001this is a special presentation from the Brighton Central School District Board of Education Tuesday March 11th this meeting is called to order to begin with our favorite way to begin any public Board of Education meeting is with the Brighton believer award so I'll turn it over to Dr mcel it's such a great reminder of the incredible work that is done here each and every day and in our community as we've said to you before the bright and beliefs Council selects nominees to receive an award for demonstrating the bright beliefs character traits of integrity respect responsibility kindness and self-control the award winners are students teachers staff members parents coaches community members and the form the nomination form is available on our website bcsd.org backb Believers super excited tonight to recognize an outstanding member of our faculty
002Mr Matthew Glendy Matthew F Comm on Dr please principal he wrote I believe Mr Glendy has demonstrated kindness by allowing me to take base lessons even though I was not able to participate in Orchestra this year since it did not fit into my schedule I was upset because I really like being the orchest playing the base I was talking to my parents about it my mom reached out to Mr Glendy to let him know how much I enjoyed it and I would not be able to participate this year he replied to my mom that he would continue my lessons so that I won't get behind my friends in case I wanted to join next year that is just the kind of spirit that we love to see incredible how Mr Glendy supported Ryder and always
003supports all of the students by doing exactly what was needed to support him Way Beyond what would be expected but what was also the that so thank you very much and congratulations great J great job Mr gleny and I speak from experience as a parent that has had the pleasure of working with him also so great work that those are all of our brain bavers Awards we'll have more in a couple of weeks thank you thank you so much um for those in the I'll restate that no no I'll do that no no I don't rder there's a great budget presentation if you want to stick around yeah for the board seeing n we'll move on next up we have approval of tonight's agenda you all have received this and had a chance to review
004it are there any questions for tonight's agenda motion to approve so move move by Karen second seconded by es all those in favor likewise you've had the opportunity to review the minutes from February 25th where I told that one Dr Susan gas bro did an absolutely fabulous job running the meeting and he actually insulted me a couple of times which is really intriguing um uh any questions with regards to those minutes motion to approve don't move move by Susan second seconded by uh by Carrie Lynn all those in favor I thank you next up a budget review and we're going to hear from both Dr mcgan who's the ten who's the in all seriousness we're in a very challenging moment and we would like to walk some of the challenges we've had along the way
005and potential options uh this is really the beginning of the most difficult part of the conversation that we will have between now and when we present a budget a proposed budget a spending plan to taxpayers there will be a lot of difficult decisions between now and then and this really sets the stage for that we're experiencing challenges relative to the current circumstance marketplaces tariffs the types of expense increases other people are having and there are really a couple of different ways that we want to get out this with you tonight and and keep people updated in the process one is to give you a recap of where we are in terms of some specific numbers metrics Etc and then cover two really big rocks one is the gap that we have a supporting current program
006these are the cost increases that are associated with those going into next year and we want to really dig into the reeval not the school district is one that uh we need to help people understand the change the proposed change of the value in their home and how our tax levy the amount of money we collect is still the same townwide it's just divided differently because people's values have changed so the letter that they got in the mail does not indicate in any specific way any guaranteed way any uh certain way that your taxes will go up or down one those have to be finalized but two that really depends on the spending plan that's proposed but exceptional increases to home value which I experienced as as one of you as a community member rate
007in fact the rate will drop significantly to accommodate for the increased value we'll get into that tonight as well and then we'd like to just as well on the technical side first Lou is going to give you a little bit of information thank you good evening so just a recap at the last Board of Education meeting we have preliminary revenues and the preliminary expenditures so looking at the uh Revenue Side Of The Ledger overall we have a revenue growth projected to be about 3.3% and when you look at the components of that um and you put it in proportion to the spending that it allows for so the new spending that it allows for you look at the major components here which are the state and federal building state and federal aid excuse me and
008that's going up 5.9% but allows for a 1.6% spending so Foundation Aid is $20 million of that $9 million of that $29 million and that's going up at a at a at a slower rate than that a so we were going to reduce our Reliance on that so that's showing a decrease of $500,000 and our property taxes which is the most significant part portion uh 2.3% which allows just for a 1.2% increase in spending so Rel or it allows for 1.2% increase in spending so relative to spending less than a 2% growth in revenue is not matching up with the inflationary factors that we're seeing on the expenditure side of the budget and that's that's really the theme for for tonight on the technical side so when we look at this again Foundation Aid is
00920.5 million up about $600,000 which allows for that $600,000 allows for less than a 1% increase in spending so over the last several years the state has been honoring its foundation Aid formula it's been bringing us up to date with all of our wealth metrics and student need indices but we've stabled off now so there's really not new money that's coming in for foundation Aid so it wasn't it wasn't any type of Revenue that was really unrestricted or that can be saved to offset taxes there was spending that was at the point where that stabilized we're not receiving any new money to match inflationary pressures and it's contributing to a pretty significant Gap thank you Lou so you'll see a common theme in terms of Lou giving very thoughtful technical information and then I'd like
010to uh elaborate a little bit further in terms of just a practical appliation of that information Foundation a for us next year anticipated from the governor's budget would go up $611,000 so that increas is right around a 3% number less than or right around 3% Consumer Price Index so the rate of inflation and the Consumer Price Index we use this term whatever it might be and they look at consumer items milk eggs things like that to say okay this is how generally people's costs there's a variety of things in that index are going up so they generally tell you how much is your expense going up in your life right if you Foundation Aid which is kind of the undesignated this program dollars is going up around 3% and the Consumer Price Index or that
011rate of inflation is only is going up 3.7% you're going to find this to be a common theme the numbers don't match right how do you keep up with the increased cost of doing business when the people responsible for giving you the support the revenue to do that are not keeping up with that same rate of increase it just doesn't make sense I think the other uh piece of this to realize to hammer home what Lou just said about increases in Foundation because somebody may look and say well look two 425 required by law says show us where you put the money towards program is is increasing at a rate going into next year that is I don't know say consumer price index that rate of inflation are higher but their money to reimburse us
012for that is less than that that just doesn't make sense either right so key number on the screen $611,000 on the right hand side these are all the AIDS that you will read on the front page of democra Chronicle when they come out with the comparison of districts and state aid holy cow look at all that money I would say to you yeah that's fine but that's not that is money that is reimbursed to us for expenses incurred that's the state's responsibility for example Aid on Transportation so yes that number is going up but it's going up because we spent more it's done the year after and the cost of Transportation went up so the aid goes up right or high cost Pace with the increase in cost and I would say to you that's
013a big weakness right now and it is not so the other major component of our Revenue that we talked about is the property tax cap and again all this is in context of how much it's able to support inflationary factors that the district is experiencing so we revisit the tax cap formula and we look at the key components of it you'll see that there's an allowance for uh tax-based growth factors it's pretty negligible for for our school district uh 0.005 so it's really not generating any new money for the the school district to um to support increased costs then there's the inflationary factor which is capped at that's that's where the tax cap keys comes at it's capped at the lesser of um the 2% or the rate of inflation so the 2% is the
