001You turn your mic on. >> All right. Um, I like to call for a motion to exit executive session for the purpose of discussing current litigation and the employment of particular persons. I have a motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Abstain. Motion carries. Call for a motion to enter open session. Have a motion. >> Second. Motion carries. Uh, please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge 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. >> Okay, tonight we're going to have a couple presentations. We're going to start out with our Orleans Niagara Boseies presentation. Um, I'd like to uh introduce uh Dr. Ferrar and Dr. Connley uh from Boseies.
002I've had the honor to be on the Boseis board and I I have to say we've had uh Dr. Farrar has been on for going on two years now and since then we've made quite a quite a bit of improvement and changes and BOSI is really heading in the right direction. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Dan and Dr. Fer. The show's yours. >> Good evening. So I'd like to introduce myself. I am Dr. Tawi Pon Ferrar and I'm the district superintendent and chief executive officer for the Omid Snider Bose. I have with me Dr. Melody Connley and she is our executive director of business and operational services and just wanted to share with you who we are as Boseies and our theme this past year and into this next year
003is building our capacity and really looking at how we can better serve our component districts and students. So my role as a district superintendent is multiaceted. I work directly for the New York um state education department and am a conduit of information in which I go monthly to Albany and at least once a month, sometimes two times a month and I come back and I work with the 13 component districts sharing information, initiatives of upcoming things that are happening. But then I also bring back concerns, issues and whatnot back to New York State education department that I hear from all of the component districts. I do also um serve from that CEO standpoint of all of the buildings and um programs that we have within our Boseies. And then I also do less on and
004consultant work um often working whether that's whether that's directly with a a board and or superintendent um whether that's board retreats working on norms goal setting some mentoring. So I do have other um roles that I do help out um within that context. So as a Boseies there are 37 Boseies across the state. So we are one of um the 37 and our goal really is to provide a wide range of educational opportunities to school districts and specifically for Owen Boseies we are really trying to work on like I had mentioned um providing innovative and effective solutions in order to provide more opportunities for students. So we do cover in our Boseis 13 districts. All of the districts in Niagara County and three of Orleans County. The other two districts Kendall and Holly um are
005a part of Monroe 2 Orleans Boseies. From this map you can see our we have two CTE centers and our main hub is Orleans Center in Madina. That's where the district office is. And then the larger though uh CTE center is in the Sanborn area which is right down the street. We service um all the 13 school districts and currently the enrollment from the 2425 school year and this goes to the SED report card is just under 30,000 students. So you can see um where you fall as your school district now your wheat field is one of the larger districts in the region much like you as a board we also have a board um and we have 13 board members as you can see and um the great opportunity that we have as Owen
006Boseies is we have representation from all 13 districts that is not necessarily the case for the majority of policies across the state where they end up rotating members through their board. So, we have the 13 board members and I thank you because you um are bringing Bob McDermott Agon and he is our vice president too and so he'll be servicing us for another few years. So, we're thankful for that. Um we recently upon my arrival did a little restructuring. So we really have some definitive divisions now in our Boseies and that's reflective with the educational services that we're enhancing special programs, career and teched and adult ed, business and operational service as well as labor relations and human resources. Um the labor relations and human resources is one that used to be one department and
007we've since um over the last year divide that into two distinct departments. So when we look at um our career and technical centers, this is what most people often think of first when they think of Boseies is all vocational programs. Um, in your folders, you'll see that there's a couple items related to CTE. And one is a booklet that provides all of our programs across our campuses and a description as well as some of the articulation agreements that come with all of those programs. Also in your folder is a a list of um all of the programs and the number of students that are attending your um from your school district and which programs with you know between their junior and senior year. Also in your packet there's some longitudinal data um that we do
008track and we are required to actually report this to New York State Education Department. But the first sheet on that page um and it's a three staples packet is last year's seniors, then now your current seniors and your current juniors. And then we just like to track to see how often students um remain within the program over the duration of the two years, which is most typical of a CTE program, but we do have two centers and most of almost all of your students attend the NCT center here in San. Um we do actually have a pretty strong adult ed program and this is something many people don't realize that we have as a part of Boseis but literacy zone is one of our biggest areas that we have from an adult education and that
