001good evening I call this meeting good evening I call this board meeting of order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge Ali to the flag of the United States of America and to the repblic for which it stands one nation God indivisible liy and justice for all thank you for joining us this evening please be advised in in the event of a fire emergency and alarm sound please not all emergency exits and evacuate well away from the building at this time we request everyone turn off their cell phones to silence thank you for cooperation first on our agenda this evening is additional deletions and changes there are none so we're going to move on to consent agenda resolve that the Board of Education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approved the following consent
002Agenda One minutes from 225 2025 to General warrant number 54 56 and 58 three lunch warrant number 13 and four csse recommendations may have a motion please I move have a second second any discussion all in favor I I any opposed that motion is carried we are going to move on to Communications we will start with points of Pride Dr mcneir would you please start us off sure Mr gby and Mrs depre hosted our annual fourth and fifth grade floor hockey tournament the competition was fierce the passion was high and excitement was off the chart congratulations to Our Winning classes Mr Leonard's fifth grade class and Mrs Lockwood's fourth grade class last week the elementary school Raiders came together for our second Raider 5 celebration of the school year at this inspiring event we honored
003students who exemplify our new raider 5 values be kind be safe be accepting be respectful and treat the treat others the way you want to be treated teachers selected outstanding role models who have best personified the Raider five so far this school year we also celebrated our Raider writer contest winners students submitted inspiring writing pieces about moments they witness the Raider five in action their words captured the heart of our school's values and we couldn't be prouder congratulations to our 34 Raiders and all our Raiders who have earned shoutouts on the announcements and who earned Raider five bracelets showing their commitment to these values our calom elementary chess club competed in their fourth and final Regional Tournament of the Season hosted by Jesy Val bosies at the May Center in Mount Morris Raiders added four
004more medals to their season collection and according to coach Yanik did calom proud with their respectful manners positive attitudes and Shining sportsmanship congratulations to our entire team for an amazing season special thanks to coach Yanik for her support and effort in making the season a success Varsity indoor track and field teams travel to Nazareth College for the 2025 class B3 Section 5 championships our girls team finished in third place overall out of the 14 teams our boys team finished in 12th Place congratulations to Junior Emma Brogan Emma is the first calom indoor track and field athlete to qualify for the New York state track and field Championship Emma set a new personal record and a new school record when she won the triple jump in the section 5 tourn reaching 37 ft 9 and 3/4
005in as she soared through the air in perfect form her wind is truly historic um our middle school high school Archery Club is preparing for the 20125 state tournament on March 14th 13 Raiders qualifi through a sanctioned event at avoka high school and will represent our school at the state tournament congratulations to our high school brainstormers team they defeated Leonia 370 to 170 and won first place in this year's jese Valley B's brainstormer season congratulations to the students who were selected for the 2025 all count Festival the cast and crew of this year's Middle School play enjoyed a celebratory outing directors Mrs sha and Mrs Barber took more than 30 Raiders to the auditorium theater to watch the Broadway production ction of the ways that's fantastic lots of great things going on in our school
006uh Dr Chanel any correspondence um I would actually just like to welcome Mr Bruce kaprin uh gonna give Bruce an opportunity to introduce himself to the board and of course to our community Bruce welcome board well thank you it's certainly a pleasure to be here and so yes my name is Bruce Capron and I've recently I've been in education for really the second part of my career my started out in engineering and technology and really was on I got involved in education when I was in a board of education at Naples and after nine years on the board there said you know I think I kind of like education and if I had a chance to do a second career I'd really enjoy doing it in education so I became certified and spent most of
007my career at honei Falls Lima as the assistant superintendent there and now I retired about 2 and a half years ago but get the chance uh to come back and work here which is a real pleasure wonderful pleasure having you uh the other thing I'll just share with the board is that I've been in Communications with uh the local Penny Saver uh one of the things that Mr nardone brought to um mine and Mr Caan's attention was just the the timeliness of some of the communications that we need to turn around for our community with our newsletter around the budget and the ability to maybe partner with the Penny Saver while it might cost us a little bit it might also give us a little bit more transpar parency where right from the beginning when
