001Pledge 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. Uh can I have a motion to approve the agenda for the May 13th, 2025 uh budget hearing as presented? So move. So by Laura second all in favor opposed passes we'll move right into our 202526 budget discussion. Yes indeed thank you of everybody for coming out. This is a budget hearing as opposed to a budget workshop. So there'll be some time for some questions after but I want to thank Christine for all the work that she's done in presenting for all of our meetings. So we'll go directly into the budget presentation and Christine's got some great background for you on that. Okay. Um, what happened?
002Oh, it's all coming in. There we go. Okay. So, the total expenditure budget adopted by the board 88,94955 for the 2526 school year. Um, so that's a dollar change of 5,38,663 from this school year or 6%. The allowable tax levy limit last year or this current school year 42,978481 and our allowable tax levy limit for 2526 is 44569417 which is a 3.7% increase. and that is within our tax cap. Okay, here's just an eight-year history of the tax levy um since 201819 up to this current school year. Um you could see the percentages there. The average though over these eight years is 3.0913. So the state tells us at a budget hearing how we have to um present the budget. So it the three components are the administrative budget which is 7.91% of the budget,
003the capital budget 17.66% and the program budget of 74.43%. And so we're going to go into some details about um what all that encompasses. um our capital um is going up. It was 16.08% last year and that's because of the 2021 capital project. So we have the um band payments in there. We also have the building condition survey in 2526 that's required every 5 years where the architects go in and look at every single classroom and windows and doors and parking lots and roofs and all that fun stuff. Do you sorry to put you on the spot? Do you have any comparative metrics there for that breakout and how we compare to similar districts in our area? Mr. Adams does. Yeah, we uh this is this is one of those times where I say I
004and by I mean Brandy. Uh we were talking and so years ago uh years ago now business first used to put out um administrative efficiency ratings and they don't do that anymore. I think when there was a decline in test taking uh state test taking they sort of stepped away from some of those measures but we did take a look at some area districts. Uh if you could think of a local district without mentioning a name, but perhaps their mascot is more of a feathered flying type of a mascot. Uh their um the admin percentage is at 9.78 based on the information we had. Uh and if you take uh a mascot that's close to us that's more of this is funnier when I thought of it, but uh more of a pacifist side of
005things. uh they're at 10 uh for and and we we rate you know we we took a look at some some schools that you know some schools that are close to us and some schools that we compete against in ECIC athletics we compare favorably with that as a matter of fact in terms of the five that we looked at and I'll share this with the entire board uh following this I've got we've got five other districts and we're lower than than each of them and in some cases it's lower to the tune of 2% in some it's it's lower by the by you by a percent. But, uh, it's it's a it's a good amount, though. Like, it's a it puts me in a a degree of comfort with regard to where our percentage of
006our budget is being applied to administrative work. Okay. And I think you'll see most districts are somewhere in the 10% range when you look at the admin budget percentage of the total budget. Yeah, remember that. Okay. I looked at a couple additional ones that weren't on u Mr. Adams list and they were in the high nines and uh low 10%s as well. Okay, so this is just a little more detail on the three-part budget. Um it compares our adopted budget of this year to our proposed budget and the percent increase. Um, so as you can see, it's still 6% increase. Um, just over $5 million. So now we're going to go in a little bit detail of all those. Oops, sorry. This clicker is very sensitive. Okay. So the program budget, um, educational services. So
007that's teachers, teacher aids, counselors, social workers. Um the budget is proposed 44 million 558276 just over $2 million increase over this current school year. Transportation budget um the increase is 24580. We know that um our expenses will probably be more than what's budgeted. we we'll know that for sure when we get the responses back from the RFP. Um and then benefits for those associated teachers, aids, counselors, social workers in the program budget are 15,737185. So go ahead. Finish your thought. Sorry. So the total increase from this current year to next year 2,475771. Can you share the schedule of the RFP, the transportation? We're actually meeting tomorrow as an admin team to go over that. Okay. Um, so it hasn't been set. It has I I have dates in there. They're June dates due back like
008June 20th. The board would vote on July, but there's a lot of things to talk about on how we want to There's different ways to go about this RFP process. So, I want to make sure we're doing what's best for the district. We have some choices to make. So, and the Christine the educational services that includes all contracted employees as well, right? Like uh social workers and special anybody that we anybody that's in the hta. Um yeah. Okay. All the teachers, counselors, but also aids because they give classroom support there and they have their own contract. But you mean like Aspire and the various Right. Um that I would assume it falls on third party services, right? Um, I'd have to check that to be 100% sure. Okay. I'll go get back to you on
009that one. Okay. I would believe so because what that is is anything that touch kids anything that touches kids is going to be in that special education is is in in program. So it's not transportation, benefits, admin or capital, right? So it's got to be program which means it's education services. So in the administrative component here are the categories school board and there are like your um NISBAUS policy services from Boseies and then any trainings that you want to attend administrative services administrators office of the superintendent business office Bosey's admin costs that's the um 2.7 million human resources 64,910 we had a reduction in FTE there so that's why it's lower program improvement. So this is curriculum development, research planning and service professional development, it um IT equipment and printing and then legal is legal,
010insurance is insurance and then benefits have to do with all those positions um that are in the administrative component. So total 7,38,615 an increase of $353,524 over this current budget. And then lastly, the capital component. So debt service, that's all the principle and interest on borrowings for capital projects. Um I'll skip benefits because those have to do with the people in central services. Central services includes all custodial maintenance, B&G equipment, service contracts for like garbage removal and you know anything to do with B&G. Um utilities, building supplies, then the building condition survey, transfer to capital, that's the capital outlay project that's, you know, limited at $100,000 each year. And then the benefits for those um custodial and maintenance staff that are that part of the budget. So an increase of $2.2 million, but of that
0111.864 increases because of that service. Okay. So when you look at the revenue budget, we get 80 38.6% of our budget comes from state aid. Our real property tax levy and pilots make up 50.2% of the budget. Erie County sales tax is 5.9% of the budget. Other revenues are 2.9%. Um charges for services, use of money, sale of property, sale of instructional property, um and miscellaneous revenue, federal aid like uh Medicaid inner fund transfer. That's just the transfer from the cafeteria fund for uh the positions who aren't charged to the cafeteria fund but do work for the cafeteria fund like payroll who pays the cafeteria employees or accounts payable pays the food service bills um and then fund balance and reserve funds um 2.2%. So when we look at our revenue breakout pilots in the
012tax levy 44 million 654417 an increase of 1,576065 that's at 3.7%. State aid is increase of 2,76394. Um the biggest portion of that increase is our building aid because we submitted the final cost report for phase one of the capital project. Um foundation aid we were if you remember we were at the due minimum the 2%. When we got the May runs foundation aid was at 2.39%. So we got a little bump up um but not much. And then the county sales tax 5,250,000. Again, I reduced this budget by 50,000 because we weren't getting the 5.3 over the last couple of years. So, just wanted to make it a more realistic budget. And then appropriated reserves, use of fund balance and transfers 2,161635. 161635 is transferred from the C fund. 2 million is um use
013of fund balance. we didn't apply any reserves to this budget. So that's a change of 241,947. And then other um is $5.8 million in there is like tuition income um that we get from other districts. Interest income is a big one in there. Um so it's increase of about 506, 657. Again, budget to budget the revenue just like the expense because you have to have a balanced budget increases 5,038 663. Is the biggest gain in the other interest or is there anything else in there? That's one there's money in there. Oh, no. Because that would have been in this year too, right? Oh, the the biggest there the um the fairgrounds increase also because it's much more than it was this current year. We only got 75 this year. That's 150 next year. I think
014you're right. It's double, right? Yeah, I think it is. 75 this year. Can you remind me how that gets allocated every year? It doesn't. What do you mean? Um the fairgrounds money like what is that get is is that designated somehow? It's not restricted. No. Yeah. No. So the only restricted funds we have are the funds that we put into the reserve funds. So they're restricted for certain purposes like the capital reserve fund is restricted for a capital project. Right? That service reserve fund is restricted for principal and interest payments on debt. Okay. So, um, this is just a a little recap similar to what I did at the last board meeting. The relationship between assessments and taxes. It's just a good reminder because a lot of people don't understand. Um, it's essentially property owners
015understand the relationship between spending in the form of budgets, assessments, tax rate, and taxes. So, we'll go through that. Um the tax levy is the total amount of dollars that the districts need to be raised in real property taxes. Um the levy is calculated, we went through that tax cap calculation, I think it was February. Um and by adding all the other revenues to support the budget and subtracting that from the expenditures, the difference would be the levy. School districts determine the total amount to be levied and the proposed levy. the 3.7% uh stays within the allowable tax levy limit or the tax cap. So the tax rate um the dollar per,000 of assessed value needed to equal the levy. So the rate is calculated by dividing the total assessed value of each township by
016the total amount of levies to to be raised. So that's um Hamburg, Orchard Park, Eden, and Boston. those properties in the school district. So then the tax rate is all those tax dollars required divided by the taxable assessed value. So assessments determine how the tax is shared among the property owners in those four accounts that I mentioned. All parcels of real property must be assessed at a uniform percentage of fair market value. The law does not specify, however, how fair mark fair market value must be determined. Each town has its own assessor who makes this determination. So homes in one town might be assessed at 40%, another town 100%, another town 33%, all of which are located in the same school district. So what we have to do then is equalize it. So an equalization
017rate is New York State's measure of a town's level of assessment. So to get the equalization rate, we take the total assessed value of the town like Hamburg divided by the total market value of the town Hamburg. And that's what the equalization rate is. And then to bring that up to the full market value so that everyone's paying their fair share, we take the total assessed value of the town and divide that by the equalization rate. So once the full market value is determined, then the school district can determine how much should be collected from each township. So I do this in August once we get the information from the assessors and then let them know how much each of their um towns need to collect and then they develop the tax bills for all
018the property owners. So homeowners are eligible for a star exemption based on their primary residence. The amount is determined by New York State and varies by town. The average is $419 just for our school district. That's in the budget newsletter. As I said, the school tax rates will be will be established in August after individual Tom assessors provide the final assessment roles and the equalization rates to the district. Over the past several years, the levy has both increased and decreased. However, the pro proposed school tax levy has always been um within the required New York State tax cap. Again, that's that 3.7%. So, if you have a question about your tax bill, you can contact the Hamburg town clerk um and she does the bills for all of those four towns in our school district.
