001Not Good evening everyone. Like to call a meeting to order. We're obviously missing a member tonight. Mrs. Reach is feeling under the weather. Was unable to make it. Please rise for a salute to the flag, followed by a moment of silence for Anna Palini, the mother of Maria Shima, retiree Steven Booker, and retiree Karen Kirch. 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. Item four, communications to the board. Communications were received from Bolti and SNK Russo. I'll turn it over to Mr. Magnamera for the superintendent report. >> Thank you, Mr. Greco. Good evening everyone and welcome. Uh unfortunately begin the meeting tonight on a somber note. Uh we lost an outstanding member of our school
002community uh this week. Uh Karen Kurge uh was a an elementary teacher at W Elementary School. Uh she taught both fourth grade and uh the last several years kindergarten with us and uh unfortunately passed uh on Sunday uh morning. Uh Karen was a recent retiree. She um uh retired just several years ago. Uh she was just an outstanding educator that was beloved in this uh community. Uh she was the type of teacher that uh that you never forgot uh once you had uh she um was just such a strong advocate for her her kids in her classroom. a tremendous colleague uh to uh to all the the the entire staff over at WA Elementary and she just left a huge mark on uh on this community uh and she will be greatly missed. So uh
003we extend our our sincere condolences to her family during this difficult time and um and just uh you know wish them all the best during this uh challenging time for them. All right. Uh, switch gears a little bit. Uh, we are are um proud tonight to uh to recognize our our Forest Lake community. Uh, we uh last week uh received some really good news uh from the um the the New York State School Boards Association. Uh unsolicited uh where we were uh being recognized uh with an award uh called their champions of change award. Uh and the school boards association reached out to me uh and said that uh they continue you know throughout the uh the year they look for uh through news feeds and see different things that schools are doing uh and
004they came across uh the uh the the the a nice program nice uh space that we created uh over at Forest Lake, our sensory room there. And uh did a little research about it. uh were really impressed with what took place and uh decided to recognize us uh with with their Champions of Change award. Uh the representative from uh NISSBA actually uh was was going to be here in person uh today, but unfortunately called this morning and was ill uh was unable to be here. Uh so um we they they've sent over the uh the nice banner that they've created for us. And I wanted to invite uh I know we have a number of members of the Forest Lake community here tonight. Uh so I wanted to invite Mr. Burke up uh our Forest
005Lake principal uh and have you tell tell us a little bit about the initiative uh and the space and uh and then I'd love to everyone that was involved that's here tonight to come up to present them with the banner. >> So good evening everyone. Uh love to see my bald head up there. Just had a little bit more hair. Um, but uh this uh thanks the sensory space came about and I know I stand here representing Forest Lake, but it really came about from the the great members of the faculty that that work at Forest Lake. And I know we talk about in elementary schools a lot about the power of yet. Um, but those members of my staff probably know that I believe in the power of yes and sometimes no is important
006too. But when you have great ideas coming from people like Miss Moran and Miss Bogart, Miss Fernandez, and they say they want to build a sensory space for the for the kids, you know, it's hard not to say yes to something like that. Um, and little by little, that's how the sensory space really came about. And as you can see in the photos there, it's just, you know, Miss Moran said, "I think I want to build a rock climbing wall." Okay, yes, why not? And you know, they thought about the dim lighting there for the kids, for their moods when they come in and and just a space for all of them to be in an inclusive spot for everybody. And that's what this sensory space is. It's a spot for the children to go
007when they need a place to calm down. Uh it's a spot for sometimes you'll see some teachers, maybe even some principles there who need to calm down at sometimes. Um, and then just the the final great part about it is we dedicated it to one of our former aids who passed away and now we call it Sarah's sensory space. And it's again it's a spot for for everybody. It's an inclusive space for all and we're very happy to receive this recognition. But it it wouldn't happen without those people here and and also our SEPTA board too who donated so much time and effort and thought into planning this space. So, I ask Miss Bogard and Miss Fernandez and our SEPTA board to come up and accept this with me um this great award. Thank you.
