001all those in favor please say I I I oppos stained motion carries call for a motion to enter into a public session I'll make a motion second motion and seconded all those in favor please say I I iosing motion carries please rise for the saying of pledge of allegiance i al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands under God indivisible with liy and Justice okay thank you for everyone who came out tonight appreciate you um we're going to begin with the rec recognization of the Falcons of the month [Music] okay um this is uh our happiest board meeting night of the month right we usually do this once a month actually this month we'll do it twice a month where we honor our Fountains of
002the month so this is a fun time for us I know the board appreciates it um the tonight we have the distinction of Hing our next group of Falcons of the month each School in our district celebrates numerous students each and every month simply for being outstanding we have asked our schools to select one individual from the many honored to represent the group there 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 for this month I will be calling each student up tonight what I do you'll receive a certificate I'll shake your hand and then I'm going to ask you to walk down and shake the hands of everybody at the table and
003then return back to your seat okay we also then after that um we're going to ask everybody to stay we have a special graduation diploma presentation tonight as well um and then you can see there'll be some really nice uh treats afterwards for everyone po president will probably take a little pause I okay I'll read the first certificate you all sound the same but I will read the first certificate of recognition it says whereas the philosophy of the education of niagar Wheatfield Central School District calls for aiding all students in the development and achievement of the 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
004it resolved that the Board of Education of the nfield Central School District hereby recognizes the following student and our first student tonight is Veronica Ry Veronica next we have William Rutland II well you won't be able to see that on video at a later time because this has video next we have Nora Nora next we have Zachary MCHC h next we have a Stella Francis printer next we have Violet printer next we have Dylan Phillips next we have Julia bordalo next evangelene spola next we have Valentina Martinez I next we have Zena lockin before we move on to our graduate this evening let's give our falas the month one more okay at this time I would like to ask our principal High School Mrs buch to please join me up here I know she's right
005oh there she is she kindly gave a receipt have a copy here um so I just before we do this I do wantan I want to say this um as many of you know students take all different kinds of time to graduate some students graduate early some students graduate late um our goal is to make sure they graduate and I them graduate and so we're really really proud and really excited when students whether they graduate early graduate late come here to receive the diploma with us um it's it's it's a it's a great success and for people who took that took a little bit longer that perseverance is really really important and so we're really proud when that does happen so I'll let you start will our January 2025 graduate please stand up we'd ask
006you come up here if you could superintendent milanic as principal of the senior high school I certify that the student presented here has fulfilled all of the requirements set forth under New York State education law and the Niagara Wheatfield District policy they are now prepared to receive the recognition for the work that they have successfully completed by the power Ved in Me by the board of region of the state of newor York and his superintendent of school it is my honor to confer upon you the student of niagar Wheatfield High School the Maga Wheatfield high school diploma with all the rights and benefits pertaining unto them ladies and gentlemen our January class of 2025 graduate Elijah morone congratulations to Elijah and all our Falcons of the month um we thank you all family and friends
007for coming up tonight we have some refreshments in the back take about a 10 to 15 minute break if you'd like to help yourselves and then we'll continue on um with our budget presentations also if you're interested there's a place right over here that makes a really nice backdrop for pictures if you're interested in taking them that's we e e e back to order here and continue with our budget presentations tonight we're gonna start with Greg uh from our facilities Department Mr Phillips I know I know I I saw that that's why I called on you for the record I did give him a warning in the back and said you know I prob call First hello everybody my name is Greg Phillips for those of uh you I haven't really had the chance to
008meet yet and I'm obviously the director of facilities here um and we're just going through a quick budg budget presentation here for some of my changes for 2526 uh none of my Staffing is changed but uh for those of you that might not know we have one full-time head custodian districtwide uh four maintenance Personnel uh five districtwide laborers that handle the grass and stuff outside uh seven building laborers inside 33 full-time cleaners uh one full-time Day Cleaner four part-time day cleaners two nighttime Parts two night parttime cleaners and one male Courier uh currently on St um under some of the proposed changes on our annual contractuals so for UNF services for our building controls with an increase of $920 um and seens on underneath that builing controls at 41 $150 now for the sonat trol
009security and fire Mony at 4500 some of that increase is due to the annual cost but also the new addition for the auditorium for our uh monitoring and Camera additions and then on the annual boiler prevention of 10,500 in today's day and age um the technology needed and the manpower to service our boilers has just gotten crazy Technical and this is just to stay stay in line with service in PMS every year for a total increase of $2,070 and this year keeping it try to be simple with um our equipment and vehicles we're looking to get uh one last piece of equipment for snow removal at our buildings in a cabota uh with the plow and Salters you see down in the bottom right hand corner these have been very instrumental and helping um around
010our buildings just not only clearing snow but salting and then freeing up extra time for those guys to do things during the day it's so much better than pushing the snowblowers and like the walk behind suters and as we keep on our normal um replacement schedule of every 10 to 12 years for our equipment uh we're looking for a new pickup truck with plow for 60,000 and a cargo van to replace for our maale Courier um for 45,000 for a total cost of 136,000 and I'm happy to report that that's the end of what uh we're looking for out of facilities this year so if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them I I want to know where we're getting shuck for that price with the plow that's great it is a little
