001Call to order the May 27th, 2025 uh Waterville Central School District Board of Education meeting. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I almost said please rise for the singing of the national anthem, but I didn't know who was going to sing it. Uh, okay. B's order of business is I am going to need a motion to approve the minutes from the May 13, 2025 meeting and the agenda for tonight's meetings. I get Thank you, Ken. Discussion. All in favor? I. All opposed. All right. Second agenda item is a consent agenda item for the approval of general fund warrant in the amount of $924,580.58. An approval of
002a federal special aid fund warrant in the amount of $4,159. the approval of a capital fund warrant in the amount of $25,70. The approval of school lunch warrant in the amount of $8,14628. And then the approval of cseps recommendations. Uh several different ones as noted in the agenda. Can I get a motion for approval of a consent agenda for items 2.1 through 2.6? Thank you, Kate. Thank you, Tim. Any discussion? All those in favor? I I. Any opposed? All right. Agenda item number three, Dr. Spring. Well, we're going to start with good news and we have lots of great news. First of all, a huge shout out to all of our voters for overwhelmingly passing our budget and you can see students are showing their their hearts there in appreciation. Um, so the vote passed
003uh with 72.79% of the voters approving it. Um, and that's really aligned, I think, with our historical look back here. So, um, so definitely in line with that and again, that was one of the lowest tax path levies that we've had aside from the 1920 school year. I also wanted to welcome Dr. Lorie Zuo. Did I say it correctly? Okay. Well, welcome aboard to the Waterville Central School District and the board of education. Uh, again, welcome and and congratulations to Dan Nichols. And also, I wanted to give a shout out to our new superintendent who was here with us this this evening, Zack. So, the junior senior high marching band trip to Disney is on the board agenda this evening. So, we wanted to have um Pat Machete and uh Wes Lauren come and we've
004got Mrs. um Jen Stifflet here this evening for representing our parent boosters. So, you can go up to the microphone. Remember the microphone is for our viewers who are joining us virtually. Okay. Just have a little bit of information about the trip to you all. Excellent. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. So, on the sheet being handed out, you can see uh what the kids in Disney will be doing uh academically. We were unable to reach the 40 student um necessity uh to March. we ended up having like 38 and Disney World said no, you need 40. So, um we opted for these master classes that um they offer smaller groups. Um the marching band will be taking a class with the professional music editors and some of them even compose. I believe uh they're going to teach
005the kids a piece of music when they arrive in a special room, a studio. Yeah. And uh they're going to learn the music. It's a two and a half hour sit down with a professional musician. They're going to learn the music. Once they learn it, they're going to record it and then they're going to mix it into a short um Disney movie with as a soundtrack and show how that process happens. And then each student will get a copy of that short movie with them playing the soundtrack over the movie. That's so uh that's the academic side for uh marching band since we can't perform and I don't know too much about the vocal. So we do have um our swing choir is going as well. Unfortunately there wasn't enough of them to perform. However,
006we chose a workshop um it's immersion through music which will be going through Epcot and hitting up different lands and learning how Walt Disney World uses music to kind of influence um their clients and how they can uh use it not just in their day-to-day as I like music, but how you can use it as an entrepreneur to help your business, how you can use it as a music teacher, how you can use it as um a general ed teacher to kind of calm your class. Do you want to hype them up? Do you want to lower them down? what do you want your music to do? So, uh we do have four students um who don't site read and they aren't in marching band. Um so, they will be they'll have a little bit
007extra part-time, but the rest of all of the other students will be also be going to the um workshop. So, not just the swing choir kids. So, the entire uh 42 kids will be attending the secondary workshop. Any other questions as far as dates? about our transportation. You want us to go over that for you or Sure. So, we'll be leaving um Sunday, June 13th. July 13th, sorry. Sunday morning, July 13th. Um we'll be heading out around six o'clock in the morning. We'll be making a couple stops along the way as needed. Our biggest stop will be in South Carolina. Um and we will also change bus drivers at that point. We are using Hail as our provider. Um they have one bus driver to get us halfway and then another bus driver to take
008us to the secondary part of our trip. Um again, we'll be taking some more stops on the way. We'll get there Monday morning around 7:00 in the morning. Um we do have a this year Disney's doing this awesome piece where if you buy park tickets and uh reserve some rooms, you also receive waterpark tickets. So day one will be water park um andor Disney Springs or just kind of chilling at the resort because 24 hours on a bus is a long time. Um so we're excited about that. Tuesday we will be doing the big workshop with all of the kids. It'll be Tuesday morning and then from there the kids will have the choice to either stay in Epcot or they have park hoppers so they'll be able to go to any of the other
009parks that they and their chaperone have decided to go to. Um Wednesday morning the band will head back over to Epcot. is where the studio is. The bus is actually going to drop them off kind of behind the scenes. So, that's kind of neat. Uh they'll do their their uh workshop, their instrumental workshop, and uh we'll take a tour around Epcot and then as our groups get back together again, we'll have uh free time to pick any of the parks that we choose to go to. That leads us to Thursday. It's a free park day. No pressure. The kids get to decide where they want to go, what they want to do, and then the bus will pick us up uh 7:00 to bring us back, head home to Waterville. Well, we'll do just the
010opposite. We'll stop back in South Carolina, switch out our drivers, and head back home. We should arrive around 7 8:00 Friday evening. So, we're very excited. The kids are very excited. Um I know my daughter has created a whole agenda for her group complete with outfits. Um so, the kids are super super excited. if you know, right? If you know my daughter, you you won't be surprised. But yeah, um coordinating what characters they want to be. So, the the kids are super super excited and so are we. I'm not sure about the uh 24 hours with 40 kids, but we're going to have fun. Um I know the kids have been pulling out movies and karaoke. They plan on singing a lot, so we'll have plenty of We try to do every six years for
