001No, this is the agenda that I usually Good evening and thank you for joining us for tonight's public hearing on the Waterville Central School District's districtwide safety plan. This is an annual requirement and we appreciate your participation and interest in the safety and well-being of our students and staff. The district-wide safety plan is a general emergency response plan that outlines the district procedures for preventing, responding to, and minimizing the effects of serious incidents. This draft plan has been posted on the district's website and is available for public view. In accordance with New York State Education Department Commissioner Regulation 155.17E3, we are providing an opportunity for public comment prior to the plan's formal adoption. The draft was posted to our website on June 20th and a parent square notification was also pushed out. Tonight's hearing allows
002for input from school personnel, parents, students, and any other interested community members. In addition to this hearing, residents are welcome to email me at Z Abbe at waterville csd.org with questions or comments through August 12th when the board of education is scheduled to adopt this plan. The purpose of this plan is to prevent or reduce the impact of serious violent incidents and to support effective coordination with local and county emergency response agencies. In addition to this district-wide plan, each building principal is responsible for developing a confidential building level emergency response plan which will be shared with local law enforcement. Looking ahead to the 202526 school year, I'd like to highlight new requirements recently adopted by the board of regents. These changes mandate that all New York State districts use standardized emergency response terminology and definitions
003in their procedures and trainings. These terms include evacuate, which is moving students from a school building to a predetermined safe location. Shelter, shelter in place, keep students in the building when it is safer to stay inside. Lock down, clearing hallways, securing rooms, and remaining hidden and silent in response to an immediate threat of violence. Lockdowns end only when law enforcement physically releases those inside. Hold or hold in place, restricting movement within the building during a short-term emergency, and then secure lockout, locking and securing the building when a threat exists outside of school. These terms will now be required in staff training, student drills, emergency procedures, and related policies. To support this transition, the district has ordered updated emergency response cards that will be posted in each classroom to reinforce this terminology. And those actually arrived
004already. So, we have those in place. Tom Gleason received these just the other day. Really, the the big change in the language comes from the secure lockout. And that really comes down to the fact that for for many years, there's been a lot of confusion between lock down and lock out. They sound too similar, but they're drastically different emergency protocols. So adding that secure lockout has been determined to help alleviate some of that confusion with the two. So we have both the cards that will be posted in classrooms and then they also sent these staff cards as well. So these on the back have some additional information for staff to fill in which is a good idea for for two reasons. one because in an emergency situation sometimes you forget things the most basic things.
005So when you have that information right there to be able to respond to and see that's great. In addition to that it makes it helpful when we have people in different room locations so that would stay put in the room so that they know the appropriate information in the room that they're located in. Not to mention we have substitutes in the building so that they have access to all of that information if need be. I'd also like to take a moment to recognize the members of our district safety committee who are included on tonight's board of education agenda for approval. As a reminder, we are seeking three board members to serve on this committee as part of our continued focus on safety and emergency preparedness. At this time, I'm happy to take any questions. And
006again, if questions arise after tonight's hearing, you may email me at zabbbewatervillecsd.org anytime before the plan scheduled approval on August 12th. Thank you for your time and your commitment to the safety of the water school community. Are there any questions at this time? Okay, I'll check my email just to make sure, but I wouldn't expect that. I ask with the changes from the bridge, do we still have the questions email set up? Yes. Yeah. We need to locally change and it has been adjusted for Okay, then that concludes the public hearing for our district safety plan. Yeah. Hi, Patty. Good evening. I will not complain if it gets cold in here tonight. I'd call this meeting to order everyone standby of America. and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible,