011bit I'm still shocked that because I thought it's every year it seems to go up oh I'm sure the first the first ones that I bought when I started uh were 42,000 in 2019 one last prices we got they may go off I know it's it's just crazy but we've been in good shape with everything else so thank you thank you thank you Leslie sitting right next to him you're next unless you're eating the cookie [Laughter] cookie good evening my name is Leslie Bowski I'm director of Transportation I'm going to do the transportation budget um there were the only increases that I have in there are the contract show in which is because we are in lack of drivers hopefully if you have friends relatives neighbors that would like to become a bus driver bring
012them down um transportation staff I have 43 drivers including permanent honor signed six attendants three mechanics two laborers one head bus driver two office clerical staff that doesn't drive one school bus fleet coordinator a director of Transportation note of the eight bus garage staff six Drive regularly our current maintenance schedule includes 63 buses and one shop truck two Durangos 13 building and ground vehicles and several more that are coming our mechanics provide a minor maintenance with a three-month and a six-month routine checklist our school bus do profile which is a department of transportation that comes in every month twice a month sometimes is 98.7 out of 100% update for the profile will come March 31st of 2024 we also passed our New York State dmv1 198 audit with flying colors we will continue to recruit
013maintain safe quality drivers and attendant monitors thank you for the safety and support of our children please stay safe any questions no just just one comment um that that rating up there is is awesome it's like that every year um great job to you I see to Tony sitting in the back representing um our mechanics they do an incredible job of keeping our kids safe by taking care of those buses they also are some of the people who get in their buses and drive quite frequently when we need them so um thank you thank you yeah yeah I'll give you a little we there welcome my name is G you know me man McKenna director of Athletics here at Niger we field I'm presenting in our 25 budget and what we're basing it on here
014is our uh combines all our levels with our modified JV and varsity our Unified sports and also Hall of Fame which the number of sports that we currently have in our and our program are 69 sports for for our equipment code under uh 2011 which is you can see there the difference from 24 to 25 20,000 uh opposed to 36,000 items in this code consist of purchases that are non categorized as supplies again are larger um items such as pitching machines and um you know larger ticket items goals uh netting stuff like that things that are larger equipment and again for the increase this year there's been a new a new mandate by New York state that um all our varsity and JV programs for lacrosse need shot clocks and unfortunately those are uh pretty
015pricey at $6,000 so we are fortunate that we're a little bit ahead of the ball game and we did our Capital project for our Varsity programs that do participate on our tur facility that that was part of the project for a tur facility but we can't always fit our JV with the mount Varity program so we have to have our JBS on that on that field with all adversity programs so we did have to accommodate for a two new um you know shot clocks for our GV field which is side field one on the grass contractual you can see the numbers have not changed from last year or this current year going into next year and again uh the contractual code 410 these are are official costs are reconditioning for all our sports equipment um
016any like indoor track costs which means more or less you know uh you know different events that we go to that there is a fee for uh trainer salary etc etc the one big piece down there is our Championship Championship competition costs um it really depends on the sport uh and the whether it's indiv idual or or team sport in regards to when our student athletes attend Championship competitions and it's a it's costly but it's I guess it's a good problem to have because we've been very successful in the last couple years last several years I should say is having our student athletes keeping at the championship level um in New York state so uh Transportation cost um you know hotel stay etc etc are all part of that supplies supplies based um oh this
017is this going start of supplies my apology uh nothing's changed there again these are simple things like Clorox disinfectant wipes stuff maintenance for our machines in the weight room uh minimal amount of $500 just to keep everything up and going and clean in different facilities and these are just our supplies basketballs batting helmets those types of things smaller ticketed items um they do add up year after year with the wear and tear and again as you can imagine we need quite a bit of equipment for you all 69 of our programs so um smaller TI items but that number will not be increased 48,000 uniforms as you can see there's a slight increase believe it or not it's an odd request but I I hellison for this um we' begin a lot of requests from
018our our student body as well as a lot of others for new school mascot I think the last school mascot that we purchased was in 1975 as you can imagine it doesn't look that clean and so that nice uniform we're not purchasing a mascot right it's not a uniform but a falcon F yeah not a real Falcon no that would be kind of neat though can I just add one thing to this sure those a lot of you remember we we did do some kind of costing out of uniforms and found that that um you know that that number closer to about $122,000 would cover what when many of the school districts that we looked at are turning over their uniforms we were turning over our uniforms um after six years is that and where
019a lot of other schools were doing about four years four five so this this gives us an opportunity to turn over our uniforms more online and some of the others and you certainly heard some things here report meetings about you know they just get old they could beat particularly the white uniforms end up looking kind of shy so this will turn over those uniforms quicker so they be yeah Matt has a yeah we have we have a list of the rotation for each of those you know we know without you know there's quite a few teams that we had to be able to rotate those and what you know we were seeing as I said we started reforce 10 years ago modifi back and you know five years and five years you know that starts
