001The order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you for everybody for joining us this evening for those tuning in remotely and uh our own board member Tina Pluno tuning in remotely. Uh Michelle, do we have any agenda changes? Do not have any agenda. And it is with great uh pride that we will recognize our validictorian. I believe you have that one. The uh resolution reads, "Whereas this board of education takes great pride in the area of academic achievement of its students and whereas Joselyn Anne St. Joseph has excelled in academic excellence and has been declared the validictorian of the class of 2025
002at Watertown High School for her outstanding academic achievement based on an overall average of 98.81. And therefore be it resolved that this board of education congratulates Joselyn on this significant accomplishment and hopes that this will be one of many such honors for her. Joselyn, you are a credit to your family, school, and teachers. Congratulations. get a picture. Our board member No one have any. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Up next, we will recognize our saludiatoran. Whereas this board of education takes great pride in the area of academic achievement of its students. And whereas Andrea Isabella Trombbley has excelled in academic excellence and has been declared the saludiatoran of the class of 2025 of Watertown High School for her outstanding academic achievement based on an overall average of 98.43. And therefore be it resolved that this
003board of education congratulates Andrea on this significant accomplishment and hopes this will be one of many such honors for her. Andrew, you are credit to your family, school. Okay. And now we will uh recognize our outstanding vocational student. Whereas this board of education takes great pride in the area of academic achievement of its students and whereas Riley Elizabeth St. Joseph has excelled in academic excellence and has been declared the Watertown High School class of 2025 outstanding vocational student for her outstanding academic achievement based on an a overall average of 97. And therefore, be it resolved that this board of education congratulates Riley on this significant accomplishment and hopes that this will be one of many such honors for her. Riley, you are a credit to your family, school, and teachers. Congratulations. So now if you
004receive an award you're one of the very quickly stand here in front of our mural. So a photo all your stuff. Take all your stuff. [Music] You have a system. Yes. Was Miss Lang was trying to [Laughter] photo members stand. Yep. Go ahead. Sure. Oh, thank you. Everybody, thank you very much. Want to say and anybody can add in here how proud we all are. Uh, you know, high school is difficult. you've got all these obstacles and to achieve the GPA that you did and become outstanding students is is lovely for us up here. It really reinforces why we're all at this table. Um, and we couldn't be more proud. So, congratulations. Now, if you would like to leave and go live your free to do so, thank you for coming. Thank you. Thanks for
005congratulations. Okay. Um, is there anyone here this evening wishing to address the board on agenda related public comment things that we're going to act on this evening? Okay. Michelle, do we have any communications? I have Okay, then let's jump right into board and staff reports and I'm going to go over to Dr. Larry Schmeidle for the superintendent of schools report. Good evening everyone and thank you for those that are tuning in and those that are present here this evening. The first thing I would like to um just thank our WA for coordinating the care award and I know Miss Mrs. Gaffne is going to elaborate on that so I'm going to leave that there. Um, the next thing I'd like to mention is last week, Miss Lane and I had the opportunity to join the
006Jefferson Lewis School Board Association dinner. Um, stay tuned. We'll have some announcements regarding that at the next board meeting. Um, but we had a wonderful presentation from the New York State School Board Association executive director. We're looking forward to all that he has planned for the upcoming year and the board uh training that will be taking place in New York City this upcoming school year. again, um construction uh manager. Um we did discuss uh at the last board meeting um we're going to be going out for a construction manager, so you'll be seeing something soon as an RFP. We'll be putting that in the local newspaper like we do with all of our other RFPs. So stay tuned on that. The next thing that I wanted to mention is the cell phone policy. Um when
007you look at the um cell phone law that went into place um districts were forced to kind of act quickly and um you know there were a lot of stipulations in the law as far as garnering input. Um we had the opportunity Tina Lane and myself facilitated multiple groups. We met with all of our union leadership uh which went extremely well. We have another meeting planned there. We met with our parent group. We met with our student advisory kids. Um, we met with our staff advisory group and um, you know, we had the opportunity to really listen to what we know what the law says as far as cell phones and cell phones are not going to be allowed um, in schools used during instructional time, but we really wanted to talk and solicit feedback.
