001uh meeting the public hearing uh to order. Please stand for the pledge. Pledge of allegiance 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. Can I have a motion to approve the agenda for this June 10th, 2025 board of education hearing as presented? So moved. So moved by Laura. seconded. Second by Mary. Um that on the floor I'm going to make a motion to make one quick addition where we're going to basically move everything down one and we're going to add B1 to recognize Emma because she's got a prior um engage engagement later. So we'll do that now. Um, so voting on the uh voting on the uh amended uh agenda to include Emma's recognition. So
002moved. Moved by Cam. Second by Laura. All in favor? I posted. Excellent. Okay. Thank you everyone. Go ahead. Thank you everyone. Thanks, President Clint. Uh we have been absolutely honored to have Emma with us as our exeicio student board member. Emma is president of the student government at Hamburg High School. Uh she has been not just oh it's nice they have a student on the board. She's been an active member of these meetings. She's been an active member of committee meetings. I was just at a committee meeting where she was actively participating. And her comments are thoughtful, articulate, wise, all three things that I sometimes visit but never quite live there. And she does. She's done that well before I've met her. I met her when she was in seventh grade when she and a
003few friends uh came up with an idea of taping index cards of positive affirmations for every single student at the middle school. And that was Emma. That was like out of nowhere. This kid that I'd never met before and her and her her friends. It shows her ideas, shows her leadership. Uh the certificate uh that she'll get to keep um this evening. Certificate of appreciation. The following award is given to Emma Petersac for her excellent representation of the Hamburg High School student body on the Hamburg Central School District Board of Education for the 2425 school year signed by our president Tom Flynn and myself as superintendent. Mr. Flynn, you mind come up and we'll uh get a get a quick question. If we could have a round of applause. [Applause] You can take the wooden
004stand though because you can take the name tag. So take the name plate right now before the picture. Okay. Yeah, that'll be nice. All right. And you hold up just so people know who you are. That's all right. Wonderful. We can't thank you. Okay. And thank you family for being here too. Thanks for for uh letting us spend some time with Emma this year. It's been an honor. Thank you, Emma. We wish you all the best at school. And definitely keep that name tag. Those things are hard to get. Put in your dorm room. Bye, Emma. Thanks. Okay, moving on to the presentation on our district code of conduct. Mr. Jordan, so this is our annual public hearing for our district code of conduct. Um the code of conduct um committee goals um to annually
005review and revise the code of conduct as uh we feel necessary or items seem to be adjusted. Uh first I'd like to start to thank the district code of conduct committee. Um we meet once yearly uh where we go through page by page the document making sure that we're addressing any elementary, middle school or high school needs that need to be adjusted. You'll notice the representation um represents all those different areas from counselors to um principles um to parents that we have on the committee as well too. um that anything that we feel needs to be addressed from year to year, we try and cover it in this meeting. Um the overall um overall arching um goal of the committee or the district code of conduct is to provide a safe and orderly school environment
006where students may receive and um district programs may deliver quality education services without disruption or interference. Um and obviously that is a goal here uh each year when we review the code of conduct. These are the different sections of the code of conduct um from introduction all the way down to the different partners that we address in the code of conduct. So that includes um everywhere from students, staff, um visitors within the building, volunteers within the building, um everybody is represented somewhere in the district code of conduct. Uh it also covers anything along the lines of um disciplinary actions or procedures that we will have in place um here in Hamburg. Uh this is again continuation of the list of the different sections of the code of conduct. Um anywhere from the suspension rules which
007I just shared with you to the visitor procedures here in school and then obviously even to the sense of the public being on school property what the expectations for them to be as well here. Um this year uh we didn't really have any suggestions or changes. It's a very quiet year for us. Uh we tend to um every other year take a deeper dive into it and look to see if there's any changes in New York State law. Have the um our attorneys do look at this as well too by yearly. This is a year we do not um did not do that. Um but the a few changes we did do is obviously just update our act coordinators which Colleen facilitates those yearly and that is part of the district code of conduct. So
008everybody knows who that is. Um some little background on the code of conduct too, right? It's a state regulation requires um to be reviewed annually. Uh as I just shared, it applies to every person that steps on the school property. Um this is the district level code of conduct. So we always have to remember that when um this is for the adults to view, but when it comes time for the high school students or the middle school students or the elementary students, we tend to take what the terminology that's in the district code of conduct and make it age appropriate. So it's not like you're going to see a suspension down in the elementary world. You know, it's going to be more kid-friendly turns so they understand as well. One of the things that we
009have um used throughout the year is that the code of conduct is always a teaching tool and if you remember last year I started to introduce introduce some samples some teaching tools that we had here uh in Hamburg. Um so one example I have for you is uh right here from our elementary school that Mr. Red had dealt with for a little bit here. Um, and they had a situation where they had some fourth and fifth graders that were causing quite the ruckus on the bus ride to and from school. And we had one particular student, this Marcus, um, and I removed his last name because he's not technically a student here anymore. He did move on to another district, but Marcus um, was involved in the situation with the fourth and fifth graders causing
010some troubles for the bus driver and u, Mr. Riddick took some time each day to meet with the group of kids that were causing the problems and Marcus took it upon himself to say, "Hey, I'm going to create a slideshow that I'm going to share with other fourth and fifth grade students and it's rules for the bus." So, Mr. Adams shared with me the slideshow that Marcus did. It's not very long, so it'll just take a moment. Um, and he started out with the dos and don'ts, and his first one is here's what you should do on the bus. Um, and some simple examples, right? you should always stay in your seat. Um, and he kept it really thoughtfully thinking about, okay, this is how fourth and fifth graders should act on the bus. But
011if you also notice number five, he starts getting into how we should set and be good examples for the second or third, second, first grade, and kindergarteners on the bus as well too. And how they should keep their hands to themselves, how they should sit quietly, use inside voices. Uh, and this is all a fifth grader's interpretation of the meetings that he had with Mr. Ridda. And then he went into these are the things you should not do around the bus. Um, and my favorite one because I don't think I've seen that word in a while is number one, you should not cuss. I don't know what it was about it when I opened it. I'm like, geez. Okay. It's good in print. Yeah. I thought it was entertaining. Um, so he said you should
012not go cuss. Uh, he shared that you should not scream, yell. You should not hit or kick people. Don't pack, don't talk back to the bus driver. Uh, don't call people's names. Um, so these are the type of things that he had come out of the meetings that Mr. Reduck had with the few students. Um, and then obviously his closing slide was remember to be a good rider on the bus. uh and had a wonderful day. So that was his message to his fellow fourth and fifth graders um that just came out of a small situation on the bus that they had to address. Um and they took the time to use the code of conduct to help the students guide them through the way they should act appropriately on the bus as well too.
013Um the other example I have no fancy slideshow um but Mr. Low shared with me as well too at the code of conduct that he has um dealt with a lot of conflict resolution this year. And one part that you know we see in the code of conduct all the time is the rights and responsibilities pages and they're addressed by the different levels, right? Elementary, middle school, and high school breaks out the rights and responsibilities. Um and he's used that quite a few times when having to deal with specific students with the conflict resolution. Um trying to make sure that students see from both sides. Yes, this is how we should act, but this is how we should also act towards others as well too. So, uh not as fancy as a story as Marcus,
014but um something to share that we do continually use this as a teaching tool and a way to help our students improve uh the way they act on school property. Um so, what's next? Because we really didn't have a lot of changes. Um there are will be in the near future a couple policies that we'll be looking for the school board to pass that will have um impacts on the code of conduct. So we will have to do at some point in time another update on the code of conduct uh with those changes where we want to make them. Um you know one that we addressed in the district code of our district technology committee was the AI use. um there is probably something that has to fall into the district code of conduct once
015that policyy's passed. So we got to make sure that the policy passes first and that we reflect what needs to be reflected in the district code of conduct properly. We wouldn't do that off cycle though, right? We pick it up next year. No, we would do we um if you recall last year there was a situation with um nicotine devices. You're right. And we had to pick it up mid year. We would potentially do something like that once we know we had a few extra changes we wanted to do and make that part of our code of conduct. We would do that. Forgot we did that. Yeah. Any questions at all? Feel free to reach out to me at any point in time. The district code of conduct is um posted here on the Hamburg
016or will be posted on the Hamburg uh website for everybody to view as well too. Yes, I do have some questions. Uh if if we if we do have questions or like ch like how often does it get updated? I know you said at the beginning, but I was having internet issues. It's really required yearly. Okay. But if there are situations, again, the nicotine example was a perfect one for last year where we saw an uptick at the high school. They there was nothing in the district code of conduct nor in the building code of conduct that addressed those things. We would bring it back here and ask the board to act on it or adopt it. Okay. So it it can be throughout the year depending on what happens. So it's but we're required
017to do that annually. Okay. I did review it and there I noticed a couple of things that I and I'm just kind of bringing this to the board's attention in general. There were a couple like things that I would love to talk about to the board in general. not like major, but just some verbiage thoughts with with changes, particularly around like social media that might be worth updating or looking at um and uh visitors to school section, but we don't have to talk about it now. Just something that because it was on the agenda to like talk about, I actually sat down and read it. It was a great read, but uh read it. So, I'm just saying it for the good of the order. Maybe we could talk about it at some point in
018the future. I love the um I just wanted to share that first about the the Marcus' story. So, um I was just at a conference where um we were talking about restorative practices, but at all the things you can do in L of suspensions and those were called accountability projects that um New York State's looking very strongly at uh kids doingings where they're learning something. They're not out of school and that's a great example of one right there. Ahead of the curve. Awesome. Thanks. Thanks. Any other questions, comments on that? Thank you. Thanks, President. Because it's a year and we open it, right? Oh, yeah. Any other um any public gave you a fair? Uh okay, moving on to the Thanks, Tom. You're welcome. Uh moving on to the presentation for um on district safety
019plan. Fitzgerald. Good evening. Never had to use the microphone here before. So, so welcome to your uh favorite annual public hearing. No offense to the code of conduct presentation, of course. Um but uh for for those that have been uh on the board for a while or were here last year, uh you'll see some uh I guess uh portions of the district safety plan that we've carried on, but there's also going to be some changes uh moving forward into the 2025 2026 school year. Our purpose remains the same. Our district safety committee is responsible for reviewing and revising our plan to make sure that everyone on our school campus uh has a safe and secure place uh to both learn and work. Our index uh has remained the same. Uh if you look down at
020section six, the appendices uh you'll see that uh both of those were added last year if you remember. Uh the first one is our public health emergency plan, our continuity of operations. Uh this is our COVID plan. So if there was to be another public health emergency, uh we have a plan for how to move forward uh so that we can continue uh educating students. Uh section B is our emergency remote learning plan, which could have something to do with a public health emergency, but is also used in case one of our uh buildings is no longer usable. So the fire, hopefully that never occurs, that happens on a Saturday. on Monday, we can continue uh educating students and we're not scrambling to figure out what we're going to do moving forward. Our district safety