020to catch up you know it's got to be rotated and the uniforms that we get year after year uh the other piece of that puzzle is too is a lot of these vendors they'll take them off the shelf and they make make they won't be they'll be obsolete basically after four years where you cannot get that same identical uniform anymore so if one kid loses it or there is a big tear in it or there's a blood stain you can't get out those things they got to be disposed of and after four years you're just not able to get that same uniform again so it's another piece to the tricky puzzle that that's the uniform code Hall of Fame we're obviously always excited in the beginning of November to present our all of allall of
021Fame where I go whoever it comes we were real fortunate these last couple weeks to have some um bigger events here and when people walk down that main Corridor in the glass quarter by the um cafeteria that's the first thing they look at when they get there and they're awfully impressed with it so we we'd like to I'll say it we' like to brag about it uh because it's a it's a wonderful thing and it looks very sharp and it's it's very unique not many other schools have it if any so you can see the the difference from you know last year 2024 and 25 and or this year excuse me and then going into next year uh for the final budget any questions thank you thank you all right so I'm talking for Dominic
022tonight he's uh my apologies five weeks I can't catch a deep breath I don't know what's going on but we'll get it figured out so I'm Deana rosinski um I'm domic direct supervisor uh for Food Service um if you don't already know food service is a self- self-supporting um program it's a separate fund from the general self supporting means that all the revenues generated by the um Food Service fund is what supports the expenditure so it's not taxpayer dollars it's directly from revenues that the cafeteria makes or um through purchas purchasing food um at the cafeteria line or from government reimbursement so um the request for the budget is not that much of an increase um the biggest increase on this slide is for food itself um we all see inflation in food products um
023so that's where that's coming from uh we do have the flexibility of increasing our um at the line lunch price if needed um to make up for that come on to the next slide and then this is the um the biggest increase is in the new equipment line um Dominic do you want to sure we're proposing to have uh order new ovens for the high school kitchen and that $150,000 increase in expenditure for the new equipment also would include a brand new serving line for Eric Road Elementary School and um recent accomplishments the the whole district is C now that means that every breakfast and lunch um is free for every kid in the district um recently had a state audit for Child Nutrition if you want all right we had two Auditors come from
024the state and uh review our program on February 26 and uh they do an observation to women and they come and observe breakfast and lunch at the high school and at the middle school the two sites chosen this year and uh they then have an exit interview to which they asked me if I would like to invite the high school middle school cook my count clerk to be part of to know and to to gain the knowledge of how the school lunch program works which I was very grateful for and the Auditors shared with me that um they've never seen a Food Service program ready for an audit where we provided them with six or seven three ring binders everything so detailed they shared with us that normally they just receive boxes as if you're
025full of papers full of invoices that they have to separate and put together and it look like they're ready to be shredded you know I said well we don't work that way in the kitchen uh they said the high school and the middle school um kitchens upon observation as they're reviewing um breakfast and lunch some of the cleanest kitchens that they have ever been into and they also said that my staff have such a positive report amongst um fellow staff and students they see that interaction across the serving line at both meal times um of the 25 districts that they reviewed they said NGA we field scored top three so and overall I always ask and I think Dan's knowledge of that how do we score at one to 10 how do we you know
026she said n we field did a 9.9 out of 10 so participation has increased so the philosophy in food service is the door is always open whether a student doesn't get to school on time or we're always there always willing to offer them am breakfast lunch to make sure that they have something in their stomach so they perform well in spood questions nice nice job awesome job with the audit and I'm so glad that I can now hear your voice because it's been a little while I apologize good to hear it coming back thank you I have one more [Music] the thank you to all of you for your continued support of the neaga we field Food Service program I appreciate it thank you okay St hi Steve metzer director of special programs and this
027is my budget for the school year upcoming school year um as you can see not much is changing in all the different areas um we've been able to maintain these budget lines um over the last few years so there's no need to make any adjustments um for the next school year the one thing I'm am going to talk about which is not changing this year which has changed has been the private placement tuition so over the last couple of years the 23 24 school year and the 2425 we've had to increase this significantly because of just the student needs and the fact that um with bosies you know they were having hard time recruiting staff and supports and because of that we had to look at private placements bosis you know does have new leadership
028and they're doing new things which have been really um positive and have a really good positive outlook for the next school year so we're really optimistic there there but the last couple of years 23 24 and 24 25 we've had a buffer at the end of the year with the money so we did not see a need to increase that this year which is a good thing so that's we're maintaining that as well one thing I am proposing um is another full-time school psychologist to be housed at a district office this person will serve as a cpsc csse chairperson districtwide um you know they could do number of things and the reason we want a psychologist is because they can the key thing there is they can help with the evaluations of our students um
029so they can assist with the evaluations districtwide and throughout bosies and our out of District placements they can support our clerical team um to ensure I compliance um they can assist myself and my assistant director with professional development with teachers and staff and also allow greater flexibility for myself and my assistant director to be in the classrooms help develop programming um help audit programming throughout the district and support our principles teachers and staff and just to kind of give you a breakdown on that um currently encumbered in Ida 611 which is the grant we do every year we do have salary plus health insurance for one of our retired clerical at around 71,9 40 that's there so when we're thinking about hiring a point a full-time uh school psychologist or chairperson we estimate the salary