008Um, sorry, we also met with the U policy committee uh, of the school. And so what we did is we took all of that feedback. Kina and I sat down and looked at, okay, how can we take this and put it in a sample policy to present to the policy committee um on the 17th. So, we're prepared to do that. Um, and we really want to thank all of the people. We we had three parents that came to the physical meeting that gave invaluable feedback. One of the ladies, she said, "Feel free to share that I was opposed to the law." Um, but by the time she left the this room, she felt comfortable uh with what we described that we're going to do as a district. And after that, Tina and I said, you
009know, we really want additional parent feedback. So, we put something out online. Um, unfortunately, small numbers of participation, but we did get 22 parents that gave their feedback. Um, and so you'll be hearing more as this goes into effect because by September, um, our schools predominantly at the secondary level will look completely different. Students will not be able to use phones uh in green light spaces. Um and so we'll have additional uh information out regarding that and a lot of information out for parents because the parents, you know, they had some some comments as how do we get a hold of our kids? We'll have a phone available in the main office. Uh we looked at parent square and how we can utilize that for parents and students to communicate back and forth um if
010they have an after school activity or an event that communicate with their family members. So a lot more is going to come in place. Um, when you look at the timeline, the law says that it has to be in place or approved by the board by August 1st. Our August board meeting is not August 1st. And so that really gives us July to have the policy approved. And so when you backdate everything, it really means something will have to be um brought to the board on the 17th of this month um with a possible approval date in the July. We only meet once as a board uh in July. So you'll hear more information about that. um at the next board meeting at Tina Lane on her notes is going to go into further detail
011about this but our next uh board meeting will have our retiree reception which she'll talk about but we are also taking that opportunity to introduce to the community and our our board the student board member. So that student will be present um on the 17th to introduce um he will be our student voice section of the board meeting. So that student will be here at 6 pm. the FEMA. We have been working with FEMA on the disaster that happened on August 9th of 2024. Uh we have been working diligently. Brienne who's not here and she apologizes. She is homesick but uh participating remotely. Uh we have been actively participating over the last several months and we've now submitted all of our applications. Um we're awaiting the CRC to approve the financials. Once they approve that,
012then it will go back out and we'll see what monies are available for mitigation. Um, it could be anywhere from $6 million to $10 million. Uh, obviously you know that we are currently working on a capital project and so there are a lot of things in the capital project that are built in for site improvements. depending on what allocations are available through FEMA, uh we'll be able to take some of those things off of the capital project list and we'll be able to work through alternative uh things that we would like done uh based on the building condition survey that as you've heard me say in the past is required of districts every years. Um so we're excited about that and all things are are pointing in the right direction. Department of Homeland Security um
013we've also submitted our grant application for that. If we are awarded that grant and we have received additional feedback soliciting additional information if we receive those grant monies that will pay for the testing that our district needs to get the um site improvements done through mitigation but it will also aid our capital project. So it's another way to remove some of those costs from the local taxpayers u the um department of homeland security emergency services grant money. So we're looking forward to that. In addition to that and separate of that is our student advisory applications. You saw some of our student advisory students here tonight being recognized for their academic achievements. Um we ended Tina and I had a wonderful lunchon with them at the end of May to end this year. You know we
014added some new things for our student advisory students this year. They had to mentor another student and they had to work on a district project to improve outcomes for for students uh their peers. um that came to an end at the end of May last week and now we are taking applications for students that would like to join the superintendent student advisory for next school year. So this is any current sixth grader to 11th grader that's interested in joining. I emailed I see one of the principles here today Mrs. um June 26 is Atinson is what I want to say and the deadline is June 26th. So, we're looking forward to any student that's interested to please submit their application and all of the wonderful things they'll do. Uh, yesterday I had the wonderful opportunity