021committee members are indicated here uh with their logos representing all our district safety committee is made up of many members of our faculty and staff, but also representatives of all of those agencies and organizations uh that you see. uh there's not one individual or one entity that directs our our goals and purposes. Uh this is all of us working together and we've done so very successfully for years now. Our preventative student programs and supports uh has continued to grow. Uh every single year we add new topics and new titles to this list. Uh over the last couple years, mental health first aid and stop the bleed training were two of our larger endeavors. Uh moving forward, this year we've added trauma illness and grief training, otherwise known as TIG. Uh a group of staff from
022both our buildings and our district uh did attend this training. Uh like a lot of the training that we provide and that we receive, uh this is training that we hope that we never have to use. Uh this is training that we provide to staff and faculty that are part of our crisis response teams. So in the case of some sort of trauma or crisis that occurs either within our building or more importantly within our community, uh our staff have the ability in the training to deal with that. So that's number seven right there. Number 10, Sandy Hook Promise. Uh this is an anonymous reporting service uh that is a subscription based through Eerie 1 Boseis uh provided to its component districts. Uh this is a service uh that's been provided through Erie 2 to
023its compon component districts for a short time now and has received a lot of very very favorable uh feedback. Uh there are neighboring school districts uh that have provided some some very very I guess uh I guess attention-seeking uh stories uh that they have provided as an example of the success of the Sandy Hook Promise. Uh this is a anonymous reporting service uh that can be used by staff, students and any member of the community uh not only our community uh but the larger community uh that is out there that is used to report uh concerning whether it's a threat against a building, threat against an individual or potentially someone making threats against themselves. No longer at midnight when a student is online and participating in a conversation or engaging on social media do they
024hear something and then have to wait to report it the next school day. Uh this is a service where 24 hours a day uh people have the ability to report uh anonymously. uh working with our public safety partners, uh we now have the ability to deal with it uh and deal with it very very quickly rather than letting time go by and ultimately into the next day which potentially we could be transporting students and occupying a building uh potentially uh with that threat never having been addressed whether it's a threat against a person, a building or potentially someone making a threat against themselves. What's the what's the mechanics of that? Like if if I was a student at home and I saw something online How would I know what to do? Yep. So, there's going
025to be education that comes out so students and staff know the conduit that's going to exist for them to be able to make that report. Um, we're going to be providing education to our public safety partners, specifically our dispatch centers that are going to be receiving these reports uh from um the call center, I guess, is is the way to to look at it. Uh so that uh when they receive that call at 2 in the morning saying, "This is Sandy Hook Promise. We're reporting a threat." uh the dispatchers know what they're receiving and why they're receiving it and who they're going to contact within the district and within law enforcement to be able to uh identify it, address it, investigate it. Um so there's there's a roll out that's going to occur where we're
026going to provide that education and that direction. Um it's not it's not going to happen overnight. Uh but when done in other districts uh specifically around us, uh there's been a lot of success that's come from it. Hopefully that answers your question. Yep. Thanks. Section two uh pertains to a threat assessment team. Uh this is a concept that uh we've had here in the district now uh for years uh a buildingbased and district-based threat assessment team uh that's able to take a threat against a building, a threat against an individual um and investigate it and ultimately come up with a plan moving forward. Uh the important part is that um it is used throughout the district. Uh so what occurs in one building uh occurs throughout all of the buildings. This has been in effect
027here in the district now for years. New York State Ed is now requiring that this language be included in our district safety plan. So another example of something that we've been doing that New York State is now saying, "Hey, you've got to do it and you have to put it in your plan." Fortunately for us, we already do it. It's just a matter of putting the language in our plan. This is where we start getting into some of the terminologies. Uh it's been about a year that uh we've been uh kind of forecasting to staff and and students uh and our community partners uh that these terminologies are changing. Uh they they they told us this a while ago. Um they kind of laid out the framework. Uh there's been some changes that have occurred.
028Uh we'll talk here in a minute about the most recent one which was as of February of this year. Uh but relocation and reunification uh two emergency response terminologies we've been using here in the district for quite some time. Relocation uh is what we do if we can no longer occupy one of our buildings. Every single one of our buildings has a relocation site, a place where students and staff can walk to if they cannot uh any longer occupy their building. So if you think of a of a fire or a chemical spill, building is evacuated in our Buffalo weather. We can't stand outside on most days for very long. And so therefore, we have a location, we have a site that we transport students to by foot. Um, our secondary sites we transport by
029bus. So the language for relocation is in there. Reunification is what happens when we reunite students with either parents, guardians, or trusted adults that are on an emergency contact list. Um, this can be done at a relocation site. Uh this can be done in conjunction with a with a relocation or it can be done uh in the case of uh an incident like a lockdown or some sort of uh crisis that occurs at the building where we have to link up students and parents or guardians. Shelter in place has been one of our emergency response protocols for quite some time. New York State has now changed a lot of the language and the intent. Shelter in place will no longer be used in the manner that we've always used it. Shelter in place will only
030be used uh if it's safer in the building than out. And so if you think of a weather related incident, uh this is more than likely what we'd be using a shelter in place for. So if you look at the weather that we had come through Western New York yesterday, uh with high winds, tornado activity, uh in the winter time, you could have a major winter storm coming through. Shelter in place would be used uh to make sure that we're inside the building and safe from whatever weather events happening outside. The old shelter in place that we're very very used to has been replaced with the terminology of hold in place. Not that there would ever be a confusion between hold in place or shelter in place, but New York State Ed has indicated new
031terminology which is hold in place. So every time we've used a shelter in place in the past, now we will be using the terminology of hold in place. And really it is just that timeout that we call in the building where we can handle whatever the incident is. A hold in place will be used anytime an ambulance responds to a building, anytime there's a medical need, uh anytime that there is a uh suicidal student, uh disruptive adult. Uh we've used it for major spills in hallways or broken water pipes. Anytime that we need to kind of control the movement inside and outside that building, we call previously a shelter in place. Moving forward, it'll now be called a hold in place. But if you're a student in the hall during a hold in place, you
032should shelter, right? Let's not complicate things here. So, hold in place is a is a terminology that they've been trying to add now for quite some time. Uh for those of us in the business, we're extremely lerary of it because of the confusion. If you think this is bad, wait till you see what's coming. Um so, yes, there there is going to be a learning curve. There's going to be uh uh changes in our printed documents. Uh there's going to be changes in the videos that we have substitute teachers watch. Um there there's there's a lot of education that's going to have to occur to make sure that when an emergency protocol is called that everyone knows what to do and if it's not done properly if people don't pay attention to my videos. Uh
033there's there's going to be some problems. So uh we've we've got our work ahead of us. That's why we drill though, right? So that's and that's and that's why we do the drills. We'll talk about the drills we're going to do here in a second. evacuation uh is remaining the same. So our evacuations uh commonly referred to as our fire drills uh will remain the same. Uh no changes there. That takes us down to lockout. Um no no need for concern regarding uh someone responding to a lockout versus a lockdown, right? Why would anybody uh confuse those two terms? Uh but in February of this year, uh New York State hearing our concerns added the word secure in front of lockout. So that solves all the problems. So, now we have a secure lockout, which
034is the new terminology for what we used to use shelter in place for, right? A shelter in place was kind of all-encompassing. Uh, now we've got separate terminology that state ed is requiring that we use. So, a secure lockout would be used if there was a threat within the community and we had to make sure that we returned back to the building, secured our building. All of our buildings are already secure. So this on a day like today would just include closing first floor windows um and make sure that that threat that could be out there doesn't make its way in the building and complicate everybody's day. So that would be a secure lockout. Once again, making sure everyone knows the difference between responding to a secure lockout and responding to a lockdown. Two totally
035different responses for two totally different reasons. And then we see lockdown, no changes to lockdown. every single person on our campuses uh is allowed to uh and encouraged to lock down a building based upon what they see or what's been reported to them. Uh using common language uh that being lockdown, lockdown, lockdown. So uh using their their their mouth and screaming it at the top of their lungs or using technology um and we spend a lot of time in our lockdown drills making sure that everyone knows what to do and more importantly why they're doing it. New York State. Uh within the last year, uh the commissioner issued a a memo indicating that while we really should be focusing on making sure that we're squared away during the school day, uh let's not forget about
036after school activities. U what we found over the years is that often times these memos are indicative of what's to come. So if you haven't started looking into it, you probably should because that recommendation is probably soon going to turn into a mandate. New York State is now requiring us to provide additional training and education and guidance for after-school events. So when you think of a evening concert in a building, the requirement uh for someone much like much like a um a airline uh flight attendant uh to stand up and talk about what to do if there's an emergency. And that could include uh the need for a lockdown and the response for such. uh also requiring us to provide education to those that use our buildings after hours. So someone that receives a building
037permit to host a meeting or hold some sort of seminar in our buildings of which all of our buildings are community centers and are used constantly after school and in the evening hours. We're now required to provide education to them so that they know what to do in case there's an emergency and how to respond to those terminologies. We don't have to train every single person. we have to provide uh education to the person running it and then they're responsible for passing that on to those uh that attend their Girl Scout meeting or whatever else they might be hosting in our buildings. Is that done with videos or how do you do that? So districts are kind of tackling this through a variety of different ways. Uh we're going to look at videos. We're also
038going to look at printed material uh as a way of making sure that we have a record of producing that training to them. Uh so we're we're looking out for the liability of the district in in demonstrating that we've provided what we're responsible for providing. So can I ask a question on that too? So does this include like like let's say some of our school buildings do bingo night like is at the beginning of bingo night we're going to have to review safety rules as policy for everybody like hey this is Yep. Yep. So, you know, I mean, we've been saying for years, we do a really good job Monday through Friday, 7 to three, and then at the end of the school day, right, we open our doors and everyone leaves and our resources
039are much less, but you know, the risk continues and the concern remains and for a district, the liability still exists. So, um, in in many ways, you know, you've got districts that haven't done as much as we have that are going to have to scramble and do an awful lot between now and September. Uh whereas for us, it really is a matter of maybe tweaking some of our videos and coming up with additional handouts um that are going to kind of cross our tees and dot our eyes. So we're not in a bad spot there. So for our drills, our early dismissal drill required by uh state ed remains. Uh eight fire drills, six must be completed by December 31st of 25. Uh eight hold in place. Previously that used to be shelter in place.
