001this is a special presentation from the Brighton Central School District Board of Education good evening and welcome to the Brighton Central School District Board of Education business meeting and budget adoption for April 9th 2019 but to begin this evening we welcome members of the public that are here in attendance who may wish to address the board you're welcome to address the board and any matter it does not have to be something that is an agenda item and you may make a statement you may ask a question we ask you to be brief and when recognized I'm going to ask if you would step to the podium please and give us your name and address so is there anyone here this evening who wishes to address the Board of Education okay seeing that we have no
002one right at the moment who wishes to avail themselves with public participation I will entertain please a motion for approval of our agenda so hold a second move been Marv and seconded by Karen all in favor aye any opposed [Music] and first up please a motion for approval of the minutes from our March 26 2019 budget proposal budget hearing meeting so vote by Larry seconded by julene does anyone have any Corrections or additions deletions those minutes all in favor aye Hey any opposed thank you today as we met as I mentioned in the open tonight is our scheduled budget adoptions so to begin that process this evening I turn it over to dr. McGowan to provide us updated executive budget proposal information thank you very much so I know this will come as a incredible
003disappointment particularly to the members of the audience that this is not the full 48 slide presentation of the executive budget proposal I know I hear the grunts of this behind me but this is the condensed version and the update based on information that is new since the last time that it was presented so the Tuesday before the final budget was adopted by the state of New York we present the proposal to you and this is an update based at their work or does their lack of work and what I mean by lack of work is the incredible disappointment that we have in the lack of state aid that's being provided to Brighton which I'll talk about in the presentation tonight we had hoped in fact we presented to you on the 26th a place marker
004a $500,000 was an appropriate amount of need to count on coming from the state based on the assembly and the Senate proposals and they were woefully I'm not sure being confident is the right word but unable to fulfill even that promise which is far above a that the district should be getting which does have an impact on our budget now highlight how we've had to make changes since that point in time the budget factors as you know that we review in this process each and every year we look at increase staffing demands due to enrollment emerging needs changing standards our labor increases including the increase in minimum wage which has an impact throughout our bargaining units increase in health insurance rates due to although the premium staying flat the number of people participating our contribution
005rates beginning to increase in our health insurance plans are elective demands for students the impact of our capital project over time and planning for full-day kindergarten this really plays a big part in the conversation tonight around fulfilling the promise that in 2017 our tax payers approved by a very wide margin a capital project to focus on facility improvements across the district but to be able to add full-day kindergarten and we have to now fulfill that promise in the budget process so we'll explain that as well the tax levy growth or the property tax cap around two percent changes in our mandated programming's programs for students as I mentioned elective demands and changes in state and federal aids the state deficit or potential for deficit our proposed that the governor's proposed cap on reimbursable AIDS which
006had us looking differently in our budget as well and changes in federal funding proposed by the Trump administration a loss of potential title grant monies and again as I mentioned the foundation aid issue in our district playing the biggest role in this conversation and the impact of federal tax reform particularly the elimination of the ability for deduction for state local taxes a reduction in that benefit and how that impacts our tax payers here in the District two right now or in the next six days file there five days file their income and discovering what that means in their process really important for us to point out I think over and over again that budgets in our opinion communicate our priorities where we devote resources we're using community devote resources really says quite a bit about
007how you feel we should be supporting kids and what you feel is best in terms of our support kids bottom left hand corner frankly it's a value statement so we could talk about values all we want but where we put our money is the statement about those values that is I think most realistic and says the most the executive budget proposal meets and exceeds state standards to support every one of our child children across the spectrum everything that they need it provides funding and support of the blueprint plans that we have particularly focused on diversity equity inclusion and safety security and it certainly respects taxpayers and honors commitments well what do we mean by that particularly when we're proposing going over the cap and respects the fact that in 2017 voters taxpayers did approve a
008capital project referendum to add to our debt service but to revitalize our facilities we need to be respectful of that promise we also owe it to our taxpayers to provide some level of predictability and if we don't begin to pay on that project now the program grows significantly in the next budget year and if we don't plan for full-day kindergarten now and continue adpositions we will see a spike in property taxes over time which we don't want to see so this is respectful of that towards taxpayers points our pride including our budget really important to point out on the left-hand side the pieces that we think are so important they're essential to the puzzle pieces or the the pie in this district the instruction leadership and professional development very important to what we're doing and
009our level of support each and every day in classrooms the types of things that are helping teachers continue to do great work with kids our co-curricular athletic and art opportunities for students as well are awfully important thank you very much making sure that our kids so many of whom connect to school in very different ways through the wide variety of clubs that we have and the many athletic opportunities that they have this that is also supporting this budget our additional intervention services for students beyond the mandates it's what has closed the gap for so many of our kids from all different parts of our school so all different groups in our school achieving a very high level because we're giving kids what they need that goes beyond just the state's basic requirement our summer school
010offerings that also support student needs so students don't fall behind and can stay on the right pace for graduation we know when kids fall behind and can't get credits they are less likely to graduate if they don't continue along the right path in high school we want to make sure they do that small class sizes and additional course offerings are a big part of this budget as well we continue to be able to support those with some changes some of the efficiencies we were able to find but we still believe we have small class sizes and plenty of electives for students and the team teaching structure at the middle school is so important to supporting the adolescent a child at that level providing the right amount of time for teachers to meet talk about students
011for students to operate on a team with consistency among their teachers that structure is able to stay in place with this budget as well and transportation services for all students in our school community in other words we are required to provide transportation for all students including those in private parochial school we're able to continue to support those students the non public students on days when we don't have school this is the one service that so many of our families take advantage of from the district who may send their children to other schools this is the place where their tax dollars are going to work for them and it is very important to their children receive the education that they're expecting from their private provider as well it is a relatively small cost item in fact
012only costing about fifty thousand dollars the difference between the everyday transportation when our kids are in session and when those schools are not in session but it's something we like to point out they were able to maintain because we care about every child even those that are not attending our public school each and every day and on the right-hand side new in this budget for 2019 20 will have a dedicated full-time equivalency not necessarily a full-time person but more funding dedicated as opposed to consultant fees for diversity consultant in the district for diversity equity and inclusion that's been enormously successful this year with Marla Washington working with us and were able to budget for that next year and expand that service for somebody who's been a great advocate for all of our families a great
013go-between somebody who's taught us worked with our faculty and worked with many families the family navigator service which is helping families navigate the mental health system and bringing services right here on campus from private providers helping people get in the door we recognize that a big obstacle to people gaining service working with mental health providers is actually getting there and getting an appointment we have a staff member here that's helping families achieve that which is helping them be more successful in school and have a better experience additional full-time equalities to expand our services for English as new language ENL students we have this as a mandated service that we've accounted for as well we have more students coming each year in fact a large group a particular grade level is moving through our system of