015to participate in the Small City School District annual conference. Um, and we had the wonderful opportunity to meet with Commissioner Betty Rosa and her associate staff. Um, it was a wonderful conversation to connect with other small city school districts around New York State and uh talked about foundation aid formulas. Obviously, you know, I mentioned in previous budget conversations that Watertown saw a decrease of 5.77%. Uh there is some concern that extra that those numbers are going to be even less than this year, which was 3%. Um so we did have an opportunity to voice that uh concern. Uh we also talked about the electric bus um uh requirements and the Rockefeller Institute and the Blue Ribbon Commission work all of which you'll hear more from Lynn as she moves throughout the rest of this summer
016and opening of next school year because we're actually ahead of that and I will be serving on the regional social emotional learning subcommittee for that regionalization effort in New York State. So we're excited about that. That concludes my conference. Thank you so much. Up next, assistant superintendent for instruction report, Lyn Gaffne. Good evening, everybody. We are gearing up for our summer professional development offerings with many of our educators already signed up and registered for trainings and also performing curriculum work. We have been placing student teachers in field placements for the fall semester. We're honored to be hosting new teachers in their journey to become certified. Uh we are very close to the start of summer school and I wanted to share some of our enrollment numbers with you. Um, our elementary summer school, we have
01774. Our grades 2 through 4, STEM camp, 143. Grades 5 through 8, STEM camp, 67. Um, one of our new camps, um, communications and multiple media, we have 15. That's for grades 5 through nine. Uh, extended school year, we have 59 students. Bridging program, um, which is something that runs, um, between schools. So, we are starting that at North from preK to K. And then we also have it going um between fourth grade and fifth grade, sixth grade, fifth grade to sixth grade, and then eighth grade to 9th grade. We have 83 students signed up. And then middle school, just a reminder, but that this is our first this will be our first summer offering for prek. PreK is the first year. Yep. Thank you. And we also are continually enrolling for Case and Buttertown
018High School. I don't have the final numbers yet, but I'll be able to share those with you. I attended the WEA Cares award ceremony last week. It was wonderful to see so many students recognized in a very personal way by their teachers. Um it really kind of starts the season of um May and June celebrations and we're looking forward to all the celebrations and events in the month to come. Thank you very much. Oh, give me a second. I missed it. Yep. So for the first time we're doing what with prek prek. Um, so bridging is something that's important because we know that when kids transition between buildings, sometimes it can be a hardship to get used to that. And so we've been doing the prek or I'm sorry, the other bridging programs prior to
019this year. This year we're doing a prek tok bridging and we're starting it in north. It's a pilot and we hope to expand it to all the buildings of the Okay. And finally, Tina Lane, assistant superintendent for personnel and student services support. Thank you. So, I had the privilege of conducting a presentation titled Your Future Starts with a Great First Impression: Resume, Cover Letter, and Interview Skills for the students in Mrs. Boomhower's career management class at Watertown High School on May 13th. Resume, the cover letter, and the interview process were discussed. We talked about proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, how to dress for an interview, and content. and they must have liked me because I'm invited back next Monday to do not. So, um I'm looking forward to working with Mrs. Boomhower and our students at
020Watertown High School. I attended the for drum job fair on May 15th, 2025. It was the district's first time attending the job fair and the turnout was outstanding. I had the opportunity to network with many of our military personnel and their families on job opportunities within the district. The college fair was also held in conjunction with the job fair with over 50 institutions of higher ed in attendance. Thank you to counselors Matt Elliot, Julie Humaster who brought a contingency of students from Watertown High School to the event. I'll be attending the August 8th job fair at Fort Drum. And of course is the season for interviewing uh here in the district. A wide array of interviews have taken place during the months May and June. Uh we've interviewed everybody from substitute teachers, senior typist, cleaners,
021counselors, school psychologists, speech therapists, family and consumer science, Spanish. I just wanted to uh hopefully a lot of people are joining us out there online. Um we have many openings still. These are advertised. Earth science, English, physical therapy, library media specialists, school counselor. Uh we have administrative assistant positions, food service workers, hall monitors, LPNs. Uh, so we're looking forward to doing uh additional interviews throughout the month of June. And as Dr. Schmegel mentioned, we're looking forward to inviting our retirees. We have 13 retirees this year uh for a reception at 5:30 p.m. on June 17th here uh in the WY atrium. Uh Mrs. Fon's WY Vocal Ensemble will be here. Uh we have invitations out. We we're going to have a nice reception for them and snacks. Our retirees have over 200 years of experience