019Or you can call me and I can try to help you as well. There's our numbers. Um, if you have any questions after you receive your bill and then the budget vote is May 20th. If the budget does not pass, if we don't receive uh greater than 50% voter approval, we have some choices. We can resubmit the same budget for voter approval or we can submit a budget that's less than the failed budget. Um the statewide budget revote date is Tuesday, June 17, 2025. If that budget is not approved either, then a contingent budget must be developed which cannot be greater than the levy from the current school year. So a contingent budget would decrease these components. Administrative would decrease 63,013. The program component would decrease a,44123 and the capital component would decrease 483,800. So
020a total of 1,590,936 in total reductions. And those percentages are by laws. That's something you just can we just kind of come up with. They're not percentages. No. How do you how do you No. Um so for administrative for example um you cannot have any raises for administrators um in independent contracts not um heck I thought it was just in aggregate you can't spend more than the you can't spend more than the 2425 tax levy you can't raise more than that in taxes but when you look at the components, the state tells you what you would have to take out. So like capital for example, we still have to pay our debt. So what's taken out of the capital is any new equipment. So we can't buy anything new, right? Um or do the capital
021outlay project, but we still have to pay our our principal and interest payments. So it is somewhat prescriptive even within the It's prescriptive. Yeah. Yeah. And the biggest hit is program. Yeah, of course. Yeah. You can't have supplies. You can't have like, you know, a curriculum. You can't have You still have to pay the teacher salaries and what you know what's contractual, but you can't have, you know, much of anything else. So again, the budget vote May 20th, 2025, 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in um the high school gymnasium. I thought there was another slide. Nope. Okay. Farmers market. Farmers market. Yeah. So that that was on the last month and at all the PTSA um presentations. We did farmers market this Saturday 7:30 till noon. Administrators will be there. will be handing out some
022flyers about the budget and some balloons and treats for kids, I guess. Sure. Any questions? We got balloons. Yeah, kids. Kids love. The kids love the budget talk. They can't get enough around the village everywhere. Tell me more about unassigned fund balance. Thank you. So good. Thank you. Um, any board members have any questions this point? Any uh one in the public have any questions, comments? I have a question. Um, to follow up on Mary's question about the money coming in from the fairgrounds. We have 75,000 for this upcoming year. Um, where is that allocated in this budget and what's it being spent on? So it's in the revenue portion of the budget, but it's not allocated. Again, it's we don't it's not restricted for anything. The only funds that are restricted are reserve funds
023that we have like the capital reserve fund and the TRS reserve fund, the unemployment reserve fund. So what is that? Do we know what we're spending on? We have not decided. It's all of the revenue would be spent on all of the expenses in the budget. That's why revenues not being used for something like specific. It's just a part of the budget and correct. So salaries, benefits, supplies, anything and that's in the budget. So going forward, will there not be a specific allocation or like are we not looking to use that for anything extra? that's just going into a lump sum and we're not trying to do extra with that or more with that or that's just going to be considered money that's there we're not going to it's just like it's just like our
024tax levy and pilots because that's basically what it should have been to begin with. Um so we don't allocate like uh the tax levy to like this part this revenue goes for these expenses. No school district does that. So the total revenues support the total expenses in the budget. I just didn't know because it's something extra that was given to us and allocated certain lump sums each year and I know that was talked about how that money should go to directly benefiting children. I didn't know if we had ideas of specific things we wanted to do because we weren't planning on that. That was just so thank you for that. Um for as as far as salaries go, I have been at a lot of these presentations and I've been asking questions about like contractors
025and staff in that staff um line. Are there any current staff members who are their salaries are not allocated and they are not board approved? No. No. The board approves all um personnel hires on personnel agenda. Their salaries are then they also approve you know they give us the uh parameters for negotiations we when we negotiate the contracts for whatever group we're negotiating for. So for for this budget there's no one in it that's not allocated currently. Do we have staff members who are not board approved receiving a salary? Not that I know of. No, I haven't gone through here yet. I just um scrolling through the website the other day, I typed in MI for looking for Jeff Madanski to send him an email and I came across Mike Cornell listed as a consultant
026staff. I was unaware that he was staff. So, I went back through board minutes and I could not find him being approved for We're not paying Mike Cornell at all. He's dead, correct? No. No, he's a retiree. He is currently here's where this would come in. All right. So, as part of my contract, there's a coaching component to it through Niscus through LEAF. Nothing. There's been you guys haven't received anything. Mike, Mr. Cornell hasn't received any funding for this. I'm sorry. Can we just clarify? New York State Superintendent Association Niscus for people who don't know what that is. That's separate entity than us. So that was an approved part of my contract like voted in as part of it. As part of that coaching, I'm able to reach out to the person who runs that
027coaching and I absolutely contacted that person and requested that Mike be the person who spent time coaching with me. Now there's been nothing. Have I had conversations with Mike about my work here? Absolutely. There's been nothing with regard to payment or anything along those lines because that has been sent to us by Niscus by the New York State Council of School Superintendent. But that is those are the facts of the case with this like Mike is somebody who I worked with for five or six years. I felt that his expertise and his experience in this role would be of help to me. It wasn't done anything underhanded. This was something where he would come by the office and we'd meet and we'd discuss. But that's why he his name would come up when you typed
028in MI. So he's not staff. He's a contracted employee. He's not there's nothing like there's no contract right now. It's just been informal conversations. There hasn't been anything. what would come before the board would be something that's allowing for what's in that contract that I have to exist that coaching component to exist that would come and then that organization would assign him to us everything with Mike not not a penny has been sent to Mike Cornell with this I have had conversations in the four months five months that I've been on the job about the work with Mike in that role as a coach you call it an informal coach there's been nothing in terms of the board saying yes to that specific agreement with Niscus with the council school superintendent other than the fact
029that my contract was approved and my contract has that within it. So you're I think there's maybe just some confusion here because what I'm hearing is he's listed as staff on our website and what I'm not he's like I'm hearing two different things like we're seeing he's listed as staff and then I'm also hearing he's not staff. So I I think it's just maybe confusion here or am I misinterpreting? I'm just trying to because I hear and is it is it listed as staff or is the fact that he's got an email address that that I don't know. I don't know where it's where it's listed like that. He's listed as a consultant. Okay. Listed as a consultant. Okay. Yeah. It says consultant, but it also says staff. So, that's where I'm confused. That's why
030I was trying to clarify consultant fees versus consultants being approved. Staff need to be board approved because it says both under his name. So, it's not clear what role he currently has within this district. Okay. So, and I think someone at the table's worked for two other districts as a very common practice when a superintendent retires, especially when there's a strong relationship and you've seen um a district rise over the course of their superintendency to be the person that coaches or mentors or whatever word informal conversations that you have with the current one coming on. It happened in the last two districts I was in and that's always gone through Niscus. Do we have an approved contract through Niscus? We have an approved contract. I'm just asking questions. Niscus is is is obviously it's a
031a group. So we both so it's similar to NISBA like we pay Nisba dues we pay Niscus dues which again is part of his contract that we pay for professional development professional and professional uh professional groups which is uh and Niscus is one we've been involved with. I don't know the whole time I've been on here just and where does that get lumped into our budget thing? Is that under? So superintendent contractual. Yeah. Okay. So it's up under like the admin budget, right? And that's I mean Niscus is an umbrella for a whole bunch of things like you my understanding and correct me if I'm wrong is you can utilize Niscus if you have a question about a whole variety of things. So you're getting a lot from being a part of Niscus and paying
032dues like they they do an awful their their work and NISBA's work have a lot of shared interest that super eval that is going to be spoken of tonight is very much part of like the Niscus world as well but we don't have an option to not be involved with Niscus. No. Well, no. Because No, because it's contractual in in the superintendent's contract contract that the district pays for professional development and right Laura's point. There's other things that we could use Niscus for. And so all school districts have an agreement of some kind with NIScus to provide these other functions within that umbrella of coverage, whatever you want to call it, right? So, so we pay dues or a percentage of something dues. Yeah. Basically, like you'd want to have that. I mean, that's an
033appropriate association to have, right? Because sometimes with with respect to a new superintendent, um that person still needs guidance along the way after they start on day one. And so you're going to need that, you know, u professional development that we we offer to other uh staff members as well. So this is just another component of professional development. Certainly. I'm you know, I'm I'm surprised that they that he would just still have a a district email. Uh I I that just seems like unto the that the and the way I agree and then my this is just from a technical this is a this is why it helps me is and so it's so it's not to say I reject your point. This is to just to give background of why it helps. If I'm
034working on something that's part of like a Google doc or something along those lines, it allows me to share it. that I understand that that that's just that I mean like that is like the most like the like the utilitarian view of of it. It really it really is that that's where that's where you do have consultants like Turner Construction they have they have a school email they do but it's not necessarily to email from it's to access the Google world in which we work in in Hamburg. Okay. So Gordon Jones, everybody that we work with, we tend to do that because being in the Google world, it just seem lines that and every 5-year-old in our district also has an email address, I believe. Right. Well, certainly, but because they're in the district, it
