Board of Education Meeting-Tuesday Sept 9th

001Good evening. I call this board meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] >> Good evening everyone. Thank you for joining us. Please be advised in the event of a fire emergency, an alarm will sound. Please note all emergency exits and evacuate well away from the building. At this time, we request that everyone please turn your cell phones to silence. Thank you for your cooperation. First on our agenda today is additions, additions, deletions, and changes to the agenda. Dr. Chanel, we do have some additions to our agenda. You're going to see a district treasurer report for the month of July. I'd

002like to just take a second and congratulate Desi Lyman on completing her first treasures report. So, congratulations to Desi and then you're going to see a couple more personnel components here uh for the board's consideration. >> Thank you. Start off with consent agenda. Resolve that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve the following consent agenda items 1 through 8. May I have a motion, please? I'll make it. A >> second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? >> That motion is carried. We're going to move on to course communications and correspondence first. Um, our student board members not with us tonight. I was going to update a little bit on where she's at on her training and onboarding with us. She's been with us for a

003few meet meetings. Um, I can update without her here. I did I've been reaching out to her um when the agenda goes out to see if she needs any has any questions, concerns, wants to talk about it. Um I will continue to do that. She is in the process of completing her new student board member or orientation which includes five modules. Um Jung Valley's prepared that I believe. Um so she's in the middle of doing that. I completed it myself to see what it was about uh when they were uh making it last year, earlier this year, and it's it's fairly straightforward and simple. So, I'll continue to check in with her. Um but so far, I feel uh things are going well. I would like her to weigh in on that, right? Like I

004think she's an important part to that. So, we can do that next meeting. Questions, concerns? Okay. Second thing I have is wanted to follow up on our board workshop that we did on August 14th. That was amazing the workshop. So for those that weren't there and are watching, we took about 4 hours, I believe, and had um administrators present to the board their goals as a district to us. Uh it was really enlightening and helpful as a board I felt to hear them and to see them in action. I know they took time out of their summer to do that and their busy schedule. So thank you. That was a lot. Um is a Oh, welcome. I'm sorry. >> You're fine. Is a board um I thought it was very helpful. It was >> that

005was uh nice in that we were able to come up with two goals um as a board to focus on this year and those are around um the two goals that we developed were during the 2025 2026 school year, the board of education will support districtwide literacy goals measured by overall reading proficiency of 80% across the district. It's been identified that's a lofty goal. Um but our administrators felt that that was important. Um the second one was during the 2025 2026 school year, the board of education will enhance its two-way communication with the community to increase stakeholder engagement and ensure board decisions are informed by community perspectives. uh would like to hear everyone's opinion on how they felt that went. Uh we did also at that time talk about doing word workshops quarterly. Uh so

006I have two dates but first let's talk about how everybody felt that went any feedback. >> It was one of the most thorough nights in my soon to be 33 years. I mean, it it was just uh I I I if I had a half hour, I couldn't come up with a another night that rings a bell to me that even even compares to how I felt when I left that night. And I was just like, wow, did this just happen without saying, you know, holy >> I I agree. >> Thank you. I felt it went really well. Um it was really nice to have the input from the administration so we can see the goals that Dr. Chanel stated that she wanted for the district, how they administrations have those figured for their individual

007buildings and areas. And then we can as a board say how our oversight over all of what their goals were, how we were going to have goals that connected with that. So, as a unit, the whole school district is moving towards common goals. >> I think that's that was a testament, some of that was a testament to Dr. Chanel's style, and I think we'll see more of that moving forward where administrators are going to be strategically and and and purposefully put in front of us to provide us with information that's needed. If if I may, that that evening presented me personally and us as a group, I'm sure, opportunities that I in the past don't recall being presented to me as an option. I mean, this this was just like, wow. Like I said before,

008regardless >> and I think goal establishment with multiple groups with with more than just us. We you can't set goals in a bubble. So having everybody, you know, working together and then establishing as part of those goals measuring and reporting back because if we don't do that, it's too easy to be, you know, to let them slide and you know, not hold ourselves all accountable. >> Absolutely. And it's our job to monitor that as a board, right? if the intervention that we're putting into place is working. >> Yeah, it was very easy to communicate. That's what I liked about it. You know, you could talk to each other. >> Yeah. >> It wasn't totally formal. >> I don't have quite the years that John does on the board, but in my 12 years or a

009little under 12 years, that was one of I can reflect on and think that that was one of the best times that I think as a board we worked collectively and with the administrators present. I just I really enjoyed it. So, thank you again. >> Um, out of that meeting, we sort of talked about doing those quarterly. I'm going to propose that we do we hold november 18th and February 10th as tenative dates for our next board workshops. Those workshops will be from 5 to 6 before our regularly scheduled board meeting. If there's problems with those times or dates, let me know. Um, I strategically put them on already existing board dates to try to avoid some of that complicating factors we had last time. It was hard to get us all together. >> Tell

010me those dates again. November. >> Yep. November 18th and February 10th. Existing board meeting is already those dates. >> Okay. So, be 5 to 6. >> Yep. Um, and then the second part of that, as I emailed you all last night, was about sort of setting what we wanted to work on next, right? So, you know, the sky's is the limit. I sent you sort of NISBA's outline of what our board roles are so we can sort of structure our workshop around um our role. So, we're not going outside of that. And there should be a piece of paper on your desk when we get back. When we get back from executive session, they'll be here for you after there. I was going to put them on paper. >> Oh, I can't. They're in front

011of you. Yeah, I >> I do know they're there because I put them there as you did. The odd is um so before the night's over, if you could um commit to doing that and then Becky and I or Dr. Chanel and I will review that to see what topics are most interested in for the next workshop. Questions, concerns, anything I'm missing on that? Okay. Wanted to update you all before we go to points of pride on just talking to Dr. Chanel. When I became board president last school year, we were not a part of NISBA. So, I was not included in some of the board official um board officer trainings. And so, during this reelection, I've been um privy to some of the NISA opportunities. I've signed up for a NISSBA board officer forum

012which is actually pretty helpful um where board officers can exchange messages with one another amongst each other confidently confidentially um and get suggestions and then I also signed up for a training the uh board officer academy training um that I didn't know these existed last year I would have taken them um but I will be taking them shortly I just wanted you all to know that aside from that I don't have any other correspondence so we can move on to points of pride. I believe Mrs. Ro is first for points of pride. Uh the start of the school year has been a huge success and it's great to see our building come back to life. We've loved welcoming all of our prek to 5 students um and getting to know the new faculty and staff.

