001stain motion carries call for a motion to enter into public session so move second it's been moved and seconded all those in favor please say I I I oppos obained motion carries please rise for the pledge of allegiance aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stand one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice hey I'd like to welcome everyone up to tonight's Board of Education meeting and we're going to start off tonight with recognizing our Falcons of the mon great before I come up when we start the Falcons of the month just so everybody understands in the room what we're going to do this evening um we have both the recognitions for the Falcons of the month and we also have Colonial Villages Invention
002Convention so after the Falcons of the month we're going to take a little bit of a break so people can go around pause the meeting so people can go around and uh hear some of the incredible inventions that are set up at those tables uh there'll be punch and cookies and individuals can certainly leave at any point after that if they'd like it or stay the rest of our meeting um our board president will then call our meeting back to order probably about 15 20 minutes after all that gets underway okay great thank you I know it wouldn't be surprising to to most of the parents and the kids in the audience that this is um one of our favorite meetings of the Year anytime we are honoring our kids the Board of Education loves
003this I love this these are really fun meetings for us we usually do this once a month so this is pretty exciting um tonight we have the distinction of honoring our next group of Falcons of the month each School in our district celebrates numerous students each and every month for being outstanding we have asked our schools to select one individual from the many honored to represent the group therefore the students we will be honoring tonight were selected because they personified the trait or characteristic being celebrated this month in other words these students represent the best of the best in the month I'm going to read to you the one certificate all those certificates are the same and then I'll be calling students up one at a time when I call you up our Falcons of
004the month I'm G to shake your hand I'm going to give you the certificate and then you're G to walk down and you're going to shake the hands of everybody at the table and then you can return to your seat okay so you'll come to me first so this certificate of recognition whereas the philosophy of education of the Niagara Wheatfield Central School District calls for aiding all students in the development and achievement of their potential and whereas the primary goals of the school district include encouraging each student to develop a sense of values instill a feeling of responsibility to self and to others as well as an appreciation of good citizenship be it resolved that the Board of Education of the Niagara weak field Central School District hereby recognizes the following students our first student
005tonight is Thomas WHL Thomas maybe Thomas is watching at home so we'll make sure we get this to Thomas if Thomas comes in a little bit later we'll certainly get this to next we have Christopher luano Capac Sil nice job next we have AR Aria odabachian congratulations next a student I've had the pleasure of working with for the past few years Amaya Henderson next we have Dominic Miller thank you next we have Xavier Jacobs and now we have James Jer thei one more big round of applause for all of our fell so at this point I'm going to turn it over to miss shead and miss mik hi I I'm Miss Sheen I'm a special education teacher at Colonial Village Elementary good evening I'm Christina mullet I'm second grade teacher at Colonial Village Elementary and
006this year Colonial Village hosted its annual Invention Convention on Thursday February 27th this year we had 27 inventions and about 45 inventors participating across the building we had five inventors from kindergarten one inventor from first GR grade nine inventors from second grade seven inventors from third grade 12 inventors from fourth grade and 10 inventors from fifth grade congratulations to all of our students who took the challenge and participated in this year's Invention Convention our students work hard identifying a real life problem creating a solution designing and constructing a prototype and displaying their materials and projects we'd like to thank all of our inventors and their families for their hard work and dedication this could not be possible without you and your help from home individual rewards were presented to all of our inventors followed by
007a staff Choice Award we one was presented to Sienna Miller and Dominic Miller for the invention of cup Oella we have their invention with us this evening and Emma Kirsten in London s santaro for their invention of Juicy drain we have their invention with us this evening also we also have 10 inventions moving on to the Western New York Invention Convention which will be held in the end of end of March at the Buffalo Museum of Science and they will be competing with other local school districts and other inventors so tonight here we have 16 inventors some couldn't make it due to illness this last minute but they'll be representing our school Colonial Village and we'd like to have them if you walk around in a couple minutes introduce themselves um they'll tell you a