007liberty and justice for all. Before we start, could we have a moment of silence for MPS teacher Moral Dalan? the oaks and all at the podium with the microphone. We have two new board members tonight that need to be sworn in. Dan Nichols and Lorie Swivo. Can you please both come up? Dan, please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I will support the Constitution of the United States. I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of And I will faithfully discharge the duties of a member of the board of education of the Waterville Central School District. a member of the board of education of the Waterville
008Central School District. according to the best of my ability. Right there. I Lord I Lord do solemnly swearnly that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge a member of the board of education member of the Waterill Central according to the rest of my SC superintendent. Zachary Abby do solemnly swears that I support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of the Constitution and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of superintendent According to the best of my next I Cynthia Amrosa Rosa solemnly swear so that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of
009New York and that I will faithfully discharge of school district of the water central school district. Now, may I have a nomination for president of the board? Are there any president? There any other nom Can I get motion speak office president of the city school Congratulations. Thank you. Steve Stanton. I do solemnly swear do solemnly that I will support the Constitution of the United States Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York State and that I will faithfully discharge faithfully the duties of president of the board of education of the water central school district of the water according to the best according to the Yeah, you can move. I'm grabbing the letter of the desk. He looks so happy. Now we're on to nominations for vice president. We have
010any other nominations? Any last? Any other nominees? Those in favor of Jones the vice president I'm accustomed to it. and gentlemen, do solemnly swear solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and state and the Constitution of the State of New York State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge that I will faithfully discharge the duties of duties Vice President of the Board of Education. Vice President Board of Education of the Water. According to this It's warmer over here. All right. Well, we're getting resettled. We can move into appointments. Uh we do have a consent agenda here. Can I get a motion for 57 approval of the consent agenda for appointments? Thanks, Ken. You get a second. Thanks, Dan. Uh discussion. I do think we we have a little
011discussion on 51. Do we have any board member that was interested in being a voting delegate? I know we had some emails going back and forth on our agenda review. And Zach was looking into responsibilities for that, which the only responsibility I found was to actually be the person to be at the meeting and vote. Yep. So I do I expected there to be more, but that's all I found. Do we have like meeting dates? If we don't Okay, these are one over over these are the ones that are Buffalo. This is the one that would be elsewhere. It's travel. Yeah. I've never done it for that reason. It's It's usually in the fall. It's usually October. Yeah. Yeah. January 14th to the 17th. Is that ML ML? Maybe. No, wait. That's the wrong one.
012Do we have some time on that one? We do. We can pull it if we need to. Yeah. Did anyone do it last year? Same with 53. I don't remember. Dan, do you remember if we had someone go last year or not? I couldn't find an appointment. Thanks, Kate. Yeah, that's right. Is this the one that's in October? January 14th to 17. We can we can modify the motion in a minute and pull it. October 23rd to the 25th. That's the one. That sounds right. October 23rd to 25th. So if we need to check calendars, we can add that to August agenda. Same with 52, the alternate. So that one's kind of an easy one. As long as we're sure on the voting one, unless they get sick or something, you don't have to do
013anything. And then 53, appointment of representative for Onida Madison, Herkimer County's SBI. I don't think we sent anyone to this either, did we? Last year Okay. So, we'll table that. Um, any other discussion on 54 through 56? Okay. So, can we we'll we'll table 51 52 53 for the August meeting, Jen. And then can I just uh we'll make the motion again. Can I get a motion for consent agenda on 54 through 56? So move. Thanks, Ken. Second. Thank you, Justin. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion is carried 61. Can I get a motion on approval of committee on special education? Thank you, Justin. Thank you, Kate. Discussion. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion is carried. Uh 71. I get a motion on approval of designations. Who was that? Dan. Thanks, Dan. Second. Thanks, Kate.