013The positive energy on campus is amazing and is setting us up for a really productive year. We're so excited for what's ahead and we're ready to build together. And I should point out it's welcome all the kids up to grade 12. So it's everybody was great. I was actually came and and uh welcomed some kids on the first day of school. That was fun. It was a special day at Carrier Dome in 1995 when both Leroy and Calonia Melford brought the New York State Championships back home to Route 5. We were excited to announce that over 40 of the coaches and players from these teams will be honored or were honored at a pregame and halftime ceremony during the Leroy Kum rivals varsity football home opener uh against Adica this past Friday uh home in

014Kum. >> And we are also excited to reveal fresh upgrades to our gymnasium. And this is the high school gym. Uh a special spotlight shines on our student section with an exciting new Raider regime logo. It was inspired by the ultimate tradition of welcoming our Raider championship teams at the monument and the passion and support of our school community. And this logo embodies the spirit of being a Raider. >> I believe one of those is I haven't been in it as anyone else speak up, but one of those is a distinguishing visitor and home. Correct. So for basketball, that was always opposite for girls and boys, but now we're all on the same side all the time, >> which I like. >> Yeah. >> Um I forgot and I knew I was going to forget

015it. Mrs. Murdoch, I want to introduce Mr. Mrs. Murdoch. She is been appointed at our last meeting to be our to fill Sue's absence. So she's watching today and they are in the process of transitioning roles. appreciate both of you in doing that. It certainly serves the district um well when we can have that sort of overlap. So, thank you. We look forward to working with you and are sad to be seeing you go. This is Sue's second to last meeting. >> Um board committee reports. I know of one committee that met, textbook committee. We are going to be adopting some a book in a few minutes. Um, do you guys want to update on that? >> Uh, sure. It was It's more than a book. It's a curriculum for reading. Was it American Reading

016Company? >> Okay. Um, and I went to just the tail end of the presentation in elementary school and the teachers all seem very enthusiastic. Lindsay is very enthusiastic about it and it seems like it'll be a great fit. >> Yeah. >> Is that the uh large book order that you got, Mrs. P? Yeah, that's fantastic. So, there's already books in classrooms for kids to hold. Good. I Yeah, I was at the beginning of that meeting with the all the the teachers and um yeah, there's a lot of enthusiasm for it and there um uh going to be a lot of phonics and decoding and things like that and lessons every day for those kinds of things and books for them to take home and they're look they're good. you know, some books were were familiar

017to me were like the magic treehouse books and and others and uh looks like there's lots of science and you know, stuff like that. >> It integrates into many parts of the curriculum. >> So, it's not just reading. It's >> Yeah. >> You can't read math. So, >> Exactly. >> It look good. >> Look good. >> Uh ties into some of what we worked on in our workshop too with in our number one goal is literacy. Um I don't believe any other committees met. Okay. >> The middle high school compact committee did meet. >> Fantastic. >> And we met we kind of decided and tried to figure out what our goal for the year is going to be. And we kind of focused in on how we communicate with both our students and the parents

018about how we're getting their children career and college ready and what that means, what it looks like as a pathway for a student, what they need to do, what parents need to do to assist them. and kind of it's a big overarching topic and we're gonna kind of narrow it down and figure out exactly what we're doing details-wise at our next meeting. But just kind of there have been many points made that we don't know what we need to do to get our students career ready or college ready or both so that they can make the choices when it's appropriate. So to kind of help lay a pathway for that for parents as well as for the students so they can know what they should be >> doing anticipating time not just okay do these

019five things let's do these five things this order kind of >> fantastic >> so great >> any other committees that I am missing all right we're going to move on to guests of the board we do not have any this evening there's nobody signed up for public forum so Dr. Chanel, we're going to move on to superintendence report and you are going to report on the opening of the 2025 2026 school year. >> We are. So, everybody is uh prepared to just share a little bit about the the grand opening this year. I have agreed that I would stick with talking about transportation. So, I will kick us off with transportation and I'll have Michelle get us started. So, as you guys know, uh we definitely with transportation are in new territory. We are uh

020sharing our transportation for our students that have um out of district placement is how we refer to that. They go to schools that meet their specialized academic needs. Uh Leroy Central School District is actually transporting those students for us. It's about 14 students um that we currently have Leroy transporting. We do have one of our drivers uh one of our five full-time drivers is driving a more specialized run uh as well. So, right now we are we are short. I'm I say short. We're using substitute drivers to help us with six of our campus runs to keep our campus runs healthy. Um I wake up every morning hoping that there won't be a text there that says that somebody's had to call in sick. Uh in the meantime, uh Leroy has agreed that if we

021need somebody uh in an emergency that they'll do their best to support us. Uh York was in that same vein of they were willing to support us. We have those standing intermunicipal agreements, but they found themselves short uh bus drivers here as the school year kicked off. So, I do have five of our bus runs actually out for uh contract companies to look at those runs to get back to me on whether or not they can manage five runs for us. Um I'm the way I'm looking at transportation is really short-term, long-term. Short-term I'd like to try to hold tight to what we have, get the supports that we need to keep oursel afloat. long term. You guys will see this evening when we get to personnel that I am going to ask that we

022appoint a director of transportation. Um Mr. Cowwell and I have been busy trying to replace Mr. Otto since he announced his retirement. Uh the candidate pool had been very challenging. I feel like this past week this guy opened and out of it fell a star and I'm very excited by that. We actually have someone that we're asking you to a point that has a lot of experience in in transportation and also um references talk a lot about his enthusiasm around training new drivers which I would argue is exactly what we need. So my hope is to keep us afloat this year but more importantly to build. We have to do some program rebuilding and our transportation department. If we get out there and we're doing everything that we can to build our transportation department and

023we are not finding drivers, we're going to have to make those tough decisions around whether or not we can maintain a handful of drivers of our own and a handful of drivers coming from someplace else. Um, driving is the transportation department is already a series of moving parts. So, I would tell you that the the communication that I'm getting from families is that now there's a lot of communication that needs to happen because the buses are moving. The buses are changing. We're sharing with other schools. We or another school we may have to share with a service provider. You just think about how easy it's always been to pick up the phone and call Ronado. I mean, I can tell you that if I said, "Ron, what bus does this child go on?" He knows

024the child's address and exactly which bus they should get on today from memory. Right? So, like we we have been very lucky. And so we are feeling some growing pains of that. You just sitting here I just got another email from a parent. So I will not tell you that transportation is perfect. It is not. Um the way I've described it to to folks here is I feel like as a district we have run a really beautiful transportation department. Let's call it cake and frosting and delivered to your house and we brought the forks and and now maybe it's like a Twinkie and that feel that feels different to people, right? It feels different to me. So, I would also tell you it feels different to the drivers. So, just in general, when you see

025our drivers, please thank them. They're they're not feeling as proud of the work that they that they do every day because they are feeling short. So, we got to keep cheering them on, keep pumping them up. I'm hoping that we um find ways to support them here in the long term so that we can have a healthy transportation department back. But, I will say the buses have been here every day. The kids have made it to school. We're getting it done. Uh so, a giant thank you to Mr. Otto and his team for pulling us the rest of the way through. Mrs. Meyer, you want to go first? >> Sure. I'll take you back on your transportation. I can just say that aside from day one, which is very normal to be behind schedule for

026dismissal, we have dismissed ahead of time. So, the kids have really done a wonderful job. Um, a fun fact for everyone while we're talking about transportation is actually on our very first day of school, we are not accustomed to having our kindergarteners with us. They actually come the second day of school. So on the very first day of school for everyone else, it's usually grades 1 through 12. And kindergarten comes with a parent orientation. They come in, they have more of a soft uh start to the week. However, we changed that over the summer. We did our bus safety um experience during their playground night. So, we wanted everybody to just come on the same day, get picked up on the same time with their siblings, with their friends at the same stops, and not