009program is really helping um whether that's younger adults or adults learn um whether that's English and or also earning their GED. Um so that's what we the two things that fall under literacy zone. Then our skilled trades. Um this is the opportunity also for you know whether it's welding um electrical HVAC. We have many adults that are coming back to get those skill trades. Some of the people that just attended were like you that said you know I don't want to hire somebody to work on my age back because of how much I'm paying. I'm going to go back to school so that I have that certification myself. So, we have a lot of adult learners coming back just to to learn some extra skills. And then health occupations, we've got um nursing and we
010actually have a large class graduating. We have a PN class getting ready to start with 40 um enrolles um for nursing and then phottomy. So, we do have a strong adult ed program. Educational services. I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Conley to talk about some of the enhancements that we have. >> Good evening everyone. Um so these are some of our educational services. I'm just going to highlight on some of them. Um we have our arts and education program that you are currently a part of. Our center for school improvement and professional development. Um these are folks that come to into your district. They'll work with your staff, do some professional development, our coaching, our DASA training. We've recently introduced um the following, our leadership retreat. Um we conducted our first annual leadership
011retreat in July that included boards of education and our administrators um across all of our component districts. And that'll be held again this coming July. We've introduced our early college access. So these are for our students that are getting a jump start on their college courses while they're in high school. And if the school district is paying for that, it's Bosey's aidable. So that's a good benefit for our students. We have a mentor and interim administrators that we've recently introduced to again help our um component districts. If you have some newer administrators that need some mentoring or if you have a need to fill some time, if you're in between administrators, we have introduced our substitute reimbursement. So under CSIPD, if you have some teachers getting some professional development and you pay for their sub,
012you can put that through Boseies and generate some aid on that piece as well. Um, we're continuing our driver's education program, our home hospital teaching, um, our homeschooling oversight. So, we're introducing this and this is a new program in which if you have students that are homeschooled, the Boseies will help the component districts with all of the oversight and um, making sure that the students are reaching their benchmarks uh, to achieve that piece. our library media services, regional summer school, our teacher center. We have a courier service. They'll come um pick up your mail, take it around to your buildings. Um and also the mail from Boseies will be delivered to your district. And our public relations, we recently expanded our public relations. So we now have a web design specialist. So, they are working
013right now with one of our component districts and they will update your website, keep it up to date, work with your folks to see what information they want on it, uh redesign it. It's it's been a very positive service so far. Our special and alternative ed program services, that's overseen by Dr. Ronald Barstus. And then we have two associate directors, Lorena Costik Monia, our secondary, and Danielle Leonard. She oversees the elementary students. So that's been a recent restructuring. And of course, our special programs department. It's kind of broken down into a couple different areas. Here you see our uh classroom services. I won't read all of them. our uh related services that we offer as well as all as our ancillary services that we offer as well. Niagara Academy just down the road uh overseen
014by Roger Broker is the principal and the assistant principal Michelle Kubago. They have middle and high school students alternative and special education programs within that building. and our Godfrey Learning Center and Orleans Learning Center. Um, one is in New Fain, the other is in Madina. That is overseen by principal Rachel Ross and our assistant principal Christina Miles. And you can see New Fain is uh secondary grades 6 to 12. And then Madina is 7 to 12. Roy Hart Learning Center, Tara Guillo is the principal at that location and that serves our elementary students in grades K to six. And then we have North Tanowanda Learning Center and of course Naira Wheelfield Learning Center. That's uh both of those sites are overseen by principal Shannon Bicari. Uh North Tanowanda is uh serving elementary grade six K
015to6 sorry and Naira Weedfield is also elementary K to6. We are going to be um moving away from Northtown and we'll talk about that in just a second. The lease is expiring. So in 2627 we have some new locations and again it's due to the lease expiring at North Tanowanda Learning Center. So these are the new sites that we are going to Ransomville Learning Center, Tanowanda Creek Learning Center and then we are expanding our current location with Naira Weedfield. So we have to thank you. It's been a great collaboration. Our um staff and students feel very welcomed and included in the building. So, it's been a great collaboration. And then Looport Learning Center is a new location that we're going to be in as well. We're going to have a few classrooms in that location.