008>> Great. Thank you, Mr. B. Please come on up. the picture. Okay. Congrats. [Applause] Once again, congratulations to uh to our Forest Lake staff on that really nice recognition. Um I'm going to invite um Dr. Whitman and Dr. Gazone up. Uh another outstanding community event uh on Sunday uh with our our WTO Warrior 5K, our 911 Memorial 5K. Uh just a really really great community event. Uh it's our second annual uh huge thank you to everyone in the community that came out to support it. Uh really great cause and and um and and Dr. Whitman, Dr. continue to do a great job just growing this and uh I just wanted them to come up and just share a little bit about about the event and uh and and just what a great success it was.
009>> Thank you, John. Uh hello everybody. Um just want to give a big shout out to the uh community for coming out and supporting this event. Um we hatched this idea two years ago and with the support of uh Mr. McNamera and the school board. Uh we were able to get this thing going and we couldn't ask for a greater uh situation than what happened over the last two years. Uh everybody seemed to embrace it. Uh we had a large number of people who were uh came out to sponsor us. Uh and in both years we had over 760 runners come out. Uh add in all the people who came to witness it and and be part of it. Uh we had well over a thousand people here on the campus on on Sunday and
010um it just was a wonderful the weather was beautiful. Uh it seemed like a fun time with Tabol. We start off with a fun run and the little uh little tikes get to run around the track once and they get their names called out for finishing and they get medals and um it was it was just a wonderful day and it wouldn't have been possible without the support that we get from uh Mr. McNamera and the board here. So, um, uh, we thank them and we hope that everybody had a grand old time and enjoyed it. And I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Gazone. >> Yep. Uh, just jumping on the thank you train. Uh, we had a lot of, uh, committee members. I'm not going to go by name, but, uh, we
011have a 911 committee that did a lot of work in securing things like raffles and, uh, sponsors and, um, reaching out to community members to sign up and race. And I just, it really is a team effort to get something like this off the ground. And, um, to be honest, we couldn't do it without the team. So, we really very much thank the team, the community, and again, like it's all we have goals, right? Everything's driven my goals. Um, so for us, uh, you know, last year we gave out $2,500 in scholarships to seniors. This year we're going to give out, uh, $3,500 to seniors in scholarships. Uh, we're going to again take the juniors down to the 911 memorial, uh, and charge them, I think it's like 20 bucks instead of a hundred because
012of this. Um and then um we're also making excellent progress towards creating a memorial on our secondary complex. So, you know, we're hoping we're a year, maybe two years out if we continue with this trajectory of the success of the rates. So, uh once again, thank you everyone who came out in support and if you weren't there, I hope to see you there next year. Thank you. >> Great. And thank you both for your leadership with that. It really has been just an outstanding event in our community. All right. Uh we a couple of things on our agenda uh personnel related tonight. Uh first off is uh congratulations is in order for Iris Klein, our outstanding social worker at Wah High School who has announced that she will be retiring in February. Um usually we
013do our our retirement recognition in in February. Uh Iris will be uh leaving us in February. So she just alerted us to that and it's on our agenda for tonight. So, we invited her to the meeting. Um, Iris uh has has served uh for for 20 years at the at the high school as a social worker and just does an outstanding job there. Uh, we were real fortunate when she came to us to have someone that came with a good amount of experience uh working at a social work in a a variety of settings and really benefited from that experience. Uh, one of the things that uh, everyone should know about Iris is how she is just such a strong champion for our kids and for um, putting kids and families in connection with resources
014when they're uh, going through challenging times. Uh, she is such a strong advocate for them. Uh, and one of the things that I I've certainly been most impressed with over the past several years is the outstanding work that she's done uh, with our our our Twilight students. Uh that was an idea that really came from her and and and and Melissa and they they've run with it and they have uh really created a space uh for students that uh otherwise wouldn't have been successful in a traditional high school setting. Uh we've now at a point where we've had uh many students that have gone through that program over the past several years that have graduated with a diploma uh that wouldn't have had the opportunity to do that otherwise. And that's because of their dedication
015and their advocacy for those students. Uh and it has just been a pleasure to watch. Uh and um you know and and and and not to minimize the tremendous work she does in the high school every day. Right. That's her second job. Uh she uh does just such great work. So well respected by her colleagues and the administrative staff at at uh at at W High School. Um she is uh smart, intuitive uh and and just uh driven and and just works so hard. So she is going to be greatly missed. It's going to be, you know, certainly create a a tremendous void at at W High School. Uh and uh I know she's joined by family here tonight. Uh you get you get her back more now. Uh but but at at our loss.