022working with our students. It's quite amazing. Uh so we're really looking forward to that a special event to honor our retirees and their families on June 17th. Thank you so much. Moving along items for consent agenda. Resolve the consent agenda items A through D are hereby approved. Can I motion this? A second. All those in favor? Motion carries. Items for board action. Whereas board policy 2411 federal standards allows for standardization throughout the district for reasons of efficiency and or economy. Whereas buildings and grounds has solicited estimates for maintenance services that fall within the realm of standardization due to history and efficiency and recommends the list is provided to the board. Therefore, it resolved that the use of vendors noted in reasons for standardization are hereby accepted and approved. Okay. Can I have a motion in
023a second? Any discussion? In favor? Any oppose? Carries. result of an agreement buying between Watertown District and the Watertown Administrators Association. The period of July 1, 2030, 2029 is hereby approved. Motion, please. Millie, Millie and Lori, any discussion? All those in favor? Motion carries. A huge congratulations to the um the bargaining unit. What a wonderful relationship and it was a pleasure going through the negotiations process with their officers are in here tonight, Bridget um and Beth Mau. It was a pleasure sitting down and going through each of the sessions with you. Um really look forward to our continued partnership and all the things that we're going to be able to do together. So we're excited where this contract takes us. So thank you all. We so that upon the recommendation of Dr. Larry Schmeville, superintendent
024of schools, the paid administrative leave of an instructional employee effective May 22, May 22nd, 2025 is hereby approved. Please got a second discussion. Favor any opposed upon the recommendation of Dr. Larry Schmeles with Reconnect Schools the paid administrative leave of a non-instructional employee effective May 27th is hereby approved. Motion please. Lorian any discussion? All those in favor motion carries upon the recommendation of Dr. Larry Schmegle, superintendent of schools. The paid administrative leave of an instructional employee effective June 2nd, 2025 is hereby approved. Motion, please. Second. Billy. Any discussion? All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. All that upon the recommendation of Dr. Larry Schneagel, superintendent of the schools, the settlement agreement as presented to the board is hereby approved. Motion please. Milly a second or any discussion favor. Motion carries upon the recommendation on
025the superintendent of school. The board of education hereby approves the following resignations. Appointment term nonpationary instructional permanent permanent and part-time provisional summer school substitutes instructional substitutes nonstruction please go ahead and second discussion post motion carries whereas the resolution was passed by the board of education on April 1 2025 approving the appointment for Stephanie Hagglin and Carrie Miller as literacy coordinators and be further resolved that this amended resolution reflects a change in uh title to literacy co-coordinators with a pro-rated stipend of $1,000 each and is hereby approved. Motion, please. Millie Millie and a second gotcha. Any discussion? All those in favor? Any oppose? Motion carries. There is a resolution was passed by the board of education on May 6, 2025 including the resignation date of Ryan to be June 30, 2025. It can be further resolved
026with this change in the resignation date to be May 30, 2025 and is hereby approved. Motion please. Second. Any discussion? This this is approving the ball camps and clinics for the summer um 2025 um girls basketball camp um boys basketball camp, volleyball camp um summers um the fifth annual competitive diving development clinic, 24th annual competitive swimming development clinic, and the wait room will be open um throughout the summer as well. Motion, please. A second. Any discussion? Yeah, I actually um I think I said this before, but um assuming it's the same um any oh help with the um the scholarships or help with those who need it for the cost of these clinics. I'm sure it's there that can be advertised with the clinics that would be exceptional. Thank you. did that last year. Excellent
027question. So applications ended on June 2nd. So they're going to be moving forward with um interviews with the open positions and then we will decide depending on those positions and who's going to facilitate the camps. I just had a quick question. Are we going to have the gyms open at all this summer? Any big gyms? because I know there was a question last summer about the kids that want to play like indoor basketball, you know, if that was part of we can definitely consider that. That has not been on the table yet. Um, right now we're looking at all the ones that are empty positions that we're trying to build, but we can definitely look into that minus the days that schools are closed. Anything else here? Okay. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion
