001order. Please rise for the pledge. 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. I'd like to administer the oath of office for the newly elected board members and the superintendent. Um we'll start with um Jessa if you could stand and repeat after me. I, Jessica Reena, I, Jessica Reena, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of school board member of the Hamburg Central School
002District of school board member of the Hamburg Central School District board of education from July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2028. Board of Education from July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2028. Okay. Thank you. Congrats. Repeat after me. I, Laura Heater, solemnly swear I, Laura Heater, will solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And I will faithfully discharge the duties. And I will faithfully discharge the duties of school board member of the Hamburg Central School District of school board member of the Hamburg Central School District. Effective July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028. Effective July 1st, 2025 to July June 30th, 2028.
003You got it. Thank you. David Yi. I, David, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And I will faithfully discharge the duties I will faithfully discharge the duties of school board member of the Hamburg Central School District. school board member of the Hamburg Central School District effective July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028. Effective July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2028. Thank you. Sure. Okay. I, Thomas Adams, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York. and the Constitution
004of the State of New York. And I will faithfully discharge the duties And I will faithfully discharge the duties of superintendent of schools of the Hamburg Central School District. Yeah. No D at the discretion of the board. Next. Can I have a motion to approve the agenda of the July 8th, 2025 board of education meeting and annual reorganization meeting as presented? So move. Second move. Second. Okay. Paul. All those in favor? Any against motion? I would like to now call for the nomination for board. Call for nominations for the board president. Do I have any nominations? Like to nominate Cameron Hall. Cameron Hall. Um Tomlin nominates Cam Halls, president of educa, president of the board of education. Are there any others? Hearing no further nominations. Nominations are closed. Can I have a motion to elect
005Pam Hall, president of the board of education for the 202526 school year? I don't I don't think it's do a motion. Oh, you just you just called for a vote. Can I have a vote? All in favor of Cam Hall is president. Okay. Those in favor of Cam Hall say hi. I Any against? Congratulations, Cam. Thank you. [Applause] Do I I do? Yeah. Do I do the oath? Do don't I? Yes. Yes. [Applause] Okay. So, repeat after me. I, Cameron Hall, I, Cameron Hall, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And I will faithfully discharge the duties of president And I
006will faithfully discharge the duties of president of the Hamburg Central School Board for July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. for July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. Congratulations. That's great, I guess. Assisting some room over here. Thank you. Yes. So, you'll still do the swearing in for vice president. Oh, but you have to do the next one. Oh, right. Okay. So, now it's Christine's turn for the oath. I forgot this thing. Okay. Raise your right hand. I, Christine Youngberg, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of district clerk of the Hamburg Central
007School District. and I will faithfully discharge the duties of the district clerk of the Hamper Central School District from July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2025. 26. It says 25 26. You're right. Um from July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026. Okay. Congratulations. Okay. So now we will call for nominations for board vice president. So nominations are now open. Do I have any nominations for the vice president of the board of education? I have nominated nominate Laura. Okay, we hear nomination for Laura Heater from Tom Flynn. Are there any other nominations? I have one. I'd like to nominate Ashley Robinski. Ashley Repensinski from Chesena. Any other nominations? I would like to nominate myself. All right, we got uh Mary Odden nominated by Mary Odden. Any other nominations? All right. So, with that said, um I'm
008going to give I'll start with everyone who made their nominations an opportunity to sort of address the qualities of their nominee. So, Tom, do you want to say anything in support of Laura? Uh I think Laura is a an excellent choice. She's been on the board now for 12 years. She's very seasoned. She's very familiar with board procedures and stuff. She's been uh very active outside of the board with uh ECSB and with various committees. Um and I think she'd make an excellent session. Thank you. Any other comments on? Well, I think she's she's just a wonderful person and I think she'll do a a great job. You know, we all love her and been here a long time. She has the experience. She has a passion and um I know that she'll do a
009great job in vice sports. All right, Jess, do you want to start on merits of Ashley? I would love to. So, um I may be new to the table, but I'm not new to these meetings. Um for the last year, I watched Ashley at these meetings. Um and it really kind of came full circle when I just completed my training. One of the things that was kind of repeatedly said was to listen and learn your first year, but but do the work. Um, and after that, dig in. Uh, do more, take on more roles. Um, this is what you're going to make of it. And don't be afraid to to try and think big. Um, and as someone who kind of lives their life that way, I see those qualities in Ashley. I've seen her
010sit at these meetings for a year, listen diligently, ask very insightful questions. Um, and I think she has a great balance of passion for what she's doing with um, professionalism and keeping her eye on what's important and where the work needs to be, which is the district, our students, our staff. Um, I've worked with her in an executive board capacity for the PTSA. I've seen her ability to um listen to many different perspectives to take all of those into account and to work well with other people. Um and I think finally uh the last two years the community has sent three new board members to this table. Um and I think we hear a lot about uh experience and experience is great and I think that Cam as president is a great choice because he
011has that experience and he wants to be here um for the long haul. Um, and I think having Ashley, someone who is newer, learning directly from someone who's been here, um, will be a big benefit to the district. And I think it's that first step, uh, when we talk about building board unity and kind of building the the working relationship that we want to have so we can get the work done on behalf of this district. Okay. Thank you. Any other comments? Ashley, I hate to phrase it that way, but Okay, Mary, floor is yours. Well, I I actually echo a lot of what Jess said, but I'll also echo a lot of what Dave and Tom said um about each of the candidates. Ultimately, the reason I nominated myself is I am was able
012to I feel like I am a good bridgeuer. I feel like I was able to work really well with Ashley on our time here. Obviously, we ran together. We ended up working really well together. I feel like I've made pretty good connections with a lot of the folks on the board and you are president now. You and I have worked on a couple of committee meetings together. I think you and I have pretty good rapport and ultimately the vice president works under the president. I think that if we're talking about unity, we have to work together. I think I have learned a lot, have a lot more to learn. makes sense that I would be a good choice. But at the end of the day, we all need to work together. I think I would
013be a good choice for that. That is my pitch. Okay. Thank you. Any other comments from board members that didn't get a chance to speak yet? All right. So, we'll we'll go in order. Um, all in favor for Laura as vice president of the board of education for the 2025 2026 school year say I. I. So that makes four. Uh, so the vote is in favor of Laura. Therefore, Laura is elected vice president of the board of education for the 202526 school year. You will not be sworn in by the district clerk. What you doing? Did you? It's not what the script say. It says the script. Raise your hand. I, Laura Heater, do solemnly swear I, Laura Heater, domly swear um that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will
014support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. and I will faithfully discharge the duties of vice president. And I will faithfully discharge the duties of vice president of the Hamburg Central School District Board of Education of the Hamburg Central School District Board of Education from July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026. Congratulations. Thank you. up there. Is mine right? All right. I know. I've been stuck here. This isn't Well, thank you everybody. I appreciate the um first of all, I appreciate the support for president. I I also uh it's the first time in 10 years that Tom Flynn hasn't been the president. I just want to acknowledge Tom for I mean 10 years. It's a it's a pretty
015incredible run and I appreciate the nomination and I I just really respect the heck out of everything you've done the last 10 years. So, thank you for that. Congratulations, Laura. And I and I really appreciate the dialogue from all the board members. Um so with that we will continue. Um so now I am looking for a motion that Christian Nichols be the alternate designated exeicio student member on the board of education for the 202526 school year. So moved. Moved by Ashley. Seconded. Second by was Mary. Yes ma'am. Any discussion? All in favor? I all opposed. Motion passes. So congratulations to Christian Nicholas who's not here, right? Christian is not here. Tell him we applaud. This is Max. All right. So we're going to jump into executive. I'm looking for a motion to enter into executive
016session for the purpose of discussing discussing a collective bargaining agreement with the district. Moved by Ashley. Second. Second by Laura. All in favor question. Is that all we're discussing? That is all we're discussing. Yes. All in favor? I. All opposed. We will move to executive. I thank you for bearing with me. All right. Can I have a motion to end executive session and return to regular session? So moved. So moved by Dave, seconded by Laura. All in favor? I opposed. We are back from executive session. All right. Uh moving on to item C, information items. We have board briefings. That's just a summary of the last meeting. No information items. Future board of education meetings. Our next meeting is August 12th here again. Uh and then September 9th here again. Um meetings, workshops, reservations. So
017there's some interesting stuff in here. I don't know, Jessica, you and I were talking about this. The law conference, I think, is actually a really great opportunity. I've been to it once or twice over the years. I think that'd be a great one. Brandy, do we book all those through you? If anyone's interested. So, so if you see any of these that you're interested in, I would just encourage you to reach out to Brandy and she'll register us. I was going to do two. Yeah, great. You can no limits. Anyone can get the train. Yeah. And there's costs to it, but it's very modest, right? You're talking the uh the EC ASB one at Salvators on August 6th. Yeah, that's a good one. Okay. They have speedboarding this year, which is like sometimes they don't
018do that. Yeah. Yeah. That forms. Yes. Um item C5, we have some first reading of some policies. Um the max temperature in the buildings and the artificial intelligence policy. Uh first reading on school safety, evacuation, advanced coursework, uh budget transfers. Um this one I I uh appreciate the the transparency here. This is this does a really good job of sort of itemizing how we move this money around. So I I appreciate that. So we'll move on to um committee reports. Before we do that, I'm going to call a little and I'm going to give the floor to Mr. Adams for one moment. Yeah, here's my moment. Tom Flynn, just want to thank him again. I know Cam alluded to it, too, but thank you for your your work as president over the years. You were
019a uh you're a great mentor as I started my role in January. So, um we thank you for this. We put a little certificate together and then a uh an establishment card there for you, which will be remain nameless. There's no uh no sponsoring. Uh certificate of appreciation. This certificate is proudly awarded to Thomas Glenn in recognition of your time spent as the president of Hamburg Central School District Board of Education. The district is grateful for all that you have accomplished in your leadership role and for your diligent, dedicated service to the community. So, thanks so much. Thanks. So, we'll move on to board committee individual reports. We are going to start with you, Max. The floor is yours. I understand it's summer. If you have nothing to say, there's no pressure, but feel free
020to speak about any student matters you wish. So, I think we only have like two things going on. Um, one thing was graduation where we handed out water. We didn't sell it this year, so we just hand out water for free to people coming in and we sold out in like probably like 10 seconds. You sold out free water. So, there you go. Um, that was great. And then uh uh we have our uh school sport camps in full swing. So um all the sports are kicking up thankfully, which is nice. That's pretty much all I have. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. So we'll try to start with you each each month. So you know, feel free to bring to us each month any sort of student related issues that that come up that
021you want to bring to the board. So, good job so far. Thank you. Um, let's see. I always leave somebody last. You always get left last. So, let's go last, but now I'm first and there's no committee meetings that have happened since the last bill meeting. So, I am uh I got nothing. Okay. Um, I was at the transportation meeting with uh Mary and Laura and Christine's her name. and uh as Lindsay and uh we discussed what we're going to discuss later on, but it was a good it was a good meeting. We're also at I was at the finance meeting um which again we discussed the transportation issue which I know we're going to go into deeper later on. But then also I was at the the music boosters uh meeting last night. You