011the kids. Um we try to make it affordable for them. Like for me myself, my first time to Disney World was with the marching band. I never had an opportunity to go and just to see our kids, you know, so happy with all their friends and, you know, initially getting to march. Unfortunately, we couldn't this year, but it's just an experience hopefully that our kids here won't forget. So, our seniors this year were actually supposed to go in the seventh grade, but CO hit. Oh, yeah. Um, so they didn't get to go on their their Disney trip. So, we were we pushed as much as we could to get them to be able to go this year. So, unfortunately, they can't perform, but we are doing some really cool workshops um for them instead. So,
012it's a little bit different. They'll get to be unique. Hopefully, by the time they um they get to go again, we'll have enough kids back where we can perform because that's how often do you get to say that I got to perform at Disney. So, we're very very excited about this trip. Sounds Yeah, sounds like an amazing trip. Thank you for everything you've done to make it come to fruition, especially retooling once not having enough kids to march and finding the opportunity to still get them there. So, great job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for 48 hours on a bus with 42 kids. It is Did Did you build noiseancelling headphones into the col? Yeah, we might have to revisit that, right? So, yeah. Yeah, good point. I got to see them on yesterday
013morning and they were fantastic. So, yeah. And and again, our kids and our our parents that help with that are phenomenal. Mine, my knee is I gave out during the phrase, so I ended up having to take a shuttle and wait at the end. And the kids were amazing. They were just like self-sufficient, well behaved. Parents were right there to help as needed. It was fantastic. Yeah, the kids marched Waterville, Deansville, and then Arusy Falls. Um I was going to say it's a big on Monday. Yeah, it's a it's a long day for those kids, but they do a great job. Then the boxing poly on June 5th grade were performing in as well. Yeah. All right. Just insist they wear sunscreen. Don't drink water. Any questions for us? No, I think you answered all
014mine. That's fantastic. Great. We're excited. Thank you. Thank you. So, I wanted to recognize our new professionals who completed the year-long professional development program that we have. Um, so we had nine new teachers who were supported in this with their mentors. Katie Akens, fifth grade. Anna Altarwald, sixth grade. McKenna Campo, first grade. Alexandra Gates, English 712. Matthew Hec, long-term substitute, secondary. Max Langden, English. Rachel Nef, kindergarten. Michelle Vance Light social studies, and Michaela Van Warmer, third grade. So, a huge shout out to these new professionals, as well as a huge thank you to their mentors who worked with them for the year as well. So now we're really excited to hear a presentation about our prek12 library program and just really would like to congratulate and thank your library media specialist uh Liz Brennan who's
015going to tell us about the year. Thank you. Thank you very much. Um the first thing we have is I think Dr. Spring is going to distribute. Yes, this little flyer that I gave out. This is how I started the year out. I was just slightly more nervous than I am right now at the start of the year. Um, and you know, I was worried if my my colleagues would accept me in my new role. For those of you who might not know, I was an English teacher before and um, I switched gears and now I'm the librarian. And I was hoping that they would take me up on some of these offers. So, I gave them this little flyer, right, that shows some things that I could do, get them thinking, and thankfully, it
016has been a really busy year for me. It has been wonderful, and I thank my colleagues for um taking me up on the offer. So, I wanted to start out by showing you that. And I couldn't have done any of that fun work, curriculum work, co-eing work without the help of Mary Fallon and Julie Olmstead, the librarian aid. So I really I I thought I would start out by giving them some recognition. um they are they both do a remarkable job in their library positions and they're the ones who really do the work that I think people traditionally associate with the work of a librarian. Um they're the ones who manage the book circulations for students. They make the displays. They maintain the collection, organize, um process new materials, keep our collection organized. I said
017that again. And do book repairs. Um, also Julie and Mary are in charge of overseeing all of our interl loans. So they do a lot of of that work. Um, and in addition, Mary does all of this while monitoring our library, which can get very busy, full of students who choose to come from study halls and lunch. And um, she ensures that our space is welcoming and safe for all students. She manages the chess tournament. She keeps all of our student events in the library running very smoothly. So without Mary and Julie, I would not be able to do any of this collaboration with teachers or assist um or teach research and information literary skills. So uh I'm very very grateful for their work and um for them being with me. So with that being
018said, I wanted to highlight a couple of the projects we did that were super fun this year. Um I'm I'm not going to go through them all because I promised Mrs. Hansen, I I would not be here all night. I'm just going to go through a couple with the elementary school and maybe a couple with the um with the high school. Okay. So, Mrs. Kilts really has been um wonderful in accepting me into her classroom. We have done some awesome things together. Um the first thing was this project that we did that combined digital literacy and information literacy and social studies content and writing development. It was everything a nice combination. And what happened was these fifth grade students chose a topic from their unit that they were studying which was ancient civilizations at the
019time. And then so they chose a facet of that that they found most interesting. And then they did additional research that I guided them through. Um and we used academic databases. We talked all about source credibility and things like that. Um and then they created these really coolformational pamphlets using Canva. So they got um some work. Yeah. This is our this is the um presentation that they gave to parents when they gave uh we had our ancient civilization showcase, right? So you can see there they were um just very a very informal public speaking opportunity for them because we all know sometimes public speaking is is a difficult task. So, I really wanted to give them a a low stakes kind of way to entry into public speaking. And I think everyone had a really