030to be around 6432 20 if that's on if they're on single Insurance um if they're on Family Insurance actually that should be reversed I think is that right is that right never mind okay never mind um single Insurance around 64 so the difference would be like a 13,951 increase for the district Family Insurance would be around 85 and the difference there would be actually a decrease so we did look at other options before considering another psychologist we looked at a psychologist intern um it's limited what they can do they can only they could do evaluations but they have to be um essentially um supervised by one of our own psychologists so there's additional work there and the minimal price for the stien for a intern is around 20,000 so you know when it comes down
031to it we'd actually be saving more if we hired an additional psychologist and and if I could just really quick so we we actually have a a teacher right now I why the increas is so minimal or decrease I I'll I'll those numbers in a minute um we currently have a special education teacher who's been helping out in the office um however our psychologist just moving a psychologist there that person will have a skill set that'll allow them to do some things that the current person isn't able to do if you look up there I think what should be different is that what should be switch that where it says difference of 13951 that should just be down by the those those two things in parentheses should be swapped and then if you do the
032math you see where it makes sense in other words the 71 940 that we're spending right now if we hire a psychologist at 64 320 it's actually a negative difference so you know we're saving $7 7,620 versus if we have somebody who has a family plan it would be 859 891 which would be an increase of 13951 makes sense yeah that's where I was getting thrown off the one in the thank any questions no all right thank you hi good evening I'm Jen goas I'm the director of curriculum instruction and technology and here with me tonight I have Jessica Smith who's the assistant director of technology and Kelly stoa who's the TOA in our department so tonight we're going to present our budget proposal but before we do that before we start getting into numbers
033we wanted to just talk a little bit about our goals we have a lot of goals but these goals we pulled out um that we use to support the seup plan in the district but they're related directly to the increases that we're going to be talking to and the budget lines that we're going to be going through so we as our department um are for empowering the success of students and teachers and we mean that by making sure that teachers are equipped with the professional development the resources that they need to do their very best um when they need it and also that students have a diverse learning opportunities um to succeed whether they're you know struggling or whether they're very successful so that they have what they need and then the second goal that
034we're looking at or focusing on today is comes out of our um technology plan which is Equitable access and we've been working on that and when Jessica talks about the reserves you'll see that we've been using a lot of the technology reserves to work on that goal so that teachers have the same technology across different classrooms um and that teachers have the ability to integrate technology technology in meaningful ways and then the final goal really supports our seup goal number one which is to promote best practices and systems of cyber security because seup goal number one is all about safety and I know I talked before in the fall that safety we have to think about in terms of cyber security as well so I'm going to talk about the curriculum instruction which is those
035first goals that I talked about and in 2024 2025 we had $393,900 on superintendent conference days or days to work with the teachers during school and the majority of that money um goes for the curriculum materials um whether they're paper based or whether they're digital this year we went through and we did an Ela um for the middle school and we put a new program in the Middle School in seventh and eth grade for ELA and then seventh and eth grade social studies as well so next year if you look at that amount uh that we're requesting it's about 2,650 8 decrease over that um we're going to be doing a lot of the same things that are listed in the column for 2425 but what we did was we moved around some money in
036there because we increased the PD provider line so that we could have more professional development opportunities for teachers and we decreased the travel and the mileage so bringing people in instead of sending people out um so that's curriculum instruction and I'll turn it over to Jess to talk about technology um so for the general fund for the technology budget these are um equipment code repair supplies and contractual codes um we spent um in 2024 2525 um we have the amount of $142,200 um view Sonic displays live streaming equipment um and then miscellaneous um computer repair supplies um annual non-instructional software uh renewals and also um upgrading the high school cafeteria wireless microphones with the auditorium being out of commission the high school cafeteria has become an essential place for large groups um in the next
037school year 25 26 we are not requesting any increases um and we'll continue to use those funds for um some of like the standard repair Supply things that we need every year um but in addition to that next year we are planning to look at replacing um sound and audio equipment in common shared spaces like gyms and cafeterias um and also um projector and device Replacements as needed um from the technology reserves um this current 2425 school year we were allocated the amount of $200,000 um and we purchased desktops um UPS which uh Power our which um protect EMP power our um Network equipment in our in our Network closets um we purchase some displays and projectors with those funds and we will be purchasing a new network core a wireless controller and wireless access
038points um very shortly and then this summer we will be installing those um all of that equipment and then for the next year 25 26 we're requesting the same amount and we will be purchasing new servers server storage additional um ups for Network closets um some networking switches and um some additional projector device Replacements um so by the end of the summer we are going to have um a pretty significant uh change over in our networking equipment so we will really be benefiting our our Network infrastructure will really be benefiting from these technology reserves from this school year and next school year so it'll be really in very good shape all right so we have some new requests as a department um and some of those are Bose requests so you'll see those um through