022know they have 144 members. They only it's only their sophomore year um and they're doing a great job. uh Sue, Liz, and Don. Um a great group of parents were there, alumni, community members that we just just wanted to know, you know, what was going on. They're doing a lot of great things. Um and as we remember at the last meeting all the uh donations that they made um as they raised money, you know, and they're they're raising money. Now, is is is one of you going to talk on 716 or Okay. Um, give 716 is on the uh I believe on the 16th and 17th 15 and 16. 1516. And that's it's a you go and just Google give 716 and it's sponsored by the Bills and the Savers. Um, and you just search
023for if you just put Hamburg in there, Hamburgers will come up and then you can go there and donate money. Um, we're going to have prizes, you know, along the way. s the Sabres and the Bills. So, you know, there's many different groups, you know, raising money this way. Um, and so give 716. Is that correct, Sue? Yes. Okay. But they did it a couple years. They raised a lot of money and you can join your organization. So, the um Hamburg boosters are doing that. So, u there'll be more on that later. We'll try to get some email blast out and some Facebook post on what to do. Um we have a corporation that's matching the funds. So we hope to raise um around you know hope to get to at least six grand and
024uh so spread the word give 716 um for for a great thing and they do such a great thing. Of course, that list of instruments and stuff that they bought was just unbelievable. On the law conference, um that's August 6th. You know, um NISBA's um attorney is going to be there. Um and that's that's be huge to hear from him. Carl Kristoff's going to be the facilitator from Hen Ross. He is a very very uh wellspoken um guy on education law and it's to get a chance to hear him speak is is great and then Jeff Swak it's is going to be there to talk about capital projects and you know everything else that's involved with it you know everything else so I highly recommend going to the law conference anybody here thinking they're going
025to go or okay all right so you'll just love it it's an all event, but that was at Salvatore's. So, they move quick though. They do. And then, you know, you have to pick, you know, you have to pick which program you want to go because they're they run concurrent, but uh it's a uh I just highly recommend it. And then is everybody signed up for boards and bruise? Jessica is are you? I will probably show up. Well, okay. Well, call tomorrow. Today was the deadline, but call tomorrow. I'm sure I'm sure there's no problems, you know, with uh going but they just want they're just looking for a count on number of people, you know. So, you know, you saw the have food and obviously beer, you know, so just make sure you have
026to call yourself. Randy doesn't do it. So, you have to call yourself. No, me and Lori go way back. Yeah. All right. So, Randy refused to imagine. But, uh yeah, just make sure you all sign up. And that's that's all I got. I don't want to waste any more of your time. Go ahead. All right. Thanks, Dave. I'll go last, so why don't skip me next? Um, also at the transportation meeting, uh, which I enjoy the dialogue that goes along with that. Um, and I wanted to talk a little bit about graduation. First of all, it was beautiful. It is always, I would say, the highlight of the year for me. I I've loved it ever since I've been on the board, watching the excitement and the thrill of the kids, um, and all the
027the uh work that goes into putting it on on our field, the the sound, the lights, everything that goes on there. I just want to thank everybody who um worked so hard to make that happen. And it was such a gorgeous night. And those of you that were there, I mean, you couldn't ask for anything better with the breeze after the humidity that we had had. Um I loved. Um, I did want to touch on on this and it's just something that's been on my mind a lot and I feel like I we this is the place to to to mention it. Um, I think over the course of the last 10 years, we've done a great job of keeping politics out of our board of education. We are here for students first and foremost
028and to support our teachers, which we've have when different political things have come up over the course of the years. um our students um that joined the military um they're acknowledged at the beginning and and asked to stand. Um I would like to ensure that moving forward um all of the board stands when they're being um acknowledged. I feel like as members of the board of education, we have to be supportive of all students, no matter what pathway they choose. Um and I was troubled by the fact that all of us weren't standing. So um I just did want to mention that um because it will be here next year. Um those students are are choosing to defend our country and want to honor them in the way that they should be honored. So I
029wanted to share that. Um and again I'm just congratulations to all of the students and all the different pathways that they take after graduation. And I'm proud to be part of a district that acknowledges all the different ways that uh all the different um career choices or workforce choices or trades, military, whatever it is that the students choose to go into. Um and I don't think I had anything else. Transportation and graduation. Um got together with uh Laura and Ashley to talk about our retreat. Um so we got the uh I think we got strong structure for that and we'll have a think a good program for um that day at the end of the month. Um also the the finance committee most of of which we'll be talking about later. So just some some
030good uh background on that. Um and uh of course graduation uh it was great obviously for me it was extra special. So it was it was it was it was pretty it was nice. U I've got to say over my 10 years it's been been cool. um because we've kind of changed venues. I think we've kind of much settled with with Howfield Field now, but um you know, since I've been president, I've done it at Fairgrounds, uh at How Field, at Klein Hands, at the Bills Stadium, and then back to How Field again. So, it's been it's been it's been pretty cool and I'm sure everybody's going to miss my oddball musical quotes that I always throw into my speeches. That's all I got. Thanks, Tom. Mary. Um, well, I was at the transportation meeting
031as well. I thought it was very illuminating. Um, and graduation, your speech was amazing. It actually literally brought a tear to my eye. I mean, the students were great, but I also liked that you opened with like a this is going to be just crap speech and then it was amazing. Um, this is going to set expectations. Yeah, it was uh which blew me away. Um, and you're right, it was a beautiful night. Gorgeous. Uh, and I was expecting it to be so uncomfortable and it was lovely. Um, but yeah, I don't really have Other than that, y'all have covered everything. So, I don't really have anything additional to say. Um, I look forward to additional meetings. Should be fun. Thanks, Mary. Jessica, anything to add? Might think I have nothing. Um, but, uh, looking
032at the person here thought something to add. Looking at the agenda, I'm really excited because there is something we're going to be um voting on later regarding the small engine repair club. And I was able to sit down with Mr. Lowour and Mr. Patillo. Um because this club is going to be formed um in part I mean a lot of that is Mr. Patillo and his desire to have this club, but in part due to the uh it takes a village 5K and the PTSA funding that we are providing. So, um I'm excited to see that on there and to get that uh that club going because Mr. Patillo um has a lot of passion for what he's doing. He's really excited to bring that to the kids and I think that's why we have
033the best people in Hamburg. Um I will note um as someone new at the table, I would um like to think that any personal disagreements would not be discussed in a public forum. Um and I would like the the leaders of this board to to set that example. Thank you. All right. Um, so that leaves me my my updates. Um, policy committee just met. Uh, we reviewed a number of policies, including the ones that are on the board now. Uh, the IDA, we have our monthly meeting tomorrow. There's actually not a ton of new business in the IDA these days, but uh, we recently approved that Riley Boulevard project that I think I had mentioned last month. Um, that's Brian Becker, Randy Fenton. there, the Main Street Ice Cream Fellas. Uh they're planning a similar
034project on Riley Boulevard. So again, emphasizing, you know, we're more than Amazon and FedEx. We're we're trying to help Main Street as well, literally Main Street. Um but I thought it might be a good Mr. Adams and I have been discussing this. I thought it might be good for an upcoming meeting if I invited Sean Doyle to come and speak on sort of the mission of the IDA and maybe speak to some of the projects we've we've undertaken recently. So, uh, getting a couple nods. So, I I would really like that. If that isn't clear from my energy. Yes. Thank you, Maria. Picked it up. Uh, strategic planning. Um, assuming I stay on that committee, that's to be determined. But, um, if I do, then I'll be participating there on July 14th. Uh, finance committee
035met yesterday. We we really discussed, Dave touched on this already, but discussing the funding, not transportation increase. I mean, I I I understand it's a difficult situation we're in. I I do I do appreciate that meeting. I do feel a little bit better about the situation and how we'll we'll pay for that that increase after that meeting. So, I appreciate that. Um, and I had my Boseies uh meeting the other day. I was uh sworn in as a Boseies member. It's it's a bit like uh Oliver's travels. I got dumped on all of the terrible committees who have got a sign to me. I'm the voting delegate and I'm sit way at the end of the table, but um it's uh it's it's a cool experience so far. Um and I did have a question.
036So, um I hadn't heard anything official, but what did the know it's not a committee, it's an ad hoc committee, the uh retreat um the retreat committee. Did you guys what did you guys decide as there anything you can share as far as agendas or or when you want to share like if you want to just email that's fine too I just want to know what's the plan for yeah let's get so in terms of the discussions and everybody can can add add to it certainly who was there if it was myself was Ashley Tom and Laura and what we discussed was sort of a traditional opening uh looking to have a circle uh to be able to to get to, you know, connect with each other a little more. Had I had a a
037thought that was contributed about doing a team building uh exercise there and uh um so that's going to be in addition to something um that we've done. And then we're really looking at a couple different components. The first being digging into the board self-evaluation through the super avail tool that we use this year that you use this year. Um that would be sort of like a a conversation you can say led by you can say facilitated by um but but Cam will be um the idea would be be leading that component of it. Uh there's also a look at the evaluation of me uh and my performance in this and whether or not we want to continue with um all the components of the super val that we had this year with it or if
038there's a if if it if there's a good argument to narrow that focus a little bit and to keep some things and to to leave leave some other items out. Um then the afternoon what we were taking a look at was the idea of uh inviting uh invite getting getting a few voices in terms of uh capital projects, how those are funded, what sorts of decisions go into that. Uh bringing Rick Gansy from Capital Markets to help us advise us with that. uh having Sean Fallon from Turner Construction, having uh um Lewis Rosario and Mike Noga from Gordon Jones speak to us about those things as well as we begin really the the as we continue our planning but we that we that we discuss among the board about what our vision is for the
039last component of this capital project and what we're moving towards um for a future project. The last thing that we aside from closure, uh the last thing that we talked about um was the idea of having a discussion, not coming to a conclusion about goals, but a discussion about goals that would presumably continue at the board table uh in August or September and then adopted. So that is the that's sort of a thumbnail sketch on my end. Ashley, Tom, Laura, if you've got things you want to contribute to that or clarify anything that I said, certainly welcome to. I think that's a good overview of what the day will look like. thinking the high notes, but also we did say we were going to with as many changes as we had over the past year
040with three new board members coming on with you taking over the lead of our ship here at Hamburg. We did say we were going to start to maybe review or establish some expectations or policies. Not policies, policies is a bad term. Um procedures for us, operating procedures for us as a board. That's a great idea. Yep. Not a 30 page policy. Not in a 30 page written policy. Nothing formal. It was like general conversation on expectations. That's a great for everyone. That's action-packed agenda. I appreciate the Cam. You can take the lead on that uh expectations if you want. Doesn't sound loaded at all. All right. Well, thanks. Um All right. Well, with that, we will move on to item D1 and our capital project update. So, I'll invite our buddies up. Just shot through.
041All right. Hello again, everybody. Um, as usual do, just want to run through a quick few points off of the uh report in front of you. Um, getting into some schedule milestone highlights for phase two. Um, just wanted to highlight some of the major spaces in the high school that are getting renovated right now. um efforts we're making to bring along some of the major components like the cafeteria and senior lounge. Um you see we we kind of had an initial milestone there of the 29th of August. We're pushing that to hopefully complete the 21st of August. Allow the district time to clean that up and put it back together. Um the boiler room, which is the big the big cheese here that you've seen some pictures of on the first slide, we'll go through,
042but that's on track. Um we did beat our demolition initial calendar date to 7:18. As of today, we effectively are transitioning to new work down there. Um, just finished clearing up the rest the last of that brick you see in the the pictures behind you. And then the LMC and Odd likewise, you can see we had some some milestone dates there to finish just in time in the summer. We've we've pulled some of those in. Uh, so far that said, um, you look at that 55 days up in the top right corner to completion of both the schedules. I want to thank staff and administration in this building and the high school for jumping through a heck of a lot of hoops the last couple weeks so we could really fire out of the gate.
