001Good evening. It's 7:15 and I'm going to call the meeting to order. We have six board members present. So, we have four. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. [Music] Okay, the next thing on the agenda is the administr administration of the oaths to the new to the board members to all board members. We will give you your oaths at the end to sign. I will just um read this and have you confirm that you I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of board of education
002member according to the best of my ability. Do you I'll now um take nominations for president is nominating Katie Murray. Do I have a a second? Penny seconds. Kim, how do you vote? Yes. Yes. All right, everybody. Rebecca, yes. Um, Katie, yes. Frankie, yes. Yes. So, our president for the 2526 school year will be Katie Burley. I will now take nominations for vice president. I would like to nominate Katie with the nomination of Frank. Do I have a second? I'll second. I'm sorry. Oh, thank you, Kim. Happy vote. Yes. Handy. Yes. Rebecca, yes. Katie, yes. Frank, yes. And yes. Okay. I need to um administer the oath to the president, the vice president, and the superintendent at this point. Katie, do you solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States and
003the Constitution of the State of New York and that you fulfill the discharge the duties of Office of Board of Education President according to the best of your abilities? Yes. Brendon, do you solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and faithfully discharge the duties of the Office of Board of Education Vice President according to the best of your abilities? Ken, do you solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and faithfully discharge the duties of the office of superintendent according to the best of your abilities? Yes, I I will now turn the meeting over to our newly elected president, Katie Murray. Just hold it. [Music] The next item
004is for November. Thank you, Katie. Um, very excited to introduce 202526 school year, our ex official student board member and she is with us this evening uh in the audience with her mom Amy. Uh, our student is Isabella. So, please do the introduction of Isabella. Isabella is going to be a junior this year uh in the high school and she's been a starter on varsity basketball for two years. She's been a part of student council uh was an ambassador in elementary school since fourth grade. Uh she's wanted to be a teacher since prek. She's in takes several advanced classes in high school. She's made the principal's list academically. Uh she says that she's not afraid to put time into uh anything that she finds herself to. She takes psychology uh courses over the summer and
005she's signed for multiple college courses next year, advanced studies. She's working as a summer camp counselor over the summer probably to her passion for being an educator. Um she works at Junior Peak. Um she's very goal oriented and she's a member of national junior junior honor society and secretary of class red cross certified and she lives in grafting and attended Berlin her whole life. So I'm very excited this year to have uh Isabella uh serve as our board student liaison this year. Motion by a second. Second by Rebecca Kenny. How do you vote? Yeah. Penny, yes. Rebecca, yes. Frank, yes. Elaine, yes. And I'm guess welcome aboard. [Applause] And Isabella, do you mind coming out to the seat? Okay, the next item, our consent agenda item, the appointments and this is A through uh double
006R with SSB being the approval of the consent agenda items. Frank. A motion by Frank. A second. Second by Penny. Kenny. Yes. Penny. Yes. Rebecca. Yes. Frank. Yes. Yes. And Almond. Yes. The next item is consent agenda action items A through Z with double A being the approval of the action items by consent. Frank moves a second. I'll second second by Kim. I just had a quick clarification from on the um credit cards. It has names to them. I know is prior credit cards inside the business office. Are those in the business office and then they need the purchase agent prior to use? So they are motion and a second. Yes, Penny. Yes, Rebecca. Yes, Frank. Yes, Elaine. Yes, common guest as well. So, with that, we have all items under the or as I
007get a motion for adjournment. Motion by Frank, a second. Second by Penny. All in favor? I Any opposed? Okay. So, give us a few seconds to go to the next board meeting, which is a regular board meeting of July 1st. Once you have everything done, just let me know. And Okay. So, I will call to order at 7:25 p.m. with six board members present. We just did the pledge of allegiance. Let's get that one. The first item is the presentation of the public hearing for the 256 districtwide safety plan. So open that up for public com public comment questions. More questions. The next is the minutes from June 17 for the class regular board meeting. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes as presented? Motion by Frank. A second. I'll second. Second by
008Kim. Kimbo. Yes. Penny. Yes. Rebecca. Frank. Yes. Elaine. And yes, the motion carries. Next is public comment on the consent agenda items that are on number five. Comment. Okay. So, move on to consent agenda items which is A through E with F being approval of all the consent agenda items. Motion by Frank. A second. second by um Penny. The only item I had the treasures reports were not attached. So, we do not have so. [Music] All right, Kim, how do you vote? I forgot to read the district. Okay. Um, so Kim will abstain. Penny. Yes, I'll have to. Okay. And yes. So that does not pass. However, I do not want to hold up. I've done A, C, and D. A, C, and D. A motion for A, C, and D. Can I get a
