001Okay, good evening. Sorry for the delay. Okay, Kathy G. Any other nominations? Wait, just Yep. Okay. Need a motion to close the nominations. Okay. Anthony Frank, all those in favor. Okay. Okay. So, now I just have to call for a vote. The motion to elect. Yes, correct. That's I'm sorry. Uh uh where is it on here? Call for a motion to nominate Kirstston Johnson for vice president. Kathy Patty. All those in favor? Okay. Yep. You got to vote for yourself. Okay, that's it. Done. Okay. Call for a motion to approve the minutes of the regular board of education meeting of 62425. Steve Kathy, all those in favor? Okay. Okay. Dr. Farrell. Okay. Good evening everyone. Thanks for joining us. Happy summer. Um, I'd like to start off by welcoming our new trustee, Katie Armato. Uh,
002we look forward to working with you. And congratulations to Chris Pelo, who uh was just nominated to serve as our board of education president, and Kristen Thyman Johnson, who was just nominated to serve as our board of education vice president. Also, congratulations to our 2025 graduates. We wish them all the best in their future endeavors. And congratulations to Grace Goble, our first student um exopicio board member. We look forward to working with her throughout this school year. A few district updates uh in regards to our summer school program. Our summer school special education extended schoolyear program begins next week as uh does our grant-f funded ENL program. Any questions uh relating to this program can be directed to Mr. Dano um who is serving as our summer school uh special education principal. This program uh
003will be held at South Bay Elementary School this school year. Uh from a facilities standpoint, as we close out the school year, we quickly pivoted to reopening uh being ready for reopening the school year. I do want to give a special shout out and a special thank you to our buildings and grounds department members who on top of all of the normal summer buildings and grounds requirements, right? Also have begun the immense process, right, of moving furniture throughout the school district, right? Specifically, obviously as it relates to Forest Avenue Elementary School. So again, a huge thank you to our BNG department um who have an extensive amount of additional responsibilities this summer. Uh for uh from a transportation lens, right, our transportation department has been completing uh has already has completed the routing and assignment
004process for our summer school extended school year program. So that's um you know ready to go. Uh they are almost done completing our September routing assignments, right? a lot earlier, right, than we have in the past. Um, they are, you know, again, working on a couple of of minor tweaks there. Just as an aside, by New York State law, childc care transportation forms are due to schools by April 1st, right, of the prior year. However, we give more of a grace period on this. Um, this year, we're going to be alerting parents and guardians that all child care forms must be in to our school district by August 15th. I repeat by August 15th and this information will be sent out to our families. Um if a childare request form for transportation is received after
005August 15th uh we will work on that. However, the childare bus that's setup will not start you know at least for two weeks in the start of the school year right because when you try to address those last minute parent requests right on top of the start of the school year right it really complicates things. So again, August 15th, right, um is the deadline and anything that is received after that um will be initiated and um and set up by the school district about two weeks after school starts. Due to all the elementary changes, right, our elementary school parents will receive a letter from the transportation department in the middle of July uh that will notify them of their tentative bus route and tentative bus pickup location, right? um which is going to be obviously
006used to transport them to their elementary school. For the most part, the transportation department tried to maintain the same stops, right, that our students are familiar with. Uh but nonetheless, right, uh we're looking to send out um they will be sending out an uh a letter to all elementary parents notifying them around mid July and then mid August, right, we're looking at um tentative transportation pickup times being posted in the parent portal, right? And then that information out. So again earlier than we have in the past so that then there's times to you know address you know any any concerns or any questions that come up um from a forest avenue western suffices program uh deliveries of furniture and materials those are in process um we have had quite a number of different meetings and
007walkthroughs um you know with with the setup of uh of Boseies right um at the present moment right and we'll I'll share with the board a full report right but as of right Now a couple of um you know changes right and as per the contract right these have to be approved you know by the board uh they are looking to install four window air conditioning units right um in the gym right the gym currently doesn't have um air conditioning so obviously that would be at their expense right the setup for that and the electrical support right necessary for that um and obviously again that's worked that is done through their architects right through all the proper um channels there also reviewing our grounds um with our facilities department um looking to we talked about
008this beforehand establishing additional parking right striping different areas again at their cost um you know they would um cover that some of the kindergarten classrooms right uh that have the bathrooms the toilets are the tiny toilets right so those um they have to replace and they will be replacing the toilets right with a larger um you know normal height right so they will be doing that uh in addition to that you know some kind of power and IT needs and things along those lines they'll address that uh they are going to you know when we look at our the PA system they're going to do kind of augmented you know they have again students with special needs in terms of um so from an audio perspective they're looking to enhance that um and they are