043Uh because it's a it's a big ask in the high school. We're on task right now. Um for perspective, if you if you scan down to the safety metrics uh section for manh hours per month, that number there, 3,800 hours roughly was for June. Uh we're projected to be at 6,900 hours in July. So, just show you the ramp up of manpower in these buildings that are working. Um, scooting on down, the one thing fiscally I wanted to mention, there's not a ton of updates, but we do have one change order on the docket tonight for approval. That is CO2012, which is for the general contractor doing the phase 2 at the high school uh concept construction. That larger number you see as the two component change order there is for the high school odd
044upgrades that were requested by the district. So that's to get all new carpet and aisle lighting. And we did a whole bunch of plaster patching and painting repairs up on the ceilings and walls, which is actually complete and looks looks pretty darn good. Uh coupled with a credit, which is a $15,000 deduct essentially from their contract for final cleaning work, which essentially district staff uh has sort of taken on as we've moved through the building in small sections. We took that back from them from their original contract effectively. Um going into the pictures, um what you're looking at up on the screen is the high school boiler room kind of sequence here back from April all the way through last week. So the bottom right picture is where we were last week basically busting up
045the brick foundation underneath all those boilers uh after abatement work was completed. Like I said, as of today, they have cleaned up the last bit of that and we are moving towards pouring new pads and getting into the the new work in that space. This is from the odd that I just mentioned. So, we have we have installed underground electric for the new aisle lighting. Uh that is ready to go. We've also patched and painted above the stage where there was some delaminating plaster and cracks in the walls and repainted that again. That looks that was a heck of a lot better. And within the next week, we'll be starting carpet demo and and new carpet install. Uh so this is a before and after on the top of this page of the boys team's
046room uh space. So the ceilings have been demoed. There's actually a whole bunch of new steel work up in the ceiling. And this week we are actively installing new mechanical units up in that ceiling space gearing up to to put a new ceiling back down in that space. Bottom two pictures, we just wanted to highlight that uh that is before and after from original casework in elementary school art rooms to the new one in Charlotte in particular. Um those modifications we wanted to make for the teachers are done. They they happened a couple weeks ago. So that's the finished product uh specific to the Charlotte art room. That's Charlotte. Is that Charlotte? Uh actually no, that's our room. I'm sorry. That's here, right? Yeah. The top's the boys theme room. Yeah. Did you get the
047smell out of there? Uh these photos are back over in the high school. This is not a bug before and after of your cafeteria and senior lounge. I just mentioned before uh basically all the ceilings are gone. The sophets are gone. All the original duck work that was there is gone. And you are looking at you know open ceilings, new duct work and as of today sophets being framed around that new duck work, preparation for drywall and new ceilings to start in the next one to two weeks. Not much to update here other than phase three. Um, I left out, we don't have pictures of that today, but next month we'll get into that. Over here at the Armor Building, we have uh works started on schedule. Uh, we are about 40% of the way
048through demoing ceilings out inside the building and the the district has started some of the work on the playground and the the contractor to do all the new work on that will be showing up here next week to get going there. Um, no issues on that project's timeline of getting this closed out this year in this building. And then phase four, again, that's the Union Pleasant kind of final phase of this referendum. We are on schedule to continue to probably hold that uh bid date. You know, that has moved up to September and October of this year. Get that work started in the in the late winter uh spring of next year. Again, we have not made any adjustments to this as well. It's been up here monthly. This is just the the time frame
049for the next referendum that we're planning out right now with you guys. Anybody have any questions, comments, concerns? Just just with respect to the change order at the at the auditorium. So is that the cost? So we were already planning on sort of doing some demo and reconstruction of the floor. Is this the cost of the So is that correct? And is this the cost of the carpet or Yeah. So there's two there's two parts there really. So there's there was two changes. One of which we absorbed into their contract allowances. We've talked about those in the past where we build in um some allowances in the scopes for for unfor scenes or requests like this. So the portion of it that's in this change order is the new floor work um for tearing up
050the carpet, putting all new carpet in all new lighting. Um the other portion of that was the patching and painting and that actually got absorbed into an allowance uh with G with the concept GC. we just didn't like were we anticipating reusing that carpet or we just didn't anticipate doing like why did we not see this coming? I guess it was a it was a it wasn't part of the project at all. So it was it was a request once we you know once we realized we can we can pull this off from the capital budget and we're going to be touching the high up work to to repair the the plaster decided to go forward with some of the materials we did have for the aisle lighting um and get the the high school
051lights upgraded as well. Okay. Thank you. Y any other questions? Thank you. All right, moving on. Do a transportation update. You leaving that? Yeah, I'm going to leave that and Christine's gonna Okay, leave that for for some questions, sir. Appreciate Hi everybody. Thanks for coming tonight truly. Uh so I'll go through our slides with regard to transportation. Um I could sort of do a more extemporaneous one. Why don't I stick to the slides right now and then I can add some commentary as we as we move through. uh in presentation just so everybody knows great time for information to be shared and then for questions to be asked and for further dialogue to happen. So that's our hope with uh with right now. Um just to review for everybody uh in the spring around April
052uh we were notified by Fisherbus uh that um that they were not going to renew for the next year at CPI the consumer price index. That put us in a position where we were either going we needed to make a choice. were either going to go out to bid or put out an RFP, a request for proposals. We went through with an RFP because we decided that that was something uh that was um we could we could define our terms a little bit more in terms of what we would potentially get for those proposals in terms of uh um the services provided. Uh Fisher, it should be noted Fisher Bus did renew uh for summer 2025 for special ed and athletics uh at CPI. Uh we were able to meet with representatives from Fischer Bus
053uh myself and Christine uh in uh the third week in May and the discussion was about the desire for increased driver wages and need to retain drivers and to be more competitive regionally uh as prices increased for for as prices are increasing everywhere uh as as we know. Uh in terms of the RFP um there's five contracts within it. So, we don't refer to it as just one contract. There's five different ones. Uh, and they are home to school, which includes late runs, uh, field trips and sports trips, um, universal prek, uh, and then home to school special education, private, uh, and then and then some some other some other bus runs as well, um, that we're doing there. And then shuttle buses to Boseis, uh, Potter Road and Baker Road from there. All right,
054so those are the the five contracts that were out for that RFP. Uh Christine took uh a ton of time for this. Contacted the head of nice and transportation unit to learn about the process more in detail. Uh here's what was needed. The public notice uh requesting proposals, copy of instructions, proposal including specific criteria and waiting and minimum score with no single criteria being able to be over 50%. Then there was the score sheets and the contractor specs that were that went along with that. Um this is just background information. We wanted to have some context about transportation itself. Thought important to include this slide. Uh in terms of what what sorts of busing that we have um they're transporting approximately 3,800 students uh to schools in the district and outside the district. 36 regular
055runs and it's uh 37th was added late this year. Um and we have two late run buses, one at the high school, one at the middle school. Approximately 600 sports trips at 150 field trips. Uh we have three morning shuttles that go to Potter Road, two afternoon shuttles to uh from Potter Road back to school. Uh we had three shuttles that cover St. Francis, St. Peter, and Paul, and Baker Road. And then we had six morning UPK runs, six afternoon UPK runs, and 11 midday uh UPK runs there. And then 25 special runs, and 10 midday returns. Then you see the host of private charter schools that we're transporting for, the Fish is transporting for, and the uh the out of district placements as well. Um, one thing about the So, the bids were due
056at 10:00 on uh June 23rd. Uh, that morning of June 23rd, we had a bid delivered to us from Fiser. Uh, Christine received all sorts of queries from uh a bus company that decided not to put a proposal in. And then she also received in her office uh a what appeared to be a bid, but it was the proposal all filled out and then saying no. essentially with that because they can get more into that if I've if I've uh made any errors on that on that part. What we had though in terms of the proposal that came in June 23rd. Uh June 26th we got an update um from Fiser about the proposal and the update did a couple of things. Now one is you know we wanted to take a look at is
057this something that we can look at and it is indeed for reasons that we'll share in a moment it is indeed something that we can look at. Um but the it it broke down in this way. Whereas all those five of those runs, four of them had a 20% increase in cost, one of them didn't. So there was a change there. That was part of this the June 26th um you know new proposal. Uh, keep in mind the June 23rd one was binding there, but the June 26th one um contained that 20% increase for that one run home to school increase of $14 and that that late run per mile piece. And then what we had, so that's going to be an increase there. There's a small decrease with that per bus per day, AM
058PM only for UPK. And then we saw some decreases through here. So we have um basically using a different mileage rate. So contract number four home to school special ed private ed unhoused out of district that went down to 34247 and then the shuttle runs also went down. Um, and as you compare and what what Christine did in in in her office was took a look at a comparison of the two, the one from June 23rd and the one from June 26th. And what they found and like projecting out is that there was an increase based on that increase to the home to school num the contract number one of $6,130. Uh, and the late run per mile went up about 2500. But then what we saw was a decrease based on those other changes
059to that contract uh to that proposal from the June 26 proposal to the tune of $546,000 for that contract number four. And then for contract number five, the shuttle runs uh almost to $65,000. And then you see some de a decrease also with the AM or PM uh per bus per day total as well. Uh so that was a savings of almost $650,000 from there from the proposal that came in on June 26th. Uh as you take a look at this, you've got a comparison of what the 2425 costs were and then you see what we projected in the budget which was put putting it right around CPI right around the consumer price index. That was if we would have gone if if Fiser would have gone with this CPI increase rather than having us
060go with the the RFP process. You see what the increase would would have been or the total would have been. And then you get the cost for 2526 for the 20% increase. You can see the amount that we're over budget there. In the back of your mind, keep thinking about the fact you get aid the following year. So the 2425 cost that 5,114,465 that's what we would get aid on this year. Next year you'd get aid on the uh the amount that we're paying this year for it. So your I mean when I say your aid increases it's because your total price increases. It's not trying to they're not trying to to make a make a statement like it's it's actually like we actually gain money out of this. It's just that our aid increases
061with it. that would go on to to next year's next year's books with it. Uh Christine uh took a look at and we're not going to name the districts. We don't think that's the the right thing to do within this setting to name the the other districts who uh who contract out for busing because keep in mind a lot of folks own their own buses. Um we have some comparisons to some local districts. Uh something to keep in mind here, local district number two, um they're only using it uh they're using district buses for that. And there's some some limitations in terms of what the information we could find from other districts. Uh but you can see where that home to school if you just take a look at the home to school per bus
062per day. 546 for us proposed for next year. There's a neighboring district that's 454. Another one that's 422. Your field trips and sports. Um you get you can see the the information there. Um, and then you have other districts that set rates by per pupil rather pre per pupil per day rather than by bus. And that's where you get it. It's it's not always an applesto apples type comparison with it. Um, those are the slides we have with it. I would like to start just why don't I turn it over to Christine real quick to have her clarify some things that she's like, "Nope, we got to make sure we're mentioning that part of it." And then if we could have the discussion from there if that's okay. Is that all right? Okay. You've got
063your mic, so you can But if you want to go to your slide, you don't have to just just talk. Yeah. Well, I'll start with this one if you can all hear me. Um, so I reached out to the districts that I did know contract out um for transportation. There were two that did not respond to me. Um, but there were these four that did. Districts two and three only contract out special education. So, um, they do in-house transportation for everything else. So, that's why it says NA, they don't, you know, pay a contractor. So, um, it it was it's very hard to do a comparison. If you look at especially at special ed where we're paying for the bus for the day, um, it's more common to to be build by a contractor based
064on a student per day. So, if you have only one kid on the bus, which is rare, we do have one bus run that does have one child on the bus. Um, we're paying 347 um and another district would be paying depending on where they're driving if they're far away from the district somewhere between 120 up to $775. If more common, I asked Lindsay, well, what is the average number of special ed students on a bus? So, you know, we knew when she said seven. So, if your build per student per day, like it could be $1,400 um like for district number three. District number four is is like us um for special ed and they're paying for um for the bus per day. They're not built per student, but again, it's more common for
065your build for every special ed student who drives every single who you're driving every single day. Um, if you're looking at the driver rate, um, we're a little lower than district number one, but higher than district number two. If you're looking at the monitor rate per day, bus attendance, um, we're a little bit higher than the other two districts who have monitors on their buses that they pay for. Um, there was only one district who is build for shuttle buses. Um and they're a little bit less than um what we would be paying next year. AM or PN only bus. There's only one district number two higher than what we are paying. And then for the midday runs um district 4, which is like comparable to us, they're they're paying um quite a bit more
066than we are. So I don't know if anybody has any questions on that slide. And and they're they're likely to be questioned. I I sort of I I I neglected to mention one other component that we know is you know this is something we've talked about one-on-one uh a lot like with with with uh o over the course of these months. I do want to address the idea of proximity. All right. That was part of the proposal. Absolutely. Like we waited that weighed that heavily. We as 25 uh out of the 100 was that that proximity was a big deal for us. We thought that that that the garage being within our district or certainly very close really mattered to us and mattered to our families. And I just say that was the rationale for
067the waiting like that. We felt like we were in good shape. I felt like we were in good shape by not having it at 50. 50 was the maximum you could weight any one thing. Um we did weight it at 25. Uh if I recall correctly, not that I was part of the scoring team with the proposals, but the Fiser proposal came in at 70. uh that that there's that there that should there have been other groups who proposed something it could have been likely even without that 25 that they could have gotten above 70. But I know there's questions about that and I'm certainly open to them. But uh why don't I hand the mic over here and I'll join the table as part of that conversation. I have a clarifying something I want
068to just clarify that I learned at the transportation meeting because I think it's I learned this at the transportation meeting and I think it might assuage some people at the table. Um, part of the reason we had to do the RFP and it that threw our budget off is that we learned about this Fisher Bus came to the table kind of late in the process and said, "Actually, JK, we aren't going to renew." Please correct me if I'm wrong, but uh as I understand it, we basically put into their contract, you need to tell us way beforehand if you are going to change anything. Is that correct? So, what's in the contract is if Fisher does not notify us that they're um not renewing at CPI by March 15th, the contract renews at CPI. So
069this will give us plenty of time before budget adoption in April, you know, April 22nd or whatever the date was this year. So that's what hap that's what put us in the tough situation this year is that we adopted the budget and then they told us that we're not renewing it CPR. We can't change the budget once it's adopted. So um to protect the district, I wanted to make sure we had something like that in the contract. We want to know before if we need to increase the budget, we need to do it timely. Okay. Um and great point. Yes. So I wanted to make that clear because obviously that that is what is putting us in a such a precarious position. Um additionally uh did I hear did I understand correctly that this is
070essentially an autorenew contract? Well, it is renewed at CPI if it's your bus chooses to renew at CPI or if they don't tell us um but by an auto. So, yes, it's it's just like we were we did have for years. It was renewing every year at CPI since 2017, I think, for quite a long time. Okay. Um and I guess Would it be our choice? No, no, go ahead. I'm I'm sorry. Would it be our choice, and this is not a planted question. Would Would it be our choice if we said, "We think there's a better offer out there. We're not going to We're going to put out the RFP and see if you can do it again next year." Yeah, but it is a one year. That's where I was going with it.