009second? Y question is why does the safety plan have to be approved? So I believe Frank we have we have until August still still revisited back on August 19th. I can verify tomorrow. Okay. So you'll verify and follow up with the board. Okay. So items A, C, and D. Can I get a motion to move those? Motion by Frank. A second. A second by Penny. Kim, have you vote? Yes, Penny. Yes, Rebecca. Frank, yes. And yes, so A, C, and D move. Uh, E will be revisited at the August. And if it needs to be prior to that, please let us know. August there is no difference. There is no difference between a workshop and you can handle regular with uh business round table as well. be an agenda meeting, right? There's a board meeting.
010Okay, moving on to the president's report. I um would just like to say I attended several of the graduations. They were all very nice. Um high school graduation, fifth grade. I did not get to kindergarten, but they were very nice. Rachel is out there with her camera capturing everyone's life moments and posting it pretty diligently to our Facebook page, which is very much appreciated. Um, additionally, I would just like to welcome our newest board members, Rebecca and welcome. That's all I have for the president's report. Thank you. Um to those you who don't know me my name is Kenneth Rizzo Ken Rizzo from the new superintends I'm very excited to be here uh with the board today to start first day in district uh very busy a lot going on a lot of thank yous
011uh I want to first thank uh Morong for all her support and guidance the last few months as I was working on transition the district um she's really left me some big shoes to fill and I just appreciate all of her time and what she's done for district and hopefully um set us up for success Um, I also want to thank the board and for trusting me it's very important position to lead the district and I want to welcome our newest board members Smith and Rebecca Lanir if I'm saying that correctly. So I'm excited to work with you as well. Um, started my entry plan process several months ago and recently started being a board member. So excited to get to know everyone a little better and work with everyone here. So thank you. Thank
012you. The next item is administrative snapshots. Berlin Elementary Berlin Middle School. Thank you. Not a typical report. Um we're working on summer school that will start Monday the 7th. Um we have 31 courses enrolled so far. We have 35. So there's a late arrival. We have a couple spots still available. Um also we're working on August regents getting the orders for August regents and sending back. So yeah, thank you Tom. Yes. All right. So, I do not have a lot update on you since our last board meeting, but since our last board meeting, yes, we've been working on finishing up preparations to welcome students to ESY next week. Um, we've been working on addressing year-end data reporting and notifications from NIC regarding Z data, continuing to plan for next year, and then finalizing mailing out
013all of our 256 IEPs that we developed for hand. I would also like to share with the board that we will be hosting a student from Brunswick in our ES5 program at their expense. I believe this is a first for Berlin um to do so and the additional revenue will help to offset program cost and help program be more sustainable. Next, I'm going to turn it over to Sam with our first forward update to give you a brief update on our NTSS audit. Good evening. So where we stand right now with the audit, so all end of the year data and some historical records have been pulled and that includes our universal screening data. Um all of our attendance and discipline, all staff surveys have been completed at this time. All interviews with individuals key
014to the MTSS process have been completed. Um, so our next step is to review all the data sources to access the MTSS process, develop the action plan, and produce a final report. So should be on track to have that by day. So I will plan to have Sam join me as part of the PBS updates unless the board would prefer something different or for her to have her own section. I'll leave that to the board to direct me if they would like something different. Um, and then I, as I always do, I will open it up to the board if there are any topics or especially for our newest members any additional information regarding such lead or EPS function that they'd like to learn more about in these updates that standp I was going to
015ask if I mean we always call them up. So any other comments on that? So they keep the sport and athletics together and PPS MTSS together. So PPS for people personnel services. We'll take your system of support. Okay. Would the board be interested in an overview of some of those functions or just a revisiting of that information? the board already know I think it'd be important doing it as a refresher as well for prior work members but I would recommend you do it at a round table here um just to help with the flow of the regular and it be helpful when we do do that to provide data such as this is our our classification rate. This is the state average classification rate. This is a classification rate to similar schools of our major.