035it's because they're within the ecosystem. It has been my experience. It has been my experience that if you are not with like like for instance at UB like we don't give if you're not within the ecosystem like you don't get a UB it and you don't get like a UB email because you're technically out of the system. You have to get like granted it's a pain in the butt uh that you don't like get to have an ID because you're not in the system but you know obviously Hamburg is not UB. So I didn't know that. That was my only like surprise is that oh I didn't I thought that once you're out of the system it was just like a safety protocol. But if that's not how we do it then I well I
036mean it is like we know all of our users and everybody signs an agreement that they won't you know abuse. They sign the AUP when they come out as a play to vendor you know all the Turner people all the Gordon Jones people that we use they all have to go to HR and fill out a form so that that they're following our rules as well. Okay. I I that was that was my only surprise that that's usually I shouldn't say usually because I'm not in technology but it has been my experience that once you're in an ecosystem you're in it and once you're out of the ecosystem you're out of it but it's the same at my district we have the consultants construction workers people that they all have an address for the Randolph
037was the same too I graduated my emails was still valid for at least the year after I graduated from UB. Certainly because I was an alumni. Yeah. Yeah. I think of this as a in from an in administrative point of view. I was thinking of this as like a business less of a alumni. Does that clarify your question, Jess? Yes. that question. You have a question. Okay. Seeing none, um I have a motion to adjourn the budget workshop. So moved by second. All in favor? I opposed. Passes and we'll start regular meeting in about 20 minutes. United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I have a motion to approve the agenda for the May 13th, 2025 regular board of
038education meeting as presented. So move. So move by Cam. Second. Second by Laura. All in favor? I close. Item passes. Moving right into our recognitions. Our student achievement recognitions. Yes, indeed. Thank you, Mr. Flynn. Thank you everybody for coming out. We've got four of the students here or representatives of four of the students here who are recognizing tonight. Uh these are students who have achieved the level of distinction within their their their work with Eurosis in a in a number of different areas. I want to read to you the categories that we have and then for the students who are here I'll have them come up. I'll read the names of the students who weren't able to make it tonight. Somehow May is really really busy. I know I'm not uh telling you anything that
039you don't know. So, we got plenty of uh thank you, but no, we couldn't make it. And then we've got four who came out. So, we're thrilled about that. We're going to be able to hear we're going to be able to recognize some students who are part of what's called Fusion 25, the Portals of Illusion. This was an unbelievable studentrun, student created, student directed fashion show uh done by the the students who are working in fashion within Erie Wanosis and they did an absolutely spectacular job. Uh I can vouch I got an invite. I was at Salvatore's. There was indeed what I would call a catwalk of sorts. Uh and there was music that was selected uh that went with the proceedings and student owned student created design. If you think back to what our
040vision is, we're going to have students who create carousol discover. The creation that we saw there, the care that we saw there was remarkable. So that's one group and we've got a couple representatives from that group. We also have the skills USA group. Uh those gentlemen are not here. That skills USA is a competition that comes out of their work within their skill trades program. We have a student who was there for diesel. I'll mention his name. His name is James Graaser. He got third place in the uh in the in the regional competition for that was earlier this year. We also had Camden Brown who was there for electric and we had Draven Rivera who was there for culinary. And those all those gentlemen received third place medals for their work there. So they
041couldn't make it tonight. Uh but I want to acknowledge them. I'll deliver their certificates. And then we have for a series of programs run through Erie Woseis. These students are all receiving the Excel award. I get to go see that tomorrow afternoon. And we have two of those students here. Norah Thomaso is enjoying her senior lacrosse game right now at Howfield. Uh so I want to congratulate her. But we also have two other students and I'll call them up very very shortly. First I want to bring up the folks who are part of the portals of illusion. Uh, and that is the the uh the event that was that took place uh just last month. And we'll have Olive Lenuski come on up. And we also have the parents of Carmela Wizard. I know. Well,
042you know what, Don? Why don't you come on up, too? We'll have to say that as a family. So, these folks and and Mr. Mer, thank you so much. And Mr. Ny, thank you also. Uh, Carmel couldn't be here. Olive was absolutely uh the just a huge component of what this event was. I want to acknowledge her work. Olive, are you going to pursue fashion in your future at all? I'm just hearing some rumbling. Is there a school that you're going to go to? Right. I'm going to FIT next year. FIT. Is that fashion? Yes. All right. I just wanted to make sure. Uh but these folks in in and Carmela, we we loved loved her work as well. Thank you so much. We're sorry she couldn't be here. We know she's she's working away.
043But uh the the creativity and the execution of it. It's one thing to have the ideas, but uh and selfishly I was able to uh see both of these students as they went through the middle school. So I feel I have zero responsibility for the work that they're doing, but uh I was able to to to enjoy their their their work as as they went through. So I will give this to There you go. And we're going to have this right here. Okay. No, you are more than welcome. Why don't we do two photos? We'll bring up we'll we'll uh we'll do a photo with the fashion crew first. Okay. So, we'll let Mr. Flynn get in as we're president. And if you guys could stand for two, that'd be great. All right. You're nudging
044me over. All right. [Applause] All right. And next we have our two students who are going to earn Excel awards in different components of Boseis. Uh but I'm super excited to bring up Skyler Ronald. Uh Skyler, come on up. Uh as well, we'll tell you a little bit about you after we have Emma Smith from [Applause] Emma. It's always tough when people are clapping. So you can be right here next to Scott. So Skyler is somebody who I knew when she was at middle school. Also saw her travel through through her uh her school year. She won't be able to attend the event tomorrow. She's got a flag football game along with Olive, which is great. Uh Skyler broke through the idea that those students who who applied to what we call PEK, which is
045working on either auto body collision or automotive technology, have to be boys. All right. Skylar broke through that when she was in eighth grade and she is going to be graduated while she graduates. Well, you're you're spent some more time in PE Tech, but her her work there has been exemplary. She's going to be honored tomorrow for it. So, we wanted to thank you for your work [Applause] there. And then we have Emma who's absolutely wonderful. It's good to see you, my friend. I'll stand over here so people can see you. I knew of Emma when she was way back, I guess, in sixth grade. Sixth grade. So, Emma got to work with a teacher named Mrs. Dates years ago. You might remember Maryanne Gates, who's a science teacher. And Emma got to work with
046her because Mrs. Dates had a remote class during that year of 2021 as I recall. And Emma got the award for it. And we didn't know Emma that much. Uh, but we got to know her a little bit and I've seen her around a little but uh since then. Uh but Emma is getting the award through for Erie Wosis for her her work in the E Academy. Uh so we're thrilled that you're here and uh we're thrilled you're a Hamburg student who excelled at uh at the E Academy. So thank you so much for that. Family shot, we should invite the uh the parents up to. So why don't you come on up if you can. Thank you. Right. You want me to come out? Sorry, Chris. I told you you just had to sit
047in the back. Now you're after the photos. Thank you. All right. [Applause] Appreciate. Thank you everybody. Thank you Mr. F. [Music] Moving on. Just have our information items. Uh board briefings basically um minutes from last meeting. I don't think there's really much information other than our invitation to scholarship night uh week from Wednesday. Uh future meetings obviously um next Tuesday is the budget vote at the high school from 7:00 to 9:00 and then our June meeting will be at 6:30 uh here at Armor. Um upcoming u meetings and such the ECSB annual dinner is June 12th at Clock Grove. Um, let Brandy go know if anybody wants to go to that. Um, NISBA summer law conference in uh, Long Island or I guess it's virtual I don't normally go to. Uh, NISBA um, education event
048in Albany. And then uh, we start getting into next year's stuff. The ECSB law conference is August 6th. Um and some other uh NISBA online events uh moving in. We've got some uh just some uh budget transfers um in there um to review uh a few new policies. Thank you to Pam and the um Mary policy committee. Heck yeah. So these are first readings. So we'll be voting on these in the um next meeting. So if anybody has any questions about anything in that our contract with um Sandy Hook um I don't know if you want to talk about anything. Yeah. So uh Sandy Hook Promise has a program that is run through uh cooperatively with uh with Eerie 2 Boseies and we're uh one Boseies now but uh it's another way of trying to
049keep our kids and our schools safe. It is an anonymous tip line and there's training that goes along with it. So there's programming that our staff will receive and our students will receive as well and then it will live on our website. There's no cost to us. Um but we thought it was a good thing to bring to your attention with it and uh are moving forward with that. Great. And moving into our board uh individual reports. We'll start with our student repellent. All right. So, we don't have a lot of things going on, but it's like some important things. So, we have senior breakfast, the senior memory walk, and junior prom and carnival all on May 30th. It's going to be very exciting, busy day. Um, we have our we're having a final spirit
050week at the end of May just to like celebrate the end of the year and student government held elections for next year's officers. So, that's they're all set. And then we're going to have class campaigns, like campaigning coming up soon for class officers, cuz that's like a separate thing. Um that'll be held soon, followed by elections. And then I along with three other student government members will be at the um meet the candidate night, meet the candidates night tomorrow. So, we're looking forward to that. That's it. Cool. Um well, uh I am looking forward to the technology meeting that is going to be coming up in a couple of weeks. Um actually, quick question. Is there going to be a digital version of that that our call-in version? Um, no because we have some people
051coming online to present like to present to present. Maybe a little tough. Is there any way I could call in to that? We can figure it out. Cool. Thanks. Uh, so I'm looking forward to that. Um, I will take this time to just say that we had our first bike bus run last Monday and it was a success. We had three families. um ride with me from uh Glenn Meadows to Union Pleasant and it was lovely and the next one is going to be this Monday. I've also talked to the village police so that we are going to have our final one in June. Um so we have a couple more but our final one in June will actually get an escort. So I encourage folks to uh ask me about the village bike bus
052if you're interested in riding to Union Pleasant. Um and additionally um no I guess that's it. ride your bike. It's fun. Um, I went to the uh speedboarding event at the Harkness Center with uh Tom. Um, if you uh if you next time that this is offered, make sure you sign up because it was it was awesome. Um, I've toured almost every Bosey's uh CTE uh school a few times. Um, CTE stands for career and technical education for those that don't know. Um but but it was it's so important that every member gets to understand the career training that is available to our students. Um I've been to Potter Road many times. Um I've I've toured uh uh Eerie 2's um Ormsy Center and this time Flynn and I toured the Hartness um center in