071Yeah. I was like I You could see the wheel spinning like how do I say this? It's an autorenew with our choice to put the RFP out there because I think that would be appropriate. I I I am I I learned from this meeting that, you know, Lind Lindsay did not write the RFP. It was outside of her control. It was people outside of Western New York. So, she, you know, she's beyond it's beyond her control. It is beyond the existing partnership that we have had for so many years. Um, I think that's something to keep in mind that as economies change, as relationships change, it behooves us to be thoughtful about our RFPs. You know, it's business. It's it's not nothing personal. We need to be thoughtful about the times. They are changing. Um,
072but I do appreciate it. really helped me feel better that we had the option that we put in the contract language like autorenewal at CGI that that made me feel a lot better. So, I appreciate that. Thank you. How many other companies reached out to others? And did they at any point state why they didn't submit a bid or do they have questions about the RFP as it was written and whether or not they would be seriously considered or not? No. Um it was more like general questions not you know just clarifying our bus runs things like that nothing about you know anything of why they would or would not put a bid in I have some um guesstimates of why um one particular company um decided to do the no I mean they signed
073off every single page dropped it off to me on the 23rd before 10:00 and said, "We read it out, but we're not putting a bid in." And my guess is because they don't have the buses that we need. It's the It's the company that is using um district number three, they're using their school buses to provide the services. How did we come up with the five mile figure for proximity? Um it was just important to us. We talked about it as a cabinet level. So, and I'm just wondering in terms of if it would have been seven miles, would that have increase the number of up of 20%. Okay. Um, so the figure of the total increase is $820,000, correct? Based on that one slide. Yeah. Have we over budget? Yeah. Over what we budgeted
074for. Correct. Um, have we looked at the transportation budget and before we do anything? I mean, I know routes aren't done yet, but are we looking at making cuts? So, that is not the final total. So, um, they do have a new routing software which is I feel like it's much more efficient. So, it routes the routes. Maybe Brent knows more than I do because it is technology, but it puts the most efficient route for you. Um, but you can move like a stop. It's like it's um too dangerous this location or you really can't go down scooter lane. Um um that the bus stop is here and and they have the ability to move that stop. So I think the efficiency um is one thing that's going to help us. The other thing that
075will help us is with the UPK um contract. The reason I said no increase is because I'm confident we can reduce the number of runs because we took uh two half day classes make it a full day. So that's instead of transporting four times, you're only transporting two times because it's 18 less kids, they're going full day instead of half day because that's what our parents um the weight list was just so much longer for a full day. So that's why I said that I don't think there will be an increase for UPK transportation. Looking I'm sorry I'm like monopolizing time but um looking at those UPK numbers specifically we only bus one way. Correct. For UPK they don't get to and from they either get to or from or is that they get they
076get to and from home or so am PM the the half day classrooms get both to and from. Yeah. Yeah. So they're coming in. They're going home with the full day kids. Do you know what I mean? So for those do we have the numbers of how many UPK kiddos ride buses? Well, the routing isn't done yet. Do we have numbers from this past year? Um I'm sure I could get those from Fisher. Um I would love to see those only because I had the benefit of standing in a building and watching that and we have fullsize buses with one child. there were five or six buses that would sit outside of Charlotte Avenue and one child would board two. If a if that child was absent that day, you have buses with zero children.
077Um, and if that's the portion of our transportation budget that is unaided, I feel like we should take a deep dive into how many families we have that are utilizing it, how many are choosing to transport. Um, this was a conversation I had with Cam earlier. I believe a couple years ago we stopped transporting Charlotte Avenue kids that were within a certain proximity to the school. Is that correct? I wasn't here a couple years ago. No, we transport all kids. It was okay. always and I'm going back to when my kids were in Charlotte on Charlotte the bus. Yeah, I could be wrong, but I'm almost positive we talked about it, but I don't think that that was transportation was offered to all prek kids, but we can check on it. I could be wrong
078with that. I think I probably shouldn't even mention it, but now that you mentioned it, I feel like there was something in the policy for NISPA that was like they were advocating for a policy for opt out, which makes me believe that it is available because why would you be advocating for a policy for opt out if it wasn't always available? This is not very useful because it's me kind of half remembering a thing. Well, that and that and that would have nothing to do with UPK. Well, it's busing. Yeah, I know. But you you've got to separate the two because UPK UPK we do as a benefit to our district. Uh K through 12 were required. So that so that's that's where that that so that's that's the opt out that they're that they're
079talking about is if if a child's being busy parents is but that would an opt out that would make a lot of sense because do we have a formal process for UPK parents to opt out or are we stopping at every house even if they're transporting their own child they tell us what they're doing we have walkers we have busers like parents that drive in parents there's an informal opt there is an informal op it's not an opt out it's parents choose so I think that that's different they're not opting out of transportation. They're choosing the way they want to bring and sometimes they might bring a kid two days a week and do a drop off and other days they might take transportation three days, but we but we design it so that everybody
080can. Is that right? Is that how we design it? We offer it to all UPK students. Absolutely. Right. And then and so we plan it that way like that in terms of like budgeting and planning we is that the assumption like when we're calculating the numbers we we assume yes because we we that's the model we we design it on the model that everyone says yes I don't budget that way I look at actuals from you know previous years with the CPI increase and I budget dollars I don't budget it and budget expenses, not like the special ed uh contract for other districts where you're by kid. I don't do it that way. It's by it is by bus. Sorry, that's why I'm getting it by bus but not by kid. It might speak to
081that ridership audit that you would that's another thing in this contract too. We need to do a put in that the every day for the four first four weeks of school that Fisher will do a ridership audit for our buses to make sure that we are maximizing the space and being as efficient as possible. So then they would have had a ridership audit last year. No, that's in this RFP that was just done. Oh, but they didn't do it in 2017. rather did they do it in 2024 2025 like this previous school year they would not have done a writership audit it wasn't in the original RFP that was the from 2017 that's just been carried but they wouldn't have it in their own data files they do not audit every day the number of
082kids that get off the bus other than maybe anecdotally from and we don't either so what we're required to do by law is um once every three years just send it to SED to know what our transportation aid is. So they look at the number of kids that we're transporting the expenses. So we we do a one-day audit, pick a day, any day between February, March, and April, I think it is, something like that. And it goes to the state just to so they know what your aid ratio is going to be. I think it would be appropriate to do that. I mean, if we're if we're in a I mean, it depends. That's why it's in the requirements. Yeah, that's why I added it. The the the thinking is like Yeah. Like like Jessica
083just said, like I sit on my porch and I watch that high school bus come up my street, pick up nobody, go back out and probably hit lay at go to the school and drop three kids off. We need we need if that happens every day. Like we can't ask parents, are you going to never take the bus so we never have to come up your street, but we can recognize that they're not likely to get on the bus and maybe consolidate some reps, right? Is that a fair? We we need just for clarity reemphasizing the conversation. We need to do an audit because there might be an opportunity here to consolidate, save some money and also just Dave, you'll love this. For sustainability sake, we could also reduce routes and that would be better
084for the environment. I'm that was that was my consolidation of the conversation thus far. Let me know if I Jessica, are you done? Yeah, I'm going to listen to some more questions. I just a comment. Um, you know, I will just say six kids that have gone through the district, some some houses we lived at, they were bust. um my youngest special needs how incredibly grateful I am that our bus garage is located here because I remember twice that I can think of that um my daughter Anna was on um her bus with her amazing driver little bus and there was a breakdown and you had kids with tremendous amounts of anxiety, sensory issues sitting on that bus and I cannot fathom if we had to wait 45 minutes, 50 minutes in traffic at that
085time to get another bus out. So, that is another piece that is huge to look at. Um, we live in Buffalo storms. I mean, that's, you know, not uncommon. So, I've always felt like it's a gift that we have, um, Fisher right here. Like, that's just we are very, very fortunate. I think that, you know, any any business owner uh, you know, if if they're running a bus company, if they have if they're if they have genuine interest in expanding their business, they're not waiting for an RFP. They're they're they're doing the leg work beforehand. So, they they would reach out to to us. Not saying that we can't reach out and say, you know, if you want to talk, we we we'd listen. But, you know, any any decent company, you know, would be
086looking for opportunities. Um I think that's uh part of the reason a big part that I mean they might look at it and say okay is this something we want to maybe explore in the future let's see what they're what you know what what's important to them um it's probably why they took the RFPs was to see what they had to do um and and the other thing we have to keep in mind is is there's a lot of uncertainty in that business right now with with what the requirements are going to be um for buses uh you know and if you're a new bus company I don't know if you want to start looking at you know where do I have to have a bus garage how many buses do I have to buy
087how many of them are going to have to be gas how much of is electric and how much is that going to cost and can I can I be competitive it's it's good that we have I think it's important to have that very strong working relationship with transportation partner um Fiser has been a a very good transportation partner since almost we've been transporting kids. Um not saying that they're, you know, it's the end all be all. Um you know, if somebody, like I said, if somebody wants to come in and start building a relationship, but um of vendors we work with, I I think transportation is probably one of the most important because I mean, we're talking about a vendor that that touches almost every single one of our kids at some point. So that
088working relationship and and we and you need that that element of you need that trust. They need to trust us. We need to trust that. Um I I you know it seems we we we for the most part have had it uh had it since you know when the Fiser family owned it. Um now that it's landmark for the last uh however long it's been five six years. Um I think it's been been decent. But, you know, somebody calls, I definitely would, you know, listen and let them know, you know, what our what our needs are. And I said, a company's not waiting for an RFP. I mean, they're they they've got the RFP if they're if they're truly interested in bidding on the business. They they've got the RFP. They they've got the RFP
089done and it's out there. So, they know what we're looking for. So, you know, if somebody's interested, they're they're they're they're putting a pencil to paper and saying, "Okay, can we make this? How do we can we make this work?" And but I think and I appreciate like the it's it's good to hear everything. I I do want like it it wasn't a a case of let's do like it it wasn't that like let's do the proximity so it's only one bit. It was here's this proximity. It wasn't it wasn't I like and I'm sorry I know you didn't verbalize anything. I saw I saw a bit of a facial expression there that says you don't believe me and I'm just telling you I like truly this wasn't the idea of let's make it so
090specific we're going to put down Fisher's address. I wasn't I well I just want to toss out like when I looked at it the thing that was really um surprised me. It was just the difference in like it was 20 more points for like it was 25 points for if you're in five miles and then if you're within 10 miles which there are buses that have I mean I started googling like where closest bus districts or like uh bus we call them bus landing pads garages like I was looking for where are these and there I mean there's supposedly one on South Park but it's within 10 miles instead of five. Now, I get not wanting a bus company that's like not within 45 minutes, but for 20% of the points to be the difference
091of maybe say three miles from one another, that it was a little unsettling to me to see that because it did seem like we somebody would have to come in 20% lower on cost just because they were three miles further. And that 3 miles or four miles like and if you were within if you were further than that 10 mile radius, you were totally out. like you can't beat somebody 25% on cost because part of being part of the cost is going to be based on distance that they're traveling, you know, to bless your students. So again, I 100% appreciate having the buses close. I just was surprised at the discrepancy between the five and the 10 mile and the large jump in points there. And I can completely understand that point and what I
092am trying to convey and it's really it's up to the folks here at this table and for those who are here and streaming is the if you can like clarify that that that motivation. It wasn't a group of people sitting down and saying let's make sure nobody else gets this but Fisher. It was what matters to us. What do we believe matters to our families? That was the motivation behind it. I understand that you disagree with what I ultimately went with with this. I totally understand. It's not that I disagree. I just wanted to like for me from a fiscal standpoint like looking at that now we have like it's like over a million dollars more than last year and $820,000 more than we budgeted. I would have liked to see the opportunity for some
093competition to potentially drive the bid a little lower. I'm not saying I would have said we don't want Fiser because they have been a good partner and people seem to like them or be satisfied with them. So it's not that. It was just it by eliminating competition with distance and cost did seem like doubling down on the same thing and it just was not as fiscally I I understand what you're saying like for sure that was that I do have questions about that though that are unrelated to distance if that's okay just real quick clarifying we had two propo two proposals for them why why did we have I was unclear on why we had a proposal on like the 23rd and the 26th they made mistakes so which one or the one from the
09426th we feel is more beneficial to the district. So that's why you prepared. Yeah. And it's part of the RFP. There's a component of it that says if there's changes to it, if it benefits the district, you can you can do it. Okay. So the first one is that they just made mistakes. Exactly. Yeah. I got a phone call on it and uh had a conversation. Uh the numbers were submitted and then Christina took a look at the compromise on it. Um, aside from just traditional increases, like we were predicting CPI. I was looking at that like did they give any insight into what else besides from salaries because I'm having a hard time swallowing like this million-doll increase for just bus salaries for the drivers. At the transportation meeting, um, Fischer's biggest problem is
095the drivers being poached by schools to pay more. So, a million dollars is going to Well, there all of them. Yeah, that's not all of it, but it's important. They have to stay competitive, right? They're always hiring drivers. It costs money to train a new driver. West Coach a bunch of drivers. We got to train new drivers. There's an investment in there. So, they're teamsters, right? I believe for sure, you know. So, you you have that. So, I think that's a uh that's a big, you know, and there Landmark is a huge corporation. I'm sure those guys sit up, you know, Brian and Barry Stock sit up there and look at probably salary. That's what I was asking. Like that's fine. You don't have to defend it. I'm literally Well, no, but it's just and
096it's it's all the other things that go into tires. When you said the CPI would cover some of the tires and things when you said we No, no way. Okay. I was just asking like our own insurance went up 9% for the district. So yeah, the 20 20% increase. That's why I was asking like what it is for aside from what we attribute to CPI, right? And you remember CPI, you remember a couple years back um um it it it actually was a decrease and you know so Fisher took a hit there, you know, and I just think that Landmark, this being probably their smallest um bus company, um looks at that and it has to be profitable, you know. So, um, they are a huge organization and it wouldn't take much for them to
097take those 80 buses and distribute them to to other places and tell us that, you know, they would have to find someone else. Did they have an advantage? They had a used advantage because they've been here since 1946. But, um, we really we really didn't have a choice. And I think, you know, the electric buses really is the next thing that, you know, landmarks have to tell us what their plans are. I'm sure they're waiting on legislation, you know, to see if they back that up, which I hope they do. But, you know, that's a big investment for them to do and they're looking at that. So, I wouldn't be surprised because it's a big corporation, too, that they're not paying as close attention and they're just like they're trying to have our market be
098as competitive with other markets. Like, it's fine. My question was answered. I got it. I'm not trying to berate you. just it's just giving it's giving big corporation. Gotcha. big corporation vibes. But it's just going back to what was coming. Okay. Um and then just just so I know you had mentioned that we'll get aid back on this. How much of our bus is aided? How much of the busing expenditures is aided back? 69.9%. But now they could change every year as you saw like this last year as Hamburg gets wealthier our aid ratio goes down. It's like point something of a percent. I mean they don't 69.9 is what it is today and that's that's on the every dollar of transportation expense. Well, not UPK, but um the other contracts, all the other Yeah.