014cap right now and that's that's the name of the the tax Gap uh piece of it so when we look at that there's nothing in the tax capap formula that is allowing new Revenue to match any of the growth in in the expenditures so again the tax levy limit as computed in accordance with the state com controller allows for just over a 2% increase in the property tax levy but that only supports growth of 1.2% on that so again compared with the foundation Aid and with the tax Gap the only really new unrestricted revenues that are coming in in both instances it's supporting less than a 1% increase less than a 2% increase in grow and spending again to give them a practical sense of those particular numbers last year's Levy is all the way
015on top just over $60 million this year's uh Levy just over $61 million so that's the total amount of money collected from the community that's $1.2 million in new tax revenue anticipated for next year so again and I'm going to hit this later but the reeval that number is still the number the value of your home just determines how that's divided up among taxpayers we don't all of a sudden experience a windfall because of a change in values the cap prescribes the amount of an increase in the levy the total amount of money that can be collected regardless of the value of people's homes the dollar amount collected is still the dollar amount collected that doesn't change that's what's kep so the two numbers again $611,000 in Foundation Aid $1.2 million in new property tax
016revenue that means new Revenue to the district next year would be anticipated right now to be $1.8 million and those are really important numbers to keep in mind when you look at the expense side for us great so looking at the allocations for the expense the expense side these are the components we share this every year of where we're spending our money as a as a public school district and no surprise that we're a people industry and we're looking at um almost 70% of our budget is salaries and benefits and we disaggregate where we're spending the money within each of the areas so again with this is the biggest component of it to be able to intervene on the growth of our expenditures you have to look at it at these areas so as you
017look at salaries and wages you know that there's a corresponding decrease in the payroll related benefits that's the only way you can reduce this section of the PIP the other benefits which are contractual health insurance is a a huge cost driver in this upcoming budget we really don't have an ability to intervene in that unless it's through the collective bargaining process so and then we look at the other areas again aside from debt which is pretty much set at this point we have to challenge our budget managers and and our building leaders to say all right what can we do to curb the inherent um inflationary factors in it when we look at supplies and services we know that our contract transportation is going up about 9% this year that's something that is not much
018we can do about it unless we reduce the number of buses which we really just don't have the ability to do we do that every year but again it's a try to find that challenge to offset those inflationary factors when 2% is The Benchmark for the growth in Revenue so as we talk about budget reduction strategies just keep this in mind of where the money is allocated and where we actually have the ability to intervene uh where there's you know some discretion in in in curbing the influence the increases in our spending well looking at that Pi obviously 70% of our budget is people and and like we're people business right we hire Educators to uh to educate our kids so um the way that's allocated is the way we would want it to be
019allocated making sure that we're taking care of the people taking care of our kids absolutely so the preliminary budget what we presented at the last meeting putting it all together and applying our assumptions we're at a 7.66 per increase in spending of that 6.2% is related to the operations and the 1.44% increase is related to Capital which was planned for we knew knew that was coming and we knew that the revenue and the building Aid was going to come so we're really focusing on this 6.2% in those inflationary factors that are contributing to that so when we disaggregate it based on the object level and again considering that pie chart that we just looked at we look at salaries and wages and the initial budget allocation with new positions being proposed to respond to mandates
020you know for instance 1.6 new FTE to um to adequately support our students um with English language learner needs right so that's adding positions we're at a 3.88% when I do all my contract cost analysis that's within the range of most contracts within a public school district so we're R in that range 3 to 4% again keep that in mind when you're relate you relate it back to the revenue Side Of The Ledger and you're seeing you know limited growth at 2% or less so that's the salaries piece of it a big portion of our budget and then the related benefits this year again with health insurance and the spikes that we're seeing at both of our under 65 activ employees this year in 2025 the premiums went up 14.4% so that was already starting
021at uh a budget variance for the 2425 and then the changes in um our over 65 our retiree costs with the inflation reduction act and some changes by the centers uh for Medicaid servic Medicare Services excuse me we're seeing a 48% increase in our over 65 PLS so those two cost drivers are not necessar anomalies those are things that we have to consider um for future budgets and when we look at bosis again we're looking at the mandates what uh collaborative Services we partner with bosis for for to meet student mandate and then what are the core infrastructure on the technology needs that are driving those increases and the supplies and services again that 16% of the budget is increasing 7.1% and those are the areas where we're looking at contract contract Transportation which is
022a 9% increase we're looking at utilities which all of us home owners are experiencing increase in delivery charges increase in unit costs insurances Insurance in New York state is increasing exponentially where our premiums are going up 10 to 12% um with property values going up and uh cost of claims increasing so those are three big cost drivers within the supplies and services that are putting pressure on our operating budget this year and again the debt and trans de transfers are is something planned for so I'm not so worried about that going forward we have a long-term financing plan for that but over all we started based on last month's uh presentation a $4.6 million gap which is about 4.4% of spending and again to add some of those numbers then the Practical impact if you
023look at salaries wages employee benefits those two increases and I'm going to be very clear and saying to you that is program right it is spelled out this is how it is divided in the budget because people are our program program are people so it is the nature of what we do we are 100% of people business even if I go back to that allocation chart that that Lou showed right here you know Larry pointed this out 70% I'd make the argument about 79% if not more and frankly 100% right because What expenses do we have in there that you wouldn't have if it wasn't for offering program to kids there are not like Investments being made in research and development like a pharmaceutical company say okay we cut that because that won't really impact
024the delivery of a particular pharmaceutical in a given year we don't have that option everything that we do revolves around offering program to kids if we are offering Transportation it's to bring kids to their program if we are purchasing a supply it's for a program for kids there aren't other places where where money is being spent if we're doing a renovation it's for program for students right it is a completely related program so these expenses Al They up in these lines and in these chunks are very much saying program next year will cost $1.7 million more in terms of salary and wages and $2.9 million more in terms of employee benefits and it should remember there are 600 people working here who are facing the same cost pressures that other people are and we are
025saying you need to compensate people for their work fairly thoughtfully be competitive in that Marketplace we lean into this we don't run away from it we say this this is the program you're paying for these are the outstanding Educators you're working with and the expense of that is $4.6 million in people alone so really important to recognize the comparison of that number with $1.8 million in new Revenue right so very clear $1.8 million in revenue and before any other expense but just program your people it's $4.6 million that creates a pretty signicant gap between those two so in other words I'm saying to you that $2.8 million $2.8 million is uncovered by New Foundation Aid or new property taxes uncovered so clearly not keeping Pace with the expense to offer for so as we look