016Uh so um we just wish her nothing but the best in her retirement and thank her for her unending dedication to Wanto High School over the past 20 years. So, I have a little plaque for you. I was a food of mine coming up coming up. [Applause] All right. And one other recognition tonight. Uh we have another offcycle event and that's uh on our agenda tonight is the recognition of Emily Bogart, who is our outstanding school psychologist over at Forest Lake Elementary School. Uh Emily um was kind of an offcycle hire for us. We hired her in the fall uh and uh and she is up for tenure this this evening. Uh she has done a great job in the in the four years she has been over at Forest Lake. Uh just embedded in
017the community there. Uh just supporting our kids, supporting our staff and um we really look forward to what the future holds uh for her. Uh we thank her for uh her service so far and uh congratulate her on receiving tenure this evening. So congratulations Emily. All right. Uh just a couple of things for me just to update the community on uh opening of schools. A huge thank you to everyone. Uh you know, huge effort to, you know, each year in preparing for September. We had just a really successful first few days of school. And I just want to thank uh certainly our PTAs for all the decorations and and making such a festive environment for our students as they return uh for uh all of our staff members uh that work so hard to prepare
018for September. Uh really just was a was a a great start to the school year. Uh and we would look forward to the the the great year ahead. Um I we we had a busy summer. Um, so I just wanted to provide a few updates uh for uh for us in terms of uh some of the work that was done here uh throughout the summer. Uh we did an extensive amount of capital work. We uh renovated our high school cafeteria. If you get a chance on your way out tonight, please check it out if you haven't already. Uh the space looks terrific. Um and um and you know, completely remodeled. So we we we thank our facilities department for overseeing that. Uh we renovated all the serving lines at our elementary schools. They look great.
019Uh we upgraded the kitchen equipment. Uh it was just all all things that were were were long overdue and all part of our uh our bond project uh from 2022 that we're finally starting to see come to fruition as we go through with the approval process and actually uh get construction moving. Um thank huge thank you to our Forest Lake staff for their patience uh throughout the summer. They were teachers were very eager to get in and decorate their rooms and and we had to delay them quite a bit as we were finishing the spaces there. Uh we we had uh 16 classrooms that had bathroom replacements done uh in them and uh they were complete uh complete gutted completely gutted and completely renovated. Uh they look outstanding uh but with all construction projects uh
020there's always delays and unexpected issues and uh we were working really right up until uh till the till Labor Day weekend to complete those. So we we thank them for their patience as we work through that. Uh we also did some and those were a lot of some of the external uh contractors we're working with with we also have a very talented uh facilities department and they renovated a few spaces for us as well. We have a a new broadcasting class at uh at at W High School and they created a really outstanding new space for us that we're excited about. Uh we have uh 20 students in our in our broadcasting uh class that that that uh will be using that space and it and it really came out terrific. Uh we also uh
021renovated we've you know continued to expand our special education program that we're really proud of. Uh you know starting uh many years ago at uh at at um at Mandandalay Elementary School. Uh and over the years as as that's grown uh we uh now have a a full functioning life skills uh classroom at at uh the high school and it just looks terrific. Once again that was our in-house staff that uh created that space. So we thank them for their efforts. Uh we did a major roof renovation at at W Elementary School. uh the the main section of the building completely renovated. Uh came out terrific uh and and um you know just more of our our capital work. Uh over at the middle school uh completely repainted. Uh we uh our main floor we
022had our our back to school night there last night. Uh that was really well attended and I I I know uh parents had a chance to kind of see that. Uh we also uh did uh 15 classrooms where we renovated classroom floors. uh really really came out uh uh terrific. Uh and then the the biggest project we did over the summer that people don't really notice uh but it's a it's a HVAC work. Uh we uh in each classroom, what delivers the heat to the classrooms is a unit ventilator. Uh the unit ventilators in in in our buildings are original. Uh we had uh you know 60-year-old unit ventilators here at the high school that were well due for replacement. So, every single one of them in every instructional space was replaced here at the
023high school and at Want Elementary School. Uh, and um they'll be delivering heat and cooling uh to those rooms. Uh we put uh uh uh cooling towers on on the roofs uh and um and you know, so all those are are going to be much more efficient uh in terms of the heating and cooling system that we have in place. And then that work continues at our other three buildings uh throughout the year. This year, uh we're we're uh doing a handful of classrooms in each of the buildings. Uh it takes about 8 to 10 weeks to do that. Uh and we'll be renovating them and and and uh not only doing the HVAC work, but the windows as well. Uh we'll be replacing windows throughout the year uh at uh at at at four