099So, we really technology and other things that are in the you know, our gasoline. It's not just the Fisher contracts, it's the all the transportation expenses. Would would we be willing to um because right now we have so many kids committed to UPK classrooms and a weight list. Would it we be willing to put out a survey to those parents to see if busing would prohibit them from sending their kids to UPK? I bet it would. Well, I'm just saying as a parent, we didn't utilize UPK, so we had to transport to and from paid a cost. Um, and I think AM PM that schedule doesn't work for many people, which is why full day is the more desirable option for many families. But even then, a 9 to3 school day does not encompass a
1009 toive workday. So there is still the gap. Um but depending on what the wait list is, I took a look and West Senica, Orchard Park, Frontier, they do not bust their UPK codes. Um I did see East Aurora and Springville do, but it seems as though um the cost right now, many other districts are foregoing transportation because of the cost. So, I mean, I wonder that, you know, we we have to approve something, but I feel like that $820,000 figure, that's a tough one to to take, especially when a lot of the discussion last year about expenses was surrounding transportation and where we can make cuts and where we can find some savings. Million dollars more, I feel like we have a duty to find some savings there. Um I you don't want to
101cut everything though because I don't want to cut everything but when we talk about consolidating routes when we talk about not getting I mean looking at all that and then beyond that the main complaint I get from parents about Fiser is um it it's it can be hit or miss. Many days this year their kids were on double routes so their kids were on much longer. If you consolidate routes can you double up a bus with multiple routes? I mean, are there is there any language in the contract about what we expect from them performance-wise from their drivers and what we expect from them regarding, you know, how many how many days out of the school year we're going to have to double routes because you're short on drivers. I mean, they're saying they need
102a million more dollars because they need to pay their drivers, but then we're having to scramble and figure things out because they're not meeting their end of the bargain. Are we putting anything in the contract surrounding that? Um, there's not anything about doubling because we do have to get kids to school. So, I can't tie the district's hands by saying that no doubling up and that we have no choice. We have to double up. Well, no, we'll have to do what we have to do for the kids. But on their end, if it's a consistent issue where they are short drivers and we are having to double up, what are they going to do in response to that? Do we just have to tolerate it? I mean, they're saying they need more money for drivers.
103We're potentially going to give them a lot more money. So, on our end, what sort of guarantees are we getting from them that they're going to follow through? Or rather, are there any like penalties? There are Oh, there are in the there are in the contract. I wouldn't say that it was a very common in it was may may have been common for a week when a bunch of drivers had COVID at the time or the flu. M it was not throughout the whole school year where this was happening. It was very limiting and it was like a week in January and then maybe another couple days here and there. I'm thinking back to quite a few times last year my middle school students were on a doubled route or they were supposed to get
104a bus from one school to another and their bus never came. So they ended up walking and there was one instance that I did reach out to the district because the entire modified basketball team walked from the middle school to Union Pleasant. Their bus never showed up and that was during a time when there were no sidewalks because there was so much snow. So we have 20 kids walking in the street. Their coach is there waiting for them. 20 kids because their bus didn't show up. Like are there penalties for that kind of thing? Is there language in the contract for that? There is, but that is not always Fiser's fault either. There were times when a bus was never ordered and sometimes where a bus was not cancelled by either the the coach or
105the teacher going on the field trip and then cancelled or but forgot to tell Fisher. It goes both ways. Um and we have to pay in that instance. So it's only fair that I did put in this contract that there are some penalties that if for various reasons. Do you think that the this uh new software would help with communication? Oh certainly parent Yeah. But even with with our communication um no okay I don't think so. But it definitely would help with parents because for sure parents can Yeah. I actually you can track the buses so you know you know and actually this is uh something I sort of brought up during the transportation meeting but I so I want to bring it up again for clarity. Is it a best practice for parents to
106notify uh Fisher Bus if their child is not going to be riding the bus that day? I would say only if it's a special ed students that we're going to a very far place because so that's very common like when I worked in Chuaga if we were driving to St. ary school for the death. That's a hall. And if you've had one child or two children on that bus, I had siblings actually. Um, and if they weren't going, then absolutely it's beneficial not to, you know, drive all that way if the kids were not going because it's we pay for bus per day, right? Correct. So, it might also I'm just again just thinking of every little bit. It might also behoove us as an institution to like communicate that more clearly to those partners.
107Again, are we saving thousands of dollars with these things? No. But it what kind of standard operating pro procedures can we put in place where we are talking about this and communicating with everybody all the parties that use our buses to say in this situation we you save us time, you save us money, you save our district money like when you do these things and you keep our buses in line, we keep our buses our drivers safer and healthier and prepared for more emergencies when they they become available. So just trying to think of like okay what do we have the capacity to do today right now that save us you know nickels and dimes. I think you have to look at um from Landmark's position too if they come out with this this new
108contract and then we start cutting buses and they're they're not getting the money that they thought they would get. What are they going to do next year but come back and raise our prices? So I think you know cutting up UPK we did ask them to to trim up to three buses if we could. Right. Well we have to give we have to wait until we give them all the addresses of all the kids and they start the routing. Yeah. But well I disagree at that point. I am not thinking of Landmark. They're a third party vendor. I'm thinking of the school. A third party vendor. You don't have another choice. You don't you don't have another bus company that's coming. I mean, you have to look at the reality of it. You know, there
109is nobody else. Fisher's been here since 1946. You know, you know, do they have their foot on our throat? Hell yeah, they do. I mean, it's it's But I think you have to look at it both sides, though. Yeah. They they want what they want, but we need what we need. So, they they want our contract. We shouldn't be ordering buses that we don't need because we're afraid of what they might do. Yeah. I mean that's tax dollars. The audits didn't give us new information. Yeah. But information. I disagree with that perspective. I do want to point out it's a big corporation. You raise a point in travel. So you work with their competitor. You you think about there is that's not part of like that like that was a rate like an extension. Life
110is long. electric conversation. We're all talking here. So, I I just want to just share one one tiny perspective. UPK and you know, I know you were uh referencing districts that don't bust up UPK. That's part of what what makes Hamburg unique. that that's part of what makes me proud and humbled to be part of a community that cares and understands how important it is to have universal prek and prek specifically when you're looking at early intervention for kids and busing for those families is extremely important. So yeah, there's the outliers who might not be on the buses, but to not offer it in in my opinion would be horrible. I think we could combine those on a K through five route though. Do they need a dedicated bus for one child? I mean, most
111of those kids have siblings. I mean, you have siblings getting on different buses, getting on different buses. I don't know. I mean, I think it would be it would be I think I would think it would be a miss if we did not look at every possible option because we're talking about the families that utilize UPK. Yes. And those kids I've seen those kids in a building for two years. Those kids are amazing. But what I'm saying is we have an entire district and community who are paying these tax dollars and we need to make sure that we are looking at every possible option at this point so that we are being responsible to them. UPK there's a a hefty weight list for a full day most years. Um there is still the demand. Yes.
112And will the demand decrease if we change the way we transport them to school? There's no way to know. Um but I think to not look at every possible option at this point, it would it would be irresponsible of us. There was a time where we transported four days and not five and attendance dramatically decreased on day five when we didn't. So we do have stuff since we looked at that. Uh we looked at it during bad budget times recently. I would certainly say but I meant when when did we only offer it four days? Oh, a while ago. Um but I'm just saying we have a reference point to that and it definitely dropped off and then we have talked about it. But I think the the conversation has always been it allows our
113students to actually come to school, our youngest learners, and get our eyes on them. And that's really important. Whether it's full day, half day, we want those kids walking into our school. And we want them learning the business of riding a school bus. We want them learning the business of school and we want them knowing we're the safe place at the youngest age. And so by eliminating transportation, we really take that away from some families or eliminating it. It It's something that we definitely looked at. I can't give you the numbers right now, but personally, I think that would be a huge hit to our program. And we've seen our program one of the oldest ones in the area, and we provided transportation from day one. And I believe that's why we've had such a
114good program for so many decades. If you if you got rid of transportation, you would have an explosion in private because I mean, a lot of the a lot of the transportation is between daycare centers. Yeah. Yeah. We have great partnerships with them where we transport for our half day sessions or full day sessions if they have to go to a daycare. We have great relationships with them. We have plenty of buses going to daycarees to transport them to our school. But might it be possible to look at the potential of combining like the morning like the full day kids who do do you know what I mean? Have we looked at that through the numbers like not I'm not saying today but I think it's more than numbers though. I think it's we've always
115talked about because we have explored that again in past years and it's putting a prek kid on a bus with a fifth grader. I'm not so sure that's what we want. If we're teaching kids the business of school um I think that would be an issue. So we have explored that piece of it. Go ahead. Don't they have to have separate buses? I thought they had to for car seats or something. No. So there are um car seats. So a lot of our kid not a lot but some of our kids enter at three and they have to have a car seat. Um they have to be four by December 1. Um, but we have looked at that possibility. We've chosen not to because of the age of them and being able to get on
116the bus and help them get buckled in and all of those things. So, we have explored that. I mean, I'm not saying we can't explore again. Well, I'm just saying like it might be worth exploring the same way like we've had to change like we've we have different class sizes because we had to make, you know, big decisions last year, the year before based on the budget. So, I'm just if we can increase class sizes and not worry about what's, you know, the pros and cons of smaller class sizes to larger class size ratios. We can I just think crunching the numbers on the buses is beneficial even if we make no decisions on like it's even if we make no change because we decide that that's it's better to have the the three and
117four year olds by themselves because three is very young. I agree with that but worth looking at and we have such a a huge number. So I'm gonna try to interject here. So we've had good discussion here. I'm going to try to wrap it up. Um, so I I find myself sort of in a in a difficult position here sympathizing with everybody, right? Like I I'm I'm I I do want to register a degree of disappointment that we're in this position and that we have this this sort of unforeseen dollar amount, but at the same time, this was Fischer's negotiated right to to do this and we honor our contracts. And I think um you know, as much as we may have reservations, our paramount responsibility is for transporting our students safely. Um so I
118I plan on supporting this this contract when the when the issue comes up on the agenda. Um I hope all the other board members do. Um, I recognize Fiser provides a high degree of service and I I I think what the ask here is of of the various discussions. I think we're we're micromanaging a bit with how exactly to do it. Maybe the ask is for us to explore how we can in various different ways reduce our our exposure, our expenses with Fiser by consolidating runs, cutting the number of runs, exploring what creative ways we can transport UPK students and any other things that we can think of and then maybe in the coming months the the administration can sort of report back to us and sort of let us know what those possibilities are.