014students who don't speak English in the first which I think our teacher provide an excellent service in that way but we're expanding the number of teachers we'll be doing that based on mandate enhanced school safety staffing as well additional security staff to continue to think about how best to keep our students safe K through 12 and continue planning for the full-day kindergarten program which will happen in 2021 we need to continue to plan personnel staffing funding in that portion of the budget so that when we get to that point we're not in one year asking taxpayers to fund the entire expansion of the program we need to build towards that that's the respecting taxpayers and making sure we keep those tax increases level over time and it fully funds and this is a big important
015pieces in 2017 our tax payers approved a capital project to revitalize our facilities and be able to add space at Council Rock for full-day kindergarten but to expand and revitalize facilities K through 12 that was approved in 2017 this is when that car payment now comes due if we wait to begin paying on that debt we can only wait another year it compounds our issue and the simple explanation is that I'll give several times as we don't have a car payment in our budget we paid off our car a long time ago we didn't find your car or when we did we paid cash for it so we didn't factor in debt service into our monthly budget like you would do at home for your car payment and when that car payment ends some people
016put that money towards a new car were they spending on something else what we spent it on something else it was called program and lowering people's taxes over time so now we're able to say we have to go back out now we did this project or we're doing this project we need to have this debt service in our budget and this is the year that it goes in it won't have to go in again it will now be there and so that's also funded in this proposal as well the overall spending we're asking the community to increase spending by 4.5% but it's really important to point out that's 2.9 percent in operations so the regular budget that we were proposed to the community and come to you to propose would be an Operations budget in
017other words doing everything that we're doing now and looking at programming that we need for next year would be a 2.9 percent increase in spending it gets up to four point five because of that capital expenditure the debt service the car payment that I just mentioned so that's the increase in capital that accounts for 1.6 percent of a four and a half percent spending increase overall you can see where our salary line will go up our total salary spending so not each person but total overall based on people leaving people coming and retirements etc will go up 3.1 percent total spending in that area the benefits line actually will be down one hundred eighty-five thousand dollars that's because of flat rates in health insurance plans the BOCES costs will go up one hundred fifty two
018thousand dollars that's for an increased cost that's provided to us we are built for that supplies and services the overall cost of doing business again in an eighty million dollar budget is up 1.2 million dollars a relatively normal increase but debt service will go up 1.2 million dollars that would be a heck of a car if I keep using the household analogy but that's to build buildings so remember I want to go through this again we didn't build buildings here for a long time I was explaining earlier to the board the idea of upcycling not that they made me explain to him but mentioned that a student today told me about how she was designing clothing this was a student in seventh grade who's a designer pops up cycling so using previously used materials to
019upcycle and make them into something better well we were doing that with our buildings for a long long time we upcycling well now we're at a point where we had to build on we needed more space and we had to take care of costly repairs and revitalization throughout the district we couldn't keep just upcycling we had to really improve them in ways that that required us to take on debt that we did not have remember when we didn't have debt we used that towards program and during a period of time when the state was taking money in the gap elimination adjustment we were able to fund our other expenditures through that same funding whereas other districts kept their debt service we didn't do that now we're going back to cocoon you say okay we need
020that back now we need to put that back in the budget that accounts for the 1.2 million dollars give you a little bit more detail around the spending that we're proposing all the way down on the right-hand side is that same issue this is the dollar amount but spelled out differently in this type of chart it's a 68 percent increase or 1.2 million dollars because we don't have very much debt service so we're putting the car payment in right above that transportation services are increasing 11 percent but that's because we're taking that service back from BOCES who could no longer provide it which is why you see the increase in BOCES spending only 2.1 percent right here we had to take back three hundred fifty six thousand dollars or a portion of that just for
021particular transportation for students with special needs that BOCES could no longer provide so we took on the service but again there's a drop where we would have had a bigger increase and another place in the budget and then instructional materials and supplies up 18 percent or about $800,000 we see only an increase overall in salary benefits when you take that benefit line that's down just a little bit because we're in a healthcare consortium does the best job it possibly can and being a a drop of 0.8% along with the salary change our total spending in that area is only going up 1.6 percent in next year's budget so the biggest change again is that capital increase that car payment down here at the bottom but take a look at these mandated services really important to
022point this out the 572 thousand dollars most of that experience just in the last couple of months in an increase in tuitions and mandated programs for students to require a particular type of service that's very very expensive we don't forget that for a moment we don't regret that that's what we should be doing but it's important to note that that's a cost pressure when that goes up 572 thousand dollars and our state a it's not going up nearly that amount that's five hundred seventy two thousand dollars in eighty million dollar year budget where everything else is going up and I mentioned for example just one point two million dollars in material supplies and our state aid numbers not going up nearly the same percent to account for that which is why we have to ask
023the community to help support all of these changes that contract transportation I mentioned that's the the transportation taken back for BOCES and a hundred thousand dollars in health services paid to other districts and these are the mandated costs when we have students attending private parochial school in other school districts those schools are located the nursing service that's provided to them is billed back to our district and the cost of that is going up a hundred thousand hundred nine thousand dollars in next year's budget that debt service from funding again that car payment issue what if we were to delay that what would the problem look like if you take a look here at the building aid we're getting very little building in because you don't get that until the year after you spend it we'll
024have a lot more building aid coming on next year to help account for that the debt service is in the blue column on the left-hand side just imagine if we take this blue column from 1920 added on to 2021 because that not go away we will have to pay that and that will still be a significant expense then that we need to be accounted for in next year's budget the net levy increase though significant coming into this year but then as you can see it will level off then over time once the debt service payment is in where does our revenue come from we're very respectful of the notion that most of our funding comes from the taxpayers here in the brain Central School District 67% of that our state aid is only 10% in
025foundation aid reimbursable AIDS 11% again this is not the benevolence of the state this is their responsibility this is their job a large part of state funding your state tax dollars are supposed to be coming back to you in the form of a free appropriate public education for your children this should be much bigger your property taxes should be lower and the state should be doing more to fulfill their obligation we'd like to see that increase over time the 1920 budget the executive budget proposal assumed that we would get at least fifty two and a half percent only fifty two and a half percent of our II didn't think that that was too big of an expectation at all considering where the assembly in the Senate were in the process but after having to negotiate
026fully with the governor we ended up with only 50% 50.3% of the aid that was due to us which is why we're coming back to the community than insane and we need to be over the cap and we've made accommodations within the budget but because we're not getting the full amount even that we an expected but the full amount or a bigger percentage with how massive cuts to programming or really delaying the strategy of beginning our debt service now and compounding our problem we have to ask for to go to the cap using them you challenge you take a look at the foundation ATIS issue in just a little bit of the history the orange and the blue all together are the total amount that we should be getting in this school district and that
027comes from a formula it's developed negotiating and Albany years ago that value certain items in your demographics so the amount of kids you have the number of kids you have total but also who you see free reduced lunch then as a measure of need in the district and the number of students that speak English as in language the number of students with special needs a variety of factors and they're rated in all different ways to distribute a large sum of money across the entire state so if you have more kids and if you have more kids with different needs within that formula you should get more money your cost of doing business as one so when this was agreed upon you can see we were supposed to be getting about twelve million dollars and the