024of our buildings at at here at the high school, the middle school, and at Forest Lake and Mandalay. So, that'll be all done uh in the evening hours uh throughout the school year. uh just so we can continue just the scope of those projects are so big it's just impossible to complete them all uh in the eight weeks uh of the summer. Um and then one of the spaces that we're working on currently uh in in terms of the planning stages we have all the sed approvals but another part of uh the the um referendum number three that was part of that bond was to uh renovate our uh library media center at here at the high school. Uh these are just some of the the drawings that are in place for that uh for
025those spaces. Uh and it'll actually be a combination of uh our library as well as room 15152 which is right across from the uh the cafeteria uh which will kind of now be a joint space that flows together uh and really create a nice uh space for our students to collaborate and research. Uh we're really excited about that as well. So, that's uh that's in the works and we plan on uh breaking ground on that project uh this this coming summer in 2026. And then just one other update from me uh we the board sent out a communication uh over uh last week uh just uh in terms of our ongoing mascot uh fight. Uh right now we're operating under a one-year extension uh from the state education department to maintain our current mascot. Uh
026the board is waiting the outcome of a a federal case that's currently under appeal uh in in the courts and then also has started a new uh challenge in the in the New York state court system uh to continue the fight to maintain the warrior name. Uh and the feedback that we've certainly received from the community has uh been to maintain that uh and that continues to be what the the board continues to pursue uh both for uh you know to to keep the the tradition and and spirit of that as well as um to continue to maintain uh keeping costs down that would be uh in terms of what would be impacted by that. So, we'll continue to update the community as we learn more about uh the both those cases as they proceed
027through the court systems. And that's it for me. I'm going to turn it back over to Mr. Greco. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Magdaler. Great. Item D, approval of minutes. Do I have a motion? >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> Item E, financials. Do I have a motion? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Item F, uh, F1, approval of personnel items. Do I have a motion? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Item G, contractual and other authorizations. Item G1, increase in adult school meal prices. G2, budget increase. G3 security alarm services, G4 consultant services agreements, and G5 Senco bid. Do I have a motion? >> Move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Item G6, transportation contracts. G7, terms of employment. G8, memorandum of understanding. G9, donations, and G10, disposal
028of obsolete textbooks. Do I have a motion? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> And the board would like to thank Cherrywood Auto for a donation of $100 for the WTO Warrior Memorial 5K run and John and Laura Pcell for a $500 donation to the memorial run. uh Justino and Associates. Also a $500 memorial run donation. The uh donation from MD Hyperbaric of Man Mazahasset LLC of $5,000 for the Wanto Warrior Memorial 5K run. a $3550 donation from the Wantoa Elementary PTA for the Harlem Wizards Entertainment and World Champion BMX Rider and a donation from New York Schools Insurance Reciprocal of $2,181 for uniform cleaning services for the athletic department and a donation from Tony Demino Kovville of $300 for the John Pasani scholarship fund. We like to thank them all. Item H,
029unfinished business. There is none. Item I, new business, approval of committees on special ed and preschool special ed recommendations. Um, and item two, board of education and superintendent goals. And item three, policy revisions. Item four, removal of policies. Do I have a motion? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Item J. We have an addendum. Uh, subject is personnel items. Do we have a motion? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> And item K. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Mr. President, I like to make a motion to adjurnn. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> All right. Now, we'll turn it over to our student government, Danny and Nina. >> Good evening everyone. My name is Nina Meyers >> and my name is Danny Donnie. We
030are very glad to be back and to start off another successful school year. Back in August, we welcomed the new 9th graders at freshman orientation. They walked around the high school to many uh to many stations to hear from their guidance counselors, the principles, and student government members. To familiarize them with the new environment, senior volunteers led tours to give them the ins and outs of the building. Additionally, student government organized a club fair where many of the high school's most popular clubs gathered to introduce and welcome the freshmen to some future extracurriculars they could participate in. At the end of the orientation, everyone got to enjoy some pizza and connect with friends before the official start of the school year. So far, our fall varsity sport teams have been doing very well and are