014Discussion. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion is carried. Right. Moving on to authorizations. We have a consent agenda here. Items 81 through 811. Can I get a motion? Thank you, Justin. Thank you, Ken. Discussion. Again, I know we had a couple questions here. If we wanted to have open discussion on that, we certainly could. Did we get all the answers that we're going to talk about for the gold use? I know you were looking into that kind of stuff. He he sent responses. I think I don't know. I did read all that. I didn't I know I had some questions. I didn't have any outstanding questions. I appreciated the explanation on sports boosters and band boosters being class one level. Yep. and why that was spelled out the way it was made sense. Do we
015have any other questions on past practice even Lori? I know you had Yes, I just asked about um if we did charge and then proof of insurance because I know that's a huge issue. Proof of insurance. Yes, that's a requirement. As far as charging, it says in the policy the class two can be charged for those services and the board has the ability to wave it. My understanding is that we haven't charged very often when that is the case. Um, but there are rare circumstances where that we have some examples are like when we're when we're hosting like a tournament uh out on the sports field and obviously we have to have people here right to run those facilities. But as far as the smaller items where people are just using a space within the
016building, I don't think we have been charging even though it says that we can. Right. And I'm not advocating that we do charge. I I just think if it's too costly then if custodial and things like that then we should look into that but if it's and we want to help the community too. So yeah I thought I thought it was a great point and I think this is a great example. We should add this and and Cynthia this probably falls on you. This should be part of our budget review process. So if we're not collecting the data on hey what how much custodial for example cleanup is involved in the concession stand right or maintenance after a big event is there plumbing we should be collecting that and then we could build that into
017is this really within our budgetary expense are we exceeding planned expense and make the decision do we want to plan for the expense or do we want to say hey if events are going to be estimated above x amount of usage we're going require some sort of fee. I think that would be fair. Then we have the ability to look at that based on the distinctions of whether right it's a large event that's coming from outside the district to use facilities. Exactly. We could track those easy because we have so you have to go through there and that's where you submit all your paperwork and everything. So yes, and again I think this dovetales into previous board discussion even on like raising funds concession stand use like the district would then perhaps have a justification
018for using the concession stand at certain events to offset the cost. You know all those things need to be in play. Whether we do or we don't is part of the review when we look at finances. But any anything else particular on any of these items, but particularly that one I would say is does any board member need a copy of Robert's rules of order? That would probably be a good topic for us to put on a board retreat if you want, I guess. Yeah, because you should be able to get one as a new board member or at any time. Yeah, that's just a good refresher. So only K I believe Lori too. Okay. Yeah, for sure. Okay. Any other discussion? All right. All those in favor? Oppose? Motion is carried. Moving to official
019undertakings section nine, two items and we do have a consent agenda. I get a motion for approval of consent agenda for official undertakings 93. Second. All right, Tim and then Dan. Thank you. Discussion. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion is carried. All right. Into one of our favorite reorg topics, committee assignments. And you saw I I I kind of prodded the email there. So, here we go. We've got the committee list. I don't know. Can we do we need to put it on screen or does everybody have it up on your laptop? So, now I was going to go back and I ran out of time. I know we haven't always had three on every committee and that's what I was interested in. I don't Do we have that info for tonight? Somebody as
020far as who's been on in the right. How many did we have on? From what I looked up, it looks like they recommend two to three. I don't Yeah, it's it'd be rare to have one, right? You definitely want two for obvious reasons. Three, I think, is fine, but again, then we get into too many folks spread to was where we take off this. Yeah, this isn't up to date from last year. Oh, I was it's patchwork. Yeah, we need to get get it right. So, we can go through if it's if it's easy, we can just go top down on the audit committee. So, we have Tim listed. Any other interest in the audit committee? Do you want to stay or something else? And Lori, don't don't hesitate to speak up. We don't treat