053Chawaga. And there's also the Kenton and the Kalpan, but we don't do much with them, do we? you know, they're Yeah, because that's more I know because everything's offered in um Potter and Harkness. Most of Hamburg students go to Potter Road. Um but if the course is not available at Potter, but at Harkness, we do have a couple students that attend Harkness. Um so I'm always impressed at at the large selection of courses that are available for all the students. um animal science, auto technician, uh aviation, uh which is offered at Harkness, which is obviously near the airport. Um building trades at Potter Road. They build an entire house for Habitat for Humanity. It's it's awesome. Um of course, the collision repair, hospitality, criminal justice, and the um cyber security, child education, welding, we told
054welding, electrical, HBAC, and plumbing. the instructors told us that every graduating student has a job the day they walk out of that uh career center. So that's that's pretty impressive. The same for EMTs. Um there's courses in engineering, fashion design, nursing, and of course food service, which is my favorite. Um and you know, um now I'll tell you about our visit at the Harkness Center. They always start out the same. Um right through the cooking and baking, right? You go right to see what the culinary students have for you. and Harkness uh did not disappoint. Um we and the other school members uh you gather in this room and they have all the food set up. Um and they had appetizers there and uh cudderary board. How do you say that? Shakuary. Shakuerary. And uh
055then they had main entre and desserts, you know. And while everybody is politely waiting for the for the appetizers, right, I I go right to the entre because you know, you know, why wait? You know, you always come back to those, you know. Yeah. And uh fill up on bread. That's where they Right. Right. You know, so they had this these seafood dishes and these little mini uh tacos and they had these bacon wrapped tenderloins which you could dip like in this Korean barbecue sauce which you could put you could put that barbecue sauce on old sneaker and it would taste good. And uh it was just awesome. The food and the desserts. They had all these cookies, piles of cookies and everything else. It was awesome. It was incredible, you know. So don't miss
056this next time. that's offered because it's really good. But then we were directed to head to different rooms to begin the tour. Um if you if you kind of linger behind, you know, you can jam as many cookies in your mouth as possible, but they they they make you go on the tour. But the instructor for electricians, um he showed us a room where students had wired, you know, they built, you know, they roughed, um like a room and then the students wired it. They wired a big commercial box. We saw a couple of those, you know, very difficult. you know, he talked about um how the stadium is opening up opportunities since all the union guys are there. You know, the independents are hiring, you know, young guys and uh so, you know, it
057it really was nice. Uh we went to an electrical class where they took a TV that was in the trash and the students fixed it. You know how when you your TV is broken, you're like, "Oh, just buy another one." Well, they actually fixed it and he showed us how it went apart and everything and what what's involved in those, you know, that little thin TV and uh and the and the students fixed a TV that was in the very impressive, you know, um animal science. Um there was students there. They given this very furry rabbit a trim. There was all kind of uh animals there. They had guinea pigs and lizards and everything. And and they're learning how to care for them. There was uh they also learned about the anatomy of dogs, cats,
058horses, the different diseases. Um and it uh people bring in staff bring in their dogs for haircuts and their cats, you know, for trims and toenail clippings. So, um it uh you know, it's it it just was really impressive. It was a great night and you can learn more about it if you go online and just you know, put in uh you know, uh the different career centers and everything. and uh they have booklets and everything and uh it just it just very very very impressive. So I had a real good time. So he was walking around eat cookies too. Um then I went to the uh special education uh PTSA meeting that was on May 7th. It was at Union Pleasant. Um you know for those don't know it stands for special education PTSA.
059Um a new group that was started by our PTSA about a year and a half ago. Um these are parents with children who have IEPs 504 special educational needs. A great group of uh parents and educators. Jen Barker is always there and she raised to have Sumatada Silverhills speak to the parents at our last meeting. Uh it is fantastic. Uh you know it's it's so nice to have a place where parents was was with children that need special education can network and and learn. You know, I remember, you know, I wish that was around when my kids went to school because you thought you were at it all alone, but there's so much more. You know, you have a better chance of having um blue eye, a better chance of being dyslexic than having blue
060eyes. And uh you know, five one in five. So, I was amazed to hear that that statistic. You know, um Silver here is the student accessibility service director at Buffalo State University. Um she's worked with our special ed teachers many times. um and she's scheduled to do the same in the near future. But she identifies barriers for students and teachers and programs, how to overcome them. She discussed all of this. There was so much that it was just impossible to keep up. you know, there was educators there too because a lot of the moms are teachers and they understood this stuff and just how much is out there, you know, um where to type and and those different um they talked about just all that different programs and everything and it's just it's a great
061thing, you know, and we I just think that we discussed this at the PTSA meeting last night was how can we get the word out to parents that group does this group exist and um um you know it's that would be great. So, we should work on that, you know. um you know being in being able to network with other parents is so valuable and it helps to relieve the the stress and anxiety that is part is being one of those parents that you're not in this all alone that there's other parents out there you know what what do you do what what resources do you use so you know maybe an article in the focus or you know another way we're thinking last night at the PTSA meeting you know how we can spread
062the word that this group's available to everybody you know and I was at the PTA meeting last night but I actually will give you a report on that. Um, yeah, leave some for the restroom. Yes, I Well, if you It was It was a long meeting, so she could do that. But I did put out the the postp prompt fundraiser sheets out there and, uh, the chicken barbecue, you know, that's the same day as the the vote. So, make sure you do that postp prom because obviously they need the need some funds and uh um and of course they did budget report and I got to see it again. So, it was it was really great. So, that's all I have. Sure. Yes. Want to talk about food anymore? No. Okay. Um I did that
063last year and they it was amazing. The food, especially the seafood is what I remember. Yeah. Um I was um at the counseling plan advisory committee that we we meet a couple times a year. Um Jen Barker heads that committee up. Ashley and Dave, I'm sorry I didn't call you and update you on on what occurred there. I know you guys weren't weren't able to make it. Um my favorite part is starting in the circle when everyone checks in with each other and um my next favorite part is the fact that we have students on that um committee. So to me it's just a living breathing document. You get to sit and see all of the great things and great work that's being done by the counselors and the social workers at every building in
064the district. And this plan that is done, it is just so comprehensive and full of all the great things that happen in each building, all the support groups, um the work that the DASA ambassadors do, the good fellows club, um anything you can possibly imagine. And what I liked was the data piece that was shown to us. So the surveys that are given to kids and you can identify where there might be a gap or how kids are feeling and for the most part I mean it was really positive. Um so you can see all the efforts made by everyone to ensure that all those social emotional needs are being met um is going a long way in our district. um parent child connection. I'm full disclosure. This is the time that they review um
065for the scholarship um award scholarship to um recipients and there was a lot of applicants. Um I didn't read it in time to give my vote, but I did go through all of them and it's pretty amazing to see um the kids and the things that they talked about um especially that service aspect that is a part of the criteria that we look for. Um, so not nearly as long as Dave, but um, I really enjoyed um, being at that meeting, Jen, and I appreciate all the work you do and our all the counselors as well. Thanks. Okay. Um, before I get into the cookies and culinary offerings that we are given at Target, um, want to talk a little bit about, um, Tom's evaluation. Um we're going to use um the Supervel product this
066year which is something through NISBA and and Viscus. Um it's a little bit more of a formal process than what we've been using in the last few years. I know those of us that have done it um we kind of ended up at a more of a just a a written document um covering you know a bunch of topics. uh between having new board members and a new superintendent, I think something a little bit more structured um is going to be better. Um I also think using something online like this is going to be a lot better for me because I used to have to be the one to compile all the the comments into one document. So I'm glad I don't have to do that this year. So, um that being said, everybody should
067have received correct a an invite uh through your school email on um with your uh with a link to your lo to the login um username uh onetime password um to log into it. As far as a time frame as to how we're going to do this, um before we do Tom's evaluation, he has to do a self evaluation. So, he's going to get that done over the next couple weeks. Um, once he gets that done, we'll make sure we confirm with everybody with an email that that's been set done and we can go in and and and do our piece. Um, prior to that, there's also when you log into it, a board self-evaluation piece, um, which we're asking everybody to go in and do. It's going to be very similar to probably identical
068to, uh, to Tom's. Um there's basically uh five different categories, 25 questions. Uh categories are for those that haven't gone into it yet, vision, lit, uh vision, leadership, um accountability, board governance and policy, communications, and community relations, uh fiscal resources, staff recruitment, uh and enrollment, and ethical leadership. And then, um there's comment there's areas for comments in all those. Um, first I'd like to thank Cam Cam was kind of the guinea pig for this. I think he gone through, answered everything, uh, put a bunch of comments in. Um, it can take as long or as little as you'd like. Um I will say the reason we went to the just the written evaluation on uh on Mike was uh when we get together and talk about the evaluation um the comments seem to be what
069really uh generate you know the best conversation and output. So, I would encourage you don't have to put comments in every I I wouldn't say have to put comments in every 25 questions, but um there was some thoughtprovoking things in there. Um so, we'll get that done for so hopefully we can get that done the kind of the two weeks we're waiting well before we do Tom. Then, uh when we get the go ahead with him, we'll do uh go ahead and do that. We're looking to have everybody complete um both of those by June 6th, which is the Friday before our next meeting. Correct. And then uh because usually um uh you know what should happen, Tom? We should have the opportunity to review um the document, the compiled document um before the meeting.