020nice time there. Um, and here's uh some examples of some exemplary work. Um, you'll see up there. Now, listen, I want you to know that I made this presentation a long time ago. And and I I I asked Julie Olstead today. I said, "Julie, is that is that the new superintendent's daughter?" Oh, that's not gonna look good. I promise I didn't. I disagree. Well done. Well done. So, yeah. I I promise I didn't know. Anyway, she did a great job. Um, they all did a nice nice job there. So, that was the first thing I did with fifth grade. And let's see. And then Mrs. Kilt was kind enough to let me back in more recently. and we've kind of upped the game now and we're working on more research and they're writing a biography
021in their um what is this their Renaissance unit and they're writing a well organized book that contains synthesized information from multiple academic sources and now they're going to be using Google Slides well actually already have used Google Slides to design their own book and then I bound them with this really neat machine we have in the library called the cover one machine and it not only repaires books, but it can bind books. So, I made little booklets for them as you'll see right there. And soon we are because there's a couple people who still need to finish, but soon we're going to have um an author's reception in the library where we're going to celebrate their accomplishment with some punch or something like that and uh everyone can read their work. So, that is um
022fifth grade project. So, pretty happy about that one. Some other things that I've been doing that aren't major projects are uh standalone lessons on a skill or a topic. For example, um in December, we did some work in a couple different classes determining the difference between um historic history and historical fiction. And they did some research to differentiate between the two um from this World War I um work, this World War I event of of the um Christmas truce. And Archie really liked that one. I can tell you that much because he is our big war afficionado there. Okay, so now fourth grade um in Jodie Thomas' class, they have done a lot of work with me this year too and they did someformational posters that you see displayed there. This one was using Canva
023again and um they were thrilled that I displayed them in the library and all the other students were excited to look at all of their hard work too. So what they're doing now, I'm working with them presently and they are working on um a a choice project which is pretty neat. Some of them are researching the history of roadblocks. Another one is um h studying the um history of segregation in schools. So you can see there's like a wide wide variety of things that they're really interested in and um they are going to do a Google slides much like the one I'm giving tonight and give it to an audience at school. So I'm pretty excited for them too. Moving right along to seventh grade in the high school. This is with Shannon Wannon and
024her students and what they did is they explored topics of health um that they wanted to explore and they used um one of our academic databases, Gail Health Database, and then they createdformational slides and I combined their work into one slide presentation and then it ran on the televisions throughout the halls and in the lunchroom and it was fun to watch them um engaging with the slides and and looking at and being proud of of the work that was being broadcast. So that was one with Shana. And then I I'm not going to go through all of these, but these are some of the other things um that we've been doing in the library. You can see that it's more than just in the English class, which I love, right? You can see the first
025one actually take me up on um my help here was Mrs. Shaw and she wanted them to do some re some artist research and make some sort of um a poster that could represent that artist. And so we we had a nice time doing that one. Mrs. Cantor in math which was really neat to be working with a math teacher. That's the first time I've ever done that. And um we we um found some sources and they put together a budget using some credible sources. So which that was pretty cool too. Um another kind of a major project that I worked on was I'll skip down a couple was um a project I worked on with Mrs. McNamera. Um, and uh, we helped these students find some good research to base their um, Helen and
026Leon Sperling Holocaust essay on. Um, and they they did a nice job with that and several of our students won um, that contest. So, let's see. Well, how about one more? Right now, in Mrs. Gates classroom. They're researching and writing um an essay about an American president and whether or not and their their relationship to power is really the what they're thinking of in that one. So, lots of things going on which is wonderful. Our next the next real area of focus that I have is I I want to foster a culture of reading at both schools, right? um so super important because if these kids want to read, if they like reading, then that translates into every other academic focus. So, some things that we've been doing in Max Langden's seventh and eighth grade
027classes, um they participated in book tastings to choose an independent reading novel. Students in Mrs. Altawal's six um sixth grade classes participated in several activities to create enthusiasm for reading including book talks and first um chapter Fridays. And when most teach most teachers brought their students to the library um and this is MP at MPS, they would bring them there for circulation and then they would request that I would read a story with them. And that was that was a lot of fun, right? from going to from teaching in the high school to interacting with these littles and watching them get so excited about reading. I was like, "Oh man, we've got to figure out a way to make this translate up, you know, to get into middle school. Middle school is where we really
028need some work, you know, between sixth grade because I can still see it in sixth grade, but then seventh grade there's kind of a drop off there. So, trying to figure out what we can do there." Um, also at one point there were high school students who visited MPS to read to the prek through third grade and that was that was wonderful. That was one of my highlights of the year. There's Wyatt. Yeah. And they loved it. I don't know who loved it more, the the young students or the older students. They they really did have a have a great time that day. So, my goals for next year at MPS, I really want to work with the elementary school principal. We've already talked a little bit about how about strategizing how I can see
029all classes at least once a month to build students digital lit literacy, information literacy, and enthusiasm for reading. um and at the junior and senior high school. My goal for that is that now now that I'm no longer the English department team leader and I don't have to run those meetings. I can attend all of the other department meetings and present some ideas to them um and inform them about available technology and encourage uh some creative collaboration and um again move writing and research beyond those traditional English and social studies departments because I think it's it's we can definitely do it and they need to do it do more research in any of so that's the end am Am I okay with that, Katie? Am I good? Okay. Okay. Thank you. I commend you. Really