016In addition to that, we're going to have some new programs um incorporated into these locations because of course SED wants to look at some integration in these areas. So, we are introducing um a suspension classroom and alternative ed class grades five to six. These are the locations. You can see on the top left where the red arrows are. That is the uh Ransomville Learning Center, the new location. And that's going to be kind of like a sister or brother with the Lort Learning Center, which is over to the left side. Number one is the Loop Learning Center and number two is the Ransomville Learning Center. And that will be overseen by one principal. Then down towards the bottom um three and four they're going to be the brother and sister. So that is going to
017be our Naira Wheatfield learning center um with the Tanowana Creek Learning Center. So those two will over be overseen by another building principal. So what does this mean? Um obviously change in locations, change in programs. Um it's exciting because it brings new opportunities. Like I said, a couple of new programs there all are all dead and the suspension program and of course the integration versus segregation. So integrating the students in with other students. Um the NRA we feel again the collaboration has been great with that integration. Um the impact on your budget. So our admin budget um increase is going to be about 10.86% 86% this year AC that's spread across all 13 districts for Naira wheatfield based on the projected arwada resident weighted average daily attendance it equates to 9.48% 48% um which is
018approximately $35,000 to put it into terms like that. And of course our component district vote is scheduled for April 21st, 2026 and that's on a Tuesday. So the benefits of the new locations um again designated space for all our ancillary and related uh service staff, spacious faculty rooms. uh they don't have much of a faculty room right now in the location that they're in. Um it gives us private conference spaces. Again, they currently don't have that in the uh structure we have right now. Um wonderfully um sized classrooms uh going to 7 to 800 square ft in size, which is much bigger than they have now. Increased opportunities for integration for those students. um the close proximity like I said of the brother sister sites and additional opportunities to collaborate and partner with the component
019districts, ample parking and outdoor space for the students. Um some great playgrounds and opportunities for the kids to be outside and we're looking into grant opportunities for a playground at Tanowanda Creek Learning Center. Um Tana Creek Learning Center, just to let you know, you you haven't heard of that. That's not a term you know. It is um currently a um church school, a religious education school. It's a good sheeperd church. So they are looking to lease the space. They don't have a need for the building anymore. So we'll be occupying that entire space. So we do have a need for a playground in that location. Um offering spacious sensory rooms at all the locations and of course increase access to the PE um via the gym space. So we have limited space right now where
020we are. So with that we will take any questions that you may have and again we thank Nairo for the collaboration that we've had in um the Nairo Wring Center. Thank you >> um for for the audience and and to our presenters tonight. I couldn't imagine as a superintendent of school district a world without BOSIES. Um the support that we get from Boseies the things that we wouldn't be able to do um or would do at a much higher cost if we didn't have Boseis uh and and the programming that they're able to offer when it comes to career teched. If you were, if you're in this room and you're closer to my age, a little a little younger and you thought of career teched as, you know, 10 different programs and you could name
021them all, that's not the case today. There are so many incredible offerings that our students participate in. And one of the things that was passed around here showed um our cohorts, and this was everybody at the table received. So, our 2020 um five cohort had um there's 274 students that were in that cohort in our in our district. For that group, that age group, we had 119 students participate as juniors. 109 continued as seniors. So, about 40% of our student population takes part in the CTE program, developing skills not just for school, but also for their futures. uh which is pretty incredible. So, thank you. Thanks for coming out here tonight and sharing. >> Thank you. >> You want to keep going with >> I do. I actually want to turn it over now if
022I could to our athletic director um is Mr. McKetta. Mr. McKenna, could our school resource officer please, you know, poke your Oh, there he is. Could you hear me on this out there? Oh, okay. Good. Okay. I'm gonna turn it over to Mr. McKen. Oh, and can I say one thing? As the students are coming in, please, right after we get done with all of the fall athletes, we'll everyone can come back, collect in here. There's cookies, there's punch. We'll take a short break. If you want any pictures, families want pictures or the teams want pictures, that right there's a beautiful backdrop over here to my left. Okay. >> Okay. Very good. Uh again, thank you everyone. Uh again, the board of education for allowing myself with great honor, Matt McKenna, director of athletics here