027make uh for much confusion, which did slow the process down on day one, but we've typically never had kindergarters on day one either. So, um I was super proud that we left I think it was less than 15 minutes behind schedule um on that very first day. And ever since then, we've been right on if not really on on land. So, um, like I mentioned, we welcomed everyone at our open house on August 28th. That was prek through 5. Last year, it was only one through five. So, again, welcoming the whole building just felt good and felt different. Um, we had an outstanding participation rate of um over 94% of our families came on that day, even when it was buted up to a long weekend. So, was very proud of that. I think it

028was somewhere in the mid20s of families that we counted that weren't able to attend for any reason. Teachers had already made contact with them. They already knew why and um you know it was a seamless transition come that Tuesday when we first started school. We welcomed as you heard in in the points of pride um a slew of new students and new staff. So everybody's learning the Kong way, learning where the nearest bathroom is, where's the nurse, where do we drop the notes off. So everybody's getting acclimated. I will say um today being Tuesday ran very smoothly all the wood around us. Um today we are actually yesterday was Monday. So today uh yesterday we welcomed our collaboration um with the center of youth with Jamie Cullen who uh is given to us from the

029center of youth uh as our behavior interventionist. I sent out communication to both staff and parents yesterday introducing Jamie. she's going to send out her own communication, but really talking about the program that they have uh that she will be working through is with us is called the help zone. And it focuses on four specific parts of um kind of helping a student cope with their feelings. So, if a student is having some difficulties, they're going to focus on regrouping the student, getting the student to deescalate and pause, get some self-control. They're going to reflect on their behavior. They're going to be guided to think about their feelings and how did it not only affect them but how does their feelings or their outburst affect others. Um Jamie will help them repair any damage that

030was made. Um so this step focuses on taking responsibility and recognizing the harm that um this incident may have caused themselves or others. And then ultimately what I love about um this philosophy is this program is that it's not meant to take the student out of the space for very long. Actually the goal is to reenter into the classroom as quickly as possible so they can get back to their schoolwork. Uh so that's the quick fourstep uh help zone. She has not had to initiate that just yet. Um it's only Tuesday. She's learning all of the kids um coming to arrival and dismissal and then popping into classrooms as well as the lunchroom throughout the day right now. Getting her room set up for that. So very excited to welcome Jamie aboard. Um I brought

031show and tell. So the elementary teacher and me brings you not my water bottle but the stickers that go on the water bottle. Um, our students this year have the positive incentive to um earn stickers that represent all of our Raider 5 commitments um of being kind, being accepting, being safe, being respectful, and treating others the way that they want to be treated. And um, of course, the coveted one is all five all the time. So, we are keeping track. we are watching um students in the hallways, in the classroom, in the cafeteria, on the bus, even out on the sports field. So, last night um I was at uh my son's JB game and one of my students was sitting next to me and I had my water bottle and he said, "Mrs. Meyer,

032can I earn a sticker if I'm being safe even off school grounds?" And I said, "Well, we're at a school event. We're at we're at a game. if I see you being safe or doing something. Yes, absolutely. So then he goes, "Can I borrow your water bottle?" I said, "Sure." And he went and showed his mom the water bottle and all the stickers that they can collect. I made it very clear it's not to go on probos. I did make a video that said, I promise. Okay. Not on lockers. So we did that. I did a video. I sent it out to families. The teacher showed um the kids, but they're already collecting them. They seem very excited. So, that's what we're going with today. We're also publicly um commending students through shoutouts in the

033morning on our announcements. That's been fun. And parents should expect also a postcard when their student gets recognized. So, that's exciting. Um, a quick thing before I wrap up. We are starting auditions for our musical, elementary musical. I think next year I need to make a more grand reveal, but um the musical this year, drum roll, uh is bless you, is Dare to Dream. And it's a mashup of Disney songs. It has a narrative that goes along with it. Um but really it's going to incorporate um it's going to allow for us to have a larger cast in our smaller space because our performances will be taking place um in the elementary auditorium. We have scheduled four performances so that we can accommodate all of our um sellout crowd and more info to come on

034that that will be in November. So, uh we are starting auditions and rehearsals this week. And all in all, it's a great vibe right now in the building building. So, we're all happy to be there and it's great to see the building buzzing again, right? It's kind of boring in July. It's nice to see the kids and it does feel like they didn't leave. They've actually done very very well and they've remembered the Raider 5. So check. >> Thank you. Great. >> Any questions? >> Okay. >> Um so uh 6 through 12 has been the same. A great start to the school year. Um again we'll start with open house. It was a huge success. It was it was packed here. Um our numbers were very similar to Mattel's. Overall 6 through 12 we had

03592% of our families engaged. Um all of our grade levels were in the high 80 87% with um ninth and seventh grade being our highest participants. 98% of those families attended. So it was great to have them there. Um we really packed a lot into the night. We had three informational meetings actually four technically. Um for our 12th grade, 9th grade and eighth grade students. Um those are we the eighth graders do the Washington DC trip. So they met about that. ninth grade just kind of familiarizing themselves with the high school uh pathways and things like that. And then of course our seniors preparing for all the things senior year brings. And then I also hosted a little meet the principal opportunity for families who wanted to come and and meet me. So that was

036nice. Um and we also had the club fair which was very well represented and attended. The one half of the gym was just full offormational posters and uh the signups for kids to sign up for different clubs were going onto the back of sheets. So, it was exciting to see a lot of kids interested in and taking part in those extracurricular opportunities. Um, back to school was great. Um, highlighted by a couple events. Um, our our mentor program went really well this year. So, our 12th grade students serve as mentors for our incoming sixth graders. Uh, it was really nice to see the seniors and and how well they handled it. They did a really great job helping our our sixth graders with the many questions and the nerves. Um, so they did um a

037pre-orientation bash where they were at the field playing games all night kind of getting to know each other. Then they did their actual orientation. The seniors lined up out front. So when the kids, the sixth graders came in, they were cheering for them and just really getting them excited about it. Um, so it was really nice to see. Then they spent several hours walking the school, opening lockers, going to classrooms, visiting, just giving the sixth graders, you know, a feeling of ease as they were going to come in. And then they also met them the morning of the first day of school. So when sixth graders walked in, their mentors were there to greet them, help them get off and started um and running for the school year. So that was great. Um we had

038a senior sunrise. So our seniors um met out on the field before the first day of school. They had breakfast, they took pictures, kind of celebrated their last first day. So that was really nice to see. Um and then we held a quick um on Friday a back to school bash. We called it. It was a quick 15minute assembly in the gym. Uh we introduced new staff, kind of set some expectations and and the the feeling we wanted to portray for the year. Got everyone excited about being here. A couple reminders about construction and things that students needed to know. Um but that was really nice as well. So, um again, it's Tuesday. Everything seems to be going really great so far. So, we're going to keep it that way. Um, but it's it's been

039nice to to get off and running and and like Michelle said, it's great to just have kids back in the building. So, >> I have the question. So, how are they doing without their cell phones? >> Um, so far so good. Uh, I haven't heard anything yet. Um I I we may still be in a honeymoon phase. So we're prepared for if it starts happening and when, but um I think kids have really done a nice job so far. We we we kind of prepared by sending some things out over the summer to help families start the conversations. I think that was helpful so they can all kind of prepare. Um students have been coming down and using the phone as they need to if they need to contact home. So so far so good.