070And then in June, we'll be meeting an executive after the meeting to go over the the results of that and have the the review portion. Um, normally we have like a superintendent goal. Um, us what we've done in the past is we we kind of talk about um general parameters during the board retreat and then fine-tune them at uh at a future board meeting. usually like in September, October, we'll go and um we'll kind of take what we talked about uh bring it into a board goal. With Tom starting really kind of halfway through the year, we never really we don't really have a board goal. So, when we're doing Tom's, uh what I want everybody to kind of think about is is really how he's assimilating into the superintendent role. I wouldn't say assimilating
071into the district because he's already assimilated himself there, but uh uh you know, you know, any thoughts you might have um I think are going to be most helpful in that. Um we are just using pretty much the stock template through Super Eval. Um it hasn't been edited, modified at all. Um, so another thing to kind of keep in mind is is if there's things you like, don't like, uh, usually we'll I think what we can do, and we've done this in the past, is have a a little session during our reach retreat to talk about the process itself. Um, so if there's things I think, you know, you've looked into this more than I, but uh, there's some modifications that we can be that that we're able to make to it. Yeah, we can
072we can really customize it as I understand it to any degree we'd like, right? Like we could throw away those five criteria and come up with our own or we could tweak some of the individual criteria within it or maybe ignore one of the five that are within each five categories. I think having gone through it myself, just sort of rule of thumb that like I I tend to keep pretty good notes through the meeting. So I I had things that I knew I wanted to say, but it still took me about and we and we did have some kind of warts through the workflow that we had to work out, but it took about an hour and a half to actually just do the board self evaluation and that was I think I pretty
073much put a comment on all 25 of of the various competency areas. A lot of them kind of feel redundant like I kind of tweaked a comment and repeated it a little bit. So, um, so I'm just sort of helping everyone set aside the right amount of time for that. Um, and then I'm guessing that the superintendent eval will be roughly that same amount of time. And then I think probably at our retreat, my recommendation would be to to pair those down a bit. I think 25 is probably too many, but yeah, for this first go round, it's I think it's a good start. Yeah. Is this the product we purchased or is it a Yeah, this was super reval. Remember we did a a Google Meets two months ago, right? It's that problem. So,
074the idea is at the end um well, first of all, Tom will have his own sort of self-evaluation and as we're reviewing his competencies, we can see how Tom interpreted his own performance in that area. So, it's kind of helpful. It's almost like seeing the notes when you're taking the test, right? like, oh yeah, he did this or he did, you know, kind of getting a a guidance as to as to the kinds of things that he considered his perspective on each goal. And then before that, actually sort of a separate process to that is the board self-evaluation, although it gets very repetitive. Um, also part of that going back to the bo the board uh self-evaluation. Um, again, that's something that we can use to kind of tweak um the retreat. There's thing, you
075know, that brings up items that we want to um bring up in the retreat. Uh, it's helpful for that as well. I wanted to change my password instead. I saw you went in there. Yeah. Yeah. So, but I didn't want to continue, right? You're free to you're free to continue. I can show you if you want. I can hang around after sort of get you on the first question and then you can take it from there. All right. And you can come and go as you. I mean it's not like once you start okay you have to finish it'll remember where you are it's saved. So if you you know want you're doing it for 15 minutes and want to step away or Right. Yeah. I just wasn't sure if I was jumping the gun
076you know. Yeah. I can't see your answers. I can just see that you've been in and how how done you are. Yeah. It's like 24%. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. All right. Um there are questions on the super eval. Feel free to email either camera or I if anybody has any any questions as you're getting into it. Sometimes you don't know until you don't till you you don't know what you don't know until you till you get into it. Yeah. And in fairness, we are cramming this in much faster than we are. We are nor I mean the normal process for this uh should be um and will be for next year. Uh we get the board self-evaluation done by now by May and then we do uh Tom's in June. Um, and that's actually part
077of his contract that we that he has that. Um, I'm assuming I think in your contract also we do a midyear review as well, correct? Yeah, there's language for that. Yeah, the formal part of that. Um, so we get that done and it's it doing the midyear I find kind of helpful because you can almost basically take the midyear and then fold it over into uh the full year. Um, so I don't want any questions on that. So yeah, the Boseies thing was uh at Hartness was it's always I I've been to a couple of them and it's really eye opening um how good it is and how important and necessary that is. And I want to make sure, you know, first off, that we're always giving our families and our kids, um, uh, eyesight
078into that when they're, you know, 8th, nth grade that these are options to them. Um, the I think he told us the the the electric class, HVAC, welding, I think it was waiting list for those and they said those kids all they walk out they walk out of there with with with jobs. the the the the electrician basically said that after junior year um there's companies asking if any of these kids want to intern for him over the summer and they usually end up working for him in the next year. Um talking about the well because it was the electrician guy um you know he's kind of talking about the career path after school. Um you usually they'll go to a c go to go usually almost like a non-union shop. Um really the goal
079is for them to get in with the union. Um they get in with the union. The union then gives them training. They become a journeyman. Um he said there's no electric electrician working at the stadium right now that's making under six figures. So for you know you you you kind of follow that timeline. you know, these are kids that are under 30, you know, doing that kind of work. And that's that's not filling work. That's that's raise a family type money. Um, and they're doing it without any college debt. Um, as we were doing the wrap-up, the principal was telling us that he'd get calls from the parents because as these kids were coming through, getting to the end of their senior year and getting offers from from companies, the parents thought that they were
080a scam or a joke. because because of the amount of money that they that they were being offered. It's like, you know, my kids my kid's a high school graduate and you're gonna you want to pay him 60 grand. Uh he's like, "No, that's real. That's that's a that's a that's a real offer." Um what I thought was really kind of neat, what they want to start doing is um like a signing day where I know like in the high school a lot of times we will have they have a day when all the kids come in and they they announce what schools they're going to. Uh they want to do the same thing with Boseies where they the kids are all saying where they're either where they're going or or you know what they
081should. Um it's it's incredible. It it really is. It it's it's something that the I'm sure our construction guys back there know uh know the need is they probably seeing all these guys that are probably from out of the area that they had to bring in on that project. Um, so, uh, and and some of the stuff I didn't even know about the the aviation was kind of cool as they were talking. We didn't go to the aviation department, but they did talk about it. And they were saying there's kids that are going to go in. There's kids in the aviation department that don't want to fly, but they, you know, but they're going to be mechanics. They're going to be ground crew. There's there's u kids that are going to go in. There's they've
082got kids in the program that are going to go down to Florida to pilot two pilot school that that want to fly. Um want to work for airlines in some fashion. Um you know, so like I said, I didn't even know that that program existed. Uh one of the other things I kind of learned is that we we uh um work with Orchard Park because we don't have a lot of kids that go to Hartness and neither does Orchard Park. Um so we trade off bus roads. we do uh a morning or afternoon and they do the opposite. So, you know, a sign of kind of the partnership with another deal with other uh districts to save a little transportation money and and make it a little bit more efficient. Uh I just kind of
083found that out of that basically was being late. Uh so that's all I got. Okay. Well, I feel like I should start with Boseies since this is the theme of the meeting. Uh, I was officially um elected to the Boseis board since our last meeting. So, I appreciate I was I wasn't looking for that, but I appreciate the uh support of this board and all the boards that that voted for me. So, looking forward to to my Harkness tours uh and part of my orientation. So um and you know for my own kids you know who may be boseies bound I'm I'm really excited about getting a better understanding of of that program and and that that organization. Um with respect to other uh board committee meetings the IDA uh IDA and the land development
084corporation they generally meet together. Um, we have had a number of meetings since we last spoke. Really a lot of administrative stuff, reviewing our our audits, reviewing our annual policy reviews. Um, I think since we last met, I was also um elected to continue there as the secretary. So, I'm the ex on the executive committee of that board as well. Um, so that's good news. I think we're meeting tomorrow uh to continue doing that business. Uh, Laura, you mentioned scholarships. So, I'm the finance academy and I'm on the scholarship committee. Um, and we actually met we changed that scholarship this year from a from an essay. We didn't want uh AI's AI essays. So, we're meeting we met individually with each applicant um and did an interview. Uh, and it's just it's it's it's you
085know, we meet with the students in their in their sophomore year. They come in and they're nervous as all as all heck, right? Like their palms are sweating. uh you can just you feel for them and their nervousness and then you see these interviews and the same kids are are literally different kids. Um it was 22 kids applied for these scholarships. We had to pick five. It was really really tough. Um because you're just so impressed with not only them individually but also the the change since you first met them. It's it's really remarkable. Um so I you know we'll we'll find out who wins those scholarships at the scholarship uh night. Um but um that was a really fun experience. Um Tom mentioned Super Eval. Yeah, I guess that's it. Oh, the other thing
086I wanted to say, you know, I guess I'm becoming a connoisseur of modified sports these days. Um we go to a lot of hockey games. Modified hockey is a little delayed. Uh there's a lacrosse games. I've been going to baseball. So, I've been spending a lot of time at the school on the evenings and it's just like if you don't feel nostalgia going through the village when the sun's setting and there's seven different sports going on, it's just a magical thing and I just wanted to say I appreciate that. So that's all I'll I'll start with that because that was one of the highlights of the well since the weather's been changing and had an opportunity to at least break away maybe my wife's working late that night so I drive over to the new
087sports complex over there and sit down and watch a baseball game there with that I mean it's just unbelievable how beautiful it is you know and just to see the flow the kids and the parents and walking back and forth going through the whole complex before when we were it was all really just ideas of how we were going to change. You know, for me to actually walk in there and sit down and watch the kids playing or whatever. I just thought I agree with Cam completely. It was just a it was a a mindblower, you know, to just see it in, you know, functioning. It's so many people people that are, you know, walk the village and just hey, that's one of the places that they're going to gravitate to. It's brand new. It's
088a shiny thing. So, they're all there and you know, and it brings a lot of attention to the high school and to the middle school. So, uh uh there's a certain synergy there that uh it was just palpable. I thought it was great. So, you know, last couple of weekends I had an opportunity to go and do the same thing, Cam. So, I totally agree. Um the I it's been a long time since I stepped foot in Hartness back when I was in high school and uh in Chawaga. That's the school that I I went to and and uh I would love for us to try to um set up maybe a board visit instead of going to some of the school all the schools that we touch here. But really, I mean, a lot
089of the kids go to Hartness and the ones in West Sonica and the one in Chica Walker and um I think it would be a great visit for this board to be able to go and do that. It's such a strong desire now and you know, you're talking to the construction guys and they're saying can't find anybody, you know, we need more employees and that type of thing. Back when I went there, it wasn't as big of a deal, you know. So, but um I'd love to go through there again and get a a tool. Maybe that could happen. I don't know. But u and then the uh facilities and the safety committees have not met. So, I have nothing to report on that. And um that's what I that's all I have. All right.