028full phase-in amount up to this point right now we'd be up to over 16 million dollars that should be coming to the district unfortunately the state's not fulfilled that obligation and as our numbers have grown and our need has grown over time the percent increase has not come close to meeting that need we are only scheduled to receive about eight million of the sixteen million dollars so we should have been increasing one point four seven million dollars this year we're only getting 240 million dollars I can't make it up those are the numbers we should have been going up 1.47 we're only going up $249,000 and there's no exclusion in the tax cap for increased needs in your district so the state can decide to not out of their formula but they have not created
029any mechanism within the tax cap for those variances for those changes in your student population your need within your district we did thanks to the the work of Piper Brighton and many people in this community many many people in this room and you as a school board and your advocacy achieve a bump of 1 million dollars into the 1718 year the problem is literally in the documents the the ability for us to have that happen in the formula the way that was written in was deleted and this year's work in the state budget so that so though that million dollars remains in the amount and we grow a percentage over that amount the language that would have helped that base grow was eliminated in the agreed-upon budget so people have asked what about that fix
030well the fix still exists for that million dollars but it hasn't kept pace with where that numbers continue to grow and where the increases should have been well how does that compare to other people you might ask when you look a crop or you might not ask but I'm gonna still tell you the cost of the whole state we take a look at what districts look like us and these are districts from all over the state different types of districts but have the most similarity to us if you take a look at this column right here the combined wealth ratio combined wealth ratio if you're as a districts if you come out as a number one you're considered an average the district so that's a combination of property wealth in your community and income tax
031well the combined wealth ratio and that's the way the state measures your ability as a school district to pay for Jewel's so we are just below one just below average and school districts that look like us around the state Bethlehem for example in the Albany area Orchard Park in the Buffalo area they were scheduled and their full phase in a foundation aid to get a little bit more than us they're a little bit larger both of those districts so Beth I'm 17 million Orchard Park just over 17 million as well and their aid in this coming school year will be fifteen point nine million in Orchard Park twelve point eight million in Bethlehem but yet Brighton scheduled get sixteen point two is only going to get eight point two million dollars by percentage those districts
032ninety three percent seventy five percent and we're just going to get fifty percent how about save us going to get one hundred thirty three percent their number has dropped likely because they have dropped in the number of students their needs of their district have changed yet scheduled to get fourteen they're going to get eighteen million dollars none of this makes any sense if you look locally where do we stack up wait at the bottom list in fact we're 16th lowest of the seven hundred districts in the entire state compared to our neighbors I think it's interesting if you look here at Penn field the one with the closest combined well three she talked to us point nine to two we're at point nine five three both just under the one their schedule get nineteen point
033four million dollars a little bit bigger than us so that number that bigger number makes sense compared to our sixteen but they're going to get thirteen point six seventy percent of their aid and we're only going to get eight point two million dollars or fifty point four percent of our aid so this is a fundamental issue that we have and if you look across them in row on districts you see this over and over again East Rochester will get ninety four percent all the way down to our 50 percent everybody in between and again the people with the closest combined wealth ratio to us even Pittsburgh's going to get 63% for us if we're getting 63% we'd have a near 0% tax increase to be very honest with you we'd be getting that much more
034in aid it would be such a significant jump for us so that's what we've advocated for and fight for brains were very helpful in that we don't have a fix yet and the agreed upon state budget really did very little to address this so what we're proposing in terms of revenue then is that our community adopt a four point eight nine percent tax increase to support this funding plan spending plans what does that mean for the average taxpayer our home value uses the average home value is $220,000 that would be a 266 dollar increase in next year's taxes to support that that's a four point eight nine percent increase how does that compare then and what does that mean relative to the levy levy for capital versus operations the tax cap number alone if we
035just went out at our tax cap number which is 2.3 percent it wouldn't it would cost people 127 dollars total in their tax increase next year if you take it the levy for capital so that debt service payment that alone would be our tax cap number if all we did was pay the debt service next year that is the tax cap number right there the other hundred thirty eight dollars that we're asking for this is the levy then for operations this is everything else we need to make sure that we're supporting new programming for kids but also to support the current existing program the non mandated pieces that make the Brighton experience what it is and that honors over here on the right-hand side the screenshot right from the materials that we distributed to our
036community asking for a hundred forty four dollars a year well that bill is now coming due for the capital project this is based on a home valued at $200,000 we've now shifted and this is based on the $220,000 home so we're pretty close to that number that we had promised in fact just a little bit less if you take a look at what does this all mean though so this tax increase the total pyramid here is the four point eight nine percent what is it going towards to just really illustrate this point the cap number right there are two point three percent would stop us at just support for ongoing operations and programming period that number alone what we need to do though is add in of course the debt service related to visit the
037improvement plan and new programming of just point two nine percent in safety security wellness and this is additional mental health support additional security staff and diversity equity support for formation programming including restorative practices and the diversity equity consultant to work in the school district that's the additional two point eight nine percent that we are proposing the additional increase that we need to be able to do that we've got to take care of that debt service get it in right now and we've got to be able to continue to grow our program and at the same time support ongoing operations in academic programs remember if all we had was just the cap number we could just do the debt service and cut out support for ongoing operations academic programs which means dramatically cutting programs to do
038that or vice versa just support ongoing operations and programs and have to cut out the debt service and new programming up here so if we just had the captain what is the budget what if this proposed budget isn't approved by 60% of voters because remember the property tax cap doesn't say that you can't choose as a community to exceed that 2.3 percent number it simply says that if you choose to do that sixty percent of people have to choose to do that and that for doing that you will not be eligible for the relief check the property tax relief checks that you've been receiving so those are the really the two factors but as a community you can choose to do that so spending would have to be reduced by 1.3 million dollars in order
039to become cap compliant and we would have to look at non-contingent equipment classroom furniture we'd have to defer the debt service the capital project piece that I just mentioned to you that car payment keep saying over and over again we'd have to defer funding for the full-day kindergarten program we'd have to look at Department reductions and staff and non mandated program reductions as well but that's just delaying the problem those items will still need to be funded in next year's budget and we would have to look at extended studies for language at grade six and summer music and grade for the additional athletic extracurricular arts co-curricular activities and the additional supports and opportunities that we have for student that would be the result for sure the tax cap over time has had an interesting impact
040in the district when it first came about we went out to the community and said we don't need to be at the cap number just like you can choose as a district to go over it if you choose to do that you can also choose to be under that cap number we did we only said to the community we only need this amount we don't need to go all the way to the cap so in 1213 we were five hundred eighty four thousand dollars under the cap amount the following year for $139,000 under the cap amount but in 1415 we went back out to the community and said listen we're straightforward with you then we will always be straightforward with you about what we need in the last year's we haven't needed to be at
041the cap number in fact the cumulative increase over those times in fluid state the cap number would have been more than what we were asking to go out over the cap and send that to the community at that point the community approves going out over the cap feeling comfortable in that conversation we believe that we're asking for what we needed we have been able to since that time in 15 16 16 17 17 18 18 19 been able to stay under the cap which is where we always want to be we're coming back down to the community to have that same conversation saying now we need to again be over the cap because that's the need that's what we need in order to support excellence and maintain our programs and to protect the long-term financial