009also looking for safety reasons again to install uh fencing which we had talked about on on our end as well but um you know around um the uh the from the playground perspective and parking lot you know areas to ensure that none of um you know the the students right kind of go into the areas where cars are going to be parked you know and or go across you know campus right so they're working through kind of the the locations of those and that process again that's all at Bosey's expense right um working with um Mike Ljitus our facilities director so those are some of the changes right that we're looking at you know right now we talked about already that some of the spaces such as maybe the library, um the uh the gym,
010um they will have some dividers, right? But these are not dividers that are drilled into the ground, right? Um these are the standup dividers to create kind of smaller instructional spaces. Um that's not changing kind of the structure of anything. That's really more again creating smaller instructional spaces for them. Um so we are working through um you know that that partnership right to get them ready to go for September uh 1. Our teachers did a phenomenal job of of packing everything, right? Our B&G department is going through that process now of delivering, you know, all of the boxes, all of the materials, all of the furniture, right, to their new location. So, that's happening, you know, in the next that has already started and will continue in the next couple of weeks. All right. So,
011I'll continue to provide updates as this um process continues to unfold. Um, as noted in news and notes, I would like to schedule a board workshop for July 2nd. Um, does that date work for everyone? It is a Tuesday evening. July 22nd. 22nd. I missed the second. I missed the other two there. Not tomorrow. Not tomorrow. The 22nd. Tuesday. Um, for uh board workshop. We had talked about this in like February or March or so, right? Um, is that does that date work for everybody? Yeah. Okay. All right. Perfect. Thank you, Jay. So, we'll talk about that. And just as a reminder, a board workshop workshop doesn't have a consent agenda, right? Doesn't have public comment. It doesn't have it really is a specific um you know exactly that a workshop, right? A work session
012for for the board um to discuss a particular topic. Um in this case, it would be to discuss and look at different um superintendent evaluation tools, right? Um we did that a number I'm sorry, no time on that. I had said like five o'clock 5:30. You tell me around that time. Is that okay? Yep. 5:30 works. 5:30 works better. Yes. So 5:30, we can go with 5:30. Perfect. Um also um noted in news and notes, I just would like everyone to jot it down in their calendar, right? We have a scheduled board of education meeting for August 26 um for our new trustees. Every year we do building walkthroughs, right? And that generally is um couple days like the week before school starts. So if we can kind of jot in our calendar uh Wednesday
013the 27th and Thursday the 28th those would be evening you know we start kind of late afternoon right um and then go through there because we do visit eight you know sites right um so just mark those down again the actual schedule which school you know we'll do that later on but if every so we have a board meeting already the Tuesday the 26th and we generally then add on the next two days sometimes we'll start and add maybe the high school that Tuesday since we're right here and then we'll do the rest of the buildings at Wednesday and Thursday. Yeah, we generally start those, you know, again, it's it's ranged, right? Sometimes we started at four or five, right? Because we, you know, spend some time going throughout the buildings and grounds. Uh, and
014that's it. That's all I had for this section of the agenda. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. So in terms of the um report right so I shared with the board tentative um goals right for our wait because our picture I moved my packet away second while I'm pulling that form I will during our July 29th meeting We will go through our proposed strategic plan, right, our goals and actions, right, for the new school year. And just as a reminder, right, throughout the last couple months through SQRC, we have um, you know, gone through various different sections of our of our strategic plan to gather input from stakeholders, right? you know, in terms of the goals that we're working on, some of the actions and we've made some um adjustments and some proposed um you know,
015action changes or goal changes that we'll present to the board. So, we'll do that overall right during the September um September I keep like jumping way ahead um during the July 29th meeting, right? So for today and again draft, right, because we're going to bring this back up uh during the next meeting, draft goals, you know, for us to think about, to look at, not to adopt today, right, is really kind of to start the conversation. It was emailed. It's also included on the uh on the agenda and they they remain pretty similar, right? Like so obviously we want to commit to um continuing with a long-wing strategic plan, right? You'll see in the strategic plan that there definitely have been, you know, some changes in the area we previously talked about. um taking a
016look at our enrollment we previously talked about um researching you know u is it feasible in terms of consolidation right so obviously some of those areas that we highlighted beforehand right we have now done right and we've made some changes right to that um so we've we've adjusted those accordingly based on the actions that we've already taken um so and from a district perspective right in terms of a district goal we want to we are committed to that long range strategic plan continuing those conversations bringing those up at various different meetings. Um seeing do we want to make some adjustments, right? Um you know some of the recent conversations we've been talking about in terms of the code of conduct, right? Want to embed some of those into that as well. Uh we obviously want
