001So we'll come to order. Be John the last pledge of allegiance if I may. Yes. Please stand the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. The roll call, please. Troy Anderson present. Bean present. Wayne Nebo present. Eric Ju here. John Fairchild here. Christopher Gway. Curry Jolliker present. Jason Miller present. David Trudeau and Aussie Aussie is not here. Just for the record. We have a quorum. If I may as approval to the agenda resolve that the superintendent of school recommends to the board of education to approve the agenda. May I have a motion, please? Motion carried. Second, Dwayne. Second, Dwayne. Any discussion? None. All in favor? I. I. And right
002into executive session. Uh, be resolved that the board of education enter executive session to discuss the employment of a particular person. May I have a motion, please? Dwayne. Motion. Dwayne. Second. Curry. Thank you, Curry. For a second. Any discussion? I see no discussion. All in favor? I. I. All right. We'll make this quick. and we're going to invite each of the building level principles in. Oh. To this executive session. Okay. Outstanding. So, we'll hope it won't be long. Yeah. Be resolved that the board of education return to regular session. What is the time, please? 658 658 Thank you so much. May I have a motion? Second, please. Dwayne is a second. Any discussion? No discussion. All in favor? I. Thank you. Moving on to presentations. Uh, Mr. Relation, please. To the tenure plaques. Absolutely. And
003then I think Mr. Oh, Patty, are you back on? Good. Okay. All right. some time. We got a couple different presentations that we're going to go through. Uh first, I just want to acknowledge that later on in our agenda today, we do have um some tenure appointments and some of those staff members are here today. I saw them in the audience. They will be officially recognized with your tenure class in the fall. That's the process we have here in town. So, you'll be with your own staff in your building. But if you are on the agenda for tenure tonight, I would like you to stand up so members can at least see who those faces are. So, you're on the agenda. So tonight I do want to present two different tenure plaques for two administrators
004who were granted tenure at our last board meeting. Um so I'm going to say a couple words and then both come up, shake their hands and provide them with their plaque. So you know last month both Mrs. Bargo bees elementary principal and Mr. our associate principal of the high school and athletic coordinator director. He wears many hats when it comes to athletics and co-curriculars. Um both received tenure after granted by the board of education. They're amazing additions to the team. I've gotten to know over the course of the last year and I'm super impressed with their dedication to our staff and to our students and I am just really excited that our team is coming together and we're building some really some real big momentum to move forward with. So with that, I'm going to
005ask that Mr. Jennifer forward for his tenure black [Applause] and then Mrs. Bar. [Applause] Right. Thank you both very much. I appreciate it. Thank you guys. [Applause] So, next on the agenda for presentations is retirement pl. So, we have five retirees from the district who are here tonight who said they would come for tonight's presentation. And I did a little bit of math. So, the five individuals who are here tonight have a combined 118 years of service within district. Think about that for a moment. 118 years. At first, I was like, I don't think I could write. It's not my nope, they actually did. So, with that, I'm going to bring up each individual. When I call your name, please step forward. We'll present you with your plaque. And then I'm hoping one of my
006admins wouldn't mind taking a picture. I'm going to get everyone up here first and we'll do a picture. So, first, Matthew Tilasi, social studies teacher at the high school. 27 years of experience here. I will just share that during my interview process for this position. I was in his room one night. Uh I love cartoons. Congratulations. I'm going to have you stand right up here. We'll do a photo once we get everyone. Next, elementary teacher with 15 years of experience, Tony Meows. Guess [Applause] it's real. Yes, it's real. Now, next, family and consumer science teacher at the middle school with 32 years of experience, Don Finley. [Applause] Okay, next out of our five teacher a student aid with 17 years of experience, Tina J. [Applause] And last but not least, our teacher at BES Elementary
007with 27 years of experience, Renee. [Applause] All right. So, I'm going to have you all come over this way and we'll do a photo with your class. Can you guys come over here? If I had to say any comments, I was mentioning your name. Yes. Matt should be Matt should be in the middle. Oh, yes. In the middle. Yeah, I can do that. And a really decent part of the photo, but I can't a little bit. Congratulations again. Congratulations. [Applause] There's on the agenda for 10 years. This we have to look forward to in 25 30 years. Next for presentations, uh we'd like to do a board recognition. So, John Fairchild, one of our board members, is leaving us at the end of the month after three years of service. John, three years and one
008meeting. Three years in one meeting. Yes. I got elected for the extra meeting. Okay. Lucky you. Um, so what I want to say about John is, you know, being new to this position coming into this role. It's nice to have people who have experience. We have a great board of education. John has been a really strong voice in a lot of um educational aspects because of his experience as an educator and it's been really really helpful for me. You know, all of the board members, John, you know, it's just really been nice getting to know you, having some good conversations about education. So, I appreciate your service on the board, not only as a fellow board member for our board members, for me as the new superintendent, but also for our staff and for our
009students. So, thank you very much, and we have a class for you as well. Thanks, John. And last but not least for presentations, another board's recognition for our exeicio member, Azie Homer. You know, I've really enjoyed getting to know Azie. I know he served in this role for two years at this point in time. Azie's been a very strong voice for the student body, taking a lot of his own time to go and visit each of our other buildings to ensure that their voices are represented here at our board of education meetings. His reports are very thorough. He has a lot of really good information. And personally, I've got to know Azie in terms of his leadership roles. We've had some good conversations over the course of this year with some things he was advocating
010for for our students. I'm super impressed. I know that he is going to make us really proud as a graduate from Patan Central. Azie, congratulations and try to pl for you as well. Hey, Dustin. Yes, Dustin. Oh, you're taking pictures. Sorry about that. No, I just wanted to take a second. Um, John, I got to tell you, I have I greatly appreciated my time on the board with you. Um, you bring a a very interesting point of view. One of the things that I think is great about our board is the varied points of view that we have. I think you bring a great uh point of view to the board. Level-headed thinking, attention to detail. I've greatly appreciated my time on the board with you. Thank you for your service to the board. Thank
011you. And Azie, Azie, I got to tell you, you are an incredibly impressive young man. Um, you you show that every time you come to the board. You're incredibly prepared. And not only that, but you come with a great demeanor. I can tell that you enjoy your time working with the board and and all the other things that that that has you doing in the school district because of your position. I uh I I I've been incredibly incredibly proud to work with you on the board and I can't wait to hear what you do in your first year of college and as you go forward in your career uh your school career and then your professional career. Uh thank you so much for your time. [Applause] Sorry, I'd be remiss if obviously I didn't obviously
012had a chance to say something real quick. Um thank you for the for folks Mr. Pchette, Mr. Sparkham who are would continue your service u and have done uh you know most wonderfully so far. Uh in addition to it it when I see people who have given that commitment to public service being committed to public service is not easy. Um, and you see folks with 27 or two years experience. That's just absolutely impressive and and I and I thank them for for dedicating how many how many lives and uh of persons they have touched and shaped and formed and to to successful positions. Um, Azie, good luck to Harvard. Patty said it very well. You're extremely impressive and uh I'm really proud of you leaving here and you're going to go do great things. Uh
013John Fairchild. Um when I came on the board just two years ago, you brought 40 years of experience into this uh into this position. For those of you who don't know, John is a teacher and a superintendent. And we led us through kind of a tumultuous time with selecting a new superintendent. We had an interim superintendent. We had a a uh Dr. Davyy leading us through trying to find that next superintendent. And it was we had a lot of questions. Um Ed Maron's also in the crowd. You know, that was it was it was a tough time. Um, John, you brought uh questions from how do you spend different colors of money to how do you hire a superintendent? Uh, contract pieces that we would never have known. And um, I really want to say
014I I I appreciate that. John just said to me a minute ago, I said I said to him, you have what, 33 years? John said, "No, 40." And he said, "Not a day I didn't want to go to work." And that's I think that's really touching. Um, anyone, you're going to be missed here. And um, I want to thank you for for your service. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Thank you so much. Of course. So, at this time, I'm going to turn the stage over to Dr. Davyy, district superintendent for CBS, and Dr. Slatterie, executive director of special education for a brief presentation on their special education program. Thank you both very much, Barbie. Good evening, board president Bean, Vice President Anderson, members of the board, Superintendent Relation over here. Uh, members of
015your administrative team, uh, your students, congratulations and good luck. and to members of your your staff and parents in the audience. Thank you for allowing us and me. Is this on? This is on, right? Yeah. Okay. Thank you for allowing us and CBS to present this evening. Uh what a privilege it is to provide our annual update and I really enjoyed last year the work with your district and through throughout your hiring process. So, thank you for that opportunity as well. And I want to acknowledge as part of my opening uh the fine work that your new superintendent has been representing and undertaking on behalf of your district. Uh each month we meet with our chief school officers. Each month we have a virtual check-in meeting and throughout the the month or the year there