042health in the district when we think about again that car payment the debt service issue in the planning for a full-day kindergarten that issue around the property tax relief check this was an issue several years ago everybody likes to check no question about it especially when it's being written to you so in the legislature and the governor the governor in particular decided to provide this credit instead of perhaps reducing income taxes or actually fulfilling the foundation aid formula which is what they should be doing and have not been able to do they decided to give people a check after the fact based on what your district did in the budget process and it was some measure of property tax relief for many people the check was relatively small it's all across the spectrum it's based
043on your income and your star relief the maximum star relief that people are getting is seven hundred ninety four dollars the current max in the basic star program your relief check that you received is based on your income so if your income was $75,000 or left less you get 85% of the seven ninety four this doesn't affect the seven ninety four you're still getting that credit your star credit this is simply the check after the fact if your income is between seventy five hundred fifty thousand dollars you're getting 60% of that max amount between 150 and 200 thousand dollars you're getting thirty five percent in between two hundred and two seventy-five ten and a half percent of the seven ninety four so the check varies for every taxpayer we've been completely unsuccessful in finding out
044from the office of real property tax it doesn't seem to keep a record of this how much does that mean for people in Brighton what was the average check what did people usually get that's a record they cannot produce for us so we're asking our community members to think about the rebate check that they got realize that your amount will be similar to that amount and understand that that's not something that the that this community would be eligible for going into next year you will still get star this is just the additional check that came after the fact that was a different amount your star savings will still exist that's not in question we recognize their advantages and disadvantages to going over the cap the advantages are we preserve program we can avoid cuts in
045those programs we can fully fund that local share that car payment start paying that now it does speed the growth of the levy so the percentage increase in next year's budget this eases some of the pressure on that because the levy starts out a little bit larger and it speeds the funding for full-day kindergarten as well so in other words we would be able to still be on track for full-day kindergarten and having those positions with level tax increases the disadvantage is it's applied earlier in the project so it's one more year you're paying on that it's as if you're able to make an extra payment on your mortgage there's a there's a great advantage on the other end but you're starting it now overall taxes increase when you increase the levy base we understand
046that so incrementally next year when it goes up it goes up over a slightly larger number and losing that rebate check as well as a concern for us that we don't take lightly at all and I know you as board members don't on behalf of community members so what did we do to make reductions along the way we had to find efficiencies as well particularly because the state did not come through with aid and we had to do everything we could to get as close as we possibly could to the cap number trying to also maintain program so we adjusted our mandated services of course I mentioned to you the over $500,000 actually nearly six hundred thousand dollars in increased costs we had to add that back in since we gave you the preliminary budget
047in January we reduced the budget to actual projections the risk provision so all these bars in green are the areas where we were able to reduce from the preliminary budget that we gave you in January these are the areas where we analyzed what our spending was our budget to actual and we were able to not budget as much in some lines that's the budget to actual our change in revenue assumptions so places where we are able to use revenue differently instead of replenishing some reserves put this towards expenses in next year's budget our department reductions for particular equipment adjust in our capital allocations so using the amount out of the capital reserve to go towards capital as well our class size adjustments course offerings we are impacting class sizes slightly and electives our breakage from
048retirements we've been able to count on more in that area as well we've removed some of the new positions that we presented to you in the preliminary budget that would have been used to accommodate enrollment and our occupational education services the amount of out of district placements were able to provide particularly in BOCES programming we've reduced the number of those from the preliminary budget as well so our changes in staffing in our proposed increase of 1.1 million dollars in some staffing we're looking at new positions for enrollment for one at sixth grade our state mandates we mentioned to you the English as a new language mandate though that's a mandated service but we have to have positions for that the proposal for diversity equity staff member to now be funded in the budget outside of
049the consultant model that we have this year so this will be a set amount devoted to that position the family navigator position that I mentioned too before bridging that gap for families in mental health three security guard positions for use throughout the district the full-day kindergarten spending of one hundred thirteen thousand dollars to so that we avoid a future tax increased spike to pay for that position and we're bringing fifty thousand dollars worth of grant funded position back into the general fund again because of proposals from the federal government to cut funding from the federal government to the district through the state we want to make sure those positions are funded we need to take them out of grants which could disappear very quickly and are proposed to be reduced and on the right-hand side
050of the reductions that we are making we've reduced class I'm sorry increase class size an elective reduced elective offerings at the secondary level seven through twelve about a one point four reduction total and so any of the new funding for enrollment projections for growth enrollment has been removed class size adjustments at first grade we're just going from nineteen point four now to twenty-one point one two and that's from the preliminary budget to this to this proposal but we'll show you how those compared to actual numbers this year it's very comparable and in grade two class size from the preliminary budget to this proposal from twenty to twenty one point seven eight and again class size and electives about another 150 thousand dollars and this was actual FTEs reduced at the high school reductions in each
051department which will change scheduling course selection as well and larger class sizes in some electives although we do this with a heavy heart we also feel like we're still able to offer quite a bit for students in this proposal and that would change if we are not out over the cap that class size issue that I mentioned to you in grade one next year we're proposing being at 11 sections which we are this year as well their class size will go from 20 point 5 as a group of first grades to 21 point 1 grade 2 which is currently at twenty two point seven will actually be smaller next year 21 point eight but that same group of kids who are currently in first grade this year twenty point five will go up slightly to
052twenty one point eight going into next year so a minor increase in the class size but again something we feel you can accommodate we always would like them as small as possible but in this current situation that seems the most appropriate reduction and we'll go to 12 sections at each grade at French Road we're currently at 12 12 and 13 we'll be at 12 12 12 next year and actually a 5th grade that results in a point for child reduction at the 5th grade level and we're pretty close we're up slightly at 4th grade just point 8 and up about to students at the 3rd grade level going into next year but again relatively comfortable with those numbers wish they were a little bit smaller but we can manage that going into next year given
053the circumstance the capital reserve fund withdrawal we're proposing to the community being able to withdraw 3 million dollars to continue our work specifically the authorization is withdraw 3 million dollars from the district's existing 2015 Kepler reserve fund to pay additional cost associated with the capital improvement project that were approved that was approved by voters May 16th 2007 teen but this is additional cost that we're taking out of reserves still sticking the promise of borrowing what we said we would borrow that voters approved at that time but taking more our reserves to cover other any other increase costs in the project this money can't go towards anything else so can't go to bridge any other gap this is specifically put aside by taxpayers over time with revenue that comes in capital aid from the state that
054goes into that reserve to pay for capital expenses it can't go to pay for anything else along the way the technology reserve fund currently has a balance of 1.5 million dollars we need to withdraw $500,000 so that we don't have to take this expense the general fund which can you imagine for you to take that $500,000 and put even more pressure on spending going next year and this is for the purchased of servers infrastructure tablets are excuse me laptop staff laptop replacements the the way people do business our student device replacements as well and AV hardware across the district again that way this expense which is an expensive is required for us to be able to operate it doesn't have to come out of the general fund it can come out of this reserve which
055has been again put aside over time I just want to repeat again this issue around the property tax cap and what this means the total increase on the screen is four point eight nine percent the cap would stop us right there and support just for rolling over the budget with current programming but not including debt service and not including the important proposals around safety security wellness and diversity equity and inclusion the additional two point eight nine percent allows us to do that protects our long-term financial health it is over the cap we feel that that's important to do at this time if we did not do that we would again to lay our problem and have to look at 1.3 million dollars in reductions which would include equipment furniture deferring that debt service deferring planning