030initiated this year. Your collaboration with all of our teachers. Um I think the model's really working. I also commend the board for supporting her in this row, this role really. We're growing our own librarian here. Right. You Yes, we pre-purpose. So, yes. Well, thank you. Thank you. Yes, I do appreciate this opportunity. Um, and I'm really enjoying my school librarianship classes at UB. Um, my se summer semester started today, so I'm really excited about that. Um, I actually I really am. It's a great course. Um, and uh, yeah. Yeah, thanks. Having an English teacher in the role is really making it big. I was just going to say thank you for taking this on. Thank you for how excited you are about it. I think it's no secret why it's a success. You're showing it
031tonight. Um I know my first grader when he comes home, he loves to talk about his library day. Brings home great brings home great books. So Oh, good, good, good. Thank you for everything you're doing. Oh, you're so welcome. It is my pleasure. I think what I love about what you brought to the position um and you brought it to your English position too is how you incorporate um allowing students to to showcase what they uh what they've made and what they've researched and put all this time in and you brought the community and with presentations to parents and I just think that that's absolutely thank you. Yes, I think especially right now that's it's really important to have some authentic assessments and to have their audience for these assessments be more than just the
032teacher. And I know we had so many questions about social studies at that previous meeting and that it seems like elementary is doing so much more social studies than than I don't know. They really are at least in fifth grade, right? Yeah, I know. And all the grades, I'm sure, but I'm just most familiar with fifth. So, all right. Well, thank you so much. appreciate it. Thank you. So now we are moving to a very different topic. Um so Cynthia is going to provide some information for us. The first slide is going to be how are we trending right now in antis anticipation of the end of the this the budget year for us as well as the board had requested um a a fouryear we're doing a four-year projection of our our usage of
033our fund balance. Okay. So that's going to be the second topic. First, I'm going to um turn it over to Synia to talk about cover. Okay. So, I I gave you guys copies so that you can see it. Maybe it's not so clear on the on the project all the time. Um I did February, March, that's all that's in the system as of right now. So, that's as far as I can uh project. And um we're right even. So, if you look at the bottom, I'll call your attention. It says transfer to special aid. That's the transfer to the capital outlay and we're just finishing that up. So that 100,000 is going to go over. So then you can see how that'll drop it down to 65,000 and then 49,000. So that's basically a break
034even at this point in the year. Um we're going to do some deep diving into the budget. This is that time of year we're going to tie out all our our accounts and uh balance and reconcile all our billing and make sure that everything that we need in the system is in is in the system and where we need it to be in those account categories. So, I'll have an update for you next month when our general ledger person gets uh the numbers for April in and I'll have a better uh knowledge that this is exactly where I want it to be and there's no surprises that I haven't encountered yet. So, um, and I think it is for the most part, but until I reconcile all that billing from Boseies and if they have
035all their adjustments in, um, that that's my my end of my year. So, between now and and June, that's what I'll be busy with, and getting ready for the audit, right? All that that's why I do it to get ready for the audit. So, I have to make sure that all those accounts, everything's accounted, important. So, that's our first slide. Um, does anybody have questions on it? No, I think so. No. So, we're right on budget. Yeah. So, I just tight. Yeah. Not where we were last year, right? So, um, what a difference pandemic money makes. Um, so this is our long range uh, fund balance projection. So, all I'm really projecting here is how far out, like we discussed the other night, that fund balance is going to take us. Um, again, I have
036some more deep diving to do to make sure that, you know, um, all our projections are accurate for health insurance and salaries and um, but right now, so I will give you a little bit of background on how I did it. Um so the projected revenues uh I used a 2% annual growth in tax base and then I used a 2% for our foundation aid and then a 1% on all our other revenue. Okay. Y so um then on expense growth uh salaries I did an estimate of uh 4% and um 3.5 in some cases and then 4% in others and um then I generally like with our health insurance that had to have it I used a 8%. So this year it was 12 but last year it was eight and historically it's been
037between seven and eight. So, I'm going back to I think this was a jump this year that we're not going to see again that high, but I think you can count on 8% as a steady number. Um, again, some of this stuff is going to be updated, right? Like anything, it's going to grow with with as much as I find out. So, um, and then I used a 3% across the board for some of your regular expenditures that don't have quite a vast increases like health insurance um, and uh, like salaries. So, uh, as you can see, if you follow the line, we start out pretty good. We're starting out with our fund balance at 3,100,000 and the first year we end up at 2,362,000 and uh year two 2,362 starts and we end with
0381,327 375 and then year three we end with 31,568 and year four we're in a negative for $1.5 million. So pretty much in three years we are yeah you're on fund balance unless foundation aid now becomes you know 4% and I don't think that's likely I think it'll they see us or if health insurance pre you know if the health insurance costs go down I mean there are some things that could happen but we we base the assumptions I think pretty realistically. That sounds like it. Yes. That's good. So I think it's a good starting place for us, right? We're going to deep dive into how do we cut costs and where do we cut them? And so I think this is the overview I'm going to present you with first and then we'll go
039into stuff like um you know uh our software our software uh budget has grown in the last four years a huge amount because we now are like more online learning based you know. So, we we'll deep dive into those, see if there's places that anybody can see that we can do some cuts and stuff, but I think we're going to have to we have some stuff to do in the next four years. We know what the the status quo looks like, so now we have to start looking deeper into opportunities. So, thank you. Exactly. Any other questions? No, it's just good to get the actual numbers out so the public can actually see where we where we stand financially and where we look in the future and that Yeah. Yeah. I think 2.5 2.3 million