016are health insurance consortium meetings. There's a variety of other meetings that we meet and Mr. Relation has been doing an outstanding job. He's been wellreceived and and accepted by our chief school officers. He's asked amazing questions. He's brought forward some ideas that have contributed to our conversation on a monthly basis and really is advocating on behalf of all your students and your staff. Uh so congratulations on your great hire and also I want to acknowledge the the outstanding and excellent work that he's undertaking on your behalf and on behalf of your district. Um, so as we start our CBS update, I'm pleased to share a few updates this evening. And each board member and your administrative team have a copy of our CVS folder. In the folder, you'll notice several handouts. And I will start
017off and say that you have a CVS services summary, uh, which I will we'll just take in a in a minute and share the highlights of. I'll also acknowledge that you have various fact sheets. This evening, Dr. Flattery is going to be sharing a special education update. There's a presentation he will share and I'm very pleased uh that he's joining us. He is our executive director of special education at CBEES. Uh he has been with us 5 years and we're very pleased in his leadership and I will acknowledge that in in a moment. But I'll start off first and say each of our board members have an updated fact sheet. This is the 2425 fact sheet that includes updates about CVS and the various services we have. You also have individual fact sheets for CVtech
018management services and school support services. Last year, Miss Campbell was here and updated the school support services and so on and so forth. So, those handouts are in the folder and they're also all on our website. So, if the audience or teachers would like to see that information, it is all available on our CDS website. You also have on the other side of your folder the RISE Center for Success handouts as well. And that's a deeper dive that Dr. Slatterie will be providing and as part of this update, but there's additional information about each one of our our programs. This is and a little old school. I do love the electronic versions, but I also appreciate the the paper copies and the the handouts that you can read on on your own time when you
019don't have access to the electronics. Uh so with that said, as part of my update, and this is part of our annual visit, each year we visit all of our component districts, and we thank you for that opportunity. looking at your agenda. I know you've got a busy agenda, so we'll get right to it. I would like to just acknowledge the level of services that Beacon Town uh participates in with our Boseies. Mr. Parliament, I know you do a great job as our business as a business official and you work with our business officials. I know last uh week I attended your monthly business officials meeting and they do a great job. So, acknowledging your leadership as well as your administrative team's work and Miss Tavernet, your assistant superintendent who works very closely with Dr.
020lottery and your special education programs to support CDS, but also as part of the regional collaboration. As you look at your services update, your coser aid ratio, that's the cooperative service agreement process. It's an incentivized state process where the the state reimbures districts based on on the formula that's that is uh given. With that being said, your Kosher aid ratio is 66.8 cents on the dollar. So 67 cents on each dollar spent with C with the CVS services generally come back to your your district and state aid the following year. So that is an incentivized way to help support your district and to support your your taxpayers and your continued participation. You'll notice the various services under administrative and management services, whether it's the administrative capital budget, our health and workers compensation insurance coordination, that's
021the consortium for all the the staff members and retirees and administrators. Our health insurance consortium is is approximately $125 million annually. Uh that is and and Mr. relation is on the board of directors of both our our workers comp and our health insurance there. There's over 10,000 participants and about 4,600 policies. So each policy may have a family member or more than one family member. So approximately 4600 policies and over 10,000 lives in that consortium. There is a poster that supports that consortium. You'll also notice the other areas, the FSA, HR, teacher certification, board of education, professional development, and the like. Those are all all services under the administrative management services that your district participates in. Under career and tech, Mrs. Freriedman a couple of years ago came with your students and presented about CVT.
022You are an active utilizer of our career and technical education initiatives and programs. You currently have 90 students. So, Mr. you and the the high school team is a are also a strong supporter of helping your students have those outstanding services. The pre-CTTE job target and incarcerated youth. Uh you'll notice the special education students Dr. Slaughter is going to speak about that. You have currently 15 students and a variety of those special education services. And you see the various list and the and the related uh services that are available for your students as part of those as well, including the hospital-based education and the other support as well. Lastly, on the back side, you'll notice we have the school support services and the variety of services that you participate in there as well. Whether it's
023your staff development, school safety and risk management, public relations, staff development, emergency communication, instructional technology, the the whole list is outlined there. I know Miss Parliament, each year you help to review that and submit your updates of all the services the district wants to uh sign up for the following year. again, outstanding services that provide information to your district and support, including, for example, your communication support that you've had, which has has been uh a person in your district each week to be able to support your communications. And lastly, the crosscontracted services. Those are services that our Boseies does not offer, but are offered available through our Boseies network. So, if a district, if your district finds services that you want to participate in from other districts or other Boseies across the state, you can
024sign up. again and received your closer aid ability to support your programs in the following year. I'll be happy to answer any questions at the end, but I really want to take time now and turn it over to Dr. Slatterie as our executive director of special education. Dr. Slatterie at one point was an administrator here in your your district uh as well. He knows the region. He started his career many years ago as a CVS special education uh instructor. He has been our executive director of special education for the last 5 years. He joined us from the Peru district where he was he was a long-standing principal. He has been outstanding in working at the state level on on our behalf of our region and our special education programs. He works with his colleagues all
025across the state. He is an officer in the statewide organization of of of Boseis uh leaders who make up the special education network across the entire state. He's highly regarded. He works very closely with our CSC chairs and directors of special education and is leading a dynamic and innovative program of special education at CVS. So without any further ado, Dr. Slaughter, I'd like to turn it over with my congratulations. Okay, thank you Dr. you continue to be in town central school community. It's my pleasure to be here before you tonight speaking on behalf of the Ry Center for Success and the vital services that we provide our communities across the North Country. You're probably wondering, hey, what is the Rise Center for Success? It's important to know that we are the special education division of
026Champlne Valley Educational Services. We serve as a premier provider um of educational services for students with moderate to severe disabilities. And we're able to do this through our highly specialized programs. Now, why do districts look to us provide these services? It's really simple. We offer programs and services that our districts cannot provide. It's not because you don't want to provide these services. It's because you don't have a large enough student population um with similar needs fitting within the same age spans that state education regulations dictate. We are pulling from approximately 10,500 students across our Boseis region uh to build these programs. Now why do we build these programs? First and foremost, it's uh the most important thing we can do uh for our most vulnerable populations. Secondly, because long-standing federal legislation called FAPE. FAPE stands
027for free and appropriate public education. It guarantees access uh to education for our students um with disabilities regardless of what their needs are. It's at no cost to their family. So very very important long long-standing legislation. So how do we specialize? Uh we specialize first and foremost because of our staff. We have over 225 highly specialized staff with over 20 different titles that um you know are part of our multid-disciplinary teams. All of our work with students is focused on post-secary success. So whether you're a 5-year-old student in our program or a 21-year-old uh who will be exiting or graduating shortly, we're always focused on that end in mind. How can we help our students and families be successful uh when they graduate our programming? All of our supports are tailored to help students overcome
028barriers that are inherent due to their disability. Uh we want to foster those strategies and the skills and the safety of our school setting and then grow those uh strategies outside the school setting so students can feel confident with who they are and find success in whatever they're doing. Partnerships really powers what we do as an organization. It helps us elevate programming, helps us evolve to meet the evolving needs of our students. We have over 60 different partnerships uh locally on the state level and across the nation that helps us evolve. Then finally, training for staff. We probably provide more training um than anyone can ever imagine uh to hold 225 of our staff. Some of it is program specific. Um some of it everyone intends, but it's very very important to maintain all the