039Allison's Bose's budget but we really wanted to talk about it and give some context to them so one of the things that we're requesting through the Bose's budget is a product called think Tech which would be K through 12 um and it's really an assessment piece and a teaching piece and it has a multiple different um uses that it can use for our instruction ction so one of the things that we're going to do is do an increase but we're also going to offset part of the cost by eliminating some of the products which are a little bit older outdated or underused um by teachers and that would be Castle Learning and e doctrina um the other thing that we're requesting is an additional point to Bose's Tech currently we have um a full-time Tech
040who's here five days a week and then we have two Bose taxs on Monday two on Tuesday two on Thursday Two on Friday and then on Wednesday we just have two people in the district with six schools so we're requesting the point two so that we continuously have three people three technicians in the district available to support the six buildings and then the other thing that we requested through the Bose's budget was 17 instructional resource team days and what those are are to have a bosei Specialists come in to work with teachers in certain areas so right now now we're in the process of changing over the science standards and sometimes with math just changed recently they make little tweaks to the standards the science standards are a complete overhaul um and completely changing the
041way that science is taught in schools so a majority of those days would be um someone to come in from bosis to work with our teachers at the secondary level the elementary level in the area of Science and then the rest of those days would be divided up um based on different content areas and then the last thing that we're requesting um is an increase of a full-time equivalent for someone to be a full-time Tech integrator across the district and that would be roughly at the cost of $85,000 and I'm going to turn that over to Kelly to talk about all right so um in kind of talking about um this need for a tech integrator I just want to give you guys a little bit of historical information when it comes to Tech integration
042at nagar Wheatfield um in 2022 we developed our district technology plan and in developing that plan we decided that we um were really trying to have a goal and some focus on um providing that Equitable access for children in the classroom but not just giving them access to the technology really trying to amplify how they're using it and so um from that technology plan in 20 23 we did have um a full-time one-year tacosa just at the Four elementary buildings to really Kickstart that if you look on the other side there there's some data from that um including what that support really looked like so some of it was broken down into just planning collaboration with teachers but if you look a large portion of it was co-teaching which means that that Tech integration was
043pushing in with the teacher and actively working with the teacher and with the students the teacher was observing the tech integrator and seeing what that integration looked like so they had that confidence to then move on and um use the integration themselves without needing the integrator in the room as well you'll also see that there was like planning co- teing um support so it was where there was more of a collaboration amongst weeks and then there's also your typical um professional development support it and then creation slot A lot of the time teachers really have an idea they don't have the time to do that creation process and that's where the integrator was stepping in again um the level of integration is shown on the bottom where our goal is to really look at not
044just providing a replacement for what kids are doing in the classroom so not just handing them a device which we know is often times I'm using technology means that the kid has a device in their hand but are they really amplifying or transforming their education with that device meaning that there is more than just the student staring at a screen the student is actively engaged in a pro in a process and collaborating with students and the teacher to make that process um really ignite their learning and so this year we had building based Tech integrators so each building had um a tech integrator available to them but they were still teachers and while that was really great those teachers um that were acting as that building based integrator did a fantastic job with providing support
045allowing teachers to come down and ask them questions and um you know maybe give them some advice here and there um it just didn't allow for that co- teing model and um a lot of the time that would require somebody to come in and be a sub um and be um in for the tech integrator while the tech integrator is in the classroom and we just know that there's a large volume of need for that um and that would be a disadvantage for the tech integrator who's in the classroom as well the next one yeah I just want to add on before we go to the next slide that in 2023 that was paid for the full-time integrator was paid for out of the covid funds which we no longer had so in 2024 we
046tried to you know be a little bit creative about what we were doing and then we found that it might not have been as effective as what we were doing when we had the full-time integrator so for that um moving on and looking in the future we really want that teacher support and that's what teachers were really craving they really need that time to understand what the technology looks like in their classroom have that collaboration piece um allow the uh technology to be seen in action um as well as providing that professional development and giving them opportunities to learn when they're outside the classroom so they can integrate in the class classroom on their own um additionally that provides for a lot more um experiences of steam and higher level thinking in the classroom amplifying
047and transforming the learning process rather than just providing them the access and then um again content creation and lesson planning for the teachers as well have any questions right that be we sit down I'd like to just say thank you for the technology reserves and for the funding and your support that you've given our department thank you thank you thank you I didn't miss anybody Tony anything right thank you everyone for your presentations tonight there's extra cookies for staying so long um moving on now to Residents comments anyone from the floor [Music] okay moving on then to our consensus agenda items um I don't believe there's anything to separates uh so I'll call for a motion to accept consensus agenda items one through eight as presented seconds and motion secondly all in favor please say