090I guess it's me. Uh Laura mentioned PCC scholarship uh winners were selected. It's nice that we can partner with Frontier to make that happen. Um, PTSA, we did have a long meeting. I'm going to try to go through everything as quickly as possible. Um, this meeting they did elect their new executive boards. There's a lot of new faces stepping up in the district. So, just wanted to thank Cat Walsh, Lori Manuso, Justina Grezinski, Alicia Ys, Jen Gargan, Karen Hamp, Jason Kaza, and Dominica Stance, and Michelle Gavay are all our executive board members for next year. Um, so lots of new faces stepping up into those to keep it running. A lot of great names in that way. Yes. Yeah, we love to see everybody stepping up and make it happen. Um, Max gave his last
091report as our student representative at PGSA. He'll be moving over here uh to where Emma was. Um, but he introduced us to Christian Nichols, who's the new student rep. Um they gave us a quick briefing on all the things Emma mentioned as well as announcing um homecoming for September 19th in the fall and June 18th for senior prom. I don't know if that was already announced or not. Um all elementary buildings had successful teacher appreciation week says did the middle school and high school. Um I know the district also provided things so it was a great all-around experience. Um what else did we have? And all elementary schools are also able to present a senior scholarship to a student who spent the majority of time in their buildings. So that'll be nice to see this
092year at scholarship night as well. Um Armor mentioned that they have their last dine out night. So if anybody's looking to eat out on June 11th, it's at Red Robin. They're having a BOGO book fair the week of June 1st. Their end of the year bash is on June 18th. And they will be having an ice cream truck for the last day of school. So that's exciting. Boston Valley has uh their their Scholastic Bookf Fair and Chicken Barbecue coming up this week. Uh Charlotte's Bulldog Bash and Chicken Barbecue coming up on June 13th, which popular date for the middle school. Um Union Pleasant, they are they had a successful learning fair and they have their bingo Friday night at 6:30 at Knights of Columbus, which I'm sure will be well attended and super fun. Uh
093the middle school also had a great staff appreciation. June 13th is the day if you are a middle school person, middle school parent out there. They have sixth grade pool party, seventh grade uh field day, I want to say, eighth grade slideshow and eighth grade dance all happening on the same day. So that's a busy and very fun day for them. They also uh were able to sponsor the something for the connected Athletic League. I want to say it was t-shirts. And their first game, the Connected Athletic League, is May 22nd against Orchard Park here at Hamburg. Check it out. Um what else do I have on there? And they're going to be raffling parking spaces for concert season. So look out for that. That is a popular one if you What are they raffling?
094They raffle off parking spaces. So you can get Yes, parking spaces. They reserve parking spaces and if you've attended those events where you can't get parking anywhere, uh these are a hot commodity to get your hands on. So yeah, it's a I I think that's fabulous and I will be looking for one of those when my child is in middle school. Um high school Dave you already talked about. We have our chicken barbecue. We have the postp prom link for donations. We're going to get those out in an email or in a virtual backpack or some way to everybody. Um they also very exciting they are have four scholarships as well as we have a Jenkins scholarship winner this year which is nice they get money each year that they are in college so that
095was pretty exciting and Sepsa they also presented uh they have a fundraiser coming up on May 30th at the Warrior Factory South um at 5:45 they will meet the second Wednesday of the month next year and have access VR scheduled for September so All right, that was a long one, but that's it for me. Thank you. Okay, thanks everybody. Uh, moving on to our capital uh project our partners. All right. How's everyone doing? You hear me? All right. Um before I run through the slides really quick, I want to go over just important points on the report that's in front of all of you. So on the schedule milestones section, um for phase two, we're obviously getting to the meat of it now going after the the remaining heating system work for the high school.
096Um we wanted to call attention to the the high school boiler room demolition scope on there. Uh originally the contract schedule had us finishing that mid July. um we have been able to pull that up into late June um through a lot of coordination efforts and actually some of the things on the change orders you see tonight you're here approving has bought us a tangible schedule advantage to make sure we can get that high school up and running in the fall um a little bit early. Um and then also pulling attention to the phase three armor renovation project that's slated for this summer that works should get started on the 30th of June. And I know the the remaining contracts um the letter of recommendation is on the docket tonight as well to approve those.
097Um going into the financial section below that um just to highlight that we are basically pushing across the $29 million mark in phase two in committed costs. The phase three committed costs came in per the contracts we are going to be approving in the full budget around 1.855 which was about 140,000 under the total estimated budget for that project. Um then we're holding the rest of the balance referendum for the the phase 4 budget at this time at Eden Pleasant. Um, before I move on to the slideshow, I wanted to obviously bring up that we have a total of 14 PCOS across six change orders for your approval tonight, totaling about $180,000. I want to see if anybody had questions on any particular details of those. You mean with respect to the items on the
098agenda? Yeah, the change orders on the agenda. Yes. Um, I did and I'm forgetting what my question was. Can you remind me what they were? I I don't have them all over. Chimney AV in the chimney. Oh, yeah. The chimney struck me as odd. Why that's a like So, it read as though we didn't know we had a chimney to destroy. Yeah. So, there's a very large chimney in that boiler room that goes up to the roof. Um, it's actually housing, it used to houses an old incinerator as well as the pathway for the large flu that vent all the boiler system itself. Um, the plan was to demo it just below the roof line so that hole can be infilled and abandoned and roofed over properly just so you don't have any future leaks.
099Um, one thing we're trying to do by demoing additional depth, basically bring it lower down is to accommodate more storage space in that that room is going to be opening up with a ton of room now. So, right now you have a catwalk coming out into that boiler room. Very limited size though. Um, they use it for a lot of athletic like gym class storage and by demoing the chimney down further that there will be future opportunity to expand that catwalk platform for storage in the district. So, sort of upon reflection, you guys realized you needed to do a little more demo than you thought in order to capture some extra storage. Requested to add additional demo to the scope. That makes more sense. The way I read it, it was like, whoops, we found
100a chimney. It was always being demoed because it goes above the roof 20 30 ft. See that disappear in the summer on that uh west side of west end of the building there. And then the AV change orders were mostly just swapping costs that we didn't pursue. So it was the AV ones go back sort of the electrical conversation we had when we when we were changing their contract value. Um it was a known scope. It was in the drawings, but when we were pursuing updated agreement with the electrician, we really didn't like the price they were at. So we we held that out of the base fit contract and been working on it, negotiating with them to a different price. So it's not work that was really added or requested by district. It was
101always on the plans. We just went through the Gordian program, kind of beat it up, got to a number, and it's finally it's finally hitting the the docket now. So it was always slated to replace the audio visual systems with new projectors and equipment to modernize those auds. You just didn't capture the changes in that basement contract essentially. Do you have an idea of u what's to come in the next month before the next meeting like which things you've got your eyes on? You think that you know there might be a change order coming and what would those things be? So the yeah the next round is it's again it's a lot of money it's already accounted for when you look at those financial reports but it's Gordian um changes coming from the mechanical and
102plumbing contractor next there's going to be some um added air conditioning units to accommodate um interior spaces in the high school and a various various other scopes we've had them do a lot of this work that's actually been done but we've been negotiating the prices through the board co-op program so you'll see mostly mechanical and plumbing related changes on the export me. We've basically caught up now with the electricals and general contracting. Okay, very good. Okay, so run through the pictures really quick slideshow. Um what you see here in these first four pictures is your old steam boilers being actively torched into pieces and demoed out of that space. Um one of them is effectively gone. You have you had three boilers, basically two that were active. Um, we took the one in the middle
103that was inactive out first. That's part of that one change order essentially to go after that one early. Uh, and we are currently demoing the second boiler that's been taken offline. We're going to be taking off the final boiler any day now continuing on that demo process. Am I maybe I'm misremembering, but I recall that the larger boiler we actually needed to remove some wall to properly remove that. Am I misremembering that? We took out a window temporarily. Um, a large window leading that boiler room next to the your your loading dock in the courtyard. And that has been temporarily removed for access in and out of that room. I thought it was more destructive, but not but um these pictures are all from work accomplished over April break. You're looking at the top two
104pictures are your cafeteria of the high school where we clear it all out, took ceiling down, put up about 25 pieces of new structural steel, just getting as far ahead as we can for the summer to accommodate the new large rooftop unit that's going to provide the air conditioning heat for the cafeteria itself. And the lower picture is an example of one of the two uh new fire shutter windows put in at Boston and Charlotte Elementary Schools over Uh the top two pictures in this slide is also April break work. Um you're looking at room 150 which is a special ed education room in the high school. Um putting up new ceilings and LED dimmable lighting in that room. We'll be finishing renovation of that room by redoing the floors and paint base uh over
105the summer. And then more just monotonous mechanical pictures, but you're looking at the pump room in the basement of the high school where there's now 16 new pumps and a million feet of pipe accommodating them. U slowly coming together here with final connections and and insulation and labels and all that. And then lastly, again, some more out of sight pictures, but there's been a lot of activity on the roof of the high school for mechanical work, even during the day during the school week. Um, you're looking at some of the large curbs that are going to accommodate those rooftop units I'm talking about. And, uh, those are those small boxes you see there are basically going to carry ducks, very large um, pre-line ducks for that are going to be on the rooftop of the
106of the school accommodating again heat and air conditioning for the larger spaces up there. Um couple real quick scheduling things to point out here. Um looking at phase three and four, um you'll notice the SED review periods called out there initially slated to be um out in late April for phase three and October for phase 4. uh October 4 has actually been approved or phase four has actually been approved as of the 9th of May. So SCD review period went very fast, very clean. Um the design team obviously got a good submission and we are in set up in a great position now to kind of tweak and finalize the design on Ethan Pleasant and get out to bid at a really advantageous time in the late summer, early fall. And then this is unchanged.