029certifications um that are needed to meet the needs of our students. Now, where are we located? So, we have six locations across Clinton and Essex counties. Uh, our main campus, Platsburg campus, hosts 23 different classrooms. Our Mineville campus serving the needs of our Essex County schools hosts six classrooms. You may not know, but we have two satellite sites at the Platburg City School District, two academic classrooms within PHS, and two life skills classrooms within their Dukan building, their administrative building. Then finally, we're also on Sweet Platsburg at Sibly Hall and one work source. That's for our partisan transition, our adult programming that is funded through OPWD and access VR. Now, what programs do we offer at RISE? Our first program is our 812 acade academic behavioral program. Uh that ratio in front stands for eight
030students, one teacher to teaching assistants. This is for school age students. Uh so students ages 5 through 21. Students within this program are working towards the reach of global diploma. Academically, they're performing uh at par age peers, but they require as deemed by the CSC smaller setting uh with additional support so they can be successful. Students are programmed. They can graduate um from CVES uh with that diploma um or they can transition back to their component district for that least restrictive environment. Our next program is right to life skills classroom. Same ratio. Um same age of students that we're servicing. This program is a little different. Uh it's focused on meeting the needs of students that are performing two years or more below similar age peers in terms of academic functioning. Instruction takes a form
031of functional academics in terms of mathematics, reading and writing. Um, typically students in our Lex Skills program also receive a heavy dose of related services as dictated by their IEP. And then once students reach the age of 14, we initiate work experience um inhouse on our Platsburg campus with a goal of providing some community- based opportunities. I'll talk about that in a little bit. Our next program is our 613 autism program. So different ratio, six students, one teacher, three teaching assistants. This program is for students with a classification or diagnosis of autism. Uh similar same age, ages 5 through up to 22. Autism is a spectrum disorder. Our program focuses on the more moderate to severe end of that spectrum. Many of our students are nonverbal. Uh they need assistive technology to communicate their wants
032and needs. And with those barriers come additional behaviors that can be pretty intense, which requires additional training on our part for our staff. The neat thing about our autism program, we started it eight years ago with two sections uh through our partnership with New England Center for Children out of Massachusetts. That program has grown to seven sections pre present day uh with the need from our region for more. Uh so we're act actively working to meet the needs of the region and continue to offer a program uh that we're proud of and and can a find the space for and b staff appropriately. Uh an additional thing to know about our program, we have a social worker embedded fully in it. Her role isn't the traditional school count school counselor counselor role, excuse me. Her
033role is to know and understand the needs of our students, what they're learning in the classroom. And then she works with the families to help carry over the skills from the classroom into the home setting and to help families understand their child's disability and how they can support them throughout uh their school age career and beyond. Our final program is our 611 ITSP, Intensive Therapy Supports Program. Uh new ratio, six students, one teacher, one teaching assistant. This program is for students at the secondary level. also grades 6 through 12. This program originated approximately 12 years ago as an out of a need um from the region or component districts asking for a more intensive and therapeutic program that we could offer locally so that students that needed an appropriate education um could find it um
034locally continuing to live with their parents not be placed in a residential treatment facility. This program has grown into three sections over the past three years. Um each classroom is equipped with a full-time school counselor. Uh we have pediatric and psychiatry services in the consult format. So each month our pediatric psychiatrist consults with the family, the student and the staff. We have adventure-based counseling built in on a weekly basis that culminates in a monthly excursion typically in the aderondex really focus on those non-traditional ways to learn to build confidence um that's needed to help overcome some of the barriers that are part of disabilities that we serve and then uh yeah school counseling is also embedded uh within this service. Now I mentioned work experience earlier. Uh so important to what we do on our
035Platsburg campus is really divided into in-house opportunities uh which then can progress to community based opportunities. So those first three blue bullets are all in-house opportunities. We have our pay lab sent a team of professionals a couple months ago to check it out to see if this investment would be worthwhile to have on this campus. We have our in-house simulated work experiences as well as our rise and shine cafe which provides rich opportunities for students in preparation for job and career readiness. Uh then we want to get kids out in the community. Um that starts out first with outings with volunteer work establishing a relationship with some of our partners in the community that can then translate to work sites and and on the job work sites during the school day with the support of
036our teaching assistants. Oh, you may not know we also provide 11 itinerary providers across 10 of our component school districts. We have a full-time special education teacher assigned uh to the child and adolescent psych psychiatric unit at CBPH. Her job is to provide instruction for students that are are short-term uh stay there due to um a potential mental crisis need. They still need to receive their education. Um, so it's important that they're able to access it. Uh, and we're able to provide that service. We are the annual provider of extended school year, which is summer school for the region. And I already mentioned briefly our partisan transition adult services branch. This would not be an administrative presentation if we didn't have charts and numbers for everyone in the audience. Uh so with that rise center
037by the numbers you can see over the past three years we've had steady growth in our enrollment uh to the tune of 51% approximately uh we've been able to meet regional need uh through a workforce crisis through a space shortage and really we're grateful for our partnership with Platsburg City School District. If we were unable to lease those four classrooms uh from Platsburg, we would have approximately 32 students with disabilities from our region without programs. These metrics are all part of our strategic planning. So this next graph really talks about what are our students when they graduate from the Rise Center, what credentials are they exiting with? Last year's cohort, 44% of our students left with a regent or local diploma. uh that second row there, what are they doing upon exiting? We don't follow
038um cohorts after high school, but when they leave, we know what they're doing. Uh 63% entered employment immediately upon graduation. And then 31% of this cohort entered adult services, many of which uh is in our partners in transition program. This next chart is really it's a new metric that we started tracking this last year. It's one of the most important things we can do um for our students with special needs. We really are focused on building student independence. Um students are able, they're entitled, they qualify for a lot of school-based services um up until the age of 22. When they leave and exit, those services are gone. We live in a rural region. There's not a lot of services available. So, we want to prepare our students uh to live independent lives regardless of their
039disability. Uh so these metrics here that first one percentage of students moving moving to a less restrictive environment uh 35% of last year's cohort moving into this school year uh shifted down the continuum. So maybe they went from a 613 to an 812. Maybe they went from one of our 812 programs back to our component district. We had 22 students last year transition uh from the rise center back to their component districts. um that next metric percentage of students moving to a more restrictive environment. So on the other end of the continuum 4% that means we weren't able to meet the needs of the student in our setting with the services that we have and they needed more to reach that fate. And then finally uh this next one is really high. We're proud of
040it but it it's really going to be an outlier. uh the percentage of students where we're able to reduce the reliance and support of that 1:18 a service from last year to this year 58% uh that's in conjunction where we increase our classroom ratio. So previously at weight 8.1s we increased those to 8.2s and our program used to be a 61. So increasing that helped us to to reduce that reliance on student aids. Now in closing how are we able to do so much? It's really because of our amazing staff. They are the heart and soul of what we do in service to the communities of our north country. Why do we do it? It's really because of these amazing students. I could stand here and tell you stories um about each one of our
041kiddos and their successes. Um but instead, I thought we would share a little bit of our why with you. Um literally around the moon every night. And now my eyes are open wide. And the sky has never looked so bright. I don't need to see the road to believe. To believe. Yeah. Cuz this is where I'm meant to be. I believe. And I feel the magic. Magic everywhere. It's all around us. It's in the air. I see the magic magic we can share so much everywhere. I feel your I feel your [Music] feeling. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] There's wonder on this one you wrote in front of me. Okay. Now with that uh well yeah wrong way. So, in preparation for this outreach to our component district, uh we asked some of our families, hey,
042uh we're going to be talking in your home districts. Would you mind sharing a few words? Please don't sign your name to it. Think of it as a testimonial. No pressure. Um please, you know, you don't have to include your child's name. The four we have here are from parents and they wanted to have their name on it. They said, "Please do not redact or remove any information from it. We're really proud to be a part of the Rise Center family. Um, and we want you to share our experience. We'll just focus on the one in the middle. I'm almost at the age where I need readers, so I may get a little closer. CBES was such a big step for us to take as we live an hour away from the school. That was
