone like to discuss further or move forward? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Um you said I to everything right? >> Yes. Um approval of the consultant agreement. So this is related to clinical social work conversation. It >> second. >> It was me. something defaulted and I fixed it. I have no idea how to do it. >> Thanks. You got my my eyes. >> Uh so we have an approval to the intermunicipal agreement um regarding transportation. >> Would you like to second it? All in favor? >> So we have also approvals to substitute and extra pay rate revisions. Um would anyone like to discuss or >> can I just explain that one? >> I would uh one
025thing that was on it was the drama club which is an extracurricular activities account called ECA. regulations be able to pay for things. One thing that I didn't realize beforehand was the accompanments for drama was actually on the board payment agreement. There really is no reason for it to be there because that comes out of the ECA account. The ECA account has its own way to be used to pay. Has have student approval. It has to have all different things. So there is no reason for the board to set that account. It really should be set through the ECA account like other things are. So really there's no reason. So the only change on that is to remove it from there. So then it is solely housed But we do appreciate the effort to >>
026just that's separate. Yeah. So that's on there. The drama club's not on there because they would like to increase that but that goes through the students that >> it's paid for the student. >> Anyone ready to move it? >> I'll move it. >> I'll second. All in favor? >> Okay. Now we're going to go into old business item 6.1 the audit committee RG. >> Yeah. We'll meet before the October board meeting. So that's going to be a busy night. We'll have our open house and then audit and >> potentially an exact and there are on the agenda reports for the board to approve. We can also talk through those in our next meeting in more detail if anyone has issues that want to raise on. >> Yesurric has not met yet. We will meet on
027Tuesday. policy. >> Uh we met last month. Um and we we do have a number of items that we agree this evening. Um they're all transportation related. We we thought that a lot of things are transportation to uh and her assessment of current policies, what should be added, what should be tweaked, and that's really what we see on the agenda here this evening. Happy to answer any questions, but all in all, they are largely um technical changes. No real substantive changes. I think the the most you know volume wise the mo the most changes you'll see are those regarding to nonpublic but really public issues do really flush out the procedures with regard to requests for transportation when those requests have to be made and when and who makes decisions and what so largely simply
028memorialize practices already. So um the majority of the policy just >> majority it's all regulations anyways. So like when it has to come in when those things are. So we just really clarified it a little bit stronger than is there anything you want to get into specific or is it just that straightforward? >> I think it's pretty straightforward. most most of the changes just simply add add the notation that certainly the same requirements or recommendations. Um there's a substantive change with regard to drug and alcohol testing that just simply codifies the return to work requirements that no changes. >> Would you like to do 7.2 to 7 um six as a consent agenda. >> Those are the amendments. >> 7.1 first. >> Yep. >> I would I recommend that. >> All right. Well, with that
0297.1 is a first read. So, any about that? 7.2.6 that are up for revision. >> Second. >> All in favor? All right. Um, with that we have roofing reconstruction. Um, there's a bid to discuss it. All >> in favor. We have been offered a number of very last year's No, you can buy a second. So this money >> I don't know I don't think your account is negative it's negative >> yeah it came out so what happened was someone wanted to help support some of the funage that we did last year that so they donated then there was overages that they were raising for that. So that overages they said you can't do that because we believe that funds only what was anticipated as deficit. So this is take into that Paul and Lisa work
030together on those issues to go through it. Any other anonymous money that came into it would be different. Anyone like second? >> Second. All in favor? >> Thank you. Um that we have a second opportunity for the public to be heard. Put in your right. that we can dates to unf. >> We could always change it. which may not change, but that was something that came up today. >> Okay. Would anyone like to move us to >> favor? Thank you. >> Have fun with question. >> We're working on there's no >> Well, we want to get it first working. So then Andy wants a couple weeks. She has some ideas and like I