001[Music] [Applause] [Music] Hello. Good evening. Welcome everybody to the Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 regular board meeting and work session. Um, if we can stand for the pledge, please. I would like to call on Marissa to lead us on the pledge. >> I pledge algiance 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. >> Thank you. Great job. you can get your picture with the superintendent after. >> I'll uh start saying Lorine's excused for the evening and um we have Marlo joining us via via satellite. I don't know how we do that internet thing. Um we'll start with roll call. Zack >> here. >> Jeremy here. >> Sarah >> present. >> Laura >> here. >> Charlotte >>
002here. >> C >> here. >> Marla. >> Excellent. Ed's here. Wonderful superintendent here >> present. >> I will hand it Oh, wait. We're going to move on to public comment. Is there anyone who signed in? Probably not. Right. >> Do you want to double check? >> I don't think so. >> I think we're good. Okay. Well, we'll we'll move on. If someone signed in, let me know. You're you're good, sir. Right. Okay. We'll move on to number three. uh looking to create a certificated position. May I have a motion on number three, please? >> I'll make a motion to approve number three. >> Laura, may I have a second, please? >> I'll second it. >> Sarah, any discussion? >> I just had a question. I know this was being created with grant money. Is that
003a one-time thing for the grant or how is that? So, it's being created with title one funds and we've had for decades received title one funds. The reason why we're doing a district designation for this position and not tying it to a particular building is our title one designations by building could change. So, for example, last year West Senior was designated as a title one school based on their free um free lunch status of student population. This year, West Senior is not. So, the amount of funds that we get as a district have been pretty consistent and stable for the last decade, but the schools that are designated has changed. So, this will be a district-wide designation as opposed to tied to a particular school. In the upcoming school year, we have three title one
004schools, Northwood, Winchester Potters, and East Middle School. Good. Any other discussion? All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? So passes 6. I'll move on to our consent agenda. So I may have a motion on consent agenda if anyone needs to look through. It's 5 through 7. [Applause] >> I'll make a motion to approve 5 through 7. >> Laura, a motion to approve 5 through 7. May I have a second, please? >> I'll second. Mara second. Okay, there's no discussion on that. So, all in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Passes 6. Move on to new business. I can have uh see is it eight. I can have a motion on eight, please. [Applause] There a few things in there. Obviously, we can talk about in discussion or if you want to take a look at it, but I
005just need a motion. >> I'll make the motion to approve. Eight, >> Jeremy. Motion to approve. And may I have a second, please? >> I'll second. >> Laura second. And any discussion on anything in there. One thing that I'll just note, if I can, please, Ed, is that we had an overview of the district safety plan at a previous meeting, and that was required for us to have a 30-day public comment period. So, we did have that 30-day public comment. We got no comment or feedback during that time. So, now that the public comment period is closed, we're bringing it to the board um for adoption. >> Great. Thank you. Any other discussion on it or questions? >> Okay. All in favor? I >> I >> Anyone opposed? No. Passes 60. >> So, at this
006time, I'm not sure if anyone's here, but we you can introduce any new hires or anything or >> Thank you. I I don't see any of our appointees in attendance tonight, but we did appoint um some hires tonight. In particular, I I'll highlight the director of student engagement, Regina Kapowski, was just appointed by the board of education and she is relocating to the Western New York area. Uh, and so she could not be in attendance tonight, but I'd like to welcome all of our appointed new hires that we just took action on. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Okay. Um, typically we got scheduled in here a recess. car take a few minutes to meet the new people and everything but and I know Marissa didn't bring Starbucks for us so there's nothing
007to recess about. Um does anyone want to recess or we can just skip that? >> Skip it. >> Good to go. Okay. >> So what we are going to do now is we are going to kind of uh end the meeting and move on into our board discussion. We're going to work on the buildings and condition survey and our visions. Um, so again, if we just want to take a few minutes, use the restrooms, get ready to go, we're going to move on into the library. So, anyone feel free to join us. Um, we'll go over some stuff in there. Um, and then we'll talk about the uh coaching and hiring practices. Also, >> can we add um the tours, too, because we haven't followed up on setting up tours of of the buildings as
008far as >> Yeah, got it. I can go over what we have going on with that. Anything else we want to add to it? >> That's it. All right, great. >> Do you need me to call back in? >> Um, yes. Yeah. Can you just stay right there? >> Oh, yeah. I can. >> Okay, good. >> Cool. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Anyone hanging out? >> And you're welcome to join us next door. >> Yeah. Yeah. Anyone? It's It's public. We're just going to move to a better better shape >> just to facilitate discussion better.