021you as new. You're allowed to get on anything. Do you want to get on the audit one? No. No. I said audit is not one of So, you want to get on it, right? I know. I didn't miss hear you. We don't shy away from new things here. quarterly. We need to uh Yeah, it's supposed to be once a quarter, correct? Yes. One of the things I think we ought to take a look at, we was Yeah. You know, having having a budget committee, not not having budget. I'm not I've kind of I'm not going to say that I've come totally round on it, but I think that if we're interested in that in doing a budget type of committee, it makes sense to do an audit finance committee and then we just sort of
022roll starting in January, the audit committee starts starts working on the budget. Mhm. And that way cuz one of my fears is we get into too many committees and hard for all of us to get there too and you know and we get down in the weeds sometimes on things I think no problem with but I think that if we if we want to do that I think that'd be a good solution too budget committee as well. Yeah that's I mean what's everybody's thought that's a great proposal. Yeah. What's everybody think? I mean I think that's a very common combination. The thing to keep in mind too is the unique role of the audit committee quarterly versus if we start using it as an almost monthly mechanism in the budget committee. How would we make
023that work? I'm not saying we can't, but you would need to still have like a quarterly audit committee. Yeah, I don't think that it really well and that's one of the things you probably need if we if we want to go this route kind of kind of figure out. I see the finance committee part of it kind of starting in January or December when we want to start the budget process because I think we have to meet we have to we have to meet in the fall in order to accept it in order to accept the audit. Correct. And then I think we have to have a meeting in the spring to do the the um reserves. Okay. So I think we're required to have two meetings. Mhm. So I think we can go and
024the audit actually tells can inform us on the budget quite a bit because you see where we spent the money where we didn't spend the money in the previous year. So I think there's value to the same people taking a close look at the audit and then taking a close look budget. Yeah. And and I was on the budget committee. I've been on the audit committee and I do think it would work well. I also think we can flesh this out, you know, in a retreat or a future meeting. We still have had great discussion around how do we build out a 12-month budget cycle like that should still be happening in our board meetings according to whatever schedule we agree on. And then it's supplemented by as a board we give direction to the
025audit finance committee when they go into budget season. Hey, we want to really get into these things. here's kind of the general, you know, thoughts of the board around priorities, but go do the detailed work and then report back at the next board meeting on, hey, this is what we did. And we could really, I think, improve upon our historical reporting, you know, mechanism slash like format so that it's something of like a Google doc you could even review yourself after the budget committee meeting. It's just there. it's living breathing like this is what was reviewed this is where we are right now highlighting things you know I think we could get better at that too so I agree you to talk about how we have like a standing item so it's a constant discussion
026topic budget beginning in right like this would probably be the only meeting you wouldn't do it necessarily but just some piece of that so we're so knowing that if we wanna to work on and we don't have to solve that tonight, but audit finance. Dan, Tim still want to be on it? Um, yeah, I'll stand. Okay. Anybody else want to be the third on that? I wouldn't mind, you know, to just fall. The arch is very tough that must have brought back. Yeah. And the the big months are going to be December, January, February, March. Yeah. But and you'll still everyone will still be part of the process. Say, yeah. I think it's not coming out a week, Friday, Saturday. It's not even days. Right. I think I I'd be involved. Do we want to
027go through like all of them first though? As opposed like the idea of getting spread too thin like if we try to force three in all of these like So, we want to see like where everything else falls and then see if we want to add a third. Yeah. Only got to do two. I already SBI. We said we're coming back to policy. Dan Justin, I'd like to say, okay, we can have two on that in my opinion. Again, we can discuss that. I've been on that before. I don't know that you need three. So you're you're I'd recommend that if you're going to be audit and finance because there's a lot of pre-work for both of those. I'd also like to for us to be wise for us to have our volume policy. I