043four years ago. And the only regret we have is that we didn't make the move sooner. Blake has improved incredibly in such a specialized setting. We are so thankful for the teachers and staff that have made these last four years a success. We would recommend this school to anyone. That's from Kim and John. And then yeah, I'd like to invite Dr. Dave back up here and we're happy to answer any questions. Sure. And thank you. And before we move into the question phase, I'd like to offer a special acknowledgement as well uh to the Beacon Town Central School District's Boseis board member representative. Uh you know him well. Uh Mr. Ed Marin has been on our Boseis board. Uh was active in your board for many many years as well. He's been on our board
044for 14 years. He has also served for most of that time as a Bosey's board officer and he has been our vice president for the last quite a few years now. Uh so we're so pleased that he represents your district with distinction. He's passionate about your students. He's passionate about all students and a strong strong advocate for for career and technical education, special education, and high quality services to your district. So Mr. Mayor, would you like to share anything at all or Good. Okay. He has he does an outstanding job. Um so we thank you Mr. Marin for your service and and in front of your all of your home crowd and your your support. We thank you for your service and your is outstanding to work with as you know. Um so now I'd
045like to just ask Dr. Slatter up and and open the floor up to uh President Bean or Vice President Anderson for for I I do have a few questions um if that'd be all right. Dr. flattering. Yeah, absolutely. Um, so obviously the the services that you offer at your Rise Center are phenomenal. We utilize them in the district. Um, I do have a couple questions about kind of capacity, current utilization and you know, you know, potential plans for for growth at the Rise Center. Yeah. Do you have an idea of what your current capacity is at the Rise Center? So current capacity meaning um so we have our mineville campus we have 30 we have 33 34 classrooms throughout the two counties if all of our classrooms were full um without any know requests from
046state to to go over those ratios and I would have to make a guess here probably around 2 35 240 okay with That's within 5% one way or another. No. And that's fair. Like I'm not holding your feet to fire on to the fire on an exact number. Just just curious. Um and what is your current utilization? Boy, it's pretty high. I want to say we're at 230. You know, it's it's pretty high. We have some vacancies that are very specific to campus, um specific to program, and specific to age range. And so we know that our enrollment also fluctuates, you know, during the course of a school year. Well, like this year, I mean, it's it's up there. I mean, it's it's in the high 90s. Yeah, definitely. Yes. Um, do you have plans
047to grow your programs, increase your capacity? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Now during the presentation I talked about enrollment growing and you know each of the past three to four years we've grown one to three sections depending on the program and the need and then depending on where we can find space right now going to this new school year 25 26 we have we're capped at space at our plat campus I was able to get CVT to give us another classroom last summer um but They're capped. Our mind little campus is capped. We're always looking to partner with our proponent districts to possibly lease space. Um but right now our plan with a new CTE center opening uh scheduled to open for fall of 2026. That's going to allow us to expand our operations at our Plax
048campus down the hall. So I'll have, you know, a conservative estimate 10 classrooms available to open programming in. Mind you, it's a two-part equation. We're not going to be able to staff 10 equations or staff 10 classrooms um to the level that we would like. I don't think anyway, but systematically and strategically, you know, we do want to be able to open depending on the needs of the regions and you know, the requests of our component districts. And you're thinking that that potential growth in capacity would happen for the 2025 2026 school year or beyond that? Oh, the following school year. So, we won't have space. Yes, you got it. We won't have space avail We're one year out until we have that space available to us. Awesome. Thank you. Yeah, great question. Happy to
049answer any other questions from the Beacon Town board and superintendent relation. I just had a a quick one. um in research. Um how does BCS compare to the local districts on um like you we were talking about the the year aid ratio? Are there any other um programs that are currently we are not currently utilizing or that you would recommend? Yeah. So Being Town is a great school system. You guys have a robust special education program. Um, really the most robust one in the region. When Dr. Davy spoke about the A ratio, that's for uh coser services outside of special education. So that 60 67% um doesn't come back. Special education uh aid is through excess cost aid which is a different mechanism and isn't specific to fost. So you won't you won't receive that
050percentage of aid um on students attending our programs and services. Great question. Let's see if that and it sounds like your enrollment has grown over the years, right? I mean it's it's going up considerably. Um, do you see a need for school districts to start taking on some of the, you know, some of the burden in these more specialized classrooms themselves to to to meet the needs of their local districts? Yeah, you know, that's a great question. Those are discussions that we have at the regional table with all of our directors of special education and it's every the context of every district is so unique and I know has the largest enrollment. Um, and I think the variables at play when a district is considering that if you have, you know, enough students within an
051age span where you can open up a program, it's a no-brainer. Um, and, you know, I'll say, "Hey, you may want to look at your numbers because I see we have seven or eight of your students that are going to be in the same classroom. You may want to consider, you know, opening your own program if you can." The problem uh becomes, you know, additional related services to support the program. um additional supports that are built into the program, but then do you have a student population that's sustainable to maintain that program or are you having peaks and and valleys where as a you know as a Bose center it would be better off for for us to run it um and operate it and this is you know the model within the Platsburg City
052School District. They're benefiting from us. You know, their student population and their school community is benefiting from our program and our system of supports where their students get to stay with their peers and stay. You know, the high school is a really great example. Everyone, you know, knows a high school setting. They've been in a high school. Um, we have students that were, you know, they just didn't have enough supports offered within that system. It's no fault to anyone else were there. they get to stay in the system um that they've known their entire school career in some cases and then can find success with the right supports. Um so really in that situation it's a win-win. Thank you. So and I'll just add and say that I know we've had regular conversations with Mr.
053Relation and our chief school officers about whether or not our component districts have any extra space to offer any of our any special education classrooms. So we do have several as Dr. Slaughter is mentioning about Blackburg. Um so we had they have been fortunate and added several classes over the years. So we do have that representation and I know Bacon Town spaces that are limited is is so is limited within your district as well. There was a time a decade ago or so where there were even considerable more Boseies classes CDS classes out in the component districts. there was a retraction and we went back to our program our services and programs on site. But we've been trying to make that effort as well and we've asked our superintendent to to if you have room
054and you'd like to really rent a class to us, our students have the teacher, they have the support staff and we work closely with our administrators and we also provide support as well. Um so that's a possibility if there's space and that opportunity to continue to work together. Um so that if there's interest and room we would love to continue to partner with Beacon Town in that way as well. So that there are some opportunities for partnership and continue you know work together in addition to sending students to our campuses. Yeah. And for those classrooms and class you guys brought on not only the teaching staff but also the support staff. Yeah. It's our entire infrastructure. It's a CVS program where we lease the classroom space. We lease ancillary services. So think of you know
055school nursing pushing um into various classrooms with the support of our you know one2 team and the counseling supports that come with it. Yeah. So very interesting. Thank you very much. I really do appreciate you guys. Great questions. Thank you Dr. Sutter. Thank you Dr. David. Thank you for the opportunity and wish everyone a successful end of school year now. Thank you. Thank you for the arranging and thank you Mr. Mayor. All right, gentlemen. You're welcome to stay if you like. You're also I understand if you have to uh you have to go. I'll move you on to um reports, Mr. Relation. Yes, I will uh do my best to make this as brief as I can. I know I tend to get longwinded for those who are here on a regular basis. You know
056that about me. Um so, first just another quick update, strategic planning. Um, you know, I've continued to be impressed with the work that's being done at the building levels. So, we have one more building left to go to work with Nicole, our consultant from Alra Bay. And then from there, a lot of the buildings have had not only one, two, three, sometimes four different follow-up strategic planning meetings. Um, I've been kept in the loop by email. I've tried to attend those that I can. Um, but it's it's been super exciting to see that initial stage of data collection get to our district level two, those two big priorities. And now the buildings are working collaboratively with their committees to say how does this work for us in our building. Um I attended a session I
057think it was last week together a little bit at this point in time but it was a great meeting where I saw staff say well this is how we want to do this and we might want to break this apart here um working collaboratively in small groups coming back and reporting out. It's just been a really really good process and I'm excited to see the building set up for that year one action plan um in all four of our buildings and to know that it's a collaborative effort with staff coming together and having conversations and being vulnerable and sharing some thoughts on things they've experienced in the past. I really appreciated that and you know it's it's a testament to the movement we're trying to make to build collaboration, trust and that ability to work