008we're publishing we should be able to get all of our numbers in uh just by the nature of not having such a long turnaround time so I just wanted to let the board know that that's something that I'm researching uh we'll speak a little bit more about it as I get closer uh to really understanding the the process of the newsletter creation but I did want to share with you that the Penny Saver is beginning to quote some things for us and talk to us about logistics are they making their quotes based on every household in the district having a Penny Saver delivered to them no they actually would print for us and then do the mailing directly for us so right now what happens is our local Bose's prints it for us they send
009it to us we then get it ready and we mail it out um because we couldn't guarantee the Penny Saver getting to every single member of our community in terms of our voters we would want to make sure that we still do direct mail thank you so really the the big benefit here is how fast they can turn it around for us um versus being in a Queue at bosis which we we value our bosis Partnerships uh we have to be pretty early and and on time with our information for bosis to turn that back around for us so there are several other school districts in our region that don't use bosis just for their budget Communications just to make sure that they can get every last piece of information in as you know and
010we'll talk about it again tonight like we're waiting still on the legislative budget right so because school has to maintain this timeline everybody then gets in a line at bosies for getting their stuff printed so I wasn't surprised to learn that other schools have found other Solutions and the Penny Saver definitely seems to be a solution that a lot of districts use so we're just going to do a little bit of research thank you is the Penny Saver a demand service or would they need an upfront obligation from us it's a demand service okay great question thank you next we'll move on to board committee reports I believe that there's two committees that met negotiations and our sub committee for the cmcs board operations manual uh so could we have a update on negotiations pleas
011first I can speak we received a proposal we met I think it was two weeks ago and we've got meetings scheduled for the next I think there's one this week and then a couple more scheduled out uh to hopefully come to an agreement uh we received the Teachers Association proposal and we're looking through it and we will meet this week to discuss that back with them thank you next um is our board operations and policy manual um you guys met yeah we met was it last week week before I recently and we we went through our um went through our operations manual and just cleaned it up and made it more um more current for what what we need and I think we got through the whole thing and made good progress does a follow-up
012meeting need to occur it does yes okay so you're not we we'll get there all right you going to get it done on one night thank you for your work on that and the elementary compact thank you and um so I went for that part and they're uh coming up with a a secondary um questionnaire to go out to parents to uh piggy back on the one in the fall and to see how everybody's doing and that's basically what you're talking about okay thank you am I missing any the Middle High School compact did not have an official in person meeting because that was the day of the girl sectional game so it was virtual we got everyone got a draft of the Middle School course catalog and kind of made a few more annotations
013to kind of update it but it's pretty much getting almost your final State it's it's coming along really well thank you everyone for your work on those committees it's truly important um we will move on to guests of the aard first tonight we have Mr Patrick Longo he has our misbo rep and he would like to just chat with us for a few minutes about the services that we have um enter an agreement let happen that thank you appreciate it on behalf of the New York State School Wars Association our executive director Bob Schneider and our president Sandy rufo really appreciate you having us out here um since Co a lot of us we do so many things virtually it's nice to be here in person and just have a face uh as member relations
014we are your primary contact at nispa uh we consider ourselves the coner so to speak anything you need to know about the association about our staff what we do um our mission our vision how we can help you be the best board member you can be the best executive team that you can be uh the best clerk you can be um we're here for you and I I don't like to be in these kind of presentations of human brochure but I just wanted you to just uh pay attention to this fold I brought to you we really in the past we used to send this to every new member and then every time someone became board President we still reach out in our own way but we used to send everything it was a packet
015like this and people have likened being a board member tricking out of a fire hose right you're just getting it from everywhere you have a local School Board Association New York State School boards Association you have other associations um and you're just you're getting all this information at once and so we have always tried to reconfigure our programming to make sure that it's there for you when you need it and that you know how to get it so I did hear uh we talking about the board operating procedure so I like that kind of synchronicity there so I did bring it's actually a blueprint for better Schoolboard operating procedures so there's a lot of things like this guides that we have we put out a lot of information any Schoolboard subject we have it right
