001Call the meeting to order. Um, looking for a motion to exit executive session. Make a motion. Second. Motion and seconded. All in favor, please say I. I. I. Opposed. Same. Motion carries. Uh, now call for a motion to enter into public session. So move. Second. It's been motion seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. Stained. Motion carries. Please rise for the saying pledge to the flag. I aliance 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. Open up with the privilege of the floor. Is any residence comments? No. Okay. Moving on to the consensus agenda items. [Music] Um, call for a motion. There's no other other ones to separate other than the roll
002calls. Correct. Correct. Okay. So, call for a motion um to accept the consensus agenda items 1 through eight as presented. Second. Motion and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. Post. Same. Motion carries. Uh I call for a motion to approve uh seek a resolution for ecological education node and pedestrian bridge project. And that's going to be a roll call vote. Um so so we have a motion second. A motion and seconded. Uh like to call the roll call. I I Hey, then I'll call for a motion uh for number 10 to approve uh seek a resolution for the playground rehabilitation project. So moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I roll call. I'm sorry. Back to the roll call. Oh, yes. Right. Yes. Yes. Okay. Uh moving on to
003personal items. Nothing separates now. Correct. Okay. I'll look for call for a motion to accept personnel items 1 through 16 as presented. Make a motion. Second. And motion and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Um, moving on to our standing committees, capital projects committee, the updates. Um, yeah, they um, what do we have? Just push the button. Did you want to talk? I'm going to do those in a minute. It's not working. Yeah, they don't. Reminds me of them. So if you go outside and you go by where it's our auditorium is being built at you, you'll see a lot of progress happening now. It's starting to take shape. Um we are planning on what uh have a meeting after they they get it in closed. We're going to
004get together with the capital projects and you know review everything. There are things coming up this summer that we're going to be working on and we'll have more information on that going forward. Good. Thank you very much. Uh moving on to policy committee. We have the first reading um of policies uh 1210 which is board members nominations and elections. Um and also policy 3311 notification of disclosure of employee disciplinary records. We need a motion on that or is that just for information for the first reading? Just information for the first reading. Um and then we're looking for the deletion of policies 1211 which is students serving as exeicio members of the school board and 7555 Niger wheatfield ed services um married and pregnant students and that we need a motion or they're just deleted. Correct.
005They would just be deleted. Okay. And then with policy uh 7554 um the Lefield equal equal protection, I'm sorry, equal education opportunities. Um we're looking to resend and adopt um the 2020 version of that. Um and that we need so for so for that one you don't need a first reading. You can just resend and adopt. Okay. So, I'll call for a motion to Do we need separate ones? We just Nope. Okay. I'll call for a motion then to resend and adopt that policy. 7554. We have a motion. Second. Second. Uh all those in favor, please say I. I. I. Opposed. Extained. Motion carries. Thank you. Uh there's a external written communication um fundraiserformational item there for you from the music parents club and our exficio member is not here. Um I don't have anything
006extra for a presence report so we'll move to the superintendent report. Great. Thank you. Um first I I don't want um the personnel agenda to go by without noticing a couple things. one um the retirement of Liz Carreri. Um we will have an opportunity to honor her later in the year. Uh Liz has been in the district for for many years and we'll talk a lot lot more about that later. But as you saw it in the personnel report, uh Liz has been an incredible principal in our district for a really long time. And the second is uh the resignation for the purpose of retirement of Mary Brier. Mary has been an elementary teacher in this district um for a really long time as well and um has been at Eric Road since I've been
007here and maybe since the beginning of her career and she's been on an outstanding educator in our district. So, we'll have an opportunity in June to to to honor them further, but I didn't want tonight to go by without me mentioning that at least. Um I wanted just to take a minute to show uh the playgrounds. uh we had um an opportunity to sit down with uh the individuals who were really crafting or putting together playground options for our district. And if you could um that slide just talks about the fact that Eric Road because they had some swings already in place um in 2024, we had to put new ones in because the other ones had literally they were falling apart. They had rotted in the ground. Um, so we had to put new
008swings in there that what you're going to see in a minute for West Street and Colonial Village. Um, they'll get the new playgrounds and the swing set. Eric World will just get the new playground sets that you're going to see because they already have the swings. Okay. So, each one of the three schools is going to um get this primary play set. There's actually 41 play events. It should be a 41 up at the top. this for um the the user capacity is 113. Um it's um easily accessible. Um ADA uh the slides uh you can see that there's actually a ramp that you can um somebody who needs to kind of pull themselves up on can do that. So this is the large piece that'll be on every um every one of the playgrounds.