023at Niger Wefield, uh one of our favorite evenings uh to honor our fall student athletes uh for their great achievements. will be honoring uh our scholar athletes are all leagues and then we do have two NFL champions and sectional champions. So, we're going to honor those individuals today and we're awfully excited to to do this. A long time coming, but you know, these folks took their time out to come today. Very busy schedules for these high school students and all these different, you know, uh events that they have going on. So, we really appreciate them uh and their coaches for being out this evening. So without further ado, we are going to get started with our girls uh tennis team. Our girls tennis team had a tremendous season. Uh they were 12-2 in the Niger
024Frontier League. So they they did very very well. And we're going to honor today our first team uh all stars, first in singles. We have Michaela Brooks. First team allstar in doubles, Victoria Rose and uh Pia Bachu. second team all-star singles Morgan Whirl and then we did have our at Frontier doubles champions with Michaela Brooks and Victoria Rose. So congratulations uh to our girls tennis team and girls. Thank you. The girls are walking out and Mr. K my left her will certainly agree with that. Well, every time we have spectating teams and parents and coaches come uh they're extremely envious of our facility that it is one of the nicest facilities now. Thank you folks for uh having uh wherewithal to you know do part of that as our capital project and it's it's beautiful
025and we get many many compliments on it. So uh our girls and boys here in the springtime are very fortunate to have such a wonderful facility. Uh, next we have our boys soccer team, Fellis Mana. Boy soccer team had a nice season. They finished eight and four in the Niagara Frontier League. We have many honors from our boys soccer. We have a couple represented here this evening as well. First team, um, all Liam Snowberger. Second team, Ryan Gnau. 13 we have Ezekiel Klein, Joseph Scalzo, Becker, Zack Burwell, we got Jake Zorn. Couple other honors to my right here once again. All West New York Liam Snowbering Zack to not be here, Zack Warhol, but he was one of our two an all section six all West New York scholar athlete. So, congratulations to Zach. And
026once again, congratulations on a terrific season, boys soccer. The boys are shaking hands and uh departing out. Um well, we're going to have a very tough shoes to fill. We're coached for many years. And the coach for many years is Mr. John Palter. John's been with us for I think coaching for our program as long as I've been here plus 20 years. So we we do thank John Coulter. I know he couldn't be here today. He feels bad for not being here but he was obviously been uh one of the icons in the business not only here in N Wheatfield but in section six. Uh so moving on to girls soccer. girls soccer in the Frontier League finished 37 and one. We have a couple members of our all league team here. Second team, Emma
027Hurley. And our third team, Niger Frontier, the Luciana. Congratulations and thank you for coming out to see. Next we have girls volleyball. Mrs. K unfortunately couldn't be here. Uh but the girls volleyball team had a tremendous season finishing 14 and two in the Niagara Frontier League. Um battled throughout um it was a season where there was some young but obviously some terrific veterans as well. and you know watching them throughout the season I I I you know I thought that it was just amazing to see how well they did in and becoming for 14-2 actually beat the number one team the Northtown was a great season but uh we have a couple of great honors here first team um in the Niagara Frontier League Lindsay Thailand and uh Lind Lindsay has probably needs a whole
028other sheet for all her accolades. Lindsay is also first team all Western New York, fifth team all state. Lindsay is our second person for all Western scholar athlete. We have just a couple of words from coach Cochman regarding Lindsay. Uh Lindsay now holds the school record for career assist with 1555 and a season season single season record in the fall of 2021 with 520. Lindsay is going to be taking her efforts to the University of Massachusetts. So we wish her the best of luck. Congratulations on all the I often say that I felt like um every time Lindsay would come to practice on that first day I said you see it just seemed like she's been with the program for so many years and and you expect her just to be and it's like on
029and on and on. It's like it's unbelievable. But she she's she was a terrific athlete and you know she she's been a starter for us or a contributor for us since seventh grade. She's an awesome job. Uh next uh we have again first team Rogers who's here, second team of Lizia Scazapa and third team Emma McDonald. Congratulations to our girls volleyball team. Girls, thank you for being here this evening. Next we have boys volleyball. Next we have football. varsity football team went three and six. But I'm going to tell you something. This that record does not indicate a three and six record. Watching each one of these games, whether it's home or away, these go these guys are in a very very challenging league, very challenging division, and they're in every contest with the likes
030of Williamsville North, Clarence, Come West, so forth. And they did a tremendous job. You know, I was just impressed to see how far and and and then I and I speak to these guys here because the many of them are seniors that how far they have come in the in the past four years to where we were back then. So, we we wish them the best of luck, but you know, they're they're kind of the founding fathers of our turnaround. We had some struggles early on, but that the future's bright for Niger Weedfield football, and it starts with many of these seniors, many of these gentlemen here and the seniors that will be graduating uh here come this year. So, uh, varsity football first team, we got Mason Meisner, Chase Richards, and Ryan Warski. >>