016so we don't just send it you can always come to us and say I need to know about this so if you want to on your own time this brochure right here on the left hand side that's going to really tell you everything we do uh we like to consider ourselves like a tree everything you see up top Our Roots go deep and just as wide right so again we don't expect you to remember all that but if you just think of two things one is we consider everything we do we put them in three buckets uh the first one is advocacy so we actually have a governmental relations team we always say they eyes and ears and Aly they're actually doing legislative advocacy for you with you we have an advocacy process that you
017can follow every single year where you actually have the opportunity to say this is what we want you to do this year and then the membership votes on that so if you want to know more about that process you can always contact us and we can get you more involved um you may be on the policy committee or be on the policy team right we have a policy team that can help you better understand policy provide sample policies for you answer policy questions right they're also advocating but advocating in a slightly different way um we have a team of attorneys that can Advocate on your behalf we don't represent you in court uh you had mentioned you spoke to one of our attorneys not every school board member is is able to usually in your
018policy it states that only the superintendent of the board president can contact your school or district attorney usually right without approval of the board right so we can be your second opinion we could be your first opinion uh but any questions that you have we gladly will help you kind of mull it over and we do publish something that's called the school law book uh I've heard many superintendent said they use that as a textbook and their Law class um one joke when they said we we refer to it as the Bible right and every time I visit a superintendent I used to visit about 210 superintendent a year and it was right there on the desk and it's pretty doggard right so we try to present a lot of our information that's the other
019bucket we try to present it every team at nispa is a team of writers a team of presenters a team of trainers and so you're going to see the information from each subject matter area or expert uh you'll find their their expertise in on board articles um you may find it in a guide book like the two guide books are just showing you um you may find it in emails email alerts telling you this is something coming up you need to consider so every team is going to put out information they're also advocating in their own way like I was saying before so I work in member relations I know I'm here between the the 10 amazing students that being recognized today uh member relations we do recognition we have six different recognition programs we
020recognize Schoolboard members for their service we recognize students for leadership extraordinary acts of leadership they do it's called tomorrow's leaders today uh teacher programming uh board programming uh through a program called chambers of change we have Applause for the cause we have culture of caring we're trying to recognize and advocate for the good things that you're doing if we ever look at the Press we sometimes we see a lot of negativity right so we're trying to show everyone in state government other districts look at the wonderful things that are going on here and our hope is that always that they will read that and they will emulate that so now and then we come back and we award another districts and they'll say yeah we learned it because we saw champions of change recognize them
021on social media we saw that right so we do that as well um all these guide books uh again we can mail them to you uh you can call up and ask questions and we can go through them with you but something I want to note again going back to that whole idea of pushing on information and being like a fire hose it's like it's just too much we are coming out with a a new program and it's called the new member on boarding program and we are utilizing a learning management system uh that takes you through by the month so literally if you can picture you get on the board this is what I need to know the day after the election uh the next month in June this is what I should know
022as a new school board member then July this is what I should know uh you guys are talking about the budget tonight so we start we say you should start to really review budget considerations in November December us just called school budget month it's when you start to formulate it talk about it so you don't need to know that your first week on the board however we're going to say you should know about committees you get on the board you're voting for the President and Vice President you're being sworn in and you're going to be on the policy committee I don't know nothing about committees and so that's the time to know about that um we are constantly looking at what you do how you best learn so everything we do there's a virtual component