031putting in the hard work to succeed. Most notably, our girls soccer team is 3 to one, girls tennis is 3 to three, girls volleyball is 1:1, boys volleyball is 3 to3, and our football team is undefeated. We can't wait to see the progress of every team throughout the remainder of the season. Tomorrow, the PE Leaders Club will be will be holding freshman field day where ninth graders will gather on the turf for a fun day of games and school bonding. They will participate in sneaker races, tugof-war, and other activities to build friendships with their peers. On Friday, September 26th, Nina and I, along with the rest of student government, will be holding our annual pep rally where we announce all varsity teams and their captains get a live performance from the dance and cheer team
032and hear the Wala High School band. We additionally announced the top three candidates for homecoming king and queen. >> With that being said, we are super excited for our homecoming football game this year being held on September 27th. With the theme of seasons, the different classes will compete in their annual float contest as the football team gets ready to play. At the end of homecoming, we will announce the winners who will get a certain amount of points towards the battle of the classes. Our big class competition that is held at the end of the year. Each class has also been working on decorating their section of the school showcase to give a little preview of their float themes, which will also count towards battle of the classes. Additionally, if you would like to support the
033senior class, make sure to purchase snacks and drinks from the snack shack at the football game. Last week, high school students got the opportunity to learn about different universities and speak to their representatives at our college fair. Some of the colleges being represented were Penn State, Bingmpington, Vanderbilt, High Point, Charleston, and many more. Each of the college representatives provided students with valuable information about their schools, allowing Walton students to make informed decisions about their college choices. As you can see, the month of September is excitingly hectic. After homecoming, student government plans on hosting a multitude of new engaging events and projects throughout the school year, which we cannot wait to share with you at future board meetings. >> Thank you for allowing us to give some insight on what is happening at WA High School,
034and have a great rest of your night. Thank you. All right. Forest Lake PTA. >> Everyone, my name is Lindseay Vulgler and I'm speaking on behalf of the Forest Lake presidents, PTA presidents who couldn't be here tonight. Um, I'm going to run through what's happening at Forest Lake. We had our back to school bash on August 27th. Admission was free for all students. Highlights included grit ninja obstacle course, all-American burgers, and custom apparel sales. The custom apparel is still an ongoing uh fundraiser and is available online. The staff back to school breakfast was on August 28th. We treated the teachers to a variety of foods, bagels, muffins, snacks, you name it. Our new beautifification heads have been hard at work getting our school ready and looking fantastic. A few of their biggest projects so far
035were mulching and they powerwashed the the front of the main entrance. Uh we sold our magnetic academic calendars again. Uh they have all the important district dates as well as the six day cycle marked on them. They're still available if anyone's interested. Um we are running for the first time ever our afterchool enrichment program. Um it's taught by Forest Lake teachers. Uh we have various courses which include digital newspaper, coding, theater, sports, art, Disney, books and bites, steam, and a whole bunch of others. Uh we currently have a fundraiser running at Phil's Pizza. So if you're hungry on the way home, say Forest Lake at the counter and we get 10% back. Uh this Saturday is our fifth grade car wash. The weather is looking real good. Um and we're going to be selling Forester
036magnets and air fresheners. October 7th is picture day and our next PTA meeting is October 8th. October 9th is our parents night out radio bingo event at Merit Clubhouse. Very exciting. There's going to be music themed bingo as well as raffles. Um and we're looking forward to a fun opportunity to socialize with other parents. Uh our first book fair of the year is October 16th. It'll be daytime and evening shopping. October 18th is our second annual photo fundraiser. Uh, we have a professional photographer come in and do family portraits in the preserve. The pricing is reasonable and the pictures were really beautiful last year. And our photographer is a W alum, Colleen Hanley. Um, thank you for your time and I'll see you guys at the car wash. >> Thank you. Mandanda PDA. >> Nobody
037want Hi, I'm Melissa Hansen from W Elementary School and I'm Amanda Splain. Um, so we had a couple of fun really great events just this past couple of weeks. So um September 3rd we did a little popup for the Waw Wear. Um it was a huge success and we're on the a great path for the rest of the year. We're starting um hopefully doing a couple new collabs that will be opening up mid October for all of so hopefully everyone will see that pop up soon. Um and then we had our back to school festival. So we changed up a little. It was always a movie night. Um we made it more into a carnival type theme where we had Posh Deli who's the new deli down. Um they came and actually did all the