028carries. Resolve that the district's 2425 school calendar is amended and approved as follows. June 24th, early dismiss. Okay. 8. That early dismiss. Okay. 86 days will be used for teacher professional. Motion, please. Second. Lori has a discussion. Those last few days of school. All right. All those in favor. I oppose. Carries. Resolve that the following student trip is hereby approved. Camp campachi um August 28th for the girls varsity soccer team retreat. Motion please. Go ahead. Billy secondy Billy. Any discussion? All those in favor? Any opposes? Motion carries. The disposal recycle or donation of damaged outdated and unused books from the libraries preschool, Ohio Elementary and North Elementary as per the review by the board is hereby approved. Motion please. John second really any discussion favor any opposed motion carries I was waiting for the furniture
029I got a taker [Music] resolve that the disposal recycle sale or donation of outdated and primarily in poor condition classroom and uh office furniture items from Sherman Comment in the district office is here hereby approved. A motion please. John second discussion typewriter. I was going to say Cully was very close to Sherman. Just drop everything right off. Right. All those in favor. May vote. Motion carries. Resolutions. Anyone here tonight wishing to address the board on non-aggenda related public comment? Yeah. Greetings. Just wanted to share a short story and praise tonight. Brought my notes so I don't start rambling in 10 different directions. Recently, I spoke at the public hearing um and shared thoughts, praises, and concerns about the proposed budget. One thing that I specifically stated was that I'd like to see neuroirming PD offered.
030For those that may be unaware, that means I was hopeful that staff will have the opportunity to learn from individuals that may be versed on topics specifically relating to our neurodeivergent student body by folks who are especially accommodating or even better folks who are living it themselves. Uh, for example, Jordan Zimmerman um is a non-speaking autistic woman who struggled to navigate school and didn't have the opportunity to speak until she was a teen, but who also went on to earn a bachelor's and two master's degrees along with becoming a public speaker using her multimodal communication device. She's a fantastic example of someone with lived experience we can learn so much from. Some of our staff had the opportunity to see Jordan speak at the New York State Association for Community for Computers and Technology last
031year. A topic that I have been especially focused on for the last two years is dyspraxia. What it is, how it presents, and how to accommodate it. This is something that many people including the medical community are somewhat unfamiliar with despite many estimates putting about one to two or even more dysfraic students in every general education classroom. Whether or not the student has a formal diagnosis, a lot of them don't. I recently turned my Facebook campaign page into a resource page and the very first topic I shared after doing so was a piece for teachers on dyspraxia. So, imagine my surprise when one of the accounts I've been following for a short while mentioned that they were coming to New York. I thought, "That's neat. I wonder where. It's a big state. Could be anywhere."
032I scanned the comments and discovered this school training was happening in Watertown. So, I immediately took the leap of faith that this was our school district and literally replied immediately without a thought, "What? I'm going." And then I sat with that and replied to the page directly so as to reassure the individual that I was not a stalker. Uh just someone with a vested interest in education who was a parent and advocate in the district. And then I reached out to Lynn and did thankfully receive permission to attend. The speaker was Jordan Leavan Leavan. I I don't recall hearing it all. Thank you. Um his page is Fighting for My Voice: My Life with Verbal Araxia. Jordan not only has verbal aroxia but also dyspraxia otherwise known as developmental coordination disorder. It was a very
033informative training that described how to support students with verbal aroxia but also touched on dyspraxia as well. Awareness helps better support our students and positively impacts the overall learning environment and school culture. This was a great example of a neuroaffirming PD being offered. And so I'm here to speak my praises on the district for offering the opportunity. Um I especially asked Matt Berdick how it came together. He said Tina Fluo recommended him. And so I wanted to come here tonight and applaud that lead and thank you Tina uh for that recommendation and making the connection because I found it to be very impactful. So, thank you once again and I look forward to learning about neuroirming resources that may be offered here in the future. I'm so glad that you were here, Tina, because I