056for full-day kindergarten we'd have to look at reductions in departments and in staffing and non mandated programs just delaying the problem to a future year and only growing the problem frankly over time the summary of all of this at the bottom a new cost of 266 dollars for a home valued at $220,000 and of course also the loss of the rebate check we do understand that not the loss of Starr the loss of that additional rebate and it reflects this budget then reflects what we value we believe it honors the impact of that 2017 vote response to the mandated increases in spending for student programming that they need it honors our blueprint commitments specifically relative to diversity equity inclusion safety security it's a total spending increase of 4.5% only 1.6 percent of that in capital
0572.9 percent in operations which would have been able to be accomplished under the cap but we have to add for that long-term financial health and new programming budget hearing on the 14th and of course a vote on the 21st and Kiwanis spaghetti dinner very important on that day as well any questions for any there's any way you have any further questions for dr. McGowan because what I'm gonna do is I'm going to ask for a motion to adopt in a moment and then we'll have discussion specific to the budget and our thoughts and anything we want to share on that but I want to make sure while he's up there if there's any further questions that we have I Roman won't run away too far [Music] all right then may we have a motion please
058to approve the 2019-20 brain Central School District budget as proposed to the Board of Education and the executive budget proposal at the March 26 2019 meeting and updated by dr. McGowan's proposal this evening similar second move by Adrian and seconded by Marv any further comments discussion thoughts that anybody would like to share [Music] I guess just that we're deeply disappointed by what happens in Albany that stores are not fairly funded across the board and that this hits our district particularly hard we are as we've discussed and I don't want to take any more time I will remind folks watching all the budget material is posted online all the archive of all of our meetings is on the YouTube archive channel and you can take a look at the numerous discussions that we've had and talked
059about funding from the state and all the issues that we face I guess what I would start off with on behalf of the board is thanking Kevin and Lou and Debbie all of our people really because this has been one of the most difficult budget periods we've ever gone through so what we've come up with I have to say on one hand does absolutely represents what we value in this community of what we value for the school district but it is very disappointing for us as a Board of Education to be proposing a budget that while we believe it's the right thing it exceeds the property tax cap and it's at a level higher than we believe Brighton property tax payers should really be paid and it is entirely the fall of our state government
060in Albany I'm sorry but that is the absolute fact if the governor and our elected officials in the assembly and Senate were to finally figure out a way to properly and adequately fund public education in this state and apply the foundation aid formula in any way shape or form that was fair that we've laid out that we've showed them on numerous occasions over a number of years in Albany we would not be in this position we planned very prudently over the years we planned this debt service we planned the k-12 facilities upgrade because we absolutely needed to do that both for the reasons well-known full-day K in the rebuild of council Rock which we remind folks is substantially less expensive than the first alternative that we discussed which was to be rebuild Brookside school but
061all of our buildings need work there they're they're great buildings we're very fortunate but we have to plan for the future and that work had to be done the voters approved it and we are in that boat so we move forward I think with the best possible outcome given all the circumstances that we all operate under and we will continue the message of the community and we ask the community to talk with us and have conversation and understand why we are where we are in separately we've already begun that process of working with those in Albany again not only on one-time aid which may happen we don't have huge hope and if there is one time aid temporary aid for the moment it won't be a huge amount of money but we really need to
062stay to the work of getting this thing fixed for Brighton for the long haul and we'll continue to work on that that unfortunately can't happen until at least the next budget season which would be next January through the end of March so that part we will dedicate ourselves to and state of that but the task at hand right now this budget and where we are some reductions have to be made we just can't fit it all in I think the group has done a wonderful job of trying to keep preservation of program first and foremost and we are on board with that so Christine just want to think again like our administrators for all that to see but also all our parents yes absolutely and ice students were writing letters and those concerts and so
063I just we do appreciate that and we will we will likely you need that additional help as we move forward into into next year's budget and trying to get this foundation aid formula at least repaired if you will for a fairness aspect and we really can continue to advocate to try to get that floor to at least 60% and that is a minimal ask and we're not asking for the world on this so anyway so that is that is what it is we'll continue the message through the community we will continue to send out material the board plans the message tomorrow to the community through the email system with our details and thoughts and hopes and feelings on the budget and we'll continue to do that over the next month we're actually about five weeks
064prior to the budget vote so completing our conversation I guess then we will say all in favor aye any opposed thank you very much I want to take a moment to thank our commissioners here and Lou ticular for leading this year work quite for Brighton yes for many students and parents and concerts everywhere we were advocating writing liners doing with a but your support throughout this is avoiding events as well this was definitely the most difficult place to get to at this point and it does not feel to us like a success when we were proposing being over the cap it feels successful in protecting programs or the best of our ability and finding the best ways to be efficient in doing that but it doesn't feel good to be recommending an increase that we're
065paying to myself no personally many of us that participate in this as well as parents and I know you feel that way and it's a struggle there is a hundred and fifty million dollars in the state budget for member item money legislators and 50 million of that is the governor's it would take sixty million dollars in change to bring every district that's under that cwr of one to sixty percent sixty million dollars instead the 150 million dollars will spread be spread out among a wide variety of political projects and pets and things that seem like fun and signs and things that people can sign their name to and take credit for and campaign commercials when 60 million dollars in change would more than make up our gap and would not mean we'd have to go
066over the cap for a long long time if ever if we could get to that point so it's just something to think about we've advocated we've asked the question already what do you need to do for next year what day to do me how can we impress upon you the need to do this there is no explaining that gap so when people are going together to understand how could you be that far off the reality is there is a political solution and there's a practical solution the practical solution says we should get certain dollar amount but that doesn't fit the political narrative and where people would like to devote money when they're voting on it largely behind the scenes at the end of the day and that's a common for us so thank you very
067much for the support we will continue to advocate that is the biggest challenge in front of us though is the state fulfilling their obligation and us not harming kids in the mean time because they haven't been able to do so thank you very much thank you very much Kevin and then one other item that we need to do formally this evening with regard to the property tax cap property tax report card in the budget itself may have motion please for approval of the 2019 2020 property tax report card as outlined in the memo to the board from Kevin is prepared by Liu dated April 9th 2019 so second well by Larry and seconded by Karen again this is a more formal document that covers the property tax report card which is required to the state
068and also clarifies all the proposed resolutions as dr. Brown has explained in the budget proposal so all in favor any opposed thank you and again to the community all of the documentation that we're discussing tonight will be posted online and you can find all the detail on our website we will get that all updated and make sure that that's is available by the close of business tomorrow so right can we do that I'm not asking for the okay thank you a report section then this evening we have our financial report prepared for us by loo again through Kevin along with the treasurer's report for the period ending February 28th prepared by Liu and our director finance Dalia Watts may we have a motion please to receive those reports moved by Karen seconded by Christina does
069anyone have any questions or comment with regard to those reports this evening okay then all in favor aye any opposed thank you now the positive side our student report to see being Tula welcome hello happy here so a couple things have been happening recently it's I would say pretty busy time of year everyone's kind of like really deep in the year it's the end of the third quarter at the high school we just had a Student Senate meeting where the board came in and I thought that went really well we were talking about maybe bringing that back next year like two times instead of one I think everyone learned a lot about what we do here and just a little bit more about like what it means to be on the board and I think