008little bit about their invention why they invented it and feel free to ask them questions because they're used to it from our event that we had a couple weeks ago at our school um so we're very proud of them thank you for allowing us to showcase our students and our inventions this year um and feel free to take a look and roam around thank you okay thank you B thank you very much we appreciate all you coming out tonight and congrats once again to our Falcons of the month and our great inventors and we'll take a 15minute recess um there's some refreshments in the back some punching cookies so help yourself to those uh you can take some pictures over here if you'd like and then U check out the inventions and we'll resume the
009regular uh rest of the meeting in about 15 minutes and thank you to all family and friends and our great students for coming out tonight appreciate you thanks moving on to see privilege of the floor no one signed up for residence comments moving to our consensus agenda items I'll call for a motion uh for the consensus agenda items numbers one through 14 as presented motion for approval so move second and mooved in second on all those in favor please say I I I oppos stained motion carries moving to our personel items I'll call for a motion to approve personal items uh 1 through 15 as presented so move second B moved and seconded all those in favor please say I I I post stain motion carries uh nothing from our standing committees external Communications ex
010official student membership P right so the first I I guess more recommendation but um given it the weather being warmer and even despite that just in general um a lot of people have been recommending that we have some sort of water C or con um because there are dispensers in the school but they're not filled um and a lot of people just want water it's you know it's nothing I'd say urgent but um it's definitely something someone or some groups of people would enjoy and I guess benefit from especially you know after school if they forget a water they can just run into the uh cafeteria and just gra water you know doesn't have to be anything um large necessarily large scale it could just be simpl cafeteria um and then another thing there have
011been more I guess vandalization and closing of bathrooms um the boys bathrooms specifically um so this is just a personal recommendation um I feel that we have the sign out system and we have the pass system but I feel that being strict with those things making the teachers making sure that kids are signing in putting the times and what they need to put out as well as making sure that they have passes available because some teachers just don't have passes and they'll have them but they'll forget to replenish them because they'll got mixed up with another class in the bathroom or something um as well as Hall monitors U people who are on Hall Duty just they don't have to ber kids obviously but just make sure that kids have passes and aren't just roaming
012the H because that's a very frequent and common occurrence now um and the third thing it's not necessarily anything big but people have been talking about the quality of the chicken sandwiches and chicken patties just about the I guess quality of the meat um hasn't been too I guess ideal for some people but again that's just preference so it's not but all in all uh water cups for the water fountains and just I'd say more strict bathroom signing out and attendance um protocol just so that we can keep them open because everybody needs a bathroom you know you can't have people not use the bathroom to go across the school to do so so I think in doing so or increasing the security would definitely prevent that from happening as frequently um that's all thank
013you okay thank you very much um I have nothing for president's report superintendent's report great thank you uh first I want to start by thanking all of the law enforcement who participated in the we have over 30 um law enforcement personnel and EMS Personnel participate in our TR was are that we had on March 7th um we did active shooter drills at both clone Village and tus and um we've been doing this for a number of years now and each time we do it we learn a little bit more we had certain areas that we were targeting uh as a district that we were looking at some of the new security protocols that we've put in place over the years so we were testing those law enforcement of course is testing things on their side
014um but what's really really um incredible and and important is the work that we get to do with the law enforcement agencies and remember you know like schools there's always turnover right so if you have new officers those new officers maybe haven't been to the training as a district they may never have been inside our school walls and so you know having the opportunity to be inside our schools um to practice events like these anytime there is any kind of event where they need to respond they have a better idea of where the school is how to move about inside the school so we thank them for all the time I know I said something last meeting but the time that they put in to prepare um the drill time that they spent at the
015drill the time that they spend with us some of the officers staying to debrief our staff after those meetings um it's it's really incredible and we appreciate everything that they do for us all the time the uh next big event we have going on through our cep committee um is on April 26 so on April 26th this Saturday from 8: to 11: here right outside the alc we will be doing our 12th by anual eCampus project that's from 8 to 11: and then from 11: until 1 we have the wellness fair and wellness walk okay so that that's a really big big day for us for our students I know Jonah will be working to to help us kind of get get students here to take part um it's a great opportunity for students who