034saw the MTC and thought, I came here and she's not even here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your nice comments. Oh, I want to add one more thing on the fly. I helped coordinate a transition summit for transitioning into um kindergarten back in 2019 and there were some really great conversations had and one of the highlights of that was how Carthage does a kinder camp and everybody loved it and latched on to it but it was 2019 fall of 2019 so a lot of great ideas didn't really get to come to fruition so I'm very excited to see that we are doing a bridging program for precreat into kindergarten as well. That's it. Thank you. Anybody else tonight? Okay, then let me share some upcoming dates. Thursday the 5th is the Watertown High
035School Awards Ceremony at 7 p.m. in the auditorium. Wednesday the 11th is the Varsity Spring Sports Banquet at 6 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. Friday the 13th is the Case Middle School Boat dance. Monday the 16th, uh 9 through 12, grades 9 through 12's last day of school. Also on the 16th is the HT WY intermediate awards ceremony at 9:30 in the high school auditorium and then the case awards ceremony at 700 p.m. That's an auditorium. Yes. Okay, perfect. Uh, Tuesday the 17th, we have a policy committee meeting here at 4:30. Then we have a 5:30 a retiree recognition ceremony. 6 pm on the 17th, we have our regular board of education meeting. Hey, let's go around the room. Millie, I'll start with you. Sure. Um, so just to dovtail over Kristen's comments, I'm
036not sure um Dr. Schmeagle if you're aware, but there is and I don't know that you know this either, but there is a local um based Watertown um organization that's called Scholastico. Are you familiar with that? Okay. Are you familiar with it? I'm not. Okay. So their entire mission is to work and teach about neurode divergent issues in children. Um and they have partnered with some of the primary care clinics and pediatric clinics and they actually go in there and sometimes see some of those children because some of these things need to be caught at a very early level and the earlier the better. So, I know that in our UPK programs, you know, when we're identifying children that may need additional services and accommodations, there's a whole slew of testing that goes on. Um,
037and maybe we can start to incorporate some of these these techniques and identifying issues because not all of us, including myself, um, are able to pick up on these small little things and it's an added service to our community. And we all know that the earlier you catch catch a deficiency, the the better the outcome's going to be. So, you might want to just look at that. I'm not sure if you how familiar you are, but it's highly reputable. I know that they are servicing the Jefferson County area and they're also reaching out to different types of institutions. I believe, and I'm not sure, but I believe that they work with the Ark as well. Um, and there was a podcast. There is an individual who holds these podcasts called Cultivate, and I actually listened
038to it, and it sounds a lot along the lines of something that you're referencing, so I'd like to put that there. Um I don't know how many people know but the validictorian and the Boseies um the tech Boseis tech they're twins. Um so it's double pleasure for those parents. Uh both of those young ladies grew up with my daughter and it's just double joy to see their twins achieve that level of um accomplishments together. So I wanted to say something to the parents but I think Kristen I don't know she might have gotten embarrassed or something so I just reserve my comment but just unbelievable. I think all of us as parents want that for our children and when it actually happens, it's just an incredible amount of joy. So, and I'm glad that those
039girls are stellar. So, I'm glad that they're part of our community and they will make a mark in the future. Um, I also wanted to make a comment that I appreciate that you was on my list to ask, so you beat me. Um, I'm very happy to hear that we are going to put out an RSP for construction management. I just think it's fair. I I said this before. I don't really think, you know, I don't think any of us have an issue with Kyle, but one of the things that I think we do need to start doing a little bit more as a community is trying to keep our dollars local and really lifting up our local people. So, it's nice to hear. We may decide and we've done this before. We put out
040an RP. you've kept the person, but it's nice to hear that you've agreed that that's actually a good thing to do, especially me giving the magnitude $110 million capital improvement. I think that's a good decision. So, I appreciate that. In terms of the cell phone policy, when we all went to the legislators forum, a lady, I believe from General Brown made a really smart comment and she said, "$13 million. We can put that money to better use." Um, but be that as it may, Governor Hokll has allotted that much money into the cell phone policy. My question is, how is she diving up that money? Like, are we getting any amount? Yeah, great question. So, right now it's a it's a mandate that is not funded yet or at least we don't know. But is
041Sabrina Ironic? She's reached out to all of her. She has no voice tonight, otherwise she would be speaking. Um, but she has reached out to the other um the other finance officers in other districts to try to see what they're doing. Right now, we don't have a clear answer on that. Um, we are looking at what we're going to have to purchase at the elementary level, at least through sixth grade, is going to cost the district money. Um, so we will do a great job with recordkeeping to make sure that when that information is put out that we seek to recover that money. Okay. So, we're probably gonna tap into some of that. Definitely tap into it once we get the directions on how to we're looking at purchasing individual boxes for classrooms at the