048I I I post stain motion carries on the Personnel items um I'll call for a motion to accept the Personnel items numbers 1 through 10 as presented motion seconded all in favor please say I I I post motion carries um from our standing committees we had an audit committee meeting um prior to the meeting um we had our internal control risk assessment uh given to us from efpr group um everything look pretty good they just had a couple of uh comments that uh looking to address and I don't know if Alison have anything you want to add to that good all righty um moving on to no written Communications ex official student rep Don just starting off I want to congratulate the students that on they work hard after they deserve every better recognition that
049they uh receive um spring sports are obviously almost here um I believe they start about a week or two um so it's very exciting there a lot of there's a lot of excitement around the school um one thing that's been sort of in talks among students is regarding the lunch line obviously you um enter your PIN to confirm that you get lunch or snack or anything um there have been a lot of students that have been wanting and this is simply just a concept but have been wanting to implement some sort of like credit or debit card swipe um along with um how we currently can use cash to buy snack or buy an extra lunch or anything and we can have money on our account um some students have been wanting to use their
050debit cards or credit cards an idea um because because not everybody you know has access to their own account that they can put money in for for for lunches or snacks and whatnot and again that's simply just a concept that's been in talks I've heard a lot about it lately um and my final point I just want to congratulate um Eli morone again he did a great job throughout his high school career So yeah thank you thanks John I have nothing for president's report to the superintendent's report thank you um first I just want to thank the um bfield Community but also the Sur communities for coming out to uh The Cabin Fever event that was uh run by our local Rotary Club um for those that don't know the rotary club raises funds for
051scholarships for our students um dictionary projects that they do every year for our students and they also assist our interact Club as a matter of fact at the end of March there'll be a lasagna love uh event taking place at the high school in which zes are made for families who um show that you know they may have a need for that and we have them made the rovery CB uses funds from events like Gavin fever to pay for that so that that was pretty neat I just want to thank people who were able to come out uh this Friday uh March 7th is our staff development day um I just want to take a minute in advance and I always do it in advance because of the work that they put in before the
052event um and that is uh to all of our local law enforcement and EMS they spend a lot of time planning with us planning for us um for days like this um Friday particularly when we're doing things like active shooter drills and they put a heck of a lot of time into it we appreciate all the work all the time that they invest um with us for our district and for our kids and for our staff so thank you March 19th which which is our next meeting date we are going to have another group of Falcons of the month we're also going to have um group of students presenting here from Colonial Village their Invention Convention projects so they'll be around the room and you'll be able to see some of those really incredible projects
053that the kids work really hard on April 26 this year is our eCampus project um and our Wellness walk and wellness fair so mark your calendars the Eco campus project starts at 8 ends at 11 Wellness walks start right afterward 11 11 o'clock to to 1 pm the wellness walk and wellness Fair so again that's April 26 April 2nd I'm going out of order here is the presentation from Dr Rick Tims uh he'll be coming in he works with our district as a consultant and helps us put together our long range uh financial plan and I I would tell you that in New York state there's not a person that I know that knows more about how uh School Finance Works than he does um so we're lucky to have him I won't give him
054that he's here just for the right um bless you we this is important for the board to know uh the current system that we use for board docs will be migrating to a new system and that system is called diligence uh we'll give you some information on the timeline of that I my my understanding is that boarddocs will be in place for the remainder of this school year and then we'll see as that as that has to take place and what the change is what I was told we're was looking into this a little bit diligence is actually I think the maybe the parent company two board docks right now anyway so I don't know how much of a change but there there'll be some change okay and then uh last this coming weekend uh
055the musical mam Mia will be taking place at Sunni Niagara it is Friday night at 700 p.m. Saturday at 2: and then Saturday again at 700 p.m. and um just some of the things I'm hearing ahead of time the uh my understanding is students have had their lines memorized for a couple weeks already so they're ready to go um and can't wait um I'll be there Friday night I can't wait I don't know if people are saying this out loud but it feels this way that this year's musical they did a little addition by subtraction because they have me on the stage so it's automatically going to be better um take that hit if that's true um but but we're but we yeah I got the HW had nobody asked me back um feelings are
056hurt just a little bit I would have said no but you know for the sake of the pro program but we're really excited that I know the kids are excited to put on a great performance and and I do want to say this um Su Niagra has been fantastic to work with for us for all of the different programs that we've had to move there um our our Auditorium is still on schedule and so you know next year at this time I would expect that our students will be able to be putting on performances and in our new Auditorium as long as that timeline you know stays the way it is right now and we expected to that's all I have very good thank you for your report um moving on to reports to the
057board Finance I okayy for those for those who are maybe watching this live stream or watch it another time on video tonight's budget presentation's a bit shorter than the last couple if you're interested in some of the um legislative priorities that we've been pushing you can go back to the last couple meetings if you can watch those see a little bit more lengthy budget presentation okay this is actually our third budget presentation we call them all initial these are initial budget presentation until we get to the final budget budget presentation which is a required budget presentation okay we left this on here of the legislative priorities because this is one of the most pressing um it's one of the most potentially justly um priorities that were seeing uh I I I want to let everybody