058together. Um so I'm excited about that. Uh next just a really quick update. So a couple meetings ago we had around kids unplugged. Um they came and spoke briefly about you know our screen time kind of conversation what it looks like here. I have worked with our administrators. The administrators have then worked with their building level leadership teams um on formulating responses to the six questions that we have. Um so I have that all together. I've got an email that will go out tomorrow morning back to uh the person who came and spoke to us. So we have all of that information. I believe I shared it with the board in last Friday's update as well. So I will I just want to thank the administrators and the teachers who collaborated. This allowed us those
059six questions allowed us to kind of think about what we are currently doing and then start some of those conversations about how we can think about these things in a more thoughtful way. We do a lot of really good things but there were a couple specific questions like you know what we don't track this quite yet or we don't have a goal in regards to screen time um at certain instances. So it's how do we do that a little bit better? We've got a lot of safeguards when it comes to, you know, our filtering software. We're bringing on some new pieces. We're changing how we use YouTube. We've done that already. We're looking at an allow list as opposed to kind of open and then restricting there. Those are steps we're taking in one regard,
060but the screen time situation is something that we're going to continue to have conversations about. And the admins don't know this yet, but I'm going to keep it on our admin agenda so we can have those building level conversations like, "Hey, did you notice we were using a screen for this?" And it could have been a movement break or something different. and our staff do a great job and that's the one thing I want to point out. I'm in classrooms as much as I can be and in that there's a lot going on. Um, but it's caused us to think about some things which I appreciate very much. So, we're going to continue that conversation. Um, next, just briefly, I did say this in my Friday update to the board. The interview season is upon
061us. Um, a huge thanks to our administrators and our teachers who are sitting on those committees. We do have, you know, several openings. We're filling some of them tonight hopefully. Um, but it's a very busy time of year. Uh Chelsea is consistently dropping new interviews on my calendar where I've got any open time. So, you know, hopefully we're going to get everyone secured and locked in for a successful start to the next school year, but it's it is definitely a busy time of year. And I just want to acknowledge the work of our administrators and our teachers who are taking time out of their classroom to sit on these committees um to evaluate the candidates and bring forward recommendations to meet and do that final interview. And the last part, just, you know, this is
062a super busy time of year. I look at my calendar and I use orange for meetings I have to be at and it's pretty much all orange. And I know that's true for the administrators and for a lot of our teachers as well. The one thing that I just want to say, you know, to all of our staff and our students is make sure that you stop and enjoy those moments. Today was the science fair at Cumberland Head for fourth grade and I took 20 minutes, was able to walk around and see the kids and listen to their presentations. You know, there could have been some other things maybe on my radar, but it was important for me to take that time to walk around and see the kids and just being mindful of that.
063At the end of the day, we're here for our kids. They're doing a lot of great stuff. We want them to be excited. We had the National Junior Honor Society last night, seeing, I think it was 41 new inductees at the middle school level. 44. I was close on my account with my memory. Um, but those are the events that are important for our kids, for our staff, and for our families. So, while it's busy, it's that take time and smell the roses. We've got to make sure we're doing that because it's going to fly by these last three weeks. So, just want to put that out there. Enjoy those celebrations. They're very important as we wrap up the school year. And can you name one scientific principle that you learned today? Tell me what
064that is. Uh, you know what? I learned about oxygen in different liquids when it comes to apples and turning to the brown color. That's true. I also learned about that was my my childhood and I got it all right. Right. You did actually get that right. I'm actually impressed that you were listening. He gave him a presentation, my fourth grader, and I'm uh I'm impressed that you retained that. A lot going on. There was a lot going on. Yes. Um listen, on the uh on the topic of screen time, Mhm. Um when you're talking about monitoring monitoring screen time, like I mean, as you know, I've got three little ones, right? Two in the elementary school, uh one in the middle school. One of the biggest hurdles is trying to a keep up with um
065current guidelines. You know, when I say guidelines, recommendations for kids and screen time, that that's a that's a hurdle for a lot of parents, right? So, I'm curious, do you have any plans of looking at potentially some sort of system that allows parents to understand how much screen time their kids have had during the day so that we can try to remain uh within um within guidelines when we get home? Yeah. So based on the questions that came to us through this organization, I have reached out to Gary Lambert who's our director of IT security um and communications. He's looking into what our systems currently can do. So we're using securely right now. We're switching to a new system. Um so we're looking at what that could look like. The one challenge that we are
066going to have to look at with the new organization is what does screen time look like versus open Chromebook. So like my Chromebook's been open, the screen is technically on. So the system would likely track that it is on. However, I'm not actively using it. So we're looking at what that could look like and how to determine active screen time versus non-active screen time. And from my understanding of, you know, kind of the questions with from the organization is they're really interested in are we providing a lot of free play, free choice, non-screen opportunities for students as opposed to putting a a board up and having something playing there, which are those are the conversations with our staff that we want to have. But I am looking into it to see what we could figure
067out and what we could pull data wise. Um, but that's a caveat that we're trying to figure out right now. Like how do we determine the active screen time versus non-active? And the reason I ask, right, is that I mean to anybody that has an iPhone, you know, you get like a daily or weekly screen time update and it will break it down by the type of application you're using. Um, because part of it's the TV, right? But part of it's the time they spend on the Chromebook. And I think that's even a bigger part because the screen is so close to them. Mhm. And and you know, based on like the like the CDC recommendations and stuff like that, I mean, they're they are they are fairly strict. So, like right now, as a
068parent, we're kind of um you know, we're we're we're operating without some pretty necessary information when we're trying to make free time choices for our kids today. No, absolutely. I hear you on that. We're going to continue to dig in and I'm going to figure out where we can and can't pull right now. Um and look at what opportunities exist in the future. I do know that Mr. Lammer has engaged our new organization with what could reports look like from you with this. Awesome. Thank you. Of course. All right. Thank you. Moving on to Mr. Parliament. I don't have a lot to discuss. Not Not that we're not extremely busy this time of year, but nothing exciting. Um we're closing out our books in the business office. We've got, you know, two more weeks left
069and um the bus garage is getting ready to roll over routes and get summer schools situated. um um buildings and grounds is getting everything ready to clean and do all of their summer stuff with minimal help unfortunately. Um and the cafeteria is getting ready to feed all kinds of people this year. They have they've um she Roxy's done a great job. She's partnering with JCO and the town and um um we're going to be feeding lots and lots of kids which is awesome. Um so we're extremely busy but nothing real exciting to talk about. So our audit actually starts July 28th. So, we will have a short turnaround come June 30th, 28 days to get everything ready. Just a just just a thought, do you have an audit committee meeting scheduled for the first week
070in July, but I don't know if you'll have two board members available since I'm on that committee. Yeah. And we won't have new board members up for it. So, maybe you move one way or the other with that. Yes, we we is on our radar. So, okay. That's what I wanted to make sure. Yeah. Yep. Gentlemen, any questions for Mrs. Parliament? No. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mrs. Parliament. Uh, building principles, please. Mrs. uh, Mrs. Nelson, just roam around here. Right now, students are focused on final exams and projects. The most exciting time of the school year in the middle school. There's great energy and effort in the classrooms. Our staff is doing a fantastic job supporting them um through these final weeks. Last week we held our final advisory challenge. The human knot
071was the challenge. That was fun to do. I participated in that along with Mrs. Manchester. Students reflected on the purpose of these activities that we've held throughout the year and shared that they've helped build teamwork and cooperation. It's something we will continue to do next year. their favorite two challenges, musical chairs, which was no one got hurt, so that was very safe. And and soaring eagle, where we put a stuffed eagle on top of a bouncy ball and see how far it goes. So that was a lot of fun. They were big hits, and we'll continue those two challenges next year. Um we also had our last middle school dance. Yay. We all happy about that. They're always very exciting. This one was fun and just a positive way for students to celebrate together at