031Second team, we got Matthew Bigalow, Logan Robinson, and Rockwell Ferguson. Honorable mention, we got Adam Ross, Robert Ferguson, Roland Ferguson, and D Lewis. And again, uh, just more accolades. This is the time of year in this past month or so where we get a lot of the recruits from colleges. And in the past, we've only had a couple of colleges come take a look at our student athletes for football. But this year, we have multiple colleges come and visit, interested, and we have four or five stronger athletes might play at the next level. So, congratulations to our boys football team in general. Thank you for being Next we have boys golf. >> Very fortunate enough for our our boys uh golf team with the Niger Frontier League work it to where we're being able to
032have some females on the team too. So, it's a great honor and as you can see here, we have some tremendous female student athlete golfers as well. Uh, but um I say this uh joyfully is that it's another 21 and0 season for the boys golf team. It seems to be this part of this group here in the boys golf team won another Niger Frontier League championship. Congratulations to them. And it was the 10th Niger Frontier League championship in the past 20 years. Niger we feel has won half of them in the last 20 years. So all all leagues first team got Quinn Brick Quinn Brick first team. Second team Justin Moer Portman and Channing Seymour in 13 Jameson Finn. Couple additional honors. Quinn Britt was a medalist at the Niagara Frontier League tournament. Quinn along
033with Ethan Orman and Channing Seymour qualified for the section six tournament in the spring. Payton Weir and Shilin Seymour qualify for the girls section six tournament in the spring. Congratulations to all those folks. Gentlemen, ladies, thank you for being here this evening. Congratulations on a wonderful season. was here. But congratulations to Mr. God. Tremendous program in the background really up here in the back. But coach god, as I said, has done a tremendous job with our golfers year after year. they you get kids that are coming out learning the game, you know, just barely learn how to swing a club and then the next thing you know they're they're kiddos that are in section tournament. So, it's it's a great tribute to coach. >> All right, I'm take a quick break here. Not totally, but
034we're going to bring up um Coach Smith and she's gonna talk about boys and girls cross country. You want to go speak. >> Okay. >> All right. We're I'll do the all stars first. Just make one big line. No. >> First of all, yes. Again, congratulations to both the boys and girls cross country team. Boys cross country team uh finished four and two. Uh and Xavier Severance was second team all week. So, congratulations Xavier and I'll obviously very proud of our girls cross country team. I believe it's five Frontier League championships in a row. folks. >> Uh, girls cross country first team. Again, girls, just kind of wave your hands so everyone knows who you are. First team, Stephen Brady, Ava Thurman, Sarah Palro, and Emily Desaderi. second team Cameron Hall Chase 13 Leos and
035Brianna Wilson. We do have two all West New York runners of the year, Tac Brady and Emily Desidere. Once again, this team in front of you, this girls team, Frontier League champions, and it was an awesome event. Um, was able to to attend and a very Yep. in a very nice uh afternoon in the fall to see this team compete extremely hard and get a welldeserved sectional championship. Congratulations to our I wrote it down because I don't want to miss anyone or any of the athletes this year. Um, so we'd like to extend our gratitude to the high school administration, to the board of education, our athletic department, um, Holly and Matt for making this season possible. Um, we'd also like to extend from the girls team a special thank you to Mr. for helping
036us think outside of the box and allowing us to continue our annual Hoover's Ice Cream. >> I might not be up here with a sectional championship team if we hadn't been able to do that. Um, this team is impressive. They're able to balance their workouts, academics, hold part-time jobs, participate in mandatory community service, and make them do. Um, every lady standing in front of you right now on the first marking period had a 92 or above GPA. In addition to this, Addison Chase, who is our loan. Um um not only did she excel in her course leading our team, but academically as well. Representing our team is honorable mention a Western New York scholar athlete and graduating third in the senior class this spring. Dad asked me to look up stats, which I'm not the
037greatest at, but I went back to the five years that we've won the NFL league total, and we are 80 and zero on the season in league play. Um, we haven't had a league loss since 2021. The kids work all summer, including running, lifting. Every girl up here gave up an entire week of their summer to live in the Poconos's for the week and run hills. I think they had a little fun. Um, we wanted to be undefeated. We wanted to be NFL champions and we want to be section six team champions and we did all of that this season. Um, the girls had each other's backs. Everyone thinks running is an individual sport and we would not have been able to pull off the season we had if they hadn't had each other's backs.