026at both sides of the Ledger the revenue side and the expenditure side there's really two options or a combinations of of um combinations of of options one we increase the revenue and when we look at that we're talking about evaluating increasing our property tax levy limit our tax levy which is in control by the Board of Education or utilizing our current resources and our fund balance and reserves and adopt a short-term financing strategies and we'll talk about the pros and cons of each of those on the expenditure side there's you know the tiers within that are looking at your current resources what can we pay for now with current available resources that avoids costs in the future so we look at that we look at our margins obviously um then there's certain simply deferring expenditures
027things that we may need to do um that we're just going to defer and we'll wait for uh more revenues to become available we start reducing services at the highest level you know the try to assess is the least impactful and then the fourth option is is is digging deeper into um more of the educational program and opportunities that students directly benefit from so it really comes down to those three areas or a combination of these three items right no different than a household budget that has to look at Revenue coming in Opportunities maybe to earn more money and expenses at home or use of the savings account it comes down to really those three legs of the stool what are we looking at in terms of tax revenue and what should we be looking
028at should we be looking for more out of the tax level and having a conversation about that is that necessary a support program are we looking at expense reductions we are likely looking at expense reductions no matter what because that Gap is so significant we're probably looking at a combination again of those items and use of reserves understand that if you take money out of your savings account to pay your mortgage you better have a way to put money back into that savings account or eventually it runs out and you still have a mortgage even though you have a zero balance in your savings account so some combination of those three strategies understanding the longterm implication is really really important so as we consider property taxes and the amount that's levied um and considered by
029the the broader tax the pro obviously is it's a recurring Revenue so it's matching recurring revenues with recurring expenditures um so looking at that relative to the inflation again over the last several years we've maintained a tax levy of right around 2% where you've seeing the inflation CPI rate of inflation has been OB significantly as high as 8% in the 23 24 during this time we were receiving increases in Foundation Aid that were covering those budget gaps but those also came with new spending so now we're at the point where um there's still a gap between the inflationary factor and our tax levy and again no opportunity within the formula to justify new revenues um in the in the tax levy limit calculation the con obviously is the adverse Financial impact to our taxpayers and
030specific homes unknown the impact on specific homes is unknown because of the assessment which we'll look at so just because of the the reassessment we're not sure where everything is going to shake out so for us to estimate what any tax impact will be on a specific uh homeowner tax bill is premature at this time so we have to consider that as we're looking at what's in the board of educations control and that's the overall uh tax levy so thinking again about the property tax cap and what does this mean really want to drive this point home that I said before if that Foundation Aid increase has only gone up you know and will go up this year around that 3% number and our tax levy overtime has been right around if back to 2022
03123 we just over 2% even 2122 was just under 3% last or 20034 under 2% 45 same thing and then going into next year the tax Lev number is almost right at 2% at 2.01 there's a giant gap between that increase in and the increase in cost identified by that orange line or the Consumer Price Index that rate of inflation so while everything else is gotten way more expensive the revenue hasn't matched that because of the cap as well so significant gap between growth of expenses has defined that way and our own tax increases over time on the side of okay oh well then what do we do to reduce expenses because that essentially is going to be necessary no matter what the question is how many expenses do you reduce how far can you
032go what can you do to preserve as much program as possible in the scenario at the high school we're going to have to look at increasing class size reducing electives thinking about all curricular contentas right looking really across the board at reductions that we we have to reducing and restructuring support will be important as reevaluating student allocations for programs at the middle school we' be looking at class sizes increasing looking at maximums particularly noncore classes looking at restructuring and reducing the teacher a supports the TA support teacher assistance supports again looking at security allocations and French Road same thing limiting class size adjustments not being able to reduce class size in fact looking closer to what the Contra maximums are which is not an ideal scenario is certainly something we have to manage but is
033what we have to do look at the wrers and math support programs as well as we mentioned security locations and at Council Rock restructuring academic intervention this is additional support for students we typically do that beyond the Mandate and that's also by the way why our kids across the board in all groups of population kids that are all different ends of the the I'd say the success or the achievement Spectrum are achieving at a very high level right now because of the additional supports we put place from a very young age we have to make adjusts as well restructuring the teacher Aid support in general education classrooms which provides a lot of addition support for students and security allocation across the district the districtwide type of reductions that we will have to make facility use
034codal overtime uh really looking very carefully at the cost uh to the the uh budget for the community and facility being Community using the facility down school hours energy consumption set points Recon Technology support and the release time for instructional leaders as well having to put some of that back into classro and evaluate cost saving and avoidance strategies through potential collective bargaining so anyone's an opportunity to look at perhaps avoiding larger increases or costs we have to partner particularly with associations to work through that I mean that as a partner not looking for opportun to support great so we want to further um clarify what we understand at this point and again this is all preliminary really within within the last few days so the impact of the Town reevaluation so the important relationships are
035on the left hand side as far as the relationship between the tax levy what the Board of Education can control so that's the amount of money that you raise to balance the budget how that's then D among the community ultimately results in the tax gr but the what the number you get from the town is the um the townwide uh taxable assess de so when we look at the current year we look at what the taxable assess valuations were for the town of Brighton and the town of Pittsburgh uh that make up the Brighton Central School District so $2.1 billion in taxal assess valuation a key part of that is the state Equalization rate said that this $2 billion was equal to 65% of what the total value is so that prompted the to wide
036reevaluation ideally these are both at 100% so Brighton was 65% the town of Pittsburgh is at was at 68 66% we base in our budget Communications the average impact on a tax bill at $250,000 for the 2425 schol year and the resulting tax rate again based on this number and the levy that was approved by the the voters and initially approved by the Board of Education resulted in the tax rate of 2791 on the average assessed value of a home at $250,000 was just under $7,000 in in a school tax a little bit different for the town of Pittsburgh based on how that's uh how that's allocated based on some of the the letters that I've seen um going through I tried to calculate all right if the town is estimating what individuals homeowners their
037impact on school taxes are without any change in the levy uh that the board of education is not even considered this time but those letters estimated an impact on your school tax bill from that I tried to estimate that the town's number and the tax school tax impact would show that the um the value of the tax base was not at 65% but it was really at about 55% so if you then if the increase of the taxable valuation increased from $2.1 billion to 3.88 billion do by simply dividing it by the 55% then you could recompute the tax rate to about 15.2 $15.25 per thousand now there's three possible scenarios with that recomputation of the tax rate if someone's tax if someone's home was reassessed proportionate to that change in the equalization rate essentially
038that 55% there'd be no impact on your school taxes right so your value of your home assessed by the town would increase and the school tax rate would decrease and your tax bill would be the same this is around the year the dollar a second possibility is that the town through their townwide reassessment increased your home a value that's greater than what that Equalization grate would be so in this again this is just for illustration purposes that average home at $250,000 could potentially be revalued at $550,000 which is above that 55 % Equalization rate in that case before the Board of Education took any action the redist redistribution of that existing tax levy would cause this homeowner an increase in their tax bill of $1,410 in some instances if a home was revalued this $250,000