119I agree. And if we are able to do anything that would be a cost savings, that would take effect this year. Fischer would have to make the adjustments. Correct. I don't understand your question. If we consolidate routes and use less buses this year, we're paying per bus. So if we use less buses, we're we would be paying less. If we made a decision to consolidate UPK onto K through five buses and we no longer need those buses, we have a separate contract for UPK. So we're locked in contracts. Yeah, that's a next year. All right, I'm going to suggest we move on then to the the next item. Uh, which I'm sure will be another really short discussion on internet enabled device policy. Just a few honors to presenting for that go Thank you everybody.
120Uh much discussed uh over the course of the school year uh uh and then it became law with uh the setting of the uh of the of the New York state budget uh is the internet enabled uh device policy and we are required to uh adopt the state requires us to adopt that policy uh by August 1st and we have to fulfill a bunch of different components with it. Um this is the way we went about it. Uh the governor's proposal came in January, so the beginning of the calendar year. Uh and then we received towards the end of May once the budget was officially passed, we got the policy services recommendation uh as to what that policy could look like. There were uh a small amount of a little bit of an opportunity for
121us to customize that for us. uh and that's why we gathered our community committee um that had uh representatives of stakeholders throughout the district. We met in June. Uh we met at district office uh and from there we developed we we got we got input from that committee. Uh we developed a draft proposal. That draft proposal was sent out to the committee members. Uh the committee members members responded to that draft proposal. A new draft proposal was then sent to the committee. We revised it based on we we sent that to them and we didn't and we we've got, you know, confirmation. This wasn't the passing of the committee doesn't pass it, but they were they were good with what that second draft was. Um so that brings us to now uh which is we're
122taking a look at that policy tonight. Uh and what we're requesting is rather than doing the usual read at a at one meeting and then approving at the next, we would like to consider uh the idea of waving that first reading and adopting it tonight to put us in that adopting it prior to August 1st. Uh and there's some components that we wanted to share with you. Just want to go over what the talking points were with regard to uh the meeting with our with our committee. Uh the basics of the policy is this. The bell to bell internet ban uh K through2 schools restrict the use of those internet enabled devices during the school day. Non-instructional periods are included in that ban. Uh and again that August 1 component there. The we've got questions
123piece. It's just me trying to lead a meeting or facilitate a meeting where it's like there's the the audience would have questions about such a thing. What devices are banned? Because it a lot of people were talking about it being a cell phone ban. And we're trying to really reaffirm that this is a uh an internet enabled device ban. Smartphones are included in there. Any device capable of accessing the internet such as smart watches. Next question. What devices aren't banned? Non- internet cell phones like flip phone, headphones, or earbuds that aren't internet connected. Uh what schools will have this impact? All of us will have that impact. Uh elementary and middle schools already banned smartphones, but you've got the other internet enabled devices that you need to consider there as well. uh away for the
124day is a mantra that middle school kids throughout the years have abided by or told us they abided by. Uh the you add to that the smartwatches uh and internet enabled uh ear earbuds. This will be a change and it's a big change for the high school uh the high school experience. The biggest change for sure. Smartphones will now be away for the day as well as any internet enabled device. Uh what about Chromebooks? This is like the kid question here. Chromebooks are fine as they're issued by the school and they're going to continue to being uh used by students. Let's talk about exceptions uh in a bit. Uh and uh where are we going to put those? One thing we need to do is to to to clarify where storage would be for these
125devices. Uh and we've got lockers and we're going to use them for that. Um we didn't see, you know, there's a lot of talk about the yonder pouches and such. Um, we found through the anecdotal evidence and conversations we had with others who were trying to use those, uh, there's some positives, but there was a lot of negatives that came about it, too. Um, we've got the locker, so we're going to we're going to use them. There was some talk about, well, is a backpack having it away, and we're not identifying the backpack as being away for the day. Um, that that's that's with the student the entire time. Um, in terms of parent contact, uh, we're going back to the days of Y. Uh it's the it's the phone calls the office certainly with
126the Chromebook piece of it. There'll be there'll be some email access for some um but we also uh want like in as part of our policy we've got the information about how to contact uh how to contact their students. Uh and we're also on the implementation front each school is going to come up with ways that a parent can contact um their child as well. Um but that's like on the that's something we'll be working towards with regard to our uh our admin retreat which is coming up next week. Um bell to bell means bell to bell. Uh it it means launch it means study hall. Um that's one thing that we wanted to clarify there. Uh teacher said like so some of these exceptions if a teacher says you can use your smartphone for
127a period for a specific educational reason that is okay. How the buildings implement that is going to be a building based decision. That's another thing we'll be working on with uh with our administrators during our admin retreat. The question being, so can your teacher say in my class everybody can use their their smartphones all the time? They can't. That's not abiding by what this ban is. Uh IEP 504. Uh we're going to take each situation individually as required by the IEP or 504. There's nothing about this policy that says a student with an IEP that says you can use your that you need it for a specific reason. those students are still going to be able to use those devices as dictated by their IEP or 504. Uh this question came up. There is a
128there is a lot of discussion at the state level. You're not going to find that students who don't abide by this as being suspended just for this. All right. Now, you can imagine that there might be something to go on following it that would cause some punishments that might lead into that, but it won't be solely because of the cell phone with it. Um the I know just from my experience at the middle school uh there's a practice in place but again that's more the on the implementation side sort of a stages uh type of thing in terms of a student is is uh is found to have their their smartphone uh with them. Uh we're not going to take a look at the sample policies here. This was an exercise that we did with
129that committee. Um but that I just wanted to to share what we talked about with the committee and then the idea of you know what if this is adopted tonight we'll need to convene the code of code code of conduct committee and talk about how that's going to change with this policy in there and then it's going to be theformational campaign. That's another thing we'll be working on next week. All right. Should this be adopted? How are we going to implement that? How are we going to talk to students? How are we going to talk to families? And how are we going to talk to staff about how we're going to implement that across the district. Okay. So that's just a quick overview of that presentation. I'll again sit down and we can have that
130discussion. Does anyone have any comments on that? I'm I'm happy to move on, but I assumed we'd have some comments. No, thank you for the hard work. I'm just concerned with it taking up too much administrative time at the high school. Yeah. Taking away from making school more of a, you know, working on the things it should be working on, making sure that school's a great place and that, you know, we've got engaged teachers and instead they're chasing kids with cell phones. It's uh the the implementation piece of it is going to be super thoughtful and super planned out. I will say though I I had the luxury I thought was a truly late to sit in on the policy committee where they brought stakeholders in. So they had um teachers come like a teacher
131representative come in as well and the teachers were really in support of that. The one who was there, I know Mary was there, Kim was there when we talked about like was a backpack considered even put away. They were like absolutely not. We don't want them in our classrooms. And it was that was a surprise to me, but I because I went in thinking like, well, if we let them have them in the backpacks, like maybe that would be okay. And they were like, no, we don't want that. I was like, oh, all right. Like, this was this was news to me. And I I thought that this really was supporting what the teacher representative stakeholder group brought forward, too. So, I get that there will be administrative challenges, but we're not making this policy
132just because we want to make it. It is mandated. And I think it seemed like all the stakeholders said that they wanted to say and I thought you guys all did a fair job of listening to that and thank you Cam and Mary for your work on that committee as well and thanks for letting me know. But I I don't think Max got what you wanted. No, sorry. But but we didn't pick to do the policy. We just have to I fought my fight in Isaac. The only thing that is been heavily on my mind and maybe because I see it in in the um the school that I work in is that that addiction piece for kids especially coming off of summer and even with adults that dopamine that you're getting every time you
133text or it goes up. I think we're going to have a significant amount of students who are going to have some type of withdrawal from it. So, just, you know, we've been so um fortunate with being ahead of the game with mental health and I'm sure those counselor's office are going to be packed because I do think that it is an addiction for some kids. So, just um I'm sure there's discussions going on behind the scenes about how we can help um support students who are going to going to really struggle with it. For sure. So, go ahead. You first. Just a way for the day. I know how it operates right now. So in in the time they pass between classes and they are at their locker if they are seen with their phone
134will they is that like a so you're asking how it's how it's implanted at the middle school level. Well, I'm just wondering that, you know, in the locker for the day, but in that time where you pass between, you know, first period and second period, you're at your locker swapping your binder out. If they check their phone, is that going to be something that they are going to be reprimanded for or is that permissible? Because that's their time. Not permissible. Yeah, that's the bell to bell like it's not bell to bell of like first period ends, first and and it's before second period begins. So, right. I know I know there's some some arguments to to that side but no right now that is going to be that's going to be to Tom's point like
135that that'll be that'll be a challenge uh with regard to how do you set parameters and the implementation that is I I I keep I keep saying it but that's going to be such a big part of of of our admin retreat next week of how to do that in a manner that keeps the kids centered student centered approach that we that we love to See? So, but we'll do it. If a if a parent has a significant concern, um, who should they reach out to? I know there's some parents who worried about like safety in terms of if something happens at school, how and I can't get a hold of my child. Yeah. But sometimes the messages don't go out for 40 45 minutes because the staff is focused on the the present. Um,
136who should they reach out to with those specific concerns? I think those types of questions, it's a good school administrator type thing. But part of what our work is is that that outreach part of sharing how this will be implemented. Okay. So we'll try to and and we know that just because we say like hey here's what you can do it doesn't allay all the concerns. So like further concerns I would suggest go with administration on that. Can I just add um two things? one, the conversation revolved heavily about how like probably the first two years of this is going to be the hardest because there's a a habit of the the the students that are in high school now like this is what they're used to and it's going to be a very hard
137habit to break and the parents are used to it as well. But um also and this really like solidified just how old I am. I was like, "Oh, they're going to be going their lockers and changing out." Apparently, it is not cool. Like that lockers aren't used anymore. Like this is not a normal thing. I'm I was learning that lockers are not as common as when food. Oh, not for school supplies. But, you know, when you're the the teenage girl, you have your like self-care. No, apparently that's not a thing. Spray yourself. Good smelling spray, right? I don't know. I just felt like lockers were not as much of a thing anymore. Help me out here, my guy. I mean, I I bet it's not as used as it was back then, but that's make
138feel back in my day in the ops, you see, we went to the lockers. There are certain parts of the school where there are kids by their lockers, but definitely not as much as there once was. So I I based on the conversation that was had I imagine that it will be happening quite frequently and as the culture around it changes over the course of two years there will be a lot of uh subversiveness but uh as time makes fools of us all it will change again and I think ultimately it will be a positive thing Do we have that any obligation to track or report discipline issues related to Yes, absolutely. We do. So yeah, there there needs to be it needs to be nonidentifiable and each I believe was September 26. That's correct.