040>> Okay. I talked with a teacher at um Avon and she was saying that the kids were talking to each other at lunch and they said that's we're having fun and you know so that's good. >> Seems like it's it's been a positive so far. >> Good. Do you want to weigh in on that or not? >> I will say today was the first day I actually had a kid make make a comment. Get on our phones. That was that was day that was that was not sneaking it or hiding it. It was just oh I really wish I had my phone but today was it. So >> very good. >> Thank you. I'd like to just point out that a couple years ago we were sitting at a board meeting and we were getting

041opening day reports and what we noticed is historically we get really good attendance in the elementary school open house and then the middle school high school openhouse um wasn't as well attended and at that time the board asked the administrators to look at that and what can you do and I think Becky you had some something to do with that because you were middle school high school at the time but I think doing it before school opens before all like the the chaos of that school brings families starts doing it then and on the same night has been really really helpful. You said 92%. >> I bet if you went back four or five years I don't know what you were getting. >> So that is that's amazing. That's awesome. And um I don't I

042I think that that's unheard of in other districts. I'm not positive about that, but I'd like to just say thank you to the team. Thank you >> for getting that. That's a huge That's a nice rate. >> So, I'm going to up you update you on um two kind of big areas. One being the literacy initiative around the ARC um core pilot. Can't even remember the date now. I think it was August 27th. We did have elementary teachers were in the building um for a training and that was a virtual training. They that is when they got their unit one of books. So when I say books, I mean boxes and boxes and boxes of books. Um and the best delivery ever. >> It it really was I was so excited. I see titles. I

043was pulling them out and wait till you see this book and wait till you see some um familiar books but then also some new books that I haven't seen. So teachers and students last week and into this week have really um been kind of going through that same process of kind of looking at these books, looking at brand new covers. Um, every teacher has multiple copies and sets in their classroom. Students are touching books, reading books, holding books. Um, and again some familiar titles and then some brand new titles which I think is really important. Um, our students and our staff are kind of seeing multiple a variety of representation on the covers. They see themselves there and their fe their uh peers and their families. And so I just wanted to kind of highlight

044that the elementary staff has um been amazing learners and really embraced this. it's it's challenging and it's hard to learn something new and they really are um all in and really excited about it and so I just wanted to commend them for that um effort especially right before the beginning of the year. The other piece that I wanted to update you on, I think we talked at the um our workshop around asset management and incident IQ. And so we successfully rolled incident IQ out in about six weeks, right? So there are three modules, the um event side, the facility side, and then the IT side. And so that's a single system that everyone has access to to put tickets in. And I'm looking to Ian because we know it's working because we're getting lots of

045tickets. So lots of tickets are coming in. um teachers and staff. Um it seems to be pretty easy to use. Our events are on the calendar. We're still working through some of those glitches and learning um around kind of asset management. So, we're going to continue to grow. I was talking with the company and he reminded me that we've implemented all three modules fairly quickly and that's not typical. Usually, it's one at a time. And so, um I'd like to be all there and perfect that we're just not doing it. >> I'm sorry. Thank you. This will be great. It's really great. We're just working through it. Um but I do think that's another piece that our facilities um Molly in the main office and then I would say Ian and Terrell, our IT department

046have kind of all summer been working behind the scenes to make that happen. It couldn't have happened without them. So just wanted to thank them as well. >> I don't have anything else unless you have some questions to either of those topics. >> Thank you. >> Great. All right, couple of things uh from people services world. Uh first along the same lines as openhouse. During openhouse, we held a parent orientation for English language learners um that was really well attended. Um our two English language uh two ENL teachers uh created a presentation around the units of study that their um students would experience um this year, the types of accommodations they are provided. We had a chance to talk with families and update their contact information and just have like nice one-on-one conversations with families.

047Um, we gave them their annual test results and were able to really have um in-person conversations about what those test results meant for their particular student um and what they can expect in the year going forward. Um the two our two teachers, they actually went through the presentation twice that night to accommodate um where the families were in their open house visiting classrooms um experience. And they did it in two languages um one of the sessions at the same time which was really um exciting and really uh fun to watch uh go through. Um so six out of our 10 families attended uh that night which was really really really great. before we already knew weren't able to attend um for a few different reasons and they had a chance to connect with their um

048ENL teacher around that. Um so that was really great and a great lift that our teachers were able to pull off. Um and then the other update um which is a little bit more visible is our fence on the primary school playground. If you've had a chance to walk by that, um we put that fence up at the end of the summer and it's been uh fantastic. That's something one of our teachers advocated for last year. Um, our 811 teacher, Mrs. Keenan, she just felt that safety reasons with her with her class and just having that visual uh barrier of where the limits are would be really helpful for her class. And as we were talking about it, um, a lot of the primary teachers were coming up and saying, "Hey, I think I'm hearing

049we're getting a fence. We would also like to advocate for that fence." Um, so preK teachers are really thankful for that. So, um, and then just walking by, um, at the start of the school year, we're getting a lot of like this fence is making a a world of difference on our recess experience. A huge, uh, huge addition there. Um, and then just going forward, we have a couple of positions, um, that we are I'm on my never- ending quest of being fully staffed um, and the journey that we're on. Um, so we have um, an OT that we have uh, staffed right now by a staffing agency. Um, but it is our intention to have that be a full-time Kalum staff member. And then, um, we have a fifth grade special ed teacher that

050is being covered by the wonderful long-term subexperienced teacher of Nicole Flint. Um, so she's back joining us um, as we seek to to fill that with a permanent position as well. >> Any questions for me? >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right, you're up. >> All right. talk about how excited I was about the American Reading Company. All right. Well, if you remember back to our last board meeting when we took a walk through all of our buildings to look at the capital project going on. So, one of the uh the biggest lifts that we had from in terms of my department was preparing for the opening of school. If you remember, we had open walls still. We had conduit showing wires, uh missing walls, framing, missing uh parking lot and what have you.

051Um our team, our building and grounds team worked around the clock. We had um overtime several nights and over the weekend and then Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and th not obviously not uh overtime on Thursday, but we worked tirelessly Thursday to prepare for that open house. Um and we worked in concert with campus to make sure that they were closing up walls, that they were closing conduit, that um the auditorium was secure, that the new office in the elementary building was secure. They were hanging several thousand pound I-beam uh Wednesday morning to make sure that was closed up. And the big challenge there was coordinating between the two so that as they closed up spaces and created dust and mitigated dust, we were behind them with auto scrubbers every minute of the day making sure

052that we were cleaning up so the buildings looked pretty for uh for our opening. So, this is also a shout out to our building and grounds team who really held it together and and and performed amazingly to make sure that we were ready to open because everything looked great on uh on that Thursday night that you could barely move your elbows in the parking lot. So, that's my update for the beginning of the year. That American Reading Order came in uh I think Wednesday. Um that wasn't that was a little scary. us a lot of boxes and then we've had to do the battle. You know, I I I battle at home with Amazon boxes, but here we've just been getting thousands of them as teachers getting ready to uh to uh get all their

053school supplies for the year. So, other than that, we're keeping the building pretty and we got everything closed up for capital projects ready to keep them keep moving. >> Thank you. Yeah, good job everybody. >> Still successfully. There is a magic to it. I I mean in the end I think it happens every summer. You look around, you think there's just no way add a capital project to that. And we were a week out and I was like Brennan. So it did take Saturdays and Sundays. So again, big shout out um to our entire team for pulling that off. And of course for our teachers, they show up in a whirlwind. They make everything beautiful, make kids feel loved and and then they disappeared for one more long weekend before we set back in together.