072the end of the year. We had so many parent volunteers. Without them, this wouldn't have been able to happen. So, just a huge shout out to about the seven seven parent volunteers anyway. So, we appreciate them very much. As uh superintendent relation mentioned, our National Junior Honor Society induction ceremony happened. We had 44 new members. It was a very proud moment for family and friends. The auditorium was packed. Um, and it was just a great recognition of student achievement, accomplishment, and leadership. Earlier this month, we had our own middle school type science fair with the watershed student showcase that took place. That was a huge success. Uh, we have a very strong partnership with Sunni Platsburg with that. students presented thoughtful, creative projects, educated myself and community members on microlastics and drainage. Um, I was
073impressed with their quality of work and the diaramas, the models that were all over. It was awesome. Um, looking ahead, of course, we're excited about our awards ceremony at the end of the year, our end of the year field trips, our great fun days, our ice cream day. Thankful uh for the BMS PTO for doing that. So, it's been busy, it's been productive, and it's been fun. So, um, and more to continue. So, thank you very much for your support. Well, thank you. Thank you. And Mrs. Barkham, please. Good evening. I had printer issues and it's in my laptop. All right. Um, I want to start off actually talking about New York State testing. Um, that was obviously a little bit ago, but only presenting every other month. I wanted to share some data with
074you. So, we went up in our participation rates in ELA, math, and science across the board, which I'm excited about. We're 84% of ELA, for example. So, just encouraging kids to really participate is um is important, and it's okay if they don't, but I'm I'm glad to see that number going up as well. So again, highest point for us was 84% for our ELA for grades three, four, and five. Also during May, I'll mention the science fair as well. We had uh a school day science fair. We come down, walk around and check everything out. But at night, we had our science fair and we had judges and big announcements this year, presentations in the classroom in the allpurpose room with awards and everything. So I want to announce that best in show was Noah
075Facco and Odin Senson for life cycle of a chicken. We had third place tied. We had uh Elelliana Jabbat for hydrogel face masks. And then also tied for third place was Conan and Cora Wool for gummy bear osmosis. Second place was Hey Crushetti and Gage Stewart with what ball bounces the highest and they had fun in the gym doing that. Yeah. And first place was Jason Rafferty for tornado in a bottle. So they did a really great job. Presentations were amazing. And just the fact that they can when you go around the science fair, it's just booth booth booth booth. They just talk to whoever's there. And it's it's nice to see they can just kind of go on the fly. Um we had this last few weeks and this week our screenings for prek
076and kindergarten. We've had a lot of families coming in. our biggest kindergarten yet for the fall as far as knowing already who's going to be there. That doesn't always will happen. The yellow school bus goes by and we get phone calls that my kids needs to come to school. So, we have a lot on record already, which we're excited about because getting those screenings done is really important upcoming. A number of things upcoming. We have our data meetings next week, which I'm excited about. It's really nice to get our staff together to really look at what we're doing for next year for those groups and how the kids have done. done a lot of work this year with our our reading piece. So, I'm looking forward to seeing next year's data meeting in June, what
077those kids in K1 look like next year based on all the work we've done this year. And hopefully next year we'll continue that as well. Um, UPK graduation's coming up. We usually have it in the evening over at the town hall. This year, they asked permission to do it during the day so every single student can be there. Sometimes we have kids who can't get back in at night, so I'm thrilled to have it in the daytime. uh might meet new challenges with that but excited for the change. It'll be great. So obviously UPK graduation, kindergarten graduation, fifth grade makeup ceremony, all that's happening. Uh field day is happening, Eagle Pride assembly, our last one. Recently had our spring concert as well. Students did a fabulous job and I want to end with talking about
078strategic planning committee. Uh we've had two meetings. First one with our with Nicole was on May 9th. And one thing I shared with Principal Stouter tonight cuz she has her first meeting tomorrow was the level of flexibility Nicole had, we were partway through our day and the staff was like, "Hang on, I have some questions about direction this is going." And we kind of flipped the script and changed everything up and she was so flexible with us. She was so well verssed and able to guide us through that process. The staff felt supported. we were able to move forward and I felt confident going into June 4th last week with the staff to move on with um some guidance from her. So I think we're on on the right path and of course we have
079the two um priorities from the district and we're focusing on number one which is cultivate a thriving inclusive and safe community and so our grade level teams last week on on Thursday they want to work K1 2 3 and four five to work on behavior matrices and expectations for those grade level bands. so much we have is for prek up to grade five, but you look at a 5-year-old versus a 11 year old, expectation should be different. What they can handle should be different. So, they're looking at that very closely with some data as well. So, they're doing a nice job. Thank you, M. Yeah. Thank you for your work this year. And thank you, Mr. Nelson, as well. Where you Oh, there you are back there. Yes. Um, Aussie, is this your last? Yes.
080Or will be July will be your last? No, this. This is it. This is it. Okay. The pressure is on, Austin. It's got to be the best one yet. Considering that starting with CGS, um I talked to three kids this time. I was able to drive down um after my school day. I talked with some students before the end of theirs. I talked with Hayden Oit, uh Sam Steel, and Camila Sara Shano. Um they were very active. They got like I have like two pages of notes from them. Um uh so first and foremost they talked about a lot of the events happening um in the uh at CASS for example stuff like the science fair which was mentioned um as well as a lot of um other smaller events like they had their last
081pride assembly. They had um some assemblies that were partly put on by student council members and by uh students uh along with the fact that they mentioned that they've started uh helping the mascot which is really they wanted me to talk about that really cool to them. They get to like help out the mascot and like um really spread equal pride at like multiple levels. Um another thing they mentioned is uh the relay for life. They collected luminaras. I think I'm saying that correct, which was like those lantern things. Um, and they uh those went to um organizers for Relay for Life uh just to kind of um help spread and help that project to continue going. Um they also talked about some of the trips that they're going on. uh student council is having
082a trip to Champions Fund Zone uh to celebrate just the leadership and all the dedication that they put into it because especially at the elementary level like they're doing more than they arguably like they put so much time and effort into that. So it they think I think that's really special. Um as well as the on the 12th of June, I think I have my dates right for that. The fifth grade um is going on a trip to Great Escape. Um so they're very excited for that. Uh as well as that, some other events uh such as the concert band um was able to show off uh instruments to third graders and uh students other older students in the um building were able to kind of work with uh the younger students more and more,
083especially as they're starting to kind of transition towards the middle school. So programs like the eagles where fifth graders work with uh kindergarteners are kind of wrapping up and they're really just kind of getting to leave an impression um of positive leadership on to these younger students. uh actually are very excited for both um for the older kids but also the younger kids to have kind of a role model and a friend to kind of um have not only like in school in the ELET program and they were telling me even on the bus the and on outside of school these connections that they're making are actually like really mattering and helping um younger and older students kind of break out of their shell. Um, and last but not least, the students were very excited
084about middle school. Um, ironically, uh, and their transition towards that. Uh, they're very excited to continue their leadership, continue all of their hard work. Um, especially now that a lot of them have done their final exams and final exam season is somewhat over for them. Um and they're kind of just in the last few days. They're very excited for u middle school um and kind of the opportunities and leadership and freedom they'll have uh while they are there. Um so transitioning to high school um the last few months have been very busy for high schoolers. Uh a lot of people I talked to um focused on a lot of the AP testing that's been going on. Um it's been very busy, but the uh students have done a really good job at keeping uh hallways
085respectful for finals and a lot of students have been doing a very good job about preparing for finals uh for both regences AP exams and general finals. Um, there's been a lot of review sessions that have impacted a lot of teachers and students working in and out of school as much as they can to really prepare and do the best they can on these finals and put their best foot forward for these. Um, so I commend the student body for that as well. Um, along with that, uh, seals of biliteracy and civic readiness are in. Um, I don't have numbers for civic readiness just because I wasn't able to talk to the coordinator for that, but I know for biiteracy we had one French student and I think six Spanish students, I should know them
086in Spanish. Um, get the seal of biiteracy. So, the teachers are very proud of their students. Um, I know every single student that went for it in Spanish was able to get it. So, um, Senor St. Louis, the Spanish teacher is very, very happy about that and the students are happy as well. um showing that there's a lot of dedication to al not only like the core classes but a lot of dedication to um kind of those electives as well and a lot of time was put into it by those students. Um there was a lot of elections and club activities that have been happening for the end of year preparing for the next year. Um I know the the next year junior election so the sophomore election is about to happen. Um the student