016need hours you know you think about it you get a a big chunk of um some volunteer hours that day if if students come 8 o'cl and they they're here till 1 that's five hours worth um this year at the wellness fair I know that they are going to have a at least a food truck if not multiple so students were staying throughout that time certainly get food if they want to um we're really excited about it and um we're looking forward to doing some work on some of the U hugle culture areas that we built up uh last uh last spring so that that's something we're really excited about the auditorium if you haven't driven by recently drive by during the day it's looking more and more like an auditorium not just a big
017hole in our wall the uh steel work is expected to be finished um by the end of April um this Monday some of the largest pieces of Steel in this project are going up um they're about 100 foot long steel beams so that's exciting that that'll kind of Define the balcony section of our Auditorium and um last I wanted to I sent a video um to to Mr coin there a couple meetings ago uh the February meeting he honored one of our students here as a falcon of the month the um Student's name is William Rutland William was honored by some the local fire department um for their work and was on um this TV show today we heard that this link was going to be up so I wanted to share it if you
018can if we can play it great if not I think there's some photos we can see oh I just heard something oh yeah bottom bottom right in corner it says mute and everybody plus is bringing their bouque boot camps to Buffalo and we have detailed on where you can find them it's all coming up right now on V Buffalo good afternoon afterno hello and welcome to daytime Buffalo I'm your host Chelsea lavel well today I'm joined by our friend Kate laser from hope rises with an inspiring story about a local teenage hero welcome everyone thank you okay tell us who you brought in today yeah we do have a hero here today his name is William he's sitting next to me um he is a senior locally and this is Chief Mahoney um from the
019Burl's Fire Department in nagar we field and we have a really great story about heroism courage strength all the good things okay first William do you want to tell us how old you are I'm 18 okay let's talk about what happened this morning that made turned you into a hero so I was coming back from a trip with my grandparents when I suddenly got behind this vehicle pulled out of the parking lot and he was driving down the road really radically came to a stop light the car seemed to kind of turn off for a second came back on and kept driving erratically driving down the middle of the road and people's front yards and everything else and then he went to make a turn and it ended up in a parking lot where it
020looked like the guy slumped over the wheel and then right after that the car started rolling and then it just went off the side of the bridge so what happened what did you do um my first reaction was to try to get the man out of the car I had experience over uh spring break me and my my buddies actually had a similar situation but uh I knew something wasn't right and I knew that it could have had very bad consequences okay let's talk a little bit about the situation G I'll go to you do you want to explain what happened and what it meant that William jumped in and got boled oh of course yeah so this was uh December 29th around 2 o'clock in the afternoon we a lot of people were watching
021the bills Jets game as I was um so we were just batched for for for a car that was uh on its roof uh underwater in a creek with entament so uh for me that's that's a nightmare type of situation um we we actually got word in the one text message that we get there was a passion by that was attempting to free the occupant which we then later Learned was was William um so I I left the house that day with a window punch and I was prepared to get wet and I was fully expecting a very unpleasant experience um was being upside down uh in a body of water um even if you have some protection from your glass or your car door we all know at some point those cars aren't waterproof
022right so um so we're very lucky U with the situation I and a will um it seems like really with no hesitation I've got himself in the water to uh to try to free this fell up U broke a window you know he injured his hand a little bit um as a result so um we're very lucky in weatfield uh we've got great uh coverage with the county sheriff's office so there are two deputies there uh very quickly afterwards same with them they were all in the water right away um with some tools also and that's uh that's ultimately LED this to be a successful outcome for everyone okay so how were you able to get the passenger out of the vehicle I wasn't able to all I was able to do is I broke
023the rear window and I was trying to break the window on the back seat but I wasn't quick enough the cops got there before I was able to okay but you sprung into action just like that that could have been a really scary situation yeah what was going through your mind I just my first thought was there was a life atake and I wanted to try to do whatever I could to help out do you want to give some insight on how critical William jumping into action was to assisting and and freeing the the pass sure well obviously speed is is is a huge issue uh with a c like this uh because you you know again when you're he's our poor occupant is hanging upside down uh in a body of water seat belted