040Uh those eight almost always across our district are naturally occurring. Uh I can't remember the last time we had to actually run a hold in place or previously a shelter in place drill. We use shelter in places or now hold in places all the time for a variety of different reasons. Um oftent times for fairly innocuous reasons, right? So you know there's a a spill in a hallway, we call that shelter now hold in place. We clean up the spill and there's no sirens and emergency responders aren't running to our building. uh and anxiety levels aren't through the roof just because they heard shelter in place. The same will hold true with hold in place. Uh lockdown drills uh the first lockdown drill completed uh by the building principal by October 3rd. The three remaining
041will be uh completed by district safety uh between the 6th of October and the 28th of uh February. Our focus as we've always done is to frontload our drills so that the benefit of the drills is realized through the course of that school year. for those districts that are, you know, running 15 drills their last week of school, right? They may be checking a lot of boxes, but it kind of defeats the purpose of taking the time and effort to run these drills. Every one of our buildings will have our uh evacuation relocation drill. We pride ourselves on these drills. Uh not just meeting the minimum requirements of state ed, but instead exceeding them. Uh working with our partners at Fischer Bus and running three bus drills with students. Uh, one of those drills includes
042providing education to our walkers so that should the need exist in an emergency and they have to board a bus, they have that safety education on what to do if they're on the bus. Each building is going to use their designated relocation sites with a district relocation site being that of the Buffalo Bills Fieldhouse. Our district safety plan will be made available to the public uh within 30 days of adoption uh through the district's website. and we'll be asking you, the board, to approve this plan at the August 12th meeting. Anyone that has any comments or questions is invited to contact either Brent or I. Um, call us, text us, email us, knock on our door, and uh, we'll answer your questions and, uh, fill you in. Do you guys have any questions now that
043I rattled all that off? No. Okay. All right. Thank you so much. Anyone Anyone have any questions, sir? Thanks guys. Um, okay. So, being no further business, can I have a motion to adjourn the public hearings? So, moved by Laura, second, second by Mary, um, Ashley. Uh, all in favor? Opposed. Item passes. We are journed from that and it is 6:30. So, let's just keep it rolling. Anybody need a break? Can I just have one sec? I'm having a technical issue. [Music] All right, never mind. It's resolved. I was good. [Music] Okay. Um, okay. Let's call the uh the regular meeting uh to order. Um, I'll do this pledge again. Yes, let's do the pledge. Absolutely. Just for good luck, Tom. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. to the republic
044for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Have a motion to approve the agenda for the June 10th, 2020, 2025 board of education meeting as presented. So moved by Rich. Second. Second by Cam. Questions, comments. All in favor? I opposed. That passes. Okay, starting off with our recognitions. We already recognized uh Emma. Um so moving on to Mr. Shyer. Mr. This is exactly what you didn't want to have happen. Rich, I want you if you could stand up and you can take a look at the crowd. Of course, your fellow board members. I know that have come out. Uh just wanted to thank you for the work that you've done. uh on behalf of the entire school district. Uh it says so much that somebody puts themselves out
045there to run for the board and then to continue running for the board and to serve 10 years in this seat. And I think of you I've only known you since 2019, but uh the idea of of of what you and the board and the entire community have been able to put together uh in terms of what Hamburg is uh building on the greatness that's always been there. just want to thank you for the inspiration you've given to me. Uh I want to read to you this this plaque and then I'm going to tell a small story and then Laura is going to share something with you. Okay. Uh so certificate of appreciation proudly awarded to Richard Schneider in recognition of his efforts at making the Hamburg Central School District a great place for all
046students to create, care, solve, and discover. The HCSD community is grateful for the time he has served as a faithful and diligent member of the board of education. So I want to thank you for that. My pleasure. We're gonna have uh eventually we're gonna get a picture going, but I have Laura stand up here. She's gonna share something, but before she does and tell a little embarrassing story of myself a little bit later on, you're going to be hearing about the uh internet enabled device policy meeting that I was uh happy to facilitate today. And the way we do that is we have the presenter who is me plug in the laptop and it shows on a screen in our district offices. So everybody's seeing what's on your screen. And because it was the internet
047enabled device policy group, I felt like I couldn't look at my phone, but I felt that made to look see if I had emails. So I just looked at my laptop, which I didn't realize was, which I forgot was forgotten directly on the screen. So everybody saw what Laura's about to read right now because somebody sent it to the person who wrote this sent it to myself and Laura to look over. So that's my little story there and we'll get a picture really quick. Okay. At at the at the end of Laura's discussion here. So you can sit down. You want to sit? No. No. Fine. So before I read this, I wanted to just say a couple of things about serving on the wood branch um over the last 10 years. And you know
048me, I'm the mushy one. But you know when I think of you and I I would venture to guess that many of my fellow board members think the same thing. I think of your thirst for learning and I I learned something from you with that because you asked any question that came to your mind. Um and you always wanted to go deeper than maybe the information that you were given. And you said to me once that your passion was to keep learning um all kinds of subjects and continue on that um path and I'm sure it's something that you've taught your daughters. Um and I I think about people who decide that they want to serve on the board and there's a whole lot of reasons why people choose to do board service. Um but
049I will never forget being at Boston Valley School watching a play. Um, several of you were there. It was when we first started doing board tours and we were at Boston Valley and I was sitting next to you and I remember seeing the kids on the stage and a little girl was singing and I remember looking over at you and you just had this huge smile on your face and I thought here is this man with this very successful company whose students have already graduated who doesn't have any aspirations for politics who's simply here because he cares genuinely about kids and the smile that you had, I just felt very honored to sit next to you and I knew your heart was so pure and your intentions for being there. And I have to say,
050I saw that same look several times um on election day. Anytime a little one came up, you stopped and you wanted to talk and you had that same smile. So, I'm sure your uh grandchildren are going to absolutely love having you for a grandpa because it's very clear how much you love kids. Um what I'm about to read is from um Mike Cornell um our previous superintendent um who was part of your 10 years of serving on the board. And um he asked that I read this to you tonight, try to get through it. Um, at the very center of the sun is the core. The core accounts for only 1% of the sun's mass. Yet, it is responsible for 99% of the energy. The core is responsible for the light and the heat that
051warms the earth and for the gravitational pull which causes the planet's orbit. In short, the core of the sun is what we see and feel. And so it is with people. The core of a person always shines through. The core of Rich Snder has shown through in his work on the board for nine years. At his core, Rich cares deeply about the Hamburg schools. He joined the board nine years ago to work with his colleagues and district leaders to restore a district bel. And he dedicated the next nine years to the board after his daughters had already graduated from high school. At his core, Rich realized that while his own children had many needs and talents, his job was to ensure that his care and his attention as a board member was on the needs
052of all children with all kinds of talents, needs, and dreams. At his core, Rich is always about the team. He knows that leadership work is together work. At his core, Rich is a good friend who can be counted on to be there for you. in good times and in bad. And Rich is a good and kind person. Rich's leadership along with those who served during the same time was responsible for the district's focus on the whole child as demonstrated by the commitments in our strategic plan. He was always supportive of the district's focus on the mental and emotional health of children as the foundation for learning. While on the district safety committee, he supported the many innovations in school safety that we have come to appreciate in Hamburg. Rich is unwavering in his support and
053in his genuine appreciation and respect for our entire staff. Rich, there is no question that you have only enriched the Hamburg schools and the experiences that children will have in them. I am a better leader of your partners because of your partnership and your friendship and our community will for be forever indebted to you for your service to it. My crown get a quick photo of President Mr. Schneider. Thanks. I got to say something, man. I had to get through that. forgot that right. Um I appreciate your time on the board. Um I think of you and and hopefully we'll continue to think of you as not just a co board member but as a friend. Um somebody we can go to have a have a beer with and talk how things are going and
054stuff and your conversations at JPs are always uh are always appreciated. Um I appreciate I've always appreciated um the thoughtfulness that you've always brought into our discussions. Um your your line of questioning is always with the intent to only gain a better understanding of the topics and that thoughtfulness I think is mentioned by Laura and and brought brought by Mike's Mike's comments as well. um you know as well as the professionalism that you you brought to the board and um I know I personally appreciated um the whole time you've been on the board. Thank you. Appreciate your time. Okay, that is it for presentations. Um just moving on to our information items. Um just some basic stuff, our board briefings, basically the minutes from last meeting. Um just a couple things I think at our
055table. Um something from nicer in the schedule, the meeting schedule for next year. It's the same one we got before. There's no changes, right? It would be the one we approved. Correct. Yeah. Um going through future board meetings, um our next meeting will be July 8th, uh which is our reorg meeting, uh which will be here at Armor. Um uh we starting at six because it has more. I thought we've done a good job. Yeah. Condensing a lot. Um someone 6 um our August meeting will also be here on on the 12th at 6:30. Um the Tuesday or the uh September meeting uh will be here in Armor and then October uh we start doing our regular um rotation through the schools. So we'll be at Charlotte in Octo October and November we will be
056at the high school. Um upcoming meetings uh reservations um just reminder if anybody signed up the ECSB uh annual dinner is Thursday. Um NISBA's law conference is um July 15th if anyone has signed up for that um as well as a NISBA education event uh in Albany on August 1st and 2nd. ECSB's uh Western New York law conference is August 6th. That's the Salvatore's um virtual NISBA um superintendent uh workshop uh August 21st and various other NISBA online opportunities. Uh also have some budget transfers in there. All the budget transfers under uh $25,000. Um, I know there just uh one comment on that because there was a question I had a question on one of them on on interest transfer uh which I think Tom reminded us uh I know Christine reminded me that uh