038We had four runners named as the Buffalo News runner of the week. Tegan Brady, Emily Desadarial, Ava, Sarah Plum. Um, already give out our all stars and our all Western New York. We really hope to be standing back in front of you next year with a very similar story. We appreciate the board's team for the recognition of our team, not only from their victories, but also showing that the character that they display. It's really nice to have the support. Thank you. Very lucky to be trusted as a coach in this program. >> What Matt didn't have was our eight girls at the state meet. I bought them state championship pins. They got all of the awards at our banquet earlier in the fall, but they did not receive these. So, my eight girls that went
039with us to represent Nigel at the state cross country championships just up forward and I have your pins for your varsity jackets. Emily, that's all Addison Sarah Leah. Congratulations. Thank you, Coach Smith. And again, as the girls are shaking hands here, congratulations on another wonderful season. Congratulations to all women's and sports. It's women's and sports day. >> Just in conclusion, I you know, obviously these individuals to my left here and in the back uh student athletes is what keeps me going. you know, it keeps it keeps you going, keeps you motivated watching them, you know, inside a classroom in the hallways, you know, and on their individual sports field. So, it's awesome to see. Uh, it's obviously proud moment to to be a part of that and to be a part of their lives. So,
040it's it's awesome to see. Just in closing, uh, rang my bell when coach said about scholar athletes and her team. Out of the fall, all our teams had 75% of their student athletes have a GPA of over 90%. So that's a great great honor. The wins and losses are one thing, but when you're doing it in the classroom and you're doing it with character, that's really all that matters. So once again, thank you very much, folks. Have a great evening. Hey, at this time we're going to take a 15 minute break. Uh there's punch and cookies and it over here to the left. If you want to get some pictures and get over there. Thank you. At this time we floor. Is there anybody for that? >> Okay. So we're going to move on from
041that. We have a public hearing. Niagara charter school requests to amend key design elements. I like hearing to solicit comments from the community regarding revisions reflected by Niger Charter School to amend its key design at this time. Is there anybody though any comments? Okay, going to move on. Okay. Consensus agenda. I will now call for a motion to approve the following consensus agenda items 1 through 7 as submitted. May I have a motion? >> Motion. >> Second. Discussion. Any discussion? Okay. Uh any items to be voted separately? >> All All in favor? >> I opposed abstain. Motion carries. Okay. We have personnel items. We're going to have uh one pulled from the list uh number three. So items one and two and we have four and through 19. >> Uh may I have a motion
042to approve the personnel reports items that I just uh entered? >> So move >> second. >> Okay. Any discussions? All in favor? >> I opposed abstain. Motion carries. Okay. Now we're going to go back to number three. >> Turn it over to Mr. stack for number three. >> I could have Tyler Robinson Tyler come up here. >> Thanks for joining us tonight. Thanks for sticking around us and thanks for sticking around us the past four years and and uh I asked that the board uh entertain the tenure appointment tonight for Kylie Robinson who is chair of ours over at the Tuscora school and Kylie came to us um really on the heels of the pandemic. She worked with us a couple different positions. came into some tough situations, right? And th that year, you know,
043partial remote >> kind of filling in for some people if I remember correctly and then obtained a position and uh has worked really hard during her probationary period. She's done a great job over at Tuscarora and she's a key and integral part of uh the very special culture that they have there. So, I asked that the board uh consider her for tenure this evening. She's also married to Michael Robinson who's also a fantastic teacher of ours. He's got one major problem and and that's the fact that he's a Red Sox fan, but other than that, you know, you see that's pretty well. And uh you know, I'm sorry, Mike. I had to do that. So, um you know, so at this time, I ask that the board consider her appointment. >> Hey, can I have
044a motion uh to recommend that the board of education approve the tenure of Kylie Robinson in the elementary education tenure area effective February 4th? So, second. All >> in favor? I I same. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Everybody. >> Congratulations. >> Next one. Uh, okay. Next is the standing committees. Uh, first we have capital projects. Um, I guess that that's me on the chair of the capital projects. Um, as far as the auditorium, it looks like what is the musicals will will be held at the uh community college this year. Uh we're still anticipating uh mid February, but right now it's you know it's >> mid March. >> I'm sorry. Mid-March, sorry. Mid March speeding up the >> I sped it up and I shouldn't have mid-March. And uh so as it stands right now, that's
045where it looks like we're going to be at that. Okay. We have audit committee. >> Nothing to report there. >> No policy. Nothing there. >> Nothing to report. The only thing I will say about policy is the next meeting, right? >> Yes. Yes. The end of February >> is the isn't our first March meeting. So yeah, first week >> the policy committee is the first meeting. >> Our next policy meeting is the first meeting in March. >> That's okay. So next we have uh ex official. He isn't here today. So present report on time. I don't have anything new to present today. So we'll go straight to our superintendence report. >> Okay, I'll make it quick. The um noticeable legislative breakfast was this past week and I think the board members who were able to
046attend uh were about 70 people in attendance. So it's a really good turnout and um you know based on the comments from our legislators certainly seemed like they were listening. They comment after we present. So, it was another successful event. I already mentioned the auditorium. Um, I want to congratulate the the ETMS musical. Um, the the the cast, the crew, the the directors. Um, I mean, the show was awesome. I know somebody out there who's watched this before is going to say he's going to say the same thing. I can't help it. You watch the performance and there's no way if you don't know, especially if you're sitting in the back, that those are middle school kids. There's no way you would think it. They were awesome. And um the extra work that the kids,