042elementary level to lock the devices up through sixth grade. Okay. Um, and this is just for my information because I I like to know a lot of things. Um, so did you say I'm not sure I apologize if you did say this, but how many summer programs are we running actually this summer for school? like what are we actually holding on campus? So, which ones are they? So, the regular elementary summer school, which is a K through five, um grades 2 through four STEM camp, 5 through eight STEM camp, um that 5 through nine communications camp I mentioned that just started this year. Um extended school year, the bridging programs for preK four, six, and eight. And then we also have case middle school and the high school opening. Matt, you're here. I don't know
043if you want to add all of the new special education classes that we're adding for summer. Your numbers are in here. In the past, we've just done our 12131 self-contained programs. We're expanding this year to our 1211, 611, and uh 15 to1 programs across the district. So that's an additional four classrooms up here at WY. So how many buildings are we going to have? What really trying to minimize? So we'll be running out of wy the high school in case okay um no the prek program running out of north that'll be out of north just for three days. So the prek bridging program is only a three-day thing right with the school and procedures that are different than a who's going to do that kindergarten teachers and some of the support staff are going around
044that. I think that's a really great idea. We're excited about it. Um, so, um, and the last thing that I really wanted to say is we've had two short meetings. I was going to say I'm looking at the clock. I can't believe. Yeah. So, I'm done. Wow. Okay. All right. 30. Yeah. We're doing good. Yeah. John, just want to uh echo Millie and just congratulate our class leaders. They'll get a lot of kudos over the next couple of weeks, but just phenomenal. Um I don't think anybody can underestimate the amount of work and effort and support that has to happen to have that outcome in a district as large as Watertown. So well earned and welld deserved for all three of those young ladies and congratulate them. Uh, and then I just want to wish
045all of our students good luck as we head into, you know, final exams and regions week. Um, you know, things get a little busy and, um, I've seen can't believe the number of review classes I've seen come out. Our teachers are absolutely dedicated to trying to make sure that our students have success on these exams. Um, you know, um, they they've gone above and beyond giving of their own time to try to make sure that our students have opportunities to make sure they're prepared. So, I hope they are uh and I hope they do well. So, that you're allowed home later tonight. Anything about the drama club next week? Oh, there I you know I don't there is a production thing about the drama club next week on I was acting part of uh my
046daughter was reading lines yesterday and I had to I played like five or six roles. Um it felt a little too too familiar some of the teaching roles. Um but yeah, so the drama club has uh done phenomenal this year. What a great club. What a great opportunity for our kids. So um that is being held at case. So yeah, it's on the calendar. So come and see. Perfect. Dr. you know, kind of work. You can talk about what you got. Oh, goodness. Um, I just want to congratulate the students. They did an amazing job. I am so glad Jordan Levan came. I am so proud that he got there. I am so sad that I wasn't able to see him. Um, but hopefully we get him back again and um, we'll fix that. Um,
047and that's it. Just good luck to everybody. I miss all you guys and I'll see you all in a couple weeks so much. Thank you. Converse. Just want to congratulate the students on achievements and I want to congratulate the girls varsity lacrosse team on their sectional championship. And I would like to say good luck to the boys varsity team going hopefully sectional championship. And also I know that we have some students going to state for track. Congratulations to them. Um to try to keep us on time here short congratulations to all the students and athletes everyone that's already been said. Um and then always look forward to all the award ceremonies and recognitions and few weeks writing ready. My colleagues have done a great job with more to say. Uh I would I would echo
048the same uh Tina uh you know our thoughts and prayers are with you in the passing of your mom. Thank you so much. Yeah, moms I always say that dads have the easy job, moms have the hard job and moms are special. Uh, and you know, we're just thinking of you during this time and hope that you're healing all right and everybody else in our student body who's done a great job. We continue to be impressed. That's all I got. And at this time, we are in need for an executive session for the purpose of negotiation, article 14 of the civil service law. A second. I'll give it to me. All right. All those fine.