016Sometimes the state data that doesn't really r so data on special eds promises. Exactly. Thank you. Thank you. Next is the business office. business office time when we have two budgets open. That's the reason treasur report in front of you. It takes a while to close up any bills to come in. All of them will arrive this week and begin the process of closing those journal next treasure reports a little bit more time. The new budget is open. I'd like to invite the new board members if you find the time to make an appointment with myself through the appropriation report, revenue report. you know exactly what you're looking at and how to read it. Fresh as well available to do that. I spoke to our insurance company today. We review claims for the past five
017years. Uh the main factor in the increase was in our budget presentations. Although there is an increase across the region, we do have three significant water planes over the past five years. We did not have one this year. So if we continue that pattern hopefully our insurance rates go lower in the next five years we would have another in particular water and claim they would ask our increase again. That's where we stand with insurance. And I also met with financial advisors today to deliver our bus and also to kind of give them the heads up on some of our potential facilities issues, talk about what might happen in the long term for our path projects and just kind of give them the general lay. We also talked about the controller. The controller is going to
018do a review of the tax cap calculation. The reason that probably happened is because when the state issued the city aid funds and spoke about these during budget presentations, our building aid looked really high because we had not yet told the state that we would like to receive aid over 15 years. So from their end they don't know the state number and then they don't know why it didn't allow the population. So I did work with the financial advisors to level out our debt service otherwise it would have majorly impacted our tax but 100% confident those calculations really any questions for Thank Transition here. So, graduation seemed to go rather well. Um, I didn't have a lot of involvement in it this year, but uh it did seem to go well. Um, and so the
01924 25 school year came. So we're actively working in both of the schools right now prepping the health offices and other um classrooms that they're going to be using for summer school, getting them cleaned and rewaxed and prepared for summer school and on 7th of July. Um, and we'll continue with that. the I'm working with um Mark Drury from the schoolhouse construction. We're closing out the capital project trying to get in all the remaining bills. Get that information to um so we can get that closed out as far as that goes and Oster last week on Thursday. Um, so for a maintenance person is on vacation this week. So you're looking at the maintenance person in the district. So far I'm doing a pretty good job to get start. Thank you. and food service and
020technology are not. Um so next we will open them up to new business new business discussion. Yeah. Our initial goal is to get all the reports and all the information on Thursday. So when board doc goes live board docs no surprises we got reports coming late. So I want to get back on track report to um analyze these reports before meeting especially now board members here next data every month. So historically the information got to you on Thursday John for the Friday after I nine times out of 10 I'm getting something come to meetings many times when I leave work here wow I've discuss the board. That's what I'm trying to eliminate. The board deserves to read material. So anything after it goes live in there that's long resting. Any other comment from business? Okay.
021opportunity for public comment. Nobody has signed up. Okay. The date and location of our next meeting will be Tuesday, August 19th at 7:15 p.m. and we do need an executive session related to a specific or employment of a specific personnel. Motion by Frank. A second. Second by Penny. All in favor? I. I. Any opposed? Okay, we will go into executive session. At the conclusion of executive session, there is no anticipation of action. [Music]