024in I mean it's it's it's it's really a tough situation so uh you know obviously generally speaking you know we want people to be very careful about what they do um I sounds like William kind of assessed the situation may made sure that he wasn't going to add himself to the to to the victim type situation I think he was pretty cautious with that so um um but yeah but you know those efforts happening um quickly were certainly critical so did this person come out okay uh he did uh yeah the uh once the deputies were able to free him uh with with assistance he he walked up out of the off the bank and yeah yeah so generally generally speaking turned out well I mean was obviously suffering from some health related issues that
025day but um but yeah we were very very fortunate with that that outcome and that's why um you know from my perspective I I wanted to call it out you know deputies Kennedy and our Burke were quick to jump in the water and effectuate that rescue William obviously was on a on a cold December day so how was William being recognized by the community yeah I think he received some awards from your department we did yeah Y and then also um he doesn't know about this yet but we have a program through William matar it's called champions of Western New York we recognize um youth that are doing good um William matar is a part of this and so we are going to give you money toward the charity of your choice um so we'll
026talk more about that any charity in Western New York that you would like to select will receive a check from hope rises and William matar uh we're also going to share your story on hope rises and Willam matar and have a big celebration in the fall uh for your for your heroism and your courage and strength and something we wanted to share with you today but we're just so proud tol this amazing story thank you so much what does it mean for you to be recognized off of just doing something that seemed to come naturally for you it means a lot more than I could ever imagine I never thought that it would go this far I never thought I'd be sitting here I was just trying to help out I just trying to do
027what I thought was right that's right you did it and you did you did the right thing and we're so glad to celebrate you so young and springing into action in a very scary situation um so viewers if you would like to learn more about in inspiring stories like this one you back with hope rises on Facebook and Instagram at hope rises thanks again and that's all I have thank you for your report yeah very inspiring appreciate the effort made by William uh great representation of n we field and very proud moment um so with that we'll move on to uh reports to the board or finance and budget presentation okay thank you um this is I think our fourth presentation so I'm going to move through some of these slides rather quickly they haven't
028changed um first one about zero mop buses we've talked about this just one thing I do want to point out is that the A legislature is still working on some of these uh really important legislative priorities uh we should have a legislative budget by April 1 but um there's some priorities that are still being worked out and both um um the the Senate um the state senate and the governor have some things that they've agreed done as far as um what the governor put out in her initial budget and so that's really good um we same thing with the assembly we'll see where they end up you know hopefully by April 1st if not sooner these are just some of the numbers of the overall budget for anybody who's tuning in for the first time
029tonight if you go back to our last few board meetings you could see a presentation a more extensive presentation on the entire budget um this right here is uh a breakdown you can see of the executive budget estimates and their impact on our district um on the far right hand top Corner you'll see 8.98% that's the foundation increase that's right now projected for our district in the executive budget what I'll tell you is that both the assembly and the Senate have talked about numbers for the overall education budget that are higher than what the governor's put out so we'll see where those land I wouldn't necessarily expect anything additional to happen to our foundation Aid budget we'll see this here is the levy limit um the board has seen this number before that 0.64 percent
030number is the amount that the board can um put out to the voters without having to have a super majority vote this year and that's 0.64% this is the this is the ERS rates that we have to budget for you can see the ERS rate um is projected to go up by 1.3% um the TRS rate is going down um for next year the tax levy review this kind of gives you a breakdown of where we've been the last eight years um including 2425 the current year so the the levy increase average has been 1.94% over that time period This is a breakdown of the revenue budget again we went through this before and here's a a breakdown that really shows um if if you look in that far right hand column it shows you
031the percentage of the revenues and where where they come from so in our district 41.2% comes from real property taxes if you jump over to Foundation Aid that's 29.2% right the total state aid is a 44.8 8% so just when you kind of get an idea of where do our revenues come from to to meet our expenditure budget you can see that here um the expenditure budget that we're presenting is 91 m996 197 the the revenue budget itself is 84 mil 78765 five so you say well where are you coming up with that 6.3 million right the we're going to move money to pay for the capital Transportation needs that we have new buses in the amount of 946 th000 we're going to move money from our Capital technology Reserve to to continue to update