023you can learn it virtually you can learn it on hard copy that we can mail to you you can learn it as a uh live training um the other thing that people don't know is with your benefits uh sometimes people say I'm not on the board right this is not my Association so we support the board clerk the board superintendent the admin uh most of your admin are receiving I hope you guys are getting on board our newspaper and eclips our news Service uh we want to make sure that the district avails us of the services uh wherever needed uh during Co when board members really getting heated discussions from the community I actually gave up my cell phone number and said you can have the community call me you're paying for the membership if
024it helps you we will do that right so look at these services that we provide as helping as much as the district to do well as much as possible also we meet with in member relations um every year we send out an email to all the board presidents saying we you meet with us for about a half hour so we really have a good understanding what's going on not in the state not in the county right literally in your District so we also reach out to superintendent so we have a superintendent meeting right District board president board and district and then also new members right how can we help you be a better new member any member can call any member can have a meeting with us so they're half hour meetings we use a
025service called C and literally in my email signature so if you ever contact me I will send you an email and it'll have a hyperlink that says set up a meeting with me and you can use that half hour to ask me any questions uh who do I need to talk to where can I get this and 98% of the time I know we can help you at Nisa for that 2% we can't we will work and do our best to make sure we can point you in the right direction maybe it's someone in state Ed maybe it's the governor's office right but we can help you so I just want you to get in that mindset again I don't want to barrage you with brochures and marketing information but just give me the mindset
026of can Nisa help me with this and again I would say nearly 100% of time yes um you did note that we have a 24-hour answer policy yeah I give out my cell phone I do get sometimes board presidents will call 5 10 minutes before a meeting something just happened what do you think about this if I can help I can right I might say now and then I'm not an attorney right but in my experience this something you might want to consider but you actually can talk to attorneys as well right policy folks our communication folks anything that you need we really all about service right that's what you're paying for and we want you to make the most of your membership so again feel free to reach out any time sometimes with new
027members and sometimes even veteran board members will say I'm not the board president so I can't call nesa you all can call nesa you can call 10 times a day you can call 10 times a week 10 times a year once every five years we just want you to know that you know that we will help you and we'll help you quickly and as accurately as we can so I just want to open up you know sometimes you give a present you ask questions I don't expect you have a lot of questions but I want you to know I'm here to answer those questions anytime so did you want to ask me anything that you might be wondering about or thank you it's good information yeah yeah I was just going to say thank you
028thank you for coming out I do think that face Toof face is important oftentimes we purchase a service and without that face Toof face component and making sure we all understand what's in there it will feel next year like maybe it's not worth the investment but it it is worth the investment and we're using all the tools and uh access that you all have to help us be a better executive group sometimes you know you can look at almost like brain drain there there's a lot of turnover in boards now you guys might be a more consistent board right but you do get to a point when all a sudden you get to a point like what do they do again you know so that's why we try to make sure that new members know
029this is who we are this is what you're paying for this is what we do for you all right so anytime you want me to come back out uh local school board associations lot time to have us present you guys I believe are a member of Gennesse Valley School Association yes we I'm coming out in a week or two weeks Pat Burke asked me to come out so I always tell the local Schoolboard associations and districts across the state the Bose same thing you know ask us we'll be here right you asked us we came out so always happy to come out sometimes said we're so far out we will be here ask us and we will be here thank you very much good all right thank you so much and congratulations to the students
030look and hear about what you guys have done thank you so much appreciate thank you thank you would you I know I'm watching challenging I know here I am come on down um this is exciting so I would love to introduce um the class of 2025 K M's top 10 I think we've got about seven six or seven of them here tonight it's a busy time of year conrat I I got to tra up for this so I'm I'm going to read your names in your order and then if you're comfortable we tell the board um your future plans uh for next year how does that sound all right so valid Victorian is Hazel Nickerson hi I'll be going to the University of Rochester to study biology on a Premed path and I'll be playing
