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. Oh, stand. All right. Repeat after me. I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And I will faithfully discharge And I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office the duties of the office of the board of education member of the board of education member according to the best of my ability. according to the best of my abilities. Perfect. Welcome aboard. Yep. Thank you. We'll keep it going. Ready?
002Yep. I do solemnly swear I do soly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States. I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And I will faithfully discharge and faithfully discharge the duties of the duties of the office of the board of education member the office of the board of education member according to the best of my ability. according to the best of my ability. Congratulations. Please sign. Welcome back. Welcome back. I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State
003of New York and I will faithfully discharge the duties and I will faithfully discharge duties of the Office of Superintendent of Schools of the Office of Superintendent of Schools according to the best of my ability. Congratulations. Welcome back again. Yeah, welcome back. So, right. Okay. At this time, um, nominations are now in order for the president of the board of education for the 2526 school year. Um, I'm accepting nominations at this point. I make I nominate Jason. I will second that. Any other nominees? Okay, nominations are closed. All those in favor of electing Jason Meyers as the board president for the 2526 school year. I Any opposed? Staining and motion granted. Congratulations, Jason. It's ready. You hold on just all right. I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution
004of the United States of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the Constitution of the State of New York of the State of New York and I will faithfully discharge and I will faithfully discharge the duties of the board the duties of the board president presidents according to the best of my ability according to the best of my abilities. Congratulations. Can you do me a favor on yours sign and then I'll take care of the printing? This is where you then take over and we do the election for VP and also I'll now call a vote for vice president for I nominate Bob. I'll second. Any other nominations? Okay. All those in favor of uh Bob McDermott for vice president, please say I. I. Post. Stain. Motion carries. Congratulations. I find
005the right one. Okay. I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And I will faithfully discharge the duties I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of board vice president the office of board vice president according to the best of my ability. according to the best of my abilities. Congratulations. Now you got your points. currently just does he do it now? Did we vote on that first item six? Yeah. Do it at six. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Um, I'll call for a motion to accept item number six, letters A through H, which are the appointment of other
006officers, the district clerk, district clerk, substitute, purchasing agent, treasurer, tax collector, trail plans auditor, w treasurer, and attendance clerk. Make a motion. I'll second. Motion seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. Stained. Motion carries. in the middle of the list. It's here. Let's repeat after me. I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and the Constitution of the State of New York of the and the of the state of New York. And I will faithfully discharge And I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office the duties of office of district clerk of district clerk according to the best of my ability. according to the best of my ability.
007Thank you. Okay. Uh we'll look to do these in in groups of five. Um so I'll call for a motion to accept uh numbers 7 through 11 um which is the appointment by the board appointment by the board of education bonding of positions proof taxable collection over and under a dollar designation of depositories and designation of official newspapers. So moved second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor please say I. I post motion carries. Uh call for a motion to accept numbers 12 through 16. Uh approval of pettyash funds. 13. Approval of designation of signitories for checks. 14. Authorization to sign contracts. 15. Authorization for bid openings. 16. Adoption of cooperative bidding resolution. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. Postained. Motion carries. Call for
008a motion to accept number 17 through 21. 17 to approve best value bidding resolution. 18. The authorization for signatures on claims and payrolls. 19 approve meeting dates and times listed on the board of education calendar. 20. The authorization to invest district funds. And 21, the authorization to make credit applications. I'll make a motion. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. Post. Same. Motion carries. Call for a motion to accept numbers 22 through 26. 22 the adoption of policies and bylaws. 23 appointment of committees on special education and preschool. 24 the appointment of impartial hearing officer. 25 the appointment of surrogate parent. And 26 approve appointment of staff on an interim basis. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor please say I. I. Oppos? Motion carries. Call
009for a motion to accept numbers 27 through 31. 27. Approve school physicians. 28. Approve homestead non-homestead tax rate system for levying property taxes. 29. Authorization to submit applications and reports for federal school lunch and milk programs. 30. The authorization to file for federal grant applications. And 31 appoint school attorney. I'll make a motion. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. Oath. Abstained. Motion carries. Call for a motion to accept numbers 32 through 36. 32, the appointment of civil service officer. 33, appointment of title 9 compliance officers. 34, the appointment of external auditors. 35, the appointment of internal auditors. 36, the appointment of district audit committee. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed? Stained. Motion carries. Do we actually appoint the
010committee positions in this or we go back in the regular? That's right. Can we circle back? What's that? We circle back to those committee members. To the member. Okay. Okay. Uh 37. Second. Call for a motion to accept numbers 37 through 41. 37. The appointment of capital project committee. 38. The appointment of policy committee. 39. The adoption of 913 resolution. 40. The appointment of district records management officer. 41. The appointment of district records access officer for freedom of information law. I'll make a motion. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Call for a motion to accept numbers 42 through 46. 42 the appointment of district records access appeal officer for freedom of information. 43 the appointment of Orleans Niagara Health Insurance Consortium representative.