070people weren't quite understanding like that it was different from the superintendent stuff so I'm glad that we got that sorted out Monday so yesterday the superintendent's conference some students did come in during the day I came in for like pretty much the whole day along with a couple other people one of them was for a like seminar type thing in the morning where people from this class that was happening for a semester called rhetoric of race and we did restorative circles which is basically like this format that is a really safe space to allow people to talk about hard things so we did that for the teachers and just different faculty at the school just to show them a little bit more about it we had some really beautiful conversations I think and I think
071a lot of people were really moved so that was really positive um dr. ho was like taking no time on it and stuff too so that was awesome and I'm hoping that we can bring that back next year what else oh we had the C CLT meeting after that which was basically it was it used to be a really long name but we appreciated it to a culture climate leadership team which is basically just a bunch of different leadership positions throughout clubs at the school and everyone comes together and kind of talks about different issues with diversity and how we can improve that but also the culture and climate like in the name of our school as far as like drugs issues and vaping dueling all that stuff and sort of figure out ways to
072sort out like dasa everything kind of falls under that umbrella we were talking a lot in that meeting um two trips are coming up the French exchange now we're going there and I think that's happening over April break and maybe a little bit longer than that I know no I'm not going on that one so I think people are leaving soon for that one I am going on the Europe trip which is leaving tomorrow so that's really exciting a Pierrot class is going to Prague Vienna and Budapest and we're just gonna see a bunch of things there so that should be a lot of fun and lastly we are holding new exec elections at the high school so we are waiting to hear back for like different positions and who wants to do what and
073the people that are running it seems like we have a good amount of people running this year so I'm really happy about that and you guys will have a new rap soon which is bittersweet yeah that's pretty much it at the high school thank you he did mention we appreciate the opportunity or me it is your right usually an annual tradition to meet the Board of Education with Student Senate it's always a great conversation discussion it was one of our better ones I think we all agreed this year and terms topically and some of the things we were able to discuss and the idea of being maybe in the future will do one of the fall and then what again you know near budget time type thing we could talk about like what the board
074is in the beginning and then come back and maybe talk about more like issue type things in the second meeting so I think that'd be a really great thing great well thank you very much you appreciate the update yeah our Board of Education the Monroe County school board's Standing Committee reports first up labor relations maxima meeting is April 24th about two weeks from tomorrow pathways to teaching voice to run to quite Thomas and Karen's vineyard that's correct yes it's about growing your own teaching you know our students that are interested in teaching getting them interested in professional what are where you're going to be so nervous over here when you're all teaching the teaching some candidates some yeah I was Jim Thomas's french student his first year teaching yeah there you go okay thank you
075very much on that appreciate it our information exchange yeah tomorrow do you know I do like yeah but you want me doing yes so okay Dina Swanson who is a professor at University of Rochester we'll be talking about investigating strategies or promotion of positive identity zillions so new tomorrow we're looking forward to that she was scheduled for February and couldn't get here because of weather / like flight condition but hopefully tomorrow should be a problem she was out and couldn't get off so what you saw just wonderful in that work that she does I'm looking forward to that presentation tomorrow also and then I don't remind I think we last reported on a 12th so the day after what about 13th last information sheet was fascinating because that was the group of students administrators from
076Churchill restorative practices and building leadership circles and that was a fascinating conversation because three students legislative committee Karen and I there we met last Wednesday on the 3rd had a lot to discuss regarding the budget that was passed you know we spent a lot of time tonight talking about foundation ADA we know that that affects all of our districts but there are a couple other relevant things in this budget for us the first one is when I'm quite happy about because we've worked on this as a legislative committee is permanently disconnecting the state tests from annual professional performance reviews and I think that that's really very important for our teachers and for us just for the profession that is over so I was pleased to see that that was made permanent the property tax cap
077was made permanent as we know that will continue to affect us for a long time and moving forward what we need to do is work with the state to talk about what the necessary exclusion when it comes to dates and then the other piece that we've talked about here that I think is important is the salary cap for the district superintendent was finally that situation was finally improved it's been proven stages over time but finally some movement on a very needed and then the final piece that caught my eye was that school boards are now authorized to fund a Teachers Retirement System reserve fund and I think that that's important for financial health of districts going forward something I'd like to see us do in the future these are awesome yes it would but having
078having a reserved set aside for those years when we have unanticipated spikes will offset pressure on our budget in other ways you know we need to pay into that system that is what it is and we appreciate the work that teachers have done for us over their time here but the reserve fund will will greatly ease some of that pressure and it's the point of us being able to use the tech reserve right now instead of having to use any of those reserves are helpful and this was a long time coming there is an ers reserve that has been set up we're more than happy we don't fund our own retirement we pay the bill that the state provides and you know it's a mandated expense for us but to be able to ease that
079so years when the contribution is higher or lower we can manage would be great again the fundation a it was where was supposed to be they'll be easier to manage some prospects but I'm so glad that it was best yeah you raise a good point if something should have been gone long ago I was speaking of you know unreasonable but the other point that one of you even asked me about it and it would requires that so establishing any reserve fund requires voter approval but in order to put it on the ballot we would have to fund it with some amount and this is just not the year obviously yeah well and it's it's it'll do that I think that this came out after we had approved our proposals anyway but in the next year
080or two I would love to see us do yep absolutely and the other thing that we did Karen makes a good point one of the things that we do in the spring with legislative committee is sort of refine the talking points and the advocacy points based on what the budget finally looks like in the legislation in it and one of the things that we always are on the lookout for is even though the budget is done there's quite a few things that can happen in Albany and do happen in Albany legislatively now through the end of the session you have to not be asleep at the switch and pay attention to those things because some types of things can happen that are not in everybody's best interest as far as working sort of the school
081districts so we'll continue to do that and the other thing that we're doing is setting up local appointments with all of our legislators in their local offices and we got the first list of appointments on that today so we will meet with Jamie and Joe locally and any other appointments that we maybe could help out with so thank you very much Karen and we do have I believe the legislate I mean information exchange and labor relations April meetings of the final meetings of the year legislative will meet it into May and then also reminder that the Monroe County school board's annual meeting is at the end of May and we've all got a note on there so if you plan to attend that let the office know or let him know and she'll let them
082know so BOCES report my review any questions I'm Karen mentioned district superintendent cap has been lifted over a period of time but that was a good news and on April 24 2015 USA at Syracuse Fairgrounds for the EMCC students and there'll be some brightness to himself participating that great thank you very much and then our other board member reports so this is an update on an activity that we've been engaged in individually since our last report of March the 12th anything that you'd like to share out on that Christina we'll start at your end the library media program evaluation comes last week and we've just got the final report so we're gonna we will go through them and somebody will present it it was a great great to really think about how the library is
083used and how it can be used thank you we'll look for that we'll have those report outs over the next couple of months for all those all those committees all right so old language isn't saying we just finished up all the loose ends and we will be having the presentation in May on diversity equity we met as a large group I sit on the group for the students with special needs and we just went through we sort of broke out we came back together we talked through our next steps each group and several of the board members here they're at the be behind which was also done in restorative circles on 18th great thank you very much Larry construction season is just about in full swing so we're meeting almost every week budget season in