028think I think the county weren't to our strengths. So, I'd be happy to be on policy. That'd be great. I'll be for a lot of reasons. So, Lori, Kate, and Justin then on policy. That's what you want. [Laughter] Uh, negotiations. We know we we used a different process this year. Really? Do we can just leave that blank? We don't have to designate any board member on there right now. We can cross that bridge down the road. Do we even have any contracts with your current? Yeah, but we've got some time on that. Yeah, if you and if you want to go some be part of that. Okay. Uh capital project. It looks like I was I'd like to stay on now. Okay. Sure. Dan, you want to stay on that one? Sure. That one's a
029big one this year because we got a lot of work we're doing on that this year. I'd be happy to go on as a third just to make sure that we have that would be great. That is I've done that for the next couple years. That that's they're all important, but that's a big one. I've been on that one too. bus first phase or is that few times 26 27 I just knew it was broken up yeah I wasn't sure if it was 20 256 I thought it was all right so we're doing well consultation on ed what what does that what does that invol so that's unique have you received a copy of the WTA contract yet it's it's a collectively bargained committee that's been in the district forever. Uh it gives the WTA
030the ability to meet directly with board members, designated board members, and we have included the superintendent the last couple years. There's historical precedent for not including, but we believe including the superintendent is important for a lot of reasons. Uh but it we've improved our board uh WTA relations significantly the last couple of years with more regular meetings. Uh so it's it's really a either party can bring issues but really we choose to allow the WTA to bring things to us and we have dialogue. We just ask that we, you know, get an agenda in advance so we can be prepared for discussion and have meaningful discussion. But like to stay on that one question, I can stay on that one. I've been on that for a while, but it'd be good to add a third
031person if there's interest. It's maximum of once a month and it's at the WTA's sort of preference to schedule them with us. I think last year we met like every other month. Yeah. Yeah, I'd be interested. Okay, we can add you in there. It's a good one. And again, that'll be good to get to know some of the leadership of the WTA wellness. I was on this one. I don't even think I made a meeting in the last year. It was always a conflict for me. So 17. So yeah. Well, I did she pre Are they pres-scheduled already for you? No. No. Okay. No, they can be changed. They were at those ones were at 7 a.m. Yes. Yeah, that probably worked for some people, but I can't imagine that works for everyone. Yeah, it's
032not the best for me right now. Yeah, I know. I was going to go back to work, but do this all the time. If it's not at 7 a.m. Yeah, if we can dial in remotely, I can probably do it now that I don't have a kid in MS. I just thought about it. That was one of my barriers. So, I I can stay on that one and actually make meetings. I I would really like to be on that one. Okay. We would love to have you on that. Dan, do you want to stay on that one? You got your name on a lot. Not at 7 a.m. I mean, you can stay on it. It makes no difference. I can or can't. But if it's at 7 a.m., I'm done. I don't think we
033need to do them at 7 a.m. We can We can move them to a different We can put you on it, Dan, because you got a lot if you want to come off it. Yeah. It's okay. We can put you on board that. And then safety. We've got Tim, Dan, and Ken listed. Good with that. Okay. So, going back to the audit finance just to make sure. Are we good with Tim, Dan, and then Ken? Okay, great. That was way easier than it has in the past. Any questions? All right, move right into 11. Uh, agenda minutes approval. It doesn't actually say consent here. So, we got to go one by one. I'm just reviewing 11 floors. Yeah, it should. Yeah. Can I get a motion for 114 approval of minutes and agenda for the
034June 10th and June 17th meetings? Second. Discussion. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion is carried. Okay, we'll move to business operations 126. Can I get approval of a consent agenda including the general fund warrant in the amount of $624,71342 school lunch warrant in the amount of $9,18629. capital fund warrant in the amount of 320 $329,3420 the CSE CPSC recommendations as listed. Can I get a motion? So move second. Discussion. All those in favor I oppose. Motion is carried. Now we're going to move into 141. Turn it over to our newly sworn in superintendent. Thank you. So day five on the job. It's been a really busy five days honestly just but everybody's been extremely gracious and extremely helpful. I've had a ton of questions and people have really gone out of their way to
035do their best to kind of get me as much information as possible. So that's really what about a lot of it has been is really diving into how larville has been doing things over the last 10 years and trying to get some historical data and trying to figure out the things that I don't know and the things that I need to know. It's been really nice to see, you know, in both buildings. We've already got students back in the buildings up here at the high school. Driver's ed is up and running. Credit recovery is also going on. There's about 25 students currently taking place in that. um they're supposed to be finished by the end of July with those online courses. Hopefully hopefully the majority of those students will be able to earn those credits