087council and junior elections both just ended. Um so everything's kind of getting settled and getting prepared for next year. Um FFA and Molly both had their interviews and uh election processes kind of happen. So there's a lot of students not only preparing for our seniors because obviously a lot of seniors are preparing for the next step in life, but a lot of students are also just preparing for the next year of school. um for both academically but also extracurricular wise. And on that note, um a lot of students talked about the sports seasons ending. Um we had um a lot of the finale like the end games for a lot of our sports. Um one of note is our flag football getting to the final four uh and having a very close game against the
088uh number one team in the state. I think it was 33 38. So that's huge. a lot of excitement, not just from the flag football team, but also the student body for that. It was really exciting. We got to like watch them and like send them off to their final four game. So, it's like very exciting. Along with that, um uh I just because I'm on track, we had state qualifiers and there's over 10 students going to states uh from Bemantown for that, including like three relays. So that's really exciting for um track and field and a lot of other sports are just like finally getting to their um end of their seasons and students are very excited about that. Um and to end um a lot of there's been other events uh such as
089scholarship night which is coming up, NHS induction which is tomorrow I'm pretty sure. Um and a lot of just events that have been happening around uh uh senior banquet of prom for juniors and seniors. Just so much work by um adviserss, students, um administration, everybody to kind of like put on these events and make sure they're successful. Um and a lot of people want to mention the general excitement for graduation and the end of the year. Uh people are very excited for summer. They're very ready now that their finals are mostly finished, unless if they're in a regions class. Um, and the seniors are very excited for graduation, which is happening only in a couple weeks, um, a little less than three weeks. So, um, everybody's extremely excited. And with that, I also just wanted
090to have a note um, that I'm very grateful for the opportunity that you guys have given me. Um, I'm extremely happy with my time here. It's been kind of an honor to do this for two years and it's been probably one of my favorite things to do. I I love talking with the kids. I love representing um students across the districts. Uh and I like going to these meetings. These are very interesting to me. It's really cool to be there and be a part of this process. And with that, I also want to thank the board, but also the principles for letting me kind of like take up their time, go to their schools, talk with their kids, and be a nuisance to an extent, but also just really like from my part on to
091them, but also them helping me so much in creating these reports and making sure their students are represented as well as dealing with the annoying kid that it's like, "Hey, can I go to your building for the third month in a row?" So, I really appreciate the principles. I really appreciate the board. Um, and thank you guys for this opportunity. All right, welcome. Well said, Azie. And uh, best of luck in your next endeavor. If you ever need anything, we're here to support you and uh, become a teacher. Don't become a lawyer. Do something positive. Um, committee reports. Any uh, Dwayneo from the policy committee? Yep. second. So we had two policies went over 2245 exeicio student member of the board and that is going to be adopted for the first reading for the next
092board meeting and also 8113 extreme heat conditions and that's also set up for the first reading. Thank you so much. Safety committee meeting. Anyone? So, I can talk about the safety committee meeting. So, we met recently. I don't have the date on the top of my head. Um, so safety team reviewed the district safety plan, which is what is done this time of year. We had Tom Smith, a representative from the CVS health and safety team. He gave us some additional feedback that was important for us to have. There were a couple things in our plan that we were that we did not have, so we would have been out of compliance. He gave us some language that we could put in. I shared that back with the committee so they could look at it
093all prior to us posting it because it needs to be posted for 30 days for public feedback. So Chelsea has assisted with that with Mr. Lambert. It is now a popup on the website. So it's our normal process for that 30-day public feedback um and then we should have back to the board at the July meeting um for formal adoption so that we can then submit it to the state. It was a productive meeting. Um we went line by line. Everyone had to plan in advance to add comments on different pieces. So we went comment by comment through the entire plan. It's one of those meetings that it takes a little bit of time, but it's really important because we we cleaned up some stuff that just seemed a little bit out of out of
094whack, you know, some language pieces. So it was I thought it was a very good meeting even though it took quite a while. Thank you so much. Of course. Moving on. Can I can I can I touch base on the uh on the policy committee? Please go ahead. Um, so one of the policies as Dwayne said that's that's currently up for uh a first read is 2245. That's exeicio student members of the board. Um, we're going to be should it be passed, we're going to be increasing our number of exeicios to also include a member of the middle school. From what I understand, we've already put out um some questionnaires as to, you know, who uh, you know, who is interested. students have started gathering signatures uh to meet the requirements. But with that policy,
095you know, we are kind of up against it a little bit because we'd like it, you know, if it is going to get passed, we'd like students to be able to get in place and let them do their uh you know, their interviews and their selection process. So, I would actually like to make a motion that for 2245 we put that up for final adoption. We amend the agenda to put that up for final adoption. We just had to make a motion. We can do that. Sorry, Patty. We were just talking on the side here as we get the policies that we'll make that motion to amend and then make the motion to um accept. Yeah. To accept and then we'll go from there. Yeah. Yeah. No, my my uh my motion was strictly to
096um you know to amend the agenda so that it says final adoption as opposed to first read. But if you want to do it when we get the policies that's fine. Yeah, that sounds good. That it's all intact and encapsulated. All right. Thank you, Patty. Anything else? Sounds good. Thank you. Okay. Yeah, sure. Uh, moving on subsection five here, public comment. Do I have anyone here for public comment? I see no one. Thank you so much. Moving on to minutes. Be a resolved superintendent of schools recommends the board of education approve the following minutes. Uh, be the annual meeting minutes, public policy committee minutes, and the board meeting from 5:13 2025. Um, may I have a motion, please? Motion. Curry. Curry. Second, please. Dwayne second. Any discussion? No discussion. All in favor? I. Thank you.
097Moving on. Subsection seven, B CSE, CPSSE, and 504 Rex. Resolve that superintendent of schools recommends to the board of education to approve the CSSE, CPSSE, and 504 recommendations dated uh June the 10th of 2015. Do I have a motion, please? Motion. John. John. Motion. Second, please. Eric, thank you. Second. Any discussion? No discussion. All in favor? I I gentlemen moving on to subsection seven personnel. Uh be it resolved the superintendent of schools recommends to the board of education the following resolutions on this consent agenda via resignations appointments and tenure being hereby approved. May I have a motion please? Motion Curry. Curry. May I have a second? Second Drake. Uh second Drake. Uh discussion. No discussion. All in favor? I. Thank you. Moving on, gents. That was excited. Oh, that was it right there. Oh my
098god. Yay. [Applause] Outstanding. Well, let's go back and discuss that for a second. Slid by me. No, not at all. Uh subsection 9 uh miscellaneous um be resolved if superintendent schools recommends the board of education the following resolution on the consent agenda consent agenda pardon me school bus use for north country honor flight and athletic mergers be and are hereby approved. May I have a motion please? Motion John. John motion second. And we have discussion. No discussion. All in favor? I just for the record, I have signed um those um athletic mergers and pass them forward. Just the record is clear. Um be it to amended I think that's where I'm at. Yeah. Subsection D of the same section uh D amended employment agreement of the superintendent. Be it resolved that the board of education
099approves the amended employment agreement dated June 10th, 2025 between the superintendent be between super between towns school district and Dustin relation. Secondarily before we have the roll call be a further resolve that the president of the board of education Padre Bean be authorized to execute set amended employment agreement on behalf of the board. Um may I have a motion please? I'll make a motion. Curry second John. Second Mr. Fairchild. Any discussion? No discussion. Gentlemen, a roll call vote, please. Troy Anderson, yes. Drake, yes. Dwayne Bibo, yes. Eric Dew, yes. John Fairchild, yes. Curry Jolliker, yes. Jason Miller, yes. Thank you so much. Motion passes. Congrats on getting past your first year, Mr. Relation. Thank you. I appreciate a bit surprised, but let's just move forward. I'm just kidding. You're welcome. A uh subsection. Hey, I'll
100make a quick note here. It took us all about 30 seconds to to come to this agreement and uh we're happy to have you. Please uh you've done a great job this first year. I know everyone feels the same and we're excited about the years to come. I am as well. You excited for the future? Y we are as well. [Applause] No, I'm just kidding. Getting more rest. Moving on to policies. Oh, we'll do that piece. Um, yeah, you may you may be surprised, but I have a I have a motion to make. Yes. Yeah, please. Uh, go ahead, please. Um, I'd like to make a motion that we amend the agenda um and strike first reading from 2245 and move it along to final adoption. I'll second that. Uh, yeah, actually be the motion
101would be he's making the motion, right? Yes. So, you're sorry. Yeah, got you guys. Uh, any discussion on that? I see the discussion. All in favor? I I be it approved that draft policy 2345 is into a final adoption. With that being said, uh resolve the superintendent of schools recommends to the board of education approve the following policies. Be it uh policy 81 8113 just the first reading and then like I just said 2345 for the final adoption. May I have a motion please? Dwayne Dwayne and Jason. Jason the second. Any discussion gent? No discussion. All in favor? Thank you. That motion passes. Uh be it to financials uh subsection 11. Resolve that the Oh, pardon me. I guess I do a motion to move the list because we have quite a bit there underneath.