057we did some additional borrowing in LA in the previous year which um resulted in additional interest due um that was not budgeted for which is the reason for that transfer. Uh, moving on to board, committee, and individual reports. Would now be a good time to introduce our will be our new I think we can introduce Max. I think we swear we swear him in on July 8th, right? The swear. Yeah, absolutely. We can introduce him correctly. Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce to you a rising senior at Hamburg High School, Max Coleman. Max, give away to us. He is uh he is the he is succeeding Emma who did a just a wonderful job and Max is a huge part of the student government team at Hamburg High School and we're looking forward to
058uh his presence and his voice. So congrats Max and congrats on the presidency too. Well done. Thanks Max. Uh okay, you know what? You're still fine left. Not dead yet. Uh all right. Um, I didn't say it. Uh, so a couple of things. Uh, just a quick shout out to the Village Bike Bus. Our last ride is June 16th. Uh, because it's the last ride of the season. There will be prizes, music, and we are meeting at 8:20 a.m. uh at Glen Meadows Park. So, if you haven't tried the bike bus yet and you go to Union Pleasant, you should try it. It's a lot of fun. Um, thank you for the shout out to myself. Uh, I was able to attend the tech meeting retreat uh the tech committee retreat uh through Zoom. Thank
059you for accommodating me. Uh, we talked about so many things. They all talked about more things because I did couldn't send the whole thing, but we did talk about generative AI policy. Um, spoiler alert, there will be more discussion about the generative AI policy. I'm really happy with what we are putting out there or we like I did a lot of it, but what the the committee has put together. Um, it seems like a really strong generative AI policy. So, I'm excited for you all to see it. I'm excited that Hamburg has one. There are school districts that do not have any semblance of a generative AI policy. There are universities that do not have any semblance of a generative AI policy and I love that we are on top of it. Hooray. So get
060excited for that. Um we also looked at a software technology um that I know that parents and teachers there's a lot of like messaging that happens. And I'm not not saying this is what we're going with even at all, but I will say from my perspective as a parent um and as someone who worked in techn educational technology, I was very impressed with this. I was very interested in this. Um I don't know how only speaking for myself, I thought this was an very intriguing software that was demoed for us. Um, so, uh, and I can't remember the name, but, uh, just square. Parent square. That's it. Parent Square. Parent Square. There it is. Thank you. Um, but if we did have something that could make it easier for everyone to be able to communicate
061in one place, uh, and not get over communicated with. into that would be so swell. Um, but not committing to anything. We're just in the feeling it out zone. Got to start somewhere. So, it was it was promising I will say. So, I will leave you with that. Keep that in your mind. So, if you want to like Google it later, parent square, do it. Um, seemed seemed promising. Um and then earlier today was part of the distractionfree policy, what do we want to call that? Community hangout. Yeah, it's our stakeholder policy committee. Y for sure. Our stakeholder policy meeting and I really loved that. Um that was there were board members, there were students, there were parents, there were teachers, it was a whole party of parties talking about the distraction-free policy. Um, we
062had templates that we could look at and then adjust from how can we make this work in Hamburg and how are we going to move forward. It was a really good discussion. It was really amicable. It was really productive. I thought like I mean y'all know me. I've been championing at the bit to have this conversation. Um, so I it was it was good. You were there. You were there. It was great. You were there. We were It was a whole party. So, no spoilers, but it was it was really good, I think. Um, so yeah, that was that is probably the longest report I've ever given. It was awesome. Oh my gosh. Thank you. Thank you, Dave. So, that's what that's what I got. All right. I gave all my time to Mary, but
063um I'm sure you'll find time to say something about buses. Yes. I I won't say anything about buses about how much I hate electric buses. Um, no. I not much school event, but I did go to the Pride uh event on uh on Sunday. Mary almost ran me over her bike. Oh, no Dave. Well, you almost did. And uh it was really really well attended. All our students up there performing and everything. So I it was really it was great day and the rain held out for them. So that was great, you know. Then the other thing I have just a little to brag a little bit. There's an open house next to my house. watching everybody live back there and uh all the young couples walking in holding children holding their little children all
064talked about they want their children to go to Hamburg school district over and over and over that's what they that's the reason that they're looking in this area and everything else so it's I think that you know this whole board this whole our administration our teachers and our staff you know get a lot of credit for making this a destination district where people want to move into our community and uh and go to our schools. That's all I have. All right. Um a lot of year-end stuff. Uh went to the SAR dinner with Mr. Adams uh last month. Um which is great. The SAR dinner is is at Salvatore. It's uh run by the local uh superintendence group basically and it invites um all the three top students from every district in Western New York.
065uh which includes parochial and private schools uh with their um superintendent, principal, and and board board presidents. So, it's uh it's great being able to to to be there with the kids. And with this being my son's year, I knew I didn't I kind of knew who Lydia was, but I u obviously knew Emma. Emma was there. She's our she's number three. And one of my son's friends was number two, the saludiatorum. So, it was kind of kind of cool to do being a part of that. Uh, knowing everybody. Um, and one of the better speakers. You got one of the better speakers we've had in a while. She was really good. Uh, local attorney that that I thought related to the kids really well and Lakeshore graduate. Um, last night uh along with Cam,
066I was at the AOF uh graduation. Uh, again, I've gone to that before as an AOF board member. Um, attended more as a parent last night with with mine. So, it was cool seeing him the the one of his first uh graduations, I guess. Um Gam was able to speak and give out the uh the um AOF uh scholarship awards to the to the people. Um I've always seen pictures of the memory walk, but this was the first time I actually witnessed the memory walk. Um that was pretty cool. All the moms were crying. Um it was neat seeing all the all the all the kids and getting together some of the old pictures. Uh tried to recreate some of the ones from um first days. I pulled up my his our first day picture.
067It was kind of fun. Um orchestra spring concert obviously as well. Um you know the the the work that our um our music teachers put in is is outstanding. and looking at the at the output and and seeing kind of the culmination of it uh this year was was was great. Went to awards night um along with a couple my fellow board members um go over the um the scholarships that all gave out gave out. Uh it was one of Cam's three speeches he got to give on it. Um and we also um actually was on the day of the election we signed the most recent ban which was our bond anticipation note. Um always blows my mind that as the board president you get a signature on a municipal bond. Uh but uh believe
068it was for about 53 million. Um, so just as a reminder, that's that's basically the construction loan that we get. So we get that money in anticipation of what we're going to be spending in the next year. We'll do another one probably next year, maybe the final one. And then uh these are basically one-year notes. So then uh we can roll them over. there's a certain time period that you have to at some point roll them into uh an advertising um bond which is it's called the bond anticipation note. It's an anticipation of the actual bond. Um we got a fairly decent rate. It was a to a net rate of 3.1%. Which I thought was uh pretty good especially if you're looking at what uh rates are for commercial or retail. That's not too
069bad. It's different than a than a mortgage, right? Yeah. And we get uh and we and when I say net, um the different u banks and financial institutions bid on the work, right? Um so actually they give us a rate. There's a rate that goes on the note, which I believe is about 3.5%. They actually pay us to write it. So we get I think it was about $420,000 that goes into debt service. That's the only place that can go. So that has to go to help um pay debt pay down pay debt service is where you come up with the net 3.1. So when you roll that interest back we get 3.1 out of that. Um so that was pretty it's it's an interesting uh process. That's all I got. Thanks. All right. I
070got a lot. I'll move quick. Um so starting with sports. I mean, again, I've said this a million times. If you don't, the hair on your arm doesn't stand up when you go through that that athletic field late at night. Uh, watching lacrosse or baseball. Um, went to the track meet with the ECIC's where I took over for Dave in the snack shack and sold sold all kinds of pretzels and cheese. Uh, saw firsthand that they need a sink in there pretty badly. So, I understand that now. Um, connected athletically. my kids participated in that which if you've never seen that. I mean it warms your heart. It's I should move on quickly. Uh on the topic of athletics went to the athletic awards. Uh and what was interesting to me so every school if
071you've never been every team basically awards four awards and what I thought was really it's really interesting that they do that. There is an outstanding stu ath athlete of course but there's a leadership award sportsmanship award and a most improved award and all throughout the evening it was just riddled with scholar athletes are scholar first messaging and I just thought you know I celebrate a championship probably as much as the next guy probably more than the next guy but I thought just how um maybe inspiring it is that there's all these people out there who are thinking about the big picture and that it doesn't matter about the wins and it was just it just another great night. Um scholarship night another great night. I I mean I does anyone count how much money we
072give out? Was it $200,000? It was at least $200,00 inspiration. Right. So there's clubs, there's there's organizations, there's people, there's families who've been through terrible tragedies who are giving awards and sort of turning around and helping the next group. I just another another great night. Um, and AOF, Tom Tom mentioned the AOF. Um, you know, I was honored to be part of that and have that dovetail into the scholarship night. I just felt very uh imposttor syndrome being in that in that arena in that venue that that evening there. Um, moving on to policy. So, Mary covered the policy committee pretty well. We we've reviewed, you know, the policies on the on the agenda today. we've reviewed a couple times. Um, which is not to to say trust us or to absolve anyone of their
073responsibility, but um, I say that only for assurance that it's, you know, it's gotten a thorough vetting from us. Um, there's a number of policies which we'll review in the upcoming session, including the discussion that we had around, um, the the distraction-free policy. Um, you know, really the focus today was we went down some rabbit holes, but I think it was kind of primarily on where do we store devices and what really is our practical application of of how this policy is going to work for us. I want to commend Max uh, as I did after the meeting. I think he did a great job bringing a perspective that was a bit unpopular in the room and and doing it with conviction. Uh, if that's how you're going to be on the board, Max, I'm
074really looking forward to your service. So, hats off to you. Um, on the IDA land development, we have a public hearing tomorrow on there's a Riley Boulevard mixed development project going on up near Frontier. So, that's Frontier District. Um, and also on the note of the IDA, Land Development Corporation, I've become a little bit more involved with the uh stadium development planning. So, the town is doing a lot of work trying to solicit feedback. It's really early uh probably unfortunately early actually that there's not a better plan. Really what they're trying to do is create a better plan for the area up near where are we? Up near ECC South because that's that's the Hamburg property that's really adjacent to the new stadium. They're looking for another sort of destination kind of a a venue