039home was revalued at let say $350,000 that's less than the 55% Equalization rate then they would have see a reduction because of the reduction in tax rate of $1,640 so that really makes a difference of you know where your any individual homeowner's reassessment is relative to that change in Equalization rate and I'm saying 55% and I'm looking at what's published right now on the office of Real Property Tax Services the town of Pittsburgh is at 57% so I think we're pretty close with the 55% as I was so that's kind of the nuts and bolts of of how it's happened and how there may be adverse impacts to the homeowners based on the reassessment and there may be you know design increas in the say then it creat some type of credit again that's before
040any action that's taken by the Board of Education or it's even as contemplated in the budget development process excited Dr Hall it's about pizza now you wanted to hear explanation so this is a much different approach lose is an intelligent analysis of the numbers trying to find a way um as a fellow homeowner with people in town to think about this in in at least smid a way that might make it make make sense to more of us um first of all if you look at the picture on the left a pizza with eight slices think about that as all the properties in divide it up equally right so we've got eight equal slices and assume that each one of those slices is a property owner for the purposes of this example they are Property
041Owners Davis Lee bertino winter gaspero boy hatch and each have one slice of pizza equally divided that is the entire taxable properties in this fictitious Pizza town so let's assume that all of those pieces together the taxable value is 800,000 for that piece and each of those slices because they're equal are worth $100,000 right eight8 slices $100,000 each gives us a full taxable value for all of those properties in Pizza Town $800,000 the rate per thousand is $1 per thousand so the total Levy that we're trying to get to based on the pizz Town School District's adopted spending plan dollar amount is $800 how do you get there well the rate per thousand is a dollar we're then each paying $100 an equal share based on our properties value the same eight people times $100
042it equals $800 right think about then another part of the analysis it want assume a little bit differently because now everybody's been re-evaluated reassessed I said boom which is what I felt Saturday morning like all of you when I looked at the mail and very quickly sent a text message to our Deputy superintendent with a picture of that it's never great for him to get a picture from me on Sat month basically saying holy cow this Ral is done and the pieces of pie now are not equal but the levy is still the same we're still we are still going to get $800 there's no windfall for any it doesn't change the amount of money being collected the rate has to drop so think about it this way now all of a sudden there's a
043new pizza divided up differently different size slices and property owner one Mr Davis his property value went up $180,000 he's enjoying that new kitchen it's amazing they reevaluated it's worth more but the rate dropped because we're still only going to collect $800 so the rate has to change if your value went way up your rate's going to go down which means his taxes though are going up $44 because his value went up property number two Dr Lee stayed the same but because the rate went down her taxes are actually going to go down $20 in this scenario collecting the same $800 property three sorry Caroline vertino you are also enjoying the amazing pool that you put in the town saw they noticed reevaluate everybody you're at $150,000 80 per th per thousand which means your
044taxes are going up 20 bucks uh winter very sorry but for whatever reason your value went down you might be excited about this though it's $90,000 now at 80 cents per thousand you're looking at a drop of $28 in your tax property number five Dr gasto 000 you put some great Landscaping it seems to be working out 80 cents per your taxes are going to stay the same though because again the rate went down even though your value went up rate went down your value went up that's important because there's a lot of people in town their value is going up but the rates going down so their taxes may stay similar if the leing was to stay exactly the same uh Elanor boy you also did some improvements you went up by $5,000 but
045your taxes will go down because the rate went down and your property value only went up $5,000 Karen hatch $150,000 amazing things to a beautiful home and you are at 80 cents per thousand major taxes are going up 20 bucks mine happen to stay the same likely only because in this scenario I drew the slice of pie of pizza but in all likelihood because I will tell you like everybody else in town or many people in town should say everybody else my the value on my home up significantly so the social Med chair that I'm reading I can relate and my taxt 80 cents then would have gone down in this scenario and my tax has gone down by 20 bucks so there are some winners in this scenario so to speak right my taxes
046went down Mr winter went down they put in a brand new highway right behind your house apparently [Music] yesterday you know yours and I say Dr Le went down and O right so the rate changes it changes this whole scenario so let's assume again just to kind of reiterate the point the pie of the the pizza still are getting us $800 they're just now valued much more so the properties actually equal now a million dollar not $800,000 and they're divided up differently because our values have all changed in different ways based down the street comparable home sales whatever those factors are that the assessor office uses to get so the rate has to be less to get the same dll this is no wind for the district we're each just paying different shares because our
047properties are now valued differently eight people times the rate still gets us to the $800 so the other strategy that we talked about on the revenue Side Of The Ledger and this is more of the financing Side Of The Ledger is using available resources in our our accounts so when broke this up this is essentially our breakdown of our balance sheet and I colorcoded it based on the typ of reserves that uh that we have right now and the balances there so we have in the blue uh our expense based reserves so these are in place to stabilize our expenditures um and really stability tank reserves we budgeted in 2425 a million dollar from our retirement contribution Reserve we expect through the performance of our budget this year that we'll be able to replenish that
048uh so we're still going to stay at the you know the 7.2 million we have 3.2 million in the retirement so if we're spending a million dollar Feer you can estimate what the useful life is it so being able to start drawing these and using these is a financing strategy that's available for the Board of Education to consider the green uh amounts are our risk based Reserve so that's not something that's that we should uh lightly liquidate because they're actually liabilities that are on the books need these reserves for so we wouldn't want to U draw into those until those liabilities no longer exist the capital reserves are in the orangish color and those have to be voter approved they're not for operations those are set up and approved by the voters for capital investment
049so they're not easily liquidated to be able to fund operations and then we have in the gray our our unrestricted reserves the Board of Education over the last several years has appropriated $2.75 million we talk about all the risk margins that we keep in the budget so it's what we know and what we need to budget for kind of the unnown we want to make sure that we're doing the best that we can to marry those risk risk Provisions to the appropriate funds so if you ask me we really need to trim our margins we can do that and we can budget really really tight for everything but then no we're not going to be able to replenish this appropriated fund balance and to the extent that we don't replenish this F $2.75 million it
050comes from our unappropriate funds so we could do that for one year if we're not able to repl any of it so really we have to look at the relationship between these so we said right need a budget closing strategy we have to increase this to 3.75 million and next year we only have $2 million worth of surplus we're into this $2 million going into the 26 27 so we always whenever we decide on fin strategy and this is a savings account so it's always got to be considered a shortterm strategy because all these have a useful life we have to think about how much now how much next year when are we going to reduce it and what is revenue reoccurring revenue is going to be able to supplant so at one point if