032and upgrade our technology in The District in the amount of $200,000 and the greenway bond is an in fund transfer that $800,000 um is being moved over and that's being used to pay for the greenway Project work that we were approved um to do and to utilize the funds that are part the host Community funds okay the balance to fund then becomes 4366 um the rest of the it will be balanced with $500,000 from workers comp $450,000 from employee benefits Reserve 750 from both ERS and TRS which means that the appropriated fund balance amount will be would be $1.9 million okay which is less than what we actually had to what we appropriated last year these are the result Reserve numbers these were up there last time just important to know that um this these
033are the reserves if all of the reserves that we budgeted to use in 2425 are actually used at the end of June 25 which we don't expect to happen Okay we don't expect to have to dip into all those so our reserves should be higher than this come years and remember when we apply reserves we're hoping not to have to expend all those Reserves except for the ones that are dollar for dooll paying for something like buses right makees sense so we don't expect to have have have to use in 2425 all of the ERS Reserve funds and all the TRS Reserve funds that we attributed to this year's budget so that means we'll still have additional reserves than what you see here in these numbers okay so here was just a breakdown um that
034Alison put together you can see the the levy limit is the one that's highlighted there in the middle that 0.64% shows you what that amount is um and then if you each of the numbers if you look at the percent Levy increase on the left hand side then tra translates into the nine-year average all the way over to the right hand side Everybody follow that okay this is our fiscal stress um our fiscal stress in 23 24 was 0% um and you all of you know that in 88.3 was the highest fiscally stressed District in New York state we were so um a lot of work has been done obviously by you and by the business office to get us in a position when we're not in that position anymore so two things that um
035I would ask you to discuss and then decide if you want if you're going to act on tonight one is the levy limit the the levy that's the levy limit uh is 0.64% and then the other one is the expenditure budget as it's been presented so if you have any questions about any of the slides here let me know I'll take this with me because if you want to go back to any of these slides I can help with that okay open up any discussion on thoughts on the ly and amount or yeah so each year um this is probably be yeah I was gonna say sometimes the way the the state comes in and with formula and and gives us our limits sometimes it makes our work a little bit easier harder depending on
036where it lands um so which you know such a low limit as it is you know 64% inas I mean if you look back on that chart the last one no no this this one hold on love in the that's what no no I mean go this one right here no the bar the bar the bar gra and the line graph that's right put together right so this one at the top of each one of these bar graphs shows you what the percentage was for that year 299 218 2017 y you can see y you're probably close to where we are right now yeah so we're making a it's going to be a substantial drop good I don't think we should go over it no um I mean it sounds like we're all comfortable with
037being at the limit is that um I mean with that I would make a motion that we set the tax levy um at that 37 m56 ,700 amount make the motion motion second yeah okay motion second all in favor please say I post stain okay motion carries you want about expenditure budget expenditure I put it up this way this way excuse me or see where this number here top yeah y anyone have any other feelings as far as that or is everyone comments actually got us here so yeah yeah two two things um one one understand that is part of this this budget the revenue side of it that Foundation aid number really put us in a position where we're able you know we would have had to probably look at some additional cing or
038we would have had to apply more of our reserves Foundation aid number certainly helped us this year significantly with that the one question that um that might be going on your head is you know what what if what what if something happens like at the federal level the one thing that is just so understand being talked about um with title funds is the title two funds as a district that those are like the professional development funds they're just not significant so if if for any reason that funding changed at the federal level I don't know if the state would do anything different right um but it there it's a dollar amount that we could figure out within our budget okay with this budget number um so um we we would be we would be okay
039either way so somebody looked at the expect said well what would happen if you we would just be able to make it work within that budget if that small funding stream for the title two funds didn't come in all right um if there's no other l or comments I'll call for a motion to accept the expenditure budget as presented in the amount of 91 m996 N7 soov motion seconded all in favor please say I I I opposeed motion carries thank you that uh any public comments any board member comments tonight I just I like to just congratulate all the El of the month and our Invention Convention students they did a real nice presentation tonight yes I'll second that and um yeah thank you to our business department for putting together doing all the work
040the the budgets and Department heads I appreciate all the work that goes into that and with that I'll call for a motion to adjourn to moveing second