102No, you got the first one. Do I do the first one first and then move the list? Okay, got you guys. Thank you. I resolve the superintendent of schools recommends the board of education the following resolutions on this consent agenda. via transfers agreement with CS Arch and disposal of district property B and are hereby approved. May I have a motion please? Motion John. John John Fairchild second. Curry second. Uh Mr. Curry and discussion. No discussion. Roll call vote please. Troy Anderson pass. Bean. Yes. Neibo pass. Eric pass. John yes. Curry Jer pass. Jason Miller yes. Oh, I see. Okay. So, it adds to be to section 11 subsection E. I do motion to move the list. No. Oh, make you read. Absolutely. Do I read? I'm not reading it. You're crazy. Okay. Motion to move
103the list. I I will second that motion. Thank you so much. Any discussion? All in favor? No. Okay. This adoption uh motion passes. The adoption of the four game resolution was duty put to a roll call vote which resulted as follows. May I have a motion please? Motion Curry second. You already motion you motion. Oh, but don't don't we start doing the roll call on that? Yeah, but you don't need another motion. Oh, I don't Do I just don't say that? I'm so frustrated right now. All right, so I just ask vote. Okay, roll call vote, please. Troy Anderson, yes. Drake, yes. Dwayne BBO. Yes. Eric Dw. Yes. John Fair. A confused. Yes. Curry. Yes. Jason Miller. Yes. All right. Thank you. That's a good note to end on almost additional items to discuss. Uh
104just very quickly. So I we have a um the board will reorganize itself in the July meeting which entails as all you guys know entails uh a vote amongst ourselves for president, vice president, etc. I want to say I've truly enjoyed being uh vice president. It's it's a um uh I've learned a lot in my two years. I can say any member of any board of education, particularly this one, I'm a uh behind closed doors and executive sessions, I'm a big advocate of advocating for that the board maintain its um institutional integrity because the longer you stay here, the more you learn. and the things that I was arguing my first month here seem maybe not so uh maybe maybe not in the right uh frame of mind. You know, after you've had a couple
105years, especially in this position, you're privy to speaking with the superintendent on different uh issues and face to face and and so forth. And it's a good educational opportunity. Um I I hope uh I'm not going to seek the vice president part for next year. Um I'll still be down here probably where Mr. Curry is and chucking rocks at the president and vice president um as I probably would prefer to do. But nonetheless, it does mean I won't come back to this position in a couple three years and yet learn again. With that said, gentlemen, I would say anybody who has the opportunity to step into this VP role or I don't expect a lot of change. Patre being who's online is doing a wonderful job as president and I expect us to to to
106vote in that direction, but that's his neither here nor there. And whoever chooses that vice president spot, I would recommend whoever takes it next, please raise your hand the next time that person's done and say, "Hey, I want to jump in there because you really do learn a lot." And um I look forward to being able to take a back seat, so to speak, and be able to use that knowledge to to help, you know, further our mission. Um with that said, as well, thanks guys for thanks administrators, those guys. You guys got tenure, the staff that got tenure today, and and the folks that worked really hard. I see a difference. At least I feel like it. Being an outsider, uh, being in this leadership, we're all leaders up here. We're all leaders in
107this room for that matter. But, uh, being in a support role to to you guys, um, and and hearing what you have or hearing what you what you need and trying to facilitate that, make sure you have everything that that that that you want or need or have to have in order to facilitate your intent. And so thanks for the staff and the leaders in the amongst the staff and the support staff that probably go really unsung amongst all this tenure discussions and whatnot that make the whole machine move. Um anyway, thanks for you guys for a strong a really great year. I I felt I felt better about this year be again being an outsider. All I'm ever doing is looking through the window, right? It's it's hard to touch what you guys really
108do. And again going back to being a VP, it's helped me touch that a little bit. Um anyway, that said as well, um I know Mr. Fairchild would like to say a couple words as well. Please, please, John. I've never been known to say anything. I just want to say thank you for this experience. It's been rewarding, challenging u and a growth experience and in 40 years has been one of the most uh interesting things I've ever done. Um as you continue on this strategic path, which I think is the right way to be going, I appreciate the work that the teachers, sports staff, administrators, and everybody else is doing. Please remember it's like an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean. It takes a long time to turn it. Uh changes in school
109culture take five to eight years and you've got work ahead of you, but the work you've done is a great start. And can we meet again? Thank you, Sean. Thank you so much. I I will make a quick note that when I said I wasn't going to be vice president, no one said, "Oh, no." So, I want to go back just about two minutes and say I'm not going to be vice president next year. Oh yeah. All right. Anyway, the Kool-Aid man. Yeah. All right. Hey, with that being the case, uh, subsection 13, public comment. Try one more piece. Sorry. Additional items. One thing just for the board. So, obviously, you know, we made you aware that our our current labor council um is seeking other opportunities. So, I've done some initial work looking for
110law firms to bring on board. And what I'd like to know from the board is how would you like to proceed? the firms that I've been in contact with, they have all said they'd be willing to meet with you if you'd like. The other option is I have no problem giving a recommendation based on what I have for information, I could do something. I just if you want to sit and and see each of the firms, then we'd need to select a date, which I can absolutely do. If you're comfortable with me making a recommendation based on the experiences that I have, I'm comfortable with that as well. I just want to know how you'd like to proceed. How many firms do we have? I've got three right now. I'd prefer to meet them face
111to face if possible. Okay. Gentlemen, anyote? Absolutely. Okay. Agreed. So, what I will do then is we will send out something tomorrow with some date options. It may not fit everyone's schedule and I'll apologize in advance, but because of the fact that we want to make sure we have an appointment for that July board meeting. We we're going to have to try to to make sure that we can find a date that will work and I'll work with the firms on this is the date once we have it selected together. Do we have to have someone in place prior to the I mean can we go bare for I would not want to go without Jen's over there. We would definitely want to make sure we have someone in place. I can see your face
112over there and I talked this morning. Holly Jen and I signed out this morning. I mean what could go wrong? Um okay. Thank you. So we will make sure to get that. Mr. Q. Yes. Yeah. Just got one thing. Uh stepping back to the 10 policies. The file attachments and it's kind of like a formality issue here. Uh they don't align with uh 2245. The attachment is set down below 2345 and 8113 does not align with 8813. Oh, thank you. All right. We'll correct that now. All right, no worries. Thank you for having me. Yes, thank you. My hair wasn't in the way. I believe I know. Uh, and I think it moves us on to the last section here for our last section of public comment, subsection 13. I see no one for public
113comment. Thank you so much. And I think that brings us to an adjournment. Subsection 14 be at the result of the board of education adjourn the meeting. What's the time, gentlemen? 8:28. 8:28 p.m. May I have a motion, please? Motion, John. Thank you, John. And second, Dwayne. Dwayne. Thank you. Any discussion? No discussion. Uh, all in favor? Thank you. Thanks, guys. Long night. Thank you so much. No.