040now is really amounts to nothing in two years. A lot can happen. So, it's just good to get the word out to everybody. You know, I know when it was out last year when it came out said that we have all this money, it's able to be eaten up very fast, right? So, we just want the transparency so everybody understands, you know, where everybody stands and you know, yes, we are doing okay, but to maintain doing okay is we need to be conscious of what we're spending, how we're spending it, and where's it going. So, no, I appreciate this is good to get this out and keep it out and so everybody knows that creating a budget doesn't happen overnight. You know, I wouldn't be surprised if the uh we're going to be getting that
041schedule out to start next year, right? You know, so Right. Yeah. We just finished one. We're getting ready to start the next one in what, August. Yeah. So, I think the transparency is we have to keep it out there and to let everybody know where we stand. we are okay but let's maintain that. So no I appreciate it and so this Thursday night at 6 p.m. is our civic showcase. Remember the seal of civic readiness. So this year we have four student groups of seniors. So 10 to 11 students who will be presenting their research. Remember part of this is their capstone project. So they will be presenting their cap capstone project in the cafeteria. Um and this is just a refresher here on um how many points that they need. They need six points
042with at least two from the civic knowledge and at least two from the civic participation. So So last year we had two seniors who met uh the requirements to receive the seal and this year we're hoping that all 12, you know, um will meet those requirements. So very very happy with that and a huge uh thank you to Holly McNamera for really spearheading this in Waterville end of year events. So just so everybody's aware this again the civic showcase MPS concert is uh June 4th is at 6:30. Yeah. Yes. At 6:30. So let me explain the awards ceremony. So you you received invitations and you recall last year when we did our grading study that one of the recommendations was to um change how we recognize our graduating seniors. So as part of that the
043board also agreed that we would change the cutoff point in of their senior year when we calculate their final grade. So this year we did it at the end of the third marking period before it was after the second marking period. Um and we are announcing okay all of the recognitions at June on June 5th. So the way the evening will um unfold is that first we will announce our I mean all of our recognitions for seniors our validictorian our saludiatoran top 10 you remember we're phasing that out and our honors graduates. So what I think is really exciting is that top 10 only recognized 10 students but this year we have 11 students who are being recognized for um earning honors um you know honors high honors and highest honors. So so it's working
044and I think that is definitely it's going to continue to grow. Um we also have underassman awards. So students in grades 7 through 11 are going to receive awards on their uh achievement, on their effort, on their character. So this was something that had been in place before the pandemic and again we we haven't done it until this year. So I think it's going to be a really exciting evening. The students who are being recognized as seniors will receive a stole and they will wear those at graduation. Now next year, I've already talked to Kurt and Andre about this. uh you're going to have to decide. So, one of the things that we put into the policy um was that we were going to make the cut off at the very end, okay, at the
045conclusion of their senior year. Now, that will definitely ensure that you're keeping students motivated until the very end. And it also allows for that movement, right? because you don't want somebody to get, you know, one of the highest honors um if someone else maybe below them continued to work hard and and they then um you know, moved up in their ranking. So, I do believe that waiting until the very end is the right thing to do. Logistically, it's a little difficult. So, that that's a decision you're going to have to make um on how you would like to proceed with that. Um, I think this is going to be a really great event next week because you're every all the underassmen are going to be celebrating the seniors and their academic achievements and watching them
046get. So, let's just see how it works and and that is something you're going to have to decide for the next school year. Um, graduation is June 21st, um, Saturday 10:30. Remember, the following year graduation's a week later, so we already planned for that. prek moving up. So, we're going to keep our little prek students up at night because I think it's at 6:30. No, it's at 6. Okay. We wanted to make sure that we're not as disruptive during regionally, so we're doing it at night. Okay. Uh so, very nice. And just so you know, we already have 42 uh four year olds signed up for next year. 40 41. Okay. Well, we're hoping for too [Laughter] concern possibly if we if we go last year at budget time we went out and we only
047had like 12 kids signed up for prek. So, we weren't sure if they were going to keep section. So, um some other local districts that where the numbers were at they're just continuing to climb. So, we continue to take them but saying I'm really sorry you're on the waiting list. Right. So it's hard it's hard for parents. So there is there is um money in our allocation from the state to apply for three classes but the problem is we need more students right because there 18 in each class. So so if we if they keep coming then definitely we can apply for another section. We're going to have to figure that one out. We do have room for them because I have another announcement as part of um so we do have room for another
048prek. So, no, no, no. Not as weird as you think. If we don't have help. No. So, we're we're good. Okay. And the sixth grade moving up ceremony June 25th at is it 9:30? 9:00. 9 o' again. Um, I write that one down. What do you I think you'll probably get a reminder. Yeah. Right here. Okay. Oh, here. That's good to know. You received this. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. So in exciting news, Vonics have arrived. Okay. All 65 of them all at once. It was a little shock. Um and we had some DW come uh put them all together. Uh and we are planning a schedule for installations and removal of the old bright links. Uh so that's all happening and I wanted and so all will be complete by the start of the