054Uh we did spend our opening day together beginning to talk about this concept of building together. Um the focus of my message that day really was on, you know, I think the culture of our school is fantastic. I think when we talk about Calonia Mford, people know who we are, what we stand for, what we do because our culture actually speaks for us. Uh our climate is how it feels on the inside. And so we began to talk a little bit about uh what does it have to feel like on the inside for all of us for the adults to feel like they're in a workplace that is thriving. And so the teachers all and faculty and staff were all in the middle of a thought exchange where people are sharing out you know what

055they need the culture to feel like in order to feel like this is the place they want to work and live and be. Uh and today I shared a quick update with them. We have about another week to go in our conversation and support is the theme that is coming out like no matter what the comment is that people are saying they're just really thriving in that concept of we need to support each other. So it's words and phrases like you know what we want from the administrative team in terms of support but also what I want from my colleague and that interconnectedness is what they're starting to talk about where if in my classroom I I hold a certain expectation I really want that expectation to be held in yours and so the support

056for that the overall like wellness of the building and how that impacts each of us I think is going to be great conversation as the school year um pans on. So I'm encouraging them to keep that keep the conversation flowing. Uh we have had about a third of the faculty and staff respond already to that survey which is pretty good number. Uh and I look forward to another solid week, week and a half of collecting their voice on the topic. Um the next thing up for me is the staff and enrollment reports. So you all did have those. Our enrollment is still holding pretty steady. Um we're down just a little bit at 793, but we're we're right around the 800 mark probably since the time I got here. Sometimes we're popping up a little

057bit over the 800, sometimes just a little bit below. Um, but that 800 is a solid number for us to consider ourselves at. Um, you may have noticed we do have two grade levels that are a little bit low in terms of their enrollment. So, one of the things I wanted to point out this evening about that report is that we currently run our school. I think about every grade level as being in three sections. And so when you think about that, you take that overall enrollment for the grade and you divide it by three and that's going to give you our class size. If we were to divide by four, our class sizes would be pretty small. And you'd be hearing me say we probably could, you know, I'm always going to keep taking

058us back to budget. We we probably could start talking about some eliminations because we have four sections and our numbers are low. I want you all to focus in for one second around what it would look like if we tried to drop from three sections to two, >> right? Our class sizes, we're not there. We're not there. So, what what you'll notice about us, what I've noticed about us long term is that as folks have retired, we've really made decisions then whether or not we were going to open another section. So, while our community maybe hasn't seen in a budget newsletter that we're, you know, cutting at every grade level, which we did see in some of our neighboring districts this year where they maybe right-sized, we are right-sized. And so, I thought tonight would

059be a good time for me just to bring that data point back to your attention that we still stand rightsized in terms of the number of sections. Um, you could say that maybe not when we're looking at kindergarten. Our kindergarten class right now has 47 students in it. So, we probably could divide that by two, but I will tell you in my time as a principal, no, I know I agree. In my time as a principal, the second you do something like that, thinking that maybe you could manage a class of 22 or 23, you'll get three families that'll move into the district and they're all going to have kindergarteners, right? So, we're always thinking about it wouldn't take much to really topple that number over. So even in our smallest section, I would not

060make a recommendation that we take ourselves from three sections to two. The other thing I would say is we want to also be consistently talking as I know we do about our ability to not only recruit but to retain some of the best teachers. And so you also don't want your staffing to be low in this year and we laid off for kindergarten because we only needed two sections but next year we're going to be we're going to need three, right? So you need some continuity around that uh in order to create that space where retention does exist. So still with our numbers when I think about enrollment that's how I'm thinking we are holding very steady at three sections across every grade level. Um let's see next up for me. No just >> yes

061any questions. >> Any questions around those topics? >> Sorry. >> No I'm glad you did. Um next up for me is just some cost savings analysis. So, I've been sharing with the board uh some of the some of the things that I have been looking at as superintendent around cost savings, whether we're talking about administrative roles or any of the other ways where we might start to rightsize ourselves in some areas. So, tonight I wanted to talk a little bit about, you know, maybe seeing the director of transportation, we were all thinking, well, possib the possibilities of sharing with Leroy and there there is a possibility whenever we have a retirement, right? That is our process is that we begin to look I think right now because my goal as I shared with you is

062to both support our transportation department but try to grow it. If we were already a pretty healthy transportation department and we weren't looking to try to grow ourselves out at like 8 to 10 more drivers, we probably would be primed to share. Right now given where we're at, I see I say full court press >> for trying to put our transportation department back. And in order to do that, we really do need to have somebody full-time and focused on our transportation department. The good news there is the transportation department does generate transportation aid. Every hand that touches the transportation department generates aid. Even the health insurance benefits generate aid. So when you think about the share of a transportation director, when you're already generating aid on that particular position, you're really talking about not a

063lot of cost savings there. we are probably going to see some pretty significant cost savings right out of the gate right now by sending our special runs. So, we're we're basically down five runs. Uh Leroy is starting to do some estimates for us of what that's going to look like. Uh you're talking about probably right around $150,000 that that we would be actually saving by an inter mun an intermunicipal agreement with Liberate. So that that we're looking at some savings there. Again, long-term after aid, you're going to have to give us a little bit of time to make some estimates around does it is it worth it. Um we're serving Twinkies. We're used to serving cake. The community might also ask if that's the place uh to save. So I've also mentioned to the board

064that I'm looking at maybe partnering with Leroy to share an administrative position, possibly two. So well, it would have to be two for us. So, as you know, when we created the position director of curriculum instruction and technology, we talked at board meetings about how that position in this district has has always been two separate people. And now we have one person trying to do two full-time administrative roles. So, we have been having conversations with Leroy about the potential of maybe taking our director of curriculum and instruction position and actually um cutting the position, creating a position as a shared position through Jennese Valley Boseies where we would hire for the position. The position would then be eligible for aid shared between Leroy and Calonia. So the way I'm thinking about it and Lindsay is

065in the room. So Lindsay Lindsay is well aware that I'm talking about splitting her in half here for a second. So the way I think about Lindsay's role right now, I think about Lindsay as she works 5 days a week. Not really. She probably works 20 days a week, but 5 days a week. I would say if we're going to split that in half, 2 and 1/2 days a week where she's trying to focus on curriculum and instruction. Two and a half days a week where she's trying to focus on technology. Obviously that's not how her days are broken up. She answers the phone and she's doing curriculum. She hangs it up. She answers the phone. She's doing technology. She hangs it up. Right? It doesn't give Lindsay the ability to really focus in. Whereas,

066if we were to share Lindsay with Leroy Central School District and we were to generate aid on that shared position, Lindsay would always be focused on teaching and learning, whether she's in this district for two and a half days or she's in their district for two and a half days. So, Mr. Holly and I along with our shared services um board members on our committee, we've been talking a lot about how could we do this and would it be strategic for our two schools to actually begin to share something. Now, if we share a director of curriculum instruction and Lindsay wants to run a staff development session and bring in a speaker to actually, let's say, train our science department, you automatically generate aid on that training on that expense. Whereas if we were hosting