017to continue with a rigorous instructional co-curricular program, right? From a classroom perspective and also afterchool perspective. Um enhancing communication methods, right? Um ways to continue to do that. We want to make sure that that is a focus for us. maintaining fiscal stability, right? Improving efficiency. Those are all continued district goals that we want to continue to focus on, right? Um continue to um be consistent, right, with our K12 social emotional academic learning supports for our students, right? They go hand inand with the academics um and providing a safe, healthy, and well-maintained facility, right, for all of our schools, right? All of our areas. Those are all focus areas that we're not letting go, right? Um from a board perspective, right, we have previously talked about um and again all are appropriate to continue, right? Create
018and maintain a positive and inclusive learning environment, right? Well, all students feel safe, included, welcomed and accepted and experience a sense of belonging and academic success, right? Ensure that the goals of the instructional programs uh not only continue to meet but exceed right our expectations. Um again, strengthening our district's phys fiscal stability, right? uh finding ways to increase revenue streams, right? Uh which we absolutely have been doing and we want to continue to do. Um whether it's, you know, consolidating different things, streamlining district-wide systems, that's part of the continued focus. Um we do have here we want to commit to um not just um you know staff, faculty and board professional development, right? Um we've been doing that and we want to continue to do that with the various school boards association programs that are
019offered for our trustees. um develop policies that support superintendent and district goals and of course engage in you know the community engagement right emphasizing the district chain of communication right when parents and community members have any concerns right um um utilizing right the chain of communication to enhance our our systems right and to um establish a system in which everyone reaches out to the appropriate individual right to get the necessary support and then my goal supporting all of those goals right um then establishing the protocols and the systems to be able to do that, right? Uh to empower the administrators to build their capacity um to strengthen communications, right, with our administrators and everyone else. Um those administrative collegial forums to talk about these the roles responsibilities um and establish actions using student data, right,
020to make decisions um whether it's on the academic front, right, or the social emotional front or the behavioral front, right? any of those aspects improving the overall health and safety of our school district right from a facilities perspective and also a mental health perspective um ensuring again enhancing the social emotional supports for our students staff and faculty we have HR you'll see you know different um areas under the strategic plan that focus specifically on that uh increasing you know establishing again groups to focus on those revenue streams right um actually you know here we can change that right because last year it is researching the phys feasibility of consolidating elementary schools, right? We've we've done that now, right? Um so now it's really again continuing to see where are there ways where we can continue
021to have cost-saving measures, but at the same time we as a district, right, want to make sure that we continue to grow, right? Um from an academic perspective in terms of our offerings for our students, right, and also our student supports, right? And also the overall running of a school district as well. Um, and again, always continuing to strengthen district communications, right? How to get information out to our community members, to our parents, whether it's through PTAs, right, or various different conversations. And again, branding, the use of our district social media to get pictures out there, right? And um, you know, it's it's if you take one night and just go to the WB page and start scrolling through, right, it really is so nice to see again all the great things that are happening
022in our schools. Um, and we try to really kind of spread those out, right? um you know to to keep that information out there. We want to continue that focus and pushing that out. So again, this is draft, right? Um so take a look at it, read it, think about it, right? Shoot out your thoughts, your ideas to me, right? And then we'll continue this conversation, not just this, but then really diving a little bit deeper in terms of our proposed, you know, uh goals and actions through the strategic plan lens, right, during the uh July 29th meeting. Okay, that's it. That's my That's my last one. You say that again. The consent agenda. Anthony Frank. All those in favor. Policy review. What? What's that? Okay. Accept your Sorry, didn't see that. policy review and
023a second time adoption. Uh need a motion to approve policy 5300 code of conduct as revised as presented during code of conduct review process. Policy 5300 code of conduct. All those in favor Steve Patty. All those in favor? Great. Uh, need a motion to consolidate policy 6700-R into revised policy 6700. Steve Kirstston. All those in favor? Okay. Motion passes. Motion to wave first time reading for policies 6700. John Frank. All those in favor? Need a motion to consolidate policy 6240-R into revised policy 6240. Kathy, Steve. All those in favor. Okay. Need a motion to wave the first time reading and adopt policy 6240 as revised. Kristen Anthony. All those in favor. Okay. We need a motion to wave the first time reading and adopt policy 6900 as revised. Take one. First one. Okay. Steve Patty.
024All those in favor? Sorry. I was just wait. Uh motion to wave first time reading and adopt policy 1800 as revised. John Anthony. All those in favor. Okay. Any old business? Any new business? Okay. No. Okay, that's it. Need a motion to adjurnn. Okay, Kathy. All those in favor? All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. They're having