084construction season 12 months a year yeah well July and August to be pretty intense but you got things going on in all the schools a lot of work great recognition for our buildings and facilities crew who are out there meeting with the public talking to the public bottle we're going on council Rock a lot of digging a lot of earth-moving getting the foundation ready we want to make as much progress as possible but work going out of the rough and French Road or preparing for that I mean I don't know those 15 things going on at all for story about the ballot orbiter high school right and do some things to make that a better place as well so very exciting but a ton of work and that means a lot of change orders so
085credit salut and those teams for what they've got to do there we won't have audited till May and I would just say that both Allyson and principal tap and throw a really great ice cream social because there's nothing more therapeutic than handing out ice cream to those kids ice cream socials are there some of the best right road against Iraq and yeah we we all love helping out at those and seeing everybody in the families right thank you appreciate it thank you for all your efforts I guess always with the construction committee and that's difficult work and detail minutia that needs to be taken care of so thank you Karen two of my committees have been in a while so this later this week I'll be meeting with the family engagement subcommittee of the diversity
086and equity committee wrapping up our work to present to the larger group curriculum council meets on April 25th again we'll be wrapping up our work for the year I said on the subcommittee for parading of non-academic behaviors which is fascinating I met with the district environmental committee last week that that's been a real bright spot for me this year there's a lot of student involvement on that committee and there's a lot of outside-of-the-box thinking and so students and parents and professionals and staff and faculty are working together to think about what a climate action plan would look like for the district and how that translates first into policy and then into action and I'm just really really pleased to be a part of that group and for Lou's leadership we've been and really truly for
087student leadership they watching them and action means we're doing the right things thank you very much for bringing it to us Maura anything new well library review as Christine said that last week and finished up and we have the draft of the final report Kurt : consul will meet later this month and teacher Center policy board I believe in truth okay thank you Julie I was at a present beliefs meeting last Thursday and the majority of our conversation was about Clean Sweep which is Saturday May 12th from nine until 12 so we'd like all the participation anybody who's available please through your school's through your buildings or through the Town Hall so you can sign up to participate see there as families or with this courtroom okay thank you very much a couple quick things
088for me last mile week from Monday I was invited to present and discuss with law and government in large group session which is was fascinating I talked to the group and I've passed on to the board usually law and government students as part of their assignment beating of their semesters normally they write to elected officials and I always am very pleased and surprised to get a quite a number of letters from our students on topics all over the place and so they invited me to come and we had a great discussion about their letters and the questions that they asked but then also other things that were on their minds in the large group session and that's I think the more time we spend with students no offense to all of our adults but the
089more time spent with students in discussing things with students is is a positive right it's it's a way better thing so so I did enjoy that and the other thing I'll give you just a very quick update on because there's a lot more to come on this over a long period of time Safety Committee district-wide Safety Committee met today and that is a very large committee that it represents all constituents as you can imagine and decision-makers around the table and we have over the last couple of meetings really begun the process I will tell you of evaluating all that we do with regard to safety and security and that's an ever-changing world around us the recommendations from the federal and state governments and law enforcement on how best to apply that to schools and buildings
090public education buildings so we're beginning and have been working the last couple of meetings and it will evolve shortly into some more lengthy conversations and workgroups over which is really what a constant issue that it is constantly evaluating what we do how we do it looking at what the research says what the data says and the best ways to go forward with regard to safety and security so a lot more to come on that as we work through that so next up our Brighton Teachers Association report we're happy to have Judy Wagner here this evening with us again Judy welcome our continuing best regards to her that's good lots of great things happening with our great teacher association members and and our students both in school and outside of school in our community starting with
091the music department at French Road students have been creating short compositions using iPads is a great example of the effective use of the technology that our community is helping to support and they're performing those compositions in small groups some fourth and fifth graders are excited to be learning how to play the ukulele fourth and fifth grade chorus are preparing for their spring concerts as well as some fifth grades to students in a music class exploring the genre of rap music especially with Hamilton craze that's around Rochester right now and as they unpack that artistic style they've been inspired to create some of their own ramp music with classmates and another excellent example of a project-based learning experience for students that focuses on the new music standards continuing at French Road Rick Lib lapaglia one of
092our french road physical education teachers is presented at the Central Western zone physical education conference the end of March Ellen harp she's technology teacher at French rogue she was elected to the Society for professions in technology so congratulations to her March was National Nutrition Month so at Council Rock students worked very hard especially through the physical education programming there to review the importance of healthy decision making and eating using a MyPlate diagram and they used their knowledge of different food groups and then integrated it actually into physical education skills in their in their program also at Council Rock the kids continued to explore lifetime fitness actually the kids had an opportunity to participate in a Zumba kids lesson that was actually brought into the PE classes by a community member sue Gasperi no special thanks
093to her for coming in to give our kids a great experience in about the middle of March Eric Morris and John Wheeler from the high school accompanied 32 students from their comparative religions and English classes are in English of the new language classes as well as our Muslim Student Association international clubs to Nazareth College and it's a annual global citizenship conference so this year's conference was focused on world religions and what it means to be not just tolerant but accepting and respecting of others who come from many different perspectives in our world so it was a wonderful event to see our students represent our school district on a college campus and to actively participate with over 700 students from all over Mono County seventh-grade German students worked with MS Lambert like TCMS librarian and FRA
094Walter tip-up to plan virtual parties again a collaborative cooperative work experience students worked in groups planned and designed their own parties and then attended their parties with their classmates that attended was in quotes I don't know how they attended a virtual party with a great time nonetheless March 16th the best buddies of western New York hosted a ball at the Port of Rochester there are many best buddy club members that attended it was great to see our buddies having such a fun time outside of their academic setting and then coming up very soon I made forth students will be participating in the best buddies friendship walk Shawn may man will be the Grand Marshal for the walk and we're very excited to have him representing anyone who's interested in contributing to that is a fundraiser
095effort please contact either Sarah Potter or Laurie wider from TCMS who facilitate the best buddiez of programming some sixth graders in Maria Kat Seto's class have been collaborating across buildings - Ashley Rhodes and Robin Ackerman 2nd grade class at Council Rock School as well as Katie covert and Katie founds 4th grade classes at French Road elementary school students wrote letters to the town of Brighton proposing what the new land at Buckland Park can be potentially used for and the students will be displaying this collaborative work at the Brighton Memorial Library so you can stop over there and see their efforts the Brighton Teachers Association as a group supported educators and students on the island of saipan which is a Commonwealth of the United States we supported them by collecting school supplies for students you may
096know that in the fall Saipan experienced a devastating hurricane and they're just now setting up temporary schools to get them back up and running and the Brighton Teachers Association sent 233 pounds of school supplies to help in that effort you don't even want to know what postage cost out there but it was well worth it we were happy to help them Brighton Teachers Association also is proud to sponsor Brighton youth sports again this year so you'll see our banner out on the sports fields as well as a sponsor for bright and clean sweet very happy to be a part of that VTA has been a participating member in the adopt-a-highway program for the last several years right here along Monroe Avenue and we enjoy connecting our spring clean up to the Brighton clean sweeps efforts