067it by ourselves, we wouldn't generate aid. By the nature of how staff development works through through Boseies, we would begin to generate aid. So I'm seeing this as something we should definitely look into. The only way though that we could share and obviously they want Lindsay for half the time. I mean, let's not kid ourselves, right? So the only way that we could share Lindsay with them half the time for director curriculum instruction, we don't have a director of technology. We don't have a a technology department. It's Lindsay and Ian making it happen. So we would then have to hire a director of technology. I would recommend that we also would do that but instead of through Jennese Valley Boseies that would actually come through Edgite the company the the Boseies basic title that handles

068all of our technologies. That same administrative position would also then be eligible for aid. So split between the two school districts and then eligible for aid. In the long run, when it's all said and done, we would have two administrators shared across our two schools. The savings for us as a school district would probably be right around $20,000. So where I stand now is I think it's worth looking. I think it's worth pursuing that we at least examine it. Edgitech posted the position for the director of technology. It does require an administrative certification. We'll know by September 17th if there are any applicants any applicants for the position. So what I basically shared back with Leroy is that we can't pro we can't proceed in a share unless we know that there's talent in that

069pool for our technology department to also be handled really well. So we're in preliminary stages right now of trying to analyze that out to see if it will be worth it for us in the long run. >> Questions about that? briefly. >> Yes. >> You what I'm hearing is that we're gonna lose half of her and we're going to save $20,000. To me personally, that's not a that's not a win. $20,000 is nice, but you obviously I respect your opinion and I just the first time hearing this like this, I just uh I'd rather have her all the time and save $20,000 somewhere else. >> It's very hard to consider sharing. >> I also have a problem with change. I also have a problem with sharing. But I I think in the grand scheme of

070it, one of the things that I'm noticing and and I think if we were to ask Lindsay, like Lindsay is torn between two things. And so where do I think Lindsay's passions lie? First of all, Lindsay is going to do a good job for us whether she stays director of curriculum and technology or whether this change occurs. But right now, I would say Lindsay's passion is around teaching and learning and she's doing a fantastic job at that. But technology doesn't wait. She's in the middle of something. She's trying to get this accomplished and the phone system goes down. Like she actually has to stop what she's doing and manage what I would consider to become crisis in that moment for our technology components to be able to get kicked back on. So I think just

071in general some of this is also um how do we get the best of Lindsay and what our teachers need of her? And I would agree with you that won't be doable unless we hire a Lindsayesque technology director. >> Yeah. So I I do think that it, you know, the stars have to align on this one. Uh Leroy has attempted a couple of times already to post and try to do some things um with Edgitech and found that their positions just weren't able to be filled. So, when I checked in this past week, I don't feel like there's I don't want to say there's no talent in the pool because I haven't looked at it yet, but it's not like there's there's not a lot of applications coming through is what I'm sort of gathering

072from my my last communication. So, I'm not feeling hopeful about it, John. But I also feel like it's really important that the community knows that we are looking at ways and we're trying to assess those ways and what will it do for us. So I think in the end if it comes back as not successful it will be because we couldn't find a match for Lindsay for us to actually feel like we could develop those programs across two schools and do it well but we're examining it. >> Yes. So how does it work curriculum wise? Does that mean that we and Leroy have the same curriculum? Well, not necessarily the same like supplies and materials like their teachers might be >> or like for instance, we had the the Zoom thing with that lady >>

073over the the new thing. >> Obviously, you can't share that with them if >> they're not using that. they're not using that. >> But if we back up and we go back to staff development that we did with that same trainer in June, we actually trained on the science of reading. >> And the science of reading and how to teach reading is something that doesn't change regardless the materials you're going to use to >> Oh, I guess I didn't realize that that was two different. >> So, well, some sometimes trainings would be very specific to we use Eureka Math and so we're going to do a training and they don't use Eureka Math so we aren't going to put the teachers in a room together. But sometimes what you're training even with math is that

074we're going to train the children how to do we're struggling with geometry let's say geometric concepts and so the training that we're going to bring in for teachers of third grade is on ge ge g I can't sorry I did it the first time but in in the end like when you have those mutual conceptual understandings that you're working toward in staff development which is what our PD is usually based around those things would become aidable like we haven't talked a lot to the board yet and really we've barely scratched the surface inside the walls of the schools around what the New York State is doing in terms of changing graduation requirements. But I do anticipate that over the course of the next 2 to 3 years, we're going to have a pretty significant lift

075as they eliminate regent exams. We're actually going to have to begin to build some of our own course outcomes. And when you're going to try to build some projects around project-based learning course outcomes, you're talking about a lot of staff development that has to go into that. So I think across our schools just with what's coming down from New York State there would be a lot in common. But I guess what I maybe don't understand is how why is it like why do you get money back from the state if you combining why is it aided if if you're question you're with another school but not for just you guys. The reason I the reason why the state I think creates the whole concept around aid and that the only way that you can get

076a lot of the aid is that that you generate is through sharing. >> And so it's their way of saying instead of Calonia Mumford spending $7,000 to teach teachers about the science of reading, let's spend $7,000 and teach Calonia and Leroy and let's make those tax dollars stretch. Okay? And so a lot of that the aid that's generated through that is based on that premise that we would be collaborative instead of every municipality kind of doing its own thing. Try to get together and be thoughtful about how you can do that to and then they incentivize it by by aiding the work. >> I understand. Okay. And the one thing I was thinking with hearing this plan in the idea when you do find someone through Edgitech that does fit our standard and we will

077not go with anyone who does not fit our standard. But if we are able to do that, it actually will be able to let Lindsay focus on the curriculum and the development of our students and help our students more because she is solely focused on curriculum. She doesn't have anything else pulling her attention. So even if it's not curriculum 100% here, it's 50 here and 50 at another school district, she's still focused on curriculum. So she's still getting all those inputs and having all that work 100%. And our students are also getting the full attention of someone on the technology side. So all of those needs are being addressed and have the full attention. So while we will miss Lindsay if this happens, >> well she her office will be here. she uh she will

078be her attention that she's able to pay to our curriculum, the level that she'll be able to make that will be a higher level than we're able to get now because that other portion isn't another topic. It's the same curriculum just at another school. It it may not happen, but it's it's >> you're looking into it. Exactly. and a lot of time's been spent with you and um Mr. Holly. So, thank you to you guys for doing that and exploring all these options. >> I feel like my first reaction to that was right in line with what John had said. Um Lindsay ears, >> it's hard to find people who are exceeding expectations and delivering value beyond, you know, what they cost. And I feel like we're more apt even if you know we do

079think that this next person is a good fit, we're more apt to be let down. Whereas we know we have someone who's proven very very capable. So for the money, I don't know. It's a tough choice. >> All right. Anything else? >> Thank you. >> We love you, Elsa. I'm going to text Mara and tell him we took our toys home. >> Thank you. All you have >> that is >> all right. Uh we're going to move on to old business, please. Number one, approval of board policies. Resolved that the board of education upon the recommendation of the board policy committee approves the following board policies. Policy 7316, policy 5840, policy 5685, and policy 7530. May I have a motion, please? >> I'll make it. >> Since I'm the committee >> motion, second. Thank you.