049new school year. And here you can see that yeah so they're going to mostly be on these um um carts I guess. um some but mostly I don't think we're I don't think any of them were going to be installed on I think certain certain rooms um so it depends on the room like if you're in a science room and you have demonstrations they point Mr. Um, so especially we talked about like the elementary school when the capital project redo the science rooms about possibly mounting them on the wall. Um, but I still need to talk to the members of the science department, anybody else that might run into that where there's a station and a cart would not mount. So, thank you to Cynthia for figuring out the financing and thank you to Mike
050for deploying all of our our new view and teachers are really excited. They're really excited to I heard about this the other day, too. Yeah. So, good. Look at Do we have a professional development plan for We do. Yes. And so, Zach will know what are the documents. We've already worked on our opening superintendent conference day schedule as well as all of our PD days for the next school year and we're filling it in. So there is going to be um PD on either the first superintendent conference day or the second one for um yeah the panic. So we've already looked at that and some of our staff um so I emailed everybody out because it's really hard to store 65 panics on um and any of them would like to be an early adopter.
051I did get 18 responses back that I haven't read yet. Um, but some of the teachers are really excited and already know how to use the masonic because they came from districts that have them. Oh, that's awesome. Um, so we're figuring out who's going to be doing the training. Um, but some of those early adopters might be the ones that have already had that professional development or like UPK that doesn't have the latest technology like the apps and bright. Um, but we have a lot of teacher, a couple teachers out there that have already been trained. So, it might be a turn key training, it might be me, it might be somebody from these or whatever. We're still putting that down there. So, non-resident tuition. So, we have updated the policies. They're on the agenda
052for second reading. And we uh historically, this is what the district has done. So the grandfathered rate has increased by the amount of the levy, okay, which is 2%. Now, a few years ago, I want to say three years ago, uh the board decided that we would look at our average tax bill and we would base uh the non-resident tuition on that bill. Um so that's what we have continued to do and that amount continues to rise by um the levy as well. Currently, we have 25 total non-resident tuition paying students. So, I wanted to, you know, open this up to the board for any questions or any comments or any discussion. Um, and then we can include it on the uh agenda for June 10th. All 25 grandfather, most of them. Yeah. Do we
053have any recent recent? Yes, we do. This year, I did send you the information background. I did send you that to you that chart. I don't have it in front of me right now. I can look for it. But there were some this year who did uh come from other districts and who are paying that amount per child. Okay. I think I counted maybe six in that listing. They're at the full rate. So I don't necessarily have any questions. I think I think it's where we're still aligned as far as what that cost is and and we did put some of those safeguards into the the policy as we talked about. So if the board's okay then we'll include it on next month next uh next agenda. Yeah, I think it's fine. It's not something
054I mean the grandfather you can't change anything about that. That's not fair. So okay, I like where we're at. Thank you. reasonable gifts to very very reasonable. I've heard a couple numbers this past weekend that five didn't did we ever charge 5 to7,000 yes we did really and nobody came no that's I can understand well and then so the history here the history here is that the grandfathered rate stayed in place now the grandfathered rate is the rate that was established many many years ago by the board of education and so that rate has stayed right and so what was happening was that anyone who wanted to come as a non-resident tuition paying student, the parents applied and challenged to become a grandfathered rate student um because they had been in the district previously or
055they had all kinds of reasoning and so then the board had to hear all these appeals. So that's why the board at the time decided that we would come up with a more reasonable rate and that's what we have now. That's fair. Okay. So I I have a number of announcements. I also have a really great announcement. So we on the agenda you will see the recommendation for an MPS nurse. So I'm really excited to tell you about Wendy Divine and she is Divine. So, um, Wendy, uh, actually has a connection to Waterville. Um, she was a critical care nurse, RN in the recovery room and emergency room at St. Luke's for 25 years, and then she made a career change to become a school nurse. Um, she was a floater in the Udica City
056School District, a floater in the Holland Patton School District. Um, and she worked in also the Herkimer Boseies. it was a little long for her to commute there and then she um went to Poland. So now she and her family are relocating closer to close to Waterville and she was really thrilled to see our advertisement for an MPS nurse and we interviewed her and she is just you know outstanding. So she has outstanding nurse skills and she is going to be seamless. She already knows school tools. um she knows all the procedures and all the reporting for to state ed to the department of health for um our students as the school nurse. So so she's starting June 9th. Fantastic. Okay. So so that is good news. All right. And then let's see. So I
057did want to talk about the Boseis um rent for classrooms. So uh they're not renting as many classrooms. So that's a um but they are renting five classrooms. So last year the 2425 school year they rented eight classrooms for a total of $106,000. Um for the next school year it will be five classrooms at 62,500. So there is a decline in revenue for the district with that. Um, next board meeting, uh, I will be presenting the public hearing on the code of conduct at 5:45. It has been reviewed by our legal team and then we'll also review it internally to see if there um any other changes that should be made and then we'll have the public hearing at the next before the next meeting. Um, I wanted to congratulate Cynthia. Her civil service, uh,
058new title has been approved for civil service. She is now a school business executive. Um, so we congratulate you. And she'll also be using that as her title from from now on. Instead of district treasurer, she's now the school business executive. Congratulations. Great. Um, Dan Nichols and I are meeting with Dr. Kilborn on Friday to discuss the cap region Bosey's cross contract for communication services and I am applying to the Barton fund on behalf and in partnership with MVHS. So we're working on closing the budget gap. So we're trying to make the economics work to be able to reopen the schoolbased health center. Right now we have about um about $80,000 we're trying to close the gap on and I will be applying for equipment and supplies uh totaling about $35,000 to the BART fund.