01144 to approve yearly mailing of reasonable assurance letters. And 45 the authorization for sports playoffs and sectional competitions. Actually I got one more. I'm sorry. 46 uh the resolution for authorization of budget transfer. So with enthusiasm all the all those in favor been moved and seconded. All those in favor please say I opposed abstain. Motion carries. Call for a motion to accept numbers 47 through 51. Uh 47 the authorization for the approval of employee travel and approval of travel by the superintendent. 48 approve mileage reimbursement rate. 49 approve standard workday and reporting resolution for elected and appointment officials. 50 approve fiscal consultants. And 51 approve administrative administrative investment firm. Make a motion. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Call for a motion to accept numbers
01252 through through 56. 52 approve agreement with Medicaid consulting services. 53 approve bond counsel. 54 approve Medicaid compliance officer. 55 approve educational educational official. And 56 approve dignity act coordinators. So moved. So moved and seconded. All those in favor please say I. I. Oppose same. Motion carries. Call for a motion to accept members 57- 61. 57 approve athletic code of conduct. 58 approve attendance officer. 59 approve representative and signatory to the Niagara Power Coalition and host community standing committee. 60 approve aera compliance officer. 61 approve school pesticide representative. So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor please say I. I post same motion carries. Call for a motion to accept number 62 through 66. 62 approved chemical hygiene officer. 63 approve district residency officer. 64 approve homeless leaison. 65 approve cell
013phone use. 66 approve Indian policies and procedures. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor please say I. I I opposed. Motion carries and I'll call for a motion to adjurnn. I'll make a motion. Second. It's been moved and seconded for the adjournment of the reorganizational meeting. All those in favor, please say I. I posted. Motion carries. Okay, I'll call for a motion to enter into public session for a regular meeting. So moved. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. O.ained. Motion carries. Please stand for the pledge to the pledge. 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. Uh we'll start with our
014presentation of the districtwide safety plan. You can just bring that up. Thank you. Um, this year the the changes really in the district-wide safety plan have to do with staff changes only. So, if there are any questions related to the district-wide safety plan, this is the time that we would take them as we are required to hold a public hearing related to that district-wide safety plan. The safety plan is on our um website under community resources. It's there all the time for anyone to see. We now have to uh then make it available to the public for this hearing. So if there's no questions, I move out of the hearing. I hear no questions. Next, we also have an obligation um We have an obligation because of we are a district to receive title funds
015to present and the parent and family engagement policy. Again, there's no uh change to that policy. Um however, we need to show that policy and give people an opportunity if they'd like to speak here in the public hearing related to the parent and family engagement policy. anyone. Okay, those public hearings are over, Jason, and I'll turn it back over to you. Yeah, we'll move to privilege of the floor for any residents comments. Nobody signed up. Anyone interested? Okay, moving on then to our consensus agenda items. Um, call for a motion for items one through three. So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Uh, now moving on to our personal items. Um, we're separating few here. So, I'll call for a motion to accept
016personnel items uh four 5 6 7 12 13 14 15 all the way to 24. Make a move second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. Postain. Motion carries. I'll turn over to Mr. Okay, thank you. Um, first person I have to introduce to the board tonight and ask for the board's approval for appointment tonight is Kelly Dordy. Kelly, very happy Kelly is here tonight to meet all of you. We ask that the board of education appoint her for the Tuscora elementary principal position. Um, at first we were delighted to hear that she she was able to make it tonight. At first she was not going to be able to, but she's so interested, dedicated to our district. She's already looking at homes in the area. So, she