051we start drawing down our reserves we have to think about what's going to replace that in the future so maybe that's our future tax living increase that we're going to say at some point we're going to need to increas taxes when we want to wean ourselves off of you so those are strategies that are available for consideration um but we want to be transparent about the resources that we have today and how we might be able to best leverage those over these next next couple of budget but we got to think about the long term because there is it is a finite resource can I can I ask a question there because you mentioned it was a finite resource I'm looking at those reserves that are in blue we could use those but then when
052the day comes when we actually need to use them for their purpose they may not be there right so so if we DW if we drew down the retirement reserve and then the day came when the required amount for us to contribute increases we might not have that right so the the purpose of this retirement reserve for instance is we know our our salaries are going to go up at a certain you know the pr 4% is what we show so generally we have to plan for the associated increase in pension cost with that reoccurring cost and those pension costs are mandated by the state correct but to the extent that pension rates went from 10% to 25% for some reason that would be a perfect time to use that's what it's designed it's designed
053for that exactly and then the pension rates go back to where table so it's up 25% and then it goes back down to the 10% that's when you stop using that's how they're intended to be used we may not have that luxury though you know over these next cou years we may need the budget for all of our ERS contributions as we're doing this year essentially the million dollars is about equal to our our total contribution to pension um mandated contributions to pension so it's all about how you're using it and you know on that point too you know you don't want to cause alarm BS but let's be realistic I would guess anybody table any investment yester can take a while guess where the markets May and the markets then will directly impact future
054billing from the state for the performance of those funds which often is pretty much replicated in next FS will longterm impact for their from their perspective they have to charge more to make sure there's money in the system so it refle market performance I think that's something else to keep in mind as we see see changes in the so the Gap reduction feedback and the conversation that that we would like to continue to have with you community is to think about this idea of $4.6 million that that Gap that we showed you between anticipated Revenue right overall and the overall so I really focused in on the people in program part of that and that $2.8 million difference between Foundation Aid and the property tax levy and those program costs right salaries health insurance vs
055those pieces but the total Gap that we start with is actually $4.6 million overall $1.1 million has been identified um in terms of I would say the efficiency pieces right like looking at our margin we have over100 million budget so we talking about 1% of that where can we Trim in this bucket in this bucket this piece here revising our assumptions that are in this year's budget things that we assume going into this year's budget that we don't have to spend as much on looking now at more accurate picture of a financial uh piece any non-mandated hiring right now we can freeze and that freeze and utilizing our end ofe funds to pull forward some expenses that we have the next year's budget so for example the classroom furniture that needs to be replaced we
056set budgeting for next year that amount that goes into that million dollars we've got some year end funds we'll uce those those year end funds do impact our ability to keep replicating our reserves but those are some of the pieces that we can trim around the edges on a year- toe basis and P so 4.6 we've identified 1.1 million so the back of the napkin tally is 3.5 million reductions identified at the building level and District wide add up right now to Ball Park 97 so all of that blue table that I showed you by building of reduction in essentially force in many ways which will increase class size reduce options for kids security allocations those pieces add up to 97,000 so again back to the napkin another million dollar that brings us down to
0572.5 million maintaining support and using unappropriated fund balance again and appropriating that towards the levy is another $500,000 down to $2 million so then the question is what do you do with the rest of that gap of that $2 million are we able to look at uh the tax cap in any particular way that can help us get to better right do we look at the tax Lev do we have a broader conversation about where we're at relatively L do we ask our community to consider that as an option if we were to just increase that 2% right now the cap number to 3% we would additional Rue it doesn't get us there if we were able to use the inflation rate right consumer price index that rate of inflation that we talked about which
058is how much everything else is going up and we said okay we've been way below that for several years let's go to that number this year that's a consum price index that would yield another million dollars now we're still off by a significant amount that we would still have to figure out we're talk about over a million dollars and continuing to think about what could happen in the budget so is that additional reserves is that additional reduction what is that exactly that we need to but right now these are the Gap closing strategies that we' developed and want to make sure we're out there in public space for dialogue discussion and that we're informing our committee that this is the current status this is not a budget proposal this is not nearly the end of
059the road we still don't have a final Foundation number from the state we need to have a lot of that information before we make the proposal to you want to make sure that people are aware of where we're at right now in that conversation what questions can we answer for you talked about Community feedback we obviously have an upcoming set of budget forums uh do you want to hit those real quick and also we've done thought exchange before we did receive some initial feedback on the thought exchange um do you want to talk about other ways that we've received Community feedback or expect to receive Community feedback so we did uh at the last board meeting we presented and talked about the data that was provided through CL exchange and then we presented that data
060again and offered as an opportunity for Community Forum that same evening back in February we did ask the community for feedback using Exchange received a really good number people responding and I feel uh you know I have mixed feelings about the feedback in the sense that it was very very of the work that's happening it was very supportive of the idea that you know these are things that should continue don't cut these things these are important to me and there really weren't measurable items that said you know what you should eliminate this whole program this would be a money saver uh there wasn't any kind of consensus around the reduction of something in the school budget that would be helpful in developing the spending the feedback is helpful right the feedback is help how much
061people value the programs that their kids are in but there wasn't a particular efficiency that Rose to the top there variety of suggestions but not in in a coester on one particular idea or another that we would say yeah that was that was something that that we can do you know people suggested eliminating this or adding to whatever this might beome we'll continue to look at that feedback we also didn't ask a specific question about exceeding the property tax which I should point out to people is perfectly legal to do if the community decides they want to do right there is no penalty to doing that back years ago there was the loss of the property tax rebate there is not that penalty so it really is just the community deciding to and deciding that
062they would like to pay some additional increase to maintain per but there is no other coer noen from the state the tide has really shifted on that which is very different people to understand that that it's entirely just the community deciding that they would like to do that that they would like to support what's currently in place understanding that we still have to make reductions just to get to that number but um we will have further discussion and encourage people to come and work with us on the 19th here in this room at 1:00 and then again at 700 p.m. open to any feedback love to all this and we'll continue to schedule with with anybody any group anybody at all who would like to have further dialogue and be available and we will have
063it all of our upcoming meetings continue to have updates for you thank you other questions or comments from the board we have very tough work ahead of us in this regard so we have to we have to embrace that and continue to be honest and open with our community we represent so thank you a lot of facts and data to digest and is Dr pointed out upcoming opportunities to receive more feedback and get more questions so we appreciate that thank you to uh both Dr mcgau next up we have approval of the bond resolution um based on a previously Community approved Capital project and this is sort of how we pay for it the bond resolution authoring the issuance of 16,1 125,000 um in serial bonds um the way we do this and we've had