075to go in there and obviously that could accompany some mixed use maybe some uh small hotels or even some um restaurant type venues. So um through the IDA because obviously we can help bring some or incentivize some companies to come in there. So I'm trying to work with Shawn Doyle and and sort of help encourage some of that development there. Again all frontier I think think that's all frontier for us but um it's a it's a bit of a passion for me so I wanted to bring it up here. And finally uh with respect to the board self evaluation I feel a bit of ownership there because I sort of pushed super eval on everyone. Uh just wanted to say thanks for your patience as we work through it. I know that was not the
076most fun uh the first time around as we did the self-evaluation. We're going to talk about Tom's evaluation later today, but on the board self-evaluation, you know, I think this my believe we overshot a little bit with this. There's a lot of typing and a lot of clicking. Uh maybe we can pair that back next time. Um but I thought I really I want to say genuinely I appreciate I read every response. I appreciate how thoughtful everybody was in that. Um, and how thorough the responses were and again speaking genuinely here, I I think it showed me we have a lot more to work with than we have to work on. And I think and I think I'm really encouraged by that because I know we've we've sort of we've had a couple differences this
077year and I I felt really good about that self-evaluation and that we're ready to sort of get get to some work. So again, thank you everyone for working through that. And finally to my buddy Rich. Uh dude, what a run. Um you know, you came in at a at a low point for us. uh and uh and you really you really helped us turn it around. So I think you know looking at what's what's your differentiator. I think you're like the calmst of us all. I never saw you react with a negative emotion. I I don't think in 10 years I ever saw you cut anybody off. You know, you sat there, you would listen. You would always listen. You were you were listen first. You absorb. presumably you allowed that conversation to sort of
078affect your opinion or maybe even change your opinion and then you would share. And I think you know Laura talked about what what she learned from you. That's what I would like to emulate and what I saw in you that I wish I was better at myself is sort of thinking and not reacting. Um I think the community is really going to miss your steady hand at the wheel. I'm going to miss your really steady hand at the wheel and I just want to say thanks. Look forward to a beer after this that's less emotional. Thank you. Um I think uh sticking on the theme of emotion uh last week I was able to attend the um staff retirement um reception for um our employees at Hamburg and to see the families that turned out
079um to support their uh family member who was retiring and to hear the stories at at each table about times of service um was really special. um and you know to think that people will remember their time here so fondly um made me happy for them and to hear some of them talk about wanting to come back and still be in our schools and stuff was great and it made me think of you know new faces that are going to be coming on and all the experiences that they're going to have um in Hamburg and be able to share all those kinds of things with their families as well. Um, also the scholarship dinner that um I was or the scholarship awards that I was at with some of my fellow board members. Whenever I'm
080there every year, I think about how embarrassing my time at high school was compared to all the kids being honored. I mean, it's incredible the accomplishments that they've had, but also um to your point, Cam, um families that have suffered incredible losses and the way that they choose to give back is by giving back through our schools. So, it's very moving. Um Colleen and uh Nicole Da um and myself on behalf of parent child connection were there and able to give out a scholarship. So, um it was another really special um night to honor our Hamburg um students. So, oh and Thursday I will be at the dinner for Erie County School Board Association. So, I'm looking forward to doing that. Um I can't follow Fitz doing the master safety plan. Um so, I won't
081bother. Uh but um I will say that um you know you you've all been so kind over the last nine and ten years and we've really grown as a group together um almost like a little mini family here you know and um I always look forward to um coming and dealing with the next thing that we needed to do. It's been my honor and my privilege to help keep this community a destination. Like the scenario that Dave talked about there with the kids and the families coming in, that was Beth and I um in 90 October of 92 when uh we got married and we moved to Hamburg and we didn't I didn't even know where Hamburg was. I had never even gone to the Erie County Fair, you know. So, you know, but she
082happened to work nearby. So, I said, "Well, you know, Hamburg's rated pretty well. You know, Charlotte Avenue is great." That, you know, was rated number three in the county. So, we bought a house right on Charlotte and and um you know, as the kids started coming out and Colleen saw them all, right? I did, you know, we pulled them down the road in the wagon and you know, Erica was the littlest one and you know, it was just they they did so well in this community and it's because of this institution, the people that made it and um kept everybody wanting to be part of it. And I just I couldn't believe the the sense of community in the village here when we moved in. It's been fantastic and I I I felt so compelled
083to be part of it and give back in some way. And when I came on the board during those tumultuous times, um I was ready to help. Whatever you whatever everybody needed me to do, I would do, you know. So, um, but it's because of all of you that made me keep coming and keep trying to do it. And I'm I'm so happy that Jess is going to be joining the board now. And I know she's going to do a fantastic job. And um, but like I said, and thank you to all of you. You know, you guys have done the work. I mean, I wish I had employees that worked like you. So, and also I want to thank all the administrators and the teachers and staff and the people that have been, you
084know, I've grown so close to over the years. And, you know, it's been a privilege to to work with you, to help the kids in your school, watch them grow up. I just it's been so great. So, uh, thank you again. I'm your biggest fan. I'm going to be rooting for you guys. I know you're going to do fine, and I, you know, I just, I wish you all the best. Well, this is not a good spot to be in. I should I should have had, please. I went on that side. Um, I'm short today, which is great because I'm usually long-winded. Uh, there was no PAC meeting, no building visitation since the last thing. No PTSA meeting. Um, so the only thing I will cover from PTSA is there's lots of end of year
085hap end of year events happening in each building. Um, I'm sure you hear them. I'm sure you see them. And we are so happy to be having those things happening. Um, great and wonderful partnerships between PKSA and the district. So, that's uh something to be proud of and something to be happy for. And I'm sure Jess, who's our PTSA president, newly looked board member, will give us an update. But the Bulldog Run Club did just have their village uh their it takes a village 5K. Um and that was super successful and she'll give us an update on that. But it was it was really a wonderful event and I can't wait to see it moving forward. And if you didn't get to be a part of it, put it on your calendar for next year.
086That's it. That's all for me. Exactly. Thanks everybody. Thanks R. Ashley, why I'm Why did I do that? I did it again. Why am I calling you married today? Uh, moving on to our capital project updates. Hello everybody. Everyone hear me? Good. All right. Um before I go through the pictures as usual, I just wanted to run through a couple quick points from the report you guys have in front of you. Um mainly just to say schedule-wise, um we are heavily into the boiler room demo now, um at the high school. That's you'll see a 6:30 finish date there as our goal and we're on track for that at this point in time. Um you also see some of the photos that we've gotten into the work, new work up on the roof quite quite
087heavily now that the weather's finally broke for us. So, you'll see guys up there almost on a daily basis plugging away on all the new rooftop mechanical work. Um, and I just want to bring to your attention on the ongoing upcoming work list that the phase three work here at this Armor Elementary School is within reach of kicking off, you know, about two and a half weeks from now. We'll be uh ripping a tearing in this school. Um, schedule-wise on page two and three, there really aren't any updates to go over. Just that the we've dialed in the bid date for phase 4 um to an ideal period. You'll see that that is scheduled now to go out mid to late September of this year and open bids in October of this year, which is
088kind of the the sweet spot you want to be in right after uh summer work is coming down, but early enough to beat the beat to the punch a lot of our other districts. Um, other than that, I just wanted to run give you a quick overview of the change orders that are up for approval this uh the four that are up for approval this board meeting. Um, so going in order of the way they they read, I believe, uh, change order 202-1, which represents the plumbing contract at Danforth, uh, change order, first change order they've been issued. There's two items um, on that one. So, the sanitary for your high school kitchen was in really rough shape. uh wasn't something that was originally captured or planned to be fixed in this project, but because
089we have the plumbing contractor here, as always, it's it's more economical to deal with an issue you have now. So, um we requested they price up replacing all of your sanitary underneath the entire high school kitchen, and they did that actually all the way back over, uh I think it was Christmas break. Um so, they're getting paid for that work essentially that we agreed to through the Gordian purchasing agreement. um on that one. The second one is insulation replacement. So if you recall, we had a a change previously to the general contractor that was for additional abatement of insulation on pipe and basement essentially to clean that whole basement out the last amount of piping that was found that had asus uh insulation on it was demoed. We need to replace the insulation on most
090of that pipe because it was hot or cold water lines. So that is this is the reciprocal change order for them to put the new insulation on all those existing lines that were that it was taken off from. Um the next one was uh change order three 203 which is the mechanical contractor for Danforth. I mean that was a large one. It was 104,000 a change. What that is basically doing is bringing up to code and getting ahead of air conditioning that was lacking in the band and music wing. So, I think the the band ensemble room and associated suites and your chorus room and associated suites um weren't initially scheduled to get cooling and we decided to add that to the project which is a robust amount of work. It's a lot of equipment,
091hundreds of feet of pipe, a lot of installation work and rooftop work and uh that changes the summation of all that work that they're going to be doing this summer. Can I can I pause on that one a sec? So, was it am I right to assume that there was once cooling in There is there is cooling. So there there was in one of the spaces and not in the other. Yeah. Um basically so there was cooling in one of those associated units. We'll say that we're replacing in kind. The other one did not have it previously. Um it was something that just wasn't like I guess thought or caught in the design process. So it wasn't shown on plans to add cooling back on the one nor thought through to add cooling to a
092space that didn't have it. They're both considered interior rooms. So, it is actually a SAT requirement that they receive cooling. Now, they don't have they don't have outside windows and either those spaces basically. Right. Right. Wait, so that's the the chorus room, not room. Yep. Chorus room is one of them. They have a computer lab inside the chorus room. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, that room is considered an interior room because the chorus has windows, doesn't it? Small windows. Yes. Not really. Kind of sort of. Yeah. And then the orchestra room is totally That's great. So So they'll get cooling that we didn't they'll get air conditioning that we didn't anticipate. Y something that probably a hot room I'm guessing. Uh yeah, the orchestra will get it being an interior. Bodies in there blowing hard. Yep.