031basketball too oh very good congratulations and our salutatorian is Lily CL hi um I'm not sure where I'm going to college yet but I would like to study marine biology and number three right Atilla balassi yeah I'll be uh going to the Rochester Institute of Technology to study uh journalism and Communications right good and then we have number seven Khloe CTS going to Nazareth University For Occupational Therapy uh number eight is Grayson funk I don't I don't know where I'm going but I have to study cyber security I wondered about that number nine is Ryan wock I don't don't know where I'm going but I'm going to study music therapy oh great and then number 10 is Jackson funk I also don't know where I'm going but I'm going to study computer science excellent congratulations
032to all of you really apprciate also congratulations to the the parents and the families that are here yesk you I use this next chance to allow you guys to leave I know you all have busy schedules so now's a good time to leave if you'd like if you'd like to stay and watch the rest of our board meeting thank you very much thank you thank you you guys thank you thank you than you congratulations congratulations thank you I really appreciate it next we're going to move on to superintendent report but in true Dr Chanel fashion she's already jumped and completed her portion of superintendent unless there's something else well I I will tell you that today I actually got a phone call from the governor's office um impromptu so it sounds like as the legislature
033is trying to reconcile the budget all the all the conversation that happens on the back end of like building this toss salad that they're making um the governor is losing a little bit of ground in the senate in her legislation around the no cell phones in schools from Bell tobell uh so today's phone call was actually asking that we provide some sort of statement of support uh for the Governor's mission for B tobell so one thing I did quickly share uh with the gentleman on the phone is that currently at calonia mford and we'll learn a little bit about this tonight we we are currently looking at a budget deficit of $550,000 and so I asked a few follow-up questions about what what does this what will this rule mean will kidss be able to
034keep their cell phones in their locker will that be enough or is the governor's legislation going to actually require that we purchase a lot of things to keep the kids whether we're putting them in some sort of locker or they have these bags that you put them in to keep the cell phone safe and they're they're not really sure they're not able to give me 100% guidance on what the cost of the district is going to be so I while I support 100% the concept of uninterrupted instructional time um I did not a quote of support and actually suggested that the Senate giving District's wiggle room to be able to manage what it is that the real goal is we want uninterrupted instructional time in a way that is feasible at the local level so
035I would just share with you that I did get a chance to advocate for us today in in that regard so our local bosies uh we spend quite a bit of time as superintendent talking about this and and what really is going to be asked of us and so I know I'm not alone in believing very deeply that academic time should be uninterrupted but also that the added costs which have not come out yet is something that you won't see in our budget in terms of of an addition an additional cost and yet we're already looking at 55,500 I'm sorry $5,500,000 of debt to try to reconcile this budget so I did get a chance to advocate for us today thank you uh there is no old new business or old business we are going
036to move on to new business and Dr Chanel and Bruce will be doing the budget development presentation number two [Music] excellent you want to join me come over here come stand right next to me Mr I remember sharing with the board that you know Mr capron's experience was such that he probably wasn't going to have to be working 40 hours a week well right now we are very busy working together trying to build a budget understand a budget and work your teacher negotiation so I think it in in this beginning phase I imagine we're probably working more than 40 hours a week right now U just trying to meet the let's call it the Consolidated demand of the time with so much happening at once so we shall tag team this presentation so tonight's presentation
037is really on the instructional budget so last time we were together we talked about some of the general supports and we'll revisit a few of those things uh today but the instructional budget is what our focus is going to be I'm going to bounce forward here just a little bit to this particular slide uh if you'll notice on the right hand side when we're talking about the forecast of our Appropriations or our expenditures like what is it going to cost us to run our school next year you'll notice the instruction is in blue instruction is actually the largest component of our budget so I wanted to share that with you and then I'll take you back to really what the instructional budget is so our instructional budget really covers everything you can imagine that kids
038are touching right so our teachers are in here our special education programs the technology that our students touch uh the the library books all the Athletics all of our extracurricular so when you think instructional budget and the size of it just picture a student's day and acknowledge that everything that that student Encounters in their experience is part of the instructional budget this particular budget that we're going to discuss here tonight has a few big budget um priorities in it your administrative budget priorities are um in this budget so a few of those highlights would be we talked about crisis support specialist uh and what we really could use at the elementary school so I would just share with the board that this particular position would actually be on contract we would be um cross we