064a chance to review this is I'll ask for a motion to approve in a second and then this requires a line item approval so each of us will be queried for our vote and in the absence of our clerk tonight I'm going to ask uh Deputy superintendent Alo to call out each of our names and get approval from each of us so any questions with regards to this Bond resolution approval motion to approve so moved moved by Karen second seconded by Elanor and now we will go down a line item yes yes yes yes we are approved thank you all next up we have our report section and as is often the case we have our financial reports which include a couple of sub reports these get approved um uh separately any questions with regards
065to these Financial reports they've been in our uh one note you had a chance to review them any questions motion to approve the financial reports as submitted so moved moved by Carrie Lynn second seconded by Esther all those in favor next up we excited to hear from dagney our student representative um for academics the region schedule has been set out with additions of including local exams um Junior seminar has started at the high school which is a class once a cycle that prepares Juniors for the college process um SAT and ACT boot camps are also being held this spring for sports JV and varsity track and golf had their preseason meetings on February 27th um other than that also spring sports are starting to start um Brian Rowing Club held its third annual indoor rata
066on March 1st almost 200 Growers of all levels came to compete this event also raised $600 for compassion net which is a community-based pediatric care program that provides care and support to family who are caring for a child with a potentially life-threatening illness uh for clubs Galaxy art and literary magazine held in informational meeting and they're also having a sare for exec we held an informational meeting explaining elections for next year's executive Council we're also finalizing our plan of events for the spring Sports assembly and Springfest which take place after the aps other than that the class of 2028 had a fundraiser at Tom walls on February 25th the class of 2027 had a hle fundraiser on March 19th on March 19th Yeah March 19th um Brian High School hosted Rochester city court judge and
067Brighton alumni van white for Black History Month he shared perspectives of finding a sense of belonging in the world the Brighton High School band Department held its annual prison concert on March 4th this is where every High School band group each performed one song in addition to a few students showcases orchestras from Front Road 12 corners and ban High School came together for its annual districtwide strings concert in February German and French exchange exchanges took place during February break um I went on the French exchange I really enjoyed it groups went to famous museums landmarks and cities and also were able to embrace a new sense of cultures with their host families and experiencing life in a different country um tomorrow Brighton students K through 12 will be participating in Brighton beliefs day doing various
068service projects to demonstrate bright and belief qualities um leading up to this Brighton High School held a Food donation drive for the last 10 days um and finally the Brighton District dodgeball game is tomorrow night at 6 p.m. faculty and admin from all Brighton Schools will play head-to-head in a dodgeball with the winning team playing the senior class tickets are $6 or $5 with a canned good in the high school gy and from a fencing standpoint where have you been I just got back from Greece not Greece New York no Greece the country okay how'd you do um I did okay it was a really fun experience all right we're not going to close out I'm going to ask I'm going to ask Dr Le to comment I also wanted to let everybody know that
069dagney was on a panel last night at the Little Theater we uh screened a documentary called home court about a Cambodian American basketball Prodigy and then we had a panel to sort of share Reflections as not me as an athlete but Asian-American athletes the others on the panel and Professionals in the field and so it was really nice to hear you last night dagy and I've known you since you were little but we didn't really we've never had to really talk about our shared Asian-American identity so that was really cool so I was really thank you for your thought I really enjoy that yeah it was really fun so Dag's not at all busy thank you very much for that update greatly appreciate it next up monor County School Board Association the three committees District
070Operations Karen do you want to comment remind me what our last meeting was because I've been adult since I returned from all yeah um I think was it Foundation Aid oh yes yes uh Mike theie the business official from Pittsburgh presented on the history of foundation Aid because many of our board members actually have been elected in what he called the post Foundation Aid era and I'm still turning that term around in my head because I don't necessarily agree we're in the post Foundation Aid era yet based on our discussion tonight um but it was a it was a history of of what that's looks like for school districts since 2007 um the the campaign for fiscal Equity the lawsuit that established the foundation Aid algorithm what it was like to phase in Foundation aid
071over all these years and then peppered in with descriptions of things like the Gap elimination adjustment which is still hard for folks to wrap their heads around um but they're all things that are contributing and then the tax cap right that contribute to the situation we're in today forcing us to that fiscal clip um so that I attended by Zoom it was an interesting discussion um it still sort of blows my mind that there are folks out there who who sort of accept the tax cap and the state of being as just you know this is where we are because I don't yet accept that that's that's where we have to be yeah as as as previously noted not even keeping up with the rate of inflation at a time no and in fact the
072test cap is designed specifically to be the inverse of the rate of inflation and and it's frankly Bonkers to imagine that we can all meet the needs of students when we're we've constructed something that goes against reality it's magical thinking uh it was well attended in person too I was able to attend in person and would would agree with your Reflections information exchange we haven't had a new meeting since the last time we reported we actually have a meeting tomorrow okay great legislative speaking of Albany the legislative committee journeyed to Albany um and we are grateful to share our time there with the superintendent because um mcus is there at the same time um so Christina and I traveled by train uh 5:30 in the morning um met up with Dr McGowan uh our meetings
073are fruitful and not fruitful at the same time um for example Dr mcgallen um Dr Lee and I were scheduled to meet with some other superintendents and board members with um May thank you Shelley Mayer Who is the chair of the education committee um and you know we have a lot to share with her she unfortunately was not able to make the meeting and the legislative Aid who sat with us was clearly somebody who was very experienced in her office but she said outright to us um I handle everything but education I have no idea what you're going to talk to me about but I'll take notes and every question every statement we posed to her she said yep I know nothing about that and I have no doubt in my mind she she did
074take copious notes that she conveyed that to Senator mayor who represents down state but it can be difficult in those situations because we aren't her constituents although she represents all of us in her position on the education committee so that was that was frustrating but it's the luck of the draw when you go because they're they're conducting other businesses well um I was also able to meet put Dean Meeks who represents um portions of the West side and uh as well with an aid from Senator Ado's office and it's interesting to meet with his office because he is the chair of the gaming commission and some of that money does go to education but again we were able to meet with an aid who did Express a lot more interest in what we had to
075say than than the previous experience earlier in the morning but um you know it's a good day to get up there and see folks in their in their working environs which is different than seeing them in their offices here I know Dr mcgaan uh met with um assembly woman Clark and with Senator Cooney yeah um as well as other appointments you had so it's a good day you know I want to give you credit though you and Dr Lee because you were so well prepared with really really thoughtful questions EV C and and I will also agree with you the a is clearly very experienced and thoughtful person who was very honest about how she had no idea what we were talking about and um I remember Dr Le you asked a very critical question
076about the areas that you do work on do they overlap on she said no not at all but I mean that's just the nature of people get called in other meetings and that does happen but you were able to leave her with really good material and information I'm sure has passed along and I did meet with Senator Cooney who was kind enough to meet with me off the senate for and assembly member Clark in her office and just give specific information in matter of fact about the data that we presented tonight and um make sure they're really clearly aware which they are and they're very supportive and thoughtful they're just two people though in a large group of legislators from across the state who are working through a complicated state budget so they're receptive and