093Okay. Um Okay. And then the second one for um again contract 203 which is a mechanical contract for Danforth change order four. Um That was 4K. That was uh a little over 40,000. Yeah. Spacific to room 273. So part of the project here at the high school was pretty much a robust update of all your data infrastructure. The entire high school, reorganizing where the racks are and the data centers are essentially in the building. Um one of the rooms we moved into there had no means for for ventilating or cooling and we moved a lot of infrastructure to that room. So that room needed to get ventilated. So we added a a air conditioning unit in that room and associated you know other equipment and power and condensate and all that. So that that change
094essentially covers the need to cover that room with cooling. Um and then lastly there was one very small change over written to the contractor that has now officially as of this date completed the pullbart. Um that was work we this was a change we anticipated. We actually just provided the facilities uh staff some underground um sanitary and water lines for a future bathroom facility for themselves. Uh that was not a part of the original plans intentionally. Is that I don't think that one's on our agenda. Is it? Uh it should be. How much what's the amount on that one? Do you recall the last one? That's the NCI or 27. It's the 101. Yes. Yeah. So that's 101 is to NCI who's the general contractctor of Bill Leard. That was again just digging in some
095infrastructure for future bathroom facility for those guys. So there's four items on our agenda for change order. Didn't you just go through five or did I miscount? Maybe I misunderstood and you were still on There's a So some of the changes have two two items on each one. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm good. The sanitary waste piping and the insulation and the linage. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. closer. Does anybody have any questions about those? Thank you. All right, run through the pictures for you really quick. Um, so the first four pictures are all from the basement of the high school showing the progress in demolition work in the boiler room. The top two. Um actually made quite a bit of progress since these four was a week ago. But um as of today, basically the the large
096metal shells of all three boilers are gone and we are moving into the the last phase of demolition down there which would be those foundations getting getting abaded and uh demolished. Uh the bottom two pictures is the adjacent new pump room which obviously looks very busy. There's that that's going from two pumps to 16 to service the building appropriately. That is about 95% done in there. Um, so this this page, the top two photos are actually the fan room, which exists up over your gym in the mezzanine space between the fitness room and weight room. Um, that is another large mechanical upgrade where they're they're tearing out the old the old fans and associated pipe work and pumps and drivers and replacing them. That's well underway as well. Um bottom two pictures are just more
097from the boiler room uh demoing out some of the old pumps and old uh hot water and glycol lines that are being replaced. More boiler room and pump room. And just guys plugging away. You can see all that insulation on the ground there was tearing apart all the pipes that are up two stories high in the ceiling there. Um again you go down there today and there's not much left down in that space at this point. The bottom two pictures are are more progress in the in the pump room showing that insulation is going on the lines. All the all the pump lines are pretty much connected at this point. We'll actually be testing that pump room system uh in the coming weeks. And then this is what I alluded to up on the roof.
098Um what you're seeing here is all the curbs that get set and roofed um back into the system to accommodate all that white duck work you see there. That's custom doublewalled insulated rooftop duck work that's actually accommodating the large new rooftop unit that'll service the auditorium space. Um they have wrapped that up since and have actually moved on down to the cafeteria roof and are now working on that RTU curbing and and art and unit. And again this is just the overall schedule for the phases. Um nothing has changed since last time other than that bid and award period I I mentioned in phase four which you can see is is a full month ahead of where we were initial initially planning to have it and then the next project scheduled that again has not
099changed since last time. Thanks everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks Sean. Thanks Sean. I appreciate you going over those change orders. That's awesome. Thank you. Moving on to our superintendent update. You got it. Hi everybody. Thanks for coming out tonight. Everybody fans included. Uh Rich, I could listen to you talk about your love of the community forever in a day. That was just wonderfully wonderfully compelling and uh just really really taken with it in the words of of of everybody and the and the and the the support. Uh you can tell it's a good superintendent report when most of the things that I had listed to talk about have already been spoken about by uh our board members. I've crossed off so far. It takes a village. I've crossed off scholarship fund. I've crossed off
100athletic boards. Crossed off Academy of Finance uh graduation. Uh there's there's a whole whole host of things uh that that have been uh that have been discussed which we're really super super thankful for. Uh I'll talk about a few things and then some some uh some acknowledgements and then a uh sort of a question to pose to to our board. Uh uh all the elementary schools will be doing their field days. Uh and I was able to be over at Union Pleasant for theirs uh at the end of last week and it was just a and it's exactly what you want. You've got people from all over. You've got the parent volunteers, the vibrant PTSA, the teachers, the staff, you've got police, you've got fire, you've got EMTs, and they are just having a riot
101with the kids. Uh, and you've got uh DJ Patworth uh just just making it happen. Uh from kids songs, and then, you know, maybe when the levy breaks when Led Zeppelin comes on and uh and the whole crowd gets gets excited. Uh uh so there just tons of like year end of activities that are that's just one example of it but we know that I want to thank all those who are involved in planning those and making those um just so incredibly important for the kids. Uh I want to bring up the athletics night again. There was a special award that was given uh for his quiet behind the scenes work. Uh he was the recipient of the Bulldog Service Award. It's actually the Pat Collie uh Bulldog Service Award. Uh but being behind the
102scenes, we won't need a speech from him. But I just want to acknowledge Brent Jordan for all the work that he's done. Well done. I want to talk a little bit about something that Kelly Kenny and her team have been going through very successfully. Uh state ed likes to take a look at things that we're doing especially when there's money attached to it. So, uh with the additional monies, uh for our prek program, uh they had a uh they had what we could call they they they come through and they want work through a review process with us. So Colleen and her team did a phenomenal job with that and had tours something like a Friday morning tour uh that Danielle Lango was part of as well and Tom Riddok was as well at Armor.
103Uh I was at the AOF dinner last night sitting next to Joe Cunning and he said to me, "So my wife said the state came in on Friday to which my very friendly board president looked at me and said this might be an example of things you might want to share with me." He didn't say that. That's how that's how I was like that was my internal internal talk like it's part of the superintendent report. We're totally good with that. But it is exceptionally positive and like with all things there's going to be good conversation that follows it up and there's already been good conversation with us. She's impressed by with our program our staff and students and uh just the thanks to all those involved with that. I want to point out uh another
104person who doesn't want any recognition tonight is Kayla Deleó. Uh so she's up she is certainly taking some pictures for us tonight. share director of communications. She and Amy Forest, who is uh a wonderful district staff person. She's also the uh the adviser to our sports media club. Um they earned a uh an award for excellence in video from the National School Public Relations Association. They just got news for that. It was for the video that they shot uh called A Great Day to Be a Bulldog. They incorporate all sorts of student athletes with that and it became sort of the signature piece on the scoreboard which was donated by the alumni foundation. Uh and then we've shown it at various other uh events as well and that was uh something that they that they
105learned of just last evening. So uh our our our thanks to you and congratulations and all those uh who took part in making that happen. Um on the award front I want to acknowledge again this this acknowledges all those who are involved with the capital project that is certainly the board of education who is involved with the capital project as well. Uh we've been nominated by business first uh for the brick by brick award. So one of the finalists for that uh that'll be named at the end of July will be July 24th. Um we've been nominated in the K through 12 large school category uh for the athletic complex. Um so you know you think about how that made it from an idea from cultivating all sorts of ideas from various stakeholders and then
106into reality and how you provided the governance to allow that to happen. There like any building project there are hiccups along the way and uh and you as a board worked through it and made adjustments and uh and that's a credit to your your leadership as well. Uh speaking of the athletic complex, uh you're going to see later on tonight in your uh in the action items. Uh it's going to be asking for a state environment environmental quality review that happens whenever there's going to be a work that has a sort of a capital involvement or physical involvement to it. Um, we have been able to secure donations to allow us to get lights on the softball field. If all goes well, the softball field and the baseball field of Fischer Athletic Complex. That will
107happen most likely. I know we shouldn't promise anything, like late fall 25 is what we're is what we would what we would hope for it. Now, the money is coming in. I want to acknowledge this in in your board packet. The money's are coming in through the through two sources. One is the Bulldog boosters. Super important organization and also from Assembly Member John Rivera's office. The and we want to thank him for that. I want to acknowledge the booster component to it because that money they're being donated money from Erie County legislator John Gilmore's office. All right. So that those monies are going to be and there, you know, the specifics of it are a little bit different in how we we come into that money, but that's going to allow that to happen. The
108first step of that though is that environmental quality review to make sure that we're legit and we're ready to go with it. But again, think of the pre-planning that went on. Anybody who lots of people who go to those games in softball field and baseball field see the cement posts there and say, "What are the lights coming in?" Well, that was all pre-planning to make sure that they'd be that those posts and the conduit the the spaces for the conduit could be there when we could do it. It's just happening earlier than we thought it could. And uh we're in a position to to accept those those donations which is uh which is a a credit to a credit to to all of you. Um I want to bring up the strategic planning process. Uh
109sent out a link of like the revisions to it. We made some remember we met on March 26th this spring at Boseies and uh we later we we gathered information from the various stakeholders. In May we met and we made revisions uh to the existing uh strategic plan as it exists on our website. uh from things as as important as modernizing the pictures like updating them so it's the the students in in their current years and then some of the language that we were using some of the language we're using was fairly time bound uh and language from 2019 and 2020 was updated to reflect the fact it's 2025 uh and I I think you'll you'll see it as a more readable document uh but what it is is a first step into what will
110become the work that we do uh on July 14th and beyond when we have our district-wide uh strategic planning event as well. And that's all carefully by design. It's not, you know, not my authorship. This is a collaborative process with this, but this is how a strategic plan continues. Uh we make sure that it's not just this thing that sits in a binder uh and eventually collects dust. We really we really do our best to try to live it and let it evolve and let it iterate uh as we go through. Um, as our uh as some of our board members shared already, we had the internet enabled device policy meeting. This is the cell phone ban. That's more than a cell phone ban. We are mandated to have a policy in place by August
1111st. Uh time is of the essence with it. We met with our stakeholder group. We had 21 people in the room uh at uh at district office today. There's really three sort of buckets that we're talking about in terms of where that policy is going what it's going to target. One is storage, one is how are parents and family members going to contact students and another is the exceptions to it because there are exceptions to to the ban with it for medical reasons for IEP 504 teacher discretion when it meets an educational purpose. So, we're working on the language that we had. I'll echo the thoughts that uh that were shared already. Good spirited conversation with it. Uh we didn't walk out saying this is exactly what we're going to do. We walked out saying
112we're going to take all the stuff that was shared, send it back to those stakeholders and elicit their feedback again with that. Uh and we'll continue I'll continue to update you how how we hope to uh to meet that August first requirement on things. Um oh, I suppose. So the Hamburg has had we as a district we've had a wonderful partnership with Western New York United over the years. Uh a woman named Sarah Hopel uh especially comes in and works with our students uh on making the correct choices teaching them about the dangers of of drug use and abuse. Um they have a friend of prevention award that they give out at uh at at a bison game. They call it the red ribbon baseball game. So, you might remember I was middle school principal.