039would be using a a company that would be a vendor than a bosis it would make the contract 100% aidable so although you'll see an increase in our budget next year when we get those Aid checks we would actually see Revenue coming back from this particular contract our crisis support specialist that we're asking for is someone who would really be focused on helping students with behavior these folks are highly trained at being able to manage behavior and really helping kids grow their ability to manage their body their physical self and also emotional regulation uh we also in this budget are asking for those increases around Elementary musical as you know we have now successfully pulled the elementary musical off uh two years in a row without increases to the elementary school budget uh so what
040you would find if you were looking at our endof year planning we are working very diligently with principal Meyer to try to make sure that she can acquire all the textbook materials that she's going to need for for the future um school year so just thinking about how not creating the increase causes us to have to decrease in another area this budget does provide for the increase in her budget line This budget also has a stem teacher for the Middle School programming we've talked significantly for the last couple of years about the gap that exists uh not just in program development overall but that we do have that Gap in the Middle School master schedule where we'd like to see some more not just enrichment opportunities but some real academic and curricular alignment around some
041of the technology components that our kids will then experience across the high school program and last but not least this budget also provides increases for Career and Technical education this year we have 37 students that are attending bosis for Career and Technical fields we imagine that with the push and the drive around the trades and certainly the interest that we're currently finding in our student body that we want to make room for Career and Technical education in our budget so the increases there will support our students ability to continue going to bosis Career and Technical education this is when we're talking about welding um diesel mechanics if our students are wanting to go into conservation cosmetology the metal trades those are not programs that we would be able to offer on our campus so being
042able to partner with our local Bo to provide these career opportunities for our kids should remain a top priority for us as a district I shared this slide with you once already but let's talk a little bit about our forecasted revenue and then those forecasted Appropriations so as I mentioned the last time we talked about General support Transportation the increases emplo in employee benefits and Debt Service and other this time we are talking just about instruction so you'll see that very large portion of the budget and then of course it's time to begin at least talking a little bit about our projected revenues so I'm actually going to toss um to Mr kaon for him to share a little bit about what we're expecting in Revenue so for Revenue right now we're using the best
043data we have from the state and in fact the biggest the biggest increase that can be put toward instruction and operations is the increase in Foundation Aid which right now we're estimating to be about $470,000 the also the other key part of the revenue is the property tax and that looks like it'll generate about $175,000 of new money on top of you know if you think about the increases so both that amounts are sort of like the new money you can take use for the increases which as instruction as mostly people represents largely wages and benefits for all the staff and support providing instruction right now we have this forecasted appropriation where we're asking for a budget that takes care of all the things that we might need so you're you're not just including the
044pieces I just talked about instruction but if we go back to our last meeting we talked about equipment replacement plans we talked about making sure that we're funding our technology department to have replacement plans that we're not hoping for end of year spending but that we're actually planning on replacement this is what we would call the perfect view if we could build a budget that allowed us to fund all of all of the things in our budget and then we compare that against the forecast of our Revenue our budget Gap is $550,500 increase budget year over- year is there anything you'd like to add about this to you yeah I think just the key part is the increas you and I've talked about with Debt Service is with the new projects coming on and the
045way the capital projects are that number looks like it's increasing significantly but it'll be offset by an increase in building Aid so some of these AIDS on here some of the things that fund things like building Aid is based on how much you spend and you get a percentage of that back so in reality that's not driving the budget Gap it's you know the other things yeah so overall budget to budget year-over-year right now we're looking at a 7.26% increase year-over-year we are still waiting for state aid to come through so well like Mr Capon said we do have we do have some projections so we are looking at a projected increase for calonia mford of the 47306 but we're also watching what I would call a little bit of scurrying moving across it doesn't