036and and continue moving forward, you know, in their coursework. Uh great outdoors up and running led by Katie Hansen down at the elementary school. Was able to go and see all the kids arrive there the other day. That was, you know, from me being a secondary person. That's really out of my element, but really fun to see. Um but I know she's been putting in a ton of work to be up and ready for that. numbers I think are are really high and I know that she keeps getting requests for more and more people to join. I think you have about 120ish give or take that you have registered at this point in time. Today I took 93 to the library and she was amazing. Jill Kervin was like bring everybody in. So I can't
037ask for anything better. And we do think that since this week is the fourth to July we have about 20 to 25 that are going to come next week that took the whole week off. Like Mr. Rodell is on vacation. His daughter will join us on Monday. So, you know, we're going to have a big influx, but I think we're ready and I have a lot of really fun people to work with. Uh FS Engineering was in district today in preparation for the capital project, walking around with Tom Gleason doing a bunch of that preparatory work. We have second round interviews coming up tomorrow for MPS principal. So, we're really looking forward to that and hopefully we can get to a candidate and get that board approved so that we can as a unit later
038on in the summer really start working towards our goals. And that so that's a that's a key piece to us moving forward here in this district with me being new and obviously secondary principles coming in last year. Like that way we can all start getting on the same page and start making those plans to start moving everything in the right direction. And then another thing that had come up recently was the switch over from CAP region and their public relations service over to OM and Cynthia and I are hoping to sit down Thursday morning confirmed. So we'll be sitting down with them Thursday morning and that will really be helpful because right now a little bit in the dark on that as far as what that's going to entail and how we communicate with them
039and so hopefully we'll have a lot more answers for you after that meeting on Thursday. Like I said, it's been it's been a very very busy five days, but you know, everybody here has really made that manageable for me, and I'm really looking forward to keep moving forward. And I know it's really early, but I'm really excited for the school year to start. Honestly, that's the summer's going to go fast. Yeah, right. Wolf, any questions, comments, thoughts? I would just appreciate uh Zach for replying to emails on July 4th and July 5th, which was not necessary, but was duly noted. It was Yeah, it was a I had to because if I didn't do it then, it was going to be on my mind the entire time. So, it was just better to do it
040and get it done so that way that way I could do some family. Some board members may or may not send emails when they're drinking their morning coffee, even on holidays. Steve didn't log on. Coffee time. Cool. Okay. Did we have I know Cynthia, you didn't have anything this month. Next month you will. We will. Yeah. I discussed it with Zach and uh we're going to work on it together after I do some preliminary stuff. That'll be the first part of what we present. So where we think we can make some changes or at least just to present to you what you what you have that you have information for so you understand how it goes. Perfect. Okay. Um anything from the capital project committee just listed on here. I don't think we do. Uh
041we haven't had a meeting since the last time. Um I think we have one that's either the end of July or early August. They told us they were going to schedule our next one. So, we're into board discussion before we go to our first public comment. Any items we would like to discuss now? Do we need to pull up the calendar? I would say we need to think about a board retreat sooner rather than later. How do we how do we feel about August? Two regular meetings. One earlier in the flight last minute appointment possibly. Is that 12th and 26? Right. So, we always have options. Um, the 26 may or may not have a lot of information. I think I don't, you know, we don't need to put administration on the spot right now,
042but I would think the 12th, you'll have your reports, Cynthia, right, for the 12th. That'll be the more meaty one hopefully in MPS principal appointment, etc. So, we could carve out time on the 26th, could thread the needle there and have a board meeting and then go into a retreat. That's an option. I know everyone wants to give up their summer weekends. No, no, thank you. Any other thoughts right now? Do we want to block out another day? Are there any of these weeks that are a nogo? Absolute no-go for anybody like the week of the 18th. Is anybody out of town? Are there any nights that work better for our superintendent? I think no. I should be playing the week. Do we want to pick a night that week? Sure. For a board retreat.