139September 26, we'll need to post and publish what we're like the the discipline rundown of it. Suspensions, just the suspension component of it. Okay. But we can't suspend, right? But if well could be connected. Yeah, it could be connected. So if it's part of an escalation that leads to a suspension, we count it. Correct. And presumably there'll be other disciplinary support that speeding ticket turns into litany of parishes. This is the this is the the this is the relationship piece of how we approach how we approach misbehavior. you know, like that's gota like, you know, there's there's certainly the the somebody just said insubordination that sort of that sort of thing comes up in in challenging situations sometimes. So, what we can do to keep cultivating those positive relationships with kids and uh right. All
140right. Any other comments on the internet enabled device policy or we will vote on it shortly. All right. Uh, now we're going to get a report from um our superintendent, Mr. Tom Adams. So, Mr. Adams, I picture my Let me introduce you to picture my first meeting is Tom. God bless. Next meeting. God bless. Uh, so welcome. Yes. I want to welcome Max. I know we've gone through uh gone through the the welcomes a little bit before, but truly welcome and uh thank you for being being part of this part of this team. Uh, I was able since our last meeting, I was able to attend just a whole host of end of the year events and I got to see the the the beauty of the kindergarten celebrations, the fifth grade moving up days,
141uh, the eighth grade moving up event and then uh and then graduation as uh, as you all you all had mentioned. uh the graduation image to me that's almost of of the many striking parts of it uh is is as the as the kids are coming in and going into their rows but even before then seeing what I consider just like this is what you want to see our building and ground staff just coming together and making that place look and it already looks amazing and I'm I'm a biased observer but uh uh the way it looks is just I I think It's uh it's such a credit to to this place um and and to the staff that we have. So uh um I I can't I can't mention u all those moving update
142events without uh mentioning the volunteers and PTSA who do so much to make those events events happen. Uh as well um I I encourage you Kayla's working on uh the the um the final like the celebratory edition of the focus. Uh, and I just think your your the work on the uh the four different pathways that are highlighted by the uh by the kids going in different directions in life is uh that was a real compelling read. Um so I just I'd sort of tune your attention to that. Um but thank all those who worked on the internet enabled device policy. Uh and uh I do want to acknowledge that that we have the maximum heat policy as the first reading today. Um, and and I just wanted to to let you know in terms
143of uh my discussions with with with Brent, uh, his team has already uh been in the mode of of purchasing thermometers. Not one for every room in every school. Uh, but but plenty of them to be uh to be used that uh roughly center of the room, darkened area, but but I mean without without under lights uh or or heat producing uh items like technology, but like about 3 feet above the ground, they'll be monitoring that. I'll one second I swear um our that's another part of our admin work this week is how are we going to do our best job to mitigate those situations of the maximum heat and how we are going to address those situations should that temperature go up beyond uh the the 88 and 82 is the is the is
144the one marker we're looking for but then then 88 uh is is the other and and just like can cover three things and then we'll we'll go on. Um but uh um so I just wanted to make people aware of that those discussions are going on. Uh as Max said, tons of summer stuff happening uh within the school. The middle school is where it's at. Uh because the high school shut down for boiler room uh and there's uh and we're not hosting uh the wise summer program, but uh Charlotte continues to be the rain site for uh for village rack when the middle school's got music. They've got um they've got um some some remediation remediation courses and they've got the athletics that are going on uh as well. And we've got our high school
145offices over there um as well. Um there's been a lot of talk lately about federal funding and uncertainty about federal funding. Uh we met with the finance committee uh as David mentioned uh yesterday uh in discussion of what we can like let's if if there's certain parts of our title funding that is not funded. It's not what we're anticipating but we're planning for what we would do if those conversations were fruitful. Um we feel that there's a uh you know we're in a position where we're not as dependent on federal funding as some other districts are. that doesn't change the fact that it's a very very serious issue and it's a serious issue for us too. Um we feel we've got a decent plan in place should that u should that happen. Um really excited
146about strategic planning next week like that that's something that can mention that'll be on the 14th. Uh we're going to be at the University of Buffalo Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. That's on uh on Elicate Street and uh we're thrilled to be able to have it there. We've got stakeholder groups represented and we're going to continue the work that we've been doing over the past, you know, well over a decade. But for me in this role, continue the work that we did in March. Um, and and one of our uh sort of guiding questions is we have a strategic plan. We think there's a lot of good things happening out there. Why would we want to alter it? And that's going to be the question of like, well, we want to continually
147get better. And so that's going to be part of our conversations among among the many uh um that we'll have um and then we'll have the admin retreat there and then the board retreat uh also on July 31st that'll be at the same site. All right, Ashley, I just have a request for the next next time. I heard you were talking about the temperatures policy reading and I know we're going to have a second one so I don't want an answer tonight. Tell me after your all your meetings and retreats. Um I just wanted to hear more about like how and when the temperatures will be taken. and how they'll be reported. Sure. Request some procedural type report. Okay. Thank you. So, thank you. Thank you. And I would just add, I mean, I think
148graduation, you're I have no reservations about our decision to hire you, but in that moment, I was just so extremely proud of of that decision and and the way you approached that. I mean, you went only a year before I saw you carrying a plunger across that field and a tool kit the same day and then here you were addressing the graduates, you know, a thousand plus people. It was just such a great such a great evening and Tom's speech was Tom Glenn's speech was just so heartfelt. It was just a great thing. Thanks, Tom. To watch you give your son his diploma and graduate after all the years that you've been president, handed out diplomas to everybody was really touching. It's really nice. I hope you had a good picture. I felt so bad
149I didn't get up there. Okay. To briefly touch on the federal funding. Um I in my email that I sent out, I um touched on this, but in an email that we I think we all get them from the New York State School Board Association. I kind of outlined um that we should be reaching out to our elected officials um individually, but I also spoke to Cam about this and just maybe a coordinated um response from the board itself. I did send a response um like me personally, they have like a link with the the format ready for you to go, but I do think that this is an appropriate time to reach out to our congressman um regarding this matter. Thank you for bringing that up. I I forgot to uh I was going
150to suggest that we we do submit a letter um on behalf like I I'll draft it with with Bry's assistance and you know sign it from the entire board unless anyone has any objections but I did intend to if you draft it will you send it so that we all have like a beauty love it and you guys can forward it on via email or however you want to do that as well or write your own. I know I know uh ECASP made some recommendations, but we'll we'll put our own spin on it. Love that. Thank you for bringing that up. I did intend to do that and I forgot. So, thanks. All right, let's move on to uh financial items. So, we are on now section F and G. Uh so, at this time,
151um reminder, any board member can make a request to withdraw a specific item from the consent agenda. Is there any such request? and I'm considering items F and G. Okay, seeing none, can I have a motion to approve all consent items F2 through G5? Moved by Laura, second. Second by Dave. Any discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed? That motion passes. We got a we got a new hire. Oh, who's joined us. Great. Hi Molly, how are you? How's the 45minute board meeting I told you about? So this is Molly Con. Give a wave. Stand up and then you can leave. But but uh uh her she'll be she'll be reporting directly to Tom Rick who you see in the back row there as well. So thank you. Welcome. All right. Congratulations. Congratulations. Hi Molly.
152Welcome. You know what? She got she was here this long. She deserves some applause. All right. So, we just get started and now we're going to slow it down again and uh we are going to look at the committee delegates. So, what we'll do is we'll hash it out and then at the end I'll read out each of them and that'll be the motion. So, right now it's it's discussion. Um so, I sort of figured maybe we just start at the top and work our way down. So the the three ECSB, you missed health and wellness there, Cam. There's a health and wellness at the top one. Oh, am I looking at the wrong You might be looking at last year's, but there's there's a new committee. Yeah, it's on it was on the blank
153one that was emailed out. Oh, sorry. I printed out I wanted to see who was in September. So I printed that one. There was a difference. So we have both over. All right. We can start with health. Is it health and wellness and then the ECS one? Yes. Okay. All right. We'll start with that. Does anybody have interest? So, health and wellness is that's brand new, right? Remind what health and wellness did does. Make Ashley the uh I love health and love. And then she she would need an alternate. We just need one and an alternate, right? So, Ashley. So, Ashley and then who's the alternate? I can be the alternate. Jessica. Who's Who's on that? It used to be we very large. Yeah. Oh, Christine wrote this. So, I run that committee. Um, it's
154our health insurance. There's teacher union leadership, support staff leadership on that committee, our consultants from LOI, independent health, um, bunch of teachers, the you'll get probably the first read of the new policy at next board meeting. You have to we have to revise the policy again. even though we just revised it in June. Um but they want more people on it. So they wanted a board member on it and um just some others. So that's why it's on this list. Does that prompt anybody to want to fight Ashley and Jessica to be on this committee? No. All right. No fights. It shall be so. Okay. So next I have the three ECASB committees. The delegate, the legislative, and the budget and finance. So Laura, you're the current representative on the delegate assembly. Erie County Association
155of School Boards. Yeah, correct. Just making sure. The delegate Assembly one's actually kind of interesting, I would say, especially if you're new because it's almost like a little gossip group where you kind of get together and talk about all the different challenges that are happening in different districts. Not that you guys are into gossip, but that it's good to sort of get exposure to, you know, I love that other district problems. I do love to talk. I would love to join that one. You're going to be on another one, too, though. I have a lot of free time. Okay. I'm ready to jump in. Let's get going. Wait, are you going to take away my NISPA voting member? No, you get to keep that. No, I'm just saying because you're going to go to the
156delegate meeting and then have to stay there for the legislation. So, Jess, you're going to So, I'm currently the delegate you're saying you would like to be. That's fine with me. Sure. All right. Will be the primary day. You're the alternate. Do you want to be the alternate? Yeah. Have Laura be the alterate? I'll be the alternate. Okay. So the next is the legislative. So legislative is is exactly what it sounds like. Can I be the legislative? Well, she needs to be the legislator. We kind of Yeah, I kind of lumping those two. But you know what? No. Do let it go. Let her go. But you want to be the alternate. I'll be the alternate for legislator. Okay. Jess and then uh Mary's the alternate. Mary then um and I you know I'll I'll
157come to the first meeting you know with the and uh introduce you around you know oh you show me the ropes yeah show you the ropes if you want budget and finance is less exciting uh Tom you've been on that for years you want to keep it or what do you think someone wants it I I I think these ECSB um committees are great for new it's a great way to Can you tell us more about that? How often does it meet? Like uh it's not insight. It's three times with a possible fourth. They never do the fourth. Um really what you're talking about is that what they're talking about is the the budget for ECSB. U but they do kind of branch into what's going on financially with some of the other districts depending
158on who's running the meeting. Um, like I said, I think all these committees are great for especially the new board members because it gets you exposure to what's going on at other districts, how other districts kind of um, you know, run some things. And for me, it was great. I mean, when I first got on, they told me I was on all three and I they scammed me by saying, "Don't worry, they're all like backtoback." And they weren't. I'm sensing some interest. Am I wrong? Let's Let's put a pin wrong. Let's Let's put a pin in that one and come back to it. So, possibly Ash, are we? Is that what we're saying? I I'm going to consider that and see what else. We'll come back to that. So, let's get back to that. So,
159next is the NISPA voting member. I mean, Mary, you did such a great job. You did such a great job. I You know what? Honestly, I'll take it. It's one It's one meeting and it's like the biggest baddest meeting of your life, but it's just one. So, I will Laura, let me I I'll make you an offer, Laura, because I'm the Nispa voting member for Bosei, so I'll probably have to go. I could be the alternate just in case Mary can't go. I am feeling unless you unless you really love being It goes till like 3:00 in the morning. It's brutal. Uh well, it's virtual and it was 8 hours last time. Yeah, it's terrible. It was 4 to 10 or something like 4 to 11. Also, I got really mad at one point and
160I was driving around in my car and I at one point like pulled over and I was like, I have something to say. There's no rules on that. Um, all right. Next is the IDA Land Development Corp. I really really would like to keep that. Can I be your alternate? Unfortunately, that one doesn't permit an alternate because each member has to be represented or has to be approved by the town board and they can't have us have two. Well, maybe I'll just join the town board. There you go. Do it. Sounds like a bigger discussion for another. All right. Finance committee. Um, this is traditionally I mean this is a relatively new committee so it's not there's not really a tradition but I think Tom and I were selected because we were the president and
161vice president and then Dave added but I don't think that has to be the rules. I would love to join finance committee just to learn more and be a part of it as one person Dave or Tom or me anyone want to I think Cam has to be on it. I I like that. I mean I' I'd like to be on it. So yeah. So, Ashley and Cam. And then you want to offer? No, I I if someone else wants it. What do you want? You said me and you. Not you. Yeah. Right. What about you? You want It's up to you. It's up to you. No, it's up to you. It's up to me. I want to stay. Okay. You're off then, Dave. All right. So, Ashley's replacing Dave. Yes. Okay. Thanks, Dave. I
162appreciate transportation committee is Mary and Laura. I love transportation. I know that's your that's your thing, Mary. So we won't take that. Yeah. And I I have to be on it because I've been on it for 25 years. So maybe leave this as it are st. Yeah. So So there's there were three. Just cuz Barry's honest. We like to go into the building. Do you want to be the alternate then? Yeah. I'll be the alternate for transportation. Okay. I'm going to take a picture now. Uh strategic action plan committee. Um so this was Cam and Laura. All right. I mean, I'm happy to stay on it, but I'm also happy to to not like I'm happy to allow somebody else the opportunity. But I think Cam should stay on it. I like I would like
163to I think I want to be on it, but I also kind of want to be PTSA and then I'm that's just like I'm doing a lot of things and I got to like chill out. You're doing PTSA? I'm expecting you might have some battles with the PTSA. Well, here's the thing. You go to PTSA. I'm going to be there every like I figure out 5K it starts now. So I'll be there every meeting. So you I will not fight you for PTSA. Despite that I love it and my heart is there. I I figure I have a class that I teach that conflicts with some of those meetings. So wait Monday night. Oh that's when I do time. I'm going to stay in strategic and Annie. What is strategic planning? So Mary's Mary's going
164to do PTSA. Wait Dave with Jess. Are you giving? No. No. PTSA. No. You're off. Yeah, I've been off. You're on it. You're on it now. Yes. Yeah. But All right. In name. So, it'll be Jess and Mary then on PTSA. We jump. We're jumping around here. So, go back up. Um, so we were on strategic planning. I think we said we're keep Cam and Laura, right? Parent child is Ashley and Laura. Yeah, I want to stay on that. You good with parent? I can stay on it. If somebody wants it, they can certainly take it. No one's even looking up. So I think that right offended by any you're not offending me. All right. Now we now we need someone to step up. So this is the safety committee. This has been Rich's baby.