017made some appointments for tomorrow. So, I just wanted to say thank you for coming in and and being here with us. Kelly is a native of Hamburg. Uh, undergraduate work uh and graduate work spans between Sunni, Fredonia, Courtland, and also the Elmmyra uh literacy program. and she has nine plus years of experience in the Elmmyra City School District, which is which is where she's coming from. Um those experiences are very uh rich and varied. Um anything from inclusive environments and inclusion environments in schools to working on policy for 101 devices and implementation as well as a curriculum mentor at the district at Omyra and uh leading some work with inclusive strategies in the classroom. So she's bringing a bevy of experience with her. Um we ask that the board of education uh approved for this
018evening for the tug for elementary principal position. Yeah. Call for a motion to approve the appointment of principal. Seconded. All those in favor please say I. Motion carries. Congratulations. Thank Jordan. Trisha. Thank you, Trisha, for joining us this evening. Uh, we asked the board of education support Trisha for the position here at the high school as the assistant principal. And, uh, Trisha moved, uh, way back when? In 2013 to Florida and spent a lot of time there. Uh, certainly very dedicated family person looking to relocate back to our area and has done so. But she taught ELA for three years and served as an instructional coach coach at the high school level in Florida for four years. uh where she also became a middle school assistant principal for four years. And there's a couple different
019grades and types of assistant principles in Florida and the county she worked in. Um but those all held different responsibilities, anything from working in more like of a discipline capacity to curriculum instruction. And uh that propelled her to her position that she was currently holding at Bavia High School as assistant principal. And she's looking to join our team. Um but um when she's not working, she's certainly very uh interested in hanging out with the dog and and playing volleyball and softball and watching the Bills. It's a prevailing theme and uh being with her family. So uh again, we'd like to ask for the board support for Trisha Jordan uh here at Nagfield High School as the assistant principal. I'll call for a motion to appoint Trisha Jordan and assistant principal at Nagville High School as
020presented. Can I move and seconded? All those in favor, please say I post. Motion carries my motion. Mr. Tom Murphy, we ask the board of education uh support and appoint uh Tom Murphy this evening for the assistant business official position here at the district. Um Tom is uh living in Lewon uh so very close by. He's worked in schools since 2007. He also um I did not know this worked as a TV producer and has done a lot of work uh obviously in the school systems but having done payroll claims auditing. Um certainly you know he has a good understanding of the the financial u responsibilities of of school districts. Um his hobbies include uh being a longsuffering Bills fan is what he says and and traveling. You know we all suffer with you u
021but this year is the year. So, uh, we're looking forward to, um, having you, Tom, and I know you're looking forward to being come coming into our district and being part of it. Um, and, uh, you can't wait to get to work. So, we ask for the board of education support for Tom Murphy. Motion to approve the affirmative Thomas Murphy, the probationary assistant business official as presented. Moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. Motion carries. Congratulations. Next up is falling. Oh, prevailing theme from my understanding here. The next few people are all um very astute soccer players, right? So, I'll start with uh with Hope here. And Hope is going to be serving us in the second grade long-term substitute position at Eric Road Schools. Um she has prior experience working
022at the Tanawana City School District um as a teacher assistant and uh she's worked primarily with grades uh four and two. So that will pair well for our needs here at Eric Road. Um she's finished her masters of uh congratulations by the way and masters of childhood education uh at Buff State and that was just recently I believe right and uh has also an undergraduate degree in chemistry um and a bachelor's of chem. So that's also very interesting. also an NBA. So, we're we're we're picking up someone here that that's uh multi-dimensional. Five years of division one soccer at Kenishious. She's very excited to be here at Nag Wefield. We're certainly excited to have her. Uh she did a great job in the interview process. So, we asked for the board support for Hope Bowling