077thoughtful supportive and doing everything they can to help us it is really I think great for mon County Schools to continue to do that and for us to Advocate as we should for our kids and taxpayers I think sometimes showing up and being visible is incredibly important so you two getting up at o dark3 in the morning to get on a train and go is greatly appreciated it's a long day and I I give a lot of credit to Mony school board's Association to Amy Thomas M pusio and Nancy ferine for planning the event and making sure that we are are well prepared um so we actually meet next in April it should be our last meeting of the Year baring any weird things out of Albany or the federal government who knows um thanks
078Larry uh but we'll meet with our region our region at large W Norwood and the Regent who represents our region um Regent hail who are both very familiar with us but we'd like to invite them in to give us the lay of the land from from the board of regions perspective thank you I'll quickly do an update from bosis as always we are grateful for the work undertaken by Mark kokanovich on behalf of our district and mon County just a couple quick updates from him as our representative to Bose's uh one r one bosis is going through their budget the 2025 2026 budget reviews as well including instructional technology and the administrative budget for the regional information center and the support services budget they received a presentation and discussed data privacy cyber security and technology
079updates including discussions on the Statewide data privacy agreements and master service agreements they are undergoing a superintendent search because Dan White will be retiring at the end of the school year a longtime fixture and an excellent partner for us I certainly know and they've uh retained Kevin McDonald the district superintendent at jese Valley polies as a search search consultant excuse me so anxious to hear how that moves along also and this is really cool Mark and I'm going to quote Mark here I'm proud and pleased note that Brighton had two students in programs at the Eastern Monroe Career Center that's EMCC for those of you who know the acronym qualify and participate in the skillsusa regional competition held early this month Glenn I don't know if it's sup or Su participated in computer maintenance and
080Lal in the commercial baking category Place third overall so very exciting and an example of how we benefit from the existence of bosis in that partnership as well so as always on behalf of the entire board and Kevin's leadership team our thanks to to Mr goovi for his work on our behalf Other Board member reports I'll start with Carrie lenon sort of work this way okay um since we last met I had the privilege of attending our Guatemala um global citizenship trip which was unbelievable I was alongside 24 other um another board member administrators students uh parents in the district and it was an opportunity of a lifetime so um just an incredible trip and Daniel reported on it last last time so it was an awesome experience um as well as I attended yesterday
081the coral prism concert which was awesome it was 12 Corners middle school and high school and all of their choruses and singing groups um and they ended the performance last night with a song where everybody was singing together in the entire Auditorium leading a message of just put one foot in front of the other and leave with left so I thought it was a great opportunity for our whole Community to get together and celebrate our musicians and see the incredible talent in this District so huge uh kudos to all of our Coral directors and staff that helped with that yesterday thank you um since our last meeting I um work I was uh we finished off the health program evaluation that I mentioned at the last board meeting or last update on committees um also
082I attended the districtwide Safety Committee that was last week as well um where we discuss some of the new upgrades that will be coming to 12 Corners Middle School and High school to add extra uh areas for entry to make it easier and safer for students to enter as well as guests and other people to register and to be able to come into the buildings um there's a lot of other great discussions about ways that they are working on to make our buildings ever safer and better for the community thank you very much Esther I uh have the opportunity of volunteering for Festival of ideas um alongside uh car and um Dr gasperino um had a lovely time it was a great time to see so many familiar faces and so many kids excited fantastic
083project it was a really great day uh also attended the bual prism concert it was I agree with Carol line was a lovely celebration of song and just really hit home how important the Arts are especially during this time um in this country um just uh to to get together and to sing together and to just enjoy each other en Joy um and um and I'm looking forward to volunteering for Brighton beliefs tomorrow afternoon Brighton High School see you tomorrow Dr call um and uh that's it for me thank you here I'll be attending PTSA tomorrow right early 9:30 as well as audit at 3 o' oh [Music] be the be a dodgeball too right okay so apparently my calendar is book tomorrow I'll get thank you Dr gasperino I actually have nothing additional to
084share thank you uh let's see I when um in Albany I actually got to also meet with the senior policy advisor to Governor hokel Sheridan Miller who was there for all of 10 minutes last year in her job and she there was so much that had she had learned so much in the last year so um we talked about sort of the cell phone distraction fre zones um she talked a little bit about dual enrollment from high school to college literacy initiatives a lot of support for the universal School meals um we did talk about our group which was from Greece Brighton um Fairport Pittsburgh we also talked about having a minimum of increase for foundation Aid and and making that predictable for all of our districts so that there was no question year to
085year um and we also you know Sheran was very um open about suggesting that the governor understood that the zero emission buses was a challenge for compliance and so that was something um that's something I hadn't heard yet that's nice to hear it was nice to hear and it was something that was definitely being discussed and perhaps we will hear more about that because the big ask is that we push that out we push that deadline out because schools aren't ready n of Uso the sterg companies aren't running the state doesn't have the infrastructure to carry that so that was actually probably the biggest thing that I that I um and yeah so those were probably the big things I did attend the high school prism band concert with a special Godzilla guest it was
086amazing at that concert Godzilla was so scary and he's and he's typically not welcome anywhere so like funny Dr Hall was sitting behind us and then he disappeared and we didn't really know where he went then Godzilla appeared at the end of the show but it was actually the only band in all of my years here with three children that there was a standing ovation at the end of that concert so that was vigorous Standing Ovation it really was it was really amazing so great lot of great energy that's it for me I'll I'll Echo elor's comments with regards security and and quickly add um just really grateful for the work that Teresa moer has undertaken to lead us and a constantly improving secure environment uh she just brings a great skill set and a
087great energy into helping us all be more secure um tons of work going on in the buildings we're getting ready now it's March so we want to be ready to go the minute school ends like go like heck for two straight months when the schools are empty and really get after it so uh continue to commend the buildings uh got people um you know John Nell all those teams that are getting things ready and staying on top of things and making sure things get done correctly and as noted uh tomorrow we will have audit at 3 o'cl myself Dr Lee and Karen having had it to move it twice just because there's so much going on right now so we'll be doing that get a look at some of those reports and I think that
088is it from my perspective so I will turn it over to Dr gasperino Nico Uris is under the weather so Dr gasperino has gratefully uh volunteered to do a quick read from uh Dr Nicole uris's report excuse me absolutely so this is the March 2025 BTA report so happy to have some good news about kids in classrooms doing wonderful things um so starting off at Council Rock Miss Cook's class has been focusing on the themes of Love kindness and friendship throughout the month of February and to honor that they created the most beautiful banner that they had donated to the teddy dance for Love at St John fiser College to hang up at their dance Marathon um it's a really beautiful banner and smiling children at French Road um the focus is um the special