058know that we've received some feedback where we're not completed our survey is not completed but we've received some feedback already and just to give you one example of one of the things that we're hearing from the survey was it 14 it was 14 so 14 think about this 14 of our current runs or bu runs um wouldn't be able to operate with an electric bus in other words the a run consists of your a couple runs in the morning couple in the afternoon the bus battery wouldn't make it the way our current runs are constructed so you really would have two options right you either need additional buses or you need to change the runs if you change the runs you're making probably more more runs and you're going to need more buses and more
059drivers so you know those are really the options that the this again this is just some of the preliminary stuff coming out about our our current bus situation uh or must study excuse me Alison so just to review again Governor hook presented her state budget proposing uh a 37 365. 42 million or 37 billion 365 mil 420,000 in state support for public schools um it's made up of formula based AIDS and categorical AIDS and Grant programs um and then she also uh put a 4.75 that is a 4.75% increase over uh the state budget for school aid and her proposal continues to um uh expense continues all the expense driven Aid formulas in other words they were talking about changing them for a few years now but she's going to continue them as is and
060and just just as a reminder this is only the executive budget it's the governor's budget that the um legislature now will come out with their budgets and hopefully by April 1 or sooner we'll know um what the actual budget in New York state will be for schools and for the rest of the state as well so this is just showing uh nager ref Fields budget again um compared compared to last year and the foundation Aid has increased just over 2.2 million or about 8.98% um the expense based AIDS have increased for the most part except for some of the uh public high cost AIDS and private excess cost AIDS and those are both related to special programs and student needs um Structural Materials AIDS have decreased um and those are probably due to most likely
061a slight reduction in enrollment in the district um we don't have any of those other operating AIDS shown below so our total Aid increase over prior year is just over 2.9 Million or 7.61% and just as a as a reminder you can see that a big chunk of that is and you can see the foundation Aid up at the top the foundation a amount has gone up and it's gone up because they're now using the 2020 census data which has been really important they're they're using that data and in their formula which includes you know poverty numbers special education numbers and so all of that's been reset to is used as opposed to them using the 2000 census so it's 20 years forward so this is just looking again at the tax cap Levy worksheet
062um I won't go through the whole thing but you can see in bold highlight there the tax levy limit before exclud is $36,800 and then we uh did have an exclusion this year for Capital expenditures net of eight there were no pension expenditure exclusions or torts and judgments so we had exclusions in the amount of 64666 which puts our tax levy limit plus exclusions at 37 million 5671 or 64% over prior year and they had difference uh being $240,100 is 11 okay um you can see the ERS rate went is expected to go to they've actually set it so it's going to go from 15.2 to 16.5% that's for the Employee Retirement System the teacher retirement system is going down from 10.02 to 9.59% here you can see um the tax levy um little tax
063levy review you can see each year uh since 1718 where where the numbers have been you can see 68 2.49 1.71 1.49 you can follow those numbers yourself I won't read them all to you um over the last eight years uh the average increase of the levy has been 1.94% okay and then this is just looking at uh where we are right now with our budget for 2526 and the revenues coming in so if you go to the maximum the real property taxes coming in would be 37,56017 from other districts um Native American tuition interest in earnings and then rental of property which uh the added one there is the bosies line we are now uh renting uh classrooms at Eric road to bosis so we'll be getting some revenue for those classro rentals um
064below that you'll see some miscellaneous Bose refund and refunds uh prior expenses gifts and donations some n things there Transportation charges and then to the right at the top you'll see all the state aid and what's budgeted um you will notice those numbers don't always match the exact amount um in the eight and that's because we are obligated to uh apportion some of that Aid to the tuscora school because of the kids that go there so some of that Aid flows to that school um Bose Tex book software Hardware Aid Library Aid Transportation Aid those are you know all um reimbursable aids for um expenditures and then below that we get impact Aid and Medicaid and those are both Federal revenues that we receive and um total revenues to that point is just uh over
06584 million 84 m78 7,655 and then we will have some some inter fund transfers so that in fund transfer is the greenway money that was a portioned specifically to the debt associated with The Greenway project back in 2011 I believe it was so um portioning that money to pay off that was money we received from the Power Authority to pay for that dot um uh be applying appropriated fund balance in the amount of just over 1.9 million and then the use of the reserves below the capital transportation Reserve would be money uh a portion to pay for new buses and the facilities vehicles that were spoke about earlier the capital technology Reserve which was also spoken about that's 200 so those are offsetting expenditures in the budget and then the other uh reserves being used
066would be to basically balance the budget the ERS retirement reserve and the TRS retirement Reserve at $750,000 each and then the workers comp compensation Reserve 500,000 and our edar employee benefits Reserve at 450,000 so the total budget and uh revenues to offset that budget amount is uh 91 m996 N7 this slide what I want you to see is I want you to look in the the far right hand column for for all of these right so to give you an idea our revenues our real property tax is about 41% okay of our revenues if you look way over to the right you see that our foundation Aid is 29% okay of our revenues those are two big numbers what what I want people to understand is we got a big jump of course this year