047the families, the the the the directors had to put in because it wasn't here. And again, you would have never known they didn't miss a beat. So, congratulations to all of them. It was it was an awesome musical. Um the there's an electrification seminar. It's we're going to be meeting in on March 10th. Um there's a throughout Western New York there's a problem, right? And I think this goes across New York State and that is do we have the electrical um grid in place to make sure that all of our buses will actually work? And we we've heard certainly on our own survey of our own district that it that it won't that there's certain buses that would be able to work with the current grid structure. So we've asked NISAC um National Grid and
048NAERTA to come present. So the our the superintendent and business officials and some board members are going to be able to uh listen to those experts in the field to tell us where we are now, where will we be in a couple years, where we where will we be in 10 years. Um so that'll certainly be helpful to us before we start investing money into our buses, you know, and we got to be really careful on that approach. >> Yeah. When is that? >> It is March 10th from 1 to 2:30. Bob was going to go. He's not able now. If it's something you're interested in, I'll I'll let you know. Okay, perfect. Circle that on this sheet here and then I'll touch base with you right afterwards. March. >> Yep, you got it. >>
049Um, prek registration for 2627 has started and runs through March 6th. The eligible uh date of births for that group is 12221 through 12122. Kindergarten registration will start March 9th and run through April 24th. Eligible date of birth for that group is 12220 through 12121. Um registrations can be received at the district office or will be received at the district office office Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Okay. The reason we say 3:30 is because it takes a while to go through that. So 3:30 is the time. Last thing I have on my list, we've talked about doing the board of education walkthroughs. My recommendation is that we move that back to March 8, either the day of the March 18th meeting or the day of the April 1st meeting and we
050probably just wait to see where where we really are with the auditorium. That makes sense there. >> No, no, we will we'll talk about it the next meeting. I just want to make sure we leave that as a as an item. Okay, that's all I have. Okay, moving on. Any items for board discussion? >> Um, I was just wondering about the snow clarifications. >> Thank you. Thanks for asking. Okay, I we get this question a lot and it's a it's a perfect time of year to ask because it doesn't look like the cold weather's going away. The way snow days work in New York State is this. Every school gets funded for 180 days. If you fall below the 180day requirement, you lose funding for that each day that you miss the 180 days. As
051a district, we start out with 188 days. That's what's in our calendar. As far as student days are concerned, only 187 of those 188 are actually considered student days when we set the calendar because of the we have five superintendent conference days. Okay. only four superintendent conference days are allowed to count towards the 180. Well, then you say, "Okay, well then that's 187 you have left. That means you have seven extra days." Not really. Okay? Because at the elementary level and middle school level, we have half days that are in there. So, there's less hours in those half days. Plus, at the end of the school year, those days that are part of the exam week, all those days, including the rating days, count for the high school, but they don't count for the elementary
052and the middle school. So, depending on the level that you're at, that determines how many days you truly have built in as some people might look at as extra days. What I would say is none of those are extra days, right? we have 188 days because that's what's contracted, you know, that with our teachers group and we should be here for all of those days. When we have days off, those subtract from the number of days that were in essence supposed to be here. Um, I talked about the days. There's another component and that is the hours. You have to have 990 hours at the secondary level and you have to have 900 hours at the elementary level. So, we're actually doing those calculations now based on your half days and all those things to
053see where we're really at. We have more available days for those who are worried if we have too many days, are we going to have to come back for like a day in April or something like that. We have more days at the secondary level than we do at the other two levels at this point. But we still have a little bit of room if we have to take the days. I want everybody to know this. The number of days that we have will never ever decide whether or not I take a day or not. Okay? I'll never call a day because we have an extra day or I'll I will not at any point would I ever say we're coming to school because if we don't if we we don't we're going to lose
054a day. I don't care. We'll reschedule at some other time. Well, we those the those decisions are based on two simple things. how much snow we're getting that's affecting our road conditions right in this time of year or if that temperature gets right around that negative -20 windchill number. Okay, those are the those are the two things. So, um if you have a combination of those two things, snow and the the really bad wind chills 20 may not be the number as you saw one of our days this year that we actually did take off. We were close like maybe not minus 14 60 somewhere around there but we had some other bad weather and we didn't want people getting stuck up there. Okay. Does that help? >> All right. Thanks D. Old business. Do
055we have any old business? >> Yeah. Talk about something that we talked about briefly last year. not for a total discussion tonight, but for us to start thinking about it as budget goals because I'm already receiving calls about uh the NFTA, you know, flag football, the small football. Can they play one or two games even at a cheaper rate? We I think you indicated we'll look at it again and that's why I'm bring it up because I received the some calls on the weekend and you know they're indicating to me I don't know what's true or not. I never did research that Leo allows it and you know it's nice to see all the athletes and 75 to 90% of these kids have the opportunity to move up to learn to get better so they