038grilling for us which was really nice and they were amazing to work with. Um workshop we did a little bracelet making um theme for all the came and made some be bracelets. Um then we had a bunch of um fun like blow up games like the blow up axe throwing and some basketball and all that. So it was a very very huge success and we're really excited about it. So hopefully next year we'll just continue to build on that. Um and then for Saturday if anyone needs a car wash we have our car wash happening. Um and then after or before your car wash Kodamara Bakery down on Railroad um we are doing a collab with them. So 10% of all sales are going to go to onto LPTA. Um, we have our fundraiser with
039Miss Chocolate starting on September 22nd. Um, we have our back to school family bingo that is happening on the 25th, which is nice because all siblings can come, even younger siblings. So, that'll be a really nice thing for all the families to come. Um, and then we are also doing a collab with Uncle Frank. So, on September 28th, which is a Sunday, anyone that comes in and mentions the PTA, we get 10% of those proceeds as well. And then October, um, we We have our fifth grade team night on the 17th. Um, and new for us, which we're really excited about, on the 18th, we're actually going to do a trunk retreat. So, this is our first year, and we've been wanting to do this. So, we're really, really excited about that. Um, we have
040our book fair on the 21st. It's going to be an evening only one from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. And then on the 24th, we are going to be doing our Freaky Friday dance, which all the kids are already very excited for and planning their costumes for. So, lots of fun stuff to come. And we're very excited to be This is our first year doing this. So excited to be part of the team. So thank you for having us. >> I also wanted to add sorry our beautifification um committee also redid the front of our school. They mulch the planted flowers made it look really nice. >> Thank you. >> 612 Association. >> Hi, I'm Sophia Steppenoff. I was last year's president. the current presidents couldn't be here tonight. So, I'll just report for them. Um,
041over the summer, we sold lawn signs, four different kinds, and they so popular. When we closed them down on MemberHub, people kept complaining and we had to open it back up. So, clearly that was a huge hit and a great fundraiser. So, we appreciate anybody, everybody who bought lawn signs. On August 22nd, we were at 9th grade orientation and we served some pizza. For superintendence day, we provided provided breakfast for all the middle school and high school staff and that was from Jones Beach Deli. We were also had a tent set up for the second annual um 5K run and we were um silver sponsors as well and we sold some merch that we had there as well. Um tomorrow we will be providing pizza for all freshmen for freshman field day this week. Monday
042and Tuesday we were here at the high school for picture day both days. And then Wednesday and Thursday, we were at the middle school for picture days as well. And looking ahead, we have we're looking forward to the Wan Talk Spooktacular on October 28th. And that's it for 612. Um, can I do SEPTA, too? I have also WPABC. Okay. So, for SEPTA, I'm one of the co-presidents. Uh again, we were part of the 9K run when we were distinguished sponsors and we had a membership table and we were very fortunate that we got some memberships that day. Uh we have been at all five schools in our district for curriculum nights and we've had membership tables at all of those five schools. So, we appreciate all the schools that had us there because membership is
043the best way to, you know, to raise funds for scholarships and grants and everything that we need. Um, our first fundraiser will be in October. So, every Wednesday in October, Uncle Frank's will will be providing 10 we'll give you will be donating 10% of every of their purchases to us. It can be you can take out as well because some of us don't you know if we have kids you know they don't really want to do that. So it's every Wednesday for the month of uh October and again the best way to help SEPTA become a member and that's it for SEPTA. Um could I do WPABC as well? Okay so for WPABC I'm the VP of membership and communications. So last Thursday we had our first hybrid meeting which is really great and so
044you can watch it you can come in person or you can just watch it on Zoom. Um our marching band pep band and kickline performed at the homecoming game on Friday. We supplied water and will continue to do so for all home games. Looking ahead, homecoming and band camp are quickly approaching. We will be serving pizza and snacks to the marching band and kickline. The Newsuesday marching band festival is October 21st and while and we will be providing snacks for the marching band and kickline as well. Um November 4th, the fine um fine arts per WP uh the fine and sorry I'm reading what they wrote in the performing arts will be having an islanders game for band chorus and kickline will be be performing before the game which is amazing. It's a big deal.