107This is a general procurement schedule for your your next referendum. So I understand with phase four there's still some discussion or debate around which of the items we would pursue and whether we would maybe withhold any of the the the total spend for a future capital project or whether we would spend to the to the full amount. um with the bid period being you know roughly that month there in September would we have that discussion before that bid period so that we bid out we're looking at we're going to need to have uh reconvene our facilities committee and then have a larger discussion at the table regarding where we're going to go with that and that'll important that'll be well before some time so that's right yeah there's only three months right since until then
108yeah Okay, can we councelor number two when it comes to the bidding process? We don't have to accept everything. I guess that was part of my question too is are we bidding even that which we may not and we do all the time because there are always alternatives folks can do a construction project. So we can sit back and say nope we don't want this alternate so we pull it out and it's not part of the budget. So okay there's a lot of different ways to look at that as well too. We do that with the copal outlay projects every year, right? Where we we do all we do alternatives to it to see how far we can take the budget and we've been very blessed that we get a lot more out of it
109than we think. So, same process we would use here for this bigger phase. Thank you. Thanks. [Applause] Moving on to our superintendent report. Yes indeed. Hello everybody. Uh thanks for your patience. Great great reports. A lot of looking at uh that 30,000 foot view planning uh that the board and community has done over the years and the implementation of it. Um, a lot of things in uh in the works still, but there's a lot that we've been able to to enjoy, whether it's the the ball fields or certainly certainly more than that, too. I I want to compliment everybody who went out of their way to acknowledge our staff during staff appreciation week. Uh, the PTSA wowed everybody. The building leadership did as well. Um, it is a true challenge to convey to every group
110in a school system that they matter. And when you write emails to try to reflect that, you want to make sure you're not putting people in an order where they think that they were listed last and that it means that they're less important than others. Uh we really want people to walk out and know that they're truly appreciated. We're reading a book, the admin teams reading a book called Extreme Ownership. And one of the ideas, well, it's pretty self-explanatory, but you've got to feel a sense of ownership regarding every phase of the work that happens. And that's what I get to see every day uh when I go into schools. um people owning the work, uh people caring immensely about those small moments of the day with each individual kid or staff member and uh
111that's uh it's just extremely gratifying. Uh we had a staff member who is uh who was honored by the Buffalo Philill Harmonic and the Erie County Music Educators Association on Saturday night. Uh Larry Dubel uh at the high school was honored um for his years of service. There was only three other educator two other educators I believe in Erie County who were so honored. There was a reception uh prior to a philarmonic concert uh on Saturday and then they were able to enjoy the show as well. Certainly welldeserving there uh for Larry for for all of his work. Uh we uh were the I shouldn't say we our alumni association and our sports boosters were the recipients of uh each of a $50,000 donation from legislator John Gilmore's office. Uh 50,000 went towards music, went
112towards the arts. If you've been in the high school recently and seen the wall wrap, uh the music hallway now has a look that's very similar in terms of theme to what you see when you come into the athletics entrance, which is a a great sort of visual reminder of the value of the work that goes on there as well. Uh and uh also instruments are being purchased with with that. And then on the athletic side, um you've got a a few different things happening from from backboards being put up at various elementary schools to uh there's some lovely blue protective matting in the middle school gym, which causes all of us bulldogs to cringe uh when we see the blue, but uh that'll be uh converted to purple and there'll be a few other
113uh things done there. So, we wanted to thank Legislator Gilmore's office for that. Um, seeing as that we're at Armor right now, I was able on to on Friday go to the DARE graduation. Uh, led by there, uh, Orchard Park Police Officer Kristen Maer, uh, Chief Fitzgerald was there as well. Our two fifth grade classes, uh, graduated from DARE, which is moved not departing from drug abuse resistance education, which is what it, uh, stands for, but to the healthy decision-making and healthy choices idea as well, sort of u making that a a larger focus of the of the curriculum. The kids were phenomenal. couple kids read essays uh about decision- making and choice and that was a that was a great celebration there. I want to thank Mr. Rach for his for his leadership on
114on that and uh um their teachers Miss Kate and Mrs. Kenny and Miss Palowski for the for the fifth grade work there. Um let's go briefly into the New York State budget. Uh it passed on May 9th, I believe was the final date for it. In terms of our impact on a dollars and cents level through some changes, mostly to foundation aid, but to a couple things as well, we went up $50,000 roughly in terms of uh of what we will receive in aid. Uh certainly one of the the largest news items is the universal meals uh for breakfast and lunch. Uh so Kim Abram and under uh Christine Youngberg's uh leadership there will be uh putting in uh be be planning out that process. Uh a lot of good thoughts came up um with
115regards to that uh at our PTSA meeting um at the PTSA meeting I was at recently uh about about impact. Um and uh also another noteworthy item is the cell phone ban. cell phone ban for us is that and it's really the uh internet enabled devices for what uh um was referred to as the distraction-free school uh idea that did pass. That's a bell-to-bell ban. Um we've got to talk we've got to we are we are mandated to hear from various stakeholder groups. Uh we will need to have discussions about how this is going to be implemented, where students are to store them, how students are how parents are supposed to get a hold of their kids in an emergency. Uh there's also what I'll call carveouts, which I think usually has like a more
116financial term for it, but I'll call that there's exceptions. We need to make sure we're not breaking any laws with it. So, um we we need to take a look at the medical uh components 504 IEP um because there will be exceptions to the rule. And then there's also um what's our process for allowing exceptions for academic purposes as well. Um, so that's a that's a long-winded way of saying we need to get a group of people together who represent various components within our district and put together a plan that we get to put in place by August 1st. All right. So that's what our mandate is uh in terms of um the distraction-free school zone. There's also some other exceptions too that I don't need to go into the specifics on that quite yet.
117Uh I want to talk briefly about transportation. Uh last meeting we talked about it uh at length uh and the transportation situation really remains the same as Christine mentioned that uh request for proposals will be going out that'll be finalized that'll be going out in June with uh with with various uh um then people put their proposals forth uh different different bus companies. We certainly know that Fiser will be part of that as well. I I do want to stress that um we've been super fortunate to have a good relationship with Fiser and their drivers uh over time and their management as well. So I don't want to I don't want to discount that uh idea of our of our history with Fisher Bus. Also um let's see uh Christine and I uh wrapped up
118last evening our tour of the PTSA meetings. And that's not to say that we did a lot. It's really as a way of saying that the PTSA does a lot. uh you go to each of those buildings and see committed folks who are there each and every month. And that representation each month indicates there's a lot more representation during the the the weeks in between meetings as well as they're planning things to make make life better for for our kids. Uh through Mary's work, I was able to visit the University of Buffalo uh last week, couple weeks ago, I think. uh there's some professors that she uh that she is connected with and the project that they had that that students that the college students were presenting was how to reduce carbon footprint. Uh and
119these students visited various businesses including one school district east Aurora was the district uh that was uh that that worked with the students and the students like they they followed through but I think it had a very Hamburgian type uh type type flow to it because it was students caring about something they were creating a solution. and they're trying to come up and discover if that would work or not. So, it was a it was a great example of the same types of things that we stress in our classrooms being seen at an older stage and seeing how relevant the work that's being done in our classrooms, be it elementary, middle, or high school, and how that translates uh to high school. But thanks, Mary, for that. That got me out into to a different
120uh educational world a bit, and uh I was quite taken with it. Um so, thank you. Thank you for that. I hope um let's see uh a couple other things just some things that are coming up. I mentioned the Excel Awards that I'll be going to tomorrow afternoon with regards to Eerie Wan Boseies. Uh uh and then uh Thursday evening it's the Scholastic Achievement Recognition Dinner uh the Sard uh that's honoring our validictorian saludiatoran and a certain student government president as well I believe. So I'm excited about uh about about moments like that to come. Uh and uh we got a farmers market Saturday. Budget vote on the on the 20th. Scholarship night at 21st. So all sorts of things happening there. But uh uh I hope that rundown wasn't too uh too too long
121uh too long in the tooth, but I appreciate your uh appreciate everything all all the things that we're able to experience here and I'm certainly enjoying it from this perspective. Do you recall, Tom, I I didn't check. Did the increase in Bosei salary cap aid go into the budget? I'm so excited about being able to have an answer for you, Cam. So, next year we'd like to go. So, currently we're aided up to 30,000, right? Next year it'll be 40. You're following me 50. You're following me. Staggered. So, yes. I heard it was going up to 60, right? That was Yeah. I think I heard 60 and thought it was an automatic, but we're going to move gradually with it. Oh, that's all right. It's progress. And also, the uh electric buses got an extension
122for two more years. It did. It did. It did. Yeah. So what's the current law then? It's going to apply for a waiver for you can do the two years then you can do it for two more years if you follow the but you have to demonstrate that you are working towards it. So for what what year is the target year now? Plus two. So yeah. So 32 to 2030. Yeah. We're including the R 30. Yeah. Two more years, right? Yeah. I think it is. It's 27 or 28. So, I thought it was 20 for buses. I thought it was No, I thought it was 30. Then you get two more. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to stick with my 40 50 60,000 answer. That's just going to leave it. Interesting. And also, they they pledged
123to work on that formula for foundation age. So, we'll see if that happens. Feel like we're in a fool me once type of situation on that. Yeah. if you want to see it. Okay, thank you. Okay, moving on to uh the business items. Uh starting with our consent and financial items. Um at this time, board member can make any make a request to withdraw a specific item from the consent agenda um in both F and G uh for individual consideration. Is there any such request at this time? Seeing none, can I have a motion to approve all consent financial consent and financial items F2 through G5? Second by Laura. Second. Second by Dave. All in favor? I know. You're getting better though. I know. I know. Uh I'd love to acknowledge some folks who are
124on our uh personal agenda which was just just approved. Uh Kaitlin, congratulations on your tenure. All right. Well done. for our instructional appointments. I'll list our probationary. We have and I'll I'll we have Ashley Kellerin, we have Austin Matson, and we also have Samantha Messing. Samantha, congratulations. for our uh for instructional personnel tenure. Uh we have Amanda Destro, we have Caitlyn Elellant, Organ Colada, Katherine Kerosy, Elizabeth Quitniaak, Leanne Lewis, Danielle Kelly, Robert Linhardt, Elena Makaba, Mary McNichol, Norah Oakley, Jennifer Troy, Amy Rukoff, Brandon Safe, and Paul Thompson. Congratulations to you. Oh, I know. I was just Didn't you see my eyebrows raised when I said so Mary? So I thank you for that. Uh and we also have a retirement that I'd like to acknowledge also. Taran Blanc was an eight at the middle school.