113So, I worked as Sarah was probably one of the first people I met who wasn't a direct hamber teacher at the school. So, uh I'm going to get a little at the baseball game. So, say you need to say that. I'm going to get like they're going to I am the friend of prevention. Uh they're going like among the many. I'm sure there's a throng abundance with uh that I that's the work of of Sarah and everybody in the community with it. I'm happy to to to accept it, but it's like it's about the work that we do here as a school, but uh I'm certainly happy to uh to represent Hamburg in that capacity. The final item I wanted to bring up was our board retreat, which is July 31st. I don't know if
114we want to get into any of the weeds on that right now. We certainly can have a discussion on that. I don't want to uh to to make it something that dominates. I'm looking sort of at Tom and Cam with that. We spoken a little bit about it, but did you guys want to share anything? I certainly can. Um but if you wanted to to broker how we wanted to um do a little bit of the planning of that. I know you had a couple thoughts. I'll let you uh I I have my own thoughts. I'll let you take Yeah. I mean, I think with with a retreat generally, it's it's best to focus on one or two things. And my thought, and I sort of alluded to it earlier, we have a fresh board
115self-evaluation that we could probably pluck out a couple things that would would be good for us to work on as a group. Um, and then I think one of the sort of themes of the whole evaluation, both yours, Tom, and our self-evaluation, was really the absence of a of a district-oriented goal. this year, right? So, the the idea that maybe we spend that time in the retreat brainstorming about, you know, we don't want to set the goal in that session. It's not a public session. We would want to do the goal in public, but maybe brainstorming about the parameters or the or the uh the guard rails around what a goal might look like. And then at the following board meeting, we could have an objective around that. I mean, I think probably something around
116the capital project with the the dates looming what might be a good place to focus, but I might even be ahead of ourselves just even even suggesting anything at all. Maybe that's something we should work out together in in the the meeting. But, um, probably makes sense to put a group of two or three people together just to kind of put a a little more meat on the bones for an agenda for that session. Yeah. I I mean Laura I know really enjoys that and I think is is a plays an integral part in sort of the foundational relationship stuff. So I would I would nominate Laura for that. But I mean I as I would like to be involved in that. I've got some ideas as well as to what we should work on.
117And um I think it would be a good good opportunity for Ashley as well to if if you're interested in helping this planet and we'll get together do that sometime. Yeah. June beginning of July. Yeah. Not be me. I do it if you want. We can't have four. Fine. I was busy that day. I just want like I I like and I think this sort of dovetales with it um a bit. Um I like the idea of like you know that super avail but the idea of my own evaluation like that being part of what we you know like that's going to define some things that we want to work towards in terms of my own goals for things too. So, if that can be a be a blend of that sort of work, I'm
118uh certainly game for that. If that does it for me, you did. Yeah, we're good. You're good. Okay. Uh okay, moving on to more of the business items for this or for this evening. Um I'm going to start with uh consent items F and financial items G. At this time, any board member can make a request to withdraw a specific item from the consent agenda for individual consideration. Is there such a request at this time? I'd like to request a separate discussion on F7 for surplus books. Okay. Any other requests for any changes? Seeing none, uh looking for a motion of all consent items, uh which would uh uh be part of F2 through F6 and then F8 through G4 motion. So moved. So moved by Cam. Second. Second by Laura. All in favor? I
119opposed. It passes. Moving on to the Yep. This is uh I'd love to be able to acknowledge a couple couple things in terms of the the personnel agenda. I realize that I messed that up. We can talk about that in a second. I would like to introduce everybody to Molly Walsh Lagger. Molly, if you could raise your hand, please. M's your new principal of union. Molly comes to us from her uh current position as principal of Katarogs Little Valley Elementary. We're thrilled to have you join us. We appreciate you and your family's presence and not only that, but the the purple presence of the family. We also very much appreciate that. and uh just a just a welcome and you can you can let the younger members of your your crew know that you're also
120allowed to leave now if you would like. So, and even the older members of your crew can can leave also. Yeah, I'm very impressed. Thank you very much. We're thrilled. I also just want to acknowledge that within that um that that that personnel component, we uh accept the retirement as of December of Jim Barber who's who's given a a bunch of years of faithful service to the district. So, I want to congratulate him. See you guys. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. Um moving on to the item that was pulled for consideration, F7, um surplus books. Um Cam on the question since you uh Oh, we need to raise need Yeah. Okay. Need a motion for F7 uh for surplus books. Uh first by Cam, second by Ashley. Um just a question. I mean,
121it's a heck of a lot of books. It is. I saw there was some some explanation about it, but it's it's just a lot of books. It's a lot of books. Talk about that. It's a lot of books. Yeah. One of the first uh rooms that I went into when uh when I started this work was uh I was able to go to the LMC at Armor and see Amanda Restano in action. And she is remarkable. What I didn't realize is how remarkable she is not only with teaching students and grabbing their attention and encouraging them to love books. Uh but also she has been doing a tremendous job of taking uh a great space, a great library media center space that had a lot a lot of previously enjoyed books and she's been doing
122throughout the course and and I'm going to I'm going to point towards Caitlyn. I think Kate Caitlyn and Tom Riddok for two years she's been pulling these books uh and then filling those shelves with new titles uh as well. Um but there is a uh um Mr. Redox sent a picture of a couple of uh of the selections and they they'd been around for a bit and had seen much much better days. Kaitlin, feel free. I know this. Can you can you support me on that or perhaps add some more color to that? They were very well looked. The back storage room is is full of very well books. Um not in a good condition to keep Okay, that's fair. So So they were they were they were past their prime and just a well-needed
123purge. Yeah. Okay. And and I think like a one thing that I these are all things you you think when you're a building leader or at least I thought I was a building leader, I had a really good handle on what happened everywhere, didn't it? Like the fact that like that she's working directly she's working in close alignment with not only building principal but our director of curriculum also like that is it speaks it uh it speaks volumes to the uh to the that one really got you can't say uh in any case it like it just like that is the type of thing I feel like I saw in her classroom that level of thorough attention to detail with it and that's exactly what what we're hearing in this case too. It's just that
124we none of us expected a spreadsheet of 51 pages when we when we clicked it open. So that was, you know, I had questions about it, too. I think too, um, sometimes books when they're that old carry a certain odor with them, and so there's a need to get rid of them for those reasons as well. Freshen up the place a bit. Got to crack them open every 10 years or Yeah. So, questions, comments? Uh, all in favor? I opposed. Item passes. Okay, moving on to um our action items. Uh, action item H1. Can I have a motion to approve the 202426 budget and board election uh board of education election results for the vote completed on May 20th, 2025? So move. So moved by Rich. Second by Dave. Questions, comments. Uh, congratulations, Jess. Um,
125all in favor? Opposed? Item passes. Um, item H2. Can I have a motion have a motion to a motion that the July 8th, 2025 be designated as the board of education annual reorganization meeting date? So moved. So moved by Ashley. Second. Second by Laura. Questions, comments. All in favor? Opposed? Item passes. Item H3. Can I have a motion that Maxwell Coleman be designated student exeicio board member on the board of education for the 2526 school year? So moved. It's moved by Mary. Second. Second by Ashley. Uh questions, comments? Yes. Um, you got somebody voting against you. He's already picking up on it. Wow. Never do that, Max. No, I've been reading a lot about um um student board members and the way that varying districts um have them on their board and and what they're
126um privy to, how they participate and just sort of um thinking that might be something that we might want to talk about at our retreat. just there's a lot of um different avenues we can go in for more participation or um just just wanted to put it on the table. I did notice now with this rule that ECASP has a student I don't know did you see that or did they point you to that? I say it was on the budget. Did they point you to any training max any training? Did they suggest that you sign up for anything or you can say no? That's all right. Okay. Yeah. Is it mandated? No, not I don't think it is for students yet, but there are other things because it's become a mandate that that um
127to have a student on the board that there's other um ways that they can participate besides just at board meetings that we might want to look at. I think we're scared. This is going to be fun. Max, you're going to rock it. That's it. That's it. Any other questions, comments? All in favor? I opposed. Item passes. Item H4. Um, can I have a motion to approve the new policy 74 7470 as submitted? Second by Laura. Second by Cam. Questions, comments. All in favor? I opposed. Item passes. Uh, item H5. Can I have a motion to approve the revised policies uh 1210, 6550, 7220, and 7554 as submitted? So move. So moved by Laura. Second. Second by Rich. Questions, comments. All in favor? Opposed? As is item H6. Can I have a motion to resend policy
1285240, school tax assessment and collection property tax exemptions upon the approval of revised policy 1210. Uh board member uh board members nominations and elections, resend policy 11:30. students serving as uh exeicio members of the school board. So moved by Cam. Second by Mary. Questions, comments. All in favor? Opposed? Item passes. Item H7. Can I have a motion to approve a resolution authorizing the Hamburg Central School District to enter into a contract with Rick one risk operations center for the provision of vendor management and data security uh services to the district as listed? So moved. So moved by Laura, second by Cam. Any questions, comments? Is this for a specific service we're requiring or is this the broader partnership like the one we had in January? Exactly. Correct. Your second district. Okay. That um all in
129favor? Opposed? Item passes. um because the commonality of H8 through H11 which are annual approvals of um the counseling program district the the counseling program district guidance plan uh special education plan professional learning plan and academic inter intervention services plan for the 2526 school year. I'm making a motion that we approve items H8 through H11 through one vote for a so move Cam second second by Laura. No I can vote on all right. Yes. Uh so um voting on H8 through H11. All in favor? Opposed? Passes on H12. Can I have a motion to approve the 2526 district code of conduct? So moved by second. Second by Rich. Questions, comments? Obviously, we got a presentation on this. I have a comment. Um, are we approving the draft? Are we approving like the entire thing? Yeah.