059So and that is so we can reopen the schoolbased health centers. Um they'll be staffing it with an LPN in each building and they will be overseen by a nurse practitioner. So, so, uh, hopefully that will work. Given given the the gap in funding, is it an option to have a health center in each building and staff it on alternating days? So, we we're talking about a lot of different options. So, those that's definitely get it open. Definitely on the table. And what they said the first two years are the most difficult. And I think the board remembers that until you get everybody enrolled again. Um and then exceed that. Remember we were at 80%, so we need to exceed 80%. Um and so it's really the funding for the first two years, right? Okay.
060Uh they're also applying to the community foundation for funding. So they're working hard on it to really, you know, make this happen for Waterville. And I think that's it. Okay. But not and I have two um committee meetings I wanted to report out on. Hold on. Let's go back to the agenda. Okay. Okay. So, first, um, we had our wellness committee meeting this morning and we talked about our multi-tered system of support and I think we're in a really good place with our plan there. Definitely at NPS, uh, we're talking about revising and updating our RTI plan here at the junior senior high school. So, that will be a priority for the next school year. We discussed at length having a universal screener to assess students social emotional status. And you may recall we did
061the SDQ um when I first got here. We did it for two years in a row and we didn't find that it was a real um it was cumbersome to to um administer. Parents, a lot of parents didn't complete it and students didn't take it seriously. So we felt well this is right up your alley. So, uh, we felt that we needed a different type of universal screener. So, we had a team investigate some of them this year and were still not there. I think the district should still continue to get a screener in place because that way you can identify students that maybe even weren't on your radar if they're having social issues. So, so that's something I would say to continue to to look into. Um, we talked about uh chronic absenteeism and
062we were pleased with our March Madness challenge and we have summer hours on the agenda that we are uh giving providing to our social workers, our school counselors and the social workers will be looking at the chronic absent students and bringing their families in to be uh proactive and have a plan before the school year starts. So, so that's why they a big reason they're getting hours for summer days. And uh we'll have CPI training next year. We'll continue that with Demi Necotera. Um continue pos positivity project um with Jodie Thomas at MPS. Uh continue our connected community schools. Um Miranda is not going to be coming back. So we have Jess Sibli. She had a baby. She's going to stay home. um and also strengthening our referral process for our neighborhood center counselor and
063how we can get more students enrolled in that process. So um so that's what we talked about. We also had a capital project meeting last Friday and um so we had our architects, our electrical engineers, Cynthia, CJ, Mike, um Tom Gleason and we reviewed the information technology improvements um and uh Frank Reed from our engineer, electrical engineer raised initial concerns regarding the placement of some of our proposed network closets. due to cable runs exceeding 275 ft. So, we decided that we would locate the closet locations uh at the junior senior high, the storage closet and the technology classroom area, the main electrical room, the main server closet and IT support office. At NPS, it would be the main server closet, the storage closet off the main hallway, and the old phone room near the basement
064access. As part of the project, all old network cabling will be removed. New Cat 6 cable will be installed and color-coded based on its function, such as wireless network and security um for ease of identification and long-term maintenance. This is really important. The only computer labs scheduled to be rewired are art room, technology classroom, um and classroom space B56 located in the junior senior high school library. The engineers also presented various equipment mounting options currently being considered as part of the scope. Again, it depends on the the room and the next steps. So, we are reviewing the plans to verify that the number of data runs per space meets the district's current and future needs. We are cross-checking the existing security camera layout with the list to be provided by general security. It will remove
065and store all existing wireless access points and cameras during construction to prevent loss during demolition. Mike Shu has identified a teaching wall in each instructional space and will ensure those locations are updated in the project plans. So the project will utilize multiode fiber for network connectivity and all network closets will be designed in accordance with the ML plan previously submitted to the district. We will continue to update you. So again, thank you for Mike for for helping out with this as well as Cynthia and CJ. Um so one of the last things we talked about at the capital project meeting was air conditioning at the HVAC at MPS. So um it was brought up that if we put the air conditioning in the MPS gym, that's a cost of a million dollars. So, I don't
066think it's advisable. Um, first of all, it's a large space. You It's never going to be as hot as a classroom. You can open up doors. You can bring in big fans. Um, so I I don't think it is something that is needed as part of the cafeteria, the library, all the other classrooms, all the other spaces will be air conditioned. So, they can bring the duct work to that and end it. So, in a future capital project, we could we could add to it. Yes, that's okay. Just as long as they don't deadend it or something like that, you know, I always want to leave that option to do that. You know what I mean? Absolutely. If because I do believe the AC that is pending to go in is going to be large