045So, we hope you come and cheer us on. And those tickets can also be purchased on our member hub and you'll see it on all socials and it's also on the school socials as well. Thank you and hope you guys had a great summer. >> Okay, PTA Council. >> Hi everybody. Hope everybody had a nice summer. Um, Laura Gracie, PTA council with Chrissy Roth again this year and Lindsay Voggler is our vice president. I don't really have much to report. Um, I just want to thank the building principles for letting us set up shop during their um, back to school nights. We were selling our notepads that we have that can be universal districtwide so parents could fill it out if kids absent, running late. Um, those are still on sale in our member hub.
046Those are $6 and they can uh, transcend all schools. Um, our first PTA council meeting is October 16th, 7 PM at Forest Lake. Um, and then obviously our big fundraiser is in February. We're going to do the staff volleyball game again. Um, everyone really seemed to love that last year, but uh, we haven't even begun planning that yet, but we'll have more information to come. And that's all I got. Mr. McMary, you're gonna have your car very clean this weekend, right? >> Thank you. Booster Club getting lower and lower. >> Good evening board and community. I'm Lette Montagono, treasure of the Wanto Sports Booster Club. So membership to date is 200 paid members. So we're really happy about that so far. And uh we've been very active on our social media accounts. It's Wantro Sports
047Booster Club both on Facebook and Instagram where we're posting our team accolades like uh student government told us the college commitments that are happening and all of the team game schedules. Feel free to tag us if um there's something that you want to uh share. We also have currently our online store both for the community and for staff and that's open until September 30th. We've had successful back to school nights in both schools. Tiring but successful. Along with the uh Wanto Middle School orientation with the Wantorware apparel, we have some new dialots and also informing the parents about what our club is about and the support that we provide the teams and of course our student athletes. Our next event is homecoming. Go Warriors. It's on Saturday, September 27th. The flyer did come out today.
048Okay, I saw it on our email. It's a 12:00 p.m. parade lineup. Um, it's a 2 p.m. varsity game. And we are proud to announce that Mr. Bulgatz is um our grand marshall this year. >> Very nice. >> Yeah. He really embodies our one community warrior team spirit. And when he found out, he was so happy and he told us, some of you I shared at the PTA that he has announced around 1690 games. So go Warriors and go Mr. Bogats. And that's it for Sports Booster and we will see all of you at homecoming, I hope. >> Thank you, >> Foundation. All right, that seems to be all of our groups. Anyone has anything to address the board on? The microphone's open. >> Hi, good evening. Um, I guess you all know me well
049by now. Um, I know I was at the planning meeting and you guys had said you had made no decisions in regards to lights on the field and I was just inquiring if anything has um transpired since my list inquiry. >> There's nobody else on. >> Okay. No problem. Thank you. anything? Nobody. >> All right, we'll close our public comment period. Uh, thank you for the inquiry. No change uh in terms of the status of the lights. Um, uh, we we're doing a handful of night games. We have um lights that we've uh rented to to do those games. Uh, and that'll, you know, continue over the next couple weeks, but no no no change in anything in terms of field lights. Yep.