080Any discussion? >> I've got a little bit of input on 7316. Um, apologize for not bringing this sooner. Um the first incident it says there will be a verbal warning to the student. I was wondering what the board thought about making it more of a formal thing where the language changes to we shall notify the family. also um it it so the the first incident of a student having a cell phone uh or being reprimanded, it's just a verbal and I was wondering if it would be beneficial to have that be a documented situation so that the third time isn't the first time with with keeping track of this stuff where every incident would be documented. Would that be better suited though for the administrative regs? >> It's right in the policy that it's just

081a verbal. I don't know. It's just something I thought about where it wouldn't hurt to loop in the parents. >> I I can't I'll speak for the principles and say I imagine the parents will be looped in. Are you But you're thinking that maybe the a warning goes through to the child that the parent is unaware that the first warning happened. >> Yeah. And then the second one it does it does become a documented situation where the family is looped in. So I just wanted to see what you guys thought about that. I'm one person. I guess I'm kind of wondering what are we imagining like are we seeing my high schooler pulling their phone out and turning it on and the teacher walking by says that throw that back in the locker something like

082that I wouldn't need anyone to tell me like my child did something the teacher correct them they get corrected all the time at school for doing things that they're not supposed to and I don't get told I don't need to get told I don't get told from the elementary school there are certain things that I need to and would like to get informed about. But just pulling my phone out, if I took my phone and I'm in the bathroom and I am in there for an hour and a teacher comes in, you know, says something to me, I don't do anything about it. They have to come back in and re-evaluate, kind of reassess that situation. Then it's more not only am I not following the cell phone policy, but then there's another layer on

083top of that. So I guess my question is like what are we thinking needs to be told to parent like >> where does the count but I think Mike's wondering where does the count start like what if if okay so say Sam had his phone out in the hall and teacher said put it away so he did so is that count one is that count zero if he does it again the next day is that count one again is that count two >> so we just write like the overarching policy I think that should be up to the principles and the administration to policy that you know XYZ is going to get followed in these steps. >> Right. So then they come saying how are we doing X? We're doing X as these steps cuz

084we >> should not be in the policy. >> Yeah. But if it's in the policy is it unclear? >> So that's that's what I'm saying. So the policy says the first one is >> verbal then the administration says >> can we pull the policy up to read on the screen >> and you're back on those? >> Yes. >> No. Not this month. I think maybe last month. >> Last month was first. Yeah. >> And I didn't see it in the shared folder. >> I do agree with Becca on on some of that in that I want to know as a parent when it's a pattern. Maybe not the first instance. So I I don't feel like as a parent I'd need to know. But when it's a pattern, absolutely. Or it's disruptive. >> But how

085do we know if it's a pattern if it's not? >> You don't. Are you asking for documentation or for parents to know the first time? >> I if you don't So I I just brought this. So if I'm hearing that, you know, you don't as a parent you don't want to know. I can agree with that. Sure. It's not a a a serious infraction. Although there is a zero tolerance policy, it's not you're not harming people. Um, but to document the incident I think needs to be done because to Liz's point, one teacher today, one teacher tomorrow, this is the same student. >> You're just getting caught at different places. >> Understood. Yeah. To to me that lies within our administrative team to manage. >> But then why is it outlined in the policy? >>

086I think we need to pull that up so we can see that part. >> So the second time the language is you shall receive documented notice >> the second time. >> Yeah. >> That's when it gets serious though. >> The policy is prescriptive. It's it's pretty >> 7316. >> Just thinking about the way uh Sue it is in 812's agenda. Yeah, that is on page 160. >> So for the community watching, yes, we have to read 160 pages. what this would look like in practice. There there probably are, if we're going to be honest, there probably are kids that the teacher is going to give the warning to and they're going to go put in their locker and the office is never going to hear that. I think eventually when I think about the warning

087to me when I read the policy, it means I gave the warning. So, as I'm clocking it, I'm thinking the principal when the principal has to give a warning, it's because the teachers have already sort of flushed that out. So the teachers will write the discipline referral and they'll say this is what's happening. I've already done these three things like there's no compliance here. The principal would give a warning but I like I would also then call home to say this is what the teachers have done. This is what I did today. Just want to remind you the next time you're going to have to come pick the phone up. Um, in my world, if a teacher asks you to put your phone away and you didn't go put your phone away, I'm I'm actually

088taking it the first time whether I give you a verbal warning or not. Right? So, like how it plays out in the office, I would tell you probably every single policy that you have, teachers are trying to remedy that long before administration ever hears it. So, I automatically look at this and say, well, this is a warning from the office. This is an office warning. And I I don't imagine that we give a lot of those without some sort of communication home, even if it's just a quick email that says just want to let you know. >> So that's why in my mind I was thinking we would flush this out in the administrative regs for what that means. Your policy is basically supporting the administrators by saying we're going to take your child's phone.

089And people get a little bit bent out of shape over that in my experience. So your policy is basically giving your principal's permission to do phone confiscation. And if parents don't want us to confiscate the phone, the children either can't use the phone or don't bring it to school, right? Put it in the locker, do as you were asked. So, I think the policy you're writing is more to say to the principles, we've got you do your job, collect the phone, do what you need to. That's the way I interpreted it to begin with. >> I agree with you and thanks for saying that. But I think that um setting the standard and having a hard line is important. Oh, >> any other questions? >> Oh, we have it up. >> I can't read that.

090>> I can't. >> I'm like that doing on the other side of the room. >> I can't see. >> You want to read it? the scroll down to the spot where it says first the consequences >> starts there. So 162 what they said >> there's some tear >> no that's not the polishing >> this was provided to us >> yes >> there we go >> just go down >> yes I'm just trying to find where to spec the specific language he's speaking where it's prescriptive. >> For students out of compliance, the device will be held in the office until the end of the school day. >> The first time this happens, the student may retrieve the device and the parent will be notified. >> Subsequent instances, the parent must retrieve the device. Further in instances

091will result in the device being held in the office daily for longer periods of time. >> But if it was already be there for the whole day, how does it have to be there for a longer period of time? >> We've kept them through the weekend before. The district will exercise reasonable care to maintain the security devices. >> It's still electronic devices. >> So the first time that it's held and the student can get it and the parents notified. The second time >> it it does say notified >> cuz I thought the second time the parent it was like the parent has to come get it. >> It's kind of legal language. It's know that >> for student students out of compliance but what at what point is it the first point second time third

092time when the first sentence when when does that take effect for students out of compliance the device be held in the office? >> So you see Sam in the hall with his phone is that is that out of compiance to the office he goes >> cuz that's that's how it sounds. >> I mean if you're going by the letter keep going from that there. Stop. No. So that's the whole thing. So I the first time I read through that I did not uh I thought it was the second time the parent was notified. The first time they were not. >> Worst times this happened the student may be treated >> they're notified this but the student can pick it up themselves. >> Yeah. But this says >> the second time the parent has to come

093get it. But the parent will be not notified the first time. >> Like >> the second time >> it says the parents notified on the first time. >> Yeah. Okay. >> It's held in the student can get the phone the second time the parent this is going to the office. This is your kid has it in the hallway and the teacher tells them to put in the locker. That just is normal dayto-day >> teacher management. Oh yeah. >> So we're getting notified anyways. >> Yeah. If we hold it for the day, then we're going to let you know cuz the next time you have to come and get it. But like in terms of the the concept around probably the code of conduct language, probably even communications that we put out around how we'll warn