067enough to do everything. And if it's that much more, okay, understandable. Let's do what we can do. And predominantly is the teaching areas. Correct. you know, yeah, the lunchroom and everything like that, but the teaching, you got to be able to focus, right? Those rooms get extremely But I don't want to just say, "Oh, it's money. Let's sure baby steps and let's get there." But, you know, eventually, but I just want to make sure that make sure that is pushed towards a I want to have that option to be able to grow to have the whole facility air conditioned. Any other comments? With the law goes in effect in September, right? So, do we need to have a plan for uh creating a board policy around it? We have to have a board policy by
068September. What? Yes. So, we probably should schedule some policy committee meetings to do that. You already have a Yeah, we have a heat uh you're saying for No, because of the new law like the they're because it can't be over. Right. Right. Like we have to have something specific for evac evacuation for uh the temperature of the classroom by the current I would assume. Yeah. And have a plan that will support the policy. Right. So we um were in contact with NISBA because again we're joining their policy service and they will send us a sample policy. Okay. And it will all be through board docs. I had a question about the social emotional uh universal screening. Yes. As far as um curriculum aside from like positivity project and things. Um could we take a look
069at implementing um a child like sexual abuse prevention uh curriculum? Um I know I've mentioned that in the past. I don't know if any danger years ago. Yeah. making useful one presentation session. But yeah, I think I think that that's great that there was one presentation. So, thank you for that. Um I'd like to see something that's more continued. Um and there's access to resources for parents and um something that's talked about more than just like a one-off uh presentation would be amazing. That's all I have. Okay. Where are we at? I guess uh we are at uh board discussion. Anyone? No. Good. Anything? No. Okay. Not having anything brings us to our first public comment or agenda items. I guess anybody in attendance? No. All right. Moving right along. Moving on to agenda item
070number seven, old business. We have the second reading of what? Two different What do we have? The following. We got uh a few different policies for second reading. The 6202 appointment of coaches 704 non-resident attendance policy 74.2 two, non-resident Attendance Regulation, 707, Academic Credit Policy, that's a deletion. And then 77.1 attendance report form parent notification. And that's also a deletion. So with that motion, yeah, you get a motion. Okay. discussion. All those in favor? I I Okay, next will be new business personnel and this is going to be a consent agenda for all of the uh members being brought forward. I get a motion. So move second. Thank you. Discussion. All those in favor? I and again to new business general. This again is going to be a consent agenda and there is a lot
071of items. Uh first is going to be the acceptance of the 2025 2026 budget results. Next is going to be approval of the school bus bond. Next is the approval of Rick one risk operations center uh district A4L. Next is approval of teacher leaders for the 2025 26 2026 27 and 202728 school years. So it is grant funded is through our title funding and I've put grant funded there because if some for some horrible reason uh title goes away um then won't be able to have the teacher leaders unless you can it can be assumed and right absorbed by the okay next is going to be the approval of teacher assistant leaders for the same time frames approval of Memorial Park Elementary interim principal. The approval of appointment of special education department summer day work
072the approval of appointment for school counselors and social worker summer work day work which Dr. Spring spoke about and the approval of the board of education meeting schedule for the 202526 school year still going the approval of Madison Onidita Bose's cooperative bidding services for the 202526 school year the approval of the music department overnight trip to Disney World. So, can I get a motion for the approval of the consent agenda containing each of these, please? Second. Thank you. Discussion. All those in favor? I thank you. So, I wanted to recognize um principles and uh she'll be leaving us. So, uh, we're sorry, but thank you for being with us this year and we wish you all the best in Camden Elementary School. Thank you. It's been an honor to serve the community and it's a
073great building. Yes, I have her cell phone so we can check whenever we don't text. So, yeah, I guess I would echo what Dr. Spring said. Thank you very much for the year. We appreciate having you here. We hate to see you go, but wish you all the luck in your future endeavors. Thank you. And this will bring us to our next public comment session for non-aggenda items. Anyone in attendance? Patty Louise. Anything for us? Not to put you on the spot. Okay. Keep running. Why did you do that intense um negotiating session with the WTA yet? That's so um we have that scheduled for June 9th, 10th, and 11th. Um we did exchange proposals, so that's where we are right now. I wasn't sure what it was. It sounds uh not that I would
074sit in, but it sounds like a fascinating case study of of negotiations. Like very fascinating. Do we have any board questions? All right. And I believe we have the need for an executive session. So, if I could get a motion to convene into executive session. Hold on one second, please. for the uh medical financial, credit or employment history of a particular person or corporation or matters leading to the appointment, employment, promotion, demotion, discipline, suspension, dismissal or removal of a particular person or corporation. Can I get a motion? Thank you, Tim. Thank you, Kate. Uh discussion. All those in favor? Hi. What do you um just you I believe say you may be I