023this evening for the grade 2 long-term sub position. Call for a motion to appoint bowling as the LPS editor for which was presented. So second and move and seconded. All those in favor please say I. I post motion carries. Giana. This name may sound familiar to the board of education. Giana. Uh Giana has been with us this past year as a long-term sub uh at Eric Road and uh there was a need for establishing a full-time position at grade 4 and uh Gianna we're asking the boards board to appoint Giana to that position. Uh she has her bachelor's of science and childhood education from St. John Fiser. Uh she's a Grand Island native and um has earned her uh literacy education studies from UB most recently. Um this is Giana's fifth year teaching. Um prior
024to coming here to Wheelfield, she was with the Rochester City School District. Um and uh she's just delighted to be part of the community. She's been a great addition this past year. She's looking at continuing on in her hard work with us here at Wefield. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, reading, and uh most of all being with her family. They're here this evening with her. So um we ask for the board support for Gian IO for the grade four position at Eric Gro. Thank you. a file for a motion to appoint Johnny as probationary 1.0 elementary teacher at elementary moved and seconded. All those in favor please say I I posted motion carries. Congratulations. So Mandy Edwards. So very excited to be at Tesura as a physical education teacher. So, we're asking for
025the board support this evening for Maddie. Um, very very proud Nag Wefield alumnist. Um, and she was the class of 19. Um, certainly that name sounds somewhat familiar. U Mr. Evers here, Mr. Kevin Evers is a recent retiree in Nigerville schools and extinguished very distinguished career I should say for his entirety uh here at the school. Uh, but Mattie is a graduate of Brockport Bachelor of Science majoring of course in physical education. uh the last two years that she spent in her professional career had been at Buffalo Charter. Yep. At Buffalo Charter and she'd been coaching softball um uh in Tanowanda and she wants to continue coaching sports uh for us here at Nagill when those opportunities arise. Uh just an interesting little tidbit, all all um three of the candidates that we've talked to
026tonight have either played soccer with each other or against each other. I found that out uh during the onboarding process. a lot of Western yard flash talk for those soccer fans out there. So, um you know, we're picking up kids that are very, uh, you know, interested here in in our athletic program, certainly in and in our district and very vested and interested. So, we're asking for the board support for Mattie Evers. Um, also one last tidbit, class of 19 Mary Bell graduate Christian Goth right here who she dates. All right. was one of my assignments and he also could do magic tricks but I won't embarrass tonight in front of the board just to add a little levity. Um but that being said we ask for the support of Maddie call for a motion
027to appoint Madison Edwards as probationary physical education teacher at Tusc. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor please say I thank you. Okay, moving on to our standing committees. Um, from the capital profits committee. Yes. So, ju just really quick, um we have a couple concerns uh as far as timeline. They're working through a new schedule for both um the high school office area and the um bus garage. That's what you see behind us. These are blocking our new office. This here is our office for our bus garage temporarily. Um hopefully and we're expecting that still to be done before the beginning of the school year, but at the next meeting we'll have a much better idea on where we are timelinewise with all of these projects. Thank you very much. Uh from
028the policy committee, we have the first reading of policy 3710 memorials and honorariums. Need no action on that tonight. B. Okay. And then also is this correct the second reading? It is second reading for if I could. Yeah. So this this policy here it has to be adopted before August 1st. We don't have another meeting. So that's why it's both a first and second reading. And that'll be for the reading and adoption of policy 3716 the use of internet enabled devices during the school day. So call for a motion for that. 7316. What did I say? 376. I'm not. Yeah. Okay. Policy 7316. Uh call for a motion to approve that. So move. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. Post. Stained. Motion carries. Um no external communications.