130Because I did have, as I had mentioned, I did have sort of like questions or updates. Is that something that we could make updates to it or does it have to be saved like for next year? For next year. Well, and we're going to update it as as mentioned. It will be updated um later on as we've got two additional school policies are going to go into effect once they're approved. And then those policies will then affect the district uh code of conduct. So, it will be basically reopened again once we approve those in July or August. Okay. Well, then I feel okay approving it because I just there's a couple things I was hoping that we could talk about. Okay. Um I mean, do you want to talk about talk about it? Okay. Well,
131just briefly, um I I noticed that there were just like they were stupid things like there's like some spelling errors in a couple of things. Um, and I also don't know if like I have gotten an old version or not, but I noticed that you were still listed as like the DASA contact for the middle school um, deeper into it. Um, so it's one of those things that Oh, I was like, oh, you're not supposed to be listed there. Um, and sorry, I had it up before uh, and I don't have it up anymore in my notes. Um, and there was uh we had an item about uh guidance about like parents uh exercising good judgment about taking pictures of other kids. For instance, I wonder if maybe it would be better if we had
132more direct language like get consent before posting pictures of other children. like I wonder if it would behoove us to put something like that in our policy to be more direct about what we think we should be doing in terms of a code of conduct. So these are ideas that I've had now that we're kind of moving more into the 21st century about how we expect people to act, not just use good guidance. When we talk when we think about expectations for our kids, we don't generally use general language. We s we have explicit language. So these are things that come into mind that are not necessarily serious but just like don't stop the presses but things that I noticed in it. That is all we wanted to I think as far as photographs are
133concerned. Um you know it's uninforceable. You couldn't enforce something like that and it's a public school in a public place. You know there's the first amendment you know um but you know I take a picture of the football team because I want to get my son. I can't get, you know, each one of those people, you know, but we when we say proper consideration when we say practicing discretion, what we mean is ask before you post your son, hey, do you mind if I take pictures? Like what does that look like? How do we define what does these are thoughts? I'm not saying you're not wrong, but how do we how do we talk about that? Like what does that mean? It it strikes me that this is a a a time where we say
134there's a group of people that talk about the code of conduct and like that is where like those conversations can happen. Um with things that's not to discount like these are things like you're literally like bringing it up to us then it becomes part of what that group would talk about with regard you know you think of the shared decision-m piece of it. So your points that you make like that could be a discussion right within that smaller group trying to like that's a like this is you know this is the this should be my more my muscle memory in terms of how we go about things right like an issue comes up and you know I know I know Brent works with that code of conduct uh you know like that's that's where my
135mind is with it those are those are perfectly good things to bring up especially when we're talking about it like as part of the board meeting and that's a vehicle that's the vehicle that's the system we already have in place that we that we do have in place. Nothing I'm say I'm not trying to diminish what you're saying at all here, right? I'm trying to say like this is good feedback for us, but in my mind, that is immediately where my head goes because sometimes in this role, my head hasn't immediately gone there. And I'm trying to work on that, right? And I and again, this is not me trying to slow down the meeting, but that's why I had asked where is the avenue to give feedback? And I know that you sent this
136to us in advance, and I probably should have said, I have feedback for you, but we want discourse here. Here's the discourse. That's good. So, that is my feedback and that's why I didn't want to immediately vote on it because I had some feedback. Okay. Thanks. Um you the one of the points um the middle school contacts will be updated. Okay. Um any other questions, comments? All in favor? All right. All right. Opposed? It passes. Item H13. Can I have a motion to approve the SC salary schedules for part-time and substitute personnel for the 2526 school year? So moved by Laura. Second. Second by Ashley. Questions, comments. All in favor? I opposed. Passes. Item H15. Can I have a motion to approve the addition of the following civil service position? Maintenance mechanic crew chief. So
137move. So move by C. Second. Second by Laura. Questions, comments? All in favor? I opposed. That passes. Item H15 M. Uh, can I have a motion to approve an MOA with Service Employees International Union Local 200 uh, United SEIU regarding two maintenance mechanic crew chief positions for the 2526 school year. So, it's moved by Rich. Second, second by Laura. Um, questions, comments? All in favor? I opposed. Item passes. Item H6. 16. We approve those in personnel, right? Yes. Item H16, approval. Um, can I have a motion to approve the change orders uh 20201, 2030, 20304, and 101 for the capital project phase 2 work. So moved. So moved by Cam, second, second by Rich. Uh, questions, comments? I think Sean covered most of them. All in favor? I opposed. Item passes. Item H17. Can I
138have a motion to approve a a resolution dated June 10th, 2025 of the board of education of the Hamburg Central School District, Erie County, New York? Um the district declaring that the district's proposed capital project work involving baseball field and softball field lighting to be a type two action under a secret. So moved by Laura, second, second by Mary. Questions, comments. And Kam did touch on that in his comments. What a what a fantastic I mean, we're so lucky for Mr. Gilmar and Mr. Rivera that they they think to take this money and invest it in in our schools and the fact that they're community schools makes it so much easier for them. It's yeah, a testament to the work you're doing. So, it's a lot for us. Any other questions, comments? All in favor?
139I opposed it passes. Item H18. Can I have a motion to accept the donation of instruments, equipment, and opportunities for the district music department from the Hamburg Music Booster Club? It's a move by Ashley. Second. Second by Mary. Uh questions, comments? Yeah. What's a Glock spiel? It's like a grinding thing, right? They're done. They're expensive. Is it a keyboard? Is it like a mallet? Yeah, there. I was thinking like the grinder like beginning of like ukulele is expensive. Good thing we got the music booster. Uh all in favor opposed. It passes. Moving on to public expression. We do have one speaker signed up. Uh just ran. So, I wanted to um give an update on it still by pick um held that Saturday morning. It was uh station start to finish right at Union Pleasant.
140So, we had 360 runners come out, but we had well over 400 people there. Um it was such a great day. All of our run club kiddos ran their season ending 5K. We had runners as young as five um run. One of them being one of our teachers kiddos at Charlotte Avenue, little Audrey Gamy. She took first in her age group. So exciting. Um but the more exciting thing was the fact that um the outcome of this was a great event for the community and for our district, but also for the teachers who requested funding. So we had 10 requests come in from nine teachers. One had two requests for two separate buildings and we are going to able to fully fund all of their requests. So, we ended up with profits over $6,500. Um,
141we are going to fulfill, and I have not even emailed our staff members yet, but Mrs. Mol we fully funded for family reading night. Um, we're going to fund art clubs at Boston and Armor. We are funding um back service clubs at middle school. And we'll be speaking with Mr. Law because Mr. Patello at Hamburg Middle wants to start a smaller repair club. And from what I've heard, it has been a dream of his for several years. So, the bulk of the projects we can fund right now, they total just over $4,200, which gives us a good chunk of money to invest in Mr. Patello's venture and then start planning for next year. I want to thank Cam. Cam came out with his son and volunteered that morning. Um, so did several other people from
142the district. That first one was there. It was so great to have her there. But it was such a great day for our community. Um, I talked to our timing service and he asked if we're going to be back next year when we're tapping 500 runners. So, if you haven't started training, tomorrow is a great day. Um, but I hope you guys can all join in next year because it was such a great day to watch so many of our students um, just celebrate each other. the way kids will cheer each other on and when they get a medal and not everybody gets a medal, it's just the top three kids or the top three people in each age group, but the way they cheered their friends on um it was so pure and genuine
143and that's the spirit we want our kids to have, right? We want them to try new things and, you know, do things that are big and scary and then conquer that so that they're ready for the next big scary thing. And I'm just so excited to do it again. So, um mark on your calendars. I don't have a date, but June next year reserve every Saturday until I give you a date. It was It was neat to see when I was over at Charout the other day. It was neat to see before the rains. Uh it was neat to see the the kids wearing their medals around. They're beaming over the last couple days, the kids wearing either their run club shirt or their Take the Village 5K shirt. They are wearing like a badge
144of honor. And I'm so proud of them. And after the grown man who won the race, talk about who came second and third. There was a couple seventh graders. Second overall sub9 was Andrew Eustace. And that is special for me because Andrew Eustace actually was in my first group of boys track kids. And his mom was a track star. And this kid did not know he could run. And he came that first season and he realized he has a talent and now he runs her varsity track. He did varsity indoor track. He is going to set that record and he's going to put Hamburg on the map as one of our track stars. But that all started because we offered a running program for elementary kids. Um, and I think it's truly special and I
145think for those little ones who are looking for something anyone can do it and it's not about how fast you go, it's just about setting a goal and and conquering that and those kids are powerhouses. So, um, it was just a great day. Thanks. Um, moving on. That is pretty much the last of our our public uh um piece for the meeting. We do have executive session um to talk about. So, uh looking for a motion to enter into executive session for the purposes of discussing collective bargaining agreements and the superintendent evaluation. So, move by Ashley. Second, second by Rich. All in favor? I opposed. Item passes. Second. Thanks. What is