165So obviously he's can't be on it. So I would love to be You want to move up? I would like to be on the safety committee. Um and if somebody I've been on Parent Child Connection I I love being on it, but if somebody wanted to take my spot with Ashley, It's great. Do you know what? Jess, are you already on it? What? Parent child connection. You know what? I'm there in name, but I Zoom meetings in the morning elementary. Just leave me at Well, what what if you You guys are already like so hardcore into PTSA and I'm trying to get more into soft skills. What if I go on parent child connection? Yeah. Why don't we have um Ashley, Laura, and Mary all parent child connection and then if we need to and
166then and then then the PTA is Jess and Ashley then you're saying I'm just saying y'all are already I mean I'm going to be there every meeting. So I I mean when you can't make it don't make it. Great. I'm going to be there every time. Oh, I was just trying to expand my horizon. There you go. Good. Very good. So yes, sorry. So we got parent child is Ashley, Laura, Mary. Uh, safety committee is Laura and I need a second for that. An alternate for that safety. I went to one last year. You can put me as an alternate. Jessica, Mary, you are a technology representative. For some reason, we don't have an alternate on that one. We don't even need an alternate. I don't think you're going to miss any. I'm just super
167tech. Love the technology. That's a nice touch. Thank you. Um, building visitation. I mean, this is this is to call this a committee is a bit of a ruse. Yeah, I was going to say I don't somebody put their names on it, but Brandy schedules it. So, we basically just discuss it. Can we just write Ry's name on there and say thank you Randy? Just the same then. So, we'll leave we'll leave we'll leave that one. Yeah, just you guys policy committee. I mean, we're crushing it. We We nailed it. I mean, I I was a founding member of this. I'm happy to give it off. I've been on it for a long long time, but I'm also I also like it, so I'd stay on it, too. I think Cam and Mary should stay
168on it. Yeah, we we're pretty much new. Yeah. Okay. And you audit committee. Nobody's excused. You're all on it whether you like it or not. PTSA Justin Mary talk. Oh, take take me off because now I'm going to go Justin Ashley. Okay, he's gone back. Um facilities. Oh, this is the one for the capital project. So, this is Rich, Tom, and Laura. Oh, I like facilities. I'd like to stay on. I'd like to stay. All right. So, how about Mary, Tom, and Laura? Can I be the alternate? Well, we have three on that. We have three. All right. I'm doing a lot of um and then, um this is a new one. I don't know what this facility comprehensive school. Oh, that's that's the counseling. That's the on the counseling. Was it new last year?
169Yeah, it's it's a couple years. Yeah, we meet new twice a year. I don't know. Um if anybody wants to to go on it with me, they they can or it's two people. I missed the meeting this year because my car decided to stall out at I remember this one. Shen Barker heads it up. It's twice a year, right? Yeah. So Dave and Laura, you guys stay on? Yeah. Sash. I don't care. Oh, you can leave me as an alternate. Okay. Same as last year, man. All right. Did I miss any on anybody's list? Yeah, we got to come back to budget finance. Oh, yeah. Right. So, we need a we actually need a first and an alternate on that. Right. I think Mary's good. Uh alternate. Okay. I feel like I'm doing a lot.
170Yeah. Ashley, you're on PTSA and parent child connection. Is there anything else that you're Did I chose finance? Oh, finance and health and wellness. Tom, you good over there? You're quiet. Yeah. You want to keep that one or you'll keep it? Yeah. All right. I'm going to I'm going to read through make sure I got them right. I thought you were I thought you were the or count them up. I mean, if I if I need to take that one if it's what three times a year like All right. I mean, whatever. It doesn't matter. Well, let me I'll read them out and if anyone objects, wait till the end. Uh, Health and Wellness, Ashley with Jessica the alternate. ECSB delegate assembly. Jessica. Laura is the alternate legislative team. Jessica, Mary's the alternate. Budget Tom.
171Mary's the alternate NISPA voting member. Mary Cam is the alternate IDA. Cam finance committee Cam, Tom, Ashley. Transportation committee, Mary, Dave with Laura. The alternate strategic actions Cam and Laura. Parent child is Cam, Laura, and Mary. Safety committee is Laura, Jessica's the alternate. Technology is Mary. Building visitation is Cam and Ashley. Policy is Cam and Mary. Audit committee is everyone. PTSA is Jessica and Ashley. Facilities is Mary, Tom, and Laura. Comprehensive counseling program committee is Dave, Laura, and Ashley's the alternate. Yeah. Right. Did I get any wrong? No, that's good. It's great. Okay, Brandy. Hopefully that readout was helpful. Now we will vote on our second item of the evening. No. Okay. Okay. Uh yeah. I So I guess I'm looking for a motion to make that the uh let me read it properly. I'll
172look for a motion to approve the elections of delegates, representatives, and alternates for board committees for 2526 school year. So moved, I think by Ashley and Laura. All in favor? I I All opposed. Motion passes. Okay. Um so I think what I'll look for here is a motion to approve um consolidated items H2 through H6. So moved. So moved by Ashley. Seconded. Second by Tom. Any discussion on these? Look like we got the right uh what's her last name? The clerk. Fix that one. Oh. Oh. Oh, yeah. Brad versus Kathy. Y. All right. Um, all in favor? I. All opposed. We got that one. So, we'll jump ahead now to uh item I1. So, can I have a motion to approve the PTSA committee representatives for the 202526 school year? So, moved. So moved. I
173think Ashley and Mary. Any discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion passes. Um, can I have a motion to wave the second reading and approve required policy 7316, the use of internet enabled devices during the school day? So moved. Second. So moved by Mary, second by Ashley. Any discussion on this? All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion passes. Item I3. Can I have a motion to approve establishing a standard workday for the purpose of determining days work reportable to the New York State and local employees retirement system as presented? Moved by Laura. Second. Second by Tom. Any discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion passes. Can I have a motion? Huh? I four. Can I have a motion that the board of education of the Hamburg Central School District upon recommendation of the
174superintendent of schools hereby ratifies the collective bargaining agreement and approves the funding of the agreement between the district and the Hamburg Teachers Aid Association unit effective September 1, 2025 through August 31st, 2028. So moved. So moved by Mary. Second by Laura. Any discussion on this one? It's good to get a contract done and in time and all of that. So nice work there to our administrators. All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion passes. Item I5. Can I have a motion to approve upon recommendation of the superintendent a memorandum of agreement between the Hamburg Central School District and the Hamburg Teachers Association regarding the rates of tuition for children of the Hamburg Central School District staff for the 202526 school year. So move. So moved by Tom. Second by Ashley. All in favor? All opposed. Motion
175passes. Can I have a motion to approve the tuition rates for the 202526 school year? So moved. Moved by Ashley. Second. Second by Laura. Any discussion? All in favor? All opposed. Motion passes. Item I seven. Can I have a motion to approve the memorandum of agreement between the Hamburg Central School District and the Hamburg Teachers Association regarding the small engine repair club? So moved. So moved by Tom. Second by Jessica. Any discussion on this? When now when's it going to be held? After school or I mean where when are they going to meet? The logistics had to be figured out. Okay. Potential space sharing that might need to take place. Um, but there was a real attitude to get it done. So, I'm sure they'll iron out all the details. All right. It's a club,
176so it happens after school, right? And I could just bring my a lot more over. We talked about that. We talked about once we get these kids going, maybe doing some community givebacks. So, maybe some of our seniors that live in the community that might need something repaired. We talked about that. There's some The possibilities are endless. All right. Nice. Excellent. All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion passes. Item I8. Can I have a motion to approve the resolution for municipal cooperation as listed? So moved by Laura. Second. Second by Tom. Any discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion passes. Can I have a motion to approve upon recommendation of the superintendent that the board of education authorizes participation in the cooperative bidding through Boseies on behalf of participating districts to the greatest extent
177possible yielding sale savings to the district. So moved. Moved by Ashley. Second. Second by Laura. Any discussion? This is annual item. All in favor? All opposed? Motion passes. I 10. Can I have a motion to approve upon recommendation of the superintendent that the board of education authorizes participation in the cooperative bidding through boseies on behalf of participating districts to the greatest extent possible yielding savings to the district's food service. So moved by Tom second by Ashley. Any discussion? I have one small question. So just to clarify this is uh we're working with Boseies and Boseies is going to figure out all of our food contracts. Not all of them but Oh but a number of them. Yeah. Um and is the goal just for cost savings? Absolutely. Is this um we've always done this essentially.
178This is just kind of standard operating procedure. Do we know um in your new role working for Boseies? Do you have like insight on how this is done? Just out of I mean other than oversight into the exchange of you know that we open participation to school districts and the exchange of money that occurs around that. Not nothing over with hamburger or anything. Okay. I'm maybe this is I'm just curious like now that we're going to be doing like free lunches and stuff. I'm curious how this plays out and if you know anything about it. So I'll just give you one example. Yeah. Like bothies will go out to bid for milk for example and then upstate milk wins that bid then all the districts got it. Use upstate because that was the best price.
179Got it. So they just act as a like a on our behalf for basically for most things, but not all things. Not all things. Interesting. We'll take this offline, but I'm curious what things like we do and what things they do. But neat. It's a good It's a good question. I actually thought to bring it up during the treasury report um because I saw that school lunch fund sort of balance sitting there and realizing next year is going to be very different the way the school lunches are funded. So, I thought it might be interesting at some point this year for us to get a another Mr. Adam presentation. I would love a Mr. Adams presentation on food funding and food vendors. Yeah. I'm just curious sort of how, you know, like over the years
180we've had various, you know, like fund balance, you know, school lunch balances go negative and people bail them out and like how is all that going to change or is that going to change? And I wrote my check for $9. It changes. Did you get your Wednesday 6 pm reminder that you I sure did. We all do. And it comes up on my phone as Tom Adams. I'm like, why is Tom Adams calling me? That's I feel it. All right. I don't I don't think we voted on this. So, all in favor? And I I All opposed. Motion passes. Uh I 11. Can I have a motion to approve a resolution authorizing the Hamburg Central School District to enter into a 5-year contract with Irwan Boseis for the provision of computer services to the district?
181So moved by Tom. Second by Laura. Any discussion? All in favor? All opposed? Motion passes. I 12. Can I have a motion to approve a resolution authorizing the Hamburg Central School District to accept the bid and enter into a contract with Fiser Bus for the provision of transportation services to the district for the 2526 school year? So moved. A move by Dave. Second by Laura. Any further discussion on this? All in favor? I all opposed. Great. Motion passes 7 to zero. Note early. Uh item I13. Can I have a motion to approve the LOI for lighting work awarding the bid to Musco Sports Lighting LLC totaling $568,90? So moved. Second. So moved by Laura, second by Tom. Any discussion on this? And what lighting is this? This baseball field. This baseball. So that's where those
182donations came in. This is all donations for this. Okay. Any other questions? Move. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. No, I thought you asked for a motion. Yep. All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion passes. Uh, item I4. Can I have a motion to approve the change order 20112 for capital project phase 2 work? Moved by Laura, second. Second by Tom. Any discussion on this? All in favor? I I. All opposed. Item is approved. Motion is approved. Item I15. Can I have a motion to approve a donation in the amount of $13,57242 46 from the Hamburg Alumni Foundation to go towards approved staff grant awards. So moved. So moved by Laura. Second. Second by Jessica. Any discussion on this? So grateful for our Hamburg Alumni Foundation. Just the 100% gift that keeps on giving. All in favor?
183I I. All opposed. Motion passes. Item I 16. Uh motion to approve a universal pre kindergarten program agreement between Hamburg Central School. Thank you. Second. Moved by Tom, second by Ashley. Any discussion? All in favor? All opposed? Motion passes. Item I17. Can I have a motion to approve a universal prek expansion grant agreement between Hamburg? Thank you. Second. Moved by Tom, second by Ashley. Any discussion? All in favor? All opposed? Motion passes. Can I have a motion to approve a letter of agreement between Hamburg Central School District and Sunni University of Albany regarding college credit courses for Hamburg students effective July 125 through June 3028? So moved. So moved by Mary, second second by Ashley. Any discussion on this? Is this our first time with Albany? It's actually the second time. Oh, but now this
184is a threeyear deal. Any other questions? All in favor? All opposed? Motion passes. Item I19. Looking for a motion to approve a memorandum of understanding between Hamburg Central School District and St. Bonaventure University regarding student teaching and or clinical placements for St. Bonaventure University students effective September 125 through August 3128. So move. So moved by Mary, second by Tom. Any discussion on this? All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion passes. And finally, item I 20. Can I have a motion to approve a service agreement between Hamburg Central School District and the independent nursing care for a flu shot program? So moved. Second. So moved by. Is that you, Mary? me Mary and Laura I think uh any discussion all in favor all opposed motion passes with that we are into public expression and there are
185Jessica there's no one to speak publicly anymore I'll find someone to fill that role um seeing no further business can I have a motion to adjourn this meeting. So moved. Got to go down. Second by Mary. Uh all in favor I. All oppose. Meetings journ at 8:42. Congrat