056can reach this level. So somewhere in the near future, um, we need to let this organization know what what we're going to do because I think flag football starts somewhere in April or the end of April. And um, so I would like everyone to start thinking about we're going to do something. Are we going to lower the rates? Are we gonna make the field if if we don't do it do a better field for them because the grass field just I don't know I never played on it but okay sounds great. You know what I'll do is I will bring to the next board meeting and I'll make sure that you get copies. I'll send it to you ahead of time too but what those current rates are what we adjusted it from so you
057can have some conversation at the next board meeting. Is that better? >> Can you reach out to the list? Sure. Just to see I mean I guess I can call a board member over there. No, >> of course. Of course. Um remember too that we when we put that together we did reach out to like multiple schools. Um Star Point um Lewon would have been one, Falls would have been one. Like we we hit the ones who who had turf and who were using it when we initially put it together. Um but I'll certainly reach out. Yeah. Thank you. That's all. >> What are they asking for, Rick? I mean, just, >> you know, it was a brief conversation, but they want the opportunity to play a few games on the field. >> Oh, on
058the field itself. >> On the on the field. And I know one of our concerns with we don't want to tear up the field much sooner than we want. Right. I'm not sure how much uh six to 10 year olds would hurt the field uh or at a a little more of it is funded by them. you know, they raise money somehow and apparently they can't afford to pay all our fees and if there was, you know, some type of uh halfway in between just to account I hear numbers and I don't know if it's accurate, maybe 90% are from Wakefield District. Rick, I know one of the things that we talked about a couple years ago when with that piece was and this was with the regular football, not not just flag um is
059that with the younger the younger athletes uh performing on there, especially in the late spring and early fall is a temperature that field can get to at the time of day that they wouldn't be using. So you're talking while air temperature could be in the 80s, that field temperature being in the sun is about 110, 120. a little different when you have juniors, seniors, and sophomores out there than when you have six 10 year olds out there in on that type of heat. >> For those that don't know, last year we we took the rate and we reduced it, right? And we said that we would revisit again this year to see to see how it um how it was going. I hadn't heard anything yet. That's okay. Um so bring those numbers back and
060we'll we'll revisit them, right? You know, they're understanding full well that if we have to have extra clean up, if we have to have people here after hours, we have to have all those things, somebody has to pay for that, right? Good. Thank you. >> Okay. Next is uh new business. We have the tab caps discussion. >> Would you just talk a little bit about um where it's at right now and then the next meeting? We're not going to do the presentation this evening. We're going to hold off on the presentation to the next board meeting. Um Deiana is going to talk a little bit about the the the tax cap number, what what it fell at right now, uh and what we're going to do in the in the short term, and then um
061you'll obviously be voting on that as a board. >> Yeah. So, our tax cap calculation is due March 1st. Um so we've done our preliminary um calculation and it comes out to 2.14%. Last year it was 677 I think. So um it is closer to the 2% range that we all hear being a 2% tax cap with our exclusions um for our capital project and our um pilot considerations. That's what I'm said about. >> So, so what we're going to do just because on the contours website, what you need to do is you need to insert a number. Okay? So, we'll insert that number. You can always change that number. We're going to just insert the that because that we there's two questions they ask you. They ask, are you going to exceed the cap?
062I'm going to look around. You're probably not going to exceed the cap, right? So, we have to answer that question. Then they ask, "Are you going to um what what's your number?" So, we have to put a number in. They know that votes take place after this. So, we're we'll insert that number and then we change that number whenever you vote. Just so you know, >> the purpose of doing it later is so that we have a fuller picture of our expenditures and our revenues. Um so that you can make a educated decision. Especially since at this point we have a 1% number coming in from the governor's budget, but we still have to wait for the legislative budget and then at the end their final budget. >> Good point. Yeah, >> you get 1%.
063The governor's too low. >> Yeah, that's I mean that's it's that's lower than what's been put out the last few years. The governor's put a number that's pretty much for our district anyways. The numbers pretty much stay the same as what the what the governor put out in the first place. this year. What we heard from our legislators at the legislative breakfast is that that's really the ground floor and that there you know that there's going they said there's going to be more money for schools uh based on you know that let's face it you know this is no secret it's an election year so the governor puts out a lower number legislators can put out a higher number and people can say thank you. I mean, you know, that's real. >> We won't know
064till when. >> Well, April 1st is the date that we're supposed to know. April 1st >> could be May. >> Last year it was late, but April 1st. >> Was it April? >> Yeah. >> Right. >> Yeah. >> That's all it >> Okay. Next is a public comments. Okay. >> Open mic night. >> Yeah. open mic. Uh, next is uh board members comments. Any board member comment? >> I'm sorry. Thank you. >> Okay. Okay. Then with that's case I'd like to call for a motion to adjourn meeting. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> opposed abstain or adjourned. Thank you.