046matter if you're talking to folks from nisba or from ncus or if we're talking about asbo the organization that helps our business officials everyone is really trying to gauge what is going to happen with the state aid formula so the governor did um she hired the Rockefeller Center and she asked them to study what the what our foundation formula Foundation a formula looks like and to give her some feedback on what we could do different they made quite a few recommendations and right now folks are just sitting back wondering exactly what recommendations are going to be implemented depending on the the recommendations that are implemented we could see some pretty decent Siz swings so I would just tell you that right now we will feel much better when we actually get a legislative budget we
047always feel much better when we get a legislative Bud budget but in a year where change seems to be a foot and everyone is moving about it does have that little added um not fear but like ooh if only we had real numbers that we were building this Budget on so that budget is expected on April 1st uh ontime budgets have become very rare when I was in Albany last week and up on Capitol Hill talking to our to our um our Senators and our assembly people asked the question of them How likely is it that we will see an ontime budget and almost every one of them said it is not likely so we are waiting on the budget to come through also wanted to give you guys a glimpse into our Capital Outlet
048project uh we told you that we are looking to replace some of the pneumatics that we currently have to go more digital so tonight just giving you some pictures of what that looks like I imagine just looking at it you can tell the difference between what is more original to this building with the pneumatic system there on the top and what it will look like for us when we become much more digital this particular Capital outlay project will take care of about 40% of this particular building so we'll still have about 60% of this work to do to transition the entire building off of the pneumatics and into the more digital era in our next meeting together when we talk about our budget we will be sharing with you a more refined budget uh Bruce
049and I are working with the administrative team we're asking them to be very thoughtful about their current expenditures asking them to look at programs that they are offering maybe things that are not quite as fruitful as they used to be asking them to consider the changes that we have had in the last last couple of years in our administrative structure and how might those administrative structural changes now actually create changes in other areas for us where possibly uh we can shift some responsibilities and become a little bit more efficient as they continue to look at their own programs and make recommendations back to us we will be looking at how those recommendations for not necessarily Cuts but maybe for trimming in areas that no longer serve Us in order to create the space for the
050budget requests that we are asking this year in order to do that I'll just remind the board that you have given us decision-making criteria and asked us to assess whatever it is that we're going to put on a list for the possibility of cuts or changes these are our guard rails as we're asking the administrative team to really look at their buildings and their programs they will be asked to consider the the guard rails and then Mr Capon and I will do the same thing when we make final decisions to bring back to the board we'll continue to monitor that one house budget and continue working with our Revenue projections so the next time we're together you should see a more refined budget our numbers will most likely um change in that we will begin
051talking to about areas where maybe we need to trim and it might not be what we've been accustomed to seeing it might not be that everything that the new asks that we have are the first things that come off the table it might actually be that there are some things that we have that we've been living with for a bit that maybe we want to reorganize in order to make room for new program so that I think might be a little bit of of a change for us and so as an as an admin team that's the kind of conversation that we're having as we're combing through what we do and why we do it uh before we come back to the board with with major Cuts or changes and last of course our save
052the date if we get an ontime budget we we would hope to vote on our proposed budget have the board board board vote on that budget on April the 8th if we do not have an ontime budget as you know we will push off until April 21st that is currently a scheduled board meeting for us we would not only vote on the budget but we' also vote on the Bose's budget and Bose's board members on at that time then on May 13th we will hold our public budget hearing and on May 20th we will actually hold our annual budget vote and the Board of Education election what questions do you have for us I have a couple um one what is the um census of like kindergarteners coming in I mean are we getting more
053money if we have more kids coming or not does make a big difference and Bruce jump in at any time so our our projected state aid is coming from our numbers and so they do look at our numbers over time we we have projections inside our student man management system that help with that so our actual ourada our census data that they're using does Drive our number but but I think partly an answer to the question is is that it's this year's numbers or the numbers that the state already has um that will drive next year's Aid they're always a little bit behind even though they're trying to catch up a b so more kindergarteners next fall won't change our Aid oh okay okay most likely unless that's good know something crazy and then the