089Area Teachers are working together to reinforce um the famous uh bcsd habits of mind they um reinforce two each month um and they're taking it across all the special areas as well and to keep families connected they've started publishing a monthly newsletter where they highlight two featured habits of month just to keep that family engagement in health class at fres um they are focusing on several important topics including personal safety and cyber safety and social emotional learning at TCMS Miss Lou has a bunch of after school clubs going um and she gives us a little sneak peek at three of them that are going on did you all know that Harry Potter Club followers are called potterheads because I did not know that Karen no did not know that all right and so you did
090points for you estra winter uh Potter heads across grade levels are meeting to discuss their Love of All Things Harry Potter my high school age son said actually all his friends are rereading all the Harry Potter books so it is not gone anywhere um other clubs that are going on at TCMS with Mrs Lou include writing Club um and the writing Club has created their own literary magazine the first one and it is named Dr Hall will love this the growl parentheses go Bruins raar okay um well that's why it's the growl the growl after the Bruins I thought it was very cool at Brighton High School 10th 11th and 12th graders in total of 22 students uh went to Germany with the chaperon of Mr Robin moer and Miss forari toured Berlin and had
091a wonderful time immersing themselves in the German language and culture um Additionally the Brighton High School business education had in their Virtual Enterprise class one of the firms achieved top 10% in the nation for its elevator pitch and I believe they received a certificate uh a certificate of achievement for dodo's donuts very cool um and then the Brighton math team is really going strong and um the math team um shares that they consistently have 80 plus students voluntarily doing math after school once a month and they said for high school that is quite amazing and just to end uh the report here two quotes for some of those math club students uh the first quote is every time I get a question wrong I want to come back and redeem myself which I thought was
092sweet and the next one sometimes it's about the community rather than the arithmetic so for Budget season I thought that was yeah I like that thank you for that now thank you on behalf of Nicole there's great work being done as you said for our kids uh by so many of our teachers we're grateful for that uh PTSA Dr Castillo good evening uh CS Rock primary school held their kindergarten information night there was a lot of interest in the event and they plan to hold a f meeting in August they celebrated the super Super Bowl with a fun Super Bowl party that featured soup uh the second great sweetheart dance is in the works with Mr Tappen collaborating with a volunteer DJ to approve music selections at French Road Elementary School the fifth grade uh
093bingo nights were held on February 11th and 13th the PTSA is providing heart themed snacks for the faculty meeting on February 24th or held uh looking ahead uh Front Road uh PTSA is getting ready for Brighton believes day uh on March 12th this year we're supporting happy birthday chaaa an organization dedicated to ensuring birthday celebrations for kids in Rochester Buffalo and Rome New York uh school districts uh get their birthdays they're also planning a color run for May 6 which is an untimed 5K race inspired by the Indian holy Festival where Runners are covered in colored powder 12 Corners Middle School organized a school trip to Guatemala during the February break uh they held the Winter Wonderland themed seventh grade activity night on February 28th and an urban Suburban family night social yesterday Brighton High
094School PTSA provided popcorn at this meeting it was a consolatory snack for the Bills fans right after their loss uh in fundraising news keep an eye out for information about the silent auction at the end of April um the PTSA is pleased to announced that they've uh they're funding four student requests including banners for the middle school music department that's it thank you very much appreciate it Dr McGowan superintendent's report so picture a pizza a real I just want to reiterate I thought that concert last night was absolutely amazing a father turned to me two seats down and uh his child his youngest is a senior and uh it it was just kind of like beautiful timing because it was right after that song and he said listen I just want you to know something
095and he expressed a really beautiful story about his child and their experiences over a long period of time and gratefulness to the district so this is for all this wasn't wasn't me thing for what had been done to create the most wonderful experience and how he felt that his child was going off to a particular place uh next year that was really incredible for them and that it was made possible through everything that we talk about so um it it kind of just drove it home in a beautiful way particularly at the end of a beautiful night watching I don't know how [Music] many I mean hundreds you know if you if you haven't been there picturing like both sides of uh the side of the stage with kids and the final song with all
096the kids singing and similar The District Strings like there's all these great reminders and and quite honestly I don't think there's a lot of places in our space in our sector in public K 12 public school districts that take a day tomorrow to do service for others and think about that so we joke about dodgeball but it's really all about this day of reinforcing the brain beliefs and just pausing and caring and for as long as we've been doing that the only question ever was was why not and what more can we do and uh that's a pretty beautiful thing for us to keep in mind so we have a lot of these conversations that are really hard they are super important uh but pausing and thinking about all those things is too so thanks
097for that opportunity anything else all right can I have one thing Larry that I got in board reports um I did have the privilege of attending the urban Suburban social uh that happened and it was just an incredible event that Jeff Green helped put on with the urban Suburban um the staff that sort of host the urban Suburban program and organize it um all of the urban Suburban students that were in attendance and their families were all brought up and acknowledged by the principles for sort of the the extra work that they go through to participate and be as a full part of our programs and individual seniors were honored with Awards as well as also their own contributions to the schools as they head toward graduation and it just was a really special event
098to kind of um in front of their families acknowledge you know their work within bright so thank you for being able to attend that yeah thank you um next up we got a couple of bids here approval of Cooperative bid for art supplies also approval of a TK elevator bid for a TCMS elevator which you learned about before any questions with regards to these bids motion to approve Mo moved by Sue second seconded by Carrie Lynn all those in favor I uh approval of an independent medical evaluation of a particular employee motion to approve moov by Karen second seconded by Esther all those in favor I we have on here uh on our consent agenda uh financial statements Personnel changes uh recommendations from the committee on special education and committee on preschool uh special education
099um now you see in fundraising activities we've got not an eating but a growing opportunity uh with plant card fundraisers at uh the garden Factory and also getting your car washed um at the BHS parking lot in June so those are both great opportunities gifts as is our practice we read the gifts aloud a gift in the amount of $25 from Ann lackenby to the Brighton Central School District's Rainbow Club in honor of Annie manuso a gift in the amount of $1,000 to the Brighton Central School District from the classes of 1964 to 1966 to be applied to the PTSA support fund and a gift of a Yamaha open hold inline CF foot flute to the Brighton Central School District music department from Kitty Hawks I sometimes feel like these are tests on my ability
100to do alliteration I just want you to know that but I hit that one we spend all week trying to figure out any questions with regards to any of the items on the consent agenda yes what's a SEF foot flute so flutes can either be designed with a seafoot that allows you to go slightly lower or without one and sort of that the the ones as you were growing up so I was a former flst in my previous life you're very welcome we're we're slightly smarter than before we came here that's a good thing that's a good thing okay any question other questions with regards to the consent agenda motion to approve so mov moved by Carrie Lynn second seconded by Karen all those in favor I will quickly close by saying in the space
101of a week we will either already have or will celebrate four birthdays from our leader ERS ship team Ellison Rio on the 6th Dr Lee on the 10th de spula today on the 11th and L Lio on the 13th so happy birthday past tense and future tents to all those folks so that um as always our our our uh Tech Team who makes all of this accessible to the community who might not be able to get here that's Bill and violet and Mike behind the screen over there we're grateful as always for their work and that everything works so well anything else for the good of the order motion to adjourn so move moved by Karen second seconded by aler all those in favor I we are adjourned this has been a special presentation from
102the Brighton Central School District Board of Education