067in our foundation aid but it's less than a third of our revenues okay um you know if it was if it was 90% of our revenues that number would be so much more significant to our budget so I think that's really important for people to note um the the other is the um $800,000 for the inter fund transfers Alison talked a little about that and then you see the capital Transportation the capital technology when when you when you put those dollars together um we're looking at and we're going to get a little bit more into um the um expenditure budget at our next meeting we'll go into some some more detail but um when you put those numbers together the were we at 3.59% yeah something like that okay so so the the the budget
068to budget increase is about 3.59% when you exclude those numbers that we're bringing in to offset in other words there's $800,000 coming in to pay off debt so it inflates the budget a bit right the capital Transportation reserve the capital technology Reserve you see that that that's 1.1 so you're talking almost 2 point a little over $2 million right 1.1 a little less than $2 million of the the budget is money that's being offset by reserves or the in fund transfer okay so these are some of the um numbers I put together for you to look at whatever year I look at uh either going above or below the ly limit so the highlighted line is the Levy limit the tax levy limit where we're at 64% or a levy amount of 37,56017 and that
069would and then if you go to the far right you'll see the nine-year average ends up being about 1.8% of an increase so you know you can see going down5 if you went to 0.5% or 0.25% what the increase over prior year was which would be in addition to the Revenue basically and the difference from the levy limit and then what the nine-year average would be or if you went above at 1.0 or 1.5 or 1.75 going up you could see again going through what the increase would be what the difference is from the levy limit and what the nine-year average would be this is not decision that you have to make tonight certainly um you can look at this we can talk at the next meeting a little bit more um you know a
070couple things to keep in mind one of them is and I know many of you know this because you've been on the board a little while but um you know if you whatever you don't Levy you lose and you don't lose it for that year you lose it for all years right you know regardless of whether that's below or above ly limit the the other thing that's um I think important to point out is that um our I what I expect is that our Levy limit will continue to be very low and one of the impacts on the levy as you know um when you when you look back at the formula are the pilots so we have one particular pilot that's going to grow and grow over the next decade um and that is
071the um Amazon pilot so right now it's it's a very small number you know a couple hundred thousand dollars I think is worth expected for next year but that's going to grow into the millions So eventually that will certainly be offsetting you know what you what we see is is our Levy limit because those dollars are going to increase significantly once the place gets up and running if you haven't driven past it you know it's it's pretty impressive you know building it's incredible in size um so you can imagine the amount of work and and funds coming out of that place uh once I get started so we we're we'll be excited to get those Revenue once they start coming in oh and and this one um it's uh my favorite one to talk about
072because of the business office and because of the board um when you look in 2013 um we were um the most fiscally stressed District in New York state at 88.3% nobody was better higher worse off right um You can see what's happened over the years and where we've held right down there near the bottom uh again Allison the business office the board um some really great work to keep that fiscal stress level really low and and I and I want to say this because I thought about it when um our te technology and curriculum instruction people were talking um if you go back about you know nine or 10 years the the idea of needing a tech facilitator um would have been almost laughable in our district seriously right we we didn't have technology for
073somebody to be implementing technology we didn't have the Wi-Fi access in our buildings so and I say that whenever I look at this because we've been able to keep the fiscal stress level down we've been able to keep a levy at averaging under 2% at the same time adding all of the technology to our district that actually now requires us to have a tech fac facilitator who can push into classrooms and work with teachers um we've talked about it a lot I can't imagine had the board and the business office not put us in a position where we could do some of the things that we did just prior to co Dan and I have talked about it before you know if if we had been two two years behind on our curb I I
074don't know what our teachers would have done trying to run some of the virtual class stuff that they had to do we wouldn't have had the Wi-Fi to do it so you know whenever I look at that graph knowing all of the other things that we did at the same time um it's pretty incredible so good job to business office and forch questions yeahor the um last year's increase did you show so you're talking about the levy the levy increase last year was 2.99% looks like looking at well the the levy limit would be 0.64% that's the levy limit okay you know and I can I can add to that I mean the biggest reason for the drop this year is because we are utilizing that Greenway money to offset debt so I have to
075count that in the in the camp utation for the tax cap so they really counted against us to be honest is it okay if I get publicly mad about that well well I mean I I just the reason I say that is because you know we we have a Fife contract that enables us to get funds that we're not able to collect in any other way right that's why we get those funds that's why there's only a few districts who receive those Greenway funds and the fact that we get those funds but then those funds are counted against us when they wouldn't count against if it was part of your Levy if it was if there were homes there and people were paying taxes that that would just be additional Revenue so it it's you
076know kind of unfair that it counts against us but it does much moving on to any items for Bo discussion old business new business any public comments any board member comments tonight right want to thank you again to everyone for the presentations tonight for sticking out with us once again plenty of cookies in the back is your reward but we appreciate you very much and all the work you went that went into uh the presentations tonight and with that I'll call for a motion to adjourn the motion second motion second all in favor please say I I Iain motion carries as