029uh the exeicio student member. First of all, welcome. And do you have a report yet? Fair enough. Yeah, welcome. We're glad that you're here. Uh you want to tell us anything about yourself? Um I am a student here. Um and I have good grades. So hopefully I don't fail you guys. At least you're not some random Star Point kid who wandered in. That's important. Welcome. We're glad that you're here. Look forward to having you with us. Um the president's report, uh just want to say graduation was excellent. Uh thanks for everyone who participated in that and made that, uh go off seamlessly. Pass it over to the superintendent for his report. Thank you. I promise to keep it short. Um Jason talked about graduation. I I would just take that a step further. I know
030Mrs. Buitch, the high school principal would say the same. The senior class was absolutely incredible this year, particularly with the all of the end of the year activities, the way they conducted themselves. They were certainly ready to graduate, but did so um with class, with distinction. So, we we really appreciate their leadership as seniors, particularly coming down the stretch. Um, at the next meeting I intend to share some information we just received at the draft of the electric bus feasibility study. It's a pretty long document. The one thing that I would share tonight is that um there there certainly seems to be an issue with the amount of power that would be required coming into the district. So, it would actually require, you know, a second um relay um for that power. So, that's something
031that was identified in this survey. There's a lot of other pieces to it. We'll put something together for the next meeting and and bring everybody up to speed. And then last but not least, um the district was featured in something called Business View Magazine. I encourage you to take a look at it. If you type in Business View magazine and Niagara Wheatfield, uh you'll see a an article that I think uh nicely highlights a lot of the things that we've been doing here over the past uh let's say decade. So, they did a really nice job with the article. They called, they wanted to feature us. We agreed and they did a nice job. Yeah, it's a nice piece. Thank you very much. Um no reports to the board. Any items for board discussion? Any
032old business? New business. Uh should we do the appointment of our committees committee chairs at least? Okay. Um so for capital projects um I would like to stay on. You would like to stay on? I'm on too. Okay. Come back as a board member as opposed to being just a public. Okay. I know Wendy had expressed interest as well. Um Anyone else here? That would round out three. Is that okay with everyone? Okay. Um and then Bobby, you wanted to share it? Yeah. Okay. So, do we need to vote on that or is that just appointments? That's appointments by you. You you you the group of points and you talk to them and they you appoint the chair work for everyone and Bob to chair it and uh Stephen Wendy to also found that out.
033Now for policy committee. Um, Rick, would you be interested in us audit? He's he's the chair of the Okay. Anyone interested in sharing policy? Didn't Wendy say she was she was interested in I know she wanted to be on it. I'm not sure if she wants I'll chair it if you want to share it. Okay. Um Okay. And you said should we check with Wendy if she wants to chair it? It doesn't matter. It doesn't I just I don't I mean if you want to check with Wendy that's fine. Can we leave that unresolved at this point? Um, so then a third person to be on it. Anyone interested? Mike little tabs down. You want me on it? I mean, I have no problem. Would you be interested in that and audit or just audit?
034So Bob will be on it. So Bob, Wendy, and Steve. Okay. And audit committee. So you would like to continue to share it? Yeah. I don't have a problem. Okay. And you want to continue to be on it. And then let's see. We need one more person. I don't I'll do that. Okay. Craig. All right. Sounds good. Uh Rick is the chair, Mike and Craig. Yeah, that's not that's not an official appointment. Okay. Um any other new business? Any public comments? Any board member comments? Just want to say uh welcome to the new people. Um as Mr. stack had mentioned about um that we played against all of them in soccer. I think I coached against all of you in soccer because I coached for North Tanowanda for so many years. So um you know
035a little sketchy about the Tanowanda people coming back over here. We've always said that with the superintendent too. So um but congratulations to all of you. Anybody else? You said it all. Yeah. welcome and congratulations and uh thank you to the board for entrusting the presidency once again and congratulations again to Bob and with that I'll we're going executive I'll call for a motion to enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing current litigation negotiations and employment of particular persons I'll make the motion and I'll second maybe let him know that he's not Correct. Okay. Correct. Okay. Rene, there'll be no business. No business after. All right. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. I. Opposed. Abstained. Motion carries. Enter into executive session. Thank you for coming.