043Stick with Tuesdays. No ball, right? We can. That works for me. What? No, I mean Tuesdays work for me. Like Tuesdays? I mean, my football player will have practice. He doesn't need me for anything. He walk over here. So, so what time and how long? 5:30. We don't want to go earlier than that, do we? 5:30. And do we want to just plan till 8? Have some food here like we've done before? Yeah, I think so. So, we'll just say 5:30 to 8. We can plan out the details. We don't have to hash them all out tonight. I would say I'd like everyone's thoughts, but within a couple weeks, we should have topics pulled together that we want to discuss. So, again, we can start we can start an email thread. I'll send one out
044like tonight on that with all of us and Zach and just if everybody's active on that, we can hash out what we want to go over framework. Get a little food to eat while we do it. Anything else we need to discuss about the retreat? Is it here? Yeah, we'll do it here. Yeah, we don't like to spend money as a board. No, I don't. We've been saving money the last few years as a board on that line item. So, we're going to keep that trend. So, no, we could we've in the past we've done them at Boseies. That's possible for sure, but I don't think we need to with this one. If we were going to do like a workshop or something, I would say maybe, but just us unless we decide to try
045to bring somebody in. Okay. The topics are Yeah. Let's see. I think a lot of that will be in partnership with you where you're at and yeah that Tuesday the 19th 5:30 to 8 we will want some food if you can help coordinate that. So yeah. Okay. Any other board discussion right now? I would say two things. Welcome Lori. I know we've done that before. Excited to have you here. And I would like to thank and recognize uh Justin and Dan for being officers. A special thank you to Dan for doing two years in a row with board pres including uh spearheading our superintendent search. Uh, it's a lot of work and Dan did a great job and now gets to be more of the peanut gallery participant in meetings. So, appreciate it. Okay, public
046comment. A public of one. I checked. There's no questions in the BOE email either. So we are good to go. Old business 171 uh approval of a policy for second reading. This is attendance. So do we want a motion here or do we want to table this? I guess I guess we'll make a motion first and we'll discuss it. Can I get a motion for 171? Thanks Tim. Thanks Dan. discussion. So, we had some questions on this in email, right? Mhm. Are we good to approve the second reading because the next time it comes on the agenda, we're going to be approving policy or do we need to table this? So, I don't know what the past conversations have been with building administrators. That's something that I have not had a chance to talk to
047them about and would like to. So I guess if they give you a little bit of Yeah, that would be helpful. So I believe what happened was uh it was reviewed in policy committee. It was brought for first reading and then it was not followed up on and Dr. Spring realized this before she left and had Jen put it onto the agenda for second reading. So that's how it got on today's agenda. So I would say there's still discussion points with building I think yeah the the thing we're gonna have another look at it the thing we'll have to keep in mind is it has to come back on the next meeting due to Robert's rules and then we have to push it ahead. So lesson learned you know holiday week last week we should
048have pulled it from the agenda completely before it hit the agenda tonight. in the future we should all be thinking that if like the president vice president doesn't think of that we want to pull that and then we have more time because we can table it but we just will have to review it in the next meeting and go back to go back to the planning table we can we can just I I think tableabling it is fine and then we can we can see where we get and cross the bridge the next month honestly. But any other thoughts discussion because I do think we want to give Zach time to get with the team on this and see what our thoughts are. You had mentioned you didn't think there was the multi-tiered Right. So
049that's in the policy. Correct. Correct. So that's correct. And that is not a plan that we currently have. Right. Yeah. I think that needs to be addressed. Agreed. So but creating an MTSS plan is like a year-long process. Correct. But we'd have a warehouse. So just would be the terminology, right? The way that it's kind of used in this particular draft of this policy though, like you could still have these tiers in line with an MTSS. So you could still operate in this way and have like these are our cut off points for looking at these students. It just we don't have our official MTS plan to go back to. So I think we could operate with this. I just wanted you to know that that's another thing that we're going to have to create