097thank you very much to you thank you for sharing all of our teachers activities Lesley tonight for the pts a welcome thank you thank you oh let's see act the high school the PT essays meeting with the principal's in conjunction with sped the special ed armed with PTSA this month the topic was navigating college choices for a typical students it was well attended and very helpful information the presentation was taped and you can find it on Britain's You Tube channel there's a lot of energy right now around continuing the blue ribbon theme through Spring Fest BHS PTSA are participating on the spring fest committee to help plan special events for the 2019 celebration PTSA is continuing with planning for senior bash the senior bus bus trip and the Quinlan reading lunch coming up in the
098last part of the school year senior bash which is our fun safe celebration for seniors following senior banquet takes a lot of volunteer power and money to make it a memorable event for the seniors any donations are most welcome and needed at this point they can be made by going to the BCSD website head to the Brighton high school page and look for the bash link for donations at the middle school the third and final activity nights were held for grade 6 and grade 7 the 3rd 8th great one is coming up on May 3rd it will be a crossover night held for 8th graders at the high school so they can get a feel for enjoying the building the pool will be available to eighth graders as well as the usual tivity night offerings
099of the DJ pizza and snacks game snow cones in open gym the next TCM is pts a meeting with the principal will be on April 24th at 7:00 p.m. the topic will be middle-school addictions vaping and screen time three doctors will be coming to present on the topics and the TCMS staff appreciation luncheon will be held on May 7th it will be a Harry Potter theme at French Road the French Road PTSA held their ice cream socials for grade 3 & 4 everyone thought the vendor brewster's was great they were well attended 5th grade will now have their ice cream social as part of their new graduation Day ceremonies the phrase PTSA participated in helping to rework the 5th grade graduation Day festivities each classroom will now have their own ceremony and then all 5th
100graders and families will go back of fresh for celebration with food trucks and ice cream at Council Rock the Council Rock PTSA held their ice cream socials for kindergarten and first grade last week and will host the second grade ice cream social this Thursday April 11th they are still looking for volunteers if anyone would like to step up fun food Friday at Council Rock was held on March 14th dates were tasted by the children at lunchtime the next fun food Friday will be tasting different varieties of apples PTSA volunteers helped with kindergarten and new student registration very long lines but went smoothly and planning is underway for the bike walk to school day and lunch thank you very much I appreciate that from the PTSA and one addition just a reminder to folks in the
101budget realm this Friday at noon PTSA is holding a budget presentation forum right and here in this room right here and that's so central office board off board meeting room this Friday April 12th at noon to one o'clock is we'll be there a couple of us will be there along with dr. McGowan and any members of the public are welcome to attend that and that's sponsored by the PTSA and we'll be there to talk about budget and discuss that with anyone who wishes to comment the eight doesn't get better but the jokes do I can't speak to them but anyway super tense report doc here we go you know I'm really struck listening to that at first the fifth grade moving up program I think was a really interesting shift you know the parents helped
102shape that mr. Thomas and I would be happy to give her a speech with you in the cafeteria the entire time yes you did laughs I hear some jokes got better but if you think about everything that the BTA reports and Thank You G for that to say until this report from a student perspective and a lot of what all of you had to say think about that amazing work that goes into everything that happens here that that you know obnoxiously long and relatively boring but important the presentation is supporting that's the work that's what we're talking about and it's not that all these great things then disappear that it's a threat that it changes if it doesn't but it does change who we are and that's what people who are supporting all that great
103work and all those great experiences and we talked about blue ribbon when we talked about the new trainings that came out our district the top in upstate a thin the state 46th of 10,000 in the country that doesn't happen by accident that happens from a supportive community and all the programs that are detailed and are supported the non-mandated things right the mandates the first grade class the English class at the high school the seventh grade math class these are really well done and awfully important but the things that also distinguish us are the other pieces the ways that we have thought about things differently for decades in this district as a community and that's what's supported in that spending plan so I don't have anything more to add than you already talk too much but
104I appreciate all of those reports really following and wanted to just kind of connect those two things because they are intimately related so thank you yes as we say it's the work so that is it so thank you very much for that a couple of other areas business remain this evening on the agenda folks could we have a motion please for approval of the election inspectors the chief election officers and the chairs for the annual district vote so moved by Marv seconded by julene on favor all right any opposed thank you we have three separate bids this evening we'll take them one at a time a motion please to approve the cooperative bid for art supplies second moved by Christina and seconded by Larry again all three of these I'll explain the same way they
105are cooperative bids through the BOCES to purchasing service and we we subscribe to that and we get the lowest possible competitive bids for all these different materials that we're going to talk about so this one is the one for art supplies and we have all in favor any opposed thank you motion then approved the cooperative bid covering magazines please so second move by Karen and seconded by julene on favor and he opposed and then finally the approval for the cooperative bid for fine paper which is a standard copy paper exactly by Adrian and seconded by Larry Oh favor any opposed thank you and then one of those fun elements tonight we do have approval for a textbook requirement may it we have a motion please to approve the text book recommendation covering the AP calculus
106textbook please so traditional it's pretty good summary and you can't second it I'm sorry but I will that will remind folks that when a textbook recommendation comes forward to us they have to met it's interesting that we don't approve many textbooks anymore that the way that we use materials is a fairly different than it used to be but there are some subjects in some situations that you know in one case here were replacing a 2010 text in the 20 2002 text so it's time for the Cal text I would say and I'm sure everyone picked up the book this week and read through it in detail and well I did appreciate that weather summary was really summary statistic that's the point I wanted to make folks would not always know this but when a textbook
107recommendation comes about there is a selection committee put together of the folks from the department sometimes others are involved but they spend a lot of time in detail researching all materials available finding what works what's cost-effective and then putting together essentially a three page 4 page summary for us that we can clearly read through and take a look and follow them to their conclusion so we do appreciate in this case Andrea and Matt and anne-marie but any of the folks any of our folks that work on these text books election committees we do appreciate that and it's just interesting to notice things evolved there's a section in here about peripheral support where our students have access to apps and other neurological buttons that go along you don't buy a book alone anymore at all is
108it they can access an app called calc chat they can go chat about calculus I mean they promote that's probably not what it's about but still cal chat I just connect by that picks it up no you're right didn't didn't have those things when I learned calculus I'll tell you that or anybody else man jokes are not okay great all in favor any opposed and then finally a motion please to approve our consent agenda this evening [Music] second moved by Julian seconded by Marv all in favor of the consent agenda any opposed I would point out there is a fundraiser I do know somebody that might be involved in this Panera tomorrow night trapezoid is in there as well I think actually we approve that at the last meeting so we ended up taking it
109off at this agenda but the fund raised but there is a fundraiser tomorrow - happens a trapezoid fundraiser a Panera you have to tell them though that you're there for this right you have just let him know that when you're coming though and that was proved that we ended up looking at it and it was approved at our last meeting but yes thank you very much board members any other items of business this evening does anybody have a like to say kudos to everybody who was involved with the performance this past weekend on high school it was spectacular and different it was different it was just so well done that I kept sitting there saying myself wait a minute these are high school students they just really did a spectacular job everybody who was involved
110and it was very different it was in the round we were all seated on the stage it was a small audience but it was really a very powerful and moving show and just a fabulous job so kudos to everybody fantastic I guess what appropriate was a way to usher out the old auditorium one last concert well there's one less consummated stay Chambers Chamber Orchestra and of course makes it very tough because I think the instruction they're attending the concert as soon as the cons are so I'm never afraid after words tonight okay thank you very much doctor we got anything further this evening all right then I will entertain a motion to adjourn please so Larry Andrea all in favor thank you everyone we are adjourned this has been a special presentation from the Brighton
111Central School District Board of Education you [Music]