009If you go to the next uh piece D stand, this is an added piece. We know that kids love slides, so we're adding some additional slides here. Um, by the way, all the color schemes will be the same. They're going to be uh the the school colors. So, this will be more along the lines of what our the colors of our slides will be. Um, our play sets will be. Um, so all three schools, the very large piece set that you saw, and then this smaller piece that Dan just haded on with this piece here. All three will be getting that. Then if you go to the next set, um our um parent groups were given this. Our principles were given this to take a look at and they could pick um five of these
010six. We actually said pick four, tell us your fifth favorite, and then whatever the sixth item is that we need to drop off. We obviously still have to go out to, you know, final bid with this. and the cost of the the drainage and that sort of thing can impact the overall cost of our playgrounds. But it's pretty exciting. The great news is this. The state education department's timeline for approving projects has went from, you know, where it was at 20 weeks. It's gone way down. That could change in a week, okay? But it's it's it's way down. We've given the requests at the three buildings uh back to the um to both our architects and the company. So, as soon as they put this together and then we get the drawings for the the
011underlying drainage and some of the other things that have to go along with the project, that'll get out to the education department. Our hope is that this work will be taking place um next fall. So, by the end of next fall, um maybe some of the buildings will actually be using this in the fall. Um others maybe the first time they'll use it is the spring. But we're hoping that again based on the current timelines that this work will be done before the winter and we'll be ready for the spring. What did I miss? Dan, thanks. No, go ahead, please. There was some inquiry about the base of the playgrounds and what we could put in there, but we are limited to putting wood chips only um because of the project going through NIPA and
012ecologically uh aligned with the greenway. So, we are required to put something ecologically friendly. So, wood chips is really the only option with that. So all the playgrounds will have wood chips as their base. Good. Thank you. We've um we've started our budget presentations, Alison and I have we have one coming up with staff soon. Actually, we offer two sessions with staff. We have a few parent groups left to still present to. Um we also did presentations with our parent groups reg related to the um playgrounds as well. The eco campus project wellness walk and wellness fair. April 26 that's the weekend after we get back here. Right. So um that Saturday from 8 to 11 is the eco campus project out here by Kyoga Creek. And then from 11 to 1, we will uh
013be hosting a wellness walk um for suicide prevention and also a wellness fair. As of right now, I think we're close to 30 vendors uh that'll be coming uh for that fair. We'll also have opportunity for families um who um are are looking or have any needs related to our family support center. They can make those connections as well that day. Jason sent something out uh related to the Niagara Lane School Board Association's uh schoolboard dinner. That's May 8th uh from 6:15 to 8:00 p.m. If you would let Renee know if you plan on going. There's a date, I think it was April 28th, that you have to let everybody know by. Does that sound right? April 28th. It is at the Bosei Center. The dinner correct. If if any board members are going, I'll
014go. I'll just I would just be late. We have actually I have a presentation that that evening, one of the presentations. I can certainly come over afterwards. If none of you are going, I probably won't go. Okay. Yeah. It's the 28th. 28th is the date that you need to let them know by 28th. Yeah. And then the the last item I wanted to note um our top three seniors academically will be uh joining myself and Jason on May 15th for the Scholastic Achievement Recognition Dinner. Um that is put on by the Erie Niagara School Superintendent Association and it's it's been a long-standing tradition that the top three students get recognized at that dinner annually and it's a really nice day. That's all I have. Very good. Thank you very much. Uh, moving on to reports
015to the board. Are we going to forego the budget? Let me ask the audience. We've been doing the same budget presentation for the past three meetings. If anybody here would like the budget presentation, Alice and I are happy to give it. If you prefer us not to, we will not. Anybody want us to raise your hand? It's a really good present. Tony, I was gonna actually have you come up and do it because you've been here for the last four. So, um, okay. Then we then we'll forgo it. Just so we knows the next meeting we have the full presentation because that's actually the budget hearing. Okay. Okay. Moving on to any items for board discussion. Any old business? New business? Any public comments? Any board member comments? Everyone have a safe and happy Easter.
016Very good. Echo that and everyone have a great time off and enjoy your family uh during the holiday season. And with that uh I will call for a motion to adjourn. So move second. Been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. I. Oppos. Motion carries. Thank you very much.