050and then they have to obviously mesh together, right? Okay. So, we will we will table this until the August 12th meeting. Okay. Moving into 181. Uh get a motion on approval of regular staffing actions. Oh, um Caitlyn St. Peters um to go around separately. Let's make the motion and we'll discuss that. Thank you, Dan. So, thank you, Ken. My fault. accept that discussion. So there isn't a way because it's not a separate line item to pull that. So your options would be to abstain, vote yes, but I would be abstaining from all of them. Correct. So you can think of it too if you it's your choice. Abstension can sometimes be viewed as a no vote. Um, I would say in cases like this, there's not an immediate conflict. So, you're not voting on your
051own personal interest. So, you can vote your conscience there, but you could certainly, I think, vote yes if you wanted to. Any other discussions on the staff appointments? Nice to see Andy Ford. I think it was he in here for coaching back for cross country. I noticed that. Okay. All those in favor. Opposed. Motion is carried. All right. Scrolled up too far. 19. New business general. We have a consent agenda. 19-13. Can I get a motion for approval of the consent agenda? Thank you, Tim. Thank you, Ken. Discussion. Any discussion? I know my questions were answered in email. Okay. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion is carried. Moving into second public comment. Uh in my honesty, and I'm not I'm someone familiar with Robert's rules of order, but because this is the start of
052your new year, anything that wasn't passed by June 30th sort of that. So that policy you were talking about, you have to restart. It's a good point. Yeah, that would actually be great. It does. And I didn't think of it in terms of the policy because I've always viewed those as three separate actions, but it's one continuous action. So it probably would Yeah. was was resolved. Yeah. That would be amazing to go back to the national first reading and yeah bring that up whenever you're ready and that should flow through the policy committee anyway. Okay. Push it back. So we'll double check that but we should be good there if that's right. Thank you Patty. Always appreciate your input. That's it. Okay. Any other board questions? more discussion. Efficient, right? Everyone did great. No, I
053I would say appreciate all the back and forth on emails over the holiday weekend. I thought that was great. Again, there's definitely no pressure on the superintendent to respond on a holiday, but it was appreciated. Okay. Do we have a need for executive session for any reason? Okay. Can I get a motion to adjourn? No. Good. No, we're good. He's representing maybe drag the meeting on. No, no, no. I think I mean at the high school they had a really good post the year. You know, I think one of the things they said at graduation, I think senior class I graduated. I do believe and I said it that day about coming in in the middle of the year, you know, changing up a whole lot of things in the middle of the year and
054they responded really well. Even when we caught them on their prank, they were very respectful, did their thing, you know, and stuff like that and the whole and the senior class they I think will be sad. They're good leaders in this in this field, you know. hear about that. I guess quickly as a parent of a senior, I'd like to thank you for doing such a fantastic job with graduation ceremony. It was a great day and greatly appreciate it. Yeah, it was a great ceremony. The speeches were very good. I thought they did a great job because I had my own kids graduation the night before. Outstanding speeches compared to like my homeish district, you know, with my kids. I thought the kids and it was funny when we practiced some at rehearsal. I had
055the kids practice on video and I said, "You guys haven't heard mine or anything like that." But it was amazing that them all speeches. I said, "You guys, you all have the exact same thing running through all the speeches and the fact how they touched up a lot of their their experience with each other, you know, like women things about the events that took place and all those things that made it more memorable just instead like a hokey, you know, motivational speech. I thought they were really touched. It just shows how close that class really is. Yeah, but the opportunity to beat up Vancouver. So, yes. Yeah. And the scissors, the scissors in the outlet. I'll never forget that. Holy cow. I do love the selling of blockers. I think that's a great That was
056hilarious. That was good. Awesome. Thank you. All right. Can we get a motion to adjourn at 654? So, I I heard a lot there. We'll go with Dan and Tim. All those in favor. All right. Meeting is adjourned. Have a great night. That's how we do it.