094kids. Like obviously we're not going to see you with your phone and instantly take your phone to the office. That's that's not how we're going to handle people's children, right? Or >> for that. Well, we also I mean as we also know that kids are going to need to be recorreed. We we correct them every day on all kinds of code of conduct enforcement, right? If you can correct the behavior and the child will self-correct and you don't have that issue again, you're in a good spot. You'll when you work in a school, you know exactly who the children are that had to be told that again yesterday because we're all going to actually talk about it, right? We're going to debrief that like, oh, like he bit a little bit when I asked him

095not to do that. So if you see him and you have to correct him, make sure I would say that's one of the things that Mr. Mardle and I had to do with frequency around all kinds of low-level behavior, don't give him a warning because I already did, right? So like how we communicate with each other to make sure that we're holding a standard of care, I think is really important. I >> mean quickly, if I may, kids are going to be kids. >> Yes. This is a this is this is a big deal that could be made into a really really big deal. There's going in my opinion there's going to be growing pains. This is only September 7th, 8th, 9th. >> Mhm. >> We're in honeymoon phase. >> Yeah. I I just think

096maybe we we we revisit it when these young ladies tell us in November that uh we we had to add on to a room more cabinets for fall or if it's just you know I I I just I don't personally think you can figure it out today and we just got to >> The good news is though your policy is giving your principles permission to basically confiscate the fun right like you just gave them that permission. which we kind of had anyway, >> but now you put it in writing that we actually can take your phone and keep it for the day >> and the kids know that and they they're it's not their >> I can honestly tell you prior our teachers at the middle and high school don't allow cell phones for the

097most part in their class when they're teaching anyway. So let's say that Mr. So and so says put your cell phone in the bin in the front. All the kids do it because that's what they've been told to do. You got little Johnny or little Sally that decides they're not going to do it. The teacher would send them to my office and I would say, "Wow, this is like a big choice you have to make. You're either going to walk back in the classroom, put your phone in the basket in front of the teacher's classroom and apologize for being insordinate or I keep your phone for the day." That's a big decision for you to make. Handle yourself with respect and care. You owe your teacher an apology, right? I think in the end, every

098single rule that we have, we coach kids every day to abide by the rule, grow in their ability to self-regulate, feel the I call them the butterflies, feel the butterflies in your stomach cuz you're in the principal's office. Now, go put your phone in your locker like you were told to. Am I going to call the parent every single time? No. But if I confiscate the phone for the day, I'm going to let you know because the next time you have to come get it. So, this policy gives your principles the ability to do that work. I think that that's good discussion. I'm going to move towards a vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? >> That motion is carried. Number two, adoption of the code of conduct resolved that the board of

099education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approved the updated 2025 2026 code of conduct. May I have a motion, please? >> Yep. >> Second. Second. >> Any discussion? just that the code of conduct adoption here is just adding the cell phone component to it. All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? That motion is carried. We're going to move on to new business. I am going to join number one and number two. If nobody's opposed to that for efficiency, new business one, approval proare therapy contract and number two approval of music therapy contract. resolved that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve the attached procure therapy and music therapy pathways contract for services in the 2025 2026 school year have a motion please >> I'll make it >> a second

100>> any discussion all in favor say I >> any opposed those motions are carried number three approval of textbook adoption resolved that the board of education upon the recommend Recommendation of the textbook committee approve the adoption of the recommended textbook core units prek through 5 by the American Reading Company. See recommendations for more information. May I have a motion, please? >> Yes, I'll make it. >> A second. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? >> That motion is carried. Number four, approval of treasury and payroll coordinator job description. Resolved that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve the new treasury and payroll job description as attached. May I have a motion, please? >> I'll make it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor

101say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. We're going to move on to executive session. Resolve that the board of education adjourn to executive session at 7:17 p.m. to discuss the employment employee history of particular persons. May I have a motion, please? >> Second vote. Thank you. Motion second. Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? >> That's carried. We will be back. Resolve that the board of education return to regular session at 7:44 p.m. May I have a motion, please? I'll >> make it. A second. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion is carried. We're going to move on to personnel and I'm going to read through these. Appointment number one, appointment of pertium substitutes resolved at the board of education upon the

102recommendation of the superintendent. Approve the following as pertium substitutes for the 2025 2026 school year as listed. May I have a motion, please? >> I'll make it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? That motion is carried. Number two, appointment of elementary education teacher resolved at the that would be a middle school, correct? >> Certification. >> Sorry. Thank you. Number two, appointment of elementary education teacher resolved at the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent appoint Joshua Shelton to the 1.0 O FTE probationary tenure position of elementary education teacher effective tw August 28th 2025 through August 27th 2029. The appointee holds professional certification in childhood education grades 1 through 6. May I have a motion please? >> I'll make it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in

103favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion is carried. Number three, resignation of food service helper. Result that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent accept with regret regret and best wishes the resignation of Katherine Grant, food service worker effective August 13th, 2025. May I have a motion, please? >> I'll make it. >> Second. Thank you. Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Number four, resignation of ext resignation of extra class advisorship. Resolved that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent accept the resignation of chess club and high school math team adviser, Miss Christie Pope, effective September 9th, 2025. Have a motion, please. >> I'll make it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? That motion is

104carried. Number five, resignation of extraclass advisorship. Resolved that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent accept the resignation of grade 10 class advisor Desiree Lyman effective September 9th, 2025. I have a motion, please. >> I'll make it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Number six, appointment of adviserss. Resolve that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent appoint the following adviserss as listed for the 2025 2026 school year. May I have a motion please? >> I'll make it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. Number seven. Approval of long-term perdm substitute. Resolve that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve the rate for long-term

105perdm substitute teachers. May I have a motion, please? >> I'll make it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? That motion is carried. Number eight, appointment of treasury and payroll coordinator. Resolved that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent appoint desire Lyman to the treasury and payroll coordinator position effective as of August 4th, 2025. And I have a motion, please. I'll >> make it. >> Second. >> Any discussion. >> All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? >> That motion is carried. Number nine, appointment of clerk typus. to resolve that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent appoint Susan Mills to a probationary civil service clerk typist position for the 1.0 FTE position in the middle high school office effective October 31st

1062025. The probationary period is effective from on or about August 31st, 2025 through on or about August 30th, 2026. I have a motion, please. >> August or October? >> I'm sorry. Thank you, Liz. It's late. My brain's not brain either, on or about October 30th, 2026. I have a motion, please. >> I'll make it. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? That motion is carried. Number 10, approval of MLA of retired bus drivers. Resolved that the board of education approves the written agreement between the superintendent of schools and the Calonia Mumford Support Staff Association. We have a motion, please. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? That motion is carried. Number 11, appointment of supervisor of transportation

107resolved that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent appoint Brian Manim to the 1.0. FTE provisional civil service position of supervisor of transportation in his compensation agreement effective on or about September 10th 2025. >> Motion please. >> I'll make the motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? That motion is carried. >> Good meeting everyone. I'm going to move towards adjournment. Resolve that the board of education Journ the meeting of September 9th, 2025 at 7:50 p.m. May I have a motion, please? >> I'll make that. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? That motion is carried. We have the