054big one is the the um teacher contracts when does that get figured out cuz that's going to make a big difference isn't it it is so we we would hope to have a negotiated agreement by the beginning of May and all things considered and obviously as the board knows when we're building our budget we we we actually are going to negotiate around what the district can afford right so our budget and what you're looking at is US projecting what what we can afford to do in a contract negotiation cycle okay any other questions excellent thank you thank you next I'm going to move on to the secret for the 2025 2026 Capital outlay this requires individual votes by board members after I read this so I'll read and then we'll do I'll do a round
055table and do the votes resolution of the Board of Education of the Calon muffer Central School District determining that project for replacement of pneum pneumatic devices is a type 2 action March 11 2025 whereas the calonia mford Central School District is undertaking the replacement of the pneumatic control devices on various equipment at the middle school and high school and whereas the district now desires to comply with the New York State Environmental Quality review Act and the regulations in 6 ncrr part 617 adopted by the New York State Department Environmental Conservation with respect to the project and whereas presant to regulations the district has considered the project in light of the actions included on the type one list specified in section 67.4 of the regulations and in light of the actions included on the type two
056list specified in section 67.5 of the regulations and now therefore be it resolved by the Board of Education of the district as follows one the district has determined that the project constitutes a type 2 action because it falls clearly within the Ambit of three actions included on the type three list specified in section 67.5 of the regulations two the project is not subject subject to further review under secra and three notwithstanding that the project is not subject to further review under SEC the district will continue to comply with the New York State education department guidelines for school district implementation of the State Environmental Quality review and Associated charges in the SED building permit process which requires consultation with a New York State Office of parks recreation and historic preservation and for a copy of this
057resolution be provided to the New York State Department of Education I will go around and do votes individually Dr mcir yes yes yes yes yes and I vote Yes so we will sign that probably after the meeting's over and um submit that three acceptance of gifts to the school district resolve that the Board of Education upon the recommendation of the superintendent accept the gift donation of 30 new singlets from the calom wrestling club may I have a motion please so moved can I have a second second any discussion sounds good do you in our backup notes it was explained that there is a uniform replacement policy for that the district does have for this but this was a Beyond just a generous donation for people who might say wait a minute yes good question yeah
058all uh all in favor say I I any opposed that motion is carried number four approval of the 2025 2026 instructional calendar resolve that the Board of Education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve the instructional calendar for the 2025 2026 school year we have a motion please sure a second second any discussion all in favor say I I any opposed that motion is carried excuse me we are moving into executive session I would like to invite um Mr kapron in with us to discuss negotiations as long as there's no objection from the board and then we will excuse him when we're done discussing that resolve resolved at the Board of Education adjourn to the executive session at 6:46 p.m. to discuss the employment and employee history of particular persons may I have a motion
059please I'll make it a second y any discussion all in favor say I I I any opposed the motion is carried resolve that the Board of Education return to regular session at 8:36 p.m. can I have a motion please I'll make it a second yep any discussion all in favor say I I any opposed that motion is carried we're moving to Personnel 1 through two approval of substitute and approval of resignation result approval of substitute resolve at the Board of Education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve Justine lean Arthur as a teacher and tutor substitute for 2024 2025 school year motion please I'll make it second y y any discussion all in favor I any opposed that motion is carried approval of resignation resol at the Board of Education by the recommendation of the
060superintendent accept the resignation of an elementary teacher effective April 4th 2025 motion please I'll make it second second any discussion all in favor say I I I any opposed that motion is carried we're moving to adjournment resolve that the Board of Education adjourn the meeting of March 11th 2025 at 8:38 p.m. can I have a motion please I'll make it second yes second all in favor say I I I any opposed that motion is carried have a good night