125Uh she she retired. So we uh we congratulate her on her retirement. That's that. Thank you. Congrats. It's it's amazing all those tenur teachers. They're so I feel like we've been talking about those names for years. Like I'm surprised some of them have only been here long part of the fabric down here. And Colleen, I'd like to thank you. I know during the year she you do uh uh keep us up to date and I know there's been some back and forth, but with the you know the meeting when we go over um tenure. I appreciate that. I I think that um giving giving our staff tenure is is a very important role for us. I know we just kind of included in consent item, but I um it's something that take very seriously and
126I appreciate the information you give us and and makes us feel really comfortable when we when we vote on it. Okay, moving on to our action items. Um H1, can I have a motion to approve contract between the Hamburg Central School District and management advisory group for stack services? So move. So moved by Laura, second second by Cam. Questions, comments. This is an annual annual contract set to help with um higher cost special. Higher cost special. Um all in favor? Opposed? Passes. Item H2. Can I have a motion to approve a contract between the Hamburg Central School District and Management Advisory Group for Medicaid Services? Move by Cam. Second, second by Dave. Questions, comments? All in favor? I oppose. Passes. Item H3. Can I have a motion to approve an agreement with the Hemlock Collaborative
127LLC for grant rating services effective May 14th, 2025? Some move. So by Ashley, second by Laura. Uh questions, comments? Yeah. On the question, is this is this for a specific grant or or is this I believe it's called the cops grant is the uh that's the I'm sure it stands for basically uh it's a violence prevention. So you're going to see new doors. Yeah. Through our various schools. So it's consulting services to do the work necessary to get the grant. Just this particular grant because I know we've worked with grant writers in the past and up and down results to Okay. Right. We're not doing that anymore. We're now basically paying per per grant. Correct. And this is for what prevention? Uh violence protection. So it's going to be you're you've seen well the very
128in our in our schools there's some new doors that we have and you can sort of tell which ones they're just they're they're they're rated as as safer. You'll see different look to the window within sort of classroom door type of look. Okay. Yeah. Karma was done. Charlotte's done. We've been awarded this grant before. We went after it last year, didn't get it. Now we're going to go back at it again to see if we can continue on to get all the the rest of the doors replaced. It's great. Any other questions, comments? All in favor? I opposed. Item passes. Moving on to H4. Can I have a motion to approve an agreement between the Hamburg Central School District and Assured Partners as listed? So moved. So moved by Laura, second. Second by Cam. Questions,
129comments. All in favor? I opposed. Item passes. Item H5. Can I have a motion to approve upon the recommendation of the superintendent the contract with Dboro? I can't say it. construction for contract BP301, general trades work in the base bid amount of $334,700. The contract with John W. Danforth company for contract BP302 mechanical trades work in the base bid of $74,11. And a contract with Industrial Power and Lighting Corp. Contract BP303 electrical trades work for the base amount of 497,000 for a total contract award of 555,37456 for the 2021 capital project phase 3. So moved by Rich second by Kan. Questions, comments? All in favor? Opposed? Item S is item H6. Can I have a motion to approve change orders 2011-11, 2011-10, 204-2, 204-1, 204-3, and 204-04 for the capital project phase 2 work? So
130moved. So by Laura, second by Rich. Any questions, comments? I know that some of those questions been answered. All in favor? I opposed. Item passes. Item H7. Can I have a motion that the board of elections board of election representative for the 2020 2526 annual budget vote and school board election be held on May 20th, 2025 be approved at a daily rate of $250? So moved by Cam. Second. Second by Ashley. Questions, comments? Did we just miss this one the first time? So didn't we approve these already? I thought we the one from the board of elections that come Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Other questions, comments? All in favor? I opposed. Passes. Item H8. Can I have a motion to approve a resolution authorizing the Hamburg Central School District to enter into a 5-year contract
131with Erie One Boseies for the provision of computer services to the district? So move. So moved by Laura, second by Rich. Questions, comments? And this is for um uh all in favor I opposed passes item H9. I have a motion to approve uh memorandums of agreement between the Hammer Central School District and the HTS local 272 union, the Teamsters Local 264 Union, the SEIU Maintenance Local 200, United and the Hamburg Administrative Council to change the current 5-day work week to a 4-day work week with the operating hours spread over 4 days effective uh July 7, 2025 through August 22nd, 2025. So moved. So moved by Mary, seconded. Second by Ashley. Questions, comments. And this is an annual thing that we've we've been doing, so it's continuation. Um, all in favor? I oppose. Passes. Item H10.
132Can I have a motion that the schedule for the 202526 board of education meeting be approved, noting that any changes or additions will be posted in the district office message board in the administrative in the administrative building and the district web page. So moved by Ashley, second by Mary. Questions, comments? I have a question. Um, I noticed I know that these also get published in that calendar that gets pushed out, but sometimes that calendar is not always correct. Can you tell me a little bit more about who is in charge of the calendar? So like in terms of like the physical copy. Yeah. Yeah. But it's like that's why we I mean that's there as a like that's a that's a classic, right? But but but there are changes that go on but people like
133we find that people love having the paper copy but we don't send out changes to it. That's where the online component is. Yeah. I was just c like who does that? That's a big crew. Well I tell you if you want to see the calendar meeting in action that's uh well I don't know if you want to see it. It's it's impressive. Uh it's like it's it's everybody and like you know there's you know Caitlyn has a huge hand in it. Kayla has a huge hand in it. Colleen like but the the the the building leaders come with all of their dates with it and we come with our dates and it's a battle royale to see uh to see how you and you try to avoid all the the conflicts and such but that's
134that's where it goes. So there are some things that change. Ideally that's always going to be ch reflected on the digital version of it though. Yeah. Oh I know. I that was just like I noticed it. I just wanted to know. This wasn't like who do I complain to? It was more like who who does that, right? Because it was related. Anyway, please continue. More questions come. All in favor? I opposed. Item uh item passes. Item H11. Can I have a motion to approve a contract between Hamburg Central School District uh and Alford University for an internship? Seconded. them all together. Yeah. No, after this one. Oh, okay. Sorry, I interrupted. Did you get your second? I I seconded. I'm so excited. Thank you. So, for Mary or Laura and Mary, um I was out
135of order. My apologies. You're out of order. Uh any any questions, comments? material. Um, and this this is a one-time deal, right? This is an ongoing foricular this is yeah, this is a particular situ. Great. Um, all in favor I opposed. Um, okay. Um, now we're at that. Um items 12 through 23 all represent um basically special education IEP um contracts. Uh so instead of going through individually uh I'm making a motion uh to approve action items 12 through 23 with a single consent vote. So moved. So moved by Ashley. Second. Second by Mary. All in favor? I I opposed. Item passes. Um so that just allowed us to do it. Um so now I'm looking for um a motion to approve action items 12 through 23. So moved. So moved by Laura. Second. Second
136by Ashton. Um all in favor? I opposed. Items 12 through 23 pass. Um, do we have public expression? [Music] Uh, only one we have just ran. So, I wanted to share um some updates from PTSA and projects I've been working on. Um first and foremost um I wanted to give a little bit more information on our Jenkins scholarship winner. So that scholarship is only eligible for students who are in the district with uh PTSA unit in good standing. Um the students submit to the PTSA and then the PTSA sends two New York State uh PTA to choose winners. So this is a statewide one. Um it's a student pursuing education. So, I just want to thank our PTSA executive board for putting in the work to go ahead and read through the scholarship submission um
137sending to on to the state and one of our students being awarded that scholarship. That's a huge achievement. It's a high dollar amount and it's only possible because of the great work of the PTSA. So, I applaud those members. Um, additionally, I want to thank the PTSA for being able to offer the candidate forum. This is a long-standing tradition, something we've done in years with contested elections. Um, we have a great partnership with the League of Women Voters and we're happy to have them back for this. And I want to thank Susan Ber Vancuso who took the lead on this and making it happen um for their time in organizing this with the league. It should be a great event. Um, additionally, I want to talk about the two events that I have started this
138spring slashback in the winter. First one is the 5K we have coming up. Um I checked today. Right now we're at 121 registered runners and that does not include the 97 kids who will be participating as members of Bulldog Run Club. All the money that's raised is going right to extracurriculars in the Amber district. Currently we have five staff members who submitted requests for clubs or organizations they belong to who would like some funding. That is open until May 20th. They did send that link to all principles today so they could get it out to their building employees. Additionally, right now for Bulldog Run Club, we have five teams running across three different buildings. Um we just started uh recognizing a leader of the past. So a child who is running as part of a
139team who is really embodying the four um trademarks we're looking for teamwork, leadership, respect, and kindness. So, um, kids through their actions while at practice, they can be recognized by their coach. I also want to talk about our junior coaches. So, we did open up junior coaching to middle school and high school students. And right now, we have junior coaches with three different teams. Union Pleasant Girl or Union Pleasant Girls and then Charlotte Avenue boys and girls. So, I have um one junior coach that is with me every day and that's my son. Um, but today we have five there total. uh three other kiddos who went to Charlotte Avenue and one kid I met once on Halloween night because he brought his bag of candy back to my house with my daughter. Um they
140ran uh roughly two and a half miles today and I invited them all to come back and said bring your friends the child I did not know his name was Reese and he said I love this. So I really do think the majority of those kids are sixth graders. there's an opportunity for our sixth graders who cannot participate in athletics to have some sort of some sort of organized program and that they can go ahead and participate in together. Um I think it's great when they get together with the younger students and they can go ahead and make an impact on them. Um but we'll have run club Charlotte Avenue with those boys. We have 31 boys participating but we keep adding um middle schoolers who want to come back and be a part of
141it. So, I would love to talk about what options we might have to go ahead and get something started at the middle school for those kids because it seems like there is there is a uh a need for it. So, that's Thanks. Okay. Um being no further business, can I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? So, moved by Rich. Second. Second by Laura. All in favor? I oppose. Thanks everybody.